cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Clinical trial of the anti-PD-L1 antibody BMS-936559 in HIV-1 infected participants on suppressive antiretroviral therapy
Creators: name: Hataye, J.M.
name: Eron, J.J.
name: Ray, N.
name: Cyktor, J.C.
name: Tressler, R.L.
name: Ritz, J.
name: Acosta, E.P.
name: Grasela, D.M.
name: Bosch, R.J.
name: Koup, R.A.
name: Coffin, J.M.
name: Hwang, C.K.
name: Mellors, J.W.
name: Gay, C.L.
name: Aga, E.
name: Mason, S.W.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2017

description: Background. Reversing immune exhaustion with an anti-PD-L1 antibody may improve human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-specific immunity and increase clearance of HIV-1-expressing cells. Methods. We conducted a phase I, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-escalating study of BMS-936559, including HIV-1-infected adults aged >18 to <70 years on suppressive antiretroviral therapy with CD4+ counts >350 cells/μL and detectable plasma HIV-1 RNA by single-copy assay. Data on single infusions of BMS-936559 (0.3 mg/kg) versus placebo are described. The primary outcomes were safety defined as any grade 3 or greater or immune-related adverse event (AE) and the change in HIV-1 Gag-specific CD8+ T cell responses from baseline to day 28 after infusion. Results. Eight men enrolled: 6 received 0.3 mg/kg of BMS-936559, and 2 received placebo infusions. There were no BMS- 936559-related grade 3 or greater AEs. In 1 participant, asymptomatic hypophysitis (a protocol-defined immune-related AE) was identified 266 days after BMS-936559 infusion; it resolved over time. The mean percentage of HIV-1 Gag-specific CD8+ T cells expressing interferon γ increased from baseline (0.09%) through day 28 (0.20%; P = .14), driven by substantial increases in 2 participants who received BMS-936559. Conclusions. In this first evaluation of an immunologic checkpoint inhibitor in healthy HIV-1-infected persons, single lowdose BMS-936559 infusions appeared to enhance HIV-1-specific immunity in a subset of participants.
Pretreatment integrase strand transfer inhibitor resistance in North Carolina from 2010-2016
Creators: name: Billock, R.
name: Samoff, E.
name: Eron, J.J.
name: Menza, T.W.
name: Dennis, A.M.
Publisher: name: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Year: 2017

description: Objective: We sought to define the prevalence of pretreatment integrase strand transfer inhibitor (INSTI) resistance and assess the transmission networks of those with pretreatment INSTI resistance. Design: A retrospective cohort study of HIV-positive patients with genotypic resistance testing sent to a single referral laboratory in North Carolina between 2010 and 2016. Methods: We linked genotype and public health data for in-care HIV-positive individuals to determine the prevalence of INSTI resistance among treatment-naive (defined as those with a first genotype ≤3 months after diagnosis) and treatment-experienced (defined as those with a first genotype >3 months after diagnosis) patients. We performed molecular and phylogenetic analyses to assess whether pretreatment INSTI resistance mutations represented clustered HIV transmission. Results: Of 8825 individuals who contributed sequences for protease, reverse transcriptase, or INSTI genotypic resistance testing during the study period, 2784 (31%) contributed at least one sequence for INSTI resistance testing. Of these, 840 were treatment-naive individuals and 20 [2.4%, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.5, 3.6%] had INSTI mutations; only two (0.2%, 95% CI: 0.02, 0.9%) had major mutations. Of 1944 treatment-experienced individuals, 9.6% (95% CI: 8.3, 11.0%) had any INSTI mutation and 7.0% (95% CI: 5.9, 8.3%) had major mutations; the prevalence of INSTI mutations among treatment-experienced patients decreased overtime (P<0.001). In total 12 of 20 individuals with pretreatment INSTI mutations were part of 10 molecular transmission clusters; only one cluster shared identical minor mutations. Conclusion: The prevalence of major pretreatment INSTI resistance is very low. Pretreatment INSTI mutations do not appear to represent clustered HIV transmission.
Compact composition operators with non-linear symbols on the $H^2$ space of Dirichlet series
Creators: name: Bayart, Frédéric
name: Brevig, Ole Fredrik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 47B33, Secondary 30B50, 30H10

description: We investigate the compactness of composition operators on the Hardy space of Dirichlet series induced by a map $φ(s)=c_0s+φ_0(s)$, where $φ_0$ is a Dirichlet polynomial. Our results depend heavily on the characteristic $c_0$ of $φ$ and, when $c_0=0$, on both the degree of $φ_0$ and its local behaviour near a boundary point. We also study the approximation numbers for some of these operators. Our methods involve geometric estimates of Carleson measures and tools from differential geometry.
title: Right-sided aortic arch - what the radiologist should know
Creators: name: Aquilina, Veronica
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Congenital
subject: Education and training
subject: Normal variants
subject: Education
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Vascular
subject: Anatomy

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The aim of this educational exhibit is: To present a classification of the various types of right-sided aortic arch based on their embryological development. To outline their possible presentations and associations. To highlight the important...
(101993) Edward de Coetlogon Williams
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Incomplete viral suppression and mortality in HIV patients after antiretroviral therapy initiation
Creators: name: Dittmer, D.P.
name: Cole, S.R.
name: Lee, J.S.
name: Geng, E.
name: Mathews, C.
name: Achenbach, C.J.
name: Kitahata, M.
name: Richardson, D.B.
name: Miller, W.C.
name: Eron, J.J.
name: Moore, R.D.
name: Mayer, K.
Publisher: name: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Year: 2017

description: Objective: To determine whether there is a threshold of detectable HIV RNA under 1000 copies/ml after antiretroviral therapy initiation associated with 10-year all-cause mortality. Design: This study included nearly 8000 patients from a US-based multicenter clinical cohort who started antiretroviral therapy between 1 January 1998 and 31 December 2013. Viral load was assessed 6 months after initiation of therapy. Patients were followed from 6 months after therapy initiation (between 1 July 1998 and 30 June 2014) until death, and data were administratively censored after 10 years or on 31 December 2014. Methods: We used nonparametric multiple imputation to account for left-censored viral load measurements, Cox proportional hazards models to estimate all-cause mortality hazard ratios, Nelson-Aalen cumulative hazard estimates to construct risk curves, and inverse probability of exposure weights to standardize estimated hazard ratios and risk curves to the total study population. Results: Plots of standardized hazard ratio estimates and 95% confidence intervals indicated there was no demonstrable viral load threshold between 30 and 500 copies/ml associated with a marked increase in 10-year mortality. The standardized 10-year risk of mortality among patients with viral loads between 400 and 999 copies/ml 6 months after starting treatment was comparable with the risk of mortality among patients with viral loads between 1000 and 4 million copies/ml (20 vs. 23%). Conclusion: Incomplete suppression of plasma HIV RNA 6 months after starting therapy is associated with substantial 10-year all-cause mortality risk, highlighting the importance of rapid viral load suppression after therapy initiation.
Less is More: Simplifying Network Traffic Classification Leveraging RFCs
Creators: name: Wickramasinghe, Nimesha
name: Shaghaghi, Arash
name: Ferrari, Elena
name: Jha, Sanjay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The rapid growth of encryption has significantly enhanced privacy and security while posing challenges for network traffic classification. Recent approaches address these challenges by transforming network traffic into text or image formats to leverage deep-learning models originally designed for natural language processing, and computer vision. However, these transformations often contradict network protocol specifications, introduce noisy features, and result in resource-intensive processes. To overcome these limitations, we propose NetMatrix, a minimalistic tabular representation of network traffic that eliminates noisy attributes and focuses on meaningful features leveraging RFCs (Request for Comments) definitions. By combining NetMatrix with a vanilla XGBoost classifier, we implement a lightweight approach, LiM ("Less is More") that achieves classification performance on par with state-of-the-art methods such as ET-BERT and YaTC. Compared to selected baselines, experimental evaluations demonstrate that LiM improves resource consumption by orders of magnitude. Overall, this study underscores the effectiveness of simplicity in traffic representation and machine learning model selection, paving the way towards resource-efficient network traffic classification.
description: Accepted to The Web Conference (WWW) 2025 Short Paper Track
Associations between At-Risk Alcohol Use, Substance Use, and Smoking with Lipohypertrophy and Lipoatrophy among Patients Living with HIV
Creators: name: Willig, J.H.
name: Cropsey, K.L.
name: Saag, M.S.
name: Blashill, A.
name: Mimiaga, M.
name: Nance, R.M.
name: Burkholder, G.A.
name: Mathews, W.C.
name: Crane, H.M.
name: Willig, A.L.
name: Christopoulos, K.
name: Merrill, J.O.
name: Mayer, K.H.
name: Mugavero, M.J.
name: Hutton, H.
name: McCaul, M.E.
name: Drozd, D.R.
name: Napravnik, S.
name: Crane, P.K.
name: Chander, G.
name: Eron, J.J.
name: Fredericksen, R.J.
name: Noorhasan, M.
name: Kitahata, M.M.
name: Delaney, J.C.
name: Grunfeld, C.
Publisher: name: Mary Ann Liebert Inc.
Year: 2017

description: To examine associations between lipohypertrophy and lipoatrophy and illicit drug use, smoking, and at-risk alcohol use among a large diverse cohort of persons living with HIV (PLWH) in clinical care. 7,931 PLWH at six sites across the United States completed 21,279 clinical assessments, including lipohypertrophy and lipoatrophy, drug/alcohol use, physical activity level, and smoking. Lipohypertrophy and lipoatrophy were measured using the FRAM body morphology instrument and associations were assessed with generalized estimating equations. Lipohypertrophy (33% mild, 4% moderate-to-severe) and lipoatrophy (20% mild, 3% moderate-to-severe) were common. Older age, male sex, and higher current CD4 count were associated with more severe lipohypertrophy (p values <.001-.03). Prior methamphetamine or marijuana use, and prior and current cocaine use, were associated with more severe lipohypertrophy (p values <.001-.009). Older age, detectable viral load, and low current CD4 cell counts were associated with more severe lipoatrophy (p values <.001-.003). In addition, current smoking and marijuana and opiate use were associated with more severe lipoatrophy (p values <.001-.03). Patients with very low physical activity levels had more severe lipohypertrophy and also more severe lipoatrophy than those with all other activity levels (p values <.001). For example, the lipohypertrophy score of those reporting high levels of physical activity was on average 1.6 points lower than those reporting very low levels of physical activity (-1.6, 95% CI:-1.8 to-1.4, p <.001). We found a high prevalence of lipohypertrophy and lipoatrophy among a nationally distributed cohort of PLWH. While low levels of physical activity were associated with both lipohypertrophy and lipoatrophy, associations with substance use and other clinical characteristics differed between lipohypertrophy and lipoatrophy. These results support the conclusion that lipohypertrophy and lipoatrophy are distinct, and highlight differential associations with specific illicit drug use.
title: Far away from appendicitis: Diferential diagnosis in acute pain of right lower abdominal cuadrant in children.
Creators: name: Lojo Lendoiro, Sara
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Paediatric
subject: Emergency
subject: Abdomen
subject: Ultrasound
subject: CT
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: eLearning
subject: Education
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Education and training
subject: Pathology
subject: Acute

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The purpose of our educational exhibit is to: Know how to make an accurate differential diagnosis of lower quadrant pain in children. Recognize what are the symptoms and findings in image which could help you to differentiate pathologies. Make a...
Identifying HIV care enrollees at-risk for cannabis use disorder
Creators: name: Mugavero, M.J.
name: Donovan, D.M.
name: Hartzler, B.
name: Mathews, W.C.
name: Carlini, B.H.
name: Moore, R.D.
name: Newville, H.
name: Geng, E.H.
name: Eron, J.J.
name: Rodriguez, B.
name: Mayer, K.H.
name: Crane, H.M.
name: Napravnik, S.
Publisher: name: Routledge
Year: 2017

description: Increased scientific attention given to cannabis in the United States has particular relevance for its domestic HIV care population, given that evidence exists for both cannabis as a therapeutic agent and cannabis use disorder (CUD) as a barrier to antiretroviral medication adherence. It is critical to identify relative risk for CUD among demographic subgroups of HIV patients, as this will inform detection and intervention efforts. A Center For AIDS Research Network of Integrated Clinical Systems cohort (N = 10,652) of HIV-positive adults linked to care at seven United State sites was examined for this purpose. Based on a patient-report instrument with validated diagnostic threshold for CUD, the prevalence of recent cannabis use and corresponding conditional probabilities for CUD were calculated for the aggregate sample and demographic subgroups. Generalized estimating equations then tested models directly examining patient demographic indices as predictors of CUD, while controlling for history and geography. Conditional probability of CUD among cannabis-using patients was 49%, with the highest conditional probabilities among demographic subgroups of young adults and those with non-specified sexual orientation (67–69%) and the lowest conditional probability among females and those 50+ years of age (42% apiece). Similarly, youthful age and male gender emerged as robust multivariate model predictors of CUD. In the context of increasingly lenient policies for use of cannabis as a therapeutic agent for chronic conditions like HIV/AIDS, current study findings offer needed direction in terms of specifying targeted patient groups in HIV care on whom resources for enhanced surveillance and intervention efforts will be most impactful.
The incorrect rotation curve of the Milky Way
Creators: name: Chemin, Laurent
name: Renaud, Florent
name: Soubiran, Caroline
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the fundamental quest of the rotation curve of the Milky Way, the tangent-point (TP) method has long been the simplest way to infer velocities for the inner, low latitude regions of the Galactic disk from observations of the gas component. We test the validity of the method on realistic gas distribution and kinematics of the Milky Way, using a numerical simulation of the Galaxy. We show that the resulting velocity profile strongly deviates from the true rotation curve of the simulation, as it overstimates it in the central regions, and underestimates it around the bar corotation. Also, its shape strongly depends on the orientation of the stellar bar. The discrepancies are caused by highly non-uniform azimuthal velocities, and the systematic selection by the TP method of high-velocity gas along the bar and spiral arms, or low-velocity gas in less dense regions. The velocity profile is in good agreement with the rotation curve only beyond corotation, far from massive asymmetric structures. Therefore the observed velocity profile of the Milky Way inferred by the TP method is expected to be very close to the true Galactic rotation curve for 4.5
description: Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 8 pages, 10 figures, revised version after A&A language editing
(101989) Charles Gascoigne Hamilton Williams
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
US Black Women and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Prevention: Time for New Approaches to Clinical Trials
Creators: name: Eron, J.J.
name: Cole, S.R.
name: Adimora, A.A.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2017

description: Black women bear the highest burden of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among US women. Tenofovir/emtricitabine HIV prevention trials among women in Africa have yielded varying results. Ideally, a randomized controlled trial (RCT) among US women would provide data for guidelines for US women's HIV preexposure prophylaxis use. However, even among US black women at high risk for HIV infection, sample size requirements for an RCT with HIV incidence as its outcome are prohibitively high. We propose to circumvent this large sample size requirement by evaluating relationships between HIV incidence and drug concentrations measured among participants in traditional phase 3 trials in high-incidence settings and then applying these observations to drug concentrations measured among at-risk individuals in lower-incidence settings, such as US black women. This strategy could strengthen the evidence base to enable black women to fully benefit from prevention research advances and decrease racial disparities in HIV rates.
title: Development of a digital platform to aid chest radiograph image interpretation
Creators: name: Mc Fadden, Sonyia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Education
subject: Digital radiography
subject: Thorax

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: We aim to enhance chest image interpretation skills using a digital training platform. The platform comprises of expert informed search strategies that are mediated using eye tracking videos of experts and a web-based interactive tool to aid the...
Variations of 14-C around AD 775 and AD 1795 - due to solar activity
Creators: name: Neuhaeuser, Ralph
name: Neuhaeuser, Dagmar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The motivation for our study is the disputed cause for the strong variation of 14-C around AD 775. Our method is to compare the 14-C variation around AD 775 with other periods of strong variability. Our results are: (a) We see three periods, where 14-C varied over 200 yr in a special way showing a certain pattern of strong secular variation: after a Grand Minimum with strongly increasing 14-C, there is a series of strong short-term drop(s), rise(s), and again drop(s) within 60 yr, ending up to 200 yr after the start of the Grand Minimum. These three periods include the strong rises around BC 671, AD 775, and AD 1795. (b) We show with several solar activity proxies (radioisotopes, sunspots, and aurorae) for the AD 770s and 1790s that such intense rapid 14-C increases can be explained by strong rapid decreases in solar activity and, hence, wind, so that the decrease in solar modulation potential leads to an increase in radioisotope production. (c) The strong rises around AD 775 and 1795 are due to three effects, (i) very strong activity in the previous cycles (i.e. very low 14-C level), (ii) the declining phase of a very strong Schwabe cycle, and (iii) a phase of very weak activity after the strong 14-C rise -- very short and/or weak cycle(s) like the suddenly starting Dalton minimum. (d) Furthermore, we can show that the strong change at AD 1795 happened after a pair of two packages of four Schwabe cycles with certain hemispheric leadership (each package consists of two Gnevyshev-Ohl pairs, respectively two Hale-Babcock pairs). We show with several additional arguments that the rise around AD 775 was not that special. ...
description: 25 pages with 11 figures and 2 tables - Astronomical Notes, in press
Drivers for Sustainable Community Capacity Building A Case Study of ECO-LIFE Inittiatives in Malaysia and Thailand
Creators: name: Shelen Ho Wai Han
Publisher: name: Henley Business School University of Reading Malaysia Iskandar Puteri Malaysia
Year: 2019
Subjects: Community capacity building, sustainable community development, enablers of CCB, eco-life initiatives, shared value creation, community volunteerism

description: ASEAN Journal of Management & Innovation, 6, 1, p 31 - 50
Two-flavor mixture of a few fermions of different mass in a one-dimensional harmonic trap
Creators: name: Pęcak, Daniel
name: Gajda, Mariusz
name: Sowiński, Tomasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A system of two species of fermions of different mass confined in a one-dimensional harmonic trap is studied with an exact diagonalization approach. It is shown independently on the number of particles that a mass difference between fermionic species induces a separation in the lighter flavor system. The mechanism of emerging of separated phases is explained phenomenologically and confirmed with the help of a direct inspection of the ground-state of the system. Finally, it is shown that the separation driven by a mass difference, in contrast to the separation induced by a difference of populations, is robust to the interactions with thermal environment.
Incident AIDS or death after initiation of human immunodeficiency virus treatment regimens including raltegravir or efavirenz among adults in the United States
Creators: name: Mugavero, M.J.
name: Cole, S.R.
name: Saag, M.S.
name: Eron, J.J.
name: Mathews, W.C.
name: Moore, R.D.
name: Centers for AIDS Research Network of Integrated Clinical Systems (CNICS) Investigators
name: Edwards, J.K.
name: Brookhart, M.A.
name: Crane, H.M.
name: Kitahata, M.M.
name: Hall, H.I.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2017

description: Background. The long-term effectiveness of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) treatments containing integrase inhibitors is unknown. Methods. We use observational data from the Centers for AIDS Research Network of Integrated Clinical Systems and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to estimate 4-year risk of AIDS and all-cause mortality among 415 patients starting a raltegravir regimen compared to 2646 starting an efavirenz regimen (both regimens include emtricitabine and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate). We account for confounding and selection bias as well as generalizability by standardization for measured variables, and present both observational intent-to-treat and per-protocol estimates. Results. At treatment initiation, 12% of patients were female, 36% black, 13% Hispanic; median age was 37 years, CD4 count 321 cells/µL, and viral load 4.5 log10 copies/mL. Two hundred thirty-five patients incurred an AIDS-defining illness or died, and 741 patients left follow-up. After accounting for measured differences, the 4-year risk was similar among those starting both regimens (ie, intent-to treat hazard ratio [HR], 0.96 [95% confidence interval {CI}, .63–1.45]; risk difference, −0.9 [95% CI, −4.5 to 2.7]), as well as among those remaining on regimens (ie, per-protocol HR, 0.95 [95% CI, .59–1.54]; risk difference, −0.5 [95% CI, −3.8 to 2.9]). Conclusions. Raltegravir and efavirenz-based initial antiretroviral therapy have similar 4-year clinical effects. Vigilance regarding longer-term comparative effectiveness of HIV regimens using observational data is needed because large-scale experimental data are not forthcoming.
A Regularized Newton Method for Computing Ground States of Bose-Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Wu, Xinming
name: Wen, Zaiwen
name: Bao, Weizhu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we propose a regularized Newton method for computing ground states of Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), which can be formulated as an energy minimization problem with a spherical constraint. The energy functional and constraint are discretized by either the finite difference, or sine or Fourier pseudospectral discretization schemes and thus the original infinite dimensional nonconvex minimization problem is approximated by a finite dimensional constrained nonconvex minimization problem. Then an initial solution is first constructed by using a feasible gradient type method, which is an explicit scheme and maintains the spherical constraint automatically. To accelerate the convergence of the gradient type method, we approximate the energy functional by its second-order Taylor expansion with a regularized term at each Newton iteration and adopt a cascadic multigrid technique for selecting initial data. It leads to a standard trust-region subproblem and we solve it again by the feasible gradient type method. The convergence of the regularized Newton method is established by adjusting the regularization parameter as the standard trust-region strategy. Extensive numerical experiments on challenging examples, including a BEC in three dimensions with an optical lattice potential and rotating BECs in two dimensions with rapid rotation and strongly repulsive interaction, show that our method is efficient, accurate and robust.
description: 25 pages, 6 figures
title: Uterine malformation: MRI pictographic summary. Our experience.
Creators: name: Calderwood, Ana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Obstetrics
subject: Congenital
subject: Contrast agent-other
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: Obstetrics (Pregnancy / birth / postnatal period)
subject: Anatomy
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To illustrate and recognize the fundamental characteristics of uterine congenital malformations using high-field MRI. Our...
(101985) Henry Webb
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: A Tomosynthesis Using Standard Radiographic Table with Linear Tomography Console
Creators: name: Kovalenko, Yuri
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computer applications
subject: Digital radiography
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: Computer Applications-General
subject: Laboratory tests
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Image registration

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Use of tomosynthesis is one of the methods helping to raise X-ray diagnostics efficiency. Currently the tomosynthesis is realized as a rule by using special tripod devices [1-4]. At the same time there are a significant number of standard...
Prevalence and Factors Associated with Hazardous Alcohol Use Among Persons Living with HIV Across the US in the Current Era of Antiretroviral Treatment
Creators: name: Eron, J.J.
name: Delaney, J.A.C.
name: Napravnik, S.
name: Merrill, J.O.
name: Saag, M.S.
name: Mimiaga, M.
name: Fredericksen, R.J.
name: Christopher Mathews, W.
name: McCaul, M.E.
name: Drozd, D.R.
name: Cropsey, K.
name: Mayer, K.H.
name: Crane, H.M.
name: Hutton, H.
name: Mugavero, M.J.
name: Lau, B.
name: Nance, R.M.
name: Simoni, J.M.
name: Moore, R.D.
name: Christopoulos, K.
name: Geng, E.
name: Willig, J.H.
name: Kitahata, M.M.
name: Burkholder, G.A.
name: Chander, G.
Publisher: name: Springer New York LLC
Year: 2017

description: Hazardous alcohol use is associated with detrimental health outcomes among persons living with HIV (PLWH). We examined the prevalence and factors associated with hazardous alcohol use in the current era using several hazardous drinking definitions and binge drinking defined as ≥5 drinks for men versus ≥4 for women. We included 8567 PLWH from 7 U.S. sites from 2013 to 2015. Current hazardous alcohol use was reported by 27% and 34% reported binge drinking. In adjusted analyses, current and past cocaine/crack (odd ratio [OR] 4.1:3.3–5.1, p < 0.001 and OR 1.3:1.1–1.5, p < 0.001 respectively), marijuana (OR 2.5:2.2–2.9, p < 0.001 and OR 1.4:1.2–1.6, p < 0.001), and cigarette use (OR 1.4:1.2–1.6, p < 0.001 and OR 1.3:1.2–1.5, p < 0.001) were associated with increased hazardous alcohol use. The prevalence of hazardous alcohol use remains high in the current era, particularly among younger men. Routine screening and targeted interventions for hazardous alcohol use, potentially bundled with interventions for other drugs, remain a key aspect of HIV care.
Weak solutions of complex Hessian equations on compact Hermitian manifolds
Creators: name: Kolodziej, Slawomir
name: Nguyen, Ngoc Cuong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove the existence of weak solutions of complex $m-$Hessian equations on compact Hermitian manifolds for the nonnegative right hand side belonging to $L^p, p>n/m$ ($n$ is the dimension of the manifold). For smooth, positive data the equation has been recently solved by Szekelyhidi and Zhang. We also give a stability result for such solutions.
description: 27 pages, accepted by Compos. Math
title: Imaging of pulmonary complications after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Creators: name: Gallego Ferrero, Paula
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Infection
subject: Acute
subject: Education
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT
subject: Lung
subject: Haematologic
subject: Toxicity

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To review the pulmonary complications that can occur after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) depending on the posttransplantation period. To recognize the radiographic features of pulmonary complications postHSCT and their differential...
title: X2
Creators: name: Tevzadze, Mariam
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Bones
subject: Breast
subject: Nuclear medicine
subject: Nuclear medicine conventional
subject: PET-MR
subject: CT
subject: Radionuclide therapy
subject: Screening
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Cancer
subject: Metastases
subject: Outcomes

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Identification of the probability and prognosis of bone demage, in molecular subtypes among post treated patients with hormon-receptor-positive breast cancer, considering the detection of statistical frequency of stages. In woman population breath...
(101987) James Peachey Williams
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Unified picture for the colossal thermopower compound FeSb$_2$
Creators: name: Battiato, M.
name: Tomczak, J. M.
name: Zhong, Z.
name: Held, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We identify the driving mechanism of the gigantic Seebeck coefficient in FeSb$_2$ as the phonon-drag effect associated with an in-gap density of states that we demonstrate to derive from excess iron. We accurately model electronic and thermoelectric transport coefficients and explain the so far ill-understood correlation of maxima and inflection points in different response functions. Our scenario has far-reaching consequences for attempts to harvest the spectacular powerfactor of FeSb$_2$.
(101988) Sophia Grosvenor Gascoyne
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Conserving Water in a Time of Climate Change: What are the Benefits of Using Greywater on Household Gardens
Creators: name: Sunku, Nithya
name: Webster, Tara
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2023

description: We were curious if there would be any simple way to decrease water use in communities because of the ongoing drought in California. To do this, we would use three different types of greywater, soap water with kitchen contaminants, soap water, and regular tap water to see if there would be any difference in the growth of plants. This experiment would tell us whether to use greywater on household plants. If a positive result comes out, people can proceed to use greywater on common household plants to decrease their usage of water. Using six petunias (Petunia axillaris) and six marigolds (Tagetes patula), we charted the growth for three weeks and analyzed the data. I hypothesized that there would be no negative impacts on plant growth if greywater was used. After the first week, I noticed some major growth patterns in plants between each type of water, some of which supported my hypothesis and others that didn’t. In the end, we figured out that dishwater with kitchen contaminants had no negative impact on plant growth.
Prevalence and Predictors of Substance Use Disorders Among HIV Care Enrollees in the United States
Creators: name: Crane, H.M.
name: Dombrowski, J.C.
name: Eron, J.J.
name: Mayer, K.H.
name: Moore, R.D.
name: Donovan, D.M.
name: Napravnik, S.
name: Hartzler, B.
name: Mugavero, M.J.
name: Rodriguez, B.
name: Geng, E.H.
name: Christopher Mathews, W.
Publisher: name: Springer New York LLC
Year: 2017

description: Prior efforts to estimate U.S. prevalence of substance use disorders (SUDs) in HIV care have been undermined by caveats common to single-site trials. The current work reports on a cohort of 10,652 HIV-positive adults linked to care at seven sites, with available patient data including geography, demography, and risk factor indices, and with substance-specific SUDs identified via self-report instruments with validated diagnostic thresholds. Generalized estimating equations also tested patient indices as SUD predictors. Findings were: (1) a 48 % SUD prevalence rate (between-site range of 21–71 %), with 20 % of the sample evidencing polysubstance use disorder; (2) substance-specific SUD rates of 31 % for marijuana, 19 % alcohol, 13 % methamphetamine, 11 % cocaine, and 4 % opiate; and (3) emergence of younger age and male gender as robust SUD predictors. Findings suggest high rates at which SUDs occur among patients at these urban HIV care sites, detail substance-specific SUD rates, and identify at-risk patient subgroups.
title: CT-guided RFA to treat osteoid osteoma: a 15-years experience at Istituto Ortopedico G.Pini
Creators: name: De Angelis, Chiara
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Demineralisation-Bone
subject: Biopsy
subject: Ablation procedures
subject: CT
subject: Oncology
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Bones
subject: Neoplasia

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Osteoid osteoma is a benign bone-forming tumour, accounting for 12% of all benign bone lesions. It typically affects children and youth (range 10-35 years) and has a male predilection (M:F = 2-3:1). Histologically, it is composed by three concentric...
PRICE PREMIUMS FOR MEAT PRODUCTS WITH CARBON FOOTPRINT RELATED LABELS
Creators: name: Berikou, Maria
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Agricultural economics

description: This study investigates the price premium for labeling of carbon-relevant practices and other potentially relevant labels on meat product, including organic, grass-feeding/-fed, gluten-free, and whether it is non-GMO, etc. Prices and labeling information about beef, pork, chicken, and other meat products in selected stores from 48 states were collected via web-scraping and investigated for product claims and labels directly or indirectly related to carbon. Market-observed price premiums for reduced carbon labels or using sustainable practices were investigated alongside impacts of geography on product prices. Our results showed significant price premiums for almost all of the claims investigated. For beef and chicken products the variable/label with the highest price premium associated was Less greenhouse gas and for the pork products, the variable/label Non-GMO was associated with the highest price premium of those studied.
Generalized Markov Method for Ranking Supplier Performance in the Herbal Industry A Case Study of a Herbal Village in Thailand
Creators: name: Suthathip Suanmali
Publisher: name: Thammasart University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Generalized Markov Method (GeM), Power method, Ranking, Supplier performances, Thapthim Siam.

description: ASEAN Journal of Management & Innovation, 6, 1, p 102 - 117
Increased Persistence of Initial Treatment for HIV Infection with Modern Antiretroviral Therapy
Creators: name: Napravnik, S.
name: Davy-Mendez, T.
name: Zakharova, O.
name: Wohl, D.A.
name: Eron, J.J.
Publisher: name: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Year: 2017

description: Background: Initiating antiretroviral therapy (ART) early improves clinical outcomes and prevents transmission. Guidelines for first-line therapy have changed with the availability of newer ART agents. In this study, we compared persistence and virologic responses with initial ART according to the class of anchor agent used. Setting: An observational clinical cohort study in the Southeastern United States. Methods: All HIV-infected patients participating in the UNC Center for AIDS Research Clinical Cohort (UCHCC) and initiating ART between 1996 and 2014 were included. Separate time-to-event analyses with regimen discontinuation and virologic failure as outcomes were used, including Kaplan-Meier survival curves and adjusted Cox proportional hazards models. Results: One thousand six hundred twenty-four patients were included (median age of 37 years at baseline, 28% women, 60% African American, and 28% white). Eleven percent initiated integrase strand transfer inhibitor (INSTI), 33% non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI), 20% boosted protease inhibitor, 27% other, and 9% NRTI only regimens. Compared with NNRTI-containing regimens, INSTI-containing regimens had an adjusted hazard ratio of 0.49 (95% confidence interval, 0.35 to 0.69) for discontinuation and 0.70 (95% confidence interval, 0.46 to 1.06) for virologic failure. All other regimen types were associated with increased rates of discontinuation and failure compared with NNRTI. Conclusions: Initiating ART with an INSTI-containing regimen was associated with lower rates of regimen discontinuation and virologic failure.
Spin-charge separated quasiparticles in one dimensional quantum fluids
Creators: name: Essler, F. H. L.
name: Pereira, R. G.
name: Schneider, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the problem of dynamical response in spin-charge separated one dimensional quantum fluids. In the framework of Luttinger liquid theory, the dynamical response is formulated in terms of noninteracting bosonic collective excitations carrying either charge or spin. We argue that, as a result of spectral nonlinearity, long-lived excitations are best understood in terms of generally strongly interacting fermionic holons and spinons. This has far reaching ramifications for the construction of mobile impurity models used to determine threshold singularities in response functions. We formulate and solve the appropriate mobile impurity model describing the spinon threshold in the single-particle Green's function. Our formulation further raises the question whether it is possible to realize a model of noninteracting fermionic holons and spinons in microscopic lattice models of interacting spinful fermions. We investigate this issue in some detail by means of density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) computations.
description: 27 pages, 7 figures
title: Tumor response and survival outcomes of very small drug eluting beads used in trans-arterial chemoembolization for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma
Creators: name: Abdel Aal, Ahmed
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Liver
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Chemoembolisation
subject: Toxicity

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) represents is the commonest primary hepatic malignancy. The 5th most common malignancy worldwide, and the 2nd most common cause of death related to cancer (1) . According to the American Cancer Society 2016...
HIV Care Initiation Delay among Rural Residents in the Southeastern United States, 1996 to 2012
Creators: name: Eron, J.J., Jr.
name: Mugavero, M.J.
name: Napravnik, S.
name: Lopes, B.L.W.
name: Miller, W.C.
Publisher: name: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Year: 2017

description: Background: Delaying HIV care initiation may lead to greater morbidity, mortality, and further HIV transmission. Rural residence may be associated with delayed diagnosis and linkage to care, with negative clinical outcomes. Objective: To examine the association between rural patient residence and CD4 cell count at HIV care initiation in a large HIV clinical cohort in the Southeastern United States. Methods: We included HIV-infected patients who initiated care between 1996 and 2012 with a geocodable address and no previous history of HIV clinical care. Patient residence was categorized as urban or rural using United States Department of Agriculture Rural Urban Commuting Area codes. Multivariable linear regression models were fit to estimate the association between patient residence and CD4 cell count at HIV care initiation. Results: Among 1396 patients who met study inclusion criteria, 988 had a geocodable address. Overall, 35% of patients resided in rural areas and presented to HIV care with a mean CD4 cell count of 351 cells/mm 3 (SD, 290). Care initiation mean CD4 cell counts increased from 329 cells/mm 3 (SD, 283) in 1996-2003 to 391 cells/mm 3 (SD, 292) in 2008-2012 (P = 0.006). Rural in comparison with urban patients presented with lower CD4 cell counts with an unadjusted and adjusted mean difference of -48 cells/mm 3 [95% confidence interval, -86 to -10) and -37 cells/mm 3 (95% confidence interval: -73 to -2), respectively, consistently observed across calendar years. Conclusions: HIV care initiation at low CD4 cell counts was common in this Southeastern US cohort and more common among rural area residents.
title: Environmental themes in French literature and politics of the 1930s
Creators: name: Drugan, Joanna Marie
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Romance literature, political science.

description: The politicisation of environmentalism (the founding of green parties and permanent national and international campaigning organisations) was quickly followed by an attempt to identify the roots of the movement, In France, this search has had a comparatively narrow focus. That is, the origins of French green politics have generally been identified in either the science of ecology, or events of the late 1960s, when 'green' movements began to become more obviously political. This thesis will argue that, as Anglo-Saxon authors have already claimed, the origins of modern environmental politics are in fact more diverse. There is a remarkable degree of shared ground between modern environmental politics and certain points in the history of France, particularly the 1930s. In order to demonstrate the links between the two, the politics, literature and ideas prominent in the 1930s in France will be examined and contrasted to key themes now stressed by green political movements, both in France and elsewhere.