cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Adult-onset Idiopathic Focal Lower Extremity Dystonia: A Rare Task-Specific Dystonia
Creators: name: Ramdhani, Ritesh A.
name: Frucht, Steven J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Kinesiology
subject: Medicine

description: Background: Adult-onset focal lower extremity (LE) dystonia is rare, but there have recently been a number of case series that have reported an idiopathic variant triggered during ambulation. Methods:We describe nine patients with idiopathic, focal task-specific LE dystonia. We conducted a comparative analysis that included our cohort and several recently published case series to further characterize the disorder. Results: A total of 48 patients (37 female, 11 male) were compared. The average age of onset was 48 years; 36 patients had distal extremity involvement (75%), 5 proximal (10%), and 7 both proximal and distal (15%). Among 33 patients in which the dystonic side was known, 20 were affected on the left (61%). Inversion of the foot with flexion of one or more toes was the most prevalent pattern in those with distal extremity involvement. Discussion: This is a novel task-specific dystonia triggered during ambulation that is often misdiagnosed as an orthopedic or psychogenic issue.
Primary Dystonia: Conceptualizing the Disorder Through a Structural Brain
Imaging Lens
Creators: name: Ramdhani, Ritesh A.
name: Simonyan, Kristina
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Kinesiology
subject: Medicine

description: Background: Dystonia is a hyperkinetic movement disorder of involuntary, twisting repetitive movements. The anatomical structures and pathways implicated in its pathogenesis as well as their relationship to the neurophysiological paradigm of abnormal surround inhibition, maladaptive plasticity and impaired sensorimotor integration remain not well delineated.
Objective: We review the use of high-resolution structural brain imaging using voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) techniques for evaluation of brain changes in primary torsion dystonia and their relationships to the pathophysiology of this disorder.
Methods: A search in PubMed was conducted to identify the relevant literature.
Discussion: Structural imaging has enhanced our understanding of the pathophysiological mechanisms of dystonia. In particular, VBM and DTI data have revealed microstructural disturbances in the basal ganglia, sensorimotor cortices and cerebellum along with aberrations in the cortico-striato-pallido-thalamic and cerebello-thalamo-cortical pathways.  When combined with functional brain imaging and neurophysiological modalities, a structure-function relationship can be established in the dystonia brain network at the sensorimotor, plasticity, cortical disinhibition and cerebellar outflow connectivity levels. Structural imaging highlighted new anatomical substrates and, with a combined structural-functional approach, has offered new opportunities for investigation of the neurodevelopmental, environmental and/or genetic interplay in the brain networks of dystonia patients.
Tötungsdelikte an 6- bis 13-jährigen Kindern in Deutschland. Eine kriminologische Untersuchung anhand von Strafverfahrensakten (1997 bis 2012)
Creators: name: Haug, Monika
name: Zähringer, Ulrike
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mord , Totschlag , Kind , Opfer , Täter , Strafverfolgung
subject: 360

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On a converse to Banach's Fixed Point Theorem
Creators: name: Elekes, Márton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 54H25 (Primary), 47H10, 55M20, 03E15, 54H05, 26A16 (Secondary)

description: We say that a metric space $(X,d)$ possesses the \emph{Banach Fixed Point Property (BFPP)} if every contraction $f:X\to X$ has a fixed point. The Banach Fixed Point Theorem says that every complete metric space has the BFPP. However, E. Behrends pointed out \cite{Be1} that the converse implication does not hold; that is, the BFPP does not imply completeness, in particular, there is a non-closed subset of $\RR^2$ possessing the BFPP. He also asked \cite{Be2} if there is even an open example in $\RR^n$, and whether there is a 'nice' example in $\RR$. In this note we answer the first question in the negative, the second one in the affirmative, and determine the simplest such examples in the sense of descriptive set theoretic complexity. Specifically, first we prove that if $X\su\RR^n$ is open or $X\su\RR$ is simultaneously $F_\si$ and $G_\de$ and $X$ has the BFPP then $X$ is closed. Then we show that these results are optimal, as we give an $F_\si$ and also a $G_\de$ non-closed example in $\RR$ with the BFPP. We also show that a nonmeasurable set can have the BFPP. Our non-$G_\de$ examples provide metric spaces with the BFPP that cannot be remetrised by any compatible complete metric. All examples are in addition bounded.
title: CT diagnosis of congenital aortic arch anomalies in neonatal and infant age.
Creators: name: Stoyanova, Viktoriya
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Not applicable
subject: Retrospective
subject: Congenital
subject: Education
subject: CT
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Paediatric

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: To validate the capabilities of multidetector computed tomography angiography (MDCT) for accurately displaying aortic arch abnormalies in the neonatal period and breastfeeding with a modified dose reduction protocol for the...
Direct Observation of Interband Spin-Orbit Coupling in a Two-Dimensional Electron System
Creators: name: Bentmann, Hendrik
name: Abdelouahed, Samir
name: Mulazzi, Mattia
name: Henk, Juergen
name: Reinert, Friedrich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the direct observation of interband spin-orbit (SO) coupling in a two-dimensional (2D) surface electron system, in addition to the anticipated Rashba spin splitting. Using angle-resolved photoemission experiments and first-principles calculations on Bi/Ag/Au heterostructures we show that the effect strongly modifies the dispersion as well as the orbital and spin character of the 2D electronic states, thus giving rise to considerable deviations from the Rashba model. The strength of the interband SO coupling is tuned by the thickness of the thin film structures.
Toward guidance of epicardial cardiac radio frequency ablation therapy using optical coherence tomography
Creators: name: Fleming, Christine P.
name: Quan, Kara J.
name: Rollins, Andrew M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Diagnostic imaging

description: Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is the standard of care to cure many cardiac arrhythmias. Epicardial ablation for the treatment of ventricular tachycardia has limited success rates due in part to the presence of epicardial fat, which prevents proper rf energy delivery, inadequate contact of ablation catheter with tissue, and increased likelihood of complications with energy delivery in close proximity to coronary vessels. A method to directly visualize the epicardial surface during RFA could potentially provide feedback to reduce complications and titrate rf energy dose by detecting critical structures, assessing probe contact, and confirming energy delivery by visualizing lesion formation. Currently, there is no technology available for direct visualization of the heart surface during epicardial RFA therapy. We demonstrate that optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging has the potential to fill this unmet need. Spectral domain OCT at 1310nm is employed to image the epicardial surface of freshly excised swine hearts using a microscope integrated bench-top scanner and a forward imaging catheter probe. OCT image features are observed that clearly distinguish untreated myocardium, ablation lesions, epicardial fat, and coronary vessels, and assess tissue contact with catheter-based imaging. These results support the potential for real-time guidance of epicardial RFA therapy using OCT imaging.
Szabadi Frank Ignác Török–magyar indulója Jules Massenet és Liszt Ferenc feldolgozásában, valamint Hajdar bej Marche turco–hongroise című műve
Creators: name: Dávid, Géza
name: Gracza, Lajos
Publisher: name: Kőrösi Csoma Társaság
Year: 2018

description: Keletkutatás, 2018. ősz ISSN 0133-4778
What is It? Difficult to Pigeon Hole Tremor: a Clinical–Pathological Study of a
Man with Jaw Tremor
Creators: name: Louis, Elan D.
name: Bain, Peter G.
name: Hallett, Mark
name: Jankovic, Joseph
name: Vonsattel, Jean Paul
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Kinesiology
subject: Medicine

description: Background: The phenomenology of tremor is broad and its classification is complicated. Furthermore, the full range of tremor phenomenology with respect to specific neurological and neurodegenerative diseases has not been fully elaborated.
Case Report: This right‐handed man had a chief complaint of jaw tremor, which began approximately 20 years prior to death at age 101 years. He had been diagnosed with essential tremor (ET) by a local doctor. His examination at age 100 years was notable for marked jaw tremor at rest in the absence of other clear features of parkinsonism, mild kinetic tremor of the hands and, in the last year of life, a score of 22/41 on a cognitive screen. A senior movement disorder neurologist raised doubt about the “ET” diagnosis. The history and videotaped examination were reviewed by three additional senior tremor experts, who raised a number of diagnostic possibilities. A complete postmortem examination was performed by a senior neuropathologist, and was notable for the presence of tufted astrocytes, AT8‐labeled glial cytoplasmic inclusions, and globose neuronal tangles. These changes were widespread and definitive. A neuropathological diagnosis of progressive supranuclear palsy was assigned.
Discussion: This case presents with mixed and difficult to clinically classify tremor phenomenology and other neurological findings. The postmortem diagnosis was not predicted based on the clinical features, and it is possible that it does not account for all of the features. The case raises many interesting issues and provides a window into the complexity of the interpretation, nosology, and classification of tremor phenomenology.
title: 2002 municipal response to drought in the Colorado Front Range
title: Hydrology days 2003
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: AGU hydrology days 2003
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Kenney, Douglas
name: Klein, Roberta
name: Morrison, Adam
name: Colorado State University, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2003

description: Includes bibliographical references.
description: 23rd annual AGU hydrology days was held on March 31 - April 2, 2003 at Colorado State University.
description: As part of its ongoing efforts to analyze the vulnerability of water resources in Colorado's South Platte River Basin to the impacts of climate variability and regional growth, the Western Water Assessment examined the drought response of nine cities along the Front Range during the summer of 2002. Our hypothesis was that outdoor watering restrictions imposed in response to drought result in less water being consumed than would normally be expected, given climatic conditions and population growth. The study compared water use during summer of 2002 during restrictions to use in 2000 and 2001 when such restrictions were not in place. An additional goal was to compare cities to each other, identifying potential trends between different strategies and different levels of success. Results for each city are tabulated using a standardized methodology, allowing cross-city comparisons. The goal is to help municipal water managers assess and refine drought coping strategies.
title: The role of echocardiography and related techniques in Chronic Chagasic Cardiomyopathy assessment: a literature review
Creators: name: Abreu, João
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Cardiac
subject: Echocardiography
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Infection
subject: Tropical diseases
subject: Not applicable
subject: Cross-sectional study
subject: Not applicable

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: About 10 million people worldwide are infected by Trypanosoma cruzi , a protozoon, mostly in Latin America. However, Chagas has been increasingly identified in other countries in America, in the western Pacific region and Europe, due to migration....
Fixed Dystonia of the Left Hand in a Violinist: a Rare Functional Disorder
Creators: name: Lee, André
name: Jahnke, Andreas K.
name: Altenmüller, Eckart
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Kinesiology
subject: Medicine

description: Background: Fixed dystonia leads to an immobile abnormal posturing of the affected limb. There is an ongoing debate whether this condition is psychogenic in origin.
Case Report: We present a 21‐year‐old violinist with fixed dystonia after an acute overuse injury with a transient cyanosis but no signs for psychological trauma. After Incobotulinumtoxin injection, symptoms subsided within 8 hours.
Discussion: Our case corroborates the notion that fixed dystonias after minor injuries are functional disorders. It underlines the necessity of a biopsychosocial approach to functional disorders, considering the possibility of an overlay between organic and non‐organic disorders.
title: Ictal and Interictal Source Imaging on Intracranial EEG Predicts Epilepsy Surgery Outcome in Children with Focal Cortical Dysplasia
Creators: name: Alhilani, Michel
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neuro
subject: Computer applications
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Paediatric
subject: CT
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: MR
subject: Intraoperative
subject: Localisation
subject: Surgery
subject: Dysplasias
subject: Outcomes
subject: Seizure disorders
subject: Retrospective
subject: Case-control study
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) is a leading cause of intractable epilepsy of early-onset in children and adolescents. Surgical resection of the epileptogenic zone (EZ) provides the best possibility to achieve long-term seizure freedom for these...
The long-term consequences of nontraditional employment
Creators: name: Ferber, Marianne A.
name: Waldfogel, Jane
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1998
Subjects: Labor economics

description: Lower pay of former temporary employees and higher pay of men formerly self-employed are likely caused by unobserved heterogeneity. Nonetheless, in wage growth models that eliminate this bias, past part-time work has a negative effect on current wages, which varies with gender and whether the part-time status was voluntary or involuntary. This article explores the question of whether workers who voluntarily choose nontraditional employment will eventually suffer serious deprivation as a result.
Tissue and skeletal changes in the scleractinian coral Stylophora pistillata Esper 1797 under phosphate enrichment
Creators: name: Ferrier-Pages, Christine
name: Godinot, Catherine
name: Montagna, Paolo
name: Grover, Renaud
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Long-term phosphate enrichments (0, 0.5, and 2.5 μmol L− 1; 4 to 11 weeks) were used to assess a possible limitation in phosphorus of zooxanthellae and to complement data on the effect of phosphate enrichment on calcification and elemental composition of the tissue in the scleractinian coral Stylophora pistillata. Phosphate addition mainly affected the coral symbionts. Indeed, at 2.5 μmol L− 1 P-enriched, zooxanthellae had a greater photosynthetic efficiency, their intracellular carbon and nitrogen contents increased by 70% and their phosphorus content by 190%, while their specific growth rate increased by 18%. C:P and N:P ratios in zooxanthellae were much higher than the Redfield ratios advocated for nutrient-repleted phytoplankton, and decreased with phosphate enrichment. Collectively, these results suggest a phosphorus limitation of the zooxanthellae growth in hospite. However, the increase in zooxanthellae specific growth rate did not lead to the building of a higher symbiont density, as zooxanthellae growth just matched the tissue and skeletal growth of the enriched corals. Benefits of phosphate supplementation were thus not substantial enough to lead to the building of higher zooxanthellae density and to their balanced growth, which suggests that symbiont growth was likely limited by another nutrient as well, probably nitrogen. At the host level, there were no changes in the elemental composition or in the protein levels, while skeletal growth rate increased by 31% between unenriched and 2.5 μmol L− 1 P-enriched corals. Phosphate-enriched corals also incorporated 1.7 times more phosphorus into their skeleton than did unenriched corals. These results evidenced that zooxanthellae and the skeleton are the two accumulation sites of inorganic phosphorus within the symbiotic association.
FFREE: a Fresnel-FRee Experiment for EPICS, the EELT planets imager
Creators: name: Antichi, Jacopo
name: Vérinaud, Christophe
name: Preis, Olivier
name: Delboulbé, Alain
name: Zins, Gérard
name: Rabou, Patrick
name: Beuzit, Jean-Luc
name: Dandy, Sarah
name: Sauvage, Jean-François
name: Fusco, Thierry
name: Aller-Carpentier, Emmanuel
name: Kasper, Markus
name: Hubin, Norbert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The purpose of FFREE - the new optical bench devoted to experiments on high-contrast imaging at LAOG - consists in the validation of algorithms based on off-line calibration techniques and adaptive optics (AO) respectively for the wavefront measurement and its compensation. The aim is the rejection of the static speckles pattern arising in a focal plane after a diffraction suppression system (based on apodization or coronagraphy) by wavefront pre-compensation. To this aim, FFREE has been optimized to minimize Fresnel propagation over a large near infrared (NIR) bandwidth in a way allowing efficient rejection up to the AO control radius, it stands then as a demonstrator for the future implementation of the optics that will be common to the scientific instrumentation installed on EPICS.
description: 12 pages, 15 figures, Proceeding 7736120 of the SPIE Conference "Adaptive Optics Systems II", monday 28 June 2010, San Diego, California, USA
title: Efficacy of ultrasound-guided hydrostatic reduction of ileocolic intussusception in children during regular work hours compared to night shifts
Creators: name: Požar, Ingrid
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Observational
subject: Retrospective
subject: Education and training
subject: Efficacy studies
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Emergency
subject: Abdomen
subject: Paediatric

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Ileocolic intussusception is one of the most common abdominal emergencies in infants and small children. It is an invagination of the terminal ileum into the colon through the ileocecal valve ( Fig. 1 , Fig. 2 ). Most cases in young children are...
title: Patellar tendon - lateral trochlear ridge distance (PT-LTR) as a predictor of patellofemoral dislocation
Creators: name: Putniković Kosovac, Nikolina
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Diagnostic or prognostic study
subject: Retrospective
subject: Outcomes
subject: Dysplasias
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Normal variants
subject: MR
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: Bones
subject: Musculoskeletal

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Patellofemoral instability is the clinical syndrome due to morphologic abnormalities in the patellofemoral joint where the patella is prone to recurrent lateral dislocation. Chronic patellar instability, if not treated, may lead to severe arthritis...
title: Application of fuzzy set theory to flood risk analysis in natural rivers as a function of hydraulic parameters
title: Hydrology days 2010
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: AGU hydrology days 2010
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Santos, Silvia Helena
name: Chagas, Patrícia Freire
name: Andrade, Carla Freitas
name: Ueta, Vanessa
name: Souza, Raimundo
name: Colorado State University, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2010
Subjects: flood control
hydrodynamic models
risk analysis

description: 2010 annual AGU hydrology days was held at Colorado State University on March 22 - March 24, 2010.
description: Includes bibliographical references.
description: A mathematical model based on the Saint-Venant hydrodynamic equations, combined with fuzzy set theory, is developed in order to study the influence of hydraulic parameter of Natural River on the flood risk. To do so, the set of differential equations, in FUZZY formulation, is solved by numerical difference method, so that the membership functions of all control variables related with the flow could be calculated. With base in these membership functions the model is capable of evaluating the fuzzy risk for such area subjected to the flood process during intense rains. A computer program QUARIGUA (Risk Quantitative Analysis of Flooding in Urban Rivers) is used to perform the simulations. The computer program QUARIGUA is organized in a modular manner, with two main modules: the deterministic module, where the depth of the water in the river and the flow of the channel are calculated as discreet values; and the fuzzy module, based on the fuzzy set theory, where the depth of the water and the flow are calculated as membership functions. The simulations demonstrate the reliability, versatility and computational efficiency of the proposed model to evaluate fields of risk and reliability in hydrodynamics systems.
Ensembles of AGCM Two-Tier Predictions and Simulations of the Circulation Anomalies during Winter 1997–98
Creators: name: Farrara, John D.
name: Mechoso, Carlos R.
name: Robertson, Andrew W.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2000
Subjects: Atmosphere

description: The impact of sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies on the extratropical circulation during the El Niño winter of 1997–98 is studied through atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM) integrations. The model's midlatitude response is found to be very robust, of the correct amplitude, and to have a fairly realistic spatial structure. The sensitivity of the results to different aspects of the anomalous distributions of SST is analyzed. It is found that the extratropical circulation in the North Pacific–North American sector is significantly different if SST anomalies over the Indian Ocean are included. Using a comparison of observed and simulated 200-hPa streamfunction anomalies, it is argued that the modeled midlatitude impact of Indian Ocean SST anomalies is largely realistic. However, while the local sensitivity of the atmosphere to small differences in SST anomalies in the tropical Pacific can be substantial, the remote sensitivity in midlatitudes is small. Consistently, there is little difference between the simulated extratropical circulation anomalies obtained using SSTs predicted by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction in October 1997 and those obtained using observed tropical Pacific SSTs. Neither is there any detectable atmospheric signal associated with SST anomalies over the North Pacific. Analyses of the results presented here suggest that the influence of SST anomalies in the Pacific and Indian Oceans during the selected ENSO event can be interpreted as the quasi-linear superposition of Rossby wave trains emanating from the subtropics of each ocean. An inspection of intraseasonal weather regimes suggests that the influence of tropical SST anomalies can also be described as a shift in the frequency of occurrence of the model's modes of intrinsic variability and a change in their amplitude. These findings suggest the potential utility of SST forecasts for the tropical Indian Ocean.
title: Treatment of osteoid osteoma – is RFA the future of osteoid osteoma therapy?
Creators: name: Igrec, Jasminka
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Observational
subject: Retrospective
subject: Multidisciplinary cancer care
subject: Surgery
subject: Removal
subject: Puncture
subject: Percutaneous
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Musculoskeletal

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Osteoid osteoma (OO) is a benign bone producing tumor, first described by Jaffe in 1953 [1]. It accounts for 2– 3% of all bone tumors and 10–20% of benign bone tumors and is characterized radiologically by an intracortical nidus, with a variable...
Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Fertility:
The Model of Dyadic Pathways
Creators: name: Brehm, Uta
name: Schneider, Norbert F.
Publisher: name: Federal Institute for Population Research
Year: 2019
Subjects: Fertility behaviour; Theory of planned behaviour; Decision-making heuristic; Dyadic relationship; Life-course analysis

description: In this theoretical contribution, we propose a comprehensive and integrative heuristic model to explain fertility, the Model of Dyadic Pathways (MDP). We show how existing models such as the Theory of Planned Behaviour often do not withstand empirical challenges, especially not individual self-reports in qualitative studies. Furthermore, existing models vary in their premises and foci, resulting in a collection of models which do not necessarily align with or supplement one another. For these reasons, these heuristic models have been widely criticised and, in practice, pieced together according to the research question and tradition of the researcher. Against this backdrop, we establish the MDP to reconnect theory with reality and to unify a variety of approaches. The MDP is grounded on the dyad of partners as the prevalent basis of fertility. It integrates reasoned and unreasoned fertility behaviour, the impact of individual- and couple-level life course, soci(et)al conditions, and the body as an “actor”. The model explicitly accounts for the variety of different real-life pathways that lead to fertility. It thereby encourages researchers to, first, consider all potentially relevant factors and their mechanisms and, second, think of fertility and its measurement as a multilinear process. Based on the presented elements a comprehensive model of fertility must cover, we suggest ways to improve surveys accordingly. Furthermore, we elaborate on the contributions and challenges the MDP presents to future fertility research.
description: Comparative Population Studies, Vol 44 (2019)
The short-term bioavailability of microencapsulated folic acid and L-5-methyl-tetrahydrofolate
Creators: name: Harvey, Sarah
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Background: Folic acid (FA) is added to grain products in Canada to reduce the incidence of neural tube defects. There have been concerns that FA fortification may have adverse effects on the population. L-5-methyltetrahydrofolate (L-5-methyl-THF) is an alternative form of folate and may be safer than FA. However, L-5-methyl-THF has poor stability relative to FA limiting its use as a food fortificant. Microencapsulation of L-5-methyl-THF in a polyglycerol monostearate coating could improve its stability in food matrices. Objective: To determine if microencapsulated FA and L-5-methyl-THF, either in capsule form or in skim milk powder, increases plasma folate concentrations over 8 hours, to the same extent, compared to free-form FA and L-5-methyl-THF. Methods: In a repeated-measures crossover design, participants (n=15) were randomly administered seven treatments as single doses. The doses were based on the molar equivalent of 400 μg of FA. Treatments included: placebo, FA, microencapsulated FA, L-5-methyl-THF, microencapsulated L-5-methyl-THF, microencapsulated FA in milk powder, and microencapsulated L-5-methyl-THF in milk powder. Blood was collected at baseline and at frequent intervals over the 8-hour test period. Plasma folate was quantified at each time point and corrected to baseline values. Area under the curve(AUC)was calculated for each treatment and differences between treatments were evaluated using repeated-measures ANOVA. Results: The AUC values (± SEM) for all six folate treatments were significantly greater than the placebo (P<0.05). AUC for L-5-methyl-THF was greater than FA (347±35 vs. 181±12 8h.nmol/L; P<0.001). The AUC for microencapsulated FA was not different than FA (222±12 vs. 181±14 8h.nmol/L; P=0.12). However, the AUC was less for microencapsulated L-5-methyl-THF than L-5-methyl-THF (147±17 vs 347±35 8h.nmol/L; P<0.001). The AUC for microencapsulated FA in milk powder was less than microencapsulated FA (120±11 vs. 222±12 8h.nmol/L; P<0.001) but microencapsulated L-5-methyl-THF in milk powder was not different than microencapsulated L-5-methyl-THF (178±14 vs 147±17 8h.nmol/L; P=0.284). Conclusions: L-5-methyl-THF may have greater short-term bioavailability than FA. Microencapsulation had no effect on FA but decreased the bioavailability of L-5-methyl-THF. Adding microencapsulated FA to a skim milk powder decreased the bioavailability however there was no effect on microencapsulated L-5-methyl-THF.
Two Task-Specific Dystonias in One Hand
Creators: name: Linssen, Manon
name: Delnooz, Cathérine
name: Van De Warrenburg, Bart
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Kinesiology
subject: Medicine

description: Background: Dystonia is characterized by involuntary muscle contractions that lead to abnormal postures and/or repetitive movements. Task‐specific dystonia only manifests during a specific activity.
Case report: We report a case of a female with writer's cramp who developed a second task‐specific hand dystonia (tremor and abnormal posturing of the hand while using a computer mouse) many years after the initial onset.
Discussion: This observation is in agreement with the concept that task‐specific hand dystonia is induced by repetitive, skilled hand movements in those who have an intrinsic vulnerability towards developing “dystonic” motor programs.
title: “Overall survival and progression-free survival in relation with the pattern of progression, in patients with lung cancer treated with immunotherapy. "
Creators: name: Yamamoto Ramos, Masao
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Observational
subject: Retrospective
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Education and training
subject: Drugs / Reactions
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Education
subject: Chemotherapy
subject: PET-CT
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: CT
subject: Lung
subject: Chest

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Determine the overall survival and the progression-free period in patients with lung cancer treated with Anti-PDL-1 according to the different progression patterns. 1.- Classify the progressions confirmed to treatment according to I RECIST criteria...
Fertility Intentions across Immigrant Generations in Sweden
Do Patterns of Adaptation Differ by Gender and Origin?
Creators: name: Carlsson, Erik
Publisher: name: Federal Institute for Population Research
Year: 2019
Subjects: Fertility intentions; Immigrants; Second generation; 1.5 generation; Swedish Generations; Gender Survey

description: In being representative of individuals’ demographic value orientations, fertility preferences provide information about immigrants’ adaptation to family formation patterns in the destination country at a deeper, ideational level than actual fertility does. Using data from Wave 1 of the Swedish GGS from 2012/2013 (n=3,932), this study compares the first, 1.5, and second generations with either one or two foreign-born parent(s) to Swedes without an immigrant background by gender and across origins. Binary logistic regression is used to compare the propensity to state a positive fertility intention, and partial proportional odds models are used to analyse differences across four ordinal intention categories (definitely/probably yes/no). Results show a general tendency towards convergence from the relatively positive intentions of the first generation to levels closer to non-immigrants in later generations, although complete convergence is only found for the second generation with one foreign-born parent. There are gender differences, with women being similar to non-immigrants by the 1.5 generation, while there is no clear intergenerational trend for men. Among origin groups, convergence is evident among Eastern Europeans and “other non-Europeans”, while Westerners already are similar to non-immigrants in the first generation, and Middle Easterners/North Africans display no clear intergenerational trend. This study contributes to the understanding of immigrant fertility by showing that there often is intergenerational adaptation at the ideational (i.e. preference) level, that the pace and extent of convergence vary by gender and across origins, and that group-level patterns found for fertility intentions do not always match those found in earlier research on fertility behaviour.

*    This article belongs to a special issue on migrant fertility.
description: Comparative Population Studies, Vol 43 (2018)
Delta hottentotum berlandi
Creators: name: Madl, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Masaridae
Delta
Delta hottentotum berlandi

description: Delta hottentotum berlandi (GIORDANI SOIKA, 1934)
Delta hottentotum berlandi (GIORDANI SOIKA, 1934): GUSENLEITNER & MADL 2016: 93 (Bankoualé).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Bankoualé.
Delta hottentotum berlandi is recorded from the Afrotropical (Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe) and Palaearctic regions.
description: Published as part of Madl, Michael, 2018, A preliminary catalogue of the Hymenoptera (Insecta) of the Republic of Djibouti, pp. 907-967 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2) on page 929, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3776452
title: No more wires – Sentinel node and occult lesion localisation with isotope in breast cancer (SNOLL)
Creators: name: Barta, Miklos
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Not applicable
subject: Prospective
subject: Cancer
subject: Screening
subject: Localisation
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Nuclear medicine conventional
subject: Mammography
subject: Nuclear medicine
subject: Breast

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: We review our data and compare to the literature to prove non-inferiority of Sentinel Node and Occult Lesion Localisation to wire localisation techniques and other radio-occult lesion localisation methods. We introduce a simplified method with clear...
Incomplete State-Making in a Divided Polity: Habsburg Austria, 1618-1914
Creators: name: Kierig, Anna
Publisher: name: Test Journal DO NOT USE
Year: 2019

description: Habsburg Austria is a unique case for the study of “state-making:” the creation of means by which a sovereign state asserts its ability to control its territory. Examples of state-making include the creation of a professional army and the means with which to pay for it, or the defense of state borders. This thesis examines two periods in Austrian history for evidence of how the Habsburg Austrian state succeeded or failed in this process. The first period centers on the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) which challenged the very existence of the state and which resulted in the establishment of Europe’s first professional standing army by the end of the war. The second period also features a challenge to the state’s existence. However, in this case, the Habsburgs were constrained by a variety of domestic and economic factors, which amplified their international challenges. Ultimately, their failure to engage in effective state-making combined with their desperate need to preserve their great-power status resulted in a decision for a war that would ultimately destroy the state.
description: Test Journal DO NOT USE, Vol 98
Diffusion approximation of a multilocus model with assortative mating
Creators: name: Etheridge, Alison M.
name: Lemaire, Sophie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60J20, 92D25, 60J70

description: To understand the effect of assortative mating on the genetic evolution of a population, we consider a finite population in which each individual has a type, determined by a sequence of n diallelic loci. We assume that the population evolves according to a Moran model with weak assortative mating, strong recombination and low mutation rates. With an appropriate rescaling of time, we obtain that the evolution of the genotypic frequencies in a large population can be approximated by the evolution of the product of the allelic frequencies at each locus, and the vector of the allelic frequencies is approximately governed by a diffusion. We present some features of the limiting diffusions (in particular their boundary behaviour and conditions under which the allelic frequencies at different loci evolve independently). If mutation rates are strictly positive then the limiting diffusion is reversible and, under some assumptions, the critical points of the stationary density can be characterised.
description: 56 pages, 8 figures ; corrected typos
title: To Determine the Most Effective 99mTc-DPD Scanning Protocol for the Diagnosis of ATTR Cardiac Amyloidosis
Creators: name: Dore, Mary Jean
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Medicine
subject: Cardiac
subject: Nuclear medicine
subject: Radiographers
subject: Nuclear medicine conventional
subject: SPECT
subject: SPECT-CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Education and training
subject: Retrospective
subject: Observational
subject: Multicentre study

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) accounts for an increasing proportion of the heart failure population. It has been recognised that a significant proportion of the HFpEF population have evidence of transthyretin cardiac...
Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections (PANDAS): An Evolving Concept
Creators: name: Macerollo, Antonella
name: Martino, Davide
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Kinesiology
subject: Medicine

description: Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcus infections (PANDAS) originated from the observational work of Swedo and collaborators, who formalized their definition in 1998 in a set of operational criteria. The application of these criteria, which focuses on tics and obsessive-compulsive symptoms as core symptoms, has encountered difficulties, eventually leading to a high rate of misdiagnosis. In particular, the core feature represented by the association between newly diagnosed infections and neuropsychiatric symptom relapses in youths with this diagnosis could not be demonstrated by longitudinal studies. Exploratory studies aiming to identify clinical or cognitive features that could discriminate PANDAS from other pediatric obsessive-compulsive and tic disorders present methodological limitations, and therefore are not conclusive. Other behavioral features, in addition to obsessive-compulsive symptoms and tics, have been included in pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndromes (PANS) and childhood acute neuropsychiatric syndromes (CANS), two new concepts recently proposed in order to define a much broader clinical spectrum encompassing etiologically diverse entities. Given the uncertainties on the clinical definition of PANDAS, it is not surprising that evidence in support of a post-infectious, immune-mediated pathophysiology is also insufficient. Anti-dopamine receptor antibodies might be relevant to both Sydenham’s chorea (SC)—the prototypical post-streptococcal neuropsychiatric disorder—and some rare forms of encephalitis targeting the basal ganglia specifically, but studies exploring their association with children fulfilling Swedo’s criteria for PANDAS have been inconclusive. Moreover, we lack evidence in favor of the efficacy of antibiotic prophylaxis or tonsillectomy in patients fulfilling Swedo’s criteria for PANDAS, whereas a response to immune-mediated treatments like intravenous immunoglobulins has been documented by one study, but needs replication in larger trials. Overall, the available evidence does not convincingly support the concept that PANDAS are a well-defined, isolated clinical entity subdued by definite pathophysiological mechanisms; larger, prospective studies are necessary to reshape the nosography and disease mechanisms of post-streptococcal acute neuropsychiatric disorders other than SC. Research is also under way to shed further light on a possible relationship between streptococcal infections, other biological and psychosocial stressors, and the complex pathobiology of chronic tic disorders.
Equidistribution of primitive rational points on expanding horospheres
Creators: name: Einsiedler, Manfred
name: Mozes, Shahar
name: Shah, Nimish
name: Shapira, Uri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We confirm a conjecture of Jens Marklof regarding the equidistribution of certain sparse collections of points on expanding horospheres. These collections are obtained by intersecting the expanded horosphere with a certain manifold of complementary dimension and turns out to be of arithmetic nature. This equidistribution result is then used along the lines suggested by Marklof to give an analogue of a result of W. Schmidt regarding the distribution of shapes of lattices orthogonal to integer vectors.
description: Revised version. To appear in Compositio
The SDSS Coadd: Cross-Correlation Weak Lensing and Tomography of Galaxy Clusters
Creators: name: Simet, Melanie
name: Kubo, Jeffrey M.
name: Dodelson, Scott
name: Annis, James T.
name: Hao, Jiangang
name: Johnston, David
name: Lin, Huan
name: Reis, Ribamar R. R.
name: Soares-Santos, Marcelle
name: Seo, Hee-Jong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The shapes of distant galaxies are sheared by intervening galaxy clusters. We examine this effect in Stripe 82, a 275 square degree region observed multiple times in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and coadded to achieve greater depth. We obtain a mass-richness calibration that is similar to other SDSS analyses, demonstrating that the coaddition process did not adversely affect the lensing signal. We also propose a new parameterization of the effect of tomography on the cluster lensing signal which does not require binning in redshift, and we show that using this parameterization we can detect tomography for stacked clusters at varying redshifts. Finally, due to the sensitivity of the tomographic detection to accurately marginalizing over the effect of the cluster mass, we show that tomography at low redshift (where dependence on exact cosmological models is weak) can be used to constrain mass profiles in clusters.
description: 8 pages, 13 figures, submitted to ApJ. Analysis updated using revised photo-z catalog of Reis et al. arXiv:1111.6620v2. Changes in results are within the errors and the conclusions are unaffected
Endocrine and Metabolic Responses to Long-Term Monotherapy with the Antiepileptic Drug Valproate in the Normally Cycling Rhesus Monkey
Creators: name: Ferin, Michel J.
name: Morrell, Martha
name: Xiao, Ennian
name: Kochan, Lisa
name: Qian, Fang
name: Wright, Thomas
name: Sauer, Mark V.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2003
Subjects: Obstetrics
Gynecology

description: An association between epilepsy and reproductive disturbances with an apparent increase in a polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) has been reported. Whether this association can be attributed to epilepsy itself or is related to antiepileptic drug therapy, in particular valproate (VPA), remains controversial. We studied effects of a long-term VPA treatment on cycling monkeys, postulating that, if VPA monotherapy were to promote abnormal endocrine and metabolic parameters that are characteristic of PCOS, changes in cyclicity would be readily demonstrated. After a 2-month control, a 12- to 15-month VPA monotherapy was initiated in 7 regularly cycling rhesus monkeys. Overall mean levels of VPA were 88.7 ± 4.0 (se) μg/ml. Mean body weight increased progressively during VPA treatment from 8.5 ± 0.5 kg before treatment to 9.6 ± 0.7 kg in the last week of treatment (P < 0.05). Monkeys continued to have regular ovulatory menstrual cycles throughout VPA monotherapy. Length of the cycles was 28 ± 0.58 d in control and 28.4 ± 1.18 d in the last 3 months of VPA treatment. Follicular and luteal lengths and peak preovulatory estradiol and integrated luteal progesterone levels did not differ between control and treatment. Ovaries from VPA-treated monkeys showed histological evidence of ovulation, and none had characteristic features of PCOS. Endocrine PCOS markers, such as increased early follicular LH/FSH ratio and androgen levels were not different in control and VPA treatment cycles. LH and 17-hydroxyprogesterone responses to GnRH agonist challenges and the insulin response to glucose tolerance tests were similar in control and VPA groups. Lipid profiles were not affected by VPA treatment. The data indicate that a 12- to 15-month therapeutic exposure to VPA does not induce cyclic hormonal or morphological ovarian abnormalities or characteristics of the PCOS when administered to nonepileptic normally cycling nonhuman primates.