cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Welfare Regimes and the Political Economy of Learning in Developing Countries
Creators: name: Admin, RISE
name: Rosser, Andrew
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education systems not elsewhere classified
Other education not elsewhere classified
Political economy and social change

description: This paper synthesises the findings of the RISE Political Economy of Adoption (PET-A) country studies by interpreting their findings in light of the findings of comparative research on the evolution of ‘welfare regimes’, and suggests that PET-A countries, have not, for the most part, developed the sorts of political settlements identified as conducive to change in the welfare regimes literature and lack coalitions that are capable of driving education development.
Die menschliche Freiheit und die Theodizeefrage
Creators: name: Schneider, Joachim Helmut
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Theodizee , Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm , Stoa , Freiheit , Determinismus
subject: 100
subject: Theodizeefrage
subject: Freedom
subject: Determinate
subject: Question of Theodizee
subject: Stoa-Philosophy

description: Die Theodizee erhielt durch Leibniz die geläufige Begrifflichkeit in der neueren Philosophie, wenngleich sich die stoische Philosophie schon im 1. vorchristlichen Jahrhundert mit denselben Fragen beschäfigte. Seither bewegt das Spannungsfeld zwischen menschenlichen Freiheit und Determinismus den philosophischen Diskurs, der sich an der Theodizeefrage entzündet hat. Für das vergleichende Verständnis der Philosophien von Leibniz und der Stoa ist die Oikaiosistheorie der Stoa von nachhaltiger Bedeutung.
Antibiotic Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Dispersion from Hog Operations: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Creators: name: George, Alexandra
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Antibiotic use in hog production can select for antibiotic resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus, including methicillin-resistant and multidrug-resistant S. aureus (MRSA and MDRSA, respectively). The bacteria can eventually spread to humans and the environment through a variety of routes.  To quantify the prevalence of swine-associated MRSA and MDRSA in various reservoirs related to hog production and to identify factors contributing to the spread of these pathogens, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) protocol. The systematic review identified 166 studies documenting livestock-associated MRSA or MDRSA colonization published in English before June 2017. These studies revealed consistent evidence of high livestock-associated MRSA prevalence (55.3%) in hog herds raised with antibiotics, slaughterhouse pigs (30.4%), workers at industrial hog operations (24.4%), and veterinarians (16.8%). In addition, the studies included reported that 38.56% (95% CI 16.89% – 60.23%) of MRSA colonization of hospital patients could be of swine origin. Among studies examining risk factors for livestock-associated MRSA and MDRSA colonization, 93% (7 studies) of those that considered antibiotic use found an increased colonization risk, 80% of those considering operation size and hog age (8 studies each) found an increased risk in larger hog operations and in operations with younger hogs, and 100% (4 studies) of those considering living with a hog worker as a risk factor reported increased risks of colonization.  Occupational hygiene practices, such as wearing personal protective equipment, had mixed effectiveness, with 4 studies finding that personal protective equipment usage, for instance, had a protective effect and 3 suggesting that it could increase the risk of colonization. Evidence suggests that MRSA and MDRSA can be present in air, soil, water, and household surface samples gathered in or near high-intensity hog operations.  These results suggest that resistant S. aureus can colonize reservoirs even distantly linked to hog farming, suggesting that preventive action may be the best option to reduce its impact. This study underscores the need for a streamlined reporting system to better track livestock-associated resistant S. aureus.
Additional file 5 of Identification of treatment elements for adolescents with callous unemotional traits: a systematic narrative review
Creators: name: Waaler, Pamela M.
name: Bergseth, Josefine
name: Vaskinn, Linda
name: Espenes, Kristin
name: Holtan, Thale
name: Kjøbli, John
name: Bjørnebekk, Gunnar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 5
title: Percutaneous radiologic gastrostomy in pediatric population: a modified Chiba-needle puncture technique with single gastropexy
Creators: name: JEONG, EUNJI
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Catheters

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Enteral feeding plays an important role in children who are unable to feed though the mouth or who need to support in maintaining adequate nutrition [1,2]. Many studies have shown that children can have decreased caloric intake or increased...
A detection of baryon acoustic oscillations from the distribution of galaxy clusters
Creators: name: Hong, Tao
name: Han, J. L.
name: Wen, Z. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the correlation function of 79,091 galaxy clusters in the redshift region of $z \leq 0.5$ selected from the WH15 cluster catalog. With a weight of cluster mass, a significant baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) peak is detected on the correlation function with a significance of $3.7 σ$. By fitting the correlation function with a $Λ$CDM model curve, we find $D_v(z = 0.331) r_d^{fid}/r_d = 1261.5 \pm 48$~Mpc which is consistent with the Planck 2015 cosmology. We find that the correlation function of the higher mass sub-sample shows a higher amplitude at small scales of $r < 80~h^{-1}{\rm Mpc}$, which is consistent with our previous result. The 2D correlation function of this large sample of galaxy clusters shows a faint BAO ring with a significance of $1.8σ$, from which we find that the distance scale parameters on directions across and along the line-of-sight are $α_σ = 1.02 \pm 0.06$ and $α_π = 0.94 \pm 0.10$, respectively.
description: 8 pages, 12 figures, 1 table; submitted to ApJ on Oct 7, accepted for publication in ApJ
title: Robotic-assisted partial nephrectomy versus percutaneous radiorequency ablation for the treatment of small renal cell carcinoma
Creators: name: Pantelidou, Maria
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Ablation procedures
subject: Percutaneous
subject: Interventional non-vascular

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: With increasing numbers of small renal masses (SRM) being diagnosed, clinicians are continuously looking for optimal treatments [1]. Current clinical practice has moved a long way in recent years from open nephrectomies to laparoscopic partial...
Additional file 6 of Identification of treatment elements for adolescents with callous unemotional traits: a systematic narrative review
Creators: name: Waaler, Pamela M.
name: Bergseth, Josefine
name: Vaskinn, Linda
name: Espenes, Kristin
name: Holtan, Thale
name: Kjøbli, John
name: Bjørnebekk, Gunnar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 6
From Theory to Practice
Creators: name: Schaberg, Kelsey
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Public Policy
subject: Policy Design, Analysis, and Evaluation
subject: Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
subject: Social Welfare
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Social Policy

description: This study is looking at the long-term employment and earnings trajectories of individuals who enrolled in the Portland site of the NEWWS evaluation. These individuals were receiving welfare in Portland, Oregon in the early 1990s.
The NF-κB Pathway Integrates Gene Biomarkers in Metal-Exposed Children
Creators: name: Patel, Rhea
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: The detrimental health effects of metal exposure in children are well established, yet specific mechanisms of metal-induced toxicity are not clearly understood. To increase our understanding of the biological pathways that are perturbed by metal exposure, we assessed genome-wide, metal-associated transcriptional alterations in 131 children from Detroit, Michigan. Specifically, the relationship between exposure to arsenic, cadmium, chromium, and mercury, as measured in fingernail samples, and gene expression levels was assessed using a multiple linear regression model. The transcriptional levels of 12, 172, 15, and 32 genes showed significant association with arsenic, cadmium, chromium, and mercury levels, respectively. These metal-associated gene biomarkers were almost entirely distinct. While there was little overlap between gene sets, network analysis revealed that the NF-κB pathway was commonly enriched among all metal-associated gene expression signatures. These results demonstrate that all of the investigated metal exposures are significantly associated with key signaling pathways involved in inflammation and cell proliferation. Further examination of the health effects of several metal exposures in children therefore is needed.
Medidas preventivas para fatores de risco de doenças cardiovasculares no ambiente prisional: um protocolo de revisão de escopo
Creators: name: de freitas gonçalves lima, monique
name: Cabral, Danielle
name: LINHARES, FRANCISCA
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Life Sciences

description: mapear as medidas preventivas para fatores de risco de doenças cardiovasculares no ambiente prisional
title: Eight cases of endovascular embolisation by balloon-occluded histoacryl glue embolization (B-glue)
Creators: name: Fuwa, Sokun
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Liver
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Catheter venography
subject: Ablation procedures
subject: Embolisation
subject: Vertebroplasty

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Although N-butyl-cyanoacrylate (NBCA) or histoacryl glue has been recognized as a potentially ideal liquid embolization material, its clinical use was fairly limited because of the difficulty in controlling its behavior in the vessels 1)-7). B-glue...
Why Students Aren’t Learning What They Need for a Productive Life
Creators: name: Admin, RISE
name: Ross-Larson, Bruce
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education systems not elsewhere classified
Other education not elsewhere classified
Political economy and social change

description: This synthesis draws on the country summaries by RISE research teams and other education specialists to detail the salience of goals of national leaders, alliances of stakeholders, missions of education bureaucracies, and expectations of society and to analyse how the political conditions have (or have not) put learning at the center of education systems (mostly not) while understanding the challenges of doing so.
Equilibrium sampling of hard spheres up to the jamming density and beyond
Creators: name: Berthier, Ludovic
name: Coslovich, Daniele
name: Ninarello, Andrea
name: Ozawa, Misaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We implement and optimize a particle-swap Monte-Carlo algorithm that allows us to thermalize a polydisperse system of hard spheres up to unprecedentedly-large volume fractions, where \revise{previous} algorithms and experiments fail to equilibrate. We show that no glass singularity intervenes before the jamming density, which we independently determine through two distinct non-equilibrium protocols. We demonstrate that equilibrium fluid and non-equilibrium jammed states can have the same density, showing that the jamming transition cannot be the end-point of the fluid branch.
description: 5 pages, 3 figs; To be published in Phys. Rev. Lett
Additional file 4 of Identification of treatment elements for adolescents with callous unemotional traits: a systematic narrative review
Creators: name: Waaler, Pamela M.
name: Bergseth, Josefine
name: Vaskinn, Linda
name: Espenes, Kristin
name: Holtan, Thale
name: Kjøbli, John
name: Bjørnebekk, Gunnar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 4
title: Radiofrequency thermal ablation (RFA) of primary pulmonary lesions: a pilot study
Creators: name: Contegiacomo, Andrea
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Thorax
subject: Lung
subject: CT
subject: Ablation procedures
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Lung cancer is the most common neoplasm in the US, with a frequency of 225.000 new cases and a mortality rate of 160.000 cases each year. Nowadays, surgery exportation is the treatment of choice for low staged (I & II) lung tumours. Unfortunately...
Mabuchi spectrum from the minisuperspace
Creators: name: de Lacroix, Corinne
name: Erbin, Harold
name: Svanes, Eirik E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It was recently shown that other functionals contribute to the effective action for the Liouville field when considering massive matter coupled to two-dimensional gravity in the conformal gauge. The most important of these new contributions corresponds to the Mabuchi functional. We propose a minisuperspace action that reproduces the main features of the Mabuchi action in order to describe the dynamics of the zero-mode. We show that the associated Hamiltonian coincides with the (quantum mechanical) Liouville Hamiltonian. As a consequence the Liouville theory and our model of the Mabuchi theory both share the same spectrum, eigenfunctions and - in this approximation - correlation functions.
description: 4 pages; v2: change presentation but conclusion unchanged, match published version
Coalitional psychology and paranoia: a network study
Creators: name: Greenburgh, Anna
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Psychiatry and Psychology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Other Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This is an open-ended pre-registration of a network study investigating the relationship between paranoia and coalitional psychology.
title: Distal port incision with antegrade tunnel technique is equal to proximal port incision with retrograde tunnel technique in rates of procedure related infections
Creators: name: Nasman, Benjamin
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Venous access
subject: Infection

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Introduction Numerous medical conditions such as advanced stages of cancer require continuous venous access. Chronic central venous access devices have evolved over the years from simple central vein catheters to tunneled central catheters to...
Politics, Accountability, and Learning: Insights from the RISE Programme’s Political Economy Case Studies
Creators: name: Admin, RISE
name: Gershberg, Alec Ian
name: Spindelman, Deborah
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education systems not elsewhere classified
Other education not elsewhere classified
Political economy and social change

description: The RISE (Research on Improving Systems of Education) Programme political economy team focused on “adoption” (PET-A) examines the political conditions required to put learning at the center of an education system. This work stream has produced 12 historical case studies and three synthesis papers which draw on this rich material. This paper is part of the latter effort and offers a comparative analysis across five of the countries with RISE Country Research Teams (Ethiopia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Tanzania, and Vietnam), as well as additional case studies focusing on Chile and Peru. Building on the RISE systems framework (Pritchett, 2015), our political economy analysis incorporates issues of competing interests, power, and political strategy. We focus on the promoters and blockers of learning-oriented education reform and their respective powers and strategies to parse out the political contestations that are endemic to the reform processes that impact system coherence around learning. In this paper, we present a binding constraints framework to explore what a politics for learning might look like and examine areas of intervention that present critical bottlenecks impeding a country’s ability to deliver learning outcomes which, if addressed, pose the potential for large impact relative to other constraints. We draw upon the PET-A country case studies to include analysis of different factions and reform champions within government, including but not limited to the executive office (president/prime minister), Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Education, competing ministries, decentralized government levels, and local leaders. In doing, we elucidate how politics permeate nearly all accountability relationships in education systems and the likelihood that any given program will positively impact learning.
A Contrast and Comparison of Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) as Strategies to Reduce Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs)
Creators: name: White, James B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1995

description: Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) and LifeCycle Assessment (LCA) provide alternative methods for controlling Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs). This paper evaluates the application of MACT and LCA as general strategies to reduce HAP emissions within the specific context of the primary aluminum industry. MACT is a "end-of-pipe" control based approach. It is derived from the emissions baseline and the control technologies used by the top 12% of the best controlled sources within a given source category. LCA is a pollution prevention approach that focuses on the "cradle to cradle" multimedia environmental inputs, outputs, and impacts of a product or process. This technical paper concludes that MACT is the most effective immediate strategy to control HAPs. LCA is effective as a means of reducing HAPs, however, is limited by its tradeoff of data quality for data quantity, and its lack of environmental models to evaluate environmental impacts. A model for streamlining LCA using MACT data is demonstrated, and an overview is provided for MACT and LCA methods.
Lumped element kinetic inductance detectors maturity for space-borne instruments in the range between 80 and 180 GHz
Creators: name: Catalano, A.
name: Benoit, A.
name: Bourrion, O.
name: Calvo, M.
name: Coiffard, G.
name: D'Addabbo, A.
name: Goupy, J.
name: Sueur, H. Le
name: Macìas-Pérez, J.
name: Monfardini, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work intends to give the state-of-the-art of our knowledge of the performance of LEKIDs at millimetre wavelengths (from 80 to 180~GHz). We evaluate their optical sensitivity under typical background conditions and their interaction with ionising particles. Two LEKID arrays, originally designed for ground-based applications and composed of a few hundred pixels each, operate at a central frequency of 100, and 150~GHz ($Δν/ ν$ about 0.3). Their sensitivities have been characterised in the laboratory using a dedicated closed-circle 100~mK dilution cryostat and a sky simulator, allowing for the reproduction of realistic, space-like observation conditions. The impact of cosmic rays has been evaluated by exposing the LEKID arrays to alpha particles ($^{241}$Am) and X sources ($^{109}$Cd) with a readout sampling frequency similar to the ones used for Planck HFI (about 200~Hz), and also with a high resolution sampling level (up to 2~MHz) in order to better characterise and interpret the observed glitches. In parallel, we have developed an analytical model to rescale the results to what would be observed by such a LEKID array at the second Lagrangian point.
description: 7 pages, 2 tables, 13 figures
Additional file 1 of Identification of treatment elements for adolescents with callous unemotional traits: a systematic narrative review
Creators: name: Waaler, Pamela M.
name: Bergseth, Josefine
name: Vaskinn, Linda
name: Espenes, Kristin
name: Holtan, Thale
name: Kjøbli, John
name: Bjørnebekk, Gunnar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
title: Rupture of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm - entity description and radiological evaluation for treatment decision
Creators: name: Feldman, Dana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Aneurysms
subject: Arterial access
subject: Angioplasty
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Vascular
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To familiarize with the definition of Abdominal Aortic Anneurysm (AAA) A pathophysiological review of AAA developement and common clinical signs focusing on the rupture and near rupture events Making radiological correlation to the entity, focusing...
Evaluation of Ozonation, Enhanced Coagulation, and Biofiltration for the Control of Disinfection By-Products in Drinking Water
Creators: name: Chaiket, Thom
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1999

description: Pilot-plant studies were conducted at the Indianapolis Water Company's White River Filtration Plant to assess the effectiveness of ozonation, enhanced coagulation, and biofiltration in controlling disinfection by-products in the filtered water. Nine experiments were conducted; operating variables included point of ozonation with respect to coagulation, pH of ozonation and coagulation, ozone dose and bromide conditions. Performance was assessed by monitoring pertinent water quality parameters and the reduction of trihalomethane (THM4) and haloacetic acid (HAA9) formation potentials under uniform formation conditions (UFC). The results showed that White River water was not amenable to TOC removal by coagulation. Ozonation, biofiltration, and adjustment of pH did not enhance TOC removal efficiency. None the less, a significant amount of THM4 and HAA9 precursors were removed, with overall removals as high as 66% and 81% respectively. Coagulation and ozonation were equally effective in removing precursors, and biofiltration was found to be more effective with ozonation placed after coagulation and settling. The relative reduction in DBP formation potentials tracked the relative reduction in UV absorbance; This parallel provided insights into the high DBP removal despite low TOC removal. From the regulatory standpoint, all operations were capable of producing filtered water that met Stage I requirements under UFC conditions. As for the effects of bromide on DBP speciation, bromo-substituted THMs and HAAs accounted for up to 90% and 50% in the irrespective classes when the water was spiked with 200 μg/L of bromide. Additional data analysis found significant correlation between the molar ratios CHBrCl2/CHCl3 and BrCl2AA/Cl3AA, and CHBrCl2/CHCl3 and BrClAA/Cl2AA.
title: "The pedicle sign!" An easy to use method to localise the feeding artery of spinal dural fistula's on 4D MRA.
Creators: name: Martins Jarnalo, Carine
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Fistula
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR-Angiography
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Vascular
subject: Neuroradiology spine
subject: Interventional vascular

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To learn the specific findings of spinal dural fistulas on MR-imaging To learn to use the 'pedicle sign', an easy method to help localising the feeding artery to a spinal dural...
GPEC, a real-time capable Tokamak equilibrium code
Creators: name: Rampp, Markus
name: Preuss, Roland
name: Fischer, Rainer
name: Team, the ASDEX Upgrade
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A new parallel equilibrium reconstruction code for tokamak plasmas is presented. GPEC allows to compute equilibrium flux distributions sufficiently accurate to derive parameters for plasma control within 1 ms of runtime which enables real-time applications at the ASDEX Upgrade experiment (AUG) and other machines with a control cycle of at least this size. The underlying algorithms are based on the well-established offline-analysis code CLISTE, following the classical concept of iteratively solving the Grad-Shafranov equation and feeding in diagnostic signals from the experiment. The new code adopts a hybrid parallelization scheme for computing the equilibrium flux distribution and extends the fast, shared-memory-parallel Poisson solver which we have described previously by a distributed computation of the individual Poisson problems corresponding to different basis functions. The code is based entirely on open-source software components and runs on standard server hardware and software environments. The real-time capability of GPEC is demonstrated by performing an offline-computation of a sequence of 1000 flux distributions which are taken from one second of operation of a typical AUG discharge and deriving the relevant control parameters with a time resolution of a millisecond. On current server hardware the new code allows employing a grid size of 32x64 zones for the spatial discretization and up to 15 basis functions. It takes into account about 90 diagnostic signals while using up to 4 equilibrium iterations and computing more than 20 plasma-control parameters, including the computationally expensive safety-factor q on at least 4 different levels of the normalized flux.
description: minor typos corrected and reference updated, matches published version
Additional file 1 of Spatial-temporal distribution of neglected tropical diseases burdens in China from 2005 to 2020
Creators: name: Ouyang, Hanqi
name: Zhao, Ziyu
name: Fall, Ibrahima Socé
name: Djirmay, Amadou Garba
name: Ohore, Okugbe Ebiotubo
name: Bergquist, Robert
name: Yang, Guojing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. DALYs (person-years) of neglected tropical diseases in China, 2005-–2020.
title: Effectiveness of Ultrasound-guided Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) injections after needle tenotomy in the treatment of chronic tendinopathies : A prospective study.
Creators: name: Brichaux, Jean-Charles
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Inflammation
subject: Athletic injuries
subject: Treatment effects
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: Interventional non-vascular

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Prospective Evaluation of the effectiveness of Ultrasound(US)-­guided needle tenotomy followed by an autologous platelet-­rich plasma (PRP) injection in reducing pain and functional improvement for...
Ambitious Plans—Poor Outcomes:The Politics of Education Reform in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Admin, RISE
name: Incorporated, Communications Development
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education systems not elsewhere classified
Other education not elsewhere classified
Political economy and social change

description: This report looks at the politics of education reform—briefly in the Imperial regime (through 1974) but mostly in the Derg regime (through 1991) and the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) regime (after 1991), which switched from a coalition of ethnic and regional parties to a unified Prosperity Party in 2018. For all three regimes, education policy has been a top priority, which they tackled immediately on coming to power. For example, the EPRDF developed its Education and Training Policy even before drafting and adopting a constitution. Meanwhile, the current ruling party, the Prosperity Party, started implementing the reform agenda of the Education Development Roadmap before it officially transformed itself from a coalition of parties (the EPRDF) to a unified party (Prosperity Party). Education policymaking in Ethiopia has been narrow, with little to no genuine consultation with major stakeholders. Donors, because of their financing, were able to have a modest impact on policies. Parents, teachers’ unions, civil societies, and opposition political parties have had limited impact. But such stakeholders have had more influence in times of political crisis. Accordingly, some opposition parties have been able to challenge the Education Development Roadmap given the multifaceted political crisis that hit the country in the post-2015 period. The quality of teachers as well as their socio-economic status declined across the three regimes. Despite the introduction of a career path with modest financial incentives after 1991, the socio-economic status of teachers has not improved, partly a result of inflationary pressures on salaries. Teacher quality has declined with the recruitment of unqualified and underqualified candidates as the demand for teachers rose with expanded access to education. Examinations have remained similar, certifying completion and guiding placement, and curricula have been designed to achieve national policy objectives. Mother tongue education at the primary level serves the goal of self-rule and autonomy for ethnonational groups.
The Effect of Sedimentation on Filtration Performance At the OWASA Water Treatment Plant
Creators: name: Meyer, Douglas Eric
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1986

description: Due to projected increases in water demand, the Orange Water and Sewer Authority needs to know what, if anything, is required to upgrade its legal filtration rate from 4 gpm/ft^2 to 6 gpm/ft^2. Current theory is not adequately developed to predict the effect of sedimentation on all the important filtration parameters. Thus pilot testing was used in conjunction with full scale operation to determine how additional sedimentation could help. The pilot plant was constructed with vertical flow sedimentation basins in series with the horizontal flow sedimentation basins in the fullscale plant. Pilot plant filters were identical to the fullscale filters. Tests were run between 8 January 1986 and 10 May 1986. In these tests it was found that neither sedimentation nor filtration parameters had an effect on filtered water turbidities (for raw water turbidities < 50 NTU) nor filtered water aluminum concentration (for raw water turbidities < 8 NTU). However, sedimentation overflow rate was shown to determine the amount of headloss after given filter run lengths. Therefore, sedimentation can control the operation of the filters, but not the quality of the filtered water. A method was devised to extrapolate the results of the pilot plant study to determine the ability of the existing Orange Water and Sewer Authority facility to handle greater flow rates in the future. The current physical plant is capable of producing 12 MGD at a filtration rate of 6 gpm/f^2 without additional sedimentation basins. This includes a margin of safety for daily operation and maintenance but not for extended down time maintenance.
title: Clinical outcomes following angioplasty in a population with very high prevalence of diabetes: a national audit
Creators: name: Vassallo, Edith
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Vascular
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Angioplasty
subject: Puncture

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives:  The purpose of our study was to determine the clinical outcome of lower limb angioplasty in a population with a very high prevalence of...
Neutrino Anarchy and Renormalization Group Evolution
Creators: name: Brdar, Vedran
name: König, Matthias
name: Kopp, Joachim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The observed pattern of neutrino mixing angles is in good agreement with the hypothesis of neutrino anarchy, which posits that Nature has chosen the entries of the leptonic mixing matrix at random. In this paper we investigate how stable this conclusion is under renormalization group effects. Working in the simplest type-I seesaw model and two variants of the inverse seesaw model we study how the statistical distributions of the neutrino mixing parameters evolve between the Grand Unification scale and the electroweak scale. Especially in the inverse seesaw case we find significant distortions: mixing angles tend to be smaller after RG running, and the Dirac CP phase tends to be closer to zero. The p-value describing the compatibility between the observed mixing angles and the anarchy hypothesis increases by 10-20%. This illustrates that RG effects are highly relevant for quantitative studies of the anarchy scenario.
description: 23 pages, 12 figures. v2: References added, matches version to be published in PRD
Personal Exposure to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons During Cooking in Rwandan Households
Creators: name: Frolking, Zoe
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Nearly three billion people, mostly in developing countries, rely on solid-fuel-burning cookstoves to prepare food and heat their homes. The World Health Organization has estimated that exposure to toxins and smoke emitted from cookstoves leads to 4.3 million premature deaths annually. One of the primary sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) exposure is indoor cookstove use. We carried out a comprehensive baseline exposure assessment survey in 180 households during in peri-urban Rwandan households July-August 2015. In each household, the primary cook's exposure to PAHs was measured over a 24-h period. We also recorded kitchen ventilation and size as well as fuel type, quantity, and moisture content. The aim of this study was to investigate the type and concentrations of airborne PAHs in the breathing zone of the main cook and in the cooking areas in a subsample of 16 households. The concentrations of PAHs significantly exceeded the recommended exposure levels in both personal breathing zones and cooking areas. PAHs analyzed were observed to be primarily in the gas phase. Cooking location (indoors or outdoors) and lighting-fuel type (plastic or small sticks) had no significant effect on PAH levels measured in the personal breathing zones or cooking areas. Understanding the PAH exposure from traditional cooking methods will allow for an accurate assessment of changes in PAH exposure after introduction of a more efficient cookstove in future phases of this longitudinal study, and has the potential to improve the health of millions of people globally.
A Kinetic Study of the Dissociation of Aluminum Bound to an Aquatic Fulvic Acid
Creators: name: Luor, Yi-Taih
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1989

description: The disssociation kinetics of alximinum-fulvic acid (Al-FA) as a function of the concentration of fulvic acid, pH, and ionic strength were studied with a fluorescence ligand exchange method using lumogallion. A graphical method and statistical non-linear regression were used for analyzing kinetic data. A two component, five parameters model appeared to fit the data best. For a fixed aluminum concentration, dissociation rates decreased as the concentration of fulvic acid increased and a greater fraction of the total aluminum appeared in the most slowly dissociating component. Increasing pH slightly decreased the dissociation rate. Ionic strength appeared to have no effect. The estimated pseudo-first-order dissociation rate constants for the two components were about 0.1 and 0.01 min(superscript)-1 respectively.
title: Initial experience with use of tris-acryl gelatin microspheres for transcatheter arterial embolization for enlarged polycystic liver
Creators: name: Sakuhara, Yusuke
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Hyperplasia / Hypertrophy
subject: Cysts
subject: Embolisation
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Liver
subject: Interventional vascular

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Introduction Polycystic liver disease (PLD) is the most common extrarenal manifestation of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), and also occurs as a genetically distinct disease in the absence of renal cysts, such as autosomal...
Determining Quantitative Goals for the Health-Risk Reduction to be Achieved Through the Implementation of a Multimedia Mitigation Program to Reduce Radon Concentrations in Indoor Air in North Carolina Homes
Creators: name: Newton, Bryan M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2000

description: The primary objective of this report is to develop a method for determining a quantitative goal for health-risk reduction to be achieved through implementation of a multimedia mitigation (MMM) program to reduce the health-risk to the public from radon in indoor air. This goal should be equivalent to the health-risk differential between AMCL and MCL compliance for radon in drinking water. The goal for health-risk reduction in North Carolina determined using this method is approximately 48,000 person-pCi/l. Another objective was to develop methods for determining the level of health-risk reduction that could be achieved annually by implementing radon resistant techniques in all new home construction in high-radon counties in North Carolina and for determining the level of health-risk reduction that could be achieved annually by mitigating homes with indoor air radon concentrations greater than 4pCi/l involved in real-estate transfers in high-radon counties in North Carohna. Using these methods, health-risk index estimates of 22,000 person-pCi/l and 80,000person-pCi/l, respectively, are estimated, and these annual health-risk indices are cumulative over time.
Interaction of Cytochrome P-450 and Acetyltransferases in Determining the Genotoxic Activities of Nitrated Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and their Metabolites in the Ames Salmonella Mutagenicity Assay
Creators: name: Rosser-Duncan, Penny Faye
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1993

description: This study investigated the interaction of cytochrome P-450, supplied by the S9 fraction from Aroclor 1254 treated male Sprague-Dawley rats, and acetyltransferases, present in the Salmonella typhimurium bacterial strains TA98 and YG1024, in determining the role of the genotoxic activation of 1-nitropyrene, 3-nitrofluoranthene, 2-nitrofluoranthene and their metabolites in the Ames Salmonella typhimurium reverse mutation assay. Salmonella typhimurium strain YG1024 was the most responsive bacterial strain, strain TA98 was less responsive than strain YG1024, and strain TA98/1,8-DNP[6] was the least responsive. These results supported the theory that nitro-PAHs could be activated by the enzyme O-acetyltransferase to more potent mutagens. The 3-nitrofluoranthene, 2-nitrofluoranthene and their metabolites were more mutagenic in the tester strains than 1-nitropyrene and its associated metabolites. The least responsive compound was 1-acetamidopyrene-4-,5-quinone. Metabolic transformation either activated the test compounds, detoxified them or had no effect on their mutagenicity. The locations of the substituents on the aromatic ring structure itself influenced mutagenicity.
title: Percutaneous gastrostomy: indications, technique and post-procedure management protocol.
Creators: name: Sánchez Tovar, Alejandro
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Abdomen
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Eating disorders

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The purpose of the exhibit is to present our recommendations for the management of patients undergoing percutaneous gastrostomy, review the indications, illustrate the technique and describe our post-interventional management...
Quantum Corrections to Holographic Mutual Information
Creators: name: Agón, Cesar
name: Faulkner, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the leading contribution to the mutual information (MI) of two disjoint spheres in the large distance regime for arbitrary conformal field theories (CFT) in any dimension. This is achieved by refining the operator product expansion method introduced by Cardy \cite{Cardy:2013nua}. For CFTs with holographic duals the leading contribution to the MI at long distances comes from bulk quantum corrections to the Ryu-Takayanagi area formula. According to the FLM proposal\cite{Faulkner:2013ana} this equals the bulk MI between the two disjoint regions spanned by the boundary spheres and their corresponding minimal area surfaces. We compute this quantum correction and provide in this way a non-trivial check of the FLM proposal.
description: 16 pages, 2 figures, acknowledges added to match the submitted JHEP version
title: Audit on the Complication Rates of Angioseal Vascular Closure Devices
Creators: name: Rafiee, Hameed
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Complications
subject: Angioplasty
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Vascular
subject: Puncture
subject: Haemorrhage
subject: Embolism / Thrombosis
subject: Dissection

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Background Vascular closure devices have been established as safe alternatives to manual compression for obtaining haemostasis after interventional vascular procedures. Versus manual compression they have been shown to provide faster haemostasis...
Respiratory Disease Surveillance of Nuclear Weapons Facilities Construction Workers
Creators: name: Alleman, Tony L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2002

description: Since 1996, the Department of Energy (DOE) has been studying populations of construction workers from two nuclear weapons facilities, Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Richland, Washington and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. In 1997 the Savannah River Site in Aiken, South Carolina was added to the research. Since construction workers have potential exposure to a variety of respiratory hazards, the research has been aimed at medical surveillance for occupational lung disease in the exposed populations. Previous work on a subset of these workers has been submitted for publication [Dement, et al., 2002] and has shown a significant prevalence of pulmonary disease findings. Among the findings are a number of workers with abnormal pulmonary functions but normal chest radiographs. This report covers findings for lung disease on participants who have had examinations including chest radiographs and pulmonary function tests through May 2002. A focus of this effort is further examination of workers who have a normal chest radiograph but who have an abnormal pulmonary function test.