cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Multiparametric MR Imaging in Prostate Cancer Diagnosis: make it easy
Creators: name: Popa, Gelu
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Pelvis
subject: Oncology
subject: MR
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Cancer
subject: Neoplasia

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: - To describe the basic MRI semiology of prostate cancer indicating the advantages and limitations of each sequence used and to elaborate an optimal MRI protocol. - To explain how to use the Prostate Imaging and Reporting Archiving Data System...
The effects of a mindfulness meditation training intervention on emotional stroop performance and emotion regulation
Creators: name: Matthews, BE
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Mindfulness is a metacognitive skill that is suggested to have salutary effects on attentional control and emotion regulation. To examine this, the current study assessed the effects of one week of neurofeedback-based mindfulness training on emotion regulation and emotional interference. Twenty-two females and 11 males aged 20-24 years were recruited and randomly allocated to a mindfulness or relaxation control condition. Participants completed questionnaire measures of wellbeing and emotion regulation and an emotional Stroop task (ES task) to assess emotional interference. On the ES task, participants responded faster to congruent relative to neutral (p=.003) and negative words (p<.001), although there was no difference between negative and neutral words (p=.327), indicating the absence of an emotional Stroop effect. The hypothesised reduction in emotional interference and improved emotion regulation for the mindfulness condition was not supported. Predicted improvements in measures of wellbeing were also not found. Limitations, implications, and recommendations for future research are discussed.
Kaiser Family Foundation/NPR/Harvard Poll: The Public and the Health Care Delivery System
Creators: name: Harvard T.H. Chan School Of Public Health
name: Kaiser Family Foundation
name: National Public Radio
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2010

description: Seeking medical advice (1); type of place to receive medical care (1); number of doctors visited (1); health care professionals coordinating (1); doctors entering information into computer (1); accessing medical tests online (1); paper vs. electronic medical records (1); confidence in electronic medical records accessed online (1); online electronic records reducing health care cost (4); occurrences stemming from online electronic health records (6); problems in health care system (2); doctors choosing treatment (1); insurance paying for certain treatments (2); outside group choosing treatments to be covered by insurance (3); insurance companies paying doctors (1); getting an appointment (4); doctor discussing reasons for certain treatments (5); doctor's charges (2); medical tests (7); actions relating to medical problem (6); health insurance coverage (6); shopping for health insurance (5); insurance costs (3); actions because of cost (6); problems paying bills (1); being denied health insurance coverage (1); insurance not paying for prescribed treatment (3); employment (1): consequences for taking time off (1).
Embeddability and universal theory of partially commutative groups
Creators: name: Casals-Ruiz, Montserrat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F36, 20A05

description: The first part of the paper centers in the study of embeddability between partially commutative groups. In [KK], for a finite simplicial graph $Γ$, the authors introduce an infinite, locally infinite graph $Γ^e$, called the extension graph of $Γ$. They show that each finite induced subgraph $Δ$ of $Γ^e$ gives rise to an embedding between the partially commutative groups $G(Δ)$ and $G(Γ)$. Furthermore, it is proven that in many instances the converse also holds. Our first result is the decidability of the Extension Graph Embedding Problem: there is an algorithm that given two finite simplicial graphs Δ and Γ decides whether or not $Δ$ is an induced subgraph of $Γ^e$. As a corollary we obtain the decidability of the Embedding Problem for 2-dimensional partially commutative groups. In the second part of the paper, we relate the Embedding Problem between partially commutative groups to the model-theoretic question of classification up to universal equivalence. We use our characterisation to transfer algebraic and algorithmic results on embeddability to model-theoretic ones and obtain some rigidity results on the elementary theory of atomic pc groups as well as to deduce the existence of an algorithm to decide if an arbitrary pc group is universally equivalent to a 2-dimensional one.
description: 40 pages in International Mathematical Research Notices 2015
Growth fluctuation in preferential attachment dynamics
Creators: name: Hashimoto, Yasuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the Yule-Simon process, selection of words follows the preferential attachment mechanism, resulting in the power-law growth in the cumulative number of individual word occurrences. This is derived using mean-field approximation, assuming a continuum limit of both the time and number of word occurrences. However, time and word occurrences are inherently discrete in the process, and it is natural to assume that the cumulative number of word occurrences has a certain fluctuation around the average behavior predicted by the mean-field approximation. We derive the exact and approximate forms of the probability distribution of such fluctuation analytically and confirm that those probability distributions are well supported by the numerical experiments.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, 1 table revtex format. Ver.2: some references and related remarks were added in response to the comments we received
title: Myocardial perfusion defects and fibrosis in early systemic sclerosis (SSc) assessed using cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR)
Creators: name: Gennarelli, Antonio
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: MR
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Sclerosis
subject: Connective tissue disorders

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Contrast-enhanced Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CE-CMR) is an important diagnostic tool for the assessment of myocardial diseases. CMR-Myocardial Perfusion Imaging (MPI) can be used to identify myocardial ischemia in different cardiac disease; CMR-LE...
The effects of a mindfulness meditation training intervention on emotional stroop performance and emotion regulation
Creators: name: Matthews, EM
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Mindfulness is a metacognitive skill that is suggested to have salutary effects on attentional control and emotion regulation. To examine this, the current study assessed the effects of one week of neurofeedback-based mindfulness training on emotion regulation and emotional interference. Twenty-two females and 11 males aged 20-24 years were recruited and randomly allocated to a mindfulness or relaxation control condition. Participants completed questionnaire measures of wellbeing and emotion regulation and an emotional Stroop task (ES task) to assess emotional interference. On the ES task, participants responded faster to congruent relative to neutral (p=.003) and negative words (p<.001), although there was no difference between negative and neutral words (p=.327), indicating the absence of an emotional Stroop effect. The hypothesised reduction in emotional interference and improved emotion regulation for the mindfulness condition was not supported. Predicted improvements in measures of wellbeing were also not found. Limitations, implications, and recommendations for future research are discussed.
Hypothesis
Creators: name: Oren, Shiran
name: Schonberg, Tom
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: We hypothesize that for the short term effects, immediately after the training, the rewarding cue will have a similar effect to the non-rewarding cue, and will result in enhanced probability of choosing the associated snack food items. However, we expect to find differences in the long-term effects of this manipulation after two months. Meaning, in a recall study, after two month period from the initial training, without further training, the rewarding cue will have a weaker effect on the probability to choose the associated snack food items, compared to the long lasting effects of the non-reinforcing cue reported in Schonberg et al., 2014 and Bakkour et al., 2016.
Identifying Set Inclusion by Projective Positions and Mixed Volumes
Creators: name: Florentin, D. I.
name: Milman, V. D.
name: Segal, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52A05, 52A20, 52A38, 52A39, 51N15, 46B20

description: We study a few approaches to identify inclusion (up to a shift) between two convex bodies in ${\mathbb R}^n$. To this goal we use mixed volumes and fractional linear maps. We prove that inclusion may be identified by comparing volume or surface area of all projective positions of the sets. We prove similar results for Minkowski sums of the sets.
An Evaluation of HEY-Durham, a High School Curriculum Addressing Health-Risk Behaviors in Adolescents
Creators: name: Clark, Marie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: Background The prevalence of health-risk behaviors is high in the adolescent population; medical-student run health curricula are one potential solution to help improve high school student knowledge, attitude and behavior toward these health risks. The Health, Education, and Youth in Durham (HEY-Durham) program is an eight-week high school health curriculum taught by Duke University medical students at Durham School of the Arts. We performed an evaluation of HEYDurham to test the hypothesis that the program would 1) increase high school student knowledge, behavior and self-efficacy and 2) improve high school student, medical student and high school teacher attitude toward the HEYDurham program. Methods Pre-intervention and post-intervention surveys were administered to high school students, medical students, and high school teachers during the HEY-Durham curriculum. The Mann-Whitney test and Pearson's Chi-square test were used to detect the statistical significance of differences between pre-intervention and postintervention responses to survey items assessing knowledge, safe behavior intention and self-efficacy of high school students and attitude of all participants. Results There was no significant difference in total know ledge score of the high school students. One knowledge item (emergency contraception) showed a significant increase in knowledge post-intervention, and one item showed a significant decrease in knowledge (appearance ofHlV infection). Knowledge score in one subject area (sexuality/contraceptive knowledge) significantly increased. There was a significant increase in student intent to carry a weapon to school. High school students had a positive attitude toward the program and showed a significant increase in self-assessment of health knowledge after the intervention. The medical students displayed a positive attitude toward the program. However, medical student attitude toward HEY-Durham became significantly more negative in two of six survey items. Health teachers also had positive attitude scores, which remained consistent. Conclusions The hypothesis was not supported by our results. Overall, high school student knowledge, behavior and attitude were not improved following the HEY-Durham intervention. Participants had a positive attitude toward the program, which did not improve post-intervention. Study results will be utilized to improve the HEYDurham program and to help guide future evaluations of medical student interventions in high school classrooms, with the hope of reducing the high prevalence of adverse risk behaviors among adolescents.
title: Introduction of a portable intra-operative specimen radiography machine for breast conserving surgery - operative time and second operation rate
Creators: name: Ong, Jeremy
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Digital radiography
subject: Surgery
subject: Cost-effectiveness
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Intra-operative specimen radiography (IOSR) ensures needle localised impalpable lesions are removed in breast conserving surgery (BCS) (1). IOSR simultaneously provides surgeons with an opportunity to assess extent of disease and margins...
Self-similarity of proton spin and z-scaling
Creators: name: Tokarev, M.
name: Zborovsky, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The concept of z-scaling previously developed for analysis of inclusive reactions in proton-proton collisions is applied for description of processes with polarized particles. Hypothesis of self-similarity of the proton spin structure is discussed. The possibility of extracting information on spin-dependent fractal dimensions of hadrons and fragmentation process from the cross sections and asymmetries is justified. The double longitudinal spin asymmetry A_{LL} of jet and pi0-meson production and the coefficient of polarization transfer D_{LL} measured in proton-proton collisions at sqrt s = 200 GeV at RHIC are analyzed in the framework of z-scaling. The spin-dependent fractal dimension of proton is estimated.
description: 4 pages, LaTeX, 6 figures, Presented at the XVI Workshop on High Energy Spin Physics (DSPIN-15), 8-12 September, 2015, Dubna, Russia
From the Page to the Patient: A Critical Analysis of the Policy Issues Associated with Translating Evidence into Evidence-Based Practice
Creators: name: Muchiteni, Tshaka
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: Although most people today assume that evidence-based medicine has had a significant effect on improving certain aspects of health care quality, it is also clear that evidence-based medicine has yet to reach its full potential and still has quite a bit of room to grow. Unfortunately, the principle that served as the foundation of evidence-based medicine has not lived up to its original promise. In this paper, I examine guideline implementation programs with the intention of identifying the underlying characteristics that contribute to their success and exploring ways in which these values can be adapted in the future. First, I briefly discuss the historical context of evidence-based medicine, its original intention, and how that perception has changed over time. This discussion presents the three-step process of practicing evidencebased medicine: developing systematic reviews; creating clinical practice guidelines; and implementing those guidelines in clinical practice. It addresses the barriers impeding the process and shows how guideline implementation programs dismantle those obstacles. Second, the paper delineates the treatment gap between best practice defined by research evidence and actual clinical practice and it illustrates the gap by looking specifically at beta-blocker use in the secondary prevention of myocardial infarction. The analysis shows that guideline implementation programs targeted to increase the use of beta-blockers in myocardial infarction patients appear to be related to more evidence-based practice and, through that improved practice, on better health outcomes. The literature suggests that general data feedback, clinical care coordinators, and clinical education are associated with successful guideline implementation programs. Programs designed to reach multiple hospitals benefit from simultaneous use of a wide variety of implementation supports. Smaller programs, on the other hand, benefit from goal-directed designs focusing on a few key components tailored to their particular needs. The paper concludes with implications for research, ongoing program development, future policymaking, and the success of evidence-based medicine in general.
SWIFT view of the 2015 outburst of GS 2023+338 (V404 Cyg): complex evolution of spectral and temporal characteristics
Creators: name: D., Radhika
name: Nandi, A.
name: Agrawal, V. K.
name: Mandal, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the spectral and temporal characteristics of the source GS 2023$+$338 (V404 Cyg) during the initial phase of its June 2015 outburst, over the energy range of 0.5 - 150 keV. This is the first detailed study of the characteristics of this source based on {\it SWIFT} observations, being reported. Based on our analysis, we understand that the source existed in the hard, intermediate and soft spectral states. We find that the evolution of the spectral parameters, the hardness intensity diagram and the rms-intensity diagram are not similar to those observed for most of the outbursting black hole sources. We also observe presence of weak peaked components in the power density spectra during the intermediate state of the source. Dramatic changes in the spectral and temporal properties are also exhibited before the ejection of a radio jet suggesting it to be associated with the coronal mass ejection. It seems that may be due to evacuation of the inner part of the Keplerian disc for a short duration, the disc component is not observed after the huge radio flare. The absorption features observed in the low energy spectra suggest the presence of wind emission and the evolution of the characteristics of the variable Fe line emission during both hard and intermediate states, indicate its origin to be probably related to the wind/outflow.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: Sclerosing adenosis of the breast: can we picture it?
Creators: name: Armas Goncalves, Monica
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Pathology
subject: Cancer
subject: Biopsy
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: Mammography
subject: Breast

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To be familiarized with the clinical and radiological presentations of sclerosing adenosis; To be aware of sclerosing adenosis as a mimicker of breast malignancy; To correlate histopathological features with the imaging...
Preventing Illness in the Public Schools
Creators: name: Sweet, Christina R. L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Since I started working in the public school system in the fall of 2003, the place I call work sometimes feels like a big box infested with germs. I had never washed my hands so much in my life. Bacteria is crawling everywhere with these little people coughing, sneezing, picking their nose, and using the bathroom and not washing their hands. They touch everything – from their desk, pencils, crayons, papers, books, other students, doorknobs, and the staff. It's understandable why parents have concerns when H1N1 enters their child's school and they respond by keeping their perfectly healthy child home when they're not sick. Many parents have concerns about their children attending school and possibly contracting H1N1 or some other disease. It is interesting to think that some of these parents send their children to school with a cold, or worse, when they had vomited the night before and then they themselves may go to work when they are sick with a cold or a minor case of the flu. It's not only important for the adults to know how to protect themselves from getting sick, but their children and the people who work with them and support them daily in the schools. Besides the simple information that anyone can use to stay healthy, programs that can be implemented into the schools, like any program, need staff and money. Whether the challenges can be addressed may be too broad to be answered in a paper, but we can still educate everyone in the importance of disease prevention by simply washing your hands and following the recommended vaccination schedule to help prevent keeping healthy children home from school or having school systems close schools because of illness.
title: Comparison of whole liver with single and multiple ROIS of hepatic steatosis
Creators: name: Alkubeyyer, Metab
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Comparative studies
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: MR
subject: Liver
subject: Abdomen
subject: Metabolic disorders
subject: Image verification

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To compare hepatic fat fraction of the whole liver perimeter with single and multiple regions of interest...
Doctoral_Thesis_S_Chakrabarti
Creators: name: Chakrabarti Satarupa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: My primary (thesis) work is in the area of biomedical signal processing. I work in designing effective epileptic seizure detection model for pediatric patients using traditional machine learning approaches as well as deep learning algorithms. I have designed generalized epileptic detection method that works for both non-invasive and invasive electroencephalogram (EEG) signals.
Models
Creators: name: Broekman, André
name: Steyn, Wynand
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: agricultural engineering
subject: agriculture
subject: Arduino
subject: avodadoes
subject: civil engineering
subject: Civiltronics
subject: postharvest
subject: sensor platform
subject: smart fruit
subject: smaTo
subject: smAvo
subject: TinyDuino
subject: tomatoes

description: STL files of the smAvo and smaTo external shell
Organised crime, corruption and the movement of people across borders in the new enlarged EU: A case study of Estonia, Finland and the UK
Creators: name: Spencer, Jon
name: Broad, Rose
name: Aromaa, Kauko
name: Junninen, Mika
name: Markina, Anna
name: Saar, Jüri
name: Viljanen, Terhi
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Europäische Union , Mitgliedsstaaten , Organisiertes Verbrechen , Korruption , Estland , Finnland , Großbritannien
subject: 360

description: The project reported here is a three-country project, Estonia, Finland and the UK. It is funded by the European Commission AGIS Programme, The Directorate General Justice, Freedom and Security. It investigates the issues of corruption by organised crime in relation to border controls and immigration using as a case study the Finnish-Russian and the Estonian-Russian border. It also considers the methods of facilitation of people across borders, the role of crime groups and networks as well as organised crime and the relationship between illegal facilitation and exploitation in the labour market. The aim of the research was to investigate whether at border points there was evidence of corruption of officials in order to facilitate people across the border illegally. The issue of organised crime was identified as an important factor in understanding how people might be moved across borders illegally. If there was evidence of organised crime it would suggest that transnational networks between organised crime groups might exist and that there are strategic forms of communication between the organised crime groups in order to facilitate the maximisation of profit through the movement of people. If such an influence of organised crime in ‘immigration crime’ were to be discovered then it would indicate that EU borders are porous and therefore readily exploited by organised crime groups. In Finland, particular attention was given to the issues concerning the ‘Development Plan of Border Guards’ and the planned cooperation in relation to Organised Crime and Combating Corruption. The contention was that the EU border with Russia is ‘weak’ and vulnerable to corruption at different levels: systemic, institutional and individual. Our argument was that corruption is used to maintain the flow of people across the border illegitimately by utilising existing legitimate channels. It was the Finnish view that organised crime groups used the Finnish – Russian and the Russian – Estonian borders to bring in illegal immigrants into the EU. Consequently the project was designed to take account of organised immigration crime and so was required to address the issue of human trafficking along with people smuggling and facilitation of people across borders. This raised a number of definitional issues and highlighted the varying perspectives between academic approaches to the problem and those of senior policy makers and operational staff.
Men's experiences of violence in Finland 2009
Creators: name: Heiskanen, Markku
name: Ruuskanen, Elina
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Finnland , Mann , Gewalttätigkeit , Verbrechensopfer
subject: 360

description: This report describes violence committed against men in Finland. The study was financed by the European Commission, the Finnish Ministry of Justice and the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. The initial objective of the project was to pilot the Safety Survey of the EU (EU-SASU). Thus, the study deals both with men’s and women’s experiences of violence. Although the main focus of the report is on violence experienced by men, data on women are presented for comparison.
Sexual Harassment Whistleblowing in the Uganda Health Workforce
Creators: name: Brierley, Erica
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: This paper serves as a detailed review of sexual harassment and whistleblowing behaviors to summarize the challenges of addressing sexual harassment in the Uganda health workforce. The whistleblowing pathway is a complex process with four main decision-making steps: wrongful act, cost-benefit analysis of taking action, choice of reporting system, and reaction to outcomes. Intangible and structural reasons to or not to whistleblow are composed of individual, organizational, stimulus, and cultural factors. These are considered at each step of the decision-making process. The negative effects of intimidation and possible retaliation are heightened by the sensitive, and even taboo, nature of sexual harassment in Ugandan society. The conceptual understanding and interpretation of what constitutes sexual harassment, as well as how it is addressed in policies play a major role in whistleblowing efforts. Clearer definitions, standardized sanction recommendations can help support and improve sexual harassment conditions and whistleblowing behaviors in Uganda’s healthcare workforce.
Blue Criminology: The power of United Nations ideas to counter crime globally - A monographic study
Creators: name: Redo, Slawomir Marek
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Vereinte Nationen , Kriminalität , Bekämpfung , Kriminologie
subject: 360

description: Zweitveröffentlichung
title: Identification and characterization of nodular hcc with magnetic resonance imaging with gadoexetic acid in cirrhotic livers: comparative analysis with histopathology results after transplantation.
Creators: name: Fabiano, Sebastiano
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Infection
subject: Cirrhosis
subject: Staging
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Contrast agent-other
subject: MR
subject: Liver
subject: Transplantation

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To evaluate diagnostic performance of gadoexetic acid liver magnetic resonance wiyh explant pathologic correlation in the detection of HCC nodule in patients with chronic hepatitis virus infection undergoing liver...
title: Renovascular pathology: interpreting CT findings.
Creators: name: Borja Consigliere, Agustín
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Haemorrhage
subject: Aneurysms
subject: Acute
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT
subject: Kidney

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To study renovascular disease focusing on the interpretation of CT...
Guidelines to prevent abusive recruitment, exploitative employment and trafficking of migrant workers in the Baltic Sea region
Creators: name: Sorrentino, Liliana
name: Jokinen, Anniina
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Ostseeraum , Einwanderer , Arbeitsbedingungen , Ausbeutung , Prävention
subject: 360

description: The Guidelines to Prevent Abusive Recruitment, Exploitative Employment and Trafficking of Migrant Workers in the Baltic Sea Region is the culmination of the project “ADSTRINGO − Addressing Trafficking in Human Beings for Labour Exploitation through Improved Partnerships, Enhanced Diagnostics and Intensified Organisational Approaches”. The project is implemented by the European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, affiliated with the United Nations (HEUNI) together with the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania, the University of Tartu in Estonia and the Council of the Baltic Sea States Task Force against Trafficking in Human Beings (CBSS TF-THB). The aim of these guidelines is to address and tackle the different forms of exploitation and trafficking of migrant workers in the Baltic Sea Region that were identified as problematic in the joint ADSTRINGO research report “Exploitation of Migrant Workers in Finland, Sweden, Estonia and Lithuania. Uncovering the Links between Recruitment, Irregular Employment Practices and Labour Trafficking”. In addition, many of these problematic practices and issues have been identified and discussed in the national experts meetings which have been organised under the ADSTRINGO umbrella in Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, as well as in Poland and Russia. The guidelines have been produced in English and translated to the four other project languages Finnish, Swedish, Estonian and Lithuanian. Ultimately, it is our hope that the guidelines will be utilised in efforts to prevent trafficking for forced labour and to protect the rights of migrant workers in the different countries in the Baltic Sea region.
title: Alternative approaches to the endovascular treatment of dural arteriovenous fistulas.
Creators: name: Borja Consigliere, Agustín
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fistula
subject: Embolisation
subject: MR
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Interventional vascular

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To show alternative vascular access for treatment of dural...
Binary open clusters in the Milky Way: photometric and spectroscopic analysis of NGC 5617 and Trumpler 22
Creators: name: De Silva, G. M.
name: Carraro, G.
name: D'Orazi, V.
name: Efremova, V.
name: Macpherson, H.
name: Martell, S.
name: Rizzo, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using photometry and high resolution spectroscopy we investigate for the first time the physical connection between the open clusters NGC 5617 and Trumpler 22. Based on new CCD photometry we report their spatial proximity and common age of ~70 Myr. Based on high resolution spectra collected using the HERMES and UCLES spectrographs on the Anglo-Australian telescope, we present radial velocities and abundances for Fe, Na, Mg, Al, Si, Ca and Ni. The measured radial velocities are -38.63 +/-2.25 km/s for NGC 5617 and -38.46 +/-2.08 km/s for Trumpler 22. The mean metallicity of NGC 5617 was found to be [Fe/H] =-0.18 +/-0.02 and for Trumpler 22 was found to be [Fe/H] = -0.17 +/-0.04. The two clusters share similar abundances across the other elements, indicative of a common chemical enrichment history of these clusters. Together with common motions and ages we confirm that NGC 5617 and Trumpler 22 are a primordial binary cluster pair in the Milky Way.
description: 7 pages, 3 figure, accepted by MNRAS
Assessing the Coronary Artery Calcium Score: a Systematic Review of Cost-Effectiveness and an Exploratory Association with Masked Hypertension
Creators: name: Lappas, Brian
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Coronary heart disease (CHD) remains the leading cause of death in the United States despite the widespread use of statin therapy in primary prevention. Currently, global risk assessments such as the Framingham risk score estimate the 10-year risk for a CHD event for the purpose of guiding who should receive preventive treatment. As clinicians seek to improve the accuracy and validity of such risk estimation, additional screening methods have been introduced. The coronary artery calcium (CAC) scan is one such method shown to improve net risk classification, although its cost-effectiveness of the scan and its association with other risk factors such as hypertension remain inconclusive. The CAC score (Agatston units) is a strong independent predictor of CHD events and its use in CHD prediction models improves net risk classification more than any other nontraditional risk factor. As a screening tool, its utilization is to direct which patients receive statin therapy from the resulting risk prediction. However, when making a clinical decision to use a screening test, the benefits of the test and resulting treatment must be weighed against the costs and harms. Cost-effective analysis are one way to estimate such utility of a screening tool such as the CAC scan. Another independent risk factor for CHD events is masked hypertension; the phenomenon of having normal office blood pressure readings while having elevated ambulatory blood pressure readings. Masked hypertension reaches levels of CHD risk similar to sustained hypertension, and yet its association with another nontraditional risk factor, CAC, has never been explored. The aim of this master's paper is two-fold; first, to assess the cost-effectiveness of the CAC scan guiding statin therapy versus a broad treatment strategy; second, to explore if patients with MH are more likely to have CAC present than those with sustained normotension.
Miconia holosericea De Candolle 1828
Creators: name: Corrêa, André Luis
name: Scudeller, Veridiana Vizoni
name: Goldenberg, Renato
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Myrtales
Melastomataceae
Miconia
Miconia holosericea

description: 25. Miconia holosericea (Linnaeus 1753: 390) De Candolle (1828: 181).
Shrubs 1.60–2.30 m tall. Slightly scaly rhytidome, whitish brown. Branches erect, cylindrical, not winged, rufous, full; branches, petioles, leaves abaxial surface, inflorescences, bracts, bracteoles, hypanthium and fruits with dendritic persistent trichomes. Leaves opposite, isophyllous; petioles channelled 1–1.8 cm long; leaf blades 14.8–20.1 × 7.3–12.3 cm, chartaceous, discolored, symmetrical, elliptical or oblong-elliptic, base cuneate, apex acuminate, margins entire, not ciliate, adaxial side glabrous, young leaves with dendritic trichomes,, leaf veins 5, suprabasal; ant domatia absent. Paniculate 6.3–1.2 × 6.8–7.8 cm, terminal; bracts ca. 6.3 mm long, ovate, caducous; bracteoles 4.6 mm long. Flowers 6-merous, sessile; hypanthium 6 mm long, campanulate, smooth; calyx simple, caducous; lacinia ovate; petals 6.9–7.2 × 3.9–4.1 mm, white, obovate, symmetrical, apex rounded, base attenuate, margins not ciliate, glabrous; stamens 12, heteromorphic, smaller anthers 5.1–5.4 mm, larger anthers 6.8–7.1 mm long, pinkish, sickle-shaped, slightly curved, apex attenuate, 1 apical pore, connective not prolonged, smaller filaments 5–5.2 mm, larger filaments 6.9–7.1 mm long, glabrous; ovary 1.9– 1.5 mm, half-inferior, placentation axillary, with glandular trichomes; style 14.7–15.3 mm long, straight, with glandular persistent trichomes. Berry 6.2–6.5 × 6.5–6.7 mm, unripe fruit green, ripe fruit blackish or purple. Seeds numerous, triangular.
 Specimens examined:— BRAZIL. Amazonas, Manaus, RDS-Tupé, 25 October 2012, fl., A. L. Corrêa 83 (EAFM!, HUAM!, INPA!); 07 December 2012, fl., A. L. Corrêa 118 (EAFM!, HUAM!, INPA!); 30 January 2013, fl., A. L. Corrêa 131 (EAFM!, HUAM!, INPA!); 30 January 2013, fl., A. L. Corrêa 132 (EAFM!, HUAM!, INPA!).
 Additional specimen examined:— BRAZIL. Amazonas, Manaus, 21 April 1984, fr., S.Renner 893 (INPA!).
 Distribution and habitat:— Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Nigaragua, Costa rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Peru, Bolivia (Goldenberg et al. 2013). In Brazil it occurs in Amazonian forests, Cerrado and Atlantic forest (Goldenberg & Caddah 2015). In the reserve, it occurs in terra-firme plateaus, on well drained, clay soil with a lot of organic matter.
 Comments:— This species is frequent in the reserve. It can be recognized by the whitish brown, slightly scaly rhytidome, by the dendritic trichomes all over the plant, channelled petioles, and 6-merous flowers.
description: Published as part of Corrêa, André Luis, Scudeller, Veridiana Vizoni & Goldenberg, Renato, 2017, Melastomataceae in the Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável do Tupé, Amazonas, Brazil, pp. 101-127 in Phytotaxa 323 (2) on page 118, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.323.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13696786
European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics 2014
Creators: name: Aebi, Marcelo F.
name: Akdeniz, Galma
name: Barclay, Gordon
name: Campistol, Claudia
name: Caneppele, Stefano
name: Gruszczyńska, Beata
name: Harrendorf, Stefan
name: Heiskanen, Markku
name: Hysi, Vasilika
name: Jehle, Jörg-Martin
name: Jokinen, Anniina
name: Kensey, Annie
name: Killias, Martin
name: Lewis, Chris G.
name: Savona, Ernesto
name: Smit, Paul
name: Þórisdóttir, Rannveig
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Europa , Kriminalstatistik
subject: 360

description: This is the fifth edition of a data collection initiative that started in 1993 under the umbrella of the Council of Europe. As was the case with the earlier editions, it was prepared by an international group of experts, who have recently formed a legal entity called European Sourcebook of Criminal Justice e.V.. The format developed during the earlier editions was maintained, especially the network of national correspondents and regional coordinators whose contribution has, once more, been decisive in collecting and validating data on a variety of subjects from 41 countries. New categories for the collection of data on community sanctions and measures and probation agencies were introduced with the support of the Confederation of European Probation (CEP). In addition, the chapter on victimization surveys for the first time refers to national studies, as no recent international survey was available. The present document covers the years 2007 to 2011 for police, prosecution, conviction and prison statistics, with detailed analyses for 2010.
title: MRI imaging of thick peripheral nerves and differential diagnosis in adult population
Creators: name: Akkaya, Zehra
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology peripheral nerve
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Abdomen
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Congenital

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: In this study, we propose to - Overview the major diseases which involve the peripheral nerves in adults with regard to MRI findings in review of literature. - To exemplify some of the frequently encountered diseases and some rare entities that may...
Memory and information processing in neuromorphic systems
Creators: name: Indiveri, Giacomo
name: Liu, Shih-Chii
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A striking difference between brain-inspired neuromorphic processors and current von Neumann processors architectures is the way in which memory and processing is organized. As Information and Communication Technologies continue to address the need for increased computational power through the increase of cores within a digital processor, neuromorphic engineers and scientists can complement this need by building processor architectures where memory is distributed with the processing. In this paper we present a survey of brain-inspired processor architectures that support models of cortical networks and deep neural networks. These architectures range from serial clocked implementations of multi-neuron systems to massively parallel asynchronous ones and from purely digital systems to mixed analog/digital systems which implement more biological-like models of neurons and synapses together with a suite of adaptation and learning mechanisms analogous to the ones found in biological nervous systems. We describe the advantages of the different approaches being pursued and present the challenges that need to be addressed for building artificial neural processing systems that can display the richness of behaviors seen in biological systems.
description: Submitted to Proceedings of IEEE, review of recently proposed neuromorphic computing platforms and systems
title: MR Quantitative Imaging Characterization of Adrenal Adenomas: Comparison between lipid-rich and lipid-poor lesions.
Creators: name: Maurea, Simone
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: MR
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Endocrine disorders

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Chemical-shift (CS) MR sequence has been demonstrated to be able to identify lipid-rich (typical) adrenal adenomas (1-2) , while T1-weighted (T1-W) dynamic sequence after gadolinium (Gd) has been proposed to characterize both typical and a-typical...
A region of watersheds: Refreshing inter-municipal planning
Creators: name: Schwartzenberger, Stan
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Watersheds--Alberta
subject: Water use--Alberta--Planning
subject: Water use--Law and legislation--Alberta

description: Stan Schwartzenberger reports on the emergence of local watershed-based stewardship initiatives as the possible well-spring of a revival of inter-municipal, if not regional, planning in Alberta.
description: Presentation from the cross-country plenary session of the 2000 CIP conference.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/6348/Schwartzenberger.pdf?sequence=3
General Attitudes Towards and Barriers to Integrating Tobacco Interventions into Substance Abuse Facilities: A Study of R.J. Blackley in Butner, North Carolina
Creators: name: Patel, Bianca
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Patients in clinical settings for alcohol and drug addiction treatment are likely to be smokers and over their lifetime are more likely to die from tobacco-related causes rather than their addictions. A compelling case also exists for incorporating tobacco cessation interventions into these settings to enhance patient health outcomes, but it has not been common to do so partially due to staff and patient resistance. The following study provides a qualitative analysis of data gathered from the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Center in Butner, North Carolina regarding staff attitudes towards the introduction of a tobacco cessation program as the center is in the process of becoming a smoke-free campus and employees are helping design the transition. Twenty conversational semi-structured interviews were performed with members of the leadership team, design team, and other front-line staff members to gain a better understanding of existing perceptions about tobacco cessation, the process in place for the transition to a tobacco free campus, and any barriers to success. The interviews were analyzed and general attitudes about tobacco cessation programs in clinical behavioral health settings were assessed. Finally, using the appraised qualitative data, further recommendations are provided to potentially allow other addiction treatment centers to implement similar programs to address tobacco usage amongst their own patients.
title: Retrospective Evaluation of Abdominal Injuries in Syrian refugees which determined with Multidetector Computed Tomography
Creators: name: Aglagul, Ela
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Health policy and practice
subject: CT
subject: Emergency
subject: Abdomen
subject: Occupational / Environmental hazards

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: World developed by physicians of experience gained in the injury information during wars, also improved the necessary and appropriate surgical approach. In this article, we aimed to retrospectively evaluate multidetector computed tomography (MDCT)...
The Ultrafast Optical Response of the Amorphous and Crystalline States of the Phase Change Material Ge$_2$Sb$_2$Te$_5$
Creators: name: Miller, Timothy A.
name: Rudé, Miquel
name: Pruneri, Valerio
name: Wall, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the ultrafast optical response of the crystalline and amorphous phases of the phase change material Ge$_2$Sb$_2$Te$_5$ below the phase transformation threshold. Simultaneous measurement of the transmissivity and reflectivity of thin film samples yields the time-dependent evolution of the dielectric function for both phases. We then identify how lattice motion and electronic excitation manifest in the dielectric response. The dielectric response of both phases is large but markedly different. At 800 nm, the changes in amorphous GST are well described by the Drude response of the generated photo-carriers, whereas the crystalline phase is better described by the depopulation of resonant bonds. We find that the generated coherent phonons have a greater influence in the amorphous phase than the crystalline phase. Furthermore, coherent phonons do not influence resonant bonding. For fluences up to 50% of the transformation threshold, the structure does not exhibit bond softening in either phase, enabling large changes of the optical properties without structural modification.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures