cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Mixed-effects models for GAW18 longitudinal blood pressure data
Creators: name: Chung, Wonil
name: Zou, Fei
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2014

description: Abstract In this paper, we propose two mixed-effects models for Genetic Analysis Workshop 18 (GAW18) longitudinal blood pressure data. The first method extends EMMA, an efficient mixed-model association-mapping algorithm. EMMA corrects for population structure and genetic relatedness using a kinship similarity matrix. We replace the kinship similarity matrix in EMMA with an estimated correlation matrix for modeling the dependence structure of repeated measurements. Our second approach is a Bayesian multiple association-mapping algorithm based on a mixed-effects model with a built-in variable selection feature. It models multiple single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) simultaneously and allows for SNP-SNP interactions and SNP-environment interactions. We applied these two methods to the longitudinal systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) data from GAW18. The extended EMMA method identified a single SNP on Chr5:75506197 (p-value = 4.67 × 10−7) for SBP and three SNPs on Chr3:23715851 (p-value = 9.00 × 10−8), Chr 17:54834217 (p-value = 1.98 × 10−7), and Chr21:18744081 (p-value = 4.95 × 10−7) for DBP. The Bayesian method identified several additional SNPs on Chr1:17876090 (Bayes factor [BF] = 102), Chr3:197469358 (BF = 69), Chr15:87675666 (BF = 43), and Chr19:41642807 (BF = 33) for SBP. Furthermore, for SBP, we found a single SNP on Chr3:197469358 (BF = 69) that has a strong interaction with age. We further evaluated the performances of the proposed methods by simulations.
title: Tibial plateau fractures: Review of the classification systems, management, and outcome
Creators: name: Coleman, Stephanie
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Trauma
subject: Outcomes
subject: Education and training
subject: Education
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: CT
subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: Musculoskeletal bone

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Classify fracture patterns of tibial plateau using Schatzker and AO classification systems Identify the indications for cross sectional imaging Recognize the different indications for surgical intervention and be familiar with surgical hardware...
title: Über die Anpassungsstörung und Stress als Folge der Covid-19-Pandemie
Creators: name: Pregg, Fabian
Year: 2023

description: Diese Arbeit untersucht die Auswirkungen von Covid-19 auf die Entstehung von Anpassungsstörung. Angesichts der globalen Gesundheitskrise hat die Pandemie nicht nur direkte Auswirkungen auf die körperliche Gesundheit, sondern auch erhebliche psychische Belastungen für die betroffenen Individuen verursacht. Ein besonderer Fokus dieser Untersuchung liegt dabei auf der Infektionsmöglichkeit als einem der Hauptstressoren im Zusammenhang mit Covid-19. Die Studie wurde im Rahmen der ESTSS ADJUST-Study durchgeführt und untersucht die österreichische Gesamtpopulation. Daten wurden sowohl im Sommer 2020 als auch im Sommer 2021 erhoben, um Veränderungen über die Zeit zu analysieren. Die Analyse zeigte zeitlich stabile Korrelationen zwischen Symptomen der Anpassungsstörung und der Angst vor einer Infektion sowie Belastung durch eine Infektion. Die Ergebnisse dieser Studie verdeutlichen den Zusammenhang zwischen Anpassungsstörungen und den stressauslösenden Faktoren im Zusammenhang mit der Covid-19-Pandemie. Diese Erkenntnisse haben wichtige Implikationen für die Praxis. Zu diesen gezielten Maßnahmen zählen die Förderung von psychoedukativen Programmen, um Informationen über die Infektionsrisiken zu vermitteln und den Umgang mit Ängsten zu erleichtern sowie die Erweiterung bestehender Behandlungsansätze für Anpassungsstörungen, um den spezifischen Herausforderungen im Zusammenhang mit COVID-19 gerecht zu werden. Insgesamt betonen die Ergebnisse dieser Studie die Notwendigkeit eines umfassenden Ansatzes zur Bewältigung der psychischen Auswirkungen der Pandemie. Durch die Implementierung gezielter Präventionsmaßnahmen, psychoedukativer Maßnahmen und möglicherweise einer Anpassung der Behandlungsansätze können individuelle Resilienz gestärkt und psychische Belastungen reduziert werden. Dies soll einen wertvollen Beitrag dazu leisten, die Auswirkungen der COVID-19-Pandemie auf die psychische Gesundheit der Bevölkerung zu mindern.
title: Unconventional Approaches for CT-guided Biopsy: Anatomic and Technical Considerations
Creators: name: Borensztein, Matias Adrian
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Metastases
subject: Cancer
subject: Education and training
subject: Biopsy
subject: CT
subject: Oncology
subject: Interventional non-vascular

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Show unconventional CT guided biopsies in hard to reach lesions. Evaluate risks and benefits of each biopsy...
Dark Radiation and Inflationary Freedom after Planck 2015
Creators: name: Di Valentino, Eleonora
name: Gariazzo, Stefano
name: Gerbino, Martina
name: Giusarma, Elena
name: Mena, Olga
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The simplest inflationary models predict a primordial power spectrum (PPS) of the curvature fluctuations that can be described by a power-law function that is nearly scale-invariant. It has been shown, however, that the low-multipole spectrum of the CMB anisotropies may hint the presence of some features in the shape of the scalar PPS, which could deviate from its canonical power-law form. We study the possible degeneracies of this non-standard PPS with the neutrino anisotropies, the neutrino masses, the effective number of relativistic species and a sterile neutrino or a thermal axion mass. The limits on these additional parameters are less constraining in a model with a non-standard PPS when only including the temperature auto-correlation spectrum measurements in the data analyses. The inclusion of the polarization spectra noticeably helps in reducing the degeneracies, leading to results that typically show no deviation from the $Λ$CDM model with a standard power-law PPS.
description: 22 pages, 17 figures, 11 tables. Updated to match the published version. Text abridged upon the referee's requests
Correlating changes in lung function with patient outcomes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a pooled analysis
Creators: name: Donohue, James F
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2011

description: Abstract Background Relationships between improvements in lung function and other clinical outcomes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are not documented extensively. We examined whether changes in trough forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) are correlated with changes in patient-reported outcomes. Methods Pooled data from three indacaterol studies (n = 3313) were analysed. Means and responder rates for outcomes including change from baseline in Transition Dyspnoea Index (TDI), St. George's Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ) scores (at 12, 26 and 52 weeks), and COPD exacerbation frequency (rate/year) were tabulated across categories of ΔFEV1. Also, generalised linear modelling was performed adjusting for covariates such as baseline severity and inhaled corticosteroid use. Results With increasing positive ΔFEV1, TDI and ΔSGRQ improved at all timepoints, exacerbation rate over the study duration declined (P < 0.001). Individual-level correlations were 0.03-0.18, but cohort-level correlations were 0.79-0.95. At 26 weeks, a 100 ml increase in FEV1 was associated with improved TDI (0.46 units), ΔSGRQ (1.3-1.9 points) and exacerbation rate (12% decrease). Overall, adjustments for baseline covariates had little impact on the relationship between ΔFEV1 and outcomes. Conclusions These results suggest that larger improvements in FEV1 are likely to be associated with larger patient-reported benefits across a range of clinical outcomes. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00393458 , NCT00463567 , and NCT00624286
Properties of vector-valued submodules on the bidisk
Creators: name: Bickel, Kelly
name: Liaw, Constanze
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47A13, 47A20, 46E22

description: In previous work, the authors studied the compressed shift operators $S_{z_1}$ and $S_{z_2}$ on two-variable model spaces $H^2(\mathbb{D}^2)\ominus θH^2(\mathbb{D}^2)$, where $θ$ is a two-variable scalar inner function. Among other results, the authors used Agler decompositions to characterize the ranks of the operators $[S_{z_j}, S^*_{z_j}]$ in terms of the degree of rational $θ.$ In this paper, we examine similar questions for $H^2(\mathbb{D}^2)\ominus ΘH^2(\mathbb{D}^2)$ when $Θ$ is a matrix-valued inner function. We extend several results our previous work connecting $\text{Rank} [S_{z_j}, S^*_{z_j}]$ and the degree of $Θ$ to the matrix setting. When results do not clearly generalize, we conjecture what is true and provide supporting examples.
description: 10 pages
title: Let´s see beyond the testicle: paratesticular pathology (anatomy, ultrasound findings and clinical-radiologic interpretation).
Creators: name: Atencia Ballesteros, Marta
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Ultrasound
subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: eLearning
subject: Education and training

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Remember the anatomy of paratesticular structures. Check normal sonographic anatomy of the paratesticular structures. Know the different processes affect this...
Study 1: Correspondence of Idiographically Identified CAT categoried to Nomothetic Trait Categories - Advancing a Cognitive Approach
Creators: name: McKenna, Mairead
name: Cervone, Daniel
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: We report research that advances a cognitive paradigm of personality assessment by using assessments deriving from the KAPA model of personality architecture (Cervone, 2004) to address the structure of beliefs and self-reported action tendencies. The assessments targeted three qualities: (1) Self-knowledge, including beliefs about personal attributes that individuals see as personal strengths and personal weaknesses that they possess; (2) Situational beliefs, in particular, beliefs about the relevance of their personal attributes to each of a series of contexts and associated actions; and (3) Contextualized Action Tendencies (CATs), via self-reports of the likelihood with which one would engage in each of a series of actions in specified contexts. We assessed these qualities with different methods. Self-knowledge was assessed through narrative methods, which are valuable for identifying personal attributes that may be idiosyncratic to a given individual. Situational beliefs were assessed with a categorization task that has proven useful for the identification of subjective beliefs about the relation between personal qualities and everyday challenges (e.g., Orom & Cervone, 2009). Contextualized action tendencies were assessed with a traditional self-report questionnaire. As in prior work, we interpreted self-knowledge that participants spontaneously list and judge to be personally relevant as schematic knowledge structures, or self-schemas (Markus, 1977), and predicted that people would display consistent action tendencies in schema-relevant contexts. Critically, unlike prior work, the CATs were directly linked to each factor of the five-factor model of individual differences (McCrae & Costa, 1996). This enabled us to determine, at the level of individual cases, the degree to which our KAPA model assessment predict personality coherence not only within but also across trait categories. We predicted that idiographically-sensitive assessments of self-knowledge and situational beliefs would enable the identification, at the level of individual cases, of clusters of situations in which participants would display relatively high and low behavioral tendencies. We anticipated that these situational clusters would sometimes combine together behavioral indicators of different nomothetic trait categories. We introduce a quantitative index to gauge the correspondence between individual’s groupings of nomothetic trait categories and individual-level responses to evaluate this aspect of participants’ responses.
Defects in conformal field theory
Creators: name: Billò, Marco
name: Gonçalves, Vasco
name: Lauria, Edoardo
name: Meineri, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss consequences of the breaking of conformal symmetry by a flat or spherical extended operator. We adapt the embedding formalism to the study of correlation functions of symmetric traceless tensors in the presence of the defect. Two-point functions of a bulk and a defect primary are fixed by conformal invariance up to a set of OPE coefficients, and we identify the allowed tensor structures. A correlator of two bulk primaries depends on two cross-ratios, and we study its conformal block decomposition in the case of external scalars. The Casimir equation in the defect channel reduces to a hypergeometric equation, while the bulk channel blocks are recursively determined in the light-cone limit. In the special case of a defect of codimension two, we map the Casimir equation in the bulk channel to the one of a four-point function without defect. Finally, we analyze the contact terms of the stress-tensor with the extended operator, and we deduce constraints on the CFT data. In two dimensions, we relate the displacement operator, which appears among the contact terms, to the reflection coefficient of a conformal interface, and we find unitarity bounds for the latter.
description: 57 pages, 5 figures, Matches published version
title: Feasibility of low-dose chest radiography with low tube potential
Creators: name: Kim, Kiwook
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Occupational / Environmental hazards
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Digital radiography
subject: Thorax
subject: Radiation physics
subject: Lung

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Chest radiograph is one of the most widely used x-ray examination. During 2006, total chest radiograph was performed 12,883,042 times in South Korea[ 1 ]. The radiation dose of a single chest radiograph is not critical. But, considering repetitive...
Are general and strategic measures of organizational context and leadership associated with knowledge and attitudes toward evidence-based practices in public behavioral health settings? A cross-sectional observational study
Creators: name: Powell, Byron
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2017

description: Abstract Background Examining the role of modifiable barriers and facilitators is a necessary step toward developing effective implementation strategies. This study examines whether both general (organizational culture, organizational climate, and transformational leadership) and strategic (implementation climate and implementation leadership) organizational-level factors predict therapist-level determinants of implementation (knowledge of and attitudes toward evidence-based practices). Methods Within the context of a system-wide effort to increase the use of evidence-based practices (EBPs) and recovery-oriented care, we conducted an observational, cross-sectional study of 19 child-serving agencies in the City of Philadelphia, including 23 sites, 130 therapists, 36 supervisors, and 22 executive administrators. Organizational variables included characteristics such as EBP initiative participation, program size, and proportion of independent contractor therapists; general factors such as organizational culture and climate (Organizational Social Context Measurement System) and transformational leadership (Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire); and strategic factors such as implementation climate (Implementation Climate Scale) and implementation leadership (Implementation Leadership Scale). Therapist-level variables included demographics, attitudes toward EBPs (Evidence-Based Practice Attitudes Scale), and knowledge of EBPs (Knowledge of Evidence-Based Services Questionnaire). We used linear mixed-effects regression models to estimate the associations between the predictor (organizational characteristics, general and strategic factors) and dependent (knowledge of and attitudes toward EBPs) variables. Results Several variables were associated with therapists’ knowledge of EBPs. Clinicians in organizations with more proficient cultures or higher levels of transformational leadership (idealized influence) had greater knowledge of EBPs; conversely, clinicians in organizations with more resistant cultures, more functional organizational climates, and implementation climates characterized by higher levels of financial reward for EBPs had less knowledge of EBPs. A number of organizational factors were associated with the therapists’ attitudes toward EBPs. For example, more engaged organizational cultures, implementation climates characterized by higher levels of educational support, and more proactive implementation leadership were all associated with more positive attitudes toward EBPs. Conclusions This study provides evidence for the importance of both general and strategic organizational determinants as predictors of knowledge of and attitudes toward EBPs. The findings highlight the need for longitudinal and mixed-methods studies that examine the influence of organizational factors on implementation.
Analysis of Intelligent Classifiers and Enhancing the Detection Accuracy for Intrusion Detection System
Creators: name: Albayati, Mohanad
name: Issac, Biju
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we discuss and analyze some of the intelligent classifiers which allows for automatic detection and classification of networks attacks for any intrusion detection system. We will proceed initially with their analysis using the WEKA software to work with the classifiers on a well-known IDS (Intrusion Detection Systems) dataset like NSL-KDD dataset. The NSL-KDD dataset of network attacks was created in a military network by MIT Lincoln Labs. Then we will discuss and experiment some of the hybrid AI (Artificial Intelligence) classifiers that can be used for IDS, and finally we developed a Java software with three most efficient classifiers and compared it with other options. The outputs would show the detection accuracy and efficiency of the single and combined classifiers used.
title: MRI Techniques in Diagnosis of Non-neoplastic Fat Containing Liver Lesions and Pseudolesions
Creators: name: Erkan, Burcu
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Liver
subject: MR physics
subject: MR
subject: Physics
subject: Tissue characterisation

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: 1. Imaging characteristics and differential diagnosis of non-neoplastic fat-containing liver lesions and pseudolesions. 2. Pertinent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) physics and MRI sequences for lipid detection. 3. Understanding of these...
Climate Adapted Seed Tool (CAST): An Evidence-Based Tool to Improve Reforestation Outcomes
Creators: name: Stewart, Joseph A.E.
name: Wright, Jessica W.
name: O'Neill, Greg A.
name: Ostoja, Steven M.
name: Boynton, Ryan M.
name: Godfrey, Jessie M.
name: Thorne, James H.
Publisher: name: ReforestationTools.org
Year: 2024
Subjects: Assisted Gene Flow
Reforestation
Restoration Ecology
Genecology
Climate Change
Fire Ecology

description: USFS and CAL FIRE use the Climate-Adapted Seed Tool (CAST) to inform climate-adapted seed selection. CAST uses data from tens of thousands of trees planted in provenance tests across western North America to inform seed transfer. We are working to incorporate data from 368,000 trees planted in provenance tests across western North America into CAST. Forward thinking scientists began establishing these experiments in 1910 and scientists are still working to establish new experiments.
title: Role of myocardial viability assessment by MRI in the prognosis and therapeutic management in patients with ischemic heart disease
Creators: name: Belkhiria, Zeineb
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: MR
subject: Cardiac
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Cardiac Assist Devices

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Patients suffering from ischemic heat disease with leftt ventricular systolic dysfunction present a bad prognostic and should be potentially revascularized. In fact, many studies demonstrated the benefits of revascularization on survival and...
Sinc integrals and tiny numbers
Creators: name: Bäsel, Uwe
name: Baillie, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 33B10 (Primary) 26D15, 33F05 (Secondary)

description: We apply a result of David and Jon Borwein to evaluate a sequence of highly-oscillatory integrals whose integrands are the products of a rapidly growing number of sinc functions. The value of each integral is given in the form $π(1-t)/2$, where the numbers $t$ quickly become very tiny. Using the Euler-Maclaurin summation formula, we calculate these numbers to high precision. For example, the integrand of the tenth integral in the sequence is the product of 68100152 sinc functions. The corresponding $t$ is approximately $9.6492736004286844634795531209398105309232 \cdot 10^{-554381308}$.
description: 23 pages, 1 figure
Hypertension management in rural primary care facilities in Zambia: a mixed methods study
Creators: name: Chilengi, Roma
name: Chi, Benjamin
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2017

description: Abstract Background Improved primary health care is needed in developing countries to effectively manage the growing burden of hypertension. Our objective was to evaluate hypertension management in Zambian rural primary care clinics using process and outcome indicators to assess the screening, monitoring, treatment and control of high blood pressure. Methods Better Health Outcomes through Mentoring and Assessment (BHOMA) is a 5-year, randomized stepped-wedge trial of improved clinical service delivery underway in 46 rural Zambian clinics. Clinical data were collected as part of routine patient care from an electronic medical record system, and reviewed for site performance over time according to hypertension related indicators: screening (blood pressure measurement), management (recorded diagnosis, physical exam or urinalysis), treatment (on medication), and control. Quantitative data was used to develop guides for qualitative in-depth interviews, conducted with health care providers at a proportional sample of half (20) of clinics. Qualitative data was iteratively analyzed for thematic content. Results From January 2011 to December 2014, 318,380 visits to 46 primary care clinics by adults aged ≥ 25 years with blood pressure measurements were included. Blood pressure measurement at vital sign screening was initially high at 89.1% overall (range: 70.1–100%), but decreased to 62.1% (range: 0–100%) by 48 months after intervention start. The majority of hypertensive patients made only one visit to the clinics (57.8%). Out of 9022 patients with at least two visits with an elevated blood pressure, only 49.3% had a chart recorded hypertension diagnosis. Process indicators for monitoring hypertension were <10% and did not improve with time. In in-depth interviews, antihypertensive medication shortages were common, with 15/20 clinics reporting hydrochlorothiazide-amiloride stockouts. Principal challenges in hypertension management included 1) equipment and personnel shortages, 2) provider belief that multiple visits were needed before official management, 3) medication stock-outs, leading to improper prescriptions and 4) poor patient visit attendance. Conclusions Our findings suggest that numerous barriers stand in the way of hypertension diagnosis and management in Zambian primary health facilities. Future work should focus on performance indicator development and validation in low resource contexts, to facilitate regular and systematic data review to improve patient outcomes. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov, Identifier NCT01942278 . Date of Registration: September 2013.
Fabrication of silica aerogel with $n$ = 1.08 for $e^+/μ^+$ separation in a threshold Cherenkov counter of the J-PARC TREK/E36 experiment
Creators: name: Tabata, Makoto
name: Toyoda, Akihisa
name: Kawai, Hideyuki
name: Igarashi, Youichi
name: Imazato, Jun
name: Shimizu, Suguru
name: Yamazaki, Hirohito
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This study presents the development of hydrophobic silica aerogel for use as a radiator in threshold-type Cherenkov counters. These counters are to be used for separating positrons and positive muons produced by kaon decay in the J-PARC TREK/E36 experiment. We chose to employ aerogel with a refractive index of 1.08 to identify charged particles with momenta of approximately 240 MeV/$c$, and the radiator block shape was designed with a trapezoidal cross-section to fit the barrel region surrounding the kaon stopping target in the center of the TREK/E36 detector system. Including spares, we obtained 30 crack-free aerogel blocks segmented into two layers, each layer having a thickness of 2 cm and a length of 18 cm, to fill 12 counter modules. Optical measurements showed that the produced aerogel tiles had the required refractive indices and transparency.
description: To be published in Nucl. Instrum. Methods A,, 9 pages, 14 figures
title: Radiologic manifestations of sickle cell disease
Creators: name: Lucas, Rita Nobre
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Pathology
subject: Haematologic diseases
subject: Education
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Haematologic
subject: Bones
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The purpose of this exhibit is to review the radiologic manifestations of sickle cell disease in various organs and to illustrate it with typical imaging...
Changes in Spatio-temporal Precipitation Patterns in Changing Climate Conditions
Creators: name: Chang, Won
name: Stein, Michael L.
name: Wang, Jiali
name: Kotamarthi, V. Rao
name: Moyer, Elisabeth J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Climate models robustly imply that some significant change in precipitation patterns will occur. Models consistently project that the intensity of individual precipitation events increases by approximately 6-7%/K, following the increase in atmospheric water content, but that total precipitation increases by a lesser amount (1-2 %/K in the global average in transient runs). Some other aspect of precipitation events must then change to compensate for this difference. We develop here a new methodology for identifying individual rainstorms and studying their physical characteristics - including starting location, intensity, spatial extent, duration, and trajectory - that allows identifying that compensating mechanism. We apply this technique to precipitation over the contiguous U.S. from both radar-based data products and high-resolution model runs simulating 80 years of business-as-usual warming. In model studies, we find that the dominant compensating mechanism is a reduction of storm size. In summer, rainstorms become more intense but smaller, in winter, rainstorm shrinkage still dominates, but storms also become less numerous and shorter duration. These results imply that flood impacts from climate change will be less severe than would be expected from changes in precipitation intensity alone. We show also that projected changes are smaller than model-observation biases, implying that the best means of incorporating them into impact assessments is via "data-driven simulations" that apply model-projected changes to observational data. We therefore develop a simulation algorithm that statistically describes model changes in precipitation characteristics and adjusts data accordingly, and show that, especially for summertime precipitation, it outperforms simulation approaches that do not include spatial information.
description: This work has been submitted for publication. Copyright in this work may be transferred without further notice, and this version may no longer be accessible
title: Iatrogenic changes in Chest CT after lung and breast cancer treatment – a comprehensive review of imaging features.
Creators: name: Oliveira, Carlos Miguel
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: Thorax
subject: Breast
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Treatment effects
subject: Radiation effects
subject: Surgery
subject: Drugs / Reactions
subject: Neoplasia

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: 1- Explain what type of treatments cause iatrogenic changes in the chest CT and in which diseases they are used. 2- Provide the reader with the ability to differentiate those iatrogenic changes from the ones disease-related, providing mainly CT...
The effect of depression symptoms and social support on black-white differences in health-related quality of life in early pregnancy: the health status in pregnancy (HIP) study
Creators: name: Nicholson, Wanda K
name: Grogan, Ruby
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2013

description: Abstract Background Lower physical and social functioning in pregnancy has been linked to an increased risk of preterm delivery and low birth weight infants, butt few studies have examined racial differences in pregnant women’s perception of their functioning. Even fewer studies have elucidated the demographic and clinical factors contributing to racial differences in functioning. Our objective was to determine whether there are racial differences in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in early pregnancy; and if so, to identify the contributions of socio-demographic characteristics, depression symptoms, social support and clinical factors to these differences. Methods Cross-sectional study of 175 women in early pregnancy attending prenatal clinics in urban setting. In multivariate analysis, we assessed the independent relation of black race (compared to white) to HRQoL scores from the eight domains of the Medical Outcomes (SF-36) Survey: Physical Functioning, Role-Physical, Bodily Pain, Vitality, General Health, Social Functioning, Role-Emotional, and Mental Health. We compared socio-demographic and clinical factors and depression symptoms between black and white women and assessed the relative importance of these factors in explaining racial differences in physical and social functioning. Results Black women comprised 59% of the sample; white women comprised 41%. Before adjustment, black women had scores that were 14 points lower in Physical Function and Bodily Pain, 8 points lower in General Health, 4 points lower in Vitality and 7 points lower in Social Functioning. After adjustment for depression symptoms, social support and clinical factors, black women still had HRQoL scores that were 4 to 10 points lower than white women, but the differences were no longer statistically significant. Level of social support and payment source accounted for most of the variation in Physical Functioning, Bodily Pain and General Health. Social support accounted for most of the differences in Vitality and Social Functioning. Conclusions Payment source and social support accounted for much of the racial differences in physical and social function scores. Efforts to reduce racial differences might focus on improving social support networks and Socio-economic barriers.
?כיצד עומס קוגניטיבי ותחושת ערך עצמי משפיעים על יכולת פתירת בעיות
Creators: name: PATT, TALI
name: Raam, Narkis
name: amir, gal
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: הרשמה מראש למחקר שלנו במסגרת קורס פסיכולוגיה ניסויית
Non-collinear order and gapless superconductivity in s-wave magnetic superconductors
Creators: name: Karmakar, Madhuparna
name: Majumdar, Pinaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the behavior of magnetic superconductors which involve a local attractive interaction between electrons, and a coupling between local moments and the electrons. We solve this `Hubbard-Kondo' model through a variational minimization at zero temperature and validate the results via a Monte Carlo based on static auxiliary field decomposition of the Hubbard interaction. Over a magnetic coupling window that widens with increasing attractive interaction the ground state supports simultaneous magnetic and superconducting order. The pairing amplitude remains s-wave like, without significant spatial modulation, while the magnetic phase evolves from a ferromagnet, through non-collinear `spiral' states, to a Neel state with increasing density and magnetic coupling. We find that at intermediate magnetic coupling the antiferromagnetic-superconducting state is gapless, except for the regime of Neel order. We map out the phase diagram in terms of density, magnetic coupling and attractive interaction, establish the electron dispersion and effective `Fermi surface' in the ground state, provide an estimate of the magnetic and superconducting temperature scales via Monte Carlo, and compare our results to available data on the borocarbides.
description: 15 pages, 13 figures
title: Neuroimaging of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex
Creators: name: Ben Lassoued, Majdi
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Seizure disorders
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Neuroradiology brain

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The purpose of this posteris to present neuroimaging findings in tuberous sclerosis complex, including recently developed imaging techniques that have demonstrated clinical...
Care coordination among pediatricians and dentists: a cross-sectional study of opinions of North Carolina dentists
Creators: name: Quinonez, Rocio B.
name: Rozier, R. Gary
name: Kranz, Ashley M.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2014

description: Abstract: Background: Care coordination between physicians and dentists remains a challenge. This study of dentists providing pediatric dental care examined their opinions about physicians’ role in oral health and identified factors associated with these opinions. Methods: North Carolina general and pediatric dentists were surveyed on their opinions of how physicians should proceed after caries risk assessment and evaluation of an 18-month-old, low risk child. We estimated two multinomial logistic regression models to examine dentists’ responses to the scenario under the circumstances of an adequate and a limited dental workforce. Results: Among 376 dentists, 52% of dentists indicated physicians should immediately refer this child to a dental home with an adequate dental workforce. With a limited workforce, 34% recommended immediate referral. Regression analysis indicated that with an adequate workforce guideline awareness was associated with a significantly lower relative risk of dentists’ recommending the child remain in the medical home than immediate referral. Conclusions: Dentists’ opinions and professional guidelines on how physicians should promote early childhood oral health differ and warrant strategies to address such inconsistencies. Without consistent guidelines and their application, there is a missed opportunity to influence provider opinions to improve access to dental care.
DiffGame: Game-based mathematics learning for physics
Creators: name: Pedersen, Mads Kock
name: Svenningsen, Anette
name: Dohn, Niels Bonderup
name: Lieberoth, Andreas
name: Sherson, Jacob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Differentiation is a mathematical skill applied throughout science in order to describe the change of a function with respect to a dependent variable. Thus, an intuitive understanding of differentiation is necessary to work with the mathematical frameworks used to describe physical systems in the higher levels of education. In order to obtain this intuition repeated practice is required. This paper presents the development of DiffGame, which consists of a series of exercises that introduce the basic principles of differentiation for high-school students through game-like elements. DiffGame have been tested with 117 first-year students from a single Danish high school, who did not have any prior training in differentiation. The students' learning was assessed by the data obtained directly from DiffGame. The test demonstrated the efficacy of DiffGame, since students at all levels demonstrate a learning gain. In contrast to previous studies demonstrating most learning in the lower tier of students, the middle tier of students (based on overall performance) exhibits the largest learning gains.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures
Personality Recognition Among Multiple Astro*Intelligence Outputs
Creators: name: Blohowiak, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Alois Treindl
subject: Astro*Intelligence
subject: astrology
subject: Liz Greene
subject: personality

description: The Astro*Intelligence computer program created by Liz Greene and Alois Treindl reliably generates outputs promoted as "Analysis of the Personality, based on Astrology and Psychology" using only the subject's gender and his or her time, date, and location of birth as customizing inputs. If given more than one such output from the program with potentially identifying information redacted (such as dates or names of astrological signs), what is the likelihood that a given subject will identify a profile generated from the spatiotemporal coordinates of his or her birth as his or her own?
title: The unilateral painful swollen lower leg: deep vein thrombosis mimics.
Creators: name: Shah, Amit
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Anatomy
subject: Extremities
subject: Veins / Vena cava
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Education
subject: Embolism / Thrombosis

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: 1. Unilateral leg swelling is a common clinical presentation, with deep vein thrombosis (DVT) often the top differential. However, not infrequently, a range of pathologies are instead diagnosed. 2. Overview of the anatomy of the lower limb 3. To...
QORAQALPOQ XALQ ZARGARLIGI
Creators: name: Abdumo'minova, Farangiz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: XIX-XX asr boshlarida zargarlik buyumlarini ishlab chiqarish barcha savdo va  hunarmandchilik  markazlarida  keng  tarqalgan.  Har  bir  katta  ovullar  o’zlarining  zargari mavjud edi. Qoraqalpoq zargarlari o’z mahsulotlari uchun kumush, oltin, bronza, serdolik va firuzaga    oid   toshlar,    shuningdek,    marjon,    yirtqich    hayvon    va    qushlarning    tirnoq   va qoziqtishlardan foydalanishgan.
Antimicrobial actions of the human epididymis 2 (HE2) protein isoforms, HE2alpha, HE2beta1 and HE2beta2
Creators: name: French, Frank S
name: Hamil, Katherine G
name: Hall, Susan H
name: Yenugu, Suresh
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2004

description: Abstract: Background: The HE2 gene encodes a group of isoforms with similarities to the antimicrobial beta-defensins. We demonstrated earlier that the antimicrobial activity of HE2 proteins and peptides is salt resistant and structure dependent and involves permeabilization of bacterial membranes. In this study, we further characterize the antimicrobial properties of HE2 peptides in terms of the structural changes induced in E. coli and the inhibition of macromolecular synthesis. Methods: E. coli treated with 50 micro g/ml of HE2alpha, HE2beta1 or HE2beta2 peptides for 30 and 60 min were visualized using transmission and scanning electron microscopy to investigate the impact of these peptides on bacterial internal and external structure. The effects of HE2alpha, HE2beta1 and HE2beta2 on E. coli macromolecular synthesis was assayed by incubating the bacteria with 2, 10 and 25 micro g/ml of the individual peptides for 0–60 min and measuring the incorporation of the radioactive precursors [methyl-3H]thymidine, [5-3H]uridine and L-[4,5- 3H(N)]leucine into DNA, RNA and protein. Statistical analyses using Student's t-test were performed using Sigma Plot software. Values shown are Mean ± S.D. Results: E. coli treated with HE2alpha, HE2beta1 and HE2beta2 peptides as visualized by transmission electron microscopy showed extensive damage characterized by membrane blebbing, thickening of the membrane, highly granulated cytoplasm and appearance of vacuoles in contrast to the smooth and continuous membrane structure of the untreated bacteria. Similarly, bacteria observed by scanning electron microscopy after treating with HE2alpha, HE2beta1 or HE2beta2 peptides exhibited membrane blebbing and wrinkling, leakage of cellular contents, especially at the dividing septa, and external accumulation of fibrous materials. In addition, HE2alpha, HE2beta1 and HE2beta2 peptides inhibited E. coli DNA, RNA and protein synthesis. Conclusions: The morphological changes observed in E. coli treated with epididymal HE2 peptides provide further evidence for their membrane dependent mechanism of antibacterial action. HE2 C-terminal peptides can inhibit E. coli macromolecular synthesis, suggesting an additional mechanism of bacterial killing supplementary to membrane permeabilization.
title: Imaging of labyrinthine fistulae caused by middle ear cholesteatoma
Creators: name: Jrad, Myriam
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Head and neck
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Education
subject: Education and training

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Labyrinthine fistula is a very common clinical complication of chronic otitis media with cholesteatoma which can result in progressive sensory hearing loss or permanent loss of inner ear function. The aims of our study are: - -To study the role of...
Ghost free massive gravity with singular reference metrics
Creators: name: Zhang, Hongsheng
name: Li, Xin-Zhou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An auxiliary metric (reference metric) is inevitable in massive gravity theory. In the scenario of gauge/gravity duality, a singular reference metric corresponds to momentum dissipations, which describes the electric and heat conductivity for normal conductors. We demonstrate in detail that the massive gravity with singular reference metric is ghost-free.
description: 6pages, no figure
Quantifying sources of bias in longitudinal data linkage studies of child abuse and neglect: measuring impact of outcome specification, linkage error, and partial cohort follow-up
Creators: name: Marshall, Stephen
name: Shanahan, Meghan
name: Schnitzer, Patricia G
name: Parrish, Jared W
name: Lanier, Paul
name: Daniels, Julie
Publisher: name: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2017

description: Abstract Background Health informatics projects combining statewide birth populations with child welfare records have emerged as a valuable approach to conducting longitudinal research of child maltreatment. The potential bias resulting from linkage misspecification, partial cohort follow-up, and outcome misclassification in these studies has been largely unexplored. This study integrated epidemiological survey and novel administrative data sources to establish the Alaska Longitudinal Child Abuse and Neglect Linkage (ALCANLink) project. Using these data we evaluated and quantified the impact of non-linkage misspecification and single source maltreatment ascertainment use on reported maltreatment risk and effect estimates. Methods The ALCANLink project integrates the 2009–2011 Alaska Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) sample with multiple administrative databases through 2014, including one novel administrative source to track out-of-state emigration. For this project we limited our analysis to the 2009 PRAMS sample. We report on the impact of linkage quality, cohort follow-up, and multisource outcome ascertainment on the incidence proportion of reported maltreatment before age 6 and hazard ratios of selected characteristics that are often available in birth cohort linkage studies of maltreatment. Results Failure to account for out-of-state emigration biased the incidence proportion by 12% (from 28.3%w to 25.2%w), and the hazard ratio (HR) by as much as 33% for some risk factors. Overly restrictive linkage parameters biased the incidence proportion downwards by 43% and the HR by as much as 27% for some factors. Multi-source linkages, on the other hand, were of little benefit for improving reported maltreatment ascertainment. Conclusion Using the ALCANLink data which included a novel administrative data source, we were able to observe and quantify bias to both the incidence proportion and HR in a birth cohort linkage study of reported child maltreatment. Failure to account for out-of-state emigration and low-quality linkage methods may induce bias in longitudinal data linkage studies of child maltreatment which other researchers should be aware of. In this study multi-agency linkage did not lead to substantial increased detection of reported maltreatment. The ALCANLink methodology may be a practical approach for other states interested in developing longitudinal birth cohort linkage studies of maltreatment that requires limited resources to implement, provides comprehensive data elements, and can facilitate comparability between studies.
title: Could it be tuberculosis? A pictorial review of thoracic radiographic patterns
Creators: name: Mirón Mombiela, Rebeca
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Infection
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Thorax

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To illustratethe common and uncommon radiographic patterns of pulmonary tuberculosis. To describethe differentialdiagnosesassociated with eachpatternto guide proper clinical management for a timely diagnosis. To review the key facts associated with...