cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Congenital Absence of the left Internal Carotid Artery.
Creators: name: Gatt, Simon
name: Zarb, Francis
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Head & neck imaging
subject: Anatomy
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR
subject: MR-Angiography
subject: Normal variants
subject: Congenital
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: 22-year-old female complaining of almost daily migrainous headaches for a number of months. No associated neurological signs of note. Family history of subarachnoid haemorrhage secondary to aneurysm rupture.

description: 22 years, female
Additional file 1 of Increased migratory activity and cartilage regeneration by superficial-zone chondrocytes in enzymatically treated cartilage explants
Creators: name: Shiromoto, Yuichiro
name: Niki, Yasuo
name: Kikuchi, Toshiyuki
name: Yoshihara, Yasuo
name: Oguma, Takemi
name: Nemoto, Koichi
name: Chiba, Kazuhiro
name: Kanaji, Arihiko
name: Matsumoto, Morio
name: Nakamura, Masaya
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 1.
A new front-tracking Lagrangian model for the modeling of dynamic and post-dynamic recrystallization
Creators: name: Florez, Sebastian
name: Alvarado, Karen
name: Bernacki, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new method for the simulation of evolving multi-domains problems has been introduced in previous works (RealIMotion), Florez et al. (2020) and further developed in parallel in the context of isotropic Grain Growth (GG) with no consideration for the effects of the Stored Energy (SE) due to dislocations. The methodology consists in a new front-tracking approach where one of the originality is that not only interfaces between grains are discretized but their bulks are also meshed and topological changes of the domains are driven by selective local remeshing operations performed on the Finite Element (FE) mesh. In this article, further developments and studies of the model will be presented, mainly on the development of a model taking into account grain boundary migration by (GBM) SE. Further developments for the nucleation of new grains will be presented, allowing to model Dynamic Recrystallization (DRX) and Post-Dynamic Recrystallization (PDRX) phenomena. The accuracy and the performance of the numerical algorithms have been proven to be very promising in Florez et al. (2020). Here the results for multiple test cases will be given in order to validate the accuracy of the model taking into account GG and SE. The computational performance will be evaluated for the DRX and PDRX mechanisms and compared to a classical Finite Element (FE) framework using a Level-Set (LS) formulation.
title: Myopic Strabismus Fixus (Heavy Eye Syndrome HES) as a cause of intermittent diplopia.
Creators: name: Gatt, Simon
name: Zarb, Francis
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Head & neck imaging
subject: Eyes
subject: Head and neck
subject: MR
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: 71-year-old gentleman with circa 4-month history of frontal headaches and diplopia, worse while watching TV. Headaches are described as persistent and interfering with the patient’s normal sleep pattern. Recent brain CT showed no acute intracranial pathology or space-occupying lesions within the brain. MRI performed.

description: 71 years, male
Editorial
Creators: name: Tudevdagva, Uranchimeg
Publisher: name: Embedded Selforganising Systems
Year: 2017

description: This editorial introduces the issue of Embedded Self-organizing Systems (ESS) journal. Main focus of this issue is application of image processing algorithms, medical image processing scenarios and usage of embedded systems in different areas.
description: Embedded Selforganising Systems, Vol 4 No 1 (2017): Embedded Systems and Its Application in Medical and Biomedical Field
Falcão, José António, Entre o Céu e a Terra. Arte Sacrada Diocese de Beja, I: Estudos; II: Catálogo (Núcleos I, II e III); III: Catálogo (Núcleos IV e V), Departamento do Património Histórico e Artístico da Diocese de Beja, Beja 2000, ISBN 972-8354-04-5.
Creators: name: De Sousa, Pio G. Alves
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2021

description: Theologica, v. 36 n. 2 (2001): Sobre a obra missionária de Braga e de Portugal. Comemorando 5 séculos de Evangelização e Encontro de Culturas
Controls of Trajectories for Targeting of Magnetic Robotics in body
Creators: name: Tumurbaatar, Batgerel
name: Park, Chan-Hee
name: Lee, Jun Hee
name: Kim, Cheol Sang
Publisher: name: Embedded Selforganising Systems
Year: 2017

description: This paper presents a novel method to actively control magnetic field in a region-of-interest using three pairs electromagnetic coils system referred to here as extended distributed treatment Robotics. The developed controls of trajectories for targeting of magnetic robotics in body system contains hardware, software and magnetic Robotics/nanoscale material and the in vitro manipulation in real time. In this study, we used six identical solenoids coil placed on an XYZ-axis and the electromagnet was powered by current that can generate a high-gradient magnetic field in the desired direction. Real-time video microscopy supported by the LabVIEW vision system is integrated into the developed system for real-time monitoring. Moreover, the detection of object function is done through NI Vision Assistant, tracking function is through Math Script node in the LabVIEW simulation and ROI magnetic field actual measurement is done by the real-time magnetic sensor. The motion speed and direction of the Magnetic Robotics can also be manipulated using EMM system and Joystick controller.
description: Embedded Selforganising Systems, Vol 4 No 1 (2017): Embedded Systems and Its Application in Medical and Biomedical Field
Self-attenuation of extreme events in Navier-Stokes turbulence
Creators: name: Buaria, Dhawal
name: Pumir, Alain
name: Bodenschatz, Eberhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Turbulent fluid flows are ubiquitous in nature and technology, and are mathematically described by the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations (INSE). A hallmark of turbulence is spontaneous generation of intense whirls, resulting from amplification of the fluid rotation-rate (vorticity) by its deformation-rate (strain). This interaction, encoded in the non-linearity of INSE, is non-local, i.e., depends on the entire state of the flow, constituting a serious hindrance in turbulence theory and in establishing regularity of INSE. Here, we unveil a novel aspect of this interaction, by separating strain into local and non-local contributions utilizing the Biot-Savart integral of vorticity in a sphere of radius R. Analyzing highly-resolved numerical turbulent solutions to INSE, we find that when vorticity becomes very large, the local strain over small R surprisingly counteracts further amplification. This uncovered self-attenuation mechanism is further shown to be connected to local Beltramization of the flow, and could provide a direction in establishing the regularity of INSE.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
Lachen als Lachreiz
Creators: name: Opletalová, Veronika
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Semiotik
Year: 2018

description: Summary. The present article investigates laughter in the context of laughter therapy. Laughter yoga, a technique developed in India, is based on a prolonged voluntary laughter in the group, combined with yogic breathing and stretching. According to programmatic statements of laughter yoga founder Madan Kataria, his practice can be characterized as “laughing for no reason”. This phrase became a slogan of laughter yogis, although it is not fully realistic, since this exercise program contains various elicitors of laughter and exhilaration that are interrelated with the laughter itself. Laughing is embedded in funny situations by which emotional contagion is specifically supported. Furthermore, the trainer’s laughter can function as an invitation or a request to laugh. The present article focuses on sign processes connected with laughter and deals with the following question: How can contagious laughter, invitation and request to laugh be modeled on a semiotic basis? Pantomimic laughter yoga exercises also show an interesting interplay between laughter and gestures that shall be discussed.


 Zusammenfassung. Der vorliegende Artikel untersucht Lachen im Kontext der Lachtherapie. Das in Indien entstandene Lachyoga beruht auf dem willkürlichen Lachen in der Gruppe, welches durch einfache Yoga-Atem- und Dehn-Übungen begleitet wird. Sein Urheber Madan Kataria hat die Technik als „Lachen ohne Grund“ charakterisiert, was zum Slogan der Lachyogis wurde. Bei genauerem Hinsehen bildet Lachyoga jedoch ein durchdachtes System von Auslösern der Erheiterung und des Lachens, in dem das Lachen selbst instrumentalisiert wird. Lachen wird in spielerische Kontexte eingebettet, wobei gezielt emotionale Ansteckung gefördert wird; außerdem fungiert das Lachen des Leiters als Einladung beziehungsweise Aufforderung zum Mitlachen. In diesem Artikel werden ansteckendes Lachen, Einladungen und Aufforderungen zum Mitlachen semiotisch modelliert. Da die meisten Lachübungen pantomimische Darstellungen von mehr oder weniger typischen Lachsituationen enthalten, bieten sie außerdem Anlass zu Überlegungen über das Verhältnis zwischen Lachen und Gesten.
description: Zeitschrift für Semiotik, Vol 37 No 1-2 (2015): Lachen als Zeichenprozess
Pinharanda Gomes, A Educação Feminina na Guarda, Ed. do Autor e da Academina Internacional da Cultura Portuguesa, Lisboa, 2001, 96 p., 185 x 120.
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2021

description: Theologica, v. 36 n. 2 (2001): Sobre a obra missionária de Braga e de Portugal. Comemorando 5 séculos de Evangelização e Encontro de Culturas
Noise dephasing in the edge states of the Integer Quantum Hall regime
Creators: name: Roulleau, P.
name: Portier, F.
name: Roche, P.
name: Cavanna, A.
name: Faini, G.
name: Gennser, U.
name: Mailly, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An electronic Mach Zehnder interferometer is used in the integer quantum hall regime at filling factor 2, to study the dephasing of the interferences. This is found to be induced by the electrical noise existing in the edge states capacitively coupled to each others. Electrical shot noise created in one channel leads to phase randomization in the other, which destroys the interference pattern. These findings are extended to the dephasing induced by thermal noise instead of shot noise: it explains the underlying mechanism responsible for the finite temperature coherence time $τ_ϕ(T)$ of the edge states at filling factor 2, measured in a recent experiment. Finally, we present here a theory of the dephasing based on Gaussian noise, which is found in excellent agreement with our experimental results.
description: ~4 pages, 4 figures
Pinharanda Gomes, J., História da Filosofia Portuguesa, 2: A Patrologia Lusitana, col. «Filosofia & Ensaios», Guimarães Editores, Lisboa, 2000, 376p., 185 x 120, ISBN 972-665-441-6.
Creators: name: Sousa, Pio G. Alves De
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2021

description: Theologica, v. 36 n. 2 (2001): Sobre a obra missionária de Braga e de Portugal. Comemorando 5 séculos de Evangelização e Encontro de Culturas
title: Intralobar pulmonary sequestration
Creators: name: Zarb, Francis
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chest imaging
subject: Lung
subject: Mediastinum
subject: CT
subject: Lung
subject: Mediastinum
subject: Lung
subject: Mediastinum
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A previously healthy 39-year-old female presenting with a 2-day history of epigastric pain, nausea, fever and mild cough.

description: 39 years, female
Performance evaluation of rate-based congestion control schemes for ABR service over broadband satellite networks interworking with ATM/B-ISDNs
Creators: name: Zhang, Bin
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) is an emerging networking technique which supports quality of service (QoS) guarantees for different traffic types. The Available Bit Rate (ABR) service is proposed to provide the efficient use of limited network resources for data traffic. For ABR service, ATM Forum has suggested the rate-based congestion control schemes: Explicit Forward Congestion Indication (EFCI, a binary feedback scheme) scheme, Explicit Rate (ER) scheme, and Enhanced Proportional Rate Control Algorithm (EPRCA). In addition, the segmented closed-loop scheme was also recommended to reduce the size of the control loop. In this thesis, the effects of satellite link (long delay) on the EFCI and ER schemes are analyzed by using calculation results. Based on the analytical results, the simulations of endto- end congestion control schemes are performed. For the EFCI scheme, both the calculation and simulation results show that the long delay will worsen the network performance in terms of buffer occupancy, link utilization and cell loss ratio (CLR). Our study also finds that the buffer threshold, buffer size in ATM switch, as well as the rate increase and decrease factors, will affect the buffer occupancy, link utilization and cell loss ratio in the various ways. Procedures are suggested to minimize the buffer requirement and maximize the link utilization with the required CLR and maximum link delay. Moreover, a delay-based method (DBCI scheme) is proposed to dynamically adjust the traffic rate in order to minimize the buffer requirement. For the ER scheme, since-the product of data rate and link delay in each ABR connection plays a key role on the buffer occupancy of the ATM switch, the delaybased adaptation method (DBER scheme) to reallocate the left-over bandwidth is proposed. Simulation results show that the suggested approaches can improve the buffer occupancy efficiently when congestion happens. The generic and delay-based EPRCA schemes are investigated with different parameters in different links. Simulation results are compared and the delay-based EPRCA scheme is found to be a more efficient scheme. Furthermore, the segmented (double-loop) congestion control schemes are evaluated by simulations methods and analyzed with different combinations of EFCI and ER schemes. The results are compared with those of end-to-end (single-loop) schemes. From the comparisons, the segmented congestion control scheme is considered to be a better scheme in the long delay environment because it can respond to congestion more quickly and be able to distribute the queued cells (e.g. the long queue length occurred in the single loop scheme) into more ATM switches involved in the congestion.
AA.W., Dor e Sofrimento. Uma perspectiva interdisciplinar, col. «Campo da Filosofia» / NOÚS, Campo das Letras - Editores, Porto, 2001, 400 p., 230 x 155, ISBN 972-610-363-0.
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2021

description: Theologica, v. 36 n. 2 (2001): Sobre a obra missionária de Braga e de Portugal. Comemorando 5 séculos de Evangelização e Encontro de Culturas
Development and validation of a bioinformatics pipeline for routine analysis of whole genome sequencing data for typing of Listeria monocytogenes
Creators: name: Fu, Qiang
name: Bogaerts, Bert
name: Raf Winand
name: Braekel, Julien Van
name: Mattheus, Wesley
name: Pieter-Jan Ceyssens
name: Bavo Verhaegen
name: Keersmaecker, Sigrid C. J. De
name: Roosens, Nancy H. C.
name: Vanneste, Kevin
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2019

description: The use of whole-genome sequencing (WGS) for routine molecular typing and pathogen characterization in public health remains a substantial challenge due to the required bioinformatics resources and expertise. Moreover, national reference centers and laboratories, working under a quality system, require extensive validation to demonstrate that employed methods generate high-quality results, but a harmonized framework to guide the validation of WGS analysis is still lacking. We present a bioinformatics workflow developed in-house for typing of Listeria monocytogenes isolates, which performs automated data processing and quality control, and conducts multiple bioinformatics assays, including sequence typing (species confirmation, classic MLST, and cgMLST), gene characterization (antimicrobial resistance, virulence, and metal and detergent resistance), and plasmid replicon characterization. Using a well-characterized dataset of 130 samples, the conducted assays were validated against commonly used bioinformatics tools, achieving high performance with >99.50% accuracy, >99.92% precision, >97.82% sensitivity, and >97.84% specificity. Additionally, the MLST typing results were validated against the classic molecular approach, obtaining 98.88% accuracy, 97.67% precision, 97.67% sensitivity, and 97.90% specificity. Furthermore, every assay demonstrates 100% repeatability and 100% reproducibility. The pipeline with demonstrated high performance will facilitate the routine analysis of L. monocytogenes, and demonstrates the benefit of using WGS in a public health setting.
The morphology of HII regions during reionization
Creators: name: McQuinn, Matthew
name: Lidz, Adam
name: Zahn, Oliver
name: Dutta, Suvendra
name: Hernquist, Lars
name: Zaldarriaga, Matias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is possible that the properties of HII regions during reionization depend sensitively on many poorly constrained quantities (the nature of the ionizing sources, the clumpiness of the gas in the IGM, the degree to which photo-ionizing feedback suppresses the abundance of low mass galaxies, etc.), making it extremely difficult to interpret upcoming observations of this epoch. We demonstrate that the actual situation is more encouraging, using a suite of radiative transfer simulations, post-processed on outputs from a 1024^3, 94 Mpc N-body simulation. Analytic prescriptions are used to incorporate small-scale structures that affect reionization, yet remain unresolved in the N-body simulation. We show that the morphology of the HII regions is most dependent on the global ionization fraction x_i. This is not to say that the bubble morphology is completely independent of all parameters besides x_i. The next most important dependence is that of the nature of the ionizing sources. The rarer the sources, the larger and more spherical the HII regions become. The typical bubble size can vary by as much as a factor of 4 at fixed x_i between different possible source prescriptions. The final relevant factor is the abundance of minihalos or of Lyman-limit systems. These systems suppress the largest bubbles from growing, and the magnitude of this suppression depends on the thermal history of the gas as well as the rate at which minihalos are photo-evaporated. We find that neither source suppression owing to photo-heating nor gas clumping significantly affect the large-scale structure of the HII regions. We discuss how observations of the 21cm line with MWA and LOFAR can constrain properties of reionization, and we study the effect patchy reionization has on the statistics of Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies. [abridged]
description: 23 pages, 18 figures
Additional file 1 of Prostate MRI using a rigid two-channel phased-array endorectal coil: comparison with phased array coil acquisition at 3 T
Creators: name: Lewis, Sara
name: Ganti, Aasrith
name: Argiriadi, Pamela
name: Rosen, Ally
name: Hectors, Stefanie
name: Semaan, Sahar
name: Song, Christopher
name: Peti, Steve
name: Segall, Maxwell
name: George, Kezia
name: Jaikaran, Vaneela
name: Villa, Sebastian
name: Kestenbaum, David
name: Voutsinas, Nicholas
name: Doucette, John
name: Tewari, Ashutosh
name: Rastinehad, Ardeshir R.
name: Taouli, Bachir
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1.
Endo-irreversible thermo-mechanical engine with new concept of entropy production action coefficient
Creators: name: Feidt, Michel
name: Feidt, Renaud
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thermostatics of CARNOT engines has been extended by more recent research based on endo-reversible model. Our model assumes exo-reversibility but endo-irreversibility to determine new upper-bound to thermomechanical conversion. We propose a functional expression of entropy production related to transformation cycle durations. This approach analyses the energy, entropy and power consequences. We introduce a new concept of entropy production actions that results in three optimums : maximum energy related to transformation durations, maximum energy associated with equipartition of entropy actions, optimal power for given period cycle.
description: in French
Additional file 1 of Screening for phenotypic outliers identifies an unusually low concentration of a β-lactoglobulin B protein isoform in bovine milk caused by a synonymous SNP
Creators: name: Davis, Stephen R.
name: Ward, Hamish E.
name: Kelly, Van
name: Palmer, David
name: Ankersmit-Udy, Alexandra E.
name: Lopdell, Thomas J.
name: Berry, Sarah D.
name: Littlejohn, Mathew D.
name: Tiplady, Kathryn
name: Adams, Linda F.
name: Carnie, Katie
name: Burrett, Alayna
name: Thomas, Natalie
name: Snell, Russell G.
name: Spelman, Richard J.
name: Lehnert, Klaus
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Correlation between the concentrations of BLG A and B protein isoforms obtained by the mass spectrometry (MS) screening method with those obtained by a high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method [18]. Cows (n = 40) were a mix of heterozygous AB and homozygous AA and BB individuals.
Linear Stability of Triangular Equilibrium Points in the Generalized Photogravitational Restricted Three Body Problem with Poynting-Robertson Drag
Creators: name: Ishwar, B.
name: Kushvah, B. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 70F15

description: In this paper we have examined the linear stability of triangular equilibrium points in the generalised photogravitational restricted three body problem with Poynting-Robertson drag. We have found the position of triangular equilibrium points of our problem. The problem is generalised in the sense that smaller primary is supposed to be an oblate spheroid. The bigger primary is considered as radiating. The equations of motion are affected by radiation pressure force, oblateness and P-R drag. All classical results involving photogravitational and oblateness in restricted three body problem may be verified from this result. With the help of characteristic equation, we discussed the stability. Finally we conclude that triangular equilibrium points are unstable.
description: accepted for publication in Journal of Dynamical Systems & Geometric Theories Vol. 4, Number 1 (2006)
Carvalho, Maria Manuela, O Poder e o Saber. Um olhar sobre Michel Foucault, Campo das Letras-Editores, Porto, 2001, 140p., 205 x 135, ISBN 972-610-300-2.
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2021

description: Theologica, v. 36 n. 2 (2001): Sobre a obra missionária de Braga e de Portugal. Comemorando 5 séculos de Evangelização e Encontro de Culturas
Quantitative analysis of the accumulation, architectural organization, detachment and reseeding of Staphylococcus aureus biofilms under physiological fluid shear conditions
Creators: name: Ymele-Leki, Patrick
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2009
Subjects: biofilm
confocal microscopy
fluid shear
staphylococcus aureus

description: Staphylococcus aureus is an opportunistic gram- positive pathogen responsible for  a wide variety of animal and human infections. In humans, it is associated with both  superficial and invasive cases of infections, including bacteremia, endocarditis,  osteomyelitis, septic arthritis, keratinitis, pneumonia and catheter- related infections. The  prevalence of S. aureus as a human pathogen has been attributed to its ability to form  specific bonds with a wide variety of extracellular matrix ( ECM) proteins. These binding  events contribute significantly to the molecular mechanisms of S. aureus virulence.  Additional virulence properties incur from its capacity to colonize surfaces in organized  biofilm communities and from the occurrence of secondary metastatic infections caused  by bacterial cells detaching from biofilms growing under shear stress. Microbial biofilms  have also been associated with the spread of community- acquired bacterial infections and  the emergence of resistant bacterial variants. The treatment of biofilm- associated  infections costs over $ 1 billion annually in the United States. As a result, the study and  characterization of microbial biofilms is rapidly gaining interest in the scientific  community.  The overall ambition of this project was to investigate the effects of  physiologically relevant hydrodynamic forces on the accumulation and proliferation of S.  aureus biofilms onto biotic substrates. Additionally, we evaluated the ability of sodium  metaperiodate to inhibit the growth of S. aureus biofilms in vitro under both static and  dynamic conditions. In the course of these studies, we demonstrated that: 1)  hydrodynamic forces and nutrient availability modulate the rate of growth and the  internal structure of early S. aureus biofilms grown on biotic surfaces; 2) through the  process of erosion, S. aureus biofilms grown under physiologically relevant  hydrodynamic conditions release planktonic cells with reduced adhesion avidity to ECM  proteins; 3) these eroded planktonic cells demonstrate the potential to initiate secondary  biofilm formations; and 4) under hydrodynamic conditions, S. aureus biofilms can  withstand antimicrobial challenges that would otherwise be detrimental to sessile cultures  grown under static conditions and to individual cells grown in suspension. The current  research extended our understanding of the physiological effects of fluid shear forces on  the development of S. aureus biofilms. It is essential to establish the principal factors  leading to the multilayered accumulation of staphylococcal biofilms in vivo in order to  design alternative therapeutic approaches to treating S. aureus infections.
title: A round atelectasis developing a squamous lung cancer
Creators: name: Bozovic, Gracijela
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chest imaging
subject: Oncology
subject: Thorax
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: CT
subject: Oncology
subject: Thorax
subject: Cancer
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: An elderly gentleman of 79 years suffering from diabetes and COPD with asbestos exposure and smoking history, and previous malignant melanoma from which he had been declared healthy. He complains about weight loss and declining wellbeing. He had palpable cervical lymph nodes and pain in one rib dorsolateral on the right side.

description: 79 years, male
Rhonheimer, Martin ,Ley Natural y Razón Práctica. Una vision tomista de la autonomia moral, Eunsa, Pamplona, 2000, 584p., 240 x 150, ISBN 84-313-1805-8.
Creators: name: Sepúlveda, A.
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2021

description: Theologica, v. 36 n. 2 (2001): Sobre a obra missionária de Braga e de Portugal. Comemorando 5 séculos de Evangelização e Encontro de Culturas
A Top-Down Approach for a Generic Programming Abstraction in Real Space-Time
Creators: name: Däumler, Martin
name: Müller, Dirk
name: Werner, Matthias
Publisher: name: Embedded Selforganising Systems
Year: 2010

description: Today’s widely used programming approach for
mobile distributed systems, e.g., swarms, is bottom-up. I.e.,
the programmer has to be aware of the system’s distribution.
Such a kind of programming corrupts the principle Separation
of Concerns and turns out to be complicated. This
article proposes a top-down approach for the programming
of mobile distributed systems. It should be incorporated in a
new operating system to be developed by our research group.

Classical distributed systems often are intended to hide
their distribution from the user but not stringently from the
programmer. Moreover, most applications don’t consider the
executing system’s location and mobility, respectively. However,
state-of-the-art mobile distributed systems’ applications
are widely based on location and motion data. So, the programming
approach of classical distributed systems which
abstracts from location and motion might no longer be convenient.
We suggest raising the level of abstraction in order
to hide the system’s distribution from the user and programmer,
in contrast to the bottom-up programming approach of,
e.g., swarms. This distribution transparency within the executing
system is intended to be combined with location/-
motion awareness within the application so that the requirements
of modern applications can be met. The programming
of such a distributed mobile system will be separated from
the complex and error-prone application partitioning and assignment
a bottom-up approach would impose. This offers
further benefits like scalability and robustness with regard to
scheduling of sub-activities and sub-systems, respectively.
We promote the use of spatiotemporal constraints to realize
such a top-down approach. These constraints will be introduced
and explained using two examples.
description: Embedded Selforganising Systems, Vol 1 No 1 (2009): Distributed and Self-organising Systems
Variational Problems in Weighted Sobolev Spaces with Applications to Computational Fluid Dynamics
Creators: name: Soane, Ana Maria
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2008
Subjects: Mathematics (0405)
Poisson problem
Helmholtz problem
Corner singularities
Weighted Sobolev spaces
Navier-Stokes equations

description: We study variational problems in weighted Sobolev spaces on bounded domains with angular points. The specific forms of these variational formulations are motivated by, and applied to, a finite element scheme for the time-dependent Navier-Stokes equations. Specifically, we introduce new variational formulations for the Poisson and Helmholtz problems in what would be a weighted counterpart of H2
Efficient highly-subsonic turbulent dynamo and growth of primordial magnetic fields
Creators: name: Chirakkara, Radhika Achikanath
name: Federrath, Christoph
name: Trivedi, Pranjal
name: Banerjee, Robi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first study on the amplification of magnetic fields by the turbulent dynamo in the highly subsonic regime, with Mach numbers ranging from $10^{-3}$ to $0.4$. We find that for the lower Mach numbers the saturation efficiency of the dynamo, $(E_{\mathrm{mag}}/E_{\mathrm{kin}})_{\mathrm{sat}}$, increases as the Mach number decreases. Even in the case when injection of energy is purely through longitudinal forcing modes, $(E_{\mathrm{mag}}/E_{\mathrm{kin}})_{\mathrm{sat}}$ $\gtrsim 10^{-2}$ at a Mach number of $10^{-3}$. We apply our results to magnetic field amplification in the early Universe and predict that a turbulent dynamo can amplify primordial magnetic fields to $\gtrsim$ $10^{-16}$ Gauss on scales up to 0.1 pc and $\gtrsim$ $10^{-13}$ Gauss on scales up to 100 pc. This produces fields compatible with lower limits of the intergalactic magnetic field inferred from blazar $γ$-ray observations.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables; accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters
Stiatistical Issues in Meta-Analysis
Creators: name: Xu, Dihua
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2011
Subjects: Adverse Event
Bootstrap
Cochran's test
Correlation Matrics
Homogeneity test
Meta-Analysis

description: In statistical meta-analysis paradigm dealing with the techniques of pooling of evidence across several studies, the notion of effect size is fundamental and it is necessary to perform appropriate tests for the equality of population effect sizes arising out of these studies before performing any meta-analysis.  A well known test for homogeneity in this context is based on Cochran's chi-square statistic. However Cochran's test might be inaccurate in testing homogeneity for some effect sizes in the sense of not maintaining the stipulated Type I errors. In this dissertation, three such scenarios are identified: 1) testing homogeneity of  standardized mean difference, 2) testing homogeneity of correlations and correlation matrices, and 3) testing homogeneity of proportions with low event rates, and in each case the severe inadequacy of Cochran's homogeneity test is demonstrated. Apppropriate bootstrap procedures for testing homogeneity hypotheses are suggested, and  applications in each problem are indicated. Two additional problems are also dealt with in the dissertation: Mantel-Haenszel and Peto weights in random effects meta-analysis, and extraction methods in statistical meta-analysis.
title: Fast-worsening bilateral testicular lesions
Creators: name: Plasencia Martinez, Juana María
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Uroradiology & genital male imaging
subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: Infection
subject: Ischaemia / Infarction
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 30-year-old male patient complained about hypogastrium and bilateral testicular pain, mainly in the right testicle and 37.9 ºC quantified fever.

He was a smoker of 2-3 cigarettes a day and a consumer of marijuana and cocaine in the past. There were no other medical records of interest.

description: 30 years, male
A Glimpse of the First Eight Months of the COVID-19 Literature on Microsoft Academic Graph: Themes, Citation Contexts, and Uncertainties
Creators: name: Chen, Chaomei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As scientists worldwide search for answers to the overwhelmingly unknown behind the deadly pandemic, the literature concerning COVID-19 has been growing exponentially. Keeping abreast of the body of literature at such a rapidly advancing pace poses significant challenges not only to active researchers but also to the society as a whole. Although numerous data resources have been made openly available, the analytic and synthetic process that is essential in effectively navigating through the vast amount of information with heightened levels of uncertainty remains a significant bottleneck. We introduce a generic method that facilitates the data collection and sense-making process when dealing with a rapidly growing landscape of a research domain such as COVID-19 at multiple levels of granularity. The method integrates the analysis of structural and temporal patterns in scholarly publications with the delineation of thematic concentrations and the types of uncertainties that may offer additional insights into the complexity of the unknown. We demonstrate the application of the method in a study of the COVID-19 literature.
description: 9 figures, 5 tables
Editorial
Creators: name: Hardt, Wolfram
Publisher: name: Embedded Selforganising Systems
Year: 2010

description: This editorial introduces the second issue of the Embedded
Selforganising Systems (ESS) journal with the focus on embedded,
wireless sensor networks and upcoming, innovative
application scenarios.
description: Embedded Selforganising Systems, Vol 1 No 2 (2010): Optimisation of Wireless Sensor Networks
title: Enterovirus Rhombencephalomyelitis
Creators: name: Perez Riverola, Victor
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology
subject: Neuroradiology spine
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Neuroradiology spine
subject: Infection
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 10-month-old girl was referred to the emergency department for acute cardiopulmonary failure in the context of myocarditis. She presented acute flaccid paralysis, respiratory distress, and ophthalmoplegia. 

Lumbar puncture for CSF analysis was not performed because blood tests revealed a coagulation disorder (INR = 2.33) due to her shock.

description: 10 month, female
Use of Operator Upscaling for Seismic Inversion: Computationally Feasible Forward and Adjoint Calculations
Creators: name: Griffith, Sean M.L.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2008
Subjects: Mathematics(0405)
Geophysics(0373)
Upscaling
Parallel Computing
Inverse Problem
Seismology
Multiscale Methods
Wave Propagation

description: To solve seismic inverse problems via the adjoint state method, we must be able to repeatedly solve both the wave equation and its adjoint efficiently. Operator upscaling applied to the wave equation imparts fine scale information to the coarse scale without requiring that we solve the full fine scale problem. We apply the algorithm to the stress-free form of the 3D elastic wave equation. This algorithm has two stages: first, we solve independent subgrid problems on the fine scale; second, we use these subgrid solutions to solve the coarse problem. Because the subgrid problems are independent, they can be solved via an embarrassingly parallel algorithm. Surprisingly, the most expensive part of the coarse grid solve is not assembling the mass matrix (which is time independent) but instead it is calculation of the load vector (which is time dependent). Thus we parallelize the load vector calculation for the coarse problem, as it dominates the time step. The most expensive parts of the algorithm (the subgrid solve and the coarse load vector calculation) exhibit near linear speedup. In the second half of the thesis we discuss using the adjoint state method to solve the seismic inverse problem. As the acoustic wave operator is self-adjoint, we chose to differentiate and then discretize the problem. The result is that the adjoint problem can be solved by the same upscaling method as the standard acoustic wave equation. The forward and adjoint upscaling algorithms differ only in the source terms and in the time stepping order.
The Bird and the Pepper
Creators: name: Ngomba, Mary Eposi
name: Westbrook, Colston R.
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: bri

description: Note from depositor: "An uninterrupted story, 'The Bird in [sic] the Pepper,' given first in Bakweri [sic], then Wescos (Pidgin), and lastly in her variety of Cameroon Standard English". On a 1982 release form the date of recording is given as November 23, 1972, not November 3.
UV absorption lines and their potential for tracing the Lyman continuum escape fraction
Creators: name: Mauerhofer, V.
name: Verhamme, A.
name: Blaizot, J.
name: Garel, T.
name: Kimm, T.
name: Michel-Dansac, L.
name: Rosdahl, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The neutral intergalactic medium above redshift 6 is opaque to ionizing radiation, therefore one needs indirect measurements of the escape fraction of ionizing photons from galaxies of this epoch. Low-ionization state absorption lines are a common feature in the spectrum of galaxies, showing a diversity of strengths and shapes. Since these lines indicate the presence of neutral gas in front of the stars, they have been proposed to carry information on the escape of ionizing radiation from galaxies. We study which processes are responsible for the shape of the absorption lines, to better understand their origin. We then explore whether the absorption lines can be used to predict the escape fractions. Using a radiation-hydrodynamical zoom-in simulation and the radiative transfer code RASCAS, we generate mock CII 1334 and LyB lines of a virtual galaxy at redshift 3 as seen from many directions of observation. We also compute the escape fraction of ionizing photons in those directions and look for correlations between the lines and the escape fractions. We find that the resulting mock absorption lines are comparable to observations and that the lines and the escape fractions vary strongly depending on the direction of observation. Gas velocity and dust always affect the absorption profile significantly. We find no strong correlations between observable LyB or CII 1334 and the escape fraction. After correcting the continuum for attenuation by dust to recover the intrinsic continuum, the residual flux of CII 1334 correlates well with the escape fraction for directions with a dust corrected residual flux larger than 30%. For other directions, the relations have a strong dispersion, and the residual flux overestimates the escape fraction for most cases. Concerning LyB, the residual flux after dust correction does not correlate with the escape fraction but can be used as a lower limit. (abridged)
description: 25 pages, 22 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics. New title, shorter abstract, corrected typos and url for Krome website
Program Repair for Hyperproperties
Creators: name: Bonakdarpour, Borzoo
name: Finkbeiner, Bernd
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study the repair problem for hyperproperties specified in the temporal logic HyperLTL. Hyperproperties are system properties that relate multiple computation traces. This class of properties includes information flow policies like noninterference and observational determinism. The repair problem is to find, for a given Kripke structure, a substructure that satisfies a given specification. We show that the repair problem is decidable for HyperLTL specifications and finite-state Kripke structures. We provide a detailed complexity analysis for different fragments of HyperLTL and different system types: tree-shaped, acyclic, and general Kripke structures.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2101.07847
UNIVARIATE CLASSIFICATION OF DEGRADED CARTILAGE SAMPLES USING MRI PARAMETERS
Creators: name: GURLU, MERVE
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Likelihood Ratio
subject: Osteoarthritis
subject: Standardized Distance
subject: Statistical Noise
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Univariate Classification

description: Early diagnosis of osteoarthritis is important in implementing treatments to control the progression of the disease. In this thesis, we applied univariate classification methods to distinguish healthy and degraded cartilage samples using five MRI parameters. We first replicated the univariate classification method used in the industry. We then tried to improve specificity and sensitivity by introducing new classification methods: standardized distance, likelihood ratio test, and likelihood ratio test with noise added to the validation set. We applied the conventional and the new classification methods to control, 18-h trypsin-digested, and 20-h collagenase-digested samples. Two separate analyses were performed; control group combined with trypsin-digested group and the same control group combined with collagenase-digested group. Specificity and sensitivity were computed and the results of all four methods were compared. Furthermore, a simulation analysis was done to compare the accuracy rate of the conventional method and the likelihood ratio test.
title: Portal Vein Leiomyosarcoma
Creators: name: Maestro Durán, María Alejandra
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Abdominal imaging
subject: Abdomen
subject: Pancreas
subject: CT
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Pathology
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 79 year-old women, with no relevant medical history, consults in the emergency room for 2 months abdominal pain. It is continuous, located in the epigastrium, accompanied by weight loss of 12 kilograms and loss of appetite. The physical exam only shows slight pain in the right hypochondrium. 

description: 79 years, female
Implementation of 2-Dimensional Medical Image Reconstruction Algorithm for Photoacoustic Imaging
Creators: name: Batbayar, Enkhbat
name: Tumenjargal, Enkhbaatar
name: Ham, Woonchul
name: Song, Chulgyu
Publisher: name: Embedded Selforganising Systems
Year: 2017

description: In this paper, we review and discuss our proposed image reconstruction algorithm for two dimensional stereo photo-acoustic medical imaging system. The proposed algorithms aim to evaluate the existence possibility of acoustic source within a search area by using the geometric information which is the distance between each sensor element of ultrasound probe and corresponding searching point. Besides, we implemented the hardware and software aspects of an photo-acoustic imaging system that is described in hardware implementation section of this paper. At the end of this paper, some simulation results are presented which utilized the proposed algorithm while compared the image quality of its and conventional k-wave algorithm in which FFT should be used. The simulation results proved the effectiveness of the proposed reconstruction algorithm.
description: Embedded Selforganising Systems, Vol 4 No 1 (2017): Embedded Systems and Its Application in Medical and Biomedical Field