cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: MRI findings and cognitive function in relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis patients using Montreal cognitive assessment test
Creators: name: Pourghorban, Ramin
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Inflammation

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has improved the diagnosis and management of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Some studies postulated that brain lesions volumes are correlated with cognitive impairment by using multiple and time consumption...
Dark sector shining through 750 GeV dark Higgs boson at the LHC
Creators: name: Ko, P.
name: Nomura, Takaaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a dark sector with $SU(3)_C \times U(1)_Y \times U(1)_X$ and three families of dark fermions that are chiral under dark $U(1)_X$ gauge symmetry, whereas scalar dark matter $X$ is the SM singlet. $U(1)_X$ dark symmetry is spontaneously broken by nonzero VEV of dark Higgs field $\langle Φ\rangle$, generating the masses of dark fermions and dark photon $Z^\prime$. The resulting dark Higgs boson $ϕ$ can be produced at the LHC by dark quark loop (involving 3 generation) and will decay into a pair of photon through charged dark fermion loop. Its decay width can be easily $\sim 45$ GeV due to its possible decays into a pair of dark photon, which is not strongly constrained by the current LHC searches $pp \rightarrow ϕ\rightarrow Z^\prime Z^\prime$ followed by $Z^\prime$ decays into the SM fermion pairs. The scalar DM can achieve thermal relic density without conflict with direct detection bound or the invisible $ϕ$ decay into a pair of DM.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures,discussions are extended, version published in PLB
Summary for policymakers of the regional assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services for Europe and Central Asia of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Appendix 6.2
Creators: name: IPBES
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Europe and Central Asia Assessment
IPBES
Supplementary material

description: Responses to transboundary environmental challenges within the Europe and Central Asia region (Chapter 6, Section 6.3.3) Table 6.2.1 shows a number of bilateral agreements between Mongolia, Russia and China related to water management and nature conservation relevant to transboundary Amur River basin. Table 6.2.1: Bilateral water and nature conservation agreements between Mongolia, Russia and China.
Research results from a registry supporting efforts to improve maternal and child health in low and middle income countries
Creators: name: Bose, Carl
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Abstract The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development created and continues to support the Global Network for Women's and Children's Health Research, a partnership between research institutions in the US and low-middle income countries. This commentary describes a series of 15 papers emanating from the Global Network’s Maternal and Newborn Health Registry. Using data from 2010 to 2013, the series of papers describe nearly 300,000 pregnancies in 7 sites in 6 countries – India (2 sites), Pakistan, Kenya, Zambia, Guatemala and Argentina. These papers cover a wide range of topics including several dealing with efforts made to ensure data quality, and others reporting on specific pregnancy outcomes including maternal mortality, stillbirth and neonatal mortality. Topics ranging from antenatal care, adolescent pregnancy, obstructed labor, factors associated with early initiation of breast feeding and maintenance of exclusive breast feeding and contraceptive usage are presented. In addition, case studies evaluating changes in mortality over time in 3 countries - India, Pakistan and Guatemala - are presented. In order to make progress in improving pregnancy outcomes in low-income countries, data of this quality are needed.
Working Memory Performance in Disordered Gambling and Gaming: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Ngetich, Ronald
name: Burleigh, Tyrone
name: Shaw, Carrie
name: Larche, Chanel
name: Czako, Andrea
name: Demetrovics, Zsolt
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Arts and Humanities
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Ronald's Thesis Project (Study 1)
Ichthyophthirius multifiliis Fouquet: development and assessment of in vitro systems for long term maintenance
Creators: name: Hurley, Louise Margaret
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1999

description: Merged with duplicate record 10026.1/785 on 15.02.2017 by CS (TIS)
description: Twelve isolates of lchthyophthirius multifiliis were successfully established and maintained by serial passage through naive carp, for a maximum of 39 laboratory cycles. The management system employed was such that large numbers of the parasite were available for all investigations. The ability to induce exit of immature trophonts through media incubation was used to confirm events in the initial stages of host colonisation. The normal course of primary infection was also established providing useful criteria for assessing success of the in vitro systems tested. Survival of both theronts and tomonts within selected monophasic media was investigated. Theronts in Eagles Minimum Essential medium (EMEM). survived and were viable for 120 hours. 72 hours longer than water controls. No further development of the theronts was observed. Tomonts also demonstrated an increased survival time in comparison to the controls with tomites surviving within the cyst for 22 days within EMEM-S media diluted 50:50 with sterile distilled water. Division of tomonts was identified as being precystic, post divisional cystic or cystic, and the frequency of such divisions was dependent upon dilution of media, Sterile viable theronts were recovered at 168h from tomonts that had been incubated within EMEM diluted 30:70 with distilled water. Delayed encystment was achieved by incubation in concentrated media, theront production being delayed for 96h, 72h later than seen in the aquatic environment. Cultured cell monolayers were used as associates within culture systems. Behaviour of theronts on introduction into the culture systems indicated recognition of the cultured tissue as potential host material, sustained contact of up to 120hours was observed between the introduced parasite and cells. However, no developmental markers were identified within the cultured parasite and no significant growth was achieved. Attempts to simulate the situation in vivo by use of multilayered systems and crude cell explants were also unsuccessful. Transmission electron microscopy of the parasite within a cell aggregate system was undertaken at daily intervals up to 120h providing evidence that the parasite was attempting to gain nutrients by phagocytosis. However, increased vacuolation of the parasite during the period of culture was clearly evident leading eventually to parasite death. The significance of the results is discussed in relation to the normal course of infection and the future promise of a long term culture method for this important pathogen.
title: Whole Lung Perfusion CT using Area-Detector CT System: Capability for Regional Perfusion Difference Evaluation and Disease Severity Assessment of Smoking-Related COPD in Patients with Pulmonary Nodule
Creators: name: Ohno, Yoshiharu
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Thorax
subject: Lung
subject: CT-Quantitative
subject: Technology assessment
subject: Chronic obstructive airways disease

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Whole lung perfusion evaluation has been suggested as one of the key functional evaluations in various pulmonary diseases such as COPD, lung cancer, and pulmonary vascular diseases. Since 1996, dynamic first-pass CE-perfusion MRI has been suggested...
The color-magnitude distribution of small Jupiter Trojans
Creators: name: Wong, Ian
name: Brown, Michael E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analysis of survey observations targeting the leading L4 Jupiter Trojan cloud near opposition using the wide-field Suprime-Cam CCD camera on the 8.2 m Subaru Telescope. The survey covered about 38 deg$^2$ of sky and imaged 147 fields spread across a wide region of the L4 cloud. Each field was imaged in both the $g'$ and the $i'$ band, allowing for the measurement of $g-i$ color. We detected 557 Trojans in the observed fields, ranging in absolute magnitude from $H=10.0$ to $H = 20.3$. We fit the total magnitude distribution to a broken power law and show that the power-law slope rolls over from $0.45\pm 0.05$ to $0.36^{+0.05}_{-0.09}$ at a break magnitude of $H_{b}=14.93^{+0.73}_{-0.88}$. Combining the best-fit magnitude distribution of faint objects from our survey with an analysis of the magnitude distribution of bright objects listed in the Minor Planet Center catalog, we obtain the absolute magnitude distribution of Trojans over the entire range from $H=7.2$ to $H=16.4$. We show that the $g-i$ color of Trojans decreases with increasing magnitude. In the context of the less-red and red color populations, as classified in Wong et al. 2014 using photometric and spectroscopic data, we demonstrate that the observed trend in color for the faint Trojans is consistent with the expected trend derived from extrapolation of the best-fit color population magnitude distributions for bright catalogued Trojans. This indicates a steady increase in the relative number of less-red objects with decreasing size. Finally, we interpret our results using collisional modeling and propose several hypotheses for the color evolution of the Jupiter Trojan population.
description: 13 pages, 12 figures, accepted by AJ
Pharmaceutical pollution: Prediction of environmental concentrations from national wholesales data
Creators: name: Welch, Samuel
name: Olsen, Kristine
name: Sharikabad, Mohammad
name: Tollefsen, Knut
name: Grung, Merete
name: Moe, S.
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Environmental Health
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Biology

description: Wholesale weights and Predicted Environmental Concentrations for roughly 900 Active Pharmceutical Ingredients of (potential) ecotoxicological concern for the years 2016 -2019, based on sales data from the Norwegian Institute for Public Health's Drug Wholesale Database.
A cross-sectional study of demographic, environmental and parental barriers to active school travel among children in the United States
Creators: name: Ni, Andy
name: Hales, Derek
name: Gizlice, Ziya
name: Vaughn, Amber
name: Ward, Dianne
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2014

description: Abstract: Background: Promoting daily routine physical activities, such as active travel to school, may have important health implications. Practitioners and policy makers must understand the variety of factors that influence whether or not a child uses active school travel. Several reviews have identified both inhibitors and promoters of active school travel, but few studies have combined these putative characteristics in one analysis. The purpose of this study is to examine associations between elementary school children’s active school travel and variables hypothesized as correlates (demographics, physical environment, perceived barriers and norms). Methods: The current project uses the dataset from the National Evaluation of Walk to School (WTS) Project, which includes data from 4th and 5th grade children and their parents from 18 schools across the US. Measures included monthly child report of mode of school travel during the previous week (n = 10,809) and perceived barriers and social norms around active school travel by parents (n = 1,007) and children (n = 1,219). Generalized linear mixed models (GLMM) with log-link functions were used to assess bivariate and multivariate associations between hypothesized correlates and frequency of active school travel, assuming random school effect and controlling for the distance to school. Results: The final model showed that the most relevant significant predictors of active school travel were parent’s perceived barriers, specifically child resistance (Estimate = −0.438, p < 0.0001) and safety and weather (Estimate = −0.0245, p < 0.001), as well as the school’s percentage of Hispanic students (Estimate = 0.0059, p < 0.001), after adjusting for distance and including time within school cluster as a random effect. Conclusions: Parental concerns may be impacting children’s use of active school travel, and therefore, future interventions to promote active school travel should more actively engage parents and address these concerns. Programs like the Walk to School program, which are organized by the schools and can engage community resources such as public safety officials, could help overcome many of these perceived barriers to active transport.
Anisotropic Formation of Magnetized Cores in Turbulent Clouds
Creators: name: Chen, Che-Yu
name: Ostriker, Eve C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In giant molecular clouds (GMCs), shocks driven by converging turbulent flows create high-density, strongly-magnetized regions that are locally sheetlike. In previous work, we showed that within these layers, dense filaments and embedded self-gravitating cores form by gathering material along the magnetic field lines. Here, we extend the parameter space of our three-dimensional, turbulent MHD core formation simulations. We confirm the anisotropic core formation model we previously proposed, and quantify the dependence of median core properties on the pre-shock inflow velocity and upstream magnetic field strength. Our results suggest that bound core properties are set by the total dynamic pressure (dominated by large-scale turbulence) and thermal sound speed c_s in GMCs, independent of magnetic field strength. For models with Mach number between 5 and 20, the median core masses and radii are comparable to the critical Bonnor-Ebert mass and radius defined using the dynamic pressure for P_ext. Our results correspond to M_core = 1.2 c_s^4/sqrt(G^3 rho_0 v_0^2) and R_core = 0.34 c_s^2/sqrt(G rho_0 v_0^2) for rho_0 and v_0 the large-scale mean density and velocity. For our parameter range, the median M_core ~ 0.1-1 M_sun, but a very high pressure cloud could have lower characteristic core mass. We find cores and filaments form simultaneously, and filament column densities are a factor ~2 greater than the surrounding cloud when cores first collapse. We also show that cores identified in our simulations have physical properties comparable to those observed in the Perseus cloud. Superthermal cores in our models are generally also magnetically supercritical, suggesting that the same may be true in observed clouds.
description: 32 pages, 15 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ
G-marked moduli spaces
Creators: name: Li, Binru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14J10, 14C05, 14D22

description: The aim of this paper is to investigate the closed subschemes of moduli spaces corresponding to projective varieties which admit an effective action by a given finite group $G$. To achieve this, we introduce the moduli functor $\mathsf{M}^G_h$ of $G$-marked Gorenstein canonical models with Hilbert polynomial $h$, and prove the existence of $\mathfrak{M}_h[G]$, the coarse moduli scheme for $\mathsf{M}^G_h$. Then we show that $\mathfrak{M}_h[G]$ has a proper and finite morphism onto $\mathfrak{M}_h$ so that its image $\mathfrak{M}_h(G)$ is a closed subscheme. In the end we obtain the canonical representation type decomposition $\mathcal{D}_h[G]$ of $\mathfrak{M}_h[G]$ and use $\mathcal{D}_h[G]$ to study the structure of $\mathfrak{M}_h[G]$.
description: 25 pages, minor changes, a new section (section 5) containing new results has been added
Elastic Resource Allocation for Distributed Graph Processing Platforms
Creators: name: Dindokar, Ravikant
name: Simmhan, Yogesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Distributed graph platforms like Pregel have used vertex- centric programming models to process the growing corpus of graph datasets using commodity clusters. The irregular structure of graphs cause load imbalances across machines operating on graph partitions, and this is exacerbated for non-stationary graph algorithms such as traversals, where not all parts of the graph are active at the same time. As a result, such graph platforms, even as they scale, do not make efficient use of distributed resources. Clouds offer elastic virtual machines that can be leveraged to improve the resource utilization for such platforms and hence reduce the monetary cost for their execution. In this paper, we propose strategies for elastic placement of graph partitions on Cloud VMs for subgraphcentric programming model to reduce the cost of execution compared to a static placement, even as we minimize the increase in makespan. These strategies are innovative in modeling the graph algorithms behavior. We validate our strategies for several graphs, using runtime tra- ces for their distributed execution of a Breadth First Search (BFS) algorithms on our subgraph-centric GoFFish graph platform. Our strategies are able to reduce the cost of exe- cution by up to 42%, compared to a static placement, while achieving a makespan that is within 29% of the optimal
title: Reduction of metallic coil artefacts on computed tomography scans: effects of a new single-energy metal artefact reduction algorithm
Creators: name: Kidoh, Masafumi
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Aneurysms
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT
subject: Computer applications
subject: Arteries / Aorta

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Minimally invasive endovascular coiling techniques can be used to treat cerebral or abdominal visceral artery aneurysms. Endovascular coiling yields positive outcomes in patients subjected to aneurysmal embolization and shortens their recovery time...
Summary for policymakers of the regional assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services for Europe and Central Asia of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Appendix 6.1
Creators: name: IPBES
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Europe and Central Asia Assessment
IPBES
Supplementary material

description: Responses to global environmental challenges relevant for Europe and Central Asia (Chapter 6, Section 6.3.2) There are a number of Multilateral Environmental Agreements with somewhat similar aims although with a different focus. These are listed in Table 6.1.1 based on purpose, date adopted and entry into force and how many countries in Europe and Central Asia have ratified the agreement, indicating the geographical scope and importance of the agreement.
title: Cardiac resynchronization in ischemic heart failure patients: a comparison between therapy guided by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and 2D-speckle tracking echocardiography.
Creators: name: Malta, Bruna
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Echocardiography
subject: MR
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Cardiac Assist Devices
subject: Ischaemia / Infarction

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: In heart failure (HF) patients, cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) has beneficial effects on symptoms, left ventricular (LV) systolic function and survival. In ischemic HF patients non-response rate to CRT is higher as compared to non-ischemic...
Nitrated nucleosome levels and neuropsychiatric events in systemic lupus erythematosus; a multi-center retrospective case-control study
Creators: name: Dooley, Mary A
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2017

description: Abstract Background In patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) there is no serological test that will reliably distinguish neuropsychiatric (NP) events due to active SLE from those due to other causes. Previously we showed that serum levels of nitrated nucleosomes (NN) were elevated in a small number of patients with NPSLE. Here we measured serum NN in samples from a larger population of patients with SLE and NP events to see whether elevated serum NN could be a marker for NPSLE. Methods We obtained serum samples from patients in the Systemic Lupus International Collaborative Clinics (SLICC) inception cohort. This included 216 patients with NP events and two matched controls with SLE but no NP events for each of these patients. For the NP patients we tested samples taken before, during and after the NP event. Results Twenty-six patients had events attributed to SLE according to the most stringent SLICC attribution rule. In these patients there was no association between onset of event and elevated serum NN. In 190 patients in whom events were not attributed to SLE by the SLICC rules, median serum NN was elevated at the onset of event (P = 0.006). The predominant clinical features in this group of 190 patients were headache, mood disorders and anxiety. Conclusions Serum NN levels rise at the time of an NP event in a proportion of patients with SLE. Further studies are needed to determine the value of serum NN as a biomarker for NPSLE.
Femtosecond structural transformation of phase-change materials far from equilibrium monitored by coherent phonons
Creators: name: Hase, Muneaki
name: Fons, Paul
name: Mitrofanov, Kirill
name: Kolobov, Alexander V.
name: Tominaga, Junji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multi-component chalcogenides, such as quasi-binary GeTe-Sb$_{2}$Te$_{3}$ alloys, are widely used in optical data storage media in the form of rewritable optical discs. Ge$_{2}$Sb$_{2}$Te$_{5}$ (GST) in particular has proven to be one of the best-performing materials, whose reliability allows more than 10$^{6}$ write-erase cycles. Despite these industrial applications, the fundamental kinetics of rapid phase-change in GST remain controversial and active debate continues over the ultimate speed limit. Here we explore ultrafast structural transformation in a photo-excited GST superlattice, where GeTe and Sb$_{2}$Te$_{3}$ are spatially separated, using coherent phonon spectroscopy with pump-pump-probe sequences. By analysing the coherent phonon spectra in different time regions, complex structural dynamics upon excitation are observed in GST superlattice (but not in GST alloys), which can be described as the mixing of Ge sites from two different coordination environments. Our results suggest possible applicability of GST superlattice for ultrafast switching devices.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures; published in Nature Communications as open access, accompanying Supplementary Information
Summary for policymakers of the regional assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services for Europe and Central Asia of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Appendix 5.1
Creators: name: IPBES
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Europe and Central Asia Assessment
IPBES
Supplementary material

description: List of reviewed vision studies Synthesis table of reviewed visions. Columns refer to activity sector, main actors involved in vision development, year of vision, main goals (PS: policy support, BS: business support, QoL: quality of life), elements in vision (Nature, NCP: nature’s contributions to people, QoL-NCP: QoL supported by NCP, QoL-other: QoL supported by other factors (e.g. jobs, education)). Open dots indicate that the vision only refers to the environment in general, B and E indicate that the vision only refers to biodiversity and ecosystem services respectively; NCP categories: M – material, R – regulating, NM – non-material.
title: Imaging findings of malignancies arising within benign breast lesions
Creators: name: Okcu, Özlem
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Cancer
subject: Biopsy
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: Mammography
subject: Breast

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To demonstrate the radiologic findings of malignant changes developed in benign breast lesions. To evaluate the radiologic management of these cases. To increaseawareness of this uncommon...
On holographic disorder-driven metal-insulator transitions
Creators: name: Baggioli, Matteo
name: Pujolas, Oriol
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give a minimal holographic model of a disorder-driven metal-insulator transition. It consists in a CFT with a charge sector and a translation-breaking sector that interact in the most generic way allowed by the symmetries and by dynamical consistency. In the gravity dual, it reduces to a Massive Gravity-Maxwell model with new direct couplings between the Maxwell and metric that are allowed when gravity is massive. We show that, generically, the effect of disorder is to decrease the DC electrical conductivity. This happens to such an extent that the conductivity does not obey any lower bound and can be very small in the insulating phase. In some cases, the large disorder limit produces gradient instabilities that hint at the formation of modulated phases.
description: 25 pages, 6 figures, minor revisions, presentation improved, references added
The HepTestContest: a global innovation contest to identify approaches to hepatitis B and C testing
Creators: name: Tucker, Joseph
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2017

description: Abstract Background Innovation contests are a novel approach to elicit good ideas and innovative practices in various areas of public health. There remains limited published literature on approaches to deliver hepatitis testing. The purpose of this innovation contest was to identify examples of different hepatitis B and C approaches to support countries in their scale-up of hepatitis testing and to supplement development of formal recommendations on service delivery in the 2017 World Health Organization hepatitis B and C testing guidelines. Methods This contest involved four steps: 1) establishment of a multisectoral steering committee to coordinate a call for contest entries; 2) dissemination of the call for entries through diverse media (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, email listservs, academic journals); 3) independent ranking of submissions by a panel of judges according to pre-specified criteria (clarity of testing model, innovation, effectiveness, next steps) using a 1-10 scale; 4) recognition of highly ranked entries through presentation at international conferences, commendation certificate, and inclusion as a case study in the WHO 2017 testing guidelines. Results The innovation contest received 64 entries from 27 countries and took a total of 4 months to complete. Sixteen entries were directly included in the WHO testing guidelines. The entries covered testing in different populations, including primary care patients (n = 5), people who inject drugs (PWID) (n = 4), pregnant women (n = 4), general populations (n = 4), high-risk groups (n = 3), relatives of people living with hepatitis B and C (n = 2), migrants (n = 2), incarcerated individuals (n = 2), workers (n = 2), and emergency department patients (n = 2). A variety of different testing delivery approaches were employed, including integrated HIV-hepatitis testing (n = 12); integrated testing with harm reduction and addiction services (n = 9); use of electronic medical records to support targeted testing (n = 8); decentralization (n = 8); and task shifting (n = 7). Conclusion The global innovation contest identified a range of local hepatitis testing approaches that can be used to inform the development of testing strategies in different settings and populations. Further implementation and evaluation of different testing approaches is needed.
What are the effects of varenicline compared with nicotine replacement therapy on long-term smoking cessation and clinically important outcomes?
Creators: name: Davies, Neil
name: Taylor, Gemma
name: Taylor, Amy
name: Thomas, Kyla
name: Windmeijer, Frank
name: Martin, Richard
name: Munafo, Marcus
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: n this project we will investigate the effects of varenicline compared to nicotine replacement therapies on: (1) long-term smoking cessation and whether these effects differ by area level deprivation; and (2) the following clinically-important outcomes: rate of general practice and hospital attendance; all-cause mortality and death due to diseases of the respiratory system and cardiovascular disease; and a primary care diagnosis of respiratory illness, myocardial infarction or depression and anxiety. The study is based on a cohort of patients prescribed these smoking cessation medications from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD). We will use three methods to overcome confounding: multivariable adjusted Cox regression, propensity score matched Cox regression, and instrumental variable regression. The total expected sample size for analysis will be at least 180 000. Follow-up will end with the earliest of either an ‘event’ or censoring due to the end of registration or death.
title: Lung core biopsy US-guided: approach to characterise subpleural lesions
Creators: name: Giurazza, Francesco
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Lung
subject: Oncology
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Biopsy
subject: Neoplasia

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Usually lung biopsies are performed with a broncoscopic approach, in case of central lesions, or with a percutaneous approach under radiological guidance (i.e. fluoroscopy or, more often, CT), in case of peripheral lesions. In case of peripheral...
Algebraic Davis decomposition and asymmetric Doob inequalities
Creators: name: Hong, Guixiang
name: Junge, Marius
name: Parcet, Javier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we investigate asymmetric forms of Doob maximal inequality. The asymmetry is imposed by noncommutativity. Let $(\M,τ)$ be a noncommutative probability space equipped with a weak-$*$ dense filtration of von Neumann subalgebras $(\M_n)_{n \ge 1}$. Let $\E_n$ denote the corresponding family of conditional expectations. As an illustration for an asymmetric result, we prove that for $1 < p < 2$ and $x \in L_p(\M,τ)$ one can find $a, b \in L_p(\M,τ)$ and contractions $u_n, v_n \in \M$ such that $$\E_n(x) = a u_n + v_n b \quad \mbox{and} \quad \max \big\{ \|a\|_p, \|b\|_p \big\} \le c_p \|x\|_p.$$ Moreover, it turns out that $a u_n$ and $v_n b$ converge in the row/column Hardy spaces $\H_p^r(\M)$ and $\H_p^c(\M)$ respectively. In particular, this solves a problem posed by Defant and Junge in 2004. In the case $p=1$, our results establish a noncommutative form of Davis celebrated theorem on the relation between martingale maximal and square functions in $L_1$, whose noncommutative form has remained open for quite some time. Given $1 \le p \le 2$, we also provide new weak type maximal estimates, which imply in turn left/right almost uniform convergence of $\E_n(x)$ in row/column Hardy spaces. This improves the bilateral convergence known so far. Our approach is based on new forms of Davis martingale decomposition which are of independent interest, and an algebraic atomic description for the involved Hardy spaces. The latter results are new even for commutative von Neumann algebras.
title: Evaluation of suspected 2157 patients with stroke by cranial- cervical CTA
Creators: name: Ou, Shanxing
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Arterial access

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The purpose of the study was to investigate the cranial cervical angiography of computed tomography (CTA) in the assessment of the image quality and diagnosis of 2157 patients with suspected stroke or the cranial-cervical vascular...
The spillover effect of midwife attrition from the Nigerian midwives service scheme
Creators: name: Kim, Christine
name: Erim, Daniel O
name: Moulton, Jeremy
name: Wheeler, Stephanie
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

description: Abstract Background The Nigerian Midwives Service Scheme (MSS) increased use of antenatal services at rural public sector clinics. However, it is unclear if women who would not have otherwise sought care, or those who would have sought care in rural private sector clinics caused this change. Additionally, it is also unclear if the reported midwife attrition was associated with a spillover of the scheme’s effect on urban areas. We sought to answer these two questions using data from two nationally representative surveys. Methods We used an interrupted time series model to assess trends in the use of obstetric (i.e. antenatal and delivery) services among rural and urban respondents in the 2008 and 2013 Nigerian demographic and health surveys. Results We found that the MSS led to a 5-percentage point increase in the use of antenatal services at rural public sector clinics, corroborating findings from a previous study. This change was driven by women who would not have sought care otherwise. We also found that there was a 4-percentage point increase in the use of delivery services at urban public sector clinics, and a concurrent 4-percentage point decrease in urban home deliveries. These changes are most likely explained by midwives’ attrition and exemplify a spillover of the scheme’s effect. Conclusion Midwife attrition from the Nigerian MSS was associated with a spillover of the scheme’s effect on the use of delivery services, on urban areas.
COVID-19 influence on rehabilitation service providers in Saudi Arabia
Creators: name: Elsayed, Walaa
name: Farrag, Ahmed
name: Albagmi, Faisal
name: Alghamdi, Mohammed
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: The current COVID-19 pandemic has posed serious afflictions to the medical services worldwide. Due to the vast spread of the disease, the authorities had to impose precautionary measures including a complete lockdown. Since physical therapy service is a fundamental medical service, it is expected to be impacted by the imposed measures. This study is based on an online questionnaire to assess knowledge, attitude and experience of the physical therapists during the pandemic. In addition, it assesses the compliance and accessibility to personal protective equipment while dealing with patients.
Deferred feedback does not dissociate implicit and explicit category learning systems: Commentary on Smith et al. (2014)
Creators: name: Le Pelley, Mike
name: Newell, Ben
name: Nosofsky, Robert
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Raw data associated with manuscript "Deferred feedback does not dissociate implicit and explicit category learning systems: Commentary on Smith et al. (2014)"
Summary for policymakers of the regional assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services for Europe and Central Asia of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Appendix 2.9
Creators: name: IPBES
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Europe and Central Asia Assessment
IPBES
Supplementary material

description: Valuing nature's contributions to people (NCP) in: Nonmarket monetary values Chapter 2, Section 2.3.5.2 reported a review of non-market monetary values in Europe and Central Asia. Below we describe: the methods used to identify relevant studies for inclusion in the review; the approach used to analyse the data. In addition, we also provide a more detailed breakdown of the analysis across different regions of Europe and Central Asia and units of assessment.
Neurobiological Functioning and the Personality Trait Hierarchy: Central Serotonergic Responsivity and the Stability Meta-trait
Creators: name: Wright, Aidan
name: Creswell, Kasey
name: Manuck, Stephen
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: This project examines the association between different levels of hierarchically organized personality traits and central serotonergic responsivity. Personality traits are assessed via multi-informant reports, and hierarchical structural equation models are estimated. Central serotonergic responsivity is measured by pharmacologic challenge (i.e., citalopram).
title: Heart echinococcosis: visualization and evaluation of chemotherapy efficiency by MSCT and US examinations
Creators: name: Djuraeva, Nigora
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Cardiac
subject: CT
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Chemotherapy
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Infection
subject: Cysts

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: to compare US and MSCT diagnostic capacities for heart echinococcosis detection; to evaluate heart echinococcosis treatment efficiency by Albendazole through US and...
Efficient video collection association using geometry-aware Bag-of-Iconics representations
Creators: name: Wang, Ke
name: Frahm, Jan-Michael
Publisher: name: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2017

description: Abstract Recent years have witnessed the dramatic evolution in visual data volume and processing capabilities. For example, technical advances have enabled 3D modeling from large-scale crowdsourced photo collections. Compared to static image datasets, exploration and exploitation of Internet video collections are still largely unsolved. To address this challenge, we first propose to represent video contents using a histogram representation of iconic imagery attained from relevant visual datasets. We then develop a data-driven framework for a fully unsupervised extraction of such representations. Our novel Bag-of-Iconics (BoI) representation efficiently analyzes individual videos within a large-scale video collection. We demonstrate our proposed BoI representation with two novel applications: (1) finding video sequences connecting adjacent landmarks and aligning reconstructed 3D models and (2) retrieving geometrically relevant clips from video collections. Results on crowdsourced datasets illustrate the efficiency and effectiveness of our proposed Bag-of-Iconics representation.
Summary for policymakers of the regional assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services for Europe and Central Asia of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Appendix 2.8
Creators: name: IPBES
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Europe and Central Asia Assessment
IPBES
Supplementary material

description: Contributions to physical, mental and social dimensions of health section This appendix provides more detail about the assessment approach for the “Contributions to physical, mental and social dimensions of health” section. This includes results from the literature review on Contributions to Physical, Mental and Social Dimensions of Health and the expert elicitation that reviewed the collated information which was presented in the Second Order Draft of the assessment, with in addition some focused elicitation questions regarding evidence and key recommendations.
title: Music:Eyes et les homologies d'expérience : un artefact numérique pour exprimer son ressenti
title: Music:Eyes et les homologies d'expérience : un artefact numérique pour exprimer son ressenti
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Delmar, Catherine
name: El Mokhtari, Saïda
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Music:Eyes
subject: homologies d’expérience
subject: ressenti corporel
subject: transcréation intermédiale
subject: écoute active
subject: enseignement primaire

description: En tant que futures enseignantes, il nous parait important de veiller au bien-être des élèves en leur offrant un espace de parole pour exprimer leur ressenti tout en développant les compétences définies par le PER. Le présent mémoire s’inscrit dans le champ disciplinaire de la musique et plus particulièrement l’écoute musicale. Au cours de nos recherches, nous avons découvert les travaux de Chatelain qui propose la transcréation intermédiale comme dispositif à mettre en place avec les élèves lors des cours de musique. Il s’agit d’écouter un morceau puis de créer un visuel et d’inviter les élèves à s’exprimer sur leur production. Par ailleurs, nous avons aussi découvert le concept d’homologies d’expérience qui fait référence à un ressenti corporel. Notre travail de recherche nous a alors amenées à tenter de comprendre comment apparaissent des homologies d’expérience chez des élèves du cycle 1. Pour cela, nous avons adapté le dispositif proposé par Chatelain en utilisant le logiciel Music:Eyes comme support pour la création visuelle. Au cours d’une séquence d’enseignement-apprentissage basée sur l’écoute musicale, nous avons, à travers un questionnement poussé, amené les élèves à transcréer visuellement, à s’interroger sur leur ressenti et à s’exprimer via un cercle de parole. Les résultats de notre recherche montrent que pour faire émerger des homologies d’expérience il convient de préparer en amont les élèves par un travail sur la conscientisation des signaux émis par leur corps et par le développement d’un vocabulaire spécifique des ressentis corporels. De plus, pour que ces homologies soient authentiques, nous conseillons aux enseignant·e·s de veiller à poser des questions ouvertes et orientées vers l’expression d’un ressenti corporel.
Validity of self-reported breast cancer characteristics in a nationwide cohort of women with a family history of breast cancer
Creators: name: Nichols, Hazel
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2017

description: Abstract Background Women may have incomplete understanding of a breast cancer diagnosis, leading to inaccurate reporting in epidemiological studies. However, it is not feasible to obtain consent for medical records from all women participating in a study. Therefore, it is important to determine how well self-reported breast cancer characteristics correspond with what is found in medical records, but few studies have evaluated agreement of self-reported breast cancer characteristics with abstracted medical records. Methods We calculated the positive predictive value (PPV) of self-reports compared to medical records and explored whether participant characteristics may have influenced reporting accuracy. We analyzed data from 2518 reported breast cancer cases from the Sister Study, a large nationwide cohort of women with a family history of breast cancer. Results Medical records or pathology reports were obtained for 2066 of 2518 (82%) women who reported incident breast cancer. Breast cancer was confirmed for over 99% (n = 2054) of women with medical records. Confirmation rates were high for invasive, ductal, hormone receptor positive, and HER2 negative breast cancers, with little variation by race/ethnicity or age. Self-reported in situ breast cancer had a lower PPV (64.2%), with medical records showing invasive breast cancer instead, especially for older and Hispanic women. Hormone receptor (ER and PR) negative and HER2 positive self-reports had lower PPVs (83.0%, 71.6%, and 66.1% respectively). Hispanic women and women ages 65 or older at diagnosis were less able to accurately report breast cancer stage, excluding stage I. Conclusions Accuracy of reporting overall breast cancer and common subtypes is high. Despite having a family history of breast cancer and voluntarily enrolling in a study evaluating breast cancer risk factors, participants may have greater difficulty distinguishing between in situ and invasive breast cancer and may less accurately report other less common subtypes. Discrepancies may reflect women’s poor understanding of information conveyed by health care providers or lack of consistent terminology used to describe subtypes.
Star Formation in the Local Milky Way
Creators: name: Lada, Charles J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Studies of molecular clouds and young stars near the sun have provided invaluable insights into the process of star formation. Indeed, much of our physical understanding of this topic has been derived from such studies. Perhaps the two most fundamental problems confronting star formation research today are: 1) determining the origin of stellar mass and 2) deciphering the nature of the physical processes that control the star formation rate in molecular gas. As I will briefly outline here, observations and studies of local star forming regions are making particularly significant contributions toward the solution of both these important problems.
description: To appear in "Young Stars and Planets Near the Sun", Proceedings of IAU Symposium No. 314, J.H. Kastner, B. Stelzer, S.A. Metchev, eds
title: Native cardiac magnetic resonance T1-mapping can detect edema in patient with hypothyroidism
Creators: name: Liu, Min
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: MR
subject: Cardiac

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Clinical hypothyroidism (HT) is an asymptomatic condition defined by increased serum thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) with decreased free thyroid hormone levels. Heart is a major target organ for thyroid hormone. T1 mapping using magnetic resonance...
title: Correlation between DWI of fetal kidneys and lungs with lung to liver signal intensity ratio (LLSIR) and fetal lung volume.
Creators: name: Cecchelli, Carlo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Foetal imaging
subject: Lung
subject: Kidney
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Intrauterine diagnosis
subject: Foetus
subject: Congenital

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Congenital anomalies of the kidneys and urinary tract (CAKUTs) are common in newborns (approximately 0.5% of newborns and 30% of all prenatally diagnosed malformations) and represent the most important cause of pediatric end stage renal disease [1]....