cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Carotid ultrasound in the assessment of atherosclerosis: a guide for residents
Creators: name: Gil Guerra, Ana Belén
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Vascular
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Ultrasound-Spectral Doppler
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Arteriosclerosis
subject: Embolism / Thrombosis

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Standardization of the carotid ultrasound protocol. Review of the imaging features and hemodynamic related parameters in carotid...
Automated Explanation Selection for Scientific Discovery
Creators: name: Iser, Markus
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2024
Subjects: automated reasoning
explainable artificial intelligence
scientific epistemology

description: Automated reasoning is a key technology in the young but rapidly growing field of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI). Explanability helps build trust in artificial intelligence systems beyond their mere predictive accuracy and robustness. In this position paper, we propose a cycle of scientific discovery that combines machine learning with automated reasoning for the generation and the selection of explanations. We present a taxonomy of explanation selection problems that draws on insights from sociology and cognitive science. These selection criteria subsume existing notions and extend them with new properties.
An exploratory study of the role of emotion regulation and emotional intelligence in compassion satisfaction and fatigue among doctors and nurses
Creators: name: Jackson-Koku, Gordon
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Occupational Health
stress
doctors
nurses
emotion
emotion regulation
emotional intelligence
compassion satisfaction
compassion fatigue
burnout
mental health

description: Aim: To explore relationships between emotion management strategies (ER), emotional intelligence (EI), and compassion satisfaction (CS) and fatigue (CF) in doctors and nurses at a large National Health Service (NHS) Hospital in the United Kingdom (UK).Objective: To identify predicting variable(s) for compassion satisfaction and fatigue in doctors and nurses.Method: Four hundred and eighty-seven participants completed questionnaires assessing six possible explanatory variables for compassion satisfaction and fatigue: (i) intrapersonal EI (ii) interpersonal EI, (iii) cognitive reappraisal, (iv) cognitive fusion, (v) expressive suppression, and (vi) emotional contagion. Two open-ended questionnaire items assessed the best and worst aspects of doctors and nurses’ roles that might be associated with emotional stress and potentially influence CS and CF. Data Analysis: Descriptive statistics, correlations, regression, and mediation analysis were undertaken. The two open-ended items were analysed using content analysis. Results: Only cognitive reappraisal and intra-personal EI predicted CS positively and CF negatively. Intra-personal EI was the stronger predictor. It predicted CS (β = .29, p < .001) and CF (β = - .35, p < .001) versus cognitive reappraisal CS (β = .27, p < .001) and CF (β = - .15, p < .001). Intrapersonal EI also partially mediated relationships between cognitive reappraisal and CS (b = .59, BCI .298, .927) and between cognitive reappraisal and CF (b = -.72, BCI -1.099, -.378). Content analysis of the two open-ended questionnaire items demonstrated that 54% of the enjoyable aspects of participants’ roles related to direct patient care/contact, while 60% of the least enjoyable aspects related to workplace stress, bureaucracy, lack of support and resources, and workplace politics. This provides contextual support for the main quantitative findings above, and reiterates the importance of supporting development of intrapersonal emotional intelligence skills which does help enhance reappraisal strategies required to manage undesirable effects of workplace stressors like negative emotions e.g. anger or anxiety, that can influence CS and CF. Conclusion: Intrapersonal EI represents an important target variable for possible psychological interventions aimed at enhancing CS and reducing CF in doctors and nurses in clinical settings.
title: Protocol-driven multi-detector SPECT/CT - integration of hybrid imaging into the routine workflow of whole-body bone scintigraphy in oncology patients
Creators: name: Scarsbrook, Andrew
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: SPECT-CT
subject: Nuclear medicine conventional
subject: Oncology
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Hybrid Imaging
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Introduction : Hybrid imaging with multi-detector single photon emission tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT) has evolved substantially since the first SPECT/CT scanner became commercially available in the late 1990s. Gamma camera technology...
Numerical operator method for the real time dynamics of strongly-correlated quantum impurity systems far from equilibrium
Creators: name: Wang, Pei
name: Cohen, Guy
name: Xu, Shaojun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a method for studying the real time dynamics of Heisenberg operators in strongly-interacting nonequilibrium quantum impurity models. Our method is applicable to a wide range of interaction strengths and to bias voltages beyond the linear response regime, works at zero temperature, and overcomes the finite-size limitations faced by other numerical methods. We compare our method with quantum Monte Carlo simulations at a strong interaction strength, at which no analytical method is applicable up to now. We find a very good coincidence of the results at high bias voltage, and in the short time period at low bias voltage. We discuss the possible reason of the deviation in the long time period at low bias voltage. We also find a good coincidence of our results with the perturbation results at weak interactions.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Governança na administração vai além do combate à corrupção Revista Consultor Jurídico, fev. 2017.
Creators: name: Motta, Fabrício
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160603 Comparative Government and Politics
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 220204 History and Philosophy of Law and Justice
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 180120 Legal Institutions (incl. Courts and Justice Systems)
subject: FOS: Law

description: Governança é uma das muitas palavras que migraram, nas últimas décadas, do mundo corporativo para o peculiar universo do serviço público brasileiro. Com a leveza que lhe é peculiar, há tempos escreveu Lya Luft [2]: “Palavras assustadas mais do que fatos: às vezes é assim. (...) Viemos ao mundo para dar nome às coisas: dessa forma nos tornamos senhores delas ou servos de quem as batizar antes de nós ”. A palavra governança, nessa linha, pode assumir feições assustadoras ou mágicas, de acordo com o entendimento mais ou menos elástico que se lhe atribuem. Na esteira dos trabalhos realizados pelo Tribunal de Contas da União, o Decreto define governança pública como o “conjunto de liderança, estratégia e controles em prática para avaliar, direcionar e monitorar a gestão,
title: Spatial Connections between Microplastics and Heavy Metal Pollution within Floodplain Soils
Creators: name: Weber, Collin J.
name: Hahn, Jens
name: Opp, Christian
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2022

description: Soils contain an increasing number of different pollutants, which are often released into the environment by human activity. Among the “new” potential pollutants are plastics and microplastics. “Recognized” pollutants such as heavy metals, of geogenic and anthropogenic origin, now meet purely anthropogenic contaminants such as plastic particles. Those can meet especially in floodplain landscapes and floodplain soils, because of their function as a temporary sink for sediments, nutrients, and pollutants. Based on a geospatial sampling approach, we analyzed the soil properties and heavy metal contents (ICP-MS) in soil material and macroplastic particles, and calculated total plastic concentrations (Ptot) from preliminary studies. Those data were used to investigate spatial connections between both groups of pollutants. Our results from the example of the Lahn river catchment show a low-to-moderate contamination of the floodplain soils with heavy metals and a wide distribution of plastic contents up to a depth of two meters. Furthermore, we were able to document heavy metal contents in macroplastic particles. Spatial and statistical correlations between both pollutants were found. Those correlations are mainly expressed by a comparable variability in concentrations across the catchment and in a common accumulation in topsoil and upper soil or sediment layers (0–50 cm). The results indicate comparable deposition conditions of both pollutants in the floodplain system.
title: Campo nuevo, prácticas viejas: promesas y desafíos de la historia pública
title: New Field, Old Practices: Promises and Challenges of Public History
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Cauvin, Thomas
Publisher: name: T. Cauvin, Campo Nuevo, prácticas viejas: promesas y desafíos en la Historia Pública, «Hispania Nova» n.1 Extraordinario, 2020, pp. 7-51
Year: 2020
Subjects: Definition
Memory
International

description: Aunque la historia pública se está haciendo cada vez más internacional, el campo sigue siendo difícil de definir y permanece sujeto a un cierto grado de crítica. Sobre la base de prácticas públicas-en algunas ocasiones establecidas desde hace mucho tiempo-la historia pública refleja nuevos enfoques acerca de las audiencias, la colaboración y la autoridad en la producción de la historia. Este artículo ofrece una visión general de la historia pública, sus diversas definiciones, su historiografía, y aborda algunas de las críticas principales que ha recibido. La historia pública se compara con un árbol del conocimiento cuyas partes (raíces, tronco, ramas y hojas) representan las muchas etapas colaborativas e interconectadas que configuran este campo. La definición de la historia como un proceso sistémico (el árbol) plantea la necesidad de que colaboren los distintos actores-sean historiadores cualificados (formados en la universidad) o no-y se centra en la función desempeñada dentro del proceso en su totalidad. El futuro de la historia pública internacional requerirá un equilibrio entre unos enfoques basados en la práctica y unos debates más teóricos sobre el papel de los historiadores formados en la universidad, los públicos y los variados usos del pasado.
description: To define and subject to some criticism. Based on – sometimes long-established – public practices, public history reflects new approaches on audiences, collaboration, and authority in history production. This article provides an overview of public history, its various definitions, its historiography, and discusses some of the main criticisms of the field. Public history is compared to a tree of knowledge whose parts (roots, trunk, branches, and leaves) represent the many collaborative and interconnected steps of the field. Defining public history as a systemic process (tree) argues for the need of collaboration between the different actors –trained historians or not– and focuses on the function played within the whole process. The future of international public history will require balancing practice-based approaches with more theoretical discussions on the role of trained historians, the publics, and the various uses of the past.
Exploring Radio WISE Selected Galaxies: An investigation into the properties of the most extreme galaxies in the universe.
Creators: name: Ferris, Emily R.
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis presents analysis of ISAAC photometric and X-shooter spectroscopic observations of 30 selected high redshift galaxies at z = 0.880 - 2.853. Uncovered through cross matching sources from the WISE All-Sky catalogue with the NVSS radio source catalogue, Radio selected WISE Galaxies (RWGs) are extremely luminous with bolometric luminosities exceeding 1013 L⊙. With expected reddening of E(B-V) > 0.9 magnitudes, this dusty and obscured population of new and unique radio intermediate galaxies are critical to our understanding of the properties and evolution of high redshift, ultra luminous IR galaxies. Theorised to be a new stage galaxy evolution, RWGs represent a super active BH growth and feedback phase, which all AGN may experience, therefore allowing us to observe these sources and their environments the most extreme state, increasing our knowledge of this peak phase in galaxy and quasar evolution. I first measure the J and Ks band flux densities of 30 RWGs and use the MAGPHYS code to fit their SEDs, aiming to understand the size of the sources. I then present detections and spectral fitting of four broad multi-component emission lines (Hα, Hβ, [Oiii]λ5007 and Civ) across 18 RWGs, with three independent methods used to determine black hole and host galaxy masses. Following on, I discuss the assumptions made when calculating my black hole masses, aiming to quantify the expected super Eddington ratios of RWGs and the effect that high visual extinctions have on these measured masses, in order to fully understand how extreme and unique these sources are. Finally, I make use of the full 300 - 2480nm wavelength range of X-shooter’s three spectroscopic arms and fit multi Gaussian models to a total of 100 individual line profiles across 15 line variants and 23 RWGs. I use these measured emission and absorption line properties to investigate the characteristics of the line profiles in order to compare RWGs to a standard quasar population. Throughout this investigation I also find that RWGs remain a distinct population from similarly detected HotDOGs and are ∼ 1 dex smaller in mass and therefore likely a shorter evolutionary phase. Finally, I aim to uncover the driving mechanisms behind these unique radio galaxies by placing them on BPT diagrams and find a new selection criteria that can be used to help determine future RWGs.
Strings of special primes in arithmetic progressions
Creators: name: Monks, Keenan
name: Peluse, Sarah
name: Ye, Lynnelle
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11N13

description: The Green-Tao Theorem, one of the most celebrated theorems in modern number theory, states that there exist arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions of prime numbers. In a related but different direction, a recent theorem of Shiu proves that there exist arbitrarily long strings of consecutive primes that lie in any arithmetic progression that contains infinitely many primes. Using the techniques of Shiu and Maier, this paper generalizes Shiu's Theorem to certain subsets of the primes such as primes of the form $\lfloor πn\rfloor$ and some of arithmetic density zero such as primes of the form $\lfloor n\log\log n\rfloor$.
description: 14 pages; preprint of article published in Archiv der Mathematik
Eine theoretische Auseinandersetzung mit den Themen Autismus, der Sexualpädagogik und der emotionalen Entwicklung im Hinblick auf eine mögliche Förderung von Jugendlichen mit frühkindlichem Autismus im Eintritt in die Pubertät
Creators: name: Dassmann, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Masterarbeit
Pubertät
psychosexuelle Entwicklung
Autismus-Spektrum

description: Die Pubertät ist eine sehr anspruchsvolle und herausfordernde Phase in der psychosexuellen Entwicklung von Jugendlichen mit der Diagnose „Frühkindlicher Autismus“. Diese Masterarbeit beschäftig sich mit der Frage, inwiefern die aktuelle Literatur zu den Themen „Autismus“, „Sexualpädagogik“ und „Emotionale Entwicklung“ Grundlagenwissen zur Verfügung stellt, welches für mögliche Fördereinheiten für jugendliche Menschen mit der Diagnose „Frühkindlicher Autismus“ in der Pubertät genutzt werden kann. Als Ergebnis entstand eine umfangreiche Literaturrecherche, welche die Zusammenhänge zwischen den Besonderheiten bei Autismus und den herausfordernden Veränderungen im Zuge der Entwicklungsphase der Pubertät herausarbeitet. Mit der SEED wird zudem ein mögliches Diagnoseinstrument zur emotionalen Entwicklung miteinbezogen. Wichtige Aspekte für die individuelle Förderung von Jugendlichen mit der Diagnose „Frühkindlichem Autismus“ wurden in einem Handout für Fachpersonen zusammengestellt.
title: Spatial survey of tephra deposits in the middle Lahn valley (Hesse, Germany)
Creators: name: Weber, Collin J.
name: Dickhardt, Volker M. H.
name: Harnischmacher, Stefan
Publisher: name: Copernicus Publications
Year: 2022

description: Tephra deposits and especially Laacher See tephra (LST) deposits resulting from the Laacher See eruption (12.9 ka) are an important stratigraphic marker for the Allerød period in central Europe (van den Bogaard and Schmincke, 1995). Within the central German low mountain range (Rhenish Massif and eastern areas) the LST was found within soils (initial deposits, sheltered slope positions) and valleys (relocated deposits) (Bos and Urz, 2003; Hahn and Opp, 2005). The Niederweimar gravel quarry, located on the lower terrace in the middle reach of the Lahn River valley south of Marburg (Hesse, Germany), is known for its high-resolution stratigraphy of Quaternary gravel deposits and late glacial, as well as Holocene, floodplain fines (Lomax et al., 2018). This particular stratigraphy is mainly achieved by the up to 2 m thick LST deposits, which consist of pure LST beds and a multitude of fine LST bands (partly interbedded with black sands or interrupted by clay bands). The origin of the LST in the floodplain is attributed to an extensive deposition (aeolian, directly in the floodplain), as well as later fragmentation of the tephra deposits by surface erosion and renewed deposition of LST from the catchment area through changing river systems (Bos and Urz, 2003; Lomax et al., 2018). The surroundings of the gravel quarry are also rich in archaeological finds reaching more or less continuously from the Mesolithic (11.7 to 7.5 ka) to the Middle Ages (Bos and Urz, 2003; Lomax et al., 2018). Further well-summarized information about the situation within the Niederweimar gravel quarry can be found in Lomax et al. (2018) or on the website of the archaeological survey of Hesse (https://lfd.hessen.de/, last access: 21 March 2021). The evidence of LST in the Lahn valley, as in other valley sediments, is often limited to gravel pits (other larger excavations). These pits and their profiles offer very good insights (e.g. detailed lithostratigraphic description of profiles), but they are always limited to a comparatively small spatial section of the entire floodplain (gravel pit area). Therefore, the objective of the presented study is to provide a spatial survey of LST deposits in the middle Lahn valley, covering the entire floodplain cross section. The following two questions form the focus of the spatial survey. (1) How is the lateral and vertical extension of the LST deposits within the Lahn valley floodplain? (2) Does the spatial distribution provide overarching information about the deposition dynamics of the LST? For this purpose, a transect-based survey with qualitative analysis of LST grains based on density separation and visual identification (stereomicroscope) was applied.
HVAC-based hierarchical energy management system for microgrids
Creators: name: Ma, Jie
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2020

description: With the high penetration of renewable energy into the grid, power fluctuations and supply-demand power mismatch are becoming more prominent, which pose a great challenge for the power system to eliminate negative effects through demand side management (DSM). The flexible load, such as heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC) system, has a great potential to provide demand response services in the electricity grids. In this thesis, a comprehensive framework based on a forecasting-management optimization approach is proposed to coordinate multiple HVAC systems to deal with uncertainties from renewable energy resources and maximize the energy efficiency. In the forecasting stage, a hybrid model based on Multiple Aggregation Prediction Algorithm with exogenous variables (MAPAx)-Principal Components Analysis (PCA) is proposed to predict changes of local solar radiance, vy using the local observation dataset and real-time meteorological indexes acquired from the weather forecast spot. The forecast result is then compared with the statistical benchmark models and assessed by performance evaluation indexes. In the management stage, a novel distributed algorithm is developed to coordinate power consumption of HVAC systems by varying the compressors’ frequency to maintain the supply-demand balance. It demonstrates that the cost and capacity of energy storage systems can be curtailed, since HVACs can absorb excessive power generation. More importantly, the method addresses a consensus problem under a switching communication topology by using Lyapunov argument, which relaxes the communication requirement. In the optimization stage, a price-comfort optimization model regarding HVAC’s end users is formulated and a proportional-integral-derivative (PID)-based distributed algorithm is thus developed to minimize the customer’s total cost, whilst alleviating the global power imbalance. The end users are motivated to participate in energy trade through DSM scheme. Furthermore, the coordination scheme can be extended to accommodate battery energy storage systems (BESSs) and a hybrid BESS-HVAC system with increasing storage capacity is proved as a promising solution to enhance its selfregulation ability in a microgrid. Extensive case studies have been undertaken with the respective control strategies to investigate effectiveness of the algorithms under various scenarios. The techniques developed in this thesis has helped the partnership company of this project to develop their smart immersion heaters for the customers with minimum energy cost and maximum photovoltaic efficiency.
Observation of broken time-reversal symmetry in the heavy fermion superconductor UPt$_3$
Creators: name: Schemm, E. R.
name: Gannon, W. J.
name: Wishne, C. M.
name: Halperin, W. P.
name: Kapitulnik, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The symmetry properties of the order parameter characterize different phases of unconventional superconductors. In the case of the heavy-fermion superconductor UPt$_3$, a key question is whether its multiple superconducting phases preserve or break time-reversal symmetry (TRS). We tested for asymmetry in the phase shift between left and right circularly polarized light reflected from a single crystal of UPt$_3$ at normal incidence, finding that this so-called polar Kerr effect appears only below the lower of the two zero-field superconducting transition temperatures. Our results provide evidence for broken TRS in the low-temperature superconducting phase of UPt$_3$, implying a complex two-component order parameter for superconductivity in this system.
description: 19 pages, 7 figures
title: Imaging findings in Parry Romberg Syndrome and Morphea En Coup de Sabre
Creators: name: Ekert, Kaspar
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Soft tissues / Skin
subject: Head and neck
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Education
subject: Contrast agent-other
subject: Connective tissue disorders

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Detect and differentiate the different manifestations of linear sclerosis on the viscero - as well as the neurocranium . Understand the strength of both CT and MRI to create a synopsis of the extent as well as the activity in sclerotic lesions....
title: Medullary renal carcinoma: a rare sickle cell nephropathy
Creators: name: Verma, Hema
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Pathology
subject: Education and training
subject: Cancer
subject: Education
subject: PET-CT
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Oncology
subject: Kidney

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Classification system for renal tumours Epidemiology & pathophysiology of Renal Medullary Carcinoma (RMC) Imaging features of RMC from our case series of affected patients Histopathology of...
Kepler super-flare stars: what are they?
Creators: name: Wichmann, R.
name: Fuhrmeister, B.
name: Wolter, U.
name: Nagel, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Kepler mission has led to the serendipitous discovery of a significant number of `super flares' - white light flares with energies between 10^33 erg and 10^36 erg - on solar-type stars. It has been speculated that these could be `freak' events that might happen on the Sun, too. We have started a programme to study the nature of the stars on which these super flares have been observed. Here we present high-resolution spectroscopy of 11 of these stars and discuss our results. We find that several of these stars are very young, fast-rotating stars where high levels of stellar activity can be expected, but for some other stars we do not find a straightforward explanation for the occurrence of super flares.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A, 9 pages, 4 figures
A Search based Motion Planner utilizing a Monitoring Functionality for Initiating Minimal Risk Maneuvers
Creators: name: Solmaz, Selim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Presentation for the IEEE-ITSC2022 Paper 
2022 IEEE 25th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), October 8-12, 2022, Macau, China
DOI: 10.1109/ITSC55140.2022.9921913
Singular solutions of conformal Hessian equation
Creators: name: Nadirashvili, Nikolai
name: Vladuts, Serge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35J60

description: We show that for any $ε\in ]0,1[$ there exists an analytic outside zero solution to a uniformly elliptic conformal Hessian equation in a ball $B\subset\R^5$ which belongs to $C^{1,ε} (B)\setminus C^{1,ε+} (B)$.
description: 10 pages
Development and optimization of Electrochemical Affinity Biosensors for the control of food safety
Creators: name: Malvano, Francesca
Publisher: name: Universita degli studi di Salerno
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: AGR/15 SCIENZE E TECNOLOGIE ALIMENTARI
subject: Immunosensors
subject: Impedance
subject: Food safety

description: 2016 - 2017
description: The guarantee of food safety requires a fast and accurate control for all chemicals and bacteria, which are harmful for human health. In the food industry, the safety of a product is evaluated through periodic chemical and microbiological analysis; these procedures use techniques as chromatography, spectrophotometry, and electrophoresis that are expensive, time consuming, require highly trained personnel and require steps of sample pretreatment, increasing the time of analysis. Therefore, the demand for developing simple, rapid, accurate, low-cost and portable analytical instruments is growing and detection of chemical and microbiological contaminants (mycotoxins, pathogenic microorganisms, pesticides and allergens) that endanger the food safety. Biosensors, analytical devices composed of a biological recognition element (such as enzyme, antibody, receptor) coupled to a chemical or physical transducer (electrochemical, mass, optical), offer a possible alternative to common approaches, by allowing rapid on site analysis, and providing real-time information during the food production process. Biosensor literature in the field of food safety is focused mainly on affinity biosensors, which are considered as a further subset of biosensors that use an antibody, sequence of DNA or protein interfaced to a signal transducer to measure a binding event; most of them are based on the very high-affinity interaction between antigen and specific antibodies, but novel specific ligands (e.g. aptamers) are emerging. However, the affinity biosensors described in literature belong to the “labelled affinity biosensors” which require the use of labels (commonly enzymes), linked to the target biomolecule, able to detect the immune-complex thanks to the production of substances easily detected by electrochemical or optical transducer systems. The drawback of immunosensors labelled is due to extra costs and time for labelling step and the impossibility of real time detection... [edited by Author]
Physical and dynamical properties of the main belt triple asteroid (87) Sylvia
Creators: name: Berthier, J.
name: Vachier, Frédéric
name: Marchis, Franck
name: Durech, Josef
name: Carry, Benoit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the analysis of high angular resolution observations of the triple Asteroid (87) Sylvia collected with three 8-10 m class telescopes (Keck, VLT, Gemini North) and the Hubble Space Telescope. The moons' mutual orbits were derived individually using a purely Keplerian model. We computed the position of Romulus, the outer moon of the system, at the epoch of a recent stellar occultation which was successfully observed at less than 15 km from our predicted position, within the uncertainty of our model. The occultation data revealed that the Moon, with a surface-area equivalent diameter Ds=23.1$\pm$0.7km, is strongly elongated (axes ratio of 2.7$\pm$0.32.7$\pm$0.3), significantly more than single asteroids of similar size in the main-belt. We concluded that its shape is probably affected by the tides from the primary. A new shape model of the primary was calculated combining adaptive-optics observations with this occultation and 40 archived light-curves recorded since 1978. The difference between the J2=0.024-0.009+0.016 derived from the 3-D shape model assuming an homogeneous distribution of mass for the volume equivalent diameter Dv=273$\pm$10km primary and the null J2 implied by the Keplerian orbits suggests a non-homogeneous mass distribution in the asteroid's interior.
title: Ultrasound spinal cord of newborn and infants: normal radioanatomy and variant of normal.
Creators: name: Bannar, Badiaa
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology spine
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Education
subject: Education and training

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: •To know the indications of spinal ultrasound. When to realize it? •To describe the technique of spinal ultrasound. •To perform the normal radio anatomy and the variants of the normal. •To identify the elements of the...
Chemical Evolution of M31
Creators: name: Matteucci, F.
name: Spitoni, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review chemical evolution models developed for M31 as well as the abundance determinations available for this galaxy. Then we present a recent chemical evolution model for M31 including radial gas flows and galactic fountains along the disk, as well as a model for the bulge. Our models are predicting the evolution of the abundances of several chemical species such as H, He, C, N, O, Ne, Mg, Si, S, Ca and Fe. From comparison between model predictions and observations we can derive some constraints on the evolution of the disk and the bulge of M31. We reach the conclusions that Andromeda must have evolved faster than the Milky Way and inside-out, and that its bulge formed much faster than the disk on a timescale $\leq$ 0.5 Gyr. Finally, we present a study where we apply the model developed for the disk of M31 in order to study the probability of finding galactic habitable zones in this galaxy.
description: To be published in:"Lessons from the Local Group: A Conference in Honour of David Block and Bruce Elmegreen" Editors: Prof. Dr. Kenneth Freeman, Dr. Bruce Elmegreen, Prof. Dr. David Block, Matthew Woolway, Springer
title: Bayesian inference for models with infinite-dimensionally generated intractable components
Creators: name: Antoniano Villalobos, Isadora
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: In recent years, great effort has been placed on the development of flexible statistical models, which can capture the rich and diverse structures found in real data. Complex models are often intractable, and they require non trivial techniques for inference. In the Bayesian setting, the most common intractability problem is related with nor­malizing constants which cannot be calculated directly. In this case, MCMC methods are a usefrd tool for posterior simulation of the model parameters, and many ideas have been developed to enable the con­struction of the chains with the desired stationary densities. Fre­quently, ideas applied for posterior simulation from doubly-intractable distributions involve an approximation error; general exact methods are only available for models in which both the data and the param­eters take values in fnite-dimensional spaces. In the present work we propose a novel idea, based on a series ex­pansion representation of the intractable functions, to enable MCMC simulation for models in which either the data or the parameters are infinite-dimensional. We achieve this by introducing a suitable set of latent variables with unknown and possibly infinite dimension. The MCMC construction is then made for a tractable latent model, from which the density of interest can be recovered through marginaliza­tion. We illustrate the applicability of the method in various situations. We show that the latent variable construction of the retrospective re­jection sampler commonly known as exact simulation algorithm for diffusions, is a particular case of the latent variable construction we propose. We provide an idea for an alternative exact simulation and inference scheme, through a Markov chain construction. We also present two related nonparamctric mixture models, for time series and regression analysis. Their novelty is in the construction of the mixture weights, which gives them great flexibility but introduces an intractable component generated by the infinite-dimensional parame­ters; we show how our methodology can be applied to enable MCMC inference for these models. We also show how our ideas can be used for inference when the power likelihood for nonparametric mixture models is used; a problem which is of interest in many settings and, to our knowledge, has not been solved without the introduction of some approximation error. Finally, we discuss the matter of Bayesian consistency for Markov models. Unrelated to the driving theme of the thesis, the problem naturally arises from some of the models studied. We make a first step towards a general result for strong consistency which can be used both for discretely observed diffusions and for the time series model we propose.
Congruence properties of Borcherds product exponents
Creators: name: Monks, Keenan
name: Peluse, Sarah
name: Ye, Lynnelle
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11F33

description: In his striking 1995 paper, Borcherds found an infinite product expansion for certain modular forms with CM divisors. In particular, this applies to the Hilbert class polynomial of discriminant $-d$ evaluated at the modular $j$-function. Among a number of powerful generalizations of Borcherds' work, Zagier made an analogous statement for twisted versions of this polynomial. He proves that the exponents of these product expansions, $A(n,d)$, are the coefficients of certain special half-integral weight modular forms. We study the congruence properties of $A(n,d)$ modulo a prime $\ell$ by relating it to a modular representation of the logarithmic derivative of the Hilbert class polynomial.
description: 14 pages; preprint of article published in IJNT
title: CT Thorax in Adult Patients with Cystic Fibrosis: A picotral review of classical and atypical findings from a large national refferal centre.
Creators: name: O'Brien, Cormac
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Inflammation
subject: Congenital
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Respiratory system
subject: Pulmonary vessels
subject: Lung

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Our aim is to provide a contemproary approach to interpreting thoracic CT imaging findings in Adults with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) including typical and atypical features. We will compare theimaging findings of patients before and after treatment with...
PERFIL EPIDEMIOLÓGICO DA MORTALIDADE MATERNA POR ECLÂMPSIA NO BRASIL ENTRE OS ANOS DE 2018 A 2023
Creators: name: Samara Dantas de Medeiros Diniz
name: Ícaro Viterbre Debique Sousa
name: Iuri dos Santos Manoel
name: Daniela Aparecida Mafra
name: Heron Viterbre Debique Sousa
name: Andriellen Rabelo Carvalho
name: Francisca Eduarda Ferreira Souza
name: Robson Ferreira Quintão Gomes de Britto
name: Raiara Bezerra da Silva
name: Bruna Thaysa de Lima Tavares
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Epidemiologia
Eclampsia
Mortalidade Materna

description: A mortalidade materna ocorre durante a gestação ou em até 42 dias de puerpério, além de ser exposta como um grave problema de saúde pública. A pré-eclâmpsia e eclâmpsia são as principais causas deste evento, acometendo cerca de 8% das gestantes. E visto alto potencial para risco de morte que esta doença ocasiona, este estudo objetivou compreender o perfil epidemiológico dos casos de mortalidade materna por eclâmpsia no Brasil, entre os anos de 2018 a 2023. Trata-se de uma revisão integrativa de literatura quantitativa e qualitativa, realizada em setembro de 2023 nas bases: LILACS e MEDLINE, através da BVS. Na busca, utilizaram-se os DeCS cruzados entre si pelo operador booleano "AND": "Epidemiologia" AND "Eclampsia" AND "Mortalidade Materna". Foram incluídos os estudos gratuitos nos idiomas português e inglês, publicados nos últimos cinco anos, sendo excluídos os artigos duplicados nas bases e que não concordassem com a temática. Obtiveram 667 amostras, as quais após serem submetidos ao processo de pré-análise, restaram apenas 10 para a amostra final. Os estudos evidenciaram que as regiões sudeste e nordeste do Brasil são as que possuem maiores taxas de morte materna por eclâmpsia. Ademais, foi observado que o perfil populacional entre as regiões brasileiras apresentaram semelhança, sendo a maioria das mulheres: pardas, solteiras, com idade entre 20 a 49 anos, baixa escolaridade e más condições sociodemográficas e socioeconômicas. Igualmente, constatou-se que o pré-natal adequado evita o surgimento de eclâmpsia e, consequentemente, novos casos de mortes. Logo, conclui-se que além da importância do acompanhamento adequado da gestante ainda no pré-natal, torna-se indispensável a elaboração de políticas públicas as quais visem a promoção e prevenção do surgimento de eclâmpsia.
Exact Solutions of the Klein-Gordon Equation for q-Deformed Manning-Rosen Potential via Asymptotic Iteration Method
Creators: name: Das, Tapas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Asymptotic iteration method (AIM) is used to find the exact analytical solutions of the one dimensional Klein-Gordon equation for the q-deformed Manning-Rosen potential with equal Lorentz vector and scalar potential. The bound state eigenfunctions are obtained in terms of the hypergeometric functions. Using the present results energy eigenvalues and corresponding eigenfunctions of the special cases like Poschl-Teller potential, Rosen-Morse potential and Eckart type potential are derived before concluding the work.
description: 11 pages
title: Dynamic MRI evaluation of the neck for levels of airway obstruction in the patients with obstructive sleep apnoea
Creators: name: Bansal , RICHA
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Obstruction / Occlusion
subject: Localisation
subject: MR
subject: Head and neck

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: In patients with OSA both anatomic and functional factors either individually or together cause apneic attacks. Although some studies have shown that overall size of the pharynx is smaller in patients with sleep apnea, but there is also a hypothesis...
Nineteenth-century Usk
Creators: name: Jones, Elizabeth J. F.
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The growth and evolution of towns during the nineteenth century has been thoroughly explored by urban historians. With their ballooning populations, rapid physical growth and complex internal relationships, it is understandable why towns and cities such as Manchester, Birmingham and London have captured the interest and imagination of scholars looking to understand the process that saw Britain transform from a rural society to the world’s first urbanised nation. However, there has been considerably less research carried out on smaller settlements while the Welsh urban landscape remains almost entirely overlooked.This thesis will employ Usk, a small town in Monmouthshire, south-east Wales to explore the experience of such towns during the nineteenth century. Using a variety of different sources including corporation, parish and local board records, newspaper articles and private correspondence, this thesis will explore the urban attributes of Usk to determine how they developed over the period in question and how its urban elite responded to the wider changes that transformed the urban landscape. It will explore the impact that centrally introduced reforms had on small towns to demonstrate that they were left without an effective form of local government and remained vulnerable to the influence of powerful aristocratic landlords and the growing authority of the county. The parallel processes of urban improvement and the development of urban based leisure, identified by Peter Borsay, will be examined to show that they were present in the smallest of towns but hindered by insufficient finances, limited space and reluctant ratepayers. Finally, internal relationships will be examined to show that in addition to the pressures touched upon above, the urban elites of small towns faced increasing competition from within the urban community as those from outside the traditional elite vied for their voices to be heard.
title: Economic analysis of endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm follow-up comparing contrast-enhanced ultrasonography and computed tomography angiography
Creators: name: Tonin, Rodolfo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Vascular
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Contrast agents
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Stents
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Cost-effectiveness
subject: Aneurysms
subject: Arteriosclerosis
subject: Economics

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Compare the cost of two different approaches to the follow-up of endovascular repair (EVAR) of infrarenal abominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) using computed tomography angiography (CTA) (Fig. 1) and combining contrast enhanced ultrasonography (CEUS) with...
D5.4 The SENTINEL Minimum Viable Product
Creators: name: Falelakis, Manolis
name: Tsantekidis, Marinos
name: Oudin, Thomas
name: Karantjias, Thanos
name: Skourtis, Yannis
name: Dimou, Christos
name: Tsirantonakis, Giorgos
name: Poulios, Konstantinos
name: Valoggia, Philippe
name: Renault, Samuel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: cybersecurity
gdpr
compliance
smes
dataprotection
mvp
visualisation
euprojects
sentinelh2020

description: This deliverable showcases the SENTINEL Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and illustrates the activities that were carried out to that end. Following the Lean start-up methodology [1], SENTINEL has aimed to the early release of a functional, integrated, end-to-end demonstrator that serves as a proof-of-concept for the overarching goals of the project and displays the potentials of the sought solution. The deliverable has been developed within the scope of ‘WP5 – SENTINEL continuous integration and system validation’.
Searching for Lepton Flavor Violation at a Future High Energy Electron-Positron Collider
Creators: name: Murakami, Brandon
name: Tait, Tim M. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider theories where lepton flavor is violated, in particular concentrating on the four fermion operator consisting of three electrons and a tau. Strong constraints are available from existing searches for tau -> eee, requiring the scale of the contact interaction to be less than ~(9 TeV)^-2. We reexamine this type of physics, assuming that the particles responsible are heavy (with masses greater than ~TeV) such that a contact interaction description continues to be applicable at the energies for a future e+e- collider. We find that the process e+e- -> e tau can be a very sensitive probe of this kind of physics (even for very conservative assumptions about the detector performance), already improving upon the tau decay bounds to less than ~(11 TeV)^-2 at collider energy sqrt(s) 500 GeV, or reaching beyond ~(35 TeV)^-2 for sqrt(s) = 3 TeV. Even stronger bounds are possible at e-e- colliders in the same energy range.
description: 5 pages
title: Obesity in Radiology: Increasing incidence of obesity and its impact on diagnostic Ultrasound services.
Creators: name: Weir, Arlene
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quality assurance
subject: Cirrhosis
subject: Artifacts
subject: Decision analysis
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Ultrasound physics
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Abdomen

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The aim of this study is to assess impact of obesity on the delivery of ultrasound (US) services in our institution by retrospective analysis the effect of obesity on image quality, as determined from dictated radiology reports between 2008 and...