cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Philanthropic Mirroring in Practice: Ethical Considerations for Alumni Engagement in Higher Education Fundraising
Creators: name: Poindexter, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019
Subjects: Universities and colleges--Alumni and alumnae
Educational fund raising

description: Fundraising and charitable giving in the realm of higher education, particularly at public universities, greatly depend on donors, especially in times of a decrease in funding from the state and federal level. Fundraising staff are employed to use communications strategies to appeal to their prospect base, including to alumni. Alumni databases have become more diverse, and these audiences have greater purchasing power than in years past. Philanthropic mirroring, a theoretical framework, is an identity-based motivation model that incorporates concepts of empathy and social distance. This framework posits that donors’ marginalized identities, including race and ethnicity, are a major factor in their philanthropic behavior and in their determination of the importance of the cause for which they are being solicited. This mixed-methods study examines both the effectiveness and ethical viability of philanthropic mirroring, specific to Latinx and African American alumni who are ten or fewer years from their graduation date.
Lower bound theorems for general polytopes
Creators: name: Pineda-Villavicencio, Guillermo
name: Ugon, Julien
name: Yost, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52B05 (Primary), 52B12, 52B22 (Secondary)

description: For a $d$-dimensional polytope with $v$ vertices, $d+1\le v\le2d$, we calculate precisely the minimum possible number of $m$-dimensional faces, when $m=1$ or $m\ge0.62d$. This confirms a conjecture of Grünbaum, for these values of $m$. For $v=2d+1$, we solve the same problem when $m=1$ or $d-2$; the solution was already known for $m= d-1$. In all these cases, we give a characterisation of the minimising polytopes. We also show that there are many gaps in the possible number of $m$-faces: for example, there is no polytope with 80 edges in dimension 10, and a polytope with 407 edges can have dimension at most 23.
description: 26 pages, 3 figures
Physician assisted death due to irremediable psychiatric suffering: a qualitative interview study
Creators: name: van Veen, Sisco
name: Ruissen, Andrea
name: Evans, Natalie
name: Widdershoven, Guy
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medical Sciences
subject: Medical Humanities
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Medical Specialties
subject: Psychiatry
subject: EAS
subject: end of life
subject: Ethics
subject: euthanasia
subject: Irremediability
subject: Irremediable psychiatric suffering
subject: Physician assisted death
subject: Physician assisted suicide
subject: psychiatry
subject: Qualitative research

description: A qualitative interview study with the aim to learn how experienced psychiatrists determine whether psychiatric suffering is irremediable in the context of a PAD-request and what challenges they face while doing so.
Diagnostic Accuracy of Transvaginal Ultrasound in Women with Endometriosis at Deeply Infiltrating, Ovarian, and Superficial Peritoneal Sites
Creators: name: Turner, Rebecca
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory disease marked by pelvic pain and infertility. It is caused by ectopic implantation of endometrial tissue and affects ten percent of women of child-bearing age worldwide. It is known to negatively impact many aspects of a patient's life, including income and mental health. The average time from symptom appearance to diagnosis is eight to twelve years. This delay is due, in part, to the necessity of a surgical biopsy for diagnosis. This narrative review evaluated literature comparing the accuracy of transvaginal ultrasound (TVUS) against a surgical biopsy for diagnosing endometriosis. The results show consistently high specificity values for TVUS at ovarian and deeply infiltrating implantation sites, with low to moderate sensitivity values. The findings of this review indicate a positive TVUS may be reliable enough to diagnose endometriosis at ovarian and deeply infiltrating sites. However, a negative TVUS cannot rule out endometriosis and should prompt further testing. The results were generally limited by a lack of available research. More research is needed before a conclusion may be drawn about superficial implantation sites.
N-Myristoyltransferase as a fungicide target In Zymoseptoria tritici
Creators: name: Fedoryshchak, Roman
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: The focus of this thesis is the lipidation by N-myristoyltransferase (NMT) in the plant pathogenic fungus Zymoseptoria tritici. The work presented here was performed at Imperial College London in the group led by Prof. Ed Tate in collaboration with Syngenta AG. Z. tritici NMT was characterized and IC50 values were determined for a number of small-molecule inhibitors. A number of NMT inhibitors from the Imperial College in-house collection were tested in an enzymatic assay against the enzyme. A few of the compounds that showed lowest IC50 values were chosen for use in an in vitro assay in Z. tritici cultures. A few inhibitors were found to possess EC50 values in the range of 20-50 μM. A separate experiment confirmed, through metabolic labelling of NMT substrates, that one of the inhibitors, IMP-1088, was able to reduce myristoylation activity in cultured Z. tritici. Metabolic labelling with alkyne-tag modified myristic acid was optimized via an in-gel fluorescence method. A complete workflow including the pull-down of the labelled myristoylated proteins and their proteomics analysis was performed. The first experimental evidence for myristoylation of twenty-four Z. tritici proteins in proteomics experiments was obtained using label-free and tandem mass tag (TMT) approaches. The TMT proteomics was used to demonstrate that myristoylation was decreased upon IMP-1088 treatment. The whole proteome analysis of Z. tritici cultures upon IMP-1088 treatment revealed significant changes in the expression of several proteins. We used a BLAST tool to find counterparts of Z. tritici proteins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and GO terms were assigned based on S. cerevisiae terms. Several GO terms, such as decrease in cell metabolism and over-representation of GST protein URE2 analogues, were found among the most significantly upregulated terms. These terms provide the foundation for hypothesis for understanding the low translation of inhibition from NMT enzyme to Z. tritici cultures.
Vivere «secundum Langnobardorum legem» ad Ariano Irpino tra X e XII secolo
Creators: name: Massa, Paola
Publisher: name: Scrineum Rivista
Year: 2015

description: The study examines a dossier of 51 notarial documents, produced between Xth and XIIth centuries, mostly coming from the ancient archive of St. Michele Arcangelo monastery in Ariano Irpino (Benevento), to trace the notary development in a peripheral center of Campanian hinterland. It arises as a continuation of the previous essay Prassi giuridica e pratiche di documentazione in carte inedite di Ariano Irpino dall’XI e XII secolo, in «Nuovi Annali della Scuola Speciale per Archivisti e Bibliotecari», 24 (2010), pp. 7-26). The documents, preserved in different locations (Archive of Montevergine Abbey, Museo del Sannio in Benevento, private Archive of Aldobrandini family in Frascati and the Vatican Library), constitute the platform on which it focuses the historical, paleographical and diplomatic exegesis. The edition of 19 charters (15 of them still unpublished), together with the analysis of the other documents, allowed to observe on the one hand the coexistence of conservative attitudes related to the tradition with symptoms of change in negotial patterns and documentary system in a restricted area, even if well connected to Benevento, the capital of the Lombard Principality, and on the other hand to bring out the steps of a slow but refined process of professional identity achievement pursued by notaries and judges, working together to construct a constantly evolving documentary practice.
description: Scrineum Rivista, 11 (2014)
Il codice Sessoriano 2
Creators: name: Bischetti, Sara
Publisher: name: Scrineum Rivista
Year: 2015

description: This study aims to be a contribution to the historical reconstruction of the large size biblical witnesses made after the second half of the twelfth-century, i.e. those specimens that in comparison with the Bibbie atlantiche are characterized by a purely imitative connection, as by that time they were devoid of any ideological content. The analysis of the Sessoriano 2 has revealed the deep changes occurred in the oversize holy books dated to the late twelfth-century. Those changes involved methods, techniques of manufacture, as well as the contexts of production. Furthermore, the interdisciplinary approach adopted, in which prevailed the paleographic component, led to a better understanding of the characteristics of the Sessoriano code and to a more precise definition of the geographical and, especially, chronological allocations. So this study proposes a solution to the mixed views among scholars about the interpretation of the subscription written on the last sheet of the manuscript. The accurate paleographic analysis, and the identification of the participation of several hands in the transcription, allowed to establish a positive graphic comparison between the realization of the colophon and the writing of one of the code’s scribes. This hypothesis has contributed to the assignment of the colophon to the same period of the manuscript, allowing the proposal of an ad annum dating and of a precise topographical location.
description: Scrineum Rivista, 11 (2014)
Around the Lie correspondence for complete Kac-Moody groups and Gabber-Kac simplicity
Creators: name: Marquis, Timothée
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20G44, 20E42 (primary), and 20E18 (secondary)

description: Let $k$ be a field and $A$ be a generalised Cartan matrix, and let ${\mathfrak G}_A(k)$ be the corresponding minimal Kac-Moody group of simply connected type over $k$. Consider the completion ${\mathfrak G}_A^{pma}(k)$ of ${\mathfrak G}_A(k)$ introduced by O. Mathieu and G. Rousseau, and let ${\mathfrak U}_A^{ma+}(k)$ denote the unipotent radical of the positive Borel subgroup of ${\mathfrak G}_A^{pma}(k)$. In this paper, we exhibit some functoriality dependence of the groups ${\mathfrak U}_A^{ma+}(k)$ and ${\mathfrak G}_A^{pma}(k)$ on their Lie algebra. We also produce a large class of examples of minimal Kac-Moody groups ${\mathfrak G}_A(k)$ that are not dense in their Mathieu-Rousseau completion ${\mathfrak G}_A^{pma}(k)$. Finally, we explain how the problematic of providing a unified theory of complete Kac-Moody groups is related to the conjecture of Gabber-Kac simplicity of ${\mathfrak G}_A^{pma}(k)$, stating that every normal subgroup of ${\mathfrak G}_A^{pma}(k)$ that is contained in ${\mathfrak U}_A^{ma+}(k)$ must be trivial. We present several motivations for the study of this conjecture, as well as several applications of our functoriality theorem, with contributions to the question of (non-)linearity of ${\mathfrak U}_A^{ma+}(k)$, and to the isomorphism problem for complete Kac-Moody groups over finite fields. For $k$ finite, we also make some observations on the structure of ${\mathfrak U}_A^{ma+}(k)$ in the light of some important concepts from the theory of pro-$p$ groups.
description: 36 pages, to appear in Annales de l'Institut Fourier
ML5: Replications of LoBue & DeLoache (2008)
Creators: name: Lazarevic, Ljiljana
name: Ebersole, Charles
name: Nosek, Brian
name: Zezelj, Iris
name: Purić, Danka
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This is a post-acceptance registration of the project page for the purpose of creating a permanent, time-stamped version that corresponds to the project page at the time that journal badges were awarded.
The proximal distance algorithm
Creators: name: Lange, Kenneth
name: Keys, Kevin L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The MM principle is a device for creating optimization algorithms satisfying the ascent or descent property. The current survey emphasizes the role of the MM principle in nonlinear programming. For smooth functions, one can construct an adaptive interior point method based on scaled Bregmann barriers. This algorithm does not follow the central path. For convex programming subject to nonsmooth constraints, one can combine an exact penalty method with distance majorization to create versatile algorithms that are effective even in discrete optimization. These proximal distance algorithms are highly modular and reduce to set projections and proximal mappings, both very well-understood techniques in optimization. We illustrate the possibilities in linear programming, binary piecewise-linear programming, nonnegative quadratic programming, $\ell_0$ regression, matrix completion, and inverse sparse covariance estimation.
description: 22 pages, 0 figures, 8 tables, modified from conference publication
Un notaio nella Firenze del primo Trecento. Il caso di ser Matteo di Biliotto tra professione privata, corporazioni cittadine, politica e diplomazia
Creators: name: Soffici, Manila
Publisher: name: Scrineum Rivista
Year: 2015

description: The notary Ser Matteo di Biliotto, originally from Fiesole, was one of the most important notaries in Florence in the age of Dante Alighieri. Only two registers of him survive in the State Archive of Florence: Notarile antecosimiano, 13363 and 13364. The A. edited in 2002 the first register, which includes 930 notarial acts from 1 April 1294 to 26 May 1296 (Ser Matteo di Biliotto notaio, Imbreviature, in collaboration with F. Sznura, Florence, Sismel - Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2002). The edition of the second one – which contains 569 imbreviature dated from 17 October1300 to 13 June 1314 – is in press. In this study the A. focuses on the main questions of the biography of ser Matteo, who played an important role in the political life of the Florentine Comune and in the activity of the powerful art of Calimala.
description: Scrineum Rivista, 11 (2014)
Rules of Engagement: Implementing StudentCentered Learning in Breast Imaging
Creators: name: Beck Dallaghan, Gary
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2020

description: In response to changing learner needs, our institution launched a new translational curriculum wherein basic sciences and clinical skills were integrated, longitudinal patient care experiences provided, and earlier opportunities in specialty fields introduced to better inform residency program decisions. Medical students taking the breast imaging elective were enrolled in a breast imaging immersive experience designed to meet the School of Medicine’s core competencies. In focusing the elective on a narrow range of specialized topics and skills, we labeled this experience the Breast Imaging Boot Camp. Outcome data from March 6, 2017, to April 26, 2019, have been analyzed for this report. The modifications made to the elective include: e-mailing a detailed orientation document to students prior to the start of the rotation; assigning students to diagnostic, procedural, and screening roles; the attendance of students at introductory radiology symposia; students’ weekly attendance at institutional multidisciplinary and divisional breast radiologic–pathologic correlation conferences; student self-study assignments using faculty-vetted resources; student participation in breast biopsy simulation and small parts ultrasound laboratories; the development of a student-centric radiology educational website; and student-directed publishing of digital case files. Medical student feedback and course analytics indicated superior course evaluation scores reinforced by narrative feedback. In website domain utilization data, the breast file domain is the most viewed subspecialty domain. The Breast Imaging Boot Camp is a successful curriculum. Its novelty lies in both its integrated approach to medical student core competencies and its clinician educators’ use of today’s student-favored teaching tools.
Sunshine on KOL
Creators: name: Marie, Clinckemaillie
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: In France, the "Transparence Santé" database records financial ties between health sector stakeholder and pharmaceutical companies or those producing health products. Since 2014 it lists all the "benefits" granted to healthcare professionals, declared by the pharmaceutical industry. The benefits correspond to everything that is allocated or paid without consideration by a pharmaceutical company (donation of equipment, meals, transport, accommodation, etc.). (1,2,3) Medical key opinion leaders (KOLs), experts in their fields who are recognized by their peers, have privileged relationships with the pharmaceutical industry. Firms are in contact with them throughout the drug manufacturing process and invest a significant portion of their marketing budget in their expertise activity. (4,5,6) The evolution of links of interest on the Transparency database has never been studied in France. In other countries where the same transparency policy is applied, their publication has modified their distribution and number (17,18). The main objective of this work is to characterize the evolution of the links of interest between the pharmaceutical industry and medical KOL since their publication on the Transparency database.
Scriversi di storia e di diplomatica comunali. Le lettere di Pietro Torelli e di Cesare Manaresi ad Angelo Mazzi
Creators: name: De Angelis, Gianmarco
Publisher: name: Scrineum Rivista
Year: 2016

description: Graduated at the University of Padua (under the supervision of Giuseppe De Leva and Andrea Gloria), archivist, librarian, and then Director of Civic Library “Angelo Mai” of Bergamo for about a period of thirty years (1898-1925), Angelo Mazzi is not only the most important and prolific local historian. His epistolario, rich of correspondence with some of the main Italian medievalists active between 19th and 20th century (Cipolla, Novati, Schiaparelli, Volpe, just to mention the greatest ones), gives evidence for a very large consideration and prestige, that Mazzi gained thanks to his extraordinary knowledge and criticism of Bergamo’s written sources. Close analysis of legal documents and narrative works are not confined, in any event, to a mere philological field, but, especially for communal studies, they turn out to be broader historical frameworks with lots of original interpretations that are still valid and appreciated. It’s just on Mazzi’s profile as historian of communes that this paper is mainly focused, though without any pretension of examining in detail his best known books and his historiographical significance: it will be his figure of rigorous reviewer and hard-working erudite to hold the stage, instead, together with some of his typical ways of reading the documentary sources as they result from a little, thematically consistent dossier of letters that have been here edited and analyzed. Dated back to the period of composition and first reception of the Studi di diplomatica comunale and of the Atti del comune di Milano, these letters show well how Mazzi was interested in the branch of research inaugurated by Pietro Torelli and usefully continued by Cesare Manaresi. There again, though aged at that time, Mazzi himself supported a little survey on Bergamo communal notaries in 13th century: at the close of the paper, we’ll briefly talk about values and limits of that initiative, focusing on the general cultural reasons and the material conditionings that, during the second decade of the 20th century and for many years more, blocked any further developments of Torelli’s legacy.
description: Scrineum Rivista, 12 (2015)
Pseudo-scalar Form Factors at Three Loops in QCD
Creators: name: Ahmed, Taushif
name: Gehrmann, Thomas
name: Mathews, Prakash
name: Rana, Narayan
name: Ravindran, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The coupling of a pseudo-scalar Higgs boson to gluons is mediated through a heavy quark loop. In the limit of large quark mass, it is described by an effective Lagrangian that only admits light degrees of freedom. In this effective theory, we compute the three-loop massless QCD corrections to the form factor that describes the coupling of a pseudo-scalar Higgs boson to gluons. Due to the axial anomaly, the pseudo-scalar operator for the gluonic field strength mixes with the divergence of the axial vector current. Working in dimensional regularization and using the 't~Hooft-Veltman prescription for the axial vector current, we compute the three-loop pseudo-scalar form factors for massless quarks and gluons. Using the universal infrared factorization properties, we independently derive the three-loop operator mixing and finite operator renormalisation from the renormalisation group equation for the form factors, thereby confirming recent results in the operator product expansion. The finite part of the three-loop form factor is an important ingredient to the precise prediction of the pseudo-scalar Higgs boson production cross section at hadron colliders. We discuss potential applications and derive the hard matching coefficient in soft-collinear effective theory.
description: 39 pages, version to appear in JHEP, minor typos corrected, a comment regarding LI and IBP identities is added in Sec. 3.1, reference updated
High-Resolution Modeling of Surge during Hurricane Matthew (2016)
Creators: name: Asher, T.
name: Dietrich, J.C.
name: Luettich, R.A.
name: Thomas, Ajimon
name: Blanton, B.O.
name: Fleming, J. G.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Understanding the influence of tide-surge interactions and storm forward speed on water levels along the U.S. south-east coast.
Regular genus and gem-complexity of some mapping tori
Creators: name: Basak, Biplab
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57Q15 (Primary), 05C15, 57N10, 57N13, 57N15, 57Q05, 55R10 (Secondary)

description: In this article, we construct a crystallization of the mapping torus of some (PL) homeomorphisms $f:M \to M$ for a certain class of PL-manifolds $M$. These yield upper bounds for gem-complexity and regular genus of a large class of PL-manifolds. The bound for the regular genus is sharp for the mapping torus of some (PL) homeomorphisms $f:M \to M$, where $M$ is $\mathbb{RP}^2$, $\mathbb{RP}^2\#\mathbb{RP}^2$, $\mathbb{S}^1\times \mathbb{S}^1$, $\mathbb{RP}^3$, $\mathbb{S}^{2} \times \mathbb{S}^1$, $\mathbb{S}^{\hspace{.2mm}2} \mbox{$\times \hspace{-2.6mm}_{-}$} \, \mathbb{S}^{\hspace{.1mm}1}$ or $\mathbb{S}^d$. In particular, for $M=\mathbb{S}^{d-1} \times \mathbb{S}^1$ or $\mathbb{S}^{\hspace{.2mm}d-1} \mbox{$\times\hspace{-2.6mm}_{-}$} \, \mathbb{S}^{\hspace{.1mm}1}$, our construction gives a crystallization of a mapping torus of a (PL) homeomorphism $f:M \to M$ with regular genus $d^2-d$. As a consequence, we prove the existence of an orientable mapping torus of a (PL) homeomorphism $f:(\mathbb{S}^{2} \times \mathbb{S}^1)\to (\mathbb{S}^{2} \times \mathbb{S}^1)$ with regular genus 6. This disproves a conjecture of Spaggiari which states that regular genus six characterizes the topological product $\mathbb{RP}^3 \times \mathbb{S}^1$ among closed connected prime orientable PL $4$-manifolds.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures; Published online on 24 January 2019 in the journal RACSAM. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13398-019-00634-3
Geographical inequalities in drinking water in the Solomon Islands
Creators: name: Cronk, Ryan
name: Kelly, Emma R.
name: Shields, K.F.
name: Tracy, J. Wren
name: Thakkar, Mamita B.
name: Tikoisuva, Waqairapoa M.
name: Anthonj, Carmen
name: Overmars, Marc
name: Bartram, Jamie
name: Fleming, Lisa
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2019

description: Sustainable Development Goal 6.1 seeks to “by 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water”, which is challenging particularly in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and Pacific Island Countries (PIC). We report drinking water sources and services in the Solomon Islands and examine geographical inequalities.

Based on two quantitative baseline datasets of n = 1,598 rural and n = 1,068 urban households, we analyzed different drinking water variables (source type, collection time, amount, use, perceived quality, storage, treatment) and a composite index, drinking water service level. We stratified data by urban and rural areas and by province, mapped, and contextualized them.

There are substantive rural–urban drinking water inequalities in the Solomon Islands. Overall, urban households are more likely to: use improved drinking water sources, need less time to collect water, collect more water, store their water more safely, treat water prior to consumption, perceive their water quality as better and have an at least basic drinking water service than rural households. There are also provincial and center-periphery inequalities in drinking water access, with more centrally located provinces using piped water supplies and more distant and remote provinces using rainwater and surface water as their primary source. There are also inter-national inequalities. Out of all PICs, the Solomon Islands have among the lowest access to basic drinking water services: 92% of urban and 55% of rural households. Of all SIDS, PICs are least serviced.

This study shows that drinking water inequality is a critical issue, and highlights that all identified dimensions of inequality - rural–urban, provincial, center-periphery and inter-national - need to be explicitly recognized and addressed and included in pro-equity monitoring, policy and programming efforts by the Solomon Islands Government and stakeholders to reduce inequalities as per the Agenda 2030.
Prassi documentarie e gestione delle finanze nei comuni del principato di Savoia-Acaia (Moncalieri, Pinerolo, Torino, fine secolo XIII-prima metà secolo XIV)
Creators: name: Buffo, Paolo
Publisher: name: Scrineum Rivista
Year: 2015

description: This essay deals with the birth of a practical documentation relating to the current managing of direct taxation in several communes of the principality of Savoy-Achaea, in Piedmont (particularly Moncalieri, Pinerolo and Turin), between the end of the 13th century and the first half of the 14th century. The increase in the tax burden of the prince on communities stimulated the development of the structure and contents of municipal accounting records. On the one hand there was a gradual tendency for writing the majority of the collection and audit operations carried out by municipal officers. On the other hand, the accounting records were organized as a coherent system of thematic registers, tied to one another by functional links and intertextuality. After 1330 a municipal finance crisis caused an increase of political functions attributed to accounting records, as an instrument of control over the fiscal behaviour of citizens; an effect of this situation was the production of registers dedicated to lists of tax evaders.
description: Scrineum Rivista, 11 (2014)
"Die europäische Gemeinschaft erweitern und gleichzeitig vertiefen"
Creators: name: Pöttering, Hans-Gert
Publisher: name: Herder Korrespondenz
Year: 1970

description: Herder Korrespondenz, Bd. 47 Nr. 1 (1993): Herder Korrespondenz, Band 47, Heft 1
La documentazione arcivescovile di Capua (979-1434). Modelli, formule e ambiti di produzione
Creators: name: Vendemia, Maria Elisabetta
Publisher: name: Scrineum Rivista
Year: 2016

description: This essay examines 85 documents of the archbishops of Capua, drawn up between the Xth and XVth centuries and coming mostly from the archives of Campania (Archivio storico arcivescovile di Capua, Biblioteca del Museo provinciale Campano di Capua, Biblioteca della Società Napoletana di Storia Patria, Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli, Biblioteca Capitolare di Benevento, Archivio storico della diocesi di Isernia-Venafro), to trace their forms and models.
description: Scrineum Rivista, 12 (2015)
Clinical Utility and Analysis of the Run-Roll-Aim Task: Informing Return-to-Duty Readiness Decisions in Active-Duty Service Members
Creators: name: McCulloch, Karen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019
Subjects: Brain--Concussion
Soldiers

description: Introduction
The Assessment of Military Multitasking Performance (AMMP1) consists of six dual-task and multitask military-relevant performance-based assessments which were developed to provide assistance in making return-to-duty decisions after concussion or mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI.) The Run-Roll-Aim (RRA) task, one component of the AMMP, was developed to target vulnerabilities following mTBI including attention, visual function, dynamic stability, rapid transition, and vestibular function. One aim of this study was to assess the known-group and construct validity of the RRA, and additionally to further explore reliability limitations reported previously.

Materials and Methods
A cross-sectional study consisting of 84 Active Duty service members in two groups (healthy control – HC and individuals experiencing persistent mTBI symptoms) completed neurocognitive tests and the RRA. The RRA task requires a high level of mobility and resembles military training activities in a maneuver that includes combat rolls, fast transitions, obstacle avoidance, and visual search. Observational and inertial sensor data were compared between groups and performance across four trial times was compared within groups. Correlations between RRA results and neurocognitive test scores were analyzed.

Results
Simple observational measures (time, errors) did not differ between groups. Spectral power analysis of the inertial sensor data showed significant differences in motor performance between groups. Within group one-way ANOVAs showed that in HC trial 1, time was significantly different than trials 2,3 and 4 (F(3,47) = 4.60, p < 0.01, Tukey HSD p < 0.05) while the mTBI group showed no significant difference in time between trials. During testing individuals with mTBI were less likely to complete the multiple test trials or required additional rest between trials than HCs (χ2 = 10.78, p < 0.01). Small but significant correlations were seen with two neurocognitive tests of attention and RRA performance time.

Conclusion
While observational scores were not sensitive to group differences, inertial sensor data showed motor performance on the forward run, combat roll, and backward run differed significantly between groups. The RRA task appeared challenging and provoked symptoms in the mTBI group, causing 8 of 33 mTBI participants to stop the task or require additional rest between trials while none of the HC participants had to stop. Individuals with mTBI demonstrated slower learning of the complex motor sequence compared to HCs who had significant improvement after one trial of RRA. Complex novel training maneuvers like RRA may aid clinicians in informing return to duty decisions.
An Asymptotically-Optimal Sampling-Based Algorithm for Bi-directional Motion Planning
Creators: name: Starek, Joseph A.
name: Gomez, Javier V.
name: Schmerling, Edward
name: Janson, Lucas
name: Moreno, Luis
name: Pavone, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Bi-directional search is a widely used strategy to increase the success and convergence rates of sampling-based motion planning algorithms. Yet, few results are available that merge both bi-directional search and asymptotic optimality into existing optimal planners, such as PRM*, RRT*, and FMT*. The objective of this paper is to fill this gap. Specifically, this paper presents a bi-directional, sampling-based, asymptotically-optimal algorithm named Bi-directional FMT* (BFMT*) that extends the Fast Marching Tree (FMT*) algorithm to bi-directional search while preserving its key properties, chiefly lazy search and asymptotic optimality through convergence in probability. BFMT* performs a two-source, lazy dynamic programming recursion over a set of randomly-drawn samples, correspondingly generating two search trees: one in cost-to-come space from the initial configuration and another in cost-to-go space from the goal configuration. Numerical experiments illustrate the advantages of BFMT* over its unidirectional counterpart, as well as a number of other state-of-the-art planners.
description: Accepted to the 2015 IEEE Intelligent Robotics and Systems Conference in Hamburg, Germany. This submission represents the long version of the conference manuscript, with additional proof details (Section IV) regarding the asymptotic optimality of the BFMT* algorithm
HPV Self-Sampling: A Novel Approach to Cervical Cancer Screening
Creators: name: Orihood, Stephanie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Background Cervical cancer is a female specific cancer and the fourth most common cancer type worldwide with incidence rates in the United States of 8.1 cases per 100,000 women. Cervical cancer mortality has decreased since the start of screening programs with the Papanicolaou test in the 1940s, but more can be done to ensure screening reaches increasing numbers of women. One of the methods that could be used in the future to reach women for screening is using self-sampling testing for high risk HPV strains that cause over 90% of cervical cancers. 
Objectives This review aims to answer the question: Is hrHPV testing via self-sampling an accurate and acceptable method of screening for cervical cancer when compared with the reference of cervical cytology otherwise known as the Papanicolaou test. 
Methods PubMed, Medline and Embase were searched using the terms “cervical cancer”, HPV, “human papillomavirus” “cervical HPV”, “Pap”, “Papanicolaou”, “cytology”, “HPV cotesting”, “self-sampling” and “hrhpv testing.” Three primary research studies and three systematic review were included. 
Results Sensitivity of HPV testing in self samples ranged between 51% and 93% for CIN2+32 and between 63% and 94% for CIN3+32. Rates of hrHPV positivity in self versus clinician collected samples were very similar (560 positive results self-collected, 554 positive results clinician collected15.) Noninferiority of HPV self-sampling was indicated by one included RCT16. 80% of women in an underserved area returned self-testing samples14 and most of these women indicated a positive experience with self-testing. Women were found to be twice as likely to be screened if they used self-sampling compared to standard of care screening (RR: 2.13, 95% CI 1.89-2.40)17. One review found that there was no consensus among women whether clinician or self-collected testing was preferred18. 
Conclusions Overall, self-sampling appears to be an accurate method of testing for hrHPV in women. Most papers in this review point to the acceptability of self-testing among women. More research is most definitely needed surrounding accuracy of self-testing methods and how to encourage follow up care.
Le più antiche fondazioni di canoniche regolari a Pisa tra XI e XII secolo: vicende storiche e rappresentazione documentaria
Creators: name: Mastruzzo, Antonino
name: Rossi, Maria Cristina
Publisher: name: Scrineum Rivista
Year: 2016

description: Our information on the foundation of Pisa's oldest canons regular rectories, Santa Maria a Fine and San Pietro in Vincoli, comes from a series of diplomatically- anomalous documents. This essay discusses various hypotheses regarding their possible falsification, adjustment and copying. Definitively, however, it seems more plausible that said documents were drawn up at a later time than that expressly declared on the founding documents and that they should be read with an aim to retrospectively reconstruct the town's ecclesiastic history materialised via these documents.
description: Scrineum Rivista, 12 (2015)
CHARACTERIZATION OF DIAGNOSTIC BIOSIGNATURES FOR PARKINSON’S DISEASE AND RENAL CELL CARCINOMA THROUGH QUANTITATIVE PROTEOMICS AND PHOSPHOPROTEOMICS ANALYSES OF URINARY EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES
Creators: name: Hadisurya, Marco
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medical biochemistry - proteins and peptides (incl. medical proteomics)
Analytical biochemistry
Analytical spectrometry

description: Urine-based biomarkers offer numerous advantages for clinical analysis, including non-invasive collection, a suitable sample source for longitudinal disease monitoring, a better screenshot of disease heterogeneity, higher sample volumes, faster processing times, and lower rejection rates and costs. They will be extremely useful in a clinical trial context, which can be applied alone or in combination with other methods as long as they demonstrate clear reproducibility across cohorts. While biofluids such as urine present enormous challenges with a wide dynamic range and extreme complex typically dominated by a few highly abundant proteins, we have demonstrated that the analytical issue can be efficiently addressed by focusing on extracellular vesicles (EVs), tiny packages released by all kinds of cells. These tiny packages contain different kinds of molecules from inside the cells. Here, we established a robust EV isolation and characterization platform to screen and validate Parkinson’s Disease (PD) and Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC) biomarkers from urine. PD is a progressive neurological disorder affecting body movement because some brain cells stop producing dopamine. PD is often not diagnosed until it has advanced, making early detection crucial. We investigated urinary EVs from 138 individuals to enable early detection and found several proteins involved in PD development that could be biological indicators for early disease detection. Several biochemical techniques were applied to verify our findings. In the second project, we attempted to develop a novel diagnostic technique for early intervention of RCC. Here, we made our efforts to develop a quantitative method based on data-independent acquisition (DIA) mass spectrometry to analyze urinary EV phosphoproteomics for non-invasive RCC biomarker screening. Combined with our in-house EVtrap method for EV isolation and PolyMAC enrichment of phosphopeptides, we quantified 2,584 unique phosphosites. We observed unique upregulated phosphosites and pathways differentiating healthy control (HC), chronic kidney disease (CKD), low-grade, and high-grade clear cell RCC. These applications have a significant promise for early PD and RCC diagnosis and monitoring based on actual functional proteins with urine as the source. These studies might provide a viable path to developing urinary EV-based disease diagnosis.
title: Systeme und Instrumente zur Steuerung von Hochschulen durch deren Träger
Creators: name: Cirak, Senad
Year: 2022

description: Diese wissenschaftliche Arbeit befasst sich mit den Unterschieden zwischen deutschen und österreichischen Universitäten und Fachhochschulen bezüglich der Anwendung der Kontrollinstrumente. Es existiert ausreichend wissenschaftliche Literatur über die verschiedenen Kontrollinstrumente und -methoden und wie sie eingesetzt werden. Allerdings gibt es diesbezüglich keinen Vergleich zwischen österreichischen und deutschen Universitäten. Die Forschungsfrage lautet also: „Welche Unterschiede bezüglich der Steuerung von deutschen und österreichischen Hochschulen durch den Träger lassen sich feststellen?“ Dafür unterteilen wir die Methoden in drei Ebenen: Die erste bezieht sich auf das Managementsystem einer Hochschule (zB Hochschulräte), die zweite beschreibt Finanzierungsmethoden wie Zielvereinbarungen oder Preise. Die dritte Ebene umfasst Berichtspflichten (z. B. Wissensbilanzen) und Bewertungsverfahren, die von der Hochschule durchgeführt werden müssen. Die Forschungsfrage wird durch einen konzeptionellen Teil, in dem die verschiedenen Steuerungsinstrumente vorgestellt und näher beschrieben werden, und einen empirischen Teil beantwortet. Letzteres enthält ein Experteninterview mit dem Leiter der Abteilung Hochschulentwicklung des österreichischen Bundesministeriums für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Bildung. Hier wird untersucht, wie Zielvereinbarungen oder Evaluationsverfahren an österreichischen Universitäten in der Praxis eingesetzt werden. Die Ergebnisse des Interviews werden mit dem zweiten Element des empirischen Teils verglichen. Dabei gingen Fragebögen an die Hochschulen, um die Anwendung der verschiedenen Steuerungsinstrumente in deutschen Hochschulen mit jener in Österreich vergleichen zu können. Die Analyse zeigt, dass es nicht nur zwischen österreichischen und deutschen Universitäten signifikante Unterschiede beim Einsatz von Kontrollinstrumenten gibt, sondern auch zwischen den Bundesländern in Deutschland.
THE DETERMINANTS OF DOMESTIC AIR TRANSPORT DEMAND IN ETHIOPIA
Creators: name: Amanuel Sofany
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016

description: The main objective of this study is to investigate the determinants of Domestic air transport demand in Ethiopia during the period 2000/2001-2013/2014. The Autoregressive Distributed Lag Approach to Co-integration and Error Correction Model are applied in order to investigate the long-run and short-run relationship between the domestic passengers and its determinants. The finding of the Bounds test shows that there is a stable long run relationship between number of Domestic revenue passenger, income, airfare, price of competing services (Buses), road length and population. The empirical results reveal that income, price of competing services and population are found to have positive impact on the domestic air transport. However, Yield has negative impact on the domestic air transport. In the short run, the coefficient of error correction term is -0.62 suggesting about 62 percent annual adjustment towards long run equilibrium. This is another proof for the existence of a stable long run relationship among the variables. The estimated coefficients of the short-run model indicate that population, income and airfare are the main contributor to the domestic air transport demand.
PROGRESSION-FREE SURVIVAL AND OVERALL SURVIVAL FOR PATIENTS WITH METASTATIC MELANOMA TREATED WITH ANTI-PD-1 MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES
Creators: name: McIlwaine, Peter
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Purpose: Over the past 30 years, the incidence of melanoma has been climbing at a faster rate than any other malignancy. In 2019, it is projected that close to 100,000 new patients will be diagnosed with melanoma. Melanoma would then become the fifth most common type of cancer in the United States.1 With the advent of anti-PD-1 immunotherapies, such as pembrolizumab and nivolumab, an individual’s own immune system can now recognize and kill cancers, such as melanoma2. Immunotherapies bring a new and exciting approach to the treatment of melanoma and other forms of cancer. A review of the current state of clinical studies in the setting of metastatic melanoma treatment is therefore needed to understand better how progression-free survival and overall survival have been effected with the introduction of anti-PD-1 antibodies.   
Materials and Methods: Five clinical research trials were selected for review based on the following criteria: use of either pembrolizumab or nivolumab as a monotherapy for patients with metastatic melanoma. The progression-free survival period and overall survival were determined and, where appropriate, compared to chemotherapy or the cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen-4 inhibitor, ipilimumab.
Results: Across the five clinical studies, pembrolizumab and nivolumab showed statistically significant improvement in progression-free survival and overall survival in three out of five studies. The two studies that did not find a statistical significance still showed a numerical improvement  
Conclusion: Pembrolizumab and nivolumab, given as monotherapy, improve progression-free survival and overall survival when compared to chemotherapies and the immunotherapy, ipilimumab.
Amino Acid Analytical Solution
Creators: name: West, Dora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Amino acids are a general class of organic compounds containing a basic amino group and an acidic carboxyl group. lt is the basic constituent unit for biological macromolecules, including proteins. Amino acids play an important role in plant health, promoting plant root growth, strengthening seedlings, enhancing leaf photosynthesis, inducing crop resistance to pests and diseases, etc. Creative Proteomics established an amino acid analytical solution based on the UPLCMS platform for absolute quantitative detection of 130+ amino acids and derivatives.
Isotropic polarization of compressible flows
Creators: name: Zhu, Jian-Zhou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The helical absolute equilibrium of a compressible adiabatic flow presents not only the polarization between the two purely helical modes of opposite chiralities but also that between the vortical and acoustic modes, deviating from the equipartition predicted by {\sc Kraichnan, R. H.} [1955 The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America {\bf 27}, 438--441.]. Due to the existence of the acoustic mode, even if all Fourier modes of one chiral sector in the sharpened Helmholtz decomposition [{\sc Moses, H. E.} 1971 SIAM ~(Soc. Ind. Appl. Math.) J. Appl. Math. {\bf 21}, 114--130] are thoroughly truncated, leaving the system with positive definite helicity and energy, negative temperature and the corresponding large-scale concentration of vortical modes are not allowed, unlike the incompressible case.
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Sõja mõjust ajalookirjutusele varauusaegsel Eesti-, Liivi- ja Kuramaal
Creators: name: Laidla, Janet
Publisher: name: Tartu Ülikooli ajaloo küsimusi
Year: 2012

description: Impact of War on Early Modern Historiography in Estonia, Livonia and Courland
description: Tartu Ülikooli ajaloo küsimusi, No 39 (2011): Tartu Ülikool ja Põhjasõda
A content management case study: Migrating ten years of library digital collection data at the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center
Creators: name: Merryman, Kristen
name: Williams, Stephanie
name: Gregory, Lisa
Publisher: name: Henry Stewart Publications
Year: 2020
Subjects: Library science
Digital libraries--Management

description: From October 2017 through January 2019, the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center (NCDHC) undertook a content management system migration of over 44,000 library digital collection objects, comprising over 2 million individual files of varying types and their associated metadata, produced over a ten-year period. This case study describes NCDHC’s experience evaluating potential systems, navigating vendor relationships, exporting and improving data, migration logistics, adapting existing  workflows, and communicating with stakeholders.
Põhjasõja peegeldusi Academia Gustavo-Carolina's peetud ülistuskõnedes Karl XII-le: Olaus Mobergi "Oratio Panegyrica"
Creators: name: Päll, Janika
Publisher: name: Tartu Ülikooli ajaloo küsimusi
Year: 2012

description: Great Northern War as reflected in panegyrics to Karl XII at Academia Gustavo-Carolina: Olaus Moberg's "Oratio panegyrica"
description: Tartu Ülikooli ajaloo küsimusi, No 39 (2011): Tartu Ülikool ja Põhjasõda