cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Test Performance Characteristics of Anti-HEV IgG Assays Strongly Influence Hepatitis E Seroprevalence Estimates
Creators: name: Wenzel, Jürgen J.
name: Preiss, Julia
name: Schemmerer, Mathias
name: Huber, Barbara
name: Jilg, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Hepatitis E, HEV, anti-HEV IgG, seroprevalence, serology, diagnostic sensitivity, commercial assays, acute infection, southeastern Germany
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Hepatitis E virus (HEV) seroprevalences of 0.3%–53% were reported from industrialized countries. Because these estimates may be influenced by detection assays, this study compares 3 frequently used tests for HEV detection: the MP Diagnostics HEV immunoglobulin G (IgG) enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), the Axiom Diagnostics HEV IgG enzyme immunoassay (EIA), and the Mikrogen recomLine HEV IgG assay. Sera from 200 healthy healthcare workers and 30 individuals with acute HEV infection were analyzed. Among the healthy individuals, HEV IgG was found in 4.5% by the MP Diagnostics assay, in 29.5% by the Axiom Diagnostics assay, and in 18% by the Mikrogen assay. Among individuals with acute HEV infection, positive results were obtained for 83.3%, 100%, and 96.7%, respectively. Thus, the 3 assays show clear differences in diagnostic sensitivity.
On spectral triples on crossed products arising from equicontinuous actions
Creators: name: Hawkins, Andrew
name: Skalski, Adam
name: White, Stuart
name: Zacharias, Joachim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 46L05, Secondary 46L87, 58B34

description: The external Kasparov product is used to construct odd and even spectral triples on crossed products of $C^*$-algebras by actions of discrete groups which are equicontinuous in a natural sense. When the group in question is $\Z$ this gives another viewpoint on the spectral triples introduced by Belissard, Marcolli and Reihani. We investigate the properties of this construction and apply it to produce spectral triples on the Bunce-Deddens algebra arising from the odometer action on the Cantor set and some other crossed products of AF-algebras.
description: 22 pages (v4 corrects a mistake in the discussion of the equicontinuity condition and modifies the terminology used). The paper will appear in Mathematica Scandinavica
Geometric renormalization below the ground state
Creators: name: Smith, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The caloric gauge was introduced by Tao with studying large data energy critical wave maps mapping from $\mathbf{R}^{2+1}$ to hyperbolic space $\mathbf{H}^m$ in view. In \cite{BIKT} Bejenaru, Ionescu, Kenig, and Tataru adapted the caloric gauge to the setting of Schrödinger maps from $\mathbf{R}^{d + 1}$ to the standard sphere $S^2 \hookrightarrow \mathbf{R}^3$ with initial data small in the critical Sobolev norm. Here we develop the caloric gauge in a bounded geometry setting with a construction valid up to the ground state energy.
description: 39 pages; Typos and argument for noncompact target manifolds corrected; Published form available at http://imrn.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/rnr169?ijkey=OXVb8Exb1XuXqLz&keytype=ref
The Poison Pill in Japan: The Missing Infrastructure
Creators: Gilson, Ronald J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Consolidation and merger of corporations
subject: Poison pills (Securities)
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Business
subject: Economics

description: The fact of a small number of hostile takeover bids in Japan the recent past, together with technical amendments of the Civil Code that would allow a poison pill-like security, raises the question of how a poison pill would operate in Japan should it be widely deployed. This paper reviews the U.S. experience with the pill to the end of identifying what institutions operated to prevent the poison pill from fully enabling the target board to block a hostile takeover. It then considers whether similar ameliorating institutions are available in Japan, and concludes that with the exception of the court system, Japan lacks the range institutions that proved to be effective in the United States. As a result, the Japanese courts will have a heavy responsibility in framing limits on the use of poison pills.
Evolutionary Games on Networks: Phase Transition, Quasi-equilibrium, and Mathematical Principles
Creators: name: Cheng, Jiangjiang
name: Mei, Wenjun
name: Su, Wei
name: Chen, Ge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The stable cooperation ratio of spatial evolutionary games has been widely studied using simulations or approximate analysis methods. However, sometimes such ``stable'' cooperation ratios obtained via approximate methods might not be actually stable, but correspond to quasi-equilibriums instead. We find that various classic game models, like the evolutionary snowdrift game, evolutionary prisoner's dilemma, and spatial public goods game on square lattices and scale-free networks, exhibit the phase transition in convergence time to the equilibrium state. Moreover, mathematical principles are provided to explain the phase transition of convergence time and quasi-equilibrium of cooperation ratio. The findings explain why and when cooperation and defection have a long-term coexistence.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures
Tropical surface singularities
Creators: name: Markwig, Hannah
name: Markwig, Thomas
name: Shustin, Eugenii
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14T05, 51M20, 05B35

description: In this paper, we study tropicalisations of singular surfaces in toric threefolds. We completely classify singular tropical surfaces of maximal-dimensional type, show that they can generically have only finitely many singular points, and describe all possible locations of singular points. More precisely, we show that singular points must be either vertices, or generalized midpoints and baricenters of certain faces of singular tropical surfaces, and, in some cases, there may be additional metric restrictions to faces of singular tropical surfaces.
description: A gap in the classification was closed. 37 pages, 29 figures
ScatterFormer: Locally-Invariant Scattering Transformer for Patient-Independent Multispectral Detection of Epileptiform Discharges
Creators: name: Zheng, Ruizhe
name: Li, Jun
name: Wang, Yi
name: Luo, Tian
name: Yu, Yuguo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Patient-independent detection of epileptic activities based on visual spectral representation of continuous EEG (cEEG) has been widely used for diagnosing epilepsy. However, precise detection remains a considerable challenge due to subtle variabilities across subjects, channels and time points. Thus, capturing fine-grained, discriminative features of EEG patterns, which is associated with high-frequency textural information, is yet to be resolved. In this work, we propose Scattering Transformer (ScatterFormer), an invariant scattering transform-based hierarchical Transformer that specifically pays attention to subtle features. In particular, the disentangled frequency-aware attention (FAA) enables the Transformer to capture clinically informative high-frequency components, offering a novel clinical explainability based on visual encoding of multichannel EEG signals. Evaluations on two distinct tasks of epileptiform detection demonstrate the effectiveness our method. Our proposed model achieves median AUCROC and accuracy of 98.14%, 96.39% in patients with Rolandic epilepsy. On a neonatal seizure detection benchmark, it outperforms the state-of-the-art by 9% in terms of average AUCROC.
description: 11 pages
title: Contribution of ultrasound of the hindfoot in chronic rheumatic diseases.
title: Apport de l’échographie de l’arrière-pied dans les rhumatismes inflammatoires chronique.
Creators: name: Zemrani, Salma
Publisher: name: Revue Marocaine de Rhumatologie (RMR)
Year: 2021
Subjects: Echographie ; Rhumatismes inflammatoires chroniques ; Arrière-pied.

description: Musculoskeletal ultrasound has emerged recently in diagnosis, evaluation and therapeutic management chronic rheumatic diseases. In hindfoot, which is a complex anatomical region, ultrasound is more performant than clinical examination in detecting different lesions. It provides a great help in assessing disease activity and therapeutic follow-up, as well as in the realization of intra-articular and tendon infiltrations which remain particularly delicate in this region.
description: L’échographie ostéoarticulaire s’est imposée au cours des dernières années dans le diagnostic, l’évaluation et la prise en charge thérapeutique des rhumatismes inflammatoires chroniques. Dans une région anatomique assez complexe telle que l’arrière- pied, elle a bien démontré sa performance par rapport à l’examen clinique pour le diagnostic des différentes atteintes pathologiques. Elle porte aussi une grande aide dans l’évaluation de l’activité de la maladie et dans le suivi thérapeutique ainsi que dans la réalisation des infiltrations intra-articulaires et tendineuses qui restent particulièrement délicates au niveau de cette région.
Associative Submanifolds of the 7-Sphere
Creators: name: Lotay, Jason D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53B20, 53B25, 53C38, 53C40

description: Associative submanifolds of the 7-sphere S^7 are 3-dimensional minimal submanifolds which are the links of calibrated 4-dimensional cones in R^8 called Cayley cones. Examples of associative 3-folds are thus given by the links of complex and special Lagrangian cones in C^4, as well as Lagrangian submanifolds of the nearly Kähler 6-sphere. By classifying the associative group orbits, we exhibit the first known explicit example of an associative 3-fold in S^7 which does not arise from other geometries. We then study associative 3-folds satisfying the curvature constraint known as Chen's equality, which is equivalent to a natural pointwise condition on the second fundamental form, and describe them using a new family of pseudoholomorphic curves in the Grassmannian of 2-planes in R^8 and isotropic minimal surfaces in S^6. We also prove that associative 3-folds which are ruled by geodesic circles, like minimal surfaces in space forms, admit families of local isometric deformations. Finally, we construct associative 3-folds satisfying Chen's equality which have an S^1-family of global isometric deformations using harmonic 2-spheres in S^6.
description: 42 pages, v2: minor corrections, streamlined and improved exposition, published version; Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Advance Access published 17 June 2012
DotTrack: absolute und relative Ortsbestimmung von Tangibles mittels eines Maussensors
Creators: name: Schüsselbauer, Dennis
name: Schmid, Andreas
name: Wimmer, Raphael
name: Muth, Laurin
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: tangible user interface, TUI, absolute, relative, position, tracking, sensor, HCI
subject: 004 Informatik

description: Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) integrieren oft physische Objekte, deren Positionierung oder Positionsveränderung durch den Nutzer zur Interaktion verwendet wird. DotTrack ist ein Tracking-Verfahren, das absolute Ortsbestimmung und Tracking der Position von Tangibles ohne externe Infrastruktur erlaubt. Der Prototyp verwendet dazu einen kommerziellen Maussensor, der nicht nur die Translation misst, sondern auch ein Kamerabild des Untergrunds liefert. Ein eindeutiges Punktmuster auf dem Untergrund erlaubt es, die absolute Position des Prototypen zu bestimmen. Im momentanen Entwicklungsstand sind rudimentäre absolute Ortsbestimmung, Positionstracking und mehrere Anwendungsbeispiele für das System implementiert.
title: Osteoarticular imaging in psoriasis.
title: Imagerie ostéoarticulaire dans le psoriasis.
Creators: name: Haddouche, Assia
Publisher: name: Revue Marocaine de Rhumatologie (RMR)
Year: 2021
Subjects: Imagerie ostéoarticulaire; Psoriasis.

description: Psoriasis is an inflammatory dermatosis that precedes psoriatic arthritis in 80-90% of cases. Musculoskeletal imaging is essential in the diagnosis of psoriatic arthritis and often involves X-rays, ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging. Subclinical osteoarticular damage is found in psoriasis without joint symptoms including enthesitis, synovitis and involvement of the enthesis-nail complex. The risk of changing from psoriasis to psoriatic arthritis is associated, depending on the studies, with either a higher prevalence of subclinical osteoarticular lesions on inclusion or their persistence during patient’s follow-up. The interest of investigating subclinical osteoarticular damage in psoriasis remains in the field of research for the moment.
description: Le psoriasis est une dermatose inflammatoire qui précède le rhumatisme psoriasique dans près de 80-90% des cas. L’imagerie ostéoarticulaire est essentielle dans le diagnostic du rhumatisme psoriasique et fait souvent appel à la radiographie standard, à l’échographie ou à l’imagerie par résonance magnétique. Des atteintes ostéoarticulaires infracliniques sont retrouvées dans le psoriasis sans symptômes articulaires ; il s’agit d’enthésites, de synovites ou d’atteinte du complexe enthèse-ongle. Le risque de passage d’un psoriasis à un rhumatisme psoriasique est associé selon les études soit à une prévalence plus élevée des lésions ostéoarticulaires infracliniques à l’inclusion soit à la persistance de ces dernières dans le suivi des patients. L’intérêt de rechercher les atteintes ostéoarticulaires infracliniques dans le psoriasis reste du domaine de la recherche pour l’instant.
title: Ultrasound of the salivary glands in Sjögren’s syndrome.
title: Echographie des glandes salivaires dans le syndrome de Sjögren.
Creators: name: Slimani, Samy
Publisher: name: Revue Marocaine de Rhumatologie (RMR)
Year: 2021
Subjects: Echographie; glandes salivaires; Syndrome de Sjögren.

description: Ultrasound of the salivary glands is the first-line imaging modality in salivary gland pathologies, whether acute or chronic. It makes it possible to make the positive diagnosis, eliminate a number of differential diagnoses, and even improve follow-up over time. The normal ultrasound appearance of the major salivary glands is typically homogeneous and slightly hyperechoic. In Sjögren’s syndrome, in the vast majority of cases, chronic inflammation of autoimmune glands occurs, resulting in an inhomogeneous appearance of the gland on ultrasound with multiple hypoechoic or even anechoic oval structures associated with increased blood flow of the gland. It has been shown a good correlation between the importance of pathological ultrasound signs and the decrease in salivary flow, the importance of the histological infiltrate, the ESSDAI score and even the probability of progressing to vasculitis or non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. OMERACT had proposed a score that is practical, reproducible and presents the best compromise between a good sensitivity and a good specificity in the diagnosis of primary Sjögren; but until now, no criterion system had yet integrated ultrasound as a diagnostic tool that is admitted by all.
description: L’échographie des glandes salivaire est la modalité d’imagerie de première intention dans les pathologies des glandes salivaires, qu’elles soient aiguës ou chroniques. Elle permet de poser le diagnostic positif, d’éliminer un certain nombre de diagnostics différentiels, voire de suivre l’affection dans le temps. L’aspect échographique normal des glandes salivaires principales est typiquement hyperéchogène homogène. Dans le syndrome de Sjögren, il se produit dans la grande majorité des cas une inflammation chronique d’origine auto-immune des glandes salivaires, se traduisant échographiquement par un aspect inhomogène de la glande avec de multiples structures hypoéchogènes voire anéchogènes, ovalaires, associées à une augmentation du flux sanguin de la glande. Il a été démontré une bonne corrélation entre l’importance des signes échographiques et la diminution du flux salivaire, l’importance de l’infiltrat histologique, du score ESSDAI voire même la probabilité d’évoluer vers une vascularite ou un lymphome non Hodgkinien. L’OMERACT avait proposé un score qui semble pratique, reproductible et présentant le meilleur compromis entre une bonne sensibilité et une bonne spécificité dans le diagnostic du Sjögren primaire, mais jusqu’à présent, aucun système de critère n’avait encore intégré l’échographie salivaire comme outil diagnostique reconnu par tous.
Influence of bacteria on menaquinone concentrations in fermented dairy products
Creators: name: Hartling, Ivan Grant
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Menaquinones (MK’s) are a form of vitamin K, supplementation with which has been shown to provide health benefits by reducing arterial calcification and improving bone density. Fortifying MK’s in foods may provide the health benefits associated with MK’s to the general population. This study aimed to increase the amount of MK’s in yogurt, which typically contains very little MK’s, by co-fermenting milk with both typical yogurt bacteria and bacteria known to produce MK’s in cheese and natto. A LC-MS/MS method was first developed to measure MK’s as well as all other fat-soluble vitamins. The LC-MS/MS method was able to quantify phylloquinone, MK-4, MK-7, MK-9, cholecalciferol, α-tocopherol, and was able to detect MK-8, but was unable to quantify ergocalciferol or retinol due to ionization suppression from the sample matrix. The LC-MS/MS method was used to measure MK’s in non-fat milk samples fermented with either one bacteria ssp. or a combination of S. thermophilus, L. bulgaricus, and one of L. lactis, L. cremoris, P. shermanii, or B. subtilis. Fermentations were carried out at 30 – 45 °C for 36 h to determine the optimal incubation temperature at which to carry out replicate fermentations. The pH was measured throughout fermentation as an indicator of overall growth and the relative amount of each bacteria ssp. after fermentation was measured using qPCR. Only L. cremoris produced MK-8 and MK-9, while all samples, including negative controls, contained high concentrations of MK-7. The qPCR results showed co-fermentations contained over 99 % S. thermophilus, except in co-fermentations with L. lactis which contained 59 % L. lactis, 41 % S. thermophilus, and < 0.1 % L. bulgaricus. Delaying inoculation of S. thermophilus and L. bulgaricus resulted in almost exclusive growth of the first inoculant. Overall, L. cremoris showed the greatest potential for enhancing the MK content of yogurt as it produced up to 234.4 ng/g MK-9, 174.9 ng/g MK-7, and produced MK-8, but further experiments are required to improve the growth of yogurt and MK producing bacteria.
The history of the concepts in treating craniomandibular dysfunctions using occlusal appliances. A review
Creators: name: Behr, Michael
name: Knüttel, Helge
name: Fanghänel, Jochen
name: Kirschneck, Christian
name: Proff, Peter
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: craniomandibular dysfunction; occlusal appliance; splint, history; treatment protocol; dental materials
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Objectives: The knowledge of the history of occlusal appliances and their treatment ideas help benchmark therapy concepts of today and in the future. Material and methods: The history of occlusal appliances was systematically reviewed. We analyzed 25 electronic data bases and additionally bibliographic catalogs by hand. Entirely 176 papers were included. Results: First appliances, made of wood or alloys, were only used to fix bone fractures. Later, appliances made of caoutchouc were added covering the entire dental arch. It was not until 1901 that occlusal appliances were systematically inserted to treat parafunctions. At that time, occlusal dysbalances were considered to be responsible for tooth lost (Alveolar pyorrhea) and furthermore, in the years 1920 to 1930, for dysfunctions of the tube, for vertigo and bad hearing (Costen syndrome). After the Second World War the dentists included the phenomena of stress in their treatment concepts and they considered more and more internal derangement of the temporomandibular joint as topic, which had to be treated by splints. The material of the appliances changed from natural rubber to acrylic resin materials, which offered the possibility to construct appliances in manifold ways. Conclusions: Beside appliances like the Michigan splint, that covered all teeth of the dental arc, concepts with reduced occlusal contact in anterior area (e.g.: jig-splints) or, posterior area (e.g.: pivot splints) were developed. Clinical relevance: Meanwhile a wide range of concepts and types of appliances were propagated, however, a final evidence based concept is still lacking.
Greening our Laws: Revising Land Acquisition Law for Coal Mining in India
Creators: name: Srivastav, Sugandha
name: Singh, Tanmay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Laws that govern land acquisition can lock in old paradigms. We study one such case, the Coal Bearing Areas Act of 1957 (CBAA) which provides minimal social and environmental safegaurds, and deviates in important ways from the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act 2013 (LARR). The lack of due diligence protocol in the CBAA confers an undue comparative advantage to coal development, which is inconsistent with India's stance to phase down coal use, reduce air pollution, and advance modern sources of energy. We argue that the premise under which the CBAA was historically justified is no longer valid due to a significant change in the local context. Namely, the environmental and social costs of coal energy are far more salient and the market has cleaner energy alternatives that are cost competitive. We recommend updating land acquisition laws to bring coal under the general purview of LARR or, at minimum, amending the CBAA to ensure adequate environmental and social safeguards are in place, both in letter and practice.
title: Contribution of imaging to the management of polymyalgia rheumatica.
title: Apport de l’imagerie dans la prise en charge de la pseudo-polyarthrite rhizomélique.
Creators: name: Toufik, Hamza
Publisher: name: Revue Marocaine de Rhumatologie (RMR)
Year: 2021
Subjects: Pseudo-polyarthrite rhizomélique; Echographie; IRM; PET-SCAN.

description: With the recent improvement in technology, various imaging modalities are increasingly being used in the diagnosis and monitoring of musculoskeletal diseases. Although polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is traditionally considered a ‘clinical diagnosis’ the utility of imaging for diagnosis, assessment of disease severity and treatment response is increasingly recognized. Imaging not only adds to the diagnosis by detecting PMR-specific features, but also helps to make alternative diagnoses. In this update we discuss the role and the limitations of imaging (ultrasound, MRI, and fludeoxyglucose-PET scanning) in the management of PMR.
description: Grâce au développement technologique récent, de nouveaux moyens d’imagerie sont de plus en plus utilisés pour le diagnostic et le suivi des maladies musculo-squelettiques. Bien que la pseudo-polyarthrite rhizomélique (PPR) soit classiquement considérée comme une maladie dont le diagnostic est clinique, l’imagerie ostéo-articulaire est de plus en plus utilisée pour le diagnostic, l’évaluation et le suivi de cette pathologie. L’imagerie est d’une aide précieuse en montrant des signes spécifiques de la maladie. En outre, l’imagerie permet également d’éliminer les autres diagnostics différentiels. Dans cette mise au point nous discutons le rôle et les limites de l’imagerie (échographie, IRM et PET-SCAN) dans la prise en charge de la PPR.
Elastic fluctuations as observed in a confocal slice
Creators: name: Lemarchand, Claire A.
name: Maggs, A. C.
name: Schindler, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent confocal experiments on colloidal solids motivate a fuller study of the projection of three-dimensional fluctuations onto a two-dimensional confocal slice. We show that the effective theory of a projected crystal displays several exceptional features, such as non-standard exponents in the dispersion relations. We provide analytic expressions for the effective two-dimensional elastic properties which allow one to work back from sliced experimental observations to three-dimensional elastic constants.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Prevalence of hepatitis E virus-specific antibodies in humans with occupational exposure to pigs
Creators: name: Krumbholz, Andi
name: Mohn, Ulrich
name: Lange, Jeannette
name: Motz, Manfred
name: Wenzel, Jürgen J.
name: Jilg, Wolfgang
name: Walther, Mario
name: Straube, Eberhard
name: Wutzler, Peter
name: Zell, Roland
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Zoonosis, Genotype, Immunoassay, Seroprevalence
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Due to the increasing number of non-travel-associated hepatitis E virus (HEV) infections observed in several industrialised countries including Germany, there is a substantial interest in the characterisation of risk factors and transmission routes relevant to autochthonous HEV infections. Autochthonous cases are believed to be the result of a zoonotic HEV transmission from pigs, wild boars and deer. Recently, a high prevalence of HEV-specific antibodies in the German domestic pig population has been demonstrated. Thus, one may assume a higher prevalence of HEV-specific antibodies in humans with occupational exposure to pigs. In this study, sera obtained from 24 slaughterers, 14 meat inspectors, 46 pig farmers and 22 veterinarians were tested for the presence of HEV-specific antibodies using a line immunoassay. For comparison, sera obtained from 116 age- and gender-matched blood donors were also included. Twenty eight per cent (28.3%; 30/106) of the swine-exposed humans and 15.5% (18/116) of the blood donors without contact to pigs exhibited IgG-antibodies determined as reactive (i.e. borderline or positive) against HEV. Thus, an increased risk of HEV infection in humans occupationally exposed to pigs and particularly for slaughterers (41.7%; 10/24) was demonstrated.
Bounds on the suprema of Gaussian processes, and omega results for the sum of a random multiplicative function
Creators: name: Harper, Adam J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove new lower bounds for the upper tail probabilities of suprema of Gaussian processes. Unlike many existing bounds, our results are not asymptotic, but supply strong information when one is only a little into the upper tail. We present an extended application to a Gaussian version of a random process studied by Halasz. This leads to much improved lower bound results for the sum of a random multiplicative function. We further illustrate our methods by improving lower bounds for some classical constants from extreme value theory, the Pickands constants $H_α$, as $α\rightarrow 0$.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/12-AAP847 the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Political Strategies to Overcome Climate Policy Obstructionism
Creators: name: Srivastav, Sugandha
name: Rafaty, Ryan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Great socio-economic transitions see the demise of certain industries and the rise of others. The losers of the transition tend to deploy a variety of tactics to obstruct change. We develop a political-economy model of interest group competition and garner evidence of tactics deployed in the global climate movement. From this we deduce a set of strategies for how the climate movement competes against entrenched hydrocarbon interests. Five strategies for overcoming obstructionism emerge: (1) Appeasement, which involves compensating the losers; (2) Co-optation, which seeks to instigate change by working with incumbents; (3) Institutionalism, which involves changes to public institutions to support decarbonization; (4) Antagonism, which creates reputational or litigation costs to inaction; and (5) Countervailance, which makes low-carbon alternatives more competitive. We argue that each strategy addresses the problem of obstructionism through a different lens, reflecting a diversity of actors and theories of change within the climate movement. The choice of which strategy to pursue depends on the institutional context.
Outperforming the market portfolio with a given probability
Creators: name: Bayraktar, Erhan
name: Huang, Yu-Jui
name: Song, Qingshuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Computational Finance (q-fin.CP)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Portfolio Management (q-fin.PM)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Our goal is to resolve a problem proposed by Fernholz and Karatzas [On optimal arbitrage (2008) Columbia Univ.]: to characterize the minimum amount of initial capital with which an investor can beat the market portfolio with a certain probability, as a function of the market configuration and time to maturity. We show that this value function is the smallest nonnegative viscosity supersolution of a nonlinear PDE. As in Fernholz and Karatzas [On optimal arbitrage (2008) Columbia Univ.], we do not assume the existence of an equivalent local martingale measure, but merely the existence of a local martingale deflator.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/11-AAP799 the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Quarterly Labour Force Survey, October - December, 2011
Creators: name: Statistics, Northern Ireland
name: Office For National Statistics, Social Survey Division
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2019

description: Latest edition information
For the third edition (March 2019), the 2018 weighting variables have been added to the data.
title: Focus on the value of ultrasound of the hands in the differential diagnosis between psoriatic arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis
title: Mise au point sur l’intérêt de l’échographie des mains dans le diagnostic différentiel entre rhumatisme psoriasique et polyarthrite rhumatoïde.
Creators: name: Kawther Ben Abdelghani
Publisher: name: Revue Marocaine de Rhumatologie (RMR)
Year: 2021
Subjects: Rhumatisme psoriasique; Polyarthrite rhumatoïde; Echographie; Enthèse.

description: The polyarticular form of RPso can mimic an authentic beginning in RA, all the more so when the skin involvement is lacking. Since radiographs are normal at an early stage, the differential diagnosis between these two pathologies can be difficult in the absence of specific immunological markers. Bone and articular ultrasound, a harmless, inexpensive and reproducible tool, has been booming in rheumatology for several decades. Several classic studies are known in the ultrasound evaluation of entheses in the hands according to the concept of early involvement of the synovio-enthesitic complex during RPso. Thus, these studies revealed specific extra-synovial lesions of RPso, in particular enthesitis of the extensors of the fingers, tendonitis of the extensors of the fingers and edema of the soft tissues. The objective of this study was to take stock of the interest of ultrasound of the hands in the differential diagnosis between RPso and PR.
description: La forme polyarticulaire du RPso peut mimer une authentique PR débutante, à fortiori lorsque l’atteinte cutanée fait défaut. Les radiographies étant normales à un stade précoce, le diagnostic différentiel entre ces deux pathologies peut être difficile en l’absence de marqueurs immunologiques spécifiques. L’échographie ostéo-articulaire, outil anodin, peu couteux et reproductible, est en plein essor en rhumatologie depuis quelques décennies. Plusieurs études se sont intéressées à l’évaluation échographique des enthèses classiques et fonctionnelles au niveau des mains suivant le concept d’une atteinte précoce du complexe synovio-enthésitique au cours du RPso. Ainsi, ces études ont dégagé des lésions extra-synoviales spécifiques du RPso notamment l’enthésite des extenseurs des doigts, la tendinite des extenseurs des doigts et l’œdème des tissus mous. L’objectif de cette étude était de faire le point sur l’intérêt de l’échographie des mains dans le diagnostic différentiel entre RPso et PR.
Pandemic and post-pandemic influenza A (H1N1) seasons in a tertiary care university hospital—high rate of complications compared to previous influenza seasons
Creators: name: Bauernfeind, S.
name: Bruennler, Tanja
name: Ehrenstein, Boris
name: Langgartner, Julia
name: Wenzel, J. J.
name: Werner, S.
name: Lubnow, Matthias
name: Mueller, T.
name: Floerchinger, Bernhard
name: Salzberger, Bernd
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Seasonal influenza, Pandemic influenza A (H1N1), Post-pandemic season, Comorbidities, ICU admission
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Introduction The aim was to study the characteristics and case severity of patients hospitalized for influenza with a pandemic strain at a German tertiary care university hospital in 2009/10 and 2010/11 and to compare them to two previous influenza seasons. Methods An observational study of all patients hospitalized for laboratory-confirmed influenza during the last four influenza seasons at Regensburg University Hospital was undertaken. Results During the last four seasons, a rising number of patients were admitted due to influenza (4 in 2007/8, 16 in 2008/9, 27 in 2009/10, and 55 in 2010/11). Patients seen in the last two seasons were younger (median age 63 years in 2007/8, 52 years in 2008/9, 42 years in 2009/10, and 48 years in 2010/11) (p = 0.046) and presented with a lower rate of major comorbidities (75 % in 2007/8, 62.5 % in 2008/9, 37 % in 2009/10, and 47.3 % in 2010/11). The pandemic and post-pandemic seasons were characterized by a high rate of seriously ill patients with longer hospitalizations (11 days in 2007/8, 7 days in 2008/9, 22 days in 2009/10 and 2010/11) (p = 0.004) and higher rates of intensive care unit (ICU) admission (25 % in 2007/8, 18.8 % in 2008/9, 66.7 % in 2009/10, and 52.7 % in 2010/11) (p = 0.003) and mechanical ventilation (25 % in 2007/8, 6.3 % in 2008/9, 63 % in 2009/10, and 49.1 % in 2010/11) (p < 0.001). Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) was necessary in 33.3 % of patients in 2009/10 and 25.5 % in 2010/11. We had six fatalities in both pandemic and post-pandemic seasons. Conclusion Compared to seasonal influenza, we observed even more so in the post-pandemic than the pandemic season a higher number of younger patients, with less serious comorbidities often showing a very severe course.
ABCA10, a novel cholesterol-regulated ABCA6-like ABC transporter
Creators: name: Wenzel, Jürgen J.
name: Kaminski, Wolfgang E.
name: Piehler, Armin
name: Heimerl, Susanne
name: Langmann, Thomas
name: Schmitz, Gerd
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin

description: We recently identified several novel members of the A subclass of ABC transporters. In this study, we report the cloning of an additional ABC A subfamily transporter, denoted ABCA10, from macrophages. The coding sequence of ABCA10 is of 4.6 kb size and codes for a 1543-amino acid protein that bears the structural features of a full-size ABC transporter. Intriguingly, ABCA10 contains a PEST sequence downstream of the N-terminal transmembrane domain which may be potentially involved in the control of its turnover rate by proteasomal degradation. Several distinct ABCA10 transcripts are expressed in human macrophages that predict the existence of various truncated forms of the novel transporter. Moreover, we identified seven single nucleotide polymorphisms in ABCA10 transcripts. ABCA10 displays high amino acid sequence homology with ABCA6 (63%), ABCA8 (62%), and ABCA9 (63%), respectively, known members of the subgroup of ABCA6-like transporters. Like other transporters of this subfamily, ABCA10 mRNA is ubiquitously expressed and highest gene expression levels are detectable in heart, brain, and the gastrointestinal tract. Analysis of the gene structure demonstrated that the ABCA10 gene consists of 40 exons that extend across a genomic region of ∼97 kb size (Chr. 17q24.3). ABCA10 mRNA is expressed in similar quantities in monocytes and M-CSF differentiated macrophages. Importantly, ABCA10 expression is suppressed by cholesterol import into macrophages, indicating that it is a cholesterol-responsive gene. Our results identify ABCA10 as a novel member of the group of ABCA6-like transporters and suggest its involvement in macrophage lipid homeostasis.
Hepatitis E Virus Seroprevalence among Adults, Germany
Creators: name: Faber, Mirko S.
name: Wenzel, Jürgen J.
name: Jilg, Wolfgang
name: Thamm, Michael
name: Höhle, Michael
name: Stark, Klaus
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin

description: We assessed hepatitis E virus (HEV) antibody seroprevalence in a sample of the adult population in Germany. Overall HEV IgG prevalence was 16.8% (95% CI 15.6%–17.9%) and increased with age, leveling off at >60 years of age. HEV is endemic in Germany, and the lifetime risk for exposure is high.
title: "Rilievo funerario a tre figure", arte romana, inv. CLXXXVIII (ITA/EN)
title: Scheda catalogo digitale Borghese
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Clementi, Jessica
name: Galleria Borghese
Publisher: name: Galleria Borghese
Year: 2024

description: Pubblicazione delle schede delle opere conservate nel museo ed estratte dal catalogo digitale di

Galleria Borghese, nelle due versioni esistenti online, in italiano e inglese.

Collegamento al catalogo digitale:

ITA: https://www.collezionegalleriaborghese.it/

EN: https://www.collezionegalleriaborghese.it/en
Are you ready for DORA?
Creators: name: Gould van Praag, Cassandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Presentation given at the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford. Describes the San Fransisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) and the tools researchers can use to evidence their varied contributions to research. Abstract: The Declaration of Research Assessment (DORA) was designed to improve the evaluation of scientific research by funding agencies, academic institutions, and other parties. It promotes the assessment of research on its own merits, rather than the journal in it was published (impact factor) or the quantity of publications and citations of an individual author (H-index). Over 20,000 individuals and organisations in 153 countries have signed DORA since 2012, including the University of Oxford in 2018. The University is currently developing it's DORA implementation plan, which will impact reward, promotion, hiring and funding allocation. Other Universities and funders are developing similar plans to evaluate your research more wholistically, for example by requiring evidence of your other research outputs such as software, data, training materials and policy contributions, or contributions to mentoring, the improvement of research culture, integrity, or EDI. Wherever possible, these contributions should be in the public domain and referenced with a DOI. In this presentation I will briefly review the recommendations of DORA. I will then highlight recent trends in the implementation of DORA by funders, specifically the narrative CV format "Résumé for Researchers" which is being championed by UKRI. I will then demonstrate tools which you can use to create the all-important DOI for your outputs and discuss the necessity for licensing to ensure your outputs and contributions are appropriately acknowledged.
Maximally Localized States in Quantum Mechanics with a Modified Commutation Relation to All Orders
Creators: name: Dorsch, Glauber
name: Nogueira, Jose Alexandre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct the states of maximal localization taking into account a modification of the commutation relation between position and momentum operators to all orders of the minimum length parameter. To first order, the algebra we use reproduces the one proposed by Kempft, Mangano and Mann. It is emphasized that a minimal length acts as a natural regulator for the theory, thus eliminating the otherwise ever appearing infinities. So, we use our results to calculate the first correction to the Casimir Effect due to the minimal length. We also discuss some of the physical consequences of the existence of a minimal length, culminating in a proposal to reformulate the very concept of "position measurement".
Seroprevalence study in forestry workers from eastern Germany using novel genotype 3- and rat hepatitis E virus-specific immunoglobulin G ELISAs
Creators: name: Dremsek, Paul
name: Wenzel, Jürgen J.
name: Johne, Reimar
name: Ziller, Mario
name: Hofmann, Jörg
name: Groschup, Martin H.
name: Werdermann, Sandra
name: Mohn, Ulrich
name: Dorn, Silvia
name: Motz, Manfred
name: Mertens, Marc
name: Jilg, Wolfgang
name: Ulrich, Rainer G.
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Hepatitis E virus, Genotype, 3 ratHEV, Capsid protein, ELISA, Forestry workers, Blood donors, Germany
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is the causative agent of an acute self-limiting hepatitis in humans. In industrialized countries, autochthonous cases are linked to zoonotic transmission from domestic pigs, wild boar and red deer. The main route of human infection presumably is consumption of contaminated meat. Farmers, slaughterers and veterinarians are expected to be risk groups as they work close to potentially infected animals. In this study, we tested four Escherichia coli-expressed segments of the capsid protein (CP) of a German wild boar-derived HEV genotype 3 strain for their diagnostic value in an indirect immunoglobulin G (IgG) ELISA. In an initial validation experiment, a carboxy-terminal CP segment spanning amino acid (aa) residues 326–608 outperformed the other segments harbouring aa residues 112–608, 326–660 and 112–335. Based on this segment, an indirect ELISA for detection of anti-HEV IgG antibodies in human sera was established and validated using a commercial line immunoassay as reference assay. A total of 563 sera from forestry workers of all forestry offices of Brandenburg, eastern Germany and 301 sera of blood donors from eastern Germany were surveyed using these assays. The commercial test revealed seroprevalence rates of 11% for blood donors and 18% for forestry workers. These rates are in line with data obtained by the in-house test (12 and 21%). Hence, the in-house test performed strikingly similar to the commercial test (sensitivity 0.9318, specificity 0.9542). An initial screening of forestry worker and blood donor sera with a corresponding CP segment of the recently discovered Norway rat-associated HEV revealed several strong positive sera exclusively in the forestry worker panel. Future investigations have to prove the performance of this novel IgG ELISA in large-scale seroepidemiological studies. In addition, the observed elevated seroprevalence in a forestry worker group has to be confirmed by studies on groups of forestry workers from other regions. The epidemiological role of ratHEV in human disease should be assessed in a large-scale study of risk and non-risk groups.
The effects of leptin knockout and insulin suppression on glucose metabolism in rodents
Creators: name: D'souza, Anna Marie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Background: The adipose-derived hormone leptin is well known for its effects on metabolic homeostasis, and in particular its role in suppressing appetite and regulating fat mass. Loss of leptin results in a phenotype characterized by obesity, insulin resistance, hyperinsulinemia and glucose intolerance. Treating leptin deficient mice with leptin is able to lower blood glucose and insulin levels without reducing body weight, indicating that leptin has independent effects on glucose homeostasis. While there have been many studies exploring the role of leptin in metabolism, the glucoregulatory actions of leptin remain to be fully elucidated. Scope of Thesis: The overall goal of this thesis was to understand the role of leptin in glucose regulation. To do so, we utilized a number of in vivo models in which leptin signalling was disrupted. First, we investigated the effects of reducing insulin gene dosage on glucose homeostasis and body mass in leptin deficient ob/ob mice. Next we explored the significance of leptin signalling in pancreatic β cells. To determine whether the glucoregulatory actions of leptin are conserved across rodent species, we explored the effects of leptin deficiency in rats, and used this model to investigate the hierarchy of metabolic defects that arise as a result of impaired leptin action. Finally, we describe a novel mouse model to selectively knock out leptin in a temporal and tissue-specific manner. Conclusions: We show that reduction of circulating insulin levels prevents obesity, but results in hyperglycemia in ob/ob mice. Furthermore, we show that direct leptin signalling in β cells is insufficient to restore euglycemia. In addition, we demonstrate that leptin deficiency produces a similar metabolic phenotype in rats as in mice. Finally, we suggest that loss of insulin sensitivity may be a primary metabolic defect that results from leptin deficiency in rats. Together, these results provide further insight into the glucoregulatory mechanisms of leptin that may be used to develop therapeutic strategies to treat obesity and diabetes.
Plasma damping effects on the radiative energy loss of relativistic particles
Creators: name: Bluhm, Marcus
name: Gossiaux, Pol Bernard
name: Aichelin, Joerg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The energy loss of a relativistic charge undergoing multiple scatterings while traversing an infinite, polarizable and absorptive plasma is investigated. Polarization and damping mechanisms in the medium are phenomenologically modelled by a complex index of refraction. Apart from the known Ter-Mikaelian effect related to the dielectric polarization of matter, we find an additional, substantial reduction of the energy loss due to damping of radiation. The observed effect is more prominent for larger damping and/or larger energy of the charge. A conceivable analog of this phenomenon in QCD could influence the study of jet quenching phenomena in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC.
description: Sep 2012. 4pp. 3 figures. Revised journal version - Erratum