cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Customs Qualitative Impact on the System of Enterprise Economic Security: Modeling and  Evaluating the Results
Creators: name: Rudnichenko, Yevhenii
name: Korchevska, Liliya
name: Mykolaichuk, Vasyl
name: Berezhniuk, Ivan
name: Havlovska, Nataliia
name: Nagorichna, Olga
Publisher: name: TEM Journal
Year: 2019

description: The quality of interaction between enterprises and institutional agents in most world countries stipulates the conditions to ease doing business. For entities engaged in foreign trade operations one of the main subjects of such interaction is customs. It is customs that control the movement of goods through the country customs border, perform part of the state fiscal functions and directly affect the economic security of enterprisessubjects of foreign economic activity. The study formed a model of the customs influence on the enterprise economic security system based on the use of the game theory. For two participants of the game – customs and enterprise – the indicators that determine the strategy of the participant in the game and its behavior in such a game are proposed. It has been empirically proven that the customs does not use the optimal strategy when interacting with business entities, causing a negative impact both on individual subjects and on the results of customs activities. This situation adversely affects the enterprise economic security and makes them adapt to the existing realities.
High-energy magnetic excitations in Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8+δ}$: Towards a unified description of the electronic and magnetic degrees of freedom in the cuprates
Creators: name: Dean, M. P. M.
name: James, A. J. A.
name: Springell, R. S.
name: Liu, X.
name: Monney, C.
name: Zhou, K. J.
name: Konik, R. M.
name: Wen, J. S.
name: Xu, Z. J.
name: Gu, G. D.
name: Strocov, V. N.
name: Schmitt, T.
name: Hill, J. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the high-energy magnetic excitation spectrum of the high-$T_c$ cuprate superconductor Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8+δ}$ (Bi-2212) using Cu $L_3$ edge resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS). Broad, dispersive magnetic excitations are observed, with a zone boundary energy of $\sim$300 meV and a weak dependence on doping. These excitations are strikingly similar to the bosons proposed to explain the high-energy `kink' observed in photoemission. A calculation of the spin-response based on the ARPES-derived electronic structure and YRZ-quasi-particles reproduces the key features of the observed magnetic dispersions with no adjustable parameters. These results show that it is possible to reconcile the magnetic and electronic properties of the cuprates within a unified framework.
description: To appear in Phys. Rev. Lett. 5 pages, 3 figures, 4 page supplementary info
title: Risk Management in Human Resource Management
Creators: name: M. Kraev, Vyacheslav
name: I. Tikhonov, Alexey
Publisher: name: TEM Journal
Year: 2019

description: Human resource risk is the probability of unfavorable events’ and threats’ realization occurrences coming from people as a result of decision making. It plays an increasing role in the companies’ activities. Threats of this type are of complex nature and are also called anthropogenic. Risk realization leads to the loss of important confidential information, commercial losses, profits’ losses, and a decline in the company's goodwill. Adequate reduction of personnel risks will improve the personnel quality and, consequently, reduce the damage from the risk threats’ realization.
title: Comparison of Using Managerial Instruments in Industry Companies in Slovakia and the Czech Republic
Creators: name: Teplická, Katarína
name: Hurná, Soňa
name: Kádárová, Jaroslava
Publisher: name: TEM Journal
Year: 2019

description: Performance management is key factor of successful business and obtaining competitiveness advantages on the global business market. Monitoring of performance is basic instrument of innovative activities in the industrial enterprises. The main goal of this contribution is to monitor the attitudes of industrial enterprises in Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the use and application of performance management tools. Based on a questionnaire survey in industrial enterprises in Slovakia and in the Czech Republic, we monitored the areas of performance management that businesses prefer, specific financial indicators, and new management tools implemented in companies. The conclusion of the research pointed to the most monitored area - finance, from the point of view of financial indicators the most monitored are costs, revenues, profit, liquidity, indebtedness. New trends in performance management that businesses have introduced are quality management, project management, and EVA financial indicator.
Victory Parade Chungking
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: World War (1939-1945)
Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)

description: CT-45-70,249, 9/3/45 Photo by S/Sgt Kienzle, Chinese crowding the war capital of Chungking sheer wildly as a contingent of U.S. soldiers and WAOS keep through the streets as part of an interminable V-J day parade.
Spectral asymptotics of a strong $δ'$ interaction on a planar loop
Creators: name: Exner, Pavel
name: Jex, Michal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 81Q10, 35J10, 35P15

description: We consider a generalized Schrödinger operator in $L^2(\R^2)$ with an attractive strongly singular interaction of $δ'$ type characterized by the coupling parameter $β>0$ and supported by a $C^4$-smooth closed curve $Γ$ of length $L$ without self-intersections. It is shown that in the strong coupling limit, $β\to 0_+$, the number of eigenvalues behaves as $\frac{2L}{πβ} + \OO(|\lnβ|)$, and furthermore, that the asymptotic behaviour of the $j$-th eigenvalue in the same limit is $-\frac{4}{β^2} +μ_j+\OO(β|\lnβ|)$, where $μ_j$ is the $j$-th eigenvalue of the Schrödinger operator on $L^2(0,L)$ with periodic boundary conditions and the potential $-\frac14 γ^2$ where $γ$ is the signed curvature of $Γ$.
title: Building a Concept of Entrepreneurial Control
Creators: name: Hanif, Hanif
name: Rakhman, Abdulah
name: Nurkholis, Muhammad
Publisher: name: TEM Journal
Year: 2019

description: This research aims to create a concept of entrepreneurial control with a view to building a concept of management control by interpreting socio-cultural aspects of company organization. An interpretive paradigm by means of ethnographic method was employed in this research. Finding of the research reveals a concept of entrepreneurial control that is a controlling model conducted by entrepreneur-directors by involving the socio-cultural aspects to encourage the employees in order to achieve maximum company performance. This is implemented by creating a unique policy on compensation that a profit sharing has composition of 10:7:3, which is proportionally shared respectively among employees, investors, and entrepreneur-directors.
S-duality invariant dilaton couplings at order $α'^3$
Creators: name: Garousi, Mohammad R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Riemann curvature correction to the type II supergravity at eight-derivative level is given schematically as $(t_8t_8+{1}{8}\eps_{10}\eps_{10})R^4$ at tree-level. The replacement of the generalized Riemann curvature in $t_8t_8R^4$, proposed by Gross and Sloan, produces various NS-NS couplings which are invariant under T-duality. Recently, using the combination of S-duality and T-duality transformations on these couplings, we have found groups of couplings which are invariant under the S-duality transformation. In this paper, we have examined the couplings involving the dilaton with direct scattering amplitude calculations of four NS-NS vertex operators in the superstring theory and found exact agreement. The coupling $\eps_{10}\eps_{10}R^4$ is a total derivative term at four-field level. The $σ$-model beta function approach implies the presence of this term at the tree-level. By examining the sphere-level scattering amplitude of five gravitons, we have also confirmed the presence of this term in the tree-level effective action.
description: 15 pages, Latex file, no figure; v4: the version appears in JHEP
Relaxation limit in larger Besov spaces for compressible Euler equations
Creators: name: Xu, Jiang
name: Kawashima, Shuichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The work is devoted to the relaxation limit in larger Besov spaces for compressible Euler equations, which contains previous results in Sobolev spaces and Besov spaces with critical regularity. Such an extension depends on a revision of commutator estimates and an elementary fact which indicates the connection between homogeneous and inhomogeneous Chemin-Lerner spaces.
Euponera sikorae Forel 1891, n. sp.
Creators: name: Forel, A.
Publisher: name: L'Imprimerie Nationale
Year: 1891
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Euponera
Euponera sikorae

description: EUPONERA SIKORAE, n. sp.
[[worker]]. Longueur 9,5 à 10,5 mill. Caractères du sous-genre. Mandibules subluisantes avec des stries effacées et une ponctuation assez grossière vers l'extrémité. Une grosse fossette vers leur base, près du bord externe, qui a un sillon longitudinal vers la base. Sillon frontal long et distinct. Tête assez allongée, rectangulaire, aussi large devant que derrière, à côtés et à bord postérieur distinctement convexes. Métanotum convexe, à face déclive large. N œ ud du pédicule un peu plus large que long, plus haut que large; sa face postérieure est un peu plus large et un peu plus plane (un peu moins convexe) que sa face antérieure. La dent latérale qui se trouve à la base de chaque côté de cette dernière est très large, courte, dirigée un peu en haut. Abdomen fortement étranglé; au fond de la portion dorsale de l'étranglement, des stries longitudinales grossieres, très courtes.
Lisse, luisante, avec une ponctuation assez fine, abondante et régu- lière sur le dessus de la tête et du thorax, ainsi que sur les pattes et les scapes, fort éparse ailleurs (assez éparse déjà sur le métanotum).
Une pilosité brunâtre assez courte, médiocrement abondante sur l'abdomen, très éparse ailleurs, nulle sur les scapes et les tibias. Une pubescence brunâtre, adjacente, assez peu fine, assez abondante sur les pattes, les antennes, le dessus de la tête et le thorax, formant sur ces parties un faible duvet gris-brunâtre, qui ne cache pas la sculpture; sur le reste du corps, elle est dispersée.
Noire. Mandibules, devant des arêtes frontales, funicules, tarses, articulations et extrémité de l'abdomen d'un brun plus ou moins roussi; pattes et scapes d'un brun noir.
Centre de Madagascar (M. Sikora).
description: Published as part of Forel, A., 1891, Histoire naturelle des Hymenopteres. Deuxieme partie: Les Formicides., pp. 1-231 in Histoire Physique, Naturelle et Politique de Madagascar., Paris :L'Imprimerie Nationale on page 127, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.9896
Prototipo de sistema para la gestión de control de tránsito vehicular
Creators: name: Panizzi, Marisa Daniela
name: Propato, Dario
name: Bertone, Rodolfo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Software
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Anexo - Prototipo de sistema para la gestión de control de tránsito vehicular.
title: The colonial legacy of education: evidence from of Tunisia
Creators: name: Ben Salah, Mhamed
name: Chambru, Cédric
name: Fourati, Maleke
Publisher: name: Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/007ygn379
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2022

description: Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Working Paper ; no. 13/2022
The Epeak-Eiso relation revisited with Fermi GRBs: Resolving a long-standing debate?
Creators: name: Heussaff, V.
name: Atteia, J-L.
name: Zolnierowski, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We used a sample of GRBs detected by Fermi and Swift to reanalyze the correlation discovered by Amati et al. (2002) between Epi, the peak energy of the prompt GRB emission, and Eiso, the energy released by the GRB assuming isotropic emission. This correlation has been disputed by various authors, and our aim is to assess whether it is an intrinsic GRB property or the consequence of selection effects. We constructed a sample of Fermi GRBs with homogeneous selection criteria, and we studied their distribution in the Epi-Eiso plane. Our sample is made of 43 GRBs with a redshift and 243 GRBs without a redshift. We show that GRBs with a redshift follow a broad Epi-Eiso relation, while GRBs without a redshift show several outliers. We use these samples to discuss the impact of selection effects associated with GRB detection and with redshift measurement. We find that the Epi-Eiso relation is partly due to intrinsic GRB properties and partly due to selection effects. The lower right boundary of the Epi-Eiso relation stems from a true lack of luminous GRBs with low Epi. In contrast, the upper left boundary is attributed to selection effects acting against the detection GRBs with low Eiso and large Epi that appear to have a lower signal-to-noise ratio. In addition, we demonstrate that GRBs with and without a redshift follow different distributions in the Epi-Eiso plane. GRBs with a redshift are concentrated near the lower right boundary of the Epi-Eiso relation. This suggests that it is easier to measure the redshift of GRBs close to the lower Epi-Eiso boundary. In this context, we attribute the controversy about the reality of the Amati relation to the complex nature of this relation resulting from the combination of a true physical boundary and biases favoring the detection and the measurement of the redshift of GRBs located close to this boundary.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures, same version as the paper published in A&A
B Cell Numbers Predict Humoral and Cellular Response Upon SARS–CoV-2 Vaccination Among Patients Treated With Rituximab
Creators: name: Stefanski, Ana‐Luisa
name: Rincon‐Arevalo, Hector
name: Schrezenmeier, Eva
name: Karberg, Kirsten
name: Szelinski, Franziska
name: Ritter, Jacob
name: Jahrsdörfer, Bernd
name: Schrezenmeier, Hubert
name: Ludwig, Carolin
name: Sattler, Arne
name: Kotsch, Katja
name: Chen, Yidan
name: Claußnitzer, Anne
name: Haibel, Hildrun
name: Proft, Fabian
name: Guerra, Gabriela
name: Durek, Pawel
name: Heinrich, Frederik
name: Ferreira‐Gomes, Marta
name: Burmester, Gerd R.
name: Radbruch, Andreas
name: Mashreghi, Mir‐Farzin
name: Lino, Andreia C.
name: Dörner, Thomas
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Arthritis
subject: SARS–CoV-2
subject: Vaccination
subject: Rituximab
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Objective: Patients with autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic diseases receiving rituximab (RTX) therapy are at higher risk of poor COVID-19 outcomes and show substantially impaired humoral immune response to anti-SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. However, the complex relationship between antigen-specific B cells and T cells and the level of B cell repopulation necessary to achieve anti-vaccine responses remain largely unknown. Methods: Antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 vaccines and induction of antigen-specific B and CD4/CD8 T cell subsets were studied in 19 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis receiving RTX, 12 patients with RA receiving other therapies, and 30 healthy controls after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination with either messenger RNA or vector-based vaccines. Results: A minimum of 10 B cells per microliter (0.4% of lymphocytes) in the peripheral circulation appeared to be required for RTX-treated patients to mount seroconversion to anti-S1 IgG upon SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. RTX-treated patients who lacked IgG seroconversion showed reduced receptor-binding domain-positive B cells (P = 0.0005), a lower frequency of Tfh-like cells (P = 0.0481), as well as fewer activated CD4 (P = 0.0036) and CD8 T cells (P = 0.0308) compared to RTX-treated patients who achieved IgG seroconversion. Functionally relevant B cell depletion resulted in impaired interferon-γ secretion by spike-specific CD4 T cells (P = 0.0112, r = 0.5342). In contrast, antigen-specific CD8 T cells were reduced in both RA patients and RTX-treated patients, independently of IgG formation. Conclusion: In RTX-treated patients, a minimum of 10 B cells per microliter in the peripheral circulation is a candidate biomarker for a high likelihood of an appropriate cellular and humoral response after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. Mechanistically, the data emphasize the crucial role of costimulatory B cell functions for the proper induction of CD4 responses propagating vaccine-specific B cell and plasma cell differentiation.
Temporal Integrators for Fluctuating Hydrodynamics
Creators: name: Delong, S.
name: Griffith, B. E.
name: Vanden-Eijnden, E.
name: Donev, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Including the effect of thermal fluctuations in traditional computational fluid dynamics requires developing numerical techniques for solving the stochastic partial differential equations of fluctuating hydrodynamics. These Langevin equations possess a special fluctuation-dissipation structure that needs to be preserved by spatio-temporal discretizations in order for the computed solution to reproduce the correct long-time behavior. In particular, numerical solutions should approximate the Gibbs-Boltzmann equilibrium distribution, and ideally this will hold even for large time step sizes. We describe finite-volume spatial discretizations for the fluctuating Burgers and fluctuating incompressible Navier-Stokes equations that obey a discrete fluctuation-dissipation balance principle just like the continuum equations. We develop implicit-explicit predictor-corrector temporal integrators for the resulting stochastic method-of-lines discretization. These stochastic Runge-Kutta schemes treat diffusion implicitly and advection explicitly, are weakly second-order accurate for additive noise for small time steps, and give a good approximation to the equilibrium distribution even for very strong fluctuations. Numerical results demonstrate that a midpoint predictor-corrector scheme is very robust over a broad range of time step sizes.
description: Submitted to Phys. Rev. E
Drifting, moding, and nulling: another look at pulsar B1918+19
Creators: name: Rankin, Joanna M.
name: Wright, Geoffrey A. E.
name: Brown, Andrew M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Arecibo observations of the conal triple pulsar B1918+19 at 0.327- and 1.4-GHz are used to analyse its subpulse behaviour in detail. We confirm the presence of three distinct drift modes (A,B,C) plus a disordered mode (N) and show that they follow one another in specific cycles. Interpreting the pulsar's profile as resulting from a sightline traverse which cuts across an outer cone and tangentially grazes an inner cone, we demonstrate that the phase modulation of the inner cone is locked to the amplitude modulation of the outer cone in all the drift modes. The 9% nulls are found to be largely confined to the dominant B and N modes, and, in the N mode, create alternating bunches of nulls and emission in a quasi-periodic manner with an averaged fluctuation rate of about 12 rotation periods ($P_1$). We explore the assumption that the apparent drift is the first alias of a faster drift of subbeams equally spaced around the cones. This is shown to imply that all modes A, B and C have a common circulation time of 12 $P_1$ and differ only in the number of subbeams. This timescale is on the same order as predicted by the classic {\bf E}$\times${\bf B} drift and also coincides with the N-mode modulation. We therefore arrive at a picture where the circulation speed remains roughly invariant while the subbeams progressively diminish in number from modes A to B to C, and are then re-established during the N mode. We suggest that aliasing combined with subbeam loss may be responsible for apparently dramatic changes in drift rates in other pulsars.
Association of Machine Learning–Based Predictions of Medial Knee Contact Force With Cartilage Loss Over 2.5 Years in Knee Osteoarthritis
Creators: name: Brisson, Nicholas M.
name: Gatti, Anthony A.
name: Damm, Philipp
name: Duda, Georg N.
name: Maly, Monica R.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Knee
subject: Osteoarthritis
subject: Magnetic Resonance Imaging
subject: Machine Learning
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Objective: The relationship between in vivo knee load predictions and longitudinal cartilage changes has not been investigated. We undertook this study to develop an equation to predict the medial tibiofemoral contact force (MCF) peak during walking in persons with instrumented knee implants, and to apply this equation to determine the relationship between the predicted MCF peak and cartilage loss in patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA). Methods: In adults with knee OA (39 women, 8 men; mean ± SD age 61.1 ± 6.8 years), baseline biomechanical gait analyses were performed, and annualized change in medial tibial cartilage volume (mm3 /year) over 2.5 years was determined using magnetic resonance imaging. In a separate sample of patients with force-measuring tibial prostheses (3 women, 6 men; mean ± SD age 70.3 ± 5.2 years), gait data plus in vivo knee loads were used to develop an equation to predict the MCF peak using machine learning. This equation was then applied to the knee OA group, and the relationship between the predicted MCF peak and annualized cartilage volume change was determined. Results: The MCF peak was best predicted using gait speed, the knee adduction moment peak, and the vertical knee reaction force peak (root mean square error 132.88N; R2 = 0.81, P < 0.001). In participants with knee OA, the predicted MCF peak was related to cartilage volume change (R2 = 0.35, β = -0.119, P < 0.001). Conclusion: Machine learning was used to develop a novel equation for predicting the MCF peak from external biomechanical parameters. The predicted MCF peak was positively related to medial tibial cartilage volume loss in patients with knee OA.
A Search for the Rare Decays B --> pi l+l- and B0 --> eta l+l-
Creators: name: The BABAR Collaboration
name: Lees, J. P.
name: Others
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of a search for the rare flavor-changing neutral-current decays B --> pi l+l- (pi=pi+/-, pi0 and l = e,mu) and B0 --> eta l+l- using a sample of e+e- --> Y(4S) BB decays decays corresponding to 428 fb^-1 of integrated luminosity collected by the BABAR detector. No significant signal is observed, and we set an upper limit on the isospin and lepton-flavor averaged branching fraction of BF(B --> pi l+l-) < 7.0 x 10^-8 and a lepton-flavor averaged upper limit of BF(B0 --> eta l+l-) < 9.2 x 10^-8, both at the 90% confidence level. We also report 90% confidence level branching fraction upper limits for the individual modes B+ --> pi+ e+e-, B0 --> pi0 e+e-, B+ --> pi+ mu+mu-, B0 --> pi0 mu+mu-, B0 --> eta e+e-, and B0 --> eta mu+mu-.
description: 18 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Hypothermic oxygenated machine perfusion for extended criteria donor allografts: Preliminary experience with extended organ preservation times in the setting of organ reallocation
Creators: name: Pavicevic, Sandra
name: Uluk, Deniz
name: Reichelt, Sophie
name: Fikatas, Panagiotis
name: Globke, Brigitta
name: Raschzok, Nathanael
name: Schmelzle, Moritz
name: Öllinger, Robert
name: Schöning, Wenzel
name: Eurich, Dennis
name: Pratschke, Johann
name: Lurje, Georg
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: donation after brain death
subject: extended criteria donor
subject: extended preservation time
subject: hypothermic oxygenated machine perfusion
subject: liver transplantation
subject: operating room logistics
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: In times of critical organ shortage, poor organ pool utilization and increased use of extended-criteria donor (ECD) allografts remain a major problem. Hypothermic oxygenated machine perfusion (HOPE) has emerged as a promising and feasible strategy in ECD liver transplantation (LT). However, potential safety limits regarding the duration of perfusion are yet to be explored. Besides marginal allograft quality (steatosis), prolonged cold ischemia time remains the most important factor for a high number of liver allografts being declined for transplantation. Patients and methods: Two ECD-allografts were each allocated to two recipients, who proved to be unsuitable to receive the assigned allograft upon arrival at the transplant center. The organs were reallocated by Eurotransplant and accepted by our center for two different backup patients. During that time, HOPE was commenced and continued until the recipient hepatectomy was completed. Postoperative allograft function was assessed by serum levels of alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), bilirubin, and International Normalized Ratio. Incidence of early allograft dysfunction (EAD), postoperative complications, and length of hospital stay were analyzed. Results: HOPE was applied for 4 h 35 min and 4 h 20 min, resulting in a total cold preservation time of 17 h 29 min and 15 h 20 min, respectively. Both recipients displayed decreasing serum transaminases and bilirubin levels postoperatively. No EAD or major postoperative complications occurred in either patient. Serum ALT and AST levels were within the normal range at discharge. Conclusions: Extended HOPE enables the safe extension of preservation time for up to 18 h in human LT. End-ischemic HOPE may significantly improve organ pool utilization, while simultaneously facilitating operating room logistics and preventing organ injury.
A non‐inferiority comparative analysis of micro‐ultrasonography and MRI‐targeted biopsy in men at risk of prostate cancer
Creators: name: Hofbauer, Sebastian L.
name: Luger, Ferdinand
name: Harland, Niklas
name: Plage, Henning
name: Reimann, Maximillian
name: Hollenbach, Markus
name: Gusenleitner, Andreas
name: Stenzl, Arnulf
name: Schlomm, Thorsten
name: Wiemer, Laura
name: Cash, Hannes
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: prostate cancer
subject: prostate biopsy
subject: targeted biopsy
subject: micro-ultrasonography
subject: multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging
subject: #uroonc
subject: #PCSM
subject: #ProstateCancer
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Objective: To compare the efficacy of multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI)-directed and micro-ultrasonography (micro-US)-directed biopsy for detecting clinically significant (Grade Group >1) prostate cancer (csPCa). Materials and methods: A total of 203 patients were prospectively enrolled at three institutions across Germany and Austria in the period from January 2019 to December 2019. During each biopsy, the urologist was blinded to the mpMRI report until after the micro-US targets had been assessed. After unblinding, targets were then sampled using software-assisted fusion, followed by systematic samples. The primary outcome measure was non-inferiority of micro-US to detect csPCa, with a detection ratio of at least 80% that of mpMRI. Results: A total of 79 csPCa cases were detected overall (39%). Micro-US-targeted biopsy detected 58/79 cases (73%), while mpMRI-targeted biopsy detected 60/79 (76%) and non-targeted (completion sampling) samples detected 45/79 cases (57%). mpMRI-targeted samples alone detected 7/79 (9%) csPCa cases which were missed by micro-US-targeted and non-targeted samples. Three of these seven were anterior lesions with 2/7 in the transition zone. Micro-US-targeted samples alone detected 5/79 (6%) and completion sampling alone detected 4/79 cases (5%). Micro-US was non-inferior to mpMRI and detected 97% of the csPCa cases detected by mpMRI-targeted biopsy (95% CI 80-116%; P = 0.023). Conclusions: This is the first multicentre prospective study comparing micro-US-targeted biopsy with mpMRI-targeted biopsy. The study provides further evidence that micro-US can reliably detect cancer lesions and suggests that micro-US biopsy might be as effective as mpMRI for detection of csPCA. This result has significant implications for increasing accessibility, reducing costs and expediting diagnosis.
Utilization and long‐term persistence of direct oral anticoagulants among patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation and liver disease
Creators: name: Douros, Antonios
name: Cui, Ying
name: Platt, Robert W.
name: Filion, Kristian B.
name: Sebastiani, Giada
name: Renoux, Christel
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: anticoagulation
subject: antithrombotic treatment
subject: cardiovascular disease
subject: hepatic disease
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Aims: We characterized the utilization and long-term treatment persistence of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) and liver disease. Method: Using the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink, we assembled a population-based cohort of NVAF patients with liver disease initiating oral anticoagulants between 2011 and 2020. Logistic regression estimated odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of the association between patient characteristics and initiation of DOACs vs vitamin K antagonists (VKAs). Cox proportional hazards models estimated hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% CIs of the association between patient characteristics and the switch from VKAs to DOACs vs remaining on VKAs. We also assessed the 5-year treatment persistence with DOACs vs VKAs, and whether ischemic stroke or bleeding preceded treatment discontinuation. Results: Our cohort included 3167 NVAF patients with liver disease initiating DOACs (n = 2247, 71%) or VKAs (n = 920, 29%). Initiators of DOACs were more likely to have prior ischemic stroke (OR 1.44, 95% CI 1.12-1.85) than VKA initiators but less likely to have used antiplatelet agents (OR 0.66, 95% CI 0.53-0.82). Patients switching to DOACs were more likely to have used selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (HR 1.64, 95% CI 1.13-2.37) than those remaining on VKAs. At 5 years, 31% of DOAC initiators and 9% of VKA initiators remained persistent. Only few patients were diagnosed with ischemic stroke or bleeding prior to treatment discontinuation. Conclusion: Most NVAF patients with liver disease initiated treatment with DOACs. Long-term persistence with DOACs was higher than with VKAs but remained relatively low.
The effect of peri‐operative dexmedetomidine on the incidence of postoperative delirium in cardiac and non‐cardiac surgical patients: a randomised, double‐blind placebo‐controlled trial
Creators: name: Norden, J. Van
name: Spies, C. D.
name: Borchers, F.
name: Mertens, M.
name: Kurth, J.
name: Heidgen, J.
name: Pohrt, A.
name: Mueller, A.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: dexmedetomidine
subject: delirium
subject: peri-operative
subject: trial
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Delirium occurs commonly following major non-cardiac and cardiac surgery and is associated with: postoperative mortality; postoperative neurocognitive dysfunction; increased length of hospital stay; and major postoperative complications and morbidity. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of peri-operative administration of dexmedetomidine on the incidence of postoperative delirium in non-cardiac and cardiac surgical patients. In this randomised, double-blind placebo-controlled trial we included 63 patients aged >= 60 years undergoing major open abdominal surgery or coronary artery bypass graft surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass. The primary outcome was the incidence of postoperative delirium, as screened for with the Confusion Assessment Method. Delirium assessment was performed twice daily until postoperative day 5, at the time of discharge from hospital or until postoperative day 14. We found that dexmedetomidine was associated with a reduced incidence of postoperative delirium within the first 5 postoperative days, 43.8% vs. 17.9%, p = 0.038. Severity of delirium, screened with the Intensive Care Delirium Screening Checklist, was comparable in both groups, with a mean maximum score of 1.54 vs. 1.68, p = 0.767. No patients in the dexmedetomidine group died while five (15.6%) patients in the placebo group died, p = 0.029. For patients aged >= 60 years undergoing major cardiac or non-cardiac surgery, we conclude that the peri-operative administration of dexmedetomidine is associated with a lower incidence of postoperative delirium.
2018 SC18: BSSw 04: Improving Reproducibility Through Better Software Practices
Creators: name: Heroux, Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Applied Computer Science
subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Module 4 of the Better Scientific Software Tutorial delivered at SC18, Dallas, Texas, 2018-11-12
Self-bound many-body states of quasi-one-dimensional dipolar Fermi gases: Exploiting Bose-Fermi mappings for generalized contact interactions
Creators: name: Deuretzbacher, F.
name: Bruun, G. M.
name: Pethick, C. J.
name: Jona-Lasinio, M.
name: Reimann, S. M.
name: Santos, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a combination of results from exact mappings and from mean-field theory we explore the phase diagram of quasi-one-dimensional systems of identical fermions with attractive dipolar interactions. We demonstrate that at low density these systems provide a realization of a single-component one-dimensional Fermi gas with a generalized contact interaction. Using an exact duality between one-dimensional Fermi and Bose gases, we show that when the dipole moment is strong enough, bound many-body states exist, and we calculate the critical coupling strength for the emergence of these states. At higher densities, the Hartree-Fock approximation is accurate, and by combining the two approaches we determine the structure of the phase diagram. The many-body bound states should be accessible in future experiments with ultracold polar molecules.
Cardiac Troponin and Recurrent Major Vascular Events after Minor Stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack
Creators: name: Hellwig, Simon
name: Ihl, Thomas
name: Ganeshan, Ramanan
name: Laumeier, Inga
name: Ahmadi, Michael
name: Steinicke, Maureen
name: Weber, Joachim E.
name: Endres, Matthias
name: Audebert, Heinrich J.
name: Scheitz, Jan F.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ischemic Attack
subject: Troponin
subject: Stroke
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Objective: This study was undertaken to investigate whether high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T (hs-cTnT) is associated with major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) in patients with minor stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA), and whether this association differs after risk stratification based on the Age, Blood Pressure, Clinical Features, Duration of Symptoms, Diabetes (ABCD2 ) score. Methods: INSPiRE-TMS was a randomized controlled trial allocating patients with minor stroke or TIA to an intensified support program or conventional care. In this post hoc analysis, participants were categorized using hs-cTnT levels (5th generation; Roche Diagnostics, Manheim, Germany; 99th percentile upper reference limit [URL] = 14ng/l). Vascular risk was stratified using the ABCD2 score (lower risk = 0-5 vs higher risk = 6-7). Cox proportional hazard regression was performed using covariate adjustment and propensity score matching (PSM) for the association between hs-cTnT and MACE (stroke/nonfatal coronary event/vascular death). Results: Among 889 patients (mean age = 70 years, 37% female), MACE occurred in 153 patients (17.2%) during a mean follow-up of 3.2 years. hs-cTnT was associated with MACE (9.3%/yr, >URL vs 4.4%/yr, ≤URL, adjusted hazard ratio [HR] = 1.63 [95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.13-2.35], adjusted HR [Q4 vs Q1 ] = 2.57 [95% CI = 1.35-4.97], adjusted HR [log-transformed] = 2.31 [95% CI = 1.37-3.89]). This association remained after PSM (adjusted HR = 1.76 [95% CI = 1.14-2.72]). There was a significant interaction between hs-cTnT and ABCD2 category for MACE occurrence (pinteraction = 0.04). In the lower risk category, MACE rate was 9.5%/yr in patients with hs-cTnT > URL, which was higher than in those ≤URL (3.8%/yr) and similar to the overall rate in the higher risk category. Interpretation: hs-cTnT levels are associated with incident MACE within 3 years after minor stroke or TIA and may help to identify high-risk individuals otherwise deemed at lower risk based on the ABCD2 score. If confirmed in independent validation studies, this might warrant intensified secondary prevention measures and cardiac diagnostics in stroke patients with elevated hs-cTnT.
Long‐Term Cognitive Outcome in Anti–N‐Methyl‐D‐Aspartate Receptor Encephalitis
Creators: name: Heine, Josephine
name: Kopp, Ute A.
name: Klag, Johanna
name: Ploner, Christoph J.
name: Prüss, Harald
name: Finke, Carsten
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR)
subject: encephalitis
subject: cognitive dysfunction
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Objective: Cognitive dysfunction is a core symptom of anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis, but detailed studies on prevalence, characteristics of cognitive deficits, and the potential for recovery are missing. Here, we performed a prospective longitudinal study to assess cognitive long-term outcome and identify clinical predictors. Methods: Standardized comprehensive neuropsychological assessments were performed in 43 patients with NMDAR encephalitis 2.3 years and 4.9 years (median) after disease onset. Cognitive assessments covered executive function, working memory, verbal/visual episodic memory, attention, subjective complaints, and depression and anxiety levels. Cognitive performance of patients was compared to that of 30 healthy participants matched for age, sex, and education. Results: All patients had persistent cognitive deficits 2.3 years after onset, with moderate or severe impairment in >80% of patients. Core deficits included memory and executive function. After 4.9 years, significant improvement of cognitive function was observed, but moderate to severe deficits persisted in two thirds of patients, despite favorable functional neurological outcomes (median modified Rankin Scale = 1). Delayed treatment, higher disease severity, and longer duration of the acute phase were predictors for impaired cognitive outcome. The recovery process was time dependent, with greater gains earlier after the acute phase, although improvements were possible for several years after disease onset. Interpretation: Cognitive deficits are the main contributor to long-term morbidity in NMDAR encephalitis and persist beyond functional neurological recovery. Nonetheless, cognitive improvement is possible for several years after the acute phase and should be supported by continued cognitive rehabilitation. Cognition should be included as an outcome measure in future clinical studies.
Cost‐effectiveness analysis of multiple imaging modalities in diagnosis and follow‐up of intermediate complex cystic renal lesions
Creators: name: Spiesecke, Paul
name: Reinhold, Thomas
name: Wehrenberg, Yano
name: Werner, Sven
name: Maxeiner, Andreas
name: Busch, Jonas
name: Fischer, Thomas
name: Hamm, Bernd
name: Lerchbaumer, Markus Herbert
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: computed tomography
subject: contrast-enhanced ultrasonography
subject: cost-effectiveness analysis
subject: cystic renal lesion
subject: magnetic resonance imaging
subject: #kcsm
subject: #KidneyCancer
subject: #uroonc
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Objectives: To compare health-economic aspects of multiple imaging modalities used to monitor renal cysts, the present study evaluates costs and outcomes of patients with Bosniak IIF and III renal cysts detected and followed-up by either contrast-enhanced computed tomography (ceCT), contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (ceMRI), or contrast-enhanced ultrasonography (CEUS). Patients and methods: A simulation using Markov models was implemented and performed with 10 cycles of 1 year each. Proportionate cohorts were allocated to Markov models by a decision tree processing specific incidences of malignancy and levels of diagnostic performance. Costs of imaging and surgical treatment were investigated using internal data of a European university hospital. Multivariate probabilistic sensitivity analysis was performed to confirm results considering input value uncertainties. Patient outcomes were measured in quality-adjusted life years (QALY), and costs as averages per patient including costs of imaging and surgical treatment. Results: Compared to the 'gold standard' of ceCT, ceMRI was more effective but also more expensive, with a resulting incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) >€70 000 (Euro) per QALY gained. CEUS was dominant compared to ceCT in both Bosniak IIF and III renal cysts in terms of QALYs and costs. Probabilistic sensitivity analysis confirmed these results in the majority of iterations. Conclusion: Both ceMRI and CEUS can be used as alternatives to ceCT in the diagnosis and follow-up of intermediately complex cystic renal lesions without compromising effectiveness, while CEUS is clearly cost-effective. The economic results apply to a large university hospital and must be adapted for smaller hospitals.
Bothroponera Mayr 1862
Creators: name: Forel, A.
Publisher: name: L'Imprimerie Nationale
Year: 1891
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Bothroponera

description: Genre BOTHROPONERA.
Bothroponera, Mayr, Verh. Zool. und Bot. Gesellsch. zu Wien (1862).
[[worker]]. Différent du genre Ponera par les caractères suivants: taille grande, parfois moyenne. Suture méso-métanotale oblitérée. Thorax de largeur égale, sans trace d'étranglement. Pédicule surmonté d'un n œ ud épais ou d'une écaille extrêmement épaisse, aussi épaisse en haut qu'en bas. Premier article du funicule de l'antenne, tantôt plus long et tantôt de la même longueur que le second. Yeux de grandeur médiocre. Occiput large, échancré en arc.
[[queen]]. Caractères de l'ouvrière, sauf ceux du thorax.
[[male]]. Inconnu.
description: Published as part of Forel, A., 1891, Histoire naturelle des Hymenopteres. Deuxieme partie: Les Formicides., pp. 1-231 in Histoire Physique, Naturelle et Politique de Madagascar., Paris :L'Imprimerie Nationale on pages 127-128, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.9896
Measurement of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays: An Experimental Summary and Prospects
Creators: name: Fukushima, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurements of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays achieved remarkable progress in the last 10 years. Physicists, gathered from around the world in the symposium UHECR-2012 held at CERN on February 13-16 2012, reported their most up-to-date observations, discussed the meaning of their findings, and identified remaining problems and future challenges in this field. This paper is a part of the symposium proceedings on the experimental summary and future prospects of the UHECR study.
description: 16 pages, 18 figures, proceedings of the symposium UHECR-2012 at CERN
Aversive drug cues reduce cigarette craving and increase prefrontal cortex activation during processing of cigarette cues in quitting motivated smokers
Creators: name: Kunas, Stefanie L.
name: Bermpohl, Felix
name: Plank, Irene S.
name: Ströhle, Andreas
name: Stuke, Heiner
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: control network
subject: craving
subject: cue reactivity
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Aversive drug cues can be used to support smoking cessation and create awareness of negative health consequences of smoking. Better understanding of the effects of aversive drug cues on craving and the processing of appetitive drug cues in abstinence motivated smokers is important to further improve their use in cessation therapy and smoking-related public health measures. In this study, 38 quitting motivated smokers underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanning while performing a novel extended cue-reactivity paradigm. Pictures of cigarettes served as appetitive drug cues, which were preceded by either aversive drug cues (e.g., smokers' leg) or other cues (neutral or alternative reward cues). Participants were instructed to rate their craving for cigarettes after presentation of drug cues. When aversive drug cues preceded the presentation of appetitive drug cues, behavioural craving was reduced and activations in prefrontal (dorsolateral prefrontal cortex) and paralimbic (dorsal anterior cingulate cortex [dACC] and anterior insulae) areas were enhanced. A positive association between behavioural craving reduction and neurofunctional activation changes was shown for the right dACC. Our results suggest that aversive drug cues have an impact on the processing of appetitive drug cues, both on a neurofunctional and a behavioural level. A proposed model states that aversive drug-related cues activate control-associated brain areas (e.g., dACC), leading to increased inhibitory control on reward-associated brain areas (e.g., putamen) and a reduction in subjective cravings.