cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Counterflow of spontaneous mass currents in trapped spin-orbit coupled Fermi gases
Creators: name: Doko, E.
name: Subasi, A. L.
name: Iskin, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the Bogoliubov-de Gennes formalism and study the ground-state phases of trapped spin-orbit coupled Fermi gases in two dimensions. Our main finding is that the presence of a symmetric (Rashba type) spin-orbit coupling spontaneously induces counterflowing mass currents in the vicinity of the trap edge, i.e. $\uparrow$ and $\downarrow$ particles circulate in opposite directions with equal speed. These currents flow even in noninteracting systems, but their strength decreases toward the molecular BEC limit, which can be achieved either by increasing the spin-orbit coupling or the interaction strength. These currents are also quite robust against the effects of asymmetric spin-orbit couplings in $x$ and $y$ directions, gradually reducing to zero as the spin-orbit coupling becomes one dimensional. We compare our results with those of chiral p-wave superfluids/superconductors.
description: 6 pages with 4 figures; to appear in PRA
title: DEPRECATED: Evolutionary multi-objective decision support systems for conceptual design
Creators: name: Cvetkovic, Dragan
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2000

description: Merged with duplicate record 10026.1/2328 on 07.20.2017 by CS (TIS)
description: In this thesis the problem of conceptual engineering design and the possible use of adaptive search techniques and other machine based methods therein are explored. For the multi-objective optimisation (MOO) within conceptual design problem, genetic algorithms (GA) adapted to MOO are used and various techniques explored: weighted sums, lexicographic order, Pareto method with and without ranking, VEGA-like approaches etc. Large number of runs are performed for findingZ Dth e optimal configuration and setting of the GA parameters. A novel method, weighted Pareto method is introduced and applied to a real-world optimisation problem. Decision support methods within conceptual engineering design framework are discussed and a new preference method developed. The preference method for translating vague qualitative categories (such as "more important 91 , 4m.9u ch less important' 'etc. ) into quantitative values (numbers) is based on fuzzy preferences and graph theory methods. Several applications of preferences are presented and discussed: * in weighted sum based optimisation methods; s in weighted Pareto method; * for ordering and manipulating constraints and scenarios; e for a co-evolutionary, distributive GA-based MOO method; The issue of complexity and sensitivity is addressed as well as potential generalisations of presented preference methods. Interactive dynamical constraints in the form of design scenarios are introduced. These are based on a propositional logic and a fairly rich mathematical language. They can be added, deleted and modified on-line during the design session without need for recompiling the code. The use of machine-based agents in conceptual design process is investigated. They are classified into several different categories (e. g. interface agents, search agents, information agents). Several different categories of agents performing various specialised task are developed (mostly dealing with preferences, but also some filtering ones). They are integrated with the conceptual engineering design system to form a closed loop system that includes both computer and designer. All thesed ifferent aspectso f conceptuale ngineeringd esigna re applied within Plymouth Engineering Design Centre / British Aerospace conceptual airframe design project.
Diffusive high-temperature transport in the one-dimensional Hubbard model
Creators: name: Prosen, Tomaz
name: Znidaric, Marko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider charge and spin transport in the one-dimensional Hubbard model at infinite temperature, half-filling and zero magnetization. Implementing matrix-product-operator simulations of the non-equilibrium steady states of boundary-driven open Hubbard chains for up to 100 sites we find clear evidence of diffusive transport for any (non-zero and finite) value of the interaction U.
description: 6 pages RevTeX + 8 eps figures; revised and extended version
title: The Role of MR Enterography in Assessing Crohn’s Disease Activity and Treatment Response
Creators: name: Viviani, Adriano
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Small bowel
subject: MR
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Inflammation

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: MR enterography has become the primary imaging modality in the assessment of Crohn's disease in both children and adults. With the introduction of mulecule-targeted biologic agents into the clinical setting MR enterography is increasingly utilized...
The relationship between personality- and affect-related traits, gender and intention to try smoking
Creators: name: Memetovic, Jasmina
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: BACKGROUND: Of the many psychosocial factors shown to be associated with an incr eased risk of becoming a smoker, intentions to try smoking represent one of the strongest predictors of future tobacco use. Although a great deal of research has been done to identify potential determinants of tobacco smoking, very little research has exa mined the extent to which known risk factors for tobacco smoking are related to tobacco use intentions in adolescents who have yet to try tobacco smoking. The goal of this investigation was to examine the relationships between personality and affect - relat ed risk factors for smoking, as measured by the Substance Use Risk Profile Scale (SURPS), and smoking intentions in a cohort of adolescents who had not yet experimented with tobacco smoking. As part of this investigation, the impact of gender on the measu rement of these personality traits and the assessment of their relationships with smoking intentions will be examined. METHODS: Study Population: Cross - sectional data provided by Grade 8 and 9 students participating in the British Columbia Adolescent Subs tance Use Survey, captured in the fall of 2010 (N=1352). SURPS : The 23 - item version was used to measure 4 dimensions: Anxiety Sensitivity, Hopelessness , Impulsivity and Sensation Seeking . Gender - Based Measurement Invariance: Multi - group structural equatio n modelling, using M - Plus 6.12, will be used to assess measurement invariance by gender for each of the four SURPS dimensions. Personality and Intention to Smoke: Generalized Estimating Equations was used to examine the relationship between each SURPS dim ension and intention to try cigarettes in the future . Effect of Gender : Interactions between gender and each SURPS construct was also examined. RESULTS: Gender - based Measurement Invariance: Measurement invariance by gender was demonstrated for the SURPS. Associati ons with intention to try smoking: Hopelessness, Sensation Seeking and Impulsivity were found to be positively associate d with intention to try cigarettes in the future among participants who indicated they had never tried smoking a cigarette pr oduct (“even a puff or two”). The SURPS dimensions did not significantly interact with gender. CONCLUSION: These results suggest that characteristics related to impulsivity, sensation seeking and hopelessness are positively associated with the intention to try smoking.
“Bachelard, science, poésie, une nouvelle éthique?” Convegno di Cerisy-la-Salle
Creators: name: Alison, Aurosa
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: “Bachelard, science,

poésie, une nouvelle éthique?”

Convegno di Cerisy-la-Salle

(Direzione e coordinamento di Jean-Jacques Wunenburger ;

Centre Culturel International de Cerisy-la-Salle

25 giugno-1 agosto 2012)

di

Aurosa Alison
description: Altre Modernità, 2012: NUMERO SPECIALE Bachelard e la plasticità della materia
title: Nutcracker phenomenon and syndrome: imaging and treatment
Creators: name: Basile, Antonio
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Dilatation
subject: Stents
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Catheter venography
subject: Vascular
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Abdomen
subject: Varices

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To describe clinical and radiological findings and therapeutic strategies of nutcracker syndrome through some cases taken from our archive, differentiating it from nutcracker...
Cheminer entre rationalité et imaginaire, une lecture de l’œuvre ouverte de Gaston Bachelard: Wunenburger
Creators: name: Lamy, Julien
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Cheminer entre rationalité

et imaginaire, une lecture de l’oeuvre

ouverte de Gaston Bachelard

(

Jean-Jacques Wunenburger, Gaston Bachelard. Poétique des images,

Milano, Mimesis, 2012

ISBN 978-88-575-097-85)

par

Julien Lamy
description: Altre Modernità, 2012: NUMERO SPECIALE Bachelard e la plasticità della materia
title: Transpopliteal access for revascularization of long occlusions of A. femoralis superficialis
Creators: name: Santl Letonja, Marija
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Angioplasty
subject: Arteriosclerosis

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The superior femoral artery (SFA) is frequently affected by atherosclerosis in the proximal section near the bifurcation to the deep femoral artery and the distal section, due to the compression of the adductor muscles. SFA is commonly entered...
Constraints on supersymmetry with light third family from LHC data
Creators: name: Desai, Nishita
name: Mukhopadhyaya, Biswarup
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a re-interpretation of the recent ATLAS limits on supersymmetry in channels with jets (with and without b-tags) and missing energy, in the context of light third family squarks, while the first two squark families are inaccessible at the 7 TeV run of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In contrast to interpretations in terms of the high-scale based constrained minimal supersymmetric standard model (CMSSM), we primarily use the low-scale parametrisation of the phenomenological MSSM (pMSSM), and translate the limits in terms of physical masses of the third family squarks. Side by side, we also investigate the limits in terms of high-scale scalar non-universality, both with and without low-mass sleptons. Our conclusion is that the limits based on 0-lepton channels are not altered by the mass-scale of sleptons, and can be considered more or less model-independent.
description: 20 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables. Version published in JHEP
Jean Libis, Fabio Ferreira,  Catherine Gublin, Sarah Mezaguer (eds.), Les Lectures de Gaston Bachelard. Index bibliographique
Creators: name: Alison, Aurosa
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Jean Libis, Fabio Ferreira,

Catherine Gublin, Sarah Mezaguer (eds.),

Les Lectures de Gaston Bachelard.

Index bibliographique

(Paris, Presse Universitaire de Franche-Comté, 2011

ISBN: 978-2-84867-392)

di

Aurosa Alison
description: Altre Modernità, 2012: NUMERO SPECIALE Bachelard e la plasticità della materia
Quantifying reversibility in a phase-separating lattice gas: an analogy with self-assembly
Creators: name: Grant, James
name: Jack, Robert L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present dynamic measurements of a lattice gas during phase separation, which we use as an analogy for self-assembly of equilibrium ordered structures. We use two approaches to quantify the degree of 'reversibility' of this process: firstly, we count events in which bonds are made and broken; secondly, we use correlation-response measurements and fluctuation-dissipation ratios to probe reversibility during different time intervals. We show how correlation and response functions can be related directly to microscopic (ir)reversibility and we discuss time-dependence and observable- dependence of these measurements, including the role of fast and slow degrees of freedom during assembly.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures
API TESTING
Creators: name: Krati Joshi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This APIs are fundamental to modern software systems, facilitating seamless communicationbetween applications. Ensuring their reliability and correctness requires rigorous testing. This paperpresents an automated API testing framework that leverages OpenAPI schemas and AI-driven test casegeneration using OpenAI’s GPT-4o model. The framework systematically tests REST API methods,including GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE, by dynamically generating and executing test cases.It intelligently handles incomplete API documentation, reference parameters, and error response analysis,ensuring comprehensive validation. Our approach automates test execution, captures real-time logs, andrefines test cases iteratively based on API responses. The system efficiently detects and reports errors,including 4XX and 5XX status codes, while updating partially documented schemas. Despite challengessuch as handling dynamic parameters, AI-generated test case accuracy, and scalability concerns, theframework significantly enhances API testing efficiency. Future improvements aim to refine test casegeneration, optimize performance, and support broader API testing scenarios.
Explicit reduction modulo p of certain 2-dimensional crystalline representations, II
Creators: name: Buzzard, Kevin
name: Gee, Toby
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We complete the calculations begun in [BG09], using the p-adic local Langlands correspondence for GL2(Q_p) to give a complete description of the reduction modulo p of the 2-dimensional crystalline representations of G_{Q_p} of slope less than 1, when p > 2.
description: 10 pages. Correcting a minor typo
title: Bone Marrow: is it normal? Physiologic and pathologic Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) findings.
Creators: name: Chiarilli, Maria Grazia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Metastases
subject: Normal variants
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Decision analysis
subject: MR
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Musculoskeletal spine
subject: Musculoskeletal bone

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Our aim is to discuss and illustrate the following objectives: Normal BM components and composition Physiologic BM conversion Normal MRI signal MRI aspect of BM variants MRI findings of BM...
Francesca Bonicalzi, Leggere Bachelard. Le ragioni del sapere
Creators: name: Maurizi, Marco
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Francesca Bonicalzi,

Leggere Bachelard.

Le ragioni del sapere

(Milano, Jaca Book, 2007

ISBN

978-881-640-771-8)

di

Marco Maurizi
description: Altre Modernità, 2012: NUMERO SPECIALE Bachelard e la plasticità della materia
Marie-Pierre Lassus, Gaston Bachelard musicien. Une philosophie des silences et des timbres
Creators: name: Rizzuti, Marida
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Marie-Pierre Lassus,

Gaston Bachelard musicien. Une

philosophie des silences et des timbres

(Villeneuve d’Ascq, Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2010, 268 pp.

ISBN: 978-275-740-1613)

di

Marida Rizzuti
description: Altre Modernità, 2012: NUMERO SPECIALE Bachelard e la plasticità della materia
The optically unbiased GRB host (TOUGH) survey. V. VLT/X-shooter emission-line redshifts for Swift GRBs at z~2
Creators: name: Krühler, Thomas
name: Malesani, Daniele
name: Milvang-Jensen, Bo
name: Fynbo, Johan P. U.
name: Hjorth, Jens
name: Jakobsson, Páll
name: Levan, Andrew J.
name: Sparre, Martin
name: Tanvir, Nial R.
name: Watson, Darach J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present simultaneous optical and near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy of 19 Swift GRB host galaxies with VLT/X-shooter with the aim of measuring their redshifts. Galaxies were selected from The Optically Unbiased GRB Host (TOUGH) survey (15 of the 19 galaxies) or because they hosted GRBs without a bright optical afterglow. Here, we provide emission-line redshifts for 13 of the observed galaxies with brightnesses between F606W > 27 mag and R=22.9 mag (median R=24.6 mag). The median redshift is z=2.1 for all, and z=2.3 for the TOUGH hosts. Our new data significantly improve the redshift completeness of the TOUGH survey, which now stands at 77% (53 out of 69 GRBs). They furthermore provide accurate redshifts for nine prototype-dark GRBs (e.g., GRBs 071021 at z=2.452 and 080207 at z=2.086), which are exemplary of GRBs where redshifts are challenging to obtain via afterglow spectroscopy. This establishes X-shooter spectroscopy as an efficient tool for redshift determination of faint, star-forming, high-redshift galaxies such as GRB hosts. It is hence a further step towards removing the bias in GRB samples that is caused by optically-dark events, and provides the basis for a better understanding of the conditions in which GRBs form. The distribution of column densities as measured from X-ray data (N_{H,X}), for example, is closely related to the darkness of the afterglow and skewed towards low N_{H, X} values in samples that are dominated by bursts with bright optical afterglows.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, emulateapj, ApJ in press
title: Correlation of findings in MRI of the shoulder with acromioclavicular joint pain
Creators: name: Neubauer, Jakob
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: Bones
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Arthritides
subject: Oedema

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To evaluate the inter-rater reliability and correlation of reliable imaging features in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the shoulder with clinical tests for acromioclavicular joint pain. Our hypothesis is that reliable imaging features in...
Identifying strongly correlated supersolid states on the optical lattice by quench-induced π-states
Creators: name: Fischer, Uwe R.
name: Xiong, Bo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the rapid quench of a one-dimensional strongly correlated supersolid to a localized density wave (checkerboard) phase, and calculate the first-order coherence signal following the quench. It is shown that unique coherence oscillations between the even and odd sublattice sites of the checkerboard are created by the quench, which are absent when the initial state is described by a Gutzwiller product state. This is a striking manifestation of the versatility of the far-from-equilbrium and nonperturbative collapse and revival phenomenon as a microscope for quantum correlations in complex many-body states. For the present example, this opens up the possibility to discriminate experimentally between mean-field and many-body origins of supersolidity.
description: 6 pages of EPL2 style, 5 figures
Robert Desoille, Il Rêve Eveillé Dirigé in psicoterapia, via règia dell’immaginario
Creators: name: Chiore, Valeria
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Robert Desoille,

Il Rêve Eveillé Dirigé in psicoterapia,

via règia dell’immaginario

(I edizione italiana ampliata con scritti inediti dell’Autore, a cura di

N. Fabre e A. Passerini, Alpes Italia, Roma, 2010, 196 pp.

ISBN

978-88-653-102-50)

di

Valeria Chiore
description: Altre Modernità, 2012: NUMERO SPECIALE Bachelard e la plasticità della materia
title: Multidetector CT angiography for diagnosis and management of gastrointestinal tract vascular lesions.
Creators: name: Aguado, Alba
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Varices
subject: Haemorrhage
subject: Arteriovenous malformations
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To review the characteristics of gastrointestinal (GI) vascular lesions, their classification and findings on contrast-enhanced CT (CECT)...
Strong coupling of spin qubits to a transmission line resonator
Creators: name: Jin, Pei-Qing
name: Marthaler, Michael
name: Shnirman, Alexander
name: Schön, Gerd
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a mechanism for coupling spin qubits formed in double quantum dots to a superconducting transmission line resonator. Coupling the resonator to the gate controlling the interdot tunneling creates a strong spin qubit--resonator interaction with strength of tens of MHz. This mechanism allows operating the system at a point of degeneracy where dephasing is minimized. The transmission line can serve as a shuttle allowing for two-qubit operations, including fast generation of qubit-qubit entanglement and the implementation of a controlled-phase gate.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Arts Umbrella's Theatre Troupes : a history of theatre training for children and youth
Creators: name: Chamberlain-Snider, Sandra
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Arts Umbrella is a not-for-profit arts education centre for children and youth ages two to nineteen. Its Theatre program has been providing artistic theatre training to young people in the Metro Vancouver area for almost thirty years. This study's objective is to present the history of the Theatre Troupes within a historiographical methodology that takes into account all the contributing factors towards the program's successful development. The material archive resources of Program Guides, Reports to the Board, Newsletters, Show Programs and the original Business Plan are documented in a chronological exposition of the Theatre Troupes' history along with interviews with Arts Umbrella co-founder Carol Henriquez, the influential Troupe directors Sarah Rodgers, Paul Moniz de Sa and Susanne Moniz de Sa, other artist-instructors and a summary of survey questionnaire responses from parents and alumni. The young theatre students at Arts Umbrella have experienced a rich and diverse history of theatre artists in Vancouver, in a safe and nurturing environment that has been consistently funded and stable administratively since inception of the Theatre Arts program in 1984. [An errata to this thesis/dissertation was made available on 2013-05-06.]
title: Diagnostic pitfalls in oncologic CT-Imaging of the thorax: instructions for dummies.
Creators: name: Martinetti, Carola
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: eLearning
subject: Education
subject: CT
subject: Thorax
subject: Oncology
subject: Anatomy

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The purpose of our educational exhibit is to illustrate spectrum of thoracic Computed Tomography (CT) diagnostic pitfalls that may occur in oncological...
Ältere Arbeitnehmer - Entwicklungen und Handlungsfelder: Darstellung bisheriger Befunde
Creators: name: Deller, Jürgen
name: Waszak, Anike
Publisher: name: Medien- und Informationszentrum, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Year: 2005
Subjects: Gesellschaftliche Entwicklung
Älterer Arbeitnehmer
Transformation

description: Der vorliegende Aufsatz beschreibt den demographischen Wandel in der Bevölkerung Deutschlands und die damit verbundenen Auswirkungen auf den Arbeitsmarkt und die Personalpolitik in Betrieben.
Enhance accuracy in Software cost and schedule estimation by using "Uncertainty Analysis and Assessment" in the system modeling process
Creators: name: Vasantrao, Kardile Vilas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Accurate software cost and schedule estimation are essential for software project success. Often it referred to as the "black art" because of its complexity and uncertainty, software estimation is not as difficult or puzzling as people think. In fact, generating accurate estimates is straightforward-once you understand the intensity of uncertainty and framework for the modeling process. The mystery to successful software estimation-distilling academic information and real-world experience into a practical guide for working software professionals. Instead of arcane treatises and rigid modeling techniques, this will guide highlights a proven set of procedures, understandable formulas, and heuristics that individuals and development teams can apply to their projects to help achieve estimation proficiency with choose appropriate development approaches In the early stage of software life cycle project manager are inefficient to estimate the effort, schedule, cost estimation and its development approach .This in turn, confuses the manager to bid effectively on software project and choose incorrect development approach. That will directly effect on productivity cycle and increase level of uncertainty. This becomes a strong cause of project failure. So to avoid such problem if we know level and sources of uncertainty in model design, It will directive the developer to design accurate software cost and schedule estimation, which are essential for software project success. However once the required efforts have estimated, little is done to recalibrate and reduce the uncertainty of the initial estimates.
description: 9 pages,4 fig,4 tabel. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1108.1461
title: An Audit of Axillary Ultrasound Accuracy in the National Breast Screening and Symptomatic Services at a District General Hospital in the UK
Creators: name: Hughes, Adam
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Staging
subject: Metastases

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: A variation on the RCR “Axillary ultrasound accuracy in the symptomatic breast service” which has been extended to include symptomatic and screen detected malignancies. Audit the sensitivity of the ultrasound diagnosis of lymph node metastases...
title: DEPRECATED: THE COUPLING OF PERCEPTION AND ACTION IN REPRESENTATION
Creators: name: SYMES, EDWARD MICHAEL
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2003

description: This thesis examines how the objects that we visually perceive in the world are coupled to the actions that we make towards them. For example, a whole hand grasp might be coupled with an object like an apple, but not with an object like a pea. It has been claimed that the coupling of what we see and what we do is not simply associative, but is fundamental to the way the brain represents visual objects. More than association, it is thought that when an object is seen (even if there is no intention to interact with it), there is a partial and automatic activation of the networks in the brain that plan actions (such as reaches and grasps). The central aim of this thesis was to investigate how specific these partial action plans might be, and how specific the properties of objects that automatically activate them might be. In acknowledging that perception and action are dynamically intertwining processes (such that in catching a butterfly the eye and the hand cooperate with a fluid and seamless efficiency), it was supposed that these couplings of perception and action in the brain might be loosely constrained. That is, they should not be rigidly prescribed (such that a highly specific action is always and only coupled with a specific object property) but they should instead involve fairly general components of actions that can adapt to different situations. The experimental work examined the automatic coupling of simplistic left and right actions (e.g. key presses) to pictures of oriented objects. Typically a picture of an object was shown and the viewer responded as fast as possible to some object property that was not associated with action (such as its colour). Of interest was how the performance of these left or right responses related to the task irrelevant left or right orientation of the object. The coupling of a particular response to a particular orientation could be demonstrated by the response performance (speed and accuracy). The more tightly coupled a response was to a particular object orientation, the faster and more accurate it was. The results supported the idea of loosely constrained action plans. Thus it appeared that a range of different actions (even foot responses) could be coupled with an object's orientation. These actions were coupled by default to an object's X-Z orientation (e.g. orientation in the depth plane). In further reflecting a loosely constrained perception-action mechanism, these couplings were shown to change in different situations (e.g. when the object moved towards the viewer, or when a key press made the object move in a predictable way). It was concluded that the kinds of components of actions that are automatically activated when viewing an object are not very detailed or fixed, but are initially quite general and can change and become more specific when circumstances demand it.
Riconoscere lo stile analitico
Creators: name: De Conti, Manuele
Publisher: name: Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica Junior
Year: 2011

description: The present paper’s aim is to outline a definition of “analyticity” through assuming a framework whose basic concepts are taken from rhetoric. Thus, assuming particular examples from the history of analytic philosophy – i.e. philosophers that are commonly considered “analytic” - the author shows how many shared patterns are recognisable within their argumentations, explanations, beginnings and conclusions. A previous extensional definition of “analytical philosophy” is not assumed; hence the concluded remarks can be taken as features of any analytic philosopher.
description: Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica Junior, Vol 2, No 1 (2011): Metodo o contenuto? Note a margine della Filosofia Analitica
title: Role of High Resolution Pelvic MRI for diagnosis of Ureteral Endometriosis
Creators: name: Morgano, Maria Chiara
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quality assurance
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: Pelvis
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Endometriosis is a pathology characterized by the presence of endometrial tissue (stroma and glands) in extrauterine sites; the sites most frequently affected by the endometriotic process are the ovaries, the intestine, the uterus-sacral...
Magneto-transport in a quantum network: Evidence of a mesoscopic switch
Creators: name: Saha, Srilekha
name: Maiti, Santanu K.
name: Karmakar, S. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate magneto-transport properties of a $θ$ shaped three-arm mesoscopic ring where the upper and lower sub-rings are threaded by Aharonov-Bohm fluxes $ϕ_1$ and $ϕ_2$, respectively, within a non-interacting electron picture. A discrete lattice model is used to describe the quantum network in which two outer arms are subjected to binary alloy lattices while the middle arm contains identical atomic sites. It is observed that the presence of the middle arm provides localized states within the band of extended regions and lead to the possibility of switching action from a high conducting state to a low conducting one and vice versa. This behavior is justified by studying persistent current in the network. Both the total current and individual currents in three separate branches are computed by using second-quantized formalism and our idea can be utilized to study magnetic response in any complicated quantum network. The nature of localized eigenstates are also investigated from probability amplitudes at different sites of the quantum device.
description: 7 pages, 9 figures
title: Ultrasound-guided removal of foreign bodies: effectiveness and safety of the treatment
Creators: name: Morgano, Maria Chiara
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Percutaneous
subject: Removal
subject: Surgery
subject: Efficacy studies
subject: Foreign bodies

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Foreign bodies (FBs) can seldom be identified and removed on the basis of clinical examination alone, and usually only when in a superficial location. Otherwise, imaging techniques are required to identify the FB and establish its exact location...
Good Points - Paolo Casalegno's criticism of some analytic philosophers
Creators: name: Mazzarella, Diana
name: Monti, Carlo
Publisher: name: Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica Junior
Year: 2011

description: Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica Junior, Vol 2, No 1 (2011): Metodo o contenuto? Note a margine della Filosofia Analitica
title: Radiologic features of hydatid liver disease
Creators: name: Martin, Alexandra
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Parasites
subject: Infection
subject: Cysts
subject: Education
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Liver
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: This educational paper highlights: - keypoints in hydatid disease ( HD) and in specialy in hepatic involvement ( HLD) - the imaging techniques and imaging appearances of HLD and its...
Novel Parity Violating Transport Coefficients in 2+1 Dimensions from Holography
Creators: name: Chen, Jiunn-Wei
name: Dai, Shou-Huang
name: Lee, Nien-En
name: Maity, Debaprasad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a 3+1 dimensional holographic model dual to a parity violating hydrodynamic system in 2+1 dimensions. Our model contains gravitational and electrodynamic Chern-Simons terms coupled to a neutral pseudo scalar $θ$, and a potential composed of quadratic and quartic terms in $θ$. The background is a charged black brane. We study the hydrodynamics to first order in spacetime derivatives near the probe limit of the pseudo scalar, by extracting the transport coefficients from the scalar, vector, and tensor modes of bulk perturbations. We study two mechanisms for breaking the parity of the boundary fluid: the parity is either spontaneously broken by the nonzero vev of the dual pseudo scalar operator, or by the pseudo scalar source on the boundary. The resulting transport coefficients have unusual behaviors compared to those in ordinary materials.
description: Latex, 1+34 pages, 13 figures. v2 typos corrected, 4 references added, a paragraph discussing ref [37] added in Section 5. v3 to match the published version
Quantum-control approach to realizing a Toffoli gate in circuit QED
Creators: name: Stojanovic, Vladimir M.
name: Fedorov, A.
name: Wallraff, A.
name: Bruder, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the realization of a Toffoli gate with superconducting qubits in a circuit-QED setup using quantum-control methods. Starting with optimized piecewise-constant control fields acting on all qubits and typical strengths of XY-type coupling between the qubits, we demonstrate that the optimal gate fidelities are affected only slightly by a "low-pass" filtering of these fields with the typical cutoff frequencies of microwave driving. Restricting ourselves to the range of control-field amplitudes for which the leakage to the non-computational states of a physical qubit is heavily suppressed, we theoretically predict that in the absence of decoherence and leakage, within 75 ns a Toffoli gate can be realized with intrinsic fidelities higher than 90%, while fidelities above 99% can be reached in about 140 ns.
description: accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B
title: Picturing Iranian Modernity: A Modernist Architecture Journal of the Pahlavi Dynasty
Creators: name: Jorshari, Houman Riazi
Publisher: name: Georgia Institute of Technology
Year: 2025

description: Following the modernization process in Iran started by Reza Shah (1925–1941), Mohammad Reza Shah (1941–1979), his reformist son, began institutionalizing professions and establishing associations, including the Association of Iranian Graduate Architects (AIGA) in 1945 and the Association of Iranian Architects (AIA) circa 1968. The desire for mass communication and administrative organization on a national level led each association to publish its architectural journal. Considering this historical background and looking at the reciprocal relationship between the colonizer and the colonized, this paper takes up the notion of reciprocal gaze in colonial studies to better understand the role of modernity in the architectural context of Iran during the reign of Mohammad Reza Shah. Starting with problematizing the notion of the World Picture and taking distance from Edward Said’s East-West binary, this paper focuses instead on the heterogeneity of the spectrum between these binary models rather than the oversimplified and generalized categorization of the colonizer as the dominant and the colonized as the passive subject. In this way, the in-betweenness acknowledges the complexities of power dynamics and makes it possible to think about other forms of power. Following this line of thought, this paper invites a close reading of the only all-English issue of the architecture journal Honar va Me’māri, published in 1973, to demonstrate the double concern of Iranian architects about seeing and being seen on the international stage. More than just a publication, Honar va Me’māri, a journal established by young architects, became the site for exploring the space between tradition and modernity, old and new, and the state’s ideology of making a new nation and their own avant-garde practice.
Measurement of airborne fission products in Chapel Hill, NC, USA from the Fukushima Dai-ichi reactor accident
Creators: name: MacMullin, S.
name: Giovanetti, G. K.
name: Green, M. P.
name: Henning, R.
name: Holmes, R.
name: Vorren, K.
name: Wilkerson, J. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present measurements of airborne fission products in Chapel Hill, NC, USA, from 62 days following the March 11, 2011, accident at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. Airborne particle samples were collected daily in air filters and radio-assayed with two high-purity germanium (HPGe) detectors. The fission products I-131 and Cs-137 were measured with maximum activities of 4.2 +/- 0.6 mBq/m^3 and 0.42 +/- 0.07 mBq/m^3 respectively. Additional activity from I-131, I-132, Cs-134, Cs-136, Cs-137 and Te-132 were measured in the same air filters using a low-background HPGe detector at the Kimballton Underground Research Facility (KURF).
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
"La libertà di non essere liberi". Argomenti a favore o contro il libero arbitrio
Creators: name: Caffo, Leonardo
Publisher: name: Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica Junior
Year: 2011

description: Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica Junior, Vol 2, No 1 (2011): Metodo o contenuto? Note a margine della Filosofia Analitica
The Baryon Census in a Multiphase Intergalactic Medium: 30% of the Baryons May Still Be Missing
Creators: name: Shull, J. Michael
name: Smith, Britton D.
name: Danforth, Charles W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For low-redshift cosmology and galaxy formation rates, it is important to account for all the baryons synthesized in the Big Bang. Although galaxies and clusters contain 10% of the baryons, many more reside in the photoionized Lyman-alpha forest and shocked-heated warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM) at T = 10^5 to 10^7 K. Current tracers of WHIM at 10^5 to 10^6 K include the O VI 1032, 1038 absorption lines, together with broad Lyman-alpha absorbers (BLAs) and EUV/X-ray absorption lines from Ne VIII, O VII, and O VIII. We improve the O VI baryon surveys with corrections for oxygen metallicity (Z/Zsun) and O VI ionization fraction (f_OVI) using cosmological simulations of heating, cooling, and metal transport in a density-temperature structured medium. Statistically, their product correlates with column density, (Z/Zsun)(f_OVI) = (0.015)(N_OVI/10^{14} cm^-2)^0.70. The N_OVI-weighted mean is 0.01, which doubles previous estimates of WHIM baryon content. We also reanalyze H I data from the Hubble Space Telescope, applying redshift corrections for absorber density, photoionizing background, and proper length, dl/dz. We find substantial baryon fractions in the photoionized Lya forest (28 +/- 11%), O VI/BLA-traced WHIM (25 +/- 8%), and collapsed phase (18 +/- 4%) in galaxies, groups, clusters, and circumgalactic gas. The baryon shortfall is 29 +/- 13%, which may be detected in X-ray absorbers from hotter WHIM or in weaker Lya and O VI absorbers. Further progress will require higher-precision baryon surveys of weak absorbers at column densities N_HI > 10^{12.0} cm^-2, N_OVI > 10^{12.5} cm^-2, and N_OVII > 10^{14.5} cm^-2, with moderate-resolution UV and X-ray spectrographs.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures, revised submission to ApJ (new Fig 2, Appendices A,B)
Channel-aware Decentralized Detection via Level-triggered Sampling
Creators: name: Yilmaz, Yasin
name: Moustakides, George V.
name: Wang, Xiaodong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider decentralized detection through distributed sensors that perform level-triggered sampling and communicate with a fusion center via noisy channels. Each sensor computes its local log-likelihood ratio (LLR), samples it using the level-triggered sampling, and upon sampling transmits a single bit to the FC. Upon receiving a bit from a sensor, the FC updates the global LLR and performs a sequential probability ratio test (SPRT) step. We derive the fusion rules under various types of channels. We further provide an asymptotic analysis on the average detection delay for the proposed channel-aware scheme, and show that the asymptotic detection delay is characterized by a KL information number. The delay analysis facilitates the choice of appropriate signaling schemes under different channel types for sending the 1-bit information from sensors to the FC.
Catching the fox : restricting the right to pre-trial silence in Canada
Creators: name: Mackenzie, Ian Alan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: This thesis studies the right to silence and proposes restricting the right to pre-trial silence in Canadian criminal law in a manner similar to the way it has been curtailed in the United Kingdom, where the trier of fact may draw an adverse inference from an accused’s pre-trial silence in certain statutorily defined circumstances. The thesis is a comparative review of the historical development and current state of the law governing the right to pre-trial silence in Canada and the United Kingdom, and includes a discussion and analysis of the major philosophical and pragmatic arguments for and against the right to silence found in the academic and jurisprudential discourse. I argue that the right to pre-trial silence is contrary to the moral duty to respond to a well-founded accusation, as well as to simple common sense. Furthermore, I submit that the right to silence interferes with the truth-seeking function of the courts, is irrationally and arbitrarily applied, does not strike an appropriate balance between individual rights and the societal importance of effective law enforcement and the successful prosecution of the guilty, and is in reality quite ineffective in its goal of protecting an accused because of recent Supreme Court of Canada decisions that have essentially eviscerated the practical utility of the right to pre-trial silence for anyone facing police interrogation other than the most sophisticated or hardened criminal. Based on these suppositions, I propose that the Canada Evidence Act be amended to allow the trier of fact to draw an adverse inference, including an inference of guilt, when an accused remains silent during police questioning but later advances a defence that he or she could have reasonably mentioned when questioned.
Analisi critica della crisi di un sistema critico
Creators: name: Sorgon, Mattia
Publisher: name: Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica Junior
Year: 2011

description: Rivista Italiana di Filosofia Analitica Junior, Vol 2, No 1 (2011): Metodo o contenuto? Note a margine della Filosofia Analitica