cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Acute and Short-term Results of MitraClip XTR vs. PASCAL Transcatheter Valve Repair System for Edge-to-Edge Repair of Severe Tricuspid Regurgitation
Creators: name: Löw, Kornelia
name: Orban, Mathias
name: Stocker, Thomas
name: Mehr, Michael
name: Deseive, Simon
name: Gmeiner, Jonas
name: Hagl, Christian
name: Massberg, Steffen
name: Näbauer, Michael
name: Hausleiter, Jörg
name: Braun, Daniel
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Novel device developments enable the edge-to-edge treatment of inoperable patients with severe tricuspid regurgitation (TR) and large coaptation gaps. We compared the acute and short-term results of patients treated with the MitraClip XTR vs. PASCAL system. We retrospectively analysed 120 patients (72 pts. MitraClip XTR, 48 pts. PASCAL) treated for isolated severe TR on a compassionate-use basis. Mean patient age was 77 ± 8 years and the LaPar risk score was 6.7 ± 1.7 %. Patients in the PASCAL group had a larger coaptation gap and a trend to more severe TR. Procedural success (TR ≤ 2) was achieved in 92 % of patients in each group (XTR group: 66/72, PASCAL group: 44/48). Thirty-day follow-up was available in 94 % of patients. Two patients in the PASCAL group and one patient in the MitraClip XTR group died within 30-days of the procedure. Device complications were observed in 15.3 % of patients in the XTR group and in 10.4% of patients in the PASCAL group. There was a trend for a more pronounced reduction of vena contracta width in the PASCAL group compared to the XTR group. Tricuspid repair was associated with a comparable improvement in NYHA functional class and 6-minute walking distance in both groups. The PASCAL and the MitraClip XTR system appeared to be highly efficacious in treating patients with severe TR with a comparable rate of device complications in both groups but a trend for a more pronounced reduction of vena contracta width in the PASCAL group.
Vitiscore : Benchmarking des pratiques phytosanitaires en viticulture et outil d'écoconception dans la réduction de l'empreinte environnementale viticole
Creators: name: Boulanger, Jean-Philippe
name: Caubel, Julie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: viticulture
dephyto
benchmarking
ecoconception
transition agroécologique

description: Dans le cadre de la transition agroécologique et de la minimisation des impacts agricoles sur la
santé humaine et la biodiversité, nous présentons ici le Vitiscore, empreinte des traitements
phytosanitaires en viticulture, qui permet de répondre aux exigences de transparence des
consommateurs et d'accompagner les viticulteurs vers des pratiques plus vertueuses.
Vitiscore est une note quantifiant les dangers des programmes phytosanitaires viticoles sur la
santé et la biodiversité, quels que soient le mode de conduite et les labels/ certifications des
exploitations viticoles. Cette note d'empreinte repose sur les indicateurs Dephyto (Caubel, J.,
J.-P. Boulanger, E. Mandart, P. Le Grusse, https://zenodo.org/records/10007882). Il consiste à
la fois en une note, permettant aux viticulteurs de se positionner par rapport aux autres
exploitants (méthode de benchmarking), et un outil d'écoconception pour réduire l'empreinte
environnementale et aller vers des pratiques minimisant les risques.
title: The Intelligent Retinal Implant System IRIS V1: technology, surgical technique, first study results
Creators: name: Velikay-Parel, Michaela
name: LeMer, Y.
name: Richard, G.
name: Keserü, M.
name: Hornig, R.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objective: To present the IRIS V1 technology, surgical technique and first experience of the clinical trial (NCT01864486).    Methods: The system is composed of external parts (Visual Interface with camera and infrared data transmitters mounted on spectacles linked to a pocket processor) and an implantable[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Artificial Vision 2015
Exact Analytic Solution for the Rotation of a Rigid Body having Spherical Ellipsoid of Inertia and Subjected to a Constant Torque
Creators: name: Romano, Marcello
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The exact analytic solution is introduced for the rotational motion of a rigid body having three equal principal moments of inertia and subjected to an external torque vector which is constant for an observer fixed with the body, and to arbitrary initial angular velocity. In the paper a parametrization of the rotation by three complex numbers is used. In particular, the rows of the rotation matrix are seen as elements of the unit sphere and projected, by stereographic projection, onto points on the complex plane. In this representation, the kinematic differential equation reduces to an equation of Riccati type, which is solved through appropriate choices of substitutions, thereby yielding an analytic solution in terms of confluent hypergeometric functions. The rotation matrix is recovered from the three complex rotation variables by inverse stereographic map. The results of a numerical experiment confirming the exactness of the analytic solution are reported. The newly found analytic solution is valid for any motion time length and rotation amplitude. The present paper adds a further element to the small set of special cases for which an exact solution of the rotational motion of a rigid body exists.
description: "Errata Corridge Postprint" In particular: typos present in Eq. 28 of the Journal version are HERE corrected
title: Evaluation of reaching by localization test in a patient with retinal prosthesis by suprachoroidal-transretinal stimulation (STS)
Creators: name: Endo, Takao
name: Fujikado, Takashi
name: Hirota, Masakazu
name: Kanda, Hiroyuki
name: Morimoto, Takeshi
name: Nishida, Kohji
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Background: To evaluate the improvement of reaching movement in a patient implanted with retinal prosthesis by suprachoroidal-transretinal stimulation (STS).    Methods: The subject was a 42-year-old man with advanced Stargardt disease with visual acuity of LP (right eye) and HM (left eye). We implanted[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Artificial Vision 2015
title: Analysis of Case Reports for the Argus II Retinal Implant
Creators: name: Geruschat, Duane
name: Dorn, J.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Background: The Argus II retinal prosthesis is now commercially available. During the process of receiving approval for its distribution assessments of how the subjects functioned with the Argus II system were completed. In addition to data collection and scoring, evaluators wrote a case summary describing[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Artificial Vision 2015
Cybianthus venezuelanus Mez
Creators: name: Molino, Jean-François
name: Sabatier, Daniel
name: Grenand, Pierre
name: Engel, Julien
name: Frame, Dawn
name: Delprete, Piero G.
name: Fleury, Marie
name: Odonne, Guillaume
name: Davy, Damien
name: Lucas, Eve J.
name: Martin, Claire A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Primulaceae
Cybianthus
Cybianthus venezuelanus

description: [1415] Cybianthus venezuelanus Mez
 Pflanzenr. [Engler] IV.236 (Heft 9): 221 [6 May 1902] (Mez 1902). Cybianthus egensis Mez, Pflanzenr. [Engler] IV.236 (Heft 9): 222 [6 May 1902] (Mez 1902).
 Peckia purpurea Rusby, Bull. New York Bot. Gard. 4 (14): 405 [7 Dec. 1907] (Rusby 1907).
 Cybianthus brownii Gleason, Bull.Torrey Bot. Club 53 (5): 293 [May 1926] (Gleason 1926).
VERNACULAR NAMES. — Wp: wɨla ka’alulu wɨpẽ’ i.
 HERBARIUM DATA (FG). — 35 collections at CAY. Sel. exs.: R.A.A. Oldeman B-3045.
 SIZE. — Brazil, Acre. C.A. Cid Ferreira 10202 (MO), 10 m × 25 cm.
description: Published as part of Molino, Jean-François, Sabatier, Daniel, Grenand, Pierre, Engel, Julien, Frame, Dawn, Delprete, Piero G., Fleury, Marie, Odonne, Guillaume, Davy, Damien, Lucas, Eve J. & Martin, Claire A., 2022, An annotated checklist of the tree species of French Guiana, including vernacular nomenclature, pp. 345-903 in Adansonia (3) (3) 44 (26) on page 645, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2022v44a26, http://zenodo.org/record/7458777
title: Surgery-associated adverse events of Argus II retinal prosthesis system
Creators: name: Schimitzek, Hannah
name: Walter, P.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Background: The Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System (Second Sight Medical Products Inc., Sylmar, CA, USA) is an implantable device designed to improve vision in patients with Retinitis pigmentosa. The device has received commercial approval by the European Union (CE Mark) in March 2011 and by the Food[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Artificial Vision 2015
The effect of photo-electric absorption on space-charge limited flow in pulsars
Creators: name: Jones, P. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Photo-electric absorption of blackbody photons is an important process which limits the acceleration of ions under the space-charge limited flow boundary condition at the polar caps of pulsars with positive corotational charge density. Photo-electric cross-sections in high magnetic fields have been found for the geometrical conditions of the problem, and ion transition rates calculated as functions of the surface temperatures on both the polar cap and the general neutron-star surface. The general surface temperature is the more important and, unless it is below 10^5 K, limits the acceleration electric field in the open magnetosphere to values far below those needed either for electron-positron pair creation or slot-gap X-ray sources. But such ion beams are unstable against growth of a quasi-longitudinal Langmuir mode at rates that can be observationally significant as a source of coherent radio emission.
description: 7 pages; to be published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
title: Developing a calibrated ultra-low vision (ULV) assessment toolkit
Creators: name: Dagnelie, Gislin
name: Geruschat, D.
name: Massof, R.W.
name: Jeter, P.E.
name: Adeyemo, O.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Purpose: To supplement self report instruments for individuals with profound low vision with an assessment tool consisting of activities requiring minimal, yet some, vision, and to calibrate these activities.    Methods: 17 activities were modeled after self-report items in the 150-item version of our[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Artificial Vision 2015
title: Real Time Fully Wireless Implantable Optogenetics Visual Cortical Stimulator
Creators: name: Fattah, Nabeel A.
name: Al-Atabany, W.
name: Sokolov, D.
name: Chester, G.
name: Degenaar, P.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Number of population are continuously increasing and also the number of people who visual disability. There are different approach for restoring sight but there is not any of them can treat all the kind of blindness. The fully wireless implantable optogenetics stimulator will hopefully can resolve all[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Artificial Vision 2015
Defect-detection in casting products using grid search augmented PCA CNN hybrid model
Creators: name: Alwer, Abdulkader
name: Aydin, Cem Savas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 401003
subject: Engineering practice
classificationCode: 401002
subject: Engineering education

description: Abstract. Automated and accurate defect detection techniques are increasingly becoming more important in manufacturing systems. These techniques are commonly mentioned in academic literature and implemented by industry. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are popular tools used in image recognition allowing them to be used for defect detection systems in manufacturing. Principal component analysis (PCA) is also an important statistical technique used for feature extraction. This study proposes a grid search augmented PCA-CNN hybrid method for defect-detection in casting products. Proposed approach extracts the most significant features of casting product image data set by selecting the top principal components which leads to dimensionality reduction in data. This in turn leads to retention of the most informative aspects and a reduction in noise improving the efficiency of algorithms. Preprocessing done by applying PCA reduces the computation time of algorithms and improves accuracy when training data for CNNs is limited. Grid search was also implemented into the model to select the best model parameters settings based on model accuracy and loss. We aim to achieve enhanced performance of real-time monitoring and defect-detection in manufacturing systems by integrating these techniques. Proposed hybrid model’s results are compared with a standard CNN model and improved performance in nearly all model parameters is observed. However proposed approach has its challenges such as the quality of input data, complexity and training of the CNN model, selection of features can hinder the performance of the proposed system. The sparsity of training data set is also an important challenge as it leads to model overfitting and reduction in models generalization capabilities. Therefore, there is an ongoing need for further research in this topic and exploration of new solutions such as transfer learning and multi-modal data fusion to improve defect detection.
Images of the Extended Outer Regions of the Debris Ring Around HR 4796 A
Creators: name: Thalmann, C.
name: Janson, M.
name: Buenzli, E.
name: Brandt, T. D.
name: Wisniewski, J. P.
name: Moro-Martín, A.
name: Usuda, T.
name: Schneider, G.
name: Carson, J.
name: McElwain, M. W.
name: Grady, C. A.
name: Goto, M.
name: Abe, L.
name: Brandner, W.
name: Dominik, C.
name: Egner, S.
name: Feldt, M.
name: Fukue, T.
name: Golota, T.
name: Guyon, O.
name: Hashimoto, J.
name: Hayano, Y.
name: Hayashi, M.
name: Hayashi, S.
name: Henning, T.
name: Hodapp, K. W.
name: Ishii, M.
name: Iye, M.
name: Kandori, R.
name: Knapp, G. R.
name: Kudo, T.
name: Kusakabe, N.
name: Kuzuhara, M.
name: Matsuo, T.
name: Miyama, S.
name: Morino, J. -I.
name: Nishimura, T.
name: Pyo, T. -S.
name: Serabyn, E.
name: Suto, H.
name: Suzuki, R.
name: Takahashi, Y. H.
name: Takami, M.
name: Takato, N.
name: Terada, H.
name: Tomono, D.
name: Turner, E. L.
name: Watanabe, M.
name: Yamada, T.
name: Takami, H.
name: Tamura, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present high-contrast images of HR 4796 A taken with Subaru/HiCIAO in H-band, resolving the debris disk in scattered light. The application of specialized angular differential imaging methods (ADI) allows us to trace the inner edge of the disk with high precision, and reveals a pair of "streamers" extending radially outwards from the ansae. Using a simple disk model with a power-law surface brightness profile, we demonstrate that the observed streamers can be understood as part of the smoothly tapered outer boundary of the debris disk, which is most visible at the ansae. Our observations are consistent with the expected result of a narrow planetesimal ring being ground up in a collisional cascade, yielding dust with a wide range of grain sizes. Radiation forces leave large grains in the ring and push smaller grains onto elliptical, or even hyperbolic trajectories. We measure and characterize the disk's surface brightness profile, and confirm the previously suspected offset of the disk's center from the star's position along the ring's major axis. Furthermore, we present first evidence for an offset along the minor axis. Such offsets are commonly viewed as signposts for the presence of unseen planets within a disk's cavity. Our images also offer new constraints on the presence of companions down to the planetary mass regime (~9 Jupiter masses at 0.5", ~3 Jupiter masses at 1").
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, 1 table; accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
title: สัญญาระหว่างสมรส : ข้อจำกัดเกี่ยวกับช่วงเวลาภายใต้ระบบทรัพย์สินระหว่างคู่สมรสตามสัญญาของประเทศไทย
Creators: name: วิมพัทธ์ ราชประดิษฐ์
Publisher: name: สำนักวิชานิติศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยแม่ฟ้าหลวง
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2568
Subjects: ระบบทรัพย์สินระหว่างคู่สมรสตามสัญญา
สัญญาระหว่างสมรส
เสรีภาพในการทำสัญญา

description: วารสารนิติศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยแม่ฟ้าหลวง, 8, 1, 185-227
Gamma-Rays from Radio Galaxies: Fermi-Lat Observations
Creators: name: Grandi, Paola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the high energy properties of Misaligned AGNs associated with gamma-ray sources detected by Fermi in 24 months of survey. Most of them are nearby emission low power radio galaxies (i.e FRIs) which probably have structured jets. On the contrary, high power radio sources (i.e FRIIs) with GeV emission are rare. The small number of FRIIs does not seem to be related to their higher redshifts. Assuming proportionality between the radio core flux and the gamma-ray flux, several of them are expected to be bright enough to be detected above 100 MeV in spite of their distance. We suggest that beaming/jet structural differences are responsible for the detection rate discrepancy observed between FRIs and FRIIs.
description: To be published in the proceedings of High Energy Phenomena in Relativistic Outflows III (HEPRO III, IJMPCS); 6 pages, 3 figures
Cordiera myrciifolia C. H. Perss. & Delprete
Creators: name: Molino, Jean-François
name: Sabatier, Daniel
name: Grenand, Pierre
name: Engel, Julien
name: Frame, Dawn
name: Delprete, Piero G.
name: Fleury, Marie
name: Odonne, Guillaume
name: Davy, Damien
name: Lucas, Eve J.
name: Martin, Claire A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Gentianales
Rubiaceae
Cordiera
Cordiera myrciifolia

description: [1443] Cordiera myrciifolia (K.Schum.) C.H.Perss. & Delprete
 Fl. Venez. Guayana 8: 559 (Persson & Delprete 2004). — Alibertia myrciifolia K.Schum., Fl. Bras. [Martius] 6 (6): 393 [15 June 1889] (Schumann 1889). — Cordiera myrciifolia Spruce ex K.Schum., Fl. Bras. [Martius] 6 (6): 393 [15 June 1889] (Schumann 1889), nom. nud. pro syn.
 Alibertia uniflora Standl., Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 11 (5): 179 (Standley 1936).
 Alibertia myrciifolia var. tepuiensis Steyerm., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 12 (3): 226 (Steyermark 1965).
 Alibertia triloba Steyerm., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 12 (3): 227 (Steyermark 1965).
VERNACULAR NAMES. — Wn: malipaimë.
 HERBARIUM DATA (FG). — 6 collections at CAY. Sel. exs.: J.-F. Molino & D. Sabatier 1993.
INVENTORY DATA (FG). — 4 trees in 4 plots; Fmax <1 %; dbhinv = 12.8 cm.
description: Published as part of Molino, Jean-François, Sabatier, Daniel, Grenand, Pierre, Engel, Julien, Frame, Dawn, Delprete, Piero G., Fleury, Marie, Odonne, Guillaume, Davy, Damien, Lucas, Eve J. & Martin, Claire A., 2022, An annotated checklist of the tree species of French Guiana, including vernacular nomenclature, pp. 345-903 in Adansonia (3) (3) 44 (26) on page 652, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2022v44a26, http://zenodo.org/record/7458777
A methodology to compare sea-level index points and sea-level models
Creators: name: Garzón, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Last Interglacial
Sea level indicators

description: Master thesis: A methodology to compare sea-level index points and sea-level models (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster - University of Münster). The repository contains Rmarkdown files, code and documentation required to create the final manuscript
title: Development of an implantable epiretinal vision prosthesis with integrated image acquisition -OPTOEPIRET
Creators: name: Walter, Peter
name: Mokwa, W.
name: Grabmaier, A.
name: Kokozinski, R.
name: Viga, R.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Objective: The objective of this project is the development of an implantable epiretinal vision prosthesis with integrated image acquisition.    Concept: Retinal implants that are used in humans today have in common that due to the small size of the electrode array only a small area of the retina can[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Artificial Vision 2015
PREDICTING ESG SCORES OF OIL AND GAS COMPANIES USING FUNDAMENTAL RATIOS AND MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES
Creators: name: Alsayyad, Mariam
Publisher: name: American University of Bahrain
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 350202
subject: Finance
classificationCode: 380107
subject: Financial economics
classificationCode: 4104
subject: Environmental management

description: The oil and gas sector holds a critical position globally within the energy and financial markets. The increase in concerns about Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) scores and their implications is growing in this industry. This research aims to predict ESG scores in the oil and gas sector using big data sets consisting of firms' financial indicators and ESG indicators that are publicly accessible. The analysis covered 497 companies in the oil and gas industry, over a span of 12 years. 14 machine learning algorithms were employed for the ESG score prediction, including decision trees, ensembled algorithms (boosted, bagged, voting, and RUSBoosted), XGBoost, LightGBM, random forest, linear SVM, and extreme random trees, linear, robust linear, and elastic net. The analysis utilized1 year-lag in ESG scores and panel data analysis. It was conducted through both classification and regression machine learning analyses, and the results obtained showed superior classification accuracy with a value of 100%, over the regression analysis with R2 value of 0.922. The results presented in this report offer a valuable approach for investors and decision-makers to assess a firm's ESG performance, enabling more informed and sustainable investment decisions.
The U.S. Mushroom Industry: The Import Challenge
Creators: name: Owens, T. Richard
name: Garland, William R.
name: Kesecker, Kevin
name: Runyan, Jack L.
name: Owens, T. Richard
name: Garland, William R.
name: Kesecker, Kevin
name: Runyan, Jack L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Mushrooms
subject: imports
subject: marketing
subject: costs of production
subject: processing
subject: merchandising
subject: pricing

description: Significant increases in imports of processed mushrooms have affected not only domestic processors and producers of processing mushrooms but also producers and handlers of fresh mushrooms. This report, commissioned by a Presidential task force charged with making recommendations as to future import policies, investigates the competitive stance of domestic mushroom processors with respect to their foreign counterparts. It describes the structure of the mushroom industry, with special emphasis on southeastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware, and marketing of the product from grower to retail buyer. This comprehensive study of the mushroom industry includes surveys of growers, repackers, canners, and major marketing and distribution firms to obtain production costs, sales, and marketing information. Included in the report are options upon which industry and Government initiatives might be focused to improve the industry's situation
Thermal balance of the jet in the microquasar SS433
Creators: name: Bisnovatyi-Kogan, Gennady S.
name: Krivosheyev, Yuri M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thermal balance of the jet in the source SS433 is considered with account of radiative and adiabatic cooling, and different heating mechanisms. We consider jet heating by the inverse Compton effect of coronal hard X-ray quanta on jet electrons, the influence of shock wave propagation along the jet, and jet kinetic energy transformation into heat via Coulomb collisions of jet and corona protons. The most important heating mechanism for the source SS433 turns out to be Coulomb collisions of jet particles with the surrounding medium.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures. To appear in proceedings of HEPRO III (Barcelona, June 27 - July 1, 2011)
Giant texturing effect in multiferroic MnWO$_4$ polycrystals
Creators: name: Jana, Somnath
name: Nag, Abhishek
name: Ray, Sugata
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Different methods of texturing polycrystalline materials are developed over years to use/probe anisotropic material properties with relative ease, where complicated and expensive single crystal growth processes could be avoided. In this paper, particle morphology assisted texturing in multiferroic MnWO$_4$ has been discussed. Detailed powder x-ray diffraction vis-a-vis scanning electron microscopic studies on differently annealed and processed samples have been employed to probe the giant texturing effect in powdered MnWO$_4$. A quantitative measure of the texturing has been carried out by means of Rietveld analysis technique. Qualitative presentation of magnetic and dielectric data on textured pellet demonstrated the development of clear anisotropic physical properties in polycrystalline pellets. Finally, we established that the highly anisotropic plate like particles are formed due to easy cleavage of the significantly large crystalline grains.
description: 8 Pages, 8 Figures
Roer4D Sub-Project 1 - India Oer Review
Creators: name: Dhanarajan, Gajaraj
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: India
Open Educational Resources
research in the Global South
South and Southeast Asia
open education

description: The ROER4D project endeavours to cover at least three regions in the Global South, namely, South America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South and South East Asia. However, background information on OER projects, policies and research and information on infrastructural, legal, socio-cultural and/or economic factors that might influence the adoption of OER in post-secondary education in these regions is incomplete despite the work of current projects. The project will provide background information on infrastructural, legal, socio-cultural and/or economic factors that might influence the adoption of OER in post-secondary education for the researchers involved in the ROER4D sub-projects and the final ROER4D meta-analysis. This desktop review aims to provide an overview of OER projects, policies and research in India as of the period 2013-2014.
Roer4D Sub-Project 1 - Malaysia Oer Review
Creators: name: Dhanarajan, Gajaraj
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Malaysia
Open Educational Resources
research in the Global South
South and Southeast Asia
open education

description: The ROER4D project endeavours to cover at least three regions in the Global South, namely, South America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South and South East Asia. However, background information on OER projects, policies and research and information on infrastructural, legal, socio-cultural and/or economic factors that might influence the adoption of OER in post-secondary education in these regions is incomplete despite the work of current projects. The project will provide background information on infrastructural, legal, socio-cultural and/or economic factors that might influence the adoption of OER in post-secondary education for the researchers involved in the ROER4D sub-projects and the final ROER4D meta-analysis. This desktop review aims to provide an overview of OER projects, policies and research in Malaysia as of the period 2013-2014.
Eikonocity
Creators: name: AA.VV, AA.VV.
Publisher: name: Eikonocity. Storia e Iconografia delle Città e dei Siti Europei - History and Iconography of European Cities and Sites
Year: 2016

description: anno I, n. 1, 2016
description: Eikonocity. Storia e Iconografia delle Città e dei Siti Europei - History and Iconography of European Cities and Sites, Vol 1, No 1 (2016)
Roer4D Sub-Project 1 - South And Southeast Asia Oer Review
Creators: name: Dhanarajan, Gajaraj
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: South and Southeast Asia
Open Educational Resources
research in the Global South
open education

description: The ROER4D project endeavours to cover at least three regions in the Global South, namely, South America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South and South East Asia. However, background information on OER projects, policies and research and information on infrastructural, legal, socio-cultural and/or economic factors that might influence the adoption of OER in post-secondary education in these regions is incomplete despite the work of current projects. The project will provide background information on infrastructural, legal, socio-cultural and/or economic factors that might influence the adoption of OER in post-secondary education for the researchers involved in the ROER4D sub-projects and the final ROER4D meta-analysis. This desktop review aims to provide an overview of OER projects, policies and research in the South and Southeast Asian region as of the period 2013-2014.
Astrophysical and Structural Parameters of the Open Clusters NGC 6866, NGC 7062, and NGC 2360
Creators: name: Gunes, O.
name: Karatas, Y.
name: Bonatto, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive astrophysical and structural parameters of the poorly studied open clusters NGC 6866, NGC 7062, and NGC 2360 based on filtered 2MASS (J, J -H) diagrams, and stellar radial density profiles. The field star decontamination technique is utilised for selecting high-probability cluster members. The E(B -V) reddening values of the three clusters derived from 2MASS JHKs agree with those inferred from UBV and uvby-β photometries. We find that the core mass function slopes are flatter than the halo's for the three clusters. The large core and cluster radii of NGC 6866 and NGC 2360 indicate an expanded core, which may suggest the presence of stellar mass black-holes. NGC 2360 is located in the third quadrant (l = 229.80), where Giant Molecular Clouds are scarce that, together with its relatively large mass (~ 1800 msun), might explain its longevity(~ 1.8Gyr) in the Galaxy.
description: 26 pages, 6 tables, 15 figures, accepted for New Astronomy
Endoscopic Ultrasound for the Evaluation of Cystic Lesions of the Pancreas
Creators: name: Al-Haddad, Mohammad
name: El Hajj, Ihab I
name: Eloubeidi, Mohamad A
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biopsy, Fine-Needle; Cysts; Endosonography; Pancreas

description: No abstract available.

Image: Gross surgical resection specimen (distal pancreatectomy with splenectomy).
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 11, No 4 (2010): July - p. 299-422
Model of the electron-phonon interaction and optical conductivity of Ba$_{1-x}$K$_x$BiO$_3$ superconductors
Creators: name: Nourafkan, R.
name: Marsiglio, F.
name: Kotliar, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the physical properties of the Ba$_{1-x}$K$_x$BiO$_3$ compounds with a focus on the optical properties. Results from the simple Holstein model, describing a single band coupled to an oxygen breathing mode with parameters derived from first principles calculations, are in excellent agreement with a broad range of experimental information. It accounts for an insulating parent compound at $x=0$ %, with a direct- (optical) and an indirect-gap, and a metal insulator transition around $x = 0.38$. Strong electron-phonon coupling leads to spectral weight redistribution over a frequency scale much larger than the characteristic phonon frequency and to strongly anharmonic phonons. We find that the metallic phase in the vicinity of phase boundary is close to the polaronic regime.
Starless Cloud Core L1517B in Envelope Expansion with Core Collapse
Creators: name: Fu, Tian-Ming
name: Gao, Yang
name: Lou, Yu-Qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Various spectral emission lines from star-forming molecular cloud core L1517B manifest red asymmetric double-peaked profiles with stronger red peaks and weaker blue peaks, in contrast to the oft-observed blue-skewed molecular spectral line profiles with blue peaks stronger than red peaks. Invoking a spherically symmetric general polytropic hydrodynamic shock model for the envelope expansion with core collapse (EECC) phase, we show the radial flow velocity, mass density and temperature structures of self-similar evolution for L1517B in a dynamically consistent manner. By prescribing simple radial profiles of abundance distribution for pertinent molecules, we perform molecular excitation and radiative transfer calculations using the publicly available RATRAN code set for the spherically symmetric case. Our computational results show that the EECC model reproduces molecular spectral line profiles in sensible agreement with observational data of IRAM, FCRAO and Effelsberg 100 m telescopes for L1517B. We also report spatially resolved observations of optically thick line HCO+(1-0) using the Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO) 13.7 m telescope at Delingha in China and the relevant fitting results. Hyperfine line structures of NH3 and N2H+ transitions are also fitted to consistently reveal the dynamics of central core collapse. As a consistent model check, radial profiles of 1.2 mm and 0.85 mm dust continua observed by IRAM 30 m telescope and SCUBA, respectively, are also fitted numerically using the same EECC model that produces the molecular line profiles. L1517B is likely undergoing an EECC shock phase. For future observational tests, we also predict several molecular line profiles with spatial distributions, radial profile of sub-millimeter continuum at wavelength 0.45mm, as well as the radial profiles of the column density and visual extinction for L1517B.
description: 18 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Updates of Adjuvant Therapy in Pancreatic Cancer: Where Are We and Where Are We Going?
Creators: name: Li, Jia
name: Merl, Man Yee
name: Chabot, John
name: Saif, Muhammad Wasif
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2010
Subjects: Chemotherapy, Adjuvant; gemcitabine; Immunotherapy; Pancreatic Neoplasms

description: Pancreatic cancer represents the 4th leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States. Surgical resection remains the only potential curative approach. Current standard adjuvant therapy is gemcitabine monotherapy for 6 months. This year several trials investigated other combinations with or without molecular target agents, with or without concurrent radiation attempting to optimize adjuvant therapy. Several abstracts presented at the 2010 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting are highlighted here and will be further discussed in this review article. Abstracts #4012, #4059, and TPS226 added immunotherapy to adjuvant treatment. Abstract #4034 demonstrated lack of efficacy by adding either cetuximab or bevacizumab to known adjuvant therapies. Abstract e14625 combined S-1 to gemcitabine and abstract #4113 demonstrated a positive correlation between symptoms and CA 19-9 levels with the length of survival.

Image: Yale-New Haven Hospital. New Haven, CT, USA.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 11, No 4 (2010): July - p. 299-422
Updates in Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer
Creators: name: Chang, Bryan W
name: Siccion, Eduardo
name: Saif, Muhammad Wasif
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2010
Subjects: capecitabine; gemcitabine; Pancreatic Neoplasms; Radiotherapy; Receptors, Urokinase Plasminogen Activator; sorafenib

description: Pancreatic cancer is the 4th leading cancer cause mortality in both men and women. Pancreatic cancer is usually diagnosed in the advanced setting, and only 10-15% of patients present with operable disease. About 25% are locally advanced and unresectable and the rest are metastatic. Studies presented at the 2010 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting highlighted both current treatment options and promising novel therapeutic agents and approaches.

Image: Design of the ongoing UK SCALOP phase II study.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 11, No 4 (2010): July - p. 299-422
First-Line Treatment of Metastatic Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma: Can We Do Better?
Creators: name: Merl, Man Yee
name: Abdelghany, Osama
name: Li, Jia
name: Saif, Muhammad Wasif
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2010
Subjects: erlotinib; gemcitabine; Neoplasm Metastasis; Pancreatic Neoplasms

description: Pancreatic cancer is one of the most devastating solid tumor malignancies. Majority of patients have metastatic disease upon diagnosis. Five-year survival is less than 5% for all stages of pancreatic cancer combined. Gemcitabine has been the standard palliative therapy for advanced pancreatic cancer over the past decade. Many studies attempted to develop combination regimens, but they failed to improve overall survival in the metastatic settings. The combination of gemcitabine and erlotinib was the first combination regimen to show improvements in survival benefit compared with gemcitabine alone and became the first-line combination therapy in advanced pancreatic cancer. The search for better treatment strategies to prolong survival in this deadly disease is very much needed and is a worldwide effort. There were many studies presented at the 2010 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting focused on first-line therapy in metastatic pancreatic cancer. This article highlights a few phase III and II studies that have demonstrated encouraging results.

Image: Yale-New Haven Hospital. New Haven, CT, USA
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 11, No 4 (2010): July - p. 299-422
Quantum phenomenology of conjunction fallacy
Creators: name: Cheon, Taksu
name: Takahashi, Taiki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A quantum-like description of human decision process is developed, and a heuristic argument supporting the theory as sound phenomenology is given. It is shown to be capable of quantitatively explaining the conjunction fallacy in the same footing as the violation of sure-thing principle.
description: LaTeX 8 pages, 2 figures
Derivations and additional model details from Conditions that favour cumulative cultural evolution
Creators: name: Denton, Kaleda K.
name: Ram, Yoav
name: Feldman, Marcus W.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: These appendices include invasion analyses, parameter values used in simulations, further explanation of the models, and additional simulations for the finite population model.
Second Line Therapy for Advanced Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma: Where Are We and Where Are We Going?
Creators: name: Brus, Christina
name: Saif, Muhammad Wasif
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2010
Subjects: 130-nm albumin-bound paclitaxel; capecitabine; gemcitabine-oxaliplatin regimen; Pancreatic Neoplasms

description: Most patients with adenocarcinoma of the pancreas present with locally advanced or metastatic disease. Although single agent gemcitabine is widely accepted as first-line therapy, there is no current standard of care for gemcitabine-refractory patients. Common second-line chemotherapy regimens included oxaliplatin and 5-FU/leucovorin (OFF), gemcitabine and oxaliplatin (GEMOX), oxaliplatin and capecitabine (XELOX), and irinotecan-oxaliplatin. At the 2010 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, several new second-line chemotherapy regimens were presented, including gemcitabine and oxaliplatin with imatinib, single agent nab-paclitaxel, and the combination of high-dose capecitabine with oxaliplatin and sorafenib. These abstracts provide exciting new directions for the treatment of gemcitabine-refractory advanced pancreatic cancer.

Image: Yale Cancer Center, Yale University School of Medicine. New Haven, CT, USA
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 11, No 4 (2010): July - p. 299-422
Anomalous resistivity and the electron-polaron effect in the two-band Hubbard model with one narrow band
Creators: name: Kagan, M. Yu.
name: Val'kov, V. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We search for anomalous normal and superconductive behavior in the two-band Hubbard model with one narrow band. We analyze the influence of electron-polaron effect and Altshuler-Aronov effect on effective mass enhancement and scattering times of heavy and light components in the clean case. We find anomalous behavior of resistivity at high temperatures $T>W_{h}^{*}$ both in 3D and 2D situation. The SC instability in the model is governed by enhanced Kohn-Luttinger effect for p-wave pairing of heavy electrons via polarization of light electrons.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism, based on the invited talk on Stripes XI Conference in Rome, July 2011
Novel Agents for the Treatment of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma: Any Light at the End of the Tunnel?
Creators: name: Dimou, Anastasios T
name: Syrigos, Konstantinos N
name: Saif, Muhammad Wasif
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2010
Subjects: cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen 4; ixabepilone; Pancreatic Neoplasms; Receptor, IGF Type 1; Receptors, Somatomedin; Taxoids

description: Pancreatic cancer is a disease with dismal prognosis and treatment options are limited. Development of novel active compounds is mandatory. A number of pancreatic cancer clinical trials that included a novel agent among their arms were presented at the recent 2010 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting. It appears that IGF-1R inhibition might be effective and this should be tested in further trials. Microtubule stabilization with ixabepilone in combination with EGFR does not lead to promising improvement in prognosis whereas nab-paclitaxel in combination with anti-angiogenetic agents is a combination not previously tested that showed an acceptable safety profile. This combination might be worth testing in a phase II clinical trial. Last but not least, CTLA-4 blockade has an acceptable toxicity profile but its efficacy needs to be proven over placebo in phase II and III trials. Finally, understanding of the tumor biology and biomarker analysis from the clinical trials is warranted.

Image: Yale University School of Medicine. New Haven, CT, USA.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 11, No 4 (2010): July - p. 299-422
Pharmacogenetics and Other Molecular Targets in the Management of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
Creators: name: Merika, Eirini
name: Syrigos, Konstantinos N
name: Saif, Muhammad Wasif
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2010
Subjects: BRAF protein, human; epidermal growth factor receptor-neu receptor; KRAS protein, human; Pancreatic Neoplasms; Pharmacogenetics; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide

description: Among various abstracts presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) held in Chicago, June 2010, four interesting abstracts focusing on pancreatic cancer merit further discussion in this post-ASCO commentary as they potentially provide insight to clinicians and hope to patients. These abstracts point to the future of pancreatic cancer management through identification of molecular targets and prognostic factors to overcome the limits of efficacious chemotherapy delivery.

Image: XPD protein (with permission of Department of Energy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CA, USA).
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 11, No 4 (2010): July - p. 299-422
Pancreatic Cancer and Thrombosis
Creators: name: Shah, Manasi M
name: Saif, Mumhammad Wasif
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2010
Subjects: Heparin, Low-Molecular-Weight; Pancreatic Neoplasms; Thromboplastin; Thrombosis; Venous Thromboembolism

description: Although pancreatic cancer is recognized as a major risk factor for venous thromboembolism, the exact magnitude of the problem is not known. The incidence varies from 17% to 57% depending on different studies. The effect of venous thromboembolism on outcomes in not well defined and there is no known independent predictor of survival. This review is an update from the current American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting regarding the impact of thrombotic events on the clinical outcomes, the association of tissue factor and thrombotic events, and the primary prevention of venous thromboembolism in pancreatic cancer patients undergoing active treatment.

Image: University of Connecticut Health Center. Farmington, CT, USA
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 11, No 4 (2010): July - p. 299-422
Clinical Outcome of Pancreatic Cancer Patients with Diabetes Mellitus: Is Diabetes a Poor Prognostic Factor?
Creators: name: Kang, Soonmo Peter
name: Saif, Muhammad Wasif
Publisher: name: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas
Year: 2010
Subjects: Diabetes Mellitus; Pancreatic Neoplasms; Prognosis

description: Diabetes mellitus and its related factors such as hyperinsulinemia have been linked to various cancer risks and outcomes. Previous research has offered inconsistent results in terms of relationship between diabetes and pancreatic cancers. Establishing clear association between these two entities may guide us in improving clinical outcomes of pancreatic cancer patients. Two abstracts that examined the association between diabetes mellitus and pancreatic cancer are updated in this paper. Herein, the authors report updated information from the 2010 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting in association between pancreatic cancer and diabetes mellitus. The present paper illustrates insufficient knowledge base to draw a conclusion in this topic. However, validation and understanding of the association could have significant clinical implications with respect to cancer prevention, early detection, and treatment. As such, further investigations are warranted to explore the link diabetes and pancreatic cancers.

Image: Department of Medicine, University of Chicago. Chicago, IL, USA.
description: JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, Vol 11, No 4 (2010): July - p. 299-422