cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Contributions of iconic prosody to concurrent and displaced word learning
Creators: name: Motamedi, Yasamin
name: Polytimou, Aikaterini
name: Andreuccioli, Luisa
name: Rozic, Gal
name: Fan, Jieyun
name: Wonnacott, Elizabeth
name: Marshall, Chloë
name: Perniss, Pamela
name: Vigliocco, Gabriella
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: We plan an experiment that will test whether iconic prosody facilitates word learning in children aged 30-54 months. We teach children novel words to describe events with either iconic or neutral child-directed prosody in two learning contexts: a concurrent learning context, where exposure to the label co-occurs with the event, and a displaced context, where label exposure occurs after the event has been shown.
Additional file 2 of Postoperative physical rehabilitation in the elderly patient after emergency surgery. Influence on functional, cognitive and quality of live recovery: study protocol for a randomized clinical trial
Creators: name: Esquiroz Lizaur, Irene
name: Zambom-Ferraresi, Fabricio
name: Zambom-Ferraresi, Fabiola
name: Ollo-Martínez, Iranzu
name: De la Casa-Marín, Antón
name: Martínez-Velilla, Nicolás
name: Recreo Baquedano, Ana
name: Galbete Jimenez, Arkaitz
name: González Alvarez, Gregorio
name: Yarnoz Irazabal, María Concepción
name: Eguaras Córdoba, Inés
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 2. Annexes 1 to 9.
What Did Children Do During School Closures? Insights from a Parent Survey in Tanzania
Creators: name: Admin, RISE
name: Oza, Shardul
name: Cilliers, Jacobus
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education systems not elsewhere classified
Inclusive education
Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This insight note analyses what children did during Covid-19 school closures in Tanzania and shows that almost all of children in the analysed sample were back in school two months after schools re-opened. Only 6 percent of households reported that their children listened to radio lessons during the school closures and a similar fraction tuned into TV lessons over the same period; less than 1 percent of those surveyed accessed educational programmes on the internet.
In vitro screening for population variability in chemical toxicity
Creators: name: O'Shea, Shannon Hatcher
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Immortalized human lymphoblastoid cell lines have been used to identify genetic factors affecting differential sensitivities in response to drug treatment. Our objective is to extend the application of such studies to investigative toxicology by assessing inter-individual and population-wide variability and heritability of chemical-induced toxicity phenotypes using cell lines from the Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain (CEPH) trios assembled by the HapMap Consortium. Cell lines from the CEPH trios were exposed to three concentrations of 14 environmental chemicals and two cellular toxicity response endpoints were assessed. We show that variability of response across the cell lines exists for some, but not all chemicals, and found no evidence for the heritability of toxicity response phenotypes for the chemicals we tested. We then investigated genetic factors contributing to wide variability in response by conducting genome-wide association scans. We conclude that the approach of screening chemicals for toxicity in a genetically-defined, yet variable in vitro human cell-based system is potentially useful for identification of both chemicals and individuals that may be at highest risk, as well as the within-species degree of variability in the population, and genetic loci of interest that potentially contribute this phenomenon.
Entropic uncertainty and measurement reversibility
Creators: name: Berta, Mario
name: Wehner, Stephanie
name: Wilde, Mark M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The entropic uncertainty relation with quantum side information (EUR-QSI) from [Berta et al., Nat. Phys. 6, 659 (2010)] is a unifying principle relating two distinctive features of quantum mechanics: quantum uncertainty due to measurement incompatibility, and entanglement. In these relations, quantum uncertainty takes the form of preparation uncertainty where one of two incompatible measurements is applied. In particular, the "uncertainty witness" lower bound in the EUR-QSI is not a function of a post-measurement state. An insightful proof of the EUR-QSI from [Coles et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 210405 (2012)] makes use of a fundamental mathematical consequence of the postulates of quantum mechanics known as the non-increase of quantum relative entropy under quantum channels. Here, we exploit this perspective to establish a tightening of the EUR-QSI which adds a new state-dependent term in the lower bound, related to how well one can reverse the action of a quantum measurement. As such, this new term is a direct function of the post-measurement state and can be thought of as quantifying how much disturbance a given measurement causes. Our result thus quantitatively unifies this feature of quantum mechanics with the others mentioned above. We have experimentally tested our theoretical predictions on the IBM Quantum Experience and find reasonable agreement between our predictions and experimental outcomes.
description: v2: 14 pages, 3 figures; includes experimental results from IBM Quantum Experience
title: Cystic lesions of the liver
Creators: name: Rosado, Elsa
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Liver
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Cysts
subject: Abscess
subject: Neoplasia

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To present CT and MR findings of cystic lesions of the liver and to highlight the most relevant differential...
Zoom Fatigue - Study 3b (Recall) - Prolific sample
Creators: name: Leckfor, Christina
name: Slatcher, Richard
name: Balzarini, Rhonda
name: Zoppolat, Giulia
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The attached document includes a pre-registration of hypotheses, methods, measures, analyses, and exclusion criteria prior to data collection. The study survey is also attached.
title: Effects of a saline flush on the estimation of time-enhancement curves: A phantom study
Creators: name: Nakane, Jun
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Blood
subject: Physics
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Vascular

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The determination of acquisition timing in computed tomography (CT) angiography is important. To achieve this, it is necessary to estimate the time to peak aortic enhancement of the time–enhancement curve; the time to peak aortic enhancement...
Additional file 1 of Postoperative physical rehabilitation in the elderly patient after emergency surgery. Influence on functional, cognitive and quality of live recovery: study protocol for a randomized clinical trial
Creators: name: Esquiroz Lizaur, Irene
name: Zambom-Ferraresi, Fabricio
name: Zambom-Ferraresi, Fabiola
name: Ollo-Martínez, Iranzu
name: De la Casa-Marín, Antón
name: Martínez-Velilla, Nicolás
name: Recreo Baquedano, Ana
name: Galbete Jimenez, Arkaitz
name: González Alvarez, Gregorio
name: Yarnoz Irazabal, María Concepción
name: Eguaras Córdoba, Inés
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1. SPIRIT checklist for trials.
Perceived moral objectivity as a component of norm psychology: The relationship between moral perception and compliance with norms (pre-registration of the additional analysis)
Creators: name: Chvaja, Radim
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This is a pre-registration of the additional study to the manuscript titled “Perceived moral essentialism as a component of norm psychology: The relationship between moral perception and compliance with norms”. This archiv includes also the originally submitted manuscript.
title: MR Elastography of the Liver at 3.0 T in Diagnosing Liver Fibrosis Grades; Preliminary Clinical Experience
Creators: name: Yoshimitsu, Kengo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cirrhosis
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: Liver

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The usefulness of MR elastography (MRE) in assessing the pathological grades of liver fibrosis has been reported [1-13]. However, most of these data have been obtained on 1.5 T units and those with 3.0T clinical units have rarely been presented. We...
Engineering quantum magnetism in one-dimensional trapped Fermi gases with p-wave interactions
Creators: name: Yang, Lijun
name: Guan, Xiwen
name: Cui, Xiaoling
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The highly controllable ultracold atoms in a one-dimensional (1D) trap provide a new platform for the ultimate simulation of quantum magnetism. In this regard, the Neel-antiferromagnetism and the itinerant ferromagnetism are of central importance and great interest. Here we show that these magnetic orders can be achieved in the strongly interacting spin-1/2 trapped Fermi gases with additional p-wave interactions. In this strong coupling limit, the 1D trapped Fermi gas exhibit an effective Heisenberg spin XXZ chain in the anisotropic p-wave scattering channels. For a particular p-wave attraction or repulsion within the same species of fermionic atoms, the system displays ferromagnetic domains with full spin segregation or the anti-ferromagnetic spin configuration in the ground state. Such engineered magnetisms are likely to be probed in a quasi-1D trapped Fermi gas of $^{40}$ K atoms with very close s-wave and p-wave Feshbach resonances.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, final version
title: Effective Performance of Respiratory Triggering T2-weighted Imaging with Motion Correction in the Liver at 3T MRI
Creators: name: Oshita, Tsuyoshi
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Liver
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Artifacts

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Introduction In recent years, 3T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has expanded considerably and is now used for the whole body. These high field strength systems provide a high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) that provides useful information. 3T MRI is...
What Do Tanzanian Parents Want from Primary Schools—and What Can Be Done about It?
Creators: name: Admin, RISE
name: Zeitlin, Samuel Solomon and Andrew
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education systems not elsewhere classified
Other education not elsewhere classified

description: In this insight, the team summarises recent RISE research, conducted as part of Twaweza’s Sauti za Wananchi survey, that seeks to address parental values and satisfaction levels. We use a ‘discrete choice’ experiment—a series of hypothetical enrollment decisions in which parents were asked to express their preferences between alternative pairs of schools—to understand the extent to which parents value proximity, infrastructure, teacher-pupil ratios, and learning outcomes, in the primary schools to which they have access.
Symmetry-protected intermediate trivial phases in quantum spin chains
Creators: name: Kshetrimayum, Augustine
name: Tu, Hong-Hao
name: Orus, Roman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Symmetry-protected trivial (SPt) phases of matter are the product-state analogue of symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases. This means, SPt phases can be adiabatically connected to a product state by some path that preserves the protecting symmetry. Moreover, SPt and SPT phases can be adiabatically connected to each other when interaction terms that break the symmetries protecting the SPT order are added in the Hamiltonian. It is also known that spin-1 SPT phases in quantum spin chains can emerge as effective intermediate phases of spin-2 Hamiltonians. In this paper we show that a similar scenario is also valid for SPt phases. More precisely, we show that for a given spin-2 quantum chain, effective intermediate spin-1 SPt phases emerge in some regions of the phase diagram, these also being adiabatically connected to non-trivial intermediate SPT phases. We characterize the phase diagram of our model by studying quantities such as the entanglement entropy, symmetry-related order parameters, and 1-site fidelities. Our numerical analysis uses Matrix Product States (MPS) and the infinite Time-Evolving Block Decimation (iTEBD) method to approximate ground states of the system in the thermodynamic limit. Moreover, we provide a field theory description of the possible quantum phase transitions between the SPt phases. Together with the numerical results, such a description shows that the transitions may be described by Conformal Field Theories (CFT) with central charge c=1. Our results are in agreement, and further generalize, those in [Y. Fuji, F. Pollmann, M. Oshikawa, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 177204 (2015)].
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, revised version. Accepted in PRB
title: Bail out strategies after accidental Wallstent dislocation into the right atrium in patients with superior vena cava syndrome
Creators: name: Kalmar, Peter
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Foreign bodies
subject: Stents
subject: Removal
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Veins / Vena cava
subject: Vascular
subject: Thorax

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: In this educational poster a summary is given of possible bail out strategies as well as important clues to prevent a caudal stent dislocation into the right atrium when treating superior vena cava...
Effect of Timing of Kidney Replacement Therapy in Patients with Acute Kidney Injury Admitted to Surgical Versus Medical Intensive Care Units: A Systematic Review and Meta-Regression
Creators: name: Albuquerque, Arthur
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Medical Specialties
subject: Nephrology
subject: bayes

description: This is the preregistered protocol for a systematic review and meta-regression on the effect of timing of kidney replacement therapy on mortality of medical and surgical subgroups. We followed the PRISMA-P guidelines for preparing this document.
A Vehicular Portal Monitor
Creators: name: Pratt, Rose Marie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1985

description: A NaI monitoring system was assembled and installed to provide radiological surveillance of refuse trucks destined for the sanitary landfill at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The performance of the system was tested by obtaining count rates for various gamma reference sources placed in the bed of a pickup truck parked over the detector. The system's sensitivity was documented for the various sources counted in a stationary truck as well as in a truck moving over the detector. Data analysis also determined the lower limits of detection for the system. Performance testing of the vehicular portal monitor suggest that it can detect μCi amounts of radionuclides on a truck.
title: Evaluation of hemodialysis arteriovenous fistula before and after surgery: Teaching points
Creators: name: Chierighini, Luis Carlos
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Grafts
subject: Fistula
subject: Education and training
subject: Shunts
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Vascular

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Demonstrate the normal vascular anatomy of the upper limbs to color Doppler studyand the main points to be studiedin the pre-operative period for achievement of fistulas for hemodialysis. Demonstrate the main pathologies that may compromise the...
Additional file 2 of Information behaviours of people with type 2 diabetes in Kuwait: a grounded theory study
Creators: name: Meer, Zainab
name: Al-Ozairi, Ebaa
name: Fernandes, Genevie
name: Ranganathan, Sruthi
name: Patel, Jay
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2
title: Does Venography with Carbon Dioxide Improve the Visualization of GastricVaricesand the Success Rate of Procedures in BRTO(balloon-occluded transfemoral obliteration)?
Creators: name: Nagao, Eiki
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Varices
subject: Venous access
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Veins / Vena cava
subject: Vascular
subject: Abdomen

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (BRTO) [1]has been used extensively as a sclerotherapy method to occulude pressurized gastric varices (GV) as seen in portal hypertension, which are at risk of rupturing and bleeding...
I centri minori e le Comunità Energetiche Rinnovabili: tra istanze di tutela e di innovazione energetica
Creators: name: D'Andria, Emanuela
Publisher: name: BDC. Bollettino Del Centro Calza Bini
Year: 2023

description: La fragilità dei piccoli Comuni delle aree interne è una questione diffusa, che coinvolge Paesi europei e non. In considerazione delle molteplici potenzialità che queste realtà racchiudono, l’UE sta promuovendo programmi per contenere il loro consistente declino demografico. Anche i singoli Paesi europei, tra cui l’Italia, lavorano per perseguire tale finalità, favorendo progetti per il recupero e la valorizzazione dei villaggi. A fronte del limitato successo di alcune di queste esperienze, appare necessario riconsiderarne gli approcci, in vista di un concreto ed efficace sviluppo dei territori interni. In tale senso, le ‘Comunità energetiche rinnovabili’ (CER) possono rappresentare una valida alternativa, offrendo numerosi vantaggi in termini di autosufficienza energetica. Tuttavia, intervenire sul patrimonio costruito dei piccoli centri, soprattutto di quelli italiani, richiede una particolare riflessione, utile per rapportare le istanze di tutela con quelle di innovazione energetica. Alla luce di ciò, il paper affronta il tema della valorizzazione dei comuni minori in relazione al modello delle CER, analizzandone criticità e potenzialità, per proporre un’indagine critica sul rapporto tra le attuali innovazioni tecnologiche in campo energetico e le questioni legate al costruito storico. Parole chiave: modello CER, centri minori, patrimonio costruito, tutela e valorizzazione, recupero
description: BDC. Bollettino Del Centro Calza Bini, V. 22 N. 2 (2022): Renewable Energy Communities: Urban Research and Land Use Planning
Additional file 1 of Detection and molecular characterization of major enteric pathogens in calves in central Ethiopia
Creators: name: Bergholm, Julia
name: Tessema, Tesfaye Sisay
name: Blomström, Anne-Lie
name: Berg, Mikael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Explaining the stellar initial mass function with the theory of spatial networks
Creators: name: Klishin, Andrei
name: Chilingarian, Igor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The distributions of stars and prestellar cores by mass (initial and dense core mass functions, IMF/DCMF) are among the key factors regulating star formation and are the subject of detailed theoretical and observational studies. Results from numerical simulations of star formation qualitatively resemble an observed mass function, a scale-free power law with a sharp decline at low masses. However, most analytic IMF theories critically depend on the empirically chosen input spectrum of mass fluctuations which evolve into dense cores and, subsequently, stars, and on the scaling relation between the amplitude and mass of a fluctuation. Here we propose a new approach exploiting the techniques from the field of network science. We represent a system of dense cores accreting gas from the surrounding diffuse interstellar medium (ISM) as a spatial network growing by preferential attachment and assume that the ISM density has a self-similar fractal distribution following the Kolmogorov turbulence theory. We effectively combine gravoturbulent and competitive accretion approaches and predict the accretion rate to be proportional to the dense core mass: $dM/dt \propto M$. Then we describe the dense core growth and demonstrate that the power-law core mass function emerges independently of the initial distribution of density fluctuations by mass. Our model yields a power law solely defined by the fractal dimensionalities of the ISM and accreting gas. With a proper choice of the low-mass cut-off, it reproduces observations over three decades in mass. We also rule out a low-mass star dominated "bottom-heavy" IMF in a single star-forming region.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, v2 matches the published version
Agopuntura territoriale: benefici e limiti dei network di comunità energetiche
Creators: name: Leone, Federica
name: Nigrelli, Fausto Carmelo
name: Nocera, Francesco
name: Costanzo, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: BDC. Bollettino Del Centro Calza Bini
Year: 2023

description: Agopuntura territoriale L’agopuntura territoriale è un approccio che propone una soluzione micro-invasiva per l’adattamento di aree densamente popolate attraverso interventi puntuali su scala distrettuale. Lo scopo di questo studio è quello di analizzare le potenzialità e i limiti di questa nuova applicazione, così da comprendere se e come implementare l’Agopuntura Territoriale per renderla più efficiente ed efficace possibile. Introducendo prima l’idea alla base e una breve spiegazione sul funzionamento di questa nuova teoria, si passerà, poi, a una fase di analisi e ricerca per identificare benefici e limiti di questo approccio. Infine, verranno proposte delle soluzioni per il suo miglioramento. Se l’applicazione dell’Agopuntura Territoriale potrebbe risultare di difficile applicazione a causa dell’elevato numero di attori da coinvolgere, dall’altro lato, con piccole variazioni e aggiunte tematiche (perlopiù sociali e ambientali) permetterebbe di modificare le dinamiche energetiche, socio-economiche e ambientali in maniera rapida e ottimale. In conclusione, l’Agopuntura Territoriale, con le modifiche proposte in questo studio, riuscirebbe a rispondere ai problemi dei poli urbani contemporanei senza restituire territori completamente diversi in maniera ancora più efficiente ed efficace. Parole chiave: agopuntura territoriale, biourbanistica, comunità energetiche, resilienza, distretti ad energia positiva
description: BDC. Bollettino Del Centro Calza Bini, V. 22 N. 2 (2022): Renewable Energy Communities: Urban Research and Land Use Planning
Additional file 2 of Detection and molecular characterization of major enteric pathogens in calves in central Ethiopia
Creators: name: Bergholm, Julia
name: Tessema, Tesfaye Sisay
name: Blomström, Anne-Lie
name: Berg, Mikael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 2.
What Is the Point of Schooling? Education Access and Policy in Tanzania since 1961
Creators: name: Admin, RISE
name: Opalo, Ken Ochieng’
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education systems not elsewhere classified
Other education not elsewhere classified
Political economy and social change

description: Learning is not always the goal of schooling. Using a political settlements approach, this article documents the evolution of education policy and associated outcomes in Tanzania in tandem with shifts in elite perceptions of the goals of schooling.
title: A simple soft tissue phantom with randomizable low contrast features for use in CT and MRI - Part I: Design and verification
Creators: name: Golding, Stephen
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Physics
subject: Equipment
subject: CT
subject: Liver
subject: Abdomen
subject: Image verification

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Modern multidetector CT (MDCT) has led to improvements in lesion detection of benign as well as malignant abdominal tumours [1]. The ability to scan through an abdomen in seconds has also permitted multiphasic examinations, but there is a radiation...
Air Quality as a Factor in the Pathogenesis of Asthma
Creators: name: Quay, Jaqueline L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1992

description: Air quality plays an important role in the increased prevalance of asthma observed in industrialized countries. Recent advances in the study of asthma provide further information on how air pollution affects asthmatics. In this survey of current literature, air pollutants have been loosely categorized according to their location in the environment (occupational, outdoor, indoor). In relation to asthma, these air pollutants have been classified according to their deposition in the lung and their ability to function as an antigen or an irritant. As the study of both air quality and the biology of asthma evolves, classification of air pollutants according to the type of asthma they are most closely related to may provide a method for determining future research goals.
Incorporating Human Dosimetry and Exposure into the Utilization of ToxCast In Vitro Screening Data for Chemical Prioritization
Creators: name: Rotroff, Daniel M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Humans are frequently exposed to chemicals that have undergone limited safety testing. To reduce the number of untested chemicals and prioritize limited testing resources, multiple governmental programs are using high throughput in vitro toxicity screens for assessing effects across multiple cellular pathways. In this study, metabolic clearance and plasma protein binding were experimentally measured for 39 of the 309 ToxCast Phase I chemicals. The experimental data was modeled using pharmacokinetics for estimating human oral equivalent doses that would produce steady state in vivo concentrations equivalent to ToxCast in vitro AC[50] values. The range of oral equivalent doses for the ToxCast assays was compared with human oral exposure estimates to assess whether in vitro bioactivity could occur at human exposure levels. Two of the 39 chemicals had overlapping oral equivalent doses and human exposures and would not have been identified using the rank potencies of the AC50 values. These results demonstrate the importance of incorporating dosimetry and exposure when using high throughput in vitro data to identify the highest priorities for further testing and risk management.
title: Abdominal CT with Single-Energy Metal Artifact Reduction (SEMAR): Initial Experiences
Creators: name: Yoshikawa, Takeshi
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Foreign bodies
subject: Artifacts
subject: Surgery
subject: Observer performance
subject: Embolisation
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: CT
subject: Vascular
subject: Pancreas
subject: Liver

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: INTRODUCTION Metal streak artifacts caused by metallic materials in the body introduced during various interventions degrade image quality and limit diagnostic values of abdominal CT. These artifacts occur because filtered back projection (FBP)...
Additional file 2 of Characteristics of lymphoedema, in particular midline lymphoedema, after treatment for prostate cancer: a retrospective study
Creators: name: Van Calster, Charlotte
name: Everaerts, Wouter
name: Geraerts, Inge
name: De Groef, An
name: Heroes, An-Kathleen
name: De Vrieze, Tessa
name: Alar, Ceyhun
name: Devoogdt, Nele
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 2
Indicatori per la Città Circolare nella transizione ecologica ed energetica
Creators: name: Balletto, Ginevra
name: Ladu, Mara
Publisher: name: BDC. Bollettino Del Centro Calza Bini
Year: 2023

description: Le città sono luoghi importanti per la crescita culturale, sociale ed economica, sono centri di innovazione, produttività, commercio, ricchezza e inclusione sociale. Al contempo, esse sono luoghi in cui si concentrano le più serie criticità legate all’urbanizzazione. Lo scenario secondo cui entro il 2050 due terzi della popolazione mondiale vivrà nelle città, conferma che queste ultime saranno ancora responsabili dei crescenti consumi, dovuti al sussistere di un’economia lineare, che determina una significativa produzione di rifiuti. In questo quadro insostenibile, il paradigma della Città Circolare, che racchiude tutti i principi dell’Economia Circolare (recupero, riciclo e condivisione) offre l’opportunità di ripensare le modalità di produzione e utilizzo di beni e servizi, esplorando nuovi modi per garantire prosperità a lungo termine. Tali principi trovano diretta applicazione nella pianificazione e nel progetto urbano, alle diverse scale. All’interno di questo panorama, il contributo propone una metodologia per la definizione di un quadro logico funzionale alla costruzione di un indice composito capace di misurare il grado di circolarità di progetti di rigenerazione urbana, con particolare riferimento alla città pubblica, supportando la governance urbana nel raggiungimento degli obiettivi del Green New Deal europeo. Parole chiave: città circolare, transizione energetica, patrimonio immobiliare pubblico
description: BDC. Bollettino Del Centro Calza Bini, V. 22 N. 2 (2022): Renewable Energy Communities: Urban Research and Land Use Planning
Construction and Testing of Dead-End, Oxygen Permeable Membrane Tubes to Treat Swine Waste Through Passive Aeration
Creators: name: Rehak, Elisa
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: North Carolina is a national leader in hog production, and home to more than 9 million pigs. The waste from those pigs represents a potential public health concern, as standard waste management practice consists of storage in earthen lagoons and eventual spray application onto fields for plant nutrition. Toxic chemicals, such as ammonia, methane and hydrogen sulfide, are volatilized when this spraying occurs, contaminating surrounding air and surface waters. These chemicals not only threaten our water systems, but also represent a respiratory health risk. This report details the design and construction of a new technology that uses passive aeration to remove excess ammonium in hog lagoons. It could ultimately be deployed as subsequent treatment following anaerobic digestion of the waste. The device consists of a cylindrical structure with 4 vertical support rods that go through 3 horizontal supports. This structure is wrapped in an oxygen permeable polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) membrane. The oxygen transfer rate through a 0.0127 cm-thick PDMS membrane tube device was determined and compared to a theoretical oxygen transfer rate determined in a previous study. The experimental transfer rate was 129 mg O2/day (0.815 mg/cm2·d), compared to the theoretical oxygen transfer rate of 914 mg O2/day (5.78 mg/cm2·d). The substantial difference is likely a result of the methods used for testing oxygen transfer, effects of hydrostatic pressure, and errors in the theoretical model. Based on the results, the implementation of this technology is potentially feasible with the consideration that about 7 times more tubes than initially thought will be needed to successfully treat the waste, greatly increasing manufacturing and maintenance costs.
The nature of the cataclysmic variable PT Per
Creators: name: Watson, Mike
name: Bruce, Alastair
name: MacLeod, Chelsea
name: Osborne, Julian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of the cataclysmic variable star PT Per based on archival XMM-Newton X-ray data and new optical spectroscopy from the WHT with ISIS. The X-ray data show deep minima which recur at a period of 82 minutes and a hard, unabsorbed X-ray spectrum. The optical spectra of PT Per show a relatively featureless blue continuum. From an analysis of the X-ray and optical data we conclude that PT Per is likely to be a magnetic cataclysmic variable of the polar class in which the minima correspond to those phase intervals when the accretion column rotates out of the field of view of the observer. We suggest that the optical spectrum, obtained around 4 years after the X-ray coverage, is dominated by the white dwarf in the system, implying that PT Per was in a low accretion state at the time of the observations. An analysis of the likely system parameters for PT Per suggests a distance of $\approx90$ pc and a very low-mass secondary, consistent with the idea that PT Per is a "period-bounce" binary.
description: LAST UPDATED VERSION with modified discussion of WD field estimation etc. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
A scoping review protocol of vaccine hesitancy communication tools for healthcare providers and trainees
Creators: name: Lip, Alyssa
name: Pateman, Margaret
name: Fullerton, Madison
name: Constantinescu, Cora
name: Davidson, Sandra
name: Chen, Hao
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Business
subject: Medical Sciences
subject: Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Medical Specialties
subject: Community Health and Preventive Medicine
subject: Medical Education
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Interprofessional Education

description: The main objective for the proposed scoping review is to identify, explore and map the literature on existing vaccine hesitancy communication tools. The results of this scoping review will inform the development of a multidisciplinary educational program for healthcare provider trainees to prepare them for their future roles in vaccine advocacy, delivery and promotion.
DMAPS, A Database of Micro-Environmental Air Pollution Sources
Creators: name: Reaves, James C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1988

description: In order for any database of indoor air pollution source data to be most useful, it was decided that it should meet several goals: 1) It should be useful to users with a wide range of interests, including researchers, architects, policy makers, manufacturers, builders, designers, and modelers. 2) It should be as widely accessible as possible. This has been a major consideration in determining the best combination of relational database management system and computer hardware to accomplish this goal. 3) It must be able to satisfy a broad range of needs. For example, some users may be interested only in bibliographic information, whereas others may wish to use the retrieved data to analyze specific indoor air pollution problems. 4) The system must be "user friendly"; i.e., uncomplicated and undaunting to operate. This allows the data to be accessible to persons whose training is in areas other than in the use of computers. 5) Since it is anticipated that the amount of emission rate data will grow rapidly in the near future, the database must be easy to update and modify. Easy data entry also helps to minimize entry errors, another important consideration. With these design goals in mind, a database containing source specific data from research articles has been compiled, along with controlling computer programs which will allow for quick and easy access to this indoor air pollution data. This database system has been titled dMAPS, the database of Micro-environmental Air Pollution Sources. The remainder of this paper describes dMAPS' function, design, and methods.
title: The first russian experience in interventional stenting of portal vein at recipients after relative-fragment liver transplantation, and the role of MSCT and MRI as imaging methods.
Creators: name: Kim, Stanislav
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Transplantation
subject: Embolism / Thrombosis
subject: Stents
subject: Angioplasty
subject: MR
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Veins / Vena cava
subject: Liver
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Significant portal stenosis is one of the most severe complications in patients after relative-fragment liver transplantation (RFLT). Radiological endovascular interventions or surgical operations are the possible methods of treatment. The important...
Additional file 4 of Characteristics of lymphoedema, in particular midline lymphoedema, after treatment for prostate cancer: a retrospective study
Creators: name: Van Calster, Charlotte
name: Everaerts, Wouter
name: Geraerts, Inge
name: De Groef, An
name: Heroes, An-Kathleen
name: De Vrieze, Tessa
name: Alar, Ceyhun
name: Devoogdt, Nele
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 4
[B.5.01.004.a.] Au-devant de la vie
Creators: name: Moussinac, Léon (1894-1964)
name: Jouvenel, Arlette De
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Le Chant du monde
Year: 2023
Subjects: http://www.idref.fr/050613995/id
http://www.idref.fr/034703926/id
http://www.idref.fr/027416593/id
http://www.idref.fr/027257592/id
http://www.idref.fr/028473779/id
http://www.idref.fr/027261468/id

Abstract
Disposal of Poultry Carcasses in Catastrophic Avian Influenza Outbreaks
Creators: name: Brglez, Boris
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: Catastrophic outbreaks of low pathogenic avian influenza (LPAI) occurred in 1984 and again in 2002 in the USA. Whole poultry operations required complete depopulation. The sudden accumulation of thousands of tons of diseased poultry carcasses necessitated quick, sanitary disposal. In 1984, the diseased carcasses were mainly buried on site; in 2002, they were primarily buried in local landfills. It is the aim of this paper to provide a review of the major methods of mass disposal of diseased poultry carcasses and a framework for establishing the most efficient disposal method. This paper will examine several disposal methods, discussing the cost, and their positive and negative effects on the environment and public perception. The various disposal methods that will be reviewed are onsite burial, landfills, composting, incineration, rendering, alkaline hydrolysis, and in-situ plasma vitrification system. Models were made based on the total tonnage of poultry that was disposed of in the Virginia (VA LPAI) outbreak of 2002. Each disposal method was modeled on its capacity to dispose of 188 tons per day of diseased poultry carcasses daily for a period 90 days. Results indicated that rendering was the method of choice.
Editoriale
Creators: name: Fusco Girard, Luigi
Publisher: name: BDC. Bollettino Del Centro Calza Bini
Year: 2023

description: Con la modifica degli artt. 9 e 41 della Carta Costituzionale la nozione di sviluppo sostenibile è (finalmente) entrata in Costituzione (Legge 1/2022). È vero che diverse sentenze della Corte Costituzionale hanno consentito l’inclusione dell’ambiente già prima del 2022, ma è altresì vero che l’introduzione della tutela dell’ambiente tra i “principi supremi” della Carta Costituzionale (Sent. 1146/1988) rappresenta un solenne impegno a migliorare le scelte a tutti i livelli nella giusta direzione. Quanto sopra sollecita un nuovo modo di fare le scelte nelle politiche pubbliche e negli investimenti privati, volte ad affrontare la sfida dell’inquinamento, del cambiamento climatico, del degrado ambientale, della perdita della biodiversità (che stanno gravemente minacciando la vita della Terra) ed anche della povertà crescente. Nella valutazione delle scelte relative alle attività economiche si introduce oltre alla “utilità sociale” anche il riferimento alla “utilità ambientale”. L’ambiente, infatti, non è più da considerarsi come risorsa da degradare per conseguire i benefici dello sviluppo economico ma come fondamento stesso del ben-essere e buon-vivere. Ne consegue un nuovo modo di fare le scelte, che sia capace di considerare il “vero costo” dello sviluppo economico e di garantire a tutti pari opportunità e diritti.
description: BDC. Bollettino Del Centro Calza Bini, V. 22 N. 2 (2022): Renewable Energy Communities: Urban Research and Land Use Planning
The impacts of body armour on performance and injury within tactical personnel and the differences between sexes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Buttner, Claire
name: Vollenweider, Nash
name: Tiller, Sharne-Louise
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: Determining the performance and injurious impacts on a tactical personnel population from wearing body armour, with comparison between the sexes (males and females).
Adoption, Adaption, and the Iterative Challenges of Scaling Up in Vietnam: Policy Entrepreneurship and System Coherence in a Major Pedagogical Reform
Creators: name: Admin, RISE
name: London, Jonathan
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education policy
Education systems not elsewhere classified
Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This essay uses the case of VNEN, a pedagogical and curricular reform adapted to Vietnam from the Colombian Escuela Nueva (EN) model, to advance our understanding of the challenges policy entrepreneurs and networks of policy stakeholders can encounter in efforts to institute pathbreaking reforms and of the formidable challenges they can encounter in bringing such reforms to scale.
The causal model of health literacy and health behavior for obesity prevention among primary school students in Bangkok, Thailand
Creators: name: Neranon, Wanida
name: Thongsong, Ladaporn
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Public Health Education and Promotion
subject: Public Health
subject: Nutrition
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Causal Relationship Model, Health Literacy, Health Behavior, Obesity Prevention, Primary school students

description: Cross-sectional study about a Causal Relationship Model of Health Literacy on Health Behavior for Obesity Prevention among Primary school students in Bangkok, Thailand
The Lyman-Continuum Photon Production Efficiency xi_{ion} of z~4-5 Galaxies from IRAC-based Halpha Measurements: Implications for the Escape Fraction and Cosmic Reionization
Creators: name: Bouwens, R. J.
name: Smit, R.
name: Labbe, I.
name: Franx, M.
name: Caruana, J.
name: Oesch, P.
name: Stefanon, M.
name: Rasappu, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Galaxies represent one of the preferred candidate sources to drive the reionization of the universe. Even as gains are made in mapping the galaxy UV luminosity density to z>6, significant uncertainties remain regarding the conversion to the implied ionizing emissivity. The relevant unknowns are the Lyman-continuum (LyC) photon production efficiency xi_{ion} and the escape fraction f_{esc}. As we show here, the first of these unknowns is directly measureable in z=4-5 galaxies, based on the impact the Halpha line has on the observed IRAC fluxes. By computing a LyC photon production rate from the implied Halpha luminosities for a broad selection of z=4-5 galaxies and comparing this against the dust-corrected UV-continuum luminosities, we provide the first-ever direct estimates of the LyC photon production efficiency xi_{ion} for the z>~4 galaxy population. We find log_{10} xi_{ion}/[Hz/ergs] to have a mean value of 25.27_{-0.03}^{+0.03} and 25.34_{-0.02}^{+0.02} for sub-L* z=4-5 galaxies adopting Calzetti and SMC dust laws, respectively. Reassuringly, both values are consistent with standardly assumed xi_{ion}'s in reionization models, with a slight preference for higher xi_{ion}'s (by ~0.1 dex) adopting the SMC dust law. A modest ~0.03-dex increase in these estimates would result if the escape fraction for ionizing photons is non-zero and galaxies dominate the ionizing emissivity at z~4.4. High values of xi_{ion} (~25.5-25.8 dex) are derived for the bluest galaxies (beta
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables, updated to match the version in press, both statistical and systematic errors given for xi_{ion}