cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Development of Non-resonant Multiphoton Photoacoustic Methodology  for Two-photon Cross-section Measurements and a Fiber Optic Probe for Remote Analysis
Creators: name: Kiser, John B.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2007
Subjects: Multiphoton
Photoacoustic
two-photon
cross-section
Chemistry, Analytical (0486)

description: Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) is an advanced stage astrosytoma originating from glial cells.  The primary physiological feature that separates GBM from less advanced gliomas are microscopic projections that penetrate into the surrounding parenchyma.  These microscopic ""finger-like"" projections are difficult to resolve using commercially available imaging techniques and are often missed during surgical resection.  The incomplete surgical removal of these projections can lead to tumor re-occurrence and consequently a high mortality rate. In order to increase the success rate of surgical resection, i.e. more complete removal, a novel spectroscopic technique known as non-resonant multiphoton photoacoustic spectroscopy (NMPPAS) is being developed in our laboratory.  NMPPAS has shown the potential to differentiate cancerous from non-cancerous tissues based on endogenous chemical differences.  In this technique a tunable, pulsed laser is used to optically excite endogenous biochemical species via a two-photon excitation event using radiation in the 700 nm and 1100 nm optical diagnostic window.  Once the biochemical species have been optically excited, the resulting non-radiative relaxation is measured using a contact piezoelectric ultrasonic detector.  Currently a NMPPAS fiber optic probe is being developed to transition this technique from the laboratory to animal studies and eventually clinical trials.  This thesis will show the characterization and optimization of the necessary components of this NMPPAS probe; as well as, demonstrate this technique for the determination two-photon cross-sections.  This cross-section work will aid in the deconvolution of the complex tissue spectra obtained during future tissue analysis.
title: Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis
Creators: name: Vilas Boas, Filipa
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Chest imaging
subject: Lung
subject: Thorax
subject: CT
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 31-year-old female teacher, non-smoker, with no relevant past medical history and HIV-negative, presented with a 3-month history of progressive dyspnoea and cough with minimal mucoid sputum. Physical examination revealed crackles in pulmonary auscultation, and the rest of the examination was unremarkable. Laboratory workup showed an elevated value of lactate dehydrogenase.

description: 31 years, female
Peculiar Width Dependence of the Electronic Property of Carbon Nanoribbons
Creators: name: Ezawa, Motohiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nanoribbons (nanographite ribbons) are carbon systems analogous to carbon nanotubes. We characterize a wide class of nanoribbons by a set of two integers $$, and then define the width $w$ in terms of $p$ and $q$. Electronic properties are explored for this class of nanoribbons. Zigzag (armchair) nanoribbons have similar electronic properties to armchair (zigzag) nanotubes. The band gap structure of nanoribbons exhibits a valley structure with stream-like sequences of metallic or almost metallic nanoribbons. These sequences correspond to equi-width curves indexed by $w$. We reveal a peculiar dependence of the electronic property of nanoribbons on the width $w$.
description: 8 pages, 13 figures
title: Prostatomegaly - How big can it get?
Creators: name: Vieites Branco, Inês
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Uroradiology & genital male imaging
subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 73-year-old male patient presented to the emergency department with macroscopic haematuria lasting for two weeks and urinary obstructive symptoms.  
On digital rectal examination there were no suspicious findings for malignancy. Laboratory tests revealed an elevated serous prostate-specific antigen (PSA) of 12.26 ng/mL.

description: 73 years, male
On The Class Group of a Graded Domain
Creators: name: Baghdadi, S. El
name: Izelgue, L.
name: Kabbaj, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13C20; 13A02; 13F05; 13B22

description: This paper studies the class group of graded integral domains. As an application, we state a decomposition theorem for class groups of semigroup rings. This recovers well-known results developed for the classic contexts of polynomial rings and Krull semigroup rings. Our results are backed by original examples.
description: 17 pages
Dexamethasone suppression test versus selective ovarian and adrenal vein catheterization in identifying virilizing tumors in postmenopausal hyperandrogenism – a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Tng, Eng-Loon
name: Tan, Jeanne May-May
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The diagnostic accuracy of tests in identifying virilizing tumors in postmenopausal hyperandrogenism is limited. This systematic review compares the dexamethasone suppression test against selective ovarian and adrenal vein sampling of androgens in distinguishing neoplastic from non-neoplastic causes of postmenopausal hyperandrogenism. Diagnostic test accuracy studies on these index tests in postmenopausal women were selected based on pre-established criteria. The true positive, false positive, false negative, and true negative values were extracted and meta-analysis was conducted using the hierarchical summary receiver operator characteristics curve method. The summary sensitivity of the dexamethasone suppression test is 100% (95% CI 0–100%) and that for selective venous sampling is 100% (95% CI 0–100%). The summary specificity of the dexamethasone suppression test is 89.2% (95% CI 85.3–92.2%) and that for selective venous sampling is 100% (95% CI 0.3–100%). There is limited evidence for the use of dexamethasone suppression test or selective venous sampling in identifying virilizing tumors in postmenopausal hyperandrogenism.
Looking Beyond the Surface: History, Memory and Place in the Lost Cotton Mill Town of Daniels, Maryland
Creators: name: Bradley, Jaime Marie
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2008
Subjects: Alberton
Daniels, Maryland
Elysville
Memory Studies
Public History

description: The limited historical records, vibrant oral traditions, and material culture remains of a small cotton mill town in the Patapsco Valley provide the opportunity to engage in a case study for exploring public history praxis within the varying frameworks of history, memory and place, while seeking to understand the dynamics of nostalgia within its dispersed group of former residents.  This case study thus contemplates how the history of Daniels, Maryland can be filled with hardship, loss, and misfortune; yet, the memories of the former workers and residents demonstrate what appears as an incongruously affectionate nostalgia.  The lack of an official history for the town, the dynamics of collected memory and the events surrounding the closing of the town begin to elucidate how history is constructed, how memory evolves, and how place speaks its own.
title: Chronic Morel-Lavallée lesion in gluteal region
Creators: name: Jain, Samruddhi Vijay
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Anatomy
subject: MR
subject: Abscess
subject: Inflammation
subject: Ischaemia / Infarction
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 40-year-old female patient came with complaint of swelling in the right gluteal region for 1-2 months. There was no history of acute trauma; however, she had a history of a fall and injury in the right hip region two years before. She had experienced pain for a few days but did not seek medical advice.

description: 40 years, female
Anodic Oxidation of Epitaxial Superconductor-Semiconductor Hybrids
Creators: name: Drachmann, Asbjørn C. C.
name: Diaz, Rosa E.
name: Thomas, Candice
name: Suominen, Henri J.
name: Whiticar, Alexander M.
name: Fornieri, Antonio
name: Gronin, Sergei
name: Wang, Tiantian
name: Gardner, Geoffrey C.
name: Hamilton, Alex R.
name: Nichele, Fabrizio
name: Manfra, Michael J.
name: Marcus, Charles M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate a new fabrication process for hybrid semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures based on anodic oxidation (AO), allowing controlled thinning of epitaxial Al films. Structural and transport studies of oxidized epitaxial Al films grown on insulating GaAs substrates reveal spatial non-uniformity and enhanced critical temperature and magnetic fields. Oxidation of epitaxial Al on hybrid InAs heterostructures with a conducting quantum well show similarly enhanced superconducting properties transferred to the two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) by proximity effect, with critical perpendicular magnetic fields up to 3.5 T. An insulating AlOx film, that passivates the heterostructure from exposure to air, is obtained by complete oxidation of the Al. It simultaneously removes the need to strip Al which damages the underlying semiconductor. AO passivation yielded 2DEG mobilities two times higher than similar devices with Al removed by wet etching. An AO-passivated Hall bar showed quantum Hall features emerging at a transverse field of 2.5 T, below the critical transverse field of thinned films, eventually allowing transparent coupling of quantum Hall effect and superconductivity. AO thinning and passivation are compatible with standard lithographic techniques, giving lateral resolution below <50 nm. We demonstrate local patterning of AO by realizing a semiconductor-based Josephson junction operating up to 0.3 T perpendicular.
title: Lymphocoele of the thoracic duct presenting as a cystic lesion on the left supraclavicular fossa
Creators: name: Oliveira, João Diogo
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Head & neck imaging
subject: Head and neck
subject: Mediastinum
subject: Trauma
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Dilatation
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: 45-year-old Guinean women, with a left supraclavicular tumefaction, associated with cervicalgia, cervical stiffness and limited cervical mobilisation on all planes for 3 years, following a car accident with whiplash injury. Physical examination showed a soft, unpainful, non-pulsatile left supraclavicular lump. Laboratory examinations were unremarkable.

description: 45 years, female
Extended Reality (XR) Remote Research: a Survey of Drawbacks and Opportunities
Creators: name: Ratcliffe, Jack
name: Soave, Francesco
name: Bryan-Kinns, Nick
name: Tokarchuk, Laurissa
name: Farkhatdinov, Ildar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Extended Reality (XR) technology - such as virtual and augmented reality - is now widely used in Human Computer Interaction (HCI), social science and psychology experimentation. However, these experiments are predominantly deployed in-lab with a co-present researcher. Remote experiments, without co-present researchers, have not flourished, despite the success of remote approaches for non-XR investigations. This paper summarises findings from a 30-item survey of 46 XR researchers to understand perceived limitations and benefits of remote XR experimentation. Our thematic analysis identifies concerns common with non-XR remote research, such as participant recruitment, as well as XR-specific issues, including safety and hardware variability. We identify potential positive affordances of XR technology, including leveraging data collection functionalities builtin to HMDs (e.g. hand, gaze tracking) and the portability and reproducibility of an experimental setting. We suggest that XR technology could be conceptualised as an interactive technology and a capable data-collection device suited for remote experimentation.
title: Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma mimicking a peripheral nerve sheath tumour
Creators: name: Auban Pariente, Rocio
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Haematologic
subject: Head and neck
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Lymphoma
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 62-year-old woman with no significant past medical history presented with a large, painless left supraclavicular lump. It had grown in the course of 5 weeks and at physical examination it was firm and apparently fixed to the deep planes. An ultrasound was performed.

description: 62 years, female
Aberrant expression of BAX, MEG3, and miR-214-3P genes in recurrent pregnancy loss
Creators: name: Al-Rubaye, Saja
name: Ghaderian, Sayyed Mohammad Hossein
name: Salehpour, Saghar
name: Salmani, Tayyebali
name: Vojdani, Samaneh
name: Yaseen, Rusul
name: Akbarzadeh, Reza
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL), with unknown causes, is one of the most common challenges facing pregnancy. Apoptotic signaling pathways are involved in the normal and abnormal pregnancy process. Despite the evidence pointing toward the aberrant expression of apoptotic and apoptotic-related genes in pregnancy complications, the involvement of these genes in RPL remains to be elucidated. This study aimed to investigate the expression levels of BAX, MEG3, and miR-214-3p (as a microRNA), and their associations in an Iranian population. Following the extraction of RNA from blood samples of RPL patients and controls, quantitative expression levels of BAX, MEG3, and miR-214-3p genes were analyzed by real-time RT-PCR. The findings showed that the expression levels of BAX and miRNA-214-3p were significantly higher in the blood samples of RPL patients than in control samples. In contrast, the expression of MEG3 was significantly down-regulated in women RPL. Furthermore, altered expressions of MEG3 and miRNA-214-3p are associated with their target gene BAX, where the BAX expression is positively and negatively correlated with the expressions of has-miR-214-3P and MEG3, respectively. ROC curve evaluation demonstrated the highest specificity and diagnostic value for miR-214-3p expression in distinguishing RPL samples from the healthy controls. These data indicated that the aberrant expression of BAX, MEG3, miRNA-214-3p genes in RPL patients could provide new insights into the biological characteristics and related pathways of differentially expressed genes, which could help as potential diagnostic biomarkers and a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms of RPL.
Semi-classical formula beyond the Ehrenfest time in quantum chaos. (I) Trace formula
Creators: name: Faure, Frederic
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a nonlinear area preserving Anosov map M on the torus phase space, which is the simplest example of a fully chaotic dynamics. We are interested in the quantum dynamics for long time, generated by the unitary quantum propagator Mq. The usual semi-classical Trace formula expresses Tr(Mq^t) for finite time t, in the limit hbar->0, in terms of periodic orbits of M of period t. Recent work reach time t<< tE/6 where tE=log(1/hbar)/lambda is the Ehrenfest time, and lambda is the Lyapounov coefficient. Using a semi-classical normal form description of the dynamics uniformly over phase space, we show how to extend the trace formula for longer time of the form t= C.tE where C is any constant, with an arbitrary small error.
description: 55 pages
Successful fertility restoration in male-sterile barnase line by optimal expression of barstar gene for hybrid-rice seed production
Creators: name: Kumar, Pravin
name: Purty, Ram Singh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: The basic requirement for the barnase-barstar-based hybrid-seed production technology is the availability of stable male-sterile barnase and restorer barstar lines. Development of two rice (Oryza sativa) male-sterile barnase lines has been earlier reported from our lab. Complete restoration of male fertility in transgenic male-sterile lines has always been a challenging task for molecular breeders. In the present study, we have reported the successful fertility restoration in male-sterile barnase lines using barstar restorer lines generated through two completely different tapetum-specific promoters. The barstar lines were not able to restore male fertility in one barnase line but did restore it in the other barnase line. The male-sterile barnase line and its corresponding restorer line could be diversified into appropriate combiners for heterosis rice breeding.
The application of HEXS and HERFD XANES for accurate structural characterization of actinide nanomaterials: application to ThO2
Creators: name: Amidani, Lucia
name: Vaughan, Gavin B. M.
name: Plakhova, Tatiana V.
name: Romanchuk, Anna Yu.
name: Gerber, Evgeny
name: Svetogorov, Roman
name: Weiss, Stephan
name: Joly, Yves
name: Kalmykov, Stephan N.
name: Kvashnina, Kristina O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Structural characterization of actinide nanoparticles (NPs) is of primary importance and hard to achieve, especially for non-homogeneous samples with NPs below 3 nm. By combining High Energy X-ray Scattering (HEXS) and High-Energy-Resolution Fluorescence Detected X-ray Near-Edge Structure (HERFD XANES), we characterized for the first time both short- and medium-range order of ThO2 NPs obtained by chemical precipitation. With this methodology, a novel insight into the structure of NPs at different steps of their formation process is achieved. The Pair Distribution Function (PDF) reveals a high concentration of ThO2 small units similar to Th hexamer clusters mixed with 1 nm ThO2 NPs in the initial steps of formation. Drying the precipitates at 150 C promotes recrystallization of the smallest units into more thermodynamically stable ThO2 NPs. HERFD XANES at Th M4 edge, a direct probe of the f states, shows variations that we correlate to the break of the local symmetry around Th atoms, which most likely concerns surface atoms. Together, HEXS and HERFD are a powerful methodology to investigate actinide NPs and their formation mechanism.
Die Taufe zwischen Dogmatik und post-säkularer Praxis: Spannungen - Anstöße - ökumenische Herausforderungen
Creators: name: Pemsel-Maier, Sabine
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 68 Nr. 4 (2019): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 68, Heft 4
title: An unusual cystic liver lesion (ECR 2019 Case of the Day)
Creators: name: Erkan, Burcu
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Abdominal imaging
subject: Abdomen
subject: Liver
subject: MR
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 69-year-old female patient with suspicion of cystic echinococcus recurrence in the liver with segmental biliary obstruction presented to the ER with cholestasis, leukocytosis and elevated CRP. She received a partial cystectomy and drainage operation for a liver cyst located in the left lateral segment 9 years ago. 

description: 69 years, female
Copper(I) chloride and copper(I) cyanide-mediated transformations of alkenlytrialkylstannanes
Creators: name: McEachern, Ernest J.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: A new synthetic method, involving the copper(I) mediated intramolecular conjugate addition of alkenyltrimethylstannanes to α,(β-unsaturated ketones, has been developed. Alkylated vinylogous esters of general structure 338 were prepared from vinylogous ester 120 and allylic bromide 128; these compounds were readily transformed via either reduction or Grignard addition, followed by hydrolysis and dehydration, into enones of general structure 150. Upon treatment with 2.5 equiv of CuCl in DMF, these enones afforded the functionalized bicyclo[4.3.0]non-8-en-3-ones having general structure 151. Enones 150 possessing sterically bulky R² groups gave poor yields when cyclized with CuCl; however, the use of CuCN in DMSO ameliorated this problem and produced superior results. Using a similar procedure, enones of general structure 46 were prepared from 189 (R³ = H or Me) and Afunctional reagents of general structure 190. Upon treatment with 2.5 equiv of CuCN in DMSO, enones 46 were converted into the corresponding bicyclic compounds 47. Subsequent intramolecular alkylation with potassium tert-butoxide in DMSO afforded the tricyclic ketones having general structure 48. Particularly noteworthy was the synthesis by this method of ketone 244, which possesses three contiguous quaternary centres. Using analogous procedures, dienones 251 and 51 were prepared from 120 and alkylating agents 128 and 190 via sequential bis-alkylation, reduction, hydrolysis/dehydration and dehydrogenation. Under the same conditions as described above (CuCN, DMSO), these substrates underwent one-pot tandem conjugate addition reactions to give tricyclic compounds 269 and 52, respectively. Interestingly, when cyclization of 251 was conducted in a sealed tube, the bridged structure 288 was formed as the major product. Treatment of chloro ketones 52 (n = 1, 2) with t-BuOK in DMSO resulted in tandem intramolecular alkylations to provide the pentacyclic compounds of general structure 53; similar attempts to cyclize 52 (n = 3) gave complex mixtures. A new, stereospecific CuCl-mediated intermolecular oxidative coupling reaction of alkenyltrialkylstannanes was also discovered, whereby (E)- and (Z)-3-trimethylstannylalk-2- enoates (90 and 92) as well as alkenylstannanes 365 were converted into conjugated dienes of general structure 91, 93, and 366, respectively, by treatment with 2.5 equiv of CuCl in DMF. New methods were also developed for the conversion of alkyl (Z)- and (E)-2,3- bis(trimethylstannyl)alk-2-enoates (102 and 103, respectively) into the E and Z isomers of the corresponding alkyl 3-trimethylstannylalk-2-enoates (90 and 92, respectively). Treatment of 102 with a catalytic amount of CuCl in DMF/H₂O afforded stereoselectively the E alkenoates 90, whereas treating either 102 or 103 with 1.2 equiv of IN aqueous HC1 in DMF afforded primarily the Z isomers 92. [chemical compound diagrams]
Association of breastfeeding duration with carotid intima-media thickness in later life: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Pérez-Roncero, Gonzalo R.
name: López-Baena, María T.
name: Sánchez-Prieto, Manuel
name: Chedraui, Peter
name: Pérez-López, Faustino R.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer

description: To assess the relationship of breastfeeding duration with maternal ultrasound carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) in later life. PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Embase, and Cochrane Central database searching up to December 15, 2020, for eligible studies that reported on the breastfeeding duration and ultrasound measurement of CIMT in later life. The exposed group corresponded to breastfeeding duration ≥ 6 months whereas the control group was women with breastfeeding of shorter duration or nil breastfeeding. The methodological quality of reviewed articles was appraised using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS). Results are reported as the mean difference (MD) or the standardized MD (SMD) and their 95% confidence intervals (CIs). The study was registered in the PROSPERO database. Of 532 unique studies, three studies met inclusion criteria including 1721 women with a mean age ranging between 36.6 ± 6.9 and 55.7 ± 5.3 years, comparing breastfeeding duration ≥ 6 months versus 1–5 months (NOS: 7–8). Common CIMT was lower in women who breastfed for a longer duration (SMD = −0.10, 95% CI −0.20 to −0.00). Circulating HDL-cholesterol was higher in women with longer breastfeeding duration (MD = 3.25, 95% CI 0.88–5.61). There were no significant differences for total cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, triglycerides, glucose, and blood pressure between breastfeeding 6 or more months and the control group. The available studies showed lower CIMT and higher HDL-cholesterol levels in women who breastfed for 6 or more months as compared to controls.
Political Prophecy in Tudor England
Creators: name: Ding, Jessica
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2010
Subjects: Elizabeth Barton
Magic
Political Prophecy
Reformation
Treason Act of 1534
Tudor England

description: Rupert Taylor defined political prophecies as any expression of thought, written or spoken, in which an attempt is made to foretell coming events of a political nature. Using Taylor's definition, this thesis examines how non-biblical prophecies affected the political culture of Tudor England. In particular, this paper examines the relationship between prophecy and three social groups: the clergy, nobility, and commoners. Tudor monarchs used prophecies when they supported their reigns, but banned prophecies when they were used to undermine their power. If prophecies, spoken or written, were so dangerous, this thesis asks why did people feel compelled to spread them? An examination of a wide variety of sources, including plays, pamphlets, and court cases reveals the clergy used prophecy to fight back against the Reformation, the nobility used prophecy to further their political goals, and the commoners used prophecy to claim a political voice.
title: Bilateral subcondylar fracture with medial dislocation
Creators: name: Lopez, Jose Alberto
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Bones
subject: Head and neck
subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Trauma
subject: CT
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 19-year-old female patient presented at the Emergency Department due to cranioencephalic trauma with nausea, vomiting and facial pain. No loss of consciousness was reported.

description: 19 years, female
The Characterization of Carbon Nanotube Infused Glass Fibers by Single Filament Fragmentation Test Methods
Creators: name: Roach, Andrew Michael
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013
Subjects: carbon
fragmentation
nanotube
photoelasticity

description: Single filament fragmentation tests were completed for individual glass fibers with varying surface treatments and carbon nanostructure infusions.  Fiber fragmentation was analyzed by embedding a single filament into a standard tensile interface, which provided shear stress transfer between a conventional epoxy resin system and the constituent filament.  Established single filament fragmentation techniques were used to characterize fiber and interface properties.  A novel method of comparing fibers is introduced by correlating bundle tow test results to fiber fragmentation critical length data to qualitatively relate fiber performance.  Photoelastic birefringent stress fringes were processed at select fiber fragmentation locations to further characterize the fiber-resin, or fiber-carbon nanostructure-resin, interface.  Overall, the performance matrix qualitative comparison method, coupled with stress fringe analysis, proved to be an effective means of qualitatively evaluating fiber and processing parameters, and efficiently identifies the most fruitful path forward for optimized fiber development.
Exploring Design and Governance Challenges in the Development of Privacy-Preserving Computation
Creators: name: Agrawal, Nitin
name: Binns, Reuben
name: Van Kleek, Max
name: Laine, Kim
name: Shadbolt, Nigel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Homomorphic encryption, secure multi-party computation, and differential privacy are part of an emerging class of Privacy Enhancing Technologies which share a common promise: to preserve privacy whilst also obtaining the benefits of computational analysis. Due to their relative novelty, complexity, and opacity, these technologies provoke a variety of novel questions for design and governance. We interviewed researchers, developers, industry leaders, policymakers, and designers involved in their deployment to explore motivations, expectations, perceived opportunities and barriers to adoption. This provided insight into several pertinent challenges facing the adoption of these technologies, including: how they might make a nebulous concept like privacy computationally tractable; how to make them more usable by developers; and how they could be explained and made accountable to stakeholders and wider society. We conclude with implications for the development, deployment, and responsible governance of these privacy-preserving computation techniques.
Poetry and transformation : the Cistercians (1125-1225)
Creators: name: Noell, Brian Robert
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 1905
Subjects: Cistercian Order, poetry, history, Middle Ages, monks

description: This thesis examines the production and reception of poetry in the Cistercian Order during the High Middle Ages. Its purpose is to clarify the predominant concerns of this monastic community during the first century of its existence. The investigation is undergirded by relevance theory. This linguistic hypothesis stipulates that a written work must yield significant information regarding the reader's own circumstances to be worthy  of interpreting. Poetic works have a special need to relate to the audience's context because they require more interpretive effort than prose texts. Thus, if poetic authors want to be read they must address issues important to their readers. If this is true, one can assert that verse was an important gauge of Cistercian interests in the time period in which it was produced. Study of poetic texts and their contexts reveals that both the form and the function of the poetic genre varied according to the issues that monks faced in their times. Interestingly, while Cistercian monks were fitting poetic works to their particular needs, monastic leaders struggled to regulate production of verse. Yet, because poetic literature was a particularly effective device for communicating and facilitating the distinctive values of the Cistercian Order, even the most draconian legislation against verse was only selectively enforced. Instead of a decline in versification following a complete ban in 1199, the succeeding quarter century saw an increase in poetic production in Cistercian houses as monastic poets continued to celebrate the ideals of their order in verse.
title: Small bowel obstruction due to gallstone ileus
Creators: name: Bhatt, Naveen
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Abdominal imaging
subject: Abdomen
subject: CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Fistula
subject: Obstruction / Occlusion
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 65-year-old lady presented with abdominal pain. The symptoms started 24 hours ago and gradually got worse leading to A&E presentation.
She had a medical history of breast cancer treatment with curative intent for stage 1 diagnosis. There was no other significant past medical history.

description: 75 years, female
Synthesis and Design Automation of Rigid Body and Compliant Mechanisms
Creators: name: Yue, Cong
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2012
Subjects: compliant mechanism
design automation
rigid body mechanism
synthesis theory

description: This dissertation presents a set of design tools and approaches for synthesis of both rigid body and compliant mechanisms. The research goal is to achieve design automation for articulated mechanical systems. It is comprised of two parts. The focus of the first part is on synthesis and design of planar rigid body linkages for path generation problems. The solution approach includes an off-line linkage library and the on-line computer aided design framework. The former introduces curve characterization, type-P Fourier descriptor normalization that a digital library that characterizes the motion curves of variety of planar linkages. And the latter brings a new computer-aided linkage design and simulation system that integrates a curve matching algorithm and design optimization routines. This computer-aided design system is built to achieve design automation and interactive design. To enable the design automation framework, first a pre-built library of open and closed planar curves is generated according to commonly used planar linkages. Then the classical linkage path generation problem is translated into a database-searching problem together with a local optimization problem, which embeds a rapid search algorithm that compares the Fourier descriptors of the task path against those of the linkage samples in the library, and retrieves a design candidate from them. To enable the interactive design framework, a set of design interfaces are implemented that facilitate designers intervene and steer the design process. The second part of this dissertation focuses on type synthesis of compliant mechanisms with screw theory. Here a systematic synthesis procedure for flexure elements and general compliant mechanisms is proposed. In this approach, we first categorize a list of commonly used atomic flexure primitives, and through which, basic R-joints and P-joints that allow a single rotation or a single translation are defined. By using parallel structures of these flexure primitives, eleven designs of R-joints and eight designs of P-joints are systematically synthesized. In contract to freedom elements, we synthesize serial chains of flexure primitives and obtained six designs of P-constraints and three designs of R-constraints. These freedom and constraint elements are basic building blocks for designing more complex flexure mechanisms. To demonstrate our theory, hybrid structures with a serial and parallel combination of compliant elements are designed, and also parallel compliant mechanisms with three translational degrees of freedom are synthesized.
title: Bilateral adrenal haematomas
Creators: name: Adri, Daniel
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Uroradiology & genital male imaging
subject: Abdomen
subject: CT
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: 47-year-old male patient was referred to our institution due to polytrauma. Abdominal ultrasound (US) was requested and showed abdominal fluid. Consequently, abdominal multi-slice computed tomography (MSCT) was performed, which confirmed the presence of the free intraabdominal fluid and spontaneously hyperdense ovoid masses in both adrenal glands.

description: 47 years, male
Quantitative analysis of electronic transport through weakly-coupled metal/organic interfaces
Creators: name: Molinari, A. S.
name: Lezama, I. Gutierrez
name: Parisse, P.
name: Takenobu, T.
name: Iwasa, Y.
name: Morpurgo, A. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using single-crystal transistors, we have performed a systematic experimental study of electronic transport through oxidized copper/rubrene interfaces as a function of temperature and bias. We find that the measurements can be reproduced quantitatively in terms of the thermionic emission theory for Schottky diodes, if the effect of the bias-induced barrier lowering is included. Our analysis emphasizes the role of the coupling between metal and molecules, which in our devices is weak due to the presence of an oxide layer at the surface of the copper electrodes.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
DEP Bulletin - 2025 - Volume 49 Issue 7
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2025

description: The DEP bulletin is a semi-monthly publication of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. It contains a list of construction permit applications recently filed or acted upon by the Department along with a calendar of events of interest, a schedule of public hearings, and Environmental Impact Statements acted upon during the period.
On the luminosity-redshift relation in brane-worlds with cosmological constant
Creators: name: Nagy, Botond
name: Keresztes, Zoltán
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we calculate the luminosity distance - redshift relation for a special type of flat Friedmann brane with cosmological constant. This special case is singled out by its simplicity, the luminosity distance being given in terms of elementary functions. We compare our analytical result with the expresssion of the luminosity distance for the flat Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) universe and discuss the differences.
description: 7 pages, to appear in the Proceedings of the FIKUT4 Conference, Publications of the Astronomy Department of E\"{o}tv\"{o}s University, PADEU vol. 17 (2006)
Adropin levels and its associations as a fat-burning hormone in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome: a correlational meta-analysis
Creators: name: Varikasuvu, Seshadri Reddy
name: Reddy, E. Prabhakar
name: Thangappazham, Balachandar
name: Varshney, Saurabh
name: Das, Vanita Lal
name: Munikumar, Manne
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Adropin is a peptide hormone with potential implications in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). The aim of this meta-analysis was to compare the circulating (serum/plasma) and follicular fluid adropin levels between human PCOS patients and non-PCOS controls. Relevant studies were retrieved by online database and manual searching. The standardized mean differences (SMDs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were obtained by a random-effects meta-analysis. Meta-analysis of correlations was performed for the associations of adropin with anthropometric, lipid, insulin resistance and hormonal covariates. The funnel plot analysis with Begg’s and Egger’s tests was used for publication bias. A total of 9 studies were included in this meta-analysis. The results indicated that the adropin levels were significantly decreased in PCOS patients as compared to non-PCOS controls (SMD = −1.87, 95% CI = −2.55 to −1.18, p p Adropin levels are significantly reduced in PCOS patients compared to controls, and this decrease was more evident in overweight PCOS patients.
Plantation Overseers and Their World: The Stereotype, Life, and Image
Creators: name: Webber, Robert Wayne
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2008
Subjects: Overseers
overseer
stereotype
plantation manager
History, United States (0337)

description: Overseers have seldom been the focus of historical scholarship.  Although mentioned occasionally by historians of the elite planter class and slavery, these historians often only distort the overseers' image, and a negative stereotype has overshadowed the image of all overseers.  With a review of period literature such as novels, slave narratives, and newspapers, one can begin to trace the origins of the ""bad overseer"" image.  The plantation records of Robert Ruffin Barrow, Walter Wade, Benjamin Covington Wailes, Charles Manigault, and James K. Polk reveal that the ""bad overseer"" image does not fully explain the lives and character of all overseers.  Overseers were essential to the plantation operations in the South.  The stereotype of the ""bad overseer"" does not tell the whole story.  Overseers were a mixed lot and there were a variety of overseers.  They differed in character, length of tenure, skill, and ability.  It seems then that the image of the ""bad overseer"" serves a function for both the historians of slavery and the elite planter class.  Overseers are scapegoats for all of the wrongdoing in the South.  From cruelty, immorality, to crop failures, and other plantation failures, overseer's shouldered the blame for everything.  The ""bad overseer"" stereotype diverts attention away from the truth in Southern history and it portrays overseers inaccurately.  What is important to note is that overseers were a mixed lot.  Our understanding of the overseeing profession and the men in it cannot be determined by generalizations and stereotype.
Coordinate transitivity of extended perfect codes and their SQS
Creators: name: Mogilnykh, I. Yu.
name: Solov'eva, F. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We continue the study of the class of binary extended perfect propelinear codes constructed in the previous paper and consider their permutation automorphism (symmetry) groups and Steiner quadruple systems. We show that the automorphism group of the SQS of any such code coincides with the permutation automorphism group of the code. In particular, the SQS of these codes are complete invariants for the isomorphism classes of these codes. We obtain a criterion for the point transitivity of the automorphism group of SQS of proposed codes in terms of GL-equivalence (similar to EA-type equivalence for permutations of F^r). Based on these results we suggest a new construction for coordinate transitive and neighbor transitive extended perfect codes.
Operational Modal Analysis of a Rectangular Plate Using Non-contact Excitation and Measurement
Creators: name: Xu, Yongfeng
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013
Subjects: acoustic excitation
experimental modal analysis
in-plane vibration
model validation
operational modal analysis

description: This work presents a non-contact experimental technique for measuring modal parameters of a rectangular aluminum plate using only the output data. Operational modal analysis (OMA), or output-only modal analysis, has been widely used especially when the input is unknown and difficult to measure. OMA is used to analyze both the out-of-plane and in-plane vibrations of the plate in the frequency range of up to 15000 Hz under white noise acoustic excitation in a direction of interest. It is shown that OMA can be performed when the types of measurement at the measurement and reference points are different. A single-point laser vibrometer and a free-field microphone are used to simultaneously measure the responses of the plate in a non-contact manner, with the microphone measurement serving as the reference. The pressure measured by the microphone near the reference point is shown to be proportional to the normal surface acceleration at the reference point, and the cross power spectral densities obtained by the current test method can be used for modal parameter estimation. A method for measuring the in-plane modes of the plate by shining the laser beam on the plate surface with an incident angle is developed. Experimental modal analysis (EMA) is also performed on the plate using an impact hammer and the laser vibrometer. The measured natural frequencies and mode shapes of the out-of-plane and in-plane modes of the plate using OMA and EMA are compared well with those calculated using commercial finite element software.
A swollen phase observed between the liquid-crystalline phase and the interdigitated phase induced by pressure and/or adding ethanol in DPPC aqueous solution
Creators: name: Seto, H.
name: Hishida, M.
name: Nobutou, H.
name: Yamada, N. L.
name: Nagao, M.
name: Takeda, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A swollen phase, in which the mean repeat distance of lipid bilayers is larger than the other phases, is found between the liquid-crystalline phase and the interdigitated gel phase in DPPC aqueous solution. Temperature, pressure and ethanol concentration dependences of the structure were investigated by small-angle neutron scattering, and a bending rigidity of lipid bilayers was by neutron spin echo. The nature of the swollen phase is similar to the anomalous swelling reported previously. However, the temperature dependence of the mean repeat distance and the bending rigidity of lipid bilayers are different. This phase could be a precursor to the interdigitated gel phase induced by pressure and/or adding ethanol.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
Nation Building and Insurgency in Southeast Asia
Creators: name: Cullen, Martin Andrew
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2011
Subjects: British Colony
counterinsurgency
Insurgents
Malaya
Malayan Emergency
Southeast Asia

description: This study discusses the insurgency in Malaya from 1948 to 1989.  During this period, Malaya was an ethnically divided country.  The Malays sought to maintain their traditional position of power while the ethnic Chinese strove for equality.  The Malayan Communist Party (M.C.P.), whose members were mostly ethnic Chinese, led the insurgency.  The traditional account of the insurgency in Malaya began with the First Malayan Emergency from 1948 to 1960.  Historians and other authors have argued that the British military defeated the insurgents in 1960.  A second period of insurgency followed.  The Second Malayan Emergency began in 1969 and ended in 1989 with the signing of a truce.  This study shows that the insurgency did not end in 1960 and instead continued for 41 years from 1948 to 1989.  The argument in this study outlines the continuation of the insurgency through the political arm of the struggle.  In addition, this study examines the type of government in Malaya installed by the British government and the repressive legislation's that the Malayan government passed.  Some of the reasons for the repression by the British and Malayan governments were Orientalist attitudes, racism, and the misperception of Communism.  The British placed the Malays, in the form of the Sultans, in a position of power that allowed them to engage in repressive acts against the ethnic Chinese, which contributed to the start and continuation of the insurgency in Malay.