cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Exercise, symptom severity, and neuroplasticity in schizophrenia
Creators: name: Woodward, Melissa Lynn
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: Schizophrenia is a debilitating disorder marked by psychosis and deficits in cognition and social functioning. It is further characterized by metabolic, neurovascular and cardiovascular deficits that interact with, or compound adverse medication-linked cardiovascular effects. Neuroanatomic deficits are seen even at early stages of illness. Reductions in frontal and temporal lobe grey matter, particularly the hippocampus, are among the most consistent findings. Prefrontal-limbic network deficits are associated with more severe positive symptoms and more cognitive impairments in psychosis patients. Additionally, reduced cardiorespiratory fitness has been linked to decreased hippocampal volume and cortical thickness. Exercise interventions are known to mitigate the negative antipsychotic-associated cardiometabolic side effects and promote hippocampal growth and cortical expansion. Yet, the efficacy of exercise as a non-pharmacological intervention to address anatomic and clinical deficits in psychosis patients is unclear. This study examines the effect of exercise on hippocampal and neocortical plasticity, and clinical outcomes in chronic schizophrenia, early psychosis and in an animal model as proof of principle. First, hippocampal volume increase and symptom severity decrease in chronically treated schizophrenia patients were observed. Compared to healthy volunteers, chronically treated patients had decreased fusiform cortical thickness. Patients who participated in the aerobic intervention had a greater increase in orbitofrontal cortical thickness compared to patients in the resistance training group. Second, early psychosis patients who completed the aerobic intervention had increased thickness in the entorhinal and fusiform cortices. For the aerobic group only, increases in the entorhinal and fusiform temporal gyri were associated with decreasing psychosis symptom severity, particularly for general psychopathology. Last, exercising rats had greater layer II entorhinal cortical thickness compared to sedentary rats, but there was no effect of exercise observed for rats treated with olanzapine. Greater entorhinal cortical thickness was associated with increased activity and improved fasting glucose and fasting insulin levels in rats. The cardiovascular burden in schizophrenia, and antipsychotic treatment has a strong negative impact on patient outcomes. Clinically appropriate exercise represents a non-pharmacologic, safe approach to reduce psychotic symptoms, and remediate neuroanatomic deficits while improving cardiovascular health, counteracting the adverse effects of antipsychotic medication.
Central immunological position of the human histo (blood) group O(H).
Creators: name: Arend, Peter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Cancer

description: Prokaryotic "blood group A/B-like" antigenic structures apparently induce basically cross-reactive anti-A/B immunoglobulins, which due to clonal selection neither arise in blood group A nor in B individuals but occur exclusively in blood group O. While bacterial endotoxins non-specifically stimulate the formation of all immunoglobulins, most likely involving the anti-A/B isoagglutinins, a definite, adaptive immunological induction of these agglutinins appears to be restricted to blood group O(H) individuals. In the non-O blood groups, anti-A/B reactivity is exerted by a primarily blood group-independent, polyreactive and thymus-independent non-immune IgM molecule that has undergone the phenotype-specific, glycosidic accommodation of plasma proteins, which reduces or excludes anti-self reactivity, however, necessarily involves impairment of immunity. While blood group A phenotype development thus is associated with impairment of both adaptive and innate immunity, it promotes susceptibility to malaria infection via these intrinsic enzyme functions, initiating a self-destructive glycosidic, phenotypic accommodation of a "wrong eukaryote". In fact, blood group A phenotype-specific GalNAc transferase(s) and serine/threonine kinases, which are imported from Plasmodium falciparum into the red cell membrane, might provide the metabolic condition for malaria rosette formation, assumingly based on heterologous O-glycosylation of putative serine antigen precursors, i.e. completion of the "serine repeat antigen". Thus, lack of blood group A/B-specific phenotype glycosylations might explain the superior adaptive and innate immunity of the human blood group O(H) and its obvious protection from severe malaria infection, which currently is discussed to contribute to the global distribution of ABO blood groups in the human population.
New Criteria for Pain: Ordinary Language, Other Minds, and the Grammar of Sensation
Creators: name: Cashell, Kieran
Publisher: name: abstracta
Year: 2021

description: What does ordinary language philosophy contribute to the solution of the problems it diagnoses as violations of linguistic use? One of its biggest challenges has been to account for the epistemic asymmetry of mental states experienced by the subject of those states and the application of psychological properties to others. The epistemology of other minds appears far from resolved with reference to how sensation words are used in everyday language. In this paper, I revisit the Wittgensteinian arguments and show how they engage the ordinary language method (in the modified form of grammatical investigation) to ‘dissolve’ the problem. Several important results are generated by way of this reconstruction. An expressive view of the vocabulary of sensation is defended which facilitates a discussion of sensation discourse emphasising the normative grammatical conditions for the communication of psychological states. This motivates a reassessment of criterial justification for the ascription of psychological concepts in the third person. In the final sections, I mobilise a normative approach to expose the moral relevance of the epistemology of other minds. Even if it is conceded that belief in other minds lacks warrant from an epistemological standpoint, this does not justify adopting the skeptical attitude from an ethical standpoint. In light of this, a normative justification for the a priori belief that others are subjects of consciousness is defended.
description: abstracta, Bd. 6 Nr. 2 (2011)
Hawking-like radiation from evolving black holes and compact horizonless objects
Creators: name: Barcelo, Carlos
name: Liberati, Stefano
name: Sonego, Sebastiano
name: Visser, Matt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Usually, Hawking radiation is derived assuming (i) that a future eternal event horizon forms, and (ii) that the subsequent exterior geometry is static. However, one may be interested in either considering quasi-black holes (objects in an ever-lasting state of approach to horizon formation, but never quite forming one), where (i) fails, or, following the evolution of a black hole during evaporation, where (ii) fails. We shall verify that as long as one has an approximately exponential relation between the affine parameters on the null generators of past and future null infinity, then subject to a suitable adiabatic condition being satisfied, a Planck-distributed flux of Hawking-like radiation will occur. This happens both for the case of an evaporating black hole, as well as for the more dramatic case of a collapsing object for which no horizon has yet formed (or even will ever form). In this article we shall cast the previous statement in a more precise and quantitative form, and subsequently provide several explicit calculations to show how the time-dependent Bogoliubov coefficients can be calculated.
description: V1: 34 pages. V2: 35 pages; several additional references added; this version accepted for publication in JHEP
title: Assessment of pulmonary perfusion characteristics using spectral CT in smokers: Incremental Benefit of Iodine Maps
Creators: name: Guan, Yu
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: CT
subject: Technology assessment
subject: Chronic obstructive airways disease

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: To investigate if there is added benefit of using iodine maps from spectral dual-layer detector CT(DLCT) in assessing lung perfusion defection of...
Concerning the Possibility of Exactly Similar Tropes
Creators: name: Istvan Jr., M. A.
Publisher: name: abstracta
Year: 2021

description: In this paper I attempt to show, against certain versions of trope theory, that properties with analyzable particularity cannot be merely exactly similar: such properties are either particularized properties (tropes) that are dissimilar to every any other trope, or else universalized properties (universals). I argue that each of the most viable standard and nonstandard particularizers that can be employed to secure the numerical difference between exactly similar properties can only succeed in grounding the particularity of properties, that is, in having properties be tropes, at the expense of ruling out the possibility of their exact similarity. Here are the four nonstandard particularizers that I examine: the genealogy of a property, the history of a property, the causal effects of a property, and the duration of a property. And here are the two standard particularizers that I examine: the bearer of a property, by which I mean either a bare particular or a spatiotemporal location, and the property itself, by which I mean that the property is self-particularized. In my concluding remarks, I explain that the only remaining hope for preserving the possibility of exactly similar tropes is regarding properties as primitively particular, and that this must mean not that properties are selfparticularized but that they are particularized due to nothing. I close by arguing that this may not help trope theory after all.
description: abstracta, Bd. 6 Nr. 2 (2011)
Coulomb drag in graphene single layers separated by a thin spacer
Creators: name: Katsnelson, M. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by very recent studies of Coulomb drag in grahene-BN-graphene system we develop a theory of Coulomb drag for the Fermi liquid regime, for the case when the ratio of spacer thickness $d$ to the Fermi wavelength of electrons is arbitrary. The concentration ($n$) and thickness dependence of the drag resistivity is changed from $n^{-3}d^{-4}$ for the thick spacer to $n^{-1}|\ln{(nd^2)}|$ for the thin one.
description: final version; more details on the solution of electrostatic problem and some references are added
title: Effects of difficulty in multiplication tasks: A functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study with adults.
Creators: name: Istomina, Asya
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: Neural networks
subject: Audit and standards
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Education and training

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Mathematics has many applications in academia, industry, and everyday life. Neuroimaging studies have extensively examined the brain correlates of mathematical calculations (Arsalidou & Taylor, 2011; Hawes et al., 2019; Artemenko et al., 2018c)....
Probe a family non-universal Z' boson effects in B(s)-> phi mu(+) mu(-)decay
Creators: name: Chang, Qin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the recent measurement on ${\cal B}(\bar{B}_s\to ϕμ^+μ^-)$ by CDF collaboration, we study the effects of a family non-universal $Z^{\prime}$ boson on rare semileptonic $\bar{B}_s \to ϕμ^+μ^-$ decay. In our evaluations, we analyze the dependences of the dimuon invariant mass spectrum and normalized forward-backward asymmetry on $Z^{\prime}$ couplings and show that these observables are highly sensitive to new $Z^{\prime}$ contributions. Three limiting scenarios are presented in the detailed analyses. Numerically, within the allowed ranges of $Z^{\prime}$ couplings under the constraints from $\bar{B}_s-B_s$ mixing, $B\toπK$, $\bar{B}_d\to(X_s,K,K^{\ast})μ^+μ^-$ decays and so on, ${\cal B}(\bar{B}_s\to ϕμ^+μ^-)$ and $A_{FB}^{(L)}(\bar{B}_s\to ϕμ^+μ^-)$ could be enhanced by about 96% and $17%\,(133%)$ respectively at most by $Z^{\prime}$ contributions. However, ${\cal B}(\bar{B}_s\to ϕμ^+μ^-)$ is hardly to be reduced. Furthermore, the zero crossing in $A_{FB}(\bar{B}_s\to ϕμ^+μ^-)$ spectrum at low dimuon mass always exists.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures, 4 table; accepted by Nucl. Phys. B
title: Osteitis condensans ilii: what the radiologist should know
Creators: name: Paparella, Maria Teresa
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: CT
subject: Sclerosis
subject: Pathology

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To describe the main radiological findings of osteitis condensans ilii. To determine differential...
Urban flood management and disaster in Canada : incidence, recovery strategy, and environmental resilience
Creators: name: King-Scobie, Cheralyn
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: This dissertation investigates how cities can improve flood management relationships with riverine landscapes. It develops new data, analysis, and tools to address the need for systematic research on floods and flood management at the municipal scale. In Canada, floods remain the most frequent disaster type, and it is municipalities that are responsible for related land-use planning, emergency response, and often, flood management. However, municipal-scale information on flood disasters and flood risk management remains limited. To examine where in Canada flooding is a problem for municipalities, I developed and analyzed two databases: the All Floods Database (n=149), and a more detailed Riverine Floods Database (n=43), on municipal flood disasters from 2001 to 2013. Data were compiled from the Canadian Disaster Database, municipal surveys, staff interviews, and provincial and territorial disaster financial assistance records. According to the database, 15% of Canadian urban municipalities experienced flood disasters, most of which were non-riverine. Among riverine flood disasters, medium-sized population centres experienced disproportionately more events, and Alberta and British Columbia accounted for over half of the total. Next, I considered flood recovery as a window of opportunity for building resilience, focusing on environmental resilience in terms of flood management relationships with riverine landscapes. Are municipalities re-creating pre-flood conditions during recovery, or are they working to improve resilience and build back better? I created a typology of approaches to riverine flood management and applied it to 20 case study municipalities using survey, interview, and document data. Overall, 85% employed a primarily non-structural approach through land-use regulation. Comparing pre- and post-flood approaches, as many as 45% of municipalities modified their approach to improve resilience, and 30% chose a strategy that would in theory improve environmental resilience, particularly after large flood events; however, the majority retained a return to normal approach. Finally, I developed a tool, the Connection Workbook, to provide municipalities with a rigorous yet practical approach to operationalize assessment of environmental resilience. The tool was applied to three Alberta municipalities, and the results provided insights for actionable guidance to improve municipal flood management through the lens of riverine connection with the landscape.
Additional file 1 of Abortion care at 20 weeks and over in Victoria: a thematic analysis of healthcare providers’ experiences
Creators: name: Malek, Mary
name: Homer, Caroline SE
name: McDonald, Clare
name: Hannon, Catherine M
name: Moore, Paddy
name: Wilson, Alyce N
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplementary Material 1
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title: Development of measures to improve financial and economic activity of company
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financial and economic activity
services organizations
development events
evaluation of the effectiveness
economic indicatores

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description: The object of this study is the company "T Dance".
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 The paper analyzed the activities of T dance, studied its
calculated the main indicators of efficiency, estimated the probability of bankruptcy.
Based on the analysis of activities and financial indicators, measures were developed to improve the financial and economic activities of T Dance. Based on the data and the resulting calculations, assessment was made of the effectiveness of the developed measures to improve the financial and economic activities of the company "T Dance".
Finite-size and correlation-induced effects in Mean-field Dynamics
Creators: name: Touboul, Jonathan
name: Ermentrout, G. Bard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The brain's activity is characterized by the interaction of a very large number of neurons that are strongly affected by noise. However, signals often arise at macroscopic scales integrating the effect of many neurons into a reliable pattern of activity. In order to study such large neuronal assemblies, one is often led to derive mean-field limits summarizing the effect of the interaction of a large number of neurons into an effective signal. Classical mean-field approaches consider the evolution of a deterministic variable, the mean activity, thus neglecting the stochastic nature of neural behavior. In this article, we build upon two recent approaches that include correlations and higher order moments in mean-field equations, and study how these stochastic effects influence the solutions of the mean-field equations, both in the limit of an infinite number of neurons and for large yet finite networks. We introduce a new model, the infinite model, which arises from both equations by a rescaling of the variables and, which is invertible for finite-size networks, and hence, provides equivalent equations to those previously derived models. The study of this model allows us to understand qualitative behavior of such large-scale networks. We show that, though the solutions of the deterministic mean-field equation constitute uncorrelated solutions of the new mean-field equations, the stability properties of limit cycles are modified by the presence of correlations, and additional non-trivial behaviors including periodic orbits appear when there were none in the mean field. The origin of all these behaviors is then explored in finite-size networks where interesting mesoscopic scale effects appear. This study leads us to show that the infinite-size system appears as a singular limit of the network equations, and for any finite network, the system will differ from the infinite system.
Qui écoute-t-elle, maintenant? Vers une mesure dynamique de l'attention auditive à la parole
Creators: name: Huet, Moïra-Phoebé
name: Micheyl, Christophe
name: Gaudrain, Etienne
name: Parizet, Etienne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: Neuroscience and Physiological Psychology

description: Poster présenté aux 3èmes Journées Perception Sonore JPS2017, Brest, France, 15-16 Juin 2017
title: A preliminary investigation on the utility of AI based PET Reconstruction algorithms in clinical settings
Creators: name: Mahajan, Harsh
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: PET-CT
subject: Computer Applications-Virtual imaging
subject: Molecular imaging
subject: Technology assessment
subject: Cancer
subject: Image verification
subject: Multidisciplinary cancer care

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Positron emission tomography (PET) is a nuclear imaging modality that uses radio-labelled molecules to measure cellular metabolic and functional activity. The most important factor affecting the PET image quality is the number of acquired photon...
Alumina paper.pdf
Creators: name: Osman, Ahmed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 30601 Catalysis and Mechanisms of Reactions
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Dimethyl ether (DME) is amongst one of the most promising alternative, renewable and clean fuels being considered as a future energy carrier. In this study, the comparative catalytic performance of γ-Al2O3 prepared from two common precursors (aluminium nitrate (AN) and aluminium chloride (AC)) is presented. The impact of calcination temperature was evaluated in order to optimise both the precursor and pre-treatment conditions for the production of DME from methanol in a fixed bed reactor. The catalysts were characterized by TGA, XRD, BET and TPD-pyridine. Under reaction conditions where the temperature ranged from 180-300 ˚C with a WHSV= 6.8 h-1 it was found that all the catalysts prepared from AN showed higher activity, at all calcination temperatures, than those prepared from AC. In this study the optimum catalyst was produced from AN and calcined at 550 ˚C. This catalyst showed a high degree of stability and had double the activity of the commercial γ-Al2O3 or 87% of the activity of commercial ZSM-5 (80) at 250 ˚C.
Additional file 1 of Preconception folic acid supplementation for the prevention of birth defects: a prospective, population-based cohort study in mainland China
Creators: name: Zhou, Qiongjie
name: Dong, Guiying
name: Wang, Qiaomei
name: Shen, Haiping
name: Zhang, Yiping
name: Zhang, Shikun
name: Chen, Jingqi
name: Li, Xiaotian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
title: Imaging to Intervention in Pancreatic Injury: A roller Coaster for Radiologist and surgeon
Creators: name: Illur, Dr Anushri
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Emergency
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: CT
subject: MR-Cholangiography
subject: Drainage
subject: Embolisation
subject: Education and training

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Learning objectives Discuss the Relevant Anatomy, Mechanism of injury and the Pts Stratification. Role of Imaging - Imaging Direct and indirect Iceberg costs and Imaging Protocols. In brief about AAST-OIS grading (2018) of pancreatic injury. Recent...
Rapid Cooling of the Neutron Star in Cassiopeia A Triggered by Neutron Superfluidity in Dense Matter
Creators: name: Page, Dany
name: Prakash, Madappa
name: Lattimer, James M.
name: Steiner, Andrew W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose that the observed cooling of the neutron star in Cassiopeia A is due to enhanced neutrino emission from the recent onset of the breaking and formation of neutron Cooper pairs in the 3P2 channel. We find that the critical temperature for this superfluid transition is ~0.5x10^9 K. The observed rapidity of the cooling implies that protons were already in a superconducting state with a larger critical temperature. Our prediction that this cooling will continue for several decades at the present rate can be tested by continuous monitoring of this neutron star.
description: Revised version, to be published in Phys. Rev. Lett
title: Pelvic neoplasms in peds: the survival kit!
Creators: name: DHIEB, Fatma
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Oncology
subject: Paediatric
subject: Pelvis
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Education
subject: Cancer

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Elaborate diagnostic strategy in front of a pelvic mass in the pediatric population. Identify the most suitable imaging modalities and know the most appropriate exploration protocols according to the supposed diagnoses Identify the semiological...
title: Outcome analysis of MAPCA coiling in improving pulmonary vascular resistance & clinical outcome in patients with congenital heart disease planned for surgery
Creators: name: Arunachalam, Venkata Subbaih
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Embolisation
subject: Outcomes

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: In patients with congenital heart disease of univentricular and biventricular physiology, Aorto-pulmonary collaterals can cause late onset hemoptysis, increased pulmonary vascular resistance and right heart failure. Increased in pulmonary vascular...
Nonlinear Biasing and Redshift-Space Distortions in Lagrangian Resummation Theory and N-body Simulations
Creators: name: Sato, Masanori
name: Matsubara, Takahiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding a behavior of galaxy biasing is crucial for future galaxy redshift surveys. One aim is to measure the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) within the precision of a few percent level. Using 30 large cosmological N-body simulations for a standard LCDM cosmology, we study the halo biasing over a wide redshift range. We compare the simulation results with theoretical predictions proposed by Matsubara (2008) which naturally incorporate the halo bias and redshift-space distortions into their formalism of perturbation theory with a resummation technique via the Lagrangian picture. The power spectrum and correlation function of halos obtained from Lagrangian resummation theory (LRT) well agree with N-body simulation results on scales of BAOs. Especially nonlinear effects on the baryon acoustic peak of the halo correlation function are accurately explained both in real and redshift space. We find that nonlinearity and scale dependence of bias are fairly well reproduced by 1-loop LRT up to k=0.35hMpc^{-1} (z=2 and 3) within a few percent level in real space and up to k=0.1hMpc^{-1} (z=2) and 0.15hMpc^{-1} (z=3) in redshift space. Thus, the LRT is very powerful for accurately extracting cosmological information in upcoming high redshift BAO surveys.
description: 15 pages, 9 figures. Maches version published by the Physical Review D
title: Breast Multiparametric Ultrasound: a single-center experience.
Creators: name: Zarcaro, Calogero
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Biopsy
subject: Cancer

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Nowadays, breast ultrasound is considered, in addiction to mammography and magnetic resonance (MRI), a fundamental investigation method in breast imaging. [1-3] Multiparametric Ultrasound (MPUS) of the breast consists in the evaluation of the...
Investigating the ability of coral reefs to protect shorelines in the Republic of Kiribati
Creators: name: Summers, Heather
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: Coral reefs support a high biodiversity, providing a natural, physical barrier from waves that protects coastal communities from shoreline erosion and inundation. The three-dimensional (3D) structural complexity of living coral communities provides frictional resistance as waves and currents pass over the reef. A shift in coral community assemblages towards small, weedy, stress-tolerant corals due to climate change and local human stressors may alter wave attenuation, threatening low-lying coastal regions facing sea-level rise. In this thesis, I investigated the effect of coral community composition on shoreline protection in Kiribati’s Tarawa and Abaiang Atolls by collecting fore reef and reef flat field data and creating 3D reconstructions of the fore reefs. I found that the 3D structure and contribution of certain coral growth forms to reef complexity varied depending on the complexity metric used. Surface rugosity and standard deviation of elevation were not significantly different between atolls, while the average terrain ruggedness was significantly greater at disturbed sites in South Tarawa dominated by the weedy species Porites rus. I show that the abundance of Porites rus and branching corals were positively related for all three complexity metrics, with the strongest positive association between Porites rus and terrain ruggedness. Lastly, I determined that South Tarawa reef flats, long mined of rocks for human use, have lower benthic roughness and receive higher offshore wave energy relative to North Tarawa. My research suggests that at current mean sea level, the difference in the diversity of coral growth forms on the fore reef across Tarawa and Abaiang have less effect on wave attenuation than other factors like coral cover, steepness of the fore reef, and benthic composition of the reef flat. Additionally, the most significant variation in wave runup will be due to parameters influencing fore reef slope and reef flat composition. As such, steeper fore reef slopes and smooth reef flats of South Tarawa are expected to dissipate less wave energy relative to reefs in North Tarawa and Abaiang. To summarize, my findings offer insights into possible trade-offs between reef resilience to climate change and shoreline protection, including shoreline vulnerabilities to sea-level rise around Kiribati.
Dynamic heterogeneity in a glass forming fluid: susceptibility, structure factor and correlation length
Creators: name: Flenner, Elijah
name: Szamel, Grzegorz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the growth of dynamic heterogeneity in a glassy hard-sphere mixture for volume fractions up to and including the mode-coupling transition. We use an 80 000 particle system to test a new procedure to evaluate a dynamic correlation length xi(t): we determine the ensemble independent dynamic susceptibility chi_4(t) and use it to facilitate evaluation of xi(t) from the small wave vector behavior of the four-point structure factor. We analyze relations between the alpha relaxation time tau_alpha, chi_4(tau_alpha), and xi(tau_alpha). We find that mode-coupling like power laws provide a reasonable description of the data over a restricted range of volume fractions, but the power laws' exponents differ from those predicted by the inhomogeneous mode-coupling theory. We find xi(tau_alpha) ~ ln(tau_alpha) over the full range of volume fractions studied, which is consistent with Adams-Gibbs-type relation.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, To be published in Physical Review Letters
The Phylogenetic Distribution of Climate Change Vulnerability in California's Birds
Creators: name: Moshier, Shelby P.
name: Dhaliwal, Gurjap S.
name: Reece, Joshua S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 50202 Conservation and Biodiversity
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 60306 Evolutionary Impacts of Climate Change
subject: 60309 Phylogeny and Comparative Analysis
subject: 60809 Vertebrate Biology

description: Authors: Shelby P. Moshier (spmoshier@mail.fresnostate.edu), Gurjap S. Dhaliwal, Dr. Joshua S. ReeceDept. of Biology, CSU FresnoAbstract:Anthropogenic climate change is a major issue for many threatened and endangered species. One way of assessing the impact of climate change is through vulnerability assessments, which quantitatively evaluate the susceptibility of species to climate change. While vulnerability assessments can identify which species are most at risk, it can be unclear as to how species’ vulnerability is distributed phylogenetically and what would be lost in terms of evolutionary diversity if certain lineages were extirpated. We examine the distribution of quantitative climate change vulnerability scores (CCVSs) of 299 California avian taxa on a phylogenetic tree to determine if vulnerability is clustered, over-distributed, or distributed randomly. The 299 species have vulnerability scores ranging from 12 to 72 and are separated into five bins based on natural breaks in the distribution of vulnerability scores on a scatterplot. Each bin of data is analyzed in R to calculate Faith’s Index of Phylogenetic Diversity (PD), and disparity as assessed by the Net Relatedness Index (NRI). Random datasets with 100 iterations are generated for each bin to provide a null distribution for PD and NRI. The analysis of phylogenetic diversity indicates that if bird species with the highest climate change vulnerability were lost, more phylogenetic diversity and disparity would be lost than if the same number of taxa were randomly removed from the tree. Thus, climate change threatens overall evolutionary diversity and disparity in California’s birds.
¿Es Incoherente la Postulación de Mundos Posibles?
Creators: name: Alvarado Marambio, José Tomás
Publisher: name: abstracta
Year: 2021

description: This work presents the different forms of Cantorian paradoxes that have been proposed against all the variety of forms of Actualism in the metaphysics of modality. These Cantorian paradoxes are presented in the wider context of Cantorian paradoxes directed against the notion of “world”. The article presents two main general strategies to deal with the paradoxes: (i) the strategy of “amplification” and (ii) the strategy of “restriction”. The first strategy is proposed as the most plausible. As the problems affect in the same way all actualist theories (and even the notion of “world”), they cannot be used against any particular actualist theory of modality. The feasibility of a general amplification strategy, on the other hand, is a reason to suppose that all those theories have not much to fear from those paradoxes.
description: abstracta, Bd. 4 Nr. 2 (2008)
Theory Assessment and Coherence
Creators: name: Brössel, Peter
Publisher: name: abstracta
Year: 2021

description: One of the most important questions in epistemology and the philosophy of science is: what is a good theory and when is a theory better than another theory, given some observational data? The coherentist‟s answer would be the following twofold conjecture: (i) A theory is a good theory given some observational data iff that theory coheres with the observational data and (ii) a theory is better than another theory given some observational data iff the first theory coheres more with the observational data than the second theory. In this paper we show that this answer is a good answer. More precisely, we argue that the coherence measures of Olsson (2002) and Shogenji (1999) are good measures for the purpose of comparing and evaluating theories, i.e. assessing theories. We do so by clarifying the sufficient and necessary conditions every assess-ment function must satisfy for being a good measure of the goodness of theories. Afterwards we will show that the coherence measures of Olsson and Shogenji are indeed good assessment functions for assessing theories.
description: abstracta, Bd. 4 Nr. 1 (2008)
title: Macromolecular Proton Fraction Mapping Based on Spin-Lock (MPF-SL) Imaging of the Normal Appearing White Matter (NAWM) and Normal Appearing Grey Matter (NAGM) in Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis
Creators: name: So, Tiffany
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Tissue characterisation

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic autoimmune neurodegenerative disease affecting the central nervous system (CNS) [1]. The disease may manifest with a range of symptoms, including weakness or paralysis, sensory disorder, altered vision, cognitive...
Moduli and electromagnetic black brane holography
Creators: name: Astefanesei, Dumitru
name: Banerjee, Nabamita
name: Dutta, Suvankar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the thermodynamic and hydrodynamic properties of 4-dimensional gauge theories with finite electric charge density in the presence of a constant magnetic field. Their gravity duals are planar magnetically and electrically charged AdS black holes in theories that contain a gauge Chern-Simons term. We present a careful analysis of the near horizon geometry of these black branes at finite and zero temperature for the case of a scalar field non-minimally coupled to the electromagnetic field. With the knowledge of the near horizon data, we obtain analytic expressions for the shear viscosity coefficient and entropy density, and also study the effect of a generic set of four derivative interactions on their ratio. We also comment on the attractor flows of the extremal solutions.
description: 39 pages, no figures; v2: minor changes, refs. added; v3: typo fixed; v4: a proof for decoupling of the viscosity mode added in appendix, matches the published version
The impact of spatial fluctuations in the ultra-violet background on intergalactic carbon and silicon
Creators: name: Bolton, James S.
name: Viel, Matteo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spatial inhomogeneities in the spectral shape of the ultra-violet background (UVB) at the tail-end of HeII reionisation are thought to be the primary cause of the large fluctuations observed in the HeII to HI Ly-a forest optical depth ratio, tau_HeII/tau_HI, at z~2-3. These spectral hardness fluctuations will also influence the ionisation balance of intergalactic metals; we extract realistic quasar absorption spectra from a large hydrodynamical simulation to examine their impact on intergalactic SiIV and CIV absorbers. Using a variety of toy UVB models, we find that while the predicted spatial inhomogeneities in spectral hardness have a significant impact on tau_HeII/tau_HI, the longer mean free path for photons with frequencies above and below the HeII ionisation edge means these fluctuations have less effect on the SiIV and CIV ionisation balance. Furthermore, UVB models which produce the largest fluctuations in specific intensity at the HeII ionisation edge also have the softest ionising spectra, and thus result in photo-ionisation rates which are too low to produce significant fluctuations in the observed tau_SiIV/tau_CIV. Instead, we find spatial variations in the IGM metallicity will dominate any scatter in tau_SiIV/tau_CIV. Our results suggest that observational evidence for homogeneity in the observed tau_SiIV/tau_CIV distribution does not rule out the possibility of significant fluctuations in the UVB spectral shape at z~2-3. On the other hand, the scatter in metallicity inferred from observations of intergalactic CIV and SiIV absorption at z~2-3 using spatially uniform ionisation corrections is likely intrinsic, and therefore provides a valuable constraint on intergalactic metal enrichment scenarios at these redshifts.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures, accepted to MNRAS
Environmental adaptation and vertical dissemination of ESBL‐/pAmpC‐producing Escherichia coli in an integrated broiler production chain in the absence of an antibiotic treatment
Creators: name: Projahn, Michaela
name: Daehre, Katrin
name: Semmler, Torsten
name: Guenther, Sebastian
name: Roesler, Uwe
name: Friese, Anika
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: High prevalence numbers of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase- (ESBL-)/plasmid-mediated AmpC beta-lactamase- (pAmpC-) producing Escherichia coli in broiler chicken and their distribution along the broiler production chain is an ongoing problem in food production. We, therefore, investigated resistant isolates along the broiler production chain to determine whether there is a constantly occurring direct vertical transmission of the ESBL-/pAmpC-producing E. coli from the parent flocks to their offspring or not. We, furthermore, analysed the isolates concerning the occurrence of virulence factors and their ability to form biofilms to estimate their potential to effectively colonize broiler chickens and/or persist and survive in the environment of the broiler production facilities. Using whole genome sequencing, we could show that ESBL-/pAmpC-producing E. coli were likely transferred in a step-wise process along the broiler production chain but not directly from the parent flock to the fattening flock with every single batch of offspring chickens. Additionally, resistant E. coli strains showing an extraintestinal pathogenic genotype as well as high numbers of virulence-associated genes including the production of curli fibres and cellulose have high capabilities to persist and spread in the broiler production chain.
4D and 2D superconformal index with surface operator
Creators: name: Nakayama, Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the superconformal index of the N=4 super-Yang-Milles theory on S^3 X S^1 with the half BPS superconformal surface operator (defect) inserted at the great circle of S^3. The half BPS superconformal surface operators preserve the same supersymmetry as well as the symmetry of the chemical potential used in the definition of the superconformal index, so the structure and the parameterization of the superconformal index remain unaffected by the presence of the surface operator. On the surface defect, a two-dimensional (4,4) superconformal field theory resides, and the four-dimensional superconformal index may be regarded as a superconformal index of the two-dimensional (4,4) superconformal field theory coupled with the four-dimensional bulk system. We construct the matrix model that computes the superconformal index with the surface operator when it couples with the bulk N=4 super-Yang-Milles theory through the defect hypermultiplets on it.
description: 22 pages, v3: typos corrected and references added