cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF MINIMUM GIFT AMOUNT TO THE HIGHEST GIVING LEVEL FOR ATHLETIC FUNDRAISING ORGANIZATIONS IN THE NCAA DIVISION I FOOTBALL BOWL SUBDIVISION
Creators: name: Watson, Sarah Currie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: As the cost of college attendance continues to rise, it becomes increasingly important for college athletic fundraising organizations to keep up with the rising costs in order to continue to provide critical scholarship support for student-athletes. For many schools, if enough revenue is not generated from private contributions, the threat of cutting sports grows. For this reason, it is important for fundraising organizations to regularly examine the pricing structures in order to most appropriately price their giving levels. No prior research exists that examines how the minimum gift amount for the highest giving level should be determined. The purpose of this study is to determine what market factors may influence this amount by conducting a regression analysis using schools in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) (n = 122). Results of the study suggest that football attendance, men’s basketball winning percentage, number of giving levels, and median income for the metropolitan statistical area are statistically significant in explaining 50% of the variance in minimum gift amount to the highest giving level for the sample (R2=.713). The study produces a model that may be used by schools to gage an appropriate dollar amount for their highest giving level, which may help with pricing the highest giving level more appropriately, creating the potential for increased revenue.
title: Multimodale Bildgebung in der Nachsorge nach Ruthenium-106 Brachytherapie von Aderhautmelanomen
Creators: name: Willerding, Gregor
name: Swenshon, T.
name: Carasco, E.
name: Dreyhaupt, J.
name: Bindewald-Wittich, A.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Funduskopie und Sonografie sind die Basisuntersuchungen in der Nachsorge nach Ruthenium-106 Brachytherapie von Aderhautmelanomen. Zur multimodalen Bildgebung nach Brachytherapie von Aderhautmelanomen zählen dazu die optische Kohärenztomografie (OCT) und die Fundusautofluoreszenz[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 69. Tagung der Vereinigung Norddeutscher Augenärzte (VNDA)
(102598) Gladys Constance Scott
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Tokamak elongation: how much is too much? I Theory
Creators: name: Freidberg, Jeff P.
name: Cerfon, Antoin
name: Lee, Jungpyo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this and the accompanying paper the problem of the maximally achievable elongation in a tokamak is investigated. The work represents an extension of many earlier studies, which were often focused on determining the elongation limits due to (1) natural elongation in a simple applied pure vertical field or (2) axisymmetric stability in the presence of a perfectly conducting wall. The extension investigated here includes the effect of the vertical stability feedback system which actually sets the maximum practical elongation limit in a real experiment. A basic resistive wall stability parameter (gammatau) is introduced to model the feedback system which although simple in appearance actually captures the essence of the feedback system. Elongation limits in the presence of feedback are then determined by calculating the maximum elongation against n=0 resistive wall modes for fixed gammatau. The results are obtained by means of a general formulation culminating in a variational principle which is particularly amenable to numerical analysis. The principle is valid for arbitrary profiles but simplifies significantly for the Solov'ev profiles, effectively reducing the 2-D stability problem into a 1-D problem. The accompanying paper provides the numerical results and leads to a sharp answer of how much elongation is too much?
description: 32 pages, 2 figures
title: Εκπαίδευση εκπαιδευτικών β΄βάθμιας εκπαίδευσης στην διδασκαλία του μαθήματος των μαθηματικών με χρήση ΤΠΕ με την υποστήριξη μεντόρων - εκπαιδευτών
title: Training of secondary school teachers in teaching mathematics using ICT with the support of mentors
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Ευλιάτης, Αναστάσιος
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: TPACK
subject: PCK
subject: TPK
subject: TCK
subject: Mentoring
subject: Mentors
subject: Teacher training
subject: ICT
subject: Technology
subject: Technology in teaching
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Στα σχολεία της δευτεροβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης και συγκεκριμένα στο μάθημα των μαθηματικών υπάρχει ανάγκη ενσωμάτωσης των ΤΠΕ. Η καθοδήγηση βοηθά να ξεπεραστούν εμπόδια και δυσκολίες στο να επιτευχθεί αυτή η ενσωμάτωση ενώ παράλληλα μπορεί να ανεβάσει τα επίπεδα και των άλλων δύο συστατικών του TPACK, δηλαδή γνώση του περιεχομένου και παιδαγωγική, στους εκπαιδευτικούς. Αυτή η έρευνα έγινε ποσοτικά και με την αποστολή ερωτηματολογίων σε μαθηματικούς σχολείων από κάθε τύπο. Λάβαμε 86 απαντήσεις συνολικά και συμπεράναμε πως υπάρχει παραδοχή ότι η χρήση ψηφιακών εργαλείων θα παρείχε ευκολίες στον καθηγητή, θα βοηθούσε τους μαθητές στην κατανόηση εννοιών και θα βελτίωνε την μαθησιακή διαδικασία. Επιπλέον, τα συμπεράσματα μας δείχνουν πως για τους εκπαιδευτικούς είναι χρονοβόρο και δύσκολο το πέρασμα από ένα παραδοσιακό μάθημα σε ένα πιο σύγχρονο με χρήση ΤΠΕ και πως η καθοδήγηση από κάποιον έμπειρο μέντορα θα έπαιζε καθοριστικό ρόλο στο να αρθούν συγκεκριμένες δυσκολίες.
title: Pneumomediastinum, pneumothorax and subcutaneous emphysema: one leads to another!
Creators: name: Secondini, Lucia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Acute
subject: Venous access
subject: Surgery
subject: Complications
subject: CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Thorax
subject: Mediastinum
subject: Emergency

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The purpose of our educational exhibit is: -describe etiology and pathophysiology of pneumomediastinum, pneumothorax and subcutaneous emphysema, -illustrate the imaging features of massive pneumomediastinum, pneumothorax, subcutaneous emphysema and...
(102602) Winifred [Dickinson]
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Simultaneous Diagonalization of Matrices and its Applications in Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Programming
Creators: name: Jiang, Rujun
name: Li, Duan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 15AXX, 65KXX, 90CXX

description: An equivalence between attainability of simultaneous diagonalization (SD) and hidden convexity in quadratically constrained quadratic programming (QCQP) stimulates us to investigate necessary and sufficient SD conditions, which is one of the open problems posted by Hiriart-Urruty (SIAM Rev., 49 (2007), pp. 255-273) nine years ago. In this paper we give a necessary and sufficient SD condition for any two real symmetric matrices and offer a necessary and sufficient SD condition for any finite collection of real symmetric matrices under the existence assumption of a semi-definite matrix pencil. Moreover, we apply our SD conditions to QCQP, especially with one or two quadratic constraints, to verify the exactness of its second-order cone programming relaxation and to facilitate the solution process of QCQP.
description: 19 pages
LIFE HISTORY PATTERNS OF MODERN AND FOSSIL MERCENARIA SPP. FROM WARM VS. COLD CLIMATES
Creators: name: Palmer, Kylie L
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Recent work projects significant increases in sea surface temperature over the next century. The biological consequences of such change are poorly understood. Study designs using conservation paleobiology combined with sclerochronology can provide a framework to assess these conse-quences. This study focuses on fossil Mercenaria spp. that grew during climates warm-er/comparable to today. We compared lifespans and growth rates of modern Mercenaria spp. pop-ulations to those from the mid Pliocene and early Pleistocene to better understand the influences of temperature on life history. We found that growth rates tend to increase with increasing temperature both through space and time. However, the relationship between lifespan and temperature is un-clear. Further, we observe that mid-high latitude individuals seem to be more impacted by changes in temperature than low latitude individuals. These findings provide insight to how Mercenaria might respond to future projected environmental change.
(102593) Edgar William Houghton
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Von den Symptomen bis zur Prognose: Lymphome der okulären Adnexe in Rostock – Eine retrospektive Untersuchung der vergangenen 20 Jahre
Creators: name: Zschoche, Marco
name: Zimpfer, A.
name: Scheef, B.O.
name: Jünemann, A.G.M.
name: Fuchsluger, T.A.
name: Guthoff, R.F.
name: Junghanß, C.
name: Hildebrandt, G.
name: Emmert, S.
name: Erbersdobler, A.
name: Kundt, G.
name: Kakkassery, V.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Analyse der Biodaten, der Symptomatik und klinischen Zeichen, des Tumorbefalls, der Klassifikation, der Therapie, des Outcomes. Methoden: Retrospektive Untersuchung von 56 Patienten/-innen mit einem Orbita-, Konjunktiva-, Tränenapparat- oder Lidbefall eines Lymphoms im Zeitraum[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 69. Tagung der Vereinigung Norddeutscher Augenärzte (VNDA)
Lyapunov-based Stochastic Nonlinear Model Predictive Control: Shaping the State Probability Density Functions
Creators: name: Buehler, Edward A.
name: Paulson, Joel A.
name: Akhavan, Ali
name: Mesbah, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Stochastic uncertainties in complex dynamical systems lead to variability of system states, which can in turn degrade the closed-loop performance. This paper presents a stochastic model predictive control approach for a class of nonlinear systems with unbounded stochastic uncertainties. The control approach aims to shape probability density function of the stochastic states, while satisfying input and joint state chance constraints. Closed-loop stability is ensured by designing a stability constraint in terms of a stochastic control Lyapunov function, which explicitly characterizes stability in a probabilistic sense. The Fokker-Planck equation is used for describing the dynamic evolution of the states' probability density functions. Complete characterization of probability density functions using the Fokker-Planck equation allows for shaping the states' density functions as well as direct computation of joint state chance constraints. The closed-loop performance of the stochastic control approach is demonstrated using a continuous stirred-tank reactor.
description: Submitted to the 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Osaka, Japan, December 2015
title: Tag des Baubetriebs 2010 - Tagungsbeiträge: Modellierung von Prozessen zur Fertigung von Unikaten : Forschungsworkshop zur Simulation von Bauprozessen
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Universitätsverlag
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Bauplanung
subject: Bauprozess
subject: Computersimulation
subject: 620

description: Am 25. März 2010 veranstaltete die Professur Baubetrieb und Bauverfahren im Rahmen der jährlich stattfindenden baubetrieblichen Tagungsreihe gemeinsam mit der Arbeitsgruppe „Unikatprozesse“ in der Fachgruppe „Simulation in Produktion und Logistik“ (SPL) im Rahmen der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Simulation – ASIM einen ganztägigen Workshop mit dem Titel: „Modellierung von Prozessen zur Fertigung von Unikaten“. Viele Bauprozesse sind dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass sie Unikatcharakter besitzen. Unikate sind durch prototypische Einmaligkeit, Individualität, vielfältige Randbedingungen, einen geringen Grad an Standardisierung und Wiederholungen gekennzeichnet. Das erschwert die realitätsnahe Modellierung zur Simulation sogenannter Unikatprozesse. Dieser Besonderheit widmet sich die überwiegende Zahl der Tagungsbeiträge, die in diesem Band widergegeben sind.
description: Schriften der Professur Baubetrieb und Bauverfahren, vol. 19
Learning with Structured Priors for Robust Robot Manipulation
Creators: name: Liang, Qiao
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Robust and generalizable robots that can autonomously manipulate objects in semi-structured environments can bring material benefits to society. Datadriven learning approaches are crucial for enabling such systems by identifying and exploiting patterns in semi-structured environments, allowing robots to adapt to novel scenarios with minimal human supervision. However, despite significant prior work in learning for robot manipulation, large gaps remain before robots can be widely deployed in the real world. This thesis addresses three particular challenges to advance toward this goal: sensing in semi-structured environments, adapting manipulation to novel scenarios, and flexible planning for diverse skills and tasks. A common theme among the discussed approaches is enabling efficient and generalizable learning by incorporating “structures," or priors specific to robot manipulation, into the design and implementation of learning algorithms. The thesis works follow the three challenges above. We first leverage contact-based sensing in scenarios that are difficult for visionbased perception. In one work, we use contact feedback to track in-hand object poses during dexterous manipulation. In another, we learn to localize contacts on the surface of robot arms to enable whole-arm sensing. Next, we explore adapting manipulation to novel objects and environments for both model-based and model-free skills. We show how learning task-oriented interactive perception can improve the performance of downstream modelbased skills by identifying relevant dynamics parameters. We also show how using object-centric action spaces can make deep reinforcement learning of model-free skills more efficient and generalizable. Lastly, we explore flexible planning methods to leverage low-level skills for more complex manipulation tasks. We develop a search-based task planner that relaxes assumptions on skill and task representations from prior works by learning skill-level dynamics models. This planner is then applied in a followup work that uses learned preconditions of Hybrid Force-Velocity Controllers to perform multi-step contact-rich manipulation tasks. We also explore planning for more flexible tasks described by natural language by using code as the structured action space. This is done by prompting Large Language Models to directly map natural language task instructions to robot policy code, which orchestrates existing robot perception and skill libraries to complete the task.
title: Qualitative and quantitative analysis of insula and hippocampus in Alzheimer's disease and Lewy Body Dementia
Creators: name: BALOGLU, SEYYID
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Dementia
subject: Perception image
subject: Observer performance
subject: Comparative studies
subject: MR
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: CNS

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Our objective was to perform a qualitative and quantitative analysis of hippocampus and insula in patients with prodromal Alzheimer’s Disease (pro-AD), prodromal Dementia with Lewy bodies (pro-DLB), Alzheimer's Disease (AD), Dementia with Lewy...
(102597) Mary B Pattison
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Common Orbital Disease in Adults: Diagnosis with CT and MR Imaging
Creators: name: Jeong, SooYeon
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Eyes
subject: Biopsy
subject: Trauma
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Inflammation

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Many commonorbital diseases in adultsmay have overlapping clinical presentations. Therefore, imaging plays a crucial role in characterization and differential diagnosis. Currently, CT is the 1st line modality for radiologic evaluation of the orbit...
title: Untersuchungen zum Linsenparadoxon mit dem IOLMaster 700
Creators: name: Koch, Timea
name: Bohn, S.
name: Stahnke, T.
name: Guthoff, R.F.
name: Stachs, O.
name: Sperlich, K.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Die Bestimmung von akkommodativ bedingten Geometrieveränderungen des Auges ist generell eine messtechnische Herausforderung. Als ein möglicher Ansatz wurde in dieser Studie der IOLMaster 700 (Carl Zeiss Meditec AG) verwendet, um altersabhängige Veränderungen während[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 69. Tagung der Vereinigung Norddeutscher Augenärzte (VNDA)
title: CAROTID STENOSIS AND MER STENTING: a long-lasting couple
Creators: name: Iturralde-Garriz, Amaya
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Vascular
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Arterial access
subject: Stents
subject: Treatment effects
subject: Haemodynamics / Flow dynamics
subject: Image verification

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To expose carotid atherosclerotic stenosis as a widespread pathology and the importance of its treatment. To present a new hybrid stent named MER for an endovascular approach to carotid stenosis (technical characteristics and procedural features) We...
title: Bowman-Synthese: Ein neues Verfahren zur Behandlung des Keratokonus-Rezidivs bei Patienten Jahre nach perforierender Keratoplastik
Creators: name: Böhnke, Matthias
name: Dechonds, I.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Die perforierende Keratoplastik (PKP) ist das bewährte Verfahren bei Patienten mit zentral vernarbter Keratektasie bei Keratokonus. Aus immunologischer Sicht haben diese Transplantate eine gute Prognose; nicht selten jedoch kommt es nach 10 - 30 Jahren zu einem Rezidiv des Keratokonus mit erneuter[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 69. Tagung der Vereinigung Norddeutscher Augenärzte (VNDA)
ATLAST detector needs for direct spectroscopic biosignature characterization in the visible and near-IR
Creators: name: Rauscher, Bernard J.
name: Bolcar, Matthew R.
name: Clampin, Mark
name: Domagal-Goldman, Shawn D.
name: McElwain, Michael W.
name: Moseley, S. H.
name: Stahle, Carl
name: Stark, Christopher C.
name: Thronson, Harley A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Are we alone? Answering this ageless question will be a major focus for astrophysics in coming decades. Our tools will include unprecedentedly large UV-Optical-IR space telescopes working with advanced coronagraphs and starshades. Yet, these facilities will not live up to their full potential without better detectors than we have today. To inform detector development, this paper provides an overview of visible and near-IR (VISIR; $λ=0.4-1.8~μ\textrm{m}$) detector needs for the Advanced Technology Large Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST), specifically for spectroscopic characterization of atmospheric biosignature gasses. We also provide a brief status update on some promising detector technologies for meeting these needs in the context of a passively cooled ATLAST.
description: 8 pages, Presented 9 August 2015 at SPIE Optics + Photonics, San Diego, CA
title: US-guided injections in musculoskeletal diseases of the lower limb: a practical guide and review of the available scientific evidence
Creators: name: Merino Bonilla, Jose Alberto
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Trauma
subject: Calcifications / Calculi
subject: Inflammation

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: 1. To review the main musculosketeal diseases of the lower limb that can be treated by percutaneous injections using real-time ultrasound guidance, the technical aspects of every procedure and the available scientific evidence. 2. To know the...
Genre and/as Distinction: The Mars Volta and the Symbolic Boundaries of Progressive Rock
Creators: name: Frankeny, Robert Justin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: In the early 2000’s, The Mars Volta’s popularity among prog(ressive) rock fandom was, in many ways, a conundrum. Unlike 1970s prog rock that drew heavily on Western classical music, TMV members Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala routinely insisted on the integral importance of salsa music to their style and asserted an ambivalent relationship to classic prog rock. This thesis builds on existing scholarship on cultural omnivorousness to assert that an increase in omnivorous musical tastes since prog rock’s inception in the 1970s not only explains The Mars Volta’s affiliation with the genre in the early 2000s, but also explains their mixed reception within a divided prog rock fanbase. Contrary to existing scholarship that suggests that the omnivore had largely supplanted the highbrow snob, this study suggests that the snob persisted in the prog rock fanbase during progressive rock’s resurgence (ca. 1997-2012), as distinguished by their assertion of the superiority of prog rock through discourses of musical complexity adapted from classical music.      Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s theorization of the “fields of cultural production" and research in musical border studies (especially that of Alejandro L. Madrid), this thesis studies the social distinctions that occur both within (between the snobs and the omnivores), as well beyond the genre of progressive rock (between prog rock and other genres). Building on Jack Hamilton’s work on race in rock music, it suggests that progressive rock originated in the 1970s as a genre in which “authenticity” was coded as white, European, heteronormative, masculine, and middle- to upper-class, which informed prog snobs’ claims to cultural superiority. By the late 1990s, however, omnivorous listening practices had become the dominant mode of appreciating progressive rock, and the principle of snobbish exclusion lost ground to a concern for cultural diversity, identifiable by performed omnivorousness. Online fan forums and reviews that discuss The Mars Volta demonstrate that the snobs and omnivores struggled for dominance during the prog resurgence. While the omnivores understood sonic and visual signifiers of Rodriguez-Lopez’s and Bixler-Zavala’s Puerto Rican and Chicano heritage (respectively) as social progress within the historically non-diverse context of progressive rock, the snobs understood these signifiers as noise. Both positions have the effect of essentializing The Mars Volta’s identities, which are better understood fluidly through the descriptor “border kids.” This thesis concludes that, while the struggles between the snobs and omnivores result in symbolic boundaries at the intersection of race, class, gender expression, and geographic origin both within and beyond progressive rock, these struggles also contributed to the resurgence of progressive rock as a stable field and genre.
(102599) Gabriel Joseph Scott
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Towards the Jacquet Conjecture on the Local Converse Problem for $p$-adic $\mathrm{GL}_n$
Creators: name: Jiang, Dihua
name: Nien, Chufeng
name: Stevens, Shaun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 11F70, 22E50, Secondary 11F85, 22E55

description: The Local Converse Problem is to determine how the family of the local gamma factors $γ(s,π\timesτ,ψ)$ characterizes the isomorphism class of an irreducible admissible generic representation $π$ of $\mathrm{GL}_n(F)$, with $F$ a non-archimedean local field, where $τ$ runs through all irreducible supercuspidal representations of $\mathrm{GL}_r(F)$ and $r$ runs through positive integers. The Jacquet conjecture asserts that it is enough to take $r=1,2,\ldots,\left[\frac{n}{2}\right]$. Based on arguments in the work of Henniart and of Chen giving preliminary steps towards the Jacquet conjecture, we formulate a general approach to prove the Jacquet conjecture. With this approach, the Jacquet conjecture is proved under an assumption which is then verified in several cases, including the case of level zero representations.
description: Authors' final version before typesetting; first published in the Journal of the European Mathematical Society in volume 17 (2015), published by the European Mathematical Society
title: Quantitative Measurement of Heterogeneity on Thyroid Ultrasonography in Patients with Diffuse Thyroid Gland Pathology : Pilot Study.
Creators: name: Jeong, SooYeon
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Endocrine disorders
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Thyroid / Parathyroids

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Diffuse thyroid disease(DTD) encompasses diverse clinical entities including Graves' disease and Hashimoto's thyroiditis and it is commonly observed throughout the population. 1 Current role of ultrasonography in evaluatingdiffuse thyroid...
title: What the radiologists should know about US and MR findings of female urinary incontinence surgical tapes.
Creators: name: Robba, Tiziana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Pelvic floor dysfunction
subject: Surgery
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: Pelvis
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: to make the radiologists more confident with some surgical approaches (injectable bulking agents and sling procedures) for female stress urinary...
Development of the Fast Light Alloy Stamping Technology (FAST) towards automotive applications: experimental studies
Creators: name: Ji, Kang
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2017

description: In order to improve fuel efficiency and reduce carbon emissions for the automotive industry, a novel forming technology Fast light alloy stamping technology (FAST) for high and ultra-high strength aluminium alloy thin wall components (such as AA7075) was developed with experimental studies in this thesis. The process consists of: rapid heating, forming and in-die quenching, and incubation. A hot Stamping Simulator tool set to study FAST was successfully developed and manufactured to work in conjunction with the Gleeble 3800 thermo-mechanical testing machine. Based on this Hot Stamping Simulator, the effect of forming parameters on the formability of material and post-form strength have been studied for AA7075 2 mm blank. The effects of contact pressure, lubricant, and tool material on the Interfacial heat transfer coefficient (IHTC) have also been studied, and a mathematical model was developed in order to calculate the quenching time, predict post form strength and optimise the tool design to secure a high quenching rate, enabling the full post-form strength to be retained. Verification tests for the FAST process utilising AA7075 2 mm blank were conducted by forming U-shape and M-shape components. A standard testing procedure was developed for different materials and manufacturer requirements and was verified by studying 6 test cases. Finally, as a new forming process, conclusions and recommendations are made outlining additional factors to be studied to enable the FAST process to be adopted in an industrial environment.
Operational solutions for the generalized Fokker-Planck and generalized diffusion-wave equations
Creators: name: Górska, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The evolution operator method is used to solve the generalized Fokker-Planck equations and the generalized diffusion-wave equations in the (1+1) dimensional space in which $x\in\mathbb{R}$ and $t\in\mathbb{R}_+$. These equations contain either the first- or the second-time derivatives smeared by memory functions, each of which forms an integral kernel (denoted by $f(ξ, t)$, $ξ\in\mathbb{R}_+$) of suitable evolution operators. If memory functions in the Laplace space are Stieltjes functions, then $f(ξ, t)$ satisfy normalization, non-negativity, and infinite divisibility to be considered a probability density function. The evolution operators also contain exponential-like operators whose action on initial condition $p_0(x) > 0$ leads to the parent process distribution functions. This makes the results fully analogous to those obtained within the standard subordination approach. The above conclusion is satisfied by the solution of the generalized Fokker-Planck equation. In the case of the generalized diffusion-wave equation, to get this property, we should employ a special class, namely "diffusion-like" initial conditions. The key models of the operator method involve power-law memory functions. It leads to the characterization of $f(ξ, t)$ by applying one-sided stable Lévy distributions. The article also examines the properties of evolution operators in terms of evolution and self-reproduction.
title: A Significant and simple trial of radiation dose reduction during transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) with drug-eluting bead (DEB) for hepatocellular carcinoma
Creators: name: Hirakawa, Masakazu
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Chemoembolisation
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Liver
subject: Interventional vascular

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: This study aimed to evaluate patient radiation dose reduction, during transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) with drug-eluting bead (DEB) for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) while maintaining treatment effect (TE), adverse events(AE) and the image...
Thermofluid optimisation of turboexpanders for mobile organic Rankine cycle systems
Creators: name: Robertson, Miles C.
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: The Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) is a closed-loop thermodynamic cycle used for low-temperature heat recovery, from sources as diverse as solar, geothermal and industrial processes. Within the ORC, power is produced with the use of a dense-gas vapour expansion in a suitable device and the efficiency of this process is a key influence on cycle efficiency. This thesis therefore investigates the design, optimisation and validation of nozzled radial-inflow turboexpanders, applied to the recovery of vehicle exhaust waste heat. A 1-dimensional meanline performance prediction methodology is developed, capable of modelling the real-gas effects prevalent in dense, organic working fluids. In addition, choking effects within flow passages are explicitly accounted for in both nozzle and rotor, allowing accurate prediction at the high Pressure Ratios typically observed in ORC expanders. A validation case is subsequently presented, tuning loss correlation coefficients to match 6 high Pressure Ratio experimental test cases, reducing average mass flow rate and efficiency errors to 1.33% and 2.04%, respectively. This 1D model is used to create a methodology in which expander optimisation is performed across an entire vehicle duty cycle. A discretised heat exchanger model is developed, capable of modelling multiple fluid phases and real gas effects. A number of simplifications including surrogate models generated by neural network fits, lead to an O(10^3) reduction in computing effort. A case study is performed to quantify benefits to a 11.7 L diesel engine running a 1200-point Non-Road Transient Cycle, resulting in a 21.9% improvement in total cycle energy recovery against a single-point baseline case. The methodologies contained within this thesis are used to design a turboexpander for an industrial research project, focusing on a 15 L diesel Tier 4 engine. Across two generations of design, a combination of computational and experimental methods are applied to produce an expander containing non-radial rotor inlet blading, producing a simulated power output of 12.4 kW at the design point. Finally, in order to facilitate validation of real-gas Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations and better understand the underlying flow physics, a blowdown facility is constructed for working fluid r1233zd(E), centred around a converging-diverging test section producing a Mach 2 expansion at the exit plane. Comparison of CFD and centreline pressure measurements for both nitrogen and refrigerant produced maximum errors in Pressure Ratio of 5.7% and 12.1% respectively, suggesting an overestimation by computational methods in predicting expander output power. The methodologies, designs and experimental results contained within this thesis provide improvements to the modelling, optimisation and validation of dense-gas turboexpanders, with the aim of improving design processes and aiding the implementation of ORC for vehicle waste heat recovery.
Euler-Lagrange formulas for pseudo-Kaehler manifolds
Creators: name: Park, JeongHyeong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53B35, 57R20

description: Let $c$ be a characteristic form of degree $k$ which is defined on a Kaehler manifold of real dimension $m>2k$. Taking the inner product with the Kaehler form $Ω^k$ gives a scalar invariant which can be considered as a generalized Lovelock functional. The associated Euler-Lagrange equations are a generalized Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity theory; this theory restricts to the canonical formalism if $c=c_2$ is the second Chern form. We extend previous work studying these equations from the Kaehler to the pseudo-Kaehler setting.
description: 6 pages
(102590) Gweneth Maud Dickinson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
The Therapeutic Alliance in Integrated Coping Awareness Therapy
Creators: name: Orleans-Pobee, Rachel Comfort Maku
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: The therapeutic alliance (TA) is a crucial component of psychotherapy, but few studies have examined TA in specialized interventions for first-episode psychosis (FEP). This study examined the role of TA (rated by clients, therapists, and independent observers) in the context of a novel FEP intervention. Demographic and clinical variables were examined as potential predictors of TA, and the relationship between TA and treatment outcomes was examined. Client-rated TA was higher than therapist-rated TA, and TA did not differ between treatment conditions. Younger age and lower baseline symptom severity predicted stronger client-rated TA. Lastly, stronger client-rated TA predicted lower post-treatment symptom severity. Results suggest that client-rated TA predicts treatment outcomes in this population more than therapist- or observer-rated TA, and that client-rated TA may also be more sensitive to demographic and clinical predictors. These findings expand our understanding of the role of TA in FEP interventions, enhancing treatment for this population.
Urheberrecht in der Wissenschaft. Ein Überblick für Forschung, Lehre und Bibliotheken
Creators: name: Kreutzer, Till
name: Fischer, Georg
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Urheberrecht, Wissenschaft, Forschung, Lehre, Bibliothek

description: Die aktualisierte und vollständig überarbeitete Handreichung "Urheberrecht in der Wissenschaft" beantwortet praxisnah und verständlich typische Fragen zum Urheberrecht für Lehre und Forschung. Diese umfassen etwa die Verwendung von Materialien Dritter oder die Erstellung und Veröffentlichung eigener urheberrechtlich geschützter Werke.
description: Handreichung im Auftrag des BMBF
Weight management and mobile health in a primary care setting
Creators: name: Wynter, Donisha
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2022

description: Background: Obesity is a growing global epidemic affecting billions of people worldwide and is associated with increased healthcare costs, morbidity, and mortality. Mobile health (mHealth) technology is an emerging technology that offers a positive outlook in helping to combat obesity. The collaboration of health care providers and mHealth applications can motivate patients to lose weight and live healthier lives.Purpose of Project: The purpose of this project was to evaluate the effectiveness of a mHealth intervention for weight loss among overweight and obese patients in a primary care setting. Methodology: A quality improvement project using a pretest and posttest design, conducted over 12 weeks. Upon enrollment and at the end of the study, participants completed the International Physical Activity Questionnaire short form and Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire, had their body weight measured, and BMI calculated. Participants also had their weight measured at weeks four, eight, and 12 . The data were analyzed by non-parametric Wilcoxon rank tests and Friedman test. Results: All participants achieved weight loss. However, no statistically significant difference in weight loss (p = .08) and BMI (p = .109). No statistically significant result for walking, doing moderate activities and doing vigorous activity, (p = .07, p = .66, p = .32 respectively). No statistically significant difference in the eating behaviors of cognitive restraint, uncontrolled eating, or emotional eating behavior ( p = .14; p = .29; p = .07 respectively). Implications for Practice: mHealth can enhance current standards of practice by helping overweight and obese patients adopt better self-management skills geared towards maintaining a healthy lifestyle through weight loss and implicate clinical practices to incorporate mHealth technology for weight management. Furthermore, there can be implication of policies that regulate and protect the use of such technology for weight management.
Dynamics of oxygen in coastal seas - the Baltic Sea example
Creators: name: Naumov, Lev
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 500 Natural sciences
subject: 530 Physics
subject: 550 Earth sciences

description: The thesis investigates the oxygen dynamics in the deep layers of the four sub-basins in the central Baltic Sea during the last 70 years and the possible reaction of the system to the reduced nutrient forcing. It was found that the overall deoxygenation during the study period is manifested as the shift in oxygen consumption from the water column to the sediments. In addition, the remote sub-basins receive, at the moment, almost no oxygen from the Major Baltic Inflows. No hysteresis effect was observed in the system's reaction to the reduced nutrient input in sensitivity experiments.
Quantizations and Poincare inequalities on graded Lie groups. A study on anharmonic oscillators
Creators: name: Chatzakou, Marianna
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: The analysis carried out in this dissertation lies in two settings: the Euclidean setting and the non-commutative setting of two stratified Lie groups; namely the Engel and the Cartan group. In the non-commutative direction, following the theory developed by Fischer and Ruzhansky, we set out the prerequisites for the development of the global symbolic calculus in the setting of the below groups. The latter means that explicit formulas for the difference operators in both settings are given, and subsequently the S^m(G) classes of symbols can be concretely described. The group Fourier transform of the sub-Laplacian on the aforementioned groups boils down to an anharmonic oscillator on Rn. This, in turn, hands over the study of anharmonic oscillators, using the Weyl-Hormander calculus, aiming to obtain spectral properties for their negative powers in terms of Schatten-von Neumann classes. Additionally, the associated Weyl-Hormander classes of the degenerate harmonic oscillator are described. Developing the Fourier analysis associated with the eigenfunctions of the, regarded as prototype, anharmonic oscillator, we establish a Hausdorff-Young-Paley inequality, and obtain boundedness results for Fourier multipliers in this setting. In the same spirit, but moving to the non-commutative setting, we apply a generalisation of a classical condition of Hormander on the Lp-Lq boundedness of Fourier multipliers on a locally compact group to spectral multipliers of non-Rockland operators on the Engel and Cartan groups. Conditions on the r-nuclearity of functions of the prototype anharmonic oscillator on modulation spaces are given, and these imply that Lidskii's trace formula that holds true for r >2/3 due to Grothendieck's theory, still holds true for larger values of r. Finally, we prove the Poincare inequality for a family of probability measures, with density depending on a homogeneous norm, on a class of stratifed Lie groups of any step
title: Evaluation of white matter integrity with tract-based spatial statistics in patients with traumatic brain injury
Creators: name: Andrade, Celi
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: CNS
subject: Trauma
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Trauma

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an important cause of severe disability, cognitive dysfunction and mortality worldwide (1). The main goal of this study is to longitudinally assess white matter (WM) microstructure with diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)...