cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Profiling lung adenocarcinoma by liquid biopsy: can one size fit all?
Creators: name: Hewage, Emil
name: Tsai, Evaline S.
name: Patel, Nirmesh
name: Seres, Bianka
name: O’Neill, Hannah L.
name: Cassidy, John W.
name: Cassidy, Amy P.
name: Vaughn, Courtney
name: Clifford, Harry W.
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2016

description: Background Cancer is first and foremost a disease of the genome. Specific genetic signatures within a tumour are prognostic of disease outcome, reflect subclonal architecture and intratumour heterogeneity, inform treatment choices and predict the emergence of resistance to targeted therapies. Minimally invasive liquid biopsies can give temporal resolution to a tumour’s genetic profile and allow the monitoring of treatment response through levels of circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA). However, the detection of ctDNA in repeated liquid biopsies is currently limited by economic and time constraints associated with targeted sequencing. Methods Here we bioinformatically profile the mutational and copy number spectrum of The Cancer Genome Network’s lung adenocarcinoma dataset to uncover recurrently mutated genomic loci. Results We build a panel of 400 hotspot mutations and show that the coverage extends to more than 80% of the dataset at a median depth of 8 mutations per patient. Additionally, we uncover several novel single-nucleotide variants present in more than 5% of patients, often in genes not commonly associated with lung adenocarcinoma. Conclusion With further optimisation, this hotspot panel could allow molecular diagnostics laboratories to build curated primer banks for ‘off-the-shelf’ monitoring of ctDNA by droplet-based digital PCR or similar techniques, in a time- and cost-effective manner.
title: "Wir sind ausgewandert, oder ausgesiedelt, oder Heimkehrer gewesen"
Creators: name: Brunner, Andrea
Year: 2012

description: Die Arbeit greift ein Beispiel aus der österreichischen Erinnerungskultur und Gedächtnispolitik heraus und betrachtet dieses aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln – im Sinne der Cultural Studies: Die Untersuchung basiert auf biografischen Interviews mit drei ZeitzeugInnen, die als ehemalige Donauschwaben aus der Stadt Werschetz (dem heutigen Vršac, Serbien) nach 1945 auf unterschiedliche Weise nach Flucht, Vertreibung und Auswanderung in Österreich bzw. Deutschland eine neue Heimat gefunden haben. Ihrer Erzählung gegenübergestellt wurde die institutionalisierte Erinnerungskultur der so genannten Heimatortsgemeinschaft der Werschetzer, Mitglied der DAG (Donauschwäbische Arbeitsgemeinschaft – Dachverband aller Donauschwaben in Österreich), sowie die Medienkultur dieses Dachverbandes im Haus der Heimat, Wien. Eine Beschreibung des Spannungsfeldes zwischen persönlicher und institutionalisierter Erinnerung und dessen Folgen für die Gedächtnispolitik soll einerseits Ausgangspunkt für zukünftige Forschungsarbeit im Kontext der Gedächtnispolitik Europas sein und andererseits verdeutlichen, dass Erinnerung Politik und Politik Erinnerungen schafft.
description: This works cites an example of Austrian Remembrance Culture and Politics of Memory with different approaches in terms of Cultural Studies: The research is based on biographical interviews with three contemporary witnesses – so called Donauschwaben – who lived in their childhood in former Yugoslavia in a little town named Vršac (in German: Werschetz) but had to leave their hometown between 1944 and 1954 towards Austria or Germany. All three had different reasons to go: escape, displacement and migration. To specify this area of conflict between official representatives of the “Haus der Heimat” in Vienna and the contemporary witnesses (two of them are members too) in their individual handling of Remembrance Culture and Politics of Memory both sides were compared by means of different methods of social research.
Modern approaches to accelerate discovery of new antischistosomal drugs
Creators: name: Andrade, Carolina Horta
name: Muratov, Eugene
name: Cravo, Pedro Vitor Lemos
name: Neves, Bruno Junior
name: Machado, Renato Beilner
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016

description: INTRODUCTION: The almost exclusive use of only praziquantel for the treatment of schistosomiasis has raised concerns about the possible emergence of drug-resistant schistosomes. Consequently, there is an urgent need for new antischistosomal drugs. The identification of leads and the generation of high quality data are crucial steps in the early stages of schistosome drug discovery projects.
AREAS COVERED: Herein, the authors focus on the current developments in antischistosomal lead discovery, specifically referring to the use of automated in vitro target-based and whole-organism screens and virtual screening of chemical databases. They highlight the strengths and pitfalls of each of the above-mentioned approaches, and suggest possible roadmaps towards the integration of several strategies, which may contribute for optimizing research outputs and led to more successful and cost-effective drug discovery endeavors.
EXPERT OPINION: Increasing partnerships and access to funding for drug discovery have strengthened the battle against schistosomiasis in recent years. However, the authors believe this battle also includes innovative strategies to overcome scientific challenges. In this context, significant advances of in vitro screening as well as computer-aided drug discovery have contributed to increase the success rate and reduce the costs of drug discovery campaigns. Although some of these approaches were already used in current antischistosomal lead discovery pipelines, the integration of these strategies in a solid workflow should allow the production of new treatments for schistosomiasis in the near future.
Youth Acquisition and Situational Use of Cigars, Cigarillos, and Little Cigars: A Cross-sectional Study
Creators: name: Frank, Jean L.
name: Cofie, Leslie E.
name: Trapl, Erika S.
name: Yoder, Laura D.
name: Fryer, Craig S.
name: O’Rourke-Suchoff, Danielle
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2016

description: INTRODUCTION: Although adolescent use of cigars, cigarillos, and little cigars (CCLCs) has been increasing, little research has been conducted to understand how adolescents acquire CCLCs and the situations in which they smoke CCLCs. Thus, this study aims to understand how adolescent smokers acquire CCLCs and the situations in which they smoke them.
METHODS: Data were drawn from the 2011 Cuyahoga County Youth Risk Behavior Survey. Current CCLC smoking was assessed; analysis was limited to current smokers (n=1,337). Current users were asked to identify situations in which they use cigars and ways in which they get cigars. Bivariate analyses assessed differences by sex, race, and concurrent substance use. Data were analyzed in 2014.
RESULTS: Youth acquired CCLCs most commonly by buying (64.2%). CCLC smokers also reported high rates of social use (81.1%). There were no significant differences is situational use across sexes, but female adolescents were significantly more likely than male adolescents to share CCLCs and significantly less likely to buy or take CCLCs. Conversely, significant differences were seen for situational use by race/ethnicity, with whites significantly more likely to use in social situations and less likely to use in solitary situations versus blacks and Hispanics. Finally, significant differences were observed in both acquisition and use for youth who concurrently used CCLCs and cigarettes compared with CCLCs only; fewer differences were noted among those who concurrently used CCLCs and marijuana compared with CCLCs only.
CONCLUSIONS: These findings highlight how adolescents acquire and use CCLCs and can inform tobacco control strategies to prevent and reduce CCLC use.
Cryptolaria triserialis Fraser 1913
Creators: name: Calder, Dale R.
name: Choong, Henry H. C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Hydrozoa
Leptothecata
Lafoeidae
Cryptolaria
Cryptolaria triserialis

description: Cryptolaria triserialis Fraser, 1913b
Cryptolaria (?) borealis Levinsen, 1893: 173, pl. 5, fig. 21.
Cryptolaria triserialis Fraser, 1913b: 170, pl. 13, figs. 1, 2.
Grammaria borealis.— Stechow, 1923: 147.
Acryptolaria triserialis.— Fraser, 1944a: 213, pl. 42, figs. 194a–c.
Type material. None known to exist.
Type locality. Canada, Nova Scotia: Chedabucto Bay, Canso, off Durells Island, 37 m (Fraser 1913b).
Current status. Invalid.
Remarks. No collections of Cryptolaria triserialis Fraser, 1913b, type or otherwise, could be located during this study. The species was not mentioned as part of the Fraser Hydroid Collection by Arai (1977), and it was not found by us during this study in either the online database, or the collections, or a museum catalogue of the collection.
Cairns et al. (2002) followed Fraser (1944a) in assigning the species to Acryptolaria Norman, 1875, as A. triserialis. However, Kramp (1932) included C. triserialis in the synonymy of Grammaria borealis (Levinsen, 1893), a conclusion adopted by Vervoort (1972), Schuchert (2001a), Antsulevich (2015), and WoRMS.
description: Published as part of Calder, Dale R. & Choong, Henry H. C., 2018, Names of hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) established by Charles McLean Fraser (1872 - 1946), excluding those from Allan Hancock Expeditions, pp. 1-83 in Zootaxa 4487 (1) on page 40, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4487.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1456161
Ionospheric contributions to the excess power in high-redshift 21-cm power-spectrum observations with LOFAR
Creators: name: Brackenhoff, S. A.
name: Mevius, M.
name: Koopmans, L. V. E.
name: Offringa, A.
name: Ceccotti, E.
name: Chege, J. K.
name: Gehlot, B. K.
name: Ghosh, S.
name: Höfer, C.
name: Mertens, F. G.
name: Munshi, S.
name: Zaroubi, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The turbulent ionosphere causes phase shifts to incoming radio waves on a broad range of temporal and spatial scales. When an interferometer is not sufficiently calibrated for the direction-dependent ionospheric effects, the time-varying phase shifts can cause the signal to decorrelate. The ionosphere's influence over various spatiotemporal scales introduces a baseline-dependent effect on the interferometric array. We study the impact of baseline-dependent decorrelation on high-redshift observations with the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR). Datasets with a range of ionospheric corruptions are simulated using a thin-screen ionosphere model, and calibrated using the state-of-the-art LOFAR Epoch of Reionisation pipeline. For the first time ever, we show the ionospheric impact on various stages of the calibration process including an analysis of the transfer of gain errors from longer to shorter baselines using realistic end-to-end simulations. We find that direction-dependent calibration for source subtraction leaves excess power of up to two orders of magnitude above the thermal noise at the largest spectral scales in the cylindrically averaged auto-power spectrum under normal ionospheric conditions. However, we demonstrate that this excess power can be removed through Gaussian process regression, leaving no excess power above the ten per cent level for a $5~$km diffractive scale. We conclude that ionospheric errors, in the absence of interactions with other aggravating effects, do not constitute a dominant component in the excess power observed in LOFAR Epoch of Reionisation observations of the North Celestial Pole. Future work should therefore focus on less spectrally smooth effects, such as beam modelling errors.
description: 22 pages, 20 figures. Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS)
A Reinforcement Learning Based Backfilling Strategy for HPC Batch Jobs
Creators: name: Kolker-Hicks, Elliot
name: Zhang, Di
name: Dai, Dong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: High Performance Computing (HPC) systems are used across a wide range of disciplines for both large and complex computations. HPC systems often receive many thousands of computational tasks at a time, colloquially referred to as jobs. These jobs must then be scheduled as optimally as possible so they can be completed within a reasonable timeframe. HPC scheduling systems often employ a technique called backfilling, wherein low-priority jobs are scheduled earlier to use the available resources that are waiting for the pending high-priority jobs. To make it work, backfilling largely relies on job runtime to calculate the start time of the ready-to-schedule jobs and avoid delaying them. It is a common belief that better estimations of job runtime will lead to better backfilling and more effective scheduling. However, our experiments show a different conclusion: there is a missing trade-off between prediction accuracy and backfilling opportunities. To learn how to achieve the best trade-off, we believe reinforcement learning (RL) can be effectively leveraged. Reinforcement Learning relies on an agent which makes decisions from observing the environment, and gains rewards or punishments based on the quality of its decision-making. Based on this idea, we designed RLBackfilling, a reinforcement learning-based backfilling algorithm. We show how RLBackfilling can learn effective backfilling strategies via trial-and-error on existing job traces. Our evaluation results show up to 59% better scheduling performance (based on average bounded job slowdown) compared to EASY backfilling using user-provided job runtime and 30% better performance compared with EASY using the ideal predicted job runtime (the actual job runtime).
description: This paper was originally published in the Workshops of the International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (PMBS 2023). This version has been updated to address several issues identified after publication
title: Neue politische Ausdrucksformen am Beispiel des „Wohnprojektes Wien”
Creators: name: Büchler, Simon
Year: 2012

description: Anhand des Wohnprojektes Wien werden in dieser Arbeit neue politische Ausdrucksformen aufgezeigt. Es soll erörtert werden ob und inwiefern es sich bei dem gewählten Projekt um politökologische Praxis handelt. Es wurde anfänglich davon ausgegangen, dass dieses Projekt eher eine Ausnahme darstellt, trotz eines Trends zu mehr derartigen Praktiken. Dabei werden die Ziele und Umsetzungsstrategien beleuchtet, sowie deren politische Wirksamkeit. Methodisch wurde vor allem auf qualitative Leitfadeninterviews zurückgegriffen, welche mit ProjektteilnehmerInnen und außenstehenden ExpertInnen durchgeführt wurden. Zusätzlich wurde eine Medienanalyse angefertigt, um öffentliche Reaktionen zu erörtern. Im Laufe der Auswertung hat sich bewahrheitet, dass man beim Wohnprojekt Wien von politökologischer Praxis sprechen kann, dass es sich um eine Ausnahme handelt, und dass sich derzeit nur in beschränkten Bereichen politische Wirkung erzielen lässt.[Printausgabe: 1 CD-ROM]
description: This thesis seeks to demonstrate new forms of political expression based on an example of a residential building project named „Wohnprojekt Wien“. As a first step goals and strategies of this project were reviewed. This was followed by an analysis of the political effects. Furthermore it discussed whether the project could be viewed as a case of political-ecological practice. A hypothesis stated that it can be considered as such, but that this is a rather infrequent occurrence. In order to answer the questions raised, qualitative Interviews have been conducted with both project participants and independent experts. With an additional media analysis the external political effects were analysed. The research suggests that this project can be viewed as political-ecological practice, but has only very limited effects on the public and political sphere. Although there is a trend to more projects of this kind, they proved to be rather the exception than the norm.
Grammaria elegans Fraser 1943
Creators: name: Calder, Dale R.
name: Choong, Henry H. C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Hydrozoa
Leptothecata
Lafoeidae
Grammaria
Grammaria elegans

description: Grammaria elegans Fraser, 1943a
Grammaria elegans Fraser, 1943a: 79, pl. 18, fig. 7.
Holotype. MCZ-IZ 9007: U.S. Virgin Islands: off St. Croix, Blake Expedition, 17°37’55”N, 64°54’20”W, 115 fm (210 m), 0 5 January 1878, one colony, 8 cm high, with a detached fragment, in fairly good condition, without gonophores, labelled “ type ”; formalin, about to be transferred to ethanol.
Type locality. U.S. Virgin Islands: off St. Croix, 17°37’55”N, 64°54’20”W, 115 fm (210 m) (Fraser 1943a).
Current status. Valid.
Remarks. Fraser (1943a) described Grammaria elegans from a hydroid colony in collections at the MCZ, but designated no name-bearing type for it. A single specimen of the species from the type locality (“off Santa Cruz Island”), labelled “ type ”, was located in the MCZ Type Collection (MCZ-IZ 9007). That specimen is the holotype by monotypy. No types were located elsewhere (NMNH, CAS, RBCM, YPM), and it was not mentioned as part of the Fraser Hydroid Collection at the RBCM by Arai (1977).
Grammaria elegans is listed as valid in WoRMS. With the exception of one questionable record from slope waters off the Carolinas (Hilbig 1994, as G. cf. elegans), the species is known only from the original description. Its gonosome is unknown.
description: Published as part of Calder, Dale R. & Choong, Henry H. C., 2018, Names of hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) established by Charles McLean Fraser (1872 - 1946), excluding those from Allan Hancock Expeditions, pp. 1-83 in Zootaxa 4487 (1) on page 41, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4487.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1456161
title: Die Bedeutung von Strafe aus pädagogischer Sicht und das Phänomen der kaschierten Dominanz
Creators: name: Lutz, Stephanie
Year: 2012

description: In der Erziehungswissenschaft geschieht es immer häufiger, dass dominante Begriffe und Techniken angezweifelt, hinterfragt und schlussendlich verworfen werden. Doch nur weil etwa der Begriff „Disziplin“ aus dem pädagogischen Sprachgebrauch gelöscht wird, heißt es nicht, dass diese in der Erziehung nicht mehr von Kindern gefordert wird. Genauso verhält es sich mit Traditionen und Techniken der Erziehungswirklichkeit. Seit einigen Jahren geht der Trend dahin, dass etwa das Erziehungsmittel „Strafe“ aus dem pädagogischen Alltag immer mehr verdrängt wird. Und auch in der Theorie spricht sich niemand mehr für den Einsatz von Strafen aus. Folglich nehmen scheinbar neue Techniken und Begriffe den Platz der zuvor abgelehnten ein. Das Konzept der „kaschierten Dominanz“ besagt jedoch, dass Begriffe, Traditionen und Techniken eben nicht verschwinden. Sie werden höchstens kaschiert, ihre Dominanz wird sozusagen verwischt. Und so kann es sein, dass eine angeblich gleichberechtigte pädagogische Beziehung noch immer von ungleichen Abhängigkeiten geprägt ist. Oder dass eine natürliche Folge genauso eine Strafe für das Kind darstellt. Aufgrund der Annahme der „kaschierten Dominanz“ werden sogenannte Strafalternativen zur Überprüfung herangezogen. Ob diese tatsächliche Weiterentwicklungen darstellen oder als rein kaschierte Strafe identifiziert werden, wird anhand der vorliegenden Arbeit aufgeklärt.
Grammaria rigida Fraser 1943
Creators: name: Calder, Dale R.
name: Choong, Henry H. C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Hydrozoa
Leptothecata
Lafoeidae
Grammaria
Grammaria rigida

description: Grammaria rigida Fraser, 1943a
Grammaria rigida Fraser, 1943a: 79, pl. 18, fig. 8.
Holotype. MCZ-IZ 9011: Barbados, off Sandy Bay, Hassler Expedition 1871–1872, 13°03’00”N, 59°35’00”W, 29–30 December 1871, one colony fragment, 1 cm high, in fair condition, without gonophores, labelled “ type ” and “ holotype ”; 80% ethanol.
Type locality. Barbados: off Sandy Bay, 13°03’00”N, 59°35’00”W, 100 fm (183 m) (Fraser 1943a).
Current status. Valid.
Remarks. Grammaria rigida was described by Fraser (1943a) from a colony fragment in a collection at the MCZ. Although no types of it were originally designated in that paper, material of the species exists at the museum (MCZ-IZ 9011) from the type locality, and with labels marked “ type ” and “ holotype ”. No other types are known to exist, and the single specimen, a fragment of a hydrocaulus with 13 hydrocladia or parts thereof, is the holotype by monotypy. It is in satisfactory condition, although hydranths are mostly deteriorated or absent.
This is another poorly known hydroid species, described by Fraser (1943a) from the trophosome only. No records of it have been published since the original description, although non-type material from North Carolina, identified as G. rigida, exists at the NMNH (USNM 61370, USNM 61371, USNM 72875). The species is listed as valid in WoRMS.
description: Published as part of Calder, Dale R. & Choong, Henry H. C., 2018, Names of hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) established by Charles McLean Fraser (1872 - 1946), excluding those from Allan Hancock Expeditions, pp. 1-83 in Zootaxa 4487 (1) on page 41, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4487.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1456161
Wild Rattus norvegicus foraging in the vegetation. 3.10.2018, 18:48. District of Lisbon, Portugal. Video footage. Length: 53 sec. HD.
Creators: name: De Mendonça, Philippe Gil
Publisher: name: OSF
Year: 2018
Subjects: District of Lisbon
Diurnal activity
Foraging
HD
Ph. G. de Mendonça
Portugal
R. norvegicus
Rattus
Rattus norvegicus
Vegetation
Video
Videographic evidence
Wild rats

description: Wild Rattus norvegicus foraging in the vegetation. 3.10.2018, 18:48. District of Lisbon, Portugal. Video footage. Length: 53 sec. HD.
Repositório de Dados
Creators: name: Santos, Larissa
name: Dewar Da Siva Ferreira
name: De Lima Oliveira, Paulo Fernando
name: Ítalo Oliveira
Publisher: name: OSF
Year: 2017
Subjects: Análise de Dados
Empirical Research in Law
REED
Revista de Estudos Empíricos em Direito

description: Repositório com edições da Revista de Estudos Empíricos em Direito que serão utilizadas para análise
Risk of Advanced Neoplasia Using the National Cancer Institute’s Colorectal Cancer Risk Assessment Tool
Creators: name: Yu, Menggang
name: Monahan, Patrick O.
name: Tabbey, Rebeka
name: Ransohoff, David F.
name: Stump, Timothy E.
name: Glowinski, Elizabeth
name: Imperiale, Thomas F.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Year: 2016

description: Background: There is no validated, discriminating, and easy-to-apply tool for estimating risk of colorectal neoplasia. We studied whether the National Cancer Institute's (NCI's) Colorectal Cancer (CRC) Risk Assessment Tool, which estimates future CRC risk, could estimate current risk for advanced colorectal neoplasia among average-risk persons.
Methods: This cross-sectional study involved individuals age 50 to 80 years undergoing first-time screening colonoscopy. We measured medical and family history, lifestyle information, and physical measures and calculated each person's future CRC risk using the NCI tool's logistic regression equation. We related quintiles of future CRC risk to the current risk of advanced neoplasia (sessile serrated polyp or tubular adenoma ≥ 1 cm, a polyp with villous histology or high-grade dysplasia, or CRC). All statistical tests were two-sided.
Results: For 4457 (98.5%) with complete data (mean age = 57.2 years, SD = 6.6 years, 51.7% women), advanced neoplasia prevalence was 8.26%. Based on quintiles of five-year estimated absolute CRC risk, current risks of advanced neoplasia were 2.1% (95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.3% to 3.3%), 4.8% (95% CI = 3.5% to 6.4%), 6.4% (95% CI = 4.9% to 8.2%), 10.0% (95% CI = 8.1% to 12.1%), and 17.6% (95% CI = 15.5% to 20.6%; P < .001). For quintiles of estimated 10-year CRC risk, corresponding current risks for advanced neoplasia were 2.2% (95% CI = 1.4% to 3.5%), 4.8% (95% CI = 3.5% to 6.4%), 6.5% (95% CI = 5.0% to 8.3%), 9.3% (95% CI = 7.5% to 11.4%), and 18.4% (95% CI = 15.9% to 21.1%; P < .001). Among persons with an estimated five-year CRC risk above the median, current risk for advanced neoplasia was 12.8%, compared with 3.7% among those below the median (relative risk = 3.4, 95 CI = 2.7 to 4.4).
Conclusions: The NCI's Risk Assessment Tool, which estimates future CRC risk, may be used to estimate current risk for advanced neoplasia, making it potentially useful for tailoring and improving CRC screening efficiency among average-risk persons.
title: How do the domains of social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB) relate to ‘growing up strong’ for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people? Findings from Footprints in Time: The Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC) | Fact Sheet 2
Creators: name: Howard-Wagner, Deirdre
name: Wycisk, Oscar
name: Guthrie, Jill
name: Buchanan, Geoff
name: Dinku, Yonatan
name: Harrap, Benjamin
name: Cooms, Valerie
name: Edwards, Ben
name: Somboonsin, Pattheera
name: Yap, Mandy
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT: Australian National University, POLIS Centre for Indigenous Policy Research
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
subject: Social and Emotional Wellbeing
subject: Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children

description: The Centre for Indigenous Policy Research at POLIS: The Centre for Social Policy Research, the Australian National University was commissioned by the Commonwealth Department of Social Services to deliver a Research Report on the Social and Emotional Wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Youth using the Longitudinal Study on Indigenous Children (LSIC) data as recorded in Footprints in Time: The Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children. This fact sheet summarises findings from Section Three of the Research Report (10.25911/6KGK-RG76) and Summary Report (10.25911/AWN1-YZ78), which qualitatively explores the cultural and other determinants of social and emotional wellbeing.
Crowd-Sourced NeRF: Collecting Data from Production Vehicles for 3D Street View Reconstruction
Creators: name: Qin, Tong
name: Li, Changze
name: Ye, Haoyang
name: Wan, Shaowei
name: Li, Minzhen
name: Liu, Hongwei
name: Yang, Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recently, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) achieved impressive results in novel view synthesis. Block-NeRF showed the capability of leveraging NeRF to build large city-scale models. For large-scale modeling, a mass of image data is necessary. Collecting images from specially designed data-collection vehicles can not support large-scale applications. How to acquire massive high-quality data remains an opening problem. Noting that the automotive industry has a huge amount of image data, crowd-sourcing is a convenient way for large-scale data collection. In this paper, we present a crowd-sourced framework, which utilizes substantial data captured by production vehicles to reconstruct the scene with the NeRF model. This approach solves the key problem of large-scale reconstruction, that is where the data comes from and how to use them. Firstly, the crowd-sourced massive data is filtered to remove redundancy and keep a balanced distribution in terms of time and space. Then a structure-from-motion module is performed to refine camera poses. Finally, images, as well as poses, are used to train the NeRF model in a certain block. We highlight that we present a comprehensive framework that integrates multiple modules, including data selection, sparse 3D reconstruction, sequence appearance embedding, depth supervision of ground surface, and occlusion completion. The complete system is capable of effectively processing and reconstructing high-quality 3D scenes from crowd-sourced data. Extensive quantitative and qualitative experiments were conducted to validate the performance of our system. Moreover, we proposed an application, named first-view navigation, which leveraged the NeRF model to generate 3D street view and guide the driver with a synthesized video.
Lafoea adnata Fraser 1925
Creators: name: Calder, Dale R.
name: Choong, Henry H. C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Hydrozoa
Leptothecata
Lafoeidae
Lafoea
Lafoea adnata

description: Lafoea adnata Fraser, 1925
Lafoea adnata Fraser, 1925: 170, figs. 5Α, B.
Filellum adnatum.—Marques et al., 2006: 46.
Lectotype. BCPM 976-00324-001: USA, California, Farallon Islands, 60–64 m, on algae, without gonophores, labelled "cotype"; 60% IPA (Arai 1977; Marques et al. 2011).
Paralectotypes. BCPM 976-00324-002: USA, California, Farallon Islands, 60–64 m, one colony, on algae; slide.
CAS-IZ 21802.00: USA, California, Farallon Islands, 33–35 fm (60–64 m), on algae, bryozoans and other hydroids, labelled " syntype "; 10% formalin.
Type locality. USA, California: near Farallon Islands, 60–64 m (Fraser 1925).
Current status. Species inquirenda.
Remarks. Marques et al. (2006) re-examined part of the syntype material of Lafoea adnata (BCPM 976-
00324-001), and transferred it to Filellum Hincks, 1868, as F. adnatum. Later, Marques et al. (2011) designated the same hydroid as the lectotype and provided a re-description and illustrations of it. The remaining syntypes (BCPM 976-00324-002, CAS-IZ 21802.00) thereby became paralectotypes.
Fraser’s (1925) specimens of this species, from the Farallon Islands, California, were sterile. In the absence of coppiniae, Marques et al. (2011) considered F. adnatum to be a species inquirenda. The hydroid was included by Cairns et al. (2002) under the binomen L. adnata, and it is currently listed under the same name in WoRMS.
description: Published as part of Calder, Dale R. & Choong, Henry H. C., 2018, Names of hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) established by Charles McLean Fraser (1872 - 1946), excluding those from Allan Hancock Expeditions, pp. 1-83 in Zootaxa 4487 (1) on pages 41-42, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4487.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1456161
title: Dimensionen eines Imperiums
Creators: name: Nehez, Thomas
Year: 2012

description: Die seit geraumer Zeit fortschreitende Expansion der Europäischen Union ist mittlerweile Gegenstand neuer Ansätze, welche versuchen die damit einhergehenden Veränderungen zu beschreiben. Dabei spielt nicht nur die räumliche Ausdehnung eine Rolle, sondern ebenso die zunehmende Möglichkeit globale Prozesse zu steuern, da sich das Einflussgebiet der EU inzwischen deutlich über das der Mitgliedstaaten hinaus erstreckt. Infolgedessen schreiben zahlreiche Autoren der Europäischen Union sowohl imperiale als auch hegemoniale Eigenschaften zu. Oftmals werden die Begriffe unzureichend oder gar nicht erläutert und in den seltensten Fällen liegt ein kohärentes Erklärungsmodell zugrunde. Das Ziel der vorliegenden Diplomarbeit ist es, diese neuen Imperiumsansätze im Hinblick auf die EU analytisch zu erfassen. In diesem Zusammenhang werden die allgemeinen Merkmale eines Imperiums ebenso erläutert wie die Erklärungsmuster für eine europäische imperiale Ordnung. Der Schwerpunkt der Auseinandersetzung liegt auf vier ausgewählten Hauptwerken, die einen zusammenhängenden Imperiumsbegriff in Anwendung auf die EU vorweisen.
description: The continuing expansion of the European Union is more and more subject to a new kind of perspective, which tries to describe the changing reality of Europe. The focus lies hereby not only on the territorial extension but also on the growing capability to influence processes on a global scale. The area of influence extends meanwhile far beyond the current member states and their neighbors. Consequently numerous authors start to attribute imperial or hegemonic characteristics to the European Union. In most cases an underlying coherent explanation model is missing and the significant terms are not at all or only inadequately described. The aim of this thesis is to grasp these new theories of an imperial order regarding the EU. In this context the general characteristics of an empire will also be described as well as the explanation patterns for a possible European Empire. The main focus is on four selected works, which include a coherent analysis of an imperial approach regarding the EU.
title: Die Bildsamkeitsdebatte im Nationalsozialismus
Creators: name: Kuzmits, Beate
Year: 2012

description: Im Rahmen der hier vorliegenden Arbeit wurde eruiert, wie und unter welchen Aspekten das Verständnis von Bildsamkeit im Nationalsozialismus deklariert wurde. Dabei hob die Forscherin die Bildsamkeit als genuin pädagogischen Begriff hervor. Um jedoch die Bildsamkeit mit all ihren Aspekten und Kontexten, in die sie impliziert ist, zu erfassen, ging die Forscherin zeitlich zurück und zeigte auf, welches Verständnis von Bildsamkeit im 21., 19. und 18. Jahrhundert vorherrschte. Dabei nahm sie sowohl die Anthropologie, die Ethik, als auch Jean-Jacques Rousseau und Johann Friedrich Herbart in den Fokus ihrer Betrachtung. Anschließend ging sie dezidiert auf das 20. Jahrhundert und somit auf die Bildsamkeitsdebatte im Nationalsozialismus ein, in der sie zunächst die Erziehung und die Sprache des NS in Beziehung zur Bildsamkeit setzte, ehe sie die Werke der bedeutendsten Pädagogen (Bäumler, Krieck) als auch jenes von Adolf Hitler („Mein Kampf“) hinsichtlich des Bildsamkeitsverständnisses erforschte. Im Zuge dieser historisch-systematischen Literaturrecherche resultierte somit folgendes Ergebnis: Es gab KEIN einheitliches Bildsamkeitsverständnis im Nationalsozialismus, da sowohl bei Bäumler, Krieck und Hitler ein zum Teil differentes Bildsamkeitsverständnis vorherrschte. Bildsamkeit wurde – zum Erstaunen der Forscherin – keinem zur Gänze abgesprochen, bzw. muss an dieser Stelle betont werden, dass eine dezidierte „Aberkennung“ der Bildsamkeit von spezifischen Menschen(-gruppen) nicht gefunden wurde (was nicht ausschließt, dass es diese nicht gab). Allerdings muss festgehalten werden, dass es in der politischen und praktischen Umsetzung des Nationalsozialismus immer mehr zu dieser Tatsache kam, dass bestimmten Menschengruppen die Erziehungs- und Lernfähigkeit verweigert bzw. abgesprochen wurde. Von einem konkreten Beweis derselben konnte die Forscherin jedoch nicht ausgehen.
Irrelevant stroke code protocol? Hidden spontaneous acute spinal subdural haematoma.
Creators: name: PESQUERA MUÃOZ, ÃLVARO SANTIAGO
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Head and neck
subject: CT
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: MR
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Blood
subject: Embolism / Thrombosis
subject: Haemorrhage
subject: Obstruction / Occlusion

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: male, 85 years
description: Clinical History: 85-year-old caucasian male who comes to the emergency department for having severe occipital headache with progressive weakness in left limbs. No trauma or cervical manipulation or treatment with anticoagulants has referred. The patient has a coronary dis... Final Diagnosis: Spontaneous acute spinal subdural haematoma.
title: Akkulturation von Jugendlichen mit Migrationshintergrund
Creators: name: Maier, Julia
Year: 2012

description: Die vorliegende Arbeit widmet sich einerseits der Frage, wie in der deutschsprachigen Literatur auf die Akkulturation von Jugendlichen mit Migrationshintergrund mit besonderem Fokus auf die kulturelle Identität eingegangen wird. Andererseits beschäftigt sie sich mit der Thematik, welchen besonderen Stellenwert die Migrationspädagogik dabei einnimmt. Um Antworten auf diese Fragen zu finden, wird zunächst die deutschsprachige Literatur zur Akkulturation dahingehend untersucht, inwiefern der Akkulturationsprozess sich auf Jugendliche mit Migrationshintergrund und im Speziellen auf die kulturelle Identität der Jugendlichen auswirkt. Dazu werden sowohl theoretische als auch empirische Arbeiten interdisziplinär vorgestellt und miteinander in Verbindung gesetzt. Der pädagogische Bezug zur Akkulturation ergibt sich aus der Darstellung der Migrations-pädagogik nach Paul Mecheril. Die Ansätze der Migrationspädagogik werden in Hinblick auf den Zusammenhang mit den Erhebungen der Akkulturationsforschung erörtert. Aus meinen Untersuchungen ging hervor, dass in der Literatur zur Akkulturationsforschung von Jugendlichen mit Migrationshintergrund im deutschsprachigen Raum in Bezug auf den Fokus „kulturelle Identität“ noch Lücken zu verzeichnen sind. Außerdem konnte die enge Verbindung zwischen dem Akkulturationsprozess und der Entwicklung der kulturellen Identität durch die Darstellung der theoretischen als auch der empirischen Studien bestätigt werden. In Hinblick auf die Verknüpfung der Akkulturationsforschung mit der Migrationspädagogik konnte durch die unterschiedliche Ausrichtung der Zielsetzungen eine gegenseitige Bereicherung der Forschungsansätze festgestellt werden.
Assessment of non-standard HIV antiretroviral therapy regimens at Lighthouse Trust in Lilongwe, Malawi
Creators: name: Hosseinipour, M C
name: Phiri, S
name: Chaweza, T
name: Ngambi, W
name: Barnett, B S
name: Tweya, H
Publisher: name: African Journals Online (AJOL)
Year: 2016

description: AIM: Lighthouse Trust in Lilongwe, Malawi serves approximately 25,000 patients with HIV antiretroviral therapy (ART) regimens standardized according to national treatment guidelines. However, as a referral centre for complex cases, Lighthouse Trust occasionally treats patients with non-standard ART regimens (NS-ART) that deviate from the treatment guidelines. We evaluated factors contributing to the use of NS-ART and whether patients could transition to standard regimens.
METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study of all adult patients at Lighthouse Trust being treated with NS-ART as of February 2012. Patients were identified using the electronic data system. Medical charts were reviewed and descriptive statistics were obtained.
RESULTS: One hundred six patients were initially found being treated with NS-ART, and 92 adult patients were confirmed to be on NS-ART after review. Mean patient age was 42.4 ± 10.3 years, and 52 (57%) were female. Mean duration of treatment with the NS-ART being used at the time of data collection was 2.1 ± 1.5 years. Eight patients (9%) were on modified first-line NS-ART and 84 (91%) were on modified second-line NS-ART, with 90 patients (98%) having multiple factors contributing to NS-ART use. Severe toxicity from one medication contributed in 28 cases (30%) and toxicity from multiple medications contributed in 46 cases (50%), while 22 patients (24%) were transitioned to NS-ART following a stockout of their original medication. Following clinical review, 84 patients (91%) were transitioned to standard regimens, and eight (9%) were maintained on NS-ART because of incompatibility of their clinical features with the latest national guidelines.
CONCLUSIONS: Primary factors contributing to NS-ART use were medication toxicities and medication stockouts. Most patients were transitioned to standard regimens, although the need for NS-ART remains.
title: Vielfalt der Sprachen - eine Notwendigkeit für Bildung?
Creators: name: Kraft, Heidemarie
Year: 2012

description: In der vorliegenden Diplomarbeit soll der Frage nachgegangen werden, welcher Bedeutung Vielfalt und Fremdheit für Bildung zukommt. Die Sprache in ihrer Wichtigkeit für den Menschen und seine Bildung dient dabei als zentraler Untersuchungsgegenstand. Ausgehend von den Schriften des Bildungstheoretikers, Sprachphilosophen und Sprachwissenschaftlers Wilhelm von Humboldt, in denen Mannigfaltigkeit und Fremdheit als Grundvoraussetzungen für Bildung hervortreten sowie eine Ansicht von der Sprache als der Inbegriff des Menschseins enthalten ist, soll versucht werden, deren Stellenwert für den aktuellen Umgang mit pädagogischen Problemstellungen zu ermitteln. Seine umfassende Beschäftigung mit den Themen Bildung und Sprache sowie deren Verknüpfung bietet einen passenden theoretischen Ausgangspunkt, dessen Aktualität anhand der Analyse von Texten der Gegenwart eruiert werden soll. Das Hauptaugenmerk liegt dabei auf der Bedeutung von Sprache für den Bildungsprozess im Kontext der gesellschaftlichen, sprachlichen und kulturellen Heterogenität und die Verwendbarkeit von Humboldts Theorien für die Interkulturelle Pädagogik heute.
description: This paper focuses on the meaning of diversity and otherness for education and human development generally and diversity of languages in particular. In this connection, language, due to its significance for people and their education, serves as a central subject of investigation. This thesis is based on the works of the educational theorist, language philosopher, and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt in which diversity and otherness are brought forward as basic requirements for education, and language is viewed as the embodiment of human existence. The goal is to determine the significance of these aspects for the way current educational problems are being dealt with. Wilhelm von Humboldt’s comprehensive preoccupation with the subjects education and language as well as their connection offers a suitable theoretical basis on which the analysis of texts from the present time are elicited in this paper. The main focus is the significance of language for the educational process in the context of social, linguistic, and cultural homogeneity and the application of Humboldt’s theories for intercultural educational theory today.
DFE-IANet: A Method for Polyp Image Classification Based on Dual-domain Feature Extraction and Interaction Attention
Creators: name: Wang, Wei
name: He, Jixing
name: Wang, Xin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: It is helpful in preventing colorectal cancer to detect and treat polyps in the gastrointestinal tract early. However, there have been few studies to date on designing polyp image classification networks that balance efficiency and accuracy. This challenge is mainly attributed to the fact that polyps are similar to other pathologies and have complex features influenced by texture, color, and morphology. In this paper, we propose a novel network DFE-IANet based on both spectral transformation and feature interaction. Firstly, to extract detailed features and multi-scale features, the features are transformed by the multi-scale frequency domain feature extraction (MSFD) block to extract texture details at the fine-grained level in the frequency domain. Secondly, the multi-scale interaction attention (MSIA) block is designed to enhance the network's capability of extracting critical features. This block introduces multi-scale features into self-attention, aiming to adaptively guide the network to concentrate on vital regions. Finally, with a compact parameter of only 4M, DFE-IANet outperforms the latest and classical networks in terms of efficiency. Furthermore, DFE-IANet achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) results on the challenging Kvasir dataset, demonstrating a remarkable Top-1 accuracy of 93.94%. This outstanding accuracy surpasses ViT by 8.94%, ResNet50 by 1.69%, and VMamba by 1.88%. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/PURSUETHESUN/DFE-IANet.
description: This paper has been accepted by 2024 International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC 2024). It can be accessed at http://poster-openaccess.com
title: Gewissenlosigkeit
Creators: name: Gollubits, Tina
Year: 2012

description: Thema dieser Arbeit ist das Phänomen der Gewissenlosigkeit. Es wird durch eine hermeneutische Literaturanalyse aufgezeigt, wie diese entsteht und in welchem Zusammenhang Gewissenlosigkeit mit Gut und Böse sowie Gerechtigkeit und Ungerechtigkeit steht. Dabei wird vor allem auf Ludwig Kerstiens und seinen Gewissensbegriff, Hannah Arendt und ihre Auffassungen über das Böse sowie Judith Shklar und ihre Ansichten über den Sinn für Ungerechtigkeit Bezug genommen. Es wird erläutert, was unter Gewissen zu verstehen ist, wenn den Darstellungen dieser Autoren gefolgt wird und wie Gewissenlosigkeit in Verbindung mit diesen Anschauungen aufgefasst werden kann. Anschließend wird der Einfluss der Erziehung auf Gewissenlosigkeit dargestellt. Es wird aufgezeigt, dass Erziehung nur teilweise Einfluss auf Gewissenlosigkeit hat, da sie diese nicht eindeutig verhindern kann, sondern unter bestimmten Bedingungen sogar in der Lage ist, diese zu fördern.
title: Der Wiederaufbauprozess in Bosnien-Herzegowina am Fallbeispiel
Creators: name: Ehiro, Sanja
Year: 2012

description: Der Bürgerkrieg in Bosnien-Herzegowina hat eine Tiefe ethnische Spaltung, als sein größtes Erbe, hinterlassen. Besonders stark wurde die zweigeteilte Stadt Mostar von der Bewältigung dieser Spaltung getroffen. Die „European Union Administration of Mostar“ (EUAM) hat sich der Aufgabe gestellt diesen Zustand zu überwinden. Die Ansätze der ‚Neuen Kriege‘, sowie des State- und Nationbuilding bilden den theoretischen Rahmen dieser Arbeit und helfen sowohl die stattgefundenen Ereignisse als auch die Schwierigkeiten mit welchen die EUAM konfrontiert wurde zu verstehen. Anhand der historischen Entwicklungen vom Staatszerfall Jugoslawiens bis zum Kriegsausbruch in Bosnien-Herzegowina wurden die Hintergründe der Problematik geschildert. Der Kriegsverlauf und seine Beendigung deuten auf den fehlenden Willen der herrschenden politischen Parteien eigenständig zum Zwecke der Friedensfindung zu agieren und auf die Notwendigkeit der internationalen Akteure eine Lösung zu finden. Mit dem General Framework Agreement for Peace (dem Dayton Abkommen) und dem Memorandum of Understanding, den beiden entscheidenden Verträgen zur Beendigung des Krieges wurde zwar der Frieden gefördert, aber auch die ethnischen Teilungen in Bosnien und Mostar institutionalisiert. Weitere Bemühungen zur Aufhebung dieser Fehler sind bisher zum Großteil gescheitert, weil die Verhandlungspartner, ehemalige Kriegsparteien, wenig kompromissbereit sind und alle Reformversuche, vor allem die der Verfassungsreform, blockieren. In Mostar versagte die EUAM einerseits wegen der Weigerung der kroatischen Politiker die Autorität des Administrators zu akzeptieren und seine Vorgaben zu befolgen, andererseits wegen der mangelnden Unterstützung von Seiten der Europäischen Union bei der Durchsetzung der Entscheidungen. Insgesamt sind weitere Reformen und Engagement der (nationalen und internationalen) Akteure notwendig, da Veränderungen in Mostar nur im Rahmen einer gesamtstaatlichen Reform stattfinden können.
title: (De-)Europäisierung der österreichischen Grünen
Creators: name: Popken, Christian Oliver
Year: 2012

description: Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, den Europäisierungsgrad der österreichischen Partei Die Grünen im Jahr 2008 zu ermitteln. Dafür wird ein möglicher Parteienwandel durch die Europäisierung verantwortlich gemacht, der anhand der Wahlkampfprogramme von 1995 und 2008 sowie einer Auswertung von Experteninterviews mit Grünen Spitzenpolitikern aus dem Jahr 2005 untersucht wird. Ein europäisierter Parteienwandel zeichnet sich dadurch aus, dass die Einflüsse der Europäischen Integration adaptiert werden. Dies spiegelt sich in der Aufmerksamkeit der Partei gegenüber der Europäischen Union wieder. Parteiführungen können darin eine Chance erkennen, die Partei nach ihren Vorstellungen zu verändern. Andererseits kann der Europäisierung zugunsten des eigenen Machterhalts von Parteiakteuren verhindert werden. Am Beispiel der österreichischen Grünen wird deutlich, dass der Europäisierungsgrad einer Partei unterschiedlich ausgebildet sein. Bis 2008 haben die Grünen zwar einen inneren Organisationswandel vollzogen, da mit dem EU-Beitritt neue europäische Parteipositionen hinzukamen, allerdings beschränkt sich deren Einfluss und Handlungsspielraum weitgehend auf die EU. Die nationalen Wahlprogramme haben gezeigt, dass auch 13 Jahre nach dem EU-Beitritt eine Trennung von europäischen und nationalen Inhalten beigehalten wird.