cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Automated selection of gantry angle for tangential breast radiotherapy
Creators: name: Dundas, Kylie
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Technology assessment
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: CT
subject: Computer applications
subject: Breast
subject: Radiotherapy techniques

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: Streamlined, automated planning processes offer many advantages including reductions in departmental and human resources, as well as higher quality planning results [1-5]. As part of a larger project to automate breast radiotherapy planning, the...
Occurrence and risk assessment of selected pharmaceuticals in water and sediments of Usuma Dam, Abuja, Nigeria
Creators: name: Ilechukwu, Ifenna
name: Okonkwo, Chioma Joy
name: Olusina, Tolulope Abisola
name: Mpock, Jarvis Abel
name: Ilechukwu, Chibuamam
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The occurrence and ecological risk associated with nine pharmaceuticals; Ciprofloxacin, Metronidazole, Amoxycillin, Trimethoprim, Tetracycline, Sulfamethoxazole, Ibuprofen, Diclofenac and Paracetamol were investigated in water and sediments of Usuma Dam, Abuja, Nigeria. The samples were extracted with solid phase extraction and analysed with high performance liquid chromatography coupled with UV/VIS detector (HPLC-UV/VIS). Metronidazole with a concentration range of 191.11–572.73 ng/L and Trimethoprim with a concentration range of 0.27–0.42 µg/g d.w. were the predominant antibiotics in the water and sediments respectively. Ibuprofen was the only analgesics detected in the samples. The ecological risk assessed with the worst observed data for each pharmaceutical in the samples showed that Amoxycillin and Ibuprofen pose a high toxic risk to aquatic life in the dam while Trimethoprim and Ciprofloxacin could result in medium ecological risk. The results of this study draw attention to the occurrence and ecological risks of pharmaceuticals to aquatic life.
title: A radiation therapist perspective on the Australian Clinical Dosimetry Service [ACDS] level III audit
Creators: name: Knipe, Caroline
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Cone beam CT
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Oncology
subject: Quality assurance

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: To describe the radiation therapy process undertaken and the impact on the radiation therapists involved in the ACDS level III audit of the Royal Hobart Hospital Radiation Oncology Department. As a radiation therapist I participated in the treatment...
Tabulating knot polynomials for arborescent knots
Creators: name: Mironov, A.
name: Morozov, A.
name: Morozov, An.
name: Ramadevi, P.
name: Singh, Vivek Kumar
name: Sleptsov, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Arborescent knots are the ones which can be represented in terms of double fat graphs or equivalently as tree Feynman diagrams. This is the class of knots for which the present knowledge is enough for lifting topological description to the level of effective analytical formulas. The paper describes the origin and structure of the new tables of colored knot polynomials, which will be posted at the dedicated site. Even if formal expressions are known in terms of modular transformation matrices, the computation in finite time requires additional ideas. We use the "family" approach, and apply it to arborescent knots in the Rolfsen table by developing a Feynman diagram technique associated with an auxiliary matrix model field theory. Gauge invariance in this theory helps to provide meaning to Racah matrices in the case of non-trivial multiplicities and explains the need for peculiar sign prescriptions in the calculation of [21]-colored HOMFLY polynomials.
description: 19 pages
A deep sequencing approach to estimate Plasmodium falciparum complexity of infection (COI) and explore apical membrane antigen 1 diversity
Creators: name: Juliano, Jonathan
name: Kharabora, Oksana
name: Meshnick, Steven R.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2017

description: Abstract Background Humans living in regions with high falciparum malaria transmission intensity harbour multi-strain infections comprised of several genetically distinct malaria haplotypes. The number of distinct malaria parasite haplotypes identified from an infected human host at a given time is referred to as the complexity of infection (COI). In this study, an amplicon-based deep sequencing method targeting the Plasmodium falciparum apical membrane antigen 1 (pfama1) was utilized to (1) investigate the relationship between P. falciparum prevalence and COI, (2) to explore the population genetic structure of P. falciparum parasites from malaria asymptomatic individuals participating in the 2007 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and (3) to explore selection pressures on geospatially divergent parasite populations by comparing AMA1 amino acid frequencies in the DRC and Mali. Results A total of 900 P. falciparum infections across 11 DRC provinces were examined. Deep sequencing of both individuals, for COI analysis, and pools of individuals, to examine population structure, identified 77 unique pfama1 haplotypes. The majority of individual infections (64.5%) contained polyclonal (COI > 1) malaria infections based on the presence of genetically distinct pfama1 haplotypes. A minimal correlation between COI and malaria prevalence as determined by sensitive real-time PCR was identified. Population genetic analyses revealed extensive haplotype diversity, the vast majority of which was shared across the sites. AMA1 amino acid frequencies were similar between parasite populations in the DRC and Mali. Conclusions Amplicon-based deep sequencing is a useful tool for the detection of multi-strain infections that can aid in the understanding of antigen heterogeneity of potential malaria vaccine candidates, population genetics of malaria parasites, and factors that influence complex, polyclonal malaria infections. While AMA1 and other diverse markers under balancing selection may perform well for understanding COI, they may offer little geographic or temporal discrimination between parasite populations.
title: Outcomes of definitive intensity modulated radiotherapy with simultaneous boost for oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma in a regional Australian cancer centre from 2010 to 2014
Creators: name: Masoud Rahbari, Reza
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quality assurance
subject: Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT)
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Cone beam CT
subject: Head and neck
subject: Outcomes

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: The incidence of oropharyngeal SCC has increased over the last 2 decades, largely because of an increase in HPV associated oropharyngeal cancer. We aim to report the outcomes of definitive treatment for mucosal oropharyngeal SCC with IMRT and...
title: Les interventions infirmières pour favoriser l’adhérence thérapeutique chez les adolescents transplantés rénaux
title: Les interventions infirmières pour favoriser l’adhérence thérapeutique chez les adolescents transplantés rénaux
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schurter, Elodie
name: Chemam, Myriam
name: Burrus, Hélène
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Transplantation rénale pédiatrique
subject: Adolescence
subject: Adhérence thérapeutique
subject: Intervention infirmière
subject: Transition
subject: hesav TB SI

description: Introduction : Les adolescents transplantés rénaux doivent gérer des changements normaux physiologiques et sociaux de l’adolescence ainsi que des habitudes de vie particulières pour la survie du greffon. La non-adhérence thérapeutique joue un rôle important dans la perte du greffon rénal et particulièrement à cet âge. Objectif : Le but de cette revue partielle de littérature est d’identifier les interventions infirmières pour favoriser l’adhérence thérapeutique des adolescents transplantés rénaux. Méthode : La recherche d’articles scientifiques a été effectuée dans deux bases de données : CINAHL et PubMed à l’aide de mots-clés et de descripteurs. Sept articles qualitatifs et/ou quantitatifs ont été retenus selon des critères d’inclusion et d’exclusion et analysés selon la grille de Fortin et Gagnon (2016). La synthèse des résultats a pu être organisée selon les concepts de la théorie de la transition de Meleis. Résultats : Les résultats identifient les défis et obstacles à l'adhérence thérapeutique liés aux transitions vécues par les adolescents transplantés rénaux tels que les émotions négatives, l'atteinte du sentiment de normalité ou l'acceptations des pairs. Des besoins spécifiques des adolescents et des stratégies favorisant l’adhérence sont exposés. Discussion : Les recommandations pour la pratique infirmière sont suggérées, telles que l'évaluation des besoins psychosociaux, la prise en compte des facteurs familiaux et économiques, l'utilisation d'outils d'évaluation et d'éducation adaptés, et l'approche des soins fondés sur les forces.
Modular forms of arbitrary even weight with no exceptional primes
Creators: name: Hatley, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A result of Dieulefait-Wiese proves the existence of modular eigenforms of weight 2 for which the image of every associated residual Galois representation is as large as possible. We generalize this result to eigenforms of general even weight k $\geq$ 2.
description: revision: fixed some typos and mathematical errors; added DOI
XXI Международная научно-практическая конференция «Актуальные проблемы общества, экономики и права в контексте глобальных вызовов»
Creators: name: ООО "Институт развития образования и консалтинга"
Publisher: name: ООО "Институт развития образования и консалтинга"
Year: 2023

description: XXI Международная научно-практическая конференция «Актуальные проблемы общества, экономики и права в контексте глобальных вызовов»
Development of consensus on essential virtues for ethics and research integrity training using a modified Delphi approach
Creators: name: Tomić, Vicko
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: The Horizon 2020 project VIRT2UE takes a virtue-based approach to ERI in order to develop a train-the-trainer learning programme enabling contextualized ERI teaching across Europe. The virtue-based approach focuses on the development of good character traits, which allows researchers to go beyond mere compliance to rules and codes by motivating them to strive for excellence in themselves and their practices. In order to develop this kind of training programme, it is necessary to further develop the evidence base regarding which virtues should be stimulated and prioritised in training for good research practice.
2-chlorobenzaldehyde thiocarbohydrazone: a novel reagent for liquid-liquid extractive spectrophotometric determination of copper(II) from environmental and real samples
Creators: name: Sadlapurkar, Ashwini V.
name: Barache, Umesh B.
name: Shaikh, Abdul B.
name: Gaikwad, Shashikant H.
name: Lokhande, Tukaram N.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Plant Biology

description: 2-Chlorobenzaldehyde thiocarbohydrazone (2-CBTCH) is proved as a novel analytical chelating reagent to developa simple, fast and selective liquid–liquid extractive spectrophotometric method for trace level determination of copper(II). The method was based upon the complexation reaction of copper(II) with 2-CBTCH in ethanol. It instantly forms orange coloured [Cu(II)-2 CBTCH] complex at room temperature, which was quantitatively extracted in 1-butanol and shows maximum absorption at 470 nm. The values of molar absorptivity and Sandell’s sensitivity of [Cu(II)-2CBTCH] complex are found to be 0.3429 × 104 Lmol−1 cm−1 and 0.01851 µgcm−2, respectively. The system follows Beer’s law up to 17.5 µgmL−1. The stoichiometry of the [Cu(II)-2CBTCH] complex in 1-butanol is determined by Job’s method, mole ratio method is 1:2 and was confirmed by log-log plot method. To intuit the peak extraction conditions several experimental factors such as pH, reagent concentration, selection of solvent, shaking time, interference of cations and anions has been studiedwell. The usage of masking agent lifts the selectivity of the present method. The method has been effectively used for the determination of copper(II) in alloy samples, pharmaceutical samples, fertiliser samples and environmental samples such as leafy vegetables and water samples.
Local population and regional environmental drivers of cholera in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Escamilla, Veronica
name: Feldacker, Caryl
name: Emch, Michael
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2010

description: Abstract Background Regional environmental factors have been shown to be related to cholera. Previous work in Bangladesh found that temporal patterns of cholera are positively related to satellite-derived environmental variables including ocean chlorophyll concentration (OCC). Methods This paper investigates whether local socio-economic status (SES) modifies the effect of regional environmental forces. The study area is Matlab, Bangladesh, an area of approximately 200,000 people with an active health and demographic surveillance system. Study data include (1) spatially-referenced demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the population; (2) satellite-derived variables for sea surface temperature (SST), sea surface height (SSH), and OCC; and (3) laboratory confirmed cholera case data for the entire population. Relationships between cholera, the environmental variables, and SES are measured using generalized estimating equations with a logit link function. Additionally two separate seasonal models are built because there are two annual cholera epidemics, one pre-monsoon, and one post-monsoon. Results SES has a significant impact on cholera occurrence: the higher the SES score, the lower the occurrence of cholera. There is a significant negative association between cholera incidence and SSH during the pre-monsoon period but not for the post-monsoon period. OCC is positively associated with cholera during the pre-monsoon period but not for the post-monsoon period. SST is not related to cholera incidence. Conclusions Overall, it appears cholera is influenced by regional environmental variables during the pre-monsoon period and by local-level variables (e.g., water and sanitation) during the post-monsoon period. In both pre- and post-monsoon seasons, SES significantly influences these patterns, likely because it is a proxy for poor water quality and sanitation in poorer households.
title: Is there a correlation between the use of computer tomography (CT) scanning in evaluating the acute abdomen and associated surgical outcomes?
Creators: name: Tan, Shu Yi
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: CT
subject: Surgery
subject: Acute

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: To determine the correlation between CT scanning in evaluating the acute abdomen and associated surgical...
NMA-CN 2021 data sets: fMRI (2020)
Creators: name: 't Hart, Bernard
name: Blohm, Gunnar
name: Batty, Ella
name: Ash, Arash
name: Wyble, Brad
name: Chavlis, Spiros
name: Peters, Megan
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computational Neuroscience
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Neuroscience and Neurobiology

description: This repository serves as a backup of some of the NMA-curated, fMRI data sets used in the NMA 2021 Computational Neuroscience summer school. https://doi.org/10.21105/jose.00118
Why closing an Airport May not Matter – The Impact of the Relocation of TXL Airport on the Bus Network of Berlin
Creators: name: Neumann, Andreas
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik
subject: demand responsive
subject: evolutionary algorithm
subject: MATSim
subject: multi-agent simulation
subject: public transport
subject: transit network design

description: This paper investigates the closure of TXL airport and its impact on the bus network of Berlin. The results of the scenario are based on a co-evolutionary algorithm for public transit network design. The algorithm is integrated in a multi-modal multi-agent simulation. In the simulation, competing minibus operators start exploring the public transport market offering their services. With more successful operators expanding and less successful operators going bankrupt, a sustainable network of minibus services evolves. In the TXL scenario, the impact of the massive change in demand is found to be locally confined. Only transit lines serving TXL airport directly are affected. Furthermore, transit lines are found to have a higher probability of surviving if connecting two different activity centers, e.g. transit hubs. Following a hub-and-spoke approach by letting the line end in low-demand areas renders a line less attractive because of a reduced connectivity, e.g. to one train station only.
Metal domain size dependent electrical transport in Pt-CdSe hybrid nanoparticle monolayers
Creators: name: Meyns, Michaela
name: Willing, Svenja
name: Lehmann, Hauke
name: Klinke, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thin films prepared of semiconductor nanoparticles are promising for low-cost electronic applications such as transistors and solar cells. One hurdle for their breakthrough is their notoriously low conductivity. To address this, we precisely decorate CdSe nanoparticles with platinum domains of one to three nanometers in diameter by a facile and robust seeded growth method. We demonstrate the transition from semiconductor to metal dominated conduction in monolayered films. By adjusting the platinum content in such solution-processable hybrid, oligomeric nanoparticles the dark currents through deposited arrays become tunable while maintaining electronic confinement and photoconductivity. Comprehensive electrical measurements allow determining the reigning charge transport mechanisms.
title: Prostate gold seed fiducial implantation by radiation oncologists: A report on feasibility
Creators: name: Jayaratne, Chanaka
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Toxicity

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: The flagship indication forimage-guided radiation therapyis in the treatment of prostate cancer with external beam radiotherapy 1 .At most centres, a Urologist or Radiologist experienced in transrectal ultrasound guided prostate biopsy performs the...
title: Pneumoperitoneum after PTC stent dislodgement
Creators: name: Sanderson, Andrew
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Biliary Tract / Gallbladder
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: CT
subject: Percutaneous
subject: Cholangiography
subject: Cancer

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The presence of severe abdominal pain and free intra-abdominal gas usually indicates sinister pathology. After percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTC) and biliary intervention, such signs would raise the question of bowel perforation or even...
Emergence of fractional statistics for tracer particles in a Laughlin liquid
Creators: name: Lundholm, Douglas
name: Rougerie, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a thought experiment where two distinct species of 2D particles in a perpendicular magnetic field interact via repulsive potentials. If the magnetic field and the interactions are strong enough, one type of particles forms a Laughlin state and the other ones couple to Laughlin quasi-holes. We show that in this situation, the motion of the second type of particles is described by an effective Hamiltonian, corresponding to the magnetic gauge picture for non-interacting anyons. The argument is in accord with, but distinct from, the Berry phase calculation of Arovas-Schrieffer-Wilczek. It suggests possibilities to observe the influence of effective anyon statistics in fractional quantum Hall systems.
description: Several revisions taking into account remarks from referees. To appear in Phys Rev Lett
A similarity-based implementation of the Schaake shuffle
Creators: name: Schefzik, Roman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Contemporary weather forecasts are typically based on ensemble prediction systems, which consist of multiple runs of numerical weather prediction models that vary with respect to in the initial conditions and/or the the parameterization of the atmosphere. Ensemble forecasts are frequently biased and show dispersion errors and thus need to be statistically postprocessed. However, current postprocessing approaches are often univariate and apply to a single weather quantity at a single location and for a single prediction horizon only, thereby failing to account for potentially crucial dependence structures. Non-parametric multivariate postprocessing methods based on empirical copulas, such as ensemble copula coupling or the Schaake shuffle, can address this shortcoming. A specific implementation of the Schaake shuffle, called the SimSchaake approach, is introduced. The SimSchaake method aggregates univariately postprocessed ensemble forecasts using dependence patterns from past observations. Specifically, the observations are taken from historical dates at which the ensemble forecasts resembled the current ensemble prediction with respect to a specific similarity criterion. The SimSchaake ensemble outperforms all reference ensembles in an application to ensemble forecasts for surface temperature from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.
title: Retrospective analysis of CT guided bone biopsy outcomes using a battery-powered intraosseous device
Creators: name: Reeve, Ashton
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Bones
subject: CT
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Biopsy
subject: Surgery
subject: Outcomes
subject: Cancer

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: Our aim was to compare a novel battery-powered intraosseous device with the current gold standard Cook trephine used to perform core bone biopsy under CT guidance. Image-guided percutaneous biopsy is commonly performed to obtain tissue from deep...
Bound entanglement and distillability of multipartite quantum systems
Creators: name: Zhao, Hui
name: Yu, Xinyu
name: Jing, Naihuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a class of entangled states in $\mathcal{H}=\mathcal{H}_{A}\otimes\mathcal{H}_{B}\otimes\mathcal{H}_{C}$ quantum systems with $dim\mathcal{H}_{A}=dim\mathcal{H}_{B}=dim\mathcal{H}_{C}=2$ and classify those states with respect to their distillability properties. The states are bound entanglement for the bipartite split$(AB)-C$. The states are NPT entanglement and $1$-copy undistillable for the bipartite splits $A-(BC)$ and $B-(AC)$. Moreover, we generalize the results of $2\otimes2\otimes2$ systems to the case of $2n\otimes 2n\otimes2n$ systems.
title: CT pulmonary angiograms. Prevalence and popularity pre and post 4 hour rule in Western Australia
Creators: name: Sekhon, Rupinder
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Safety
subject: CT
subject: Respiratory system
subject: Embolism / Thrombosis

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: To determine variance in the proportion of positive CT pulmonary angiograms (CTPAs), tertiary hospital trends and alternative diagnoses in acute admissions pre and post implementation of "The Four Hour Rule" (April 2009 1 ) in Western Australia....
Simultaneous extraction of six phthalic acid esters from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottled water using poly (ionic liquid) functionalised silica coated-iron oxide nanoparticles: a risk assessment study
Creators: name: Fard, Sayyed Massoud Bahrololoomi
name: Ahmadi, Seyyed Hamid
name: Hajimahmodi, Mannan
name: Fazaeli, Reza
name: Amini, Mohsen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Virology

description: In this research, a poly (ionic liquid) functionalised silica-coated magnetic nanoparticles were synthesised for the first time and utilised as a novel adsorbent for the simultaneous extraction of six phthalic acid esters from polyethylene terephthalate bottled drinking water samples. The adsorbent was prepared by grafting poly (1-benzyl-3-vinyl-1 H-imidazol-3-ium chloride) onto silica-coated Fe3O4nanoparticles via Cu(0)-mediated reversible-deactivation radical polymerisation method. Various techniques were used to characterise the synthesised nanomaterials. A qualitative analysis was performed using ultra-performance liquid chromatography triple–quadrupole tandem mass spectrometry. Response surface methodology based on central composite design was used to optimise the extraction procedure and the optimised condition for each factor was; pH of3.9, 22 mg of adsorbent, 3.5 min extraction time, 3 min desorption time, 340 µL of elution solvent (methanol).The results of the validation of the method indicated its acceptable accuracy (88.6-100.1%), good linearity (r > 0.995), satisfactory repeatabilities (RSDs ≤ 6% for intra- and inter–day precisions) and high enrichment factors (535–572). The limits of detection and limits of quantification of the proposed method achieved were 1.1-4.6 ngL–1and 3.6-15.3 ngL–1, respectively. In this study, six common PAEs, including dimethyl phthalate, diethyl phthalate, dibutyl phthalate, benzyl butyl phthalate, bis (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate, and di-n–octyl phthalate, were found in PET bottled water within the range of 0.21-0.94 μgL–1, under different storage conditions. Nevertheless, only a negligible risk is caused by the PAEs in PET bottled water for consumers following the recommendations, such as storing at a common place (25°C), in a short period away from the sun.
Supplementary material for Pfizer Oncology’s Lung Cancer Pipeline – WCLC 2024
Creators: name: Becker, Mauricio
name: Garas, Sam
Publisher: name: Pfizer
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 329999
subject: Other biomedical and clinical sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Congress materials may include information for investigational products or for which the product is not approved and/or inconsistent with the product uses described in the Prescribing Information. Regulatory approval of investigational products or uses is dependent on the completion of the study programs and review by regulatory authorities. Pfizer does not suggest or recommend the use of Pfizer Products in any manner other than as described in the Prescribing Information. The clinical trial information is available at www.clinicaltrials.gov. This information is current as of August 1, 2024.
title: Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation analysis in advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC): Impact on radiotherapy practices at a regional tertiary institution
Creators: name: Liu, Howard
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Molecular, genomics and proteomics
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: CT
subject: Respiratory system
subject: Lung
subject: Neoplasia

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: In patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that are positive for activating epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation, EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) therapy has improved progression free survival (PFS) compared to...
An Elegant and Computationally Efficient Approach for Heterogeneous Traffic Modelling Using Agent Based Simulation
Creators: name: Agarwal, Amit
name: Zilske, Michael
name: Rao, K. Ramachandra
name: Nagel, Kai
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik
subject: heterogeneous traffic
subject: mixed traffic
subject: passing
subject: fundamental diagrams for traffic flow
subject: multiple mode simulation

description: For developing nations, where mixed traffic conditions prevail, it becomes necessary to develop a heterogeneous traffic flow model which is able to model all vehicle types of different static and dynamic characteristics and equally efficient in computational performance. For this purpose, in this study, an agent based framework is used which uses a queue model in its mobility simulation. In first step, queue model is enhanced by adding different vehicle types with different maximum speeds and sizes. Furthermore, traditional FIFO (First-In-First-Out) approach of queue model is modified to a more realistic modified queue model in which faster vehicles can pass slower vehicles. The enhancements are discussed with their fundamental diagrams for traffic flow and spatio-temporal diagrams.
Contraceptive service provider imposed restrictions to contraceptive access in urban Nigeria
Creators: name: Corroon, Meghan
name: Speizer, Ilene
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2017

description: Abstract Background Health service providers can restrict access to contraceptives through their own imposed biases about method appropriateness. In this study, provider biases toward contraceptive service provision among urban Nigerian providers was assessed. Methods Health providers working in health facilities, as well as pharmacists and patent medical vendors (PMV), in Abuja, Benin City, Ibadan, Ilorin, Kaduna, and Zaria, were surveyed in 2011 concerning their self-reported biases in service provision based on age, parity, and marital status. Results Minimum age bias was the most common bias while minimum parity was the least common bias reported by providers. Condoms were consistently provided with the least amount of bias, followed by provision of emergency contraception (EC), pills, injectables, and IUDs. Experience of in-service training for health facility providers was associated with decreased prevalence of marital status bias for the pill, injectable, and IUD; however, training experience did not, or had the opposite effect on, pharmacists and PMV operator’s reports of service provision bias. Conclusions Provider imposed eligibility barriers in urban study sites in Nigeria were pervasive - the most prevalent restriction across method and provider type was minimum age. Given the large and growing adolescent population - interventions aimed at increasing supportive provision of contraceptives to youth in this context are urgently needed. The results show that the effect of in-service training on provider biases was limited. Future efforts to address provider biases in contraceptive service provision, among all provider types, must find creative ways to address this critical barrier to increased contraceptive use.
title: Assessment of commercially available deformable image registration (DIR) software for CT–MRI registration in breast radiotherapy patients
Creators: name: Holloway, Lois
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Image registration

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: Radiotherapy plays an important role in breast cancer therapy with treatments typically planned on supine-CT images. MRI allows more accurate tissue definition and its role in radiotherapy planning is increasing [1]. Prone-MRI is normally acquired...
A Framework for Handling Heterogeneous M2M Traffic
Creators: name: Elmangoush, Asma
name: Corici, Andreea Ancuta
name: Steinke, Ronald
name: Corici, Marius
name: Magedanz, Thomas
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik
subject: framework
subject: M2M traffic
subject: e-health
subject: communication management
subject: telemonitoring

description: Sensors, actuators and devices that compose the Internet of Things (IoT) world are becoming more diverse every day in terms of capabilities and amount of generated traffic. Current Machine-to-Machine (M2 M) communication standardization efforts try to formalize the interfaces between M2 M nodes based on the perspective of exchanging uniform small data size with low sampling rate only. However, many devices will require support for more heterogeneous traffic patterns, with different network capacity. This paper introduces a communication concept for supporting gracefully a heterogeneous set of devices. This paper analyses the effect of traffic size in M2 M transactions and propose a concept to adapt gracefully to support heterogeneous traffic patterns in M2 M systems. To prove its feasibility, the concept is exemplified on top of oneM2 M architecture and implemented as part of the Fraunhofer FOKUS OpenMTC toolkit. Additionally, the concept was applied to a deployment in an E-Health pilot and practical measurements during functional evaluation are reported.
An Evaluation of the Openness of COVID-19-Related Randomized Control Trials
Creators: name: Borghi, John
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Data Sharing
subject: Metascience
subject: Open Access
subject: Open Science
subject: Preregistration
subject: Reproducibility

description: Open science practices, especially the posting of preprints to quickly disseminate research results, have received considerable attention during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the openness of COVID-19-related randomized controlled trials (RCTs) has yet to be comprehensively assessed. RCTs are frequently referred to as the “gold standard” of evidence, which underscores the importance of ensuring their results are transparent. In this observational study, we will examine the openness of COVID-19 trials along several dimensions, including accessibility of publications, data sharing, preregistration, and the availability of other materials (protocols, etc).
Adapting Ergonomic Assessments to Social Life Cycle Assessment
Creators: name: Chang, Ya-Ju
name: Nguyen, The Duy
name: Finkbeiner, Matthias
name: Krüger, Jörg
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Technologie
subject: ergonomic assessment
subject: health and safety
subject: musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs)
subject: Social Life Cycle Assessment
subject: SLCA

description: In Social Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA), the health and safety aspect of workers is usually evaluated by considering the numbers of injuries and accidents; however, the work related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), which dominate occupational diseases, are often neglected in SLCA since the effects do not occur immediately. Thus, the MSDs lead to increased working absences and compensation costs, and also reduced productivity of workers. To address the gap, applying ergonomic assessment is proposed since it identifies and quantifies the health risks at work based on a set of pre-defined criteria e.g. force, posture, repetition and duration, and provides the numeric results analyzing the physical load and their sources. In the study, the application of ergonomic assessment and its indicators in SLCA is displayed to screen risks and to further improve working place design.
Metastable and scaling regimes of a one-dimensional Kawasaki dynamics
Creators: name: Albarracín, F. A. Gómez
name: Rosales, H. D.
name: Grynberg, M. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the large-time scaling regimes arising from a variety of metastable structures in a chain of Ising spins with both first- and second-neighbor couplings while subject to a Kawasaki dynamics. Depending on the ratio and sign of these former, different dynamic exponents are suggested by finite-size scaling analyses of relaxation times. At low but nonzero-temperatures these are calculated via exact diagonalizations of the evolution operator in finite chains under several activation barriers. In the absence of metastability the dynamics is always diffusive.
description: 18 pages, 8 figures. Brief additions. To appear in Phys. Rev. E
The adsorption behaviour of triclosan onto magnetic bio polymer beads impregnated with diatomite
Creators: name: Rasoulzadeh, Hassan
name: Sheikhmohammadi, Amir
name: Asgari, Esrafil
name: Hashemzadeh, Bayram
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Hematology

description: The decrement rate of triclosan (TCS) in aqueous solutions was investigated by adsorption onto alginate beads impregnated with magnetic diatomite (ABMD). The obtained results from the study of the ABMD adsorbent characterisation indicated the presence of sodium alginate, diatomite and Fe3O4 in the ABMD structure. The optimisation of data was done by the response surface methodology using R software. The second-order model was selected as the appropriate model (because of lack of fit ˃ 0.05 and also the higher R2 than the other models). The parameters of (pH, time and ABMD dosage) and (initial TCS concentration) indicated intensifying and reducing effects on the TCS adsorption onto ABMD, respectively. According to the obtained results from solver analysis, the maximum TCS removal (94.47) was achieved at pH of 9.18; initial TCS concentration of 3.54 mg L−1; contact time of 58.84 min and ABMD dosage of 0.15 g L−1. The TCS adsorption experimental data were good fitted with Khan model. The maximum adsorption rate of TCS per mass unit of ABMD was 2.9 mg g−1 (calculated by the Khan model). The pseudo-second-order model was found to agree well with the adsorption experimental data obtained for TCS.
Complex patterns of direct and indirect association between the transcription Factor-7 like 2 gene, body mass index and type 2 diabetes diagnosis in adulthood in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos
Creators: name: North, Kari E
name: Haiman, Christopher
name: Qi, Qibin
name: Justice, Anne E
name: Laurie, Cathy C
name: Howard, Annie G
name: Grant, Struan F A
name: Graff, Mariaelisa
name: Below, Jennifer E
name: Loos, Ruth J F
name: Parra, Esteban
name: Isasi, Carmen R
name: Kaplan, Robert C
name: Fernández-Rhodes, Lindsay
name: Young, Kristin L
name: Highland, Heather M
name: Papanicolaou, George
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

description: Abstract
                Background
                Genome-wide association studies have implicated the transcription factor 7-like 2 (TCF7L2) gene in type 2 diabetes risk, and more recently, in decreased body mass index. Given the contrary direction of genetic effects on these two traits, it has been suggested that the observed association with body mass index may reflect either selection bias or a complex underlying biology at TCF7L2.
                Methods
                Using 9031 Hispanic/Latino adults (21–76 years) with complete weight history and genetic data from the community-based Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL, Baseline 2008–2011), we estimated the multivariable association between the additive number of type 2 diabetes increasing-alleles at TCF7L2 (rs7903146-T) and body mass index. We then used structural equation models to simultaneously model the genetic association on changes in body mass index across the life course and estimate the odds of type 2 diabetes per TCF7L2 risk allele.
                Results
                We observed both significant increases in type 2 diabetes prevalence at examination (independent of body mass index) and decreases in mean body mass index and waist circumference across genotypes at rs7903146. We observed a significant multivariable association between the additive number of type 2 diabetes-risk alleles and lower body mass index at examination. In our structured modeling, we observed non-significant inverse direct associations between rs7903146-T and body mass index at ages 21 and 45 years, and a significant positive association between rs7903146-T and type 2 diabetes onset in both middle and late adulthood.
                Conclusions
                Herein, we replicated the protective effect of rs7930146-T on body mass index at multiple time points in the life course, and observed that these effects were not explained by past type 2 diabetes status in our structured modeling. The robust replication of the negative effects of TCF7L2 on body mass index in multiple samples, including in our diverse Hispanic/Latino community-based sample, supports a growing body of literature on the complex biologic mechanism underlying the functional consequences of TCF7L2 on obesity and type 2 diabetes across the life course.
title: Integrating C-arm CT: are more arms really that helpful?
Creators: name: McKiernan, Sharmaine
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Cone beam CT
subject: Ablation procedures
subject: Angioplasty
subject: Stents
subject: Cancer

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: As the CT imaging modality has increased in popularity within the medical field, ambitions to integrate the use of this technology into theatre suites has lead to the development of hybrid CT systems. With procedures becoming more complex, the...
The properties of isolated chiral skyrmions in thin magnetic films
Creators: name: Leonov, A. O.
name: Monchesky, T. L.
name: Romming, N.
name: Kubetzka, A.
name: Bogdanov, A. N.
name: Wiesendanger, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Axisymmetric solitonic states (chiral skyrmions) have been predicted theoretically more than two decades ago. However, until recently they have been observed in a form of skyrmionic condensates (hexagonal lattices and other mesophases). In this paper we report experimental and theoretical investigations of isolated chiral skyrmions discovered in PdFe/Ir(111) bilayers two years ago (Science 341 , 636 (2013)). The results of spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy analyzed within the continuum and discrete models provide a consistent description of isolated skyrmions in thin layers. The existence region of chiral skyrmions is restricted by strip-out instabilities at low fields and a collapse at high fields. We demonstrate that the same equations describe axisymmetric localized states in all condensed matter systems with broken mirror symmetry, and thus our findings establish basic properties of isolated skyrmions common for chiral liquid crystals, different classes of noncentrosymmetric magnets, ferroelectrics, and multiferroics.
description: 12 pages, 12 figures
title: Radiography abroad: a firsthand experience of Nepalese healthcare
Creators: name: McKiernan, Sharmaine
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Professional issues
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Education
subject: Economics

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: As part of a volunteering organisation [1], I spent 5 weeks in Pokhara, Nepal working in one of the major teaching hospitals (Fig. 1 & 2). In this clinical setting I assisted local radiographers and medical professionals in their daily routine and...
Polyethyleneimine (PEI) grafted silica nanoparticles for polyethersulfone membranes modification and their outlooks for wastewater treatment - a review
Creators: name: Al-Araji, Dalya D.
name: Al-Ani, Faris H.
name: Alsalhy, Qusay F.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Polyethersulfone (PES) membranes modification with inorganic nanoparticles and/or organic polymeric additives is an endless area of research. PES is one of the widely commercialised membrane substances owing to its flexibility in terms of proper environmental tolerance, reasonable mechanical, thermal, and chemical stability, solubility in most polar solvents, and applicability to produce a wide range of pore size. PES membranes blending with PEI and inorganic nanoparticles, such as SiO2, are getting a wealth research activity at the present time. However, type and amount of these additives control the final nanocomposite wettability, permeability, selectivity, recoverability and stability over time. In this article, we display a short summary of the progressive interest in the application of various organic-inorganic structures harnessed to modify PES membrane, particularly, modification through PEI and SiO2 NPs. The review will also feature discussion regarding the reinforcement of incorporated inorganic NPs into polymeric PES membrane.