cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Supplementary Materials from An allometric prior enhances acoustic niche partitioning signal
Creators: name: Memet, Edvin
name: Farrell, Brian
name: Mahadevan, L.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 60114 Systems Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60199 Biochemistry and Cell Biology not elsewhere classified
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The acoustic niche hypothesis suggests that vocal signals of sympatric animal species are structured so as to minimize acoustic interference and facilitate communication. Accordingly, each species attempts to establish its own acoustic bandwidth so that intra-species signals are not masked. Detecting a non-random partitioning of the frequency spectrum among sympatric species could constitute evidence for the existence of acoustic avoidance behaviour. However, results from previous studies have been mixed or inconclusive, possibly as a consequence of overlooking the importance of physiological and ecological constraints. Here we introduce an improved test that incorporates prior information on body mass to account for the allometric correlation between mass (size) and vocalization frequency. By correcting for the bias induced by this correlation, the new test uncovers evidence of acoustic niche partitioning as a function of frequency in several tropical bird communities that would not be detected under a more standard test. Separately, we introduce a spatial version of the acoustic partitioning test which, in theory, could prove effective when data are collected from multiple sites located in close spatial proximity.
title: Εξαγορές και συγχωνεύσεις επιχειρήσεων του Χρηματιστηρίου Αξιών Αθηνών: μια χρηματοοικονομική ανάλυση και πολυκριτήρια αξιολόγηση
title: Mergers and acquisitions of greek companies: a financial analysis and a multicriteria evaluation
Creators: name: Κατερινακη Αικατερινη
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2020

description: Τα τελευταία χρόνια της παγκοσμιοποίησης, οι συνθήκες ανταγωνισμού έχουν αλλάξει. Για να προσαρμοστούν οι επιχειρήσεις στις νέες εξελίξεις, θα πρέπει να κάνουν κατάλληλες επιχειρηματικές κινήσεις. Επομένως, οι συγχωνεύσεις και οι εξαγορές μεταξύ εταιριών κρίνονται απαραίτητες. Οι συγχωνεύσεις και εξαγορές αποτελούν στρατηγικές των επιχειρήσεων και σχετίζονται με την ανάπτυξη, την ολοκλήρωση και την επέκταση δραστηριοτήτων τους. Με τον τρόπο αυτό αυξάνονται τα οφέλη των επιχειρήσεων και γίνεται όλο και μεγαλύτερη συγκέντρωση κεφαλαίων τους.
Σκοπός της εργασίας αυτής είναι η μελέτη των εισηγμένων επιχειρήσεων στο Χρηματιστήριο Αξιών Αθηνών, που πραγματοποίησαν συγχωνεύσεις και εξαγορές από το 2014 έως το 2017 και πως επηρεάστηκαν από τη συμφωνία αυτή.
Για να εξεταστεί αν επηρεάστηκαν θετικά ή αρνητικά, χρησιμοποιήθηκαν 26 επιχειρήσεις και εφαρμόστηκε η μέθοδος PROMETHEE με τη βοήθεια χρηματοοικονομικών αριθμοδεικτών.
Στην πρώτη ενότητα της παρούσας εργασίας παρουσιάζονται βασικές έννοιες, που σχετίζονται με τις συγχωνεύσεις και εξαγορές και επίσης παρουσιάζεται η ιστορική εξέλιξη των συγχωνεύσεων και εξαγορών. Στη συνέχεια, στη δεύτερη ενότητα αναλύονται τα κίνητρα και οι αιτίες των συγχωνεύσεων και εξαγορών, καθώς και τα πλεονεκτήματα, τα μειονεκτήματα και οι κίνδυνοι αυτών και ποιοι παράγοντες οδηγούν στην επιτυχία ή στην αποτυχία. Στην τρίτη ενότητα, γίνεται ανάλυση των δεδομένων που χρησιμοποιούνται στη μέθοδο PROMETHEE, με ποιο τρόπο εφαρμόστηκε στη συγκεκριμένη περίπτωση και τι απέδειξαν τα αποτελέσματά της. Τέλος, στην τέταρτη ενότητα αποτυπώνονται τα συμπεράσματα που προέκυψαν από την εργασία αυτή.
title: Imagerie multimodalité des cardiopathies congénitales en salle de cathétérisme
Creators: name: HASCOET, Sébastien
Publisher: name: Académie Nationale de Chirurgie
Year: 2016

description: Le cathétérisme cardiaque a contribué aux progrès réalisés dans la prise en charge des cardiopathies congénitales. Il permet entre autres l’occlusion de shunt, la dilatation de valves, vaisseaux ou conduits sténosés et le remplacement valvulaire percutané. Une imagerie de précision est nécessaire en salle de cathétérisme pour guider ces interventions qualifiées de « chirurgie par l’image ». La fluoroscopie est utilisée en première intention. L’échocardiographie a été introduite pour guider les procédures intracardiaques. Le scanner et l’imagerie par résonnance magnétique sont utilisés pour préparer les procédures. Ces données peuvent servir à imprimer des modèles tridimensionnels. Ces différentes techniques d’imagerie peuvent être fusionnées. Dans cette revue générale, nous décrivons l’évolution des différents outils d’imagerie actuellement utilisés en salle de cathétérisme et les perspectives.

description: ♦	Cardiopathies congénitales
♦	Cardiologie pédiatrique
♦	Imagerie de fusion
♦	Echocardiographie 3D
♦	Echonavigator
♦	Impression 3D

description: Cardiac catheterization has contributed to the progresses made in the management of congenital heart diseases (CHD). Many procedures are feasible, from intracardiac shunts closure to trans-catheter valve replacement. An accurate imaging is mandatory to guide these procedures. Fluroroscopy is used first. Echocardiography is useful to guide intra-cardiac procedures. Myocardial resonance imaging and cardiac tomography scan are used to prepare procedures. Three-dimensional models can be reconstructed and printed from these datasets. Fusion imaging offers the opportunity to merge different imaging modalities. We aimed in this comprehensive review to provide an overview of the evolution of cardiac imaging tools used in catheterization laboratory for CHD.

description: ♦	Congenital Heart Diseases
♦	Paediatric Cardiology
♦	Fusion imaging
♦	3D Echocardiography
♦	Echonavigator
♦	3D Printing
title: Texte neben dem Terror
title: Literarische »Terrorsiten« in Dagens Nyheter
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Richter, Max
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Artikel
subject: Article
subject: Themenschwerpunkt
subject: Special Issue
subject: Parasiten
subject: Parasites
subject: Literaturwissenschaft
subject: Literary Studies
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Massenmedien
subject: Mass Media
subject: Terror
subject: Terrorism
subject: Jonas Hassen Khemiri
subject: Johannes Anyuru
subject: Jan Kjaerstad
subject: 839 Andere germanische Literaturen

description: Anhand verschiedener Texte von Schriftstellern in der schwedischen Zeitung Dagens Nyheter, die sowohl mit realhistorischen Terroranschlägen der skandinavischen Zeitgeschichte als auch mit Romanen (von Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Johannes Anyuru und Jan Kjærstad) verknüpft sind, zeichnet der Artikel Aspekte des dreigliedrigen Kommunikationsgefüges Literatur, Massenmedien und Terror nach und zeigt, dass es parasitäre Züge aufweist. In der Paradoxie gefangen, sich den Aufmerksamkeitszwängen des Terrors weder ganz entziehen noch ganz hingeben zu können (schließlich affirmiert auch Ablehnung den intendierten Angstaffekt), positionieren sich die hier besprochenen Texte, so die These, als Parasiten »neben« dem Terror.
description: Drawing on several texts by literary authors in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter that are linked to both actual terror attacks in contemporary Scandinavian history and novels (by Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Johannes Anyuru and Jan Kjærstad), the article traces aspects of the tripartite communication structure of literature, mass media and terror and shows that it has parasitic features. Caught in the paradox of neither being able to completely evade nor completely surrender to the attention constraints of terror (after all, even rejection affirms the intended fear effect), the texts discussed here position themselves, the article argues, as parasites »next to« terror.
Bending of woody riparian vegetation as a function of hydraulic flow conditions
Creators: name: Goreham, John O.
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2009

description: Vegetation encroachment reduces channel conveyance capacity below design objectives and greatly increases the risk for loss of life and property damage in the case of large flood events. Given minimal knowledge of hydraulic roughness for shrubs and woody vegetation, accurate estimation of channel capacity and water surface elevation is difficult. The ability to predict a tree's bent, reduced height in the presence of flow permits more accurate prediction of hydraulic roughness and water surface elevation.

In this study, field tests were performed to elucidate tree bending properties, which in turn served as input parameters for a numerical algorithm designed to predict tree bending for water velocities likely to be encountered during high flow events. Bending simulations reveal appreciable variability in bent tree heights, likely a manifestation of the extensive variance of plant characteristics and properties inherent in biological specimens. However, no trees were expected to bend to a height lower than approximately 30% of their nonstreamlined height, even in water moving at 2.5 m/s (~ 8 ft/s).
Taiwanese gambling behaviors, perceptions, and attitudes
Creators: name: Chang, Che Hao
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2009

description: This study categorizes different Taiwanese gambling types using PGSI, and further evaluates the perceptions and attitudes toward the legalization of casino gambling. A survey was conducted using convenient sampling and distributed by Internet. Results indicate that across groups of different types of gamblers, there are significant differences in perceptions toward the legalized casino gambling industry. Also, across groups of different types of gamblers, there are significant differences in attitudes toward legalized casino gambling. Additionally, there are significant differences between perceptions toward the legalized casino gambling industry, and attitudes toward the legalization of casino gambling. In general, non-gamblers are relatively more conservative toward the development of the casino gaming industry due to non-gamblers' sensitivity toward the involvement of the economic and social costs involved in investing in this particular industry. Moreover, as the number of problematic gamblers increase, non-gamblers tend to feel negatively toward the gaming industry. Overall, with the exception of non-gamblers, all other groups are supportive of the gaming industry. In addition, the results of this study provide the Taiwan government with information about Taiwanese gambling behaviors and opinions toward newly legalized gambling. By understanding Taiwan residents' gambling behaviors, perceptions, and attitudes prior to the opening of the casinos, this study could benefit Taiwan society and maximize the benefits and minimize the costs associate with the development of the casino industry.
Additional file 3 of The effect of guselkumab on inhibiting radiographic progression in patients with active psoriatic arthritis: study protocol for APEX, a Phase 3b, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
Creators: name: Ritchlin, Christopher T.
name: Coates, Laura C.
name: Mease, Philip J.
name: van der Heijde, Désirée
name: Song, Jiao
name: Jiang, Yusang
name: Shawi, May
name: Kollmeier, Alexa P.
name: Rahman, Proton
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3. Objectives and endpoints of APEX.
Robot Training with Vector Fields Based on Stroke Survivors' Individual Movement Statistics
Creators: name: Wright, ZA
name: Lazzaro, E
name: Thielbar, KO
name: Patton, James
name: Huang, FC
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The wide variation in upper extremity motor impairments among stroke survivors necessitates more intelligent methods of customized therapy. However, current strategies for characterizing individual motor impairments are limited by the use of traditional clinical assessments (e.g., Fugl-Meyer) and simple engineering metrics (e.g., goal-directed performance). Our overall approach is to statistically identify the range of volitional movement capabilities, and then apply a robot-applied force vector field intervention that encourages under-expressed movements. We investigated whether explorative training with such customized force fields would improve stroke survivors' (n = 11) movement patterns in comparison to a control group that trained without forces (n = 11). Force and control groups increased Fugl-Meyer UE scores (average of 1.0 and 1.1, respectively), which is not considered clinically meaningful. Interestingly, participants from both groups demonstrated dramatic increases in their range of velocity during exploration following only six days of training (average increase of 166.4% and 153.7% for the Force and Control group, respectively). While both groups showed evidence of improvement, we also found evidence that customized forces affected learning in a systematic way. When customized forces were active, we observed broader distributions of velocity that were not present in the controls. Second, we found that these changes led to specific changes in unassisted motion. In addition, while the shape of movement distributions changed significantly for both groups, detailed analysis of the velocity distributions revealed that customized forces promoted a greater proportion of favorable changes. Taken together, these results provide encouraging evidence that patient-specific force fields based on individuals' movement statistics can be used to create new movement patterns and shape them in a customized manner. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the first to directly link engineering assessments of stroke survivors' exploration movement behaviors to the design of customized robot therapy.
Prediction of under pickling defects on steel strip surface
Creators: name: Colla, Valentina
name: Matarese, Nicola
name: Nastasi, Gianluca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Other Computer Science (cs.OH)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: An extremely important part of the finishing line is the pickling process, in which oxides formed during the hot rolling stage are removed from the surface of the steel sheets. The efficiency of the pickling process is mainly dependent on the nature of the oxide present at the surface of the steel, but, also, on process parameters such as bath composition and time duration are relevant. When acid concentration, solution temperatures and line speed are not properly balanced, in fact, sheet defects like under pickling or over pickling may happen and their occurrence does have a very serious effect on cold-reduction performance and surface appearance of the finished product. Furthermore, product damage from handling or improper equipment adjustment can render the steel unsuitable for further processing. This is the reason why it is important that process significant parameters are controlled and maintained as accurately as possible in order to avoid these undesired phenomena. In the present work, a control algorithm, composed by two different modules, i.e. decision tree and rectangular Basis Function Network, has been implemented to aim of predicting pickling defects and suggesting the optimal speed or the admissible speed range of the steel strip in the process line. In this way the most suitable line speed value can be set in an automatic way or by the technical personnel.
description: 9 Page
title: Ich ‒ Nicht-ich ‒ Wir
title: Parasitäre Erzähldynamiken in Sami Saids Väldigt sällan fin
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Gröger, Angelika
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Artikel
subject: Article
subject: Themenschwerpunkt
subject: Special Issue
subject: Parasiten
subject: Parasites
subject: Erzähltheorie
subject: Narrative Theory
subject: Michel Serres
subject: Sami Said
subject: Väldigt sällan fin
subject: 839 Andere germanische Literaturen

description: Dieser Beitrag untersucht parasitäres Erzählen in Sami Saids Roman Väldigt sällan fin (2012) auf der Basis von Michel Serresʼ Konzept des Parasiten. Es wird von der Prämisse ausgegangen, dass dem Text ein dichotomes Selbst-Fremd-Verständnis des Ich-Erzählers (Noha) zugrunde liegt, das als »ich/nicht-ich«-Konstrukt verstanden werden kann. Allerdings unterläuft der Ich-Erzähler diese Differenz immer wieder und erweist sich auf diese Weise als unzuverlässig. Dies legt die Grundlage zur produktiven Veränderung seines Sozialverständnisses und somit seines Erzählens, so die These des Beitrags. Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung stehen insbesondere die Wir-Erzählungen zweier Figuren, die Nohas »ich/nicht-ich«-Konstrukt zuwiderlaufen und ein komplexes Erzählgeschehen in Gang setzen, das sich als »parasitär« im Sinne Serresʼ beschreiben lässt.
description: In this article, I will examine the phenomenon of parasitic narration in Sami Saidʼs novel Väldigt sällan fin (2012) using Michel Serresʼs concept of the parasite. My observations are based on the premise that the novelʼs firstperson narrator (Noha) shows a dichotomous understanding of the self as opposed to another that can be understood as an I/non-I construct. However, he repeatedly undermines this difference and thereby proves unreliable. I will show that this unreliability provides the basis for productively changing his social conception and therefore his narration. The study particularly focuses on the we-narratives of two characters that run counter to Nohaʼs I/non-I construct and implement complex narrative situations that can be described as »parasitic« in Serresʼs sense.
title: »Viele Menschen und ein großer Apparat und nirgendwo Menschenblut«
title: Die Masse als Parasit in Alexander Kiellands Roman Jacob
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Ledderose, Patrick
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Artikel
subject: Article
subject: Themenschwerpunkt
subject: Special Issue
subject: Parasiten
subject: Parasites
subject: Masse
subject: Mass
subject: Alexander Kielland
subject: Jacob
subject: 839 Andere germanische Literaturen

description: Alexander Kielland zeichnet in seinem letzten Roman Jacob (1891) von der Warte des kulturell- und geistig Überlegenen aus das Bild einer kranken, durchkapitalisierten Gesellschaft ohne Moral. Diese Diagnose präzisierend und kontextualisierend konzentriert sich der Aufsatz auf den Protagonisten des Romans: Tørres. Er soll als Personifikation jenes kollektiven Antagonisten gelesen werden, der im Elitendiskurs des späten 19. Jahrhunderts den »großen Menschen« gegenübersteht: die »Masse«. Die ökonomische wie soziale Gefahr, die von der Masse ausgeht, wird in Jacob vor allem über eine Bildsprache des Parasitären vermittelt. Tørres, so wird die Analyse zeigen, befällt immer größere Teile der Gesellschaft und schickt sich am Ende des Romans sogar an, über die Diegese hinauszuwachsen.
description: Jacob (1891) is Alexander Kielland's last novel. From the perspective of a culturally and intellectually superior individual, it portrays a sick, thoroughly capitalistic society lacking any moral. The text specifies and contextualizes this diagnosis by focusing on the protagonist of the novel: Tørres. He is interpreted as the personification of the collective antagonist who stands in opposition to the »great man« in the elite discourse of the late 19th century: »the masses«. The economic and social danger posed by the masses is conveyed in Jacob primarily through a pictorial language of the parasitic. The author will show that Tørres is infecting more and more parts of the society, and, by the end of the novel, even threatens to grow beyond the diegesis.
Udo Di Fabio, Johannes Schilling (Hg.), Die Weltwirkung der Reformation. Wie der Protestantismus unsere Welt verändert hat, München (C. H. Beck) 2017
Creators: name: Maissen, Thomas
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2017

description: Udo Di Fabio, Johannes Schilling (Hg.), Die Weltwirkung der Reformation. Wie der Protestantismus unsere Welt verändert hat, München (C. H. Beck) 2017, 213 S., 9 Abb., 2 Kt. (C. H. Beck Paperback, 6261), ISBN 978-3-406-70078-1, EUR 16,95.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2017/4
D5-brane boundary reflection factors
Creators: name: Correa, Diego H.
name: Massolo, Fidel I. Schaposnik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the strong coupling limit of the boundary reflection factor for excitations on open strings attached to various kinds of D5-branes that probe AdS5 x S5. We study the crossing equation, which constrains the boundary reflection factor, and propose that some solutions will give the boundary reflection factors for all values of the coupling. Our proposal passes various checks in the strong coupling limit by comparison with diverse explicit string theory computations. In some of the cases we consider, the D5-branes correspond to 1/2 BPS Wilson loops in the k-th rank antisymmetric representation of the dual field theory. In the other cases they correspond in the dual field theory to the addition of a fundamental hypermultiplet in a defect.
description: 32 pages, 3 figures. v2: minor changes and references added
Elizabeth Jane Mylod, Guy J. M. Perry, Thomas W. Smith, Jan Vandeburie (ed.), The Fifth Crusade in Context. The Crusading Movement in the Early Thirteenth Century, London, New York (Routledge) 2017
Creators: name: Balard, Michel
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2017

description: Elizabeth Jane Mylod, Guy J. M. Perry, Thomas W. Smith, Jan Vandeburie (ed.), The Fifth Crusade in Context. The Crusading Movement in the Early Thirteenth Century, London, New York (Routledge) 2017, XXIV–240 p. (Crusades. Subsidia, 9), ISBN 978-1-4724-4857-6, GBP 95,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2017/4
Additional file 1 of Early contribution of germline and nevi genetic alterations to a rapidly-progressing cutaneous melanoma patient: a case report
Creators: name: Mordoh, Ana
name: Triviño Pardo, Juan Carlos
name: Carri, Ibel
name: Barrio, María Marcela
name: Mordoh, José
name: Aris, Mariana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Extended Materials and Methods.
Motion Planning for Autonomous Vehicles in Partially Observable Environments
Creators: name: Taş, Ömer Şahin
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2022
Subjects: information gathering
decision making under uncertainty
safe motion planning
MPC
POMDP
Monte Carlo tree search
automated driving
self-driving vehicles

description: Unsicherheiten, welche aus Sensorrauschen oder nicht beobachtbaren Manöverintentionen anderer Verkehrsteilnehmer resultieren, akkumulieren sich in der Datenverarbeitungskette eines autonomen Fahrzeugs und führen zu einer unvollständigen oder fehlinterpretierten Umfeldrepräsentation. Dadurch weisen Bewegungsplaner in vielen Fällen ein konservatives Verhalten auf. Diese Dissertation entwickelt zwei Bewegungsplaner, welche die Defizite der vorgelagerten Verarbeitungsmodule durch Ausnutzung der Reaktionsfähigkeit des Fahrzeugs kompensieren. Diese Arbeit präsentiert zuerst eine ausgiebige Analyse über die Ursachen und Klassifikation der Unsicherheiten und zeigt die Eigenschaften eines idealen Bewegungsplaners auf. Anschließend befasst sie sich mit der mathematischen Modellierung der Fahrziele sowie den Randbedingungen, welche die Sicherheit gewährleisten. Das resultierende Planungsproblem wird mit zwei unterschiedlichen Methoden in Echtzeit gelöst: Zuerst mit nichtlinearer Optimierung und danach, indem es als teilweise beobachtbarer Markov-Entscheidungsprozess (POMDP) formuliert und die Lösung mit Stichproben angenähert wird. Der auf nichtlinearer Optimierung basierende Planer betrachtet mehrere Manöveroptionen mit individuellen Auftrittswahrscheinlichkeiten und berechnet daraus ein Bewegungsprofil. Er garantiert Sicherheit, indem er die Realisierbarkeit einer zufallsbeschränkten Rückfalloption gewährleistet. Der Beitrag zum POMDP-Framework konzentriert sich auf die Verbesserung der Stichprobeneffizienz in der Monte-Carlo-Planung. Erstens werden Informationsbelohnungen definiert, welche die Stichproben zu Aktionen führen, die eine höhere Belohnung ergeben. Dabei wird die Auswahl der Stichproben für das reward-shaped Problem durch die Verwendung einer allgemeinen Heuristik verbessert. Zweitens wird die Kontinuität in der Reward-Struktur für die Aktionsauswahl ausgenutzt und dadurch signifikante Leistungsverbesserungen erzielt. Evaluierungen zeigen, dass mit diesen Planern große Erfolge in Fahrversuchen und Simulationsstudien mit komplexen Interaktionsmodellen erreicht werden.
Torben K. Nielsen, Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt (ed.), Crusading on the Edge. Ideas and Practice of Crusading in Iberia and the Baltic Region, 1100–1500, Turnhout (Brepols) 2016
Creators: name: Strack, Georg
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2017

description: Torben K. Nielsen, Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt (ed.), Crusading on the Edge. Ideas and Practice of Crusading in Iberia and the Baltic Region, 1100–1500, Turnhout (Brepols) 2016, XVI–409 p., 25 fig. (Outremer. Studies in the Crusades and the Latin East, 4), ISBN 978-2-503-54881-4, EUR 94,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2017/4
Improved algorithms for splitting full matrix algebras
Creators: name: Ivanyos, Gábor
name: Lelkes, Ádám D.
name: Rónyai, Lajos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16Z05, 11Y16, 68W30

description: Let $\K$ be an algebraic number field of degree $d$ and discriminant $Δ$ over $\Q$. Let $\A$ be an associative algebra over $\K$ given by structure constants such that $\A\cong M_n(\K)$ holds for some positive integer $n$. Suppose that $d$, $n$ and $|Δ|$ are bounded. In a previous paper a polynomial time ff-algorithm was given to construct explicitly an isomorphism $\A \rightarrow M_n(\K)$. Here we simplify and improve this algorithm in the cases $n\leq 43$, $\K=\Q$, and $n=2$, with $\K=\Q(\sqrt{-1})$ or $\K=\Q(\sqrt{-3})$. The improvements are based on work by Y. Kitaoka and R. Coulangeon on tensor products of lattices.
description: 10 pages
title: Κινηματική και δυναμική ανάλυση μηχανισμών με τη χρήση του λογισμικού NX
title: Kinematic and dynamic analysis of mechanical systems using NX
Creators: name: Γιαννιωτη Γεωργια
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2020

description: Αντικείμενο της παρούσας διπλωματικής εργασίας είναι η μοντελοποίηση και η κινηματική ανάλυση του συστήματος διεύθυνσης αυτοκινήτου, χρησιμοποιώντας το λογισμικό SIEMENS NX 11. Το λογισμικό αυτό αποτελεί σημαντικό εργαλείο στην τεχνολογία του CAD (Computer Aided Design) για την ανάπτυξη κάθε προϊόντος. Το σύστημα διεύθυνσης αυτοκινήτου που παρουσιάζεται, έχει μοντελοποιηθεί όλο από την αρχή, δημιουργώντας την τρισδιάστατη μορφή του προϊόντος, με σκοπό να αναλυθεί η κινηματική συμπεριφορά του.
Το πρώτο μέρος της εργασίας ασχολείται με το θεωρητικό υπόβαθρο όσων θα χρησιμοποιηθούν στην κινηματική ανάλυση. Αρχικά, παρουσιάζεται ο τρόπος λειτουργίας των συστημάτων διεύθυνσης αυτοκινήτων και έπειτα γίνεται εισαγωγή στα συστήματα CAD και στο περιβάλλον του λογισμικό SIEMENS NX 11.
Το δεύτερο μέρος της διπλωματικής αφορά την κινηματική ανάλυση του μοντέλου και είναι χωρισμένο σε τρία τμήματα. Στο πρώτο, γίνεται η ανάλυση του μισού συστήματος διεύθυνσης το οποίο είναι ήδη μοντελοποιημένο. Ακολουθεί το δεύτερο, όπου χρησιμοποιείται η μέθοδος Top Down Development, κατά την οποία η κινηματική ανάλυση γίνεται στο πρώιμο στάδιο του σχεδιασμού και έπειτα αποδίδεται η τρισδιάστατη μορφή στο σκίτσο. Τέλος, πραγματοποιείται σε όλο το συναρμολογούμενο μοντέλο η ανάλυση της κίνησης.
Στόχος την κινηματικής ανάλυσης είναι η τελική επιθυμητή κίνηση του υπό μελέτη μοντέλου, περιορίζοντας με τη χρήση κατάλληλων παραμέτρων τους κινηματικούς δεσμούς που συνδέουν τα επιμέρους σώματα του συστήματος.
Non-locality of the C- and D-theories
Creators: name: Sandstad, Marit
name: Koivisto, Tomi S.
name: Mota, David F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Apparent similarities between non-local theories of gravity and the so-called C-theories are pointed out. It is shown that some simple C-theories can be mapped exactly into a previously considered type of ghost-free nonlocal gravity. This may introduce a useful tool to tackle some infinite-order derivative theories and raises the possibility of describing renormalisable gravity in a new context of D-theories.
description: 9 pages, no figures
Jean-Baptiste Renault (dir.), Originaux et cartulaires dans la Lorraine médiévale (XIIe–XVIe siècles). Recueil d’études, Turnhout (Brepols) 2016
Creators: name: Friedrich, Robert
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2017

description: Jean-Baptiste Renault (dir.), Originaux et cartulaires dans la Lorraine médiévale (XIIe–XVIe siècles). Recueil d’études, Turnhout (Brepols) 2016, 245 p., 32 ill. (ARTEM. Atelier de recherches sur les textes médiévaux, 24), ISBN 978-2-503-56756-3, EUR 75,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2017/4
title: Complication vasculaire exceptionnelle à la suite d’une reprise de prothèse totale de hanche : Expertise en recherche des causes et responsabilités
Creators: name: DURANDEAU, Alain
Publisher: name: Académie Nationale de Chirurgie
Year: 2017

description: Reprise d’une prothèse de la hanche pour bursite par conflit avec le psoas du psoas gauche au contact de la pièce cotyloïdienne à l’angioscanner et cotyle saillant au TDM ; ablation de la cupule avec utilisation d’un découpeur de cotyle suivi d’un fraisage postérieur. Complication per opératoire : ablation de la cupule hypotension, hémorragie initialement compensée puis défaillance hémodynamique avec hématome rétro et sous péritonéal à l’échographie avec reprise vasculaire et plaie de la veine iliaque primitive et iliaque externe gauche qui a été suturée, survenue de troubles de la coagulation et d’une coagulopathie intravasculaire disséminée avec évolution défavorable et décès dans la soirée.

description: ♦	Conflit antérieur de hanche
♦	Reprise chirurgicale
♦	Lésion vasculaire

description: Resumption of a prosthesis of the hip for bursitis by conflict with the psoas of the left psoas in the contact of the cotyle part, in the angio to scan and cotyle jutting out in the TDM; removal of the cupule with use of a carver of cotyle followed by a posterior reaming, a complication per operating: removal of the cupule low blood pressure, initially compensated bleeding then hémodynamic failure with retro bruise and under peritoneal in the ultrasound with vascular resumption and wound of the left external primitive and iliac vein which was stitched, arisen disorders of the coagulation and a intravasculary coagulopathy spread with unfavorable evolution and death in the evening.

description: ♦	Previous conflict of hip
♦	Surgical resumption
♦	Vascular hurt
Human Recombinant Collagen Hydrogel for Control of Ventricular Remodeling and Repair After Myocardial Infarction
Creators: name: McLaughlin, Sarah Joan Margaret
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biomaterials
Myocardial infarction

description: Myocardial infarction (MI) leads to permanent loss of cardiac muscle due to the limited regenerative potential of the mammalian heart. The affected heart muscle is replaced by a fibrotic scar; however, the scar is not able to offset the increase in wall stress placed on the remaining myocardium. This distending pressure can lead to dilative remodeling of the ventricle, progressive loss of cardiac function, and heart failure. Despite current medical therapy, heart failure continues to have a high mortality rate. Therefore, there is a clinical need for treatments that can both improve cardiac function post-MI and reduce ventricular remodeling to prevent progression to heart failure. Injectable biomaterials aim to provide a scaffold to stimulate infarct repair by mimicking the healthy cardiac extracellular matrix (ECM). The ECM plays a critical role in tissue regeneration but after a MI it is pathologically modified. Injection of biomaterials post-MI can provide a scaffold that better stimulates infarct repair. In this study, hydrogels were developed from recombinant human type I and type III collagen (rHCI and rHCIII), the two most prevalent structural proteins in the cardiac ECM. Injection of rHCI and rHCIII hydrogels in a mouse model of MI improved cardiac function and reduced infarct size 28 days post-treatment. Infarcted hearts treated with rHCI exhibited improved myocardial salvage in the region bordering the scar with improved capillary density. rHCI hydrogel was also superior to rHCIII in reducing ventricular remodeling. The injection of rHCI hydrogel into the border zone post-MI resulted in an acute improvement of contractile function two days after treatment that was maintained long-term. At two days post-injection, rHCI treated animals had reduced apoptotic cardiomyocytes and lower levels of oxidative stress. Methylglyoxal modifies and crosslinks collagen in the ECM, leading to oxidative stress. Two days after injection, the rHCI hydrogel at the epicardial surface was modified by methylglyoxal, while methylglyoxal-derived advanced glycation end-product levels in the underlying myocardium were lower than in control animals. It appears that rHCI hydrogel injection is soaking up free methylglyoxal from the myocardium, reducing levels of oxidative stress in cardiac muscle and improving contractility of cardiomyocytes bordering the scar. These results suggest that rHC therapy is a promising approach to improve cardiac contractility, and limit ventricular remodeling post-MI.
The Chivalric Biography of Boucicaut, Jean II Le Meingre. Translated with notes and introduction by Craig Taylor and Jane H. M. Taylor, Woodbridge (The Boydell Press) 2016
Creators: name: Green, David
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2017

description: The Chivalric Biography of Boucicaut, Jean II Le Meingre. Translated with notes and introduction by Craig Taylor and Jane H. M. Taylor, Woodbridge (The Boydell Press) 2016, XII–232 p., ISBN 978-1-78327-166-5, GBP 60,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2017/4
Metastable de Sitter vacua in N=2 to N=1 truncated supergravity
Creators: name: Catino, Francesca
name: Scrucca, Claudio A.
name: Smyth, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the possibility of achieving metastable de Sitter vacua in general N=2 to N=1 truncated supergravities without vector multiplets, and compare with the situations arising in N=2 theories with only hypermultiplets and N=1 theories with only chiral multiplets. In N=2 theories based on a quaternionic manifold and a graviphoton gauging, de Sitter vacua are necessarily unstable, as a result of the peculiar properties of the geometry. In N=1 theories based on a Kahler manifold and a superpotential, de Sitter vacua can instead be metastable provided the geometry satisfies some constraint and the superpotential can be freely adjusted. In N=2 to N=1 truncations, the crucial requirement is then that the tachyon of the mother theory be projected out from the daughter theory, so that the original unstable vacuum is projected to a metastable vacuum. We study the circumstances under which this may happen and derive general constraints for metastability on the geometry and the gauging. We then study in full detail the simplest case of quaternionic manifolds of dimension four with at least one isometry, for which there exists a general parametrization, and study two types of truncations defining Kahler submanifolds of dimension two. As an application, we finally discuss the case of the universal hypermultiplet of N=2 superstrings and its truncations to the dilaton chiral multiplet of N=1 superstrings. We argue that de Sitter vacua in such theories are necessarily unstable in weakly coupled situations, while they can in principle be metastable in strongly coupled regimes.
description: 40 pages, no figures
The underestimated burden of monogenic kidney disease in adults waitlisted for kidney transplantation
Creators: name: Schrezenmeier, Eva
name: Kremerskothen, Elisa
name: Halleck, Fabian
name: Staeck, Oliver
name: Liefeldt, Lutz
name: Choi, Mira
name: Schüler, Markus
name: Weber, Ulrike
name: Bachmann, Nadine
name: Grohmann, Maik
name: Wagner, Timo
name: Budde, Klemens
name: Bergmann, Carsten
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Glomerulosclerosis, Focal Segmental
subject: Kidney Transplantation
subject: Polycystic Kidney, Autosomal Dominant
subject: Renal Insufficiency, Chronic
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Purpose: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a major health-care burden. Increasing evidence suggests that a considerable proportion of patients are affected by a monogenic kidney disorder. Methods: In this study, the kidney transplantation waiting list at the Charité was screened for patients with undetermined cause of CKD. By next-generation sequencing (NGS) we targeted all 600 genes described and associated with kidney disease or allied disorders. Results: In total, 635 patients were investigated. Of these, 245 individuals had a known cause of CKD (38.5%) of which 119 had a proven genetic disease (e.g., ADPKD, Alport). The other 340 patients (53.5%) were classified as undetermined diagnosis, of whom 87 had kidney failure (KF) onset <40 years. To this latter group genetic testing was offered as well as to those patients (n = 29) with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) and all individuals (n = 21) suspicious for thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) in kidney biopsy. We detected diagnostic variants in 26 of 126 patients (20.6%) of which 14 of 126 (11.1%) were pathogenic or likely pathogenic. In another 12 of 126 (9.5%) patients, variants of unknown significance (VUS) were detected. Conclusion: Our study demonstrates the diagnostic value of comprehensive genetic testing among patients with undetermined CKD.
Contact toxicity and repellence of essential oil from Senecio scandens and its major components against three stored product insects
Creators: name: He, Fang
name: Liu, Jing-Yu
name: Chen, Li-Jiang
name: Cheng, Zi-Qian
name: Cheng, Meng-Qi
name: Du, Shu-Shan
name: Sang, Yu-Li
name: Hao, Yan-Jun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: The objective of this work was to investigate the chemical compositions of the essential oil (EO) extracted from Senecio scandens by hydrodistillation and their insecticidal activities against Tribolium castaneum, Lasioderma serricorne and Liposceis bostrychophila. The chemical profile of the EO were analyzed by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS), and 20 compounds were identified which accounted for 88.03% of the total EO. Five major compounds identified in the EO were assayed against the three stored product insects. The EO showed strong contact toxicity to T. castaneum (LD50 = 18.01 μg/adult), L. serricorne (LD50 = 20.11 μg/adult) and L. bostrychophila (LD50 = 72.14 μg/cm2). Among all compounds, geraniol showed the contact toxicity against L. serricorne and L. bostrychophila with LD50 values of 15.82 μg/adult and 26.64 μg/cm2. The EO and its five chemical compounds also exhibited different level of potential repellence to the three stored product insects.
Hybrid-Electric Regional Platforms studies with E.I.S. beyond 2035
Creators: name: Iodice, Pia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: IMOTHEP
H2020
H2020 Transport
climate change
electric aircraft
hybrid electric propulsion
green aviation

description: Presentation at the 12th EASN International Conference on “Innovation in aviation & space for opening new horizons", 18-21 Oct 2022, Barcelona, Spain
An Examination of the relationship between the hypersexual environment of Las Vegas and forcible rape
Creators: name: Dooley, Lisa Ann
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2010

description: The purpose of this study was to examine whether rates of forcible rape in Nevada are high, possibly a side effect of living in a hypersexual city. The study will explore whether these rates compare to other cities of the same size that are tourism focused and whether rates of forcible rapes are higher in counties without prostitution than with prostitution. This paper will also consider rates of sexual victimization among undergraduate students at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, University of British Columbia, and Simon Fraser University. Lastly, the study will consider whether the hypersexual nature of the city is reflected in the sex drives of college students, another factor that puts individuals at risk for becoming a victim of rape.
The critical state in thin superconductors as a mixed boundary value problem: analysis and solution by means of the Erdélyi-Kober operators
Creators: name: Brambilla, Roberto
name: Grilli, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With this paper we provide an effective method to solve a large class of problems related to the electromagnetic behavior of thin superconductors. Here all the problems are reduced to finding the weight functions for the Green integrals that represent the magnetic field components; these latter must satisfy the mixed boundary value conditions that naturally arise from the critical state assumptions. The use of the Erdélyi-Kober operators and of the Hankel transforms (and mostly the employment of their composition properties) is the keystone to unify the method toward the solution. In fact, the procedure consists always of the same steps and does not require any peculiar invention. For this reason the method, here presented in detail for the simplest cases that can be handled in analytical way (two parts boundary), can be directly extended to many other more complex geometries (three or more parts), which usually will require a numerical treatment. In this paper we use the operator technique to derive the current density and field distributions in perfectly conducting and superconducting thin discs and tapes subjected to a uniform magnetic field or carrying a transport current. Although analytical expressions for the field and current distributions have already been found by other authors in the past by using several other methods, their derivation is often cumbersome or missing key details, which makes it difficult for the reader to fully understand the derivation of the analytical formulas and, more importantly, to extend the same methods to solve similar new problems. On the contrary, the characterization of these cases as mixed boundary conditions has the advantage of referring to an immediate and naïve translation of physics into a consistent mathematical formulation whose possible extension to other cases is self-evident.
description: The final publication is available at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00033-011-0185-5
Additional file 5 of Early contribution of germline and nevi genetic alterations to a rapidly-progressing cutaneous melanoma patient: a case report
Creators: name: Mordoh, Ana
name: Triviño Pardo, Juan Carlos
name: Carri, Ibel
name: Barrio, María Marcela
name: Mordoh, José
name: Aris, Mariana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5. Characterization of somatic alterations from patient#009.
Visual limit-push training alters movement variability
Creators: name: Hajissa, E
name: Shah, A
name: Patton, James
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In both movement training and neurorehabilitation, there have been numerous examples of how average performance can be manipulated through practice using enhanced visual feedback. Objective: Rather than just influencing the mean, our objective was to use a novel feedback technique called limit-push to influence the trial-to-trial variability of motion by distorting vision. Method : Limit-push was previously done using robotic forces; the present study employed only visual distortions that imitated the limit-push approach. Results: Like the robotic force treatment, our results showed how subjects significantly shifted the distributions of their motions. This effect was even greater than that of the original limit-push experiment that used robotic forces. Significance : Such visual distortion interventions do not require a robot for enhanced training. Conclusion: The visual limit-push technique appears to be able to selectively alter both the central tendency and variability in performance training applications.
Finite strain studies of single crystal Fe3P under high pressures
Creators: name: Howard, John William
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2010

description: Fe3P (synthetic schreibersite) is a phosphide occurring in iron alloys. Phosphorousis often considered an undesired impurity causing brittleness. Conversely, in some cases the addition of iron phosphides to certain materials is beneficial (e.g.properties of certain frictional materials are enhanced). In terrestrial rock, we do not find Fe3P, although (Fe;Ni)3P (natural schreibersite) is found in nearly all iron-containing meteorites. In this project, we examine the unit cell parameters of Fe3P as function of pressure and derive the respective axial and bulk compressibilities. Both Vinet and Birch-Murnaghan formulations were used to relate pressure and unit cell volume, and a comparison of each prediction was made. Comparing to independent data collected up to 62 GPa, no structural phase transitions were observed, and the sample remained in a strained state after relieving applied pressure.
Additional file 6 of Early contribution of germline and nevi genetic alterations to a rapidly-progressing cutaneous melanoma patient: a case report
Creators: name: Mordoh, Ana
name: Triviño Pardo, Juan Carlos
name: Carri, Ibel
name: Barrio, María Marcela
name: Mordoh, José
name: Aris, Mariana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6. Frequency distribution of alterations in patient#009 throughout progression.