cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Food Insecurity and Eating Pathology in Sexual Minority Men During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Creators: name: Douglas, Valerie
name: Pennesi, Jamie-Lee
name: Brown, Tiffany
name: Blashill, Aaron
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Health Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: disordered eating
subject: eating disorder
subject: eating pathology
subject: gender minority
subject: lgbtq
subject: lgbtq+
subject: muscle
subject: muscle dysmorphia
subject: sexual and gender minority
subject: sexual minority
subject: sexual minority men

description: Food security is a spectrum of states that range from high food security (e.g., a household with no problems accessing food or limitations on food) to very low food security (e.g., members of a household reducing food intake due to lack of food access), with the less secure end of the spectrum termed food insecurity (Nord, 2012). Sexual minority individuals (e.g., individuals who identify as non-heterosexual and/or sexually attracted to or have sexual contact with individuals of the same or diverse genders; Institute of Medicine, 2011) reported higher rates of food insecurity compared to their heterosexual peers before the COVID-19 pandemic (Downing & Rosenthal, 2020), and this disparity continued to increase during the beginning of the pandemic (Sanchez et al., 2020). In the broader population, food insecurity is connected to negative outcomes such as higher eating pathology (e.g., body dissatisfaction, binge eating, cognitive restraint, purging, restricting, excessive exercise, negative attitudes towards obesity, muscle building), although the mechanisms behind these associations are not well understood (Hazzard et al., 2020). The state of the food insecurity and eating pathology literature is sparse (Hazzard et al., 2020) and to the authors’ knowledge, no studies have examined the association between food insecurity and eating pathology in sexual minority men. In addition, the link between food insecurity and certain types of eating pathology relevant for sexual minority men, such as muscle building behavior, has not been examined. As the theoretical underpinnings behind the link between eating pathology and food insecurity are still in their nascency, we examined non-directional research questions about this association within sexual minority men recruited for a larger research project on eating disorders and sexual minority health disparities and body image acceptance in Southern California.
title: Volume change and creep of concrete
Creators: name: Feldman, R. F.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Year: 1969
Subjects: subject: Concrete
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0740
subject: Béton
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0740
subject: concrete (materials)
subject: béton (matériau)
subject: shrinkage
subject: retrait (altération)
subject: shrinkage cracking
subject: faïençage
subject: swelling
subject: gonflement (altération)
subject: creep
subject: fluage
subject: dimensional stability
subject: stabilité dimensionnelle

description: The various types of volume change starting from when concrete is placed to when the hardened state is attained are discussed. It is pointed out that volume changes may lead to complications externally because of structural interaction as well as internally which results in cracking. Cracking impairs the ability of a structure to carry its design load and affects its durability.
Primate lentiviral Nef proteins deregulate T-cell development by multiple mechanisms
Creators: name: Garcia, J. Victor
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2013

description: Abstract Background A nef gene is present in all primate lentiviral genomes and is important for high viral loads and progression to AIDS in human or experimental macaque hosts of HIV or SIV, respectively. In these hosts, infection of the thymus results in a decreased output of naive T cells that may contribute to the development of immunodeficiency. We have previously shown that HIV-1 subtype B Nef proteins can block human T-cell development. However, the underlying mechanism(s) and the conservation of this Nef function between different groups of HIV and SIV remained to be determined. Results We investigated whether reduction of thymic output is a conserved function of highly divergent lentiviral Nef proteins including those from both types of human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV-1 and HIV-2), their direct simian counterparts (SIVcpz, SIVgor and SIVsmm, respectively), and some additional SIV strains. We found that expression of most of these nef alleles in thymocyte progenitors impaired T-cell development and reduced thymic output. For HIV-1 Nef, binding to active p21 protein (Cdc42/Rac)-activated kinase (PAK2) was a major determinant of this function. In contrast, selective disruption of PAK2 binding did not eliminate the effect on T-cell development of SIVmac239 Nef, as was shown by expressing mutants in a newly discovered PAK2 activating structural motif (PASM) constituted by residues I117, H121, T218 and Y221, as well as previously described mutants. Rather, down-modulation of cell surface CD3 was sufficient for reduced thymic output by SIVmac Nef, while other functions of SIV Nefs contributed. Conclusions Our results indicate that primate lentiviral Nef proteins impair development of thymocyte precursors into T cells in multiple ways. The interaction of HIV-1 Nef with active PAK2 by HIV-1 seem to be most detrimental, and downregulation of CD3 by HIV-2 and most SIV Nef proteins sufficient for reduced thymic output. Since the reduction of thymic output by Nef is a conserved property of divergent lentiviruses, it is likely to be relevant for peripheral T-cell depletion in poorly adapted primate lentiviral infections.
Supersymmetry Projection Rules on Exotic Branes
Creators: name: Kimura, Tetsuji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the supersymmetry projection rules on exotic branes in type II string theories and M-theory. They justify the validity of the exotic duality between standard branes and exotic branes of codimension two. By virtue of the supersymmetry projection rules on various branes, we can consider a system that involves multiple non-parallel exotic branes in the nongeometric background.
description: 26 pages, published version
title: CT angiography: imaging findings in GI bleeding
Creators: name: Dimoulia , Sofia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Haemorrhage
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Gastrointestinal tract

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The purpose of our educational exhibit is: •To describe the imaging findings of CTA, in patients with acute gastrointestinal bleeding. •To address the role of CTA in the management of these...
The F-box protein Cdc4/Fbxw7 is a novel regulator of neural crest development in Xenopus laevis
Creators: name: Slevin, Michael K
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2010

description: Abstract Background The neural crest is a unique population of cells that arise in the vertebrate ectoderm at the neural plate border after which they migrate extensively throughout the embryo, giving rise to a wide range of derivatives. A number of proteins involved in neural crest development have dynamic expression patterns, and it is becoming clear that ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation is partly responsible for this. Results Here we demonstrate a novel role for the F-box protein Cdc4/Fbxw7 in neural crest development. Two isoforms of Xenopus laevis Cdc4 were identified, and designated xCdc4α and xCdc4β. These are highly conserved with vertebrate Cdc4 orthologs, and the Xenopus proteins are functionally equivalent in terms of their ability to degrade Cyclin E, an established vertebrate Cdc4 target. Blocking xCdc4 function specifically inhibited neural crest development at an early stage, prior to expression of c-Myc, Snail2 and Snail. Conclusions We demonstrate that Cdc4, an ubiquitin E3 ligase subunit previously identified as targeting primarily cell cycle regulators for proteolysis, has additional roles in control of formation of the neural crest. Hence, we identify Cdc4 as a protein with separable but complementary functions in control of cell proliferation and differentiation.
title: A three step model of stress management for healthcare leaders
Creators: name: Hartney, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Healthcare Management Forum
Year: 2018
Subjects: Medical personnel
Stress management

description: The definitive version of record of this article is available at https://doi.org/10.1177/0840470417751157.
description: The current healthcare system is often as highly stressful environment for patients, their families, and for the employees of the system. Health leaders also experience stress, which can have profound repercussions if not well managed. This article describes the impact of stress on the brain and nervous system functioning of health leaders, then, drawing on evidence from the literature, presents a three-step model for managing stress at the individual, team/organizational, and system levels.
title: Enhancing health leadership performance using neurotherapy
Creators: name: Swingle, Paul G.
name: Hartney, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Healthcare Management Forum
Year: 2018
Subjects: Neurofeedback
Leadership
Medical personnel

description: The definitive version of record of this article is available at https://doi.org/10.1177/0840470417751158.
description: The discovery of neuroplasticity means the brain can change, functionally, in response to the environment and to learning. While individuals can develop harmful patterns of brain activity in response to stressors, they can also learn to modify or control neurological conditions associated with specific behaviors. Neurotherapy is one way of changing brain functioning to modify troubling conditions which can impair leadership performance, through responding to feedback on their own brain activity, and enhancing optimal leadership functioning through learning to maximize such cognitive strengths as mental efficiency, focus, creativity, perseverance, and executive functioning. The present article outlines the application of the concept of optimal performance training to organizational leadership in a healthcare context, by describing approaches to neurotherapy and illustrating their application through a case study of a health leader learning to overcome the neurological and emotional sequelae of workplace stress and trauma.
title: Emploi des matériaux de calfeutrement
Creators: name: Garden, G. K.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1969
Subjects: subject: Buildings
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0721
subject: Bâtiments
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0721
subject: elastomeric sealants
subject: mastic à base d'elastomère
subject: waterproof joints
subject: joint d'assemblage étanche

description: L'auteur examine les effets des dimensions et de la forme des bourrelets, ceux du tracé des joints et des facteurs déterminant la durabilité des produits d'étanchéité, et il en déduit quelques règles fondamentales pour l'utilisation de ces produits.
Grouping and Detection of Fake News via web-based media Using Machine Learning in Amharic Language
Creators: name: Center, SICC
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Amharic Fake News
subject: Machine learning
subject: social networking service
subject: web-based media

description: Grouping and Detection of Fake News via web-based media Using Machine Learning in Amharic Language
title: Dessin des toitures multicouches
Creators: name: Baker, M. C.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1969
Subjects: subject: Roofs
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0770
subject: Toits
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0770
subject: Roofs
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0370
subject: Toitures
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0370
subject: Moisture performance
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0374
subject: Performance hygrométrique
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0374
subject: roofing
subject: couvertures
subject: water barriers
subject: barrière d'étanchéité
subject: bituminous roofings
subject: couverture bitumineuse
subject: building felts
subject: feutre de construction

description: L'auteur examine les principes du calcul des toitures bitumineuses multicouches au point de vue matériaux et application. Il traite des facteurs déterminant le choix des bitumes et des cartons-feutres pour toitures seulement, et compare plusieurs méthodes d'application des cartons- feutres.
title: Ultrasound guided arthrograms: shoulder, hip and knee.
Creators: name: Bello Báez, Adán
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Trauma
subject: Congenital
subject: Athletic injuries
subject: Arthrography
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Musculoskeletal joint

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Description of intrarticular contrast material injection guided by...
title: A message from the guest editor
Creators: name: Hartney, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Healthcare Management Forum
Year: 2018
Subjects: Editorials
Leadership
Neuroscience

description: The definitive version of record of this article is available at https://doi.org/10.1177/0840470418767674
description: This special issue of the journal is focused on neuroleadership, specifically in relation to health leadership. A somewhat nebulous term, neuroleadership refers to an emerging movement within the leadership field, which draws from recent developments in the technologies and findings of neuroscience and attempts to apply them to the complex field of leadership. Given the vastly different levels of knowledge being represented by the component disciplines of neuroscience, psychology, and organizational leadership, this is clearly an ambitious goal, one which has been met with mixed reactions. To many of us, neuroscience provides a missing piece of the puzzle to understanding the struggles and successes of leaders within organizations; in contrast, others have posited that efforts to bridge the gulf between the microscopic world of neuroscience and the socio-cultural world of leadership in this manner are unrealistic. Yet, as authors and speakers are increasingly referencing neuroscientific concepts to support their interpretations of human behaviour, there appears to be an appetite for explorations of what neuroleadership can offer to our understanding of some of the most elusive aspects of how leaders influence organizational realities.
Tracing Local Void and its substructure with the MeerKAT Galactic Plane Survey.
Creators: name: Kurapati, Sushma
name: Kraan-Korteweg, Renée C.
name: Pisano, D.J.
name: Chen, Hao
name: Rajohnson, Sambatriniaina H. A.
name: Steyn, Nadia
name: Frank, Bradley
name: Goedhart, Sharmila
name: Camilo, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Voids are extended low density regions. Recent studies have shown that they have substructure consisting of sub-voids, walls, tendrils, filaments and nodes. Moreover, the structure formation in voids appears to be similar to structure formation of a low density universe. Numerical simulations suggest that the galaxies in voids may preferentially lie within these filamentary void substructures. It is therefore interesting to explore whether the intricate substructure expected from hierarchical structure formation process can be traced observationally. The Local Void is the nearest large void. Nevertheless its properties are extremely difficult to observe it since a major part of the void is located behind the Galactic bulge. In this presentation, we will present a detailed study of the Local Void and its surroundings in the ZOA using the MeerKAT Galactic Plane Survey to search for the HI-emission of Local Void galaxies within Galactic longitude and latitudes of 330 deg < l < 55 deg and |b| < 1.5 deg, out to redshifts of z < 7500 km/s. We find that the extent of the Void is ∼ 58 Mpc at these low Galactic latitudes. We find that the galaxies in the Void tend to have HI masses that are lower compared to average density counterparts. We identify several small group candidates, both in the Void and at its edge and find that the Void groups show signs of filamentary substructure. We furthermore compare the small-scale clustering of the HI selected galaxies in the Void and average density regions.
Non-linear cosmological collapse of quintessence
Creators: name: Rekier, Jeremy
name: Fuzfa, Andre
name: Cordero-Carrion, Isabel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of the fully relativistic spherical collapse in presence of quintessence using on Numerical Relativity, following the method proposed by the authors in a previous article [arXiv:1409.3476]. We ascertain the validity of the method by studying the evolution of a spherically symmetric quintessence inhomogeneity on a de Sitter background and we find that it has an impact on the local expansion around the centre of coordinates. We then proceed to compare the results of our method to those of the more largely adopted top-hat model. We find that quintessence inhomogeneities do build up under the effect that matter inhomogeneities have on the local space-time yet remain very small due to the presence of momentum transfer from the over-dense to the background regions. We expect that these might have an even more important role in modified theories of gravitation.
description: 13 pages, 16 figures
Expression of the neuron-specific protein CHD5 is an independent marker of outcome in neuroblastoma
Creators: name: Gershon, Timothy
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2010

description: Abstract Background The chromodomain, helicase DNA-binding protein 5 (CHD5) is a potential tumor suppressor gene located on chromosome 1p36, a region recurrently deleted in high risk neuroblastoma (NB). Previous data have shown that CHD5 mRNA is present in normal neural tissues and in low risk NB, nevertheless, the distribution of CHD5 protein has not been explored. The aim of this study was to investigate CHD5 protein expression as an immunohistochemical marker of outcome in NB. With this purpose, CHD5 protein expression was analyzed in normal neural tissues and neuroblastic tumors (NTs). CHD5 gene and protein expression was reexamined after induction chemotherapy in a subset of high risk tumors to identify potential changes reflecting tumor response. Results We provide evidence that CHD5 is a neuron-specific protein, absent in glial cells, with diverse expression amongst neuron types. Within NTs, CHD5 immunoreactivity was found restricted to differentiating neuroblasts and ganglion-like cells, and absent in undifferentiated neuroblasts and stromal Schwann cells. Correlation between protein and mRNA levels was found, suggesting transcriptional regulation of CHD5. An immunohistochemical analysis of 90 primary NTs highlighted a strong association of CHD5 expression with favorable prognostic variables (age at diagnosis <12 months, low clinical stage, and favorable histology; P < 0.001 for all), overall survival (OS) (P < 0.001) and event-free survival (EFS) (P < 0.001). Multivariate analysis showed that CHD5 prognostic value is independent of other clinical and biologically relevant parameters, and could therefore represent a marker of outcome in NB that can be tested by conventional immunohistochemistry. The prognostic value of CHD5 was confirmed in an independent, blinded set of 32 NB tumors (P < 0.001). Reactivation of CHD5 expression after induction chemotherapy was observed mainly in those high risk tumors with induced tumor cell differentiation features. Remarkably, these NB tumors showed good clinical response and prolonged patient survival. Conclusions The neuron-specific protein CHD5 may represent a marker of outcome in NB that can be tested by conventional immunohistochemistry. Re-establishment of CHD5 expression induced by chemotherapy could be a surrogate marker of treatment response.
The AMICO-COSMOS catalogue of galaxy clusters and members up to z=2: sample properties and X-ray counterparts
Creators: name: Toni, Greta
name: Maturi, Matteo
name: Moscardini, Lauro
name: Finoguenov, Alexis
name: Castignani, Gianluca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: We present a new catalogue of galaxy clusters and groups with their members identified in the COSMOS field with the Adaptive Matched Identifier of Clustered Objects (AMICO) up to z=2. We based the cluster search on galaxy location, photo-z and magnitude, with no explicit use of galaxy colours. This makes our sample less sensitive to the presence/absence of red-sequence and therefore ideal for the study of member galaxy properties and their evolution. We also identified X-ray counterparts for our cluster detections both by comparing them with a publicly available X-ray group catalogue and by measuring the X-ray emission in the Chandra-XMM data at the location of the new AMICO cluster candidates. With this sample of detections with X-ray properties, extending up to z=2 and down to less than $10^{13} M_{sun}$, we calibrated scaling relations between AMICO mass-proxies and X-ray virial mass. In our analysis we found several projection effects missing in previous analyses and new detections with and without significant X-ray emission. We selected BCGs for our candidate clusters and we show an example of how BCG colours and their evolution can be studied with this sample. Our catalogue represents a resource for cluster and galaxy population studies, with no significant biases due to colour selection. Moreover, a solid sample of high-z clusters is important to refine AMICO cluster model for its future applications, like the analysis of Euclid data, for which it is one of the officially selected algorithms.
Does pulse wave velocity as measured by dual impedance cardiography associate with traditional cardiometabolic risk factors and surrogate markers of preclinical atherosclerosis?
Creators: name: Weis, Trevor
name: DuPont, Caitlin
name: Marsland, Anna
name: Clayton, Colter
name: Barinas-Mitchell, Emma
name: Kamarck, Thomas
name: Gianaros, Peter
name: Muldoon, Matthew
name: Scudder, Mark
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Health Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: atherosclerosis
subject: cardiometabolic risk
subject: impedance cardiography
subject: pulse wave velocity

description: Pulse wave velocity (PWV) is a surrogate measure of arterial stiffness that is commonly measured by vascular tonometry. Tonometry-based and related measures of PWV associate not only with incident clinical cardiovascular disease outcomes (e.g., stroke, myocardial infarction), but also with indicators of preclinical atherosclerosis; namely, carotid artery intima-media thickness (C-IMT) and carotid plaque. In addition to tonometry and other methods, PWV may be reliably and noninvasively measured by dual impedance cardiography (d-ICG), a method that is much less expensive and requires less training. We recently demonstrated that PWV measured by d-ICG associates with autonomic indicators of cardiovascular risk (i.e., heart rate variability and baroreflex sensitivity), as well as some conventional risk factors for cardiovascular disease (i.e., high blood pressure and adiposity). What is not yet established, however, is whether PWV measured by d-ICG associates with vascular indicators of preclinical atherosclerosis in the carotid arteries (C-IMT and plaque), as well as other established biomarkers of cardiovascular risk that correspond to components of the metabolic syndrome (i.e., insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, hypertriglyceridemia). What is also not yet established is the degree to which PWV measured by d-ICG correlates with PWV measured by other methods, such as vascular tonometry. Accordingly, the purpose of the present study is to test whether PWV measured by d-ICG correlates with cardiovascular risk factors, markers of preclinical atherosclerosis, and conventional tonometry-based measures of PWV in a midlife community sample.
Learning from First Nations
Creators: name: Brown, David D.
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Indigenous peoples--Canada
subject: City planning--Citizen participation
subject: Regional planning--Canada

description: My presentation at this year's CIP Conference looked at how planners, and planning schools in particular, can extend their work in First Nation regions in order to support social development and equity. This follow-up article outlines the social conditions and opportunities for planning in Aboriginal communities, and offers some thoughts on the need for greater Aboriginal involvement in the planning process.
description: Ma conférence au congrès de l'lnstitut canadien des urbanistes en 1999 portait sur Jes possibilités offertes aux urbanistes (et en particulier aux écoles d'urbanisme) en mission dans les regions des Premières Nations de favoriser le développement de la société et la justice sociale. Cet article fait suite à cette conférence et situe les conditions et les perspectives sociales des communautés autochtones dans le contexte de l'urbanisme. Il avance quelques idées quant à la nécessité d'une participation accrue des autochtones euxmêmes dans l'aménagement de leurs communautés.
description: Abstract in English and French; text in English.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/6174/Brown.pdf?sequence=3
The Garrison Creek Linkage Plan: A model for developing an open-space system
Creators: name: Pedersen, Eric
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Open spaces--Ontario--Toronto
subject: Parks--Ontario--Toronto

description: The Garrison Creek Linkage Plan builds upon a broad based community / City initiative that began in 1994 and has successfully raised the public's awareness of the unique history and open space potential of this buried creek in west central Toronto. The Plan outlines a comprehensive civic improvement strategy that coordinates capital budget expenditures across municipal departments in order to reinstate the open space linkage and reinterpret the environmental benefits of this former watershed. Linkage projects will exist in, through, and along existing and new parks, public streets and lanes in order to connect isolated public parks into a system that extends from the original headwaters north of St. Clair Avenue to Lake Ontario. This open space strategy is a prototypical model which can be used in other locations to realize a city-wide open space system founded on improving the quality of neighbourhoods.
description: Le projet d'intégration de Garrison Creek né d'une initiative de grande evergure, à la fois communautaire et municipale, qui a débuté en 1994 et a attiré l'attention du public sur l'histoire particuliére et le potentiel d'espaces verts qu'offre cet ancien cours d'eau dans le centre-ouest de Toronto. Ce projet met en valeur une stratégie globale d'embellissement urbain qui répartit les dépenses du budget d'investissement sur tous les services municipaux dans le but de réaliser l'intégration de ces espaces verts et de réévaluer les avantages écologiques de cet ancien bassin hydrographique. Le projet d'intégration englobera les parcs, nouveaux ou actuels, les rues et les voies d'accès afin de raccorder les jardins publics isolés à un ensemble s'étendant de la source, au nord de l'Avenue St.-Clair, jusqu'au lac Ontario. Ce projet pourra servir de modèle dans la réalisation de vastes espaces verts intra-muros destinés à améliorer la qualité de l'environnement urbain.
description: Abstract in English and French; text in English.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/6176/Pedersen.pdf?sequence=3
Effect of individual and community-level bed net usage on malaria prevalence among under-fives in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Creators: name: Emch, Michael
name: Thwai, Kyaw L
name: Janko, Mark
name: Meshnick, Steven R.
name: Levitz, Lauren
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

description: Abstract Background Understanding the contribution of community-level long-lasting, insecticidal net (LLIN) coverage to malaria control is critical to planning and assessing intervention campaigns. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which has one of the highest burdens of malaria cases and deaths and has dramatically scaled up LLIN ownership in recent years thus it is an ideal setting to evaluate the effect of individual versus community-level use to prevent malaria among children under the age of 5. Results Data were derived from the 2013–2014 DRC Demographic and Health Survey. Community-level LLIN usage was significantly associated with protection against malaria, even when individual-level LLIN usage was included in the model. In stratified analysis, higher levels of community LLIN coverage enhanced the protective effect of individual LLIN usage, resulting in lower malaria prevalence among individuals who used a LLIN. A sub-analysis of individual LLIN usage by insecticide type revealed deltamethrin-treated nets were more protective than permethrin-treated nets, suggesting that mosquitoes in the DRC are more susceptible to deltamethrin. Conclusions This study examines the effects of individual and community-level LLIN usage in young children in an area of high ITN usage. Individual and community LLIN usage were significantly associated with protection against malaria in children under 5 in the DRC. Importantly, the protective effect of individual LLIN usage against malaria is enhanced when community LLIN coverage is higher, demonstrating the importance of increasing community-level LLIN usage. LLINs treated with deltamethrin were shown to be more protective against malaria than LLINs treated with permethrin. Demographic and Health Surveys are thus a novel and important means of surveillance for insecticide resistance.
title: Murs préfabriqués en béton difficultées créées par leur tracé habituel
Creators: name: Latta, J. K.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1969
Subjects: subject: Concrete
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0740
subject: Béton
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0740
subject: precast concrete panels
subject: panneau de béton préfabriqué
subject: water
subject: eau
subject: surface condensation
subject: condensation superficielle
subject: sandwich panels
subject: panneau sandwich
subject: rain penetration
subject: penétration d'eau
subject: humidity transfer
subject: transfert d'humidité
subject: glasses (materials)
subject: verre (matériau)
subject: breakage
subject: rupture (fracture)

description: L'auteur décrit quelques difficultés découlant de la disposition habituelle des éléments préfabriqués en béton dans les murs. Il en explique les causes profondes et démontre qu'elles sont reliées à utilisation d'un concept erroné lors de la conception des murs.
title: Additional value of diffusion-weighted imaging to evaluate prognostic factors of breast cancer: correlation with the apparent diffusion coefficient
Creators: name: Cho, Kyu Ran
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Neoplasia

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To evaluate ADC values of invasive breast cancer and to investigate whether the ADC measures could provide information of prognostic factors in breast cancer including lymph node status, tumor size, histologic grade, biologic factors using...
On the reduction of generalized polylogarithms to $\text{Li}_n$ and $\text{Li}_{2,2}$ and on the evaluation thereof
Creators: name: Frellesvig, Hjalte
name: Tommasini, Damiano
name: Wever, Christopher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give expressions for all generalized polylogarithms up to weight four in terms of the functions log, $\text{Li}_n$, and $\text{Li}_{2,2}$, valid for arbitrary complex variables. Furthermore we provide algorithms for manipulation and numerical evaluation of $\text{Li}_n$ and $\text{Li}_{2,2}$, and add codes in Mathematica and C++ implementing the results. With these results we calculate a number of previously unknown integrals, which we add in App. C.
description: 35 pages, 4 figures. Ancillary files are attached. Published version with small typos fixed and an extra formula added in App A
title: Suspicious breast cancer metastatic lymph-node sampling under US-guide either with Fine-Needle Aspiration Cytology, Core-Needle Biopsy or Vacuum-Assisted Biopsy; results in 74 patients.
Creators: name: Macedo Pascual, Miguel
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Metastases
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Breast

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To analyze our experience in Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology, Core Needle Biopsy and Vacuum Assisted Biopsy sampling under US guidance in suspicious breast cancer metastatic lymph nodes, showing the main indications to sample them, comparing its...
MATLAB algorithms - Enabling High Baud Rate Terabit Superchannels - Chapters 5 & 6
Creators: name: Cañas Estrada, Natalia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Algorithm used to study the response of MZM and IQ modulators when they are driven by the asymmetric dither signal proposed. - Dither_IQmod_Thesis.m: Shows the output power of an IQ modulator when different DC bias points are set in the nested MZMs. - CtrlMZM_code4.m: Perturb and observe control algorithm. - Find_ideal.m: Function used to adjust the applied DC bias voltage and correct bias drifts in the MZM. Note: Dither signals applied to MZA, MZB, and PS are also included as ditherA_500Zeros.xls, ditherB_500Zeros.xls, and ditherC_500Zeros.xls.
Grüne Kapitalisten im System der Finanzierung von Technologieentwicklung – Das Beispiel der Photovoltaik-Branche
Creators: name: Steden, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 300
subject: 330
subject: Fotovoltaik
subject: Technische Innovation
subject: Kapitalismus

description: Fragen rund um die Konzeption eines "grünen Kapitalismus" finden seit einiger Zeit ein breites wissenschaftliches Interesse. In diesem Sektor bildet das System der Finanzierung von Technologieentwicklung in der Photovoltaik-Branche Akteurskonstellationen sowie Finanzierungsbedingungen mit Fokus auf technologische Entwicklungen und Innovationen ab. Darauf basierend werden im vorliegenden Beitrag anhand qualitativer Fallstudien in Photovoltaikunternehmen und Finanzinstituten grüne Kapitalisten – seien es Investoren aus der sogenannten Old Economy oder Ökoaktivisten als Unternehmensgründer – innerhalb dieses Sektors identifiziert und die unterschiedlichen Motive solcher Engagements sowie deren Einfluss auf die (strukturelle) Entwicklung einer vergleichsweise jungen Branche untersucht. Die Analyse zeigt, dass je nach Motiv und Ausgangslage der Akteure einerseits ökologisch nachhaltige Ziele oder andererseits kurzfristige Renditeziele stärker ausgeprägt sind. Zudem scheinen sich Normen, Konkurrenzsysteme und Rentabilitätsgedanken neu zu entwickeln.
description: "Green Capitalism" is a currently wide discussed topic. In this sector, the system of financing technology development in the photovoltaic industry represents a constellation of actors and financing conditions with a focus on technological developments and innovations. On this basis, this article uses qualitative case studies in photovoltaic companies and financial institutions to identify green capitalists – whether investors from the so-called old economy or eco-activists as company founders – within this sector and to examine the various motives for such investments and their influence on the (structural) development of a comparatively young sector. The analysis shows that, depending on the motive and starting position of the actors, ecologically sustainable targets on the one hand and short-term return targets on the other hand are more important. Furthermore, new norms, competitive systems and ideas of profitability seem to come up.
description: Soziologische Arbeitspapiere;54/2018
title: Murs préfabriqués en béton : nouveaux principes de base pour leur tracé
Creators: name: Latta, J. K.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1969
Subjects: subject: Concrete
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0740
subject: Béton
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0740
subject: precast concrete panels
subject: panneau de béton préfabriqué
subject: air tightness
subject: étanchéité à l'air
subject: thermal insulation
subject: isolation thermique

description: L'auteur décrit les trois règles fondamentales à suivre pour l'érection des murs en éléments préfabriqués de béton afin d'éviter les difficultés mentionnées dans CBD-93F. Il explique une nouvelle méthode d'utilisation de ces éléments répondant aux trois conditions précitées.
Identification of volume overload hospitalizations among hemodialysis patients using administrative claims: a validation study
Creators: name: Katsanos, Suzanne L
name: Flythe, Jennifer
name: Assimon, Magdalene M
name: Nguyen, Thuy
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Abstract Background High rates of volume overload hospitalizations may indicate inadequate dialysis facility fluid management. Administrative claims databases are often used to study such outcomes, but these data are generated for billing purposes and may not capture clinical nuance. It is unknown if volume overload admissions can be correctly identified in administrative data and if a single claims-based definition for volume overload can be used across epidemiologic surveillance studies, observational studies of exposure-outcome associations and quality assessments. We conducted a validation study to assess the accuracy of claims-based definitions for volume overload hospitalizations among hemodialysis patients. Methods Data were taken from a random sample of 315 adult hemodialysis patients admitted to University of North Carolina Hospitals from January 2010 through June 2013. Standardized chart reviews were conducted to clinically adjudicate the presence or absence of volume overload at hospital admission. Claims-based definitions were constructed from varying combinations of fluid-related ICD-9 discharge diagnosis codes including fluid overload, pulmonary edema, pleural effusion, and heart failure. Using clinically adjudicated volume overload hospitalizations as the reference standard, validity metrics and their 95 % confidence intervals (CIs) were estimated for each definition. Results Of the 315 hospital admissions, 77 (24.4 %) were clinically adjudicated as volume overload hospitalizations. The prevalence of claims-identified volume overload admissions varied across definitions, ranging from 1.6 to 37.1 %. When definitions were constructed with discharge diagnosis codes present in any billing position, volume overload hospitalizations defined by fluid overload, pleural effusion or heart failure diagnosis codes had the highest sensitivity, 81.8 % (95 % CI: 71.4 %, 89.7 %). Volume overload hospitalizations defined by pulmonary edema diagnosis codes had the highest specificity, 98.3 % (95 % CI: 95.8 %, 99.5 %). Definitions constructed with discharge diagnosis codes present in any billing position (versus the primary position) captured more false positive events. Conclusions Prevalence and validity estimates of volume overload hospitalizations vary across claims-based definitions. A universal claims-based definition for volume overload hospitalizations may not apply to all clinical and research scenarios. Investigators and regulators need to consider the implications of misclassifying events when evaluating and monitoring hemodialysis patient volume overload admissions with administrative data. Claims-based definitions should be selected accordingly.
title: Accelerated durability tests for organic building materials
Creators: name: Ashton, H. E.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Year: 1969
Subjects: subject: organic materials
subject: matériau organique
subject: accelerated aging tests
subject: essai de vieillissement acceleré
subject: weathering tests
subject: essai climatique

description: Tests used to evaluate durability are classified as to whether they examine a single property of the material, incorporate a single factor of the environment, or include several factors and one or more properties. Examples are given and the advantages and disadvantages of each type are discussed.
title: Comparison between different software programs and techniques for liver iron concentration assessment with MRI in thalassemic patients
Creators: name: Casaleggio, Alessandro
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Liver
subject: MR
subject: Computer Applications-General
subject: Haematologic diseases

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The quantification and monitoring of body iron burden play a pivotal role in the clinical management of patients affected by inherited hemoglobin disorders, including thalassemia, hereditary hemochromatosis and sickle cell disease. The total amount...
MAOA haplotypes associated with thrombocyte-MAO activity
Creators: name: Sullivan, Patrick
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2005

description: Abstract Background The aim was to ascertain whether thrombocyte MAO (trbc-MAO) activity and depressed state are genetically associated with the MAO locus on chromosome X (Xp11.3 – 11.4). We performed novel sequencing of the MAO locus and validated genetic variants found in public databases prior to constructing haplotypes of the MAO locus in a Swedish sample (N = 573 individuals). Results Our results reveal a profound SNP desert in the MAOB gene. Both the MAOA and MAOB genes segregate as two distinct LD blocks. We found a significant association between two MAOA gene haplotypes and reduced trbc-MAO activity, but no association with depressed state. Conclusion The MAO locus seems to have an effect on trbc-MAO activity in the study population. The findings suggest incomplete X-chromosome inactivation at this locus. It is plausible that a gene-dosage effect can provide some insight into the greater prevalence of depressed state in females than males.
Sensitivity of Biosignatures on Earth-like Planets orbiting in the Habitable Zone of Cool M-Dwarf Stars to varying Stellar UV Radiation and Surface Biomass Emissions
Creators: name: Grenfell, John Lee
name: Gebauer, Stefanie
name: von Paris, Philip
name: Godolt, Mareike
name: Rauer, Heike
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We find that variations in the UV emissions of cool M-dwarf stars have a potentially large impact upon atmospheric biosignatures in simulations of Earth-like exoplanets i.e. planets with Earths development, and biomass and a molecular nitrogen-oxygen dominated atmosphere. Starting with an assumed black-body stellar emission for an M7 class dwarf star, the stellar UV irradiation was increased stepwise and the resulting climate-photochemical response of the planetary atmosphere was calculated. Results suggest a Goldilocks effect with respect to the spectral detection of ozone. At weak UV levels, the ozone column was weak (due to weaker production from the Chapman mechanism) hence its spectral detection was challenging. At strong UV levels, ozone formation is stronger but its associated stratospheric heating leads to a weakening in temperature gradients between the stratosphere and troposphere, which results in weakened spectral bands. Also, increased UV levels can lead to enhanced abundances of hydrogen oxides which oppose the ozone formation effect. At intermediate UV (i.e. with x10 the stellar UV radiative flux of black body Planck curves corresponding to spectral class M7) the conditions are just right for spectral detection. Results suggest that the planetary O3 profile is sensitive to the UV output of the star from about(200-350) nm. We also investigated the effect of increasing the top-of-atmosphere incoming Lyman-alpha radiation but this had only a minimal effect on the biosignatures since it was efficiently absorbed in the uppermost planetary atmospheric layer, mainly by abundant methane. Earlier studies have suggested that the planetary methane is an important stratospheric heater which critically affects the vertical temperature gradient, hence the strength of spectral emission bands.
title: Ultrasound examination in the prenatal and neonatal diagnosis of renal tumors
Creators: name: Begun, Igor
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Foetus
subject: Congenital
subject: Statistics
subject: Physiological studies
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Ultrasound-Power Doppler
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Kidney
subject: Foetal imaging
subject: Abdomen

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Tumors that appear very early in life are providing a unique opportunity for studying carcinogenesis. But only 9-28% malignancies are visualising prenatally in fetus (renal tumors, neuroblastoma, hepatoblastoma) from among similar diagnoses...
title: Assessment of Complex Renal Cysts with Different Imaging Modalities
Creators: name: Donato, Henrique
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cysts
subject: Staging
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Kidney

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Identify the imaging features of complex renal cysts on US, CT, MRI and CEUS. Review and apply the Bosniak classification on different imaging...