cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Enhancing osteoporotic fracture healing with p21-/- induced pluripotent stem cells
Creators: name: Olsen, Alexandra B
Publisher: name: Schulich School of Engineering
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Biomedical

description: Following a fracture, bone regeneration is dependent on the recruitment of mesenchymal progenitor cells (MPCs). After recruitment of MPCs, regeneration will proceed by one of the two primary osteogenic pathways; intramembranous ossification or endochondral ossification, with the latter being the most common fracture healing pathway. Diseases that disrupt bone homeostasis such as osteoporosis result in prolonged endochondral ossification and as a result, osteoporotic fracture healing results in suboptimal bone regeneration(1). Thus, it is of the utmost importance to determine ways to enhance osteoporotic fracture healing. Of potential interest is the tumour suppressor p21-/- as it has been reported that p21-/- induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have increased bone and cartilage differentiation potential(2). Our lab has reported that osteoporotic p21-/- mice have decreased trabecular bone loss and also shown that p21-/- mice have increased bone regeneration following a tibia burr hole injury, a model that promotes intramembranous ossification(3). However, the burr hole model is not clinically relevant as it does not mimic commonly occurring fractures. Therefore, the purpose of this thesis was two-fold: first, to assess the regenerative potential of p21-/- mice following a fracture that promotes endochondral ossification and second, to determine the potential therapeutic effects of transplanting p21-/- (iPSCs) into an osteoporotic fracture. It was observed that p21-/- mice demonstrated increased bone regeneration post-fracture under normal or osteoporotic conditions. When p21-/- or C57BL/6 iPSCs were transplanted into the fracture site of an osteoporotic mouse, increased bone regeneration was observed. Furthermore, engraftment of these exogenous iPSCs into the fracture callus was observed. Interestingly, only the transplantation of p21-/- iPSCs resulted in bone that was tougher 4 weeks post-fracture. Taken together, these results suggest that treatment with exogenous iPSCs is a promising option to enhance bone regeneration under osteoporotic conditions. Further elucidating the contributions of iPSCs to bone regeneration is required prior to translating this fundamental knowledge into a clinical setting. Of critical importance, we need to understand the mechanisms by which iPSCs contribute to bone regeneration and determine how best to handle these cells to maximize healing potential and minimize tumorgenicity post-transplant.
title: Five steps for unexperienced radiologist to perform a successful CT guided bone biopsy
Creators: name: Krešić, Elvira
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Metastases
subject: Biopsy
subject: CT
subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: Interventional non-vascular

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Learning objectives is present the procedure of CT guided bone biopsy in five steps in order to help unexperienced radiologist or radiology resident to perform successful bone...
title: Does contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) have a place in imaging in emergency?
Creators: name: Hebar, Timea
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Emergency
subject: Trauma
subject: Ultrasound
subject: CT
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Venous access
subject: Trauma
subject: Acute

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Review the indications and off-label applications for contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) in emergency with cases Review the advantages and disadvantages of CEUS compared to CT in emergency Discuss the applicability of CEUS in the FAST...
Analysis of a Soft Haptic Device with Integrated Tactile Sensor and Actuator for Optimal Design
Creators: name: Wahlbom, Anders
name: Dahiya, Ravinder
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170112 Sensory Processes, Perception and Performance
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Conference paper: Analysis of a Soft Haptic Device with Integrated Tactile Sensor and Actuator for Optimal Design
title: Intestinal Angioedema Imaging Aspects
Creators: name: Guarilha, Taísa
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Emergency
subject: CT
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Inflammation
subject: Acute

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Demonstrate the aspects of the main findings of intestinal angioedema using computed tomography. Facilitate early recognition of the condition to improve patient’s outcome and help to minimize morbidity resulting from incorrect...
Silent Majority, Violent Majority: The Counter-Revolution in 70s Cinema
Creators: name: Novick, Peter Andrew
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012
Subjects: Ideology and artistic production, crisis of ideology, mutation of aesthetic form

description: «There is one question, Inspector Callahan: Why do they call you ‘Dirty Harry’?» Harry, it is explained, «…Hates everybody: Limeys, Micks, Hebes, Fat Degos, Niggers, Honkies, Chinks…especially Spics». Don Siegel’s Dirty Harry (1971), famously labeled «fascist» by prominent film critic Pauline Kael, nonetheless represented something new and unique—the “Silent Majority’s” entry into liberal New Hollywood, a veritable counter-reformation to the new social movements having sprung up in the late Sixties and early Seventies. Far from the traditional American Right, however, and distinctly un-Fascist (in as much as the term means more than a simple epithet), these films acted to unite traditional European philosophy and revolutionary thought with organic conservative American tendencies, resulting in hybrid films which challenged the new social movements, while working within the medium of liberal New American Cinema. The article will address three themes from the era: violence and race in the city, revenge against “liberated women”, and fear and loathing of homosexuality. In each instance, using primary evidence from films and critical reviews from the Seventies and the present era, in addition to American and European theorists, the article will show how the counter-revolution in Seventies cinema failed to expunge the “revolutionary spirit” of the era. Rather, the Silent Majority’s visions of visual violence and reactionary values became part and parcel of the new liberated culture of the “Me Decade,” forever bounding the conservative celluloid revolt to the new cinematic culture.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 7 (2012)
Directed Flow of Identified Particles in Au + Au Collisions at $\sqrtsNN = 200$ GeV at RHIC
Creators: name: The STAR Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: STAR's measurements of directed flow ($v_1$) around midrapidity for $π^{\pm}$, K$^{\pm}$, K$_S^0$, $p$ and $\bar{p}$ in Au + Au collisions at $\sqrtsNN = 200$ GeV are presented. A negative $v_1(y)$ slope is observed for most of produced particles ($π^{\pm}$, K$^{\pm}$, K$_{S}^{0}$ and $\bar{p}$). In 5-30% central collisions a sizable difference is present between the $v_1(y)$ slope of protons and antiprotons, with the former being consistent with zero within errors. The $v_1$ excitation function is presented. Comparisons to model calculations (RQMD, UrQMD, AMPT, QGSM with parton recombination, and a hydrodynamics model with a tilted source) are made. For those models which have calculations of $v_1$ for both pions and protons, none of them can describe $v_1(y)$ for pions and protons simultaneously. The hydrodynamics model with a tilted source as currently implemented cannot explain the centrality dependence of the difference between the $v_1(y)$ slopes of protons and antiprotons.
description: 4 figures
Automatic Perfusion Imaging Analysis for the Prediction of Tissue Fate in Acute Ischemic Stroke using Machine Learning
Creators: name: Winder, Anthony J
Publisher: name: Cumming School of Medicine
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Perfusion Imaging
subject: Stroke
subject: Ischemic Stroke
subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Machine Learning
subject: Deep Learning
subject: Tissue Prediction
subject: Outcome Prediction
subject: Feature Extraction
subject: Automatic Analysis
subject: Computed Tomography
subject: Magnetic Resonance
subject: Arterial Input Function
subject: Health Sciences--Radiology
subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Health Sciences--Medicine and Surgery

description: In the domain of acute ischemic stroke, tissue outcome prediction is a computational task uniquely positioned at the intersection of medicine and data science. It is used by clinicians to make acute treatment decisions and by researchers to select patients for clinical trials. Machine learning methods have the potential to improve the process of stroke tissue outcome prediction by utilizing the full multi-modal patient datasets typically acquired in the clinical routine. However, technical details related to data preprocessing and machine learning classifier design vary widely between studies, making it difficult to reach a consensus on how best to apply these machine learning-based methods to real-life medical scenarios. The research described in this thesis aims to establish such a consensus through comparative studies of classical machine learning and deep learning experimental designs. To address the wide range of experimental designs proposed for stroke tissue outcome prediction using classical machine learning methods, this work exhaustively compared common design choices from the published literature to establish a top-performing ’baseline’ model design. To address inconsistencies in the data processing techniques used to prepare imaging features for stroke tissue outcome prediction, this work also proposed a method to automatically select the arterial input function of computed tomography perfusion and perfusion-weighted MRI datasets. Using the baseline classical machine learning model design and proposed data preprocessing method, stroke tissue outcome predictions were generated to perform the clinically relevant task of in-silico stroke treatment efficacy evaluation. It was shown that the proposed in-silico study design can outperform conventional treatment efficacy analysis for a small patient population. Additionally, the established classical machine learning design was compared to a novel deep learning classifier, which revealed that deep learning can significantly outperform classical machine learning for stroke tissue outcome prediction. Overall, this work provides a clear and detailed framework for training classical machine learning models that are clinically relevant to stoke treatment efficacy analysis, and further suggests that the use of novel deep learning methods may constitute an improvement over classical machine learning in future studies.
Exploring Sleep Health Among Adolescents in a Family Context: Using a Participatory Approach to Inform the Development of a Wearable Technology Solution
Creators: name: Beck, Amy J
Publisher: name: Nursing
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: adolescent
subject: adolescent-parent dyad
subject: participatory design approach
subject: mixed methods
subject: Health Sciences--Nursing

description: Background: Insufficient sleep is experienced by one-third of Canadian adolescents and is associated with physical and emotional health problems, as well as poor academic performance, poorer quality of life, and risky behaviours. Given the significant health concerns that insufficient sleep poses, there is a growing interest in promoting healthy sleep behaviours among adolescents. The wearable technology industry may offer an opportunity to help adolescents monitor and prioritize sleep strategies and establish healthy sleep habits. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to better understand adolescents’ sleep experiences and practices including the within-family sleep context to aid in the eventual development of a wearable sleep health technology.Methods: Informed by Participatory Design approaches, this project is divided into three studies (1) sleep wearable technology scoping review (Chapter 2, protocol; Chapter 3, review); (2) mixed methods study to explore sleep pattern concordance and dysfunctional beliefs and attitudes about sleep in adolescents and their parents (Chapter 4); and (3) qualitative study conducted to gain insight into adolescents’ sleep knowledge and contextual and social factors that influence their daily sleep practices (Chapter 5). Results: The scoping review identified a few studies that used mobile technology to deliver sleep interventions for adolescents. In the adolescent-parent dyad study, we found weekday sleep concordance suggesting that family context should be considered in adolescent sleep interventions. In the focus group interviews, adolescents identified that limiting negative messaging and implementing nudging or coaching strategies are possible approaches that could be incorporated into a wearable technology solution to promote sleep behaviour change.Conclusion: In summary, this research provided evidence that a wearable technology solution has the potential to deliver a targeted sleep intervention for adolescents and support youth struggling with inadequate sleep. Findings from this research can guide future research to develop a tailored wearable technology solution to improve adolescent sleep.
title: How to catch the main culprit in radial head subluxation – the role of the lateral ulnar collateral ligament (LUCL)
Creators: name: Hebar, Timea
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Extremities

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Demonstrate the normal US and MRI appearance of the lateral ulnar collateral ligament (LUCL) Demonstrate the plain radiograph, CT, US and MRI findings of the injured LUCL with tips for better visualization Discuss the importance of different imaging...
The simplicial boundary of a CAT(0) cube complex
Creators: name: Hagen, Mark F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: For a CAT(0) cube complex $\mathbf X$, we define a simplicial flag complex $\partial_Δ\mathbf X$, called the \emph{simplicial boundary}, which is a natural setting for studying non-hyperbolic behavior of $\mathbf X$. We compare $\partial_Δ\mathbf X$ to the Roller, visual, and Tits boundaries of $\mathbf X$ and give conditions under which the natural CAT(1) metric on $\partial_Δ\mathbf X$ makes it (quasi)isometric to the Tits boundary. $\partial_Δ\mathbf X$ allows us to interpolate between studying geodesic rays in $\mathbf X$ and the geometry of its \emph{contact graph} $Γ\mathbf X$, which is known to be quasi-isometric to a tree, and we characterize essential cube complexes for which the contact graph is bounded. Using related techniques, we study divergence of combinatorial geodesics in $\mathbf X$ using $\partial_Δ\mathbf X$. Finally, we rephrase the rank-rigidity theorem of Caprace-Sageev in terms of group actions on $Γ\mathbf X$ and $\partial_Δ\mathbf X$ and state characterizations of cubulated groups with linear divergence in terms of $Γ\mathbf X$ and $\partial_Δ\mathbf X$.
description: Lemma 3.18 was not stated correctly. This is fixed, and a minor adjustment to the beginning of the proof of Theorem 3.19 has been made as a result. Statements other than 3.18 do not need to change. I thank Abdul Zalloum for the correction. See also: arXiv:2004.01182 (this version differs from previous only by addition of the preceding link, at administrators' request)
Из истории сельского населения Керченского полуострова в ХІІІ-XIV вв
Creators: name: Орлов, Руслан
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430101
subject: Archaeological science

description: Орлов Р.С. Из истории сельского населения Керченского полуострова в ХІІІ-XIV вв — Памятники древних культур Северного Причерноморья: Сборник научных трудов. - К., 1979, С.114-130.From the history of the rural population of the Kerch peninsula in the 13th-14th centuries
Impact of nonlinear hydrodynamic modelling on geometric optimisation of a spherical heaving point absorber
Creators: name: Guo, Bingyong
name: Elmoosa, Qusai
name: Windt, Christian
name: Ringwood, John V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: wave energy converter, geometric optimisation, wave energy control, hydrodynamic modelling, sensitivity

description: Due to the amount of iterative computation involved, researchers involved in geometric optimisation of wave energy devices typically employ linear hydrodynamic models. However, the exaggerated motion of wave energy devices, aided by energy maximising control action, challenges the assumptions upon which linear hydrodynamic modelling relies. Furthermore, the optimal device geometry is also sensitive to the nature of the energy-maximisation controller employed, and to the set of wave conditions over which the optimisation is carried out.

 In order to focus on the essential issues, this study takes the simplest possible device for optimisation, a heaving sphere (with just one free parameter), but one which exhibits nonlinear hydrodynamic characteristics, due to the non-uniform cross-sectional area. The study examines the sensitivity to the inclusion of nonlinear Froude-Krylov forces. In addition, the sensitivity of the optimal device size to differences in the applied control algorithm is also studied, as are effects due to different representative sea state representations and performance evaluation criteria.
description: EWTEC 2021
Dissecting plant innate immunity using SNC1 : a sensitive immune receptor
Creators: name: Cheng, Yu Ti
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Plants rely on innate immunity to fight pathogens. Among plant defence mechanisms, Resistance (R) proteins play essential roles in recognizing pathogens and mounting robust defence responses. snc1, a mis-regulated plant Resistance (R) gene mutant, exhibits distinctive morphological and autoimmune phenotypes. To identify the signalling components downstream of R proteinmediated defence, forward genetic screens were conducted in the snc1 background. From the screens, fifteen novel mos (modifier of snc1) mutants were identified, of which, I studied mos7 and mos9 for my PhD thesis. Both mos7 and mos9 partially suppress all snc1- related autoimmune phenotypes. MOS7 is an Arabidopsis homolog of human and Drosophila Nucleoporin 88 (Nup88) required for protein nuclear retention. Partial loss-of-function alleles of up88 in Drosophila and mammalian cells fail to accumulate NF-κB in the nucleus and result in immune deficiency. We found that several defence related proteins have altered distribution/abundance in mos7, including snc1. This study highlights the importance of nucleocytoplasmic trafficking in plant immunity. mos9 contains a mutation in a gene encoding a protein of unknown function. Immunoprecipitation followed by mass spectrometry identified a SET domain-containing protein, ATXR7, as an interactor of MOS9. Previous studies showed that ATXR7 methylates lysine 4 of histone H3 (H3K4) and this methylation is required for proper transcriptional activation of Flowering Locus C (FLC). We found reduced expression of two R genes, S C1 and RPP4, in mos9 and atxr7. Also, H3K4 marks close to S C1 are reduced in mos9. My research on MOS9 illustrated the importance of histone modification in regulating plant immune receptor transcription. Serendipitously, I worked on an F-box protein, CPR1. From the genetic and biochemical data, we found that at least two R proteins, SNC1 and RPS2, are being regulated by CPR1. Our study is the first report with evidence suggesting how plant R proteins are negatively regulated by the ubiquitin-26S proteasome. Overall, my PhD thesis research provides evidence that plant immunity is under tight control at multiple levels. My work furthers our knowledge on how plant immune responses are regulated.
title: Subependymal venous anatomy evaluation by 3T-MRI in a cohort of neonates.
Creators: name: Domenech-Ximenos, Blanca
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Haemorrhage
subject: Complications
subject: MR
subject: Paediatric

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Deep venous system’s anatomy plays an important role in the pathogenesis of brain lesions in the neonate brain. As known, germinal matrix haemorrhage-intraventricular haemorrhage (GMH-IVH) is one of the main complications of prematurity, with...
Projectors, Shadows, and Conformal Blocks
Creators: name: Simmons-Duffin, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a method for computing conformal blocks of operators in arbitrary Lorentz representations in any spacetime dimension, making it possible to apply bootstrap techniques to operators with spin. The key idea is to implement the "shadow formalism" of Ferrara, Gatto, Grillo, and Parisi in a setting where conformal invariance is manifest. Conformal blocks in $d$-dimensions can be expressed as integrals over the projective null-cone in the "embedding space" $\mathbb{R}^{d+1,1}$. Taking care with their analytic structure, these integrals can be evaluated in great generality, reducing the computation of conformal blocks to a bookkeeping exercise. To facilitate calculations in four-dimensional CFTs, we introduce techniques for writing down conformally-invariant correlators using auxiliary twistor variables, and demonstrate their use in some simple examples.
description: 38 pages, 3 figures; v2 fixed typos, added references; v3 JHEP version; v4, v5, v6 typos and corrections
title: Reporting Facial trauma: Don`t forget the teeth.
Creators: name: Sulla Lupinacci, Felipe
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Trauma
subject: Perception image
subject: Education
subject: CT
subject: Head and neck
subject: Emergency

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: • Review the dental anatomy • Show the types of dental trauma and their corresponding imaging...
Analysis of a Soft Haptic Device with Integrated Tactile Sensor and Actuator for Optimal Design
Creators: name: Wahlbom, Anders
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170112 Sensory Processes, Perception and Performance
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Conference paper: Analysis of a Soft Haptic Device with Integrated Tactile Sensor and Actuator for Optimal Design
title: The incidence of acute pancreatitis (AP) in the Island of Ischia: A monocentric experience
Creators: name: Balestrieri, Umberto
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Contrast agents
subject: Emergency
subject: CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Laboratory tests
subject: Inflammation
subject: Acute
subject: Epidemiology

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The clinical experience gained in the last 15 years by medical doctors working at the "A. Rizzoli "Lacco Ameno (Naples), the only hospital on the Island of Ischia, has fueled the suspicion of an excessive incidence of acute pancreatitis (AP) in the...
title: Pancreatic cystic neoplasms – clinical, radiological and pathological findings
Creators: name: Costa, Marta
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Pathology
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Cysts
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Education
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Pancreas
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Provide an overview of main clinical and radiological features of common pancreatic cystic neoplasms; Discuss the appropriate management of pancreatic cystic neoplasms based on current international guidelines; Report cases from our hospital, with...
Additional file 2: of Simplified Chinese version of hip and knee replacement expectations surveys in patients with osteoarthritis and ankylosing spondylitis: cross-cultural adaptation, validation and reliability
Creators: name: Wang, Chen
name: Zhang, Chen
name: Liu, De-Lin
name: Tong, Wen-Wen
name: He, Chong-Ru
name: Huang, Xuan
name: Xu, Wei-Dong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Table S2. Results of CFA for each dimension of SC-THRES. (DOCX 17 kb)
M-brane Models from Non-Abelian Gerbes
Creators: name: Palmer, Sam
name: Saemann, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We make the observation that M-brane models defined in terms of 3-algebras can be interpreted as higher gauge theories involving Lie 2-groups. Such gauge theories arise in particular in the description of non-abelian gerbes. This observation allows us to put M2- and M5-brane models on equal footing, at least as far as the gauge structure is concerned. Furthermore, it provides a useful framework for various generalizations; in particular, it leads to a fully supersymmetric generalization of a previously proposed set of tensor multiplet equations.
description: 17 pages, v2: new SUSY models, version published in JHEP
title: Assessing the compliance to Modified Wells' Score in recommending CTPA in Emergency patients suspected of Pulmonary Embolism
Creators: name: GUPTA, PRIYANK
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quality assurance
subject: Embolism / Thrombosis
subject: Education and training
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Health policy and practice
subject: RIS
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Vascular
subject: Pulmonary vessels
subject: Emergency

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: BACKGROUND: Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a serious condition with a high mortality rate if unrecognized [1]. Symptoms and signs of PE are often non-specific, including chest pain, dyspnea and syncope and clinical presentation of patients with...
Heat-Assisted and Chemically-Treated Proton Exchange Membrane Electrolysis
Creators: name: Macrae, Hugh
Publisher: name: Schulich School of Engineering
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Chemistry--General

description: As climate change continues to occur at an accelerating rate, new methods of powering our lives, technologies, and services must be established to achieve environmental stability. Innovative carbon-free methods of energy generation and transportation are necessary to alleviate anthropogenic greenhouse gas contribution. Hydrogen as a chemical energy carrier can manage, store, and transport renewably generated electricity, and function as a portable fuel. For a hydrogen energy platform to displace our current energy platform, hydrogen production, storage, and utilization must become more developed. The purpose of this research will consider the interaction of temperature to improve the efficiency of producing hydrogen via water electrolysis, such that renewable electricity supply in conjunction with low grade heat could be utilized to effectively produce hydrogen. In Alberta, access to low grade geothermal heat for such a process is arguably abundant with the appropriate utilization of the many orphan and inactive oil and gas wells, which offer approximately 90?C downhole. This is an opportunity for companies and institutions who possess or have received the liability of inactive wells. The findings of this research confirm the expected increase in efficiency for hydrogen production under high temperature.
Disorder-induced cavities, resonances, and lasing in randomly-layered media
Creators: name: Bliokh, Yury
name: Chaikina, Elena I.
name: Lizárraga, Noemí
name: Méndez, Eugenio R.
name: Freilikher, Valentin
name: Nori, Franco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study, theoretically and experimentally, disorder-induced resonances in randomly-layered samples,and develop an algorithm for the detection and characterization of the effective cavities that give rise to these resonances. This algorithm enables us to find the eigen-frequencies and pinpoint the locations of the resonant cavities that appear in individual realizations of random samples, for arbitrary distributions of the widths and refractive indices of the layers. Each cavity is formed in a region whose size is a few localization lengths. Its eigen-frequency is independent of the location inside the sample, and does not change if the total length of the sample is increased by, for example, adding more scatterers on the sides. We show that the total number of cavities, $N_{\mathrm{cav}}$, and resonances, $N_{\mathrm{res}}$, per unit frequency interval is uniquely determined by the size of the disordered system and is independent of the strength of the disorder. In an active, amplifying medium, part of the cavities may host lasing modes whose number is less than $N_{\mathrm{res}}$. The ensemble of lasing cavities behaves as distributed feedback lasers, provided that the gain of the medium exceeds the lasing threshold, which is specific for each cavity. We present the results of experiments carried out with single-mode optical fibers with gain and randomly-located resonant Bragg reflectors (periodic gratings). When the fiber was illuminated by a pumping laser with an intensity high enough to overcome the lasing threshold, the resonances revealed themselves by peaks in the emission spectrum. Our experimental results are in a good agreement with the theory presented here.
description: minor corrections
The anomaly line bundle of the self-dual field theory
Creators: name: Monnier, Samuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we determine explicitly the anomaly line bundle of the abelian self-dual field theory over the space of metrics modulo diffeomorphisms, including its torsion part. Inspired by the work of Belov and Moore, we propose a non-covariant action principle for a pair of Euclidean self-dual fields on a generic oriented Riemannian manifold. The corresponding path integral allows to study the global properties of the partition function over the space of metrics modulo diffeomorphisms. We show that the anomaly bundle for a pair of self-dual fields differs from the determinant bundle of the Dirac operator coupled to chiral spinors by a flat bundle that is not trivial if the underlying manifold has middle-degree cohomology, and whose holonomies are determined explicitly. We briefly sketch the relevance of this result for the computation of the global gravitational anomaly of the self-dual field theory, that will appear in another paper.
description: 41 pages. v2: A few typos corrected. Version accepted for publication in CMP
title: Petrous apex lesions: pictorial review and algorithmic diagnostic approach
Creators: name: Bouzaouache, Yassine
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Head and neck
subject: Ear / Nose / Throat
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Education
subject: eLearning
subject: Tissue characterisation

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The current poster aims to: - Review the anatomy of the petrous apex - Propose an algorithm that helps the radiologists narrow the differential diagnosis when encountered with a lesion within the petrous apex - Discuss most typical imaging...
Use of animal data in public health surveillance for emerging zoonotic diseases
Creators: name: Vrbova, Linda
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Infectious agents transmitted between animals and humans (zoonoses) are important causes of emerging infectious diseases with major societal, economic, and public health implications. In order to prevent and control emerging zoonotic diseases (EZDs), they should ideally be identified in animals before they affect the human population. The utility of animal data for public health EZD surveillance was investigated in this thesis in four studies: a systematic literature review of current EZD surveillance systems and three critical examinations of pilot agricultural animal health surveillance systems. The first critical examination used expert-elicited criteria of EZD surveillance needs to evaluate a sentinel clinical pre-diagnostic system. The other two studies used statistical modeling to assess the ability of a laboratory-based system and an integrated system with both human and animal data to detect known patterns and outbreaks. The systematic review identified few evaluated surveillance systems, hence an evidence base for successful systems could not be obtained. Experts identified diagnostic data from laboratories and information on potential human exposures as important for public health action. While the sentinel animal surveillance system was not deemed useful on its own, identified gaps and biases in laboratory submissions suggest that sentinel veterinarians could inform animal laboratory surveillance. Seasonal trends and expected events of public health importance were identified in animal diagnostic laboratory data, however, statistical surveillance in either pre-diagnostic or diagnostic data streams did not provide adequate early warning signals for action. While the integrated surveillance for Salmonella bacteria allowed for the examination of the relationship between human and animal data, statistical alerts did not correlate with expert-identified investigations. Laboratory surveillance is likely the best candidate for EZD surveillance in animals, however, this information needs to be supplemented with potential human exposure information, as well as knowledge of data gaps and biases inherent in the data. Without this additional risk information to convert the animal data into risk for humans, the best use of animal laboratory data at this time is to help generate hypotheses in epidemiological investigations and in helping evaluate programs by examining longer-term trends.
Per un umanesimo contemporaneo. Michail Bachtin  e gli sviluppi della teoria del personaggio in  Michel Houellebecq, John M. Coetzee, Javier Marías e Philip Roth
Creators: name: Lombardi, Chiara
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012
Subjects: Umanesimo (contemporaneo), Personaggio, Ba-chtin, Letteratura contemporanea,Teoria della let-teratura.

description: Questo contributo intende mettere in luce l‟importanza del pensiero di Bachtin e della sua teoria del personaggio nella definizione di un «umanesimo contemporaneo» e nei suoi sviluppi narrati-vi. Si riferisce perciò, senza pretesa di esaustività, ad alcuni romanzi di Michel Houellebecq, John M. Coetzee, Philip Roth, Javier Marías. A partire dai concetti bachtiniani di dialogismo e di extralocalità, si analizzano le forme dell‟intertestualità, i modi dell‟ironia e del paradosso, e la simbologia della morte come collocazione del personaggio sull‟estrema soglia.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 7 (2012)
“The change happens with our kids”: Exploring parent perspectives on gender diversity and sport in children’s literature
Creators: name: Grzyb, Caitlin N
Publisher: name: Kinesiology
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Sport
subject: Education
subject: Children
subject: Literature
subject: Gender Diversity
subject: Queer Theory
subject: Education
subject: Social Sciences
subject: Language, Literature, And Linguistics
subject: Communications And The Arts
subject: Health And Environmental Sciences

description: Children’s books have an influential role in guiding children in their understandings of identity, social roles, and (re)production of social norms. Both historical and contemporary representations of gender in children’s literature largely maintain societal gender norms and expectations. The presence of these social biases in children’s books limit the scope of acceptable roles that are presented to children, subsequently reinforcing these norms as part of the child’s own thinking and actions. Children’s books have the potential to be used as educational tools in relation to topics such as gender diversity and to challenge longstanding social truths. Sport is a social sphere that is not immune to problematic discourses concerning gender diversity and gender and sexually diverse children often experience barriers to participation. The current body of literature on the representation of sport and gender diversity in children’s books is limited. My study sought to address this gap by exploring parents’ perceptions of children’s literature and diverse gender representation in sport through the lens of queer theory. Nine parents of young children read two children’s books that I created—one about ice hockey, one about figure skating—and then participated in a semi–structured interview in which we discussed their reading experiences, perceptions about gender diversity in sport, and the use of children’s literature as an agent for social change. Through thematic and discourse analysis of the interview transcripts, four primary themes emerged: (1) Empowerment, (2) Exposure, (3) Support, and (4) The Adult Audience. Children’s books have the potential to be used as an educational tool for children (and the adults in their lives) in exploring gender diversity. I argue for a queer approach to reading children’s books, structuring sport spaces, and understanding childhood, ultimately using children’s books to provide children with knowledge and experiences to facilitate their active engagement in social change in spaces such as sport.
Diversity of Luminous Supernovae from Non-Steady Mass Loss
Creators: name: Moriya, Takashi J.
name: Tominaga, Nozomu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the diversity in the density slope of the dense wind due to non-steady mass loss can be one way to explain the spectral diversity of Type II luminous supernovae (LSNe). The interaction of SN ejecta and wind surrounding it is considered to be a power source to illuminate LSNe because many LSNe show the wind signature in their spectra (Type IIn LSNe). However, there also exist LSNe without the spectral features caused by the wind (Type IIL LSNe). We show that, even if LSNe are illuminated by the interaction, it is possible that they do not show the narrow spectra from the wind if we take into account of non-steady mass loss of their progenitors. When the shock breakout takes place in the dense wind with the density structure ρ\propto r^{-w}, the ratio of the diffusion timescale in the optically thick region of the wind (td) and the shock propagation timescale of the entire wind after the shock breakout (ts) strongly depends on w. For the case w
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, accepted by The Astrophysical Journal
title: Interventional and clinical impact of CCTA planning and follow-up of the left atrial appendage occlusion in a large single center study
Creators: name: Clemente, Alberto
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Percutaneous
subject: Efficacy studies
subject: Treatment effects
subject: Embolism / Thrombosis
subject: Blood

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To investigate thepre-interventional planning and the post-treatment role ofcardiac computed tomography angiography (CCTA)on theleft atrial appendage (LAA)occlusionin a large single center populationasalternative to oral anticoagulation(OAC)...
Carbon Nanotube-PEDOT PSS Composite-based Flexible Temperature Sensor with Enhanced Response and Recovery Time
Creators: name: Wahlbom, Anders
name: Dahiya, Ravinder
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170112 Sensory Processes, Perception and Performance
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Conference paper: Carbon Nanotube-PEDOT PSS Composite-based Flexible Temperature Sensor with Enhanced Response and Recovery Time
Introduzione
Creators: name: Iuli, Cristina
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012
Subjects: Seventies, participation, collective groups, sign, power

description: Seen from today, the Seventies seem inscribed in a paradox. On the one hand, they don‘t pose problems of periodization, being unanimously identified with the span of years between 1968 and 1980, with an almost perfectly overlapping chronology in Europe and the U.S. On the other hand, however, the temporal frame marking out the decade as different from what came before (the Sixties) and after (the Eighties) does not coincide to any conceptual closure. Instead, the safe chronological enclosure is disrupted by the con-ceptual field of forces, play of ideas, social tensions that did define the experience of the Seventies but were not contained, resolved or exhausted within its temporal frame. This special section of Enthymema presents a first, tentative reconnaissance of what has re-mained that decade in contemporary poetics and theoretical discourse.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 7 (2012)
Intervista a Fernanda Fedi e Gino Gini
Creators: name: Sini, Stefania
name: Iuli, Cristina
name: Passalacqua, Franco
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Parte Prima. Laboratorio Milano: Collettivi, Arte e Società

Parte Seconda. Soggettività e collettivo: ideali, obiettivi e ragioni teoriche del lavoro artistico partecipato

Parte Terza. Arte militante e incontro con le istituzioni. L'esperienza milanese degli anni ’70.

Parte Quarta. Dalle pratiche all’estetica: il Premio Piazzetta e la questione della documentazione

Parte Quinta. 1974: Il movimento delle donne artiste

Parte Sesta. Per un bilancio dell’esperienza dei collettivi artistici: cambiamenti sociali e "ritorno al personale"

Parte Settima. Rapporti gerarchici e disgregazione dell'idea di collettivo.

Parte Ottava. Arte come pratica ideologica.

Parte Nona. Per un biilancio dell’esperienza dei Collettivi Artistici: risultati permanenti e il problema della continuità
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 7 (2012)
title: Cystic lesions of the knee: when should we be concerned ?
Creators: name: Helal, Rania
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Bones
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Education
subject: Education and training

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To learn the differential diagnosis of cystic knee lesions, with their terminology and location. To review of the MRI imaging features and associations. To sample cases with the location of each...
Interview with Lenny Kaye
Creators: name: Garrigós, Cristina
name: Soler, Roberto
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012
Subjects: Seventies, underground, counterculture, beatnicks, music

description: Lenny Kaye has been Patti Smith’s long term guitarist, friend and collaborator, ever since they first began together in the early 1970s. He grew up between New York and New Jersey, graduating in American History from Rutgers University, where he later taught a course in the Department of American Studies on the History of American Rock, which became famous because of the large number of students who wanted to enroll in it. A very prolific writer and musician, he has produced an important number of records, as well as collaborated with numerous music magazines. He is the author of two books, Waylon Jennings: An Autobiography (1996) and You Call it Madness, The Sensuous Song of the Croon (2004). Nuggets (1972), his anthology of 60s garage music, is famous for defining the genre. This interview took place when he was visiting Spain in November 2012 with the Patti Smith Group. In it, we discussed the New York scene of the 70s, music, literature, drugs, politics, and many other things.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 7 (2012)
Heat Transfer and Reconnection Diffusion in Turbulent Magnetized Plasmas
Creators: name: Lazarian, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well known that magnetic fields constrain motions of charged particles, impeding the diffusion of charged particles perpendicular to magnetic field direction. This modification of transport processes is of vital importance for a wide variety of astrophysical processes including cosmic ray transport, transfer of heavy elements in the interstellar medium, star formation etc. Dealing with these processes one should keep in mind that in realistic astrophysical conditions magnetized fluids are turbulent. In this review we single out a single transport process, namely, heat transfer and consider how it occurs in the presence of the magnetized turbulence. We show that the ability of magnetic field lines to constantly change topology and connectivity is at the heart of the correct description of the 3D magnetic field stochasticity in turbulent fluids. This ability is ensured by fast magnetic reconnection in turbulent fluids and puts forward the concept of reconnection diffusion at the core of the physical picture of heat transfer in astrophysical plasmas. Appealing to reconnection diffusion we describe the ability of plasma to diffuse between different magnetized eddies explaining the advection of the heat by turbulence. Adopting the structure of magnetic field that follows from the modern understanding of MHD turbulence, we also discuss thermal conductivity that arises as electrons stream along stochastic magnetic field lines. We compare the effective heat transport that arise from the two processes and conclude that in many astrophysically-motivated cased eddy advection of heat dominates. Finally, we discuss the concepts of sub and superdiffusion and show that the subdiffusion requires rather restrictive settings. At the same time, accelerated diffusion or superdiffusion of heat is possible on the scales less than the injection scale of the turbulence.
description: 25 pages, 8 figures, chapter 9 in "Heat Conduction", ed. V.S. Vikhrenko, ISBN 978-952-307-404-7