cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dynamics on the graph of the torus parametrisation
Creators: name: Keller, Gerhard
name: Richard, Christoph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52C23, 37A25, 37B10, 37B50

description: Model sets are projections of certain lattice subsets. It was realised by Moody that dynamical properties of such sets are induced from the torus associated with the lattice. We follow and extend this approach by studying dynamics on the graph of the map which associates lattice subsets to points of the torus and then transferring the results to their projections. This not only leads to transparent proofs of known results on model sets, but we also obtain new results on so called weak model sets. In particular we prove pure point dynamical spectrum for the hull of a weak model set together with the push forward of the torus Haar measure under the torus parametrisation map, and we derive a formula for the pattern frequencies of configurations with maximal density.
description: Some remarks were added, some proofs clarified, and Corollary 1 was extended in the revised version
Additional file 1 of Nanopore sequencing provides snapshots of the genetic variation within salmonid alphavirus-3 (SAV3) during an ongoing infection in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and brown trout (Salmo trutta)
Creators: name: Roh, HyeongJin
name: Skaftnesmo, Kai Ove
name: Kannimuthu, Dhamotharan
name: Madhun, Abdullah
name: Patel, Sonal
name: Kvamme, Bjørn Olav
name: Morton, H. Craig
name: Grove, Søren
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Basic characteristics of the reads and data used for sequencing and read mapping of the reference genome.
Using Decision Analysis to Choose Indicator Species for Ecological Assessments at Superfund Sites
Creators: name: Angus, Thomas H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1991

description: The purpose of this paper is to develop a decision analytic framework for choosing indicator species for ecological assessments at Superfund sites. The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Cleanup, and Liability Act (CERCLA) amended by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) charges the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with ensuring that remediation efforts chosen for a site are protective of human health and the environment. To ensure that the natural communities in the vicinity of a site are being protected, the Environmental Protection Agency performs an ecological assessment. Indicator Species are used in the ecological assessment method. Indicator species are organisms who by their presence or absence indicate the extent of environmental contamination in natural communities. The Environmental Protection Agency does not currently use indicator species in ecological assessments, but is interested in using them for monitoring cleanup effectiveness after remediation. Choosing indicator species involves information that is difficult to quantify and the use of expert judgment. Decision analysis structures the decision problem and formally incorporates the expert judgement that is involved in choosing indicator species. The paper begins with a discussion of the use of ecological assessment by the Environmental Protection Agency and how indicator species may be used. This is followed by a discussion of the history of the indicator species concept and a review of the use of indicator species in terrestrial and aquatic environments. Criteria for choosing indicator species are then summarized. These criteria are then incorporated into a framework for choosing indicator species in the next section. This section includes a sensitivity analysis of the parameters of the problem. The final section of the paper is a case study site which illustrates the application of the framework for choosing indicator species.
Can the Teacher Professional Education Admission Criteria in Indonesia Predict Teacher Performance?
Creators: name: Admin, RISE
name: Yusrina, Asri
name: Berkhout, Emilie
name: Suryadarma, Daniel
name: Bima, Luhur
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Teacher education and professional development of educators
Education systems not elsewhere classified
Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This Insight Note identifies the admission criteria of Indonesia’s flagship pre-service teacher training programme as significant predictors of teacher candidates’ success at the end of their professional education and queries whether these criteria can predict teacher performance in a real classroom setting as measured by student learning outcomes.
Affine weakly regular tensor triangulated categories
Creators: name: Dell'Ambrogio, Ivo
name: Stanley, Donald
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 18E30, 55P42, 55U35

description: We prove that the Balmer spectrum of a tensor triangulated category is homeomorphic to the Zariski spectrum of its graded central ring, provided the triangulated category is generated by its tensor unit and the graded central ring is noetherian and regular in a weak sense. There follows a classification of all thick subcategories, and the result extends to the compactly generated setting to yield a classification of all localizing subcategories as well as the analog of the telescope conjecture. This generalizes results of Shamir for commutative ring spectra.
description: 14 pages, several slight improvements. Final version, to appear in Pacific J Math
title: C-arm CT – A revolutionary technology in overcoming challenges in patients undergoing TACE for HCC.
Creators: name: Kulkarni, Chinmay
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Cone beam CT
subject: Chemoembolisation
subject: Cirrhosis

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: 1. Basics of C-arm Computed Tomography (C-arm CT). 2. How is C-arm CT performed ? 3. Application in patients undergiong Trans-arterial chemoembolization (TACE) for Hepatocellular carcinoma...
A Guidance Manual for the North Carolina Chronic Toxicity Test: Application to the OWASA Mason Farm Wastewater Treatment Plant
Creators: name: Struve, James N.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1989

description: The objectives of this report are to provide the reader with an understanding of the statistical tests utilized to interpret chronic toxicity test data, and to examine the data to determine problems associated with the test protocol. Chronic toxicity data, obtained from the Orange County Water And Sewer Authority (OWASA) Mason Farm Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) in Carrboro, NC, is analyzed to illustrate the underlying statistical concepts and procedures, and to illustrate biomonitoring variability. A spreadsheet was developed to compute the test statistics required to compare mortality and reproduction data for an effluent sample to those for a control sample, in accordance with the North Carolina Division of Environmental Management requirements for chronic toxicity tests. The spreadsheet was applied to two years of chronic toxicity data from the OWASA Mason Farm WWTP. Reanalysis of the OWASA data revealed instances in which the test statistics were miscalculated, where the incorrect statistical test was utilized, and where erroneous overall conclusions were drawn by the analytical laboratory conducting the test.
DNF - Galaxy photometric redshift by Directional Neighbourhood Fitting
Creators: name: De Vicente, Juan
name: Sánchez, Eusebio
name: Sevilla, Ignacio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Wide field images taken in several photometric bands allow simultaneous measurement of redshifts for thousands of galaxies. A variety of algorithms to make this measurement have appeared in the last few years, the majority of which can be classified as either template or training based methods. Among the latter, nearest neighbour estimatorsstand out as one of the most successful, in terms of both precision and the quality of error estimation. In this paper we describe the Directional Neighbourhood Fitting (DNF) algorithm based on the following: a new neighbourhood metric (Directional Neighbourhood), a photo-z estimation strategy (Neighbourhood Fitting) and a method for generating the photo-z probability distribution function. We compare DNF with other well-known empirical photometric redshift tools using different public datasets (Sloan Digital Sky Survey, VIMOS VLT Deep Survey and Photo-z Accuracy Testing). DNF achieves high-quality results with reliable error.
description: 11 pages, 13 figures
Distribution of DNA Gyrase and Topoisomerase IV Mutations Associated with Quinolone Resistance in Sediment-Associated Aeromonads
Creators: name: Folan, Michael P.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: The purpose of this research was to examine the genes associated with antibiotic resistance in Aeormonas species isolated from sediment samples collected from Morgan Creek in North Carolina. The study specifically examined resistance to the quinolone and tetracycline families of antibiotics. Previous data determined that there are phenotypic antibiotic resistance traits and patterns in isolated Aeormonas species. This research attempted to build on previous data by exploring genotypic resistance patterns in Aeormonas species as well as determining the impact of urban wastewater effluent on the distribution of antibiotic resistance genes within sediment-associated aeormonads. Resistance to quinolones occurs when mutations in the gyrA and parC regions of the DNA gyrase and topoisomerase IV, respectively allow bacteria to replicate uninhibited. The mutation most associated with quinolone resistance in aeormonads occurs at codon 83 in the gyrA subunit of DNA gyrase. This study examined 150 Aeormonas isolates and determined that 83% of the isolates with amplifiable quinolone resistant determining regions contained mutations at codon 83. Although efforts to characterize mutations in the parC subunit of the topoisomerase IV enzyme and the presence of tetracycline resistance genes were of limited success, it can be said that the data from this study provides evidence of a high number of substitutions at amino acid positions that have been cited as the source of quinolone resistance in Aeormonas species isolated from Morgan Creek sediments. Additionally, there was limited evidence that wastewater effluent may have played at least a contributing a role in the observed genetic mutations associated with quinolone resistance in Aeromonads isolated from sediments of Morgan Creek in the vicinity of a municipal wastewater effluent discharge, as was hypothesized.
The power of being positive: Robust state estimation made possible by quantum mechanics
Creators: name: Kalev, Amir
name: Baldwin, Charles H.
name: Deutsch, Ivan H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the problem of quantum-state tomography under the assumption that the state of the system is close to pure. In this context, an efficient measurements that one typically formulates uniquely identify a pure state from within the set of other pure states. In general such measurements are not robust in the presence of measurement noise and other imperfections, and therefore are less practical for tomography. We argue here that state tomography experiments should instead be done using measurements that can distinguish a pure state from {\em any} other quantum state, of any rank. We show that such nontrivial measurements follows from the physical constraint that the density matrix is positive semidefinite and prove that these measurements yield a robust estimation of the state. We assert that one can implement such tomography relatively simply by measuring only a few random orthonormal bases; our conjecture is supported by numerical evidence. These results are generalized for estimation of states close to bounded-rank.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures. This submission was combined with arXiv:1510.02736 to produce arXiv:1605.02109, which is published in Phys. Rev. A
title: Outcome of trans-arterial supraselective embolization of bronchial artery for massive hemoptysis: significance of pre-embolization CT and bronchoscopy
Creators: name: Leung, Joyce Hoi Ying
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Interventional vascular
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Embolisation

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Massive hemoptysis is a life-threatening emergency.(1) Trans-arterial embolization (TAE) is one of the treatment options for massive hemoptysis. (1-3) Computed tomography (CT) and bronchoscopy may play a complementary role in diagnosing underlying...
RiskAnalytics: an R package for real time processing of Nasdaq and Yahoo finance data and parallelized quantile lasso regression methods
Creators: name: Borke, Lukas
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Risk Analytics
subject: FRM
subject: Data Analytics
subject: Systemic Risk
subject: Quantile Regression
subject: Lasso
subject: Value at Risk
subject: Parallel and Cluster Computing
subject: EDA
subject: Data Visualization
subject: 330 Wirtschaft

description: In order to integrate and facilitate the research, calculation and analysis methods around the Financial Risk Meter (FRM) project, the R package RiskAnalytics has been developed. Its main goal is to provide data processing and parallelized quantile lasso regression methods for risk analysis based on NASDAQ data, Yahoo Finance data and some macro variables. The derived “Risk Analytics” can help to forecast and evaluate the systemic risk for the corresponding markets. The visualization and the up-to-date FRM can be found on http://frm.wiwi.hu-berlin.de. Supplementary R codes are published on www.quantlet.de with the keyword FRM. The RiskAnalytics package is a convenient tool with the purpose of integrating lasso penalized quantile regression methods with full solution paths and cluster computing support around the topic “Risk Analytics and FRM”.
Assessment of Carbon Monoxide Levels in Four Vehicle Remarketing Facilities
Creators: name: Linskey, Cindy F.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: At vehicle remarketing facilities, also known as auto auctions, unacceptable carbon monoxide levels are possible due to vehicles running in an enclosed building. This study assesses and compares the levels of carbon monoxide at four vehicle remarketing facilities. The facilities were separated by vehicle volume and designated as large, medium, small A, and small B facility. The carbon monoxide levels at the large dealer auction were lower than the levels at the medium and small facilities. The levels at the large auction were within health and safety guidelines while there was at least one breach of guidelines at the three public facilities. Several factors could have contributed to the variation such as differences in ventilation characteristics, the nature of the auction, and vehicle characteristics. The conclusion was that the levels of carbon monoxide at certain vehicle auctions were not within certain occupational and public health standards. Levels such as were recorded during sampling could pose health problems for sensitive population within the general population.
Additional file 2 of How does the role of complementary and alternative medicine in general practice differ between countries? Interviews with doctors who have worked both in Germany and elsewhere in Europe
Creators: name: Linde, Klaus
name: Bayer, Robert
name: Gehrmann, Jan
name: Jansky, Bianca
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2
title: Imaging-guided treatment of sciatica-like syndrome: 4 years experience
Creators: name: Arrigoni, Francesco
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: CT
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: Puncture

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: With “Sciatica-like syndrome” we intend a pathologic condition in which the patients feel pain, paresthesias and other symptoms of nervous origin along the territory of innervation of the sciatic nerve that are not of lumbar disc origin. There...
Topology of nonsymmorphic crystalline insulators and superconductors
Creators: name: Shiozaki, Ken
name: Sato, Masatoshi
name: Gomi, Kiyonori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological classification in our previous paper [K. Shiozaki and M. Sato, Phys. Rev. B ${\bf 90}$, 165114 (2014)] is extended to nonsymmorphic crystalline insulators and superconductors. Using the twisted equivariant $K$-theory, we complete the classification of topological crystalline insulators and superconductors in the presence of additional order-two nonsymmorphic space group symmetries. The order-two nonsymmorphic space groups include half lattice translation with $Z_2$ flip, glide, two-fold screw, and their magnetic space groups. We find that the topological periodic table shows modulo-2 periodicity in the number of flipped coordinates under the order-two nonsymmorphic space group. It is pointed out that the nonsymmorphic space groups allow $\mathbb{Z}_2$ topological phases even in the absence of time-reversal and/or particle-hole symmetries. Furthermore, the coexistence of the nonsymmorphic space group with the time-reversal and/or particle-hole symmetries provides novel $\mathbb{Z}_4$ topological phases, which have not been realized in ordinary topological insulators and superconductors. We present model Hamiltonians of these new topological phases and the analytic expression of the $\mathbb{Z}_2$ and $\mathbb{Z}_4$ topological invariants. The half lattice translation with $Z_2$ spin flip and glide symmetry are compatible with the existence of the boundary, leading to topological surface gapless modes protected by such order-two nonsymmorphic symmetries. We also discuss unique features of these gapless surface modes.
description: 38 pages, 13 figures, final version
Evaluating Microbial Partitioning Throughout the Stormwater Transport Chain and its Impact on the Effectiveness of Wet Detention Ponds
Creators: name: Drummey, Patricia N.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: Wet detention basins are among the most common structural best management practices (BMPs)being implemented as a means of complying with federal PhaseII stormwater rules and impending Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) limits. The effectiveness of these basins for removal of microbial contaminants, one of the most frequent causes of water quality impairment, may be significantly affected by the degree of microbial association with particles in stormwater. Little is known with regard to where microbial-particle associations are initiated within the stormwater transport chain as flow travels from upland sources (e.g., lawns, parking lots) through storm sewer systems and BMPs and finally onto receiving waters. A similar lack of information exists on the relative concentrations of microbes at each point in the transport chain. Both of these factors have important implications for the location of wet detention basins within a watershed. This study tracked the concentrations and partitioning behavior of three indicator organisms (fecal coliform, E. coli, enterococci) throughout the transport chain and also explored the impacts of partitioning on wet pond removal efficiency. Results suggest that the degree of microbial partitioning does not vary greatly throughout the transport chain (i.e. microbial-particle association is initiated at the source). Microbial concentrations were higher at the residential upland sites (runoff, wet pond inflow and outflow) than in the stream. The overall reduction in microbial concentration brought about by the ponds was less than that assumed by most regulatory agencies, but the ponds did show some evidence of preferentially removing particle-associated fecal coliform and E. coli. These findings should provide insights useful in the design and implementation of stormwater management strategies.
Rapidly rotating spacetimes and collisional super-Penrose process
Creators: name: Zaslavskii, O. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider generic axially symmetric rotating spacetimes and examine particle collisions in the ergoregion. The results are generic and agree with those obtained in the particular case of the rotating Teo wormhole in N. Tsukamoto and C. Bambi, Phys. Rev. D 91, 104040 (2015). It is shown that for sufficiently rapid rotation, the energy of a particle escaping to infinity can become arbitrary large (so-called super-Penrose process). Moreover, this energy is typically much larger than the center-of mass energy of colliding particles. In this sense the situation differs radically from that for collisions near black holes.
description: 18 pages. Sec. VII and VIII added. Final version
Ecosystem Level Predictors of Student Flourishing
Creators: name: Nekkanti, Akhila
name: Kenner, Brandi
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Academic Attitudes
subject: Equity
subject: Implementation Science
subject: School Climate and EcoSystem
subject: School Environment
subject: School Safety
subject: Student Wellbeing

description: Choice-filled Lives Network (CLN) is in the process of developing an accreditation for schools in Human Flourishing, Language & Literacy, and Democracy. Three pillars are nested within this initiative: Implementation Science, Measurement, and Adult Capacity Building. The current study is nested within the Implementation Science and Measurement pillars of the CLN Accreditation Initiative. The human development and other social science literatures reveal that student well-being and success are influenced by factors both internal (e.g., cognitive, social-emotional) and external (e.g. environments, experiences) to the child. The goal of this study is to examine the correlations and predictors, between and among, student-perceived research-grounded ecosystem indicators of human flourishing present in schools, and students' overall academic success and self-perceived well-being. The goal is to then leverage these findings to develop school-level ecosystem measures of flourishing.
The UK-virtual Environmental Specimen Bank (UK-vESB)
Creators: name: Chaplow, Jacqueline Susan
name: Shore, Richard Francis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: specimen
ESB
environmental
archive

description: The UK-virtual Environmental Specimen Bank (UK-vESB) is a catalogue describing specimen and sample holdings. The UK-vESB was designed to enable sharing of available archived specimens, best practice, expertise and data. The catalogue may also help the research community to identify colleagues who are experts in the field, collaboration partners and spare capacity in archive facilities. The UK-vESB is an open access catalogue of UK specimen and archive collections, and other global or European networks and organisations committed to sharing samples and expertise. We strongly encourage you to view the catalogue at https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/sa/documents and create an entry for your facility or specimen collection. Multiple entries for the same organisation are permitted (e.g. sub-groups within a museum with specific contact and access arrangements), as are umbrella collections that describe a collection or collaboration. To create an entry, contributors should first create a user account at https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/sso/signup providing an email address, name and a password. Please contact Jacky Chaplow at jgar@ceh.ac.uk for more information and assistance.
description: This work was carried out under the UK-SCAPE programme which started in 2018 and is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council as National Capability (award number NE/R016429/1).
Character Education Policy and Its Implications for Learning in Indonesia’s Education System
Creators: name: Admin, RISE
name: Kurniasih, Heni
name: Utari, Valentina Y.D.
name: Akhmadi
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education systems not elsewhere classified
Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This Insight discusses the character education policy within the Indonesian education system, which still faces key challenges to improve learning outcomes. From the team’s diagnostic of the Indonesian education system, they find that education policymakers and stakeholders in Indonesia perceive that character education can solve societal issues related to moral degradation. The team hypothesises that the one-sided implementation of the policy is due to the lack of clarity in the “delegation” aspect of the policy design, which results in a variety of conflicting interpretations by education stakeholders at national, local, and school levels.
Additional file 2 of The prognostic value of programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression in resected colorectal cancer without neoadjuvant therapy - differences between antibody clones and cell types
Creators: name: Nobin, Hampus
name: Garvin, Stina
name: Hagman, Helga
name: Nodin, Björn
name: Jirström, Karin
name: Brunnström, Hans
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Supplementary Material 2: Supplementary table 2. PD-L1 expression in tumor cells (TC) and immune cells (IC) depending on antibody clone and age of tissue blocks in 862 cases of colorectal cancer from 2007 to 2015. (DOCX 17 kB)
title: Long-term outcomes of percutaneous interventions for anastomotic portal vein stenosis after pediatric living donor liver transplantation
Creators: name: Yabuta, Minoru
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Liver
subject: Vascular
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Angioplasty
subject: Stents
subject: Transplantation

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Introduction Liver transplantation is an established treatment for end-stage liver disease [1]. Although deceased donor liver transplantation is considered a standard procedure, living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) has been widely performed...
L'IA Non è Roba per Donne?
Creators: name: CATARCI, Tiziana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Le tecnologie digitali hanno la potenzialità di migliorare la vita degli esseri umani, tuttavia, ci sono rischi importanti legati ad un uso indiscriminato del digitale. A cominciare dal cosiddetto “digital divide”, con le sue sfaccettature economiche, sociali, culturali, di genere, la distanza tra chi subisce la tecnologia e chi la sfrutta al meglio. Per non parlare dei pregiudizi insiti nei dati, che gli algoritmi di Machine Learning – apprendimento automatico, un settore specifico dell’Intelligenza Artificiale, così chiamato dalla capacità dei sistemi di apprendere dai dati che utilizzano - possono facilmente perpetuare e amplificare, contribuendo così a creare un mondo segnato da pregiudizi e diseguaglianze, dominato da un pensiero comune e in cui la diversità è destinata a scomparire. La diversità è a rischio anche, se non soprattutto, perché la trasformazione digitale è fatta in larga misura da uomini con una visione abbastanza omologata, ed è segnata da una drammatica disparità di genere ed etnia.  Per fare un esempio, in USA le donne hanno conseguito il 28,5%, il 25,1% e il 18,1% di tutti i titoli di laurea in informatica di primo livello rispettivamente nel 1995, 2004 e 2014. Quindi la percentuale femminile di laureate in informatica è diminuita di 10 punti percentuali in venti anni, anni che, invece, hanno visto la costante crescita e diffusione delle tecnologie digitali, nonché il costante aumento dei posti di lavoro disponibili nel settore. Queste basse percentuali sono confermate dai dati raccolti in tutti i paesi europei, a cominciare dall’Italia, in cui la componente femminile delle iscrizioni ai corsi di laurea disciplinari per il digitale non supera il 15% da molti anni. Al contrario, le tecnologie dell’informazione hanno un potere trasformativo e potrebbero fungere da catalizzatore per l'empowerment delle donne. Per questo è necessario far percepire alle ragazze che il digitale non è per pochi nerd che vivono pestando tasti, rintanati in stanze buie, ma è lo strumento per cambiare il mondo.
Electrostatic Aerosol In Vitro Exposure System (EAVES) as an Alternative Exposure System for Mixtures of Gases and Particles
Creators: name: de Bruijne, Kim Maureen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: There is increasing interest in examining complex urban air pollution mixtures that include both particulate and gaseous components. Conventional methodologies are unable to expose lung cells in vitro to fine particulate matter (<0.5 micron) directly and efficiently. This research developed a new method using electrostatic precipitation (ESP) for such exposures and was tested with diesel exhaust. The basic concept of electrostatic precipitation is that articles in an air stream can be electrically charged by a variety of methods. Once the particles are charged, the particles can be rapidly removed and deposited from the air stream using an electric field created by an applied high voltage. If the surfaces onto which the particles are deposited are cultured human lung cells, the particles can be rapidly but gently deposited on those surfaces. The ESP tested by this research, achieved an average collection efficiency of 96% for all particles in the measured size range. With no charge applied, the efficiency decreased to 2%. The ESP was modified to hold media and cultured cell inserts, thus human epithelial lung cells were exposed to the particulate in ambient air without a liquid interphase step. The modified device is called the Electrostatic Aerosol in vitro Exposure System (EAVES). Cells exposed to the electric field of the EAVES alone (in clean air) exhibit minimal cytotoxicity (i.e., cell death). Moreover, in these cases, the cellular release of stress-signaling cytokinesis indistinguishable from that of cells maintained in the incubator and used as controls. In contrast, cells exposed to diesel exhaust deposited by the active EAVES system produced a three fold increase in stress cytokines and cytotoxicity compared to the cells in the incubator. This research has demonstrated the ability to expose respiratory epithelial cells directly to particles without prior collection in a separate media, thereby avoiding the possibility of significantly altering the particles' characteristics. These results suggest that the EAVES system can be used to determine the full toxic potential of both gaseous and particulate components of air pollution mixtures.
A data processing approach with built-in spatial resolution reduction methods to construct energy system models
Creators: name: Fleischer, Christian
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: Energy Systems
subject: Engineering

description: This project contains the supplementary materials of the publication titled - A data processing approach with built-in spatial resolution reduction methods to construct energy system models - by Christian Etienne Fleischer
The Outer Solar System Origins Survey: I. Design and First-Quarter Discoveries
Creators: name: Bannister, Michele T.
name: Kavelaars, J. J.
name: Petit, Jean-Marc
name: Gladman, Brett J.
name: Gwyn, Stephen D. J.
name: Chen, Ying-Tung
name: Volk, Kathryn
name: Alexandersen, Mike
name: Benecchi, Susan
name: Delsanti, Audrey
name: Fraser, Wesley
name: Granvik, Mikael
name: Grundy, Will M.
name: Guilbert-Lepoutre, Aurelie
name: Hestroffer, Daniel
name: Ip, Wing-Huen
name: Jakubik, Marian
name: Jones, Lynne
name: Kaib, Nathan
name: Kavelaars, Catherine F.
name: Lacerda, Pedro
name: Lawler, Samantha
name: Lehner, Matthew J.
name: Lin, Hsing Wen
name: Lister, Tim
name: Lykawka, Patryk Sofia
name: Monty, Stephanie
name: Marsset, Michael
name: Murray-Clay, Ruth
name: Noll, Keith
name: Parker, Alex
name: Pike, Rosemary E.
name: Rousselot, Philippe
name: Rusk, David
name: Schwamb, Megan E.
name: Shankman, Cory
name: Sicardy, Bruno
name: Vernazza, Pierre
name: Wang, Shiang-Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery, tracking and detection circumstances for 85 trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) from the first 42 deg$^{2}$ of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS). This ongoing $r$-band Solar System survey uses the 0.9 deg$^{2}$ field-of-view MegaPrime camera on the 3.6 m Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. Our orbital elements for these TNOs are precise to a fractional semi-major axis uncertainty $<0.1\%$. We achieve this precision in just two oppositions, as compared to the normal 3-5 oppositions, via a dense observing cadence and innovative astrometric technique. These discoveries are free of ephemeris bias, a first for large trans-Neptunian surveys. We also provide the necessary information to enable models of TNO orbital distributions to be tested against our TNO sample. We confirm the existence of a cold "kernel" of objects within the main cold classical Kuiper belt, and infer the existence of an extension of the "stirred" cold classical Kuiper belt to at least several AU beyond the 2:1 mean motion resonance with Neptune. We find that the population model of Petit et al. (2011) remains a plausible representation of the Kuiper belt. The full survey, to be completed in 2017, will provide an exquisitely characterized sample of important resonant TNO populations, ideal for testing models of giant planet migration during the early history of the Solar System.
description: Accepted to AJ, 27 April 2016. 59 pp
title: Hemodynamic evaluation of hepatocellular carcinoma using dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI with high temporal resolution: comparison with dynamic CT during hepatic arteriography
Creators: name: Fujinaga, Yasunari
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Haemodynamics / Flow dynamics
subject: Cirrhosis
subject: Cancer
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Liver
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Abdomen

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The radial volumetric imaging breath-hold examination (r-VIBE), which is a modified version of Cartesian (traditional) VIBE, is a new 3D-gradient-echo sequence. It offers several advantages over the c-VIBE sequence, including less motion...
Modeling alcoholic hepatitis in mice: modified acute-on-chronic binge ethanol feeding and alcohol liquid diet models
Creators: name: Kobets, Tetyana
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Ethanol contributes to a wide spectrum of alcohol-induced liver injury in humans. The use of animal models enables understanding of the driving forces of liver damage. However, features and patterns of some liver pathology, such as alcoholic hepatitis, cannot be completely reproduced by existing animal models. Two experimental designs were implemented in order to reproduce an acute-on-chronic pattern of liver injury. In the first experiment, six-week old male C57/BL6J mice were randomly assigned to the injections of CCl4 (0.2ml/kg) or olive oil as vehicle for 6 weeks. Three days after cessation of CCl4 administration, mice received daily gavages of ethanol (4-5g/kg) or saline vehicle for 8 days (binge ethanol feeding model). In the second study after pre-injections with CCl4 mice were fed ad libitum with alcohol-containing modified Lieber-DeCarli liquid diet for 6 weeks (modified alcohol liquid diet model). Serum alcohol concentration and biomarkers of liver injury, histopathological evaluation of liver tissue sections, and the expression of genes, markers of myofibroblast formation, were assessed. The results of the study demonstrate that administration of low doses of CCl4 with following consumption of alcohol liquid diet caused the development of liver lesions similar to those in human alcoholic hepatitis.
Effective Floquet-Gibbs states for dissipative quantum systems
Creators: name: Shirai, Tatsuhiko
name: Thingna, Juzar
name: Mori, Takashi
name: Denisov, Sergey
name: Hänggi, Peter
name: Miyashita, Seiji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A periodically driven quantum system, when coupled to a heat bath, relaxes to a non-equilibrium asymptotic state. In the general situation, the retrieval of this asymptotic state presents a rather non-trivial task. It was recently shown that in the limit of an infinitesimal coupling, using so-called rotating wave approximation (RWA), and under strict conditions imposed on the time-dependent system Hamiltonian, the asymptotic state can attain the Gibbs form. A Floquet-Gibbs state is characterized by a density matrix which is diagonal in the Floquet basis of the system Hamiltonian with the diagonal elements obeying a Gibbs distribution, being parametrized by the corresponding Floquet quasi-energies. Addressing the non-adiabatic driving regime, upon using the Magnus expansion, we employ the concept of a corresponding effective Floquet Hamiltonian. In doing so we go beyond the conventionally used RWA and demonstrate that the idea of Floquet-Gibbs states can be extended to the realistic case of a weak, although finite system-bath coupling, herein termed effective Floquet-Gibbs states.
description: 21 pages, 9 figures
Long-Range Planning of the OWASA Water Supply System
Creators: name: Gagliostro, Anthony R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1994

description: The Orange Water and Sewer Authority operates a multiple reservoir system consisting of two primary reservoirs and a third, which is an abandoned portion of a quarry. The authority can increase its long-term water supply by obtaining additional storage capacities at the quarry site or by developing a new source outside the existing water sheds. Mathematical optimization techniques were applied to assist in the long-range planning of the capacity expansion of the reservoir system. Linear programming models were developed to estimate the safe yield of the system under various conditions. Safe yield functions were derived for different system configurations, inflow conditions, and working volumes. Using projections of future demands, the schedulng of required capacity expansions was identified for different planning alternatives. A present value cost comparison of the expansion alternatives was performed. The results indicated that substantial savings would be realized by delaying the development of a new source through the expansion of the quarry reservoir.
How music alters brain development: A longitudinal twin study on sensorimotor synchronization and brain plasticity
Creators: name: van Drunen, Lina
name: Schaefer, Rebecca
name: Schultz, Benjamin
name: Wierenga, Lara
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Developmental neuroscience
subject: Early adolescence
subject: Genetic modeling
subject: Middle childhood
subject: Musical capability
subject: Sensorimotor synchronization
subject: Structural brain development
subject: Twin study

description: With this project, we aim to unravel whether sensorimotor synchronization performance, a key component of musical capability, is related to individual differences in brain developmental patterns of motor and affective networks. This may be indicative of sensitive windows in brain development, where musical training affects brain developmental trajectories to a larger extend. Last, we will test to what extent the association between sensorimotor synchronization ability and brain development is environmentally or genetically driven, using a twin sample including 7 to 13-year old children.
title: Efficacy of CT-guided percutaneous aspiration and biopsy for spondylodiskitis: Medium or small caliber needles (17 to 20G) approach.
Creators: name: Yamazaki, Ikuo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Infection
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Biopsy
subject: Percutaneous
subject: CT
subject: Musculoskeletal spine
subject: Interventional non-vascular

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Diagnosis of spondylodiskitis based on clinical, laboratory and radiological features can be difficult. Identifying the offending pathogen is critical for providing appropriate antibiotic therapy. Biopsy has been recommended for isolating causative...
Relationship between race and community water and sewer service in North Carolina
Creators: name: Leker, Hannah
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Previous studies have documented racial disparities in community water and sewer services on fringes of North Carolina (NC) municipalities, but the magnitude of such disparities is unknown. This project used public records of water and sewer pipelines in 75 of 100 NC counties to identify municipal fringe populations lacking utility services. Of 432,200 people in municipal fringe areas in these counties, 67% and 33% lacked community sewer and water service, respectively. Majority African American areas had higher population densities and lower median home values than other unserved areas. Blocks with African American population proportions above the statewide mean were less likely (OR=0.76, p<0.001) to have water service than those with nonzero but smaller African American populations. However, areas without African American populations had the lowest odds of both services. Findings suggest two unserved groups of differing racial and socioeconomic status and greater racial disparities in community water service than sewer.
title: Initial experience of endovascular biopsy for intra-vascular lesions
Creators: name: Pomoni, Anastasia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Percutaneous
subject: Catheter venography
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Biopsy
subject: Neoplasia

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Intra-vascular lesions include benign tumors, reactive changes, thrombosis and malignant tumors. The vascular malignancies are very rare. Primary tumors of the heart, aorta, and great vessels usually represent sarcomatous neoplasms. Most sarcomas...
Additional file 1 of Inter-laboratory comparison of eleven quantitative or digital PCR assays for detection of proviral bovine leukemia virus in blood samples
Creators: name: Pluta, Aneta
name: Jaworski, Juan Pablo
name: Droscha, Casey
name: VanderWeele, Sophie
name: Taxis, Tasia M.
name: Valas, Stephen
name: Brnić, Dragan
name: Jungić, Andreja
name: Ruano, María José
name: Sánchez, Azucena
name: Murakami, Kenji
name: Nakamura, Kurumi
name: Puentes, Rodrigo
name: De Brun, MLaureana
name: Ruiz, Vanesa
name: Gómez, Marla Eliana Ladera
name: Lendez, Pamela
name: Dolcini, Guillermina
name: Camargos, Marcelo Fernandes
name: Fonseca, Antônio
name: Barua, Subarna
name: Wang, Chengming
name: Giza, Aleksandra
name: Kuźmak, Jacek
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Molecular Biology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Copy of the instruction included with the panel of 44 DNA samples sent to participating laboratories for dilution of the lyophilisates
On a simplified but quantitative approach to predicting large scale connectivity changes in complex systems such as the brain
Creators: name: ANYAEJI, CHINEDU
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Life Sciences

description: This is a theoretical attempt to derive a quantitative tool (equation) that might be useful in predicting large scale functional connectivity changes (as a function of structural connectivity) after perturbing aspects of a complex system such as the brain with an external stimuli. The resulting equation makes predictions that may be assessed by empirical studies using neuromodulation tools such as transcranial magnetic stimulation.
Theoretical Prediction of the Nematic Orbital-Ordered State in Ti-Oxypnictide Superconductor BaTi2(As,Sb)2O
Creators: name: Nakaoka, Hironori
name: Yamakawa, Youichi
name: Kontani, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electronic nematic state without magnetization emerges in various strongly correlated metals such as Fe-based and cuprate superconductors. To understand this universal phenomenon, we focus on the nematic state in Ti-oxypnictide BaTi2(As,Sb)2O, which is expressed as the three-dimensional 10-orbital Hubbard model. The antiferromagnetic fluctuations are caused by the Fermi surface nesting. Interestingly, we find the spin-fluctuation-driven orbital order due to the strong orbital-spin interference, which is described by the Aslamazov-Larkin vertex correction (AL-VC). The predicted intra-unit-cell nematic orbital order is consistent with the recent experimental reports on BaTi2(As,Sb)2O. Thus, the spin-fluctuation-driven orbital order due to the AL-VC mechanism is expected to be universal in various two- and three-dimensional multiorbital metals.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. B