cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Cross-Cultural Study of Korean and English Speakers' Conception of Shame & Guilt: Intentional Content, Cognitive Style, Valence, and Relationship Closeness
Creators: name: Mun, Cecilea
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Comparative Philosophy
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Philosophy of Science
subject: Arts and Humanities
subject: Social Psychology
subject: Philosophy of Mind
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Other Philosophy
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Analytic
subject: Cognitive Style
subject: Embarrassment
subject: Guilt
subject: Holistic
subject: Relationship Closeness
subject: Shame
subject: Valence

description: Questions about what shame and guilt are, and how they can be distinguished from other experiences such as embarrassment and humiliation have received considerable attention in both the psychological and philosophical literature on shame and guilt. In this project, I will be concerned with understanding what shame and guilt are, and how they might be related to embarrassment. The first series of studies (I) will be concerned with determining whether or not the concepts of “shame” and “guilt” can be differentiated by the standard distinction about their intentional contents that is made in both philosophical and psychological literature: shame involves a focus on a global, negative self-assessment, and guilt involves a focus on one’s action or behavior. The second series of studies (II) will be concerned with determining whether the experimental philosophy intervention for the employment of the concept of “shame” that was developed and introduced in this survey is an effective intervention. The third series of studies (III) will focus on determining whether the factors of analytic versus holistic cognition and relationship closeness to the “audience” or ”critic” have any effect on a person’s employment of the conception of “shame” compared to the concept of “guilt,” as well as whether they have any effect on the valence of one’s experience in the employment of the concept of “shame” compared to the concept of “guilt.” Furthermore, all three studies will also involve determining whether there are cross-cultural differences between Korean-speakers and English-speakers.
Additivity of $n$-Multiplicative Mappings of Gamma Rings
Creators: name: Andrade, Aline Jaqueline de Oliveira
name: de Moraes, Gabriela Cotrim
name: Ferreira, Ruth Nascimento
name: Ferreira, Bruno Leonardo Macedo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we address the additivity of $n$-multiplicative isomorphisms and $n$-multiplicative derivations on Gamma rings. We proved that, if $\M$ is a $Γ$-ring satisfying the some conditions, then any $n$-multiplicative isomorphism $\left(φ, ϕ\right)$ of $\M$ onto an arbitrary gamma ring is additive.
description: 10 pages
Subgroup and Resistance Analyses of Raltegravir for Resistant HIV-1 Infection
Creators: name: Markowitz, Martin
name: Eron, Joseph J.
name: Zhao, Jing
name: Chen, Joshua
name: Rhodes, Rand R.
name: Gilde, Lucinda R.
name: Meibohm, Anne R.
name: Steigbigel, Roy T.
name: Yeni, Patrick
name: Loutfy, Mona R.
name: Teppler, Hedy
name: Clotet, Bonaventura
name: Lennox, Jeffrey
name: Cooper, David A.
name: Kumar, Princy N.
name: Lazzarin, Adriano
name: Killar, John A.
name: Ryan, Desmond M.
name: Hazuda, Daria J.
name: Katlama, Christine
name: Nguyen, Bach-Yen
name: Rockstroh, Jurgen K.
name: Schechter, Mauro
name: Gatell, Jose M.
name: Strohmaier, Kim M.
name: Miller, Michael D.
name: Isaacs, Robin D.
name: Nessly, Michael L.
name: DiNubile, Mark J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Background: We evaluated the efficacy of raltegravir and the development of viral resistance in
two identical trials involving patients who were infected with human immunodeficiency
virus type 1 (HIV-1) with triple-class drug resistance and in whom antiretroviral
therapy had failed.
Methods: We conducted subgroup analyses of the data from week 48 in both studies according
to baseline prognostic factors. Genotyping of the integrase gene was performed
in raltegravir recipients who had virologic failure.
Results: Virologic responses to raltegravir were consistently superior to responses to placebo,
regardless of the baseline values of HIV-1 RNA level; CD4 cell count; genotypic
or phenotypic sensitivity score; use or nonuse of darunavir, enfuvirtide, or both in
optimized background therapy; or demographic characteristics. Among patients in the
two studies combined who were using both enfuvirtide and darunavir for the first
time, HIV-1 RNA levels of less than 50 copies per milliliter were achieved in 89% of
raltegravir recipients and 68% of placebo recipients. HIV-1 RNA levels of less than 50
copies per milliliter were achieved in 69% and 80% of the raltegravir recipients and
in 47% and 57% of the placebo recipients using either darunavir or enfuvirtide for
the first time, respectively. At 48 weeks, 105 of the 462 raltegravir recipients (23%)
had virologic failure. Genotyping was performed in 94 raltegravir recipients with
virologic failure. Integrase mutations known to be associated with phenotypic resistance
to raltegravir arose during treatment in 64 patients (68%). Forty-eight of
these 64 patients (75%) had two or more resistance-associated mutations.
Conclusions: When combined with an optimized background regimen in both studies, a consistently
favorable treatment effect of raltegravir over placebo was shown in clinically
relevant subgroups of patients, including those with baseline characteristics that typically
predict a poor response to antiretroviral therapy: a high HIV-1 RNA level, low
CD4 cell count, and low genotypic or phenotypic sensitivity score. (ClinicalTrials.gov
numbers, NCT00293267 and NCT00293254.)
A ~50,000 solar mass black hole in the nucleus of RGG 118
Creators: name: Baldassare, Vivienne
name: Reines, Amy
name: Gallo, Elena
name: Greene, Jenny
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scaling relations between black hole (BH) masses and their host galaxy properties have been studied extensively over the last two decades, and point towards co-evolution of central massive BHs and their hosts. However, these relations remain poorly constrained for BH masses below $\sim10^{6}$ M_sun. Here we present optical and X-ray observations of the dwarf galaxy RGG 118 taken with the Magellan Echellette Spectrograph on the 6.5m Clay Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory. Based on Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectroscopy, RGG 118 was identified as possessing narrow emission line ratios indicative of photoionization partly due to an active galactic nucleus. Our higher resolution spectroscopy clearly reveals broad H$α$ emission in the spectrum of RGG 118. Using virial BH mass estimate techniques, we calculate a BH mass of $\sim50,000$ \msun. We detect a nuclear X-ray point source in RGG 118, suggesting a total accretion powered luminosity of $L=4\times10^{40}~{\rm erg~s^{-1}}$, and an Eddington fraction of $\sim1$ per cent. The BH in RGG 118 is the smallest ever reported in a galaxy nucleus and we find that it lies on the extrapolation of the $M_{\rm BH}-σ_{\ast}$ relation to the lowest masses yet.
description: Accepted to ApJL. 6 pages, 4 figures
title: Chest Wall Desmoid Tumours Treated with Definitive Radiotherapy: A Plan Comparison of 3d Conformal Radiotherapy, Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy and Volumetric-Modulated Arc Radiotherapy
Creators: name: Liu, Jia
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Thorax
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: Management
subject: MR
subject: VMAT and Tomotherapy
subject: Dosimetry
subject: Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT)
subject: Dosimetric comparison

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Desmoid-type fibromatosis is a locally aggressive mesenchymal tumour characterised by clonal proliferation of myofibroblasts.Although rare, it is a highly heterogenous disease that has unpredictable behaviour and can arise in almost anywhere in the...
title: Survey of SBRT Patterns of Practice and Future Demands in Australia and New Zealand
Creators: name: Lee, Dominique Yoo Young
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Cone beam CT
subject: Liver
subject: Bones
subject: Oncology
subject: Stereotactic radiotherapy
subject: Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT)
subject: Patterns of Care
subject: Radiotherapy techniques
subject: Metastases

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is a technique used to deliver high-precision, ablative doses of radiation in a small number of fractions to an extra-cranial target. International studies havedemonstrated recent rapid adoption of...
Nearly-frustration-free ground state preparation
Creators: name: Thibodeau, Matthew
name: Clark, Bryan K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solving for quantum ground states is important for understanding the properties of quantum many-body systems, and quantum computers are potentially well-suited for solving for quantum ground states. Recent work has presented a nearly optimal scheme that prepares ground states on a quantum computer for completely generic Hamiltonians, whose query complexity scales as $δ^{-1}$, i.e. inversely with their normalized gap. Here we consider instead the ground state preparation problem restricted to a special subset of Hamiltonians, which includes those which we term "nearly-frustration-free": the class of Hamiltonians for which the ground state energy of their block-encoded and hence normalized Hamiltonian $α^{-1}H$ is within $δ^y$ of -1, where $δ$ is the spectral gap of $α^{-1}H$ and $0 \leq y \leq 1$. For this subclass, we describe an algorithm whose dependence on the gap is asymptotically better, scaling as $δ^{y/2-1}$, and show that this new dependence is optimal up to factors of $\log δ$. In addition, we give examples of physically motivated Hamiltonians which live in this subclass. Finally, we describe an extension of this method which allows the preparation of excited states both for generic Hamiltonians as well as, at a similar speedup as the ground state case, for those which are nearly frustration-free.
description: 13 pages, 1 figure
A systematic literature review of games aimed at improving socioemotional skills
Creators: name: Zheng, Lucy
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Developmental Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: adolescents
subject: children
subject: game-based
subject: games
subject: interventions
subject: literature review
subject: longitudinal
subject: noncognitive
subject: socioemotional
subject: soft skills
subject: systematic

description: This systematic literature review aims to address the effectiveness of socioemotional games on children and adolescents.
title: Improved Dosimetry with Hybrid IMRT in the Prone Position for Whole Breast Irradiation
Creators: name: de Leon, Jeremiah
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: CT
subject: Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT)
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Outcomes

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: For large breasted patients receiving radiotherapy, prone positioning is recognised as a beneficial alternative to supine in terms of minimising acute toxicity. In contrast to supine, the prone position allows the breast to fall anteriorly away from...
Measurement of the charge asymmetry in top-quark pair production in the lepton-plus-jets final state in $pp$ collision data at $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper reports inclusive and differential measurements of the $t\bar{t}$ charge asymmetry $A_{\textrm{C}}$ in 20.3 fb$^{-1}$ of $\sqrt{s} = 8$ TeV $pp$ collisions recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Three differential measurements are performed as a function of the invariant mass, transverse momentum and longitudinal boost of the $t\bar{t}$ system. The $t\bar{t}$ pairs are selected in the single-lepton channels ($e$ or $μ$) with at least four jets, and a likelihood fit is used to reconstruct the $t\bar{t}$ event kinematics. A Bayesian unfolding procedure is performed to infer the asymmetry at parton level from the observed data distribution. The inclusive $t\bar{t}$ charge asymmetry is measured to be $A_{\textrm{C}} = 0.009 \pm 0.005$ (stat.$+$syst.). The inclusive and differential measurements are compatible with the values predicted by the Standard Model.
description: 29 pages plus author list (45 pages total), 4 figures, 5 tables, published version including corrections from erratum, all figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/TOPQ-2014-16/
Oshtoran Syndrome: Clinically important Aspects of H63D Syndrome Type-3
Creators: name: H63D Research Team Adams
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 429999
subject: Other health sciences not elsewhere classified

description: This paper presents an analysis of important aspects of Oshtoran Syndrome, also known as H63D Syndrome Type-3, based on the latest research findings and clinical observations. The syndrome represents a complex, multisystemic disorder characterized by dysregulated iron metabolism, autonomic dysfunction, and inflammatory processes. This work aims to elucidate some of the many pathophysiological mechanisms underlying Oshtoran Syndrome, discuss just recently discovered clinical manifestations, and propose strategies for diagnosis and management.
Measurements of Photospheric and Chromospheric Magnetic Fields
Creators: name: Lagg, Andreas
name: Lites, Bruce
name: Harvey, Jack
name: Gosain, Sanjay
name: Centeno, Rebecca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Sun is replete with magnetic fields, with sunspots, pores and plage regions being their most prominent representatives on the solar surface. But even far away from these active regions, magnetic fields are ubiquitous. To a large extent, their importance for the thermodynamics in the solar photosphere is determined by the total magnetic flux. Whereas in low-flux quiet Sun regions, magnetic structures are shuffled around by the motion of granules, the high-flux areas like sunspots or pores effectively suppress convection, leading to a temperature decrease of up to 3000 K. The importance of magnetic fields to the conditions in higher atmospheric layers, the chromosphere and corona, is indisputable. Magnetic fields in both active and quiet regions are the main coupling agent between the outer layers of the solar atmosphere, and are therefore not only involved in the structuring of these layers, but also for the transport of energy from the solar surface through the corona to the interplanetary space. Consequently, inference of magnetic fields in the photosphere, and especially in the chromosphere, is crucial to deepen our understanding not only for solar phenomena such as chromospheric and coronal heating, flares or coronal mass ejections, but also for fundamental physical topics like dynamo theory or atomic physics. In this review, we present an overview of significant advances during the last decades in measurement techniques, analysis methods, and the availability of observatories, together with some selected results. We discuss the problems of determining magnetic fields at smallest spatial scales, connected with increasing demands on polarimetric sensitivity and temporal resolution, and highlight some promising future developments for their solution.
description: Accepted for publication in "Space Science Reviews"; 42 pages, 16 figures
title: Head and Neck Paragangliomas: A Pictorial Overview of Anatomical and Functional Imaging
Creators: name: Bennett, Olivia
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Endocrine disorders
subject: Radionuclide therapy
subject: PET-CT
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Nuclear medicine
subject: Head and neck

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To provide a pictorial overview of head and neck paragangliomas and present the key anatomic and functional imaging...
Semiparametric Estimation of Treatment Effects in Randomized Experiments
Creators: name: Athey, Susan
name: Bickel, Peter J.
name: Chen, Aiyou
name: Imbens, Guido W.
name: Pollmann, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Econometrics (econ.EM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We develop new semiparametric methods for estimating treatment effects. We focus on settings where the outcome distributions may be thick tailed, where treatment effects may be small, where sample sizes are large and where assignment is completely random. This setting is of particular interest in recent online experimentation. We propose using parametric models for the treatment effects, leading to semiparametric models for the outcome distributions. We derive the semiparametric efficiency bound for the treatment effects for this setting, and propose efficient estimators. In the leading case with constant quantile treatment effects one of the proposed efficient estimators has an interesting interpretation as a weighted average of quantile treatment effects, with the weights proportional to minus the second derivative of the log of the density of the potential outcomes. Our analysis also suggests an extension of Huber's model and trimmed mean to include asymmetry.
description: forthcoming in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology
title: Stereotactic Radiotherapy and Trans-Arterial Chemo-Embolisation in Early Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Creators: name: Kaminski, Art
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Cone beam CT
subject: Stereotactic radiotherapy
subject: Chemoembolisation
subject: Cancer

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the 5 th most common solid malignancy in Australia but the commonest cause of cancer related death. 1 Surgical resection is the standard of care for early stage NSCLC, 2 however a significant proportion of these...
In-Situ Low-Angle Cross Sectioning: Bevel Slope Flattening due to Self-Alignment Effects
Creators: name: Scheithauer, Uwe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Low-angle cross sections are produced inside an Auger microprobe using the equipped depth profile ion sputter gun. Simply the sample is partly covered by a mask. Utilizing the edge of this mask the sample is sputtered with ions. Due to the shading of the mask a cross section is produced in the sample. The slope of this cross section is considerably shallower than given by the geometrical setup. This is attributed to self-alignment effects, which are due to missing sputter cascades in the transition area between sputtered and shaded sample regions and a chamfering of the mask edge. These self-alignment effects are studied here using a 104.6 nm thick SiO2 layer thermally grown on a Si substrate. In this study on one hand for a fixed ion impact angle of 15.8° as function of the sputter time several in-situ low-angle cross sections were produced. This way slope angles between an ultimate low slope angle of 0.014° and 0.085° were achieved. On the other hand for a fixed sputter time the ion impact angle was varied between 14.8°and 70.8°. For these samples cross section slope angles between 0.031°and 0.32°are observed. These results demonstrate the distinct slope flatting of in-situ cross sectioning.
description: 9 pages, 4 Figures
title: Feasibility of Hippocampal Sparing in Primary CNS Lymphoma
Creators: name: Lee, Andrew
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: CNS
subject: Haematologic
subject: Oncology
subject: MR
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Radiation effects
subject: Radiotherapy techniques

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Radiotherapy was frequently used for the treatment of Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma (PCNSL) from the 1960's [1]. Combined modality therapy with methotrexate-based systemic therapy showed improved survival [2-4] but was associated with high...
Interferometric visibility of single-lens models: the thin-arcs approximation
Creators: name: Cassan, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Long baseline interferometry of microlensing events can resolve the individual images of the source produced by the lens, which combined with the modelling of the microlensing light curve, leads to the exact lens mass and distance. Interferometric observations thus offer a unique opportunity to constrain the mass of exoplanets detected by microlensing, and to precisely measure the mass of distant isolated objects such as stars and brown dwarfs, and of stellar remnants such as white dwarfs, neutron stars, and stellar black holes. Having accurate models and reliable numerical methods is of particular importance as the number of targets is expected to increase significantly in the near future. In this work we discuss the different approaches to calculating the fringe complex visibility for the important case of a single lens. We propose a robust integration scheme to calculate the exact visibility, and introduce a novel approximation, which we call the `thin-arcs approximation', which can be applied over a wide range of lens--source separations. We find that this approximation runs six to ten times faster than the exact calculation, depending of the characteristics of the event and the required accuracy. This approximation provides accurate results for microlensing events of medium to high magnification observed around the peak (i.e. a large fraction of potential observational targets).
description: Same as published version
Do mobile phone data provide a better denominator in crime rates and improve spatiotemporal predictions of crime?
Creators: name: Rummens, Anneleen
name: Snaphaan, Thom
name: van de Weghe, Nico
name: van den Poel, Dirk
name: Pauwels, Lieven
name: Hardyns, Wim
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance
subject: ambient population
subject: crime prediction
subject: crime rate
subject: mobile phone data

description: When calculating crime rates, the commonly used denominator is the residential population of a particular area. However, it has long been acknowledged that the residential population is problematic when relative risks of victimization are studied. This is especially the case for crime types with mobile targets, such as bicycle theft and extra-familial violence. Recent research shows that new and emerging data sources can provide population-at-risk measures, which are better able to account for specific underlying mechanisms, provide more spatiotemporal granularity, and, therefore, lead to a more correct calculation of crime rates and higher accuracy in predictions of (concentrations of) crime. In this article, the spatiotemporal variation in crime rates is assessed in relation to the ambient population, using mobile phone data (with a total of 9,397,473 datapoints) as a proxy. Additionally, this study examines and compares the performance of using ambient andor residential population as population-at-risk measures for making spatiotemporal predictions of crime events.
Anisotropic particles near surfaces: Self-propulsion and friction
Creators: name: Müller, Boris
name: Krüger, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically study the phenomenon of self-propulsion through Casimir forces in thermal non-equilibrium. Using fluctuational electrodynamics, we derive a formula for the self-propulsion force for an arbitrary small object in two scenarios, i) for the object being isolated, and ii) for the object being close to a planar surface. In the latter case, the self-propulsion force (i.e., the force parallel to the surface) increases with decreasing distance, i.e., it couples to the near-field. We numerically calculate the lateral force acting on a hot spheroid near a surface and show that it can be as large as the gravitational force, thus being potentially measurable in fly-by experiments. We close by linking our results to well-known relations of linear response theory in fluctuational electrodynamics: Looking at the friction of the anisotropic object for constant velocity, we identify a correction term that is additional to the typically used approach.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures (v2: References updated)
Effect of Early versus Deferred Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV on Survival
Creators: name: Moore, Richard D.
name: Crane, Heidi M.
name: Gange, Stephen J.
name: Collier, Ann C.
name: Goedert, James J.
name: Justice, Amy C.
name: Eron, Joseph J.
name: McKaig, Rosemary G.
name: Jacobson, Lisa P.
name: Kitahata, Mari M.
name: Merriman, Barry
name: Sterling, Timothy R.
name: Klein, Marina B.
name: Saag, Michael S.
name: Horberg, Michael A.
name: Rachlis, Anita R.
name: Calzavara, Liviana M.
name: Abraham, Alison G.
name: Bosch, Ronald J.
name: Freeman, Aimee
name: Gill, John
name: Rourke, Sean B.
name: Benson, Constance A.
name: Silverberg, Michael J.
name: Gebo, Kelly A.
name: Deeks, Steven G.
name: Van Rompaey, Stephen E.
name: Napravnik, Sonia
name: Martin, Jeffrey N.
name: Hogg, Robert S.
name: Rodriguez, Benigno
name: Lau, Bryan
name: Kirk, Gregory D.
name: Brooks, John T.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: BACKGROUND
The optimal time for the initiation of antiretroviral therapy for asymptomatic patients
with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is uncertain.
METHODS
We conducted two parallel analyses involving a total of 17,517 asymptomatic patients
with HIV infection in the United States and Canada who received medical care during
the period from 1996 through 2005. None of the patients had undergone previous
antiretroviral therapy. In each group, we stratified the patients according to the CD4+
count (351 to 500 cells per cubic millimeter or >500 cells per cubic millimeter) at the
initiation of antiretroviral therapy. In each group, we compared the relative risk of
death for patients who initiated therapy when the CD4+ count was above each of the
two thresholds of interest (early-therapy group) with that of patients who deferred
therapy until the CD4+ count fell below these thresholds (deferred-therapy group).
RESULTS
In the first analysis, which involved 8362 patients, 2084 (25%) initiated therapy at a
CD4+ count of 351 to 500 cells per cubic millimeter, and 6278 (75%) deferred therapy.
After adjustment for calendar year, cohort of patients, and demographic and clinical
characteristics, among patients in the deferred-therapy group there was an increase
in the risk of death of 69%, as compared with that in the early-therapy group (relative
risk in the deferred-therapy group, 1.69; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.26 to 2.26;
P<0.001). In the second analysis involving 9155 patients, 2220 (24%) initiated therapy
at a CD4+ count of more than 500 cells per cubic millimeter and 6935 (76%) deferred
therapy. Among patients in the deferred-therapy group, there was an increase in the
risk of death of 94% (relative risk, 1.94; 95% CI, 1.37 to 2.79; P<0.001).
CONCLUSIONS
The early initiation of antiretroviral therapy before the CD4+ count fell below two
prespecified thresholds significantly improved survival, as compared with deferred
therapy.
title: Utilisation of Health Services within Twelve Months of Death and the Incidence of Potentially Futile Oncologic Interventions over a Twelve Year Period at a Large Academic Centre
Creators: name: Ong, Wee Loon
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Health policy and practice
subject: CT
subject: Oncology
subject: Patterns of Care

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: To describe the trend in utilisation of hospital service activities (HSA) at the end of life in oncology patients over a 12-year period in cancer centre in...
title: Extra-Coronary Findings on CT Coronary Angiography: Retrospective Analysis of 2070 Patients
Creators: name: Chew, Kym
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Cardiac
subject: Screening
subject: Outcomes

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: ECG-gated cardiac computed tomography (CT) is widely used for non-invasive assessment of coronary artery stenosis and atherosclerotic plaque burden as well as the cardiac structures. 1 In a number of institutions, CT coronary angiograms (CTCA) are...
Prevention of HIV-1 Infection with Early Antiretroviral Therapy
Creators: name: Ribaudo, Heather
name: Eron, Joseph
name: de Bruyn, Guy
name: Mills, Lisa A.
name: Ginsztejn, Beatriz
name: Mayer, Kenneth H.
name: Hoffman, Irving F.
name: Havlir, Diane
name: Elharrar, Vanessa
name: Gallant, Joel
name: Chariyalertsak, Suwat
name: Mehendale, Sanjay
name: Wang, Lei
name: Essex, Max
name: Santos, Breno R.
name: Nielsen-Saines, Karin
name: Chen, Ying Q.
name: Hosseinipour, Mina C.
name: Fleming, Thomas R.
name: Gamble, Theresa
name: Taha, Taha E.
name: Burns, David
name: Eshleman, Susan H.
name: Sanne, Ian
name: Cohen, Myron S.
name: McCauley, Marybeth
name: Swindells, Susan
name: Pilotto, Jose H.S.
name: Kumwenda, Johnstone
name: Piwowar-Manning, Estelle
name: Hakim, James G.
name: Godbole, Sheela V.
name: Makhema, Joseph
name: Kumarasamy, Nagalingeswaran
name: Celentano, David
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Background: Antiretroviral therapy that reduces viral replication could limit the transmission of
human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) in serodiscordant couples.
Methods: In nine countries, we enrolled 1763 couples in which one partner was HIV-1–positive
and the other was HIV-1–negative; 54% of the subjects were from Africa, and 50%
of infected partners were men. HIV-1–infected subjects with CD4 counts between
350 and 550 cells per cubic millimeter were randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to receive
antiretroviral therapy either immediately (early therapy) or after a decline in the CD4
count or the onset of HIV-1–related symptoms (delayed therapy). The primary prevention
end point was linked HIV-1 transmission in HIV-1–negative partners. The primary
clinical end point was the earliest occurrence of pulmonary tuberculosis, severe
bacterial infection, a World Health Organization stage 4 event, or death.
Results: As of February 21, 2011, a total of 39 HIV-1 transmissions were observed (incidence
rate, 1.2 per 100 person-years; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.9 to 1.7); of these, 28 were
virologically linked to the infected partner (incidence rate, 0.9 per 100 person-years,
95% CI, 0.6 to 1.3). Of the 28 linked transmissions, only 1 occurred in the earlytherapy
group (hazard ratio, 0.04; 95% CI, 0.01 to 0.27; P<0.001). Subjects receiving
early therapy had fewer treatment end points (hazard ratio, 0.59; 95% CI, 0.40 to
0.88; P = 0.01).
Conclusions: The early initiation of antiretroviral therapy reduced rates of sexual transmission of
HIV-1 and clinical events, indicating both personal and public health benefits from
such therapy. (Funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
and others; HPTN 052 ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00074581.)
A low-cost IoT multi-spectral acquisition device
Creators: name: Valencia-Aguirre, Juliana
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Hardware Systems
subject: Computer Engineering
subject: Environmental Engineering
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering
subject: Digital Circuits
subject: Civil and Environmental Engineering
subject: Engineering
subject: IoT
subject: Multi-spectral sensors

description: Here there are presented the files for 3D printing the enclosure of a low-cost IoT multi-spectral acquisition device with wireless communication. There is also the basic code to use it and the schematic.
A New Scheme for NMSSM in Gauge Mediation
Creators: name: Asano, Masaki
name: Nakai, Yuichiro
name: Yokozaki, Norimi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new framework for the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model (NMSSM) in gauge mediation, where in general the correct electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB) is difficult to be explained. The difficulty is caused by the absence of a soft supersymmetry (SUSY) breaking mass for the NMSSM singlet S. In our framework, S is a meson in a hidden QCD. This QCD is responsible for the dynamical SUSY breaking, forming S, and the soft SUSY breaking mass for S, which is a key to explain the correct EWSB: all the ingredients for successful phenomenology originate from the common dynamics. From the requirement of the successful EWSB, the low-scale SUSY breaking around 100-1000 TeV is predicted. This is favored to avoid the large fine-tuning.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures. References and appendix have been added
title: Өзін-өзі тану: теория және практика
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: EDP Hub (Идипи Хаб), Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2024

description: Монографияда өзін-өзі танудың ғылыми-теориялық негіздері айқындалып, адамгершілік-рухани білімнің тұжырымдамасы, «Өзін-өзі тану» пәнінің құрылымдық-мазмұндық және практикалық аспектілері сипатталған. Сонымен қатар, болашақ мамандардың адамгершілік-рухани мәдениеті мен кәсіби іс-әрекетін қалыптастыру, дамыту мәселелері ғылыми-теориялық тұрғыдан қарастырылған. Монография жоғары оқу орындарындағы «Әлеуметтік педагогика» және «Өзін-өзі тану» пәндерінің ғылыми-теориялық мазмұнын толықтырады. Монографиядағы материалдар педагогтерге, психологтарға, менеджерлер, дәрігерлер және «адам-адам» жүйесімен жұмыс істейтін басқа да мамандарға, ЖОО-ның оқытушылары мен білім алушыларына және көпшілік оқырманға арналған.
title: Impact of Registered Positron Emission Tomography Data on Radiotherapy Planning for Oesophageal Cancer
Creators: name: Vinod, Shalini
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: PET-CT
subject: CT
subject: Oncology
subject: Gastrointestinal tract

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Positron Emission Tomography (PET) has played an increasing role in tumour delineation for oesophageal cancer radiotherapy planning. A systematic review showed the use of 18 F-Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-PET resulted in target volume changes compared...
title: Role of Adaptive Radiotherapy in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC): Changes in Volume and Dosimetric Evaluations
Creators: name: Ho, Ge Kai Eunice
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: Cone beam CT
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Radiotherapy techniques

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: •Tumour regression is often seen during a 5-7 week course of curative radiotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) •The entire course of radiotherapy is usually delivered based on the initial tumour volume •Adaptive treatment is where...
The Impact of Dual Prediction Schemes on the Reduction of the Number of Transmissions in Sensor Networks
Creators: name: Dias, Gabriel Martins
name: Bellalta, Boris
name: Oechsner, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: C.2.4; C.2.1
subject: 62P30

description: Future Internet of Things (IoT) applications will require that billions of wireless devices transmit data to the cloud frequently. However, the wireless medium access is pointed as a problem for the next generations of wireless networks; hence, the number of data transmissions in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) can quickly become a bottleneck, disrupting the exponential growth in the number of interconnected devices, sensors, and amount of produced data. Therefore, keeping a low number of data transmissions is critical to incorporate new sensor nodes and measure a great variety of parameters in future generations of WSNs. Thanks to the high accuracy and low complexity of state-of-the-art forecasting algorithms, Dual Prediction Schemes (DPSs) are potential candidates to optimize the data transmissions in WSNs at the finest level because they facilitate for sensor nodes to avoid unnecessary transmissions without affecting the quality of their measurements. In this work, we present a sensor network model that uses statistical theorems to describe the expected impact of DPSs and data aggregation in WSNs. We aim to provide a foundation for future works by characterizing the theoretical gains of processing data in sensors and conditioning its transmission to the predictions' accuracy. Our simulation results show that the number of transmissions can be reduced by almost 98% in the sensor nodes with the highest workload. We also detail the impact of predicting and aggregating transmissions according to the parameters that can be observed in common scenarios, such as sensor nodes' transmission ranges, the correlation between measurements of different sensors, and the period between two consecutive measurements in a sensor.
description: 30 pages, 8 figures
Meta-learning an Intermediate Representation for Few-shot Block-wise Prediction of Landslide Susceptibility
Creators: name: Chen, Li
name: Ding, Yulin
name: Pirasteh, Saeid
name: Hu, Han
name: Zhu, Qing
name: Zeng, Haowei
name: Yu, Haojia
name: Shang, Qisen
name: Song, Yongfei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Predicting a landslide susceptibility map (LSM) is essential for risk recognition and disaster prevention. Despite the successful application of data-driven approaches for LSM prediction, most methods generally apply a single global model to predict the LSM for an entire target region. However, in large-scale areas with significant environmental change, various parts of the region hold different landslide-inducing environments, and therefore, should be predicted with respective models. This study first segmented target scenarios into blocks for individual analysis. Then, the critical problem is that in each block with limited samples, conducting training and testing a model is impossible for a satisfactory LSM prediction, especially in dangerous mountainous areas where landslide surveying is expensive. To solve the problem, we trained an intermediate representation by the meta-learning paradigm, which is superior for capturing information valuable for few-shot adaption from LSM tasks. We hypothesized that there are more general and vital concepts concerning landslide causes and are sensitive to variations in input features. Thus, we can quickly few-shot adapt the models from the intermediate representation for different blocks or even unseen tasks using very few exemplar samples. Experimental results on the two study areas demonstrated the validity of our block-wise analysis in large scenarios and revealed the top few-shot adaption performances of the proposed methods.
The CONSORT statement: revised recommendations for improving the quality of reports of parallel-group randomised trials
Creators: name: Altman, Douglas
name: Schulz, Kenneth F.
name: Moher, David
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2001

description: To comprehend the results of a randomised controlled trial (RCT), readers must understand its design, conduct, analysis,
and interpretation. That goal can be achieved only through total transparency from authors. Despite several decades of
educational efforts, the reporting of RCTs needs improvement. Investigators and editors developed the original CONSORT
(Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) statement to help authors improve reporting by use of a checklist and flow
diagram. The revised CONSORT statement presented here incorporates new evidence and addresses some criticisms of
the original statement. The checklist items pertain to the content of the Title, Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results,
and Discussion. The revised checklist includes 22 items selected because empirical evidence indicates that not reporting
this information is associated with biased estimates of treatment effect, or because the information is essential to judge
the reliability or relevance of the findings. We intended the flow diagram to depict the passage of participants through an
RCT. The revised flow diagram depicts information from four stages of a trial (enrolment, intervention allocation, followup,
and analysis). The diagram explicitly shows the number of participants, for each intervention group, included in the
primary data analysis. Inclusion of these numbers allows the reader to judge whether the authors have done an intentionto-
treat analysis. In sum, the CONSORT statement is intended to improve the reporting of an RCT, enabling readers to
understand a trial’s conduct and to assess the validity of its results.
Final Report on Dissemination
Creators: name: Prevot, Alessandra Bianco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Project Ô
water circular economy
water resources
water reuse
EU
funded
project

description: Project Ô has in summary the overall objective of providing stakeholders (everybody using or regulating the use of water in an area) with a toolkit that enables them to plan the use of and utilise the resource water whatever its history and provenance, obtaining significant energy savings in terms of avoided treatment of water and waste water and release of pressure (quantity abstracted and pollution released) over green water sources. This overall objective was demonstrated in up to four sites each in different Countries of Europe and in Israel, involving water utilities, industries, aquaculture and agriculture as well as local authorities of different sizes. This document reports the Dissemination action carried out in Project Ô and analyses the results, with particular attention to the multiplicity of activities carried out and the actors involved both as proponents and recipients.
title: Quality of Care in Endometrial Cancer - Guideline Adherence, Waiting Times and Impact on Patient Outcomes
Creators: name: Chiew, Kim-Lin
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Oncology
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female
subject: Outcomes

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) attempt to integrate best available evidence to give treatment recommendations and framework for optimal quality of care. This population-based study investigates adherence to CPGs and quality of care indicators...
*-Lie-Type maps on alternative *-algebras
Creators: name: Andrade, Aline Jaqueline De Oliveira
name: Barreiro, Elisabete
name: Ferreira, Bruno Leonardo Macedo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17D05, 16W20

description: Let $A$ and $A'$ be two alternative $*$-algebras with identities 1_A and 1_A', respectively, and e_1 and e_2 = 1_A - e_1 nontrivial symmetric idempotents in A. In this paper we study the characterization of multiplicative *-Lie-type maps. As application, we get a result on alternative W*-algebras.
description: 10 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2108.00025