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Virtual Microscopy New, Old, Out, Or Just A Part Of Education
Creators: name: Klempert, Iris
name: Jöhrens, K.
Publisher: name: Diagnostic Pathology
Year: 2016

description: Introduction/ Background
More than six years ago – accompanying the start of the new study program “Modellstudiengang” – we began a virtual microscopy program for our students. This started with slides to accompany the course to use during the lesson and for review of the slides at home (or in the library). But we wanted to go further.

How far have we come?

Aims
Our aim was to provide our students with more benefi- cial information and to increase the amount of material available - in the form of slides and accompanying exercises.

A secondary goal was streamlining the education of our students (fewer slides to manage and better opportuni- ties for students to prepare for lessons).

Methods
The slides were scanned using NanoZoomer 2.0-HT slide scanner.

The virtual slides were made available to students using Slidebox system (version 4.4.3.) in three different ways:We provided annotated slides with healthy (physio- logical) and diseased (pathological) samples to ac- company the entire course. Some of the slides were for use during lessons, others as supplementary material.
• The virtual slides were integrated into a new style of lecture (“blended learning”) mixing learning opportu- nities from case reports, including clinical information; radiological images; and virtual slides. To review acquired knowledge memory-quizzes were used.
• We complement the cases seen in the practical course “Autopsy – How, why, to what end?” with histology. Thus students are able to have a complete overview of the case from clinical history, to macroscopic findings and their correlation with the microscopic findings, to the final report.

Results
Usually the students were suprised, when they first come in contact with the virtual microscopy. But the Initial suprise yields to experimentation and getting used to it.

Virtual microscopy is not only just a part, but an import- ant part of our education.
description: Diagnostic Pathology, Vol 1 No 8 (2016): 13. European Congress on Digital Pathology
A Agenda do Trabalho Digno, a lei e a precariedade
Creators: name: Lamelas, Filipe
name: Rita, Pedro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Resumo:
A Agenda do Trabalho Digno foi apresentada pelo Governo, em 2022, como um conjunto de medidas estratégicas na área laboral destinadas a melhorar as condições de trabalho, constituindo o combate à precariedade um dos seus objetivos prioritários. Tendo por base essa Agenda, a Lei n.º 13/2023, publicada a 3 de abril, trouxe um número expressivo de alterações ao Código do Trabalho, reformulando os regimes legais de matérias frequentemente associadas ao fenómeno da precariedade laboral, como sejam o trabalho temporário ou o trabalho nas plataformas digitais, para nomear apenas alguns dos temas que foram objeto da recente revisão.
Reconhecendo-se a relevância e utilidade de muitas das modificações do regime do Código do Trabalho introduzidas pela Lei n.º 13/2023 para a estabilidade e segurança no emprego, não pode, porém, negar-se que o objetivo do trabalho digno não se encontra concluído com a recente revisão.
 
Abstract:
The Decent Work Agenda was presented by the Government in 2022 as a set of strategic measures in the labour area aimed at improving working conditions, with the fight against labour precariousness as one of its main priorities. Based on this Agenda, Law No. 13/2023, enacted on April 3rd, brought a significant number of changes to the Labour Code, reframing the legal regimes regarding issues fre-quently associated with the phenomenon of labour precariousness, such as tempo-rary work or platform work, to name just a few of the topics that were addressed in this recent review.
Recognizing the relevance and usefulness of many of the changes to the Labour Code introduced by Law No. 13/2023 for job stability and security, it cannot, how-ever, be denied that the goal of decent work is not completed with the recent review.
A New Catalog of HII Regions in M31
Creators: name: Azimlu, Mohaddesseh
name: Marciniak, Ryan
name: Barmby, Pauline
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new catalog of HII regions in M31. The full disk of the galaxy is covered in a 2.2 deg^2 mosaic of 10 fields observed with the Mosaic Camera as part of the Local Group Galaxies survey. We used HIIphot, a code for automated photometry of HII regions, to identify the regions and measure their fluxes and sizes. A 10 σ detection level was used to exclude diffuse gas fluctuations and star residuals after continuum subtraction. That selection limit may result in missing some faint HII regions, but our catalog of 3691 HII regions is still complete to a luminosity of LHα = 10^34 erg/s. This is five times fainter than the only previous CCD-based study which contained 967 objects in the NE half of M31. We determined the Hα luminosity function (LF) by fitting a power law to luminosities larger than LHα = 10^36.7 and determined a slope of 2.52\pm0.07. The in-arm and inter-arm LFs peak at different luminosities but they have similar bright-end slopes. The inter- arm regions are less populated (40% of total detected regions) and constitute only 14% of the total luminosity of LHα = 5.6 /times 10^40 erg/s (after extinction correction and considering 65% contribution from diffused ionized gas). A star formation rate of 0.44 M\odot/yr was estimated from the Hα total luminosity; this value is consistent with the determination from the Spitzer 8 μm image. We removed all known and potential planetary nebulae, yet we found a double peaked luminosity function. The inter-arm older population suggests a starburst between 15 and 20 million years ago. This result is in agreement with UV studies of the star formation history in M31 which found a star formation rate decrease in the recent past. We found a fair spatial correlation between the HII regions and stellar clusters in selected star forming regions. Most of the matched regions lie within the arm regions.
description: accepted to be published at AJ
The Use Of Smartphones As Adjuvant Tool In Cervical Cytologic Diagnosis
Creators: name: Ali, Leila
name: Moldovan, Valentin Tiberiu
name: Sajin, M.
Publisher: name: Diagnostic Pathology
Year: 2016

description: Introduction/ Background
Cervical cancer is still one of the world’s deadliest forms of cancer for women, and the Pap smear remains the main screening test for prevention and early detection. Pap test is convenient and inexpensive, but, as was reported, there are variation in the sensitivity and specificity. Current smartphones allow the acquiring and transmission of static digital images, representing a cost efficient form of telepathology.

Aims
We report our experience in using smartphones and an instant messaging application to improve the cytologic diagnosis by teleconsultation.

Methods
The samples were conventional Pap smear and liquid base cytology slides. The images were taken by two of the authors, both junior pathologists, with the use of a Samsung Galaxy S3 Neo smartphone (8 MP, autofocus, Digital image stabilization) and a Zeiss PrimoStar micro- scope (415500-0057-000), 10x objective. We used the instant messaging application features to take the pic- tures and instantly send them to our fellow pathologist (if the images were resolution and focus suitable), then discuss the images in real time, using the chat optionsof the phone application. After reviewing the images together, and reaching to a conclusion, the images were submitted to an experienced pathologist in the same manner. They were reviewed a second time, and the results compared.

Results
The most common diagnosis we discussed on was ASC-US (19 cases), followed by L-SIL (6 cases) and NILM (5 cases). After we analysed and compared the data, we found that the time frame for diagnosis has improved. For the cases with divergent opinion we asked a third opinion to a colleague for the difficult cases. Conse- quently a senior pathologist review the glass slides and we compared the results with the digital diagnosis. The camera resolution was not limitative in this case, the used field power being 10x, thus the resolution and de- tails were not impaired by the smartphone camera and instant messaging app limitations. Comparing our expe- rience with the interobserver agreement on ASCUS and LSIL categories on glass slides we consider ‘smartphone’ pathology a useful tool. The use of smartphones allows junior pathologists to transmit Pap test consultations to senior pathologists and to ask for second opinions among fellow colleagues, improving costly effective the diagnosis accuracy.
description: Diagnostic Pathology, Vol 1 No 8 (2016): 13. European Congress on Digital Pathology
ILexicOn: toward an ECD-compliant interlingual lexical ontology described with semantic web formalisms
Creators: name: Lefrançois, Maxime
name: Gandon, Fabien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We are interested in bridging the world of natural language and the world of the semantic web in particular to support natural multilingual access to the web of data. In this paper we introduce a new type of lexical ontology called interlingual lexical ontology (ILexicOn), which uses semantic web formalisms to make each interlingual lexical unit class (ILUc) support the projection of its semantic decomposition on itself. After a short overview of existing lexical ontologies, we briefly introduce the semantic web formalisms we use. We then present the three layered architecture of our approach: i) the interlingual lexical meta-ontology (ILexiMOn); ii) the ILexicOn where ILUcs are formally defined; iii) the data layer. We illustrate our approach with a standalone ILexicOn, and introduce and explain a concise human-readable notation to represent ILexicOns. Finally, we show how semantic web formalisms enable the projection of a semantic decomposition on the decomposed ILUc.
Erasing Quantum Distinguishability via Single-Mode Filtering
Creators: name: Patel, Monika
name: Altepeter, Joseph B.
name: Huang, Yu-Ping
name: Oza, Neal N.
name: Kumar, Prem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Erasing quantum-mechanical distinguishability is of fundamental interest and also of practical importance, particularly in subject areas related to quantum information processing. We demonstrate a method applicable to optical systems in which single-mode filtering is used with only linear optical instruments to achieve quantum indistinguishability. Through "heralded" Hong-Ou-Mandel interference experiments we measure and quantify the improvement of indistinguishability between single photons generated via spontaneous four-wave mixing in optical fibers. The experimental results are in excellent agreement with predictions of a quantum-multimode theory we develop for such systems, without the need for any fitting parameter.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Pengaruh Academic Self-Efficacy Terhadap Student Engagement Pada Mahasiswa Fakultas Psikologi Universitas Negeri Makassar
Creators: name: Dian Eka Putri, M. Ahkam Alwi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This research aims to determine the influence of academic self-efficacy on student engagement among students at the Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Negeri Makassar. The respondents in this research were 408 active students from the Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Negeri Makassar who were programming or taking lectures offline. The instruments used in this research were the academic self-efficacy scale and the student engagement scale. The data in this study were analyzed using simple regression analysis techniques. The results of data analysis found that there was a positive influence of Academic Self-Efficacy on Student Engagement among Students at the Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Negeri Makassar. This indicates that the higher the academic self-efficacy, the higher the student engagement among students. Conversely, the lower the academic self-efficacy, the lower the student involvement in students. The implication of this research is that it can contribute to the development of knowledge related to academic self-efficacy and student engagement and can be used as a guide in increasing academic self-efficacy and student engagement.
Pathology Assistant (C) - Gamechanger Of Pathology Diagnostic
Creators: name: Kudaybergenova, Asel
name: Remez, A.
Publisher: name: Diagnostic Pathology
Year: 2016

description: Introduction/ Background
UNIM Ltd. specializes in pathology diagnostics and digital pathology. We have created the SAAS platform DPathology that can be used for saving and studying histological slides and it doesn’t require an installation of a special software. You can use the platform with all the modern internet browsers. The SAAS platform gives all the specialists a chance to analyze remotely digital histological slides. It increases the accuracy of diagnostics and speeds up the medical assessment. The platform is used in several hospitals to get a consultation from the leading specialists from all over the world. It also can be used to create the Medical Big Data and the database for pathologists.

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Aims
Using our platform, we developed a digital multi-head microscope system for the professional society and we are planning on holding the first education program based on it onthe 15th of January 2016. Specialists fromCzechRepublicwill be our speakers and as the first round we want to show four cases of skin cancer.

Methods
This year we hold a competition for pathologists based on Dpathology software (www.finaldiagnoses.ru). 250 specialists registered to take part in the competition. There were fourteen cases from different specializations: we provided participants with clinical data and digitized histological slides. We got the cases from our partners from theCzechRepublicandItaly.

Results
When the competition ended, we received many favor- able reviews and we decided to start another project a little bit similar to the competition. Every month we show three interesting and difficult to diagnose cases provided by the leading Russian pathologists. The participants can look through the clinical data and digitized histological slides, and then discuss what they see among their professional society. There are 400  specialists  from  post  USSR countries.  Moreover, we get a few proposal of partnership to start a similar project in EU. And the last product in line is Pathology Assistant. It is a game changer. Pathology Assistant is a Digital Pathology©technology driven application for pathology diagnostics, tool to innovate pathology diagnostics in more simple, proven by analytical algo- rithm, automatically delivering anticipated support way. The service provides vast and structured database of validated cases, intuitive interface, fast and convenient system of analytical search. Pathology Assistant will streamline and simplify pathologist’s way to the right decision. Pathologists from Memorial Sloan Catering and biggest EU labs are working on preparing the con- tent for the project.
description: Diagnostic Pathology, Vol 1 No 8 (2016): 13. European Congress on Digital Pathology
Open Source Systems In Digital Pathology
Creators: name: Dariush, Aliakbar
Publisher: name: Diagnostic Pathology
Year: 2016

description: Introduction/ Background
Digital pathology is rapidly becoming popular world- wide. It not only helps to understand the nature of the disease through the analysis of tissue-based images but also advances our statistical knowledge of the disease-related factors via high throughput analysis of the imaging data. Such analysis can be done by using either commercial or open source systems.

Aims
Generally in comparison to commercial software and depends upon the scientific question to be answered, implementation of open source systems tend to be more challenging. However, unlike commercial soft- ware, open source systems are free with a high level of flexibilities in their functionalities which in turn makes them suitable for designing complex image processing systems as well as performing massive data analysis.
Methods
Here I review OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision), one of the most powerful library of programming functions mainly aimed at real-time computer vision and its application in Digital Pathology. I also briefly introduce the Image Segmentation & Registration (ITK) library which is another open-source, cross-platform system with extensive suite of software tools for image analysis. Finally I give an overview of two other open source software, i.e. Aladin and Topcat , developed mainly for astronomical applications, and their usage in Digital Pathology.

Results
Open source systems/software provide researcher with an alternative method to successfully address complex problems in Digital Pathology.
description: Diagnostic Pathology, Vol 1 No 8 (2016): 13. European Congress on Digital Pathology
Automated Quantification Of Proliferation With Automated Hot-Spot Selection In Phosphohistone H3/Mart1 Dual-Stained Melanomas
Creators: name: Nielsen, P. S.
name: Riber-Hansen, R.
name: Schmidt, H.
name: Steiniche, T.
Publisher: name: Diagnostic Pathology
Year: 2016

description: Introduction/ Background
Staging of melanoma includes quantification of a pro- liferation index, i.e., presumed melanocytic mitoses of H&E stains are counted manually in hot spots. Yet, its reproducibility and prognostic impact increases by im- munohistochemical dual staining for phosphohistone H3 (PHH3) and MART1, which also may enable fully automated quantification by image analysis.

Aims
To ensure manageable workloads and repeatable measurements in modern pathology, the study aimed to present an automated quantification of proliferation with automated hot-spot selection in PHH3/MART1- stained melanomas.
Methods
Formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue from 153 consecutive stage I/II melanoma patients was immuno- histochemically dual-stained for PHH3 and MART1, and whole slide images were captured. An algorithm that automatically detects the number of PHH3/MART1-pos- itive cells was developed using commercial software. In preprocessing, the intensity band of the HSI color model and color deconvolution including a standard deviation filter highlighted PHH3 positivity. Threshold- ing functions classified the image into brown PHH3, red MART1, and blue hematoxylin. Finally, postprocessing al- gorithms pinpointed PHH3/MART1-positive cells based on size, MART1 surrounding, color intensity, and nuclearirregularity. Based on the labels of image analysis, a hot spot was automatically selected by a processing step where circles  that detect PHH3/MART1-positive  cells produce a heat map according to their cluster. The number of PHH3/MART1-positive cells was counted both automatically and manually in the global tumor area and in a manually and automatically selected hot spot, i.e., a fixed 1-mm2 square.
Results
The mean difference between manual and automated global counts was 2.9 cells/mm2 (P = 0.0071) and 0.23 cells per hot spot (P = 0.96) for automated counts in manually and automatically selected hot spots. In 77% of cases, manual and automated hot spots overlapped. Fully manual hot-spot counts yielded the highest prog- nostic performance with an adjusted hazard ratio of 5.5 (95% CI, 1.3–24, P = 0.024) as opposed to 1.3 (95% CI,

0.61–2.9, P = 0.47) for automated counts with automated hot spots. In conclusion, the automated index and auto- mated hot-spot selection were highly correlated to their manual counterpart, but altogether their prognostic impact was noticeably reduced. Because correct rec- ognition of only one PHH3/MART1-positive cell seems important, extremely high sensitivity and specificity of the algorithm is required for prognostic purposes. The automated analysis may thus still aid and improve the pathologists’ detection of mitoses in melanoma and possibly be useful in other malignancies and future research studies.
description: Diagnostic Pathology, Vol 1 No 8 (2016): 13. European Congress on Digital Pathology
Systematic, quality appraisal of household recycling influences research finds evidence is mostly insufficient
Creators: name: Macklin, Jennifer
name: Smith, Liam David Graham
name: Curtis, James
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2024

description: This review develops and pilots a novel quality appraisal framework, specifically tailored to the needs of interdisciplinary reviews of the influences on recycling and other pre-environmental behaviours. Application of the bespoke framework to a set of 81 systematically selected recycling papers highlights the substantial lack of causal evidence and the weak construct validity of measured ‘behaviour’. These quality issues undermine the ability of individual studies and the body of literature as a whole to draw strong conclusions about what factors have causal influence on real-world recycling behaviour in broad populations of interest. At the same time, this review identifies instances of better practice and key future directions to improve the quality of research and confidence in what influences household recycling behaviour.
Automated Ki67 Hotspot Detection For Breast Cancer Biopsies
Creators: name: Pilutti, David
name: Pegolo, E.
name: La Marra, F.
name: Della Mea, Vincenzo
name: Di Loreto, C.
Publisher: name: Diagnostic Pathology
Year: 2016

description: Introduction/ Background
The quantification of immunohistochemical Ki67 and the detection of active areas of tumor cell proliferation (hotspots) have a critical importance in the prognosis and treatment planning for breast cancer.
Aims
In this work an automated and robust method for the detection of hotspot areas in breast cancer biopsies is proposed with the aim of supporting the pathologists by highlighting hotspot areas.
Methods
The proposed method has been tested on one Ki67 stained image from Openslide [1] acquired at 40x with an Hamamatsu scanner and on 5 Ki67 stained images of breast cancer biopsies acquired at 40x with AperioCS. Each input image is divided in tiles, whose colors are deconvolved using the method of Ruifrok [2] to estimate the presence of Ki67. Tiles with an estimated Diaminobenzidine (DAB) positivity of more than 5% are considered as potential hotspots.  Neighbouring positive tiles are merged to form a final hotspot area. The three hotspot areas with higher DAB positivity are also highlighted in the output. The hotspot areas are then written in an XML file which is read by a medical image viewer such as Aperio ImageScope. The proposed method has been implemented in Java using the BioFormats open source library [3].
Results
The color deconvolution of each tile has been performed by applying the standard Hematoxylin/Diaminobenzidine (H/DAB) deconvolution matrix provided in Fiji [4]. The tests have been performed at different zoom levels resulting in similar, coherent outputs of hotspot areas. The resulting hotspot areas have been validated by visual comparison with the hotspot areas determined by experts, showing a significant superimposition as shown in Fig. 1. The proposed method has been compared with the ASH method [5] for the image acquired with Hamamatsu scanner, producing similar results in comparable time.

In conclusion, a new fully automated method for the detection of Ki67 hotspot areas in breast cancer biopsies has been proposed to support the pathologist by highlighting different hotspot areas. It is able to process different medical images formats, making it more interoperable. The time performance is comparable with existing methods such as ASH [5]. The proposed method at low magnification such as 1x, 2x, and 4x produced varying results influenced by the size that each tile assumes at such magnification levels. Further extension of the proposed method will also include the MIB-1 estimation within the hotspot areas as well as extensive testing and validation. This work is partially founded by the EU FP7 program, grant number 612471.
description: Diagnostic Pathology, Vol 1 No 8 (2016): 13. European Congress on Digital Pathology
Ubiquitous rotating network magnetic fields and EUV cyclones in the quiet Sun
Creators: name: Zhang, Jun
name: Liu, Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the {\it Solar Dynamics Observatory} (SDO) Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) observations of EUV cyclones in the quiet Sun. These cyclones are rooted in the Rotating Network magnetic Fields (RNFs). Such cyclones can last several to more than ten hours, and, at the later phase, they are found to be associated with EUV brightenings (microflares) and even EUV waves. SDO Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) observations show an ubiquitous presence of the RNFs. Using HMI line-of-sight magnetograms on 2010 July 8, we find 388 RNFs in an area of 800$\times$980 square arcseconds near the disk center where no active region is present. The sense of rotation shows a weak hemisphere preference. The unsigned magnetic flux of the RNFs is about 4.0$\times10^{21}$ Mx, or 78% of the total network flux. These observational phenomena at small scale reported in this letter are consistent with those at large scale in active regions. The ubiquitous RNFs and EUV cyclones over the quiet Sun may suggest an effective way to heat the corona.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures; accepted for publication in ApJL
Higher-order contributions to the Rashba-Bychkov effect with application to Bi/Ag(111) surface alloy
Creators: name: Vajna, Sz.
name: Simon, E.
name: Szilva, A.
name: Palotas, K.
name: Ujfalussy, B.
name: Szunyogh, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to explain the anisotropic Rashba-Bychkov effect observed in several metallic surface-state systems, we use k.p perturbation theory with a simple group-theoretical analysis and construct effective Rashba Hamiltonians for different point groups up to third order in the wavenumber. We perform relativistic ab initio calculations for the Bi/Ag(111) ordered surface alloy and from the calculated splitting of the band dispersion we find evidence of the predicted third-order terms. Furthermore, we derive expressions for the corresponding third-order Rashba parameters to provide a simple explanation to the qualitative difference concerning the Rashba-Bychkov splitting of the surface states at Au(111) and Bi/Ag(111).
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
Quantum criticality in Ce2PdIn8: thermoelectric study
Creators: name: Matusiak, Marcin
name: Gnida, Daniel
name: Kaczorowski, Dariusz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the Nernst effect (v) and thermoelectric power (S) data for the Ce2PdIn8 heavy-fermion compound. Both S and v behave anomalously at low temperatures: the thermopower shows a Kondo-like maximum at T = 37 K, while the Nernst coefficient becomes greatly enhanced and field dependent below T ~ 30 K. In the zero-T limit S/T and v/T diverge logarithmically, what is related to occurrence of the quantum critical point (QCP). Presented results suggest that the antiferromagnetic spin-density-wave scenario may be applicable to QCP in Ce2PdIn8.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Exploring OSM-based geospatial datasets: insights from the Italian National Summary Database (DBSN)
Creators: name: Sarretta, Alessandro
name: Minghini, Marco
name: Napolitano, Maurizio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: OpenStreetMap
High Value Datasets

description: Presentation at the State of the Map Europe Conference (SotM EU), 10-12 of November, 2023. Antwerp, Belgium
 
In recent years (and months), various open datasets including a varying degree of information derived from OpenStreetMap have been released and made available to the geographic community for broader reuse. Some international examples include, among others, Microsoft GlobalML Building Footprints, Overture Maps Data, EUBUCCO, Digital Building Stock Model (DBSM). In Italy, the National Summary Database (DBSN) has recently been published at a national coverage level. All these datasets have different modes of access, origins, purposes, and characteristics that make them more or less suitable for the purposes of users who may be interested in reusing them. The presentation aims to provide an overview of the current status and key characteristics of these open geospatial datasets, providing detailed examples with a particular focus on the DBSN, which has been recently updated by the IGM (Italian Military Geographical Institute) with data from all Italian regions. Examples of congruences and incongruences with OpenStreetMap data will be presented, along with technical, semantic, and legal opportunities and challenges for integrating these datasets back with OpenStreetMap.
Descriptions and prescriptions : healthcare professionals consider care for people with Parkinson's
Creators: name: Gray, Jane Bernadette
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Healthcare professionals are at the frontline intersection of the nation’s healthcare system and the healthcare of people with Parkinson’s. With increasing numbers of people with Parkinson’s, and finite healthcare dollars, what are the work experiences of care of healthcare professionals working with people with Parkinson’s? In this participatory inquiry, narratives of work experiences of care of six healthcare professionals of people with Parkinson’s were elicited. The healthcare professionals included a general practitioner, a Parkinson’s specialist neurologist, a gastroenterologist, a nurse, a social worker, and a physiotherapist. The objective of the inquiry was to describe and understand the work experiences of these healthcare professionals through their descriptions of work experiences of care and their prescriptions for ideal work experiences of care. The interviews with the healthcare professionals were audio recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analyzed. The theoretical framing of the empirical material outlined medicalization and medical frameworks, a ‘whole person’ approach, and theories of care. Three overlapping primary themes emerged from the interviews which were verified by both the literature review and personal reflections. Firstly, Parkinson’s is a difficult, complex and multifaceted disorder; secondly, due to the complexity of this disorder, a multidisciplinary team approach by healthcare professionals is needed; and thirdly, more funding or a change in organization of funding, is needed in order to support this model of healthcare. In describing multidisciplinary care, these healthcare professionals questioned the current funding approach of the healthcare system. This was a noteworthy finding of this inquiry. Metaphors for present and ideal work experiences of care as given by the healthcare professionals worked to bridge the stated quantitative present healthcare situation of increasing numbers of people with Parkinson’s and finite healthcare dollars, and the qualitative descriptions of present and ideal work experiences of care of healthcare professionals of people with Parkinson’s. Implications for further inquiry included determining effectiveness and costs of multidisciplinary care for people with Parkinson’s, and investigating models of care for people with Parkinson’s as suggested by the healthcare professionals in the inquiry.
L' Olympiade ou Le Triomphe de l'Amitié : Drame Héroique en Trois Actes et en Vers
Creators: name: Sacchini, Antonio
name: Metastasio, Pietro
name: Framery, Nicolas Etienne
name: Basset, André
Publisher: name: D'Enouville
Year: 1777

description: Beilage: Zettel mit handschr. Titel "L'Olimpiade ou le Triomphe de l'amitié par le celèbre Sacchini"
Proceedings 10th International Workshop on Reduction Strategies in Rewriting and Programming
Creators: name: Escobar, Santiago
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the 10th International Workshop on Reduction Strategies in Rewriting and Programming (WRS'2011), held on 29 May 2011 in Novi Sad, Serbia. Previous editions of the workshop were held in Utrecht (2001), Copenhagen (2002), Valencia (2003), Aachen (2004), Nara (2005), Seattle (2006), Paris (2007), Hagenberg (2008), Brasilia (2009), and Edinburgh (2010); the last one as a joint workshop with the STRATEGIES workshop. The WRS 2011 workshop was part of the Federated Conference on Rewriting, Deduction, and Programming (RDP'1), which grouped together different events including the 22th International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA'11) and the 10th International Conference on Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications (TLCA'11).
Jean de Bellièvre (1524-1584) und Pompone de Bellièvre (1529-1607) an Heinrich Bullinger (1504-1575)
Creators: name: Bellièvre, Jean de, seigneur de Hautefort, Diplomat
name: Bellièvre, Pompone de
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1572

description: [s.c.]
Application Of Ki-67 Analysis In A Distributed Computing Infrastructure
Creators: name: Strutz, Marco
name: Lindequist, B.
name: Witt, M.
name: Heßling, H.
name: Hufnagl, P.
name: Krefting, D.
Publisher: name: Diagnostic Pathology
Year: 2016

description: Introduction/ Background
Over the last few years, the protein Ki-67 [1] has been established as one of the most important biomarkers for cell proliferation in breast cancer. High Ki-67 values indicate high tumor growth and have direct impact on the patient’s treatment. Several automated image anal- ysis methods for identifying Ki-67-positive and negative tumor cells have been presented.
Aims
For small regions of a virtual slide, the Ki-67 analysis can be realized within an acceptable period of time. However, to analyse an entire whole slide image (WSI [2])most of the current methods are not sufficient yet. On a typical office computer, the processing time of 3,752 tiles, which were extracted from a H–DAB stained WSI, exceeded 24 hours. Therefore, we propose an approach to significantly speed up the process of analysing entire WSIs by using a distributed computing infrastructure.
Methods
To evaluate the approach, an unmodified and validated [3] [4] analysis software for Ki-67 was deployed on a six node setup supporting two different software engines: Hadoop Streaming [5] and Apache Spark [6] . Both tools support the MapReduce methodology whereas Apache Spark offers alternative programing models. In addition, heat maps visualizing the Ki-67 scores for an entire slide were generated which can provide additional informa- tion for clinical research.
Results
First results on automated and reproducible tests have been produced. By processing 3,752 tiles the speedup turned out to increase linearly with the number of tiles. The overall processing time was improved by a factor of 10, more precisely from 28 hours on a typical office computer to three hours on a distributed environment. Further optimization strategies besides WSI partitioning will be considered. To achieve additional improvements in processing speed, the underlying algorithm of a Ki-67 analysis can be examined with focus on how to adapt it towards distributed processing workflows.
description: Diagnostic Pathology, Vol 1 No 8 (2016): 13. European Congress on Digital Pathology
Digital Interlibrary Loan and Article Delivery Services at the University of Calgary and Concordia Libraries
Creators: name: Tiessen, Robert
name: Duy, Joanna
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Library & Information Science
subject: Interlibrary Loan
subject: Copyright
subject: ILL
subject: Document Delivery
subject: University of Calgary
subject: Concordia University

description: Poster presented at the Canadian Library Association Annual Conference in Edmonton, Alberta, 2010.
description: How the University of Calgary and Concordia University do digital delivery of interlibrary loan and document delivery articles.
Strategies And Demands For Digital Pathology Workflow Integration
Creators: name: Pantanowitz, Liron
Publisher: name: Diagnostic Pathology
Year: 2016

description: Digital Pathology has many benefits and pathology laboratories around the world are capitalizing on many of these applications including education, telepathology, and image analysis. However, if not implemented well, digital pathology can have both positive and negative impacts on workflow. The key is to ensure that the digital imaging solution selected overall enhances workflow. Batched scanning, failed scans and downtime are examples where whole slide imaging can negatively impact workflow. High speed digitization, load balancing, and smart algorithms on the other hand can all improve workflow. Optimal image management and integration with the laboratory information system are also essential for sustaining an efficient digital pathology workflow. The aim of this talk is to address many of these critical factors, their impact on digital pathology workflow, and to discuss novel opportunities that by enhancing workflow will help evolve the practice of pathology.
description: Diagnostic Pathology, Vol 1 No 8 (2016): 13. European Congress on Digital Pathology
Puzzling magneto-optical properties of ZnMnO films
Creators: name: Godlewski, M.
name: Wasiakowski, A.
name: Ivanov, V. Yu.
name: Wojcik-Glodowska, A.
name: Lukasiewicz, M.
name: Guziewicz, E.
name: Jakiela, R.
name: Kopalko, K.
name: Zakrzewski, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Optical and magneto-optical properties of ZnMnO films grown at low temperature by Atomic Layer Deposition are discussed. A strong polarization of excitonic photoluminescence is reported, surprisingly observed without splitting or spectral shift of excitonic transitions. Present results suggest possibility of Mn recharging in ZnO lattice. Strong absorption, with onset at about 2.1 eV, is related to Mn 2+ to 3+ photo-ionization. We propose that the observed strong circular polarization of excitonic emission is of a similar character as the one observed by us for ZnSe:Cr.
description: 19 pages, 4 figures, 38 references
Licences, Tariffs and Copyright in Canadian Libraries
Creators: name: Tiessen, Robert
name: Wilkinson, Margaret Ann
name: Tooth, John
Publisher: name: University of Calgary; University of Western Ontario; Department of Education, Province of Manitoba
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Library & Information Science
subject: Copyright
subject: Tariffs
subject: Collective Societies
subject: Access Copyright

description: The Copyright Tariff process has expanded into K - 12 Education and is now expanding into the area of Provincial and Territorial Government and into Canadian Universities and Colleges. What can we learn about the process that the K - 12 Education has gone through to see what is next for other sectors? Will Access Copyright continue to file more tariff proposals with the Copyright Board of Canada and who might be next?
SignsWorld; Deeping Into the Silence World and Hearing Its Signs (State of the Art)
Creators: name: Riad, A. M.
name: Elmonier, Hamdy K.
name: Shohieb, Samaa. M.
name: Asem, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automatic speech processing systems are employed more and more often in real environments. Although the underlying speech technology is mostly language independent, differences between languages with respect to their structure and grammar have substantial effect on the recognition systems performance. In this paper, we present a review of the latest developments in the sign language recognition research in general and in the Arabic sign language (ArSL) in specific. This paper also presents a general framework for improving the deaf community communication with the hearing people that is called SignsWorld. The overall goal of the SignsWorld project is to develop a vision-based technology for recognizing and translating continuous Arabic sign language ArSL.
description: 20 pages, A state of art paper so it contains many references
Copyright Wars, Fair Dealing and Libraries
Creators: name: Tiessen, Robert
Publisher: name: http://www.thealbertalibrary.ab.ca/netspeed/pdfs/D2-CopyrightWars.ppt
Year: 2013
Subjects: Library & Information Science
copyright

description: Presented on October 19, 2013 at the Netspeed Conference in Edmonton.
description: A quick review of the copyright situation in 2012; Copyright Wars and Fair Dealing - a short history of Copyright in Canada since the 1980's; and an analysis of Bill C-11
Helicoidal Fields and Spin Polarized Currents in CNT-DNA Hybrids
Creators: name: Diniz, G. S.
name: Latgé, A.
name: Ulloa, S. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on theoretical studies of electronic transport in the archetypical molecular hybrid formed by DNA wrapped around single-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs). Using a Green's function formalism in a $π$-orbital tight-binding representation, we investigate the role that spin-orbit interactions play on the CNT in the case of the helicoidal electric field induced by the polar nature of the adsorbed DNA molecule. We find that spin polarization of the current can take place in the absence of magnetic fields, depending strongly on the direction of the wrapping and length of the helicoidal field. These findings open new routes for using CNTs in spintronic devices.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
On the central quadric ansatz: integrable models and Painleve reductions
Creators: name: Ferapontov, E. V.
name: Huard, B.
name: Zhang, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34M55, 35C05, 35L10, 35Q51, 35Q75, 37K10

description: It was observed by Tod and later by Dunajski and Tod that the Boyer-Finley (BF) and the dispersionless Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (dKP) equations possess solutions whose level surfaces are central quadrics in the space of independent variables (the so-called central quadric ansatz). It was demonstrated that generic solutions of this type are described by Painleve equations PIII and PII, respectively. The aim of our paper is threefold: -- Based on the method of hydrodynamic reductions, we classify integrable models possessing the central quadric ansatz. This leads to the five canonical forms (including BF and dKP). -- Applying the central quadric ansatz to each of the five canonical forms, we obtain all Painleve equations PI - PVI, with PVI corresponding to the generic case of our classification. -- We argue that solutions coming from the central quadric ansatz constitute a subclass of two-phase solutions provided by the method of hydrodynamic reductions.
description: 12 pages
The worldwide NORM production and a fully automated gamma-ray spectrometer for their characterization
Creators: name: Xhixha, G.
name: Bezzon, GP.
name: Broggini, C.
name: Buso, GP.
name: Caciolli, A.
name: Callegari, I.
name: De Bianchi, S.
name: Fiorentini, G.
name: Guastaldi, E.
name: Xhixha, M. Kaçeli
name: Mantovani, F.
name: Massa, G.
name: Menegazzo, R.
name: Mou, L.
name: Pasquini, A.
name: Alvarez, C. Rossi
name: Shyti, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Materials containing radionuclides of natural origin, which is modified by human made processes and being subject to regulation because of their radioactivity are known as NORM. We present a brief review of the main categories of non-nuclear industries together with the levels of activity concentration in feed raw materials, products and waste, including mechanisms of radioisotope enrichments. The global management of NORM shows a high level of complexity, mainly due to different degrees of radioactivity enhancement and the huge amount of worldwide waste production. The future tendency of guidelines concerning environmental protection will require both a systematic monitoring based on the ever-increasing sampling and high performance of gamma ray spectroscopy. On the ground of these requirements a new low background fully automated high-resolution gamma-ray spectrometer MCA_Rad has been developed. The design of Pb and Cu shielding allowed to reach a background reduction of two order of magnitude with respect to laboratory radioactivity. A severe lowering of manpower cost is obtained through a fully automation system, which enables up to 24 samples to be measured without any human attendance. Two coupled HPGe detectors increase the detection efficiency, performing accurate measurements on sample volume (180 cc) with a reduction of sample transport cost of material. Details of the instrument calibration method are presented. MCA_Rad system can measure in less than one hour a typical NORM sample enriched in U and Th with some hundreds of Bq/kg, with an overall uncertainty less than 5%. Quality control of this method has been tested. Measurements of certified reference materials RGK-1, RGU-2 and RGTh-1 containing concentrations of K, U and Th comparable to NORM have been performed, resulting an overall relative discrepancy of 5% among central values within the reported uncertainty.
description: 21 pages, 4 figures, 6 tables