cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: PSA density as a new approach for PIRADS 3 patients’ management
Creators: name: Zuñiga, Alvaro
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: Pelvis
subject: MR
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Observer performance
subject: Biopsy
subject: Decision analysis
subject: Cancer
subject: Multidisciplinary cancer care
subject: Pathology

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: PI-RADS is a guide for making a structured report and decreasing inter-observer variability Management of PI-RADS 3 category patients is not well defined, leaving the indication for biopsy solely to the urologist’s decision. The positivity rate...
INDAGINI INTERNAZIONALI E NAZIONALI SULLA COMPETENZA DI LETTURA
Creators: name: Bertocchi, Daniela
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2011

description: In questo articolo si analizzano le principali componenti della competenza di lettura: in altri termini, quali operazioni un individuo deve saper compiere con un e su un testo scritto per poter essere definito “lettore competente”? Le componenti della lettura sono identificate sulla base dei Quadri di riferimento di importanti indagini nazionali (INVALSI SNV ) e internazionali (OCSE PISA). I Quadri fianno riferimento a competenze di lettori madrelingua, ma le componenti di lettura, di per sé, devono essere sviluppate anche in L2. Vengono poi descritti i livelli di literacy (alfabetizzazione funzionale) presi come base da OCSE PISA per descrivere le competenze di lettura degli studenti quindicenni.  Dopo un’analisi dei risultati ottenuti dagli studenti Italiani nell’indagine PISA 2006 e dei risultati della Prova Nazionale al termine del primo ciclo di istruzione (esame di stato 2008-2009), si formulano alcune proposte per il miglioramento delle competenze di lettura degli studenti italiani, certamente possibile attraverso una opportuna e coerente didattica nei dieci anni di istruzione obbligatoria.

 National and international surveys of reading competence

This article studies the main components of reading competence: in other words, what operations an individual needs to carry out in order to be defined a “competent reader” with respect to a written text? The components of reading are identified based on the Reference Frameworks of important national (INVALSI SNV) and International (OSCE PISA) surveys.  The Frameworks refer to the competences of mother tongue readers, but the components of reading, for itself, also need to be developed in the L2.  The literacy levels are also described on which OSCE PISA is based, in order to discuss the reading competence of 15-year old students.  After analyzing the National results of Italian students in the PISA 2006 survey and the results from the National test at the end of the first instruction cycle (State exam 2008-2009), a few proposals are made to improve the reading competence of Italian students, which can be attained thanks to opportune and coherent didactics over the 10-year period of obligatory schooling.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 2, No 2 (2010)
LA LINGUA PER STUDIARE:  UNA RASSEGNA BIBLIOGRAFICA
Creators: name: Tassara, Marina
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2011

description: I libri di testo adottati nelle scuole contengono parole sconosciute e costruzioni sintattiche e testuali complesse che rappresentano dei veri e propri “muri linguistici” per gli alunni stranieri che non possiedono una buona conoscenza della lingua italiana. Ciò facilmente determina un divario di competenze tra l’apprendente straniero e i suoi compagni e ritardi scolastici molto spesso incolmabili con conseguente perdita di motivazione e di autostima, senso di frustrazione e isolamento che a volte sfocia in un disagio psico-sociale. Tra gli strumenti adottati dalla scuola italiana per far fronte a questo problema vi sono i testi disciplinari ad alta comprensibilità che, pur mantenendo la maggior parte delle informazioni, le veicolano in una forma più semplice dal punto di vista linguistico. L’articolo fornisce una bibliografia di manuali ad alta comprensibilità il più possibile aggiornata suddivisa per ordine e grado di scuola e per materia scolastica, con l’intento di fornire agli insegnanti un aiuto nella scelta e nel reperimento dei testi.

Language for study:  a bibliography

Textbooks used in schools contain unknown words and complex sentence constructions that create real “linguistic barriers” for foreign students who do not know Italian well.  This creates an abyss between the competence of the foreign learner and his or her classmates and unsuccessful school performance which is often not made up for and leads to a loss of self-esteem, frustration, isolation, and ultimately to psycho-social malaise.  Among the tools utilized in the Italian school system to address this problem are highly comprehensible textbooks which, while containing most of the information, express the content in simpler language.  This article offers an up-dated bibliography of textbooks which are easily understandable, divided according to order and grade of school, for teachers to use in choosing the textbooks for their classes.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 2, No 2 (2010)
CORSO DI ITALIANO PER STUDENTI ANGLOFONI NEGLI USA: L’IMPORTANZA DEL LIBRO DI TESTO
Creators: name: Sacchini, Ilaria
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2011

description: L’insegnamento dell’italiano all’estero si colloca all’interno di un contesto specifico che deve essere tenuto in considerazione al momento della pianificazione di un corso di italiano LS. Dopo una analisi delle specifiche caratteristiche dell’ambiente universitario americano e delle difficoltà che lo studente incontra nell’apprendimento della lingua italiana in relazione alla sua lingua madre, l’attenzione si focalizza poi sul libro di testo, strumento fondamentale per lo studio e l’insegnamento/apprendimento della lingua straniera. Avanti!, manuale di lingua italiana utilizzato nei corsi di lingua italiana presso un’università americana, viene analizzato dal punto di vista glottodidattico attraverso una descrizione e una valutazione dettagliata della sua struttura, degli obiettivi linguistico- comunicativi e dei materiali didattici presenti, con particolare attenzione alla tipologia degli esercizi, nonché alla varietà di italiano presentata. Infine, vengono elencate alcune attività extra a completamento del corso di italiano da proporre agli studenti per un loro più ampio coinvolgimento nella lingua e nella cultura italiana.

Italian lessons for american english-speaking students: the importance of the textbook

 Teaching Italian abroad takes place in a specific context which needs to be considered in planning Italian as a Foreign Language courses.  After analyzing the specific characteristics of the American university environment and the difficulty students have in learning the Italian language in comparison to their mother tongue, attention is focused on the textbook used, a fundamental tool for the study and learning/teaching of a foreign language. Avanti! is the textbook utilized in Italian language courses in American universities.  It is analyzed from a glottodidactic point of view through the detailed description and evaluation of its structure, the linguistic-communicative objectives and the didactic materials presented, with special attention placed on the types of exercises and the variety of Italian presented.  Finally, extra activities are listed to complete the course, aimed at fostering broader student involvement in Italian language and culture.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 2, No 2 (2010)
LINGUA E TEATRO: L’ITALIANO, UN DRAMMA?
Creators: name: Faggiano, Sara
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2011

description: L’articolo ha lo scopo di mostrare, attraverso esempi e proposte didattiche, come si possa, attraverso l’esperienza teatrale, sviluppare l’apprendimento della lingua italiana come LS  contemporaneamente alla consapevolezza interculturale degli apprendenti stranieri  e creare un contesto  di accoglienza e inclusione.  La “glottodidattica teatrale” è un metodo che non consente solo di agire sull’apprendimento della lingua straniera e sulle difficoltà linguistiche e comunicative che gli allievi possono incontrare in tale processo, ma anche di affrontare e cercare di superare problemi determinati dalla condizione di discriminazione linguistica, culturale, religiosa, relazionale e sociale in cui spesso si viene a trovare lo studente immigrato.  Fare teatro con finalità formative e per favorire il processo di inclusione degli apprendenti stranieri è una modalità didattica da proporre a scuola originale ed efficace. Grazie a questa esperienza l’immigrato raggiunge lo scopo di conoscere la lingua italiana attraverso il teatro coniugando formazione e divertimento.

Language and theater: italian, a drama?
 This article aims at showing through examples and didactic activities, how the theater can develop learning Italian as a foreign language together with the intercultural awareness of foreign learners and create contexts for inclusion and learning.  “Theatrical glottodidactics” is a method that does not only allow for  dealing with learning a foreign language and the linguistic and communicative  difficulties students may encounter, but also for dealing with and attempting to overcome these problems caused by the linguistic, cultural, religious, relational and social discrimination which foreign students may be subject to.  Doing theater in a didactic setting and to encourage the inclusion of foreign students is an original and effective method to employ in the school setting.  Thanks to this experience the foreigner can learn italian through theater, by learning while having fun.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 2, No 2 (2010)
title: Diagnostic accuracy of various mediastinal width measurements on chest radiographs for traumatic aortic injury score (TRAINS) in patients with associated blunt chest trauma
Creators: name: Sopchoke, Worachat
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Trauma
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Screening
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Vascular
subject: Trauma
subject: Thorax

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The chest injury (13.5%) is the third most common of overall trauma, inferior to head (24.2%) and extremity (24.2%) injury[1]. Acute traumatic aortic injury (ATAI) from blunt chest trauma is one of the serious life-threatening conditions, occurring...
title: Standardized and quality assured prostate diffusion MRI
Creators: name: Bach, Michael
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quality assurance
subject: Image verification
subject: Cancer
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR
subject: Oncology
subject: MR physics
subject: Abdomen

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Diffusion Weighted Imaging (DWI) is an essential part of multiparametric MRI (mpMRI) for the detection of prostate cancer [ 1 , 2 ]. Due to the lack of standardization in clinical imaging protocols, however, data quality and apparent diffusion...
IL NOTIZIARIO OVVERO L’IMPORTANZA DELL’USO DI MATERIALI AUTENTICI NELL’INSEGNAMENTO-APPRENDIMENTO LINGUISTICO
Creators: name: Harrich, Karin
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2011

description: L’articolo propone alcune considerazioni sull’uso di materiali autentici nell’insegnamento/apprendimento della lingua straniera  per sviluppare la comprensione orale tramite l’utilizzo di un notiziario. Partendo da una breve introduzione che sottolinea la centralità dello sviluppo dell’abilità di ascolto nell’insegnamento linguistico, seguono delle riflessioni sulle modalità di un possibile percorso didattico, con esempi di obiettivi ed attività. Dopo alcune considerazioni teoriche sulle caratteristiche di un notiziario, concludono l’articolo delle proposte di lavoro indirizzate a studenti di italiano LS.

Anche non vengono nascoste  le difficoltà che l’insegnante può incontrare nell’utilizzo di materiali autentici come il notiziario, viene confermata la loro importanza ed insostituibile efficacia nell’insegnamento /apprendimento della lingua straniera o seconda.

 The news, or the importance of using authentic materials in language teaching-learning

The article deals with the use of authentic materials in foreign language acquisition. It mainly emphasizes listening comprehension supported by radio news. It starts with a short introduction that focuses on the importance of the development of listening comprehension in foreign language acquisition and goes on with reflections about the learning goals and exercises in a didactic unit. Further aspects considered are theories regarding the characteristics of a certain kinds of text like “the news”.  The article concludes with suggestions for didactic activities, mainly for learners of Italian as a foreign language.
 On the one hand, the article does not conceal the fact that often there are difficulties for teachers when it comes to using authentic materials such radio news reports, but on the other hand, it points out and confirms the importance and effect of such materials.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 2, No 2 (2010)
Computing the GIT-fan
Creators: name: Keicher, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14Q99, 14L24

description: We present an algorithm to compute the GIT-fan of algebraic torus actions on affine varieties.
description: minor changes; to appear in Internat. J. Algebra Comput
title: Wrist ultrasound - an advanced review of anatomy and technique
Creators: name: Magalhaes, Pedro
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Education and training

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The aim of this educational poster is to review a step by step, advanced, ultrasound evaluation of the wrist focusing on the anatomy, patient positioning and ultrasound...
Additional file 6 of Analysis of histology and long noncoding RNAs involved in the rabbit hair follicle density using RNA sequencing
Creators: name: Ding, Haisheng
name: Zhao, Huiling
name: Zhao, Xiaowei
name: Qi, Yunxia
name: Wang, Xiaofei
name: Huang, Dongwei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6: Table S6. Primers for q-PCR. F1, forward primer. R2, reverse primer.
title: A Case Review Series: A Radiologist’s Role in the Management of Laryngeal Trauma
Creators: name: Withey, Samuel
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Head and neck
subject: Trauma

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Laryngeal trauma may have fatal consequences and radiologists’ knowledge of appropriate imaging techniques and appearances are integral to the patient pathway, helping to reduce morbidity and mortality. We have briefly outlined the clinical...
Sustratos folclóricos en la literatura áurea: la cesión de la esposa y el caso de Maladros
Creators: name: Lobato, María Luisa
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Análisis de la presencia del personaje del hampa Maladros en la literatura española y del motivo de orígenes folklóricos de la cesión de la esposa a un protector cuando el protagonista ve que llega la hora de su muerte.

Analysis of the character of the ‘jaque’ Maladros in Spanish literature and the folkloric origins of the assignment of the wife a protector when the protagonist sees it comes the time of his death.
description: Tintas: Quaderni di Letterature iberiche e iberoamericane, N. 2 (2012)
Chaos: a bridge from microscopic uncertainty to macroscopic randomness
Creators: name: Liao, S. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is traditionally believed that the macroscopic randomness has nothing to do with the micro-level uncertainty. Besides, the sensitive dependence on initial condition (SDIC) of Lorenz chaos has never been considered together with the so-called continuum-assumption of fluid (on which Lorenz equations are based), from physical and statistic viewpoints. A very fine numerical technique (Liao, 2009) with negligible truncation and round-off errors, called here the "clean numerical simulation" (CNS), is applied to investigate the propagation of the micro-level unavoidable uncertain fluctuation (caused by the continuum-assumption of fluid) of initial conditions for Lorenz equation with chaotic solutions. Our statistic analysis based on CNS computation of 10,000 samples shows that, due to the SDIC, the uncertainty of the micro-level statistic fluctuation of initial conditions transfers into the macroscopic randomness of chaos. This suggests that chaos might be a bridge from micro-level uncertainty to macroscopic randomness, and thus would be an origin of macroscopic randomness. We reveal in this article that, due to the SDIC of chaos and the inherent uncertainty of initial data, accurate long-term prediction of chaotic solution is not only impossible in mathematics but also has no physical meanings. This might provide us a new, different viewpoint to deepen and enrich our understandings about the SDIC of chaos.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures
El mito de la vida verdadera en la «Vida secreta» de Salvador Dalí
Creators: name: Ródenas De Moya, Domingo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Este artículo se propone examinar cómo el mito de la mutatio vitae fue adoptado por Dalí como matriz narrativa de su autobiografía Vida secreta. Se sitúa el libro en el género del autorretrato que cultivó el pintor desde su juventud y en la tradición de las “vidas” ejemplares. La necesidad de reinventarse ante la sociedad norteamericana condujo a Dalí a identificar la cultura europea, en especial el arte de vanguardia, con la decadencia y la corrupción, en tanto él construía para sí mismo una coraza protectora con la firma de “salvador” del arte clásico. El crecimiento de esa coraza (o personaje público) está narrado como el resultado de una revelación que da paso a una vida auténtica. En el relato de ese proceso, Gala aparece como el agente epifánico que cura al artista enfermo y redime al Dalí hombre. Vida secreta constituye una muestra excelente de autobiografía estetizada y supeditada a un objetivo: la configuración de una máscara pública que fuera a la vez marca registrada y coraza protectora.

This paper aims to analyze how the myth of the mutatio vitae was adopted by Dalí as a narrative pattern in his autobiography Vida secreta. The book belongs to the genre of the self-portrait that he cultivated since his youth and it can also be considered part of the tradition of the “exemplary lives”. The need to reinvent himself in the eyes of American society brought Dalí to identify European culture, especially the art of avant-garde, with decadence and corruption, while he created for himself a protective cuirass, as the “salvador” of classical art. How he created this mask (or public figure) is narrated as the result of a revelation which gives way to an authentic life. In the story of that process, Gala appears as the epiphanic agent who heals the sick artist and redeems Dalí, the man. Vida secreta is an excellent example of an aestheticised autobiography, subordinated to an object: setting a public mask that was both a trademark and a protective armour.
description: Tintas: Quaderni di Letterature iberiche e iberoamericane, N. 2 (2012)
Di-electron production from vector mesons with medium modifications in heavy ion collisions
Creators: name: Xu, Hao-jie
name: Chen, Hong-fang
name: Dong, Xin
name: Wang, Qun
name: Zhang, Yi-fei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reproduce the di-electron spectra in the low and intermediate mass regions in most central Au+Au collisions by the STAR Collaboration incorporation of the STAR detector acceptance. We also compare our results with PHENIX data constrained by the PHENIX acceptance. We include the medium modifications of vector mesons from scatterings of vector mesons by mesons and baryons in the thermal medium. The freezeout contributions from vector mesons are also taken into account. The space-time evolution is described by a 2+1 dimensional ideal hydrodynamic model. The backgrounds from semi-leptonic decays of charm hadrons are simulated by the PYTHIA event generator and corrected by the nuclear modification factor of electrons from charm decays. It is difficult to extract the thermal contributions from those from charm decays in the invariant mass spectra alone and in the current detector acceptances. Other observables such as transverse momenta and collective flows may provide additional tools to tag these sources.
description: ReVTex 4, 8 pages, 7 figures. Section II and later part of section IV have been re-written. Parameters are chosen to keep the same entropy. Baryonic contributions to the rho meson propagators are included. The main results are re-calculated. The comparison to PHENIX data is added. More references are added
title: Otosclerosis: Where and when to look?
Creators: name: ATEŞ, ECE
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Demineralisation-Bone
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Head and neck
subject: Ear / Nose / Throat

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Recognizing otosclerosis in a temporal bone CT of a patient with hearing loss Evaluating the extensions and radiological grade of the disease Indicating important points before surgical...
Thermo-mechanical investigation of die-less wiredrawing process
Creators: name: Jafari, Hani
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Wiredrawing process as a bulk forming process is one of the oldest manufacturing processes known. The rigid “Die”, which is the tool in the process, is responsible for the most of the cost of the process. In the “Die-less” wiredrawing, however, the die is replaced with a Heating-Cooling unit, which reduces the cost of the process significantly. The die-less wiredrawing process as a thermo-mechanical process consists of mechanically loading the wire or a rod along its longitudinal axis, and locally heating it to lower its yield strength; and thus, less force needed to pull and stretch the wire. The wire is cooled subsequently in order to stabilize dimension and recover its strength. In this study, the Mechanical Threshold Stress (MTS) model along with continuity equation and a heat transfer model are utilized to mathematically model the die-less wiredrawing process in the deformation zone. Numerical procedures are used to simulate the process in transient state and identify the main process parameters. From the results of this study, it was shown that is possible to model the process through semi-discretization of Partial Differential Equations (PDE), which govern the dynamic of the process. It was also shown that the process is highly sensitive to temperature and that the most important parameter in controlling the process in transition from unsteady to steady state is the deformation zone length.
Tradizione e fratture attraverso le antologie di poesia spagnola contemporanea. L’esempio della poesia dell’esperienza
Creators: name: Calabrese, Giuliana
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Lo studio propone un’analisi dell’andamento, che si è definito sinusoidale, della poesia spagnola contemporanea attraverso le antologie. In particolare, viene affrontata la corrente della cosiddetta ‘poesia dell’esperienza’ e si spiega come le antologie contemporanee che si inscrivono in tale tendenza si propongano, a seconda dei casi, come punti di continuità oppure di frattura del paradigma poetico. Le antologie prese in considerazione spaziano da “La otra sentimentalidad”, del 1983, fino a “Poesía ante la incertidumbre. Nuevos poetas en español”, del 2011. Quest’ultimo caso, nello specifico, tenta di inserirsi nella traiettoria poetica individuata considerando la ‘poesía de la experiencia’ non come ‘archivio culturale’, bensì come nucleo ancora pulsante e fervido per ricreare una nuova ondata esperienziale e, di conseguenza, cercare di deviare il percorso ormai consolidato della poesia spagnola contemporanea.
description: Tintas. Quaderni di Letterature iberiche e iberoamericane, N. 2 (2012)
Eigenvalue Distributions of Reduced Density Matrices
Creators: name: Christandl, Matthias
name: Doran, Brent
name: Kousidis, Stavros
name: Walter, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Given a random quantum state of multiple distinguishable or indistinguishable particles, we provide an effective method, rooted in symplectic geometry, to compute the joint probability distribution of the eigenvalues of its one-body reduced density matrices. As a corollary, by taking the distribution's support, which is a convex moment polytope, we recover a complete solution to the one-body quantum marginal problem. We obtain the probability distribution by reducing to the corresponding distribution of diagonal entries (i.e., to the quantitative version of a classical marginal problem), which is then determined algorithmically. This reduction applies more generally to symplectic geometry, relating invariant measures for the coadjoint action of a compact Lie group to their projections onto a Cartan subalgebra, and can also be quantized to provide an efficient algorithm for computing bounded height Kronecker and plethysm coefficients.
description: 51 pages, 7 figures
title: Parasitic breast infections in the tropics mimicking breast cancer:A diagnostic challenge
Creators: name: AKUJUOBI, OBIANUJU
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: Mammography
subject: Breast

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: 1. To describe the sonographic and mammographic features of common parasitic breast infections ,which would aid the Radiologist in making accurate diagnosis of these worms when reviewing mammograms or ultrasonograms of affected patients. 2 To...
Ciudades soñadas y ciudades en las que es imposible soñar: la narrativa de Guinea Ecuatorial
Creators: name: Odartey-Wellington, Dorothy
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Este trabajo examina las contribuciones de los escritores contemporáneos de Guinea Ecuatorial a la construcción de nociones de ciudades y sus habitantes en la narrativa africana contemporánea. Aunque el documento se basa principalmente en obras de María Nsue Angüe, Maximiliano Nkogo Esono, Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo y César Mba Abogo, la interpretación de estos escritores de las ciudades se examina en relación con un contexto más amplio de la escritura africana representada por los siguientes autores anglófonos, Ama Ata Aidoo, Sefi Atta, Kojo Laing y Sinyangwe Binwell así como la francófona Calixthe Beyala. El tratamiento particular de ciudades por parte de los escritores guineoecuatorianos, en comparación con las tendencias en otros ejemplos de la literatura y crítica africanas, tiene su origen en las preocupaciones socio-políticas en el contexto de la petroeconomía de su país.

This paper examines the contributions of contemporary Equatoguinean writers to the construction of ideas of cities and their inhabitants in contemporary African narrative. Although the paper draws mainly on works by María Nsue Angüe, Maximiliano Nkogo Esono, Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo and César Mba Abogo, these writers’ rendition of cities is examined with reference to a wider context of African writing represented by Anglophone and Francophone writers Ama Ata Aidoo, Sefi Atta, Kojo Laing, Binwell Sinyangwe and Calixthe Beyala. The particular treatment of Equatoguinean cities in comparison to trends in other examples of African literature and criticism, are traced to the socio-political concerns in the context of Equatorial Guinean new petro-economy.
description: Tintas: Quaderni di Letterature iberiche e iberoamericane, N. 2 (2012)
title: Neuroimaging in yellow fever: post-vaccine, disease related and post treatment complications - pictorial essay
Creators: name: Padula, Mario
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Infection
subject: Education
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: CNS
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Tropical diseases

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To describe the imaging findings of neurological complications of yellow-fever disease and...
$B_c$ Meson Production around the $Z^0$ Peak at a High Luminosity $e^+ e^-$ Collider
Creators: name: Yang, Zhi
name: Wu, Xing-Gang
name: Chen, Gu
name: Liao, Qi-Li
name: Zhang, Jia-Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Considering the possibility to build an $e^+ e^-$ collider at the energies around the $Z^0$-boson resonance with a planned luminosity so high as ${\cal L}\propto 10^{34}\sim 10^{36}cm^{-2}s^{-1}$ (super $Z$-factory), we make a detailed discussion on the $(c\bar{b})$-quarkonium production through $e^{+}+e^{-}\rightarrow (c\bar{b})[n]+b+\bar{c}$ within the framework of non-relativistic QCD. To simplify the hard-scattering amplitude as much as possible and to derive analytic expressions for the purpose of future events simulation, we adopt the "improved trace technology" to do our calculation, which deals with the hard scattering amplitude directly at the amplitude level other than the conventional way at the squared-amplitude level. Total cross-section uncertainties caused by the quark masses are predicted by taking $m_c=1.50\pm0.30$ GeV and $m_b=4.90\pm0.40$ GeV. If all higher $(c\bar{b})$-quarkonium states decay to the ground state $B_c$ ($|(c\bar{b})_{\bf 1}[^1S_0]>$) with 100% efficiency, we obtain $σ_{e^{+}+e^{-}\rightarrow B_{c}+b+\bar{c}} =5.190^{+6.222}_{-2.419}$ pb, which shows that about $10^5 \sim 10^7$ $B_c$ events per operation year can be accumulated in the super $Z$-factory. If taking the collider energy runs slightly off the $Z^0$-peak, i.e. $\sqrt{S}=(1.00\pm0.05) m_Z$, the total cross-section shall be lowered by about one-order from its peak value. Such a super $Z$-factory shall provide another useful platform to study the properties of $B_c$ meson, or even the properties of its excited $P$-wave states, in addition to its production at the hadronic colliders Tevatron and LHC.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures and 4 tables. To be published in Phys.Rev.D
Nearest level spacing statistics in open chaotic systems: a generalization of the Wigner Surmise
Creators: name: Poli, Charles
name: Luna-Acosta, Germán A.
name: Stockmann, Hans-Jürgen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the nearest level spacing statistics of open chaotic wave systems. To this end we derive the spacing distributions for the three Wigner ensembles in the one-channel case. The theoretical results give a clear physical meaning of the modifications on the spacing distributions produced by the coupling to the environment. Based on the analytical expressions obtained, we then propose general expressions of the spacing distributions for any number of channels, valid from weak to strong coupling. The latter expressions contain one free parameter. The surmise is successfully compared with numerical simulations of non-Hermitian random matrices and with experimental data obtained with a lossy electromagnetic chaotic cavity.
title: Single vascular territory and multi-territory ischaemic infarcts: Simplified stroke classification based on patterns of infarction for simplified teaching
Creators: name: Doran, Simon
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ischaemia / Infarction
subject: Education
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: Neuroradiology brain

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To describe a simplified classification of acute ischaemic stroke based on imaging...
The Topological Relation Between Bulk Gap Nodes and Surface Bound States : Application to Iron-based Superconductors
Creators: name: Wang, Fa
name: Lee, Dung-Hai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the past few years materials with protected gapless surface (edge) states have risen to the central stage of condensed matter physics. Almost all discussions centered around topological insulators and superconductors, which possess full quasiparticle gaps in the bulk. In this paper we argue systems with topological stable bulk nodes offer another class of materials with robust gapless surface states. Moreover the location of the bulk nodes determines the Miller index of the surfaces that show (or not show) such states. Measuring the spectroscopic signature of these zero modes allows a phase-sensitive determination of the nodal structures of unconventional superconductors when other phase-sensitive techniques are not applicable. We apply this idea to gapless iron based superconductors and show how to distinguish accidental from symmetry dictated nodes. We shall argue the same idea leads to a method for detecting a class of the elusive spin liquids.
description: updated references, 6 pages, 4 figures, RevTex4
Patient-specific internal dose calculation techniques for clinical use in targeted radionuclide therapy
Creators: name: Grimes, Joshua
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: The objective of this thesis was to investigate and develop a set of methods for accurate dose calculation that would be practical to implement into routine clinical use. Towards this aim, a graphical user interface (GUI) was developed in order to handle the large body of data associated with internal dose calculations and to perform each step in the dose calculation procedure. Furthermore, an iterative adaptive thresholding method for determining volumes and activities of objects in single photon emission computed tomography images was developed and the accuracy and reproducibility of this method was investigated. Next, organ level and voxel S value dose calculations were compared to results from Monte Carlo simulation. This comparison included the assessment of various aspects of OLINDA/EXM dose calculation such as the use of stylized reference phantoms used to represent the average patient and the sphere model used to estimate tumour dose. Finally, the internal dosimetry techniques investigated in this thesis were applied to estimate patient-specific absorbed doses in patients imaged for suspected neuroendocrine tumours and in patients treated with ¹⁸⁸Re microspheres. The proposed iterative adaptive thresholding method was found to accurately and reproducibly determine object volumes and activities in phantom and patient studies, regardless of the image reconstruction method used. In the comparison of OLINDA/EXM to Monte Carlo dose calculations, variation in patient-specific anatomy was found to lead to large differences between cross-organ dose estimates based on stylized phantoms in OLINDA and corresponding cross-organ dose estimates calculated for each patient with Monte Carlo. However, total organ doses agreed within 6%. Monte Carlo and voxel S value dose calculations were found to produce nearly identical 3-dimensional dose distributions within source organs. Analysis of the patients scanned for neuroendocrine tumours revealed large dose variations in tumours and normal organs between patients. The ratio of tumour-to-kidney dose ranged from 0.13 to 2.9, demonstrating the importance of determining patient-specific dose estimates. Finally, response data in the patients treated with ¹⁸⁸Re microspheres did not correlate with mean or maximum tumour dose, but it was found to correlate with the minimum dose received by 90% of the tumour volume (D90).
How to pin down the CP quantum numbers of a Higgs boson in its tau decays at the LHC
Creators: name: Berge, S.
name: Bernreuther, W.
name: Niepelt, B.
name: Spiesberger, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate how the CP quantum numbers of a neutral Higgs boson or spin-zero resonance, produced at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, can be determined in its tau-pair decay mode. We use a method developed in an earlier paper based on the distributions of two angles and apply it to the major 1-prong tau decays. We show for the resulting dilepton, lepton-pion, and two-pion final states that appropriate selection cuts significantly enhance the discriminating power of these observables. From our analysis we conclude that, provided a Higgs boson will be found at the LHC, it appears feasible to collect the event numbers needed to discriminate between a CP-even and -odd Higgs boson and/or between Higgs boson(s) with CP-conserving and CP-violating couplings after several years of high-luminosity runs.
description: 23 pages, 12 figures; Several sentences and references added
title: "Can You Hear Me Now?": A Pictorial Review of Temporal Bone Infections and Common Complications
Creators: name: Saldana, Andrea
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Infection
subject: Abscess
subject: Education
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Head and neck
subject: Ear / Nose / Throat
subject: Bones

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: 1. Review basic anatomy of the temporal bone. 2. Provide a comprehensive list of temporal bone infections and common complications. 3. Discuss pertinent imaging findings in computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). 4. Discuss...
Maximal commutative subrings and simplicity of Ore extensions
Creators: name: Öinert, Johan
name: Richter, Johan
name: Silvestrov, Sergei D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16S32, 16S36, 16D25

description: The aim of this article is to describe necessary and sufficient conditions for simplicity of Ore extension rings, with an emphasis on differential polynomial rings. We show that a differential polynomial ring, R[x;id,δ], is simple if and only if its center is a field and R is δ-simple. When R is commutative we note that the centralizer of R in R[x;σ,δ] is a maximal commutative subring containing R and, in the case when σ=id, we show that it intersects every non-zero ideal of R[x;id,δ] non-trivially. Using this we show that if R is δ-simple and maximal commutative in R[x;id,δ], then R[x;id,δ] is simple. We also show that under some conditions on R the converse holds.
description: 16 pages
title: Experiences with routine follow-up CT after vestibular schwanoma surgery: a retrospective study of complications to surgery
Creators: name: Carlsen, Jonathan
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: CNS
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Surgery
subject: Neoplasia

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Surgery for vestibular schwanoma (acusticus neurinoma) is considered a safe procedure with overall good results. Reports of unexpected postoperative mortalities are reported in the literature and are ascribed to undiscovered haemorrhage. We examined...
Global legality requirements and chain of custody certification : potential impacts of recent changes on China's wood products industry
Creators: name: Huang, Yu
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Many initiatives have been designed to reduce illegal logging and to legitimize the associated forest products trade. The latest governmental initiatives include the United States Lacey Act Amendment (US LAA) and the European Union Timber Regulation (EU TR). A key non-governmental initiative is Chain of Custody (CoC) certification. Since China is a very large importer of primary wood products and a major exporter of value-added wood products, it is critical to understand the impacts of these initiatives on China. The study aims to analyze the potential impacts of the US LAA, the EU TR, and CoC certification on China's wood products industry at two levels. First, at the individual producer level, 107 export-oriented Chinese wooden furniture manufacturers were randomly selected to investigate their perceptions of and responses to these initiatives. Guided by an integrated innovation-adoption model, the study identified the factors that affect a firm's legal compliance and its propensity to adopt CoC certification. Second, at the wood products industry level, the potential longer-term impacts of the US LAA and the EU TR on China's wood products industry were estimated using the International Forest and Forest Products (IFFP) trade model. There were several key results. First, at the individual producer level, multiple linear regression identified factors that were statistically significant in determining a firm's willingness to comply with legality requirements. They included the natural logarithm of firm size, the natural logarithm of export proportion, the interaction between opportunity and: client pressure, the natural logarithm of export experience and the natural logarithm of export proportion. Second, at the individual producer level, binary logistic regression suggested that client pressure, firm size, and the expectation of general benefits were statistically significant in determining a firm's decision to adopt CoC certification. Third, at the wood products industry level, the IFFP results indicated that these governmental initiatives in the US/EU might decrease the production and net export of China's plywood, veneer sheet, and fibreboard. The results also indicated an increase in China's sawnwood and particleboard production, and a decrease in their net imports.
title: Pericardial effusion during left atrial appendage endovascular occlusion
Creators: name: Clemente, Alberto
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Acute
subject: Treatment effects
subject: Percutaneous
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Cardiac
subject: Blood

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Stroke prevention with oral anticoagulation (OAC) remains the mainstay management for patients with non valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF).Over 90% of thrombi in atrial fibrillation (AF) originate from the left atrial appendage (LAA).Patients with...
Il rifiuto di prescrivere la c.d. “pillola del giorno dopo” tra obiezione di coscienza e responsabilità penale
Creators: name: La Rosa, Emanuele
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011
Subjects: Obiezioni di coscienza

description: Testo, rivisto e corredato di note, dell’intervento al Convegno “Laicità e multiculturalismo: profili penali ed extrapenali” (Messina 13 - 14 giugno 2008), destinato alla pubblicazione negli Atti.

SOMMARIO: 1. Definizione del tema – 2. Il rifiuto del medico di prescrivere la c.d. “pillola del giorno dopo” come omissione tipica ex art. 328 c.p. – 2.1. Il carattere “indebito” del rifiuto – 3. L’obiezione di coscienza del medico: presupposti, limiti e
riflessi penali – 3.1. Segue: applicazione diretta dell’art. 9 l. 194/1978? – 3.2. Segue: applicazione analogica dell’art. 9 l. 194/1978? – 4. L’efficacia “attenuante” dell’obiezione di coscienza – 5. Prospettive de iure condendo.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 7 luglio
title: Impact of breast scheduled check-up on late diagnosis: a preliminary study
Creators: name: Moschetta, Marco
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Mammography
subject: Education
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Breast cancer is typically described in stages, depending on the presence and size of the tumor and its metastasis in the axillary lymph nodes, and other factors. In 2017 the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) updated their 8 th Edition of...
In utroque iure: i Tribunali ecclesiastici e l’esimente ex art. 598 c.p.
Creators: name: Testa Bappenheim, Stefano
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011
Subjects: Tutela penale

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Introduzione - 2. La giurisdizione dei tribunali ecclesiastici. - 3. L’analogia. – 4. L’esercizio d’un diritto.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 7 luglio
title: Utilizing Deep Learning to Standardize Annotation and Labeling of Large Abdominal CT Multi-Centre Datasets
Creators: name: Remtulla, Raheem
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Applications-General
subject: CT
subject: Liver
subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Abdomen
subject: Image verification

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The development of machine learning and AI systems in healthcare critically relies on large well-labelled datasets with adequate data volume, annotation, truth, and reusability [1]. Unfortunately, it has been cited that the day-to-day radiologist...
A note on Canonical Ricci forms on 2-step nilmanifolds
Creators: name: Vezzoni, Luigi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this note we prove that any left-invariant almost Hermitian structure on a 2-step nilmanifold is Ricci-flat with respect to the Chern connection and that it is Ricci-flat with respect to another canonical connection if and only if it is cosymplectic.
description: 7 pages. Typos corrected. To appear in Proc. of the AMS