cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Integrating the Peer Context to Clarify Youth Stress, Positive Affect and Alcohol Use Associations in Daily Life
Creators: name: Carpenter, Ryan
name: Miranda, Robert
name: Meisel, Samuel
name: Wycoff, Andrea
name: Sobolewski, Chloe
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The proposed study seeks to explore whether a key contextual factor previously implicated in youth substance use, the peer context, helps explain associations between affect and alcohol use in the daily life of youth.
Euphorbia thymifolia Linnaeus 1753
Creators: name: Hassemer, Gustavo
name: Silva, Otávio Luis Marques Da
name: Funez, Luís Adriano
name: Ernst, Madeleine
name: Cordeiro, Inês
name: Rønsted, Nina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Malpighiales
Euphorbiaceae
Euphorbia
Euphorbia thymifolia

description: Euphorbia thymifolia Linnaeus (1753: 454)
 Lectotype (designated by Wheeler [1941: 252–254]):—COUNTRY UNKNOWN. Without locality, Anonymous s.n. (LINN-630.10!).
 Photographs: — Fig. 7 D–E in Silva et al. (2014).
 Distribution and habitat: — Euphorbia thymifolia is a worldwide tropical and subtropical weed (Silva et al. 2014) with a mostly ruderal environmental preference. In SC this species has been collected in the following municipalities: Blumenau, Florianópolis, Navegantes, Penha and Rodeio (Fig. 3).
 Conservation status: —Least Concern (LC).
 Notes: —Despite being a very common species in SC, E. thymifolia was until recently confused mainly with E. prostrata Aiton (1789: 139), but also with E. serpens Kunth (in Humboldt et al. 1817: 52), in taxonomic and floristic works. Thus we present here the first bibliographic reference on the occurrence of E. thymifolia in SC.
 Material examined: — BRAZIL. Santa Catarina: Blumenau, Rua Pastor Oswaldo Hesse, calçada, 11 November 2011, L. A. Funez 24 (FURB-36917); Florianópolis, Campus da UFSC, Ilha de Santa Catarina, 22 January 2013, G. Hassemer 612 (FLOR-47598); Navegantes, Rua Adolfo Antônio Cabral, calçada, 18 February 2013, L. A. Funez 1669 (FURB-40404); Penha, em calçada, 14 October 2015, L. A. Funez 4472 (FURB-48211); Rodeio, Centro, em fendas do calçamento, 28 October 2012, L. A. Funez 1133 (FURB-39397).
description: Published as part of Hassemer, Gustavo, Silva, Otávio Luis Marques Da, Funez, Luís Adriano, Ernst, Madeleine, Cordeiro, Inês & Rønsted, Nina, 2017, Updates on the genus Euphorbia (Euphorbiaceae) in Santa Catarina, Brazil, pp. 222-238 in Phytotaxa 298 (3) on page 234, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.298.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13694128
Identifying Pain Phenotypes in Musculoskeletal Pain Conditions: Protocol for a PRISMA-Guided Scoping Review
Creators: name: Watson, Kirsti
name: Rastin, Clara
name: Mercuri, Domenico
name: Ly, Vincent
name: Nguyen, Randy
name: Wallace, Nathan
name: Raghava
name: Carlesso, Lisa
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: Background: Identification of pain phenotypes is a strategy that has been previously used as a means to identify subgroups of patients who may respond more favourably to various pain management strategies or to prognosticate the healthcare outcomes of certain subgroups (1,2). However, use of the term “pain phenotype” varies across the literature with regards to the specific variables used to categorize patients, and optimal parameters to consider when developing pain phenotypes in individuals with chronic MSK pain have yet to be established. Objective: This scoping review aims to summarize how pain phenotypes are defined, and operationalized, along with the analytic approaches used in studies of people with chronic MSK pain disorders. Methods and Analysis: This scoping review will be guided by the scoping review methodologies outlined by Levac et al. (3). The following electronic databases will be used to extract relevant studies: Medline, Embase, CINAHL, and Web of Science. Independent screening of articles for titles, abstracts, and full-text as well as data extraction will be completed in three pairs. Qualitative data will be extracted and analyzed. Our primary outcomes include identifying the explicit definitions of pain phenotypes, variables and measures used to encapsulate specific pain phenotypes, analytic approaches used, and common features of pain phenotypes reporting significant associations with outcomes. Themes regarding how researchers operationalize and define pain phenotypes in various MSK conditions will be investigated. Conclusion: In this scoping review, we will aim to summarize the broad array of definitions and descriptions that have been used in prior research to categorize and understand pain phenotypes within chronic MSK conditions. Knowledge of the variability of how these specific subgroups are defined and operationalized may assist clinicians to provide targeted interventions for pain management and researchers in choosing how they study pain phenotypes.
title: Mammography screening and participation in Papua New Guinea
Creators: name: Spuur, Kelly
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Mammography
subject: Screening
subject: Patterns of Care

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: Reports have shown that the incidence of breast cancer in Papua New Guinea (PNG), increased dramatically in the late 1900s. Since the introduction of mammography screening to PNG in late 2005, more than 3,000 women have participated in a nationwide...
No hair theorem in quasi-dilaton massive gravity
Creators: name: Wu, De-Jun
name: Zhou, Shuang-Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the static, spherically symmetric black hole solutions in the quasi-dilaton model and its generalizations, which are scalar extended dRGT massive gravity with a shift symmetry. We show that, unlike generic scalar extended massive gravity models, these theories do not admit static, spherically symmetric black hole solutions until the theory parameters in the dRGT potential is fine-tuned. When fine-tuned, the geometry of the static, spherically symmetric black hole is necessarily that of general relativity and the quasi-dilaton field is constant across the spacetime. The fine-tuning and the no hair theorem apply to black holes with flat, anti-de Sitter or de Sitter asymptotics.
description: 11 pages, 1 figure; v2: comments added
КЎРИШ БУЗИЛИШЛАРИНИНГ ТАРҚАЛИШИ ВА УЛАРНИ ОЛДИНИ ОЛИШ: ТАДҚИҚОТ НАТИЖАЛАРИНИНГ ТАҲЛИЛИ
Creators: name: Хусанова, М.А.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ушбу илмий ишда мактаб ўқувчиларида кўриш бузилишларининг тарқалишини аниқлаш ва уларни олдини олиш бўйича амалий таклифлар муҳокама қилинади. Тадқиқот Тошкент шаҳрининг Миробод ва Шайхонтоҳур туманларида ўтказилиб, 4019 нафар бола текширувдан ўтказилди. Натижалар кўриш бузилишлари (миопия, гиперметропия, астигматизм) кенг тарқалганини ва бу ҳолатларнинг асосий сабаблари экран олдида узоқ вақт ўтказиш, ёруғлик шароитларининг етарсизлиги ва нотўғри овқатланиш эканлигини кўрсатади. Мақолада кўриш саломатлигини сақлаш учун таклифлар ҳам келтирилган.
title: A critical exploration of the role, value and culture of police learning in Scotland
Creators: name: Engelmann, Larissa
Publisher: name: Edinburgh Napier University
Year: 2023

description: Police Scotland pride themselves on being a ‘learning organisation’ (Police Scotland, 2020a), yet their ability and willingness to develop supportive and effective learning environments has been questioned (HMICS, 2020, 2021). The lack of consensus in the literature on police learning and an absence of Scottish research presents a challenge to identify what effective learning environments in policing look like. Accordingly, this study critically explores the role, value, and culture of police learning in Scotland. Between 2019 and 2021, 381 survey responses were collected, alongside thirty-three interviews with police officers, fifteen interviews with practitioners from allied professions and three focus groups with undergraduate university students on a policing degree.

This study makes two key contributions to knowledge. Firstly, findings highlight the need to nuance traditional theories of the learning organisation and workplace learning in the context of the police. This thesis suggests a stronger focus on organisational justice and the needs of individual learners would enhance current theories of police learning. Hence, a Police Scotland learning framework based on the findings of this study is proposed which expands and adds to existing knowledge and theory about police learning to promote, recognise, and implement learning across the organisation.

Secondly, this study emphasises the need for police services to deepen their understanding of learning culture. Participants suggest that significant cultural barriers to engage with and integrate different kinds of learning within the organisation remain. Contrastingly, practitioners from allied professions illustrate a much wider understanding of workplace learning and a more positive learning culture. This thesis therefore argues that, whilst theories of the learning organisation and workplace learning provide valuable frameworks for the police to develop learning structures, work needs to be done to address the current implementation gap between the aspirations of Police Scotland to be a ‘learning organisation’, the organisational learning culture, and officers’ lived experiences of learning.
title: Adjuvant external beam radiotherapy after therapeutic groin lymphadenectomy for patients at risk of nodal relapse: A dosimetric comparison of three-dimensional conformal and intensity modulated techniques
Creators: name: Adams, Gerard
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Lymph nodes
subject: Soft tissues / Skin
subject: Computer applications
subject: CT
subject: Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT)
subject: Equipment
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Dosimetric comparison
subject: Radiotherapy techniques
subject: Toxicity

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: Primary cutaneous melanoma is the third most common cancer in Australia[1]. Although most diagnoses are at an early stage whereby local therapy may be curative, regional disease in the draining lymph-node field remains a common site of relapse with...
The effect of rural school closures on population
Creators: name: Sageman, Joseph
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Since 1998, more than six thousand public schools have closed in rural U.S. counties. Very little research asks how these school closures impact the future growth (or decline) of rural communities. Given that school districts are often the leading employers in rural areas, closures could trigger or reinforce population loss. On the other hand, rural reformers in the past have advocated for school consolidation as a way to transform rural communities into more centralized and sustainable places that retain more residents over the long run. Finally, the configuration of schools may simply be a consequence of population loss and not a cause. This paper tests these three hypotheses using records from the Common Core of Data (CCD) and U.S. Census. I employ an instrumental variable analysis that exploits exogenous variation in school district boundaries and a difference-in-difference design of matched counties.
ODYM-MaTrace-dissipation
Creators: name: Helbig, Christoph
name: Poncelet, Alexandre
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sustainability
subject: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
subject: Engineering Science and Materials
subject: Environmental Sciences
subject: Materials Science and Engineering
subject: Environmental Studies
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Engineering
subject: Natural Resources and Conservation

description: This OSF project ODYM-MaTrace-dissipation contains all files required to run the ODYM-MaTrace-dissipation model. It also contains the python script and the calculated quantitative results in spreadsheet and figure files. (c) Christoph Helbig, Alexandre Charpentier Poncelet 2022. This data is part of a manuscript submitted to Nature Sustainability. The scripts are published under MIT license. The scripts rely heavily on the Open Dynamic Material Systems Model (ODYM). The ODYM model framework is a software library for dynamic material flow analysis (MFA). It can best be described as a framework for modeling biophysical stock-flow relations in socioeconomic metabolism. A journal paper on ODYM is available via https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.12952.
title: Navigating a bumpy terrain: A pictorial review of soft tissue tumours and tumour-like lesions of the hand and wrist
Creators: name: Chew, Lee Lian
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Tissue characterisation

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: Describe MR appearance of common soft tissue tumours and tumour-like lesions of the hand and wrist. Identify features on MR imaging to differentiate benign from malignant lesions in the hand and wrist. Narrow down differential diagnosis based on...
title: The use of CCD cameras in plastic scintillation dosimetry systems within radiation therapy treatment rooms: managing exposure to transient radiation
Creators: name: Jennings, Matthew
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Dosimetric comparison
subject: Physics
subject: Instrumentation
subject: Dosimetry
subject: Experimental
subject: Radiation physics
subject: Quality assurance

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: Plastic scintillation detectors are emerging as effective dosimetric tools for the quality assurance of complex radiotherapy treatments. The use of a scientific camera placed within the treatment room for scintillation detection poses logistical...
Semiclassical analysis of intraband collective excitations in a two-dimensional electron gas with Dirac spectrum
Creators: name: Kukhtaruk, S. M.
name: Kochelap, V. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solving the initial value problem for semiclassical equations that describe two-dimensional electrons with the Dirac spectrum we found that collective excitations of the electrons are composed by a few distinct components of the oscillations. There always exist sustained plasma oscillations with well known plasmon frequency $ω_{pl}(k)$. Additionally there are oscillations with the 'carrier frequency' $ω= v_Fk$ slowly decaying in time according to a power law ($v_F$ and $k$ are the Fermi velocity and wavevector). The reason for onset of these oscillations has a fundamental character related to branching of the polarization function of the Dirac electrons. A strongly anisotropic initial disturbance of the electron distribution generates additional component of undamped oscillations in the form of an electron unidirectional beam which are van Kampen's modes in the Dirac plasma.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure. Accepted for publication as a Rapid Communication in Physical Review B http://journals.aps.org/prb/accepted/c607bYa2P881f45478ef4333f007eada2f8fadc73
title: Development of quality assurance dosimetry systems for MRI brachytherapy and MRI-Linac technology
Creators: name: Thorpe, Nathan
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: MR physics
subject: Radiation physics
subject: MR
subject: Brachytherapy
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Dosimetric comparison
subject: Radiotherapy techniques
subject: Image guided radiotherapy

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: Aim To observe the effect of a 1 tesla magnetic field upon the function of silicon semiconductor radiation dosimeters using the MO Skin dosimeter and the epitaxial diode dosimeter for application in MRI guided radiotherapy modalities Background...
Does the routine use of global coronary heart disease risk scores translate into clinical benefits or harms? A systematic review of the literature
Creators: name: Sheridan, Stacey
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2008

description: Abstract Background Guidelines now recommend routine assessment of global coronary heart disease (CHD) risk scores. We performed a systematic review to assess whether global CHD risk scores result in clinical benefits or harms. Methods We searched MEDLINE (1966 through June 13, 2007) for articles relevant to our review. Using predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria, we included studies of any design that provided physicians with global risk scores or allowed them to calculate scores themselves, and then measured clinical benefits and/or harms. Two reviewers reviewed potentially relevant studies for inclusion and resolved disagreement by consensus. Data from each article was then abstracted into an evidence table by one reviewer and the quality of evidence was assessed independently by two reviewers. Results 11 studies met criteria for inclusion in our review. Six studies addressed clinical benefits and 5 addressed clinical harms. Six studies were rated as "fair" quality and the others were deemed "methodologically limited". Two fair quality studies showed that physician knowledge of global CHD risk is associated with increased prescription of cardiovascular drugs in high risk (but not all) patients. Two additional fair quality studies showed no effect on their primary outcomes, but one was underpowered and the other focused on prescribing of lifestyle changes, rather than drugs whose prescribing might be expected to be targeted by risk level. One of these aforementioned studies showed improved blood pressure in high-risk patients, but no improvement in the proportion of patients at high risk, perhaps due to the high proportion of participants with baseline risks significantly exceeding the risk threshold. Two fair quality studies found no evidence of harm from patient knowledge of global risk scores when they were accompanied by counseling, and optional or scheduled follow-up. Other studies were too methodologically limited to draw conclusions. Conclusion Our review provides preliminary evidence that physicians' knowledge of global CHD risk scores may translate into modestly increased prescribing of cardiovascular drugs and modest short-term reductions in CHD risk factors without clinical harm. Whether these results are replicable, and translate across other practice settings or into improved long-term CHD outcomes remains to be seen.
Cauchy--Jost function and hierarchy of integrable equations
Creators: name: Boiti, M.
name: Pempinelli, F.
name: Pogrebkov, A. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Properties of the Cauchy--Jost (known also as Cauchy--Baker--Akhiezer) function of the KPII equation are described. By means of the $\bar\partial$-problem for this function it is shown that all equations of the KPII hierarchy are given in a compact and explicit form, including equations on the Cauchy--Jost function itself, time evolutions of the Jost solutions and evolutions of the potential of the heat equation.
Exploring factors influencing asthma control and asthma-specific health-related quality of life among children
Creators: name: DeWalt, Darren A
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2013

description: Abstract Background Little is known about factors contributing to children’s asthma control status and health-related quality of life (HRQoL). The study objectives were to assess the relationship between asthma control and asthma-specific HRQoL in asthmatic children, and to examine the extent to which parental health literacy, perceived self-efficacy with patient-physician interaction, and satisfaction with shared decision-making (SDM) contribute to children’s asthma control and asthma-specific HRQoL. Methods This cross-sectional study utilized data collected from a sample of asthmatic children (n = 160) aged 8–17 years and their parents (n = 160) who visited a university medical center. Asthma-specific HRQoL was self-reported by children using the National Institutes of Health’s Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Pediatric Asthma Impact Scale. Satisfaction with SDM, perceived self-efficacy with patient-physician interaction, parental health literacy, and asthma control were reported by parents using standardized measures. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was performed to test the hypothesized pathways. Results Path analysis revealed that children with better asthma control reported higher asthma-specific HRQoL (β = 0.4, P < 0.001). Parents with higher health literacy and greater perceived self-efficacy with patient-physician interactions were associated with higher satisfaction with SDM (β = 0.38, P < 0.05; β = 0.58, P < 0.001, respectively). Greater satisfaction with SDM was in turn associated with better asthma control (β = −0.26, P < 0.01). Conclusion Children’s asthma control status influenced their asthma-specific HRQoL. However, parental factors such as perceived self-efficacy with patient-physician interaction and satisfaction with shared decision-making indirectly influenced children’s asthma control status and asthma-specific HRQoL.
Separable Forces for $(d,p)$ Reactions in Momentum Space
Creators: name: Hlophe, L.
name: Elster, Ch.
name: Eremenko, V.
name: Nunes, F. M.
name: Thompson, I. J.
name: Arbanas, G.
name: Escher, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Treating $(d,p)$ reactions in a Faddeev-AGS framework requires the interactions in the sub-systems as input. We derived separable representations for the neutron- and proton-nucleus interactions from phenomenological global optical potentials. In order to take into account excitations of the nucleus, excitations need to be included explicity, leading to a coupled-channel separable representation of the optical potential.
description: 2 pages, 2 figures, 21st International Conference on Few-body Problems in Physics, May 18-22, 2015, Chicago, IL
title: The AVIATOR trial: A multicentre phase II randomised trial of audio-visual investigation advancing thoracic radiotherapy
Creators: name: Pollock, Sean
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Thorax
subject: Respiratory system
subject: Lung
subject: CT
subject: Cone beam CT
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Radiotherapy techniques
subject: Toxicity

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: Irregular breathing can exacerbate errors in medical imaging and radiotherapy. The audiovisual (AV) biofeedback system is an advanced form of breathing training that has been proposed to facilitate regular patient respiration. The clinical benefits...
A randomized controlled dismantling trial of post-workshop consultation strategies to increase effectiveness and fidelity to an evidence-based psychotherapy for Posttraumatic stress disorder
Creators: name: Belus, Jennifer M.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2013

description: Abstract: Background: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a serious mental health condition with substantial costs to individuals and society. Among military veterans, the lifetime prevalence of PTSD has been estimated to be as high as 20%. Numerous research studies have demonstrated that short-term cognitive-behavioral psychotherapies, such as Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), lead to substantial and sustained improvements in PTSD symptoms. Despite known benefits, only a minority of clinicians provide these therapies. Transferring this research knowledge into clinical settings remains one of the largest hurdles to improving the health of veterans with PTSD. Attending a workshop alone is insufficient to promote adequate knowledge transfer and sustained skill; however, relatively little research has been conducted to identify effective post-training support strategies. Methods: The current study investigates whether clinicians receiving post-workshop support (six-month duration) will deliver CPT with greater fidelity (i.e., psychotherapy adherence and competence) and have improved patient outcomes compared with clinicians receiving no formal post-workshop support. The study conditions are: technology-enhanced group tele-consultation; standard group tele-consultation; and fidelity assessment with no consultation. The primary outcome is independent assessment (via audio-recordings) of the clinicians’ adherence and competence in delivering CPT. The secondary outcome is observed changes in patient symptoms during and following treatment as a function of clinician fidelity. Post-consultation interviews with clinicians will help identify facilitators and barriers to psychotherapy skill acquisition. The study results will inform how best to implement and transfer evidence-based psychotherapy (e.g., CPT) to clinical settings to attain comparable outcomes to those observed in research settings. Discussion: Findings will deepen our understanding of how much and what type of support is needed following a workshop to help clinicians become proficient in delivering a new protocol. Several influences on clinician learning and patient outcomes will be discussed. An evidence-based model of clinical consultation will be developed, with the ultimate goal of informing policy and influencing best practice in clinical consultation. Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01861769
title: Cavum velum interpositum cyst causing symptomatic trapped ventricle: A case report
Creators: name: Singh, Thakur
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: CNS
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Anatomy
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Endoscopy
subject: Cerebrospinal fluid

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: To describe the embryology, anatomy and pathology of cavum velum interpositum (CVI) cysts, and to present a case of a CVI cyst resulting in a trapped lateral...
Two Hot Jupiters from K2 Campaign 4
Creators: name: Johnson, Marshall C.
name: Gandolfi, Davide
name: Fridlund, Malcolm
name: Csizmadia, Szilard
name: Endl, Michael
name: Cabrera, Juan
name: Cochran, William D.
name: Deeg, Hans J.
name: Grziwa, Sascha
name: Ramírez, Ivan
name: Hatzes, Artie P.
name: Eigmüller, Philipp
name: Barragán, Oscar
name: Erikson, Anders
name: Guenther, Eike W.
name: Korth, Judith
name: Kuutma, Teet
name: Nespral, David
name: Pätzold, Martin
name: Palle, Enric
name: Prieto-Arranz, Jorge
name: Rauer, Heike
name: Saario, Joonas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We confirm the planetary nature of two transiting hot Jupiters discovered by the Kepler spacecraft's K2 extended mission in its Campaign 4, using precise radial velocity measurements from FIES@NOT, HARPS-N@TNG, and the coudé spectrograph on the McDonald Observatory 2.7 m telescope. K2-29 b (EPIC 211089792 b) transits a K1V star with a period of $3.2589263\pm0.0000015$ days; its orbit is slightly eccentric ($e=0.084_{-0.023}^{+0.032}$). It has a radius of $R_P=1.000_{-0.067}^{+0.071}$ $R_J$ and a mass of $M_P=0.613_{-0.026}^{+0.027}$ $M_J$. Its host star exhibits significant rotational variability, and we measure a rotation period of $P_{\mathrm{rot}}=10.777 \pm 0.031$ days. K2-30 b (EPIC 210957318 b) transits a G6V star with a period of $4.098503\pm0.000011$ days. It has a radius of $R_P=1.039_{-0.051}^{+0.050}$ $R_J$ and a mass of $M_P=0.579_{-0.027}^{+0.028}$ $M_J$. The star has a low metallicity for a hot Jupiter host, $[\mathrm{Fe}/\mathrm{H}]=-0.15 \pm 0.05$.
description: Accepted for publication in AJ. 11 pages, 3 figures
The bispectrum of cosmic string temperature fluctuations including recombination effects
Creators: name: Regan, Donough
name: Hindmarsh, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the cosmic microwave background temperature bispectrum from cosmic strings, for the first time including the contributions from the last scattering surface, using a well-established Gaussian model for the string energy-momentum correlation functions, and a simplified model for the cosmic fluid. We check our approximation for the integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) contribution against the bispectrum obtained from the full sky map of the cosmic string ISW signal used by the Planck team, obtaining good agreement. We validate our model for the last scattering surface contribution by comparing the predicted temperature power spectrum with that obtained from a full Boltzmann code treatment applied to the Unconnected Segment Model of a string network. We find that including the last scattering contribution has only a small impact on the upper limit on the string tension resulting from the bispectrum at Planck resolutions, and argue that the bispectrum is unlikely to be competitive with the power spectrum at any resolution.
description: 23 pages, 3 figures
Effects of the N-methyl-D-Aspartate receptor antagonist dextromethorphan on vibrotactile adaptation
Creators: name: Tannan, Vinay
name: Holden, Jameson K.
name: Zhang, Zheng
name: Tommerdahl, Mark Allen
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2008

description: Abstract Background Previous reports have demonstrated that short durations of vibrotactile stimuli (less than or equal to 2 sec) effectively and consistently modify both the perceptual response in humans as well as the neurophysiological response in somatosensory cortex. The change in cortical response with adaptation has been well established by a number of studies, and other reports have extended those findings in determining that both GABA- and NMDAR-mediated neurotransmission play a significant role in the dynamic response of somatosensory cortical neurons. In this study, we evaluated the impact that dextromethorphan (DXM), an NMDAR antagonist, had on two distinct vibrotactile adaptation tasks. Results All subjects, both those that ingested 60 mg DXM and those that ingested placebo, were evaluated for their amplitude discriminative capacity between two simultaneously delivered vibrotactile stimuli both with and without 3 conditions of pre-exposure to adapting stimulation. The results demonstrated that the perceptual metrics of subjects who ingested 60 mg DXM were significantly altered from that of controls when the amplitude discrimination task followed one of the conditions of adapting stimulation. Without the condition of pre-exposure to an adapting stimulus (or stimuli), there was little difference between the observations obtained from the subjects that ingested DXM and controls. Peak impact on subject response occurred at 60 min post-ingestion, whereas the scores of controls who ingested placebo were not impacted. Conclusion The results – that DXM blocks vibrotactile adaptation – is consistent with the suggestion that NMDAR-mediated neurotransmission plays a significant role in the perceptual adaptive response. This finding is also consistent with neurophysiological findings that report observations of the effects of NMDAR block on the SI cortical response to repetitive vibrotactile stimulation.
title: NSAID-associated enteropathy ('diaphragm disease'): presentation of four cases and review of clinical / imaging spectrum
Creators: name: Freebody, John
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: CT
subject: Small bowel
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Abdomen
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Endoscopy
subject: Surgery
subject: Drugs / Reactions

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID)-associated enteropathy (“diaphragm disease”) is characterised by excessive NSAID intake, small bowel inflammation/ulceration, and short (“diaphragm-like”) strictures. 1,2 There are few reports...
Guihaia lancifolia K. W. Luo & F. W. Xing 2017, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Luo, Kaiwen
name: Xing, Fuwu
name: Tian, Jing
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Arecales
Arecaceae
Guihaia
Guihaia lancifolia

description: Guihaia lancifolia K.W.Luo & F.W.Xing, sp. nov.
 Guihaia lancifolia Luo & Xing (2016: 286), nom. inval.
 Type:— CHINA. Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region: Laibin City, grows on the steep limestone hills of the karst, elevation ca. 230 m, 8 May 2016 (flower, ♂), K. W. Luo 1605035 (holotype IBSC!, isotypes GXF!, HNNU!).
 Description:— Guihaia lancifolia Luo & Xing (2016: 286).
 Notes:—This species clearly differs from Guihaia argyrata (Lee & Wei 1982: 131) Lee, Wei & Dransfield (1985: 9) and G. grossifibrosa (Gagnepain 1937: 159) Dransfield, Lee & Wei (1985: 12) in its long undivided leaf blades. Respectively, it is distinguished from G. argyrata by glabrous sepals and ellipsoidal fruit, and has some differences from G. grossifibrosa in the aspect of the erect and spine-like sheath fibers.
 Additional specimens examined (paratypes):— CHINA. Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region: Laibin City, the same population, 8 September 2015 (fruit), K. W. Luo 1509012 (IBSC!, GXF!, HNNU!); ibidem, 8 May 2016 (flower, ♀), K. W. Luo 1605036 (IBSC!, GXF!, HNNU!).
description: Published as part of Luo, Kaiwen, Xing, Fuwu & Tian, Jing, 2017, Validation of the name Guihaia lancifolia (Arecaceae), pp. 194 in Phytotaxa 298 (2) on page 194, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.298.2.10, http://zenodo.org/record/13694190
Spectroscopy and perturbation analysis of the CO A$^1Π-$X$^1Σ^+$ (2,0), (3,0) and (4,0) bands
Creators: name: Niu, M. L.
name: Salumbides, E. J.
name: Heays, A. N.
name: de Oliveira, N.
name: Field, R. W.
name: Ubachs, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The (2,0) (3,0) and (4,0) bands of the A$^1Π-$X$^1Σ^+$ system of $^{12}$C$^{16}$O have been re-investigated by high-resolution vacuum ultraviolet absorption spectroscopy. A VUV Fourier-transform spectrometer, illuminated by synchrotron radiation, was applied to record a jet-cooled spectrum, a room temperature static gas spectrum and a high temperature (900 K) quasi-static gas spectrum, resulting in absolute accuracies of 0.01$-$0.02 cm$^{-1}$ for the rotational line frequencies. Precise laser-based data were included in the analysis allowing for a highly accurate determination of band origins. Rotational levels up to $J=52$ were observed. The data were used to perform an improved analysis of the perturbations in the A$^1Π$, $v=2$, $v=3$, and $v=4$ levels by vibrational levels of the D$^1Δ$, I$^1Σ^-$, e$^3Σ^-$, d$^3Δ$, and a$'^3Σ^+$ states.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, 5 tables, Molecular Physics (2015) accepted
title: Patient rotation for MRI guided radiotherapy
Creators: name: Whelan, Brendan
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Radiation physics
subject: MR physics
subject: MR
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Physics
subject: Image guided radiotherapy

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: We aim toshow that slow rotation of patients in a stationary beam is a feasibleradiotherapy treatement deliverytechnique Multiple beam angles required in Radiotherapy From an engineering perspective is is far simple to position the patient within a...
A Jones slopes characterization of adequate knots
Creators: name: Kalfagianni, Efstratia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We establish a characterization of adequate knots in terms of the degree of their colored Jones polynomial. We show that, assuming the Strong Slope conjecture, our characterization can be reformulated in terms of "Jones slopes" of knots and the essential surfaces that realize the slopes .For alternating knots the reformulated characterization follows by recent work of J. Greene and J. Howie.
description: 14 Pages, 3 Figures: This version, incorporating referee suggestions, is accepted in Indiana University Mathematics Journal
A breakthrough in Facebook Ads optimization through Systemic Dynamics & Artificial Intelligence Algorithms
Creators: name: Koutsantonis, Koutsantonis
name: Bakas, Nikolaos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Systemic Dynamics
Systems Thinking
Artificial Intelligence Algorithms
Facebook Ads
Data Analysis

description: According to Google, more than 9 out of 10 consumers will search for products or services
 online, even if they might ultimately purchase from a physical store. This fact has made
 digital advertising platforms are the most powerful communication and promotion tools a firm
 can utilize today. While the cost of the specific advertisements exponents due to
 increased demand day-by-day, intense competition, complexity in advertising tools as well
 as the lack of being able to estimate the results of their utilization generates an ambiguous
 framework through which companies aim to pursue their promotional goals. The purpose
 of this study is to investigate optimization methods of digital advertising tools and, more
 specifically, the Facebook Ads platform, to effectively deal with the complexity in
 implementation and ambiguity in predicting the advertising result through 1. Systemic
 Dynamic methodology and VenSim software for system design, modeling, and simulation
 2. Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for data analysis and the formulation of
 mathematical models, which will define the quantitative determination of the interactions
 among the main system variables. Finally, the findings of the simulation of the model are
 studied and compared with the results of their application in actual market conditions,
 showcasing a significant improvement in the overall performance of advertisements
 through Facebook Ads.
A randomized controlled trial of standard versus intensified tuberculosis diagnostics on treatment decisions by physicians in Northern Tanzania
Creators: name: Lancaster, Kathryn
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2014

description: Abstract: Background: Routine tuberculosis culture remains unavailable in many high-burden areas, including Tanzania. This study sought to determine the impact of providing mycobacterial culture results over standard of care [unconcentrated acid-fast (AFB) smears] on management of persons with suspected tuberculosis. Methods: Adults and children with suspected tuberculosis were randomized to standard (direct AFB smear only) or intensified (concentrated AFB smear and tuberculosis culture) diagnostics and followed for 8 weeks. The primary endpoint was appropriate treatment (i.e. antituberculosis therapy for those with tuberculosis, no antituberculous therapy for those without tuberculosis). Results: Seventy participants were randomized to standard (n = 37, 53%) or intensive (n = 33, 47%) diagnostics. At 8 weeks, 100% (n = 22) of participants in follow up randomized to intensive diagnostics were receiving appropriate care, vs. 22 (88%) of 25 participants randomized to standard diagnostics (p = 0.14). Overall, 18 (26%) participants died; antituberculosis therapy was associated with lower mortality (9% who received antiuberculosis treatment died vs. 26% who did not, p = 0.04). Conclusions: Under field conditions in a high burden setting, the impact of intensified diagnostics was blunted by high early mortality. Enhanced availability of rapid diagnostics must be linked to earlier access to care for outcomes to improve.
title: A comparison of the ACDS’ Level II and Level III audit designs and outcomes
Creators: name: Williams, Ivan
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Radiation physics
subject: Computer applications
subject: CT
subject: Dosimetry
subject: Physics
subject: Technology assessment
subject: Quality assurance

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: The Australian Clinical Dosimetry Service (ACDS) was funded by the Department of Health to increase the safety of radiotherapy patients in Australia via free and voluntary dosimetric auditing service. The Level II and III audits were designed to be...
Possible Effects of Fierz Transformations on Vacua of Some Four-Fermion Interaction Models
Creators: name: Zhou, Bang-Rong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A theoretical research on possible effects of the Fierz transformations on the ground states (vacua) of some 2-flavor and $N_c$-color four-fermion (quark) interaction models has been systematically conducted. It has been shown that, based on the known criterions of the interplay between the antiquark-quark ($\bar{q}$-$q$) and diquark ($q$-$q$) condensates, in 4D space-time, for the given $\bar{q}$-$q$ channel couplings with chiral symmetry and from the heavy gluon exchange, the effects of the Fierz transformations are not enough to change the feature that the models' vacua could only be in the pure $\bar{q}$-$q$ condensate phases. However, for a given pure scalar $q$-$q$ channel coupling with the strength $H_S$, the Fierz transformations will lead to the nontrivial effect that the model's vacuum could be in the expected $q$-$q$ condensate phase only if $N_c<9$ and $H_S$ is small, and as the increase of $N_c$ and $H_S$, the vacuum will get first in a coexistence phase with $q$-$q$ and $\bar{q}$-$q$ condensates then in a pure $\bar{q}$-$q$ condensate phase until $N_c\rightarrow\infty$. Similar conclusions are also drawn from relevant four-fermion interaction models in 2D and 3D space-time. The general significance of the research is indicated.
description: 11 pages, no figure
Clinical trials registries are under-utilized in the conduct of systematic reviews: a cross-sectional analysis
Creators: name: Weaver, Mark
name: Platts-Mills, Timothy
name: Keil, Lukas G
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2014

description: Abstract Background Publication bias is a major threat to the validity of systematic reviews. Searches of clinical trials registries can help to identify unpublished trials, though little is known about how often these resources are utilized. We assessed the usage and results of registry searches reported in systematic reviews published in major general medical journals. Methods This cross-sectional analysis includes data from systematic reviews assessing medical interventions which were published in one of six major general medical journals between July 2012 and June 2013. Two authors independently examined each published systematic review and all available supplementary materials to determine whether at least one clinical trials registry was searched. Results Of the 117 included systematic reviews, 41 (35%) reported searching a trials registry. Of the 29 reviews which also provided detailed registry search results, 15 (52%) identified at least one completed trial and 18 (62%) identified at least one ongoing trial. Conclusions Clinical trials registry searches are not routinely included in systematic reviews published in major medical journals. Routine examination of registry databases may allow a more accurate characterization of publication and outcome reporting biases and improve the validity of estimated effects of medical treatments.
Dynamical quantum depletion in polariton condensates
Creators: name: Koghee, Selma
name: Wouters, Michiel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a theoretical study of the quantum depletion of microcavity polaritons that are excited with a resonant laser pulse. The dynamics of the quantum fluctuations are interpreted in the context of quantum quenches in general and in terms of the dynamical Casimir effect in particular. We compute the time evolution of the first and second order correlation functions of the polariton condensate. Our theoretical modelling is based on the truncated Wigner approximation for interacting Bose gases. For homogeneous systems, analytical results are obtained in the linearised Bogoliubov approximation. Inhomogeneous systems are studied numerically by Monte Carlo simulations.
description: 7 pages, 10 figures
title: Dosimetry for treating brain tumours in mice using a gamma irradiator
Creators: name: Schleich, Nanette
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Dosimetry
subject: Experimental
subject: Radiation physics
subject: Oncology

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: Glioblastoma multiforme is an aggressive brain cancer which is highly resistant to ionising radiation [1]. Our current research investigates the radiosensitizing effect of high dose ascorbate on GBM cells in an intracranial mouse model...
title: Workflow assessment for thoracic soft-tissue treatment verification
Creators: name: Everitt, Sarah
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: Thorax
subject: Oncology
subject: Cone beam CT
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Audit and standards
subject: Education and training
subject: Image guided radiotherapy
subject: Kv imaging

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: Current soft-tissue imaging protocol utilised for treatment verification of radical lung patients (see Fig 1) involves Radiation Therapists (RT), Advanced Practice Radiation Therapists (AP-RT) and Radiation Oncologists (RO). Anecdotal feedback from...
title: First experiences in a dose escalation study of stereotactic boost for prostate cancer
Creators: name: Alfieri, Florencia
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Pelvis
subject: Oncology
subject: VMAT and Tomotherapy
subject: Radiotherapy techniques

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: The use of dose escalation in prostate cancer radiotherapy has the potential to improve local control. (1) A common dose escalation regime is high dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy to deliver 19Gy in two fractions followed by 46Gy In 23 fractions using...