cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: "Put that in your pipe and smoke it!" : Imaging findings of smoking-related interstitial lung diseases
Creators: name: Önder, Ömer
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Toxicity
subject: Education and training
subject: Connective tissue disorders
subject: Education
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: CT
subject: Thorax
subject: Lung
subject: Chest

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To be aware of smoking-related interstitial lung diseases as differential diagnosis of patients with smoking history, complaining dyspnea and/or non-productive cough. To discuss clinical features and characteristic imaging findings of these...
The rhetoric of terrorism: a rhetorical analysis of "Inspire" magazine
Creators: name: Hai, Nadia
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 129-143
description: The first decades of the twenty first century have been defined by the "War on Terror." One important aspect of this war is how it is constructed through the media on both sides of the conflict. The al Qaeda social movement primarily uses the internet to communicate with enemies, supporters and potential supporters. This thesis will focus on the perspectives espoused by online English-language jihadist media, which tends to frame the War on Terror as a war against Islam. This thesis will explore the rhetorical devices utilized by al Qaeda to promote their cause to their target audience through a neo-Aristotelian rhetorical analysis of six issues of Inspire magazine, Al Qaeda's online English-language magazine. The rhetorical devices al Qaeda employs make up part of a sophisticated strategy to promote the ethos of their cause. They present themselves as a legitimate global social movement
Tropical and Subtropical Meridional Latent Heat Transports by Disturbances to the Zonal Mean and Their Role in the General Circulation
Creators: name: Shaw, Tiffany Ann
name: Pauluis, Olivier
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Atmosphere
Meteorology

description: The spectrum of meridional latent heat transport in the tropics and subtropics by disturbances to the zonal mean during all seasons is analyzed. The transport is divided into stationary and transient planetary- and subplanetary-scale eddy contributions. The stationary transport is largest in the subtropical lower troposphere and dominates the overall transport during summer. It is of planetary scale and the zonal scale of the transport corresponds to the number of subtropical anticyclones. The transient transport is large from the surface up to the midtroposphere and from the tropics to subpolar latitudes. It is dominated by the subplanetary-scale contribution during all seasons. Westward (eastward)- propagating waves dominate the transport in the tropics (subtropics and midlatitudes). The analysis reveals that, while the total eddy meridional latent heat transport is seamless from the deep tropics to the pole, it represents the sum of transport by distinct dynamical features. The role of the eddy meridional latent heat transport in the moist isentropic circulation is assessed using the statistical transformed Eulerian mean formulation, which converts the eddy transports into streamfunctions. The addition of the eddy latent heat streamfunction to the Eulerian mean plus eddy sensible heat streamfunction increases the mass transport by a factor of 2–3 in the subtropics and midlatitudes. The eddy transport is found to dominate the transport across the subtropical boundary. During Northern Hemisphere summer there is virtually no circulation in the absence of eddy latent heat transport. The results highlight the important role of latent heat transport by subtropical anticyclones and tropical and baroclinic waves in the general circulation.
title: Imaging-guided percutaneous drainage in complicated appendicitis: when and how?
Creators: name: Avila , Vanessa
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Not applicable
subject: Acute
subject: Abscess
subject: Drainage
subject: Catheters
subject: Abscess delineation
subject: Ultrasound
subject: CT
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Abdomen
subject: Interventional Radiology

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To establish criteria for peforming percutaneous approach in complicated appendicitis. To demonstrate the effectivity and security of percutaneous drainage in the treatment of complicated appendicitis. To show the technique and material required for...
Do baryons trace dark matter in the early universe?
Creators: name: Grin, Daniel
name: Doré, Olivier
name: Kamionkowski, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Baryon-density perturbations of large amplitude may exist if they are compensated by dark-matter perturbations so that the total density remains unchanged. Big-bang nucleosynthesis and galaxy clusters allow the amplitudes of these compensated isocurvature perturbations (CIPs) to be as large as $\sim10%$. CIPs will modulate the power spectrum of cosmic microwave background (CMB) fluctuations---those due to the usual adiabatic perturbations---as a function of position on the sky. This leads to correlations between different spherical-harmonic coefficients of the temperature/polarization map, and it induces B modes in the CMB polarization. Here, the magnitude of these effects is calculated and techniques to measure them are introduced. While a CIP of this amplitude can be probed on the largest scales with WMAP, forthcoming CMB experiments should improve the sensitivity to CIPs by at least an order of magnitude.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, updated with version published in Phys. Rev. Lett. Results unchanged. Added expanded discussion of how to disentangle compensated isocurvature perturbations from weak lensing of the CMB. Expanded discussion of early universe motivation for compensated isocurvature perturbations
Digital video scenography : scenic design for Dead Man's Cell Phone
Creators: name: Lau, Hoi Man
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Dead Man’s Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl was presented as part of the 2010/ 2011 University of British Columbia theatre season at the Telus Studio Theatre from January 20th to 29th, 2011. The show was directed by Chris McGregor and stage managed by Collette Brown. The design team included Steffi Lai (Costume), Wladimiro Woyno (Lighting), Nathan Shapiro (Sound) and myself (Set/ Projection). This report examines the creative journey of designing the set and projections for Dead Man’s Cell Phone and the technical process that went into realizing the design and staging the production. Emphasis is placed on the use of digital video projection as the primary scenic element and alternative lighting strategy.
A chart review of substance use screening and related documentation among adolescents in outpatient pediatric clinics: Implications for practice
Creators: name: Kuhns, LM
name: Carlino, B
name: Greeley, K
name: Muldoon, AL
name: Karnik, Niranjan
name: Thompson, H
name: Garofalo, R
name: Rahmandar, M
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Background: Despite recent reductions, youth substance use continues to be a concern in the United States. Structured primary care substance use screening among adolescents is recommended, but not widely implemented. The purpose of this study was to describe the distribution and characteristics of adolescent substance use screening in outpatient clinics in a large academic medical center and assess related factors (i.e., patient age, race/ethnicity, gender, and insurance type) to inform and improve the quality of substance use screening in practice. Methods: We abstracted a random sample of 127 records of patients aged 12-17 and coded clinical notes (e.g., converted open-ended notes to discrete values) to describe screening cases and related characteristics (e.g., which substances screened, how screened). We then analyzed descriptive patterns within the data to calculate screening rates, characteristics of screening, and used multiple logistic regression to identify related factors. Results: Among 127 records, rates of screening by providers were 72% (each) for common substances (alcohol, marijuana, tobacco). The primary method of screening was use of clinical mnemonic cues rather than standardized screening tools. A total of 6% of patients reported substance use during screening. Older age and racial/ethnic minority status were associated with provider screening in multiple logistic regression models. Conclusions: Despite recommendations, low rates of structured screening in primary care persist. Failure to use a standardized screening tool may contribute to low screening rates and biased screening. These findings may be used to inform implementation of standardized and structured screening in the clinical environment. Clinical trial registration: not applicable.
SLE_k: correlation functions in the coefficient problem
Creators: name: Loutsenko, Igor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We apply the method of correlation functions to the coefficient problem in stochastic geometry. In particular, we give a proof for some universal patterns conjectured by M. Zinsmeister for the second moments of the Taylor coefficients for special values of kappa in the whole-plane Schramm-Loewner evolution (SLE_kappa). We propose to use multi-point correlation functions for the study of higher moments in coefficient problem. Generalizations related to the Levy-type processes are also considered. The exact multifractal spectrum of considered version of the whole-plane SLE_kappa is discussed.
Bridging the Divide: Understanding Language Beliefs and Practices Among Caregivers in the Deep South to Inform Culturally Responsive Interventions
Creators: name: Schneider, Julie M.
name: Maldonado, Maria
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: The 30 million word gap refers to the disparity in early language exposure between low socioeconomic status (SES) children and their higher SES peers, a gap that is thought to negatively impact children’s language development and future academic success. Although many early intervention approaches have proven effective in promoting language development among low SES children, they often fall short in terms of cultural responsiveness, which in turn affects caregiver buy-in. The purpose of the current study was to characterize the language beliefs and practices of caregivers in a region of the Deep South in the U.S., Louisiana, which is a racially diverse state characterized by high rates of poverty, with the goal of informing more strength-based interventions that build on caregiver beliefs and practices. Eighty-three caregivers completed a survey examining their priorities for child development, beliefs and practices surrounding language development, and greatest perceived barriers in supporting their child. Language development and problem-solving skills were the most important aspects of child development across all caregivers. Beliefs about how language develops, which context caregivers most frequently engage with their children, and whom children talk to most differed across racial and SES groups. Despite interventions aimed at modifying low SES caregivers’ language input, these caregivers did not perceive their own language abilities to be a challenge in supporting their child’s language development. The findings from this study highlight differences in beliefs and practices regarding child development among caregivers from racially and socioeconomically diverse backgrounds, which may in turn differentially impact caregiver buy-in of early interventions.
Plasmid biology of rhizobium leguminosarum: novel conjugation system and glycerol catabolic genes
Creators: name: Ding, Hao
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 211-230
description: Many pages are in colour.
description: Large plasmids in rhizobia play important roles in rhizobia-legume symbioses and bacterial survival and competitiveness in the rhizosphere. In R. leguminosarum bv. viciae VF39SM, a novel conjugation system on plasmid pRleVF39b was isolated and found to be different from the rhizobial quorum sensing-regulated or the RctA-repressed conjugation systems. The entire transfer region on pRleVF39b encompasses a trb-like operon and traG, encoding the mating pore formation component and the coupling protein, and a relaxase gene traA located 9 kb downstream of the trb operon. Mutations in any of the above genes completely abolished the transfer of pRleVF39b. The transfer of pRleVF39b was affected mainly by its host genetic background. Under the conditions tested, pRle VF3 9b transferred at highest frequency at about 10-4 transconjugants per recipient from plasmid-free Agrobacterium tumefaciens UBAPF2 to another Agrobacterium recipient. The transfer frequency decreased about 10 to 100-fold when Rhizobium was the donor, and decreased at least 1000-fold when Rhizobium was the recipient. An xre-type transcriptional repressor gene trbR was identified in the region between traG and traA. Mutation in trbR led to SO-fold increases in trb operon expression and pRleVF39b transfer. A glycerol uptake and catabolic locus on pRleVF39c was found to comprise a glpR gene, encoding a transcriptional regulator, and the glp operon, including a glpD gene, encoding glycerol 3-phosphate dehydrogenase, glpSTPQUV encoding an ATP binding cassette transporter, and a glpK gene encoding glycerol kinase. All the genes within the operon were required for growth on glycerol, except for glpK whose function can be partially complemented by a glpKch gene on the chromosome. The glp operon was inducible by glycerol, glycerol 3-phosphate, and pea seed exudates. GlpR represses the expression of the glp operon in the absence of inducer. Glycerol uptake in Rhizobium was shown to be an active process mediated by an ABC transporter. Mutants that are unable to utilize glycerol as a sole carbon source were less competitive in nodulating peas than the wild-type, indicating that glycerol catabolism might confer advantages to the bacterium in the rhizosphere or in plants.
Luckily He Backed Off: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Undergraduate Women’s Consent, Attitudes and Behaviors
Creators: name: Power, Kelsey
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Social service
Women's studies

description: Women’s sexual beliefs and behaviors are influenced by the overarching demands of society. This paper discusses a portion of a study completed at a small liberal arts institution in the northeastern United States. Female undergraduates (N = 54) answered an online questionnaire concerning their own sexual compliance attitudes and behaviors. O’Sullivan and Allgeier (1998) define sexual compliance as engaging in unwanted sexual activity. Results from this mixed methods study indicate that participants have engaged in sexual compliance (N = 25, 46%) in their own lives. A series of three fictional vignettes of varying sexual scenarios prompted qualitative narratives from participants. Female respondents endorsed the female character’s use of verbal communication over physical communication of lack of desire to engage in sexual activity in the vignette. However, although women regularly used verbal communication, they expressed reluctance to do so in specific sexual situations out of fear of making themselves and their partners uncomfortable. Results also indicate that participants assigned women as the “gatekeepers” of sexual activity by giving responsibility often wholly to the female character in the scenarios (Simon and Gagnon, 2005, p. 68). This paper discusses how women’s agency in sexual interactions is a prevailing discourse in American culture and is reflected in the compliance behaviors of women. Specific programming endeavors that aim to change this predominant culture are also discussed.
title: Deconstructing a partnership: evaluating a win-win conservation and development story, the case of the Mara conservancies, Kenya
title: [De]constructing a partnership: evaluating a win-win conservation and development story, the case of the Mara conservancies, Kenya
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: (De)constructing a partnership in the Mara conservancies, Kenya: a win-win conservation and development story?
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: De-constructing a partnership in the Mara conservancies, Kenya: a win-win conservation and development story
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Jandreau, Connor
name: Hentschel, Margit
name: International Wildlife Ranching Symposium, Producer
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Wildlife management -- Congresses
subject: Range management -- Congresses

description: Moderator: Margit Hentschel.
description: Presented at the 8th international congress for wildlife and livelihoods on private and communal lands: livestock, tourism, and spirit, that was held on September 7-12, 2014 in Estes Park, Colorado.
description: Kenya's Maasai Mara ecosystem is a particularly contested landscape when it concerns conservation and development interests. In recent years, private conservancies have emerged, redefining the relationships between conservation, tourism and local Maasai pastoralists. The partnership forged between ecotourism operators and Maasai landowners is crowned in a community-based conservation model, bringing together a win for wildlife, and a win for livelihoods. Despite this, there are inherent trade-offs being made by various stakeholders, not least pastoralists who now have to navigate an extended network of protected area boundaries with their livestock. The conservancy is quick to point to the successes, but sufficient attention has not yet been paid to the winners and losers in the process. My research took place over the months of January to August 2013 where I explored the interface between conservation and pastoral interests. I conducted semi-structured interviews, focus groups and other qualitative research methods as a way to gauge various stakeholder positions in relation to the conservancy format. Initial findings suggest the conservancies have made strong progress in alleviating some of the historical failures inherent in East Africa's well-preserved fortress conservation story. The conservancies are beginning to fashion compatibility between tourism and livestock, where wildlife benefit. Yet the future of the conservancies remains unclear, in large part due to community concerns for livestock, resource access, and rights to self-determination. The conservancy format in Maasailand needs to consider greater efforts in fashioning a true partnership before it can consider itself a win-win enterprise.
Playing by the rules: a theory of embodied human rights
Creators: name: Anderson, Ardis Marie
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 197-200
description: We have paradigms of human rights-if freedom from institutionalized torture isn't one, we really have no idea what a human right is; and we know that human rights must be transcultural. What we don't know is how to ground them, how to specify them, how to identify them, and perhaps, how to balance them. The aim of this thesis is to begin to make some headway in regards to this grounding. Rights, duties and rules are distinct concepts that are intimately related to one another. The interrelations are so dense and intricate that it is easy to get them wrong. I evaluate and clarify the landscape of rights and develop a theoretical model that can be fruitfully applied to human rights concerns. Oftentimes, theories can have a shell that appears solid and polished but once pushed they disintegrate. There are two challenges that must be met by any rule-based theory of rights. The one theoretical conflict comes from those who think that rights are especially important concepts and thus cannot be reconceptualised in terms of duties. The other conflict is internal to a theory of this type. If rights are generated by duties and duties are the product of rules, then if there is no rule system it would seem impossible to account for rights and so rights are, at most, dependent on actual, contingent rule systems. A solid philosophical theory can sometimes collapse in the light of actual practice. Though the theory of embodied rights is embryonic, I think it useful to apply it to some extremely difficult problems. Doing so will allow us to see how the theory might work in practice and may be illuminating and may indicate areas where future work using this model can be done.
title: Misplaced and Displaced: Abnormally located medical tubes, stents and catheters from Radiologists’ perspective
Creators: name: Önder, Ömer
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Not applicable
subject: Education and training
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Complications
subject: Catheters
subject: Ultrasound
subject: CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Management
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Interventional Radiology

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: 1. To know some commonly used medical devices and their correct location based on systemic classification. 2. To recognize radiological findings of abnormally located medical devices and be aware of possible complications related to them. 3. To...
A class of covariate-dependent spatiotemporal covariance functions for the analysis of daily ozone concentration
Creators: name: Reich, Brian J.
name: Eidsvik, Jo
name: Guindani, Michele
name: Nail, Amy J.
name: Schmidt, Alexandra M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In geostatistics, it is common to model spatially distributed phenomena through an underlying stationary and isotropic spatial process. However, these assumptions are often untenable in practice because of the influence of local effects in the correlation structure. Therefore, it has been of prolonged interest in the literature to provide flexible and effective ways to model nonstationarity in the spatial effects. Arguably, due to the local nature of the problem, we might envision that the correlation structure would be highly dependent on local characteristics of the domain of study, namely, the latitude, longitude and altitude of the observation sites, as well as other locally defined covariate information. In this work, we provide a flexible and computationally feasible way for allowing the correlation structure of the underlying processes to depend on local covariate information. We discuss the properties of the induced covariance functions and methods to assess its dependence on local covariate information. The proposed method is used to analyze daily ozone in the southeast United States.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/11-AOAS482 the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Reinforcing outpatient medical student learning using brief computer tutorials: the Patient-Teacher-Tutorial sequence
Creators: name: Pusic, Martin
name: MacDonald, Wendy
name: Eisman, Harley
name: Black, John
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Medicine

description: Background:At present, what students read after an outpatient encounter is largely left up to them. Our objective was to evaluate the education efficacy of a clinical education model in which the student moves through a sequence that includes immediately reinforcing their learning using a specifically designed computer tutorial. Methods: Prior to a 14-day Pediatric Emergency rotation, medical students completed pre-tests for two common pediatric topics: Oral Rehydration Solutions (ORS) and Fever Without Source (FWS). After encountering a patient with either FWS or a patient needing ORS, the student logged into a computer that randomly assigned them to either a) completing a relevant computer tutorial (e.g. FWS patient + FWS tutorial = "in sequence") or b) completing the non-relevant tutorial (e.g. FWS patient + ORS tutorial = "out of sequence"). At the end of their rotation, they were tested again on both topics. Our main outcome was post-test scores on a given tutorial topic, contrasted by whether done in- or out-of-sequence Results:Ninety-two students completed the study protocol with 41 in the 'in sequence' group. Pre-test scores did not differ significantly. Overall, doing a computer tutorial in sequence resulted in significantly greater post-test scores (z-score 1.1 (SD 0.70) in sequence vs. 0.52 (1.1) out-of-sequence; 95% CI for difference +0.16, +0.93). Students spent longer on the tutorials when they were done in sequence (12.1 min (SD 7.3) vs. 10.5 (6.5)) though the difference was not statistically significant (95% CI diff: -1.2 min, +4.5). Conclusion: Outpatient learning frameworks could be structured to take best advantage of the heightened learning potential created by patient encounters. We propose the Patient-Teacher-Tutorial sequence as a framework for organizing learning in outpatient clinical settings.
The Substance Use Intervention Team: A Preliminary Analysis of a Population-level Strategy to Address the Opioid Crisis at an Academic Health Center
Creators: name: Thompson, HM
name: Hill, K
name: Jadhav, R
name: Webb, TA
name: Pollack, M
name: Karnik, Niranjan
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Objective:In 2017, an academic health center in Chicago launched the multidisciplinary Substance Use Intervention Team (SUIT) to address opioid misuse across 18 inpatient units and in a new outpatient addiction medicine clinic. This report assesses the first 5 months of implementation and associations with patient health and healthcare utilization. Methods: Patient demographic and screening data were extracted from the administrative data warehouse of the electronic health record (EHR) infrastructure. Distribution of sample characteristics for positive initial screens for opioid misuse was tested against those of all patients screened using a 2-tailed test of proportions (P < 0.05). A second analysis compared length of stay and 30-day readmissions within a cohort of patients with a secondary diagnosis of substance use disorder. Results: Between November, 2017 and March, 2018, 76% of 15,054 unique patients were screened, 578 had positive scores on the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test and Drug Abuse Screening Test, 131 had positive scores for opioid misuse, and 52 patients initiated medication treatment. Patients with a secondary diagnosis of substance use disorder who received a SUIT consult (n = 161), compared with those who did not (n = 612), had a shorter average length of stay (5.91 vs 6.73 days) and lower 30-day readmission rate (13.6% vs 15.7%).Conclusion:Leveraging the EHR to conduct standardized screenings and treatment has helped identify an at-risk population - disproportionately younger, black, and male - and treat new cases of opioid and substance misuse. The intervention indicates trends toward a shortened length of stay, reduced 30-day readmissions, and has linked patients to outpatient care.
Factors influencing medical student attrition and their implications in a large multi-center randomized education trial
Creators: name: Pusic, Martin
name: Kalet, Adina
name: Ellaway, Rachel
name: Song, Hyuksoon
name: Nick, Michael
name: Sarpel, Umut
name: Hopkins, Mary Ann
name: Hill, Jennifer
name: Plass, Jan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Medicine

description: Participant attrition may be a significant threat to the generalizability of the results of educational research studies if participants who do not persist in a study differ from those who do in ways that can affect the experimental outcomes. A multi-center trial of the efficacy of different computer-based instructional strategies gave us the opportunity to observe institutional and student factors linked to attrition from a study and the ways in which they altered the participation profile. The data is from a randomized controlled trial conducted at seven US medical schools investigating the educational impact of different instructional designs for computer-based learning modules for surgical clerks. All students undertaking their surgical clerkships at the participating schools were invited participate and those that consented were asked to complete five study measures during their surgery clerkship. Variations in study attrition rates were explored by institution and by participants' self-regulation, self-efficacy, perception of task value, and mastery goal orientation measured on entry to the study. Of the 1,363 invited participants 995 (73 %) consented to participate and provided baseline data. There was a significant drop in the rate of participation at each of the five study milestones with 902 (94 %) completing at least one of two module post-test, 799 (61 %) both module post-tests, 539 (36 %) the mid-rotation evaluation and 252 (25 %) the final evaluation. Attrition varied between institutions on survival analysis (p < 0.001). Small but statistically significant differences in self-regulation (p = 0.01), self-efficacy (p = 0.02) and task value (p = 0.04) were observed but not in mastery or performance goal orientation measures (p = NS). Study attrition was correlated with lower achievement on the National Board of Medical Examiners subject exam. The results of education trials should be interpreted with the understanding that students who persist may be somewhat more self-regulated, self-efficacious and higher achievers than their peers who drop out and as such do not represent the class as a whole.
title: Upper urinary tract infections and how radiologists can help in their management
Creators: name: González-Carrero Sixto, Carmen
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ultrasound
subject: CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Infection
subject: Education and training
subject: Genitourinary
subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: Kidney
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To discuss the role of imaging in the diagnosis and follow-up of urinary tract infections. To describe the principal imaging findings in pyelonephritis and its complications in the different modalities. To define the top etiologic differential...
Loigolactobacillus coryniformis subsp. coryniformis Zheng, Wittouck, Salvetti, Franz, Harris, Mattarelli, O'Toole, Pot, Vandamme, Walter, Watanabe, Wuyts, Felis, Gänzle & Lebeer, 2020, COMB. NOV.
Creators: name: Zheng, Jinshui
name: Wittouck, Stijn
name: Salvetti, Elisa
name: Franz, Charles M. A. P.
name: Harris, Hugh M. B.
name: Mattarelli, Paola
name: O'Toole, Paul W.
name: Pot, Bruno
name: Vandamme, Peter
name: Walter, Jens
name: Watanabe, Koichi
name: Wuyts, Sander
name: Felis, Giovanna E.
name: Gänzle, Michael G.
name: Lebeer, Sarah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Firmicutes
Bacilli
Lactobacillales
Lactobacillaceae
Loigolactobacillus
Loigolactobacillus coryniformis
Loigolactobacillus coryniformis subsp. coryniformis

description: DESCRIPTIONOF LOIGOLACTOBACILLUS CORYNIFORMIS SUBSP. CORYNIFORMIS COMB. NOV.
Loigolactobacillus coryniformis subsp. coryniformis (co.ry ′ ni. for ′ mis. Gr. n. coryne a club; L. adj. formis shaped; N.L. adj. coryniformis club-shaped).
Basonym: Lactobacilluscoryniformis subsp. coryniformis Abo- Elnagaand Kandler 1965, 18 (Approved Lists)
L. coryniformis subsp. coryniformis strains produce L-(+) isomer of the lactic acid at amounts of 15–20 % of total lactic acid [170]. The genome size of the type strain is 2.71 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNAis 42.9.
Isolated from silage, cow dung, dairy barn air and sewage, and from table olives, wheat, pickled vegetable, cheese and ting, a fermented sorghum porridge.
Thetypestrainis ATCC 25602 T = CIP 103133 T =DSM 20001 T = CCUG 30666 T =JCM 1164 T = LMG 9196 T =NRRL B-4391 T.
Genome sequence accession number: AZCN00000000.
16S rRNA gene accession number: M58813.
description: Published as part of Zheng, Jinshui, Wittouck, Stijn, Salvetti, Elisa, Franz, Charles M. A. P., Harris, Hugh M. B., Mattarelli, Paola, O'Toole, Paul W., Pot, Bruno, Vandamme, Peter, Walter, Jens, Watanabe, Koichi, Wuyts, Sander, Felis, Giovanna E., Gänzle, Michael G. & Lebeer, Sarah, 2020, A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae, pp. 2782-2858 in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 on page 2817, DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004107, http://zenodo.org/record/4730536
Genome Sizes and the Benford Distribution
Creators: name: Friar, James L.
name: Goldman, Terrance
name: Pérez-Mercader, Juan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Genomics (q-bio.GN)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Data on the number of Open Reading Frames (ORFs) coded by genomes from the 3 domains of Life show some notable general features including essential differences between the Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes, with the number of ORFs growing linearly with total genome size for the former, but only logarithmically for the latter. Assuming that the (protein) coding and non-coding fractions of the genome must have different dynamics and that the non-coding fraction must be controlled by a variety of (unspecified) probability distribution functions, we are able to predict that the number of ORFs for Eukaryotes follows a Benford distribution and has a specific logarithmic form. Using the data for 1000+ genomes available to us in early 2010, we find excellent fits to the data over several orders of magnitude, in the linear regime for the Prokaryote data, and the full non-linear form for the Eukaryote data. In their region of overlap the salient features are statistically congruent, which allows us to: interpret the difference between Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes as the manifestation of the increased demand in the biological functions required for the larger Eukaryotes, estimate some minimal genome sizes, and predict a maximal Prokaryote genome size on the order of 8-12 megabasepairs. These results naturally allow a mathematical interpretation in terms of maximal entropy and, therefore, most efficient information transmission.
description: 23 pages, 1 figure (eps)
Myotis undetermined
Creators: name: Carrion-Bonilla, Carlos Alberto
name: Cook, Joseph Anthony
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Myotis
Myotis undetermined

description: Myotis sp.
 MEXICO (n = 4) Yucatán Peninsula,Quintana Roo, Pueblo Nuevo (KU 91911*, KU 91912*, KU 91915*, KU 91916*).
description: Published as part of Carrion-Bonilla, Carlos Alberto & Cook, Joseph Anthony, 2020, A new bat species of the genus Myotis with comments on the phylogenetic placement of M. keaysi and M. pilosatibialis, pp. 508-532 in Therya 11 (3) on page 524, DOI: 10.12933/therya-20-999, http://zenodo.org/record/10260821
Information Technology, Productivity, and Asset Ownership: Evidence from Taxicab Fleets
Creators: name: Rawley, Evan
name: Simcoe, Timothy S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Business
Management
Information science

description: We develop a simple model that links the adoption of a productivity-enhancing technology to increased vertical integration and a less skilled workforce. We test the model's key prediction using novel microdata on vehicle ownership patterns from the Economic Census during a period when computerized dispatching systems were first adopted by taxicab firms. Controlling for time-invariant firm-specific effects, firms increase the proportion of taxicabs under fleet ownership by 12% when they adopt new computerized dispatching systems. An instrumental variables analysis suggests that the link between dispatching technology and vertical integration is causal. These findings suggest that increasing a firm's productivity can lead to increased vertical integration, even in the absence of asset specificity.
title: Reducing resection of benign thymic lesions: the role of MR evaluation of thymic masses
Creators: name: Wilson, Alexander
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Retrospective
subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: MR
subject: Thorax
subject: Mediastinum
subject: Chest
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Understand the basic principles of thymus MRI Awareness of common pathologies identified on thymus MRI Understand the impact of MR evaluation of thymic lesions in the clinic-radiological management of...
Linking sustainable forest management with habitat conservation for the Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica)
Creators: name: Han, Xuemei
name: Anderson, David
name: International Wildlife Ranching Symposium, Producer
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Wildlife management -- Congresses
subject: Range management -- Congresses

description: Moderator: David Anderson.
description: Presented at the 8th international congress for wildlife and livelihoods on private and communal lands: livestock, tourism, and spirit, that was held on September 7-12, 2014 in Estes Park, Colorado.
description: The critically endangered wild cat, Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), has experienced a serious shrinking of its range and a significant population decline during the past century in Northeastern China and Russian Far East. This study demonstrates a multi-disciplinary approach to conserve the Amur tiger habitat through sustainable forest management. The forests habitat was evaluated from a dynamic perspective. By applying multiple metrological silvicultural methods, innovative habitat mapping based on the remote sensed data, and the computer model, Landscape Management System, a design of sustainable forest management plan was suggested to keep a diversified stand structures is critical to conserve Amur tigers in Northeast China.
"Being labeled as a bride... it makes you want to punch them in the face" : an exploratory study of queer weddings in Vancouver, Canada
Creators: name: Lebenkoff, Sharon
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Although the theoretical literature debating the significance, implications, and consequences of queer participation marriage is vast, only a few empirical studies that focus specifically on queer weddings have been carried out. This research examines queer weddings in the distinct political, legal, and cultural context of Vancouver, Canada. Using in-depth qualitative interviews and participant observation, I investigate the decision-making and labor practices involved in planning and hosting a queer wedding. As well, I examine how couples negotiate feelings and relationships before, during, and after the wedding. I explore these practices to illuminate how queer weddings both support and challenge the institution of marriage. My findings suggest some significant distinctions between heterosexual and queer weddings, highlighting that producing a queer wedding presents unique challenges and rewards. Without exception, participants in this study felt they had tremendous freedom to shape their weddings according to their own beliefs, values, and desires. However, I argue that their personal freedom was mediated by the legal requirements of the state, as well as by a desire to attend to the needs and feelings of their families of origin. Further, I found that the wedding industry remains unshakably heteronormative and at times homophobic, often making queer couples feel less than welcome. I discovered that weddings did present my narrators with the chance to resist heteronormativity, traditional gender roles, and the wedding-industrial complex, yet their ability to resist was constrained by the need for intelligibility. I conclude that a queer wedding is a ritual performance of legitimacy and an opportunity to experience a profound sense of validation and belonging. However, the wedding holds a unique temporal and spatial position that does not necessarily reflect everyday realities. My findings suggest that queer couples’ access to legitimacy is inconsistent, causing them to experience dissonance as they move through time and space.
title: The role of imaging modalities in assessment of gynaecologic causes of acute pelvic pain
Creators: name: Oraby, Alaa
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Acute
subject: Education
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female
subject: Genitourinary

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To review the spectrum of gynaecologic pathologies resulting in acute pelvic pain. To illustrate the role of different imaging modalities used in assessment of gynaecologic causes of acute pelvic pain. To be able to choose the best imaging modality...
Using satellites to investigate the sensitivity of longwave downward radiation to water vapor at high elevations
Creators: name: Naud, Catherine M.
name: Miller, James R.
name: Landry, Chris
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Climatic changes
Atmosphere
Meteorology

description: Many studies suggest that high-elevation regions may be among the most sensitive to future climate change. However, in situ observations in these often remote locations are too sparse to determine the feedbacks responsible for enhanced warming rates. One of these feedbacks is associated with the sensitivity of longwave downward radiation (LDR) to changes in water vapor, with the sensitivity being particularly large in many high-elevation regions where the average water vapor is often low. We show that satellite retrievals from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) can be used to expand the current ground-based observational database and that the monthly averaged clear-sky satellite estimates of humidity and LDR are in good agreement with the well-instrumented Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies ground-based site in the southwestern Colorado Rocky Mountains. The relationship between MODIS-retrieved precipitable water vapor and surface specific humidity across the contiguous United States was found to be similar to that previously found for the Alps. More important, we show that satellites capture the nonlinear relationship between LDR and water vapor and confirm that LDR is especially sensitive to changes in water vapor at high elevations in several midlatitude mountain ranges. Because the global population depends on adequate fresh water, much of which has its source in high mountains, it is critically important to understand how climate will change there. We demonstrate that satellites can be used to investigate these feedbacks in high-elevation regions where the coverage of surface-based observations is insufficient to do so.
National and colonial language discourses in Japan and its colonies, 1868-1945
Creators: name: Hattori, Mina
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This thesis focuses on the colonialist discourse in Japanese linguistics in the period from 1868 to 1945, the time when Japan changed from a semi-feudal isolated country to a modernized nation and a colonizer. To address the complexity caused by such rapid development, and namely, to show how modernization and colonialism shaped Japanese language studies during this period, I present my analysis in two parts: the first part explores multiple facets of Japanese language education in the colonial period, both on Japanese territory and in Japanese colonies, particularly on the Korean Peninsula; the second part is a study of language manuals for Japanese soldiers. Although I examine some multilingual manuals, my main focus is on Korean language manuals because their number far exceeds that of other languages and also because Korea is my primary research area. My claim is that a careful examination of language manuals as well as of Japanese language education both in Japan and its colonies reveals one of the characteristic features of Japanese colonial linguistics: a situation when a standard-in-the-making was simultaneously being exported to colonial sites with variable success rates. Before the Japanese language went abroad, and more importantly, after its export, the struggle over what kind of Japanese language to teach continued to be a matter of controversy and was never settled until the U.S. occupied Japan and implemented educational reforms. But superimposed on all the debates was always the conflicting concept of kokugo (national language), which was so over-politicized that it precluded the possibility of any academic reforms or structural refinements in tandem with its political expansion overseas. As my study shows, one of the reasons for this complexity was that not only nationalism but also pan-Asianist discourse played a significant role in the Japanese colonial enterprise in East Asia. The language manuals for Japanese soldiers that I examine were published between 1882 and 1935. As the publication years grow more recent, we can see, in the prefaces and the contents, shifts in the forms of nationalism and pan-Asianist rhetoric occurring simultaneously with the rise of colonialist discourse.