cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Community Water Systems vs Private Wells: A Comparison of Water Quality on the Fringes of Municipalities
Creators: name: Stillo, Frank, III
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Over the last 100 years, the installation of community water systems in the United States has led to substantial decreases in waterborne diseases, virtually eliminating previously common infectious diseases such as typhoid and cholera. However, throughout the American South, some communities were excluded from municipal water supply services as a result of racial segregation, and some of the resulting disparities in water service persist. The quality of well water in such excluded communities and the resulting health implications are not well understood. We collected water samples from private wells in 57 households selected at random from majority African American census blocks in Wake County, North Carolina, that have been historically excluded from municipal water supply service, and we compared the microbiological quality of water in these households to the quality of water distributed by nearby Wake County Community Water Systems. Each household was sampled three times over six months and tested for three types of indicator bacteria: total coliforms, Escherichia coli, and Enterococci. In addition, we used a population intervention model to characterize the cases of acute gastrointestinal illness emergency department visits that could be avoided if community water service were available to all 1,220 people in such excluded communities of Wake County. Overall, 29.2% of samples tested positive for total coliform bacteria, compared to 0.566% of samples in the adjacent CWSs. At the household level, 49% tested positive for total coliform bacteria at least once, and 65% tested positive for any of the three indicator organisms. The population intervention model estimated that 0.703 (95% CI: 0.482-0.994) emergency department visits for acute gastrointestinal illness, representing 21% of all such visits, could be avoided per month if the entire study population of 1,220 people were connected to the community water system. We conclude that private well users have lower water quality than their neighboring community water system users, potentially causing undue health effects for consumers. Extension of community water services to these consumers may result in positive health impacts that also provide economic growth to the surrounding communities.
Telesimulation for Education and Training for Healthcare Professionals: A Scoping Review
Creators: name: Patricia, Lau
name: Tiang, Lau
name: LAU, Ying
name: Wong, Zhi Yuan
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: Telesimulation for Education and Training for Healthcare Professionals: A Scoping Review
title: Comparison of 320-row perfusion CT-angiography with endoscopic sonography in preoperative diagnostic of isulinomas
Creators: name: Mukhamatullina, Elvira
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Pancreas
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: To compare the accuracy of preoperative detection of insulinomas between perfusion CT-angiography and endoscopic sonography to determine the tactics of surgeon...
Learning Three Languages
Creators: name: Quirk, Erin
name: Byers-Heinlein, Krista
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: First and Second Language Acquisition
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Developmental Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: family language strategies
subject: trilingualism

description: In this online study of trilingual families with toddlers acquiring French, English and another language in Montreal, Canada, we seek to better understand how families make decisions about language use in and out of the home (family language strategies), how children's language exposure differs across family language strategy groups, and how trilingual exposure relates to lexical competence in children's three languages.
Quasiphantom categories on a family of surfaces isogenous to a higher product
Creators: name: Kim, Hyun Kyu
name: Kim, Yun-Hwan
name: Lee, Kyoung-Seog
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14F05, 14J29

description: We construct exceptional collections of line bundles of maximal length 4 on $S=(C \times D)/G$ which is a surface isogenous to a higher product with $p_g=q=0$ where $G=G(32,27)$ is a finite group of order 32 having number 27 in the list of Magma library. From these exceptional collections, we obtain new examples of quasiphantom categories as their orthogonal complements.
description: 18 pages; v2 reflects the revision made during the journal publication process
A Modified Method for Determination of Free Styrene Glycol in Human Blood
Creators: name: Bodurow, Catherine Cheryl
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1992

description: Partitioning of free styrene glycol in plasma and packed red blood cells was investigated in this study. Allyl benzene glycol was synthesized and used as an internal standard in the procedure. It was determined there was no significant difference in the styrene glycol concentrations in the plasma and red blood cells layers (B=0.08, SE=1.01) of dosed blood samples. This result suggested that free styrene glycol distributes uniformly throughout whole blood. The plasma layer was chosen for analysis in this study and free styrene glycol concentrations were determined in 85 plasma samples using the developed methodology of this study. Samples and exposure data were obtained from three reinforced plastic industry companies in the state of Washington. The exposure data investigated were: eight-hour air styrene concentrations, whole blood styrene concentrations and urinary metabolite (sum of mandelic and phenylglyoxylic acids) concentrations. Companies #1,2 and 3 afforded the following number of plasma samples, respectively: 31,17 and 17. Fourteen and six replicate measurements and sets of exposure data were obtained for Companies # 1 and 2, respectively, approximately one year after initial monitoring. Statistical analysis regressing exposure data and plasma styrene glycol concentrations against exposure data for single and replicate observations are presented in this work. Our findings vary depending upon the company sampled. Company # 3 produced statistically significant relationships in every regression. Companies # 1 and 2 did not.
title: Optimisation of b-values in MR diffusion-weighted acquisitions through information theory: a mathematical justification for consensus
Creators: name: Alberich-Bayarri, Angel
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: MR physics
subject: Oncology
subject: Abdomen
subject: MR
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Computer Applications-General
subject: Technology assessment
subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Multidisciplinary cancer care
subject: Cancer

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Diffusion-weighted (DW) magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is today widely extended as a functional imaging technique to analyze the alterations of the thermally driven microscopic motion of water molecules in several tissues and organs within the...
title: Diagnostic value of ultrasound in the detection of rheumatoid arthritis
Creators: name: Castro Costa, João Fernando
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Bones
subject: Extremities
subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Laboratory tests
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Arthritides

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: The main goal of this study is to emphasize the diagnostic capacity of Ultrasonography in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and show its importance as a possible and efficient first line examination in the detection of this...
title: Neuroimaging in dementia: a national survey of non-radiology specialists, radiologists and radiographers in Ireland
Creators: name: McNulty, Jonathan
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Workforce
subject: Education and training
subject: Dementia
subject: Health policy and practice
subject: Education
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: SPECT-CT
subject: PET-CT
subject: MR
subject: Professional issues
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Management

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: More than 41,700 people in Ireland and 12,000 people in North Wales are currently living with dementia, and the number of Irish people with the disease is likely to rise to 147,000 by 2041 (1) due to increased life expectancy. Dementia frequently...
Probing cosmological isotropy with Planck Sunyaev-Zeldovich galaxy clusters
Creators: name: Bengaly, C. A. P.
name: Bernui, A.
name: Ferreira, I. S.
name: Alcaniz, J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We probe the statistical isotropy hypothesis of the large-scale structure with the second Planck Sunyaev-Zeldovich (PSZ2) galaxy clusters data set. Our analysis adopts a statistical-geometrical method which compares the 2-point angular correlation function of objects in antipodal patches of the sky. Given possible observational biases, such as the presence of anisotropic sky cuts and the non-uniform exposure of Planck's instrumentation, ensembles of Monte Carlo realisations are produced in order to assess the significance of our results. When these observational effects are properly taken into account, we find neither evidence for preferred directions in the sky nor signs of large-angle features in the galaxy clusters celestial distribution. The PSZ2 data set is, therefore, in good concordance with the fundamental hypothesis of large-angle isotropy of cosmic objects.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures. Manuscript revised, main conclusions unchanged. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Results main study
Creators: name: IJzerman, Hans
name: Bialek, Michal
name: Novak, Sarah
name: Tidwell, Natasha
name: Kraus, Sue
name: Ropovik, Ivan
name: Babincak, Peter
name: Baník, Gabriel
name: Schütz, Astrid
name: Menon, Madhavi
name: Sternglanz, R. Weylin
name: Collins, W.
name: Weissgerber, Sophia
name: Sullivan, Gavin
name: Lima, Tiago
name: de Souza, Luana
name: Ebersole, Charles
name: Markiewicz, Łukasz
name: Markiewicz, Łukasz
name: Wolf, Daniel
name: Sawicki, Przemysław
name: Boucher, Leanne
name: Idzikowska, Katarzyna
name: Razza, Timothy
name: Razza, Timothy
name: Kołodziej, Sabina
name: Gawryluk, Katarzyna
name: Day, Christopher
name: Markiewicz, Łukasz
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Results for the main study
Wandering intervals in affine extensions of self-similar interval exchange maps: the cubic Arnoux-Yoccoz map
Creators: name: Cobo, Milton
name: Gutiérrez-Romo, Rodolfo
name: Maass, Alejandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this article we provide sufficient conditions on a self-similar interval exchange map, whose renormalization matrix has complex eigenvalues of modulus greater than one, for the existence of affine interval exchange maps with wandering intervals and semi-conjugate with it. These conditions are based on the algebraic properties of the complex eigenvalues and the complex fractals built from the natural substitution emerging from self-similarity. We show that the cubic Arnoux-Yoccoz interval exchange map satisfies these conditions.
description: 34 pages, submitted to Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems
Community Right-To-Know Applied Abroad: A Comparative Study of the United States and Mexico
Creators: name: Sandner, Heather-Elizabeth
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1993

description: Commmunity right-to-know about chemicals was established in the United States as part of the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act of 1986. Whether community right-to-know as implemented at the federal level in the U.S. can be successfully applied to hazards reduction in Mexico was determined given three basic assumptions for right-to-know: that the public can access information on chemicals with the government acting as chief disseminator, that an informed public has a means to participate in making decisions affecting its interests, and that non-governmental organizations exist with the ability to mediate between citizens, government, and industry. Information obtained from 16 interviews conducted in Mexico and the U.S. combined with research and case studies from the extant literature suggest that community right-to-know cannot be successfully applied to Mexico under present political circumstances.
title: Spectrum of digestive tract complications related to oncologic therapy
Creators: name: Jarraya, Hajer
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Toxicity
subject: Drugs / Reactions
subject: Complications
subject: Chemotherapy
subject: CT
subject: Oncology
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Consider the mechanisms of chemotherapy induced digestive tract toxicity Illustrate the imaging findings of digestive tract complications secondary to oncologic treatments and especially molecular targeted therapy Describe imaging patterns for early...
Additional file 2 of Prediction of mutation-induced protein stability changes based on the geometric representations learned by a self-supervised method
Creators: name: Li, Shan Shan
name: Liu, Zhao Ming
name: Li, Jiao
name: Ma, Yi Bo
name: Dong, Ze Yuan
name: Hou, Jun Wei
name: Shen, Fu Jie
name: Wang, Wei Bu
name: Li, Qi Ming
name: Su, Ji Guo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Supplementary file2
Methods
Creators: name: Brown, Georgia
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: The impact of morning (9:00-11:00 h) and evening (18:00-20:00 h) training schedules on objective measures of sleep to be assessed with actigraphy. MANOVAs and ANOVAs for repeated measures to be conducted to assess sleep across different training conditions (preceding morning training, preceding evening training, following evening training)
title: Histopathologic correlation of breast tumors with hyperintense signal intensity on T2-weighted MR images.
Creators: name: Khoury, Tatiana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Education
subject: MR
subject: Breast

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: MRI is an important tool for detection and assessment of breast cancer. The evaluation of a breast mass detected on MRI encompasses both assessment of morphology and enhancement kinetics. On T2 weighted images, most breast cancers appear hypointense...
All-order bounds for correlation functions of gauge-invariant operators in Yang-Mills theory
Creators: name: Fröb, Markus B.
name: Holland, Jan
name: Hollands, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give a complete, self-contained, and mathematically rigorous proof that Euclidean Yang-Mills theories are perturbatively renormalisable, in the sense that all correlation functions of arbitrary composite local operators fulfil suitable Ward identities. Our proof treats rigorously both all ultraviolet and infrared problems of the theory and provides, in the end, detailed analytical bounds on the correlation functions of an arbitrary number of composite local operators. These bounds are formulated in terms of certain weighted spanning trees extending between the insertion points of these operators. Our proofs are obtained within the framework of the Wilson-Wegner-Polchinski-Wetterich renormalisation group flow equations, combined with estimation techniques based on tree structures. Compared with previous mathematical treatments of massless theories without local gauge invariance [R. Guida and Ch. Kopper, arXiv:1103.5692; J. Holland, S. Hollands, and Ch. Kopper, Commun. Math. Phys. 342 (2016) 385] our constructions require several technical advances; in particular, we need to fully control the BRST invariance of our correlation functions.
description: 82 pages, includes comparison with other mathematically rigorous approaches, matches published version
title: Exploring the technical evolution of MRI-guided breast biopsy: are CAD and VABB really necessary?
Creators: name: Losio, Claudio
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: MR
subject: Biopsy

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: MRI has the highest sensitivity in the depiction of invasive breast cancer, up to 100%. However, an important overlap exists between the MRI features of benign and malignant lesions, and only 15-50% of enhancing lesions are malignant at histological...
Drainage Options Assessment at 203 Cotter St.
Creators: name: Taghavi, Imaan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: The road area outside 203 Cotter St., a suburban property in south central San Francisco, CA, has experienced frequent flooding in recent years. A preliminary investigation of the site by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), the public utility for the City of San Francisco responsible for mitigation of flooding, attributed the flooding to low elevation and poor grading of the surface. Five technical options were developed: Do Nothing, Green Roofs, Bio-Retention Planter, Easement Pipe, and Detention Tank. Each option was assessed and compared against five criteria: Drainage Performance, Low Financial Cost, Ease of Operation and Maintenance, Minimal Environmental Impact, and Reliability. Each option was represented in an EPA SWMM hydraulic model for assessment of Drainage Performance. One option, an on-site detention tank, was selected as the primary recommended solution to be implemented by SFPUC. An implementation plan was prepared which included considerations toward location, construction, environmental impacts, costing, and scheduling. Two additional options, green roofs and bio-retention planters, were selected as secondary recommended solutions to be optionally implemented by the Golden Bridges School that is currently being built on the property itself.
title: Dual Energy CT for the detection of venous thrombosis
Creators: name: Bongers, Malte
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computer Applications-Virtual imaging
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: CT-Quantitative
subject: CT
subject: Veins / Vena cava
subject: Computer applications
subject: Abdomen
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: Blood
subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Embolism / Thrombosis

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Introduction Venous thrombembolism, including deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE) is a frequent pathology in daily clinical routine with an annual age adjusted incidence of about 95-130/100000 individuals in general population...
Inferring effective field observables from a discrete model
Creators: name: Bény, Cédric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A spin system on a lattice can usually be modelled at large scales by an effective quantum field theory. A key mathematical result relating the two descriptions is the quantum central limit theorem, which shows that certain spin observables satisfy an algebra of bosonic fields under certain conditions. Here, we show that these particular observables and conditions are the relevant ones for an observer with certain limited abilities to resolve spatial locations as well as spin values. This is shown by computing the asymptotic behaviour of a quantum Fisher information metric as function of the resolution parameters. The relevant observables characterise the state perturbations whose distinguishability does not decay too fast as a function of spatial or spin resolution.
Monopole operators from the $4-ε$ expansion
Creators: name: Chester, Shai M.
name: Mezei, Mark
name: Pufu, Silviu S.
name: Yaakov, Itamar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Three-dimensional quantum electrodynamics with $N$ charged fermions contains monopole operators that have been studied perturbatively at large $N$. Here, we initiate the study of these monopole operators in the $4-ε$ expansion by generalizing them to codimension-3 defect operators in $d = 4-ε$ spacetime dimensions. Assuming the infrared dynamics is described by an interacting CFT, we define the "conformal weight" of these operators in terms of the free energy density on $S^2 \times \mathbb{H}^{2-ε}$ in the presence of magnetic flux through the $S^2$, and calculate this quantity to next-to-leading order in $ε$. Extrapolating the conformal weight to $ε= 1$ gives an estimate of the scaling dimension of the monopole operators in $d=3$ that does not rely on the $1/N$ expansion. We also perform the computation of the conformal weight in the large $N$ expansion for any $d$ and find agreement between the large $N$ and the small $ε$ expansions in their overlapping regime of validity.
description: 45 pages, 3 figures, version accepted by journal
title: Spontaneous Intramural Hematoma of Bowels in Acute Abdomen at ED: Clinical Presentation and CT Features
Creators: name: Chen, Jen-Dar
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Haemorrhage
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Emergency
subject: Abdomen

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Spontaneous intestinal intramural hemorrhage (IMH) of bowels is a very rare condition. Early correct diagnosis allows appropriate conservative treatment resulting in a good outcome and avoids surgical intervention. This study aimed to evaluate the...
Peroxidase Catalyzed Oxidation of Pentachlorophenol
Creators: name: Sarr, David Hess
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1993

description: The oxidation of pentachlorophenol (PCP) by two peroxidase enzymes, horseradish peroxidase (HRP) and Coprinus macrorhizus peroxidase (CMP) was studied. Oxidation of PCP by HRP and CMP was found to produce p-tetrachlorobenzoquinone (p-chloranil) and non-polar products. p-Chloranil was found to decompose to trichlorohydroxybenzoquinone and dichlorodihydroxybenzoquinone in aqueous solution. The rate of decomposition increased as pH increased, and the rate increased by two orders of magnitude when hydrogen peroxide was present in solution. Because hydrogen peroxide is required for oxidation by peroxidase enzymes, the decomposition of p-chloranil occurred rapidly in enzymatic reaction mixtures under certaui conditions. The non-polar oxidation products were not specifically identified. These products precipitate at pH 4 and can be removed from solution. PCP sorbs to the non-polar products under acidic conditions, and can also be removed from solution by filtration. The relative amount of the products formed in peroxidase catalyzed oxidation of PCP will depend on the enzyme used and the reaction conditions. CMP inactivation occurs rapidly during oxidation of PCP at pH 7. This inactivation limits the percentage of PCP which can be removed from solution.
The impact of payment method on consumer spending behaviour: A systematic review examining gambling as a use case
Creators: name: Swanton, Thomas
name: Kim, Seungyeon
name: Collard, Sharon
name: Garbarino, Ellen
name: Gainsbury, Sally
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Business
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Behavioral Economics
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Economics
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: cash
subject: cashless
subject: consumer behavior
subject: credit card
subject: debit card
subject: digital wallet
subject: e-wallet
subject: gambling
subject: mobile wallet
subject: pain of paying
subject: payment
subject: spending

description: This systematic review has four aims: (i) to synthesise current knowledge about the psychological impact of payment method on consumer spending behaviour; (ii) to examine this relationship in the specific context of gambling, an exemplar of cases in which over-spending may cause significant harm; (iii) to develop a taxonomy of key payment-related leverage points for policies and interventions designed to help consumers manage their spending, using gambling as a case study; and (iv) to identify significant research gaps that should be prioritised by future research.
Negative pressure in shear thickening band of a dilatant fluid
Creators: name: Nagahiro, Shin-ichiro
name: Nakanishi, Hiizu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform experiments and numerical simulations to investigate spatial distribution of pressure in a sheared dilatant fluid of the Taylor-Couette flow under a constant external shear stress. In a certain range of shear stress, the flow undergoes the shear thickening oscillation around 20 Hz. We find that, during the oscillation, a localized thickened band rotates around the axis with the flow. {Based upon experiments and numerical simulations, we show that a major part of the thickened band is under negative pressure even in the case of discontinuous shear thickening}, which indicates that the thickening is caused by Reynolds dilatancy; the dilatancy causes the negative pressure in interstitial fluid, which generates contact structure in the granular medium., then frictional resistance hinders rearrangement of the structure and solidifies the medium.
description: 7 pages and 5 figures. to appear in Phys. Rev. E
title: Τοποθέτηση Αντλίας Συνεχούς Χορήγησης Ινσουλίνης σε ασθενείς με Σακχαρώδη Διαβήτη τύπου 2
title: Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion impact in patients with Diabetes Mellitus Type 2
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Χαζάπη, Μαρία Αγγελική
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2022
Subjects: Type 2 diabetes
Insulin pump
Closed loop system
Diabetes control

description: Εισαγωγή: Η τοποθέτηση αντλίας συνεχούς χορήγησης ινσουλίνης σε ασθενείς με Σακχαρώδη Διαβήτη 2 (ΣΔ2) αποτελεί μέθοδο διαχείρισης και αυτοελέγχου της νόσου και η αποτελεσματικότητα της ασκεί διεθνές ενδιαφέρον. Σκοπός: Η διερεύνηση της αποτελεσματικότητας της τοποθέτησης αντλίας συνεχούς χορήγησης ινσουλίνης σε ασθενείς με Σακχαρώδη Διαβήτη τύπου 2, καθώς και των παραγόντων που την επηρεάζουν. Μέθοδος Ανασκόπησης: Πραγματοποιήθηκε συστηματική βιβλιογραφική αναζήτηση από τις μηχανές αναζήτησης Pubmed και Google Scholar με τις λέξεις κλειδιά: “type 2 diabetes”, “insulin pump”, ‘‘closed loop system’’, “diabetes control’’, για το χρονικό διάστημα 2017-2022. Κριτήρια αποκλεισμού άρθρων αποτέλεσαν η γλώσσα, εκτός της αγγλικής. Τελικά συμπεριλήφθηκαν 9 άρθρα. Αποτελέσματα: Η εφαρμογή της αντλίας έγχυσης ινσουλίνης σε ασθενείς με ΣΔ2 φαίνεται να επιδρά θετικά στον γλυκαιμικό έλεγχο. Οι σημαντικότεροι παράγοντες που επηρεάζουν την αποτελεσματικότητα της είναι η διάρκεια της διαβητικής νόσου, οι δόσεις ινσουλίνης, το μορφωτικό επίπεδο του ασθενή, η μακροχρόνια χρήση της αντλίας ινσουλίνης, η άμεση τοποθέτηση αντλίας σε νεοδιαγνωσμένους ασθενείς και οι τροποποιήσεις στη φαρμακευτική αγωγή αναλόγως των τιμών γλυκόζης. Τα πρώτα θετικά αποτελέσματα φαίνονται στους 6 μήνες και διαρκούν μακροπρόθεσμα. Οι νοσηλείες και οι επισκέψεις στα επείγοντα μειώνονται, η ποιότητα ζωής βελτιώνεται και το κόστος από τις επιπλοκές της νόσου περιορίζεται. Συμπεράσματα: Φαίνεται ότι η χρήση της αντλίας έγχυσης ινσουλίνης σε ασθενείς με ΣΔ2 είναι αποτελεσματική στη διαχείριση της χρόνιας νόσου. Ακόμα, αναδεικνύεται ότι γλυκαιμική ρύθμιση μπορεί να επιτευχθεί και σε εκείνους που δυσκολεύονται να τον ελέγξουν με το εντατικοποιημένο σχήμα ινσουλίνης.
The Effects of Relative Humidity and Compound Interaction on the Adsorption of Mineral Oil Vapor by Activated Carbon
Creators: name: Brockmann, Cybele Martin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1999

description: A bench-scale carbon adsorption system was constructed to examine the effects of relative humidity and compound interaction on the adsorption of specific components of mineral oil vapor by activated carbon. Small beds of activated carbon were challenged with single and binary component vapor at low and high relative humidities (less than 13 percent and greater than 87 percent). The components consisted of undecane and dodecane at nominal concentrations of 4 ppm each. High relative humidity and compound interaction substantially reduced the carbon's adsorption capacity for both compounds, however, the effect of the latter was more pronounced on the adsorption of undecane versus dodecane. The equilibrium adsorption capacity of the carbon for the single and binary component vapor at high relative humidity was approximately 0.20 grams of vapor per gram of carbon. This adsorption capacity was 24 to 28percent of the capacities quoted by the carbon vendor for similar compounds.
title: Diagnosing haemorrhagic dengue fever without serology: prevalence, evolution and prognostic significance of trans-abdominal ultrasound
Creators: name: Prakash, Nitash
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Biliary Tract / Gallbladder
subject: Abdomen
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Haemorrhage
subject: Haemodynamics / Flow dynamics

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Primary: To evaluate the prevalence of abnormal findings on trans abdominal ultrasound indengue fever. To correlate imaging findings with hematological and serological parameters Secondary: To assess role of ultrasound in early diagnosis, severity...
Theory of light-induced resonances with collective Higgs and Leggett modes in multiband superconductors
Creators: name: Murotani, Yuta
name: Tsuji, Naoto
name: Aoki, Hideo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically investigate coherent optical excitations of collective modes in two-band BCS superconductors, which accommodate two Higgs modes and one Leggett mode corresponding, respectively, to the amplitude and relative-phase oscillations of the superconducting order parameters associated with the two bands. We find, based on a mean-field analysis, that each collective mode can be resonantly excited through a nonlinear light-matter coupling when the doubled frequency of the driving field coincides with the frequency of the corresponding mode. Among the two Higgs modes, the higher-energy one exhibits a sharp resonance with light, while the lower-energy mode has a broadened resonance width. The Leggett mode is found to be resonantly induced by a homogeneous ac electric field because the leading nonlinear effect generates a potential offset between the two bands that couples to the relative phase of the order parameters. The resonance for the Leggett mode becomes sharper with increasing temperature. All of these light-induced collective modes along with density fluctuations contribute to the third-harmonic generation. We also predict an experimental possibility of optical detection of the Leggett mode.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
title: Evaluation of chronic liver disease: does ultrasound scoring criteria help?
Creators: name: Saeed, Shaista
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Liver
subject: Abdomen
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Screening
subject: Cirrhosis

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: INTRODUCTION: The common causes of Chronic liver disease are viral hepatitis, alcohol abuse and metabolic disorders. These result in hepatocytes damage, the consequence of which may be liver fibrosis, cirrhosis and /or hepatocellular carcinoma.(1 )...
Naegleria fowleri: Assessing the Risk from a Free-Living Ameba
Creators: name: Davis, Andrea Elizabeth
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1997

description: Human infection from a free-living ameba is often times the result of some type of exposure to water. Although this is not always true for all species of ameba, amebic infection due to Naegleria folweri can invariably be traced to a specific interaction with water. Most often it results from swimming in waters contaminated with the organism. Naegleria folweri is a small free-living ameboflagellate found mainly in warm water habitats worldwide. The organism has been found to be the etiologic agent of a disease in humans known as primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM). This is a rare disease that attacks the central nervous system and most often results in rapid death. Although this infection does not occur on as wide a scale as some other more well known diseases, what sets it apart is its very high mortality rate. Approximately ninety-six percent of persons infected intranasally with this microbe will die within two weeks after the first symptoms appear. This study used the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI)/US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) quantitative risk assessment (QRA) analytical approach to estimate the risks of swimming-associated PAM from Naegleria folweri. Using data from mice experimentally infected by swimming in contaminated water, the risk of acquiring this disease was best predicted using a linear two population model. The greatest risk to humans was found to be 1.48E-06 when the highest environmentally measured concentration of one pathogenic free-living ameba per five mililiters was used. The data from QRA were compared to epidemiological data for swimming-associated PAM. Estimated risks of PAM by QRA were generally consistent with epidemiologically reported risks of PAM.
Do sources of health information regarding COVID-19 differ among vaccinated and unvaccinated nursing students?
Creators: name: Selby, Kendra
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: student nurses
subject: vaccination rate
subject: health information
subject: vaccine hesitancy
subject: COVID-19
subject: health education
subject: nursing

description: Background: Vaccine hesitancy among nurses can contribute to patient hesitancy about the need for and safety of COVID-19 vaccination. Understanding and addressing vaccine hesitancy among nurses is a critical public health issue. Purpose: The current study aims to identify factors related to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among nursing students attending the University of Michigan-Flint. Methods: Secondary data analysis was conducted using an online survey distributed to nursing students. A total of two hundred and thirty surveys were received, but after removing incomplete surveys, the final sample size was (n = 194). Descriptive statistics were conducted and analyzed to identify the relationship between COVID-19 vaccination and reported sources of health information. Results: In this study, 87% of nursing students were vaccinated, and 12% were not. Unvaccinated nursing students (UNS) were older with a mean age of 40 vs 35 ( p < .001). The majority of UNS identified as having an “other” political affiliation compared to 41% of vaccinated nursing students who identified as Democrat/Liberal (33%) (p <.001). Vaccinated (73.4%) and unvaccinated (62.5%) nursing students both reported the CDC as their primary source of health information regarding COVID-19. Yet, a much larger percent of vaccinated nursing students (89.3% vs 58.3%) agreed/strongly agreed the CDC was a source of creditable and accurate health information (p < .001). Implications: To address vaccine hesitancy among nursing students, socio-demographic factors such as political affiliation and trust in governmental agencies need to be addressed.
Continuity of Lyapunov exponents is equivalent to continuity of Oseledets subspaces
Creators: name: Backes, Lucas
name: Poletti, Mauricio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that, for semi-invertible continuous cocycles, continuity of Lyapunov exponents is equivalent to continuity, in measure, of Oseledets subspaces.
description: Final version. To appear in Stochastics and Dynamics
title: Multidetector CT angiography (A-MDCT) as the first diagnostic test for acute abdominal bleeding
Creators: name: Bravo Rey, Isabel
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Emergency
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Localisation
subject: Haemorrhage

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Acute abdominal bleeding is an urgent condition with a high mortality rate, which requires early diagnosis and treatment. Angiography has been for many years the diagnostic technique in acute abdominal bleeding. Currently its diagnostic role has...
Additional file 1 of Care-experienced young people’s views and experiences of accessing general practice and dental services and attending health reviews in England: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Herlitz, Lauren
name: Ashford, Emily
name: Baldwin, James
name: Powell, Claire
name: Woodman, Jenny
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1
Efficacy of Sodium Hypochlorite for Disinfecting Raoultella terrigena Cells in Varying Preparation Conditions, and in Multiple Test Water Matrices Under Point-of-Use Conditions
Creators: name: Coleman, Collin Knox
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Variability and lack of specificity in conditions for laboratory performance evaluations for point-of-use drinking water technologies creates situations where different and inconsistent results are produced from systems that bear no resemblance to water conditions or settings where a point-of-use device is implemented in the field. To evaluate various test conditions, experiments were conducted with sodium hypochlorite under model point-of-use conditions to: (i) determine the impact on disinfection efficacy of varying free chlorine concentrations; (ii) characterize disinfection performance in chemically defined and natural test water matrices; and (iii) determine the influence of cell preparation and handling on bacterial reductions. Free chlorine doses from 0.5 to 5.0 mg/L produced consistent disinfection results with log10 reductions at one minute ranging from 4.8 to 6.5 log10, respectively. Washing of cells had substantial impact on free chlorine log10 reductions while storage over 14 days had little impact. Test water matrices with high organic load significantly influenced chlorine residual and reduced microbial reductions. Therefore, preparation and testing conditions need to be specified in detail to achieve consistent microbial reduction performance.
title: Comparison of normalization pipelines for infant diffusion tensor imaging data
Creators: name: Kolossvary, Marton
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Image registration
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Statistics
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Paediatric
subject: Neuroradiology brain

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Proper normalization of subjects' images is a prerequisite of MRI group comparisons. Linear and non-linear registration algorithms can be used to transform images from an individual's native space to the common template space. As infants' brains are...
Village Site Selection in Rural Water Supply Projects in Developing Countries
Creators: name: Green, Beverly
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1988

description: The purpose of this study is to address the research question "Given a number of villages, how would one go about ranking them as to priority for improvement of the water supply?" Improvement of the quality and quantity of water supplies in rural villages is a priority investment in developing countries; however, a review of the literature generally indicates that few countries have programs that are replicable, and that many services provided to date have been abandoned or underutilized. Since the purpose of a site selection procedure is to identify the villages that are most likely to satisfy the objectives of a water supply program, improvement of the site selection process can be expected to result in more successful projects. General agreement in the literature exists on the objectives of water supply improvement. Uncertainty is present, however, regarding: - how the objectives will best be accomplished, - how the variables indicating the objectives can be measured, - what the relationship of each objective's value is to each other and to the success of the project, and - the role of the village in the decision making process. This research paper presents a review of the site selection process, including a survey and comparative analysis of the site selection procedures currently in use. A recommendation of a site selection procedure concludes the paper.
title: The pancreatic tumour localisation: the impact of MDCT data to predict total pancreatectomy
Creators: name: Nerestyuk, Yaroslav
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Oncology
subject: Computer applications
subject: CT
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The aim of the study is evaluate the CT signs of pancreatic tumor lesions, in accordance with which is necessary perform total pancreatectomy and determine under what localizations pancreatic tumors may predict total pancreatectomy (TP). Objective...
title: Staging of pelvic endometriosis
Creators: name: Turi, Barbara
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cysts
subject: Colonography MR
subject: MR
subject: Pelvis
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female
subject: Abdomen

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Endometriosis is a common gynecological disorder defined by the presence of ectopic endometrial glands and stroma outside the uterus. it represents a common and very important clinical ploblem in women of chilbearing age, manifesting with pain and...
title: Imaging features of complications following hip replacement: A pictorial assay
Creators: name: Jankharia, Bhavin
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Complications
subject: MR
subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: Prostheses

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To review the imaging appearances of the common complications post hip replacement with emphasis on MR imaging features. To differentiate complications from normal post arthroplasty appearances. To understand the parameter modifications required to...
[Halle (Saale), Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, Morbio 3 (122)]
Creators: name: F.
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 1268
Subjects: subject: Sonstige geistliche Aussteller
subject: Notarsurkunde
subject: Urkunde
subject: 090

description: Der Archidiaconus F. legt Magister Bertolinus de Blandrato und genannten Personen ein Schreiben des Stephanus, Abt aus Besxia, vor, in dem diese zur Zahlung eines Geldbetrages zugunsten des F., Bischofselekt von Yperegio, angewiesen werden.
title: Mean curve analysis of pattern of enhancement of various bone tumors on high resolution dynamic contrast enhanced MR and its role in characterizing various bone tumors
Creators: name: Jankharia, Bhavin
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR
subject: Oncology
subject: Musculoskeletal bone

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To analyze the pattern of mean time intensity curve and enhancement characteristics of various bone tumours on dynamic contrast enhanced MR (DCE-MRI). To study its role in differentiating benign from malignant aetiologies and in further...
The Synthesis of Microbial Metabolites of Pyrene and Fluoranthene
Creators: name: Ferguson, Terrence Carl James
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2001

description: The purpose of this research project was to synthesize several metabolites of polycylic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). These metabolites would be used as standards in studies on the microbial degradation of the parent compounds (pyrene and fluoranthene), or in toxicological studies. Synthetic methods were developed and modified in order to make these PAH metabolites. The metabolites were then successfully synthesized form starting materials, that were commercially available. The metabolites that were synthesized are of particular interest, because they are potential carcinogens. Individually the parent compounds do not seem to be very detrimental to mammals but they are toxic to the ecosystem. The parent compounds are also very abundant and they are good model compounds to study microbial metabolism. Procedures for the synthesis of pyrene-4,5,9,10-tetrahydrotetrol, pyrene-4,5-quinone, pyrene-4,5-catechol, fluoranthene-2,3-quinone, and fluoranthene-2,3-catechol are described in this report. These PAH metabolites were characterized through the use of [1]H-NMR, UV-VIS spectrometry, and mass spectrometry.