cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The SAFEEUROPE project -summary of results
Creators: name: McFadden, Sonyia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Radiographers
subject: Gamma knife
subject: Education
subject: eLearning
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Cancer
subject: Education and training
subject: Radiotherapy techniques

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: [fig]1[/fig] Recent literature has identified that radiography education is not standardised across Europe 1 , hence graduates enter the workforce with different skills and competencies which may hinder their professional mobility. The SAFEEUROPE...
O caráter definicional sui generis dos predicados tarskianos de verdade
Creators: name: Vicente, Luciano
Publisher: name: abstracta
Year: 2021

description: The denitional feature of Tarski's theory of truth will be the subject of this paper. In fact, addition, multiplication and divisibility were well-known mathematical concepts before the accurate Peano (Dedekind) formalization. Analogously, the Tarski's metatheory could be an accurate formalization of ‘x is a formula’, ‘x is the reference/sense of y’ and ‘x is a true sentence’, all them introduced by definition. However, ‘x is a true sentence’, because of the paradoxes, cannot be an accurate formalization of truth predicate of ordinary language. The question is: which concept of truth does the tarskian ‘x is a true sentence’ formalize? The answer is simple and not new, but its meanders are informative and enlightening.
description: abstracta, Bd. 9 Nr. 1 (2016)
title: To evaluate the role of FDG PET-CT in Rheumatoid arthritis
Creators: name: Shaikh, Sikandar
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: PET-CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Arthritides

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: The primary aim of this study was to evaluate the role of 18F-FDG PET in assessing the amount and degree of the joint inflammation in patients of Rheumatoid arthritis. The second aim is to assess the potential value in assessing the response to...
The Generalized Uncertainty Principle and the Friedmann equations
Creators: name: Majumder, Barun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Generalized Uncertainty Principle (or GUP) affects the dynamics in Plank scale. So the known equations of physics are expected to get modified at that very high energy regime. Very recently authors in (Ali et al. 2009) proposed a new Generalized Uncertainty Principle (or GUP) with a linear term in Plank length. In this article, the proposed GUP is expressed in a more general form and the effect is studied for the modification of the Friedmann equations of the FRW universe. In the midway the known entropy-area relation get some new correction terms, the leading order term being proportional to square root of area.
description: 6 pages, accepted for publication in Astrophysics and Space Science
Justifying Practical Reasons
Creators: name: Spielthenner, Georg
Publisher: name: abstracta
Year: 2021

description: Abstract: This paper is about the nature of practical reasons. More specifically, my primary goal is to explore when an agent has a justifying reason for action¾that is, a reason that can be used for justifying an action that has been done or that the agent is planning to do. This concept of reason is central to ethics and to practical philosophy in general. I defend an account of reason according to which a piece of practical reasoning gives an agent a reason for action if he has a reason for its premises and a warrant for holding that these premises logically support the conclusion. That is roughly to say that justifying reasons are closed under logical entailment. To achieve this aim, I shall (in Section 1) discuss the components of such reasons. Section 2 presents a principle of closure for justifying reasons and clarifies two important clauses of this principle. In the last section, I show how my account can sidestep the regress problem in practical reasoning.
description: abstracta, Bd. 9 Nr. 1 (2016)
Synthesis of nanostructured catalysts for low temperature methane combustion
Creators: name: Dai, Yiling
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: The number of natural gas vehicles (NGVs) is increasing rapidly due to the growing concern for the environmental impact of gasoline and diesel-powered automobiles. However, the main component of natural gas, methane, is a potent greenhouse gas. Thus, removal of unburned methane from the exhaust of NGVs is important and this requires catalysts for methane oxidation at low temperature (less than 500-550 °C). In this thesis, different types of nanostructured catalysts were developed. Noble metal catalysts, like Pd-based catalysts, and non-precious metal catalysts, such as spinel catalysts, were synthesized, characterized and examined for catalytic methane combustion. To enhance the catalytic activity, NiCo₂O₄ catalysts with a unique bowtie-structure were synthesized. The morphology, growth mechanism, catalytic and kinetic performance were explored. These NiCo₂O₄ catalysts exhibited excellent activity for methane oxidation, but were unable to maintain their performance in the presence of water vapor. In addition, active site distribution plays an important role on catalytic activity. Taking this into account, MnO₂ aerogels supporting precious or non-precious metal oxide catalysts were explored. Both types of catalysts showed enhanced catalytic activity. The hydrothermal stability and sulfur tolerance were studied for PdO/MnO₂, and the deactivation mechanism was explored. Besides outstanding activity, commercial catalysts must be stable in practical usage. In order to improve the stability of Pd-based catalysts, nanostructured materials were prepared by embedding Pd into CeO₂ inside the channels of a mesoporous host, SBA-15. It was found that the materials showed excellent catalytic activity and improved activity after hydrothermal treatment. However, their performance in the presence of water vapor still needs to be enhanced. Furthermore, to solve the problem of poor water stability and sulfur tolerance, CoCr₂O₄ composites were selected as catalysts. Nanospheres of CoCr₂O₄ were prepared by a straightforward solvothermal method. These materials achieved 100% methane conversion below 500 °C and they also displayed excellent stability even in the presence of 10% water vapor and 5 ppm SO₂. Furthermore, the CoCr₂O₄ catalysts were scaled up and coated onto cordierite monoliths via a modified wash-coating method. The coated monolith showed excellent activity and stability, and these materials have potential to be applied for NGVs.
In Carnap’s Defense: A survey on the concept of a linguistic framework in Carnap’s philosophy
Creators: name: Torfehnezhad, Parzhad
Publisher: name: abstracta
Year: 2021

description: The main task in this paper is to detail and investigate Carnap’s conception of a “linguistic framework”(LF). On this basis, we will see whether Carnap’s dichotomies, such as the analytic-synthetic distinction, are to be construed as absolute/fundamental dichotomies or merely as relative dichotomies. I argue for a novel interpretation of Carnap’s conception of a LF and, on that basis, will show that, according to Carnap, all the dichotomies to be discussed are relative dichotomies; they depend on conventional decisions concerning the logical syntax of LF. Thus, all of the dichotomies directly hinge on the conception of the LF. The LF’s logical structure, in turn, is an immediate consequence of adopting the linguistic doctrine of logical truths. As we will see, no appeal to any of these distinctions is necessary in establishing a LF and all of its components. I will also draw attention to the differences between what Carnap labels a “way of speaking”, “language”, and “artificial language”. Consequently, I will briefly conclude that none of Quine’s major objections address the main points of Carnap’s theory.
description: abstracta, Bd. 9 Nr. 1 (2016)
Luneburg lens in silicon photonics
Creators: name: Di Falco, Andrea
name: Kehr, Susanne C
name: Leonhardt, Ulf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Luneburg lens is an aberration-free lens that focuses light from all directions equally well. We fabricated and tested a Luneburg lens in silicon photonics. Our technique is sufficiently versatile for making perfect imaging devices on silicon platforms.
title: Can simultaneous digital breast tomosynthesis and mechanical imaging improve sustainability of breast cancer screening?
Creators: name: Bakic, Predrag
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Hybrid Imaging
subject: Mammography
subject: Screening
subject: Cancer

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Screening mammography has a crucial role in early detection of breast cancer, which is associated with lower mortality, improved prognosis and satisfaction with healthcare, and has the potential to reduce economic burden to women and healthcare by...
Nonconceptualism or De Re Sense? A New Reading of Kantian Intuition
Creators: name: Sá Pereira, Robert
Publisher: name: abstracta
Year: 2021

description: The aim of this paper is to offer a critically review the recent nonconceptualist reading of the Kantian notion of sensible intuition. I raise two main objections. First, nonconceptualist readers fail to distinguish connected but different anti-intellectualist claims in the contemporary philosophy of mind and language. Second, I will argue that nonconceptual readings fail because Kantian intuitions do not possess a representational content of their own that can be veridical or falsidical in a similar way to how the content of propositional attitudes are true of false. In this paper, I will support my own reading that sensible intuition is better seen as what Evans and McDowell (1991) have called a de re sense, whose main characteristic is object-dependence. In this sense, Kantian sensible intuitions can be seen as a sensible mode of donation of objects. In my reading, the Kantian opposition between intuitions and concepts is best seen as the opposition between the objectual de re perception of something and the propositional de dicto apperception that something is the case rather than the opposition between nonconceptual and conceptual contents. However, if Kantian sensible intuition is not a mental state with a nonconceptual content, it is certainly in the general anti-intellectualist neighborhood.
description: abstracta, Bd. 10 (2017)
A la caza de los retrovirus
Creators: name: Reinosa, Roberto
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 80301 Bioinformatics Software
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110804 Medical Virology
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 70712 Veterinary Virology
subject: FOS: Veterinary sciences

description: Debido a la importancia de los retrovirus he desarrollado un programa escrito en Java, que a partir del genoma proviral encuentra secuencias aminoacídicas de estos virus. Dicho programa está bajo licencia GPL.
Challenges and opportunities at the intersection of model reduction and uncertainty quantification
Creators: name: Barajas-Solano, David
name: Tartakovsky, Alexandre
name: Stinis, Panagiotis
name: Yang, Xiu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 10299 Applied Mathematics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Whitepaper submitted to the 2017 DOE ASCR Applied Math Meeting

Challenges and opportunities at the intersection of model reduction and uncertainty quantification
David A. Barajas-Solano, Panos Stinis, Xiu Yang, Alexandre M. Tartakovsky
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Addressing Question 1b.
Cultural artefacts and neglect of the materials from which they are made
Creators: name: Edward, Terence Rajivan
Publisher: name: abstracta
Year: 2021

description: This paper discusses an explanation, offered by Tim Ingold, for why social and cultural anthropologists have so far paid little attention to the materials from which artefacts are composed. The explanation is that these anthropologists accept a certain argument. According to the argument, what an anthropologist should focus on when examining an artefact are those qualities that make it part of a culture, and this is not the materials from which the artefact is composed. I show that Ingold has not made a compelling case against this argument, but also that it is not sound.
description: abstracta, Bd. 10 (2017)
title: Ð­Ð»ÐµÐºÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ°Ñ ÑÐ°ÑÑÑ ÐÐ­Ð¡ Ñ ÑÐµÐ°ÐºÑÐ¾ÑÐ°Ð¼Ð¸ ÐÐÐ­Ð -440 Ð¼Ð¾ÑÐ½Ð¾ÑÑÑÑ 1320 ÐÐÑ
title: Ð²ÑÐ¿ÑÑÐºÐ½Ð°Ñ ÐºÐ²Ð°Ð»Ð¸ÑÐ¸ÐºÐ°ÑÐ¸Ð¾Ð½Ð½Ð°Ñ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ° Ð±Ð°ÐºÐ°Ð»Ð°Ð²ÑÐ°
titleType: Subtitle
title: Electric part of NPP with VVER-440 reactors with capacity of 1320 MW
Creators: name: ÐÑÐ¸Ð²ÑÑÐ°, ÐÐ»ÑÐ³Ð°
Publisher: name: Ð¡Ð°Ð½ÐºÑ-ÐÐµÑÐµÑÐ±ÑÑÐ³ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ½Ð¸Ð²ÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑ ÐÐµÑÑÐ° ÐÐµÐ»Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾
Year: 2019
Subjects: ÐÐ­Ð¡
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ÑÐµÐ»ÐµÐ¹Ð½Ð°Ñ Ð·Ð°ÑÐ¸ÑÐ°
NPP
VVER-440
selection of equipment
calculation of short-circuit currents
relay

description: Ð Ð´Ð°Ð½Ð½Ð¾Ð¹ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐµ Ð¿ÑÐ¾ÐµÐºÑÐ¸ÑÑÐµÑÑÑ ÑÐ»ÐµÐºÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ°Ñ ÑÐ°ÑÑÑ Ð°ÑÐ¾Ð¼Ð½Ð¾Ð¹ ÑÐ»ÐµÐºÑÑÐ¾ÑÑÐ°Ð½ÑÐ¸Ð¸ Ð¼Ð¾ÑÐ½Ð¾ÑÑÑÑ 1320 ÐÐÑ. ÐÑÐ±ÑÐ°Ð½Ð¾ Ð¾ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð²Ð½Ð¾Ðµ ÑÐ½ÐµÑÐ³ÐµÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¾Ðµ Ð¾Ð±Ð¾ÑÑÐ´Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ðµ ÐÐ­Ð¡. ÐÑÐ¾Ð¸Ð·Ð²ÐµÐ´ÐµÐ½ ÑÐ°ÑÑÐµÑ Ð½Ð¾ÑÐ¼Ð°Ð»ÑÐ½ÑÑ Ð¸ Ð°Ð²Ð°ÑÐ¸Ð¹Ð½ÑÑ ÑÐµÐ¶Ð¸Ð¼Ð¾Ð² ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÑ. ÐÑÐ¿Ð¾Ð»Ð½ÐµÐ½ Ð¿Ð¾Ð´Ð±Ð¾Ñ Ð¾ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð²Ð½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ Ð¾Ð±Ð¾ÑÑÐ´Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ, Ð³Ð»Ð°Ð²Ð½Ð¾Ð¹ ÑÑÐµÐ¼Ñ ÑÐ»ÐµÐºÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ñ ÑÐ¾ÐµÐ´Ð¸Ð½ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ð¹, ÑÑÐµÐ¼Ñ ÑÐ¾Ð±ÑÑÐ²ÐµÐ½Ð½ÑÑ Ð½ÑÐ¶Ð´, ÐºÐ¾Ð¼Ð¼ÑÑÐ°ÑÐ¸Ð¾Ð½Ð½Ð¾Ð¹ Ð°Ð¿Ð¿Ð°ÑÐ°ÑÑÑÑ, ÑÐ¾ÐºÐ¾Ð²ÐµÐ´ÑÑÐ¸Ñ ÑÐ°ÑÑÐµÐ¹. ÐÑÐ¿Ð¾Ð»Ð½ÐµÐ½ ÑÐ°ÑÑÐµÑ ÑÐ¾ÐºÐ¾Ð² ÐºÐ¾ÑÐ¾ÑÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾ Ð·Ð°Ð¼ÑÐºÐ°Ð½Ð¸Ñ. ÐÑÐ¾Ð¸Ð·Ð²ÐµÐ´ÐµÐ½ Ð²ÑÐ±Ð¾Ñ ÑÐµÐ»ÐµÐ¹Ð½Ð¾Ð¹ Ð·Ð°ÑÐ¸ÑÑ. ÐÑÐ±ÑÐ°Ð½Ñ Ð¿ÐµÑÐ²Ð¸ÑÐ½ÑÐµ Ð¸Ð·Ð¼ÐµÑÐ¸ÑÐµÐ»ÑÐ½ÑÐµ Ð¿ÑÐµÐ¾Ð±ÑÐ°Ð·Ð¾Ð²Ð°ÑÐµÐ»Ð¸ ÑÐ¾ÐºÐ° Ð¸ Ð½Ð°Ð¿ÑÑÐ¶ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ. ÐÐ¿ÑÐµÐ´ÐµÐ»ÐµÐ½ ÑÐ¾ÑÑÐ°Ð² Ð·Ð°ÑÐ¸Ñ Ð¾ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð²Ð½ÑÑ ÑÐ»ÐµÐ¼ÐµÐ½ÑÐ¾Ð². ÐÑÐ¾Ð¸Ð·Ð²ÐµÐ´ÐµÐ½ ÑÐ°ÑÑÐµÑ ÑÑÑÐ°Ð½Ð¾Ð²Ð¾Ðº ÑÐµÐ»ÐµÐ¹Ð½Ð¾Ð¹ Ð·Ð°ÑÐ¸ÑÑ Ð³ÐµÐ½ÐµÑÐ°ÑÐ¾ÑÐ°, Ð±Ð»Ð¾ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ ÑÑÐ°Ð½ÑÑÐ¾ÑÐ¼Ð°ÑÐ¾ÑÐ°, ÑÐ±Ð¾ÑÐ½ÑÑ ÑÐ¸Ð½ Ð¸ ÐÐ­Ð.
description: In this work, the electric part of a nuclear power plant with a capacity of 1320 MW is designed. The main power equipment of the NPP was selected. Calculation of normal and emergency modes of operation is made. The selection of the main equipment, the main circuit of electrical connections, the circuit of own needs, switching equipment, current-carrying parts is carried out. The calculation of short-circuit currents is performed. The choice of relay protection is made. Primary current and voltage transducers are selected. The composition of the protection of the main elements is determined. The calculation of relay protection installations of the generator, block transformer, busbars and power lines is made.
title: Transarterial splenic embolization: an effective first-choice treatment in hemodynamically stable patients with blunt splenic injury
Creators: name: Marcello, Cristina
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Interventional vascular
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Embolisation
subject: Haemorrhage

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: The spleen is the most commonly injured organ in blunt abdominal trauma. Management of splenic injury depends on the clinical status of the patient and can include non-operative management (NOM), in some cases supported by splenic artery...
Truths are valuable, truth isn't
Creators: name: Auf Der Straße, Alexander
Publisher: name: abstracta
Year: 2021

description: This paper deals with the relationship that is sometimes said to hold between true beliefs and success. It argues for deflationism about truth. In particular, a position will be defended according to which the instrumental value of true beliefs can be accounted for within a deflationary framework. The paper denies that truth has any non-instrumental value in the sense that truth is pursued for its own sake. Moreover, the instrumental value of true beliefs will be explained in terms of psychological regularities between agents’ ‘correct’ beliefs about the world, rather than in terms of truth as such. The argument concludes with the result that – in the strict sense – truth is valueless because truth is no (genuine) property. However, the value of individual true beliefs is acknowledged, insofar as they foster one’s behavioural success.
description: abstracta, Bd. 7 Nr. 2 (2013)
Self-Forming Actions, Non-Self-Forming Actions, and Indeterminism: A Problem for Kane’s Libertarianism
Creators: name: Campbell, Neil
Publisher: name: abstracta
Year: 2021

description: Central to Robert Kane’s libertarian free will is the distinction between two kinds of action: (1) undetermined self-forming actions by means of which we shape our characters, and (2) actions that are determined by our freely formed characters. Daniel Dennett challenges the coherence of this distinction, but I argue that his arguments rely on highly controversial assumptions. In an effort to improve on Dennett’s criticism, I argue that some considerations about non-self-forming actions, when coupled with Kane’s naturalistic framework, imply that all choices are undetermined, which undercuts the distinction between his two categories of action. I then show that this conclusion threatens to undermine the very idea of self-formation Kane seeks to develop.
description: abstracta, Bd. 10 (2017)
On Multiple Decoding Attempts for Reed-Solomon Codes: A Rate-Distortion Approach
Creators: name: Nguyen, Phong S.
name: Pfister, Henry D.
name: Narayanan, Krishna R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: One popular approach to soft-decision decoding of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes is based on using multiple trials of a simple RS decoding algorithm in combination with erasing or flipping a set of symbols or bits in each trial. This paper presents a framework based on rate-distortion (RD) theory to analyze these multiple-decoding algorithms. By defining an appropriate distortion measure between an error pattern and an erasure pattern, the successful decoding condition, for a single errors-and-erasures decoding trial, becomes equivalent to distortion being less than a fixed threshold. Finding the best set of erasure patterns also turns into a covering problem which can be solved asymptotically by rate-distortion theory. Thus, the proposed approach can be used to understand the asymptotic performance-versus-complexity trade-off of multiple errors-and-erasures decoding of RS codes. This initial result is also extended a few directions. The rate-distortion exponent (RDE) is computed to give more precise results for moderate blocklengths. Multiple trials of algebraic soft-decision (ASD) decoding are analyzed using this framework. Analytical and numerical computations of the RD and RDE functions are also presented. Finally, simulation results show that sets of erasure patterns designed using the proposed methods outperform other algorithms with the same number of decoding trials.
description: to appear in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Special Issue on Facets of Coding Theory: from Algorithms to Networks)
State-dependent rotations of spins by weak measurements
Creators: name: Miller, D. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: IIt is shown that a weak measurement of a quantum system produces a new state of the quantum system which depends on the prior state, as well as the (uncontrollable) measured position of the pointer variable of the weak measurement apparatus. The result imposes a constraint on hidden-variable theories which assign a different state to a quantum system than standard quantum mechanics. The constraint means that a crypto-nonlocal hidden-variable theory can be ruled out in a more direct way than previously.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures. Substantially revised to concentrate on weak measurement transformation of states and application to crypto-nonlocal hidden-variable theory
Analytic control methods for high fidelity unitary operations in a weakly nonlinear oscillator
Creators: name: Gambetta, J. M.
name: Motzoi, F.
name: Merkel, S. T.
name: Wilhelm, F. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In qubits made from a weakly anharmonic oscillator the leading source of error at short gate times is leakage of population out of the two dimensional Hilbert space that forms the qubit. In this paper we develop a general scheme based on an adiabatic expansion to find pulse shapes that correct this type of error. We find a family of solutions that allows tailoring to what is practical to implement for a specific application. Our result contains and improves the previously developed DRAG technique [F. Motzoi, et. al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 110501 (2009)] and allows a generalization to other non-linear oscillators with more than one leakage transition.
description: 15 pages, 9 figures, small changes
Causal exclusion without physical completeness and no overdetermination
Creators: name: Gebharter, Alexander
Publisher: name: abstracta
Year: 2021

description: Hitchcock (2012) demonstrated that the validity of causal exclusion arguments as well as the plausibility of several of their premises hinges on the specific theory of causation endorsed. In this paper I show that the validity of causal exclusion arguments—if represented within the theory of causal Bayes nets the way Gebharter (2015) suggests—actually requires much weaker premises than the ones which are typically assumed. In particular, neither completeness of the physical domain nor the no overdetermination assumption are required.
description: abstracta, Bd. 10 (2017)
title: An approach to MRI interpretation of urinary incontinence mesh and correlation with perioperative findings
Creators: name: Buckley, Anne
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genital / Reproductive system female
subject: Peritoneum
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Intraoperative
subject: Infection
subject: Inflammation
subject: Pelvic floor dysfunction

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: To suggest a methodical approach to MRI interpretation in patients with previous mesh insertion for urinary incontinence. We propose a template to standardise reporting, and provide some tips for identification of mesh and interpretation of any...
Direct Simulation Monte Carlo method for cold atom dynamics: classical Boltzmann equation in the quantum collision regime
Creators: name: Wade, A. C. J.
name: Baillie, D.
name: Blakie, P. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we develop a direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method for simulating highly nonequilibrium dynamics of nearly degenerate ultra-cold gases. We show that our method can simulate the high-energy collision of two thermal clouds in the regime observed in experiments [Thomas, et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{93}, 173201 (2004)], which requires the inclusion of beyond s-wave scattering. We also consider the long-time dynamics of this system, demonstrating that this would be a practical experimental scenario for testing the Boltzmann equation and studying rethermalization.
description: 15 pages, 14 figures
Additional file 1 of Comparative phylogenetic analysis of the mediator complex subunit in asparagus bean (Vigna unguiculata ssp. sesquipedialis) and its expression profile under cold stress
Creators: name: Liang, Le
name: Wang, Dong
name: Xu, Dongmei
name: Xiao, Jiachang
name: Tang, Wen
name: Song, Xueping
name: Yu, Guofeng
name: Liang, Zongxu
name: Xie, Minghui
name: Xu, Zeping
name: Sun, Bo
name: Tang, Yi
name: Huang, Zhi
name: Lai, Yunsong
name: Li, Huanxiu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Selection pressure analysis of VunMED genes. Table S2. VunMED gene qRT-PCR primers. Figure S1. Phylogenetic relationship of VunMED proteins. Figure S2. Synteny analysis of MED gene with SVs. Figure S3. MED gene SVs sequence alignment.
Interaktionen des Erdkabelsystems SuedLink mit der Kabelumgebung - Bodenkundlich-Technische Aspekte
Creators: name: Bertermann, David
name: Schwarz, Hans
name: Wessolek, Gerd
name: Drefke, Christoph
name: Benecke, Elisabeth
name: Stegner, Johannes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Die Dimension des Gesamtvorhabens SuedLink stellt die Vorhabenträger TenneT TSO GmbH und TransnetBW GmbH vor neue Herausforderungen. Sie betreffen vor allem die Länge der Stromverbindung und die Querung von unterschiedlichen Naturräumen und Infrastrukturen. Diese Räume unterscheiden sich durch verschiedene Ausprägungen in Geologie, Boden­, Nutzungs- und Wasserverhältnissen und berühren ganz unmittelbar die Interessen der Flächeneigentümer und -nutzer aus den Bereichen Landwirtschaft, Forstwirtschaft, Ökologie und Naturschutz sowie Verkehrs- und Wegebau. Die Vielzahl der örtlich bedingten Unterschiede und Interessenslagen beim Bau des SuedLinks hat zur Folge, dass allgemeingültige Aussagen basierend auf bisherigen Erfahrungen nur bedingt möglich sind. Dies führt zu breiter Kritik, vornehmlich von land- und forstwirtschaftlichen Behörden und Verbandsvertretern, die ihre ortsbezogenen Belange bzgl. Bodenschutz, Nutzungsauswirkungen und -einschränkungen nicht ausreichend berücksichtigt sehen. Aus diesen Gründen haben seit Beginn der Planung für das HGÜ-Erdkabelvorhaben SuedLink die TenneT TSO GmbH und die TransnetBW GmbH den Kontakt zu renommierten Wissenschaftlern gesucht, um den wissenschaftlichen Ansprüchen und Herausforderungen für den Bau des SuedLinks gerecht zu werden. In diesem Buchprojekt werden verschiedene Studien vorgestellt, die sich hauptsächlich mit Bodenfunktionen und deren Auswirkungen auf den Wärmehaushalt des Bodens in der Erdkabelumgebung beschäftigen. In der ersten Auflage wird zu Beginn ein technischer Überblick zum Einbau von erdverlegten HGÜ-Kabeln gegeben und in den weiteren Kapiteln werden hydraulische Einflüsse und der Einfluss bestimmter Nutzpflanzen thematisiert. Außerdem wird die Thermische Bodenclusterung vorgestellt, mit deren Hilfe physikalische Bodeneigenschaften und klimatische Bedingungen für das komplette Untersuchungsgebiet des Erdkabelvorhabens SuedLink georeferenziert betrachtet werden können. Damit können Ansätze und Antworten bezüglich verschiedener bodenkundlicher Fragestellungen zu den Interaktionen des Erdkabelsystems SuedLink mit der Kabelumgebung aufgezeigt werden. In den folgenden Auflagen dieser Studiensammlung sollen weitere in diesem Kontext durchgeführte Studien vorgestellt werden, um so einen umfassenderen Einblick in das System Boden mit HGÜ-Erdkabel zu leisten.
Thermodynamics of the hot BIon
Creators: name: Grignani, Gianluca
name: Harmark, Troels
name: Marini, Andrea
name: Obers, Niels A.
name: Orselli, Marta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the thermodynamics of the recently obtained finite temperature BIon solution of arXiv:1012.1494, focusing on two aspects. The first concerns comparison of the free energy of the three available phases for the finite temperature brane-antibrane wormhole configuration. Based on this we propose a heuristic picture for the dynamics of the phases that involves a critical temperature below which a stable phase exists. This stable phase is the finite temperature analogue of the thin throat branch of the extremal brane anti-brane wormhole configuration. The second aspect that we consider is the possibility of constructing a finite temperature generalization of the infinite spike configuration of the extremal BIon. To this end we identify a correspondence point at the end of the throat where the thermodynamics of the D3-F1 blackfold configuration can be matched to that of k non-extremal black fundamental strings.
description: 19 pages, 7 figures
Advances in Web-Based Decision Support Systems
Creators: name: Dastres, Roza
name: Soori, Mohsen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computer Engineering

description: Web technology has enabled an efficient way of providing and exchanging applications for Decision Support Systems (DSS). Online technology has become the foundation for the design of the web based DSS and the operation development center of DSS. The Web-based DSS is a powerful method which can help users to identify data and accessible services as an online service on the Intranet. The Web-based DSS consists of a computerized framework which, through the web browser, provides users with decision support information or resources. The aim is to provide fast and inexpensive access to data, information and expertise available around the world, along with the ability in order to collaborate effectively with remote partners in decision support systems. Speedy processes, improved communication and teamwork, distributed computation, improved group members' efficiency, improved data management and data warehouse management in decision making systems and providing remote control are some targets of the web-based DDS. In this study, recent achievements and application of the Web-based DDS in the different field are reviewed to suggest new ideas in the research filed. As a result, the research filed can be moved forward.
Additional file 1 of Professionalism-training in undergraduate medical education in a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic setting in the Gulf Region: an exploration of reflective essays
Creators: name: Buhumaid, Rasha
name: Otaki, Farah
name: Czabanowska, Katarzyna
name: Stanley, Adrian
name: Ezimokhai, Mutairu
name: Jackson, Lisa
name: Ho, Samuel B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1
title: Review:„Im nationalen Gewande. Strategien kommunistischer Herrschaftslegitimation in Polen 1944-1980“/ Marcin Zaremba . Osnabrück: fibre, 2011. ISBN: 3938400676
Creators: name: Seegel, Steven
name: Digitale Wissenschaftsplattform Pol-Int (Www.Pol-Int.Org)
Publisher: name: Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt
Year: 2020

description: With its ongoing Klio in Polen series, the German Historical Institute in Warsaw has made available a fine German translation of Marcin Zaremba's Komunizm, legitymizacja, nacjionalizm: Nacjionalistyczna legitymizacja władzy komunistycznej w Polsce (2001), a book that stands the test of time as one of the best recent analyses of post-World War II systems of power in Eastern Europe. In Zaremba's joint treatment of communism and Polish nationalism, he turns to historical and political sociology in order to examine the structuring of institutional power mainly by party elites. He scrupulously avoids the pitfall of treating identity in a cultural vacuum or outside the historical context of statecraft – and in 1942-44 he begins with Stalin – in which a select group of elites relied on a repertoire of tropes to form and modernize the nation. Zaremba argues that Polish communist elites and the leading figures of the dominant Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR), who made the country a one-party state after 1948, consistently employed three principal legitimizing strategies – of universalization, rationalization, and narrativization – to master Polish historical codes and forge a stable communist Polish republic. Zaremba's book in 2001 frames the history of communism and the Polish Stalinist left's intersections with the modern political right starting with Roman Dmowski on Polish historiographical terms. This is no easy scholarly feat. Zaremba deals in equal measure with the reification of Marxism-Leninism in terms of ideology and propaganda, and Polish racial/ethnic legacies of intolerance in modern politics. Back in 1912, it was Stalin who envisioned the nation in deterministic form on a Marxist-Leninist path toward a communist future, “A nation is a historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, and psychological makeup manifested in a common culture." (65) Taking apart Stalin's propaganda motto of “socialist in form, national in content" (228), Zaremba shows what difficulties and insecurities the post-Stalinist leadership faced in Poland to overcome its legitimation deficit by constructing an official state ideology. Internal contradictions in the monocentric party-state's spokesmanship for the people were present in the PRL after it was formed in 1952, in communist elites' mythic efforts to exalt folk-national commemorations of Polishness.
title: Recenzja: "For the Good of the Nation: Institutions for Jewish Children in Interwar Poland. A Documentary History" / Sean Martin. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2017. ISBN: 9781618115676
Creators: name: Cybowski, Milosz K.
name: Digitale Wissenschaftsplattform Pol-Int (  Www.Pol-Int.Org  )
Publisher: name: Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt
Year: 2020

description: W swojej nowej książce Sean Martin prezentuje jeden z mniej znanych elementów życia polskich Żydów w okresie międzywojennym – działalność organizacji CENTOS (Centralnego Związku Towarzystw Opieki nad Żydowskimi Sierotami). Podtytuł Documentary History mówi wyraźnie, że mamy tu do czynienia ze starannie wyselekcjonowanym wyborem źródeł. Jak zauważa we wstępie Martin, historia Związku nie została jeszcze szczegółowo opowiedziana i choć odniesienia do jego działalności pojawiają się w licznych opracowaniach, wciąż pozostaje bardzo wiele do zrobienia w tym temacie. W nieco szerszym kontekście osoby zaangażowane w pracę na rzecz żydowskich sierot odegrały bardzo znaczącą rolę w transformacji samego żydowskiego społeczeństwa Polski międzywojennej (s. vii-viii). Wiązało się to ze stopniową, powojenną sekularyzacją lokalnego życia gmin żydowskich – pierwsza wojna światowa udowodniła słabość Kahałów (tradycyjnych, religijnych gmin żydowskich), które stopniowo traciły na znaczeniu na rzecz lepiej wykształconych liderów społeczności: lekarzy, prawników czy nauczycieli.
The role of proline isomerase pin1 in regulating transactivation of the androgen receptor n-terminal domain
Creators: name: Leung, Jacky Kieran
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: Currently, there is no cure for patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Most CRPC continues to be driven by androgen receptor (AR) signalling for growth and survival, despite androgen-deprivation therapy maintaining castrate levels of serum androgen. AR transcriptional activity is mediated entirely by its intrinsically disordered N-terminal domain (NTD) and believed to involve transiently induced structures within Tau-5 of the NTD to promote interaction with basal transcriptional machinery. The AR NTD harbours six putative binding sites for Pin1, a proline isomerase that regulates protein conformation at specific phosphorylated-Ser/Thr-Pro motifs. Since induced folding within the AR NTD is supposed to be required for transactivation, perturbation of its structure may be a promising approach to block its activity. The purpose of this study was to elucidate the role of Pin1 in regulating the transcriptional activity of AR and to test Pin1 inhibitors for CRPC. We hypothesized that Pin1 interacts with the AR NTD to regulate transactivation and that targeting Pin1 would enhance the inhibitory response of EPI compounds which specifically bind to Tau-5 in the AR NTD. We assessed Pin1 inhibitors, juglone and ATRA, for their effects on AR function using various cell-based assays. We evaluated the efficacy of ATRA in vivo, as monotherapy and combination therapy with EPI-7170, using human CRPC xenograft models. We found that targeting the isomerase activity of Pin1 reduced the transcriptional activity of AR. Pin1 interacted with the AR NTD and regulated ligand-independent transactivation by interleukin-6. The Pin1 inhibitor ATRA prevented cell proliferation driven by the constitutively active AR splice variant, AR-V7, and was synergistic with EPI compounds for inhibiting AR transcriptional activity. Furthermore, combination therapy of ATRA and EPI-7170 was effective in reducing the in vivo growth of CRPC xenografts. In summary, the isomerase function of Pin1 was essential for transactivation of the AR NTD and targeting Pin1 enhanced the potency of AR NTD inhibitors. Since there are currently no effective treatments for lethal CRPC, elucidating the molecular mechanisms which regulate the transcriptional activity of AR could aid in the development of more effective therapies for prostate cancer.
Additional file 1 of Trainee-supervisor collaboration, progress-visualisation, and coaching: a survey on challenges in assessment of ICU trainees
Creators: name: Scholte, Johannes B. J.
name: Strehler, Johannes C.
name: Dill, Tatjana
name: van Mook, Walther N. K. A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1: Supplement 1. Organisational chart of our ICU including the number of persons and full time equivalent (FTE) at the time of conduction of the survey. Chief, leading physicians and attending physicians all are intensivists. Fellows and residents are the trainees. Supplement 2. Quotes supporting the three themes and their subthemes.
On the Quantum Computing Delusion
Creators: name: Smith, John
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Mechanics
subject: 20603 Quantum Information, Computation and Communication
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The prospect of an up-coming quantum computer revolution is big news these days, with some technologists predicting that a scalable quantum computer is a mere 4 - 5 years away. It has even been claimed -by D-Wave cofounder Eric Ladizinsky- that this prospective revolution will be civilization's next big revolution. The truth is that quantum computers that are anything more than toys are, not merely difficult to engineer, but mathematically impossible, and based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the relationship between classical and quantum physics...
The bulk Lorentz factors of Fermi-LAT GRBs
Creators: name: Zhao, Xiaohong
name: Li, Zhuo
name: Bai, Jinming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Lorentz factor (LF) of gamma-ray burst (GRB) ejecta may be constrained by observations of high-energy (HE) spectral attenuation. The recent Fermi-LAT observations of prompt GeV emission from several bright GRBs have leaded to conclusions of unexpectedly large LFs, $Γ>10^3$. Here we revisit this problem with two main concerns. (1) With one-zone assumption where all photons are assumed to be generated in the same region (radius) and time, we {\em self-consistently} calculate the $γγ$ optical depth by adopting a target photon spectrum with HE cutoff. We find that this might be important when the GRB LF is below a few hundreds. (2) Recent Fermi-LAT observations suggest that the bulk MeV-range and HE ($\ga100$ MeV) emission may arise from different regions. We then consider a two-zone case where HE emission is generated in much larger radii than that of the MeV-range emission. We find that the HE emission may be mainly attenuated by MeV-range emission and that the attenuated HE spectrum does not show an exponential spectral cutoff but a slight steepening. This suggests that there may be no abrupt cutoff due to $γγ$ attenuation if relaxing the one-zone assumption. By studying the spectra of three bright Fermi-LAT GRBs 080916C, 090510 and 090902B, we show that a bulk LF of\textbf{ $Γ\sim600$ }can be consistent with observations in the two-zone case. Even lower LFs can be obtained in the multi-zone case.
description: 8 pages, a schematic figure added, the other 5 figures updated, ApJ, in press
Modeling of an EHD corona flow in nitrogen gas using an asymmetric capacitor for propulsion
Creators: name: Martins, Alexandre A.
name: Pinheiro, Mario J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The present work intends to identify the nature of the propulsive force that occurs during a positive corona discharge in nitrogen gas using an asymmetric capacitor geometry. We are going to apply the known theory of electrohydrodynamics (EHD) and electrostatics in order to compute all hydrodynamic and electrostatic forces that act on the considered geometry in an attempt to provide a physical insight on the force mechanism that acts on an asymmetrical capacitor.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures, Accepted for publication in "Journal of Electrostatics"
Quantum relaxation after a quench in systems with boundaries
Creators: name: Iglói, Ferenc
name: Rieger, Heiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the time-dependence of the magnetization profile, m_l(t), of a large finite open quantum Ising chain after a quench. We observe a cyclic variation, in which starting with an exponentially decreasing period the local magnetization arrives to a quasi-stationary regime, which is followed by an exponentially fast reconstruction period. The non-thermal behavior observed at near-surface sites turns over to thermal behavior for bulk sites. Besides the standard time- and length-scales a non-standard time-scale is identified in the reconstruction period.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
title: Incidental findings in whole-body computed tomography in trauma room diagnostics
Creators: name: Vogele, Daniel
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Emergency
subject: CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Trauma

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Whole-body CT (WBCT) is the established standard diagnosis for polytraumatized patients. WBCT is of decisive importance in the treatment of severely injured patients leading to a survival advantage for the patients [1-3]. In addition to...
Non-relativistic bound states in a moving thermal bath
Creators: name: Escobedo, Miguel Angel
name: Mannarelli, Massimo
name: Soto, Joan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the propagation of non-relativistic bound states moving at constant velocity across a homogeneous thermal bath and we develop the effective field theory which is relevant in various dynamical regimes. We consider values of the velocity of the bound state ranging from moderate to highly relativistic and temperatures at all relevant scales smaller than the mass of the particles that form the bound state. In particular, we consider two distinct temperature regimes, corresponding to temperatures smaller or higher than the typical momentum transfer in the bound state. For temperatures smaller or of the order of the typical momentum transfer, we restrict our analysis to the simplest system, a hydrogen-like atom. We build the effective theory for this system first considering moderate values of the velocity and then the relativistic case. For large values of the velocity of the bound state, the separation of scales is such that the corresponding effective theory resembles the soft collinear effective theory (SCET). For temperatures larger than the typical momentum transfer we also consider muonic hydrogen propagating in a plasma which contains photons and massless electrons and positrons, so that the system resembles very much heavy quarkonium in a thermal medium of deconfined quarks and gluons. We study the behavior of the real and imaginary part of the static two-body potential, for various velocities of the bound state, in the hard thermal loop approximation. We find that Landau damping ceases to be the relevant mechanism for dissociation from a certain "critical" velocity on in favor of screening. Our results are relevant for understanding how the properties of heavy quarkonia states produced in the initial fusion of partons in the relativistic collision of heavy ions are affected by the presence of an equilibrated quark-gluon plasma.
description: 25 pages, 4 figures. Minor corrections, reference added. Closely matches version to be published in Physical Review D
title: Can Perivascular CT Radiomics Predict Vascular Involvement in Patients with Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma? – An Exploratory Study
Creators: name: Oliveira, Camila
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer applications
subject: Pancreas
subject: Vascular
subject: CT
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Technology assessment
subject: Cancer

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Accurate assessment of vascular contact is key to define pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) resectability [1]. However, it can be challenging as it relies on the radiologist’s expertise [2]. Prior studies of tumor radiomics predicting...