cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Engineering Concepts for Public Policy: Wellbeing and Disability
Creators: name: Drake, Nicholas
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2024

description: Public policy often requires giving specification to some concept or another. We might be aiming to promote HEALTH, or make officials more ACCOUNTABLE or reduce DISCRIMINATION, or remove barriers faced by people who have DISABILITIES, and so on; and while sometimes the concept in question is widely well-understood in such a way that specification is unnecessary, at other times we need to say what we mean when referring to that concept. We need an account of the concept in question: an answer to a question like "What is health?," "What is wellbeing?," "What is accountability," "What is disability?," and so on. Philosophers are experts in answering "What is X?" questions, so we might think that they would be a useful resource for those in public policy. However, in the case of many important concepts in public policy, philosophers are in deep disagreement as to what the correct account of that concept is. So, philosophy often can't provide an expert consensus to which those in public policy can turn. This dissertation argues that there's another way in which philosophers can help those in public policy find accounts of important concepts. There is a branch of philosophy, conceptual engineering, which is concerned with the design, evaluation, and implementation of concepts and terms. We can use the tools of conceptual engineering to the best account of a concept to use in public policy. I'll argue for this by demonstration, using the tools of conceptual engineering to find the best accounts of wellbeing and disability for public policy. After introducing the dissertation in Chapter One, in Chapter Two I'll develop a method of conceptual engineering for finding accounts of wellbeing for practical contexts, such as national wellbeing measurement, public health, clinical psychological care, poverty alleviation, social work, and so on. I call this method Contextual Prescriptivism. I'll then apply Contextual Prescriptivism to two related practical contexts: Chapter Three will find the best account of wellbeing for government measures of national adult wellbeing ("wellbeing frameworks"), and Chapter Four will do so for government measures of national child wellbeing. Chapter Five shows that the account of adult wellbeing I develop in Chapter Three solves problems for how wellbeing frameworks serve future generations. Finally, Chapter Six turns from wellbeing to disability. I argue that attention to how accounts of disability work in public policy shows that the Ameliorative Approach is the method we should use in philosophy of disability to answer the question of what disability is.
The effect of interface properties on the adhesion of cement paste to various substrates.
Creators: name: Pye, Glendon B.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Civil.

description: This study deals with the adhesion of cement paste and modified cement paste systems to substrates of steel and glass for hydration times of up to seven days. The bond strength of cement, clinker and C$\sb3$S paste in addition to cement paste systems containing salts (NaNO$\sb3$, CaCl$\sb2$, Ca(C$\sb3$H$\sb5$O$\sb2$)$\sb2$.H$\sb2$O) and silica fume was studied using a uniaxial tensile testing apparatus. A new term, interface fracture energy, was derived to provide a more meaningful basis for comparison of bond tests. This was necessary as the interfacial bond for all the paste systems was thickness dependent. A decrease in paste thickness resulted in an increase in bond failure stress. Factors other than the deposition of CH and C-S-H at the interface may affect bond strength. Comparison of the bond strength data for the control paste and the C$\sb3$S and clinker pastes indicates that the effect of the hydration products resulting from gypsum reactions eg. sulphoaluminate phases, may be secondary. Physico-mechanical characteristics of the interface eg. geometry and size of inherent flaws may be important. The addition of the salts and silica fume did not consistantly increase the bond strength of the paste. It is inferred that factors other than CH crystal size are important. Interface fracture energy, $\gamma$, reaches a maximum after one day, decreases at two days then remains relatively constant. The decrease in bond strength may be due to the pressure exerted by the formation of CH crystals in the interface. In general the interface fracture energy increased with a decrease in water-cement ratio. Other time and system dependent factors appear to affect the development of interface fracture energy. Values of $\gamma$ for all systems studied range from 0.001 to 1.66 Jm$\sp{-2}$ suggesting that van der Waal's forces of attraction are the primary binding forces.
Probing particle acceleration in Abell 2256: from to 16 MHz to gamma rays
Creators: name: Osinga, E.
name: van Weeren, R. J.
name: Brunetti, G.
name: Adam, R.
name: Rajpurohit, K.
name: Botteon, A.
name: Callingham, J. R.
name: Cuciti, V.
name: de Gasperin, F.
name: Miley, G. K.
name: Röttgering, H. J. A.
name: Shimwell, T. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Merging galaxy clusters often host spectacular diffuse radio synchrotron sources. These sources can be explained by a non-thermal pool of relativistic electrons accelerated by shocks and turbulence in the intracluster medium. The origin of the pool and details of the cosmic ray transport and acceleration mechanisms in clusters are still open questions. Due to the often extremely steep spectral indices of diffuse radio emission, it is best studied at low frequencies. However, the lowest frequency window available to ground-based telescopes (10-30 MHz) has remained largely unexplored, as radio frequency interference and calibration problems related to the ionosphere become severe. Here, we present LOFAR observations from 16 to 168 MHz targeting the famous cluster Abell 2256. In the deepest-ever images at decametre wavelengths, we detect and resolve the radio halo, radio shock and various steep spectrum sources. We measure standard single power-law behaviour for the radio halo and radio shock spectra and find significant spectral index and curvature fluctuations across the radio halo, indicating an inhomogeneous emitting volume. In contrast to the straight power-law spectra of the large-scale diffuse sources, the various AGN-related sources often show extreme steepening towards higher frequencies and flattening towards low frequencies. We also discover a new fossil plasma source with a steep spectrum between 23 and 144 MHz, with $α=-1.9\pm 0.1$. Finally, by comparing radio and gamma-ray observations, we rule out purely hadronic models for the radio halo origin in Abell 2256, unless the magnetic field strength in the cluster is exceptionally high, which is unsupportable by energetic arguments and inconsistent with the knowledge of other cluster magnetic fields.
description: Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
title: El papel del radiólogo en el tratamiento del hepatocarcinoma: la ablación percutánea
Creators: name: Vega Vigo, Carmen María
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Percutaneous
subject: CT

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Repasar y conocer las principales técnicas de ablación percutánea del hepatocarcinoma: los tipos,
procedimientos,
indicaciones,
limitaciones,
contraindicaciones y peculiaridades de cada una; con especial atención a la inyección intratumoral de...
A randomized, clinical trial to assess the relative efficacy and tolerability of two doses of etoricoxib versus naproxen in patients with ankylosing spondylitis
Creators: name: Balazcs, Eva
name: Sieper, Joachim
name: Bickham, Kara
name: Mehta, Anish
name: Frontera, Nancy
name: Stryszak, Paul
name: Popmihajlov, Zoran
name: Peloso, Paul M.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Ankylosing spondylitis
subject: NSAIDs
subject: Etoricoxib
subject: Naproxen
subject: Spinal pain
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background This study evaluated two doses of etoricoxib (60 and 90 mg) vs. naproxen 1000 mg in subjects with ankylosing spondylitis (AS). Methods This was a 2-part, double-blind, active comparator-controlled non-inferiority study in subjects ≥18 years of age with AS. In Part I, subjects were randomized to naproxen 1000 mg; etoricoxib 60 mg, and 90 mg. In Part II, naproxen and etoricoxib 90 mg subjects continued on the same treatment; subjects on etoricoxib 60 mg either continued on 60 mg or escalated to 90 mg. Part I (6 weeks) assessed the efficacy of A) etoricoxib 60 mg vs. naproxen and B) 90 mg vs. naproxen according to the time-weighted average change from baseline in Spinal Pain Intensity (SPI; 0–100 mm VAS) (primary endpoint). The non- inferiority margin was set at 8 mm for SPI. In Part II (20 weeks) we evaluated the potential benefit of increasing from 60 to 90 mg (predefined minimum clinically important difference = 6 mm in SPI) for inadequate responders (<50 % improvement from baseline in SPI) onetoricoxib 60 mg in Part I. Results In total, 1015 subjects were randomized to receive etoricoxib 60 mg (N = 702), etoricoxib 90 mg (N = 156), and naproxen 1000 mg (N = 157); 70.9 % were male and the mean age was 45.2 years. There were 919 subjects who completed Part I and all continued to Part II. In Part I, SPI change was non-inferior for both etoricoxib doses vs. naproxen. In both Part I and II, the incidence of adverse events (AEs), drug-related AEs, and serious adverse events (SAEs) were similar between the 3 treatment groups. Conclusion Both doses of etoricoxib were non- inferior to naproxen. All treatments were well tolerated. Etoricoxib 60 and 90 mg effectively control pain in patients with AS, with 60 mg once daily as the lowest effective dose for most patients. Trial registration Clinical Trials Registry # NCT01208207. Registered on 22 September 2010.
Mental health and where you live : exploring relationships between walkability, green space, depression and anxiety
Creators: name: Niknejad, Nasim
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2025

description: Background: Mental health disorders, specifically depression and anxiety, significantly contribute to the global disease burden. Built and natural environment factors are increasingly recognized as important determinants. Neighbourhood walkability (built environment) and green space (natural environment) are hypothesized to affect mental health, though evidence remains inconclusive and context-dependent. Evidence is more robust for natural environment. Objectives: This study examines associations between neighbourhood walkability and green space with depression and anxiety among adults aged 35+ in Greater Vancouver area. It also investigates moderating effects of age, sex, and income. Methods: Health outcome data from the BC Generations Project, greenspace data from the Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium, and walkability data from Phase II of the Where Matters study were linked. Multivariable logistic and linear regression models adjusted for demographic, socioeconomic, and health-related covariates were used. Stratified analyses assessed moderating effects. Results: Walkability was not consistently associated with depression. However, in low-income groups, higher walkability (Q4) correlated with higher depression scores. No significant association was observed between walkability and anxiety overall. Among middle-income groups, anxiety scores was higher in more walkable areas (Q4). This may reflect different stress tolerance for urban stressors and lifestyle expectations. Green space showed no significant association with depression in the total sample after adjustments. However, adults aged 35–65, middle-income individuals living in high green space areas (Q4) reported higher depression scores, suggesting demographic variability in green space benefits. For anxiety, green space was associated with lower scores only among adults aged 66+, though this lost significance after adjustments for area-level deprivation. Conclusions: This study reveals nuanced relationships between walkability, green space and mental health, shaped by demographic and environmental factors. Walkable neighbourhoods show mixed associations, particularly in low-income areas. Higher walkability for lower-income residents may indicate densification, air pollution, noise, injury risk, and limited green space—issues less prevalent in affluent neighbourhoods. Conversely, green space shows potential mental health benefits for anxiety among older adults, though associations with depression vary across demographic groups. These findings highlight the complexity of the associations between environment and mental health. Further research is needed to clarify these context-dependent relationships.
Promoting personal recovery in people with persisting psychotic disorders: Development and pilot study of a novel digital intervention
Creators: name: Thomas, Neil
name: Farhall, John
name: Foley, Fiona
name: Leitan, Nuwan Dominic
name: Villagonzalo, Kristi Ann
name: Ladd, Emma
name: Nunan, Cassy
name: Farnan, Sue
name: Frankish, Rosalie
name: Smark, Tara
name: Rossell, Susan
name: Sterling, Leon
name: Murray, Greg
name: Castle, David Jonathon
name: Kyrios, Michael
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 520302
subject: Clinical psychology

description: Background. For people with persisting psychotic disorders, personal recovery has become an important target of mental health services worldwide. Strongly influenced by mental health service consumer perspectives, personal recovery refers to being able to live a satisfying and contributing life irrespective of ongoing symptoms and disability. Contact with peers with shared lived experience is often cited as facilitative of recovery. We aimed to develop and pilot a novel recovery-based digitally-supported intervention for people with a psychotic illness. Methods. We developed a website to be used on a tablet computer by mental health workers to structure therapeutic discussions about personal recovery. Central to the site was a series of video interviews of people with lived experience of psychosis discussing how they had navigated issues within their own recovery based on the Connectedness-Hope-Identity-Meaning-Empowerment (CHIME) model of recovery. We examined the feasibility and acceptability of an 8-session low intensity intervention using this site in 10 participants with persisting psychotic disorders, and conducted a proof-of-concept analysis of outcomes. Results. All 10 participants completed the full course of sessions and it was possible to integrate use of the website into nearly all sessions. Participant feedback confirmed that use of the website was a feasible and acceptable way of working. All participants stated that they would recommend the intervention to others. Post-intervention, personal recovery measured by the Questionnaire for the Process of Recovery had improved by an average standardised effect of d = 0.46, 95% CI [.07, .84], and 8 or the 10 participants reported that their mental health had improved since taking part in the intervention. Conclusions. In-session use of digital resources featuring peer accounts of recovery is feasible and acceptable, and shows promising outcomes. A randomised controlled trial is the next step in evaluating the efficacy of this low intensity intervention when delivered in conjunction with routine mental health care.
title: El apéndice vermiforme: Caracterización con pruebas de imagen del mucocele apendicular.
Creators: name: Hernandez Munoz, Lourdes
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Ultrasound
subject: CT
subject: Abdomen

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
El objetivo de este trabajo es revisar los hallazgos radiológicos con diferentes pruebas de imagen del mucocele apendicular y de sus...
title: Iklim Degişikligi ve Saglıgınız
title: Iklim Degişikligi ve Saglıgınız
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Mücke, Hans-Guido
name: Matzarakis, Andreas
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2019
Subjects: Gesundheit

description: Lang anhaltende Perioden extremer Hitze - so genannte Hitzewellen - treten seit etwa 30 Jahren in ungewöhnlicher Häufigkeit in Europa und in Deutschland auf. Die dadurch ausgelösten gesundheitlichen Belastungen können erheblich, mitunter lebensbedrohend sein. Der Sommer 2018 war der zweitheißeste seit Beginn der Wetteraufzeichnungen 1881. Er folgt dem bislang heißesten des Jahres 2003, der in mehreren Ländern Westeuropas insgesamt weit über 40 000 Menschenleben forderte (in Deutschland etwa 7 000). Die erhöhte hitzebedingte Mortalität betrifft vor allem ältere Menschen. Der Ratgeber gibt wichtige Hinweise für ein angepasstes und individuelles Gesundheitsverhalten bei sommerlicher Hitze. Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Long-lasting periods of extreme heat - so-called heat waves - have been occurring in unusual frequency in Europe and Germany for about 30 years. The resulting health problems can be considerable, sometimes life-threatening. The summer 2018 was the second hottest since climate records started in 1881. The hottest ever summer was in 2003, which claimed over 40,000 lives in several countries in Western Europe (around 7,000 in Germany). The increased heat-related mortality primarily affects older people. The guide provides important information for a well adapted and individual protective behaviour for summer heat. Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
Thermal Spray Coatings for Extreme Engineering Environments
Creators: name: Meghwal, Ashok
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The versatile nature and manufacturing capabilities of thermal spray coating technology offer potential solutions for producing economical surface alternatives and protecting the base materials under extreme engineering environments. However, in recent years, industrial competencies have been exhausted to the highest potential to match the unexpected rise in operating efficiencies, which resulted in the exploration of new materials capable of withstanding such harsh operating conditions. Therefore, the main objective is to investigate thermal spray coatings based on materials, which are either new to the materials community or have not been explored to their potential, termed “next-generation coatings” for extreme engineering applications.
Asteroseismic measurement of core and envelope rotation rates for 2006 red giant branch stars
Creators: name: Li, Gang
name: Deheuvels, Sebastien
name: Ballot, Jerome
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tens of thousands of red giant stars in the Kepler data exhibit solar-like oscillations. Their oscillations enable us to study the internal physics from core to surface, such as differential rotation. However, envelope rotation rates have been measured for only a dozen RGB stars so far. The limited sample hinders the theoretical interpretation of angular momentum transport in post-main-sequence phases. We apply a new approach to calculate the asymptotic frequencies of mixed modes, which accounts for the so-called near-degeneracy effects and leads to more proper measurements of envelope rotation rates. By fitting these asymptotic expressions to the observations, we obtain measurements of the properties of g modes and mean core and envelope rotation rates. Among 2495 stars with clear mixed-mode patterns, we found that 800 show doublets and 1206 show triplets, doubling the size of pre-existing catalogues. This led us to discover an over-density of stars that narrowly distribute around a well-defined ridge in the plane showing core rotation rate versus evolution along the RGB. With this work, we also increase the sample of stars with measured envelope rotation rates by two orders of magnitude. We find a decreasing trend between envelope rotation rates and evolution, implying that the envelopes slow down with expansion, as expected. We find 243 stars whose envelope rotation rates are significantly larger than zero. For these stars, the core-to-envelope rotation ratios are around 20 and show a large spread with evolution. Several stars show extremely mild differential rotations, with core-to-surface ratios between 1 and 2. These stars also have very slow core rotation rates, suggesting that they go through a peculiar rotational evolution. We also discovered more stars located below the degeneracy sequence, which will provide the opportunity to study the history of possible stellar mergers.
description: 21 pages, 16 figures in the main text and 7 figures in the appendix. Accepted for publication by A&A
title: Diagnóstico diferencial de la hiperintensidad mesiotemporal en secuencias T2/FLAIR: más allá de la encefalitis herpética
Creators: name: Olivares Morello, Dina Carla
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Realizar una revisión de las patologías que pueden presentarse con hiperintensidad de señal mesiotemporal en secuencias ponderadas en...
title: Malformaciones Vasculares del Sistema Nervioso Central
Creators: name: Aleman Romero, Luis
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR
subject: MR-Angiography
subject: CT
subject: Arteriovenous malformations
subject: Haemangioma

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Caracterización por TC,
RM y Angiografía por Resonancia Magnética de las siguientes malforformaciones vasculares del sistema nervioso central: Malformación arteriovenosa. Fístula arteriovenosa. Angioma venoso. Angioma cavernoso. Angioma...
ALMA SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY in the HUBBLE ULTRA DEEP FIELD: The INFRARED EXCESS of UV-SELECTED z = 2-10 GALAXIES AS A FUNCTION of UV-CONTINUUM SLOPE and STELLAR MASS
Creators: name: Bouwens, Rychard J.
name: Aravena, Manuel
name: Decarli, Roberto
name: Walter, Fabian
name: Lima Da Cunha, Elisabete
name: Labbe, Ivo
name: Bauer, Franz
name: Bertoldi, Frank
name: Carilli, Chris
name: Chapman, Scott
name: Daddi, Emanuele
name: Hodge, Jacqueline
name: Ivison, Rob J.
name: Karim, Alex
name: Le Fevre, Olivier
name: Magnelli, Benjamin
name: Ota, Kazuaki
name: Riechers, Dominik
name: Smail, Ian
name: Van Der Werf, Paul
name: Weiss, Axel
name: Cox, Pierre
name: Elbaz, David
name: Gonzalez-Lopez, Jorge
name: Infante, Leopoldo
name: Oesch, Pascal
name: Wagg, Jeff
name: Wilkins, Steve
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We make use of deep 1.2 mm continuum observations (12.7 μJy beam-1 rms) of a 1 arcmin2 region in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field to probe dust-enshrouded star formation from 330 Lyman-break galaxies spanning the redshift range z = 2-10 (to ∼2-3 M o yr-1 at 1σ over the entire range). Given the depth and area of ASPECS, we would expect to tentatively detect 35 galaxies, extrapolating the Meurer z ∼ 0 IRX-β relation to z ≥ 2 (assuming dust temperature T d ∼ 35 K). However, only six tentative detections are found at z 2 in ASPECS, with just three at >3σ. Subdividing our z = 2-10 galaxy samples according to stellar mass, UV luminosity, and UV-continuum slope and stacking the results, we find a significant detection only in the most massive (>109.75 M o) subsample, with an infrared excess (IRX = L IR/L UV) consistent with previous z ∼ 2 results. However, the infrared excess we measure from our large selection of sub-L (<109.75Mo) galaxies is ±0.34 (bootstrap and formal uncertainties) and ±0.18 at z = 2-3 and z = 4-10, respectively, lying below even an IRX-β relation for the Small Magellanic Cloud (95% confidence). These results demonstrate the relevance of stellar mass for predicting the IR luminosity of z 2 galaxies. We find that the evolution of the IRX-stellar mass relationship depends on the evolution of the dust temperature. If the dust temperature increases monotonically with redshift () such that T d ∼ 44-50 K at z ≥ 4, current results are suggestive of little evolution in this relationship to z ∼ 6. We use these results to revisit recent estimates of the z ≥ 3 star formation rate density.
Damping wings in the Lyman-α forest: a model-independent measurement of the neutral fraction at 5.4
Creators: name: Spina, Benedetta
name: Bosman, Sarah E. I.
name: Davies, Frederick B.
name: Gaikwad, Prakash
name: Zhu, Yongda
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent observations have positioned the endpoint of the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) at redshift $z \sim 5.3$. However, observations of the Lyman-$α$ forest have not yet been able to discern whether reionisation occurred slowly and late, with substantial neutral hydrogen persisting at redshift $\sim 6$, or rapidly and earlier, with the apparent late end driven by the fluctuating UV background. Gunn-Peterson (GP) absorption troughs are solid indicators that reionisation is not complete until $z=5.3$, but whether they contain significantly neutral gas has not yet been proven. We aim to answer this question by directly measuring, for the first time, the neutral hydrogen fraction ($x_\mathrm{HI}$) at the end of the EoR ($5 \lesssim z \lesssim 6$) in high-redshift quasars spectra. For high neutral fractions $x_\mathrm{HI}\gtrsim0.1$, GP troughs exhibit damping wing (DW) absorption extending over $1000$ km s$^{-1}$ beyond the troughs. While conclusively detected in Lyman-$α$ emission lines of quasars at $z\geq7$, DWs are challenging to observe in the general Lyman-$α$ forest due to absorption complexities and small-scale stochastic transmission features. We report the first successful identification of the stochastic DW signal adjacent to GP troughs at redshifts $z=5.6$ through careful stacking of the dark gaps in Lyman-$α$ forest. We use the signal to present a measurement of the corresponding global $x_\mathrm{HI}=0.19\pm0.07$ $(_{-0.16}^{+0.11})$ at $1σ$ $(2σ)$ at $z=5.6$ and a limit $x_\mathrm{HI}<0.44$ at $z=5.9$. The detection of this signal demonstrates the existence of substantially neutral islands near the conclusion of the EoR, unequivocally signaling a late-and-slow reionization scenario.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, published in A&A Letters, Appendix B added to address the comments of the reviewer
Buenoa deplanatylus Barbosa & Nessimian 2013
Creators: name: Santos, Suzane Evaristo Dos
name: Barbosa, Julianna Freires
name: Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo
name: Couceiro, Sheyla Regina Marques
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Notonectidae
Buenoa
Buenoa deplanatylus

description: Buenoa deplanatylus Barbosa & Nessimian, 2013
(Fig. 27A–F)
Buenoa deplanatylus Barbosa & Nessimian, 2013a: 104 (original description)
Distribution. Brazil: Pará (present study), Rondônia (Barbosa & Nessimian 2013a).
Distribution in Pará. Belterra, Santarém (present study).
Material examined. Brazil, Pará, Município de Belterra, Igarapé KM 115 BR 163, 03°17’34” S / 54°52’45” W, 23/XI/2019, S.E. Santos col. (2 ♀). Município de Santarém, Igarapé da Débora, 02°44’27” S / 54°26’01” W, 21/X/2019, S.E. Santos col. (3 ♂, 3 ♀).
description: Published as part of Santos, Suzane Evaristo Dos, Barbosa, Julianna Freires, Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo & Couceiro, Sheyla Regina Marques, 2025, Corixoidea and Notonectidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Nepomorpha) of Pará, Brazil, with new records from the western portion of the state, pp. 275-304 in Zootaxa 5627 (2) on page 287, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5627.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/15325988
How-to Guide: Governance in Biobanking
Creators: name: Goisauf, Melanie
name: Durnová, Anna
name: Grewal, Jasjote
name: Mayrhofer, Michaela
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: ELSI
biobanks
biobanking
BBMRI-ERIC
BBMRI
GDPR

description: This how-to guide focuses on addressing general issues relating to governance that are commonly seen as challenge areas, notwithstanding varying regulatory requirements. Indeed, we suggest how biobanks can adequately prepare themselves with regards to develop their own governance structure and networks, including how to facilitate trust that ultimately assist daily operations and sustaining longevity of biobanks.
description: This How-to-Guide to Governance in Biobanking is based on findings from the "Data in Question" survey, which has been supported by the H2020 project ADOPT BBMRI-ERIC (GA 676550), the COST Action IS1303 CHIP ME, the FP7 project RD-connect (GA 305444), the IMI project DO-IT (GA 116055) and Biobank Norway (GA 245464), and a qualitative follow-up study (ongoing) is supported by BBMRI-ERIC.
title: Papel de la resonancia magnética en la evaluación de la disfunción del suelo pélvico
Creators: name: García de Iturraspe Elices, Cristina
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Defecography
subject: MR
subject: Pelvis

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Losobjetivos de este trabajoson: -Revisar el papel que actualmente juega la RM en la evaluación de la disfunción del suelo pélvico. - Describir la técnica del estudio,
estático y dinámico (defecografía). - Recordar sus puntos fuertes y...
title: TCMC en la valoración de las complicaciones de las prótesis de cadera
Creators: name: Gallardo Agromayor, Elena
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: CT
subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: Bones

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
Proponer un protocolo de estudio en pacientes sintomáticos con prótesis de cadera. Presentar una lectura sistematizada de los diferentes componentes y patologías que se puede originar en los pacientes con prótesis de...
ALMA SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY in the HUBBLE ULTRA DEEP FIELD: SURVEY DESCRIPTION
Creators: name: Walter, Fabian
name: Decarli, Roberto
name: Aravena, Manuel
name: Carilli, Chris
name: Bouwens, Rychard
name: Lima Da Cunha, Elisabete
name: Daddi, Emanuele
name: Ivison, R. J.
name: Riechers, Dominik
name: Smail, Ian
name: Swinbank, Mark
name: Weiss, Axel
name: Anguita, Timo
name: Assef, Roberto
name: Bacon, Roland
name: Bauer, Franz
name: Bell, Eric F.
name: Bertoldi, Frank
name: Chapman, Scott
name: Colina, Luis
name: Cortes, Paulo C.
name: Cox, Pierre
name: Dickinson, Mark
name: Elbaz, David
name: Gónzalez-López, Jorge
name: Ibar, Edo
name: Inami, Hanae
name: Infante, Leopoldo
name: Hodge, Jacqueline
name: Karim, Alex
name: Fevre, Olivier Le
name: Magnelli, Benjamin
name: Neri, Roberto
name: Oesch, Pascal
name: Ota, Kazuaki
name: Popping, Gergö
name: Rix, Hans Walter
name: Sargent, Mark
name: Sheth, Kartik
name: Wel, Arjen Van Der
name: Werf, Paul Van Der
name: Wagg, Jeff
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present the rationale for and the observational description of ASPECS: the ALMA SPECtroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field (UDF), the cosmological deep field that has the deepest multi-wavelength data available. Our overarching goal is to obtain an unbiased census of molecular gas and dust continuum emission in high-redshift (z > 0.5) galaxies. The ∼1′ region covered within the UDF was chosen to overlap with the deepest available imaging from the Hubble Space Telescope. Our ALMA observations consist of full frequency scans in band 3 (84-115 GHz) and band 6 (212-272 GHz) at approximately uniform line sensitivity ( 2 × 109 K km s-1 pc2), and continuum noise levels of 3.8 μJy beam-1 and 12.7 μJy beam-1, respectively. The molecular surveys cover the different rotational transitions of the CO molecule, leading to essentially full redshift coverage. The [C ii] emission line is also covered at redshifts . We present a customized algorithm to identify line candidates in the molecular line scans and quantify our ability to recover artificial sources from our data. Based on whether multiple CO lines are detected, and whether optical spectroscopic redshifts as well as optical counterparts exist, we constrain the most likely line identification. We report 10 (11) CO line candidates in the 3 mm (1 mm) band, and our statistical analysis shows that <4 of these (in each band) are likely spurious. Less than one-third of the total CO flux in the low-J CO line candidates are from sources that are not associated with an optical/NIR counterpart. We also present continuum maps of both the band 3 and band 6 observations. The data presented here form the basis of a number of dedicated studies that are presented in subsequent papers.
title: Cannabis use in early adolescence
title: Evidence of amygdala hypersensitivity to signals of threat
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Spechler, Philip A.
name: Orr, Catherine A.
name: Chaarani, Bader
name: Kan, Kees-Jan
name: Mackey, Scott
name: Morton, Aaron
name: Snowe, Mitchell P.
name: Hudson, Kelsey E.
name: Althoff, Robert R.
name: Higgins, Stephen T.
name: Cattrell, Anna
name: Flor, Herta
name: Nees, Frauke
name: Banaschewski, Tobias
name: Bokde, Arun L. W.
name: Whelan, Robert
name: Büchel, Christian
name: Bromberg, Uli
name: Conrod, Patricia
name: Frouin, Vincent
name: Papadopoulos, Dimitri
name: Gallinat, Jurgen
name: Heinz, Andreas
name: Walter, Henrik
name: Ittermann, Bernd
name: Gowland, Penny
name: Paus, Tomáš
name: Poustka, Luise
name: Martinot, Jean-Luc
name: Artiges, Eric
name: Smolka, Michael N.
name: Schumann, Gunter
name: Garavan, Hugh
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cannabis
subject: Adolescence
subject: Face processing
subject: fMRI
subject: Amygdala
subject: Emotion
subject: Faces
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Cannabis use in adolescence may be characterized by differences in the neural basis of affective processing. In this study, we used an fMRI affective face processing task to compare a large group (n = 70) of 14-year olds with a history of cannabis use to a group (n = 70) of never-using controls matched on numerous characteristics including IQ, SES, alcohol and cigarette use. The task contained short movies displaying angry and neutral faces. Results indicated that cannabis users had greater reactivity in the bilateral amygdalae to angry faces than neutral faces, an effect that was not observed in their abstinent peers. In contrast, activity levels in the cannabis users in cortical areas including the right temporal-parietal junction and bilateral dorsolateral prefrontal cortex did not discriminate between the two face conditions, but did differ in controls. Results did not change after excluding subjects with any psychiatric symptomology. Given the high density of cannabinoid receptors in the amygdala, our findings suggest cannabis use in early adolescence is associated with hypersensitivity to signals of threat. Hypersensitivity to negative affect in adolescence may place the subject at- risk for mood disorders in adulthood.
Function of protein kinase A in Xenopus oocyte maturation
Creators: name: Wang, Jing
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.

description: Like most other vertebrate oocytes, oocytes from Xenopus laevis are physiologically arrested at the first meiotic prophase. Re-initiation of meiosis, or oocyte maturation, is triggered by progesterone. Progesterone-induced oocyte maturation is thought to involve inhibition of cAMP-dependent protein kinase (protein kinase A or PKA). However, changes in PKA activity in live oocytes have never been demonstrated. I have developed a novel approach to monitor endogenous PKA activity in live oocytes, by expressing a PKA-specific substrate in oocytes followed by monitoring its PKA phosphorylation status during progesterone-induced oocyte maturation. I demonstrate that PKA is fully activated in prophase oocytes and that progesterone causes a rapid and permanent inhibition of PKA (Chapter 3). Utilizing this PKA activity indicator in live oocytes, I further demonstrate that progesterone-induced oocyte maturation requires persistent inhibition of PKA such that critical maturation-specific proteins can be synthesized and accumulated to threshold levels necessary for activation of maturation promoting factor (MPF) (chapter 4). In addition to analyzing PKA activity dynamics during oocyte maturation, I have also provided the first biochemical evidence supporting the notion that in prophase oocytes, a constitutively activated G protein coupled receptor system is responsible for elevated cAMP and the high levels of PKA activity (chapter 2).
Squaring the Circle of Mitigation Adequacy and Equity: Options and Perspectives
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Gerechtigkeit beim Klimaschutz
subject: Effizienz Umweltökonomie
subject: Emissionsminderungsverpflichtung
subject: Klimaschutzabkommen
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Climate | Energy

description: In this report we evaluate available options for a variety of aspects around the differentiation ofmitigationcommitments. We find that for the level of participation, the selection of commitment types, and choice of effort-sharing approaches there is no silver bullet. A portfolio approach that incorporates multiple options may be most suited to ensure environmental effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and political feasibility.
Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de

description: In this report we evaluate available options for a variety of aspects around the differentiation of mitigation commitments. We find that for the level of participation, the selection of commitment types, and choice of effort-sharing approaches there is no silver bullet. A portfolio approach that incorporates multiple options may be most suited to ensure environmental effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and political feasibility.
Lee-Yang theory of the superradiant phase transition in the open Dicke model
Creators: name: Brange, Fredrik
name: Lambert, Neill
name: Nori, Franco
name: Flindt, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Dicke model describes an ensemble of two-level atoms that are coupled to a confined light mode of an optical cavity. Above a critical coupling, the cavity becomes macroscopically occupied, and the system enters the superradiant phase. This phase transition can be observed by detecting the photons that are emitted from the cavity; however, it only becomes apparent in the limit of long observation times, while actual experiments are of a finite duration. To circumvent this problem, we here make use of recent advances in Lee-Yang theories of phase transitions to show that the superradiant phase transition can be inferred from the factorial cumulants of the photon emission statistics obtained during a finite measurement time. Specifically, from the factorial cumulants, we can determine the complex singularities of generating functions that describe the photon emission statistics, and by extrapolating their positions to the long-time limit, one can detect the superradiant phase transition. We also show that the convergence points determine the tails of the large-deviation statistics of the photon current. Our work demonstrates how phase transitions in the Dicke model and in other quantum many-body systems can be detected from measurements of a finite duration.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
La législation canadienne et internationale en matière de drogue: Les difficultés du droit criminel appliqué aux illicites à double face
Creators: name: Nsanzabaganwa, Richard
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Law.

description: Notre étude cherche à démontrer que la réaction par l'État face au phénomène de la drogue au moyen de la répression, contraste avec la nature particulière des illicites à "double face" parmi lesquels figure la drogue. Le manque de considération des caractéristiques propres de l'illicite dit "sans victime", en employant le droit criminel à l'égard de la drogue au même titre que les crimes violents, comme le meurtre par exemple, engendre des conséquences plus fâcheuses que la drogue elle-même. En procédant à l'examen de la législation canadienne et internationale en matière de drogue, notre étude constate que le droit antidrogue déroge aux principes du droit pénal en matière de procédure et d'imposition de la sentence. Ce régime d'exception s'explique d'une part, par le besoin du législateur de rendre plus efficace le Ministère public en matière de la recherche de preuve, et d'autre part, de décourager les trafiquants de drogues par des peines sévères. En appliquant les critères théoriques qui permettent de ranger les actes criminalisés en deux catégories importantes, soit les illicites standards et les illicites à double face, tel qu'ils nous sont proposés par le professeur Alvaro Pires, notre étude démontre que l'illicite de la drogue n'est pas un crime au même titre que le meurtre, le viol ou les autres actes intrinséquement criminels. L'application de ces criteres nous permet donc de conclure que les infractions de la drogue font partie des illicites a double face, a l'egard desquels le legislateur devrait appliquer des mesures autres que celles du droit penal.
Task Allocation and Team Formation in Large-scale Heterogeneous Multi-agent Systems
Creators: name: Li, Qinyuan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The thesis discusses different categories of task allocation problems in multi-agent systems. The research considers agent cooperation, optimisation, and scalability problem. Several high-scale and efficient solutions are proposed for the general problem and a number of variant problems. This thesis studies the theoretical properties of these approaches and presents comprehensive experiment results in various settings, demonstrating the achieved solution quality in terms of system utility, computational efficiency in terms of running time, and scalability in terms of the number of agents and tasks in comparison with the state-of-the-art algorithms.
Supplementary document for Robustness of entanglement as an indicator of topological phases in quantum walks - 4268462.pdf
Creators: name: Qin-Qin, Wang
name: Xu, Xiao-Ye
name: Pan, Wei-Wei
name: Tao, Si-Jing
name: Chen, Zhe
name: Zhan, Yong-Tao
name: Sun, Kai
name: Xu, Jin-Shi
name: Chen, Geng
name: Han, Yong-Jian
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: We provide the detailed physical descriptions of the connection between the topological robustness and the resulting robustness of entanglement, and show our work can be extended to some other Floquet systems.
The origin of the soft excess in the luminous quasar HE 1029-1401
Creators: name: Vaia, B.
name: Ursini, F.
name: Matt, G.
name: Ballantyne, D. R.
name: Bianchi, S.
name: De Rosa, A.
name: Middei, R.
name: Petrucci, P. O.
name: Piconcelli, E.
name: Tortosa, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The enigmatic and intriguing phenomenon of the "soft excess" observed in the X-ray spectra of luminous quasars continues to be a subject of considerable interest and debate in the field of high-energy astrophysics. This study focuses on the quasar HE 1029-1401 ($z=0.086$, $\log(L_{\rm{bol}}/[\rm{erg\,s^{-1}}])= 46.0 \pm 0.2$), with a particular emphasis on investigating the properties of the hot corona and the physical origin of the soft excess. In this study, we present the results of a joint \textit{XMM-Newton}/\textit{NuSTAR} monitoring campaign of this quasar conducted in May 2022. The source exhibits a cold and narrow Fe $\rm{K}α$ emission line at 6.4 keV, in addition to the detection of a broad component. Our findings suggest that the soft excess observed in HE 1029-1401 can be adequately explained by Comptonized emission originating from a warm corona. Specifically, fitting the spectra with two \nthcomp\, component we found that the warm corona is characterized by a photon index ($Γ^{w}$) of $2.75\pm0.05$ and by an electron temperature ($kT_{e}^{w}$) of $0.39^{+0.06}_{-0.04}$ keV, while the optical depth ($τ^{w}$) is found to be $23\pm3$. We also test more physical models for the warm corona, corresponding to two scenarios: pure Comptonization and Comptonization plus reflection. Both models provide a good fit to the data, and are in agreement with a radially extended warm corona having a size of a few tens of gravitational radii.
description: accepted by A&A
title: Fluorescence optical imaging in pediatric patients with inflammatory and non- inflammatory joint diseases
title: a comparative study with ultrasonography
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Beck, Marisa Christin
name: Glimm, Anne-Marie
name: Ohrndorf, Sarah
name: Minden, Kirsten
name: Trauzeddel, Ralf
name: Werner, Stephanie Gabriele
name: Horneff, Gerd
name: Backhaus, Marina
name: Burmester, Gerd Ruedger
name: Kallinich, Tilmann
name: Girschick, Hermann
name: Klotsche, Jens
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
subject: Arthralgia
subject: Imaging
subject: Fluorescence optical imaging
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Power Doppler
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background Valid detection of arthritis is essential in differential diagnosis of joint pain. Indocyanin green (ICG)-enhanced fluorescence optical imaging (FOI) is a new imaging method that visualizes inflammation in wrist and finger joints. Objectives of this study were to compare FOI with ultrasonography (US, by gray-scale (GS) and power Doppler (PD)) and clinical examination (CE) and to estimate the predictive power of FOI for discrimination between inflammatory and non-inflammatory juvenile joint diseases. Methods FOI and GSUS/PDUS were performed in both hands of 76 patients with joint pain (53 with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), 23 with non-inflammatory joint diseases). Inflammation was graded by a semiquantitative score (grades 0–3) for each imaging method. Joints were defined clinically active if swollen or tender with limited range of motion. Sensitivity and specificity of FOI in three phases dependent on ICG enhancement (P1–P3) were analyzed with CE and GSUS/PDUS as reference. Results For JIA patients, FOI had an overall sensitivity of 67.3%/72.0% and a specificity of 65.0%/58.8% with GSUS/PDUS as reference; specificity was highest in P3 (GSUS 94.3%/PDUS 91.7%). FOI was more sensitive for detecting clinically active joints than GSUS/PDUS (75.2% vs 57.3%/32.5%). In patients with non-inflammatory joint diseases both FOI and US showed positive (i.e., pathological) findings (25% and 14% of joints). The predictive value for discrimination between inflammatory and non-inflammatory joint diseases was 0.79 for FOI and 0.80/0.85 for GSUS/PDUS. Conclusions Dependent on the phase evaluated, FOI had moderate to good agreement with CE and US. Both imaging methods revealed limitations and should be interpreted cautiously. FOI may provide an additional diagnostic method in pediatric rheumatology. Trial registration Deutsches Register Klinischer Studien DRKS00012572. Registered 31 July 2017.