cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: ESPONDILODISCITIS  INFANTIL INESPECÍFICA. Presentación de 5 casos
Creators: name: Valenzuela Claros, Juan Cristobal
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: MR
subject: Paediatric

description: Objetivo docente
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description: Objetivo docente:
El objetivo docente de nuestra presentación ``ESPONDILODISCITIS INFANTIL INESPECÍFICA E IMAGEN´´ es: *Por un lado revisar la casuística registrada en la Unidad de Radiología pediátrica de nuestro centro en el corto periodo de tiempo que lleva...
title: Diagnóstico por la imagen en el carcinoma de trompa de Falopio primario
Creators: name: Muñoz , Carlos
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Ultrasound
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Pelvis
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
description: Objetivos:
Revisar los hallazgos por ecografía,
TAC y RM del carcinoma primario de Trompa de...
Acute effects of single vs. combinatory inhaled β2-agonists Salbutamol and Formoterol on time trial performance, lung function, metabolic and endocrine variables
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Anti-doping
subject: Performance enhancing methods
subject: Beta 2 agonists
subject: Muscle metabolism
subject: Detection methods
subject: DDC 004 / Data processing & computer science
subject: DDC 500 / Natural sciences & mathematics
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Muscles
subject: Doping in Sports
subject: Adrenergic beta-2 Receptor Agonists
subject: Muskelstoffwechsel

description: Background: High prevalence rates of β2-agonists amongst athletes in competitive sports makes it tempting to speculate that illegitimate use of β2-agonists boosts performance. However, data regarding the potential performance-enhancing effects of β2-agonists and its underlying molecular basis are scarce. Methods: To investigate single vs. combinatory effects of the nonprohibited short-acting β2-agonists salbutamol (SAL) and long-acting formoterol (FOR), 24 competitive endurance athletes (12f/12m) participated in a double-blinded balanced 4-way block cross-over trial to evaluate the potential performance-enhancement of SAL, FOR, and SAL+FOR compared to placebo (PLA). Measurements included skeletal muscle gene and protein expression of nuclear NR4A receptors, endocrine regulation, urinary and serum β2-agonist concentrations, cardiac markers, cardiopulmonary and lung function testing as well as the 10-min time trial (TT) performance on a bicycle ergometer as outcome variables. Blood and urine samples were collected Pre-, Post-, 3h Post-, and 24h Post TT. Results: Mean power output during TT was not different between study arms. Treatment effects regarding lung function, echocardiographic and metabolic variables were observed without any influence on performance. In female athletes, total serum β2-agonist concentrations for SAL and FOR were higher. Muscle and microarray analysis did not show any treatment effect on NR4A protein and NR4A1/NR4A3 gene expression, whereas a whole group treatment effect was calculated for NR4A2 and further target genes in energy metabolism with strongest effect by SAL+FOR. Noradrenaline, adrenaline, insulin-like growth factor, and transforming growth factor-β concentrations in blood were not affected by treatment or sex, whereas follicle-stimulating hormone (3h Post-Post TT), luteinizing hormone (3h Post-Pre TT), and insulin (Post-Pre TT) concentrations showed a treatment effect at different time points. Conclusion: We did not find an endurance performance-enhancing effect for SAL, FOR, or SAL+FOR within the permitted dosages compared to PLA. An acute effect on lung and cardiac function as well as endocrine and metabolic variables was observed without clinically relevant side effects and presumably without impact on endurance performance in healthy participants. However, the impact of chronically applied β2-agonists on performance in healthy athletes and sex-specific thresholds for daily β2-agonists’ doses have still to be determined.
title: Ablación con catéter de radiofrecuencia VNUS ® ™ ClosureFAST en el tratamiento de la insuficiencia venosa superficial de miembros inferiores. Experiencia en nuestro centro.
Creators: name: Casula, Elisabetta
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Varices
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Vascular
subject: Interventional vascular

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
description: Objetivos:
Introducción: La insuficiencia venosa primaria y las varices son alteraciones vasculares importantes que afectan a 25 millones de personas en el mundo occidental. El tratamiento de la enfermedad por reflujo a través de las venas superficiales ha...
Dynamics of a sensory network of ON and OFF cells with global delayed feedback
Creators: name: Lefebvre, Jeremie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Biophysics, General.

description: We study the sensory processing features of a network built of ON and OFF cells with global delayed feedback. We investigate the response of neural populations to spatio-temporal forcing, mimicking that found in most sensory systems. The network architecture is inspired from the physiology of the electrosensory lateral-line lobe (ELL) of the weakly electric fish, where we describe the collective behavior of populations in the pyramidal cell layer. ON pyramidal cells receive sensory inputs directly, while OFF cells receive a mirror image of the stimuli via an interneuron, inverting their response. The two opposed responses propagate upstream where they recruit the inhibitory feedback pathways. To enhance the distinction between the sub-populations, different baseline firing rates are implemented (to which we refer as asymmetry). As a novel approach to this problem, we model the neural circuit using a system of neural field equations, where the connectivity is determined solely by all-to-all and non-topographic inhibitory recurrent connections. Motivated by numerical and experimental results on the electrosensory system, we determine the conditions for which global rhythmic activity states appear in response to spatially organized stimuli. Novel responses to localized pulses are shown in the steady state regime, where the feedback connections interfere with local ON and OFF activities. These effects are systematically compared to the dynamics of a noisy Integrate-And-Fire network sharing the same architecture and parameters with the neural field formulation. Lastly, we investigate the impact of intrinsic cellular adaptation on oscillatory dynamics. Together these results establish the theoretical basis for input driven transitions to rhythmic states in delayed feedback networks with realistic neural populations.
Rim enhancement after technically successful transarterial chemoembolization in hepatocellular carcinoma: a potential mimic of incomplete embolization or reactive hyperemia?
Creators: name: Ekert, Kaspar
name: Kloth, Christopher
name: Nikolaou, Konstantin
name: Grözinger, Gerd
name: Horger, Marius
name: Thaiss, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 4D computed tomography
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
subject: Liver
subject: Four-dimensional computed tomography
subject: Perfusion imaging
subject: Embolization, Therapeutic
subject: Leberzellkrebs
subject: Computertomografie
subject: Embolisation

description: Contrast enhancement at the margins/rim of embolization areas in hepatocellular-carcinoma (HCC) lesions treated with transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) might be an early prognostic indicator for HCC recurrence. The aim of this study was to evaluate the predictive value of rim perfusion for TACE recurrence as determined by perfusion CT (PCT). A total of 52 patients (65.6 ± 9.3 years) underwent PCT directly before, immediately after (within 48 h) and at follow-up (95.3 ± 12.5 days) after TACE. Arterial-liver perfusion (ALP), portal-venous perfusion (PVP) and hepatic-perfusion index (HPI) were evaluated in normal liver parenchyma, and on the embolization rim as well as the tumor bed. A total of 42 lesions were successfully treated, and PCT measurements showed no residually vascularized tumor areas. Embolization was not entirely successful in 10 patients with remaining arterialized focal nodular areas (ALP 34.7 ± 10.1 vs. 4.4 ± 5.3 mL/100 mL/min, p < 0.0001). Perfusion values at the TACE rim were lower in responders compared to normal adjacent liver parenchyma and edges of incompletely embolized tumors (ALP liver 16.3 ± 10.1 mL/100 mL/min, rim responder 8.8 ± 8.7 mL/100 mL/min, rim non-responder 23.4 ± 8.6 mL/100 mL/min, p = 0.005). At follow-up, local tumor relapse was observed in 17/42, and 15/42 showed no recurrence (ALP 39.1 ± 10.1 mL/100 mL/min vs. 10.0 ± 7.4 mL/100 mL/min, p = 0.0008); four patients had de novo disseminated disease and six patients were lost in follow-up. Rim perfusion was lower compared to adjacent recurring HCC and not different between groups. HCC lesions showed no rim perfusion after TACE, neither immediately after nor at follow-up at three months, both for mid-term responders and mid-term relapsing HCCs, indicating that rim enhancement is not a sign of reactive hyperemia and not predictive of early HCC recurrence.
title: Contribución de la RM multiparamétrica en el diagnóstico de cancer de próstata (CP) en glándula periférica en pacientes con biopsias previas negativas (BPN).
Creators: name: Calvo Malvar, Nahum
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Pelvis
subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR-Spectroscopy
subject: Neoplasia

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
description: Objetivos:
INTRODUCCION El tratamiento de la mayoría de los tumores pasa por la exacta localización de las lesiones mediante técnicas de imagen y obtención de muestras histopatológicas.
Sólo así se lograrán un diagnóstico y estadificación correctos....
Supplementary document for Nonlinear higher-order polariton topological insulator - 4721428.pdf
Creators: name: Zhang, Yiqi
name: Kartashov, Yaroslav
name: Torner, Lluis
name: Ferrando, Albert
name: Li, Yongdong
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Materials about topological invariant
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: the low-redshift stellar mass Tully-Fisher relation
Creators: name: Bloom, J. V.
name: Croom, S. M.
name: Bryant, J. J.
name: Callingham, J. R.
name: Schaefer, A. L.
name: Cortese, L.
name: Hopkins, A. M.
name: D'Eugenio, F.
name: Scott, N.
name: Glazebrook, Karl
name: Tonini, C.
name: McElroy, R. E.
name: Clark, H. A.
name: Catinella, Barbara
name: Allen, J. T.
name: Bland-Hawthorn, J.
name: Goodwin, M.
name: Green, A. W.
name: Konstantopoulos, I. S.
name: Lawrence, J.
name: Lorente, N.
name: Medling, A. M.
name: Owers, M. S.
name: Richards, S. N.
name: Sharp, R.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We investigate the Tully-Fisher relation (TFR) for a morphologically and kinematically diverse sample of galaxies from the Sydney-AAO Multi-object Integral field spectrograph (SAMI) Galaxy Survey using two-dimensional spatially resolved Ha velocity maps and find a well-defined relation across the stellar mass range of 8.0 < log (M*/M-circle dot) < 11.5. We use an adaptation of kinemetry to parametrize the kinematic Ha asymmetry of all galaxies in the sample, and find a correlation between scatter (i.e. residuals off the TFR) and asymmetry. This effect is pronounced at low stellar mass, corresponding to the inverse relationship between stellar mass and kinematic asymmetry found in previous work. For galaxies with log (M*/M-circle dot) < 9.5, 25 +/- 3 per cent are scattered below the root mean square (RMS) of the TFR, whereas for galaxies with log (M*/M-circle dot) > 9.5 the fraction is 10 +/- 1 per cent. We use 'simulated slits' to directly compare our results with those from long slit spectroscopy and find that aligning slits with the photometric, rather than the kinematic, position angle, increases global scatter below the TFR. Further, kinematic asymmetry is correlated with misalignment between the photometric and kinematic position angles. This work demonstrates the value of 2D spatially resolved kinematics for accurate TFR studies; integral field spectroscopy reduces the underestimation of rotation velocity that can occur from slit positioning off the kinematic axis.
title: RM Difusión en patología mamaria: falsos positivos y falsos negativos
Creators: name: Martinez de Vega, Vicente
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: MR
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
El objetivo de esta exposición es describir la técnica de difusión en Resonancia Magnética de mama y mostrar los falsos positivos (lesiones benignas con valores bajos de ADC: abscesos,
quistes hemorrágicos,
adenopatías...
Novel genetic loci associated with hippocampal volume
Creators: name: Hibar, Derrek P.
name: Adams, Hieab H. H.
name: Jahanshad, Neda
name: Chauhan, Ganesh
name: Ferrucci, Luigi [U. V. M.]
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genome-wide association studies
subject: Neurodegenerative diseases
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: The hippocampal formation is a brain structure integrally involved in episodic memory, spatial navigation, cognition and stress responsiveness. Structural abnormalities in hippocampal volume and shape are found in several common neuropsychiatric disorders. To identify the genetic underpinnings of hippocampal structure here we perform a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of 33,536 individuals and discover six independent loci significantly associated with hippocampal volume, four of them novel. Of the novel loci, three lie within genes (ASTN2, DPP4 and MAST4) and one is found 200 kb upstream of SHH. A hippocampal subfield analysis shows that a locus within the MSRB3 gene shows evidence of a localized effect along the dentate gyrus, subiculum, CA1 and fissure. Further, we show that genetic variants associated with decreased hippocampal volume are also associated with increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease (rg=−0.155). Our findings suggest novel biological pathways through which human genetic variation influences hippocampal volume and risk for neuropsychiatric illness.
title: Colecistitis aguda. Una Patología Frecuente con Amplio Espectro Semiológico.
Creators: name: Ruiz Guerrero, Clara
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Abdomen

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Revisar los hallazgos típicos,
atípicos y complicaciones más frecuentes de la colecistitis aguda en ecografía y TC incluyendo referencias epidemiológicas y...
Developing new urban water supplies : Investigating motivations and barriers to groundwater use in Cape Town, South Africa
Creators: name: Luker, Emma
name: Harris, Leila
Publisher: name: International Journal of Water Resources Development
Year: 2020

description: Many cities are experiencing increasing water resource stress. In Cape Town, South Africa, surface water supplies are at a record low due to a multi-year drought crisis which began in 2015. This paper analyzes the range of motivations, possibilities and obstacles related to diversifying Cape Town’s water supply system through the upscaling of groundwater resources. Drawing on insights from local experts, it is maintained that uncertainty surrounding groundwater and drought management practices present significant barriers to Cape Town’s ongoing water diversification efforts. This paper provides further insight and discussion for future water planning in Cape Town, as well as for other urban, water scarce, regions.
Supplementary document for Broadband control of the optical properties of semiconductors through site-controlled self-assembly of microcrystals - 4722199.pdf
Creators: name: Pedrini, Jacopo
name: Biagioni, Paolo
name: Ballabio, Andrea
name: Barzaghi, Andrea
name: Bonzi, Maura
name: Bonera, Emiliano
name: Isella, Giovanni
name: Pezzoli, Fabio
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document containing the report on facet area and the analysis of the reflectivity decrease in pristine etched pillars compared with pillars with overgrown microcrystals.
Targetable alterations in primary extranodal diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
Creators: name: Weißinger, Stephanie Ellen
name: Dugge, Rucha
name: Disch, Miriam
name: Barth, Thomas F. E.
name: Bloehdorn, Johannes
name: Zahn, Malena
name: Marienfeld, Ralf
name: Viardot, Andreas
name: Möller, Peter
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Extranodal diffuse large B‐cell lymphoma
subject: Immunohistochemical analysis
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Lymphoma, Large B-cell, Diffuse
subject: Immunohistochemistry
subject: Molecular targeted therapy
subject: Prognosis
subject: B-Zell-Lymphom
subject: Immunohistologie
subject: Prognose

description: Primary extranodal diffuse large B‐cell lymphoma (PE‐DLBCL) is a heterogeneous subgroup of DLBCL. We investigated the prevalence and prognostic value of surface expression of PD‐L1, PD1, and CD30, copy number of 9p24.1 (PD‐L1 region), and mutations in MYD88, CD79B, CARD11, and BTK in a cohort of 116 patients, localized in the mediastinum (PMBL, n = 12), ear, nose and throat (ENT, n = 28), central nervous system (n = 29), testis (n = 7), breast (n = 4), stomach (n = 10), bone (n = 8), spleen (n = 2), and skin (n = 16). PD‐L1 expression is most frequent in PMBL (92%), followed by lymphomas originating in the stomach (57%), ENT (23%), and skin (18%). PD1 was expressed at low levels in less than 13% of PE‐DLBCL, while CD30 expression was found in 58% of PMBL. Mutation analysis revealed an unexpectedly high frequency of MYD88 and CD79B mutations in ENT lymphomas (46% and 50%, respectively). CARD11 mutations are rare but more frequently found in gastric lymphomas (30%), suggesting BTK resistance. Thirty‐four of 113 (30%) of the lymphomas harbored both MYD88 and CD79B mutations. Lower overall and progression‐free survival rates were found for cases with MYD88, CD79B, and BTK mutations. These data confirm the biologic singularity of PE‐DLBCLs and provide some suggestions for targeted therapies.
title: Pericardio: imagen por RM.
Creators: name: Saborido Avila, Carmen
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Pathology
subject: Genetic defects
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Cardiac

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
1-Recuerdo embriológico y anatómico del pericardio 2-Secuencias y planos adecuados para su estudio por RM...
The addition of a sagittal image fusion improves the prostate cancer detection in a sensor-based MRI /ultrasound fusion guided targeted biopsy
Creators: name: Günzel, Karsten
name: Cash, Hannes
name: Buckendahl, John
name: Königbauer, Maximilian
name: Asbach, Patrick
name: Haas, Matthias
name: Neymeyer, Jörg
name: Hinz, Stefan
name: Miller, Kurt
name: Kempkensteffen, Carsten
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging
subject: Targeted biopsy
subject: Prostate cancer detection
subject: MRI/US fusion biopsy
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background To explore the diagnostic benefit of an additional image fusion of the sagittal plane in addition to the standard axial image fusion, using a sensor-based MRI/US fusion platform. Methods During July 2013 and September 2015, 251 patients with at least one suspicious lesion on mpMRI (rated by PI- RADS) were included into the analysis. All patients underwent MRI/US targeted biopsy (TB) in combination with a 10 core systematic prostate biopsy (SB). All biopsies were performed on a sensor-based fusion system. Group A included 162 men who received TB by an axial MRI/US image fusion. Group B comprised 89 men in whom the TB was performed with an additional sagittal image fusion. Results The median age in group A was 67 years (IQR 61–72) and in group B 68 years (IQR 60–71). The median PSA level in group A was 8.10 ng/ml (IQR 6.05–14) and in group B 8.59 ng/ml (IQR 5.65–12.32). In group A the proportion of patients with a suspicious digital rectal examination (DRE) (14 vs. 29%, p = 0.007) and the proportion of primary biopsies (33 vs 46%, p = 0.046) were significantly lower. The rate of PI-RADS 3 lesions were overrepresented in group A compared to group B (19 vs. 9%; p = 0.044). Classified according to PI-RADS 3, 4 and 5, the detection rates of TB were 42, 48, 75% in group A and 25, 74, 90% in group B. The rate of PCa with a Gleason score ≥7 missed by TB was 33% (18 cases) in group A and 9% (5 cases) in group B; p-value 0.072. An explorative multivariate binary logistic regression analysis revealed that PI-RADS, a suspicious DRE and performing an additional sagittal image fusion were significant predictors for PCa detection in TB. 9 PCa were only detected by TB with sagittal fusion (sTB) and sTB identified 10 additional clinically significant PCa (Gleason ≥7). Conclusion Performing an additional sagittal image fusion besides the standard axial fusion appears to improve the accuracy of the sensor-based MRI/US fusion platform.
title: Manejo del nódulo tiroideo
Creators: name: Rayón-Aledo, Jose Carlos
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Hyperplasia / Hypertrophy
subject: Endocrine disorders
subject: Puncture
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Thyroid / Parathyroids
subject: Head and neck
subject: Anatomy

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
La patología nodular tiroidea puede manifestarse por una clínica de palpación de un nódulo,
crecimiento de la glándula y/o alteración de las hormonas tiroideas. Sin embargo es frecuente su presentación en personas asintomáticas de forma...
Ancient history of flatfish research
Creators: name: Berghahn, Rüdiger
name: Bennema, Floris Pieter
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Plattfisch
Ökologie

description: Owing to both their special appearance and behavior flatfish have attracted the special attention of people since ages. The first records of humans having been in touch with flatfish date back to the Stone Age about 15,000 years B.C. Detailed descriptions were already given in the classical antiquity and were taken up 1400 years later in the Renaissance by the first ichthyologists, encyclopédists, and also by practical men. This was more than 200 years before a number of common flatfish species were given their scientific names by Linnaeus in 1758. Besides morphology, remarkable and sometimes amusing naturalistic observations and figures are bequeathed. Ancient history of flatfish research is still a wide and open array. Examples are presented how the yield of information and interpretation from these times increases with interdisciplinary cooperation including archeologists, zoologists, ichthyologists, historians, art historians, fisheries and fishery biologist. The timeline of this contribution ends with the start of modern fishery research at the end of the 19th century in the course of the rapidly increasing exploitation of fish stocks. Quelle: http://www.sciencedirect.com
Supplementary document for Broadband control of the optical properties of semiconductors through site-controlled self-assembly of microcrystals - 4722199.pdf
Creators: name: Pedrini, Jacopo
name: Biagioni, Paolo
name: Ballabio, Andrea
name: Barzaghi, Andrea
name: Bonzi, Maura
name: Bonera, Emiliano
name: Isella, Giovanni
name: Pezzoli, Fabio
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document containing the report on facet area and the analysis of the reflectivity decrease in pristine etched pillars compared with pillars with overgrown microcrystals.
Towards innovative geospatial tools for fit-for-purpose land rights mapping
Creators: name: Koeva, M.
name: Bennett, Rohan
name: Gerke, M.
name: Crommelinck, S.
name: Stöcker, C.
name: Crompvoets, J.
name: Ho, S.
name: Schwering, A.
name: Chipofya, M.
name: Schultz, C.
name: Zein, T.
name: Biraro, M.
name: Alemie, B.
name: Wayumba, R.
name: Kundert, K.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In large parts of sub Saharan Africa it remains an ongoing challenging to map millions of unrecognized land rights. Existing approaches for recognizing these rights have proven inappropriate in many cases. A new generation of tools needs to be developed to support faster, cheaper, easier, and more responsible land rights mapping. This is the main goal of its4land, an European Commission Horizon 2020 project that aims to develop innovative tools inspired by the continuum of land rights, fit-for-purpose land administration, and cadastral intelligence. its4land is using strategic collaboration between the EU and East Africa to deliver innovative, scalable, and transferrable ICT solutions. The innovation process incorporates a broad range of stakeholders and emergent geospatial technologies, including smart sketchmaps, UAVs, automated feature extraction, as well as geocloud services. The aim is to combine innovative technologies, capture the specific needs, market opportunities and readiness of end-users in the domain of land tenure information recording in Eastern Africa. The project consists of a four year work plan, € 3.9M funding, and eight consortium partners collaborating with stakeholders from six case study locations in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Rwanda. The major tasks include tool development, prototyping, and demonstration for local, national, regional, and international interest groups. The case locations cover different land uses such as: urban, peri-urban, rural smallholder, and (former) pastoralist. This paper describes the project’s activities within the first 18 months and covers barriers discovered, lessons learned and results achieved.
Magnetic properties of some niobium (IV) and tantalum (IV) complexes of distorted octahedral symmetry.
Creators: name: Nor, Othman.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1966
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Inorganic.

description: The treatment of paramagnetism using the approach of the crystal field theory is discussed, with special emphasis on the tetragonally distorted octahedral field. For the limiting cases when Delta >> lambda for positive and negative Delta, expressions for the susceptibility are derived. Complexes of NbX4 and TaX4 (X= Cl,Br) with pyridine, bipyridyl and tetramethylethylenediamine were prepared and their magnetic susceptibilities studied over a temperature range 90--300°K. The data for all twelve complexes indicate that the Curie-Weiss law is not obeyed: Their effective moments exhibit small temperature dependence and the values at room temperature are well below the spin-only value for a single unpaired electron. Empirical fittings of mueff against kT/|lambda| curves from Figgis (34) show that (a) the sign of a Delta is reversed from that deduced on the basis of the crystal field model, (b) the axial field splittings are greater for the chlorides, and (c) Delta decreases in the order pyridine > bipyridyl > 4meen, for a given halide. The reversal in the sign of Delta is attibuted to the pi-donating effect from the halogens. (b) is accounted for by the order of the halide ions in the spectrochemical series. The lower Delta values for 4meen complexes are explained by the higher basicity of the ligand compared to pyridine and bipyridyl. Pyridine complexes have larger Delta values than the corresponding bipyridyl complexes probably because of the slightly better pi-accepting capacity of pyridine.
title: Hydroxychloroquine in patients with inflammatory and erosive osteoarthritis of the hands (OA TREAT)
title: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Detert, Jacqueline
name: Klaus, Pascal
name: Listing, Joachim
name: Höhne-Zimmer, Vera
name: Braun, Tanja
name: Wassenberg, Siegfried
name: Rau, Rolf
name: Buttgereit, Frank
name: Burmester, Gerd R.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background Osteoarthritis (OA) is a heterogeneous group of conditions with disturbed integrity of articular cartilage and changes in the underlying bone. The pathogenesis of OA is multifactorial and not just a disease of older people. Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is a disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug (DMARD) typically used for the treatment of various rheumatic and dermatologic diseases. Three studies of HCQ in OA, including one abstract and one letter, are available and use a wide variety of outcome measures in small patient populations. Despite initial evidence for good efficacy of HCQ, there has been no randomized, double-blind, and placebo-controlled trial in a larger patient group. In the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR), evidence-based recommendations for the management of hand OA, HCQ was not included as a therapeutic option because of the current lack of randomized clinical trials. Methods/Design OA TREAT is an investigator-initiated, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. A total of 510 subjects with inflammatory and erosive hand OA, according to the classification criteria of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), with recent X-ray will be recruited across outpatient sites, hospitals and universities in Germany. Patients are randomized 1:1 to active treatment (HCQ 200 to 400 mg per day) or placebo for 52 weeks. Both groups receive standard therapy (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs [NSAID], coxibs) for OA treatment, taken steadily two weeks before enrollment and continued further afterwards. If disease activity increases, the dose of NSAID/coxibs can be increased according to the drug recommendation. The co-primary clinical endpoints are the changes in Australian-Canadian OA Index (AUSCAN, German version) dimensions for pain and hand disability at week 52. The co-primary radiographic endpoint is the radiographic progression from baseline to week 52. A multiple endpoint test and analysis of covariance will be used to compare changes between groups. All analyses will be conducted on an intention-to-treat basis. Discussion The OA TREAT trial will examine the clinical and radiological efficacy and safety of HCQ as a treatment option for inflammatory and erosive OA over 12 months. OA TREAT focuses on erosive hand OA in contrast to other current studies on symptomatic hand OA, for example, HERO [Trials 14:64, 2013].
Extended caching, backjumping and merging for expressive description logics
Creators: name: Steigmiller, Andreas
name: Liebig, Thorsten
name: Glimm, Birte
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Beschreibungslogik
subject: Tableaux
subject: DDC 004 / Data processing & computer science
subject: Cache memory
subject: Description logics
subject: Reasoning
subject: Optimierung
subject: OWL
subject: Schlussfolgern
subject: Tableau
subject: Terminologische Logik

description: With this contribution we push the boundary of some known optimisations such as caching to the very expressive Description Logic SROIQ. The developed method is based on a sophisticated dependency management and a precise unsatisfiability caching technique, which further enables better informed tableau backtracking and more efficient pruning. Additionally, we optimise the handling of cardinality restrictions, by introducing a strategy called pool-based merging. We empirically evaluate the proposed optimisations within the novel reasoning system Konclude and show that the proposed optimisations indeed result in significant performance improvements.
A detailed investigation on the terahertz absorption characteristics of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)
Creators: name: Alfihed, Salman
name: Bergen, Mark
name: Holzman, Jonathan F.
name: Foulds, Ian G.
Publisher: name: Polymer
Year: 2019

description: This work presents a detailed study on cross-linking in polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) and its manifestation in terahertz (THz) absorption characteristics. The characteristics, acquired via THz time-domain spectroscopy, are shown to depend upon the curing agent mass fractions as well as the curing temperatures, times, and environments. Of particular note is the increased THz absorption seen by curing at high temperatures, which leads to increased cross-linking and the promotion of primary and secondary post-curing reactions. Such findings can lay the foundation for the use of PDMS in emerging THz microfluidic platforms.
Supplementary document for Ge on Si waveguide mid-infrared absorption spectroscopy of proteins and their aggregates - 4723219.pdf
Creators: name: Mittal, Vinita
name: Devitt, George
name: Nedeljkovic, Milos
name: Carpenter, Lewis
name: Chong, Harold
name: Wilkinson, James
name: Mahajan, Sumeet
name: Mashanovich, Goran
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Principal component analysis of BSA monomer, oligomer and fibril amide I spectra.
Collective action and the theory of ethnic nepotism: a review of Frank Salter (ed.) 'Welfare, ethnicity and altruism'
Creators: name: Betts, Katharine
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: New research shows that, in general, members of multiethnic societies are less likely to behave altruisticallly towards each other than are members of more ethically homogenous societies. But the question of how we should explain these findings remains open. Does the theory of ethnic nepotism provide an adquate explanation, or should we rather look to the cultural processes supporting feelings of national solidarity?
Supplementary document for Ge on Si waveguide mid-infrared absorption spectroscopy of proteins and their aggregates - 4723219.pdf
Creators: name: Mittal, Vinita
name: Devitt, George
name: Nedeljkovic, Milos
name: Carpenter, Lewis
name: Chong, Harold
name: Wilkinson, James
name: Mahajan, Sumeet
name: Mashanovich, Goran
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Principal component analysis of BSA monomer, oligomer and fibril amide I spectra.
Towards healthy and sustainable diets in Germany
Creators: name: Springmann, Marco
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Ernährung
subject: Food System
subject: dietary shift
subject: Climate | Energy
subject: Waste | Resources
subject: Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

description: Das globale Ernährungssystem ist weder gesund noch nachhaltig. Die Lebensmittelproduktion ist ein wesentlicher Triebfaktor des Klimawandels und der Nutzung natürlicher Ressourcen. Gleichzeitig ist ungesunde Ernährung ein Hauptrisikofaktor für chronische Krankheiten und vorzeitige Todesfälle. Es wird damit gerechnet, dass es ohne Änderungen hin zu gesünderen und nachhaltigeren Ernährungsmustern kaum eine Chance gibt, gefährliche Ausmaße des Klimawandels zu vermeiden und innerhalb der ökologischen Belastbarkeitsgrenzen des Ernährungssystems in Bezug auf Land, Wasser und Düngemittelverbrauch zu bleiben. Obwohl es einen breiten Konsens über die langfristige Notwendigkeit globaler Ernährungsumstellungen gibt, sind auf nationaler Ebene sehr viel weniger Informationen verfügbar oder zugänglich. Dieser Bericht soll diese Lücke füllen, indem er Schätzungen der Umwelt- und Kostenauswirkungen von Ernährungsumstellungen für Deutschland aus einer Reihe globaler Modellierungsstudien mit regionalen Details zusammenfasst und ihre politischen Implikationen diskutiert. Quelle: Forschungsbericht
description: The global food system is neither healthy, nor sustainable. Food production is a major driver of climate change and environmental resource use, whilst consuming unhealthy diets is a leading risk factor for chronic diseases and mortality. It has been estimated that without changes towards healthier and more sustainable dietary patterns, there is little chance of avoiding dangerous levels of climate change and staying within the environmental limits of the food system with regards to land, water, and fertilizer use. Although there is a broad consensus on the long-term need for global dietary changes, much less information is available or accessible at the national level. This report fills this gap by distilling estimates of the environmental and cost impacts of dietary changes for Germany from a series of global modelling studies with regional detail, and by discussing their policy implications. Quelle: Forschungsbericht
description: Dietary changes towards healthier and more sustainable diets have been highlighted as one of the key strategies for simultaneously reducing the environmental pressures of the food system and the health risks of current dietary patterns. Although there is broad consensus on the long-term need for global dietary changes, much less information is available or accessible at the national level. This report is intended to fill this gap by distilling estimates of the impacts of dietary changes for Germany from a series of global modelling studies with regional detail. The estimates include analyses of the environmental impacts, costs, and policy implications of dietary change at the country level.
Diabetes care and outcomes of pediatric refugees and migrants from Ukraine and Syria/Afghanistan with type 1 diabetes in German-speaking countries
Creators: name: Auzanneau, Marie
name: Reinauer, Christina
name: Ziegler, Julian
name: Golembowski, Sven
name: De Beaufort, Carine
name: Schöttler, Hannah
name: Hahn, Eva
name: Mirza, Joaquina
name: Galler, Angela
name: Wurm, Michael
name: Holl, Reinhard W.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Type 1 diabetes
subject: HbA1c
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Child
subject: Transients and migrants
subject: Refugees
subject: Diabetes mellitus, Type 1
subject: Kind
subject: Migrationshintergrund
subject: Diabetes mellitus Typ 1

description: Introduction: Currently, over two million war refugees live in Germany. Exposure to war and flight is associated with a high burden of diseases, not limited to mental disorders and infections. We aimed to analyze diabetes treatment and outcomes of pediatric refugees and migrants from Ukraine and Syria/Afghanistan with type 1 diabetes (T1D) in German-speaking countries. Materials and methods: We included patients with T1D documented between January 2013 and June 2023 in the German/Austrian/Luxembourgian/Swiss DPV registry, aged < 20 years, born in Ukraine [U], in Syria or Afghanistan [S/A], or without migration background [C]. Using logistic, linear, and negative binomial regression models, we compared diabetes technology use, BMI-SDS, HbA1c values, as well as severe hypoglycemia and DKA rates between groups in the first year of treatment in the host country. Results were adjusted for sex, age, diabetes duration, and time spent in the host country. Results: Among all patients with T1D aged < 20 years, 615 were born in Ukraine [U], 624 in Syria or Afghanistan [S/A], and 28,106 had no migration background [C]. Compared to the two other groups, patients from Syria or Afghanistan had a higher adjusted BMI-SDS (0.34 [95%-CI: 0.21–0.48] [S/A] vs. 0.13 [- 0.02–0.27] [U] and 0.20 [0.19–0.21] [C]; all p<0.001), a lower use of CGM or AID system (57.6% and 4.6%, respectively [S/A] vs. 83.7% and 7.8% [U], and 87.7% and 21.8% [C], all p<0.05) and a higher rate of severe hypoglycemia (15.3/100 PY [S/A] vs. 7.6/100 PY [C], and vs. 4.8/100 PY [U], all p<0.05). Compared to the two other groups, patients from Ukraine had a lower adjusted HbA1c (6.96% [95%-CI: 6.77–7.14] [U] vs. 7.49% [7.32–7.66] [S/A] and 7.37% [7.36–7.39] [C], all p<0.001). Discussion: In their first treatment year in the host country, young Syrian or Afghan refugees had higher BMI-SDS, lower use of diabetes technology, higher HbA1c, and a higher rate of severe hypoglycemia compared to young Ukrainian refugees. Diabetologists should be aware of the different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds of refugees to adapt diabetes treatment and education to specific needs.
Supplementary document for Experimental certification of quantum dimensions and irreducible high-dimensional quantum systems with independent devices - 4723334.pdf
Creators: name: Li, Chuanfeng
name: Sun, Yong-Nan
name: Liu, Zhao-Di
name: Bowles, Joseph
name: Chen, Geng
name: Xu, Xiao-Ye
name: Tang, Jian-Shun
name: Guo, Guang-can
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: supplementary material
Synthesis of taxoid analogues via tether controlled cycloaddition reactions.
Creators: name: Lavers, Jodi Anne.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Organic.

description: The syntheses of potential Taxol$\sp\circler$ analogues 35 and 57-b are described. The route selected employed a planar group (aromatic ring or a double bond) in the tether to facilitate the key step, an intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction. This approach afforded the tricyclic core of 35 in an efficient and direct manner. The Diels-Alder precursor 33 was synthesized from 3-methylbenzyl alcohol, acrolein, and (Z)-1-iodo-2-p-methoxybenzyloxymethyl-1,3-butadiene (15). The cyclization of alcohol 33 proceeded readily under oxidative conditions at room temperature to afford the cis-fused ring system 35. The tetracyclic nucleus of 57-b was prepared by an intermolecular Diels-Alder reaction of cyclopentadiene with intermediate 56-a. It was found that the bicyclic core of ketone 56-a could be generated by an intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction in which a tether containing a double bond behaved as a planar control unit. The precursor 54 was synthesized successfully from (Z)-2-butene-1,4-diol, vinylmagnesium bromide, and (Z)-1-iodo-2-methoxymethyl-1,3-buta-diene (22). The intramolecular Diels-Alder cycloaddition of alcohol 54 occurred under oxidative conditions at room temperature and afforded a mixture of diastereomers, of which the major product was the cis-fused ring system 56-a. Collectively these studies have provided new routes to complex ring systems and have demonstrated that improved reactivity and stereochemical control can be derived from appropriately selected tether control groups.
L'éducateur et sa perception de la relation d'aide au Centre jeunesse : la problématique de l'aide et du contrôle.
Creators: name: Quann, Nathalie Liliane.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Education, Guidance and Counseling.

description: Cette recherche exploratoire decrit la perception de l'educateur de son travail et des problematiques qu'il rencontre dans la relation d'aide. L'educateur ne nie pas la presence de l'aide et du controle dans ses interventions aupres de sa clientele. Il a meme de la difficulte a voir comment il est facile de passer automatiquement de l'un a l'autre. Pris alors dans ce controle, l'educateur n'a d'autre choix que de s'y soumettre. Les normes qui regissent son travail facilitent ce passage de l'aide au controle. Elles sont, comme le controle, legitimees et vehiculees par l'institution et par l'educateur sur le terrain. On obeit et on croit a la norme tout en se sentant "prisonnier" de ces normes. Ce qui a pour consequence que 'educateur agit en fonction de ce que l'institution s'attend de lui, au lieu d'agir pour la clientele. De la le besoin de penser l'aide d'une autre facon: la ou le client devient sujet au lieu de rester l'objet qu'il a souvent ete.
title: SDSCAI - Software Design Suitable for Coding by Artificial  Intelligence: Redefining Development Standards for  AI-Driven Coding Efficiency
title: SDSCAI - Software Design Suitable for Coding by Artificial  Intelligence: Redefining Development Standards for  AI-Driven Coding Efficiency
titleType: Other
Creators: name: GOMES, ALEXON
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The advancement of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized software engineering, allowing the automation of previously exclusively human steps. This article proposes the SDSCAI (Software Design Suitable for Coding by Artificial Intelligence), a new development paradigm that redefines design standards to maximize AI coding efficiency. SDSCAI structures a workflow adapted to AI interpretation, which aims to redefine software engineering standards from the rise of artificial intelligence-assisted coding, where the developer acts as a code standardizer, ensuring efficiency, security, scalability and portability. The focus is on adapting the development flow so that it becomes fully interpretable and efficient from the point of view of generative AI tools. We present a development flow model that integrates standard definition, automated code generation and continuous validation, culminating in a final product optimized for modern computing systems.
Migrants' attitudes to immigration in Australia: 1990 to 2004
Creators: name: Betts, Katharine
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Since 1990, migrant Australians' attitudes to immigration have waned and waxed according to the same overall pattern as those of the Australia-born. However, migrants are consistently less likely to want a decrease in the intake and consistently (slightly) more likely to want an increase. This is particularly true of those born in non-English-speaking-background (NESB) countries. Even so, in 2004, only 26 per cent of NESB-born Australians wanted an increase in immigration. Migrants are also likely to want an increase in immigration from their own region of origin. But the stand-out group here are the British. UK-born Australians are much more likely to want an increase in British immigration than are Asia-born Australians to want an increase in Asian immigration or Southern-Europe-born Australians to want an increase in Southern European immigration. When we focus on regions within New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria, the differences between the Australia-born and the NESB-born in their attitudes to immigration in general are marked. But in no instance do a majority of the NESB-born want an increase in immigration.
A P-glycoprotein homologue in Manduca sexta: Steps toward cDNA cloning.
Creators: name: McIntosh, Christopher Allan.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.

description: One of the proposed natural functions of P-glycoprotein is to provide protection against xenobiotics; this could be accomplished by expression of the efflux pump in excretory and blood-organ barrier tissues to prevent the penetration of foreign toxins to sensitive organs. Involvement of Pgp in the mouse blood-brain barrier to the pesticide ivermectin has been convincingiy demonstrated (Schinkel et al., 1994). Demonstrating that a P-glycoprotein homologue is a factor in the nicotine resistance of Manduca sexta would provide substantial support for the xenobiotic theory. It would also be the first demonstration of the involvement of Pgp in a natural ecological relationship; thus far Pgp has only been implicated in "unnatural" situations where there is a man-made toxic insult with pollutants, pesticides or cytotoxic drugs. Ongoing work in our laboratory has shown that alkaloid transport by Manduca Malpighian tubules behaves pharmacologically like Pgp drug transport. Corroboration of this physiological work by molecular cloning of the P-glycoprotein homologue from Manduca is the long-term goal of this project. Subsequent experiments were intended to identify the problems associated with the cloning project. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)