cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Comparison of Crop Water Use Estimation Methodologies in Irrigated Crops
Creators: name: Christiansen, Laura
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: As increasing drought events limit water resources available for irrigation, farmers and other water users are looking for ways to monitor how much water crops use over a growing season. The amount of water used by crops over time is the evapotranspiration (ET) rate. This study compares different methods for ET estimation to recommend methods to water users based on their accuracy, efficiency, and accessibility. Each method was used to estimate ET for sprinkler-irrigated corn and alfalfa fields in Modena, UT over the 2021 growing season. The Soil Moisture based ET (SMET) method was used to estimate ET based on daily changes in the soil water content. The OpenET web platform [www.openetdata.org] and the OpenET Application Programming Interface (API) were used to retrieve ET estimates based on imagery from the Landsat satellite. ET estimates for the area were also retrieved from a Utah Department of Natural Resources (DNR) report. The eddy covariance (EC) method is accepted as the standard for estimating ET and served as the standard for the comparison of all other methods. Results indicate that while all methods underestimate ET, the SMET method agrees most closely to the EC method. Further analysis of the OpenET and Utah DNR methods is required to fully explain the reasons for the apparent ET estimation discrepancies. This study also highlights the advantages and limitations of each method.
(101915) Elizabeth Avery
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
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Creators: name: Cole, S.R.
name: Hudgens, M.G.
name: Westreich, D.
name: Edwards, J.K.
name: Buchanan, A.L.
name: Lesko, C.R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: We welcome the discussion by Huitfeldt and Stensrud on our recent article on generalizing study results. One assumption we listed in the set of sufficient conditions for generalizability was exchangeability between the study sample and the target population, perhaps conditional on a set of covariates
title: Metastatic Ewing sarcoma - a comparison between paediatric and adult patients
Creators: name: Oliveira Santos, Pedro
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Soft tissues / Skin
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Lung
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Biopsy
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Multidisciplinary cancer care
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Education and training

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The authors intend to compare metastatic patterns and survival time from diagnosis between paediatric and adult patients with Ewing sarcoma...
An HST/COS legacy survey of intervening SiIII absorption in the extended gaseous halos of low-redshift galaxies
Creators: name: Richter, P.
name: Wakker, B. P.
name: Fechner, C.
name: Herenz, P.
name: Tepper-Garcia, T.
name: Fox, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Doubly ionized silicon (SiIII) is a powerful tracer of diffuse ionized gas inside and outside of galaxies. It can be observed in the local Universe in ultraviolet (UV) absorption against bright extragalactic background sources. We here present an extensive study of intervening SiIII-selected absorbers and their relation to the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of galaxies at low redshift (z<=0.1), based on the analysis of UV absorption spectra along 303 extragalactic lines of sight obtained with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) on board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Along a total redshift path of Dz=24 we identify 69 intervening SiIII systems that all show associated absorption from other low and high ions. We derive a bias-corrected number density of dN/dz(SiIII)=2.5 for absorbers with column densities log N(SiIII)>12.2. We develop a geometrical model for the absorption-cross section of the CGM around the local galaxy population and find excellent agreement between the model predictions and the observations. We further compare redshifts and positions of the absorbers with that of ~64,000 galaxies using archival galaxy-survey data. For the majority of the absorbers we identify possible host galaxies within 300 km/s of the absorbers and derive impact parameters rho<200 kpc, demonstrating that the spatial distributions of SiIII absorbers and galaxies are highly correlated. Our study indicates that the majority of SiIII-selected absorbers in our sample trace the CGM of nearby galaxies within their virial radii at a typical covering fraction of ~70 per cent. From a detailed ionization model we estimate that diffuse gas in the CGM around galaxies, as traced by SiIII, contains substantially more baryonic mass than their neutral interstellar medium.
description: 32 pages, 17 figures; final version accepted for publication in A&A
title: Intracranial hypotension syndrome: A radiologist's approach to the "saggy" brain
Creators: name: Naval Baudin, Pablo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cerebrospinal fluid
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Nuclear medicine conventional
subject: MR
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: CNS

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Review the pathophysiology of Intracranial Hypotension Syndrome (IHS) and understand its etiology as spontaneous or acquired. Understand the spectrum of imaging findings of the syndrome in the different imaging modalities such as brain and spine...
title: Insights into Phosphoryl Transfer by the Thermophilic Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, SsoPTP
Creators: name: Pinkston, Justin
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: Any organism, regardless of complexity, needs a reliable method for cell-to-cell communication. Phosphorylation is one of nature’s favorite ways of assisting cells in signal transduction. Conversely, dephosphorylation, the removal of phosphate, is the cell’s way of attenuating the signal provided by the initial phosphorylation. Without phosphatases, the hydrolysis of a phosphate monoester would take approximately 1 trillion years. However, with an enzyme catalyzing the reaction, it takes mere seconds. This dissertation focuses on a subfamily of phosphatases called protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs). PTPs specifically target phosphorylated tyrosines. A well-known example of PTPs is PTP1B, which specifically targets the human insulin receptor. Therefore, PTP1B is an excellent research target to study type 2 diabetes and obesity. Enzymes within the PTP family, like PTP1B, demonstrate clear protein motions that correlate with catalytic rate. We seek to explore the finer workings of phosphoryl transfer within this document by examining an archaeal thermophilic PTP, SsoPTP. Through the characterization of SsoPTP, we believe that our understanding of the role of protein motions within the family of PTPs will improve. Additionally, it is believed that archaeal enzymes like SsoPTP were the first PTPs in nature. The data found in these studies could provide further insights into how evolution has transformed phosphatases into some of the most powerful enzymes known.
PALS investigations of free volumes thermal expansion of J-PET plastic scintillator synthesized in polystyrene matrix
Creators: name: Wieczorek, A.
name: Zgardzińska, B.
name: Jasińska, B.
name: Gorgol, M.
name: Bednarski, T.
name: Białas, P.
name: Czerwiński, E.
name: Gajos, A.
name: Kamińska, D.
name: Kapłon, Ł.
name: Kochanowski, A.
name: Korcyl, G.
name: Kowalski, P.
name: Kozik, T.
name: Krzemień, W.
name: Kubicz, E.
name: Niedźwiecki, S.
name: Pałka, M.
name: Raczyński, L.
name: Rudy, Z.
name: Rundel, O.
name: Sharma, N. G.
name: Silarski, M.
name: Słomski, A.
name: Strzelecki, A.
name: Wiślicki, W.
name: Zieliński, M.
name: Moskal, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The polystyrene dopped with 2,5-diphenyloxazole as a primary fluor and 2-(4-styrylphenyl)benzoxazole as a wavelength shifter, prepared as a plastic scintillator was investigated using positronium probe in wide range of temperatures from 123 to 423 K. Three structural transitions at 260 K, 283 K and 370 K were found in the material. In the o-Ps intensity dependence on temperature, the significant hysteresis is observed. Heated to 370 K, the material exhibits the o-Ps intensity variations in time.
description: in Nukleonika 2015
Genome-wide signatures of convergent evolution in barnacle and mollusc phenotypes
Creators: name: Yuan, Jianbo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Phenotypic convergence is widespread in nature, but the degree of genetic convergence between extremely divergent taxa, e.g. inter-phyla of Crustacea and Mollusca, is not yet clear. Barnacles are an ideal model with which to study this issue because they are a unique group of crustaceans that share phenotypes with more similarities with many molluscs, including calcareous shells, a sessile lifestyle and intertidal habitats. Herein, we report the chromosome-level genome assembly of a stalked barnacle, Capitulum mitella, and reveal a genome-wide strong convergent molecular evolution in barnacles and molluscs, including coexpansion of biomineralization and antistress genes and origination of lineage-specific orphan genes for their settlement. Some expanded gene families, e.g. lectin BRA and HSP70B2, are even only present in these two groups of organisms but not in their nonshell/non-intertidal relatives. Thus, barnacles adopt similar mechanisms to molluscs for shell formation, settlement and intertidal adaptation. However, unlike molluscs, barnacles have undergone whole-genome duplication for their adaptive evolution of intertidal sessile life and adopted different holdfast systems for settlement and novel organic matrixes for shell formation. Therefore, we suggest that selection pressures driving convergent evolution may strongly act in organisms inhabiting similar environments regardless of phylogenetic distance. The convergence signatures shed light on the origin of the shell and sessile lifestyle of barnacles and molluscs, while non-convergence signatures contribute to their morphological and functional specificities.
description: Funding provided by: National Natural Science Foundation of China
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001809
Award Number: 42176105Funding provided by: National Natural Science Foundation of China
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001809
Award Number: 31830100Funding provided by: National Natural Science Foundation of China
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001809
Award Number: 41876167
title: GPUs parallel computing exploitation for neuroimaging
Creators: name: Giuliano, Alessia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computer applications
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR
subject: Computer Applications-General
subject: Image registration
subject: Image verification
subject: Speech disorders

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Dedicated computing environments are becoming increasingly important in neuroimaging applications. Indeed we are experiencing a fast development of non-invasive technologies that progress the research on human brain. These advanced techniques, such...
Timing of Initiation of Antiretroviral Therapy and Risk of Preterm Birth in Studies of HIV-infected Pregnant Women: The Role of Selection Bias
Creators: name: Cole, S.R.
name: Price, J.
name: Stringer, J.S.A.
name: Stoner, M.C.D.
name: Winston, J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Background: Women who initiate antiretroviral therapy (ART) during pregnancy are reported to have lower risk of preterm birth compared with those who enter pregnancy care already receiving ART. We hypothesize this association can be largely attributed to selection bias. Methods: We simulated a cohort of 1000 preconceptional, HIV-infected women, where half were randomly allocated to receive immediate ART and half to delay ART until their presentation for pregnancy care. Gestational age at delivery was drawn from population data unrelated to randomization group (i.e., the true effect of delayed ART was null). Outcomes of interest were preterm birth (<37 weeks), very preterm birth (<32 weeks), and extreme preterm birth (<28 weeks). We analyzed outcomes in 2 ways: (1) a prospectively enrolled clinical trial, where all women were considered (the intent-to-treat (ITT) analysis); and (2) an observational study, where women who deliver before initiating ART were excluded (the naïve analysis). We explored the impact of later ART initiation and gestational age measurement error on our findings. Results: Preconception ART initiation was not associated with preterm birth in ITT analyses. Risk ratios (RRs) for the effect of preconception ART initiation were RR = 1.10 (preterm), RR = 1.41 (very preterm), and RR = 5.01 (extreme preterm) in naïve analyses. Selection bias increased in the naïve analysis with advancing gestational age at ART initiation and with introduction of gestational age measurement error. Conclusions: Analyses of preterm birth that compare a preconception exposure to one that occurs in pregnancy are at risk of selection bias. See video abstract at, http://links.lww.com/EDE/B313.
Do Genetic Markers of Inflammation Modify the Relationship between Periodontitis and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease? Findings from the SHIP Study
Creators: name: Barritt, A.S.
name: Lerch, M.
name: Mayerle, J.
name: Akinkugbe, A.A.
name: Heiss, G.
name: Petersmann, A.
name: Holtfreter, B.
name: Offenbacher, S.
name: Kocher, T.
name: Avery, C.L.
name: Völzke, H.
name: Slade, G.D.
name: Nauck, M.
name: Cole, S.R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: An association between periodontitis and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has been reported by experimental animal and epidemiologic studies. This study investigated whether circulating levels of serum C-reactive protein (CRP) and a weighted genetic CRP score representing markers of inflammatory burden modify the association between periodontitis and NAFLD. Data came from 2,481 participants of the Study of Health in Pomerania who attended baseline examination that occurred between 1997 and 2001. Periodontitis was defined as the percentage of sites (0%, <30%, ≥30%) with probing pocket depth (PD) ≥4 mm, and NAFLD status was determined using liver ultrasound assessment. Serum CRP levels were assayed at a central laboratory, and single-nucleotide polymorphisms previously identified through genome-wide association studies as robustly associated with serum CRP were combined into a weighted genetic CRP score (wGSCRP). Logistic regression models estimated the association between periodontitis and NAFLD within strata of serum CRP and separately within strata of the wGSCRP. The prevalence of NAFLD was 26.4% (95% confidence interval [CI], 24.6, 28.1) while 17.8% (95% CI, 16.0–19.6) had ≥30% of sites with PD ≥4 mm. Whereas the wGSCRP was not a modifier (Pinteraction = 0.8) on the multiplicative scale, serum CRP modified the relationship between periodontitis and NAFLD (Pinteraction = 0.01). The covariate-adjusted prevalence odds ratio of NAFLD comparing participants with ≥30% of sites with PD ≥4 mm to those with no site affected was 2.39 (95% CI, 1.32–4.31) among participants with serum CRP <1 mg/L. The corresponding estimate was 0.97 (95% CI, 0.57–1.66) for participants with serum CRP levels of 1 to 3 mg/L and 1.12 (95% CI, 0.65–1.93) for participants with serum CRP >3 mg/L. Periodontitis was positively associated with higher prevalence odds of NAFLD, and this relationship was modified by serum CRP levels.
title: Missed breast cancer. A radiopathological review of causes and and tips to avoid them.
Creators: name: Azpeitia Armán, Francisco Javier
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Mammography
subject: Breast

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To review apparently benign imaging findings which may be hiding a malignant lesion , emphasizing causes of missed cancers , pitfalls , diagnostic difficulties and differential diagnosis . To analize the relationship between mammograms, US and MR...
(101912) Henry Chesmer Poulden Day
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
The intrinsic curvature of thermodynamic potentials for black holes with critical points
Creators: name: Dolan, Brian P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The geometry of thermodynamic state space is studied for asymptotically anti-de Sitter black holes in D-dimensional space times. Convexity of thermodynamic potentials and the analytic structure of the response functions is analysed. The thermodynamic potentials can be used to define a metric on the space of thermodynamic variables and two commonly used such metrics are the Weinhold metric, derived from the internal energy, and the Ruppeiner metric, derived from the entropy. The intrinsic curvature of these metrics is calculated for charged and for rotating black holes and it is shown that the curvature diverges when heat capacities diverge but, contrary to general expectations, the singularities in the Ricci scalars do not reflect the critical behaviour. When a cosmological constant is included as a state space variable it can be interpreted as a pressure and the thermodynamically conjugate variable as a thermodynamic volume. The geometry of the resulting extended thermodynamic state space is also studied, in the context of rotating black holes, and there are curvature singularities when the heat capacity at constant angular velocity diverges and when the black hole is incompressible. Again the critical behaviour is not visible in the singularities of the thermodynamic Ricci scalar.
description: 35 pages, 3 figures
Effect of the Intestinal Protein Snakeskin on the Lifespan of Fruit Flies: A Kaplan-Meier Survival Analysissource Draft (1)
Creators: name: Hallare, Maila
name: Panayotova, Iordanka
name: Salazar, Anna
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2023

description: In this activity, students perform the Kaplan-Meier survival analysis on raw data obtained from an experiment that explores the effect of overexpressing the Snakeskin (Ssk) protein on the lifespan of a population of fruit flies. This tight junction equivalent protein is expressed at higher levels than normal specifically in the gut and throughout the entire lifespan of the flies. Because aging guts are accompanied by both a mislocalization and a decrease in the expression levels of junctional proteins, including Ssk, it was hypothesized that overexpressing Ssk may lead to a healthier fly with a longer lifespan. This data will be analyzed in order to determine if there is a significant difference between the control flies in which no overexpression occurs and the experimental group in which Ssk is overexpressed.
Mortality under plausible interventions on antiretroviral treatment and depression in HIV-infected women: an application of the parametric g-formula
Creators: name: Gange, S.
name: Kassaye, S.
name: French, A.
name: Kempf, M.-C.
name: Cole, S.R.
name: Milam, J.
name: Wingood, G.
name: Anastos, K.
name: Bacchetti, P.
name: Rubtsova, A.
name: Gange, S.J.
name: Tien, P.
name: Gustafson, D.
name: Greenblatt, R.
name: Ofotokun, I.
name: Adimora, A.
name: Todd, J.V.
name: Konkle-Parker, D.
name: Fischl, M.
name: Edwards, J.K.
name: Minkoff, H.
name: Adimora, A.A.
name: Saag, M.
name: Mack, W.J.
name: WIHS Investigators
name: Cohen, M.
name: Golub, E.
name: Edmonds, A.
name: Aouizerat, B.
name: Pence, B.W.
name: Metsch, L.
name: Lesko, C.R.
name: Young, M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Purpose Among HIV-infected persons, antiretroviral therapy (ART) and depression are strongly associated with mortality. We estimated reductions in 5-year mortality in Women's Interagency HIV Study participants under plausible hypothetical increases in ART initiation and reductions in depression (CES-D score≥16). Methods We followed 885 ART-naïve Women's Interagency HIV Study participants for 5 years from their first study visit after April 1998 to death or censoring. We used the parametric extended g-formula to estimate cumulative mortality under the natural course (NC) and alternative exposure distributions. Results Baseline prevalence of depression was 52% and 62% initiated ART by 5 years. Compared with mortality under NC (13.2%), immediate ART and elimination of 36% or 67% of depressive episodes were associated with risk differences (RDs) of −5.2% (95% CI: −7.7%, −2.6%) and −5.7 (95% CI: −8.7, −2.7). Compared with immediate ART and NC for depression, additionally eliminating 67% of the depressive episodes was associated with RD = −1.6 (95% CI: −3.9, 0.8). Compared with 5-year mortality under NC for ART and elimination of 67% of depression, also initiating ART immediately was associated with RD = -2.6 (95% CI: -5.0, -0.3). Conclusions Increasing ART initiation and reducing depression were associated with moderate reductions in 5-year mortality among HIV-infected women.
Molecular geometric phase from the exact electron-nuclear factorization
Creators: name: Requist, Ryan
name: Tandetzky, Falk
name: Gross, E. K. U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Born-Oppenheimer electronic wavefunction $Φ_R^{BO}(r)$ picks up a topological phase factor $\pm 1$, a special case of Berry phase, when it is transported around a conical intersection of two adiabatic potential energy surfaces in $R$-space. We show that this topological quantity reverts to a geometric quantity $e^{iγ}$ if the geometric phase $γ= \oint \mathrm{Im} \langle Φ_R |\nabla_μ Φ_R\rangle \cdot d\mathbf{R}_μ$ is evaluated with the conditional electronic wavefunction $Φ_R(r)$ from the exact electron-nuclear factorization $Φ_R(r)χ(R)$ instead of the adiabatic function $Φ_R^{BO}(r)$. A model of a pseudorotating molecule, also applicable to dynamical Jahn-Teller ions in bulk crystals, provides the first examples of induced vector potentials and molecular geometric phase from the exact factorization. The induced vector potential gives a contribution to the circulating nuclear current which cannot be removed by a gauge transformation. The exact potential energy surface is calculated and found to contain a term depending on the Fubini-Study metric for the conditional electronic wavefunction.
title: Can We Use Diffusion Weighted-MRI to Differentiate Cerebellopontine Angle Meningioma and Vestibular Schwannoma?
Creators: name: Samadov, Parviz
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Neuroradiology brain

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Vestibular schwannoma and meningioma are the two most common tumors originating from cerebellopontine angle (1). Tumors of cerebellopontine angle cause non-specific symptoms and findings. Most of these symptoms are related to the structures effected...
title: Developing a Methane Detector for Aerospace Applications
Creators: name: Kirk, Michael A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: Greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere are raising the global temperature and causing adverse side effects. Of these greenhouse gasses, methane is one of the most impactful, second only to carbon dioxide. One of the methods for determining the concentration of methane in the atmosphere is taking images of the earth from space. The purpose of this project is to further a new imaging technology for detecting methane leaks called FINIS (Filter Incidence Narrow-band Infrared Spectrometer), thus improving our capability to detect and locate methane leaks and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. FINIS has been developed in various stages since 2018 and has been accepted to fly on a CubeSat called ACMES (Active Cooling for Multispectral Earth Sensors) in 2024. My thesis will explore a new and optimized design for FINIS to be implemented on a CubeSat and determine whether it can survive the space environment. As part of the design and testing process, we will determine whether the precision of the FINIS instrument is comparable to other satellites observing methane. FINIS is estimated to be more compact, capable, and affordable than previous space-based sensors and has the potential for providing a next-generation methane sensor.
title: Ultrasound Physics: How to optimise our renal transplant scans
Creators: name: Sivarasan, Nishanth
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Transplantation
subject: Acute
subject: Education
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Kidney
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To be familiarwith the mainultrasound settings available on current machines Tounderstand how altering these settings will change the images that we acquire (for better and for worse) To identify how we can apply the above, specifically to renal...
(101913) Jeremy Taylor Digby
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Usefulness of low tube voltage protocol during neck CT examination
Creators: name: Oku, Takayuki
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Kv imaging
subject: Image verification
subject: Dosimetric comparison
subject: Dosimetry
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Comparative studies
subject: CT
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Head and neck
subject: Contrast agents

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Thyroid cancer is the most common malignancy of the endocrine system, representing 3.8% of all new cancer cases in the United States of America and is the ninth most common cancer in the world. The American Cancer Society foresees an estimated...
title: Gendered Agency in (post-) conflict spaces
title: The Engagement of Iraqi Women in NGOs
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Henrizi, Annika
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Konflikt
subject: Feminismus
subject: Gesellschaft
subject: Politik
subject: Aktivismus
subject: Agency
subject: Raum
subject: Gender
subject: 303 Gesellschaftliche Prozesse
subject: Frieden
subject: Irak

description: What role do women play in civil society in post-conflict Iraq, what kind of challenges do arise and how do they regard their own engagement relating to Iraqi society? Until now, research on Iraq post 2003 has focussed on the aftermath of war, processes of political institution building and democratization. International peacebuilding efforts in Iraq have been widely criticised by practitioners and academics. Without neglecting these critiques, I elaborate how external intervention has also created spaces for Iraqi women to exercise different forms of agency. Critical approaches in peace and conflict studies often limit so-called “local” agency to resisting liberal agendas, assuming persistent binaries between local and international spaces. I seek to outline a concept of gendered agency that integrates a relational conceptualisation of space into the hitherto applied understandings of agency. Drawing on empirical evidence from Iraq, I elaborate how a relational theory of space contributes to grasping hybrid realities and notions of agency on the ground. Beyond analysing spaces of agency for women in (post-) conflict Iraq, I discuss the value of incorporating a relational understanding of space into critical peacebuilding studies.
Effect of Test Anxiety on Academic Achievement of Students’ in Colleges of Education in Lagos State
Creators: name: Richard, UDOFIA, I.G.
name: Mumuni, Malik Adekunle
name: David, TOPOHOZIN,
name: Abidogun, Moruf Adebayo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Applied Psychology
subject: Developmental and Educational Psychology
subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 170103 Educational Psychology
subject: 170106 Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology

description: The study examined the effect of test anxiety package on academic performance in colleges of education. True experimental research design was used by the researchers. The population of the study was all Pre-service teachers in Lagos State while the target population consisted of 200 level teacher trainees in Colleges of Education. A purposive sampling technique was used to select 30 students each from the School of Vocational and Technical Education, SVTE to make a total sample size of 60 teacher trainees across two Colleges of Education in the state. A self constructed Achievement Test on “Educational Psychology and Educational Test and Measurement, using a 4-option response objective format on a 30-item was used to collect data. Akinade's Test Anxiety's Package, a 12-items standardised instrument was adapted by the researchers. However, through the use of cronbach alpha, a measure of reliability, an index value of 0.81 was derived meaning suitable for usage. Analysis of Variance, ANOVA, and t-test was used to analyse the data and tested at 0.05 level of significance. Findings revealed that the three null hypotheses were rejected and the conclusion has it that effective administration of test anxiety package goes a long way to improve performance of students. It then recommended among others that the use of test anxiety package should be introduced to learners at all levels and categories in other to reduce the rise in failure rate of students in teacher- made and standardised tests.
title: Evaluating Strategies for Anemone and Ranunculus Cut Flower Production in the US Intermountain West
Creators: name: Rauter, Shannon
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: National growth in small-scale, specialty cut flower farms is reflected in Utah, where 145 members have joined the Utah Cut Flower Farm Association since its 2019 founding. Cool season cut flower production is limited in Utah and the Intermountain West by a narrow harvest window and elevated soil salinity. The objective of this research was to optimize production systems for anemone (Anemone coronaria L.) and ranunculus (Ranunculus asiaticus L.) in the Intermountain West by evaluating season advancement methods within a high tunnel and field production system, as well as the salinity sensitivity of each species. Fall planting dates, combinations of low tunnels and straw mulch, pre-sprouting, and cultivars were trialed in North Logan, UT from 2019 to 2022. Up to four cultivars of anemone tubers and ranunculus tuberous roots were presprouted or directly planted into a high tunnel (left bare or covered with low tunnels) or field (left bare or covered with mulch, a low tunnel, or mulch and a low tunnel) from November to April and evaluated for harvest timing, yield, stem quality, and profitability. Additionally, anemone and ranunculus were grown in pots in a greenhouse, irrigated with nutrient solutions with electrical conductivities (EC) from 0.5 dS·m-1 to 5.5 dS·m-1 for eight weeks, and evaluated for growth, yield, and gas exchange parameters to determine their salinity sensitivity. For anemone, planting pre-sprouted tubers under low tunnels in the high tunnel in November delivered the earliest harvest (2 Mar.), greatest marketable yield (280 stems per m2), and greatest net returns ($38 per m2), with 32% greater marketable yield for ‘Galilee’ than ‘Carmel.’ For ranunculus, planting pre-sprouted tuberous roots in the high tunnel in November delivered the earliest harvest (6 Apr.), greatest marketable yield (286 stems per m2), and greatest net returns ($54 per m2), with 39% greater marketable yield for ‘LaBelle’ than ‘Amandine.’ In the salinity trial, visual quality, plant growth, and net photosynthesis decreased when plants were irrigated with EC 2.5 dS·m–1 and above, indicating that the irrigation salinity tolerance threshold for both anemone and ranunculus is likely between 0.5 and 2.5 dS·m–1. High-yielding cultivars, pre-sprouting, fall-planting in high tunnels with frost cloth, and managing soil salinity are recommended for Intermountain West anemone and ranunculus growers.
Thermoelectric Signatures of Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking States in Multiband Superconductors
Creators: name: Garaud, Julien
name: Silaev, Mihail
name: Babaev, Egor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that superconductors with broken time-reversal symmetry have very specific magnetic and electric responses to inhomogeneous heating. A local heating of such superconductors induces a magnetic field with a profile that is sensitive to the presence of domain walls and crystalline anisotropy of superconducting states. A nonstationary heating process produces an electric field and a charge imbalance in different bands. These effects can be measured and used to distinguish $s+is$ and $s+id$ superconducting states in the candidate materials such as Ba$_{1-x}$K$_x$Fe$_2$As$_2$.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures; Videos associated with this manuscript can be found as ancillary files
title: The Relationship of Milk Urea Nitrogen and DHIA Production Variables in Western Commercial Dairy Herds
Creators: name: Johnson, Rachael G.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2001

description: Monthly individual cow DHIA test records (approximately 90,000) from 96 Holstein and Jersey herds from Utah, Idaho, and Montana were analyzed used the Mixed procedure in SAS to determine the relationships of milk production parameters to milk urea N (MUN). Records spanned two consecutive years ending December 2000. Means for Holsteins were 34.1 kg/d milk yield, 15.2 mg/dl MUN, 3.18% milk protein, 3.5% milk fat, and 280,000 somatic cell count. Mean MUN for Holsteins was lowest in fall (Oct.-Dec) and highest in winter and spring. Cows with highest milk protein percent (≥ 3.2%) had lowest MUN over all levels of milk yield. Means for Jerseys were 21.9 kg/d milk yield, 13.7 mg/dl MUN, 3.73% milk protein, 4.6% milk fat, and 329,000 SCC. Mean MUN for Jerseys was lowest in summer and fall (June-Dec), while cows with the highest protein % (≥ 3.8%) did not have significantly different MUN concentrations from groups with lower milk protein %. Mean MUN, by 30 DIM increments, followed a curvilinear shape, similar to a lactation curve. Models suggest that as MUN increases, pregnancy status decreases, especially in Jerseys. Mixed multivariate models showed that milk yield, protein %, month of test, and lactation number were significantly related to MUN concentration, with milk yield having the greatest effect on MUN variation for Holstein cows 979% of sum of squares) and lactation category contributing the most variation in Jerseys (34.1% of sum of squares). Nitrogen utilization and NRC equations predicted the amount of crude protein provided to cows based on milk production variables and MUN concentrations. Ration crude protein % exceeded requirements in some cases. The study data show that MUN may be associated with DHIA production variables and can be used to evaluate CP in rations. It is important to consider production variables, especially milk protein percent, when developing optimal MUN concentrations relative to nutrient requirements under western conditions.
title: Ultrasound elastography in the evaluation of chronic liver disease: Applications, techniques, and pitfalls
Creators: name: Coulson, Peter
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Liver
subject: Ultrasound physics
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Elastography
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Cirrhosis
subject: Inflammation

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: -Discuss the available methods of assessing hepatic fibrosis and the advantages of ultrasound elastography -Understand the applications of ultrasound elastography and basic elastography technique -Discuss the limitations of elastography and...
(101916) Charles William Loftus Digby
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Dietary intake and risk of non-severe hypoglycemia in adolescents with type 1 diabetes
Creators: name: Gordon-Larsen, P.
name: Crandell, J.L.
name: Kahkoska, A.R.
name: Zhong, V.W.
name: Forlenza, G.P.
name: Cole, S.R.
name: Seid, M.
name: Juhaeri, J.
name: Mayer-Davis, E.J.
name: Maahs, D.M.
name: Shay, C.M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Aims To determine the association between dietary intake and risk of non-severe hypoglycemia in adolescents with type 1 diabetes. Methods Type 1 adolescents from a randomized trial wore a blinded continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system at baseline for one week in free-living conditions. Dietary intake was calculated as the average from two 24-h dietary recalls. Non-severe hypoglycemia was defined as having blood glucose < 70 mg/dL for ≥ 10 min but not requiring external assistance, categorized as daytime and nocturnal (11 PM–7AM). Data were analyzed using logistic regression models. Results Among 98 participants with 14,277 h of CGM data, 70 had daytime hypoglycemia, 66 had nocturnal hypoglycemia, 55 had both, and 17 had neither. Soluble fiber and protein intake were positively associated with both daytime and nocturnal hypoglycemia. Glycemic index, monounsaturated fat, and polyunsaturated fat were negatively associated with daytime hypoglycemia only. Adjusting for total daily insulin dose per kilogram eliminated all associations. Conclusions Dietary intake was differentially associated with daytime and nocturnal hypoglycemia. Over 80% of type 1 adolescents had hypoglycemia in a week, which may be attributed to the mismatch between optimal insulin dose needed for each meal and actually delivered insulin dose without considering quality of carbohydrate and nutrients beyond carbohydrate.
title: Pituitary Stalk Interruption Syndrome: A briefing.
Creators: name: Benítez Rivero, Sonia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Paediatric
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Endocrine disorders
subject: Congenital
subject: Metabolic disorders

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The aim of this educational poster is to explain the key features of the pituitary stalk interruption syndrome (PSIS) with a special focus on the clinico-radiological correlation, and the differences between the childhood and adulthood forms of...
title: A pictorial review of uncommon renal neoplasms.
Creators: name: Benítez Rivero, Sonia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Pathology
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Oncology
subject: Kidney
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To provide a pictorial review of various rare renal neoplasms and establish a retrospective correlation between the final specimen and the radiologic features of the...
(101909) Ada Eliza Tucker
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Centrality dependence of pion freeze-out radii in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{\mathbf{s_{NN}}}$=2.76 TeV
Creators: name: ALICE Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the measurement of freeze-out radii for pairs of identical-charge pions measured in Pb--Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=2.76$ TeV as a function of collision centrality and the average transverse momentum of the pair $k_{\rm T}$. Three-dimensional sizes of the system (femtoscopic radii), as well as direction-averaged one-dimensional radii are extracted. The radii decrease with $k_{\rm T}$, following a power-law behavior. This is qualitatively consistent with expectations from a collectively expanding system, produced in hydrodynamic calculations. The radii also scale linearly with $\left< \mathrm{d}N_{\rm ch}/\mathrm{d}η\right>^{1/3}$. This behaviour is compared to world data on femtoscopic radii in heavy-ion collisions. While the dependence is qualitatively similar to results at smaller $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$, a decrease in the $R_{\rm out}/R_{\rm side}$ ratio is seen, which is in qualitative agreement with specific predictions from hydrodynamic models. The results provide further evidence for the production of a collective, strongly coupled system in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC.
description: 28 pages, 9 captioned figures, 1 table, authors from page 23, published version, figures at http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/1816
title: Approaches to Supplementing Silicon in Soilless Media and the Value of Silicon in the Mitigation of Drought Stress
Creators: name: Dey, Mackenzie Grace
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: Silicon (Si) is not considered an essential element for plants to complete their lifecycle, but is known to be beneficial for plants under environmental stress such as drought. Unlike natural soils, Si is minimally bioavailable in soilless media. With indoor agriculture and greenhouse production increasing, the benefits of Si have been seen and Si should be supplemented. This work aimed to characterize and quantify the dissolution of Si from media substrates and additives to achieve a steady-state release of Si in soilless media. Typical media components such as coconut coir, peat moss, perlite, rock wool, sand, and vermiculite minimally released Si and depleted within 60 days. Wollastonite, a calcium silicate mineral, and rice hulls steadily released Si in water. The dissolution of wollastonite rapidly released bioavailable Si in peat-based media, but decreased over 120 days while rice hulls gradually released. Both amendments increased coconut coir and peat-based media pH. Either would provide bioavailable Si over the lifecycle of many crop species. To test the dissolution of Si, wollastonite was used to amend peat-based media to grow Cannabis sativa L. under precision drought stress. Precision drought stress can be a useful method for growers to maintain plant size and photosynthetic rates, but it is a sensitive system to balance. We hypothesized that Si would increase the resiliency of Cannabis in this system under drought stress. Although Si supplementation did not increase tolerance of Cannabis to drought stress, Si supplementation inhibited powdery mildew (Golovinomyces sp.), a common fungal disease in outdoor and indoor production, in all three trials compared to Si non-supplemented treatments. Silicon is a beneficial nutrient for crops that should be supplemented in soilless media to increase tolerance to environmental stress such as drought stress and biotic stress such as fungal disease, but requires further study.