cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Pulmonary vascular congenital anomalies on MDCT
Creators: name: Umer, Ummara
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Congenital
subject: Structured reporting
subject: Normal variants
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT
subject: Vascular
subject: Pulmonary vessels
subject: Lung

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To illustrate Multidetector CT manifestations of a variety of congenital pulmonary vascular malformations. To emphasize the role of multidetector CT angiography in diagnosis of pulmonary vascular...
title: Minimally invasive surgery for early rectal cancer - what the radiologist needs to know
Creators: name: Watt, Kelsey
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Surgery
subject: Staging
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: Colon
subject: Outcomes

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To better understand current conservative surgical techniques used for resection of malignant rectal lesions with curative intent. Learnthe anatomy of both rectal MRI and endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) which is required for appropriate patient...
How are we doing with the treatment of essential tremor (ET)? persistence of patients with ET on medication : data from 528 patients in three settings
Creators: name: Louis, Elan D.
name: Rios, Eileen
name: Henchcliffe, Claire
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Background: The pharmacological treatment of essential tremor (ET) is not optimal. There are only two first-line medications and troublesome side effects are common. It is not uncommon for patients to simply stop taking medication. Yet, no published data substantiate or quantify this anecdotal impression. Objectives: To determine, amongst patients with ET who were prescribed medication for tremor, what proportion are still taking medication and what proportion have stopped? Methods: Five hundred and twenty-eight patients with ET from three distinct study settings (clinical, brain donors, population) were interviewed. Results: A clear pattern that emerged across settings was that the proportion of patients with ET who had stopped medication was sizable and consistently similar (nearly one-third): 31.4% (clinical), 24.3% (brain donors), 30.0% (population), 29.8% (overall). A similarly high proportion of cases with severe tremor had stopped their medication: 31.9% (clinical), 36.4% (brain donors). For the four most commonly used medications (propranolol, primidone, diazepam, topiramate), one-half or more of the treated patients had stopped the medication; amongst the less commonly used medications, the proportion who stopped was even higher. Conclusions: Nearly one of every three patients with ET who had been prescribed medication for tremor had discontinued pharmacotherapy. Even more revealing was that a similar proportion of cases with severe tremor had stopped medication. These data make tangibly evident that there is a sizable population of patients with ET who are untreated and disabled, and underscore the inadequacy of current pharmacotherapeutic options for this common neurological disease.
Annotation Guideline for Free-Text Activity Functioning Information: Self-Care & Domestic Life
Creators: name: NIH CC RMD Epidemiology & Biostatistics Section
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: ICF
International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
Activity
Functioning
NLP
Self-Care
Domestic Life
ADL
IADL
Annotation
Free-text
SCDL

description: Creation of the guideline was driven by a use case involving a collaborative agreement with the United States (U.S.) Social Security Administration (SSA) to leverage clinical natural language processing to improve the disability determination process.  The research purpose was to develop tools that automate the detection of relevant functional information in electronic health records (EHR) to support medical record review by adjudicators. This guideline aims to standardize self-care and domestic life information documented in free-text EHRs and provide a process for annotating this information. These efforts resulted in the creation of a gold standard corpus, which has been used to develop computational models of functioning.   

Contents of the guideline include an (1) Introduction that recommends how the guideline should be used, a description of the ICF as the conceptual framework, and an explanation of how self-care and domestic life functioning is conceptualized; (2) Annotation data description; (3) Annotation tool description; (4) Annotation schema, including the entity, attribute, and value definitions, ICF codes and SNOMED clinical terms codes used, and their definitions and operationalization with examples of annotated text; (5) General annotation considerations; (6) Domain specific considerations; (7) Edge or difficult cases; (8) Acknowledgements; (9) References, and (10) four Appendices including an example of an annotated  note and a troubleshooting guide. 

This guideline was developed by clinical rehabilitation domain experts with backgrounds in occupational therapy, physical therapy, and primary care medicine, and individuals with public health and data science expertise.  The International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) is used as a framework for this work and aims to develop analytic tools for clinical natural language processing and vocabularies of function.
M-Theory and Maximally Supersymmetric Gauge Theories
Creators: name: Lambert, Neil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this informal review for non-specalists we discuss the construction of maximally supersymmetric gauge theories that arise on the worldvolumes branes in String Theory and M-Theory. Particular focus is made on the relatively recent construction of M2-brane worldvolume theories. In a formal sense, the existence of these quantum field theories can be viewed as predictions of M-Theory. Their construction is therefore a reinforcement of the ideas underlying String Theory and M-Theory. We also briefly discuss the six-dimensional conformal field theory that is expected to arise on M5-branes. The construction of this theory is not only an important open problem for M-Theory but also a significant challenge to our current understanding of quantum field theory more generally.
description: Minor corrections and an added acknowledgement. Accepted for publication in Annual Reviews
Older onset essential tremor : more rapid progression and more degenerative pathology
Creators: name: Louis, Elan D.
name: Faust, Phyllis L.
name: Vonsattel, Jean Paul
name: Honig, Lawrence S.
name: Henchcliffe, Claire
name: Pahwa, Rajesh
name: Lyons, Kelly E.
name: Rios, Eileen
name: Erickson-Davis, Cordelia
name: Moskowitz, Carol Brown
name: Lawton, Arlene
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: There are few data on rate of progression in essential tremor (ET). To quantify the rate of tremor progression in a cross-sectional sample of 348 ET cases in an epidemiological study; characterize the relationship between age of tremor onset and rate of tremor progression in that sample; and characterize the relationship between age of tremor onset, rate of tremor progression, and severity of underlying brain changes in 9 cases from a brain repository. Rate of tremor progression was defined as tremor severity divided by duration. The degeneration index = number of torpedoes per section divided by Purkinje cell linear density. In the epidemiological study, older age of tremor onset was associated with faster rate of tremor progression (P < 0.001). In the brain repository, older age of tremor onset was associated with higher degeneration index (P = 0.037), and higher degeneration index was associated with faster rate of tremor progression (P = 0.018). In a large clinical sample, older age of onset was associated with more rapid tremor progression. In a brain bank, older age of onset was associated with more degenerative pathology in the cerebellum. As in several neurodegenerative disorders, in older onset cases, it is possible that the disease advances more rapidly.
How Dark Are Majorana WIMPs? Signals from MiDM and Rayleigh Dark Matter
Creators: name: Weiner, Neal
name: Yavin, Itay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effective interactions of dark matter with photons are fairly restricted. Yet both direct detection as well as monochromatic gamma ray signatures depend sensitively on the presence of such interactions. For a Dirac fermion, electromagnetic dipoles are possible, but are very constrained. For Majorana fermions, no such terms are allowed. We consider signals of an effective theory with a Majorana dark matter particle and its couplings to photons. In the presence of a nearby excited state, there is the possibility of a magnetic dipole transition (Magnetic inelastic Dark Matter or MiDM), which yields both direct and indirect detection signals, and, intriguingly, yields essentially the same size over a wide range of dipole strengths. Absent an excited state, the leading interaction of WIMPs is similar to the Rayleigh scattering of low energy photons from neutral atoms, which may be captured by an effective operator of dimension 7 of the form $\barχχF_{μν}F^{μν}$. While it can be thought of as a phase of the Magnetic inelastic Dark Matter scenario where the excited state is much heavier than the ground state, it can arise from other theories as well. We study the resulting phenomenology of this scenario: gamma ray lines from the annihilation of WIMPs; nuclear recoils in direct detection; and direct production of the WIMP pair in high-energy colliders. Considering recent evidence in particular for a 130 GeV line from the galactic center, we discuss the detection prospects at upcoming experiments.
description: 17 pages, 10 figures. v3 - published version, some clarifications added, no qualitative or quantitative changes; v2 - version submitted to journal. Two-column format. Citations added. Figure added showing a possible UV mechanism to generate both RayDM as well as MiDM. Some discussions clarified. Conclusions unchanged
The US federal courts' deliberate approach : shaping their role in climate reform through procedural tools
Creators: name: McDonald, Morgan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Robust scholarly discussion covers recent climate change litigation. Building off these insights, this article contributes to forthcoming litigation by considering how calculated decisions illuminate the role federal courts are willing to play in current and future climate reform. U.S. federal courts have taken a purposeful approach to climate decisions, allowing them to form the path this growing form of litigation will take. Expanding on Hari Osofsky’s suggestion that the Supreme Court has acted with the aim to “shape its role” in the climate debate, I consider how federal courts have used procedural doctrines to limit immediate climate litigation to judicial review over common law claims. Interestingly, the courts’ approach seems to leave channels open for future court involvement subject to the legislative and executive branches’ impending moves. Specifically, I have found that U.S. federal courts have stalled in fully opening the courtroom doors to climate litigants. Rather, they have written decisions in a deliberate manner, building one step at a time without permanently closing the door to litigation while maintaining their flexibility to become more involved in future climate reform if necessary. Consequently, these decisions illustrate the role courts see for themselves, which is important to guide future climate litigation efforts. Since I find litigation complements alternative climate reform attempts, my intention is to decipher the courts’ path to provide a guide future litigants may consider to most efficiently reach their climate reform goals. Although much climate law manifests at the domestic level, U.S. precedents can set trends internationally. Thus, many other courts may react to the approach U.S. courts take, either adopting or rejecting it in their own paths to climate reform. Accordingly, this study contributes to the international climate litigation discussion by providing elucidation into the U.S. sphere, the trends from which will influence law and decision makers globally in their own future paths through climate litigation.
Population-based prospective study of cigarette smoking and risk of incident essential tremor
Creators: name: Louis, Elan D.
name: Benito-Leon, Julian
name: Bermejo-Pareja, Felix
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Background: Smoking cigarettes is associated with lower risk of Parkinson disease (PD). Despite the clinical links between PD and essential tremor (ET), there are few data on smoking in ET. One study showed an association between smoking and lower ET prevalence. We now study whether baseline smoking is associated with lower risk of incident ET. Methods: Using a population-based, cohort design, baseline cigarette smoking habits were assessed in 3,348 participants in an epidemiologic study in Spain, among whom 77 developed incident ET. Results: There were 3,348 participants, among whom 397 (11.9%) were smokers at baseline. Five (6.5%) of 77 incident ET cases had been smokers at baseline, compared with 392 (12.0%) of 3,271 controls (p = 0.14). Baseline pack-years were lower in incident ET cases than in controls (9.2 ± 17.7 vs 15.7 ± 28.4, p = 0.002). Participants were stratified into baseline pack-year tertiles, and few incident ET cases were in the highest tertile (4 [5.2%] cases vs 431 [13.2%] controls, p = 0.039). In Cox proportional hazards models, the highest baseline pack-year tertile was associated with lower risk of incident ET; those in the highest pack-year tertile were one-third as likely to develop ET when compared with nonsmokers (relative risk [RR] 0.37, 95% CI 0.14—1.03, p = 0.057 [unadjusted model] and RR 0.29, 95% CI 0.09—0.90, p = 0.03 [adjusted model]). Conclusions: We demonstrated an association between baseline heavy cigarette smoking and lower risk of incident essential tremor. The biologic basis for this association requires future investigation.
title: Where do the scattering X-rays that are exposed to the eye lens come from during neonatal cardiac CT examination?
Creators: name: Mihara, Yoshiki
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Physics
subject: Dosimetry
subject: CT
subject: Radiation physics
subject: Paediatric
subject: Eyes

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: During neonatal cardiac CT examination, the eye lens and gonads are known to be organs at high risk. Because these organs are located outside the irradiation field, they cannot be evaluated by the CT dose index (CTDI). In this study, the dose...
Quantum to Classical Randomness Extractors
Creators: name: Berta, Mario
name: Fawzi, Omar
name: Wehner, Stephanie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The goal of randomness extraction is to distill (almost) perfect randomness from a weak source of randomness. When the source yields a classical string X, many extractor constructions are known. Yet, when considering a physical randomness source, X is itself ultimately the result of a measurement on an underlying quantum system. When characterizing the power of a source to supply randomness it is hence a natural question to ask, how much classical randomness we can extract from a quantum system. To tackle this question we here take on the study of quantum-to-classical randomness extractors (QC-extractors). We provide constructions of QC-extractors based on measurements in a full set of mutually unbiased bases (MUBs), and certain single qubit measurements. As the first application, we show that any QC-extractor gives rise to entropic uncertainty relations with respect to quantum side information. Such relations were previously only known for two measurements. As the second application, we resolve the central open question in the noisy-storage model [Wehner et al., PRL 100, 220502 (2008)] by linking security to the quantum capacity of the adversary's storage device.
description: 6+31 pages, 2 tables, 1 figure, v2: improved converse parameters, typos corrected, new discussion, v3: new references
Essential tremors : a family of neurodegenerative disorders?
Creators: name: Louis, Elan D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Essential tremor (ET) is the most common pathologic tremor in humans. The traditional view of ET, as a monosymptomatic condition, is being replaced by an appreciation of the spectrum of clinical features, with both motor and nonmotor elements. These features are not distributed homogeneously across patients. In addition, postmortem studies are now demonstrating distinct structural changes in ET. There is growing evidence that ET may be a family of diseases rather than a single entity. Furthermore, this aging-associated, progressive disorder is associated with neuronal loss and postmortem changes that occur in traditional neurodegenerative disorders.
title: Congenital inner ear abnormalities: a practical review.
Creators: name: Zayed, Rola
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Developmental disease
subject: Education
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Paediatric
subject: Ear / Nose / Throat
subject: Anatomy

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Provide an anatomical overview of inner ear structures. Describe the CT and MR imaging features of inner ear malformations by using a standard classification...
title: Enacting the chasm: how can educational technology help Secondary teacher educators reflect creatively and reflexively?
Creators: name: Atherton, P
Publisher: name: Liverpool John Moores University
Year: 2023

description: This thesis fuses a portfolio of four peer-reviewed papers, two conference papers and one book with a peer-reviewed chapter. The portfolio examines the act of a teacher educator investigating and writing about educational technology (edtech). The trajectory of the papers develops from studies of specific edtech platforms in the context of teacher education, to positioning the author at the centre of the edtech research. As the focus shifted towards the act of researching and writing about edtech, the later papers became autoethnographic. The portfolio of papers employed mixed methods. There was some quantitative data but the research would later narrow the focus onto qualitative methods of data collection with grounded theory, then thematic analysis as research methodologies. This statement develops the autoethnographic style adopted by the later papers in the portfolio and the autoethnographic account of the process of retrospective PHD by Published Works (O’Keeffe, 2019; Chong & Johnson, 2022). In terms of a theoretical framework, connectivism has been a consistent thread from the practitioner book that precipitated the portfolio to the later autoethnographic work. Connectivism was initially selected to highlight the development of theoretical models in edtech on either side of the pandemic. In this portfolio, I re-examine the overall evidence to progress from critiquing the notion of connectivist learning by writing autoethnographically. This progression leads me to an enactivist process of embodied action (Li, 2012; Van den Berg, 2018). The original contribution to knowledge that the portfolio and its findings makes is to place the researcher at the centre of a study of edtech in the context of Initial Teacher Education (I.T.E). The conclusions’ originality arise from the creation of a model to frame the paradigmatic pluralism identified in recent literature. The SPACESHIP model draws on Kimmons and Johnstun’s (2019) notion of the multihyphenate researcher and crystallises how a research journey may be informed by an openness to multiple paradigms while still being mindful of potential contradictions (Kimmons and Johnstun, 2019).
New Urbanism as a New Modernist Movement: A Comparative Look at Modernism and New Urbanism
Creators: name: Vanderbeek, Michael
name: Irazabal Zurita, Clara E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: City planning
subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: This article situates New Urbanism, and neotraditionalism more generally, on the ideological continuum of Modernism â€” as a neo-Modernist movement. By comparing the social and environmental goals of Modernism and New Urbanism as laid out in their respective charters and questioning the ability of New Urbanism to achieve its goals where Modernism failed, it offers a contextual analysis of the motivations behind the movements and their implications in practice. It then presents the cities of Brasilia, in Brazil, and Celebration, in the United States, as examples of the difficulty of putting the altruistic rhetoric of Modernism and New Urbanism, respectively, into practice. Finally, it offers the lessons of history as a way to reflect on the challenges facing New Urbanism and its prospects for success.
title: Functional Outcome of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Surgery based on Memory Functional MRI
Creators: name: Sawlani, Vijay
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Seizure disorders

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Background FMRI for language has replaced the WADA test in the majority of epilepsy centres, and while WADA has been used as a test to predict memory outcome, the reliability and validity remains questioned. 1 fMRI is a non-invasive technique that...
The Berry phase and the phase of the Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations in three-dimensional topological insulators
Creators: name: Mikitik, G. P.
name: Sharlai, Yu. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within the semiclassical approach, we calculate contributions of the Berry phase and of the Zeeman coupling of the electron moment with the magnetic field to the phase of the Shubnikov - de Haas oscillations for the surface electrons in the Bi$_2$X$_3$ family of three-dimensional topological insulators (X stands for Te or Se). We also discuss a relation of the obtained results with published experimental data on the Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations for this family of topological insulators.
description: 4 pages, submitted to Phys. Rev. B
title: Differential Diagnosis of Diffuse Ground Glass Opacifications Made Easy
Creators: name: Röhrich, Sebastian
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: Thorax
subject: CT
subject: Education
subject: Structured reporting
subject: Education and training

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To learn a step-by-step approach for narrowing the differential diagnosis of diffuse ground glass opacification (GGO). To identify differentiating clinical and radiologic features that point to the most probable differential...
Wilson loops to 20th order numerical stochastic perturbation theory
Creators: name: Horsley, R.
name: Hotzel, G.
name: Ilgenfritz, E. -M.
name: Millo, R.
name: Nakamura, Y.
name: Perlt, H.
name: Rakow, P. E. L.
name: Schierholz, G.
name: Schiller, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate Wilson loops of various sizes up to 20 loops in SU(3) pure lattice gauge theory at different lattice sizes for Wilson gauge action using the technique of numerical stochastic perturbation theory. This allows us to investigate the perturbative series for various Wilson loops at high loop orders. We observe differences in the behavior of those series as function of the loop order. Up to $n=20$ we do not find evidence for the factorial growth of the expansion coefficients often assumed to characterize an asymptotic series. Based on the actually observed behavior we sum the series in a model parametrized by hypergeometric functions. Alternatively we estimate the total series in boosted perturbation theory using information from the first 14 loops. We introduce generalized ratios of Wilson loops of different sizes. Together with the corresponding Wilson loops from standard Monte Carlo measurements they enable us to assess their non-perturbative parts.
description: 29 pages, 21 figures, version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D, some inconsistencies removed, more details added concerning the Langevin simulation, references added and updated
MUSIQA FANINI O'QITISHDA ZAMONAVIY PEDAGOGIK TEXNOLOGIYALARDAN FOYDALANISH
Creators: name: Allaniyazov, Baxadir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Zamonaviy pedagogik texnologiyalar ta’limda muhim rol o'ynaydi va o'quv jarayonini yanada interaktiv, qulay va samarali qilish imkonini beradi. Musiqashunoslikni o'qitishda bunday texnologiyalardan interfaol darslarni yaratish, eshitish va musiqiy idrokni rivojlantirish, shuningdek audio va video materiallar bilan ishlash uchun foydalanish mumkin. Masalan, o'quv dasturlari va onlayn kurslar talabalarga musiqa nazariyasi va musiqa san'ati tarixini qiziqarli tarzda o'rganish, munozaralar va loyihalarda faol ishtirok etish imkonini beradi. Zamonaviy texnologiyalardan foydalanish, shuningdek, o'qituvchilarga talabalarning yutuqlarini tahlil qilish, o'quv materiallarini ularning ehtiyojlariga moslashtirish va ular bilan doimiy aloqada bo'lishga yordam beradi. Shunday qilib, musiqashunoslikni o'qitishda zamonaviy pedagogik texnologiyalardan foydalanish yanada samarali va qiziqarli o'quv jarayoniga yordam beradi.
Agamennone e Oreste nell’Odissea: logiche narrative e tracce di committenza pisistratide
Creators: name: Pitotto, Elisabetta
Publisher: name: HISTORIKA Studi di storia greca e romana
Year: 2023

description: Questo articolo analizza le varianti mitologiche relative alla saga atride compresenti nell’Odissea. Le versioni con cui sono presentati il ritorno e l’assassinio di Agamennone (Od. XI 385-464 e XXIV 191-202) servono a dipingere il suo destino in senso contrario al felice νόστος di Odisseo. La caratterizzazione riservata al personaggio di Oreste e il modo con cui è delineata la sua vendetta (Od. I 28-43 e III 192-316), sfrondata dai tratti tradizionali e riproposta in senso più politico, sembrano invece da porre in relazione con le esigenze dei Pisistratidi, verosimili committenti della registrazione scritta del poema.
description: HISTORIKA Studi di storia greca e romana, V. 12 (2022)
Reduced Purkinje cell number in essential tremor : a postmortem study
Creators: name: Axelrad, Jordan E.
name: Louis, Elan D.
name: Honig, Lawrence S.
name: Flores, Ingrid C.
name: Ross, G. Webster
name: Pahwa, Rajesh
name: Lyons, Kelly E.
name: Faust, Phyllis L.
name: Vonsattel, Jean Paul
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Background: Clinical and functional imaging evidence suggests that cerebellar dysfunction occurs in essential tremor (ET). In recent postmortem studies, we documented increased numbers of torpedoes (Purkinje cell axonal swellings) in ET patients without Lewy bodies. Purkinje cell loss, however, has never been rigorously assessed. Objective: To quantitatively assess the number of Purkinje cells in brains of ET patients and similarly aged controls. Methods: Postmortem cerebellar tissue was available in 14 ET cases (6 with Lewy bodies and 8 without Lewy bodies) and 11 controls. Calbindin immunohistochemistry was performed on paraffin sections of the cerebellum. Images were digitally recorded and blinded measurements of the number of Purkinje cells per millimeter of cell layer (linear density) were made. Results: Purkinje cell linear density was inversely correlated with age (r=-0.53, P=.006) and number of torpedoes (r=-0.42, P=.04). Purkinje cell linear density differed by diagnosis (mean [SD], controls, 3.46 [1.27] cells/mm; ET cases with Lewy bodies, 3.33 [1.06] cells/mm; and ET cases without Lewy bodies, 2.14 [0.82] cells/mm; P=.04), with the most significant difference between ET cases without Lewy bodies and controls, where the reduction was 38.2% (P=.04). In an adjusted linear regression analysis that compared ET cases without Lewy bodies with controls, decreased linear density (outcome variable) was associated with ET (β=.56, P=.03). Conclusions: We demonstrated a reduction in Purkinje cell number in the brains of patients with ET who do not have Lewy bodies. These data further support the view that the cerebellum is anatomically, as well as functionally, abnormal in these ET cases.
Narrating epigraphy in the sites of the ancient city: a digital project for the epigraphic landscape of Athens
Creators: name: Fratini, Pietro
Publisher: name: HISTORIKA Studi di storia greca e romana
Year: 2023

description: The aim of this paper is to present the doctoral project underway at the University of Turin, which aims to offer a study of best practices for the dissemination of Greek epigraphy in context, using selected groups of Athenian public inscriptions as case studies. In the first part, the state of the art in the dissemination of epigraphy is noted, with some problematic considerations underlying this reflection. The second part presents an illustrative proposal for a dissemination methodology applied to one of the case studies adopted in the project, namely the decree in honour of the comic poet Philippides of Kephale (IG II3 1 877).
description: HISTORIKA Studi di storia greca e romana, V. 12 (2022)
On the Quasi-Linear Elliptic PDE $-\nabla\cdot(\nabla{u}/\sqrt{1-|\nabla{u}|^2}) = 4π\sum_k a_k δ_{s_k}$ in Physics and Geometry
Creators: name: Kiessling, Michael K. -H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: It is shown that for each finite number of Dirac measures supported at points $s_n$ in three-dimensional Euclidean space, with given amplitudes $a_n$, there exists a unique real-valued Lipschitz function $u$, vanishing at infinity, which distributionally solves the quasi-linear elliptic partial differential equation of divergence form $-\nabla\cdot(\nabla{u}/\sqrt{1-|\nabla{u}|^2})=4π\sum_{n=1}^N a_n δ_{s_n}$. Moreover, $u$ is real analytic away from the $s_n$. The result can be interpreted in at least two ways: (a) for any number of point charges of arbitrary magnitude and sign at prescribed locations $s_n$ in three-dimensional Euclidean space there exists a unique electrostatic field which satisfies the Maxwell-Born-Infeld field equations smoothly away from the point charges and vanishes as $|s|\to\infty$; (b) for any number of integral mean curvatures assigned to locations $s_n$ there exists a unique asymptotically flat, almost everywhere space-like maximal slice with point defects of Minkowski spacetime, having lightcone singularities over the $s_n$ but being smooth otherwise, and whose height function vanishes as $|s|\to\infty$. No struts between the point singularities ever occur.
description: This is the preprint of the version published in 2012 in Commun. Math. Phys. PLUS an errata which has been accepted 08/13/2018 for publication in Commun. Math. Phys
Functional correlates of lower cognitive test scores in essential tremor
Creators: name: Louis, Elan D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Although motor features have been the defining element of essential tremor (ET), lower neurocognitive test scores are increasingly being recognized. However, the clinical correlates, if any, of these lower test scores remain largely unexplored. The aim of this study was to determine whether cognitive test scores in ET have any functional correlates. The Modified Mini Mental Status Examination (MMSE), Katz Activities of Daily Living (ADL) scale and Lawton Instrumental (I) ADL scale were administered to 95 cases. The Katz ADL score (rho = 0.26, P = 0.01) and Lawton IADL score (rho = 0.32, P  = 0.001) were correlated with MMSE scores, such that poorer cognitive performance indicated greater dysfunction. Furthermore, cognitive test scores were a better predictor of functional disability than was tremor severity. Poorer cognitive performance in ET was associated with greater functional deficit. Cognition should enter the clinical dialog with ET patients as an issue of clinical significance.
Fundamental And Practical Problems of QKD Security - the Actual and the Perceived Situation
Creators: name: Yuen, Horace P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is widely believed that quantum key distribution (QKD) has been proved unconditionally secure for realistic models applicable to various current experimental schemes. Here we summarize briefly why this is not the case, from both the viewpoints of fundamental quantitative security and applicable models of security analysis, with some morals drawn.
description: This paper is being revised. It will appear later. 14 pages, 2 figures
The use of oral contraceptive is inversely associated with the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus among middle-aged women
Creators: name: Yao, Wenqin
name: Dong, Xue
name: Yu, Xiaohui
name: Luo, Jia
name: Zhang, Dongfeng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: To assess the cross-sectional association between oral contraceptive (OC) use and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) risk among US women. The data was obtained from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES 2007–2018). OC use was assessed by questionnaires and the diagnosis of T2DM was confirmed by the glycosylated hemoglobin, fasting blood glucose, and self-report. Binary logistic regression models and the restricted cubic spline model were adopted to evaluate whether OC use was associated with T2DM. Compared with non-users, the odds ratio (OR) with 95% confidence interval (CI) of T2DM risk for the OC users was 0.71 (0.57–0.89) in unadjusted Model. The association remained significant in fully adjusted models, and the OR with 95%CI was 0.78 (0.62–0.99). In the stratified analyses, there was an inverse association of OC use with T2DM risk when women were overweight. Dose-response analysis also revealed an inversely nonlinear relationship between the duration of OC use and T2DM (p-value for linearity = .589). Our findings suggested that OC use may be inversely associated with T2DM risk.
title: Raffaele Fabretti
title: An entry in the LCA Online Dictionary of Leibniz’s Correspondents and Acquaintances
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Tba)
Publisher: name: LCA Project
Year: 2018

description: Raffaele Fabretti as a personal relation of Leibniz’s: The resource presents biographical information on a correspondent of Leibniz's
Epigraphical space and imperial power in Athens. Altars and statue bases for Augustus and the imperial family
Creators: name: Vari, Valentina
Publisher: name: HISTORIKA Studi di storia greca e romana
Year: 2023

description: In this paper, the ways in which public spaces of Athens are used in the display of imperial power will be analyzed. The aim is to provide a complete and updated outline of the documentation, which lacks, until now, organicity, in order to reconstruct a general trend of the phenomenon and the political meanings of Augustus’ program in Athens. The focus on altars and statue bases, often confused in the Athenian archaeological record, is for sure the best start to understand in which sense we can speak of ‘imperial cult’ in Athens. Altars and statue bases communicate, for their nature, with the observer, that moves every day in an ‘allusive space’. The inscriptions placed on the supports give an additional supply within this communicative process. The favorite place where erecting statue bases was, not by chance, the Acropolis (but we should also add the equestrian statue base of Lucius Caesar above the entrance of the West Gate of the Roman Agora and the dedication to Tiberius of the pillar in front of the Stoa of Attalus), whereas imperial altars seem to be distributed in a less selective way, since they were mostly found in the area of the Odeon, of the Eleusinion, and around the Roman Agora. Even though they were not, in most of the cases, in situ, defining particular areas where the ‘imperial presence’ was predominant is still possible. This study wants to give a useful contribution to the comprehension of the Athenian urban landscape at the time of Augustus, that surely carried out a well-planned dynastic policy, in order to transform the public space in a meaningful stage where was the new authority of Rome exhibited and promoted.
description: HISTORIKA Studi di storia greca e romana, V. 12 (2022)
Novel picornavirus in turkey poults with hepatitis, California, USA
Creators: name: Honkavuori, Kirsi S.
name: Shivaprasad, H. L.
name: Briese, Thomas
name: Street, Craig
name: Hirschberg, David L.
name: Hutchison, Stephen K.
name: Lipkin, W. Ian
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Epidemiology
Virology

description: To identify a candidate etiologic agent for turkey viral hepatitis, we analyzed samples from diseased turkey poults from 8 commercial flocks in California, USA, that were collected during 2008â€“2010. High-throughput pyrosequencing of RNA from livers of poults with turkey viral hepatitis (TVH) revealed picornavirus sequences. Subsequent cloning of the â‰ˆ9-kb genome showed an organization similar to that of picornaviruses with conservation of motifs within the P1, P2, and P3 genome regions, but also unique features, including a 1.2-kb sequence of unknown function at the junction of P1 and P2 regions. Real-time PCR confirmed viral RNA in liver, bile, intestine, serum, and cloacal swab specimens from diseased poults. Analysis of liver by in situ hybridization with viral probes and immunohistochemical testing of serum demonstrated viral nucleic acid and protein in livers of diseased poults. Molecular, anatomic, and immunologic evidence suggests that TVH is caused by a novel picornavirus, tentatively named turkey hepatitis virus.
Athens and Rome: Public Inscriptions and Monuments in the Athenian Asty between Sulla and Antony
Creators: name: Tropea, Stefano
Publisher: name: HISTORIKA Studi di storia greca e romana
Year: 2023

description: The article examines the activity of the Athenian institutions in the years between the city’s involvement in the events of the First Mithridatic war (88-86 BCE) and the visits of Antony to the city (42-38 BCE). It deals particularly with the changes occurred in the forms of expression of the traditional political vitality of the city. A focus to the increased care for public honours – especially for honours bestowed on Roman men and women – is the occasion to analyse the renovated aspects of the Agora and the Acropolis, where new monuments were set up and old or damaged buildings underwent restorations. Epigraphic evidences about the works undertaken in the precinct of the Asklepieion - on the southern slopes of the Acropolis - give information about the efforts made by wealthy private citizens and priests to revitalize the ritual activities in the site decades before the extensive restorations of the Augustan age. Texts dealing with political constitutions and judicial regulations will also be discussed in order to evaluate the possible existence of new lawcourts’ districts in the city.
description: HISTORIKA Studi di storia greca e romana, V. 12 (2022)
Dietary diversity choices of women: evidence from cassava farming households in Nigeria
Creators: name: Otekunrin, Olutosin A.
name: Otekunrin, Oluwaseun A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 140201 Agricultural Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 140219 Welfare Economics

description: In this study, we examined dietary diversity of women in cassava farming households of SouthWest, Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling procedure was used to collect data on 352 farming households comprising 212 women members (158 women of child-bearing age (20-49 years) and 54 women above 49 years) between December 2019 and March 2020 in Oyo and Ogun States of SouthWest, Nigeria. The Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) questionnaire was adapted and used to obtain the dietary diversity scores (DDS) of women of child bearing age over a 24-hour recall period. The individual version of the Household dietary diversity questionnaire was adapted and used to obtain the DDS of women above 49 years. Separate logistic regression models were fitted to determine the influence of selected variables on the dietary diversity of the two categories of women. Our results show that more than half of the women (55.1%) in the child-bearing category (20-49 years) did not attain the minimum score of 5 out of 10 food groups. In the older women category (> 49 years), more than half of the women (68.5%) met the required 4 or more food groups. In the child-bearing age category, the odds of attaining the minimum dietary diversity level were 0.04% smaller with an additional increase in transport cost. Also, women who had female household heads were approximately three times more likely to attain the minimum dietary diversity level than women who did not have female household heads.
Simulation of Sextet Diquark Production
Creators: name: Richardson, Peter
name: Winn, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a method for simulating the production and decay of particles in the sextet representation of $SU(3)_C$ including the simulation of QCD radiation. First results from the Monte Carlo simulation of sextet diquark production at the LHC including both resonant and pair production are presented. We include limits on resonant diquark production from recent ATLAS results and perform the first simulation studies of the less model dependent pair production mechanism.
description: 18 pages, 15 figures
LHC diphoton Higgs signal and top quark forward-backward asymmetry in quasi-inert Higgs doublet model
Creators: name: Wang, Lei
name: Han, Xiao-Fang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the quasi-inert Higgs doublet model, we study the LHC diphoton rate for a standard model-like Higgs boson and the top quark forward-backward asymmetry at Tevatron. Taking into account the constraints from the vacuum stability, unitarity, electroweak precision tests, flavor physics and the related experimental data of top quark, we find that compared with the standard model prediction, the diphoton rate of Higgs boson at LHC can be enhanced due to the light charged Higgs contributions, while the measurement of the top quark forward-backward asymmetry at Tevatron can be explained to within $1σ$ due to the non-standard model neutral Higgs bosons contributions. Finally, the correlations between the two observables are discussed.
description: 14 pages, 5 figues. Version to appear in JHEP, some references added
STUDIO CLINICO_AHCL-diabete-esercizio fisico 528.2022
Creators: name: MultiMedica Data Management
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: STUDIO CLINICO_AHCL-diabete-esercizio fisico 528.2022

TITOLO : Valutazione dell’efficacia di una terapia insulinica microinfusionale tramite Advanced Hybrid Closed Loop (AHCL) nel migliorare il compenso glicemico durante l’attività fisica nel Diabete: studio di telemedicina

Promotore: MultiMedica

Studio interventistico non farmacologico, randomizzato, in aperto, di tipo cross-over monocentrico

Lettera Richiesta al CE IRCCS MultiMedica – del 9/3/2022 e risposta.

Verbale 65.2022 del 31.3.2022 con richieste verbale definitivo 70.2022 del 4/5/2022

Sinossi  v. 1.1. 8 marzo 2022_TC
Structural study of Purkinje cell axonal torpedoes in essential tremor
Creators: name: Louis, Elan D.
name: Yi, Hong
name: Erickson-Davis, Cordelia
name: Vonsattel, Jean Paul
name: Faust, Phyllis L.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Essential tremor (ET) is one of the most common neurological diseases. A basic understanding of its neuropathology is now emerging. Aside from Purkinje cell loss, a prominent finding is an abundance of torpedoes (rounded swellings of Purkinje cell axons). Such swellings often result from the mis-accumulation of cell constituents. Identifying the basic nature of these accumulations is an important step in understanding the underlying disease process. Torpedoes, only recently identified in ET, have not yet been characterized ultrastructurally. Light and electron microscopy were used to characterize the structural constituents of torpedoes in ET. Formalin-fixed cerebellar cortical tissue from four prospectively collected ET brains was sectioned and immunostained with a monoclonal phosphorylated neurofilament antibody (SMI-31, Covance, Emeryville, CA). Using additional sections from three ET brains, torpedoes were assessed using electron microscopy. Immunoreactivity for phosphorylated neurofilament protein revealed clear labeling of torpedoes in each case. Torpedoes were strongly immunoreactive; in many instances, two or more torpedoes were noted in close proximity to one another. On electron microscopy, torpedoes were packed with randomly arranged 10–12 nm neurofilaments. Mitochondria and smooth endoplasmic reticulum were abundant as well, particularly at the periphery of the torpedo. We demonstrated that the torpedoes in ET represent the mis-accumulation of disorganized neurofilaments and other organelles. It is not known where in the pathogenic cascade these accumulations occur (i.e., whether these accumulations are the primary event or a secondary/downstream event) and this deserves further study.