cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Corticosteroids as risk factor for COVID-19-associated pulmonary aspergillosis in intensive care patients
Creators: name: Leistner, Rasmus
name: Schroeter, Lisa
name: Adam, Thomas
name: Poddubnyy, Denis
name: Stegemann, Miriam
name: Siegmund, Britta
name: Maechler, Friederike
name: Geffers, Christine
name: Schwab, Frank
name: Gastmeier, Petra
name: Treskatsch, Sascha
name: Angermair, Stefan
name: Schneider, Thomas
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: COVID-19
subject: Pulmonary aspergillosis
subject: CAPA
subject: Dexamethasone
subject: Corticosteroid
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Purpose: Corticosteroids, in particular dexamethasone, are one of the primary treatment options for critically ill COVID-19 patients. However, there are a growing number of cases that involve COVID-19-associated pulmonary aspergillosis (CAPA), and it is unclear whether dexamethasone represents a risk factor for CAPA. Our aim was to investigate a possible association of the recommended dexamethasone therapy with a risk of CAPA. Methods: We performed a study based on a cohort of COVID-19 patients treated in 2020 in our 13 intensive care units at Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin. We used ECMM/ISHM criteria for the CAPA diagnosis and performed univariate and multivariable analyses of clinical parameters to identify risk factors that could result in a diagnosis of CAPA. Results: Altogether, among the n = 522 intensive care patients analyzed, n = 47 (9%) patients developed CAPA. CAPA patients had a higher simplified acute physiology score (SAPS) (64 vs. 53, p < 0.001) and higher levels of IL-6 (1,005 vs. 461, p < 0.008). They more often had severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) (60% vs. 41%, p = 0.024), renal replacement therapy (60% vs. 41%, p = 0.024), and they were more likely to die (64% vs. 48%, p = 0.049). The multivariable analysis showed dexamethasone (OR 3.110, CI95 1.112-8.697) and SAPS (OR 1.063, CI95 1.028-1.098) to be independent risk factors for CAPA. Conclusion: In our study, dexamethasone therapy as recommended for COVID-19 was associated with a significant three times increase in the risk of CAPA.
title: Reverse ophthalmic artery in pathological Doppler of neck vessels: “Back care…! that we are going in reverse ”
Creators: name: FIGUEROA MARQUEZ , ZULMARA
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Obstruction / Occlusion
subject: Ischaemia / Infarction
subject: Arteriosclerosis
subject: Image compression
subject: Ultrasound-Spectral Doppler
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Vascular
subject: Eyes
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Head and Neck

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Review the different types of collateralization in severe stenosis or occlusion of the carotid artery. Discuss the relationship between the findings of the US Doppler of neck vessels with the direction of the ophthalmic artery...
Rule-based Test Generation with Mind Maps
Creators: name: Polivaev, Dimitry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper introduces basic concepts of rule based test generation with mind maps, and reports experiences learned from industrial application of this technique in the domain of smart card testing by Giesecke & Devrient GmbH over the last years. It describes the formalization of test selection criteria used by our test generator, our test generation architecture and test generation framework.
description: In Proceedings MBT 2012, arXiv:1202.5826
Increasing acceptance of chlorination for household water treatment: observations from Bangladesh
Creators: name: Flanagan, Sara V.
name: Meng, Xiaoguang
name: Zheng, Yan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013

description: Point-of-use water treatment, especially chlorination, is an effective intervention to reduce diarrhoea, a leading cause of death for children under five. Yet success in chlorination uptake has been limited. One obstacle is objection to treated water's taste/odour. Protective chlorine residuals that are not offensive to users require accurate dosing - a challenge in practice. Further, taste sensitivity may be different for populations never exposed to chlorinated water. Here, household chlorination trials in Bangladesh similarly revealed dissatisfaction with treated water due to taste and odour, although attempts to quantify chlorine sensitivity disputed the dissatisfaction at lower residuals. A granular activated carbon (GAC) filter fitted to the spigot of a covered tank removed the remaining chlorine residual prior to drinking and increased user satisfaction. Such a filter removes taste as a barrier and allows over-dosing contaminated water to ensure disinfection, with implications for areas with high source water variability and for emergency situations.
title: Micron-size zero-valent iron emplacement in porous media using polymer additives: column and flow cell experiments
title: Hydrology days 2006
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: AGU hydrology days 2006
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Oostrom, M.
name: Wietsma, T. W.
name: Covert, M. A.
name: Vermeul, V. R.
name: Colorado State University, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2006

description: 2006 annual AGU hydrology days was held at Colorado State University on March 20 - March 22, 2006.
description: Includes bibliographical references.
description: At the Hanford Site, an extensive In Situ Redox Manipulation (ISRM) permeable reactive barrier was installed to prevent chromate from reaching the Columbia River. However, chromium has been detected in several wells, indicating a premature loss of the reductive capacity in the aquifer. Laboratory experiments have been conducted to investigate whether barrier reductive capacity can be enhanced by adding micron-scale zero-valent iron to the high-permeability zones within the aquifer using shear-thinning fluids containing polymers. Porous media were packed in a wedge-shaped flow cell to create either a heterogeneous layered system with a high-permeability zone be-tween two low-permeability zones or a high-permeability channel surrounded by low-permeability materials. The injection flow rate, polymer type, polymer concentration, and injected pore volumes were determined based on preliminary short- and long-column experiments. The flow cell experiments indicated that iron concentration enhancements of at least 0.6% (w/w) could be obtained using moderate flow rates and injection of 30 pore volumes. The 0.6% amended Fe0 concentration would provide approximately 20 times the average reductive capacity that is provided by the dithionite-reduced iron in the ISRM barrier. Calculations show that a 1-m-long Fe0 amended zone with an average concentration of 0.6% w/w iron subject to a groundwater velocity of 1 m/day will have an estimated longevity of 7.2 years.
Study of the Sorption Properties of Ge20Se80 Thin Films for NO2 Gas Sensing
Creators: name: Chen, Ping
name: Mitkova, Maria
name: Tenne, Dmitri A.
name: Wolf, Kasandra
name: Georgieva, Velichka
name: Vergov, Lazar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this study we investigated the sorption ability of Ge20Se80 thin films applied as active layers of quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) for NO2 gas sensing. To identify the chalcogenide system appropriate for gas sensing, we provided data for the packing fraction of a number of chalcogenide systems and discussed their suitability. We performed Raman spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and atom force microscopy (AFM) measurements on the thin films both before and after gas absorption, which showed that the introduced gas molecules interact electrostatically with the chalcogen atoms of the host material and initiate some degree of structural changes in it. The weight change due to NO2 gas absorption was measured by frequency change of the resonator. The absorbed mass increased monotonically with the thickness of chalcogenide films and the NO2 gas concentration. At the conditions of our experiment, up to 11.4 ng of the gas was absorbed into 200nm thick Ge20Se80 film at 5000 ppm NO2 concentration. The process of gas molecules absorption is found irreversible at the purging conditions.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1204.0444
Extensions of semicommutative rings
Creators: name: Chen, Xue
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2011

description: Bibliography: p. 65-68.
description: We introduce two generalizations of semicommutative rings, i. e. quasi-semicommutative rings and context SC modules. Various properties of quasi-semicommutative rings are discussed, especially some of the stronger commutativity condit ions (NI, 2-primal, etc.). We also discuss those different classes of rings within some particular class of rings (von Neumann regular, p .p ., semiprime, etc.). Particular emphasis is given to the similarities and differences between quasi-SC and SC rings. Two different generalizations of semicommutativity to modules are also investigated. The first one is context SC modules. Two particular contexts are studied, and the structure of some of the context SC modules is obtained. The other one is a study of t he known class of semicommutative modules. Rings over which all modules are SC are characterized, and we show that some theorems in Chapter 2 can be generalized to modules.
The role of cell-free hemoglobin and haptoglobin in acute kidney injury in critically ill adults with ARDS and therapy with VV ECMO
Creators: name: Graw, Jan A.
name: Hildebrandt, Philip
name: Krannich, Alexander
name: Balzer, Felix
name: Spies, Claudia
name: Francis, Roland C.
name: Kuebler, Wolfgang M.
name: Weber-Carstens, Steffen
name: Menk, Mario
name: Hunsicker, Oliver
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cell-free hemoglobin
subject: Haptoglobin
subject: Acute kidney injury
subject: ARDS
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: Increased plasma concentrations of circulating cell-free hemoglobin (CFH) are supposed to contribute to the multifactorial etiology of acute kidney injury (AKI) in critically ill patients while the CFH-scavenger haptoglobin might play a protective role. We evaluated the association of CFH and haptoglobin with AKI in patients with an acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) requiring therapy with VV ECMO. Methods: Patients with CFH and haptoglobin measurements before initiation of ECMO therapy were identified from a cohort of 1044 ARDS patients and grouped into three CFH concentration groups using a risk stratification. The primary objective was to assess the association of CFH and haptoglobin with KDIGO stage 3 AKI. Further objectives included the identification of a target haptoglobin concentration to protect from CFH-associated AKI. Measurements and main results: Two hundred seventy-three patients fulfilled the inclusion criteria. Of those, 154 patients (56.4%) had AKI at ECMO initiation. The incidence of AKI increased stepwise with increasing concentrations of CFH reaching a plateau at 15 mg/dl. Compared to patients with low [< 5 mg/dl] CFH concentrations, patients with moderate [5-14 mg/dl] and high [>= 15 mg/dl] CFH concentrations had a three- and five-fold increased risk for AKI (adjusted odds ratio [OR] moderate vs. low, 2.69 [95% CI, 1.25-5.95], P = 0.012; and OR high vs. low, 5.47 [2.00-15.9], P = 0.001). Among patients with increased CFH concentrations, haptoglobin plasma levels were lower in patients with AKI compared to patients without AKI. A haptoglobin concentration greater than 2.7 g/l in the moderate and 2.4 g/l in the high CFH group was identified as clinical cutoff value to protect from CFH-associated AKI (sensitivity 89.5% [95% CI, 83-96] and 90.2% [80-97], respectively). Conclusions: In critically ill patients with ARDS requiring therapy with VV ECMO, an increased plasma concentration of CFH was identified as independent risk factor for AKI. Among patients with increased CFH concentrations, higher plasma haptoglobin concentrations might protect from CFH-associated AKI and should be subject of future research.
Numerical renormalization group calculation of impurity internal energy and specific heat of quantum impurity models
Creators: name: Merker, L.
name: Costi, T. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a method to obtain the specific heat of quantum impurity models via a direct calculation of the impurity internal energy requiring only the evaluation of local quantities within a single numerical renormalization group (NRG) calculation for the total system. For the Anderson impurity model, we show that the impurity internal energy can be expressed as a sum of purely local static correlation functions and a term that involves also the impurity Green function. The temperature dependence of the latter can be neglected in many cases, thereby allowing the impurity specific heat, $C_{\rm imp}$, to be calculated accurately from local static correlation functions; specifically via $C_{\rm imp}=\frac{\partial E_{\rm ionic}}{\partial T} + 1/2\frac{\partial E_{\rm hyb}}{\partial T}$, where $E_{\rm ionic}$ and $E_{\rm hyb}$ are the energies of the (embedded) impurity and the hybridization energy, respectively. The term involving the Green function can also be evaluated in cases where its temperature dependence is non-negligible, adding an extra term to $C_{\rm imp}$. For the non-degenerate Anderson impurity model, we show by comparison with exact Bethe ansatz calculations that the results recover accurately both the Kondo induced peak in the specific heat at low temperatures as well as the high temperature peak due to the resonant level. The approach applies to multiorbital and multichannel Anderson impurity models with arbitrary local Coulomb interactions. An application to the Ohmic two state system and the anisotropic Kondo model is also given, with comparisons to Bethe ansatz calculations. The new approach could also be of interest within other impurity solvers, e.g., within quantum Monte Carlo techniques.
description: 16 pages, 15 figures, published version
Careers, Labor Market Structure, and Socioeconomic Achievement
Creators: name: Spilerman, Seymour
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Labor economics

description: The objective of this paper is to develop the notion of the career as a strategic link between structural features of the labor market and the socioeconomic attainments of individuals. In the first section we review the treatment of careers in the occupational sociology literature and consider limitations of the traditional conceptualization. In the second section the main features of career lines, their structures and reward trajectories, are described. In conjunction with this discussion, the virtues and drawbacks of several strategies for delineating career lines from empirical data are addressed. In the next section we sketch the determinants of career-line structures as they reside in industry organization and labor market composition. In the concluding pages we consider the implications of a labor market overlaid with career lines for investigations of the socioeconomic-achievement process.
An Optical Fiber Sensor for Measurement of Dynamic Structural Response
Creators: name: Feng, Maria Q.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Civil engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Mechanical engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: This paper reports the development of and an experimental study on an optical fiber sensor for monitoring civil infrastructure systems. This optical sensor employs a vibrating wire whose tension can be modulated by external force, strain, or vibration and transformed into the change of frequency of wire vibration. The frequency of wire is detected by light sent to and reflected from the wire through an optical fiber cable. Compared to other optical fiber sensors developed so far, the proposed sensor has two significant advantages: one is that the sensing head is a vibrating wire (rather than an optical fiber), which can sense a specific physical quantity without being interfered by miscellaneous effects; the other is that the wire vibration is a well understood and reliable physical phenomenon and its frequency is optically measured and transmitted without attenuation or distortion through the optical fiber to recording and other devices. These advantages make the sensor extremely simple, reliable and robust, and hence more readily deployable in civil infrastructure applications. Three prototypes have been developed and their static and dynamic characteristics have been experimentally tested. One of the prototypes was embedded into a concrete specimen to measure its strain and the result agrees with that from a conventional strain gauge. The experimental study with prototypes demonstrates the high performance of the developed optical sensor in terms of accuracy, high frequency range, and other characteristics.
Direct Measurement of the Positive Acceleration of the Universe and Testing Inhomogeneous Models under Gravitational Wave Cosmology
Creators: name: Yagi, Kent
name: Nishizawa, Atsushi
name: Yoo, Chul-Moon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One possibility for explaining the apparent accelerating expansion of the universe is that we live in the center of a spherically inhomogeneous universe. Although current observations cannot fully distinguish $Λ$CDM and these inhomogeneous models, direct measurement of the acceleration of the universe can be a powerful tool in probing them. We have shown that, if $Λ$CDM is the correct model, DECIGO/BBO would be able to detect the positive redshift drift (which is the time evolution of the source redshift $z$) in 3--5 year gravitational wave (GW) observations from neutron-star binaries, which enables us to rule out any Lemaître-Tolman-Bondi (LTB) void model with monotonically increasing density profile. We may even be able to rule out any LTB model unless we allow unrealistically steep density profile at $z\sim 0$. This test can be performed with GW observations alone, without any reference to electromagnetic observations, and is more powerful than the redshift drift measurement using Lyman $α$ forest.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Kain: Vom Suendenfall des Mannes (Gen 4,1-16)
Creators: name: Kahl, Brigitte W.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1994
Subjects: Religion
Theology

description: Die Geschichte von Kain und Abel, die von der ersten Geburt und dem ersten
Sterben seit Weltbeginn berichtet, gehört zu den eindrücklichsten und zugleich rätselhaftesten Episoden im biblischen Erzählkreis. Die Weichenstellung für völlig gegenläufige Interpretationen erfolgt in V. 3, der die Exegese seit jeher mit einem unlösbar scheinenden Problem konfrontiert: Warum akzeptiert Gott das Opfer Abels und weist die Gabe Kains zurück?
rho-rho-N and rho-rho-Delta molecules with $J^P=5/2^{+}$ and $J^P=7/2^{+}$
Creators: name: Sun, Bao-Xi
name: Chen, Hua-Xing
name: Oset, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The rho-rho-N and rho-rho-Delta three-body systems have been studied within the framework of the fixed center approximation of Faddeev equation. The rho-rho interaction in isospin I=0, spin S=2 is strongly attractive, and so are the N-rho, Delta-rho interactions. This leads to bound states of both rho-rho-N and rho-rho-Delta. We find peaks of the modulus squared of the scattering matrix around 2227 MeV for rho-rho-N, and 2372 MeV for rho-rho-Delta. Yet, the strength of the peak for the rho-rho-N amplitude is much smaller than for rho-rho-Delta, weakening the case for a rho-rho-N bound state, or a dominant rho-rho-N component. A discussion is made on how these states can be searched for in present programs looking for multimeson final states in different reactions.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Pseudapis sp. 1 W.F.Kirby 1900
Creators: name: Madl, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Pseudapis
Pseudapis sp. 1

description: Pseudapis sp. 1
Nomia tegulata WESTWOOD (!): WALKER 1871a: 43 (without locality).
Osmia (!) tegulata WALKER (!): INNES BEY 1911: 104 (Tadjoura, cat. Lord Collection). Pseudapis tegulata WESTWOOD: BAKER 2002: 22 (tax.).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Tadjoura.
The record from Djibouti is not mentioned in DE DALLA TORRE (1896: 170), PAULY (1990: 113-117) and EARDLEY & URBAN (2010: 90).
description: Published as part of Madl, Michael, 2018, A preliminary catalogue of the Hymenoptera (Insecta) of the Republic of Djibouti, pp. 907-967 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2) on pages 937-938, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3776452
title: Dual-energy CT: everyday applications and pictorial essay.
Creators: name: Boninsegna, Enrico
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Observational
subject: Retrospective
subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Demineralisation-Bone
subject: Cancer
subject: Safety
subject: Molecular imaging
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: CT-Quantitative
subject: CAD
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Computer applications
subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Physics in Medical Imaging

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: The main objectives of the current Electronic Presentation are to describe the physics principles of Dual-Energy Computed Tomography (DECT) and its role in everyday clinical practice. We will also provide several examples of different physiological...
Algorithms for Solvents of Matrix Polynomials
Creators: name: Dennis Jr., J.E.
name: Traub, Joseph F.
name: Weber, R.P.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1978
Subjects: Computer science--Mathematics
Computer algorithms
Polynomials--Mathematical models
Bernoulli polynomials
Matrices

description: In an earlier paper we developed the algebraic theory of matrix polynomials. Here we introduce two algorithms for computing "dominant" solvents. Global convergence of the algorithms under certain conditions is established.
title: Mobilization and reactive transport of selenium in a stream-aquifer system: from field monitoring toward remediation modeling
title: Hydrology days 2009
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: AGU hydrology days 2009
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Bailey, Ryan T.
name: Cody, Brent M.
name: Gates, Timothy K.
name: Colorado State University, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2009

description: 2009 annual AGU hydrology days was held at Colorado State University on March 25 - March 27, 2009.
description: Includes bibliographical references.
description: Predicting the fate and transport of redox-sensitive species in ground water systems requires an accurate characterization of the distribution and concentrations of all related (or interdependent) chemical constituents and the reaction rates at which these constituents interact. Ground and surface water sampling of chemical and physical properties in the stream-aquifer system of Colorado's Arkansas River is providing an emerging picture of the nature and extent of selenium (Se) contamination as well as the strengths of correlations between Se and other constituents. Results from almost six years of field measurements, along with a detailed review of the literature, have led to a conceptual model of a redox-sensitive aquifer system wherein oxidants such as dissolved oxygen (DO) and nitrate, driven by extensive recharge from irrigation and canal seepage, mobilize sulfide and selenide species from shale bedrock and shale-derived soils. These species, dependent on the redox environment, are either reduced to immobile forms or transported through the shallow aquifer to surface water bodies. This conceptual model will be further refined through sampling along a transect of multi-level piezometers, thus enabling chemical characterization in the vertical dimension of the aquifer. This sampling, coupled with laboratory analyses of soil samples to quantify reaction kinetics, will allow the calibration of a vertical-profile reactive-transport ground water model wherein the fate and transport of DO, nitrate, and Se species are modeled. Insights from this modeling exercise will assist in developing a regional-scale, three-dimensional, reactive transport model of the Arkansas River system, providing a tool for exploring best management practices and remediation schemes.
The origins of ‘cakeism’: the British think tank debate over repatriating sovereignty and its impact on the UK’s Brexit strategy
Creators: name: Glencross, Andrew
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: Science Policy

description: This article uncovers the origins of ‘cakeism’ i.e., the notion the UK could keep certain EU benefits or not suffer costs after Brexit. The analysis demonstrates how the assumptions behind cakeism originated after 1992 in policy circles associated with the Conservative Party. They argued that a free-trade alternative to the EU was easy to put in place by simply disaggregating preferred elements of the single market from supranationalism. A Westminster-centric perspective also meant these proto-Brexiters were unable to countenance any potential domestic disruption caused by leaving the EU. During May’s Brexit negotiations, European Research Group MPs resorted to cakeist arguments that reprised the same assumptions about international trade and the unitary nature of the UK state articulated well before 2016. Cakeist ideas helped scupper May’s customs plan and paved the way for Johnson’s free trade deal, thereby demonstrating the enduring influence of the early think-tank debate on leaving the EU.
A cluster of outflows in the Vulpecula Rift
Creators: name: Mottram, J. C.
name: Brunt, C. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present $^{12}$CO, $^{13}$CO and C$^{18}$O (J=3$-$2) observations of a new cluster of outflows in the Vulpecula Rift with HARP-B on the JCMT. The mass associated with the outflows, measured using the $^{12}$CO HARP-B observations and assuming a distance to the region of 2.3 kpc, is 129 \msol{}, while the mass associated with the dense gas from C$^{18}$O observations is 458 \msol{} and the associated sub-millimeter core has a mass of 327 $\pm$ 112 \msol{} independently determined from Bolocam 1.1mm data. The outflow-to-core mass ratio is therefore $\sim$0.4, making this region one of the most efficient observed thus far with more than an order of magnitude more mass in the outflow than would be expected based on previous results. The kinetic energy associated with the flows, 94$\times10^{45}$ ergs, is enough to drive the turbulence in the local clump, and potentially unbind the local region altogether. The detection of SiO (J=8$-$7) emission toward the outflows indicates that the flow is still active, and not simply a fossil flow. We also model the SEDs of the four YSOs associated with the molecular material, finding them all to be of mid to early B spectral type. The energetic nature of the outflows and significant reservoir of cold dust detected in the sub-mm suggest that these intermediate mass YSOs will continue to accrete and become massive, rather than reach the main sequence at their current mass.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures and 3 tables. Accepted to MNRAS. A higher-resolution version of figure 1 will be included in the published version and is available from the authors upon request. Updated with red and blue wings swapped to match doppler shift
Mobilisation of critically ill patients receiving norepinephrine: a retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Lindholz, Maximilian
name: Schellenberg, Clara M.
name: Grunow, Julius J.
name: Kagerbauer, Simone
name: Milnik, Annette
name: Zickler, Daniel
name: Angermair, Stefan
name: Reißhauer, Anett
name: Witzenrath, Martin
name: Menk, Mario
name: Boie, Sebastian
name: Balzer, Felix
name: Schaller, Stefan J.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Early mobilisation
subject: Early ambulation
subject: Norepinephrine
subject: Adverse events
subject: Supervised machine learning
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: Mobilisation and exercise intervention in general are safe and feasible in critically ill patients. For patients requiring catecholamines, however, doses of norepinephrine safe for mobilisation in the intensive care unit (ICU) are not defined. This study aimed to describe mobilisation practice in our hospital and identify doses of norepinephrine that allowed a safe mobilisation. Methods: We conducted a retrospective single-centre cohort study of 16 ICUs at a university hospital in Germany with patients admitted between March 2018 and November 2021. Data were collected from our patient data management system. We analysed the effect of norepinephrine on level (ICU Mobility Scale) and frequency (units per day) of mobilisation, early mobilisation (within 72 h of ICU admission), mortality, and rate of adverse events. Data were extracted from free-text mobilisation entries using supervised machine learning (support vector machine). Statistical analyses were done using (generalised) linear (mixed-effect) models, as well as chi-square tests and ANOVAs. Results: A total of 12,462 patients were analysed in this study. They received a total of 59,415 mobilisation units. Of these patients, 842 (6.8%) received mobilisation under continuous norepinephrine administration. Norepinephrine administration was negatively associated with the frequency of mobilisation (adjusted difference -0.07 mobilisations per day; 95% CI - 0.09, - 0.05; p <= 0.001) and early mobilisation (adjusted OR 0.83; 95% CI 0.76, 0.90; p <= 0.001), while a higher norepinephrine dose corresponded to a lower chance to be mobilised out-of-bed (adjusted OR 0.01; 95% CI 0.00, 0.04; p <= 0.001). Mobilisation with norepinephrine did not significantly affect mortality (p > 0.1). Higher compared to lower doses of norepinephrine did not lead to a significant increase in adverse events in our practice (p > 0.1). We identified that mobilisation was safe with up to 0.20 mu g/kg/min norepinephrine for out-of-bed (IMS >= 2) and 0.33 mu g/kg/min for in-bed (IMS 0-1) mobilisation. Conclusions: Mobilisation with norepinephrine can be done safely when considering the status of the patient and safety guidelines. We demonstrated that safe mobilisation was possible with norepinephrine doses up to 0.20 mu g/kg/min for out-of-bed (IMS >= 2) and 0.33 mu g/kg/min for in-bed (IMS 0-1) mobilisation.
The experiences of undergraduate nursing students enrolled in a team teaching curriculum
Creators: name: Mislang, Jonathan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Contemporary nursing education has seen a shift towards student-centred teaching and learning strategies. Team teaching is a student-centred strategy that involves the collaboration of multiple teachers to plan, deliver, and evaluate a course. Team teaching has been used in disciplines outside of nursing education, but there is little literature to support its use within the classroom in undergraduate nursing education. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study is to examine the experiences of undergraduate nursing students enrolled in a newly revised curriculum at the University of British Columbia School of Nursing (UBC SON) that has adopted team teaching as its main pedagogical teaching and learning strategy. The aim of this research is to provide an evidence-based evaluation of the team teaching strategy with the intent of suggesting ways to improve its delivery. Constructivism and adult learning theory were used to guide this study. Non-randomized convenience sampling produced a study population of 49 third-term undergraduate nursing students enrolled in the UBC Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program starting in September 2009. Students completed a survey consisting of six open-ended questions designed to describe their experiences with team teaching. Content analysis methodology was used to analyze the data. Findings suggested that students supported the use of team teaching and viewed it as a positive influence on their learning experience. Four positive themes from team teaching emerged from the research: challenging student learning, increasing teacher credibility, teams acting as nursing role models, and promoting student learning. The implications of this research focused primarily on nursing education. Seven recommendations on how team teaching delivery can be improved within the UBC SON curriculum are suggested.
The Representation of Social Processes by Markov Models
Creators: name: Singer, Burton
name: Spilerman, Seymour
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1976
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we consider a class of issues which are central to modeling social phenomena by continuous-time Markov structures. In particular, we discuss (a) embeddability, or how to determine whether observations on an empirical process could have arisen via the evolution of a continuous-time Markov structure; and (b) identification, or what to do if the observations are consistent with more than one continuous-time Markov structure. With respect to the latter topic, we discuss how to select the specific structure from the list of alternatives which should be associated with the empirical process. We point out that the issues of embeddability and identification are especially pertinent to modeling empirical processes when one has available only fragmentary data and when the observations contain "noise" or other sources of error. These characteristics, of course, describe the typical work situation of sociologists. Finally, we note the type of situation in which a continuous-time model is the proper structure to employ and indicate that issues analogous to the ones we describe here apply to modeling social processes with discrete-time structures.
The making of landmark rulings in the European Union: the case of national judicial independence
Creators: name: Ovádek, Michal
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: We study the conditions under which the European Court of Justice (ECJ) expanded the European Union's reach into issues of national judicial independence. The ECJ's 2018 ruling in a case known as Portuguese Judges contained a far-reaching constitutional interpretation that had a transformative impact on the European Union's rule of law crisis. We conduct a theoretically guided investigation into both the domestic origins and the judicial outcome in the Portuguese Judges case. We show how the ECJ, with implicit support from the majority of the Member States, strategically exploited suitable characteristics of an inconspicuous case to produce a landmark ruling that enabled unprecedented enforcement action against democratic backsliding in Poland and Hungary.
Beyond Eurocentrism and Multiculturalism
Creators: name: West, Cornel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1993
Subjects: African Americans
Multicultural education

description: The European construction of distinctive forms of historical consciousness that highlight the operations of powers and especially human powers, the human making and remaking that provide the fundamental challenge not simply to our philosophical claims but to our conception of ourselves. That is, we discover the radically contingent character of whatever claims we put forward as well as the capacity of human beings to make and remake themselves and thereby to make and remake history, and hence to project possibilities, both for the self and for society, for the individual, for individuality-all of these terms not to be confused by discourses on the subject.
title: Cerebral tuberculomas - rare but there!
Creators: name: Capilnean, Adrian
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Pathology
subject: Infection
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: MR
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Head and neck
subject: Neuro

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: The purpose of this presentation is to highlight one of the most rare location of tuberculosis in the body, the CNS. In addition, we would like to summarise the possible differential diagnosis of solitary or multiple ring-enhancing lesions with...
Split dose and MiraLAX-based purgatives to enhance bowel preparation quality becoming common recommendations in the US
Creators: name: Hillyer, Grace A.
name: Lebwohl, Benjamin
name: Basch, Corey H.
name: Basch, Charles E.
name: Kastrinos, Fay
name: Insel, Beverly J.
name: Neugut, Alfred I.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Medicine
Diagnostic imaging

description: Objectives: Rates of suboptimal bowel preparation up to 30% have been reported. Liberalized precolonoscopy diet, split dose purgative, and the use of MiraLAX-based bowel preparation (MBBP) prior to colonoscopy are recently developed measures to improve bowel preparation quality but little is known about the utilization prevalence of these measures. We examined the patterns of utilization of these newer approaches to improve precolonoscopy bowel preparation quality among American gastroenterologists.
Methods: Surveys were distributed to a random sample of members of the American College of Gastroenterologists. Participants were queried regarding demographics, practice characteristics, and bowel preparation recommendations including recommendations for liberal dietary restrictions, split dose purgative, and the use of MBBP. Approaches were evaluated individually and in combination.
Results: Of the 999 eligible participants, 288 responded; 15.2% recommended a liberal diet, 60.0% split dose purgative, and 37.4% MBBP. Diet recommendations varied geographically with gastroenterologists in the West more likely to recommend a restrictive diet (odds ratio [OR] 2.98, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.16–7.67) and physicians in the Northeast more likely to recommend a liberal diet more likely. Older physicians more often recommended split dosing (OR 1.04, 95% CI 1.04–2.97). Use of MBBP was more common in suburban settings (OR 2.14, 95% CI 1.23–3.73). Evidence suggests that physicians in private practice were more likely to prescribe split dosing (p = 0.03) and less often recommended MBBP (p = 0.02). Likelihood of prescribing MBBP increased as weekly volume of colonoscopy increased (p = 0.03).
Conclusions: To enhance bowel preparation quality American gastroenterologists commonly use purgative split dosing. The use of MBBP is becoming more prevalent while a liberalized diet is infrequently recommended. Utilization of these newer approaches to improve bowel preparation quality varies by physician and practice characteristics. Further evaluation of the patterns of usage of these measures is indicated.
title: The use of Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) in the detection of urothelial carcinoma.
Creators: name: Puglia, Marta
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Education and training
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: Kidney
subject: Contrast agents
subject: Genitourinary

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To study the role of contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) in the diagnosis of urothelial...
Exploring the EU’s status quo tendency in the migration policy field: a network-centred perspective
Creators: name: Abdou, Leila Hadj
name: Pettrachin, Andrea
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Why have fundamental policy positions within the EU migration policy field remained relatively stable despite the changing composition of policy players and several ‘external shocks’ in the last two decades? To complement existing explanations of status quo tendencies in EU migration policy, this article applies a network-centred organizational approach shedding light on the policy environment in which policymakers form their understanding of policy problems and make choices. The analysis of data collected through interviews with representatives of national governments, EU institutions, international organizations, and non-governmental actors, suggests that status quo tendencies in EU migration policy depend on processes of knowledge formation and key features of the migration policy network, including not only its compositional specifics but also network constellations, dynamics of trust and perceptions of like-mindedness that guide policy actors’ processing of information.
The Case for Free Trade
Creators: name: Bhagwati, Jagdish N.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1993
Subjects: Economics

description: Discusses the fears of environmentalists and the benefits of free trade. Campaigns against General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT); legitimacy of environmentalists' concerns; imposition of values on other communities; obstacles of GATT rules for environmental regulations; protocol for global environmental problems.
A family of spin-S chain representations of SU(2)_k Wess-Zumino-Witten models
Creators: name: Thomale, Ronny
name: Rachel, Stephan
name: Schmitteckert, Peter
name: Greiter, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate a family of spin-S chain Hamiltonians recently introduced by one of us. For S=1/2, it corresponds to the Haldane-Shastry model. For general spin S, we find indication that the low-energy theory of these spin chains is described by the SU(2)_k Wess-Zumino-Witten model with coupling k=2S. In particular, we investigate the S=1 model whose ground state is given by a Pfaffian for even number of sites N. We reconcile aspects of the spectrum of the Hamiltonian for arbitrary N with trial states obtained by Schwinger projection of two Haldane-Shastry chains.
description: 4.3 pages, 4 figures
title: Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease: MRI findings in a rare disease.
Creators: name: Kosar Tunc, Melis
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Dementia
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: CNS
subject: Neuro

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To learn pathophysiology and diagnostic criteria of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). To be aware of the disease as a radiologist. To recognize the imaging findings and emphasize the differential...
title: Assimilating water table elevation data into a catchment hydrology modeling framework to estimate hydraulic conductivity
title: Hydrology days 2010
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: AGU hydrology days 2010
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Bailey, Ryan T.
name: Baù, Domenico A.
name: Colorado State University, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2010

description: 2010 annual AGU hydrology days was held at Colorado State University on March 22 - March 24, 2010.
description: Includes bibliographical references.
description: Groundwater models, often used to enhance understanding of hydrologic and chemical processes in local or regional aquifers, are often hindered by inadequate representation of the parameters which characterize these processes. Furthermore, attempts to estimate these parameters are usually limited to studies employing simplified aquifer representations. In this study we present preliminary results of using a data assimilation algorithm, the Ensemble Smoother, to provide enhanced estimates of aquifer hydraulic conductivity within a fully-coupled, surface-subsurface flow modeling framework through assimilation of water table elevation measurements. Based on the Kalman Filter methodology, the algorithm uses residuals between forecasted model results and assimilated measurement data, together with the covariance of model results, to correct model results throughout the model domain. Parameter estimation is achieved by incorporating spatially variable hydraulic conductivity values into the algorithm, thereby allowing the correlation between water table values and hydraulic conductivity to correct the hydraulic conductivity fields. The applicability of the Ensemble Smoother scheme is demonstrated via a synthetic three-dimensional catchment system incorporating variably-saturated subsurface flow, overland flow, and channel flow. Results indicate that assimilating water table measurements provides an improved estimate of the hydraulic conductivity fields.
Труды Кольского научного центра РАН, Выпуск 32018
Creators: name: Кольский научный центр Российской академии наук
Publisher: name: Труды Кольского научного центра РАН
Year: 2018

description: , Выпуск 32018
description: В 2010-м году президиум КНЦ РАН принял решение о возвращении к уже имевшейся в предыдущие годы практике издания «Трудов Кольского научного центра РАН» в виде специализированных тематических научных журналов по основным направлениям научно-исследовательской деятельности учреждений Центра.