cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Simulator design for interference analysis in complex automotive multi-user traffic scenarios
Creators: name: Tovar Torres, Lizette Lorraine
name: Roos, Fabian
name: Waldschmidt, Christian
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Automotive radar
subject: Interference
subject: Sensor systems
subject: Sensors
subject: Automotive engineering
subject: Radar receivers
subject: Radiofrequency interference
subject: Road traffic
subject: Road vehicle radar
subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Simulation
subject: Statistical analysis
subject: Radar
subject: Tools
subject: Detectors
subject: Motor vehicles Design and construction
subject: Radar receiving apparatus
subject: Interferenz
subject: Statistische Analyse
subject: Straßenverkehr

description: Since the number of radar sensors per vehicle has been increasing in order to improve the performance of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, mutual interference has become one of the most important challenges for near future automotive radar systems. Depending on the sensor parameters and the diverse properties of the traffic scenario, the interference effects can significantly vary. The effort to measure and appraise the interference in real traffic scenarios leads to the importance of designing a tool suited to simulate and analyze the interference. This paper presents a fast simulator capable of modeling, estimating, and evaluating the effects of interference in complex multi-user traffic scenarios. A statistical analysis of the interference in a proposed scenario is performed in order to validate the presented simulator.
Self-consistent Bulge/Disk/Halo Galaxy Dynamical Modeling Using Integral Field Kinematics
Creators: name: Taranu, D. S.
name: Obreschkow, D.
name: Dubinski, J. J.
name: Fogarty, L. M. R.
name: van de Sande, J.
name: Catinella, Barbara
name: Cortese, Luca
name: Moffett, A.
name: Robotham, A. S. G.
name: Allen, J. T.
name: Bland-Hawthorn, J.
name: Bryant, J. J.
name: Colless, M.
name: Croom, S. M.
name: D’Eugenio, F.
name: Davies, R. L.
name: Drinkwater, M. J.
name: Driver, S. P.
name: Goodwin, M.
name: Konstantopoulos, I. S.
name: Lawrence, J. S.
name: López-Sánchez, Á. R.
name: Lorente, N. P. F.
name: Medling, A. M.
name: Mould, Jeremy
name: Owers, M. S.
name: Power, C.
name: Richards, S. N.
name: Tonini, C.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A new species of synaphobranchid eel, Meadia roseni, was caught off the southern coast of Taiwan (22°21 ′05′N, 120′ 12′46′E) in depth of 1,020 m. It is characterized by a long lateral line (87.5% of standard length), well-developed rostral papillae and ridges, numerous vertebrae (200), forward location of anus (3/5 head length posterior to gill slits), long gill slits (13.3% of head length), and short snout (25.7% of head length). It differs greatly from M. abyssa/is, the only species previously assigned to this genus.
The economic burden of injuries in British Columbia: Applying evidence to practice
Creators: name: Rajabali, Fahra
name: Beaulieu, Emilie
name: Smith, Jennifer
name: Pike, Ian, 1958-
Publisher: name: BC Medical Association
Year: 2021

description: Background: Approximately 2000 deaths and 8000 cases of permanent disability result from injury every year in BC. Quantifying the economic and societal burden of injury can provide physicians and policymakers with comprehensive data to support the development and implementation of broader injury prevention initiatives. Methods: Disability-adjusted life years and total costs were calculated using an incidence costing, human capital, societal perspective approach. Data were collected and analyzed for the four leading causes of injury: falls, transport incidents, unintentional poisoning, and selfharm. The Burden Calculator and Electronic Resource Allocation Tool were used to establish direct and indirect costs of injury using data from a number of sources, including hospitals and emergency rooms. Results: Unintentional poisoning and self-harm resulted in the highest number of years of life lost and gross cost, while falls and transport incidents resulted in the greatest number of years lived with disability. In 2013 the gross cost for the leading causes of injury ranged from $547 million to $922 million. The total cost of injury increased between 2004 and 2013. Conclusions: Health professionals are ideally positioned to support injury prevention initiatives and provide appropriate patient counseling. Physicians and policymakers can help combat rising injury rates and related costs by applying evidence from the study of injuries in BC. Increased effort should be made to prevent injuries caused by falls, transport incidents, unintentional poisoning, and self-harm.
L'influence des connaissances phonologiques et semantiques dans le traitement lexical: Le role de la valeur d'imagerie des mots
Creators: name: Gonthier, Isabelle
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Language, Linguistics.
subject: Psychology, Cognitive.

description: Cette these s'inscrit dans le domaine de la psychologie cognitive du langage et porte sur le role des connaissances phonologiques et semantiques dans le traitement lexical. Nous nous proposons d'examiner l'interaction entre ces variables dans le comportement des lecteurs adultes de langue maternelle francaise. La premiere etude de cette these porte sur l'etablissement de normes de frequence subjective et d'imagerie mentale pour 1,760 mots monosyllabiques de la langue francaise. Cette etude permet l'etablissement de normes stables et, en complement aux normes deja publiees par Desrochers et Bergeron (2000), fournit des normes pour la quasi totalite des mots monosyllabiques francais. La deuxieme etude porte sur la lecture a voix haute et sur l'impact de la valeur d'imagerie lors du traitement des mots orthographiquement consistants (i.e. pomme) et inconsistants (i.e. clef). Cette etude illustre le role important de la semantique dans une tache de nature phonologique par la demonstration d'un effet de la valeur d'imagerie sur les mots inconsistants de frequence forte autant que faible. Enfin, la troisieme etude traite de l'impact de la phonologie sur le traitement semantique dans une tache de discrimination semantique. Les resultats de cette etude montrent que lorsque l'on varie la valeur d'imagerie d'un homophone (distracteur), cette manipulation tend a faciliter les reponses aux mots cibles (bonne reponse), et plus particulierement aux cibles a faible valeur d'imagerie lorsque ces deux composants sont presentes a l'interieur d'un meme essai. Lorsqu'une decision semantique est requise uniquement sur l'homophone, on observe que la valeur d'imagerie n'a pas d'impact sur ce type de mot. En fait, l'effet de la valeur d'imagerie n'importe que pour le traitement de la cible. En resume, la presente recherche permet d'apporter des precisions importantes sur l'interaction entre la phonologie et la semantique, leur generalisation inter-linguistiques ainsi que sur les implications de cette interaction pour les modeles theoriques de la lecture qui reposent sur des postulats architecturaux differents (p.ex., les modeles connexionnistes et les modeles a deux voies d'acces).
Collingwood on re-enactment: Understanding in history and interpretation in art
Creators: name: Kobayashi, Chinatsu
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Fine Arts.
subject: Philosophy.

description: In this thesis, I aim at an interpretation of some central parts of the philosophy of R. G. Collingwood. My fundamental hypothesis is that in his writings in the philosophy of history and in the philosophy of art, Collingwood developed a general theory of understanding. This theory, which is based on his views on mind and language, is meant to apply to both cases: the understanding of actions of historical agents, or re-enactment, and the interpretation of the work of art. In chapter 1, I present, after some biographical remarks, some of the intellectual sources of Collingwood. My main thesis is that Collingwood retained one element essential to the epistemology of his Oxford predecessors, idealists and realists alike, namely their opposition to subjective idealism. This is the origin of what I have called Collingwood's objectivism. In chapter 2, I examine Collingwood's philosophy of mind, which forms the basis of his general theory. I show that it is not at all obsolete, as he anticipated Ryle's well-known critique of Cartesian dualism and he moved gradually to a full linguistic philosophy, not far from Wittgenstein's. In chapter 3, I examine Collingwood's notion of re-enactment in the philosophy of history. I show that it is not to be understood as a psychological notion, akin to either Croce's intuizione or Dilthey's Verstehen . I also show that, according to Collingwood, in re-enactment it is the literally same thought that is grasped by the historian, not a copy of it. This objectivist element is a distinguishing feature of Collingwood's theory of understanding. Furthermore, I argue that Collingwood develops an anti-realist epistemology, which blends this objectivism with an ontological realism, while rejecting a strong conception of historical truth, which would transcend available evidence. In chapter 4, after a careful definition of the terms, I argue that Collingwood's position amounts to a minimal form of historicism and relativism. I reject the so-called "radical conversion" hypothesis. In chapter 5, I examine Collingwood's aesthetic theory and philosophy of art. I argue that it differs in essential ways from Croce's, it is not a form of 'ideal theory'. I also show that Collingwood argues for objectivity in art by extending his remarks about understanding in language to the interpretation of the work of art. He thus allows for the sharing of the emotions expressed by the artist. I finally point out that this sharing of emotions by the artist and the audience is at the basis of Collingwood's anti-individualistic philosophy of art, whose central claim is that art is the community's struggle against the corruption of consciousness. In the conclusion, I situate Collingwood's theory of understand within the current panorama, half way between the post-Quinean analytic philosophers, whose naturalism he rejects, and the continental philosophers, whose relativism he also rejects.
Reliability and Validity of the Self- and Interviewer-Administered Versions of the Global Physical Activity Questionnaire (GPAQ)
Creators: name: Chu, Anne H. Y.
name: Ng, Sheryl H. X.
name: Koh, David
name: Müller-Riemenschneider, Falk
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Objective The Global Physical Activity Questionnaire (GPAQ) was originally designed to be interviewer-administered by the World Health Organization in assessing physical activity. The main aim of this study was to compare the psychometric properties of a self-administered GPAQ with the original interviewer-administered approach. Additionally, this study explored whether using different accelerometry-based physical activity bout definitions might affect the questionnaire’s validity. Methods A total of 110 participants were recruited and randomly allocated to an interviewer- (n = 56) or a self- administered (n = 54) group for test-retest reliability, of which 108 participants who met the wear time criteria were included in the validity study. Reliability was assessed by administration of questionnaires twice with a one-week interval. Criterion validity was assessed by comparing against seven-day accelerometer measures. Two definitions for accelerometry-data scoring were employed: (1) total-min of activity, and (2) 10-min bout. Results Participants had similar baseline characteristics in both administration groups and no significant difference was found between the two formats in terms of validity (correlations between the GPAQ and accelerometer). For validity, the GPAQ demonstrated fair-to-moderate correlations for moderate-to- vigorous physical activity (MVPA) for self-administration (rs = 0.30) and interviewer-administration (rs = 0.46). Findings were similar when considering 10-min activity bouts in the accelerometer analysis for MVPA (rs = 0.29 vs. 0.42 for self vs. interviewer). Within each mode of administration, the strongest correlations were observed for vigorous-intensity activity. However, Bland-Altman plots illustrated bias toward overestimation for higher levels of MVPA, vigorous- and moderate-intensity activities, and underestimation for lower levels of these measures. Reliability for MVPA revealed moderate correlations (rs = 0.61 vs. 0.63 for self vs. interviewer). Conclusions Our findings showed comparability between both self- and interviewer- administration modes of the GPAQ. The GPAQ in general but especially the self- administered version may offer a relatively inexpensive method for measuring physical activity of various types and at different domains. However, there may be bias in the GPAQ measurements depending on the overall physical activity. It is advisable to incorporate accelerometers in future studies, particularly when measuring different intensities of physical activity.
Control over gambling: solution or problem?
Creators: name: Moore, Susan
name: Ohtsuka, Keis
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: There is more than one sense in which people believe they control their gambling. First there is the adaptive sense of having control over whether and how much to gamble. Other less adaptive strategies include holding superstitious beliefs that winning can be influenced by thoughts or actions such as 'thinking positively'. Another sense in which gamblers try to take control is through the fantasy that they will get their lives back in order through a 'big win'. The aim of this study was to assess the association between beliefs about control and gambling behaviour among young people aged 15 to 25 years (N= 1017). Results indicated that irrational control beliefs were strongly associated with problem gambling. Young problem gamblers were more likely to believe they needed money and that gambling would provide it. In addition, young problem gamblers had more faith in gambling techniques of various kinds, and in their ability to manipulate chance, and 'beat the system'.
Research Report 2015 - 2018 [Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Ulm University]
Creators: name: Debatin, Klaus-Michael
name: Marschall, Nicolas
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Immunologie
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Research report
subject: Hematology
subject: Allergy and immunology
subject: Adolescent medicine
subject: Pediatrics
subject: Neonatology
subject: Forschungsbericht
subject: Hämatologie
subject: Immunologie
subject: Jugendmedizin
subject: Krebsforschung
subject: Neonatologie
subject: Sozialpädiatrie

description: This report covers the research activities of the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine of Ulm University (in German: Universitätsklinik für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin Ulm) in the years 2015 to 2018. It contains the research profile and detailed descriptions of the research groups and externally funded research projects and studies, the list of journal publications, as well as lists with conferences organized, doctorates conferred, habilitations of personnel, guest scientists, international cooperation partners, awards received and sources of funding.
title: Arthroscopic Fixation of Cell Free Polymer-Based Cartilage Implants with a Bioinspired Polymer Surface on the Hip Joint
title: A Cadaveric Pilot Study
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Lahner, Matthias
name: Duif, Christian
name: Ficklscherer, Andreas
name: Kaps, Christian
name: Kalwa, Lukas
name: Seidl, Tobias
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: This study investigates the adhesion capacity of a polyglycolic acid- (PGA-) hyaluronan scaffold with a structural modification based on a planar polymer (PM) surface in a cadaver cartilage defect model. Two cadaver specimens were used to serially test multiple chondral matrices. In a cadaver hip model, cell free polymer-based cartilage implants with a planar bioinspired PM surface (PGA-PM-scaffolds) were implanted arthroscopically on 10 mm × 15 mm full- thickness femoral hip cartilage lesions. Unprocessed cartilage implants without a bioinspired PM surface were used as control group. The cartilage implants were fixed without and with the use of fibrin glue on femoral hip cartilage defects. After 50 movement cycles and removal of the distraction, a rearthroscopy was performed to assess the outline attachment and integrity of the scaffold. The fixation techniques without and with fibrin fixation showed marginal differences for outline attachment, area coverage, scaffold integrity, and endpoint fixation after 50 cycles. The PGA-PM-scaffolds with fibrin fixation achieved a higher score in terms of the attachment, integrity, and endpoint fixation than the PGA-scaffold on the cartilage defect. Relating to the outline attachment, area coverage, scaffold integrity, and endpoint fixation, the fixation with PGA-PM-scaffolds accomplished significantly better results compared to the PGA-scaffolds . PGA-PM-scaffolds demonstrate increased observed initial fixation strength in cadaver femoral head defects relative to PGA-scaffold, particularly when fibrin glue is used for fixation.
The effect of lipoprotein structure on interlipoprotein lipid transfers by cholesteryl ester transfer protein.
Creators: name: Camlioglu, Errol B.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Biochemistry.

description: Alterations in low density lipoprotein (LDL) and high density lipoprotein (HDL) composition that occur in dyslipidemic states may modulate a number of events involved in cholesterol homeostasis. To elucidate the details involved, the relationship between lipoprotein structural properties and cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) mediated neutral lipid exchange has been studied in native lipoproteins, reconstituted apoB (LpB) and homogeneous, recombinant HDL (Lp2A-I) particles containing palmitoyloleoyl phosphatidylcholine (POPC), cholesteryl linoleate (CE) and phosphatidyl inositol (PI). Decreasing the POPC content of Lp2A-I particles, from 150 to 70 molecules/particle confers a small change in surface potential, a decrease in thermodynamic stability and increases CE mass transfer from LDL to Lp2A-I by 30%. Increasing the PI content in Lp2A-I from 0 to 16 molecules/particle increases the surface potential, decreases the thermodynamic stability and significantly increases CE mass transfer to Lp2A-I by 22%. In general, the rates of CE transfer from LDL to Lp2A-I were over 100-fold greater than in the opposite direction. CETP mediated transfer of free cholesterol (FC) from LDL into Lp2A-I was unaffected by changes in Lp2A-I POPC content, while increases in PI content increased FC transfer into Lp2A-I by 40%. Inclusion of 90 molecules of PI into reconstituted LDL (LpB) affected net CE and triacylglycerol (TG) mass transfer to native HDL (nHDL). Addition of PI to LpB essentially abolished the net CE mass transfer from LpB to nHDL. The direction of transfer of TG from LpB to HDL was reversed by the addition of PI. Incubation of PI with plasma caused a decrease in the net mass of CE, TG and FC in apoB-containing lipoproteins. Decreasing the POPC content in Lp2A-I particles significantly decreases the particle stability. Addition of PI directly increases the particle charge, and also decreases particle stability. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Extracellular Production of Silver Nanoparticles by Using Three Common Species of Dermatophytes: Trichophyton rubrum, Trichophyton mentagrophytes and Microsporum canis
Creators: name: Moazeni, Maryam
name: Rashidi, Niloofar
name: Shahverdi, Ahmad R.
name: Noorbakhsh, Fatemeh
name: Sassan Rezaie
Publisher: name: the Pasteur Institute of Iran
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Basic Sciences

description: Iranian Biomedical Journal (IBJ); ISSN 1028-852X
TS Eliot and church architecture
Creators: name: Atkins, Hazel
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Literature, Modern.
subject: Religion, General.
subject: Art History.
subject: Literature, English.

description: T.S. Eliot's expressions of interest in church architecture are recurrent and persistent throughout his career, finding articulation in his personal letters; his pieces for the Dial and the Criterion which, taken together, form what might be called a campaign for the preservation of city churches; and in various representations in his poems and plays including The Waste Land, The Rock, Murder in the Cathedral, and "Little Gidding." The dissertation asks, firstly, why Eliot, prior to his conversion to Christianity in 1927, would be at all interested in church architecture. Secondly, the dissertation undertakes to trace important changes and developments in his thinking about ecclesiastical buildings over the course of his career. The dissertation demonstrates that T.S. Eliot's engagement with church architecture parallels his broader ideas about the nature and role of art in society. He wrote in 1919 that ethics should not interrupt literary criticism, while in 1935 he wrote that literary criticism must be completed from an ethical, moral, or theological point of view. These two statements, widely divergent, reveal the trajectory of his thought about art prior to and following his conversion. The dissertation reveals that Eliot's investigation of church architecture can be seen as running exactly parallel to this trajectory and to the changes and developments in Eliot's intellectual and spiritual life. Therefore, Eliot's representations of ecclesiastical architecture in his poems and plays are not simply interesting recurring images or symbols. Rather, they can be seen as forming an important part of his intellectual and philosophical journey. The dissertation closes by pointing out that it should come as no surprise that Eliot arrives, in his last major published poem which is in many ways a retrospective poem or book of memory, at the end of his exploring, only to find himself, once again, in a chapel and knows it for the first time.
Supplementary document for Rapid fabrication of anti-corrosion and self-healing superhydrophobic aluminum surfaces through environmentally friendly femtosecond laser processing - 4733877.pdf
Creators: name: Guo, Chunlei
name: Ngo, Chi-Vinh
name: Yuan, Gan
name: Liu, Yu
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Optical Technology

description: supplemental document
New relationships, old certainties: Australia's reconciliation and treaty-making in British Columbia
Creators: name: De Costa, Ravindra N. J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis investigates the search for new relationships between indigenous and settler peoples in Australia and Canada. Both reconciliation and the treaty-making process in British Columbia are understood as attempts to build such relationships. Yetthese are policies that have arisen in response to the persistence of indigenous claims for recognition of rights and respect for identity. Consequently, I consider what the purpose of new relationships might be: is the creation of new relationships to be the means by which settlers recognise and respect indigenous rights and identities, or is there some other goal? To answer this, I analyse the two policies as the opening of negotiations over indigenous claims for recognition. That is, the opening of new political spaces in which indigenous people's voices and claims may be heard. Reconciliation opened a space to rethink Australian attitudes to history and culture, to renegotiate Australian identity. Treaties in British Columbia primarily seek to renegotiate ownership and control of lands and resources. Both policies attempt to relegitimise the polities in which they operate, by making new relationships that provide for mutual recognition. However, the thesis establishes that these new spaces are not nearly as expansive or inclusive as they are made out to be. They are in fact defined by the internal struggles of settler society to make life more certain: to resume identities that are secure and satisfying, and to restore territorial control and economic security. This takes place with little regard for the legitimate claims of indigenous peoples to be recognised as people and to enjoy dynamic, flourishing identities of their own. Building new relationships becomes the path to entrenching old certainties.
title: Mesenteritis Esclerosante
Creators: name: Lacoma Latre, Eva María
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Image compression
subject: Pathology

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
La mesenteritis esclerosante es un proceso inespecífico,
caracterizado por la inflamación del mesenterio,
que va desde la inflamación aguda hasta un proceso fibrótico crónico. Más frecuentemente se asocia a varones en la 6ª y 7ª década de...
Hindu women, lived religion, and the performance of gendered narratives: Canadian examples
Creators: name: Gunn, Janet E
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Religion, General.

description: The lived religious experiences of Hindu women, and the interpretations of these that they bring to bear on their own lives and those of their children in diaspora, have largely been overlooked in the study of Hinduism, resulting in a significant lack in our understanding of the lived religious experience of Hindus. This dissertation responds to that lack by paying attention to women's daily embodiment of religious narratives in Canada. I investigate participants' household devotional activity in dialogue with their experiences of temple worship, all with a view to revealing performances of religious narrative in quotidian diasporic experience. Hindu women's daily interactions with the Divine are presented as a site of dialogue between orthodox norms and the imaginative, creative element inherent in the lived experience of religion. It is shown that women's devotional lives are a key site for the articulation of daily, experiential Hinduism in which individual actors, while constructed by culture in their role as appropriately devout wives, mothers and daughters, operate within a field pregnant with the potential for active constructions of culture. The study reveals three primary conclusions: 1. The performance of religious narratives is an important part of the majority of participants' lives in Canada. 2. Religious narratives of auspicious womanhood, while considered important, are flexibly interpreted and deployed by participants. 3. The desire to provide children with a rootedness in tradition does not correlate to the desire that one's daughters embody that tradition. The majority of research participants are (or were) concerned to educate their children about Hindu religious narratives, but are not concerned that children continue traditional practices in their own lives unless they wish to do so. Troubled by the characterization of women's religious practices as both marginalized and marginalizing, and unsatisfied by the generalization that in adhering to religious roles Hindu women are mute subjects of patriarchy, this study shows that women's engagements with tradition are spaces of dialogue; generative loci of multiple and significant meanings for themselves, for their families, and for the Indo-Canadian Hindu community. This elastic process of meaning-making need not be interpreted as subversive of tradition, but is more fruitfully presented as constitutive of the religious life-worlds of Hindus.
Acute Kidney Injury in Pregnancy: The Need for Higher Awareness. A Pragmatic Review Focused on What Could Be Improved in the Prevention and Care of Pregnancy-Related AKI, in the Year Dedicated to Women and Kidney Diseases
Creators: name: Piccoli, Giorgina
name: Zakharova, Elena
name: Attini, Rossella
name: Ibarra Hernandez, Margarita
name: Covella, Bianca
name: Alrukhaimi, Mona
name: Liu, Zhi-Hong
name: Ashuntantang, Gloria
name: Orozco Guillen, Alejandra
name: Cabiddu, Gianfranca
name: Li, Philip Kam Tao
name: Garcia-Garcia, Gulliermo
name: Levin, A. (Adeera)
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Pregnancy-related acute kidney injury (pAKI), preeclampsia (PE), and the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are closely related conditions, which are, in turn, frequently linked to pre-existing and often non-diagnosed chronic kidney disease (CKD). The current literature and research mainly underline the effects of pregnancy complications on the offspring; this review strongly emphasizes the maternal health as well. These conditions not only negatively affect pregnancy outcomes, but have a relevant effect on the future health of affected mothers and their children. Therefore, dedicated diagnostic and follow-up programs are needed, for optimizing materno-foetal health and reducing the impact of pregnancy-related problems in the mothers and in the new generations. This narrative review, performed on the occasion of the 2018 World Kidney Day dedicated to women’s health, focuses on three aspects of the problem. Firstly, the risk of AKI in the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (the risk is the highest in developing countries; however PE is the main cause of pregnancy related AKI worldwide). Secondly, the effect of AKI and the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy on the development of CKD in the mother and offspring: long-term risks are increased; the entity and the trajectories are still unknown. Thirdly, the role of CKD in the pathogenesis of AKI and the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: CKD is a major risk factor and the most important element in the differential diagnosis; pregnancy is a precious occasion for early diagnosis of CKD. Higher awareness on the importance of AKI in pregnancy is needed to improve short and long term outcomes in mothers and children.
Interaktive Grafiken zum Einfluss des pH-Werts auf die Aktivität von Au(111) für die elektrokatalytische Ameisensäureoxidation
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Zyklische Voltammetrie
subject: Ameisensäureoxidation
subject: DDC 540 / Chemistry & allied sciences
subject: Formic acid
subject: Cyclovoltammetrie
subject: Gold
subject: Elektrokatalyse
subject: Einkristall

description: Interaktive Abbildung mit Stromdichte-Spannungskurven (negative Scans) von Au(111) in 0.1 M HCOOH/NaHCOO + HClO4/NaOH bei verschiedenen pH-Werten mit einer Scanrate von 10 mV s⁻¹ aufgetragen auf unterschiedlichen Potentialskalen.
title: Lesiones mamarias fibroepitelilales. Correlación radiopatológica.
Creators: name: BARRAGAN, JOSE IGNACIO
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Mammography
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Biopsy

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
description: Objetivos:
Revisar las características radiológicas de las lesiones mamarias fibroepiteliales y establecer la correlación...
A study of hysteresis.
Creators: name: Lee, S. Y.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1971
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: The phenomenon of hysteresis is observed in many branches of science. Several attempts have been made in the past for the mathematical modelling of this phenomenon. In this thesis, hysteresis is considered from a general point of view. Basic features are described and the most known models are reviewed. Finally, two types of models are proposed.
FOXA1 gene expression for defining molecular subtypes of muscle-invasive bladder cancer after radical cystectomy
Creators: name: Sikic, Danijel
name: Eckstein, Markus
name: Wirtz, Ralph M.
name: Jarczyk, Jonas
name: Worst, Thomas
name: Porubsky, Stefan
name: Keck, Bastian
name: Kunath, Frank
name: Weyerer, Veronika
name: Breyer, Johannes
name: Otto, Wolfgang
name: Rinaldetti, Sebastien
name: Bolenz, Christian
name: Hartmann, Arndt
name: Wullich, Bernd
name: Erben, Philipp
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: FOXA1
subject: GATA3
subject: KRT20
subject: molecular markers
subject: mRNA
subject: muscle-invasive bladder cancer
subject: PCR
subject: urothelial carcinoma
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Urologic neoplasms
subject: Biomarkers, Tumor
subject: RNA, Messenger
subject: Polymerase chain reaction
subject: Forkhead transcription factors
subject: Urothelkrebs
subject: Biomarker
subject: Messenger-RNS
subject: Forkhead-Box-Proteine
subject: Polymerase-Kettenreaktion

description: It remains unclear how to implement the recently revealed basal and luminal subtypes of muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) into daily clinical routine and whether molecular marker panels can be reduced. The mRNA expression of basal (KRT5) and luminal (FOXA1, GATA3, KRT20) markers was measured by reverse transcription quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) and correlated to clinicopathological features, recurrence-free survival (RFS), disease-free survival (DFS), and overall survival (OS) in 80 patients with MIBC who underwent radical cystectomy. Additionally, the correlation of single markers with the basal and non-basal subtypes defined by a 36-gene panel was examined and then validated in the TCGA (The Cancer Genome Atlas) cohort. High expression of FOXA1 (p = 0.0048) and KRT20 (p = 0.0317) was associated with reduced RFS. In the multivariable analysis, only FOXA1 remained an independent prognostic marker for DFS (p = 0.0333) and RFS (p = 0.0310). FOXA1 expression (AUC = 0.79; p = 0.0007) was closest to the combined marker expression (AUC = 0.79; p = 0.0015) in resembling the non-basal subtype defined by the 36-gene panel. FOXA1 in combination with KRT5 may be used to distinguish the basal and non-basal subtypes of MIBC.
title: Carcinomas en asimetrías "estables"
Creators: name: Plaza Loma, Sara
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Mammography
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound

description: Objetivos
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description: Objetivos:
Describir los hallazgos radiológicos de carcinomas desarrollados sobre asimetrías focales “estables” y establecer la correlación...
Human α-defensin-5 efficiently neutralizes costridioides difficile toxins TcdA, TcdB, and CDT
Creators: name: Korbmacher, Michael
name: Fischer, Stephan
name: Landenberger, Marc
name: Papatheodorou, Panagiotis
name: Aktories, Klaus
name: Barth, Holger
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: C. difficile infection
subject: large clostridial glucosylating toxins
subject: binary actin ADP-ribosylating toxin
subject: toxin inhibitor
subject: AB-type protein toxins
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Clostridium infections
subject: Bacterial toxins
subject: Clostridium-difficile-Infektion
subject: Bakteriengift

description: Infections with the pathogenic bacterium Clostridioides (C.) difficile are coming more into focus, in particular in hospitalized patients after antibiotic treatment. C. difficile produces the exotoxins TcdA and TcdB. Since some years, hypervirulent strains are described, which produce in addition the binary actin ADP-ribosylating toxin CDT. These strains are associated with more severe clinical presentations and increased morbidity and frequency. Once in the cytosol of their target cells, the catalytic domains of TcdA and TcdB glucosylate and thereby inactivate small Rho-GTPases whereas the enzyme subunit of CDT ADP-ribosylates G-actin. Thus, enzymatic activity of the toxins leads to destruction of the cytoskeleton and breakdown of the epidermal gut barrier integrity. This causes clinical symptoms ranging from mild diarrhea to life-threatening pseudomembranous colitis. Therefore, pharmacological inhibition of the secreted toxins is of peculiar medical interest. Here, we investigated the neutralizing effect of the human antimicrobial peptide α-defensin-5 toward TcdA, TcdB, and CDT in human cells. The toxin-neutralizing effects of α-defensin-5 toward TcdA, TcdB, and CDT as well as their medically relevant combination were demonstrated by analyzing toxins-induced changes in cell morphology, intracellular substrate modification, and decrease of trans-epithelial electrical resistance. For TcdA, the underlying mode of inhibition is most likely based on the formation of inactive toxin-defensin-aggregates whereas for CDT, the binding- and transport-component might be influenced. The application of α-defensin-5 delayed intoxication of cells in a time- and concentration-dependent manner. Due to its effect on the toxins, α-defensin-5 should be considered as a candidate to treat severe C. difficile–associated diseases.
A task-based approach to global design education
Creators: name: Wodehouse, Andrew
name: Breslin, Caroline
name: Farrugia, Philip
name: Grierson, Hilary
name: Ion, William
name: Sonalkar, Neeraj
name: de Vere, Ian
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper provides a new perspective for managing and delivering a global design class, and a clear alternative to the traditional joint project for participating institutes. The 'task-based approach' used to structure a Global Design class at the University of Strathclyde is described. This entailed the creation of a series of short design exercises to be run in conjunction with three partner institutions: the University of Malta in Msida, Malta; Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia; and Stanford University in Palo Alto, USA. These exercises focussed on specific aspects of distributed working, including synchronous working, asynchronous working and digital library support, according to the location and facilities afforded by each institution. This provides a number of pedagogical and organisation benefits. Students are required to take a more strategic approach to their design work, developing a higher evaluative understanding of the tools and processes required to produce a successful design. Staff members have a greater level of control afforded by a shared collaborative class component, including assessment, timetabling and learning objectives, rather than simply having a joint project. This potentially makes global design classes a more flexible and viable option for institutions interested in participating in such programmes.
title: Impacto con el cambio de Protocolo de Manejo del Nódulo Tiroideo basado fundamentalmente en la nueva Guía de la Asociación Americana del Tiroides (ATA)
Creators: name: Ramos López, María
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Puncture
subject: Surgery
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Thyroid / Parathyroids

description: Objetivos
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description: Objetivos:
Valorar la posible repercusión en el manejo de los Nódulos Tiroideos con un protocolo que hemos elaboradoen nuestro centro,basandonos fundamentalmente en la nueva guía de la Asociación Americana del Tiroides (ATA) del 2009 y en el consenso de la...
A Brief History of the Portland Free Dispensary, a department of the People's Institute in affiliation with the Medical School of the University of Oregon: rendered with the annual report June 1920
Creators: name: People's Institute
Publisher: name: People's Institute
Year: 1920
Subjects: Mccusker, Clarence Joseph
Jones, Noble Wiley
People's Institute
Portland Free Dispensary
American Red Cross
Mothers
Pharmacies
Infant Welfare
Nurses, Community Health
Community Health Services
Women
Oregon--Portland

description: The People's Institute, in partnership with Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), established a free dispensary in Portland in 1908, focusing on providing medical care for women and children. As the demand for services grew between 1908 and 1917, both staffing and care offerings expanded significantly. The increasing needs of the community eventually necessitated a move to larger facilities within the Portland metropolitan area. The organization's annual report documented its founding story, historical development, and financial status as of 1919.
Supplementary document for Dipolar analysis of substrated particles using a far-field response method - 4734023.pdf
Creators: name: Hesari-Shermeh, Maryam
name: Abbasi-Arand, Bijan
name: Yazdi, Mohammad
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: 1. Polarizability tensor of asymmetric nanoparticles
title: Perfusión del cancer de pulmón con TC de Doble Fuente (TCDF). Técnica y utilidad para predecir tipo histológico y respuesta al tratamiento.
Creators: name: Fernandez del Valle, Ana
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Thorax
subject: Oncology
subject: CT

description: Objetivos
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description: Objetivos:
Describir la técnica de perfusión tumoral con TCDF en cáncer de pulmón. Estudiar si los valores de perfusión se correlacionan con el tipo histológico y el estadío y pueden predecir la respuesta al...
title: Miocardiopatía no compactada, revisión del tema y de su estudio mediante cardio-RM.
Creators: name: Romera Pintor, Blanca Nieves
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: MR

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Revisaremos la Miocardiopatía no Compactada y su estudio mediante la...
The TRACK-MS test battery: a very brief tool to track multiple sclerosis-related cognitive impairment
Creators: name: Taranu, Daniela
name: Tumani, Hayrettin
name: Holbrook, Jill
name: Tumani, Visal
name: Uttner, Ingo
name: Fissler, Patrick
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: cognition
subject: multiple sclerosis
subject: cognitive assessment
subject: disease progression
subject: tracking
subject: test quality criteria
subject: BICAMS
subject: TRACK-MS
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health

description: Tracking cognition in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) is important for detection of disease progression but it is often not performed in routine settings due to time constraints. This exploratory cohort study aims to develop a very brief repeatable tracking tool with comparable test quality criteria to the current gold standard, the Brief International Cognitive Assessment for MS (BICAMS). The study included 88 participants (22 healthy controls, 66 MS patients) who were examined at baseline and at one-year follow-up. As a validity criterion for the six administered cognitive tests, we assessed the difference between MS patients and HC, and the correlation with MS-related disability. Combining the two tests with the highest validity—the Controlled Oral Word Association Test and Symbol Digit Modalities Test—yielded an administration time of 5 min. Comparing this new TRACK-MS test battery with the 15 min BICAMS indicated that TRACK-MS showed larger differences between MS patients and healthy controls, a higher correlation with MS-related disability, smaller practice effects, and a good test–retest reliability. We provide evidence that TRACK-MS, although faster to administer, showed at least comparable quality criteria as the BICAMS. As the study was exploratory, replication of these results is necessary.
Supplementary document for Dipolar analysis of substrated particles using a far-field response method - 4734023.pdf
Creators: name: Hesari-Shermeh, Maryam
name: Abbasi-Arand, Bijan
name: Yazdi, Mohammad
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: 1. Polarizability tensor of asymmetric nanoparticles
title: Marcadores plasmáticos de estres oxidativo (EO) y citoquinas en la enfermedad de hígado graso no alcoholico (EHGNA) diagnosticado por ecografía en la obesidad infantil.
Creators: name: Salmerón Ruiz, Ángela
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Laboratory tests
subject: Liver

description: Objetivos
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description: Objetivos:
Conocer si el diagnóstico ecográfico de esteatosis se relaciona con parámetros de estres oxidativo,
citoquinas plasmáticas,
ALT y resistencia a la insulina-HOMA en niños...
title: Análisis del cáncer de mama en mujeres de 40 a 49 años antes y después de la implantación de un nuevo proceso asistencial.
Creators: name: Rivera Sánchez, Ernesto
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Biopsy
subject: Epidemiology

description: Objetivos
Material y método
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description: Objetivos:
Los programas de detección precoz del cáncer de mama (PDPCM) que se llevan a cabo a nivel nacional se inician en la mayoría de los distritos a partir de los 50 años de edad,
donde está comprobada la reducción de la mortalidad por cáncer de...
Identification of microplastic pathways within a typical European urban wastewater
Creators: name: Altmann, Korinna
name: Goedecke, Caroline
name: Bannick, Claus-Gerhard
name: Braun, Ulrike
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Mikroplastikpartikel

description: n recent years, thermoextraction/desorption-gas chromatography/mass spec-trometry (TED-GC/MS) has been developed as a rapid detection method for thedetermination of microplastics (MP) mass contents in numerous environmen-tally relevant matrices and, in particular, for the measurement of polymers inwater samples without time-consuming sample preparation. The TED-GC/MSmethod was applied to investigate a typical European municipal wastewatersystem for possible MP masses. Such investigations are important in view of therecent revision of the Urban WastewaterTreatment Directive. Four differentrepresentative sampling sites were selected: greywater (domestic wastewaterwithout toilet), combined sewer, andinfluent and effluent of a wastewatertreatment plant (WWTP). All samples were collected by fractional filtration.Filtration was carried out over mesh sizes of 500, 100, 50, and in some cases,5 ÎÌm. Polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), and polystyrene (PS) weredetected in all samples, with the PE fraction dominating in all cases. Styrene-butadiene rubber which serves as an indication of tire abrasion, was only foundin the influent of the WWTP. The highest MP mass contents were found in thecombined sewer, so MP can become a source of pollution during heavy rainevents when the capacity limits of the effluent are reached, and the pollutedeffluent is released uncontrolled into the environment. Based on the studies,MP retention from the WWTP could be estimated to be approximately 96%.Few trends in polymer type or mass contents were detected within the differentfractions of the samples or when comparing samples to each other. © 2023 The Authors.Applied Researchpublished by Wiley-VCH GmbH.