cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Change in patient-reported outcomes after cardioverter-defibrillator implantation
Creators: name: Lauck, Sandra Béatrice
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Some people, because they have a genetic predisposition or heart disease, are at high risk for cardiac arrhythmias that could cause their hearts to stop. The implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) is an effective therapy that recognises abnormal heart beats, can administer an electrical shock to stop a potentially lethal heart rhythm, and affords protection from the devastating consequences of sudden cardiac arrest. Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are assessments provided directly by patients about various aspects of their health and quality of life. We sought to study the change in PROs after ICD implantation to identify people’s patterns of change, explore individual trajectories of change, and identify predictors of differences in individuals’ trajectories. The study was grounded in the Wilson and Cleary (1995) conceptual framework of quality of life and informed by the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System domain framework. Using a prospective, longitudinal study design, data were obtained from 171 people undergoing ICD implantation at quaternary centres in British Columbia, Canada (55.5% response rate). PRO assessments were obtained immediately before implantation and at one, two, and six months following implantation. We employed individual growth modelling to analyse change within and between people. The participants had different physical, mental, and social health status PROs at baseline and, on average, demonstrated improvement. At most of the measurement occasions, the participants’ PROs remained poorer than those of average adult, urban-dwelling Canadians. There was significant individual variability in most of the trajectories, especially in the social functioning domains. Relative to men, women reported worse PROs initially (the relative mean difference in men’s and women’s scores ranged from 4.5% to 24.7% for 6 of the 12 indicators). Yet, the women’s rates of improvement were significantly faster than those of men. Women equalled or exceeded the men’s PROs at the six-month assessment (the relative mean difference ranged from 4.5% to 10.4%, depending on the PRO). Further research is needed to explore the individual change trajectories identified in this study, especially for those patients who did not improve over time, fully test the conceptual model that framed the research, and evaluate interventions aimed at improving PROs after ICD implantation.
IL CARAP, UN QUADRO DI RIFERIMENTO PER GLI APPROCCI PLURALI ALLE LINGUE E ALLE CULTURE. COMPETENZE E RISORSE
Creators: name: Candelier (Coordinatore), Michel
name: Camilleri-Grima, Antoinette
name: Castellotti, Véronique
name: De Pietro, Jean-François
name: Lőrincz, Ildikó
name: Meiẞner, Franz-Joseph
name: Noguerol, Arthur
name: Schröder-Sura, Anna
name: Molinié, Con La Collaborazione Di Muriel
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2013

description: Gli Approcci plurali alle lingue e alle culture si basano su attività di insegnamento-apprendimento che coinvolgono contemporaneamente più (= più di una) varietà linguistiche e culturali. Il CARAP si propone come strumento che consente di sviluppare in un modo molto concreto la concezione della competenza plurilingue ed interculturale promossa dal Consiglio d’Europa con il Quadro Comune Europeo di Riferimento per le Lingue. La pubblicazione ed il sito web propongono un ampia lista di descrittori di competenze e risorse (saperi, sapere essere e saper fare), che si considera necessario sviluppare nella prospettiva di un’educazione plurilingue ed interculturale.

FREPA (Carap)

A Framework of Reference for Pluralistic Approaches. Competences and resources

The term pluralistic approaches to languages and cultures refers to didactic approaches which involve the use of several (or at least more than one) varieties of languages or cultures simultaneously during the teaching process. By abandoning the “compartmentalised” view of an individual’s linguistic and cultural competence(s), this publication is a valuable step towards implementing the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, in particular its rationale on plurilingual and intercultural competence. The publication and this website present a comprehensive list of descriptors (Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes) considered necessary within the perspective of a plurilingual and intercultural education.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 4, No 2 (2012)
title: Imaging Findings, Diagnostic and Treatment Options of Post-transplant Non-occlusive Hepatic Artery Hypoperfusion (Splenic Steal) Syndrome
Creators: name: Vas, Daniel
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Transplantation
subject: Ischaemia / Infarction
subject: Haemodynamics / Flow dynamics
subject: Embolisation
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Arterial access
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Percutaneous
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Spleen
subject: Liver
subject: Interventional vascular

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Review the clinical course and the haemodynamic changes in splenic steal syndrome after liver transplant Describe the imaging characteristics of the Doppler ultrasound, the contrast enhanced ultrasound and the digital subtraction angiography of the...
title: Growth Program Needed as the Foundation of the German Economy Crumbles: Editorial
Creators: name: Michelsen, Claus
name: Baldi, Guido
name: Clemens, Marius
name: Dany-Knedlik, Geraldine
name: Engerer, Hella
name: Fratzscher, Marcel
name: Gebauer, Stefan
name: Hanisch, Max
name: Junker, Simon
name: Kholodilin, Konstantin A.
name: Rieth, Malte
name: Schlaak, Thore
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2019

description: DIW Weekly Report, 9 (2019), 37, S. 325-327
On the capture of dark matter by neutron stars
Creators: name: Guver, Tolga
name: Erkoca, Arif Emre
name: Reno, Mary Hall
name: Sarcevic, Ina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the number of dark matter particles that a neutron star accumulates over its lifetime as it rotates around the center of a galaxy, when the dark matter particle is a self-interacting boson but does not self-annihilate. We take into account dark matter interactions with baryonic matter and the time evolution of the dark matter sphere as it collapses within the neutron star. We show that dark matter self-interactions play an important role in the rapid accumulation of dark matter in the core of the neutron star. We consider the possibility of determining an exclusion region of the parameter space for dark matter mass and dark matter interaction cross sections based on the observation of old neutron stars with strong dark matter self-interactions. We show that for a dark matter density of $~10^3$ GeV/cm$^3$ and dark matter mass $m_χ$ less than approximately 10 GeV, there is a potential exclusion region for dark matter interactions with nucleons that is three orders of magnitude more stringent than without self-interactions. The potential exclusion region for dark matter self-interaction cross sections is many orders of magnitude stronger than the current Bullet Cluster limit. For example, for high dark matter density regions, we find that for $m_χ\sim 10$ GeV when the dark matter interaction cross section with the nucleons ranges from $σ_{χn}\sim 10^{-52}$ cm$^2$ to $10^{-57}$ cm$^2$, the dark matter self-interaction cross section limit is $σ_{χχ}< 10^{-33}$ cm$^2$, which is about ten orders of magnitude stronger than the Bullet Cluster limit.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures, v2. change in treatment of dark matter collapse in neutron star, conclusions changed; v3. minor revisions of text for clarification, added references, v4. version accepted for publication in JCAP
title: An image-based guide of post-therapeutic changes and recurrences after focal treatment of renal tumors.
Creators: name: Popoi, Paula
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Treatment effects
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Ablation procedures
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Oncology
subject: Kidney
subject: Interventional non-vascular

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Depicting CT and MRI features of early post-therapeutic changes and complications, and the typical aspects of recurrences in the follow-up of kidneys treated with focal radiofrequency ablation (RFA) or...
The neutrino mixing matrix could (almost) be diagonal with entries {\pm}1
Creators: name: BenTov, Yoni
name: Zee, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is consistent with the measurement of θ_13 ~ 0.15 by Daya Bay to suppose that, in addition to being unitary, the neutrino mixing matrix is also almost hermitian, and thereby only a small perturbation from diag(+1,-1,-1) in a suitable basis. We suggest this possibility simply as an easily falsifiable ansatz that has not already been studied, as well as to offer a potentially useful means of organizing the experimental data. We explore the phenomenological implications of this ansatz and parametrize one type of deviation from the leading order relation |V_e3| \approx |V_τ1|. We also emphasize the group-invariant angle between orthogonal matrices as a means of comparing to data. The discussion is purely phenomenological, without any attempt to derive the condition V† \approx V from a fundamental theory.
description: 11 pages, 1 figure; added references; minor changes, errors corrected, to be published in PLB
How spiking neural networks can flexibly trade-off performance and energy use
Creators: name: Podlaski, William F.
name: Keemink, Sander W.
name: Calaim, Nuno
name: Machens, Christian K.
Publisher: name: G-Node
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computational Neuroscience
Networks, dynamical systems

description: Bernstein Conference 2021 abstract. http://bernstein-conference.de
Sensitivity of the neutron star r-mode instability window to the density dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy
Creators: name: Wen, De-Hua
name: Newton, W. G.
name: Li, Bao-An
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a simple model of a neutron star with a perfectly rigid crust constructed and a set of crust and core equations of state that span the range of nuclear experimental uncertainty in the density dependence of the symmetry energy from 25 MeV (soft EOS) to 115 MeV (stiff EOS), we calculate the instability window for the onset of the Chandrasekhar-Friedmann-Schutz (CFS) instability in r-mode oscillations for canonical neutron stars (1.4 M_{\odot}) and massive neutron stars (2.0 M_{\odot}). In these models the crust-core transition density, and thus crustal thickness, is calculated consistently with the core equation of state (EOS). For the canonical neutron star, the lower bound of the r-mode instability window is reduced in frequency by \approx150 Hz from the softest to the stiffest symmetry energy used, independent of mass and temperature. The instability window also drops by \approx 100 Hz independent of EOS when the mass is raised from 1.4 M_{\odot} to 2.0 M_{\odot}. Where temperature estimates are available, the observed neutron stars in low mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) have frequencies below the instability window for the 1.4 M_{\odot} models, while some LMXBs fall within the instability window for 2.0 M_{\odot} stars if the symmetry energy is relatively stiff, indicating that a softer symmetry energy is more consistent with observations within this model. Thus we conclude that smaller values of L help stabilize neutron stars against runaway r-mode oscillations. The critical temperature, below which no star can reach the instability window without exceeding its Kepler frequency, varies by nearly an order of magnitude from soft to stiff symmetry energies. When the crust thickness and core EOS are treated consistently, a thicker crust corresponds to a lower critical temperature, the opposite result to previous studies in which the transition density was independent of the core EOS.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review C
title: Heat Monitor 2018: Rising Heating Energy Demand, Thermal Retrofit Rate Must Increase
Creators: name: Singhal, Puja
name: Stede, Jan
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: R31 Housing Supply and Markets
subject: Q21 Renewable Resources and Conservation: Demand and Supply (the Commons)
subject: Q40 Energy: General
subject: residential buildings
subject: heating energy consumption
subject: heating fuel costs
subject: renovation rate
subject: retrofit rate
subject: energy efficiency

description: Residential heating accounts for almost one-fifth of Germany’s final energy consumption. This report evaluates an extensive database of heating bills for buildings with two or more apartments, representing more than two-thirds of the total housing stock in Germany. Despite commitments to pressing climate targets, the rate of thermal upgrades of the existing housing stock has remained low since the turn of the 21st century, while heating energy demanded per square meter by private households has been on an upward trend since 2015. This is an alarming development with respect to the 2050 climate goals for the buildings sector. An additional set of policies are therefore necessary to achieve the yet-unrealized reductions in energy consumption in the building sector. These include, for example, tax incentives for top-end retrofits that have been discussed for more than a decade and policies targeting household behavior such as providing consumers with more frequent and timely information.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 9 (2019), 35/36, S. 303-312
title: At Opposite Poles: How the Success of the Green Party and AfD Reflects the Geographical and Social Cleavages in Germany
Creators: name: Franz, Christian
name: Fratzscher, Marcel
name: Kritikos, Alexander S.
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
subject: Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Social and Economic Stratification
subject: political parties
subject: elections
subject: Germany
subject: economy
subject: demography
subject: structural data
subject: European elections
subject: Federal elections

description: German voters in the 2019 European election showed remarkable regional differences in their voting behavior. The Green Party surged in West German districts, while the AfD further consolidated its successes in East Germany. Investigating structural differences at the district level reveals that the Green party is particularly popular in economically strong, demographically young, and dynamic districts with solid economic structures. The AfD receives more support in economically weaker, vulnerable districts where demographics skew toward the older population because younger people have moved away. The strength of both the Green Party and the AfD is less due to current economic growth, but rather structural and demographic factors. Thus, the Green Party and the AfD reflect polarities not only in the political arena, but also in Germany’s new social divide at the district level.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 9 (2019), 34, S. 289-300
Preparation and evaluation of PEGylated asiatic acid nanostructured lipid carriers on anti-fibrosis effects
Creators: name: Chen, Xiaoxiao
name: Zhang, Yawen
name: Zhao, Pengfei
name: Chen, Yan
name: Zhou, Yunli
name: Wang, Shenghao
name: Yin, Lina
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Liver fibrosis is a major pathological feature of chronic liver diseases, and effective therapies are limited at present. Asiatic acid (AA) is a triterpenoid isolated from Centella asiatica, which exhibits efficient anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidative activities. However, AA shows very low plasma levels after oral administration. In this study, AA loading PEGylated nanostructured lipid carriers (P-AA-NLCs) were prepared. P-AA-NLCs were characterized for particle size distribution, polydispersity index, entrapment efficiency, X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) pattern, differential scanning colorimeter (DSC), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The intestinal absorption, in vivo distribution, pharmacokinetics, and anti-fibrosis effects of P-AA-NLC were studied compared with that of AA-NLC. In situ single-pass intestinal perfusion model shows that there are significant differences in absorption between the free and NLCs formulation. The Peff values of P-AA-NLC were significantly enhanced in all four intestinal segments compared to AA-NLC and free AA (p < .05). fa% and Ka showed similar trends, suggesting the PEGylated NLC can improve the gastrointestinal absorption of the drug. The pharmacokinetic studies presented that P-AA-NLC prolonged blood circulation times with a 1.5-fold higher relative bioavailability compared with AA-NLC. In vivo distribution experiments demonstrated that the fluorescence concentration in the liver was higher than that in other organs and the fluorescence intensity in the liver of DIR-P-NLC was about 1.3 times that of DIR-NLC. In addition, oral administration of P-AA-NLC can significantly attenuate CCl4-induced liver fibrosis and functional impairment in a dosage-dependent manner, including an increase in the albumin (ALB) and decrease in aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine transaminase (ALT). Moreover, the MDA and HYP in liver tissue were downregulated, while the SOD activity was upregulated. In conclusion, P-AA-NLC can increase gastrointestinal absorption of AA and enhance anti-liver fibrosis effects in SD rats.
title: Spectrum of hypoperfusion complex manifestations on Computed Tomography
Creators: name: Amante, Sofia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Emergency
subject: Vascular
subject: CT
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Education
subject: Acute
subject: Blood

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The purpose of this poster is to review the main imaging features of the computed tomography (CT) hypoperfusion complex, namely the vascular and visceral manifestations, to increase the awareness and recognition of radiologists and allow better...
Numerical modeling for the seismic response of concrete tilt-up buildings
Creators: name: Tellier, Xavier
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Concrete tilt-up building is a prevalent construction technique used for industrial and commercial applications in North America. This construction technique offers many significant advantages over conventional cast-in-place construction. This includes the reduction in construction time and the amount of formworks. Despite the large array of buildings that has been constructed using such technique, the nonlinear behaviour of the concrete tilt-up buildings is still not well understood. The nonlinear behaviour of the concrete tilt-up building has been studied in this thesis. The nonlinear response of the concrete tilt-up building is largely affected by the nonlinear behaviour of the connectors between the panels and the slab, and between the panels. Past researches have been conducted to experimentally examine the nonlinear behaviour of the tilt-up panel connectors. The experimental results were used in this thesis to develop an empirical numerical model capable of reproducing the force-deformation response of the tilt-up connectors under combined axial and shear deformation. The numerical model takes the shear strength and stiffness degradation into account after axial cycles of inelastic deformation. A finite-element software was developed specifically to study the nonlinear static and dynamic behaviour of concrete tilt-up buildings. A typical tilt-up building designed in the study of Olund (2009) was modeled. Incremental dynamic analysis was performed using the developed finite element software to assess the seismic performance of the prototype tilt-up building. The results of the incremental dynamic analysis provided valuable information to understand the nonlinear behaviour of the concrete tilt-up buildings under seismic load. Detailed parametric studies were carried out to examine the nonlinear behaviour of tilt-up buildings. Parameters such as connector configurations; variation of the roof stiffness and strength; and coefficient of friction between the panels and slab were studied.
title: Deep vein thrombosis of the left lower limb: Could be a May Thurner Syndrome?
Creators: name: RUBIO MEDINA, JENIFER
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Anatomy
subject: Vascular
subject: Veins / Vena cava
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Catheter venography
subject: Recanalisation
subject: Stents
subject: Congenital
subject: Varices
subject: Acute

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The purpose of out educational exhibit is to: Review key anatomical structures, clinical features, diagnostic testing and treatment options in May Thurner Syndrome. Expose radiologist`s role in the management of May Thurner Syndrome: from suspicion...
Self-organized criticality in hierarchical modular networks of Galves-Löcherbach neurons
Creators: name: Rusch, Flavio R.
name: Roque, Antonio C.
name: Kinouchi, Osame
Publisher: name: G-Node
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computational Neuroscience
Networks, dynamical systems

description: Bernstein Conference 2021 abstract. http://bernstein-conference.de
title: Imaging of complications associated with post operative cyanotic congenital heart disease-A pictorial essay
Creators: name: Ojha, Vineeta
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Congenital

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To identify the CT and MR imaging findings of various post operative complications in patients with cyanotic congenital heart...
Non-Thermal Insights on Mass and Energy Flows Through the Galactic Centre and into the Fermi Bubbles
Creators: name: Crocker, Roland M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a simple model of the star-formation- (and resultant supernova-) driven mass and energy flows through the inner ~200 pc (in diameter) of the Galaxy. Our modelling is constrained, in particular, by the non-thermal radio continuum and γ-ray signals detected from the region. The modelling points to a current star-formation rate of 0.04 - 0.12 M\msun/year at 2σ confidence within the region with best-fit value in the range 0.08 - 0.12 M\msun/year which - if sustained over 10 Gyr - would fill out the ~ 10^9 M\msun stellar population of the nuclear bulge. Mass is being accreted on to the Galactic centre (GC) region at a rate ~0.3M\msun/year. The region's star-formation activity drives an outflow of plasma, cosmic rays, and entrained, cooler gas. Neither the plasma nor the entrained gas reaches the gravitational escape speed, however, and all this material fountains back on to the inner Galaxy. The system we model can naturally account for the recently-observed ~> 10^6 'halo' of molecular gas surrounding the Central Molecular Zone out to 100-200 pc heights. The injection of cooler, high-metallicity material into the Galactic halo above the GC may catalyse the subsequent cooling and condensation of hot plasma out of this region and explain the presence of relatively pristine, nuclear-unprocessed gas in the GC. The plasma outflow from the GC reaches a height of a few kpc and is compellingly related to the recently-discovered Fermi Bubbles. Our modelling demonstrates that ~ 10^9 M\msun of hot gas is processed through the GC over 10 Gyr. We speculate that the continual star-formation in the GC over the age of the Milky Way has kept the SMBH in a quiescent state thus preventing it from significantly heating the coronal gas, allowing for the continual accretion of gas on to the disk and the sustenance of star formation on much wider scales in the Galaxy [abridged].
description: 30 pages, 35 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS (20/04/2012). Minor textual revisions
Topologically inverse microstructure in single-crystal superalloys: microstructural stability and properties at ultrahigh temperature
Creators: name: Ru, Yi
name: Hu, Bin
name: Zhao, Wenyue
name: Zhang, Heng
name: Pei, Yanling
name: Li, Shusuo
name: Gong, Shengkai
name: Xu, Huibin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Topological phase inversion, in which γ'-precipitate becomes topological matrix phase, is a typical ‘detrimental’ microstructural degradation in Ni-based single-crystal superalloys. Here, a topologically inverse structure without service-induced damages is proposed. This structure exhibits excellent stress rupture properties at 1200°C and great microstructural stability, characterized by high, steady two-phase interface density. The relationship of the interface density to microscopic dislocation motion and macroscopic plastic deformation has been established, which reveals possible strengthening effect. These results will help understanding the benefit from this ‘degraded’ but quite stable microstructure and guide microstructure tuning against long-termed heat-resisted service. Topological phase inversion achieved after heat treatment exhibits great microstructural stability and enhanced 1200°C stress rupture properties of single-crystal superalloys. The mechanism behind this beneficial effect is uncovered.
Neuromodulation effect on the resting state - simulation study
Creators: name: Sanda, Pavel
name: Hlinka, Jaroslav
name: Bazhenov, Maxim
name: Krishnan, Giri
Publisher: name: G-Node
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computational Neuroscience
Networks, dynamical systems

description: Bernstein Conference 2021 abstract. http://bernstein-conference.de
Localisation and ageing in the parabolic Anderson model with Weibull potential
Creators: name: Sidorova, Nadia
name: Twarowski, Aleksander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The parabolic Anderson model is the Cauchy problem for the heat equation on the integer lattice with a random potential $ξ$. We consider the case when $\{ξ(z):z\in\mathbb{Z}^d\}$ is a collection of independent identically distributed random variables with Weibull distribution with parameter $0
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/13-AOP882 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
title: Productivity Growth in Decline despite Increasing Workforce Qualifications
Creators: name: Brenke, Karl
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
subject: O40 Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity: General
subject: I25 Education and Economic Development
subject: Productivity growth
subject: academization
subject: bureaucratization

description: After developing at an increasingly slower pace over the decades, labor productivity in Germany has recently stagnated. This is in contrast to the development of the workforce’s qualifications, which have been growing steadily due to rapid academicization. These phenomena can be found in other developed countries and are often attributed to sectoral change. Indeed, the shift of economic activity towards services has hampered productivity growth since the turn of the millennium, but not to a large extent. Picking up on a debate in the USA, this report looks at bureaucratization trends. For example, an analysis of German data from the European Labour Force Survey shows that jobs vital to bureaucracies have gained in importance in Germany, one possible reason for low productivity growth. Further research is needed to determine whether this link can be empirically proven and to what extent this development has contributed to the slowdown in productivity growth.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 9 (2019), 33, S. 277-286
title: Pseudoprogression vs hyperprogression in melanoma patients undergoing immunotherapy: how to deal with immune-response CT assessment.
Creators: name: Buonomenna, Guido
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Multidisciplinary cancer care
subject: Metastases
subject: Cancer
subject: Education
subject: CT
subject: Oncology

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: •Describe the different immune-mediated patterns of response. •Explain and review the concept of pseudoprogression vs hyperprogression in melanoma patients undergoing immunotherapy, describing pitfalls in the radiological immune-response...
title: Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis - an unusual diagnosis in paediatrics
Creators: name: Nguyen, Dominik
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Infection
subject: Calcifications / Calculi
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Paediatric
subject: Kidney
subject: Abdomen
subject: Inflammation

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The aim of this study is to: · present an extremely rare condition in paediatrics - xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis (XP) · illustrate its two variants · review possible imaging techniques used and their findings · suggest other diseases to...
Collective states of interacting $D(D_3)$ non-Abelian anyons
Creators: name: Finch, Peter E.
name: Frahm, Holger
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the finite size spectrum of integrable quantum chains of interacting non-Abelian anyons constructed using the Drinfeld double of the dihedral group $D_3$. The gapless low energy modes are identified as the direct product of two conformal field theories which can be decomposed according to the residual symmetries of the chains subject to periodic boundary conditions.
description: 11 pages
title: High Risk of a Housing Bubble in Germany and Most OECD Countries
Creators: name: Kholodilin, Konstantin A.
name: Michelsen, Claus
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: C25 Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions
subject: C53 Forecasting Methods; Simulation Methods
subject: E32 Business Fluctuations; Cycles
subject: Early warning system
subject: speculative housing price bubble
subject: panel logit
subject: decision tree
subject: random forest
subject: support vector machine

description: Housing prices in many countries have increased significantly over the past years, fueling a fear that speculative price bubbles will return. However, it can be difficult for policymakers to recognize when regulatory interventions in the market are necessary to counteract bubbles. This report shows how modern machine learning methods can be used to forecast speculative price bubbles at an early stage. Early warning models show that many OECD countries have an increased risk of speculative bubbles. In Germany, there are explosive price developments that have decoupled from real estate earnings. However, the forecast model indicates that the risk will decrease somewhat over the coming months at a high level. Unfortunately, the preventative measures in Germany remain insufficient. For example, there is a lack of intervention options involving household debt ceilings, and it is unclear when the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) can begin intervening in the market.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 9 (2019), 32, S. 265-273
Approximating transient dynamics of hippocampal ripple oscillations in an inhibitory network model
Creators: name: Schieferstein, Natalie
name: Schwalger, Tilo
name: Lindner, Benjamin
name: Kempter, Richard
Publisher: name: G-Node
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computational Neuroscience
Networks, dynamical systems

description: Bernstein Conference 2021 abstract. http://bernstein-conference.de
Collective-coordinate analysis of inhomogeneous nonlinear Klein-Gordon field theory
Creators: name: Saadatmand, Danial
name: Javidan, Kurosh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two different sets of collective-coordinate equations for solitary solutions of Nonlinear Klein-Gordon (NKG) model is introduced. The collective-coordinate equations are derived using different approaches for adding the inhomogeneities as exrernal potentials to the soliton equation of motion. Interaction of the NKG field with a local inhomogeneity like a delta function potential wall and also delta function potential well is investigated using the presented collective-coordinate equations and the results of two different models are compared. Most of the characters of the interaction are derived analytically. Analytical results are also compared with the results of numerical simulations.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in Volume 43 of the Brazilian Journal of Physics
Microbe capture by splenic macrophages triggers sepsis via T cell-death-dependent neutrophil lifespan shortening.
Creators: name: Ioannou, Marianna
name: Hoving, Dennis
name: Aramburu, Iker Valle
name: Temkin, Mia I
name: De Vasconcelos, Nathalia M
name: Tsourouktsoglou, Theodora Dorita
name: Wang, Qian
name: Boeing, Stefan
name: Goldstone, Robert
name: Vernardis, Spyros
name: Demichev, Vadim
name: Ralser, Markus
name: David, Sascha
name: Stahl, Klaus
name: Bode, Christian
name: Papayannopoulos, Venizelos
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: Synthetic Biology
subject: Synthetic Biology
classificationCode: Tumour Biology
subject: Tumour Biology
classificationCode: Genetics & Genomics
subject: Genetics & Genomics
classificationCode: Genome Integrity & Repair
subject: Genome Integrity & Repair
classificationCode: Chemical Biology & High Throughput
subject: Chemical Biology & High Throughput
classificationCode: Infectious Disease
subject: Infectious Disease
classificationCode: Ecology,Evolution & Ethology
subject: Ecology,Evolution & Ethology
classificationCode: Immunology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
classificationCode: Metabolism
subject: Metabolism
classificationCode: Computational & Systems Biology
subject: Computational & Systems Biology

description: The mechanisms linking systemic infection to hyperinflammation and immune dysfunction in sepsis are poorly understood. Extracellular histones promote sepsis pathology, but their source and mechanism of action remain unclear. Here, we show that by controlling fungi and bacteria captured by splenic macrophages, neutrophil-derived myeloperoxidase attenuates sepsis by suppressing histone release. In systemic candidiasis, microbial capture via the phagocytic receptor SIGNR1 neutralizes myeloperoxidase by facilitating marginal zone infiltration and T cell death-dependent histone release. Histones and hyphae induce cytokines in adjacent CD169 macrophages including G-CSF that selectively depletes mature Ly6Ghigh neutrophils by shortening their lifespan in favour of immature Ly6Glow neutrophils with a defective oxidative burst. In sepsis patient plasma, these mediators shorten mature neutrophil lifespan and correlate with neutrophil mortality markers. Consequently, high G-CSF levels and neutrophil lifespan shortening activity are associated with sepsis patient mortality. Hence, by exploiting phagocytic receptors, pathogens degrade innate and adaptive immunity through the detrimental impact of downstream effectors on neutrophil lifespan.
title: Public Investment a Key Prerequisite for Private Sector Activity
Creators: name: Clemens, Marius
name: Goerge, Marius
name: Michelsen, Claus
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: E22 Capital; Investment; Capacity
subject: E62 Fiscal Policy
subject: H54 National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Infrastructures; Other Public Investment and Capital Stock
subject: Investment
subject: crowding in
subject: public finance

description: Ten years after the 2008 financial crisis, in the euro area investment is still below the pre-crisis level. Public and private investment growth is so weak that capital per worker (capital intensity) has virtually remained constant. An increase in public investment activity could ultimately stimulate private investment. Estimates for the euro area show that an increase in public investment by one billion euro goes hand in hand with a medium-term increase in private investment of around 1.1 billion euro. In Germany, the effect is somewhat greater. Investment in construction and infrastructure are the most significant drivers. The public sector’s widespread reluctance to invest could partially explain the weakness in private investment activity. The public sector should now begin investing more. And the rigid balanced budget amendment (Schuldenbremse) should be replaced by more flexible expenditure rules.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 9 (2019), 31, S. 255-261
title: German Economy Needs to Invest More in Knowledge Capital
Creators: name: Belitz, Heike
name: Gornig, Martin
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: E22 Capital; Investment; Capacity
subject: D24 Production; Cost; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
subject: C23 Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Models with Panel Data; Longitudinal Data; Spatial Time Series
subject: Knowledge capital
subject: intangibles
subject: manufacturing
subject: services

description: The efficiency of the German economy is powered by its knowledge-intensive industrial and services sectors. Yet the use of knowledge capital to drive innovation and productivity in Germany is rather low compared to other European countries and the United States. Germany is clearly lagging behind, especially in the services sector. The same applies to the industrial sector, where German businesses are not using knowledge capital to an above-average extent. Moreover, the level of knowledge capital modernity is low in Germany’s industrial and services sectors, which jeopardizes the competitiveness of the German economy. The federal government has set a target for increasing R&D expenditure to 3.5 percent of GDP by 2025. In terms of corporate investments in total knowledge capital, this corresponds to an almost 35 billion euro increase in total annual investments. For this target to be achieved, conditions for investing in knowledge capital must be reviewed and improved.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 9 (2019), 31, S. 247-253
Diffusion Strategies Outperform Consensus Strategies for Distributed Estimation over Adaptive Networks
Creators: name: Tu, Sheng-Yuan
name: Sayed, Ali H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Adaptive networks consist of a collection of nodes with adaptation and learning abilities. The nodes interact with each other on a local level and diffuse information across the network to solve estimation and inference tasks in a distributed manner. In this work, we compare the mean-square performance of two main strategies for distributed estimation over networks: consensus strategies and diffusion strategies. The analysis in the paper confirms that under constant step-sizes, diffusion strategies allow information to diffuse more thoroughly through the network and this property has a favorable effect on the evolution of the network: diffusion networks are shown to converge faster and reach lower mean-square deviation than consensus networks, and their mean-square stability is insensitive to the choice of the combination weights. In contrast, and surprisingly, it is shown that consensus networks can become unstable even if all the individual nodes are stable and able to solve the estimation task on their own. When this occurs, cooperation over the network leads to a catastrophic failure of the estimation task. This phenomenon does not occur for diffusion networks: we show that stability of the individual nodes always ensures stability of the diffusion network irrespective of the combination topology. Simulation results support the theoretical findings.
description: 37 pages, 7 figures, To appear in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2012
Nanophyes marmoratus subsp. marmoratus
Creators: name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Colonnelli, Enzo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Nanophyidae
Nanophyes
Nanophyes marmoratus
Nanophyes marmoratus marmoratus (goeze, 1777)

description: Nanophyes marmoratus marmoratus (Goeze, 1777)
Distribution in Iran. Mazandaran (Sakenin et al. 2018).
General distribution. Albania, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lichtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Turkey, Ukraine and introduced in North America.
description: Published as part of Ghahari, Hassan & Colonnelli, Enzo, 2020, An annotated checklist of the Iranian Brentidae (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), pp. 151-178 in Zootaxa 4759 (2) on page 172, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4759.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3737365
Modulation of the cortical state by serotonergic (5-HT) receptors: a study combining optogenetic tools and multi-channel electrode recordings in mouse visual cortex
Creators: name: Barzan, Ruxandra
name: Spoida, Katharina
name: Surdin, Tatjana
name: Grömmke, Michelle
name: Azimi, Zohre
name: Mark, Melanie
name: Herlitze, Stefan
name: Jancke, Dirk
Publisher: name: G-Node
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computational Neuroscience
Sensory processing and perception

description: Bernstein Conference 2021 abstract. http://bernstein-conference.de
Delibazione delle sentenze ecclesiastiche e (prolungata) convivenza tra i coniugi
Creators: name: Marchei, Natascia
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012
Subjects: Matrimonio

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa: le questioni sostanziali sottostanti – 2. Le oscillanti (ma
non troppo) posizioni della giurisprudenza di legittimità fino alla sentenza delle
Sezioni Unite 18 luglio 2008, n. 19809  - 3. I recenti interventi della Corte di
Cassazione (la sentenza delle Sezioni Unite 18 luglio 2008, n. 19809 e la sentenza
della I sezione 20 gennaio 2011, n. 1343) - 4. Brevi considerazioni conclusive.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 30 gennaio
Nanophyes brevis subsp. brevis Boheman 1845
Creators: name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Colonnelli, Enzo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Nanophyidae
Nanophyes
Nanophyes brevis
Nanophyes brevis brevis boheman, 1845

description: Nanophyes brevis brevis Boheman, 1845
Distribution in Iran. “Persia” (Klima 1934; Legalov et al. 2010).
General distribution. Albania, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, European Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine.
description: Published as part of Ghahari, Hassan & Colonnelli, Enzo, 2020, An annotated checklist of the Iranian Brentidae (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), pp. 151-178 in Zootaxa 4759 (2) on page 172, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4759.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3737365
A flow-based latent state generative model of neural population responses to natural images
Creators: name: Bashiri, Mohammad
name: Walker, Edgar Y.
name: Lurz, Konstantin-Klemens
name: Jagadish, Akshay K.
name: Muhammad, Taliah
name: Ding, Zhiwei
name: Ding, Zhuokun
name: Tolias, Andreas S.
name: Sinz, Fabian H.
Publisher: name: G-Node
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computational Neuroscience
Sensory processing and perception

description: Bernstein Conference 2021 abstract. http://bernstein-conference.de
L’ospedale ecclesiastico: un’economia civile
Creators: name: Attollino, Simona
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012
Subjects: Enti ecclesiastici

description: Il contributo - segnalato dal Prof. Raffaele Coppola, che ne attesta la scientificità ed originalità - è destinato alla pubblicazione nella rivista Il diritto ecclesiastico
SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa: l’attualità del tema – 2. Il Welfare State e le “nuove” protezioni sociali – 3. La laicità alla prova: sussidiarietà e cooperazione – 4. L’ente ecclesiastico ospedale classificato – 5. Libertà religiosa e associazionismo.
Abstract :
With this essay the Author analyses the way hospitals, managed by religious organizations (from here stems the Italian notion of so-called “ecclesiastical hospitals”), act in respect to the health care system, which in Italy is informed by the principle stated in article 32 of the Constitution: this principle affirms that “the Republic safeguards health as a fundamental right of the individual as a collective interest”. In particular, the Author is able to demonstrate that the integration process concerning the ecclesiastical hospitals can be considered either a result of the principle of “Subsidiarity” (in the horizontal sense of the term) or a product of the important role that, in Italian legal system, has been traditionally recognised to the religious groups, in primis to the Catholic ones. Despite a legal context more and more secularised, in Italy religion still plays a crucial role, especially in fields related to the common wealth. In this manner, with their organizations, religious groups can help the State in affirming and protecting the constitutional “values”, including those values which were stemmed from to secular roots.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2012: 6 febbraio