cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Longitudinal assessment of muscular involvement in facio-scapulo-humeral dystrophy (FSHD) by quantitative muscle MRI: preliminary data on muscle patterns
Creators: name: Pichiecchio, Anna
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Multicentre study
subject: Observational
subject: Prospective
subject: Inflammation
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Segmentation
subject: MR
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: Musculoskeletal

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Quantitative MRI (qMRI) is a promising tool in the assessment of disease involvement in muscular dystrophies. Specifically, fat fraction and quantitative measures of intramuscular edema are of particular interest, as it is possible to use them to...
Quantum computer simulations of time-dependent hamiltonians
Creators: name: Wiebe, Nathan
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2011

description: Bibliography: p. 153-163
description: In this thesis, we present three innovations that can be used to simulate quantum dynamics on both quantum and classical computers. Our primary innovation is an efficient quantum algorithm for simulating time-dependent Hamiltonian evolution of general input states on a quantum computer. Given conditions on the smoothness of the Hamiltonian, the complexity of the algorithm is close to linear in the evolution time, and therefore is comparable to algorithms for time-independent Hamiltonians. In addition, we show how the complexity can be reduced by optimizing the time steps. The complexity of the algorithm is quantified by calls to an oracle, which yields information about the Hamiltonian. In contrast to previous work, which allowed an oracle query to yield an arbitrary number of bits or qubits, we assign a cost for each bit or qubit accessed, revealing hitherto unnoticed simulation costs. We also account for discretization errors in the time and the representation of the Hamiltonian. This work is enabled by our development of a decomposition scheme based on Lie-Trotter- Suzuki product formulae for ordered operator exponentials. We show, by counterexample, that Lie-Trotter-Suzuki approximations may be lower order than expected when applied to problems that have singularities or discontinuous derivatives of appropriate order. We address this problem by presenting a set of criteria that is sufficient for the validity of these approximations, prove convergence and provide upper bounds for the approximation error. We also provide a new analysis of the evolution of quantum adiabatic systems in this thesis. Our work contains the tightest upper bounds that are currently known, and the first tight lower bounds, for the error in the adiabatic approximation applied to fixed Hamiltonians in the limit of slow evolution. We use our results to address the Marzlin- Sanders counterexample Hamiltonian. Specifically, we provide sufficiency conditions for the validity of the adiabatic approximation and demonstrate that the Marzlin-Sanders counterexample fails to satisfy them. We also find a new class of time-dependent Hamiltonians that are related to the Marzlin0Sanders counterexample Hamiltonian, but nonetheless obey the adiabatic approximation for sufficiently slow evolutions.
Experimental and Theoretical Brownian Dynamics Analysis of Ion Transport During Cellular Electroporation of E. coli Bacteria
Creators: name: González-Cuevas, Juan
name: Argüello, Ricardo
name: Florentin, Marcos
name: André, Franck M.
name: Mir, Lluis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Escherichia coli bacterium is a rod-shaped organism composed of a complex double membrane structure. Knowledge of electric field driven ion transport through both membranes and the evolution of their induced permeabilization has important applications in biomedical engineering, delivery of genes and antibacterial agents. However, few studies have been conducted on Gram-negative bacteria in this regard considering the contribution of all ion types. To address this gap in knowledge, we have developed a deterministic and stochastic Brownian dynamics model to simulate in 3D space the motion of ions through pores formed in the plasma membranes of E. coli cells during electroporation. The diffusion coefficient, mobility, and translation time of Ca$^{2+}$, Mg$^{2+}$, Na$^+$, K$^+$, and Cl$^-$ ions within the pore region are estimated from the numerical model. Calculations of pore's conductance have been validated with experiments conducted at Gustave Roussy. From the simulations, it was found that the main driving force of ionic uptake during the pulse is the one due to the externally applied electric field. The results from this work provide a better understanding of ion transport during electroporation, aiding in the design of electrical pulses for maximizing ion throughput, primarily for application in cancer treatment.
description: Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 2023
title: Lung nodule volumetry variability in dual-phase ultra-low dose computed tomography: initial results
Creators: name: Blokhin, Ivan
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Experimental
subject: Retrospective
subject: Cancer
subject: Technical aspects
subject: CT
subject: Respiratory system
subject: Chest

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Low-dose computed tomography is a scientifically grounded method for the reduction of mortality from lung cancer [1, 2]. However, several studies have shown the variability of the lung nodule size, expressed through mean diameter and volume, in...
title: Dry season modelling in Cojedes State, Venezuela by drought analysis of Tirgua river flows
title: Hydrology days 2006
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: AGU hydrology days 2006
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Guevara, Edilberto
name: Paredes, Franklin
name: Carballo, Nahir
name: Rumbo, Luís
name: Colorado State University, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2006
Subjects: extreme drought
drought analysis
minimum flows
dry period

description: 2006 annual AGU hydrology days was held at Colorado State University on March 20 - March 22, 2006.
description: Includes bibliographical references.
description: In the last years Venezuela has been subject to extremely dry periods during the winter season, causing a drastic reduction of minimum flows of rivers. The year 2003 was characterized by the severe drought period in Cojedes State making to believe at that time that this phenomenon could have caused the drastic reduction of the mean flow of Tirgua River. As the river is the mean source of water supply of the State, especially, for municipalities San Carlos, Tinaco and Falcón, it is very important to study the behavior of the river flows during the dry season of the year. So this research deals with the analysis of duration and number of dry periods of Tirgua River. The study is based on the daily mean flows of the river at Paso Viboral ganging station for the period 1963 - 1993. The statistical analysis of the flow records shows for the daily minimum discharge a very high variations coefficient of 90 % (mean = 13 m3/s; and standard deviation = 12 m3/s). The chronologic flow series has a tendency to the occurrence of dry periods. The Wiser model was used to find the behavior of dry periods for different durations (from 1 to 60 days). The minimum flow is related with the duration (D) and the interval of recurrence (Tr) as Qmín = 5,053.D0,015.Tr-0,925 d as a function of duration (d). Apparently the drought of 2003 was only a result of the stochastic behavior of the flows. Nevertheless it could be advisable to study their periodicity as well.
Weyl semimetal with broken time reversal and inversion symmetries
Creators: name: Zyuzin, A. A.
name: Wu, Si
name: Burkov, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Weyl semimetal is a new topological state of matter, characterized by the presence of nondegenerate band-touching nodes, separated in momentum space, in its bandstructure. Here we discuss a particular realization of a Weyl semimetal: a superlattice heterostructure, made of alternating layers of topological insulator (TI) and normal insulator (NI) material, introduced by one of us before. The Weyl node splitting is achieved most easily in this system by breaking time-reversal (TR) symmetry, for example by magnetic doping. If, however, spatial inversion (I) symmetry remains, the Weyl nodes will occur at the same energy, making it possible to align the Fermi energy simultaneously with both nodes. The goal of this work is to explore the consequences of breaking the I symmetry in this system. We demonstrate that, while this generally moves the Weyl nodes to different energies, thus eliminating nodal semimetal and producing a state with electron and hole Fermi surfaces, the topological properties of the Weyl semimetal state, i.e. the chiral edge states and the corresponding Hall conductivity, survive for moderate I symmetry breaking. Moreover, we demonstrate that a new topological phenomenon arises in this case, if an external magnetic field along the growth direction of the heterostructure is applied. Namely, this leads to an equilibrium dissipationless current, flowing along the direction of the field, whose magnitude is proportional to the energy difference between the Weyl nodes and to the magnetic field, with a universal coefficient, given by a combination of fundamental constants.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures; minor corrections and extensions, published version
Generalizing the running vacuum energy model and comparing with the entropic-force models
Creators: name: Basilakos, Spyros
name: Polarski, David
name: Sola, Joan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We generalize the previously proposed running vacuum energy model by including a term proportional to \dot{H}, in addition to the existing H^2 term. We show that the added degree of freedom is very constrained if both low redshift and high redshift data are taken into account. Best-fit models are undistinguishable from LCDM at the present time, but could be distinguished in the future with very accurate data at both low and high redshifts. We stress the formal analogy at the phenomenological level of the running vacuum models with recently proposed dark energy models based on the holographic or entropic point of view, where a combination of \dot{H} and H^2 term is also present. However those particular entropic formulations which do not have a constant term in the Friedmann equations are not viable. The presence of this term is necessary in order to allow for a transition from a decelerated to an accelerated expansion. In contrast, the running vacuum models, both the original and the generalized one introduced here contain this constant term in a more natural way. Finally, important conceptual issues common to all these models are emphasized.
description: Version accepted in Phys. Rev. D. LaTeX, 24 pages and one figure. Slightly extended discussion
Decoherence and the Nature of System-Environment Correlations
Creators: name: Pernice, A.
name: Strunz, W. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate system-environment correlations based on the exact dynamics of a qubit and its environment in the framework of pure decoherence (phase damping). We focus on the relation of decoherence and the build-up of system-reservoir entanglement for an arbitrary (possibly mixed) initial qubit state. In the commonly employed regime where the qubit dynamics can be described by a Markov master equation of Lindblad type, we find that for almost all qubit initial states inside the Bloch sphere, decoherence is complete while the total state is still separable - no entanglement is involved. In general, both "separable" and "entangling" decoherence occurs, depending on temperature and initial qubit state. Moreover, we find situations where classical and quantum correlations periodically alternate as a function of time in the regime of low temperatures.
title: Audit to assess the quality of radiology MDT input
Creators: name: nawaz, aruba
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Observational
subject: Prospective
subject: Outcomes
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Mammography
subject: CT
subject: Professional issues
subject: Liver
subject: Breast
subject: Professional Issues

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Time has played a pivotal role in changing the dynamics of integrated management, placing it as a cornerstone when it comes to optimal patient care. Reasons as to why it is becoming increasingly complicated to provide standard health care include...
The ‘‘Head Snap’’: A Subtle Clinical Feature During the Finger–Nose–Finger
Maneuver in Essential Tremor
Creators: name: Sternberg, Eliezer J.
name: Alcalay, Roy Nissim
name: Levy, Oren Abraham
name: Louis, Elan D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Kinesiology
subject: Medicine

description: Background: Essential tremor is characterized by several hyperkinetic movements, including arm and head tremors.  We report another movement of the head in patients with essential tremor, which we term the “head snap.” This was observed as a jerking motion of the head in some patients while they performed the finger-nose-finger maneuver.
Methods: We compared the prevalence of the head snap in essential tremor patients vs. Parkinson’s disease patients. We also assessed the clinical correlates of the head snap.
Results: Ten (20%) of 50 essential tremor patients exhibited a head snap of any severity (rating ≥0.5) vs. 0 of 50 Parkinson’s disease patients (p = 0.001). Patients with head snap had more severe arm tremor on Archimedes spiral drawings (p = 0.019) and were more likely to have head tremor (p = 0.03) than those without it.
Conclusions: This sign could be a useful aid in the clinical diagnosis of tremor.
title: The Role of 18F-FDG PET/CT in Detection and Management of Cancers with Unknown Primary Site
Creators: name: Davidson, Tima
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Hybrid, Molecular and Translational Imaging
subject: Hybrid Imaging
subject: PET-CT
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Outcomes
subject: Retrospective
subject: Observational
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Cancer of unknown primary site (CUP) is a diverse group of cancers in which the anatomical site of origin remains occult despite detailed investigations. CUP accounts for 2-5% of cancers worldwide [1-1]. The median age at presentation is 60-65 years...
Classification of symmetric periodic trajectories in ellipsoidal billiards
Creators: name: Casas, Pablo S.
name: Ramírez-Ros, Rafael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 37J20, 37J35, 37J45, 70H06, 14H99

description: We classify nonsingular symmetric periodic trajectories (SPTs) of billiards inside ellipsoids of R^{n+1} without any symmetry of revolution. SPTs are defined as periodic trajectories passing through some symmetry set. We prove that there are exactly 2^{2n}(2^{n+1}-1) classes of such trajectories. We have implemented an algorithm to find minimal SPTs of each of the 12 classes in the 2D case (R^2) and each of the 112 classes in the 3D case (R^3). They have periods 3, 4 or 6 in the 2D case; and 4, 5, 6, 8 or 10 in the 3D case. We display a selection of 3D minimal SPTs. Some of them have properties that cannot take place in the 2D case.
description: 26 pages, 77 figures, 17 tables
Antodynerus sheffieldi
Creators: name: Madl, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Antodynerus
Antodynerus sheffieldi

description: Antodynerus sheffieldi (MEADE- W ALDO, 1915)
Antodynerus sheffieldi sheffieldi (MEADE- WALDO, 1915): GUSENLEITNER & MADL 2016: 92 (Sagallou).
D i s t r i b u t i o n:Sagallou.
Antodynerus sheffieldi is also recorded from Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
description: Published as part of Madl, Michael, 2018, A preliminary catalogue of the Hymenoptera (Insecta) of the Republic of Djibouti, pp. 907-967 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2) on page 928, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3776452
title: The integration of GIS and watershed erosion models to support the assessment of surface coal mine reclamation
title: Hydrology days 2011
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: AGU hydrology days 2011
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Huang, X. Shawn
name: Alvarado, Anthony B.
name: Zevenbergen, Lyle W.
name: Cochran, John N.
name: Colorado State University, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2011

description: 2011 annual AGU hydrology days was held at Colorado State University on March 21 - March 23, 2011.
description: Includes bibliographical references.
description: The technology of Geographic Information System (GIS) has been extensively applied in numerous fields, such as watershed hydrologic/hydraulic modeling and urban stormwater modeling, during the last two decades. However, the integration of GIS and watershed erosion models receives little attention primarily because of the complexity of sediment routing. As surface coal mining disturbs topsoil/vegetation and destroys drainage networks, surface coal mine operators are required by law to reclaim disturbed mining areas in order to minimize the impacts on the prevailing hydrologic balance and to limit the contribution of additional sediment to receiving streams. To assess the success of surface coal mine reclamation, watershed erosion models such as EASI (Erosion And Sedimentation Impact) are used to predict runoff and sediment yield from the reclaimed area for both pre-mining and post-mining conditions. It is of great value to integrate GIS with watershed erosion models, because almost all data can be organized in the geodatabase and GIS can be used to calculate model-input parameters from stored geometries. To automate the complex workflow of watershed erosion modeling through EASI, an ArcGIS-based interface of easiTool was developed. It is shown that easiTool greatly increases the efficiency of watershed erosion modeling and facilitates the assessment of surface coal mine reclamation.
title: Audit of Renal USS Requesting & Scanning for Patients with AKI in line with NICE169 Guidelines
Creators: name: Burnett, Tim
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Not applicable
subject: Quality assurance
subject: Audit and standards
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Kidney
subject: Genitourinary

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: University Hospital Southampton (UHS) Renal Ultrasound Scans (RUSS) in Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) Quality Improvement Project (QIP) Dr Timothy Burnett Aims: •To audit the requesting and undertaking of RUSS for patients with AKI at UHS in accordance...
Can strong gravitational lensing distinguish naked singularities from black holes?
Creators: name: Sahu, Satyabrata
name: Patil, Mandar
name: Narasimha, D.
name: Joshi, Pankaj S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study gravitational lensing in the strong field limit from the perspective of cosmic censorship, to investigate whether or not naked singularities, if at all they exist in nature, can be distinguished from black holes. We study the gravitational lensing in the strong field regime in the JMN spacetime, a spherically symmetric geometry that contains a naked singularity and which matches smoothly with Schwarzschild metric beyond a finite radius. This metric is a toy model which was shown recently to be the end state of gravitational collapse. In the presence of the photon sphere gravitational lensing signature of this spacetime is identical to that of Schwarzschild black hole with infinitely many relativistic images and Einstein rings, all of them located beyond a certain critical angle from optic axis and the inner relativistic images all clumped together. However, in the absence of the photon sphere, which is the case for a wide range of parameter values in this spacetime, we show that we get finitely many relativistic images and Einstein rings spaced reasonably apart from one another, some of which can be formed inside the critical angle for the corresponding Schwarzschild black hole. This study suggests that the observation of relativistic images and rings might, in principle, allow us to unravel the existence of the naked singularity in the absence of the photon sphere. The results obtained here are in contrast with the earlier investigation on JNW naked singularities radial caustic was always present in the absence of photon sphere, while it is absent in JMN geometry. We also point out the practical difficulties that might be encountered in the observation of the relativistic images and suggest that new dedicated experiments and techniques must be developed in future for this purpose.
description: 13 pages; 9 figures; 3 tables; modified discussion on the JNW geometry; accepted for publication in Physical Review D
title: Skull Factors: importance in Magnetic Resonance-Guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS) for patients whit tremor
Creators: name: De Donato, Maria Carmela
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neuro
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR
subject: Ablation procedures
subject: Outcomes
subject: Retrospective
subject: Diagnostic or prognostic study
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Tremor may be defined as an involuntary movement that is rhythmic ( regularly recurrent) and oscillatory (rotating around a central plane) and may manifest in a variety of ways. In the elderly patient with tremor, the differential diagnosis is...
title: Liver metastasis from malignant melanoma: Necessity for dynamic contrast-enhanced CT
Creators: name: Kurokawa, Hiroaki
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Abdominal Viscera
subject: Abdomen
subject: Liver
subject: CT
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Metastases
subject: Retrospective
subject: Not applicable
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: The diagnosis of metastatic liver tumors is often made using plain CT and delayed (portal-dominant) phase contrast-enhanced CT (CE-CT) [1, 2, 3]. In hypervascular liver metastasis, it is also reported that improves the capability of visualizing...
Analysis of investment evaluation practices and decision-making process in the oil and gas industry
Creators: name: Okeke, Theophilus Chukwudum
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2011

description: Bibliography: p. 335-366
description: Includes copy of ethics approval. Original copy with original Partial Copyright Licence.
description: The fundamental focus of project management has been to deliver projects on time, on budget and meet specifications. However, many projects still fail to meet these targets and this trend has continued unabated despite concerted efforts from the government, private sectors and the academic communities. A significant amount of literature has focused on potential solutions, but many of the studies looked only at options for improving project execution practices, whereas in many cases the seeds of project failure may have been sown even before the project is officially approved for execution. Particularly, the failure of many investment decisions to return expected results, in the oil and gas industry has led to a growing interest over the past few years in understanding the influences and impacts on current investment evaluation practices and decision-making tools and processes, and their relationships with poor project performances. The objectives of this research therefore, were to examine the factors that influence investment evaluation practices and decision-making process in the oil and gas industry, and their subsequent impacts on intended decision outcomes and project participants as well. To achieve these objectives, the research used both survey questionnaire and case studies to examine the interactions, especially between management executives and project participants to determine those influences as well as their subsequent impacts on desired investment outcomes and project participants. The results of this research which were triangulated and validated, identified the key influences to range from lack of open and honest communication that degenerated to perceived lack of trust, transparency, clarity and focus, to poor implementation of good project management practices in terms of documentation, lessons learned, peer reviews, rewards and adequate risk identification and assessment. These findings were thoroughly analysed to recommend solutions to identified problems. Additionally, the research presented a framework that is entrenched in project management process and principles for improved investment evaluation practices and decision-making process in the oil and gas industry with more emphasis on better communication and good project management practices to ensure better project performances and motivated project participants.
Translating light : Brazil and sensuality in works of P. K. Page
Creators: name: Jung, Desirée
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This dissertation gives a reading of the Canadian poet P. K. Page. What especially interests me is how Page engages with being in the world through language. I inquire into how she articulates the body and its qualities in words; her different relationships with the embodied life and her reflections on sensuality. From selected literary works, I argue that she approaches lived experience primarily through visualization, an approach which creates a sense that something is missing, due to the transformation of sensuality into visual representations. My argument is that the writer, despite her successful strategy of translating the world into images of light and colour, also searches for the additional participation of her other senses. I explore her difficulty in finding ways to express other senses than the visual, her struggle to relate embodied sensations to one’s ownership of a physical body. To support my argument I focus on Page’s books Brazilian Journal and Hologram: A Book of Glosas. My aim is to retrace examples of visual sensuality as key elements that allow one to understand her quest for the world of the senses and the physical body, while fleshing out the natural elements of particular environments in contexts that are both human and non-human, urban and natural. My intention is to demonstrate how the writing of physical bodies and their sensorial qualities in Page’s work is urgent and vigorous, beginning from Brazilian Journal, where she constantly battles with her own defences against her desire to feel the world and translate its light. Her struggles continued into Hologram, where the visual poetics take over all other possibilities of exploring sensuality. My point is to show that the representations of physicality demand a corporeality and vigour that P. K. Page consistently sought in her work.
Resources for a Restoration Theology of Religions
Creators: name: Vaughan, Matthew
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Religion
Theology
Churches of Christ
Religious pluralism
Religion and literature

description: This essay argues for scholars from Churches of Christ (a cappella) to further their theological engagement with the reality of religious pluralism. It also puts the literature of theologies of religions (and, to a lesser degree, comparative theology and interreligious dialogue) into conversation with the theologies of the Churches of Christ. The essay articulates the salient resources—theological foci and hermeneutical principles—already in use in the literature and thought of the Stone-Campbell Movement regarding non-Christian religions. The essay also sketches several other previously neglected resources that Churches of Christ might use in shaping a unique "restoration" theology of religions.
title: Working paper on hydrologic models in the courtroom
title: Hydrology days 2005
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: AGU hydrology days 2005
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Luecke, Daniel F.
name: Colorado State University, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2005

description: 2005 annual AGU hydrology days was held at Colorado State University on March 7 - March 9, 2005.
description: Includes bibliographical references.
description: The quality and reliability of hydrologic modes is a regular feature of surface water and groundwater disputes that make it to the courtroom. These models can be enormously useful, but at the same time are often suspect because of their complexity and their lack of transparency. N this paper I wish to visit the question of whether and how courts could approach the use of models, including the assessment of models and their results, before formal proceedings commence. My underlying assumption is that an improved assessment process can lead to better models, and ultimately, to fairer and more efficient outcomes. To do this, I review some of the literature on model building and testing, and some of the proposed guidelines on a number of the features of model construction and testing. I also look at two cases in which models played a central role, the Arkansas River Compact altercation (Kansas v. Colorado) and the Republican River Compact dispute (Kansas v. Nebraska and Colorado). They offer very different examples (if not extremes) of model building and use. Finally, I discuss some alternatives to cross examination of experts, once models are introduced.
Real-time energy dynamics in spin-1/2 Heisenberg chains
Creators: name: Langer, Stephan
name: Heyl, Markus
name: McCulloch, Ian P.
name: Heidrich-Meisner, Fabian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the real-time dynamics of the local energy density in the spin-1/2 XXZ chain starting from initial states with an inhomogeneous profile of bond energies. Numerical simulations of the dynamics of the initial states are carried out using the adaptive time-dependent density matrix renormalization group method. We analyze the time dependence of the spatial variance associated with the local energy density to classify the dynamics as either ballistic or diffusive. Our results are consistent with ballistic behavior both in the massless and the massive phase. We also study the same problem within Luttinger Liquid theory and obtain that energy wave-packets propagate with the sound velocity. We recover this behavior in our numerical simulations in the limit of very weakly perturbed initial states.
description: 15 pages, 21 figures, version as published, minor stylistic changes
Effects of food supplementation on black-tailed prairie dogs (cynomys ludovicianus) at their northern extent
Creators: name: Lloyd, Natasha Anne
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2011

description: Bibliography: p. 139-159
description: A few pages are in colour.
description: Includes copy of animal protocol approval. Original copy with original Partial Copyright Licence.
description: This research investigates whether black-tailed prairie dog populations are food limited at their northernmost range extent. A BACI experiment used food supplementation, while accounting for natural food variation, to test whether increased food positively impacted body condition, survival, reproduction, density and expansion. Experimental results did not support food limitation. Reproduction and density increased from 2008- 2009 but remained similar between control and treatment plots. Correlations between vegetation biomass and density suggest that natural food availability in 2008 may have driven population growth into 2009. Percentage of edible vegetation varied between 2008- 2009, raising the question: are prairie dog populations food limited in some years but not others? A negative correlation between winter survival and summer density, suggests internal regulation through density-dependent mortality. Greater overwinter survival than summer may be related to differences in predation pressure. Colony expansion was greater in the absence of food supplementation, suggesting food scarcity drives expans10n.
title: Study of the impact of the length of the membranous urethra on MRI on urinary incontinence after robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy
Creators: name: Bravo Alvarez, Noelia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Diagnostic or prognostic study
subject: Retrospective
subject: Outcomes
subject: Treatment effects
subject: Observer performance
subject: MR
subject: Pelvis
subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: Genitourinary

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Radical prostatectomy (RP) is one of the definitive therapy options for localized prostate cancer. Like any invasive treatment, it is not without adverse effects, being impairment of sexual potency and urinary incontinence, the most frequent and...
Understanding the leakage process for multi-scale water infrastructure asset management: necessity for a dialogue between sociological and data sciences
Creators: name: Collet, Marie
name: Rodriguez, Nicolas
name: Baati, Selma
name: Husson, Alain
name: Renaud, Eddy
name: Caillaud, Kevin
name: Gat, Yves Le
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Reducing water losses is one of the most pressing issues for modern water utilities. To that end, improving the efficiency of the pipe leakage and repair process and aiding the selection of the pipes that are to be renewed or rehabilitated are essential. To help addressing these tasks, in this work, we develop a model predicting the probability of a pipe to be leaking. This work is set the context of a multidisciplinary project with Soci{é}t{é} Wallone des Eaux and it is aligned with their goal to improve their Infrastructure Asset Management in the short and the long terms. Developing and feeding this leakage probability model relies on an intense data processing phase, mobilizing data and water engineering sciences, since the raw data from SWDE is not ready to be used in the model. Complementarily, we thus employ techniques from sociology (e.g., interviews, analyses of the human/non-human actors and of the tools, sociotechnical translations) in order to complete the data, to improve our understanding of its production, and to increase its value and its availability for the prediction of the pipe leakage probability. This model will be implemented in SWDE's information system and used for strategies to reduce water losses.
Nonet meson properties in Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model with dimensional regularization at finite temperature and chemical potential
Creators: name: Inagaki, T.
name: Kimura, D.
name: Kohyama, H.
name: Kvinikhidze, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nonet meson properties are studied in the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model at finite temperature and chemical potential using dimensional regularization. This study leads to the reasonable description which is mainly similar to one obtained in the model with the cutoff regularization. However, remarkable differences between the two regularizations are observed in the behavior of the chiral phase transition at finite chemical potential.
description: 12 pages, 25 figures
Dopamine Transporter Imaging in Psychogenic Parkinsonism and Neurodegenerative Parkinsonism with Psychogenic Overlay: A Report of Three Cases
Creators: name: Umeh, Chizoba C.
name: Szabo, Zsolt
name: Pontone, Gregory M.
name: Mari, Zoltan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Kinesiology
subject: Medicine

description: Background: Differentiating psychogenic parkinsonism from neurodegenerative Parkinson's disease (PD) with psychogenic features is a diagnostic challenge.
Case report: We report a detailed longitudinal clinical description of three cases presenting with suspected psychogenic parkinsonism. Dopamine transporter single-photon emission computed tomography (DAT-SPECT) was used as a supplemental diagnostic study and influenced clinical management.
Discussion: DAT-SPECT quantified the integrity of the striatal dopaminergic system in these cases of clinically uncertain parkinsonism and supported clinical decision-making.
title: Alignment between automated and visual scoring of CT classification systems in Acute Traumatic Brain Injury: an explorative study
Creators: name: Smeets, Dirk
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Multicentre study
subject: Cross-sectional study
subject: Retrospective
subject: Trauma
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: CT
subject: Trauma
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Compression or absence of the basal cisterns on CT scans is considered an important indicator of raised intracranial pressure as a result of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and therefore, used in visual CT classification systems such as Helsinki and...
title: 42nd annual AGU hydrology days
title: Hydrology days 2022
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: AGU hydrology days 2022
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: 42nd annual hydrology days (2022)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: American Geophysical Union, Author
name: Colorado State University, Author
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Hydrology -- Congresses

description: The 42nd Annual AGU Hydrology Days event at Colorado State University was held on April 25-27, 2022 in the Lory Student Center - Grand Ballroom.
description: Includes the schedule and presentation abstracts only. The 42nd Annual American Geophysical Union Hydrology Days meeting held on April 25-27, 2022, provides a unique opportunity for students, faculty, staff and practitioners to engage in wide range of water-related interdisciplinary research topics.
title: Retrospective evaluation of HCM patients with and without myocardial edema.
Creators: name: palumbo, roberto
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Cardiac
subject: MR
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Inflammation
subject: Retrospective
subject: Case-control study
subject: Not applicable

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: our study aims to evaluate the existence of a correlation between the presence of myocardial edema (indicated by the pathological hyperintensity in T2 STIR sequences), left ventricular function (assessed by post-processing analysis with Syngovia...
Closing the loop as an inverse problem: the real-time control of THEMIS adaptive optics
Creators: name: Thiébaut, Éric
name: Tallon, Michel
name: Tallon-Bosc, Isabelle
name: Gelly, Bernard
name: Douet, Richard
name: Langlois, Maud
name: Moretto, Gil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have taken advantage of the implementation of an adaptive optics system on the Themis solar telescope to implement innovative strategies based on an inverse problem formulation for the control loop. Such an approach encompassing the whole system implies the estimation of the pixel variances of the Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor, a novel real-time method to extract the wavefront slopes as well as their associated noise covariance, and the computation of pseudo-open loop data. The optimal commands are computed by iteratively solving a regularized inverse problem with spatio-temporal constraints including Kolmogorov statistics. The latency of the dedicated real-time control software with conventional CPU is shorter than 300 $μ$s from the acquisition of the raw 400 x 400 pixel wavefront sensor image to the sending of the commands.
$Q_{bias}$ -- A Dataset on Media Bias in Search Queries and Query Suggestions
Creators: name: Haak, Fabian
name: Schaer, Philipp
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: K.4

description: This publication describes the motivation and generation of $Q_{bias}$, a large dataset of Google and Bing search queries, a scraping tool and dataset for biased news articles, as well as language models for the investigation of bias in online search. Web search engines are a major factor and trusted source in information search, especially in the political domain. However, biased information can influence opinion formation and lead to biased opinions. To interact with search engines, users formulate search queries and interact with search query suggestions provided by the search engines. A lack of datasets on search queries inhibits research on the subject. We use $Q_{bias}$ to evaluate different approaches to fine-tuning transformer-based language models with the goal of producing models capable of biasing text with left and right political stance. Additionally to this work we provided datasets and language models for biasing texts that allow further research on bias in online information search.
description: Paper accepted at ACM Web Science Conference 2023. 6 pages
title: Structural Changes in Mild Cognitive Impairment in Parkinson’s Disease
Creators: name: Ada, Emel
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Case-control study
subject: Prospective
subject: Geriatrics
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Segmentation
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: MR
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Computer applications
subject: Neuro

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Parkinson disease (PD) is known as the most common movement disorder. Cognitive impairment is an important non-motor symptom in patients with PD, and may occur in the early stage of the disease or before the diagnosis of PD. Parkinson’s disease...
Artefatos do artigo "Criação de um guia para selecionar métodos de avaliação para tecnologias de software M-learning"
Creators: name: Alencar, Ana Iza De Sousa
name: ANNA BEATRIZ MARQUES
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 130306 Educational Technology and Computing
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: Este pacote contém os artefatos produzidos na pesquisa "Criação de um guia para selecionar métodos de avaliação para tecnologias de software M-learning":
- Guia para seleção de métodos de avaliação para tecnologias M-learning- Tabela com critérios e subcritérios de qualidade para tecnologias M-learning
- Mapas mentais sobre critérios e subcritérios de qualidade para tecnologias M-learning
title: Application of Apparent Diffusion Coefficient in the Process of Chemoradiotherapy for Esophageal Carcinoma
Creators: name: Liu, Duanyi
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Diagnostic or prognostic study
subject: Prospective
subject: Radiotherapy techniques
subject: Epidemiology
subject: Cancer
subject: Treatment effects
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Chemotherapy
subject: PET-MR
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Stomach (incl. Oesophagus)
subject: Oncology
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: GI Tract

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: To explore the value of apparent diffusion coefficient values in the evaluation of Chemoradiotherapy efficacy for esophageal...
title: A physically based approach for the estimation of root-zone soil moisture from surface measurements: application on the AMMA database
title: Hydrology days 2013
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: AGU hydrology days 2013
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Manfreda, Salvatore
name: Fiorentino, Mauro
name: Samela, Caterina
name: Margiotta, Maria Rosaria
name: Brocca, Luca
name: Moramarco, Tommaso
name: Colorado State University, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2013

description: 2013 annual AGU hydrology days was held at Colorado State University on March 25 - March 27, 2013.
description: Includes bibliographical references.
description: In the present work, we present an application of a new formulation for the estimation of the soil moisture in the root zone based on the measured value of soil moisture at the surface. The method has been recently proposed by Manfreda et al. (2012) with the aim to provide a mathematical relationship between surface and root zone soil moisture. It derives from a simplified form of the soil water balance equation and provides a closed form of the relationship between the root zone and the surface soil moisture with a limited number of physically consistent parameters. The approach was used to interpret soil moisture dynamics at the point scale using soil moisture measurements taken from the African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA) database. These measurements form an excellent database with a significant number of measurements in time and space. Moreover, the measurements provide a detailed description of the soil moisture along the root-zone profile. According to this, we have used the surface soil moisture measurements at 5 cm depth to predict the soil moisture in the lower layer of the soil where the relative saturation is measured at various depths. The method provided good prediction of the averaged soil moisture in the root zone soil layer with the advantage that all parameters are physically consistent.