cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Charm mixing in the Standard Model
Creators: name: Bobrowski, Markus
name: Lenz, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this talk we report on a study on the mixing of neutral charmed mesons and argue that, at the present stage, a CP violating weak phase of the order of some per mille can not be excluded in the Standard Model. It is shown how some, seemingly reasonable, simplifying assumptions about CKM couplings lead to the wrong conclusion that CP violation of this amount is an unambiguous indication of new physics. The presented results rely on a recent short-distance analysis of the Delta C=2 transition, which confirms the expectation that the dominant contribution is due to effects of flavour symmetry breaking appearing in higher orders of the Heavy Quark Expansion. We investigate meson-antimeson transitions with an intermediate state coupling to the meson's sea quark background, present in dimension 10 and 12, using a factorisation approach to simplify the operator basis. On account of a lifting of GIM suppression by one power of m_s/m_c, the contribution to y=Delta Gamma/2 Gamma is found to exceed that of the formally leading dimension six by a factor close to ten.
description: 4 pages, talk at "35th International Conference on High Energy Physics", Paris, France, July 22 -- 28, 2010
Hall viscosity from gauge/gravity duality
Creators: name: Saremi, Omid
name: Son, Dam Thanh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In (2+1)-dimensional systems with broken parity, there exists yet another transport coefficient, appearing at the same order as the shear viscosity in the hydrodynamic derivative expansion. In condensed matter physics, it is referred to as "Hall viscosity". We consider a simple holographic realization of a (2+1)-dimensional isotropic fluid with broken spatial parity. Using techniques of fluid/gravity correspondence, we uncover that the holographic fluid possesses a nonzero Hall viscosity, whose value only depends on the near-horizon region of the background. We also write down a Kubo's formula for the Hall viscosity. We confirm our results by directly computing the Hall viscosity using the formula.
description: 12 pages
Frequency shift mapping in spinal cord models of white matter demyelination
Creators: name: Chen, Evan I-Wen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: The behavior of MR phase and frequency in demyelination and damage in central nervous tissue white matter arises not only from traditionally associated bulk susceptibility changes, but also from changes to its tissue microstructure. A recently proposed generalized Lorentzian model of microstructure-related magnetic susceptibility effects predicts an increase in MR frequency due to damage in myelin in MS lesions. The same model also predicts reduction in MR frequency due to axonal degeneration. Here, we investigate the effect of both myelin and axonal damage through transection of white matter fibers in the dorsal column of rat cervical spinal cord. This injury generates secondary damage consisting of neurodegeneration along nerve tracts bilateral to the transection site, producing cases of Wallerian and retrograde degeneration free of excessive hemorrhage and inflammation. High-resolution frequency maps of degenerating tracts were correlated with histopathology for axons, myelin, degenerated myelin, and macrophages. Damage to myelin sheaths is prominent in Wallerian degeneration, where we observe strong correlations with increasing frequency up to 8 weeks post-injury. Retrograde degeneration, which consists predominantly of axonal damage, produces decreased frequency shift over time. The MR frequency shifts are sensitive to the effects of macrophage in filtration and debris clearance, which vary with white matter fiber density and affect rates of degeneration. We demonstrate how MR frequency can successfully characterize injury in rat spinal cord white matter in a manner consistent with predictions outlined by the Generalized Lorentzian Approximation Model, and conclude that these results suggest potential applications of MR frequency to supplement or replace current clinical techniques, such as myelin water and diffusion weighted imaging, as a non-invasive and quantitative method of assessing white matter damage in CNS.
Gossypiboma presenting as a cyst with floating membranes
Creators: name: BASTI, RAM
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Abscess
subject: Cysts
subject: Foreign bodies

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: male, 60 years
description: Clinical History: A 60-year-old man presented with recent onset of abdominal pain. He had history of bilateral renal calculi & right ureteric stricture for which he underwent ureteral re-implantation and bilateral ureteric stenting 7 years before. On examination, a mob... Final Diagnosis: Gossypiboma
[Letter from Wee Tan Louie to Margeurite T. Louie]
[Wee Tan Louie 致 Margeurite T. Louie 的信]
Creators: name: Louie, Wee Tan
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Letter addressed to the writer's sister in Kamloops, Canada, in 1921 about his return to Canada after WWI.
The few body problem of the quark-model hadron structure
Creators: name: Valcarce, A.
name: Vijande, J.
name: Garcilazo, H.
name: Carames, T. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss recent results of hadron spectroscopy and hadron-hadron interaction within a quark model framework. New experimental data could point to the important role played by higher order Fock space components on low-energy observables. Our aim is to obtain a coherent description of the low-energy hadron phenomenology to constrain QCD phenomenological models and try to learn about low-energy realizations of the theory. This long-range effort is based in adapting few-body techniques to study many-quark systems.
description: 15 pages. Plenary talk presented at the "3rd International Conference on Nuclear and Particle Physics", 3-8 october 2010, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Enhanced Management of Personal Astronomical Data with FITSManager
Creators: name: Cui, Chenzhou
name: Fan, Dongwei
name: Zhao, Yongheng
name: Kembhavi, Ajit
name: He, Boliang
name: Cao, Zihuang
name: Li, Jian
name: Nandrekar, Deoyani
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Although the roles of data centers and computing centers are becoming more and more important, and on-line research is becoming the mainstream for astronomy, individual research based on locally hosted data is still very common. With the increase of personal storage capacity, it is easy to find hundreds to thousands of FITS files in the personal computer of an astrophysicist. Because Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) is a professional data format initiated by astronomers and used mainly in the small community, data management toolkits for FITS files are very few. Astronomers need a powerful tool to help them manage their local astronomical data. Although Virtual Observatory (VO) is a network oriented astronomical research environment, its applications and related technologies provide useful solutions to enhance the management and utilization of astronomical data hosted in an astronomer's personal computer. FITSManager is such a tool to provide astronomers an efficient management and utilization of their local data, bringing VO to astronomers in a seamless and transparent way. FITSManager provides fruitful functions for FITS file management, like thumbnail, preview, type dependent icons, header keyword indexing and search, collaborated working with other tools and online services, and so on. The development of the FITSManager is an effort to fill the gap between management and analysis of astronomical data.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures, Accepted for publication in New Astronomy
Hepatic subcapsular CSF collection: An unusual complication of V-P shunt
Creators: name: ABDRABOU, AHMED
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Liver
subject: CT
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Shunts
subject: Dissection

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: male, 5 years
description: Clinical History: A 5-year-old child presented with abdominal pain after falling down 6 hours before. On examination the patient had swelling and tenderness at the right hypochondrial region. A V-P shunt was placed 4 years before to treat obstructive hydrocephalus. Final Diagnosis: Hepatic subcapsular CSF collection owing to mispositioned VP shunt
Tracheobronchial aspergillosis
Creators: name: Bares FernÃ¡Ndez, Ignacio
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Thorax
subject: Absorptiometry / Bone densiometry
subject: CT
subject: Ablation procedures
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Abscess
subject: Infection

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: female, 49 years
description: Clinical History: A 49 year-old female presented  with neutropenic fever without antibiotic response. The patient suffered from myeloblastic acute leukemia and she was on the 14th week after the allogeneic transplant. Final Diagnosis: Tracheobronchial aspergillosis
Enhancing and Analyzing Search performance in Unstructured Peer to Peer Networks Using Enhanced Guided search protocol (EGSP)
Creators: name: Anusuya, R.
name: Kavitha, V.
name: Julie, E. Golden
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks establish loosely coupled application-level overlays on top of the Internet to facilitate efficient sharing of resources. It can be roughly classified as either structured or unstructured networks. Without stringent constraints over the network topology, unstructured P2P networks can be constructed very efficiently and are therefore considered suitable to the Internet environment. However, the random search strategies adopted by these networks usually perform poorly with a large network size. To enhance the search performance in unstructured P2P networks through exploiting users' common interest patterns captured within a probability-theoretic framework termed the user interest model (UIM). A search protocol and a routing table updating protocol are further proposed in order to expedite the search process through self organizing the P2P network into a small world. Both theoretical and experimental analyses are conducted and demonstrated the effectiveness and efficiency of the approach.
description: IEEE Publication Format, https://sites.google.com/site/journalofcomputing/
Stochastic particle methods for Smoluchowski coagulation equation: Variance reduction and error estimations
Creators: name: Kolodko, Anastasia
name: Sabelfeld, Karl K.
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Stochastic particle methods
subject: Smoluchowski equation
subject: variance reduction
subject: coagulation-fragmentation process
subject: 65C05
subject: 76N20

description: Stochastic particle methods for the coagulation-fragmentation Smoluchowski equation are developed and a general variance reduction technique is suggested. This method generalizes the mass-flow approach due to H. Babovsky, and has in focus the desired band of the size spectrum. Estimations of the variance and bias of the method are derived. A comparative cost and variance analysis is made for the known stochastic methods. An applied problem of coagulation-evaporation dynamics in free molecule regime is solved.
Echinococcus and ascariasis together!
Creators: name: Jagirdar, Naeem
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Colon
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Liver
subject: Small bowel
subject: Spleen
subject: CT
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Contrast agent-oral
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Screening
subject: Cavitation
subject: Cysts
subject: Infection
subject: Parasites

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: female, 30 years
description: Clinical History: A 30-year-old patient of South Asian origin was referred for an ultrasound examination of the abdomen and pelvis by her general practitioner as she had been having symptoms of bloating and dysmenorrhoea. Her blood tests were within normal limits. Final Diagnosis: Echinococcal cysts of the liver and the spleen and intestinal ascariasis.
Biliary cystadenoma
Creators: name: Monraats, Melanie
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Observer performance
subject: Structured reporting
subject: Abscess
subject: Acute
subject: Neoplasia

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: female, 46 years
description: Clinical History: A 46-year-old female presented with right upper quadrant pain since one day. Ultrasound demonstrated gallstones and gallbladder wall thickening suspicious for cholecystitis with a concomitant liver abscess (Fig. 1). A subsequently performed CT scan confir... Final Diagnosis: After hemihepatectomy, histology showed a serous cystadenoma without malignant tissue.
Additional file 1 of Risk-adapted treatment reduced chemotherapy exposure for clinical stage I pediatric testicular cancer
Creators: name: Ye, Yun-Lin
name: Zhuang-Fei Chen
name: Bian, Jun
name: Liang, Hai-Tao
name: Qin, Zi-Ke
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Figure 1. Way sensitivity analysis. A: In any value of pRelapseLowrisk (relapse rate of low-risk group), when pRelapseHighrisk (relapse rate of high-risk group) > 0.4, risk-adapted treatment was associated with lower exposure of chemotherapy; B: In any value of pRelapsePostSalvChemo (relapse rate after salvage chemotherapy), when pRelapseHighrisk (relapse rate of high-risk group) > 0.4, risk-adapted treatment was associated with lower exposure of chemotherapy; C: In any value of tSecondChemo (toxicity utility of second-line chemotherapy compared to salvage chemotherapy), when pRelapseHighrisk (relapse rate of high-risk group) > 0.4, risk-adapted treatment was associated with lower exposure of chemotherapy. Red: risk-adapted treatment, Blue: surveillance.
Self-Energy Correction to the Hyperfine Splitting for Excited States
Creators: name: Wundt, B. J.
name: Jentschura, U. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The self-energy corrections to the hyperfine splitting is evaluated for higher excited states in hydrogenlike ions, using an expansion in the binding parameter Zalpha, where Z is the nuclear charge number, and alpha is the fine-structure constant. We present analytic results for D, F and G states, and for a number of highly excited Rydberg states with principal quantum numbers in the range 13 <= n <= 16, and orbital angular momenta l = n-2 and l = n-1. A closed-form, analytic expression is derived for the contribution of high-energy photons, valid for any state with l <= 2$ and arbitrary n, l and total angular momentum j. The low-energy contributions are written in the form of generalized Bethe logarithms and evaluated for selected states.
description: 7 pages; RevTeX
The sustainability of biofuels : a principled lifecycle assessment of the 2009 European Union Renewable Energy Directive and its framework
Creators: name: Cloutier De Repentigny, Pierre
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Drastic reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are needed in order to mitigate the effects of climate change. The European Union (EU), a leader in climate change mitigation, has adopted an ambitious strategy to achieve its mitigation goal. A piece of this strategy is the Renewable Energy Directive. The Directive establishes mandatory renewable energy targets for member states. Cognizant that in order to achieve the target of 10% of final energy consumption in the transport sector member states would have to rely heavily on biofuels, the EU, in the spirit of sustainable development, included in the Directive sustainability criteria for biofuels. The criteria were needed because, although biofuels can be carbon neutral and an effective replacement for fossil fuels, the production of biofuels can have serious environmental and socio-economic consequences. This thesis concludes that the Directive will not result in the sustainable production of biofuels. This conclusion is based on the principled lifecycle assessment of the Directive and its framework. This approach is a combination of core principles of sustainable development – integration, equity, precaution and polluter pays – and of the basic tenets of lifecycle assessment, a methodology designed to measure the lifecycle impacts of a product. Due to the reliance by member states on first generation biofuels, biofuels produced under the Directive’s regime are not likely to reduce GHG emissions compared to fossil fuels, and are likely to increase water pollution, the loss of biodiversity and food insecurity. The negative impacts of biofuels production are caused mainly by the agricultural production of feedstocks, especially through indirect land-use change. Furthermore, the cost of pollution is not internalized by the regime and biofuels subsidies are not linked to environmental concerns. Therefore, the lifecycle impacts of EU biofuels production do not accord with core principles of sustainable development. Only second and third generation biofuels, which are not yet available on a large-scale, seem to have the potential to be sustainable.
Estimate of temperature and its uncertainty in small systems
Creators: name: Falcioni, M.
name: Puglisi, A.
name: Sarracino, A.
name: Villamaina, D.
name: Vulpiani, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The energy of a finite system thermally connected to a thermal reservoir may fluctuate, while the temperature is a constant representing a thermodynamic property of the reservoir. The finite system can also be used as a thermometer for the reservoir. From such a perspective the temperature has an uncertainty, which can be treated within the framework of estimation theory. We review the main results of this theory, and clarify some controversial issues regarding temperature fluctuations. We also offer a simple example of a thermometer with a small number of particles. We discuss the relevance of the total observation time, which must be much longer than the decorrelation time.
Witnessing the extraordinary : investigating the accomplishments of the ALGC program
Creators: name: Fontana, Armindo
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: This study investigates the reasons behind the achievements of the Adult Learning and Global Change (ALGC) program, an international online master’s program developed and managed by four universities in Canada, Sweden, South Africa and Australia: The University of British Columbia (Canada), Linköping University (Sweden), The University of the Western Cape (South Africa) and three different universities in Australia (where the original partner, University of Technology Sydney, was replaced by Monash University, which is now being replaced by Australian Catholic University). The twelve individuals who have had leadership roles in the program since it began in 2001 were interviewed, and their answers to the same open ended questions provided the data for analysis. Based on their responses, it was possible to identify the six stages in the development of the program, the many accomplishments of the program from a variety of viewpoints (historical, educational, collaborative, administrative and personal), the different threats and weaknesses that endangered the program (and the way they were addressed), and, finally, the explanations for the accomplishments of the program. The conclusion is that thanks to its competent and committed leaders, a creative and innovative program, and constructive and caring relationships, the ALGC program has not only survived but thrived.
Human Disease Diagnosis Using a Fuzzy Expert System
Creators: name: Hasan, Mir Anamul
name: Sher-E-Alam, Khaja Md.
name: Chowdhury, Ahsan Raja
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Human disease diagnosis is a complicated process and requires high level of expertise. Any attempt of developing a web-based expert system dealing with human disease diagnosis has to overcome various difficulties. This paper describes a project work aiming to develop a web-based fuzzy expert system for diagnosing human diseases. Now a days fuzzy systems are being used successfully in an increasing number of application areas; they use linguistic rules to describe systems. This research project focuses on the research and development of a web-based clinical tool designed to improve the quality of the exchange of health information between health care professionals and patients. Practitioners can also use this web-based tool to corroborate diagnosis. The proposed system is experimented on various scenarios in order to evaluate it's performance. In all the cases, proposed system exhibits satisfactory results.
description: IEEE Publication Format, https://sites.google.com/site/journalofcomputing/
Beschuss von flüssigkeitsgefüllten Behältern [online]
Creators: name: Timm, Thorsten
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2003

description: Kurzfassung

Die vorliegende Arbeit beinhaltet Experimente und theoretische
Untersuchungen zur Erforschung des Tragverhaltens von
flüssigkeitsgefüllten Behältern unter mittlerer
Stoßgeschwindigkeit. Dünnwandige zylindrische Stahlbehälter mit
unterschiedlicher Wandstärke wurden mit Projektilen beschossen.
Um die unterschiedlichen Versagensmechanismen untersuchen zu
können, wurden leere und mit Wasser gefüllte Behälter gewählt.
Bei den mit Flüssigkeit gefüllten Behältern sind
unterschiedliche Versagensmechanismen von einer einfachen
Perforation der Behältervorder-­ und -rückseite bis hin zu einem
katastrophalem Versagen der beschossenen Behälterseite mit
Perforation der Behälterrückseite festzustellen. Die Entwicklung
einer konzentrierten Druckwelle in der Flüssigkeit, ausgehend
von dem Aufschlagpunkt des Projektils an dem Behälter, durch die
Flüssigkeit hindurch zur gegenüberliegenden Behälterwand und von
dort aus wieder zurück zum Aufschlagpunkt konnte ebenso wie eine
überlagerte Druckentwicklung auf Grund der Verdrängung der
Flüssigkeit durch das Projektil festgestellt werden. Spannungen
und Dehnungen wurden in dem Behälter gemessen. Ebenfalls hat die
Geschossgeschwindigkeit und die Geometrie des Containments
großen Einfluss auf die Versagensart des Behälters. Die
Primär­druckwelle und die reflektierten Druckwellen beeinflussen
die Rissbildung in der Behälterwand. Theoretische Untersuchungen
unter, Zuhilfenahme der FE­Methode halfen die Experimentellen
Untersuchungen zu verdeutlichen.

Abstract

The study summarizes experiments and theoretical investigations
to explore the behavior of liquid filled containers under medium
speed impact. Thin­walled cylindrical steel containers with
different wall thickness were impacted by gun projectiles. To
investigate the major difference of the container failure modes
empty and water filled containers were used. In the case of the
water filled containers the impact damages ranged from simple
perforation of front and rear wall to a catastrophic front wall
rupture which started at the rim of the impact hole and an
additional perforation of the rear wall. The development of the
pressure distribution in the water starting at the point of
penetration was followed through the container to the opposite
wall and back to the point of entry of the projectile. Stresses
and strains in the containment were registered. Also the impact
velocity and the geometry of the container cause different
failure modes. The primary and the reflected pressure fields
interact with the wall creating specific crack patterns.
Theoretical investigations by means of the Finite Element Method
helped to explain the experimental findings.
Shear Alfven wave continuous spectrum within magnetic islands
Creators: name: Biancalani, Alessandro
name: Chen, Liu
name: Pegoraro, Francesco
name: Zonca, Fulvio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The radial structure of the continuous spectrum of shear Alfven waves is calculated in this paper within the separatrix of a magnetic island. Geometrical effects due to the noncircularity of the flux surface's cross section are retained to all orders. On the other hand, we keep only curvature effects responsible for the beta-induced gap in the low-frequency part of the continuous spectrum. Modes with different helicity from that of the magnetic island are considered. The main result is that, inside a magnetic island, there is a continuous spectrum very similar to that of tokamak plasmas, where a generalized safety factor q can be defined and where a wide frequency gap is formed, analogous to the ellipticity induced Alfven eigenmode gap in tokamaks. The presence of this gap is due to the strong eccentricity of the island cross section. The importance of the existence of such a gap is recognized in potentially hosting magnetic-island induced Alfven eigenmodes (MiAE). Due to the frequency dependence of the shear Alfven wave continuum on the magnetic-island size, the possibility of utilizing MiAE frequency scalings as a novel magnetic-island diagnostic is also discussed.
Additional file 1 of Does galvanic cathodic protection by aluminum anodes impact marine organisms?
Creators: name: Bell, Anna Maria
name: Au, Marcus Von Der
name: Regnery, Julia
name: Schmid, Matthias
name: Meermann, Björn
name: Reifferscheid, Georg
name: Ternes, Thomas
name: Buchinger, Sebastian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Tables and Figures.
Association of dietary soy with expression of various pro-inflammatory genes in porcine phagocytes
Creators: name: Theodorou, Georgios
name: Papadomichelakis, George
name: Tsiplakou, Eleni
name: Chronopoulou, Roubini
name: Zervas, George
name: Politis, Ioannis
Publisher: name: Department of Health, Animal Science and Food Safety (VESPA)
Year: 2014
Subjects: soy; phagocytes; inflammation

description: Soybean and whey are two common protein sources used in piglet feeding; however, their effects on pro-inflammatory responses remain unclear. The present study investigated the expression of various genes implicated in the activation/deactivation of porcine phagocytes post-weaning. Eighteen piglets were divided into two groups based on the main protein source of their diet; soybean (SB) or whey proteins (WP). Blood phagocytes were isolated at 72 days of age. Expression of urokinase plasminogen activator (u-PA), u-PA receptor (u-PAR), plasminogen activator inhibitors 1 and 2, intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (ICAM-1), inducible NO synthase (iNOS), cyclo-oxygenase-2 and interleukin-10 (IL-10) in activated monocytes and neutrophils (except IL-10) was determined by quantitative PCR. Expression of u-PAR, ICAM-1 and iNOS were lower  in both cell types obtained from SB-fed piglets compared to WP-fed piglets. In conclusion, a SB-based diet, compared with a WP diet, is associated with reduced expression of crucial pro-inflammatory genes in porcine phagocytes.
description: International Journal of Health, Animal Science and Food Safety, Vol 1, No 1 (2014)
Evaluation of persistent ankle pain
Creators: name: KOTSYFAKIS, STYLIANOS
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: MR
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Pathology

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: female, 43 years
description: Clinical History: A 43-year-old white female patient was examined in the orthopaedic department because of persistent ankle pain and numbness, while standing or walking. The physical examination showed restricted movement and moderate tenderness of the medial ankle. There ... Final Diagnosis: Flexor digitorum accessorius longus muscle
Gravitational solitons, hairy black holes and phase transitions in BHT massive gravity
Creators: name: Perez, Alfredo
name: Tempo, David
name: Troncoso, Ricardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hairy black holes and gravitational solitons in three dimensions for the new massive gravity theory proposed by Bergshoeff, Hohm and Townsend (BHT) are considered at the special case when there is a unique maximally symmetric solution. Following the Brown-York approach with suitable counterterms, it is shown that the soliton possesses a fixed negative mass which coincides with the one of AdS spacetime regardless the value of the integration constant that describes it. Hence, the soliton can be naturally regarded as a degenerate ground state labeled by a single modulus parameter. The Euclidean action, endowed with suitable counterterms, is shown to be finite and independent of modulus and hair parameters for both classes of solutions, and in the case of hairy black holes the free energy in the semiclassical approximation is reproduced. Modular invariance allows to show that the gravitational hair turns out to be determined by the modulus parameter. According to Cardy's formula, it is shown that the semiclassical entropy agrees with the microscopic counting of states provided the modulus parameter of the ground state is spontaneously fixed, which suggests that the hairy black hole is in a broken phase of the theory. Indeed, it is found that there is a critical temperature characterizing a first order phase transition between the static hairy black hole and the soliton which, due to the existence of gravitational hair, can take place in the semiclassical regime.
description: 20 pages, 1 figure
[Letter from Wee Hong Louie to Margeurite T. Louie]
[Wee Hong Louie 致 Margeurite T. Louie 的信]
Creators: name: Louie, Wee Hong
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Letter addressed to the writer's sister in Vancouver, Canada, in 1928 about his life in Milwaukee.
CORMEN: Coding-Aware Opportunistic Routing in Wireless Mess Network
Creators: name: Islam, Jeherul
name: Singh, P. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: These Network Coding improves the network operation beyond the traditional routing or store-and-forward, by mixing of data stream within a network. Network coding techniques explicitly minimizes the total no of transmission in wireless network. The Coding-aware routing maximizes the coding opportunity by finding the coding possible path for every packet in the network. Here we propose CORMEN: a new coding-aware routing mechanism based on opportunistic routing. In CORMEN, every node independently can take the decision whether to code packets or not and forwarding of packets is based on the coding opportunity available.
description: IEEE Publication Format, https://sites.google.com/site/journalofcomputing/
Field-effect and frequency dependent transport in semiconductor-enriched single-wall carbon nanotube network device
Creators: name: Jaiswal, Manu
name: Sangeeth, C. S. Suchand
name: Wang, Wei
name: Sun, Ya-Ping
name: Menon, Reghu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electrical and optical response of a field-effect device comprising a network of semiconductor-enriched single-wall carbon nanotubes, gated with sodium chloride solution is investigated. Field-effect is demonstrated in a device that uses facile fabrication techniques along with a small-ion as the gate electrolyte - and this is accomplished as a result of the semiconductor enhancement of the tubes. The optical transparency and electrical resistance of the device are modulated with gate voltage. A time-response study of the modulation of optical transparency and electrical resistance upon application of gate voltage suggests the percolative charge transport in the network. Also the ac response in the network is investigated as a function of frequency and temperature down to 5 K. An empirical relation between onset frequency and temperature is determined.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures
Dispersive representation of the scalar and vector Kpi form factors for tau --> K pi nu_tau and K_{l3} decays
Creators: name: Bernard, Véronique
name: Boito, Diogo R.
name: Passemar, Emilie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, the tau --> K pi nu_tau decay spectrum has been measured by the Belle and BaBar collaborations. In this work, we present an analysis of such decays introducing a dispersive parametrization for the vector and scalar Kpi form factors. This allows for precise tests of the Standard Model. For instance, the determination of f_+(0)|V_{us}| from these decays is discussed. A comparison and a combination of these results with the analyses of the K_{l3} decays is also considered.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure. Talk given at 11th International Workshop on Tau Lepton Physics, Manchester, UK, 13-17 September 2010
Preliminary Results from Integrating Compton Photon Polarimetry in Hall A of Jefferson Lab
Creators: name: Parno, D.
name: Friend, M.
name: Benmokhtar, F.
name: Franklin, G.
name: Michaels, R.
name: Nanda, S.
name: Quinn, B.
name: Souder, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A wide range of nucleon and nuclear structure experiments in Jefferson Lab's Hall A require precise, continuous measurements of the polarization of the electron beam. In our Compton polarimeter, electrons are scattered off photons in a Fabry-Perot cavity; by measuring an asymmetry in the integrated signal of the scattered photons detected in a GSO crystal, we can make non-invasive, continuous measurements of the beam polarization. Our goal is to achieve 1% statistical error within two hours of running. We discuss the design and commissioning of an upgrade to this apparatus, and report preliminary results for experiments conducted at beam energies from 3.5 to 5.9 GeV and photon rates from 5 to 100 kHz.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures. To appear in the Proceedings of the International Nuclear Physics Conference (INPC 2010), July 4-9 2010, Vancouver, Canada (Journal of Physics: Conference Series)
Abdominal sarcoidosis
Creators: name: Andrade, Luisa
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Inflammation

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: female, 29 years
description: Clinical History: A 29-year-old female patient was presented to our hospital with a 6-month history of anorexia, weight loss and abdominal discomfort. On admission, further examinations revealed that serum angiotensin converting enzyme (SACE) were elevated. Chest radiograp... Final Diagnosis: Splenic sarcoidosis
DIGITAL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES IN INDEPENDENT EDUCATION, THEIR TYPES AND SPECIFIC FEATURES OF THEIR USE (AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE)
Creators: name: Kudratov, Siroj
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Information technologies have firmly entered our lives and changed the habitual way of life of people of the last century - people use them every day for learning, at work or at home. Computer literacy and information culture are necessary conditions for employment and a successful career. The trend of increasing the multifunctionality of things that surround a person is rapidly developing. For example, mobile phones have ceased to function only as a means of communication; their functionality has expanded almost to the level of a computer.
Primary extraventricular neurocytoma in midbrain
Creators: name: Li, Weiyue
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Experimental
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Pathology

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: male, 39 years
description: Clinical History: The patient, complaining of dizziness and blur vision for 1 yearï¼underwent MR examination revealing the tumour of the brainstem before undergoing ventriculoperitoneal shunting and radiotherapy in hospital A. However, he progressively developed right sid... Final Diagnosis: Primary extraventricular neurocytoma(EVN), WHO grade II
Optimal verification of entanglement in a photonic cluster state experiment
Creators: name: Wunderlich, H.
name: Vallone, G.
name: Mataloni, P.
name: Plenio, M. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the quantification of entanglement by means of entanglement measures on a four- and a six- qubit cluster state realized by using photons entangled both in polarization and linear momentum. This paper also addresss the question of the scaling of entanglement bounds from incomplete tomographic information on the density matrix under realistic experimental conditions.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
Effectiveness of Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) in Fast Networks
Creators: name: Shafi, Muhammad Imran
name: Akram, Muhammad
name: Hayat, Sikandar
name: Sohail, Imran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Computer systems are facing biggest threat in the form of malicious data which causing denial of service, information theft, financial and credibility loss etc. No defense technique has been proved successful in handling these threats. Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPSs) being best of available solutions. These techniques are getting more and more attention. Although Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPSs) show a good level of success in detecting and preventing intrusion attempts to networks, they show a visible deficiency in their performance when they are employed on fast networks. In this paper we have presented a design including quantitative and qualitative methods to identify improvement areas in IPSs. Focus group is used for qualitative analysis and experiment is used for quantitative analysis. This paper also describes how to reduce the responding time for IPS when an intrusion occurs on network, and how can IPS be made to perform its tasks successfully without effecting network speed negatively.
description: IEEE Publication Format, https://sites.google.com/site/journalofcomputing/
Effect of strain on the orbital and magnetic ordering of manganite thin films and their interface with an insulator
Creators: name: Baena, A.
name: Brey, L.
name: Calderon, M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effect of uniform uniaxial strain on the ground state electronic configuration of a thin film manganite. Our model Hamiltonian includes the double-exchange, the Jahn-Teller electron-lattice coupling, and the antiferromagnetic superexchange. The strain arises due to the lattice mismatch between an insulating substrate and a manganite which produces a tetragonal distortion. This is included in the model via a modification of the hopping amplitude and the introduction of an energy splitting between the Mn e_g levels. We analyze the bulk properties of half-doped manganites and the electronic reconstruction at the interface between a ferromagnetic and metallic manganite and the insulating substrate. The strain drives an orbital selection modifying the electronic properties and the magnetic ordering of manganites and their interfaces.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures
Pinning quantum phase transition of photons in a hollow-core fiber
Creators: name: Huo, MingXia
name: Angelakis, Dimitris G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that a pinning quantum phase transition for photons could be observed in a hollow-core one-dimensional fiber loaded with a cold atomic gas. Utilizing the strong light confinement in the fiber, a range of different strongly correlated polaritonic and photonic states, corresponding to both strong and weak interactions can be created and probed. The key ingredient is the creation of a tunable effective lattice potential acting on the interacting polaritonic gas which is possible by slightly modulating the atomic density. We analyze the relevant phase diagram corresponding to the realizable Bose-Hubbard (weak) and sine-Gordon (strong) interacting regimes and conclude by describing the measurement process. The latter consists of mapping the stationary excitations to propagating light pulses whose correlations can be efficiently probed once they exit the fiber using available optical technologies
description: 4 pages, 4 figures. Comments welcomed
Two Essays on Rural Youth in Kenya
Creators: name: Pracht, Wyatt Dean
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Agricultural economics

description: This thesis consists of two essays on rural youth in Kenya. Both of these essays come from data collected to evaluate the impacts of a randomized controlled trial in Eastern Kenya where rural youth were trained in business concepts and linked with agricultural input suppliers to become resellers of post-harvest inputs to smallholder farmers. The first essay evaluates the impacts of the intervention on material economic outcomes such as income and expenditure. The second essay evaluates the effects of the intervention on psychological outcomes such as aspirations.
Additional file 1 of Converting habits of antibiotic use for respiratory tract infections in German primary care (CHANGE-3) - process evaluation of a complex intervention
Creators: name: Poß-Doering, R.
name: L. Kuehn
name: M. Kamradt
name: K. Glassen
name: Th. Fleischhauer
name: P. Kaufmann-Kolle
name: M. Koeppen
name: A. Wollny
name: A. Altiner
name: M. Wensing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Interview guide (general practitioners; translated version).
Nucleon polarization in the process $e^+e^-\to N\bar{N}$ near threshold
Creators: name: Bondar, A. E.
name: Dmitriev, V. F.
name: Milstein, A. I.
name: Strakhovenko, V. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The process $e^+e^- \rightarrow N\bar N$ is studied nearby a threshold with account for polarizations of all initial and final particles. The nucleon polarization $\bm ζ^N$ reveals a strong energy dependence due to that of the nucleon electromagnetic form factors $G_E(Q^2)$ and $G_M(Q^2)$ caused by the final-state interaction of nucleons. It is shown that the modulus of the ratio of these form factors and their relative phase can be determined by measuring $\bm ζ^N$ along with the differential cross section. The polarization degree is analyzed using Paris $N\bar N$ optical potential for calculation of the form factors. It turns out that $|\bm ζ^N|$ is high enough in a rather wide energy range above the threshold. Being especially high for longitudinally polarized beams, $|\bm ζ^N|$ is noticeable even if both $e^+e^-$ beams are unpolarized.
description: 10 pages,6 figures
Internal jugular vein extension of Grade I cerebellopontine angle meningioma
Creators: name: Dubois-Marshall, Sylvie
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Head and neck
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Vascular
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Neoplasia

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: female, 67 years
description: Clinical History: A 67-year-old woman presented with a soft non-tender left cervical swelling, evident for some months. She had a relevant past history of left sided Grade I cerebellopontine angle meningioma, partially resected 12 years earlier and which had remained stabl... Final Diagnosis: Internal jugular vein extension of Grade I cerebellopontine angle meningioma.
Acute Pelvic Pain in Paediatric Age
Creators: name: Roque, Mariana
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Emergency
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female
subject: Paediatric
subject: Pelvis
subject: PACS
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Ultrasound-Spectral Doppler
subject: Education
subject: Ischaemia / Infarction

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: female, 12 years
description: Clinical History: A pre-menarche previously healthy 12 year-old girl presented with pain, nausea and vomiting. Pain was initially referred to the left flank, with positive Murphy sign, and several hours later to the left pelvic region with progressive signs of peritoneal i... Final Diagnosis: Isolated tubal torsion