cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Advances in the evaluation of prostate gland cancer with PET/CT. Differences between 18F-PSMA and 68Ga-PSMA
Creators: name: Gómez , Claudia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Education and training
subject: Normal variants
subject: PET-CT
subject: Oncology
subject: Hybrid Imaging
subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: Hybrid, Molecular and Translational Imaging

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To learn the differences between the 18 F and 68 Ga radioisotopes marked with PSMA, from production and biochemical characteristics to PET/CT acquisition protocols and biodistribution. To learn other pathologies with tracer uptake which might lead...
title: When cancer is not the answer - a pictorial review of the main systemic diseases with breast involvement
Creators: name: Andrade, Pedro
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Infection
subject: Endocrine disorders
subject: Connective tissue disorders
subject: Screening
subject: Education
subject: Decision analysis
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: Mammography
subject: Soft tissues / Skin
subject: Oncology
subject: Breast

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Review the main systemic diseases that can determinate involvement of the mammary structures; Discuss the most common findings of these conditions on breast imaging modalities; Acquaint the general radiologists with these findings and encourage them...
Early stage UV-B induced molecular modifications of human eye lens γD-crystallin
Creators: name: Weininger, Susanne
name: Neudorf, Malte
name: Gröger, Stefan
name: Plato, Eric
name: Broneske, Robert
name: Saalwächter, Kay
name: Weininger, Ulrich
name: Balbach, Jochen
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 530

description: In the human eye lenses, the crystallin proteins facilitate transparency, light refraction, as well as UV light protection. A deregulated balanced interplay between α-, β-, and γ-crystallin can cause cataract. γD-crystallin (hγD) is involved in the energy dissipation of absorbed UV light by energy transfer between aromatic side chains. Early UV-B induced damage of hγD with molecular resolution is studied by solution NMR and fluorescence spectroscopy. hγD modifications are restricted to Tyr 17 and Tyr 29 in the N-terminal domain, where a local unfolding of the hydrophobic core is observed. None of the tryptophan residues assisting fluorescence energy transfer is modified and hγD is remained soluble over month. Investigating isotope-labeled hγD surrounded by eye lens extracts from cataract patients reveals very week interactions of solvent-exposed side chains in the C-terminal hγD domain and some remaining photoprotective properties of the extracts. Hereditary E107A hγD found in the eye lens core of infants developing cataract shows under the here used conditions a thermodynamic stability comparable to the wild type but an increased sensitivity toward UV-B irradiation.
Investigating the effect of the need for approval on dressing behavior.
Creators: name: Majima, Yoshimasa
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Personality and Social Contexts
subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Currently, Tsuji (2020) investigates the relationship between the need for approval and the choice of clothing, but this study does not provide a clear contrast between those who have the need for approval and those who do not. The measurement validity of the clothing behavior was also questionable. Therefore, this study examines the relationship between the need for approval and choice of clothing using the Praise Seeking and Rejection Avoidance Scale and the Clothing Behavior Scale. In addition, the study will examine the correlation between the degree of need for approval and clothing behavior, rather than the presence or absence of need for approval.
Tevatron anomalies and LHC cross-checks
Creators: name: Rodrigo, German
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A sizeable charge asymmetry in top quark pair production has been observed at the Tevatron. The experimental results seem to exceed systematically the Standard Model theory predictions by a significant amount and have triggered a large number of suggestions for 'new physics'. The effect is also visible at the LHC, and preliminary results have already been presented by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations. In this talk, we review the present status of the theoretical predictions, and their comparison with the experimental measurements.
description: Invited talk given at the International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics - HEP 2011, July 21-27 2011, Grenoble, France
Handlungsempfehlungen zur individuellen Risikoermittlung von Komorbidität bei erwachsenen Patienten mit Psoriasis
Creators: name: Wohlrab, Johannes
name: Körber, Andreas
name: Adler, Georg
name: Blüher, Matthias
name: Zirlik, Andreas
name: Gerdes, Sascha
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Es ist seit Langem bekannt, dass chronisch entzündliche Systemerkrankungen wie die Psoriasis ein hohes Risiko für die Entwicklung von Komorbidität bieten. Im klinischen Alltag ist es deshalb von besonderer Bedeutung, Patient:innen zu identifizieren, die ein individuell erhöhtes Risikoprofil bieten. Bei Menschen mit Psoriasis konnten in epidemiologischen Studien in Abhängigkeit von Krankheitsdauer und -schwere die Komorbiditätsmuster „metabolisches Syndrom“, „kardiovaskuläre Komorbidität“ und „psychische Erkrankungen“ als besonders relevant identifiziert werden. In der alltäglichen Versorgung von Menschen mit Psoriasis in der dermatologischen Praxis haben sich der Einsatz einer interdisziplinär inhaltlich abgestimmten Checkliste für die Risikoanalyse und die Bahnung einer professionellen Anschlussversorgung bewährt. Auf der Basis einer existierenden Checkliste wurden die Inhalte von einer interdisziplinären Expertengruppe kritisch bewertet, und eine leitlinienorientierte Aktualisierung wurde vorgenommen. Der nun vorgelegte Analysebogen stellt nach Auffassung der Autoren ein praktikables, sachbezogen fokussiertes und inhaltlich aktualisiertes Werkzeug für die Risikoermittlung von Komorbidität bei Patient:innen mit mittelschwerer bis schwerer Psoriasis dar.
title: Rectal cancer multifunctional hybrid imaging.
Creators: name: Gómez , Claudia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: GI Tract
subject: Abdomen
subject: Hybrid Imaging
subject: Oncology
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: PET-CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Staging
subject: Cancer
subject: Education and training
subject: Not applicable

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To review the rectal cancer (RC) TNM staging guidelines. To learn the anatomical information the radiologist needs to provide to the treating physician when staging RC. To be acquainted with functional and molecular parameters with prognostic...
Pressure pain thresholds and central sensitization in relation to psychosocial predictors of chronicity in low back pain
Creators: name: Steinmetz, Anke
name: Hacke, Franziska
name: Delank, Karl-Stefan
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 610

description: (1) Background: Peripheral, as well as central, sensitization have been described in chronic low back pain (cLBP). The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of psychosocial factors on the development of central sensitization. (2) Methods: This prospective study investigated local and peripheral pressure pain thresholds and their dependence on psychosocial risk factors in patients with cLBP receiving inpatient multimodal pain therapy. Psychosocial factors were assessed using the Örebro Musculoskeletal Pain Screening Questionnaire (ÖMPSQ). (3) Results: A total of 90 patients were included in the study, 61 (75.4% women, 24.6% men) of whom had significant psychosocial risk factors. The control group consisted of 29 patients (62.1% women, 37.9% men). At baseline, patients with psychosocial risk factors showed significantly lower local and peripheral pressure pain thresholds, suggesting central sensitization, compared to the control group. Sleep quality, measured by the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), was also correlated with altered PPTs. After multimodal therapy, all participants reported increased local pain thresholds compared to at admission, independent of psychosocial chronification factors. (4) Conclusions: Psychosocial chronicity factors measured using the ÖMPSQ have a significant influence on pain sensitization in cLBP. A 14-day multimodal pain therapy increased local, but not peripheral, pressure pain thresholds.
title: Public and communal land considerations in response to climate changes: reflections from the US national climate assessment and the Great Plains region
title: Climate change in the US Great Plains, implication for private and communal lands
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Ojima, Dennis
name: Morisette, Jeffrey
name: International Wildlife Ranching Symposium, Producer
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Wildlife management -- Congresses
subject: Range management -- Congresses

description: 8 September 2014.
description: Presented at the 8th international congress for wildlife and livelihoods on private and communal lands: livestock, tourism, and spirit, that was held on September 7-12, 2014 in Estes Park, Colorado.
description: Drought is a frequent feature in climate dynamics of the Great Plains. The manner in which drought has impacted various communities and livelihoods differ across the region and historically as drought intensity and changes in land and water resource management has changed over time. Recent assessments of drought impacts and response strategies have been completed for the Great Plains as part of the National Climate Assessment and will be presented in the context of private and communal land implications.
title: Теория экономического анализа
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Южно-Уральский технологический университет
Year: 2024

description: Учебное пособие подготовлено в соответствии с требованиями Федеральный государственный образовательный стандарт высшего образования - бакалавриат по направлению подготовки 38.03.01 Экономика (приказ Минобрнауки России от 12.08.2020 г. № 954). В пособие раскрыты следующие вопросы: историко-теоретические аспекты экономического анализа, использование традиционных способов обработки экономической информации и специальных приемов и методов экономических исследований в исследовании экономических процессов и явлений; вопросы организации экономического анализа и его информационное обеспечение; сущность системы комплексного экономического анализа и поиска резервов повышения эффективности хозяйственной деятельности. Рекомендуется для обучающихся по направлению подготовки 38.03.01 Экономика.
Synthesis and Characterization of Bamboo Employed Environmentally Friendly Cellulose Nanofibrils Reinforced Natural Rubber Composites with Uncompromised Mechanical Properties
Creators: name: Oh, Eunyoung
name: Nguyen, Tan Binh
name: Yoon, Bumyong
name: Ding, Ruonan
name: Zúniga, Marcela María Godoy
name: Tien, Tran Trung
name: Suhr, Jonghwan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: In this study, high-purity cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs) were environmentally friendly extracted from natural bamboo. Physical, chemical, and mechanical treatments were comprehensively investigated, and then ensembled to effectively and efficiently remove lignin and hemicellulose with low energy from raw bamboo fibers, which combine microwave liquefaction, hydrogen peroxide-acetic acid delignification, alkaline treatment, and along with acid hydrolysis. This was able to allow for the extraction of CNFs. Compositional analysis, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and thermogravimetric analysis were performed to investigate and confirm the successful removal of undesirable lignin and hemicellulose. The resultant cellulose fibers were then subjected to a mechanical treatment to obtain the cellulose nanofibrils. It was found that the obtained CNFs have an average diameter of 13 nm with a cellulose purity of 94.52%. Without any further surface modification, the incorporation of bamboo-based CNFs into natural rubber (NR) exhibits significant improvement in their mechanical properties including modulus (~66.67%), tensile strength (~120.83%), toughness (~139.34%), and elongation at break (~31.41%). Interestingly, there is no compromise between tensile strength and elongation at break for the nanocomposites. DMA results also showed that both storage and loss moduli were dramatically enhanced over those of neat NR in their glassy region, which is typically unusual. This study can show, if optimized for material extraction, the great promise to the potential use of natural materials to develop environmentally friendly composites with multi-functionality in a variety of real-world engineering structural applications.
Neutron star metallurgy
Creators: name: Hoffman, Kelsey Llyn
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The crust of a neutron star plays an important role in the emission observed from it. The thermal emission generated in the core of the neutron star passes through the crust, thus it is important to know what is in the crust in order to understand how the emission is shaped and altered. The crust itself may be responsible for the observations of glitches from neutron stars and also as a source of gravitational waves. This thesis is two-fold. The first goal is to calculate the composition of the neutron star crust of a non-accreting neutron star. The second is to use the calculated crustal compositions in molecular dynamics simulations in order to determine the shear modulus and breaking strain of the crustal material. The composition of the crust is found to be dependent on how the neutron star cooled. Nuclear reactions within the crust are quenched as the star cools. The composition of the crust, envelope, and atmosphere are calculated after the nuclear reactions are quenched. With the settling timescales of the various isotopes in the crust, some of these isotopes are able to float up to the neutron star surface and form the atmosphere. Three different cooling methods were used in these calculations – modified Urca cooling, a thick crust and a thin crust – each produces different atmospheric and crustal compositions. The calculated crustal abundances are then used as initial conditions in molecular dynamics simulations. A shear force is introduced by deforming the simulation box. The shear modulus and breaking strain are calculated for the three different crustal compositions as well as for perfect pure face-centered cubic (FCC) and body-centered cubic (BCC) systems. The upper limit, from the perfect crystal lattice structure, on the breaking strain is found to ~0.11 − 0.12 and the shear modulus is found to be 6.5 × 10³º dyne/cm². These properties predict glitch amplitudes of ∆Ω/Ω∼10⁻³. The gravitational wave strain amplitudes for PSR J2124- 3358 are also predicted to be greater than the observed upper limits. This indicates that the neutron star crust is not a perfect BCC lattice which deformed to 10% of the maximum.
Region graph partition function expansion and approximate free energy landscapes: Theory and some numerical results
Creators: name: Zhou, Haijun
name: Wang, Chuang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Graphical models for finite-dimensional spin glasses and real-world combinatorial optimization and satisfaction problems usually have an abundant number of short loops. The cluster variation method and its extension, the region graph method, are theoretical approaches for treating the complicated short-loop-induced local correlations. For graphical models represented by non-redundant or redundant region graphs, approximate free energy landscapes are constructed in this paper through the mathematical framework of region graph partition function expansion. Several free energy functionals are obtained, each of which use a set of probability distribution functions or functionals as order parameters. These probability distribution function/functionals are required to satisfy the region graph belief-propagation equation or the region graph survey-propagation equation to ensure vanishing correction contributions of region subgraphs with dangling edges. As a simple application of the general theory, we perform region graph belief-propagation simulations on the square-lattice ferromagnetic Ising model and the Edwards-Anderson model. Considerable improvements over the conventional Bethe-Peierls approximation are achieved. Collective domains of different sizes in the disordered and frustrated square lattice are identified by the message-passing procedure. Such collective domains and the frustrations among them are responsible for the low-temperature glass-like dynamical behaviors of the system.
description: 30 pages, 11 figures. More discussion on redundant region graphs. To be published by Journal of Statistical Physics
Fixing America's Housing Market
Creators: name: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Economics

description: The article discusses the anomaly of the housing market in the U.S. where hundreds of thousands of houses in the U.S. are still vacant but there are also hundreds of thousands of homeless people. It states that reviving the housing market is difficult because of the bad financial shape of the banks and the securitization model is broken and is not to be replaced anytime soon. It adds that the U.S. government of President Barack Obama is reluctant to face these difficulties.
Designing the Visual Gateways into Crime News A Comparison of Youtube Thumbnails from Journalists and Non-Journalists.pdf
Creators: name: Thomson, T.J.
name: Bock, Mary Angela
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470105
subject: Journalism studies
classificationCode: 330316
subject: Visual communication design (incl. graphic design)
classificationCode: 470107
subject: Media studies
classificationCode: 470102
subject: Communication technology and digital media studies

description: Thumbnails and link previews play an outsized role in determining which online content is shared, seen, and engaged with. But conventions for these vary depending on the platform and the content creator. Journalists and non-journalists alike use and sometimes design these thumbnails with often striking differences. On some news aggregators, like Apple News or Google News, the bulk of the thumbnails are photographs related in some way to the linked content. Yet, on other platforms, such as YouTube, the thumbnails are often bespoke designs that allow for more storytelling freedom and potentially more ethical risk compared to camera-based images. This study, informed by visual news values, uses the context of the 2022 stabbing homicide of four University of Idaho students to systematically examine all YouTube thumbnails related to the murder suspect in the first four days after he was publicly identified. In doing so, this study is able to contribute to our understanding of the visual presentation of a crime-related topic with limited source material and is also able to shed much-needed light on how journalistic practices and conventions compare to those of non-journalists in the selection and design of image thumbnails on YouTube.
title: Radioscopic Testing of Fistulas in Oncology Patients
Creators: name: La Via, María
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Not applicable
subject: Retrospective
subject: Fistula
subject: Barium enema
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: GI Tract

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To illustrate imaging findings in patients with fistulas in different segments of the digestive system diagnosed through radioscopy. To define the term fistula and its etiology . To analyse the role of radioscopic testing as the initial study method...
On MHV Form Factors in Superspace for $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM Theory
Creators: name: Bork, L. V.
name: Kazakov, D. I.
name: Vartanov, G. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we develop a supersymmetric version of unitarity cut method for form factors of operators from the chiral truncation of the the $\mathcal{N}=4$ stress-tensor current supermultiplet $T^{AB}$. The relation between the superform factor with supermomentum equals to zero and the logarithmic derivative of the superamplitude with respect to the coupling constant is discussed and verified at tree- and one-loop level for any MHV $n$-point ($n \geq 4$) superform factor involving operators from chiral truncation of the stress-tensor energy supermultiplet. The explicit $\mathcal{N}=4$ covariant expressions for n-point tree- and one-loop MHV form factors are obtained. As well, the ansatz for the two-loop three-point MHV superform factor is suggested in the planar limit, based on the reduction procedure for the scalar integrals suggested in our previous work. The different soft and collinear limits in the MHV sector at tree- and one-loop level are discussed.
description: Latex, 35 pages, 6 figures; v2: typos corrected; v3: published version
title: Doppler ultrasound in the evaluation of the revascularized carotid postendarterectomy. What should you know?
Creators: name: Vargas Flores, David
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Arteriosclerosis
subject: Surgery
subject: Complications
subject: Ultrasound-Spectral Doppler
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Vascular
subject: Not applicable

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: - Develop a “step-by-step” guide to perform an appropriate Vascular Ultrasound evaluation protocol of the Carotid arteries afterendarterectomy. - Illustrate the main normal and pathological...
title: Contrast enhanced ultrasound indications for imaging vascular pathology
Creators: name: Cokkinos, Demosthenes
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Obstruction / Occlusion
subject: Embolism / Thrombosis
subject: Aneurysms
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Vascular
subject: Contrast agents
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Emergency Imaging

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To outline the commonest indications for Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound in imaging blood...
The morality of kidney sales : when caring for the seller's dignity has moral costs
Creators: name: Reese, Alexander
name: Pies, Ingo
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 170

description: Kidney markets are prohibited in principle because they are assumed to undermine the seller’s dignity. Considering the trade-off between saving more lives by introducing regulated kidney markets and preserving the seller’s dignity, we argue that it is advisable to demand that citizens restrain their own moral judgements and not interfere with the judgements of those who are willing to sell a kidney. We also argue that it is advisable not only to limit the political implications of the moral argument of dignity concerns toward a market-based solution but also to re-evaluate the dignity argument itself. First, if the dignity argument is to be given normative force, it must also consider the dignity violation of the potential transplant recipient. Second, there seems to be no compelling notion of dignity that demonstrates why it is morally permissible to donate but not to sell a kidney.
title: MRI of Female Urethra: What the urologist need to know?
Creators: name: Durany Lara, David
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Not applicable
subject: Retrospective
subject: Diverticula
subject: Cancer
subject: Contrast agent-other
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: MR
subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: Genitourinary

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To assess the use of MRI to visualize the female urethra and its...
Himanshu Shekhar (Development and Characterization of Bricks from Waste Plastic for Sustainable Construction).pdf
Creators: name: Shekhar, Himanshu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Mechanical engineering asset management
Energy generation, conversion and storage (excl. chemical and electrical)

description: The rapid growth of plastic waste has posed significant environmental challenges in recent years. To mitigate this issue and promote sustainable construction practices, researchers have explored innovative methods to repurpose waste plastic into construction materials. This paper presents a detailed description of the development and characterization of bricks manufactured from waste plastic. The study aimed to assess the mechanical properties, durability, and feasibility of using these bricks as a sustainable alternative to traditional clay bricks.
Parameter estimation in LISA Pathfinder operational exercises
Creators: name: Nofrarias, M.
name: Ferraioli, L.
name: Congedo, G.
name: Hueller, M.
name: Armano, M.
name: Diaz-Aguilo, M.
name: Grynagier, A.
name: Hewitson, M.
name: Vitale, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The LISA Pathfinder data analysis team has been developing in the last years the infrastructure and methods required to run the mission during flight operations. These are gathered in the LTPDA toolbox, an object oriented MATLAB toolbox that allows all the data analysis functionalities for the mission, while storing the history of all operations performed to the data, thus easing traceability and reproducibility of the analysis. The parameter estimation methods in the toolbox have been applied recently to data sets generated with the OSE (Off-line Simulations Environment), a detailed LISA Pathfinder non-linear simulator that will serve as a reference simulator during mission operations. These operational exercises aim at testing the on-orbit experiments in a realistic environment in terms of software and time constraints. These simulations, so called operational exercises, are the last verification step before translating these experiments into tele-command sequences for the spacecraft, producing therefore very relevant datasets to test our data analysis methods. In this contribution we report the results obtained with three different parameter estimation methods during one of these operational exercises.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures, prepared for the Proceedings of the 9th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves, JPCS
Local citizenship and socialized governance : linking citizens and the state in rural and urban Tianjin, China
Creators: name: Woodman, K. Sophia
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This study uses the China case to revisit some of the central assumptions of the literature on citizenship, showing how citizens and states are formed in and through the local places where citizenship is practiced. It suggests that the location of the political and of citizens have been an understudied aspect of citizenship orders, not just in relation to the growing impact of global and transnational forces, but also in sub-state entities. Through fine-grained examination of the daily interactions between citizens and state agents, this study shows how citizenship in China is embedded in local relationships of belonging, participation and entitlement anchored in institutions that organize people in workplaces, urban neighborhoods and rural villages. Based on 10 months of ethnographic fieldwork in four communities in Tianjin, China, the study examines how two such institutions, the villager and residents committees, act as a nexus for participation and formal rights, while also providing social welfare to the needy. The practices of these institutions bind citizens to the state through a face-to-face politics that acts both as a mechanism of control and a channel for claims-making and pressure from below, a mode of rule I call “socialized governance.” Both enabling and constraining, this exists in tension with bureaucratic-rational forms of governance, such as the current Chinese leadership’s objective of “ruling in accordance with law.” While the frameworks for citizenship are set at the national level, its local, cellular character means great variation among places in both form and practice. My model of local citizenship helps explain patterns of economic and social inequality and of contentious politics in contemporary China. While the unsettling of the congruence between the national and citizenship has been widely noted, this study points to how local, national and global institutionalized dimensions of citizenship have consistently been mediated through or exercised in sub-state entities. The narrative of the nation-state has so dominated the literature on citizenship that it has generally made invisible the actual techniques and processes through which citizenship orders are made, re-made and contested. As a unitary state with a strong national project, the China case provides intriguing material for rethinking how the local shapes citizenship.
title: Cardiac Anomalies associated with Cor Triatriatum
Creators: name: Goel, Archita
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Anatomy
subject: Cardiac
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Congenital
subject: Not applicable

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To identify Cor Triatriatum and various other cardiac anomalies associated with...
Artificial neural networks for modeling and digital predistortion for software defined transmitters
Creators: name: Rawat, Meenakshi
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 139-151
description: Some pages are in colour.
description: Includes copy of copyright permissions. Original copies with original Partial Copyright Licence.
description: The overall objective of this thesis is to develop and analyze efficient and robust artificial neural network methodologies and distiibuted structures for complete transmitter modeling and its practical use as digital compensation solution for nonlinearity and hardware impainnents in wireless transmitters for software defined radio Applications. A suitable feedforward topology namely real valued focused time delay neural network is proposed and various nonlinear optimization algorithms are implemented to achieve best perfonnance in the presence of different power amplifiers and signals. While conventional digital predistortion (DPD) techniques focus mostly on power amplifiers and are dependent on signal statistics, the proposed linearization is more robust to signal statistics and generic in the sense that it adapts to any change in the input data even in the presence of modulator gain/ phase imbalances and DC offsets. Although highly robust, back propagation based feedforward neural network solutions have shortcomings such as high number of parameters to be stored leading to higher digital processing cost. Therefore, as an alternative cost cutting solution, this thesis ventures to modify conventional memory polynomial by applying layered structure similar to neural networks. With experimental results of different PAs, it is established that proposed three-layered-biased-memory-polynomial model enjoys better numerical stability and lower dispersion of coefficients which eventually helps in decreasing processing load on DSP and therefore can replace conventional memory polynomials providing similar performance. Above stated DPD techniques works in batch mode and when PA characteristics cannot be assumed constant over long time and constant adaptation of coefficients is needed, they may still lead to higher processing time therefore thesis further analyzes spatially distributed or lattice neural networks for adaptive digital compensation. It is reported that with its spatially distributed structure total processing cost is even lower than previously reported conventional adaptive nonlinear filters with reasonable performance especially in case of highly nonlinear PAs.
title: Peculiar Pathologies of Cranial Trauma - Diagnostic Tips and Tricks
Creators: name: Valchev, Georgi
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Observational
subject: Not applicable
subject: Trauma
subject: Forensics
subject: Foreign bodies
subject: Education
subject: Digital radiography
subject: CT
subject: Trauma
subject: Emergency
subject: CNS
subject: Emergency Imaging
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: The purpose of this work is to familiarize radiologists with some peculiar pathologies encountered in the setting of head trauma, especially concerning foreign bodies, and to improve their ability to interpret such emergency examinations with...
Testing Parity with Atomic Radiative Capture of $μ^-$
Creators: name: McKeen, David
name: Pospelov, Maxim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The next generation of "intensity frontier" facilities will bring a significant increase in the intensity of sub-relativistic beams of $μ^-$. We show that the use of these beams in combination with thin targets of $Z\sim 30$ elements opens up the possibility of testing parity-violating interactions of muons with nuclei via direct radiative capture of muons into atomic 2S orbitals. Since atomic capture preserves longitudinal muon polarization, the measurement of the gamma ray angular asymmetry in the single photon $2S_{1/2}$-$1S_{1/2}$ transition will offer a direct test of parity. We calculate the probability of atomic radiative capture taking into account the finite size of the nucleus to show that this process can dominate over the usual muonic atom cascade, and that the as yet unobserved single photon $2S_{1/2}$-$1S_{1/2}$ transition in muonic atoms can be detected in this way using current muon facilities.
description: To appear in PRL
Private landowner involvement - making a difference in energy development outcomes
Creators: name: Taggart, Craig
name: Belinda, Steve
name: International Wildlife Ranching Symposium, Producer
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Wildlife management -- Congresses
subject: Range management -- Congresses

description: Moderator: Steve Belinda.
description: Presented at the 8th international congress for wildlife and livelihoods on private and communal lands: livestock, tourism, and spirit, that was held on September 7-12, 2014 in Estes Park, Colorado.
description: This session will showcase two examples of success landowners have had in constructively addressing energy development on private and leased public lands. These project examples illustrate tools and models that can be employed to assist in protecting the wildlife and other natural values of your lands. The first example is a demonstration project that was developed and employed by members of the Chama Peak Land Alliance in southern Colorado when faced with impending energy development. This planning tool was successful in identifying sensitive wildlife and environmental conditions from the perspective of the private landowner community, providing leverage for protection. This tool is a straight-forward model that can be widely adapted to your local conditions. The second illustrates a range of best management practices (BMPs) employed by a landowner to protect the sensitive wildlife and natural resource values that he stewards on his land. These are a collection of techniques that focus on minimizing disturbance and visibility in this state-of-the-art development that has been widely acclaimed by private landowners, as well as government and industry representatives.
Recent progress in understanding polymer crystallization
Creators: name: Saalwächter, Kay
name: Thurn‐Albrecht, Thomas
name: Paul, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Recent developments concerned with elucidating the semicrystalline structure formation in bulk polymer melts, with a focus on possibly important factors that have received less systematic attention, are reviewed. This includes the presence or absence of chain motion through the crystallites, which has a strong impact on the final crystallite thickness, and the effects of entanglements, which limit crystal growth and lower the crystallinity. From the theoretical side, interest is shown in shedding light on the thermodynamic driving forces of polymer crystallization, thus providing a theoretical background against which the kinetic limitations determine the resulting structures in experiments.
Enhancing lepton flavour violation in the supersymmetric inverse seesaw beyond the dipole contribution
Creators: name: Abada, Asmaa
name: Das, Debottam
name: Vicente, Avelino
name: Weiland, Cédric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In minimal supersymmetric models the $Z$-penguin usually provides sub-dominant contributions to charged lepton flavour violating observables. In this study, we consider the supersymmetric inverse seesaw in which the non-minimal particle content allows for dominant contributions of the $Z$-penguin to several lepton flavour violating observables. In particular, and due to the low-scale (TeV) seesaw, the penguin contribution to, for instance, $\Br(μ\to 3e)$ and $μ-e$ conversion in nuclei, allows to render some of these observables within future sensitivity reach. Moreover, we show that in this framework, the $Z$-penguin exhibits the same non-decoupling behaviour which had previously been identified in flavour violating Higgs decays in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model.
description: 29 pages, 9 figures, 4 tables; v2: minor corrections, version to appear in JHEP
Shifting the status quo of freedom: civil libertarians and the Supreme Court of Canada
Creators: name: Newman, Andrew Robert
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 108-115
description: This study examines the extent to which two civil libertarian interveners, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) and the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA), have been successful at achieving favourable policy outcomes through Supreme Court of Canada decisions. Cases directly and indirectly implicating fundamental freedoms under section 2 of the Charter of Rights were the focal point. The selected timeframe for this study was 1999-2009 and a total of thirteen cases in which the CCLA and/or the BCCLA intervened constitute the data set. Four of the cases invoke Charter section 2(a) ("freedom of religion") and nine invoke Charter section 2(b) ("freedom of expression)." Methodologies highlighting the legal issues at trial and those that considered how the litigation will influence a policy status quo were synthesized to accomplish this goal. Analysis of these cases reveals that civil libertarians were more likely to emerge victorious in common law as opposed to constitutional cases. Constraints imposed by "reasonable limits" under section l of the Charter and the presence of governments as direct parties proved to be a barrier to the success of civil libertarians in court. This explanation offered complements a finding in the literature that governments are the most successful "Repeat Player" in court.
Cationic charge distribution in mixed actinide oxides at An M4,5 edge by HR-XANES in mixed nanooxides
Creators: name: Palina, Natalia
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2022

description: The structural properties of actinide (An) oxides are of particular interest for a number of applications including nuclear waste storage and disposal. In this work, cationic charge distribution in as-prepared and sintered nanocrystals [Ux,(Amy,Puz)]O2(+x) (y=1-20%, z=20%) were investigated. In order to evaluate the oxidation states of the actinide elements, An (An = U, Pu or Am) M4,5 edge high-energy resolution XANES (HR-XANES) and An L3 edge XANES were applied and the results from the two techniques were compared. The mixed actinide oxides were synthesized by hydrothermal decomposition of mixed actinide oxalates. The crystal structure and morphology of the materials were characterized by powder XRD and TEM. The HR-XANES and XANES spectroscopic techniques were performed at the CAT-ACT-Beamline and INE-Beamline, respectively, at the KIT synchrotron light source, Karlsruhe, Germany. Theoretical calculations of the U M4 and Am M5 HR-XANES spectra were done using a density-functional theory (DFT) based model at the relativistic level of theory. Multiplet effects were also included on top of the DFT to simulate the fine structures of the XANES spectra. An experimental verification that it is more difficult to oxidize Pu(IV) to higher oxidation states compared to U(IV) in actinide dioxide as it was previously suggested by thermodynamic calculations is presented. The spectroscopic results indicate that the U(V) stabilizes on the surface of the nanocrystals (10-13 nm size) with cubic FCC structure and strongly reduces to U(IV) upon sintering at 1600-1650 °C. At the same time, Pu remains as Pu(IV) in as prepared and sintered nanocrystals. Unexpectedly, we found that minor contribution of Am(IV) is present in the nanocrystals for Am content down to 5%, likely as a result of surface oxidation of the predominant Am(III). The interpretation of the experimental spectra is supported by calculations. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, ERC Consolidator Grant 2020 “The ACTINIDE BOND” under grant agreement No. 847593.
Runtime performance management of multi-tier systems under simultaneous multithreading
Creators: name: Musabbir, Samira
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 78-86
description: Recent years have witnessed the deployment of enterprise applications on modern pro­cessors that employ technologies such as Simultaneous Multi-threading (SMT) to exploit the parallelism in such applications. By studying a TPC-W testbed we observe that the performance of SMT for a multi-tier application strongly depends on the workload in execution in the system, thus prompting the need for smart management policies to decide when to enable or disable it. Towards this objective, we propose the Runtime Performance Optimizer (RPO), a module for the Apache \Neb server that automates SMT activation and deactivation at runtime. Experimental results obtained for a variety of workload scenarios indicate that an RPO-enabled system can gain up to 40% in transaction response times compared to the best static SMT selection policy, at the expense of a small overhead of 0.6% per core utilization. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that investigates multi-tier server dynamic management issues arising from SMT. 'vVe believe that the methodology followed as well as the results from the specific system we consider would be of interest to others interested in managing enterprise applications.
title: Multivisceral transplantation revisited: An MR pictorial review of over 20 years of experience with follow-up
Creators: name: Loo, Jerry
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Not applicable
subject: Prospective
subject: Transplantation
subject: Lymphoma
subject: Infection
subject: Surgery
subject: MR-Enterography
subject: MR-Angiography
subject: MR
subject: Paediatric
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Anatomy
subject: Paediatric

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: 1) Review the indications for multivisceral transplantation (MVTx) in pediatric patients. 2) Understand the surgical anatomy following transplantation. 3) Review the complications that can arise after MVTx as seen on magnetic resonance (MR) with...