cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Non-linear macro evolution of a dc driven micro atmospheric glow discharge
Creators: name: Xu, Shaofeng
name: Zhong, Xiaoxia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We studied the macro evolution of the micro atmospheric glow discharge generated between a micro argon jet into ambient air and static water. The micro discharge behaves similarly to a complex ecosystem. Non-linear behaviors are found for the micro discharge when the water acts as a cathode, different from the discharge when water behaves as an anode. Groups of snapshots of the micro discharge formed at different discharge currents are captured by an intensified charge-coupled device with controlled exposure time, and each group consisted of 256 images taken in succession. Edge detection methods are used to identify the water surface and then the total brightness is defined by adding up the signal counts over the area of the micro discharge. Motions of the water surface at different discharge currents show that the water surface lowers increasingly rapidly when the water acts as a cathode. In contrast, the water surface lowers at a constant speed when the water behaves as an anode. The light curves are similar to logistic growth curves, suggesting that a self-inhibition process occurs in the micro discharge. Meanwhile, the total brightness increases linearly during the same time when the water acts as an anode. Discharge-water interactions cause the micro discharge to evolve. The charged particle bomb process is probably responsible for the different behavior of the micro discharges when the water acts as cathode and anode.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, accepted by physics of plasmas
A strong shallow heat source in the accreting neutron star MAXI J0556-332
Creators: name: Deibel, Alex
name: Cumming, Andrew
name: Brown, Edward F.
name: Page, Dany
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An accretion outburst in an X-ray transient deposits material onto the neutron star primary; this accumulation of matter induces reactions in the neutron star's crust. During the accretion outburst these reactions heat the crust out of thermal equilibrium with the core. When accretion halts, the crust cools to its long-term equilibrium temperature on observable timescales. Here we examine the accreting neutron star transient MAXI J0556-332, which is the hottest transient, at the start of quiescence, observed to date. Models of the quiescent light curve require a large deposition of heat in the shallow outer crust from an unknown source. The additional heat injected is $\approx 4\textrm{-}10\,\mathrm{MeV}$ per accreted nucleon; when the observed decline in accretion rate at the end of the outburst is accounted for, the required heating increases to $\approx 6\textrm{-}16\,\mathrm{MeV}$. This shallow heating is still required to fit the lightcurve even after taking into account a second accretion episode, uncertainties in distance, and different surface gravities. The amount of shallow heating is larger than that inferred for other neutron star transients and is larger than can be supplied by nuclear reactions or compositionally driven convection; but it is consistent with stored mechanical energy in the accretion disk. The high crust temperature ($T_b \gtrsim 10^{9} \, {\rm K}$) makes its cooling behavior in quiescence largely independent of the crust composition and envelope properties, so that future observations will probe the gravity of the source. Fits to the lightcurve disfavor the presence of Urca cooling pairs in the crust.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJL
title: Patient lifetime graphs as an aid to subsequent image interpretations
Creators: name: Vining, David
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: eHealth
subject: Computer applications
subject: Oncology
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: PET-CT
subject: Structured reporting
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Multidisciplinary cancer care
subject: Cancer
subject: Outcomes

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: A radiologist's access to prior medical datathat could aid duringimage interpretation is often hindered by the fact that radiology reports contain discontinuous information (Figure 2) [1]; furthermore, information relatedto surgery,chemotherapy, and...
title: Comparing the utility and usability of the Microsoft Kinect and Leap Motion sensor devices in the context of their application for gesture control of biomedical images
Creators: name: Hughes, Peter
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer applications
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: Technology assessment
subject: Equipment
subject: Computer Applications-General

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: The necessity to interact with medical images in the Operating Room (OR), along with the requirement to maintain asepsis has resulted in complex arrangements between scrubbed clinicians and non-scrubbed personnel when using traditional mouse and...
title: The impact of peer-review introduction on the subsequent publication rate and impact factor of presentations at national radiology meetings
Creators: name: Cahalane, Alexis
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer applications
subject: Absorptiometry / Bone densitometry
subject: Ablation procedures

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: To determine the effect of introducing peer-review prior to acceptance of presentations for national radiology meetings on their subsequent publication rate and impact...
D4.1 Pilot Plots Implementation
Creators: name: Basile, Boris
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The objective of the present deliverable is to describe (a) the different experimental parcels belonging to the three end-users involved in VITIGEOSS (Mastroberardino, Italy; Symington, Portugal; Torres, Spain) and (b) the experimental field activity that will be carried out to collect the data to be used for model calibration/training, fine-tuning and validation. The document will be structured as follows: The first section will be dedicated to describing separately the three viticultural areas where the pilot plots will be located (Catalonia, Spain; Douro Region, Portugal; Irpinia, Italy), describing in details the locations (estates) where the selected vineyard parcels are situated. The second section of the deliverable will provide a comprehensive description of the experimental designs that will be adopted to collect the data required to calibrate/train, fine-tune and validate all the models included in VITIGEOSS. Thus, this section will include: (a) information about the location of the vineyards, the parcel characteristics like vineyard size, orientation, age, uniformity, cultivar and soil texture and depth and the common sugar and acidity thresholds used as harvest criteria; (b) a list of the measurements that will carried out in the field and in the lab and will describe the protocols that will be adopted.
Methods for Identifying Research Gaps, Establishing Research Needs, and Determining Research Priorities
Creators: name: Wong, Eunice
name: Maher, Alicia
name: danz, marjorie
name: Ross, Rachel
name: Akinniranye, Olamigoke
name: Larkin, Jody
name: Hempel, Susanne
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: The objective is to conduct a scoping review of methods used for identifying research gaps, establishing research needs, and determining research prioritization.
The One Health Approach to Emerging Infectious Diseases: Ebola and the Animal Health Perspective
Creators: name: Gordon, Rebecca
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: The fundamental basis for the One Health concept is rooted in the interconnectedness of animal, human, and environmental health. Because of these complex linkages, supporters of One Health advocate that effective solutions to public health challenges require multi-disciplinary communication, collaboration, and coordination. The One Health concept dates back to the mid-19th century to Rudolph Virchow who understood the value of incorporating medicine and veterinary medicine into public health. He and other prominent scientists of the 19th and early 20th century championed the One Health approach, leading to scientific and medical breakthroughs that still benefit us today. After a quiescent period, the One Health concept underwent a rebirth as increasingly more frequent infectious disease outbreak events [i.e., severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), avian influenza, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), and West Nile virus] captured global attention and revealed vulnerabilities in preparedness and response methods to combat zoonotic and emerging infectious diseases. In the early 21st century, the One Health approach gained a foothold in the public health realm as a viable and feasible system to address challenges at the human-animal-environment interface. In 2014, when Ebola virus disease struck the United States (US), the public looked towards government agencies and health organizations to respond swiftly and appropriately. From the animal health perspective, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) responded by activating a departmental-level One Health task force to coordinate multi-agency response activities across various public health disciplines. The One Health approach is reviewed and evaluated for the feasibility of incorporating human, animal, and environmental health at the federal level; the degree of integration across multiple disciplines; and the ability of the response to improve and benefit overall health outcomes. The approach proved to be an effective mechanism for dealing with animal health-related components and provided valuable lessons learned for improving response mechanisms for future One Health events. With continued implementation and integration, the One Health approach is an attainable and beneficial method to combating zoonotic and emerging infectious diseases and other public health issues at the human-animal-environment interface.
Additional file 1 of Development and validation of the attitude towards Surrogacy Scale in a polish sample
Creators: name: Lutkiewicz, Karolina
name: Bieleninik, Łucja
name: Jurek, Paweł
name: Bidzan, Mariola
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table A1. Descriptive statistics, skewness and kurtosis for the ATSS initial versionitems. Table A2. CFA standardized loading coefficients and covariancesbetween factors - initial 4-factor model with the 24 items. Table A3. CFA standardized loading coefficients andcovariances between factors - finale 3-factor modelwith the 15 items.
Survey # 1683: Reader's Digest (Possession and Use)
Creators: name: Institut Fuer Demoskopie Allensbach
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2015

description: Private phone (1); bathroom (4); personal garden (2); standard of living (1); country would like to move to (2); education quality (1); age left school and started working (1); religious education influence on children (2); impression of young people (1); items in household (1); playing records (9); musical instruments (4); automobile ownership (3); holidays abroad (6); airlines (1); common European market (3); European trade (10); stove (1); who cooks in house (2); foreign foods (20); cooking fat (1); dish washing and detergents (8); salesmen (2); smoking habits (5); beverage preferences (18); eating at restaurants (3); items owned (6); foreign goods (22); country knew most about (1); description of Americans (15); description of Italians (15); newspapers and magazines read (1).
title: Future liver remnant volume estimation after portal vein embolisation and contralateral application of stem cells
Creators: name: Ludvík, Jaroslav
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Oncology
subject: Abdomen
subject: CT
subject: Catheter venography
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: Efficacy studies
subject: Embolisation

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: About 80% of liver tumours are primarily surgically inresectable commonly due to inadequate so called future liver remnant volume (FLRV) [1]. It is a well known fact for more then two decades that portal vein embolization (PVE) of right branch...
Trends in the allocation of U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation grades and the directionality of topic updates over time
Creators: name: Thompson, Garrett
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Background: The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has provided evidence-based recommendations to primary care clinicians on the use of preventive services for almost 30 years. In the past, the Task Force has been criticized for being too conservative in issuing recommendations in favor of the use of preventive services. Several recent criticisms, however, have focused on recommendations considered too liberal in the promotion of services. Objective: To identify trends in the overall allocation of recommendation grades and in the frequency of positive changes (i.e. the issuance of more favorable recommendations) and negative changes (i.e. the issuance of less favorable recommendations) made to recommendations when updating topics. Methods: All recommendations issued by the Task Force from January 1996 to June 2017 were collected. Point-based and categorization-based methods were used to evaluate the directionality of change for recommendations issued on updated topics. Results: The proportion of negative recommendations issued over the past several years has substantially decreased (to 10.1% of recommendations issued from 2013 to 2017 compared to 22.4% from 2006 to 2012 and 23.8% from 2001 to 2005), while the proportion of “I” statements has increased (to 46.1% from 2013 to 2017 compared to 33.7% from 2006 to 2012 and 36.6% from 2001 to 2005). The proportion of recommendations assigned positive letter grades has slightly increased over time (to 38.2% of recommendations issued from 2013 to 2017 compared to 36.7% from 2006 to 2012 and 33.7% from 2001 to 2005). Furthermore, negative changes (resulting in the decreased promotion and/or increased discouragement of preventive services) made to recommendations issued on updated topics have become less common over time (as assessed by two different methods). Conversely, positive changes (resulting in the increased promotion and/or decreased discouragement of preventive services) have become more common over the past several years. Finally, the Task Force has increasingly chosen not to update negative recommendations for previously evaluated interventions or populations (6 out of 8 of these dropped negative recommendations have occurred since 2013). Conclusions: Several potential factors may have contributed to the longitudinal changes in the issuance of Task Force recommendations observed in this study. These factors include changes in evidence for evaluated services, changes in the methodology for assigning recommendations, political pressures, the link between coverage policy and recommendations, and changes in the thresholds used to delineate recommendation grades. Further research is needed to assess the extent to which each of these factors has influenced the overall issuance of recommendations.
Video-based Cross-modal Auxiliary Network for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis
Creators: name: Chen, Rongfei
name: Zhou, Wenju
name: Li, Yang
name: Zhou, Huiyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Multimodal sentiment analysis has a wide range of applications due to its information complementarity in multimodal interactions. Previous works focus more on investigating efficient joint representations, but they rarely consider the insufficient unimodal features extraction and data redundancy of multimodal fusion. In this paper, a Video-based Cross-modal Auxiliary Network (VCAN) is proposed, which is comprised of an audio features map module and a cross-modal selection module. The first module is designed to substantially increase feature diversity in audio feature extraction, aiming to improve classification accuracy by providing more comprehensive acoustic representations. To empower the model to handle redundant visual features, the second module is addressed to efficiently filter the redundant visual frames during integrating audiovisual data. Moreover, a classifier group consisting of several image classification networks is introduced to predict sentiment polarities and emotion categories. Extensive experimental results on RAVDESS, CMU-MOSI, and CMU-MOSEI benchmarks indicate that VCAN is significantly superior to the state-of-the-art methods for improving the classification accuracy of multimodal sentiment analysis.
title: Η Αρχιτεκτονική των αισθήσεων
title: Sensory architecture
Creators: name: Βερροιοπουλου Κωνσταντινα
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2023

description: Στόχος της συγκεκριμένης ερευνητικής εργασίας είναι η διερεύνηση των ανθρώπινων αισθήσεων και ο ρόλος που έχουν στην αρχιτεκτονική. Ο τρόπος με τον οποίο ο άνθρωπος βιώνει την χωρική εμπειρία μέσα από τις αισθήσεις του και το πώς αυτό τον βοηθά να αντιληφθεί καλύτερα το περιβάλλον στο οποίο βρίσκεται και να προσανατολιστεί σε αυτό. Η επίτευξη του συγκεκριμένου στόχου γίνεται αρχικά μέσω της ανάλυσης των πέντε βασικών αισθήσεων ( όραση, ακοή, αφή, όσφρηση, γεύση) καθώς και μίας ακόμα, της κιναισθησίας, ή αλλιώς αίσθηση του μυός. Μετέπειτα ακολουθεί η μελέτη των «εργαλείων» σχεδίασης (φως, χρώμα, υλικά, κλίμακα- μορφή), που μπορεί να χρησιμοποιήσει ο αρχιτέκτονας για την σχεδίαση πολύ-αισθητηριακών χώρων, δηλαδή χώρων που διεγείρουν όλες τις αισθήσεις. Επιπλέον, στο 3ο κεφάλαιο, αφού έχουν αναλυθεί οι παραπάνω παράμετροι, μελετώνται τρία αρχιτεκτονικά παραδείγματα, Τα δωμάτια τσαγιού από την Ιαπωνική αρχιτεκτονική και κουλτούρα, τα Θερμά Λουτρά του αρχιτέκτονα Peter Zumthor και το Εβραϊκό Μουσείο, του Daniel Libeskind. Η ανάλυση της αισθητηριακής διάστασης σε αυτά τα τρία αρχιτεκτονήματα βασίζεται στον τρόπο με τον οποίο ο επισκέπτης βιώνει τον χώρο και αλληλεπιδρά με αυτόν και με βάση το πώς έχει επιλέξει ο αρχιτέκτονας να χρησιμοποιήσει τα παραπάνω αρχιτεκτονικά «εργαλεία». Τέλος, στο 4ο κεφάλαιο εισάγεται η παράμετρος απουσίας μιας βασικής αίσθησης, αυτή της όρασης αλλά και ο τρόπος με τον οποίο λειτουργούν όλες οι υπόλοιπες αισθήσεις με την απουσία της καθώς και ο ρόλος τους στην αρχιτεκτονική. Η ερευνητική εργασία, ολοκληρώνεται με την μελέτη του Hazelwood School, του αρχιτέκτονα Alan Dunlop, με σκοπό να αντιληφθούμε τον τρόπο σχεδίασης που χρησιμοποιείται ώστε ένας χώρος να απευθύνεται προς όλους τους ανθρώπους και πως οι αισθήσεις και τα αρχιτεκτονικά «εργαλεία» που προαναφέραμε έχουν την δυνατότητα να δημιουργήσουν χώρους προσβάσιμους που θα προσφέρουν ανεξαρτησία και άνεση σε όλους τους ανθρώπους.
Sensitivities of Prospective Future e+e- Colliders to Decoupled New Physics
Creators: name: Ellis, John
name: You, Tevong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the indirect sensitivities to decoupled new physics of prospective precision electroweak measurements, triple-gauge-coupling measurements and Higgs physics at future $e^+e^-$ colliders, with emphasis on the ILC250 and FCC-ee. The Standard Model effective field theory (SM EFT) is adopted as a model-independent approach for relating experimental precision projections to the scale of new physics, and we present prospective constraints on the Wilson coefficients of dimension-6 operators. We find that in a marginalised fit ILC250 EWPT measurements may be sensitive to new physics scales $Λ= \mathcal{O}(10)$~TeV, and FCC-ee EWPT measurements may be sensitive to $Λ= \mathcal{O}(30)$~TeV. The prospective sensitivities of Higgs and TGC measurements at the ILC250 (FCC-ee) are to $Λ= \mathcal{O}(1)$~TeV ($Λ= \mathcal{O}(2)$~TeV).
description: 19 pages
Aspicilia dimorphodes Hue 1910
Creators: name: Paukov, Alexander
name: Nordin, Anders
name: Roux, Claude
name: Moon, Kwang Hee
name: Davydov, Evgeny
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Dothideomycetes
Patellariales
Patellariaceae
Aspicilia
Aspicilia dimorphodes

description: Aspicilia dimorphodes Hue (1910: 31)
 Type (lectotype, designated here):— KOREA. Chemulpo, September 1906, R. P. Faurie 261 (LE L-7522!, isolectotype BM 001107808 [digital photograph!]).
 The type locality of this species is currently a built-up area of Incheon. Aspicilia dimorphodes was segregated by Hue on a basis of morphology of the thallus that consists of areolae of two types: the first are small and flattened and the second are enlarged and convex (Fig. 1C). The size of ascospores and conidia that had been provided by Hue (16–18 × 7–8 μm and 4–5 μm respectively) is smaller than we have got in our measurements (21.0) 22.5–[23.1]–23.6 (25.0) × (12.0) 12.9–[13.6]–14.3 (16.0) μm (n=10) and (8.0) 9.6–[9.8]–10.0 (11.0) μm (n=15) respectively). Abundant radiating black hyphae of Lichenothelia sp. on the thallus surface, which were mentioned by Hue, makes us sure that it is the same specimen that was studied by him. Enlarged areoles are not usual in Aspicilia intermutans but they might appear due to the parasite infection. In other aspects the thalli of Aspicilia dimorphodes are similar to those of A. intermutans.
description: Published as part of Paukov, Alexander, Nordin, Anders, Roux, Claude, Moon, Kwang Hee & Davydov, Evgeny, 2017, Lectotypification and synonymization of some Aspicilia species (Megasporaceae, Ascomycota) described by A. Hue from Korea and Japan, pp. 94-98 in Phytotaxa 291 (1) on page 95, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.291.1.10, http://zenodo.org/record/13698077
The Duke Hot-Spotting Initiative: Understanding the Role of Medical Students in Improving Patient Outcomes through a Relationship-Based Care Management Program
Creators: name: Thakkar, Aarti
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: AbstractBackground: In response to increasing healthcare costs in the United States, the Institute for HealthcareImprovement released the triple aim goals to inspire the creation of programs that would improve quality of care, overall health, and reduce costs simultaneously. Care-management programs are one such initiative that many sites are using to address patient needs. More recently, student-led care management initiatives have been introduced; however, there is limited evidence on the effectiveness of these programs for improving patient outcomes.Objective: The Duke Hot Spotting Initiative (DHSI) is a student-led program started in 2015 aimed at addressing health disparities and high health care costs through a relationship-based care management model. The purpose of this analysis is to examine the effect of the DHSI initiative on specific patient health and utilization outcomes.Methods: This is retrospective review of the past three phases of the DHSI program in Durham, North Carolina. Eligible DHSI patients were those enrolled in preexisting care-management programs at Duke Outpatient Clinic. Mean hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) and blood pressure readings were compared from the end of the 6-month pre-intervention period to the end of the 6-month intervention period and use as surrogates for type II diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and hypertension respectively. Emergency department (ED) utilization rates and no-show rates were also compared over this time period.Findings: Twenty-nine participants were included in this analysis. Mean hemoglobin A1c values decreased from 9.0 to 8.3 (p = 0.249) and systolic blood pressure (SBP) decreased from 142 to 137 mmHg (p = 0.494) ED utilization rates decreased by 20% (p = 0.970) while no-show rates increased by 20% (p = 0.239).Conclusions: These results demonstrate that student-led navigation under the supervision of a care manager has had a non-statistical yet clinically significant improvement in measures of HbA1c, SBP, and ED utilization rates. The enrollment of patients from previous care-management programs may diminish the full benefit that students have on patient outcomes. This analysis shows that such a model of care- management led by students is a promising strategy. Future studies could measure outcomes in a larger patient sample and also assess qualitative outcomes such as well-being and achievement of patient- specific health goals.
Systematic Scoping Review Protocol - Telencephalin in Brain Diseases
Creators: name: Schachter, Daniel
name: de Lacerda, Glenda
name: de Mendonça Lima, Joao
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biomarker
subject: Brain Diseases
subject: ICAM5
subject: Intercellular Adhesion Molecule 5
subject: Telencephalin

description: Systematic Scoping Review about Telencephalin (ICAM5) in brain diseases
The Role of Race in the Development of Atrial Fibrillation and Risk of Embolic Stroke: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Selzman, Kimberly Anne, M.D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Atrial fibrillation [AF], the most common arrhythmia in the United States, affects an estimated 2.2 million people in this country alone. The prevalence of AF grows incrementally with increasing age, and the majority of people living with AF are over the age of 65 years. For people less than 55 years old the prevalence is 0.1%, compared to an approximate 10% prevalence in people over the age of 80 years. The incidence of AF is also on the rise resulting in predictions for AF to affect 10 million Americans by the year 2050. This increase is likely due to the ongoing aging of the population and an increase in the prevalence of individuals in the community with one or more risk factors for developing AF. Along these same lines, people are now living longer with medical conditions such as diabetes mellitus and hypertension, which predispose individuals to developing AF. The trend of increased AF prevalence in the U.S. in recent years and the projected continued increase over the next few decades will raise AF to unprecedented levels. In fact, current projections based on data from the Framingham Heart Study put the lifetime risk for developing AF in this country at approximately 16% for individuals around 40 years of age, and up to 25% if there is a prior history of congestive heart failure or myocardial infarction. Several clinical risk factors have been linked to the development of AF, particularly advancing age which is associated with structural changes such as fibrosis in the heart that predispose older individuals to AF. In addition to age, other clinical risk factors for developing AF include male sex, cardiovascular risk factors such as hypertension and diabetes mellitus, and other cardiac conditions such as valvular heart disease, prior myocardial infarction, and congestive heart failure.4-6 Along with these traditional risk factors, more recently recognized risk factors such as obesity and sleep apnea have also been recognized. Echocardiography has also allowed detection of various validated cardiac structural risk factors such as left ventricular hypertrophy and increased left atrial size. Although race has never been considered a risk factor for developing AF, there is evidence to suggest that whites develop AF more than other racial groups out of proportion to the prevalence of the clinical risk factors mentioned here. As little is known about the interaction of race and AF, this paper seeks to review all relevant published data on race and AF.
title: Lateral patellar tilt: the best measurement to unmask patellar maltracking with weight-bearing MRI
Creators: name: Mariani, Silvia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: MR
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Motility

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: To prove that lateral patellar tilt (LPT), during weight-bearing (WB)-MRI, may unmask a patello-femoral maltracking with respect to...
Agricultural plastics as a potential threat of soil pollution by microplastics
Creators: name: Briassoulis, Demetres
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Agricultural Plastics
Soil Pollution
Microplastics
Nanoplastics

description: The dynamic expansion of Agricultural Plastics (AP) use has allowed for improved and sustainable agricultural production. The objective of this work is to analyse the relationship of AP characteristics, degradation, and End- of-Life (EoL) practices with the potential risk of micro-, nanoparticles (MNP) generation in soil.
title: Role of MDCT for evaluating prosthetic malrotation in patients with painful knee prosthesis
Creators: name: De Franco, Guelfo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: CT
subject: Computer Applications-General
subject: Prostheses

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: To evaluate the role of MDCT for evaluating malrotation in patients with painful knee...
On vector bundles for a Morse decomposition of $L({\mathbb{C}\mathrm{P}}^n)$
Creators: name: Ottosen, Iver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 55N91, 55P35, 57R20, 58E05

description: We give a description of the negative bundles for the energy integral on the free loop space $L{\mathbb{C}\mathrm{P}}^n$ in terms of circle vector bundles over projective Stiefel manifolds. We compute the mod $p$ Chern classes of the associated homotopy orbit bundles.
description: To appear in Math. Scand
IFOP Poll: Abortion and Contraception
Creators: name: Institut Francais D'Opinion Publique
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Agreement with political statements (14); legislative candidate preferences (1); political majority (2); majority descriptions (12); mock ballot (1); stocks held (1); legislation compared to social evolution (4); social issue leniency (4); abortion laws (4); justifying abortions (1); abortion Social Security reimbursement (1); human life beginning (1); abortion time limit (1); contraception (3); contraceptive parent permission (1); contraceptive Social Security reimbursement (1); agreement with contraceptive statements (3).
title: 3D time-resolved vessel-selective angiography based on pseudo-continuous arterial spin labelling
Creators: name: Lindner, Thomas
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR physics
subject: Vascular
subject: MR
subject: MR-Angiography
subject: Physics
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Aneurysms
subject: Arteriovenous malformations

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Normal 0 21 false false false DE X-NONE X-NONE Selective visualization of the intracranial arteries is an important differential diagnostic tool in neuroradiology. Digital Subtraction Angiography is considered as the gold standard to obtain such...
Role of heat and mechanical treatments in the fabrication of superconducting Ba0.6K0.4Fe2As2 ex-situ Powder-In-Tube tapes
Creators: name: Malagoli, A.
name: Wiesenmayer, E.
name: Marchner, S.
name: Johrendt, D.
name: Genovese, A.
name: Putti, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Among the recently discovered Fe-based superconducting compounds, the (K,Ba)Fe2As2 phase is attracting large interest within the scientific community interested in conductor developments. In fact, after some years of development, critical current densities Jc of about 105 A/cm2 at fields up to more than 10 T have been obtained in powder in tube (PIT) processed wires and tapes. Here we explore the crucial points in the wire/tape fabrication by means of the ex-situ PIT method. We focus on scaling up processes which are crucial for the industrial fabrication. We analyzed the effects on the microstructure of the different heat and mechanical treatments. By an extensive microstructural analysis correlated with the transport properties we addressed the issues concerning the phase purity, the internal porosity and crack formation in the superconducting core region. Our best conductors with a filling factor of about 30 heat treated at 800 C exhibited Tc = 38 K the highest value measured in such kind of superconducting tape. The microstructure analysis shows clean and well connected grain boundaries but rather poor density: The measured Jc of about 3 x 10^4 A/cm2 in self-field is suppressed by less than a factor 7 at 7 T. Such not yet optimized Jc values can be accounted for by the reduced density while the moderate in-field suppression and a rather high n-factor confirm the high homogeneity and uniformity of these tapes.
title: 3.0-T magnetic resonance imaging in predicting subtypes of IPMN and invasive IPMN
Creators: name: Graziani, Rossella
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Pancreas
subject: MR
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Cancer

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms (IPMNs) of the pancreas are tumors of the pancreatic duct epithelium, characterized by papillary epithelial proliferation and mucin production, leading to cystic dilatation of pancreatic involved ducts. These...
Holographic duality from random tensor networks
Creators: name: Hayden, Patrick
name: Nezami, Sepehr
name: Qi, Xiao-Liang
name: Thomas, Nathaniel
name: Walter, Michael
name: Yang, Zhao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tensor networks provide a natural framework for exploring holographic duality because they obey entanglement area laws. They have been used to construct explicit toy models realizing many interesting structural features of the AdS/CFT correspondence, including the non-uniqueness of bulk operator reconstruction in the boundary theory. In this article, we explore the holographic properties of networks of random tensors. We find that our models naturally incorporate many features that are analogous to those of the AdS/CFT correspondence. When the bond dimension of the tensors is large, we show that the entanglement entropy of boundary regions, whether connected or not, obey the Ryu-Takayanagi entropy formula, a fact closely related to known properties of the multipartite entanglement of assistance. Moreover, we find that each boundary region faithfully encodes the physics of the entire bulk entanglement wedge. Our method is to interpret the average over random tensors as the partition function of a classical ferromagnetic Ising model, so that the minimal surfaces of Ryu-Takayanagi appear as domain walls. Upon including the analog of a bulk field, we find that our model reproduces the expected corrections to the Ryu-Takayanagi formula: the minimal surface is displaced and the entropy is augmented by the entanglement of the bulk field. Increasing the entanglement of the bulk field ultimately changes the minimal surface topologically in a way similar to creation of a black hole. Extrapolating bulk correlation functions to the boundary permits the calculation of the scaling dimensions of boundary operators, which exhibit a large gap between a small number of low-dimension operators and the rest. While we are primarily motivated by AdS/CFT duality, our main results define a more general form of bulk-boundary correspondence which could be useful for extending holography to other spacetimes.
description: 57 pages, 13 figures
On evaluation of the Heun functions
Creators: name: Motygin, Oleg V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In the paper we deal with the Heun functions --- solutions of the Heun equation, which is the most general Fuchsian equation of second order with four regular singular points. Despite the increasing interest to the equation and numerous applications of the functions in a wide variety of physical problems, it is only Maple amidst known software packages which is able to evaluate the Heun functions numerically. But the Maple routine is known to be imperfect: even at regular points it may return infinities or end up with no result. Improving the situation is difficult because the code is not publicly available. The purpose of the work is to suggest and develop alternative algorithms for numerical evaluation of the Heun functions. A procedure based on power series expansions and analytic continuation is suggested which allows us to avoid numerical integration of the differential equation and to achieve reasonable efficiency and accuracy. Results of numerical tests are given.
Upgrading a Piped Water Supply from Intermittent to Continuous Delivery and Association with Waterborne Illness: A Matched Cohort Study in Urban India
Creators: name: Ercumen, Ayse
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Presence of a piped connection on the premises is considered the gold standard for safe water access. However, piped water is supplied intermittently in the vast majority of cities in low-income countries. Intermittent water supply can plausibly lead to elevated risk of gastrointestinal illness through contamination of water in the pipelines and during household storage; there is little information to date on the health impact of having intermittent versus continuous water supply. We conducted a matched cohort study with approximately 4,000 households in Hubli-Dharwad, Karnataka, India, to assess the association between upgrading from intermittent to continuous delivery of piped water and waterborne illness, child mortality and weight-for-age.
title: Computed tomography features of pulmonary nocardiosis
Creators: name: Karimi, Mohammad
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Nocardiosis primarily occurs in the setting of immunocompromising conditions. However, itmay also occur in immunocompetent patients. The lungs are the most common site of nocardiosis. Clinical and radiological manifestations of pulmonary nocardiosis...
MPL - a program for computations with iterated integrals on moduli spaces of curves of genus zero
Creators: name: Bogner, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce the computer program MPL for computations with homotopy invariant iterated integrals on moduli spaces $\mathcal{M}_{0,n}$ of curves of genus 0 with $n$ ordered marked points. The program is an implementation of the algorithms presented in [13], based on Maple. It includes the symbol map and procedures for the analytic computation of period integrals on $\mathcal{M}_{0,n}.$ It supports the automated computation of a certain class of Feynman integrals.
description: 35 pages
Aspicilia fauriana Hue 1910
Creators: name: Paukov, Alexander
name: Nordin, Anders
name: Roux, Claude
name: Moon, Kwang Hee
name: Davydov, Evgeny
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Dothideomycetes
Patellariales
Patellariaceae
Aspicilia
Aspicilia fauriana

description: Aspicilia fauriana Hue (1910: 95)
 Type (lectotype, designated here):— KOREA. Hpyeng-yang, June 1901, R. P. Faurie 4508 (LE L-7525!, isolectotype BM 001107805 [digital photograph!]).
 Aspicilia fauriana is described from the northern part of the Korean peninsula (now Pyongyang). It is represented by a small thallus that resembles the specimen of Aspicilia dimorphodes but has no enlarged areolae (Fig. 1D). It has spores which exceed 20 μm, short conidia (8−12 μm) and norstictic acid as a secondary metabolite. In relation to overall morphology, secondary chemistry as well as measurements of ascospores and conidia, this species agrees well with circumscription of Aspicilia intermutans, which is reported as new to Korea.
description: Published as part of Paukov, Alexander, Nordin, Anders, Roux, Claude, Moon, Kwang Hee & Davydov, Evgeny, 2017, Lectotypification and synonymization of some Aspicilia species (Megasporaceae, Ascomycota) described by A. Hue from Korea and Japan, pp. 94-98 in Phytotaxa 291 (1) on page 95, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.291.1.10, http://zenodo.org/record/13698077
Current Affairs Survey
Creators: name: Istituto Per Le Ricerche Statistiche E L'Analisi Dell'Opinione Pubblica (Gallup) (DOXA)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2002

description: Satisfaction or unsatisfaction with government actions on past year; most important problem facing Italy; Colomi as prime Minister; non-voting; vote recall; party preference; expected election outcome; vote expectation compared to 1968 general election.
title: Clinical impact of double reading of thoracic CT
Creators: name: Lauritzen, Peter
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Thorax
subject: Respiratory system
subject: Management
subject: CT
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Safety
subject: Observer performance
subject: Audit and standards
subject: Quality assurance
subject: Outcomes
subject: Economics

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Radiology interpretation errors contribute to 41% of diagnostic errors in patients dying in hospital [1]. Double reading reduces errors and increases sensitivity, though it may reducespecificity [2, 3] Quality assurance by prospective double reading...
Circular orbits of Charged Particles around a Weakly Charged and Magnetized Schwarzschild Black Hole
Creators: name: Zahrani, A. M. Al
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the circular orbits of charged particles around a weakly charged Schwarzschild black hole immersed in a weak, axisymmetric magnetic field. We start by reviewing the circular orbits of neutral particles and charged particles around only weakly charged and only weakly magnetized black holes. The case of a weakly magnetized and charged black hole is investigated then. In particular, we study the effect of the electromagnetic forces on the charged particles innermost stable circular orbits. We show that negative energy stable circular orbits are possible and that two bands of charged particles circular orbits, separated by a gap of no stable circular orbits can exist. The astrophysical aspects of our findings are discussed too.
A Program Plan and Evaluation Plan for the Carolina Alzheimer's Network: A Focus on the State-of-the-Art Workshop
Creators: name: Hoyle, Joseph David
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: In July of 2008, two professors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine began the Carolina Alzheimer's Network, a program for expanding resources for specialized dementia care throughout the state of North Carolina. The Duke Endowment provided initial funds for equipping and networking primary care practitioners. In April of 2009, demonstration grant funding from the Administration on Aging became available to further the goal of the program by linking the network to aging services providers through the Area Agencies on Aging. Together, these two grants provide an opportunity for developing activities and infrastructure for sustainable improvements in dementia care throughout the state. As a graduate student in the Public Health Leadership Program, I became involved as a volunteer with several program activities in November of 2008. Based on my involvement, I have tried to provide, in this paper, an update on the program plan and evaluation plan for the Carolina Alzheimer's Network. The program plan seeks to meet the growing public health issue of dementia care in North Carolina, with a focus on poor, minority, and rural counties. For the purpose of initially networking primary care practitioners and equipping them with state-of-the-art tools for dementia assessment and management, the program plan includes providing continuing medical education workshops throughout the state. These workshops are also serving as an initial linking opportunity to aging services providers, the objective of the Administration on Aging demonstration grant. Other activities in the program plan include direct health services, enabling services, population-based services, and infrastructure services. The evaluation plan provides a framework for the entire program evaluation, but with a focus on the workshop evaluation. The role of the evaluation is broad and includes improving program activities, writing progress reports and disseminating program findings, and even planning new program activities. Using the RE-AIM (Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, Maintenance) method, this evaluation plan seeks to fulfill the demonstration Administration on Aging grant purpose of developing knowledge which can be disseminated throughout the nation, while, at the same time, providing for program improvement and the development of a sustainable program for the citizens of North Carolina.
Gallup/CNN/USA Today Poll: Election Wrap-up Poll
Creators: name: CNN
name: USA Today
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2013

description: Man admired the most (3); woman admired the most (3); Bill Clinton (2); Confidence in American institutions (10); opinion of people in news (16); George W. Bush (9); U.S. Supreme Court (8); Al Gore (4); Electoral College/fair or unfair (2); George W. Bush as President (14); division of country on issues (2); political parties working together (4); top priority for administration in 1st 100 days (2); Al Gore vs. George W. Bush (2); opinion of election process (16).
Gallup/CNN/USA Today Poll: January Wave 1
Creators: name: CNN
name: USA Today
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2012

description: Bill Clinton (10); George W. Bush (06); Bush vs. Clinton (1); economy (1) ; Republican vs. Democrat (1); important issues (14); tax cuts (5); Social Security (2); school Voucher (4); education (4); public vs. private (1); college (1); Bush vs. Gore (1).