cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Methodology Used in Understanding Change in Alcohol, Cannabis, and Nicotine Use Over Time: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Zellers, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: My aim is to review the application of methods for longitudinal analyses as present in substance use literature. I will focus on alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana given their high frequency of use. I am most interested in the prevalence of applications of class-based analyses (ex. latent class analysis, growth mixture modeling, latent profile analysis, etc.) and average trajectory analysis (ex. latent growth modeling), as well as the application of best practices. The manuscript will contain an overview of these methods and best practices, as well as a systematic review to detail their applications in the literature.
title: The fundamental trial to performing half quantity of a prostate brachytherapy by SPECT/CT
Creators: name: Hattori, Hidekazu
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: SPECT-CT
subject: Pelvis
subject: Oncology
subject: Nuclear medicine

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Permanent brachytherapy using 125 I seed is one of the ideal therapies for low grade and early stage prostatic cancer. Moreover, the indication has been extendedly increased up to moderate grade and moderate stage. The number of needed seeds should...
Η αξιοποίηση και η επίδραση των ψηφιακών μέσων στην αγορά γραφείων εισερχόμενου τουρισμού
Creators: name: Αποστολίδου, Ζωή Αθανασίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2024
Subjects: Μέσα Κοινωνικής Δικτύωσης
Ηλεκτρονικός Τουρισμός
Makedas Travel
Social Media
E-Tourism

description: Η παρούσα μεταπτυχιακή διπλωματική εργασία θα επικεντρωθεί στη μελέτη και στην ανάλυση των παροχών των τουριστικών γραφείων εισερχόμενου τουρισμού και στον ρόλο και τη θέση τους στη σημερινή τουριστική αγορά. Θα εστιάσει στις προοπτικές ανόδου μέσω της εξέλιξης των παρεχόμενων υπηρεσιών των τουριστικών γραφείων. Σημείο αναφοράς στην έρευνα θα αποτελέσει η διαδικτυακή παρουσία των τουριστικών γραφείων στην ελληνική πραγματικότητα και συγκεκριμένα στη Σαντορίνη, αφού μελετηθεί η επίδραση και η θέση που κατέχουν τα μέσα κοινωνικής δικτύωσης και ο ηλεκτρονικός τουρισμός στο ψηφιακό μάρκετινγκ των γραφείων εισερχόμενου τουρισμού. Στη συνέχεια, θα αναλυθούν τα εργαλεία και οι τεχνικές προώθησης του ψηφιακού μάρκετινγκ και θα αναδυθούν οι προκλήσεις που αντιμετωπίζουν τα τουριστικά γραφεία στον τομέα του ψηφιακού μάρκετινγκ. Κύριο εργαλείο της συγκεκριμένης έρευνας θα αποτελέσει η μελέτη των μέσων κοινωνικής δικτύωσης που χρησιμοποιούνται για την προώθηση των τουριστικών γραφείων και η αξιολόγηση τους μέσω της σύγκρισης των παρεχόμενων δεδομένων και οικονομικών κερδών και τον υπολογισμό τους ανά έτος (μελέτη 2022 & 2023-δεδομένα από το τουριστικό γραφείο Makedas Travel). Μέσω της παρατήρησης των δεδομένων χρονικά και τον υπολογισμό της αναγραφόμενης ποσοτικής προόδου του τουριστικού γραφείου που μελετάται, θα καταγραφεί το ποσοστό επηρεασμού του ηλεκτρονικού τουρισμού και της ψηφιοποίησης του γενικότερα.
description: This thesis will focus on the study and analysis of the services of inbound tourism offices and their role and position in today's tourism market. It will focus on growth prospects through the development of services provided by travel agencies. The reference point in the research will be the online presence of the tourist offices in the Greek reality specifically in Santorini, after studying the effect and the position held by social media and electronic tourism in the digital marketing of inbound tourism offices. Then, after analyzing the digital marketing promotion tools and techniques, the challenges faced by travel agencies in the field of digital marketing will emerge. The main tool of this research would be the study of social advertising media for the promotion of tourism offices and their evaluation through the comparison of the provided data and financial profits and their calculation per year (study of 2022 & 2023-data from the tourist office Makedas Travel). Through the observation of the data over time and the calculation of the indicated quantitative progress of the tourist office under study, the rate of impact of e-tourism and its digitalization in general will be recorded.
description: Συνεργαζόμενα Τμήματα Οικονομικών Επιστημών και Γεωπονίας
Testable Design of Repeaterless Low Swing On-Chip Interconnect
Creators: name: Kadayinti, Naveen
name: Sharma, Dinesh K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Repeaterless low swing interconnects use mixed signal circuits to achieve high performance at low power. When these interconnects are used in large scale and high volume digital systems their testability becomes very important. This paper discusses the testability of low swing repeaterless on-chip interconnects with equalization and clock synchronization. A capacitively coupled transmitter with a weak driver is used as the transmitter. The receiver samples the low swing input data at the center of the data eye and converts it to rail to rail levels and also synchronizes the data to the receiver's clock domain. The system is a mixed signal circuit and the digital components are all scan testable. For the analog section, just a DC test has a fault coverage of 50% of the structural faults. Simple techniques allow integration of the analog components into the digital scan chain increasing the coverage to 74%. Finally, a BIST with low overhead enhances the coverage to 95% of the structural faults. The design and simulations have been done in UMC 130 nm CMOS technology.
description: 6 pages, 9 figures
Long-range Magnetic Order in Models for Rare Earth Quasicrystals
Creators: name: Thiem, Stefanie
name: Chalker, J. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We take a two-step theoretical approach to study magnetism of rare earth quasicrystals by considering Ising spins on quasiperiodic tilings, coupled via RKKY interactions. First, we compute RKKY interactions from a tight-binding Hamiltonian defined on the two-dimensional quasiperiodic tilings. We find that the magnetic interactions are frustrated and strongly dependent on the local environment. This results in the formation of clusters with strong bonds at certain patterns of the tilings that repeat quasiperiodically. Second, we examine the statistical mechanics of Ising spins with these RKKY interactions, using extensive Monte Carlo simulations. Although models that have frustrated interactions and lack translational invariance might be expected to display spin glass behaviour, we show that the spin system has a phase transition to low-temperature states with long-range quasiperiodic magnetic order. Additionally, we find that in some of the systems spin clusters can fluctuate much below the ordering temperature.
Effect of Playing Surface on Knee and Hip Kinematics in Healthy Female Populations
Creators: name: Fraley, Amy Loretta
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2011

description: Previous research implicates specific hip and knee kinematics during functional tasks as increasing the risk of ACL injury. Since a large number of severe knee injuries in females are non-contact, the purpose of this study is to determine if knee and hip kinematics during a jump landing cutting task in healthy female populations differ between third generation artificial turf and natural grass playing surfaces. We hypothesized that the task performed on the artificial turf would place the subjects in a biomechanical position that places a greater load on the ACL. Thirty-one female varsity and club soccer athletes performed a 90 degree cutting maneuver immediately after landing from a box jump on a natural grass and a 3rd generation artificial turf playing surface while 3D hip and knee kinematics were assessed. Subjects showed significantly different hip excursions in the frontal (p = 0.038) and transverse (p = 0.048) planes and knee excursions in the frontal plane (p = 0.014) between surface conditions, resulting in increased hip adduction and relatively more internal rotation on artificial turf. Such movements with functional tasks may increase the load placed on the ACL. Therefore, future research is needed to determine the ideal in-fill percentage and type of synthetic fiber, leading to further advancements and improvements in the safety of an artificial surface. In addition, further study into muscle recruitment patterns and the effect of experience on artificial turf surfaces could lead to the development of an intervention program and analysis of its long-term effect on injury prevention.
COVID19: Women's Experiences while Social Distancing
Creators: name: Araiza, Ashley
name: Freitas, Antonio
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This is a correlational study examining associations among variables related to appearance, well-being, and exercise during imposed social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Simple and efficient self-healing strategy for damaged complex networks
Creators: name: Gallos, Lazaros K.
name: Fefferman, Nina H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The process of destroying a complex network through node removal has been the subject of extensive interest and research. Node loss typically leaves the network disintegrated into many small and isolated clusters. Here we show that these clusters typically remain close to each other and we suggest a simple algorithm that is able to reverse the inflicted damage by restoring the network's functionality. After damage, each node decides independently whether to create a new link depending on the fraction of neighbors it has lost. In addition to relying only on local information, where nodes do not need knowledge of the global network status, we impose the additional constraint that new links should be as short as possible (i.e. that the new edge completes a shortest possible new cycle). We demonstrate that this self-healing method operates very efficiently, both in model and real networks. For example, after removing the most connected airports in USA, the self-healing algorithm re-joined almost 90\% of the surviving airports.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures
title: MR imaging findings in Paget disease of the breast.
Creators: name: Zuiani, Chiara
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: MR
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Cancer

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: To recognize the imaging findings of Paget disease of the breast at Magnetic Resonance (MR) imaging. We will review the role of MR imaging in evaluation of breast parenchyma and nipple-areola complex (NAC), in patients with Paget disease of the...
Additional file 2 of The clinical value of mNGS of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid versus traditional microbiological tests for pathogen identification and prognosis of severe pneumonia (NT-BALF):study protocol for a prospective multi-center randomized clinical trial
Creators: name: Song, Xiao
name: Jiang, Hui
name: Zong, Liang
name: Shi, Di
name: Zhu, Huadong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Informed consent.
title: Intestinal obstruction key. What should we look for?
Creators: name: Carreño Gonzalez, Rocio
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Obstruction / Occlusion
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: CT
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: To review etiology and imaging tests available in bowel obstruction, with special emphasis on computed tomography (CT). To describe technique, indications and spectrum of findins of plain radiograph and computed tomography in bowel...
title: Out of Sight! A pictorial review of the computed tomographic appearances of sight-threatening orbital emergencies.
Creators: name: Francies, Olivia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Trauma
subject: Haemorrhage
subject: Foreign bodies
subject: Medico-legal issues
subject: Education
subject: CT
subject: Head and neck
subject: Eyes
subject: Emergency

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: Drawing on a large experience of orbital trauma cases from a level one trauma centre, the aim of this educational exhibit is to 1) Discuss the epidemiology of orbital trauma in order toestablish its significance to currentradiological practice 2)...
Gratitude, Awe, and Engineering Design Creativity
Creators: name: Sisson, Natalie
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Engineering
subject: awe
subject: creativity
subject: engineering
subject: gratitude

description: This preregistration is for a pilot study testing the ability of gratitude and awe to promote engineering design creativity.
Additional file 1 of The clinical value of mNGS of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid versus traditional microbiological tests for pathogen identification and prognosis of severe pneumonia (NT-BALF):study protocol for a prospective multi-center randomized clinical trial
Creators: name: Song, Xiao
name: Jiang, Hui
name: Zong, Liang
name: Shi, Di
name: Zhu, Huadong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. SPIRIT checklist.
title: The thymus: A pictorial review of thymic pathology
Creators: name: Conces, Dewey
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Staging
subject: CT
subject: Thorax
subject: Oncology
subject: Mediastinum

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: 1. Discus the dynamic nature of the thymus. 2. Provide a comprehensive review of both benign and malignant thymic disease. 3. Highlight the computed tomography characteristics of thymic disorders. 4. Review the staging schemes for...
The stratified two-sided jet of Cygnus A. Acceleration and collimation
Creators: name: Boccardi, B.
name: Krichbaum, T. P.
name: Bach, U.
name: Mertens, F.
name: Ros, E.
name: Alef, W.
name: Zensus, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-resolution Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry observations of relativistic jets are essential to constrain fundamental parameters of jet formation models. At a distance of 249 Mpc, Cygnus A is a unique target for such studies, being the only Fanaroff-Riley Class II radio galaxy for which a detailed sub-parsec scale imaging of the base of both jet and counter-jet can be obtained. Observing at millimeter wavelengths unveils those regions which appear self-absorbed at longer wavelengths and enables an extremely sharp view towards the nucleus to be obtained. We performed 7 mm Global VLBI observations, achieving ultra-high resolution imaging on scales down to 90 $μ$as. This resolution corresponds to a linear scale of only ${\sim}$400 Schwarzschild radii (for $M_{\mathrm{BH}}=2.5 \times 10^9 M_{\odot}$). We studied the kinematic properties of the main emission features of the two-sided flow and probed its transverse structure through a pixel-based analysis. We suggest that a fast and a slow layer, with different acceleration gradients, exist in the flow. The extension of the acceleration region is large (${\sim} 10^4 R_{\mathrm{S}}$), indicating that the jet is magnetically-driven. The limb brightening of both jet and counter-jet and their large opening angles ($ϕ_\mathrm{J}{\sim} 10^{\circ}$) strongly favor a spine-sheath structure. In the acceleration zone, the flow has a parabolic shape ($r\propto z^{0.55\pm 0.07}$). The acceleration gradients and the collimation profile are consistent with the expectations for a jet in "equilibrium'' (Lyubarsky 2009), achieved in the presence of a mild gradient of the external pressure ($p\propto z^{-k}, k\leq2$).}
description: 9 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Detecting Stars at the Galactic Centre via Synchrotron Emission
Creators: name: Ginsburg, Idan
name: Wang, Xiawei
name: Loeb, Abraham
name: Cohen, Ofer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stars orbiting within 1$\arcsec$ of the supermassive black hole in the Galactic Centre, Sgr A*, are notoriously difficult to detect due to obscuration by gas and dust. We show that some stars orbiting this region may be detectable via synchrotron emission. In such instances, a bow shock forms around the star and accelerates the electrons. We calculate that around the 10 GHz band (radio) and at 10$^{14}$ Hz (infrared) the luminosity of a star orbiting the black hole is comparable to the luminosity of Sgr A*. The strength of the synchrotron emission depends on a number of factors including the star's orbital velocity. Thus, the ideal time to observe the synchrotron flux is when the star is at pericenter. The star S2 will be $\sim 0.015\arcsec$ from Sgr A* in 2018, and is an excellent target to test our predictions.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Jet Hadronization via Recombination of Parton Showers in Vacuum and in Medium
Creators: name: Fries, Rainer J.
name: Han, Kyongchol
name: Ko, Che Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the hadronization of jet parton showers based on the quark recombination model. This is achieved by letting gluons at the end of the perturbative shower evolution undergo a non-perturbative splitting into quark and antiquark pairs, then applying a Monte-Carlo version of instantaneous quark recombination, and finally subjecting remnant quarks (those which have not found a recombination partner) to Lund string fragmentation. When applied to parton showers from the PYTHIA Monte Carlo generator, the final hadron spectra from our calculation compare quite well to PYTHIA jets that have been hadronized with the default Lund string fragmentation. Modeling the quark gluon plasma produced in heavy ion collisions by a blast wave model, we have further studied medium effects on the hadronization of jet shower partons by also including their recombination with the thermal partons from the quark gluon plasma. We find that the latter leads to a significant enhancement of intermediate transverse momentum pions and protons at both RHIC and LHC. Our results thus suggest that medium modification of jet fragmentation provides a plausible explanation for the enhanced production of intermediate transverse momentum hadrons observed in experiments.
description: Proceedings for Hard Probes 2015; 4 pages, 5 figures
title: The Analysis of Injection Data for Contrast Enhanced CT
Creators: name: Gomi, Tatsuya
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: CT
subject: Contrast agents
subject: Abdomen

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Various evaluations have been made concerning the contrast-enhancing method for CT. Particularly, in abdominal dynamic CT, parameters such as the concentration, volume, and the rate of injection of the contrast agent have been evaluated in detail...
9 GeV Energy Gain in a Beam-Driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerator
Creators: name: Litos, M
name: Adli, E
name: Allen, J M
name: An, W
name: Clarke, C I
name: Corde, S
name: Clayton, C E
name: Frederico, J
name: Gessner, S J
name: Green, S Z
name: Hogan, M J
name: Joshi, C
name: Lu, W.
name: Marsh, K A
name: Mori, W B
name: Schmeltz, M
name: Vafaei-Najafabadi, N
name: Yakimenko, V
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An electron beam has gained a maximum energy of 9 GeV per particle in a 1.3 m-long electron beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator. The amount of charge accelerated in the spectral peak was 28.3 pC, and the root-mean-square energy spread was 5.0%. The mean accelerated charge and energy gain per particle of the 215 shot data set was 115 pC and 5.3 GeV, respectively, corresponding to an acceleration gradient of 4.0 GeV/m at the spectral peak. The mean energy spread of the data set was 5.1%. These results are consistent with the extrapolation of the previously reported energy gain results using a shorter, 36 cm-long plasma source to within 10%, evincing a non-evolving wake structure that can propagate distances of over a meter in length. Wake-loading effects were evident in the data through strong dependencies observed between various spectral properties and the amount of accelerated charge.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures, Laser and Plasma Accelerators Workshop (LPAW) 2015 Proceedings
On Blame
Creators: name: Reis-Dennis, Samuel
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2013

description: In this paper, I argue that the phenomenon of blame for consequences suggests that in many standard cases, blame is only a judgment, and not a reaction (like resentment, indignation, or relationship change) to the blamed agent's behavior. In responding to T.M.'s Scanlon's account of blame in his recent book Moral Dimensions, I argue that considering instances of blame for consequences is especially instructive as these cases seem to indicate that judgments of moral responsibility (which may or may not lead to resentment, relationship change, or other reactions), are essential to our common-sense understanding of blame and blameworthiness.
Interannual and Regional Patterns of Abundance, Growth, and Feeding Ecology of Larval Bay Anchovy (Anchoa Mitchilli) in Chesapeake Bay
Creators: name: Auth, Toby D.
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2003

description: Patterns in abundance, growth , and feeding by larval bay anchovy were examined in Chesapeake Bay from 1995-1999 to evaluate factors that contribute to variable recruitments of this abundant fish. The patterns were examined in relation to environmental factors, including hydrography and distributions of prey (zooplankton) and a probable predator (ctenophore). Larval abundances, sizes, feeding incidences, and growth rates varied annually and regionally. Averaged over five years, mean abundances in July decreased by almost two orders of magnitude from the mouth (38.l/m2) to the head (0.6/m) of the Bay, a long a declining salinity gradient. Yearly survey, bay-wide mean abundance varied nearly 10-fold; it was highest in 1998 (42. 7 /m2) and lowest in 1996 (4.6/m2). Feeding incidence was highest in 1998 (23%) and lowest in 1996 (9%), and varied regionally from 27% in the upper Bay to 13% in the mid Bay. Larvae fed predominantly during daylight. The most common prey ingested were copepod eggs and various life stages of calanoid copepods (primarily Acarlia Lonsa). Growth rates of larvae also differed annually and regionally. Mean growth rate was highest in 1998 (0.81 mm/d) and lowest in 1999 (0.68 mm/d), and varied regionally from 0.83 mm/d in the upper Bay to 0.71 mm/din the mid Bay. Zooplankton concentration was positively correlated with larval feeding incidence (r = +0.66) and growth rate (r = +0. 72). Larval feeding incidence was strongly correlated (r = +0.93) and summer larval abundance significantly correlated (r = +0.86) with fall recruitment of young-of-the-year bay anchovy.
title: Pathologies mimicking infectious diseases: key points to radiologic diagnosis.
Creators: name: González Vázquez, Maria
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Infection
subject: Perception image
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Musculoskeletal system

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: The purpose of this exhibit is to expose a series of cases in order to help to differenciate infection than other pathologies. Toexplain key concepts to differenciate infectious versus...
Hybrid Optimization Algorithm for Large-Scale QoS-Aware Service Composition
Creators: name: Rodriguez-Mier, Pablo
name: Mucientes, Manuel
name: Lama, Manuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we present a hybrid approach for automatic composition of Web services that generates semantic input-output based compositions with optimal end-to-end QoS, minimizing the number of services of the resulting composition. The proposed approach has four main steps: 1) generation of the composition graph for a request; 2) computation of the optimal composition that minimizes a single objective QoS function; 3) multi-step optimizations to reduce the search space by identifying equivalent and dominated services; and 4) hybrid local-global search to extract the optimal QoS with the minimum number of services. An extensive validation with the datasets of the Web Service Challenge 2009-2010 and randomly generated datasets shows that: 1) the combination of local and global optimization is a general and powerful technique to extract optimal compositions in diverse scenarios; and 2) the hybrid strategy performs better than the state-of-the-art, obtaining solutions with less services and optimal QoS.
description: Preprint accepted to appear in IEEE Transactions on Services Computing 2015
Story of The Great Fish Farmer Women Bilasabai Chhatisgarh
Creators: name: Deepika, Mangesh M bhosale
Publisher: name: the fish world a monthly magazine
Year: 2024

description:  

Around 300 years ago, in the kingdom of Ratanpur, men and women lived harmoniously, engaging in good deeds. Among them was a skilled and hardworking boatman who hunted fish and took care of his family. One day, he visited the banks of the Arpa River with his wife. They held hands and prayed to Baisakha, wishing for a beautiful child. Baisakha blessed them with a daughter, who had a beautiful and gentle appearance, and they named her Bilasa. Her father, Parshu (Rama Kewat), was delighted to see her grow and flourish. Bilasa's childhood was spent playing and learning the art of weaponry. She was as sharp and strong as any man, never shying away from challenges. Courageous and valorous, she was a match for any brave soldier, and people trembled at the sight of her rowing the boat. She excelled in all tasks and adopted war tactics with ease.
Spatial and temporal patterns of summer season precipitation across the Carolina coastal region
Creators: name: Carlson, Gretchen Stuppy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Summer precipitation associated with synoptic-scale and mesoscale atmospheric processes is a common occurrence along the South and North Carolina coasts. The interaction between atmospheric circulation and the diurnal land-sea breeze circulation, combined with impacts from the Gulf Stream and the interface between the land-sea, conspire across multiple scales to produce precipitation along this complex coastline. This thesis analyzes the spatial and temporal patterns of warm season precipitation in relationship to synoptic atmospheric circulation over the coastal regions of North and South Carolina. Precipitation composites are developed for 16 atmospheric classes using WSR-88D stage IV radar estimates for June, July and August, 1996-2004 based on 3 parameters known to relate to the character of the land-sea breeze circulation (the time of day, synoptic flow direction, and the degree of synoptic forcing). In addition, intra-diurnal precipitation patterns are examined by dividing the 24 hour day into 12 two-hour increments for the most frequent flow directions (i.e. NW, SW and SE). Results indicate a distinct spatial and temporal precipitation pattern that varies based on the interaction of synoptic-scale and mesoscale atmospheric processes, most notably the land-sea breeze circulation.
title: Teaching ultrasound guided musculoskeletal procedures: important considerations from Kolb’s experiential learning theory.
Creators: name: Upadhyay, Neil
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Education
subject: Education and training

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: Learning objectives: Understand the basic tenets of Kolb's experiential learning theory. Appreciate the implications of heterogeneity in learning styles for training. Identify practical teaching strategies which address the training challenges...
Prospective Analysis of Pre-operative Prognostic Indicators of Vital Pulp Therapy on Mature Permanent Teeth
Creators: name: Yeung, William
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Vital pulp therapy (VPT) is a conservative treatment option for exposed pulps with the goal of preserving the vitality of the pulp (1). Historically, VPT with calcium hydroxide had inconsistent success rates when used for carious exposures. Since that time, newer materials have resulted in a more favorable success rate for this treatment option. Factors in addition to the material type may affect the outcome that previous studies with small sample sizes did not identify (2, 3). This prospective, observational study aims to examine the correlation between the outcome of vital pulp therapy and pre-operative factors such as patients’ gender, age, tooth type, and the site of pulp exposure. Written informed consent was obtained from asymptomatic patients experiencing a pulp exposure on a vital, mature permanent tooth. Caries removal was completed and hemorrhage was controlled with sodium hypochlorite. Mineral trioxide aggregate was placed on the exposed pulp and the tooth was restored permanently. The patients were followed up with a series of phone calls and in person examinations at 6 months and 1 year postoperatively. The data was analyzed by logistic regression using a generalized linear model to evaluate associations between pre-operative factors and outcome of treatment. A total of 73 patients were treated with ages between 15 and 78 years old. 51 patients were available for 6 month recall with a success rate of 79%. This study found that vital pulp therapy on mature, permanent teeth was a viable treatment and there was no association between the examined pre-operative factors and the outcome.
Using an incoherent target-return to adaptively focus through atmospheric turbulence
Creators: name: Nelson, William
name: Palastro, John P.
name: Wu, Chensheng
name: Davis, Christopher C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A laser beam propagating to a remote target through atmospheric turbulence acquires intensity fluctuations. If the target is cooperative and provides a coherent return beam, the phase measured near the beam transmitter and adaptive optics can, in principle, correct these fluctuations. Generally, however, the target is uncooperative. In this case, we show that an incoherent return from the target can be used instead. Using the principle of reciprocity, we derive a novel relation between the field at the target and the reflected field at a detector. We simulate an adaptive optics system that utilizes this relation to focus a beam through atmospheric turbulence onto the incoherent surface.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
Symbolism in the Music of Lili Boulanger: an Analysis of Clairieres dans le ciel
Creators: name: Dopp, Bonnie Jo
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 1993

description: French composer Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) lived and worked at a time of experimentation and change in European musical techniques and aesthetics. Her documented interest in French Symbolist literature, her sheltered, sickly life and her mystic personal beliefs were reflected in a style of composition that grew more subjective as she matured. Analysis of her longest work, the song cycle Clairieres dans le ciel, when amplified by specific information about her life, reveals symbolism that parallels personal meanings contemporary Symbolist artists in literature and painting encoded in their work. Other composers of the period engaged in similar semiotic invention, though the term "Symbolist" is seldom applied to them. When critical hallmarks of Symbolist writings are employed, they support the assignation "Symbolist" to the music of Lili Boulanger.
title: Solitary fibrous tumors in the abdomen and pelvis: imaging spectrum with radiologic-pathologic correlation
Creators: name: Rojas Jiménez, Anamaría
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Education
subject: Ultrasound
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: To review and describe the spectrum of radiological findings found in fibrous solitary tumors of the abdomen and pelvis, emphasizing the ultrasound, tomography and magnetic resonance findings, as well as the clinical - pathological...
Інноваційні методики навчання у професійній підготовці викладачів для роботи в умовах війни
Creators: name: Ковальський, В`ячеслав Олександрович
name: Кучай, Олександр Володимирович
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: інноваційні методики, професійна підготовка, майндфулнес, тренінг, проєктне навчання, імерсивні технології, цифрові технології

description: Проаналізовано інноваційні методики навчання в професійній підготовці викладачів для роботи в умовах війни, зосереджуючи увагу на важливості адаптації до екстремальних і стресових умов. Визначено ключові напрямки, які включають тренінги з вирішення конфліктів, когнітивно-поведінкові техніки, заняття з майндфулнес та інтеграцію передових технологій у навчальний процес. З’ясовано, що такі методики сприяють підвищенню стресостійкості, психологічної резилієнтності та здатності викладачів ефективно управляти конфліктами, що є невід'ємною частиною професійної підготовки в сучасних умовах.

Розглянуто роль цифрової інтеграції у підвищенні якості освіти та адаптивності до динамічних воєнних ситуацій, де використання інтерактивних дошок, мобільних додатків та віртуальної реальності забезпечує більш глибоке занурення в навчальний матеріал та підготовку до реальних викликів. Доведено, що проєктне навчання і гейміфікація збільшують мотивацію студентів і сприяють кращому засвоєнню складних концепцій через активне і захоплююче навчальне середовище.

Обґрунтовано важливість тренінгів з психологічної першої допомоги, які навчають викладачів ідентифікації та адекватній реакції на психологічні стани студентів, включаючи стрес, тривогу та посттравматичні стани, що часто спостерігаються у воєнний час. Такі навички сприяють створенню безпечного та підтримуючого навчального середовища, дозволяючи студентам продовжувати освіту незважаючи на зовнішні виклики.

Сформовані висновки про те, що інноваційні методики навчання є критично важливими для адаптації освітнього процесу до умов війни, забезпечуючи викладачам і студентам необхідні інструменти для ефективного керування стресовими сценаріями і підвищення освітньої ефективності. Визначено перспективи подальших досліджень, що полягають у розробці комплексних навчальних програм, що інтегрують цифрові технології та імерсивні методики для оптимізації адаптивності та психологічної резилієнтності викладачів у динамічних та стресових воєнних умовах.
On various R-duals and the duality principle
Creators: name: Stoeva, Diana T.
name: Christensen, Ole
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 42C15

description: The duality principle states that a Gabor system is a frame if and only if the corresponding adjoint Gabor system is a Riesz sequence. In general Hilbert spaces and without the assumption of any particular structure, Casazza, Kutyniok and Lammers have introduced the so-called R-duals that also lead to a characterization of frames in terms of associated Riesz sequences; however, it is still an open question whether this abstract theory is a generalization of the duality principle. In this paper we prove that a modified version of the R-duals leads to a generalization of the duality principle that keeps all the attractive properties of the R-duals. In order to provide extra insight into the relations between a given sequence and its R-duals, we characterize all the types of R-duals that are available in the literature for the special case where the underlying sequence is a Riesz basis.
title: Determination of the Minimum Scan Dose for Detecting Flat Lesions in the Colon in Screening Ultra Low Dose CT Colonography (CTC): How Much Dose Reduction Is Possible with Iterative Approximation Reconstruction?
Creators: name: Matsuda, Katsuhiko
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quality assurance
subject: Colonography CT
subject: CT
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Colon

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Because most subjects who undergo computed tomographic (CT) colonography (CTC) are healthy, the minimum required scan dose is used to reduce radiation exposure. Virtual endoscopy, virtual gross pathology, and other three-dimensional (3D) images used...
Teledyne H1RG, H2RG, and H4RG Noise Generator
Creators: name: Rauscher, Bernard J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper describes the near-infrared detector system noise generator (NG) that we wrote for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec). NG simulates many important noise components including; (1) white "read noise," (2) residual bias drifts, (3) pink $1/f$ noise, (4) alternating column noise, and (5) picture frame noise. By adjusting the input parameters, NG can simulate noise for Teledyne's H1RG, H2RG, and H4RG detectors with and without Teledyne's SIDECAR ASIC IR array controller. NG can be used as a starting point for simulating astronomical scenes by adding dark current, scattered light, and astronomical sources into the results from NG. NG is written in Python-3.4. The source code is freely available for download from http://jwst.nasa.gov/publications.html.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures, 1 table
European heraldry
Creators: name: Morin, Olivier
name: Miton, Helena
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: This study is part of the project “Informational constancy in graphic identifiers”. It tests on two corpus of European heraldry the predictions that are described in the ad hoc file “Hypothesis and predictions” (registered separately). This project has been registered on the 8th of November 2017. Data collection was already under way. This registration contains the document constancy-heraldry.pdf, and the associated data files Renesse-constancy (as xls, csv, and with metadata). It is linked to the current state of the OSF project “A Zipfian effect in heraldry?” (the data used by the two projects overlap).
Regional health differences – developing a socioeconomic deprivation index for Germany
Creators: name: Kroll, Lars Eric
name: Schumann, Maria
name: Hoebel, Jens
name: Lampert, Thomas
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Epidemiologie und Gesundheitsberichterstattung
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: SOCIAL DEPRIVATION
subject: HEALTH INEQUALITIES
subject: GERMAN INDEX OF SOCIOECONOMIC DEPRIVATION (GISD)
subject: FACTOR ANALYSIS
subject: 610 Medizin

description: For Germany, regional differences for various health indicators, which are also associated with socioeconomic factors, have been documented. This article aims to develop a regional socioeconomic deprivation index for Germany that (1) can be used to analyse regional socioeconomic inequalities in health and (2) provides a basis for explaining regional health differences in Germany. The core data stem from the INKAR (indicators and maps on spatial and urban development in Germany and Europe) database compiled by Germany’s Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development. Factor analysis is used for indexing and the weighting of indicators for the three dimensions of education, occupation and income. The German Index of Socioeconomic Deprivation (GISD) is generated at the levels of associations of municipalities, administrative districts and administrative regions for the years 1998, 2003, 2008 and 2012. Aggregate data and individual data from the German Health Update 2014/2015-EHIS (GEDA 2014/2015-EHIS) study are used to analyse associations between the index and selected health indicators. For around two thirds of the causes of death, the German Index of Socioeconomic Deprivation reveals significant socioeconomic inequalities at the level of Germany’s administrative regions. At district level, life expectancy in the bottom fifth of districts presenting the highest levels of deprivation is, depending on the observation period, 1.3 years lower for women and 2.6 years lower for men in comparison to the upper fifth of districts presenting the lowest levels of deprivation. The index can explain 45.5% and 62.2% of regional differences in life expectancy for women and men, respectively. Moreover, the population in regions characterised by high levels of deprivation has significantly higher rates of smokers, engages less frequently in leisure-time physical activities and is more often obese. The German Index of Socioeconomic Deprivation illustrates regional socioeconomic differences at different spatial levels and contributes to explaining regional health differences. This index is intended for use in research as well as by federal and federal state health reporting systems and should enable access to new sources of data for investigating the links between social inequalities and health in Germany.
title: Evaluation of the Sagittal Balance of the Spine in Postmenopausal Women with and without Osteoporotic Spine Fractures
Creators: name: Mueller, Dirk
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: Digital radiography
subject: Musculoskeletal spine
subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: Osteoporosis

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Osteoporosis is a major issue in the elderly with increased incidence of vertebral fractures. Kyphosis is considered a result of osteoporotic vertebral fracture and might lead to a deterioration of the sagittal spinal alignment. However, little data...
The Boltzmann--Langevin approach: A simple quantum-mechanical derivation
Creators: name: Nagaev, K. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a simple quantum-mechanical derivation of correlation function of Langevin sources in the semiclassical Boltzmann--Langevin equation. The specific case of electron--phonon scattering is considered. It is shown that the assumption of weak scattering leads to the Poisson nature of the scattering fluxes.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure, invited contribution to special issue in Physica E on "Frontiers in quantum electronic transport - in memory of Markus B\"uttiker"
Vergleichende Untersuchungen zur Nachweisgenauigkeit von Keimzählverfahren (Kochsches Platten-, Oberflächenverfahren und MPN ) zur Bestimmung von aeroben mesophilen Keimen in Trinkmilch
Creators: name: Bahlo, Sabine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1989
Subjects: Trinkmilch
Milch
Keime
Veterinärmedizin

description: Bei vergleichenden Untersuchungen einzelner indirekter Keimzählverfahren kann festgestellt werden, daß das Koch'sche Plattengußverfahren die höchste Nachweisgenauigkeit besitzt und zur Bestimmung der Anzahl der aeroben mesophilen Keime in Trinkmilch den anderen untersuchten Verfahren trotz hohem Arbeitsaufwand vorgezogen.werden muß. Zwischen dem Koch'schen Plattengußverfahrern und der Spatelmethode kann ein Zusammenhang nachgewiesen werden und beim Paarvergleich zeigen diese beiden Verfahren keinen signifikanten Unterschied zwischen den Einzelergebnissen.
title: Dilatation of pancreaticobiliary ductal system: An imaging approach to diagnosis
Creators: name: Sharma, Vasu
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Education
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Pancreas
subject: Liver
subject: Biliary Tract / Gallbladder

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: To highlight the complexity and diversity of diseases causing biliary or pancreatic ductal dilatation To provide an imaging approach to diagnosis based on level and site ofobstruction and imaging features on CT and MR To highlight the importance of...
title: Autoimmune collagenophaties : An artropathy and thoracic imaging findings review.
Creators: name: Orihuela, Amelia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Connective tissue disorders
subject: Arthritides
subject: Comparative studies
subject: CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Thorax
subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: Bones

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Learning objectives: - To review and to recognize articular manifestations of an inflammatory arthritis associated to an autoimmune collagenopatie, in order to clinically oriented, make a acquired diagnosis. - To review and to recognized thoracic manifestations of...