cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
ASSOCIATION BETWEEN GENETIC POLYMORPHISMS RELATED TO THE INTERFERON PATHWAY AND THE SEVERITY OF COVID-19: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW PROTOCOL
Creators: name: Moriel, Patricia
name: Visacri, Marília Berlofa
name: Da Silva Correa Da Ronda, Carla Regina
name: Nakamura, Karine Tiemi
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the causative agent of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), responsible for the pandemic declared in early 2020 by World Health Organization. CoVs are enveloped viruses containing a non-segmented positive-sense, single-stranded ribonucleic acid (RNA) and pleomorphic capsids. Its name is due to the presence of superficial radial projections (spike proteins) that resemble a crown. Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 occurs through inhalation or direct contact with infected droplets. Its incubation period is on average 5-6 days, but can be as long as 14 days. Patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection can exhibit different symptoms, ranging from asymptomatic cases, mild, and moderate symptoms of the upper respiratory tract, to the condition of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), which can lead to multiple organ failure, culminating in death. There have been more than 6 million COVID-19 deaths worldwide. Many efforts have been made to discover molecular biomarkers related to the severity of COVID-19, including genetic biomarkers, such as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Genetic polymorphisms related to the interferon pathway have been studied as risk factors for severe COVID-19. Therefore, we decided to conduct a systematic review of literature to verify if there is association of genetic polymorphisms related to the interferon pathway with severe forms of COVID-19.
(101807) Daniel Charles Addington Cave
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Additional file 1 of Histological observations and transcriptome analyses reveal the dynamic changes in the gonads of the blotched snakehead (Channa maculata) during sex differentiation and gametogenesis
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiaotian
name: Wu, Yuxia
name: Zhang, Yang
name: Zhang, Jin
name: Chu, Pengfei
name: Chen, Kunci
name: Liu, Haiyang
name: Luo, Qing
name: Fei, Shuzhan
name: Zhao, Jian
name: Ou, Mi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1: Fig. S1. Global transcriptome profiles of gonads in C. maculata. (A) PCA score plots of the first two principal components for 40 gonadal samples. The ovaries, testes and undifferentiated gonads are shown with pink, blue and yellow backgrounds, respectively, (B) Correlation heatmap of ovaries at 90 dpf, (C) Correlation heatmap of 40 gonadal samples.
Imaging-based clusters in former smokers of the COPD cohort associate with clinical characteristics: The SubPopulations and intermediate outcome measures in COPD study (SPIROMICS)
Creators: name: Comellas, A.P.
name: Kleerup, E.A.C.
name: Choi, J.
name: Bleecker, E.
name: Newell, J.D., Jr.
name: Paine, R., III
name: Cooper, C.B.
name: Han, M.L.
name: Couper, D.
name: Rennard, S.I.
name: Haghighi, B.
name: O'Neal, W.
name: Martinez, F.J.
name: Smith, B.M.
name: Hoffman, E.A.
name: Lin, C.-L.
name: Woodruff, P.G.
name: Kazerooni, E.A.
name: Lee, C.H.
name: Barr, R.G.
name: Hansel, N.N.
name: Kanner, R.E.
name: Choi, S.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd.
Year: 2019

description: Background: Quantitative computed tomographic (QCT) imaging-based metrics enable to quantify smoking induced disease alterations and to identify imaging-based clusters for current smokers. We aimed to derive clinically meaningful sub-groups of former smokers using dimensional reduction and clustering methods to develop a new way of COPD phenotyping. Methods: An imaging-based cluster analysis was performed for 406 former smokers with a comprehensive set of imaging metrics including 75 imaging-based metrics. They consisted of structural and functional variables at 10 segmental and 5 lobar locations. The structural variables included lung shape, branching angle, airway-circularity, airway-wall-thickness, airway diameter; the functional variables included regional ventilation, emphysema percentage, functional small airway disease percentage, Jacobian (volume change), anisotropic deformation index (directional preference in volume change), and tissue fractions at inspiration and expiration. Results: We derived four distinct imaging-based clusters as possible phenotypes with the sizes of 100, 80, 141, and 85, respectively. Cluster 1 subjects were asymptomatic and showed relatively normal airway structure and lung function except airway wall thickening and moderate emphysema. Cluster 2 subjects populated with obese females showed an increase of tissue fraction at inspiration, minimal emphysema, and the lowest progression rate of emphysema. Cluster 3 subjects populated with older males showed small airway narrowing and a decreased tissue fraction at expiration, both indicating air-trapping. Cluster 4 subjects populated with lean males were likely to be severe COPD subjects showing the highest progression rate of emphysema. Conclusions: QCT imaging-based metrics for former smokers allow for the derivation of statistically stable clusters associated with unique clinical characteristics. This approach helps better categorization of COPD sub-populations; suggesting possible quantitative structural and functional phenotypes.
Identifying patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) in insurance claims data
Creators: name: Schneeweiss, Sebastian
name: Joshua K Lin, MD
name: Lu, Zhigang
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: To study the performance of insurance claims data coding algorithms to identify patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) based on diagnosis, procedure, and prescription drug information.
title: Imaging of complications from hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in children
Creators: name: Morán-Hevia, Marta
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Transplantation
subject: eLearning
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Paediatric

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Describe the clinical aspects and indications of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in children. Identify the imaging findings for establishing the diagnosis of different types of...
Yang-Baxter deformations, AdS/CFT, and twist-noncommutative gauge theory
Creators: name: van Tongeren, Stijn J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give an AdS/CFT interpretation to homogeneous Yang-Baxter deformations of the AdS_5 x S^5 superstring as noncommutative deformations of the dual gauge theory, going well beyond the canonical noncommutative case. These homogeneous Yang-Baxter deformations can be of so-called abelian or jordanian type. While abelian deformations have a clear interpretation in string theory and many already had well understood gauge theory duals, jordanian deformations appear novel on both counts. We discuss the symmetry structure of the deformed string from the uniformizing perspective of Drinfeld twists and indicate that this structure can be realized on the gauge theory side by considering theories on various noncommutative spaces. We then conjecture that these are the gauge theory duals of our strings, modulo subtleties involving singularities. We support this conjecture by a brane construction for two jordanian examples, corresponding to noncommutative spaces with [x^-,x^i] ~ x^i (i=1,2). We also discuss kappa-Minkowski type deformations of AdS_5 x S^5, one of which may be the gravity dual of gauge theory on spacelike kappa-Minkowski space.
description: v5, published version up to formatting, 32 pages
Methods for removing all-ceramic restorations: a scoping review
Creators: name: De Holanda Cavalcanti Pereira, Anne Karoline
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Dentistry
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Prosthodontics and Prosthodontology
subject: Dental Materials
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: Statement of Problem. The structural preservation of the abutment and the absence of iatrogenic damage are fundamental for the success in the removal of all-ceramic restorations, the hardness of the material and the high bond strength from resin cementation make this process a challenge. Although in recent years there has been extensive research on non-invasive alternatives for removing all-ceramic restorations, scope reviews of the literature to identify knowledge gaps or safety and clinical feasibility of available methods for definitively removing cement-retained ceramic restoration are lacking. Purpose. Map the available methods described in the literature for removing all-ceramic restorations and investigate the preservation of structures, safety, and clinical feasibility. Material and Methods. Electronic databases (PubMed/MEDLINE, Embase, Web of Science, Cochrane Library) were independently searched by 2 researchers for relevant studies published up to June 2022. The research question was “What are the available methods described in the literature for removing all-ceramic restorations?” Eligible studies included clinical studies, case reports, and in vitro studies that evaluated and/or described methods for removing all-ceramic restorations cemented on teeth and implants. Results. Twenty-nine studies were included in this review: 27 in vitro studies and 2 case reports. The methods described in the literature were the use of rotary instruments and erbium lasers (Er:YAG, Er,Cr:YSGG). All-ceramic restorations removal with laser caused less damage to the abutment structure and maintained the integrity of the restauration better than rotary instruments Conclusions. The use of rotary instruments and erbium lasers are viable and safe, with the advantage of maintaining the integrity of the abutment and restoration, and consequently, the possibility of re-using the all-ceramic restoration when laser is used.
Additional file 2 of Histological observations and transcriptome analyses reveal the dynamic changes in the gonads of the blotched snakehead (Channa maculata) during sex differentiation and gametogenesis
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiaotian
name: Wu, Yuxia
name: Zhang, Yang
name: Zhang, Jin
name: Chu, Pengfei
name: Chen, Kunci
name: Liu, Haiyang
name: Luo, Qing
name: Fei, Shuzhan
name: Zhao, Jian
name: Ou, Mi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 2: Fig. S2. Volcano plots of DEGs in males compared to the corresponding females at ten developmental stages. (A) 10 dpf, (B) 15 dpf, (C) 20 dpf, (D) 25 dpf, (E) 30 dpf, (F) 60 dpf, (G) 90 dpf, (H) 120 dpf, (I) 150 dpf, (J) 180 dpf. Down: down-regulated DEG; Up: up-regulated DEG; Normal: undifferentially expressed gene.
Factors Related to the Perceived Competency Regarding Knowledge and Skills of the Expanded Program on Immunization Staff in Thailand
Creators: name: Syamol Rompipat
Publisher: name: กองบริหารการวิจัย
Year: 2019
Subjects: Competency, Knowledge, Skills, Factors, Immunization

description: Thammasat Review, 22, 1, 77-90
title: Role of Secretin administration during MRCP in Patients after duodeno-pancreatectomy
Creators: name: Fabris, Cristina
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Outcomes
subject: Fistula
subject: Cancer
subject: Surgery
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: MR
subject: Pancreas
subject: Oncology
subject: Abdomen

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Duodeno-pancreatectomy is a complex and laborious surgery, which could carry to several complications, in particular anastomotic leakage, pancreatic fistula and stenosis of the anastomosis between the residual pancreas and the bowel. The...
(101808) Edward (Sir) Strachey
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Impact of Uniaxial Pressure on Structural and Magnetic Phase Transitions in Electron-Doped Iron Pnictides
Creators: name: Lu, Xingye
name: Tseng, Kuo-Feng
name: Keller, T.
name: Zhang, Wenliang
name: Hu, Ding
name: Song, Yu
name: Man, Haoran
name: Park, J. T.
name: Luo, Huiqian
name: Li, Shiliang
name: Nevidomskyy, Andriy H.
name: Dai, Pengcheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use neutron resonance spin echo and Larmor diffraction to study the effect of uniaxial pressure on the tetragonal-to-orthorhombic structural ($T_s$) and antiferromagnetic (AF) phase transitions in iron pnictides BaFe$_{2-x}$Ni$_{x}$As$_{2}$ ($x=0,0.03,0.12$), SrFe$_{1.97}$Ni$_{0.03}$As$_2$, and BaFe$_2$(As$_{0.7}$P$_{0.3}$)$_2$. In antiferromagnetically ordered BaFe$_{2-x}$Ni$_{x}$As$_{2}$ and SrFe$_{1.97}$Ni$_{0.03}$As$_2$ with $T_N$ and $T_s$ ($T_N\leq T_s$), a uniaxial pressure necessary to detwin the sample also increases $T_N$, smears out the structural transition, and induces an orthorhombic lattice distortion at all temperatures. By comparing temperature and doping dependence of the pressure induced lattice parameter changes with the elastoresistance and nematic susceptibility obtained from transport and ultrasonic measurements, we conclude that the in-plane resistivity anisotropy found in the paramagnetic state of electron underdoped iron pnictides depends sensitively on the nature of the magnetic phase transition and a strong coupling between the uniaxial pressure induced lattice distortion and electronic nematic susceptibility.
description: 18 pages, 15 figures
Methods for removing all-ceramic restorations: a scoping review
Creators: name: Costa, Rayanna
name: De Holanda Cavalcanti Pereira, Anne Karoline
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Prosthodontics and Prosthodontology
subject: Dentistry
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Dental Materials
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: Statement of Problem. The structural preservation of the abutment and the absence of iatrogenic damage are fundamental for the success in the removal of all-ceramic restorations, the hardness of the material and the high bond strength from resin cementation make this process a challenge. Although in recent years there has been extensive research on non-invasive alternatives for removing all-ceramic restorations, scope reviews of the literature to identify knowledge gaps or safety and clinical feasibility of available methods for definitively removing cement-retained ceramic restoration are lacking. Purpose. Map the available methods described in the literature for removing all-ceramic restorations and investigate the preservation of structures, safety, and clinical feasibility. Material and Methods. Electronic databases (PubMed/MEDLINE, Embase, Web of Science, Cochrane Library) were independently searched by 2 researchers for relevant studies published up to June 2022. The research question was “What are the available methods described in the literature for removing all-ceramic restorations?” Eligible studies included clinical studies, case reports, and in vitro studies that evaluated and/or described methods for removing all-ceramic restorations cemented on teeth and implants. Results. Twenty-nine studies were included in this review: 27 in vitro studies and 2 case reports. The methods described in the literature were the use of rotary instruments and erbium lasers (Er:YAG, Er,Cr:YSGG). All-ceramic restorations removal with laser caused less damage to the abutment structure and maintained the integrity of the restauration better than rotary instruments Conclusions. The use of rotary instruments and erbium lasers are viable and safe, with the advantage of maintaining the integrity of the abutment and restoration, and consequently, the possibility of re-using the all-ceramic restoration when laser is used.
title: Quantitative Diffusion-Weighted Imaging and Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI Parameters in the diagnosis of osteomyelitis in the diabetic foot
Creators: name: Garcia Diez, Ana Isabel
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Technology assessment
subject: Infection

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Clinical Background Diagnosis of osteomyelitis is important in diabetic foot, the fact that it has a worse outcome which requires prolonged antibiotic therapy, often surgical resection is necessary, and it is the most common no traumatic cause of...
REDCap Project Billing Poster presented at REDCap Con 2023
Creators: name: Chase, Philip B
name: Stoffs, Taryn L
name: James-Woodley, Laurence
name: Chesney, Kyle
name: Bentz, Michael
name: Barnes, Christopher P.
name: Smith, Sandra N
name: McCraw, Laura
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: REDCap

description: REDCap Project Billing To turn our REDCap system from a cost center into a revenue generator, we implemented a $100 annual charge for each project. This project is generating revenue, reducing our data privacy risks, and improving the quality of our metrics of research productivity. This has required us to improve our investigator and project metadata, partner with fiscal staff, and automate novel data workflows.
title: CT in acute appendicitis: atypical and challenging CT appearances and correlation with surgical intraoperative findings.
Creators: name: Monetti, Francesco
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT
subject: Small bowel
subject: Emergency
subject: Abdomen
subject: Inflammation

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Appendicitis is the most common cause of acute abdominal pain requiring surgery. An early diagnosis and an early surgical approach is mandatory to the success of therapy and to avoid late complications. Computed tomography (CT) due to the high...
Systemic Markers of Inflammation in Smokers With Symptoms Despite Preserved Spirometry in SPIROMICS
Creators: name: Garudadri, S.
name: Couper, D.J.
name: Criner, G.
name: Krishnan, J.A.
name: Woodruff, P.G.
name: Han, M.K.
name: Hastie, A.T.
name: Barr, R.G.
name: O'Neal, W.K.
name: Christenson, S.A.
name: Peters, S.P.
name: Cooper, C.B.
name: Dransfield, M.T.
name: Martinez, F.J.
name: Curtis, J.L.
name: Paine, R., III
name: Comellas, A.
name: Bowler, R.P.
name: Bleecker, E.R.
name: Alexis, N.E.
name: Hansel, N.N.
Publisher: name: Elsevier Inc
Year: 2019

description: Background: Chronic respiratory symptoms and exacerbation-like events are common among ever-smokers without airflow limitation on spirometry. The pathobiology of respiratory disease in this subgroup remains poorly defined, but may be due to underlying inflammation that overlaps with COPD or asthma. We hypothesized that symptoms, exacerbations, and functional measures of disease severity among smokers with preserved spirometry would be associated with markers of systemic inflammation, similar to what is reported in bone fide COPD, rather than elevated type 2 inflammation, which is often present in asthma. Methods: We measured inflammatory markers associated with COPD (C-reactive protein [CRP], fibrinogen, soluble tumor necrosis factor receptors [sTNFRSF1A and sTNFRSF1B], and blood/sputum neutrophils) and type 2 inflammation (IgE and blood/sputum eosinophils) in smokers with preserved spirometry (postbronchodilator FEV1/FVC ≥ 0.70) from the Subpopulations and Intermediate Outcome Measures In COPD Study (SPIROMICS). We evaluated the relationship of these markers with respiratory symptom burden (dichotomized by a COPD assessment test score cutoff of 10, diagnosis of chronic bronchitis), exacerbations, 6-minute walk distance, and lung function on the basis of FEV1. Results: CRP was associated with increased symptom burden (on the basis of COPD assessment test score and diagnosis of chronic bronchitis) and a greater number of exacerbations in the year before study enrollment. sTNFRSF1A was associated with symptom burden on the basis of COPD assessment test score. CRP and sTNFRSF1A levels negatively correlated with 6-minute walk distance. IgE and eosinophils were not associated with these outcomes. Conclusions: Markers of inflammation including CRP and sTNFRSF1A are enriched among symptomatic smokers with preserved spirometry, suggesting an overlap with the underlying pathophysiology of COPD.
Marijuana use associations with pulmonary symptoms and function in Tobacco smokers enrolled in the Subpopulations and Intermediate Outcome Measures in COPD study (SPIROMICS)
Creators: name:  Drummond, M.B.
name:  Jacobson, S.R.
name:  Kinney, G.L.
name:  Han, M.K.
name:  Woodruff, P.G.
name:  Kanner, R.E.
name:  Hansel, N.N.
name:  Cooper, C.B.
name: Morris, M.A.
name:  Bowler, R.P.
name:  Hoffman, E.A.
name:  Make, B.J.
name:  Graham Barr, R.
name:  O'Neal, W.K.
name:  Oelsner, E.C.
name:  Tashkin, D.P.
Publisher: name: COPD Foundation
Year: 2018

description: Background: Marijuana is often smoked via a filterless cigarette and contains similar chemical makeup as smoked tobacco. There are few publications describing usage patterns and respiratory risks in older adults or in those with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Methods: A cross-sectional analysis of current and former tobacco smokers from the Subpopulations and Intermediate Outcome Measures in COPD Study (SPIROMICS) study assessed associations between marijuana use and pulmonary outcomes. Marijuana use was defined as never, former (use over 30 days ago), or current (use within 30 days). Respiratory health was assessed using quantitative high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) scans, pulmonary function tests and questionnaire responses about respiratory symptoms. Results: Of the total 2304 participants, 1130 (49%) never, 982 (43%) former, and 192 (8%) current marijuana users were included. Neither current nor former marijuana use was associated with increased odds of wheeze (odds ratio [OR] 0.87, OR 0.97), cough (OR 1.22; OR 0.93) or chronic bronchitis (OR 0.87; OR 1.00) when compared to never users. Current and former marijuana users had lower quantitative emphysema (P=0.004, P=0.03), higher percent predicted forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1%) (P < 0.001, P < 0.001), and percent predicted forced vital capacity (FVC%) (p < 0.001, P < 0.001). Current marijuana users exhibited higher total tissue volume (P=0.003) while former users had higher air trapping (P < 0.001) when compared to never marijuana users. Conclusions: Marijuana use was found to have little to no association with poor pulmonary health in older current and former tobacco smokers after adjusting for covariates. Higher forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) and forced vital capacity (FVC) was observed among current marijuana users. However, higher joint years was associated with more chronic bronchitis symptoms (e.g., wheeze), and this study cannot determine if long-term heavy marijuana smoking in the absence of tobacco smoking is associated with lung symptoms, airflow obstruction, or emphysema, particularly in those who have never smoked tobacco cigarettes.
Accurate decay-constant ratios $f_{B^*}/f_B$ and $f_{B_s^*}/f_{B_s}$ from Borel QCD sum rules
Creators: name: Lucha, Wolfgang
name: Melikhov, Dmitri
name: Simula, Silvano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present our analysis of the decay constants of the beauty vector mesons $B^*$ and $B^*_s$ within the framework of dispersive sum rules for the two-point correlator of vector currents in QCD. While the decay constants of the vector mesons $f_{B^*}$ and $f_{B_s^*}$ $-$ similar to the decay constants of the pseudoscalar mesons $f_B$ and $f_{B_s}$ $-$ individually have large uncertainties induced by theory parameters not known with a satisfactory precision, these uncertainties almost entirely cancel out in the ratios of vector over pseudoscalar decay constants. These ratios may be thus predicted with very high accuracy due to the good control over the systematic uncertainties of the decay constants gained upon application of our hadron-parameter extraction algorithm. Our final results read $f_{B^*}/f_B=0.944\pm0.011_{\rm OPE}\pm0.018_{\rm syst}$ and $f_{B_s^*}/f_{B_s}=0.947\pm0.023_{\rm OPE}\pm0.020_{\rm syst}$. Thus, both $f_{B^*}/f_B$ and $f_{B_s^*}/f_{B_s}$ are less than unity at 2.5$σ$ and 2$σ$ level, respectively.
description: 10 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1404.0293
(101813) Charles Edwin Vaughn
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Imaging-based clusters in current smokers of the COPD cohort associate with clinical characteristics: The SubPopulations and Intermediate Outcome Measures in COPD Study (SPIROMICS) 11 Medical and Health Sciences 1102 Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology
Creators: name: Hansel, N.N.
name: Kanner, R.E.
name: Choi, J.
name: Bleecker, E.
name: Martinez, F.J.
name: O'Neal, W.
name: Comellas, A.P.
name: Lin, C.-L.
name: Han, M.L.
name: Graham Barr, R.
name: Hoffman, E.A.
name: Haghighi, B.
name: Couper, D.
name: Kleerup, E.A.C.
name: Newell, J.D., Jr.
name: Cooper, C.B.
name: Rennard, S.I.
name: Woodruff, P.G.
name: Choi, S.
name: Kazerooni, E.A.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd.
Year: 2018

description: Background: Classification of COPD is usually based on the severity of airflow, which may not sensitively differentiate subpopulations. Using a multiscale imaging-based cluster analysis (MICA), we aim to identify subpopulations for current smokers with COPD. Methods: Among the SPIROMICS subjects, we analyzed computed tomography images at total lung capacity (TLC) and residual volume (RV) of 284 current smokers. Functional variables were derived from registration of TLC and RV images, e.g. functional small airways disease (fSAD%). Structural variables were assessed at TLC images, e.g. emphysema and airway wall thickness and diameter. We employed an unsupervised method for clustering. Results: Four clusters were identified. Cluster 1 had relatively normal airway structures; Cluster 2 had an increase of fSAD% and wall thickness; Cluster 3 exhibited a further increase of fSAD% but a decrease of wall thickness and airway diameter; Cluster 4 had a significant increase of fSAD% and emphysema. Clinically, Cluster 1 showed normal FEV1/FVC and low exacerbations. Cluster 4 showed relatively low FEV1/FVC and high exacerbations. While Cluster 2 and Cluster 3 showed similar exacerbations, Cluster 2 had the highest BMI among all clusters. Conclusions: Association of imaging-based clusters with existing clinical metrics suggests the sensitivity of MICA in differentiating subpopulations.
Theory of Dark Matter Superfluidity
Creators: name: Berezhiani, Lasha
name: Khoury, Justin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a novel theory of dark matter (DM) superfluidity that matches the successes of the LambdaCDM model on cosmological scales while simultaneously reproducing the MOdified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) phenomenology on galactic scales. The DM and MOND components have a common origin, representing different phases of a single underlying substance. DM consists of axion-like particles with mass of order eV and strong self-interactions. The condensate has a polytropic equation of state P~rho^3 giving rise to a superfluid core within galaxies. Instead of behaving as individual collisionless particles, the DM superfluid is more aptly described as collective excitations. Superfluid phonons, in particular, are assumed to be governed by a MOND-like effective action and mediate a MONDian acceleration between baryonic matter particles. Our framework naturally distinguishes between galaxies (where MOND is successful) and galaxy clusters (where MOND is not): due to the higher velocity dispersion in clusters, and correspondingly higher temperature, the DM in clusters is either in a mixture of superfluid and normal phase, or fully in the normal phase. The rich and well-studied physics of superfluidity leads to a number of observational signatures: array of low-density vortices in galaxies, merger dynamics that depend on the infall velocity vs phonon sound speed; distinct mass peaks in bullet-like cluster mergers, corresponding to superfluid and normal components; interference patters in super-critical mergers. Remarkably, the superfluid phonon effective theory is strikingly similar to that of the unitary Fermi gas, which has attracted much excitement in the cold atom community in recent years. The critical temperature for DM superfluidity is of order mK, comparable to known cold atom Bose-Einstein condensates.
description: 44 pages; v2: typos corrected
Similarity Between Partners’ Sexual Need Fulfillment Norms and Sexual and Relationship Satisfaction
Creators: name: Harasymchuk, Cheryl
name: SHaRe Lab
name: Raposo, Stephanie
name: Barranti, Maxwell
name: Impett, Emily
name: Muise, Amy
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Social Psychology
subject: couples
subject: relationship satisfaction
subject: sexual exchange
subject: sexual need fulfillment
subject: sexual satisfaction
subject: sexual communion
subject: dyadic response surface analysis
subject: sexuality

description: To view our preregistration for the study, please view the attached document.
title: The dissection of the superior mesenteric artery; CT findings and Time-dependent change
Creators: name: Yoshida, Rika
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Dissection
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT
subject: Abdomen

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Background Superior mesenteric artery (SMA) dissection is a rare cause of acute abdomen with severe abdominal pain. Spontaneous SMA dissection is especially defined as an SMA dissection in the absence of an aortic dissection (1–4)....
Alveolar eosinophilia in current smokers with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the SPIROMICS cohort
Creators: name: Meyers, D.A.
name: Stolberg, V.R.
name: Freeman, C.M.
name: Barr, R.G.
name: Woodruff, P.G.
name: Bleecker, E.R.
name: Carretta, E.E.
name: Cooper, C.B.
name: Zeidler, M.
name: Kaner, R.J.
name: Paine, R., III
name: Martinez, C.H.
name: Hoffman, E.A.
name: Curtis, J.L.
name: Putcha, N.
name: O'Neal, W.K.
name: Hirzel, A.J.
name: Alexis, N.E.
name: Christenson, S.A.
name: Doerschuk, C.M.
name: Hastie, A.T.
name: Rennard, S.I.
name: Couper, D.J.
name: Li, S.X.
name: Martinez, F.J.
name: SPIROMICS Investigators
name: Hansel, N.N.
name: Han, M.K.
Publisher: name: Mosby Inc.
Year: 2018

description: To the Editor: Novel therapies for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are urgently needed. Eosinophilic inflammation is an appealing target, because blood or sputum eosinophils in stable COPD may predict responses to systemic or inhaled corticosteroid therapy. Titrating steroid therapy in the stable state on the basis of sputum eosinophils reduced severe exacerbations and has been recommended for clinical practice. However, the prevalence of eosinophilic inflammation in COPD and its uniformity between systemic and lung compartments remain incompletely defined. Controversy exists on whether sputum analysis (reflecting large airway events) is required, or whether blood eosinophilia can suffice, on the basis of strong correlation between the 2 found by 1 group. Thus, better understanding of eosinophils in COPD is needed.
Epistemic gratitude — Experiment 5b
Creators: name: Boyer, Pascal
name: Karabegovic, Mia
name: Guley, Olha
name: Mercier, Hugo
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: In this experiment, we investigate whether participants are more likely to choose the high cost of a given piece of information to be known by the interlocutor (in a choice against the low cost) in the indirect compared to the direct condition.
(101804) Thomas Hill Green
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Additional file 6 of Histological observations and transcriptome analyses reveal the dynamic changes in the gonads of the blotched snakehead (Channa maculata) during sex differentiation and gametogenesis
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiaotian
name: Wu, Yuxia
name: Zhang, Yang
name: Zhang, Jin
name: Chu, Pengfei
name: Chen, Kunci
name: Liu, Haiyang
name: Luo, Qing
name: Fei, Shuzhan
name: Zhao, Jian
name: Ou, Mi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 6: Fig. S6. Number of DEGs of pairwise comparisons across nine sample groups (10, 15, 20, 25, 60, 90, 120, 150, and 180 dpf) relative to 30 dpf benchmark in females (A) and males (B). Up: up-regulated DEG. down: down-regulated DEG.
title: Radiological features of hepatocellular carcinoma in non-cirrhotic patients
Creators: name: Navarro Monforte, Ylenia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Cancer
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Oncology
subject: Liver
subject: Abdomen

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Primary liver cancer is the fifth most common cancer in men and the ninth most common neoplasia in women, assuming the second leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Most primary liver tumors, up to 90%, are hepatocellular carcinomas (HCC). Around...
Short Timescale Photometric and Polarimetric Behavior of two BL Lacertae Type Objects
Creators: name: Covino, S.
name: Baglio, M. C.
name: Foschini, L.
name: Sandrinelli, A.
name: Tavecchio, F.
name: Treves, A.
name: Zhang, H.
name: de Almeida, U. Barres
name: Bonnoli, G.
name: Boettcher, M.
name: Cecconi, M.
name: D'Ammando, F.
name: di Fabrizio, L.
name: Giarrusso, M.
name: Leone, F.
name: Lindfors, E.
name: Lorenzi, V.
name: Molinari, E.
name: Paiano, S.
name: Prandini, E.
name: Raiteri, C. M.
name: Stamerra, A.
name: Tagliaferri, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Blazars are astrophysical sources whose emission is dominated by non-thermal processes, typically interpreted as synchrotron and inverse Compton emission. Although the general picture is rather robust and consistent with observations, many aspects are still unexplored. Polarimetric monitoring can offer a wealth of information about the physical processes in blazars. Models with largely different physical ingredients can often provide almost indistinguishable predictions for the total flux, but usually are characterized by markedly different polarization properties. We explore, with a pilot study, the possibility to derive structural information about the emitting regions of blazars by means of a joint analysis of rapid variability of the total and polarized flux at optical wavelengths. Short timescale (from tens of seconds to a couple of minutes) optical linear polarimetry and photometry for two blazars, BL Lacertae and PKS 1424+240, was carried out with the PAOLO polarimeter at the 3.6m Telescopio Nazionale Galileo. Several hours of almost continuous observations were obtained for both sources. Our intense monitoring allowed us to draw strongly different scenarios for BL Lacertae and PKS 1424+240, with the former characterized by intense variability on time-scales from hours to a few minutes and the latter practically constant in total flux. Essentially the same behavior is observed for the polarized flux and the position angle. The variability time-scales turned out to be as short as a few minutes, although involving only a few percent variation of the flux. The polarization variability time-scale is generally consistent with the total flux variability. Total and polarized flux appear to be essentially uncorrelated. However, even during our relatively short monitoring, different regimes can be singled out. (abridged)
description: A&A, in press, 8 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables
Bilinear equations and $q$-discrete Painlevé equations satisfied by variables and coefficients in cluster algebras
Creators: name: Okubo, Naoto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 39A20

description: We construct cluster algebras the variables and coefficients of which satisfy the discrete mKdV equation, the discrete Toda equation and other integrable bilinear equations, several of which lead to q-discrete Painlevé equations. These cluster algebras are obtained from quivers with an infinite number of vertices or with the mutation-period property. We will also show that a suitable transformation of quivers corresponds to a reduction of the difference equation.
description: 16 pages
Strategies for Detecting the Missing Hot Baryons in the Universe
Creators: name: Bregman, Joel N.
name: Alves, Guilherme Camargo
name: Miller, Matthew J.
name: Hodges-Kluck, Edmund
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: About 30-50% of the baryons in the local Universe are unaccounted for and are likely in a hot phase, 10^5.5-10^8 K. A hot halo (10^6.3 K) is detected around the Milky Way through the O VII and O VIII resonance absorption and emission lines in the soft X-ray band. Current instruments are not sensitive enough to detect this gas in absorption around other galaxies and galaxy groups, the two most likely sites. We show that resonant line absorption by this hot gas can be detected with current technology, with a collecting area exceeding about 300 cm^2 and a resolution R > 2000. For a few notional X-ray telescope configurations that could be constructed as Explorer or Probe missions, we calculate the differential number of O VII and O VIII absorbers as a function of equivalent width through redshift space, dN/dz. The hot halos of individual external galaxies produce absorption that should be detectable out to about their virial radii. For the Milky Way, one can determine the radial distribution of density, temperature, and metallicity, after making optical depth corrections. Spectroscopic observations can determine the rotation of a hot gaseous halo.
description: 36 pages with 5 tables and 9 figures
title: Percutaneous US guided pancreatic biopsies at a national hepato-pancreatico-biliary referral centre
Creators: name: Zishan, Umme Sara
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Biopsy
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Pancreas
subject: Abdomen

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Pancreatic cancer is the 7th most common cause of cancer death worldwide, with more than 330,000 deaths from pancreatic cancer in 2012; 4 % of total cancer related deaths. 1 Newly diagnosed patients have a median survival of less than one year, and...
(101803) Henry Napier Abbott
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Additional file 3 of Histological observations and transcriptome analyses reveal the dynamic changes in the gonads of the blotched snakehead (Channa maculata) during sex differentiation and gametogenesis
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiaotian
name: Wu, Yuxia
name: Zhang, Yang
name: Zhang, Jin
name: Chu, Pengfei
name: Chen, Kunci
name: Liu, Haiyang
name: Luo, Qing
name: Fei, Shuzhan
name: Zhao, Jian
name: Ou, Mi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 3: Fig. S3. Number of DEGs in males compared to the corresponding females at ten developmental stages. Up: up-regulated DEG. down: down-regulated DEG.
New ground states of fluorinated and oxidized phosphorene: structural and electronic properties
Creators: name: Nahas, Suhas
name: Ghosh, Barun
name: Bhowmick, Somnath
name: Agarwal, Amit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We systematically explore chemical functionalization of monolayer black phosphorene via chemisorption of oxygen and fluorine atoms. Using the cluster expansion technique, with vary- ing concentration of the adsorbate, we determine the ground states considering both single- as well as double- side chemisorption, which have novel chemical and electronic properties. The nature of the bandgap depends on the concentration of the adsorbate: for fluorination the direct bandgap first decreases, and then increases while becoming indirect, with increasing fluorination, while for oxidation the bandgap first increases and then decreases, while mostly maintaining its direct nature. Further we find that the unique anisotropic free-carrier effective mass for both the electrons and holes, can be changed and even rotated by 90 degrees, with controlled chemisorption, which can be useful for exploring unusual quantum Hall effect, and novel electronic devices based on phosphorene.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures; final revised version - to appear in Phys. Rev. B
title: Fat containing thoracic lesions: an overview of imaging characteristics.
Creators: name: Hohnen, Andrew
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Pathology
subject: Education and training
subject: Decision analysis
subject: CT
subject: Thorax
subject: Respiratory system
subject: Lung

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The aim of this project is to create a concise overview of the various fat containing lesions occurring in the thorax and their imaging characteristics. We hope that it may serve as an educational reference for residents, registrars and consultants...