cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Palaeamathes serrulata Gyulai, Ronkay & Saldaitis 2011, sp. n.
Creators: name: Gyulai, P.
name: Ronkay, L.
name: Saldaitis, A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Palaeamathes
Palaeamathes serrulata

description: Palaeamathes serrulata Gyulai, Ronkay & Saldaitis, sp. n. (Figs 3, 4, 12–14) Type material. Holotype: Male, China, W-Sichuan, Litang env., 4000 m, 29.50°N, 100.21°E, 16. vii. 2009, leg. I. & A. Floriani & A. Saldaitis; coll. P. Gyulai (Miskolc). Slide No. GYP 2435m Paratypes: 2 males, 2 females, with the same data; slide Nos GYP 2398m, GYP2482 f. The paratypes are deposited in the collections of ASF, GYP, GBG / ZSM and NRCV. Diagnosis and description. Forewing length 16.5–18.0 mm. External morphological features and genitalia place the new species closest to Palaeamathes harpegnoma (Hreblay & Ronkay, 1998). Despite similarities in forewing ground colour (brown, brown-red) with the single worn P. harpegnoma specimen, P. serrulata can be distinguished by having more elongated forewings, an antemedial crossline that is not oblique and a narrower reniform stigmata that has a conspicuously different shape forming a lying V-form pointing toward the basal part of forewing. In the male genitalia of the new species the cucullus is slighter longer, the apical process of the bifurcated harpe is longer, and the medial incision of the juxta is smaller. The vesica has two tiny wide-based cornuti situated in close proximity subbasally, while in P. harpegnoma the smaller cornutus is distally positioned. Distinguishing female genitalia characters, in comparison with the other known Palaeagrotis, are as follows: ostium bursae is wide calycular, with a small posterio-medial incision on the outer belt-like sclerotised lamella; the wall of ductus bursae has a visible characteristic, longitudinal tongue-like sclerotised lamella; the appendix bursae is basally broad and the corpus bursae is sac-like. Distribution and biology. Only known from the Litang area of China's Sichuan province on the east part of the Tibetan plateau. All specimens were collected in mid July at an altitude 4000 m. Both males and females are attracted to light but appear to have a local distribution as P. serrulata was discovered in one small valley near Litang. The new species was uncommon in the alpine grasslands zone where it flies with other rare high altitude moths such as the arctiids Platarctia souliei (Oberthür, 1911) and Murzinowatsonia x-album (Oberthür, 1911). Etymology. The name refers to the serrated distal part of the harpe.
description: Published as part of Gyulai, P., Ronkay, L. & Saldaitis, A., 2011, New Noctuidae species from China (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea), pp. 46-52 in Zootaxa 2896 (1) on pages 47-48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2896.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/5285131
St Andrew's, Middleton, North Yorkshire
Creators: name: Team, Woruldhord Project
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: Archaeology

description: The church of St Andrew's at Middleton dates to the Anglo-Saxon period, and also preserves a considerable amount of Saxon architecture and Viking sculpturework. The bottom of the tower is part of the original Anglo-Saxon building, and the Saxon door in the wall of the tower has been dated to 1042. The cross above the doorway has been dated to the mid to late eighth century. The Viking crosses from Middleton are very well known, and they date to the period of the Viking kingdom of York from AD 876 to 954.
Microenvironmental Factors and Extracellular Matrix Degradation in Pancreatic Cancer
Creators: name: Binker, Marcelo G
name: Binker-Cosen, Makena J
name: Binker-Cosen, Andres A
name: Cosen-Binker, Laura I
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2014
Subjects: Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal; Environmental Medicine; Extracellular Matrix; Matrix Metalloproteinases; Neoplasm Invasiveness; Neoplastic Stem Cells; NF-kappa B; RAC1 protein, human; Reactive Oxygen Species; Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator

description: Pancreatic cancer is a devastating malady with proclivity for early metastasis, accounting for its poor prognosis. Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, the most common type of pancreatic malignancy, exhibits an over-expression of several growth factors such as epidermal growth factor and transforming growth factor beta, which correlate with a decrease in patient survival. These growth factors as well as hypoxia-reoxygenation conditions have been shown to increase pancreatic tumor cell invasiveness. This review will focus on the signaling pathways used by these distinct microenvironmental factors to promote extracellular matrix degradation and invasion by pancreatic tumor cells.

Image: Model for Rac1/ROS/NF-κB-mediated pancreatic cancer invasion.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 15, No 4 (2014): July - p. 280-412
Spotkania Józefa Ignacego Kraszewskiego z 'Ostatnią Wieczerzą', czyli trzy epizody z włoskiej podróży
Creators: name: Chlebowski, Piotr
Publisher: name: Quart
Year: 2019

description: Includes a summary in English
description: Quart, Bd. 36 Nr. 2 (2015): Quart. The Quarterly of the Institute of Art History at the University of Wrocław
Letnia akademia w Marburgu poświęcona historii badań nad barokiem w okresie zimnej wojny
Creators: name: Kłoda, Emilia
Publisher: name: Quart
Year: 2019

description: Includes a summary in English
description: Quart, Bd. 36 Nr. 2 (2015): Quart. The Quarterly of the Institute of Art History at the University of Wrocław
St Andrew's, Middleton, North Yorkshire
Creators: name: Lee, Stuart
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: Archaeology

description: The church of St Andrew's at Middleton dates to the Anglo-Saxon period, and also preserves a considerable amount of Saxon architecture and Viking sculpturework. The bottom of the tower is part of the original Anglo-Saxon building, and the Saxon door in the wall of the tower has been dated to 1042. The cross above the doorway has been dated to the mid to late eighth century. The Viking crosses from Middleton are very well known, and they date to the period of the Viking kingdom of York from AD 876 to 954.
„Idą, idą wszystkie mary” – malarska wizja 'Przedświtu' pędzla Witolda Pruszkowskiego
Creators: name: Chlebowska, Edyta
Publisher: name: Quart
Year: 2019

description: Includes a summary in English
description: Quart, Bd. 39 Nr. 1 (2016): Quart. The Quarterly of the Institute of Art History at the University of Wrocław
A Case of Pancreatic Cancer as a Recurrence of Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasm Following Surgical Resection
Creators: name: Choi, Sae Byeol
name: Jo, Hye Sung
name: Choi, Sang Yong
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2014
Subjects: Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous; Adenocarcinoma, Papillary; Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; Neoplasms, Cystic, Mucinous, and Serous; Pancreatectomy; Pancreatic Neoplasms

description: No abstract available.

Image: Serial TC changes.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 15, No 4 (2014): July - p. 280-412
Natural History of Branch-Duct Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms of the Pancreas: A Case Report
Creators: name: Casadei, Riccardo
name: Ricci, Claudio
name: D’Ambra, Marielda
name: Taffurelli, Giovanni
name: Zingaretti, Caterina C
name: Pacilio, Carlo A
name: Calculli, Lucia
name: Pagano, Nico
name: Minni, Francesco
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2014
Subjects: Neoplasms, Cystic, Mucinous, and Serous; Pancreas; Pancreatectomy; Public Health Surveillance

description: Context The natural history of incidental branch-duct intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm of the pancreas is still unknown. Case report The case of a 74-year-old man who had been diagnosed 14 years previously with an incidental branch-duct intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm of the pancreatic head, 30 mm in size, without mural nodules and dilatation of the main pancreatic duct is herein reported. After an exploratory laparotomy at the time of diagnosis (when he was 60 year-old), the patient was enrolled in a surveillance program. Fourteen years after the diagnosis, the cystic lesion showed an increase in size, Wirsung duct dilatation and the presence of several mural nodules. A total pancreatectomy was performed and a diagnosis of mixed-intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm diffused throughout the entire pancreas with high grade dysplasia, and a micro-invasive carcinoma (<1 mm) of the pancreatic head was reached. Conclusion The present case confirmed that the natural history of branch-duct intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms is unpredictable. Thus, an appropriate surveillance program is required for prompt identification of the signs predictive of a malignant transformation of branch-duct intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms. In high-volume centers, surgery should seriously be considered in young patients who are fit for surgery.

Image: MRI plus cholangiopancreatography.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 15, No 4 (2014): July - p. 280-412
DanceCamAnimator: Keyframe-Based Controllable 3D Dance Camera Synthesis
Creators: name: Wang, Zixuan
name: Li, Jiayi
name: Qin, Xiaoyu
name: Sun, Shikun
name: Zhou, Songtao
name: Jia, Jia
name: Luo, Jiebo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Synthesizing camera movements from music and dance is highly challenging due to the contradicting requirements and complexities of dance cinematography. Unlike human movements, which are always continuous, dance camera movements involve both continuous sequences of variable lengths and sudden drastic changes to simulate the switching of multiple cameras. However, in previous works, every camera frame is equally treated and this causes jittering and unavoidable smoothing in post-processing. To solve these problems, we propose to integrate animator dance cinematography knowledge by formulating this task as a three-stage process: keyframe detection, keyframe synthesis, and tween function prediction. Following this formulation, we design a novel end-to-end dance camera synthesis framework \textbf{DanceCamAnimator}, which imitates human animation procedures and shows powerful keyframe-based controllability with variable lengths. Extensive experiments on the DCM dataset demonstrate that our method surpasses previous baselines quantitatively and qualitatively. Code will be available at \url{https://github.com/Carmenw1203/DanceCamAnimator-Official}.
description: Accepted by ACM Multimedia 2024
Saint and City
Creators: name: Team, Woruldhord Project
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 200503 British and Irish Literature
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: A modernist retelling of the legend of St Frideswide of Oxford. Commended in the 2009 Scintilla long poem competition, published in the magazine in 2010. Inspired by many walks between Oxford and Binsey, and the city itself.
Gerd Albrecht und Andrea Hahn, Rentierjäger im Brudertal
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Almut
Publisher: name: Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica
Year: 2019

description: Rezension zu: Gerd Albrecht und Andrea Hahn, Rentierjäger im Brudertal. Die jungpaläolithischen Fundstellen um den Petersfels und das Städtische Museum Engen im Hegau. Mit Beiträgen von A. Schreiner und G. Dieterich, Führer zu den archäologischen Denkmälern in Baden-Württemberg, Bd. 15, Konrad Theiss Verlag (Stuttgart 1991) 102 S.
description: Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica, Bd. 26/27 1994/1995(1995)
Saint and City
Creators: name: Lee, Stuart
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 200503 British and Irish Literature
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: A modernist retelling of the legend of St Frideswide of Oxford. Commended in the 2009 Scintilla long poem competition, published in the magazine in 2010. Inspired by many walks between Oxford and Binsey, and the city itself.
Structural, micro-structural/morphological and magnetic properties of RECrO3 (RE = La, Nd, Sm, Eu and Gd) Orthocromites
Creators: name: Yadav, Anurag
name: Kumar, Anuj
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report here the structural, micro-structural/morphological and detailed magnetic properties of RECrO3 (RE = La, Nd, Sm, Eu and Gd) Orthocromites. A series of RECrO3 (RE = La, Nd, Sm, Eu and Gd) Orthocromites polycrystalline samples with uniform particle size were synthesized via standard solid-state reaction method. LaCrO3 (LCO), NdCrO3 (NCO), SmCrO3(SCO), and EuCrO3 (ECO) crystallizes in single phase of orthorhombic structure with Pnma (No.62) space group while GdCrO3 (GCO) found to crystallize in orthorhombic phase with Pbnm space group. SEM images confirms the systematic growth of all studied samples grain growth takes place during the sintering process and images shows the polyhedral shape with varying average grain size ranging from approximately 1.0μm to 3μm confirm the bulk synthesis of studied RECrO3. Lowest average grain size (~ 1.1μm) was observed for LaCrO3 and maximum (~ 2.8μm) for EuCrO3. The shapes of the grain size changes because of crystal lattice distortion induced by various rare earths (La, Nd, Sm, Eu and Gd) at A site. Energy dispersive X-ray Analysis (EDAX) reveals the elements confirmation in different studied RECrO3 samples. Within the detection limit of EDAX no impurity elements were observed in different as synthesized RECrO3 samples. Temperature dependent DC magnetization (M-T) studies showed an antiferromagnetic transition (TN) attributed to Cr3+ spins in all samples at different temperature. At low temperature spin-reorientation (TSR) of rare earth ion was also observed in NCO, SCO at around 50K and the same is observed at around 30K in ECO and the same was missing in GCO because of large moment of Gd3+ ions attributed by ground state spectroscopic term 8S7/2 by external applied magnetic field. The magnetization versus applied magnetic field (M-H) loops exhibited ferromagnetic like behavior at 10K and 100K and paramagnetic at 300K for GCO.
description: 23 pages, 4 figures
The Colouring of the Ruthwell and Bewcastle Crosses
Creators: name: Team, Woruldhord Project
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: Archaeology

description: These notes describe a project carried out at the Manchester Museum in the University of Manchester as part of the redisplay of the museum galleries in 1999-2000, to recolour a set of casts of the crosses at Bewcastle and Ruthwell churches acquired in 1951(the Ruthwell Cross contains sections of ;The Dream of the Rood'), using the evidence surviving on other sculpture, the MS traditions and metalwork and jewellery. The coloured casts were put on display in the entrance hall of the refurbished Manchester Museum in 2003, serving as a beacon at the end of the new entrance hall to lead visitors into the rest of the museum as the originals had served as bright beacons of faith in the northern landscape: but in 2009 display policy in Manchester changed and they were put into store with little prospect of emerging in the foreseeable future. Happily, soon after they were transferred to a new home in the University of Leeds, where they are currently on display in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies.
Clinical Observation of Macroamylasemia in Splenosis Due to the Posttraumatic Splenectomy
Creators: name: Gubergrits, Natalya B
name: Zubov, Aleksandr
name: Golubova, Oksana
name: Fomenko, Pavel
name: Byelyayeva, Nadezhda
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2014
Subjects: Hyperamylasemia; Pancreatitis, Chronic; Splenectomy; Splenosis

description: Context Article analyzes current data on macroamylasemia and splenosis, their etiology and diagnostics in particular. Case Report Authors presented their own clinical observation of a young woman who was diagnosed to have macroamylasemia on the background of splenosis due to the splenectomy after blunt abdominal injury. Conclusion This is the first time such a combination of macroamylasemia on the background of splenosis has been described in the literature.

Image: Spiral CT of abdomen and retroperitoneum
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 15, No 4 (2014): July - p. 280-412
Pancreatic Hemolymphangioma
Creators: name: Figueroa, Ruiz Marco Antonio
name: Lopez, Gomez Javier
name: Servin, Torres Erick
name: Esquinca, Moreno Humberto
name: Gómez-Pedraza, Antonio
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2014
Subjects: Lymphangioma; Pancreatic Neoplasms; Pancreaticoduodenectomy

description: Context Hemolymphangioma of pancreas is a tumor has its origins on vascular and lymphatic vessels malformation. At this time, only eight cases have been reported (PubMed). Case report A 52-year-old woman with history of abdominal pain and early satiety was admitted to our external consultation. Laboratory data were normal. CT initially showed a high vascularized solid tumor, apparently arising from the right hepatic lobe, and it was considered to be a hemangioma. Two sessions of CT guided embolizations were performed. Control CT scan revealed a reduction in tumor´s size and location confined to pancreatic head. With this diagnosis studies and suspicion of neoplastic tumor, it was performed a pylorus preserving pancreatoduodenectomy. Pathology report was to be a pancreatic head hemolymphangioma. Conclusion Diagnosis and management of cystic pancreatic tumors can be challenging. Cystectomy or even surgical procedures as pancreatoduodenectomy should be performed when is possible. We report a case of pancreatic hemolymphangioma, a benign cystic tumor with a rare incidence.

Image: 3-D reconstruction shows a highly vascularized mass.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 15, No 4 (2014): July - p. 280-412
Wilfried Menghin, Frühgeschichte Bayerns. Römer und Germanen, Baiern und Schwaben, Franken und Slawen
Creators: name: Siegmund, Frank
Publisher: name: Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica
Year: 2019

description: Rezension zu: Wilfried Menghin, Frühgeschichte Bayerns. Römer und Germanen, Baiern und Schwaben, Franken und Slawen. Theiss- Verlag (Stuttgart 1990) 206 Seiten, 101 Abbildungen, 73 Farbabbildungen
description: Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica, Bd. 26/27 1994/1995(1995)
Pharmacogenetics in Neuroendocrine Tumors of the Pancreas
Creators: name: Rizvi, Syed Mujtaba
name: Wong, Joyce
name: Saif, Muhammad Wasif
name: Jia, Yuxia
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2014
Subjects: Neuroendocrine Tumors; Pancreas; Pharmacogenetics

description: Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) arise from cells distributed throughout the endocrine system. Although, NETs are heterogeneous in their behavior, they tend to be more aggressive when arising in the pancreas. Pancreatic NET (panNET) represents three percent of all primary pancreatic neoplasms. Symptomatic and progressive panNETs are generally treated with cytotoxic chemotherapy, whereas molecular targeted therapy is used for nonfunctional tumors without aggressive features. Pharmacogenetics has increasingly been used recently to better identify potential targets for therapy and help select patient-specific therapy. In this review, we discuss two abstracts (Abstracts #4113 and #e15169) presented at the ASCO Annual Meeting in Chicago this year, outlining the potential role of tumor gene and gene product profiling in disease management. We describe what is known about the pathogenesis of these tumors, role of decreased gene product expression (MGMT, RRM1, MET) and its application in cytotoxic therapy selection, as well as genetic mutations that can be used for molecular targeted therapy. With an overall shift towards personalized medicine, it has become ever more important to identify the molecular signature of a tumor as it appears to dictate the clinical behavior and response to therapy.

Image: Cellular processing and repair of alkylating agent induced O6meG lesions in DNA by MGMT.
From: Fu et al. Nature Reviews Cancer 2012; 12:104-20.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 15, No 4 (2014): July - p. 280-412
The Colouring of the Ruthwell and Bewcastle Crosses
Creators: name: Lee, Stuart
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: Archaeology

description: These notes describe a project carried out at the Manchester Museum in the University of Manchester as part of the redisplay of the museum galleries in 1999-2000, to recolour a set of casts of the crosses at Bewcastle and Ruthwell churches acquired in 1951(the Ruthwell Cross contains sections of ;The Dream of the Rood'), using the evidence surviving on other sculpture, the MS traditions and metalwork and jewellery. The coloured casts were put on display in the entrance hall of the refurbished Manchester Museum in 2003, serving as a beacon at the end of the new entrance hall to lead visitors into the rest of the museum as the originals had served as bright beacons of faith in the northern landscape: but in 2009 display policy in Manchester changed and they were put into store with little prospect of emerging in the foreseeable future. Happily, soon after they were transferred to a new home in the University of Leeds, where they are currently on display in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies.
Archäologie in Berlin und Brandenburg 1990-1992
Creators: name: Reich, Christine
Publisher: name: Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica
Year: 2019

description: Rezension zu: Archäologie in Berlin und Brandenburg 1990-1992, Hrsg, von der Archäologischen Gesellschaft in Berlin und Brandenburg e. V. in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Brandenburgischen Landesmuseum für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und dem Archäologischen Landesamt Berlin. Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1995. 143 Seiten, 209 Abbildungen
description: Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica, Bd. 28 (1996)
Reconstruction of the Sutton Hoo ship burial
Creators: name: Team, Woruldhord Project
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: Archaeology

description: Photograph of the reconstruction of the ship burial chamber, from the visitor centre, at Sutton Hoo near Woodbridge, Suffolk. Most of the artefacts which have been reproduced for the exhibition are visible including swords, the great helmet and a large round silver platter.
Forschungen zu Inklusion zwischen Wissenschaft, Politik und Pädagogik
Creators: name: Geldner, Jens
name: Kremsner, Gertraud
name: Brummer, Mira
Publisher: name: Medienimpulse
Year: 2021

description: Jens Geldner, Gertraud Kremsner und Mira Brummer berichten für die Leserinnen und Leser der MEDIENIMPULSE von einer für die inklusive Pädagogik äußerst interessanten Tagung, die das Verhältnis von Wissenschaft, Politik und Pädagogik zum Gegenstand hatte.
description: Medienimpulse, Bd. 59 Nr. 2 (2021): Digitaler Humanismus
FastGL: A GPU-Efficient Framework for Accelerating Sampling-Based GNN Training at Large Scale
Creators: name: Zhu, Zeyu
name: Wang, Peisong
name: Hu, Qinghao
name: Li, Gang
name: Liang, Xiaoyao
name: Cheng, Jian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown great superiority on non-Euclidean graph data, achieving ground-breaking performance on various graph-related tasks. As a practical solution to train GNN on large graphs with billions of nodes and edges, the sampling-based training is widely adopted by existing training frameworks. However, through an in-depth analysis, we observe that the efficiency of existing sampling-based training frameworks is still limited due to the key bottlenecks lying in all three phases of sampling-based training, i.e., subgraph sample, memory IO, and computation. To this end, we propose FastGL, a GPU-efficient Framework for accelerating sampling-based training of GNN at Large scale by simultaneously optimizing all above three phases, taking into account both GPU characteristics and graph structure. Specifically, by exploiting the inherent overlap within graph structures, FastGL develops the Match-Reorder strategy to reduce the data traffic, which accelerates the memory IO without incurring any GPU memory overhead. Additionally, FastGL leverages a Memory-Aware computation method, harnessing the GPU memory's hierarchical nature to mitigate irregular data access during computation. FastGL further incorporates the Fused-Map approach aimed at diminishing the synchronization overhead during sampling. Extensive experiments demonstrate that FastGL can achieve an average speedup of 11.8x, 2.2x and 1.5x over the state-of-the-art frameworks PyG, DGL, and GNNLab, respectively.Our code is available at https://github.com/a1bc2def6g/fastgl-ae.
description: Accepted by ASPLOS 2024 fall cycle after major revision
KRAS in Pancreatic Cancer
Creators: name: Agarwal, Archana
name: Saif, Muhammad Wasif
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2014
Subjects: Ascitic Fluid; Computational Biology; Genes, ras; Mutation; Pancreatic Neoplasms; Survival Analysis

description: Pancreatic cancer is one of the most feared malignancies. The most common form of pancreatic cancer is adenocarcinoma arising from the ductal epithelium. KRAS is the most common oncogene that has been found to be mutated. However, targeting KRAS directly has been difficult. We do not know a lot about the relationship between KRAS and other signaling pathways. At the same time, little is known about the non KRAS mutated or wild type (WT) tumors. Most of the data that we have as far, as mutational status is concerned, has been obtained from the tumor itself and not from metastatic lesions. In this review, we discuss two abstracts (Abstracts #e15214 and #e15207) published in conjunction with the 2014 ASCO Annual Meeting. These discuss the relationship between KRAS and other signaling pathways and the differences between mutated KRAS and WT tumors. The studies found low rate of KRAS mutation in cells obtained from ascitic fluid. While the studies are small, these are novel findings that are worth exploring further. They increase our understanding of the biology of the disease and take us a step closer to treating this deadly malignancy.

Image: KRAS mutation and concordance rates with primary tumor.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 15, No 4 (2014): July - p. 280-412
Editorial 2/2021: Digitaler Humanismus
Creators: name: Barberi, Alessandro
name: Missomelius, Petra
name: Nida-Rümelin, Julian
name: Schmölz, Alexander
name: Werthner, Hannes
Publisher: name: Medienimpulse
Year: 2021

description: In den letzten Jahren ergaben sich im Umfeld des Digitalen Humanismus Diskussionen zu Ethik und Medienethik, die sich u. a. im Wiener Manifest für Digitalen Humanismus niederschlugen, das aus philosophischer, informatischer und medienpädagogischer Sicht auf den Punkt bringt, welche Rollen und Funktionen digitalen Medien – im Guten wie im Schlechten – in unseren Gesellschaften zugeordnet werden.
description: Medienimpulse, Bd. 59 Nr. 2 (2021): Digitaler Humanismus
Biological Identification of Ampullary Adenocarcinomas
Creators: name: Relias, Valerie
name: Saif, Muhammad Wasif
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2014
Subjects: Carcinoid Tumor; lanreotide; Neuroendocrine Tumors; Octreotide; Somatostatin

description: Ampullary adenocarcinomas have unique biologic and clinical features that result in its improved prognosis versus adenocarcinomas that arise from the distal bile ducts and pancreas. However the histological differentiation and identification of these tumors is not easily accomplished. Two abstracts at this year’s ASCO Annual Meeting describe attempts to identify unique methods for distinguishing these tumors. Abstract #4141 described a 92 gene RT-PCR assay that was used for molecular classification of patients with ampullary adenocarcinomas while Abstract #e15175 looked at mutational status of K-ras in patients with these tumors. The results of their abstracts will be discussed.

Image: Tufts Medical Center Teddy Bear (Formerly F.A.O. Schwartz Teddy Bear). Boston, MA, USA
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 15, No 4 (2014): July - p. 280-412
Biomarkers in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
Creators: name: Joza, Nicholas
name: Saif, Muhammad Wasif
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biological Markers; Pancreatic Neoplasms; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-met

description: Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is a highly aggressive cancer, with a median patient survival of less than one year. Clinically useful biomarkers capable of accurately assessing prognosis, as well as response to therapy, are urgently needed. At the 2014 ASCO Annual Meeting, Maus et al. (Abstract #e15199) and Neuzillet et al. (Abstract #e15200) present data on use of c-met as a prognostic biomarker, and Shultz et al. (Abstract #4133) use a multiplex antibody panel to identify predictive markers of response to gemcitabine and erlotinib.

Image: Green space by the Jaharis Center and Tufts Medical Center. Boston, MA, USA
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 15, No 4 (2014): July - p. 280-412
Adaptive Learning on User Segmentation: Universal to Specific Representation via Bipartite Neural Interaction
Creators: name: Tan, Xiaoyu
name: Deng, Yongxin
name: Qu, Chao
name: Xue, Siqiao
name: Shi, Xiaoming
name: Zhang, James
name: Qiu, Xihe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recently, models for user representation learning have been widely applied in click-through-rate (CTR) and conversion-rate (CVR) prediction. Usually, the model learns a universal user representation as the input for subsequent scenario-specific models. However, in numerous industrial applications (e.g., recommendation and marketing), the business always operates such applications as various online activities among different user segmentation. These segmentation are always created by domain experts. Due to the difference in user distribution (i.e., user segmentation) and business objectives in subsequent tasks, learning solely on universal representation may lead to detrimental effects on both model performance and robustness. In this paper, we propose a novel learning framework that can first learn general universal user representation through information bottleneck. Then, merge and learn a segmentation-specific or a task-specific representation through neural interaction. We design the interactive learning process by leveraging a bipartite graph architecture to model the representation learning and merging between contextual clusters and each user segmentation. Our proposed method is evaluated in two open-source benchmarks, two offline business datasets, and deployed on two online marketing applications to predict users' CVR. The results demonstrate that our method can achieve superior performance and surpass the baseline methods.
Reconstruction of the Sutton Hoo ship burial
Creators: name: Lee, Stuart
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: Archaeology

description: Photograph of the reconstruction of the ship burial chamber, from the visitor centre, at Sutton Hoo near Woodbridge, Suffolk. Most of the artefacts which have been reproduced for the exhibition are visible including swords, the great helmet and a large round silver platter.
The vision of Eof by sculptor John McKenna ARBS
Creators: name: Team, Woruldhord Project
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 190502 Fine Arts (incl. Sculpture and Painting)
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: This bronze statue by sculptor John McKenna ARBS is situated in Evesham town centre, on the edge of the town market square. It commemorates the legend of Eof's vision. The legend is that while searching for his pigs on the banks of the River Avon, Eof, a swineherd, received a vision of the Virgin Mary. Eof related this vision to Ecgwine (Saint Egwin), Bishop of Worcester. Ecgwine founded the great Evesham Abbey in about 701 AD on the site of the vision. The town's early name 'Eofeshamme' reflects this legend. The statue was commissioned after a design competition around the 2000 millennium to select by public vote a sculpture representing the legend of the founding of the town. This public art project was paid for by public subscription.
Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms of the Pancreas (IPMNs): New Insights on Clinical Outcomes and Malignant Progression
Creators: name: Khouri, Jack
name: Saif, Muhammad Wasif
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2014
Subjects: Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal; Disease Management; Neoplasms, Cystic, Mucinous, and Serous

description: Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMNs) are cystic tumors of the pancreas that can progress into invasive carcinomas. Main duct IPMN is usually treated with surgery while branch duct IPMN is surgically resected if it is high risk based on certain features of the tumor (mostly radiographic) that do have some limitations. Predicting the risk of malignant progression has been lately the main focus of research especially that comprehending the molecular pathogenesis of the disease has emerged as a valuable means to better understand the disease and thus guide disease management. We will present two abstracts from the ASCO Annual Meeting. The first compares the clinical outcomes of pancreatic ductal carcinoma and IPMN associated cancer, and the second looks at the pathogenesis of the disease at the cellular and molecular levels to predict high risk disease.

Image: Stained glass windows by Tommaso Juglaris at Goddard  Chapel at Tufts University. Medford, MA, USA
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 15, No 4 (2014): July - p. 280-412
Use of non-psychoactive residual biomass from Cannabis sativa L. for obtaining phenolic rich-extracts with antioxidant capacity
Creators: name: Vega, Guillermo A.
name: Dávila, Javier A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: The present research aims to give an added value to the chain production of Cannabis sativa L plant, taking advantage of the non-psychoactive residual biomass (stems and leaves). Total phenolic content (TPC) and total antioxidant capacity (TAC) were analysed. A factorial design 23 was carried out using extraction time (T), Particle size (PS), and solid-solvent ratio (SS) as factors. The extractions were made with ethanol at 96% as solvent. The maximum concentration of TPC found was 1264.61 mg GA/g DW at 6:250 g/mL, 8 h, and 109.28 µm for SS, T and PS, respectively. Similarly, the maximum TAC obtained was 0.467 mM Trolox equivalent, at 8 h, 6:250 g/mL and 109.28 µm for T, SS and PS, respectively. Additionally, the presence of oil was found in some samples of cannabis extracts for which FITR was performed, obtaining the presence of C-OH bonds associated with alcohols, phenols and possible cannabinoids.
Chemotherapy and Metformin in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma and Neuroendocrine Tumors
Creators: name: Burney, Saira
name: Khawaja, Khadija Irfan
name: Saif, Muhammad Wasif
name: Masud, Faisal
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2014
Subjects: Metformin; Pancreatic Neoplasms; Review; Therapeutics

description: Pancreatic cancer, despite being a relatively less commonly occurring cancer is among the deadliest ones, leading to a grave prognosis. Surgery stands as the mainstay of treatment of pancreatic cancer but is an option in less than 15% patients owing to the late presentation of the tumor. Chemotherapy offers an important part of treatment but can adversely affect the quality of life because of devastating side effects and has limited survival benefit. Unavailability of effective and less toxic treatment options for pancreatic cancer has prompted the search for new treatment strategies. One such drug being considered for its potential anti-neoplastic role is the time-tested and widely used oral hypoglycemic drug, metformin. Metformin is proposed to target metabolic pathways involved in tumorigenesis, specifically the AMPK-mTOR complex. Epidemiological evidence is mounting in favor of its role in various cancers both for treatment and prophylaxis. Herein, we aim to summarize the epidemiological data on metformin as a potential anti-cancer drug in various cancers followed by a look at some of the abstracts relating to this topic that were presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting 2014.

Image: Galega officinalis contains the aminoguanidine or metformin.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 15, No 4 (2014): July - p. 280-412
Quality of Life in Patients with Pancreatic Cancer
Creators: name: Kiagia, Maria
name: Syrigos, Kostas N
name: Saif, Muhammad Wasif
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2014
Subjects: Cachexia; Pancreatic Neoplasms; pasireotide; Quality of Life

description: QOL is highly affected in individuals suffering from pancreatic cancer. One parameter that influences negatively QOL in these patients is cancer -cachexia syndrome. During the ASCO Annual Meeting 2014, one abstract focusing on cancer-cachexia syndrome (Abstract #15208) emphasized the fact that cachexia is under diagnosed even in patients with pancreatic cancer who constitute a high-risk group for presenting this syndrome. In addition the abstract raises concerns about the benefit of the use of dronabinol and megestrol acetate in treating the cachexia syndrome in this group of patients. Another important factor that determines QOL in pancreatic cancer patients is surgical procedures-pancreatectomies that these patients may undergo. Avery interesting abstract presented also at the ASCO Annual Meeting 2014 (Abstract #15234) explores the benefit of using pasireotide perioperative in ameliorating QOL of patients who had surgical intervention.

Image: Sotiria General Hospital. Athens, Greece.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 15, No 4 (2014): July - p. 280-412
Diabetes and Pancreatic Cancer
Creators: name: Burney, Saira
name: Irfan, Khadija
name: Saif, Muhammad Wasif
name: Masud, Faisal
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2014
Subjects: Diabetes Mellitus; Hyperinsulinism; Neoplasms; Pancreatic Neoplasms

description: Research suggests a possible link between type 2 diabetes and several malignancies. Animal models have shown that hyperinsulinemic state underlying diabetes promotes tumor formation through stimulation of insulin-IGF-1 pathway; a possible role of inflammation is also proposed. One such link which has been under considerable study for years is that between diabetes and pancreatic cancer. Although epidemiological evidence points towards a reciprocal link between the two, the cause-effect relationship still remains unclear. This link was the subject of a large German epidemiological study presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting 2014 (Abstract #1604), which underscored the link between diabetes and some cancers. Schmidt et al. performed a retrospective database analysis over a 12 year period and reported an increased risk of certain types of cancer in diabetic patients. The most significant association (HR 2.17) was found for pancreatic cancer. Given the high mortality of pancreatic cancer, prevention through timely screening could play an important role in improving prognosis. Older subjects with recent-onset diabetes represent a high-risk group and hence are potential targets for pancreatic cancer screening thereby enabling its early diagnosis at a curable stage.

Image: Services Hospital logo. Lahore, Pakistan.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 15, No 4 (2014): July - p. 280-412
Robust Continuous Motion Strategy Against Muscle Rupture using Online Learning of Redundant Intersensory Networks for Musculoskeletal Humanoids
Creators: name: Kawaharazuka, Kento
name: Nishiura, Manabu
name: Toshimitsu, Yasunori
name: Omura, Yusuke
name: Koga, Yuya
name: Asano, Yuki
name: Kawasaki, Koji
name: Inaba, Masayuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Musculoskeletal humanoids have various biomimetic advantages, of which redundant muscle arrangement is one of the most important features. This feature enables variable stiffness control and allows the robot to keep moving its joints even if one of the redundant muscles breaks, but this has been rarely explored. In this study, we construct a neural network that represents the relationship among sensors in the flexible and difficult-to-modelize body of the musculoskeletal humanoid, and by learning this neural network, accurate motions can be achieved. In order to take advantage of the redundancy of muscles, we discuss the use of this network for muscle rupture detection, online update of the intersensory relationship considering the muscle rupture, and body control and state estimation using the muscle rupture information. This study explains a method of constructing a musculoskeletal humanoid that continues to move and perform tasks robustly even when one muscle breaks.
description: Accepted at Robotics and Autonomous Systems
CAVRoom: An Interactive Online Game Platform for Teaching and Learning
Creators: name: Rosmawati, R
name: Tandianus, Budianto
name: Seah, Hock Soon
Publisher: name: Singapore Institute of Technology
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 460799
subject: Graphics, augmented reality and games not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 390113
subject: Science, technology and engineering curriculum and pedagogy

description: This presentation showcased an in-house built interactive online game platform, developed by the CAVR Center at NTU, during the pandemic era to cater for the need of sudden transition to online teaching for a course that was built upon gamification and embodied learning principles. In this presentation, we described the innovation in this platform, discussed the challenges in the implementation and considered some recommendations moving forward.
The vision of Eof by sculptor John McKenna ARBS
Creators: name: Lee, Stuart
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 190502 Fine Arts (incl. Sculpture and Painting)
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: This bronze statue by sculptor John McKenna ARBS is situated in Evesham town centre, on the edge of the town market square. It commemorates the legend of Eof's vision. The legend is that while searching for his pigs on the banks of the River Avon, Eof, a swineherd, received a vision of the Virgin Mary. Eof related this vision to Ecgwine (Saint Egwin), Bishop of Worcester. Ecgwine founded the great Evesham Abbey in about 701 AD on the site of the vision. The town's early name 'Eofeshamme' reflects this legend. The statue was commissioned after a design competition around the 2000 millennium to select by public vote a sculpture representing the legend of the founding of the town. This public art project was paid for by public subscription.
Elderly Patients with Pancreatic Cancer
Creators: name: Kougioumtzopoulou, Andromachi S
name: Syrigos, Kostas N
name: Saif, Muhammad Wasif
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2014
Subjects: Aged; Neuroendocrine Tumors; Pancreatic Neoplasms; Somatostatin

description: Pancreatic cancer marked significant increase of incidence during the last decades in the elderly population. Despite the certain increase of incidence there are no international guidelines for elderly patients who are suffering from pancreatic cancer. During the ASCO Annual Meeting 2014, two abstracts focusing on elderly patients suffering from different histological types of pancreatic cancer were presented. The first retrospective study (Abstract #4119) showed the benefit of the systemic treatment on overall survival for elderly patients with stage IV pancreatic adenocarcinoma. The second retrospective study (Abstract #4112) demonstrates the positive effect of somatostatin analogue (octreotide-LAR) treatment on overall survival for elderly patients with neuroendocrine pancreatic carcinoma.

Image: Attikon General Hospital. Athens, Greece
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 15, No 4 (2014): July - p. 280-412
The Laurent-Horner method for validated evaluation of Chebyshev expansions
Creators: name: Aurentz, Jared L.
name: Hashemi, Behnam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We develop a simple two-step algorithm for enclosing Chebyshev expansions whose cost is linear in terms of the polynomial degree. The algorithm first transforms the expansion from Chebyshev to the Laurent basis and then applies the interval Horner method. It outperforms the existing eigenvalue-based methods if the degree is high or the evaluation point is close to the boundaries of the domain.
The legend of the swineherd Eof
Creators: name: Team, Woruldhord Project
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 190502 Fine Arts (incl. Sculpture and Painting)
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: The legend of the founding of Evesham is that while searching for his pigs on the banks of the River Avon, Eof, a swineherd, received a vision of the Virgin Mary. Eof related this vision to Ecgwine (Saint Egwin), Bishop of Worcester. Ecgwine founded the great Evesham Abbey in about 701 AD on the site of the vision. The town's early name 'Eofeshamme' reflects this legend. The Cotswold and Vale Magazine of Evesham ran a public art competition around the 2000 millennium, to select by public vote a sculpture using the theme of the legend of Eof. Six sculptors were shortlisted and asked to submit a maquette sculpture idea. All the proposals were anonymously displayed where they could be voted for by the public. So the most popular design was chosen without the 'interference' of a named artist. This information was published in the Cotswold and Vale magazine to describe the winning entry by the sculptor John McKenna ARBS. Originally intended to be 12 feet tall, the design was finally agreed at about 5 feet tall. The sculptor believes the poem he composed to go around the base helped the proposal to be chosen. The statue was unveiled in 2008 on the edge of the town market square in Evesham.
Phase 1 Trials in Pancreatic Cancer
Creators: name: Yu, Esther
name: Saif, Muhammad Wasif
name: Huber, Kathryn
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2014
Subjects: Clinical Trials, Phase I as Topic; Drug Therapy; Pancreatic Neoplasms; Radioimmunotherapy

description: Despite many clinical trials over the last two decades since the approval of gemcitabine, the survival of patients with pancreatic cancer has improved by a few only months. This disappointing reality underlines an urgent need to develop more effective drugs or better combinations. A variety of phase I trials were presented at the annual meeting of ASCO 2014 focusing on locally advanced and metastatic pancreatic cancer. We summarize four abstracts (abstracts #4116, #4123, #4026, #4138).

Image: Radiation Oncology, Tufts Medical Center. Boston, MA, USA.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 15, No 4 (2014): July - p. 280-412
MACHINE LEARNING TO SUPPORT WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
Creators: name: de Radzitzky, Chloé
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Interview DWC website https://www.digital-water.city/news/machine-learning-to-support-water-infrastructure/
description: This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 820954.