cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Quantile forecast discrimination ability and value
Creators: name: Bouallegue, Zied Ben
name: Pinson, Pierre
name: Friederichs, Petra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: While probabilistic forecast verification for categorical forecasts is well established, some of the existing concepts and methods have not found their equivalent for the case of continuous variables. New tools dedicated to the assessment of forecast discrimination ability and forecast value are introduced here, based on quantile forecasts being the base product for the continuous case (hence in a nonparametric framework). The relative user characteristic (RUC) curve and the quantile value plot allow analysing the performance of a forecast for a specific user in a decision-making framework. The RUC curve is designed as a user-based discrimination tool and the quantile value plot translates forecast discrimination ability in terms of economic value. The relationship between the overall value of a quantile forecast and the respective quantile skill score is also discussed. The application of these new verification approaches and tools is illustrated based on synthetic datasets, as well as for the case of global radiation forecasts from the high resolution ensemble COSMO-DE-EPS of the German Weather Service.
title: The first X-ray examination in the US: the Ukrainian connection
Creators: name: Pidvalna, Uliana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Anatomy
subject: Professional issues
subject: Plain radiographic studies
subject: Education
subject: History
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Education and training

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: To examine the contribution of the Ukrainian physicist Ivan Puluj (1845-1918) in paving the way to the discovery of X-rays and its usefulness in medicine. To show that his contribution led to the innovation of using X-rays for medical purposes both...
Anthropogenic Land Use Change and Adoption of Climate Smart Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
Creators: name: Tione, Sarah Ephrida
name: Nampanzira, Dorothy
name: Nalule, Gloria
name: Kashongwe, Olivier
name: Katengeza, Samson Pilanazo
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: agricultural policy
subject: climate change adaptation
subject: climate-smart agriculture
subject: land allocation
subject: Sub-Saharan Africa
subject: 333.7
subject: 690

description: Compelling evidence in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) shows that Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) has a positive impact on agricultural productivity. However, the uptake of CSA remains low, which is related to anthropogenic, or human-related, decisions about CSA and agricultural land use. This paper assesses households’ decisions to allocate agricultural land to CSA technologies across space and over time. We use the state-contingent theory, mixed methods, and mixed data sources. While agricultural land is increasing, forest land is decreasing across countries in SSA. The results show that household decisions to use CSA and the extent of agricultural land allocation to CSA remain low with a negative trend over time in SSA. Owned land and accessing land through rental markets are positively associated with allocating land to CSA technologies, particularly where land pressure is high. Regarding adaptation, experiencing rainfall shocks is significantly associated with anthropogenic land allocation to CSA technologies. The country policy assessment further supports the need to scale up CSA practices for adaptation, food security, and mitigation. Therefore, scaling up CSA in SSA will require that agriculture-related policies promote land tenure security and land markets while promoting climate-smart farming for food security, adaptation, and mitigation.
Supplementary Material; Widespread ecomorphological convergence in multiple fish families spanning the marine-freshwater interface
Creators: name: Davis, Aaron M.
name: Betancur-R, Ricardo
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: The theoretical definition and quantification of convergence is an increasingly topical focus in evolutionary research, with particular growing interest on study scales spanning deep phylogenetic divergences and broad geographical areas. While much progress has recently been made in understanding the role of convergence in driving terrestrial (e.g. anole lizards) and aquatic (e.g. cichlids) radiations, little is known about its macroevolutionary effects across environmental gradients. This study uses a suite of recently developed comparative approaches integrating diverse aspects of morphology, dietary data, habitat affiliation and phylogeny to assess convergence across several well-known tropical-temperate fish families in the percomorph suborder Terapontoidei, a clade with considerable phenotypic and ecological diversity radiating in both marine and freshwater environments. We demonstrate significant widespread convergence across many lineages occupying equivalent trophic niches, particularly feeding habits such as herbivory and biting of attached prey off hard substrates. These include several examples of convergent morphotypes evolving independently in marine and freshwater clades, separated by deep evolutionary divergences (tens of millions of years). The Terapontoidei present a new example of the macroevolutionary dynamics of morphological and ecological coevolution in relation to habitat and trophic preferences, at a greater phylogenetic and habitat scale than most well-studied adaptive radiations.
Song pattern recognition in crickets based on a delay-line and coincidence-detector mechanism.
Creators: name: Hedwig, Berthold
name: Sarmiento-Ponce, Edith Julieta
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary tables listing data of an example response and mean data for all phonotactic test
Trade-off for survival: Microbiome response to chemical exposure combines activation of intrinsic resistances and adapted metabolic activity
Creators: name: Adi Wicaksono, Wisnu
name: Braun, Maria
name: Bernhardt, Jörg
name: Riedel, Katharina
name: Cernava, Tomislav
name: Berg, Gabriele
Publisher: name: New York, NY [u.a.] : Elsevier
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Antimicrobial resistances
subject: Chemical exposure
subject: Chemical pollution
subject: Exposed to
subject: Glyphosates
subject: Intrinsic resistance
subject: Metabolic activity
subject: Microbiome
subject: Microbiotas
subject: Trade off
subject: 610
subject: 600
subject: 690

description: The environmental microbiota is increasingly exposed to chemical pollution. While the emergence of multi-resistant pathogens is recognized as a global challenge, our understanding of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) development from native microbiomes and the risks associated with chemical exposure is limited. By implementing a lichen as a bioindicator organism and model for a native microbiome, we systematically examined responses towards antimicrobials (colistin, tetracycline, glyphosate, and alkylpyrazine). Despite an unexpectedly high resilience, we identified potential evolutionary consequences of chemical exposure in terms of composition and functioning of native bacterial communities. Major shifts in bacterial composition were observed due to replacement of naturally abundant taxa; e.g. Chthoniobacterales by Pseudomonadales. A general response, which comprised activation of intrinsic resistance and parallel reduction of metabolic activity at RNA and protein levels was deciphered by a multi-omics approach. Targeted analyses of key taxa based on metagenome-assembled genomes reflected these responses but also revealed diversified strategies of their players. Chemical-specific responses were also observed, e.g., glyphosate enriched bacterial r-strategists and activated distinct ARGs. Our work demonstrates that the high resilience of the native microbiota toward antimicrobial exposure is not only explained by the presence of antibiotic resistance genes but also adapted metabolic activity as a trade-off for survival. Moreover, our results highlight the importance of native microbiomes as important but so far neglected AMR reservoirs. We expect that this phenomenon is representative for a wide range of environmental microbiota exposed to chemicals that potentially contribute to the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria from natural environments.
title: Creation of a low-cost phantom for training in the handling of needles for interventional breast ultrasound procedures.
Creators: name: Gonzalez Matos, Juan Carlos
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Biopsy
subject: Education
subject: Education and training

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Describe the value and importance of early procedural training early in radiology residency. Show how to design a basic jelly phantom for ultrasound-guided biopsy of the most common breast...
On the covariant formalism of the effective field theory of gravity and leading order corrections
Creators: name: Codello, Alessandro
name: Jain, Rajeev Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct the covariant effective field theory of gravity as an expansion in inverse powers of the Planck mass, identifying the leading and next-to-leading quantum corrections. We determine the form of the effective action for the cases of pure gravity with cosmological constant as well as gravity coupled to matter. By means of heat kernel methods we renormalize and compute the leading quantum corrections to quadratic order in a curvature expansion. The final effective action in our covariant formalism is generally non-local and can be readily used to understand the phenomenology on different spacetimes. In particular, we point out that on curved backgrounds the observable leading quantum gravitational effects are less suppressed than on Minkowski spacetime.
description: v1: 35 pages, 3 figures; v2: 32 pages, 3 figures, title slightly changed, minor corrections, published in Classical and Quantum Gravity
title: Role of PMCT in the interpretation of deadly collisions from traffic crashes
Creators: name: Coppola, Marzia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Forensic / Necropsy studies
subject: CT
subject: Medico-legal issues
subject: Forensics

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Our study aims to establish the role of post-mortem computed tomography (PMTC) in the evaluation of the injury pattern, cause of death and recognition of the dynamics of trauma in victims of fatal road...
Pathologic and gene expression features of metastatic melanomas to the brain: Biology of Metastatic Melanomas to the Brain
Creators: name: Konstantinopoulos, Panagiotis
name: Werley, Jonette
name: Romkes, Marjorie
name: Becker, Dorothea
name: Ibrahim, Joseph
name: Kondziolka, Douglas
name: Omolo, Bernard
name: Kirkwood, John
name: Fallert-Junecko, Beth
name: Harasymczuk, Malgorzata
name: Moschos, Stergios
name: Whiteside, Theresa
name: Krauze, Michal
name: Nukui, Tomoko
name: Bortoluzzi, Stephanie
name: Ferrone, Soldano
name: Reinhart, Todd
name: Lin, Yan
name: Wang, Yangyang
name: Hamilton, Ronald
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: The prognosis of MBM is variable with prolonged survival in a subset. It is unclear whether MBMs differ from extracranial metastases (EcM) and primary melanomas (PrM).
Song pattern recognition in crickets based on a delay-line and coincidence-detector mechanism
Creators: name: Hedwig, Berthold
name: Sarmiento-Ponce, Edith Julieta
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary tables listing data of an example response and mean data for all phonotactic test
MPEC 2023-T229 : 2023 TW9
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 TW9

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
When Does Speech Perform Regulable Action?
Creators: name: Weston, Daniel Adam
Publisher: name: International Journal of Language & Law (JLL)
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: free speech
subject: speech act theory
subject: illocutionary acts
subject: performativity
subject: hate speech
subject: pornography
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Free speech
subject: Language
subject: Speech Act Theory
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Analytic Philsophy

description: This paper examines the application of speech act theory to free speech regulation and criticises the idea that an understanding of speech which performs speech acts can be of use in identifying regulable speech. It traces the legal application of speech act theory from its initial uses to the more contemporary. In response, this paper seeks to demonstrate that this influential legal application reaches conclusions against the core insight of speech act theory – that all speech performs actions in the relevant, illocutionary and performative, sense. Consequently, an arbitrary method in regulating speech has taken firm hold in contemporary free speech theory, through which some speech is erroneously perceived to be more like a form of speech act than speech proper. I examine the lessons of speech act theory alongside this free speech literature to conclude that we should not ask whether an utterance is an act but instead what kind of act it is, with the goal of refocusing on normative questions pertaining to speech regulation. Cite as: Weston, JLL 11 (2022), 78–97, DOI: 10.14762/jll.2022.078
description: International Journal of Language & Law (JLL), Vol. 11 (2022)
Curved space-times by crystallization of liquid fiber bundles
Creators: name: Hélein, Frédéric
name: Vey, Dimitri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 49S05, 53C80, 53C05, 83E15

description: Motivated by the search for a Hamiltonian formulation of Einstein equations of gravity which depends in a minimal way on choices of coordinates, nor on a choice of gauge, we develop a multisymplectic formulation on the total space of the principal bundle of orthonormal frames on the 4-dimensional space-time. This leads quite naturally to a new theory which takes place on 10-dimensional manifolds. The fields are pairs of $((α,ω),\varpi)$, where $(α,ω)$ is a 1-form with coefficients in the Lie algebra of the Poincaré group and $\varpi$ is an 8-form with coefficients in the dual of this Lie algebra. The dynamical equations derive from a simple variational principle and imply that the 10-dimensional manifold looks locally like the total space of a fiber bundle over a 4-dimensional base manifold. Moreover this base manifold inherits a metric and a connection which are solutions of a system of Einstein--Cartan equations.
description: 37 pages
title: MR Imaging Features of Uncommon Cystic Pancreatic Lesions
Creators: name: Mazzeo, Maria Letizia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Pancreas
subject: MR
subject: MR-Cholangiography
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Cysts
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Tissue characterisation

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To depict the most typical features of uncommon cystic pancreatic lesions. MRI is helpful to diagnose and completely differentiate uncommon from other common cystic pancreatic lesions. A precise diagnosis is required to adapt surveillance or...
title: The symptomatic Breast services in a University Hospital: Pandemic peak compared to the pre-pandemic year and future implications
Creators: name: Saleem, Zara
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Mammography
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Biopsy
subject: Cancer

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess the pattern of symptomatic referrals to the one- stop breast clinic during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, comparing this with the previous pre- pandemic year and providing insight into ways to improve...
Preservation of neurocognitive function and local control of 1 to 3 brain metastases treated with surgery and carmustine wafers: Neurocognition and Brain Metastases
Creators: name: Booth-Jones, Margaret
name: Meyers, Christina A.
name: Palmer, Gary
name: Jain, Surbhi
name: Ewend, Matthew G.
name: Brem, Steven
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: BACKGROUND: Neurosurgical resection and whole-brain radiation therapy (WBRT) are accepted treatments for single and oligometastatic cancer to the brain. To avoid the decline in neurocognitive function (NCF) linked to WBRT, the authors conducted a prospective, multicenter, phase 2 study to determine whether surgery and carmustine wafers (CW), while deferring WBRT, could preserve NCF and achieve local control (LC).

METHODS: NCF and LC were measured in 59 patients who underwent resection and received CW for a single (83%) or dominant (oligometastatic, 2 to 3 lesions) metastasis and received stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for tiny nodules not treated with resection plus CW. Preservation of NCF was defined as an improvement or a decline ≤ 1 standard deviation from baseline in 3 domains: memory, executive function, and fine motor skills, evaluated at 2-month intervals.

RESULTS: Significant improvements in executive function and memory occurred throughout the 1-year follow-up. Preservation or improvement of NCF occurred in all 3 domains for the majority of patients at each of the 2-month intervals. NCF declined in only 1 patient. The chemowafers were well tolerated, and serious adverse events were reversible. There was local recurrence in 28% of the patients at 1-year follow-up.

CONCLUSIONS: Patients with brain metastases had improvements in their cognitive trajectory, especially memory and executive function, after treatment with resection plus CW. The rate of LC (78%) was comparable to historic rates of surgery with WBRT and superior to reports of WBRT alone. For patients who undergo resection for symptomatic or large-volume metastasis or for tissue diagnosis, the addition of CW can be considered as an option.
Supplementary Information from Wild birds respond to flockmate loss by increasing their social network associations to others.
Creators: name: Firth, Josh A.
name: Voelkl, Bernhard
name: Crates, Ross A.
name: Aplin, Lucy M.
name: Biro, Dora
name: Croft, Darren P.
name: Sheldon, Ben C.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Supplementary information, figures and tables
CACER: Clinical Concept Annotations for Cancer Events and Relations
Creators: name: Fu, Yujuan
name: Ramachandran, Giridhar Kaushik
name: Halwani, Ahmad
name: McInnes, Bridget T.
name: Xia, Fei
name: Lybarger, Kevin
name: Yetisgen, Meliha
name: Uzuner, Özlem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Clinical notes contain unstructured representations of patient histories, including the relationships between medical problems and prescription drugs. To investigate the relationship between cancer drugs and their associated symptom burden, we extract structured, semantic representations of medical problem and drug information from the clinical narratives of oncology notes. We present Clinical Concept Annotations for Cancer Events and Relations (CACER), a novel corpus with fine-grained annotations for over 48,000 medical problems and drug events and 10,000 drug-problem and problem-problem relations. Leveraging CACER, we develop and evaluate transformer-based information extraction (IE) models such as BERT, Flan-T5, Llama3, and GPT-4 using fine-tuning and in-context learning (ICL). In event extraction, the fine-tuned BERT and Llama3 models achieved the highest performance at 88.2-88.0 F1, which is comparable to the inter-annotator agreement (IAA) of 88.4 F1. In relation extraction, the fine-tuned BERT, Flan-T5, and Llama3 achieved the highest performance at 61.8-65.3 F1. GPT-4 with ICL achieved the worst performance across both tasks. The fine-tuned models significantly outperformed GPT-4 in ICL, highlighting the importance of annotated training data and model optimization. Furthermore, the BERT models performed similarly to Llama3. For our task, LLMs offer no performance advantage over the smaller BERT models. The results emphasize the need for annotated training data to optimize models. Multiple fine-tuned transformer models achieved performance comparable to IAA for several extraction tasks.
description: This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in JAMIA following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available online at https://academic.oup.com/jamia/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jamia/ocae231/7748302
Impact of Cultivation and Origin on the Fruit Microbiome of Apples and Blueberries and Implications for the Exposome
Creators: name: Wicaksono, Wisnu Adi
name: Buko, Aisa
name: Kusstatscher, Peter
name: Cernava, Tomislav
name: Sinkkonen, Aki
name: Laitinen, Olli H.
name: Virtanen, Suvi M.
name: Hyöty, Heikki
name: Berg, Gabriele
Publisher: name: Berlin : Springer
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Amplicon sequencing
subject: Apple
subject: Blueberry
subject: Commercial horticulture
subject: Fruit microbiome
subject: Growing system
subject: Naturally grown
subject: 570

description: Vegetables and fruits are a crucial part of the planetary health diet, directly affecting human health and the gut microbiome. The objective of our study was to understand the variability of the fruit (apple and blueberry) microbiome in the frame of the exposome concept. The study covered two fruit-bearing woody species, apple and blueberry, two countries of origin (Austria and Finland), and two fruit production methods (naturally grown and horticultural). Microbial abundance, diversity, and community structures were significantly different for apples and blueberries and strongly influenced by the growing system (naturally grown or horticultural) and country of origin (Austria or Finland). Our results indicated that bacterial communities are more responsive towards these factors than fungal communities. We found that fruits grown in the wild and within home gardens generally carry a higher microbial diversity, while commercial horticulture homogenized the microbiome independent of the country of origin. This can be explained by horticultural management, including pesticide use and post-harvest treatments. Specific taxonomic indicators were identified for each group, i.e., for horticultural apples: Pseudomonas, Ralstonia, and Stenotrophomonas. Interestingly, Ralstonia was also found to be enriched in horticultural blueberries in comparison to such that were home and wildly grown. Our study showed that the origin of fruits can strongly influence the diversity and composition of their microbiome, which means that we are exposed to different microorganisms by eating fruits from different origins. Thus, the fruit microbiome needs to be considered an important but relatively unexplored external exposomic factor.
To preserve or not to preserve: How difficult is the decision about fertility preservation?
Creators: name: Deal, Allison M.
name: Whitcomb, Brian W.
name: Irene Su, H.
name: Goodman, Linnea R.
name: Mersereau, Jennifer E.
name: Gorman, Jessica R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: The decision to pursue fertility preservation (FP) after a cancer diagnosis is complex. We examined the prevalence of high decisional conflict and specific factors that influence this decision using the decisional conflict scale (DCS).
A gauge field theory of fermionic Continuous-Spin Particles
Creators: name: Bekaert, X.
name: Najafizadeh, M.
name: Setare, M. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this letter, we suggest a local covariant action for a gauge field theory of fermionic Continuous-Spin Particles (CSPs). The action is invariant under gauge transformations without any constraint on both the gauge field and the gauge transformation parameter. The Fang-Fronsdal equations for a tower of massless fields with all half-integer spins arise as a particular limit of the equation of motion of fermionic CSPs.
description: 8 pages, no figure. Due to the constructive contribution of X. Bekaert in this letter, his name is added as a new author. This version of the paper accepted for publication in PLB(2016)
Supplementary Information from Wild birds respond to flockmate loss by increasing their social network associations to others
Creators: name: Firth, Josh A.
name: Voelkl, Bernhard
name: Crates, Ross A.
name: Aplin, Lucy M.
name: Biro, Dora
name: Croft, Darren P.
name: Sheldon, Ben C.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Supplementary information, figures and tables
Cost of Services Provided by the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program
Creators: name: Subramanian, Sujha
name: Gardner, James G.
name: Guy, Gery P.
name: Li, Chunyu
name: Trogdon, Justin G.
name: Ekwueme, Donatus U.
name: Miller, Jacqueline W.
name: Crouse, Wesley
name: Thompson, Hope
name: Royalty, Janet E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: BACKGROUND: The National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP) is the largest cancer screening program for low-income women in the United States. This study updates previous estimates of the costs of delivering preventive cancer screening services in the NBCCEDP.

METHODS: We developed a standardized web-based cost-assessment tool to collect annual activity-based cost data on screening for breast and cervical cancer in the NBCCEDP. Data were collected from 63 of the 66 programs that received funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the 2006/2007 fiscal year. We used these data to calculate costs of delivering preventive public health services in the program.

RESULTS: We estimated the total cost of all NBCCEDP services to be $296 (standard deviation [SD], $123) per woman served (including the estimated value of in-kind donations, which constituted approximately 15% of this total estimated cost). The estimated cost of screening and diagnostic services was $145 (SD, $38) per women served, which represented 57.7% of the total cost excluding the value of in-kind donations. Including the value of in-kind donations, the weighted mean cost of screening a woman for breast cancer was $110 with an office visit and $88 without, the weighted mean cost of a diagnostic procedure was $401, and the weighted mean cost per breast cancer detected was $35,480. For cervical cancer, the corresponding cost estimates were $61, $21, $415, and $18,995, respectively.

CONCLUSIONS: These NBCCEDP cost estimates may help policy makers in planning and implementing future costs for various potential changes to the program.
MPEC 2023-T230 : 2023 TX9
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 TX9

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Improving Deep Learning-based Plant Disease Classification with Attention Mechanism
Optimierung der auf Deep Learning basierenden Klassifizierung von Pflanzenkrankheiten mit CBAM
Creators: name: Alirezazadeh, Pendar
name: Schirrmann, Michael
name: Stolzenburg, Frieder
Publisher: name: Berlin ; Heidelberg : Springer
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Attention mechanism
subject: CBAM
subject: Data limitation
subject: Deep learning
subject: Plant disease classification
subject: Klassifizierung von Pflanzenkrankheiten
subject: Deep Transfer Learning
subject: Attention-Mechanismus
subject: Datenlimitierung
subject: 630
subject: 640
subject: 580
subject: 333.7

description: In recent years, deep learning-based plant disease classification has been widely developed. However, it is challenging to collect sufficient annotated image data to effectively train deep learning models for plant disease recognition. The attention mechanism in deep learning assists the model to focus on the informative data segments and extract the discriminative features of inputs to enhance training performance. This paper investigates the Convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAM) to improve classification with CNNs, which is a lightweight attention module that can be plugged into any CNN architecture with negligible overhead. Specifically, CBAM is applied to the output feature map of CNNs to highlight important local regions and extract more discriminative features. Well-known CNN models (i.e. EfficientNetB0, MobileNetV2, ResNet50, InceptionV3, and VGG19) were applied to do transfer learning for plant disease classification and then fine-tuned by a publicly available plant disease dataset of foliar diseases in pear trees called DiaMOS Plant. Amongst others, this dataset contains 3006 images of leaves affected by different stress symptoms. Among the tested CNNs, EfficientNetB0 has shown the best performance. EfficientNetB0+CBAM has outperformed EfficientNetB0 and obtained 86.89% classification accuracy. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the attention mechanism to improve the recognition accuracy of pre-trained CNNs when there are few training data.
Efficacy and safety of bevacizumab in recurrent sex cord-stromal ovarian tumors: Results of a phase 2 trial of the Gynecologic Oncology Group: Bevacizumab for Stromal Ovarian Tumors
Creators: name: De Geest, Koen
name: Gershenson, David M.
name: Schink, Julian
name: Brady, William E.
name: Leitao, Mario
name: Yamada, S. Diane
name: Van Le, Linda
name: Brown, Jubilee
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: The Gynecologic Oncology Group conducted this phase II trial to estimate the anti-tumor activity of bevacizumab and to determine the nature and degree of toxicity in patients with recurrent sex cord-stromal tumors of the ovary.
Figures, full analyses tables and more detailed methods from How does environment influence fighting? The effects of tidal flow on resource value and fighting costs in sea anemones.
Creators: name: Palaoro, Alexandre V.
name: Velasque, Mariana
name: Santos, Sandro
name: Briffa, Mark
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: One figure describing the experimental setup, the full output tables of the statistical analyses and a more thorough description of our statistical methods
Nanomedicine‐boosting icaritin-based immunotherapy of advanced hepatocellular carcinoma
Creators: name: Lu, Yi
name: Gao, Yue
name: Yang, Huan
name: Hu, Yong
name: Li, Xin
Publisher: name: London : BioMed Central
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Advanced hepatocellular carcinoma
subject: Clinical translation
subject: Icaritin
subject: Immunotherapy
subject: Nanomedicine
subject: 610

description: Traditional treatments for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), such as surgical resection, transplantation, radiofrequency ablation, and chemotherapy are unsatisfactory, and therefore the exploration of powerful therapeutic strategies is urgently needed. Immunotherapy has emerged as a promising strategy for advanced HCC treatment due to its minimal side effects and long-lasting therapeutic memory effects. Recent studies have demonstrated that icaritin could serve as an immunomodulator for effective immunotherapy of advanced HCC. Encouragingly, in 2022, icaritin soft capsules were approved by the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) of China for the immunotherapy of advanced HCC. However, the therapeutic efficacy of icaritin in clinical practice is impaired by its poor bioavailability and unfavorable in vivo delivery efficiency. Recently, functionalized drug delivery systems including stimuli-responsive nanocarriers, cell membrane-coated nanocarriers, and living cell-nanocarrier systems have been designed to overcome the shortcomings of drugs, including the low bioavailability and limited delivery efficiency as well as side effects. Taken together, the development of icaritin-based nanomedicines is expected to further improve the immunotherapy of advanced HCC. Herein, we compared the different preparation methods for icaritin, interpreted the HCC immune microenvironment and the mechanisms underlying icaritin for treatment of advanced HCC, and discussed both the design of icaritin-based nanomedicines with high icaritin loading and the latest progress in icaritin-based nanomedicines for advanced HCC immunotherapy. Finally, the prospects to promote further clinical translation of icaritin-based nanomedicines for the immunotherapy of advanced HCC were proposed.
title: How can the use of low-value imaging be reduced?
Creators: name: Kjelle, Elin
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Radiographers
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Trauma
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Plain radiographic studies
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Outcomes

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: The purpose of this study was to provide a systematic review of and evaluate the outcomes of interventions aimed at reducing low-value diagnostic...
Swimming of a deformable slab in a viscous incompressible fluid with inertia
Creators: name: Felderhof, B. U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The swimming of a deformable planar slab in a viscous incompressible fluid is studied on the basis of the Navier-Stokes equations. A continuum of plane wave displacements, symmetric on both sides of the slab and characterized by a polarization angle, allows optimization of the swimming efficiency with respect to polarization. The mean swimming velocity and mean rate of dissipation are calculated to second order in the amplitude of the stroke. The optimum efficiency depends on the ratio of viscosity and mass density of the fluid. For high viscosity a stroke is found with significantly higher efficiency than Taylor's solution for a swimming sheet. For low viscosity the efficiency is optimal for a nearly irrotational flow pattern.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures
Data link layer considerations for future 100 Gbps terahertz band transceivers
Creators: name: Lopacinski, Lukasz
name: Brzozowski, Marcin
name: Kraemer, Rolf
Publisher: name: London : Hindawi
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Consumed energy
subject: Data link layer
subject: Hardware processor
subject: Link adaptation algorithm
subject: Physical layers
subject: Reed Solomon decoder
subject: State of the art
subject: Wireless Data links
subject: 620

description: This paper presents a hardware processor for 100Gbps wireless data link layer. A serial Reed-Solomon decoder requires a clock of 12.5GHz to fulfill timings constraints of the transmission. Receiving a single Ethernet frame on a 100 Gbps physical layer may be faster than accessing DDR3 memory. Processing so fast streams on a state-of-the-art FPGA (field programmable gate arrays) requires a dedicated approach. Thus, the paper presents lightweight RS FEC engine, frames fragmentation, aggregation, and a protocol with selective fragment retransmission. The implemented FPGA demonstrator achieves nearly 120 Gbps and accepts bit error rate (BER) up to 2e - 3. Moreover, redundancy added to the frames is adopted according to the channel BER by a dedicated link adaptation algorithm. At the end, ASIC synthesis results are presented including detailed statistics of consumed energy per bit.
Feasibility of keeping Mars warm with nanoparticles
Creators: name: Ansari, Samaneh
name: Kite, Edwin S.
name: Ramirez, Ramses
name: Steele, Liam J.
name: Mohseni, Hooman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One-third of Mars' surface has shallow-buried H$_2$O, but it is currently too cold for use by life. Proposals to warm Mars using greenhouse gases require a large mass of ingredients that are rare on Mars' surface. However, we show here that artificial aerosols made from materials that are readily available at Mars-for example, conductive nanorods that are ~9 $μ$m long-could warm Mars >5 $\times$ 10$^3$ times more effectively than the best gases. Such nanoparticles forward-scatter sunlight and efficiently block upwelling thermal infrared. Similar to the natural dust of Mars, they are swept high into Mars' atmosphere, allowing delivery from the near-surface. For a particle lifetime of 10 years, two climate models indicate that sustained release at 30 liters/sec would globally warm Mars by $\gtrsim$30 K and start to melt the ice. Therefore, if nanoparticles can be made at scale on (or delivered to) Mars, then the barrier to warming of Mars appears to not be as high as previously thought.
Frequency-domain gravitational waves from non-precessing black-hole binaries. I. New numerical waveforms and anatomy of the signal
Creators: name: Husa, Sascha
name: Khan, Sebastian
name: Hannam, Mark
name: Pürrer, Michael
name: Ohme, Frank
name: Forteza, Xisco Jiménez
name: Bohé, Alejandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we discuss the anatomy of frequency-domain gravitational-wave signals from non-precessing black-hole coalescences with the goal of constructing accurate phenomenological waveform models. We first present new numerical-relativity simulations for mass ratios up to 18 including spins. From a comparison of different post-Newtonian approximants with numerical-relativity data we select the uncalibrated SEOBNRv2 model as the most appropriate for the purpose of constructing hybrid post-Newtonian/numerical-relativity waveforms, and we discuss how we prepare time-domain and frequency-domain hybrid data sets. We then use our data together with results in the literature to calibrate simple explicit expressions for the final spin and radiated energy. Equipped with our prediction for the final state we then develop a simple and accurate merger-ringdown-model based on modified Lorentzians in the gravitational wave amplitude and phase, and we discuss a simple method to represent the low frequency signal augmenting the TaylorF2 post-Newtonian approximant with terms corresponding to higher orders in the post-Newtonian expansion. We finally discuss different options for modelling the small intermediate frequency regime between inspiral and merger-ringdown. A complete phenomenological model based on the present work is presented in a companion paper.
description: 17 pages, 18 figures ,minor edits to text
Quality of Life Changes during the Pre- to Post-Diagnosis Period and Treatment-Related Recovery Time in Older Women with Breast Cancer
Creators: name: Mayer, Deborah K.
name: Wheeler, Stephanie B.
name: Stover, Angela M.
name: Lyons, Jessica C.
name: Muss, Hyman
name: Reeve, Bryce B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Healthcare providers have little population-based evidence about health-related quality of life (HRQOL) changes, from the pre- to post-diagnosis period, and treatment-related recovery time for women ages 65 and older diagnosed with breast cancer.
Figures, full analyses tables and more detailed methods from How does environment influence fighting? The effects of tidal flow on resource value and fighting costs in sea anemones
Creators: name: Palaoro, Alexandre V.
name: Velasque, Mariana
name: Santos, Sandro
name: Briffa, Mark
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: One figure describing the experimental setup, the full output tables of the statistical analyses and a more thorough description of our statistical methods
Supplementary data from Haemolytic actinoporins interact with carbohydrates using their lipid-binding module.
Creators: name: Tanaka, Koji
name: Caaveiro, Jose M. M.
name: Morante, Koldo
name: Tsumoto, Kouhei
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Structural Biology

description: Table S1. Structural homology of FraC; Figure S1. Kinetics of hemolysis by FraC in the presence of saccharides; Figure S2. Depiction of the lipid/carbohydrate binding region of FraC; Figure S3. Comparison of FraC with a fungal lectin.
Recombinant Interleukin-2 in Patients Aged Younger Than 60 Years With Acute Myeloid Leukemia in First Complete Remission: Results From Cancer and Leukemia Group B 19808
Creators: name: Larson, Richard A.
name: Kolitz, Jonathan E.
name: Allen, Steven L.
name: Maharry, Kati
name: Deangelo, Daniel J.
name: Vij, Ravi
name: Hars, Vera
name: Hoke, Eva
name: Shea, Thomas C.
name: Benson, Don M.
name: Powell, Bayard L.
name: George, Stephen L.
name: Marcucci, Guido
name: Bloomfield, Clara D.
name: Stock, Wendy
name: Bakan, Courtney E.
name: Caligiuri, Michael A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Recombinant interleukin-2 (rIL-2) induces cellular cytotoxicity against leukemia blasts. Patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in first complete remission (CR) may harbor minimal residual disease that is susceptible to rIL-2–activated effector cells.
Supplementary data from Haemolytic actinoporins interact with carbohydrates using their lipid-binding module
Creators: name: Tanaka, Koji
name: Caaveiro, Jose M. M.
name: Morante, Koldo
name: Tsumoto, Kouhei
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Structural Biology

description: Table S1. Structural homology of FraC; Figure S1. Kinetics of hemolysis by FraC in the presence of saccharides; Figure S2. Depiction of the lipid/carbohydrate binding region of FraC; Figure S3. Comparison of FraC with a fungal lectin.
title: Preoperative membranous urethral length, angle and a proposed angle/length quotient as risk factors for urinary incontinence following robot assisted radical prostatectomy.
Creators: name: Constenla, Diego
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: Oncology
subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: MR
subject: Surgery
subject: Cancer

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: To evaluate preoperative MRI measurements of the membranous urethral length (MUL), membranous urethral angle (MUA) and a proposed MUA/MUL quotient as potential preoperative risk factors of urinary incontinence (UI) after robot-assisted radical...
On the issue of ohmicity of Schottky contacts
Creators: name: Sachenko, A. V.
name: Belyaev, A. E.
name: Konakova, R. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An analysis is made of the conditions for ohmic contacts realization in the case of Schottky contacts. Based on the classical notions about the mechanisms of current flow, we consider the generalized model of Schottky contact that takes into account the thermionic current of majority charge carriers and recombination current of minority charge carriers in Schottky contacts with a dielectric gap. An analysis of the results given by that model made it possible to obtain ohmicity criteria for Schottky contacts and compare the conditions for low injection level and ohmicity of Schottky contacts in the case of silicon-based contacts. It is shown that conditions for Schottky contact ohmicity do not coincide with those for p-n junctions.
description: 20 pages, in Russian, 4 figures
Interpolation algorithm for asynchronous ADC-data
Creators: name: Bramburger, Stefan
name: Zinke, Benny
name: Killat, Dirk
Publisher: name: Göttingen : Copernicus Publications
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Adaptive weights
subject: Continuous data
subject: Interpolation algorithms
subject: Interpolation method
subject: Pre-processing of data
subject: Spectral domains
subject: Toeplitz matrices
subject: Variable data rates
subject: 620
subject: 550

description: This paper presents a modified interpolation algorithm for signals with variable data rate from asynchronous ADCs. The Adaptive weights Conjugate gradient Toeplitz matrix (ACT) algorithm is extended to operate with a continuous data stream. An additional preprocessing of data with constant and linear sections and a weighted overlap of step-by-step into spectral domain transformed signals improve the reconstruction of the asycnhronous ADC signal. The interpolation method can be used if asynchronous ADC data is fed into synchronous digital signal processing.