cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Post-mortem computed tomography (PMCT) imaging of the lungs: pitfalls and potential misdiagnosis.
Creators: name: Filograna, Laura
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Forensics
subject: Education
subject: Decision analysis
subject: CT
subject: Lung

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: The lerning objectives of this exhibit are: - To illustrate PMCT imaging of post-mortal changes of the lungs. - To show PMCT imaging of pathological lungs in: a. thoracic trauma cases b. non-thoracic trauma cases c. non-trauma cases - To outline...
A Study Investigating Typical Concepts and Guidelines for Ontology Building
Creators: name: Slimani, Thabet
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In semantic technologies, the shared common understanding of the structure of information among artifacts (people or software agents) can be realized by building an ontology. To do this, it is imperative for an ontology builder to answer several questions: a) what are the main components of an ontology? b) How an ontology look likes and how it works? c) Verify if it is required to consider reusing existing ontologies or not? c) What is the complexity of the ontology to be developed? d) What are the principles of ontology design and development? e) How to evaluate an ontology? This paper answers all the key questions above. The aim of this paper is to present a set of guiding principles to help ontology developers and also inexperienced users to answer such questions.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures
Theoretical considerations for star formation at low and high redshift
Creators: name: Elmegreen, Bruce G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Star formation in strongly self-gravitating cloud cores should be similar at all redshifts, forming single or multiple stars with a range of masses determined by local magneto-hydrodynamics and gravity. The formation processes for these cores, however, as well as their structures, temperatures, Mach numbers, etc., and the boundedness and mass distribution functions of the resulting stars, should depend on environment, as should the characteristic mass, density, and column density at which cloud self-gravity dominates other forces. Because the environments for high and low redshift star formation differ significantly, we expect the resulting gas to stellar conversion details to differ also. At high redshift, the universe is denser and more gas-rich, so the active parts of galaxies are denser and more gas rich too, leading to slightly shorter gas consumption timescales, higher cloud pressures, and denser, more massive, bound stellar clusters at the high mass end. With shorter consumption times corresponding to higher relative cosmic accretion rates, and with the resulting higher star formation rates and their higher feedback powers, the ISM has greater turbulent speeds relative to the rotation speeds, thicker gas disks, and larger cloud and star complex sizes at the characteristic Jeans length. The result is a more chaotic appearance at high redshift, bridging the morphology gap between today's quiescent spirals and today's major-mergers, with neither spiral nor major-merger processes actually in play at that time. The result is also a thick disk at early times, and after in-plane accretion from relatively large clump torques, a classical bulge. Today's disks are thinner, and torque-driven accretion is slower outside of inner barred regions. This paper reviews the basic processes involved with star formation in order to illustrate its evolution over time and environment.
description: 7 pages, IAU Symposium 315, Honolulu August 2015
title: Literary representations of the American Western Steamboat c. 1811-1861
Creators: name: Barta, Petr
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2023

description: This thesis explores a variety of literary representations of the American western steamboat during the period 1811-1861. Using works that span a range of literary genres, it analyses western steamboat culture from numerous different perspectives and at different historical moments. In doing so it sets out to locate that culture within the broader cultural history of nineteenth-century America and within representations of society on the westering frontier. As such, attention is directed at, not only the steamboat’s day-to-day operations, functions and social activities, but also at the cultural heritage of its dramatic, aesthetic and political deployment: for example, the steamboat as the epitome of the modem, industrial American nation. It begins with a consideration of the western steamboat as a technological object, the context of its design and construction, debates about steam-power, and of its impact on the Mississippi Valley. Secondly, through the recorded observations of travellers, primarily those of Francis Grund, Charles Dickens, Michael Chevalier, Frances Trollope and Harriet Martineau, this thesis examines the social and cultural practices of daily on board society - of public manners and social intercourse. Thirdly, using the narratives of Henry Bibb and William Wells Brown, it explores the role of the steamboat in the internal American slave trade, focusing specifically on the themes of transportation and flight. Fourthly, in a closereading of Herman Melville’s satirical novel, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, the Mississippi steamboat is shown to represent the stage of America’s shifting heterogeneous identity. Finally, in two related pieces devoted largely to the work Mark Twain, this thesis considers the form, status and diversity of his literary representations of the western steamboat. On the one hand, it presents a detailed portrait of the steamboat pilot, his skills and status, and the culture of the larger piloting community. On the other hand, it explores his desire to write the ‘standard work’ concerning life on the Mississippi and the place of the steamboat in that account.
title: Diabetic Foot. Diagnostic and follow-up imaging techniques.
Creators: name: Gonzalez Nieto, Jimena
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Inflammation
subject: Infection
subject: Arthritides
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: SPECT-CT
subject: MR
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Extremities

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: -To describe the findings, utility and limitations of the different imaging techniques,in the diagnosis and follow-up of the different pathologies associatedwith diabetic foot. - To describethe role of Nuclear Imaging in the differential diagnosis...
Local as national: Alan Lomax's nationalist pedagogy of the folk
Creators: name: Haas, Benjamin D.
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2010

description: Though ascribed a prominent place in narratives of the American folk movement, a comprehensive model for Alan Lomax's work as a folk music collector and promoter during the 1930s and 1940s has yet to emerge. Melding historical models of folk scholarship with his own innovations, Lomax developed a conception of folksong in fundamental tension with itself, one which emphasized the unique contributions of individual folk artists even while positing folk music as a unified artistic language of national origin. Inspired by a Popular Front populism that championed the role of art in left-leaning causes, Lomax maximized the political potential of this inherent tension between national and local, employing folk song as the crux of a nationalist pedagogy designed to supplant the decadence and disaffection of American mass culture with the grassroots (and thereby democratic) language of folk song.
title: Quantitative Diffusion - Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Differential Diagnosis of Breast Lesions
Creators: name: Orvalho, Maria de Lurdes
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Cancer
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: Breast

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: The aim of this study is to evaluate the ADC utility in the differential diagnosis of breast benign and malignant lesions with correlation of morphological, dynamic and histological...
D4.5 The accreditation discussion paper
Creators: name: Peltoniemi, Aaron Joshua
name: Anastasakis, Marinos
name: Drachman, Raul
name: Golumbic, Yaela
name: Oesterheld, Marius
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: citizen science

description: This deliverable discusses the topic of accreditation in Citizen Science (CS) as it stands and highlightsthe potential for developing it in the future. The topic was already suggested in the preparation stage of CS Track’s proposal as a result of discussions about CS and its relation to education, measuring the quality of CS projects, and the value it returns to participants as well as a desire to create policy recommendations in this sense. We aim to present issues related to accreditation in CS and describe their manifestations during the three years of our project’s work. We refer to the way in which we preliminary stated our intentions vis-à vis accreditation in the project’s description of work (section 2), followed by an in-depth literature review (section 3), a synthesis and positioning of accreditation in the field of CS (section 4), and an account of accreditationrelated findings in CS Track (section 5). Finally (section 6), we address the ways to incorporate accreditation in CS policy and suggest policy recommendations based on our work. An annex closes this deliverable, presenting (mainly through screenshots of web pages) a few examples of existing accreditation providers, based on the literature review conducted and an Internet search. The accreditation topic has not been extensively studied in the context of CS and thus its connection to the work conducted in CS Track has remained somewhat open-ended in some cases, inviting debate and further analysis. However, this also provides an opportunity to discuss accreditation from a fresh perspective, free from disciplinerelated preconceptions. Therefore, this discussion paper serves as an exploration of what accreditation means or can mean in CS, for whom it may be beneficial, and who is or should be responsible for accreditationrelated practices.
The red extended structure of IC10, the nearest blue compact galaxy
Creators: name: Gerbrandt, Stephanie A. N.
name: McConnachie, Alan W.
name: Irwin, Mike
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Local Group starburst galaxy IC10 is the closest example of a blue compact galaxy. Here, we use optical gi imaging from CFHT/MegaCam and near infra-red JHK imaging from UKIRT/WFCAM to conduct a comprehensive survey of the structure of IC10. We examine the spatial distribution of its resolved young, intermediate and old stellar populations to large radius and low effective surface brightness levels. Akin to other dwarfs with multiple populations of different ages, stellar populations of decreasing average age are increasingly concentrated in this galaxy. We find that the young, star-bursting population, and the AGB population, are both offset from the geometric center of the older RGB population by a few hundred parsecs, implying that the younger star formation occurred significantly away from the center of the galaxy. The RGB population traces an extended structure that is typical of blue compact galaxies, with an effective radius of ~5.75 arcmins (~1.25 kpc). These measurements show that IC10 is much more extended than has previously been realized, and this blue compact galaxy is one of the most extended dwarf galaxies in the Local Group. The outermost isophotes of this galaxy are very regular in shape and essentially circular in morphology. Based on this analysis, we do not find any evidence to suggest that IC10 has undergone a recent, significant, interaction with an unknown companion.
description: 13 pages, 11 figures
Analysis of permutation equivalence in M-adhesive transformation systems with negative application conditions
Creators: name: Hermann, Frank
name: Corradini, Andrea
name: Ehrig, Hartmut
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 004 Informatik

description: Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
description: This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
description: M-adhesive categories provide an abstract framework for a large variety of specification frameworks for modelling distributed and concurrent systems. They extend the well-known frameworks of adhesive and weak adhesive HLR categories and integrate high-level constructs such as attribution as in the case of typed attributed graphs. In the current paper, we investigate M-adhesive transformation systems including negative application conditions (NACs) for transformation rules, which are often used in applications. For such systems, we propose an original equivalence on transformation sequences, called permutation equivalence, that is coarser than the classical switch equivalence. We also present a general construction of deterministic processes for M-adhesive transformation systems based on subobject transformation systems. As a main result, we show that the process obtained from a transformation sequence identifies its equivalence class of permutation-equivalent transformation sequences. Moreover, we show how the analysis of this process can be reduced to the analysis of the reachability graph of a generated Place/Transition Petri net. This net encodes the dependencies between rule applications of the transformation sequence, including the inhibiting effects of the NACs.
Exploring the Facets of Emotional Episodic Memory: Remembering “What,” “When,” and “Which”
Creators: name: Palombo, Daniela
name: Te, Alessandra
name: Checknita, Katherine
name: Madan, Christopher
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: emotion
subject: episodic memory
subject: temporal memory
subject: time

description: Abstract: Our memories can differ in quality from one event to the next, and emotion is one important explanatory factor. Still, the manner in which emotion impacts episodic memory is complex: Whereas emotion enhances some aspects of episodic memory—particularly central aspects—it dampens memory for peripheral/contextual information. Extending previous work, we examined the effects of emotion on one often overlooked aspect of memory, namely, temporal context. We tested whether emotion would impair memory for when an event occurred. Participants (N = 116 adults) watched videos wherein negative and neutral images were inserted. Consistent with prior work, results showed that emotion enhanced and impaired memory, respectively, for “what” and “which.” Unexpectedly, emotion was associated with enhanced accuracy for “when”: We found that participants estimated that neutral images occurred relatively later, but there was no such bias for negative images. By examining multiple features of episodic memory, we provide a holistic characterization of the myriad effects of emotion.
Applications of Multi-Agent Slime Mould Computing
Creators: name: Jones, Jeff
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The giant single-celled slime mould Physarum polycephalum has inspired rapid develop- ments in unconventional computing substrates since the start of this century. This is primarily due to its simple component parts and the distributed nature of the computation which it approximates during its growth, foraging and adaptation to a changing environment. Slime mould functions as a living embodied computational material which can be influenced (or pro- grammed) by the placement of external stimuli. The goal of exploiting this material behaviour for unconventional computation led to the development of a multi-agent approach to the ap- proximation of slime mould behaviour. The basis of the model is a simple dynamical pattern formation mechanism which exhibits self-organised formation and subsequent adaptation of collective transport networks. The system exhibits emergent properties such as relaxation and minimisation and it can be considered as a virtual computing material, influenced by the external application of spatial concentration gradients. In this paper we give an overview of this multi-agent approach to unconventional computing. We describe its computational mechanisms and different generic application domains, together with concrete example ap- plications of material computation. We examine the potential exploitation of the approach for computational geometry, path planning, combinatorial optimisation, data smoothing and statistical applications.
title: Cholangiocarcinoma: the ugly one
Creators: name: Núñez Miguel, Elena
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: CT
subject: Neoplasia

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: The objectives in this review are: - To Outline the risk, the epidemiolgy factors,and the morphological classification of cholangiocarcinoma. - To describe of the radiological presentation of the colangiocarcinoma, presenting different cases...
title: Lesions of the Pineal Region: A Practical Approach
Creators: name: Calles Blanco, Carlos
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Education and training
subject: Cancer
subject: Education
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Oncology
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: CNS

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: A wide variety of lesions involve the pineal region, including neoplasic and non neoplasic processes. Tumors of the pineal region can be classified into those arising from the pineal parenchyma, germ cell neoplasms and lesions arising from adjacent...
title: Renal mass fine needle aspiration: takes two
Creators: name: Moron Hodge, Sara
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Kidney
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: CT
subject: Biopsy

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: PURPOSES: The purposes of this work are: To review renal mass fine needle aspiration (FNA) indications. To illustrate how we do the procedure with the partnership of the radiologist and the cytologist. To analyze the results at our hospital in the...
Class Association Rules Mining based Rough Set Method
Creators: name: Slimani, Thabet
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper investigates the mining of class association rules with rough set approach. In data mining, an association occurs between two set of elements when one element set happen together with another. A class association rule set (CARs) is a subset of association rules with classes specified as their consequences. We present an efficient algorithm for mining the finest class rule set inspired form Apriori algorithm, where the support and confidence are computed based on the elementary set of lower approximation included in the property of rough set theory. Our proposed approach has been shown very effective, where the rough set approach for class association discovery is much simpler than the classic association method.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures
title: Famous personalities and their osteoarticular disorders - the classic X-ray point of view
Creators: name: Calin, Adriana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Genetic defects
subject: Arthritides
subject: Education
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: Musculoskeletal bone

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: Review of the most important clinical and radiological aspects related to a series of rheumatic and bone disorders Underline the role of plain radiography in diagnosis work- up Present a series of famous personalities who suffered from the presented...
A multi-center, adaptive, randomized, platform trial to evaluate the effect of repurposed medicines in outpatients with early coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and high-risk for complications: the TOGETHER trial
Creators: name: Zannat, Noor-E
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: The TOGETHER Trial is a platform trial t hat evaluates multiple repurposed drugs (investigational products (IP)) versus placebo among outpatients at high risk of developing COVID-19 complications (Figure 1). A Steering Committee oversees the trial. A Data and Safety Monitoring Committee (DSMC) reviews safety data and interim analysis reports and makes recommendations to continue or stop treatment arms. The trial is designed in a manner that allows for multiple intervention arms to be implemented at any time and the data to be merged with data from other external trials. This is a new approach for clinical trials that has occurred as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and integrates platform adaptive trial designs with data synthesis to facilitate rapid decision-making. The overarching objective of this study is to test the hypothesis that repurposed drugs versus placebo effectively prevent worsening of COVID-19 among high-risk adults at 28 days post-randomization.
Ein Formtypenkatalog der spätbronzezeitlichen Keramik Westsyriens und der Levante - Tafeln 001 - 037
Creators: name: Döpper, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Syrien , Levante , Keramik , Bronzezeit , Qatna

description: Der Formtypenkatalog der spätbronzezeitlichen Keramik Westsyriens und der Levante entstand im Rahmen der unter dem Titel „Keramikassemblagen der Späten Bronzezeit aus dem Königspalast von Qatna und eine vergleichende Betrachtung zeitgleicher Keramik Westsyriens und der Levante“ veröffentlichten Doktorarbeit (ISBN 3-447-10957-4) zur spätbronzezeitlichen (ca. 1550–1150 v. Chr.) Keramik aus dem Königspalast von Qatna. Er umfasst 440 spätbronzezeitliche Keramikassemblagen aus 58 verschiedenen Fundorten Westsyriens und der Levante mit fast 20.000 diagnostischen Scherben. Alle Scherben sind im Katalog mit ihren technologischen Merkmalen tabellarisch aufgelistet und zu jedem vorkommenden Formtyp sind Beispielzeichnungen auf den Tafeln abgebildet. Die Sortierung der Tafeln erfolgt nach Formtypen. Der Katalog stellt damit ein grundlegendes Referenz- und Nachschlagewerk für die Keramik der Späten Bronzezeit im Gebiet Westsyriens und der Levante insgesamt dar.
title: Objective prostate cancer detection: discriminant analysis combined the apparent diffusion coefficient map with diffusion-weighted MR imaging
Creators: name: Sawa, Kazuhiro
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR
subject: MR physics
subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: Statistics
subject: Segmentation
subject: Image verification
subject: Cancer
subject: Outcomes

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Conventional MR imaging has been used to plan treatment and stage prostate cancer confirmed by biopsy [1, 2]. However, the diagnosis rate from biopsy specimens remains at 50% [3] and the risk of complications persists. The performance of MR imaging...
Tensor Decomposition for Model Reduction in Neural Networks: A Review
Creators: name: Liu, Xingyi
name: Parhi, Keshab K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Modern neural networks have revolutionized the fields of computer vision (CV) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). They are widely used for solving complex CV tasks and NLP tasks such as image classification, image generation, and machine translation. Most state-of-the-art neural networks are over-parameterized and require a high computational cost. One straightforward solution is to replace the layers of the networks with their low-rank tensor approximations using different tensor decomposition methods. This paper reviews six tensor decomposition methods and illustrates their ability to compress model parameters of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and Transformers. The accuracy of some compressed models can be higher than the original versions. Evaluations indicate that tensor decompositions can achieve significant reductions in model size, run-time and energy consumption, and are well suited for implementing neural networks on edge devices.
description: IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, 2023
Images of Sierpinkski fractals underpinning Nature Physics 15, 127(2019)
Publisher: name: Utrecht University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Natural Sciences - Physical sciences (1.3)
subject: STM images sierpinski fractals
subject: Box counting analysis

description: This dataset contains experimental and simulated (muffin-tin) images of Sierpinski fractals, created by positioning CO molecules on a Cu(111) surface. The dataset also includes scripts to extract the box-counting dimension from the images
Dynamics of axion-neutral pseudoscalar mixing
Creators: name: Cao, Shuyang
name: Huang, Wenjie
name: Boyanovsky, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Axions mix with neutral pions after the QCD phase transition through their common coupling to the radiation bath via a Chern-Simons term, as a consequence of the $U(1)$ anomaly. The non-equilibrium effective action that describes this mixing phenomenon is obtained to second order in the coupling of neutral pions and axions to photons. We show that a misaligned axion condensate induces a neutral pion condensate after the QCD phase transition. The dynamics of the pion condensate displays long and short time scales and decays on the longer time scale exhibiting a phenomenon akin to the ``purification'' in a Kaon beam. On the intermediate time scales the macroscopic pion condensate is proportional to a condensate of the abelian Chern-Simons term induced by the axion. We argue that the coupling to the common bath also induces kinetic mixing. We obtain the axion and pion populations, and these exhibit thermalization with the bath. The mutual coupling to the bath induces long-lived axion-neutral pion coherence independent of initial conditions. The framework of the effective action and many of the consequences are more broadly general and applicable to scalar or pseudoscalar particles mixing in a medium.
description: more comments. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2209.07658
Beam shape modification due to the non-linear optical response in a dense rubidium vapor: Code and data
Publisher: name: Utrecht University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Natural Sciences - Physical sciences (1.3)
subject: yoda

description: In this work, we present the data and an implementation of the theoretical model that were used to prepare the manuscript with the title "Beam shape modification due to the non-linear optical response in a dense rubidium vapor" by A. J. van Lange, S. P. van Solinge, G. Buist, and D. van Oosten.

The root folder of this archive contains the figures in the manuscript as well as the Python scripts used to generate them. The (relative) paths used in these scripts can be used as a guide through the analysis and the dataset.

The folder PreProcessing contains all the Python scripts that were used to preprocess the data. The folder Data contains the results of that preprocessing, as well as the raw data (in the folder RawData).

The RawData consist of a series of runs (each run representing a different incident power as set using a combination of ND filters). The data for each run consist of a series of camera images (stored in the numpy .npz format) and .npy array containing the power (as measured using a Thorlabs power meter) and frequency of the laser (as measured using a High Finesse wavemeter). We refer to the figure and preprocessing scripts for further guidance.
Biossegurança e segurança dos profissionais de saúde do centro cirúrgico para promoção da segurança do paciente no contexto da COVID-19: uma revisão de escopo
Creators: name: Fassarella, Cintia
name: da Rosa Silva, Rhayana
name: Beserra, Beathrice
name: Veiga, Nathália
name: de Souza Moraes, Vanessa
name: da Silva Ferreira, Juliane
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: RESUMO Objetivo: Identificar as evidências sobre biossegurança e segurança dos profissionais de saúde do centro cirúrgico para promoção da segurança do paciente no contexto da COVID-19. Método: Os estudos selecionados deverão conter medidas de segurança de paciente e biossegurança adotadas pelos profissionais de saúde do centro cirúrgico no contexto da COVID-19. Serão considerados artigos disponíveis para consulta na íntegra com todos os tipos de abordagens metodológicas: qualitativa, quantitativa, misto, cartas ao editor, editoriais, diretrizes, declarações, estudos e relatos de caso, artigos de opinião e de reflexão, materiais de associações e sociedades, serão aceitos estudos em todos os idiomas, os quais estejam alinhados aos objetos da revisão no período de dezembro de 2019 a maio de 2021. Uma estratégia de busca de 3 etapas será utilizada, de acordo com a metodologia sugerida pela Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI). Uma pesquisa prévia foi realizada nas bases de dados CINAHL, EMBASE e MEDLINE. A apresentação dos dados extraídos será de forma descritiva e por meio de quadros e diagramas que expressem a visualização sumarizada dos resultados e respondam à pergunta de pesquisa desta revisão de escopo. Resultados Esperados: Pretende-se apresentar as práticas de biossegurança e segurança dos profissionais de saúde do centro cirúrgico para promoção da segurança do paciente no contexto da COVID-19. Palavras-chave: Biossegurança; Centro Cirúrgico; COVID-19; Profissionais de Saúde; Segurança do paciente.
Stewardship, planning and public policy
Creators: name: Beavis, Mary Ann
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Environmental protection--Planning
subject: Planners--Professional ethics
subject: Environmental management

description: The notion of stewardship, often connected with sustainable development has become a favourite way for planners and policymakers to characterize an appropriate environmental ethic. The article traces the origins of the stewardship metaphor to its roots in Judeo-Christian tradition and contemporary theology, and suggests that the patriarchal and hierarchical connotations of stewardship might be of concern to some planners. Alternative environmental philosophies are described, and their implications for planning and policy are sketched.
description: Le concept de gestion responsable (<>) souvent associé au développement viable, est un facon privilégiée par les urbanistes et les décisionnaires pour illustrer l'éthique environnementale. L'auteur retrace les origines de la métaphore de la gestion responsable dans la tradition judéo-chrétienne et dans la theologie contemporaine. Elle suggère que les connotations patriarcale et hiérarchique que portent ce concept pourraient intéresser les urbanistes. Elle décrit d'autres philosophies environnementales ainsi que leur signification pour l'urbanisme.
description: Abstract in English and French ; text in English
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5158/article009.pdf?sequence=3
Asymptotic Expansion Homogenization of Discrete Fine-Scale Models with Rotational Degrees of Freedom for the Simulation of Quasi-Brittle Materials
Creators: name: Rezakhani, Roozbeh
name: Cusatis, Gianluca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Discrete fine-scale models, in the form of either particle or lattice models, have been formulated successfully to simulate the behavior of quasi-brittle materials whose mechanical behavior is inherently connected to fracture processes occurring in the internal heterogeneous structure. These models tend to be intensive from the computational point of view as they adopt an a priori discretization anchored to the major material heterogeneities (e.g. grains in particulate materials and aggregate pieces in cementitious composites) and this hampers their use in the numerical simulations of large systems. In this work, this problem is addressed by formulating a general multiple scale computational framework based on classical asymptotic analysis and that (1) is applicable to any discrete model with rotational degrees of freedom; and (2) gives rise to an equivalent Cosserat continuum. The developed theory is applied to the upscaling of the Lattice Discrete Particle Model (LDPM), a recently formulated discrete model for concrete and other quasi-brittle materials, and the properties of the homogenized model are analyzed thoroughly in both the elastic and inelastic regime. The analysis shows that the homogenized micropolar elastic properties are size-dependent, and they are functions of the RVE size and the size of the material heterogeneity. Furthermore, the analysis of the homogenized inelastic behavior highlights issues associated with the homogenization of fine-scale models featuring strain-softening and the related damage localization. Finally, nonlinear simulations of the RVE behavior subject to curvature components causing bending and torsional effects demonstrates, contrarily to typical Cosserat formulations, a significant coupling between the homogenized stress-strain and couple-curvature constitutive equations.
COVID-19 Challenges and recommendations for knowledge synthesis groups-a scoping review
Creators: name: Khalil, Hanan
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: several studies have highlighted the gaps in the process of research synthesis and offered some recommendations for future research methodologists. however, to date, no reviews systematically documented the concerns raised in the research synthesis community. This scoping review will be useful for researchers in the development of robust methodologies to cope with the high research output published in COVID and the limitations identified with the current research synthesis methodology and plan for similar situations on how to address research synthesis in a more streamlined manner to synthesise prompt and reliable evidence for use by policymakers, clinicians, and researchers. The current scoping review is intended to address the following: 1. Map the list of challenges raised by the research synthesis community regarding the high output of COVID-19 publications 2. Detail the recommendations suggested by the authors to address the gaps identified above 3. Propose directions for future practice and research
Structural properties of hard-disk fluids under single-file confinement
Creators: name: Montero, Ana M.
name: Santos, Andrés
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The structural properties of confined single-file hard-disk fluids are studied analytically by means of a mapping of the original system onto a one-dimensional mixture of non-additive hard rods, the mapping being exact in the polydisperse limit. Standard statistical-mechanical results are used as a starting point to derive thermodynamic and structural properties of the one-dimensional mixture, where the condition that all particles have the same chemical potential must be taken into account. Analytical results are then provided for the $n$th neighbor probability distribution function, the radial distribution function, and the structure factor, a very good agreement being observed upon comparison with simulation data from the literature. Moreover, we have analyzed the scaling form for the disappearance of defects in the zigzag configuration for high pressure, and have obtained the translational correlation length and the structural crossover in the oscillation frequency for asymptotically large distances.
description: 15 pages, 12 figures; v2: new subsections and 4 new figures added; v3: minor changes
10 evidence-based policy recommendations for developing citizen science
Creators: name: CS Track
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: citizen science

description: Press release. Since November 2019 the international research project CS Track has been combining traditional social-science methods with web-based and computational analytics in order to systematically survey the field of Citizen Science. Based on our findings, we have now developed a set of 10 policy recommendations which identify key issues to be addressed if we want to further support and promote participatory research in Europe. The goal of these recommendations is to suggest ways in which CS stakeholders (such as project initiators, platform managers or funding agencies) can help maximise the benefit of Citizen Science activities for individual citizens, the scientific community, and society at large. Download the full report here
title: FedZero: Leveraging Renewable Excess Energy in Federated Learning
Creators: name: Wiesner, Philipp
name: Khalili, Ramin
name: Grinwald, Dennis
name: Agrawal, Pratik
name: Thamsen, Lauritz
name: Kao, Odej
Publisher: name: ACM
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke::000 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme::004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik
subject: sustainable computing
subject: carbon efficiency
subject: electricity curtailment
subject: federated learning
subject: client selection
subject: green AI

description: Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning technique that enables distributed model training across data silos or edge devices without data sharing. Yet, FL inevitably introduces inefficiencies compared to centralized model training, which will further increase the already high energy usage and associated carbon emissions of machine learning in the future. One idea to reduce FL’s carbon footprint is to schedule training jobs based on the availability of renewable excess energy that can occur at certain times and places in the grid. However, in the presence of such volatile and unreliable resources, existing FL schedulers cannot always ensure fast, efficient, and fair training. We propose FedZero, an FL system that operates exclusively on renewable excess energy and spare capacity of compute infrastructure to effectively reduce a training’s operational carbon emissions to zero. Using energy and load forecasts, FedZero leverages the spatio-temporal availability of excess resources by selecting clients for fast convergence and fair participation. Our evaluation, based on real solar and load traces, shows that FedZero converges significantly faster than existing approaches under the mentioned constraints while consuming less energy. Furthermore, it is robust to forecasting errors and scalable to tens of thousands of clients.
title: ShutPub: Publisher-side Filtering for Content-based Pub/Sub on the Edge
Creators: name: Wang, Minghe
name: Schirmer, Trever
name: Pfandzelter, Tobias
name: Bermbach, David
Publisher: name: ACM
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke::000 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme::004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik
subject: Publish/Subscribe
subject: edge computing
subject: Publisher-Side Filtering

description: The pub/sub paradigm facilitates communication among heterogeneous edge and IoT devices for distributed edge applications. At the same time, the increasing number of devices and sensors at the edge leads to higher network congestion, which requires more processing power for both pub/sub brokers and devices. While message filtering based on subscriber-specified rules can alleviate this, implementing filtering logic on the brokers still requires publishing components to send all messages over constrained links. In this paper, we instead propose filtering pub/sub messages directly on the publisher, in order to reduce network congestion. We present ShutPub, a publisher-side middleware that performs message filtering before forwarding them to the broker. ShutPub limits the publisher message dissemination based on subscriptions and their filters while still being transparent to the publisher. In this way, the content-based filter capabilities are moved from the broker to the publisher so that only messages that have a receiver are transmitted. Our prototype evaluation shows that ShutPub can reduce system strain on the network and broker without simply shifting the burden to the publisher, which benefits from sending fewer messages.
title: ЭФФЕКТИВНОСТЬ ХИМИЧЕСКИХ И БИОЛОГИЧЕСКИХ ПРЕПАРАТОВ ДЛЯ ЗАЩИТЫ НУТА ОТ ГОРОХОВОГО ТРИПСА
Creators: name: Чернов, А.В.
Publisher: name: Федеральное государственное бюджетное научное учреждение «Северо-Кавказский федеральный научный аграрный центр»
Year: 2024
Subjects: нут, вредители, Kakothrips robustus Uz., химические и биологические препараты, Ставропольский край.
chickpea, pests, Kakothrips robustus Uz., chemical and biological preparations, Stavropol Territory.

description: Рассмотрены состояние возделывания нута в России и значение его для питания человека. Показано возрастающее значение горохового трипса, как одного из вредителей культуры. Рассмотрена эффективность химических и биологических препаратов с различным механизмом действия для борьбы с данным вредителем.

description: The state of chickpea cultivation in Russia and its importance for human nutrition are considered. The increasing importance of pea thrips as one of the crop pests is shown. The effectiveness of chemical and biological preparations with different mechanism of action to control this pest is considered.
title: Parametric contrast enhanced ultrasound may aid the differentiation between adrenal nodular hyperplasia and adenomas: initial results
Creators: name: Slapa, Rafal
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Contrast agents
subject: Ultrasound physics
subject: Ultrasound
subject: CT
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Perception image
subject: Technology assessment
subject: Hyperplasia / Hypertrophy
subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Endocrine disorders

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Only some non–malignant adrenal masses present pathognomonic features on computed tomography the examination of choice. Proper diagnosis in this cohort of lesions is important for further management. So far, the reports on differentiation of...
Gutzwiller Renormalization Group
Creators: name: Lanatà, Nicola
name: Yao, Yong-Xin
name: Deng, Xiaoyu
name: Wang, Cai-Zhuang
name: Ho, Kai-Ming
name: Kotliar, Gabriel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a variational scheme called "Gutzwiller renormalization group" (GRG), which enables us to calculate the ground state of Anderson impurity models (AIM) with arbitrary numerical precision. Our method can exploit the low-entanglement property of the ground state in combination with the framework of the Gutzwiller wavefunction, and suggests that the ground state of the AIM has a very simple structure, which can be represented very accurately in terms of a surprisingly small number of variational parameters. We perform benchmark calculations of the single-band AIM that validate our theory and indicate that the GRG might enable us to study complex systems beyond the reach of the other methods presently available and pave the way to interesting generalizations, e.g., to nonequilibrium transport in nanostructures.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Wildfire smoke and COVID-19 perceptions and behaviors study
Creators: name: Santana, Francisca
name: Wong-Parodi, Gabrielle
name: Herbert, Natalie
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This registration includes a revised analysis plan for a study examining the role of social norms and social support in shaping wildfire smoke and COVID-19 threat perceptions and mitigation behaviors. The revised analysis plan includes study motivation, objectives, hypotheses (including exploratory hypotheses), the sampling plan, the design plan, variables and created measures, the analysis plan, and references. The data was collected as a part of the Global Warming National Poll 2020 in partnership with Resources for the Future and ReconMR, however the measures used in this study have not been created or analyzed in any findings for the Global Warming National poll. The data used is from two samples, 1) a representative sample of adults in the U.S. surveyed using random digit dial telephone interviewing from May 28 to August 16, 2020 and 2) a convenience sample of adults in the U.S. surveyed and recruited online from August 11 to August 25, 2020.
Free space-coupled superconducting nanowire single photon detectors for infrared optical communications
Creators: name: Bellei, Francesco
name: Cartwright, Alyssa P.
name: McCaughan, Adam N.
name: Dane, Andrew E.
name: Najafi, Faraz
name: Zhao, Quinyuan
name: Berggren, Karl K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper describes the construction of a cryostat and an optical system with a free-space coupling efficiency of 56.5% +/- 3.4% to a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) for infrared quantum communication and spectrum analysis. A 1K pot decreases the base temperature to T = 1.7 K from the 2.9 K reached by the cold head cooled by a pulse-tube cryocooler. The minimum spot size coupled to the detector chip was 6.6 +/- 0.11 μm starting from a fiber source at wavelength, λ = 1.55 μm. We demonstrated efficient photon counting on a detector with an 8 x 7.3 μm^2 area. We measured a dark count rate of 95 +/- 3.35 kcps and a system detection efficiency of 1.64% +/- 0.13%. We explain the key steps that are required to further improve the coupling efficiency.
description: 16 pages, double-spaced