2,198 research outputs found
Solitons of Sigma Model on Noncommutative Space as Solitons of Electron System
We study the relationship of soliton solutions for electron system with those
of the sigma model on the noncommutative space, working directly in the
operator formalism. We find that some soliton solutions of the sigma model are
also the solitons of the electron system and are classified by the same
topological numbers.Comment: 12 pages, LaTeX2e, improvements to discussions, Version to be
published in JHE
A (p,q)-deformed Landau problem in a spherical harmonic well: spectrum and noncommuting coordinates
A (p,q)-deformation of the Landau problem in a spherically symmetric harmonic
potential is considered. The quantum spectrum as well as space noncommutativity
are established, whether for the full Landau problem or its quantum Hall
projections. The well known noncommutative geometry in each Landau level is
recovered in the appropriate limit p,q=1. However, a novel noncommutative
algebra for space coordinates is obtained in the (p,q)-deformed case, which
could also be of interest to collective phenomena in condensed matter systems.Comment: 9 pages, no figures; updated reference
A Computer Aided Detection system for mammographic images implemented on a GRID infrastructure
The use of an automatic system for the analysis of mammographic images has
proven to be very useful to radiologists in the investigation of breast cancer,
especially in the framework of mammographic-screening programs. A breast
neoplasia is often marked by the presence of microcalcification clusters and
massive lesions in the mammogram: hence the need for tools able to recognize
such lesions at an early stage. In the framework of the GPCALMA (GRID Platform
for Computer Assisted Library for MAmmography) project, the co-working of
italian physicists and radiologists built a large distributed database of
digitized mammographic images (about 5500 images corresponding to 1650
patients) and developed a CAD (Computer Aided Detection) system, able to make
an automatic search of massive lesions and microcalcification clusters. The CAD
is implemented in the GPCALMA integrated station, which can be used also for
digitization, as archive and to perform statistical analyses. Some GPCALMA
integrated stations have already been implemented and are currently on clinical
trial in some italian hospitals. The emerging GRID technology can been used to
connect the GPCALMA integrated stations operating in different medical centers.
The GRID approach will support an effective tele- and co-working between
radiologists, cancer specialists and epidemiology experts by allowing remote
image analysis and interactive online diagnosis.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the 13th
IEEE-NPSS Real Time Conference 2003, Montreal, Canada, May 18-23 200
Do IFRS only lead to improved accounting quality for public companies? Empirical evidence from an emerging country
This study examines the impact of IFRS adoption on the financial reporting quality of private
and public Brazilian companies, measured through metrics for earnings smoothing,
discretionary accruals and management of earnings towards a target. Its findings suggest that
IFRS adoption in a country such as Brazil leads to higher quality financial reporting both in
private and public companies. We also found that public companies fare worse than their
private counterparts in terms of such quality, both before and after IFRS adoption. In addition,
we found a smaller gap between the quality of accounting information in public versus private
companies after IFRS adoption.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Practical Approach to the Diagnosis of the Vulvo-Vaginal Stromal Tumors: An Overview
Background: The category of the "stromal tumors of the lower female genital tract" encompasses a wide spectrum of lesions with variable heterogeneity, which can be nosologically classified on the basis of their morphologic and immunohistochemical profiles as deep (aggressive) angiomyxoma (DAM), cellular angiofibroma (CAF), angiomyofibroblastoma (AMFB) or myofibroblastoma (MFB). Despite the differential diagnosis between these entities being usually straightforward, their increasingly recognized unusual morphological variants, along with the overlapping morphological and immunohistochemical features among these tumours, may raise serious differential diagnostic problems. Methods and Results: The data presented in the present paper have been retrieved from the entire published literature on the PubMed website about DAM, CAF, AFMB and MFB from 1984 to 2021. The selected articles are mainly represented by small-series, and, more rarely, single-case reports with unusual clinicopathologic features. The present review focuses on the diagnostic clues of the stromal tumours of the lower female genital tract to achieve a correct classification. The main clinicopathologic features of each single entity, emphasizing their differential diagnostic clues, are discussed and summarized in tables. Representative illustrations, including the unusual morphological variants, of each single tumour are also provided. Conclusion: Awareness by pathologists of the wide morphological and immunohistochemical spectrum exhibited by these tumours is crucial to achieve correct diagnoses and to avoid confusion with reactive conditions or other benign or malignant entities
Effect of period of milk production and ripening on quality traits of Asiago cheese
After 6 and 12 months of ripening, samples of Asiago d'Allevo were analyzed for quality traits. Cheeses were produced during 3 periods using milk from cows fed a total mixed ration (TMR, May) or grazing on alpine pasture (AG) in early (July) and late (Sept.) summer. Data were submitted to ANOVA considering ripening, milk production period and farm as main effects, and whole cheese weight as covariate. During ripening, pH of AGcheese was significantly lower than that of TMR-cheese; crude fat and protein significantly increased. According to period, July-samples showed the significantly lowest value of dry matter (DM), maybe due to a lower crude fat content; however, variability in skimming method could have altered proximate composition. No texture differences were found, although increasing weight of whole cheese significantly reduced max shear force as result of a lower DM content. Lightness (L*) and yellowness (b*) significantly decreased during ripening. AG feeding system caused a lower L* and higher b* than TMR one, probably as a consequence of a different amount of milk pigments. Cheese varied also within AG season: Sept.-samples showed the lowest L* value and the highest b*
Superfield Noether Procedure
We develop a superspace Noether procedure for supersymmetric field theories
in 4-dimensions for which an off-shell formulation in ordinary superspace
exists. In this way we obtain an elegant and compact derivation of the various
supercurrents in these theories. We then apply this formalism to compute the
central charges for a variety of effective actions. As a by-product we also
obtain a simple derivation of the anomalous superconformal Ward-identity in N=2
Yang-Mills theory. The connection with linearized supergravity is also
discussed.Comment: 47 pages, Latex, improved pedagogical presentation and references
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Solitary fibrous tumor of the orbital region: report of a case with emphasis on the diagnostic utility of STAT-6
Therapeutic drug monitoring of CT-P13: a comparison of four different immunoassays
Background: The commercialization of CT-P13, an infliximab (IFX) biosimilar, has the potential to decrease health-related costs and enhance access to biological therapies. This study aimed to address the accuracy and inter-assay agreement of the CT-P13 quantification using four different assays initially developed to assess IFX. Methods: The four different methods, one in-house method and three commercially available kits, were used to quantify exogenously-spiked samples and the sera from 185 inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients on CT-P13 therapy. Results: The quantification of the spiked samples unveiled a consistent and accurate behaviour of three of the tested methods, with average percentage recoveries of 90%, 102% and 109%. Results from the clinical samples demonstrated that these three assays were also highly correlated, both concerning Spearman's rank coefficients (range 0.890-0.947) and intraclass correlation coefficients (range 0.907-0.935). There were a few systematic deviations among them, but their impact in the clinical stratification of the patients using different cut-offs was minimal, particularly when these cut-offs were in the 3-4 mu g/ml range, for which the strength of agreement (as assessed by the Kappa statistics that ranged from 0.732 to 0.902) was substantial to almost perfect. Conclusions: Our results indicate that three of the tested IFX quantification methods can be used to accurately quantify CT-P13 without any adjustments.Portuguese IBD Group (GEDII, Grupo de Estudo da Doenca Inflamatoria Intestinal)Portuguese IBD
Group (GEDII, Grupo de Estudo da Doença
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