Bela Bauer, Dave Wecker, Andrew J. Millis, Matthew B. Hastings, 2 and Matthias Troyer Station Q, Microsoft Research, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6105, USA Quantum Architectures and Computation Group, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA 98052, USA Department of Physics, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY 10027 Theoretische Physik and Station Q Zurich, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Swit...

This paper presents the insights of imbalanced public bicycle distributions, i.e. unable to pick up/return bikes due to empty/full stations through the analysis of spatio-temporal activity patterns of bike stations. YouBike, the public bikesharing system of Taipei City was examined. Taking advantage of Open Data policy, the changes of the number of available bikes across all stations were colle...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the role of CGS21680, a selective adenosine A2A receptor agonist, on a bile-duct-ligated cirrhotic liver resection model in rats. METHODS Male Wistar rats were allotted into 3 groups (n = 7 per time-point): the control group, the bile duct ligation + CGS21680 group (BDL + CGS), and the bile duct ligation group (BDL). Biliary cirrhosis had been previously induced by l...

Soil temperature (tB) was determined down to 2 m below ground level at 8 locations in the city of Oberhausen, Ruhr area, Germany, between August 2010 and July 2011 to investigate the subsurface urban heat island (SUHI) and its impact on drinking water quality. The soil temperatures obtained in Oberhausen demonstrate typical location-dependent behaviour. At the depth of drinking water pipes (1 t...

Abstract Despite evidence of increased caregiving intensity, stress, and burden during the COVID-19 crisis clear racial disparities in COVID-19, there is a lack research on impact dementia (vs. non-dementia) care provision caregivers’ (CGs) quality life by race. The current study used National Health Aging Trends Study Family Members Friends data (N=1,462, 15% Black 85% Non-Hispanic White CGs) ...

Introduction: Wearable sensors, especially biosensors, are playing an important role in healthcare, security, environmental monitoring domains and fitness [6]. Many researchers have demonstrated the benefit of compression garments in sports performance [1, 5]. However, there is insufficient evidence to support the reasons for this improved performance [4]. This paper aims to determine the effec...

OBJECTIVE Despite known benefits of patient-perceived collaborative goal setting, we have a limited ability to monitor this process in practice. We developed the Patient Measure of Collaborative Goal Setting (PM-CGS) to evaluate the use of collaborative goal setting from the patient's perspective. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A random sample of 400 patients aged 40 years or older, receiving di...

The class of chain graphs (CGs) involving both undirected graphs (= Markov networks) and directed acyclic graphs (= Bayesian networks) was introduced in middle eighties for description of probabilistic conditional independence structures. Every class of Markov equivalent CGs (that is CGs describing the same conditional independence structure) has a natural representative, which is called the la...

Narratives of commercial gestational surrogacy (CGS) as ‘baby-selling’ often conflate or interchange the transfer children born via with trafficking in sale children, two sometimes overlapping but nonetheless distinct offenses. Moreover, anti-trafficking laws have been used to police cross-border CGS. But when do CGS arrangements fall within category legitimate ‘reproductive tourism’ and they a...