cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Insights into Chronic Postsurgical Pain
Creators: name: Prgolizzi JV
name: Zampogna G
name: Taylor, Robert
name: Raffa RB
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Most postsurgical patients experience moderate to severe acute pain which, in some patients, transitions to chronic postsurgical pain (CPSP). Optimal pain control of acute surgical pain will likely blunt or prevent the transition of acute postsurgical pain (APSP) to CPSP. While there are known risk factors for such chronification of pain type, and certain surgeries (such as limb amputation) and approaches (open versus laparoscopic) are associated with higher rates, it is impossible to predict which patients will transition to CPSP. Additionally, despite knowledge and an armamentarium of analgesics, APSP may be suboptimally controlled. Opioid analgesics can be safe and effective for APSP, but there are legal, social, governmental, clinical, and even cultural barriers to their use. Patients may be reluctant to take opioid agents even when available. Effective APSP control is essential to promote speedy recovery, rapid ambulation, good rehabilitation, and, ultimately, hospital discharge. Since, pain can be multimechanistic, multimodal or combination therapy may be required. Fixed-dose combination products are available that may reduce total opioid consumption by combining a small amount of opioid with an NSAID or paracetamol (acetaminophen). For CPSP, transdermal buprenorphine appears to offer certain advantages in that it is an effective analgesic, can be safely used without dosage adjustment in the elderly and in those with compromised renal function, and the patch delivery system reduces pill burden and reduces the problem of non-compliance. Since tolerability is an important consideration for any pain relievers, side effects should be managed proactively and promptly.
Additional file 2 of Ischemic injury of the upper gastrointestinal tract after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a prospective, multicenter study
Creators: name: Grimaldi, D.
name: Legriel, S.
name: Pichon, N.
name: Colardelle, P.
name: Leblanc, S.
name: Canouï-Poitrine, F.
name: Salem, O. Ben Hadj
name: Muller, G.
name: de Prost, N.
name: Herrmann, S.
name: Marque, S.
name: Baron, A.
name: Sauneuf, B.
name: Messika, J.
name: Dior, M.
name: Creteur, J.
name: Bedos, J. P.
name: Boutin, E.
name: Cariou, A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Therapeutic advices after gastroscopy.
Cycloidal magnetism driven ferroelectricity in double tungstate LiFe(WO$_4$)$_2$
Creators: name: Liu, Meifeng
name: Lin, Lingfang
name: Zhang, Yang
name: Li, Shaozhen
name: Huang, Qingzhen
name: Garlea, V. Ovidiu
name: Zou, Tao
name: Xie, Yunlong
name: Wang, Yu
name: Lu, Chengliang
name: Yang, Lin
name: Yan, Zhibo
name: Wang, Xiuzhang
name: Dong, Shuai
name: Liu, Jun-Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tungstates $A$WO$_4$ with the wolframite structure characterized by the $A$O$_6$ octahedral zigzag chains along the $c$-axis, can be magnetic if $A$=Mn, Fe, Co, Cu, Ni. Among them, MnWO$_4$ is a unique member with a cycloid Mn$^{2+}$ spin order developed at low temperature, leading to an interesting type-II multiferroic behavior. However, so far no other multiferroic material in the tungstate family has been found. In this work, we present the synthesis and the systematic study of the double tungstate LiFe(WO$_4$)$_2$. Experimental characterizations including structural, thermodynamic, magnetic, neutron powder diffraction, and pyroelectric measurements, unambiguously confirm that LiFe(WO$_4$)$_2$ is the secondly found multiferroic system in the tungstate family. The cycloidal magnetism driven ferroelectricity is also verified by density functional theory calculations. Although here the magnetic couplings between Fe ions are indirect, namely via the so-called super-super-exchanges, the temperatures of magnetic and ferroelectric transitions are surprisingly much higher than those of MnWO$_4$.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
Raising Graphs From Randomness to Reveal Information Networks
Creators: name: Pálovics, Róbert
name: Benczúr, András A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the fine-grained connections between the average degree and the power-law degree distribution exponent in growing information networks. Our starting observation is a power-law degree distribution with a decreasing exponent and increasing average degree as a function of the network size. Our experiments are based on three Twitter at-mention networks and three more from the Koblenz Network Collection. We observe that popular network models cannot explain decreasing power-law degree distribution exponent and increasing average degree at the same time. We propose a model that is the combination of exponential growth, and a power-law developing network, in which new "homophily" edges are continuously added to nodes proportional to their current homophily degree. Parameters of the average degree growth and the power-law degree distribution exponent functions depend on the ratio of the network growth exponent parameters. Specifically, we connect the growth of the average degree to the decreasing exponent of the power-law degree distribution. Prior to our work, only one of the two cases were handled. Existing models and even their combinations can only reproduce some of our key new observations in growing information networks.
A Decisive Role of [18F] Fdg PET/CT for Diagnosis of Neoplastic Vascular Thrombosis: Report of A Case
Creators: name: Travaini LL
name: Chiappa A
name: Monteleone M
name: Orecchia R
name: Grana CM
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: The combined use of PET scan with CT and fluorodeoxyglucose ([18F]FDG) can modify, in selected oncologic patients, the clinical management and care. We report here the case of a 63-year old female who showed increase serum level of CEA 3 years following left colectomy for cancer. Ultrasound and CT (computed tomography) of the abdomen showed a single lesion in the segment II of the liver with portal thrombosis. FDG PET/CT revealed two lesions (the first area was histologically proven to be a colorectal carcinoma metastasis, the second one corresponded to the portal thrombosis). No antithrombotic drugs were administered and patient underwent chemotherapy for 4 courses (eloxatin plus 5-fluorouracil anf leucovorin). Liver resection was performed 2 weeks after the end of chemotherapy, and intraoperative ultrasound revealed a normal portal flow.
title: Εργασιακή ικανοποίηση των ατόμων και απόδοση
title: Job satisfaction and performance
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Ακρίβου, Ναυσικά
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Εργασιακή ικανοποίηση
subject: Παρακίνηση
subject: Εργασιακή απόδοση

description: Το θέμα στο οποίο εστιάζει η συγκεκριμένη εργασία σχετίζεται με την εργασιακή ικανοποίηση και την απόδοση των υπαλλήλων, έννοιες οι οποίες αποτελούν αντικείμενα εκτενούς μελέτης τις τελευταίες δεκαετίες αφού είναι απόλυτα συνυφασμένες με τον ανθρώπινο παράγοντα. Το πρώτο κεφάλαιο επικεντρώνεται στην εργασιακή ικανοποίηση. Ειδικότερα, αναλύεται η ιστορική αναδρομή και η σημασία του όρου και ακολουθεί η ανάλυση των θεωριών που έχουν αναπτυχθεί γύρω από τη συγκεκριμένη έννοια. Στη συνέχεια, περιγράφονται οι προσδιοριστικοί παράγοντες που την επηρεάζουν, οι τρόποι μέτρησης της και τέλος οι επιπτώσεις από τη μη ικανοποίηση των εργαζομένων σε μία επιχείρηση. Το δεύτερο κεφάλαιο περιγράφει τον όρο παρακίνηση στο εργασιακό περιβάλλον. Πιο συγκεκριμένα, το κεφάλαιο ξεκινά με τον προσδιορισμό της έννοιας της παρακίνησης στο περιβάλλον εργασίας και τη σημασία που έχει για τους υπαλλήλους ενός οργανισμού. Στη συνέχεια, ακολουθεί η ανάλυση των παραγόντων και θεωριών που σχετίζονται με την παραπάνω έννοια. Το τρίτο κεφάλαιο αναφέρεται στην απόδοση των εργαζομένων. Ειδικότερα, αναλύονται οι προσδιοριστικοί παράγοντες που συμβάλλουν στη μεταβολή της εργασιακής απόδοσης, περιγράφεται η σημασία των συνθηκών εργασίας και εξηγείται η σχέση ανάμεσα στην εργασιακή ικανοποίηση και την απόδοση των εργαζομένων. Τέλος, η εργασία ολοκληρώνεται με την παρουσίαση των συμπερασμάτων από την ανάλυση των παραπάνω κεφαλαίων.
A Decisive Role of [18F] Fdg PET/CT for Diagnosis of Neoplastic Vascular Thrombosis: Report of A Case
Creators: name: Travaini LL
name: Chiappa A
name: Monteleone M
name: Orecchia R
name: Grana CM
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: The combined use of PET scan with CT and fluorodeoxyglucose ([18F]FDG) can modify, in selected oncologic patients, the clinical management and care. We report here the case of a 63-year old female who showed increase serum level of CEA 3 years following left colectomy for cancer. Ultrasound and CT (computed tomography) of the abdomen showed a single lesion in the segment II of the liver with portal thrombosis. [18F] FDG PET/CT revealed two lesions (the first area was histologically proven to be a colorectal carcinoma metastasis, the second one corresponded to the portal thrombosis). No antithrombotic drugs were administered and patient underwent chemotherapy for 4 courses (eloxatin plus 5-fluorouracil anf leucovorin). Liver resection was performed 2 weeks after the end of chemotherapy, and intraoperative ultrasound revealed a normal portal flow.
Why is Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation Difficult to Prevent and Treat: Potential Roles of Unrecognized Magnesium Deficiency and Release of Ceramide and Platelet-Activating Factor
Creators: name: BM Altura
name: NC Shah
name: GJ Shah
name: JL Perez-Albela
name: BT Altura
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Heart failure is a major cause of morbidity and mortality whose costs impose staggering health-care costs and often lengthy hospitalizations. Post-operative atrial fibrillation (POAF) represents a leading cause for heart failure, paricularly after cardiac and lung surgeries. Although PAOF is a common cardiac arrhythmia, it is impossible to predict. As the worldwide population is aging, the incidence and prevalence of PAOF is growing. Identifying mechanisms for PAOF is attracting a considerable amount of research with no agreement on the mechanism(s). Our research on the heart and cardiovascular system, over the past 50-plus years, leads us to believe that major causes of PAOF may be an underlying magnesium deficiency (MgD) coupled to a generation/ release of ceramides and platelet-activating factor (PAF). Herein, we review reasons behind our hypothesis and suggestions for testing its validity.
Superconducting Two-Dimensional Metal-Organic Framework
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiaoming
name: Zhou, Yinong
name: Cui, Bin
name: Zhao, Mingwen
name: Liu, Feng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Superconductivity is a fascinating quantum phenomenon characterized by zero electrical resistance and the Meissner effect. To date, several distinct families of superconductors (SCs) have been discovered. These include three-dimensional (3D) bulk SCs in both inorganic and organic materials as well as two-dimensional (2D) thin film SCs but only in $inorganic$ materials. Here we predict superconductivity in 2D and 3D $organic$ metal-organic frameworks by using first-principles calculations. We show that the highly conductive and recently synthesized Cu-benzenehexathial (BHT) is a Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer SC. Remarkably, the monolayer Cu-BHT has a critical temperature ($T_{c}$) of 4.43 K while $T_{c}$ of bulk Cu-BHT is 1.58 K. Different from the enhanced $T_{c}$ in 2D inorganic SCs which is induced by interfacial effects, the $T_{c}$ enhancement in this 2D organic SC is revealed to be the out-of-plane soft-mode vibrations, analogous to surface mode enhancement originally proposed by $Ginzburg$. Our findings not only shed new light on better understanding 2D superconductivity, but also open a new direction to search for SCs by interface engineering with organic materials.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures
Additional file 1 of Ischemic injury of the upper gastrointestinal tract after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a prospective, multicenter study
Creators: name: Grimaldi, D.
name: Legriel, S.
name: Pichon, N.
name: Colardelle, P.
name: Leblanc, S.
name: Canouï-Poitrine, F.
name: Salem, O. Ben Hadj
name: Muller, G.
name: de Prost, N.
name: Herrmann, S.
name: Marque, S.
name: Baron, A.
name: Sauneuf, B.
name: Messika, J.
name: Dior, M.
name: Creteur, J.
name: Bedos, J. P.
name: Boutin, E.
name: Cariou, A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Examples of ischemic lesions.
What are we learning from the relative orientation between density structures and the magnetic field in molecular clouds?
Creators: name: Soler, Juan D.
name: Hennebelle, Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the conditions of ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence responsible for the relative orientation between density structures, characterized by their gradient, $\vec{\nabla}ρ$, and the magnetic field, $\vec{B}$, in molecular clouds (MCs). For that purpose, we construct an expression for the time evolution of the angle, $ϕ$, between $\vec{\nabla}ρ$ and $\vec{B}$ based on the transport equations of MHD turbulence. Using this expression, we find that the configuration where $\vec{\nabla}ρ$ and $\vec{B}$ are mostly parallel, $\cosϕ=1$, and where $\vec{\nabla}ρ$ and $\vec{B}$ are mostly perpendicular, $\cosϕ=0$, constitute attractors, that is, the system tends to evolve towards either of these configurations and they are more represented than others. This fact would explain the predominant alignment or anti-alignment between column density, $N_H$, structures and the projected magnetic field orientation, $\hat{B}_\perp$, reported in observations. Additionally, we find that departures from the $\cosϕ=0$ configurations are related to convergent flows, quantified by the divergence of the velocity field, $\vec{\nabla}\cdot\vec{v}$, in the presence of a relatively strong magnetic field. This would explain the observed change in relative orientation between $N_H$-structures and $\hat{B}_\perp$ towards MCs, from mostly parallel at low $N_H$ to mostly perpendicular at the highest $N_H$, as the result of the gravitational collapse and/or convergence of flows. Finally, we show that the density threshold that marks the observed change in relative orientation towards MCs, from $N_H$ and $\hat{B}_\perp$ being mostly parallel at low $N_H$ to mostly perpendicular at the highest $N_H$, is related to the magnetic field strength and constitutes a crucial piece of information for determining the role of the magnetic field in the dynamics of MCs.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures. Submitted to A&A
title: Attache d anse de cruche à décor damasquiné à masque de Silène (Inv. 994.9.2412.1) – Oppidum de Bibracte
Creators: name: Bibracte
Publisher: name: Conservatoire National des Données 3D (CND3D)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: cruche

description: Au Ier siècle avant notre ère  une quantité importante de vaisselle fine en métal  céramique ou verre  en provenance de Méditerranée  arrivait à Bibracte. Cette attache d anse en bronze à tête de Silène  incrustée de cuivre et d argent  provient d une cruche d origine italique. Silène  dans la mythologie grecque  personnifie l ivresse. Il est toujours représenté sous les traits d un vieillard très laid  au nez plat et court  aux yeux exorbités et à la lèvre épaisse.
A Comparison of Directional Distances for Hand Pose Estimation
Creators: name: Tzionas, Dimitrios
name: Gall, Juergen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Benchmarking methods for 3d hand tracking is still an open problem due to the difficulty of acquiring ground truth data. We introduce a new dataset and benchmarking protocol that is insensitive to the accumulative error of other protocols. To this end, we create testing frame pairs of increasing difficulty and measure the pose estimation error separately for each of them. This approach gives new insights and allows to accurately study the performance of each feature or method without employing a full tracking pipeline. Following this protocol, we evaluate various directional distances in the context of silhouette-based 3d hand tracking, expressed as special cases of a generalized Chamfer distance form. An appropriate parameter setup is proposed for each of them, and a comparative study reveals the best performing method in this context.
description: German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR) 2013, http://files.is.tue.mpg.de/dtzionas/GCPR_2013.html
Illustration of gravitational rules in continuous-time stochastic Lattice Grain model
Creators: name: Tucker, Greg
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 40601 Geomorphology and Regolith and Landscape Evolution
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Illustration of gravitational rules. The bottom row shows the ``falling on a slope'' rule, which effectively imposes a 30-degree angle of repose. Modified from Tucker et al. (2016).
Pressure-dependent Semiconductor to Semimetal and Lifshitz transitions in 2H-MoTe$_2$: Raman and First-principles studies
Creators: name: Bera, Achintya
name: Singh, Anjali
name: Muthu, D V S
name: Waghmare, U V
name: Sood, A K
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High pressure Raman spectroscopy of bulk 2H-MoTe$_2$ upto $\sim$ 29 GPa is shown to reveal two phase transitions (at $\sim$ 6 and 16.5 GPa), which are analyzed using first-principles density functional theoretical calculations. The transition at 6 GPa is marked by changes in the pressure coefficients of A$_{1g}$ and E$^{1}_{2g}$ Raman mode frequencies as well as in their relative intensity. Our calculations show that this is an isostructural semiconductor to a semimetal transition. The transition at $\sim$ 16.5 GPa is identified with the changes in linewidths of the Raman modes as well as in the pressure coefficients of their frequencies. Our theoretical analysis clearly shows that the structure remains the same upto 30 GPa. However, the topology of the Fermi-surface evolves as a function of pressure, and abrupt appearance of electron and hole pockets at P $\sim$ 20 GPa marks a Lifshitz transition.
description: 20 Pages, 8 Figures
The Development and Current Practices for Enhanced Recovery Following Colorectal Resection in The United Kingdom
Creators: name: V, Hariharan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Enhanced recovery following colorectal resection is a set of interventions which, when combined, lead to early return of gut function, fewer complications and a shorter length of stay. It divides the patient’s journey into stages and ensures the surgical stress inflicted onto the patient is minimised and normalisation can occur as soon as possible. There has been much research into this new and advancing field with several meta-analyses confirming its benefit.
A Case of Synchronous Renal and Splenic Artery Embolism in a Patient with Atrial Fibrillation
Creators: name: Tsachiridi, Maria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Introduction: Renal and splenic artery embolism are rare conditions and even more rarely they present simultaneously in the same patient. Case Report: We present a case of patient with renal and splenic artery embolism, their presentation, diagnosis, treatment and outcome along with the results of two year follow up. Discussion: As no clinical studies have been performed to define diagnostic and treatment pathways and guidelines, clinicians have to rely on literature mostly comprised of case reports to lead them. The imaging options described are that of CT scan followed by MRI, Ultrasound and other invasive methods such as Angiogram. Two treatment options have been proposed by the authors, invasive (angiogram and thrombolysis), which are reserved for early diagnosed cases, and conservative for cases diagnosed after 48 hours of presentation. Conclusion: As renal and splenic artery embolism are often misdiagnosed, doctors need to maintain high grade of suspicion to be able to correctly recognize and treat these patients, especially the very rare cases of bilateral renal embolism where the renal function compromise can be preventable and life saving.
title: Attache d anse de cruche à décor damasquiné à masque de Silène (Inv. 994.9.2412.1)
Creators: name: Bonenfant, Pierre-Paul
Publisher: name: Conservatoire National des Données 3D (CND3D)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: cruche
subject: Artefact
subject: ACQUISITION

description: Modèle 3D
The computation of spectral supersets of linear operators in Hilbert spaces
Creators: name: Vorberg, Lukas Alexander
Publisher: name: Bergische Universität Wuppertal
Year: 2024

description: The exact computation of an operator's spectrum is only possible in rare cases and its high susceptibility to perturbations poses a substantial challenge for approximations. This thesis delves into various approaches aimed at addressing this problem, utilizing spectral supersets such as the pseudospectrum and the quadratic numerical range as key tools. A new method for enclosing the pseudospectrum of a linear operator via the computable intersection of sets which are expressed in terms of the numerical ranges of shifted inverses of approximating matrices is introduced. The result is illustrated by means of the advection-diffusion, the Hain-Lüst and a Stokes-type operator. Moreover, a novel algorithm for the computation of the quadratic numerical range that is based on the maximization of a purposefully tailored objective function is presented. Numerous examples showcase that this computational technique outperforms the prevailing random vector sampling approach in both the quality of the produced images and computational speed.
Towards topological quantum computer
Creators: name: Melnikov, D.
name: Mironov, A.
name: Mironov, S.
name: Morozov, A.
name: Morozov, An.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the principal obstacles on the way to quantum computers is the lack of distinguished basis in the space of unitary evolutions and thus the lack of the commonly accepted set of basic operations (universal gates). A natural choice, however, is at hand: it is provided by the quantum R-matrices, the entangling deformations of non-entangling (classical) permutations, distinguished from the points of view of group theory, integrable systems and modern theory of non-perturbative calculations in quantum field and string theory. Observables in this case are (square modules of) the knot polynomials, and their pronounced integrality properties could provide a key to error correction. We suggest to use R-matrices acting in the space of irreducible representations, which are unitary for the real-valued couplings in Chern-Simons theory, to build a topological version of quantum computing.
description: 14 pages
Active Hexose Correlated Compound and T Cell Response in Hind - Limb - Unloaded BALB/c Mice
Creators: name: Kogiso M
name: Wakame K
name: Sakai T
name: Yamamoto S
name: Sundaresan A
name: Kulkarni AD
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Introduction: Microgravity - induced immune dysfunction is a potential risk for infection and cancer in astronauts. Active hexose correlated compound (AHCC), a compound obtained from fermented extract of the mycelia of Basidiomycetes mushrooms, has immunomodulating effects. As a nutritional countermeasure, we examined the effect of AHCC on microgravityinduced immune changes by using a hind-limb unloading (HLU) of mice as a microgravity analog. Methods: BALB/c mice were divided into non-HLU and HLU groups. Each group was further divided into subgroups receiving drinking water containing 0, 0.1, 1, and 10 g/kg/day AHCC. After 7 days of HLU and feeding treatment, the proliferative response of popliteal lymph nodes (PLN) to alloantigen was assessed to evaluate in vivo T cell function. Furthermore, LPS-stimulated inflammatory cytokine and chemokine production in splenocytes was examined. Results: The response of PLN was significantly decreased in the HLU group and AHCC supplementation significantly reversed the response. LPS-stimulated cytokine and chemokine production was increased in the HLU group compared to that in the non- HLU group, and AHCC supplementation tended to increase those levels further. Discussion: AHCC enhances in vivo T cell function in microgravity, suggesting that AHCC supplementation under microgravity may have a beneficial role in maintenance of the immune system.
Tax Incentives for Foreign Direct Investment in the Tax Systems of Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium and France
Creators: name: Heimann, Beata
Publisher: name: Universität Bremen
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: -
subject: 330

description: The importance of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) for the Polish economy in the transition period cannot be underestimated. At present the main arguments for attraction of FDI stress the importance of stable high FDI inflows for a sustained economic growth and modernisation of the Polish economy as it is believed that foreign investment help to increase the productivity of economic operations and the local workforce, encourage employment as well as stimulate innovation process and technology transfer. The Polish success in attracting FDI in the past seems to come to an end, as the main driving force for the last few years was the privatisation process. As the privatisation process in Poland is almost completed a sharp decline in the FDI inflows in Poland in about two years' time is to be expected. At the same time tax breaks in the Special Economic Zones which have attracted a significant volume of foreign investment are to be scaled back considerably at the end of 2001. Moreover, tax competition between the Central and Eastern European countries for foreign direct investment which has been strong in the last decade will become even more intense in the near future. Therefore, it seems inevitable for the Polish authorities to introduce changes in the treatment of the foreign direct investment in the Polish tax code and turn their focus towards attracting FDI with other means. Poland should define its position as an attractive location for all multinational companies which wish to operate in the Central and Eastern Europe. Interesting tax regulations concerning co-ordination, distribution and service centres in the Netherlands and Belgium and headquarters and logistics centres in France may be used in that respect as an example for creating successful tax regulations in attracting foreign direct investment in Poland. The paper presents recommendations for the improvement of the Poland's international location competitiveness for FDI.
Real-time single-molecule imaging of CaMKII-calmodulin interactions.
Creators: name: Khan, Shahid
name: Molloy, Justin E
name: Puhl, Henry
name: Schulman, Howard
name: Vogel, Steven S
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: Structural Biology & Biophysics
subject: Structural Biology & Biophysics
classificationCode: Cell Biology
subject: Cell Biology
classificationCode: Imaging
subject: Imaging

description: The binding of calcium-calmodulin (CAM) to calcium-calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) initiates an ATP-driven cascade that triggers CaMKII autophosphorylation. The autophosphorylation in turn increases the CaMKII affinity for CAM. Here, we studied the ATP dependence of CAM association with the actin-binding CaMKIIβ isoform using single-molecule total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (TIRFM). Rhodamine-CAM associations/dissociations to surface-immobilized Venus-CaMKIIβ were resolved with 0.5s resolution from video records, batch-processed with a custom algorithm. CAM occupancy was determined simultaneously with spot-photobleaching measurement of CaMKII holoenzyme stoichiometry. We show the ATP-dependent increase of the CAM association requires dimer formation for both the α and β isoforms. The study of mutant β holoenzymes revealed the ATP-dependent increase in CAM affinity results in two distinct states. The phosphorylation-defective (T287.306-307A) holoenzyme resides only in the low-affinity state. CAM association is further reduced in the T287A holoenzyme relative to T287.306-307A. In the absence of ATP, the affinity of CAM for the T287.306-307A mutant and the wild-type monomer are comparable. The affinity of the ATP-binding impaired (K43R) mutant is even weaker. In ATP, the K43R holoenzyme resides in the low-affinity state. The phosphomimetic mutant (T287D) resides only in a 1000-fold higher affinity state, with mean CAM occupancy of more than half of the 14-mer holoenzyme stoichiometry in picomolar CAM. ATP promotes T287D holoenzyme disassembly but does not elevate CAM occupancy. Single Poisson distributions characterized the ATP-dependent CAM occupancy of mutant holoenzymes. In contrast, the CAM occupancy of the wild-type population had a two-state distribution with both low and high-affinity states represented. The low-affinity state was the dominant state, a result different from published in vitro assays. Differences in assay conditions can alter the balance between activating and inhibitory auto-phosphorylation. Bound ATP could be sufficient for CaMKII structural function, while antagonistic auto-phosphorylations may tune CaMKII kinase-regulated action-potential frequency decoding in vivo.
title: ADCO, Neuvième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661 - 1684), Cart. 32 (G 136), 745 folios, f. 0928
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Neuvième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661 - 1684), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 32 (G 136), 745 folios, f. 0928, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Neuvième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661 - 1684), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 32 (G 136), 745 folios, f. 0928, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
Quality of educational services: The first phase findings of a Middle Eastern educational cohort
Creators: name: Khadem-Rezaiyan, Majid
name: Ebrahimi, Negar
name: Meshkat, Zahra
name: Rajaee, Parisa
name: Sadabadi, Fatemeh
name: Moradi, Ehsan
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2024

description: Background The quality of educational services is a crucial determinant of students’ satisfaction and the overall effectiveness of medical education programs. This abstract presents findings from a prospective cohort study on the quality of educational services and their implications for medical education in Iran. Summary of Work In this cohort study, medical students were recruited in the first year of their undergraduate education. A reliable and validated questionnaire based on the “SERVQUAL" model was employed. This questionnaire was organized into five dimensions, including responsiveness and assurance, to evaluate current and desired perspectives. Each item was rated on a scale of 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating a more desirable/important state. The difference between the current and desired states represented the gap in service quality. Summary of Results The responses were gathered from 152 participating students during 2022 and 2023. All questions demonstrated a negative gap ranging from -0.7 to -36.9. The three most negative items were: * The gap in the responsiveness of educational staff to educational issues was -36.9±32.1. * The gap in preparing students for future careers through appropriate theoretical and practical training was -34.2±27.4. * The gap in ease of access to educational management for students to voice their opinions on educational matters was -34.0±30.8. The least negative items were: * The gap in accurate and comprehensive recording of academic records was -8.4±24.0. * The gap in easy access to study resources available at the university was -6.4±21.9. * The gap in the professional appearance of faculty and staff was minimal, with a score of -0.7±25.9. Discussion and Conclusions The most prominent gap was observed regarding the unresponsiveness of academic staff in addressing students’ educational issues. Involving students’ feedback can be effective by enhancing the quality of educational services in medical schools. Additionally, it is believed that implementing a continuous technology-based assessment of students' opinions, facilitated through an electronic student registry could be beneficial. Addressing these gaps requires faculty development to ensure optimal educational experiences for medical students. Take Home Messages There is a need for improved responsiveness among academic staff in addressing students' feedback. This would be better accompanied by a continuous technology-based registry of students’ demands.
On the dynamics of polarons in the strong-coupling limit
Creators: name: Griesemer, Marcel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81V99 (Primary), 35Q55 (Secondary)

description: The polaron model of H. Fröhlich describes an electron coupled to the quantized longitudinal optical modes of a polar crystal. In the strong-coupling limit one expects that the phonon modes may be treated classically, which leads to a coupled Schrödinger-Poisson system with memory. For the effective dynamics of the electron this amounts to a nonlinear and non-local Schrödinger equation. We use the Dirac-Frenkel variational principle to derive the Schrödinger-Poisson system from the Fröhlich model and we present new results on the accuracy of their solutions for describing the motion of Fröhlich polarons in the strong-coupling limit. Our main result extends to $N$-polaron systems.
description: 21 pages
MTA - Effects of Stimulant Medication on Adult Substance Use, Part 2: Marginal Structural Models
Creators: name: Kennedy, Traci
name: Howard, Andrea
name: Molina, Brooke
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mental Disorders
subject: Other Psychiatry and Psychology
subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Psychiatry and Psychology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Developmental Psychology
subject: Primary Care
subject: Family Medicine
subject: Medical Specialties
subject: Child Psychology
subject: Pediatrics
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: ADHD
subject: existing data
subject: marginal structural models
subject: MTA
subject: preregistration
subject: secondary data
subject: stimulants
subject: substance use

description: These secondary data analyses of the MTA longitudinal follow-up examine long-term substance use risk associated with cumulative exposure to stimulant medication within a causal modeling framework, adjusting for a comprehensive list of sociodemographic and clinical covariates.
Gallstone Coleus: A Rare Relation of Gallstone Ileus
Creators: name: Howells L
name: Liasis L
name: Demosthenous M
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Background: Intestinal obstruction due to gallstones is a rare condition accounting for 1-4% of cases of a mechanical small bowel obstruction. Gallstone coleus (gallstone obstruction of the large bowel) is an even more uncommon cause of a mechanical bowel obstruction. Methods: We performed a search of the PubMed database in December 2014. To the best of our knowledge all available case reports and case series were included. Reference sections were searched manually for additional potential cases. Search terms for gallstone coleus were used in all possible combinations. Our exclusion criteria embraced reports of gallstone obstruction of the small bowel, and duplicate cases. We found 57 publications that together produced a total of 63 case reports of gallstone coleus. Conclusion: Gallstone coleus is a rare entity that carries a high mortality. It usually occurs in the elderly, who frequently suffer a wide variety of comorbidities. To lower mortality, it is advocated that in the elderly co-morbid patient, non-invasive options of stone extraction should be trialled as the treatment option of first choice.
Antipodean agricultural and resource economics at 60: agricultural innovation
Creators: name: Alston, Julian M.
name: Pardey, Philip G.
name: Alston, Julian M.
name: Pardey, Philip G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: agricultural transition
subject: productivity
subject: R&D
subject: technology

description: Innovation in agriculture – itself an innovation some 10,000 years ago – is at the centre of many economic and social issues, either as a cause of problems or a solution to them. From the beginning, but especially over the past 150 years, innovation has transformed agriculture and in doing so has contributed to the transformation of whole economies. The consequences have been profoundly important for lives and livelihoods, generally favourable, but almost always with some undesirable consequences for at least some people. Economic and policy issues arise because agricultural research is subject to various market failures, because the resulting innovations and technological changes have important economic consequences for net income and its distribution among individuals and among factors of production, and because the consequences are difficult to discern and attribute among causes. These issues have been studied by economists and documented in the literature on the economics of innovation in agriculture that began as such in the 1950s, around the time of the creation of the Australian Agricultural Economics Society. Members of that nascent society were early contributors to this emerging field of study and have played disproportionately significant roles in it over the ensuing decades.
Highly connected infinite digraphs without edge-disjoint back and forth paths between a certain vertex pair
Creators: name: Joó, Attila
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We construct for all $ k\in \mathbb{N} $ a $ k $-edge-connected digraph $ D $ with $ s,t\in V(D) $ such that there are no edge-disjoint $ s \rightarrow t $ and $t\rightarrow s $ paths. We use in our construction "self-similar" graphs which technique could be useful in other problems as well.
description: 4 pages
The Recent Trends in Personal Income Taxation in Poland and in the UK
Creators: name: Heimann, Beata
Publisher: name: Universität Bremen
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: -
subject: 330

description: Income taxation raises complex and interesting issues as it may affect individual's savings, work and attitudes towards risk-taking; it also affects the distribution of incomes after tax and before tax - all these questions that are central to the design of tax systems. The concern about the design of the tax system is the same concern that underlines the discussion of striking the correct balance between equity and efficiency, and in particular the problem of minimising excess burden while achieving a socially desirable redistribution of income. In this paper I seek to use economic analysis to examine the Polish and British personal income tax in the last two decades. I try to do this by comparing each part of the tax and examine them using theoretical analysis. In spite of the fact that the personal income tax structures in Poland and in the UK were constructed and developed under different economic conditions, the aim of this paper is to identify some common trends in the personal income taxation in both countries on the example of the reforms introduced in the past and some governmental proposals for the future changes in Poland and in the UK. I also try to answer the question whether the reforms in the personal income tax in Poland and in the UK in the past have provided for equity, certainty, convenience and efficiency.
Khanyo_Digital Born items
Creators: name: Mjikwa, Khanyo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310901
subject: Animal behaviour
classificationCode: 470407
subject: Language documentation and description
classificationCode: 470102
subject: Communication technology and digital media studies
classificationCode: 310914
subject: Vertebrate biology

description: AI-Generated Digital Image of a Blue Bird on a Branch:This digital image features a vivid blue bird perched on a slender branch, surrounded by lush green leaves. The bird's feathers glisten under the sunlight, showcasing a gradient of rich blues and subtle hints of iridescent hues. The background is softly blurred, emphasizing the bird's vibrant colors and intricate details, such as its delicate beak and sparkling eyes. This artwork, generated by artificial intelligence, exemplifies the capabilities of modern technology in creating lifelike representations of nature. As a digital-born item, it exists solely in a digital format, allowing for easy sharing and distribution across various online platforms, typically saved in a format like .jpeg or .png.Screenshot of an Email:This digital item captures a screenshot of an email as it appears on a computer screen. The image displays the email interface, showcasing key elements such as the sender's name, recipient's address, subject line, and the body of the message. The layout preserves the original formatting, including any attachments or embedded images. The screenshot retains all visual details, such as the date and time the email was sent, as well as any icons or labels, providing an accurate representation of the email's appearance at the moment it was captured. As a digital-born item, this screenshot exists in a file format like .png or .jpg, making it easy to share and archive, while maintaining the integrity of the original digital communication.
Periodic orbits of planets in binary systems
Creators: name: Voyatzis, George
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Periodic solutions of the three body problem are very important for understanding its dynamics either in a theoretical framework or in various applications in celestial mechanics. In this paper we discuss the computation and continuation of periodic orbits for planetary systems. The study is restricted to coplanar motion. Staring from known results of two-planet systems around single stars, we perform continuation of solutions with respect to the mass and approach periodic orbits of single planets in two-star systems. Also, families of periodic solutions can be computed for fixed masses of the primaries. When they are linearly stable, we can conclude about the existence of phase space domains of long-term orbital stability.
Design, operation and strengthening of health practitioner regulation systems: review protocol
Creators: name: Lin, Vivian
name: Balasubramanian, Madhan
name: Short, Stephane Doris
name: Bourgeault, Ivy
name: Anne-Louise Carlton
name: Leslie, Kathleen
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: accreditation
subject: global guidance
subject: health professionals
subject: health workforce
subject: international migration
subject: licensing
subject: national registration
subject: occupational regulation
subject: professional competencies
subject: rapid review
subject: regulation
subject: regulatory framework
subject: scope of practice
subject: scoping review

description: The purpose of the study is to assist the development of global guidance through a review of evidence on the diversity and performance of health practitioner regulatory systems across various geographic, linguistic, political, and economic systems. The study will examine regulatory approaches, principles, elements, and considerations that best assist WHO Member States to design, deliver and strengthen their health practitioner regulatory systems to better achieve health workforce goals.

A rapid review approach is adopted, with both qualitative and quantitative articles included. Rapid reviews are a type of systematic reviews, where components of a regular systematic review are simplified or made more efficient to produce information in a shorter span of time, but with minimal impact to quality. Published original research articles, reviews, and grey literature will be scanned; integrative synthesis will be used to examine evidence and guide the thematic analysis.

The review will contribute towards an evidence-informed view of health practitioner regulation across the globe and strengthen understanding of the usefulness of various health practitioner regulatory models and approaches across countries with different geographic, linguistic, political, and economic systems.