cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: X-Rays as art
Creators: name: McKiernan, Sharmaine
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Bones
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Education
subject: Education and training

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: My curiosity was raised after being approached by a University of Newcastle art and design student, to investigate the possibility of x-raying some objects for an assignment. Could x-rays be defined as art? The students assignment question was:...
Nematic crossover in BaFe$_2$As$_2$ under uniaxial stress
Creators: name: Ren, Xiao
name: Duan, Lian
name: Hu, Yuwen
name: Li, Jiarui
name: Zhang, Rui
name: Luo, Huiqian
name: Dai, Pengcheng
name: Li, Yuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Raman scattering can detect spontaneous point-group symmetry breaking without resorting to single-domain samples. Here we use this technique to study $\mathrm{BaFe_2As_2}$, the parent compound of the "122" Fe-based superconductors. We show that an applied compression along the Fe-Fe direction, which is commonly used to produce untwinned orthorhombic samples, changes the structural phase transition at temperature $T_{\mathrm{s}}$ into a crossover that spans a considerable temperature range above $T_{\mathrm{s}}$. Even in crystals that are not subject to any applied force, a distribution of substantial residual stress remains, which may explain phenomena that are seemingly indicative of symmetry breaking above $T_{\mathrm{s}}$. Our results are consistent with an onset of spontaneous nematicity only below $T_{\mathrm{s}}$.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
AUTOMAÇÃO DOS SERVIÇOS EDUCACIONAIS E O FUTURO DAS UNIVERSIDADES
Creators: name: Souza, Francislê Neri De
name: Viana, Helena Brandão
Publisher: name: Internet Latent Corpus Journal
Year: 2023

description: Internet Latent Corpus Journal, vol. 12 n.º 2 (2022): AUTOMAÇÃO DOS SERVIÇOS EDUCACIONAIS E O FUTURO DAS UNIVERSIDADES
Heterogeneous sonocatalytic degradation of atenolol using CuFe2O4 from aqueous solution: effects of operational parameters, energy consumption and degradation mechanism
Creators: name: Mohseni-Bandpei, Anoushiravan
name: Eslami, Akbar
name: Rafiee, Mohammad
name: Ghasemi, Seyed Mehdi
name: Sadani, Mohsen
name: Ghanbari, Farshid
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology

description: Cuprospinel nanoparticles (CuFe2O4-NPs) were initially made in this study using the sol-gel process. Then, the effect of the main operational parameters, such as sulphate radical precursors (namely, peroxymonosulfate [PMS] and peroxydisulfate [PDS]), pH of aqueous solution, ultrasound (US) frequency and power, CuFe2O4 loading, reaction time, atenolol (ATL) concentration, as well as inorganic anions on the sonocatalytic process in removing ATL from water was investigated. The results revealed that the PMS outperformed the PDS due to its unsymmetrical structure. Under optimal conditions, the initial pH of the aqueous solution, the US frequency and power, the CuFe2O4 loading, the PMS concentration, and the ATL concentration were also obtained by 7.5, 80 kHz, 100 W, 0.4 g/L, 1.2 mM, and 0.5 mg/L, respectively. At the concentration of 10 mg/L of the ATL, its removal and the mineralisation rates were equal to 83.1% and 48.31%, respectively. The inhibitory effect of the inorganic anions on the removal of the ATL correspondingly followed the sequence of HCO3−>H2PO4−>SO42->NO3−. In the scavenging experiment, methanol showed greater effectiveness compared with other agents in the removal of the ATL, indicating that the SO4•- radicals were the dominant active species within the reaction. The reusability test also demonstrated that the CuFe2O4 efficiency decreased by almost 10% after five consecutive cycles. Besides, the intermediates of the ATL degradation were determined by the liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) technique and the proposed mechanism for the ATL degradation was expressed. In general, the findings suggested that the US/PMS/CuFe2O4 process had a high synergistic index (SI) and could be effective in removing ATL from aqueous solutions.
Determination of integral cross sections of 3H in Al foils monitors irradiated by protons with energies ranging from 40 to 2600 MeV
Creators: name: Titarenko, Yu. E.
name: Batyaev, V. F.
name: Chauzova, M. V.
name: Kashirin, I. A.
name: Malinovskiy, S. V.
name: Pavlov, K. V.
name: Rogov, V. I.
name: Titarenko, A. Yu.
name: Zhivun, V. M.
name: Mashnik, S. G.
name: Stankovskiy, A. Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Results of t production in Al foil monitors are presented. These foils have been irradiated by protons of different energies in a range of 0.04 - 2.6 GeV. The irradiations were carried out at the ITEP accelerator U-10 under the ISTC Project 3266 during 2006 - 2009. t has been extracted from Al foils using an A307 Sample Oxidizer. The values of the Al(p,x)t cross sections obtained in these experiments are compared with data measured at other laboratories and with results of simulations by the MCNP6 radiation transport code using the CEM03.03 event generator.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, proc. 12th Int. Conf. on Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (NN2015), June 21-26, 2015, Catania, Italy
title: Accuracy of system-displayed radiation dose metrics used for patient dosimetry and/or radiation dose surveys
Creators: name: Irvine, Mike
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Radiation physics
subject: CT
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Physics
subject: Dosimetry
subject: Dosimetric comparison

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: In computed tomography (CT), the volumetric computed tomography dose index (CTDI vol ) displayed/recorded by the CT system is used for monitoring and optimising patient dose, conducting dose surveys and for retrospective patient or foetal dosimetry....
Institutional trust and prosocial behavior in China
Creators: name: YiXU
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: We present three studies to demonstrate the important role of institutional trust in promoting prosocial behavior in China. In study 1, we used a Chinese national survey and found that institutional trust significantly predicted people’s donation and volunteer activities. In study 2, we experimentally examined the effects of institutional trust in public goods games. Participants allocated more money to public accounts when a positive impression of institutions was implicitly activated than when a negative impression or no concepts were activated. In study 3, we tested the effects of institutional trust in a field experiment with a “pay what you want” strategy. In a charity bazaar, participants who received leaflets that implicitly activated institutional concepts paid more money. In the project, we provided all the datasets including Study 1 CGSS (public survey data, here presented the sub-dataset we included in the analysis); Study 2 Main experiment, priming check; Study 3 field experiment, priming check; and experimental materials. Please check the paper, Institutional trust and prosocial behavior in China: an experimental approach, Journal of Social Psychology, to understand the procedure and access the appendix for detailed experiment materials.
Effects of sex, age, and visits on receipt of preventive healthcare services: a secondary analysis of national data
Creators: name: Viera, Anthony
name: Garrett, Joanne
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2006

description: Abstract Background Sex and age may exert a combined influence on receipt of preventive services with differences due to number of ambulatory care visits. Methods We used nationally representative data to determine weighted percentages and adjusted odds ratios of men and women stratified by age group who received selected preventive services. The presence of interaction between sex and age group was tested using adjusted models and retested after adding number of visits. Results Men were less likely than women to have received blood pressure screening (aOR 0.44;0.40–0.50), cholesterol screening (aOR 0.72;0.65–0.79), tobacco cessation counseling (aOR 0.66;0.55–0.78), and checkups (aOR 0.53;0.49–0.57). In younger age groups, men were particularly less likely than women to have received these services. In adjusted models, this observed interaction between sex and age group persisted only for blood pressure measurement (p = .016) and routine checkups (p < .001). When adjusting for number of visits, the interaction of age on receipt of blood pressure checks was mitigated but men were still overall less likely to receive the service. Conclusion Men are significantly less likely than women to receive certain preventive services, and younger men even more so. Some of this discrepancy is secondary to a difference in number of ambulatory care visits.
How to distinguish squeezed and coherent phonons in femtosecond x-ray diffuse scattering
Creators: name: Henighan, T.
name: Trigo, M.
name: Chollet, M.
name: Clark, J. N.
name: Fahy, S.
name: Glownia, J. M.
name: Jiang, M. P.
name: Kozina, M.
name: Liu, H.
name: Song, S.
name: Zhu, D.
name: Reis, D. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Impulsive optical excitation can generate both coherent and squeezed phonons. The expectation value of the phonon displacement $$ oscillates at the mode frequency for the coherent state but remains zero for a pure squeezed state. In contrast, both show oscillations in $$ at twice the mode frequency. Therefore it can be difficult to distinguish them in a second-order measurement of the displacements, such as in first-order x-ray diffuse scattering. Here we demonstrate a simple method to distinguish squeezed from coherent atomic motion by measurement of the diffuse scattering following double impulsive excitation. We find that femtosecond optical excitation generates squeezed phonons spanning the Brillouin zone in Ge, GaAs and InSb. Our results confirm the mechanism suggested in [Nature Physics 9, 790 (2013)].
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Functional inhibition of acid sphingomyelinase by Fluphenazine triggers hypoxia-specific tumor cell death
Creators: name: Klutzny, Saskia
name: Lesche, Ralf
name: Keck, Matthias
name: Kaulfuss, Stefan
name: Schlicker, Andreas
name: Christian, Sven
name: Sperl, Carolyn
name: Neuhaus, Roland
name: Mowat, Jeffrey
name: Steckel, Michael
name: Riefke, Björn
name: Prechtl, Stefan
name: Parczyk, Karsten
name: Steigemann, Patrick
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: Owing to lagging or insufficient neo-angiogenesis, hypoxia is a feature of most solid tumors. Hypoxic tumor regions contribute to resistance against antiproliferative chemotherapeutics, radiotherapy and immunotherapy. Targeting cells in hypoxic tumor areas is therefore an important strategy for cancer treatment. Most approaches for targeting hypoxic cells focus on the inhibition of hypoxia adaption pathways but only a limited number of compounds with the potential to specifically target hypoxic tumor regions have been identified. By using tumor spheroids in hypoxic conditions as screening system, we identified a set of compounds, including the phenothiazine antipsychotic Fluphenazine, as hits with novel mode of action. Fluphenazine functionally inhibits acid sphingomyelinase and causes cellular sphingomyelin accumulation, which induces cancer cell death specifically in hypoxic tumor spheroids. Moreover, we found that functional inhibition of acid sphingomyelinase leads to overactivation of hypoxia stress-response pathways and that hypoxia-specific cell death is mediated by the stress-responsive transcription factor ATF4. Taken together, the here presented data suggest a novel, yet unexplored mechanism in which induction of sphingolipid stress leads to the overactivation of hypoxia stress-response pathways and thereby promotes their pro-apoptotic tumor-suppressor functions to specifically kill cells in hypoxic tumor areas.
title: A phase II pilot study of dose-reduced and fully fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (FSRT) for juxtapapillary choroidal melanoma (JPCM). An open prospective clinical trial
Creators: name: Phillips, Claire
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Eyes
subject: Oncology
subject: MR
subject: Stereotactic radiotherapy
subject: Radiotherapy techniques

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: Fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (FRST) is an accepted radiotherapy modality for treatment of choroidal melanoma (CM), particularly in a juxtapapillary location (JPCM) where placement of a brachytherapy plaque is restricted by the optic nerve....
A fermionic approach to tunneling through junctions of multiple quantum wires
Creators: name: Shi, Zheng
name: Affleck, Ian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Junctions of multiple one-dimensional quantum wires of interacting electrons have received considerable theoretical attention as a basic constituent of quantum circuits. While results have been obtained on these models using bosonization and Density Matrix Renormalization Group (DMRG) methods, another powerful technique is based on direct perturbation theory in the bulk interactions, combined with the Renormalization Group (RG) and summed in the Random Phase Approximation (RPA). This technique has so far only been applied to the case where finite length interacting wires are attached to non-interacting Fermi liquid leads. We reformulate it in terms of the single-particle S-matrix, formally unifying treatments of junctions of different numbers of leads, and extend this method to cover the case of infinite length interacting leads obtaining results on 2-lead and 3-lead junctions in good agreement with previous bosonization and DMRG results.
description: 24 pages, 5 figures; v2
title: Transforming curriculum through technology - reflecting on a decade of flexible delivery in a radiation therapy program
Creators: name: Osborne, Catherine
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Education
subject: Digital radiography
subject: Oncology
subject: Computer applications
subject: Professional issues
subject: Education and training
subject: Radiotherapy techniques

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: BACKGROUND The Master of Medical Radiations in Radiation Therapy (MMRRT) is a unique graduate entry program. It is delivered by distance education, over two calendar years, incorporating 63 weeks of clinical placement. This mode of delivery makes it...
Accuracy of commercial geocoding: assessment and implications
Creators: name: Quibrera, P Miguel
name: Henley, Amanda C
name: Catellier, Diane J.
name: Heiss, Gerardo
name: Whitsel, Eric
name: Smith, Richard L.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2006

description: Abstract Background: Published studies of geocoding accuracy often focus on a single geographic area, address source or vendor, do not adjust accuracy measures for address characteristics, and do not examine effects of inaccuracy on exposure measures. We addressed these issues in a Women's Health Initiative ancillary study, the Environmental Epidemiology of Arrhythmogenesis in WHI. Results: Addresses in 49 U.S. states (n = 3,615) with established coordinates were geocoded by four vendors (A-D). There were important differences among vendors in address match rate (98%; 82%; 81%; 30%), concordance between established and vendor-assigned census tracts (85%; 88%; 87%; 98%) and distance between established and vendor-assigned coordinates (mean ρ [meters]: 1809; 748; 704; 228). Mean ρ was lowest among street-matched, complete, zip-coded, unedited and urban addresses, and addresses with North American Datum of 1983 or World Geodetic System of 1984 coordinates. In mixed models restricted to vendors with minimally acceptable match rates (A-C) and adjusted for address characteristics, within-address correlation, and among-vendor heteroscedasticity of ρ, differences in mean ρ were small for street-type matches (280; 268; 275), i.e. likely to bias results relying on them about equally for most applications. In contrast, differences between centroid-type matches were substantial in some vendor contrasts, but not others (5497; 4303; 4210) pinteraction < 10-4, i.e. more likely to bias results differently in many applications. The adjusted odds of an address match was higher for vendor A versus C (odds ratio = 66, 95% confidence interval: 47, 93), but not B versus C (OR = 1.1, 95% CI: 0.9, 1.3). That of census tract concordance was no higher for vendor A versus C (OR = 1.0, 95% CI: 0.9, 1.2) or B versus C (OR = 1.1, 95% CI: 0.9, 1.3). Misclassification of a related exposure measure – distance to the nearest highway – increased with mean ρ and in the absence of confounding, non-differential misclassification of this distance biased its hypothetical association with coronary heart disease mortality toward the null. Conclusion: Geocoding error depends on measures used to evaluate it, address characteristics and vendor. Vendor selection presents a trade-off between potential for missing data and error in estimating spatially defined attributes. Informed selection is needed to control the trade-off and adjust analyses for its effects.
title: Chest pain: thought of pericardial cyst?
Creators: name: Au, Virginia
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Developmental disease
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Respiratory system
subject: Mediastinum

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Pericardial cysts are usually benign and asymptomatic mediastinal lesions. Complications can rarely occur due to rupture, infection, haemorrhage or mass effect onto adjacent structures. We report a case of pericardial cyst complicated by...
The potential mechanisms behind the accelerated cognitive decline in individuals with CLBP: a scoping review protocol
Creators: name: Zhou, Zhixing
name: Wong, Arnold
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Cognition and Perception
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Chronic low back pain; cognitive impairment;

description: Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is one of the most common chronic pains. In addition to aggravating physical disability, CLBP may also lead to accelerated cognitive decline. Multiple prospective cohort studies have found that chronic pain was associated with higher risk for cognitive impairment or accelerated memory & attention decline in older adults. The accelerated cognitive decline caused by the CLBP may further negatively affect the ability of daily life in people with CLBP. Therefore, it is paramount to understand the mechanisms underlying the accelerated cognitive decline in individuals with CLBP. However, the underlying mechanisms remain unclear and there is no review summarize all the potential mechanisms. The objective of the current scoping reivew are: (1) summarize various proposed mechanisms and relevant evidence underlying the cognitive decline in people with CLBP; and (2) to discuss future research directions.
title: Burkitt's lymphoma in paediatrics patients; Pictorial review.
Creators: name: Lim, Wan Yin
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Paediatric
subject: Oncology
subject: Ultrasound
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Lymphoma
subject: AIDS

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: We present an overview and the different imaging manifestations of Burkitt’s lymphoma, and highlight the importance of early recognition of this...
Neuro-Symbolic Al: a tutorial
Creators: name: Belle, Vaishak
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The tutorial was given at the Logic for AI Spring School in Como: https://lais.lakecomoschool.org

 

The second part of the tutorial, which covers neurosymbolic AI, mainly addresses loss functions and regularization, semantic properties of these loss functions, and finally, recent work on program induction and reward machines with ethical constraints.
Electron-phonon coupling phenomena in metals: A computational perspective
Creators: name: Heid, Rolf
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2023

description: The interaction of electrons and lattice vibrations lies at the heart of many physical phenomena like electrical and heat conductivity, phonon-mediated superconductivity, dynamics of excited electrons and holes, and various temperature-dependent properties. Detailed knowledge of the electron-phonon interaction is therefore of basic interest for many phenomena in condensed matter physics. Modern DFT based techniques nowadays provide powerful tools to analyze and predict electronphonon interaction on a microscopic level including its full momentum structure. I will demonstrate the usefulness of this computational approach for several examples focusing on metallic systems. First the characterization of quantum size effects on electron and phonon quasiparticles as well as on superconductivity in ultrathin Pb films will be discussed. Then I will address the stability of topological surface states of Bi2Se3 against phononinduced many-body interactions, and finally discuss the role of the electron-phonon interaction in driving charge-density wave transitions in layered transition-metal dichalcogenides.
Sequence variation in telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) as a determinant of risk of cardiovascular disease: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study
Creators: name: Franceschini, Nora
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Abstract Background Telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) maintains telomere ends during DNA replication by catalyzing the addition of short telomere repeats. The expression of telomerase is normally repressed in somatic cells leading to a gradual shortening of telomeres and cellular senescence with aging. Interindividual variation in leukocyte telomere length has been previously associated with susceptibility to cardiovascular disease. The aim of the present study was to determine whether six variants in the TERT gene are associated with risk of incident coronary heart disease, incident ischemic stroke, and mortality in participants in the biracial population-based Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study, including rs2736100 that was found to influence mean telomere length in a genome-wide analysis. Methods ARIC is a prospective study of the etiology and natural history of atherosclerosis in 15,792 individuals aged 45 to 64 years at baseline in 1987–1989. Haplotype tagging SNPs in TERT were genotyped using a custom array containing nearly 49,000 SNPs in 2,100 genes associated with cardiovascular and metabolic phenotypes. Cox proportional hazards models were used to assess the association between the TERT polymorphisms and incident cardiovascular disease and mortality over a 20-year follow-up period in 8,907 whites and 3,022 African-Americans with no history of disease at the baseline examination, while individuals with prevalent cardiovascular disease were not excluded from the analyses of mortality. Results After adjustment for age and gender, and assuming an additive genetic model, rs2736122 and rs2853668 were nominally associated with incident coronary heart disease (hazards rate ratio = 1.20, p = 0.02, 95 % confidence interval = 1.03– 1.40) and stroke (hazards rate ratio = 1.17, p = 0.05, 95 % confidence interval = 1.00 - 1.38), respectively, in African-Americans. None of the variants was significantly associated with cardiovascular disease in white study participants or with mortality in either racial group. Conclusions Replication in additional population-based samples combined with genotyping of polymorphisms in other genes involved in maintenance of telomere length may help to determine whether genetic variants associated with telomere homeostasis influence the risk of cardiovascular disease in middle-aged adults.
Phytomining of valuable metals: status and prospective-a review
Creators: name: Akinbile, Babatunde J.
name: Makhubela, Banothile C. E.
name: Ambushe, Abayneh A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Precious metals accumulated to high concentration spread across tailing dumps, mineralised soil and at many metal-processing facilities across the African continent. Currently, about 71% of the world’s deposits of platinum group metals (PGMs) are found in South Africa. The country produces about 60% of the world’s output of three of these precious metals namely; platinum, palladium and rhodium. Traditional mining technology is grossly insufficient to quantitatively recover all metals economically. Therefore, low concentrations of these valuable metals are often wasted away as leftovers – posing environmental menace to the general ecosystem via dissolved ‘associated-toxic metal leaching’ and run-offs. In the past few decades, the concept of phytomining to recover low concentration precious metals from mine tailings, has been investigated by various researchers inMexico, New Zeeland, Caledonia, Canada, United Kingdom and Australia. This review presents a synopsis of the reported precious metal phytomining studies developed on the laboratory scale, and/or in greenhouse or pilot scale as well as in the field, in the last two and half decades. A summary of work done so far as relating to the techno-economic assessment of precious metal phytomining is also presented. We have also taken the opportunity to specifically discuss the applications of the phytoextracted plant-based metal in catalysis and related fields – an area with great potential to support the catalyst market and its adjacent chemicals and pharmaceutical industries but has been less explored for its possible coupling with phytomining activities so as to augment the economic prospects of this mining method.
title: MRI simulation for radiotherapy planning
Creators: name: Vinod, Shalini
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Oncology
subject: MR
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Cancer
subject: Image registration
subject: Radiotherapy techniques

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: MRI is increasingly being used for volume definition in radiotherapy due to its superior soft tissue contrast when compared to CT. Diagnostic MRI is not ideal for radiotherapy planning due to: Different patient positioning The time between...
Construction of a polyproline structure with hydrophobic exterior using octahydroindole-2-carboxylic acid
Creators: name: Kubyshkin, Vladimir
name: Budisa, Nediljko
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: The proline analogue (2S,3aS,7aS)-octahydroindole-2-carboxylic acid (Oic) has been previously applied as a proline substitute in pharmocologically active peptides and as a structural component of the antihypertensive drug Perindopril. Herein, we describe the formation of an oligoproline structure by an Oic oligomer. A series of Oic oligomers were investigated to show the structural and energetic contribution of appended residues to the structure. NMR investigation of these oligomers revealed an all-trans amide bond structure, and we provide evidence that a cascade-like mechanism is responsible for the all-trans folding cooperativity. X-ray crystallography of the Oic-hexapeptide clearly demonstrates that the all-trans structure of the Oic oligomer is a polyproline II helix. Thus, as a hydrophobic proline analog with a highly stable trans-amide bond, Oic represents an ideal building block for hydrophobic sites of polyproline II structures in biologically relevant contexts.
A novel magic LSB substitution method (M-LSB-SM) using multi-level encryption and achromatic component of an image
Creators: name: Muhammad, Khan
name: Sajjad, Muhammad
name: Mehmood, Irfan
name: Rho, Seungmin
name: Baik, Sung Wook
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Image Steganography is a thriving research area of information security where secret data is embedded in images to hide its existence while getting the minimum possible statistical detectability. This paper proposes a novel magic least significant bit substitution method (M-LSB-SM) for RGB images. The proposed method is based on the achromatic component (I-plane) of the hue-saturation-intensity (HSI) color model and multi-level encryption (MLE) in the spatial domain. The input image is transposed and converted into an HSI color space. The I-plane is divided into four sub-images of equal size, rotating each sub-image with a different angle using a secret key. The secret information is divided into four blocks, which are then encrypted using an MLE algorithm (MLEA). Each sub-block of the message is embedded into one of the rotated sub-images based on a specific pattern using magic LSB substitution. Experimental results validate that the proposed method not only enhances the visual quality of stego images but also provides good imperceptibility and multiple security levels as compared to several existing prominent methods.
description: This paper has been published in Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal with impact factor=1.058. The readers can study the formatted paper using the following link: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11042-015-2671-9. Please use sci-hub.org for downloading this paper if you are unable to access it freely or email us at khan.muhammad.icp@gmail.com
Ecosystem Level Predictors of Human Flourishing (Spring 2022 Study)
Creators: name: Nekkanti, Akhila
name: Kenner, Brandi
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: #Academic Attitudes
subject: #Implementation Science
subject: #School Climate and Ecosystem
subject: #School Environment
subject: #School Safety
subject: #Student Well-being

description: Choice-filled Lives Network (CLN) is in the process of developing an accreditation for schools in Human Flourishing, Language & Literacy, and Democracy. Three pillars are nested within this initiative: Implementation Science, Measurement, and Adult Capacity Building. The current study is nested within the Implementation Science and Measurement pillars of the CLN Accreditation Initiative. The human development and other social science literatures reveal that student well-being and success are influenced by factors both internal (e.g., cognitive, social-emotional) and external (e.g. environments, experiences) to the child. The goal of this study is to examine the correlations and predictors, between and among, student-perceived research-grounded ecosystem indicators of human flourishing present in schools, and students' overall academic success and self-perceived well-being. The goal is to then leverage these findings to develop school-level ecosystem measures of flourishing. The current pre-registration contains information for data collection at the second time-point of this study in Spring 2022.
title: Appraisal Analysis on Lecture Discourse of ELF Lecturers Teaching Content Subjects at An EMI University in China
Creators: name: Jin, Xiaoling
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: This study focuses specifically on the lecture discourse of academics working in a Chinese EMI universitywhen teaching different disciplines using English as the academic lingua franca. The aim of the study is to investigate linguistic patterns of evaluative language used by university lecturers and to describe how evaluative meanings are encoded; in other words, establishing a pattern of what is appraised and how it is appraised in academic lectures. The linguistic data of this research is real-time lecture discourse recorded from 12 lecturers teaching content courses in humanities and hard sciences; all of the transcribed spoken data of this research were coded using the framework of appraisal in SFL (systemic functional grammar). All the appraisal expressions identified in this current study have been defined as appraisal signals, i.e., attitude signal, engagement signal, graduation signal. These expressions can be regarded as discourse signals embedded in the lecture discourse and the research focus of this current study is to describe how EMI academics use appraisal expressions to signal their evaluative meanings in academic lectures. Results show that the meaning of an appraisal signal is closely associated with its co-text. The linguistic meanings of suchco-text may refer to the referents being evaluated in the verbal context, some frequently used pronoun patterns, and lecturers’ modulations of the evaluative meanings and their flexible use of integrating different types of appraisal signals. Findings regarding the disciplinary differences and ELF features of the appraisal signals have also been discussed. It can be concluded that appraisal signals are useful linguistic devices to enhance communicativeness of the lecture discourse in use and essential to the clarity and mutual intelligibility of the ELF communication in academic lectures at EMI universities.
Recent advances in the investigation of curcuminoids
Creators: name: Akiyama, Toshiyuki
name: Lee, Kuo-Hsiung
name: Shi, Qian
name: Itokawa, Hideji
name: Morris-Natschke, Susan L
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2008

description: Abstract More than 30 Curcuma species (Zingiberaceae) are found in Asia, where the rhizomes of these plants are used as both food and medicine, such as in traditional Chinese medicine. The plants are usually aromatic and carminative, and are used to treat indigestion, hepatitis, jaundice, diabetes, atherosclerosis and bacterial infections. Among the Curcuma species, C. longa, C. aromatica and C. xanthorrhiza are popular. The main constituents of Curcuma species are curcuminoids and bisabolane-type sesquiterpenes. Curcumin is the most important constituent among natural curcuminoids found in these plants. Published research has described the biological effects and chemistry of curcumin. Curcumin derivatives have been evaluated for bioactivity and structure-activity relationships (SAR). In this article, we review the literature between 1976 and mid-2008 on the anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, anti-HIV, chemopreventive and anti-prostate cancer effects of curcuminoids. Recent studies on curcuminoids, particularly on curcumin, have discovered not only much on the therapeutic activities, but also on mechanisms of molecular biological action and major genomic effects.
Microfluidic Control and Sensor Platform
Creators: name: Kehl, Florian
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Laboratory and Basic Science Research Life Sciences
subject: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
subject: Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology
subject: Analytical Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Environmental Monitoring
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences
subject: Medicinal-Pharmaceutical Chemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Chemistry
subject: Electrical and Computer Engineering
subject: Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Engineering
subject: Oceanography
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Fresh Water Studies
subject: Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering
subject: Chemical Engineering
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering
subject: Research Methods in Life Sciences
subject: capillary electrophoresis
subject: chemical analysis
subject: fluidic sensing
subject: lab automation
subject: Microfluidic sample handling
subject: valve controller

description: MCSP is a completely integrated and customizable microfluidic control and sensing architecture that can be readily implemented for laboratory or portable chemical or biological control and sensing applications. The project supports the paper: Kehl, F., et al., Open-Source Lab Hardware: A Versatile Microfluidic Control and Sensor Platform, in Elsevier HardwareX.
title: Metal artifact reduction in head and neck imaging using dual-energy computed tomography and Metal Artifact Reduction Software
Creators: name: Jahangiri, Alborz
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Artifacts
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT
subject: Ear / Nose / Throat
subject: Head and neck

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of dual-energy computed tomography with Metal Artifact Reduction Software in reducing the artifacts in patients with metallic dental fillings while assessing the head and neck...
Evaluating and Enhancing GameSense: Public Health, Social Science, and Business Perspectives (Project Year 3)
Creators: name: Gray, Heather
name: Abarbanel, Brett
name: Louderback, Eric
name: Bernhard, Bo
name: LaPlante, Debi
name: Kraus, Shane
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This project will evaluate the GameSense program as implemented throughout MGM Resorts International properties in North America. GameSense is a branded responsible gambling program that includes both customer and employee facing components. Using MGM’s multi-property portfolio, this project will assess the safety, reach, and effectiveness of the MGM-GameSense program. The project will comprise three waves of surveys of MGM employees and loyalty card holders, as well as analysis of GameSense service records. This project is funded by MGM Resorts International.
title: Incidence of contrast induced nephropathy post CT pulmonary angiogram: A pilot study using health informatics
Creators: name: Bigwood, Shalini
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Contrast agents
subject: Computer applications
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Computer Applications-General
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Technology assessment
subject: Toxicity

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: Background: Health informatics has an increasingly large role in medicine. Applications in radiology include Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) workflow analysis, quality assurance, image analysis and interacting information systems...
Resonating with different frequencies... Thoughts on public humanities through crowdsourcing in a ChatGPT world
Creators: name: Ridge, Mia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: AI
machine learning
audio
crowdsourcing
digital public participation

description: A talk for the CAS 2023 Summer Symposium on Harry Shearer's "Le Show", August 1-3, Penn State University. Opening remarks: Today I wanted to think about the different ways that public humanities work through crowdsourcing still has a place in an AI-obsessed world… what happens if we think about different ways of ‘listening’ to an audio archive like Le Show, by people, by machines, and by people and machines in combination? What visions can we create for a future in which people and machines tune into different frequencies, each doing what they do best?
Electronic, optical, and thermodynamic properties of borophene from first-principle calculations
Creators: name: Peng, Bo
name: Zhang, Hao
name: Shao, Hezhu
name: Xu, Yuanfeng
name: Zhang, Rongjun
name: Zhu, Heyuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Borophene (two-dimensional boron sheet) is a new type of two-dimensional material, which was recently grown successfully on single crystal Ag substrates. In this paper, we investigate the electronic structure and bonding characteristics of borophene by first-principle calculations. The band structure of borophene shows highly anisotropic metallic behaviour. The obtained optical properties of borophene exhibit strong anisotropy as well. The combination of high optical transparency and high electrical conductivity in borophene makes it a promising candidate for future design of transparent conductors used in photovoltaics. Finally, the thermodynamic properties are investigated based on the phonon properties.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures
title: Alfred Health's CT quality control program
Creators: name: Perdomo, Amanda
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quality assurance
subject: Radiation safety
subject: CT
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: A quality control (QC) program for computed tomography (CT) scanners is an important method of identifying issues and optimising radiation dose and image quality. Alfred Health Radiology operates five CT scanners of various models across two...
Removal of levofloxacin and ciprofloxacin from aqueous solutions and an economic evaluation using the electrocoagulation process‏
Creators: name: Mohammed, Sabah J.
name: M-Ridha, Mohanad Jasim
name: Abed, Khalid M.
name: Elgharbawy, Amal A. M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: For this research, the utilisation of electrocoagulation (EC) toremove theciprofloxacin (CIP) and levofloxacin (LVX) from aqueous solutions was examined. The effective removal efficiencies are 93.47% for CIP and 88.00% for LVX, under optimum conditions. The adsorption isotherm models with suitable mechanisms were applied to determine the elimination of CIP and LVX utilizingtheEC method. Thefindingsshowed the adsorption of CIP and LVX on iron hydroxide flocs followed the Sips isotherm, with correlation coefficient values (R2) of 0.939 and 0.937. Threekinetic models were reviewed to determine the accurate CIP and LVX elimination methods using the EC method. The results showed that itfittedfor the second-order model, which indicated that the chemical adsorption mechanism controlled the removal of CIP and LVX. The R2 with CIP is 0.944, and LVX is 0.941. For binary system removal, efficiencies were 93.00, 90.10, and 96.30% for CIP, and 91.80, 96.10, and 92.97% for LVX, at the CIP ratio: LVX of 1:1, 1:4, and 4:1. The electrode consumption (ELC) and electrical energy consumption (EEC) were found at 0.208 g and 3.21 kWh−3 for a single operation. The operating cost was estimated at 0.613 US$ m−3.
title: Wahrheit in Wittgensteins Spätphilosophie
Creators: name: Forster, Daniel
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 100
subject: Wittgenstein, Ludwig
subject: Philosophie
subject: Wahrheit
subject: Weltbild

description: Gefördert im Rahmen des Projekts DEAL
Parameterizing the SFC Baryogenesis Model
Creators: name: Kirilova, Daniela
name: Panayotova, Mariana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have numerically explored the Scalar Field Condensate baryogenesis model for numerous sets of model's parameters, within their natural range of values. We have investigated the evolution of the baryon charge carrying field, the evolution of the baryon charge contained in the scalar field condensate and the final value of the generated baryon charge on the model's parameters: the gauge coupling constant $α$, the Hubble constant at the inflationary stage $H_I$, the mass $m$, the self-coupling constants $λ_i$.
Informatisation partielle du circuit du médicament à l'hôpital régional du Kef : modélisation d'une base de données
Creators: name: Mechri, Hatem
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Introduction : l’informatisation du circuit du médicament présente un moyen de contrôle des coûts et d’amélioration de la sécurité et la qualité des soins dans les établissements de santé. L’objectif de notre stage a été l’informatisation de l’étape de la prescription du circuit du médicament entre un service de soins et la pharmacie de l’hôpital régional du Kef.

Matériels et méthodes : nous avons adopté des recommandations sur l’informatisation du circuit du médicament à savoir la définition du projet, la formation d’une équipe de projet, le choix des logiciels, le déploiement et l’évaluation.

Résultats : nous avons réalisé des analyses du circuit du médicament entre le service de chirurgie et la pharmacie, les taches des utilisateurs du système informatique, et de l’état des composants informatiques. Une amélioration ergonomique de l’interface de l’application DMI a été faite, et le déploiement des fonctionnalités de la demande informatisée a été réalisé à travers cette nouvelle interface. Une nouvelle base de données assurant plus de sécurité et de traçabilité et répondante aux attentes des utilisateurs a été créé.

Discussion : le nouveau modèle de base de données crée offre la possibilité d’identifier les prescripteurs, les demandeurs, et les patient dans le processus de la demande de médicaments par service.

Ce qui va permettre aux établissements -où les conditions ne sont pas optimales pour l’informatisation de l’ordonnance médicale- de commencer le processus d’informatisation à l’aide de ce modèle.
title: Commissioning of Elekta 6MV FFF Versa HD and Pinnacle
Creators: name: Bendall, Louise
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Radiotherapy techniques
subject: VMAT and Tomotherapy
subject: Physics
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: CT
subject: Radiation physics
subject: Oncology

description: Aim Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aim: To commission the first 6MV FFF beam within Pinnacle 9.6 at The...