cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
MPEC 2024-R93 : 2024 RX2
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 RX2

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
EVIDENCE BASED QUALITY IMPROVEMENT STRATEGIES WORK TO INCREASE EXCLUSIVE BREAST MILK FEEDING RATES AT HOSPITAL DISCHARGE OF WELL NEWBORNS
Creators: name: Norris, Frieda
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Abstract One maternity center has successfully utilized an evidence based quality improvement microsystem approach to increase exclusive breast milk feeding rates through participation in a state quality collaborative project during 2011. Their unit level cycles of change included refining skin-to-skin birth routines, scripting of breastfeeding concepts, evaluation and application of lactation education and many other strategies that synergistically yielded increased rates of exclusive breast milk feeding of newborns at hospital discharge. Breast milk feeding is held as one of the most consequential choices that parents make for their newborn. Hospitals may voluntarily prove their investment toward maternal success in breastfeeding by perinatal care core measure reporting. The success of this maternity center exemplifies how evidence based practices can be implemented in a clinical setting and gives direction to others working to achieve improved perinatal care core outcome measures.
MPEC 2024-R94 : 2024 RY2
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 RY2

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
title: Multimodal Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Neonatal Encephalopathies.
Creators: name: Gaha, Mehdi
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Metabolic disorders
subject: Congenital
subject: Screening
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR-Spectroscopy
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR
subject: Paediatric
subject: Neuroradiology brain

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: BACKGROUND Neonatal brain disorders →wide chapter : * Brain malformations * Hypoxic–ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) * Intracranial infections * Perinatal trauma * Metabolic encephalopathy Improvement of neonatal intensive care unit in highly...
title: Evaluation of magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis
Creators: name: Jiang, Tao
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Arthritides
subject: Technology assessment
subject: MR
subject: Musculoskeletal joint

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic autoimmune disease characterized by chronic synovial inflammation and subsequent joint destruction, affecting approximately 0.5%–1.0% of the general population [1] . Although conventional radiography is...
CNN/ORC Poll: 2010 Affordable Care Act/Hillary Clinton/ISIS/2016 Presidential Election
Creators: name: CNN
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2015

description: Barack Obama job performance (1); Obama handling various issues (9); most important problem (1); opinion of various politicians and institutions (9); direction of country (1); economic recovery (1); opinion of Affordable Care Act (2); ACA as success/failure (1); Hillary Clinton characteristics (3); Clinton email release (1); Clinton handling Benghazi (1); Benghazi congressional hearings (1); ISIS concerns (6); National Security Administration collecting telephone data (2); Supreme Court job performance (1); trust in Supreme Court (5); presidential candidate preferences (9); amount of candidates (2); candidates representing past/future (8); candidate relationships affecting support (3); Clinton similar to husband (1); same-sex marriage (1).
title: Radiographic and computed tomographic findings in children and adults with foreign body aspiration
Creators: name: Karimi, Mohammad
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: Foreign bodies

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Imaging plays an important role in diagnosis of foreign body aspiration (FBA), especially in cases with equivocal history. The aim of this study was to describe the radiography and computed tomography (CT) findings of patients with...
MPEC 2024-R95 : 2024 RZ2
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 RZ2

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Newsweek Survey: President Newt?
Creators: name: Newsweek
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 1995

description: Newt Gingrich(4); Republican candidates for 1996 election(2); President Clinton vs. Republican challengers(4); independent presidential candidates(3); bills passed by new House of Representatives(1); middle class tax cut(2); confidence in political figures(3); Clinton versus Gingrich(7).
Bondi-type accretion in the Reissner-Nordström-(anti-)de Sitter spacetime
Creators: name: Ficek, Filip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper I study stationary, spherically symmetric accretion of fluids onto a charged black hole in the presence of the cosmological constant. For some isothermal equations of state it is possible to obtain analytic solutions. In the case of a radiation fluid I point out a connection between locations of the horizons and the sonic (critical) points. In specific cases the solutions form closed, binoculars-like trajectories in a phase diagram of the velocity vs. radius.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures, to appear in Classical and Quantum Gravity
NEAR: Named Entity and Attribute Recognition of clinical concepts
Creators: name: Nath, Namrata
name: Lee, Sang-Heon
name: Lee, Ivan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 68U15 (primary)

description: Named Entity Recognition (NER) or the extraction of concepts from clinical text is the task of identifying entities in text and slotting them into categories such as problems, treatments, tests, clinical departments, occurrences (such as admission and discharge) and others. NER forms a critical component of processing and leveraging unstructured data from Electronic Health Records (EHR). While identifying the spans and categories of concepts is itself a challenging task, these entities could also have attributes such as negation that pivot their meanings implied to the consumers of the named entities. There has been little research dedicated to identifying the entities and their qualifying attributes together. This research hopes to contribute to the area of detecting entities and their corresponding attributes by modelling the NER task as a supervised, multi-label tagging problem with each of the attributes assigned tagging sequence labels. In this paper, we propose 3 architectures to achieve this multi-label entity tagging: BiLSTM n-CRF, BiLSTM-CRF-Smax-TF and BiLSTM n-CRF-TF. We evaluate these methods on the 2010 i2b2/VA and the i2b2 2012 shared task datasets. Our different models obtain best NER F1 scores of 0. 894 and 0.808 on the i2b2 2010/VA and i2b2 2012 respectively. The highest span based micro-averaged F1 polarity scores obtained were 0.832 and 0.836 on the i2b2 2010/VA and i2b2 2012 datasets respectively, and the highest macro-averaged F1 polarity scores obtained were 0.924 and 0.888 respectively. The modality studies conducted on i2b2 2012 dataset revealed high scores of 0.818 and 0.501 for span based micro-averaged F1 and macro-averaged F1 respectively.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, 9 tables
Strategic Planning and Implementation in a North Carolina Local Health Department: A Case Study
Creators: name: Kempton, Patricia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Objectives: The primary objective of this study is to assess recommendations for initiating and implementing a strategic planning process in one local North Carolina public health agency. Other objectives include identification of the potential benefits of strategic planning to the agency, as well as recognition of the barriers preventing strategic planning and/or implementation of a strategic plan. Methods: A literature review provided the basis for the discussion of recommended strategic planning processes in public agencies and associated benefits and barriers. A case study methodology was used to assess the strategic planning and implementation process in one local health department that was initiating strategic planning for the first time in accordance with a state accreditation mandate. Data were collected through observation of the strategic planning process and through semi-structured interviews with 15 participants in the agency’s strategic planning retreat. Data were coded on the basis of themes and connections among themes. Results: Findings indicate that implementation of recommended strategic planning processes can result in the development of a strategic plan that agency managers consider to be useful in directing the work of the agency and enhancing the value of that work. Furthermore, the initial plan may stimulate the development of workforce skills that will enhance future planning efforts. Conclusion: The evidence suggests that an agency that follows the recommended steps for strategic planning and implementation can produce a strategic plan that the agency management feels is appropriate to the needs of the agency. However, the agency will need to employ implementation science to assure the plan is monitored and revised as needed, in accordance with strategic planning best practices. Additional research is required to assess the effectiveness of strategic plans in improving agency performance and community health outcomes. Keywords: strategic planning, strategic plan implementation, strategic management, local public health
Unveiling the X-ray/UV properties of disk winds in active galactic nuclei using broad and mini-broad absorption line quasars
Creators: name: Giustini, Margherita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of the uniform analysis of 46 XMM-Newton observations of six BAL and seven mini-BAL QSOs belonging to the Palomar-Green Quasar catalogue. Moderate-quality X-ray spectroscopy was performed with the EPIC-pn, and allowed to characterise the general source spectral shape to be complex, significantly deviating from a power law emission. A simple power law analysis in different energy bands strongly suggests absorption to be more significant than reflection in shaping the spectra. If allowing for the absorbing gas to be either partially covering the continuum emission source or to be ionised, large column densities of the order of $10^{22-24}$ cm$^{-2}$ are inferred. When the statistics was high enough, virtually every source was found to vary in spectral shape on various time scales, from years to hours. All in all these observational results are compatible with radiation driven accretion disk winds shaping the spectra of these intriguing cosmic sources.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures. Proceedings of the 2015 XMM-Newton workshop: "The Extremes of Black Hole Accretion". Accepted for publication in Astronomische Nachrichten/Astronomical Notes
Literacy Health in The Elderly - A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Halpern, David, MD
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: OBJECTIVE: To systematically review U.S. studies examining the relationship between literacy and health in the elderly, and to determine what interventions may mitigate the effects of low literacy on health in an older population. METHODS: I searched the MEDLINE database from its beginning through September, 2009 and identified 676 health-related articles that referred to the term literacy and studied adults age 65 and older. After reviewing titles and abstracts, I further excluded 433 articles. Of the remaining 243 articles that were reviewed in their entirety, only 29 articles met my pre-specified inclusion/exclusion criteria and were included in this review. I included cross-sectional and cohort observational studies that measured participant literacy on an individual level, and measured one or more health outcomes in older adults. Each included study had to address at least one of my key questions: Key Question 1) In elderly individuals, are literacy skills related to a) use of health care services, b) health outcomes, c) health-related knowledge, d) costs of health care, or e) disparities by race, ethnicity, culture, education, or age? Key Question 2) For elderly individuals with low literacy skills, what interventions may mitigate the effects of low literacy on: a) use of health care services, b) health outcomes, c) health-related knowledge, d) costs of care, ore) disparities by race, ethnicity, culture, education, or age? RESULTS: The 29 articles in this review include data on 14,891 distinct individuals. All of the studies addressed Key Question 1. I was unable to identify any studies that addressed Key Question 2. Substantial evidence demonstrated that elderly individuals with lower literacy often have worse health outcomes than their counterparts with higher literacy, including lower rates of influenza vaccination, higher rates of ER use and hospitalization, worse self-rated health, higher rates of cognitive impairment and decline, and higher mortality. Despite clear associations between literacy and health in older adults, no researchers have tested interventions designed to mitigate the health effects of low literacy in an elderly population. The instruments most commonly used to measure literacy in this body of literature were the S-TOFHLA and the REALM. The average methodological quality of included studies was fair to good. DISCUSSION: This systematic review demonstrates that elderly individuals with lower literacy often have worse health outcomes than those with higher health literacy. It also identifies a critical gap in the health literacy literature: no interventions designed to mitigate the effects of literacy on health have been tested in an elderly population. It is crucial for clinicians and researchers to recognize the burden of limited health literacy in the elderly population and begin to test interventions that can improve the health of older adults with limited literacy.
title: Role of the weight-bearing MRI in the evaluation of traumatic and overload pathologies of the midtalar and subtalar joints
Creators: name: Mariani, Silvia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: Bones
subject: MR
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Motility

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: The aim of our study was to evaluate the possible biomechanical modifications of the ankle and foot during upright-MRI scans in patients affected by traumatic and overload pathologies of the MT and ST...
title: A dentalscan or a multi-layer digital ortopantomography in the study of the jaws? A dosimetric evaluation on a CBCT device
Creators: name: Testa, Francesco
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Head and neck
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Cone beam CT
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Dosimetric comparison

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: The Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) is a technology that has gradually spread and that is contending with theconventional Multi Detector Computed Tomography (MDCT) the role of reference in the study of maxillofacial structures, because the...
Some closure results for C-approximable groups
Creators: name: Holt, Derek F
name: Rees, Sarah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F65, 20E22

description: We investigate closure results for C-approximable groups, for certain classes C of groups with invariant length functions. In particular we prove, each time for certain (but not necessarily the same) classes C that (i) the direct product of two C-approximable groups is C-approximable; (ii) the restricted standard wreath product G wr H is C-approximable when G is C-approximable and H is residually finite; and (iii) a group G$ with normal subgroup N is C-approximable when N is C-approximable and G/N is amenable. Our direct product result is valid for LEF, weakly sofic and hyperlinear groups, as well as for all groups that are approximable by finite groups equipped with commutator-contractive invariant length functions (considered in \cite{Thom}). Our wreath product result is valid for weakly sofic groups, and we prove it separately for sofic groups. We note that this last result has recently been generalised by Hayes and Sale, who prove that the restricted standard wreath product of any two sofic groups is sofic. Our result on extensions by amenable groups is valid for weakly sofic groups, and was proved by Elek and Szabo for sofic groups N.
title: Size-specific dose estimate can be used to calculate patient-specific blood dose from paediatric CT examinations
Creators: name: Franck, Caro
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Radiation physics
subject: CT
subject: Physics
subject: Blood
subject: Dosimetric comparison

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: CT examinations are the most important contributors of medical radiation exposure. Despite the fact that only 14% of the radiological examinations are CT scans, more than 60% of the radiation dose in medical imaging is delivered by CT[1, 2].Concern...
Additional file 1 of Optimizing identification of consensus molecular subtypes in muscle-invasive bladder cancer: a comparison of two sequencing methods and gene sets using FFPE specimens
Creators: name: Koll, Florestan J.
name: Döring, Claudia
name: Olah, Csilla
name: Szarvas, Tibor
name: Köllermann, Jens
name: Hoeh, Benedikt
name: Chun, Felix K.-H.
name: Reis, Henning
name: Wild, Peter J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1:Supplementary material. Table S1. ESSEN1 gene set. Table S2. ESSEN2 gene set. Figure S1. Comparison of correlation p-value between for samples older and younger than five years for MACE and HTG. Figure S2. Pearson’s correlation between samples and each consensus class stratified for the different methods and for the called consensus class. Figure S3. Relative distribution of subtype calls with each method and gene panels. Figure S4. A: Comparison of p-values associated to the Pearson’s correlation of the samples with the nearest centroid for each method (HTG and MACE) for the ESSEN1 and ESSEN2 gene panels. Figure S5. Pearson’s correlation between samples and each consensus class stratified for the different gene sets.
Improving Utilization of the Centering Pregnancy Program at the Downtown Health Plaza in Forsyth County, North Carolina
Creators: name: Thompson, David
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: This paper describes and discusses methods to improve utilization of the Centering Pregnancy (CP) program at the Downtown Health Plaza (DHP). CP is a model of group care that incorporates assessment, education and support into its prenatal program. CP will improve quality outcomes such as birth weights and gestational age that will positively impact infant mortality. A team of providers, clinical and nonclinical staff, patients and administrators worked collaboratively to expand the utilization of the CP program at DHP. Baseline data revealed that 10% of the 1,600 annual new obstetric (NOB) patients enrolled for CP after its first year, (2012) of operating at DHP, (Fitzmaurice, personal communication, May 22, 2014). The strategy design was centered on increasing the enrollment rate from 10% (120 patients) to a minimum of 20% (320 patients) between July 2012 and June 2013, (FY 13). In order to reach the 20% threshold, it was determined by the CP steering committee that the following six goals must be completed: (1) educate and inform patients of the importance of prenatal care and how CP can have a positive impact on outcomes, (2) educate DHP OB/GYN clinic staff on CP and why patients should be encouraged to utilize CP vs. traditional prenatal care, (3) determine best practices for recruiting patients into the program and share that information with staff, (4) create SMART goals to hold staff and administrators accountable for performance, (5) create a system to track and monitor performance goals in order to keep staff informed of performance and (6) determine ways to sustain and expand CP at DHP once grant funding is exhausted. From July 2012 through the end of June 2013, total recruitment for CP increased from 10% to 36% of all new obstetric patients. The CP steering committee attributed the increase in recruitment numbers to standardizing enrollment forms, providing patient education, training staff on recruiting techniques, establishing enrollment goals and rewarding staff on achieving recruitment goals. Through these efforts the future of sustaining the CP program at DHP been realized and improved patient care has been administered to a patient population of Forsyth County. From March 2011 to June 2013 patients at DHP who chose CP prenatal care had a 6% preterm rate (n = 405) rate versus a 13.8% rate nationally for patients who chose traditional prenatal care. The percentage of CP patients at DHP who delivered low birth weight babies was 8% compared to 10.3% for Forsyth County. Additionally, more mothers were breastfeeding their newborns compared to mothers who chose traditional prenatal care at DHP. In conclusion, the success of the grass roots efforts to establish and expand a CP program at DHP resulted in quality outcomes among participating patients. The methods used at DHP can serve as a model to develop and expand CP programs throughout the state, the nation and the world.
Dirac Coupled Channel Analyses of Proton Inelastic Scattering from $^{40}$Ar Nucleus
Creators: name: Shim, Sugie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 0.8 GeV proton inelastic scatterings from $^{40}$Ar nucleus are analyzed using an optical potential model in the Dirac coupled channel formalism. A rotational collective model is used to obtain the transition optical potentials for the low lying excited states of the rotational band. The optical potential parameters of a Woods-Saxon shape and the deformation parameters of the excited states are searched phenomenologically to reproduce the experimental differential cross-section data by using the sequential iteration method. The effect of a multistep process is investigated by including the channel coupling between two excited states in addition to the couplings between the ground state and the excited states. The calculated deformation parameters of the excited states are compared with those obtained by using the nonrelativistic calculations. The results of the Dirac coupled channel calculations are found to show pretty good agreements with the experimental data of the ground state and the low-lying excited states. The multistep excitation process via the channel coupling with the second $2^+$ state is found to be important for the excitation of the $4^+$ state at the inelastic scatterings from the deformed nucleus, $^{40}$Ar.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1501.00650
title: Detection of distant metastases in patients with primary breast cancer: is 18FDG-PET/CT better than conventional imaging?
Creators: name: Bitencourt, Almir
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Oncology
subject: Breast
subject: PET-CT
subject: CT
subject: Staging
subject: Cancer

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Breast cancer is the most common cancer and the main cause of cancer deaths among women worldwide. The presence, extent and localization of distant metastases are key prognostic factors in breast cancer patients and play a central role in...
How important are electron beams in driving chromospheric evaporation in the 2014 March 29 flare?
Creators: name: Battaglia, Marina
name: Kleint, Lucia
name: Krucker, Säm
name: Graham, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present high spatial resolution observations of chromospheric evaporation in the flare SOL2014-03-29T17:48. Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) observations of the FeXXI 1354.1 A line indicate evaporating plasma at a temperature of 10 MK along the flare ribbon during the flare peak and several minutes into the decay phase with upflow velocities between 30 km s$^{-1}$ and 200 km s$^{-1}$. Hard X-ray (HXR) footpoints were observed by RHESSI for two minutes during the peak of the flare. Their locations coincided with the locations of the upflows in parts of the southern flare ribbon but the HXR footpoint source preceded the observation of upflows in FeXXI by 30-75 seconds. However, in other parts of the southern ribbon and in the northern ribbon the observed upflows were not coincident with a HXR source in time nor space, most prominently during the decay phase. In this case evaporation is likely caused by energy input via a conductive flux that is established between the hot (25 MK) coronal source, which is present during the whole observed time-interval, and the chromosphere. The presented observations suggest that conduction may drive evaporation not only during the decay phase but also during the flare peak. Electron beam heating may only play a role in driving evaporation during the initial phases of the flare.
description: 6 figures, ApJ, accepted
Honduran Health Alliance Reproductive Tract Infection Education Clinical Management Program Evaluation Plan
Creators: name: Daw, Megan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: According to the World Health Organization curable sexually transmitted infections newly infect 340 million people annually. These curable infections include gonorrhea, Chlamydia, syphilis, and trichomoniasis and impose the greatest impact on women and children in low-resource nations. For this reason, a mission to address STIs in women has made it to the agendas of nearly every global reproductive health conference since 1994; from the International Conference on Population Development in 1994 to the 57th World Health Assembly in 2002. Latin America carriers the third largest burden of these infections, estimated at 38 million in 1999 . Honduras, in particular, is deficient in the resources and infrastructure necessary to provide sufficient education and services to its communities. Thus, the Honduran Health Alliance (HHA) was established to develop a composite of programs working with communities to improve reproductive health. This paper addresses the program and evaluation plan of one component of this larger program, that is, the clinical management of reproductive tract infections and educational components associated with the exclusion of HIV.
title: Angio-CT in the evaluation of patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension undergoing pulmonary endarterectomy: radiological and hemodynamic assessment
Creators: name: Porelli, Sayuri
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Pulmonary vessels
subject: Lung
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Surgery
subject: Embolism / Thrombosis
subject: Haemodynamics / Flow dynamics

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) results from incomplete resolution of the vascular obstruction caused by pulmonary thromboemboli, which leads, if untreated, to a gradual hemodynamic and symptomatic decline with cardiac...
Push button reproduction attempt of a research claim from Junyan Jiang, (2018), in American Journal of Political Science
Creators: name: Tutor, Melba
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: All else being equal, city leaders with informal connections with the provincial secretary will have stronger performance incentives and in turn achieve more rapid economic growth than those without such connections. This reflects the following statement from the paper's abstract: "Using an original city–level panel data set between 2000 and 2011, and a new method that identifies patronage ties based on past promotions, I show that city leaders with informal ties to the incumbent provincial leaders deliver significantly faster economic growth than those without." The claim is tested with an original panel data set for city-level administrations in China between 2000 and 2011. The author uses a fixed effects model with a dependent variable of economic performance (measured by GDP growth; set to t + 2 to allow a time lapse for local officials’ effort to translate into economic outcomes). The key independent variable – connected to provincial secretary – is a binary indicator that takes the value of 1 if either the city secretary or the mayor is connected to the provincial secretary. City fixed effects capture the time-invariant heterogeneity across cities, and the year fixed effects are allowed to vary arbitrarily by province in order to absorb any province-specific economic or political shocks. The author also includes the following time-varying economic and leadership covariates: the levels of Log GDP, GDP Growth, Log Population, and Log Fixed Asset Investment, all measured in the final years of the city secretary’s and the mayor’s predecessors’ terms; Net Transfer, which is the difference between fiscal expenditure and revenue at t + 1; a set of standard demographics, such as Age, Gender, and College Education, for both the city secretary and the mayor; and controls for city leaders’ tenure length. The coefficient of interest for testing the claim is on the term for ‘connected to provincial secretary’ in the third model of Table 1. The results show that political connection with the incumbent provincial secretary has a large, positive, and statistically significant effect on local economic growth. Focusing on Model 3, the coefficient estimate (0.382, robust SE clustered at city level = 0.126, p < .01 [two-tailed]) suggests that, all else equal, the growth rates in connected cities are about 0.38 percentage points (or 10% of a standard deviation) higher than in unconnected cities. The focal test in the original paper is: Focusing on Model 3, the coefficient estimate (0.382, robust SE clustered at city level = 0.126, p < .01 [two-tailed]).
Validating and Applying a Novel Method of Assessing Trauma Burden in a Resource Poor Setting
Creators: name: Qureshi, Javeria S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Introduction: Trauma, particularly Road Traffic Injury (RTI), is a leading cause of global death. African RTI mortality is among the highest in the world, at 28.3 deaths per 100,000 population. However, this burden of injury may be underestimated for the African region as only 7% of cause of death information is obtained from population based vital registration systems. The Verbal Autopsy (VA) method has been extensively used to assess maternal and child deaths in resource poor settings by analyzing the deceased's symptoms and circumstances as reported by family members. Here we present the validation and application of a VA tool to assess trauma burden in Lilongwe, Malawi, an urban sub Saharan African setting. Methods: A modified World Health Organization (WHO) VA tool was administered at the Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) morgue in Lilongwe, Malawi to family members of inpatient deceased. Two physicians assigned cause of death as 'trauma' or 'non-trauma' as well as a simplified ICD-10 code based on the Verbal Autopsy questionnaire. These assignments were compared to the 'gold standard' of physician review of hospital records using a kappa statistic. The validated tool was then applied to deceased from the community who were "brought in dead" (BID) to the morgue. Results: The VA method had near perfect agreement with the hospital record in determining "trauma" versus "non-trauma" while there was moderate agreement when comparing types of death e.g cardiovascular disease versus infectious disease. When applied to the BID population, it showed a significantly higher percentage of RTI deaths in BID versus in-hospital deceased while the total trauma burden was similar in BID versus in-hospital deaths. Conclusion: This VA tool can accurately ascertain trauma-related mortality with almost perfect agreement. It provides information on the high burden of road traffic injury death that is not captured by hospital based trauma registries and reaffirms the great need for primary prevention and early care for the injured. To allocate resources for secondary trauma mortality prevention, VA of BID community deaths illustrates that pre-hospital care must be improved in addition to continuing efforts at improving in-hospital care.
Aspicilia adamanticola Hue 1910
Creators: name: Paukov, Alexander
name: Nordin, Anders
name: Roux, Claude
name: Moon, Kwang Hee
name: Davydov, Evgeny
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Dothideomycetes
Patellariales
Patellariaceae
Aspicilia
Aspicilia adamanticola

description: Aspicilia adamanticola Hue (1910: 39)
 Type (lectotype, designated here):— KOREA. Nai-Hpyeng, July 1906, R. P. Faurie 221 (LE L-7526!, isolectotype BM 001107771 [digital photograph!]).
 The species was described from the northern part of the Korean peninsula. In his description Hue mentioned similarity of Aspicilia adamanticola to A. cinerea. According to his view the former is characterized by a whitish, not truly areolate thallus and absence of the lateral cortex. The studied specimen contains norstictic acid and has spores and conidia which agree well with Aspicilia cinerea. The size of spores is (17.0) 17.7–[18.1]–18.4 (20.0) × (10.5) 11.3–[11.6]–11.9 (13.0) μm (n=10) and conidia are (16.0) 17.6–[18.1]–18.5 (21.0) μm (n=10). These data as well as overall morphology (Fig. 1A), thickness of hymenium (100 μm) and moniliform paraphyses makes us conclude that Aspicilia adamanticola is conspecific with A. cinerea.
description: Published as part of Paukov, Alexander, Nordin, Anders, Roux, Claude, Moon, Kwang Hee & Davydov, Evgeny, 2017, Lectotypification and synonymization of some Aspicilia species (Megasporaceae, Ascomycota) described by A. Hue from Korea and Japan, pp. 94-98 in Phytotaxa 291 (1) on page 94, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.291.1.10, http://zenodo.org/record/13698077
title: Cardiac computed tomography dose levels: a national approach and comparison with other cardiac radiation procedures
Creators: name: Vicente, Daniela
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Dosimetric comparison

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: The aim of this study is to obtain Portuguese cardiac Diagnostic Reference Levels (DRLs) in 64-multi-detector row CT scanner, and compare the effective dose values ​​with other cardiac radiological examinations performed in Portugal and...
Better Together: Improving Access to the Global Scholarly Record
Creators: name: Cheng, Chieh-Chih Estelle
name: Shuma, Lombe Tembo
name: Mostafa, Mohamad
name: Collins, Susan
name: Rosalien, Robbykha
name: Rahman, Arifa Ghani
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Open Scholarly infrastructure
POSI
Crossref
DataCite
ORCID
Collaboration
Better Together
Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure

description: In this webinar, we talked about who we are, our global equitable/participation/access programs, and how our organizations work together for the benefit of the scholarly community. This is a recording of the joint webinar series co-organized by DataCite, Crossref and ORCID. Crossref, DataCite and ORCID work together to provide a foundational open infrastructure that is integral to the global research ecosystem. We offer unique, persistent identifiers (PIDs) — Crossref and DataCite DOIs for research outputs and ORCID iDs for people — alongside collecting comprehensive, open metadata that is non-proprietary, accessible, interoperable, and available across borders, disciplines, and time. As sustainable community-driven scholarly infrastructure providers ORCID, Crossref and Datacite, guarantee data provenance and machine-readability. Persistent identifiers combined with open, standardized, and machine-readable metadata enable reliable and robust connections to be made between research outputs, organizations, individuals and much more, as well as being beneficial to others who build services and tools on top of the open infrastructure we provide making content more discoverable. This webinar took place on August 30 at 6:00 AM UTC.
Topological Rigidity Problems
Creators: name: Kasilingam, Ramesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 53C24, 57R65, 57N70, 57R05, 57Q25, 57R55, 57R50, Secondary 58D27, 58D17. 57N99, 19A99, 19B99, 19D99, 18F25, 19A31, 19B28, 19G24, 19G24, 19K99, 46L80

description: We survey the recent results and current issues on the topological rigidity problem for closed aspherical manifolds, i.e., connected closed manifolds whose universal coverings are contractible. A number of open problems and conjectures are presented during the course of the discussion. We also review the status and applications of the Farrell-Jones Conjecture for algebraic $K$-and $L$-theory for a group ring $RG$ and coefficients in an additive category. These conjectures imply many other well-known and important conjectures. Examples are the Borel Conjecture about the topological rigidity of closed aspherical manifolds, the Novikov Conjecture about the homotopy invariance of higher signatures and the Conjecture for vanishing of the Whitehead group. We here present the status of the Borel, Novikov and vanishing of the Whitehead group Conjectures.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:0901.0442, arXiv:0710.2269, arXiv:0902.2480 by other authors; text overlap with arXiv:math/0703548, arXiv:math/0510602, arXiv:1304.3730 by other authors
Tunneling Planar Hall Effect in Topological Insulators: Spin-Valves and Amplifiers
Creators: name: Scharf, Benedikt
name: Matos-Abiague, Alex
name: Han, Jong E.
name: Hankiewicz, Ewelina M.
name: Žutić, Igor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate tunneling across a single ferromagnetic barrier on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator. In the presence of a magnetization component along the bias direction, a tunneling planar Hall conductance (TPHC), transverse to the applied bias, develops. Electrostatic control of the barrier enables a giant Hall angle, with the TPHC exceeding the longitudinal tunneling conductance. By changing the in-plane magnetization direction it is possible to change the sign of both the longitudinal and transverse differential conductance without opening a gap in the topological surface state. The transport in a topological insulator/ferromagnet junction can thus be drastically altered from a simple spin-valve to an amplifier.
description: 13 pages, pages 6-13 contain supplemental material
title: Development of a software application for the registration and monitoring of diagnostic reference levels
Creators: name: Pinheiro, Joao
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Computer applications
subject: Professional issues
subject: Digital radiography
subject: CT
subject: Absorptiometry / Bone densitometry
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Dosimetry
subject: Computer Applications-General
subject: Occupational / Environmental hazards
subject: Quality assurance
subject: Patterns of Care

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: The main objective of this survey was the creation of a computer application for registration and control of radiation doses to which patients are exposed in radiology exams; Establishment of diagnostic reference levels (DRL) for the valences of...
Filament Shape Versus Coronal Potential Magnetic Field Structure
Creators: name: Filippov, Boris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solar filament shape in projection on disc depends on the structure of the coronal magnetic field. We calculate the position of polarity inversion lines (PILs) of coronal potential magnetic field at different heights above the photosphere, which compose the magnetic neutral surface, and compare with them the distribution of the filament material in H$α$ chromospheric images. We found that the most of the filament material is enclosed between two polarity inversion lines (PILs), one at a lower height close to the chromosphere and one at a higher level, which can be considered as a height of the filament spine. Observations of the same filament on the limb by the {\it STEREO} spacecraft confirm that the height of the spine is really very close to the value obtained from the PIL and filament border matching. Such matching can be used for filament height estimations in on-disk observations. Filament barbs are housed within protruding sections of the low-level PIL. On the base of simple model, we show that the similarity of the neutral surfaces in potential and non-potential fields with the same sub-photospheric sources is the reason for the found tendency for the filament material to gather near the potential-field neutral surface.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, to appear in MNRAS
Intrauterine Devices in Adolescents: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Belch, Jeremy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Background: Adolescent pregnancy is a major public health problem in the United States associated with negative sequelae for women, families, and children. Most of the recent decline in adolescent pregnancy in the United States is due to contraception; however the rate of adolescent pregnancy in the United States is still higher than in other developed nations. Long-acting reversible contraception is underutilized in this respect. Purpose: To review the literature on the outcomes of pregnancy rate, expulsion rate, and continuation rate in adolescent women using an IUD for contraception Data sources: MEDLINE, ISI Web of Science, and POPLINE searches; relevant reference lists Data extraction: 2670 titles and abstracts were reviewed, of which 213 were given full text reviews. 13 studies were included in the final review. Study selection: Studies were given relative weight based on the type of study and their strength of internal and external validity Data synthesis: The data are mixed for all three primary outcomes of the review with a large amount of heterogeneity in types of devices used. More and higher quality studies are needed to determine the effective rates as compared to other contraceptive interventions. Conclusion: The evidence currently available in the literature is currently insufficient to ascertain the appropriateness of IUDs as a first-line contraceptive for adolescents.
title: Impact of patient positioning during MRI of the Lumbar Spine in patients with stenosis: changes in lordosis and canal dimensions
Creators: name: Martins, Nuno
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology spine
subject: Anatomy
subject: MR
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Hernia
subject: Motility
subject: Pathology

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: To investigate the effect of patient positioning on Lumbar Lordosis (LL) and the transversal areas of the lumbar canals, when performing lumbar spine MR exams. To demonstrate that performing lumbar MRI with extended legs allows to more faithfully...