cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Data Cleaning Procedures
Creators: name: Turner, Brianna
name: Legg, Nicole
name: Helps, Carolyn
name: Robillard, Christina
name: Prud'homme, Julie
name: Hofer, Marlise
name: Senay, Zack
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This document describes the procedures used to screen responses from the Many Minds surveys for potential indicators of poor effort or attention.
title: Detection of intracranial aneurysms: digital subtraction CT angiography are necessary?
Creators: name: Gong, Ruozhen
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Head and neck
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Aneurysms

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of digital subtraction computed tomographic angiography (DSCTA) in the detection of intracranial aneurysms compared with Three-dimensional CT Angiography with Volume Rendering...
Synthetic white balancing for intra-operative hyperspectral imaging
Creators: name: Bahl, Anisha
name: Horgan, Conor C.
name: Janatka, Mirek
name: MacCormac, Oscar J.
name: Noonan, Philip
name: Xie, Yijing
name: Qiu, Jianrong
name: Cavalcanti, Nicola
name: Fürnstahl, Philipp
name: Ebner, Michael
name: Bergholt, Mads S.
name: Shapey, Jonathan
name: Vercauteren, Tom
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Hyperspectral imaging shows promise for surgical applications to non-invasively provide spatially-resolved, spectral information. For calibration purposes, a white reference image of a highly-reflective Lambertian surface should be obtained under the same imaging conditions. Standard white references are not sterilizable, and so are unsuitable for surgical environments. We demonstrate the necessity for in situ white references and address this by proposing a novel, sterile, synthetic reference construction algorithm. The use of references obtained at different distances and lighting conditions to the subject were examined. Spectral and color reconstructions were compared with standard measurements qualitatively and quantitatively, using $ΔE$ and normalised RMSE respectively. The algorithm forms a composite image from a video of a standard sterile ruler, whose imperfect reflectivity is compensated for. The reference is modelled as the product of independent spatial and spectral components, and a scalar factor accounting for gain, exposure, and light intensity. Evaluation of synthetic references against ideal but non-sterile references is performed using the same metrics alongside pixel-by-pixel errors. Finally, intraoperative integration is assessed though cadaveric experiments. Improper white balancing leads to increases in all quantitative and qualitative errors. Synthetic references achieve median pixel-by-pixel errors lower than 6.5% and produce similar reconstructions and errors to an ideal reference. The algorithm integrated well into surgical workflow, achieving median pixel-by-pixel errors of 4.77%, while maintaining good spectral and color reconstruction.
description: 22 pages, 10 figures
KheOps: Cost-effective Repeatability, Reproducibility, and Replicability of Edge-to-Cloud Experiments
Creators: name: Rosendo, Daniel
name: Keahey, Kate
name: Costan, Alexandru
name: Simonin, Matthieu
name: Valduriez, Patrick
name: Antoniu, Gabriel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Distributed infrastructures for computation and analytics are now evolving towards an interconnected ecosystem allowing complex scientific workflows to be executed across hybrid systems spanning from IoT Edge devices to Clouds, and sometimes to supercomputers (the Computing Continuum). Understanding the performance trade-offs of large-scale workflows deployed on such complex Edge-to-Cloud Continuum is challenging. To achieve this, one needs to systematically perform experiments, to enable their reproducibility and allow other researchers to replicate the study and the obtained conclusions on different infrastructures. This breaks down to the tedious process of reconciling the numerous experimental requirements and constraints with low-level infrastructure design choices.To address the limitations of the main state-of-the-art approaches for distributed, collaborative experimentation, such as Google Colab, Kaggle, and Code Ocean, we propose KheOps, a collaborative environment specifically designed to enable cost-effective reproducibility and replicability of Edge-to-Cloud experiments. KheOps is composed of three core elements: (1) an experiment repository; (2) a notebook environment; and (3) a multi-platform experiment methodology.We illustrate KheOps with a real-life Edge-to-Cloud application. The evaluations explore the point of view of the authors of an experiment described in an article (who aim to make their experiments reproducible) and the perspective of their readers (who aim to replicate the experiment). The results show how KheOps helps authors to systematically perform repeatable and reproducible experiments on the Grid5000 + FIT IoT LAB testbeds. Furthermore, KheOps helps readers to cost-effectively replicate authors experiments in different infrastructures such as Chameleon Cloud + CHI@Edge testbeds, and obtain the same conclusions with high accuracies (> 88% for all performance metrics).
Cardiopulmonary Responses of Wistar Kyoto (WKY), Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHR) and Stroke Prone SHR (SHRSP) to Particulate Matter (PM) Exposure
Creators: name: Wallenborn, Jacqueline Grace
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: A link between cardiopulmonary disease and increased susceptibility to particulate matter (PM) exposure exists, however the mechanistic link remains undefined. To investigate this, we compared the cardiopulmonary response of SHR, SHRSP and WKY rats to oil combustion PM exposure. Male rats (12-15 wks age) were intratracheally instilled with saline or 1.11, 3.33 or 8.33 mg/kg of PM. Pulmonary injury was induced in all strains, and pulmonary leakage was exacerbated in SHRSP. No exposure related lesions were noted in the hearts of either WKY or SHRSP. Changes in levels of ferritin, antioxidants and mitochondrial enzymes seen in the hearts of SHRSP only suggest a cardiac effect in this strain only. These data suggest SHRSP are slightly more susceptible than WKY and SHR to PM induced pulmonary vascular leakage and cardiac oxidative stress. Additionally, translocation of PM associated metals from lungs to systemic circulation may be playing a role in injury causation.
3D holography: from discretum to continuum
Creators: name: Bonzom, Valentin
name: Dittrich, Bianca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the one-loop partition function of 3D gravity without cosmological constant on the solid torus with arbitrary metric fluctuations on the boundary. To this end we employ the discrete approach of (quantum) Regge calculus. In contrast with similar calculations performed directly in the continuum, we work with a boundary at finite distance from the torus axis. We show that after taking the continuum limit on the boundary - but still keeping finite distance from the torus axis - the one-loop correction is the same as the one recently found in the continuum in Barnich et al. for an asymptotically flat boundary. The discrete approach taken here allows to identify the boundary degrees of freedom which are responsible for the non-trivial structure of the one-loop correction. We therefore calculate also the Hamilton-Jacobi function to quadratic order in the boundary fluctuations both in the discrete set-up and directly in the continuum theory. We identify a dual boundary field theory with a Liouville type coupling to the boundary metric. The discrete set-up allows again to identify the dual field with degrees of freedom associated to radial bulk edges attached to the boundary. Integrating out this dual field reproduces the (boundary diffeomorphism invariant part of the) quadratic order of the Hamilton-Jacobi functional. The considerations here show that bulk boundary dualities might also emerge at finite boundaries and moreover that discrete approaches are helpful in identifying such dualities.
description: 42 pages
title: Glioblastoma multiforme: perfusion and its relation to the subventricular zone
Creators: name: Kimura, Margareth
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Oncology
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR
subject: Experimental
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Technology assessment
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Gene therapy
subject: Tissue characterisation

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: To determine if the initial location of glioblastoma (GB) and its relationship to the subventricular zone (SVZ) can predict the pattern of recurrence and to access if relative cerebral blood volume (rCBV) maps are able to show increased perfusion on...
title: Magnetic resonance angiography of the perforating arteries in pathological states
Creators: name: Akashi, Toshiaki
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Education
subject: MR-Angiography
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: CNS
subject: Anatomy

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: to demonstrate abnormally developed perforating arteries in pathological states on magnet resonance angiography (MRA) to understand normal distributions of perforating arteries comparing with abnormally developed ones to review vascular diseases...
The relationship between exposure of air pollutants and health effects
Creators: name: Wu, Xiao
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 540 Chemistry & allied sciences

description: Exposure to air pollutants including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) was linked to acute and chronic health effects. Comprehensive evidence is still limited. Thus we developed robust and sensitive analytical methods to jointly investigate the interplay between the biomarkers of PAHs, oxidative stress, and health profiles. Moreover, we proposed a concept of non-invasively using travelers between locations of different particulate matter (PM) concentrations as a simple and cost-effective model to investigate acute health effects from exposure to air pollutants.
Absorption-induced transparency metamaterials in the terahertz regime
Creators: name: Rodrigo, Sergio G.
name: Martín-Moreno, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Contrary to what might be expected, when an organic dye is sputtered onto an opaque holey metal film, transmission bands can be observed at the absorption energies of the molecules. This phenomenon, known as absorption-induced transparency, is aided by a strong modification of the propagation properties of light inside the holes when filled by the molecules. Despite having been initially observed in metallic structures in the optical regime, new routes for investigation and applications at different spectral regimes can be devised. Here, in order to illustrate the potential use of absorption induced transparency at terahertz, a method for molecular detection is presented, supported by a theoretical analysis.
Non-abelian tensor square of finite-by-nilpotent groups
Creators: name: Bastos, Raimundo
name: Rocco, Norai R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20E34, 20F14, 20F24

description: Let $G$ be a group. We denote by $ν(G)$ an extension of the non-abelian tensor square $G \otimes G$ by $G \times G$. We prove that if $G$ is finite-by-nilpotent, then the non-abelian tensor square $G \otimes G$ is finite-by-nilpotent. Moreover, $ν(G)$ is nilpotent-by-finite (Theorem A). Also we characterize BFC-groups in terms of $ν(G)$ (Theorem B).
Repräsentation in der Krise?
Creators: name: Molina, Sonja
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 300 Social sciences
subject: 320 Political science

description: Die vorliegende Masterarbeit prüft die Theorie simulativer Demokratie von Ingolfur Blühdorn am Beispiel der Gelbwestenbewegung. Die empirische Basis bilden Leitfadeninterviews mit Demonstrierenden in Lyon. Die Theorie kann Schlüsseleigenschaften der Bewegung wie die Abkehr von Kollektiven sowie radikalisierte Repräsentationsansprüche plausibel erklären. Die Politisierung und Solidarisierung in der Gruppe widersprechen ihr jedoch. Die Autorin kritisiert zudem, dass die Deutung politischen Protests als erwartbares Simulationsverhalten die Theorie gegen Falsifizierung immunisiert.
The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Gas Streaming and Dynamical M/L in Rotationally Supported Systems
Creators: name: Cecil, G.
name: Fogarty, L. M. R.
name: Richards, S.
name: Bland-Hawthorn, J.
name: Lange, R.
name: Moffett, A.
name: Catinella, B.
name: Cortese, L.
name: Ho, I. -T.
name: Taylor, E. N.
name: Bryant, J. J.
name: Allen, J. T.
name: Sweet, S. M.
name: Croom, S. M.
name: Driver, S. P.
name: Goodwin, M.
name: Kelvin, L.
name: Green, A. W.
name: Konstantopoulos, I. S.
name: Owers, M. S.
name: Lawrence, J. S.
name: Lorente, N. P. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Line-of-sight velocities of gas and stars can constrain dark matter (DM) within rotationally supported galaxies if they trace circular orbits extensively. Photometric asymmetries may signify non-circular motions, requiring spectra with dense spatial coverage. Our integral-field spectroscopy of 178 galaxies spanned the mass range of the SAMI Galaxy Survey. We derived circular speed curves (CSCs) of gas and stars from non-parametric Diskfit fits out to $r\sim2r_e$. For 12/14 with measured H I profiles, ionized gas and H I maximum velocities agreed. We fitted mass-follows-light models to 163 galaxies by approximating the radial starlight profile as nested, very flattened mass homeoids viewed as a Sérsic form. Fitting broad-band SEDs to SDSS images gave median stellar mass/light 1.7 assuming a Kroupa IMF vs. 2.6 dynamically. Two-thirds of the dynamical mass/light measures were consistent with star+remnant IMFs. One-fifth required upscaled starlight to fit, hence comparable mass of unobserved baryons and/or DM distributed similarly across the SAMI aperture that came to dominate motions as the starlight CSC declined rapidly. The rest had mass distributed differently from starlight. Subtracting fits of Sérsic profiles to 13 VIKING Z-band images revealed residual weak bars. Near the bar PA, we assessed m = 2 streaming velocities, and found deviations usually <30 km/s from the CSC; three showed no deviation. Thus, asymmetries rarely influenced our CSCs despite co-located shock-indicating, emission-line flux ratios in more than 2/3.
description: 21 pages, 15 figures. Accepted to MNRAS
title: Tumor and tumor-like lesions in the liver with biliary atresia
Creators: name: Yoon, Hyun Jung
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Surgery
subject: Biopsy
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Paediatric
subject: Liver

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Biliary atresia (BA), an inflammatory cholangiopathy of infancy, affects about 5-10/100,000 live births, leading to progressive fibrosis and obliteration of the bile ducts with development of secondary biliary cirrhosis [1]. Although Kasai...
Tentative co-orbital submillimeter emission within the Lagrangian region L5 of the protoplanet PDS 70 b
Creators: name: Balsalobre-Ruza, Olga
name: de Gregorio-Monsalvo, Itziar
name: Lillo-Box, Jorge
name: Huélamo, Nuria
name: Ribas, Álvaro
name: Benisty, Myriam
name: Bae, Jaehan
name: Facchini, Stefano
name: Teague, Richard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context: High-spatial resolution Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) data have revealed a plethora of substructures in protoplanetary disks. Some of those features are thought to trace the formation of embedded planets. One example is the gas and dust that accumulated in the co-orbital Lagrangian regions $L_4$/$L_5$, which were tentatively detected in recent years and might be the pristine material for the formation of Trojan bodies. Aims: This work is part of the TROY project, whose ultimate goal is to find robust evidence of exotrojan bodies and study their implications in the exoplanet field. Here, we focus on the early stages of the formation of these bodies by inspecting the iconic system PDS 70, the only confirmed planetary system in formation. Methods: We reanalyzed archival high-angular resolution Band 7 ALMA observations from PDS 70 by doing an independent imaging process to look for emission in the Lagrangian regions of the two detected gas giant protoplanets, PDS 70 b and c. We then projected the orbital paths and visually inspected emission features at the regions around the $L_4$/$L_5$ locations as defined by $\pm$ 60$^{\circ}$ in azimuth from the planet position. Results: We found emission at a $\sim$4-$σ$ level ($\sim$6-$σ$ when correcting from a cleaning effect) at the position of the $L_{5}$ region of PDS 70 b. This emission corresponds to a dust mass in a range of 0.03- 2 M$_{Moon}$, which potentially accumulated in this gravitational well. Conclusions: The tentative detection of the co-orbital dust trap that we report requires additional observations to be confirmed. We predict that we could detect the co-orbital motion of PDS 70 b and the dust presumably associated with $L_5$ by observing again with the same sensitivity and angular resolution as early as February 2026.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables. Published in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Did You Just Lie to Me? Deception Detection in Face to Face versus Computer Mediated Communication
Creators: name: Eskritt, Michelle
name: Bosacki, Sandra
name: Fraser, Brandon
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Individuals’ deception detection ability during either a face to face (FtF) interaction or through computer mediated communication (CMC) was explored under more naturalistic conditions where they were not forewarned that deception may be involved. Participants discussed a social issue either in a room together or by instant messaging from separate rooms. Prior to discussion, some participants were asked to deceive their partner regarding their actual opinion on the issue. Results showed that mode of communication did not influence participants’ deception detection accuracy rate, nor their truth bias. Regardless of mode of communication, deceptive participants experienced the same level of physiological arousal as the non-deceivers. In contrast, deceivers reported experiencing higher levels of anxiety but only in the FtF condition. Findings highlight how for different communication modalities, a multitude of interactive factors may influence deception detection.
StochasticSimsMultiHittingTCells
Creators: name: Beck, Richard
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Immunology and Infectious Disease
subject: Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Biology

description: Updated wiki, data in support of PLOS publication https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007972
Quasi-normal acoustic oscillations in the transonic Bondi flow
Creators: name: Chaverra, Eliana
name: Sarbach, Olivier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent work, we analyzed the dynamics of spherical and nonspherical acoustic perturbations of the Michel flow, describing the steady radial accretion of a relativistic perfect fluid into a nonrotating black hole. We showed that such perturbations undergo quasi-normal oscillations and computed the corresponding complex frequencies as a function of the black hole mass M and the radius r_c of the sonic horizon. It was found that when r_c is much larger than the Schwarzschild radius r_H = 2GM/c^2 of the black hole, these frequencies scale like the surface gravity of the analogue black hole associated with the acoustic metric. In this work, we analyze the Newtonian limit of the Michel solution and its acoustic perturbations. In this limit, the flow outside the sonic horizon reduces to the transonic Bondi flow, and the acoustic metric reduces to the one introduced by Unruh in the context of experimental black hole evaporation. We show that for the transonic Bondi flow, Unruh's acoustic metric describes an analogue black hole and compute the associated quasi-normal frequencies. We prove that they do indeed scale like the surface gravity of the acoustic black hole, thus providing an explanation for our previous results in the relativistic setting.
description: 18 pages, 3 figures
null Entwicklung des Enzymbegriffs und seine Bedeutung für die Katalyseforschung bei Wolfgang Langenbeck
Creators: name: Staude, Josh
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 500 Natural sciences
subject: 540 Chemistry & allied sciences

description: Im Rahmen dieser Staatsexamensarbeit wird zunächst die Entwicklung des Enzymbegriffs betrachtet. Dabei werden insbesondere die Ursprünge des Fermentbegriffs und dessen Übergang zum Enzymbegriff dargestellt. Daraufhin wird der Stellenwert des Enzymbegriffs für die Forschung bei Wolfgang Langenbeck untersucht. Zudem wird die Bedeutung der Enzymforschung bei Langenbeck für das Institut für Katalyseforschung in Rostock beleuchtet. Abschließend wird kurz auf die weitere Entwicklung der Enzymforschung am Institut für Katalyseforschung in Rostock eingegangen.
Recent astrophysical observations reproduced by a short-range correlated van der Waals-type model?
Creators: name: Rodrigues, E. H.
name: Dutra, M.
name: Lourenço, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform an improvement in a van der Waals-type model by including it effects of short-range correlations (SRC). Attractive and repulsive parts of the nucleon-nucleon interaction are assumed to be density-dependent functions, more specifically, we adopt the Carnahan-Starling (CS) method for the latter, and a suitable expression for the former in order to reproduce the structure of the Clausius (C) real gas model. The parametrizations of the resulting model, named as CCS-SRC model, are shown to be capable of reproducing the flow constraint at the high-density regime of symmetric nuclear matter for incompressibility values inside the range of $K_0=(240\pm 20)$ MeV. In the context of stellar matter, our findings point out a good agreement of the CCS-SRC model with recent astrophysical observational data, namely, mass-radius contours and dimensionless tidal deformability regions and values, coming from gravitational waves data related to the GW170817 and GW190425 events, and from the NASA's Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) mission. Furthermore, the values for the symmetry energy slope of the model ($L_0$) are in agreement with a recent range found for this quantity, claimed to be consistent with results reported by the updated lead radius experiment (PREX-2) collaboration. In this case, higher values of $L_0$ are favored, while the opposite scenario does not allow simultaneous compatibility between the model and the astrophysical data.
description: 9 pages, 11 figures
Prävalenz, klinische Bedeutung und Risikofaktoren für die Entwicklung von Narbenschmerzen und Sensibilitätsstörungen nach brusterhaltender Therapie oder Mastektomie bei Mammakarzinompatientinnen
Creators: name: Allmendinger, Sophie-Elise Anna Marie
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences Medicine

description: Postoperative Schmerzen und Sensibilitätsstörungen können sich sozioökonomisch und sozial negativ auf Patientinnen nach brusterhaltender Therapie oder Mastektomie auswirken. Ziel der vorliegenden prospektiven, klinischen, monozentrischen Kohortenstudie war es, anhand eines nicht-validierten Fragebogens, die Prävalenz, klinische Bedeutung und Risikofaktoren zu identifizieren, welche zur Entwicklung von Narbenschmerzen und/ oder Sensibilitätsstörungen nach brusterhaltender Therapie oder Mastektomie bei Mammakrzinompatientinnen führten.
General Analysis of Dark Radiation in Sequestered String Models
Creators: name: Cicoli, Michele
name: Muia, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a general analysis of axionic dark radiation produced from the decay of the lightest modulus in the sequestered LARGE Volume Scenario. We discuss several cases depending on the form of the Kahler metric for visible sector matter fields and the mechanism responsible for achieving a de Sitter vacuum. The leading decay channels which determine dark radiation predictions are to hidden sector axions, visible sector Higgses and SUSY scalars depending on their mass. We show that in most of the parameter space of split SUSY-like models squarks and sleptons are heavier than the lightest modulus. Hence dark radiation predictions previously obtained for MSSM-like cases hold more generally also for split SUSY-like cases since the decay channel to SUSY scalars is kinematically forbidden. However the inclusion of string loop corrections to the Kahler potential gives rise to a parameter space region where the decay channel to SUSY scalars opens up, leading to a significant reduction of dark radiation production. In this case, the simplest model with a shift-symmetric Higgs sector can suppress the excess of dark radiation $ΔN_{eff}$ to values as small as 0.14, in perfect agreement with current experimental bounds. Depending on the exact mass of the SUSY scalars all values in the range 0.14 $\lesssim ΔN_{eff} \lesssim$ 1.6 are allowed. Interestingly dark radiation overproduction can be avoided also in the absence of a Giudice-Masiero coupling.
description: 30 pages, 5 figures
The development of a SPIRIT extension for trials conducted using cohorts and routinely collected data (SPIRIT-ROUTINE)
Creators: name: McCarthy, Megan
name: O'Keeffe, Linda
name: Williamson, Paula
name: Sydes, Matt
name: Farrin, Amanda
name: Lugg-Widger, Fiona
name: Davies, Gwyneth
name: Avery, Kerry
name: Chan, An-Wen
name: Kwakkenbos, Linda
name: Thombs, Brett
name: Watkins, Alan
name: Hemkens, Lars
name: Gale, Chris
name: Zwarenstein, Merrick
name: Langan, Sinead
name: Thabane, Lehana
name: Juszczak, Edmund
name: Moher, David
name: Kearney, Patricia
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Clinical Epidemiology
subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: Protocol extended files
title: Comparison of the Efficacy of Dexmedetomidine plus Fentanyl Patient-controlled Analgesia with Fentanyl Patient-controlled Analgesia for Pain Control in Uterine Artery Embolization for Symptomatic Fibroid or Adenomyosis: A Prospective, Randomized Study
Creators: name: Kim, Sungwon
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Sedation
subject: Embolisation
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Uterine artery embolization (UAE) has gained popularity for symptomatic uterine fibroids and adenomyosis because it is a minimally invasive treatment. However, significant post-procedural pain is a main limitation of UAE. More than 92% of patients...
Learning of Noun Classes Based on Semantic and Phonological Information in An Artificial Grammar
Creators: name: Li, Xuewei
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Several studies (Perez-Pereira, 1991; Gagliardi, Feldman and Lidz, 2012) showed that children have a bias to pay more attention to phonological information than semantic information when learning noun classes. This study investigated whether adult learners show the same bias when learning noun classes in an artificial language. Three experiments were conducted in this study to test adults’ learning of noun classes based on either phonological information or semantic information, or based on both phonological and semantic information. The results showed that contrary to the finding with children, adult learners are biased to make use of semantic information in learning noun classes of an artificial language.
Automatic detection of disorientation among people with dementia
Creators: name: Amaefule, Chimezie Obioma
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 150 Psychology
subject: 500 Natural sciences
subject: 610 Medical sciences Medicine

description: Ageing is characterized by decline in cognition including visuospatial function, necessary for independently executing instrumental activities of daily living. The onset of Alzheimer’s disease dementia exacerbates this decline, leading to major challenges for patients and increased burden for caregivers. An important function affected by this decline is spatial orientation. This work provides insight into substrates of real-world wayfinding challenges among older adults, with emphasis on viable features aiding the detection of spatial disorientation and design of possible interventions.
Machado de Assis’ Oliveira Twist: translation and the making of a novelist
Creators: name: Maciel, Yv Scarlett
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: In April of 1870, Machado de Assis was invited to translate Charles Dickens’ first novel into Portuguese. The important task of introducing the celebrated Oliver Twist and his creator to a Brazilian audience was conferred upon Machado solely on his merits as a rising intellectual voice in Brazilian letters. Machado’s idiosyncrasies as a translator range from a cavalier treatment of details, to what seem to be ideologically motivated narrative omissions. His procedures in these early years as a translator of Dickens are instrumental in the formation of his political and social consciousness as a mature novelist. I propose to trace in these early years not only the genesis of an elusive literary social political that would permeate his later novels and cause him much critique by his peers, but also to demonstrate the undeniable influence that such a close relationship with the British Victorian would have on the Brazilian Romantic.
title: SWE and ARFI techniques for Rotator Cuff Supraspinatus Tendon at MEDIC CENTER: A preliminary experience
Creators: name: Nguyen, Hung
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Screening
subject: Elastography
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Rotator cuff tears frequently, accounting for 50% or more cases in the elderly, have a certain impact on upper limb function, and quality of life. Conventional ultrasound proved high sensitivity and specificity in detecting total or partial rotator...
Auswirkungen der oralen Inokulation von Porphyromonas gingivalis und Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans auf die kollagen-induzierte Arthritis in der Maus
Creators: name: Bolten, Lennart
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences Medicine

description: In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde der Zusammenhang zwischen der rheumatoiden Arthritis (einer chronisch entzündlichen Autoimmunerkrankung) und der Parodontitis (einer entzündlichen Erkrankung des Zahnhalteapparates) im Rahmen eines Mausmodells untersucht. Methodisch wurde auf mikroCT-Scans, Zytokinanalysen, Antikörpernachweis mittels ELISA, Mikrobiomanalysen aus Stuhlproben und Proteomics entnommener Synovialproben zurückgegriffen.
The effect of randomness for dependency map on the robustness of interdependent lattices
Creators: name: Yuan, Jing
name: Li, Lixiang
name: Peng, Haipeng
name: Kurths, Jürgen
name: Hua, Xiaojing
name: Yang, Yixian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For interdependent networks with identity dependency map, percolation is exactly the same with that on a single network and follows a second-order phase transition, while for random dependency, percolation follows a first-order phase transition. In real networks, the dependency relations between networks are neither identical nor completely random. Thus in this paper, we study the influence of randomness for dependency maps on the robustness of interdependent lattice networks. We introduce approximate entropy($ApEn$) as the measure of randomness of the dependency maps. We find that there is critical $ApEn_c$ below which the percolation is continuous, but for larger $ApEn$, it is a first-order transition. With the increment of $ApEn$, the $p_c$ increases until $ApEn$ reaching ${ApEn}_c'$ and then remains almost constant. The time scale of the system shows rich properties as $ApEn$ increases. Our results uncover that randomness is one of the important factors that lead to cascading failures of spatially interdependent networks.
GNSS-stereo-inertial SLAM for arable farming
Creators: name: Cremona, Javier
name: Civera, Javier
name: Kofman, Ernesto
name: Pire, Taihú
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The accelerating pace in the automation of agricultural tasks demands highly accurate and robust localization systems for field robots. Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) methods inevitably accumulate drift on exploratory trajectories and primarily rely on place revisiting and loop closing to keep a bounded global localization error. Loop closure techniques are significantly challenging in agricultural fields, as the local visual appearance of different views is very similar and might change easily due to weather effects. A suitable alternative in practice is to employ global sensor positioning systems jointly with the rest of the robot sensors. In this paper we propose and implement the fusion of global navigation satellite system (GNSS), stereo views, and inertial measurements for localization purposes. Specifically, we incorporate, in a tightly coupled manner, GNSS measurements into the stereo-inertial ORB-SLAM3 pipeline. We thoroughly evaluate our implementation in the sequences of the Rosario data set, recorded by an autonomous robot in soybean fields, and our own in-house data. Our data includes measurements from a conventional GNSS, rarely included in evaluations of state-of-the-art approaches. We characterize the performance of GNSS-stereo-inertial SLAM in this application case, reporting pose error reductions between 10% and 30% compared to visual-inertial and loosely coupled GNSS-stereo-inertial baselines. In addition to such analysis, we also release the code of our implementation as open source.
description: This paper has been accepted for publication in Journal of Field Robotics, 2023
Desire thinking about alcohol as a moderator of the relationship between drinker identity alcohol outcomes
Creators: name: Tristao, Ty
name: Lindgren, Kristen
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Substance Abuse and Addiction
subject: Health Psychology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social Psychology
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Mental and Social Health
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: alcohol
subject: desire thinking
subject: drinking identity
subject: self identity
subject: social cognition

description: The current study seeks to examine whether desire thinking about alcohol acts as a moderator of the relationship between drinker identity (or the extent to which one associates alcohol with the self, Lindgren et al., 2016) and alcohol outcomes.
title: Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging: diagnostic contribution in colorectal carcinoma and inflammatory bowel disease
Creators: name: Avcu, Serhat
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Colon
subject: Small bowel
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Cancer
subject: Inflammation

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) is a sensitive functional imaging modality for detecting the diffusion process of molecules, mainly water in tissues , in vivo and non-invasively. The most effective use of DW-MRI is detection...
Migräne im Spannungsfeld von Depressivität, Einsamkeit und sozialer Vernetztheit
Creators: name: Brill, Laura-Marie
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences Medicine

description: Es wurden von Migräne Betroffene und Gesunde über zertifizierte Fragebögen über ein Online-Panel in einer Querschnittsstudie hinsichtlich dem Vorliegen einer Depression sowie Einsamkeit und sozialer Vernetztheit befragt. Bei von Migräne Betroffenen konnte signifikant häufiger eine Depression (mittels PHQ-9) detektiert werden. Das Vorliegen einer Depression führte zu einem höheren Maß an Einsamkeit (UCLA Loneliness Scale) und geringerer sozialer Vernetztheit (Social Network Index) wohin gegen das Vorliegen einer Migräne keinen signifikanten Einfluss auf beide Aspekte zeigte.
Influence of tooth age and application time on the microtensile bond strengths of different adhesive systems to dentin
Creators: name: Oliveira, Greice Costa Borges
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2010

description: This study evaluated the effect of tooth age and application time on the microtensile bond strengths (μTBS) of different adhesives to dentin. One-hundred twenty intact human teeth were mechanically ground to expose mid-coronal dentin and randomized to three groups (n=40) according to subject’s age in years: 15-25, 35-45, and ≥55. Within each group, specimens were further randomized to 8 experimental subgroups according to adhesive (etch-and-rinse 3- and 2-step; selfetch 2- and 1-step) and application time (instructions vs. extended). Composite resin was applied to the treated surfaces and after storage for 24 hours all specimens were processed for μTBS testing. Data were analyzed by factorial ANOVA and post-hoc tests (p=0.05). μTBS values ranged from 10.9 MPa (2-step self-etch, extended application time, age group 15-25) to 50.7 MPa (1-step self-etch, extended application time, age group ≥55). Tooth age and application time had no significant effect on μTBS of the adhesives tested.
title: Diagnostic imaging of cervical vascular malformations
Creators: name: Llanes Rivada, Anneliese
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Head and neck
subject: Ultrasound
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Education
subject: Arteriovenous malformations

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: Show typical radiological findings of cervical vascular...
A catalogue of Large Magellanic Cloud star clusters observed in the Washington photometric system
Creators: name: Palma, Tali
name: Gramajo, Luciana V.
name: Clariá, Juan J.
name: Lares, Marcelo
name: Geisler, Doug
name: Ahumada, Andrea V.
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: The main goal of this study is to compile a catalogue including the fundamental parameters of a complete sample of 277 star clusters (SCs) of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) observed in the Washington photometric system, including 82 clusters very recently studied by us. All the clusters' parameters such as radii, deprojected distances, reddenings, ages and metallicities have been obtained by appyling essentially the same procedures which are briefly described here. We have used empirical cumulative distribution functions to examine age, metallicity and deprojected distance distributions for different cluster subsamples of the catalogue. Our new sample made up of 82 additional clusters recently studied by us represents about a 40% increase in the total number of LMC SCs observed up to now in the Washington photometric system. In particular, we report here the fundamental parameters obtained for the first time for 42 of these clusters. We found that single LMC SCs are typically older than multiple SCs. Both single and multiple SCs exhibit asymmetrical distributions in log (age). We compared cluster ages derived through isochrone fittings obtained using different models of the Padova group. Although $t_G$ and $t_B$ ages obtained using isochrones from Girardi et al. (2002) and Bressan et al. (2012), respectively, are consistent in general terms, we found that $t_B$ values are not only typically larger than $t_G$ ages but also that Bressan et al.'s age uncertainties are clearly smaller than the corresponding Girardi et al. values.
description: 18 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables, Accepted for publication in A&A
Improving Students With Rubric-Based Self-Assessment and Oral Feedback
Creators: name: Barney, Sebastian
name: Khurum, Mahvish
name: Petersen, Kai
name: Unterkalmsteiner, Michael
name: Jabangwe, Ronald
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Rubrics and oral feedback are approaches to help students improve performance and meet learning outcomes. However, their effect on the actual improvement achieved is inconclusive. This paper evaluates the effect of rubrics and oral feedback on student learning outcomes. An experiment was conducted in a software engineering course on requirements engineering, using the two approaches in course assignments. Both approaches led to statistically significant improvements, though no material improvement (i.e., a change by more than one grade) was achieved. The rubrics led to a significant decrease in the number of complaints and questions regarding grades.
Hämatopoetische Zellen vermitteln den günstigen Effekt einer Toll-like Rezeptor 2 Defizienz auf den vaskulären Heilungsprozess nach arterieller Gefäßverletzung
Creators: name: Eczko, Julia-Christin
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences Medicine

description: Eine TLR2 Defizienz vermittelt einen günstigen Effekt nach Gefäßverletzung durch Verminderung der Neointimafläche, -dicke und der luminalen Stenose durch Verminderung der migrierenden glatten Muskelzellen in die Neointima. Als Vermittler dieser Effekte nehmen wir das Fehlen der TLR2 vermittelten Signaltransduktion auf hämatopoetischen Zellen an. Vermutlich besteht eine zelluläre Interaktion in Form einer parakrinen Aktivität hämatopoetischer Zellen mit ortsständigen Zellen der Gefäßwand. Eine therapeutische Option innerhalb der Atheroskleroseentstehung mag eine anti-TLR2-AK Gabe darstellen.
MRL order, log-concavity and an application to peacocks
Creators: name: Bogso, Antoine Marie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60E15, 60G44, 60J25, 32F17

description: We provide an equivalent log-concavity condition to the mean residual life (MRL) ordering for real-valued processes. This result, combined with classical properties of total positivity of order 2, allows to exhibit new families of integrable processes which increase in the MRL order (MRL processes). Note that MRL processes with constant mean are peacocks to which the Azéma-Yor (Skorokhod embedding) algorithm yields an explicit associated martingale.
description: 28 pages
title: Randomized Control Study of the IntraVascular UltraSound vs. angiography for the evaluation and treatment of carotid artery stenoses.
Creators: name: Chiaravalloti, Antonio
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Head and neck
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: MR-Angiography
subject: Experimental
subject: Catheters
subject: Angioplasty
subject: Stents
subject: Arteriosclerosis
subject: Cardiac Assist Devices
subject: Haemodynamics / Flow dynamics

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Carotid artery stenting (CAS) is a viable alternativetreatment to carotid endarterectomy. Stroke is one ofthe most important complications of CAS and is mostlycaused by intraprocedural distal embolization of plaquecomponents.1 In order to prevent...
title: A prospective cohort study to assess the efficacy of a novel minimally invasive treatment option for discogenic sciatica consisting of automated percutaneous discectomy, intradiscal ozone injection and caudal epidural injection
Creators: name: Crockett, Matthew
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal spine
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: MR
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: MR
subject: Efficacy studies

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Discogenic sciatica is a common and debilitating symptom. Both surgical and minimally invasive treatment options are available but none has been shown to be definitively superior. The aim of this prospective observational cohort study was to assess...
Interactions between waterholes and riparian vegetation in remote and data-scarce dryland anabranching rivers
Creators: name: DA SILVA, MARCELO HENRIQUES
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Ecohydrology
Photogrammetry and remote sensing

description: This thesis used multiple remote sensing products to better understand the relationship between waterholes and riparian vegetation in drylands. This research processed a large amount of data to develop a method to describe vegetation dynamics. This research provides managers with tools to implement an effective monitoring program in remote arid areas, providing important information about resource management and to predict future environmental impacts.