cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment and Reuse in North Carolina Case Study and Community Perceptions
Creators: name: Casanova, Jennifer
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: In the U. S. about 20% of the population is decentralized from wastewater treatment and disposal. The majority of decentralized populations (65%) are located in rural areas where most households rely on the use of conventional onsite treatment such as septic systems for the disposal of their wastewater. Alternative wastewater treatment systems, such as constructed wetlands (CWs) aim to replace conventional systems by offering improved options for onsite wastewater treatment. This includes water reuse which is mainly practiced at centralized communities; however, with population growth and climate change both threatening to reduce water quantity and quality, saving water of highest quality for potable needs should be encouraged and reclaimed wastewater could plug the gap in water demand. Water reuse projects often face barriers related to a negative public perception but these could be mitigated by including impacted stake holders at the early stages of project design and implementation through community participation and education strategies. This report provides a review of wastewater treatment and reuse with CWs and a case study on the state of CWs as a water reuse and wastewater management tool in North Carolina. An assessment of community perception from 5 decentralized, resource-poor communities in North Carolina using a qualitative research tool and key informant interviews is presented. The results from this project demonstrate CWs as an emerging approach in the decentralized wastewater sector of North Carolina. Perception towards acceptance of water reuse is varied within and across the communities interviewed and dependent on the following factors: trust in water officials, water availability, cost, economic gain and proposed endpoint use of reclaimed water. Nevertheless, community representatives tended to perceive CWs somewhat positively in terms of their attractive features for community wastewater management and reuse capabilities. It becomes clear, however, that CWs can only evolve as a viable alternative to onsite treatment with a program of education and outreach.
Does Music Theory Need Musicology?
Creators: Agawu, Kofi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1992
Subjects: Music

description: Understood as a search for "the abstract principles embodied in music and the sounds of which it consists,"l music theory casts a wide net: it calls for a comparative sample and insists on a systematic methodology. As "the scholarly study of music, wherever it is found historically or geographically," musicology casts an even wider net. In practice, however, it has not been possible to transcend historical and geographical boundaries. (How often have you read an article on contemporary rock in JAMS or on Asian music in 19th-Century Music?) Obviously, any attempt to explore the juncture between music theory and music history-my particular brief from the editors of Current Musicology will not get very far on definitions alone. Are not disciplinary boundaries convenient tags sanctioned by a certain distribution of economic, political, and intellectual power? Better, then, to focus on what some theorists and some historians do than to dwell abstractly on
the purviews of music theory and music history. Agawu asks these questions and more as he explains the relationship between musicology and music theory.
title: Application of receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis in radiology: chronic subdural hematoma examples
Creators: name: Juković, Mirela
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Haemorrhage
subject: Education and training
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT
subject: Neuroradiology brain

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) is the statistical analysis which had implementation in medical tests during the middle of 20 th century. Development of this method started during the World War II when it had usage for differentiating...
Energy and discrepancy of rotationally invariant determinantal point processes in high dimensional spheres
Creators: name: Beltrán, Carlos
name: Marzo, Jordi
name: Ortega-Cerdà, Joaquim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study expected Riesz s-energies and linear statistics of some determinantal processes on the sphere. In particular, we compute the expected Riesz and logarithmic energies of the determinantal processes given by the reproducing kernel of the space of spherical harmonics. This kernel defines the so called harmonic ensemble on the sphere. With these computations we improve previous estimates for the discrete minimal energy of configurations of points in the sphere. We prove a comparison result for Riesz 2-energies of points defined through determinantal point processes associated to isotropic kernels. As a corollary we get that the Riesz 2-energy of the harmonic ensemble is optimal among ensembles defined by isotropic kernels with the same trace. Finally, we study the variance of smooth and rough linear statistics for the harmonic ensemble and compare the results with the variance for the spherical ensemble.
description: Incorporated corrections suggested by the referees and eliminated one mistake related to Bochner-Riesz kernels and detected by Gaultier Lambert
Systemic reviews arithmetic skills in healthy adults
Creators: name: Gashi, Kaltrina
name: Cipora, Krzysztof
name: Artemenko, Christina
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Psychology
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: arithmetic skills; mathematics; basic arithmetic operations; adults; assessment

description: Background: Arithmetic skills include a wide range of tasks and underlying cognitive representations. Thereby, the basic arithmetic operations, namely addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, vary in the associated strategies and processing demands, so that the relation between the performance in the basic arithmetic operations is not clear. Although there are differences in the processing demands, so far, there are no gold standards on how to measure them. Therefore, the aim of the planned systematic review is to (1) identify arithmetic tasks and tests which were used and developed to assess arithmetic performance in the basic arithmetic operations, and (2) to investigate the relations between the basic arithmetic operations in adults. Methods: A systematic review will be conducted following PRISMA criteria. Electronic databases of published studies will be searched for relevant articles with predefined search terms. Studies are eligible if they report (i) an empirical measure of arithmetic skills including at least two of the four basic arithmetic operations in adults, or (ii) performance in a standardized test of arithmetic skills including at least two of the four basic arithmetic operations with available norms in adults. Studies not allowing to assess the performance in or the relation of different arithmetic operations and/or only reporting neuroimaging data will be excluded.
Elliott Antokoletz. The Music of Béla Bartók: A Study of Tonality and Progression in Twentieth-Century Music.
Creators: Morris, Mitchell
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1986
Subjects: Music

description: This paper reflects upon the results of Elliott Antokoletz's study of Bartok's music and the implications of his results. Elliott Antokoletz's study of Bartok's music focuses upon the symmetrical pitch collections and chordal constructions that permeate Bartok's music. The functional role that such formations play in the music of Bartok, Stravinsky, and the composers of the Second Viennese School has been demonstrated by numerous scholars, such as Babbitt, Jarman, Perle,
van den Toorn, and Taruskin.. According to Antokoletz's preface, the field of Bartok analysis is in need of basic integrative concepts as a framework for the "diverse and often contradictory interpretations" that have heretofore prevailed. The study is based upon the premise that there does exist in Bartok's music an "all-encompassing system of pitch relations," and that this system can be located in the principle of "equal subdivision of the octave into the total complex of interval cycles." Furthermore, says Antokoletz, "the fundamental concept underlying this equal-division system is that of symmetry".
title: Excretory MR pancreatography after intravenous administration of gadoteridol: preliminary results in eight healthy volunteers
Creators: name: Suzuki, Kojiro
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Image verification
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: MR
subject: Pancreas
subject: Abdomen

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Gadolinium-based contrast material (GBCM) is slightly leaked to cerebrospinal fluid, salivary juice, and labyrinthine fluid several hours after intravenous administration [1-5]. Though, T1-wighted imaging cannot visualize these fluid contrast...
title: Les vitres réfléchissantes
Creators: name: Stephenson, D. G.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1972
Subjects: subject: Heat performance
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0391
subject: Performance thermique
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0391
subject: reflective glass
subject: vitrage refléchissant
subject: light transmission
subject: transmission lumineuse
subject: shade
subject: penombre
subject: thermal conduction
subject: conduction thermique

description: L'auteur compare les coefficients d'ombrage, les conductibilités thermique et les facteurs de transmission lumineuse des châssis en verre athermane par réflexion et ceux des châssis en verre ordinaire et en verre athermane par absorption du rayonnement infrarouge, munis ou non de stores intérieurs. Il montre que l'efficacité lumineuse de la lumière du jour transmise au travers des châssis en verre athermane par réflexion est considérablement plus élevée que celle de la lumière artificielle.
Explorations in Music, The Am, and Ideas: Essays in Honor of Leonard B. Meyer. Edited by Eugene N annour and Ruth A. Solie. Stuyvesant: Pendragon Press, 1988. xiii, 473 pages.
Creators: Marvin, Elizabeth West
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1992
Subjects: Music

description: Leonard Meyer should be proud of this collection in his honor. It is clear that his work has deeply influenced a generation of scholars. The editors agree that ''what these writers have learned from Meyer is the refusal to be defeated by or capitulate to the sometimes argumentative interplay between the historical persona of musicology and its more analytical moods". In many of these essays, the authors manage to "step back" and take a critical and evaluative look at the nature of musicological and music-theoretical research, both in relation to other disciplines and in relation to the musical experience of composer, performer, and listener. For the impetus behind these studies, we may have Leonard Meyer to thank. Readers familiar with his work will recognize several themes in this organizational scheme that recur with some regularity in Meyer's puplications, most notably the empirical bent of several articles, the attention given to musical meaning and to the aural and creative experiences of listeners and composers, and the critical examination of the methodology of music theorists and historians. All the authors represented here show their indebtedness to Meyer's work in some manner, either by direct citation or by their choice of subject matter or approach.
Efficacy of CrystalPur Household Water Filter for Removal of Pathogenic Microorganisms: Lifespan Volume Test
Creators: name: Kaufman, Amanda R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Over 1.6million people, most of whom are children, die each year from ingesting water contaminated with bacteria, viruses, and parasites. Treatment of drinking water at the point of use (POU)has demonstrated health benefits for people who have access only to microbially contaminated drinking water sources. The ceramic siphon household water filter is one option for POU treatment. In this work, the ceramic siphon filter was evaluated in the laboratory for its ability to reduce indicator microorganisms in test waters. During batch challenge tests, the ceramic siphon filter reduced E. coli in filtered water by 7 log[10](99.999987%). The filter was not effective for virus removal, with reductions of only 0.12 log[10](24.0%) observed for coliphage MS-2. In addition, continuous flow dosing system allowing water to constantly run through the filters for extended periods of time daily allowed for determination of changes in microbial reductions over time. E. coli B, MS-2 and fluorescent microspheres (as a surrogate for Cryptosporidium oocysts) were seeded into test water and dosed to filters at 10%, 25%, and 50%) of the filter's volume lifespan. One of the three replicate filters was only tested at 10% and 25% of the filter's volume lifespan because the filter broke prior to reaching its reported 50% volume lifespan. There was a decrease in microbial removal efficacy as the volume of water filtered increased and test filters did not achieve their target volume lifespan before physically failing. The ceramic siphon household water filter is effective in reducing E. coli and fluorescent microsphere surrogates for Cryptosporidium in water, but filter modifications may be needed to achieve acceptable levels of virus removal and to reach the target 7000 liter volume lifespan of the filter.
Complexity of Steiner Tree in Split Graphs - Dichotomy Results
Creators: name: Illuri, Madhu
name: Renjith, P.
name: Sadagopan, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Given a connected graph $G$ and a terminal set $R \subseteq V(G)$, {\em Steiner tree} asks for a tree that includes all of $R$ with at most $r$ edges for some integer $r \geq 0$. It is known from [ND12,Garey et. al \cite{steinernpc}] that Steiner tree is NP-complete in general graphs. {\em Split graph} is a graph which can be partitioned into a clique and an independent set. K. White et. al \cite{white} has established that Steiner tree in split graphs is NP-complete. In this paper, we present an interesting dichotomy: we show that Steiner tree on $K_{1,4}$-free split graphs is polynomial-time solvable, whereas, Steiner tree on $K_{1,5}$-free split graphs is NP-complete. We investigate $K_{1,4}$-free and $K_{1,3}$-free (also known as claw-free) split graphs from a structural perspective. Further, using our structural study, we present polynomial-time algorithms for Steiner tree in $K_{1,4}$-free and $K_{1,3}$-free split graphs. Although, polynomial-time solvability of $K_{1,3}$-free split graphs is implied from $K_{1,4}$-free split graphs, we wish to highlight our structural observations on $K_{1,3}$-free split graphs which may be used in other combinatorial problems.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures, CALDAM 2016
title: MR Imaging of spinal epidural lesions.
Creators: name: El Karzazi, Karima
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: Neuroradiology spine

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The spinal epidural space is a real space extending from foramen magnum to sacral canal and since MRI is the gold standard for spine imaging we present a comprehensive overview of the epidural space anatomy and highlight the key imaging features of...
The Microbiological and Health Impact of the Hydraid™ Plastic-Housing Biosand Filter in Rural Honduras: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Santa Rosa de Copan
Creators: name: Fabiszewski, Anna Marie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Point-of-use (POU) drinking water treatment, such as the biosand filter (BSF), allows people to treat their water in the home. The purpose of this research was to document the ability of the Hydraid™ plastic-housing BSF to reduce diarrheal disease in households who received a filter. This randomized controlled trial of the Hydraid™ BSF was carried out in rural communities in western Honduras during April 2008 to February 2009. In August2008, 194 households were randomized in to BSF and control groups. Households were observed during 7 biweekly visits pre-randomization and 13 biweekly visits post-randomization. The incidence of diarrheal disease was reduced by approximately 40% (45% in children under 5) in households that had a HydrAid™ BSF compared to those without one. Households with a BSF had significantly better drinking water quality, regardless of water source or season. The HydrAid™ BSF appears to be an effective POU technology.
title: Influence of the analyst’s experience on the value of fractional anisotropy in diffusion tensor imaging analysis
Creators: name: Sato, Eisuke
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: Education and training

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) [1], which can visualize changes of a diseased brain, is used frequently during neurosurgery [2, 3]. Changes are evaluated with the numerical value called the fractional anisotropy (FA) value in DTI. The FA value is...
A Dose-Response Model Assessment of Recreational Water-Borne Microbes Causing Gastroenteritis
Creators: name: Carroll, Brian
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: Dose-response models were developed for nineteen gastroenteritis-causing microbes. Three dose-response modeling equations were used: linear, linear two-population, and beta-Poisson. Models were fitted to experimental data from a variety of literature sources using a least sum of squares method to derive equation parameters. The deviances of each microbe's equations were calculated to identify those equations that were statistically valid. Of the fitted models, the beta-Poisson equation most frequently provided the best fit to the experimental data and was the only equation that could be fitted to data for 18 of the 19 microbes.
title: Température ambiante et bien-être
Creators: name: Hutcheon, N. B.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1972
Subjects: subject: hygrothermal comfort
subject: confort hygrothermique
subject: human requirements
subject: exigence humaine

description: L'auteur examine les facteurs caractérisant le milieu thermique environnant et leurs effets sur l'occupant, pour la gouverne des spécialistes du confort à l'intérieur des bâtiments. Il mentionne les méthodes d'évaluation des conditions physiques et une norme récemment élaborée.
title: A pictorial review of the neuroradiology findings of Phacomatosis
Creators: name: Shehadeh, Sana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Congenital
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: MR
subject: Neuroradiology brain

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The neurocutaneous syndromes, also well-known as phakomatoses, or neuroectoderms dysplasias, are a heterogeneous group of congenital disorders primarily involving structures derived from the embryological neuroectoderm. All of the syndromes involve...
RasBhari: optimizing spaced seeds for database searching, read mapping and alignment-free sequence comparison
Creators: name: Hahn, Lars
name: Leimeister, Chris-André
name: Ounit, Rachid
name: Lonardi, Stefano
name: Morgenstern, Burkhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Genomics (q-bio.GN)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many algorithms for sequence analysis rely on word matching or word statistics. Often, these approaches can be improved if binary patterns representing match and don't-care positions are used as a filter, such that only those positions of words are considered that correspond to the match positions of the patterns. The performance of these approaches, however, depends on the underlying patterns. Herein, we show that the overlap complexity of a pattern set that was introduced by Ilie and Ilie is closely related to the variance of the number of matches between two evolutionarily related sequences with respect to this pattern set. We propose a modified hill-climbing algorithm to optimize pattern sets for database searching, read mapping and alignment-free sequence comparison of nucleic-acid sequences; our implementation of this algorithm is called rasbhari. Depending on the application at hand, rasbhari can either minimize the overlap complexity of pattern sets, maximize their sensitivity in database searching or minimize the variance of the number of pattern-based matches in alignment-free sequence comparison. We show that, for database searching, rasbhari generates pattern sets with slightly higher sensitivity than existing approaches. In our Spaced Words approach to alignment-free sequence comparison, pattern sets calculated with rasbhari led to more accurate estimates of phylogenetic distances than the randomly generated pattern sets that we previously used. Finally, we used rasbhari to generate patterns for short read classification with CLARK-S. Here too, the sensitivity of the results could be improved, compared to the default patterns of the program. We integrated rasbhari into Spaced Words; the source code of rasbhari is freely available at http://rasbhari.gobics.de/
DEA Tutorium Intelligenz
Creators: name: Weißmann, Friederike
name: Hassan, Mona
name: Chen, Qi
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Arts and Humanities
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Es soll eine sensitive Fragestellung untersucht werden, dabei werden die Antworten unter einer direkten Befragung mit einer Befragung mittels Crosswise-Modell verglichen. Die Studie wird im Rahmen des DEA Kurses 2021 der Universität zu Köln durchgeführt.
Bouncing cosmologies in geometries with positively curved spatial sections
Creators: name: de Haro, Jaume
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Background boucing cosmologies in the framework of General Relativity, driven by a single scalar field filling the Universe, and with a quasi-matter domination period, i.e., depicting the so-called Matter Bounce Scenario, are reconstructed for geometries with positive spatial curvature. These cosmologies lead to a nearly flat power spectrum of the curvature fluctuations in co-moving coordinates for modes that leave the Hubble radius during the quasi-matter domination period, and whose spectral index and its running, which are related with the effective Equation of State parameter given by the quotient of the pressure over the energy density, are compatible with observational data.
description: Version accepted for publication in PLB
title: Complementary Role of MRI in the Prenatal Diagnosis and Characterization of Anomalies of the Urinary System
Creators: name: Popova, Ralitsa
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Foetus
subject: Congenital
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: Obstetrics (Pregnancy / birth / postnatal period)

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The purpose of this study is to: describe how embryogenesis defects affect the development of the genito-urinary system; demonstrate the most common anomalies and their imaging appearance in ultrasound (US); review select cases in which the...
Additional file 2 of The burden of cough in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and other interstitial lung diseases: a systematic evidence synthesis
Creators: name: Green, Rhiannon
name: Baldwin, Michael
name: Pooley, Nick
name: Misso, Kate
name: Mölken, Maureen PMH Rutten-van
name: Patel, Nina
name: Wijsenbeek, Marlies S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 2
title: The role of Difussion-weighted imaging for detecting small or isoattenuating pancreatic adenocarcinoma.
Creators: name: Gijón de la Santa, Luis
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Pancreas
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Review the contribution of Diffusion-weighted MRI (DW MRI) in the diagnosis of pancreatic...
The effect of temperature and salinity on the depuration of hepatitis A virus and other microbial contaminants from the Eastern oyster
Creators: name: Bachur, Beth E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1988

description: Comparative studies were done to evaluate the elimination of hepatitis A virus (HAV), poliovirus 1, MS2 bacteriophage, Esherichia coli, and Streptococcus faecalis in experimentally contaminated Eastern oysters in a laboratory-scale depuration system. The effect of temperature (12, 18, and 25°C) and salinity (8, 18, and 28 ppt) on virus and bacteria depuration was studied. The oysters were contaminated with high levels of organisms in order to follow depuration over several orders of magnitude during several days of depuration. At each day of the depuration period, a sample of contaminated oysters was removed from the tanks and processed for bacteriological and virological analysis. The depuration system was maintained within the range of the environmental conditions required by the U.S. water quality depuration standards. HAV was not effectively depurated and was detected at generally higher levels than the other test organisms at all the conditions tested. Depuration rates were reduced at lower temperature and lower salinity. These results indicate that depuration may not be an effective means of eliminating HAV and other pathogens from contaminated oysters under some depurating conditions. KEY WORDS: hepatitis A virus (HAV), poliovirus 1, MS2 bacteriophage, Esherichia coli, Streptococcus faecalis, fecal coliform, depuration, bivalves, and oysters.
Diffusion of dark matter in a hot and dense nuclear environment
Creators: name: Cermeño, Marina
name: Pérez-García, M. Ángeles
name: Silk, Joseph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the mean free path in a hot and dense nuclear environment for a fermionic dark matter particle candidate in the $\sim$GeV mass range interacting with nucleons via scalar and vector effective couplings. We focus on the effects of density and temperature in the nuclear medium in order to evaluate the importance of the final state blocking in the scattering process. We discuss qualitatively possible implications for opacities in stellar nuclear scenarios, where dark matter may be gravitationally accreted.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures
title: A study on patient skin doses in cerebral embolisation using radiochromic films
Creators: name: Theodorakou, Chrysoula
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Embolisation
subject: Dosimetry
subject: Aneurysms
subject: Arteriovenous malformations

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Fluoroscopically-guided interventional neuroradiology (INR) is being increasingly utilised in treatment of cerebral aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations (AVM) and dural arteriovenous (AV) fistulas. Such interventions are minimally invasive and...
title: Low dose CT pancreatic perfusion with stellar detector: image quality improvement may potentially change the radiological work-flow
Creators: name: Zhu, Liang
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Pancreas
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: CT
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Technology assessment

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The principle of CT perfusion scan lies in the fact that under certain pathological conditions, the micro-circulation condition changes inside the lesion, and when it becomes significantly different from the healthy tissue, it could be...
The influence of personal value on the intention fulfilment rate in time-based prospective memory.
Creators: name: Hemming, Wiebke
name: Rummel, Jan
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: personal value
subject: prospective memory
subject: time-based

description: Time based prospective memory describes the ability to remember to execute an intention at a predefined future time point. This study will be addressing the question of how the personal value of a prospective memory intention affects the likelihood of its fulfilment. To investigate this, I developed a design that includes a word-picture-matching task as an ongoing task. Participants will be shown two words and then have to decide whether the highlighted word matches the picture presented afterwards. Participants perform this task for 30 min and gain/loose points for every correct/incorrect response. As prospective memory intention, participants have to remember to press the space bar and type-in a word every 7 min. In doing so, they can gain additional points (either 5 or 15 depending on the experimental group they were assigned to). A third group will perform the ongoing task alone. The main dependent variables are the ongoing task response speed and accuracy as well as the intention fulfilment rate and response speed. Participants can call a screen clock by pressing an additional key at any time while they perform the task. Clock checking is the only possibility to check how much time has elapsed and whether it is time to execute the prospective memory task and will thus also be considered an important dependent variable reflecting prospective memory time monitoring.
Dilaton assisted two-field inflation from no-scale supergravity
Creators: name: Chakravarty, Girish Kumar
name: Das, Suratna
name: Lambiase, Gaetano
name: Mohanty, Subhendra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a two-field inflation model where inflaton field has a non-canonical kinetic term due to the presence of a dilaton field. It is a two-parameter generalization of one-parameter Brans-Dicke gravity in the Einstein frame. We show that in such an inflation model the quartic and quadratic inflaton potentials, which are otherwise ruled out by the present Planck-{\it Keck}/BICEP2 data, yield scalar spectral index and tensor-to-scalar ratio in accordance with the present data. Such a model yield tensor-to-scalar ratio of the order of $10^{-2}$ which is within the reach of $B-$mode experiments like {\it Keck}/BICEP3, CMBPol and thus can be put to test in the near future. This model yields negligible non-Gaussianity and no isocurvature perturbations upto slow-roll approximation. Finally, we show that such a model can be realised in the realm of no-scale supergravity.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures, Matches with the journal version to appear in Phys. Rev. D. Figures updated
title: Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis:Incidence, prevalence and patterns of neurological involvement: a retrospective study from Pakistani population
Creators: name: Mubarak, Fatima
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Cost-effectiveness
subject: Patterns of Care
subject: Outcomes
subject: Haemorrhage

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Introduction : Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) occurs secondary to thrombosis within the cerebral veins and dural sinuses. It hinders proper drainage of deoxygenated blood from brain resulting in drastic hemodynamic changes which can be...
Limb development genes underlie variation in human fingerprint patterns
Creators: name: Li, J
name: Glover, JD
name: Zhang, H
name: Peng, M
name: Tan, J
name: Mallick, CB
name: Hou, D
name: Yang, Y
name: Wu, S
name: Liu, Y
name: Peng, Q
name: Zheng, SC
name: Crosse, EI
name: Medvinsky, A
name: Anderson, RA
name: Brown, H
name: Yuan, Z
name: Zhou, S
name: Xu, Y
name: Kemp, JP
name: Ho, YYW
name: Loesch-Mdzewska, Danuta
name: Wang, L
name: Li, Y
name: Tang, S
name: Wu, X
name: Walters, RG
name: Lin, K
name: Meng, R
name: Lv, J
name: Chernus, JM
name: Neiswanger, K
name: Feingold, E
name: Evans, DM
name: Medland, SE
name: Martin, NG
name: Weinberg, SM
name: Marazita, ML
name: Chen, G
name: Chen, Z
name: Zhou, Y
name: Cheeseman, M
name: Jin, L
name: Headon, DJ
name: Wang, S
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Fingerprints are of long-standing practical and cultural interest, but little is known about the mechanisms that underlie their variation. Using genome-wide scans in Han Chinese cohorts, we identified 18 loci associated with fingerprint type across the digits, including a genetic basis for the long-recognized “pattern-block” correlations among the middle three digits. In particular, we identified a variant near EVI1 that alters regulatory activity and established a role for EVI1 in dermatoglyph patterning in mice. Dynamic EVI1 expression during human development supports its role in shaping the limbs and digits, rather than influencing skin patterning directly. Trans-ethnic meta-analysis identified 43 fingerprint-associated loci, with nearby genes being strongly enriched for general limb development pathways. We also found that fingerprint patterns were genetically correlated with hand proportions. Taken together, these findings support the key role of limb development genes in influencing the outcome of fingerprint patterning.
Construction of a General Job-Exposure Matrix for the Petroleum Refinery Industry and Adaptation for a Company-Specific Case-Control Study
Creators: name: Stanion-Smith, Courtney V.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1996

description: A general job-exposure matrix for the purpose of historical exposure assessment of petroleum refinery workers was constructed using the published literature, industry reports, government documents, engineering texts, worker recommendations, and historical process and industrial hygiene information from three refineries in the Beaumont-Port Arthur area of Texas. The matrix was then modified for one of these refineries to make links between jobs and exposures more company-specific. The company-specific matrix will be used in a related case-control mortality study of active and retired members of two Texas locals of the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers International Union. The historical exposure assessment capabilities offered by this matrix will allow the case-control study, which builds on work by Terry Thomas and colleagues in 1982 and 1984, to investigate links between chemical exposure agents and specific cancers. The general job-exposure matrix can be used in future epidemiology studies of petroleum refinery workers whose job histories are accessible to the researcher. If resources are available, the matrix should be modified to more accurately represent the exposure profile at the specific refineries of interest. The matrix can also be used in its present state to provide a "sketch" of the exposure histories of petroleum refinery workers, but its power will be limited by a lack of specificity.
Engineering Many-Body Dynamics with Quantum Light Potentials and Measurements
Creators: name: Elliott, Thomas J.
name: Mekhov, Igor B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Interactions between many-body atomic systems in optical lattices and light in cavities induce long-range and correlated atomic dynamics beyond the standard Bose-Hubbard model, due to the global nature of the light modes. We characterise these processes, and show that uniting such phenomena with dynamical constraints enforced by the backaction resultant from strong light measurement leads to a synergy that enables the atomic dynamics to be tailored, based on the particular optical geometry, exploiting the additional structure imparted by the quantum light field. This leads to a range of tunable effects such as long-range density-density interactions, perfectly correlated atomic tunnelling, superexchange, and effective pair processes. We further show that this provides a framework for enhancing quantum simulations to include such long-range and correlated processes, including reservoir models and dynamical global gauge fields.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures
Exact Bremsstrahlung and Effective Couplings
Creators: name: Mitev, Vladimir
name: Pomoni, Elli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate supersymmetric Wilson loops on the ellipsoid for a large class of $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFT using the localization formula of Hama and Hosomichi. From them we extract the radiation emitted by an accelerating heavy probe quark as well as the entanglement entropy following the recent works of Lewkowycz-Maldacena and Fiol-Gerchkovitz-Komargodski. Comparing our results with the $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM ones, we obtain interpolating functions $f(g^2)$ such that a given $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFT observable is obtained by replacing in the corresponding $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM result the coupling constant by $f(g^2)$. These "exact effective couplings" encode the finite, relative renormalization between the $\mathcal{N}=2$ and the $\mathcal{N}=4$ gluon propagator, they interpolate between the weak and the strong coupling. We discuss the range of their applicability.
description: 16 pages, 10 pages appendices, 4 figures. v2, journal version
Uncertainty Relations for Approximation and Estimation
Creators: name: Lee, Jaeha
name: Tsutsui, Izumi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a versatile inequality of uncertainty relations which are useful when one approximates an observable and/or estimates a physical parameter based on the measurement of another observable. It is shown that the optimal choice for proxy functions used for the approximation is given by Aharonov's weak value, which also determines the classical Fisher information in parameter estimation, turning our inequality into the genuine Cram{é}r-Rao inequality. Since the standard form of the uncertainty relation arises as a special case of our inequality, and since the parameter estimation is available as well, our inequality can treat both the position-momentum and the time-energy relations in one framework albeit handled differently.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure; published version (v2)
title: Voxel-based morphometry and fMRI in comprehensive diagnostics of Alzheimer's disease
Creators: name: Sokolov, Andrei
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Dementia
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: MR
subject: Neuroradiology brain

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate brain activation by visual memory task in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and to determine correlation between memory impairment and atrophy of memory specific brain...
Gregory Butler. Bach's Clavier-Ubung III: The Making of a Print. With a Companion Study of the Canonic Variations on "Vom Himmel Hoch," BWV 769.
Creators: Stauffer, George B.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1994
Subjects: Music

description: This article discusses Gregory Butler's Bach's Clavier-Ubung III' The Making of a Print and the authors thoughts on Bach.  At the conclusion of a round table on post-World War II developments in Bach research, a long session in which the manuscript studies of Alfred Durr, Georg von Dadelsen, and Robert Marshall were discussed in some detail, Mendel quipped, with a wry smile: "And if the original manuscripts have revealed a lot about Bach's working habits, wait until we take a closer look at the original prints!" The remark drew laughter, as Mendel intended, and struck one at the time as facetious, for how could the prints of Bach's works ever show as much about chronology and the compositional process as the manuscripts? The surviving manuscript materials, written by Bach and his copyists, display a wealth of information that can be unraveled through source-critical investigation: revisions, corrections, organizational second thoughts. The prints, by contrast, appear inscrutable. Uniform and definitive in appearance, made by engravers rather than Bach or his assistants, they seem to be closed books, telling little-if any thing about the genesis of the texts they contain.
Open $sd$-shell nuclei from first principles
Creators: name: Jansen, G. R.
name: Schuster, M. D.
name: Signoracci, A.
name: Hagen, G.
name: Navrátil, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the ab initio coupled-cluster effective interaction (CCEI) method to deformed open-shell nuclei with protons and neutrons in the valence space, and compute binding energies and excited states of isotopes of neon and magnesium. We employ a nucleon-nucleon and three-nucleon interaction from chiral effective field theory evolved to a lower cutoff via a similarity renormalization group transformation. We find good agreement with experiment for binding energies and spectra, while charge radii of neon isotopes are underestimated. For the deformed nuclei $^{20}$Ne and $^{24}$Mg we reproduce rotational bands and electric quadrupole transitions within uncertainties estimated from an effective field theory for deformed nuclei, thereby demonstrating that collective phenomena in $sd$-shell nuclei emerge from complex ab initio calculations.
Additional file 7 of Genes to specialized metabolites: accumulation of scopoletin, umbelliferone and their glycosides in natural populations of Arabidopsis thaliana
Creators: name: Ihnatowicz, Anna
name: Siwinska, Joanna
name: Perkowska, Izabela
name: Grosjean, Jeremy
name: Hehn, Alain
name: Bourgaud, Frederic
name: Lojkowska, Ewa
name: Olry, Alexandre
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 7_Figure S4. Amino acid sequence variants shown as a Multiple sequence alignment (MSA)
Characterization of Ionic Copper for Disinfection of Stored Drinking Water
Creators: name: Armstrong, Andrew
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Drinking water remains highly vulnerable to contamination during collection, transport and storage when it is not subjected to chemical treatment that provides a disinfectant residual. In areas where piped water quality is unreliable and service is intermittent, even treated water is susceptible to recontamination. There is a need for a low-cost and effective alternative to current methods of water storage that provides an adequate disinfection barrier against recontamination. Better understanding of the antimicrobial activity of certain metals in their ionic form is needed for the use of such metals to be considered protective as a safe storage disinfection practice. The efficacy of copper ions to inactivate the microorganisms Escherichia coli B, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and MS-2 coliphage was tested as a first phase in this research. Batch disinfection reactions were conducted in reagent grade test waters maintained at 18°C and buffered at pH 7.2. Ionic solutions of copper chloride ([dissCu]=01, 03, 1, and 3mg/L) were dosed to batch reactors seeded with all three microorganisms. Samples were assayed at 0, 0.3, 1, 3 and 6 hours. The disinfection results from replicate experiments were normalized and averaged in order to generate semi-log inactivation curves for each copper dose. Greater than 2 log(20) reductions of bacteria and viruses were observed after 6 hours with [dissCu]doses > 0.3 mg/L, well below the 2 mg/L WHO guideline value for copper in drinking water. Maximum reductions of E. coli B and P. aeruginosa occurred after 6 hours with a dose of 3 mg/L [dissCu] and were 8.5 log(10) and 36 log(10), respectively. The maximum reduction of MS-2 coliphage occurred after 6 hours with a dose of 1 mg/L [dissCu] and was 2.4 log(10). Both bacterial reactions appeared to follow exponential kinetics. The Chick-Watson model was able to provide best estimates of rate constants for inactivation of E. coli B, P. aeruginosa, and MS-2 with [dissCu] which were 0.045±0.009, 0.010±0.004, and 0.018±0.005, L/mg x min, respectively. Comparisons of Ct values and in activation rate constants indicate that [dissCu] is able to maintain the microbiological quality of drinking water as well as combined chlorine. This work demonstrates that ionic copper deserves further consideration as an alternative method of protecting drinking water from microbiological contamination during collection, transport and storage.