cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 1 of Emergence of equine influenza virus H3Nx Florida clade 2 in Arabian racehorses in Egypt
Creators: name: Ahmed, Basem Mohamed
name: Bayoumi, Mahmoud Mohamed
name: Farrag, Mohamed Ali
name: Elgamal, Mahmoud Aly
name: Daly, Janet Mary
name: Amer, Haitham Mohamed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary Figure 1: comparison with the deduced amino acid sequence of the OIE-ESP recommended vaccine strain against Florida clade2. Supplementary Figure 2: comparison with the deduced amino acid sequence of the whole inactivated EI vaccine strain available in Egypt (Egypt/6066NAMRU-VSVRI/2008). Supplementary Figure 3: Comparison of the deduced amino acid sequences of the present study with the EI vaccine (KY97) strain available in Egypt as Fluvac innovator® 4 (Zoetis-US).
title: ‘Focal species’ – can this well-known concept in higher-tier risk assessments be an appropriate approach for solitary bees?
Creators: name: Lückmann, Johannes
name: Faupel, Michael
name: Ludwigs, Jan-Dieter
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut
Year: 2018

description: Bumble bees and solitary bees have to be considered in addition to honey bees regarding environmental pollinator risk assessments. For solitary bees it is proposed to use Osmia cornuta (LATR., 1805) or O. bicornis (L., 1758) as test organisms. Whereas for higher-tier assessments, semi-field testing of solitary bees has been proved to obtain sound results, experience from current Osmia field studies show that exposure of adults and larvae is not necessarily the case due to the pronounced polylectic feeding behaviour. As an alternative refinement option the ‘focal species’ concept may be used, which is well-known as a kind of first step for higher tier bird and mammal risk assessments. This approach as it applies to solitary bees, as well as its needs, refinement options and limitations is presented.
description: Julius-Kühn-Archiv, Nr. 462 (2018): Hazards of pesticides to bees 13th International Symposium of the ICP-PR Bee Protection Group 18. - 20. October 2017, València (Spain) - Proceedings -
Displacement effect in strong-field atomic ionization by an XUV pulse
Creators: name: Ivanov, Igor A.
name: Kheifets, Anatoli S.
name: Bartschat, Klaus
name: Emmons, John
name: Buczek, Sean M.
name: Gryzlova, Elena V.
name: Grum-Grzhimailo, Alexei N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study strong-field atomic ionization driven by an XUV pulse with a non\-zero displacement, the quantity defined as the integral of the pulse vector potential taken over the pulse duration. We demonstrate that the use of such pulses may lead to an extreme sensitivity of the ionization process to subtle changes of the parameters of a driving XUV pulse, in particular, the ramp-on/off profile and the carrier envelope phase. We illustrate this sensitivity for atomic hydrogen and lithium driven by few-femto\-second XUV pulses with intensity in the $\rm 10^{14}~W/cm^2$ range. We argue that the observed effect is general and should modify strong-field ionization of any atom, provided the ionization rate is sufficiently high.
description: 5 pages, 7 figures
Experimental Parameter Study on Multi-Scale Heat Transfer at Non-Conforming Rough Surfaces
Creators: name: Helmig, Thorsten
name: Göttlich, Tim
name: Kneer, Reinhold
Publisher: name: RWTH Aachen University
Year: 2023

description: 17. International Heat Transfer Conference, IHTC17, Cape Town, South Africa, 14 Aug 2023 - 18 Aug 2023
Simultaneous and consistent labeling of longitudinal dynamic developing cortical surfaces in infants
Creators: name: Li, Gang
name: Shen, Dinggang
name: Lin, Weili
name: Wang, Li
name: Shi, Feng
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: The human cerebral cortex develops extremely dynamically in the first two years of life. Accurate and consistent parcellation of longitudinal dynamic cortical surfaces during this critical stage is essential to understand the early development of cortical structure and function in both normal and high-risk infant brains. However, directly applying the existing methods developed for the cross-sectional studies often generates longitudinally-inconsistent results, thus leading to inaccurate measurements of the cortex development. In this paper, we propose a new method for accurate, consistent, and simultaneous labeling of longitudinal cortical surfaces in the serial infant brain MR images. The proposed method is explicitly formulated as a minimization problem with an energy function that includes a data fitting term, a spatial smoothness term, and a temporal consistency term. Specifically, inspired by multi-atlas based label fusion, the data fitting term is designed to integrate the contributions from multi-atlas surfaces adaptively, according to the similarities of their local cortical folding with that of the subject cortical surface. The spatial smoothness term is then designed to adaptively encourage label smoothness based on the local cortical folding geometries, i.e. allowing label discontinuity at sulcal bottoms (which often are the boundaries of cytoarchitecturally and functionally distinct regions). The temporal consistency term is to adaptively encourage the label consistency among the temporally-corresponding vertices, based on their similarity of local cortical folding. Finally, the entire energy function is efficiently minimized by a graph cuts method. The proposed method has been applied to the parcellation of longitudinal cortical surfaces of 13 healthy infants, each with 6 serial MRI scans acquired at 0, 3, 6, 9, 12 and 18 months of age. Qualitative and quantitative evaluations demonstrated both accuracy and longitudinal consistency of the proposed method. By using our method, for the first time, we reveal several hitherto unseen properties of the dynamic and regionally heterogeneous development of the cortical surface area in the first 18 months of life.
Black hole formation by incoming electromagnetic radiation
Creators: name: Senovilla, José M. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I revisit a known solution of the Einstein field equations to show that it describes the formation of non-spherical black holes by the collapse of pure electromagnetic monochromatic radiation. Both positive and negative masses are feasible without ever violating the dominant energy condition. The solution can also be used to model the destruction of naked singularities and the evaporation of white holes by emission or reception of light.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures. Minor corrections, better figures, reference added
Inklusion konkret: Heidelberg in Leichter Sprache
Creators: name: Alavi, Bettina
Publisher: name: B. Alavi, Inklusion konkret: Heidelberg in Leichter Sprache, «Public history weekly», 2, 2014, n. 7
Year: 2014

description: “Heidelberg in Leichter Sprache” ist ein Stadtführer für Menschen, die Bilder und kurze Texte bevorzugen, also z.B. ältere Menschen, Kinder, Personen mit Deutsch als Zweitsprache oder Menschen mit kognitiven Beeinträchtigungen. Zweck des Stadtführers ist es, aufmerksam zu machen auf Orte zum historischen Lernen und auf Themen, die in Heidelberg beheimatet sind. Im Folgenden sollen die Gestaltung, die Sprache und die Inhalte der oben abgebildeten Doppelseite des Stadtführers im Hinblick auf Chancen und Grenzen des historischen Lernens analysiert werden. Wichtig erscheint eine solche Analyse, um die Möglichkeiten eines Transfers auf den inklusiven Geschichtsunterricht zu beurteilen.
The detection efficiency of on-axis short gamma ray burst optical afterglows triggered by aLIGO/Virgo
Creators: name: Coward, David
name: Branchesi, Marica
name: Howell, Eric
name: Lasky, Paul
name: Boer, Michel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Assuming neutron star (NS) or neutron star/stellar-mass black hole (BH) mergers as progenitors of the short gamma ray bursts, we derive and demonstrate a simple analysis tool for modelling the efficiency of recovering on-axis optical afterglows triggered by a candidate gravitational wave event detected by the Advanced LIGO and Virgo network. The coincident detection efficiency has been evaluated for different classes of operating telescopes using observations of gamma ray bursts. We show how the efficiency depends on the luminosity distribution of the optical afterglows, the telescope features, and the sky localisation of gravitational wave triggers. We estimate a plausible optical afterglow and gravitational wave coincidence rate of 1 yr$^{-1}$ (0.1 yr$^{-1}$) for NS-NS (NS-BH), and how this rate is scaled down in detection efficiency by the time it takes to image the gravitational wave sky localization and the limiting magnitude of the telescopes. For NS-NS (NS-BH) we find maximum detection efficiencies of $>80%$ when the total imaging time is less than 200 min (80 min) and the limiting magnitude fainter than 20 (21). We show that relatively small telescopes $(m<18)$ can achieve similar detection efficiencies to meter class facilities $(m<20)$ with similar fields of view, only if the less sensitive instruments can respond to the trigger and image the field within 10-15 min. The inclusion of LIGO India into the gravitational wave observatory network will significantly reduce imaging time for telescopes with limiting magnitudes $\sim20$ but with modest fields of view. An optimal coincidence search requires a global network of sensitive and fast response wide field instruments that could effectively image relatively large gravitational-wave sky localisations and produce transient candidates for further photometric and spectroscopic follow-up.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, version 2, reference added typo correction, Accepted by MNRAS
Additional file 2 of KC-like chemokine as a biomarker of sepsis in dogs with pyometra
Creators: name: Hagman, Ragnvi
name: Klemming, Caroline
name: Bengtsdotter, Emma
name: Södersten, Fredrik
name: Wang, Liya
name: Wernersson, Sara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: supplementary Fig. 2: Positive correlations between CRP or PBN and length of hospitalization
Απεικονιστική μελέτη των παραλλαγών του αορτικού τόξου στον ελληνικό πληθυσμό
Creators: name: Θεοδωρακόπουλος, Αντώνιος Παναγιώτη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2023
Subjects: 1. Ανατομία αορτικού τόξου
Παραλλαγές έκφυσης αρτηριών αορτικού τόξου
Αγγειακές ανωμαλίες αορτικού τόξου
Aortic arch anatomy
Aortic arch branch variations
Aortic arch vascular anomalies

description: Οι ανατομικές παραλλαγές του αορτικού τόξου είναι σημαντικό να αναγνωρίζονται εγκαίρως διότι πιθανόν να συσχετίζονται με συγγενείς καρδιοπάθειες και χρωμοσωμικές ανωμαλίες, ενώ μπορεί να έχουν σημαντικές επιπτώσεις τόσο στην πρόγνωση της νόσου αλλά και τη διαχείριση του ασθενούς στον οποίο εντοπίζονται. Ο σκοπός της παρούσας διπλωματικής εργασίας είναι να καταγράψει τη συχνότητα των ανωμαλιών του αορτικού τόξου σε μαγνητικές αγγειογραφίες σε δείγμα Ελληνικού πληθυσμού και να επισημάνει το εμβρυολογικό υπόβαθρο αυτών των παραλλαγών καθώς και τη κλινική σημειολογία τους ανάλογα με τη βαρύτητά τους. Οι ανωμαλίες του αριστερόστροφου αορτικού τόξου είναι πιθανόν να συσχετίζονται με συμπτώματα όπως η δυσφαγία σε έκτοπη δεξιά υποκλείδια αρτηρία (ιδίως όταν αυτή πορεύεται όπισθεν του οισοφάγου) και με αναπνευστική δυσχέρεια όταν πορεύεται έμπροσθεν της τραχείας λόγω της συμπίεσής της. Το αορτικό τόξο με μορφή αγγειακού δακτυλίου (διπλό αορτικό τόξο) μπορεί επίσης να προκαλέσει δυσπνοϊκά φαινόμενα λόγω συμπίεσης της τραχείας. Συγκεκριμένες ανωμαλίες του αορτικού τόξου, όπως ο αγγειακός δακτύλιος που συμπιέζει την τραχεία συσχετίζονται, με αναπνευστική ανεπάρκεια, ενώ άλλες ανωμαλίες οφείλονται σε διαγραφές τμημάτων του χρωμοσώματος 22q11.2. Η γνώση των παραλλαγών έκφυσης των αρτηριών (σειρά έκφυσης - θέση και αριθμός) και η σχέση αυτών με τις παρακείμενες ανατομικές δομές σχετίζεται με τη μορφή που λαμβάνει το αορτικό τόξο, και είναι απαραίτητη για την ορθή διάγνωση και την ενδεδειγμένη θεραπεία ιδιαίτερα στις περιπτώσεις επεμβατικών πράξεων και στις χειρουργικές προσπελάσεις.
description: Abnormalities and congenital variants of the aortic arch are important because they may be associated with other anomalies such as vascular rings, congenital heart disease, and chromosomal abnormalities. The aim of the current study is to record and analyze the various aortic arch branching patterns and their incidence in a Greek population, by using the magnetic resonance modality. The embryology and development of the aortic arch is also presented. Variations of the aortic arch are described in the concept of a theoretical double aortic arch system. The aortic arch abnormalities are usually asymptomatic, but dysphagia may develop in cases of an aberrant right subclavian artery. Aortic arch variations forming a vascular ring, could be also associated with respiratory distress if the trachea is compressed. Also, certain arch variants are strongly associated with deletions on 22q11.2 chromosome. Becoming familiar with the various types of the aortic arch branching patterns and their imaging is essential to any physician involved in the diagnosis and treatment of this area in order to achieve a safe diagnosis and an uneventful surgical or interventional outcome.
Additional file 2 of Emergence of equine influenza virus H3Nx Florida clade 2 in Arabian racehorses in Egypt
Creators: name: Ahmed, Basem Mohamed
name: Bayoumi, Mahmoud Mohamed
name: Farrag, Mohamed Ali
name: Elgamal, Mahmoud Aly
name: Daly, Janet Mary
name: Amer, Haitham Mohamed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 2. Supplementary Table 1: Accession codes for EIV HA1 sequences included in phylogenetic analysis figures 1. The bold sequences indicate the GISAID obtained sequences representing 2015-2016 EI outbreak in Scotland and England. Supplementary Table 2: Accession codes for sequences used in table 2 and figure 2 alignments. GISAID accession numbers are highlighted in bold.
Statistical atlas construction via weighted functional boxplots
Creators: name: Zdanski, Carlton J.
name: Kimbell, Julia S.
name: Singh, Nikhil
name: Hong, Yi
name: Davis, Brad
name: Niethammer, Marc
name: Davis, Stephanie D.
name: Marron, J.S.
name: Kwitt, Roland
name: Pitkin, Elizabeth
name: Superfine, Richard
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Atlas-building from population data is widely used in medical imaging. However, the emphasis of atlas-building approaches is typically to estimate a spatial alignment to compute a mean / median shape or image based on population data. In this work, we focus on the statistical characterization of the population data, once spatial alignment has been achieved. We introduce and propose the use of the weighted functional boxplot. This allows the generalization of concepts such as the median, percentiles, or outliers to spaces where the data objects are functions, shapes, or images, and allows spatio-temporal atlas-building based on kernel regression. In our experiments, we demonstrate the utility of the approach to construct statistical atlases for pediatric upper airways and corpora callosa revealing their growth patterns. We also define a score system based on the pediatric airway atlas to quantitatively measure the severity of subglottic stenosis (SGS) in the airway. This scoring allows the classification of pre- and post-surgery SGS subjects and radiographically normal controls. Experimental results show the utility of atlas information to assess the effect of airway surgery in children.
Retrospective evaluation of surgical technique, complications and long-term outcome of lateral and medial humeral condylar fractures in 80 dogs
Creators: name: Gluding, D
name: Häußler, T.C.
name: Büttner, K
name: Kramer, M
name: Peppler, C
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Medical records of a single veterinary teaching hospital in Giessen, Germany were retrospectively reviewed for dogs presented for medial or lateral humeral condylar fractures (HCF) between 2007 and 2019. Data regarding surgical technique and complications were collected from the medical records. The latter was supplemented through information obtained from telephone interviews with referral veterinarians and from an owner questionnaire completed ≥12 months after surgical repair, which also provided data regarding outcome. Eighty dogs with 85 HCF were identified: 13 (15.3%) HCF were medial (bilateral in two dogs) and 72 (84.7%) were lateral (bilateral in three dogs). French Bulldogs (n = 19/80; 23.8%) were most commonly affected. Patients were predominantly skeletally immature and light-weight, with a median age at the time of presentation of 3 (min 2, max 118) months and with a median body weight of 6.4 (min 1, max 46) kg. There were 38 female (47.5%) and 42 male (52.5%) dogs. Fractures developed most frequently secondary to minor trauma (67/77; 87.0%). Dogs were presented in 35/84 (41.7%) cases more than 24 hours after fracture occurrence. Surgical treatment was performed in 80/85 (94.1%) HCF. An open reduction and internal fixation approach was chosen in all cases. A transcondylar screw (TS) combined with a supracondylar (SC) K-wire (67/80; 83.8%) was the most frequently used fixation technique. Considering all fracture fixation methods, complications (26/80; 32.5%) were classed as minor in 10 (12.5%), major in 14 (17.5%) and catastrophic in two (2.5%) of the 80 surgically treated HCF. Long-term outcome was excellent in 68.6% (24/35 HCF) and very good in 22.9% (8/35 HCF) of the cases for which follow-up information was obtained. Additionally, owner information revealed that 85.7% of dogs (30/35 HCF) were free of lameness in the long-term. This case series demonstrates that surgical repair of lateral and medial HCF with a TS and SC K-wire is a viable option to consider in skeletally immature and light-weight patients. Complications occur frequently after surgical fixation of HCF, but owners can expect a very good to excellent long-term outcome in the majority of cases.
Building dynamic population graph for accurate correspondence detection
Creators: name: Wu, Guorong
name: Guo, Yanrong
name: Shen, Dinggang
name: Sanroma, Gerard
name: Ni, Dong
name: Du, Shaoyi
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: AbstractIn medical imaging studies, there is an increasing trend for discovering the intrinsic anatomical difference across individual subjects in a dataset, such as hand images for skeletal bone age estimation. Pair-wise matching is often used to detect correspondences between each individual subject and a pre-selected model image with manually-placed landmarks. However, the large anatomical variability across individual subjects can easily compromise such pair-wise matching step. In this paper, we present a new framework to simultaneously detect correspondences among a population of individual subjects, by propagating all manually-placed landmarks from a small set of model images through a dynamically constructed image graph. Specifically, we first establish graph links between models and individual subjects according to pair-wise shape similarity (called as forward step). Next, we detect correspondences for the individual subjects with direct links to any of model images, which is achieved by a new multi-model correspondence detection approach based on our recently-published sparse point matching method. To correct those inaccurate correspondences, we further apply an error detection mechanism to automatically detect wrong correspondences and then update the image graph accordingly (called as backward step). After that, all subject images with detected correspondences are included into the set of model images, and the above two steps of graph expansion and error correction are repeated until accurate correspondences for all subject images are established. Evaluations on real hand X-ray images demonstrate that our proposed method using a dynamic graph construction approach can achieve much higher accuracy and robustness, when compared with the state-of-the-art pair-wise correspondence detection methods as well as a similar method but using static population graph.
Entstehungsgeschichte und Baubeschreibung der Zentralbibliothek
Creators: name: Escher, Hermann
name: Fietz, Hermann
Publisher: name: Kommissionsverlag von Beer & Cie.
Year: 1918
Subjects: subject: 020 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaften
subject: 725 Öffentliche Bauwerke
subject: 949 Geschichte anderer Teile Europas
subject: Zürich
subject: Zentralbibliothek Zürich
subject: Bibliotheksbau der Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Zürich)
subject: Bibliotheksgeschichte
subject: Baubeschreibung

description: Enthält: Entstehungsgeschichte von Direktor Hermann Escher ; Baubeschreibung von Kantonsbaumeister Hermann Fietz ; Anhang (Der Umzug von Hermann Escher ; Vertrag und Statuten ; Verzeichnis der Spender von Gaben an den Bau)
Diffraction in Time of Polymer Particles
Creators: name: Martín-Ruiz, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the quantum dynamics of a suddenly released beam of particles using a background independent (polymer) quantization scheme. We show that, in the first order of approximation, the low-energy polymer distribution converges to the standard quantum-mechanical result in a clear fashion, but also arises an additional small polymer correction term. We find that the high-energy polymer behaviour becomes predominant at short distances and short times. Numerical results are also presented. We find that particles whose wave functions satisfy the polymer wave equation do not exhibit the diffraction in time phenomena. The implementation of a lower bound to the possible resolution of times into the time-energy Heisenberg uncertainty relation is briefly discussed.
Constraining Disformally Coupled Scalar Fields
Creators: name: Brax, Philippe
name: Burrage, Clare
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Light scalar fields can naturally couple disformally to matter fields. Static, non-relativistic sources do not generate a classical field profile for a disformally coupled scalar, and so such scalars are free from the constraints on the existence of fifth forces that are so restrictive for conformally coupled scalars. In this work we show that disformally coupled scalars can still be studied and constrained through their microscopic interactions with fermions and photons, both in terrestrial laboratories and from observations of stars. The strongest constraint on the coupling scale comes from mono-photon searches at the LHC and requires $M \gtrsim 10^2 \mbox{ GeV}$.
description: 29 pages, 9 figures, 1 table. v2 typos corrected and references added
Il De hebdomadibus di Severino Boezio. Introduzione e commento
Creators: name: Pastorino, Nazareno
Publisher: name: Universita degli studi di Salerno
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: M-FIL/08 STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA MEDIEVALE
subject: Bene
subject: Essere
subject: Ontologia

description: 2014 - 2015
description: This doctoral thesis deals with the De hebdomadibus by Severimus Boethius and it is composed by tree chapters: the first is a storeographical overview about the work and corcernes also with the matter about the authenticity of all the theological tractes. Moreover this chapter tries to explain the most important arguments in the Opuscula Sacra just to find the right placement of the Quomodo substantiae in the Boethius’ philosophical production. The second chapter deals with the nine rules posed the author just to show how they are important to achieve the solution proposed by Boethius. Moreover, in this section it’s shown the depth of some concepts like ‘esse’ and ‘id quod est’ and the fact that Boethius applies two differerent ways of thinking to them. The third chapter is about the will and freedom in God and how they are foundamental for Boethius to find the solution to the problem. It’s also shown that Boethius is able to find a mediation between aristotelic logic and Plato’s one and just for that the author succed in explaining how substances can be good in what they are without being the Good. [edited by Author]
description: Questo lavoro di tesi dottorato sul De hebdomadibus di Severino Boezio si divide in tre capitoli: il primo di essi è dedicato alle questioni che hanno interessato la storiografia più o meno recente sul trattato. Parte di esso si propone anche di fare luce sullo status quaestionis circa l’attribuzione dei Trattati teologici a Boezio. In esso, poi, un’ultima parte mira ad esaminare in maniera piuttosto cursoria anche i temi e i problemi che gli Opuscula Sacra presentano al fine di trovare la giusta collocazione del Quomodo Substantiae all’interno della produzione boeziana e segnalarne anche possibili punti di convergenza concettuale con gli altri testi. Il secondo capitolo si incentra nell’esame dell’assiomatica nel tentativo di far risaltare la centralità di quest’ultima per la successiva soluzione del problema. In questo capitolo si cerca di individuare soprattutto l’originalità dei termini Esse ed Id quod est mostrando come ad essi boezio applichi due differenti modi di predicare. Il terzo ed ultimo capitolo si concentra sulla posizione del problema e sulla relativa solutio. In esso si introducono i concetti di volontà e libertà di Dio che permettono l’individuazione da parte di Boezio di una via intermedia tra la logica dell’inerenza e la logica della partecipazione. Tale logica, che ho chiamato, ‘dell’inerenza relativa’ permette al filosofo romano di ritenere risolta la questione, avendo dimostrato in che modo le sostanze possono dirsi buone in ciò che sono pur non essendo sostanzialmente buone. L’ultima parte dell’ultimo capitolo si concentra anche a commentare le obiezioni immaginate dallo stesso Boezio. [a cura dell'Autore]
How do galaxies build up their spin in the cosmic web?
Creators: name: Welker, charlotte
name: Dubois, Yohan
name: Devriendt, Julien
name: Pichon, Christophe
name: Peirani, Sebastien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the Horizon-AGN simulation we find a mass dependent spin orientation trend for galaxies: the spin of low-mass, rotation-dominated, blue, star-forming galaxies are preferentially aligned with their closest filament, whereas high-mass, velocity dispersion- supported, red quiescent galaxies tend to possess a spin perpendicular to these filaments. We explore the physical mechanisms driving galactic spin swings and quantify how much mergers and smooth accretion re-orient them relative to their host filaments and impact their shape. In particular, we analyze the effect of dispersion and morphology of galaxies and discuss potential tracers for prospective surveys.
description: proceedings of IAU 308 Conference, Tallinn, june 2014
Construction of 4D high-definition cortical surface atlases of infants: Methods and applications
Creators: name: Gilmore, John H.
name: Shen, Dinggang
name: Lin, Weili
name: Wang, Li
name: Shi, Feng
name: Li, Gang
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: In neuroimaging, cortical surface atlases play a fundamental role for spatial normalization, analysis, visualization, and comparison of results across individuals and different studies. However, existing cortical surface atlases created for adults are not suitable for infant brains during the first two years of life, which is the most dynamic period of postnatal structural and functional development of the highly-folded cerebral cortex. Therefore, spatiotemporal cortical surface atlases for infant brains are highly desired yet still lacking for accurate mapping of early dynamic brain development. To bridge this significant gap, leveraging our infant-dedicated computational pipeline for cortical surface-based analysis and the unique longitudinal infant MRI dataset acquired in our research center, in this paper, we construct the first spatiotemporal (4D) high-definition cortical surface atlases for the dynamic developing infant cortical structures at 7 time points, including 1, 3, 6, 9, 12, 18, and 24 months of age, based on 202 serial MRI scans from 35 healthy infants. For this purpose, we develop a novel method to ensure the longitudinal consistency and unbiasedness to any specific subject and age in our 4D infant cortical surface atlases. Specifically, we first compute the within-subject mean cortical folding by unbiased groupwise registration of longitudinal cortical surfaces of each infant. Then we establish longitudinally-consistent and unbiased inter-subject cortical correspondences by groupwise registration of the geometric features of within-subject mean cortical folding across all infants. Our 4D surface atlases capture both longitudinally-consistent dynamic mean shape changes and the individual variability of cortical folding during early brain development. Experimental results on two independent infant MRI datasets show that using our 4D infant cortical surface atlases as templates leads to significantly improved accuracy for spatial normalization of cortical surfaces across infant individuals, in comparison to the infant surface atlases constructed without longitudinal consistency and also the FreeSurfer adult surface atlas. Moreover, based on our 4D infant surface atlases, for the first time, we reveal the spatially-detailed, region-specific correlation patterns of the dynamic cortical developmental trajectories between different cortical regions during early brain development.
Religionspolitik zwischen Konflikt und Integration: Politikwissenschaftliche und sozialethische Positionen zur Religionspolitik in Deutschland
Creators: name: Lots, Laura Johanna (Co-Author)
name: Liedhegener, Antonius (Co-Author)
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017

description: An active religious policy became a political reality in Germany after 1990. The judicial and societal status of religious communities is debated and disputed in public. The article sketches three or maybe already four phases of German state religious policy. It analyzes the scientific discussion about the pros and cons of religious policy in the disciplines of political science and academic social ethics in Germany. In political science, the positions cover a broader range of options than they do in in social ethics. In the latter the general support for the existing rules that guide the relationship of state and churches and religious communities is combined with critical remarks about suitable modifications and the political responsibility of the two main churches. References to the general challenge of integration in modern societies are frequently present in both disciplines. However, a systematic analysis of the effects of religious policies on integration policies is lacking. Intensified joint interdisciplinary research could foster the understanding of the normative basis of religious policy, its opportunities and implications for integration policies. Eine aktive Religionspolitik ist in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland nach 1990 zu einer politischen Realität geworden. Über den rechtlichen und gesellschaftlichen Status von Religionsgemeinschaften wird öffentlich diskutiert und gestritten. Der Beitrag skizziert drei bzw. mittlerweile wohl vier Phasen deutscher Religionspolitik und analysiert vor diesem Hintergrund die wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit dem Für und Wider staatlicher Religionspolitik in der Politikwissenschaft und der akademischen Sozialethik in Deutschland. In der Politikwissenschaft gehen die Positionen dazu deutlich weiter auseinander als in der Sozialethik, in der die Unterstützung für die bestehenden Regelungen des Verhältnisses von Staat und Kirchen bzw. Religionen mit kritischen Hinweisen zu wünschenswerten Modifikationen und zur religionspolitischen Verantwortung der beiden großen Kirchen verbunden wird. Bezüge zur übergeordneten Problematik der Integration moderner Gesellschaften werden in beiden Disziplinen von Anfang an hergestellt, eine systematische Analyse der integrationspolitischen Wirkungen religionspolitischer Maßnahmen steht aber aus. Eine verstärkte interdisziplinäre Forschung könnte das Verständnis der normativen Grundlagen staatlicher Religionspolitik, ihrer Handlungsmöglichkeiten und integrationspolitischen Implikationen fördern.
description: + ID der Publikation: unilu_27132 + Reihe: Jahrbuch für Christliche Sozialwissenschaften + Sprache: Englisch + Letzte Aktualisierung: 2018-06-13 13:33:17
Ανίχνευση βήχα σε ασθενείς COVID-19 κατ’ οίκον με χρήση τεχνικών μηχανικής μάθησης
Creators: name: Τσάκωνας, Γεώργιος Νικόλαος Βασιλείου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2023
Subjects: Βήχας
Ανίχνευση βήχα
COVID-19
Μηχανική μάθηση
Παρακολούθηση ασθενών κατ’οίκον
Cough
Cough detection
Machine learning
Patients monitoring at home

description: Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία μελετά τη σχεδίαση ενός συστήματος ανίχνευσης βήχα σε δείγματα ήχου ασθενών κατά την κατ' οίκον ανάρρωση από λοίμωξη COVID-19. Αρχικά, στο θεωρητικό μέρος της παρούσας διπλωματικής, γίνεται μια σύντομη αναφορά τόσο στη λοίμωξη COVID-19, αλλά και στην παρακολούθηση ασθενών κατ’ οίκoν.΄Ενα μέρος αφιερώνεται στην ανάλυση των φυσιολογικών αλλά και φυσικών χαρακτηριστικών του βήχα. Στη συνέχεια, περιγράφονται τα κύρια μέρη και χαρακτηριστικά κατά το σχεδιασμό του μοντέλου μηχανικής μάθησης που χρησιμοποιείται για την ανίχνευση του βήχα. Στο μέρος της ανάλυσης και των προσομοιώσεων, αναλύονται όλα τα βήματα προεπεξεργασίας και μοντελοποίησης του συστήματος. Παράλληλα, εξετάζεται ο σχεδιασμός ενός Full Stack συστήματος ανίχνευσης βήχα σε πραγματικό χρόνο. Έπειτα, η λειτουργία του συστήματος δοκιμάζεται σε δεδομένα ασθενών COVID-19 κατά τη διάρκεια ανάρρωσης τους κατ’ οίκον κατά την πιλοτική δοκιμή του προγράμματος CAPTAIN-X. Τέλος, παρουσιάζεται η λύση που προτείνεται για την ανίχνευση βήχα σε στιγμιότυπα ήχου και αναπτύσσεται συζήτηση σχετικά με τα αποτελέσματα και μελλοντικές επεκτάσεις της μελέτης.
description: This thesis studies the design of a cough detection system that will be used by COVID-19 patients at home. In the theoretical background chapter of this thesis, a brief reference is made both to the COVID-19 infection, but also to the monitoring of patients at home. One chapter is dedicated to the analysis of the physiological and physical characteristics of cough. Moreover, the main principles and specifications in designing the machine learning model used for cough detection are described. In the analysis and simulations chapter, all preprocessing and modeling steps of the system are analyzed. Furthermore, the parameterisation of a Full Stack cough detection system in real time is analysed. Afterwards, the functionality of the system is tested on data from COVID-19 patients during their recovery at home within the pilot trial of CAPTAIN-X research project. Finally, the proposed solution for cough detection in audio samples is presented and the results are discussed based on the findings and the research questions. Several research ideas are also proposed for further research studies.
Quantitative evaluation of the hypothesis that BL Lacertae objects are QSO remnants
Creators: name: Borra, E. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We evaluate with numerical simulations the hypothesis that BL Lacertae objects are the remnants of Quasi Stellar Objects. This hypothesis is based on their highly peculiar redshift evolution. They have a comoving space density that increases with decreasing redshift, contrary to all other active galactic nuclei. We assume that relativistic jets are below detection in young radio-quiet quasars and increase in strength with cosmic time so that they eventually are detected as BL Lacertae objects. Our numerical simulations fit very well the observed redshift distributions of BL Lacertae objects. There are strong indications that only the high-synchrotron-peaked BL Lacertae objects could be QSO remnants.
description: Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters
Locally-constrained boundary regression for segmentation of prostate and rectum in the planning CT images
Creators: name: Gao, Yaozong
name: Shao, Yeqin
name: Shen, Dinggang
name: Wang, Qian
name: Yang, Xin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Automatic and accurate segmentation of the prostate and rectum in planning CT images is a challenging task due to low image contrast, unpredictable organ (relative) position, and uncertain existence of bowel gas across different patients. Recently, regression forest was adopted for organ deformable segmentation on 2D medical images by training one landmark detector for each point on the shape model. However, it seems impractical for regression forest to guide 3D deformable segmentation as a landmark detector, due to large number of vertices in the 3D shape model as well as the difficulty in building accurate 3D vertex correspondence for each landmark detector. In this paper, we propose a novel boundary detection method by exploiting the power of regression forest for prostate and rectum segmentation. The contributions of this paper are as follows: 1) we introduce regression forest as a local boundary regressor to vote the entire boundary of a target organ, which avoids training a large number of landmark detectors and building an accurate 3D vertex correspondence for each landmark detector; 2) an auto-context model is integrated with regression forest to improve the accuracy of the boundary regression; 3) we further combine a deformable segmentation method with the proposed local boundary regressor for the final organ segmentation by integrating organ shape priors. Our method is evaluated on a planning CT image dataset with 70 images from 70 different patients. The experimental results show that our proposed boundary regression method outperforms the conventional boundary classification method in guiding the deformable model for prostate and rectum segmentations. Compared with other state-of-the-art methods, our method also shows a competitive performance.
Δημοφιλείς φόρμουλες βιομετρίας σε επέμβαση καταρράκτη με premium ενδοφακό
Creators: name: Τσερμακιάν, Τορός Αρτίν
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2023
Subjects: Φόρμουλες βιομετρίας
Καταρράκτης
Ενδοφακός
Βiometric formulas
Cataract
Intraocular lens

description: Για πολλές δεκαετίες υπήρχαν κάποιες φόρμουλες για τον υπολογισμό της ισχύος του ενδοφθάλμιου φακού (IOL) για ασθενείς που υποβάλλονται σε χειρουργική επέμβαση καταρράκτη: οι Haigis, Hoffer Q, Holladay 1 και 2 και SRK/T. Τα τελευταία χρόνια, έχουν εισαχθεί αρκετοί νέοι τύποι για τον υπολογισμό της ισχύος του IOL με στόχο τη βελτίωση της ακρίβειας στην πρόβλεψη της διάθλασης σε οφθαλμούς που υποβάλλονται σε χειρουργική επέμβαση καταρράκτη με premium IOL. Αυτές περιλαμβάνουν το Barrett Universal II, το Emmetropia Verifying Optical (EVO), το Kane, το Olsen, το Pearl DGS και το Radial Basis Function (RBF). Αξιολογείται η απόδοσή τους σε μικρούς και μεγάλους οφθαλμούς δίνοντας ιδιαίτερη έμφαση στο αξονικό μήκος. Το θέμα του αστιγματισμού του κερατοειδούς συζητείται σε σχέση με τους τορικούς ενδοφθάλμιους φακούς (IOL), ενώ αναφέρονται επίσης οι πιο πρόσφατες φόρμουλες για τους τορικούς ενδοφθάλμιους φακούς και τα αποτελέσματά τους.
description: For many decades only a few formulas have been available to calculate the intraocular lens (IOL) power for patients undergoing cataract surgery: the Haigis, Hoffer Q, Holladay 1 and 2 and SRK/T. In recent years, several new formulas for IOL power calculation have been introduced with the aim of improving the accuracy of refraction prediction in eyes undergoing cataract surgery with premium IOL. These include the Barrett Universal II, the Emmetropia Verifying Optical (EVO), the Kane, the Olsen, the Pearl DGS and the Radial Basis Function (RBF). Their performance in short and long eyes is provided and a special focus is given on the issue of axial length. The issue of corneal astigmatism is discussed in relation to toric IOLs, the latest formulas for toric IOLs and their results are also reported.
Predict brain MR image registration via sparse learning of appearance and transformation
Creators: name: Shen, Dinggang
name: Wang, Qian
name: Kim, Minjeong
name: Wu, Guorong
name: Shi, Yonghong
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: We propose a new approach to register the subject image with the template by leveraging a set of intermediate images that are pre-aligned to the template. We argue that, if points in the subject and the intermediate images share similar local appearances, they may have common correspondence in the template. In this way, we learn the sparse representation of a certain subject point to reveal several similar candidate points in the intermediate images. Each selected intermediate candidate can bridge the correspondence from the subject point to the template space, thus predicting the transformation associated with the subject point at the confidence level that relates to the learned sparse coefficient. Following this strategy, we first predict transformations at selected key points, and retain multiple predictions on each key point, instead of allowing only a single correspondence. Then, by utilizing all key points and their predictions with varying confidences, we adaptively reconstruct the dense transformation field that warps the subject to the template. We further embed the prediction-reconstruction protocol above into a multi-resolution hierarchy. In the final, we refine our estimated transformation field via existing registration method in effective manners. We apply our method to registering brain MR images, and conclude that the proposed framework is competent to improve registration performances substantially.
Shape analysis based on depth-ordering
Creators: name: Gao, Yi
name: Niethammer, Marc
name: Hong, Yi
name: Bouix, Sylvain
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: In this paper we propose a new method for shape analysis based on the ordering of shapes using band-depth. We use this band-depth to non-parametrically define a global depth for a shape with respect to a reference population, typically consisting of normal control subjects. This allows us to globally quantify differences with respect to “normality”. Using the depth-ordering of shapes also allows the detection of localized shape differences by using α-central values of shapes. We propose permutation tests to statistically assess global and local shape differences. We further determine the directionality of shape differences (local inflation versus deflation). The method is evaluated on a synthetically generated striatum dataset, and applied to detect shape differences in the hippocampus between subjects with first-episode schizophrenia and normal controls.
Dihydropteroate synthase mutations in Pneumocystis pneumonia: impact of applying different definitions of prophylaxis, mortality endpoints and mutant in a single cohort
Creators: name: Chi, Amy
name: Lawrence, Gena G.
name: Meshnick, Steven R.
name: Yoon, Christina
name: Jarlsberg, Leah G.
name: Huang, Laurence
name: Swartzman, Alexandra
name: Avery, Melissa
name: Subramanian, Anuradha
name: Taylor, Steve M.
name: Roth, Brenna
name: Beard, Charles B.
name: Crothers, Kristina
name: Fong, Serena
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Pneumocystis jirovecii dihydropteroate synthase (DHPS) gene mutations are well-reported. Although sulfa prophylaxis generally is associated with DHPS mutant infection, whether mutant infection is associated with poorer clinical outcomes is less clear. The differing definitions of sulfa prophylaxis and the different mortality endpoints used in these studies may be one explanation for the conflicting study results. Applying different definitions of prophylaxis, mortality endpoints and DHPS mutant to 301 HIV-infected patients with Pneumocystis pneumonia, we demonstrate that prophylaxis, irrespective of definition, increased the risk of infection with pure mutant (any prophylaxis: AOR 4.00, 95% CI: 1.83–8.76, p<0.001) but not mixed genotypes (any prophylaxis: AOR 0.78, 95% CI: 0.26–2.36, p=0.65). However, infection with mutant DHPS, irrespective of definition, was not associated with increased mortality (all-cause or PCP death) at the three time-intervals examined (all p>0.05). Future studies should standardize key variables associated with DHPS mutant infection as well as examine DHPS mutant subtypes (pure mutant vs. mixed infections) – perhaps even individual DHPS mutant genotypes – so that data can be pooled to better address this issue.
Regression of advanced melanoma upon withdrawal of immunosuppression: case series and literature review
Creators: name: Sharpless, N.
name: Collichio, F.
name: Dillon, P.
name: Thomas, N.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: We report two cases of stage IV malignant melanoma arising in patients treated with azathioprine for myasthenia gravis. In both cases, the melanoma metastases regressed upon withdrawal of immunosuppression. One patient remains melanoma free at 10 years, and the second patient experienced an 18-month disease free period. There is one prior case report in the medical literature to support full immune reconstitution for treatment in advanced immunosuppression-related melanoma, and one case series suggesting that transplant patients developing melanoma may benefit from a switch to sirolimus. Virtually, no data exist for the medical management of early stage melanoma in the immunosuppressed patients. We review the limited preclinical data in support of immune reconstitution and the data on immunosuppression as a risk factor for melanoma. We conclude that reduction or withdrawal of immunosuppression may be beneficial in patients with advanced stage melanoma and warrants further consideration in patients with early stage melanoma.