cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Maintaining Vascular Access Response in a Severely COVID-19 Hit Country
Creators: name: Castro, João Diogo
name: Almeida, Paulo
name: Sousa, Clemente
name: Teles, Paulo
name: De Matos, Norton
Publisher: name: Portuguese Journal of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Surgery
Year: 2023

description: Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented disruption in healthcare systems worldwide, and Portugal was no exception. We analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in activity of our Vascular Access Center (Grupo Estudos Vasculares - GEV). Material and methods: This is a retrospective study, during March 2019 and February 2021. An analysis of surgical and appointments records in 2,495 patients from 25 hemodialysis centers followed by GEV was performed. Patients were divided into two periods: non-pandemic (NPP) (March 2019 to February 2020) and pandemic periods (PP) (March 2020 to February 2021). The number of surgeries and appointments were analyzed per month and per week. The number of thrombosis were analyzed in both periods. Normality was tested by the Shapiro-Wilk test and by the Lilliefors (Kolmogorov-Smirnov) test. Comparisons were made by the t-test (paired samples) when normality was not rejected and by the Wilcoxon test otherwise. All the variables (normal or otherwise) were described by the usual descriptive measures such as the mean, median and quartiles. No categorical data were collected. To avoid COVID-19 infection a set of measures were created: Sars-cov-2 PCR test for every patient, individual protection equipment for staff, rotating teams and schedules, and only one patient allowed in the circuit to the intervention room. A descriptive statistical analysis was performed with SPSS version28. The statistical significance was confirmed for p-value < 0.05. Results: A total of 1756 surgeries and 800 appointments were made in both PP and NPP. Comparing the periods, we performed 914 (52%) interventions in the NPP and 842 (48%) in PP, 423 (53%) consultations in NPP and 377 (47%) at PP. Comparing the NPP and PP by months we observed more appointments in the NPP (p=0.004). However, the difference in the number of surgeries did not reach statistical significance (p=0.533). There were more thrombosis during the summer and fall in the NPP and PP. A total of 138 in NPP and 131 in PP thrombosis were observed in the 2 years period. There was no record of COVID-19 infections between all GEV staff (n=25). Conclusion: Due to timed and tight set of measures taken in the pandemic lockdown by GEV, a similar clinical and surgical activity regarding hemodialysis patients was obtained in both periods (PP and NPP). The hypothesis that the PP could diminish vascular access assessment/intervention or more thrombosis could occur was not verified at our institution. The set of measures established to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic was also effective to prevent infection in staff members
description: Portuguese Journal of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Vol. 30 No. 3 (2023): Jul-Sep
Education, A public goods or private goods when supplied by the government: A theoretical study
Creators: name: Shohag, Mahraj Hussain
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 140214 Public Economics- Publically Provided Goods
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: In a nation, the term education might be provided by the government itself but the government cannot fulfill all the characteristics of education to represent it as a public good because of various factors. At the same time, education has the quality of being a private good purely as it fulfilled the basic characteristics of a private good. To say it more effectively, education has the quality of rivalry, excludability, and reject ability. So education can be defined as a private good, even when supplied by the government.
Outage Bound for Max-Based Downlink Scheduling With Imperfect CSIT and Delay Constraint
Creators: name: Santipach, Wiroonsak
name: Mamat, Kritsada
name: Charoenlarpnopparut, Chalie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider downlink max-based scheduling in which the base station and each user are equipped with a single antenna. In each time slot, the base station obtains channel gains of all users and selects the user with the largest squared channel gain. Assuming that channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT), i.e., squared channel gain, can be inaccurate, we derive lower bounds for probability of outage, which occurs when a required data rate is not satisfied under a delay constraint. The bounds are tight for Rayleigh fading and show how required rate and CSIT error affect outage performance.
“Just Like the Library”: Exploring the experiences of former library student assistants' post-graduation careers and perceptions of job preparedness as impacted by library work
Creators: name: Ofsthun, Franklin
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Library science
subject: Higher education
subject: Management
subject: career competencies
subject: job preparedness
subject: library student employment
subject: professional development
subject: student employment

description: Career success is a major component of assessing student success, and at the Universities at Shady Grove (USG), a small campus supporting nine state universities, post-graduation success is understudied. Students employed by USG’s Priddy Library are subject to a professional development (PD) program that emphasizes skill building, professional experiences, and career competencies. This thesis uses interviews from seven former student employees to determine what students retain from the program a year after graduation, to explore their feelings on early career experiences, and to determine what Priddy Library and USG can do to better prepare students for their post-graduation careers. Job satisfaction was most positively correlated with workplace social support and most negatively correlated with overwork. Participants felt overall positively about their experiences at USG and the library, and emphasized the role that social support played in their success. Participants identified many career competencies developed at the library that they continue to use in their post-graduation careers, most notably, customer service, communication, critical thinking, time management, and professionalism. Participants shared feelings of self-doubt and inadequacy despite degree and skill acquisition, indicating that more effort should be made to build students’ professional confidence.
Innovative 3d-Printed Prosthesis In A Rare Case Of A Huge Mass Of Anterior Thoracic Wall – Low Grade Fibromyxoid Sarcoma (Lgfms)
Creators: name: Nawojowska, Ágata
name: Mendes, Samuel
name: Cabral, Daniel
name: Antunes, Mariana
name: Félix, Francisco
Publisher: name: Portuguese Journal of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Surgery
Year: 2023

description: The need for complete resection of chest wall tumors creates a huge challenge in terms of reconstructing the complex dynamics of the thorax. We are reporting a case of a low-grade fibromyxoid sarcoma (LGFMS) diagnosed in a young male, where the complete resection of the mass, sternum and parcially the pericardium was performed. Subsequently, a composite porous high-density polyethylene StarPore® prosthesis of the sternum and costal arches was used and the latissimus dorsi muscle free flap with skin graft was implanted over the sternum.
description: Portuguese Journal of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Vol. 30 No. 3 (2023): Jul-Sep
MWPCR: Multiscale Weighted Principal Component Regression for High-Dimensional Prediction
Creators: name: Liu, Leo Yufeng
name: Shen, Dan
name: Zhu, Hongtu
name: Peng, Xuewei
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: We propose a multiscale weighted principal component regression (MWPCR) framework for the use of high dimensional features with strong spatial features (e.g., smoothness and correlation) to predict an outcome variable, such as disease status. This development is motivated by identifying imaging biomarkers that could potentially aid detection, diagnosis, assessment of prognosis, prediction of response to treatment, and monitoring of disease status, among many others. The MWPCR can be regarded as a novel integration of principal components analysis (PCA), kernel methods, and regression models. In MWPCR, we introduce various weight matrices to prewhitten high dimensional feature vectors, perform matrix decomposition for both dimension reduction and feature extraction, and build a prediction model by using the extracted features. Examples of such weight matrices include an importance score weight matrix for the selection of individual features at each location and a spatial weight matrix for the incorporation of the spatial pattern of feature vectors. We integrate the importance score weights with the spatial weights in order to recover the low dimensional structure of high dimensional features. We demonstrate the utility of our methods through extensive simulations and real data analyses of the Alzheimer’s disease neuroimaging initiative (ADNI) data set.
Uterine Leiomyomatosis With Intracardiac Extension: One-Stage Surgical Approach
Creators: name: Del Canto Peruyera, Pablo
name: Vallina-Victorero Vázquez, Manuel Javier
Publisher: name: Portuguese Journal of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Surgery
Year: 2023

description: Intravenous leiomyomatosis is a rare benign vascular tumor. Intracardiac extension is infrequently but can lead into a threating-life situation. We report a 41-year-old woman who has undergone previous hysterectomy due to uterine myomatosis and now presents with a pelvic mass contacting the venous system through the right internal iliac vein and extending up to the right pulmonary artery. Surgical resection of the pelvic mass and intravenous tumor removal was successfully performed in a single-stage approach with cardiopulmonary bypass. Patient recovered satisfactorily, being asymptomatic at hospital discharge time. One-stage surgical approach needs a multidisciplinary surgical team and needs a longer operative time than two-stage approach. However it can be a safety treatment option for patients with good general condition. Furthermore cardiopulmonary bypass guarantees a safe procedure, avoiding renal and hepatic ischemia and potential embolizations into pulmonary circulation during mass or ilio cava venous sector manipulation.
description: Portuguese Journal of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Vol. 30 No. 3 (2023): Jul-Sep
QUALIFICATION D'UN DISPOSITIF EXPÉRIMENTAL PERMETTANT L'ÉTUDE D'UN MONITEUR DE LA CONTAMINATION ATMOSPHÉRIQUE DANS DES CONDITIONS REPRÉSENTATIVES DE CHANTIERS DE DÉMANTÈLEMENT
Creators: name: G. HOARAU
name: G. DOUGNIAUX
name: F. GENSDARMES
name: B. DHIEUX LESTAEVEL
name: J. LAURENT
name: P. CASSETTE
Publisher: name: Association Française d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Aérosols (ASFERA)
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: granulométrie d'aérosol
subject: homogénéité en concentration
subject: particle size distribution
subject: homogeneity of the aerosol mass concentration

description: Cet article présente un nouveau dispositif dans lequel est simulée une atmosphère représentative des conditions de chantiers de démantèlement. Ce dispositif est utilisé pour l'étude de la réponse d'un moniteur de mesure de la contamination atmosphérique dans de telles conditions. Dans cet article, nous présentons le dispositif expérimental et la caractérisation de l'exposition d'un moniteur de la contamination atmosphérique pour un aérosol type.
VITESSE DE DÉPÔT SEC DES PARTICULES ATMOSPHÉRIQUES NANOMÉTRIQUES
Creators: name: P. LAGUIONIE
name: L. SOLIER
name: D. MARO
name: G. PELLERIN
name: D. HÉBERT
name: O. CONNAN
name: O.T. BAH
Publisher: name: Association Française d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Aérosols (ASFERA)
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: dépôt sec
subject: aérosol atmosphérique
subject: nanoparticule
subject: vitesse de dépôt
subject: dry deposition
subject: atmospheric aerosol
subject: deposition velocity

description: Dans le cas des gaz radioactifs sujets à la nucléation dans l'atmosphère (cas de l'iode et du ruthénium), une fraction des clusters nanométriques nouvellement formés peut être présente sous forme libre, c'est-à-dire non associée à l'aérosol atmosphérique, en champ proche du point de rejet. Dans le cas particulier des particules de diamètre inférieur à 2,5 nm, il n'existait pas jusqu'à présent de vitesse de dépôt mesurée dans l'environnement. Cette étude a montré que dans des conditions de stabilité atmosphérique neutre et stable, au-dessus d'un couvert prairial, la vitesse de dépôt des particules nanométrique de diamètre inférieur à 1,3 nm était de 19 ± 14 10-3 m s-1, et le rapport de 6 ± 3 10-2.
APPLICANT REACTIONS TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SELECTION SYSTEMS
Creators: name: Bedemariam, Rewina Sahle
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Organizational behavior
subject: Occupational psychology
subject: AI
subject: Applicant Reactions
subject: Bias
subject: Diversity
subject: Outcome Favorability
subject: Race

description: Practitioners have embraced the use of AI and Machine Learning systems for employeerecruitment and selection. However, studies examining applicant reactions to such systems are lacking in the literature. Specifically, little is known about how job applicants react to AI-based selection systems. This study assessed fairness perceptions of hiring decisions made by AIdriven systems and whether significant differences existed between different groups of people. To do so, a two-by-two experimental study where participants in a selection scenario are randomly assigned to a decision-maker condition (human vs AI) and outcome variability condition (hired vs rejected) was utilized. The results showed that the condition had a significant effect on the interactional justice dimension. The interaction effect of outcome and condition had an impact on job-relatedness, chance to perform, reconsideration opportunity, feedback perceptions, and interactional justice. The three-way interaction of outcome, race and condition influences general fairness reactions and emotional reactions. Given these findings, HR personnel should weigh the pros and cons of AI, especially towards applicants that are rejected.
Physarum ovisporum G. Lister, J. Bot.
Creators: name: Lado, Carlos
name: Basanta, Diana Wrigley De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Protozoa
Mycetozoa
Myxomycetes
Physarales
Physaraceae
Physarum
Physarum ovisporum

description: Physarum ovisporum G. Lister, J. Bot. 59: 90. 1921
TYPUS: Not found.
 NOTES: G. Lister (1921a: 90) wrote “ Habitat on dead leaves. This rather puzzling form has been met with in late autumn and winter in the neighbourhood of Lyme Regis, Dorset, for the last thirty years; it has been found also in East Dorset, near Porlock, Sommerset and at Chingford, Essex ”. In BM no collections or slides with these data were located, only notes and drawings in notebook V: 15 of material from Lyme Regis, Oct. 31, 1891, that coincides with the illustrations in the original publication (Plate 558, fig. 1).
In K (http://apps.kew.org/herbtrack/results) there are three specimens, K171146 [England, 1899, on leaves & twigs, anon. (ex herb. G. Lister)], K 171147 [England, 1907, anon.] and K 171148 [England, 1916, anon. (comm. H.J. Howard)], that could be type material by the dates, but no data of the locality is provided.
description: Published as part of Lado, Carlos & Basanta, Diana Wrigley De, 2018, Typification of the myxomycete taxa described by the Listers and preserved at the Natural History Museum, London (BM), pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 341 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.341.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13719359
Attitudes of small animal practitioners toward participation in veterinary clinical trials
Creators: name: Caney, Sarah M. A.
name: Griffith, Emily H.
name: Rishniw, Mark
name: Lascelles, B. Duncan X.
name: Gruen, Margaret E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: To determine attitudes of small animal practitioners toward veterinary clinical trials and variables influencing their likelihood of participating in such trials.
ระบบติดตามอุณหภูมิและความชื้นในการฟักไข่ไก่พื้นเมืองในตู้ฟักไฟฟ้าด้วยเทคโนโลยีอินเทอร์เน็ตของสรรพสิ่ง
Creators: name: กฤษฎา ภาณุมนต์วาที
Publisher: name: สถาบันวิจัยและพัฒนา มหาวิทยาลัยเทคโนโลยีราชมงคลธัญบุรี
Year: 2022
Subjects: การฟักไข่ไก่
ตู้ฟักไข่ไฟฟ้า
อินเทอร์เน็ตของสรรพสิ่ง

description: Journal of Applied Research on Science and Technology (JARST), 21, 2, 79-88
Not Always a Thymoma – About a Mediastinal Cavernous Hemangioma
Creators: name: Pinto, Paula
name: Castro, João
name: Leite, Filipe
name: Cunha, Ana Luísa
name: Lopes, Sara
name: Paupério, Gonçalo
Publisher: name: Portuguese Journal of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Surgery
Year: 2023

description: A mediastinal cavernous hemangioma is difficult to distinguish from other types of mediastinal tumours. They are usually asymptomatic and incidentally discovered in an imaging study but can present with compressive symptoms or by infiltration of adjacent structures. A 64-year-old woman with a prior history of triple negative invasive carcinoma of the breast, under surveillance was referred after a Chest CT-scan showed a soft tissue 40x20 mm mediastinal mass, suggestive of a thymoma, and as such no tissue biopsy was obtained. A right-side uniportal VATS was performed, the anterior mediastinum dissected and the mass was exposed, and several anomalous veins were identified. Histopathology showed 36x31x15 mm mass, compatible with a cavernous hemangioma of the anterior mediastinum. This case, whilst not questioning the NCCN statement suggesting not doing a tissue biopsy, points to the fact that rare differential diagnosis, like a Cavernous Hemangioma do exist, and a careful and sound judgement is needed at all times.
description: Portuguese Journal of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Vol. 30 No. 3 (2023): Jul-Sep
IMPACT DE L'AJOUT D'UNE GANGUE DE COMPOSÉS ORGANIQUES SUR LES PROPRIÉTÉS RADIATIVES DE PARTICULES DE SUIE
Creators: name: G.LEFEVRE
name: M.BOUVIER
name: J.YON
Publisher: name: Association Française d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Aérosols (ASFERA)
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Suie
subject: Diffusion de la lumière
subject: morphologie
subject: revêtement organique
subject: Soot
subject: Light scattering
subject: morphology
subject: organic coating

description: Du fait de leur impact for sur le réchauffement climatique, il est nécessaire d'approfondir notre compréhension de l'évolution des propriétés radiatives des suies une fois émises dans l'atmosphère. Dans cette étude, le vieillissement atmosphérique est simulé expérimentalement par l'ajout d'un revêtement contrôlé d'acide oléique. La restructuration morphologique est quantifiée à l'aide de mesures non optiques (SMPS et masse volumique effective) et par diffusion angulaire. Des mesures de diffusion spectrales ont également été menées sur la gamme 500-700 nm, permettant la quantification d'un facteur d'amplification dépendant de la longueur d'onde. Les résultats sont comparés avec succès avec des résultats numériques précédemment publiés et ont rendu possible la validation d'une théorie « RDG-CFA » qui pourra être intégrée dans des modèles climatiques ou pour l'interprétation de mesures reposants sur la diffusion de la lumière.
Spreading Through Air Spaces And Thinking About Lung Metastases
Creators: name: M. Castro, Patricia
name: Rei, Joana
name: Silva, Cátia
name: Miranda, José
name: Guerra, Miguel
Publisher: name: Portuguese Journal of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Surgery
Year: 2023

description: Introduction: Spread through air spaces (STAS) is a novel pattern of invasion in primary lung cancers, which was introduced in the 2015 World Health Organization classification. Several studies have validated STAS to be a predictor of clinical outcome in lung adenocarcinoma. However, little is known about STAS as a mode of intraparenchymal diffusion of pulmonary metastases (PMs). Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the incidence of STAS among PMs and the association between STAS and clinicopathological characteristics of PMs. Methods: From August 1, 2017 to July 31, 2022, 50 patients underwent pulmonary metastectomy in our center. Clinicopathological characteristics of patients were retrospectively evaluated. Continuous variables were compared by using unpaired Students t-test or MannWhitney test, as appropriate. Categorical variables were compared by using Qui-squared test or Fishers exact test as appropriate. Results: A total of 50 patients with PMs who underwent surgical resection were analyzed, 68% being male. The median age of the study population was 60 years (range 24-80). Most patients had primary cancer originating from epithelial tissue (n=45) and the remaing from mesenchymal tissue ( n=5). Colorectal cancer was the most frequent primary site of PMs (n= 32), followed by kidney (n=4) and osteosarcoma (n=3). 60% of patients (n=30) underwent sublobar resection (wedge resection or anatomic segmentectomy). STAS was observed in 10 patients (20%): 7 patients with PMs from CRC, 1 with PM from palatine tonsil, 1 from kidney and 1 from uterus. STAS was more frequent in elder patients (62 years, SD=7.099 vs 60 years, SD= 13.889; p = 0.034). Notably, STAS was significantly more frequent in PMs with larger dimension (2.8 cm, SD=2.049 vs 2.03 SD=1.104; p = 0.010), patients with lymph node metastases (p = 0.004) and in patients who underwent lobectomy rather than sublobar resection (70% vs 32.5%; p = 0.03). Although without statistically significant difference, locorregional recurrence and mortality was higher in patients with STAS+ (40% vs 22.5% and 40% vs 20%, respectively). Conclusion: VSTAS is nowadays considered to be a lung-specific tumour invasion pattern and is commonly observed in PMs of different origins.
description: Portuguese Journal of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Vol. 30 No. 3 (2023): Jul-Sep
Composite Inflation in the light of 2015 Planck data
Creators: name: Channuie, Phongpichit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we examine cosmological constraints on models of composite inflation based on the slow-roll approximation by using the recent Planck measurement. We compare the spectral index of curvature perturbation (and its running) and the tensor-to-scalar ratio predicted by such models with Planck 2015 data. We find that the predictions of technicolor inflation are nicely consistent with the Planck analysis. Moreover, the predictions from the second model, glueball inflation, are in good agreement with the Planck data at $2σ$C.L. However, the final two models, super glueball inflation and orientifold inflation, favor only the rather large value of the tensor-to-scalar ratio of which the predictions are in tension with the Planck analysis.
description: v4: intermediate revision, 7 pages, 8 figures, version accepted by Class. Quan. Grav
VERY ANXIOUS PEOPLE: ALICE NEEL’S LATE PORTRAITS
Creators: name: Callahan, Maura
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Art history
subject: Alice Neel
subject: American art
subject: Contemporary art
subject: Humanism
subject: Painting
subject: Portraiture

description: In the mid- to late 1960s, as her previously underrecognized work as a painter started to secure visibility in the art world, the American portraitist Alice Neel (1900-1984) began to minimize her subjects’ physical environments, often leaving the surrounding area a blank white field. She instead concentrated her paint within the figure, the boundaries of which became emphasized by a vivid blue outline. This attention to the figure and its borders reveals a critical nuancing of the humanist ideals her paintings purportedly defended. Rather than merely affirming the autonomy of the human subject, Neel's late portraits suggest an anxiety toward the coherence of selfhood and its sheltering within the body. This essay considers a small selection of these paintings, created between 1965 and 1982, alongside the work of preceding and contemporary artists who used portraiture to work through Western culture’s shifting conceptions of the human subject to different ends. These studies ultimately explore the possibilities and limitations of portraiture in revealing and validating the subject, and how these challenges were negotiated by Neel during the culturally transformative decades which coincided with her late career.
PROJET CaRPE : CARACTERISATION ET REDUCTION DES EMISSIONS DES PROCEDES POUDRES METALLIQUES - HAUTES ENERGIES
Creators: name: O. LE BIHAN
name: A. G. DARUT
name: M. MORGENEYER
name: F. LEZZIER
name: F. DEVESTEL
name: A. VION
name: C. BERGUERY
name: F. MORVAN
name: J. ROQUETTE
name: S. DIEU
name: B. SCHNURIGER
name: A. VIGNES
Publisher: name: Association Française d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Aérosols (ASFERA)
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Projection thermique
subject: particules métalliques
subject: émissions canalisées
subject: émissions diffuses
subject: Thermal spraying
subject: metal particles
subject: stack emissions
subject: diffuse emission

description: Les procédés métallurgiques à haute température (ou « la mise à haute température de métaux par des procédés ») tels que l'atomisation, la projection thermique ou la fabrication additive, entraînent la production d'effluents métalliques particulaires, composés pour partie de nanoparticules. Il existe un besoin en matière de connaissances, tant au niveau des propriétés de ces émissions, qu'en matière de gestion, c'est-à-dire de captage ou confinement, et de traitement. Le projet CaRPE se propose de contribuer à ce développement de connaissances, en rassemblant des acteurs de différentes spécialités (chercheurs en génie des procédés, utilisateurs de procédés, spécialistes de l'analyse de procédés en matière de risque d'émission, et enfin spécialistes en gestion des effluents) afin de répondre aux défis posés et promouvoir un développement toujours plus sûr de ces procédés.
QUANTIFICATION SPATIALE DU DÉPÔT DE SUIES DANS UN LOCAL LORS D'UN INCENDIE
Creators: name: A. KORT
name: F-X. OUF
name: T. GELAIN
name: J. MALET
name: R. LAKHMI
name: P. BREUIL
name: J-P. VIRICELLE
Publisher: name: Association Française d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Aérosols (ASFERA)
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: suies
subject: dépôt
subject: capteur résistif
subject: incendie
subject: soot
subject: deposition
subject: resistive sensor
subject: fire

description: Au cours d'un incendie dans une Installation Nucléaire de Base (INB), les principales conséquences en termes d'aérosols sont la mise en suspension de particules radioactives et la production de suies. Ce travail s'inscrit dans le cadre d'une thèse portant sur l'étude du dépôt des suies afin de prédire les quantités d'aérosols participant au colmatage des filtres à Très Haute Efficacité (THE). L'objectif final est de développer un dispositif multi-capteurs pour la quantification, en continu, des masses de suies déposées sur les parois d'une INB en situation d'incendie. Cette communication présente les résultats de quantification des suies déposées lors d'essais de feux menés à échelle réelle.
Morphological trends and genetic divergence in anacondas, genus Eunectes Wagler, 1830 (Serpentes: Boidae)
Creators: name: Tarkhnishvili, David
name: Hille, Axel
name: Waller, Thomas
name: Todua, Mariam
name: Murtskhvaladze, Marine
name: Böhme, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2022
Subjects: Evolutionary biology not elsewhere classified

description: The genus Eunectes Wagler, 1830 is divided into four nominal species: E. murinus (Linnaeus, 1758), E. notaeus Cope, 1862, E. deschauenseei Dunn and Conant, 1936, and E. beniensis Dirksen, 2002 (E. barbouri Dunn and Conant, 1936 being a synonym of E. murinus). We analyze multivariate morphological traits (scalation, coloration pattern, and body shape), sequences of one mitochondrial and five nuclear genes, and genetic patterns of randomly amplified DNA (RAPD) markers of historical geographical samples representing all known taxa. We show that the genus consists of two distinct evolutionary lineages, ‘big-bodied’ (only E. murinus) and ‘small-bodied’ anacondas. The latter group includes three morphologically distinct allopatric forms, E. notaeus, E. deschauenseei, and E. beniensis. Both phenotypically and genotypically, E. beniensis is more distant from E. notaeus and E. deschauenseei than the two latter species are from each other. However, the three nominal species of small-bodied anacondas did not show clear reciprocal monophyly and did not reach the stage of complete lineage sorting. Instead, genetic data support the presence of three incipient species of small-bodied anacondas.
Black Holes and Scalar Fields
Creators: name: Sotiriou, Thomas P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: No-hair theorems in theories of gravity with a scalar field are briefly and critically reviewed. Their significance and limitations are discussed and potential evasions are considered.
description: 16 pages, contribution to the Classical and Quantum Gravity Focus Issue "Black holes and fundamental fields"
Barriers and facilitators of interventions for improving antiretroviral therapy adherence: a systematic review of global qualitative evidence
Creators: name: Hall, Brian J.
name: Ma, Qingyan
name: Beanland, Rachel
name: Tucker, Joseph D.
name: Hu, Fengyu
name: Li, Haochu
name: Rich, Zachary C.
name: Lackey, Mellanye
name: Doherty, Meg
name: Cai, Weiping
name: Tso, Lai Sze
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Qualitative research on antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence interventions can provide a deeper understanding of intervention facilitators and barriers. This systematic review aims to synthesize qualitative evidence of interventions for improving ART adherence and to inform patient-centred policymaking.
NEITHER WOMAN NOR MAN: NEGOTIATIONS OF THE THIRD SEX IN WESTERN VISUAL CULTURE, 1900-1930
Creators: name: Cope, Ashley Lynn
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Art history
subject: Gender studies
subject: LGBTQ studies
subject: Berenice Abbott
subject: Claude Cahun
subject: Magnus Hirschfeld
subject: non-binary
subject: Romaine Brooks
subject: third sex

description: As concepts that differ across history and between cultures—even diverging radically within a single time and place—sex, gender, and desire are most accurately understood when examined through a historically and culturally specific lens. This thesis directs that lens towards the intersection of sexology and art in early-twentieth-century France with a specific interest in representations of the third-sex subject in visual culture. Classified as neither women nor men by sexologists, members of the third sex at the turn of the twentieth century occupied a turbulent middle-ground between masculinity and femininity, and defied sexual and romantic social norms. Early sexology produced a plethora of images to serve as evidence of the innate nature of sexual desire and gender identity, and queer artists consuming sexologists’ work responded in kind with artistic works that grappled with theories of gender and sexual identity. This study deepens art historical engagement with images that contributed to and were influenced by sexology discourse in the early-twentieth century; artists like Romaine Brooks, Berenice Abbott, and Claude Cahun negotiated sexological theories about sex and gender in artworks that challenge binary conceptions of identity and make visible the third-sex subject.
Health outcomes among HIV-positive Latinos initiating antiretroviral therapy in North America versus Central and South America
Creators: name: Wolff, Marcelo
name: Gotuzzo, Eduardo
name: Althoff, Keri N.
name: Cahn, Pedro
name: Willig, James
name: Rebeiro, Peter
name: Napravnik, Sonia
name: Moore, Richard D.
name: Cesar, Carina
name: Giganti, Mark J.
name: Shepherd, Bryan E.
name: Sierra-Madero, Juan
name: Sterling, Timothy R.
name: Koethe, John R.
name: Rodriguez-Barradas, Maria C.
name: Mayor, Angel
name: Grinsztejn, Beatriz
name: Levison, Julie
name: Padgett, Denis
name: Kitahata, Mari
name: McGowan, Catherine
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: IntroductionLatinos living with HIV in the Americas share a common ethnic and cultural heritage. In North America, Latinos have a relatively high rate of new HIV infections but lower rates of engagement at all stages of the care continuum, whereas in Latin America antiretroviral therapy (ART) services continue to expand to meet treatment needs. In this analysis, we compare HIV treatment outcomes between Latinos receiving ART in North America versus Latin America.MethodsHIV-positive adults initiating ART at Caribbean, Central and South America Network for HIV (CCASAnet) sites were compared to Latino patients (based on country of origin or ethnic identity) starting treatment at North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design (NA-ACCORD) sites in the United States and Canada between 2000 and 2011. Cox proportional hazards models compared mortality, treatment interruption, antiretroviral regimen change, virologic failure and loss to follow-up between cohorts.ResultsThe study included 8400 CCASAnet and 2786 NA-ACCORD patients initiating ART. CCASAnet patients were younger (median 35 vs. 37 years), more likely to be female (27% vs. 20%) and had lower nadir CD4 count (median 148 vs. 195 cells/µL, p<0.001 for all). In multivariable analyses, CCASAnet patients had a higher risk of mortality after ART initiation (adjusted hazard ratio (AHR) 1.61; 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.32 to 1.96), particularly during the first year, but a lower hazard of treatment interruption (AHR: 0.46; 95% CI: 0.42 to 0.50), change to second-line ART (AHR: 0.56; 95% CI: 0.51 to 0.62) and virologic failure (AHR: 0.52; 95% CI: 0.48 to 0.57).ConclusionsHIV-positive Latinos initiating ART in Latin America have greater continuity of treatment but are at higher risk of death than Latinos in North America. Factors underlying these differences, such as HIV testing, linkage and access to care, warrant further investigation.
Transactional sex among young women in rural South Africa: prevalence, mediators and association with HIV infection
Creators: name: Hughes, James P.
name: Silverwood, Richard J.
name: Macphail, Catherine
name: Gómez-Olivé, F. Xavier
name: Piwowar-Manning, Estelle
name: Laeyendecker, Oliver
name: Pettifor, Audrey
name: Watts, Charlotte
name: Ranganathan, Meghna
name: Delany-Moretlwe, Sinead
name: Kahn, Kathleen
name: Heise, Lori
name: Selin, Amanda
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Young adolescent women in sub-Saharan Africa are three to four times more likely to be HIV-positive than boys or men. One of the relationship dynamics that is likely to be associated with young women's increased vulnerability to HIV is transactional sex. There are a range of HIV-related risk behaviours that may drive this vulnerability. However, to date, limited epidemiological data exist on the role of transactional sex in increasing HIV acquisition, especially among young women in sub-Saharan Africa. Our paper presents data on the prevalence of self-reported engagement in transactional sex and explores whether transactional sex is associated with increased risk of HIV infection among a cohort of young, rural, sexually active South African women. We also explore whether this relationship is mediated through certain HIV-related risk behaviours.
A novel Online-to-Offline (O2O) model for pre-exposure prophylaxis and HIV testing scale up
Creators: name: Anand, Tarandeep
name: Phanuphak, Praphan
name: Phanuphak, Nittaya
name: Trachunthong, Deondara
name: Hightow-Weidman, Lisa B.
name: Linjongrat, Danai
name: Kerr, Stephen J.
name: Nitpolprasert, Chattiya
name: Janyam, Surang
name: Ananworanich, Jintanat
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Introduction: PrEP awareness and uptake among men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women (TG) in Thailand remains low. Finding ways to increase HIV testing and PrEP uptake among high-risk groups is a critical priority. This study evaluates the effect of a novel Adam’s Love Online-to-Offline (O2O) model on PrEP and HIV testing uptake among Thai MSM and TG and identifies factors associated with PrEP uptake.
Associations between friendship characteristics and HIV and HSV-2 status amongst young South African women in HPTN-068
Creators: name: Selin, Amanda
name: Piwowar-Manning, Estelle
name: Laeyendecker, Oliver
name: Pettifor, Audrey E
name: Gómez-Olivé, F Xavier
name: Delany-Moretlwe, Sinéad
name: Wiggins, Richard D
name: MacPhail, Catherine
name: Fearon, Elizabeth
name: Kahn, Kathleen
name: Hargreaves, James R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: INTRODUCTION: Prevalence of HIV among young women in South Africa remains extremely high. Adolescent peer groups have been found to be an important influence on a range of health behaviours. The characteristics of young women's friendships might influence their sexual health and HIV risk via connections to sexual partners, norms around sexual initiation and condom use, or provision of social support. We investigated associations between young women's friendships and their Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 (HSV-2) and HIV infection status in rural South Africa. METHODS: Our study is a cross-sectional, egocentric network analysis. In 2011 to 2012, we tested 13- to 20-year-old young women for HIV and HSV-2, and collected descriptions of five friendships for each. We generated summary measures describing friend socio-demographic characteristics and the number of friends perceived to have had sex. We used logistic regression to analyse associations between friend characteristics and participant HIV and HSV-2 infection, excluding likely perinatal HIV infections. RESULTS: There were 2326 participants included in the study sample, among whom HIV and HSV-2 prevalence were 3.3% and 4.6% respectively. Adjusted for participant and friend socio-demographic characteristics, each additional friend at least one year older than the participant was associated with raised odds of HIV (odds ratio (OR) = 1.37, 95% CI 1.03 to 1.82) and HSV-2 (adjusted OR=1.41, 95% CI 1.18 to 1.69). Each additional friend perceived to have ever had sex also raised the odds of HIV (OR = 1.29, 95% CI 1.03 to 1.63) and HSV-2 (OR=1.18, 95% CI 1.03 to 1.35). DISCUSSION: We found good evidence that a greater number of older friends and friends perceived to have had sex were associated with increased risk for HSV-2 and HIV infection among young women. CONCLUSIONS: The characteristics of young women's friendships could contribute to their risk of HIV infection. The extent to which policies or programmes influence age-mixing and young women's normative environments should be considered.
title: Gibt es eine relevante Zunahme von Gelenk- und extraartikulären Schädigungen bei Patienten mit einer juvenilen idiopathischen Arthritis (JIA) im Therapieverlauf unter aktuellen therapeutischen Bedingungen?
Creators: name: Klotsche, Jens
name: Niewerth, Martina
name: Sengler, Claudia
name: Liedmann, Ina
name: Kümmerle-Deschner, Jasmin
name: Weller-Heinemann, Frank
name: Hospach, Anton
name: Ganser, Gerd
name: Foeldvari, Ivan
name: Minden, Kirsten
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Ein wichtiges therapeutisches Ziel bei der Behandlung der JIA ist die Vermeidung von Behinderungen und Schädigungen. Bisher gibt es wenige Daten zur Häufigkeit von Schädigungen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen mit JIA. Anhand der Daten der JIA-Inzeptionskohorte ICON kann die Prävalenz[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 46. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 32. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh), Wissenschaftliche Herbsttagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie (GKJR)
Effects of collisions on conservation laws in gyrokinetic field theory
Creators: name: Sugama, H.
name: Watanabe, T. -H.
name: Nunami, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Effects of collisions on conservation laws for toroidal plasmas are investigated based on the gyrokinetic field theory. Associating the collisional system with a corresponding collisionless system at a given time such that the two systems have the same distribution functions and electromagnetic fields instantaneously, it is shown how the collisionless conservation laws derived from Noether's theorem are modified by the collision term. Effects of the external source term added into the gyrokinetic equation can be formulated similarly with the collisional effects. Particle, energy, and toroidal momentum balance equations including collisional and turbulent transport fluxes are systematically derived using a novel gyrokinetic collision operator, by which the collisional change rates of energy and canonical toroidal angular momentum per unit volume in the gyrocenter space can be given in the conservative forms. The ensemble-averaged transport equations of particles, energy, and toroidal momentum given in the present work are shown to include classical, neoclassical, and turbulent transport fluxes which agree with those derived from conventional recursive formulations.
description: 19 pages
title: Schwangerschaftsassoziierte Osteoporose: Langzeit-Outcome einer sehr seltenen Erkrankung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Psyche
Creators: name: Gehlen, Martin
name: Lazarescu, Ana Doina
name: Hinz, Christian
name: Schwarz-Eywill, Michael
name: Pfeifer, Michael
name: Dräger, Bettina
name: Maier, Anna
name: Tiefenbach, Martina
name: Minne, Helmut
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Eine schwangerschaftsassoziierte Osteoporose ist eine sehr seltene Erkrankung (4-6 Erkrankungen pro 1 Million Schwangerschaften, ca. 200 publizierte Fälle). Fragestellung: • Was ist die Ursache für die starken psychischen Probleme und wie können diese beeinflusst[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 46. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 32. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh), Wissenschaftliche Herbsttagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie (GKJR)
SPHERICAL GAS-FUELED COOL DIFFUSION FLAMES
Creators: name: Kim, Minhyeng
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mechanical engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: Chemical engineering
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering
subject: Cool flame
subject: Formaldehyde
subject: Intensified video camera
subject: Microgravity combustion
subject: Porous burner

description: An improved understanding of cool diffusion flames could lead to improved engines. These flames are investigated here using a spherical porous burner with gaseous fuels in the microgravity environment of the International Space Station. Normal and inverse flames burning ethane, propane, and n-butane were explored with various fuel and oxygen concentrations, pressures, and flow rates. The diagnostics included an intensified video camera, radiometers, thin-filament pyrometry, and thermocouples. Spherical cool diffusion flames, transitioned from hot flames, burning gases were observed for the first time. However, these cool flames were not readily produced and were only obtained for normal n-butane flames at 2 bar with an ambient oxygen mole fraction of 0.39. The sizes of hot and cool diffusion flames were investigated with the intensified camera images. The hot flames that spawned the cool flames were 2.6 times as large. An analytical model is presented that combines previous models for steady droplet burning and the partial-burning regime for cool diffusion flames. The results identify the importance of burner temperature on the behavior of these cool flames. They also indicate that the observed cool flames reside in rich regions near a mixture fraction of 0.53.
Barriers to HIV remission research in low- and middle-income countries
Creators: name: Godfrey, Catherine
name: Sikwesi, Kenly
name: Tucker, Joseph D.
name: Van Zyl, Gert U.
name: Rossouw, Theresa
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Introduction: HIV eradication and remission research has largely taken place in high-income countries. In low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), there may be factors that have a substantial impact on the size of the latent HIV reservoir and the immunological response to infection. If a curative strategy is to be available to all HIV-infected individuals, these factors must be understood.