cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Reviewer selection biases editorial decisions on manuscripts
Creators: name: Hausmann, Laura
name: Schweitzer, Barbara
name: Middleton, Frank
name: Schulz, Jörg
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: author-suggested reviewer (ASR)
subject: cognitive particularism
subject: geographical region of origin
subject: non-author-suggested reviewer (non-ASR)
subject: peer review

description: Many journals, including the Journal of Neurochemistry, enable authors to list peer reviewers as “preferred” or “opposed” suggestions to the editor. At the Journal of Neurochemistry, the handling editor (HE) may follow recommendations or select non-author-suggested reviewers (non-ASRs). We investigated whether selection of author-suggested reviewers (ASRs) influenced decisions on a paper, and whether differences might be related to a reviewers’, editor’s or manuscript’s geographical location. In this retrospective analysis, we compared original research articles submitted to the Journal of Neurochemistry from 2013 through 2016, that were either reviewed exclusively by non-ASRs, by at least one ASR, by at least one reviewer marked by the author as “opposed”, or none. Manuscript outcome, reviewer rating of manuscript quality, rating of the reviewers’ performance by the editor (R-score), time to review, and the country of the editor, reviewers and manuscript author were analyzed using non-parametric rank-based comparisons, chi-square (x2) analysis, multivariate linear regression, one-way analysis of variance, and inter-rater reliability determination. Original research articles that had been reviewed by at least one ASR stood a higher chance of being accepted (525/1006 = 52%) than papers that had been reviewed by non-ASRs only (579/1800 = 32%). An article was 2.4 times more likely to be accepted than rejected by an ASR compared to a non-ASR (Pearson’s x2(1) = 181.3, p<0.05). At decision, the editor did not simply follow the reviewers’ recommendation but had a balancing role: Rates of recommendation from reviewers for rejection were 11.2% (139/1241) with ASRs vs. 29.0% (1379/4755) with non-ASRs (this is a ratio of 0.39 where 1 means no difference between rejection rates for both groups), whereas the proportion of final decisions to reject was 24.7% (248/1006) vs. 45.7% (822/1800) (a ratio of 0.54, considerably closer to 1). Recommendations by non-ASRs were more favorable for manuscripts from USA/Canada and Europe than for Asia/Pacific or Other countries. ASRs judged North American manuscripts most favorably, and judged papers generally more positively (mean: 2.54 on a 1-5 scale) than did non-ASRs (mean: 3.16) reviewers, whereas time for review (13.28 vs. 13.20 days) did not differ significantly between these groups. We also found that editors preferably assigned reviewers from their own geographical region, but there was no tendency for reviewers to judge papers from their own region more favorably. Our findings strongly confirm a bias towards lower rejection rates when ASRs assess a paper, which led to the decision to abandon the option to recommend reviewers at the Journal of Neurochemistry.
A Hybrid Method with Deviational Particles for Spatial Inhomogeneous Plasma
Creators: name: Yan, Bokai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we propose a Hybrid method with Deviational Particles (HDP) for a plasma modeled by the inhomogeneous Vlasov-Poisson-Landau system. We split the distribution into a Maxwellian part evolved by a grid based fluid solver and a deviation part simulated by numerical particles. These particles, named deviational particles, could be both positive and negative. We combine the Monte Carlo method proposed in \cite{YC15}, a Particle in Cell method and a Macro-Micro decomposition method \cite{BLM08} to design an efficient hybrid method. Furthermore, coarse particles are employed to accelerate the simulation. A particle resampling technique on both deviational particles and coarse particles is also investigated and improved. The efficiency is significantly improved compared to a PIC-MCC method, especially near the fluid regime.
description: 26 pages, 13 figures
title: Imaging and interventional procedures of the lacrimal drainage system
Creators: name: Pieper, Claus
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Stents
subject: Dacryocystography
subject: Angioplasty
subject: CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Obstruction / Occlusion

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To become familiar with the normal anatomy of the lacrimal-drainage-system and common pathologies. To understand imaging strategies used to examine the lacrimal-drainage-system. To recognize common imaging signs of different types of lacimal...
title: Review of Incidental Breast Lesions on CT
Creators: name: Schofield, Melanie
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Mammography
subject: CT
subject: Thorax
subject: Breast

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To review patients referred to the Breast Care Unit with incidental finding of a CT abnormality in a breast, unrelated to the primary diagnostic enquiry. Assess the CT imaging characteristics of benign and malignant lesions. Assess the sensitivity...
title: CAD value in breast cancer detection in dense parenchyma
Creators: name: Pasynkov, Dmitri
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: CAD
subject: Mammography
subject: CAD
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Normal 0 false false false RU X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The dense breast parenchyma still remains a problem of mammographic breast cancer screening programs, because it significantly lowers both their sensitivity (from ~90% in ACR A...
Associations Between the Serum Metabolome and All-Cause Mortality Among African Americans in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study
Creators: name: Heiss, Gerardo
name: Alexander, Danny
name: Grams, Morgan E.
name: Yu, Bing
name: Boerwinkle, Eric
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Early and accurate identification of people at high risk of premature death may assist in the targeting of preventive therapies in order to improve overall health. To identify novel biomarkers for all-cause mortality, we performed untargeted metabolomics in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study. We included 1,887 eligible ARIC African Americans, and 671 deaths occurred during a median follow-up period of 22.5 years (1987–2011). Chromatography and mass spectroscopy identified and quantitated 204 serum metabolites, and Cox proportional hazards models were used to analyze the longitudinal associations with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality. Nine metabolites, including cotinine, mannose, glycocholate, pregnendiol disulfate, α-hydroxyisovalerate, N-acetylalanine, andro-steroid monosulfate 2, uridine, and γ-glutamyl-leucine, showed independent associations with all-cause mortality, with an average risk change of 18% per standard-deviation increase in metabolite level (P < 1.23 × 10−4). A metabolite risk score, created on the basis of the weighted levels of the identified metabolites, improved the predictive ability of all-cause mortality over traditional risk factors (bias-corrected Harrell's C statistic 0.752 vs. 0.730). Mannose and glycocholate were associated with cardiovascular mortality (P < 1.23 × 10−4), but predictive ability was not improved beyond the traditional risk factors. This metabolomic analysis revealed potential novel biomarkers for all-cause mortality beyond the traditional risk factors.
Systematic Review: Temporal Network Approach to Psychological Constructs
Creators: name: Blanchard, M.
name: Contreras, Alba
name: Heeren, Alexandre
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Temporal network analyses are relatively recent, as the methodology required to compute network analyses on time series data was only recently developed (Bringmann et al., 2013). The number of studies investigating temporal network dynamics has been steadily increasing, however, since this type of analysis allows a micro-level investigation into how variables interact with one another over time. Despite their potential, however, there are no accepted best practices for the data collection, methodology, and analyses related to temporal network analyses. For example, there is not yet an accepted standard regarding sample size or number of total timepoints, nor standard assumption checks for the analyses, nor ways to assess the stability and robustness of analyses, and so on. We plan to conduct a systematic review to carefully audit all the current methodological practices and analyses used for temporal network analyses, to potentially develop a set of guidelines for future studies.
Associations of Accelerometry-Assessed and Self-Reported Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior With All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality Among US Adults
Creators: name: Wen, Fang
name: Herring, Amy H.
name: Evenson, Kelly R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: The US physical activity (PA) recommendations were based primarily on studies in which self-reported data were used. Studies that include accelerometer-assessed PA and sedentary behavior can contribute to these recommendations. In the present study, we explored the associations of PA and sedentary behavior with all-cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality in a nationally representative sample. Among the 2003–2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey cohort, 3,809 adults 40 years of age or older wore an accelerometer for 1 week and self-reported their PA levels. Mortality data were verified through 2011, with an average of 6.7 years of follow-up. We used Cox proportional hazards models to obtain adjusted hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals. After excluding the first 2 years, there were 337 deaths (32% or 107 of which were attributable to CVD). Having higher accelerometer-assessed average counts per minute was associated with lower all-cause mortality risk: When compared with the first quartile, the adjusted hazard ratio was 0.37 (95% confidence interval: 0.23, 0.59) for the fourth quartile, 0.39 (95% confidence interval: 0.27, 0.57) for the third quartile, and 0.60 (95% confidence interval: 0.45, 0.80) second quartile. Results were similar for CVD mortality. Lower all-cause and CVD mortality risks were also generally observed for persons with higher accelerometer-assessed moderate and moderate-to-vigorous PA levels and for self-reported moderate-to-vigorous leisure, household and total activities, as well as for meeting PA recommendations. Accelerometer-assessed sedentary behavior was generally not associated with all-cause or CVD mortality in fully adjusted models. These findings support the national PA recommendations to reduce mortality.
title: "Can't touch this": pelvic digit, pelvic rib
Creators: name: Cs. Jánvári, Máté
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Developmental disease
subject: Congenital
subject: Normal variants
subject: Education
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: Extremities

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To understand the concept of benign, skeletal "don't touch" lesions through pelvic digit and pelvic rib, andto stress the importance of a proper radiologic report that shall promote patient...
title: Normal radiologic findings and detection of complications in Hip Resurfacing Arhroplasty (HRA).
Creators: name: Calvo Corbella, Carolina
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Prostheses
subject: Outcomes
subject: Biological effects
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: Extremities

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Although total hip arthroplasty (THA) has shown good resultsin the treatment for degenerative osteoarthritis, hip resurfacing arthroplasty (HRA) is a less aggressive method of hip reconstruction that maintains anatomy, articular biomechanics and...
Associations of Premenopausal Hysterectomy and Oophorectomy With Breast Cancer Among Black and White Women: The Carolina Breast Cancer Study, 1993–2001
Creators: name: Olshan, Andrew F.
name: Troester, Melissa A.
name: Nichols, Hazel B.
name: Robinson, Whitney R.
name: Tse, Chiu Kit
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Black women experience higher rates of hysterectomy than other women in the United States. Although research indicates that premenopausal hysterectomy with bilateral oophorectomy decreases the risk of breast cancer in black women, it remains unclear how hysterectomy without ovary removal affects risk, whether menopausal hormone therapy use attenuates inverse associations, and whether associations vary by cancer subtype. In the population-based, case-control Carolina Breast Cancer Study of invasive breast cancer in 1,391 black (725 cases, 666 controls) and 1,727 white (939 cases, 788 controls) women in North Carolina (1993–2001), we investigated the associations of premenopausal hysterectomy and oophorectomy with breast cancer risk. Compared with no history of premenopausal surgery, bilateral oophorectomy and hysterectomy without oophorectomy were associated with lower odds of breast cancer (for bilateral oophorectomy, multivariable-adjusted odds ratios = 0.60, 95% confidence interval: 0.47, 0.77; for hysterectomy without oophorectomy, multivariable-adjusted odds ratios = 0.68, 95% confidence interval: 0.55, 0.84). Estimates did not vary by race and were similar for hormone receptor–positive and hormone receptor–negative cancers. Use of estrogen-only menopausal hormone therapy did not attenuate the associations. Premenopausal hysterectomy, even without ovary removal, may reduce the long-term risk of hormone receptor–positive and hormone receptor–negative breast cancers. Varying rates of hysterectomy are a potentially important contributor to differences in breast cancer incidence among racial/ethnic groups.
Vertex algebraic intertwining operators among generalized Verma modules for $\widehat{\mathfrak{sl}(2,\mathbb{C})}$
Creators: name: McRae, Robert
name: Yang, Jinwei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17B67, 17B69

description: We construct vertex algebraic intertwining operators among certain generalized Verma modules for $\widehat{\mathfrak{sl}(2,\mathbb{C})}$ and calculate the corresponding fusion rules. Additionally, we show that under some conditions these intertwining operators descend to intertwining operators among one generalized Verma module and two (generally non-standard) irreducible modules. Our construction relies on the irreducibility of the maximal proper submodules of generalized Verma modules appearing in the Garland-Lepowsky resolutions of standard $\widehat{\mathfrak{sl}(2,\mathbb{C})}$-modules. We prove this irreducibility using the composition factor multiplicities of irreducible modules in Verma modules for symmetrizable Kac-Moody Lie algebras of rank $2$, given by Rocha-Caridi and Wallach.
description: 39 pages, updated version incorporates a comment of Antun Milas, who informed us that Theorem 3.8 can be proved using a result of Rocha-Caridi and Wallach
Comparison of Self-Reported Sleep Duration With Actigraphy: Results From the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos Sueño Ancillary Study
Creators: name: Mossavar-Rahmani, Yasmin
name: Hu, Frank B.
name: Loredo, Jose S.
name: Hall, Martica H.
name: Alcantara, Carmela
name: Shah, Neomi A.
name: Zee, Phyllis C.
name: Wang, Rui
name: Ramos, Alberto R.
name: Rosner, Bernard
name: Cespedes, Elizabeth M.
name: Cai, Jianwen
name: Sotres-Alvarez, Daniela
name: Redline, Susan
name: Reid, Kathryn J.
name: Patel, Sanjay R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Most studies of sleep and health outcomes rely on self-reported sleep duration, although correlation with objective measures is poor. In this study, we defined sociodemographic and sleep characteristics associated with misreporting and assessed whether accounting for these factors better explains variation in objective sleep duration among 2,086 participants in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos who completed more than 5 nights of wrist actigraphy and reported habitual bed/wake times from 2010 to 2013. Using linear regression, we examined self-report as a predictor of actigraphy-assessed sleep duration. Mean amount of time spent asleep was 7.85 (standard deviation, 1.12) hours by self-report and 6.74 (standard deviation, 1.02) hours by actigraphy; correlation between them was 0.43. For each additional hour of self-reported sleep, actigraphy time spent asleep increased by 20 minutes (95% confidence interval: 19, 22). Correlations between self-reported and actigraphy-assessed time spent asleep were lower with male sex, younger age, sleep efficiency <85%, and night-to-night variability in sleep duration ≥1.5 hours. Adding sociodemographic and sleep factors to self-reports increased the proportion of variance explained in actigraphy-assessed sleep slightly (18%–32%). In this large validation study including Hispanics/Latinos, we demonstrated a moderate correlation between self-reported and actigraphy-assessed time spent asleep. The performance of self-reports varied by demographic and sleep measures but not by Hispanic subgroup.
Association of biological and other factors with the risk and course of Covid-19 and with risk-related behavior
Creators: name: Flegr, Jaroslav
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Life Sciences
subject: borreliosis
subject: course
subject: Covid-19
subject: priming
subject: Rh-factor
subject: risk factors
subject: SARS-CoV2
subject: Toxoplasma
subject: Toxoplasmosis

description: About a 13-minutes internet questionnaire (in Czech) will run on the Qualtrics platform. Participants (10-50 thousand subjects) will be recruited by social networks (Facebook and Twitter). The anonymous participants will respond to demographic questions, questions about their anti-epidemic behavior and approaches, and various risk and protecting factors namely Rh factor, Rh factor of mother and father, AB0 blood group, toxoplasmosis, borreliosis, keeping various domestic animals and pets, wearing masks, wearing glasses, singing, snoring, doing sport, hardening, taking a sauna, smoking tobacco or marihuana, consuming alcohol, vitamins, suffer depression, suffer anxiety, being involved in charitable activities, fresh air activities. They will be also asked whether they suffer from immunodeficiency, autoimmunity, heart disease, asthma, COPD, allergy, diabetes, and obesity. The participants will also respond to how many people in their vicinity already had Covid-19, how many died with Covid-19, whether they already had Covid-19, how serious it was (ordinal scale), and what symptoms they suffered with. They will be asked to provide information about their income, their physical a mental health. Before answering the questions about their anti-epidemic approaches, one half of them will be primed by solving 3 tasks - interpretation graphs showing the number of hospitalized and dying people with Covid-19. The associations will be measured/tested primarily with partial Kendall correlation (controlled for age, size of place of living, and sex). The Benjamini Hochberg method (with FDR set to 0.2) will be used to control for multiple tests. One-sided tests will be used for testing one-sided hypotheses (negative effects of disorders and Rh-negative phenotype on the course of Covid-19), the positive effect of priming to follow the anti-epidemy measures, the negative effects of following anti-epidemy measures on the probability of the infection. All other (two-sided) hypotheses will be tested with two-sided tests.
title: CT pulmonary angiogram reporting for pulmonary embolism: are we informing clinical management?
Creators: name: Withey, Samuel
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Embolism / Thrombosis
subject: Dilatation
subject: Structured reporting
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Audit and standards
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT
subject: Respiratory system
subject: Lung
subject: Cardiovascular system

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: CT Pulmonary Angiogram (CTPA) is the gold standard investigation for Pulmonary Embolism (PE). European Society of Radiology (ESR) reporting guidelines state that reports should include "specific positive or negative features...which affect...
Health Behaviors, Mental Health, and Health Care Utilization Among Single Mothers After Welfare Reforms in the 1990s
Creators: name: Basu, Sanjay
name: Glymour, M. Maria
name: Kawachi, Ichiro
name: Siddiqi, Arjumand
name: Rehkopf, David H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: We studied the health of low-income US women affected by the largest social policy change in recent US history: the 1996 welfare reforms. Using the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (1993–2012), we performed 2 types of analysis. First, we used difference-in-difference-in-differences analyses to estimate associations between welfare reforms and health outcomes among the most affected women (single mothers aged 18–64 years in 1997; n = 219,469) compared with less affected women (married mothers, single nonmothers, and married nonmothers of the same age range in 1997; n = 2,422,265). We also used a synthetic control approach in which we constructed a more ideal control group for single mothers by weighting outcomes among the less affected groups to match pre-reform outcomes among single mothers. In both specifications, the group most affected by welfare reforms (single mothers) experienced worse health outcomes than comparison groups less affected by the reforms. For example, the reforms were associated with at least a 4.0-percentage-point increase in binge drinking (95% confidence interval: 0.9, 7.0) and a 2.4-percentage-point decrease in the probability of being able to afford medical care (95% confidence interval: 0.1, 4.8) after controlling for age, educational level, and health care insurance status. Although the reforms were applauded for reducing welfare dependency, they may have adversely affected health.
title: Magnetic Resonance of tricuspid valve in adult congenital heart diseases
Creators: name: Fernández Armendáriz, Pablo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Cardiac
subject: Education and training

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To illustrate the spectrum of MRI findings in tricuspid valve abnormality in adult congenital heart...
FIBRILHAÇÃO AURICULAR: INCIDÊNCIA, PREVALÊNCIA E PERCENTAGEM DE HIPOCOAGULADOS NUMA CONSULTA HOSPITALAR DE UMA UNIDADE DE SAÚDE DO INTERIOR
Creators: name: De Carvalho Vilarinho, Maria Margarida
name: De Carvalho Rodrigues, Manuel
Publisher: name: Revista Portuguesa de Hipertensão e Risco Cardiovascular
Year: 2022

description: Introdução: A fibrilhação auricular é a arritmia mais frequente na prática clínica, acarretando um aumento da morbilidade e mortalidade global do individuo. Este estudo pretende averiguar a prevalência, incidência, percentagem de anticoagulados e a relação entre esta arritmia e outros fatores. Métodos: Estudo retrospetivo, descritivo e observacional numa amostra de utentes que frequentaram consultas de Cardiologia e de Hipertensão Arterial do Centro Hospitalar Universitário Cova da Beira durante seis meses em 2019, a través da consulta de processos clínicos no SClínico, a partir do qual foram recolhidos dados como o género, idade, medicação anticoagulante, presença ou não de fibrilhação auricular, hipertensão, síndrome de apneia obstrutiva do sono, hábitos tabágicos, índice de massa corporal e eventos de acidente vascular cerebral, acidente isquémico transitório e/ou enfarte agudo do miocárdio. A análise estatística foi realizada no SPSS®. Resultados: Numa amostra de 391 utentes, apurou-se uma prevalência de fibrilhação auricular de 16,9% e uma incidência de 5,23% em 6 meses. Dos utentes com fibrilhação auricular, 68,2% está sob anticoagulação, sendo o Rivaroxabano o mais usado: 28,9% de todos os anticoagulantes. Metade dos utentes com esta arritmia são do sexo masculino, 39,4% têm entre 70 a 79 anos, 87,9% têm hipertensão arterial, 25,8% têm obesidade, 10,6% têm síndrome de apneia obstrutiva do sono, 6,1% são fumadores, 4,5% tiveram um acidente vascular cerebral, 4,5% um acidente isquémico transitório e 16,7% um enfarte agudo do miocárdio. Não foram encontradas relações estatisticamente significativas entre fibrilhação auricular e as outras variáveis, exceto a idade e a anticoagulação. Conclusão: A prevalência de fibrilhação auricular obtida neste estudo é elevada, o que chama à atenção para a necessidade de um diagnóstico precoce pela morbilidade e mortalidade que esta arritmia acarreta e para a importância da prevenção desta mesma, uma vez que muitos dos fatores de risco podem ser controlados e tratados, reforçando o papel dos Cuidados de Saúde Primários nestes.
description: Revista Portuguesa de Hipertensão e Risco Cardiovascular, N.º 82 (2021): Março / Abril
title: The Orchestration of the Guitar Concerto: A Comparison of the Concerto in A Major o in A Major,Op.30, b ,Op.30, by Mauro Giuliani and the Concier o Giuliani and the Concierto del Sur by Manuel Ponce
Creators: name: Hudson, Roger
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 1992

description: The purpose of this study was to compare and contrast the orchestration techniques employed in two different concertos for guitar. The first concerto examined was the Concerto in A Major for guitar and orchestra, Opus 30, by Mauro Giuliani. The second was the Concierto del Sur by Manuel Ponce.

There are several reasons for the significance of this particular comparison. The musical inclinations and training of the two composers were different in that Giuliani was a virtuoso guitarist from the early nineteenth century and Ponce was a non­guitarist of the early to middle twentieth century. In addition, Giuliani's concerto is probably the first guitar concerto ever written; whereas, Ponce had several models from which to draw and was a student of orchestration. Finally, Giuliani was influenced by the conventions of early nineteenth century Vienna. Ponce was influenced by the stylistic freedoms of the twentieth century and the folk music of his homeland -Mexico.

Instead of using preset problems for the orchestral analysis of the works, I chose to move sequentially through the movements. Specific problems in the orchestrations are addressed as they occur and merit attention. As I moved through the pieces, I attempted to address specific problems only once. For example, when a particular instrumental combination or setting occurs in Ponce's work that also occurs in a similar context in Giuliani's concerto, only one example is stressed.

From an analytical standpoint, my intention was to uncover some of the positives and negatives of composing for guitar and orchestra. The guitar is so quiet an instrument that the problems in orchestrating for it are considerable. Hence, the fundamental problems addressed are those traditionally associated with orchestration: timbre, texture, range, register, articulation, dynamics, etc., with a special regard to how these problems relate to the guitar itself and the guitar with orchestra. Because of the scant information available on the orchestration of the guitar, I have included a section explaining some of the special effects and capabilities of the guitar as used in these two concertos.
The Affiliative Consequences of Same-Race and Cross-Race Mimicry
Creators: name: Majka, Elizabeth
name: White, Michael
name: Bernstein, Michael
name: Sim, Jessica
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: impression formation
subject: mimicry
subject: race
subject: social exclusion
subject: social interaction

description: Posted are the experimental materials and data for the paper "The Affiliative Consequences of Same-Race and Cross-Race Mimicry" (Journal of Social Psychology) with the following abstract: Few studies have replicated and extended the classic mimicry to liking effect. The present research sought to (a) replicate the affiliative consequences of mimicry; (b) test whether the affiliative consequences hold in a context where mimicry may not be normative (i.e., cross-race interactions); and (c) investigate how excluded individuals respond to same- versus cross-race mimicry and non-mimicry. Participants wrote about a control topic or social exclusion and then engaged in a brief laboratory interaction in which they were mimicked or not mimicked by a confederate who was either same-race or cross-race. Then they reported how much they liked the confederate. Within the control condition, the effect of mimicry on affiliation depended on the race of the confederate—but this pattern did not emerge for excluded individuals. The study was unable to conclusively replicate and extend previous findings. The authors make recommendations to promote a more cumulative science of behavioral mimicry.
Debt financing and the profitability of listed manufacturing companies in Nigeria
Creators: name: Seybold Report Journal
Publisher: name: Seybold Report Journal
Year: 2024

description: Abstract

In light of the considerable role that debts currently play in building large organizations' financial structures, the concept of debt financing has become much more prevalent in recent years. The debt finance literature makes a strong case for the relationship between debt financing and profitability, suggesting that the two may be related. This study evaluates the effect of debt financing on profitability of listed manufacturing companies in Nigeria. The sample of the study comprised of 37 listed manufacturing companies in Nigeria. The study's data was gathered from annual reports and financial statements that had been submitted in to Nigeria Exchange Limited over a ten-year period (2013–2022). Results showed that Long Term Debt to Total Asset ratio, Total Debt to Total Equity ratio and firm size had a significant impact on Return on Equity of listed manufacturing companies in Nigeria. However, Current Ratio and Total Debt to Total Equity returned insignificant effects on Return on Equity of listed manufacturing companies in Nigeria. The study recommended that in making a decision on what the composition of their debt financing will be, management of listed manufacturing companies in Nigeria should assess critically and make comparison between the cost of obtaining a particular source of debt and the benefit that can be derived from it. This will help managers ensure that there will be a positive impact on their profitability.

Keywords: Debt financing, Return on equity, Manufacturing companies
title: Do you see what IC? A pictorial review of normal variants and common pathology at the ileocaecal valve on CT Colongraphy.
Creators: name: Mitchell-Hay, Rosalind
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Colonography CT
subject: CT
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Colon
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: This poster aims to: Develop Familiarity with both the normal apprearances and the spectrum of pathologies affecting the ileoceacal valve on CT colonography. Including: normal papillary shaped ileocaecal valve, lipomatosis of the ileocaecal...
Analysis of two and three dipolar bosons in a spherical harmonic trap
Creators: name: Bradly, C. J.
name: Quiney, H. M.
name: Martin, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As dipolar gases become more readily accessible in experiment there is a need to develop a comprehensive theoretical framework of the few-body physics of these systems. Here, we extend the coupled-pair approach developed for the unitary two-component Fermi gas to a few-body system of dipolar bosons in a spherical harmonic trap. The long range and anisotropy of the dipole-dipole interaction is handled by a flexible and efficient correlated gaussian basis with stochastically variational optimisation. We calculate the eigenenergy spectrum and structural properties of two and three trapped bosonic dipoles. This demonstrates the efficiency and flexibility of the coupled-pair approach at dealing with systems with complex interactions.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures Extra references, typos and grammar corrected. Improved discussion of method, results unchanged
Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 Seroprevalence and Ultrasound-Diagnosed Uterine Fibroids in a Large Population of Young African-American Women
Creators: name: Gaydos, Charlotte A.
name: Baird, Donna D.
name: Cole, Stephen R.
name: Smith, Jennifer S.
name: Schlusser, Katherine
name: Schoenbach, Victor J.
name: Moore, Kristen R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: For decades reproductive tract infections (RTIs) have been hypothesized to play a role in uterine fibroid development. The few previous studies conducted used self-reported history of RTIs and had inconsistent findings. We investigated this hypothesis further using serological analysis, an immunological measure of past exposure. We focused on herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) because prior published data have suggested a possible association with fibroids, and serology for HSV-2 is much more sensitive than self-report. We used cross-sectional enrollment data from African-American women enrolled in a prospective study of fibroid incidence and growth (recruited 2010–2012) in the Detroit, Michigan, area. The women were aged 23–34 years and were screened for fibroids using a standardized ultrasound examination at their enrollment. Age- and multivariable-adjusted logistic regression models were used to estimate odds ratios. Of 1,696 participants, 1,658 had blood samples and HSV-2 serology results; 22% of participants with serology results had fibroids. There was no significant association between HSV-2 seropositivity and the presence of fibroids (multivariable-adjusted odds ratio = 0.94, 95% confidence interval: 0.73, 1.20), nor were there any associations with size of the largest fibroid, number of fibroids, or total fibroid volume. Our data provide no evidence for an influence of HSV-2 exposure on fibroid risk in young African-American women. Further study of other serologically measured RTIs is warranted.
title: Magnetic Resonance imaging of pediatric cardiomyopathies
Creators: name: Fernández Armendáriz, Pablo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: Paediatric
subject: Cardiac

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To illustrate the MR imaging findings of pediatric cardiomyopathies with the most relevant clinical...
INFORMATION
Creators: name: Morin, Olivier
name: Winters, James
name: Müller, Thomas
name: Morisseau, Tiffany
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: A pre-registered study project for the Color Game, to be disclosed on May the 1st, 2019. See INFORMATION.pdf. This project was registered twice: original registration 11/04/2018, additional registration with further detail on 22/10/2018.
Moments of q-Normal and conditional q-Normal distributions
Creators: name: Szabłowski, Paweł J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 62E10, 60A10, Secondary 62E17, 62H05

description: We calculate moments and moment generating functions of two distributions: the so called $q-$Normal and the so called conditional $q-$Normal distributions. These distributions generalize both Normal ($q=1),$ Wigner ($% q=0,$ $q-$Normal) and Kesten-McKay ($q=0,$ conditional $q-$Normal) distributions. As a by product we get asymptotic properties of some expansions in modified Bessel functions.
Maternal Consumption of Seafood in Pregnancy and Child Neuropsychological Development: A Longitudinal Study Based on a Population With High Consumption Levels
Creators: name: Robinson, Oliver
name: Llop, Sabrina
name: Esnaola, Mikel
name: Tardón, Adonina
name: Avella-Garcia, Claudia
name: Ibarluzea, Jesus
name: Méndez, Michelle
name: Julvez, Jordi
name: Fernandez-Barres, Silvia
name: Romaguera, Dora
name: Vioque, Jesus
name: Riaño, Isolina
name: Guxens, Monica
name: Arija, Victoria
name: Andiarena, Ainara
name: Ballester, Ferran
name: Sunyer, Jordi
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Seafood consumption during pregnancy is thought to be beneficial for child neuropsychological development, but to our knowledge no large cohort studies with high fatty fish consumption have analyzed the association by seafood subtype. We evaluated 1,892 and 1,589 mother-child pairs at the ages of 14 months and 5 years, respectively, in a population-based Spanish birth cohort established during 2004-2008. Bayley and McCarthy scales and the Childhood Asperger Syndrome Test were used to assess neuropsychological development. Results from multivariate linear regression models were adjusted for sociodemographic characteristics and further adjusted for umbilical cord blood mercury or long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid concentrations. Overall, consumption of seafood above the recommended limit of 340 g/week was associated with 10-g/week increments in neuropsychological scores. By subtype, in addition to lean fish, consumption of large fatty fish showed a positive association; offspring of persons within the highest quantile (>238 g/week) had an adjusted increase of 2.29 points in McCarthy general cognitive score (95% confidence interval: 0.42, 4.16). Similar findings were observed for the Childhood Asperger Syndrome Test. Beta coefficients diminished 15%-30% after adjustment for mercury or long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid concentrations. Consumption of large fatty fish during pregnancy presents moderate child neuropsychological benefits, including improvements in cognitive functioning and some protection from autism-spectrum traits.
2020.2529.Hussey
Creators: name: Lakens, Daniel
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: meta-psychology
subject: template

description: Submission to Meta-Psychology. Contains the full history, including all correspondence, decisions, reviews, revisions etc. Anyone can participate in open peer review directly by using the hypothes.is commenting function on the preprint.
title: Rare but dangerous - Imaging aspects of gallbladder carcinoma
Creators: name: Calin, Adriana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Education
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Oncology
subject: Biliary Tract / Gallbladder
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: to enlist the varied morphologies of gallbladder carcinoma to depict their radiological features to emphasize the role of cross-sectional imaging in the detection of gallbladder carcinoma and its...
A decidable weakening of Compass Logic based on cone-shaped cardinal directions
Creators: name: Montanari, Angelo
name: Puppis, Gabriele
name: Sala, Pietro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We introduce a modal logic, called Cone Logic, whose formulas describe properties of points in the plane and spatial relationships between them. Points are labelled by proposition letters and spatial relations are induced by the four cone-shaped cardinal directions. Cone Logic can be seen as a weakening of Venema's Compass Logic. We prove that, unlike Compass Logic and other projection-based spatial logics, its satisfiability problem is decidable (precisely, PSPACE-complete). We also show that it is expressive enough to capture meaningful interval temporal logics - in particular, the interval temporal logic of Allen's relations "Begins", "During", and "Later", and their transposes.
Smokeless Tobacco Use and the Risk of Head and Neck Cancer: Pooled Analysis of US Studies in the INHANCE Consortium
Creators: name: Olshan, Andrew F.
name: Lee, Yuan-Chin Amy
name: Li, Guojun
name: McClean, Michael
name: Winn, Deborah M.
name: Wyss, Annah B.
name: Yu, Guo-Pei
name: Chuang, Shu-Chun
name: Muscat, Joshua
name: Kelsey, Karl T.
name: Morgenstern, Hal
name: Hashibe, Mia
name: Boffetta, Paolo
name: Zhang, Zuo-Feng
name: Wei, Qingyi
name: Chen, Chu
name: Gillison, Maura L.
name: Schantz, Stimson
name: Schwartz, Stephen M.
name: Smith, Elaine
name: Zevallos, Jose P.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Previous studies on smokeless tobacco use and head and neck cancer (HNC) have found inconsistent and often imprecise estimates, with limited control for cigarette smoking. Using pooled data from 11 US case-control studies (1981–2006) of oral, pharyngeal, and laryngeal cancers (6,772 cases and 8,375 controls) in the International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology (INHANCE) Consortium, we applied hierarchical logistic regression to estimate odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals for ever use, frequency of use, and duration of use of snuff and chewing tobacco separately for never and ever cigarette smokers. Ever use (versus never use) of snuff was strongly associated with HNC among never cigarette smokers (odds ratio (OR) = 1.71, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.08, 2.70), particularly for oral cavity cancers (OR = 3.01, 95% CI: 1.63, 5.55). Although ever (versus never) tobacco chewing was weakly associated with HNC among never cigarette smokers (OR = 1.20, 95% CI: 0.81, 1.77), analyses restricted to cancers of the oral cavity showed a stronger association (OR = 1.81, 95% CI: 1.04, 3.17). Few or no associations between each type of smokeless tobacco and HNC were observed among ever cigarette smokers, possibly reflecting residual confounding by smoking. Smokeless tobacco use appears to be associated with HNC, especially oral cancers, with snuff being more strongly associated than chewing tobacco.
title: Abdominal Vascular Emergencies in MDCT Imaging
Creators: name: SHIRODKAR, KAPIL
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Emergency
subject: Vascular
subject: CT
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Complications
subject: Education
subject: Trauma
subject: Aneurysms
subject: Dissection

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Reviewthe various traumatic abdominal vascular emergencies encountered on MDCT Reviewthe various Non-traumatic abdominal vascular emergencies encountered on MDCT Discuss salient imaging features on MDCT Management stratergies fortreating the...
Local bilinear multiple-output quantile/depth regression
Creators: name: Hallin, Marc
name: Lu, Zudi
name: Paindaveine, Davy
name: Šiman, Miroslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A new quantile regression concept, based on a directional version of Koenker and Bassett's traditional single-output one, has been introduced in [Ann. Statist. (2010) 38 635-669] for multiple-output location/linear regression problems. The polyhedral contours provided by the empirical counterpart of that concept, however, cannot adapt to unknown nonlinear and/or heteroskedastic dependencies. This paper therefore introduces local constant and local linear (actually, bilinear) versions of those contours, which both allow to asymptotically recover the conditional halfspace depth contours that completely characterize the response's conditional distributions. Bahadur representation and asymptotic normality results are established. Illustrations are provided both on simulated and real data.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.3150/14-BEJ610 in the Bernoulli (http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli/) by the International Statistical Institute/Bernoulli Society (http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm)
Push button reproduction attempt of a research claim from Lee Ann Slocum, Terrance J. Taylor, Bradley T. Brick, and Finn-Aage Esbensen, (2010), in Criminology
Creators: name: Tutor, Melba
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Claim paragraph (from the sourcing sheet): We selected the claim that, net of youth demographic characteristics, youth living in higher poverty neighborhoods are less willing to report crime they might observe in the community than are youth living in lower poverty neighborhoods. This reflects the following statement from the paper’s abstract: “We find that neighborhood poverty has an inverse relationship with crime reporting intentions….” The claim is tested in a multisite, school-based study that examines whether neighborhood structural characteristics are related to youths’ intentions to report crime net of individual level socio-demographic characteristics. The authors used multi-level models with random intercepts. The full model specification and the result from the test of the selected claim can be found in Table 3, Model 2. The test of the selected claim is based on the coefficient for the variable “Poverty” under the “Neighborhood Context” heading. The result was a statistically significant coefficient for the “Poverty” variable, b = -.050, SE = .025, p < .05. The focal test in the original paper is: The result was a statistically significant coefficient for the “Poverty” variable, b = -.050, SE = .025, p < .05.