cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Capturing, modeling and reconstructing photorealistic avatars
Creators: name: Lattas, Alexandros
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2023

description: This Thesis introduces several methods and a dataset, aiming to improve the capturing and inference of human faces, in a form that can be photorealistically rendered by computer applications. The proposed methods present advances in facial reflectance acquisition, from capturing to modeling and inference. In the first part of the Thesis, we present various improvements on a state-of-the-art facial capturing system, such as a Light Stage. More specifically, we work on an existing diffuse-specular separation method that does not require light polarization and further optimize it while making it applicable to multi-view capture. We also use this improved setup to capture the largest dataset of high-resolution facial reflectance to date, which we have opened to the research community. In the second part, we present two novel facial capturing setups, and an appropriate facial reflectance separation method. They are the first such systems consisting solely of off-the-shelf devices, while being modular and portable, and thus enabling capturing vast datasets of facial reflectance, at a reduced cost. Supporting static and dynamic facial capture, these systems allow the capture of even larger datasets of facial reflectance that can fuel deep-learning research and create race, gender, and age-balanced datasets. In the third part of this Thesis, we introduce the first method for high-resolution facial reflectance inference from a single arbitrary facial image. Our method AvatarMe and its extension, AvatarMe++, use a combination of 3D Morphable Models for facial shape reconstruction, adversarial image-translation models and super-resolution models, to transform reconstructed facial textures to high-resolution facial reflectance. We show that such a method is capable of retrieving UV maps of spatially varying facial reflectance that is render-ready in typical rendering applications without requiring capturing setups. Finally, we introduce the first deep learning-based 3D Morphable Model of facial reflectance, called FitMe. FitMe proposes a style-based Generative Adversarial Network, which is multi-modal and branched in both the discriminator and the generator, and is capable of concurrently generating high-quality facial diffuse albedo, specular albedo and normals. Moreover, by using an accurate diffuse-specular differentiable renderer, FitMe can retrieve state-of-the-art facial shape and reflectance with an iterative optimization.
Constraining the gravitational wave energy density of the Universe using Earth's ring
Creators: name: Coughlin, Michael
name: Harms, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The search for gravitational waves is one of today's major scientific endeavors. A gravitational wave can interact with matter by exciting vibrations of elastic bodies. Earth itself is a large elastic body whose so-called normal-mode oscillations ring up when a gravitational wave passes. Therefore, precise measurement of vibration amplitudes can be used to search for the elusive gravitational-wave signals. Earth's free oscillations that can be observed after high-magnitude earthquakes have been studied extensively with gravimeters and low-frequency seismometers over many decades leading to invaluable insight into Earth's structure. Making use of our detailed understanding of Earth's normal modes, numerical models are employed for the first time to accurately calculate Earth's gravitational-wave response, and thereby turn a network of sensors that so far has served to improve our understanding of Earth, into an astrophysical observatory exploring our Universe. In this article, we constrain the energy density of gravitational waves to values in the range 0.035 - 0.15 normalized by the critical energy density of the Universe at frequencies between 0.3mHz and 5mHz, using 10 years of data from the gravimeter network of the Global Geodynamics Project that continuously monitors Earth's oscillations. This work is the first step towards a systematic investigation of the sensitivity of gravimeter networks to gravitational waves. Further advance in gravimeter technology could improve sensitivity of these networks and possibly lead to gravitational-wave detection.
description: 18 pages, 6 figures
title: Fluoroscopy in orthopedic theatre room – our experience
Creators: name: Lopes, Richard
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Professional issues
subject: Radiographers
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Quality assurance

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Radiology is practiced worldwide; however, the role of a radiographer is different from one country to another. The authors want to demonstrate the importance of a dedicated radiographer on doing fluoroscopy and X-ray in a theatre room during...
title: Lung segmentation in CT scans of patients with lower respiratory tract infection: influence of respiratory physiotherapy
Creators: name: Martins, Paula
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: Respiratory system
subject: Radiographers
subject: CT
subject: Physiological studies
subject: Segmentation
subject: Infection
subject: Chronic obstructive airways disease

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The goal of the study was to assess the effects of a respiratory physiotherapy intervention in the tracheobronchial tree (TBT) volume and lung function in patients with lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI). In this framework, a method for TBT...
Fluorescence, turn-on detection of melamine based on its dual functions as fluorescence enhancer of DNA-AgNCs and Hg(II)-scavenger
Creators: name: Jeong, Sehan
name: Kwon, Woo Young
name: Hwang, Sung Hyun
name: Shin, Jiye
name: Kim, Yonghwan
name: Lee, Miran
name: Soo Park, Ki
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: A new method has been developed for the simple, fluorescence, turn-on detection of melamine, which utilizes DNA-templated silver nanoclusters (DNA-AgNCs) as a key component. In the sensor, melamine exhibits the dual functions: one is to enhance the fluorescence signal of DNA-AgNCs by its specific interaction with thymine residues in DNA template, and the other is to prevent Hg(II)-induced fluorescence quenching of DNA-AgNCs via its strong coordination with Hg(II). These consequently enable the sensitive and selective detection of melamine. By exploiting such novel features of melamine, we significantly increased the fluorescence response up to 360%, compared to the previous counterpart that relies on DNA-AgNCs only, and successfully determined melamine down to ca. 49 nM, a value that is 400 times lower than the safety level of 20 μM set by the US Food and Drug Administration. In addition, it was confirmed that the proposed approach works fine even in the real milk samples without any additional pre-treatment steps.
Folate-conjugated human serum albumin-encapsulated resveratrol nanoparticles: preparation, characterization, bioavailability and targeting of liver tumors
Creators: name: Lian, Bolin
name: Wu, Mingfang
name: Feng, Ziqi
name: Deng, Yiping
name: Zhong, Chen
name: Zhao, Xiuhua
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: This work investigated the preparation of specific targeted drug delivery systems in cancer chemotherapy by folate conjugated human serum albumin nanoparticles encapsulated resveratrol (RES) nanoparticles (FA-HSA-RESNPs). FA was coupled to HSA, and RES was encapsulated in FA-conjugated HSA by high pressure fluid nano-homogeneous emulsification. The average particle size and polydispersity index of NPs prepared under optimal conditions were 102.1 ± 4.9 nm and 0.001. The drug capsulation efficiency and drug loading efficiency were 98.36 and 14.66%, respectively. The analysis of the results of the physical characterization showed that the RES was present in the FA-HSA-RESNPs in an amorphous state. In vitro drug-release study showed that the NPs can release the drug persistently and slowly. The inhibition rate of FA-HSA-RESNPs and RES was detected using the 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl-2H-tetrazolium bromide method to be 110.8 and 157.2 μM, respectively. The targeting ability of the FA-HSA-RESNPs for the HepG2 cell was measured by fluorescein isothiocyanate-modified albumin techniques. The uptake rate of FA-HSA-RESNPs was higher than that of the original RES. By using near-infrared imaging, in vivo activity was labeled with Cy5 fluorescent FA-HSA-RESNP confirmed FA-HSA-RESNP tumor-targeting ability. The intravenous administration bioavailability of FA-HSA-RESNPs was about 5.95-fold higher than that of the original RES.
Probing spatial homogeneity with LTB models: a detailed discussion
Creators: name: Redlich, Matthias
name: Bolejko, Krzysztof
name: Meyer, Sven
name: Lewis, Geraint F.
name: Bartelmann, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Do current observational data confirm the assumptions of the cosmological principle, or is there statistical evidence for deviations from spatial homogeneity on large scales? To address these questions, we developed a flexible framework based on spherically symmetric, but radially inhomogeneous Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi (LTB) models with synchronous Big Bang. We expanded the (local) matter density profile in terms of flexible interpolation schemes and orthonormal polynomials. A Monte Carlo technique in combination with recent observational data was used to systematically vary the shape of these profiles. In the first part of this article, we reconsider giant LTB voids without dark energy to investigate whether extremely fine-tuned mass profiles can reconcile these models with current data. While the local Hubble rate and supernovae can easily be fitted without dark energy, however, model-independent constraints from the Planck 2013 data require an unrealistically low local Hubble rate, which is strongly inconsistent with the observed value; this result agrees well with previous studies. In the second part, we explain why it seems natural to extend our framework by a non-zero cosmological constant, which then allows us to perform general tests of the cosmological principle. Moreover, these extended models facilitate explorating whether fluctuations in the local matter density profile might potentially alleviate the tension between local and global measurements of the Hubble rate, as derived from Cepheid-calibrated type Ia supernovae and CMB experiments, respectively. We show that current data provide no evidence for deviations from spatial homogeneity on large scales. More accurate constraints are required to ultimately confirm the validity of the cosmological principle, however.
description: 18 pages, 12 figures, 2 tables; accepted for publication in A&A
title: Lumbosacral MR neurography: A pictorial review of magnetic resonance imaging of the lumbosacral plexus and its branches
Creators: name: Ajam, Amna
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Inflammation
subject: Infection
subject: Myelography
subject: MR
subject: Neuroradiology spine
subject: Neuroradiology peripheral nerve
subject: Musculoskeletal system

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To review general imaging techniques and anatomy relevant to lumbosacral MR neurography. To illustrate application of lumbosacral MR neurography in a variety of clinical cases of lumbosacral plexopathy, piriformis syndrome, and...
Cisplatin-functionalized three-dimensional magnetic SBA-16 for treating breast cancer cells (MCF-7)
Creators: name: Alomari, Munther
name: Jermy, B. Rabindran
name: Ravinayagam, Vijaya
name: Akhtar, Sultan
name: Almofty, Sarah Ameen
name: Rehman, Suriya
name: Bahmdan, Hiba
name: AbdulAzeez, Sayed
name: Borgio, J. Francis
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer

description: The engineering of multifunctional therapeutics in an integrated single platform is demonstrated using three-dimensional SBA-16 (S-16). 10 wt% iron oxide nanoparticles (Fe) were loaded into the cage type of cubic pores through enforced adsorption technique. Fe/S-16 is then functionalized with amine-based silane (A), polyacrylic acid (P) and cisplatin (Cp). The physicochemical textural analysis showed the formation of nano metal oxide distributions at pore walls of S-16 with magnetization of 2.39 emu/g. S-16 based nanoformulations showed high percentage of Cp adsorption (90%) and percentage cumulative release (60%). in vitro study of Fe/S-16-A-Cp showed high toxicity against breast cancer cell line MCF-7 and normal cell line Human foreskin fibroblast (HFF-1) compared to Fe/S-16 indicating cisplatin profusion inside the cells than free cisplatin. While skin fibroblast seems to be resistant to Fe/S-16-AP-Cp with very high LC50 in compare to MCF-7. This indicates the unrelease of cisplatin in skin fibroblast after Fe/S-16-AP-Cp treatment due to effective encapsulation inside the cubic pores and core blockage due to pH-sensitive polyacrylic acid. Also, these treatments resulted in morphological changes in the cells such as DNA condensation and nuclear fragmentation.
Buckled honeycomb lattice and unconventional magnetic response
Creators: name: Yang, Shengyuan A.
name: Pan, Hui
name: Zhang, Fan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the magnetic response of buckled honeycomb-lattice materials. The buckling breaks the sublattice symmetry, enhances the spin-orbit coupling, and allows the tuning of a topological quantum phase transition. As a result, there are two doubly degenerate spin-valley coupled massive Dirac bands, which exhibit an unconventional Hall plateau sequence under strong magnetic fields. We show how to externally control the splitting of anomalous zeroth Landau levels, the prominent Landau level crossing effects, and the polarizations of spin, valley, and sublattice degrees of freedom. In particular, we reveal that in a p-n junction, spin-resolved fractionally quantized conductance appears in a two-terminal measurement with a spin-polarized current propagating along the interface. In the low-field regime where the Landau quantization is not applicable, we provide a semiclassical description for the anomalous Hall transport. We comment briefly on the effects of electron-electron interactions and Zeeman couplings to electron spins and to atomic orbitals.
An optimized magnet for magnetic refrigeration
Creators: name: Bjørk, R.
name: Bahl, C. R. H.
name: Smith, A.
name: Christensen, D. V.
name: Pryds, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A magnet designed for use in a magnetic refrigeration device is presented. The magnet is designed by applying two general schemes for improving a magnet design to a concentric Halbach cylinder magnet design and dimensioning and segmenting this design in an optimum way followed by the construction of the actual magnet. The final design generates a peak value of 1.24 T, an average flux density of 0.9 T in a volume of 2 L using only 7.3 L of magnet, and has an average low flux density of 0.08 T also in a 2 L volume. The working point of all the permanent magnet blocks in the design is very close to the maximum energy density. The final design is characterized in terms of a performance parameter, and it is shown that it is one of the best performing magnet designs published for magnetic refrigeration.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
title: Dual-energy CT applications in neurovascular emergencies
Creators: name: Nguyen, Xuan
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Trauma
subject: Blood
subject: Aneurysms
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT-Quantitative
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Emergency
subject: CNS

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To briefly review underlying concepts relevant to dual-energy CT acquisition and postprocessing. To demonstrate clinical application of dual-energy CT imaging in diagnostic evaluation of neurovascular emergencies, including stroke and intracranial...
HD 183648: a Kepler eclipsing binary with anomalous ellipsoidal variations and a pulsating component
Creators: name: Borkovits, T.
name: Derekas, A.
name: Fuller, J.
name: Szabo, Gy. M.
name: Pavlovski, K.
name: Csak, B.
name: Dozsa, A.
name: Kovacs, J.
name: Szabo, R.
name: Hambleton, K. M.
name: Kinemuchi, K.
name: Kolbas, V.
name: Kurtz, D. W.
name: Maloney, F.
name: Prsa, A.
name: Southworth, J.
name: Sztakovics, J.
name: Biro, I. B.
name: Jankovics, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: KIC 8560861 (HD 183648) is a marginally eccentric (e=0.05) eclipsing binary with an orbital period of P_orb=31.973d, exhibiting mmag amplitude pulsations on time scales of a few days. We present the results of the complex analysis of high and medium-resolution spectroscopic data and Kepler Q0 -- Q16 long cadence photometry. The iterative combination of spectral disentangling, atmospheric analysis, radial velocity and eclipse timing variation studies, separation of pulsational features of the light curve, and binary light curve analysis led to the accurate determination of the fundamental stellar parameters. We found that the binary is composed of two main sequence stars with an age of 0.9\+-0.2 Gyr, having masses, radii and temperatures of M_1=1.93+-0.12 M_sun, R_1=3.30+-0.07 R_sun, T_eff1=7650+-100 K for the primary, and M_2=1.06+-0.08 M_sun, R_2=1.11+-0.03 R_sun, T_eff2=6450+-100 K for the secondary. After subtracting the binary model, we found three independent frequencies, two of which are separated by twice the orbital frequency. We also found an enigmatic half orbital period sinusoidal variation that we attribute to an anomalous ellipsoidal effect. Both of these observations indicate that tidal effects are strongly influencing the luminosity variations of HD 183648. The analysis of the eclipse timing variations revealed both a parabolic trend, and apsidal motion with a period of (P_apse)_obs=10,400+-3,000 y, which is three times faster than what is theoretically expected. These findings might indicate the presence of a distant, unseen companion.
description: 16 pages, 12 figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS
Transparency in the Extractive Industries: Getting serious about politics to get serious about impact
Creators: Kazemi, Leila
Jarvis, Michael
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Sustainable development
Mineral industries
Mineral industries--Government policy
Mineral industries--Political aspects
Corporate governance

description: For the last 20 years, fostering greater transparency in the historically opaque extractive industries has been a governance priority in the sector. It is now time to build on the progress made and unlock greater gains from it. Achieving this requires getting serious about politics. The extractive industries (EI) are at a critical juncture, confronted with major contextual upheaval. A period of significant commodity price volatility is intersecting with the global energy transition and, more recently, the major social, political, and economic repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic–a combination of forces creating both uncertainty and potentially major shifts in how EI are developed and governed. As EI governance practitioners grapple with these shifts, and the challenges and opportunities they bring, transparency will be an essential tool. However, practitioners need to think–and work– more politically as they develop and deploy this tool moving forward to make the most of its potential. Work on EI transparency has achieved important successes over the last two decades. For example, significant commitments to disclosure have been secured, the volume of publicly available information about critical activities has increased considerably, and norms around certain information being in the public domain have been established. There is also a growing library of use cases for this information. However, technical and political factors have–and continue to–limit the full range of benefits that can flow from data disclosures. Unlocking the potential of this critical work will require identifying and reckoning with these factors head-on. This brief is part of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment's PLUS Politics series, a multi-part series of briefs from CCSI that aims to encourage practitioners to apply a more systematic political lens to their work on governance in the extractive industries.
title: Can MRI play a role in the diagnosis of psoas syndrome?
Creators: name: Ottonello, Carlo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal spine
subject: Neuroradiology spine
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: MR
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Normal variants
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Pathology
subject: Hernia
subject: Inflammation

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Psoas syndrome (PS) diagnosis is essentially based on symptoms and clinical findings and frequently missed. Frequently PS is due to a muscular dysfunction, but also morpho-physiological changes are possible (e.g.: short and/or tight psoas). Other...
Anti-tumour effects of a xenogeneic fibroblast activation protein-based whole cell tumour vaccine in murine tumour models
Creators: name: Chen, Meihua
name: Xu, Guangchao
name: Fan, Ming
name: Jia, Hongyuan
name: Xiao, Ling
name: Lang, Jinyi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: The clinical benefit of cancer immunotherapy, including tumour vaccines, is influenced by immunosuppressive factors in the tumour microenvironment. Among these factors, cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) and their products, such as fibroblast activation protein-α (FAPα), greatly affect tumourigenesis, development, metastasis and treatment tolerance, which make them promising immunotherapy targets for cancer patients. Our previous study reported that a whole cell tumour vaccine (WCTV) expressing FAPα inhibited tumour growth by simultaneously attacking cancer cells and CAFs. This study aimed to improve WCTVs with xenoantigens to end immune tolerance and to further activate the adaptive immune system. In the present study, we designed a WCTV by transducing a vector encoding human FAPα (hFAPα) into murine tumour cells and evaluated its efficacy in multiple solid tumour models. Immunotherapy with this WCTV effectively delayed tumour growth and prevented recurrence. The anti-tumour responses were clearly linked to antigen-specific cytotoxic T cells, whereas CD4(+) T lymphocytes also played a role. Humoural immune responses were activated because the adoptive transfer of immunoglobulins induced abscopal anti-tumour effects, and autoantibodies against FAPα were specifically detected in the sera of immunized mice. Moreover, an increased number of apoptotic tumour cells along with a reduced number of CAFs within the tumours suggest that xenogeneic FAPα-based WCTV has the potential to drive T cell and antibody responses against cancer cells and CAFs. This finding could offer an advanced strategy to treat multiple solid tumours with individualized cancer immunotherapy techniques.
Supplementary document for Passive all-optical isolator based on spatial self-phase modulation - 7411199.pdf
Creators: name: Lin, KeSheng
name: Gao, Guan-Feng
name: Gao, Yu
name: Li, Zelin
name: Jiang, Xiaofang
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Model of spatial self-phase modulation,The roles of the four basic elements in isolator, Influence of aperture size on the isolator performance,Open and closed aperture Z-Scan measurements of IAI
title: Adrenal mass: what not to miss
Creators: name: Lee, Henrique
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Education
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To review the imaging features in a normal adrenal gland in ultrasound (US), computed tomography (CT) and magnet resonance (MR). To illustrate common and uncommon adrenal glands...
CARMA observations of massive Planck-discovered cluster candidates at z>0.5 associated with WISE overdensities: strategy, observations and validation
Creators: name: Rodriguez-Gonzalvez, Carmen
name: Muchovej, Stephen
name: Chary, Ranga Ram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present 1-2 arcmin spatial resolution CARMA-8 31-GHz observations towards 19 unconfirmed Planck cluster candidates, selected to have significant galaxy overdensities from the WISE early data release and thought to be at z>1 from the WISE colors of the putative brightest cluster galaxy (BCG). We find a Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) detection in the CARMA-8 data towards 9 candidate clusters, where one detection is considered tentative. For each cluster candidate we present CARMA-8 maps, a study of their radio-source environment and we assess the reliability of the SZ detection. The CARMA SZ detections appear to be SZ-bright, with the mean, primary-beam-corrected peak flux density of the decrement being -2.9mJy/beam with a standard deviation of 0.8, and are typically offset from the Planck position by approximately 80 arcsec. Using archival imaging data in the vicinity of the CARMA SZ centroids, we present evidence that one cluster matches Abell 586-a known z~0.2 cluster; four candidate clusters are likely to have 0.3 1.
description: 29 pages, MNRAS, in press
Magnetocaloric properties of LaFe$_{13-x-y}$Co$_x$Si$_y$ and commercial grade Gd
Creators: name: Bjørk, R.
name: Bahl, C. R. H.
name: Katter, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetocaloric properties of three samples of LaFe$_{13-x-y}$Co$_x$Si$_y$ have been measured and compared to measurements of commercial grade Gd. The samples have (x=0.86, y=1.08), (x=0.94, y=1.01) and (x=0.97, y=1.07) yielding Curie temperatures in the range 276-288 K. The magnetization, specific heat capacity and adiabatic temperature change have been measured over a broad temperature interval. Importantly, all measurements were corrected for demagnetization, allowing the data to be directly compared. In an internal field of 1 T the maximum specific entropy changes were 6.2, 5.1 and 5.0 J/kg K, the specific heat capacities were 910, 840 and 835 J/kg K and the adiabatic temperature changes were 2.3, 2.1 and 2.1 K for the three LaFeCoSi samples respectively. For Gd in an internal field of 1 T the maximum specific entropy change was 3.1 J/kg K, the specific heat capacity was 340 J/kg K and the adiabatic temperature change was 3.3 K. The adiabatic temperature change was also calculated from the measured values of the specific heat capacity and specific magnetization and compared to the directly measured values. In general an excellent agreement was seen.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures
title: Contribution of dual-energy CT angiography with reduced iodine load in the vascular exploration of cervical arteries: impact on image quality and radiation dose
Creators: name: HORION, Julien
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT
subject: Computer applications
subject: CNS
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Computer Applications-Virtual imaging
subject: Computer Applications-General
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Arteriosclerosis
subject: Dissection
subject: Toxicity

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: CT angiography became the reference technique for exploring supra-aortic trunks. This is an accessible, fast and reliable technique with high spatial and contrast resolution 1 . However, these are two disadvantages: radiation and adverse effects of...
title: Classic signs in thoracic computed tomography: a pictorial review
Creators: name: Negrao, Eduardo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Inflammation
subject: Infection
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Thorax
subject: Mediastinum
subject: Lung
subject: Ischaemia / Infarction

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To review classic radiologic signs in thoracic computerized tomography (CT) imaging, which constitute a fundamental tool to any radiologist, especially by enhancing the capabilities of assessment and diagnosis, adding celerity in the recognition of...
Sex and gender differences in quality of life and related domains for individuals with adult acquired lower-limb amputation: a scoping review
Creators: name: Cimino, Stephanie R.
name: Vijayakumar, Abirami
name: MacKay, Crystal
name: Mayo, Amanda L.
name: Hitzig, Sander L.
name: Guilcher, Sara J. T.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: To understand what is known about sex and gender differences in quality of life (QoL) and related domains for individuals with an adult acquired lower limb amputation (LLA). A computer-assisted literature search of four online databases was completed. Articles were included if they incorporated sex or gender as part of their data analysis with a focus on QoL-related domains. Data were analyzed using descriptive numerical analysis and thematic analysis. One hundred and eleven articles were included in this review. Women were under-represented across studies, with most of the participants being men. No articles described the inclusion of trans or non-binary persons. Differences by sex or gender were reported by 66 articles. Articles reporting on gender seldom provided descriptions of how gender was defined. Overall, women/females seemed to have worse outcomes in terms of prosthesis-related outcomes, mental health, and return to occupations. Articles included in this review were not clear with how gender was defined. In order for more targeted interventions that account for sex and gender differences, studies need to be more forthcoming about how they use and define gender. Future research should seek to include gender non-conforming participants to identify additional needs.Implications for rehabilitationSex and gender are important constructs that influence outcomes following lower limb amputation.Rehabilitation professionals should consider sex and gender-specific outcomes when tailoring programs to ensure ethical clinical care. Sex and gender are important constructs that influence outcomes following lower limb amputation. Rehabilitation professionals should consider sex and gender-specific outcomes when tailoring programs to ensure ethical clinical care.
Chiral Magnetic Effect at Weak Coupling with Relaxation Dynamics
Creators: name: Satow, Daisuke
name: Yee, Ho-Ung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a resolution of an old issue in weak coupling computation of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) current, where a free chiral fermion theory gives two different results depending on the order of the two limits, $ω\rightarrow 0$ (frequency) and $k\rightarrow 0$ (spatial momentum). We first argue based on hydrodynamics that in any reasonable interacting theory of chiral fermions the non-commutativity between the two limits should be absent, and we demonstrate this at weak coupling regime in two different frameworks: kinetic theory in the relaxation time approximation, and diagrammatic computation with resummation of damping rate. In the latter computation, we also show that the "pinch" singularity, which would make the summation of ladder diagrams necessary as in the P-even correlation function, is absent in the relevant P-odd correlation function. The correct value of CME current is reproduced even in the presence of relaxation dynamics in both computations.
description: 26 pages, 3 figures
Analysis of cosmopolitism and characterization of MAGs (Metagenome-Assembled Genomes) from environments at the São Paulo Zoo
Creators: name: Oliveira, Robson Pontes de
name: Sanchez, Fabio Beltrame
name: da Silva, Aline Maria
name: Setubal, João Carlos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Metagenome
Composting
Howler Monkeys
Reservoir Water

description: The MAGs (Metagenome-Assembled Genomes) have become important objects of study to understand microbial communities in diverse environments. According to Setubal (2021), MAGs can be classified in two ways: a) Species MAG (SMAG): a MAG classified at species level and for which there is at least one isolate genome as reference; b) Hypothetical MAG (HMAG): a classified MAG at less specific taxonomic levels and without a deposited isolate genome. The HMAGs, if there is another sufficiently similar genome from a study in a different geographic location, may still be classified under Hypothetical MAG Preserved (CHMAG). Faced with the growing number of genomes available in public data bases, as well as the publication of MAG catalogs, in this work we aim to characterize SMAGs and CHMAGs recovered from three different Zoo environments from São Paulo (compost, howler monkey feces and reservoir water), comparing them to orthologous genomes. We initially classify our MAGs as SMAGs then, using Average Nucleotide Identity (ANI) as a metric (ANI ≥ 95%.), our SMAGs were compared with genomes deposited in GenBank and JGI, and with the Genomes from Earth's Microbiomes (Nayfach, 2021) and Non-Human catalogs Primates Gut Microbiome (Manara, 2019) and we consider orthologous genomes those genome pairs for which ANI ≥ 95%. The same methodology was followed to HMAGs for this we were able to determine 34 are CHMAGs. Many orthologous genomes found for MAGs in howler monkey feces are from the human digestive system, while others were recovered from the intestinal microbiota of monkeys from Old World and New world. For water reservoir MAGs, all orthologous genomes come from of freshwater samples, except ZLKRG40 which has an ortholog recovered from a saline aquatic environment. We compare orthologous genomes in a set to each other using the MAGset tool, which uses the concept of Genomic Region of Interest (region of at least 5,000 bp) with differential presence between a target genome and one or more orthologous reference genomes. GRIs existing only in target SMAGs were analyzed to find genes that could indicate adaptations to their environment. As example of this analysis, we found in ZC4RG04 a gene in positive RGI (exclusive of our genome) that encodes a protein from the GH3 CAZyme family that plays a series of functions, including the degradation of cellulosic biomass. degradation.
MPEC 2023-R24 : 2023 RF
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 RF

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Virtual reality gaming in rehabilitation after stroke – user experiences and perceptions
Creators: name: Gustavsson, Martha
name: Kjörk, Emma K.
name: Erhardsson, Mattias
name: Murphy, Margit Alt
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The present study explored participants’ experiences with and perceptions of using fully immersive head-mounted virtual reality (VR) gaming as rehabilitation after stroke. Four men and three women (median age 64 years) with chronic stroke and varying motor impairment (mild to severe) were interviewed after 10 weeks of VR training on the commercial HTC Vive system, focusing on the upper extremities. Inductive qualitative thematic analysis was performed. The analysis revealed three main themes: playing the game, benefits and effects, and personalizing the game. Playing the game encompasses both the feeling of being immersed in the game and descriptions of the gaming being motivating and fun. Benefits and effects describe the participants’ expectations of potential benefits, the importance of getting feed-back, and the impact in daily life. Personalizing the game includes finding the right game and level, and the participants’ need for support to achieve full use of the training. Participants with chronic stroke described the fully immersive VR gaming intervention as a fun and motivating way to improve their functioning in everyday life. Qualitative studies are needed to explore how people with stroke perceive VR gaming when it is implemented in real clinical environments.Clinical implicationsVR gaming was perceived as a positive and motivating rehabilitation after stroke.Getting feedback and perceiving benefits are essential parts of VR rehabilitation.Commercial fully immersive VR-games might be an option for stroke rehabilitation when the game can be personalized and support is available. VR gaming was perceived as a positive and motivating rehabilitation after stroke. Getting feedback and perceiving benefits are essential parts of VR rehabilitation. Commercial fully immersive VR-games might be an option for stroke rehabilitation when the game can be personalized and support is available.
Cisplatin-functionalized three-dimensional magnetic SBA-16 for treating breast cancer cells (MCF-7)
Creators: name: Alomari, Munther
name: Jermy, B. Rabindran
name: Ravinayagam, Vijaya
name: Akhtar, Sultan
name: Almofty, Sarah Ameen
name: Rehman, Suriya
name: Bahmdan, Hiba
name: AbdulAzeez, Sayed
name: Francis Borgio, J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer

description: The engineering of multifunctional therapeutics in an integrated single platform is demonstrated using three-dimensional SBA-16 (S-16). 10 wt% iron oxide nanoparticles (Fe) were loaded into the cage type of cubic pores through enforced adsorption technique. Fe/S-16 is then functionalized with amine-based silane (A), polyacrylic acid (P) and cisplatin (Cp). The physicochemical textural analysis showed the formation of nano metal oxide distributions at pore walls of S-16 with magnetization of 2.39 emu/g. S-16 based nanoformulations showed high percentage of Cp adsorption (90%) and percentage cumulative release (60%). in vitro study of Fe/S-16-A-Cp showed high toxicity against breast cancer cell line MCF-7 and normal cell line Human foreskin fibroblast (HFF-1) compared to Fe/S-16 indicating cisplatin profusion inside the cells than free cisplatin. While skin fibroblast seems to be resistant to Fe/S-16-AP-Cp with very high LC50 in compare to MCF-7. This indicates the unrelease of cisplatin in skin fibroblast after Fe/S-16-AP-Cp treatment due to effective encapsulation inside the cubic pores and core blockage due to pH-sensitive polyacrylic acid. Also, these treatments resulted in morphological changes in the cells such as DNA condensation and nuclear fragmentation.
title: Facial Nerve Palsy: Key Clues You Need to Know.
Creators: name: Cabanzo Campos, Laura Beatriz
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology peripheral nerve
subject: Ear / Nose / Throat
subject: Head and neck
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Education
subject: Structured reporting
subject: Education and training
subject: Pathology
subject: Cancer

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Identify the basic anatomy landmarks of the facial nerve. Describe the clinical and imaging features of some common conditions that may produce facial nerve palsy. Discuss the utility of CT and MRI features in the evaluation of pathologic conditions...
A PCR-lateral flow assay system based on gold magnetic nanoparticles for CYP2C19 genotyping and its clinical applications
Creators: name: Xuhong, Yan
name: Sinong, Zhang
name: Jianping, Liang
name: Yu, Cai
name: Juanli, Zhu
name: Chao, Zhang
name: Desheng, Li
name: Kai, Hua
name: Yali, Cui
name: Wenli, Hui
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Presently, clopidogrel is the standard therapeutic drugs for antiplatelet therapy. Variants in the CYP2C19 gene influence the clinical response of clopidogrel. Thus, the US Food and Drug Administration suggested CYP2C19 genotyping needs to identify before taking medicine. Due to high cost, time consuming, and sophisticated instruments, current single nucleotide polymorphism detection methods are limited in clinical application. In the present study, we established a genotyping method for CYP2C19, which combines amplification refractory mutation system (ARMS)-PCR with a lateral flow assay used gold magnetic nanoparticles (GMNPs) named as PCR-gold magnetic lateral flow assay system (PCR-GoldMag LFA). The PCR products with specific genotype can be explained within 5 minutes, either through visual or by a magnetic reader automatically according to the captured GMNPs probes on the test lines of the LFA strips. The limit of detection of this method is 5 ng of genomic DNA. The PCR-GoldMag LFA system was applied in a clinical trial with 1356 samples of Han Chinese. The concordance rate between the LFA system and sequencing is 99.93%. The allele frequency of CYP2C19*2 and CYP2C19*3 are 30.38 and 7.08% in Han Chinese, respectively. This method provides a new way in the clinical application of CYP2C19 genotyping to guide the clopidogrel medication.
Error analysis of moment-based modal wavefront sensing
Creators: name: Lee, Hanshin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The shape of a focus-modulated point spread function (PSF) is used as a quick visual assessment tool of aberration modes in the PSF. Further analysis in terms of shape moments can permit quantifying the modal coefficients with an accuracy comparable to that of typical wavefront sensors. In this letter, the error of the moment-based wavefront sensing is analytically described in terms of the pixelation and photon/readout noise. All components highly depend on the (unknown) PSF shape, but can be estimated from the measured PSF sampled at a reasonable spatial resolution and photon count. Numerical simulations verified that the models consistently predicted the behavior of the modal estimation error of the moment-based wavefront sensing.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
title: Benign papilloma of the breast at core needle biopsy. What to do now?
Creators: name: Ugena, Guadalupe
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Surgery
subject: Biopsy
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Mammography
subject: Breast

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Intraductal papillomas (IDPs) of the breast are benign tumors arising from the wall of major lactiferous ducts, located between the retroareolar region and the terminal duct lobulillar units. Papillomas may be asymptomatic or they can present as...