cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Properties of radiophotoluminescent glass dosimeters for computed tomography dosimetry
Creators: name: Hirosawa, Ayaka
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: CT
subject: Dosimetry
subject: Dosimetric comparison

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Radiophotoluminescent glass dosimeters (RPLDs) are composed of silver activated phosphate, which forms stable luminescent centers when they are exposed to ionizing radiation. Stable luminescent centers emit visible orange light (600 to 700 nm) when...
Emotional Regulation and the Disclosure of Religious Experiences
Creators: name: Doherty, Jaclyn
name: Carmichael, Cheryl
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The disclosure of personal information and experiences between people in close interpersonal relationships can lead to benefits in both personal well-being and relationship quality. One topic of personal disclosure which has not yet been studied in the context of emotional regulation and interpersonal relationships is religion. For many people, religion is an important part of life, and it may elicit powerful or personally important experiences that they want to share with people who are close to them. The present pilot study seeks to identify what types of religious experiences people tend to disclose, how frequently these experiences and disclosures occur, and with whom they share these experiences. Additionally, disclosure of religious experiences among romantic partners will be explored in particular. Ultimately, this study will help us understand the general nature of religious disclosure in interpersonal relationships to better explore individual and relational well-being.
Conversion from Conventional Treatment to Microfiltration in Carthage, NC
Creators: name: Johnson, Thomas
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: The Town of Carthage, North Carolina replaced its 50-year old conventional water treatment plant (WTP) with a 1-mgd microfiltration (MF) plant on May24, 2002. This is the first MF facility in the state of North Carolina. The objectives of this research were to document and discuss the changes in the water quality and treatment efficiency that were attributed to the conversion from conventional treatment (coagulation-sedimentation-filtration) to MF treatment with outchemical coagulation. Monthly samples were collected from the WTP and six locations in the distribution system (DS) from October 2001 to February 2003 with the exception of August 2002. Implementation of MF improved the water quality when measured by turbidity and particle counts. Elimination of coagulation caused the TOC to increase significantly in the DS while HPC data showed that bacterial regrowth occurred when a disinfectant residual could not be maintained. Operating costs after the conversion to MF were higher than preceding the conversion ($0.69 vs. 0.47 per 1,000gal). Given that coagulation is needed ahead of MF to reduce DBFs, this cost analysis should be repeated.
Using a daily diary for monitoring intrusive memories of trauma: A data synthesis exploring convergent validity
Creators: name: Singh, Laura
name: Holmes, Emily
name: Moulds, Michelle
name: Pihlgren, Sara
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: • This is an exploratory project in which we will analyze existing data from laboratory studies and clinical studies conducted by our research team. These data have already been identified, extracted, and collated. At the time of preregistration we had not analyzed these data. • The project will examine the convergence between the number of intrusive memories of trauma (clinical studies) or analogue trauma (laboratory studies) reported in a daily diary (typically over a one-week period), and re-experiencing symptoms rated on a self-report measure (i.e., intrusion subscale of the IES or IES-R) in the corresponding week. • This document is an initial preregistration for the first exploratory analyses planned for this dataset. We may upload additional preregistrations to address further research questions or as the database grows with the addition of future studies.
title: Diagnostic values and limitations of ADC in patients with prostate cancer.
Creators: name: Ikuta, Syuzo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: MR
subject: Surgery
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Prostate cancer is indolent, so presents no signs of clinical growth. Because of that, routine screening is offered for men over 50-years old. Screening consists of serum PSA levels and digital examination. In case of high PSA levels, usually over 4...
The Evolution of Hyperedge Cardinalities and Bose-Einstein Condensation in Hypernetworks
Creators: name: Guo, Jin-Li
name: Suo, Qi
name: Shen, Ai-Zhong
name: Forrest, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To depict the complex relationship among nodes and the evolving process of a complex system, a Bose-Einstein hypernetwork is proposed in this paper. Based on two basic evolutionary mechanisms, growth and preference jumping, the distribution of hyperedge cardinalities is studied. The Poisson process theory is used to describe the arrival process of new node batches. And, by using the Poisson process theory and a continuity technique, the hypernetwork is analyzed and the characteristic equation of hyperedge cardinalities is obtained. Additionally, an analytical expression for the stationary average hyperedge cardinality distribution is derived by employing the characteristic equation, from which Bose-Einstein condensation in the hypernetwork is obtained. The theoretical analyses in this paper agree with the conducted numerical simulations. This is the first study on the hyperedge cardinality in hypernetworks, where Bose-Einstein condensation can be regarded as a special case of hypernetworks. Moreover, a condensation degree is also discussed with which Bose-Einstein condensation can be classified.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures
Evaluation of the Additivity Assumption using the Spiral Salmonella Assay to Evaluate Binary Combinations of Mutagens
Creators: name: Taylor, Maria S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1993

description: The spiral Salmonella mutagenicity assay has been employed to examine whether binary combinations of pure chemicals and complex mixtures result in additive mutagencity responses. Single chemicals were selected that were representative of the primary chemical class responsible for much of the mutagenic activity of each complex mixture. The following agents were evaluated in the absence of S9: 1-nitropyrene (INP), diesel exhaust extract (DE), and 3-chloro-4-dichloromethyl-5-hydroxy-2-[5]-furanone (MX). In the presence of S9 the following agents were evaluated: 4-aminobiphenyl (4AB), cigarette smoke condensate (CSC), benzo(a)pyrene (BAP), polyethylene incinerator effluent (PE), pentachlorophenol (PCP), and wood preserving waste (WPW). All possible binary combinations of these agents were tested. The results were analyzed for response additivity to determine whether the difference between the expected response of the binary mixture, and the observed response was statistically significant. The combinations of directacting mutagens elicited an essentially additive response; whereas, the combinations of indirect-acting mutagens produced generally a subadditive response. Exogenous activation proved to be a confounding factor in this interaction study.
Occurrence Typing Modulo Theories
Creators: name: Kent, Andrew M.
name: Kempe, David
name: Tobin-Hochstadt, Sam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a new type system combining occurrence typing, previously used to type check programs in dynamically-typed languages such as Racket, JavaScript, and Ruby, with dependent refinement types. We demonstrate that the addition of refinement types allows the integration of arbitrary solver-backed reasoning about logical propositions from external theories. By building on occurrence typing, we can add our enriched type system as an extension of Typed Racket---adding dependency and refinement reuses the existing formalism while increasing its expressiveness. Dependent refinement types allow Typed Racket programmers to express rich type relationships, ranging from data structure invariants such as red-black tree balance to preconditions such as vector bounds. Refinements allow programmers to embed the propositions that occurrence typing in Typed Racket already reasons about into their types. Further, extending occurrence typing to refinements allows us to make the underlying formalism simpler and more powerful. In addition to presenting the design of our system, we present a formal model of the system, show how to integrate it with theories over both linear arithmetic and bitvectors, and evaluate the system in the context of the full Typed Racket implementation. Specifically, we take safe vector access as a case study, and examine all vector accesses in a 56,000 line corpus of Typed Racket programs. Our system is able to prove that 50% of these are safe with no new annotation, and with a few annotations and modifications, we can capture close to 80%.
The Relation of Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry with the Number of Self-Reported close Friends
Creators: name: Degro, Mia
name: Schütz, Astrid
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Personality and Social Contexts
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This project investigates the relation between narcissistic admiration and rivalry with the number of self-reported close friends with a recent nationally representative sample.
title: MRI scanning of the claustrophobic patients
Creators: name: Minov, Mijalche
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Safety
subject: MR
subject: MR physics

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Role of MR radiographers in dealing with claustrophobia in everyday MR scanning procedures is very important. MR Radiographers and other imaging professionals should be knowledgible with solutions to deal with claustrophobia, especially how to...
Non-Kähler complex structures on $R^4$ II
Creators: name: Di Scala, Antonio J.
name: Kasuya, Naohiko
name: Zuddas, Daniele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32Q15 (Primary), 57R40, 57R42 (Secondary)

description: We follow our study of non-Kähler complex structures on $R^4$ that we defined in a previous paper. We prove that these complex surfaces do not admit any smooth complex compactification. Moreover, we give an explicit description of their meromorphic functions. We also prove that the Picard groups of these complex surfaces are uncountable, and give an explicit description of the canonical bundle. Finally, we show that any connected non-compact oriented 4-manifold admits complex structures without Kähler metrics.
description: Minor revision
title: Saving CT radiation dose using iterative reconstruction algorithms: effects of scan parameters on image quality, resolution, and CTDIvol
Creators: name: Obmann, Verena
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: CT
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Dosimetric comparison

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The increasing number of computed tomography (CT) examinations has been attributed to a six fold higher radiation dose exposure of today’s US population compared to the 1980s [1]. Reducing CT radiation exposure increases image noise and reduces...
U.S. Air Quality Impacts of Nationwide Extension of the In-Use Off-road Diesel Vehicle Regulations Adopted by the California Environmental Protection Agency Air Resources Board (CARB)
Creators: name: Werner, Christopher
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Modern controls nearly eliminate diesel particulate matter (PM) emissions. By controlling older engines, emissions of PM, SO2, NOx, CO, and hydrocarbons can be reduced that would otherwise continue until existing equipment is retired. We investigate the air quality benefits of a hypothetical national program that retrofits nonroad diesel equipment and accelerates fleet turnover, modeled after California's In-Use Off-road Diesel Vehicle Regulations Using 2005 meteorology and emissions from EPA inventories, we model the effects of this program on US air quality in summer months, using the Community Multiscale Air Quality model at 36 km resolution. Nationwide adoption would substantially decrease PM25 concentrations, especially in polluted metropolitan areas, with average decreases of 0.68 μg/m^3 (over 10%) in some areas, mainly from decreases in elemental carbon. Reductions in average daily maximum 8-hour ozone in rural areas (up to 0.66 ppbV) would contrast with increases in some urban areas (up to 2 ppbV or 6.2%).
Amyloid PET imaging Diagnosis Alzheimer’s Disease in patients with Multiple Sclerosis: A Scoping Review Study
Creators: name: Khalafi, Mohammad
name: Javanmardi, Pouya
name: Rashnoudi, Amirmohammad
name: shirbandi, kiarash
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Life Sciences
subject: Neuroscience and Neurobiology
subject: Other Neuroscience and Neurobiology

description: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is one of the autoimmune diseases that can affect the central nervous system (CNS). Aimed of this study was to evaluated advantaged and disadvantaged of amyloid PET imaging method for diagnosis AD in patients with MS that have not clinical symptoms or early-onset AD.
The enumeration of generalized Tamari intervals
Creators: name: Fang, Wenjie
name: Préville-Ratelle, Louis-François
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $v$ be a grid path made of north and east steps. The lattice $\rm{T{\scriptsize AM}}(v)$, based on all grid paths weakly above $v$ and sharing the same endpoints as $v$, was introduced by Préville-Ratelle and Viennot (2014) and corresponds to the usual Tamari lattice in the case $v=(NE)^n$. Our main contribution is that the enumeration of intervals in $\rm{T{\scriptsize AM}}(v)$, over all $v$ of length $n$, is given by $\frac{2 (3n+3)!}{(n+2)! (2n+3)!}$. This formula was first obtained by Tutte(1963) for the enumeration of non-separable planar maps. Moreover, we give an explicit bijection from these intervals in $\rm{T{\scriptsize AM}}(v)$ to non-separable planar maps.
description: 19 pages, 11 figures. Title changed, originally titled "From generalized Tamari intervals to non-separable planar maps (extended abstract)", submitted
A Survey on Dynamic Analysis of the Costas Loop
Creators: name: Best, R. E.
name: Kuznetsov, N. V.
name: Leonov, G. A.
name: Yuldashev, M. V.
name: Yuldashev, R. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This survey is devoted to the dynamic analysis of the Costas loop. In particular the acquisition process is analyzed in great detail. Acquision is most conventiently described by a number of frequency and time parameters such as lock-in range, lock-in time, pull-in range, pull-in time, and hold-in range. While for the classical PLL equations for all these parameters have been derived (many of them are approximations, some even crude approximations), this has not yet been carried out for the Costas loop. It is the aim of this analysis to close this gap. The paper starts with an overview on mathematical and physical models (exact and simplified) of the different variants of the Costas loop, cf. Section~1. In Sections 2--5 equations for the above mentioned key parameters are derived. Finally, the hold-in range of the Costas loop for the case where a lead-lag filter is used for the loop filter is analyzed, cf. Appendix.
title: Development and Evaluation of a New Method for Measuring of Signal-to-Noise Ratio in Magnetic Resonance Images
Creators: name: Fukuyama, Atsushi
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Image verification
subject: Physics
subject: MR
subject: MR physics
subject: Education and training

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Common physical evaluation method of the magnetic resonance (MR) image is signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). SNR is a value to express noise properties of images and used for device performance evaluation, daily quality control, and imaging sequence...
One Health: ArmA en Enterobacter hormaechei ST171
Creators: name: Matamoros, Bosco R.
name: Serna, Carlos
name: Hernández, Ana
name: Montero, Natalia
name: Garcia, Marta
name: Blanco, Jose Luis
name: Gonzalez-Zorn, Bruno
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Antimicrobial Resistance

description: OHEJP Project: METAPRO Short oral presentation at “XXVIII Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Microbiología (SEM)"
$Λ$-CDM type Heckmann - Suchuking model and union 2.1 compilation
Creators: name: Goswami, G. K.
name: Dewangan, R. N.
name: Yadav, Anil Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we have investigated $Λ$CDM type cosmological model in Heckmann-Schucking space-time, by using 287 high red shift ($ .3 \leq z \leq 1.4$ ) SN Ia data of observed absolute magnitude along with their possible error from Union 2.1 compilation. We have used $χ^{2}$ test to compare Union 2.1 compilation observed data and corresponding theoretical values of apparent magnitude $(m)$. It is found that the best fit value for $(Ω_{m})_0$, $(Ω_Λ)_0$ and $(Ω_σ)_0$ are $0.2940$, $0.7058$ and $0.0002$ respectively and the derived model represents the features of accelerating universe which is consistent with recent astrophysical observations.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
Synthesis and Biological Activity of A Series of Nitrated Cyclopenta-Fused Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Creators: name: Goldring, Jay M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1986

description: In order to test current hypotheses of nitroarene-induced mutagenesis, a series of nitrated cyclopenta-fused isomers of benzanthracene and pyrene (Fig.4) were synthesized and their mutagenic activities toward Salmonella typhimurium were evaluated in the Ames plate incorporation assay. Current theories state that endogenous enzymes present in bacterial and mammalian cells activate nitroarenes via reduction to hydroxylamines which can be converted upon protonation or conjugation to nitrenium ions which are the postulated active chemical species. Thus mutagenic activity should be correlated with both the "ease of reduction" of the compound as well as the stability of the postulated arylnitrenium ion. The theoretical "ease of reduction" of the nitrated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in this study was determined by calculating lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) energies (Klopman et al., 1984); our results indicate that they should be readily reduced by the nitroreductase enzymes. Huckel molecular orbital calculations indicate that the nitrenium ions should also be exceptionally stable compared to other nitroPAH. Thus these compounds are anticipated to be active mutagens whose activity should parallel the stability of the nitrenium ions. However, while these compounds do produce significant numbers of revertants in the Ames assay, they are not nearly as active as some of the more potent nitroarenes. Reasons for this relative lack of activity are discussed and modifications in the above mentioned theories are proposed.
Internet Use and Safety for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities: A Protocol for a Systematic Review and Thematic Meta-Analysis
Creators: name: Newsome, Jessie
name: Triantafyllopoulou, Paraskevi
name: Mackay, Penny
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Disability and Equity in Education
subject: Arts and Humanities
subject: Education
subject: Accessibility
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Special Education and Teaching
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Other Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: accessibility
subject: cybercrime
subject: digitaldivide
subject: inclusivity
subject: intellectualdisability
subject: internetsafety
subject: learningdisability
subject: onlinesafety
subject: tizard
subject: tizardcentre

description: This registration is a description of a protocol titled 'Internet Use and Safety for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities: A Protocol for a Systematic Review and Thematic Meta-Analysis'. This protocol describes plans for a systematic review and thematic meta-analysis of the qualitative data exploring the online experiences of adults with ID, as well as the online risks people with ID may experience.
title: Fundamental and Clinical Studies for Effectiveness of Zero-filling Interpolation on k-space for Improvement of Sharpness in Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Creators: name: Ebihara, Eriko
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Osteoporosis
subject: Physics
subject: MR
subject: MR physics

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The zero-filling interpolation (ZIP) technique in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a method that can expand the original matrix size without increasing the scanning time by placing the acquired data in the central regions on k-space, and by...
The Distribution of Bubble Sizes During Reionization
Creators: name: Lin, Yin
name: Oh, S. Peng
name: Furlanetto, Steven R.
name: Sutter, P. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A key physical quantity during reionization is the size of HII regions. Previous studies found a characteristic bubble size which increases rapidly during reionization, with apparent agreement between simulations and analytic excursion set theory. Using four different methods, we critically examine this claim. In particular, we introduce the use of the watershed algorithm -- widely used for void finding in galaxy surveys -- which we show to be an unbiased method with the lowest dispersion and best performance on Monte-Carlo realizations of a known bubble size PDF. We find that a friends-of-friends algorithm declares most of the ionized volume to be occupied by a network of volume-filling regions connected by narrow tunnels. For methods tuned to detect the volume-filling regions, previous apparent agreement between simulations and theory is spurious, and due to a failure to correctly account for the window function of measurement schemes. The discrepancy is already obvious from visual inspection. Instead, HII regions in simulations are significantly larger (by factors of 10-1000 in volume) than analytic predictions. The size PDF is narrower, and evolves more slowly with time, than predicted. It becomes more sharply peaked as reionization progresses. These effects are likely caused by bubble mergers, which are inadequately modeled by analytic theory. Our results have important consequences for high-redshift 21cm observations, the mean free path of ionizing photons, and the visibility of Ly-alpha emitters, and point to a fundamental failure in our understanding of the characteristic scales of the reionization process.
description: replaced to match published version in MNRAS, conclusions unchanged
SEXUAL NETWORK AND CONDOM UTILIZATION IN RURAL COMMUNITY AROUND JIMMA TOWN, SOUTH WEST ETHIOPIA
Creators: name: Asresash Demissie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004

description: This thesis research would not have been possible without the financial support of Action Aid Ethiopia. My sincere and deepest thanks goes to my advisors, Dr. Mesganaw Fantahun and professor Yemane Berhane for their assistance, advice, critique and encouragement starting from the development of the proposal till the end of the thesis work. My thanks also go to Dr Abera kumai, Dr.Nugussie Dyase and Dr Alemayhu worku for their assistance and help. I would like to acknowledge Ato Getachew W/Mariam and Ato Fasil Tessema from Jimma University for their help during my data collection and entry. I would like to forward my great thanks to the study team and all study participants including wereda and kebele leaders in Jimma Zone.
title: A more accurate method to estimate patient dose during body CT examinations with tube current modulation
Creators: name: Kawaguchi, Ai
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: CT
subject: Dosimetry
subject: Dosimetric comparison

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: BACKGROUND Tube current modulation (TCM) is a useful dose reducing technique, and substantial dose reduction is achievable without image quality deterioration (1-3) . Modulation of tube current is based on the size, shape, and attenuation of the...
Quantum radiation reaction in head-on laser-electron beam interaction
Creators: name: Vranic, Marija
name: Grismayer, Thomas
name: Fonseca, Ricardo A.
name: Silva, Luis O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we investigate the evolution of the energy spread and the divergence of electron beams while they interact with different laser pulses at intensities where quantum effects and radiation reaction are of relevance. The interaction is modeled with a QED-PIC code and the results are compared with those obtained with a standard PIC code with the addition of a classical radiation reaction module and with theoretical predictions. While classical radiation reaction is a continuous process, in QED, radiation emission is stochastic. The two pictures reconcile in the limit when the emitted photons energy is small compared to the energy of the emitting electrons. The energy spread of the electron distribution function always tends to decrease with classical radiation reaction, whereas the stochastic QED emission can also enlarge it. These two tendencies compete in the QED-dominated regime. Our analysis, supported by the QED module, reveals an upper limit to the maximal attainable energy spread due to stochasticity that depends on laser intensity and the electron beam average energy. Beyond this limit, the energy spread decreases. These findings are verified for different laser pulse lengths ranging from short ~ 30 fs pulses presently available to the long ~ 150 fs pulses expected in the near-future laser facilities, and compared with a theoretical model. Our results also show that near future experiments will be able to probe this transition and to demonstrate the competition between enhanced QED induced energy spread and energy spectrum narrowing from classical radiation reaction.
title: A novel concept of lymph node staging system for gastric cancer: Overcoming the current numeric based pN staging system
Creators: name: Lee, Min Hee
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Comparative studies
subject: CT
subject: Stomach (incl. Oesophagus)
subject: Staging
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: With gastric cancer, the lymph node (LN) staging system was changed from an anatomically based system to a numerically based system. This change offers more appropriate prediction of prognosis, but has some problems: it offers no information on the...
title: MDCT urography: Comparison of image quality and radiation dose between single and split bolus techniques
Creators: name: Yiin, Shih Zhu
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: CT
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Calcifications / Calculi

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Introduction Multidetector computed tomography urography (MDCTU) is recognised as the “gold standard” and first-line technique in radiologic evaluation of the kidneys and urinary collecting system pathologies; including...
The role of the quality of the administration in asylum decision making. Comparing recognition rates in EU member states
Creators: name: Van Wolleghem, P.G.
name: Sicakkan, H.G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: asylum, recognition rates, administrative capacity, political parties, European Union

description: Abstract: The question this article addresses is: why is there cross-country variation in asylum recognition rates in the EU while the member states are supposed to apply the same texts of reference? Studies have investigated various potential explanations, ranging from economics to politics, with however limited explanatory power. Surprisingly, only few studies have considered the characteristics of the administration despite it being at the centre of the process through which claims are examined. This article attempts to fill this gap. We posit that recognition rates are, at least in part, determined by the features of a given administration, which may in turn be mitigated by political factors. We find that a capable administration with significant experience in asylum questions displays higher refugee status recognition rates. We also show that government preferences and the overall political context likely affect refugee recognition rates, but that the effect is contrasted where administrative capacity is higher. Importantly, we also show that the mechanisms at play are different if we consider refugee status or other protection statuses.
OSCECIS: Outdoor Smog Chamber Experimental Conditions Information System
Creators: name: Pua, Kah-Eng
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1987

description: The purpose of this report is to provide a detailed description of a database management system that operates on an IBM PC, and was designed to help modelers choose appropriate smog chamber runs for mechanism testings. In addition, this report describes the outlines for a prospective expert system. This report covers: • a brief discussion of model developing and testing; • reasons for choosing Turbo Prolog as the implementing language for the system; • a detailed description of the database fields and underlying organizing principles; • an overview of the data set; • a brief introduction to the structure of Turbo Prolog; • an overall structure of the database management system; • an introduction to the hierarchical structure of predicates in the system; • detailed explanations of selected predicates defined in the source program. • a discussion of the long-term goal of this project involving the incorporation of the database management system into an expert system capable of: a) choosing appropriate runs to test the mechanisms; b) carrying out automatic model evaluations by making inferences from the sets of testing results; c) explaining the rules it used in the process of model evaluations at different levels of details; d) acquiring new knowledge from the domain expert through an intelligent editor. A user's guide to the database management system, a hierarchy of predicates defined in the system, the source codes, and a sample output will also be provided in the appendices.
Brouillard - Livre de la forée noir. Pour Perrolaz Cartier et Compagnie de Lauffenbourg
Creators: name: Perrollaz, Cartier & Co
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1805

description: Enthält: Schwarzwald (Forêt noire)
description: Darin: Lose Einlagen in separatem Umschlag
description: Französisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire 2014 ISAD(G) / HAN Katalogisierungsregeln für Archivbestände Sebastian Preher
title: Location of radiosensitive organs inside artificial pediatric anthropomorphic phantoms: data required for dosimetry
Creators: name: Inkoom, Stephen
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Physics
subject: Dosimetry
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Dosimetric comparison

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The risk of stochastic effects related to ionizing radiation is considerably higher in children due to the radiosensitivity of developing and growing organs, longer life expectancy and increased possibility of repeated examinations [1-4]. Radiation...
Almost periodic evolution systems with impulse action at state-dependent moments
Creators: name: Hakl, Robert
name: Pinto, Manuel
name: Tkachenko, Viktor
name: Trofimchuk, Sergei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34A37, 34C27, 34G20

description: We study the existence of almost periodic solutions for semi-linear abstract parabolic evolution equations with impulse action at state-dependent moments. In particular, we present conditions excluding the beating phenomenon in these systems. The main result is illustrated with an example of impulsive diffusive logistic equation.
description: 16 pages, minor changes from the previous version
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Livre des Recommandés resp. des Accrédités P & R
Creators: name: Passavant & Cie
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1819

description: Darin: Register, eingeklebte Einlagen
description: Französisch, Deutsch, Englisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire 2022 ISAD(G) / HAN Katalogisierungsregeln für Archivbestände Martin Lüpold
title: Imaging of metastases to the pancreas: identification, differential, and management.
Creators: name: Walshe, Triona
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Education
subject: Metastases

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: This educational exhibit begins with an overview of metastases to the pancreas, and includes a review of the incidence of metastases to the pancreas, the most common primary tumours which metastasise to pancreas and the more commonly encountered...
Independent Evaluation of the BioSand Water Filter In Rural Cambodia: Sustainability, Health Impact and Water Quality Improvement
Creators: name: Liang, Kaida-May R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: The United Nation's 7th Millennium Development Goal aims to reduce by half the number of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water. Safe water is critical to preventing diarrheal disease, which kills 2 million children annually. A promising household water treatment technology is the BioSand water filter (BSF), an intermittent slow sand filter that is locally made in Cambodia and several other developing countries. The BSF however, lacks adequate characterization and rigorous epidemiological evidence on its performance. The purpose of this research was to assess: (1) the factors associated with filter use and disuse by using a cross-sectional survey (2), the microbiological effectiveness of the BioSand filters still being used by reduced E. coli, and (3), the health impact of the BioSand filters as determined by a longitudinal, prospective cohort study in which diarrheal disease prevalence was measured among people in filter (intervention) households versus people in matched non-filter, control households.
Brouillard - Livre De Kaichte ... et de Sicell. Perrollaz Roque et Compagnie de Lauffenbourg
Creators: name: Perrollaz, Cartier & Co
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1784

description: Enthält: Kaisten, Sisseln
description: Darin: Register, lose Einlage in separatem Umschlag
description: Pfingstmesse
description: Französisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire 2014 ISAD(G) / HAN Katalogisierungsregeln für Archivbestände Sebastian Preher
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Creators: name: Passavant & Cie
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1814

description: Darin: Register, eingeklebte Einlagen
description: Französisch, Deutsch, Englisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire 2022 ISAD(G) / HAN Katalogisierungsregeln für Archivbestände Martin Lüpold
title: Dose saving during CT examinations using an iterative reconstruction algorithm: a phantom study
Creators: name: Pinali, Lucia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: CT
subject: Dosimetry
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Dosimetric comparison

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: IDose 4 is an iterative algorithm for CT image reconstruction based on noise reduction with little modification of the noise power spectrum (NPS). It works first in the raw data domain and then in the image domain; it can work at different levels...
Building Bridges Between Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century and Regulatory Decision-making Through Interactive Web Applications
Creators: name: Watford, Sean
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Risk assessments and regulations are informed largely from animal studies, which are low throughput, costly, and time consuming. Gathering toxicity data for decisions on the large number of chemicals manufactured and used in commerce is a difficult task for current goals in chemical testing and safety decisions. Alternative approaches include computer models informed by existing toxicity data and computational toxicology like high throughput screening (HTS). Aggregating the large quantity of data produced through alternative methods is a difficult task with large gaps between the analysis and interpretation. The United States Environmental Protection Agency's (USEPA) Interactive Chemical Safety for Sustainability (ICSS) Dashboard project seeks to close the gap by enabling stakeholders, including decision-makers, to easily access and visualize Iomputational toxicology data from USEPA's Toxicity Forecaster (ToxCast) project. The iCSS Dashboard is a web application that allows users to subset both HTS assays and chemicals to a manageable set for clearer visualization of the data, so the data is more accessible for understanding how computational toxicology can be applied to meet current goals in toxicity testing, screening, and risk assessments for chemical safety decision-making.
Phenotypic spandrel: absolute discrimination and ligand antagonism
Creators: name: François, Paul
name: Hemery, Mathieu
name: Johnson, Kyle A.
name: Saunders, Laura N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We consider the general problem of sensitive and specific discrimination between biochemical species. An important instance is immune discrimination between self and not-self, where it is also observed experimentally that ligands just below discrimination threshold negatively impact response, a phenomenon called antagonism. We characterize mathematically the generic properties of such discrimination, first relating it to biochemical adaptation. Then, based on basic biochemical rules, we establish that, surprisingly, antagonism is a generic consequence of any strictly specific discrimination made independently from ligand concentration. Thus antagonism constitutes a "phenotypic spandrel": a phenotype existing as a necessary by-product of another phenotype. We exhibit a simple analytic model of discrimination displaying antagonism, where antagonism strength is linear in distance from detection threshold. This contrasts with traditional proofreading based models where antagonism vanishes far from threshold and thus displays an inverted hierarchy of antagonism compared to simpler models. The phenotypic spandrel studied here is expected to structure many decision pathways such as immune detection mediated by TCRs and FC$ε$RIs, as well as endocrine signalling/disruption.
The effect of intravenous and oral antibiotics on the gut microbiome and breath volatile organic compounds over one year: a case report
Creators: name: Shahi, Farah
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medical Sciences
subject: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
subject: Diagnosis
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
subject: Other Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
subject: Medical Microbiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary files for "The effect of intravenous and oral antibiotics on the gut microbiome and breath volatile organic compounds over one year: a case report"
The standard electroweak model in the noncommutative $DFR$ space-time
Creators: name: Neves, M. J.
name: Abreu, Everton M. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The noncommutative (NC) framework elaborated by Doplicher, Fredenhagen and Roberts (DFR) has a Lorentz invariant spacetime structure in order to be considered as a candidate to understand the physics of the early Universe. In DFR formalism the NC parameter ($θ^{μν}$) is a coordinate operator in an extended Hilbert space and it has a conjugate momentum. Since $x$ and $θ^{μν}$ are independent coordinates, the Weyl-Moyal (WM) product can be used in this framework. With these elements, in this work, we have constructed the standard electroweak model. To accomplish this task we have begun with the WM-product basis group of symmetry. After that we have introduced the spontaneous symmetry breaking and the hypercharge in DFR framework. The electroweak symmetry breaking was analyzed and the masses of the new bosons were computed. Finally, the gauge symmetry and gauge transformations were discussed.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1506.00035, arXiv:1510.08354
Acute responses in tibial stress metrics from running-based interventions: A meta-analysis and systematic review.
Creators: name: Keast, Meghan
name: Fox, Aaron
name: Bonacci, Jason
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sports Sciences
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Bone Stress
subject: Exercise
subject: Running
subject: Tibial Stress

description: This review aims to synthesise all interventions that have attempted to modify tibial stress estimates during running, the second purpose will be to evaluate their strength dependent on the metrics used to estimate the changes in tibial stress.
North Carolina School Based Waste Reduction and Recycling Programs
Creators: name: Yarkosky, Sherry
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1995

description: Waste reduction and recycling efforts in North Carolina's K-12 public schools were examined to document waste reduction activities in the public school sector and to develop case studies of model school-based programs. Open-ended telephone interviews were administered to school program representatives. Criteria determined necessary for a successful school-based program were extracted based on the case studies. Waste reduction and recycling programs are sponsored by 91 percent of North Carolina's schools. Without establishing the necessary infrastructure, it is doubtful that the rate of schools sponsoring waste reduction and recycling programs will increase. To institutionalize permanent, statewide school-based waste reduction efforts, the state of North Carolina should consider establishing a statewide school system waste coordinator and establishing individual school system waste reduction coordinators.
title: Computed Tomography (CT) imaging characteristics of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors.
Creators: name: Kramer, Gerdien
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Outcomes
subject: Endocrine disorders
subject: Cancer
subject: Comparative studies
subject: CT
subject: Abdomen

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNETs) are rare tumors, representing about 1-2% of all pancreatic neoplasms. An increase of pNET as an incidental finding on imaging has been reported (1). PNETs are divided into functioning or non-functioning...
History of CCC Bin Storage Program, 1933-1975
Creators: name: Agricultural Stabilization And Conservation Service
name: Agricultural Stabilization And Conservation Service
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1975
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Productivity Analysis

description: Report Preface: Over the years probably no Government farm program caused any more controversy than did the CCC bin storage operation. This controversy was not due to inept handling of the program, but the fact that the Federal Government was actually engaging in the storage of commodities which, to the thinking of some, was in direct competition with private enterprise. With the dramatic turnaround of commodity carryovers, the need for this type of storage has ended and the CCC bin storage program phased out. The director of the Grain Division, ASCS, as well as the Storage Section, felt that some of the highlights of the bin storage program should be recorded and made available for future research. With this in mind, the history of the program has been written. Mention of individuals involved in the administration of this program over the years has been omitted primarily because it would be impossible to list all those from the Washington level down through the counties who contributed to the successful administration of this very complicated program.