cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Efficacy of ‘fine’ focal spot CT abdominal angiography
Creators: name: Oh, Chia Wei
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Calcifications / Calculi
subject: Artifacts
subject: Efficacy studies
subject: Technology assessment
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Vascular
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Abdomen

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Introduction In the past decade, CT abdominal angiography (CTAA) has been established as first line imaging modality for evaluation of abdominal vascular anatomy and pathology 1 . It plays a vital role in diagnosing and monitoring conditions such as...
Renormalization Group Equation and scaling solutions for f(R) gravity in exponential parametrization
Creators: name: Ohta, Nobuyoshi
name: Percacci, Roberto
name: Vacca, Gian Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We employ the exponential parametrization of the metric and a "physical" gauge fixing procedure to write a functional flow equation for the gravitational effective average action in an $f(R)$ truncation. The background metric is a four-sphere and the coarse-graining procedure contains three free parameters. We look for scaling solutions, i.e. non-Gaussian fixed points for the function $f$. For a discrete set of values of the parameters, we find simple global solutions of quadratic polynomial form. For other values, global solutions can be found numerically. Such solutions can be extended in certain regions of parameter space and have two relevant directions. We discuss the merits and the shortcomings of this procedure.
description: 24 pages, 12 figures. v.2 small corrections
Integrating Climate Hazards & Economic Development: Recommendations for Fayetteville, NC
Creators: name: Nixon, Jamar D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: This report examines the state of hazard mitigation and economic development within the City of Fayetteville by focusing on the planning process and risk assessment elements of the regional hazard mitigation plan and economic development strategy through plan quality and plan interconnectivity analysis. To accomplish this task, this report begins with a literature review of current definitions and elements of hazard mitigation planning, economic development, economic resiliency, and plan quality analysis and plan interconnectivity; additionally, several economic resiliency documents are discussed to place this report with that body of work. A regional profile provides context for the City’s locational, demographic, climate, and economic status. The plan analysis section features a modified combination of the Berke & Godschalk plan evaluation criteria and the Kerr-Tarr report’s plan linking framework. The Hazard Profiles section represents a condensed version of the hazards profiles and climate risks identified in the Cumberland-Hoke Hazard Mitigation Plan and the Cumberland County Climate Resiliency Plan, while the spatial analysis evaluations the geographic location of these climate risks and economic indicators. The SWOT analysis incorporates the strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities from the Southern Economic Development Commission’s Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy, the Competitive Realities report, and the Cumberland County Climate Resiliency Plan and informs the implications and recommendations section, which synthesizes the results of the report’s analysis with other local plans which govern the policy outlook with the City and provides recommendations moving forward for better plan evaluation and implementation.
title: Expand The Scope of Temporal Bone Reporting: Why, What and Where to Look For.
Creators: name: Mundada, Pravin
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Trauma
subject: Education
subject: CT
subject: Head and neck
subject: Ear / Nose / Throat
subject: Anatomy

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The purpose of this study is to acquaint the reader with the anatomy of various clinically important intrinsic small canals and grooves of the temporal bone. After reading this exhibit, the reader will be able expand the scope of temporal bone...
Equity-Informed Economic Evaluations of Early Childhood Interventions: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Finlay-Jones, Amy
name: Brushe, Mary
name: Sincovich, Alanna
name: Ighani, Honey
name: Gregory, Adrienne
name: Brinkman, Sally
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Education Policy
subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
subject: Health Policy
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Economic Policy
subject: Child development
subject: Economic evaluation
subject: Equity

description: This PRISMA-Sc compliant systematic review project will seek to identify and report on peer-reviewed economic evaluations of early childhood development interventions for children aged birth to 5 years. The review will include economic evaluations both with and without an equity focus. The research question for this scoping review is: To what extent do economic evaluations of early childhood development interventions apply equity-informative methods? We are limiting the search to peer-reviewed, English language journals to ensure relevance and interpretability. The final literature search for this review will be completed in November 2021. Data extraction will be completed by December 2021. Manuscript preparation will be completed before April 2022.
Entanglement Entropy in a Holographic Kondo Model
Creators: name: Erdmenger, Johanna
name: Flory, Mario
name: Hoyos, Carlos
name: Newrzella, Max-Niklas
name: Wu, Jackson M. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate entanglement and impurity entropies in a recent holographic model of a magnetic impurity interacting with a strongly coupled system. There is an RG flow to an IR fixed point where the impurity is screened, leading to a decrease in impurity degrees of freedom. This information loss corresponds to a volume decrease in our dual gravity model, which consists of a codimension one hypersurface embedded in a BTZ black hole background in three dimensions. There are matter fields defined on this hypersurface which are dual to Kondo field theory operators. In the large N limit, the formation of the Kondo cloud corresponds to the condensation of a scalar field. The entropy is calculated according to the Ryu-Takayanagi prescription. This requires to determine the backreaction of the hypersurface on the BTZ geometry, which is achieved by solving the Israel junction conditions. We find that the larger the scalar condensate gets, the more the volume of constant time slices in the bulk is reduced, shortening the bulk geodesics and reducing the impurity entropy. This provides a new non-trivial example of an RG flow satisfying the g-theorem. Moreover, we find explicit expressions for the impurity entropy which are in agreement with previous field theory results for free electrons. This demonstrates the universality of perturbing about an IR fixed point.
description: 26 pages + appendices, 10 figures, v2: This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: Fortsch.Phys. 64 (2016) 109-130, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/prop.201500099/abstract
When is enough, enough? Questions of sampling in vertebrate ichnology - Dryad files Reference and Caption
Creators: name: Belvedere, Matteo
name: Budka, Marcin
name: Wiseman, Ashleigh L.A.
name: Bennett, Matthew R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: confidence
subject: measurements
subject: Sample size
subject: standard error
subject: vertebrate ichnology

description: Table Captions and Refernces for data stored at https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.83bk3j9qr as supplemntary files for https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12566
title: Imaging of the normal male urethra from the neonate to the elder: radiologic anatomy in fluoroscopic urethrography.
Creators: name: Charsoula, Anna
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Normal variants
subject: Cystography / Uretrography
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: Anatomy

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To present the radiologic anatomy of the normal male urethra in conventional urethrography examinations in association with the type of urethrography performed (either retrograde or voiding) and the age of the...
Evaluation of Diversity Education
Creators: name: Hawkins, Carlee
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Multicultural Psychology
subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The goal of this study is to create and evaluate evidence-based bias education materials that explain implicit bias and provide practical tips for building multicultural competence.
Greenways and Crime on Nearby Properties: An Investigation of Reported Crimes Along Three Greenways
Creators: name: Love, Jane
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005
Subjects: Crime
Greenways

description: During greenway planning efforts, landowners along the proposed path often voice concerns about an increase in crime due to the expectation that a greenway provides criminals with refuge and sheltered access to targets. In response to this common public perception, this study investigates the question of whether the presence of a greenway increases the risk of crime occurring on the properties adjacent to the greenway. Three greenways in Chapel Hill, North Carolina were selected for the study. Through spatial analysis in a geographic information system, crime trends in the study areas for periods before and after each greenway installation were compared to trends for the same time periods in control areas with similar socioeconomic composition. Results indicated that two out of the three greenways appeared to have no influence on the rate or location of crime. In the third case, the density of crime in the vicinity of the greenway increased after the trail opened. The study concludes that the empirical data does not fully support the existence of a relationship between greenways and crime. Due to a limited number of cases included here, this study does not attempt to establish causality. Future studies involving more observations should be able to provide more reliable results.
The sequence of endoglucanase and cellobiohydrolase
Creators: name: Wan, Xuerui
name: SunKang, Yongjie
name: Chen, Yijun
name: Zhang, Zhao
name: Gou, Huitian
name: Xue, Yu
name: Wang, Chuan
name: Wei, Yaqin
name: Yang, Yuze
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 300103
subject: Agricultural molecular engineering of nucleic acids and proteins

description: Endoglucanase (EG) and cellobiohydrolase (CBH) which produced by microorganisms, have been widely
used in industrial applications. In order to construct recombinant bacteria that produce high activity EG and CBH, in this study, eg and cbh were cloned from the rumen microbial genome of yak and subsequently expressed independently and co-expressed within Lactic acid bacteria NZ9000 (L.lactis NZ9000). The recombinant strains L.lactis NZ9000/pMG36e-usp45-cbh （ L.lactis-cbh ） , L.lactis NZ9000/pMG36e-usp45-eg （ L.lactis-eg ） , and L.lactis NZ9000/pMG36e-usp45-eg-usp45-cbh（L.lactis-eg-cbh） were successfully constructed and demonstrated the ability to secrete EG, CBH, and EG-CBH. The sodium carboxymethyl cellulose activity of the recombinant enzyme EG was the highest, and the regenerated amorphous cellulose (RAC) was the specific substrate of the recombinant enzyme CBH, and EG-CBH. The optimum reaction temperature of the recombinant enzyme CBH was 60 ℃, while the recombinant enzymes EG and EG-CBH were tolerant to higher temperatures (80 ℃). The optimum reaction pH of EG, CBH, and EG-CBH was 6.0. Mn2+, Fe2+, Fe2+, Cu2+, and Co2+ could promote the activity of CBH. Similarly, Fe2+, Ba2+, and higher concentrations of Ca2+, Cu2+, and Co2+ could promote the activity of EG-CBH. The addition of engineered strains to whole-plant corn silage improved the nutritional quality of the feed, with the lowest pH, ADF, and NDF contents observed in silage from the L.lactis-eg group, and the lowest NH3-N, and highest LA and CP contents in silage from the L.lactis-eg+L.lactis-eg-cbh group, while the silage quality in the L.lactis-cbh group was not satisfactory. Consequently, the recombinant strains L.lactis-cbh, L.lactis-eg, and L.lactis-eg-cbh were successfully constructed, which could successfully expressed EG, CBH, and EG-CBH, L.lactis-eg promoted silage fermentation by degrading cellulose to produce sugar. enabling the secretory expression of EG, CBH, and EG-CBH for potential industrial applications in cellulose degradation.
Evolution of Global Relativistic Jets: Collimations and Expansion with kKHI and the Weibel Instability
Creators: name: Nishikawa, K. I
name: Frederiksen, J. T.
name: Nordlund, A.
name: Mizuno, Y.
name: Hardee, P. E.
name: Niemiec, J.
name: Gomez, J. L.
name: Pe'er, A.
name: Dutan, I.
name: Meli, A.
name: Sol, H.
name: Pohl, M.
name: Hartman, D. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the key open questions in the study of relativistic jets is their interaction with the environment. Here, we study the initial evolution of both electron-proton and electron-positron relativistic jets, focusing on their lateral interaction with the ambient plasma. We trace the generation and evolution of the toroidal magnetic field generated by both kinetic Kelvin-Helmholtz (kKH) and Mushroom instabilities (MI). This magnetic field collimates the jet. We show that in electron-proton jet, electrons are perpendicularly accelerated with jet collimation. The magnetic polarity switches from the clockwise to anti-clockwise in the middle of jet, as the instabilities weaken. For the electron-positron jet, we find strong mixture of electron-positron with the ambient plasma, that results in the creation of a bow shock. Merger of magnetic field current filaments generate density bumps which initiate a forward shock. The strong mixing between jet and ambient particles prevents full development of the jet on the studied scale. Our results therefore provide a direct evidence for both jet collimation and particle acceleration in the created bow shock. Differences in the magnetic field structures generated by electron-proton and electron-positron jets may contribute to observable differences in the polarized properties of emission by electrons.
description: 25 pages, 12 figures, ApJ, accepted
Partially resummed perturbation theory for multiple Andreev reflections in a short three-terminal Josephson junction
Creators: name: Mélin, Régis
name: Feinberg, Denis
name: Douçot, Benoît
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a transparent three-terminal Josephson junction, modeling nonequilibrium transport is numerically challenging, owing to the interplay between multiple Andreev reflection (MAR) thresholds and multipair resonances in the pair current. An approximate method, coined as "partially resummed perturbation theory in the number of nonlocal Green's functions", is presented that can be operational on a standard computer and demonstrates compatibility with results existing in the literature. In a linear structure made of two neighboring interfaces (with intermediate transparency) connected by a central superconductor, tunneling through each of the interfaces separately is taken into account to all orders. On the contrary, nonlocal processes connecting the two interfaces are accounted for at the lowest relevant order. This yields logarithmically divergent contributions at the gap edges, which are sufficient as a semi-quantitative description. The method is able to describe the current in the full two-dimensional voltage range, including commensurate as well as incommensurate values. The results found for the multipair (for instance quartet) current-phase characteristics as well as the MAR thresholds are compatible with previous results. At intermediate transparency, the multipair critical current is much larger than the background MAR current, which supports an experimental observation of the quartet and multipair resonances. The paper provides a proof of principle for addressing in the future the interplay between quasiparticles and multipairs in four-terminal structures.
description: 18 pages, 10 figures, improvements in the presentation, Eur. Phys. J. B in press
title: Grading of internal carotid artery stenosis with multidetector-row CT angiography: comparison between manual and semiautomatic measurements.
Creators: name: Centonze, Maurizio
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Obstruction / Occlusion
subject: Haemodynamics / Flow dynamics
subject: Arteriosclerosis
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Computer Applications-General
subject: Comparative studies
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Vascular
subject: Computer applications
subject: Arteries / Aorta

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Stroke is the third leading cause of death, behind coronary artery disease and cancer, and is the most common cause of disability in developed countries. Roughly half are caused by atherothromboembolism and most of these by extracranial atheromatous...
Action Class Relation Detection and Classification Across Multiple Video Datasets
Creators: name: Yoshikawa, Yuya
name: Shigeto, Yutaro
name: Shimbo, Masashi
name: Takeuchi, Akikazu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Meta Video Dataset (MetaVD) provides annotated relations between action classes in major datasets for human action recognition in videos. Although these annotated relations enable dataset augmentation, it is only applicable to those covered by MetaVD. For an external dataset to enjoy the same benefit, the relations between its action classes and those in MetaVD need to be determined. To address this issue, we consider two new machine learning tasks: action class relation detection and classification. We propose a unified model to predict relations between action classes, using language and visual information associated with classes. Experimental results show that (i) pre-trained recent neural network models for texts and videos contribute to high predictive performance, (ii) the relation prediction based on action label texts is more accurate than based on videos, and (iii) a blending approach that combines predictions by both modalities can further improve the predictive performance in some cases.
description: Accepted to Pattern Recognition Letters. 12 pages, 4 figures
title: Magnetic Resonance Imaging at 7T enables the diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease
Creators: name: Pesaresi, Ilaria
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Anatomy
subject: CNS
subject: Head and neck
subject: MR
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Tissue characterisation

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The pathological basis of dopaminergic degeneration in Parkinson's Disease (PD) is neuronal depletion in the pars compacta of substantia nigra (SNpc) (1). At present there is no established MRI marker for the diagnosis of PD on an individual basis...
Vision in Parkinson’s Disease (VIPD)
Creators: name: Leyland, Louise-Ann
name: Mahmood, Ribeya
name: Constantini, Alyssa
name: Fox, Nick
name: Rees, Geraint
name: Keane, Pearse
name: Morris, Huw
name: Grosset, Donald
name: Weil, Rimona
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Visual-perceptual deficits can predict and track the development of dementia in Parkinson's Disease
title: What Achilles never knew about his heel: a pictorial review of common disorders of the Achilles tendon
Creators: name: Chew, Lee Lian
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Athletic injuries
subject: Surgery
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: MR
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
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 the radiological anatomy of the Achilles tendon. Describe common pathologies of the Achilles tendon. Outline treatment options available for different types of Achilles tendon...
A Multilayer Perceptron-based Fast Sunlight Assessment for the Conceptual Design of Residential Neighborhoods under Chinese Policy
Creators: name: Jiang, Can
name: Liang, Xiong
name: Zhou, Yu-Cheng
name: Tian, Yong
name: Xu, Shengli
name: Lin, Jia-Rui
name: Ma, Zhiliang
name: Yang, Shiji
name: Zhou, Hao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In Chinese building codes, it is required that residential buildings receive a minimum number of hours of natural, direct sunlight on a specified winter day, which represents the worst sunlight condition in a year. This requirement is a prerequisite for obtaining a building permit during the conceptual design of a residential project. Thus, officially sanctioned software is usually used to assess the sunlight performance of buildings. These software programs predict sunlight hours based on repeated shading calculations, which is time-consuming. This paper proposed a multilayer perceptron-based method, a one-stage prediction approach, which outputs a shading time interval caused by the inputted cuboid-form building. The sunlight hours of a site can be obtained by calculating the union of the sunlight time intervals (complement of shading time interval) of all the buildings. Three numerical experiments, i.e., horizontal level and slope analysis, and simulation-based optimization are carried out; the results show that the method reduces the computation time to 1/84~1/50 with 96.5%~98% accuracies. A residential neighborhood layout planning plug-in for Rhino 7/Grasshopper is also developed based on the proposed model. This paper indicates that deep learning techniques can be adopted to accelerate sunlight hour simulations at the conceptual design phase.
The prompt atmospheric neutrino flux in the light of LHCb
Creators: name: Gauld, Rhorry
name: Rojo, Juan
name: Rottoli, Luca
name: Sarkar, Subir
name: Talbert, Jim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent observation of very high energy cosmic neutrinos by IceCube heralds the beginning of neutrino astronomy. At these energies, the dominant background to the astrophysical signal is the flux of `prompt' neutrinos, arising from the decay of charmed mesons produced by cosmic ray collisions in the atmosphere. In this work we provide predictions for the prompt atmospheric neutrino flux in the framework of perturbative QCD, using state-of-the-art Monte Carlo event generators. Our calculation includes the constraints set by charm production measurements from the LHCb experiment at 7 TeV, and has been recently validated with the corresponding 13 TeV data. Our results for the prompt flux are a factor of about 2 below the previous benchmark calculation, in general agreement with two other recent estimates, and with an improved estimate of the uncertainty. This alleviates the existing tension between the theoretical prediction and IceCube limits, and suggests that a direct direction of the prompt flux is imminent.
description: 20 pages, 10 figures; corrected conventional flux in Fig. 6, to appear in JHEP. The PrompNuFlux code is available from http://promptnuflux.hepforge.org/
Overcoming the imatinib-resistant BCR-ABL mutants with new ureidobenzothiazole chemotypes endowed with potent and broad-spectrum anticancer activity
Creators: name: El-Damasy, Ashraf K.
name: Jin, Heewon
name: Park, Jung Woo
name: Kim, Hyun Ji
name: Khojah, Hanan
name: Seo, Seon Hee
name: Lee, Ju-Hyeon
name: Bang, Eun-Kyoung
name: Keum, Gyochang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The design of kinase inhibitors targeting the oncogenic kinase BCR-ABL constitutes a promising paradigm for treating chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML). Nevertheless, the efficacy of imatinib, the first FDA-approved targeted therapy for CML, is curbed by the emergence of resistance. Herein, we report the identification of the 2-methoxyphenyl ureidobenzothiazole AK-HW-90 (2b) as a potent pan-BCR-ABL inhibitor against imatinib-resistant mutants, particularly T315I. A concise array of six compounds 2a–f was designed based on our previously reported benzothiazole lead AKE-5l to improve its BCR-ABLT315I inhibitory activity. Replacing the 6-oxypicolinamide moiety of AKE-5l with o-methoxyphenyl and changing the propyl spacer with phenyl afforded 2a and AK-HW-90 (2b) with IC50 values of 2.0 and 0.65 nM against BCR-ABLT315I, respectively. AK-HW-90 showed superior anticancer potency to imatinib against multiple cancer cells (NCI), including leukaemia K-562. The obtained outcomes offer AK-HW-90 as a promising candidate for the treatment of CML and other types of cancer.
A review on adult consumer use and understanding of food labels in Sub-Saharan Africa
Creators: name: Mumba, Wongani
name: Nkhoma, Dumisani
name: Banda, Kondwani
name: sakala, Melody
name: Panyani, Davie
name: Muwalo, Blessings
name: Mbeye, Nyanyiwe
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Food labels
subject: non-communicable diseases
subject: Nutrition labelling
subject: Population health
subject: Pre-packaged food products
subject: Sub-Saharan Africa

description: Systematic review and meta-analysis
title: Asset management strategies of British Investment Trusts Companies, 1920-1928.
Creators: name: Kyparissis, Antonis
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2025

description: This dissertation examines the institutional investors’ asset management policies in the 1920s in the UK, focusing on the Investment Trust Companies’ (ITC) investment strategies. It asks: (1) what are the asset management strategies of the ITCs? (2) what were the main changes in their portfolios and what were the main causes for them? and (3) what was the interaction between the ITCs and societies? It uses a combination of quantitative and qualitative methodology, constructing an appropriate, hand-collected dataset, and it finds that ITCs used a combination of a) passive management, focusing on a naïve diversification and b) an active management top-down approach. Despite seismic changes at the economic, financial and social level, the ITCs maintained diversification as a key tool in their portfolio selection process. They used professional management to secure the clients’ savings. The main changes in the ITCs portfolios that this thesis reveals are a) the total withdrawal of the US market, b) its replacement with European and British securities, as well as c) the maintenance of their Latin American assets. Additionally, they transformed their asset allocation applying various financial innovations. These rearrangements cannot be considered in a social and political vacuum. This thesis examines these affairs during the 1920s, arguing that the ITCs were flexible institutions, formidably well informed about anything that could affect their investments; finally, they took full advantage of any financial opportunity that arose. Overall, the ITCs were in the vanguard of financial innovation, offering valuable lessons for the modern tumultuous period.
A low-cost system for real-time measuring of the sunlight incident angle using IoT
Creators: name: Botero-Valencia, Juan
name: Valencia-Aguirre, Juliana
name: Montoya, Daniel
name: Ramos-Paja, Carlos
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
subject: Environmental Monitoring
subject: Optics
subject: Environmental Sciences
subject: Physics
subject: Electrical and Computer Engineering
subject: Engineering
subject: Internet of things
subject: IoT
subject: Irradiance incident angle
subject: Photovoltaic systems

description: The design and construction of a low-cost system for measuring the solar irradiance at different orientations is presented.
Wikipedia Ranking of World Universities
Creators: name: Lages, José
name: Patt, Antoine
name: Shepelyansky, Dima L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the directed networks between articles of 24 Wikipedia language editions for producing the Wikipedia Ranking of World Universities (WRWU) using PageRank, 2DRank and CheiRank algorithms. This approach allows to incorporate various cultural views on world universities using the mathematical statistical analysis independent of cultural preferences. The Wikipedia ranking of top 100 universities provides about 60 percent overlap with the Shanghai university ranking demonstrating the reliable features of this approach. At the same time WRWU incorporates all knowledge accumulated at 24 Wikipedia editions giving stronger highlights for historically important universities leading to a different estimation of efficiency of world countries in university education. The historical development of university ranking is analyzed during ten centuries of their history.
description: 13 pages, 17 figures, 7 tables. Accepted for publication in Eur. Phys. J. B. Supporting information is available at http://perso.utinam.cnrs.fr/~lages/datasets/WRWU/
title: Thoracic Ultrasound: Pictorial review of pneumothorax, the fastest and easiest method to diagnose.
Creators: name: Guirola, Jose
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Trauma
subject: Artifacts
subject: Acute
subject: eLearning
subject: Education
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Thorax
subject: Emergency
subject: Anatomy

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To review and illustrate thoracic ultrasound appearance of pneumothorax and learn a fast and easy method. To describe the use of bedside sonography for excluding small pneumothorax in misdiagnose patients obtained with conventional...
Analytical approximations to charged black hole solutions in Einstein-Maxwell-Weyl gravity
Creators: name: Li, Sheng-Yuan
name: Zhang, Ming
name: Zou, De-Cheng
name: Lai, Meng-Yun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Homotopy Analysis Method (HAM) is a useful method to derive analytical approximate solutions of black holes in modified gravity theories. In this paper, we study the Einstein-Weyl gravity coupled with Maxwell field, and obtain analytical approximation solutions for charged black holes by using the HAM. It is found that the analytical approximate solutions are sufficiently accurate in the entire spacetime outside the black hole's event horizon, and also consistent with numerical ones for charged black holes in the Einstein-Maxwell-Weyl gravity.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2308.03506
Additional file 2 of Sand fly blood meal volumes and their relation to female body weight under experimental conditions
Creators: name: Volfová, Věra
name: Jančářová, Magdalena
name: Volf, Petr
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Physiology
subject: Ecology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cardiology

description: Additional file 2.
Local Economic Development through Joint Action: Latino Businesses and the Greater Mount Airy Chamber of Commerce
Creators: name: Bradley, Badi
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: Northwest North Carolina is experiencing an economic shock due to dependence on manufacturing and textile industries that are moving abroad. Many of the displaced workers entered the workforce at an early age and are now underprepared for work in the information economy. The institution of the chamber of commerce has the potential to organize businesses through collective efficiency, which includes joint action. By placing a value on place and community rather than the individual entity, the chamber of commerce can lead an area to recover through structural change of the local economy. The Mount Airy Chamber of Commerce is taking steps to address the economic shock in the area. Through participation in the Northwest North Carolina Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy, the chamber is taking an active role in promoting joint action among local industries. A demographic shift during the 1990s introduced a Latino population to Mount Airy and Surry County. A stagnant local population and the national demographic, political and economic expansion of the Latino community are reasons to believe that the Latino community in Mount Airy will be a significant factor in the future of the local economy. This study investigates how the Mount Airy Chamber of Commerce can incorporate Latino businesses in the area. The study has two phases. The first is a survey of all local businesses in Mount Airy. The survey inquires about Minority-owned businesses, chamber membership, familiarity with workforce training options, and specific workforce training needs. The second phase consists of interviews with Latino businesses in Mount Airy, chambers of commerce that deal directly with Latino populations and business training institutions that work with Latinos. This report concludes that the Mount Airy Chamber of Commerce should initiate an effort to coordinate with the Latino businesses. This can be accomplished through simple acts such as scheduling meetings at hours convenient for retail businesses and providing translations in Spanish of important legal documents. The chamber should also continue to support the minority council in order to demonstrate inclusiveness to minority businesses, rather than latently encouraging them to join specific minority-based chambers. Acts of inclusiveness and response to minority business needs are critical towards establishing and maintaining a unified commercial and industrial base in the community. These attitudes and actions are essential for joint action, collective efficiency, and economic recovery.
title: Ultra low-dose catheter directed CT angiography (CCTA) for the assessment of vascular suitability prior to endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) and ischemic lower extremity vasculature
Creators: name: Santos, Denise May
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Contrast agents
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Aneurysms

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Intravascular contrast agents are one of the most common causes of acute kidney injury (AKI) in hospitalized patients [1] and one of the strongest predictors of this complication is contrast volume [2]. Therefore, decreasing contrast load may lead...
Weighted multiple ergodic averages and correlation sequences
Creators: name: Frantzikinakis, Nikos
name: Host, Bernard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37A30 (Primary), 05D10, 11B30, 11N37, 37A45 (Secondary)

description: We study mean convergence results for weighted multiple ergodic averages defined by commuting transformations with iterates given by integer polynomials in several variables. Roughly speaking, we prove that a bounded sequence is a good universal weight for mean convergence of such averages if and only if the averages of this sequence times any nilsequence converge. Key role in the proof play two decomposition results of independent interest. The first states that every bounded sequence in several variables satisfying some regularity conditions is a sum of a nilsequence and a sequence that has small uniformity norm (this generalizes a result of the second author and B. Kra); and the second states that every multiple correlation sequence in several variables is a sum of a nilsequence and a sequence that is small in uniform density (this generalizes a result of the first author). Furthermore, we use the previous results in order to establish mean convergence and recurrence results for a variety of sequences of dynamical and arithmetic origin and give some combinatorial implications.
description: 53 pages, small changes made in light of comments from the referee, to appear in Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems
Search for Gamma-Ray Lines towards Galaxy Clusters with the Fermi-LAT
Creators: name: Anderson, B.
name: Zimmer, S.
name: Conrad, J.
name: Gustafsson, M.
name: Sánchez-Conde, M.
name: Caputo, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on a search for monochromatic $γ$-ray features in the spectra of galaxy clusters observed by the \emph{Fermi} Large Area Telescope. Galaxy clusters are the largest structures in the Universe that are bound by dark matter (DM), making them an important testing ground for possible self-interactions or decays of the DM particles. Monochromatic $γ$-ray lines provide a unique signature due to the absence of astrophysical backgrounds and are as such considered a smoking-gun signature for new physics. An unbinned joint likelihood analysis of the sixteen most promising clusters using five years of data at energies between 10 and 400 GeV revealed no significant features. For the case of self-annihilation, we set upper limits on the monochromatic velocity-averaged interaction cross section. These limits are compatible with those obtained from observations of the Galactic Center, albeit weaker due to the larger distance to the studied clusters.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures, 1 table; minor changes to match version to appear in JCAP, corresponding authors: B. Anderson & S. Zimmer
Economic development with equity: case study of Market Creek Plaza community development IPO in San Diego, CA
Creators: name: Nelson, Marta Leah
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: As the economic core of inner cities has declined, economic developers have searched for revitalization strategies to spur sustainable economic growth while addressing inner-city poverty. A two-pronged approach to address both of these efforts simultaneously in inner cities is rare. The Market Creek Community Development Initial Public Offering (CD-IPO) is a model project designed both to create economic re-development of a brownfield inner-city site, and to provide a community-based asset-building opportunity for low- and moderate-income neighborhood residents to combat the incidence of poverty. The Market Creek CD-IPO was "issued" in 2006 for a ten-acre, $23 million commercial real estate development in San Diego, CA. It was the result of an effort by the Jacobs Family Foundation to design a unique project to meet the needs of the Diamond neighborhood in southeast San Diego. Through an offering of "shares" in the commercial real estate deal, lower- and moderate-income residents of the Diamond neighborhood were able to invest in about 20% of the total ownership of the Market Creek shopping center project in 2006. This case study will describe the particular Diamond neighborhood demographics and the role of the Jacobs Foundation in initiating the Market Creek project, and explore the investment structure and regulatory hurdles faced by the unique structure of the Market Creek CD-IPO, and the investment model it represents. Finally, this paper will offer a critique of some of the challenges and opportunities inherent in the Market Creek CD-IPO model.
title: Xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis: which is the best image tool to differentiate it from gallbladder carcinoma?
Creators: name: Lee, Eun Sun
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Biliary Tract / Gallbladder
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Inflammation

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: To evaluate the diagnostic performance and common findings of high-resolution ultrasonography (HRUS), computed tomography (CT), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for differentiating xanthogranulmatous cholecystitis (XGC) from the early, flat type...
title: Visceral fat accumulation is a risk factor for atherosclerosis of the aorta
Creators: name: Hrabak Paar, Maja
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Arteriosclerosis

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Visceral adiposity is associated with development of metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular diseases. In previous investigations it was shown that visceral adiposity is an independent determinant of carotid intima-media thickness, coronary artery...
Current noise of the interacting resonant level model
Creators: name: Suzuki, T. J.
name: Kennes, D. M.
name: Meden, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the zero-frequency current noise of the interacting resonant level model for arbitrary bias voltages using a functional renormalization group approach. For this we extend the existing nonequilibrium scheme by deriving and solving flow equations for the current-vertex functions. On-resonance artificial divergences of the latter found in lowest-order perturbation theory in the two-particle interaction are consistently removed. Away from resonance they are shifted to higher orders. This allows us to gain a comprehensive picture of the current noise in the scaling limit. At high bias voltages, the current noise exhibits a universal power-law decay, whose exponent is to leading order in the interaction identical to that of the current. The effective charge on resonance is analyzed in detail employing properties of the vertex correction. We find that it is only modified to second or higher order in the two-particle interaction.
description: 15 pages, 16 figures
Quantum Fourier Transform in Computational Basis
Creators: name: Zhou, S. S.
name: Loke, T.
name: Izaac, J. A.
name: Wang, J. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The conventional Quantum Fourier Transform, with exponential speedup compared to the classical Fast Fourier Transform, has played an important role in quantum computation as a vital part of many quantum algorithms (most prominently, the Shor's factoring algorithm). However, situations arise where it is not sufficient to encode the Fourier coefficients within the quantum amplitudes, for example in the implementation of control operations that depend on Fourier coefficients. In this paper, we detail a new quantum algorithm to encode the Fourier coefficients in the computational basis, with success probability $1-δ$ and desired precision $ε$. Its time complexity %$\mathcal{O}\big((\log N)^2\log(N/δ)/ε)\big)$ depends polynomially on $\log(N)$, where $N$ is the problem size, and linearly on $\log(1/δ)$ and $1/ε$. We also discuss an application of potential practical importance, namely the simulation of circulant Hamiltonians.
description: revised discussion and reference mainly in section 4, minor changes in the result section, as well as corrected typos
title: Optimising the balance between radiation dose and image quality in paediatric head CT: findings before and after intensive radiological staff training
Creators: name: Faggioni, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: CNS
subject: Paediatric
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Quality assurance
subject: Education and training

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Since its introduction in the early 70s, computed tomography (CT) has seen a dramatic evolution that has greatly improved its diagnostic performance in many clinical scenarios and vastly broadened its field of application.However, the risk of...
Additional file 2 of The experience of patients undergoing aseptic, elective revision knee joint replacement surgery: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Nicolson, Philippa J. A.
name: Toye, Francine
name: Sabah, Shiraz A.
name: Price, Andrew J.
name: Alvand, Abtin
name: Barker, Karen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional File 2 Themes Subthemes and Example Codes