cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 1 of Can routine health facility data be used to monitor subnational coverage of maternal, newborn and child health services in Uganda?
Creators: name: Agiraembabazi, Geraldine
name: Ogwal, Jimmy
name: Tashobya, Christine
name: Kananura, Rornald Muhumuza
name: Boerma, Ties
name: Waiswa, Peter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Summary of results of regression of reported annual numbers of ANC1 and penta1 by national, subregional and district levels. Table S2. Absolute difference between two health facility data coverage estimates with either population projection denominator or health facility data derived denominator and the UDHS 2016 results (or UMIS 2018 in case of IPT2). Figure S1. Completeness of reporting for MCH by district, 2015–2019, DHIS2, Uganda. Figure S2. Population coverage of measles vaccination among infants, intermittent preventive therapy second dose (IPT 2) among pregnant women and deliveries in health facilities and antenatal care 4th visit by subregion according to Uganda DHS 2016 (bar), and derived from health facility reported data according to denominator method (population projection – dash and health facility data derived - dots). Figure S3. Percent of districts with less plausible coverage estimates according to denominator method (population projection and health facility data derived).
Molecular role of ethylene in fruit r​ipening of Ziziphus jujube Mill
Creators: name: Bai, Zhenqing
name: Zu, Huanhuan
name: Wang, Rui
name: Gao, Xinxin
name: Zou, Ting
name: Chen, Guoliang
name: Wu, Jiawen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: The fruit of Chinese jujube (Ziziphus jujube) is widely consumed by human beings due to its high proteins, vitamins, and mineral nutrients. The harvest time of Chinese jujube fruit determines its quality, while ethylene plays a pivotal role in fruit ripening. Nevertheless, the relationship between ethylene biosynthesis/signal transduction and fruit ripening of Chinese jujube is still elusive. Here, the Chinese jujube fruit ripening with its fruit peel color change from cyan to dark red at seven different ripening stages (stage I–VII) and expression levels of genes related to ethylene synthesis and signal transduction were determined. Results showed that expression levels of ZjACO1-3, ZjETR2, ZjERF1, and ZjERF4 were increasingly upregulated, whereas the expression levels of ZjERS1, ZjETI, ZjERF2, and ZjERF3 were downregulated from green to red fruit ripening stages. Among them, ZjACO1-3 promoters contain ethylene response element. Taken together, Chinese jujube fruit ripening might be affected by the ethylene signaling which was mainly regulated by ZjACO, a gene involved in ethylene biosynthesis. This research supports theories and techniques for the storage, preservation and molecular breeding of Z. jujube.
Tra discriminazione religiosa e libertà matrimoniale: il contrasto agli sham marriages nell'ordinamento giuridico britannico
Creators: name: Giordano Gennaro, Luca
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011
Subjects: Matrimonio

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Brevi cenni sull’immigrazione verso il Regno Unito - 2. Gli sham marriages e la pronuncia di illegittimità dell’Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Act del 2004 - 3. Riflessioni conclusive.
Ora nel volume collettaneo (a cura di V. TOZZI e M. PARISI),Immigrazione e soluzioni legislative in Italia e Spagna. Istanze autonomistiche, società multiculturali, diritti civili e di cittadinanza, ed. Arti Grafiche la Regione, Ripalimosani, 2007, p. 379 ss.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2007: 20 marzo
Indipendenza degli “ordini” di Stato e Chiesa e ruolo del Presidente della Repubblica
Creators: name: Ruggeri, Antonio
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011
Subjects: Diritto ecclesiastico

description: (ordinario di Diritto costituzionale nella facoltà di Giurisprudenza
dell’Università degli Studi di Messina)
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2007: 20 marzo
Caminando y miando : a reflection on academic practice
Creators: name: Horner, Geoffrey Allen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: This thesis is an exploration of academic methodologies including scholarly distance, the archive, and linear time, using the insights that I gained as a researcher and friend with Refugio Gregorio Bautista, a Nu Savi traditional food chef from Oaxaca; Mexico, Pedro Herminio Bautista Rojas, also Nu Savi from Oaxaca and an agricultural expert; and Jaalen Edenshaw, a Haida carver from Masset, B.C.. During my time with these three indigenous people and their communities, I learned about different aspects of their ancestral practices, and participated in different ways in their work, planting, cooking Oaxacan chocolate mole sauce, as well as sharing stories and experiences. In this dissertation, I use the insights that I have gained so far from my experience with them to explore ways in which the three central tools of the disciplines of history and anthropology are limiting due to a legacy of the trivialization of non-written ways of knowing. Though some scholars are increasingly focused on the embodied aspects of scholarly work that often go unacknowledged or unappreciated, my experience with Pedro, Doña Vicky and Jaalen has opened me to the possibility of ways of knowing that put embodiment and relationships to the land at the centre of knowing. Through a dialogue with academic sources and with the three participants, I traverse different facets of the construction of knowledge as it takes place in academic settings where people rely heavily on visual and textual systems for the production of truth and meaning.
Random variables as pathwise integrals with respect to fractional Brownian motion
Creators: name: Mishura, Yuliya
name: Shevchenko, Georgiy
name: Valkeila, Esko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60G22, 60H05, 60G15, 91G10

description: We show that a pathwise stochastic integral with respect to fractional Brownian motion with an adapted integrand $g$ can have any prescribed distribution, moreover, we give both necessary and sufficient conditions when random variables can be represented in this form. We also prove that any random variable is a value of such integral in some improper sense. We discuss some applications of these results, in particular, to fractional Black--Scholes model of financial market.
P. Casalegno - Brevissima introduzione alla filosofia del linguaggio
Creators: name: Brevini, Costanza
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: InKoj. Philosophy & Artificial Languages, New series, Vol 3, No 1 (2012): Which Language for Europe? / Kiu Lingvo por Eŭropo?
title: Uncommon metastases from primary lung cancer
Creators: name: BEN MARZOUK, SALMA
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Staging
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Oncology
subject: Lung

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The aim of this work is to illustrate imaging findings of primary lung carcinoma metastases in unusual...
Effect of disorder with long-range correlation on transport in graphene nanoribbon
Creators: name: Zhang, G. P.
name: Gao, M.
name: Zhang, Y. Y.
name: Liu, N.
name: Qin, Z. J.
name: Shangguan, M. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transport in disordered armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGR) with long-range correlation between quantum wire contact is investigated by transfer matrix combined with Landauer's formula. Metal-insulator transition is induced by disorder in neutral AGR. Thereinto, the conductance is one conductance quantum for metallic phase and exponentially decays otherwise when the length of AGR is infinity and far longer than its width. Similar to the case of long-range disorder, the conductance of neutral AGR first increases and then decreases while the conductance of doped AGR monotonically decreases, as the disorder strength increases. In the presence of strong disorder, the conductivity depends monotonically and non-monotonically on the aspect ratio for heavily doped and slightly doped AGR respectively.
description: 6 pages, 8 figures; J. Phys: Condensed Matter (May 2012)
La glossopoiesi: un'eredità culturale per la nostra epoca
Creators: name: Cerbasi, Donato
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: In questo articolo intendiamo proporre alcune riflessioni sulla glossopoiesi, con particolare riferimento alla creazione di lingue costruite aposteriori da utilizzare come lingue ausiliarie per la comunicazione internazionale. Accenneremo prima per grandi linee alle lontane radici storiche delfenomeno per poi soffermarci su quella grande stagione del pensiero linguistico europeo che vide all’opera grandi glottoteti tra fine Ottocento e prima metà del Novecento, in modo da prendere in considerazione l’utilità di tale eredità per il nostro attuale mondo globalizzato, specie per quanto concerne le prospettive dell’esperanto, la lingua ausiliaria costruita che meglio ha rettofinora alla prova del tempo.
description: InKoj. Philosophy & Artificial Languages, New series, Vol 3, No 2 (2012): New Languages for new Means of Communication
L’espéranto et sa phraséologie: un processus d’humanisation
Creators: name: Pigro, Roberto
name: Papakosta, Eleftheria
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: 125 years after its first publication, the international language Es-peranto is not only alive and well, but the number of its speakers is on theincrease. While globalization has often been blamed for the demise of minority languages and dialects, this phenomenon has actually been advanta-geous for Esperanto. Thanks to radio and television, newspapers, magazines,and above all, the Internet, Esperanto speakers from all over the world areable to contact one another and make use of the language. Just as in the pasttelevision contributed to the development of Italian as a national language,in the same way the modern means of communication, in addition to nume-rous international conferences and other events, have contributed to the de-velopment of new idioms in Esperanto, putting into effect what the authorsdescribe as a genuine “process of humanization”. In this article the authorslist over a hundred idiomatic expressions in Esperanto, comparing them witha similar number of expressions from English, French, Italian and modernGreek. It can clearly be seen how Esperanto tends to adopt expressions whichare widely used at the international level, expressing them in the simplest andmost logical form. Since many of them are Biblical or literary in origin, andare shared by numerous languages and peoples, they can be understood atonce, even when the languages are not closely related.
description: InKoj. Philosophy & Artificial Languages, New series, Vol 3, No 2 (2012): New Languages for new Means of Communication
title: Uterine fibroid in all its states: MRI findings.
Creators: name: Hriz, hasna
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Pelvis
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female
subject: MR
subject: Education
subject: Embolisation
subject: Neoplasia

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: 1- Reminderaboutradiological anatomy of the female pelvis. 2- Review FIGO classification of uterine fibroids. 3- Illustrate the various radiological aspects of uterine myomas, studying selected cases of...
title: New alternative uses of stentriever: cerebral vasospasm and distal-access tool during aneurysms embolization with flow-diverters
Creators: name: Garignano, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Aneurysms
subject: Embolisation
subject: Angioplasty
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Neuroradiology brain

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Stentriever can be a feasible option in other procedures than mechanical thrombectomy, such as in the treatment of SAH-induced vasospasm and as an adjunctive toolin thetreatment of wide-necked cerebral aneurysms with flow-diverter...
Identifying the colour of TeV-scale resonances
Creators: name: Ask, S.
name: Collins, J. H.
name: Forshaw, J. R.
name: Joshi, K.
name: Pilkington, A. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore how the colour of any new TeV-scale resonances that decay into top quark pairs can be identified by studying the dependence of the observed cross-section on a central jet veto. To facilitate this study, colour octet resonance production was implemented in Pythia8 and colour singlet resonance production is simulated after minor modifications. We find that the colour of a 2 TeV resonance can be identified with 10/fb of data at a centre-of-mass energy of 14 TeV for a wide range of couplings, but only if the uncertainty in the theoretical prediction is dramatically reduced from its current level.
description: 18 pages, 10 figures
Поселение середины І тыс.н.э у с.Казаровичи
Creators: name: Орлов, Руслан
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430101
subject: Archaeological science

description: Орлов Р.С Поселение середины І тыс.н.э у с.Казаровичи — Археологические исследования на Украине в 1968г. К., 1971, с.227-229.Settlement of the mid-1st millennium AD near the village of Kazarovychi
Applying Extreme Value Analysis (EVA) to Daily and Monthly Precipitation in Iraq
Creators: name: Masciangioli, Pánfilo
name: Pelegrí, Josep L.
name: ALI RAHEEM AL-NASSAR
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Extreme value analysis, block maxima, peak over threshold, precipitation, trend, Iraq

description: Extreme value analysis (EVA) is a branch of statistics focused on assessing the probability of extreme events. Unlike typical statistical methods that focus on average or common events, EVA is concerned with the tails of probability distributions, those rare but impactful occurrences that can have significant consequences.

When analyzing extreme values, especially when there are multiple high values in a single block (hourly, daily, monthly, yearly), we normally consider two approaches to estimate extreme values for different return periods: Block Maxima (BM) Method and Peak Over threshold (POT) Method.

Both methods, BM and POT are powerful tools in extreme value analysis but are suited to different types of data and research questions. POT is more flexible and detailed for rare events, while BM offers simplicity and ease of interpretation. The choice between them depends on the nature of the data, the research objectives, and practical considerations. In many cases, both methods are used to improve the reliability of the results.

In the analysis of monthly precipitation in the four selected locations in Iraq (Baghdad, Mosul, Rutba and Basrah), we observed that the dry season extends from June to September, while in Baghdad, on a daily scale, it extends from late May to late October. Monthly precipitation data follows different distributions: Gamma in Mosul, Rutba, and Basrah, Chi-squared in Baghdad, and an exponential distribution for daily data in Baghdad.

The study indicates a decreasing trend in the monthly precipitation data for Mosul and Rutba, while Baghdad and Basrah do not exhibit such trends. For the 100-year return period, the daily precipitation in Baghdad is estimated to be 140 mm, with monthly return values ranging from 154 to 162 mm. In Mosul, the monthly return values range from 207 to 220 mm; in Rutba, from 138 to 145 mm; and in Basrah, from 129 to 134 mm.

The results from the HEC-SSP model and a Python script for Block Maxima (BM) analyses are consistent. Additionally, the Peak Over Threshold (POT) method applied to the short data series in Baghdad's daily analysis shows a notable improvement in reducing the confidence interval size compared to BM. Monthly analyses using both POT and BM methods yielded similar results, demonstrating the reliability of the substantial 86-year dataset and the analyses performed.
title: Comparison between calculations and measurements of radiation dose delivered to patient during an interventional cardiology procedure using a DACS
Creators: name: Maaloul, Fouad
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Radiation physics
subject: Cardiac
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Technology assessment
subject: Obstruction / Occlusion

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: 'Interventional Radiology (IR)' is a wide range of minimally invasive image-guided therapy & diagnostic imaging. In its proceeding's summary (2017), the European Society of Radiologyreported that this specialty is expanding because of its proven...
Applying Extreme Value Analysis (EVA) to Daily and Monthly Precipitation in Iraq
Creators: name: Masciangioli, Pánfilo
name: Pelegrí, Josep L.
name: ALI RAHEEM AL-NASSAR
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Extreme value analysis, block maxima, peak over threshold, precipitation, trend, Iraq

description: Extreme value analysis (EVA) is a branch of statistics focused on assessing the probability of extreme events. Unlike typical statistical methods that focus on average or common events, EVA is concerned with the tails of probability distributions, those rare but impactful occurrences that can have significant consequences.

When analyzing extreme values, especially when there are multiple high values in a single block (hourly, daily, monthly, yearly), we normally consider two approaches to estimate extreme values for different return periods: Block Maxima (BM) Method and Peak Over threshold (POT) Method.

Both methods, BM and POT are powerful tools in extreme value analysis but are suited to different types of data and research questions. POT is more flexible and detailed for rare events, while BM offers simplicity and ease of interpretation. The choice between them depends on the nature of the data, the research objectives, and practical considerations. In many cases, both methods are used to improve the reliability of the results.

In the analysis of monthly precipitation in the four selected locations in Iraq (Baghdad, Mosul, Rutba and Basrah), we observed that the dry season extends from June to September, while in Baghdad, on a daily scale, it extends from late May to late October. Monthly precipitation data follows different distributions: Gamma in Mosul, Rutba, and Basrah, Chi-squared in Baghdad, and an exponential distribution for daily data in Baghdad.

The study indicates a decreasing trend in the monthly precipitation data for Mosul and Rutba, while Baghdad and Basrah do not exhibit such trends. For the 100-year return period, the daily precipitation in Baghdad is estimated to be 140 mm, with monthly return values ranging from 154 to 162 mm. In Mosul, the monthly return values range from 207 to 220 mm; in Rutba, from 138 to 145 mm; and in Basrah, from 129 to 134 mm.

The results from the HEC-SSP model and a Python script for Block Maxima (BM) analyses are consistent. Additionally, the Peak Over Threshold (POT) method applied to the short data series in Baghdad's daily analysis shows a notable improvement in reducing the confidence interval size compared to BM. Monthly analyses using both POT and BM methods yielded similar results, demonstrating the reliability of the substantial 86-year dataset and the analyses performed.
description: Errata:

"The return period of 20 years indicated in Table 18 of the Result Summary must be changed to 10 years."
Dal linguaggio agli oggetti, dagli oggetti al linguaggio
Creators: name: Brunialti Masera, Gianmarco
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: Sin dall’antichità ed a partire da una molteplicità di prospettive differenti, la storia del pensiero filosofico e scientifico e costellata da tentativi reiterati di individuare una strutturazione più o meno sistematica di porzioni di realtà. Uno dei punti di partenza fondamentali e spesso stato lo studio, la ricerca e la messa a pun-to di linguaggi irreggimentati – adeguati e non ambigui – che fungessero da ideale cornice concettuale di lavoro per esplicitare le loro proprietà e strutture. Tuttavia, lo stesso dibattito sull’individuazione di quella characteristica universalis che rimanda`ad un’indagine piu approfondita sulle basi e le finalità teoriche che risultano costitutivi di tale dibattito: il caso esemplare che si vuole presentare e quello delle assun-zioni ontologico-metafisiche retrostanti al «programma logicista» di Gottlob Frege, all’interno alle dispute filosofico-matematiche di fine Ottocento, nella costruzione diun linguaggio formale che permettesse di rilevare ed estrinsecare in modo precisole basi logiche del ragionamento (e dello stesso linguaggio naturale) per poter dare fondamento adeguato alla matematica. A cio verrà contrapposta la presentazione di una panoramica del sistema formale di Stanislaw Leśniewski (mereologia estensionale), che prende avvio da assunzioni teoriche opposte e si orienta verso una profonda revisione metafisica sia delle entità che la teoria va a trattare, che della loro concettualizzazione.
description: InKoj. Philosophy & Artificial Languages, New series, Vol 3, No 2 (2012): New Languages for new Means of Communication
Conformal and Affine Hamiltonian Dynamics of General Relativity
Creators: name: Pervushin, V. N.
name: Arbuzov, A. B.
name: Barbashov, B. M.
name: Nazmitdinov, R. G.
name: Borowiec, A.
name: Pichugin, K. N.
name: Zakharov, A. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Hamiltonian approach to the General Relativity is formulated as a joint nonlinear realization of conformal and affine symmetries by means of the Dirac scalar dilaton and the Maurer-Cartan forms. The dominance of the Casimir vacuum energy of physical fields provides a good description of the type Ia supernova luminosity distance--redshift relation. Introducing the uncertainty principle at the Planck's epoch within our model, we obtain the hierarchy of the Universe energy scales, which is supported by the observational data. We found that the invariance of the Maurer-Cartan forms with respect to the general coordinate transformation yields a single-component strong gravitational waves. The Hamiltonian dynamics of the model describes the effect of an intensive vacuum creation of gravitons and the minimal coupling scalar (Higgs) bosons in the Early Universe.
description: 37 pages, version submitted to Gen. Rel. Grav
Additional file 1 of Measuring coverage of maternal and child health services using routine health facility data: a Sierra Leone case study
Creators: name: Maïga, Abdoulaye
name: Amouzou, Agbessi
name: Bagayoko, Moussa
name: Faye, Cheikh M.
name: Jiwani, Safia S.
name: Kamara, Dauda
name: Koroma, Ibrahim B.
name: Sankoh, Osman
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.
Quantifying the Biases of Spectroscopically Selected Gravitational Lenses
Creators: name: Arneson, Ryan A.
name: Brownstein, Joel R.
name: Bolton, Adam S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spectroscopic selection has been the most productive technique for the selection of galaxy-scale strong gravitational lens systems with known redshifts. Statistically significant samples of strong lenses provide a powerful method for measuring the mass-density parameters of the lensing population, but results can only be generalized to the parent population if the lensing selection biases are sufficiently understood. We perform controlled Monte Carlo simulations of spectroscopic lens surveys in order to quantify the bias of lenses relative to parent galaxies in velocity dispersion, mass axis ratio, and mass density profile. For parameters typical of the SLACS and BELLS surveys, we find: (1) no significant mass axis ratio detection bias of lenses relative to parent galaxies; (2) a very small detection bias toward shallow mass density profiles, which is likely negligible compared to other sources of uncertainty in this parameter; (3) a detection bias towards smaller Einstein radius for systems drawn from parent populations with group- and cluster-scale lensing masses; and (4) a lens-modeling bias towards larger velocity dispersions for systems drawn from parent samples with sub-arcsecond mean Einstein radii. This last finding indicates that the incorporation of velocity-dispersion upper limits of \textit{non-lenses} is an important ingredient for unbiased analyses of spectroscopically selected lens samples. In general we find that the completeness of spectroscopic lens surveys in the plane of Einstein radius and mass-density profile power-law index is quite uniform, up to a sharp drop in the region of large Einstein radius and steep mass density profile, and hence that such surveys are ideally suited to the study of massive field galaxies.
description: Accepted for publication in Astrophys. J., June 7, 2012. In press. 9 pages, 5 figures, 1 table
title: Radiofrequency ablation in the treatment of benign thyroid nodules. How can I perform it?
Creators: name: CASES SUSARTE, IRENE
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Pathology
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Education
subject: Ablation procedures
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Percutaneous
subject: Thyroid / Parathyroids
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Head and neck

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To depict the technique, indications and main complications of ultrasound-guided radiofrequency ablation as a minimally invasive treatment of benign thyroid nodules. Also to illustrate two cases from our...
title: Added advantage of automated breast ultrasound in the detection of breast lesions in mammographically dense breast
Creators: name: Elmosselhy, Alaa
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Image compression
subject: Staging
subject: History
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The aim of this study is to assess the ability of ABUS to detect mammographically occult breast lesions at dense breasts. Assessing the diagnostic parameters of ABUS compared to digital mammography as well as HHUS in detection of breast lesions in...
Hydrogen‐induced damage of lead‐zirconate‐titanate (PZT)
Creators: name: Mohammadabadi, Ali Shafiei
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Lead-Zirconate-Titanate Pb(Zr,Ti)O₃ (PZT) based actuators are evaluated by automotive industry for advanced fuel-injection systems, including hydrogen injection. However, hydrogen can have deleterious effect on the PZT's functionality and properties. The general objective of this work is to study the interactions between PZT and hydrogen. The results of long-term (200-1200 hours) high-pressure (10 MPa) hydrogen exposure on the PZT microstructure show that hydrogen has only superficial effects on the microstructure of bare PZT. However, when an electrode is attached to PZT, the hydrogen damage increased; a porous layer developed immediately adjacent to the electrodes on the PZT surface due to hydrogen spillover. The kinetics of the PZT structural modifications due to hydrogen was investigated by online monitoring of the electrical properties of PZT above the Curie temperature, up to 650°C. The results show that the structural changes can be described by the classical nucleation and growth theory. The growth of the new structure appears to be limited by the diffusion of protons into PZT, with a calculated activation energy of 0.44± 0.09 eV, at 450-650°C. Two relaxation peaks were observed in the dissipation factor curves of the hydrogen-treated PZT. While the kinetics of one of the relaxation peaks obeys the classical Arrhenius law with the activation energy of 0.66 eV, the other peak shows an unusual relaxation kinetic. The mechanisms for the formation of these relaxation peaks are determined. Low temperature (20°C) diffusion of hydrogen into the PZT was also studied, using the water electrolysis technique. Based on the microstructural observations, the diffusion coefficient of hydrogen in PZT was calculated as 9×10-¹¹ cm²/sec. The Maxwell-Wagner polarization mechanism is determined to be responsible for the changes in the hydrogen-affected PZT capacitance. In the last part of the project, alumina coatings were applied to PZT plates using the sol-gel technique, to explore the possibilities of decreasing H₂ damage to PZT. The functionality of the coating against hydrogen damage was evaluated by the water electrolysis technique. Significant decrease of hydrogen damage was observed even for highly porous coatings. The mechanisms by which the alumina coating decreases the hydrogen damage were tentatively proposed.
Application of Machine Learning Algorithms and Mathematical Modelling to Optimise University Learning Analytics
Creators: name: Ikechukwu, Ogbuchi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Data-driven insights play a pivotal role in optimising learning analytics within higher educationinstitutions. Despite their importance, much of the data in these institutions remains untapped,trapped in siloed data stores. This study addresses this challenge by applying machine learningand mathematical modelling using a learning analytics research framework (Khalil et al.,2022), encompassing phases of data insights, analytics, and intervention. The study aimed toidentify features influencing learner progression and discover student groups in educationalenvironments. Utilising data from 1,017 students over a 3-year period, the research employedunsupervised machine learning techniques and automated student feedback. Feature analysisidentified attendance, interactions, time intervals, and activities related to quizzes andworkshops as useful predictors of students requiring additional support. K-means modelperforms best with an average recall of 89% and an overall accuracy of 72% for identifying atrisk student groups using non-personally identifying data.The findings emphasise the utility of unsupervised machine learning for early identification ofat-risk students, enabling timely interventions to prevent potential failure or dropout.Personalised and automated feedback forms summarising students’ progression received highratings, 93% rating for usefulness from students, highlighting their satisfaction with it as alearning analytics intervention. Insights highlight the importance of data quality, personalisedfeedback, and transparent communication with learners. Challenges, such as automatingfeedback and scalability, are addressed, along with the necessity of leveraging non-personallyidentified data to mitigate bias.The incorporation of a data science approach, enriched by machine learning, holds the potentialto provide stakeholders with enriched insights, boost student engagement, and enhance overallstudent outcomes. This study will extend the body of knowledge of how machine learningmodelling can be used to foster and promote student success in higher education.
Additional file 1 of Patient gender does not influence referral to an orthopaedic surgeon by advanced practice orthopaedic providers: a prospective observational study in Canada
Creators: name: Robarts, Susan
name: Denis, Suzanne
name: Kennedy, Deborah
name: Dickson, Patricia
name: Juma, Shahiroz
name: Palinkas, Veronica
name: Rachevitz, Maria
name: Boljanovic-Susic, Dragana
name: Stratford, Paul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Patient Questionnaire: Reasons for not proceeding to see a surgeon.
Teleparallel gauge theory of gravity
Creators: name: Maluf, J. W.
name: Faria, F. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work a tetrad theory of gravity, invariant under conformal transformations, is investigated. The action of the theory is similar to the action of Maxwell's electromagnetism. The role of the electromagnetic gauge potential is played by the trace of the torsion tensor of the Weitzenböck spacetime. It is shown that all static, spherically symmetric space-times, are solutions of the vacuum field equations. However, by fixing the gauge in the linearized form of the vacuum field equations, the usual Newtonian limit for the gravitational field is obtained.
description: 10 pages, no figures, 5 references added
Relation of isospin-symmetry breaking correction for superallowed beta decay to energy of charge-exchange giant monopole resonance
Creators: name: Rodin, Vadim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: After application of an analytical transformation, a new exact representation for the nuclear isospin-symmetry breaking correction $δ_C$ to superallowed beta decay is obtained. The correction is shown to be essentially the reciprocal of the square of an energy parameter $Ω_M$ which characterizes the charge-exchange monopole strength distribution. The proportionality coefficient in this relation is determined by basic properties of the ground state of the even-even parent nucleus, and should be reliably calculable in any realistic nuclear model. Therefore, the single parameter $Ω_M$ contains all the information about the properties of excited $0^+$ states needed to describe $δ_C$. This parameter can possibly be determined experimentally by charge-exchange reactions. Basic quantities of interest are calculated within the isospin-consistent continuum random phase approximation, and the values of $δ_C$ are compared with the corresponding results from other approaches.
description: 10 pages, 2 tables, matches the published version
title: Enhanced image quality in brachial plexus MR imaging using the improved motion-sensitized driven-equilibrium (iMSDE) STIR TSE sequence
Creators: name: Dai, Qunyao
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology peripheral nerve
subject: Head and neck
subject: Anatomy
subject: MR
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Artifacts
subject: Trauma
subject: Quality assurance

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The brachial plexus is a network of nerves which supply motor and sensory innervation to the upper extremities. Abnormalities of brachial plexus can impair the function of the upper limbs and affect life quality. Magnetic resonance neurography is a...
title: DEPRECATED: Eco-visualisation: Combining art and technology to reduce energy consumption
Creators: name: Holmes, Tiffany
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2009

description: Artworks that display the real time usage of key resources such as electricity offer new strategies to conserve energy. These eco-visualisations-or artworks that creatively visualise ecologically significant data in real time-represent a substantial contribution to new knowledge about dynamic feedback as a tool to promote energy conservation and environmental site-based learning in this interdisciplinary project that expands and builds on prior findings from the fields of art, design, environmental psychology, and human computer interaction (HCI). The aims of this research endeavor were to locate answers to the following questions related to energy conservation in various public contexts. Might dynamic feedback from data-driven artwork create a better understanding of resource consumption patterns? Which environments are best for promoting eco-visualisation: borne, workplace, or alternative spaces? What kinds of visualisation tactics are most effective in communicating energy consumption data? These initial questions generated a four-year research project that involved an extensive literature review in both environmental psychology and art history that culminated in three different case studies, which targeted the effectiveness of eco-visualisation as an innovative conservation strategy. The three primary claims to be proven with supporting evidence from the literature reviews and case studies are: (1) eco-visualisation offers novel visual ways of making invisible energy data comprehensible, and encourages site-based learning; (2) eco-visualisation that provides real time visual feedback can increase environmental awareness and possibly increase the conservation behaviour in the viewing population; (3) eco-visualisation encourages new perceptions of linkages between the single individual and a larger community via site-based dialogue and conversation. Although the results of the three case studies are generally positive and prove the claims, there are larger social and environmental questions that will be addressed. How can eco-visualisation be productively integrated into the home or workplace without becoming a disposable gadget that represents a passing fad or fancy? Most importantly, how can energy conservation interventions be conceived to be as sustainable as possible, and non-threatening from a privacy perspective? These questions and more contribute to the discussion and analysis of the results of the three case studies that constitute the primary source of new knowledge asserted here in this dissertation.
A predicted Francisella tularensis DXD-motif glycosyltransferase blocks immune activation
Creators: name: J. Nau, Gerard
name: Horzempa, Joseph
name: O’Dee, Dawn
name: J. Brown, Matthew
name: C. Russo, Brian
name: Hernandez, Ana
name: Dillon, Simon T.
name: Cheng, Jing
name: Kane, Lawrence P.
name: Sanker, Subramaniam
name: A. Hukriede, Neil
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Pathogens enhance their survival during infections by manipulating host defenses. Francisella tularensis evades innate immune responses, which we have found to be dependent on an understudied gene ybeX (FTL_0883/FTT_0615c). To understand the function of YbeX, we sought protein interactors in F. tularensis subsp. holarctica live vaccine strain (LVS). An unstudied Francisella protein co-immunoprecipitated with recombinant YbeX, which is a predicted glycosyltransferase with a DXD-motif. There are up to four genomic copies of this gene with identical sequence in strains of F. tularensis pathogenic to humans, despite ongoing genome decay. Disruption mutations were generated by intron insertion into all three copies of this glycosyltransferase domain containing gene in LVS, gdcA1-3. The resulting strains stimulated more cytokines from macrophages in vitro than wild-type LVS and were attenuated in two in vivo infection models. GdcA was released from LVS during culture and was sufficient to block NF-κB activation when expressed in eukaryotic cells. When co-expressed in zebrafish, GdcA and YbeX were synergistically lethal to embryo development. Glycosyltransferases with DXD-motifs are found in a variety of pathogens including NleB, an Escherichia coli type-III secretion system effector that inhibits NF-κB by antagonizing death receptor signaling. To our knowledge, GdcA is the first DXD-motif glycosyltransferase that inhibits NF-κB in immune cells. Together, these findings suggest DXD-motif glycosyltransferases may be a conserved virulence mechanism used by pathogenic bacteria to remodel host defenses.
GRB 110205A: Anatomy of a long gamma-ray burst
Creators: name: Gendre, B.
name: Atteia, J. L.
name: Boër, M.
name: Colas, F.
name: Klotz, A.
name: Kugel, F.
name: Laas-Bourez, M.
name: Rinner, C.
name: Strajnic, J.
name: Stratta, G.
name: Vachier, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Swift burst GRB 110205A was a very bright burst visible in the Northern hemisphere. GRB 110205A was intrinsically long and very energetic and it occurred in a low-density interstellar medium environment, leading to delayed afterglow emission and a clear temporal separation of the main emitting components: prompt emission, reverse shock, and forward shock. Our observations show several remarkable features of GRB 110205A : the detection of prompt optical emission strongly correlated with the BAT light curve, with no temporal lag between the two ; the absence of correlation of the X-ray emission compared to the optical and high energy gamma-ray ones during the prompt phase ; and a large optical re-brightening after the end of the prompt phase, that we interpret as a signature of the reverse shock. Beyond the pedagogical value offered by the excellent multi-wavelength coverage of a GRB with temporally separated radiating components, we discuss several questions raised by our observations: the nature of the prompt optical emission and the spectral evolution of the prompt emission at high-energies (from 0.5 keV to 150 keV) ; the origin of an X-ray flare at the beginning of the forward shock; and the modeling of the afterglow, including the reverse shock, in the framework of the classical fireball model.
description: 21 pages, 5 figure (all in colors), accepted for publication in ApJ
Colour flux-tubes in static Pentaquark and Tetraquark systems
Creators: name: Bicudo, Pedro
name: Cardoso, Nuno
name: Cardoso, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The colour fields created by the static tetraquark and pentaquark systems are computed in quenched SU(3) lattice QCD, with gauge invariant lattice operators, in a 24^3 x 48 lattice at beta=6.2. We generate our quenched configurations with GPUs, and detail the respective benchmanrks in different SU(N) groups. While at smaller distances the coulomb potential is expected to dominate, at larger distances it is expected that fundamental flux tubes, similar to the flux-tube between a quark and an antiquark, emerge and confine the quarks. In order to minimize the potential the fundamental flux tubes should connect at 120o angles. We compute the square of the colour fields utilizing plaquettes, and locate the static sources with generalized Wilson loops and with APE smearing. The tetraquark system is well described by a double-Y-shaped flux-tube, with two Steiner points, but when quark-antiquark pairs are close enough the two junctions collapse and we have an X-shaped flux-tube, with one Steiner point. The pentaquark system is well described by a three-Y-shaped flux-tube where the three flux the junctions are Steiner points.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, contribution to the International School of Nuclear Physics, 33rd Course From Quarks and Gluons to Hadrons and Nuclei, Erice-Sicily: 16 - 24 September 2011
title: MR imaging of meniscal tear: Pearls and pitfalls
Creators: name: Shah, Ankur
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: MR
subject: Education
subject: Trauma
subject: Tissue characterisation

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To understand MR anatomy of menisci. To differentiate intrameniscal signal v/s tear. To understand the types of meniscal tear: Horizontal, vertical and complex. To learn signs of different meniscal tear on MRI . To differentiate surgical and...
On the Complexity of Finding Second-Best Abductive Explanations
Creators: name: Liberatore, Paolo
name: Schaerf, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: While looking for abductive explanations of a given set of manifestations, an ordering between possible solutions is often assumed. The complexity of finding/verifying optimal solutions is already known. In this paper we consider the computational complexity of finding second-best solutions. We consider different orderings, and consider also different possible definitions of what a second-best solution is.
Non-adiabatic effects within a single thermally-averaged potential energy surface: Thermal expansion and reaction rates of small molecules
Creators: name: Alonso, J. L.
name: Castro, A.
name: Clemente-Gallardo, J.
name: Echenique, P.
name: Mazo, J. J.
name: Polo, V.
name: Rubio, A.
name: Zueco, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: At non-zero temperature and when a system has low-lying excited electronic states, the ground-state Born--Oppenheimer approximation breaks down and the low-lying electronic states are involved in any chemical process. In this work, we use a temperature-dependent effective potential for the nuclei which can accomodate the influence of an arbitrary number of electronic states in a simple way, while at the same time producing the correct Boltzmann equibrium distribution for the electronic part. With the help of this effective potential, we show that thermally-activated low-lying electronic states can have a significant effect in molecular properties for which electronic excitations are oftentimes ignored. We study the thermal expansion of the Manganese dimer, Mn$_2$, where we find that the average bond length experiences a change larger than the present experimental accuracy upon the inclusion of the excited states into the picture. We also show that, when these states are taken into account, reaction rate constants are modified. In particular, we study the opening of the ozone molecule, O$_3$, and show that in this case the rate is modified as much as a 20% with respect to the ground-state Born--Oppenheimer prediction.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures