cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Transitioning from central venous catheter to arteriovenous fistula : the hemodialysis patient experience
Creators: name: Romyn, Angela Michelle
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: An estimated 200,000 British Columbians are afflicted with some degree of chronic renal disease in which the kidneys can no longer remove toxins from the body and they need a machine to perform this function. Hemodialysis is the most common way to do this and involves the creation of an access directly into the patient’s blood stream that connects to the machine. Two types of vascular accesses are arteriovenous fistulas (AVF) and central venous catheters (CVC). There is limited research available that discusses why patients choose to dialyze with AVFs or CVCs and there is no research that could be found that addresses the transition experience of patients who have utilized both accesses. The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of hemodialysis patients who had utilized and transitioned from a CVC to an AVF. An interpretive descriptive design was used. Eleven patients participated in semi-structured interviews. Constant comparative analysis was used to analyze the data that uncovered three main themes: Impact, Coping, and Factors influencing impact and ability to cope. Participants experienced the impact of their vascular accesses within the larger context of living with end stage renal disease (ESRD). Regardless of the access, participants’ lifestyles were significantly affected and superimposed on physical and psychosocial impacts. They coped using a variety of strategies including exercising control, focusing on the positive, and struggling to accept. Participants described several factors that influenced the impact of their vascular accesses and their ability to cope including patient education, trust in health care providers, transportation, and family. Participants’ stories of vascular access transition revealed the sense of burden vascular accesses were for self and loved ones, the threat to body Image, the all-consuming fear of the unknown, and information challenges. This study elucidates the need for further exploration of issues related to improving the patient experience of vascular access with attention to body image, fear of cannulation, access to resources and trust in health care providers and the information they provide.
De la libertad religiosa a la promoción de las religiones
Creators: name: Ibán, Iván C.
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011
Subjects: Libertà religiosa

description: Notas utilizadas para mi intervención en la mesa redonda celebrada en la Società Italiana per la Storia Patria, en su sede en Palermo, el día 11 de marzo de 2008, organizada por el profesor Salvatore Bordonali.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 17 marzo
Sospensione di potestà
Creators: name: Maternini, Maria Fausta
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011
Subjects: Diritti delle religioni

description: La voce è destinata alla pubblicazione, in lingua spagnola, nel Diccionario general de Derecho canónico edito dall’Instituto Martìn de Azpilcueta, Universidad de Navarra.

SOMMARIO: 1. Il concetto di potestà nella Chiesa – 2. La sospensione di potestà quale atto amministrativo - 3. … in relazione al munus santificandi - 4. … in relazione alla potestà di magistero - 5 … in relazione alla potestà di governo.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 17 marzo
title: 'Beam filtration in paediatric radiography: is it consistently applied in Ireland?'
Creators: name: Maguire, Aisling
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Equipment
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Radiographers
subject: Paediatric

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: It is the radiographer's legal duty to strive for optimisation[1]. Optimisation can be enhanced by using additional beam filtration to reduce the dose burden in projection radiography, particularly for paediatric patients [2]. Analysis of literature...
Edge Intersection Graphs of L-Shaped Paths in Grids
Creators: name: Cameron, Kathie
name: Chaplick, Steven
name: Hoàng, Chính T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we continue the study of the edge intersection graphs of one (or zero) bend paths on a rectangular grid. That is, the edge intersection graphs where each vertex is represented by one of the following shapes: $\llcorner$,$\ulcorner$, $\urcorner$, $\lrcorner$, and we consider zero bend paths (i.e., | and $-$) to be degenerate $\llcorner$s. These graphs, called $B_1$-EPG graphs, were first introduced by Golumbic et al (2009). We consider the natural subclasses of $B_1$-EPG formed by the subsets of the four single bend shapes (i.e., {$\llcorner$}, {$\llcorner$,$\ulcorner$}, {$\llcorner$,$\urcorner$}, and {$\llcorner$,$\ulcorner$,$\urcorner$}) and we denote the classes by [$\llcorner$], [$\llcorner$,$\ulcorner$], [$\llcorner$,$\urcorner$], and [$\llcorner$,$\ulcorner$,$\urcorner$] respectively. Note: all other subsets are isomorphic to these up to 90 degree rotation. We show that testing for membership in each of these classes is NP-complete and observe the expected strict inclusions and incomparability (i.e., [$\llcorner$] $\subsetneq$ [$\llcorner$,$\ulcorner$], [$\llcorner$,$\urcorner$] $\subsetneq$ [$\llcorner$,$\ulcorner$,$\urcorner$] $\subsetneq$ $B_1$-EPG; also, [$\llcorner$,$\ulcorner$] is incomparable with [$\llcorner$,$\urcorner$]). Additionally, we give characterizations and polytime recognition algorithms for special subclasses of Split $\cap$ [$\llcorner$].
description: 14 pages, to appear in DAM special issue for LAGOS'13
title: Breast Hemangiomas: Typical and Atypical Presentations
Creators: name: Pinheiro, Caio
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Haemangioma
subject: Biopsy
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: Mammography
subject: Breast

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To review the clinical and hystological findings of breast hemangiomas. To describe typical and atypical imaging findings in mammogram, ultrasound and MRI. To present examples of cases where the combination of clinical and imaging findings prevented...
Local degeneracy of Markov chain Monte Carlo methods
Creators: name: Kamatani, Kengo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study asymptotic behavior of Monte Carlo method. Local consistency is one of an ideal property of Monte Carlo method. However, it may fail to hold local consistency for several reason. In fact, in practice, it is more important to study such a non-ideal behavior. We call local degeneracy for one of a non-ideal behavior of Monte Carlo methods. We show some equivalent conditions for local degeneracy. As an application we study a Gibbs sampler (data augmentation) for cumulative logit model with or without marginal augmentation. It is well known that natural Gibbs sampler does not work well for this model. In a sense of local consistency and degeneracy, marginal augmentation is shown to improve the asymptotic property. However, when the number of categories is large, both methods are not locally consistent.
description: 30 pages, 3 figures
L’attualità dell’opera di Gaetano Catalano
Creators: name: Berlingò, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011
Subjects: Diritto ecclesiastico

description: Intervento al Convegno di studi “La dimensione giuridica della libertà religiosa” (Palermo, 11 marzo 2008).
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 25 marzo
title: Imaging review of small bowel neoplasms
Creators: name: Fraj, Bouhajja
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Lymphoma
subject: Dysplasias
subject: Surgery
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Biopsy
subject: CT
subject: Oncology
subject: Lymph nodes
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The aim of our work is to review available imaging modalities and techniques used to evaluate small bowel neoplasms and to discuss the CT appearance of typical small bowel...
Probing the neutrino mass hierarchy with CMB weak lensing
Creators: name: Hall, Alex C.
name: Challinor, Anthony
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We forecast constraints on cosmological parameters with primary CMB anisotropy information and weak lensing reconstruction with a future post-Planck CMB experiment, the Cosmic Origins Explorer (COrE), using oscillation data on the neutrino mass splittings as prior information. Our MCMC simulations in flat models with a non-evolving equation-of-state of dark energy w give typical 68% upper bounds on the total neutrino mass of 0.136 eV and 0.098 eV for the inverted and normal hierarchies respectively, assuming the total summed mass is close to the minimum allowed by the oscillation data for the respective hierarchies (0.10 eV and 0.06 eV). Including information from future baryon acoustic oscillation measurements with the complete BOSS, Type 1a supernovae distance moduli from WFIRST, and a realistic prior on the Hubble constant, these upper limits shrink to 0.118 eV and 0.080 eV for the inverted and normal hierarchies, respectively. Addition of these distance priors also yields percent-level constraints on w. We find tension between our MCMC results and the results of a Fisher matrix analysis, most likely due to a strong geometric degeneracy between the total neutrino mass, the Hubble constant, and w in the unlensed CMB power spectra. If the minimal-mass, normal hierarchy were realised in nature, the inverted hierarchy should be disfavoured by the full data combination at typically greater than the 2-sigma level. For the minimal-mass inverted hierarchy, we compute the Bayes' factor between the two hierarchies for various combinations of our forecast datasets, and find that the future probes considered here should be able to provide `strong' evidence (odds ratio 12:1) for the inverted hierarchy. Finally, we consider potential biases of the other cosmological parameters from assuming the wrong hierarchy and find that all biases on the parameters are below their 1-sigma marginalised errors.
description: 16 pages, 13 figures; minor changes to match the published version, references added
Atti insanabili
Creators: name: Maternini, Maria Fausta
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011
Subjects: Diritti delle religioni

description: La voce è destinata alla pubblicazione, in lingua spagnola, nel Diccionario general de Derecho canónico edito dall’Instituto Martìn de Azpilcueta, Universidad de Navarra.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 25 marzo
Full characterisation of polarisation states of light via direct measurement
Creators: name: Salvail, Jeff Z.
name: Agnew, Megan
name: Johnson, Allan S.
name: Bolduc, Eliot
name: Leach, Jonathan
name: Boyd, Robert W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ascertaining the physical state of a system is vital in order to understand and predict its behaviour. Tomography is a standard approach used to determine the form of an unknown state. Here we show that an alternative approach, based on sequential weak and strong measurements, can be used to determine the density matrix in a simple, fast, and general style. We directly measure the probability amplitudes of a variety of pure polarisation states of light. We then generalise this experiment to directly measure the Dirac distribution and consequently determine the density matrix. Our work is the first to demonstrate the direct measurement of the full description of the state of a two-dimensional system, and it has applications to measurements in foundational quantum mechanics, quantum information, and physical chemistry.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures; final version
Religiosità umana, fenomeno religioso collettivo e Costituzione italiana
Creators: name: Tozzi, Valerio
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011
Subjects: Diritto ecclesiastico

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Introduzione – 2. Il fenomeno religioso nella Assemblea costituente e nella applicazione pratica dei principi costituzionali – 3. I rapporti Stato-confessioni religiose come sotto-sistema normativo nel più vasto ambito delle libertà delle formazioni sociali a carattere religioso – 4. Politicità  dell’attribuzione della qualifica di confessione religiosa – 5. Le … associazioni o istituzioni, a carattere ecclesiastico o con fine di religione e di culto … - 6. La categoria delle … formazioni sociali … a carattere religioso – 7. Erroneità del richiamo indifferenziato
alla categoria delle confessioni religiose per riferirsi a generi diversi e più vasti di soggetti collettivi a carattere religioso – 8. La legge quadro sulle libertà religiose.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 25 marzo
Infrared photodissociation spectroscopic and theoretical study of HnC4O+ (n = 1, 2) cation clusters in the gas phase
Creators: name: Li, Wei
name: Jin, Jiaye
name: Wu, Xiaonan
name: Ding, Xunlei
name: Wang, Guanjun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: The carbon chain cations HnC4O+ (n = 1, 2) were generated via pulsed laser vaporisation of a graphite target in supersonic expansions of helium seeded with carbon monoxide and acetylene. The infrared spectra were measured via mass-selected infrared photodissociation spectroscopy of their CO-tagged complexes [HnC4O·CO]+ (n = 1, 2). Their geometric and electronic structures were determined by gas-phase infrared photodissociation spectra combined with theoretical calculations. The results show that the HnC4O+ (n = 1, 2) core cations are linear carbon chain derivatives which are terminated with hydrogen/dihydrogen and oxygen atoms. The HC4O+ cation has 3Σ− electronic ground state with cumulene-like carbon chain structure, while H2C4O+ cation has 2B1 electronic ground state with polyyne-like carbon chain structure. The CH and CH2 terminal groups have different influence on the type of carbon-carbon bonds in the carbon chain derivatives, due to the sp and sp2 hybridisation property. The carbon chain cations HnC4O+ (n = 1, 2) are studied by gas-phase infrared photodissociation spectra of CO-tagged complexes [HnC4O·CO]+ (n = 1, 2) combined with theoretical calculations. Studies show that the structures of the HnC4O+ (n = 1, 2) core cations are linear carbon chain derivatives which are terminated with hydrogen/dihydrogen and oxygen atoms. The spectrum of [HC4O·CO]+ shows two bands above 3000 cm−1, suggesting possible isomers.
La libertà religiosa “organizzata” nella giurisprudenza della Corte europea dei diritti dell’uomo: prime linee di lettura.
Creators: name: Toscano, Marcello
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011
Subjects: Unione Europea e Consiglio d'Europa

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa - 2. Le decisioni della Commissione - 3. L’approccio sostanzialistico della Corte - 4. Qualche osservazione conclusiva.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 31 marzo
Golden Ratio Neutrino Mixing and $A_5$ Flavor Symmetry
Creators: name: Ding, Gui-Jun
name: Everett, Lisa L.
name: Stuart, Alexander J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a systematic and thorough exploration of lepton flavor models in which the solar mixing angle is related to the golden ratio. For scenarios in which the solar mixing angle is given by the inverse cotangent of the golden ratio, we demonstrate that $A_5$ is the smallest non-Abelian finite group that contains all of the symmetries necessary to enforce this specific lepton mixing pattern. Within this context, we propose two lepton flavor models that yield this mixing pattern through the breaking of $A_5$ at leading order to the Klein four subgroup in the neutrino sector. Both models have triplet embeddings of the lepton doublets as well as the charged lepton singlets. In the charged lepton sector, the residual symmetry is $Z_5$ in the first model, while in the second model, $A_5$ is broken completely at leading order. For the second model, the reactor mixing angle vanishes at leading order and is of the order of the square of the Cabibbo angle at next-to-leading order, which is allowed by the global analysis of current lepton data.
description: 37 pages, 1 figure
Supremum of the Airy2 process minus a parabola on a half line
Creators: name: Quastel, Jeremy
name: Remenik, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Let $\aip(t)$ be the Airy$_2$ process. We show that the random variable [\sup_{t\leqα}\{aip(t)-t^2}+\min{0,α}^2] has the same distribution as the one-point marginal of the Airy$_{2\to1}$ process at time $α$. These marginals form a family of distributions crossing over from the GUE Tracy-Widom distribution $F_{\rm GUE}(x)$ for the Gaussian Unitary Ensemble of random matrices, to a rescaled version of the GOE Tracy-Widom distribution $F_{\rm GOE}(4^{1/3}x)$ for the Gaussian Orthogonal Ensemble. Furthermore, we show that for every $α$ the distribution has the same right tail decay $e^{-(4/3)x^{3/2}}$.
description: To appear in Journal of Statistical Physics
title: Analysis of architectural distortions detected on digital breast tomosynthesis in a screening population
Creators: name: Aguillar, Vera Lucia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Oncology
subject: Mammography
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Audit and standards
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Cancer

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The purpose of this study was to perform an analysis of AD detected on screening DBT: risk of malignancy and ultrassound...
title: Diffusion-weighted and dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI parameters in discriminating clinically significant prostate carcinoma
Creators: name: CINDIL, EMETULLAH
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: Abdomen
subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: A significant proportion of prostate cancers are non-aggressive, low-grade tumours (Gleason score [GS] ≤ 6), defined as non-clinically significant PCa (ncsPCa). Due to increasingly accepted new conservative approaches as treatment protocols for...
On predictors for band-limited and high-frequency time series
Creators: name: Dokuchaev, Nikolai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 42A38, 93E10, 42B30

description: Pathwise predictability and predictors for discrete time processes are studied in deterministic setting. It is suggested to approximate convolution sums over future times by convolution sums over past time. It is shown that all band-limited processes are predictable in this sense, as well as high-frequency processes with zero energy at low frequencies. In addition, a process of mixed type still can be predicted if an ideal low-pass filter exists for this process.
description: 10 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:0708.0347
Le confessioni religiose a Trieste: un confronto tra esperienze diverse
Creators: name: Frezza, Valentina
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011
Subjects: Varie

description: Il contributo è stato segnalato dalla Prof.ssa Maria Fausta  Maternini.

SOMMARIO: 1. Osservazioni in merito ad un recente convegno - 2. Il contesto culturale e religioso nella città di Trieste - 3. La testimonianza della Chiesa Cristiana Avventista del Settimo Giorno - 4. La Comunità Evangelica Luterana triestina - 5. La Comunità Ebraica nell’esperienza delle città di Trieste e Lubiana - 6. Il Centro Buddhista tibetano “Sakya” - 7. L’Islam a Trieste – 8. La realtà cattolica - 9. Le Chiese ortodosse nella realtà locale.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 7 aprile
Hazard assessment of debris flows initiated by breaching of small earth dams
Creators: name: Mehdizadeh, Seyed Amirali
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: There are many small earth dams perched high above the floor of the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia. These dams pose a potential risk for destructive debris flow generation if they become breached. A relatively small outburst can trigger a much larger volume debris flow downstream of the dam. The failure of the Testalinden dam in the southern Okanagan region in June 2010 clearly demonstrated the destructive power of a debris flow triggered by the water released by a breach through a poorly maintained dam. Homes were destroyed and property was damaged. This thesis presents a methodology for preliminary assessment of potential debris flow initiation hazards caused by the breaching of small earth dams using digital elevation models, available maps, and limited monitoring records of dams. Research can assist dam safety officers in better ranking the consequences of dam failure. Empirical equations are used to predict the peak outflow if a breach occurs in a small earth dam. The creek gradient and the estimated height of water or outflow per unit width in the creek channel resulting from the outflow are used in debris flow initiation criteria to delineate possible locations along a creek where a debris flow may initiate. If debris flow initiation were possible, this would trigger the need for more detailed assessment of dam failure consequences and will likely result in a higher dam failure consequence classification compared to consideration of flooding only.
title: An innovative treatment of endometriosic cysts: radiofrequency thermal-ablation by transvaginal route under ultrasound guidance.
Creators: name: Dedone, Giorgia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Surgery
subject: Ablation procedures
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Pelvis
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To describe an alternative and new procedure to treat endometriosic cysts accessible by transvaginal route with radiofrequency thermoablation and contextual injection of dextrose solution in order to guarantee heat conduction and convection...
title: Assessing Tumor Response to Therapy: what the Radiologist needs to know in a Nutshell
Creators: name: Lee, Kentson
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Oncology
subject: CT
subject: PET-CT
subject: Education
subject: Neoplasia

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To understand and be able to apply the different criteria used in assessment of tumor response in oncology patients. To appreciate the evolution of response criteria from anatomical to functional assessment. To discuss future trends and challenges...
Ginsenoside Rf in wild ginseng adventitious roots extract inhibits melanogenesis via cAMP/PKA and NO/cGMP signalling pathways in α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone-stimulated B16F10 mouse melanoma cells and zebrafish
Creators: name: Chen, Hong
name: Jian, Mengqiong
name: Teng, Huanhuan
name: Li, Zhenzhuo
name: Xu, Xiaohao
name: Li, Xiangzhu
name: Jiang, Rui
name: Zhao, Daqing
name: Sun, Liwei
name: Liu, Jianzeng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: The scarcity of more effective wild ginseng has severely limited its use, culturing of adventitious roots from wild ginseng were its good substitute. In this study, we found ginsenoside Rf as the special component in adventitious roots extract significantly decreased melanin levels and tyrosinase activity in B16F10 cells and zebrafish, and suppressed the expression of microphthalmia-associated transcription factor and melanogenic enzymes in B16F10 cells. Notably, Rf treatment of B16F10 cells led to reduced cell levels of adenosine cyclic 3′, 5′-monophosphate (cAMP), nitric oxide (NO), and guanoside cyclic 3′, 5′-monophosphate (cGMP), and reduced activities of adenylate cyclase (AC), protein kinase A (PKA), guanylate cyclase (GC), and protein kinase G (PKG), which suggest Rf anti-melanogenic activity potentially involved inhibition of AC/cAMP/PKA and NO/GC/cGMP/PKG signalling pathway. This work provides experimental basis for skin-lightening effect of wild ginseng adventitious roots and their functional part.
The relationship between occupational noise exposure and stress in long-term care facility workers
Creators: name: Hsiung, Pey Yuan (Emily)
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: The sound characteristics of many healthcare settings have been documented to be very poor. There has been extensive research about the adverse effects of noise, especially on patients in acute care settings, but little research has examined long-term residential care workers’ exposure to noise. Excessive noise exposure has been associated with burnout in critical care nurses as well as with health problems, such as adverse cardiovascular effects. However, there is a lack of research evaluating the effects of occupational noise exposure on healthcare providers’ health status and stress levels. Hence, a non-experimental, correlational study was undertaken to answer the research question, “What is the relationship between occupational noise and healthcare workers’ stress in long-term care facilities?” A stratified sample of 6 long-term care facilities was obtained within Vancouver Coastal Health and convenience samples of healthcare workers were recruited from each facility. Repeated exposure (noise) and outcome (stress) assessments over four sampling days were conducted utilizing noise dosimeters and biophysiological and self-reported measures, including salivary cortisol, heart rate variability, and Cohen’s Perceived Stress Scale. Participants were exposed to mean A-weighted average sound pressure levels ranging between 74.4 to 74.8 dB(A) and C-weighted peaking sound pressure levels as high as 143.5 dB(C). Bivariate correlation analyses revealed statistically significant correlations between the A-weighted average sound pressure levels and heart rate variability indices (i.e., standard deviation of the NN intervals and low frequency to high frequency ratios), and the type of shift worked (i.e., evening/night versus day shift). Healthcare workers who worked day shifts were exposed to higher sound levels, and those who were exposed to higher noise levels experienced more stress. Linear regression analyses were conducted to explore the interrelationships among the statistically significant correlations. A-weighted average sound pressure levels made a statistically significant contribution to two heart rate variability indices: standard deviation of NN intervals and low frequency to high frequency ratios throughout the four sampling days, when the shift worked was controlled.
Percorsi di apprendimento per gli stranieri nella scuola italiana
Creators: name: Sala, Laura
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2009

description: Nell’articolo si passano in rassegna le nuove proposte editoriali per gli studenti non italofoni nella scuola secondaria di primo grado e di uno in particolare, a titolo esemplificativo, si analizzano più da vicino le caratteristiche. L’indagine considera le strategie di scrittura controllata messe in atto nei testi. Infatti, tutti questi manuali (antologie, grammatiche, libri di storia) sono realizzati secondo un’idea comune: le difficoltà poste dall’italiano per lo studio agli stranieri devono essere appianate attraverso la semplificazione: per quanto riguarda le discipline scolastiche facilitare l’apprendimento significa soprattutto semplificare i testi per fornire conoscenze e nozioni fondamentali e competenze e abilità di base da cui sia possibile poi accedere a livelli più alti e raffinati. Si sottolinea, dunque, che  la versione semplificata dei testi dei manuali disciplinari deve essere intesa come strumento propedeutico, transitorio, che aiuta l’apprendente a compiere i primi passi nello sviluppo delle abilità di studio sia orali che scritte da cui procedere verso competenze linguistico-cognitive più ambiziose.

In this paper an overview is given of the new publications for non-Italian speakers at lower secondary schools and the main features of one text in particular are examined in greater detail as an example.  The study takes into consideration the strategies of graded texts.   In fact all these textbooks (anthologies, grammars, history books) are written with a common purpose: the difficulties foreigners encounter due to the use of Italian must be smoothed out by means of simplification: as regards school subjects, to a great extent facilitating learning means simplifying the texts in order to provide essential knowledge and basic concepts and competences, which can be used as a starting point for accessing higher and more sophisticated levels of learning.  It is therefore emphasized that the simplified versions of textbooks for the various subjects must be considered as transitory, preparatory tools, which help the learner to move her first steps towards developing the oral and written study skills from which she will be able to proceed towards more ambitious linguistic-cognitive competences.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 1, No 1 (2009)
Analisi degli errori in produzioni scritte di apprendenti sinofoni
Creators: name: Limonta, Gloria
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2009

description: Il presente articolo propone un’analisi degli errori rilevati in un corpus di testi prodotti da un gruppo di studenti universitari sinofoni. Scopo di tale analisi è individuare le possibili interferenze della lingua madre (cinese mandarino) all’interno de processo di acquisizione della L2 (italiano), al fine di comprendere più approfonditamente le principali difficoltà linguistiche incontrate da apprendenti sinofoni nell’acquisizione dell’italiano. Nel primo capitolo si prendono brevemente in considerazione gli aspetti della lingua cinese che si distanziano maggiormente dal sistema linguistico dell’italiano e che per questo rappresentano frequenti fonti di errore nel processo di apprendimento.  Il capitolo 2 è invece dedicato all’esposizione dei risultati dell’analisi svolta.

The article offers an analysis of the errors found in a corpus of texts produced by a group of Chinese-speaking university students.  The objective of the analysis is to identify possible interferences from their mother tongue (Mandarin Chinese) in the process of acquiring the L2 (Italian), in order to gain a deeper understanding of the main linguistic difficulties encountered by Chinese-speaking learners acquiring Italian.  In the first chapter brief consideration is given to those aspects of Chinese that are furthest removed from the Italian language system and which, for this reason, are the source of errors in the learning process.  Chapter 2, instead, is devoted to an account of the results obtained from the analysis.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 1, No 1 (2009)
Additional file 1: of Reproducible quantification of cardiac sympathetic innervation using graphical modeling of carbon-11-meta-hydroxyephedrine kinetics with dynamic PET-CT imaging
Creators: name: Wang, Tong
name: Wu, Kai
name: Miner, Robert
name: Renaud, Jennifer
name: Beanlands, Rob
name: deKemp, Robert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Figure S1. Unchanged parent fraction in plasma (cyan) is calculated as the product of the plasma-to-whole blood fraction (green) times the unchanged parent fraction (blue) curves, derived from the human data presented in Harms et al. [3]. (DOCX 61 kb)
Fenomeni d’interferenza nell’apprendimento dell’italiano da parte di parlanti spagnolo. Un’indagine a partire da un test a scelta multipla per gli studenti dell’Università Complutense di Madrid.
Creators: name: Zurlo, Francesco
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2009

description: È noto che nell’apprendimento di lingue affini come italiano e spagnolo, il fenomeno del transfer linguistico gioca spesso un ruolo fondamentale. La percezione di vicinanza e di congruenza tra i due sistemi linguistici è alla base del frequente trasferimento da parte degli apprendenti, di regole, espressioni ed abitudini proprie della loro L1 nella L2, che non inficiando in molti casi il successo comunicativo rischiano alla lunga di cristallizzarsi e fossilizzarsi. Nella ricerca, svolta a partire da un test a scelta multipla proposto ad alcuni alunni dei corsi di italiano dell’Università Complutense di Madrid, si rilevano e descrivono alcune delle tipologie più ricorrenti di errori dovuti ad interferenza della L1, mettendo in rilievo la loro incidenza e la loro influenza nel determinare la specificità del percorso di apprendimento dell’italiano da parte degli ispanofoni, contraddistinto da accelerazioni e rallentamenti, arresti e stabilizzazioni.

It is known that when learning similar languages, such as Italian and Spanish, the phenomenon of linguistic transfer often plays a fundamental role.  The perception of the two language systems as close and congruent is at the basis of the learners’ frequent transfer of rules, expressions and habits belonging to their L1 into the L2  which, since in many cases their communicative success is not hindered, risk taking root and becoming fossilized in the long term. The survey, based on a multiple-choice test run with students on an Italian course at Madrid’s Università Complutense, identifies and describes some of the most recurrent types of errors due to interference from L1, highlighting their incidence and influence in determining the specific nature of the learning route for Spanish speakers studying Italian, marked by acceleration and slowdowns, halts and moments of stabilization.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 1, No 1 (2009)
title: The use of Siemens teamplay™ in establishing cardiac CT diagnostic reference levels
Creators: name: Maguire, Susan
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Radiation safety
subject: Physics
subject: CT
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Radiation physics
subject: Cardiac
subject: Dosimetric comparison

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Aim: To explore the use of Siemens teamplay™ in the establishment of cardiac CT diagnostic reference levels. Introduction: The establishment of diagnostic reference levels (DRLs) in our centre previously utilised manual methods for collection and...
Lax-Phillips scattering theory for PT-symmetric ρ-perturbed operators
Creators: name: Cojuhari, Petru A.
name: Kuzhel, Sergii
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81Q12

description: The S-matrices corresponding to PT-symmetric ρ-perturbed operators are defined and calculated by means of an approach based on an operator-theoretical interpretation of the Lax-Phillips scattering theory.
Creoli e interlingue: un confronto.
Creators: name: Gelso, Daniela
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2009

description: Riprendendo la tesi secondo la quale le produzioni degli stranieri che apprendono l’italiano L2 mostrerebbero somiglianze con pidgin e creoli, il presente lavoro propone un’analisi comparativa tra le interlingue sviluppate da parlanti non italofoni ed il Criolo Guineense, creolo a base portoghese parlato in Guinea Bissau.  Molti dei fenomeni che caratterizzano le lingue di contatto, infatti, sono riscontrabili anche nei processi di acquisizione spontanea di lingue seconde. Pur presentando ovvie differenze dovute a fattori storici e linguistici, creolo e interlingua sono entrambi codici semplificati, caratterizzati da strutture più semplici rispetto allo standard e da minore elaborazione grammaticale.  Attraverso l’analisi di alcuni tratti linguistici del Criolo Guineense si é tentato di dimostrare che semplificazione non equivale ad impoverimento e che le varietà semplificate – siano esse varietà di apprendimento o lingue di contatto -  possiedono tutti i mezzi espressivi atti a descrivere la realtà nelle sue varie sfumature.

Re-examining the argument by which the linguistic production of foreigners learning Italian as L2 is seen as having considerable similarities to pidgin and creoles, the paper offers a comparative analysis of the interlanguages that have developed amongst non-Italian speakers and Guyanese Creole, a Creole idiom based on Portuguese which is spoken in Guinea Bissau.  Many of the phenomena that mark languages in contact are in fact to be found in the spontaneous acquisition of second languages, too.  Whilst exhibiting clear differences due to historical and linguistic factors, Creole and interlanguages are both simplified codes, characterised by less complex structures than the standard and with less grammatical elaboration.  Through an analysis of certain linguistic features of Guyanese Creole, an attempt has been made to show that simplification does not equate with impoverishment and that simplified variations – whether varieties of learning or languages in contact – possess all the means of expression needed to describe reality in its various different manifestations.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 1, No 1 (2009)
Programma di insegnamento della lingua italiana nelle scuole secondarie della Polonia.
Creators: name: Kozik, Dagmara
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2009

description: In Polonia, a partire dal 2009/2010, i docenti della scuola pubblica possono utilizzare manuali didattici per l’insegnamento delle lingue solo se approvati dal Ministero e accompagnati da un programma. Il lavoro svolto da D. Kozik ha l’obiettivo, partendo dal manuale  Affresco Italiano,  di essere guida e strumento per la pianificazione di percorsi e la produzione di attività didattiche per l’insegnamento/apprendimento dell’italiano LS. Per la stesura sono stati presi in considerazione  sia le indicazioni del Quadro Comune Europeo di riferimento sia i suggerimenti  di alcuni sillabi per l’italiano L2/LS e da questo confronto è nato uno strumento flessibile e rigoroso che il Ministero polacco ha approvato. La versione integrale in lingua polacca è a disposizione in Intenet e sarà presto pubblicata.

As from 2009/2010, state-school teachers in Poland are not permitted to use language-teaching textbooks unless they have been approved by the Ministry and are accompanied by a programme.  Starting out from the textbook Affresco Italia,  D. Kozik’s work aims to become a guide and a tool for planning learning routes and for the production of learning/teaching activities for Italian as SL.  In creating it, both the indications of the Common European Framework and suggestions from some syllabuses for Italian as L2/SL have been taken into consideration and, from a comparison of the two, an accurate and flexible tool has emerged, which has been approved by the Polish Ministry.  The full version in Polish is available in Internet and is to be published shortly.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 1, No 1 (2009)
L’insegnamento della lingua e letteratura italiane a Cuba.
Creators: name: Bello Valdés, Mayerìn
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2009

description: Nel suo articolo l’autrice ricostruisce la storia dell’insegnamento delle lingua e della letteratura italiane a Cuba dal Novecento ai giorni nostri, e fornisce una ricca documentazione sui corsi di italiano, sugli studi e  sulle opere più importanti pubblicate a Cuba sulla nostra letteratura e sulle manifestazioni realizzate per la diffusione della cultura italiana nel paese. In particolare riferisce dell’importante ruolo svolto dalla rivista “Cuadernos de italianística cubana” – e dalle istituzioni accademiche e culturali che ad essa fanno riferimento – nel campo della ricerca linguistica, della glottodidattica, dello studio della cultura italiana nelle sue diverse manifestazioni, tra cui la musica e l’opera lirica, e nella diffusione dell’italiano attraverso specifici programmi televisivi.

In her article the author reconstructs the history of Italian language and literature teaching in Cuba from the Nineteen Hundreds up to the present and provides a wealth of documentation on the Italian courses, studies and the most important works published in Cuba on our literature, as well as on events organized to spread Italian culture throughout the country.  In particular, she reports the  important role played by the review “Cuadernos de italianística cubana” – and by the academic and cultural institutions they are connected to – in the field of linguistic research and research on glottodidactics, the study of Italian culture in its different forms, including music and opera, and the spread of Italian through specific television programmes.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 1, No 1 (2009)
Analysis of volatile organic compounds and metabolites of three cultivars of asparagus (Asparagus officinalis L.) using E-nose, GC-IMS, and LC-MS/MS
Creators: name: Yang, Chun
name: Ye, Zheng
name: Mao, Liping
name: Zhang, Ling
name: Zhang, Jiangning
name: Ding, Weiying
name: Han, Jiming
name: Mao, Kai
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Asparagus (A. officinalis L.) is a perennial herb of the genus Asparagus that is rich in nutrients. This study aimed to distinguish three cultivars of asparagus (Paladin, Grace, and Jinggang red) based on their volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and metabolic profiles. VOCs in the three cultivars were separated and identified using electronic nose (E-nose) and gas chromatography–ion mobility spectrometry (GC–IMS). Differences in metabolites among the three cultivars were analyzed using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). E-nose and GC-IMS showed that the VOCs in asparagus differed significantly among the three groups. E-nose result showed that purple asparagus (Jinggang red) was connected to a stronger earthy odor; green asparagus (Paladin and Grace) were shown characteristic dill flavor. Moreover, 50 VOCs were detected by using GC–IMS. Ketones and alcohols were most abundant in Paladin; methyl benzoate and dimethyl sulfide were most abundance in Grace; aldehydes and acids were most abundance in Jinggang red. Moreover, 130 and 71 different metabolites were detected in the positive and negative modes among three cultivars, such as quercetin and rutin. Functional analysis revealed that these metabolites were involved in beta-alanine metabolism and ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters. In summary, E-nose combined with GC-IMS and LC-MS/MS methods has good application prospects in evaluating and identifying VOCs and metabolites of different cultivars of asparagus. The identified VOCs and metabolites can provide guidelines for the development of functional asparagus products.
title: Frequency, distribution and coexistence of ligament ossification of the cervical spine in Turkey
Creators: name: NACAR DOGAN, SEBAHAT
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal spine
subject: Neuroradiology spine
subject: CT
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Screening
subject: Calcifications / Calculi

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Numerous ligaments including posterior longitudinal ligament, anterior longitudinal ligament and flaval ligament support stabilization of spine. In cervical region, nuchal ligament also maintains lordotic position and limits the flexion...
Innocent strategies as presheaves and interactive equivalences for CCS (expanded version)
Creators: name: Hirschowitz, Tom
name: Pous, Damien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Seeking a general framework for reasoning about and comparing programming languages, we derive a new view of Milner's CCS. We construct a category E of 'plays', and a subcategory V of 'views'. We argue that presheaves on V adequately represent 'innocent' strategies, in the sense of game semantics. We equip innocent strategies with a simple notion of interaction. We then prove decomposition results for innocent strategies, and, restricting to presheaves of finite ordinals, prove that innocent strategies are a final coalgebra for a polynomial functor derived from the game. This leads to a translation of CCS with recursive equations. Finally, we propose a notion of 'interactive equivalence' for innocent strategies, which is close in spirit to Beffara's interpretation of testing equivalences in concurrency theory. In this framework, we consider analogues of fair testing and must testing. We show that must testing is strictly finer in our model than in CCS, since it avoids what we call 'spatial unfairness'. Still, it differs from fair testing, and we show that it coincides with a relaxed form of fair testing.
description: 53 pages. Expanded version of ICE '11 paper DOI 10.4204/EPTCS.59.2