cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Railway/Highway At-Grade Crossing Surface Rehabilitation Manual
title: Recommendations and Guides
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Malloy, Brett R.
name: Purcell, Macy L.
name: Rose, Jerry G.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: This Railway/Highway At-Grade Crossing Surface Rehabilitation Manual offers guidance to engineers and project planners for designing, constructing, and managing railway/highway crossing rehabilitation projects. The manual includes information on pre-project administration, project execution, and post-project management and oversight. Suggestions are provided for determining the most cost-effective rehabilitation procedure, techniques to insure the appropriate installation procedures are followed onsite, and instructions for post-project administration and inspection procedures. The primary goal of this manual is to aid with the implementation of a crossing rehabilitation program; all of its guidance underscores the importance of achieving costeffective solutions through the use of best practices to build crossings that are safe and smooth, perform at a high level, and have a long service life, which benefits railroads as well the driving public.
MEPED as salvage therapy for relapsed/refractory Hodgkin’s lymphoma incorporating edited non-oncogene addiction: mTOR as a bottleneck
Creators: name: Harrer, Dennis Christoph
name: Lüke, Florian
name: Pukrop, Tobias
name: Ghibelli, Lina
name: Reichle, Albrecht
name: Heudobler, Daniel
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: relapsed/refractory Hodgkin’s lymphoma, non-oncogene addiction, mTOR, M-CRAC, Hodgkin’s lymphoma tissue editing, anakoinosis, pioglitazone, dexamethasone
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Rescue therapies of relapsed/refractory (r/r) Hodgkin’s lymphoma (HL) in the third
to sixth-line provide major, yet unresolved problems. The MEPED regimen
includes nuclear receptor agonists such as pioglitazone and dexamethasone,
which counterbalance HL homeostasis, HL stress response inhibitors, everolimus
and COX-2 inhibitor, and a stress response inducer, low-dose metronomic
treosulfan. CR (six of seven patients) and long-term cCR in patients receiving
no consolidating allogeneic stem cell transplantation highlight MEPED as a potent
salvage therapy in advanced refractory HL. MEPED edits everolimus activities in
such a way that mTORC1 becomes a non-oncogene addiction bottleneck, hence
determining long-term therapy outcome. The implications of the therapeutic
paradigm shift toward editing of HL tissue, and particularly mTOR addiction,
could prove to be profound for clinical practice, both in terms of outcome and
treatment tolerability. The long-term results of MEPED treatment indicate the
urgent evaluation of the schedule in a multicenter trial for r/r HL.
Thomas Hufschmid (Redaktion), Theaterbauten als Teil monumentaler Heiligtümer in den nordwestlichen Provinzen des Imperium Romanum: Architektur – Organisation – Nutzung
Creators: name: Haupt, Peter
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2020

description: Rezension zu: Thomas Hufschmid (Redaktion), Theaterbauten als Teil monumentaler Heiligtümer in den nordwestlichen Provinzen des Imperium Romanum: Architektur – Organisation – Nutzung. Internationales Kolloquium in Augusta Raurica, 18.–21. September 2013. Forschungen in Augst, Band 50. Verlag Museum Augusta Raurica, Augst 2016. 260 Seiten mit 145 zum Teil farbigen Abbildungen und 4 Tabellen.
description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 216.2016(2017): Bonner Jahrbücher
Faux Pas Recognition Test: transcultural adaptation and evaluation of its psychometric properties in Brazil
Creators: name: Watanabe, Rafael Gustavo Sato
name: Knochenhauer, Andre Enoch
name: Fabrin, Miguel Angelo
name: Siqueira, Heloise Helena
name: Martins, Hayrã Felipe
name: de Oliveira Mello, Cindi Danielle
name: de Lemos Zingano, Bianca
name: Botelho, Mariana Francisco
name: Yacubian, Elza Márcia Targas
name: de Oliveira Filho, Getulio Rodrigues
name: Melo, Hiago Murilo
name: Walz, Roger
name: Wolf, Peter
name: Lin, Katia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Introduction: Many neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders produce Theory of Mind impairment. We aimed to implement a Brazilian Portuguese version of the Faux Pas Recognition Test (FPRT) and evaluate its psychometric properties. Methods: We first completed an English-Brazilian Portuguese translation and adaptation to obtain an FPRT Brazilian Portuguese version. We performed a multicentric study with 153 healthy participants (68.6% women), mean age of 38.8 years (SD = 14.6) and 12.9 years of schooling (SD = 4.5). Linear regression analysis was performed to evaluate the association of social class, age, schooling, and FPRT scores. The psychometric analyses comprised item analysis, exploratory factor analysis, reliability, and validity analysis. Results: Normative data in a Brazilian population is presented. A positive correlation of scores with years of schooling, social class, and an inverse relation with age was found. The exploratory factorial analysis found a two-component structure, one component, consisting of questions 1 through 6 (Eigenvalue 5.325) and another component, consisting of questions 7 and 8 (Eigenvalue 1.09). Cronbach’s alpha of the 20 stories was .72. All control stories had a poor discriminative index. Conclusion: The FPRT Brazilian Portuguese version demonstrated good internal consistency and, psychometric properties and is adequate for use even in lower educational contexts in Brazil.
Optimizing Face Recognition Using PCA
Creators: name: Abdullah, Manal
name: Wazzan, Majda
name: Bo-saeed, Sahar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Principle Component Analysis PCA is a classical feature extraction and data representation technique widely used in pattern recognition. It is one of the most successful techniques in face recognition. But it has drawback of high computational especially for big size database. This paper conducts a study to optimize the time complexity of PCA (eigenfaces) that does not affects the recognition performance. The authors minimize the participated eigenvectors which consequently decreases the computational time. A comparison is done to compare the differences between the recognition time in the original algorithm and in the enhanced algorithm. The performance of the original and the enhanced proposed algorithm is tested on face94 face database. Experimental results show that the recognition time is reduced by 35% by applying our proposed enhanced algorithm. DET Curves are used to illustrate the experimental results.
description: 9 pages
Christoph Hinker, Ein Brandhorizont aus der Zeit der Markomannenkriege im südostnorischen Munizipium Flavia Solva
Creators: name: Heising, Alexander
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2020

description: Rezension zu: Christoph Hinker, Ein Brandhorizont aus der Zeit der Markomannenkriege im südostnorischen Munizipium Flavia Solva. Mit Beiträgen von Günter Christandl und Ursula Schachinger. Zentraleuropäische Archäologie, Band 4. Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut, Wien 2014. 341 Seiten mit 43 Tafeln, 9 Fototafeln, 1 Typentafel, 38 Abbildungen und 21 Tabellen.
description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 216.2016(2017): Bonner Jahrbücher
Christian Bachhiesl und Markus Handy (Herausgeber), Kriminalität, Kriminologie und Altertum
Creators: name: Schiavone, Romina
Publisher: name: Bonner Jahrbücher
Year: 2020

description: Rezension zu: Christian Bachhiesl und Markus Handy (Herausgeber), Kriminalität, Kriminologie und Altertum. Antike Kultur und Geschichte, Band 17. Verlag LIT, Wien 2015. 308 Seiten mit 20 Abbildungen und 2 Tabellen.
description: Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 216.2016(2017): Bonner Jahrbücher
Mappings of least Dirichlet energy and their Hopf differentials
Creators: name: Iwaniec, Tadeusz
name: Onninen, Jani
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58E20 (Primary) 74B20, 35A15, 30C75 (Secondary)

description: The paper is concerned with mappings between planar domains having least Dirichlet energy. The existence and uniqueness (up to a conformal change of variables in the domain) of the energy-minimal mappings is established within the class $\bar{\mathscr H}_2(X, Y)$ of strong limits of homeomorphisms in the Sobolev space $W^{1,2}(X, Y)$, a result of considerable interest in the mathematical models of Nonlinear Elasticity. The inner variation leads to the Hopf differential $h_z \bar{h_{\bar{z}}} dz \otimes dz$ and its trajectories. For a pair of doubly connected domains, in which $X$ has finite conformal modulus, we establish the following principle: A mapping $h \in \bar{\mathscr H}_2(X, Y)$ is energy-minimal if and only if its Hopf-differential is analytic in $X$ and real along the boundary of $X$. In general, the energy-minimal mappings may not be injective, in which case one observes the occurrence of cracks in $X$. Nevertheless, cracks are triggered only by the points in the boundary of $Y$ where $Y$ fails to be convex. The general law of formation of cracks reads as follows: Cracks propagate along vertical trajectories of the Hopf differential from the boundary of $X$ toward the interior of $X$ where they eventually terminate before making a crosscut.
description: 51 pages, 4 figures
"Could Oxidative Stress Play a Role in the Development and Clinical Management of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer?"
Creators: name: Kosciuszko, Maria
name: Buczyńska, Angelika
name: Krętowski, Adam
name: Popławska-Kita, Anna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: thyroid cancer, oxidative stress, antioxidant capacity, cancer progression

description: The increased oxidative stress (OS) has been implicated as a relevant risk factor for cancer progression. Furthermore, patients diagnosed with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) have been characterized by an increased OS status. Therefore, assessing OS status could potentially be considered a useful tool in DTC clinical management. This measurement could be particularly valuable in personalizing treatment protocols and determining new potential medical targets to improve commonly used therapies. A literature review was conducted to gather new information on DTC clinical management, with a particular focus on evaluating the clinical utility of OS. These meta-analyses concentrate on novel approaches that employ the measurement of oxidative-antioxidant status, which could represent the most promising area for implementing clinical management.
Multiplicity in pp and AA collisions: the same power law from energy-momentum constraints in string production
Creators: name: Bautista, Irais
name: de Deus, Jorge Dias
name: Milhano, José Guilherme
name: Pajares, Carlos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the dependence of the charged particle multiplicity on the centre-of-mass energy of the collision is, in the String Percolation Model, driven by the same power law behavior in both proton-proton and nucleus- nucleus collisions. The observed different growths are a result of energy- momentum constraints that limit the number of formed strings at low en- ergy. Based on the very good description of the existing data, we provide predictions for future high energy LHC runs.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures
title: ผลกระทบจากการสูบบุหรี่ที่เกิดขึ้นกับนักศึกษาและความรู้เกี่ยวกับการละเมิดสิทธิส่วนบุคคลของการสูบบุหรี่ในพื้นที่สาธารณะของนักศึกษา กรณีศึกษามหาวิทยาลัยแห่งหนึ่ง
Creators: name: วารีพร หอยมณี
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยนราธิวาสราชนครินทร์
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2568
Subjects: ผลกระทบจากการสูบบุหรี่
พื้นที่สาธารณะ จังหวัดสงขลา
การละเมิดสิทธิส่วนบุคคล

description: วารสารมหาวิทยาลัยนราธิวาสราชนครินทร์ สาขามนุษยศาสตร์และสังคมศาสตร์, 12, 1, 201-218
Ocular Syphilis: The Resurgence of an Old Disease Experience of a Tertiary Centre in Portugal
Creators: name: Costa, Celso
name: Machado, Telma
name: Zhu, André
name: Sá, Rosa
name: Rodrigues, Fernando
name: Fonseca, Pedro
name: Gonçalo, João
name: Torres, Carolina
name: Fonseca, Cristina
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: To estimate the number of ocular syphilis (OS) cases diagnosed in a tertiary care centre in Portugal, correlate with increasing syphilis diagnoses and characterize the OS population. Retrospective, observational, single-center study that included patients diagnosed with OS between 2015 and 2023 at the local health unit of Coimbra. Demographic data were collected, and a complete ophthalmological examination was performed with multimodal imaging acquisition. Data on syphilis reports from the National System of Epidemiologic Surveillance were correlated with OS data. Fifty-four patients with OS were observed; mean age was 54.17 ± 14.46 years, 38 (70.37%) were male and 18 (47.37%) men who have sex with men. The proportion of OS in syphilis patients per year ranged from 0% to 10.34%. One-quarter were co-infected with HIV. Forty-nine patients (91.84%) complained of decreased visual acuity on presentation. Twenty-two (40.74%) had systemic findings (mostly skin rash). Two-thirds had bilateral disease and half presented with anterior segment involvement. Eighty-five percent had posterior segment involvement, mostly placoid chorioretinitis. Forty-one percent had optic nerve involvement. All patients were admitted and underwent 2-week treatment with intravenous penicillin. Visual acuity improved from logMAR 0.70 to logMAR 0.26 (p < 0.001). Ocular syphilis is a heterogeneous disease with a wide range of presentations. The incidence is on the rise and therefore OS must be considered in every patient with anterior and posterior uveitis, panuveitis and optic neuritis, with or without systemic manifestations.
The origin of gas in the Extended Narrow Line Region of nearby Seyfert galaxies.I. NGC 7212
Creators: name: Cracco, V.
name: Ciroi, S.
name: Di Mille, F.
name: Vaona, L.
name: Frassati, A.
name: Smirnova, A. A.
name: La Mura, G.
name: Moiseev, A. V.
name: Rafanelli, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Extended Narrow Line Region (ENLR) of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is a region of highly ionized gas with a size of few up to 15-20 kpc. When it shows a conical or bi-conical shape with the apexes pointing towards the active nucleus, this region is also called ionization cones. The ionization cones are an evidence of the Unified Model that predicts an anisotropic escape of ionizing photons from the nucleus confined to a cone by a dusty torus. Many details about the complex structure of the ENLR still remain unveiled, as for example the origin of the ionized gas. Here we present new results of a study of the physical and kinematical properties of the circumnuclear gas in the nearby Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 7212. Medium and high resolution integral field spectra and broad-band photometric data were collected and analysed in the frame of an observational campaign of nearby Seyfert galaxies, aiming to handle the complicated issue of the origin of the gas in the ENLR. This work is based on: (i) analysis of gas physical properties (density, temperature and metallicity), (ii) analysis of emission line ratios, and (iii) study of kinematics of gas and stars. By reconstructing the [O III]/Hbeta ionization map, we pointed out for the first time the presence of an ionization cone extended up to about 6 kpc, made by a large amount of low metallicity gas, kinematically disturbed and decoupled from stars, whose highly ionized component shows radial motions at multiple velocities proved by the complex profiles of the specral lines. Since NGC 7212 is a strongly interacting triple galaxy system, the gravitational effects are likely to be at the origin of the ENLR in this Seyfert galaxy.
description: 13 pages, 21 figures, accepted
Light Stops from Seiberg Duality
Creators: name: Csaki, Csaba
name: Randall, Lisa
name: Terning, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If low-energy supersymmetry is realized in nature, a seemingly contrived hierarchy in the squark mass spectrum appears to be required. We show that composite supersymmetric theories at the bottom of the conformal window can automatically yield the spectrum that is suggested by experimental data and naturalness. With a non-tuned choice of parameters, the only superpartners below one TeV will be the partners of the Higgs, the electroweak gauge bosons, the left-handed top and bottom, and the right-handed top, which are precisely the particles needed to make weak scale supersymmetry breaking natural. In the model considered here, these correspond to composite (or partially composite) degrees of freedom via Seiberg duality, while the other MSSM fields, with their heavier superpartners, are elementary. The key observation is that at or near the edge of the conformal window, soft supersymmetry breaking scalar and gaugino masses are transmitted only to fundamental particles at leading order. With the potential that arises from the duality, a Higgs with a 125 GeV mass, with nearly SM production rates, is naturally accommodated without tuning. The lightest ordinary superpartner is either the lightest stop or the lightest neutralino. If it is the stop, it is natural for it to be almost degenerate with the top, in which case it decays to top by emitting a very soft gravitino, making it quite difficult to find this mode at the LHC and more challenging to find SUSY in general, yielding a simple realization of the stealth supersymmetry idea. We analyze four benchmark spectra in detail.
description: 27 pages, 2 figures
Kytococcus schroeteri Chronic Post-Operative Endophthalmitis After Cataract Surgery: The First Report of Ocular Kytococcus Infection
Creators: name: Karapanos, Lewis
name: Varma, Shivesh
name: Allen, Penelope
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: To report the first case of Kytococcus schroeteri ocular infection manifesting as chronic post-operative endophthalmitis (CPOE) following routine phacoemulsification with intraocular lens (IOL) implantation. This gram-positive bacterium is recognised as a cause of hardware infections in immunocompetent hosts, such as prosthetic cardiac valves, ventriculoperitoneal shunts, and orthopaedic hardware, often necessitating surgical removal of the infected prostheses for cure. Case report and literature review. A 64-year-old male with a history of uncomplicated cataract extraction and IOL insertion had multiple presentations over 6 years, with relapsing-remitting intraocular inflammation with multiple negative vitreous cultures treated as non-infectious panuveitis. An eventual positive vitreous culture for K. schroeteri led to a diagnosis of CPOE, which was successfully treated with vitrectomy, removal of IOL, and intravitreal vancomycin injections. However, advanced vision loss occurred due to secondary glaucoma. K. schroeteri is a novel cause of CPOE, which is typically attributed to other low virulence organisms. As with infections of non-ocular implanted hardware by K. schroeteri, surgical removal of the infected IOL-capsule complex was required for cure. The CPOE diagnosis requires a combination of high index of suspicion and culture of vitreous and capsular material. The role of IOL removal for the treatment of CPOE is discussed.
Associated WH production at hadron colliders: a fully exclusive QCD calculation at NNLO
Creators: name: Ferrera, G.
name: Grazzini, M.
name: Tramontano, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider QCD radiative corrections to Standard Model Higgs boson production in association with a W boson in hadron collisions. We present a fully exclusive calculation up to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD perturbation theory. To perform this NNLO computation, we use a recently proposed version of the subtraction formalism. Our calculation includes finite-width effects, the leptonic decay of the W boson with its spin correlations, and the decay of the Higgs boson into a bbbar pair. We present selected numerical results at the Tevatron and the LHC.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures
Low Mass Dimuon Production in p-A Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 27.5$ GeV with NA60
Creators: name: Uras, Antonio
name: Collaboration, NA60
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The NA60 experiment has studied low-mass muon pair production in proton-nucleus collisions with a system of Be, Cu, In, W, Pb and U targets using a 400 GeV/$c$ proton beam at the CERN SPS. The mass spectrum is well described by the superposition of the two-body and Dalitz decays of the light neutral mesons $η$, $ρ$, $ω$, $η'$ and $ϕ$. A new high-precision measurement of the electromagnetic transition form factors of the $η$ and $ω$ mesons is presented, complemented with a measurement of the temperature parameter of the $ρ$ meson in cold nuclear matter. The $\pt$ spectra for the $ω$ and $ϕ$ mesons are extracted in the full $\pt$ range accessible, up to $\pt = 2$ GeV/$c$. The nuclear dependence of the production cross sections for the $η$, $ω$ and $ϕ$ mesons has been investigated in terms of the power law $σ_\mathrm{pA} \propto \mathrm{A}^α$, and the $α$ parameter was studied as a function of $\pt$.
title: Railway/Highway At-Grade Crossing Surface Management
title: An Overview
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Malloy, Brett R.
name: Rose, Jerry G.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: This report draws on data from around the United States to describe the features of a successful railway/highway at-grade crossing management program; it emphasizes the highway/trackbed structures and crossing surfaces. Developing a structurally adequate crossing system is imperative, as this will produce a smooth surface and a stable highway/trackbed that prolongs crossings’ lifespans while keeping maintenance costs low and minimizing the number of disruptions encountered by highway and railway traffic. An overview of the guidance issued by several transportation agencies and organizations to facilitate the design and construction of railway/highway at-grade crossings is included here. Equally important to developing a robust network of crossings is defining a clear division of labor between federal, state, and local transportation agencies and railroad companies. As such, this report discusses administrative procedures and state-level regulations that influence railway/highway at-grade crossing practices. This information is presented for AASHTO, AREMA, FRA, FHWA, MUTCD, as well as several states, including Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Georgia, Michigan, and West Virginia.
A Note on Solar Cycle Length during the Medieval Climate Anomaly
Creators: name: Vaquero, J. M.
name: Trigo, R. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The growing interest in the "Medieval Climate Anomaly" (MCA) and its possible link to anomalous solar activity has prompted new reconstructions of solar activity based on cosmogenic radionuclides. These proxies however do not sufficiently constrain the Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) range, and are often defined at low temporal resolution, inadequate to infer the solar cycle length (SCL). We have reconstructed the SCL (average duration of 10.72 \pm 0.20 years) during the MCA using observations of naked-eye sunspot and aurora sightings. Thus, solar activity was most probably not exceptionally intense, supporting the view that internal variability of the coupled ocean-atmosphere system was the main driver of MCA.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures, to be published in Solar Physics
Figures and charts
Creators: name: Biro, Attila
name: Cuesta-Vargas, Antonio
name: Szilágyi, László
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 420799
subject: Sports science and exercise not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 460207
subject: Modelling and simulation

description: Figures and outcomes connected to the article and research work.
Contractor Evaluations in the Contractor Selection Process
Creators: name: Taylor, Timothy R. B.
name: Sturgill, Roy E.
name: McDowell, Maegan
name: Deep, Alexa
name: Goodrum, Paul M.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The current contractor evaluation system in use within the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is based on the contractor evaluation system developed as part of SPR 212-00 “Quality Based Prequalification of Contractors.” This system relies on average performance ratings from the completion of the Contractor’s Performance Report at the conclusion of every project or annually for multi-year projects. The contractor’s average performance rating is weighted based on the dollar value of work performed across all projects for the year. The average performance rating is used in the computation of the Contractor’s Maximum Eligibility Amount in accordance with 603 KAR 2:015, Section 5. The Maximum Eligibility Amount is determined by multiplying the financial assets of the contractor by the contractor’s percentage rating. The financial assets are determined by the summation of the contractor’s reported cash surrender value (multiplied by a factor of 12) and the book value of the contractor’s equipment (multiplied by a factor of 6). The contractor’s percentage rating is determined by the contractor’s organization and experience (20%), the contractor’s plant and equipment (30%) and the contractor’s average performance rating (50%). The intention of including the contractor performance evaluation system in the maximum eligibility amount determination is to encourage high quality work on Cabinet projects and to minimize the number of contractors executing Cabinet contracts with an established history of poor performance. However, there is some question as to whether the current process is effective in limiting contractors with a history of poor performance from Cabinet contracts. For example, a contractor with a large maximum eligibility amount can still continue to bid on a significant number of Cabinet projects despite their documented poor performance. What is the most effective and efficient means for using contractor performance evaluations to encourage the participation of high performing contractors in Cabinet projects while limiting the participation of contractors with a history of poor performance?
Brain MRI White Matter Abnormalities in Pediatric Non-Infectious Uveitis
Creators: name: Maccora, Ilaria
name: Hendrikse, Jytte
name: Ayuso, Viera Kalinina
name: Gatti, Laura
name: Brandsma, Rick
name: Corbelli, Laura
name: Jansen, Marc H.
name: de Libero, Cinzia
name: Nievelstein, Rutger A. J.
name: Caputo, Roberto
name: Simonini, Gabriele
name: de Boer, Joke H.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Childhood chronic non-infectious uveitis (cNIU) is a challenging disease whose differential diagnosis may include demyelinating diseases. We aim to describe the white matter abnormalities (WMA) in brain MRI in childhood cNIU. This is a multicentric retrospective study involving children with cNIU followed at the Pediatric rheumatology units of Florence and the ophthalmology department of the UMC Utrecht who underwent a Brain MRI. Demographic, clinical, laboratory and imaging information was collected. The presence of WMA was considered as the main outcome Data of 123 children was collected (66 from Utrecht and 57 from Florence), of whom 51 were males, with a median uveitis onset at age 9 years (range 3–16) for the UMC Utrecht and 8.75 years (range 1.6–15.1) for Florence. We evaluated 39 children with anterior uveitis, 35 with intermediate uveitis, 1 with posterior uveitis and 48 with panuveitis. Uveitis was idiopathic in 105. On brain MRI, 33 patients (26.8%) showed WMA, and most of them had non-anterior uveitis (72.8%). WMA were more frequent in males (χ2 5.25, p = 0.02). No difference in underlying systemic disease was seen between patients with and without WMA, but 40% of patients with TINU and 27.3% of patients with idiopathic uveitis showed WMA. None of the patients received a diagnosis of demyelinating disease during follow-up. As WMA were found in 26.8% of patients who were screened in our cohort, brain MRI might be useful in cNIU. However, the clinical significance of these WMA could not be determined in this study. An interdisciplinary evaluation is necessary to assess the appropriate management, and a longer follow up is necessary to determine the prognosis of some of these WMA.
Supplementary document for Use of spatiotemporal couplings and an axiparabola to control axial energy deposition velocity - 6795992.pdf
Creators: name: Liberman, Aaron
name: Lahaye, Ronan
name: Smartsev, Slava
name: Tata, Sheroy
name: Benracassa, Salome
name: Golovanov, Anton
name: Levine, Eitan
name: Thaury, Cedric
name: Malka, Victor
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary
Recommendations for KYTC’s Railway/Highway At-Grade Crossing Surface Management Practices
Creators: name: Malloy, Brett R.
name: Rose, Jerry G.
name: Purcell, Macy L.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: An ideal Railway/Highway At-Grade Crossing Management program involves selecting costeffective practices when designing new crossings and rehabilitating existing crossings. This report outlines two strategies to enhance KYTC’s existing program. First, it describes a process that uses decision-option diagrams to optimize the assessment and implementation of engineering solutions in order to restore desired smoothness, minimize settlement in the postconstruction phase, and foster acceptable long-term performance of crossings following their rehabilitation. Decision-option diagrams rely on assessments that are site-specific and based on historical performance, the present observed performance and condition, and the measureable parameters specific to particular crossings. To supplement this process, the second strategy that this report proposes is the establishment of an effective managerial structure at KYTC that streamlines decision-making to ensure that the selected design is properly applied and implemented. Taken together, these proposals will significantly improve the state’s ability to systematically and cost-effectively repair deteriorated crossings.
Optical study of archetypical valence-fluctuating Eu-systems
Creators: name: Guritanu, V.
name: Seiro, S.
name: Sichelschmidt, J.
name: Caroca-Canales, N.
name: Iizuka, T.
name: Kimura, S.
name: Geibel, C.
name: Steglich, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated the optical conductivity of the prominent valence fluctuating compounds EuIr2Si2 and EuNi2P2 in the infrared energy range to get new insights into the electronic properties of valence fluctuating systems. For both compounds we observe upon cooling the formation of a renormalized Drude response, a partial suppression of the optical conductivity below 100 meV and the appearance of a mid-infrared peak at 0.15 eV for EuIr2Si2 and at 0.13 eV for EuNi2P2. Most remarkably, our results show a strong similarity with the optical spectra reported for many Ce- or Yb-based heavy fermion metals and intermediate valence systems, although the phase diagrams and the temperature dependence of the valence differ strongly between Eu- and Ce-/Yb-systems. This suggests that the hybridization between 4f- and conduction electrons, which is responsible for the properties of Ce- and Yb-systems, plays an important role in valence fluctuating Eu-systems.
Adalimumab for the Treatment of Non-Infectious Uveitis: A Real Life Experience
Creators: name: Raad, Fátima.
name: Luque, Paula
name: Ledo, Sofía García
name: Lozano, Alicia Alda
name: Llorens, Víctor.
name: Espejo, Antonio
name: Heras, Henar
name: Santana, Lucía
name: Trapiella, Luis
name: Fanlo, Patricia
name: Adán, Alfredo
name: Espinosa, Gerard
name: Navarrete, Nuria
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: To describe the efficacy and safety of adalimumab for the treatment of non-infectious uveitis (NIU) in four Uveitis Units from tertiary Spanish hospitals. Multicenter and retrospective clinical cohort study including all patients with NIU treated with adalimumab from January 2012 to October 2022 in four uveitis units was performed. Efficacy was measured with the number of relapses, ocular inflammation and reduction in immunosuppression and corticosteroid dosage before and after adalimumab use. We collected data regarding adverse effects and examined the immunogenicity of adalimumab. One hundred and twenty-two patients (59% females), with a mean age of 48.6 years (SD = 14.8) accounting for 217 eyes were included. The majority (92.6%) were Caucasian. Uveitis analyzed were predominantly panuveitis (34.7%), bilateral (77.9%), acute (41.5%), and non-granulomatous (90%). Most of them were immune mediated (42.6%), and the main reason to initiate adalimumab was refractory disease (96.7%). The analysis was statistically significant due to the reduction in the number of immunosuppressive drugs as well as the dose of oral corticosteroids and the number of relapses during follow-up (p < 0.001). The decrease in ocular inflammation parameters and the improvement in visual acuity (p < 0.05) were also significant. There were no deaths due to the drug and only one reported case of serious infection. In total, 10.9% of 73 patients tested developed anti-adalimumab antibodies and 4.1% lupus-like. We consider adalimumab as a leading drug in the treatment of NIU with high safety and efficacy.
On a frequency function approach to the unique continuation principle
Creators: name: Granlund, Seppo
name: Marola, Niko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this survey we discuss the frequency function method so as to study the problem of unique continuation for elliptic partial differential equations. The methods used in the note were mainly introduced by Garofalo and Lin.
Adalimumab for the Treatment of Non-Infectious Uveitis: A Real Life Experience
Creators: name: Raad, Fátima
name: Luque, Paula
name: Ledo, Sofía García
name: Lozano, Alicia Alda
name: Llorens, Víctor
name: Espejo, Antonio
name: Heras, Henar
name: Santana, Lucía
name: Trapiella, Luis
name: Fanlo, Patricia
name: Adán, Alfredo
name: Espinosa, Gerard
name: Navarrete, Nuria
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: To describe the efficacy and safety of adalimumab for the treatment of non-infectious uveitis (NIU) in four Uveitis Units from tertiary Spanish hospitals. Multicenter and retrospective clinical cohort study including all patients with NIU treated with adalimumab from January 2012 to October 2022 in four uveitis units was performed. Efficacy was measured with the number of relapses, ocular inflammation and reduction in immunosuppression and corticosteroid dosage before and after adalimumab use. We collected data regarding adverse effects and examined the immunogenicity of adalimumab. One hundred and twenty-two patients (59% females), with a mean age of 48.6 years (SD = 14.8) accounting for 217 eyes were included. The majority (92.6%) were Caucasian. Uveitis analyzed were predominantly panuveitis (34.7%), bilateral (77.9%), acute (41.5%), and non-granulomatous (90%). Most of them were immune mediated (42.6%), and the main reason to initiate adalimumab was refractory disease (96.7%). The analysis was statistically significant due to the reduction in the number of immunosuppressive drugs as well as the dose of oral corticosteroids and the number of relapses during follow-up (p < 0.001). The decrease in ocular inflammation parameters and the improvement in visual acuity (p < 0.05) were also significant. There were no deaths due to the drug and only one reported case of serious infection. In total, 10.9% of 73 patients tested developed anti-adalimumab antibodies and 4.1% lupus-like. We consider adalimumab as a leading drug in the treatment of NIU with high safety and efficacy.
title: การจัดการเรียนรู้แบบบูรณาการรายวิชาอัตตารีคกับอัลอัคลากร่วมกับหนังสืออิเล็กทรอนิกส์ที่มีต่อผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียนสำหรับนักเรียนชั้นอิสลามศึกษาตอนกลางปีที่ 1
Creators: name: นิสวัน หะยีซาและ
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยนราธิวาสราชนครินทร์
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2568
Subjects: การจัดการเรียนรู้
การบูรณาการ
หนังสืออิเล็กทรอนิกส์
ผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียน

description: วารสารมหาวิทยาลัยนราธิวาสราชนครินทร์ สาขามนุษยศาสตร์และสังคมศาสตร์, 12, 1, 219-238
Methods to Expedite and Streamline Utility Relocations for Road Projects
Creators: name: Sturgill, Roy
name: Taylor, Timothy R. B.
name: Ghorashinezhad, Seyedmahdi
name: Zhang, Jiwen
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: This report describes best practices and tools to streamline and expedite utility relocations when they are required as part of road construction projects. As part of this effort, a research team from the Kentucky Transportation Center (KTC) conducted extensive qualitative research that involved mapping current practices at the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) and reviewing utility manuals from KYTC and other state transportation agencies. The KTC research team also conducted in-depth interviews with KYTC engineers and staff as well as representatives from utility companies (UCs). Based on the data from these investigations, KTC developed a number of recommendations to improve interactions between KYTC and UCs. A number of the proposed improvements relate to training and coordination. For instance, fostering better coordination between KYTC and UCs early in the design process can prevent unexpected delays from hampering the construction process, cut down on the impacts to utilities, and allow for the exploration of alternative design options to identify those that will minimize expense while optimizing efficiencies and shortening project duration. Preconstruction meetings facilitate improved communication between KYTC and UCs, and set the stage for holding follow-up meetings throughout the construction process. All of these suggestions will forge better communication and therefore lead to stronger coordination between the Cabinet and UCs. The research team organized the suggested practices according to use and benefit while also itemizing some of the drawbacks associated with using those respective practices. The guidance provided in this report will provide KYTC utility staff with the knowledge of best practices, while also informing them on the circumstances under which each should be implemented. To accompany the summary of best practices, KTC researchers developed a method of risk assessment to determine the level of difficulty a project may expect when utility relocations are necessary. This model, which uses multiple linear regression, has robust predictive utility (R2 = 0.84), and will offer KYTC staff insights into what best practices are most compatible with the level of risk faced. This study presents several valuable tools along with organized best practices and guidance for STAs’ utility coordinators. When used pragmatically, these methods will assist in STAs and UCs in identifying problematic projects early in their life to resolve any issues.
title: การสยบความเครียด เสริมสร้างความฉลาดทางอารมณ์
Creators: name: วันอะห์หมัด แวดือเระ
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยนราธิวาสราชนครินทร์
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2568
Subjects: การจัดการอารมณ์
การจัดการความเครียด
นักเรียนมัธยมศึกษาตอนปลาย
ความฉลาดทางอารมณ์
สุขภาวะทางจิตใจ

description: วารสารมหาวิทยาลัยนราธิวาสราชนครินทร์ สาขามนุษยศาสตร์และสังคมศาสตร์, 12, 1, 239-255
title: Патогенетические механизмы энцефалопатической формы синдрома Сусака
Creators: name: Глущенко, Вита
name: Тихомирова, Наталья
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2021

description: В патогенетическом аспекте проанализирован случай редкого неврологического синдрома у пациента 55 лет. Аналитический подход к диагностическим методам, применяемым при дифференциальной диагностике в клинической неврологии, позволяет выработать алгоритм узнавания и тактики исследования редких энфефалопатических синдромов, таких как синдром Сусака. Диагноз определенного или вероятного синдрома включает в себя подробный анамнез заболевания, тщательную оценку всех вероятных объяснений болезни, неврологического статуса с верификацией клинических данных лабораторными и нейровизуальными методами, в том числе магнитно-резонансной томографией (МРТ), флюоресцентной ангиографией, аудиометрией. Квалификация формы заболевания, типа течения, тяжести состояния у пациента позволяет подобрать тактику рациональной фармакотерапии, что определяет реабилитационный потенциал и прогноз.
Beliefs on environmental impact of wood construction
Creators: name: Roos, Anders
name: Hurmekoski, Elias
name: Häyrinen, Liina
name: Jussila, Jaakko
name: Lähtinen, Katja
name: Mark-Herbert, Cecilia
name: Nagy, Emil
name: Toivonen, Ritva
name: Toppinen, Anne
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: People have different beliefs about the environmental impact of forest products. This quantitative web-survey study investigated public beliefs in Finland and Sweden about the environmental and climate impacts of using wood as a construction material for multi-story buildings. It was conducted with consumer panels reflecting the average populations of the two countries. The study analyzed factors affecting beliefs that multi-story Wood Buildings: (1) contribute to mitigating global warming, and (2) adversely impact biodiversity and the climate. It used consumer panel and multivariate statistics. Favorable climate-related beliefs were associated with Finnish nationality, male gender, age, children in household, university degree, and beliefs that climate change is induced by humans and causes weather disasters. Beliefs that wood buildings drive global warming and harm biodiversity were associated with non-rural residence, female gender, young age, children in household, low income, and beliefs that climate change causes weather disasters. No associations were recorded for current residence types. These findings highlight the importance of the wood construction industry to improve, document, and communicate to the public its impact on climate and biodiversity. They also indicate how market information can be formulated and targeted to communicate an accurate environmental image of wood construction.
Radio continuum emission from knots in the DG Tau jet
Creators: name: Rodriguez, L. F.
name: Gonzalez, R. F.
name: Raga, A. C.
name: Canto, J.
name: Riera, A.
name: Loinard, L.
name: Dzib, S. A.
name: Zapata, L. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context: HH 158, the jet from the young star DG Tau, is one of the few sources of its type where jet knots have been detected at optical and X-ray wavelengths. Aims: To search, using Very Large Array observations of this source, radio knots and if detected, compare them with the optical and X-ray knots. To model the emission from the radio knots. Methods: We analyzed archive data and also obtained new Very Large Array observations of this source, as well as an optical image, to measure the present position of the knots. We also modeled the radio emission from the knots in terms of shocks in a jet with intrinsically time-dependent ejection velocities. Results: We detected radio knots in the 1996.98 and 2009.62 VLA data. These radio knots are,within error, coincident with optical knots. We also modeled satisfactorily the observed radio flux densities as shock features from a jet with intrinsic variability. All the observed radio, optical, and X-ray knot positions can be intepreted as four successive knots, ejected with a period of 4.80 years and traveling away from the source with a velocity of 198 km s$^{-1}$ in the plane of the sky. Conclusions: The radio and optical knots are spatially correlated and our model can explain the observed radio flux densities. However, the X-ray knots do not appear to have optical or radio counterparts and their nature remains poorly understood.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures, to appear in Astronomy & Astrophysics