cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Leukocyte Telomere Length and the Father's Age Enigma: Implications for Population Health and for Life Course
Creators: name: Aviv, Abraham
name: Susser, Ezra S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Epidemiology
Cytology

description: What are the implications for population health of the demographic trend toward increasing paternal age at conception (PAC) in modern societies? We propose that the effects of older PAC are likely to be broad and harmful in some domains of health but beneficial in others. Harmful effects of older PAC have received the most attention. Thus, for example, older PAC is associated with an increased risk of offspring having rare conditions such as achondroplasia and Marfan syndrome, as well as with neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism. However, newly emerging evidence in the telomere field suggests potentially beneficial effects, since older PAC is associated with a longer leukocyte telomere length (LTL) in offspring, and a longer LTL is associated with a reduced risk of atherosclerosis and with increased survival in the elderly. Thus, older PAC may cumulatively increase resistance to atherosclerosis and lengthen lifespan in successive generations of modern humans. In this paper we: (i) introduce these novel findings; (ii) discuss potential explanations for the effect of older PAC on offspring LTL; (iii) draw implications for population health and for life course; (iv) put forth an evolutionary perspective as a context for the multigenerational effects of PAC; and (v) call for broad and intensive research to understand the mechanisms underlying the effects of PAC. We draw together work across a range of disciplines to offer an integrated perspective of this issue.
Finding the bare band: Electron coupling to two phonon modes in potassium-doped graphene on Ir(111)
Creators: name: Pletikosić, Ivo
name: Kralj, Marko
name: Milun, Milorad
name: Pervan, Petar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze renormalization of the pi band of n-doped epitaxial graphene on Ir(111) induced by electron-phonon coupling. Our procedure of extracting the bare band relies on recursive self-consistent refining of the functional form of the bare-band until the convergence. We demonstrate that the components of the self-energy, as well as the spectral intensity obtained from angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (ARPES) show that the renormalization is due to the coupling to two distinct phonon excitations. From the velocity renormalization and an increase of the imaginary part of the self-energy we find the electron-phonon coupling constant to be ~0.2, which is in fair agreement with a previous study of the same system, despite the notable difference in the width of spectroscopic curves. Our experimental results also suggest that potassium intercalated between graphene and Ir(111) does not introduce any additional increase of the quasiparticle scattering rate.
description: accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B
Comparison of the organic rankine cycle and variable phase cycle for low-grade waste heat recovery
Creators: name: Weiss, Doris Karen
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2011

description: Bibliography: p. 103-105
description: Some pages are in colour.
description: There is increasing global interest in the recovery of energy from low temperature streams for which low-grade waste heat (<130°C) is captured to increase the energy efficiency of various facilities. While many sources of this waste heat exist, the challenge to utilize the heat economically still remains. Currently, the most common technology for the capture of low-grade heat is the Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC). ORC is an economically viable technology at temperatures >140°C and the expander units in this temperature range can generate 1 to 2 MW or more. However, for lower temperatures, commercial expanders generally produce a maximum of 500 kW of power. Power generation of 1 MW or greater would normally require several units, but the utilization of many small units is not economical for low temperature energy recovery from large waste heat sources. An alternate technology incorporates an expander based on the variable phase cycle (VPC) that seeks to economically increase the power generation beyond 1 MW from low-grade waste heat sources. To date, comparisons of the two cycles were based on the use of water as the condensing fluid, which keeps parasitic loads to a minimum, however this thesis considers air as the cooling medium. Furthermore, evaluations of ORC performance are usually based on the First and Second Law efficiencies whereas, for an overall comparison of the ORC and VPC, numerous performance parameters need to be considered. This thesis compares the ORC and VPC in the temperature range of 110°C to 140°C for waste heat. The evaluation showed that, in this lower temperature range with air as the cooling medium, the ORC had a smaller parasitic load and higher specific work than the VPC.
L-Dopa and the Albino Riddle: Content of L-Dopa in the Developing Retina of Pigmented and Albino Mice
Creators: name: Roffler-Tarlov, Suzanne
name: Liu, Jin Hong
name: Naumova, Elena N.
name: Bernal-Ayala, Maria Margarita
name: Mason, Carol Ann
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Pathology

description: Background: The absence or deficiency of melanin as in albinos, has detrimental effects on retinal development that include aberrant axonal projections from eye to brain and impaired vision. In pigmented retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), dihydroxyphenalanine (L-Dopa), an intermediate in the synthetic path for melanin, has been hypothesized to regulate the tempo of neurogenesis. The time course of expression of retinal L-Dopa, whether it is harbored exclusively in the RPE, the extent of deficiency in albinos compared to isogenic controls, and whether L-Dopa can be restored if exogenously delivered to the albino have been unknown. Methodology/Principal Findings: L-Dopa and catecholamines including dopamine extracted from retinas of pigmented (C57BL/6J) and congenic albino (C57BL/6J-tyrc2j) mice, were measured throughout development beginning at E10.5 and at maturity. L-Dopa, but not dopamine nor any other catecholamine, appears in pigmented retina as soon as tyrosinase is expressed in RPE at E10.5. In pigmented retina, L-Dopa content increases throughout pre- and postnatal development until the end of the first postnatal month after which it declines sharply. This time course reflects the onset and completion of retinal development. L-Dopa is absent from embryonic albino retina and is greatly reduced in postnatal albino retina compared to pigmented retina. Dopamine is undetectable in both albino and pigmented retinas until after the postnatal expression of the neuronal enzyme tyrosine hydroxylase. If provided to pregnant albino mothers, L-Dopa accumulates in the RPE of the fetuses. Conclusions: L-Dopa in pigmented RPE is most abundant during development after which content declines. This L-Dopa is not converted to dopamine. L-Dopa is absent or at low levels in albino retina and can be restored to the RPE by administration in utero. These findings further implicate L-Dopa as a factor in the RPE that could influence development, and demonstrate that administration of L-Dopa could be a means to rescue developmental abnormalities characteristic of albinos.
Leukocyte nadir as a predictive factor for efficacy of adjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer. Results from the prospective trial SBG 2000–1
Creators: name: Poikonen-Saksela, Paula
name: Lindman, Henrik
name: Asgerdur Sverrisdottir
name: Edlund, Per
name: Villman, Kenneth
name: Nittby, Lena Tennvall
name: Cold, Søren
name: Bechmann, Troels
name: Stenbygaard, Lars
name: Ejlertsen, Bent
name: Andersson, Michael
name: Blomqvist, Carl
name: Bergh, Jonas
name: Ahlgren, Johan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Background: Retrospective studies have suggested that chemotherapy-induced leukopenia is associated with improved recurrence-free or overall survival. The SBG 2000–1 trial was designed to verify the favorable prognosis associated with chemotherapy-induced leukopenia in early breast cancer. Patients not experiencing chemotherapy-induced leukopenia were randomized into standard dosed or individually escalated chemotherapy doses based on the grade of leukopenia after a first standard dose. Patients and methods: 1452 women in Sweden and Denmark with operable node-positive or high-risk node-negative breast cancer aged 18–60 years were recruited to participate in this trial. Participants received a first FEC cycle at standard doses (600/60/600 mg/m2). Patients (n = 1052) with nadir leukopenia grade 0–2 after the first cycle were randomized between either 6 standard FEC or 6 tailored FEC courses with doses of epirubicin and cyclophosphamide escalated during courses 2 and 3 and thereafter aimed at achieving grade 3 leukopenia. Patients with nadir leukopenia grade 3–4 after the first course continued treatment with standard FEC. Results of the randomized comparison has been published previously. The present study focuses on chemotherapy-induced leukopenia as a covariable with outcome in randomized and non-randomized patients. The prognostic value of leukopenia after course 3, was studied in a Cox model adjusted for cumulative doses of epirubicin and cyclophosphamide. The association of chemotherapy-induced leukopenia with prognosis was a preplanned secondary endpoint for this trial. Results: The eight-year distant disease-free survival was 73%, 77%, 78% and 83% for patients with leucocyte nadir grade 0, 1, 2 and 3–4, respectively. Higher degree of leukopenia was highly significantly associated to improved distant disease-free survival (HR 0.84, 95% CI 0.74–0.96, p = .008) and overall survival (HR 0.87 (0.76–0.99, p = .032). Conclusion: This prospective study confirms that chemotherapy-induced leukopenia is a covariable with outcome in primary breast cancer, even after adjustment for chemotherapy doses.
Search for Solar Axions Produced in $p(d,\rm{^3He})A$ Reaction with Borexino Detector
Creators: name: The Borexino Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A search for 5.5-MeV solar axions produced in the $p+d\rightarrow\rm{^3He}+A (5.5 \rm{MeV})$ reaction was performed using the Borexino detector. The Compton conversion of axions to photons, ${\rm A}+e\rightarrow e+γ$; the axio-electric effect, ${\rm A}+e+Z\rightarrow e+Z$; the decay of axions into two photons, ${\rm A}\rightarrow2γ$; and inverse Primakoff conversion on nuclei, ${\rm A}+Z\rightarrowγ+Z$, are considered. Model independent limits on axion-electron ($g_{Ae}$), axion-photon ($g_{Aγ}$), and isovector axion-nucleon ($g_{3AN}$) couplings are obtained: $|g_{Ae}\times g_{3AN}| \leq 5.5\times 10^{-13}$ and $|g_{Aγ}\times g_{3AN}| \leq 4.6\times 10^{-11} \rm{GeV}^{-1}$ at $m_A
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Phys.Rev.D
Public Health Disaster Research: Surveying the Field, Defining its Future
Creators: name: Abramson, David M.
name: Morse, Stephen S.
name: Garrett, Andrew L.
name: Redlener, Irwin E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Public health
Disaster medicine
Emergency management--Research
Disaster relief--Research

description: Disaster medicine and public health preparedness are commonly perceived as subfields of the larger fields of medicine and public health rather than being recognized as an emerging academic field embracing all of the disciplines that contribute to effective disaster response. As such, they serve as appropriate subjects for multidisciplinary work in the social sciences, whether it is a sociological analysis of mass behavior during a disaster, psychological studies of the willingness to work of various workforces, or organizational theory or network analyses applied to ad hoc disaster coalitions. Laboratory sciences and bioinformatics contribute as well to the development of new treatment modalities, medical products, and surveillance technologies. As is true in the broader medical and public health fields, much of the work is empirical and evaluative. In this article, the authors survey the literature in the field and suggest that broader, more ecologically based research is needed.
title: The grey areas conundrums in the Fleischner Society diagnosis criteria for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Creators: name: Veiga, José Manuel
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Education and training
subject: Education
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: CT
subject: Thorax
subject: Respiratory system
subject: Lung
subject: Chest

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To analyze and exemplify the grey areas between the 4 categories of usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) CT patterns in the diagnosis criteria for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis according to the Fleischner Society White Paper. Define the practical...
Children as Bellwethers of Recovery: Dysfunctional Systems and the Effects of Parents, Households, and Neighborhoods on Serious Emotional Disturbance in Children After Hurricane Katrina
Creators: name: Abramson, David M.
name: Park, Yoon Soo
name: Stehling-Ariza, Tasha
name: Redlener, Irwin E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Child disaster victims
Disaster victims--Mental health
Disaster victims--Psychological aspects
Hurricane Katrina (2005)

description: Background:  Over 160 000 children were displaced from their homes after Hurricane Katrina. Tens of thousands of these children experienced the ongoing chaos and uncertainty of displacement and transiency, as well as significant social disruptions in their lives. The objectives of this study were to estimate the long-term mental health effects of such exposure among children, and to elucidate the systemic pathways through which the disaster effect operates. Methods:  The prevalence of serious emotional disturbance was assessed among 283 school-aged children in Louisiana and Mississippi. These children are part of the Gulf Coast Child & Family Health Study, involving a longitudinal cohort of 1079 randomly sampled households in the two states, encompassing a total of 427 children, who have been interviewed in 4 annual waves of data collection since January 2006. The majority of data for this analysis was drawn from the fourth round of data. Results:  Although access to medical care for children has expanded considerably since 2005 in the region affected by Hurricane Katrina, more than 37% of children have received a clinical mental health diagnosis of depression, anxiety, or behavior disorder, according to parent reports. Children exposed to Hurricane Katrina were nearly 5 times as likely as a pre-Katrina cohort to exhibit serious emotional disturbance. Path analyses confirm the roles played by neighborhood social disorder, household stressors, and parental limitations on children's emotional and behavioral functioning. Conclusions:  Children and youth are particularly vulnerable to the effects of disasters. They have limited capacity to independently mobilize resources to help them adapt to stressful postdisaster circumstances, and are instead dependent upon others to make choices that will influence their household, neighborhood, school, and larger social environment. Children's mental health recovery in a postdisaster setting can serve as a bellwether indicator of successful recovery or as a lagging indicator of system dysfunction and failed recovery.
EKOLOGIK SUG'URTANING ATROF-MUHITNI MUHOFAZA QILISHNING IQTISODIY MEXANIZMI SIFATIDAGI O'RNI
Creators: name: Egamov, Otabek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Har qanday mamlakat taraqqiyoti va jahon hamjamiyatida tutgan o'rni ekologik qonunchilik sohasini rivojlantirish bilan chambarchas bog'liq bo'ladi. Qaysi mamlakatda ekologik qonunchilik yaxshi rivojlangan va uning ijrosi ta'minlangan bo'lsa, bu davlatning boshqa sohalari ham jadal rivojlanadi. Ushbu tezisda ekologik sug'urtaning atrof-muhitni muhofaza qilishdagi, xususan uning iqtisodiy mexanizm sifatidagi o'rni haqida so'z yuritiladi.
title: The M.A.G.I.C. approach to thoracic lymph node enlargement
Creators: name: Veiga, José Manuel
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chest
subject: Lung
subject: Lymph nodes
subject: Mediastinum
subject: CT
subject: Education
subject: Education and training
subject: Not applicable

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Review the criteria for thoracic lymph node enlargement in Computed Tomography (CT). Organize and simplify the radiologists’ approach to incidental thoracic lymph node enlargement, using the acronym M.A.G.I.C.. Explore additional features in chest...
title: Defining an integrated interdisciplinary approach: I-WATER fellows address challenges confronting freshwater resources
title: Hydrology days 2013
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: AGU hydrology days 2013
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Carlson, Erick
name: Harrison-Atlas, Dylan
name: Lynch, Laurel
name: Medina, Isaac
name: Martin, David
name: Maas, Alex
name: Miner, Grace Lloyd
name: Sholtes, Joel
name: Sutfin, Nick
name: Colorado State University, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2013

description: 2013 annual AGU hydrology days was held at Colorado State University on March 25 - March 27, 2013.
description: Includes bibliographical references.
description: Defining an integrated interdisciplinary approach: I-WATER fellows address challenges confronting freshwater resources.
Amphiprion barberi, a new species of anemonefish (Pomacentridae) from Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa
Creators: name: Allen, Gerald R.
name: Drew, Joshua Adam
name: Kaufman, Les
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biology

description: Amphiprion barberi, a new species of anemonefish fish, is described from 46 specimens, 16.3-85.8 mm SL, collected at depths of 2-10 m from coral reefs of Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa. It is closely allied to A. melanopus, which is widely distributed in the western Pacific. The two species exhibit significant colour-pattern differences, including a mainly reddish orange body in A. barberi and dark brown or blackish body in A. melanopus. Adults of the new species also possess fewer spinules (11-19 versus 19-26) in the upper-opercular series than A. melanopus. Genetic data presented here confirms the separation of these species.
title: Diagnosis of mucoid degeneration of the anterior cruciate ligament. Is it relevant?
Creators: name: Menéndez Fernández-Miranda, Pablo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal
subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: MR
subject: Education
subject: Education and training
subject: Not applicable
subject: Observational
subject: Not applicable

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: The aim of this presentation is to assess the extent to which a precise and detailed diagnosis of mucoid degeneration of the anterior cruciate ligament is clinically relevant. To achieve this objective, we provide data on prevalence and distribution...
The future of national news agencies in Europe - Case study 3: The changing relationship between news agencies and the state
Creators: name: Juntunen, Laura
name: Nieminen, Hannu
Publisher: name: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: P Philology. Linguistics

description: The case study analyses the relationship between the European news agencies and the state. On the basis of interviews, official documents and secondary sources, the article analyses the recent developments in the state relationship in a sample of four countries – Finland, France, Poland and Spain – representing different kinds of media systems. While the evolution of the state relationship has been unique in each country, they are all bound by the competition rules of the European Union and the challenges that the agencies face are similar. In general, the European news agencies are struggling to keep their basic news services profitable. We argue that, in the age of fake-news and disinformation, the social and democratic value of these news services is much larger than the economic value for the owners. From the democracy perspective, these services can be understood as a public good and, therefore, subsidizing contents that have high information value can be in the public interest if certain preconditions are met. At the same time, safeguarding the editorial and, in particular, the structural independence of the agencies against political control is essential.
On the Induced Gravitational Collapse of a Neutron Star to a Black Hole by a Type Ib/c Supernova
Creators: name: Rueda, Jorge A.
name: Ruffini, Remo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is understood that the Supernovae (SNe) associated to Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are of type Ib/c. The temporal coincidence of the GRB and the SN represents still a major enigma of Relativistic Astrophysics. We elaborate here, from the earlier paradigm, that the concept of induced gravitational collapse is essential to explain the GRB-SN connection. The specific case of a close (orbital period <1 h) binary system composed of an evolved star with a Neutron Star (NS) companion is considered. We evaluate the accretion rate onto the NS of the material expelled from the explosion of the core progenitor as a type Ib/c SN, and give the explicit expression of the accreted mass as a function of the nature of the components and binary parameters. We show that the NS can reach, in a few seconds, the critical mass and consequently gravitationally collapses to a Black Hole. This gravitational collapse process leads to the emission of the GRB.
description: ApJ Letters; in press
Wide-scale comparison of transcriptome data and the role of microRNA in major depression and suicide
Creators: name: Lim, Raymond
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The first chapter of this thesis addresses a common problem in genomics experiments: interpreting a resulting "hit list" of interesting genes. We present work on an approach for summarizing and exploring "hit lists" that makes use of the large amount of gene expression data in public repositories such as the Gene Expression Omnibus. We compare the query list with datasets that we have analyzed for differential expression of genes. Studies that have similarities to the given hit list yield additional insights, help contextualize studies, and serve as a basis for future meta-analysis. A conceptually similar problem that we addressed is the classification or clustering of datasets based on patterns of differential expression. Both problems required a method for determining distances between datasets based on rankings of genes. We tested and benchmarked several methods using manually annotated datasets. The method that performed best according to our evaluation process is based on Kendall's Tau top-k distance. We investigated potential sources of confounds, finding that the largest challenge may be posed by the high prevalence of certain gene expression patterns. These highly prevalent patterns tended to dominate search results. Nonetheless, we demonstrated the effectiveness of this approach in a case study. In the second chapter, we investigated the role of microRNAs in the context of major depression and suicide. We profiled microRNA and messenger RNA levels in post-mortem prefrontal cortex and hippocampus brain tissue of depressed suicides, suicides, and controls. In the prefrontal cortex, we found miR-1202 to be down-regulated in suicides versus controls, and LCT (lactase enzyme) was up-regulated in suicides or depressed suicides compared to controls. The former result was independently confirmed using quantitative PCR. While further study is needed, our results have the potential to provide insight into molecular changes in the brains of depressed and suicidal individuals.
Assessing how Policies enable or constrain the Resilience of Farming Systems in the European Union: the Resilience Assessment Tool (ResAT)
Creators: name: Termeer, Katiren
name: Candel, Jeroen
name: Feindt, Peter
name: Buitenhuis, Yannick
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: The Resilience Assessment Tool (ResAT) assesses whether policy goals and instruments encourage, enable, tolerate or constrain farmers’ resilience enhancing strategies and resources. In the first step, the ResAT will be used to analyse and evaluate whether and how the CAP, its implementation in the eleven member states of our case studies, and additional relevant national policies address and support the resilience of farming systems.
description: EU; en; contact: katrien.termeer@wur.nl
Hegel, Hermeneutics, Politics: A Reply to Charles Taylor
Creators: name: West, Cornel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: The increasing interest in Hegel among legal scholars can be attributed to three recent
developments. First, there is a slow but sure historicist turn in legal studies that is unsettling legal formalists and positivists. This turn—initiated by legal realists decades ago and deepened by the Critical Legal Studies movement in our own time—radically calls into question objectivist claims about procedure, due process, and the liberal view of law. Second, there are a growing number of serious reexaminations of the basic assumptions and fundamental presuppositions of dominant forms of liberalism not only among critics but also by many prominent liberal thinkers themselves.
These reexaminations take the form of immanent critiques of liberalism as well as creative revisions of liberalism. Third, a new emerging subject matter has seized the imagination of some legal theorists: the complex cultures of liberal societies (including the subcultures of the liberal legal academy). For the first time in American legal studies, the crucial roles of race and especially gender are receiving wide attention as legitimate spheres of legal inquiry into what constitutes the ways of life that circumscribe the operations of power in the legal systems of liberal societies.
title: Gewässerschutz im Donauraum
Creators: name: Fleckseder, Hellmut
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 1997
Subjects: Donau
Donaueinzugsgebiet
Schwarzes Meer
Einzugsgebiet zum Schwarzen Meer
Gewässerschutz

description: Ziel dieses Beitrages ist es, einerseits einen gerafften Überblick über den Donauraum und seine derzeit erkennbaren Gewässerschutzprobleme zu geben, dabei aber auch die Einbindung des Donauraumes in das Entwässerungsnetz hin zum Schwarzen Meer nicht zu vergessen. Dem Thema gemäß ist daher dieser Beitrag in eine das Donaueinzugsgebiet betreffende Darstellung, in eine deutlich kürzere bezüglich des Schwarzen Meeres, in einen Überblick zum multilateralen Zusammenwirken im Bereich von Wasser / Gewässer mit dem Schwerpunkt Gewässerschutz im Donauraum, in eine Zwischenbilanz unter Aufnahme weiterer Aspekte (die jedoch nicht ausreichend begründet werden), in die Frage, ob man aus der 'Geschichte' lernen kann (und ob daher auch die Erfahrungen anderer für die Entscheidungsprozesse im Donauraum nutzbar gemacht werden können), sowie in die Frage, wie es denn im Donauraum weitergehen könnte, gegliedert. Diese umfangreichen Fragen und Probleme können nur angerissen werden, und es wäre vermessen, dezidierte Lösungen vorzuschlagen. Diese sind immer noch vorrangig von den Menschen im Donauraum selber zu entscheiden. Der Schwerpunkt der Darstellung liegt dabei beim fachlichen Teil (ohne in wesentliche Einzelheiten eintreten zu können), aber ohne ein kurzes 'Streifen' auch der geopolitischen Bedingungen würde die Lage im Donauraum mißverstanden werden.
Forward-backward asymmetry in top quark-antiquark production
Creators: name: D0 Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a measurement of forward-backward asymmetry in top quark-antiquark production in proton-antiproton collisions in the final state containing a lepton and at least four jets. Using a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $5.4\,\mathrm {fb}^{-1}$, collected by the \DZ\ experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider, we measure the \ttbar\ forward-backward asymmetry to be $(9.2 \pm 3.7)$% at the reconstruction level. When corrected for detector acceptance and resolution, the asymmetry is found to be $(19.6 \pm 6.5)$%. We also measure a corrected asymmetry based on the lepton from a top quark decay, found to be $(15.2 \pm 4.0)$%. The results are compared to predictions based on the next-to-leading-order QCD generator {\sc mc@nlo}. The sensitivity of the measured and predicted asymmetries to the modeling of gluon radiation is discussed.
Additional file 3 of Health-related quality of life in young adults born small for gestational age: a prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Mehl, Cathrin Vano
name: Hollund, Ingrid Marie Husby
name: Iversen, Johanne Marie
name: Lydersen, Stian
name: Mork, Paul Jarle
name: Kajantie, Eero
name: Evensen, Kari Anne I.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 3: Table A3 Health-related quality of life in participants born SGA at term and controls at 28 years
title: Hydrological determination of hierarchical clustering scheme by using small experimental matrix
title: Hydrology days 2007
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: AGU hydrology days 2007
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Demirel, M. Cüneyd
name: Kahya, Ercan
name: Colorado State University, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2007

description: 2007 annual AGU hydrology days was held at Colorado State University on March 19 - March 21, 2007.
description: Includes bibliographical references.
description: In this investigation we tested the performance of five available hierarchical clustering algorithms and nine distance metrics. An arbitrarily chosen experimental matrix (6x3) was used in this analysis to evaluate 45 clustering schemes using the dendrogram and cophonet coefficient index. Priori knowledge of cluster dispersion was the key element to determine non-useful cluster structures. The combination of Euclidean metric and Wards method is most preferred to define homogenous clusters in hydrological studies; however, the combination of Mahalanobis metric and Average Linkage method emerged with a higher cophonet index (0.90420). The most efficient grouping was achieved by the use of City Block and Euclidean metrics in all combinations while the other distance metrics resulted in a non-interpretable dendrogram. Major dendrogram plots and the cophonet index values are presented for visual comparison.
The Role of Law in Progressive Politics
Creators: name: West, Cornel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: What is the role and function of the law in contemporary progressive politics? Do legal
institutions represent crucial terrain on which significant social change can take place? If so, how? In what ways? How can progressive lawyers remain relatively true to their moral convictions and political goals?
title: Radiological manifestations of cerebral venous thrombosis
Creators: name: GARCIA-MONCO  FERNÁNDEZ, CARLOS
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Not applicable
subject: Retrospective
subject: Embolism / Thrombosis
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: MR
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT
subject: Vascular
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: CNS
subject: Neuro

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To present the direct and indirect signs of cerebral venous thrombosis in the different imaging...
title: A 131, Quo vadis?
Creators: name: Kayser, R.
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 1997
Subjects: Belebungsanlagen
Bemessung
Bemessungsgrundlage
Nitrifikation
Stickstoffelimination
CSB-Bilanz

description: Kläranlagen, die nach dem ATV Arbeitsblatt A 131 von 1991 bemessen worden sind, enthalten gewisse Reserven, dadurch sind aber die Ablaufkonzentrationen insbesondere des Stickstoffs meist besser als erwartet. Zur Novellierung wird erwogen, die Sicherheiten zu beziffern sowie auch eine Bemessung auf der Basis des CSB einzuführen. Bedacht werden sollte dabei, daß das Arbeitsblatt auch in anderen europäischen Ländern mit zum Teil andersartiger Wassergesetzgebung und Überwachungsstrategie angewendet werden kann. Für größere Kläranlagen sollte die dynamische Simulation zur Ermittlung der Schwankungsbreite der Ablaufkonzentrationen von Nitrat und Ammonium genutzt werden, ggf. sind danach Korrekturen an der Anlagenkonfiguration vorzunehmen. Auch der Spitzenbedarf des Sauerstoffs ergibt sich dabei zwangsläufig. Dies erfordert jedoch umfangreichere Untersuchungen der Belastung.
A mesoscopic model for microscale hydrodynamics and interfacial phenomena: Slip, films, and contact angle hysteresis
Creators: name: Colosqui, Carlos E.
name: Kavousanakis, Michail E.
name: Papathanasiou, Athanasios G.
name: Kevrekidis, Ioannis G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a model based on the lattice Boltzmann equation that is suitable for the simulation of dynamic wetting. The model is capable of exhibiting fundamental interfacial phenomena such as weak adsorption of fluid on the solid substrate and the presence of a thin surface film within which a disjoining pressure acts. Dynamics in this surface film, tightly coupled with hydrodynamics in the fluid bulk, determine macroscopic properties of primary interest: the hydrodynamic slip; the equilibrium contact angle; and the static and dynamic hysteresis of the contact angles. The pseudo- potentials employed for fluid-solid interactions are composed of a repulsive core and an attractive tail that can be independently adjusted. This enables effective modification of the functional form of the disjoining pressure so that one can vary the static and dynamic hysteresis on surfaces that exhibit the same equilibrium contact angle. The modeled solid-fluid interface is diffuse, represented by a wall probability function which ultimately controls the momentum exchange between solid and fluid phases. This approach allows us to effectively vary the slip length for a given wettability (i.e. the static contact angle) of the solid substrate.
title: Percutaneous thoraco-lumbar vertebral access under CT and fluoroscopic guidance: a survival guide.
Creators: name: Pavan, Luca Jacopo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Not applicable
subject: Image verification
subject: Vertebroplasty
subject: Biopsy
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: CT
subject: Neuroradiology spine
subject: Musculoskeletal spine
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Interventional Radiology

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To explain how to choose a proper vertebral access under combined CT and fluoroscopic guidance in tricky situations, such as vertebroplasty, kyphoplasty and...
Bembix oculata PANZER 1801
Creators: name: Madl, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Crabronidae
Bembix
Bembix oculata

description: Bembix oculata PANZER, 1801
Bembex oculata JURINE (!): WALKER 1871a: 24 (Tadjoura).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Tadjoura.
Bembix oculata is recorded from the Afrotropical (Djibouti, Sudan) and Palaearctic (e.g. Oman, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates) regions. The record from Djibouti is not mentioned in HANDLIRSCH (1893: 854-58), DE DALLA TORRE (1897: 509-510), INNES BEY (1911: 112) and BOHART & MENKE (1976: 547).
description: Published as part of Madl, Michael, 2018, A preliminary catalogue of the Hymenoptera (Insecta) of the Republic of Djibouti, pp. 907-967 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2) on page 939, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3776452
Supporting international students with first year transition into Canadian universities: recommendations from Atlantic Canada
Creators: name: Leary, Tamara A.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2011

description: Bibliography: p. 155-169
description: Includes copy of ethics approval. Original copy with original Partial Copyright Licence.
description: Transitioning into the first year of university can be an exciting and challenging time for many students. It can be an especially difficult experience for international students adapting to not only the newness of post-secondary education but also to a foreign culture. Current research reflects an interest in understanding the trends and challenges for international university students attending foreign universities (Edgeworth & Eiseman, 2007; Gu, Schweisfurth & Day, 2010; Huang, 2008; Ninnes, Aitchsion, & Kalos, 1999; Ren, Bryan, Min, & Wei, 2007; Rosenthal, Russell, & Thomson, 2008; Taras & Rowney, 2007; Wang, Singh, Bird, & Ives, 2008); however, less attention is given to understanding how post-secondary institutions are responding to this research from a services' perspective. This study describes the current state of practice in Atlantic Canada related to the provision of services for first year international students. It outlines and recommends a framework for supporting international students with the transition into first year university.
Inviscid incompressible limits of the full Navier-Stokes-Fourier system
Creators: name: Feireisl, Eduard
name: Novotny, Antonin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider the full Navier-Stokes-Fourier system in the singular limit for the small Mach and large Reynolds and Peclet numbers, with ill prepared initial data on the three dimensional Euclidean space. The Euler-Boussinesq approximation is identified as the limit system.
Telomeres shorten at equivalent rates in somatic tissues of adults
Creators: name: Daniali, Lily
name: Kark, Jeremy D.
name: Susser, Ezra S.
name: Benetos, Athanase
name: Labat, Carlos
name: Kimura, Masayuki
name: Desai, Kunji
name: Granick, Mark
name: Aviv, Abraham
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Epidemiology
Cytology

description: Telomere shortening in somatic tissues largely reflects stem cell replication. Previous human studies of telomere attrition were predominantly conducted on leukocytes. However, findings in leukocytes cannot be generalized to other tissues. Here we measure telomere length in leukocytes, skeletal muscle, skin and subcutaneous fat of 87 adults (aged 19–77 years). Telomeres are longest in muscle and shortest in leukocytes, yet are strongly correlated between tissues. Notably, the rates of telomere shortening are similar in the four tissues. We infer from these findings that differences in telomere length between proliferative (blood and skin) and minimally proliferative tissues (muscle and fat) are established during early life, and that in adulthood, stem cells of the four tissues replicate at a similar rate.
A field study of thermal comfort with radiant heating
Creators: name: Garcia-San Roman, Susana
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2011

description: Bibliography: p. 119-122
description: Many pages are in colour.
description: Includes copy of ethics approval. Original copy with original Partial Copyright Licence.
description: Large surface radiant heating and cooling systems have emerged as a less energy intensive alternative to conventional air-based and high-temperature small surface thermal control systems, reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated with building operations. Some authors claim radiant systems also improve thermal comfort. Empirical demonstration of potential improvements is crucial to allow designers to evaluate and select new technologies based on field evidence. The SAIT Tower student residence appears to be the first large building in the world equipped with a radiant wall heating system. Occupant thermal comfort was evaluated with questionnaires and concurrent field measurements. While the comfort model predicted about 13 % dissatisfied for the 31 suites surveyed, about 26 % of the occupants voted outside the comfort range, while the ASHRAE comfort standartd limit is 20%.
Occupational identity : narratives of Asian internationally trained professionals' experiences
Creators: name: Hung, Mandy
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Although many immigrants in Canada are Internationally Trained Professionals (ITPs), possessing substantial skills, credentials, and experience, a significant portion of these immigrants cannot practice in the field of their qualifications. The purpose of this research was to examine the narratives of how Asian ITPs experience their occupational identity through the transition in their career and immigration. Existing research on ITPs has examined issues such as barriers to professional employment, and the psychological and social effects of unemployment and underemployment, and has yet to look at the concept of occupational identity (Aycan & Berry, 1996; Basran & Zong, 1998; Lev-Wiesel & Kaufman, 2004; Valenta, 2008). On the other hand, studies that have focused on identity changes through work role transitions have yet to focus specifically on ITPs. Therefore, I interviewed eight Asian ITPs who identified as being unemployed or underemployed to explore their stories around the experience of their occupational identity. Using an adapted version of the life story interview, the participants and I co-constructed the narratives of their “career life” in a semi-structured interview format. This resulted in chronological summaries of each participant’s career life story, demonstrating the struggles and changes in the Asian ITPs’ narration of the self throughout their career. There were common themes pertaining to the transitional experience across the eight Asian ITPs’ narratives, including immigration to improve quality of life, from the peak of a career to the beginning again, level of agency and hope, and professional identity maintenance. The results are discussed in terms of its relevance and expansion from the literature, its limitations, along with its implications for counselling and future research directions.
Recopilación de datos de Factores de riesgo para el consumo de tabaco en adolescentes del CMF No. 45. Policlínico Docente Universitario René Vallejo Ortiz de Bayamo, provincia Granma, Cuba
Creators: name: Suárez Benitez, Yunnier
name: Fonseca Martínez, Beatriz Alicia
name: Torres Cardoso, Sucel
name: Alarcón Macias, María del Rosario
name: Galloso Llovet, Ilendis Sucell
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Recopilación de datos de Factores de riesgo para el consumo de tabaco en adolescentes, un estudio realizado en pacientes del CMF No. 45. Policlínico Docente Universitario René Vallejo Ortiz de Bayamo, provincia Granma, Cuba, en el periodo enero a diciembre de 2022, con el objetivo de determinar los principales factores de riesgo que influyen en el consumo de tabaco en los adolescentes pertenecientes a esta unidad de salud.
Randomised, cross-over trial on the effect of isotonic and isometric exercise on pain and strength in proximal hamstring tendinopathy: trial protocol
Creators: name: Rich, Aidan
name: Cook, Jillianne
name: Hahne, Andrew
name: Rio, Ebonie
name: Ford, Jon
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3202
subject: Clinical sciences
classificationCode: 4201
subject: Allied health and rehabilitation science

description: Background: Proximal hamstring tendinopathy (PHT) is a condition that occurs at all ages and levels of sporting participation. Presenting as localised lower buttock pain with tasks such as squatting and sitting, it can cause disability with sport, work and other activities of daily living. Recent research has investigated the effect of isometric exercise on pain and strength with a range of tendinopathies but there are no published studies on PHT. This protocol paper details a study investigating the effectiveness of isometric compared with isotonic exercise on pain and strength in people with PHT.Methods/DesignThe study is a prospective, cross-over randomised controlled trial (RCT). Twenty participants with PHT, recruited from the local community and sporting clubs will be recruited for the study. Participants will receive one session of isotonic hamstring strength exercises and one session of isometric hamstring exercise, with random allocation to the order of intervention.Primary outcomes will be hamstring strength measured with a dynamometer and pain with a functional task, assessed immediately following and 45 min after intervention. A secondary outcome will be pain with sitting assessed 24 hours after intervention.The effect of isotonic versus isometric exercise on hamstring pain and strength will be determined using a repeated measures linear mixed model. Further analyses will determine the proportion of patients with clinically important pain and strength improvements, using relative risks, χ2 testing and number needed to treat.DiscussionThis RCT protocol will investigate the effect of isometric compared with isotonic exercise for PHT.