cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The transfer of GIS technology to community planning in Peru
Creators: name: Hall, Brent
name: Crouse, Daniel
name: Peters, Paul A.
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Geographic information systems--Peru--Lima
subject: Geodatabases--Peru--Lima
subject: University of Waterloo--Graduate work
subject: Planning--Study and teaching (Graduate)
subject: City planning--Peru--Lima
subject: Technical assistance, Canadian--Peru--Lima
subject: University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Ont.)
subject: Alternativa (Lima, Peru)

description: In the summer of 2000 the University of Waterloo Planning School collaborated with Alternativa, a non-government organization working in the poorest communities of metropolitan Lima, Peru. Their goal was to establish a Geographic Information System (GIS) for the area. This article discusses the context, needs, objectives, and some of the GIS applications developed, as well as the role played by planning graduate students.
description: Durant l'été de l'an 2000, l'école d'urbanisme de l'université de Waterloo, de concert avec Alternative une organisation non gouvernementale travaillant au sein des communautés les plus démunies de Lima au Pérou, a mis sur pied un système d'information géographique (SIG). Le présent article traite du contexte, des besoins et des objectifs du SIG ainsi que du rôle joué par des étudiants diplômés en urbanisme.
description: Abstract in English and French; text in English
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5352/Article003.pdf?sequence=3
title: Significance of level III lymph nodes located in the anterior fat recess between the sternocleidomastoid muscle, thyroid cartilage and jugular vein in head and neck tumors
Creators: name: Oleaga Zufiría, Laura
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Head and neck
subject: CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Pathology

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To show the anatomy of the anterior fat recess between the sternocleidomastoid muscle, thyroid cartilage/gland and internal jugular vein To describe the fixation jugular vein sign associated to metastatic lymph nodes located in this area To...
Vacuum Rabi splitting in a plasmonic cavity at the single quantum emitter limit
Creators: name: Santhosh, Kotni
name: Bitton, Ora
name: Chuntonov, Lev
name: Haran, Gilad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The strong interaction of individual quantum emitters with resonant cavities is of fundamental interest for understanding light matter interactions. Plasmonic cavities hold the promise of attaining the strong coupling regime even under ambient conditions and within subdiffraction volumes. Recent experiments revealed strong coupling between individual plasmonic structures and multiple organic molecules, but so far strong coupling at the limit of a single quantum emitter has not been reported. Here we demonstrate vacuum Rabi splitting, a manifestation of strong coupling, using silver bowtie plasmonic cavities loaded with semiconductor quantum dots (QDs). A transparency dip is observed in the scattering spectra of individual bowties with one to a few QDs, directly observed in their gaps. A coupling rate as high as 120 meV is registered even with a single QD, placing the bowtie-QD constructs close to the strong coupling regime. These observations are verified by polarization-dependent experiments and validated by electromagnetic calculations.
description: In press, Nature Communications
title: CT of Anomalies of Renal Artery, Vein, and Inferior Vena Cava without Angiography: Unexpected Condition that May Affect Laparoscopic Nephrectomy.
Creators: name: Sung, Deuk Jae
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Kidney
subject: Vascular
subject: CT
subject: Normal variants
subject: Congenital

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To accurately recognize various congenital and acquired anomalies of inferior vena cava, renal artery, and vein, which may affect laparoscopic nephrectomy, on routine abdominopelvic CT scan. To understand the anatomic relationships of inferior vena...
Additional file 1 of Fenofibrate to prevent amputation and reduce vascular complications in patients with diabetes: FENO-PREVENT
Creators: name: Ku, Eu Jeong
name: Kim, Bongseong
name: Han, Kyungdo
name: Lee, Seung-Hwan
name: Kwon, Hyuk-Sang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1.
title: Infectious diseases of the kidney – spectrum of imaging findings
Creators: name: Andrade, Luisa
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Kidney
subject: CT
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Infection

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: - To discuss the role of imaging in the evaluation of renal infections. - To review the US and CT imaging findings of some common and not so common infectious diseases of the kidney, including acute pyelonephritis, pyonephrosis, emphysematous...
Evolution of changes in the Arctic... -ASSW 21
Creators: name: Sadurski, Leszek Krzysztof
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: evolution of the Regional Security Complex, Regional Security Complex in the Arctic, climate change, Arctic

description: Evolution of changes in the Arctic... -ASSW 21 -presentation was drafted as a part of research supported by Poland’s National Centre for Science under the grant entitled: The adaptation of the regional security complex in the face of climate change: the example of the Arctic, with number: UMO-2019/35/N/HS5/00578. Content was delivered at the conference ASSW 21 in Lisbon.
Quasilocal approach to general universal horizons
Creators: name: Maciel, Alan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Theories of gravity with a preferred foliation usually display arbitrarily fast signal propagation, changing the black hole definition. A new inescapable barrier, the universal horizon, has been defined and many static and spherically symmetric examples have been studied in the literature. Here, we translate the usual definition of the universal horizon in terms of an optical scalar built with the preferred flow defined by the preferred spacetime foliation. The new expression has the advantages of being of quasilocal nature and independent of specific spacetime symmetries in order to be well defined. Therefore, we propose it as a definition for general quasilocal universal horizons. Using the new formalism we show that there are no universal analog of cosmological horizons for FLRW models for any scale factor function, and we also state that quasilocal universal horizons are restricted to trapped regions of the spacetime. Using the evolution equation, we analyze the formation of universal horizons under a truncated Horava-Lifshitz theory, in spherical symmetry, showing the existence of regions in parameter space where the universal horizon formation cannot be smooth from the center, under some physically reasonable assumptions. We conclude with our view on the next steps for the understanding of black holes in nonrelativistic gravity theories.
description: 10 pages, no figures. Corrections made. New analysis of gravitational collapse in truncated HL theory. It matches version to appear in PRD
Comparative Mutagenicity of Urinary Metabolites of Nitropolycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons 1-Nitropyrene, 2-Nitrofluoranthene, and 3-Nitrofluoranthene
Creators: name: Boucher, Michael N.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1991

description: This study compared the mutagenicity of urinary metabolites of prevalent air pollutants 1-nitropyrene (1-NP), 2-nitrofluoranthene (2-NFA), and 3-nitrofluoranthene (3-NFA). Rats were injected intra-peritoneally with specific doses and their urine was analyzed for mutagenicity by an Ames plate incorporation assay using Salmonella Typhimurium. Resulting data yielded revertant excretion rate plots used for comparative analysis. To achieve maximum mutagenicity, 1-NP's urinary metabolites required exogenous activation by S9, 2-NFA's did not vary significantly with S9 activation, while 3-NFA's was decreased by S9 metabolism. 2-NFA's mutagenic metabolites' revertant excretion rate was a quarter of the rates of 3-NFA's and 1-NP's mutagenic metabolites. The strongest mutagenicity of urinary metabolites during the 48 hrs after injection was from 1-NP which was double the amounts from 3-NFA and 2-NFA. However, the estimated total urinary mutagenicity showed 1-NP and 2-NFA potentially created equal amounts while 3-NFA's amount was only half 1-NP's amount. All three compounds' urinary mutagen excretion rates are formation rate limited.
title: Apparent diffusion coefficient as a biomarker in the assessment of head and neck tumors: analysis of different B values
Creators: name: Zaragoza Velasco, Kena
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Head and neck
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Metastases

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: INTRODUCTION According to the World Cancer Report, by 2020, global incidence of cancer may increase by 50%, or 15 million new cases. In 2000, malignant tumors were responsible for 12% of the almost 56 million deaths worldwide due to all causes. It...
Specular Andreev reflection in thin films of topological insulators
Creators: name: Majidi, Leyla
name: Asgari, Reza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically reveal the possibility of specular Andreev reflection in a thin film topological insulator normal-superconductor (N/S) junction in the presence of a gate electric field. The probability of specular Andreev reflection increases with the electric field, and electron-hole conversion with unit efficiency happens in a wide experimentally accessible range of the electric field. We show that perfect specular Andreev reflection can occur for all angles of incidence with a particular excitation energy value. In addition, we find that the thermal conductance of the structure displays exponential dependence on the temperature. Our results reveal the potential of the proposed topological insulator thin-film-based N/S structure for the realization of intraband specular Andreev reflection.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures. Some typos are corrected
IMM v The Queen Retrospective
Creators: name: Chin, Jason
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Evidence
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: case law analysis
subject: empirical legal research
subject: IMM v the Queen

description: This is an exploratory analysis of legal decisions that refer to IMM v The Queen [2016] HCA 14 (‘IMM’). We aim to develop a better understanding of how courts have interpreted IMM. In our research, we have suggested that any guidance it provided about how to assess probative value is difficult-to-understand and incoherent. Therefore, we are interested in how courts have applied IMM to determine the probative value of evidence. Our existing research explaining these concerns with IMM can be found in these publications: Gary Edmond, ‘Icarus and the Evidence Act: Section 137, Probative Value and Taking Forensic Science Evidence “at its Highest”’ (2017) 41 Melbourne University Law Review 106. David Hamer, ‘The Unstable Province of Jury Fact-Finding: Evidence Exclusion, Probative Value and Judicial Restraint after IMM v the Queen’ (2017) 41 Melbourne University Law Review 689. Andrew Roberts, ‘Probative Value, Reliability, and Rationality’ in Andrew Roberts and Jeremy Gans (eds), Critical Perspectives on the Uniform Evidence Law (Federation Press, 2017) 63—79.
title: Sonographic findings of IgG4-related sialadenitis
Creators: name: Omotehara, Satomi
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Image verification
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Ultrasound-Power Doppler
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Salivary glands
subject: Head and neck

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: IgG4-related sclerosing disease is a systemic disease which is characterized by elevated serum IgG4 levels and IgG4-positive plasma cells and lymphocytes infiltration of various organs [1]. It is often difficult to distinguish from malignant...
Health Studies Australian National Data Asset (HeSANDA) flyer
Creators: name: Australian Research Data Commons
name: South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute
name: University of Melbourne
name: Deakin University
name: Australasian Leukaemia and Lymphoma Group
name: Menzies School of Health Research
name: Australian e-Health Research Centre
name: Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation
name: University of Sydney
name: Curtin University
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: clinical trial
dataset
training material

description: Health Studies Australian National Data Asset (HeSANDA) - Digital Flyer
Reusing data to accelerate research and better health outcomes
Nonlinear thermoelectric transport in single-molecule junctions: the effect of electron-phonon interactions
Creators: name: Zimbovskaya, Natalya A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the present work, we theoretically analyze the steady-state thermoelectric transport through a single-molecule junction with a vibrating bridge. Thermally induced charge current in the system is explored using a nonequilibrium Green's functions formalism. We study combined effects of Coulomb interactions between charge carriers on the bridge and electron-phonon interactions on the thermocurrent beyond the linear response regime. It is shown that electron-vibron interactions may significantly affect both magnitude and direction of the thermocurrent, and vibrational signatures may appear.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, text revised, figures revised
title: Bilateral Hydronephrosis in Adults: To Do or Not To Do Percutaneous Nephrostomy
Creators: name: You, Sung-Hye
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: CT
subject: Kidney
subject: Education
subject: Education and training

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: This pictorial review reminds a practical concept for bilateral hydronephrosis according to its causes and level and provides appropriate treatment algorithm with imaging findings and...
title: Abnormal calcifications of the urinary tract
Creators: name: Costa, Rui Alves
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: Kidney
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Calcifications / Calculi

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Review and illustrate a variety of urinary tract calcifications and their differential diagnoses. Demonstrate the important role of conventional radiology in their...
Different kinds of chimera death states in nonlocally coupled oscillators
Creators: name: Premalatha, K.
name: Chandrasekar, V. K.
name: Senthilvelan, M.
name: Lakshmanan, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the significance of nonisochronicity parameter in a network of nonlocally coupled Stuart-Landau oscillators with symmetry breaking form. We observe that the presence of nonisochronicity parameter leads to structural changes in the chimera death region while varying the strength of the interaction. This gives rise to the existence of different types of chimera death states such as multi-chimera death state, type-I periodic chimera death (PCD) state and, type-II periodic chimera death (PCD) state. We also find that the number of periodic domains in both the types of PCD states exponentially decreases with an increase of coupling range and obeys a power law under nonlocal coupling. Additionally, we also analyze the structural changes of chimera death states by reducing the system of dynamical equations to a phase model through the phase approximation. We also briefly study the role of nonisochronicity parameter on chimera states, where the existence of multi-chimera state with respect to the coupling range is pointed out. Moreover, we also analyze the robustness of the chimera death state to perturbations in the natural frequencies of the oscillators.
description: Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. E
An Anlaysis of Methods for Modeling Advective-Dominated Transport
Creators: name: Cornew, Frank H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1992

description: Finite element modeling of sharp front advective-dispersive-reactive transport is not accurate for highly advective or reactive problems. Two techniques were studied with the goal of accurately modeling these problems: an h-adaptive method that adjusted element lengths, and Petrov-Galerkin upwinding which used weighting functions of higher polynomial order than that of the basis functions. Finite element models were constructed using linear and quadratic basis functions in one spatial dimension. The h-adaptive method was shown to give good results with linear and quadratic basis functions. Petrov-Galerkin upwinding also yielded excellent results. This method was implemented for both classes of basis functions, but was studied only for the linear case. The benefits of Petrov-Galerkin upwinding depend on user defined parameters that regulate the amount of upwinding applied to the solution. Taylor series and Fourier analyses of the finite element truncation error as well as numerical experimentation were performed to define optimal upwinding parameters. Published results by other investigators were reproduced, and an automated method of deriving optimal upwinding parameters was developed. Analysis and operation of the Petrov-Galerkin models indicated that optimal levels of upwinding are a function of the gradient across each element. This observation led to a new upwinding scheme that adjusts the upwinding condition at each element as a function of the local gradient. Significantly better results were obtained with the new method relative to existing Petrov-Galerkin formulations. The utility of this technique will be greatly enhanced when optimal upwinding conditions are described as a function of dimensionless model parameters such as Peclet, Courant, and Damkohler numbers, and the method is generalized to multiple spatial dimensions.
Enhanced detectability of community structure in multilayer networks through layer aggregation
Creators: name: Taylor, Dane
name: Shai, Saray
name: Stanley, Natalie
name: Mucha, Peter J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Many systems are naturally represented by a multilayer network in which edges exist in multiple layers that encode different, but potentially related, types of interactions, and it is important to understand limitations on the detectability of community structure in these networks. Using random matrix theory, we analyze detectability limitations for multilayer (specifically, multiplex) stochastic block models (SBMs) in which L layers are derived from a common SBM. We study the effect of layer aggregation on detectability for several aggregation methods, including summation of the layers' adjacency matrices for which we show the detectability limit vanishes as O(L^{-1/2}) with increasing number of layers, L. Importantly, we find a similar scaling behavior when the summation is thresholded at an optimal value, providing insight into the common - but not well understood - practice of thresholding pairwise-interaction data to obtain sparse network representations.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Detection of Somatic and Male-Specific Coliphages in Fecally Contaminated Surface Waters
Creators: name: Amante, Adam J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1996

description: Somatic and male-specific (F+) coliphages are promising indicators of fecal contamination and human enteric viruses in water. There are various methods for the detection and assay of these coliphages, but they have not been adequately evaluated in comparative studies. We compared two methods for detection and assay of these phages in 108 samples of fecally contaminated surface waters: (1)direct plating of 100ml volumes by the single agar layer (SAL) method, and (2) initial concentration from approximate 1-liter volumes by adsorption to and elution from filters, followed by double agar layer (DAL) assay. We also compared two hosts for somatic coliphages, E. coli C and CN13, and three hosts for F+ coliphages , E. coli C3000 and Famp and Salmonella typhimurium WG49. Somatic and F+ coliphages were found in all 108 samples, but the former outnumbered the latter. The two methods (SAL and viral filtration-adsorption-elution followed by DAL) detected similar phage levels. Hosts E. coli C and CN13 detected similar coliphage levels, and F+ coliphage hosts E. coli C3000 and Famp and Salmonella typhimurium WG49 detected similar phage levels. However, when phage isolates from the three F+ hosts were characterized by cross plating on various phage hosts, there were differences in host specificity and sensitivity. Of the phage isolates on E. coli C3000 50% were somatic coliphages, and of those on S. typhimurium WG49, 10% were somatic Salmonella phages. None of the isolates on host E. coli Famp were somatic. The results of this study indicate that filtration-absorption-elution followed by DAL plaque assay is comparable to the SAL method for coliphage detection while having the comparative advantage of analyzing larger sample volumes. Hosts E. coli C and CN13 were comparable in somatic coliphage detection, but F+ coliphage host E. coli Famp was superior to hosts E. coli C3000 and S. typhimurium WG49 because it was more specific and sensitive while detecting comparable F+ coliphage levels.
Factors related to the adoption and adherence of physical activity mobile applications by older people: A scoping review protocol
Creators: name: Lorenzi, Lorena
name: Belo, Leticia
name: Frohlich, David
name: Dourado, Victor
name: Castro, Paula
name: de Oliveira Gomes, Grace
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Health Information Technology
subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: The purpose of this review is to map the factors related to the adoption and adherence of physical activity mobile applications by older people.
Using systems biology approaches to identify gene biomarkers of tumor cell response to chemical compounds
Creators: name: Liu, Qian
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: With the development of genetic screening and sequencing technologies, the dream of personalized medication is getting close. However, a more comprehensive examination of gene biomarkers for multi-drug chemosensitivity prediction is desired for further progress of targeted therapeutic treatment. And as an example of chemotherapeutic agents, arsenic trioxide has been used as an effective agent that induces complete remission in patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). Arsenic trioxide is a known human carcinogen and chronic arsenic exposure is linked to increased risk of various types of cancer. In this study, we first applied a large-scale research effort to understand the biological mechanisms underlying tumor cell response to multiple chemical compounds. We identified a set of 587 potential gene biomarkers that are associated with multi-drug response, and common canonical pathways and biological processes enriched within this gene set are also identified. We also identified 204 potential gene biomarkers of tumor cell susceptibility to arsenic trioxide, and discovered the associated molecular networks and biological functions, which are the possible biological modulators of tumor cell susceptibility to arsenic trioxide. Our results will be helpful to understand the mechanisms of tumor cell response to multiple chemical compounds and the dual property of arsenic trioxide in cancer causation and cancer treatment. Our findings can be applied to facilitate the development of personalized medications and target therapeutic treatments.
Light 't Hooft Top Partners
Creators: name: Cacciapaglia, Giacomo
name: Parolini, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Vector-like quarks, usually dubbed top partners, are a common presence in composite Higgs models. Being composite objects, their mass is expected to be of the order of their inverse size, that is the condensation scale of the new strong interactions. Light top partners, while not being a generic prediction, are however often considered in phenomenological models. We suggest that their lightness may be due to the matching of global 't Hooft anomalies of the underlying theory. We check this mechanism in explicit models showing that, in one case, composite fermions with the quantum numbers of the top quark obtain a mass which is controlled by a soft breaking term and can be made parametrically small.
description: 5 pages. v2 small presentation improvements, matches published version
Selecting Districts and Schools for Impact Studies in Education: A Simulation Study of Different Strategies
Creators: name: Litwok, Daniel
name: Nichols, Austin
name: Shivji, Azim
name: Olsen, Robert
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
subject: Education Research
subject: Experimental Evaluation
subject: External Validity

description: Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) are widely considered to provide the most convincing evidence on the impacts of education interventions. It can, however, be very difficult to conduct RCTs that have high external validity. Whatever the site selection mechanism — even if it is truly random — a nontrivial share of sites will decline to participate, and the remaining sites will typically be meaningfully less representative of the target population. This project seeks to improve the field’s capacity to conduct evaluations that produce findings which are externally valid or generalizable to broader policy settings by examining and developing methods to improve the external validity of randomized trials of education interventions when sites are not required to participate. Using simulations and the Common Core of Data (CCD), the research will test established methods for site selection: stratified random site selection and methods for systematically selecting sites to match the target population. The researchers will also develop and test methods for selecting replacement sites modeled after methods used in survey research. The research team will simulate simple purposive selection rules based on factors that researchers often consider when selecting sites. The team will then estimate external validity bias by comparing the impacts from the sites simulated to participate in the study to the impacts from all sites in the population. This will provide data with which to conduct a formal test for the presence of external validity bias and to estimate the mean squared error for each site selection method. The research reported here is supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, through Grant R305D190020 to Westat.
title: Merkel cell carcinoma - Imaging Features
Creators: name: Duarte, Ana Luísa
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Head and neck
subject: Pelvis
subject: CT
subject: PET
subject: Education
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Metastases

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To review imaging features of Merkel Cell Carcinoma (MCC) To discuss the differential diagnosis of this...
Release of the Pro-Inflammatory Markers IL-8 & IL-6 by BEAS-2B Cells Following In Vitro Exposure to Biodiesel Extracts
Creators: name: Swanson, Kimberly Jessup
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: Biodiesel, an alkyl ester of plant oils that can be used in an unmodified diesel engine, is the first renewable diesel fuel alternative to show signs of becoming a commercially accepted part of our nation's energy infrastructure. For traditional diesel fuel exhaust, it has been demonstrated that the particulate matter (PM) organic components play a role in acute inflammatory reactions. However, the literature offers only a few cytotoxicity and mutagenicity studies on biodiesel emissions. No acute health effects studies to date provide clear and substantiated evidence that exposure to the organic fraction of biodiesel exhaust induces lung effects different from the effects produced by petroleum diesel. In this study, BEAS-2B, a transformed human airway epithelial cell line, was exposed in vitro to the PM organic extracts from Standard Reference Material (SRM) 1975, soy ethyl ester (SEE), soy methyl ester (SME), and petroleum diesel, for 24 hours. This study demonstrated that the organic extracts of biodiesel PM in an aqueous solution can modulate the release of proinflammatory cytokines by epithelial cells. Biodiesel extracts were more potent inflammatory stimulants than the organic extracts of two diesel PM samples on a microgram PM equivalent per ml (μg PM eq/ml) basis. The dose range tested was not cytotoxic. It was also noted that the solvent exchange method, which was used, may not be appropriate for the investigation of biodiesel extracts, though it has been used extensively in diesel research. A valuable new finding from these experiments is that the soluble organic fraction (SOF) of biodiesel begins to elicit a cytokine response in BEAS-2B cells at a dose of approximately 40 μg PM eq/ml in keratinocyte growth media (KGM) +0.2% dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO). However, more research is required to definitively characterize the potency of the organic fraction of biodiesel compared to petroleum diesel.
Error estimates of numerical methods for the nonlinear Dirac equation in the nonrelativistic limit regime
Creators: name: Bao, Weizhu
name: Cai, Yongyong
name: Jia, Xiaowei
name: Yin, Jia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35Q55, 65M70, 65N12, 65N15, 81Q05

description: We present several numerical methods and establish their error estimates for the discretization of the nonlinear Dirac equation in the nonrelativistic limit regime, involving a small dimensionless parameter $0
description: 35 pages. 1 figure. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1504.02881
A scoping review of the literature exploring registered nurses' experiences of the barriers to the implementation of enhanced recovery after colorectal surgery.
Creators: name: O'Neill, Emma
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Perioperative, Operating Room and Surgical Nursing
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: barriers
subject: enhanced recovery after colorectal surgery
subject: ERAS
subject: experiences of registered nurses
subject: Scoping review

description: The aim of this scoping review is to explore the barriers to the implementation of enhanced recovery after colorectal surgery from the experiences specifically of registered nurses. Eligible studies identified will include all quantitative, qualitative, or mixed method research study designs, including policy documents and grey literature. Research will be considered globally. This scoping review has been developed using the Joanna Briggs Institute recommendations. Methodological frameworks will guide the conduct of the scoping review. The database search will include MEDLINE, CINAHL, Web of Science and the grey literature. Full text studies published in English since 1997 to 2021 will be included. An inductive thematic approach will be used to determine themes and analysis of the data will be completed via Nvivo. This review will explore and identify barriers impacting on the implementation of enhanced recovery after colorectal surgery from the perspective of the registered nurse. The results of this scoping review will provide recommendations for improving implementation practices and enhancing staff and patient experiences of enhanced recovery after colorectal surgery.
Teacher Value-Added Using Young Lives Ethiopia School Survey Data
Creators: name: Admin, RISE
name: Oketch, Moses
name: Rolleston, Caine
name: Rossiter, Jack
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Teacher education and professional development of educators
Education systems not elsewhere classified
Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The crisis of low learning levels in Ethiopia, as in many sub-Saharan African contexts, affects a majority of pupils. While reducing inequality (dispersion) in learning levels is desirable, it is desirable only to the extent that this reduction comes from ‘raising the floor’, not at the expense of pupils who are on target to succeed. Enabling teachers to raise learning outcomes for low and middle performers is key. Where data are available, as is rare in Africa, estimates of value-added and especially of ‘differential value-added’ may serve as a diagnostic tool to help identify which teachers add more value to pupils’ learning and to the learning of particular groups of pupils; and under what conditions.
title: Pediatric neck masses: Value of apparent diffusion coefficient in characterization.
Creators: name: Baiomy, Ali
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Head and neck
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Head and neck masses in children represent a spectrum of malignant tumors and benign lesions that are sometimes difficult be differentiated by conventional imaging techniques. Our objective was to determine whether DWI and calculated apparent...
title: Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging of renal masses: a new hope for differentiation between benign and malignant renal masses
Creators: name: Ramadan, Adel
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Kidney
subject: MR
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Imaging sequences

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: For many years renal cancer was just a solid enhancing mass in the kidney and its treatment was by radical nephrectomy. Since then, progress in understanding and treatment of renal cancer have occurred changing this concept. (1) Because of increased...
Temporal grouping effects in verbal and musical short-term memory: Is serial order representation domain-general?
Creators: name: Gorin, Simon
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Cognition and Perception
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This project contains the data and materials (i.e., namely raw data, data processing scripts, statistical analyses output files, and the experimental task) associated with the paper “Temporal grouping effects in verbal and musical short-term memory: Is serial order representation domain-general?” accepted for publication in Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. The repository also contains the different versions of the manuscript. The file "4_revision1_Gorin_grouping_memory_music_clean.pdf" in the folder "Manuscripts", corresponds to the version accepted for publication.
title: Outcome of Bethesda III nodules: US findings predicting malignancy.
Creators: name: Rhee, Sun Jung
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Biopsy
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Percutaneous
subject: Thyroid / Parathyroids
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Head and neck
subject: Outcomes

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: US-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) is easy-to-use and reliable procedure to diagnose thyroid cancer. However, indeterminately cytological results are a major limitation to assessing thyroid nodules. Indeterminate cytologic result occurs...
How and why mindfulness-based programmes and practices work in the general population: A scoping review - Addendum; The how, why and for whom mindfulness-based programs and practices produce change in the general population: A scoping review - 16/07/2020
Creators: name: Maloney, Shannon
name: Montero-Marin, Jesus
name: Kuyken, Willem
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Movement and Mind-Body Therapies
subject: Psychiatry and Psychology
subject: Health Psychology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Rehabilitation and Therapy
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Psychological Phenomena and Processes
subject: MBCT
subject: MBP
subject: MBSR
subject: Mechanisms
subject: Mediators
subject: Mindfulness
subject: Mindfulness-based programmes
subject: Mindfulness practices

description: Maloney S., Montero-Marin J., Kuyken W. The how, why, and for whom mindfulness-based programs and practices produce change in the general population: A scoping review. Retrieved from: osf.io/s5kcv
The Enumeration of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Degrading Bacteria Utilizing NAH7 Plasmid in a Colony Hybridization Technique
Creators: name: Crowley, Jane M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1994

description: The NAH7 plasmid carries genes which are responsible for the degradation of naphthalene, a common polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) at many waste sites. Other PAHs, including phenanthrene, are also common at hazardous waste sites, however, the genes involved in their degradation have not been identified. Since many PAHs are similar in structure, so some of the genes involved in their degradation may be the same. This study utilizes the genes of the NAH7 plasmid in a colony hybridization procedure to enumerate soil microorganisms capable of degrading PAHs. In addition, the NAH7 probe was used to examine enrichment cultures grown on phenanthrene or pyrene as well as a panel of bacterial isolates capable of utilizing a broad range of PAHs as a sole carbon source. Soils contaminated with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons were probed with a fragment of NAH7 DNA containing the genes which code for the first four enzymes in the naphthalene catabolic pathway. The number of PAH degraders per gram of soil was calculated and compared to data obtained from the Most Probable Number (MPN) technique. The number of degraders determined using the NAH7 probe method was three to four orders of magnitude higher than MPN estimates. A panel of known phenanthrene degrading isolates was probed for homology to the NAH7 probe. Eight of eleven isolates examined hybridized with the probe. The substrate utilization patterns of these isolates had no apparent correlation with their ability to hybridize with the probe. However, two strains which have identical substrate utilization patterns had opposite hybridization reactions. Therefore, the NAH7 probe is capable of detecting PAH degraders more sensitively than the MPN method, and the colony hybridization procedure is a potentially useful tool for the enumeration of PAH degrading organisms.
Considerations on the radio emission from extended air showers
Creators: name: Conti, E.
name: Sartori, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The process of radio emission from extended air showers produced by high energy cosmic rays has reached a good level of comprehension and prediction. It has a coherent nature, so the emitted power scales quadratically with the energy of the primary particle. Recently, a laboratory measurement has revealed that an incoherent radiation mechanism exists, namely, the bremsstrahlung emission. In this paper we expound why bremsstrahlung radiation, that should be present in showers produced by ultra high energy cosmic rays, has escaped detection so far, and why, on the other side, it could be exploited, in the 1--10~GHz frequency range, to detect astronomical $γ$-rays. We propose an experimental scheme to verify such hypothesis, which, if correct, would deeply impact on the observational $γ$-ray astronomy.
description: Revised version. 14 pages, 4 figures
Radio SETI Observations of the Anomalous Star KIC 8462852
Creators: name: Harp, G. R.
name: Richards, Jon
name: Shostak, Seth
name: Tarter, J. C.
name: Vakoch, Douglas A.
name: Munson, Chris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on a search for the presence of signals from extraterrestrial intelligence in the direction of the star system KIC 8462852. Observations were made at radio frequencies between 1-10 GHz using the Allen Telescope Array. No narrowband radio signals were found at a level of 180-300 Jy in a 1 Hz channel, or medium band signals above 10 Jy in a 100 kHz channel.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures
title: Changes in cross-sectional area and transverse diameter of the heart on inspiratory and expiratory chest CT: correlation with changes in lung size and influence on cardiothoracic ratio measurement
Creators: name: Tomita, Hayato
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Head and neck
subject: Lung
subject: CT
subject: Catheters
subject: Cancer
subject: Lymphoma

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The aims of this study are, (i) to clarify how cardiac measurements and the cardio-thoracic ratio (CTR) change from inspiration to expiration, and (ii) to investigate the correlation between changes in cardiac parameters and changes in lung size...
The Importance of Students’ Socio-Emotional Learning, Mental Health, and Wellbeing in the Time of COVID-19
Creators: name: Admin, RISE
name: Yorke, Louise
name: Rose, Pauline
name: Bayley, Stephen
name: Wole, Darge
name: Ramchandani, Paul
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education policy
Education systems not elsewhere classified
Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This insight ntoe shows that supporting students’ SEL can help students to return to school, catch up on lost learning, and adapt to new circumstances. SEL has particular relevance for disadvantaged groups who received limited support during the school closures and for supporting students’ mental health and wellbeing, an important area of concern during the pandemic.
Inflation with a massive vector field nonminimally coupled to gravity
Creators: name: Bertolami, O.
name: Bessa, V.
name: Páramos, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the possibility that inflation is driven by a massive vector field with SO(3) global symmetry nonminimally coupled to gravity. From an E^3-invariant Robertson-Walker metric we propose an Ansatz for the vector field, allowing us to study the evolution of the system. We study the behaviour of the equations of motion using the methods of the theory of dynamical systems and find exponential inflationary regimes.
description: 7 pages, 3 Figures
Research compendium for Montero-Melis et al. (2021) "No evidence for embodiment: The motor system is not needed to keep action words in working memory" (Cortex)
Creators: name: Montero-Melis, Guillermo
name: Ostarek, Markus
name: van Paridon, Jeroen
name: Bylund, Emanuel
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cognitive Neuroscience
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Neuroscience and Neurobiology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Embodiment
subject: Registered Report
subject: Replication
subject: research-compendium
subject: Semantic representation
subject: short term memory
subject: working memory

description: This open and public repository contains all materials accompanying our Registered Report submitted to Cortex (Montero-Melis et al., 2021)
title: Usefulness of DWI in MRI diagnosis of bisphosphonate-related osteonecrosis of the jaw (BRONJ): Comparison with chronic osteomyelitis
Creators: name: Otani, Takahiro
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Head and neck
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Demineralisation-Bone

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Bisphosphonates are commonly used for the treatment of osteoporosis, hypercalcemia due to malignant tumor such as bone metastases, multiple myeloma, and other bony diseases. It is known that this medicine causes the jawbone necrosis that is called...