cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Assessing Patterns of Human-Wildlife Conflicts and Compensation around a Central Indian Protected Area
Creators: name: Karanth, Krithi K.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Wildlife conservation
Human-animal relationships
Livestock

description: Mitigating crop and livestock loss to wildlife and improving compensation distribution are important for conservation efforts in landscapes where people and wildlife co-occur outside protected areas. The lack of rigorously collected spatial data poses a challenge to management efforts to minimize loss and mitigate conflicts. We surveyed 735 households from 347 villages in a 5154 km2 area surrounding Kanha Tiger Reserve in India. We modeled self-reported household crop and livestock loss as a function of agricultural, demographic and environmental factors, and mitigation measures. We also modeled self-reported compensation received by households as a function of demographic factors, conflict type, reporting to authorities, and wildlife species involved. Seventy-three percent of households reported crop loss and 33% livestock loss in the previous year, but less than 8% reported human injury or death. Crop loss was associated with greater number of cropping months per year and proximity to the park. Livestock loss was associated with grazing animals inside the park and proximity to the park. Among mitigation measures only use of protective physical structures were associated with reduced livestock loss. Compensation distribution was more likely for tiger related incidents, and households reporting loss and located in the buffer. Average estimated probability of crop loss was 0.93 and livestock loss was 0.60 for surveyed households. Estimated crop and livestock loss and compensation distribution were higher for households located inside the buffer. Our approach modeled conflict data to aid managers in identifying potential conflict hotspots, influential factors, and spatially maps risk probability of crop and livestock loss. This approach could help focus allocation of conservation efforts and funds directed at conflict prevention and mitigation where high densities of people and wildlife co-occur.
title: Relationship Between Post-mortem Lung Computed Tomography Findings and Livor Mortis
Creators: name: KASAGAWA, AKITO
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: CT
subject: Lung
subject: CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Forensics
subject: Retrospective
subject: Diagnostic or prognostic study
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Livor mortis is a sign that occurs following death. It is a reddish purple coloration that develops under the skin in dependent parts of the body because of gravity-induced accumulation of blood in the postmortem interval [1]. Similarly, high X-ray...
SUMCASTEC_190204_NA_BangorWSPres_Workshop Presentation_.pdf_Bath_I. Davies_Public_NA
Creators: name: I. Davies
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Presentation given by Ilan Davies at the workshop on EM field interaction with biological tissues for cancer and regenerative medicine held at Bangor University on July 13th, 2018. The title of the talk is : "Electro-permeabilization of isolated cancer stem cells with a push-pull configuration of high power MOSFETs".
description: Abstract of the talk: Instrumentation and use of an electroporation generator, configured of MOSFETs in a push-pull configuration, for possible real-time neutralization of isolated cancer stem cells within an artificial 50Ω buffer. Initial bench study investigates the permeabilization and non-thermal treatment of isolated cancer stem cells, via an original cuvette housing unit, and generator.
title: Persistent left superior vena cava with absent right superior vena cava in adults: clinical and radiological findings
Creators: name: Ichikawa, Tamaki
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Vascular
subject: Anatomy
subject: Catheter venography
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: CT
subject: Normal variants
subject: Congenital
subject: Retrospective
subject: Diagnostic or prognostic study
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Persistent left superior vena cava (PLSVC) is the most common venous anomaly of the thorax and occurs approximately 0.3-0.5% of the general population [1-5]. There are 3 types of PLSVC [1-5] (Fig. 1). More than 90 % of PLSVCs are double SVCs and...
A Physiological Increase of Insulin in the Olfactory Bulb Decreases Detection of a Learned Aversive Odor and Abolishes Food Odor-Induced Sniffing Behavior in Rats
Creators: name: Aime, Pascaline
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Insulin
Smell
Neurobiology
Blood plasma

description: Insulin is involved in multiple regulatory mechanisms, including body weight and food intake, and plays a critical role in metabolic disorders such as obesity and diabetes. An increasing body of evidence indicates that insulin is also involved in the modulation of olfactory function. The olfactory bulb (OB) contains the highest level of insulin and insulin receptors (IRs) in the brain. However, a role for insulin in odor detection and sniffing behavior remains to be elucidated. Using a behavioral paradigm based on conditioned olfactory aversion (COA) to isoamyl-acetate odor, we demonstrated that an intracerebroventricular (ICV) injection of 14 mU insulin acutely decreased olfactory detection of fasted rats to the level observed in satiated animals. In addition, whereas fasted animals demonstrated an increase in respiratory frequency upon food odor detection, this effect was absent in fasted animals receiving a 14 mU insulin ICV injection as well as in satiated animals. In parallel, we showed that the OB and plasma insulin levels were increased in satiated rats compared to fasted rats, and that a 14 mU insulin ICV injection elevated the OB insulin level of fasted rats to that of satiated rats. We further quantified insulin receptors (IRs) distribution and showed that IRs are preferentially expressed in the caudal and lateral parts of the main OB, with the highest labeling found in the mitral cells, the main OB projection neurons. Together, these data suggest that insulin acts on the OB network to modulate olfactory processing and demonstrate that olfactory function is under the control of signals involved in energy homeostasis regulation and feeding behaviors.
title: Chest Computed Tomography in pediatric chronic cough
Creators: name: Cellina, Michaela
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Chest
subject: Thorax
subject: CT
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Chronic obstructive airways disease
subject: Retrospective
subject: Observational

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Cough represents the first signof the airways and lungs disorders. Different timing has been used to define “chronic cough” in a paediatric patient: American and Australia/New Zealand guidelines classify as chronic a cough lasting more than 4...
Abrupt Change in Forest Height along a Tropical Elevation Gradient Detected Using Airborne Lidar
Creators: name: Wolf, Jeffrey
name: Brocard, Gilles
name: Willenbring, Jane
name: Porder, Stephen
name: Uriarte, Maria
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Remote sensing
subject: Optical radar
subject: Environmental sciences

description: Most research on vegetation in mountain ranges focuses on elevation gradients as climate gradients, but elevation gradients are also the result of geological processes that build and deconstruct mountains. Recent findings from the Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico, have raised questions about whether erosion rates that vary due to past tectonic events and are spatially patterned in relation to elevation may drive vegetation patterns along elevation gradients. Here we use airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology to observe forest height over the Luquillo Mountain Range. We show that models with different functional forms for the two prominent bedrock types best describe the forest height-elevation patterns. On one bedrock type there are abrupt decreases in forest height with elevation approximated by a sigmoidal function, with the inflection point near the elevation of where other studies have shown there to be a sharp change in erosion rates triggered by a tectonic uplift event that began approximately 4.2 My ago. Our findings are consistent with broad geologically mediated vegetation patterns along the elevation gradient, consistent with a role for mountain building and deconstructing processes.
Using a Participatory Stakeholder Process to Plan Water Development in Koraro, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Alfredo, Katherine A.
name: Montalto, Franco A.
name: Bartrand, Timothy
name: Wolde-Georgis, Tsegay
name: Lall, Upmanu
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Water resources development
Millennium Villages (Project)
Sustainable development

description: This article reports the results of a one-day participatory workshop in Koraro, Ethiopia conducted prior to major development interventions in the region. The methodology of the workshop, structured to generate data useful for understanding the physical and social systems integral to water resources planning, provides a framework for future water need explorations in similar settings in Ethiopia and elsewhere. The use of only improved water sources as a metric for access to water under-represents the situation in Koraro, as many rely on streambeds for water due to the perceived cleanliness and low salinity of this unimproved water source. The reliance on metrics common in the Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals, such as a minimum distance to a water source and the categorization of potable water based on type of water source, using varying figures (from as many as 30 to as few as four) can lead to assessments regarding the amount of additional sources necessary to allow access to specific locales, that are not consistent with actual need. Since the workshop, the Millennium Village Project has constructed over 30 wells in the region, following the most commonly used distance and source type metrics with less than desirable results. The water access evaluations alone do not address the needs of Koraro residents.
A 72 × 60 Angle-Sensitive SPAD Imaging Array for Lens-less FLIM
Creators: name: Lee, Changhyuk
name: Johnson, Ben
name: Jung, Taesung
name: Molnar, Alyosha
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Optical detectors
Fluorescence microscopy
Imaging systems in biology
Electrical engineering

description: We present a 72 × 60, angle-sensitive single photon avalanche diode (A-SPAD) array for lens-less 3D fluorescence lifetime imaging. An A-SPAD pixel consists of (1) a SPAD to provide precise photon arrival time where a time-resolved operation is utilized to avoid stimulus-induced saturation, and (2) integrated diffraction gratings on top of the SPAD to extract incident angles of the incoming light. The combination enables mapping of fluorescent sources with different lifetimes in 3D space down to micrometer scale. Futhermore, the chip presented herein integrates pixel-level counters to reduce output data-rate and to enable a precise timing control. The array is implemented in standard 180 nm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology and characterized without any post-processing.
Startup of the High-Intensity Ultracold Neutron Source at the Paul Scherrer Institute
Creators: name: Lauss, Bernhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultracold neutrons (UCN) can be stored in suitable bottles and observed for several hundreds of seconds. Therefore UCN can be used to study in detail the fundamental properties of the neutron. A new user facility providing ultracold neutrons for fundamental physics research has been constructed at the Paul Scherrer Institute, the PSI UCN source. Assembly of the facility finished in December 2010 with the first production of ultracold neutrons. Operation approval was received in June 2011. We give an overview of the source and the status at startup.
description: Proceedings of the International Conference on Exotic Atoms and Related Topics - EXA2011 September 5-9, 2011 Austrian Academy of Sciences, Theatersaal, Sonnenfelsgasse 19, 1010 Wien, Austria 6 pages, 3 figures
title: Evaluation of usefulness of MRI in benign/malignant discrimination of amorphous grouped calcifications.
Creators: name: Kikuchi, Mari
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Breast
subject: Mammography
subject: MR
subject: Biopsy
subject: Cancer
subject: Retrospective
subject: Diagnostic or prognostic study
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Screening should consider the balance between benefits and risks. The greatest benefit of mammography(MG) screening is the mortality reduction effect, and the risk include false positives, false negatives, overdiagnosis, exposure, pain, mental...
Chiral condensate with topological degeneracy in graphene and its manifestation in edge states
Creators: name: Hamamoto, Yuji
name: Aoki, Hideo
name: Hatsugai, Yasuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Role of chiral symmetry in many-body states of graphene in strong magnetic fields is theoretically studied with the honeycomb lattice model. For a spin-split Landau level where the leading electron-electron interaction is the nearest-neighbor repulsion, a chiral condensate is shown to be, within the subspace of n = 0 Landau level, an exact many-body ground state with a finite gap, for which calculation of Chern numbers reveals that the ground state is a Hall insulator with a topological degeneracy of two. The topological nature of the ground state is shown to manifest itself as a Kekuléan bond order along armchair edges, while the pattern melts in the bulk due to quantum fluctuations. The whole story can be regarded as a realization of the bulk-edge correspondence peculiar to the chiral symmetry.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to PRB
Urban Drainage System Improvement for Climate Change Adaptation
Creators: name: Kang, Narae
name: Kim, Soojun
name: Kim, Yonsoo
name: Noh, Huiseong
name: Hong, Seung Jin
name: Kim, Hung Soo
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Climatic changes
Drainage
Flood control
Rainfall frequencies

description: Recently, urban areas have experienced frequent, large-scale flooding, a situation that has been aggravated by climate change. This study aims to improve the urban drainage system to facilitate climate change adaptation. A methodology and a series of mitigation strategies are presented to efficiently improve the urban drainage system in light of climate change. In addition, we assess the impact of climate change and predict the scale of potential future flood damage by applying the methodology and mitigation strategies to urban areas. Based on the methodology presented, urban flood prevention measures for Gyeyang-gu (Province), Incheon, Korea, was established. The validity of the proposed alternatives is verified by assessing the economic feasibility of the projects to reduce flood damage. We expect that the methodology presented will aid the decision-making process and assist in the development of reasonable strategies to improve the urban drainage system for adaptation to climate change.
Fermion spectrum and localization on kinks in a deconstructed dimension
Creators: name: Kan, Nahomi
name: Kobayashi, Koichiro
name: Shiraishi, Kiyoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the deconstructed scalar theory having nonlinear interactions and being renormalizable. It is shown that the kink-like configurations exist in such models. The possible forms of Yukawa coupling are considered. We find the degeneracy in mass spectrum of fermions coupled to the nontrivial scalar configuration.
description: 19pages, 39figures, revised version
Striped states in weakly trapped ultracold Bose gases with Rashba spin-orbit coupling
Creators: name: Ozawa, Tomoki
name: Baym, Gordon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The striped state of ultracold bosons with Rashba spin-orbit coupling in a homogeneous infinite system has, as we show, a constant particle flow, which in a finite-size system would accumulate particles at the boundaries; it is thus not a physical steady state of the system. We propose, as a variational ansatz, a condensate wave function for a weakly trapped system which behaves similarly to the striped state near the center, but does not have particle flow at the boundaries. This state has a line of unquantized coreless vortices. We show, by minimizing the total energy, that our modified striped state has lower energy than the conventional striped state and it is thus a physically appropriate starting point to analyze striped states in finite systems.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, minor errors corrected
Frustrated Bose-Einstein condensates with non-collinear orbital ordering
Creators: name: Cai, Zi
name: Wang, Yu
name: Wu, Congjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the unconventional Bose-Einstein condensations (BEC) with the orbital degree of freedom in the 3D cubic optical lattice, which give rise to various exotic features absent in conventional scalar and spinor BECs. Orbital angular momentum moments are formed on lattice sites breaking time-reversal symmetry spontaneously. Furthermore, they exhibit orbital frustrations and develop a chiral ordering selected by the "order-from-disorder" mechanism.
title: MYOCARDIAL TISSUE CHARACTERIZATIONS USING 3T CARDIAC MAGNETIC RESONANCE (CMR): T1 and T2 mapping.
Creators: name: Soto García, Marta
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cardiology
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Radiographers
subject: MR
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Image verification
subject: Retrospective
subject: Diagnostic or prognostic study
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: The objective of this study is to provide the normal reference values of native T1 and T2 mapping of the myocardium at 3T...
Three Years of Fermi LAT Flare Advocate Activity
Creators: name: Ciprini, S.
name: Gasparrini, D.
name: Bastieri, D.
name: Chiang, J.
name: Tosti, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Fermi Flare Advocate (also known as Gamma-ray Sky Watcher, FA-GSW) service provides for a daily quicklook analysis and review of the high-energy gamma-ray sky seen by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The duty offers alerts for potentially new gamma-ray sources, interesting transients and relevant flares. A public weekly digest containing the main highlights about the GeV gamma-ray sky is published in the web-based Fermi Sky Blog. During the first 3 years of all-sky survey, more than 150 Astronomical Telegrams, several alerts to the TeV Cherenkov telescopes, and targets of opportunity to Swift and other observatories have been realized. This increased the rate of simultaneous multi-frequency observing campaigns and the level of international cooperation. Many gamma-ray flares from blazars (like extraordinary outbursts of 3C 454.3, intense flares of PKS 1510-089, 4C 21.35, PKS 1830-211, AO 0235+164, PKS 1502+106, 3C 279, 3C 273, PKS 1622-253), short/long flux duty cycles, unidentified transients near the Galactic plane (like J0910-5041, J0109+6134, the Galactic center region), flares associated to Galactic sources (like the Crab nebula, the nova V407 Cyg, the microquasar Cyg X-3), emission of the quiet and active sun, were observed by Fermi and communicated by FA-GSWs.
description: 2011 Fermi Symposium proceedings - eConf C110509
title: Accessory septations of sphenoid sinus in paediatric population
Creators: name: Cellina, Michaela
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Paediatric
subject: Paediatric
subject: CT
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Pathology
subject: Retrospective
subject: Observational
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Sphenoid sinuses (SS) consist in pneumatized cavities included in the body of the sphenoid bone. They usually can be detected from the the 3 rd/ 4 th year of age and usually reach the definitive morphology between 12 and 16 years. The main SS...
title: Transperineal MRI-TRUS fusion-guided prostate biopsy: our initial experience
Creators: name: Cobo Tabar, Zuriñe
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genitourinary
subject: Oncology
subject: Pelvis
subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: MR
subject: Biopsy
subject: Outcomes
subject: Retrospective
subject: Observational
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: To report our early results of transperineal magnetic resonance imaging and transrectal ultrasonography (MRI-TRUS) fusion-guided prostate biopsy. To analyze the correlation between the PI-RADS v2 (Prostate Imaging Reporting and Data System version...
Reinforcement learning applied to production planning and control
Creators: name: Esteso, Ana
name: Peidro, David
name: Mula, Josefa
name: Díaz-Madroñero, Manuel
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 80699
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: The objective of this paper is to examine the use and applications of reinforcement learning (RL) techniques in the production planning and control (PPC) field addressing the following PPC areas: facility resource planning, capacity planning, purchase and supply management, production scheduling and inventory management. The main RL characteristics, such as method, context, states, actions, reward and highlights, were analysed. The considered number of agents, applications and RL software tools, specifically, programming language, platforms, application programming interfaces and RL frameworks, among others, were identified, and 181 articles were sreviewed. The results showed that RL was applied mainly to production scheduling problems, followed by purchase and supply management. The most revised RL algorithms were model-free and single-agent and were applied to simplified PPC environments. Nevertheless, their results seem to be promising compared to traditional mathematical programming and heuristics/metaheuristics solution methods, and even more so when they incorporate uncertainty or non-linear properties. Finally, RL value-based approaches are the most widely used, specifically Q-learning and its variants and for deep RL, deep Q-networks. In recent years however, the most widely used approach has been the actor-critic method, such as the advantage actor critic, proximal policy optimisation, deep deterministic policy gradient and trust region policy optimisation.
Markov random fields and measures with nearest neighbour Gibbs potential
Creators: name: Chandgotia, Nishant
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This thesis will discuss the relationship between stationary Markov random fields and probability measures with a nearest neighbour Gibbs potential. While the relationship has been well explored when the measures are fully supported, we shall discuss what happens when we weaken this assumption.
Treponema pallidum Infection in the Wild Baboons of East Africa: Distribution and Genetic Characterization of the Strains Responsible
Creators: name: Harper, Kristin N.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Treponema pallidum
subject: Baboons
subject: Serology
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: It has been known for decades that wild baboons are naturally infected with Treponema pallidum, the bacterium that causes the diseases syphilis (subsp. pallidum), yaws (subsp. pertenue), and bejel (subsp. endemicum) in humans. Recently, a form of T. pallidum infection associated with severe genital lesions has been described in wild baboons at Lake Manyara National Park in Tanzania. In this study, we investigated ten additional sites in Tanzania and Kenya using a combination of macroscopic observation and serology, in order to determine whether the infection was present in each area. In addition, we obtained genetic sequence data from six polymorphic regions using T. pallidum strains collected from baboons at two different Tanzanian sites. We report that lesions consistent with T. pallidum infection were present at four of the five Tanzanian sites examined, and serology was used to confirm treponemal infection at three of these. By contrast, no signs of treponemal infection were observed at the six Kenyan sites, and serology indicated T. pallidum was present at only one of them. A survey of sexually mature baboons at Lake Manyara National Park in 2006 carried out as part of this study indicated that roughly ten percent displayed T. pallidum-associated lesions severe enough to cause major structural damage to the genitalia. Finally, we found that T. pallidum strains from Lake Manyara National Park and Serengeti National Park were genetically distinct, and a phylogeny suggested that baboon strains may have diverged prior to the clade containing human strains. We conclude that T. pallidum infection associated with genital lesions appears to be common in the wild baboons of the regions studied in Tanzania. Further study is needed to elucidate the infection's transmission mode, its associated morbidity and mortality, and the relationship between baboon and human strains.
title: Comparison of EOS Micro-dose protocol with EOS standard dose protocol for Full-spine Radiation dose measurement: preliminary data
Creators: name: RAGUCCI, PASQUALA
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Observational
subject: Retrospective
subject: Dosimetric comparison
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Teleradiology
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Radiation Protection

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Patients are frequently exposed to numerous radiographs, during diagnosis and treatment, whether conservative or surgical, and follow-up. Full spine imaging is often performed in young patients where radiation dose is of special concern. In fact,...
title: Evaluation of the morphometric measurements and sex differences of the sternum using multi-detector computed tomography
Creators: name: Vatzia, Konstantina
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal
subject: Anatomy
subject: Bones
subject: Thorax
subject: CT
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Normal variants
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Epidemiology
subject: Retrospective
subject: Observational
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Sex determination is one of the most important data that can be obtained from bones' study. Specific bone measurements are important for sex determination and medicolegalissues' settlement[1-2]. The most studied parts of the human skeleton are the...
Cataglyphis adenensis
Creators: name: Madl, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Cataglyphis
Cataglyphis adenensis

description: Cataglyphis adenensis (FOREL, 1904)
* Cataglyphis (Cataglyphis) adenensis var. bugnioni (FOREL, 1908): SANTSCHI 1929: 41 (tax., Djibouti), 55 (world cat.), 59 (key), pl. 1 (fig. 13).
Cataglyphis (Cataglyphis) adenensis var. bugnioni (FOREL, 1904): AGOSTI 1990 1468 (tax.), 1486 (tax., world cat.).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Djibouti.
Cataglyphis adenensis is widely distributed in the Arabian peninsula. Cataglyphis adenensis var. bugnioni SANTSCHI, 1929 (BOLTON 1995: 134) is an unavailable name, because the term "var." is an infrasubspecific entity in SANTSCHI (1929: p. 25 (V. Liste des espèces, races, et varietés), p. 40 (Cataglyphis albicans st. livida var. arenaria or C. albicans st. livida ambigua nov.var. ")). The status of Cataglyphis adenensis var. bugnioni should be checked, because Cataglyphis adenensis is not listed in FISHER & BOLTON (2016: 239).
description: Published as part of Madl, Michael, 2018, A preliminary catalogue of the Hymenoptera (Insecta) of the Republic of Djibouti, pp. 907-967 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2) on page 919, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3776452
Mechanical Stress Inference for Two Dimensional Cell Arrays
Creators: name: Chiou, Kevin K.
name: Hufnagel, Lars
name: Shraiman, Boris I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many morphogenetic processes involve mechanical rearrangement of epithelial tissues that is driven by precisely regulated cytoskeletal forces and cell adhesion. The mechanical state of the cell and intercellular adhesion are not only the targets of regulation, but are themselves likely signals that coordinate developmental process. Yet, because it is difficult to directly measure mechanical stress {\it in vivo} on sub-cellular scale, little is understood about the role of mechanics of development. Here we present an alternative approach which takes advantage of the recent progress in live imaging of morphogenetic processes and uses computational analysis of high resolution images of epithelial tissues to infer relative magnitude of forces acting within and between cells. We model intracellular stress in terms of bulk pressure and interfacial tension, allowing these parameters to vary from cell to cell and from interface to interface. Assuming that epithelial cell layers are close to mechanical equilibrium, we use the observed geometry of the two dimensional cell array to infer interfacial tensions and intracellular pressures. Here we present the mathematical formulation of the proposed Mechanical Inverse method and apply it to the analysis of epithelial cell layers observed at the onset of ventral furrow formation in the {\it Drosophila} embryo and in the process of hair-cell determination in the avian cochlea. The analysis reveals mechanical anisotropy in the former process and mechanical heterogeneity, correlated with cell differentiation, in the latter process. The method opens a way for quantitative and detailed experimental tests of models of cell and tissue mechanics.
title: Relationship between multiscale MR-derived and bioimpedance-derived fat measurements: a study on sarcopenic patients
Creators: name: Sanz-Requena, Roberto
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Diagnostic or prognostic study
subject: Retrospective
subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Occupational / Environmental hazards
subject: Geriatrics
subject: Physiological studies
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: MR
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: Computer applications
subject: Musculoskeletal

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Sarcopenia is defined by the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in the Older People (EWGSOP) as a characteristic described by the progressive loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength, with an increased risk of adverse events such as physical...
Éditorial - L'espace européen financier. Revue ECU/EURO, N°24 (1993)
Creators: name: Guimbretière, Pierre
Publisher: name: RESuME
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Editorial
subject: Éditorial
subject: Financial Services
subject: Services financiers
subject: European financial area
subject: espace financier européen

description: Le numéro 24 de la revue *ECU* présente les améliorations considérables déjà réalisées ou en voie de l'être dans les secteurs des services bancaires et financiers et cela grâce au Marché intérieur. Cette étude à caractère juridique déborde largement le cadre de la Communauté pour couvrir les relations bancaires et financières convenues avec les pays candidats à l'adhésion et envisagées avec l'Europe de l'Est ou dans le cadre de l'Uruguay Round.
Long-range corrected hybrid meta-generalized-gradient approximations with dispersion corrections
Creators: name: Lin, You-Sheng
name: Tsai, Chen-Wei
name: Li, Guan-De
name: Chai, Jeng-Da
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a long-range corrected hybrid meta-GGA functional, based on a global hybrid meta-GGA functional, M05 [Y. Zhao, N. E. Schultz, and D. G. Truhlar, J. Chem. Phys. 123, 161103 (2005)], and empirical atom-atom dispersion corrections. Our resulting functional, omegaM05-D, is shown to be accurate for a very wide range of applications, such as thermochemistry, kinetics, noncovalent interactions, equilibrium geometries, frontier orbital energies, fundamental gaps, and excitation energies. In addition, we present three new databases, IP131 (131 ionization potentials), EA115 (115 electron affinities), and FG115 (115 fundamental gaps), consisting of experimental molecular geometries and accurate reference values, which will be useful in the assessment of the accuracy of density functional approximations.
description: accepted for publication in J. Chem. Phys., 75 pages, 6 figures, supplementary material included
Keratinocyte-releasable factors modulate extracellular matrix components in dermal fibroblasts
Creators: name: Chávez Muñoz, Claudia I.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: A fine balance between the synthesis and degradation of extracellular matrix (ECM) is required in maintaining the structural integrity of healing tissue. An imbalance in ECM expression leads to fibrotic conditions such as hypertrophic scars (HS). It has been demonstrated that keratinocyte-releasable factors can function as ECM modulating factors (MMP-1 and type I collagen) in fibroblasts. We have shown that Stratifin (SFN) is an MMP-1 stimulatory factor in fibroblasts that failed to suppress the expression of type I collagen in fibroblasts. SFN is an intracellular protein that lacks a signal peptide. As such, it is critical to explore its mechanism of release and identify the keratinocyte-derived collageninhibiting factor(s) for dermal fibroblasts. In this doctoral research project I hypothesize that keratinocyte-releasable factor(s) function as a stop signal(s) for wound healing by modulating the expression of key ECM components such as MMP-1 and type I collagen in fibroblasts. Two specific objectives were accomplished to address these issues. Under objective 1, the mechanism by which SFN is released has been explored. The findings demonstrate that SFN is released via exosomes in a Ca²⁺ dependant fashion. Moreover, only differentiated keratinocytes release SFN. Exosome-associated SFN exhibits a potent MMP-1 stimulatory effect. Under objective 2, using a series of systematic protein purification methods followed by mass spectroscopy, two proteins (SPARC and SFN) that inhibited collagen production by dermal fibroblasts were identified in keratinocyte-conditioned media. Using co-immunoprecipitation and 3D modeling, we determined that SFN and SPARC form a complex thereby regulating type I collagen expression in fibroblasts. The levels of these proteins in fibrotic tissues (animal and human) were also evaluated and a differential expression of these proteins between normal and fibrotic tissue confirmed their potential role in development of fibrotic condition. In conclusion, the identification of the mechanism of release of SFN and the identification of SPARC/SFN complex contribute to the understanding of how these factors are involved in the wound healing process. Also, SPARC/SFN complex provides us with another anti-fibrogenic factor that may be used to generate an effective therapeutic agent to treat HS frequently developed following burn injury, deep trauma and/or surgical incisions.
Bi-level scheduling in high-end equipment R&D: when more algorithm strategies may not be better
Creators: name: Pei, Jun
name: Wang, Haoxin
name: Kong, Min
name: Mladenovic, Nenad
name: Pardalos, Panos M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 80699
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Motivated by the practical research and development (R&D) process in high-end equipment manufacturing, this study investigates a bi-level scheduling problem in a complex R&D project network, where each project contains multiple modules with a complete task network. In the bi-level scheduling problem, the upper-level problem is that the R&D project leader makes the decision on allocating all R&D project modules to limited R&D researchers and the objective is to minimise the total penalty cost of all projects, and the lower-level problem is that the researchers schedule and sort the assigned tasks to minimise their minimum makespan. The different capacity of researchers is considered, and some structural properties are derived based on the capacity analytics. To tackle this complex scheduling problem, an effective Variable Neighborhood Search algorithm based on the ‘less is more' concept is proposed, where a Multi-Greedy Heuristic is incorporated. Interestingly, we observe that simpler algorithmic strategies may lead to better algorithmic performance. Computational experiments are carried out to demonstrate that the performance of the proposed algorithm is efficient and stable.
Quantum phase transitions in the exactly solved spin-1/2 Heisenberg-Ising ladder
Creators: name: Verkholyak, Taras
name: Strecka, Jozef
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ground-state behaviour of the frustrated quantum spin-1/2 two-leg ladder with the Heisenberg intra-rung and Ising inter-rung interactions is examined in detail. The investigated model is transformed to the quantum Ising chain with composite spins in an effective transverse and longitudinal field by employing either the bond-state representation or the unitary transformation. It is shown that the ground state of the Heisenberg-Ising ladder can be descended from three exactly solvable models: the quantum Ising chain in a transverse field, the 'classical' Ising chain in a longitudinal field or the spin-chain model in a staggered longitudinal-transverse field. The last model serves in evidence of the staggered bond phase with alternating singlet and triplet bonds on the rungs of two-leg ladder, which appears at moderate values of the external magnetic field and consequently leads to a fractional plateau at a half of the saturation magnetization. The ground-state phase diagram totally consists of five ordered and one quantum disordered phase, which are separated from each other either by the lines of discontinuous or continuous quantum phase transitions. The order parameters are exactly calculated for all five ordered phases and the quantum disordered phase is characterized through different short-range spin-spin correlations.
description: corrected version, figure A1 has been changed, accepted in J. Phys. A, 19 pages, 7 figures
title: Assessing Tumor Angiogenesis by Serum Biomarkers and Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Integrated Magnetic Resonance-Positron Emission Tomography in Patients with Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer
Creators: name: Chen, Jenny Ling-Yu
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Oncologic Imaging
subject: Oncology
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: PET-MR
subject: Staging
subject: Cancer
subject: Prospective
subject: Diagnostic or prognostic study
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality in the world, with a poor prognosis. In NSCLC, tumour angiogenesis pathways are essential in the process of primary tumour growth, proliferation and distant...
title: Multimodal Medical Imaging Diagnosis of Acute Closed Mallet Finger Injury
Creators: name: Qi, Hengtao
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Catheters
subject: Athletic injuries
subject: Retrospective
subject: Diagnostic or prognostic study
subject: Multicentre study

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: To evaluate the multimodal medical imaging diagnosis of acute closed mallet finger...
Double Field Theory for Double D-branes
Creators: name: Albertsson, Cecilia
name: Dai, Shou-Huang
name: Kao, Pei-Wen
name: Lin, Feng-Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider Hull's doubled formalism for open strings on D-branes in flat space and construct the corresponding effective double field theory. We show that the worldsheet boundary conditions of the doubled formalism describe in a unified way a T-dual pair of D-branes, which we call double D-branes. We evaluate the one-loop beta function for the boundary gauge coupling and then obtain the effective field theory for the double D-branes. The effective field theory is described by a DBI action of double fields. The T-duality covariant form of this DBI action is thus a kind of "master" action, which describes all the double D-brane configurations related by T-duality transformations. We discuss a number of aspects of this effective theory.
description: Latex, 1+33 pages. v2 with minor corrections, a new reference added. v3 a typo corrected
Spatial distribution of acetaldehyde in Orion KL: observations and chemical modeling
Creators: name: Jin, Mihwa
name: Remijan, Anthony
name: Garrod, Robin
name: Baek, Giseon
name: Herbst, Eric
name: Lee, Jeong-Eun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Despite the chemical richness of Orion KL, acetaldehyde (CH3CHO) -- one of the most ubiquitous interstellar aldehydes – has not been firmly identified at high-angular resolution. Here we explore an extensive ALMA archive dataset covering the frequency range 142 -- 355 GHz, to search for acetaldehyde and other little-investigated aldehyde species. Four emission components of acetaldehyde are clearly identified toward Orion KL, showing a main emission peak consistent with the ethanol (C2H5OH) peak in hot core-SW (HC-SW). This implies the chemical linkage between them. The column densities of acetaldehyde and its kinetic temperatures are determined toward this main emission region, assuming molecular excitation under local thermodynamic equilibrium conditions. The distribution of acetaldehyde is compared with that of ethanol, as well as other molecules bearing an aldehyde (HCO) group, such as methyl formate (CH3OCHO), glycolaldehyde (CH2OHCHO) and formic acid (HCOOH). Acetaldehyde presents a fractional abundance and spatial distribution similar to those of formic acid, implying a chemical relationship between them otherwise a similarity in their own independent behavior. The observational abundance ratios between the aldehyde-like species toward the ethanol peak are investigated with a chemical model. The model shows that a relatively long cold collapse timescale and a methyl formate binding energy similar to or lower than that of water are needed to explain the observations. The relative abundance ratios obtained from the model sensitively depend on the assumed kinetic temperature. This explains the high spatial variability of the aldehyde ratios observed toward Orion KL.
title: Program of the 19th annual research day: scientific proceedings
title: 19th annual CVMBS research day program
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Colorado State University, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, 19th annual CVMBS research day scientific proceedings, program
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Medicine, Colorado State University. College Of Veterinary
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Veterinary medicine -- Congresses
subject: Veterinary medicine -- Research -- Congresses

description: Held on January 20, 2018 in the Lory Student Center, colorado State University.
description: Our 19th Annual Research Day showcases the work of more than 150 aspiring scientists in Colorado State University's College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. The day gives our rising stars vital experience presenting their research findings to a scientific audience through poster displays and talks. The day also provides young researchers with an avenue for feedback to help them develop ideas that, in many cases, will become lifelong scientific pursuits. In a sign of significance, the research projects on display are sponsored by two dozen well-respected companies, foundations, and institutions concerned with improving human, animal, and environmental well-being.
description: Includes the Zoetis Research Excellence Award winner, program of oral sessions and poster presentations.