95 research outputs found
Biliary Findings and the Neoplastic Potential of Branch Duct Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasm
No full text[No abstract available]Adachi T, 2006, J SURG RES, V136, P106, DOI 10.1016-j.jss.2006.04.025; Adsay NV, 2002, CANCER, V94, P62, DOI 10.1002-cncr.10203; Brugge WR, 2004, GASTROENTEROLOGY, V126, P1330, DOI 10.1053-j.gastro.2004.02.013; Buxbaum JL, 2012, GASTROINTEST ENDOSC, V75, P898, DOI 10.1016-j.gie.2012.01.026; Canto MI, 2006, CLIN GASTROENTEROL H, V4, P766, DOI 10.1016-j.cgh.2006.02.005; Canto MI, 2006, CLIN GASTROENTEROL H, V4, P665, DOI 10.1016-j.cgh.2006.04.003; Cellier C, 1998, GASTROINTEST ENDOSC, V47, P42, DOI 10.1016-S0016-5107(98)70297-4; Eriguchi N, 2001, SURG TODAY, V31, P534; Funabiki T, 2009, LANGENBECK ARCH SURG, V394, P159, DOI 10.1007-s00423-008-0336-0; Guelrud M, 1999, GASTROINTEST ENDOSC, V50, P194, DOI 10.1016-S0016-5107(99)70224-5; Kahl S, 2003, AM J GASTROENTEROL, V98, P2448, DOI 10.1016-S0002-9270(03)01700-3; Kamisawa T, 2012, J GASTROENTEROL, V47, P731, DOI 10.1007-s00535-012-0611-2; Kamisawa T, 2002, PANCREATOLOGY, V2, P122, DOI 10.1159-000055902; Kamisawa T, 2009, CLIN GASTROENTEROL H, V7, pS84, DOI 10.1016-j.cgh.2009.08.024; Kang MJ, 2011, CLIN GASTROENTEROL H, V9, P87, DOI 10.1016-j.cgh.2010.09.008; Khalid A, 2009, GASTROINTEST ENDOSC, V69, P1095, DOI 10.1016-j.gie.2008.07.033; Konda VJA, 2011, GASTROINTEST ENDOSC, V74, P1049, DOI 10.1016-j.gie.2011.07.018; LITTENBERG G, 1979, MEDICINE, V58, P385; Matsuoka L, 2012, GASTROENTEROL CLIN N, V41, P211, DOI 10.1016-j.gtc.2011.12.015; Matsuzaki J, 2013, CLIN GASTROENTEROL H, V11, P548, DOI 10.1016-j.cgh.2012.11.027; Nakai Y, 2012, GASTROINTEST ENDOSC, V75, P145; Rodriguez JR, 2007, GASTROENTEROLOGY, V133, P72, DOI 10.1053-j.gastro.2007.05.010; Sakamoto H, 2009, HUM PATHOL, V40, P1762, DOI 10.1016-j.humpath.2009.06.008; Salvia R, 2007, GASTROENTEROLOGY, V133, P309; Tanaka M, 2012, PANCREATOLOGY, V12, P183, DOI 10.1016-j.pan.2012.04.004; Tanaka M, 2006, PANCREATOLOGY, V6, P17, DOI 10.1159-000090023; Tanno S, 1998, J GASTROEN HEPATOL, V13, P175, DOI 10.1111-j.1440-1746.1998.tb00634.x; Tanno S, 2008, GUT, V57, DOI 10.1136-gut.2007.129684; Topazian M, 2007, GASTROINTEST ENDOSC, V66, P62, DOI 10.1016-j.gie.2006.09.0180
Improving endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration specimens in the absence of rapid onsite evaluation: Does cytotechnologist training provide the solution?
No full text[No abstract available]Buxbaum J, DYN TEL COMP RAP ONS; Eloubeidi MA, 2006, AM J GASTROENTEROL, V101, P2841, DOI 10.1111-j.1572-0241.2006.00852.x; Iglesias-Garcia J, 2011, AM J GASTROENTEROL, V106, P1705, DOI 10.1038-ajg.2011.119; Klapman JB, 2003, AM J GASTROENTEROL, V98, P1289, DOI 10.1016-S0002-9270(03)00246-6; Layfield LJ, 2001, CANCER CYTOPATHOL, V93, P319, DOI 10.1002-cncr.9046; Nasuti JF, 2001, DIAGN CYTOPATHOL, V25, P351, DOI 10.1002-dc.10002; Petrone MC, 2012, DIGEST LIVER DIS, V44, P311, DOI 10.1016-j.dld.2011.12.001; Yan A, AM GAST ASS 20 UNPUB10
Voucher funds in transitional economies : the Czech and Slovak experience
No full textVoucher funds have arisen in the transitional economies of Eastern and Central Europe that have used voucher privatization. These funds collect vouchers from citizens and use them to buy shares in enterprises. In the Czech and Slovak Republics, voucher funds are typically organized as corporations owned by the citizens who contributed their vouchers. Recently, they have also been organized as unit trusts (either open-ended or closed). A management company manages the funds under a contract that specifies the management fee. The management company is typically owned by the initial sponsor of the fund - for example, a bank. Voucher funds can give owners a diversified and professionally managed portfolio. More important, the funds select who sits on an enterprise's governance boards (which oversee management and profitability). Although experience is limited, the funds in these two countries have probably stopped most fraud and self-serving by enterprise mangers and are beginning to encourage the restructuring needed for profitability. A few funds have replaced poorly performing or dishonest managers; more often, because qualified replacements are few, they encourage managers to improve performance. There have been complaints about funds'performance. Some have made unrealistic promises to voucher holders and have appointed poorly qualified members to management boards. There is concern about conflicts of interest in the bank-sponsored funds and excessive control of enterprises. Funds typically lack capital or expertise to undertake restructuring - but few other potential owners are likely to be better qualified. The author examines 27 regulations that have been proposed for funds. Regulations in transitional economies, unlike regulations in most western countries, should encourage funds to play a strong role in corporate governance, he contends, as few potential owners have this ability. Most important, regulations should require that funds disclose information about their operations so their owners can monitor and control fund managers. The regulatory regime, the author says, should discourage monopolies and anticompetitive behavior; create incentives for fund managers to improve fund performance; discourage self-serving or fraudulent behavior by fund managers, and conflicts of interest; and eliminate high-risk investments unacceptable to fund owners. Because there is so little experience with these funds, the regulatory regime should not be unduly restrictive. As problems arise, regulations to deal with them can be added.International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Economic Adjustment and Lending,Economic Theory&Research,Agricultural Knowledge&Information Systems,Payment Systems&Infrastructure
A Note on the Minimality of One-Way Functions in Post-Quantum Cryptography
No full textIn classical cryptography, one-way functions (OWFs) play a central role as the minimal primitive that (almost) all primitives imply. The situation is more complicated in quantum cryptography, in which honest parties and adversaries can use quantum computation and communication, and it is known that analogues of OWFs in the quantum setting might not be minimal.
In this work we ask whether OWFs are minimal for the intermediate setting of post-quantum cryptography, in which the protocols are classical while they shall resist quantum adversaries. We show that for a wide range of natural settings, if a primitive Q implies OWFs, then so does its (uniformly or non-uniformly secure) post-quantum analogue. In particular, we show that if a primitive Q implies any other primitive P that has a 2-message security game (e.g., OWFs) through a black-box classical security reduction R, then one can always (efficiently) turn any polynomial-size quantum adversary breaking P into a polynomial-size quantum adversary breaking Q. Note that this result holds even if the implementation of P using that of Q is arbitrarily non-black-box.
We also prove extensions of this result for when the reduction R anticipates its oracle adversary to be deterministic, whenever either of the following conditions hold: (1) the adversary needs to win the security game of Q only with non-negligible probability (e.g., Q is collision-resistant hashing) or (2) that either of P and Q have falsifiable security games (this is the case when P is OWFs). Our work leaves open answering our main question when Q implies OWFs through a non-black-box security reduction, or when P uses a more complicated security game than a two-message one
A Note on the Minimality of One-Way Functions in Post-Quantum Cryptography
No full textIn classical cryptography, one-way functions (OWFs) play a central role as the minimal primitive that (almost) all primitives imply. The situation is more complicated in quantum cryptography, in which honest parties and adversaries can use quantum computation and communication, and it is known that analogues of OWFs in the quantum setting might not be minimal.In this work we ask whether OWFs are minimal for the intermediate setting of post-quantum cryptography, in which the protocols are classical while they shall resist quantum adversaries. We show that for a wide range of natural settings, if a primitive Q implies OWFs, then so does its (uniformly or non-uniformly secure) post-quantum analogue. In particular, we show that if a primitive Q implies any other primitive P that has a 2-message security game (e.g., OWFs) through a black-box classical security reduction R, then one can always (efficiently) turn any polynomial-size quantum adversary breaking P into a polynomial-size quantum adversary breaking Q. Note that this result holds even if the implementation of P using that of Q is arbitrarily non-black-box.We also prove extensions of this result for when the reduction R anticipates its oracle adversary to be deterministic, whenever either of the following conditions hold: (1) the adversary needs to win the security game of Q only with non-negligible probability (e.g., Q is collision-resistant hashing) or (2) that either of P and Q have “falsifiable” security games (this is the case when P is OWFs). Our work leaves open answering our main question when Q implies OWFs through a non-black-box security reduction, or when P uses a more complicated security game than a two-message one. </p
"I' ll tell you a story that will make you believe" in narratives: the role of metafiction in the novel and in the film Life of Pi
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Inglês: Estudos Linguísticos e Literários, Florianópolis, 2015.Recentes estudos propõem que adaptações cinematográficas sejam entendidas como fonte de criação, os quais refletem contextos e interpretações diferentes do texto em que são baseadas. Nessa dissertação, propõe-se uma análise comparativa do romance Life of Pi (2001), de Yann Martel e do filme homônimo dirigido por Ang Lee (2012). A análise tem como objetivo identificar a presença e o modo em que a metaficção é construída no romance e no filme, e quais são alguns significados produzidos por ela em ambos os textos, tanto o literário quanto o fílmico. A concepção de metafição se baseia nas definições de Linda Hutcheon e Patricia Waugh. Por metaficção, entende-se a ficção consciente de si, que expõe o processo de escrita ao leitor e o convida a ter um papel ativo na construção do significado. Após uma análise comparativa dos dois textos, conclui-se que a metaficção está presente em ambos, tanto tematicamente como estruturalmente. As reflexões sobre narrativas apresentadas pelos personagens, o uso de vários níveis narrativos e de intertextualidade revelam diferentes usos da metafição em ambos. A diferença mais importante entre o romance e o filme Life of Pi está no uso dos níveis narrativos. Enquanto o romance possui um ?autor? sem nome que apresenta a história aos leitores, o filme possui um diretor implícito que deixa pistas de qual versão da história de Pi é ?real? no contexto da narrativa. Essa diferença dá ao romance um final aberto, em que o leitor deve escolher qual versão da história ele acredita, enquanto o filme possui uma resolução para essa questão. O filme, então, pode ser entendido como um testemunho, uma narrativa de trauma de um sobrevivente de um naufrágio e da experiência de migração, enquanto o livro não apresenta uma decisão em relação às versões da história, deixando o leitor aberto a qualquer possibilidade.Abstract : Recent studies propose that Film Adaptations should be understood as sources of creation, which also reflect a different context and interpretation from the text upon which they were based. In this thesis, I propose a comparative analysis of the novel Life of Pi (2001), by Yann Martel, and the homonymous film directed by Ang Lee (2012). The analysis has the objective of identifying the presence and the way in which metafiction is constructed in the novel and in the film, and what are some of the meanings produced by it in both texts, the filmic and the literary. The concept of metafiction was based on the definitions by Linda Hutcheon and Patricia Waugh. It is understood as the self-conscious fictional text, which exposes the writing process to the readers and invites them to have an active role in the construction of meaning. In the comparative analyses of the two texts, I have proved that metafiction is present in the two texts, both thematically and structurally. The reflections of the characters on narrative itself as well as the use of different narrative levels and intertextual references reveal different uses of metanarrative in both film and novel. The most important difference between the novel and the film Life of Pi is in their uses of different narrative levels. While the novel has an unnamed =author? who presents the story to the readers, the film has an implicit director who leaves =clues? of which version of Pi?s story is ?real? in the context of the narrative. This difference gives to the novel an open end, facein which the readers must choose which version of the story they believe in, while the film presents a resolution to this question. The film, thus, can be understood as a testimony narrative, a narrative of the trauma of a survivor from a shipwreck and from the experience of migration, while the novel does not decide for one of the versions of the story, enabling a more inconclusive reading
Recent advances in diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic ultrasound
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Fully Committed Playbill
No full textProvidence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film
Bowab Studio Theatre
Fully Committed
November 14-16
Written by Becky Mode
Directed by Tanner Henry ‘15
Stage Manager: Abigail Henry ‘16
Set Designer: Tanner Henry ‘15
Costume Designer: Jennifer Dorn ‘18
Light Designer: A. Simone ‘16
Sound Designer: Den Williams ‘15
The Cast: Sam Peliczowski – Veronica Murphy ’17; Mrs. Vandervere, Mrs. Winslow, Midwestern Secretary, Carolann Rosenstein-Fishburn, Stephanie, Mrs. Watanabe, Jenny Miller, Mrs. Sebag, Judith Rush, Depressed Secretary, Sarah, Gloria Hathaway, Nancy, Mrs. Inoue, Dr. Ruth Westheimer – Sabrina Guilbeaut ’18; The Sheik’s Right Hand Man, Bryce, Oscar, Bob, Chef, Sam’s Dad, Jean-Claude, Bell Atlantic Recording, Curtis, Dominick Veccini, Hector, Mrs. Buxbaum, Mr. Decoste, Mr. Zagat, Laryngitis Guy, Paramount Lady, Jean-Claude’s Wife, Smarmy Man, Rick from Carson Aviation, Emergency Operator – George Killian ‘15https://digitalcommons.providence.edu/fully_committed_pubs/1000/thumbnail.jp
Shifting ground: Can community development loan funds continue to serve the neediest borrowers?
No full textCommunity development financial institutions (CDFIs) are designed to improve economic conditions for low-income individuals and communities by providing a range of financial products and services that often are not available from mainstream lenders and financiers. ; Part I of this paper reviews CDLF origins, structures, and current activities. Part II discusses the field’s historic sources of subsidized capital and why they have shrunk. Part III reviews potential new sources of capital and the organizational ways that CDLFs are responding to their changed environment. The paper concludes with recommendations for CDLFs, funders, and policy makers.Community development ; Loans
Investigation of the reactivity of AlCl3 and CoCl2 toward molten alkali-metal nitrates in order to synthesize CoAl2O4
No full textCobalt aluminate CoAl2O4 powder, constituted of nano-sized crystallites, is prepared, involving the reactivity of AlCl3 and CoCl2 with molten alkali-metal nitrates. The reaction at 450 °C for 2 h leads to a mixture of spinel oxide Co3O4 and amorphous γ-Al2O3. It is transformed into the spinel oxide CoAl2O4 by heating at 1000 °C. The powders are mainly characterized by XRD, FTIR, ICP, electron microscopy and diffraction, X-EDS and diffuse reflection. Their properties are compared to those of powders obtained by solid state reactions of a mechanical mixture of chlorides or oxides submitted to the same thermal treatment
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