cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Biochemical Recurrence with Low Values of PSA in Prostate Carcinoma after Radical Therapy: Sensitivity of 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT
Creators: name: Fajardo Ordoñez, Erika
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Observational
subject: Retrospective
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Molecular imaging
subject: PET-CT
subject: Oncology
subject: Molecular imaging
subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: Oncologic Imaging

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Prostate cancer (PC) is the most common malignancy in men and the third leading cause of cancer-related death in Western Europe and the United States. [1] Biochemical recurrence (RB) is defined as the increase in the value of serum Prostate Specific...
Property Tax Exemptions for Hospitals: A Blunt Instrument Where a Scalpel is Needed
Creators: name: Santos, Eric J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Property tax
Hospitals--Taxation
Tax exemption
Taxation--Law and legislation

description: In this Note, I argue that the state level property tax rules governing tax exemption for hospitals are in dire need of reform. Other commentators have suggested changing the metrics used to determine eligibility for tax exemption, usually focusing on federal level exemptions, but these proposals are insufficient.[12] Hospitals are complex institutions with viable for-profit analogues. Yet, they perform socially beneficial services that are worthy of subsidy through the tax system. An effective system must acknowledge and embrace this complexity. I argue that an all-or-nothing exemption is inadequate in the hospital sector and should be replaced by a more flexible system of tax credits. Credits should be provided to hospitals to offset the cost of performing traditional charity care and providing services that would otherwise be difficult for communities to access. This will allow state governments to focus their subsidies on the socially beneficial functions that hospitals offer and avoid interfering in legitimately competitive markets. While the critiques and proposed reforms I discuss could be applied to all tax exemptions for hospitals at both the state and federal levels, there are compelling reasons to begin with state property tax exemptions.

In this Note, I argue that the current system of property tax exemptions in every state is in need of reform. In Part II, I provide background information on the history of United States hospitals; the history of tax exemption for hospitals at the federal and state levels; and an overview of current federal and state tax exemption standards for hospitals. I discuss the federal standards because federal policy currently informs state level exemptions to a significant degree. In Part III, I discuss why reform is needed. Finally, in Part IV, I propose a solution that replaces traditional property tax exemptions with a series of tax credits based on the costs hospitals accrue from performing socially beneficial functions that serve the indigent or extend access to underserved populations.
title: Water is for fighting?!?
title: The Wind River Alliance: whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting?
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Jolene, Catron
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2009
Subjects: Wind River Alliance
Wind River Watershed
reservation
Wyoming

description: Presented at the Bridging the gap: collaborative conservation from the ground up conference, September 8-11, 2009, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, sponsored by the Center for Collaborative Conservation, https://collaborativeconservation.org/. This conference brought together people with experience working collaboratively to achieve both conservation and livelihood goals in tribal nations, rangelands, forests, watersheds, agricultural lands, and urban areas. The presenter is affiliated with Wind River Alliance.
description: Wind River Alliance is a cross-cultural, community-based organization dedicated to the health and protection of the Wind River Watershed. Wind River Alliance was formed in the fall of 2001 by concerned community members to address the threats and challenges facing the Wind River Watershed. The presentation will describe ongoing projects in the Wind River Watershed which includes the Wind River Reservation, the only reservation in Wyoming.
title: Get it right the first time: Crown-Rump Length the true gestational age. Agreement of the Capurro test versus ultrasound from 11 + 0 to 13 + 6 weeks for evaluation of gestational age.
Creators: name: Fajardo Ordoñez, Erika
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Observational
subject: Retrospective
subject: Obstetrics
subject: Foetus
subject: Intrauterine diagnosis
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Paediatric
subject: Obstetrics (Pregnancy / birth / postnatal period)
subject: Genitourinary

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: The potential benefits of correct ultrasound gestational age dating in the first trimester include (1) : The improvement in the performance of the chromosomal abnormality test Reduce the number of premature pregnancies Avoid post-term pregnancies...
Cash holding and firm value in the presence of managerial optimism
Creators: name: Ashfaq, Habib
name: Bhatti, Ishaq
name: Khan, Muhammad Asif
name: Azam, Zafar
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics
classificationCode: 35
subject: Commerce, management, tourism and services

description: Cash holding is important for Chinese manufacturing firms coping with the increasing costs of financing and tough economic conditions. This study examines the impact of cash holding on the firm value of Chinese manufacturing businesses. We found evidence that a non-linear relationship exists between cash holding and firm value in these companies. The study reveals that a higher level of cash holding in financially constrained firms negatively affects the firm value, while unconstrained firms with a less cash holding level have a better firm value. Finally, this research is enriched by implementing the novel measure of managerial optimism. Revealed is the interactive role of cash holding and optimism and how they affect firm value. The study concludes that managerial optimism influences a firm’s cash holding decisions, and this is more costly for unconstrained firms.
A participatory case study of primary healthcare for aboriginal peoples in an urban setting
Creators: name: Oelke, Nelly D.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2010

description: Bibliography: p. 287-330
description: This thesis provides planners with a quantifiable basis for developing design guidelines for pedestrian access to LRT stations. Approximately 1,800 peak hour LRT users were interviewed about their LRT trip. Pedestrians were asked to point out on a map their approximate origin or destination. From this information, walking distance guidelines were developed. Catchment area maps were produced and the relationship between reported walking time and measured walking distance was observed. The research strongly indicates that people walk further to reach an LRT station then they walk to reach a bus stop. Using bus walking standards will underestimate LRT walking distances by about half. The average walking distance to suburban stations is 649 m with a 75th percentile distance of 840 m. At CBD stations the average walking distance is 326 m and the 75th percentile distance is 419 m.
Historical fire regime of the Darkwoods : quantifying the past to plan for the future
Creators: name: Greene, Gregory Allen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This study quantifies the fire history of the Darkwoods; a 55,000 ha property in the South Selkirk Natural Area of southeastern British Columbia, owned and managed by the Nature Conservancy of Canada. Fire scar and tree cohort chronologies from 45 plots, extending from the years 1406 – 2010, were used to determine the temporal and spatial variability of historic fires in ~4,000 ha of the southeastern-most watershed of the property, and to assess the accuracy of provincial Natural Disturbance Type (NDT) classes for the study area. In light of a mixed-severity fire regime, new and novel methods of historic fire mapping using Inverse Distance Weighting methods in a GIS were also analyzed. Using logistic regression, the spatial variation of fires at the tree- and plot-levels differed greatest by elevation, but fires at the tree-level also varied by slope steepness and slope aspect. Anthropogenic influences on the occurrence of fire over time were also evident, but only after 1945, when the occurrence of fire dropped significantly likely due to the introduction of modern methods of fire suppression in the 1940s. Results indicate a mixed-severity fire regime for the study area, and the presence of numerous fire scars in mid- and high- elevation plots, in conjunction with mean fire return intervals less than 100 years, provide evidence that conflicts with provincial NDT designations. Including high-elevation stand ages, determined from increment cores, provided evidence of the absence of fire and helped refine estimates of fire boundaries, particularly in and around areas experiencing mixed- and high-severity fires. Spatial Mean Fire Intervals were longer than those calculated at the tree-, plot- and watershed-levels, reflecting the degree to which a mix of high-severity, stand-replacing fires, with low- and moderate-severity, stand-maintaining fires, can lengthen mean return intervals across a mixed-fire landscape.
The Tax Lives of Uber Drivers: Evidence from Internet Discussion Forums
Creators: name: Oei, Shu-Yi
name: Ring, Diane M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Forums (Discussion and debate)
Electronic discussion groups
Ridesharing
Taxation--Law and legislation

description: In this Article, we investigate the tax issues and challenges facing Uber and Lyft drivers by studying their online interactions in three internet discussion forums: Reddit.com, Uberpeople.net, and Intuit TurboTax AnswerXchange.  Using descriptive statistics and content analysis, we examine (1) the substantive tax concerns facing forum participants, (2) how taxes affect their driving and profitability decisions, and (3) the degree of user sophistication, accuracy of legal advising, and other cultural features of the forums.

We find that while forum participants displayed generally accurate understandings of tax filing and income inclusion obligations, their approaches to expenses and deductions were less accurate and more varied in sophistication and willingness to comply with tax law.  Forum participants also frequently discussed whether driving was profitable and exhibited a range of awareness concerning how taxes affected profitability.  Finally, while the forums contained a surprising degree of sophisticated and accurate tax and legal advice, they also contained many examples of inaccurate or confusing information.  It is thus uncertain whether forum readers were able to successfully distinguish between accurate and inaccurate advice dispensed in the forums.

Based on our findings, we make tentative recommendations for effective tax administration in the ridesharing and related sectors, including use of industry-specific guidance, clarification of how existing tax rules apply to ridesharing, and guidance on Form 1099-K interpretation.  We analyze the implications of our findings regarding taxes and profitability for Uber’s business model and its potential regulation.  Finally, we discuss the possible impacts of targeted tax compliance initiatives on internet communities.
title: Liverpool Healthy Lung: Outcomes of a successful lung screening project
Creators: name: Penha, Diana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Multicentre study
subject: Experimental
subject: Prospective
subject: Cancer
subject: Screening
subject: CT
subject: Thorax
subject: Chest

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: understand the rationale and outcome assessment of the Liverpool Healthy Lung Project (LHLP) lung cancer screening (LCS) programme, in light of the latest preliminary data available. To understand the role of a reporting radiologist in a LCS...
Toward Reliable Benchmarking of Solar Flare Forecasting Methods
Creators: name: Bloomfield, D. Shaun
name: Higgins, Paul A.
name: McAteer, R. T. James
name: Gallagher, Peter T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solar flares occur in complex sunspot groups, but it remains unclear how the probability of producing a flare of a given magnitude relates to the characteristics of the sunspot group. Here, we use Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite X-ray flares and McIntosh group classifications from solar cycles 21 and 22 to calculate average flare rates for each McIntosh class and use these to determine Poisson probabilities for different flare magnitudes. Forecast verification measures are studied to find optimum thresholds to convert Poisson flare probabilities into yes/no predictions of cycle 23 flares. A case is presented to adopt the true skill statistic (TSS) as a standard for forecast comparison over the commonly used Heidke skill score (HSS). In predicting flares over 24 hr, the maximum values of TSS achieved are 0.44 (C-class), 0.53 (M-class), 0.74 (X-class), 0.54 (>=M1.0), and 0.46 (>=C1.0). The maximum values of HSS are 0.38 (C-class), 0.27 (M-class), 0.14 (X-class), 0.28 (>=M1.0), and 0.41 (>=C1.0). These show that Poisson probabilities perform comparably to some more complex prediction systems, but the overall inaccuracy highlights the problem with using average values to represent flaring rate distributions.
description: 7 pages, 1 figure
title: Lessons learned in NWCOS: success and consensus in collaboration process
title: Lessons learned from difficult collaborations: the northwest Colorado stewardship
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Casterson, Jeremy
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2009
Subjects: Northwest Colorado Stewardship
NWCOS
collaborative conservation

description: Presented at the Bridging the gap: collaborative conservation from the ground up conference, September 8-11, 2009, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, sponsored by the Center for Collaborative Conservation, https://collaborativeconservation.org/. This conference brought together people with experience working collaboratively to achieve both conservation and livelihood goals in tribal nations, rangelands, forests, watersheds, agricultural lands, and urban areas. The presenter is affiliated with Bureau of Land Management, Little Snake Field Office.
description: The Northwest Colorado Stewardship (NWCOS) is an inactive collaborative group based out of Craig, Colorado and comprised of a wide variety of stakeholder participants. NWCOS dealt with a wide range of issues and core points of conflict included oil and gas development, wilderness designation proposals, grazing and wildlife habitat. NWCOS was unable to achieve its primary goal of crafting a consensus community alternative to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's Resource Management Plan for the Little Snake Resource area. Despite its failure at reaching this goal, NWCOS had many other successes such as decisions about protocols, improved relationships and communication. NWCOS was broad in scope and stakeholdership, and participants feel both frustration as well as benefits from the process of engaging in the collaboration. We will use this session to explore the major lessons learned for NWCOS and how they might be applicable to other similar collaborative efforts. Lessons learned from a federal agency will be shared as well as perspectives from both a research and agency standpoint.
Intellectually honest pedagogy: inviting mathematics in to elementary classrooms
Creators: name: McLeod, Donna
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2010

description: Bibliography: p. 97-102
description: Some pages are in colour.
description: This thesis is an interpretive study that explores the extent to which mathematics pedagogy stands to be influenced by the discipline of mathematics itself in elementary classrooms. In particular, this research focuses on the process of coming to teach mathematics honestly, amid all its natural bounty. This is a journey of narrated moments with students and with mathematics, both remembered and newly experienced. Together these stories deliver both data and method to this hermeneutic study. They are mathematically oriented but set against a metaphor of organic farming. Important conduct on the part of educators emerges and stand as signposts towards an intellectually honest practice. Such conduct includes the cultivation of community, imagination, patience, listening, exchange and play. At the culmination of this thesis, there exists no categorical answer that blueprints reform in math education, but in true inquiry fashion, there has been a deliberate and careful opening up.
Rap Exegesis: Interpreting the Rapper in an Internet Society
Creators: name: Kerr, Andrew Jensen
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Law and literature
Rap musicians
Law and art
Rap (Music)

description: The law and literature movement has had limited influence on the work of lawyers and judges.  But a rap lyric’s dual quality as aesthetic and “truth” document makes it uniquely amenable to literary interpretation.  The competing problems:  lyrics are meant to be heard and not read, and the ambition of the contemporary rapper is no longer to be didactic or suggest authenticity.  The #rapgame has changed.  This Article argues that the Internet rapper is the paradigm of creative identity.  The guiding questions for this Article are how the law should respond to the individual who lives life as art, and if the social knowledge project will lead to the crowdsourcing of how we interpret both rappers and legal texts.
Colorimetric Humidity Sensors Based on Electrospun Polyamide/CoCl2 Nanofibrous Membranes
Creators: name: You, Ming-Hao
name: Yan, Xu
name: Zhang, Jun
name: Wang, Xiao-Xiong
name: He, Xiao-Xiao
name: Yu, Miao
name: Ning, Xin
name: Long, Yun-Ze
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Nanostructured materials
Moisture meters
Electrospinning
Colorimetric analysis

description: Humidity indicators based on composite polyamide 66/cobalt chloride (PA66/CoCl2) nanofibrous membranes (NFMs) were successfully fabricated by electrospinning. A series of NFMs with various weight percentage of CoCl2 to PA66 were prepared, and their humidity sensitivity based on color changing and quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) were studied. Due to the color change property of cobalt chloride, the as-spun composite NFMs show obviously macroscopic color change from blue to pink as relative humidity (RH) increasing from 12.4 to 97.2%. Moreover, the QCM detection showed a linear dependence on the RH changing and exhibited short response/recovery time (less than 65.4 s/11 s), small hysteresis (less than 11%), good reproducibility, and stability. Owing to the above double sensitive mechanism on RH, the PA66/CoCl2 composite NFM may show great potential applications from meticulous to coarse.
The tip-of-the-tongue state and curiosity
Creators: name: Metcalfe, Janet A.
name: Schwartz, Bennett L.
name: Bloom, Paul Alexander
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Metacognition
subject: Curiosity

description: Theories of study time allocation and of curiosity suggest that people are most engaged with and want to devote their time to materials that are not completely mastered but also are not so difficult that they might be impossible. Their curiosity is thought to be triggered by items that are almost known, or are in what is sometimes called the region of proximal learning. Answers that are on the tip-of-the-tongue (TOT)—not immediately recallable but nevertheless evoking a feeling of imminent recall—seem, intuitively, to be materials that have this characteristic of being almost, but not quite, fully known. We therefore, hypothesized that people would be particularly curious to see the answers to questions for which the answers were on the tips of their tongues. To test the TOT curiosity hypothesis, we gave participants 82 general information questions and quickly asked whether the answers were or were not on the tips of their tongues and whether they wanted to see the answers later. Overwhelmingly, items that were accompanied by a TOT feeling were those which evoked participants’ curiosity, regardless of whether the feeling occurred in conjunction with an error of commission, an error of omission, or even with the correct answer.
title: The Correlation between the Technique of Obtaining Postnasal Space Radiograph and Clinical Outcome
Creators: name: aljahdali, aseel
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Head and Neck
subject: Head and neck
subject: Digital radiography
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Efficacy studies
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Obstruction / Occlusion
subject: Outcomes
subject: Retrospective
subject: Cross-sectional study
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Adenoid hypertrophy is one of the most important causes of nasal obstruction with a prevalence rate of 49.70% (1) .It can present withsnoring, hyponasality, otitis media with effusion, sleep disorders, and mouth breathing (2) . At some point, there...
Measurement of the transverse momentum distribution of Z/gamma* bosons in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A measurement of the Z/gamma* transverse momentum (p_T^Z)) distribution in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV is presented using Z/gamma*->e+e- and Z/gamma*->mu+mu- decays collected with the ATLAS detector in data sets with integrated luminosities of 35 pb^-1 and 40 pb^-1, respectively. The normalized differential cross sections are measured separately for electron and muon decay channels as well as for their combination up to p_T^Z of 350 GeV for invariant dilepton masses 66 GeV
description: 10 pages plus author list (22 pages total), 4 figures, 2 tables, final version published in Physics Letters B
Select physical performance measures and driving outcomes in older adults
Creators: name: Mielenz, Thelma J.
name: Durbin, Laura L.
name: Cisewski, Jodi A.
name: Guralnik, Jack M.
name: Li, Guohua
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Older automobile drivers
Transportation
Performance--Measurement
Frail elderly
Older people--Health and hygiene

description: Background:
                Improving physical functioning may be a future intervention to keep older adults driving safely longer as it can help maintain both physical and cognitive health longer. This systematic review assesses the evidence on the association between three physical functioning measures: the Short Physical Performance Battery, the Timed Up-and-Go test, and the Rapid Pace Walk with driving outcomes in older adults.

                Methods:
                Older adult studies published between 1994 and 2015 that included the Short Physical Performance Battery, the Timed Up-and-Go test, or the Rapid Pace Walk as a measure of physical functioning and included a driving-related outcome were identified through a comprehensive search and reviewed following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines.

                Results:
                Thirteen studies involving 5,313 older adults met the inclusion criteria. Lower Short Physical Performance Battery scores were associated with reduced driving exposure and increased cessation in all three Short Physical Performance Battery studies. The Timed Up-and-Go test was not associated with the driving outcomes (cessation, ability, crashes, and citations) in either of the two Timed Up-and-Go studies. Poorer Rapid Pace Walk scores were associated with decreased driving ability in two studies and with reduced driving exposure in one study, but not associated with driving ability, crashes, citations, or cessation in the remaining five Rapid Pace Walk studies.

                Conclusions:
                The Timed Up-and-Go test measure appears not to be a useful measure of physical functioning for the driving outcomes included here. The Rapid Pace Walk may be useful in studies of driving ability and exposure. More driving studies should consider using the Short Physical Performance Battery to determine if it may be useful as a risk factor assessment for identifying individuals at risk of certain driving outcomes.
Online data management and training for collaborative conservation
Creators: name: Newman, Greg
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2009
Subjects: trainings
usability
evaluation
collaborative conservation
online data management
tools

description: Presented at the Bridging the gap: collaborative conservation from the ground up conference, September 8-11, 2009, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, sponsored by the Center for Collaborative Conservation, https://collaborativeconservation.org/. This conference brought together people with experience working collaboratively to achieve both conservation and livelihood goals in tribal nations, rangelands, forests, watersheds, agricultural lands, and urban areas. The presenter is affiliated with Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University.
Gravitational Wave Probe of High Supersymmetry Breaking Scale
Creators: name: Saito, Ryo
name: Shirai, Satoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A supersymmetric standard model with heavier scalar particles is very interesting from various viewpoints, especially Higgs properties. If the scalar mass scale is O(10-10^4) TeV, the standard model-like Higgs with mass around 125 GeV, which is implied by the recent LHC experiments, is predicted. However this scenario is difficult to be directly tested with collider experiments. In this paper, we propose a test of this scenario by using observations of primordial gravitational waves (GWs). The future GW experiments such as DECIGO and BBO can probe the scalar mass around O(10^3-10^4) TeV, which is preferred from the Higgs mass about 125 GeV, if the primordial GWs have large amplitude.
description: 18 pages, 10 figures
From Status to Agency: Abolishing the “Very Spirit of Slavery”
Creators: name: Johnson, Herman N.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Free will and determinism
subject: Slavery
subject: Constitutional amendments
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: In response to challenges that the disparate impact doctrine violates the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause, the Thirteenth Amendment provides a constitutional foundation that deflects the equal protection argument.  Early interpreters of the Thirteenth Amendment envisioned the provision as a means to abolish chattel as well as civil slavery, which was the condition of subordinate status shared by all Black persons.  Resurrecting this interpretation of the Thirteenth Amendment reveals that early efforts to transform the status of Black persons failed as they unduly focused upon freedom of contract, rather than measures to achieve effective, individual agency.  Interpreting the Thirteenth Amendment as a means of transitioning free Black persons from status to agency demonstrates that the societal barriers prohibiting the transformation warranted programs and policies beyond the right to contract.  Based upon the dimensions of status suffered by Black persons—perceived as stigma, station, and stratification—the disparate impact doctrine is an appropriate Thirteenth Amendment vehicle to aid in transforming the subordinate status of Black persons.
title: CT findings in post-partum complications: our experience
Creators: name: Persiani, Salvatore
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genitourinary
subject: Emergency
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female
subject: Obstetrics (Pregnancy / birth / postnatal period)
subject: CT
subject: Complications
subject: Acute
subject: Obstetrics
subject: Retrospective
subject: Observational
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: The post-partum period may have several acute complications (within 6-8 weeks), more frequently in the early post-delivery both vaginal and cesarean. Obstetric complications can be considered a common source both of morbidity and mortality for women...
Stability of nonstationary states of spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Mäkelä, H.
name: Johansson, M.
name: Zelan, M.
name: Lundh, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The stability of nonstationary states of homogeneous spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates is studied by performing Bogoliubov analysis in a frame of reference where the state is stationary. In particular, the effect of an external magnetic field is examined. It is found that a nonzero magnetic field introduces instability in a $^{23}$Na condensate. The wavelengths of this instability can be controlled by tuning the strength of the magnetic field. In a $^{87}$Rb condensate this instability is present already at zero magnetic field. Furthermore, an analytical bound for the size of a stable condensate is found, and a condition for the validity of the single-mode approximation is presented. Realization of the system in a toroidal trap is discussed and the full time development is simulated.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures. v2: minor revisions and corrections
title: Tuberculous sacroiliitis
Creators: name: Kammoun, Amina
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Observational
subject: Retrospective
subject: Infection
subject: Abscess
subject: Drainage
subject: Biopsy
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: Musculoskeletal

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Describe the contribution of CT and MR imaging in the diagnosis of tuberculous sacroiliitis as well as post-treatment...
Supersymmetric QED Plasma
Creators: name: Czajka, Alina
name: Mrowczynski, Stanislaw
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We systematically compare the N=1 SUSY QED plasma to its non-supersymmetric counterpart which is QED plasma of electrons, positrons and photons. Collective excitations and collisional processes in the two systems are confronted to each other in a regime of small coupling. The collective and collisional characteristics of supersymmetric plasma are both very similar to those of QED plasma.
description: 8 pages, presented at HIC-for-FAIR Workshop and XXVIII Max Born Symposium, Wroclaw, Poland, May 19-21, 2011
Ecosystem services: a way to bridge the gap
Creators: name: Collins, Sally D.
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2009
Subjects: ecosystem markets
USDA Office of Ecosystem Services
collaborative conservation

description: Presented at the Bridging the gap: collaborative conservation from the ground up conference, September 8-11, 2009, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, sponsored by the Center for Collaborative Conservation, https://collaborativeconservation.org/. This conference brought together people with experience working collaboratively to achieve both conservation and livelihood goals in tribal nations, rangelands, forests, watersheds, agricultural lands, and urban areas. Sally Collins was named director of the USDA Office of Ecosystem Services and Markets (OESM) in December 2008. OESM plays an instrumental role in advancing markets for services provided by farms, forests and ranches across the country. As director, Collins supports the USDA Secretary in developing uniform, science-based guidelines and the infrastructure necessary to make ecosystem markets function, including procedures and tools for measuring, reporting and registering environmental benefits produced by land management activities. Collins has spent more than 25 years in public service. She served most recently as associate chief for the U.S. Forest Service. She received her B.S. from the University of Colorado and her master's from the University of Wyoming.
description: The conservation challenges of today call for fresh, innovative thinking and a renewed commitment to collaboration. In this spirit, the USDA Office of Ecosystem Services and Markets is working to catalyze the development of ecosystem markets that can unlock new opportunities for land conservation and community well-being. Sally Collins will discuss the state of emerging markets, the vision of the new office, and how knowledge networks, collaborative learning, and shared leadership will drive success.
Association between baseline frailty and driving status over time: a secondary analysis of The National Health and Aging Trends Study
Creators: name: Bond, Elizabeth G.
name: Durbin, Laura L.
name: Cisewski, Jodi A.
name: Qian, Min
name: Guralnik, Jack M.
name: Kasper, Judith D.
name: Mielenz, Thelma J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Epidemiology
Frail elderly
Older automobile drivers
Aging

description: Background:
                Continued automobile driving is important for the wellbeing and independence of older adults. Frailty has been associated with a variety of negative health outcomes, but studies are lacking on the potential association between frailty and driving status. The present study uses data from The National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) to assess if the presence of frailty is associated with being a current non-driver.

                Methods:
                NHATS is a nationally representative cohort study of Medicare beneficiaries (aged ≥65) that have been followed since 2011. We examined frailty status at baseline (Fried’s frailty phenotype) and driving status over 4 years (from 2011 to 2014) excluding never drivers at baseline. Multivariable Poisson regression was used to obtain incidence rate ratios, adjusting for covariates and clustering. To account for the repeated measures in the data collection, generalized estimating equations (GEE) were employed.

                Results:
                A significant association between baseline frailty and driving status was observed at all four time points. At T4, frail participants at baseline had an incidence rate for becoming a current non-driver 1.80 times (or an 80% increase) that of non-frail participants at baseline (adjusted 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.56–2.07).

                Conclusions:
                Frailty was associated with an increased rate of being a current non-driver. Based on this association, we posit that screening for and intervening on frailty may help certain older adults who are at risk for becoming a current non-driver to remain on the road longer.
Vision zero: a toolkit for road safety in the modern era
Creators: name: Kim, Ellen
name: Muennig, Peter A.
name: Rosen, Zohn
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Epidemiology
Traffic safety
Roads--Safety measures
Traffic accidents

description: Vision Zero (VZ) is a public program that aims to have zero fatalities or serious injuries from road traffic crashes. This article examines various major components of VZ: how VZ redefines road safety, how VZ principles and philosophies can be applied to modern car and road designs, and how VZ can be applied to traffic. Applications of these principles to real-world traffic infrastructure are explored in order to show policymakers the toolkits available to increase road safety while taking into consideration local contexts.
title: Optimization of a native cardiac scan protocol in the post mortem computed tomography
Creators: name: Riegler, David
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Experimental
subject: Prospective
subject: Outcomes
subject: Image verification
subject: Forensics
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Observer performance
subject: Comparative studies
subject: CT
subject: Radiographers
subject: Forensic / Necropsy studies
subject: Cardiac
subject: Image Quality

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Computed tomography (CT) is an essential imaging modality in radiology. In recent years, this method has also become an established practice in forensic imaging, in the living as well as in post mortem, where this method is called post-mortem CT...
Land use effects on green water fluxes in Mato Grosso, Brazil
Creators: name: Lathuillière, Michael Jacques
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The blue water - green water paradigm has been increasingly used to describe water resources. Blue water represents liquid flows in rivers or aquifers, while green water (GW) represents vapour exchanges with the atmosphere either as evaporation from soil or as transpiration from plants. This study assesses the impacts of land use change on GW fluxes in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, an ideal candidate for the study of GW in light of recent deforestation for pasture and soybean expansion, and the near complete reliance of its agricultural land base on precipitation as the GW source. Fluxes were estimated for 2000-2009 by combining the MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) evapotranspiration product with forest cover change from Brazil’s National Institute of Space Research (INPE), as well as guidelines from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to model soybean, maize, sugar cane, cotton and pasture GW. In 2000, forest cover represented one third of the state’s land base and returned half of the state’s water vapour to the atmosphere. Annual total GW volumes decreased by 10 % between 2000 and 2009 at a rate of 16.2 km³y⁻¹ per year. Deforestation explained up to 27 % of variance in annual total volumes while agricultural expansion, as cropland and pasture, explained up to 20 %. Cropland GW doubled within the study time period, 75 % to 83 % of which constituted soybean GW. Pasture GW was 5 times larger than soybean GW and offset the increase in cropland GW. The greatest uncertainty lies in the role played by residual land use GW fluxes which were attributed to Brazilian savanna (cerrado), the Pantanal wetland, as well as unaccounted agricultural land left as fallow.
title: Inferior vena cava ( IVC ) congenital anomalies: MDTC findings.
Creators: name: BIgnardi, Elio
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Diagnostic or prognostic study
subject: Vascular
subject: Veins / Vena cava
subject: CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Congenital
subject: Retrospective

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Describe the different congenital anomalies of IVC. The congenital anomalies of IVC are rare, usually clinically silent and often detected incidentally by thoracoabdominal MDTC after administration of intravenous contrast medium. There are too many...
Impacts of CAV-ready infrastructure on vulnerable road users: Guidance for North Carolina's local and state transportation agencies
Creators: name: Shay, Elizabeth
name: Combs, Tabitha S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

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Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) are of interest to transportation professionals as well as to the general public, given the potential they offer to decrease the incidence and impacts of crashes, to increase traffic efficiency, and to deliver new modes and models for mobility. At the same time, CAVs raise concerns about how they may impact pedestrians, cyclists, and other people in the roadway environment. In the absence of empirical findings on how these modes interact, governments—from local to state and regional—would benefit from guidance to help them prepare for CAVs in the travel landscape while also protecting safety and mobility of all modes.


 


This project identified CAV-readiness strategies already in place or being considered in 15 U.S. cities in 12 states and interviewed three dozen transportation professionals from those locations, then applied select strategies to intersection design in several North Carolina cities and empirically tested how they may impact perceived safety and accessibility of pedestrians. This project used a mixed-methods design to identify, catalog, visualize, and evaluate strategies to accommodate CAVs at intersections—where interaction among modes is most intense, and developed a hybrid intercept/online survey design to understand how pedestrians experience the infrastructure and surrounding built environment.


 


This project generated 1) analysis of cities and states leading the way on preparing for CAVs to arrive on city streets in the coming decades, and the strategies they have adopted or are considering; 2) a replicable method for visualizing intersections in order to test various physical design options, supported by a replication reference guide; and 3) a demonstration of surveying non-motorized travelers about the perceived quality and safety of intersections—both existing and redesigned. Key recommendations include facilitating CAV-readiness discussions among diverse stakeholders, designing intersections to serve CAVs but prioritize pedestrian safety and comfort, developing methods to understand impacts on non-vehicular travelers, and supporting research on post-pandemic public engagement
title: Assessment of axillary response to Primary Systemic Therapy in patients with breast invasive carcinoma who achieve breast Radiological and Pathological Complete Response.
Creators: name: Lanz Santos, Elvira
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Observational
subject: Retrospective
subject: Cancer
subject: Chemotherapy
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: Mammography
subject: Management
subject: Breast

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: The use of neoadjuvant Primary Systemic Therapy (PST) in breast cancer has been widely extended as it increases the rates of breast conservatory surgeries, it can improve disease-free and overall survival and it reduces axillary nodal involvement...
MPEC 2023-M172 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2023 June 30)
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

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.
Evolving skills for emerging technologies: a collaborative approach
Creators: name: Brown, Jennifer C.
name: Crocamo, James T.
name: Bielskas, Amanda S.
name: Ransom, Ellie H.
name: Vanti, William B.
name: Wilfong, Krystie A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Career development
Educational technology
Science and technology libraries
Library employees--Training of

description: Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the implementation of a skills development project aimed at increasing the technology competencies of participating librarians in Columbia University’s Science & Engineering Libraries, in response to changing instructional needs.

Design/methodology/approach
Adopting a DIY or Maker learning model gave librarians a perfect opportunity to experience learning new technology skills just as their users encounter them.

Findings
The authors conclude that this collaborative project methodology could potentially fit a large variety of different library environments, providing other institutions with an excellent opportunity to reassess and revamp staff skills, no matter their instructional focus.

Originality/value
The literature notes that previous library staff training models were largely devised for newly matriculated Library and Information Science graduates preparing to enter the workforce. Burgeoning technology developments require libraries to explore novel methods to expose staff to new technology skills; this case study applies the programmatic lens of the Maker Movement to a collaborative staff learning model.
AMS Observations of Light Cosmic Ray Isotopes and Implications for their Production in the Galaxy
Creators: name: Tomassetti, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations of light isotopes in cosmic rays provide information on their origin and propagation in the Galaxy. Using the data collected by AMS-01 in the STS- 91 space mission, we compare the measurements on 1H, 2H, 3He and 4He with calculations for interstellar propagation and solar modulation. These data are described well by a diffusive-reacceleration model with parameters that match the B/C ratio data. Close comparisons are made within the astrophysical con- straints provided by the B/C data and within the nuclear uncertainties arising from the production cross sections. Astrophysical uncertainties are expected to be dramatically reduced by future data, but nuclear uncertainties may rep- resent a serious limitation of the model predictions. A diagnostic test for the reliability of the models is given by ratios such as 2H/3He, 6Li/7Li or 10B/11B.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of the 13th ICATPP Conference