cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Safe and efficacious use of sedation agents on paediatric patients- a single-center study and experience
Creators: name: Kwong, Yin Yee
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Paediatric
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Audit and standards
subject: Safety
subject: Sedation

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Magnetic Resonance Imaging has become one of the most important imaging modalities for paediatric patients. Due to the relatively long examination time and the possibility of image quality reduction by motion artefacts, effective sedation for...
Exercise as a distributor for self efficacy
Creators: name: shapira, itamar
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: זוהי הרשמה-מראש של תוכנית המחקר שלנו בקורס פסיכולוגיה ניסויית. תוכנית המחקר מופיעה בקובץ המצורף
Stabilization and Dissipative Information Transfer of a Superconducting Kerr-Cat Qubit
Creators: name: Korkmaz, Ufuk
name: Türkpençe, Deniz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Today, the competition to build a quantum computer continues, and the number of qubits in hardware is increasing rapidly. However, the quantum noise that comes with this process reduces the performance of algorithmic applications, so alternative ways in quantum computer architecture and implementation of algorithms are discussed on the one hand. One of these alternative ways is the hybridization of the circuit-based quantum computing model with the dissipative-based computing model. Here, the goal is to apply the part of the algorithm that provides the quantum advantage with the quantum circuit model, and the remaining part with the dissipative model, which is less affected by noise. This scheme is of importance to quantum machine learning algorithms that involve highly repetitive processes and are thus susceptible to noise. In this study, we examine dissipative information transfer to a qubit model called Cat-Qubit. This model is especially important for the dissipative-based version of the binary quantum classification, which is the basic processing unit of quantum machine learning algorithms. On the other hand, Cat-Qubit architecture, which has the potential to easily implement activation-like functions in artificial neural networks due to its rich physics, also offers an alternative hardware opportunity for quantum artificial neural networks. Numerical calculations exhibit successful transfer of quantum information from reservoir qubits by a repeated-interactions-based dissipative scheme.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
title: Suprarenal inferior vena cava filter implantation.
Creators: name: Vizzari, Francesco Alberto
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Embolism / Thrombosis
subject: Venous access
subject: Percutaneous
subject: Interventional vascular

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: The incidence of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is increasing worldwide [1-4]. When renal tumours remain silent or are in presence of disease progression, extension of the tumour thrombus into the renal vein and/or the inferior vena cava (IVC) is one of...
Azimuthal anisotropy of charged jet production in $\mathbf{\sqrt{{\textit s}_{\rm NN}}}$ = 2.76 TeV Pb--Pb collisions
Creators: name: Bertens, Redmer Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurements of charged jet production with respect to the second-order harmonic event plane, quantified as $v_{2}^{\mathrm{ch~jet}}$, in $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}$ = 2.76 TeV Pb--Pb collisions are presented. The contribution of hydrodynamic flow to the underlying event energy is corrected for on a jet-by-jet basis. Remaining effects from instrumental resolution and regional fluctuations in the energy density of the underlying event are corrected for by unfolding. Significant $v_{2}^{\mathrm{ch~jet}}$ is observed in semi-central collisions. Qualitative agreement is found with $v_{2}^{\mathrm{ch+em jet}}$ of jets reconstructed from charged and neutral fragments and $v_2$ of single charged particles, as well as with predictions from the JEWEL Monte Carlo model.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures, to appear in the proceedings of Quark Matter 2015, KOBE, Japan
Nucleus accumbens neurons differentially encode information about aversive cues that predict cocaine availability and cocaine self-administration following extended taste-drug pairings
Creators: name: Green, Jennifer Lynn
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2012

description: Nucleus accumbens (NAc) neurons differentially respond to rewarding and aversive gustatory stimuli: rewarding tastants elicit mostly inhibitions while aversive stimuli elicit excitations. A switch from inhibitory to excitatory responses occurs when a natural reward, saccharin, predicts delayed cocaine availability [Wheeler et. al. 2008]. Changes in the behavioral response to tastants (termed taste reactivity) track this alteration in NAc activity. Here, we examined: 1) the dynamics of NAc activity and taste reactivity across 5 and 10 taste-drug pairings, and 2) if NAc cells that are responsive to the 'aversive' tastant are the same cells that process information about lever pressing for cocaine. Results showed that the switch from inhibitory to excitatory responses (and taste reactivity) occurred following 5 and 10 taste-drug pairings. Further, neurons responsive to tastant infusion were generally not the same cells that encode goal-directed behaviors for cocaine. Thus, distinct subsets of NAc neurons differentially encode cocaine versus natural rewards even when the natural reward predicts delayed cocaine availability.
Fidelity of interventions designed to reduce non-indicated imaging for low back pain: a protocol for a systematic review
Creators: name: To, Daphne
name: De Carvalho, Diana
name: Lawrence, Rebecca
name: Toomey, Elaine
name: Hall, Amanda
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: diagnostic imaging
subject: intervention fidelity
subject: low back pain

description: The aim of this systematic review is to review the literature on interventions designed to reduce non-indicated imaging for LBP in order to (1) examine the use of strategies to enhance and/or assess intervention fidelity; (2) report on the psychometric properties of tools used to assess intervention fidelity; and (3) report on the intervention fidelity outcome within evaluations of these interventions. Review team members: Daphne To, Diana De Carvalho, Rebecca Lawrence, Elaine Toomey, Amanda Hall
Eagle Imagery in Jewish Relief Sculpture of Late Ancient Palestine: Survey and Interpretation
Creators: name: Werlin, Steven H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: The following study examines the image of the eagle in the architectural relief sculpture of Palestinian synagogues as well as on Jewish sarcophagi. The buildings and sarcophagi on which these objects were displayed are dated between the third and sixth century C.E. Chapter one introduces the topic by presenting some general background to the state of research and by defining relevant terms for the study. Chapter two presents the primary evidence in the form of a rudimentary catalogue. Chapter three examines the so-called “Eagle Incident” described by the ancient historian, Josephus, in War 1.648-55 and Antiq. 17.151-63. Chapter four seeks to understand the meaning of the eagle-symbol within the literature familiar to Jews of late ancient Palestine. Chapter five presents the author’s interpretation of the eagle-symbol in both the sculptural remains and literary references. It considers the relationship of the image and meaning to Near Eastern and Byzantine art in light of the religious trends in late ancient Jewish society.
COVID Dreams & Well-Being
Creators: name: Selterman, Dylan
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Personality and Social Contexts
subject: Health Psychology
subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: covid
subject: dreams
subject: pandemic

description: The purpose of this research is to examine how people’s dreams, and beliefs about dreams, are linked with other psychological variables such as well-being and coping. This research was inspired, in part, based on anecdotal reports from many people about their dreams during the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic.
title: Quantitative analysis of perfusion defects at dual energy lung perfusion blood volume by dual-energy CT in patients with pulmonary embolism: correlation with biochemical markers, echocardiographic findings and length of hospital stay
Creators: name: Lohan, Rahul
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: CT
subject: Drainage
subject: Embolism / Thrombosis

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Dual-energy CT (DECT) pulmonary angiography besides angiographic visualization of pulmonary vasculature, demonstrates the distribution of iodine within pulmonary parenchyma. The iodine distribution map or lung perfusion blood volume image ( PBV) can...
Triggered fragmentation in self-gravitating discs: forming fragments at small radii
Creators: name: Meru, Farzana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We carry out three dimensional radiation hydrodynamical simulations of gravitationally unstable discs to explore the movement of mass in a disc following its initial fragmentation. We find that the radial velocity of the gas in some parts of the disc increases by up to a factor of approximately 10 after the disc fragments, compared to before. While the movement of mass occurs in both the inward and outward directions, the inwards movement can cause the inner spirals of a self-gravitating disc to become sufficiently dense such that they can potentially fragment. This suggests that the dynamical behaviour of fragmented discs may cause subsequent fragmentation to occur at smaller radii than initially expected, but only after an initial fragment has formed in the outer disc.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication by MNRAS. Movies of Simulation 1 available at www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~fmeru/Movies/mass_movement_sigma.mov and www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~fmeru/Movies/mass_movement_vR.mov
Near-inertial wave propagation between stratified and homogeneous layers
Creators: name: van Haren, Hans
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The propagation of inertio-gravity waves (IGW) into the deep-sea is relevant for energy transfer to turbulence where waves break, and thus for redistribution of nutrients, oxygen and suspended matter. In constant stratification, vertical IGW-propagation is readily modelled. In varying stratification, where homogeneous layers alternate with stratified layers, transmission and reflection cause complex patterns. Half-year long moored acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) observations midway between the Balearic Islands and Sardinia in the 2800-m deep Western-Mediterranean Sea occasionally demonstrate a distinct transition, between weakly stratified (N>=2f) and homogeneous (N=
description: 28 pages, 9 filgures
Attention allocation and the effects of time pressure and framing on risky choice
Creators: name: Roberts, Ian
name: Hutcherson, Cendri
name: Teoh, Yi Yang
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Behavioral Economics
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Economics
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This project aims to investigate the potential role of visual attention in the effect of time pressure on framing effects.
title: Impact of cardiovascular risk factors on vessel wall inflammation and calcified plaque burden differs across vascular beds: a PET-CT study
Creators: name: Saam, Tobias
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: PET-CT
subject: Molecular imaging
subject: Arteriosclerosis

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: To evaluate the effect of age, gender and cardiovascular risk factors on vessel wall inflammation and the calcified plaque burden in different vascular beds as assessed by...
title: Are Tablets Suitable for Mammographic Diagnoses?
Creators: name: Constantinidis, Fotios
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Digital radiography
subject: CAD
subject: Technology assessment
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Cancer
subject: Calcifications / Calculi

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: To illustrate the use of tablets in mammographic diagnosis and outline advantages and limitations of mobile devices based on a series of 144 patients who had digital...
Regulation of pupil size in natural vision: Pre-registered experiment – Deep pupillometric phenotyping (n=2)
Creators: name: Spitschan, Manuel
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medical Sciences
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Neuroscience and Neurobiology
subject: Vision Science
subject: Engineering
subject: Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering

description: Experiment to collect deep pupillometric phenotyping data
title: MR-guided lumbosacral facet joint block therapy using an open 1.0 Tesla MRI system: a clinical investigation
Creators: name: Freyhardt, Patrick
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: Musculoskeletal spine
subject: MR
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Treatment effects
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Imaging sequences

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: The objective of our study was to evaluate the accuracy, safety and efficacy of real-time MRI-guided facet-joint blocks using an 1.0Tesla open MRI...
The rinceau design, the minor arts and the St. Louis Psalter
Creators: name: Walsh, Suzanne C.
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2011

description: The Saint Louis Psalter (Bibliothque National MS Lat. 10525) is an unusual and intriguing manuscript. Created between 1250 and 1270, it is a prayer book designed for the private devotions of King Louis IX of France and features 78 illustrations of Old Testament scenes set in an ornate architectural setting. Surrounding these elements is a heavy, multicolored border that uses a repeating pattern of a leaf encircled by vines, called a rinceau. When compared to the complete corpus of mid-13th century art, the Saint Louis Psalter's rinceau design has its origin outside the manuscript tradition, from architectural decoration and metalwork and not other manuscripts. This research aims to enhance our understanding of Gothic art and the interrelationship between various media of art and the creation of the complete artistic experience in the High Gothic period.
Experimental psychology : The effects of different social interactions and physical activity on self esteem
Creators: name: Vita, Adi
name: Ben-David, Tamar
name: Freiman, Amit
name: team, TAU
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: this is a pre-registration as part of experimental psychology course in TA university.
title: Combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema; prevalence and follow up among health-care personnel
Creators: name: Chae, Kumju
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: Respiratory system
subject: Thorax
subject: CT
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Chronic obstructive airways disease

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema (CPFE) would be not just a distinct phenotype of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and results from the characteristic imaging features (centrilobular and/or paraseptal emphysema in the upper lobe...
A new set of asymmetric filters for tracking the short-term trend in real-time
Creators: name: Dagum, Estela Bee
name: Bianconcini, Silvia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: For assessing in real time the short-term trend of major economic indicators, official statistical agencies generally rely on asymmetric filters that were developed by Musgrave in 1964. However, the use of the latter introduces revisions as new observations are added to the series and, from a policy-making viewpoint, they are too slow in detecting true turning points. In this paper, we use a reproducing kernel methodology to derive asymmetric filters that converge quickly and monotonically to the corresponding symmetric one. We show theoretically that proposed criteria for time-varying bandwidth selection produce real-time trend-cycle filters to be preferred to the Musgrave filters from the viewpoint of revisions and time delay to detect true turning points. We use a set of leading, coincident and lagging indicators of the US economy to illustrate the potential gains statistical agencies could have by also using our methods in their practice.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/15-AOAS856 in the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
כיצד מוזיקה משפיעה על לקיחת סיכונים אצל עצמאיים ושכירים
Creators: name: Levin, Roni
name: , Einat
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: זוהי הרשמה מראש למחקר שלנו במסגרת הקורס פסיכולוגיה ניסויית באוניברסיטת ת״א.
The incidence of binaries in Globular Cluster stellar populations
Creators: name: Lucatello, S.
name: Sollima, A.
name: Gratton, R.
name: Vesperini, E.
name: D'Orazi, V.
name: Carretta, E.
name: Bragaglia, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Binary fraction and orbital characteristics provide indications on the conditions of star formation, as they shed light on the environment they were born in. Multiple systems are more common in low density environments rather than in higher density ones. In the current debate about the formation of Globular Clusters and their multiple populations, studying the binary incidence in the populations they host offers a crucial piece of information on the environment of their birth and their subsequent dynamical evolution. Through a multi-year observational campaign using FLAMES at VLT, we monitored the radial velocity of 968 Red-Giant Branch stars located around the half-light radii in a sample of 10 Galactic Globular Clusters. We found a total of 21 radial velocity variables identified as {\it bona fide} binary stars, for a binary fraction of 2.2%$\pm$0.5%. When separating the sample into first generation and second generation stars, we find a binary fraction of 4.9%$\pm$1.3% and 1.2%$\pm$0.4% respectively. Through simulations that take into account possible sources of bias in detecting radial velocity variations in the two populations, we show that the difference is significant and only marginally affected by such effects. Such a different binary fraction strongly suggests different conditions in the environment of formation and evolution of first and second generations stars, with the latter being born in a much denser environment. Our result hence strongly supports the idea that the second generation forms in a dense subsystem at the center of the loosely distributed first generation, where (loose) binaries are efficiently destroyed.
description: A&A, Accepted
A Field and Diverse Purposes: Science, Application and Critique in the American Field of International Relations
Creators: name: Grenier, Félix
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: International Relations
Practical knowledge
Graduate education
United States
Philosophy of science
Sociology of social science

description: One of the most important aspects of the American field of International Relations (IR) is the deeply-rooted and broadly shared commitment to a “scientist” understanding of scholarly work. Scientism can be described as an indubitable belief in our ability to produce value-free and non-normative knowledge and in the power of such knowledge to resolve societal problems. Since the mid-20th century, this scientist commitment prevailed in the main approaches and standards guiding the practice of IR scholarship in the United States. One problem with the dominance of scientism is that it reproduces a restrictive view of American IR scholarship. More precisely, the dominance of scientism has not only limited the diversity of methodological and theoretical approaches but, this thesis argues, also restricted American IR scholars’ ability to further different understandings of the legitimate purposes of scholarly work. Following this idea, this thesis endeavors to challenge the dominance of scientism and legitimize alternative forms of scholarship in American IR. More precisely, this thesis advances that American IR scholars’ work is guided by three categories of objectives, that is, the production of scientific knowledge, the application of knowledge and the advancement of critical thinking. To clarify how these three objectives are concretely formulated, the thesis also specifies nine categories of epistemic approaches (e.g. forms of methods and theories) that are associated with scientific, applied and critical objectives. This categorization is conceived as a useful thinking tool for understanding how and why scholarship is generated in American IR. After detailing this categorization, the thesis underlines the specific value and purpose associated with each category of objectives by examining a series of graduate education programs in American IR. This empirical examination concentrates on ten professional M.A. and ten PhD programs offered in elite American universities. Using a discursive analysis of the curriculum and the syllabus of one core course in each program, the thesis discusses how and why scientific, applied and critical objectives are furthered in American IR. It particularly underscores why applied and critical objectives are marginalized across the selected graduate education programs and the benefits associated with these alternative orientations for American IR. In doing so, this thesis helps challenge the dominance of scientism and legitimize other forms of scholarship in American IR.
Fingerprinting the effect of airborne particulate matter via in vitro toxicoproteomics
Creators: name: Vuong, Ngoc Quang
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Air pollution
Particulate matter
Proteomics
Cytotoxicity assays
A549
EHC-93
Inflammatory response
Cell death
Silica
Carbon black
Titanium dioxide

description: It is a challenge to assess the toxicity of environmental air particulate matter (PM) because PM composition is complex and variable, due to source contribution and atmospheric transformation. The goal of this study is to establish an in vitro model that can fingerprint the cytotoxic effects of airborne PM and their associated toxicity mechanisms. For this purpose, the cytotoxic effects of different reference and environmental particles on A549 human lung epithelial cells were characterized using multiple endpoint assays (cytokine release, LDH release, BrdU incorporation, cellular ATP and resazurin reduction) and proteomic analyses (2D-GE and MALDI-TOF-TOF-MS/MS). The results of this study demonstrated that proteomic analyses can distinguish the influences of different (carbon black and titanium dioxide) and similar (cristobalite and α-quartz) particles on various pathways in A549 cells (e.g., cell death and cell proliferation); and the cytotoxicity assays were capable of differentiating the phenotypic outcomes of the particles, which were complementary and supportive to pathway analyses. The ability of in vitro toxicoproteomics to differentiate the toxicity of environmental particles was tested on Ottawa urban dust (EHC-93) and its water-insoluble and soluble fractions. Findings from both cytotoxicity assays and proteomic analyses consistently indicated that the insoluble materials explained most of the toxic effects of the total PM. Interestingly, the toxic potency of EHC-93 total was not equal to the sum of its insoluble and soluble fractions, implying inter-component interactions between insoluble and soluble materials that may be reflected through synergistic or antagonistic in vitro responses. The insoluble and soluble fractions uniquely altered the expression patterns of the proteins involved in pathways such as cell death, cell proliferation and inflammation. For example, the insoluble and soluble fractions oppositely altered the expression of the proteins (e.g., TREM1, PDIA3, PKM and ENO1) involved in an inflammatory response pathway in A549 cells, and the insoluble fraction was more potent than the soluble fraction in increasing secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokines MCP-1 and IL-8 from A549 cells. In essence, in vitro toxicoproteomics is a valuable tool in relating the physicochemical characteristics of ambient air particles to their biological reactivity through understanding their mechanisms of toxicity.
Time-stamped, frozen data for "A Randomized, Controlled Experiment of the Effect of a Fast Food Environment on Food Expectancies"
Creators: name: Cummings, Jenna
name: Hoover, Lindzey
name: Turner, Meredith
name: Glozier, Kalei
name: Zhao, Jessica
name: Gearhardt, Ashley
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: 2-level (neutral space vs. fast food restaurant) randomized, controlled experiment of the effect of environment on food expectancies
The chemical evolution of the solar neighbourhood for planet-hosting stars
Creators: name: Pignatari, Marco
name: Trueman, Thomas C. L.
name: Womack, Kate A.
name: Gibson, Brad K.
name: Côté, Benoit
name: Turrini, Diego
name: Sneden, Christopher
name: Mojzsis, Stephen J.
name: Stancliffe, Richard J.
name: Fong, Paul
name: Lawson, Thomas V.
name: Keegans, James D.
name: Pilkington, Kate
name: Passy, Jean-Claude
name: Beers, Timothy C.
name: Lugaro, Maria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Theoretical physical-chemical models for the formation of planetary systems depend on data quality for the Sun's composition, that of stars in the solar neighbourhood, and of the estimated "pristine" compositions for stellar systems. The effective scatter and the observational uncertainties of elements within a few hundred parsecs from the Sun, even for the most abundant metals like carbon, oxygen and silicon, are still controversial. Here we analyse the stellar production and the chemical evolution of key elements that underpin the formation of rocky (C, O, Mg, Si) and gas/ice giant planets (C, N, O, S). We calculate 198 galactic chemical evolution (GCE) models of the solar neighbourhood to analyse the impact of different sets of stellar yields, of the upper mass limit for massive stars contributing to GCE ($M_{\rm up}$) and of supernovae from massive-star progenitors which do not eject the bulk of the iron-peak elements (faint supernovae). Even considering the GCE variation produced via different sets of stellar yields, the observed dispersion of elements reported for stars in the Milky Way disk is not reproduced. Among others, the observed range of super-solar [Mg/Si] ratios, sub-solar [S/N], and the dispersion of up to 0.5 dex for [S/Si] challenge our models. The impact of varying $M_{\rm up}$ depends on the adopted supernova yields. Thus, observations do not provide a constraint on the M$_{\rm up}$ parametrization. When including the impact of faint supernova models in GCE calculations, elemental ratios vary by up to 0.1-0.2 dex in the Milky Way disk; this modification better reproduces observations.
description: 36 pages, 26 figures, 1 Table, 1 Appendix, Accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: Comparison of termography (TE) and ultrasonography (US) in the assessment of whiplash injury
Creators: name: Albarello, Fabrizio
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Trauma
subject: Medico-legal issues
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Experimental
subject: Trauma
subject: Musculoskeletal spine
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: “Whiplash syndrome” is a term commonly used to describe hyperflexion, hyperextension and other injuries to the spine, and, in particular, to the cervical region (fig. 1-3) It is not a universally accepted term, however, is commonly used in...
title: Liver Perfusion CT for Noninvasive Assessment of Response to Sorafenib Therapy in Patients with Advanced HCC: Preliminary Findings
Creators: name: Pancrazi, Francesca
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT
subject: Liver
subject: Abdomen
subject: Chemotherapy
subject: Cancer
subject: Neoplasia

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: To assess response to sorafenib therapy in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) using perfusion CT...
Effects of in vitro Exposure of Human Respiratory Epithelial Cells to Formaldehyde
Creators: name: O'Lenick, Cassandra
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Formaldehyde is the most abundant carbonyl in air. As a by-product of combustion and other natural processes, it is ubiquitous in the environment. Typically, the formaldehyde concentration levels in ambient air are produced by the photochemical oxidation of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), including the major biogenics such as isoprene and methane. Thus, formaldehyde is an important component of atmospheric pollution. Also, it is commonly used in the medical and health fields, in the manufacturing of building materials, and is present in substantial quantities in occupational and home environments. People are likely exposed to low levels of formaldehyde on a daily basis, it has therefore been suggested that formaldehyde exposure may be linked to increased hospital admissions and increased prevalence of inflammatory diseases. Other carbonyl compounds similarly produced and measured in the atmosphere have been shown to produce measurable cytotoxic and inflammatory responses. However, it is largely unknown how exposure to formaldehyde effects specific inflammatory mediator production. To evaluate the potential adverse heath effects elicited by formaldehyde exposure cultured human respiratory epithelial cells (A549) were used as the target of the formaldehyde gas. In cell culture supernatants, cellular distress was measured by the production of pro-inflammatory mediators such as interleukin-8 and Interleukin-6. Cytotoxicity or cellular death was measured by the release of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH). Using permeation tube or large chamber air mixtures, formaldehyde was administered in increasing doses to investigate a dose response of concentrations that have been observed in ambient and occupational environments. Formaldehyde concentrations were measured continuously using a permeable membrane sampler, and detected with fluorometry using an automated Hantzsch derivative reaction (Dasgupta technique). The concentrations in the 3-hr exposures were approximately 55 ppb, 140 ppb, 220 ppb, 390 ppb, and 980 ppb. At the 55 to 220 ppb formaldehyde exposure level, there were virtually no differences between exposed cells and control cells for all endpoints. Cells exposed to 390 and 980 ppb showed no increases in LDH or IL-6, however a concentration dependent decrease was observed in IL-8 expression for both chamber and permeation tube exposures. This data suggests that gaseous formaldehyde does not affect common markers of inflammation or cause cellular death in lung epithelial cells. However the observed decrease in IL-8 expression implies that there may be a mechanism, unknown to us, by which formaldehyde is suppressing the release of IL-8 proteins.
Behavioral Compatibility of Simulink Models for Product Line Maintenance and Evolution
Creators: name: Rumpe, Bernhard
name: Schulze, Christoph
name: von Wenckstern, Michael
name: Ringert, Jan Oliver
name: Manhart, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Embedded software systems, e.g. automotive, robotic or automation systems are highly configurable and consist of many software components being available in different variants and versions. To identify the degree of reusability between these different occurrences of a component, it is necessary to determine the functional backward and forward compatibility between them. Based on this information it is possible to identify in which system context a component can be replaced safely by another version, e.g. exchanging an older component, or variant, e.g. introducing new features, to achieve the same functionality. This paper presents a model checking approach to determine behavioral compatibility of Simulink models, obtained from different component variants or during evolution. A prototype for automated compatibility checking demonstrates its feasibility. In addition implemented optimizations make the analysis more efficient, when the compared variants or versions are structurally similar. A case study on a driver assistance system provided by Daimler AG shows the effectiveness of the approach to automatically compare Simulink components.
description: 10 pages, 12 figures, 4 tables, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Software Product Line (SPLC)
title: 	The Course of the History of Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture and Design Creativity Based on the Transformation of Forms and Ways of Thinking
Creators: name: Sobczyńska, Karolina
Publisher: name: Publishing House of Poznan University of Technology
Year: 2022

description: Zeszyty Naukowe Politechniki Poznańskiej. Architektura, Urbanistyka, Architektura wnętrz, 10, 163-173
title: Reproductibility of the apparent diffusion coefficients measurements in liver DWI with multi-breath-hold, free breathing, respiratory triggered and navigator triggered techniques
Creators: name: Chen, Xin
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Quality assurance
subject: Normal variants
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Liver

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: ADC is a promising imaging biomarker for characterizing liver lesions and predicting and monitoring the response of hepatic metastases and hepatocellular carcinomas to antitumor treatment. However, there's a wide variety in ADCs of liver which have...
Column Studies of Micropollutant Removal from Wastewater
Creators: name: Stanley, Will
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Year: 2014
Subjects: Environmental sciences
Chemistry

description: Production of systems for onsite treatment of wastewater is an expanding industry fostering more widespread application of reuse technology. This study evaluated the potential for constructed wetlands to remove micropollutants from industrial and household sources and, thereby, reduce their environmental impact resulting from toxicity, endocrine disruption, or physical interaction. Their removal during conventional treatment has been extensively studied, yet research on the performance of biofiltration and constructed wetlands in removing micropollutants is scarce. Through a column study scale model of a constructed wetlands onsite treatment system and parallel batch studies, the mechanisms by which micropollutants are removed were explored. The removal of steroid hormones, triclosan, and caffeine in these studies was measured using enzyme-linked immuno-sorbent assays, and was shown to improve in the presence of nitrifying bacteria. Diminished removal of co-contaminants was correlated with the presence of triclosan, possibly due to the latter's effect on suppression of microbial activity.
Tell me, what are you most afraid of? Exploring the Effects of Agent Representation on Information Disclosure in Human-Chatbot Interaction
Creators: name: Stock, Anna
name: Schlögl, Stephan
name: Groth, Aleksander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Self-disclosure counts as a key factor influencing successful health treatment, particularly when it comes to building a functioning patient-therapist-connection. To this end, the use of chatbots may be considered a promising puzzle piece that helps foster respective information provision. Several studies have shown that people disclose more information when they are interacting with a chatbot than when they are interacting with another human being. If and how the chatbot is embodied, however, seems to play an important role influencing the extent to which information is disclosed. Here, research shows that people disclose less if the chatbot is embodied with a human avatar in comparison to a chatbot without embodiment. Still, there is only little information available as to whether it is the embodiment with a human face that inhibits disclosure, or whether any type of face will reduce the amount of shared information. The study presented in this paper thus aims to investigate how the type of chatbot embodiment influences self-disclosure in human-chatbot-interaction. We conducted a quasi-experimental study in which $n=178$ participants were asked to interact with one of three settings of a chatbot app. In each setting, the humanness of the chatbot embodiment was different (i.e., human vs. robot vs. disembodied). A subsequent discourse analysis explored difference in the breadth and depth of self-disclosure. Results show that non-human embodiment seems to have little effect on self-disclosure. Yet, our data also shows, that, contradicting to previous work, human embodiment may have a positive effect on the breadth and depth of self-disclosure.
description: 13 pages
Inferring constructs of effective teaching from classroom observations: An application of Bayesian exploratory factor analysis without restrictions
Creators: name: Lockwood, J. R.
name: Savitsky, Terrance D.
name: McCaffrey, Daniel F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Ratings of teachers' instructional practices using standardized classroom observation instruments are increasingly being used for both research and teacher accountability. There are multiple instruments in use, each attempting to evaluate many dimensions of teaching and classroom activities, and little is known about what underlying teaching quality attributes are being measured. We use data from multiple instruments collected from 458 middle school mathematics and English language arts teachers to inform research and practice on teacher performance measurement by modeling latent constructs of high-quality teaching. We make inferences about these constructs using a novel approach to Bayesian exploratory factor analysis (EFA) that, unlike commonly used approaches for identifying factor loadings in Bayesian EFA, is invariant to how the data dimensions are ordered. Applying this approach to ratings of lessons reveals two distinct teaching constructs in both mathematics and English language arts: (1) quality of instructional practices; and (2) quality of teacher management of classrooms. We demonstrate the relationships of these constructs to other indicators of teaching quality, including teacher content knowledge and student performance on standardized tests.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/15-AOAS833 in the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Fluoxetine pharmacokinetics
Creators: name: Eugene, Andy
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: clinical pharmacology
subject: COVID
subject: COVID-19
subject: fluoxetine
subject: pharmacokinetics
subject: Prozac
subject: Sarafem
subject: SARS-CoV-2
subject: Simulation

description: Fluoxetine pharmacokinetics and tissue distribution suggest a possible role in reducing SARS-CoV-2 titers
title: MSCT in GIST patients with hepatic metastases treated with new generation tyrosinkinase inhibitors: comparison between density and dimension.
Creators: name: Insalaco, Antonella
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Oncology
subject: Abdomen
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: CT
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Staging
subject: Cancer
subject: Metastases
subject: Monoclonal antibodies

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Gastro-Intestinal Stromal Tumors (GIST)are the most common tumors of non-epithelial gastrointestinal tract.Since the introduction of molecular targeted drug, there has been increasing concern about the use of the traditional tumor response...
Polarization of neutron star surface emission: a systematic analysis
Creators: name: Taverna, Roberto
name: Turolla, Roberto
name: Caniulef, Denis Gonzalez
name: Zane, Silvia
name: Muleri, Fabio
name: Soffitta, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New-generation X-ray polarimeters currently under development promise to open a new window in the study of high-energy astrophysical sources. Among them, neutron stars appear particularly suited for polarization measurements. Radiation from the (cooling) surface of a neutron star is expected to exhibit a large intrinsic polarization degree due to the star strong magnetic field ($\approx 10^{12}-10^{15}$ G), which influences the plasma opacity in the outermost stellar layers. The polarization fraction and polarization angle as measured by an instrument, however, do not necessary coincide with the intrinsic ones derived from models of surface emission. This is due to the effects of quantum electrodynamics in the highly magnetized vacuum around the star (the vacuum polarization) coupled with the rotation of the Stokes parameters in the plane perpendicular to the line of sight induced by the non-uniform magnetic field. Here we revisit the problem and present an efficient method for computing the observed polarization fraction and polarization angle in the case of radiation coming from the entire surface of a neutron star, accounting for both vacuum polarization and geometrical effects due to the extended emitting region. Our approach is fairly general and is illustrated in the case of blackbody emission from a neutron star with either a dipolar or a (globally) twisted magnetic field.
description: 13 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Search for dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks in $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 530

description: (2017).
description: A search for weakly interacting massive particle dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks is presented. Final states containing third-generation quarks and missing transverse momentum are considered. The analysis uses 36.1 $fb^{-1}$ of proton-proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV in 2015 and 2016. No significant excess of events above the estimated backgrounds is observed. The results are interpreted in the framework of simplified models of spin-0 dark-matter mediators. For colour-neutral spin-0 mediators produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a pair of dark-matter particles, mediator masses below 50 GeV are excluded assuming a dark-matter candidate mass of 1 GeV and unitary couplings. For scalar and pseudoscalar mediators produced in association with bottom quarks, the search sets limits on the production cross-section of 300 times the predicted rate for mediators with masses between 10 and 50 GeV and assuming a dark-matter mass of 1 GeV and unitary coupling. Constraints on colour-charged scalar simplified models are also presented. Assuming a dark-matter particle mass of 35 GeV, mediator particles with mass below 1.1 TeV are excluded for couplings yielding a dark-matter relic density consistent with measurements.
Optimal transfers from Moon to $L_2$ halo orbit of the Earth-Moon system
Creators: name: Santos, L. B. T.
name: Almeida, Allan Kardec de
name: Sousa-Silva, P. A.
name: Terra, M. O.
name: Sanchez, D. M.
name: Prado, S. Aljbaae A. F. B. A.
name: Monteiro, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we seek optimal solutions for a transfer from a parking orbit around the Moon to a halo orbit around $L_2$ of the Earth-Moon system, by applying a single maneuver and exploiting the stable invariant manifold of the hyperbolic parking solution at arrival. For that, we propose an optimization problem considering as variables both the orbital characteristics of a parking solution around the Moon, (namely, its Keplerian elements) and the characteristics of a transfer trajectory guided by the stable manifold of the arrival Halo orbit. The problem is solved by a nonlinear programming method (NLP), aiming to minimize the cost of $ΔV$ to perform a single maneuver transfer, within the framework of the Earth-Moon system of the circular restricted three-body problem. Results with low $ΔV$ and suitable time of flight show the feasibility of this kind of transfer for a Cubesat.
title: How can MR help us in the diagnosis and treatment of normal pressure hydrocephalus?
Creators: name: Santos Montón, Cecilia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Dementia
subject: Decision analysis
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: Neuroradiology brain

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: The objectives of this poster are to know the usefulness of MR in the diagnosis of normal pressure hydrocephalus and to establish a treatment protocol according to the aquaeductal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow rates. Also, we want to determine...