cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Treg Cell Therapeutic Strategies for Breast Cancer: Holistic to Local Aspects
Creators: name: Zhang, Hanwen
name: Felthaus, Oliver
name: Eigenberger, Andreas
name: Klein, Silvan
name: Prantl, Lukas
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: regulatory T cells; breast cancer; treatment
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Regulatory T cells (Tregs) play a key role in maintaining immune homeostasis and preventing autoimmunity through their immunosuppressive function. There have been numerous reports confirming that high levels of Tregs in the tumor microenvironment (TME) are associated with a poor prognosis, highlighting their role in promoting an immunosuppressive environment. In breast cancer (BC), Tregs interact with cancer cells, ultimately leading to the suppression of immune surveillance and promoting tumor progression. This review discusses the dual role of Tregs in breast cancer, and explores the controversies and therapeutic potential associated with targeting these cells. Researchers are investigating various strategies to deplete or inhibit Tregs, such as immune checkpoint inhibitors, cytokine antagonists, and metabolic inhibition. However, the heterogeneity of Tregs and the variable precision of treatments pose significant challenges. Understanding the functional diversity of Tregs and the latest advances in targeted therapies is critical for the development of effective therapies. This review highlights the latest approaches to Tregs for BC treatment that both attenuate Treg-mediated immunosuppression in tumors and maintain immune tolerance, and advocates precise combination therapy strategies to optimize breast cancer outcomes.
Recurrent Cystitis in Women—A Real-World Analysis of Bacteria Spectrum and Resistance Situation for Calculated Therapy
Creators: name: Spachmann, Philipp J.
name: Radlmaier, Maximilian
name: Denzinger, Stefan
name: Burger, Maximilian
name: Breyer, Johannes
name: Otto, Wolfgang
name: Schnabel, Marco J.
name: Vergho, Daniel
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: urinary tract infection; recurrent cystitis; antibiotic resistance; antibiotic stewardship; calculated antibiosis
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Recurrent cystitis in women represents an everyday challenge; however, little to no data regarding this population are available. This study aimed to evaluate this collective with respect to a rational calculated antibiotic therapy. Urine cultures and antibiograms from a urological office were retrospectively evaluated from patient data collected between January 2017 and June 2019. The evaluation was conducted using SPSS ©. In total, 84 female patients, who were aged between 18 and 87 years old (median 60 years), suffered from recurrent cystitis. Escherichia coli was found in 53.9% of cases, Staphylococcus aureus and enterococci were each found in 6.7%, and Proteus spp. and Streptococcus agalactiae were each found in 5.6%. The resistance levels to ciprofloxacin (CIP), trimethoprim–sulfamethoxazole (TRS), nitrofurantoin (NIT), and nitroxoline (NOX) were 18.2%, 30.7%, 16.1%, and 12.5% in the tested cases, respectively. Regarding E. coli, resistance to CIP, TRS, and NIT was found in 17.8%, 25%, and 4.2% of the tested cases, and no resistance to NOX was found. The resistance level to CIP was in a tolerable range of <20% in the overall cohort and the E. coli subgroup. More than a quarter of the bacteria were resistant to TRS. The low resistance rates for NIT and NOX are remarkable, promoting the use of these substances if they are not yet used.
Tarphophragma macrostoma
Creators: name: Ernst, Andrej
name: Carrera, Marcelo G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Bryozoa
Stenolaemata
Trepostomatida
Halloporidae
Tarphophragma
Tarphophragma macrostoma

description: Tarphophragma macrostoma (Loeblich, 1942)
(Figs 10 E-G; 11A; Appendix 1)
Hallopora macrostoma Loeblich, 1942: 430, pl. 62, figs 12-14.
Tarphophragma macrostoma – Key 1991: 207-209, figs 6.1-6.6.
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — CEGH-UNC 27520 c, d, CEGH-UNC 27539 c, d, g, CEGH-UNC 27537 d, CEGH-UNC 27538 d.
OCCURRENCE. — Bromide Formation, Upper Ordovician, lower Sandbian; Oklahoma, United States. La Pola Formation, Upper Ordovician, Sandbian; La Pola creek section near Albardon village, San Juan Province, Argentine Precordillera, western Argentina.
DESCRIPTION
Ramose colonies, branch diameter 3.0- 3.6 mm. Exozone distinct, 0.5-0.6 mm wide, endozone 2.0- 2.4 mm wide. Autozooecia long, growing parallel to branch axis for a long distance in endozone and bending sharply in exozone, having rounded-polygonal shape in transverse section in endozone. Autozooecial apertures oval to polygonal. Autozooecial diaphragms thin, planar, widely spaced in endozone; common to abundant in exozone, planar, rarely inclined, developed as extension of wall cortex. Mesozooecia arising in endozone, polygonal in transverse section, 2-6 surrounding each autozooecial aperture. Mesozooecial diaphragms planar, densely spaced. Acanthostyles absent. Autozooecial walls indistinctly laminated, 0.005 -0.008 mm thick in endozone; displaying distinct reverse V-shaped structure with dark autozooecial boundary, with weakly developed wall cortex continued in diaphragms, 0.04-0.12 mm thick in exozone. Maculae indistinct, consisting of macrozooecia.
COMPARISON
Tarphophragma macrostoma (Loeblich, 1942) differs from T. ovata (McKinney, 1971) from the Middle Ordovician of United States in larger autozooecial apertures (average aperture width 0.21 mm vs 0.17 mm in T. ovata; measurements for T. ovata from McKinney 1971), as well as in less abundant and smaller mesozooecia. Tarphophragma macrostoma differs from T. multitabulata (Ulrich, 1886) from the Middle Ordovician of United States in larger autozooecial apertures (average aperture width 0.21 mm vs 0.19 mm in T. multitabulata; measurements for T. multitabulata from Karklins 1984).
description: Published as part of Ernst, Andrej & Carrera, Marcelo G., 2022, A cool-water bryozoan association from the La Pola Formation (Sandbian, Ordovician) of Argentine Precordillera, pp. 563-601 in Geodiversitas 44 (20) on page 580, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2022v44a20, http://zenodo.org/record/6725916
Eupolybothrus segregans Chamberlin, 1952, sp. n.
Creators: name: R. V. Chamberlin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1952
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Lithobiomorpha
Lithobiidae
Eupolybothrus
Eupolybothrus segregans

description: Eupolybothrus segregans sp. n.
Reddish yellow, anteriorly more nearly light chestnut. Legs yellow, the posterior pairs more deeply pigmented.
Antennae composed of 45 articles. Ocelli 1+4,4,3,2, the single oceilus obliquely elliptic, the most caudal ocellus of top series larger than the other seriate ocelli.
Prosternal teeth 7+7, the teeth small and well separated; median interval open V-shaped; anterior margin of prosternum falling back immediately from outermost tooth on each side and then curving outward.
Only the tergites 9,11 and 13 with angles strongly produced. The 7th with angles more weakly produced, those of 6th not at all produced. Fourteenth tergite with caudal margin concave and the corners angular; caudal margin of fifteenth plate also concave with corners rounded.
Penult legs with ventral spines 0,1,3,3,2; dorsal spines 2,0,3,3,2. Anal legs with ventral spines 0,1,3,3,1; dorsal, 2,0,3,1,0; claws 2. Ventral spines of first legs, 0,0,2,3,1; dorsal, 0,0,3,2,1. None of coxae laterally armed.
Coxal pores mostly in two and three series or irregularly in four.
Claw of female gonopods entire; basal spines 2+2, narrowing from base but more strongly acuminate toward tip.
Length, about 22 mm.
Locality: Polonezköy (near Istanbul, Asiatic side), one female taken May 15, 1948.
A species readily distinguishable from appeninigenus (Brol.), etc. in having the posterior corners of tergite VI not at all produced. In praecursor Verh. the posterior corners of the sixth tergite are similarly not produced, but in that species the angles of the seventh plate are but weakly produced whereas in the present species they are strongly produced. The posession of two dorsal spines on the posterior coxae may also prove to be a constant distinguishing character.
description: Published as part of R. V. Chamberlin, 1952, On the Chilopoda from Turkey, pp. 183-258 in Istanbul Universitesi Orman Fakültesi Dergisi 17 on pages 218-219
A transformer-based model for default prediction in mid-cap corporate markets
Creators: name: Korangi, Kamesh
name: Mues, Christophe
name: Bravo, Cristián
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Finance (q-fin.GN)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Risk Management (q-fin.RM)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we study mid-cap companies, i.e. publicly traded companies with less than US $10 billion in market capitalisation. Using a large dataset of US mid-cap companies observed over 30 years, we look to predict the default probability term structure over the medium term and understand which data sources (i.e. fundamental, market or pricing data) contribute most to the default risk. Whereas existing methods typically require that data from different time periods are first aggregated and turned into cross-sectional features, we frame the problem as a multi-label time-series classification problem. We adapt transformer models, a state-of-the-art deep learning model emanating from the natural language processing domain, to the credit risk modelling setting. We also interpret the predictions of these models using attention heat maps. To optimise the model further, we present a custom loss function for multi-label classification and a novel multi-channel architecture with differential training that gives the model the ability to use all input data efficiently. Our results show the proposed deep learning architecture's superior performance, resulting in a 13% improvement in AUC (Area Under the receiver operating characteristic Curve) over traditional models. We also demonstrate how to produce an importance ranking for the different data sources and the temporal relationships using a Shapley approach specific to these models.
description: 38 pages, 6 figures, V4 published
Necromys temchuki Massoia 1982
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Reeder, DeeAnn
Publisher: name: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Cricetidae
Necromys
Necromys temchuki

description: Necromys temchuki Massoia 1982
Necromys temchuki Massoia 1982, Hist. Nat. Corrientes, Vol. 2, 11: 91.
Type Locality: Argentina, Misiones Prov., Depto. Capital, Costa del Arroyo Zaimán, Villa Miguel Lanús.
Vernacular Names: Temchuk's Akodont.
Synonyms: Necromys elioi (Contreras 1982); Necromys liciae (Contreras 1982); Necromys temchucki (Massoia 1980).
Distribution: NE Argentina (Misiones, Corrientes, Formosa, and Chaco Provs.; see Contreras, 1982).
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as Bolomys temchuki.
Discussion: Although the authorship is sometimes dated to Massoia, 1980 b (Musser and Carleton, 1993; Honacki et al, 1982), Massoia had then mentioned the name (then spelled temchucki) in the context of a preliminary note; no holotype or museum repository was designated, and descriptive and comparative information is scant. As with another preliminary name mentioned in the same paper (Deltamys kempi langguthi, later described formally by González and Massoia, 1995), the availability of temchuki should properly date from Massoia’s (1982) explicit diagnosis of the species. As remarked by Galliari et al. (1996), the relationships and discrimination of temchuki with regard to N. lasiurus, also known from the same general region, merit reexamination and clear documentation.
description: Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae, pp. 955-1189 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 1131, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535
Effects of Pressure, Hypoxia, and Hyperoxia on Neutrophil Granulocytes
Creators: name: Kraus, Richard F.
name: Panter, Daniel
name: Gruber, Michael A.
name: Arndt, Stephanie
name: Unger, Petra
name: Pawlik, Michael T.
name: Bitzinger, Diane
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: neutrophil; hypoxia; hyperoxia; pressure; oxygen; diving; hyperbaric
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Background: The application of normo- and hyperbaric O2 is a common therapy option in various disease patterns. Thereby, the applied O2 affects the whole body, including the blood and its components. This study investigates influences of pressure and oxygen fraction on human blood plasma, nutrient media, and the functions of neutrophil granulocytes (PMNs). Methods: Neutrophil migration, reactive oxygen species (ROS) production, and NETosis were examined by live cell imaging. The treatment of various matrices (Roswell Park Memorial Institute 1640 medium, Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle’s Medium, H2O, human plasma, and isolated PMNs) with hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) was performed. In addition, the expression of different neutrophil surface epitopes (CD11b, CD62L, CD66b) and the oxidative burst were investigated by flow cytometry (FACS). The application of cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) to normoxic and normobaric culture media served as a positive control. Soluble reaction products such as H2O2, reactive nitrogen species (RNS: NO2− and NO3−), and ROS-dependent dihydrorhodamine oxidation were quantified by fluoro- and colorimetric assay kits. Results: Under normobaric normoxia, PMNs migrate slower and shorter in comparison with normobaric hyper- or hypoxic conditions and hyperbaric hyperoxia. The pressure component has less effect on the migration behavior of PMNs than the O2 concentration. Individual PMN cells produce prolonged ROS at normoxic conditions. PMNs showed increased expression of CD11b in normobaric normoxia, lower expression of CD62L in normobaric normoxia, and lower expression of CD66b after HBO and CAP treatment. Treatment with CAP increased the amount of ROS and RNS in common culture media. Conclusions: Hyperbaric and normobaric O2 influences neutrophil functionality and surface epitopes in a measurable way, which may have an impact on disorders with neutrophil involvement. In the context of hyperbaric experiments, especially high amounts of H2O2 in RPMI after hyperbaric oxygen should be taken into account. Therefore, our data support a critical indication for the use of normobaric and hyperbaric oxygen and conscientious and careful handling of oxygen in everyday clinical practice.
Andiamo a comandare
Creators: name: Guglielminetti, Enrico
name: Regina, Luciana
Publisher: name: Spazio Filosofico
Year: 2017

description: One of the reasons for the “democratic fatigue syndrome,” as Van Reybrouck calls it, might be an extreme and paradoxical form of “dis-intermediation.” The latter would consist not in the endorsement of a (real or alleged) leader to the detriment of some intermediary units (churches, unions, parties, etc.) but rather in the coveted elimination of the duality of representatives and represented. The elimination would only minimally have to do with forms of direct or deliberative democracy and would instead be, to a much greater extent, a matter of an individual desire to be the leader. What would emerge would be the democracy of leaders, where everyone is moved by the will to rule alone or to rule without assumption of responsibility. Such a will could receive only (and aporetically) vicarious satisfaction through current leaders. The satisfaction would ultimately be always dissatisfactory, and hence the endemic discontent of the voters and the crisis of the electoral system would ensue.
description: Spazio Filosofico, 19. Elezioni
Necromys urichi J. A. Allen and Chapman 1897
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Reeder, DeeAnn
Publisher: name: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Cricetidae
Necromys
Necromys urichi

description: Necromys urichi J. A. Allen and Chapman 1897
Necromys urichi J. A. Allen and Chapman 1897, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 9: 19.
Type Locality: Trinidad, Caparo.
Vernacular Names: Northern Akodont.
Synonyms: Necromys chapmani (J. A. Allen 1913); Necromys meridensis (J. A. Allen 1904); Necromys saturatus (Tate 1939); Necromys tobagensis (Goodwin 1962); Necromys venezuelensis (J. A. Allen 1899).
Distribution: Trinidad and Tobago, highlands of N and S Venezuela, E Colombia, N Brazil.
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc) as Akodon urichi.
Discussion: Although traditionally arranged as a species of Akodon (Cabrera, 1961; Musser and Carleton, 1993), subgenus Chalcomys according to Thomas (1916 c), urichi is here assigned to Necromys following those molecular studies that disclose its close relationship to amoenus and lasiurus apart from representative species of Akodon proper (D’Elía, 2003; D’Elía et al., 2003; Smith and Patton, 1993, 1999). Formerly included aerosus as a subspecies (Cabrera, 1961), but karyotypic (Gardner and Patton, 1976) and gene sequence (D’Elía et al., 2003; Smith and Patton, 1993, 1999) data demonstrate their distant relationship (see account of Akodon aerosus).
Morphometric variation of Venezuelan populations studied by Ventura et al. (2000), who recognized meridensis, saturatus, and venezuelensis as subspecies along with the nominate form. Linares (1998) arranged the populations in S Venezuela as a species (saturatus) distinct from those in the Andes (urichi). To date, craniodental morphometrics (Ventura et al., 2000) and cytochrome b comparisons (Smith and Patton, 1999) provide no compelling evidence for doing so, but the biogeographic plausibility of such a divergence merits further attention.
description: Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae, pp. 955-1189 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 1131, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535
Class in Session: Analysis of GPT-4-created Plastic Surgery In-service Examination Questions
Creators: name: Najafali, Daniel
name: Galbraith, Logan G.
name: Camacho, Justin M.
name: Stoffel, Victoria
name: Herzog, Isabel
name: Moss, Civanni
name: Taiberg, Stephanie L.
name: Knoedler, Leonard
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin

description: Background: 

The Plastic Surgery In-Service Training Examination (PSITE) remains a critical milestone in residency training. Successful preparation requires extensive studying during an individual’s residency. This study focuses on the capacity of Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4 (GPT-4) to generate PSITE practice questions.
Methods: 

GPT-4 was prompted to generate multiple choice questions for each PSITE section and provide answer choices with detailed rationale. Question composition via readability metrics were analyzed, along with quality. Descriptive statistics compared GPT-4 and the 2022 PSITE.
Results: 

The overall median Flesch–Kincaid reading ease for GPT-4-generated questions was 43.90 (versus 50.35 PSITE, P = 0.036). GPT-4 provided questions that contained significantly fewer mean sentences (1 versus 4), words (16 versus 56), and percentage of complex words (3 versus 13) than 2022 PSITE questions (P < 0.001). When evaluating GPT-4 generated questions for each examination section, the highest median Flesch–Kincaid reading ease was on the core surgical principles section (median: 63.30, interquartile range [54.45–68.28]) and the lowest was on the craniomaxillofacial section (median: 36.25, interquartile range [12.57–58.40]). Most readability metrics were higher for the 2022 PSITE compared with GPT-4 generated questions. Overall question quality was poor for the chatbot.

Conclusions: 

Our study found that GPT-4 can be adapted to generate practice questions for the 2022 PSITE, but its questions are of poor quality. The program can offer general explanations for both the correct and incorrect answer options but was observed to generate false information and poor-quality explanations. Although trainees should navigate with caution as the technology develops, GPT-4 has the potential to serve as an effective educational adjunct under the supervision of trained plastic surgeons.
Induced on-demand revival in coined quantum walks on infinite $d$-dimensional lattices
Creators: name: Jayakody, Mahesh N.
name: Paiva, Ismael L.
name: Nanayakkara, Asiri
name: Cohen, Eliahu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The study of recurrences and revivals in quantum systems has attracted a great deal of interest because of its importance in the control of quantum systems and its potential use in developing new technologies. In this work, we introduce a protocol to induce full-state revivals in a huge class of quantum walks on a $d$-dimensional lattice governed by a $c$-dimensional coin system. The protocol requires two repeated interventions in the coin degree of freedom. We also present a characterization of the walks that admits such a protocol. Moreover, we modify the quantity known as Pólya number, typically used in the study of recurrences in classical random walks and quantum walks, to create a witness of the first revival of the walk.
description: Author's accepted version
Nectomys Peters 1860
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Reeder, DeeAnn
Publisher: name: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Cricetidae
Nectomys

description: Nectomys Peters 1860
Nectomys Peters 1860, Abh. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1860: 151.
Type Species: Mus squamipes Brants 1827
Synonyms: Potamys Liais 1872.
Species and subspecies: 5 species:
Species Nectomys apicalis Peters 1860
Species Nectomys magdalenae Thomas 1897
Species Nectomys palmipes J. A. Allen and Chapman 1893
Species Nectomys rattus Pelzeln 1883
Species Nectomys squamipes (Brants 1827)
Discussion: Oryzomyini. A broad and diverse character base indelibly and uniformly pictures the phyletic heritage of Nectomys as oryzomyine (Baker et al., 1983; Dickerman and Yates, 1995; Hershkovitz, 1944, 1960; Hooper and Musser, 1964 a; Myers et al., 1995; Patton and da Silva, 1995; Smith and Patton, 1999; Steppan, 1995; Voss and Carleton, 1993). Hershkovitz (1944) included Sigmodontomys as a subgenus; Gardner and Patton (1976) urged removal of Sigmodontomys to Oryzomys, and Musser and Carleton (1993) provisionally elevated it to genus.
Regional studies are beginning to uncover the species diversity masked by Hershkovitz’s (1944) concept of a single, pan-Amazonian species, N. squamipes (e.g., Andrades-Miranda et al., 2001 b; Gómez-LaVerde et al., 1999; Patton et al., 2000; Voss et al., 2001). Integration of these regional perspectives nevertheless warrants continued alpha-level revisionary investigation to voucher geographic ranges and to properly associate junior synonyms.
description: Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae, pp. 955-1189 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 1131, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535
Corinne, Ou, l'Italie
Creators: name: Staël
Publisher: name: A La Librairie Stéréotype, chez H. Nicolle, ...
Year: 1807

description: par Mad. de Staël Holstein
description: Mit Exlibris von Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Exemplar der Zentralbibliothek Zürich, C.F.-Meyer-Bibliothek
description: Aus dem Vorbesitz von Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Exemplar der Zentralbibliothek Zürich, C.F.-Meyer-Bibliothek
Paulownia tomentosa Steud.
Creators: name: Konrad Lauber
name: Gerhart Wagner
name: Andreas Gygax
Publisher: name: Haupt Verlag
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Paulowniaceae
Paulownia
Paulownia tomentosa

description: Paulownia tomentosa (Thunb.) Steud.
Artbeschreibung: Bis 15 m hoher Baum mit dicht braun behaarten Zweigen. Blätter gegenständig, herzförmig, ganzrandig, bis über 30 cm lang, unterseits filzig behaart. Blüten in aufrechten Rispen. Krone lila bis blauviolett, eng glockenförmig, 4-7 cm lang, abwärts gebogen, mit bauchiger, am Grund verengter Röhre und 5 rundlichen, zurückgebogenen Zipfeln. Frucht eine ca. 4 cm lange, sich mit 2 Klappen öffnende Kapsel.
Blütezeit: 4-5
Standort und Verbreitung in der Schweiz: Kultiviert und im Süden zuweilen verwildert /
Verbreitung global: Stammt aus Ostasien
Ökologische Zeigerwerte nach Landolt & al. (2010)
BodenfaktorenKlimafaktorenSalztoleranzFeuchtezahl Fmässig feuchtLichtzahl LhalbschattigSalzzeichen--Reaktionszahl Rschwach sauer bis neutral (pH 4.5-7.5)Temperaturzahl Tsehr warm-kollin (nur an wärmsten Stellen, Hauptverbreitung in Südeuropa)Nährstoffzahl Nmässig nährstoffarm bis mässig nährstoffreichKontinentalitätszahl Ksubozeanisch (hohe Luftfeuchtigkeit, geringe Temperaturschwankungen, eher milde Winter)
Volksname Deutscher Name: Blauglockenbaum, Paulownie Nom français: Paulownia Nome italiano: Paulownia
description: Published as part of Konrad Lauber, Gerhart Wagner & Andreas Gygax, 2018, Flora Helvetica - Paulowniaceae, pp. 970 in Flora Helvetica, Bern :Haupt Verlag on page 970
Jordanopora Ross 1963
Creators: name: Ernst, Andrej
name: Carrera, Marcelo G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Bryozoa
Stenolaemata
Trepostomatida
Trematoporidae
Jordanopora

description: Genus Jordanopora Ross, 1963
TYPE SPECIES. — Jordanopora heroensis Ross, 1963 by original designation. Ordovician, Llanvirn-Llandeilo; United States.
DIAGNOSIS. — Colonies ramose or encrusting, with distinct exozones. Autozooecia prismatic, autozooecial apertures rounded-polygonal. Diaphragms generally lacking in endozones; thin, planar, closely to widely spaced or lacking in exozones. Autozooecial walls thin, laminated, irregularly undulating in endozones; thickly laminated, without cingulum, broadly and irregularly serrated in exozones. Tubules in exozonal walls abundant, thick, hyaline, generally oriented parallel to autozooecial growth. Mesozooecia rare to common, originating in endozone, containing thick diaphragms. Styles absent. Maculae low to flush, consisting of macrozooecia surround cluster of mesozooecia and massive extrazooidal skeleton near centres.
OCCURRENCE. — Chazy Series (Darriwilian-Sandbian) of New York, United States, and Sandbian of Argentina.
COMPARISON
Jordanopora Ross, 1963 differs from other genera of the Family Trematoporidae in absence of acanthostyles and presence of tubules in zooecial walls.
description: Published as part of Ernst, Andrej & Carrera, Marcelo G., 2022, A cool-water bryozoan association from the La Pola Formation (Sandbian, Ordovician) of Argentine Precordillera, pp. 563-601 in Geodiversitas 44 (20) on page 580, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2022v44a20, http://zenodo.org/record/6725916
Let's Go Rule
Creators: name: Guglielminetti, Enrico
name: Regina, Luciana
Publisher: name: Spazio Filosofico
Year: 2017

description: One of the reasons for the “democratic fatigue syndrome,” as Van Reybrouck calls it, might be an extreme and paradoxical form of “dis-intermediation.” The latter would consist not in the endorsement of a (real or alleged) leader to the detriment of some intermediary units (churches, unions, parties, etc.) but rather in the coveted elimination of the duality of representatives and represented. The elimination would only minimally have to do with forms of direct or deliberative democracy and would instead be, to a much greater extent, a matter of an individual desire to be the leader. What would emerge would be the democracy of leaders, where everyone is moved by the will to rule alone or to rule without assumption of responsibility. Such a will could receive only (and aporetically) vicarious satisfaction through current leaders. The satisfaction would ultimately be always dissatisfactory, and hence the endemic discontent of the voters and the crisis of the electoral system would ensue.
description: Spazio Filosofico, 19. Elezioni
Utility of Ultrasound-Guided Attenuation Parameter (UGAP) in Renal Angiomyolipoma (AML): First Results
Creators: name: Kranert, Paul Christian
name: Kranert, Paula
name: Banas, Miriam C.
name: Jung, Ernst Michael
name: Banas, Bernhard
name: Putz, Franz Josef
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: UGAP; angiomyolipoma; tumour; renal imaging; examination conditions
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Angiomyolipoma (AML) are the most common benign solid renal mass. Differentiation from malignant tumours is essential. Imaging features in ultrasound may overlap between malignant lesions, especially between renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and AML. So far, sectional imaging has been necessary for reliable differentiation. The aim of this study is to evaluate the use of the ultrasound-guided attenuation parameter (UGAP), a recently established tool for assessing hepatic steatosis, in the differentiation of AMLs from other renal masses. Therefore, 27 patients with unknown solid renal masses were examined by ultrasound including UGAP. The attenuation was assessed qualitatively by attenuation map and quantitatively in comparison to the surrounding renal tissue. UGAP was applicable in 26/27 patients. Findings were compared with CT/MRI as the current imaging standard. A total of 18 AML and 9 other renal tumours were found. The diagnostic performance of B-Mode (hyperechogenic lesion) ultrasound was 77.8% in identifying AML. The diagnostic performance of the attenuation map showed a diagnostic performance of 92.6%, whereby UGAP measurements were successful in 76.9% of cases. Quantitatively, we found a significant difference (p < 0.034) in mean measured attenuation between AML (0.764 ± 0.162 dB/cm/MHz) vs. other renal tumours (0.658 ± 0.155 dB/cm/MHz). The best performance was found by a combined parameter of a hyperechogenic lesion with a positive attenuation map with an accuracy of 95.0%. In conclusion, UGAP may represent a possibility for differentiating solid renal lesions more accurately by ultrasound, especially classic hyperechoic AMLs from other renal lesions. Further studies are needed to increase the diagnostic reliability further.
Comparison of Dental Findings with Computed Tomographic and Clinical Examination in Patients with End-Stage Heart Failure
Creators: name: Merle, Cordula Leonie
name: Gocke, Julia
name: Seitz, Patrick
name: Gutberlet, Matthias
name: Saeed, Diyar
name: Haak, Rainer
name: Ziebolz, Dirk
name: Gohmann, Robin Fabian
name: Schmalz, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: heart disease; heart transplantation; oral health; radiographs; computed tomography
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Background: This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic value of pre-existing computed tomography (CT) examinations for the detection of dental pathologies compared with clinical dental examination in patients with end-stage heart failure. Methods: For this purpose, 59 patients with end-stage heart failure and pre-existing non-dental CT images of the craniofacial region were included. Virtual orthopantomograms (vOPG) were reconstructed. Dental pathologies were analyzed in vOPG and source-CT images. Imaging and clinical findings less than 6 months apart were compared (n = 24). Results: The subjective image quality of vOPG was more often rated as insufficient than CT (66%; 20%; p < 0.01). Depending on examination (CT, vOPG or clinic), between 33% and 92% of the patients could require dental intervention such as treatment of caries and periodontitis or tooth extraction. vOPG led to a higher (80%) prevalence of teeth requiring treatment than CT (39%; p < 0.01). The prevalence of teeth requiring treatment was similar in CT (29%) and clinic (29%; p = 1.00) but higher in vOPG (63%; p < 0.01). CT (stage 3 or 4: 42%) and vOPG (38%) underestimated the stage of periodontitis (clinic: 75%; p < 0.01). Conclusions: In conclusion, available CT images including the craniofacial region from patients with end-stage heart failure may contain valuable information regarding oral health status. The assessability of vOPGs might be insufficient and must be interpreted with caution.
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Year: 1622

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Anesthesiological Preoperative Interview with a Palliative Care Patient: A Simulation-Based Experiment Using Standardized Patients
Creators: name: Lassen, Christoph L.
name: Jaschinsky, Fabian
name: Stamouli, Elena
name: Lindenberg, Nicole
name: Wiese, Christoph H. R.
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: perioperative; advanced care planning; DNR-order; palliativemedicine; standardized patients
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Background and Objectives: Anesthesiologists come into contact with patients under palliative care in different clinical settings. They also routinely encounter these patients in their primary field of work, the operating room. Patients receiving palliative care who are scheduled for surgery will pose unique challenges in perioperative management, often presenting with advanced disease and with different psychosocial and ethical issues. This study aims to evaluate whether anesthesiologists without specialty training in palliative medicine will spot perioperative challenges presented by patients under palliative care and address them adequately. Materials and Methods: In this study, we simulated a preoperative anesthesiological interview using standardized patients and anesthesiologists (specialists as well as trainees). The standardized patients were asked to represent a patient under palliative care in need of surgery because of a mechanical ileus. We conducted 32 interviews, dividing the anesthesiologists into two groups. In one group, the standardized patients were instructed to address four problems, i.e., use of a port catheter for anesthesia, nausea and vomiting, pain medication, and an advance directive including a limitation of treatment (DNR-order). In the other group, these problems were also present, but were not actively addressed by the standardized patients if not asked for. The interviews were recorded, transcribed, and then analyzed. Results: In most cases, the medical problems were spontaneously identified and discussed. In only a few cases, however, was a therapy recommendation made for improved symptom control. The advance directive was spontaneously discussed by only 3 of the 32 (9%) anesthesiologists. In another 16 cases, the advance directive was discussed at the request of the standardized patients. The limitation of treatment stayed in place in all cases, and the discussion of the advance directives remained short, with an average duration of just over 5 min. Conclusions: In this study, the complex problems of patients under palliative care are not sufficiently taken into account in a preoperative anesthesiological interview. To improve treatment of the medical problems, therapists who have palliative medicine expertise, should be involved in the perioperative medical care, ideally as a multi-professional team. The discussion about perioperative limitations of treatment should be held beforehand, for example, as part of a structured advanced care planning discussion.
Nectomys apicalis Peters 1860
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Reeder, DeeAnn
Publisher: name: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Cricetidae
Nectomys
Nectomys apicalis

description: Nectomys apicalis Peters 1860
Nectomys apicalis Peters 1860, Abh. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., 1860: 152.
Type Locality: Ecuador, Napo Prov., Tena, 512 m (as restricted by Hershkovitz, 1944:53).
Vernacular Names: Western Amazonian Nectomys.
Synonyms: Nectomys fulvinus Thomas 1897; Nectomys garleppii Thomas 1899; Nectomys montanus Hershkovitz 1944; Nectomys napensis Hershkovitz 1944; Nectomys saturatus Thomas 1897; Nectomys vallensis Hershkovitz 1944.
Distribution: Westernmost Brazil (Acre and Amazonas), and contiguous lowlands and Andean foothills of C and E Ecuador, E Perú, and WC Bolivia (see Anderson, 1997:Fig. 685; Patton et al., 2000:Fig. 78); distributional limits uncertain.
Discussion: Argued by Patton et al. (2000) as the oldest name for those water rat populations in western Amazonia with a 2n = 38-42 karyotype, including garleppii, which Reig (in Honacki et al., 1982) and Barros et al. (1992) recognized as a species. More than a single species is likely represented among the listed synonyms, whether they belong to one of the other species recognized here or to some other species yet to be determined.
description: Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae, pp. 955-1189 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 1132, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535
Contrast-Enhanced Intraoperative Ultrasound Shows Excellent Performance in Improving Intraoperative Decision-Making
Creators: name: Kupke, Laura S.
name: Dropco, Ivor
name: Götz, Markus
name: Kupke, Paul
name: Jung, Friedrich
name: Stroszczynski, Christian
name: Jung, Ernst-Michael
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: ultrasound; contrast-enhanced ultrasound; CEUS; micro-vascularization; intraoperative; ultrasound; IOUS; intraoperative decision-making
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance and the impact of contrast-enhanced intraoperative ultrasound (CE-IOUS) on intraoperative decision-making, as there is still no standardized protocol for its use. Therefore, we retrospectively analyzed multiple CE-IOUS performed in hepato-pancreatic-biliary surgery with respect to pre- and postoperative imaging and histopathological findings. Methods: Data of 50 patients who underwent hepato-pancreatic-biliary surgery between 03/2022 and 03/2024 were retrospectively collected. CE-IOUS was performed with a linear 6–9 MHz multifrequency probe connected to a high-resolution device. The ultrasound contrast agent used was a stabilized aqueous suspension of sulphur hexafluoride microbubbles. Results: In total, all 50 lesions indicated for surgery were correctly identified. In 30 cases, CE-IOUS was used to localize the primary lesion and to define the resection margins. In the remaining 20 cases, CE-IOUS identified an additional lesion. Fifteen of these findings were identified as malignant. In eight of these cases, the additional malignant lesion was subsequently resected. In the remaining seven cases, CE-IOUS again revealed an inoperable situation. In summary, CE-IOUS diagnostics resulted in a high correct classification rate of 95.7%, with positive and negative predictive values of 95.2% and 100.0%, respectively. Conclusions: CE-IOUS shows excellent performance in describing intraoperative findings in hepato-pancreatic-biliary surgery, leading to a substantial impact on intraoperative decision-making.
A Short History of the Future of Elections
Creators: name: Keane, John
Publisher: name: Spazio Filosofico
Year: 2017

description: We live in times shaped by the conviction that periodic ‘free and fair’ elections are the heart and soul of democracy. Since 1945, when only a dozen parliamentary democracies were left on our planet, elections have come to be seen widely as the best way of forming good governments, sometimes even as a ‘timeless’ and non-negotiable feature of political life. Article 21 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in December 1948, famously set the standard: ‘The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage’.
This is the global orthodoxy. Yet all’s not well in the house of elections; public fractiousness and political dissent are brewing. There are signs of rising citizen disaffection with mainstream ‘catch-all’ parties accused of failing to be all good things to all voters. Support for populist parties is rising. Experiments with ‘anti-political’, direct-action social networks are flourishing. In some quarters, voting is judged a worthless waste of time, money and energy. And more than a few democracies are shaped by what can be called the Philippines syndrome: a strangely contradictory trend marked by elections that come wrapped in intense media coverage and great public excitement mixed with bitter disappointment about the sidelining of elected governments by big banks, big money and the outsourcing of state functions to cross-border power chains. The feeling that elections are pointless manipulations by the rich and powerful finds its nadir in the whole phenomenon of ‘electoral despotism’ in Russia, China, central Asia and elsewhere: the use by oligarchs of periodic elections as an instrument for consolidating arbitrary power. These trends raise fundamental questions of global political importance: in spite of their declining importance in determining who gets what, when and how, do elections with integrity have a future? Do they still matter and, if so, is their rejuvenation, against formidable odds, now among the vital political imperatives of our age? Or are elections slowly losing their grip on democracy? Are they perhaps in terminal decline, or destructive of the spirit and substance of democracy? Is the universal belief in the universality of ‘free and fair’ elections a mid-20th-century delusion, a worn-out dogma now urgently in need of replacement by fresh visions and new democratic innovations fit for our times?
description: Spazio Filosofico, 19. Elezioni
Votare non è più democratico? Le elezioni e la “sindrome da stanchezza democratica”
Creators: name: Palano, Damiano
Publisher: name: Spazio Filosofico
Year: 2017

description: This essay critically addresses the arguments developed by Belgian intellectual David Van Reybrouck in his book Against Elections and specifically the presupposition underlying his entire discourse, namely, that “voting is no longer democratic.” The essay will consider Van Reybrouck’s proposed interpretation of the various causes of the democratic “crisis” and will highlight some problematic elements that have to do with the “insufficiency” of the electoral process in terms of guaranteeing the democratic character of Western political systems. The goal of the essay is to cast light on the fact that the “crisis” of Western democracies does not stem solely from the weak legitimation offered by the elective-representative system.
description: Spazio Filosofico, 19. Elezioni
In Defense of Elections
Creators: name: Posada-Carbó, Eduardo
Publisher: name: Spazio Filosofico
Year: 2017

description: This article presents the case for the defence of a beleaguered creature in the twenty-first century: elections. It looks first at the arguments against elections, recently articulated by David Van Reybrouk. It then revises the value of representation to restate the central place elections have had and ought to have in modern democracies. It does so particularly by highlighting Nadia Urbinati’s important contribution to our understanding of representative democracies. The article however questions the validity of the distinction between ‘electoral democracy’ and ‘representative democracy’, before concluding with some final reflections.
description: Spazio Filosofico, 19. Elezioni
Nectomys magdalenae Thomas 1897
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Reeder, DeeAnn
Publisher: name: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Cricetidae
Nectomys
Nectomys magdalenae

description: Nectomys magdalenae Thomas 1897
Nectomys magdalenae Thomas 1897, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 19: 499.
Type Locality: Colombia, Cundinamarca Dept., lowlands near Magdalena River.
Vernacular Names: Magdalena Nectomys.
Synonyms: Nectomys grandis Thomas 1897.
Distribution: Basins of the Magdalena and Cauca Rivers, N Colombia.
Discussion: Although considered a subspecies of N. squamipes by Hershkovitz (1944), Gómez-Laverde et al. (1999) elevated magdalenae to species based on its karyotype (2n = 34), which is uniquely divergent from those populations so far reported from Amazonia and SE Brazil (2n = 38-59; see other accounts). Reig (in Honacki et al., 1982) had considered grandis and magdalenae as possible synonyms of apicalis, but the distinctive karyotype and emerging biogeographic appreciation of the Transandean lowlands as a region of specific differentiation warrant provisional species recognition. In spite of the page priority of grandis over magdalenae, both names dating from Thomas 1897, Gómez et al. (1999) elected magdalenae as the valid name because the animal karyotyped originated near the type locality and since the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1999) does not require strict adherence to page precedence, acceding to the judgement of first revisors. The soundness of the species definition, junior synonymy, and distributional extent should be confirmed with wider geographic sampling and additional analyses of karyotypic and other data.
description: Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Cricetidae, pp. 955-1189 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 1132, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316535
The Mob Came Wielding Pitchforks, but they had a Good Story to Tell
Creators: name: Boatright, Robert G.
Publisher: name: Spazio Filosofico
Year: 2017

description: Recent elections in Western democracies have brought into question the relationship between electoral mechanisms and democracy. I argue that while democratic impulses can be identified in political systems where elections either do not take place or are flawed, such impulses cannot be measured and are therefore destined to become the subject of ideological contestation. When election do seem to produce undemocratic results, as has arguably been the case in the United States over the past decade, democratic narratives or “stories” can prevent further deterioration in the quality of democracy.
description: Spazio Filosofico, 19. Elezioni
Calibration through the Lens of Interpretability
Creators: name: Torabian, Alireza
name: Urner, Ruth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Calibration is a frequently invoked concept when useful label probability estimates are required on top of classification accuracy. A calibrated model is a function whose values correctly reflect underlying label probabilities. Calibration in itself however does not imply classification accuracy, nor human interpretable estimates, nor is it straightforward to verify calibration from finite data. There is a plethora of evaluation metrics (and loss functions) that each assess a specific aspect of a calibration model. In this work, we initiate an axiomatic study of the notion of calibration. We catalogue desirable properties of calibrated models as well as corresponding evaluation metrics and analyze their feasibility and correspondences. We complement this analysis with an empirical evaluation, comparing common calibration methods to employing a simple, interpretable decision tree.
description: Published in XAI 2024