cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Synoviorthesis of the hip under CT scan guidance: interest and results on short and long-term follow-up
Creators: name: Mnari, Walid
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: CT
subject: Contrast agent-other
subject: Inflammation

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To evaluate clinical indications and efficacy of synoviorthesis in the management of chronic inflammatory arthritis of the hip. To outline the technique and advantages of injection of the hip under CT scan...
Aciotis circaeifolia Triana 1871
Creators: name: Corrêa, André Luis
name: Scudeller, Veridiana Vizoni
name: Goldenberg, Renato
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Myrtales
Melastomataceae
Aciotis
Aciotis circaeifolia

description: 2. Aciotis circaeifolia (Bonpland 1818: 101) Triana (1871: 52). (Figure 3M.)
Herbs 60–90 cm tall. Green smooth rhytidome. Branches erect, quadrangular, not winged, greenish, hollow; branche, leave, petiole, inflorescence, bracts, bracteoles, hypanthium and fruit with glandular persistent trichomes. Leaves opposite isophyllous; petiole channelled 9.4–14.2 mm long; leaf blades 6.8–9.4 × 2.3–4.4 cm, membranous, concolorous, symmetrical, lanceolate, base cordate, apex acuminate, margins serrate and ciliate, leaf veins 8, basal; ant domatia absent. Inflorescence a thyrse 8.6–17.8 × 4.6–5.6 cm, terminal; bracts 0.5–0.9 mm long, persistent; bracteoles 0.2–0.3 mm long, persistent. Flowers 4-merous, sessile; hypanthium ca. 3.5 mm long, campanulate, smooth; calyx simple, persistent; petals 8.1–8.4 × 3–6.6 mm, white, oblong, symmetrical, apex acuminate, base cuneate, margins not ciliate, glabrous; stamens 8, isomorphic, anthers 0.8–1.2 mm long, white, oblong, straight, apex acute, 1 apical pore, connective not prolonged, filament 2.2–2.9 mm long, glabrous; ovary ca. 2 mm long, half-inferior, placentation axillary, 2-locular, glabrous; style ca. 6.5 mm long, straight, glabrous. Capsule 4.3–4.5 × 3.1–3.3 mm, unripe fruit green, ripe fruit blackish; seeds numerous, ovoid.
 Specimens examined: — BRAZIL. Amazonas, Manaus, RDS-Tupé, 05 June 2012,fl., A. L. Corrêa 14 (EAFM!, HUAM!, INPA!); 09 June 2012, fl, A. L. Corrêa 21 (EAFM!, HUAM!, INPA!); 27 July 2012, fl, A. L. Corrêa 26 (EAFM!, HUAM!, INPA!); 16 August 2012, fl.,fr., A. L. Corrêa 56 (INPA!); 05 December 2012, fl., A. L. Corrêa 108 (EAFM!, HUAM!, INPA!); 06 December 2012, A. L. Corrêa 115 (EAFM!, HUAM!, INPA!); 30 January. 2012, fl., A. L. Corrêa 133 (EAFM!, HUAM!, INPA!); 02 March 2012, fl., A. L. Corrêa 189 (EAFM!, HUAM!, INPA!).
 Distribution and habitat: — Colombia, Guyana (Freire-Fierro, 2002). In Brazil it occurs in Amazonian forests (Rosa & Baumgratz, 2015). In the reserve it occurs in altered environments and trail edges.
 Comments: —This species is frequently found in the reserve. It can be recognized by the greenish quadrangular branches and cordate leaf base.
description: Published as part of Corrêa, André Luis, Scudeller, Veridiana Vizoni & Goldenberg, Renato, 2017, Melastomataceae in the Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável do Tupé, Amazonas, Brazil, pp. 101-127 in Phytotaxa 323 (2) on page 106, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.323.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13696786
Parametric Analysis of Battery-Electric Rotorcraft - Configurations to Fly on Mars
Creators: name:  VISHAL YOUHANNA
name:   LEONARD FELICETTI
name:   DMITRY IGNATYEV
Publisher: name: Proceedings of the Aerospace Europe Conference - EUCASS - CEAS - 2023
Year: 2023
Subjects: MARS EXPLORATION
SPACE DRONE
MARTIAN AEROBOT
ROTORCRAFT

description: The success of NASAs Ingenuity Helicopter promises that the future exploration of Mars will include aerobots in line with rovers and landers. However, Ingenuity lacks long-range endurance and scientific payload capacity because of its small and elementary design. In the series of optimised Martian drone concepts development, we introduced in this paper - an initial sizing of rotary eVTOL design configurations based on the performed parametric analysis for hover and vertical climb using simplified rotorcraft momentum theory, for a set of more challenging requirements for a Martian aerobot mission and sized to fit into the maximum spacecraft aeroshell limit. A tandem rotor configuration was found to be the most efficient configuration, whereas a conventional single main rotor configuration with small diameters manifested the poorest performance.
Supplementary document for Fast shaping control of X-ray beams using a closed-loop adaptive bimorph deformable mirror - 6161589.pdf
Creators: name: Alcock, Simon
name: Nistea, Ioana
name: Badami, Vivek
name: Signorato, Riccardo
name: fusco, Matteo
name: Hu, Lingfei
name: Wang, Hongchang
name: Sawhney, Kawal
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 29904 Synchrotrons; Accelerators; Instruments and Techniques
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Supplementary Materials
Entangling macroscopic diamonds at room temperature: Bounds on the continuous-spontaneous-localization parameters
Creators: name: Belli, S.
name: Bonsignori, R.
name: D'Auria, G.
name: Fant, L.
name: Martini, M.
name: Peirone, S.
name: Donadi, S.
name: Bassi, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A recent experiment [K. C. Lee et al., Science 334, 1253 (2011)] succeeded in detecting entanglement between two macroscopic specks of diamonds, separated by a macroscopic distance, at room temperature. This impressive results is a further confirmation of the validity of quantum theory in (at least parts of) the mesoscopic and macroscopic domain, and poses a challenge to collapse models, which predict a violation of the quantum superposition principle, which is the bigger the larger the system. We analyze the experiment in the light of such models. We will show that the bounds placed by experimental data are weaker than those coming from matter-wave interferometry and non-interferometric tests of collapse models.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, v2: close to the published version, LaTeX
title: Structured induction of junior doctors into making appropriate use of radiology services - a local experience
Creators: name: Hurst, Emily
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: PACS
subject: Professional issues
subject: Ethics
subject: Education and training
subject: Workforce

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Learn a method for educating junior doctors on the referral process for radiology investigations. Analyse which information is of most use to them as referrers. Learn how to maintain this educational...
Examining the role of the human frontal eye field (FEF) in anticipatory pursuit via high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (hd-tDCS)
Creators: name: Quirmbach, Felix
name: Caie, Brandon
name: Blohm, Gunnar
name: Bremmer, Frank
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: anticipatory pursuit
subject: frontal eye field
subject: tDCS

description: In this study, we aim to examine the role of the FEF in pursuit. Specifically, we will contrast its influence on the gain of (memory-driven) anticipatory versus (visually-driven) steady-state pursuit. To do so, par-ticipants will be tasked to track a target motion with high movement predictability (timing, speed, direction). To evoke changes in pursuit behavior, we will utilize the relatively new technique of high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (hd-tDCS). The task presented consists of two functional parts: First, target blanking before the onset of movement allows to calculate anticipatory pursuit in the absence of visual feedback. Second, perturbations of the target otherwise moving with a constant velocity evoke eye movement reactions during steady-state pursuit whose magnitudes depends on the current visuo-to-motor gain without the influence of prediction.
Assessment of the Benefits of an Express STD Clinic Flow Model in Eliminating Turn Aways
Creators: name: Southern, Judy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: In a nation that has made so much progress in the twentieth century in reducing the burden of disease, the United States is still plagued with a continued high rate of sexually transmitted infections (STIs),with an estimated 19 million new STIs annually (CDC). With lack of healthcare coverage, where do these individuals who are infected seek screening and treatment? The burden has fallen more and more on the local health department to provide this free or low cost service. With continued high rates of sexually transmitted infections, the public health burden to provide clinical treatment is stretched to a breaking point in some areas of the United States. Innovative quality improvement measures are required to find solutions to this growing problem. Local and state health departments seek ways to expand STI Clinic services to meet this rise in sexually transmitted infections. Lack of resources and qualified medical providers has spurred new and inventive solutions, including “Express STD (sexually transmitted disease) Visits, Expedited Partner Therapy, embedded Communicable Disease Investigators in HIV Clinics for partner interviews, and Hepatitis B (and A) Vaccination in STD Clinics” (James, 2). Related evidenced based studies have proven these new approaches are effective. Of the 100 counties in North Carolina, only one, Wake County HIV/STD Clinic, is using the Express STD Clinic Flow Model to accommodate this influx of patients. Another North Carolina county, Forsyth County, has experienced an increase in syphilis rates, including a rise from 45 cases in 2008 to 210 cases in 2009. Subsequently, there has been an increase in the volume of STI clients seeking services; and additionally, a substantial increase in turnaways at the Forsyth County Department of Public Health STD Clinic. A pilot study, which initiated the first Express STD Clinic Flow Model in Forsyth County, is producing evidence based data showing its effectiveness in reducing the 3 immense (up to 44% in May 2009) turnaway rates in the STD Clinic to less than one percent after two months.
title: R2* Relaxometry for monitoring hepatic iron overload: a comparison with serum ferritin
Creators: name: Plaikner, Michaela
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Pathology
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: MR
subject: Liver

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To evaluate R2* relaxometry for therapy monitoring in patients with hepatic iron overload. Therefore we compared changes of R2* under therapy with serum ferritin (SF)...
title: CT-guided percutaneous Irreversible Electroporation (IRE) of malignant lung tumors: A peri-procedural Safety Analysis of 17 IRE sessions performed in a lung cancer center.
Creators: name: Sommer, Christof
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Oncology
subject: CT
subject: Percutaneous
subject: Ablation procedures
subject: Safety
subject: Cancer
subject: Neoplasia

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To analyze the peri-procedural safety of CT-guided percutaneous Irreversible Electroporation (IRE) of malignant lung...
Opioid Abuse and Barriers to Treatment with Buprenorphine: An Exploration & Policy Analysis
Creators: name: Robinson, Michael
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Introduction: Opioid addiction and abuse continues to reach epidemic status in the United States. Many individuals who desire treatment are unable to do so. Buprenorphine is one method of Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) that can be prescribed by any outpatient physician who completes training and obtains a waiver - however, provider uptake of buprenorphine has been low. This paper sought to examine the barriers to provider uptake of buprenorphine, as well as analyze relevant policy to help inform future solutions Methods: A limited systematic review examining provider attitudes and beliefs surrounding buprenorphine, followed by a policy analysis with recommendations for future policy. Results: Search strategy yielded 201 articles, 64 articles screened after duplicate removal, 19 articles assessed for eligibility and 9 articles identified for full review. Key barriers identified included stigma towards addiction population, lack of support & resources, as well as lack of training. The role of Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, and other legislation and policies in substance abuse treatment and buprenorphine adoption was discussed. Conclusion: Despite growth in the number of waivered physicians, crucial barriers towards physician adoption of buprenorphine remain. Training early in a clinician’s career, increased financial remuneration for addiction treatment, and other programs to facilitate provider support might be essential towards changing the culture and attitudes of providers towards the addiction population and promoting buprenorphine use.
title: Lung cancer early detection via breath analysis
Creators: name: Liran, Ori
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Experimental
subject: Lung

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States with more than 159,000 estimated deaths in 2014.150,000 new lung nodules are detected annually in US, while only minor percentage of them is malignant.Final diagnosis requires...
Aciotis indecora Triana 1871
Creators: name: Corrêa, André Luis
name: Scudeller, Veridiana Vizoni
name: Goldenberg, Renato
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Myrtales
Melastomataceae
Aciotis
Aciotis indecora

description: 3. Aciotis indecora (Bonpland 1821: 131) Triana (1871: 52).
Herbs 40–80 cm tall. Green smooth rhytidome. Branches erect, quadrangular, not winged, reddish, hollow; branche, leave, petiole, inflorescence, hypanthium and fruit with glandular persistent trichomes. Leaves opposite isophyllous,; petiole channelled 1.4–2 cm long; leaf blades 5.7–6.8 × 2.9–3.6 cm, membranous, concolorous, symmetrical, elliptic, base cordate, apex acuminate, margins serrate and ciliate, adaxial side with glandular persistent trichomes, abaxial surface with persistent simple trichomes, leaf veins 8, basal; ant domatia absent. Inflorescences 7.8–8.6 × 3.1–5.3 cm, a terminal thyrse; bracts 1.9–6.1 mm long, ovate, persistent, with glandular trichomes; bracteoles ca. 0.3 mm long. Flowers 4-merous; pedicel ca. 0.2 mm long; hypanthium 0.6 mm long, campanulate, smooth; calyx simple, persistent; petals 3–3.2 × 1.7–2.2 mm, white, ovate, symmetrical, apex acute, base cuneate, margins ciliate,abaxial side with glandular tricomes; stamens 8, isomorphic, anthers 1.3–1.6 mm long, oblong, straight, apex attenuate, 1 apical pore, white, appendaged, filament 2.1–2.3 mm long, glabrous; ovary 2–2.3 mm long, half-inferior, placentation axillary, 3-locular, with glandular trichomes; style 4.7–5.5 mm long, straight, glabrous. Capsule 3.8–4.3 × 2.6–2.8 mm, unripe fruit green, ripe fruit red; seeds numerous, ovoid.
 Specimens examined: — BRAZIL. Amazonas, Manaus, RDS-Tupé, 31 January. 2013, fl., fr., A. L. Corrêa 138 (EAFM!, HUAM!, INPA!); 01 February 2013, fl.,fr., A. L. Corrêa 150 (EAFM!, HUAM!, INPA!).
 Distribution and habitat: —In Central and South America except in El Salvador, South America except for Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay (Freire-Fierro 2002). In Brazil it occurs in Amazonian and Atlantic florests (Rosa & Baumgratz, 2015). In the reserve it occurs in humid environments, near streams, on sandy soil.
 Comments: —This species is frequently found in the reserve. It can be distinguished by the reddish branches with glandular trichomes, and by the abaxial surface of petals and ovary apex covered with glandular trichomes.
description: Published as part of Corrêa, André Luis, Scudeller, Veridiana Vizoni & Goldenberg, Renato, 2017, Melastomataceae in the Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável do Tupé, Amazonas, Brazil, pp. 101-127 in Phytotaxa 323 (2) on page 107, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.323.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13696786
title: Evaluation of Occupational Dose Reduction in Interventional Radiology Using Lead-Free Protection Drape
Creators: name: Abdullah, Basri Johan Jeet
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Occupational / Environmental hazards

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Occupational radiation dose in interventional radiology (IR) has become a concern due to increasing complexity of the procedures and fluoroscopic time [1, 2]. A lead free protection drape (RadPad Worldwide Innovations & Technologies, USA) has been...
Feeding Decisions Amongst Latina Mothers at UNC
Creators: name: Iskander, Christopher
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: BACKGROUND: The American Academy of Pediatrics has for years championed the recommendation that mothers exclusively breastfeed their newborns for 6 months continuing to supplement up to 1 year of age. This is a recommendation that has been observed to varying extents by various populations, but has not been tracked within the Latina population. OBJECTIVE: To identify variables that influence initial feeding decisions, determine the prevalence of breastfeeding by Latina mothers at three months post-delivery, and identify the triggers that prompt mothers to change methods of feeding between the discharge and follow-up. METHODS: 21 women were recruited to the study shortly after giving birth at UNC Hospitals. These women were administered the initial survey, and then were followed up with at 1-month postpartum. RESULTS: Of the 21 women recruited, 19 were eligible for follow-up at the time of submission. Of these 19 women, 6 women responded to the follow-up survey, one of whom was recruited early enough to provide follow-up response at 1, 2, and 3 months postpartum. The women who completed follow-up surveys were predominantly born in the United States and unlikely to work outside the home, whereas a smaller proportion of the mothers from the initial survey a group of responses which did include the mothers who followed up were from the United States, but a higher percentage worked outside the home. CONCLUSIONS: 94.7% of Latina mothers who deliver at UNC leave the hospital intending to breastfeeding their newborns. 57.9% of these women plan to exclusively breastfeed. 50% of those who followed up continued to exclusively breastfeed at 1-month postpartum. Additionally, when conducting follow-up with the Latina population, text message is the ideal form of communication, and when not possible, using a non-hospital affiliated phone line better than using a hospital land line.
USDA Indemnity Values for 2022: Commercial Table
Creators: name: Forsythe, Ken
name: Ham, Charlotte
name: Gabrielyan, Georgi
name: , Animal
name: Farm Service Agency
name: Farm Production And Conservation Business Center
name: Forsythe, Ken
name: Ham, Charlotte
name: Gabrielyan, Georgi
name: , Animal
name: Farm Service Agency
name: Farm Production And Conservation Business Center
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Demand and Price Analysis
Livestock Production/Industries
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Excerpts from the report: This document contains indemnity values for commercial animal agricultural commodities intended for use across U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) agencies or business units that deal with indemnity programs. These entities include the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Veterinary Services (VS), USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA), and the USDA Farm Production and Conservation Business Center (FPAC-BC). The commercial indemnity values presented here represent harmonized methods and data sources at the USDA level. Use of these values by APHIS-VS, FSA, and FPAC-BC will vary according to program differences across these agencies and business units. These commercial indemnity values are estimated based on observable market transactions available from nationally recognized data sources including the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), and the Livestock Marketing Information Center (LMIC). These data provide observations of market transactions occurring at fair market value (FMV), which provide the basis for the estimates. The objectives of the changes to indemnity valuations are to: (1) Develop a transparent and data-driven indemnity value matrix to set indemnity values for all regulated species (USDA APHIS 9 CFR, Parts 50-56) and other relevant species. (2) Harmonize methods and data sources between the USDA APHIS VS, FSA, and the FPAC-BC.
Nearby stars as gravitational wave detectors
Creators: name: Lopes, Ilídio
name: Silk, Joseph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Sun-like stellar oscillations are excited by turbulent convection and have been discovered in some 500 main sequence and sub-giant stars and in more than 12,000 red giant stars. When such stars are near gravitational wave sources, low-order quadrupole acoustic modes are also excited above the experimental threshold of detectability, and they can be observed, in principle, in the acoustic spectra of these stars. Such stars form a set of natural detectors to search for gravitational waves over a large spectral frequency range, from $10^{-7}$ Hz to $10^{-2}$ Hz. In particular, these stars can probe the $10^{-6}$ Hz -- $10^{-4}$ Hz spectral window which cannot be probed by current conventional gravitational wave detectors, such as SKA and eLISA. The PLATO stellar seismic mission will achieve photospheric velocity amplitude accuracy of $~ {\rm cm/s}$. For a gravitational wave search, we will need to achieve accuracies of the order of $10^{-2}{\rm cm/s}$, i.e., at least one generation beyond PLATO. However, we have found that multi-body stellar systems have the ideal setup for this type of gravitational wave search. This is the case for triple stellar systems formed by a compact binary and an oscillating star. Continuous monitoring of the oscillation spectra of these stars to a distance of up to a kpc could lead to the discovery of gravitational waves originating in our galaxy or even elsewhere in the universe. Moreover, unlike experimental detectors, this observational network of stars will allow us to study the progression of gravitational waves throughout space.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures and 1 table. Published in The Astrophysical Journal
title: Percutaneous dual stent placement for malignant hilar obstruction: comparison between T and criss-cross configuration
Creators: name: Jeon, Chang Ho
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biliary Tract / Gallbladder
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Oncology
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Percutaneous
subject: Stents
subject: Outcomes

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Advanced malignant biliary hilar obstruction result from hepatic malignancy such as cholangiocarcinoma or metastasis is difficult to treat, both surgically and non-surgically, using endoscopic or percutaneous drainage. Percutaneous palliation with...
Instrument Development of the UNC Dry Eye Management Scale
Creators: name: Grubbs, Joseph, Jr.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Dry Eye Disease (DED) is a chronic disease that diminishes the quality of life (QOL) of millions of Americans. Clinical tests of DED poorly correlate with patient-reported symptoms, and current dry eye questionnaires that include QOL measures require considerable time and effort to complete. Therefore, as part of a research team in the University of North Carolina (UNC) Ophthalmology Department, I helped develop a single-item, patient-reported dry eye scale that conveys both the patient’s dry eye symptoms and the effects of these symptoms on the patient’s quality of life. Our initial questionnaire development consisted of two phases: conceptualization and questionnaire development and cognitive interviewing and questionnaire modification. During phase one, we performed an extensive literature review and consulted multiple patients and experts to create the conceptual framework for our dry eye questionnaire. During phase 2, we administered this preliminary questionnaire to multiple dry eye patients; then, using cognitive interviewing techniques, we asked these patients several questions about the questionnaire. In total, 18 patients were interviewed, and their input led to further modifications of our dry eye scale and ultimately led to the final product: the UNC Dry Eye Management Scale (UNC DEMS). Validity and reliability testing of this dry eye scale are ongoing, but early statistical analyses indicate that the UNC DEMS is a valid patient-reported measure of both symptoms and QOL in DED. Our hope is that this tool will assist both clinicians and patients in the monitoring and management of DED in the time-constricted clinical setting.
title: Brain MR Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Kennedy’s Disease
Creators: name: Di Giuliano, Francesca
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Genetic defects
subject: Technical aspects
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Neuroradiology brain

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: We investigated whole brain white matter integrity, including upper motor neuron tracts, by using diffusion-tensor-imaging (DTI) in eight patients with KD, in which disease severity was evaluated using the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Functional...
Perceptions of Comparative Optimism and Perceptions of Career Success: Experimental Evidence for a Bidirectional Effect
Creators: name: MILHABET, Isabelle
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Audiences generally view people who display more (versus less) comparative optimism more favorably. We explored whether audiences view a target who displays comparative optimism as more professionally successful and conversely, whether they view a target who is more professionally successful as more comparatively optimistic. In Study 1, participants estimated the career success of a target that varied in level of comparative optimism. In Study 2, participants estimated the level of comparative optimism of a target that varied in career success. The results revealed that observers rated comparative optimists as likely to have successful careers, and rated people with successful careers as likely to display comparative optimism. Inferences about personal agency account for the bidirectional relationship.
title: What do you have in your brain? A review about neuroparasitosis
Creators: name: Campos, Lillian Gonçalves
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR
subject: Education
subject: Infection

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To review the pathophysiology of different parasitic infections that affect the central nervous system (CNS) and explain the utility of imaging methods in their diagnosis with illustrative cases of a tertiary South Brazilian...
Dielectrophoretic separation of blood cells
Creators: name: Emmerich, Maria E. P.
name: Sinnigen, Anne-Sophie
name: Neubauer, Peter
name: Birkholz, Mario
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie
subject: bioelectronics
subject: dielectrophoresis
subject: blood cells
subject: cell separation
subject: microfluidics
subject: lab-on-chip systems

description: Microfluidic dielectrophoretic (DEP) devices enable the label-free separation and isolation of cells based on differences in their electrophysiological properties. The technique can serve as a tool in clinical diagnostics and medical research as it facilitates the analysis of patient-specific blood composition and the detection and isolation of pathogenic cells like circulating tumor cells or malaria-infected erythrocytes. This review compares different microfluidic DEP devices to separate platelets, erythrocytes and leukocytes including their cellular subclasses. An overview and experimental setups of different microfluidic DEP devices for the separation, trapping and isolation or purification of blood cells are detailed with respect to their technical design, electrode configuration, sample preparation, applied voltage and frequency and created DEP field based and related to the separation efficiency. The technique holds the promise that results can quickly be attained in clinical and ambulant settings. In particular, point-of-care-testing scenarios are favored by the extensive miniaturization, which would be enabled by microelectronical integration of DEP devices.
The 2009 WIC Program Revisions: An Analysis of the Policy, Health Outcomes, and Costs
Creators: name: Cuervo, Maria Catalina
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Objective: This paper evaluates the effect of the 2009 revisions to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) food packages intended to increase access and consumption of a varied, healthy diet. Methods: This paper uses methodological triangulation to addresses whether the WIC program achieved its stated goals of improving access to healthy foods within the first year of implementing new food packages. I provide a synthesis of the current state of the field, a secondary analysis of a large nationally representative survey, and a limited review of economic evaluations of the WIC program. Results: The revisions to the WIC food packages in part reflect a political movement to respond to the growing obesity epidemic in the United States. A series of Congressional hearings followed by reports from the Government Accountability Office and the Institute of Medicine provide the groundwork for a change in WIC program policy. The review of recent studies of the effect of the food package changes suggests that implementation was successful, as stores succeeded in adjusting inventories to comply with new regulations and participants are, in general, eating a healthier diet compared to before the revisions. I conducted a pre-post analysis of NHANES data comparing food item availability, food security, and BMI among WIC participants, and found that even within one year after implementation, WIC participants were on average more likely to have access to healthy foods (fruits, vegetables, low-fat milk) after the food package revisions, than before. Food security also improved for children after the policy change, though within this short time frame no reduction in obesity was observed. My literature review of economic evaluations found few published articles addressing WIC program costs as they pertain to participant health and health care utilization. However, a review of government documents shows that researchers acknowledge the lack of cost outcomes, and provide guidelines for future research. Conclusion: These findings demonstrate that the WIC program has responded to growing national concern about nutrition and health, and has successfully adapted the program to respond to the higher prevalence of obesity, particularly among children. The policy changes implemented in 2009 are largely successful in reaching one of its stated goals - increasing access to a more varied and healthier diet for participants. I provide specific recommendations for future research emphasizing the importance of multi-state analyses and the inclusion of program and health care costs.
The LEECH Exoplanet Imaging Survey: Orbit and Component Masses of the Intermediate Age, Late-Type Binary NO UMa
Creators: name: Schlieder, Joshua E.
name: Skemer, Andrew J.
name: Maire, Anne-Lise
name: Desidera, Silvano
name: Hinz, Philip
name: Skrutskie, Michael F.
name: Leisenring, Jarron
name: Bailey, Vanessa
name: Defrere, Denis
name: Esposito, Simone
name: Strassmeier, Klaus G.
name: Weber, Michael
name: Biller, Beth A.
name: Bonnefoy, Mickael
name: Buenzli, Esther
name: Close, Laird M.
name: Crepp, Justin R.
name: Eisner, Josh A.
name: Hofmann, Karl-Heinz
name: Henning, Thomas
name: Morzinski, Katie M.
name: Schertl, Dieter
name: Weigelt, Gerd
name: Woodward, Charles E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present high-resolution Large Binocular Telescope LBTI/LMIRcam images of the spectroscopic and astrometric binary NO UMa obtained as part of the LBTI Exozodi Exoplanet Common Hunt (LEECH) exoplanet imaging survey. Our H, K$_s$, and L'-band observations resolve the system at angular separations <0.09". The components exhibit significant orbital motion over a span of ~7 months. We combine our imaging data with archival images, published speckle interferometry measurements, and existing spectroscopic velocity data to solve the full orbital solution and estimate component masses. The masses of the K2.0$\pm$0.5 primary and K6.5$\pm$0.5 secondary are 0.83$\pm$0.02 M$_{\odot}$ and 0.64$\pm$0.02 M$_{\odot}$, respectively. We also derive a system distance of d = 25.87$\pm$0.02 pc and revise the Galactic kinematics of NO UMa. Our revised Galactic kinematics confirm NO UMa as a nuclear member of the ~500 Myr old Ursa Major moving group and it is thus a mass and age benchmark. We compare the masses of the NO UMa binary components to those predicted by five sets of stellar evolution models at the age of the Ursa Major group. We find excellent agreement between our measured masses and model predictions with little systematic scatter between the models. NO UMa joins the short list of nearby, bright, late-type binaries having known ages and fully characterized orbits.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ
Existence, Uniqueness and Asymptotic Behavior of Parametric Anisotropic (p, q)-Equations with Convection
Creators: name: Vetro, Francesca
name: Winkert, Patrick
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 510 Mathematik
subject: anisotropic eigenvalue problem
subject: anisotropic (p, q)-Laplace differential operator
subject: asymptotic behavior
subject: convection term
subject: gradient dependence
subject: pseudomonotone operators
subject: uniqueness

description: In this paper we study anisotropic weighted (p, q)-equations with a parametric right-hand side depending on the gradient of the solution. Under very general assumptions on the data and by using a topological approach, we prove existence and uniqueness results and study the asymptotic behavior of the solutions when both the q(⋅)-Laplacian on the left-hand side and the reaction term are modulated by a parameter. Moreover, we present some properties of the solution sets with respect to the parameters.
title: Dynamic Contrast Enhanced-Ultrasound (DCE-US ) an innovative option to evaluate early response to imatinib in metastatic Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (GISTs)
Creators: name: Bolzacchini, Elena
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Oncology
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Contrast agent-other
subject: Cancer

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Describe the role of Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasonography (DCE-US) to monitor the response to Imatinib of c-kit positive Metastatic Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors...
Bellucia dichotoma Cogniaux 1888
Creators: name: Corrêa, André Luis
name: Scudeller, Veridiana Vizoni
name: Goldenberg, Renato
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Myrtales
Melastomataceae
Bellucia
Bellucia dichotoma

description: 5. Bellucia dichotoma Cogniaux (1888: 514).
Trees 4–30 m tall. Dark gray and scaly rhytidome. Erect branches, cylindrical, not winged, whitish brown; branches, leaves, inflorescence, hypanthium and fruits with simple trichomes, caducous. Leaves opposite isophyllous; petiole slightly channeled 3.8–5.3 cm long; leaf blades 23–31 × 13.4–21.2 cm, coriaceous, concolorous, oval, base cuneate, apex acuminate, margins entire, not ciliate, leaf veins 5, basal or suprabasal; ant domatia absent. Cyme, cauliflorous; bracts and bracteoles absent. Flowers 6-merous; pedicel 16–18 mm long; hypanthium ca. 9 mm, campanulate, smooth; calyx simple, persitent; petals 21.2–25.5 × 13.2–16.2 mm, white, obovate, symmetrical, apex acute, margins not ciliate, glabrous; stamens 12–13, isomorphic, anthers 8.5–8.9 mm long, ovoid, straight, apex acute, 2 subapical pores, connective not prolonged, filament 10.6–10.8 mm long, glabrous; ovary 5–7 mm long, inferior, placentation intrusive axillary, 12-locular, glabrous; style 21.7–28.6 mm long, straight, glabrous. Berry 24.6 × 28.6 mm, unripe fruit green, ripe fruit yellow; seeds numerous, ovoid.
 Specimens examined: — BRAZIL. Amazonas, Manaus, RDS-Tupé, 05 June 2012, fl.,fr., A. L. Corrêa 12 (EAFM!, HUAM!, INPA!); 09 June 2012, fl., fr., A. L. Corrêa 25 (EAFM!, HUAM!, INPA!).
 Distribution and habitat: — Bolivia (Renner 1989). In Brazil it occurs in Amazonian florests (Lima & Baumgratz 2015). In the reserve it occurs in altered areas, trail edges, and in “terra firme”, inside natural openings in the forest.
 Comments: —This s pecies is frequent in the reserve. It can be distinghuished by the dark gray and scaly rhytidome and cauliflorous cymes.
description: Published as part of Corrêa, André Luis, Scudeller, Veridiana Vizoni & Goldenberg, Renato, 2017, Melastomataceae in the Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável do Tupé, Amazonas, Brazil, pp. 101-127 in Phytotaxa 323 (2) on pages 107-108, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.323.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13696786
Making the Case for Using Financial Indicators in Local Public Health Agencies
Creators: name: Suarez, Virginia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Local public health departments rely on the strength of the public health infrastructure - workforce, information systems, financial, and organizational capacity - as well as sustained, consistent investment, and cooperation from all levels of government to not only respond to emergencies but to also provide their essential services. In this paper, organizational capacity is defined as maximizing the potential of an organization to perform by effectively acquiring and using its resources. For decades, organizations have used financial management and quantitative tools like financial indicators (also called ratio analysis) to evaluate, monitor, forecast, and strategically minimize their economic losses while meeting their organization’s goals and mission. This is not the case with local public health systems. The objective of this paper is to examine the use of financial indicators by hospitals and local city governments, locate any examples demonstrating the strategic use of financial indicators in improving their organizational capacity, and gain insights on how these practices can be applied to local public health departments. Key findings from the reviewed literature showed that financial indicators is an essential tool used by hospitals and local city governments to monitor their financial condition, to produce benchmarks, to identify strengths and weaknesses, and to strategically improve their financial performance. All of these efforts can also be applied to local public health departments. Recommendations are provided on the basis of these findings to promote the use of financial indicators as an essential tool in local public health agencies in ensuring the efficient and effective use of resources for meeting their mission.
Learning Hidden Unit Contributions for Unsupervised Acoustic Model Adaptation
Creators: name: Swietojanski, Pawel
name: Li, Jinyu
name: Renals, Steve
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This work presents a broad study on the adaptation of neural network acoustic models by means of learning hidden unit contributions (LHUC) -- a method that linearly re-combines hidden units in a speaker- or environment-dependent manner using small amounts of unsupervised adaptation data. We also extend LHUC to a speaker adaptive training (SAT) framework that leads to a more adaptable DNN acoustic model, working both in a speaker-dependent and a speaker-independent manner, without the requirements to maintain auxiliary speaker-dependent feature extractors or to introduce significant speaker-dependent changes to the DNN structure. Through a series of experiments on four different speech recognition benchmarks (TED talks, Switchboard, AMI meetings, and Aurora4) comprising 270 test speakers, we show that LHUC in both its test-only and SAT variants results in consistent word error rate reductions ranging from 5% to 23% relative depending on the task and the degree of mismatch between training and test data. In addition, we have investigated the effect of the amount of adaptation data per speaker, the quality of unsupervised adaptation targets, the complementarity to other adaptation techniques, one-shot adaptation, and an extension to adapting DNNs trained in a sequence discriminative manner.
description: 14 pages, 9 Tables, 11 Figues in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 24, Num. 8, 2016
Bellucia spruceana J. F. Macbride 1941
Creators: name: Corrêa, André Luis
name: Scudeller, Veridiana Vizoni
name: Goldenberg, Renato
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Myrtales
Melastomataceae
Bellucia
Bellucia spruceana

description: 7. Bellucia spruceana (Bentham ex Triana 1871: 143) J.F.Macbride (1941: 499). (Figure 2 G.)
Trees 4–12 m tall. Gray and scaly rhytidome. Branches erect, cylindrical, not winged, whitish, glabrous. Leaves opposite isophyllous; petiole channelled 1.3–1.8 cm long, with simple persistent trichomes; leaf blades 16.5–25.6 × 9.4–18.1 cm, membranous, concolorous, symmetrical, ovate, base obtuse, apex acute, margins entire, not ciliate, adaxial and abaxial, leaf veins 5, suprabasal; ant domatia absent. Flowers solitary, ramiflorous; bracts and bracteoles absent. Flowers 5-merous; pedicel 12.6–13.7 mm long; hypanthium 7.6 mm long, campanulate, wrinkled, glabrous; calyx simple and persistent; petals 19.8–20.7 × 13.6–14.1 mm, white, obovate, symmetrical, apex acute, base attenuate, margins not ciliate, glabrous; stamens 10, isomorphic, anthers 7.3–7.8 mm long, ovoid, straight, 1 apical pore, connective not prolonged, appendaged, filament 9.2–10 mm long, glabrous; ovary ca. 6.9 mm long, inferior, placentation axillary intrusive, 10-locular, glabrous; style 22.3–22.9 mm long, straight, glabrous. Berry 19.8 × 22.8 cm, unripe fruit green, ripe fruit yellow, with simple caducous trichomes; seeds numerous, obovate.
 Specimens examined: — BRAZIL. Amazonas, Manaus, RDS-Tupé, 07 December 2012, fr., A. L. Corrêa 119 (EAFM!, HUAM!, INPA!); 30 January 2013, fl., A. L. Corrêa 130 (EAFM!, HUAM!, INPA!); 01 February 2013, fl., A. L. Corrêa 141 (EAFM!, HUAM!, INPA!); 02 March 2013, fl., A. L. Corrêa 187 (EAFM!, HUAM!, INPA!); 28 August 2013, fr., A. L. Corrêa 247 (EAFM!, HUAM!, INPA!).
 Distribution and habitat: — Bolivia, Colombia, Guyana, Ecuador, Peru (Berry et al. 2001). In Brazil it occurs in Amazonian florests (Lima & Baumgratz, 2015). In the reserve, it occurs in “terra firme”, on a plateau with clay soil.
 Comments: —This species is rare in the reserve. It can be distinguished by the light gray and scaly rhytidome, and flowers with five petals. It can be confounded with Bellucia grossulariodes, which has six petals and dark and gray rhytidome.
description: Published as part of Corrêa, André Luis, Scudeller, Veridiana Vizoni & Goldenberg, Renato, 2017, Melastomataceae in the Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável do Tupé, Amazonas, Brazil, pp. 101-127 in Phytotaxa 323 (2) on page 108, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.323.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13696786
Assigning Obligations in AI Regulation: A Discussion of Two Frameworks Proposed By the European Commission
Creators: name: Jacobs, Mattis
name: Simon, Judith
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 301 Soziologie, Anthropologie
subject: artificial Intelligence
subject: algorithmic decision-making
subject: governance
subject: regulation
subject: Artificial Intelligence Act

description: The emergence and increasing prevalence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems in a growing number of application areas brings about opportunities but also risks for individuals and society as a whole. To minimize the risks associated with AI systems and to mitigate potential harm caused by them, recent policy papers and regulatory proposals discuss obliging developers, deployers, and operators of these systems to avoid certain types of use and features in their design. However, most AI systems are complex socio-technical systems in which control over the system is extensively distributed. In many cases, a multitude of different actors is involved in the purpose setting, data management and data preparation, model development, as well as deployment, use, and refinement of such systems. Therefore, determining sensible addressees for the respective obligations is all but trivial. This article discusses two frameworks for assigning obligations that have been proposed in the European Commission’s whitepaper On Artificial Intelligence—A European approach to excellence and trust and the proposal for the Artificial Intelligence Act respectively. The focus is on whether the frameworks adequately account for the complex constellations of actors that are present in many AI systems and how the various tasks in the process of developing, deploying, and using AI systems, in which threats can arise, are distributed among these actors.
title: 3D clinical vascular model molded with a 3D print
Creators: name: Shimada, Morio
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CAD
subject: Aneurysms
subject: Arteriosclerosis

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: to learn 3D printer for 3D clinical vascular...