cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Hydrogen Bonding of IgG and IgM Antibodies with Biological Matrices
Creators: name: Fogle, Mary
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: IgG are the most abundant antibodies in human CVM. IgG reinforcement of mucosal and biogel barriers reduces pathogen transmission. Our lab has shown that IgG is able to trap mobile virions at sub-neutralizing levels in pH-neutralized CVM and biogels like basement membrane. While models and experimental manipulation have established a preference for transient antibody-biogel interactions, the exact chemical nature of these bonds remains unknown. To assess the relative contributions of functional groups that are present in both CVM and BM, we measured agarose, alginate, and chitosan’s ability to facilitate IgG- and IgM-mediated trapping of otherwise mobile, PEGylated nanoparticles. Agarose is a polysaccharide with hydroxyl groups on its galactose residues and only facilitated IgM-mediated trapping. Alginate facilitated both IgG- and IgM-mediated trapping with the hydroxyl and carboxyl groups found on its two repeating units. Chitosan has deacetylated and acetylated residues and thus has both hydroxyl groups and primary amines but not facilitate IgG- or IgM-mediated trapping. To assess the contributions of antibody glycosylation, we studied deglycosylated IgG and desialylated IgM mediated trapping. The electrostatic nature of these antibody-biogel interactions was also investigated with salt ions. We conclude that charge-assisted carboxylic-hydroxyl, carboxylic-carboxylate, or carboxylic N-acetyl hydrogen bond interactions between antibody glycans and hydrogels are key to the antibody-mediated trapping of pathogens in hydrogels.
(102567) Henry A King
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Algebraic and abelian solutions to the projective translation equation
Creators: name: Alkauskas, Giedrius
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 39B12, 14H05, 14K20 (Primary) 35F05, 37E35 (Secondary)

description: Let $\mathbf{x}=(x,y)$. A projective 2-dimensional flow is a solution to a 2-dimensional projective translation equation (PrTE) $(1-z)ϕ(\mathbf{x})=ϕ(ϕ(\mathbf{x}z)(1-z)/z)$, $ϕ:\mathbb{C}^{2}\mapsto\mathbb{C}^{2}$. Previously we have found all solutions of the PrTE which are rational functions. The rational flow gives rise to a vector field $\varpi(x,y)\bullet\varrho(x,y)$ which is a pair of 2-homogenic rational functions. On the other hand, only very special pairs of 2-homogenic rational functions, as vector fields, give rise to rational flows. The main ingredient in the proof of the classifying theorem is a reduction algorithm for a pair of 2-homogenic rational functions. This reduction method in fact allows to derive more results. Namely, in this work we find all projective flows with rational vector fields whose orbits are algebraic curves. We call these flows abelian projective flows, since either these flows are parametrized by abelian functions and with the help of 1-homogenic birational plane transformations (1-BIR) the orbits of these flows can be transformed into algebraic curves $x^{A}(x-y)^{B}y^{C}\equiv\mathrm{const.}$ (abelian flows of type I), or there exists a 1-BIR which transforms the orbits into the lines $y\equiv\mathrm{const.}$ (abelian flows of type II), and generally the latter flows are described in terms of non-arithmetic functions. Our second result classifies all abelian flows which are given by two variable algebraic functions. We call these flows algebraic projective flows, and these are abelian flows of type I. We also provide many examples of algebraic, abelian and non-abelian flows.
description: 31 pages, 5 figures
Fear Learning Predicts Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms in Children After Hurricane Florence
Creators: name: Naude, Allison
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a detrimental disorder that can cause a host of negative outcomes. Thus, it is important to be able to identify and predict its occurrence so that it can be prevented and treated effectively. A large body of research has examined PTSD in adults but almost no research has been conducted in young children. Atypical physiological responses to fear conditioning are associated with PTSD diagnoses, and one study found that physiological reactivity data collected before a traumatic event, the Boston Marathon Bombings, predicted PTSD symptoms (Busso, McLaughlin, & Sheridan, 2014). In addition, media exposure moderated this relationship. We hypothesized that atypical fear learning would predict PTSD symptoms following Hurricane Florence in a sample of young children, and that differential skin conductance response (SCR) collected during a fear learning paradigm prior to the hurricane would predict PTSD symptoms in children with significant exposure to the hurricane. We found that SCR to threat cues during fear learning predicted increased arousal PTSD symptoms and that child hurricane exposure predicted general PTSD symptoms following the disaster. We also found a marginally significant interaction between SCR to threat during fear learning and child hurricane exposure. Further research should be done to investigate the similarities between the fear learning-PTSD relationship in children and in adults.
title: Diagnostic usefulness of Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) for Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS)
Creators: name: Kikuchi, Mari
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: Mammography
subject: Breast

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: A combination of 2D mammography (MMG) and DBT is reported to markedly increase the rate of detection of invasive breast cancer in comparison to that of 2DMMG alone (1). MRI is reported to have the highest accuracy in diagnosing of DCIS, but markedly...
(102563) William Ambrose King
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(102561) Florence Emily King
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Propensity score analysis of lung cancer risk in endemic area with high prevalence of nonsmoking-related lung cancer
Creators: name: Lin, Kuei-Feng
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Screening
subject: CT
subject: Lung

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Lung cancer has been the leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide among both men and women in recent years [1-3]. Smoking is the major risk factor for lung cancer, but an increase in the incidence of nonsmoking-related lung cancer in...
Regulatory Chill and Selective Enforcement: The Effect of Firm Access to Investment Arbitration on Regulatory Enforcement Strength
Creators: name: Kennedy, Kelly
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: This thesis addresses the lack of systematic empirical study of regulatory chill driven by arbitration clauses in international investment agreements. I propose that by studying regulatory chill in the enforcement of regulation, rather than in its enactment, researchers can better isolate the threat of investment arbitration that drives the regulatory chill hypothesis. I argue that internalization of the risk of investment arbitration will prompt upper-level policymakers to pressure low-level bureaucrats to selectively weaken regulatory enforcement against firms with access to investment arbitration. After testing my argument on a novel dataset taken from environmental permit applications in Chile from 2004-2008, I find significant support for this argument. However, my results are not robust to alternate model specifications, indicating that this observed "chilling" effect is driven not by the threat of investment arbitration, but rather by characteristics unique to the Chilean environmental bureaucracy. I conclude by discussing the implications of my null findings for contemporary debates surrounding the legitimacy of the international investment treaty regime.
Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from the SDSS DR10 galaxies angular correlation function
Creators: name: Carvalho, G. C.
name: Bernui, A.
name: Benetti, M.
name: Carvalho, J. C.
name: Alcaniz, J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The 2-point angular correlation function $w(θ)$ (2PACF), where $θ$ is the angular separation between pairs of galaxies, provides the transversal Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) signal almost model-independently. In this paper we use 409,337 luminous red galaxies in the redshift range $z = [0.440,0.555]$ obtained from the tenth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS DR10) to estimate $θ_{\rm{BAO}}(z)$ from the 2PACF at six redshift {shells}. Since noise and systematics can hide the BAO signature in the $w - θ$ plane, we also discuss some criteria to localize the acoustic bump. We identify two sources of model-dependence in the analysis, namely, the value of the acoustic scale from Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) measurements and the correction in the $θ_{\rm{BAO}}(z)$ position due to projection effects. Constraints on the dark energy equation-of-state parameter w$(z)$ from the $θ_{\rm{BAO}}(z)$ diagram are derived, as well as from a joint analysis with current CMB measurements. We find that the standard $Λ$CDM model as well as some of its extensions are in good agreement with these $θ_{\rm{BAO}}(z)$ measurements.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
title: TB or not TB?
Creators: name: Zaharie, Andreea
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Education
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Lung

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To accustom young radiologists with the unusual aspects of tuberculosis. To reaffirm the importance of conventional radiography in the characterisation of tuberculosis. To underline the continuing issue that tuberculosis represents. To show relevant...
title: Description of a management system for preoperative chest X-ray incidental findings.
Creators: name: Utrera, Elena
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Thorax
subject: Digital radiography
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Outcomes
subject: Quality assurance

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: INTRODUCTION: Preoperative chest x-ray represents a significant number of the total chest radiographs performed in a Radiology service. In our center, these explorations for preoperative anesthesia (PAE) are always reported by a radiologist. Most of...
(102562) Ethel Violet King
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Fetal MRI— (TIFFA) / US directed tool to detect fetal anomalies.
Creators: name: Nori, Madhavi
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Obstetrics (Pregnancy / birth / postnatal period)
subject: Foetal imaging
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: Foetus
subject: Patterns of Care

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To delineate the appearance of the normal fetal brain at specific gestational ages on conventional fetal MRI To evaluate the spectrum of fetal abnormalities encountered in our experience. To define the role of MRI as an adjuvant tool to USG in...
Queer Sociology: Analyzing the Medicalization, Criminalization, and Closetization of Homosexuality in Chapel Hill, N.C. (1970-1999).
Creators: name: Correa, Christian
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: This qualitative case study uses the history of Chapel Hill, North Carolina from 1970-1999 to demonstrate the social construction of modern western sexuality and how it is dispensed through three institutional structures - medicine, law, and the closet. I argue that hyper-competitive capitalism foments both queer identity and homophobia, and, expanding upon Judith Butler's concept of 'constitutive malaise,' that heterosexuality generates itself through 'sexual projects.' I trace the medical and legal manifestations of sexuality by demonstrating the contestation between psychiatric and social models and contributing to the gap in queer criminological literature, extrapolating upon Ball's theory of shame and Foucault's theory of benign institutions. Finally, I describe the closet as a interpersonal, social, and political phenomenon that is both fluid and contingent. I contend that access to queer networks was imperative to breaking a closeted person's 'cycle of disorientation' in the late 20th century, and demonstrate the many social contexts this could occur. Throughout the paper, I also examine how the AIDS epidemic impacted the trajectory of both the medicalization and closetization of homosexuality. By fusing queer theory and sociological theory, I advance a subfield of poststructuralist "queer sociology," that incorporates interdisciplinary historical, sociological, cultural, literary, and criminological analysis.
The Cost of Fitting In: An Investigative Analysis of Race-Based Code-Switching and Social Exclusion
Creators: name: Casimir, Jessica
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: Communication

description: The daily social interactions of Black Americans consist of carefully contemplated speech, actions, and behaviors. In an American society that caters to the White-dominant culture, Blacks are covertly censored and made to dissociate from their own Black identity in order to appease White societal norms. The purpose of this paper is to explore the repercussions that Blacks face on account of their decision to practice code-switching as a method of self-preservation. This study specifically focuses on the lived experiences of Blacks who navigate predominantly white spaces in their daily lives, whether that be in the workplace or at a university. Through an eleven-question survey, Black participants shared their experiences with code-switching and mirroring White peers. In general, participants shared the understanding that code-switching stems from a desire to fit in and attain social and professional opportunities. According to a majority of participants, renouncing certain trademarks of performing Blackness, such as the use of Ebonics vernacular or wearing their natural hair, are common sacrifices involved in code- switching. A thematic analysis revealed that many participants experienced social exclusion from fellow Black peers as a consequence of code-switching to fit in with Whites, therefore, shedding light on the double-bind that Blacks are subject to. This double-bind and inner conflict of identity for Blacks can lead increased emotional labor and exhaustion as Blacks try to cope.
Keywords: Code-Switching, Performativity, Assimilation, Co-Cultural Theory
title: Congenital coronary artery anomalies and their depiction by 64 slice MDCT.
Creators: name: Sirasapalli, Chinnam
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Congenital
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Cardiovascular system

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Congenital coronary artery anomalies (CAAs) are rare anomalies occuring in less than 1% of general population, but very important as they can cause sudden cardiac death [1]. ECG-gated 64 slice multi-detector CT coronary angiography (MDCT-CA)...
Feminists and veiled: proposition for a reconsidered constructivist theory of human rights
Creators: name: Kaaria, Outi
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2009
Subjects: anthropology
constructivism
cultural relativism
human rights

description: Second semester University: University of Copenhagen
description: Looking for a stable reasoning for the universal application, George Ulrich has presented the Constructivist theory of Human Rights —a theory based on both the definition of universality as an “on-going project” and on the observation that in today's world modernisation and globalisation are spreading the Western views and lifestyle everywhere, and thus changing “the sphere of the world cultures”. The Constructivist theory argues that the implementation of human rights would not or at least no longer, bring about the changes feared by “the side of cultural relativism” on the debate on universalism and cultural relativism. Following Ulrich, human rights should be seen as a framework within which it is possible to find solutions to the exigencies of the given historical and social moment. Ulrich goes even further by arguing that human rights are meant to be the response to the effects of modernisation and globalisation and that they could, in some cases, be seen as protectors of cultures,both from the power of the modern state, and from the changes pushed by modernisation and globalisation. The case study of the thesis demonstrates, with an interpretation of the case of Leyla Sahin v. Turkey in the European Court of Human Rights within the framework of the Constructivist Theory, that the definition of cultural relativism as a methodological tool would be an indispensable part of the theory in question. Consequently, the thesis introduces as its conclusions the proposition for the reconsidered Constructivist Theory of Human Rights. The implicit message of this thesis is that the human rights movement would benefit from a change of paradigm concerning the notion of culture. Instead of understanding the variety of the local worldviews as an opposite stance and as a threat to universality, the possibilities of the methodological tool of cultural relativism could be seen as a way towards advancing the project of the universality of human rights. This thesis proposes examples of this possibility with a discussion of the Islamic veils
title: Assessment of congenital vascular anomalies in people affected by Thalidomide using non-contrast enhanced MR-angiography (NCEMRA)
Creators: name: Weinrich, Julius
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genetic defects
subject: Normal variants
subject: MR-Angiography
subject: Veins / Vena cava
subject: Vascular
subject: Anatomy
subject: Toxicity

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Thalidomide, a sedative drug first synthesized in 1953, caused a variety of birth defects whicht led to the death of about 40% of the affected children and multiple malformations in surviving children. Today, about 2,500 grown-up thalidomide...
Further constraints on the optical transmission spectrum of HAT-P-1b
Creators: name: Montalto, M.
name: Iro, N.
name: Santos, N. C.
name: Desidera, S.
name: Martins, J. H. C.
name: Figueira, P.
name: Alonso, R.
name: .
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on novel observations of HAT-P-1 aimed at constraining the optical transmission spectrum of the atmosphere of its transiting Hot-Jupiter exoplanet. Ground-based differential spectrophotometry was performed over two transit windows using the DOLORES spectrograph at the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG). Our measurements imply an average planet to star radius ratio equal to $\rm R_p/R_{\star}$=(0.1159$\pm$0.0005). This result is consistent with the value obtained from recent near infrared measurements of this object but differs from previously reported optical measurements being lower by around 4.4 exoplanet scale heights. Analyzing the data over 5 different spectral bins 600Å$\,$ wide we observed a single peaked spectrum (3.7 $\rmσ$ level) with a blue cut-off corresponding to the blue edge of the broad absorption wing of sodium and an increased absorption in the region in between 6180-7400Å. We also infer that the width of the broad absorption wings due to alkali metals is likely narrower than the one implied by solar abundance clear atmospheric models. We interpret the result as evidence that HAT-P-1b has a partially clear atmosphere at optical wavelengths with a more modest contribution from an optical absorber than previously reported.
description: Accepted by ApJ
Potentials and the vortex solutions in the $CP^N$ Skyrme-Faddeev model
Creators: name: Amari, Yuki
name: Klimas, Pawel
name: Sawado, Nobuyuki
name: Tamaki, Yuta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The extended Skyrme-Faddeev model possesses vortex solutions in a (3+1) dimensional Minkowski space-time with target space $CP^N$. They have finite energy per unit of length and contain waves propagating along vortices with the speed of light. We introduce various types of the potentials which correspond with holomorphic solutions of the integrable sector and also with several numerical solutions outside of this sector. The presented solutions constitute a strong indication that the current model contains large class of solutions with much wider range of coupling constants than the previously known exact solution.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures
The Role of Implicit Family Conflict and Depression on Adolescent Risk Taking
Creators: name: Smith, Kelsey
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Adolescence is a period marked by increased risk taking, which can have negative implications for adolescent health and well-being. Researchers have found that family conflict and adolescent depression are each correlated with adolescents’ engagement in risky behavior, such that greater conflict and heightened depression are associated with increased risk taking. However, much of prior research has focused on more explicit forms of family conflict, such as fighting and arguing. The goals of the present study were to investigate whether implicit family conflict is more predictive of adolescent risk taking than explicit conflict and determine if adolescent depression moderates this relationship. Participants included 174 adolescents, ages 11-14, along with their parents. Both adolescents and parents completed a behavioral task in which they each rated a series of risky behaviors. The discrepancy between parent and adolescents’ risk attitudes in this task was used to measure implicit family conflict. In addition to this task, adolescents completed several questionnaires in which they reported explicit family conflict, depressive symptoms, and their engagement in risky behaviors. I conducted a series of stepwise multiple regressions to analyze the relationship between implicit family conflict, depression, and risk taking. Our findings indicate that implicit family conflict predicted adolescent risk taking above and beyond explicit conflict. I also found adolescent depression to be a significant predictor of risk taking. However, depression did not moderate the relationship between implicit family conflict and adolescent risk taking. The participants in this study were younger adolescents whose overall engagement in risk taking was low. Future research should explore the relationship between implicit family conflict and adolescent risk taking among older adolescents and how it relates to specific types of risky behavior, as older adolescents are more likely to engage in greater, more negative risk taking.
Completeness of Gabor systems
Creators: name: Gröchenig, Karlheinz
name: Haimi, Antti
name: Romero, José Luis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 42C30, 42C15, 81R30

description: We investigate the completeness of Gabor systems with respect to several classes of window functions on rational lattices. Our main results show that the time-frequency shifts of every finite linear combination of Hermite functions with respect to a rational lattice are complete in L2(R), thus generalizing a remark of von Neumann (and proved by Bargmann, Perelomov et al.). An analogous result is proven for functions that factor into certain rational functions and the Gaussian. The results are also interesting from a conceptual point of view since they show a vast difference between the completeness and the frame property of a Gabor system. In the terminology of physics we prove new results about the completeness of coherent state subsystems.
description: 19 pages
title: US-guided injections in musculoskeletal diseases of the upper limb: a practical guide and review of the available scientific evidence
Creators: name: Merino Bonilla, Jose Alberto
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Trauma
subject: Inflammation
subject: Calcifications / Calculi
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Interventional non-vascular

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: 1. To review the main musculosketeal diseases of the upper limb that can be treated by percutaneous injections using real-time ultrasound guidance, the technical aspects of every procedure and the available scientific evidence. 2. To know the...
Freedom from fear in a transforming conflict : a case study of the security situation for the civil population in Chechnya
Creators: name: Eklund-Lindwall, Ida
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Chechnya war
conflict
fear
human rights violations

description: Second semester University: University of Hamburg
description: While there are currently indications of positive developments in Chechnya, such as the impressive rebuilding of the capital Grozny, institutionbuilding and a decline in the number of reported disappearences, there are also alarming reports coming from NGOs and IGOs concerning the republic. A system of torture, illegal detentions and forced confessions describes a climate of fear and a situation that is far from peace building. This study establishes the stage of the conflict through a conflict analysis. Thereafter it explores the discrepancy between the two parallel theoretical conflict stages and the current situation in Chechnya through the concept of freedom from fear. Due to spoilers to the process, the transformation is halted. The institutions that are supposed to protect the civil population are, contrary to their purpose, preventing freedom from fear to prevail. Instead of moving towards stable peace, the conflict is at risk of spiraling back into conflict escalation due to the lack of a functioning security structure and the nonimplementation of rule of law. This shows the interconnectedness of the implementation of human rights and rule of law, and a successful transformation of a conflict towards stable peace.
title: High resolution CT in Varicella virus pneumonia of the adult
Creators: name: Palumbo, Cristiana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Infection
subject: Education
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Lung

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The goal of the study was to identify the role of HRCT in the diagnosis of pneumonia complication in adult immunocompetent patients affected by chicken pox, in monitoring therapy efficacy and in...
Fractional Charge and Spin States in Topological Insulator Constrictions
Creators: name: Klinovaja, Jelena
name: Loss, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate theoretically properties of two-dimensional topological insulator constrictions both in the integer and fractional regimes. In the presence of a perpedicular magnetic field, the constriction functions as a spin filter with near-perfect efficiency and can be switched by electric fields only. Domain walls between different topological phases can be created in the constriction as an interface between tunneling, magnetic fields, charge density wave, or electron-electron interactions dominated regions. These domain walls host non-Abelian bound states with fractional charge and spin and result in degenerate ground states with parafermions. If a proximity gap is induced bound states give rise to an exotic Josephson current with 8$π$-peridiodicity.
The Relationship Between Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Gastrointestinal Dysbiosis: A Systematic Integrative Review of Diagnostic and Treatment Approaches.
Creators: name: Swintek, Ashlyn
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a chronic gastrointestinal disorder with no clear etiology. The current diagnostic and treatment standards for IBS are suboptimal; pharmacologic therapies with systemic adverse effects are used for symptom management after a lengthy exclusionary diagnostic process. Gastrointestinal dysbiosis is a current theory being studied regarding the pathology of IBS. The purpose of this review is to analyze the current literature on the presence of gastrointestinal dysbiosis in adult patients with IBS and the efficacy of probiotic treatment. An integrative review of the literature was conducted using one comprehensive electronic database search. After a systematic screening process, 16 studies were included for data extraction, appraisal, and synthesis. Evidence revealed that over 17 different bacterial genera, families, and species were discovered in abnormal abundances in patients with IBS compared to healthy controls. Five of the six articles studying probiotics provided evidence supporting the efficacy of probiotic therapy in decreasing symptoms and increasing quality of life in IBS patients. The findings of this review support an integrative IBS diagnostic and treatment strategy rooted in identifying gastrointestinal dysbiosis and utilizing nonpharmacologic probiotic treatment options. Future research should further investigate the potential use for probiotic therapy targeted to patient-specific gastrointestinal microbial abnormalities as an effective treatment for IBS.
(102564) Constance May Dorothy King
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Communication Strategies for Increasing Childhood Vaccination Rates
Creators: name: Church, Rachel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Objective: To assess effective communication strategies delivered by health care providers to increase the rate of childhood vaccinations.
Background: Although immunizations are lifesaving, the number of children receiving the full amount of recommended childhood vaccinations has been slowly decreasing.
Design: Systematic review of published literature. 
Main Outcome Measures: Vaccinations rates
Methods: I searched the following databases for studies that evaluated the effect of provider communication strategies on vaccination rates: CINAHL, PubMed, and Bibliographic databases. I obtained additional studies from back-searching reference lists. I included randomized control trials, cluster randomized trials, qualitative studies, controlled before and after studies, prospective cohort studies, retrospective cohort studies, interrupted time series studies, case control studies, and case reports, and those written in English. 
Results: In the search process, 134 citations were identified; 25 were fully reviewed, and 11 met eligibility criteria. Six were randomized trials. The other studies included prospective randomized trial, mixed methods, quantitative survey, pre-intervention post-intervention, and a cross-sectional study. All studies demonstrated that the evaluated communication interventions were associated with higher vaccination rates, to some degree. 
Conclusions: The evidence available from published studies suggests that various strategies, including reminder and recall messages, educational material, provider language usage, social media, and the use of a redesigned immunization card may be effective for improving vaccination rates. Additional well-designed studies are needed to further identify these individual strategies.
Consciousness and Natureculture: Tracing Dualisms in To the Lighthouse and Between the Acts
Creators: name: Cobb, Collier
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: This thesis analyzes the cyborgian consciousness in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse as it presents an interconnectedness amongst the three dualisms that Donna Haraway identifies – human and animal, organism and machine, and physical and nonphysical. It also examines Woolf's Between the Acts as a portrayal of natureculture in which the three disparaged dualisms invite the collapse of the boundary between nature and culture. Both chapters display an ecofeminist stance bent on disparaging anti-ecological dualisms, and suggest that the two novels serve as a foundation for the imaginative enterprise required by Haraway’s natureculture.
Impassioned Love and Marriage in Shakespeare’s Comedies
Creators: name: Hollaway, Brendan
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Hallett Smith Prize
subject: Humanities
subject: FOS: Humanities

description: Impassioned Love and Marriage in Shakespeare’s Comedies Throughout the history of theater, marriage and love have been depicted in several different manners, from a function of duty to country or duty to family, to a choice that can only be determined by the desires of the heart. In several of his comedies, Shakespeare raises doubts about archetypal notions of love and marriage, while still maintaining a thin facade that all would end with a “happily ever after”.
title: Analysis on the T1 and T2 values of the contents of ovarian cysts
Creators: name: Tanaka, Yoshikazu
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cysts
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: MR
subject: Pelvis
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Predominantly, ovarian tumors are cystic and MRI is a vital diagnostic modality owning to its ability to provide information on their contents. Although some cases such as endometrial cysts and dermoid cysts diagnoses may be made merely assessing...
title: Diagnostic Imaging of Sapho Syndrome
Creators: name: La Paglia, Ernesto
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Neuroradiology spine
subject: Musculoskeletal spine
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: PET-CT
subject: Biopsy
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Metastases
subject: Infection
subject: Inflammation

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The objectives of this work is to describe the clinical and radiographics issues of the Sapho syndrome and to discuss the possible differential...
‘Mission impossible’: exploring the viability of power-sharing as a conflict-resolution and state-building tool in Syria
Creators: name: Groarke, Emer
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: conflict management
Syria
consociationalism

description: Second semester University: University of Hamburg.
description: This thesis will explore the viability of power-sharing as a political and practical way to ameliorate the present situation in Syria (as of July 2014). Further, it will suggest that by adapting the models used to end previous conflicts, and adjusting their application to fit with Syria’s particular needs, power-sharing can also be used as a mechanism through which the state of Syria can be rebuilt in a sustainable manner. While previously the conditions of the conflict were not conducive to peace talks, this thesis believes that recent regional developments have re-opened the possibility of political negotiations. The work will begin with an overview of the nature of Syrian society and the ongoing war. On the completion of an examination of Syria’s social, political and economic make-up both before and during the conflict, as well as the war in Syria as it stands today, a theoretical overview of power-sharing as a conflict-resolution tool will be investigated, and its practical application in Syria be explored. Significant obstacles to a negotiated power-sharing agreement exist in Syria, which will be elaborated on, before suggestions are posited as to how such issues could best be mitigated and potentially transformed into incentives for the parties invested in the conflict. Following this, possible alternatives to the power-sharing model will be examined, namely either a de facto or de jure partition, or a military victory by the regime or the opposition. The conclusion reached will be that a power-sharing agreement, though not without flaws itself, is the most viable and workable conflict-resolution tool at present to address the conflict in Syria.
Effect of weak fluid inertia upon Jeffery orbits
Creators: name: Einarsson, J.
name: Candelier, F.
name: Lundell, F.
name: Angilella, J. R.
name: Mehlig, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the rotation of small neutrally buoyant axisymmetric particles in a viscous steady shear flow. When inertial effects are negligible the problem exhibits infinitely many periodic solutions, the "Jeffery orbits". We compute how inertial effects lift their degeneracy by perturbatively solving the coupled particle-flow equations. We obtain an equation of motion valid at small shear Reynolds numbers, for spheroidal particles with arbitrary aspect ratios. We analyse how the linear stability of the \lq log-rolling\rq{} orbit depends on particle shape and find it to be unstable for prolate spheroids. This resolves a puzzle in the interpretation of direct numerical simulations of the problem. In general both unsteady and non-linear terms in the Navier-Stokes equations are important.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
100 Years on the 100 Block: Restaurant Turnover on Franklin Street from 1920s to present-day
Creators: name: Cohen, Peter
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Why are restaurants struggling to stay open on Franklin Street? High rent is certainly a factor, but multiple other influences have created the complex, often volatile situation that we see among Franklin Street restaurants. The importance of Franklin Street as a social gathering place, the pervasive feeling of “Chapel Hill exceptionalism” among residents, and the role of the University in acquiring property along Franklin Street has created an environment in which it’s incredibly difficult for small businesses to operate and succeed. Most small business owners just don’t have the financial means to offset a year or three of losses before a restaurant becomes profitable, leading to franchises and chains filling the void. Out of town landlords focused on profit also play a role, as well as state-level policies preventing the town from enacting any form of rent control. A lack of downtown parking has even been blamed for the struggles facing business owners on the 100 block. Despite the multitude of factors affecting the business climate, there are steps that can be taken to create an environment on East Franklin Street that allows for local businesses who reinvest their profits in the community, build up a following of local clientele, and give Chapel Hill residents a downtown that they are proud of.
Multiple solutions for a inclusion quasilinear problem with non-homogeneous boundary condition through Orlicz Sobolev spaces
Creators: name: Nemer, Rodrigo C. M.
name: Santos, Jefferson A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this work we estend a recent result of Kristály, Marzantowicz and Varga concerning the existence of three critical points certain non-smooth functionals. Using this result, we guarantee the existence of three solutions to a inclusion quasilinear problem, with non-homogeneous boundary condition through Orlicz Sobolev spaces.
description: in Communications in Contemporary Mathematics, 2016
Household water quality and access in Puerto Villamil, Isabela, Galápagos Islands
Creators: name: Badhwa, Nick
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Contaminated water represents one of the major health threats for the nearly 1800 inhabitants of Puerto Villamil, Isla Isabela, Galápagos. Water supply on this island depends on brackish groundwater and there are no freshwater sources available. Historically, lack of trust on the municipal water treatment plant has been one of the main concerns of the population. This has encouraged the habit of using bottled water as a drinking source and even a cooking water source for most people. In July 2019, an observational pilot study was conducted, focused on physiochemical and microbial (total coliforms and Escherichia coli) analyses of water samples from 35 households spread across town and from the municipal desalination plant. Two samples were taken at each household, one from tap water and a second from the main drinking water source. In situ parameters - pH, conductivity, dissolved oxygen, temperature and salinity - were also recorded. Results show minimal treatment by the municipal desalination plant with testimonial evidence that current infrastructure is insufficient to meet the water demands of Puerto Villamil. All households had total coliforms confirmed in either tap or drinking water, (n=35) indicating environmental contamination. Around half of households tested positive for E. coli in their tap or drinking water (n=19), but at concentrations generally <10 MPN per 100 mL. This pilot study provides insights on future actions that authorities and inhabitants can take to improve and secure water.