cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
“Accused of a Sodomy Act”: Bible, Queer Poetry and African Narrative Hermeneutics
Creators: name: van Klinken, Adriaan
name: Muyunga-Mukasa, Tom
Publisher: name: AfricArXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 200299 Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other humanities
subject: Literature
subject: 220401 Christian Studies (incl. Biblical Studies and Church History)
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: Abstract: This article explores the role of poetry and narrative methods in African-centred queer biblical studies and theology. As a case in point, it presents a poem, titled “Accused of a Sodomy Act,” by Tom Muyunga-Mukasa, that was written as part of a queer Bible reading project with Ugandan LGBTQ refugees. The poem is a contemporary re-telling of the gospel story about Jesus and the “woman caught in adultery” in the context of socio-political homophobia in Uganda. The poem is complemented by an autobiographical reflection by the writer, providing insight into his personal experiences of growing up as gay and religious in Uganda. This is embedded in a more general discussion, relating the poem to trends of life storytelling in African LGBTQ activism, and to established narrative methodologies in African theological and biblical studies scholarship. Overall, the article makes a methodological contribution, by foregrounding queer poetry and storytelling as innovations in African narrative hermeneutics that expand the established concern with gender and sexuality beyond a heterosexual framework, and that include the marginalised voices and experiences of LGBTQ people.
Asymptotically Normal and Efficient Estimation of Covariate-Adjusted Gaussian Graphical Model
Creators: name: Ren, Zhao
name: Zhao, Hongyu
name: Zhou, Harrison
name: Chen, Mengjie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: A tuning-free procedure is proposed to estimate the covariate-adjusted Gaussian graphical model. For each finite subgraph, this estimator is asymptotically normal and efficient. As a consequence, a confidence interval can be obtained for each edge. The procedure enjoys easy implementation and efficient computation through parallel estimation on subgraphs or edges. We further apply the asymptotic normality result to perform support recovery through edge-wise adaptive thresholding. This support recovery procedure is called ANTAC, standing for Asymptotically Normal estimation with Thresholding after Adjusting Covariates. ANTAC outperforms other methodologies in the literature in a range of simulation studies. We apply ANTAC to identify gene-gene interactions using an eQTL dataset. Our result achieves better interpretability and accuracy in comparison with CAMPE.
Real-world challenges in first-line treatment of metastatic EGFR-mutated non-small cell lung cancer
Creators: name: Barreto, Inês
name: Figueiredo, Sara
name: Tonin, Fernanda S.
name: Vilariça, Ana Sofia
name: Hasmucrai, Direndra
name: Alves, Paula
Publisher: name: Portuguese Journal of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Surgery
Year: 2023

description: Portuguese Journal of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Vol. 30 No. 3 (2023): Jul-Sep
Coronary Stent Infection: An Unusual Complication After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
Creators: name: Souaf Khalafi, Souhayla
name: Valencia Páez, Gustavo Andrés
name: Fernández González, Angel Luis
Publisher: name: Portuguese Journal of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Surgery
Year: 2023

description: Coronary artery stent infection (CSI) is one of the rarest complications associated with the percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), usually requiring surgical intervention. Reaching and confirming the diagnosis remains the most challenging aspect of this complication. We describe a case of drug-eluting stents (DES) infection after several repeated procedures of primary angioplasty and stent implantation in the context of myocardial infarction. In the current era of growth of coronary stent implantation, it’s important for clinicians to consider and to prevent such potentially fatal events. The diagnosis process remains difficult and requires the association of multiple clinical, biological and imaging parameters. Although medical treatment may be the only possible approach in some cases, we present a clinical case where surgical treatment was successful.
description: Portuguese Journal of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Vol. 30 No. 3 (2023): Jul-Sep
Personalized Dose Finding Using Outcome Weighted Learning
Creators: name: Kosorok, Michael R.
name: Chen, Guanhua
name: Zeng, Donglin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: In dose-finding clinical trials, it is becoming increasingly important to account for individual level heterogeneity while searching for optimal doses to ensure an optimal individualized dose rule (IDR) maximizes the expected beneficial clinical outcome for each individual. In this paper, we advocate a randomized trial design where candidate dose levels assigned to study subjects are randomly chosen from a continuous distribution within a safe range. To estimate the optimal IDR using such data, we propose an outcome weighted learning method based on a nonconvex loss function, which can be solved efficiently using a difference of convex functions algorithm. The consistency and convergence rate for the estimated IDR are derived, and its small-sample performance is evaluated via simulation studies. We demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms competing approaches. Finally, we illustrate this method using data from a cohort study for Warfarin (an anti-thrombotic drug) dosing.
MENDING COMMUNITY
Creators: name: Moore, David Pernell
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Design
subject: affordable
subject: black
subject: capitol heights
subject: multifamily
subject: sustainable
subject: Washington dc

description: The purpose of this thesis is to create a development that will be a catalyst to revitalize Capitol Height’s dilapidated resources. Like many other predominantly African American towns, Capitol Heights Lacks the resources that it once had, such as fresh food, community education, and healthcare. Capitol Heights is located on the outer edge of Southeast Washington, D.C. The density of Capitol Heights needs to move from a horizontal scale (detached single-family housing) to a vertical scale (mid-rise buildings).The poverty rate in the United States averages 10.5%. Having a small population Capitol Heights averaged 10.7%. The crime rate in Capitol Heights is considerably higher than the national average across all communities in America. Which in turn makes it hard for large companies to see the value in investing in real estate and jobs there. Capitol Heights being next to Southeast D.C. allows for a great guide on how to go about development. The development in Southeast D.C. has created jobs as well as brought resources that once were scarce to that area. With an addition to a mix-use development building in Capitol Heights, the attention on the area will increase which may increase the population. The Capitol Heights Transit station’s adjacency to public transportation is a huge driving factor in having people live there. With the station, as well as the new building typology, being the leading factor, this will be a great investment for the town of Capitol Heights. Amenities such as a library, grocery store, and urgent care are crucial to this development. Capitol Heights needs major improvements to the living situation that its residents live in currently. This development will bring higher-paying jobs, increase the population, promote healthier living, and be the blueprint for the future of Capitol Heights.
Physarum carneum G. Lister & Sturgis 1910
Creators: name: Lado, Carlos
name: Basanta, Diana Wrigley De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Protozoa
Mycetozoa
Myxomycetes
Physarales
Physaraceae
Physarum
Physarum carneum

description: Physarum carneum G. Lister & Sturgis, in G. Lister, J. Bot. 48: 73. 1910
 — Lectotypus (designated here): U.S.A. Colorado, Colorado Springs, Cheyenne Mountain, 38º44’N 104º52’W, 10 Sep 1908, W.C. Sturgis (BM 3188!, BM001089845), [with a label of revision: Type specimen/ D. T. Kowalski July 1971]. Syntypus: U.S.A. Colorado, Colorado Springs, Cheyenne Mountain, 38º44’N 104º52’W, 10 Sep 1908,  W.C. Sturgis WCS A 63  (BM s.n.!, BM001089846 + one slide, BM001223781). Syntypus?: U.S.A. Colorado, Colorado Springs, Cheyenne Mountain, 38º44’N 104º52’W, 10 Aug 1909,  W.C. Sturgis WCS A 68  (BM s.n.!, BM001095212).
 BM 3188 / type!/ Physarum carneum G. Lister & Sturgis / Cheyenne Mt., Colorado Springs, Colo. U.S.A. / 10.9.1908; leg. W.C. Sturgis/ BM001089845 [sheet label dated 16. DEC. 1913. Revision label: “ Type specimen/ D.T. Kowalski July 1971 ”]. BM s.n. WCS A 63 / Craterium mutabile / Physarum carneum List. & Sturgis / Cheyenne Mt./ Colorado Springs/ Colo./ Sept. 10.’08, St.2.121–3/ BM001089846 + one slide BM001223781. BM s.n. WCS A 68 / Physarum carneum / G. Lister & Sturgis/ quaestum/ W. Crat. Leuc.m/ Cheyenne Mt., Colo./ 10.8.09, St.2.129/ BM001095212.
NOTES: G. Lister (1910a: 73) commented “ This species was found in some abundance on dead wood on Cheyenne Mt. Colorado Springs, Colorado, by Dr. W. C. Sturgis, in the autumn of 1908”. In BM there are 4 boxes of this species from Colorado Springs. We designate BM 3188 as the lectotype as all the data on the box coincide with that published, it is in good condition and it has a revision label by Kowalski naming it as type specimen. Two of the other boxes and a slide with number WCS [turgis] A63, we consider to be syntypes, and another with number WCS A68 could be original material, but it was collected a year later than the publication, unless the date is an error. All made reference to the notebook St. 2: 121–122, 129.
description: Published as part of Lado, Carlos & Basanta, Diana Wrigley De, 2018, Typification of the myxomycete taxa described by the Listers and preserved at the Natural History Museum, London (BM), pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 341 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.341.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13719359
title: Patients and physician related outcomes improve significantly over 12 months follow up in patients with juvenile systemic sclerosis. Results from the juvenile scleroderma inception cohort. www.juvenile-scleroderma.com
Creators: name: Foeldvari, Ivan
name: Klotsche, Jens
name: Terreri, M. T.
name: Katsicas, Maria
name: Stanevicha, Valda
name: Avcin, Tadey
name: Cimaz, Rolando
name: Kostik, Mikhail
name: Sifuentes-Giraldo, W. Alberto
name: Sztajnbok, Flavio
name: Anton, Jordi
name: Nemcova, Dana
name: Jose Santos, Maria
name: Battagliotti, Cristina
name: Berntson, Lillemor
name: Brunner, Jürgen
name: Eleftheriou, Despina
name: Harel, Liora
name: Janarthanan, Mahesh
name: Kallinich, Tilmann
name: Moll, Monika
name: Nielsen, Susan
name: Smith, Vanessa
name: Torok, Kathryn
name: Helmus, Nicola
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Background: Juvenile systemic scleroderma (jSSc) is an orphan disease with an estimated prevalence of around 3 per 1 000 000 children. There are no studies which evaluated prospectively the patient related outcomes in these patients. We report the data from juvenile scleroderma inception cohort (jSSc)[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 46. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 32. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh), Wissenschaftliche Herbsttagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie (GKJR)
Exploring the entrepreneurial orientation of absorptive capacity and its Impact on radical innovation
Creators: name: Salehi, Nader
name: Omar, Rozyta
name: Ismail, Kmariah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 350705
subject: Innovation management
classificationCode: 350704
subject: Entrepreneurship
classificationCode: 350718
subject: Strategy
classificationCode: 350716
subject: Small business organisation and management
classificationCode: 350709
subject: Organisation and management theory
classificationCode: 350711
subject: Organisational planning and management

description: Absorptive capacity is dynamic capability that allows the enterprise deal with knowledge from the external environment. This capability enables enterprises to internalize knowledge and innovation to commercial ends. In the past decades, there have been studies about organizational characteristics, which may have positive or negative effects on the capability of absorptive capacity, but insights about the development of absorptive capacity in perspective of entrepreneurship are still limited.
Stochastic thermodynamics of macrospins with fluctuating amplitude and direction
Creators: name: Bandopadhyay, Swarnali
name: Chaudhuri, Debasish
name: Jayannavar, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider stochastic energy balance and entropy production (EP) in a generalized Langevin dynamics of macrospins, allowing for both amplitude and direction fluctuations, under external magnetic field. EP is calculated using Fokker-Planck equation, distinguishing between reversible and irreversible parts of probability currents. The system entropy increases due to irreversible non-equilibrium processes, and reduces as heat dissipates to surrounding environment. Using path probability distributions of time-forward trajectories and conjugate trajectories under time reversal, we obtain fluctuation theorems (FT) for total stochastic EP. We show that the choice of conjugate trajectories is crucial in obtaining entropy like quantities that obey FTs.
description: 7 pages, no figure; version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. E
Sparse Regression Incorporating Graphical Structure Among Predictors
Creators: name: Yu, Guan
name: Liu, Yufeng
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: With the abundance of high dimensional data in various disciplines, sparse regularized techniques are very popular these days. In this paper, we make use of the structure information among predictors to improve sparse regression models. Typically, such structure information can be modeled by the connectivity of an undirected graph using all predictors as nodes of the graph. Most existing methods use this undirected graph edge-by-edge to encourage the regression coefficients of corresponding connected predictors to be similar. However, such methods do not directly utilize the neighborhood information of the graph. Furthermore, if there are more edges in the predictor graph, the corresponding regularization term will be more complicate. In this paper, we incorporate the graph information node-by-node, instead of edge-by-edge as used in most existing methods. Our proposed method is very general and it includes adaptive Lasso, group Lasso, and ridge regression as special cases. Both theoretical and numerical studies demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method for simultaneous estimation, prediction and model selection.
“Accused of a Sodomy Act”: Bible, Queer Poetry and African Narrative Hermeneutics
Creators: name: van Klinken, Adriaan
Publisher: name: AfricArXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 200299 Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other humanities
subject: Literature
subject: 220401 Christian Studies (incl. Biblical Studies and Church History)
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: Abstract: This article explores the role of poetry and narrative methods in African-centred queer biblical studies and theology. As a case in point, it presents a poem, titled “Accused of a Sodomy Act,” by Tom Muyunga-Mukasa, that was written as part of a queer Bible reading project with Ugandan LGBTQ refugees. The poem is a contemporary re-telling of the gospel story about Jesus and the “woman caught in adultery” in the context of socio-political homophobia in Uganda. The poem is complemented by an autobiographical reflection by the writer, providing insight into his personal experiences of growing up as gay and religious in Uganda. This is embedded in a more general discussion, relating the poem to trends of life storytelling in African LGBTQ activism, and to established narrative methodologies in African theological and biblical studies scholarship. Overall, the article makes a methodological contribution, by foregrounding queer poetry and storytelling as innovations in African narrative hermeneutics that expand the established concern with gender and sexuality beyond a heterosexual framework, and that include the marginalised voices and experiences of LGBTQ people.
Completeness of rank one perturbations of normal operators with lacunary spectrum
Creators: name: Baranov, Anton D.
name: Yakubovich, Dmitry V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 42A65 (primary), 42C30 (secondary)

description: Suppose $\mathcal{A}$ is a compact normal operator on a Hilbert space $H$ with certain lacunarity condition on the spectrum (which means, in particular, that its eigenvalues go to zero exponentially fast), and let $\mathcal{L}$ be its rank one perturbation. We show that either infinitely many moment equalities hold or the linear span of root vectors of $\mathcal{L}$, corresponding to non-zero eigenvalues, is of finite codimension in $H$. In contrast to classical results, we do not assume that the perturbation is weak.
description: 22 pages
A Functional Varying-Coefficient Single-Index Model for Functional Response Data
Creators: name: Hongtu, Zhub
name: Huang, Chao
name: Li, Jialiang
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Motivated by the analysis of imaging data, we propose a novel functional varying-coefficient single index model (FVCSIM) to carry out the regression analysis of functional response data on a set of covariates of interest. FVCSIM represents a new extension of varying-coefficient single index models for scalar responses collected from cross-sectional and longitudinal studies. An efficient estimation procedure is developed to iteratively estimate varying coefficient functions, link functions, index parameter vectors, and the covariance function of individual functions. We systematically examine the asymptotic properties of all estimators including the weak convergence of the estimated varying coefficient functions, the asymptotic distribution of the estimated index parameter vectors, and the uniform convergence rate of the estimated covariance function and their spectrum. Simulation studies are carried out to assess the finite-sample performance of the proposed procedure. We apply FVCSIM to investigating the development of white matter diffusivities along the corpus callosum skeleton obtained from Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) study.
Efficient Semiparametric Inference Under Two-Phase Sampling, With Applications to Genetic Association Studies
Creators: name: Tao, Ran
name: Zeng, Donglin
name: Lin, Dan-Yu
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: In modern epidemiological and clinical studies, the covariates of interest may involve genome sequencing, biomarker assay, or medical imaging and thus are prohibitively expensive to measure on a large number of subjects. A cost-effective solution is the two-phase design, under which the outcome and inexpensive covariates are observed for all subjects during the first phase and that information is used to select subjects for measurements of expensive covariates during the second phase. For example, subjects with extreme values of quantitative traits were selected for whole-exome sequencing in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Exome Sequencing Project (ESP). Herein, we consider general two-phase designs, where the outcome can be continuous or discrete, and inexpensive covariates can be continuous and correlated with expensive covariates. We propose a semiparametric approach to regression analysis by approximating the conditional density functions of expensive covariates given inexpensive covariates with B-spline sieves. We devise a computationally efficient and numerically stable EM-algorithm to maximize the sieve likelihood. In addition, we establish the consistency, asymptotic normality, and asymptotic efficiency of the estimators. Furthermore, we demonstrate the superiority of the proposed methods over existing ones through extensive simulation studies. Finally, we present applications to the aforementioned NHLBI ESP.
Immunotherapy in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer: a Review
Creators: name: Sequeira, Telma
name: Almodovar, M. Teresa
Publisher: name: Portuguese Journal of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Surgery
Year: 2023

description: Immunotherapy has revolutionized the field of oncology by utilizing the body's immune system to target and eliminate cancer cells. In non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), immunotherapeutic agents such as immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have shown promising results. ICIs target receptors like PD-1, PD-L1, and CTLA-4 to enhance the immune response against tumors. However, resistance mechanisms to immunotherapy are not fully understood, and ongoing research aims to overcome these challenges. In the early-stage setting, neoadjuvant and adjuvant trials are investigating the efficacy of ICIs in combination with chemotherapy, with interesting results. Additionally, in the metastatic landscape of NSCLC the therapeutic options multiplied in recent years. The use of immunotherapy in NSCLC holds great promise, and future studies may provide more effective therapies and biomarkers for personalized treatment approaches.
description: Portuguese Journal of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Vol. 30 No. 3 (2023): Jul-Sep
Physarum digitatum G. Lister & Farquharson 1916
Creators: name: Lado, Carlos
name: Basanta, Diana Wrigley De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Protozoa
Mycetozoa
Myxomycetes
Physarales
Physaraceae
Physarum
Physarum digitatum

description: Physarum digitatum G. Lister & Farquharson, in Farquharson & G. Lister, J. Bot. 54: 128. 1916
 — Lectotypus (designated here): NIGERIA. Lagos State, Agege, 6º37’19”N 3º19’33”E, on dead wood, Aug 1914, C.O. Farquharson 74 (BM 3979!, BM001089864 + two slides BM s.n.!, COF 74, BM001223787, BM001223786).
 BM 3979 / Physarum digitatum G.L. &/ Farquh. / Agege, S. Nigeria. Aug.1914./ leg. C.O. Farquharson. / BM001089864 [sheet label dated 3 FEB. 1927] + two slides COF 74, BM001223787, BM001223786 [with references to the notebook XXXV.89].
NOTES: Farquharson & G.Lister (1916: 129) gave the type location as “on dead wood, Agegé, South Nigeria, August, 1914”. In BM there is a box of the original material (BM 3979) which we consider to be the lectotype. There are two slides, notes in notebook XXXV: 89–92 and illustrations of the sample. The drawings are reproduced in part in the publication of the species so there is no doubt as to the identity of the sample. In the notes there is also a hand-sketched map of the area of Nigeria. Another box of this species was also located in BM (BM 3980) but from another place and date.
description: Published as part of Lado, Carlos & Basanta, Diana Wrigley De, 2018, Typification of the myxomycete taxa described by the Listers and preserved at the Natural History Museum, London (BM), pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 341 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.341.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13719359
title: Spektrum der DADA2 Symptome
Creators: name: Youssef, Hudda
name: Helling-Bakki, Astrid
name: Grulich-Henn, Jürgen
name: Lutz, Thomas
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: DADA2 (Adenosin deaminase 2 Defizit) ist ein 2014 erstmalig beschriebenes inflammatorisches vaskuläres Syndrom. Vermutlich beeinflusst ADA2 die Differenzierung der Markophagen und deren Defizit führt zum Überwiegen der proinflamtatorischen Zellen und hat einen Einfluss auf[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 46. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 32. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh), Wissenschaftliche Herbsttagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie (GKJR)
Investigating Aluminum Nitride As A Protection Layer For Lithium Germanium Thiophosphate Solid Electrolytes
Creators: name: Klueter, Sam
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science
subject: Aluminum Nitride
subject: LGPS
subject: Protection Layer
subject: Solid State Battery
subject: Surface Science
subject: Thin Films

description: Lithium germanium thiophosphate (LGPS) is an attractive solid-state electrolyte material due to its exceptionally high ionic conductivity, which rivals organic liquid electrolytes. Despite this potential, other properties have impeded its adoption into solid-state batteries, particularly the poor voltage stability of the material at potentials near that of high voltage cathodes or lithium metal. Aluminum nitride (AlN) can serve as an anodic protection interlayer between LGPS and lithium metal, enhancing cell performance. AlN is grown via plasma-enhanced ALD at 250 °C using TMA and both N2 and NH3, but the deposited films show significant oxygen contamination originating from the plasma and lack crystallinity. Galvanostatic cycling and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy show that LGPS-coated cells perform better than bare cells, with expected lifetimes >3x greater in certain cases. Finally, XPS line scans highlight the slow room-temperature reactivity between AlN and evaporated lithium, and a computational model is built to aid further XPS experiments.
title: Informationsbeschaffung und Transitionskompetenz von Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen mit juveniler idiopathischer Arthritis (JIA)
Creators: name: Niewerth, Martina
name: Geisemeyer, Nils
name: Hörstermann, Jana
name: Haas, Johannes Peter
name: Ganser, Gerd
name: Foeldvari, Ivan
name: Horneff, Gerd
name: Huppertz, Hans-Iko
name: Schalm, Susanne
name: Minden, Kirsten
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Eine wesentliche Voraussetzung für einen erfolgreichen Wechsel junger Rheumatiker in die Erwachsenenmedizin ist die Erlangung einer adäquaten Transitionskompetenz, d.h. ausreichendes Krankheitswissen, Selbstmanagementfähigkeiten und Transferbereitschaft. Mit Hilfe der Kerndokumentation[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 46. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 32. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh), Wissenschaftliche Herbsttagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie (GKJR)
An Incidental Finding Of A Persistent Sciatic Artery – Case Report And Literature Review
Creators: name: Nunes, Celso
name: Sousa, Juliana
name: O'Neill Pedrosa, João
name: Oliveira, Vânia
name: Silva, Eduardo
name: Baldaia, Leonor
name: Silva, Miguel
name: Antunes, Luís
Publisher: name: Portuguese Journal of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Surgery
Year: 2023

description: Persistent sciatic artery is a rare anatomic variation due to the lack of regression during fetal development, associated sometimes with abnormalities of the iliofemoral arterial axis and predisposing the patients to aneurysm formation and thromboembolism, which can compromise the limb. In our department, we assisted a 59-year-old male with an acute limb ischemia as result of an incidental finding of a thrombosed persistent sciatic artery aneurysm.
description: Portuguese Journal of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Vol. 30 No. 3 (2023): Jul-Sep
Physarum echinosporum Lister, J. Bot.
Creators: name: Lado, Carlos
name: Basanta, Diana Wrigley De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Protozoa
Mycetozoa
Myxomycetes
Physarales
Physaraceae
Physarum
Physarum echinosporum

description: Physarum echinosporum Lister, J. Bot. 37: 147. 1899
 — Lectotypus (designated here): ANTIGUA. Leeward Islands, Antigua, 17º05’N 61º48’W, 1898, Forrest (BM s.n.!, Cran collection For. 1, BM001089863 + two slides BM s.n.!, Forrest I, BM001223789, BM001223790). Isolectotypus ANTIGUA. Leeward Islands, Antigua, 17º05’N 61º48’W, on dead leaves, 1898, ded W. Cran, Mr. Forrest (BM 1940!, BM000006387 + one slide L:B.M.33B!, engraved 876, BM001223788).
 BM s.n. Cran collection For. 1/ Physarum / echinosporum List / Antigua, leg. Forrest, 1898/ NXVIIp.96/ BM001089863 + two slides Forrest I, BM001223789, BM001223790. [BM] 1940 / Physarum echinosporum List. / J. of Bot. Ap 1899 p 147/ ded Rev. W. Cran, leg Mr Forrest/ on dead leaves Antigua 1898/ BM 000006387 [revision label “ Type specimen/ D.T. Kowalski July 1971 ”] + one slide L:B.M.33B engraved 876, BM001223788.
NOTES: Lister (1899: 147), commented “ Mr. Cran has obligingly set me specimens of Mycetozoa from Antigua, which have been collected and transmitted to him since he left the island, by Mr. Forrest. They are species already obtained by Mr. Cran, with the exception of one which appears to have been not hitherto described.”, noting the substrate “On dead leaves”. In BM we located two boxes with material from Antigua, one is labelled “Cran collection” (BM s.n.) and is collected by Forrest with reference to notebook XVII: 96[–98], where we found notes and illustrations which are reproduced in part in the original publication of the species, (Pl. 398, fig. 1a), so we consider this to be the lectotype. There are also two slides of this sample with reference to the same notebook page. The second box (BM 1940) is in worse condition, the label has the same data and a reference to the publication so it appears to be a duplicate and we consider it to be an isolectotype. There is a slide of this collection (L:B.M.33B).
description: Published as part of Lado, Carlos & Basanta, Diana Wrigley De, 2018, Typification of the myxomycete taxa described by the Listers and preserved at the Natural History Museum, London (BM), pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 341 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.341.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13719359
Contraction coefficients for noisy quantum channels
Creators: name: Hiai, Fumio
name: Ruskai, Mary Beth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L60, 46L87, 15A63, 81P45, 53B50

description: Generalized relative entropy, monotone Riemannian metrics, geodesic distance, and trace distance are all known to decrease under the action of quantum channels. We give some new bounds on, and relationships between, the maximal contraction for these quantities.
description: 40 pages
title: Intravenöses Methylprednisolon als effektive Therapie bei Kindern und Jugendlichen mit autoimmuner Uveitis im akuten Schub
Creators: name: Schnabel, Anja
name: Unger, Elisabeth
name: Range, Ursula
name: Morbach, Henner
name: Leszczynska, Anna
name: Berner, Reinhard
name: Bau, Viktoria
name: Hedrich, Christian
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Entzündliche Augenerkrankungen stellen weltweit eine wichtige Ursache für Erblindungen dar. Die autoimmune Uveitis birgt das Risiko für komplizierte Verläufe mit irreparablen Folgeschäden, so dass eine zeitnahe und adäquate immunsuppressive Therapie prognoseentscheidend[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 46. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 32. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh), Wissenschaftliche Herbsttagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie (GKJR)
Extrinsic Local Regression on Manifold-Valued Data
Creators: name: Lin, Lizhen
name: Dunson, David B.
name: St. Thomas, Brian
name: Zhu, Hongtu
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: We propose an extrinsic regression framework for modeling data with manifold valued responses and Euclidean predictors. Regression with manifold responses has wide applications in shape analysis, neuroscience, medical imaging and many other areas. Our approach embeds the manifold where the responses lie onto a higher dimensional Euclidean space, obtains a local regression estimate in that space, and then projects this estimate back onto the image of the manifold. Outside the regression setting both intrinsic and extrinsic approaches have been proposed for modeling i.i.d manifold-valued data. However, to our knowledge our work is the first to take an extrinsic approach to the regression problem. The proposed extrinsic regression framework is general, computationally efficient and theoretically appealing. Asymptotic distributions and convergence rates of the extrinsic regression estimates are derived and a large class of examples are considered indicating the wide applicability of our approach.
Infective Endocarditis: A Prospective Registry Of Surgical Lesions
Creators: name: Ranchordás, Sara
name: Madeira, Márcio
name: Oliveira, Paulo
name: Marques, Marta
name: Abecasis, Miguel
name: Andrade, Maria João
name: Sousa Uva, Miguel
name: Neves, José Pedro
Publisher: name: Portuguese Journal of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Surgery
Year: 2023

description: Introduction: Infective endocarditis morbidity and mortality remains high. Surgery is performed in about half of endocarditis cases, being the ideal setting to evaluate endocarditis lesions. The aim of this study was to register and describe endocarditis lesions found during surgery; find predictors of morbidity and mortality and correlate lesions found in echocardiogram vs. surgery. Materials and Methods: One hundred consecutive patients with endocarditis lesions seen during surgery were included between June 2014 and August 2018. Pathological lesions were coded prospectively using a coding form published by Pettersson et al. Other data were collected retrospectively. Results: Prosthetic endocarditis accounted for 23% of cases. Embolic events had occurred in 41% of cases, mainly to the brain (22%). The most frequent lesions found in echocardiogram were vegetations (77%). Vegetations and valve integrity anomalies were the main lesions described during surgery (70% and 71% respectively). Invasion was present in 39% of patients. In-hospital mortality was 9%. In univariable analysis, predictors of early mortality included chronic kidney disease (P= .005), prosthetic valve endocarditis (P <.001), EuroSCORE II (P <.001) and valve integrity anomalies (P=.016). Predictors of embolic events included aortic valve vegetations seen during surgery (P= .026). Sensitivity and specificity of echocardiogram findings for identification of vegetations were 84% and 40%, for valve integrity anomalies 42% and 97% and for invasion 54% and 95%, respectively. Conclusions: Diversity of lesions found in endocarditis precludes obtaining significant predictors of morbidity or mortality with small numbers of patients. Echocardiogram lacks sensitivity for valve integrity anomalies and invasion but is highly specific.
description: Portuguese Journal of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Vol. 30 No. 3 (2023): Jul-Sep
Of Land and Spirit: Reciprocity and Ritual in Land Stewardship
Creators: name: Haider, Almas
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: BIPOC
subject: Collective
subject: Design Justice
subject: Land
subject: Land Steward
subject: QTBIPOC

description: Across the U.S., queer and trans Black, Indigenous, and people of color are choosing to live communally in sub-rural landscapes. In doing so they are divesting from limiting socio-political and economic structures and modeling a liberatory existence, not limited to surviving the present but intending to thrive generations to come. This thesis builds on their vision and considers how to design residential and retreat spaces rooted in an interdependence with the land and other species. It considers human-non-human entanglements as a key to living in right relationship to the lands we occupy and understanding our sacred roles as land stewards. And further invites the sacred into our dwellings, imbibing ritual, cosmology, and symbolism into our daily lives that keeps us thriving. It uses the precedents of maroons and community land trusts as models of land stewardship that co-created futures in symbiotic relationships with the land and other species. And offers a thoughtful design tailored for an existing Afro-Indigenous land stewardship in the Blue Ridge mountains of Appalachia to be in reciprocity with plant, animal, and mineral species. The design will focus on the adaptive reuse of two barns on the site, new emergent structures, and new housing.
Generalized Scalar-on-Image Regression Models via Total Variation
Creators: name: Zhu, Hongtu
name: Wang, Xiao
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: The use of imaging markers to predict clinical outcomes can have a great impact in public health. The aim of this paper is to develop a class of generalized scalar-on-image regression models via total variation (GSIRM-TV), in the sense of generalized linear models, for scalar response and imaging predictor with the presence of scalar covariates. A key novelty of GSIRM-TV is that it is assumed that the slope function (or image) of GSIRM-TV belongs to the space of bounded total variation in order to explicitly account for the piecewise smooth nature of most imaging data. We develop an efficient penalized total variation optimization to estimate the unknown slope function and other parameters. We also establish nonasymptotic error bounds on the excess risk. These bounds are explicitly specified in terms of sample size, image size, and image smoothness. Our simulations demonstrate a superior performance of GSIRM-TV against many existing approaches. We apply GSIRM-TV to the analysis of hippocampus data obtained from the Alzheimers Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) dataset.
An Unusual Location for a Lymph Node
Creators: name: Nawojowska, Ágata
name: Cabral, Daniel
name: Mendes, Samuel
name: Antunes, Mariana
name: Félix, Francisco
Publisher: name: Portuguese Journal of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Surgery
Year: 2023

description: We report a case of a 67-years old non-smoking female diagnosed with hypertension when 24-years-old and complicated with chronic kidney and hypertensive heart diseases. On CT-Chest an incidental discovery of a lesion (16x14x23mm) adjacent to the abdominal aorta was made. Initially suspected to be paraganglioma, a hypothesis which the subsequent MRI did not exclude. Urine analysis showed normal Metanephrine with slightly elevated Chromogranin-A levels. During VATs-procedure "bulging" below the adventitial layer of the descending aorta at the level of the diaphragmatic gutter was identified. By opening the adventitia, a lipomatous lesion with a nodular, consistent center was identified and excised. Final histopathological report confirmed the diagnosis of lymph node not suggestive of neoplasia. Currently, 12 months after the surgery, the patient’s condition is good being under surveillance in the Thoracosurgical Outpatient Clinic. Despite not having identified any neuroendocrine component, the patient had clinical signs of clear improvement of arterial hypertension.
description: Portuguese Journal of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Vol. 30 No. 3 (2023): Jul-Sep
MÉTHODE DE DUSTINESS VORTEX SHAKER : INFLUENCE DES CONDITIONS D'ESSAIS SUR LES CARACTÉRISTIQUES DES AÉROSOLS DE POUDRES
Creators: name: C.  DAZON
name: O. WITSCHGER
name: S. BAU
name: R. PAYET
name: P. L.  LLEWELLYN
Publisher: name: Association Française d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Aérosols (ASFERA)
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: vortex shaker
subject: dustiness
subject: poudre
subject: humidité
subject: vortex shaker
subject: dustiness
subject: powder
subject: humidity

description: Les méthodes dites de dustiness sont de plus en plus reconnues comme pertinentes dans le cadre de l'évaluation a priori des expositions des travailleurs manipulant des nanomatériaux en poudres. Bien que décrites dans des normes récentes, ces méthodes nécessitent encore l'étude de l'influence de paramètres tels que l'humidité des poudres ou la vitesse d'agitation des dispositifs mécaniques pour améliorer la maîtrise des conditions d'essais. Nous montrons ici que l'humidité de conditionnement des poudres avant des essais de dustiness avec la méthode du Vortex Shaker telle que décrite dans la norme (vitesse d'agitation de1800 rpm) n'influence pas significativement les résultats de pulvérulence et les distributions granulométriques des aérosols émis. En revanche, des vitesses d'agitation réduites combinées à une humidité relative de conditionnement de 80% impactent les résultats.
EFFECT OF SIX WEEKS YOGA ON FLEXIBILITY OF COLLEGIATE GIRLS BASKETBALL PLAYERS
Creators: name: Dr. Navanath M. Sarode
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Yoga, Flexibility and College Girls Basketball Players.

description: Abstract: Introduction: Yoga is an ancient art based on a harmonizing system of development for the body, mind and spirit. The continued practice of yoga will lead you to a sense of peace and well being, and also a feeling of being at one with their environment. The practice of Yoga makes body strong and flexible. Yoga is a form of mind-body fitness that involves a combination of muscular activity and an internally directed focus on awareness of the self, the breath, and energy. Objectives: study the effectiveness of yoga on flexibility in college girl’s students Methodology: In the present study 20 girl’s basketball players of Anantrao Pawar College of Engineering and Research, aged 18-21 years were selected as per inclusion criteria. Variable of flexibility measure through the used where Sit and reach test and Shoulder and wrist elevation test. The subjects were made to do yoga training practice for 6 weeks (6 days/ week). Conclusion: The study indicates that the six weeks of Yoga training effective to observe improved flexibility on girl’s students.
Non-Hermitian transparency and one-way transport in low-dimensional lattices by an imaginary gauge field
Creators: name: Longhi, Stefano
name: Gatti, Davide
name: Della Valle, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Unidirectional and robust transport is generally observed at the edge of two- or three-dimensional quantum Hall and topological insulator systems. A hallmark of these systems is topological protection, i.e. the existence of propagative edge states that cannot be scattered by imperfections or disorder in the system. A different and less explored form of robust transport arises in non-Hermitian systems in the presence of an {\it imaginary} gauge field. As compared to topologically-protected transport in quantum Hall and topological insulator systems, robust non-Hermitian transport can be observed in {\it lower} dimensional (i.e. one dimensional) systems. In this work the transport properties of one-dimensional tight-binding lattices with an imaginary gauge field are theoretically investigated, and the physical mechanism underlying robust one-way transport is highlighted. Back scattering is here forbidden because reflected waves are evanescent rather than propagative. Remarkably, the spectral transmission of the non-Hermitian lattice is shown to be mapped into the one of the corresponding Hermitian lattice, i.e. without the gauge field, {\it but} computed in the complex plane. In particular, at large values of the gauge field the spectral transmittance becomes equal to one, even in the presence of disorder or lattice imperfections. This phenomenon can be referred to as {\it one-way non-Hermitian transparency}. Robust one-way transport can be also realized in a more realistic setting, namely in heterostructure systems, in which a non-Hermitian disordered lattice is embedded between two homogeneous Hermitian lattices. Such a double heterostructure realizes asymmetric (non-reciprocal) wave transmission. A physical implementation of non-Hermtian transparency, based on light transport in a chain of optical microring resonators, is suggested.
description: final version, to appear in Physical Review B
RELATIONS ENTRE PROPRIÉTÉS PHYSICO-CHIMIQUES ET PULVÉRULENCE DE NANOPOUDRES
Creators: name: C.  DAZON
name: O. WITSCHGER
name: S. BAU
name: R. PAYET
name: P. L.  LLEWELLYN
Publisher: name: Association Française d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Aérosols (ASFERA)
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: poudre
subject: aérosol
subject: pulvérulence
subject: surface spécifique
subject: powder
subject: aerosol
subject: dustiness
subject: surface area

description: Les méthodes dites de dustiness sont de plus en plus reconnues comme pertinentes dans le cadre de l'évaluation a priori des expositions des travailleurs manipulant des nanomatériaux en poudres. Or, dans une volonté de réduction du risque dès la conception des produits (approche « safe-by-design »), il serait intéressant de connaître les relations potentielles liant les propriétés physico-chimiques des poudres aux caractéristiques des aérosols qu'elles peuvent émettre lors d'une sollicitation mécanique. Dans ce travail, nous montrons que les indices de pulvérulence en nombre de quinze poudres nanométriques d'oxydes métallliques déterminés avec la méthode de dustiness Vortex Shaker augmentent avec les surfaces spécifiques des poudres et la diminution de leurs densités bulk. L'humidité de conditionnement des poudres n'affecte pas de manière significative les relations trouvées. La distribution granulométrique des aérosols n'est en revanche pas liées aux propriétés des poudres d'après nos résultats. La surface spécifique et la densité bulk pourraient à l'avenir être considérées dans une approche « safe by design » pour réduire les potentiels d'émission des nanomatériaux en poudres si ces tendances se confirment
Renal Doppler Ultrasound – a Late Diagnosis of Aortic Coarctation.
Creators: name: Pinto, Ana Luísa
name: Mesquita, Alexandra
name: Vieira, João Pedro
name: Garrido, Diogo
name: Dutra, Sofia
Publisher: name: Portuguese Journal of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Surgery
Year: 2023

description: Aortic coarctation is characterized by a segmental narrowing of the aortic lumen, usually diagnosed and treated in the neonatal period or early childhood, but can remain undiagnosed until adulthood. It manifests as a broad spectrum of signs and symptoms, ranging from mild to severe, of which arterial hypertension is one of the most common. In this article, the authors describe the clinical case of a 9-year-old child under investigation in the Pediatric Department for secondary causes of arterial hypertension. A renal Doppler ultrasound study revealed the presence of bilateral parvus et tardus waveform morphology in renal and intrarenal arteries and the proximal abdominal aorta. These findings were suspicious for diagnosing aortic coarctation, which thoracic CTangio confirmed.
description: Portuguese Journal of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Vol. 30 No. 3 (2023): Jul-Sep