cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Neglecting Primordial non-Gaussianity Threatens Future Cosmological Experiment Accuracy
Creators: name: Camera, Stefano
name: Carbone, Carmelita
name: Fedeli, Cosimo
name: Moscardini, Lauro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Future galaxy redshift surveys aim at probing the clustering of the cosmic large-scale structure with unprecedented accuracy, thus complementing cosmic microwave background experiments in the quest to deliver the most precise and accurate picture ever of our Universe. Analyses of such measurements are usually performed within the context of the so-called vanilla LCDM model - the six-parameter phenomenological model which, for instance, emerges from best fits against the recent data obtained by the Planck satellite. Here, we show that such an approach is prone to subtle systematics when the Gaussianity of primordial fluctuations is concerned. In particular, we demonstrate that, if we neglect even a tiny amount of primordial non-Gaussianity - fully consistent with current limits - we shall introduce spurious biases in the reconstruction of cosmological parameters. This is a serious issue that must be properly accounted for in view of accurate (as well as precise) cosmology.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables
Risk stratification of individuals with low-risk colorectal adenomas using clinical characteristics: A pooled analysis
Creators: name: Lieberman, D.A.
name: Liu, L.
name: Baron, J.A.
name: Gupta, S.
name: Cross, A.J.
name: Martinez, M.E.
name: Ladabaum, U.
name: Murphy, G.
name: Jacobs, E.T.
name: Jover, R.
Publisher: name: BMJ Publishing Group
Year: 2017

description: Objective For individuals with 1-2 small (<1 cm) low-risk colorectal adenomas, international guidelines range from no surveillance to offering surveillance colonoscopy in 5-10 years. We hypothesised that the risks for metachronous advanced neoplasia (AN) among patients with low-risk adenomas differ based on clinical factors distinct from those currently used. Design We pooled data from seven prospective studies to assess the risk of metachronous AN. Two groups with 1-2 small adenomas were defined based on guidelines from the UK (n=4516) or the European Union (EU)/US (n=2477). Results Absolute risk of metachronous AN ranged from a low of 2.9% to a high of 12.2%, depending on specific risk factor and guideline used. For the UK group, the highest absolute risks for metachronous AN were found among individuals with a history of prior polyp (12.2%), villous histology (12.2%), age ≥70 years (10.9%), high-grade dysplasia (10.9%), any proximal adenoma (10.2%), distal and proximal adenoma (10.8%) or two adenomas (10.1%). For the EU/US group, the highest absolute risks for metachronous AN were among individuals with a history of prior polyp (11.5%) or the presence of both proximal and distal adenomas (11.0%). In multivariate analyses, strong associations for increasing age and history of prior polyps and odds of metachronous AN were observed, whereas more modest associations were shown for baseline proximal adenomas and those with villous features. Conclusions Risks of metachronous AN among individuals with 1-2 small adenomas vary according to readily available clinical characteristics. These characteristics may be considered for recommending colonoscopy surveillance and require further investigation.
Prediction of uterine rupture associated with attempted vaginal birth after cesarean delivery
Creators: name: Carpenter, Marshall
name: Sibai, Baha M.
name: Langer, Oded
name: Lai, Yinglei
name: Rouse, Dwight J.
name: O'Sullivan, Mary J.
name: Spong, Catherine Y.
name: Miodovnik, Menachem
name: Caritis, Steve N.
name: Wapner, Ronald J.
name: Ramin, Susan M.
name: Thorp, John M.
name: Varner, Michael W.
name: Harper, Margaret
name: Leveno, Kenneth J.
name: Sorokin, Yoram
name: Landon, Mark B.
name: Moawad, Atef H.
name: Mercer, Brian M.
name: Grobman, William A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: To predict individual-specific risk of uterine rupture during an attempted vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC).
"Beati misericordes": die "Jungfrau des Erbarmens"
Creators: name: Mazzilli Savini, Maria Teresa
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 22 Nr. 5 (1993): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 22, Heft 5
Increased Risk of Colorectal Cancer Development among Patients with Serrated Polyps
Creators: name: Sørensen, H.T.
name: Hamilton, S.R.
name: Frøslev, T.
name: Torlakovic, E.E.
name: Vyberg, M.
name: Pedersen, L.
name: Snover, D.C.
name: Hamilton-Dutoit, S.J.
name: Erichsen, R.
name: Baron, J.A.
Publisher: name: W.B. Saunders
Year: 2016

description: Background & Aims Sessile serrated adenomas/polyps (SSA/Ps) and traditional serrated adenomas (TSAs) are now distinguished from hyperplastic polyps and recognized as precursors to colorectal cancer (CRC). We studied CRC risks associated with serrated polyps. Methods By using Danish databases (1977-2009), we conducted a nationwide population-based, case-control study nested within individuals who had received colonoscopies (n = 272,342), and identified 2045 CRC cases and 8105 CRC-free individuals (controls). For each case and control, we identified the first colorectal polyp(s) that underwent a biopsy or were excised during or after the initial colonoscopy, and obtained tissue blocks for hyperplastic lesions. Four expert pathologists reviewed these lesions using current terminology for serrated polyps. We used logistic regression to compute odds ratios (ORs) to associate the risk of CRC with polyp type and estimated the absolute risks by multiplying the risk in patients with no polyps by these ORs. Results Seventy-nine cases and 142 controls had SSA/Ps (OR, 3.07; 95% confidence interval [CI], 2.30-4.10). SSA/Ps with cytology markers of dysplasia were associated with a particularly high OR (4.76; 95% CI, 2.59-8.73). Women with SSA/P had a higher risk for CRC than men with SSA/P (OR for women, 5.05; 95% CI, 3.05-8.37 vs OR for men, 2.18; 95% CI, 1.24-3.82); patients with SSA/P proximal to the splenic flexure had the highest risk for CRC (OR, 12.42; 95% CI, 4.88-31.58). The OR for CRC was 4.84 in the 14 cases vs 17 controls with TSAs (95% CI, 2.36-9.93), 2.51 in the 757 cases vs 1698 controls with conventional adenomas (95% CI, 2.25-2.80), and 1.30 in the 55 cases vs 235 controls with hyperplastic polyps (95% CI, 0.96-1.77). The 10-year risk for CRC was 4.4% for patients with SSA/P with dysplasia, 4.5% for patients with TSAs, and 2.3% for patients with conventional adenomas. Conclusion Patients with SSA/P or TSA are at increased risk for CRC; their level of risk is similar to or higher than that of patients with conventional adenomas.
"Seid barmherzig, wie auch euer Vater barmherzig ist"
Creators: name: Calster, Stefaan Van
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 22 Nr. 5 (1993): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 22, Heft 5
Racial differences in C-reactive protein levels during normal pregnancy
Creators: name: Moss, Kevin
name: Jared, Heather L.
name: Boggess, Kim A.
name: Offenbacher, Steven
name: Beck, James D.
name: Picklesimer, Amy H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Characterization of serum C-Reactive Protein (CRP) levels in a diverse population of healthy pregnant women using a high sensitivity assay.
Narrowband inverse Compton scattering x-ray sources at high laser intensities
Creators: name: Seipt, D.
name: Rykovanov, S. G.
name: Surzhykov, A.
name: Fritzsche, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Narrowband x- and gamma-ray sources based on the inverse Compton scattering of laser pulses suffer from a limitation of the allowed laser intensity due to the onset of nonlinear effects that increase their bandwidth. It has been suggested that laser pulses with a suitable frequency modulation could compensate this ponderomotive broadening and reduce the bandwidth of the spectral lines, which would allow to operate narrowband Compton sources in the high-intensity regime. In this paper we, therefore, present the theory of nonlinear Compton scattering in a frequency modulated intense laser pulse. We systematically derive the optimal frequency modulation of the laser pulse from the scattering matrix element of nonlinear Compton scattering, taking into account the electron spin and recoil. We show that, for some particular scattering angle, an optimized frequency modulation completely cancels the ponderomotive broadening for all harmonics of the backscattered light. We also explore how sensitive this compensation depends on the electron beam energy spread and emittance, as well as the laser focusing.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures; extended list of references and an estimate for the total x-ray photon yield
Floquet analysis of pulsed Dirac systems: A way to simulate rippled graphene
Creators: name: Mishra, Tridev
name: Sarkar, Tapomoy Guha
name: Bandyopadhyay, Jayendra N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The low energy continuum limit of graphene is effectively known to be modeled using Dirac equation in (2+1) dimensions. We consider the possibility of using modulated high frequency periodic driving of a two-dimension system (optical lattice) to simulate properties of rippled graphene. We suggest that the Dirac Hamiltonian in a curved background space can also be effectively simulated by a suitable driving scheme in optical lattice. The time dependent system yields, in the approximate limit of high frequency pulsing, an effective time independent Hamiltonian that governs the time evolution, except for an initial and a final kick. We use a specific form of 4-phase pulsed forcing with suitably tuned choice of modulating operators to mimic the effects of curvature. The extent of curvature is found to be directly related to $ω^{-1}$ the time period of the driving field at the leading order. We apply the method to engineer the effects of curved background space. We find that the imprint of curvilinear geometry modifies the electronic properties, such as LDOS, significantly. We suggest that this method shall be useful in studying the response of various properties of such systems to non-trivial geometry without requiring any actual physical deformations.
description: 16 pages, 1 figure. Suggestions and comments are welcome
Risk factors for mesh/suture erosion following sacral colpopexy
Creators: name: Brown, Morton B.
name: Zyczynski, Halina M.
name: Schaffer, Joseph
name: Cundiff, Geoffrey W.
name: Visco, Anthony G.
name: Nager, Charles W.
name: Brubaker, Linda
name: Varner, Edward
name: Norton, Peggy A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: To identify risks for mesh/suture erosions following sacrocolpopexy (ASC).
Risk factors for uteroplacental vascular compromise and inflammation
Creators: name: Salafia, Carolyn M.
name: Rankins, Nicole
name: Herring, Amy H.
name: Baker, Arthur M.
name: Daniels, Julie
name: Thorp, John M.
name: Braun, Joe M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: To identify potentially modifiable risk factors of placental injury reflecting maternal uteroplacental vascular compromise (UPVC) and acute and chronic placental inflammation.
Stiffening of Red Blood Cells Induced by Disordered Cytoskeleton Structures: A Joint Theory-experiment Study
Creators: name: Lai, Lipeng
name: Xu, Xiaofeng
name: Lim, Chwee Teck
name: Cao, Jianshu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The functions and elasticities of the cell are largely related to the structures of the cytoskeletons underlying the lipid bi-layer. Among various cell types, the Red Blood Cell (RBC) possesses a relatively simple cytoskeletal structure. Underneath the membrane, the RBC cytoskeleton takes the form of a two dimensional triangular network, consisting of nodes of actins (and other proteins) and edges of spectrins. Recent experiments focusing on the malaria infected RBCs (iRBCs) showed that there is a correlation between the elongation of spectrins in the cytoskeletal network and the stiffening of the iRBCs. Here we rationalize the correlation between these two observations by combining the worm-like chain (WLC) model for single spectrins and the Effective Medium Theory (EMT) for the network elasticity. We specifically focus on how the disorders in the cytoskeletal network affect its macroscopic elasticity. Analytical and numerical solutions from our model reveal that the stiffness of the membrane increases with increasing end-to-end distances of spectrins, but has a non-monotonic dependence on the variance of the end-to-end distance distributions. These predictions are verified quantitively by our AFM and micropipette aspiration measurements of iRBCs. The model may, from a molecular level, provide guidelines for future identification of new treatment methods for RBC related diseases, such as malaria infection.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures; 3 supporting figures
Salivary progesterone and estriol among pregnant women treated with 17-α-hydroxyprogesterone caproate or placebo
Creators: name: Ramin, Susan M.
name: Carpenter, Marshall
name: Miodovnik, Menachem
name: Conway, Deborah
name: Northen, Allison
name: Zhao, Yuan
name: Mercer, Brian M.
name: Moawad, Atef H.
name: O'Sullivan, Mary J.
name: Caritis, Steve N.
name: Thorp, John M.
name: Dombrowski, Mitchell P.
name: Wapner, Ronald J.
name: Peaceman, Alan M.
name: Meis, Paul J.
name: Leveno, Kenneth J.
name: Klebanoff, Mark A.
name: Varner, Michael W.
name: Iams, Jay D.
name: Sibai, Baha M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: The objectives of the study was to determine whether salivary progesterone (P) or estriol (E3) concentration at 16–20 weeks’ gestation predicts preterm birth or the response to 17α-hydroxyprogesterone caproate (17OHPC) and whether 17OHPC treatment affected the trajectory of salivary P and E3 as pregnancy progressed.
Dominaz des Immanenten in der Seelsorge?
Creators: name: Schmied, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 22 Nr. 4 (1993): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 22, Heft 4
Complete three photon Hong-Ou-Mandel interference at a three port device
Creators: name: Mährlein, S.
name: von Zanthier, J.
name: Agarwal, G. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the possibility of completely destructive interference of three indistinguishable photons on a three port device providing a generalisation of the well known Hong-Ou-Mandel interference of two indistinguishable photons on a two port device. Our analysis is based on the underlying mathematical framework of SU(3) transformations rather than SU(2) transformations. We show the completely destructive three photon interference for a large range of parameters of the three port device and point out the physical origin of such interference in terms of the contributions from different quantum paths. As each output port can deliver zero to three photons the device generates higher dimensional entanglement. In particular, different forms of entangled states of qudits can be generated depending on the device parameters. Our system is different from a symmetric three port beam splitter which does not exhibit a three photon Hong-Ou-Mandel interference.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, 5 tables
Moving from immune phenotyping of colorectal cancer to mechanistic insights on aspirin use
Creators: name: Benefield, H.C.
name: Troester, M.A.
name: Baron, J.A.
name: Stürmer, T.
Publisher: name: AME Publishing Company
Year: 2016

description: Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in men and women in the US, with over 95,000 new cases expected in 2016. Many preclinical, epidemiological, and clinical studies have shown that regular aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) use, even in low-doses, prevents the development of colorectal neoplasia. In 2015, the US Preventative Services Task Force acknowledged the value of low-dose aspirin in primary prevention of colorectal cancer in adults aged 50–59 years. Despite this wealth of evidence, how aspirin reduces colorectal cancer risk is not fully understood. Many mechanisms have been proposed, but the most commonly cited is aspirin’s inhibition of PTGS2 (COX-2), a known mediator of inflammation and immunosuppression that is overexpressed in many colorectal neoplasms.
Nucleon structure in a light-front quark model consistent with quark counting rules and data
Creators: name: Gutsche, Thomas
name: Lyubovitskij, Valery E.
name: Schmidt, Ivan
name: Vega, Alfredo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using global fits of valence u and d quark parton distributions and data on quark and nucleon form factors in the Euclidean region, we derive a light-front quark model for the nucleon structure consistent with quark counting rules.
description: 8 pages
Automatic computations at next-to-leading order in QCD for top-quark flavor-changing neutral processes
Creators: name: Degrande, Celine
name: Maltoni, Fabio
name: Wang, Jian
name: Zhang, Cen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Computations at next-to-leading order in the Standard Model offer new technical challenges in presence of higher dimensional operators. We introduce a framework that, starting from the top-quark effective field theory at dimension six, allows to make predictions for cross sections as well as distributions in a fully automatic way. As an application, we present the first complete results at NLO in QCD for flavor changing neutral interactions including parton shower effects, for $tZ$, $th$, $tγ$ associated production at the LHC.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
An Up-to-date Assessment of US Prostate Cancer Incidence Rates by Stage and Race: A Novel Approach Combining Multiple Imputation with Age and Delay Adjustment
Creators: name: Geczik, A.M.
name: Cook, M.B.
name: Butler, E.N.
name: Hurwitz, L.M.
Publisher: name: Elsevier B.V.
Year: 2021

description: Background: In the USA, it is unknown whether metastatic prostate cancer incidence has continued to increase and whether racial differences have persisted. Objective: Combining multiple imputation with age and delay adjustment, we provide an up-to-date, comprehensive assessment of US prostate cancer incidence trends by stage and race. Design, setting, and participants: From Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)-18, 774 240 prostate cancer cases were diagnosed during 2004–2017. Outcome measurements and statistical analysis: Multiple imputation assigned prostate cancer stage to the 4.7% of cases with missing stage, which varied by year and race-ethnicity. SEER delay factors adjusted case counts to anticipated future data corrections. Twenty datasets were imputed, and Rubin's rules were used for summary estimation. Overall and stage-specific rates were estimated and stratified by race and age group. Joinpoint software identified significant temporal changes and estimated annual percentage changes. We compared these estimates without multiple imputation and delay adjustment. Results and limitations: Metastatic prostate cancer incidence increased during 2011–2017, with an annual percentage change of 5.5. This was followed by increases in localized and regional disease since 2014. Non-Hispanic black men continued to have the highest incidence, especially for metastatic disease. The increasing rate of metastatic prostate cancer in non-Hispanic white men aged 50–74 yr accelerated recently, and the incidence was 56% higher in 2017 than in 2004. Rates without multiple imputation and delay adjustment were quantitatively and qualitatively different. This observational study is unable to assign causes to observed changes in prostate cancer incidence. Conclusions: Multiple imputation and delay adjustment are essential for portraying accurately stage- and race-specific prostate cancer incidence as clinical practice evolves. Patient summary: In the USA, diagnosis of prostate cancer that has spread to distant sites (metastatic disease) continues to increase. Black men continue to have higher risks of being diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer than other race-ethnicities. In the USA, metastatic prostate cancer incidence rates have continued to increase through 2017, and local and regional disease rates have also increased since 2014. Racial differences persist, with non-Hispanic Black men being at the highest risk.
Cervicoisthmic cerclage: transabdominal vs transvaginal approach
Creators: name: Witt, Marili U.
name: Joy, Saju D.
name: Thorp, John M.
name: Bowes, Watson A.
name: Herring, Amy
name: Clark, Jennifer
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: To compare the outcomes of cervicoisthmic cerclage (CI) using traditional transabdominal (TA) approach versus the lesser utilized transvaginal (TV) approach.
Sogno 102
Creators: name: Hope, Cat
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 360302
subject: Music composition and improvisation

description: 'Sogno 102' (2013) is a composition for bass flute, bass clarinet, cello, viola, piano and electronics.The piece engages 5 non amplified acoustic instruments, who are sampled via microphone as notated on the score, and converted into a sine tone, controlled as noted on the score. There is a Max patch provided here to facilitate this, or you can make your own way of doing it. The tones should be played back in stereo or quadraphonic, preferably in sub woofers or quality monitor speakers.The score should be read in the Decibel ScorePlayer software on ipad, which networks different players together and communicates with the Max patch. The file extension .dsz should be uploaded to the ipad with the ScorePlayer application via airdrop (MAC) or iTunes file share (PC). This file will not open on a desktop computer. The .png file is for reference only.PROGRAM NOTE
This piece takes its departure in the way Scelsi would adopt glissandi, vibrato and drone in his later works. Each instrument is sampled in their second appearance in the work, and this initial pitch is sampled and transformed through the duration of the work, sliding across the other parts. The movements of these slides are designed from parameters extracted from a book of collected Scelsi writings, transcribed from tape recordings, entitled Sogno 101. Like Scelsi’s words, the instruments are ‘transcribed’ into the work as a whole.PERFORMANCES
Premiere: Australasian Computer Music Conference, Melbourne, July 2014
Inner Space Program, Decibel new music ensemble, Palermo, December 8, 2013; Perth, November 2014; Melbourne, May 2015
International Computer Music Conference, Athens, Greece, August 2014
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield UK, Decibel 'Cat Hope' monograph concert December 2022 (arrangement for percussion instead of piano). Recorded by BBC3.Featured on Cat Hope 'Ephemeral Rivers' CD, Hat[now]ART 200

This work is dedicated to Giacinto Scelsi, and is a reflection on the book, Sogno 101. This book is made up of transcriptions of Scelsi's audio recordings. This piece reflects this method by sampling the live instruments, playing them back in a tape like score. The piece also uses many playing techniques similar to those used by Scelsi. Contact the composer for the computer program, or make your own that samples the instruments at the points shown, as sine tones."...the listener was drawn into a magical sonic world of considerable expressive depth." Lisa MacKinney, Limelight Magazine.
Second-stage labor duration in nulliparous women: relationship to maternal and perinatal outcomes
Creators: name: Anderson, Garland D.
name: Carpenter, Marshall W.
name: Varner, Michael W.
name: Weiner, Steven J.
name: Caritis, Steve N.
name: Iams, Jay D.
name: Harper, Margaret
name: Malone, Fergal D.
name: Bloom, Steven L.
name: Mercer, Brian M.
name: Ramin, Susan M.
name: Rouse, Dwight J.
name: Sorokin, Yoram
name: Thorp, John M.
name: Sciscione, Anthony
name: Spong, Catherine Y.
name: Peaceman, Alan M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: To assess maternal and perinatal outcomes as a function of second stage labor duration.
Real-time capable first principle based modelling of tokamak turbulent transport
Creators: name: Citrin, J.
name: Breton, S.
name: Felici, F.
name: Imbeaux, F.
name: Aniel, T.
name: Artaud, J. F.
name: Baiocchi, B.
name: Bourdelle, C.
name: Camenen, Y.
name: Garcia, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A real-time capable core turbulence tokamak transport model is developed. This model is constructed from the regularized nonlinear regression of quasilinear gyrokinetic transport code output. The regression is performed with a multilayer perceptron neural network. The transport code input for the neural network training set consists of five dimensions, and is limited to adiabatic electrons. The neural network model successfully reproduces transport fluxes predicted by the original quasilinear model, while gaining five orders of magnitude in computation time. The model is implemented in a real-time capable tokamak simulator, and simulates a 300s ITER discharge in 10s. This proof-of-principle for regression based transport models anticipates a significant widening of input space dimensionality and physics realism for future training sets. This aims to provide unprecedented computational speed coupled with first-principle based physics for real-time control and integrated modelling applications.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
The effect of 17-alpha hydroxyprogesterone caproate on the risk of gestational diabetes in singleton or twin pregnancies
Creators: name: Caritis, Steve N.
name: Lo, Julie
name: Peaceman, Alan M.
name: Mercer, Brian M.
name: Spong, Catherine Y.
name: Gyamfi, Cynthia
name: Conway, Deborah
name: Miodovnik, Menachem
name: Carpenter, Marshall W.
name: Rouse, Dwight J.
name: Dombrowski, Mitchell
name: Ramin, Susan M.
name: Iams, Jay D.
name: Varner, Michael W.
name: Meis, Paul J.
name: Sciscione, Anthony
name: Momirova, Valerija
name: O'Sullivan, Mary Jo
name: Sibai, Baha
name: Horton, Amanda L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: To compare the rates of gestational diabetes (GDM) among women who received serial doses of 17 alpha hydroxyprogesterone caproate (17-OHPC) versus placebo.
Sogno 102
Creators: name: Hope, Cat
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 190406 Music Composition
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: for bass flute, bass clarinet, cello, viola, piano and electronics.
Premiere: Inner Space Program, Decibel new music ensemble, Palermo, December 8 2013.
Australasian Computer Music Conference, Melbourne, July 2014
International Computer Music Conference, Athens, Greece, August 2014.
Inner Space - The Giacinto Scelsi Project, Melbourne, November 2014, Perth, May 2015

Featured on Cat Hope 'Ephemeral Rivers' CD, Hat[now]ART 200

This work is dedicated to Giacinto Scelsi, and is a reflection on the book, Sogno 101. This book is made up of transcriptions of Scelsi's audio recordings. This piece reflects this method by sampling the live instruments, playing them back in a tape like score. The piece also uses many playing techniques similar to those used by Scelsi. Contact the composer for the computer program, or make your own that samples the instruments at the points shown, as sine tones.

"...the listener was drawn into a magical sonic world of considerable expressive depth." Lisa MacKinney, Limelight Magazine.
Towards a Holographic Bose-Hubbard Model
Creators: name: Fujita, Mitsutoshi
name: Harrison, Sarah
name: Karch, Andreas
name: Meyer, Rene
name: Paquette, Natalie M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a holographic construction of the large-N Bose-Hubbard model. The model is based on Maxwell fields coupled to charged scalar fields on the AdS2 hard wall. We realize the lobe-shaped phase structure of the Bose-Hubbard model and find that the model admits Mott insulator ground states in the limit of large Coulomb repulsion. In the Mott insulator phases, the bosons are localized on each site. At zero hopping we find that the transitions between Mott insulating phases with different fillings correspond to first order level-crossing phase transitions. At finite hopping we find a holographic phase transition between the Mott phase and a non-homogeneous phase. We then analyze the perturbations of fields around both the Mott insulator phase and inhomogeneous phase. We find almost zero modes in the non-homogeneous phase.
description: 46 pages, 14 figures, v2: reference added, JHEP style, version submitted to JHEP, v3: minor clarifications, improved presentation, version accepted for publication in JHEP
Additional file 6: of PYK2 promotes HER2-positive breast cancer invasion
Creators: name: Shaymaa IK. Al-Juboori
name: Jayakumar Vadakekolathu
name: Sarra Idri
name: Wagner, Sarah
name: Zafeiris, Dimitrios
name: Pearson, Joshua RD.
name: Rukaia Almshayakhchi
name: Caraglia, Michele
name: Desiderio, Vincenzo
name: Miles, Amanda
name: Boocock, David
name: Ball, Graham
name: Regad, Tarik
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Plant Biology

description: Data S3. Tables representing top 25 upregulated proteins and top 25 downregulated proteins in MDA-MB-453 untreated control vs. untreated and treated PYK2 knockdown samples with Fc 2 ≥ − 2, and confidence of 70%. (DOCX 15 kb)
Weight gain in pregnancy and risk of maternal hyperglycemia
Creators: name: Rich-Edwards, Janet W.
name: Herring, Sharon J.
name: Kleinman, Ken P.
name: Stuebe, Alison M.
name: Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl L.
name: Oken, Emily
name: Gillman, Matthew W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: The purpose of this study was to examine associations of weight gain from prepregnancy to glycemic screening with glucose tolerance status.
Association of fetal inflammation and coagulation pathway gene polymorphisms with neurodevelopmental delay at age 2 years
Creators: name: Clark, Erin A.S.
name: Sorokin, Yoram
name: Spong, Catherine Y.
name: Carpenter, Marshall
name: Leveno, Kenneth J.
name: Thorp, John M.
name: Mele, Lisa
name: Mercer, Brian M.
name: Wapner, Ronald J.
name: Peaceman, Alan
name: Iams, Jay D.
name: Ramin, Susan M.
name: Miodovnik, Menachem
name: Caritis, Steve N.
name: Rouse, Dwight J.
name: Harper, Margaret
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Evaluate the association between fetal inflammation and coagulation gene single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and neurodevelopmental delay at age 2.
Entstehung und theologische Begründung der kirchlichen Ämter in der Alten Kirche
Creators: name: Dassmann, Ernst
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 22 Nr. 4 (1993): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 22, Heft 4
State and parameter estimation for model-based retinal laser treatment
Creators: name: Kleyman, Viktoria
name: Schaller, Manuel
name: Wilson, Mitsuru
name: Mordmüller, Mario
name: Brinkmann, Ralf
name: Worthmann, Karl
name: Müller, Matthias A.
Publisher: name: Frankfurt ; München [u.a.] : Elsevier
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Model predictive control in medicine applications
subject: Model reduction
subject: Modeling
subject: Moving horizon estimation
subject: Nonlinear observers and filter design
subject: Parameter-varying systems
subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik

description: We present an approach for state and parameter estimation in retinal laser treatment by a novel setup where both measurement and heating is performed by a single laser. In this medical application, the temperature that is induced by the laser in the patient's eye is critical for a successful and safe treatment. To this end, we pursue a model-based approach using a model given by a heat diffusion equation on a cylindrical domain, where the source term is given by the absorbed laser power. The model is parametric in the sense that it involves an absorption coefficient, which depends on the treatment spot and plays a central role in the input-output behavior of the system. After discretization, we apply a particularly suited parametric model order reduction to ensure real-time tractability while retaining parameter dependence. We augment known state estimation techniques, i.e., extended Kalman filtering and moving horizon estimation, with parameter estimation to estimate the absorption coefficient and the current state of the system. Eventually, we show first results for simulated and experimental data from porcine eyes. We find that, regarding convergence speed, the moving horizon estimation slightly outperforms the extended Kalman filter on measurement data in terms of parameter and state estimation, however, on simulated data the results are very similar.
Fecal incontinence in primary care: prevalence, diagnosis, and health care utilization
Creators: name: Whitehead, William E.
name: von Korff, Michael
name: Turner, Marsha J.
name: Palsson, Olafur S.
name: Heymen, Steve
name: Melville, Jennifer L.
name: Dunivan, Gena C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: To estimate the frequency of self-reported fecal incontinence (FI), identify what proportion of these patients have a diagnosis of FI in their medical record, and compare healthcare costs and utilization in patients with different severities of FI to those without FI.
"A kindred spirit”: The Impact of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Vampire Diaries on Adolescent Viewers
Creators: name: Mathams, Natasha
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 399999
subject: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Since the mid-20th century, television shows have been a mainstay of the modern leisure system. Countless channels and streaming services broadcast dozens of shows every year, inundating young people with a wide range of genres and narratives. What impact do these shows have on their viewers? This thesis investigates how two television shows, The Vampire Diaries and Buffy the Vampire Slayer have affected and transformed adolescent viewers’ identities. By exploring the myriad approaches television takes in shaping people’s lives, from creating likeable and relatable characters, to disseminating mainstream social expectations, and normalising certain ways of living, this project uncovers the real-world impact of television on teenage identities. Through in-depth interviews and online fieldwork, the emotional, life-changing and empowering experiences of those who watched The Vampire Diaries and Buffy the Vampire Slayer as adolescents are revealed. This thesis highlights and explores viewers’ narratives, concluding that adolescent identities can be transformed in both the short- and long-term. While watching the two shows, viewers identified with, and/or idealised the televised characters. Viewers imitated onscreen behaviours and integrated the shows’ gender ideologies and expectations of romance into their own worldviews, with this absorption directly affecting their behaviour and relationships. Through interlocutors' narrated experiences, this thesis seeks to demonstrate how significant television can be in changing adolescents’ lives.
Fast-tunable femtosecond visible radiation via sum-frequency generation from a high power NIR NOPO
Creators: name: Binhammer, Yuliya
name: Binhammer, Thomas
name: Mevert, Robin
name: Lang, Tino
name: Rück, Angelika
name: Morgner, Uwe
Publisher: name: Washington, DC : Optica
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Electromagnetic pulse
subject: Interferometry
subject: Parametric oscillators
subject: Ultrafast lasers
subject: Fast tunable
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::530 | Physik

description: We report on a high power ultra-broadband, quickly tunable non-collinear parametric oscillator with highly efficient intra-cavity sum-frequency generation. It simultaneously delivers femtosecond pulses in two synchronized output beams: up to 4.9 W tunable from 650 to 1050 nm in the near infrared and up to 1.9 W from 380 to 500 nm in the visible spectral range. The (to our knowledge) novel source is ideally suited for spectroscopy or multi-color imaging. First results of two-color functional microscopy are presented.
The prototypes of tobacco users scale (Potus) for cigarette smoking and e-cigarette use: Development and validation
Creators: name: Chen, M.S.
name: Blanton, H.
name: Butler, E.N.
name: Pepper, J.K.
name: Hall, M.G.
name: Brewer, N.T.
Publisher: name: MDPI AG
Year: 2020

description: Endorsing prototypes of cigarette smokers predicts cigarette smoking, but less is known about prototypes of users of other tobacco products. Our study sought to establish the reliability and validity of a measure of prototypes of smokers and e-cigarette users. Participants were from a national survey of smokers and non-smokers (n = 1414), a randomized clinical trial (RCT) of adult smokers (n = 2149), and adolescent children of adults in the trial (n = 112). The Prototypes of Tobacco Users Scale (POTUS) has four positive adjectives (cool, sexy, smart, and healthy) and four negative adjectives (disgusting, unattractive, immature, and inconsiderate) describing cigarette smokers and e-cigarette users. Confirmatory factor analyses identified a two-factor solution. The POTUS demonstrated strong internal consistency reliability in all three samples (median α = 0.85) and good test–retest reliability among adults in the RCT (median r = 0.61, 1–4 weeks follow-up). In the RCT, smokers more often agreed with negative prototypes for smokers than for e-cigarette users (mean = 2.03 vs. 1.67, p < 0.05); negative prototypes at baseline were also associated with more forgoing of cigarettes and making a quit attempt at the end of the trial (Week 4 follow-up). The POTUS may be useful to public health researchers seeking to design interventions that reduce tobacco initiation or cessation through the manipulation of tobacco user prototypes.
Real-time stimulated Raman spectroscopy with a non-collinear optical parametric oscillator
Creators: name: Beichert, Luise
name: Binhammer, Yuliya
name: Andrade, José R. C.
name: Mevert, Robin
name: Kniggendorf, Ann-Kathrin
name: Roth, Bernhard
name: Morgner, Uwe
Publisher: name: Washington, DC : Optica
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Light sources; Microplastic; Raman spectroscopy; Water quality; Average output power
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::530 | Physik

description: Ultrafast detection of microplastic particles is becoming a vital problem, as these particles are found in water sources worldwide. Ideally, a live analysis in flow is desirable to directly monitor the water quality for contaminations. Therefore, coherent Raman spectroscopy techniques require fast and broadband tunable lasers to address all relevant spectral regions of the investigated samples. In our work, we combine a high power non-collinear optical parametric oscillator with a real-time stimulated Raman scattering spectroscopy setup. The light source is continously tunable from 700 nm to 1030 nm in less than 10 ms, delivering an average output power of more than 500 mW with sub-ps pulses. We show the immediate observation of mixing processes and the detection of microplastic particles in water solution with a spectral window of more than 2000 cm−1
On the motive of O'Grady's six-dimensional hyper-Kähler varieties
Creators: name: Floccari, Salvatore
Publisher: name: [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar]
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Hodge conjecture
subject: Hyper-Kähler varieties
subject: moduli spaces
subject: motives
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::510 | Mathematik

description: We prove that the rational Chow motive of a six-dimensional hyper-Kähler variety obtained as symplectic resolution of O'Grady type of a singular moduli space of semistable sheaves on an Abelian surface A belongs to the tensor category of motives generated by the motive of A. We in fact give a formula for the rational Chow motive of such a variety in terms of that of the surface. As a consequence, the conjectures of Hodge and Tate hold for many hyper-Kähler varieties of OG6-type.
Obesity and diabetes genetic variants associated with gestational weight gain
Creators: name: Ghosh, Joyee
name: Lyon, Helen
name: Siega-Riz, Anna Maria
name: Herring, Amy H.
name: Wise, Alison
name: Stuebe, Alison M.
name: North, Kari E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: To determine whether genetic variants associated with diabetes and obesity predict gestational weight gain.
Geometric capture and escape of a microswimmer colliding with an obstacle
Creators: name: Spagnolie, Saverio E.
name: Moreno-Flores, Gregorio R.
name: Bartolo, Denis
name: Lauga, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by recent experiments, we consider the hydrodynamic capture of a microswimmer near a stationary spherical obstacle. Simulations of model equations show that a swimmer approaching a small spherical colloid is simply scattered. In contrast, when the colloid is larger than a critical size it acts as a passive trap: the swimmer is hydrodynamically captured along closed trajectories and endlessly orbits around the colloidal sphere. In order to gain physical insight into this hydrodynamic scattering problem, we address it analytically. We provide expressions for the critical trapping radius, the depth of the "basin of attraction," and the scattering angle, which show excellent agreement with our numerical findings. We also demonstrate and rationalize the strong impact of swimming-flow symmetries on the trapping efficiency. Finally, we give the swimmer an opportunity to escape the colloidal traps by considering the effects of Brownian, or active, diffusion. We show that in some cases the trapping time is governed by an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, which results in a trapping time distribution that is well-approximated as inverse-Gaussian. The predictions again compare very favorably with the numerical simulations. We envision applications of the theory to bioremediation, microorganism sorting techniques, and the study of bacterial populations in heterogeneous or porous environments.
Transient performance of tube-based robust economic model predictive control
Creators: name: Klöppelt, Christian
name: Schwenkel, Lukas
name: Allgöwer, Frank
name: Müller, Matthias A.
Publisher: name: Frankfurt ; München [u.a.] : Elsevier
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Economic Predictive Control
subject: Robust Model Predictive Control
subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik

description: In this paper, we provide non-averaged and transient performance guarantees for recently developed, tube-based robust economic model predictive control (MPC) schemes. In particular, we consider both tube-based MPC schemes with and without terminal conditions. We show that the closed-loop performance obtained by applying such MPC schemes is approximately optimal when evaluated both on finite and infinite time horizons. These performance bounds are similar to those derived previously for nominal economic MPC. The theoretical results are discussed in a numerical example.
The effect of plurality and obesity on betamethasone concentrations in women at risk for preterm delivery
Creators: name: Gyamfi, Cynthia
name: Johnson, Francee
name: Spong, Catherine Y.
name: Wapner, Ronald J.
name: Carpenter, Marshall
name: Peaceman, Alan
name: Rouse, Dwight J.
name: O'Sullivan, Mary J.
name: Mercer, Brian M.
name: Mele, Lisa
name: Sorokin, Yoram
name: Sibai, Baha
name: Miodovnik, Menachem
name: Caritis, Steve N.
name: Leveno, Kenneth J.
name: Ramin, Susan M.
name: Dudley, Donald J.
name: Thorp, John M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Antenatal corticosteroids (ACS) decrease respiratory distress syndrome in singleton gestations. Twin data is less clear. Obesity and BMI also affect medication distribution volume. We evaluated whether maternal or neonatal cord betamethasone concentrations differed in twin gestations or in obese patients.
Redefining precision cancer prevention to promote health equity
Creators: name: Kundrod, K.A.
name: Butler, E.N.
name: Heckman-Stoddard, B.M.
name: Castle, P.E.
name: Umar, A.
name: Signorello, L.B.
Publisher: name: Cell Press
Year: 2022

description: Precision cancer prevention as it is currently envisioned is a targeted, molecular-based approach to intercept carcinogenesis before cancer develops or before it becomes untreatable. Unfortunately, due to systemic biases, current precision cancer prevention interventions might not be effective in all populations, especially in minoritized communities. In addition, not all cancer risk is attributable to genetic or even biological factors, but includes social determinants of health (SDH). Here, we propose a broader framework for precision cancer prevention, anchored in optimizing the benefits to harms for all people. We propose that precision cancer prevention considers not only what is being delivered, but also for whom, where, and how, with a goal of achieving cancer prevention health equity.