cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Pelvic ring injures and acetabular fractures - evaluation with CT
Creators: name: Feldman, Beata
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: Trauma
subject: Pelvis
subject: CT
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Trauma

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To provide brief overview of the CT anatomy of the pelvis, putting emphasis on boundaries of pelvic ring arches and pelvic columns. To identify and describe spectrum of CT findings associated with pelvic ring injures and acetabular fractures. To...
Pain, distress, and anticipated recovery for older versus younger emergency department patients after motor vehicle collision
Creators: name: Tkacik, Thomas J
name: Platts-Mills, Timothy
name: McLean, Samuel A
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2014

description: Abstract Background Motor vehicle collisions (MVCs) are the second most common injury mechanism resulting in emergency department (ED) visits by older adults. MVCs result in substantial pain and psychological distress among younger individuals, but little is known about the occurrence of these symptoms in older individuals. We describe the frequency of and characteristics associated with pain, distress, and anticipated time for physical and emotional recovery for older adults presenting to the ED after MVC in comparison to younger adults. Methods In-person interviews were conducted for adults presenting to one of eight EDs after MVC without an obvious fracture or injury requiring admission as part of two prospective studies. Pain severity was assessed using a 0–10 verbal scale. Distress was assessed using the Peritraumatic Distress Inventory (range 0–52). Patients were asked to estimate their expected time for physical and emotional recovery; these responses were dichotomized to <30 or ≥30 days. ED pain and distress and associations between patient and collision characteristics and ED pain and distress were examined for patients age 65 years and older and patients age 18 to 64. Results Older (n = 96) and younger (n = 943) adults had the same mean pain scores (5.5, SD 2.5 vs. 5.5, SD 2.4). Distress scores were lower in older than in younger adults (15.5, SD 9 vs. 19.2, SD 10). A higher percentage of older adults than younger adults had an anticipated time to physical recovery ≥30 days (41%, 95% confidence interval [CI] 28%-55% vs. 11%, 95% CI 9%-13%). Similarly, older adults were more likely to have an anticipated time for emotional recovery ≥30 days (45%, 95% CI 35%-55% vs. 17%, 95% CI 15%-20%). Older adults were less likely than younger adults to have moderate or severe neck pain (score ≥4) (25%, 95% CI 23% to 41% vs. 54%, 95% CI 48% to 60%) or back pain (31%, 95% CI 23% to 46% vs. 56%, 95% CI 51 to 62%) but more likely to have moderate or severe chest pain (42%, 95% CI 32% to 50% vs. 20%, 95% CI 16 to 23%). Pre-MVC depressive symptoms and pain catastrophizing were positively associated with pain and distress in both older and younger adults. Conclusions In our cohort, older adults who presented to the ED after MVC experienced similar pain severity as younger patients and less distress but were more likely to estimate their times for physical and emotional recovery to be 30 days or more. Increased emergency provider awareness of acute pain and distress symptoms among older patients experiencing MVC may improve outcomes for these patients.
Trigonella coerulescens subsp. ayvalikensis Erdogan, Selvi & Tumen 2017, subsp. nov.
Creators: name: Erdoğan, Eyüp
name: Selvi, Selami
name: Tümen, Gülendam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Trigonella
Trigonella coerulescens
Trigonella coerulescens (m.bieb.) halácsy subsp. ayvalikensis erdoğan, selvi & tümen

description: Trigonella coerulescens (M.Bieb.) Halácsy subsp. ayvalikensis Erdoğan, Selvi & Tümen subsp. nov. (Figs. 1–6)
Type:— Turkey. B 1 Balιkesir, Ayvalik, Küҫükköy, west of Badavut beach, sandy coast, 1 m, 12.III.2016, 39°16ʹ23ʺ N, 26°37ʹ43ʺ E, Selami Selvi 1616 (holotype: The herbarium of Balɪkesir University, Altιnoluk Vocational School, Programme of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, isotypes: ANK, ISTE).
Annual herbaceous plant, 6–30 cm high, sterile stems prostrate; flowering stems ascending from decumbent base, or sub-erect–erect, sparsely villous hairy in lower part and densely villous hairy in upper part. Stipules ovate–lanceolate, 3– 6× 2–4 mm, entire, denticulate at apex. Leaves trifoliolate. 10–30 mm long. Petiole 10–23 mm, densely villous. Leaflets obovate–cuneate, dentate in upper part, densely villous, 2.5–9.0× 2–9 mm. Petiolule 0.8–1.2 mm long. Inflorescence 15–25 flowered, dense, capitate to oblong-cylindrical, 8–20× 7–13 mm in flower, 12–22× 10–16 mm in fruit. Peduncle 6–30 mm long and densely tomentose. Pedicel up to 0.5 mm long and tomentose. Bracts lanceolate, narrowly acute, 3–5×0.5–1.0 mm, villous hairy. Calyx tubular, densely villous–tomentose, 6–7 mm long; teeth subulate, 2.5–3.0 mm long, shorter than tube. Corolla blue, standard spatulate-shaped, emerginate at apex, 10–12×2.5–3.0 mm; wing narrowly rounded, ±spatulate, rounded at apex, 8.5–9.0×1.0– 1.5 mm; keel elliptic-shaped, obtuse at apex, 9–12×3.0– 3.5 mm. Androecium 7.5–8.0 mm and gynoecium 9.5–10.0 mm long. Legume oblong-lanceolate, 10–12× 2.5–2.7 mm (except beak), 13–15 veined; beak 2–6 mm long. Seeds ovoid–oblong, dark brown, tuberculate, 1.8–2.0× 1.2–1.5 mm. Flowering in March–April, fruiting in late April–May.
description: Published as part of Erdoğan, Eyüp, Selvi, Selami & Tümen, Gülendam, 2017, Trigonella coerulescens subsp. ayvalikensis (Fabaceae), a new taxon from Balιkesir, western Anatolia, pp. 167-174 in Phytotaxa 319 (2) on page 168, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.319.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/13696420
title: MRI anatomy and anatomical variations of the knee
Creators: name: Bdira Messaoud, Amal
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Artifacts
subject: Normal variants
subject: MR
subject: Anatomy

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: -Knowing the MRI technical of this articulation. -Knowing the anatomy and the normal signal in MRI of the different structures of the knee. -Knowing major anatomical variations and technical artifact that may false images of meniscal and ligamentous...
HI 21cm emission from the sub-damped Lyman-alpha absorber at z=0.0063 towards PG1216+069
Creators: name: Chengalur, Jayaram N.
name: Ghosh, T.
name: Salter, C. J.
name: Kanekar, N.
name: Momjian, E.
name: Keeney, B. A.
name: Stocke, J. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present HI 21cm emission observations of the z ~ 0.00632 sub-damped Lyman-alpha absorber (sub-DLA) towards PG1216+069 made using the Arecibo Telescope and the Very Large Array (VLA). The Arecibo 21cm spectrum corresponds to an HI mass of ~ 3.2x10^7 solar masses, two orders of magnitude smaller than that of a typical spiral galaxy. This is surprising since in the local Universe the cross-section for absorption at high HI column densities is expected to be dominated by spirals. The 21cm emission detected in the VLA spectral cube has a low signal-to-noise ratio, and represents only half the total flux seen at Arecibo. Emission from three other sources is detected in the VLA observations, with only one of these sources having an optical counterpart. This group of HI sources appears to be part of complex "W", believed to lie in the background of the Virgo cluster. While several HI cloud complexes have been found in and around the Virgo cluster, it is unclear whether the ram pressure and galaxy harassment processes that are believed to be responsible for the creation of such clouds in a cluster environment are relevant at the location of this cloud complex. The extremely low metallicity of the gas, ~ 1/40 solar, also makes it unlikely that the sub-DLA consists of material that has been stripped from a galaxy. Thus, while our results have significantly improved our understanding of the host of this sub-DLA, the origin of the gas cloud remains a mystery
description: accepted for publication in MNRAS
The Palaeo-ecology and Biostratigraphy of the foraminifera from the Oxfordian of north Dorset
Creators: name: Henderson, Andrew Scott
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1997

description: The Oxfordian rocks of north Dorset are poorly exposed at outcrop. A drilling operation was devised and implemented and the complete sequence of strata from the Weymouth Member of the Oxford Clay Formation through to the Ringstead Waxy Clay Formation was penetrated. Three boreholes were drilled; the Hallett's Farm Borehole, covering the strata from the stratigraphically youngest Ringstead Waxy Clay Formation down to the Cucklington Oolite; the Bowden Farm Borehole, continuing the sequence from the Cucklington Oolite into the lower part of the Hazelbury Bryan Formation and the Hartmoor Hill Borehole which continues downward into the Oxford Clay Formation. A continuous succession of the Corallian rocks from north Dorset was obtained. The fresh borehole material was examined for microfossils, with further samples coming from the BGS East Stour Borehole. A diverse assemblage was extracted. The foraminiferal assemblage was examined and includes representatives of 26 families, comprising 26 genera and 148 species. All species were identified and the taxonomy of each studied and described or confirmed. The assemblage is more diverse than previously recorded Corallian assemblages, partly due to the freshness of the borehole material which is not affected by the weathering processes present at surface outcrops. The regional lithostratigraphy defined by the British Geological Survey (Bristow et al, 1995) is confirmed and lithological boundaries not visible at outcrop are described. The distribution and abundance patterns of foraminiferal taxa are analysed and various statistical indices are compared for each borehole. Multivariate methods are employed and in particular non-metric Multidimensional Scaling is used in an attempt to divide the samples into groups which are palaeo-environmentally significant. The authenticity of this method is checked against a Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering technique. The sample groups are used to define biofacies, fifteen of which are recognised within the studied interval. The correlation of the four boreholes is achieved using lithological techniques, ammonite zonation, foraminiferal biohorizons and the biofacies defined by multivariate analysis. A total of 21 biohorizons are identified with certain horizons coinciding with lithological boundaries and previously defined unconformities recognised within the Oxfordian of Dorset. The long ranging nature of the majority of Upper Jurassic foraminifera precludes the definition of a rigorous biostratigraphic zonation. The important biostratigraphic species for the Upper Jurassic are recorded however, and a tentative zonation, based on the concept of interval zones (Salvador, 1995) is proposed. Eleven zones are recognised.
Exercise for adolescents and adults with complex cerebral palsy: A scoping review investigating the safety and implementation of physical activity programs.
Creators: name: Morgan, Prue
name: Cleary, Stacey
name: Dutia, Iain
name: Shields, Nora
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physiotherapy
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Recreational Therapy
subject: Rehabilitation and Therapy
subject: Physical Therapy
subject: adolescents
subject: adults
subject: cerebral palsy
subject: community
subject: exercise
subject: participation
subject: physical activity
subject: safety

description: Scoping review
The Casimir Effect for Thick Pistons
Creators: name: Fucci, Guglielmo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we analyze the Casimir energy and force for a {\it thick} piston configuration. This study is performed by utilizing the spectral zeta function regularization method. The results we obtain for the Casimir energy and force depend explicitly on the parameters that describe the general self-adjoint boundary conditions imposed. Numerical results for the Casimir force are provided for specific types of boundary conditions and are also compared to the corresponding force on an infinitely thin piston.
description: LaTex, 21 pages
The Objective Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Disease Health in Older Women (OPACH) Study
Creators: name: Marshall, Stephen
name: Herring, Amy
name: Evenson, Kelly
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2017

description: Abstract Background Limited evidence exists to inform physical activity (PA) and sedentary behavior guidelines for older people, especially women. Rigorous evidence on the amounts, intensities, and movement patterns associated with better health in later life is needed. Methods/Design The Objective PA and Cardiovascular Health (OPACH) Study is an ancillary study to the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) Program that examines associations of accelerometer-assessed PA and sedentary behavior with cardiovascular and fall events. Between 2012 and 2014, 7048 women aged 63–99 were provided with an ActiGraph GT3X+ (Pensacola, Florida) triaxial accelerometer, a sleep log, and an OPACH PA Questionnaire; 6489 have accelerometer data. Most women were in their 70s (40%) or 80s (46%), while approximately 10% were in their 60s and 4% were age 90 years or older. Non-Hispanic Black or Hispanic/Latina women comprise half of the cohort. Follow-up includes 1-year of falls surveillance with monthly calendars and telephone interviews of fallers, and annual follow-up for outcomes with adjudication of incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) events through 2020. Over 63,600 months of calendar pages were returned by 5,776 women, who reported 5,980 falls. Telephone interviews were completed for 1,492 women to ascertain the circumstances, injuries and medical care associated with falling. The dataset contains extensive information on phenotypes related to healthy aging, including inflammatory and CVD biomarkers, breast and colon cancer, hip and other fractures, diabetes, and physical disability. Discussion This paper describes the study design, methods, and baseline data for a diverse cohort of postmenopausal women who wore accelerometers under free-living conditions as part of the OPACH Study. By using accelerometers to collect more precise and complete data on PA and sedentary behavior in a large cohort of older women, this study will contribute crucial new evidence about how much, how vigorous, and what patterns of PA are necessary to maintain optimal cardiovascular health and to avoid falls in later life. Clinical trials registration ClinicalTrials.gov identifier NCT00000611 . Registered 27 October 1999.
NNLL resummation for stop pair-production at the LHC
Creators: name: Beenakker, Wim
name: Borschensky, Christoph
name: Heger, Raphael
name: Krämer, Michael
name: Kulesza, Anna
name: Laenen, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The production of supersymmetric stop-antistop pairs at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is studied including corrections from soft-gluon resummation up to next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic (NNLL) accuracy in the Mellin-space approach. Additionally, corrections to the hard-matching coefficient at one-loop and Coulomb contributions at two-loop order are considered. The NNLL corrections enhance the cross section for all stop masses at centre-of-mass energies of 8 and 13 TeV compared to the previously calculated predictions at next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL) accuracy. Furthermore, a slight increase in the dependence on the additional stop-mixing parameters is observed.
description: 24 pages, 7 figures; version published in JHEP
GPU Parallelization of HEVC In-Loop Filters
Creators: name: Wang, Biao
name: De Souza, Diego F.
name: Álvarez-Mesa, Mauricio
name: Chi, Chi Ching
name: Juurlink, Ben
name: Ilic, Aleksandar
name: Roma, Nuno
name: Sousa, Leonel
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik
subject: HEVC
subject: High Efficiency Video Coding
subject: GPU
subject: Graphics Processor Unit
subject: in-loop filters
subject: parallelization
subject: decoder
subject: video coding

description: In the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard, multiple decoding modules have been designed to take advantage of parallel processing. In particular, the HEVC in-loop filters (i.e., the deblocking filter and sample adaptive offset) were conceived to be exploited by parallel architectures. However, the type of the offered parallelism mostly suits the capabilities of multi-core CPUs, thus making a real challenge to efficiently exploit massively parallel architectures such as Graphic Processing Units (GPUs), mainly due to the existing data dependencies between the HEVC decoding procedures. In accordance, this paper presents a novel strategy to increase the amount of parallelism and the resulting performance of the HEVC in-loop filters on GPU devices. For this purpose, the proposed algorithm performs the HEVC filtering at frame-level and employs intrinsic GPU vector instructions. When compared to the state-of-the-art HEVC in-loop filter implementations, the proposed approach also reduces the amount of required memory transfers, thus further boosting the performance. Experimental results show that the proposed GPU in-loop filters deliver a significant improvement in decoding performance. For example, average frame rates of 76 frames per second (FPS) and 125 FPS for Ultra HD 4K are achieved on an embedded NVIDIA GPU for All Intra and Random Access configurations, respectively.
Developing Next Generation Wireless for 6G: Ultra High Capacity Optical Solutions
Creators: name: Guiomar, Fernando P.
name: Loureiro, Pedro A.
name: Freitas, Manuel M.
name: Fernandes, Gil M.
name: Monteiro, Paulo P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Presentation at the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) workshop on 'Which technologies will be needed for 6G?'.
Calculating Three Loop Ladder and V-Topologies for Massive Operator Matrix Elements by Computer Algebra
Creators: name: Ablinger, J.
name: Behring, A.
name: Blümlein, J.
name: De Freitas, A.
name: von Manteuffel, A.
name: Schneider, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Symbolic Computation (cs.SC)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Three loop ladder and $V$-topology diagrams contributing to the massive operator matrix element $A_{Qg}$ are calculated. The corresponding objects can all be expressed in terms of nested sums and recurrences depending on the Mellin variable $N$ and the dimensional parameter $\varepsilon$. Given these representations, the desired Laurent series expansions in $\varepsilon$ can be obtained with the help of our computer algebra toolbox. Here we rely on generalized hypergeometric functions and Mellin-Barnes representations, on difference ring algorithms for symbolic summation, on an optimized version of the multivariate Almkvist-Zeilberger algorithm for symbolic integration, and on new methods to calculate Laurent series solutions of coupled systems of differential equations. The solutions can be computed for general coefficient matrices directly for any basis also performing the expansion in the dimensional parameter in case it is expressible in terms of indefinite nested product-sum expressions. This structural result is based on new results of our difference ring theory. In the cases discussed we deal with iterative sum- and integral-solutions over general alphabets. The final results are expressed in terms of special sums, forming quasi-shuffle algebras, such as nested harmonic sums, generalized harmonic sums, and nested binomially weighted (cyclotomic) sums. Analytic continuations to complex values of $N$ are possible through the recursion relations obeyed by these quantities and their analytic asymptotic expansions. The latter lead to a host of new constants beyond the multiple zeta values, the infinite generalized harmonic and cyclotomic sums in the case of $V$-topologies.
description: 110 pages Latex, 4 Figures
Seasonal modification of the association between temperature and adult emergency department visits for asthma: a case-crossover study
Creators: name: Buckley, Jessie P
name: Richardson, David
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2012

description: Abstract Background The objective of this study is to characterize the effect of temperature on emergency department visits for asthma and modification of this association by season. This association is of interest in its own right, and also important to understand because temperature may be an important confounder in analyses of associations between other environmental exposures and asthma. For example, the case-crossover study design is commonly used to investigate associations between air pollution and respiratory outcomes, such as asthma. This approach controls for confounding by month and season by design, and permits adjustment for potential confounding by temperature through regression modeling. However, such models may fail to adequately control for confounding if temperature effects are seasonal, since case-crossover analyses rarely account for interactions between matching factors (such as calendar month) and temperature. Methods We conducted a case-crossover study to determine whether the association between temperature and emergency department visits for asthma varies by season or month. Asthma emergency department visits among North Carolina adults during 2007–2008 were identified using a statewide surveillance system. Marginal as well as season- and month-specific associations between asthma visits and temperature were estimated with conditional logistic regression. Results The association between temperature and adult emergency department visits for asthma is near null when the overall association is examined [odds ratio (OR) per 5 degrees Celsius = 1.01, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.00, 1.02]. However, significant variation in temperature-asthma associations was observed by season (chi-square = 18.94, 3 degrees of freedom, p <0.001) and by month of the year (chi-square = 45.46, 11 degrees of freedom, p <0.001). ORs per 5 degrees Celsius were increased in February (OR = 1.06, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.10), July (OR = 1.16, 95% CI: 1.04, 1.29), and December (OR = 1.04, 95% CI: 1.01, 1.07) and decreased in September (OR = 0.92, 95% CI: 0.87, 0.97). Conclusions Our empirical example suggests that there is significant seasonal variation in temperature-asthma associations. Epidemiological studies rarely account for interactions between ambient temperature and temporal matching factors (such as month of year) in the case-crossover design. These findings suggest that greater attention should be given to seasonal modification of associations between temperature and respiratory outcomes in case-crossover analyses of other environmental asthma triggers.
Emotional Resilience and the Professional Capabilities Framework: Identifying what Emotional Resilience is, in the Context of Social Work Education, Training and Practice.
Creators: name: Green, Pauline Catherine
Publisher: name: University of Derby
Year: 2016
Subjects: Emotional Resilience
Social Work Education and Training

description: In 2009, the Government introduced measures to improve social work training and practice in response to having analysed findings from Serious Case Reviews in the aftermath of a series of child deaths. One of the most significant of these improvements was the introduction of a new training framework, entitled the ‘Professional Capabilities Framework’ (The College of Social Work, 2012d). Emotional resilience was, for the first time, identified as a required capability within the ‘Professionalism’ domain of the framework. The aim of this research was to identify what emotional resilience was in the context of social work practice in order to meet the requirements of the Professional Capabilities Framework, thus addressing the Government’s new directives for improved social work education and training. A research study was undertaken to collect data relating to emotional resilience within a social work context involving ten focus groups of between 3-5 participants. The participants were chosen because of their experience in relation to emotional resilience and social work, either through being employed, studying or working in partnership with the University of Derby. The groups comprised, social work team managers, newly qualified and experienced Social Workers, practice educators, lecturers, social work students from all three years of the Social Work Degree Programme and service users and carers. All of the focus group discussions were audio-taped, transcribed and analysed using thematic analysis. The study produced a definition of emotional resilience specifically for Social Workers which identified core traits of optimism, self-awareness, empathy and stability as well as the ability to remain calm and demonstrate appropriate empathy. The necessity for Social Workers to be emotionally resilient was confirmed, and causal factors in the development of emotional resilience such as adversity in life, reflective supervision and a supportive working environment, were highlighted. Valuable information was also obtained about how students might be educated and trained to become emotionally resilient professionals, in order to meet the requirements of the Professional Capabilities Framework. The findings indicated that challenging role plays, self-awareness activities, preparation for practice modules, the use of explicit case studies, reflective supervision and statutory placements, were all effective mediums for promoting emotional resilience. Keywords: emotional resilience, Professional Capabilities Framework, social work education and training, social work curriculum.
A genome-wide linkage study of autism spectrum disorder and the broad autism phenotype in extended pedigrees
Creators: name: Piven, Joseph
name: Parlier, Morgan
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

description: Abstract
                Background
                Although several genetic variants for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have now been identified, these largely occur sporadically or are de novo. Much less progress has been made in identifying inherited variants, even though the disorder itself is familial in the majority of cases. The objective of this study was to identify chromosomal regions that harbor inherited variants increasing the risk for ASD using an approach that examined both ASD and the broad autism phenotype (BAP) among a unique sample of extended pedigrees.
                Methods
                ASD and BAP were assessed using standardized tools in 28 pedigrees from Canada and the USA, each with at least three ASD-diagnosed individuals from two nuclear families. Genome-wide linkage analysis was performed using the posterior probability of linkage (PPL) statistic, a quasi-Bayesian method that provides strength of evidence for or against linkage in an essentially model-free manner, with outcomes on the probability scale.
                Results
                The results confirm appreciable interfamilial heterogeneity as well as a high level of intrafamilial heterogeneity. Both ASD and combined ASD/BAP specific loci are apparent.
                Conclusions
                Inclusion of subclinical phenotypes such as BAP should be more widely employed in genetic studies of ASD as a way of identifying inherited genetic variants for the disorder. Moreover, the results underscore the need for approaches to identifying genetic risk factors in extended pedigrees that are robust to high levels of inter/intrafamilial locus and allelic heterogeneity.
title: Blount-disease: what radiologists need to know
Creators: name: Lakatos, Andrea
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Normal variants
subject: MR
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Paediatric
subject: Musculoskeletal joint

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the imaging characteristics of Blount-disease on conventional radiography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). To illustrate the specific measurements and classification system of Morbus Blount with...
title: Comparative study with pathological and surgical findings in the diagnosis of acute gangrenous cholecystitis. Is contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) useful?
Creators: name: Alandete, Salvador Pascual
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Inflammation
subject: Education and training
subject: Education
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Percutaneous
subject: Liver
subject: Abdomen

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine the usefulness of contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) for the diagnostic assessment of acute gangrenous cholecystitis, with histopathology as the reference...
On stochastic differential equations with arbitrary slow convergence rates for strong approximation
Creators: name: Jentzen, Arnulf
name: Müller-Gronbach, Thomas
name: Yaroslavtseva, Larisa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In the recent article [Hairer, M., Hutzenthaler, M., Jentzen, A., Loss of regularity for Kolmogorov equations, Ann. Probab. 43 (2015), no. 2, 468--527] it has been shown that there exist stochastic differential equations (SDEs) with infinitely often differentiable and globally bounded coefficients such that the Euler scheme converges to the solution in the strong sense but with no polynomial rate. Hairer et al.'s result naturally leads to the question whether this slow convergence phenomenon can be overcome by using a more sophisticated approximation method than the simple Euler scheme. In this article we answer this question to the negative. We prove that there exist SDEs with infinitely often differentiable and globally bounded coefficients such that no approximation method based on finitely many observations of the driving Brownian motion converges in absolute mean to the solution with a polynomial rate. Even worse, we prove that for every arbitrarily slow convergence speed there exist SDEs with infinitely often differentiable and globally bounded coefficients such that no approximation method based on finitely many observations of the driving Brownian motion can converge in absolute mean to the solution faster than the given speed of convergence.
description: 26 pages
Synchronization of interhippocampal ripple events (80-200 Hz) by long-projection inhibitory neurons
Creators: name: Tiesinga, Paul
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2007

description: Network oscillations between the two hippocampi are
highly synchronized. Synchronized theta is believed to be
the result of the common input from the septal region,
whereas the mechanism of the ripple synchronization is
not well understood. It was previously demonstrated
using partial coherence analysis that the "coupling"
between the two CA1 regions of hippocampi during theta
oscillations is stronger than that between the individual
layers of the same hippocampus.
Excessive distribution of quantum entanglement
Creators: name: Zuppardo, Margherita
name: Krisnanda, Tanjung
name: Paterek, Tomasz
name: Bandyopadhyay, Somshubhro
name: Banerjee, Anindita
name: Deb, Prasenjit
name: Halder, Saronath
name: Modi, Kavan
name: Paternostro, Mauro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We classify protocols of entanglement distribution as excessive and non-excessive ones. In a non-excessive protocol, the gain of entanglement is bounded by the amount of entanglement being communicated between the remote parties, while excessive protocols violate such bound. We first present examples of excessive protocols that achieve a significant entanglement gain. Next we consider their use in noisy scenarios, showing that they improve entanglement achieved in other ways and for some situations excessive distribution is the only possibility of gaining entanglement.
description: 13 pages, 11 figures
title: Diagnostic value of MRI proton density fat fraction for assessing liver steatosis in chronic viral C hepatitis
Creators: name: Cevasco, Luca
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Metabolic disorders
subject: Infection
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Computer Applications-General
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: MR physics
subject: Liver
subject: Abdomen

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: It is well known that hepatitis C virus (HCV), can lead to steatotic change in hepatocytes. In fact, the proportion of chronic hepatitis C patients with steatosis is considerable, suggesting a direct role of HCV in the intrahepatic accumulation of...
title: Volumetric Brain MRI Changes in Schizophrenic Patients
Creators: name: Elshafey, Rasha
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Psycho-oncology
subject: Segmentation
subject: MR
subject: Neuroradiology brain

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Schizophrenia is a severe and disabling psychiatric illness, characterized by a heterogeneous course often with clinical deterioration and poor outcome. The disease affects around 0.3–0.7% of people at some point in their life or 24 million people...
title: The Argus II Retinal Prosthesis: An Imaging Perspective
Creators: name: Tahir, Osman
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Eyes
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Head and neck
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Surgery
subject: Instrumentation
subject: Computer Applications-General
subject: Prostheses

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: This exhibit is designed to provide an overview of the imaging features of the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis including: CT appearance and gross assessment of positioning MR artifacts Potential imaging safety...
Cross-linking patterns and their images in swollen and deformed gels
Creators: name: Panyukov, Sergey
name: Rabin, Yitzhak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the theory of elasticity of polymer gels we show that large-scale cross-link density patterns written into the structure of the network in the melt state, can be revealed upon swelling by monitoring the monomer density patterns. We find that while isotropic deformations in good solvent yield magnified images of the original pattern, anisotropic deformations distort the image (both types of deformation yield affinely stretched images in $θ$ solvents). We show that in ordinary solids with spatially inhomogeneous profile of the shear modulus, isotropic stretching leads to distorted density image of this profile under isotropic deformation. Using simple physical arguments we demonstrate that the different response to isotropic stretching stems from fundamental differences between the theory of elasticity of solids and that of gels. Possible tests of our predictions and some potential applications are discussed.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures
title: Usefulness of transperineal ultrasonography (TPUS) in identifying imperforate anus fistulas in neonates.
Creators: name: Bombinski, Przemyslaw
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fistula
subject: Congenital
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Paediatric
subject: Gastrointestinal tract

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Learning objectives: - to illustrate spectrum of clinical and radiological findings in imperforate anus fistulas in neonates - to present usefulness of transperineal ultrasonography (TPUS) in identification of fistulas, in correlation with clinical...
The association of plasma biomarkers with computed tomography-assessed emphysema phenotypes
Creators: name: O’Neal, Wanda K
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2014

description: Abstract Rationale Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a phenotypically heterogeneous disease. In COPD, the presence of emphysema is associated with increased mortality and risk of lung cancer. High resolution computed tomography (HRCT) scans are useful in quantifying emphysema but are associated with radiation exposure and high incidence of false positive findings (i.e., nodules). Using a comprehensive biomarker panel, we sought to determine if there was a peripheral blood biomarker signature of emphysema. Methods 114 plasma biomarkers were measured using a custom assay in 588 individuals enrolled in the COPDGene study. Quantitative emphysema measurements included percent low lung attenuation (%LAA)≤ - 950 HU, ≤ -910 HU and mean lung attenuation at the 15th percentile on lung attenuation curve (LP15A). Multiple regression analysis was performed to determine plasma biomarkers associated with emphysema independent of covariates age, gender, smoking status, body mass index and FEV1. The findings were subsequently validated using baseline blood samples from a separate cohort of 388 subjects enrolled in the Treatment of Emphysema with a Selective Retinoid Agonist (TESRA) study. Results Regression analysis identified multiple biomarkers associated with CT-assessed emphysema in COPDGene, including advanced glycosylation end-products receptor (AGER or RAGE, p < 0.001), intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (ICAM, p < 0.001), and chemokine ligand 20 (CCL20, p < 0.001). Validation in the TESRA cohort revealed significant associations with RAGE, ICAM1, and CCL20 with radiologic emphysema (p < 0.001 after meta-analysis). Other biomarkers that were associated with emphysema include CDH1, CDH 13 and SERPINA7, but were not available for validation in the TESRA study. Receiver operating characteristics analysis demonstrated a benefit of adding a biomarker panel to clinical covariates for detecting emphysema, especially in those without severe airflow limitation (AUC 0.85). Conclusions Our findings, suggest that a panel of blood biomarkers including sRAGE, ICAM1 and CCL20 may serve as a useful surrogate measure of emphysema, and when combined with clinical covariates, may be useful clinically in predicting the presence of emphysema compared to just using covariates alone, especially in those with less severe COPD. Ultimately biomarkers may shed light on disease pathogenesis, providing targets for new treatments.
title: Radiologic manifestations of bone marrow transplantation complications in children: A comprehensive review
Creators: name: Carballeira, Andrés
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Paediatric
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Transplantation
subject: Toxicity
subject: Infection

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The aims of this educational poster are to describe the main bone marrow transplantation complications in children, to review the most important radiologic findings of those complications and to highlight the contributions of radiology in the...
Ruin probabilities under Sarmanov dependence structure
Creators: name: Maulik, Krishanu
name: Podder, Moumanti
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Our work aims to study the tail behaviour of weighted sums of the form $\sum_{i=1}^{\infty} X_{i} \prod_{j=1}^{i}Y_{j}$, where $(X_{i}, Y_{i})$ are independent and identically distributed, with common joint distribution bivariate Sarmanov. Such quantities naturally arise in financial risk models. Each $X_{i}$ has a regularly varying tail. With sufficient conditions similar to those used by Denisov and Zwart (2007) imposed on these two sequences, and with certain suitably summable bounds similar to those proposed by Hazra and Maulik (2012), we explore the tail distribution of the random variable $\sup_{n \geq 1}\sum_{i=1}^{n} X_i \prod_{j=1}^{i}Y_{j}$. The sufficient conditions used will relax the moment conditions on the $\{Y_{i}\}$ sequence.
description: Accepted for publication in Statistics and Probability Letters. This is the most recent version
What does my patient's coronary artery calcium score mean? Combining information from the coronary artery calcium score with information from conventional risk factors to estimate coronary heart disease risk
Creators: name: Pignone, Michael
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2004

description: Abstract: Background: The coronary artery calcium (CAC) score is an independent predictor of coronary heart disease. We sought to combine information from the CAC score with information from conventional cardiac risk factors to produce post-test risk estimates, and to determine whether the score may add clinically useful information. Methods: We measured the independent cross-sectional associations between conventional cardiac risk factors and the CAC score among asymptomatic persons referred for non-contrast electron beam computed tomography. Using the resulting multivariable models and published CAC score-specific relative risk estimates, we estimated post-test coronary heart disease risk in a number of different scenarios. Results: Among 9341 asymptomatic study participants (age 35-88 years, 40% female), we found that conventional coronary heart disease risk factors including age, male sex, self-reported hypertension, diabetes and high cholesterol were independent predictors of the CAC score, and we used the resulting multivariable models for predicting post-test risk in a variety of scenarios. Our models predicted, for example, that a 60-year-old non-smoking non-diabetic women with hypertension and high cholesterol would have a 47% chance of having a CAC score of zero, reducing her 10-year risk estimate from 15% (per Framingham) to 6-9%; if her score were over 100, however (a 17% chance), her risk estimate would be markedly higher (25-51% in 10 years). In low risk scenarios, the CAC score is very likely to be zero or low, and unlikely to change management. Conclusion: Combining information from the CAC score with information from conventional risk factors can change assessment of coronary heart disease risk to an extent that may be clinically important, especially when the pre-test 10-year risk estimate is intermediate. The attached spreadsheet makes these calculations easy.
Optical Phonon Limited High Field Transport in Layered Materials
Creators: name: Chandrasekar, Hareesh
name: Ganapathi, Kolla L.
name: Bhattacharjee, Shubhadeep
name: Bhat, Navakanta
name: Nath, Digbijoy N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An optical phonon limited velocity model has been employed to investigate high-field transport in a selection of layered 2D materials for both, low-power logic switches with scaled supply voltages, and high-power, high-frequency transistors. Drain currents, effective electron velocities and intrinsic cut-off frequencies as a function of carrier density have been predicted thus providing a benchmark for the optical phonon limited high-field performance limits of these materials. The optical phonon limited carrier velocities of a selection of transition metal dichalcogenides and black phosphorus are found to be modest as compared to their n-channel silicon counterparts, questioning the utility of these devices in the source-injection dominated regime. h-BN, at the other end of the spectrum, is shown to be a very promising material for high-frequency high-power devices, subject to experimental realization of high carrier densities, primarily due to its large optical phonon energy. Experimentally extracted saturation velocities from few-layer MoS2 devices show reasonable qualitative and quantitative agreement with predicted values. Temperature dependence of measured vsat is discussed and found to fit a velocity saturation model with a single material dependent fit parameter.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
title: Cirsoid aneurysm and MDCT – An excellent modality for mapping a rare complex extracranial pathology – A case series
Creators: name: Arooj, Shumaila
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Aneurysms
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Head and neck

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Cirsoid aneurysms are rare arteriovenous malformations of the scalp. They are challenging to treat because of their complexity and danger of potential profuse hemorrhage or cosmetic derangement. A well-rehearsed presurgery radiological mapping of...
title: Testicular ultrasound in acute scrotal pain – beyond testicular torsion
Creators: name: Rolla, Inês
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Education
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To acknowledge ultrasound findings suggestive of testicular torsion. To identify alternative causes of acute scrotal pain in emergency department, other than testicular torsion. To recognize findings on ultrasound indicating these alternative...