cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Tidal heating of Earth-like exoplanets around M stars: Thermal, magnetic, and orbital evolutions
Creators: name: Driscoll, Peter
name: Barnes, Rory
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The internal thermal and magnetic evolution of rocky exoplanets is critical to their habitability. We focus on the thermal-orbital evolution of Earth-mass planets around low mass M stars whose radiative habitable zone overlaps with the "tidal zone". We develop a thermal-orbital evolution model calibrated to Earth that couples tidal dissipation, with a temperature-dependent Maxwell rheology, to orbital circularization and migration. We illustrate thermal-orbital steady states where surface heat flow is balanced by tidal dissipation and cooling can be stalled for billions of years until circularization occurs. Orbital energy dissipated as tidal heat in the interior drives both inward migration and circularization, with a circularization time that is inversely proportional to the dissipation rate. We identify a peak in the internal dissipation rate as the mantle passes through a visco-elastic state at mantle temperatures near 1800 K. Planets orbiting a 0.1 solar-mass star within $0.07$ AU circularize before 10 Gyr, independent of initial eccentricity. Once circular, these planets cool monotonically and maintain dynamos similar to Earth. Planets forced into eccentric orbits can experience a super-cooling of the core and rapid core solidification, inhibiting dynamo action for planets in the habitable zone. We find that tidal heating is insignificant in the habitable zone around $0.45$ (or larger) solar mass stars because tidal dissipation is a stronger function of orbital distance than stellar mass, and the habitable zone is further from larger stars. Suppression of the planetary magnetic field exposes the atmosphere to stellar wind erosion and the surface to harmful radiation. In addition to weak magnetic fields, massive melt eruption rates and prolonged magma oceans may render eccentric planets in the habitable zone of low mass stars inhospitable for life.
description: 16 figures, 1 table, appendix with 2 figures
title: Prosthesis identification using a megavoltage linac beam
Creators: name: Charles, Paul
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Dosimetry
subject: Experimental
subject: Radiation physics
subject: Prostheses

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: Radiotherapy patients with metallic implants such as hip replacements in the area of treatment require special consideration. Due to image artefacts caused by the high density material, it is recommended to outline the prosthesis and assign a bulk...
title: Two methods of calculating alpha angle in computed tomography assessment of femoroacetabular impingement
Creators: name: Robinson, David
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: CT-Quantitative
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Arthritides

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: A cam deformity is a non-spherical, extra-articular extension of the femoral head, in the form of an osseous bump at the junction of the femoral head and neck [1]. A number ofattempts have been made to identify, objectively measure and quantify this...
Chikungunya virus adaptation to Aedes albopictus mosquitoes does not correlate with acquisition of cholesterol dependence or decreased pH threshold for fusion reaction
Creators: name: McGee, Charles E
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2011

description: Abstract Background Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a mosquito transmitted alphavirus that recently caused several large scale outbreaks/epidemics of arthritic disease in tropics of Africa, Indian Ocean basin and South-East Asia. This re-emergence event was facilitated by genetic adaptation (E1-A226V substitution) of CHIKV to a newly significant mosquito vector for this virus; Aedes albopictus. However, the molecular mechanism explaining the positive effect of the E1-A226V mutation on CHIKV fitness in this vector remains largely unknown. Previously we demonstrated that the E1-A226V substitution is also associated with attenuated CHIKV growth in cells depleted by cholesterol. Methods In this study, using a panel of CHIKV clones that varies in sensitivity to cholesterol, we investigated the possible relationship between cholesterol dependence and Ae. albopictus infectivity. Results We demonstrated that there is no clear mechanistic correlation between these two phenotypes. We also showed that the E1-A226V mutation increases the pH dependence of the CHIKV fusion reaction; however, subsequent genetic analysis failed to support an association between CHIKV dependency on lower pH, and mosquito infectivity phenotypes. Conclusion the E1-A226V mutation probably acts at different steps of the CHIKV life cycle, affecting multiple functions of the virus.
Moving forward in Canadian communities: Soliloquy of an urbanist
Creators: name: Beasley, Larry
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Urbanization--Canada
subject: Cities and towns--Canada
subject: City planning--Canada
subject: Planners--Canada

description: This article reproduces Larry Beasley's closing plenary speech at the Canadian Institute of Planners' national conference in Toronto. He touches on the profession's past and present challenges, and what we as planners can do to ensure that the profession delivers a tour de force performance as urbanism once again takes centre stage in public and political discourse.
description: Cet article reprend l'allocution présentée en plénière par Larry Beasley lors du congrès national de l'Institut canadien des urbanistes à Toronto. Il évoque les défis auxquels la profession a fait face par le passé et ceux auxquels elle est confrontée actuellement et s'attarde sur ce que les urbanistes peuvent faire pour que la profession réussisse un véritable tour de force alors que l'urbanisme reprend une fois de plus sa place au coeur du discours public et politique.
description: Abstract in English and French; text in English.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5951/Article001.pdf?sequence=3
The gene-culture coevolution of group identities: the role of similarity in social-learning
Creators: name: Bellamy, Aysha
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: best-choice
subject: conformity
subject: coordination game
subject: gene-culture coevolution
subject: India
subject: similarity
subject: social-learning

description: People tend to coordinate their actions with those from the same cultural group. Signals of cultural group membership can be hidden or subtle, however. This is the first study to investigate how the reliability of our similarity-information to others affects whether we use a social-learning strategy to learn from said others. This study investigates social-learning on both an asocial (best-choice) and social (coordination game) task. Please see the pre-register word document under files for full study information and appendices.
title: Where to start?
title: Par où commencer?
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Laliberté, Chantal
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Editorials
subject: Éditoriaux

description: When facing different situations, both in our personal and professional lives, we seek information that will help us to find solutions. However, the information and advice we receive can be overwhelming, and we find ourselves asking: Where to start? To answer that question, I suggest that you look through this issue of Plan Canada, which is devoted to the CIP Conference held in Toronto last July.
description: Pour faire face à différentes situations, tant dans notre vie personnelle que professionnelle, on cherche parfois des éléments d'information pouvant nous inspirer ou des solutions facilement applicables. Dans d'autres cas, les propos avancés par une personne ou nos propres idées se bousculent les uns après les autres de sorte que notre cerveau bouillonne. On en vient alors à se demander : par où commencer? Modestement, je vous suggère de parcourir le présent numéro qui porte sur le congrès de l'ICU qui s'est déroulé à Toronto en juillet dernier.
description: From the senior editor
description: Le mot de la rédactrice principale
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5952/1-SnrEditor.pdf?sequence=3
Not Art: An Action History of British Underground Cinema
Creators: name: Reekie, Duncan
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2003

description: Merged with duplicate record 10026.1/2329 on 13.03.2017 by CS (TIS)
description: My thesis is both an oppositional history and a (re)definition of British Underground Cinema culture (1959 - 2(02). The historical significance of Underground Cinema has long been ideologically entangled in a mesh of academic typologies and ultra leftist rhetoric, abducting it from those directly involved. The intention of my work is to return definition to the 'object' of study, to write from within. This process involves viewing the history of modem British culture not as a vague monolithic and hierarchic spectrum but rather as a distinct historical conflict between the repressive legitimate Art culture of the bourgeoisie and the radical illegitimate popular culture of the working class. In this context, Underground Cinema can be {re)defined as a radical hybrid culture which fused elements of popular culture, Counterculture and Anti-Art. However, the first wave of Underground Cinema was effectively suppressed by the irrational ideology of its key activists and the hegemonic power of the Art tradition. They disowned the radical popular and initiated an Avant-Garde/Independent cinema project which developed an official State administrated bourgeois alternative to popular cinema. My conclusion is that Underground Cinema still has the potential to become a radical and commercial popular culture but that this is now frustrated by an institutionalised State Art culture which has colonised the State funding agencies, higher education and the academic study of cinema. If the Underground is to flourish it must refuse and subvert this Art culture and renew its alliance with radical, experimental and commercial pop culture. My methodology is an holistic interactive praxis which combines research, writing, film/video making, digital design, performance and political activism. My final submission will be an open and heterodox mesh of polemic, history and entertainment. Its key components will be a written thesis which will locate this praxis within its intellectual context and a web site which will integrate my research and practice 1997-2003.
Lophopogon kingii Hooker 1896
Creators: name: Tiwari, Arjun Prasad
name: Gavade, Sandip
name: Mujaffar, Shaikh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Poaceae
Lophopogon
Lophopogon kingii

description: Lophopogon kingii Hooker (1896: 149)
 Lectotype (designated here):— INDIA. Monghir, October 1894, Mokim 1408 (K barcode K000943467!, isolectotypes CAL barcodes CAL0000002378!, CAL0000002379!, CAL0000002380!, DD No. 45080!, K barcode K000943468!), Fig. 1.
 Notes:—In the protologue Hooker (1896) cited a single gathering “Behar; at Monghir, Herb. Hort. Calcutt”. Sur (2004) cited specimens kept in CAL and DD as isotypes but these must all be treated as syntypes (Arts. 9.5 and 40 Note 1 of the ICN, McNeill et al. 2012).
 We traced six specimens at CAL (barcodes CAL0000002378, CAL0000002379, CAL0000002380), DD (No. 45080) and K (barcodes K000943467, K000943468), which can be considered original material according to Art. 9.3 of the ICN (McNeill et al. 2012). The specimen housed at K (barcode K000943467) is the most complete, has drawings of floral dissected parts on the herbarium sheet and the original annotations by Hooker. So, it is designated here as lectotype for the name L. kingii Hook.f.
description: Published as part of Tiwari, Arjun Prasad, Gavade, Sandip & Mujaffar, Shaikh, 2017, Lectotypification of Lophopogon kingii (Poaceae, Andropogoneae), pp. 295-296 in Phytotaxa 296 (3) on page 295, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.296.3.10, http://zenodo.org/record/13693975
title: Efficacy of a model based iterative reconstruction method for noise reduction in abdominal CT
Creators: name: Ardley, Nicholas
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Liver
subject: Pelvis
subject: CT
subject: Efficacy studies
subject: Quality assurance
subject: Outcomes

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: Recent technological advances in Computed Tomography (CT) has renewed interest in further reductions in radiation dose that align with the ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) principle [1]. Major concerns surrounding dose reduction is the...
THE ECONOMIC SIGNIFICANCE OF TOURISM: CASE STUDY OF AN ASEAN COUNTRY
Creators: name: Samanan RATTANASIRIVILAI
Publisher: name: PSAKU International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Tourism
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Economic Growth
subject: ASEAN
subject: Thailand

description: PSAKU International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research, 12, 1, 43-56
title: Locating Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in the sexual health of Gay, Bisexual, and other Men who have Sex with Men (GBMSM) in Scotland: A Constructivist Grounded Theory study
Creators: name: Clarke, Lewis Jordan
Publisher: name: Edinburgh Napier University
Year: 2023

description: Background: Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is the leading causal mechanism for a variety of anogenital cancers including cervical, anal, penile, and head and neck worldwide in men. There are evident health inequalities in the risk of HPV infection as a determinant of the risk of these cancers with Gay, Bisexual, and other Men who have Sex with Men (GBMSM) more likely to be at risk of HPV-related infections than heterosexual men. Understanding factors associated with HPV vaccination among GBMSM is vital to implementing an effective and efficient vaccination programme. This thesis aimed to explore perceptions and experiences associated with HPV vaccination in GBMSM living in Scotland.

Methodology: This thesis used qualitative methods exclusively. A systematic review of HPV-GBMSM vaccination (prior to licensing in Scotland) used a qualitative evidence synthesis approach to explore previous qualitative literature. Primary research adopted a Constructivist Grounded Theory (Charmaz, 2014) approach to explore collaboratively with 17 eligible GBMSM, how they understood HPV and factors associated with initiation and completion of the vaccination schedule.

Main findings: The findings indicated that GBMSM perceived themselves independent to HPV as a threat to their health and were not pro-actively motivated to seek out and receive the HPV vaccine. In implementing the HPV-GBMSM vaccination programme in sexual health services, participants acknowledged the lack of reach to vaccinate GBMSM equitably given factors associated with the navigation of sociocultural barriers which shape sexual health service use.

Conclusion: There are relevant psychosocial factors associated with HPV-GBMSM vaccination in Scotland. It is important to identify the barriers to HPV vaccination and alleviate experienced and perceived barriers as the vaccination programme continues. Further work is required in order to explore the development of targeted interventions to support those eligible and at risk of HPV-related infections, particularly those underserved by sexual health services.
Exploring two-spin internal linear combinations for the recovery of the CMB polarization
Creators: name: Fernández-Cobos, R.
name: Marcos-Caballero, A.
name: Vielva, P.
name: Martínez-González, E.
name: Barreiro, R. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a methodology to recover cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization in which the quantity $P = Q+ iU$ is linearly combined at different frequencies using complex coefficients. This is the most general linear combination of the $Q$ and $U$ Stokes parameters which preserves the physical coherence of the residual contribution on the CMB estimation. The approach is applied to the internal linear combination (ILC) and the internal template fitting (ITF) methodologies. The variance of $P$ of the resulting map is minimized to compute the coefficients of the linear combination. One of the key aspects of this procedure is that it serves to account for a global frequency-dependent shift of the polarization phase. Although in the standard case, in which no global E-B transference depending on frequency is expected in the foreground components, minimizing $\left\langle |P|^2\right\rangle$ is similar to minimizing $\left\langle Q^2\right\rangle$ and $\left\langle U^2\right\rangle$ separately (as previous methodologies proceed), multiplying $Q$ and $U$ by different coefficients induces arbitrary changes in the polarization angle and it does not preserve the coherence between the spinorial components. The approach is tested on simulations, obtaining a similar residual level with respect to the one obtained with other implementations of the ILC, and perceiving the polarization rotation of a toy model with the frequency dependence of the Faraday rotation.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: Consistency and accuracy of fusing MRI to CT images acquired on a MRI simulator and a CT simulator: A phantom study
Creators: name: Xing, Aitang
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Radiotherapy techniques
subject: Image registration
subject: Image guided radiotherapy
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: Radiation physics
subject: MR physics

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: The purpose of this investigation was to quantify the accuracy and consistency of an integrated work flow from patient setup, image acquisition on a MRI and a CT simulator to fusion of MRI to CT...
Effects of two years of physically active lessons on cognitive indicators in children
Creators: name: Oliveira, David
name: Caroline M. Silva, Ellen
name: Barboza, Luciana L. S.
name: Thuany, Mabliny
name: Henrique O.Araújo, Raphael
name: Jerônimo S. Silva, Roberto
name: Gomes, Thayse
name: Schmitz, Heike
name: Tejada, Julian
name: Silva, Danilo R.
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Our purpose was to evaluate the efect of physically active lessons (PAL) on the cognitive performance of children during two years of follow-up. Four classes (second grade of elementary school) were divided into two intervention classes (n= 34) and two control classes (n= 27). Evaluations were performed before the intervention (M1), after 3 (M2) and 9 (M3) months in the 1st year, and 14 (M4) and 18 (M5) months in the 2nd year. The intervention was based on PAL integrated with the curricular components, which stimulated the children to stand or move in the classroom. Cognitive performance was evaluated using three computerized tests for response inhibition, selective attention, and cognitive fexibility. The children in the intervention classes presented improved cognitive performance in the execution of all tasks along the two years follow-up, in both correct answers and time reactions, with exception of correct answers of visual search. For the intervention classes, in most of the tasks, the mean diferences confdence interval of 95% did not include the 0 on the two last moments of evaluation, and in all cases, the mean diferences of them between M1 versus M5 were signifcantly diferent with high values of efect size (cohen -d> 1). PAL promotes modest improvements in diverse cognitive functions in children.
Turning over the reins
Creators: name: Grant, Jill
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Editorials
subject: Éditoriaux

description: Jill Grant reflects on her four years as Chair of the Editorial Board of Plan Canada, and welcomes Mark Seasons as her successor.
description: From the chair of the editorial board
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5953/11-Chair.pdf?sequence=3
Community Leaders and Management of Pastoralist-Farmer Conflicts in Benue and Nasarawa States, Nigeria
Creators: name: Adeola Aderayo Adebajo
Publisher: name: Naresuan University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Conflict Management
Community Leaders
Conflict Transformation Theory
Farmer
Pastoralist-Farmer Conflict
Pastoralist

description: Journal of Community Development Research (Humanities and Social Sciences), 16, 1, 13-26
title: Patient QA for SABR using VMAT assessed in the transverse plane with radiochromic film
Creators: name: Bennie, Nick
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: Radiation physics
subject: Computer applications
subject: Cone beam CT
subject: CT
subject: Stereotactic radiotherapy
subject: VMAT and Tomotherapy
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Radiotherapy techniques

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: ...
On the Performance of Multiple Antenna Cooperative Spectrum Sharing Protocol under Nakagami-m Fading
Creators: name: Sharma, Shubha
name: Vashistha, Ankush
name: Bohara, Vivek Ashok
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In a cooperative spectrum sharing (CSS) protocol, two wireless systems operate over the same frequency band albeit with different priorities. The secondary (or cognitive) system which has a lower priority, helps the higher priority primary system to achieve its target rate by acting as a relay and allocating a fraction of its power to forward the primary signal. The secondary system in return is benefited by transmitting its own data on primary system's spectrum. In this paper, we have analyzed the performance of multiple antenna cooperative spectrum sharing protocol under Nakagami-m Fading. Closed form expressions for outage probability have been obtained by varying the parameters m and Omega of the Nakagami-m fading channels. Apart from above, we have shown the impact of power allocation factor (alpha) and parameter m on the region of secondary spectrum access, conventionally defined as critical radius for the secondary system. A comparison between theoretical and simulated results is also presented to corroborate the theoretical results obtained in this paper
description: Accepted in the proceedings of IEEE PIMRC 2015 Hong Kong, China
School Furniture Design Based on Product-user Experience Design for Secondary School Students in Timor-Leste
Creators: name: Ananyaa Kannasoot
Publisher: name: Naresuan University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Furniture Design
School Furniture
Product-user Experience Design
Utilitarian Value
Hedonic Value
Emotional Reactions

description: Journal of Community Development Research (Humanities and Social Sciences), 16, 1, 27-40
title: Comparing four-dimensional cone beam CT ventilation imaging with Technegas SPECT in lung SBRT: first results from a new imaging study
Creators: name: Kipritidis, John
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: Computer applications
subject: Nuclear medicine
subject: Cone beam CT
subject: SPECT
subject: Experimental
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Image registration

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: Four-dimensional cone beam CT ventilation imaging (4D-CBCT VI) could enable adaptive functional lung avoidance radiotherapy for the first time( Fig. 1 ).The clinical driver for this work is to use functional imaging to reduce the irradiation of...
Hierarchical Bayesian approach for estimating physical properties in spiral galaxies: Age Maps for M74
Creators: name: Gil, M. Carmen Sánchez
name: Berihuete, Angel
name: Alfaro, Emilio J.
name: Pérez, Enrique
name: Sarro, Luis M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the fundamental goals of modern Astronomy is to estimate the physical parameters of galaxies from images in different spectral bands. We present a hierarchical Bayesian model for obtaining age maps from images in the \Ha\ line (taken with Taurus Tunable Filter (TTF)), ultraviolet band (far UV or FUV, from GALEX) and infrared bands (24, 70 and 160 microns ($μ$m), from Spitzer). As shown in Sánchez-Gil et al. (2011), we present the burst ages for young stellar populations in the nearby and nearly face on galaxy M74. As it is shown in the previous work, the \Ha\ to FUV flux ratio gives a good relative indicator of very recent star formation history (SFH). As a nascent star-forming region evolves, the \Ha\ line emission declines earlier than the UV continuum, leading to a decrease in the \Ha\/FUV ratio. Through a specific star-forming galaxy model (Starburst 99, SB99), we can obtain the corresponding theoretical ratio \Ha\ / FUV to compare with our observed flux ratios, and thus to estimate the ages of the observed regions. Due to the nature of the problem, it is necessary to propose a model of high complexity to take into account the mean uncertainties, and the interrelationship between parameters when the \Ha\ / FUV flux ratio mentioned above is obtained. To address the complexity of the model, we propose a Bayesian hierarchical model, where a joint probability distribution is defined to determine the parameters (age, metallicity, IMF), from the observed data, in this case the observed flux ratios \Ha\ / FUV. The joint distribution of the parameters is described through an i.i.d. (independent and identically distributed random variables), generated through MCMC (Markov Chain Monte Carlo) techniques.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, conference
title: MITIE C- Arm - Advanced innovation in education
Creators: name: Gunn, Therese
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computer applications
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Technology assessment
subject: Surgery
subject: Education and training

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: In 2013 QUT introduced the Medical Imaging Training Immersive Environment (MITIE) as a virtual reality (VR) platform that allowed students to practice general radiography. The system software has been expanded to now include C-Arm. The aim of this...
title: ROLLIS - Radioguided Occult Lesion Localisation using Iodine-125 (I-125) seed: a simple, safe and effective technique to guide surgical removal of impalpable breast lesions: The pilot extension study
Creators: name: Taylor, D B
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Outcomes
subject: Cancer
subject: Localisation
subject: Mammography
subject: Oncology
subject: Breast

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: Aims To confirm that Radio-guided Occult Lesion Localisation using iodine 125 Seeds (ROLLIS) could be safely and accurately used for excision of impalpable breast lesions in a large multi-disciplinary setting. To train a large number of staff in the...
Macroeconomic Factors and the Outpatient Services Utilization Among Elderly in Thailand
Creators: name: Tonboot, Sila
Publisher: name: Naresuan University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Macroeconomic Factors
Outpatient Service Utilization
Elderly
Fixed Effect Regression

description: Journal of Community Development Research (Humanities and Social Sciences), 16, 1, 41-55
title: Dosimetric factors associated with weight loss during chemo-radiation therapy for non-small cell lung cancer
Creators: name: Everitt, Sarah
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: CT
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Chemotherapy
subject: Toxicity
subject: Multidisciplinary cancer care

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: Concurrent chemo-radiation therapy (cCRT) is the optimal method of treating inoperable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with a radical or high dose palliative intent. Challenges in safely delivering isotoxic tumour doses arise when gross tumour is...
Can family planning outreach bridge the urban-rural divide in Zambia?
Creators: name: White, Justin S
name: Speizer, Ilene
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2007

description: Abstract: Background: Zambia experienced declining aggregate fertility and increasing aggregate contraceptive use from 1990 to 2000. Yet, in rural Zambia, progress in family planning has lagged far behind the advances made in Zambia's urban areas. The contraceptive prevalence rate in Lusaka and other urban areas outstripped the rate in rural Zambia by nearly 25 percentage points (41.2 percent versus 16.6 percent) in 2001. The total fertility rate varied between urban and rural areas by 2.5 children (4.3 versus 6.9 children). This paper considers the urban-rural differentials in Zambia and assesses family planning outreach as a tool to narrow this divide. Methods: This study uses the Zambia Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data, collected between 2001 and 2002. Logistic regression techniques were employed to examine factors associated with contraceptive use. The first analysis tested modern contraceptive use versus traditional method use and no use. In addition, separate models were run for samples stratified by type of residence (rural or urban) to determine if different factors were associated with use by residence. A simulation determined the effect of all women receiving at least one household visit from a health worker if all other variables were held constant. Results: Differences in modern contraceptive use between urban and rural areas persist (OR: 1.56, 95 percent CI: 1.24–1.96) even after adjusting for a number of demographic, socioeconomic, cognitive, and attitudinal factors. Household visits by a community health worker significantly increased the likelihood of modern contraceptive use among rural women (OR: 1.83; 95 percent CI: 1.29–2.58). If all rural women received at least one outreach visit per year, the prevalence rate for modern contraceptive methods would be expected to increase for this group by 5.9 percentage points, a marked increase but less than one-quarter of the total urban-rural differential. Conclusion: Outreach in the form of health worker visits can improve access to family planning services, but it does not eliminate barriers to access or address continued high-fertility desires in Zambia. Until policymakers consider strategies that address both family planning demand creation and supply of services, progress in Zambia and the rest of sub-Saharan Africa will continue to lag behind the rest of the world.
MOLECULAR RESOLUTION OF MARINE NEMATODES FOR IMPROVED ASSESSMENT OF BIODIVERSITY
Creators: name: BHADURY, PUNYASLOKE
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2005

description: Free-living nematodes are abundant in all marine habitats, highly diverse and can be important ecological indicators for monitoring anthropogenic impacts on the environment. Despite such attributes, nematode diagnostics has traditionally relied on detailed comparison of morphological characters which is often difficult and laborious, and as a result there is an increasing 'black hole' in faunal inventories where the biodiversity of groups such as nematodes is typically underestimated. Molecular methods offer a potentially efficient alternative approach to studying the biodiversity of marine nematode communities, and the main focus of this thesis was to apply molecular ecological tools for improved understanding of nematode diversity in marine and estuarine environments. Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) has been evaluated as a novel tool for the identification of marine nematodes and for rapid assessment of their diversity based on amplification of the nuclear 18S rRNA gene. This approach successfully identified nematode taxa based on banding pattern and was also able to detect the most abundant taxa in samples from marine and estuarine environments. A DNA barcoding approach based on the 18S rRNA gene was applied for the first time in marine nematology, in an attempt to speed up the identification process. The success rate of this approach, across a range of nematode groups, was found to be close to 97%. A combined morphometrics and molecular approach was also undertaken to investigate cosmopolitanism and cryptic speciation by analysing populations of a cosmopolitan marine nematode, Terschellingia longicaudata, from different geographical regions. Results suggest that Terschellingia longicaudata is indeed truly cosmopolitan, with a wide geographic distribution. Two haplotypes that were divergent from most T. longicaudata were also identified in this study, indicating possible novel cryptic lineages or previously undescribed species of the genus. The final focus of this thesis was to develop methods for the molecular investigation of nematodes stored in formalin and other organic compounds. The effectiveness of formalin as a short term preservative was first evaluated, since this would allow morphological and molecular work to be conducted on the same specimen. Amplifiable DNA could be routinely obtained from specimens stored in formalin for periods of up to nine days. In addition the effectiveness of other organic solvents for the preservation of both molecular and morphological integrity of marine nematodes was investigated. The final part of this study developed and optimized a novel DNA extraction technique that could be employed to recover DNA from archived formalin fixed marine nematode specimens so as to carry out subsequent molecular analysis such as PCR amplification and sequencing.
Low Noise Adjustable Two-Stage Gain Transimpedance Amplifier with DC Offset
Creators: name: Kehl, Florian
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
subject: Biomedical
subject: Optics
subject: Electromagnetics and Photonics
subject: Physics
subject: Electrical and Computer Engineering
subject: Signal Processing
subject: Engineering
subject: current-to-voltage converter
subject: low light detection
subject: photomultiplier tube
subject: transimpedance amplifier

description: The project supports the paper: Cretu, V.F., Kehl, F., et al., Open-Source Lab Hardware: Low Noise Adjustable Two-Stage Gain Transimpedance Amplifier with DC Offset, in Elsevier HardwareX.
Fitting NTCP models to bladder doses and acute urinary symptoms during post-prostatectomy radiotherapy
Creators: name: Sun, Jasmine
name: Chen, Ronald
name: Wang, Andrew
name: Das, Shiva K
name: Mavroidis, Panayiotis
name: Saripalli, Srinivas
name: Pearlstein, Kevin A
name: Dooley, John
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

description: Abstract Background To estimate the radiobiological parameters of three popular normal tissue complication probability (NTCP) models, which describe the dose-response relations of bladder regarding different acute urinary symptoms during post-prostatectomy radiotherapy (RT). To evaluate the goodness-of-fit and the correlation of those models with those symptoms. Methods Ninety-three consecutive patients treated from 2010 to 2015 with post-prostatectomy image-guided intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) were included in this study. Patient-reported urinary symptoms were collected pre-RT and weekly during treatment using the validated Prostate Cancer Symptom Indices (PCSI). The assessed symptoms were flow, dysuria, urgency, incontinence, frequency and nocturia using a Likert scale of 1 to 4 or 5. For this analysis, an increase by ≥2 levels in a symptom at any time during treatment compared to baseline was considered clinically significant. The dose volume histograms of the bladder were calculated. The Lyman-Kutcher-Burman (LKB), Relative Seriality (RS) and Logit NTCP models were used to fit the clinical data. The fitting of the different models was assessed through the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC), Akaike information criterion (AIC) and Odds Ratio methods. Results For the symptoms of urinary urgency, leakage, frequency and nocturia, the derived LKB model parameters were: 1) D50 = 64.2Gy, m = 0.50, n = 1.0; 2) D50 = 95.0Gy, m = 0.45, n = 0.50; 3) D50 = 83.1Gy, m = 0.56, n = 1.00; and 4) D50 = 85.4Gy, m = 0.60, n = 1.00, respectively. The AUC values for those symptoms were 0.66, 0.58, 0.64 and 0.64, respectively. The differences in AIC between the different models were less than 2 and ranged within 0.1 and 1.3. Conclusions Different dose metrics were correlated with the symptoms of urgency, incontinence, frequency and nocturia. The symptoms of urinary flow and dysuria were poorly associated with dose. The values of the parameters of three NTCP models were determined for bladder regarding four acute urinary symptoms. All the models could fit the clinical data equally well. The NTCP predictions of urgency showed the best correlation with the patient reported outcomes.
title: Le rôle infirmier dans les soins de santé sexuelle chez les patientes atteintes d’un cancer du sein
title: Le rôle infirmier dans les soins de santé sexuelle chez les patientes atteintes d’un cancer du sein
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Rochat, Delphine
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Cancer du sein
subject: Oncologie
subject: Soins infirmiers
subject: Rôle infirmier
subject: Interventions infirmières
subject: Santé sexuelle
subject: Sexualité
subject: Fonction sexuelle
subject: hesav TB SI

description: Contexte – Le cancer du sein est le plus présent chez les femmes dans le monde et également en Suisse. La tumeur cancéreuse mammaire ainsi que ses traitements pharmacologiques ou chirurgicaux créent de multiples effets indésirables dans de nombreux domaines, pour les patientes. Un des domaines particulièrement affectés par ses effets non désirés est celui de la sexualité qui a un impact direct sur la qualité de vie de ses femmes. En tant que professionnel.le de la santé, il est primordial de prendre en compte la santé sexuelle des patientes atteintes d’un cancer du sein afin de leur proposer une prise en charge globale. Objectif – Le but de cette revue de littérature est d’identifier les interventions infirmières pouvant être mises en place pour maintenir la sexualité des femmes atteintes d’un cancer du sein. Méthode – Revue de littérature de six articles, effectuée à l’aide de deux bases de données : CINAHL et PubMed. Les résultats de ces études ont été analysés à l’aide de la grille de Fortin & Gagnon (2016). Puis, ils ont été mis en perceptive en se servant du cadre théorique de la théorie de gestion des symptômes (Eicher et al., 2013). Résultats – La prise en considération de la santé sexuelle des femmes touchées par une maladie oncologique mammaires est nécessaire. Les interventions proposées pour les difficultés sexuelles rencontrées par ces femmes ont montré des résultats positifs en particulier sur la fonction sexuelle. Discussion – Les résultats démontre l’importance des interventions infirmières dans le domaine de la sexualité pour les femmes touchées par un cancer du sein.
China's Foreign Policy towards Bangladesh and Pakistan: In the Context of Geo-strategic Issues (Early 21st Century)
Creators: name: Md. Sayedur Rahman
Publisher: name: Naresuan University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: China
Foreign Policy
Bangladesh
Pakistan
Bay of Bengal
Geostrategic
Indian Ocean
Geo-economic
Port of Gwadar
Persian Gulf

description: Journal of Community Development Research (Humanities and Social Sciences), 16, 1, 56-70
title: The stone man: Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
Creators: name: Buxton, Anthony
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Complications
subject: Education
subject: Treatment effects
subject: Connective tissue disorders
subject: Biological effects
subject: Pathology

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP or Stone Man Syndrome) is a debilitating genetic congenital disorder thatcauses progressive heterotopic ossification of skeletal muscle and soft connective tissues. FOP is dramatic in its results, with...
MPEC 2023-O82 : 2023 OH2
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 OH2

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Wavefunction collapse through backaction of counting weakly interacting photons
Creators: name: Harrell, Lee E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply the formalism of quantum measurement theory to the idealized measurement of the position of a particle with an optical interferometer, finding that the backaction of counting entangled photons systematically collapses the particle's wavefunction toward a narrow Gaussian wavepacket at the location $x_\mathrm{est}$ determined by the measurement without appeal to environmental decoherence or other spontaneous collapse mechanism. Further, the variance in the particle's position, as calculated from the post-measurement wavefunction agrees precisely with shot-noise limited uncertainty of the measured $x_\mathrm{est}$. Both the identification of the absolute square of the particle's initial wavefunction as the probability density for $x_\mathrm{est}$ and the de Broglie hypothesis emerge as consequences of interpreting the intensity of the optical field as proportional to the probability of detecting a photon. Linear momentum information that is encoded in the particle's initial wavefunction survives the measurement, and the pre-measurement expectation values are preserved in the ensemble average.
description: 7 pages, 1 figure
Learning Development Guidelines for Children with Cochlear Implant to Prepare for Early Childhood Learning
Creators: name: Supaporn Tungdamnernsawad
Publisher: name: Naresuan University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Learning Development Guideline
Cochlear Implantation
Early Childhood Learning
Language Development

description: Journal of Community Development Research (Humanities and Social Sciences), 16, 1, 71-87
Reasons for non-acceptance of human research protocols by research ethics committees. Meta-analysis of observational studies
Creators: name: Toapanta-Pinta, Paola
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Bioethics and Medical Ethics
subject: Ethics Committee
subject: meta-analysis
subject: observational studies

description: Meta-analysis of observational studies
Stale View Cleaning: Getting Fresh Answers from Stale Materialized Views
Creators: name: Krishnan, Sanjay
name: Wang, Jiannan
name: Franklin, Michael J.
name: Goldberg, Ken
name: Kraska, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Materialized views (MVs), stored pre-computed results, are widely used to facilitate fast queries on large datasets. When new records arrive at a high rate, it is infeasible to continuously update (maintain) MVs and a common solution is to defer maintenance by batching updates together. Between batches the MVs become increasingly stale with incorrect, missing, and superfluous rows leading to increasingly inaccurate query results. We propose Stale View Cleaning (SVC) which addresses this problem from a data cleaning perspective. In SVC, we efficiently clean a sample of rows from a stale MV, and use the clean sample to estimate aggregate query results. While approximate, the estimated query results reflect the most recent data. As sampling can be sensitive to long-tailed distributions, we further explore an outlier indexing technique to give increased accuracy when the data distributions are skewed. SVC complements existing deferred maintenance approaches by giving accurate and bounded query answers between maintenance. We evaluate our method on a generated dataset from the TPC-D benchmark and a real video distribution application. Experiments confirm our theoretical results: (1) cleaning an MV sample is more efficient than full view maintenance, (2) the estimated results are more accurate than using the stale MV, and (3) SVC is applicable for a wide variety of MVs.
EGFR associated expression profiles vary with breast tumor subtype
Creators: name: Perou, Charles
name: Hoadley, Katherine
name: He, Xiaping
name: Weigman, Victor J
name: Sartor, Carolyn I
name: Fan, Cheng
name: Carey, Lisa
name: Sawyer, Lynda R
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2007

description: Abstract Background The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR/HER1) and its downstream signaling events are important for regulating cell growth and behavior in many epithelial tumors types. In breast cancer, the role of EGFR is complex and appears to vary relative to important clinical features including estrogen receptor (ER) status. To investigate EGFR-signaling using a genomics approach, several breast basal-like and luminal epithelial cell lines were examined for sensitivity to EGFR inhibitors. An EGFR-associated gene expression signature was identified in the basal-like SUM102 cell line and was used to classify a diverse set of sporadic breast tumors. Results In vitro, breast basal-like cell lines were more sensitive to EGFR inhibitors compared to luminal cell lines. The basal-like tumor derived lines were also the most sensitive to carboplatin, which acted synergistically with cetuximab. An EGFR-associated signature was developed in vitro, evaluated on 241 primary breast tumors; three distinct clusters of genes were evident in vivo, two of which were predictive of poor patient outcomes. These EGFR-associated poor prognostic signatures were highly expressed in almost all basal-like tumors and many of the HER2+/ER- and Luminal B tumors. Conclusion These results suggest that breast basal-like cell lines are sensitive to EGFR inhibitors and carboplatin, and this combination may also be synergistic. In vivo, the EGFR-signatures were of prognostic value, were associated with tumor subtype, and were uniquely associated with the high expression of distinct EGFR-RAS-MEK pathway genes.