cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: MDCT assessment of CAD in type-2 diabetic subjects with diabetic neuropathy: the role of Charcot neuro-arthropathy
Creators: name: Minoiu, Costin
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Screening

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To investigate theseverity of coronary artery disease (CAD) and the plaquecomposition in neuropathic type 2 diabetic subjects withand without Charcot neuroarthropathy (CN), bymultidetector computed tomography coronary angiography(MDCT-CA). To...
Microscopically derived multi-component Ginzburg-Landau theories for $s+is$ superconducting state
Creators: name: Garaud, Julien
name: Silaev, Mihail
name: Babaev, Egor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Starting with the generic Ginzburg-Landau expansion from a microscopic $N$-band model, we focus on the case of a 3-band model which was suggested to be relevant to describe some iron-based superconductors. This can lead to the so-called $s+is$ superconducting state that breaks time-reversal symmetry due to the competition between different pairing channels. Of particular interest in that context, is the case of an interband dominated pairing with repulsion between different bands. For that case we consider in detail the relevant reduced two-component Ginzburg-Landau theory. We provide detailed analysis of the ground state, length scales and topological properties of that model.
description: Prepared for the proceedings of Vortex IX conference in Rhodos Sept. 2015; Replaced with a version in press in Physica C ; 15 pages, 6 figures
Public Health Research Ethics: Clinical Registries and Informed Consent
Creators: name: Komatsu, Yasuhiro
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Epidemiologic studies using data collected through disease surveillance or clinical registries improve public health practice. Principles of human research ethics such as the Belmont report and the Declaration of Helsinki have been developed to prevent harm from medical experiments. Those who prepared these principles may not have imagined that the day would arrive when information technology would be so widely available and endemic chronic diseases would become one of the major interests of public health. Some key questions that have now become growing areas of interest include: How to deal with epidemiologic studies which impose minimal risk but which require access to medical records or personal information; how to balance the public good that will result from large epidemiologic studies and protection of privacy In this master’s paper, I reviewed the historical development of research ethics, informed consent, and protection of privacy related to health information, and how they affect the conduct of epidemiologic studies. I discussed the application of research ethics principles and proposed better ways to solve the ethical dilemma between protection of privacy and pursuing the public good through epidemiologic studies, especially using data from medical records and clinical registries. As a result of this review and in consideration of dilemmas regarding the protection of patient privacy and the need for efficient access to data, I developed a set of eight proposals for the ethical use of existing data in medical records or clinical registries in epidemiological and other public health studies.
Washington Post Poll: 2004 Florida Election
Creators: name: Washington Post
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: How closely following 2004 presidential race (1); chances of voting for president in November (1); George W. Bush and Dick Cheney vs. John Kerry and John Edwards vs. Ralph Nader and Peter Camejo (2); will definitely vote for candidates/could change mind (2); Mel Martinez vs. Betty Castor for Florida senator (2); George W. Bush job performance (1); Governor Jeb Bush job performance (1); federal government response to impacts of recent hurricanes in Florida (2); trust Bush/Kerry to do a better job handling certain issues (9); statements apply more to Bush/Kerry (4); single most important issue in deciding vote for president this year (1); economy (1); personal finances (1); approve/disapprove of re-establishing diplomatic and trade relations with Cuba (1); 2000 presidential election (1); confidence that votes in this year's presidential election will be counted accurately in Florida (2); think George W. Bush/John Kerry would benefit most from miscounting of votes (1).
title: Osteochondral lesions of the femoral cartilage follow a distinctive pattern: comparison of MR findings with split line maps of the knee joint
Creators: name: Falkowski, Anna
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Introduction: Osteochondral lesions of the knee joint are common [1]. Imaging is supposed to describe location, size, depth and involvement of underlying bone [2], Figure 1 and 2. MRI has proven to be effective in diagnosing damage of the articular...
AN OVERVIEW OF INTERNET OF THINGS
Creators: name: Afzal, Jamil
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Computer vision

description: In this paper we will discuss Internet of Things (IoT) and its applications. Second portion of paper consist of IoT use cases and Challenges of IoT. The IoT is a system for the interconnection of computers and related technologies. IoT defines mechanism to connect different networks and associated technologies with each other to provide convenience in human life style. It provides us ability to transfer data without requiring human computer interaction over a network.
Demonstrations
Creators: name: Potterbusch, Megan
name: Schaefer, Sibyl
name: Weatherburn, Jaye
name: Lyons, Bertram
name: McGovern, Nancy
name: Whiteside, Ann
name: Mumma, Courtney
name: Verbruggen, Erwin
name: Meyerson, Jessica
name: Pang, Natalie
name: Pennock, Maureen
name: Lindlar, Michelle
name: Patterson, Tricia
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Demonstrations provide an opportunity to highlight and share innovative solutions.
Organizational Culture: Its Effect on Occupational Safety and Health
Creators: name: Johnson, Linda Gail
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: The purpose of this paper is to explore the concept of organizational culture and identify the characteristics that shape the culture of an organization. Factors that influence organizational culture are also examined. Particular emphasis is placed on the impact of culture as it relates to workplace safety and health programs including health promotion, employee absence, injury management, and safety programs. Suggestions for enhancing workplace culture are presented. In addition, the role of the occupational and environmental health nurse (OEHN) in influencing organizational culture is explored. Based on documented findings, it is concluded that understanding the culture of an organization is paramount in working effectively in that culture. As an organizational leader, the OEHN is in a position to assess and influence the culture of the workplace and to be a catalyst for changing the organization's culture to ensure that employee safety and health are core values and included in the vision, mission, and culture of the organization.
Short-term dynamical evolution of grand-design spirals in barred galaxies
Creators: name: Baba, Junichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the short-term dynamical evolution of stellar grand-design spiral arms in barred spiral galaxies using a three-dimensional (3D) $N$-body/hydrodynamic simulation. Similar to previous numerical simulations of unbarred, multiple-arm spirals, we find that grand-design spiral arms in barred galaxies are not stationary, but rather dynamic. This means that the amplitudes, pitch angles, and rotational frequencies of the spiral arms are not constant, but change within a few hundred million years (i.e. the typical rotational period of a galaxy). We also find that the clear grand-design spirals in barred galaxies appear it only when the spirals connect with the ends of the bar. Furthermore, we find that the short-term behaviour of spiral arms in the outer regions ($R>$ 1.5--2 bar radius) can be explained by the swing amplification theory and that the effects of the bar are not negligible in the inner regions ($R
description: accepted for publication in MNRAS. 11 pages, 10 eps figures
title: Dose length product, diagnostic performance and complications of CT-guided percutaneous transthoracic biopsy (PTNB): comparison of 128-detector-row versus 4-detector-row CT
Creators: name: Anton, Susanne
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: Oncology
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: CT
subject: Percutaneous
subject: Biopsy
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Puncture
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: As the use of imaging increases in clinical practice, the incidental findings of pulmonary nodules has risen. CT-guided lung biopsy is a well-established diagnostic method for pulmonary lesions [1-3] with a diagnostic accuracy of 64%–97%...
SunCoChem presentation - Shapping the future: renewable fuels and chemicals from solar energy
Creators: name: Hernández, Simelys
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: SunCoChem presentation delivered by Simelys Hernández during the roadmap workshop "Shapping the future: renewable fuels and chemicals from solar energy" organised by the SUNERGY initiative in Brussels last June 2022
Klimaschutz geht nur gemeinsam – Auswirkungen auf Home Office und Kanzlei Management
Creators: name: Frenz, Walter
Publisher: name: RWTH Aachen University
Year: 2023

description: Deutscher Anwaltstag 2023, Wiesbaden, Germany, 14 Jun 2023 - 16 Jun 2023; 6 Folien (2023).
title: Radiofrequency ablation plus drug-eluting beads transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (DEB-TACE) for the treatment of single large hepatocellular carcinoma
Creators: name: Antonuccio, Enzo Gabriele Maria
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Liver
subject: Oncology
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: CT
subject: Ablation procedures
subject: Embolisation
subject: Cirrhosis
subject: Cancer
subject: Drugs / Reactions

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The main purpose of research in HCC disease should be to increase the number of patients with single HCC larger than 3 cm suitable fornon surgical curative treatment and a reasonable approach could be to combine therapies with possible synergistic...
Understanding on the association between informal caregiver characteristics and cognitive function of adults with cancer: Scoping Review Protocol
Creators: name: Yang, Yesol
name: Rushton, Sharron
name: Woodward, Amanda
name: hendrix, Cristina
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Caregivers
subject: Cognition
subject: Cognitive function
subject: Neoplasm

description: This is a protocol of scoping review that aims to map the literature showing the association between informal caregiver characteristics and cognitive function of adults with cancer
Continuous matrix product states solution for the mixing/demixing transition in one-dimensional quantum fields
Creators: name: Quijandría, Fernando
name: Zueco, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We solve the mixing-demixing transition in repulsive one-dimensional bose-bose mixtures. This is done numerically by means of the continuous matrix product states variational ansatz. We show that the effective low-energy bosonization theory is able to detect the transition whenever the Luttinger parameters are exactly computed. We further characterize the transition by calculating the ground-state energy density, the field-field fluctuations and the density correlations.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Computer Program
Creators: name: Lau, Soon Kiat
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Arduino
subject: Dry
subject: Food Engineering
subject: Food Science
subject: Heat
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Open Source
subject: Salmonella
subject: Thermal death kinetics
subject: Thermal resistance

description: Computer program for controlling the TDT Sandwiches.
Structure of force networks in tapped particulate systems of disks and pentagons (Part 2): Persistence analysis
Creators: name: Kondic, L.
name: Kramar, M.
name: Pangolin, L. A.
name: Carlevaro, C. M.
name: Mischaikow, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the companion paper~\cite{paper1}, we use classical measures based on force probability density functions (PDFs), as well as Betti numbers (quantifying the number of components, related to force chains, and loops), to describe the force networks in tapped systems of disks and pentagons. In the present work, we focus on the use of persistence analysis, that allows to describe these networks in much more detail. This approach allows not only to describe, but also to quantify the differences between the force networks in different realizations of a system, in different parts of the considered domain, or in different systems. We show that persistence analysis clearly distinguishes the systems that are very difficult or impossible to differentiate using other means. One important finding is that the differences in force networks between disks and pentagons are most apparent when loops are considered: the quantities describing properties of the loops may differ significantly even if other measures (properties of components, Betti numbers, or force PDFs) do not distinguish clearly the investigated systems.
Revisiting Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis Constraints on Dark-Matter Annihilation
Creators: name: Kawasaki, Masahiro
name: Kohri, Kazunori
name: Moroi, Takeo
name: Takaesu, Yoshitaro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effects of dark-matter annihilation during the epoch of big-bang nucleosynthesis on the primordial abundances of light elements. We improve the calculation of the light-element abundances by taking into account the effects of anti-nucleons emitted by the annihilation of dark matter and the interconversion reactions of neutron and proton at inelastic scatterings of energetic nucleons. Comparing the theoretical prediction of the primordial light-element abundances with the latest observational constraints, we derive upper bounds on the dark-matter pair-annihilation cross section. Implication to some of particle-physics models are also discussed.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures
title: Optimisation of contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) using the novel monoenergetic algorithm (MEI+) with a 3rd generation dual source CT and dose wise comparison to single energy imaging (SE)
Creators: name: Schabel, Christoph
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Vascular
subject: Radiation physics
subject: Oncology
subject: CT
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: CT-Quantitative
subject: Computer Applications-Virtual imaging
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: Dosimetric comparison
subject: Artifacts

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: MEI+ has proven to be beneficial for improving CNR [4] or reducing metal artifacts [2], e.g. in angiography [1, 3]. CNR was dependent on dual energy composition (DE) and therefore we optimized acquisition protocols and compared dose-wise to single...
Rigidity versus symmetry breaking via nonlinear flows on cylinders and Euclidean spaces
Creators: name: Dolbeault, Jean
name: Esteban, Maria J.
name: Loss, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35J20, 49K30, 53C21

description: This paper is motivated by the characterization of the optimal symmetry breaking region in Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequalities. As a consequence, optimal functions and sharp constants are computed in the symmetry region. The result solves a longstanding conjecture on the optimal symmetry range. As a byproduct of our method we obtain sharp estimates for the principal eigenvalue of Schrödinger operators on some non-flat non-compact manifolds, which to the best of our knowledge are new. The method relies on generalized entropy functionals for nonlinear diffusion equations. It opens a new area of research for approaches related to carré du champ methods on non-compact manifolds. However key estimates depend as much on curvature properties as on purely nonlinear effects. The method is well adapted to functional inequalities involving simple weights and also applies to general cylinders. Beyond results on symmetry and symmetry breaking, and on optimal constants in functional inequalities, rigidity theorems for nonlinear elliptic equations can be deduced in rather general settings.
description: 33 pages, 1 figure
title: Role of (F18) FDG PET/CT in treatment response evaluation of gastric carcinoma
Creators: name: Jabeen, Sadaf
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Oncology
subject: PET-CT
subject: Radionuclide therapy
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Gastric cancer, a common malignancy with a poor prognosis ,is listed as the second leading cause of cancer mortality world wide.Early diagnosis and accurate evaluation are important for decision - making regarding treatment and for the...
20-Year Trends in Reported Work-Related Injury and Illness among Union Carpenters in Washington State
Creators: name: McCoy, Amanda
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Background: The burden of work-related injuries and illnesses in the United States is great and is accompanied by substantial direct and indirect costs. Construction workers are at higher risk of work-related fatality, injury, and illness than most other working populations. Materials and Methods: By combining administrative data sources, we identified a dynamic cohort of union carpenters who worked in Washington State from 1989 to 2008, hours worked, and their workers’ compensation claims; the data were linked on an individual basis using blinded identifiers. We calculated incidence density rates for all claims, claims that were considered Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA)-recordable, and claims that involved paid lost time (PLT); the latter were further stratified by the injury mechanism groupings, “Struck by object,” “Fall to a lower level,” and “Overexertion with lifting.” Poisson regression was used to assess risk by categories of age, sex, union tenure, and calendar time. Results: The cohort of 26,591 carpenters worked 192 million hours over the 20-year period. Significant declines of reported claims occurred in all categories over the observed period with the greatest decline in “Fall to a lower level” claims that involved PLT. For all claim categories, younger workers, female workers, and workers with less union tenure were at increased risk of reporting injury when adjusting for other covariates. Comparisons of incidence rates from the cohort to Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) incidence rates for the construction industry revealed large absolute discrepancies (higher rates in the cohort) that converged as time proceeded. Conclusions: Declines observed in injury incidence rates may reflect the combination effect of improved construction workplace safety and changes in reporting practices, among other factors. Though the absolute differences between the cohort’s incidence rates and BLS incidence rates declined significantly overtime, the relative differences between the two remained fairly stable.
title: Ultrasound within the Austrian mammography screening: evaluation after the first year
Creators: name: Wildner, Sonja
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Ultrasound physics
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Technical aspects

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The start of the Austrian mammography screening induced a strong demand for a uniform and standardized technical quality assurance (TQA) for diagnostic ultrasound devices. However, quality control is often not stressed enough nor...
Casimir energy-momentum tensor for a quantized bulk scalar field in the geometry of two curved branes on Friedmann-Robertson-Walker background
Creators: name: Pejhan, Hamed
name: Rahbardehghan, Surena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a previous work [S. Rahbardehghan et al. in Phys. Lett. B 750, 627 (2015)], we considered a simple brane-world model; a single $4$-dimensional brane embedded in a $5$-dimensional de Sitter (dS) space-time. Then, by including a conformally coupled scalar field in the bulk, we studied the induced Casimir energy-momentum tensor. Technically, the Krein-Gupta-Bleuler (KGB) quantization scheme as a covariant and renormalizable quantum field theory in dS space was used to perform the calculations. In the present paper, we generalize this study to a less idealized, but physically motivated, scenario, namely we consider Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) space-time which behaves asymptotically as a dS space-time. More precisely, we evaluate Casimir energy-momentum tensor for a system with two $D$-dimensional curved branes on background of $D+1$-dimensional FRW space-time with negative spatial curvature and a conformally coupled bulk scalar field that satisfies Dirichlet boundary condition on the branes.
description: 10 pages
Study 2b - Retrospective vs. Prospective Trump inauguration study
Creators: name: Block, Katharina
name: Schmader, Toni
name: Aday, Audrey
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: I this study, we will assign participants pre-trump inauguration to think about their fit and American identity in the past 4 years and participants post-inauguration about their predictions about the future 4 years.
title: Virtual CT pancreatoscopy in identifying the reasons for the dilatation of the main pancreatic duct
Creators: name: Nerestyuk, Yaroslav
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: CT
subject: Computer Applications-Virtual imaging
subject: Image verification

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: CT virtual pancreatoscopy (CT-VP) first reported in 1998 by Prassopoulos et al. [1], which studied the possibility of virtual endoscopy on phantom models. The results of clinical trials were obtained on the basis, mainly, postprocessing data...
A Retrospective Cohort Analysis of Pediatric Tuberculosis in North Carolina, 1994-2002
Creators: name: Saharia, Kapil K.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: Background: The incidence of pediatric tuberculosis (TB) in North Carolina decreased from the mid 1990s to 200l. In 2002, the number of pediatric TB cases increased from 9 in 2001 to 32 in 2002, representing more than a 250% increase. Objective: To describe the epidemiology and clinical characteristics of pediatric TB in North Carolina and identify factors contributing to the rise in tuberculosis cases among children less than 15 years of age. Methods: Retrospective review of TB surveillance data and local health department records of all reported pediatric TB cases and their source case between the years 1994 and 2002. Results: 180 cases of pediatric TB were reported from 1994-2002. The incidence of pediatric TB increased from 0.53 to 1.85 per 100,000 from 2001 to 2002. TB case rates in 2002 were higher in children less than 5 years of age (3.05 per 100,000) compared to children 5-14 years of age (1.28 per 100,000). TB case rates were 10- to 44-fold higher among minority children compared to non-Hispanic white children. Although there was no significant increase in the incidence of TB in the Hispanic pediatric population, there was a significant increase in the proportion of Hispanic children with tuberculosis (p-value =.04). Children with a foreign association accounted for an increasing proportion of pediatric TB cases over time, however, the increase was not statistically significant (p-value = 0.09). Transmission of TB to children could have been prevented in 6.75% of cases had a source case identified the child as a contact, and in 11.7% of cases had the source case completed prophylaxis for latent TB infection. TB disease may have been prevented in 7.2% of cases had the contact investigation not been delayed, 2.2% of cases had children with latent TB infection completed prophylaxis, and in 4.4% of cases had child contacts <5 years of age with a negative PPD taken or received prophylaxis. Overall, 51/180 cases (28.3%) might have been prevented had appropriate measures been taken. Conclusion: The incidence of pediatric TB increased significantly from 2001 to 2002. TB in the minority population continues to be a problem. TB in children with a foreign-association is increasing. Improvements in contact investigations and completion of prophylaxis for LTBI may reduce the incidence of pediatric TB.
title: Comparison of sono-elastography and conventional sonography for differentiation of benign and malignant solid thyroid nodules
Creators: name: Gautam , Mayuresh
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Thyroid / Parathyroids
subject: Anatomy
subject: Biliary Tract / Gallbladder
subject: Elastography
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Ultrasound-Spectral Doppler
subject: Safety
subject: Ethics
subject: Aneurysms

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Introduction : Elastography is novel, evolving, non-invasive and fast expanding sonographic technique, which estimates stiffness of the tissue by assessing distortion under pressure. Elastography is useful in differentiating malignant from benign...
Kinetic modelling of runaway electrons in dynamic scenarios
Creators: name: Stahl, A.
name: Embréus, O.
name: Papp, G.
name: Landreman, M.
name: Fülöp, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Improved understanding of runaway-electron formation and decay processes are of prime interest for the safe operation of large tokamaks, and the dynamics of the runaway electrons during dynamical scenarios such as disruptions are of particular concern. In this paper, we present kinetic modelling of scenarios with time-dependent plasma parameters; in particular, we investigate hot-tail runaway generation during a rapid drop in plasma temperature. With the goal of studying runaway-electron generation with a self-consistent electric-field evolution, we also discuss the implementation of a collision operator that conserves momentum and energy and demonstrate its properties. An operator for avalanche runaway-electron generation, which takes the energy dependence of the scattering cross section and the runaway distribution into account, is investigated. We show that the simplified avalanche model of Rosenbluth & Putvinskii [Nucl. Fusion 1997 37 1355] can give inaccurate results for the avalanche growth rate (either lower or higher) for many parameters, especially when the average runaway energy is modest, such as during the initial phase of the avalanche multiplication. The developments presented pave the way for improved modelling of runaway-electron dynamics during disruptions or other dynamic events.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures
title: Association between pericardial adipose tissue and cardiometabolic risk factors by computed tomography in young athletes: a prospective study
Creators: name: Schabel, Christoph
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Computer applications
subject: CT
subject: CT-Quantitative
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Segmentation
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: Epidemiology

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Pericardial adipose tissue (PAT) may represent an early marker of increased cardiovascular risk. Thus, we studied association of PAT as quantified by computed tomography (CT) and cardiometabolic risk factors and ergometric parameters in young...
quicKM: an online tool for speedy survival analysis
Creators: name: Quayle, Lewis
Publisher: name: The University of Sheffield
Year: 2022
Subjects: Predictive and prognostic markers
Molecular targets
Cancer cell biology
Solid tumours

description: quicKM is an online application offering rapid and user-friendly analysis of pre-curated open-access RNA sequencing data and corresponding clinical case files. The quicKM survival analysis plotting tool is able to establish the correlation between expression of over 30,000 genes and patient survival across the "big four" cancers, including breast, prostate, lung and colon cancer. Unlike other online survival analysis tools, quicKM can calculate an integrated expression value for multiple input genes prior to running survival analysis, making it possible to establish the prognostic value of gene and cell-type signatures or entire pathways. The primary purpose of the tool is a meta-analysis based discovery and validation of survival biomarkers.
quicKM is current available at:
http://quickm.orghttps://sheffield-university.shinyapps.io/quicKM/
title: Significance of CT-guided core-needle (CNB) and fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) in the diagnosis of lung and mediastinum tumours: analysis of frequency and types of complications
Creators: name: Studniarek, Michal
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Lung
subject: Oncology
subject: CT
subject: Percutaneous
subject: Biopsy

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network (Collisson E, Campbell J, Brooks A et al.[1]) has published recently that in 76% of lung adenocarcinoma they found somatic evidence of RTK/RAS/RAF activation. More complete diagnostic information derived from...
The views of Canadian planners on growth problems and growth management strategies
Creators: name: Skaburskis, Andrejs
name: Brunner, Bonnie
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Cities and towns--Growth
subject: City planning--Canada

description: This report presents an overview of the growth management practices in Canadian municipalities as revealed through interviews with planning directors. The major problems include the gap between the supplied and the needed infrastructure, increased traffic congestion, and fiscal shortfalls Other problems are created by inner city decline, increased air pollution and poor water qualily Most of the cities have growth management plans; however, we could find no statistical relationship between growth being perceived as a problem and the municipality's adoption of a growth management program. This finding illustrates the generic nature of many of the growth management programs used by Canadian municipalities. With few notable exceptions, the typical Canadian municipality's growth management program consists of, an adaptation of standard planning protocol: an official community plan, an infrastructure phasing / prioritization plan and a zoning by-law. Recommendations are offered.
description: Ce rapport, issu de plusieurs consultations auprès de responsables de l'urbanisme, présente un aperçu des pratiques de gestion de la croissance dans les municipalités canadiennes. Les principaux problèmes observés sont l'écart entre l'infrastructure disponible et les besoins, l'engorgement de la circulation automobile et les insuffisances fiscales. D'autres problèmes proviennent du déclin des centre-villes, de l'augmentation de la pollution de l'air et de la mauvaise qualité de l'eau. La plupart des villes disposent d'un plan de gestion de la croissance, mais nous n'avons pu établir de relation statistique entre le problème que pose la croissance et l'adoption par les municipalités d'un programme de gestion de la croissance. Cette observation fait ressortir le caractère inadapté de nombreux programmes de gestion de la croissance en usage dans les municipalités canadiennes. Mis à part quelques rares exceptions, le programme de gestion de la croissance des municipalités n'est qu'une adaptation d'un protocole standard: plan d'aménagement de la communauté, plan de mise en phase et d'établissement des priorités pour les infrastructures et un règlement de zonage. Des solutions sont proposées.
description: Abstract in English and French; text in English.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/6504/Skaburskis.pdf?sequence=4
Protecting and promoting children's digital skills and wellbeing in the digital environment
Creators: name: Chatzinikolaou, Argyro
name: Lievens, Eva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: children; digital skills; children's wellbeing online; EU legal framework; EU policy framework

description: “Youth Skills (ySKILLS)” is a project on children’s digital skills and wellbeing in the digital environment funded by the European Union’s (EU) Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme. The goal of our task (Task 7.4) is to map the project’s evidence-based policy recommendations onto the EU regulatory framework, subsequently identify potential gaps in the existing framework and, finally, translate the policy recommendations into "action points" addressed to EU policymakers. To that end, we first drafted an overview of the EU policy and legal framework relevant to children’s digital skills and wellbeing online which identifies (1) the competences of the EU, (2) existing EU policies and (3) EU legislation, and (4) the EU bodies that are responsible to provide advice, take measures or supervise matters in relation to youth’s digital skills and wellbeing in the digital age. At a second stage, we mapped the ySKILLS policy recommendations onto the EU framework and discussed the extent to which they are already incorporated in existing policies and legal instruments. Lastly, our gap analysis demonstrates where changes to the mapped legal and policy frameworks would need to be made in order to implement the ySKILLS recommendations to advance youth’s digital skills and wellbeing in the digital age.
Reduction of diabetic complications with intensive blood glucose control: A systematic review of the literature
Creators: name: Pressley, Crystal
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Aim: To examine whether intensive glucose control reduces complications including renal insufficiency, visual impairment, neuropathy, or cardiovascular disease in patients with type 2 diabetes. Methods: Systematic review of randomized control trials and prospective observational studiesinvestigating the effect of intensive blood glucose control on diabetic complications in patients with type 2 diabetes published between 1990 and 2007. Studies were identified using MEDLINE, The Cochrane Library and CINAHL. Reference lists of relevant papers were hand searched for further articles. Results: Two good quality studies met inclusion criteria, UKPDS 33 and UKPDS 35. In UKPDS 33, median HbA1c in the intensive group was 7.0% (95% CI: 6.2-8.2) and the conventional group was 7.9% (95% CI: 6.9- 8.8). The reduction in HbA1c correlated with a decrease in certain diabetic complications including blindness and amputation. There was no difference between the control and intervention groups for worsening visual acuity, absent ankle or knee reflexes, orthostatic hypotension, erectile dysfunction, silent MI, absent peripheral pulses, or evidence of peripheral vascular disease detected by doppler. A 16% reduction in myocardial infarction was border line insignificant with p = 0.052. In UKPDS 35, for each 1% reduction in A1c level, there was an associated decrease in risk of 37% for microvascular endpoints, 43% for amputations or death from peripheral vascular disease, and 14% for myocardial infarction. The incidence of a myocardial infarction was two to three times that of microvascular complications around normal values of A1c, but as the A1c reached higher values in near the maximum range, the risk of these complications were similar. Conclusions: Limited evidence is available to support the treatment of all patients with type 2 diabetes with intensive blood glucose control. Age, duration of disease, co-morbid complications, and compliance are some of the factors to be considered in A1c target values and these should be determined on an individual patient basis. Several trials are currently underway to provide more insight into the benefits of intensive glucose control to near-normal values. Studies to determine the magnitude of any benefit to lower A1c values to normal and below are not available. Keywords: Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Hemoglobin A, Glycosylated, Complications, Blood Glucose Control
Pre-Analysis Plan: Health Certification in the Market for Sex Work
Creators: name: Manian, Shanthi
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Female sex workers (FSWs) are disproportionately affected by HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), with HIV prevalence estimated at 37% in Sub-Saharan Africa. To bring FSWs into the health system, several countries have adopted registration programs, which allow participating FSWs to avoid some criminal penalties if they adhere to monthly screening and treatment for STIs. Registration programs have two key components: they reduce the probability that a registered FSW has an STI; and they provide a registration card certifying participants’ low STI risk. In partnership with a community-based organization, (Association AWA) and a local research organization (Reseau Africain de Recherche sur le Sida) in Dakar, Senegal, I implemented a randomized experiment to study the effect of health certification on sex work and HIV risk among FSWs. This study will provide the first evidence on the causal impact of registration programs, and will help illuminate the reasons for low take-up of registration programs.
Principles for successful community planning in norther Native Canadian communities
Creators: name: Aubrey, Donald
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Regional planning--Northwest Territories
subject: Indigenous peoples--Canada, Northern

description: Successful community planning in northern native communities requires a distinctive approach that ensures the predominance of community priorities. This approach can be stated in principles or rules which pay close attention to the aboriginal culture and environment in which community planning and development decisions are made. In order to appreciate these principles fully, one also needs to understand the context in which community planning is practiced in the Northwest Territories, where such planning is principally a responsibility of the territorial government, and is administered by regional community planners on behalf of the small non tax-based aboriginal communities in the immediate region. The principles discussed in the article reflect the author's belief that a sympathetic attitude and intuitive interpersonal skills are just as important as technical skills in understanding and interpreting the preferences of aboriginal communities when carrying out a land use planning or development exercise north of the 60th parallel.
description: L'aménagement communautaire dans le Nord canadien demande une approche particulière donnant la priorité aux besoins de la communauté. Cette approche peut être énoncée sous forme de principes ou de règles de l'aménagement du territoire. Ces principes réservent une place importante à la culture et à l'environnement des communautés pour lesquelles les décisions sont prises. Afin de mieux comprendre ces principes, il faut également comprendre le contexte dans lequel l'aménagement communautaire se pratique dans !es Territoires du Nord-Ouest, où il s'agit essentiellement d'une responsabilité gouvernementale territoriale administrée par les urbanistes dans la region même au nom des petites communautés autochtones exemptes d'impôts. Les principes dont il est question dans cet article, reflètent la conviction de l'auteur quant au fait qu'une attitude sympathique et de I'entregent ont autant d'importance que les connaissances techniques lorsqu'il s'agit de comprendre et interpréter les attentes des populations autochtones au nord du 60ème parallèle.
description: Abstract in English and French; text in English.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/6512/Aubrey.pdf?sequence=3
title: Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging of kidneys in patients with chronic kidney disease
Creators: name: Sulkowska, Katarzyna
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Kidney
subject: MR
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Image registration

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To assess the changes in apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values in renal parenchyma in chronic kidney disease (CKD). To evaluate the relation of ADC values to parameters of renal insufficiency : serum creatinine concentration and estimated...
title: Cardiac MR quantification of the systemic right ventricle including trabecules: making the established gold-standard even more precise
Creators: name: Toth, Attila
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Congenital

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) has quickly become a promising technique right from the beginning and soon turned out to be a method providing precise and reproducible measures of both ventricules in clinical routine [1-3]. It has definitely become...
title: The truth behind the fiction: erroneous clinical information in electronic radiology requests
Creators: name: Twomey, Maria
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer applications
subject: Management
subject: Professional issues
subject: RIS
subject: CT
subject: Audit and standards
subject: Safety
subject: Quality assurance

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Radiology request forms are essential communication tools (1). Link between the requesting physician and reporting radiologist(2). Electronic requests now largely replacing written requests in majority of centers (3) Consequently less face to face...
Entangled light from driven dissipative microcavities
Creators: name: Pagel, Daniel
name: Fehske, Holger
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the generation of entangled light in planar semiconductor microcavities. The focus is on a particular pump configuration where the dissipative internal polariton dynamics leads to the emission of entangled light in a W-state. Our study is based on the nonlinear equations of motion for the polariton operators derived within the dynamics-controlled truncation formalism. They include the losses through the cavity mirrors, the interaction with lattice vibrations, and the external laser driving in a Langevin approach. We find that the generated entanglement is robust against decoherence under realistic experimental conditions. The results show that pair correlations in solid-state devices can be used to stabilize the nonlocal properties of the emitted radiation.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
title: Evaluation of right heart function with use of retrospectively ECG- gated 64-slice low dose computed tomography in subjects with and without pulmonary hypertension
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiaojie
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Molecular imaging
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: CAD
subject: Molecular imaging
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Cardiac Assist Devices
subject: Molecular, genomics and proteomics
subject: Gene therapy

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Pulmonary hypertension (PH), Cor pulmonale, with a high case fatality rate, is the fourth highest cause of death in the world at present. It is usually complicated by changes of structure and function of the right ventricle and thus further affects...