cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Diagnostic Reference Levels based on clinical indications
Creators: name: Vock, Peter
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Action 6 - Education and training in medical radiation protection
subject: Action 3 - Optimisation, diagnostic reference levels, image quality
subject: Action 2 - Clinical diagnostic reference levels (DRLs)
subject: Action 8 - Radiation protection training and learning material

description: Background/Introduction Description of activity and work performed Conclusion and Recommendations Personal/Organisational information References
description: Background/Introduction: - Radiation Protection is based on three principles: justification, optimisation and limitation. Diagnostic Reference Levels (DRLs) are an important tool of optimisation and do not represent a limitation (Fig.1). Therefore, the International Atomic...
EMDR 2.0 vs EMDR among healthy students with aversive memories.
Creators: name: Brouwers, Thomas
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: EMDR2.0

description: A randomized lab study to test the effect of EMDR 2.0 in reducing the emotionality and vividness of aversive memories among healthy students, compared to EMDR.
title: Experiences with large-scale radiation exposure monitoring in Västerbotten County, Sweden
Creators: name: Ahlström Riklund, Katrine
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Action 8 - EuroSafe Imaging Stars network and data collection
subject: Action 3 - Optimisation, diagnostic reference levels, image quality
subject: Action 2 - Clinical audit
subject: Action 6 - Clinical audit tool for imaging
subject: Action 2 - Clinical diagnostic reference levels (DRLs)
subject: Action 10 - EuroSafe Imaging Stars

description: Background/Introduction Description of activity and work performed Conclusion and Recommendations Personal/Organisational information References
description: Background/Introduction: In October 2014, Västerbotten County (VLL), Sweden, installed Sectra DoseTrack 1 for radiation exposure monitoring in radiology. A versatile and robust IT-solution for exposure monitoring to assist with follow-up of the processes of justification...
Conditioning on future exposure to define study cohorts can induce bias: the case of low-dose acetylsalicylic acid and risk of major bleeding
Creators: name: Szépligeti, Szimonetta Komjáthiné
name: Sørensen, Henrik Toft
name: Pedersen, Lars
name: Horváth-Puhó, Erzsébet
name: Stürmer, Til
name: Lund, Jennifer L.
name: Ehrenstein, Vera
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: A principle of cohort studies is that cohort membership is defined by current rather than future exposure information. Pharmacoepidemiologic studies using existing databases are vulnerable to violation of this principle. We evaluated the impact of using data on future redemption of prescriptions to determine cohort membership, motivated by a published example seeking to emulate a “per-protocol” association between continuous versus never use of low-dose acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) and major bleeding (e.g., cerebral hemorrhage or gastrointestinal bleeding).
The clinical impact of serrated colorectal polyps
Creators: name: O’Connell, Brendon M.
name: Crockett, Seth D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Serrated polyps (SPs) of the colorectum pose a novel challenge to practicing gastroenterologists. Previously thought benign and unimportant, there is now compelling evidence that SPs are responsible for a significant percentage of incident colorectal cancer worldwide. In contrast to conventional adenomas, which tend to be slow growing and polypoid, SPs have unique features that undermine current screening and surveillance practices. For example, sessile serrated polyps (SSPs) are flat, predominately right-sided, and thought to have the potential for rapid growth. Moreover, SSPs are subject to wide variations in endoscopic detection and pathologic interpretation. Unfortunately, little is known about the natural history of SPs, and current guidelines are based largely on expert opinion. In this review, we outline the current taxonomy, epidemiology, and management of SPs with an emphasis on the clinical and public health impact of these lesions.
The Wigner-Eckart Theorem for Reducible Symmetric Cartesian Tensor Operators
Creators: name: Bouzas, Antonio O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explicitly establish a unitary correspondence between spherical irreducible tensor operators and cartesian tensor operators of any rank. That unitary relation is implemented by means of a basis of integer-spin wave functions that constitute simultaneously a basis of the spaces of cartesian and spherical irreducible tensors. As a consequence, we extend the Wigner--Eckart theorem to cartesian irreducible tensor operators of any rank, and to totally symmetric reducible ones. We also discuss the tensorial structure of several standard spherical irreducible tensors such as ordinary, bipolar and tensor spherical harmonics, spin-polarization operators and multipole operators. As an application, we obtain an explicit expression for the derivatives of any order of spherical harmonics in terms of tensor spherical harmonics.
description: 27 pages, final version to appear in Reports on Mathematical Physics
title: CT KUB - How low can you go?
Creators: name: Maguire, John
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Action 6 - Education and training in medical radiation protection
subject: Action 2 - Clinical audit
subject: Action 6 - Clinical audit tool for imaging
subject: Action 8 - Radiation protection training and learning material

description: Background/Introduction Description of activity and work performed Conclusion and Recommendations Personal/Organisational information References
description: Background/Introduction: In patients with acute flank pain computed tomography of the kidney, ureter, bladder (CT KUB) is the favoured imaging technique to confirm the diagnosis of urinary tract calculi in patients with acute flank pain in accordance with the Royal College...
title: Dose reduction through three years of CT scans reconstructed by means of iterative algorithms
Creators: name: Poli, Matteo
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Action 7 - Medical radiation protection research: MELODI, EURAMED
subject: Action 3 - Optimisation, diagnostic reference levels, image quality
subject: Action 2 - Clinical diagnostic reference levels (DRLs)
subject: Action 9 - Facilitation of research in advanced topics of radiation protection

description: Background/Introduction Description of activity and work performed Conclusion and Recommendations Personal/Organisational information References
description: Background/Introduction: Computed tomography (CT) is a powerful imaging technique that provides high-contrast images and good spatial and temporal resolution [1], but it involves higher radiation doses than other radiological investigations. In the last 40 years CT systems...
Epigenome-wide association data implicates DNA methylation-mediated genetic risk in psoriasis
Creators: name: Tang, Xianfa
name: Xu, Shuangjun
name: Gao, Jing
name: Yin, Xianyong
name: Shen, Changbing
name: Zuo, Xianbo
name: Cheng, Yuyan
name: Zhou, Fusheng
name: Zhang, Xuejun
name: Hsu, Yi-Hsiang
name: Ko, Randy
name: Yang, Sen
name: Zhu, Caihong
name: Xu, Jingkai
name: Zheng, Xiaodong
name: Tsoi, Lam C.
name: Dou, Jinfa
name: Sun, Liangdan
name: Cui, Yong
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Abstract Background Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease characterized by epidermal hyperproliferation and altered keratinocyte differentiation and inflammation and is caused by the interplay of genetic and environmental factors. Previous studies have revealed that DNA methylation (DNAm) and genetic makers are closely associated with psoriasis, and strong evidences have shown that DNAm can be controlled by genetic factors, which attracted us to evaluate the relationship among DNAm, genetic makers, and disease status. Methods We utilized the genome-wide methylation data of psoriatic skin (PP, N = 114) and unaffected control skin (NN, N = 62) tissue samples in our previous study, and we performed whole-genome genotyping with peripheral blood of the same samples to evaluate the underlying genetic effect on skin DNA methylation. Causal inference test (CIT) was used to assess whether DNAm regulate genetic variation and gain a better understanding of the epigenetic basis of psoriasis susceptibility. Results We identified 129 SNP-CpG pairs achieving the significant association threshold, which constituted 28 unique methylation quantitative trait loci (MethQTL) and 34 unique CpGs. There are 18 SNPs were associated with psoriasis at a Bonferoni-corrected P < 0.05, and these 18 SNPs formed 93 SNP-CpG pairs with 17 unique CpG sites. We found that 11 of 93 SNP-CpG pairs, composed of 5 unique SNPs and 3 CpG sites, presented a methylation-mediated relationship between SNPs and psoriasis. The 3 CpG sites were located on the body of C1orf106, the TSS1500 promoter region of DMBX1 and the body of SIK3. Conclusions This study revealed that DNAm of some genes can be controlled by genetic factors and also mediate risk variation for psoriasis in Chinese Han population and provided novel molecular insights into the pathogenesis of psoriasis.
Topological features of hydrogenated graphene
Creators: name: González-Árraga, Luis A.
name: Lado, J. L.
name: Guinea, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hydrogen adatoms are one of the most the promising proposals for the functionalization of graphene. Hydrogen induces narrow resonances near the Dirac energy, which lead to the formation of magnetic moments. Furthermore, they also create local lattice distortions which enhance the spin-orbit coupling. The combination of magnetism and spin-orbit coupling allows for a rich variety of phases, some of which have non trivial topological features. We analyze the interplay between magnetism and spin-orbit coupling in ordered arrays of hydrogen on graphene monolayers, and classify the different phases that may arise. We extend our model to consider arrays of adsorbates in graphene-like crystals with stronger intrinsic spin-orbit couplings.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
title: Audit of Indications for Plain Abdominal Films from the Emergency Department
Creators: name: Reid, Catriona
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Action 10 - Improved communication and collaboration of health professionals in radiation protection
subject: Action 6 - Education and training in medical radiation protection
subject: Action 1 - Clinical decision support, clinical imaging guidelines
subject: Action 1 - Guidelines, implementation policies, and Clinical Decision Support (ESR iGuide)
subject: Action 8 - Radiation protection training and learning material
subject: Action 13 - Stakeholder engagement and collaboration

description: Background/Introduction Description of activity and work performed Conclusion and Recommendations Personal/Organisational information References
description: Background/Introduction: In 2011, it was noted in a London DGH that many abdominal radiographsrequested by the Emergency Department were not indicated according to RCR iRefer guidelines. The following work summarises a completed audit cycle undertaken to educate colleagues...
Exit probability and first passage time of a lazy Pearson walker: Scaling behaviour
Creators: name: Acharyya, Muktish
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The motion of a lazy Pearson walker is studied with different probability ($p$) of jump in two and three dimensions. The probability of exit ($P_e$) from a zone of radius $r_e$, is studied as a function of $r_e$ with different values of jump probability $p$. The exit probability $P_e$ is found to scale as ${P_e}p^α=F({r_e}p^β)$, which is obtained by method of data collapse. The first passage time ($t_1$) i.e., the time required for first exit from a zone is studied. The probability distribution ($P(t_1)$) of first passage time was studied for different values of jump probability ($p$). The probability distribution of first passage time was found to scale as ${P(t_1)}p^γ = G({t_1}p^δ)$. Where, $F$ and $G$ are two scaling functions and $α$, $β$, $γ$ and $δ$ are some exponents. In both the dimensions, it is found that, $α= 0$, $β=-1/2$, $γ=-1$ and $δ=1$.
description: 10 Pages Latex with 4 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1506.00096
title: Implementation of Diagnostic Reference Levels for children in Dutch clinical practice.
Creators: name: Pieterman, H.
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Action 10 - Improved communication and collaboration of health professionals in radiation protection
subject: Action 3 - Optimisation, diagnostic reference levels, image quality
subject: Action 2 - Clinical diagnostic reference levels (DRLs)
subject: Action 13 - Stakeholder engagement and collaboration

description: Background/Introduction Description of activity and work performed Conclusion and Recommendations Personal/Organisational information References
description: Background/Introduction: Radiation levels due to medical use are relatively low in the Netherlands compared to other countries 1 .In a recent review 2 about dose reducing measures in children it appeared that Diagnostic Reference Levels (DRLs) for children were only used in...
Accuracy of the Eosinophilic Esophagitis Endoscopic Reference Score in Diagnosis and Determining Response to Treatment
Creators: name: Cotton, Cary C.
name: Higgins, Leana L.
name: Dellon, Evan S.
name: Woosley, John T.
name: Beitia, RoseMary
name: Gebhart, Jessica H.
name: Shaheen, Nicholas J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Little is known about the diagnostic utility of the eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) endoscopic reference score (EREFS), and how scores change in response to treatment. We investigated the operating characteristics of the EREFS in diagnosis of EoE, how the score changes with treatment, and ways to optimize scoring system.
Production Regimes for Self-Interacting Dark Matter
Creators: name: Bernal, Nicolas
name: Chu, Xiaoyong
name: Garcia-Cely, Camilo
name: Hambye, Thomas
name: Zaldivar, Bryan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the context of Self-Interacting Dark Matter as a solution for the small-scale structure problems, we consider the possibility that Dark Matter could have been produced without being in thermal equilibrium with the Standard Model bath. We discuss one by one the following various dark matter production regimes of this kind: freeze-in, reannihilation and dark freeze-out. We exemplify how these mechanisms work in the context of the particularly simple Hidden Vector Dark Matter model. In contrast to scenarios where there is thermal equilibrium with the Standard Model bath, we find two regimes which can easily satisfy all the laboratory and cosmological constraints. These are dark freeze-out with 3-to-2 annihilations and freeze-in via a light mediator. In the first regime, different temperatures in the visible and the Dark Matter sectors allow us to avoid the constraints coming from cosmic structure formation as well as the use of non-perturbative couplings to reproduce the observed relic density. For the second regime, different couplings are responsible for Dark Matter relic density and self-interactions, permitting to surpass BBN, X-ray, CMB and direct detection constraints.
description: 40 pages, 14 figures. Accepted for publication in JCAP
title: Medical Imaging Equipment Replacement in Europe – Essential and Long Overdue
Creators: name: Denjoy, Nicole
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cost-effectiveness
subject: CT
subject: Professional issues
subject: Action 3 - Image quality assessment based on clinical indications
subject: Action 4 - Quality of radiological equipment
subject: Education and training

description: Background/Introduction Description of activity and work performed Conclusion and Recommendations Personal/Organisational information References
description: Background/Introduction: The role of medical technology is of critical importance in societies facing healthcare budget constraints, the challenges of ageing populations, the rise in chronic diseases and shortage of qualified healthcare professionals. Innovative medical...
The compactified jacobian can be nonreduced
Creators: name: Kass, Jesse Leo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 14H40, Secondary 14C05

description: We prove by explicit example that the compactified jacobian can be nonreduced. The example is a rational space curve of arithmetic genus 4. This answers a question posed by Cyril D'Souza in 1979.
description: Final version
title: EuroSafe Imaging Alliance & Campaign - Activities 2015-2016
Creators: name: Frija, Guy
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Action 12 - Cooperation with international radiation protection initiatives and other stakeholders including IAEA, WHO, ICRP, HERCA, European Commission
subject: Action 10 - Improved communication and collaboration of health professionals in radiation protection
subject: Action 7 - Medical radiation protection research: MELODI, EURAMED
subject: Action 9 - Facilitation of research in advanced topics of radiation protection
subject: Action 13 - Stakeholder engagement and collaboration

description: Background/Introduction Description of activity and work performed Conclusion and Recommendations Personal/Organisational information References
description: Background/Introduction: Less than two years after its launch at ECR 2014, the ESR’s EuroSafe Imaging campaign has attracted more than 51,000 Friends including over 200 institutional supporters around the world. This impressive number of supporters and the wide range of...
title: ContextVision Tackles Image Enhancement and Dose Reduction for Interventional Radiology
Creators: name: Kövamees, Peter
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Action 7 - Medical radiation protection research: MELODI, EURAMED
subject: Action 9 - Facilitation of research in advanced topics of radiation protection

description: Background/Introduction Description of activity and work performed Conclusion and Recommendations Personal/Organisational information References
description: Background/Introduction: Reducing Radiation Dose to Promote Patient Safety In ionizing radiation-based medical imaging, there is a clear link between radiation dose and image quality. However while higher dose leads to better imaging, an increased use of ionizing radiation...
Avoidance of Fiber Is Associated With Greater Risk of Crohn’s Disease Flare in a 6-Month Period
Creators: name: Kappelman, Michael D.
name: Long, Millie D.
name: Martin, Christopher A.
name: Brotherton, Carol S.
name: Sandler, Robert S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) have been associated with an abnormal mucosal response to the gastrointestinal microbiota. Although dietary fiber affects the gastrointestinal microbiota, there is limited information on the role of fiber on IBD activity. We investigated factors associated with fiber consumption and whether it was associated with flares in patients with IBD.
title: CT: Clinical Audit of Oncological Thorax-abdomen Request Forms - Regarding Patient Safety Issues
Creators: name: Vargha, András
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Action 2 - Clinical audit
subject: Action 6 - Clinical audit tool for imaging

description: Background/Introduction Description of activity and work performed Conclusion and Recommendations Personal/Organisational information References
description: Background/Introduction: Oncological diseases are one of the leading causes of death in the world. Hungary has bad epidemiological data in oncological diseases. The number of new cases are still increasing in spite of strong efforts we have made in the last decades with...
Transport in inhomogeneous quantum critical fluids and in the Dirac fluid in graphene
Creators: name: Lucas, Andrew
name: Crossno, Jesse
name: Fong, Kin Chung
name: Kim, Philip
name: Sachdev, Subir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a general hydrodynamic framework for computing direct current thermal and electric transport in a strongly interacting finite temperature quantum system near a Lorentz-invariant quantum critical point. Our framework is non-perturbative in the strength of long wavelength fluctuations in the background charge density of the electronic fluid, and requires the rate of electron-electron scattering to be faster than the rate of electron-impurity scattering. We use this formalism to compute transport coefficients in the Dirac fluid in clean samples of graphene near the charge neutrality point, and find results insensitive to long range Coulomb interactions. Numerical results are compared to recent experimental data on thermal and electrical conductivity in the Dirac fluid in graphene and substantially improved quantitative agreement over existing hydrodynamic theories is found. We comment on the interplay between the Dirac fluid and acoustic and optical phonons, and qualitatively explain experimentally observed effects. Our work paves the way for quantitative contact between experimentally realized condensed matter systems and the wide body of high energy inspired theories on transport in interacting many-body quantum systems.
description: 19 + 12 pages; 8 + 3 figures; v2: very minor changes, published version
Reporting of Scar Outcomes in the Hand & Wrist; a State-of-the-Art Literature Review
Creators: name: Kennedy, Donna
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: Literature Review (Protocol) BACKGROUND It is recommended that the patient-centred assessment of scars in the hand and wrist include scar physical characteristics, cosmetic appearance and symptoms and include the impact of scar on activity, social participation and quality of life. However, at present terminology and evaluation techniques are not standardised; there is no universally accepted clinician-completed nor gold standard patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) for evaluating hand and wrist scars. REVIEW QUESTION How are hand and wrist scar outcomes evaluated and reported in the literature? METHODS A search strategy was developed to identify pertinent literature reporting hand and wrist scar outcomes using Medline, AMED, Embase and CINAHL databases. Two members of the study team will assess studies against pre-defined eligibility criteria and complete data extraction using a piloted data collection tool. DATA SYNTHESIS Data will be analysed and reported according to SWiM guidelines for the synthesis of review data without meta-analysis. Variability in taxonomy pertaining to scar outcomes will be reported. The review will critically survey and report descriptive statistics summarising current practice in the evaluation and reporting of outcomes associated with scars in the hand and wrist.
title: Towards a joint Strategic Research Agenda for medical radiation protection and opportunities for funding
Creators: name: Frija, Guy
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Action 7 - Medical radiation protection research: MELODI, EURAMED
subject: Action 9 - Facilitation of research in advanced topics of radiation protection

description: Background/Introduction Description of activity and work performed Conclusion and Recommendations Personal/Organisational information References
description: Background/Introduction: An important part of EuroSafe Imaging’s mission is to promote research in medical radiation protection and contribute to shaping the European research agenda. The European Society of Radiology (ESR) recently achieved a milestone in this regard by...
Passive and hybrid mode locking in multi-section terahertz quantum cascade lasers
Creators: name: Tzenov, P.
name: Babushkin, I.
name: Arkhipov, R.
name: Arkhipov, M.
name: Rosanov, N.
name: Morgner, U.
name: Jirauschek, C.
Publisher: name: [Bad Honnef] : Dt. Physikalische Ges.
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: hybrid mode locking
subject: passive mode locking
subject: quantum cascade lasers
subject: 530

description: It is believed that passive mode locking is virtually impossible in quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) because of too fast carrier relaxation time. Here, we revisit this possibility and theoretically show that stable mode locking and pulse durations in the few cycle regime at terahertz (THz) frequencies are possible in suitably engineered bound-to-continuum QCLs. We achieve this by utilizing a multi-section cavity geometry with alternating gain and absorber sections. The critical ingredients are the very strong coupling of the absorber to both field and environment as well as a fast absorber carrier recovery dynamics. Under these conditions, even if the gain relaxation time is several times faster than the cavity round trip time, generation of few-cycle pulses is feasible. We investigate three different approaches for ultrashort pulse generation via THz quantum cascade lasers, namely passive, hybrid and colliding pulse mode locking.
Comparative Effectiveness and Safety of Anti–Tumor Necrosis Factor Agents in Biologic-Naive Patients With Crohn’s Disease
Creators: name: Kappelman, Michael D.
name: Shah, Nilay D.
name: Loftus, Edward V.
name: Schilz, Stephanie R.
name: Heien, Herbert C.
name: Sangaralingham, Lindsey R.
name: Singh, Siddharth
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Inhibitors of tumor necrosis factor (anti-TNF agents) are the most effective therapy for Crohn’s disease (CD). We evaluated the real-world comparative effectiveness and safety of different anti-TNF agents (infliximab, adalimumab, and certolizumab pegol) in biologic-naïve patients with CD in a retrospective, propensity-matched cohort study using a national administrative claims database (Optum Labs Data Warehouse).
Distribution and Characteristics of Colonic Diverticula in a United States Screening Population
Creators: name: Sandler, Robert S.
name: Peery, Anne F.
name: Runge, Thomas
name: Keku, Tope O.
name: Galanko, Joseph A.
name: Martin, Christopher F.
name: Eluri, Swathi
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Colonic diverticula are the most common finding from colonoscopy examinations. Little is known about the distribution of colonic diverticula, which are responsible for symptomatic and costly diverticular disease. We aimed to assess the number, location, and characteristics of colonic diverticula in a large US screening population.
title: Appropriate Image Quality of Computed Tomography Examinations: What Is "Appropriate" & How Can It Be Reproducibly Achieved?
Creators: name: Stiller, Wolfram
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Action 7 - Medical radiation protection research: MELODI, EURAMED
subject: Action 6 - Education and training in medical radiation protection
subject: Action 3 - Optimisation, diagnostic reference levels, image quality
subject: Action 2 - Clinical diagnostic reference levels (DRLs)
subject: Action 8 - Radiation protection training and learning material
subject: Action 9 - Facilitation of research in advanced topics of radiation protection

description: Background/Introduction Description of activity and work performed Conclusion and Recommendations Personal/Organisational information References
description: Background/Introduction: Computed tomography (CT) constitutes a mainstay of present day radiological diagnostics. Through a number of technical innovations, the range of clinical applications of CT has been constantly extended, and new radiodiagnostic indications have...
Push button reproduction attempt of a research claim from John Marshall and Stephen D. Fisher, (2015), in British Journal of Political Science
Creators: name: Tutor, Melba
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Claim paragraph (from the sourcing sheet): We selected the claim that increases in foreign ownership (FDI and portfolio equity) transactions reduce turnout, and do so more than increases in international trade (Hypothesis 4a); the portion of this hypothesis selected for the SCORE program is that foreign ownership transactions reduce turnout (Statement 2). This reflects the following statement from the paper's abstract: "Using data from twenty-three OECD countries from 1970–2007, the study finds strong support for the ownership-constraint hypothesis in which foreign ownership reduces turnout, both directly and – in strict opposition to the compensation hypothesis – indirectly by reducing government spending (and thus the importance of politics)" (Statement 1). The claim is tested with the one-step Arellano and Bond ‘difference GMM’ estimator, with a lagged dependent variable (LDV), country fixed effects, and cluster-robust standard errors, and detrending the data by including quadratic trend terms specific to each country. The dependent variable in the model selected as evidence for the SCORE program (Model 5, Table 2) is aggregate electoral turnout, and the predictor of interest is a term for Ownership Scale, which reflects the combination of FDI stocks (log), FDI Flows (log), and Portfolio Equity Stock (log) (see Model 5 for specification details) (Statement 3). The Ownership Scale is negative and highly significant (coefficient on Ownership Scale term = -3.519, country-clustered robust SE = 0.938, p < 0.01) (Statement 4). The focal test in the original paper is: The Ownership Scale is negative and highly significant (coefficient on Ownership Scale term = -3.519, country-clustered robust SE = 0.938, p < 0.01)
title: “@InfoRadiologia”: Communicating Effectively with Patients. SERAM strategy to become more patient-centred using the power of the Iinternet and social media.
Creators: name: Otero-Garcia, Milagros
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Action 11 - Improved patient communication
subject: Action 10 - Improved communication and collaboration of health professionals in radiation protection
subject: Action 13 - Stakeholder engagement and collaboration
subject: Action 12 - Information for and communication with patients

description: Background/Introduction Description of activity and work performed Conclusion and Recommendations Personal/Organisational information References
description: Background/Introduction: Over recent years, particularly over the last 5 years, a big concern has come to the forefront in the Radiology Community , “The radiologist’s invisibility”. Different strategies have been proposed to address it. If patients, other doctors and...
The Effect of Heat-polymerizing Method on Color Stability of Acrylic and Composite Resin Dentrue Teeth
Creators: name: Pimrumpai Rochanakit Sindhavajiva
Publisher: name: Faculty of Dentistry, Chiang Mai University
Year: 2023
Subjects: acrylic denture teeth
color stability
composite denture teeth
heat-curing polymerization

description: Chiang Mai Dental Journal, 44, 1, 22-27
Predictors, moderators and mediators of treatment response, remission and resistance in adolescent depression: A scoping review.
Creators: name: Courtney, Darren
name: Watson, Priya
name: Chan, Benjamin
name: Neprily, Kirsten
name: Zentner, Tabitha
name: Bennett, Kathryn
name: Rodak, Terri
name: szatmari, peter
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: This is a scoping reviewing examining predictors, moderators and mediators of treatment response, remission and resistance in adolescent depression. Here are some updates on the original registration: Section 3: The completion date is now anticipated to be December 1st, 2020 Section 26: As this is a scoping review, intended to map concepts, and not a systematic review, we are no longer using the Cochrane Risk of Bias (or ROBIS) to assess quality of the study. Section 27: As previously mentioned, we are no longer including Meta-Analyses in our search and no longer conducting Risk of Bias Assessments.
title: PiDRL - European guidance document on Diagnostic Reference Levels for Paediatric Imaging
Creators: name: Damilakis, John
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Action 2 - Clinical diagnostic reference levels (DRLs)
subject: Action 3 - Optimisation, diagnostic reference levels, image quality

description: Background/Introduction Description of activity and work performed Conclusion and Recommendations Personal/Organisational information References
description: Background/Introduction: Tremendous growth in the use of computed tomography (CT) examinations and interventional radiology procedures took place in the last decade or after introduction of multi-detector CT in 1999. Radiological imaging of children, some organs of whose...
title: Overview of Italian experience on Quality Assurance in Radiological Sciences: working group on radiation protection optimisation in interventional radiology as an example of a multidisciplinary approach
Creators: name: Grande, Sveva
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Action 12 - Cooperation with international radiation protection initiatives and other stakeholders including IAEA, WHO, ICRP, HERCA, European Commission
subject: Action 10 - Improved communication and collaboration of health professionals in radiation protection
subject: Action 3 - Optimisation, diagnostic reference levels, image quality
subject: Action 2 - Clinical diagnostic reference levels (DRLs)
subject: Action 13 - Stakeholder engagement and collaboration

description: Background/Introduction Description of activity and work performed Conclusion and Recommendations Personal/Organisational information References
description: Background/Introduction: Introduction TheIstituto Superiore di Sanità (National Institute of Health, (ISS)) hasa consultant role in safeguarding Public Health in the production and use of radiation in diagnosis and therapy. Currentlegislation EURATOM 13/59 (1)emphasizes...
Effects of Age, Sex, Body Weight, and Quantity of Alcohol Consumption on Occurrence and Severity of Alcoholic Hepatitis
Creators: name: Saxena, Romil
name: Comerford, Megan
name: Crabb, David W.
name: Cook, Ryan
name: Gores, Gregory
name: Olofson, Amy
name: Lourens, Spencer
name: Nelson, David
name: Schimek, Amanda
name: Sanyal, Arun
name: Shah, Vijay
name: Walker, Susan
name: Katz, Barry
name: Kamath, Patrick
name: Puri, Puneet
name: Kamath, Patrick
name: Verma, Vikas
name: Liangpunsakul, Suthat
name: Katz, Barry
name: Crabb, David
name: Wilder, Sarah
name: Edwards, Lakye
name: Borst, Andy
name: Ren, Xiaowei
name: Sanyal, Arun
name: Raedeva, Svetlana
name: Chalasani, Naga
name: Yu, Andy Qigui
name: Cummings, Sherrie
name: Radaeva, Svetlana
name: Shah, Vijay H.
name: Urban, Thomas
name: Liangpunsakul, Suthat
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Only a minority of heavy drinking individuals develop alcoholic hepatitis (AH), for unclear reasons. We analyzed data from the Translational Research and Evolving Alcoholic Hepatitis Treatment cohort: subjects who drink heavily with normal results from liver tests (controls) and patients with AH. We examined risk factors for the development of AH including body mass index (BMI), drinking pattern and quantity, and sex.
Zero-Recoil Sum Rules for $Λ_b \to Λ_c$ Form Factors
Creators: name: Mannel, Thomas
name: van Dyk, Danny
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We set up a zero recoil sum rule to constrain the form factors of the $Λ_b \to Λ_c$ transition. Our results are compared with the recent lattice calculation for these transitions. We find the same situation as in the case for $B \to D^*$: The lattice results practically saturate the sum rules, leaving basically no room for excited states.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
title: Unnecessary ankle series in emergency department - 20 years after Ottawa rules
Creators: name: Ivanac, Gordana
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Action 1 - Clinical decision support, clinical imaging guidelines
subject: Action 1 - Guidelines, implementation policies, and Clinical Decision Support (ESR iGuide)

description: Background/Introduction Description of activity and work performed Conclusion and Recommendations Personal/Organisational information References
description: Background/Introduction: The aim of this study is to raise the awareness of many unnecessary imaging procedures taken daily in our emergency department. We focused on ankle series because ankle injuries are relatively common – according to Croatian health service yearbook...
Features of Severe Liver Disease With Portal Hypertension in Patients With Cystic Fibrosis
Creators: name: Ling, Simon C.
name: Durie, Peter R.
name: Ooi, Chee Y.
name: Corvol, Harriet
name: Stonebraker, Jaclyn R.
name: Knowles, Michael R.
name: Pace, Rhonda G.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Liver disease is the third leading cause of death in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), but features of patients with CF, severe liver disease, and portal hypertension have not been fully characterized.
Transient spin injection efficiencies at ferromagnet/metal interfaces
Creators: name: Elliott, Peter
name: Eschenlohr, Andrea
name: Chen, Jinghao
name: Shallcross, Sam
name: Bovensiepen, Uwe
name: Dewhurst, John Kay
name: Sharma, Sangeeta
Publisher: name: Weinheim : Wiley-VCH
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: second harmonic generation
subject: spin injections
subject: spintronics
subject: spin–orbit coupling
subject: time-dependent density functional theory
subject: ultrafast spin dynamics
subject: 540
subject: 600

description: Spin injection across interfaces driven by ultrashort optical pulses on femtosecond timescales constitutes a new way to design spintronics applications. Targeted utilization of this phenomenon requires knowledge of the efficiency of non-equilibrium spin injection. From a quantitative comparison of ab initio time-dependent density functional theory and interface-sensitive, time-resolved non-linear optical experiment, the spin injection efficiency (SIE) at the Co/Cu(001) interface is determined, and its microscopic origin, i.e., the influence of spin-orbit coupling and the interface electronic structure, is discussed. Moreover, we theoretically predict that the SIE at ferromagnetic–metal interfaces can be optimized through laser pulse and materials parameters, namely the fluence, pulse duration, and substrate material.
Facilitators and barriers for motorcycle helmet use: protocol for a qualitative evidence synthesis
Creators: name: Parveen, Samina
name: Panigrahi, Sucharita
name: Jagnoor, Jagnoor
name: Bhaumik, Soumyadeep
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Road traffic injury, motorized two-wheelers, helmet, injury prevention, vulnerable road user

description: A protocol with the aim to synthesize qualitative evidence on the barriers and facilitators for use of helmets among motorized two-wheelers. To the best of our knowledge this is the first qualitative evidence synthesis on the topic.
Inverse Association Between Gluteofemoral Obesity and Risk of Barrett’s Esophagus in a Pooled Analysis
Creators: name: El-Serag, Hashem B.
name: Whiteman, David C.
name: Kendall, Bradley J.
name: Vaughan, Thomas L.
name: Cook, Michael B.
name: Rubenstein, Joel H.
name: Anderson, Lesley A.
name: Greer, Katarina B.
name: Shaheen, Nicholas J.
name: Li, Li
name: Thrift, Aaron P.
name: Corley, Douglas A.
name: Chak, Amitabh
name: Chandar, Apoorva K.
name: Murray, Liam J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Gluteofemoral obesity (determined by measurement of subcutaneous fat in hip and thigh regions) could reduce risks of cardiovascular and diabetic disorders associated with abdominal obesity. We evaluated whether gluteofemoral obesity also reduces risk of Barrett's esophagus (BE), a premalignant lesion associated with abdominal obesity.
Cavity quantum electrodynamics with an out-of-equilibrium quantum dot
Creators: name: Dmytruk, Olesia
name: Trif, Mircea
name: Mora, Christophe
name: Simon, Pascal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a superconducting microwave cavity capacitively coupled to both a quantum conductor and its electronic reservoirs. We analyze in details how the measurements of the cavity microwave field, which are related to the electronic charge susceptibility, can be used to extract information on the transport properties of the quantum conductor. We show that the asymmetry of the capacitive couplings between the electronic reservoirs and the cavity plays a crucial role in relating optical measurements to transport properties. For asymmetric capacitive couplings, photonic measurements can be used to probe the finite low frequency admittance of the quantum conductor, the real part of which being related to the differential conductance. In particular, when the quantum dot is far from resonance, the charge susceptibility is directly proportional to the admittance for a large range of frequencies and voltages. However, when the quantum conductor is near a resonance, such a relation generally holds only at low frequency and for equal tunnel coupling or low voltage. Beyond this low-energy near equilibrium regime, the charge susceptibility and thus the optical transmission offers new insights on the quantum conductors since the optical observables are not directly connected to transport quantities. For symmetric lead capacitive couplings, we show that the optical measurements can be used to reveal the Korringa-Shiba relation, connecting the reactive to the dissipative part of the susceptibility, at low frequency and low bias.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures, published version
title: Evaluation of an automatic tube potential selection on the delivered dose and image quality in unenhanced head CT scans of infants
Creators: name: Ducou le Pointe, Hubert
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Action 3 - Optimisation, diagnostic reference levels, image quality
subject: Action 2 - Clinical diagnostic reference levels (DRLs)

description: Background/Introduction Description of activity and work performed Conclusion and Recommendations Personal/Organisational information References
description: Background/Introduction: ...
On the Mixed Gas Behavior of Organosilica Membranes Fabricated by Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD)
Creators: name: Rubner, Jens
name: Skribbe, Soukaina
name: Roth, Hannah
name: Kleines, Lara
name: Dahlmann, Rainer
name: Wessling, Matthias
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: gas separation
subject: mixed gas permeation
subject: mixed gas selectivity
subject: organosilica membrane
subject: plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition
subject: 570

description: Selective, nanometer-thin organosilica layers created by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) exhibit selective gas permeation behavior. Despite their promising pure gas performance, published data with regard to mixed gas behavior are still severely lacking. This study endeavors to close this gap by investigating the pure and mixed gas behavior depending on temperatures from 0 °C to 60 °C for four gases (helium, methane, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen) and water vapor. For the two permanent gases, helium and methane, the studied organosilica membrane shows a substantial increase in selectivity from αHe/CH4 = 9 at 0 °C to αHe/CH4 = 40 at 60 °C for pure as well as mixed gases with helium permeance of up to 300 GPU. In contrast, a condensable gas such as CO2 leads to a decrease in selectivity and an increase in permeance compared to its pure gas performance. When water vapor is present in the feed gas, the organosilica membrane shows even stronger deviations from pure gas behavior with a permeance loss of about 60 % accompanied by an increase in ideal selectivity αHe/CO2 from 8 to 13. All in all, the studied organosilica membrane shows very promising results for mixed gases. Especially for elevated temperatures, there is a high potential for separation by size exclusion.
Results from the MINOS Experiment and New MINOS+ Data
Creators: name: Holin, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The MINOS experiment took data for seven years between May 2005 and April 2012. Since then it has been reborn as the new MINOS+ experiment in the upgraded medium energy NuMI beam and started taking data in September 2013. An update to the MINOS standard oscillations three-flavour disappearance analysis is presented which includes 28% more atmospheric neutrino data. This combined three-flavour analysis calculates an atmospheric parameter best-fit point of $Δm_{32}^{2}=2.37^{+0.11}_{-0.07} \times 10^{-3}$~eV$^{2}$ and $\sin^{2}θ_{23}=0.43^{+0.19}_{-0.05}$ for the inverted hierarchy, for which the MINOS fit shows a slight preference. A first look at the new MINOS+ beam data is presented. The new data is consistent with the combined three-flavour analysis. Finally, new MINOS results for the search for sterile neutrinos using neutrino disappearance are shown which cut out a significant amount of the allowed phase space for a sterile neutrino to exist.
description: Proceedings for the 2014 NuFact Conference
Underuse and Overuse of Colonoscopy for Repeat Screening and Surveillance in the Veterans Health Administration
Creators: name: Grubber, Janet M.
name: Murphy, Caitlin C.
name: Johnson, Marcus R.
name: Sandler, Robert S.
name: Fisher, Deborah A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Regular screening with colonoscopy lowers colorectal cancer incidence and mortality. We aimed to determine patterns of repeat and surveillance colonoscopy and identify factors associated with over- and underuse of colonoscopy.