cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Comparing quality of care between public and private primary care providers: a systematic review
Creators: name: Lanpingzhang
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: China released Healthy China 2030—setting a vision to promote primary healthcare (PHC) as the cornerstone of national health development. In other low and middle income countries (LMICs) the private sector provides a large share of PHC as well: almost half of the outpatient consultations were provided by the private sector in an analysis of 39 low-income countries. Thus, the global goal of universal health coverage (UHC) seems to depend on PHC from both the public and private sectors.However, the fierce debate continues concerning the quality of the private sectors. Theoretically, the opponent of the private sector postulates that due to information asymmetry between providers and customers, the profit-driven private providers are willing and able to manipulate services that maximise profits rather than quality, whereas a competing theory argues that private providers can use more up-to-date and flexible management to improve quality to compete with public providers.In a review of systematic reviews of comparative studies on healthcare quality in public and private healthcare providers, it was found that researchers' conclusions were inconsistent or even contradictory; at the same time, there were problems of different outcome indicators selected by researchers, unclear definitions of public and private healthcare providers, and lack of review studies on the quality of primary healthcare services, based on which it is necessary to comprehensively understand and compare the quality of healthcare in public and private primary healthcare providers In order to provide an evidence-based basis for improving the quality of primary care.
A note on the scale dependence of the Burkardt sum rule
Creators: name: Zhou, Jian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this short note, we argue that the Burkardt sum rule for the Sivers functions can be used to check the consistency of evolution equations of three-parton correlators.
description: 7 pages
Relating melting trends and elasticity in simple metals: an empirical potential approach
Creators: name: Nichol, Alan
name: Ackland, Graeme J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that the melting points and other thermodynamic quantities of the alkali metals can be calculated based on static crystalline properties. To do this we derive analytic interatomic potentials for the alkali metals fitted precisely to cohesive and vacancy energies, elastic moduli, lattice parameter and crystal stability. These potentials are then used to calculate melting points by simulating the equilibration of solid and liquid samples in thermal contact at ambient pressure. With the exception of lithium, remarkably good agreement is found with experimental values. The instability of the bcc structure in Li and Na at low temperatures is also reproduced, and, unusually, is not due to a soft T1N phonon mode. No forces or finite temperature properties are included in the fit, so this demonstrates a surprisingly high level of intrinsic transferrability in the simple potentials. Currently, there are few potentials available for the alkali metals, so in, addition to demonstrating trends in behaviour, we expect that the potentials will be of broad general use.
title: Comparison of interval and screened detected breast cancers diagnosed in the Screening Program in Cantabria, Spain, according to tumor size and lymph node status.
Creators: name: Lopez Uzquiza, Elena
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Mammography
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Cancer
subject: Neoplasia

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The goal of a mammography screening program is to identify breast cancers in an early stage, prior to their dissemination. Although mammography has been shown to be a very useful screening method for the detection of breast cancer, there remains a...
Clinical registry of dental outcomes in head and neck cancer patients (OraRad): rationale, methods, and recruitment considerations
Creators: name: Patton, Lauren L.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2017

description: Abstract Background Most head and neck (H&N) cancer patients receive high-dose external beam radiation therapy (RT), often in combination with surgery and/or chemotherapy. Unfortunately, high-dose RT has significant adverse effects on the oral and maxillofacial tissues, some of which persist for the life of the patient. However, dental management of these patients is based largely on individual and expert opinion, as few studies have followed patients prospectively to determine factors that predict adverse oral sequelae. In addition, many previous studies were conducted before wide-spread adoption of intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and concurrent chemotherapy. The objective of this multi-center study is to systematically evaluate the oral health of subjects for 2 years after commencement of RT, with the goal of identifying risk factors that predict adverse oral outcomes post-RT. Methods This is a prospective multi-center longitudinal cohort study of H&N cancer patients who receive high-dose RT with curative intent. Planned enrollment is 756 subjects at 6 primary clinical sites (and their affiliated sites) in the USA. A baseline visit is conducted prior to the beginning of RT. Follow-up visits are conducted at 6, 12, 18 and 24 months from the start of RT. The primary outcome measure is the 2-year rate of tooth loss in patients who have received at least one session of external beam RT for H&N cancer. Secondary outcome measures include the incidence of exposed intraoral bone; incidence of post-extraction complications; change in Decayed Missing and Filled Surfaces (DMFS); change in periodontal measures; change in stimulated whole salivary flow rates; change in mouth opening; topical fluoride utilization; chronic oral mucositis incidence; changes in RT-specific quality of life measures; and change in oral pain scores. Discussion This study will contribute to a better understanding of the dental complications experienced by these patients. It will also enable identification of risk factors associated with adverse outcomes such as tooth loss and osteoradionecrosis. These findings will support the development of evidence-based guidelines and inform the planning of future interventional studies, with the goal of advancing improvements in patient care and outcomes. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier NCT02057510 , registered 5 February 2014.
title: Looking at it at an angle: imaging of torticollis in children through the eyes of a Neuroradiologist
Creators: name: Diogo, Mariana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology spine
subject: CNS
subject: Paediatric
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Observer performance
subject: Congenital
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Infection

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Torticollis is in most cases of soft tissue origin, without need for imaging studies. Although that is the rule, in the pediatric age this pathology is more often associated with central nervous system (CNS) or spinal anomalies then in the adult...
Ethical considerations in developing an evidence base for pre-exposure prophylaxis in pregnant women
Creators: name: Lyerly, Anne D
name: Sullivan, Kristen A
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2017

description: Abstract Though many women in need of access to HIV preventive regimes are pregnant, there is a dearth of data to guide these care decisions. While oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has been shown to prevent HIV infection in numerous high-risk populations, pregnant women have been excluded from all major prospective trials. We propose for ethical examination a theoretical trial—a prospective, observational study of PrEP for pregnant women at risk for HIV in sub-Saharan Africa—highlighting an ethical tradeoff that characterizes issues faced for advancing research in pregnancy. On the one hand, an “opportunistic” study design has certain ethical advantages: as formally construed, the research activity usually begins after decisions to use PrEP during pregnancy are made in the clinical setting. This minimizes research risks and avoids ethical problems that a randomized controlled trial (RCT) comparing PrEP to placebo would entail, particularly withholding care proven beneficial in other populations. On the other hand, observational studies yield less precise information than RCTs. This raises a broader question about the pace of research with pregnant women, as it typically takes many years after a drug’s approval for use in the general population to determine safety of the medication in pregnancy. Such delays can have the effect of making it impossible to ethically conduct an RCT with pregnant women, reducing the likelihood that the research community is able to obtain robust, pregnancy-specific evidence. While an observational cohort is potentially the most ethically and scientifically justified research design to study PrEP in pregnancy, earlier involvement of pregnant women in studies of newer preventives may lead to evidence that is more timely and robust.
Brain changes after long COVID
Creators: name: Beyer, Frauke
name: Witte, Veronica
name: Meemken, Marie
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cognitive Neuroscience
subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Epidemiology
subject: Neuroscience and Neurobiology
subject: long COVID
subject: neuroimaging
subject: olfactory system
subject: post COVID
subject: SarsCov2

description: This project investigates the neural correlates of long COVID.
title: Pathological findings of suspicious axilary lymph nodes in patients with normal screening mammograms
Creators: name: Lopez Uzquiza, Elena
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Mammography
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Biopsy
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Lymphoma
subject: Neoplasia

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Axillary nodes occasionally may be detected on mediolateral oblique mammographic images and may present a diagnostic problem for the radiologist. While the most common cause is inflammation, infection or trauma of the breast, thoracic wall or arm, a...
Untitled Item
Creators: name: Zhixiong, Zhou
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biological adaptation

description: Supplementary file for "The chromosome-level genome of Leuciscus waleckii provide insight into the adaptive and convergent evolution under the extreme alkaline environment in Lake Dali Nur"
Effect of domestic water use on air pollutant emissions in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Creators: name: MacDonald Gibson, Jacqueline
name: DeFelice, Nicholas B
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2013

description: Abstract The members of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf have typically addressed water scarcity problems by building energy-intensive desalination plants. Few efforts have addressed water scarcity through metering, pricing, and other efficiency measures to reduce demand. This paper examines how decreased leakage in the water distribution system and decreased residential water use in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, could decrease air pollutant and greenhouse gas emissions from desalination plants. We developed a probabilistic model to predict the effects of water use reductions on pollutant emissions from Abu Dhabi's major independent water and power plants, which use a combination of multi-stage flash distillation and multi-effect distillation to produce fresh water from seawater drawn from the Arabian Gulf. We examine three categories of scenarios for reducing water use: increasing the price signal to residential users, instituting demand management programs among residential users, and reducing water loss in the distribution system. Our analysis suggests that water conservation price incentives could reduce air pollutant and greenhouse gas emissions by 1% to 5%, depending on assumptions about how households respond to the incentives. Demand-side management programs curbing per capita water use to levels typical of the Singapore or the UK would curb emissions by 10% or 11%, respectively. Reducing water loss during distribution from the current high level of 35% to 15% (similar to loss rates in other developed nations) could cut emissions by more than 3%. Overall, our analysis suggests that high per capita water use contributes to ambient air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions in Abu Dhabi.
title: Permanent central venous catheters: complications and strategies using different accesses.
Creators: name: Ferrer-Puchol, María Dolores
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Venous access
subject: Complications
subject: Catheter venography
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Embolism / Thrombosis

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: 1. To review central venous access option: · Tunnelled catheter for dialysis · Tunnelled catheter with implanted port. 2. To describe major and minor complications · Early complications (occurring within 30 days of placement) · Late...
Optical observations of a SN 2002cx-like peculiar supernova SN 2013en in UGC 11369
Creators: name: Liu, Zheng-Wei
name: Zhang, Jujia
name: Ciabattari, Fabrizio
name: Tomasella, Lina
name: Wang, Xiaofeng
name: Zhao, Xulin
name: Zhang, Tianmeng
name: Xin, Yuxin
name: Wang, ChuanJun
name: Chang, Liang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present optical observations of a SN 2002cx-like supernova SN 2013en in UGC 11369, spanning from a phase near maximum light (t= +1 d) to t= +60 d with respect to the R-band maximum. Adopting a distance modulus of mu=34.11 +/- 0.15 mag and a total extinction (host galaxy+Milky Way) of $A_V \sim1.5$ mag, we found that SN 2013en peaked at $M(R)\sim -18.6$ mag, which is underluminous compared to the normal SNe Ia. The near maximum spectra show lines of Si II, Fe II, Fe III, Cr II, Ca II and other intermediate-mass and iron group elements which all have lower expansion velocities (i.e., ~ 6000 km/s). The photometric and spectroscopic evolution of SN 2013en is remarkably similar to those of SN 2002cx and SN 2005hk, suggesting that they are likely to be generated from a similar progenitor scenario or explosion mechanism.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Initial Blueprint of the GDDS Reference Architecture
Creators: name: Santoro, Mattia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Green Deal, Technical Blueprint, Architecture

description: This technical blueprint identifies and describes the set of minimal components which will enable the provisioning of the GDDS DE Ecosystem Service (i.e., its high-level capability), defined as it follows: Secure, trusted and seamless sharing (i.e., discovery, access and use) of data to support Green Deal applications. The document analyses the presented GDDS DE technical blueprint with respect to the Data Space Support Centre (DSSC) vision and other relevant initiatives (e.g., DSBA framework, DestinE, Simpl, etc.) and provides inputs to the definition of the GDDS implementation roadmap.
title: The role of imaging in investigation of hematuria: a radiologist view.
Creators: name: Lahkim, Mohamed
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Pathology
subject: Haemorrhage
subject: Acute
subject: Treatment effects
subject: Arterial access
subject: Ablation procedures
subject: Percutaneous
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT
subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: Oncology
subject: Kidney

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: -Objectives *Expose the different imaging techniques toexplore hematuria. *Explain the different protocols including CT urography. *Discuss the different etiologies of hematuria. *Know the imaging aspects of the main...
Construction of maximum likelihood estimator in the mixed fractional--fractional Brownian motion model with double long-range dependence
Creators: name: Mishura, Yuliya
name: Voronov, Ivan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We construct an estimator of the unknown drift parameter $θ\in {\mathbb{R}}$ in the linear model \[X_t=θt+σ_1B^{H_1}(t)+σ_2B^{H_2}(t),\;t\in[0,T],\] where $B^{H_1}$ and $B^{H_2}$ are two independent fractional Brownian motions with Hurst indices $H_1$ and $H_2$ satisfying the condition $\frac{1}{2}\leq H_1
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.15559/15-VMSTA28 in the Modern Stochastics: Theory and Applications (https://www.i-journals.org/vtxpp/VMSTA) by VTeX (http://www.vtex.lt/)
NADPH oxidase and reactive oxygen species contribute to alcohol-induced microglial activation and neurodegeneration
Creators: name: Qin, Liya
name: Crews, Fulton
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2012

description: Abstract Background Activation of microglia causes the production of proinflammatory factors and upregulation of NADPH oxidase (NOX) that form reactive oxygen species (ROS) that lead to neurodegeneration. Previously, we reported that 10 daily doses of ethanol treatment induced innate immune genes in brain. In the present study, we investigate the effects of chronic ethanol on activation of NOX and release of ROS, and their contribution to ethanol neurotoxicity. Methods Male C57BL/6 and NF-κB enhanced GFP mice were treated intragastrically with water or ethanol (5 g/kg, i.g., 25% ethanol w/v) daily for 10 days. The effects of chronic ethanol on cell death markers (activated caspase-3 and Fluoro-Jade B), microglial morphology, NOX, ROS and NF-κB were examined using real-time PCR, immunohistochemistry and hydroethidine histochemistry. Also, Fluoro-Jade B staining and NOX gp91phox immunohistochemistry were performed in the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) of human postmortem alcoholic brain and human moderate drinking control brain. Results Ethanol treatment of C57BL/6 mice showed increased markers of neuronal death: activated caspase-3 and Fluoro-Jade B positive staining with Neu-N (a neuronal marker) labeling in cortex and dentate gyrus. The OFC of human post-mortem alcoholic brain also showed significantly more Fluoro-Jade B positive cells colocalized with Neu-N, a neuronal marker, compared to the OFC of human moderate drinking control brain, suggesting increased neuronal death in the OFC of human alcoholic brain. Iba1 and GFAP immunohistochemistry showed activated morphology of microglia and astrocytes in ethanol-treated mouse brain. Ethanol treatment increased NF-κB transcription and increased NOX gp91phox at 24 hr after the last ethanol treatment that remained elevated at 1 week. The OFC of human postmortem alcoholic brain also had significant increases in the number of gp91phox + immunoreactive (IR) cells that are colocalized with neuronal, microglial and astrocyte markers. In mouse brain ethanol increased gp91phox expression coincided with increased production of O2 - and O2 - - derived oxidants. Diphenyleneiodonium (DPI), a NOX inhibitor, reduced markers of neurodegeneration, ROS and microglial activation. Conclusions Ethanol activation of microglia and astrocytes, induction of NOX and production of ROS contribute to chronic ethanol-induced neurotoxicity. NOX-ROS and NF-κB signaling pathways play important roles in chronic ethanol-induced neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration.
Chiral Wave-packet Scattering in Weyl Semimetals
Creators: name: Jiang, Qing-Dong
name: Jiang, Hua
name: Liu, Haiwen
name: Sun, Qing-Feng
name: Xie, X. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In quantum mechanics, a particle is best described by the wave packet instead of the plane wave. Here, we study the wave-packet scattering problem in Weyl semimetals with the low-energy Weyl fermions of different chiralities. Our results show that the wave packet acquires a chirality-protected shift in the single impurity scattering process. More importantly, the chirality-protected shift can lead to an anomalous scattering probability, thus, affects the transport properties in Weyl semimetals. We find that the ratio between the transport lifetime and the quantum lifetime increases sharply when the Fermi energy approaches to the Weyl nodes, providing an explanation on the experimentally observed the ultrahigh mobility in topological (Weyl or Dirac) semimetals.
Biquaternion Construction of SL(2,C) Yang-Mills Instantons
Creators: name: Lee, Jen-Chi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use biquaternion to construct SL(2,C) ADHM Yang-Mills instantons. The solutions contain 16k-6 moduli parameters for the kth homotopy class, and include as a subset the SL(2,C) (M,N) instanton solutions constructed previously. In constrast to the SU(2) instantons, the SL(2,C) instantons inhereit jumping lines or singulariries which are not gauge artifacts and can not be gauged away.
description: 11 pages, no figures. talk presented at ISQS-23 at Prague, Czech 2015. to be published in J. of Phys.: Conf. series
Rural planning, the community and large livestock facilities: A cross-Canada survey
Creators: name: Caldwell, Wayne J.
name: Toombs, Michael
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Agriculture and state--Canada
subject: Rural development--Canada
subject: Livestock farms--Manitoba
subject: Livestock farms--Ontario

description: In many rural communities the most contentious and divisive issue over the last few years has been the siting of large and intensive livestock facilities. Municipal and provincial governments have been challenged to develop policy and find approaches that strike a fair and effective balance between the needs of agriculture and the legitimate concerns of the rural community. These approaches are generally a combination of regulation, voluntarism and education, with implementation stressed at the local level. This paper summarizes the main planning responses used across the country and provides a more detailed examination of the approaches used in Ontario and Manitoba.
description: Dans de nombreuses communautés rurales, le sujet qui a semé le plus de discorde et de divisions au cours des dernières années portait sur Jes inquiétudes et l'hostilité face à l'établissement de vastes installations d'élevage intensif de bétail. Les municipalités et les gouvernements provinciaux ont été amenés à adopter une politique et à prendre position en faveur d'un meilleur équilibre entre les besoins de l'agriculture et les exigences légitimes des communautés rurales. Ces mesures consistent généralement en une combinaison de réglementations, d'initiatives volontaires et d'information dont la mise en application est assurée au niveau local. Cet article passe en revue les principales solutions utilisées à travers le pays en donnant plus de détails sur les approches retenues en Ontario et au Manitoba.
description: Abstract in English and French; text in English.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/6172/Caldwell.pdf?sequence=3
title: Key points in the CT and MRI evaluation and interpretation of cerebral venous thrombosis
Creators: name: Dragulin, Alecsandra
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Education
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Neuroradiology brain

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To review the CT and MRI techniques used in cerebral venous system thrombosis; To present the most common and particular signs seen in cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT). To discuss and illustrate the common pitfalls, tips and tricks in diagnosis of...
title: Diffusion–weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of wrist and hands in patients with rheumatoid arthritis – reproducibility and correlation with conventional MRI
Creators: name: Khurram, Misbah
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Arthritides
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR
subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: Musculoskeletal bone

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, systemic inflammatory disease. It is primarily characterized by symmetric and erosive synovitis, which if uncontrolled, can lead to joint damage and disability (1).Appropriate therapy can prevent subsequent...
A pediatric death audit in a large referral hospital in Malawi
Creators: name: Fitzgerald, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

description: Abstract Background Death audits have been used to describe pediatric mortality in under-resourced settings, where record keeping is often a challenge. This information provides the cornerstone for the foundation of quality improvement initiatives. Malawi, located in sub-Saharan Africa, currently has an Under-5 mortality rate of 64/1000. Kamuzu Central Hospital, in the capital city Lilongwe, is a busy government referral hospital, which admits up to 3000 children per month. A study published in 2013 reported mortality rates as high as 9%. This is the first known audit of pediatric death files conducted at this hospital. Methods A retrospective chart review on all pediatric deaths that occurred at Kamuzu Central Hospital (excluding deaths in the neonatal nursery) during a 13-month period was done using a standardized death audit form. A descriptive analysis was completed, including patient demographics, HIV and nutritional status, and cause of death. Modifiable factors were identified that may have contributed to mortality, including a lack of vital sign collection, poor documentation, and delays in the procurement or results of tests, studies, and specialist review. Results Seven hundred forty three total pediatric deaths were recorded and 700 deceased patient files were reviewed. The mortality rate by month ranged from a low of 2.2% to a high of 4.4%. Forty-four percent of deaths occurred within the first 24 h of admission, and 59% occurred within the first 48 h. The most common causes of death were malaria, malnutrition, HIV-related illnesses, and sepsis. Conclusions The mortality rate for this pediatric referral center has dramatically decreased in the 6 years since the last published mortality data, but remains high. Areas identified for continued development include improved record keeping, improved patient assessment and monitoring, and more timely and reliable provision of testing and treatment. This study demonstrates that in low-resource settings, where reliable record keeping is often difficult, death audits are useful tools to describe the sickest patient population and determine factors possibly contributing to mortality that may be amenable to quality improvement interventions.
title: Hypoxic-Ischemic encephalopathy in adults
Creators: name: Rengel Ruiz, Marcelo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Acute
subject: Education
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Cardiovascular system

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: -Identify the various findings CT, and MR imaging features of hypoxic-ischemic brain injury. - Describe the appropriateimagingwork-up for suspectedhypoxic-ischemic brain...
Holographic Complexity in Gauge/String Superconductors
Creators: name: Momeni, Davood
name: Mansoori, Seyed Ali Hosseini
name: Myrzakulov, Ratbay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Following a methodology similar to \cite{Alishahiha:2015rta}, we derive a holographic complexity for two dimensional holographic superconductors (gauge/string superconductors) with backreactions. Applying a perturbation method proposed by Kanno in Ref. \cite{kanno}, we study behaviors of the complexity for a dual quantum system near critical points. We show that when a system moves from the normal phase ($T>T_c$) to the superconductor phase ($T
description: 6 pages
title: Second-Look Ultrasonography for Unexpected Suspicious Breast Lesions Detected on Dynamic Contrast-enhanced Breast MRI in Preoperative Breast Cancer Staging
Creators: name: Cho, Kyu Ran
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Neoplasia

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To evaluate the clinical usefulness of second-look ultrasonography (US) to diagnose multifocal and multicentric cancer for unexpected suspicious breast lesions on breast MRI for preoperative breast cancer...
The Optical Neume Recognition Project
Creators: name: Helsen, Kate
name: Behrendt, Inga
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Optische Zeichenerkennung , Neumenschrift , Antiphonar , XML , Sankt Gallen
subject: 004
subject: 230
subject: 780
subject: Optical Music Recognition
subject: staffless neumes
subject: neume encoding
subject: linienlose Neumen
subject: Corpus-Suche
subject: MEI
subject: Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen
subject: Andrew Hankinson
subject: Codex Hartker
subject: Ichiro Fujinaga
subject: McGill University
subject: Canada
subject: SIMSSA

description: The goal of the Optical Neume Recognition Project is to apply Optical Music Recognition (OMR) software to the oldest staffless notation in Western culture. The current focus is on 'Hartker's Antiphoner', Cod. Sang. 390 / 391 which we are using as a basis for developing neume encoding systems that will be applicable to a wide range of neumed repertoires. Our work is based on an examination of the parameters that describe a neume, and representing them in the formalized xml that has been developed for musical notation, called MEI. These descriptions must include not only the shape and name of each neume, but also itemize each aspect of the neume's musical meaning. Describing neumes and their components in a systematic manner will allow the encoding to be queried, searched, and analyzed for musical and scribal patterns across large corpora; indeed, much larger than would be possible in the lifetime of a single scholar. This project is the product of collaboration between Kate Helsen, Inga Behrendt, Jennifer Bain, Andrew Hankinson, Ichiro Fujinaga, and research assistants at the Music Tech lab at McGill University, Canada, and is supported by the Social Sciences Research Council of Canada. It is now part of a larger project, also housed at McGill, entitled the Single Interface for Music Score Searching and Analysis (SIMSSA).
title: MRI of internal acoustics meatus (IAM) and cerebellopontine angle (CPA) lesions
Creators: name: Jovic, Andrijana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Neuroradiology peripheral nerve
subject: Head and neck
subject: MR
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Inflammation

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: IAM - CPA consist of several blood and neural structures that can be affected by various pathological processes. Sometimes it’s not easy to distinguish them and requires good knowledge in MRI appearance of each lesion. Our aim is: to illustrate...
Re-equilibration after quenches in athermal martensites:Conversion-delays for vapour to liquid domain-wall phases
Creators: name: Shankaraiah, N.
name: Murthy, K. P. N.
name: Lookman, T.
name: Shenoy, S. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Entropy barriers and ageing states appear in martensitic structural-transition models, slowly re-equilibrating after temperature quenches, under Monte Carlo dynamics. Concepts from protein folding and ageing harmonic oscillators turn out to be useful in understanding these nonequilibrium evolutions. We show how the athermal, non-activated delay time for seeded parent-phase austenite to convert to product-phase martensite, arises from an identified entropy barrier in Fourier space. In an ageing state of low Monte Carlo acceptances, the strain structure factor makes constant-energy searches for rare pathways, to enter a Brillouin zone `golf hole' enclosing negative energy states, and to suddenly release entropically trapped stresses. In this context, a stress-dependent effective temperature can be defined, that re-equilibrates to the quenched bath temperature.
description: 11 pages, 12 figures. Under process with Phys. Rev. B (2015)
Elegante Unterhaltung: Die Leipziger Zeitung für die elegante Welt und ihre deutschsprachigen Nachfolger in Prag und Ofen-Pest
Creators: name: Ananieva, Anna
name: Haaser, Rolf
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Publizistik , Literatur , Vormärz
subject: 070
subject: 430
subject: 800
subject: 830
subject: 940

description: Der Beitrag „Elegante Unterhaltung“ untersucht drei in den frühen 1840-er Jahren führende - gleichwohl bis jetzt wenig erforschte - Kulturzeitschriften, die Leipziger „Zeitung für die elegante Welt“, die Prager Zeitschrift „Ost und West“ (mit Beiblättern „Prag“ und „Kalobiotik“) und den Pesther „Spiegel“ (mit den Beiblättern „Schmetterling“ und „Pesther Handlungszeitung“) aus medien- und literaturhistorischen Perspektive. Erstens werden die personellen und literarischen Wechselbeziehungen zwischen diesen drei Zeitschriften exemplarisch rekonstruiert und damit die Netzwerke beleuchtet, die die literarischen Standorte Leipzig, Prag und Ofen-Pesth zu dieser Zeit verbinden. Eine besondere Bedeutung kommt dabei den vermittelnden Instanzen - den Verlagshäusern und den Redaktionen (Heinrich Laube, F. G. Kühne, August Lewald, Gottlieb Moritz Saphir, Adolph Bäuerle, Rudolf Glaser, Samuel Rosenthal) - zu. Zweitens wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie diese Kulturzeitschriften ein integratives Angebot auf der Grundlage eines Konzeptes freier Geselligkeit formulieren und auf diese Weise zu Medien und zugleich zu Akteuren von Unterhaltungen der eleganten Welt werden. Mit dem Schwerpunkt auf den frühen 1840er Jahren fokussiert die Untersuchung einen Zeitabschnitt, in dem der Diskurs der Eleganz von einer Spannung zwischen nationalen Distinktionsabsichten und internationaler bzw. kosmopolitischen Dimension des Phänomens geprägt wird. Daher wird drittens die Frage gestellt, ob und wie sich die imaginäre Teilhabe an der Kulturpraxis der „eleganten Unterhaltung“ gegen nationale Vereinnahmung zu sperren und auch politisch-soziale Antagonismen auszublenden vermag. Vor diesem Hintergrund soll abschließend erläutert werden, inwiefern es sich bei den Kulturzeitschriften ‚eleganter‘ Provenienz um ein Phänomen der literarischen Öffentlichkeit handelt, das sich den im späteren 19. Jahrhundert retrospektiv geprägten Wahrnehmungsmustern der literarischen Kultur vor 1848 entzieht.
The effect of cosmic web quenching on SDSS central galaxies
Creators: name: Gallazzi, Anna
name: Pasquali, Anna
name: Winkel, Nico
name: Kraljic, Katarina
name: Smith, Rory
name: Jackson, Thomas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The deep and extended sky surveys performed in the last two decades have
 definitely shown low- and intermediate-redshift galaxies, galaxy groups and
 clusters to distribute in an intricately connected web-like pattern. This
 cosmic web features nodes, filaments, walls and voids, along which gas and
 galaxy density decreases, with voids being the least populated regions of
 the local universe. Recent studies of galaxy properties in these different
 cosmic features have revealed the existence of a segregation between star-forming
 and quiescent galaxies, with the former being located farther away from the
 filaments. Also, among the star-forming population the median specific star-formation
 rate increases with distance from the filaments, as if the cosmic
 web were able to quench galaxy star-formation activity.
 In this talk I will present how we physically quantified this cosmic-web quenching,
 by investigating the dependence of the mean stellar properties of SDSS central galaxies
 with distance from the nodes, filaments and walls identified in SDSS. In doing so
 we controlled for galaxy stellar mass and local density (field vs group environment).
 Our results show that centrals closer to either nodes, walls, or filaments
 are on average older, metal richer, and alpha-enhanced compared to their equal mass
 peers at larger distances. The amplitude of these gradients appear independent of
 the galaxy local environment. Our analysis thus supports a cosmic web quenching
 that rises from nurture effects (e.g. ram pressure stripping and strangulation)
 and/or nature effects linked to the intrinsic properties of the cosmic web.
Medien und Praktiken der eleganten Welt. Annäherungen an einen urbanen Lebensentwurf des 19. Jahrhunderts
Creators: name: Ananieva, Anna
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Publizistik , Literatur , Sachkultur , Ausstellung
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subject: 390
subject: 430
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subject: 800
subject: 830
subject: 891.8
subject: 940

description: Es handelt sich um den einleitenden Aufsatz der Herausgeberin zu der Buchpublikation, die anlässlich der Ausstellung "Zirkulation von Nachrichten und Waren: Stadtleben, Medien und Konsum im 19. Jahrhundert" (Bonatzbau Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen, 6.11.2015-6.1.2016) veröffentlicht worden ist.
Global health partnerships: building multi-national collaborations to achieve lasting improvements in maternal and neonatal health
Creators: name: Ramaswamy, Rohit
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Abstract Background In response to health care challenges worldwide, extensive funding has been channeled to the world’s most vulnerable health systems. Funding alone is not sufficient to address the complex issues and challenges plaguing these health systems. To see lasting improvement in maternal and infant health outcomes in the developing world, a global commitment to the sharing of knowledge and resources through international partnerships is critical. But partnerships that merely introduce western medical techniques and protocols to low resource settings, without heeding the local contexts, are misguided and unsustainable. Forming partnerships with mutual respect, shared vision, and collaborative effort is needed to ensure that all parties, irrespective of whether they belong to resource rich or resource poor settings, learn from each other so that meaningful and sustained system strengthening can take place. Methods In this paper, we describe the partnership building model of an international NGO, Kybele, which is committed to achieving childbirth safety through sustained partnerships in low resource settings. The Kybele model adapts generic stages of successful partnerships documented in the literature to four principles relevant to Kybele’s work. A multiple-case study approach is used to demonstrate how the model is applied in different country settings. Results The four principle of Kybele’s partnership model are robust drivers of successful partnerships in diverse country settings. Conclusions Much has been written about the need for multi-country partnerships to achieve sustainable outcomes in global health, but few papers in the literature describe how this has been achieved in practice. A strong champion, support and engagement of stakeholders, co-creation of solutions with partners, and involvement of partners in the delivery of solutions are all requirements for successful and sustained partnerships.
Coherence of Noisy Oscillators with Delayed Feedback Inducing Multistability
Creators: name: Pimenova, Anastasiya V.
name: Goldobin, Denis S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For self-sustained oscillators subject to noise the coherence, understood as a constancy of the instantaneous oscillation frequency, is one of the primary characteristics. The delayed feedback has been previously revealed to be an efficient tool for controlling coherence of noise-driven self-sustained oscillator. The effect of the delayed feedback control on coherence is stronger for a longer delay time. Meanwhile, the instantaneous frequency of a noise-free oscillator can exhibit multistability for long delay time. The impact of the delay-feedback--induced multistability on the oscillation coherence, measured by the phase diffusion constant, of a noisy oscillator is studied in this work both numerically and analytically.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, proceeding paper for International Conference on Computer Simulation in Physics and beyond (September 6-10, 2015, Moscow, Russia)
Investigation of degenerate dual-pump phase sensitive amplifier using multi-wave model
Creators: name: Xie, Weilin
name: Fsaifes, Ihsan
name: Labidi, Tarek
name: Bretenaker, Fabien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Operation of a degenerate dual-pump phase sensitive amplifier (PSA) is thoroughly numerically investigated using a multi-wave model, taking into account high-order waves associated with undesired four-wave mixing (FWM) processes. More accurate phase-sensitive signal gain spectra are obtained compared to the conventional 3-wave model, leading to the precise optimization of the pump configuration in a dual-pump PSA. The signal gain spectra, as well as the phase sensitivity, are obtained and interpreted by investigating the dominant FWM processes in terms of corresponding phase matching. Moreover, the relation between dispersion slope and gain spectra is revealed, permitting the application-oriented arbitrary tailoring of the gain spectra by manipulating the dispersion profile and pump wavelength allocation.
title: Unresectable head and neck cancer treated by RF and MW ablation: feasibility, efficacy and safety
Creators: name: Sciandra, Mariacarmela
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Ablation procedures
subject: CT
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Head and neck

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Epidemiology. Head and neck cancers (HNC) are 5% of tumors in United States [1]. Local advanced cancers are about 60% of clinical presentation and local/regional recurrences are frequently the cause of death; second primary HNC occurs in up to 30%...
Association between single nucleotide polymorphisms in the mu opioid receptor gene (OPRM1) and self-reported responses to alcohol in American Indians
Creators: name: Wilhelmsen, Kirk
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2008

description: Abstract Background Variation in response to the hedonic and adverse effects of a substance is in part an inherited factor that may influence its use, abuse and dependence. The mu opioid receptor is the primary site of action for opiates and individuals with polymorphisms in this receptor appear to have variation in the CNS effects of opiates. Several studies have suggested that this receptor may also mediate some of the effects of non-opioid drugs, such as alcohol. The purpose of this study was to investigate associations between 13 single nucleotide polymorphisms in the mu opioid receptor gene (OPRM1) with self-reported responses to alcohol, an endophenotype associated with the development of alcohol dependence, in American Indians living on eight contiguous reservations. Methods Each participant gave a blood sample and completed a structured diagnostic interview. Additionally, response to alcohol was indexed using the expectation version of the subjective high assessment scale (SHAS-E). SNPs were genotyped in 251 participants and data analyses were conducted using SOLAR. Results The estimated heritability (h2) for the SHAS-E phenotypes ranged from 0.01 to 0.28. Endorsing the expectation of a more intense response on one or more of the following items from the SHAS-E: buzzed, clumsy, dizzy, drunk, effects, high, nausea, sleepy, talkative, terrible, and/or uncomfortable after imbibing 2–3 drinks was significantly associated with having at least one minor allele for at least one of 7 SNPs (p < 0.01) in the OPRM1 receptor gene. Conclusion These studies provide data to suggest that the minor allele, for most of the polymorphisms in the OPRM1 receptor gene investigated, was found to be associated with a more intense, and/or more adverse, response to alcohol, traits that are significantly correlated with lowered quantity of alcohol consumption and less susceptibility to dependence in this Indian population. These data further suggest that making conclusions on the role of the mu opiod receptor gene in the development of alcohol dependence may be limited if only one polymorphism in the gene is evaluated in isolation.
Intercluster Filaments, Cluster Outskirts, and the Interface Between Galaxy Clusters and the Cosmic Web
Creators: name: Randall, Scott W.
name: Alvarez, Gabriella
name: Bulbul, Esra
name: Su, Yuanyuan
name: Paterno-Mahler, Rachel
name: Bourdin, Herve
name: Santos, Felipe
name: Jones, Christine
name: Forman, Bill
name: Miller, Eric
name: Sarazin, Craig
name: Blanton, Elzabeth
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Several studies have shown that entropy profiles of the intracluster medium (ICM) generally do not match self-similar predictions near the virial radius, with the measured values typically being less than predicted. There are several proposed mechanisms to explain this discrepancy, including weakening accretion shocks, electron-ion non-equilibrium, and unresolved cool gas clumps that bias X-ray measurements. These effects are expected to correlate with the local orientation of cosmic filaments, as they interface with the outskirts of the ICM. I will present results from deep X-ray observation of early-stage, binary cluster mergers, where the merger axis is expected to be aligned with a local large scale filament. We find that the ICM entropy profiles are consistent with self-similar predictions, even in these dynamically active, merging systems, likely due to the relatively low subcluster masses (3-4 keV). We also find tantalizing evidence for diffuse emission with properties that are consistent with the dense end of the warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM) only along the merger axes (but not at the same radii away from the merger axes), consistent with the expectation that the merger axes in these systems are aligned with local cosmic filaments.