cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The dearth of nuclear star clusters in bright galaxies
Creators: name: Arca-Sedda, Manuel
name: Capuzzo-Dolcetta, Roberto
name: Spera, Mario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the interaction of a massive globular cluster (GC) with a super massive black hole (SMBH), located at the centre of its host galaxy, by means of direct N-body simulations. The results show that tidal distortions induced by the stellar background and the SMBH act on a time shorter than that of dynamical friction decay for a $10^6$ M$_\odot$ GC whenever the SMBH mass exceeds $\sim 10^8$ M$_\odot$ . This implies an almost complete dissolution of the infalling GC before it reaches the inner region ($\lesssim 5$ pc) of the parent galaxy. The generalization of this result to a larger sample of infalling GCs shows that such destructive process may prevent the formation and growth of a bright galactic nucleus. Another interesting, serendipitous, result we obtained is that the close interaction between the SMBH and the GC produces a "wave" of stars that escape from the cluster and, in a fraction, even from the whole galaxy.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures, 3 tables
Minimal physical requirements for crystal growth self-poisoning
Creators: name: Whitelam, Stephen
name: Dahal, Yuba Raj
name: Schmit, Jeremy D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Self-poisoning is a kinetic trap that can impair or prevent crystal growth in a wide variety of physical settings. Here we use dynamic mean-field theory and computer simulation to argue that poisoning is ubiquitous because its emergence requires only the notion that a molecule can bind in two (or more) ways to a crystal; that those ways are not energetically equivalent; and that the associated binding events occur with sufficiently unequal probability. If these conditions are met then the steady-state growth rate is in general a non-monotonic function of the thermodynamic driving force for crystal growth, which is the characteristic of poisoning. Our results also indicate that relatively small changes of system parameters could be used to induce recovery from poisoning.
Social Roles
Creators: name: Noyes, Alexander
name: Ritchie, Katherine
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Pre-registration for the 7th experiment on the inductive potential of social roles. This is in a series of experiments with 'study 5' and 'study 6' dealing with the possibility to make 'discoveries' about social roles.
The DICE calibration project: design, characterization, and first results
Creators: name: Regnault, N.
name: Guyonnet, A.
name: Schahmanèche, K.
name: Guillou, L. Le
name: Antilogus, P.
name: Astier, P.
name: Barrelet, E.
name: Betoule, M.
name: Bongard, S.
name: Cuillandre, J. -C.
name: Juramy, C.
name: Pain, R.
name: Rocci, P. -F.
name: Tisserand, P.
name: Villa, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the design, operation, and first results of a photometric calibration project, called DICE (Direct Illumination Calibration Experiment), aiming at achieving precise instrumental calibration of optical telescopes. The heart of DICE is an illumination device composed of 24 narrow-spectrum, high-intensity, light-emitting diodes (LED) chosen to cover the ultraviolet-to-near-infrared spectral range. It implements a point-like source placed at a finite distance from the telescope entrance pupil, yielding a flat field illumination that covers the entire field of view of the imager. The purpose of this system is to perform a lightweight routine monitoring of the imager passbands with a precision better than 5 per-mil on the relative passband normalisations and about 3Å on the filter cutoff positions. The light source is calibrated on a spectrophotometric bench. As our fundamental metrology standard, we use a photodiode calibrated at NIST. The radiant intensity of each beam is mapped, and spectra are measured for each LED. All measurements are conducted at temperatures ranging from 0°C to 25°C in order to study the temperature dependence of the system. The photometric and spectroscopic measurements are combined into a model that predicts the spectral intensity of the source as a function of temperature. We find that the calibration beams are stable at the $10^{-4}$ level -- after taking the slight temperature dependence of the LED emission properties into account. We show that the spectral intensity of the source can be characterised with a precision of 3Å in wavelength. In flux, we reach an accuracy of about 0.2-0.5% depending on how we understand the off-diagonal terms of the error budget affecting the calibration of the NIST photodiode. With a routine 60-mn calibration program, the apparatus is able to constrain the passbands at the targeted precision levels.
description: 25 pages, 27 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
title: Intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM)-DWI of the head and neck: comparisons of IVIM parameters between 1.5-T and 3-T scanners
Creators: name: Nagatomo, Kazuya
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: Comparative studies
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Head and neck

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Diffusion-weighted imaging has been absolutely imperative in magnetic resonance (MR) examination. Apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) derived from DWI has been reported to be useful in the detection, characterization, and follow-up of various...
title: Intratemporal Facial Nerve Schwannoma and Venous Malformation: Imaging Characteristics with Histological Correlation.
Creators: name: Hsu, Charlie Chia-Tsong
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Haemangioma
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Head and neck

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to determine the reliability of preoperative CT and contrast enhanced MRI in differentiating FNS and FNVM. INTRODUCTION: Facial nerve schwannomas (FNSs) and facial nerve venous malformations (FNVMs) are rare...
Milestones in the transition from non-oral feeding to oral feeding in preterm infants: a scoping review.
Creators: name: Pighetti, Denise
name: O, GIlheaney
name: Hirschwald, Julia
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: mileston
subject: oral feeding
subject: premature babies
subject: premature infant

description: The crucial aim of scoping review is the identification of the steps that the premature infants experience during the development of swallowing skills, going from non-oral feeding until reaching full oral feeding. The project has a general and broad purpose because of the area chosen. It is well recognized that premature infants could have difficulties initiating oral feeding. However, the weight of this challenge, as well as the steps that the premature babies pass by, going through nonoral feeding or disorganized feeding to complete oral feeding, are not fully understood. For the reasons above mentioned, the following research question was identified: How does the literature describe the developmental trajectory of feeding, eating, drinking, and swallowing skills for preterm infants who show signs of an abnormal swallow, as they progress from non-oral feeding to oral feeding? Accordingly, the first project aim summarized how the different types of research in the literature describe the swallowing development in premature babies. This objective focused on the procedure that clinicians utilized in their recommendation of feeding difficulties. In addition, attention was given to the outcome measures as well as the description used to define the swallowing function. The subsequent aim was the identification of the main steps which the premature population follow from the non-oral feeding until they complete oral feeding. Accordingly, the expectation was to define a clearer image of all the milestones that the premature population could pass through during the swallowing maturation. In conclusion, the expectation is to describe the swallowing development phases of the studied population. By examining the pathway that premature infants go over the first period of life, the chance of a positive impact on clinicians' awareness of it is auspicial. Likewise, a deeper understanding of procedures and practice for the description steps could serve at the clinicians as a practice guide for assessment and intervention readiness.
title: Morphometry of trigeminal nerves in the patients with trigeminal neuralgia using MRI.
Creators: name: Bakunovich, Alexander
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Pathology
subject: Image verification
subject: Normal variants
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: CNS

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To retrospectively evaluate the formof the trigeminal nerveon MRIimages of patients with unilateraltrigeminal neuralgia and healthy...
title: Magnetic Resonance Imaging Evaluation Of Spinal Cord Injury With Out Radiographic Abnormality (SCIWORA).
Creators: name: Rajgopal, Dhruva
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Trauma
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: CNS

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To raise the suspicion of spinal cord involvement in a patient presenting with post-traumatic neurological deficit but unremarkable spinal radiograph or Computed tomography (CT). To determine clinical and radiological correlations of patients with...
Fibrinolysis in patients with a mild-to-moderate bleeding tendency of unknown cause
Creators: name: Pabinger, Ingrid
name: Mannhalter, Christine
name: Kaider, Alexandra
name: Gebhart, Johanna
name: Haslacher, Helmuth
name: Wolberg, Alisa S.
name: Eigenbauer, Ernst
name: Panzer, Simon
name: Hofer, Stefanie
name: Koder, Silvia
name: Quehenberger, Peter
name: Kepa, Sylvia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: In more than 50% of patients with a mild-to-moderate bleeding tendency, no underlying cause can be identified (bleeding of unknown cause, BUC). Data on parameters of fibrinolysis in BUC are scarce in the literature and reveal discrepant results. It was the aim of this study to investigate increased fibrinolysis as a possible mechanism of BUC. We included 270 patients (227 females, median age 44 years, 25-75(th) percentile 32-58) with BUC and 98 healthy controls (65 females, median age 47 years, 25-75(th)percentile 39-55). Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA-) antigen and activity, plasminogen activator inhibitor type-1 (PAI-1), tPA-PAI-1 complexes, thrombin activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor (TAFI), α2-antiplasmin, and D-dimer were determined. While PAI-1 deficiency was equally frequent in patients with BUC and controls (91/270, 34%, and 33/98, 34%, p = 0.996), tPA activity levels were more often above the detection limit in patients than in controls (103/213, 48%, and 23/98, 23%, p < 0.0001). We found lower levels of tPA-PAI-1 complexes (6.86 (3.99-10.00) and 9.11 (7.17-13.12), p < 0.001) and higher activity of TAFI (18.61 (15.80-22.58) and 17.03 (14.02-20.02), p < 0.001) and α2-antiplasmin (102 (94-109) and 98 (90-106], p = 0.003) in patients compared to controls. Detectable tPA activity (OR 3.02, 95%CI 1.75-5.23, p < 0.0001), higher levels of TAFI (OR 2.57, 95%CI 1.48-4.46, p = 0.0008) and α2-antiplasmin (OR 1.03, 95%CI 1.01-1.05, p = 0.011), and lower levels of tPA-PAI-1 complexes (OR 0.90, 95%CI 0.86-0.95, p < 0.0001) were independently associated with BUC in sex-adjusted logistic regression analyses. We conclude that the fibrinolytic system can play an etiological role for bleeding in patients with BUC.
Concentration, Ellipsoidal Collapse, and the Densest Dark Matter haloes
Creators: name: Okoli, Chiamaka
name: Afshordi, Niayesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The smallest dark matter haloes are the first objects to form in the hierarchical structure formation of cold dark matter (CDM) cosmology and are expected to be the densest and most fundamental building blocks of CDM structures in our universe. Nevertheless, the physical characteristics of these haloes have stayed illusive, as they remain well beyond the current resolution of N-body simulations (at redshift zero). However, they dominate the predictions (and uncertainty) in expected dark matter annihilation signal, amongst other astrophysical observables. Using the conservation of total energy and the ellipsoidal collapse framework, we can analytically find the mean and scatter of concentration $c$ and 1-D velocity dispersion $σ_{\rm 1d}$ for haloes of different virial mass $M_{200}$. Both $c$ and $σ_{\rm 1d}/M_{200}^{1/3}$ are in good agreement with numerical results within the regime probed by simulations -- slowly decreasing functions of mass that approach constant values at large masses. In particular, the predictions for the 1-D velocity dispersion of cluster mass haloes are surprisingly robust as the inverse heat capacity of cosmological haloes crosses zero at $M_{200} \sim 10^{14} M_\odot$. However, we find that current extrapolations from simulations to smallest CDM haloes dramatically depend on the assumed profile (e.g. NFW vs. Einasto) and fitting function, which is why theoretical considerations, such as the one presented here, can significantly constrain the range of feasible predictions.
description: 12 pages, 11 figures, Updated to published version
title: Lu-RADS classification: New reporting format for lung cancer screening CT?
Creators: name: UTRERA GARCIA DE SALAZAR, ANA
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Multidisciplinary cancer care
subject: Cancer
subject: Structured reporting
subject: Screening
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Oncology
subject: Lung

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: - To make known the Lung Cancer Screening Programme available within the I- ELCAP study by our Hospital. - To review the Lu-RADS classification as a tool for standardizing the lung cancer screening CT reports. - To illustrate the radiological...
Inflammation and weight gain in reproductive-aged women
Creators: name: Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl L.
name: Oken, Emily
name: Rich-Edwards, Janet W.
name: Stuebe, Alison M.
name: Perng, Wei
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: To investigate whether mid-pregnancy inflammation predicts rate of subsequent gestational weight gain (GWG), and whether inflammation at 3 years postpartum is associated with weight and waist circumference (WC) gain during a median of 4.4 years follow-up.
A cost-effectiveness analysis of pharmacotherapy versus prostatic urethral lift as initial therapy for patients with moderate benign prostatic hyperplasia
Creators: name: Tung, Joshua YM
name: Aslim, Edwin J
name: Ho, Henry SS
name: Chen, Cynthia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: This objective of this study was to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of an upfront minimally-invasive surgical procedure, the prostatic urethral lift (PUL), as an initial treatment for patients with moderate benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), against current first-line pharmacotherapy with combination medical therapy. A micro-simulation model was developed using TreeAge Pro to compare two treatment strategies – initial treatment with combination medical therapy (alpha-blocker + 5-ARI), versus an upfront prostatic urethral lift procedure. The impact on disease progression, costs, and Quality-Adjusted Life-Years (QALYs) were analysed. A Markov model and probabilistic sensitivity analysis were used to estimate the costs and effects of the different strategies. The cost-effectiveness of the strategies at different willingness-to-pay (WTP) thresholds were then examined. Incremental costs (versus no prostatic urethral lift) were S$13,600 (1 year) and S$8,700 (5 years). Incremental QALY were 0.07 (1 year) and 0.22 (5 years). An upfront PUL procedure was more expensive but also more effective than pharmacotherapy, with an incremental cost per QALY gained of approximately S$39,400. It is a cost-effective treatment option at the willingness-to-pay threshold of S$50,000. Prostatic urethral lift is a cost-effective initial treatment option for men with moderate symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia.
Ultra-broadband dual-comb spectroscopy across 1.0-1.9 μm
Creators: name: Okubo, Sho
name: Iwakuni, Kana
name: Inaba, Hajime
name: Hosaka, Kazumoto
name: Onae, Atsushi
name: Sasada, Hiroyuki
name: Hong, Feng-Lei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have carried out dual-comb spectroscopy and observed in a simultaneous acquisition a 140-THz-wide spectrum from 1.0 to 1.9 μm using two fiber-based frequency combs phase-locked to each other. This ultra-broad wavelength bandwidth is realized by setting the difference between the repetition rates of the two combs to 7.6 Hz using the sub-Hz-linewidth fiber combs. The recorded spectrum contains five vibration-rotation bands of C${_2}$H${_2}$, CH${_4}$, and H${_2}$O at different wavelengths across the whole spectrum. The determined transition frequencies of C${_2}$H${_2}$ agree with those from the previous sub-Doppler resolution measurement of individual lines using CW lasers within 2 MHz.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
title: Asbestos related pleuro-pulmonary disease: a pictorial essay on CT imaging manifestations
Creators: name: Hohnen, Andrew
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Pathology
subject: Occupational / Environmental hazards
subject: Cancer
subject: Education
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: CT
subject: Thorax
subject: Respiratory system
subject: Lung

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The purpose of this pictorial essay is to provide the general radiologist, trainees in radiology as well as other clinicians interested in thoracic radiology with a comprehensive overview of the CT imaging manifestations of asbestos related...
Scalable and fault-tolerant data stream processing on multi-core architectures
Creators: name: Theodorakis, George Rafail
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2022

description: With increasing data volumes and velocity, many applications are shifting from the classical “process-after-store” paradigm to a stream processing model: data is produced and consumed as continuous streams. Stream processing captures latency-sensitive applications as diverse as credit card fraud detection and high-frequency trading. These applications are expressed as queries of algebraic operations (e.g., aggregation) over the most recent data using windows, i.e., finite evolving views over the input streams. To guarantee correct results, streaming applications require precise window semantics (e.g., temporal ordering) for operations that maintain state. While high processing throughput and low latency are performance desiderata for stateful streaming applications, achieving both poses challenges. Computing the state of overlapping windows causes redundant aggregation operations: incremental execution (i.e., reusing previous results) reduces latency but prevents parallelization; at the same time, parallelizing window execution for stateful operations with precise semantics demands ordering guarantees and state access coordination. Finally, streams and state must be recovered to produce consistent and repeatable results in the event of failures. Given the rise of shared-memory multi-core CPU architectures and high-speed networking, we argue that it is possible to address these challenges in a single node without compromising window semantics, performance, or fault-tolerance. In this thesis, we analyze, design, and implement stream processing engines (SPEs) that achieve high performance on multi-core architectures. To this end, we introduce new approaches for in-memory processing that address the previous challenges: (i) for overlapping windows, we provide a family of window aggregation techniques that enable computation sharing based on the algebraic properties of aggregation functions; (ii) for parallel window execution, we balance parallelism and incremental execution by developing abstractions for both and combining them to a novel design; and (iii) for reliable single-node execution, we enable strong fault-tolerance guarantees without sacrificing performance by reducing the required disk I/O bandwidth using a novel persistence model. We combine the above to implement an SPE that processes hundreds of millions of tuples per second with sub-second latencies. These results reveal the opportunity to reduce resource and maintenance footprint by replacing cluster-based SPEs with single-node deployments.
The impact of changing the funding model for genetic diagnostics and improved access to personalized medicine in oncology
Creators: name: Mela, Aneta
name: Rdzanek, Elżbieta
name: Tysarowski, Andrzej
name: Sakowicz, Magdalena
name: Jaroszyński, Janusz
name: Furtak-Niczyporuk, Marzena
name: Żurek, Grzegorz
name: Poniatowski, Łukasz A.
name: Jagielska, Beata
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: In January 2017, a new funding model for diagnostic genetic testing in cancer was introduced in Poland. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of changing the funding model for genetic diagnosis in oncology on improving access to personalized medicine in Poland between 2017 and 2019. The analysis included data on settlements with the National Health Fund for genetic tests in cancer under a contract of the hospital treatment type and under the contract in the type of separately contracted services between 2017 and 2019. The 150,647 diagnostic genetic tests were reported, which were billed to 111,872 patients. The average number of tests per patient was 1.35. One test was billed to 83.5% of patients, 11.2% of patients had two tests billed, and 5.3% had at least three tests billed. The number of services provided under the hospital treatment contract in 2018 doubled compared to the previous year. For separately contracted services, more than threefold increase in genetic testing performed in 2019 compared to 2018 was observed. our data show that the novel funding model for genetic services introduced in Poland has positive impact on the availability of genetic testing for patients.
Comparing Erlang distribution and Schwinger mechanism on transverse momentum spectra in high energy collisions
Creators: name: Gao, Li-Na
name: Liu, Fu-Hu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the transverse momentum spectra of J/psi and Upsilon mesons by using two methods: the two-component Erlang distribution and the two-component Schwinger mechanism. The results obtained by the two methods are compared and found to be in agreement with the experimental data of proton-proton (pp), proton-lead (p-Pb), and lead-lead (Pb-Pb) collisions measured by the LHCb and ALICE Collaborations at the large hadron collider (LHC). The related parameters such as the mean transverse momentum contributed by each parton in the first (second) component in the two-component Erlang distribution and the string tension between two partons in the first (second) component in the two-component Schwinger mechanism are extracted.
description: 16 pages, 11 figures
A Combined Patient and Provider Intervention for Management of Osteoarthritis in Veterans: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Creators: name: Datta, Santanu K.
name: Bosworth, Hayden B.
name: Strauss, Jennifer L.
name: Yancy, William S.
name: Oddone, Eugene Z.
name: Jeffreys, Amy S.
name: McDuffie, Jennifer
name: Coffman, Cynthia J.
name: Allen, Kelli D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Management of osteoarthritis (OA) requires both medical and behavioral strategies, but there is low use of some recommended therapies.
Limits on Neutrinophilic Two-Higgs-Doublet Models from Flavor Physics
Creators: name: Bertuzzo, Enrico
name: G., Yuber F. Perez
name: Sumensari, Olcyr
name: Funchal, Renata Zukanovich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive stringent limits on neutrinophilic two-Higgs-doublet models from low-energy observables after the discovery of the Higgs boson and of the mixing angle $θ_{13}$. These decays can constrain the plane spanned by $m_{H^\pm}$, the mass of the new charged Higgs, and $v_2$, the vacuum expectation value of the new neutrinophilic scalar doublet. Lepton flavor conserving decays are not able to set meaningful bounds, since they depend strongly on the unknown neutrino absolute mass scale. On the other hand, loop induced lepton flavor violating decays, such as $μ\to e γ$, $μ\to 3 e $ or $μ\to e$ in nuclei are currently responsable for the best limits today. If $v_2 \lesssim 1 \, (0.1)$ eV we get $m_{H^\pm} \gtrsim 250 \, (2500)$ GeV at 90% CL. In the foreseen future these limits can improve by at least a factor of 100.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures, references and comments added, conclusions unchanged, matches version to appear in JHEP
title: Assessment of Left Ventricular Dissipative Energy Loss by Vector Flow Mapping in End Stage Renal Disease Patients
Creators: name: Zhong, Yue
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Applications-General
subject: Echocardiography
subject: Cardiac
subject: Image verification

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Early identification of high-risk ESRD patients would allow physicians to optimize therapeutic interventions.Dissipative energy loss (EL) derived from vector flow mapping represents the viscous dissipation of turbulent blood flow.This tool has so...
The effectiveness of therapeutic interventions for the management of sacroiliac joint dysfunction: a systematic review.
Creators: name: Menezes, Natasha
name: Hing, Wayne
name: Sattler, Larissa
name: Huang, Zhuozi
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physiotherapy
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Rehabilitation and Therapy

description: the purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions for the management of sacroiliac joint dysfunction.
Binge-Eating Disorder in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Creators: name: Brownley, Kimberly A.
name: Lohr, Kathleen N.
name: Bulik, Cynthia M.
name: Cullen, Katherine E.
name: Peat, Christine M.
name: Bann, Carla M.
name: Berkman, Nancy D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: The best treatment options for binge-eating disorder are unclear.
Temperature Effects on Information Capacity and Energy Efficiency of Hodgkin-Huxley Neuron
Creators: name: Wang, Long-Fei
name: Jia, Fei
name: Liu, Xiao-Zhi
name: Song, Ya-lei
name: Yu, Lian-Chun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Recent experimental and theoretical studies show that energy efficiency, which measures the amount of information processed by a neuron with per unit of energy consumption, plays an important role in the evolution of neural systems. Here, we calculated the information rates and energy efficiencies of the Hodgkin-Huxley (HH) neuron model at different temperatures in a noisy environment. We found that both the information rate and energy efficiency are maximized by certain temperatures. Though the information rate and energy efficiency cannot be maximized simultaneously, the neuron holds a high information processing capacity at the temperature corresponding to maximal energy efficiency. Our results support the idea that the energy efficiency is a selective pressure that influences the evolution of nervous systems.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Chinese Physics Letters
Understanding the Individual, Organizational, and System-Level Factors Shaping Pregnant People's Experiences Choosing and Accessing a Maternity Care Provider in Ontario's Champlain Region
Creators: name: Chamberland-Rowe, Caroline
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2023
Subjects: Maternity Care
Access
Autonomy
Health Workforce
Geospatial Analysis
Thematic Analysis

description: In Ontario, supporting "a system of care that provides women and their families with equitable choice in birth environment and provider," (PCMCH & MOHLTC, 2017, p.33) has been identified as one of the central objectives of the Provincial Council for Maternal and Child Health's Low Risk Maternal Newborn Strategy. In theory, pregnant people in Ontario can choose to seek maternity care from a midwife, a family physician, or an obstetrician; however, in practice, pregnant people's choice of provider remains constrained. Extant literature suggests that in order to afford pregnant people the opportunity to exercise autonomous choice of provider, health systems must ensure that an acceptable range of provider options is available and accessible within the local organization of maternity care, that pregnant people are made aware of and knowledgeable about the available provider options, and that pregnant people have the ability and resources to navigate access to their provider of choice (Mackenzie, 2014; Sutherns, 2004). As a result, I designed this thesis to fill a gap in the evidence base to determine whether or not provincial policies had translated into the levels of access, awareness, and resourcing required to afford pregnant people the opportunity, ability and propensity to exercise autonomous choice of provider within the local maternity care system in Ontario's Champlain Region. I sought to elicit the structural conditions that would be necessary to equitably support pregnant people's access to and choice of a maternity care provider. In the pursuit of these objectives, I adopted an integrated knowledge translation approach (Bowen & Graham, 2013), using an explanatory sequential mixed methods design (Creswell, 2014), which encompassed two complementary stages: (1) quantitative geospatial mapping to assess pregnant people's access to the full range of maternity care providers across the Champlain Region; and (2) qualitative focus groups and individual interviews with parents, providers, and policy-makers to explore the individual, organizational, and system-level factors that are enabling or restricting access and autonomy. Using a systems approach to the investigation of this locally-identified issue, I demonstrate in this thesis that pregnant people within the Champlain Region have inequitable opportunities to exercise autonomous choice of maternity care provider due to (1) system and organizational-level factors that are creating imbalances in the supply, distribution and mix of maternity care provider options, and (2) pregnant people's differential access to the enabling information and resources required to exercise autonomous choice of provider and to navigate access to their services.
Election Administrators are People, Too! Can Humanizing Elections Improve Voter Confidence?
Creators: name: Ryan, Timothy
name: Cottrell, David
name: Stewart, Charles
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: American Politics
subject: Political Science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Examining the effects of humanizing election administration on voter confidence.
Financing U.S. Graduate Medical Education: A Policy Position Paper of the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine and the American College of Physicians
Creators: name: Wardrop, Richard M.
name: Bush, James F.
name: Biermann, Mitch
name: Olive, Kenneth E.
name: Lohr, Robert H.
name: Tape, Thomas G.
name: Rehman, Shakaib U.
name: Cotroneo, Bergitta E.
name: Jaeger, Jeffrey
name: Lane, Susan
name: Smith, Lawrence G.
name: Bornstein, Sue S.
name: Moyer, Darilyn V.
name: Butkus, Renee
name: Hingle, Susan T.
name: DeLong, Douglas M.
name: Moriarty, John P.
name: Brater, D. Craig
name: Kane, Gregory C.
name: Horwitch, Carrie A.
name: Donnelly, John
name: Laird-Fick, Heather S.
name: Sharma, Niraj
name: Bronze, Michael S.
name: Wallach, Sara L.
name: Syed, Fatima
name: Heudebert, Gustavo R.
name: Beachy, Micah
name: Levine, Mark A.
name: Many, Wickliffe J.
name: Hood, Gregory A.
name: Caverzagie, Kelly J.
name: Steinmann, Alwin F.
name: Cooney, Thomas G.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: In this position paper, the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine and the American College of Physicians examine the state of graduate medical education (GME) financing in the United States and recent proposals to reform GME funding. They make a series of recommendations to reform the current funding system to better align GME with the needs of the nation's health care workforce. These recommendations include using Medicare GME funds to meet policy goals and to ensure an adequate supply of physicians, a proper specialty mix, and appropriate training sites; spreading the costs of financing GME across the health care system; evaluating the true cost of training a resident and establishing a single per-resident amount; increasing transparency and innovation; and ensuring that primary care residents receive training in well-functioning ambulatory settings that are financially supported for their training roles.
The impact of statistical properties of incremental monetary net benefit and incremental cost-effectiveness ratio on health economic modeling choices
Creators: name: Yuan, Fei
name: Bangdiwala, Shrikant I.
name: Tong, Wesley
name: Lamy, Andre
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: There is controversy on whether to use incremental monetary net benefit (INMB) or incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) in health economic evaluations alongside randomized controlled trials. We studied the impact of restricted mean survival time (RMST) on the long-term projection of INMB and ICER. We analyzed the unbiasedness and efficiency of ICER and INMB by (1) deriving the metrics' expected values and variances based on theoretical probability distributions, (2) simulating their 15-year post-trial projections based on between-arm-RMST-gained through a 2 × 4 × 2 factorial experiment of Markov 2-state microsimulations. Simulations and comparison were run on the data from the Cardiovascular Outcomes for People Using Anticoagulation Strategies Study (COMPASS). Our simulation findings using RMST showed that ICER was more efficient than INMB, regardless of disease populations, time horizon, modeling choices, and underlying probability distributions of incremental mean cost and effect. ICER had a small variance and thus showed its robustness to the choices of models. INMB’s variance varies with a willingness-to-pay (WTP) threshold quadratically while ICER's variance with a WTP threshold value quadratically while ICER’s variance with incremental-mean-cost quadratically. A simple and naïve model can sufficiently estimate ICER. Future metrics are expected to be health-economic-meaningful, unambiguous, unbiased, efficient, and statistical-inference-friendly.
title: Female pelvic MRI for infertility: Radiological findings in a cohort of patients referred by a fertility specialist.
Creators: name: Saha, Sarah
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Outcomes
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: 9% couples globally experience infertility [1]. Many go on to receive some form of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) which accounted for 3.6% births in Australia in 2012 [2]. A number of female pelvic conditions implicated in infertility may...
Type-checking Liveness for Collaborative Processes with Bounded and Unbounded Recursion
Creators: name: Debois, Søren
name: Hildebrandt, Thomas
name: Slaats, Tijs
name: Yoshida, Nobuko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present the first session typing system guaranteeing request-response liveness properties for possibly non-terminating communicating processes. The types augment the branch and select types of the standard binary session types with a set of required responses, indicating that whenever a particular label is selected, a set of other labels, its responses, must eventually also be selected. We prove that these extended types are strictly more expressive than standard session types. We provide a type system for a process calculus similar to a subset of collaborative BPMN processes with internal (data-based) and external (event-based) branching, message passing, bounded and unbounded looping. We prove that this type system is sound, i.e., it guarantees request-response liveness for dead-lock free processes. We exemplify the use of the calculus and type system on a concrete example of an infinite state system.
description: Accepted for publication in Logical Methods in Computer Science
title: ARFI Elastometry applications in the study of breast lesions
Creators: name: Alvarez de Eulate Garcia, Mª Teresa
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: Elastography
subject: Breast

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The purpose of our educational exhibit is to assess the usefulness of adding to the conventional ultrasound study of mammary nodular lesions other variable like is the analysis of tissue elasticity, using acoustic radiation force impulse imaging...
Push button reproduction attempt of a research claim from Bauer, V., Ruby, K., & Pape, R. (2017) in Journal of Conflict Resolution
Creators: name: Talbert, Eli
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: The authors show that attribution by MI [multiple imputation] challenges findings in existing research about the effectiveness of drone strikes -- the use of unmanned aerial vehicles by the United States to target suspected militants -- on Pakistani Taliban violence. This reflects the following statement from the paper's abstract: "We lay out the logics and steps of MI, identify variables and data sources, and demonstrate that MI produced better results in the case of the Pakistani Taliban’s response to drone strikes." To demonstrate the value of MI, the authors compare the results of the MI approach to other ad hoc attribution strategies using a standard time series method and find a weak but consistent suppressive effect that only appears in the MI data. To show that the choice of attribution strategy affects subsequent findings, the authors compare the results of the same time series model on three distinct samples of Pakistani Taliban attacks: claimed attacks, attacks in FATA [Federally Administered Tribal Areas], and attacks attributed to the Pakistani Taliban by MI. The authors analyze the data using vector auto regression (VAR), a method to model the relationship between multiple time series. The VAR estimates for each of the three attribution strategies are presented in Table 6. These three different models produced significantly different estimates of the variables that predict militant violence...Finally, using MI finds a negative correlation between drone strikes and violence (p < .05; from Table 6, 'Multiple Imputation' column, 'DV: Violence' analysis, 't-2' term listed under 'Drones': Coefficient = -0.94). The focal test in the original paper is: These three different models produced significantly different estimates of the variables that predict militant violence...Finally, using MI finds a negative correlation between drone strikes and violence (p < .05; from Table 6, 'Multiple Imputation' column, 'DV: Violence' analysis, 't-2' term listed under 'Drones': Coefficient = -0.94).
Inconsistent definitions: the most efficient immediate feedback
Creators: name: Lu, Xiwen
name: Heffernan, Neil
name: Wang, Wei
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Language Description and Documentation
subject: East Asian Languages and Societies
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Arts and Humanities
subject: Education
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: immediate feedback
subject: learning sciences and technology
subject: second language learing

description: This study examines the effects of two types of immediate feedback on second language learning and our research questions were: RQ1: Does immediate feedback impact learning compared to no immediate feedback? RQ2: If immediate feedback improves learning, which kind of immediate feedback is better: end-of-question feedback with retries before revealing answers, or end-of-assignment feedback with a summarized presentation of all the questions and answers. RQ3: If the difference is found between conditions, how does the posttest results interact with prior knowledge? Our hypothesis was: there is no difference between the end-of-question feedback and end-of-assignment feedback, and both feedback conditions received higher scores in the posttest compared to the no-feedback condition.
Engineering inter-qubit exchange coupling between donor bound electrons in silicon
Creators: name: Wang, Yu E.
name: Tankasala, Archana
name: Hollenberg, Lloyd C. L.
name: Klimeck, Gerhard
name: Simmons, Michelle Y.
name: Rahman, Rajib
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the electrical control of the exchange coupling (J) between donor bound electrons in silicon with a detuning gate bias, crucial for the implementation of the two-qubit gate in a silicon quantum computer. We find the asymmetric 2P-1P system provides a highly tunable exchange-curve with mitigated J-oscillation, in which 5 orders of magnitude change in the exchange energy can be achieved using a modest range of electric field for 15 nm qubit separation. Compared to the barrier gate control of exchange in the Kane qubit, the detuning gate design reduces the demanding constraints of precise donor separation, gate width, density and location, as a range of J spanning over a few orders of magnitude can be engineered for various donor separations. We have combined a large-scale full band atomistic tight-binding method with a full configuration interaction technique to capture the full two-electron spectrum of gated donors, providing state-of-the-art calculations of exchange energy in 1P-1P and 2P-1P qubits.
A common origin of $R_K$ and neutrino masses
Creators: name: Päs, Heinrich
name: Schumacher, Erik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The same leptoquarks that explain the recently observed anomaly in $R_K$ can generate naturally small Majorana neutrino masses at one-loop level through mixing with the standard model Higgs boson. This is particularly relevant in models with at least two leptoquarks contributing to $b \rightarrow s ll$ transitions.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure. Matches version published in PRD
title: Non traumatic intraparenchymal brain hemorrhage – possible sources and their detection.
Creators: name: Heursen, Eva-Marie
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Haemorrhage
subject: Arteriovenous malformations
subject: Acute
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT
subject: Vascular
subject: Emergency
subject: CNS

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The aim of this poster is to give an overview of the most common reasons for spontaneous intraparenchymal brain hemorrhage (SIH) and their imaging appearance. The radiologist should be familiar with the different imaging modalities and their...
Peer-to-peer online interventions for people with mental illnesses
Creators: name: Storman, Dawid
name: Jemioło, Paweł
name: Świerz, Mateusz
name: Bala, Malgorzata
name: Prokop-Dorner, Anna
name: Gotfryd, Marcelina
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Psychiatry and Psychology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: #Scoping Review, #Peer-to-peer interactions, #Mental disorders, #Online interactions

description: A scoping review of any primary qualitative or mixed design studies including any participants with any psychiatric/mental disorder who are exposed to any peer-to-peer online interaction (e.g. on a forum, chat, tweet-re-tweet etc.).
title: "Shoulder impingement. The role of Dynamic ultrasound”
Creators: name: del Amo, Montserrat
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Education
subject: Education and training

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Ultrasound has proven effective in diagnosing tendon pathology in the shoulder. The baseline ultrasound examination of the shoulder is well described and widely used in daily practice. In this work we offer some tools that may be added to the...