cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Κώδικες οδικής κυκλοφορίας: συγκριτική θεώρηση πρακτικών σε χώρες της Ευρωπαϊκής Ενωσης
Creators: name: Γαλάνης, Αθανάσιος Θωμά
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2007
Subjects: Κώδικας οδικής κυκλοφορίας
Οχήματα
Πρόστιμα
Ελληνικό
Βρετανικό
Γερμανικό
Code highway use
Highway code
Strassen verkehrsordnung STvo
Greek
British
German

description: Οι Κώδικες Οδικής Κυκλοφορίας πραγματεύονται την ασφαλή και εύρυθμη κυκλοφορία μηχανοκίνητων οχημάτων, δικύκλων, μοτοποδηλάτων, ποδηλάτων, πεζών και ζώων στους δρόμους μιας χώρας. Σκοπός του κάθε ΚΟΚ είναι η ασφαλής και ομαλή κυκλοφορία όλων των χρηστών των οδών. Στόχος είναι η ομαλή και ασφαλής συνύπαρξη των διαφόρων μεταφορικών μέσων σ' ένα περιβάλλον απρόβλεπτο και απαιτητικό όπως είναι οι οδοί κυκλοφορίας των οχημάτων.Στην παρούσα εργασία, έγινε μια προσπάθεια περιγραφής και σχολιασμού του Ελληνικού Κώδικα Οδικής Κυκλοφορίας στην αναθεωρημένη του έκδοση, του Βρετανικού Κώδικα Οδικής Κυκλοφορίας “Highway Code” και του Γερμανικού Κώδικα Οδικής Κυκλοφορίας “Strassen Verkehrs Ordnung – StVO”. Ακολούθως, έγινε μια σύγκριση του Ελληνικού ΚΟΚ με το Βρετανικό και το Γερμανικό πάνω στις βασικές ομοιότητες και διαφορές τους. Εν συνέχεια, έγινε μια συγκριτική αξιολόγηση του Ελληνικού ΚΟΚ με το Βρετανικό και το Γερμανικό πάνω στο στόχο, το περιεχόμενο και τη φιλοσοφία τους. Στο τέλος, έγινε μια προσπάθεια δημιουργίας προδιαγραφών σύνταξης ενός Κώδικα Οδικής Κυκλοφορίας, καθώς και μια προσπάθεια σύνταξης του Ελληνικού ΚΟΚ με βάση αυτές τις προδιαγραφές. Η σύγκριση των Κωδίκων Οδικής Κυκλοφορίας και η αξιολόγησή τους μας οδηγεί στην εκπόνηση προδιαγραφών σύνταξης ενός που θα δίνει έμφαση στον άνθρωπο, στην πρόληψη και τα επικοινωνιακά του χαρακτηριστικά. Έτσι, θα επιτυγχάνεται μια βελτίωση της οδικής ασφάλειας, δίνοντας λύση στη ρίζα του προβλήματος, στον ίδιο τον άνθρωπο, στην ενημέρωση και ευαισθητοποίησή του.
description: The Codes of Highway use deal with the safe and use of mechanically-driven vehicles, two-wheeled, motor cycles, bicycles, pedestrians and animals in the streets of the country. The aim of each Code is the safe and smooth use of all users of roads. The basic goal is the smooth and safe coexistence of various transport means, in an environment unanticipated and demanding as the roads environment is. The present work is an effort of description and annotation of the Greek Code of Highway use in his revising edition, of the British Code named “Highway Code” and the German Code named “Strassen Verkehrs Ordnung –StVO”. Additionally, a comparison of the Greek Code with the British and the German one was performed with their basic resemblances and differences. Also, a comparative evaluation of the Greek Code with the British and the German one in their objective, their content and their philosophy was performed. Last, a proposal for a revised Greek Highway Code was written. The comparison of the Codes of Highway use and their evaluation, leads to the development of specifications for a new one that will emphasize the role of the user with more emphasis to prevention and communication. Thus, an improvement will be achieved to the road safety.
Additional file 7 of The evolution of hemocyanin genes in Tectipleura: a multitude of conserved introns in highly diverse gastropods
Creators: name: Schäfer, Gabriela Giannina
name: Pedrini-Martha, Veronika
name: Jackson, Daniel John
name: Dallinger, Reinhard
name: Lieb, Bernhard
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7. Movie files. Distribution of splice sites positions in a 3D model of a hemocyanin FU.
Distributed Variational Bayesian Algorithms Over Sensor Networks
Creators: name: Hua, Junhao
name: Li, Chunguang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Distributed inference/estimation in Bayesian framework in the context of sensor networks has recently received much attention due to its broad applicability. The variational Bayesian (VB) algorithm is a technique for approximating intractable integrals arising in Bayesian inference. In this paper, we propose two novel distributed VB algorithms for general Bayesian inference problem, which can be applied to a very general class of conjugate-exponential models. In the first approach, the global natural parameters at each node are optimized using a stochastic natural gradient that utilizes the Riemannian geometry of the approximation space, followed by an information diffusion step for cooperation with the neighbors. In the second method, a constrained optimization formulation for distributed estimation is established in natural parameter space and solved by alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM). An application of the distributed inference/estimation of a Bayesian Gaussian mixture model is then presented, to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms. Simulations on both synthetic and real datasets demonstrate that the proposed algorithms have excellent performance, which are almost as good as the corresponding centralized VB algorithm relying on all data available in a fusion center.
Additional file 8 of The evolution of hemocyanin genes in Tectipleura: a multitude of conserved introns in highly diverse gastropods
Creators: name: Schäfer, Gabriela Giannina
name: Pedrini-Martha, Veronika
name: Jackson, Daniel John
name: Dallinger, Reinhard
name: Lieb, Bernhard
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 8: Table S3. Primer description.
How angry are your customers? Sentiment analysis of support tickets that escalate
Creators: name: Werner, Colin
name: Montgomery, Lloyd
name: Dodos, Sanja
name: Tapuc, Gabriel
name: Sharma, Diksha
name: Damian, Daniela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Software support ticket escalations can be an extremely costly burden for software organizations all over the world. Consequently, there exists an interest in researching how to better enable support analysts to handle such escalations. In order to do so, we need to develop tools to reliably predict if, and when, a support ticket becomes a candidate for escalation. This paper explores the use of sentiment analysis tools on customer-support analyst conversations to find indicators of when a particular support ticket may be escalated. The results of this research indicate a considerable difference in the sentiment between escalated support tickets and non-escalated support tickets. Thus, this preliminary research provides us with the necessary information to further investigate how we can reliably predict support ticket escalations, and subsequently to provide insight to support analysts to better enable them to handle support tickets that may be escalated.
description: 8 pages, 0 figures, 6 tables, accepted at the 2018 1st International Workshop on Affective Computing for Requirements Engineering (AffectRE) at RE
การสร้างชุดกิจกรรมการเรียนรู้เรื่อง "มหัศจรรย์ยางพารา" โดยใช้แนวการสอน STEM กับการพัฒนาการศึกษาในศตวรรษที่ 21 ของนักเรียนระดับชั้นมัธยมศึกษาตอนปลาย
Creators: name: เกศินี อินถา
name: ภาณุพัฒน์ ชัยวร
name: อโนดาษ์ รัชเวทย์
Publisher: name: คณะครุศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏพิบูลสงคราม
Year: 2558
Subjects: ชุดกิจกรรมการเรียนรู้, แนวการสอน STEM, การศึกษาในศตวรรษที่ 21, ยางพารา

description: พิเศษ1/58, 2, วารสารครุพิบูล
การสร้างชุดกิจกรรม เรื่อง การแก้สมการเชิงเส้นตัวแปรเดียว โดยใช้ทฤษฎีการสร้างความรู้ด้วยตนเอง และการจัดกิจกรรมการเรียนรู้ตามขั้นตอนของโพลยา สำหรับนักเรียนชั้นมัธยมศึกษาปีที่ 1โรงเรียนป่ากั้งวิทยา อำเภอท่าปลา จังหวัดอุตรดิตถ์
Creators: name: จันทนา แก้วเปี้ย
Publisher: name: คณะครุศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏพิบูลสงคราม
Year: 2558
Subjects: ชุดกิจกรรม, ทฤษฎีการสร้างความรู้ด้วยตนเอง, การจัดกิจกรรมการเรียนรู้ตามขั้นตอนของโพลยา

description: พิเศษ1/59, 2, วารสารครุพิบูล
Reproduction and pre-weaning juvenile survival in a cyclic population of snowshoe hares
Creators: name: Stefan, Carol Irene
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Reproductive output and pre-weaning survival were estimated in a cyclic population of snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus) in the Kluane Lake region of southwest Yukon Territory. Data collected by five researchers were collated over eight years (1989 - 1996). Pregnant hares were captured and held in cages until they gave birth, so that reproductive characteristics could be measured. Newborn hares were radio-tagged to estimate survival rates from birth. Pregnancy rate, litter size and neonate size fluctuated significantly throughout the cycle, changing about two years before corresponding changes in density. The lowest and highest values for all measured parameters were recorded during the decline and increase phases, respectively. Pregnancy rates were nearly 100% in litters born early in the breeding season, but declined up to 20% in the last litter of the year. The number of litters produced in a breeding season varied between two (decline phase) and four (low, early increase). Litter sizes varied among litters within a year, with larger litters being born later in the breeding season. Litter sizes also differed among years, ranging from a mean of 3.8 during the decline to 5.5 during the increase. The weight and size of neonates varied by 5-33% among years. Predation was the primary cause of death of leverets in all phases of the cycle except the decline, when exposure and starvation claimed most young hares. Juvenile survival was highly variable among litter groups at peak hare densities and extremely poor during the decline, particularly Litter 2. Survival was still variable but higher during the low, and was consistently high during the increase. Red squirrels were the primary predators of leverets <10-d old and showed a strong functional response to increasing leveret density across years, particularly in Litter 2. The combined changes for reproduction and early juvenile survival produced a 10- fold variation in pre-weaning recruitment of juvenile hares. The indirect effect of predators on the foraging behaviour and physiology of adult females and direct predation on very young hares were implicated as the cause of these changes. My results support the premise that both reproduction and early juvenile survival strongly influence the population growth rate of snowshoe hares.
ผลการจัดการเรียนรู้แบบโครงการเพื่อถ่ายทอดศิลปวัฒนธรรมและภูมิปัญญาท้องถิ่น โดยใช้ชุมชนเป็นแหล่งเรียนรู้ สำหรับนักศึกษาวิทยาลัยชุมชน
Creators: name: เด่นศักดิ์ หอมหวล
Publisher: name: คณะครุศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏพิบูลสงคราม
Year: 2558
Subjects: การเรียนรู้แบบโครงการ, ภูมิปัญญาท้องถิ่น, แหล่งเรียนรู้ในชุมชน, วิทยาลัยชุมชน

description: พิเศษ1/60, 2, วารสารครุพิบูล
First Detection of Millimeter/Submillimeter Extragalactic H2O Maser Emission
Creators: name: Humphreys, E. M. L.
name: Greenhill, L. J.
name: Reid, M. J.
name: Beuther, H.
name: Moran, J. M.
name: Gurwell, M.
name: Wilner, D. J.
name: Kondratko, P. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the first detection of an extragalactic millimeter wavelength H2O maser at 183 GHz towards NGC 3079 using the Submillimeter Array (SMA), and a tentative submillimeter wave detection of the 439 GHz maser towards the same source using the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). These H2O transitions are known to exhibit maser emission in star-forming regions and evolved stars. NGC 3079 is a well-studied nuclear H2O maser source at 22 GHz with a time-variable peak flux density in the range 3 -- 12 Jy. The 183 GHz H2O maser emission, with peak flux density $\sim$0.5 Jy (7$σ$ detection), also originates from the nuclear region of NGC 3079 and is spatially coincident with the dust continuum peak at 193 GHz (53 mJy integrated). Peak emission at both 183 and 439 GHz occurs in the same range of velocity as that covered by the 22 GHz spectrum. We estimate the gas to dust ratio of the nucleus of NGC 3079 to be $\approx$150, comparable to the Galactic value of 160. Discovery of maser emission in an active galactic nucleus beyond the long-known 22 GHz transition opens the possibility of future position-resolved radiative transfer modeling of accretion disks and outflows $<1$ pc from massive black holes.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures, ApJ Letters accepted
PICO Framework: Two Decades of Variation and Application
Creators: name: Shokraneh, Farhad
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2019

description: Background: Although PICO was supposed to be a mnemonic tool for clear presentation of interventional clinical questions, it became a useful tool in designing study question, developing search strategies, coding/indexing and retrieving the studies, search tool, summarizing the research, formulating research recommendations, information therapy (Ix), and guideline development. In addition, it was an inspiration for similar frameworks such as ECLIPSE, SPIDER and SPICE. History of PICO shows a wide variation of this framework to get adapted for the purpose. Some of the variations are PECO, PICOS, PICOT, and PIPOH. Like any other tool, PICO has its own disadvantages. This review is a systematic effort to document the history of PICO.

Objectives: To document the history of PICO framework in past two decades

Method: This is a systematic literature review.

Results: PICO was suggested for clear presentation of interventional questions but its usage got expanded. Its applications could be listed as follows: Designing study question Developing search strategies (in systematic reviews) Coding/indexing the studies (PICO annotator and study-based registers) Retrieving the studies (in TRIP Database or PICO interface) Summarizing the research (BMJ PICO) Formulating research recommendations Information therapy (Ix) Guideline development There are tens of variations presented for PICO showing its flexibility to be used as research of clinical PICO. The main disadvantage for PICO is the loosing semantics while converting a natural language question into PICO.

Conclusions: PICO is a good example of a simple mnemonic tool that because useful in both research and clinic. Its developments in past two decades have not been celebrated while its story could be an idea for developing similar tools in evidence-based medicine. PICO needs more attention as it becomes more involved in daily EBM practice.
Closer look at white hole remnants
Creators: name: Barrau, Aurélien
name: Ferdinand, Léonard
name: Martineau, Killian
name: Renevey, Cyril
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The idea that, after their evaporation, Planck-mass black holes might tunnel into metastable white holes has recently been intensively studied. Those relics have been considered as a dark matter candidate. We show that the model is severely constrained and underline some possible detection paths. We also investigate, in a more general setting, the way the initial black hole mass spectrum would be distorted by both the bouncing effect and the Hawking evaporation.
Generalized symmetries and integrability conditions for hyperbolic type semi-discrete equations
Creators: name: Garifullin, Rustem N.
name: Habibullin, Ismagil T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the article differential-difference (semi-discrete) lattices of hyperbolic type are investigated from the integrability viewpoint. More precisely we concentrate on a method for constructing generalized symmetries. This kind integrable lattices admit two hierarchies of generalized symmetries corresponding to the discrete and continuous independent variables $n$ and $x$. Symmetries corresponding to the direction of $n$ are constructed in a more or less standard way while when constructing symmetries of the other form we meet a problem of solving a functional equation. We have shown that to handle with this equation one can effectively use the concept of characteristic Lie-Rinehart algebras of semi-discrete models. Based on this observation, we have proposed a classification method for integrable semi-discrete lattices. One of the interesting results of this work is a new example of an integrable equation, which is a semi-discrete analogue of the Tzizeica equation. Such examples were not previously known.
description: 18 pages
การศึกษาผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียนคณิตศาสตร์ เรื่อง ความน่าจะเป็น ของนักเรียนห้องเรียน สสวท.ชั้นมัธยมศึกษาปีที่ 3 โดยการจัดการเรียนรู้แบบวัฏจักรการเรียนรู้ 7E ร่วมกับการเรียนแบบ STAD
Creators: name: ลียานา ประทีปวัฒนพันธ์
name: สมคิด อินเทพ
Publisher: name: คณะครุศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏพิบูลสงคราม
Year: 2558
Subjects: ความน่าจะเป็น, วัฏจักรการเรียนรู้ 7E, การเรียนแบบ STAD, นักเรียนห้องเรียน สสวท.

description: พิเศษ1/61, 2, วารสารครุพิบูล
Infrared spectra of neutral polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by machine learning
Creators: name: Laurens, Gaétan
name: Rabary, Malalatiana
name: Lam, Julien
name: Peláez, Daniel
name: Allouche, Abdul-Rahman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Interest in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) spans numerous fields and infrared spectroscopy is usually the method of choice to disentangle their molecular structure. In order to compute vibrational frequencies, numerous theoretical studies employ either quantum calculation methods, or empirical potentials, but it remains difficult to combine the accuracy of the first approach with the computational cost of the second. In this work, we employed Machine Learning techniques to develop a potential energy surface and a dipole mapping based on an artificial neural network (ANN) architecture. Altogether, while trained on only 11 small PAH molecules, the obtained ANNs are able to retrieve the infrared spectra of those small molecules, but more importantly of 8 large PAHs different from the training set, thus demonstrating the transferability of our approach.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures
Τοπολογική ανάλυση παγκόσμιων ψηφιακών βάσεων δεδομένων για τη δομή και σύσταση του γήινου φλοιού
Creators: name: Βασιλειάδης, Ιωάννης Βασιλείου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2007
Subjects: Τοπολογική ανάλυση
Topological analysis

description: Η παρούσα μεταπτυχιακή εργασία πραγματεύεται τον προσδιορισμό της τοπολογίας του παγκόσμιου μοντέλου δομής και σύστασης του γήινου φλοιού CRUST 2.0. Γίνεται αναλυτική περιγραφή του μοντέλου και των δεδομένων του και ιδιαίτερη αναφορά στον τρόπο με τον οποίο έχει παραχθεί. Δίνεται το θεωρητικό υπόβαθρο των μετασχηματισμών συντεταγμένων που απαιτείται για τον προσδιορισμό της τοπολογίας και αναλύονται δύο μορφές τοπολογίας: η τοπολογία που διασπά κάθε στρώμα του φλοιού σε επί μέρους πολύεδρα και η ενιαία τοπολογία που αντιμετωπίζει κάθε στρώμα στο σύνολό του. Για την πρώτη μορφή τοπολογίας εξετάζονται οι περιπτώσεις πολυέδρων που προκύπτουν λόγω τομής των επιφανειών που ορίζουν το κάθε στρώμα. Για τη δεύτερη μορφή τοπολογίας εξετάζεται ο τρόπος μεταβολής των τοπικών συντεταγμένων των κορυφών των επτά στρωμάτων για α)σφαιρικό πλέγμα σημείων υπολογισμού του δυναμικού και των παραγώγων του και β)επίπεδο πλέγμα σημείων υπολογισμού του δυναμικού και των παραγώγων του.
description: This postgraduate thesis deals with the topology definition of the global crustal model CRUST 2.0. There is an analytical description of the model and its data and a special report is given to the method for its production. The theoretical feedback of coordinates transformations that are necessary for the topology definition is provided and two kinds of topology are analyzed: the topology which breaks up the layer into partial polyhedrons and the topology which applies the layer on the whole. For the first kind of topology the thesis analyzes some cases of polyhedrons that comes up due to the meeting of the surfaces defining each layer. For the second kind of topology, the way of local coordinates variation is investigated for a) a spherical grid of potential and its derivatives calculation points and b) a plane grid of potential and its derivatives calculation points.
Additional file 1 of Association of decreased grip strength with lower urinary tract symptoms in women: a cross‐sectional study from Korea
Creators: name: Yang, Su-Jin
name: Park, Jung Ha
name: Yunhwan Oh
name: Hyeonju Kim
name: Mihee Kong
name: Moon, Jihyun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Health Check-up Questionnaire.
Elicitation of words and phrases from "Chilula Texts"
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Spence, Justin
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio file VP-210220-08: Elicitation of words and phrases from "Chilula Texts" (transcribed by Pliny Earle Goddard, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology vol. 10, no. 7, 1914, texts #1-5).
Το χειμαρρικό περιβάλλον (δυναμικό) του Χειμάρρου Πάμισου Θεσσαλίας. (Εστίες παραγωγής χειμαρρικών φαινομένων-Αποτελεσματικότητα εκτελεσθέντων έργων διευθέτησης)
Creators: name: Καραπάνος, Σταύρος Χρήστου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2007
Subjects: Γεωγραφικά συστήματα πληροφοριών (ΓΣΠ)
Χειμαρρικό περιβάλλον
Χείμαρρος Πάμισος
Υδρονομικά έργα
Geographical Information System
(Gis)
Torrential environemnt
Torrent Pamisos
Torrent control works

description: Στην παρούσα εργασία έλαβε χώρα ο υπολογισμός των μορφομετρικών και υδρογραφικών χαρακτηριστικών της λεκάνης απορροής του Πάμισου Θεσσαλίας με τη χρήση γεωγραφικού συστήματος Πληροφοριών (ΓΣΠ). Ακόμα, προσδιόρισε ο τρόπος δράσης των βασικών χειμαρρικών παραγόντων(ανάγλυφη όψη, κλίμα, βλάστηση, γεωλογικό υπόθεμα). Επιπλέον, βασικό κομμάτι της εργασίας αποτέλεσς ο εντοπισμός εκτελεσθέντων υδρονομικών έργων της λεκάνης απορροής του Πάμισου. Τέλος, στηριζόμενοι στα αποτελέσματα των παραπάνω σταδίων, έγινε προσπάθεια να εκτιμηθεί η αποτελεσματικότητα των εκτελεσθέντων έργων διευθέτησης
description: In the present waster thesis has taken place the computation of morphological and hydrographic features for the basin of torrent Pamisos at Thessaly using Geographical Information System (GIS). Also, has been determined the manner of the besic torrential factors(anaglyph, climate, vegetation, geologic underlay). Core of the thesis constituted the localization of constructed torrent control works at the basin of Pamisos. Finally, based on the results of the previous stages it has been attempted to estimate the effectiveness of the constructed torrent control works
Everolimus for patients with tumors associated with tuberous sclerosis and neurofibromatosis
Creators: name: Felix, Francisco
name: Mattos, João Paulo
name: Hirth, Carlos
name: Juvenia Fontenele
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2015

description: Everolimus is an inhibitor of the serine/threonine kinase mTOR (mechanistic target of rapamycin), inhibiting the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway through mTORC1 complex. It was approved by the FDA and ANVISA to treat subependymal giant cell astrocytoma (SEGA), a benign tumor associated with tuberous sclerosis (TS). Furthermore, everolimus is being investigated for the treatment of tumors associated with neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2), especially meningiomas and schwannomas. We report 3 cases of TS/NF-2-related brain tumors treated with everolimus at our institution. The off-label treatment with everolimus was initiated after informed consent. Case 1: female, 5 years old at diagnosis, with TS, with progressive bulky SEGA after initial surgical resection and treatment with carboplatin and vincristine, symptomatic with refractory epilepsy. Everolimus was administered at 1.5 mg/m2/day, the patient had no more seizures and improved symptomatically. The dose was increased to 3 mg/ m2/day in order to achieve a serum concentration higher than 5 ng/ml. Radiographically, there was a reduction of more than 40% of the lesion. Case 2: female, 7 years old at diagnosis, with suspected NF2 and diagnosis of meningioma of the sphenoid with bilateral invasion of the optic nerve sheath, very symptomatic and with refractory disease despite three surgical approaches and radiotherapy. Everolimus was started at a dose of 2 mg/m2/day, then reduced to 0.5 mg/m2/day because of adverse events. Serum concentrations achieved with lower doses remained in the therapeutic range. The patient showed obvious clinical improvement with reduction of subjective symptoms. Case 3: male, 15 years at diagnosis, with an intramedullary schwannoma and several schwannomas in the roots of cauda equina, suggestive of schwannomatosis (a rare condition related with mutations in NF2 and INI1). After surgery for partial ressection of the spinal cord injury, the patient developed progression of root lesions and chronic pain. We started everolimus at a dose of 1.5 mg/m2/day, reaching therapeutic serum concentration. The patient experienced complete cessation of pain. Treatment of rare brain tumors associated with NF2 or TS with the mTOR inhibitor everolimus is an option for patients with no other treatment alternatives.
THE EARLY PLIOCENE MAMMAL ASSEMBLAGE OF VAL DI PUGNA (TUSCANY, ITALY) IN THE LIGHT OF CALCAREOUS PLANKTON BIOSTRATIGRAPHICAL DATA AND PALEOECOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS
Creators: name: BIANUCCI, GIOVANNI
name: MAZZA, PAUL
name: MEROLA, DONATO
name: SARTI, GIOVANNI
name: CASCELLA, ANTONIO
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2001

description: The stratigraphy of clayey and sandy beds outcropping in Val di Pugna locality near Siena (Tuscany, Italy) celebrated for the past finds of fossil mammalian remains, is studied here. The research is aimed to date and define the depositional environment of the sediments that yielded fossil bones of known provenance.  Two sequences have been studied in detail; they are located near the hamlets of Ruffolo and Case il Poggio, where both marine and land mammal remains had been found. The integrated biostratigraphic analysis of the planktonic foraminifers and calcareous nannoplankton indicates that the deposits straddle the transition from the Zone MPL3 to MPL4 of the planktonic foraminifer biostratigraphic scale, which is correlated with the Reticulofenestra pseudoumbilicus Zone (MNN14-15 Zone) of the calcareous nannoplankton scale. The sedimentary characters and the faunal content are suggestive of a progressively deepening marine environment, with a transition from upper shoreface deposits to lower shoreface-offshore deposits. The vertebrates include a cetacean (Tusciziphis crispus) and a sirenid (Metaxyterium gervaisi) amongst the marine mammals, while the land mammals are represented by a rhino (Stephanorhinus jeanvireti) and a bovid (Alephis lyrix). The sirenid remains are likely the only autochthonous elements because of their ecologic consistency with the depositional environment of the embedding sediments. The other fossil specimens are interpreted here as parts of decaying and floating carcasses that deposited their bones as they drifted away, inflated by decomposition gasses.
The biostratigraphy of the sites permits to date the fossil bones. Noteworthy occurrences are those of Stephanorhinus jeanvireti and Alephis lyrix in levels correlated with Zone MN14, since they are usually reported in Zone MN16 and Zone MN15 assemblages, respectively.
description: Rivista italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, Vol 107, No 3
The chemistry of planetary nebulae and HII regions in the dwarf galaxies Sextans A and B from deep VLT spectra
Creators: name: Magrini, Laura
name: Leisy, Pierre
name: Corradi, Romano L. M.
name: Perinotto, Mario
name: Mampaso, Antonio
name: Vilchez, Jose M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spectroscopic observations obtained with the VLT of one planetary nebula (PN) in Sextans A and of five PNe in Sextans B and of several HII regions (HII) in these two dwarf irregular galaxies are presented. The extended spectral coverage, from 320.0 to 1000.0nm, and the large telescope aperture allowed us to detect a number of emission lines, covering more than one ionization stage for several elements (He, O, S, Ar). The electron temperature (Te) diagnostic [OIII] line at 436.3 nm was measured in all six PNe and in several HII allowing for an accurate determination of the ionic and total chemical abundances by means of the Ionization Correction Factors method. For the time being, these PNe are the farthest ones where such a direct measurement of the Te is obtained. In addition, all PNe and HII were also modelled using the photoionization code CLOUDY. The physico-chemical properties of PNe and HII are presented and discussed. A small dispersion in the oxygen abundance of HII was found in both galaxies: 12 + $\log$(O/H)=7.6$\pm$0.2 in SextansA, and 7.8$\pm$0.2 in SextansB. For the five PNe of SextansA, we find that 12 + $\log$(O/H)=8.0$\pm$0.3, with a mean abundance consistent with that of HII. The only PN known in SextansA appears to have been produced by a quite massive progenitor, and has a significant nitrogen overabundance. In addition, its oxygen abundance is 0.4 dex larger than the mean abundance of HII, possibly indicating an efficient third dredge-up for massive, low-metallicity PN progenitors. The metal enrichment of both galaxies is analyzed using these new data.
description: 19 pages, 11 figures, Accepted by A&A
Positronium collapse and the maximum magnetic field in pure QED
Creators: name: Shabad, Anatoly E.
name: Usov, Vladimir V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A maximum value for the magnetic field is determined, which provides the full compensation of the positronium rest mass by the binding energy in the maximum symmetry state and disappearance of the energy gap separating the electron-positron system from the vacuum. The compensation becomes possible owing to the falling to the center phenomenon. The maximum magnetic field may be related to the vacuum and describe its structure.
description: 4 pages, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Letters
Polarized radiation and the Emergence of Biological Homochirality on Earth and Beyond
Creators: name: Globus, Noemie
name: Fedynitch, Anatoli
name: Blandford, Roger D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been proposed that spin-polarized cosmic radiation can induce asymmetric changes in helical biopolymers that may account for the emergence of biological homochirality. The parity violation in the weak interaction has direct consequences on the transport of polarization in cosmic ray showers. In this paper, we show that muons retain their polarization down to energies at which they can initiate enantioselective mutagenesis. Therefore, muons are most likely to succeed in establishing the connection between broken symmetries in the standard model of particle physics and that found in living organisms. We calculate the radiation doses deposited by primary and secondary cosmic rays at various prime targets for the searches of life in the solar system: Mars, Venus, Titan, icy moons and planetesimals, and discuss the implications for the enantioselective mutagenesis proposed as to be the driver of homochiralization. Earth is unusual in that spin-polarized muons dominate the cosmic radiation at its surface.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, accepted for Publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Near-UV Observations of CS29497-030: New Constraints on Neutron-Capture Nucleosynthesis Processes
Creators: name: Ivans, Inese I.
name: Sneden, Christopher
name: Gallino, Roberto
name: Cowan, John J.
name: Preston, George W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Employing spectra obtained with the new Keck I HIRES near-UV sensitive detector, we have performed a comprehensive chemical composition analysis of the binary blue metal-poor star CS29497-030. Abundances for 29 elements and upper limits for an additional seven have been derived, concentrating on elements largely produced via neutron-capture nucleosynthesis. Included in our analysis are the two elements that define the termination point of the slow neutron-capture process, lead and bismuth. We determine an extremely high value of [Pb/Fe] = +3.65 +/- 0.07 (sigma = 0.13) from three features, supporting the single-feature result obtained in previous studies. We also detect Bi for the first time in a metal-poor star. Our derived Bi/Pb ratio is in accord with those predicted from the most recent FRANEC calculations of the slow neutron-capture process in low-mass AGB stars. We find that the neutron-capture elemental abundances of CS29497-030 are best explained by an AGB model that also includes very significant amounts of pre-enrichment of rapid neutron-capture process material in the protostellar cloud out of which the CS29497-030 binary system formed. Thus, CS29497-030 is both an ``r+s'' and ``extrinsic AGB'' star. Furthermore, we find that the mass of the AGB model can be further constrained by the abundance of the light odd-element [Na/Fe] which is sensitive to the neutron excess.
description: 7 pages = 4 + 2 colour encapsulated postscript figures + 1 table; to appear in ApJ Letters; additional jpeg figure available at ftp://www.astro.caltech.edu/users/iii/cs29497030
Εξατομικευμένη παροχή υπηρεσιών υγείας μέσω συστήματος κινητών επικοινωνιών και δικτύων ασύρματων βιοαισθητήρων
Creators: name: Τριανταφυλλίδης, Ανδρέας Κωνσταντίνου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2007
Subjects: Ασύρματο δίκτυο αισθητήρων
Wireless Sensor Network, SensorML
Bluetooth
SMS
MMS
Body Area Network

description: Στόχος της εργασίας αυτής αποτελεί η σχεδίαση και η ανάπτυξη ενός δικτύου βιοαισθητήρων που θα προσομοιώνει ένα Body Area Network (BAN). Θα θεωρηθούν διάφοροι τύποι βιοαισθητήρων ως προς τα λειτουργικά τους χαρακτηριστικά, π.χ. συνεχούς ή περιοδικής καταγραφής βιοσημάτων και αποστολής δεδομένων, κλπ. Τα δεδομένα καταγραφής των βιοαισθητήρων θα συγκεντρώνονται σε μία κεντρική υπολογιστική κονσόλα (BAN Console), η οποία αφού πραγματοποιήσει έναν αρχικό χαρακτηρισμό των βιοσημάτων, θα λειτουργεί ως gateway με το ιατρικό περιβάλλον παρακολούθησης αποστέλλοντας χρήσιμη πληροφορία στο ιατρικό προσωπικό. Ο τρόπος αποστολής των βιοϊατρικών δεδομένων και το είδος της πληροφορίας που θα αποστέλλεται, θα καθορίζεται δυναμικά από τους ιατρούς παρακολούθησης του ασθενή μέσα από κατάλληλο interface.
description: Target of this work is the design and development of a wireless sensor network that forms a Body Area Network. Several types of biosensors are considered according to their functional characteristics, e.g of continuous or periodic measurement etc. The record data are collected from one central node (BAN console), that acts as a gateway to Medical Center. The way of sending biosensor data and the type of information that is sent, is defined in a dynamic manner from the doctor who monitors patient's health through an appropriate interface.
Effect of epitaxial strain on the spontaneous polarization of thin film ferroelectrics
Creators: name: Ederer, Claude
name: Spaldin, Nicola A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the variation of the spontaneous ferroelectric polarization with epitaxial strain for BaTiO$_3$, PbTiO$_3$, LiNbO$_3$, and BiFeO$_3$ using first principles calculations. We find that while the strain dependence of the polarization is very strong in the simple perovskite systems BaTiO$_3$ and PbTiO$_3$ it is only weak in LiNbO$_3$ and BiFeO$_3$. We show that this different behavior can be understood purely in terms of the piezoelectric and elastic constants of the unstrained bulk material, and we discuss several factors that determine the strain behavior of a certain material.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, 3 tables
Quantum Goethals-Preparata Codes
Creators: name: Grassl, Markus
name: Roetteler, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a family of non-additive quantum codes based on Goethals and Preparata codes with parameters ((2^m,2^{2^m-5m+1},8)). The dimension of these codes is eight times higher than the dimension of the best known additive quantum codes of equal length and minimum distance.
description: Submitted to the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory
EUSPIRA MAGENESI, A NEW SPECIES OF THE NATICIDAE (GASTROPODA) FROM THE PLIOCENE OF ITALY
Creators: name: PEDRIALI, LUCA
name: ROBBA, ELIO
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2001

description: The new naticid species Euspira magenesi is described and figured. The type-material was recovered from Pliocene deposits exposed along the stream Rio Rosello (Emilia region, Piacenza province) and near Villalvernia (Piedmont, Alessandria province).The small-sized Euspira magenesi is featured by channeled suture, open, rather wide umbilicus and abapically produced aperture. It is an uncommon infralittoral element likely related to ecotones between paleobiocoenoses similar to the modern Mediterranean SFBC and DC.
description: Rivista italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, Vol 107, No 3
Diabetes mellitus with co-morbidities
Creators: name: Oluwafemi Ala
name: Ogunjobi Karounmi
name: Bolanle  Adekoya
name: Ollorwi, Victor
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2019

description: Definition and facts about diabetes Mellitus, as well as co-morbidities associated with the killer diseases are analysed in these slide presentation.
Information on real-life patient's medical condition was discussed also.
However, the privacy and confidentiality of patients are fully respected and abided by through out the short research work and presentation.
THE HOLOTYPE OF CERVALCES GALLICUS (AZZAROLI, 1952) FROM SENEZE (HAUTE LOIRE, FRANCE) WITH NOMENCLATURAL IMPLICATIONS AND TAXONOMICAL PHYLOGENETIC PROBLEMS
Creators: name: BREDA, MARZIA
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2001

description: The remains of Cervalces (Libralces) gallicus (Azzaroli, 1952) from the Middle-Upper Villafranchian of Sénèze (Haute-Loire, France), kept in the Paleontological Museum of the University Claude Bernard - Lyon 1, are here studied again. The remains consist of an assembled skeleton, with skull, antlers and all postcranial elements, described by Azzaroli (1952) as holotype, and in the limb bones of a second specimen, designated as cotype by the same author. The cotypeís limb bones are here attributed to the holotype, while the smaller assembled limb bones cannot be determined over the family taxonomic level, due to the bad state of preservation.
The characters determining the genus Cervalces are described here and, in accordance with Azzaroli, the species C. (L.) latifrons from the Middle-Upper Pleistocene is attributed to it. All the species of the genus Cervalces show characters of cranial and facial morphology, which differ from that of present-day Alces. The narrow, deep occipital and the short nasals, not articulated with the long premaxillaris, are in this view considered apomorphic characters of Alces alces.
description: Rivista italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, Vol 107, No 3
Paediatric oncology: retinoblastoma
Creators: name: Oluwafemi Ala
name: Bello Jamiu
name: Bolanle  Adekoya
name: Adenike Alege
name: Ochuko Melekwe
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2019

description: Retinoblastoma is the cancer of the retina of the eyes. The slides presentation would talk about the epidemiology, genetic and gender distribution, as well as management. There is a case study on this topic also and the treatment plans. Survival rates was briefly touched as well.
A major hindrance to treatment in Nigeria has always been funds and cost of treatment of cancers generally. More help and assistance of all forms are still seriously needed, and I also expect the government to do more in order to help patients improve their health outcomes and psychology too because an average cancer patient (especially in Nigeria) is psychologically "dead" upon diagnosis, especially due to the cost of treatment and lack of support (physical and emotional).
Knots and signal transmission in topological quantum devices
Creators: name: Melnikov, Dmitry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the basic problem of signal transmission in quantum mechanics in terms of topological theories. Using the analogy between knot diagrams and quantum amplitudes we calculate the transmission coefficients of the concept topological quantum devices that realize the knot topology. We observe that the problem is in different ways similar to that of transmission on quantum graphs. The desired transmission or filtering properties can be attained by the variation of the topology of the device, or an external parameter, which in our model controls the topological phase. One interesting property of the transmission coefficients is the existence of "self-averaging" phases, in which the value of the transmission coefficient is independent from all the representatives in a chosen family of knots. We briefly discuss physical realizations of the concept devices.
description: 21 pages, 13 figures
URSUS SPELAEUS FROM GROTTA SOPRA FONTANA MARELLA, CAMPO DEI FIORI MASSIF (VARESE, ITALY): MORPHOMETRY AND PALEOECOLOGY
Creators: name: PEREGO, RENATA
name: ZANALDA, EMANUELA
name: TINTORI, ANDREA
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2001

description: The paleontological study on cave bear remains from the Grotta Sopra Fontana Marella (Campo dei Fiori massif, Varese, Italy) is here presented. The cave bear material was collected in three different levels of the cave stratigraphical sequence which are assigned to Late Pleistocene by radiometric ages and aminoacid racemization analysis. This deposit gives us the rare opportunity to compare cave bear remains that lived in the same geographical areas but at different time intervals. Cave bears from the oldest level (FM4) had a peculiar mandible morphology and a smaller body size than cave bears from the uppermost levels (FM1 and FM2). We propose that this change in body size is related to a paleoclimatic trend from FM4 towards a colder phase (FM1 and FM2), the latter corresponding to the last maximum expansion of glaciers in the Italian Alps. Morphometric analysis of bones and teeth allowed to determine minimum number of individuals, class ages and sex ratio for each cave bear fossil assemblage.
description: Rivista italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, Vol 107, No 3
Additional file 1 of IL-17-related signature genes linked to human necrotizing enterocolitis
Creators: name: Éric Tremblay
name: Ferretti, Emanuela
name: Babakissa, Corentin
name: Burghardt, Karolina Maria
name: Levy, Emile
name: Beaulieu, Jean-François
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file1: Table S1. Primers used for qPCR.
Rieske-Braun, Uwe, Zwei-Bereiche-Lehre und christlicher Staat: Verhältnisbestimmungen von Religion und Politik im Erlanger Neuluthertum und in der Algemeinen Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirchenzeitung
Creators: name: Zademach, Wieland
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 45 Nr. 4 (1996): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 45, Heft 4
Update on the Direct Detection of Supersymmetric Dark Matter
Creators: name: Ellis, John
name: Olive, Keith A.
name: Santoso, Yudi
name: Spanos, Vassilis C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compare updated predictions for the elastic scattering of supersymmetric neutralino dark matter with the improved experimental upper limit recently published by CDMS II. We take into account the possibility that the π-nucleon Σterm may be somewhat larger than was previously considered plausible, as may be supported by the masses of exotic baryons reported recently. We also incorporate the new central value of m_t, which affects indirectly constraints on the supersymmetric parameter space, for example via calculations of the relic density. Even if a large value of Σis assumed, the CDMS II data currently exclude only small parts of the parameter space in the constrained MSSM (CMSSM) with universal soft supersymmetry-breaking Higgs, squark and slepton masses. None of the previously-proposed CMSSM benchmark scenarios is excluded for any value of Σ, and the CDMS II data do not impinge on the domains of the CMSSM parameter space favoured at the 90 % confidence level in a recent likelihood analysis. However, some models with non-universal Higgs, squark and slepton masses and neutralino masses \lappeq 700 GeV are excluded by the CDMS II data.
description: 25 pages, 28 eps figures
SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES RECONSTRUCTION OF THE LAST 16,000 YEARS IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA
Creators: name: GIUNTA, SIMONA
name: EMEIS, KAY-CHRISTIAN
name: NEGRI, ALESSANDRA
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2001

description: A detailed study has been performed on two eastern Mediterranean box cores (BC02 and BC06) and on a southern Adriatic piston core (AD91-17) on the alkenone unsaturation ratio, a molecular proxy for past sea surface temperatures. The aim was to identify climatic events of the last 16 Ky, with particular attention on the conditions during formation of sapropel S1. All three temperature curves lack evidence for cooling in the Younger Dryas stadial and warming in the Boelling/Alleroed interstadial events. Just prior to the sapropel S1 base, SST cooled and increased by about 5°C during the sapropel deposition interval. Within sapropel S1, SST show a marked warming followed by a clear cooling. In the topmost intervals of the cores SST are mostly constant, but a warming event is always observed. This warming phase may correspond to the Medieval climatic Optimum (in the AD91-17 core) and to the Roman Optimum (in the box cores).
description: Rivista italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, Vol 107, No 3