cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Subtypes in patients with opioid misuse: A prognostic enrichment strategy using electronic health record data in hospitalized patients
Creators: name: Afshar, M
name: Joyce, C
name: Dligach, D
name: Sharma, B
name: Kania, R
name: Xie, M
name: Swope, K
name: Salisbury-Afshar, E
name: Karnik, Niranjan
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Background Approaches are needed to better delineate the continuum of opioid misuse that occurs in hospitalized patients. A prognostic enrichment strategy with latent class analysis (LCA) may facilitate treatment strategies in subtypes of opioid misuse. We aim to identify subtypes of patients with opioid misuse and examine the distinctions between the subtypes by examining patient characteristics, topic models from clinical notes, and clinical outcomes. Methods This was an observational study of inpatient hospitalizations at a tertiary care center between 2007 and 2017. Patients with opioid misuse were identified using an operational definition applied to all inpatient encounters. LCA with eight class-defining variables from the electronic health record (EHR) was applied to identify subtypes in the cohort of patients with opioid misuse. Comparisons between subtypes were made using the following approaches: (1) descriptive statistics on patient characteristics and healthcare utilization using EHR data and census-level data; (2) topic models with natural language processing (NLP) from clinical notes; (3) association with hospital outcomes. Findings The analysis cohort was 6,224 (2.7% of all hospitalizations) patient encounters with opioid misuse with a data corpus of 422,147 clinical notes. LCA identified four subtypes with differing patient characteristics, topics from the clinical notes, and hospital outcomes. Class 1 was categorized by high hospital utilization with known opioid-related conditions (36.5%); Class 2 included patients with illicit use, low socioeconomic status, and psychoses (12.8%); Class 3 contained patients with alcohol use disorders with complications (39.2%); and class 4 consisted of those with low hospital utilization and incidental opioid misuse (11.5%). The following hospital outcomes were the highest for each subtype when compared against the other subtypes: readmission for class 1 (13.9% vs. 10.5%, p<0.01); discharge against medical advice for class 2 (12.3% vs. 5.3%, p<0.01); and in-hospital death for classes 3 and 4 (3.2% vs. 1.9%, p<0.01). Conclusions A 4-class latent model was the most parsimonious model that defined clinically interpretable and relevant subtypes for opioid misuse. Distinct subtypes were delineated after examining multiple domains of EHR data and applying methods in artificial intelligence. The approach with LCA and readily available class-defining substance use variables from the EHR may be applied as a prognostic enrichment strategy for targeted interventions.
Band renormalization of a polymer physisorbed on graphene investigated by many-body perturbation theory
Creators: name: Puschnig, Peter
name: Amiri, Peiman
name: Draxl, Claudia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many-body perturbation theory at the $G_0W_0$ level is employed to study the electronic properties of poly(\emph{para}-phenylene) (PPP) on graphene. Analysis of the charge density and the electrostatic potential shows that the polymer-surface interaction gives rise to the formation of only weak surface dipoles with no charge transfer between the polymer and the surface. In the local-density approximation (LDA) of density-functional theory, the band structure of the combined system appears as a superposition of the eigenstates of its constituents. Consequently, the LDA band gap of PPP remains unchanged upon adsorption onto graphene. $G_0W_0$ calculations, however, renormalize the electronic levels of the weakly physisorbed polymer. Thereby, its band gap is considerably reduced compared to that of the isolated PPP chain. This effect can be understood in terms of image charges induced in the graphene layer, which allows us to explain the quasi-particle gap of PPP versus polymer-graphene distance by applying a classical image-potential model. For distances below 4.5 Å, however, deviations from this simple classical model arise which we qualitatively explain by taking into account the polarizablity of the adsorbate. For a quantitative description with predictive power, however, we emphasize the need for an accurate ab-initio description of the electronic structure for weakly coupled systems at equilibrium bonding distances.
description: 9 pages, 11 figures
title: Biodiversity conservation on private and communal lands
title: State of Colorado's biodiversity
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Sueltenfuss, Jeremy
name: Anderson, David
name: International Wildlife Ranching Symposium, Producer
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Wildlife management -- Congresses
subject: Range management -- Congresses

description: Moderator: David Anderson.
description: Presented at the 8th international congress for wildlife and livelihoods on private and communal lands: livestock, tourism, and spirit, that was held on September 7-12, 2014 in Estes Park, Colorado.
description: How are we doing in conserving Colorado's Biodiversity? How much of it is left? Are there landscapes in Colorado where we still have the basic fabric intact to conserve entire systems? Are there hotspots where actions are more urgent than others? Are there species and places that we've successfully conserved through our actions? What role might private lands play in the big picture for conserving Colorado's biodiversity, now and in the future? What strategies are most likely to be effective given what remains? These are some of the many big questions that The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the Colorado Natural Heritage Program (CNHP) have worked to answer collaboratively. Our efforts, which culminated in the publication of the State of Colorado's Biodiversity, began as a way to support TNC's Measures of Success Program, but we soon realized that answering these questions would benefit leaders, managers, decision makers, as well as the general public and the private landowners in whose hands so much of our sustainable future rests. With an emphasis on private lands, we will share the results of this work, examine how it is being implemented broadly to support conservation statewide, and how it is serving as a model for other such efforts.
Complementarity of multi-photon states in linear and nonlinear optical interfermoters
Creators: name: Poole, Simon John
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 79-84
description: Many pages are in colour.
description: Wave-particle duality of photons is analyzed for optical interferometry by using and extending the concept of complementarity between which-way information (W} and visibility (V}. In the first part of the thesis I explore the duality relation W2+ V2 ?? 1, for various perfect and imperfect measurement schemes of single-photon interference.[1] The duality relation is found to hold in all cases. In the second part I introduce the concept of relative which-way information which instead is related to the conditional probability of finding a photon in one path provided another photon has been found in the same (or the opposite) path. I demonstrate that relative which-way information is unique under the assumption that it is described by a two-particle operator. Furthermore, commutation relations then also fix the operator for relative visibility. It is shown that the duality relation holds for many-photon states as input for the interferometer.
The gluino-glue particle and finite size effects in supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory
Creators: name: Bergner, Georg
name: Berheide, Tobias
name: Montvay, Istvan
name: Münster, Gernot
name: Özugurel, Umut D.
name: Sandbrink, Dirk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spectrum of particles in supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory is expected to contain a spin 1/2 bound state of gluons and gluinos, the gluino-glue particle. We study the mass of this particle in softly broken supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory on a lattice by means of numerical simulations. The main focus is the estimation of finite size effects. We extrapolate the mass first to the infinite volume and then to the limit of a vanishing gluino mass. The results indicate that finite size effects are tolerable on lattices of moderate size, and that remaining deviations from supersymmetry are probably due to finite lattice spacing effects.
Quantum Confinement in Si and Ge Nanostructures
Creators: name: Barbagiovanni, Eric G.
name: Lockwood, David J.
name: Simpson, Peter J.
name: Goncharova, Lyudmila V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply perturbative effective mass theory as a broadly applicable theoretical model for quantum confinement (QC) in all Si and Ge nanostructures including quantum wells (QWs), wires (Q-wires) and dots (QDs). Within the limits of strong, medium, and weak QC, valence and conduction band edge energy levels (VBM and CBM) were calculated as a function of QD diameters, QW thicknesses and Q-wire diameters. Crystalline and amorphous quantum systems were considered separately. Calculated band edge levels with strong, medium and weak QC models were compared with experimental VBM and CBM reported from X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS), X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) or photoluminescence (PL). Experimentally, the dimensions of the nanostructures were determined directly, by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), or indirectly, by x-ray diffraction (XRD) or by XPS. We found that crystalline materials are best described by a medium confinement model, while amorphous materials exhibit strong confinement regardless of the dimensionality of the system. Our results indicate that spatial delocalization of the hole in amorphous versus crystalline nanostructures is the important parameter determining the magnitude of the band gap expansion, or the strength of the quantum confinement. In addition, the effective masses of the electron and hole are discussed as a function of crystallinity and spatial confinement.
Instantaneous measurements of forces and moments on pv modules scaled as flat plates
Creators: name: Ortiz, Xavier Francisco
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 130-138
description: Many pages are in colour.
description: Inclined flat plates of aspect ratios, ARs, between 1 and 10 are the fundamental geometry for a number of wind engineering systems. Our particular interest is in photovoltaic (PV) modules and arrays mounted on flat roofs at the high angles required for optimum energy production in high latitudes. Usually PV modules are mounted of a number of similar units. However, wind loads on an isolate PV module are useful to determine the baseline performance. The wind loads on these structures can be very high and any correlation between, say, the instantaneous lift and drag can cause overturning moments that are not obvious from knowing only the mean drag and lift. This report describes a detailed examination of the three instantaneous forces and moments acting on an isolate module over a wide range of angles and at varying distances from the wind tunnel floor which represents a flat roof, in order to get a comprehensive set of mean lift, drag, and moment data for wind engineering purposes. The measurements were undertaken in the 0. 76 m x 1.3 7 m environmental wind tunnel at the University of Calgary. The nominal wind speed was 19 mis and the model sizes were chosen to keep the blockage below 3 .5 %. The flat plates with maximum AR=9 were attached to a sting to simulate an open support structure as distinct from the molded plastic pods that are becoming common for mounting modules at low angles. The forces and moments were measured by an ATI multi-axis force/torque sensor holding the sting to a solid frame. Forces and Moments acting on the sting were measured prior the tests with the flat plate to account for the effect of the sting drag on the measurements. The experimental set-up was checked by measurements of normal plates in the free stream for which the drag coefficient is well established. Results are in good agreement with the literature. The AR showed to be an important parameter affecting wind loads. Drag and lift are mainly due to pressure rather than shear stresses at all distances above the wind tunnel floor. The level of fluctuation of Co increased as o. increased and as the distance between the model and the wall decreased. In the free stream position, high values of CL for AR '.S 1 at 25° :S o. '.S 55° are related with high values of C0. The location of COP is close to the centre of the plate for all AR at 25° :So. '.S 55° in the free stream position, but in proximity to the wall, the COP is located close to the centre of the plate for AR :S 2.5 at all a. The estimation of both instantaneous COP and correlation coefficients were adversely affected by the fluctuations in the sting drag.
The Legacies of the Ballets Russes
Creators: name: Garafola, Lynn
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Dance

description: This essay traces the multiple legacies of the Ballets Russes during the 100 years following the company‘s first performances in 1909. Dividing the intervening century into four periods ("The Lifetime of the Ballets Russes," "1930-1954," "1954-1987: Glamor and Revival," and "1987 to the Present: Historicity and the End of the Cold War"), it analyzes the dispersal, migration, transformation, and assimilation of its repertory, choreographic methodologies, cultural narratives, aesthetics, and historiography.
Counterexamples to Ferromagnetic Ordering of Energy Levels
Creators: name: Spitzer, Wolfgang
name: Starr, Shannon
name: Tran, Lam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 82B10, 81R05, 81R50

description: The Heisenberg ferromagnet has symmetry group ${\rm SU}(2)$. The property known as ferromagnetic ordering of energy levels (FOEL) states that the minimum energy eigenvalue among eigenvectors with total spin $s$ is monotone decreasing as a function of $s$. While this property holds for certain graphs such as open chains, in this note we demonstrate some counterexamples. We consider the spin 1/2 model on rings of length $2n$ for $n=2,3,...,8$, and show that the minimum energy among all spin singlets is less than or equal to the minimum energy among all spin triplets, which violates FOEL. This also shows some counterexamples to the "Aldous ordering" for the symmetric exclusion process. We also review some of the literature related to these examples.
description: We corrected an earlier misinterpretation we made of a famous result of Sutherland, which an anonymous referee corrected us on. 29 pages
Auditory Nerve Excitation via a Non-traveling Wave Mode of Basilar Membrane Motion
Creators: name: Huang, Stanley
name: Olson, Elizabeth S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Audiology
Biomechanics

description: Basilar membrane (BM) motion and auditory nerve fiber (ANF) tuning are generally very similar, but the ANF had appeared to be unresponsive to a plateau mode of BM motion that occurs at frequencies above an ANF‘s characteristic frequency (CF). We recorded ANF responses from the gerbil, concentrating on this supra-CF region. We observed a supra-CF plateau in ANF responses at high stimulus level, indicating that the plateau mode of BM motion can be excitatory.
Vertical wind extrapolation using the k-e turbulence model
Creators: name: Mohamed, Mohamed Arif Bin
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 101-107
description: Many pages are in colour.
description: Vertical wind speed extrapolation is an important component of wind resource assessment where measured wind data at a reference height is extrapolated to hub height using the logarithmic or power law. Both models depend on roughness length but disregard information pertinent to topography. The log law results from the balance between turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) production and dissipation rate for fully developed flow over a horizontally homogeneous surface and is not generally valid. In search of a better extrapolation methodology, the k - E turbulence model is used to simulate measurements of boundary layer flows over hills and a step change in roughness accurately. By vertically integrating terms of the modeled TKE equation, a generalization of the log law was developed. The improved model includes a radius of curvature term and height for hills and a fetch length for the step change in roughness. It outperforms the log law for the cases tested.
title: Vessel wall magnetic resonance imaging: a new milestone in the diagnosis of cerebral vasculitis
Creators: name: Salzani, Vagner
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Inflammation
subject: Arteriosclerosis
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: MR-Angiography
subject: MR
subject: Vascular
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Neuro

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Our goal is to demonstrate typical aspects of vasculitis imaging with emphasis on a 3D- darkblood. The 3D T1-weighted dark-blood sequence (3D-darkblood) enables the suppression of the flow inside the vascular lumen, what allows the study of its...
Supporting landscape-scale planning with decision support toolkits
Creators: name: Crist, Patrick
name: Anderson, David
name: International Wildlife Ranching Symposium, Producer
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Wildlife management -- Congresses
subject: Range management -- Congresses

description: Moderator: David Anderson.
description: Presented at the 8th international congress for wildlife and livelihoods on private and communal lands: livestock, tourism, and spirit, that was held on September 7-12, 2014 in Estes Park, Colorado.
description: September 11, 2014.
description: Conservation decisions often come down to actions by individual private landowners, whether it be acquisition of easements, land or development rights; outreach and education, assistance with restoration, etc. To target the locations that will offer the most conservation benefit, it is useful to put decisions into a larger landscape context. A broader context can help identify areas that can conserve the most valuable areas with least conflicts and perhaps lower cost; in other words, a larger context provides more options. However, there is often a disconnect between conservation plans developed at broad scales of landscapes or ecoregions and implementation that must happen at the site scale. This disconnect can happen for many reasons, one being that broad-scale plans are often developed using coarser data or planning units that may not be informative to site-level decision making. This presentation will illustrate with real-world examples the application of decision support toolkits that are able to support both landscape-scale assessment and prioritization, and site-level decision making. This is accomplished through the use of a framework planning tool, NatureServe Vista that, unlike many conservation tools, retains data in its source resolution. Vista can facilitate cumulative effects assessment and landscape prioritization; then be used to explore, assess, and plan actions for individual sites. In this presentation we will illustrate the multi-scale application for both coastal and inland areas.
A faunal approach to foodways at the Mint House-National Museum of Cultures, Mexico City, Mexico
Creators: name: Lopez-Forment, Angelica
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 143-173
description: Some pages are oversized.
description: This thesis approaches colonial foodways in Mexico City using archaeological fauna! remains from the Mint House-National Museum of Cultures. The merging of ideologies and ingredients between Europeans and Mesoamericans resulted in the creation of a unique cuisine that reflected a diverse society in colonial Mexico. It was during the course of 484 years that these groups formed a rich and complex society. Each group contributed specific ingredients, inclinations, and experiences, creating new foodways that incorporated both inter-generational habitus and cultural capitals. Fauna! research at the Mint House was guided by three questions: were there food inclinations and economic distinctions among the inhabitants of the Mint House? Is there a species inclination among the inhabitants of the Mint House? If so, why? Aided with theories of practice, habitus, distinction, and cultural capital as well as zooarchaeological methods these questions are evaluated. Several intangible aspects of societies develop from social processes, including foodways, and they become visible through archaeological materials. By analyzing and describing excavated occupation layers and provenience of fauna! assemblage, as well as species identification, anatomical part identification, NISP, and MNI, I emphasize potentially quantifiable differences in the presence of mammal species in the Mint House's archaeological context. Over 11,000 bones were recovered from 32 pits from the "Project at the National Museum of Cultures -National Coordination of Historical Monuments (MNC-CNMH)". From these, 5473 diagnostic bones belonged to sheep (Ovis aries). The abundance of sheep remains, contrast with the notion that pig was the meat staple of colonial Mexico. This species inclinations indicates that social groups like Conversos, descendants of Jewish converted people who escaped the Spanish regime, were present in New Spain and that they also influenced Mexican foodways. Future analysis regarding the role of Conversos in colonial society, use of space as well as the importance of meat cuts needs to be done in order to comprehend the economic and social distinctions in colonial Mexico City.
Phonon Transport Across a Vacuum Gap
Creators: name: Narayanaswamy, Arvind
name: Sellan, D. P.
name: Landry, E. S.
name: Sasihithlu, Karthik
name: McGaughey, A. J. H.
name: Amon, C. H.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mechanical engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: Phonon transport across a silicon/vacuum-gap/silicon structure is modeled using lattice dynamics calculations and Landauer theory. The phonons transmit thermal energy across the vacuum gap via atomic interactions between the leads. Because the incident phonons do not encounter a classically impenetrable potential barrier, this mechanism is not a tunneling phenomenon. While some incident phonons transmit across the vacuum gap and remain in their original mode, many are annihilated and excite different modes. We show that the heat flux due to phonon transport can be 4 orders of magnitude larger than that due to photon transport predicted from near-field radiation theory.
A mobile phone–based intervention to improve mental health among homeless young adults: Pilot feasibility trial
Creators: name: Schueller, SM
name: Glover, AC
name: Rufa, AK
name: Dowdle, CL
name: Gross, GD
name: Karnik, Niranjan
name: Zalta, AK
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Background: Youth homelessness is a substantial issue, and many youths experiencing homelessness have mental health issues as both a cause and consequence of homelessness. These youths face many barriers to receiving traditional mental health services, and as a result, only a few youths experiencing homelessness receive any form of mental health care. Objective: This project aimed to develop and determine the feasibility and acceptability of engaging young adults (ie, individuals aged 18-24 years) experiencing homelessness in a remotely delivered mental health intervention. This intervention provided brief emotional support and coping skills, drawing from cognitive behavioral principles as an introduction into psychosocial support. The intervention was piloted in a homeless shelter network. Methods: A total of 35 young adults experiencing homelessness participated in a single-arm feasibility pilot trial. Participants received a mobile phone, a service and data plan, and 1 month of support from a coach consisting of up to 3 brief phone sessions, text messaging, and mobile mental health apps. We evaluated feasibility by looking at completion of sessions as well as the overall program and acceptability with satisfaction ratings. We also collected clinical symptoms at baseline and the end of the 1-month support period. We used validity items to identify participants who might be responding inappropriately and thus only report satisfaction ratings and clinical outcomes from valid responses. Results: Most participants (20/35, 57%) completed all 3 of their phone sessions, with an average of 2.09 sessions (SD 1.22) completed by each participant. Participants sent an average of 15.06 text messages (SD 12.62) and received an average of 19.34 messages (SD 12.70). We found higher rates of satisfaction among the participants with valid responses, with 100% (23/23) of such participants indicating that they would recommend participation to someone else and 52% (12/23) reporting that they were very or extremely satisfied with their participation. We found very little change from pre- to posttreatment on measures of depression (d=0.27), post-traumatic stress disorder (d=0.17), and emotion regulation (d=0.10). Conclusions: This study demonstrated that it was feasible to engage homeless young adults in mental health services in this technology-based intervention with high rates of satisfaction. We did not find changes in clinical outcomes; however, we had a small sample size and a brief intervention. Technology might be an important avenue to reach young adults experiencing homelessness, but additional work could explore proper interventions to deliver with such a platform.
The Herschel Multi-Tiered Extragalactic Survey: SPIRE-mm Photometric Redshifts
Creators: name: Roseboom, I. G.
name: Ivison, R. J.
name: Greve, T. R.
name: Amblard, A.
name: Arumugam, V.
name: Auld, R.
name: Aussel, H.
name: Bethermin, M.
name: Blain, A.
name: Bock, J.
name: Boselli, A.
name: Brisbin, D.
name: Buat, V.
name: Burgarella, D.
name: Castro-Rodriguez, N.
name: Cava, A.
name: Chanial, P.
name: Chapin, E.
name: Chapman, S.
name: Clements, D. L.
name: Conley, A.
name: Conversi, L.
name: Cooray, A.
name: Dowell, C. D.
name: Dunlop, J. S.
name: Dwek, E.
name: Eales, S.
name: Elbaz, D.
name: Farrah, D.
name: Franceschini, A.
name: Glenn, J.
name: Griffin, M.
name: Halpern, M.
name: Hatziminaoglou, E.
name: Ibar, E.
name: Isaak, K.
name: Lagache, G.
name: Levenson, L.
name: Lu, N.
name: Madden, S.
name: Maffei, B.
name: Mainetti, G.
name: Marchetti, L.
name: Marsden, G.
name: Morrison, G.
name: Mortier, A. M. J.
name: Nguyen, H. T.
name: O'Halloran, B.
name: Oliver, S. J.
name: Omont, A.
name: Page, M. J.
name: Panuzzo, P.
name: Papageorgiou, A.
name: Pearson, C. P.
name: Perez-Fournon, I.
name: Pohlen, M.
name: Rawlings, J. I.
name: Raymond, G.
name: Rigopoulou, D.
name: Rizzo, D.
name: Rodighiero, G.
name: Rowan-Robinson, M.
name: Schulz, B.
name: Scott, Douglas
name: Seymour, N.
name: Shupe, D. L.
name: Smith, A. J.
name: Stevens, J. A.
name: Symeonidis, M.
name: Trichas, M.
name: Tugwell, K. E.
name: Vaccari, M.
name: Valtchanov, I.
name: Vieira, J. D.
name: Viero, M. P.
name: Vigroux, L.
name: Wardlow, J.
name: Wang, L.
name: Wright, G.
name: Xu, C. K.
name: Zemcov, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the potential of submm-mm and submm-mm-radio photometric redshifts using a sample of mm-selected sources as seen at 250, 350 and 500 μm by the SPIRE instrument on Herschel. From a sample of 63 previously identified mm-sources with reliable radio identifications in the GOODS-N and Lockman Hole North fields 46 (73 per cent) are found to have detections in at least one SPIRE band. We explore the observed submm/mm colour evolution with redshift, finding that the colours of mm-sources are adequately described by a modified blackbody with constant optical depth τ = (ν/ν0)^β where β = +1.8 and ν0 = c/100 μm. We find a tight correlation between dust temperature and IR luminosity. Using a single model of the dust temperature and IR luminosity relation we derive photometric redshift estimates for the 46 SPIRE detected mm-sources. Testing against the 22 sources with known spectroscopic, or good quality optical/near-IR photometric, redshifts we find submm/mm photometric redshifts offer a redshift accuracy of |z|/(1+z) = 0.16 (< |z| >= 0.51). Including constraints from the radio-far IR correlation the accuracy is improved to |z|/(1 + z) = 0.15 (< |z| >= 0.45). We estimate the redshift distribution of mm-selected sources finding a significant excess at z > 3 when compared to ~ 850 μm selected samples.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: Bilateral pulmonary arteriovenous malformation in a patient of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia complicated by hemorrhage
Creators: name: Masood, Mahjabeen
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Observational
subject: Retrospective
subject: Arteriovenous malformations
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Vascular

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Association of bilateral pulmonary arteriovenous malformation with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia complicated by heothorax due to bleeding from one of...
title: Pattern Recognition of Non-Mass Enhancements on Breast MRI – A Pictorial Review with Radiologic-Pathologic Correlation.
Creators: name: Loi, Kai Seng
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Cancer
subject: Education
subject: MR
subject: Mammography
subject: Breast

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: 1. To illustrate the various types of non-mass enhancements (NMEs) according to BI-RADS lexicon. 2. To show the role of pathologic correlation in this...
title: WPS's approach to Sumatran Rhino conservation in Indonesia
title: The approach of wildlife protection solutions to saving rhinos, particularly in Asia
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schmidt, Eric
name: Van Hoven, Wouter
name: International Wildlife Ranching Symposium, Producer
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Wildlife management -- Congresses
subject: Range management -- Congresses

description: Moderator: Wouter van Hoven.
description: Presented at the 8th international congress for wildlife and livelihoods on private and communal lands: livestock, tourism, and spirit, that was held on September 7-12, 2014 in Estes Park, Colorado.
description: Wildlife Protection Solutions (WPS) is an international non-profit group dedicated to the conservation of endangered species. Our current focus is on the five species of rhinos, with a special emphasis on creating habitat and breeding programs that will allow rhino populations to grow faster than they are being poached. We relocate rhinos and then combine proven field methods with the latest remote sensing and drone technologies to protect endangered species.
title: Hepatic pseudolesions and how to spot them
Creators: name: Neagu, Andrei
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Liver
subject: Abdomen
subject: Abdominal Viscera
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Education
subject: Education and training
subject: Not applicable

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To study the etiology, pathophysiology and to describe US, CT and MRI appearance of hepatic pseudolesions. To recognize vascular anatomical variants on various imaging studies. To discriminate pseudolesions from true...
title: Shareholder Activism
Creators: name: Larcker, David F.
name: Brian Tayan
Publisher: name: Corporate Governance Research Initiative
Year: 2017

description: This Research Spotlight provides a summary of the academic literature on shareholder activism, including: The impact of union activism on corporate outcomes, the performance of socially responsible investment funds, the impact of activist hedge funds on effecting change, and the impact of activist hedge funds on short- and long-term corporate performance. This Research Spotlight expands upon issues introduced in the Quick Guide “Investors and Activism.”
A License to Abuse? The Need for National Policy Reform of Kinship Care Licensing Procedures
Creators: name: Prater, Amanda
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Social service

description: The last 20 to 30 years have seen a significant rise in the use of kinship care as a formal out-of-home placement option for abused or neglected children in the government’s custody. This shift has generated debate concerning the benefits and risks of kinship care, and thus far, research findings are largely inconclusive. Notably, there has not been an accompanying formal and holistic review and reformation of relevant child welfare policies. One particularly critical legislative area that has been over-looked by the existing literature is the process by which states license kinship foster homes. Due to the lack of federal leadership in setting universal safety standards for kinship care licensing procedures, states’ policies may fail to protect children adequately. An overview of current federal policy is presented, and the state of Indiana is used as a case study to provide a basis for understanding the significant gaps in states’ policies that necessitate national policy reform. Federal mandates are necessary to ensure that all states provide a consistent and proper level of safety for vulnerable children. Finally, recommendations for appropriate new policies are made.
Multi Vector Boson Production via Gluon Fusion at the LHC
Creators: name: Agrawal, Pankaj
name: Shivaji, Ambresh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: At the LHC, the processes with several particles in the final state occur routinely. These processes provide a new domain to test the Standard Model of particle physics. Due to large gluon luminosity at the LHC, gluon initiated processes will be quite important. We study the production of multi-vector bosons via gluon fusion. In particular we consider the process $ g g \to g γZ $ and compute its cross-section at hadron colliders.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures. Prepared for 10th International Symposium on Radiative Corrections (Applications of Quantum Field Theory to Phenomenology), September 26-30, 2011, Mamallapuram, India. a factor of 4 corrected in the cross-section calculation
Traffic-related air pollution, community noise, and coronary heart disease
Creators: name: Gan, Wenqi
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. Recent evidence suggests associations between exposure to air pollution and community noise and cardiovascular disease mortality. While road traffic is a major common source for air pollution and community noise in urban areas, studies of their joint effects on the risk of cardiovascular disease have been limited. Linked administrative databases from the British Columbia health insurance system were used to assemble a population-based cohort to investigate the independent and joint effects of traffic-related air pollution and community noise on coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality. The cohort included all residents aged 45-85 years who resided in metropolitan Vancouver, Canada, for at least 5 years at baseline (N~400,000). During a 4-year follow-up period, CHD death cases were identified from the provincial death registration database. Distances from residences to major roads were first used as a surrogate for exposure to traffic-related pollution. Living close to major roads was associated with CHD mortality and changes in distances to major roads were associated with altered CHD mortality risk in an exposure-response fashion. Both traffic-related air pollution and noise could be responsible for these associations. Subsequently, land use regression models were used to estimate residential exposure to major traffic-related air pollutants including black carbon, PM₂.₅, NO₂, and NO. Black carbon concentrations were associated with CHD mortality, with a clear exposure-response relationship. No robust associations were found with other air pollutants. A noise prediction model was then used to estimate annual average community noise levels at each person’s residence. Community noise and black carbon were independently associated with CHD mortality: an interquartile range elevation in noise (6.6 dB(A)) and black carbon (0.97×10–⁵/m) was associated with a 6% (95% CI, 1-11%) and a 4% (95% CI, 1-8%) increase in coronary mortality, respectively. There was no discernable linear exposure-response relationship between community noise and CHD mortality. Together, these analyses suggest that traffic-related fine particulate air pollution, indicated by black carbon, and traffic noise may both be responsible for observed associations between exposure to road traffic and cardiovascular disease.
The role of ethnocultural organizations in immigrant integration
Creators: name: Jurkova, Sinela
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 102-109
description: Includes copy of ethics approval. Original copy with original Partial Copyright Licence.
description: A major debate in international migration research is focused around the question of whether immigrants receive benefits from their attachment to ethnic organizations. This thesis examines the role of ethno-cultural organizations in this process. The research provides an understanding of the nature, goals and functions of the ethno-cultural organizations serving their members and their capacity to facilitate effective engagement among mainstream and ethnic immigration communities. The study looks at economic, socio-cultural experience and ethnic attachments of members/ non-members of an ethnic organization and how they interact with the organization. Based on a sample from members and non-members of the Calgary Bulgarian Society, the study defines the features and roles of the organization, issues and concerns of the members/non-members in the process of integration. The findings question whether or not ethno-cultural organizations can be considered partners in the immigration policy review process, developing effective strategies and indicators for measuring immigrant integration.
Conductance of non-ballistic point contacts in hybrid systems "normal metal/superconductor" Cu/Mo-C and Cu/LaOFFeAs
Creators: name: Chiang, Yu. N.
name: Dzyuba, M. O.
name: Shevchenko, O. G.
name: Vasiliev, A. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the shape of the curves of "Andreev" conductance of non-ballistic point contact NS heterosystems depending on the bias voltage at the contact. The obtained shape of those curves is caused by the contribution from the mechanism of coherent scattering by impurities which doubles the scattering cross section. The behavior of generalized and differential conductance is compared for ballistic and non-ballistic transport regimes. The criteria are considered allowing one to discriminate between those regimes with the corresponding conduction curves similar in appearance. The analysis is extended to the case of non-ballistic transport in NS point contacts with exotic superconductors, molybdenum carbide Mo-C and oxypnictide La[O$_{1-x}$F$_{x}$]FeAs from a group of iron-based superconductors.
Resource partitioning during caudal regeneration: assessing the impact of dietary intake on tail and body growth in the leopard gecko (eublepharis macularius)
Creators: name: Hynes, Sabrina Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2012

description: Bibliography: p. 359-372
description: Some pages are in colour.
description: Includes copy of ethics approvals. Original copies with original Partial Copyright Licence.
description: Various impacts and costs are associated with caudal autotomy (voluntary tail loss) and subsequent regeneration in reptiles. Few studies, however, have explored the effects of tail regeneration on body growth, and even fewer have investigated the trade-offs associated with limited dietary resources. These impacts are investigated by: 1) observing the outcome of tail loss on juvenile leopard geckos experiencing conflicting demands of body growth and tail regeneration, when food is constrained; and 2) assessing how metabolic rate varies with tail loss. Results reveal that the regenerating tail receives priority over somatic growth when resources are limiting. Low diet tail-less animals sacrifice somatic growth to maintain tail regeneration rates consistent with those of high and medium diet animals. Furthermore, animals undergoing caudal regeneration suppress their metabolic rate at the point in caudal regeneration when volumetric increase is greatest, diverting resource allocation to the tail and maintaining linear growth of the tail.
Mitochondrial Retrograde Signaling in Fluoroquinolone Associated Disability, A Disease Theory
Creators: name: Melvin, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Despite warnings from regulatory agencies urging conservative usage due to the potential for major adverse events, Fluoroquinolones remains one of the most commonly prescribed antibiotics worldwide. A large number of people who take this class of antibiotics become chronically or permanently disabled suffering from what the Federal Drug Administration has observationally identified as Fluoroquinolone Associated Disability or FQAD. FQAD is an idiopathic pathological presentation of numerous, disparate, symptoms that can literally number into several hundred. FQAD, in affected individuals, can cause an intractable long-term, progressive, multi-system condition that can be severely disabling or fatal. This multisystem involvement of symptoms is usually suspected as being genetic in origin. Despite this, most clinical genetic testing fails to identify any pathological phenotypes that would explain a progressive disease. Due to the lack of further research, the exact mechanism of FQAD remains unknown, even though many disparate pieces of academic research exist documenting the genotoxicity of fluoroquinolones. Based on over ten years of anecdotal evidence by citizen scientists, and the results of some recent research findings, this paper proposes a theory that, if proven true, would elucidate the mechanism behind FQAD in an otherwise healthy population in the absence of genetic predispositions.
title: Breast enlargement: a challenging sign.
Creators: name: Lorente Ramos, Rosa María
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Not applicable
subject: Pathology
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Biopsy
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: Mammography
subject: Breast

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: -Review entities presenting with breast enlargement . -Illustrate imaging findings providing clinical images and pathologic correlation. -Emphasize pitfalls , clues for differential diagnosis and...
title: Radiological approach to the diffuse pulmonary opacities in the emergency department.
Creators: name: LONDOÑO VILLA, LUISA FERNANDA
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Performed at one institution
subject: Not applicable
subject: Oedema
subject: Inflammation
subject: Infection
subject: Education
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Respiratory system
subject: Lung
subject: Emergency
subject: Emergency Imaging

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To recognize the key radiological patterns in chest X-rays and computed tomography studies that present diffuse pulmonary opacities, to achieve a practical diagnostic approach in the emergency department with the support of clinical...
title: The detailed insight of thalami!
Creators: name: Arooj, Shumaila
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Diagnostic or prognostic study
subject: Not applicable
subject: Metabolic disorders
subject: Ischaemia / Infarction
subject: Cancer
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR
subject: CNS
subject: Neuro

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Tolistthe pathologies centred in thalami uni or bilaterally. Todescribe imaging features of thalamic lesions To provide a road map to neurologist to aid in patient...
El Niño and health risks from landscape fire emissions in southeast Asia
Creators: name: Marlier, Miriam E.
name: DeFries, Ruth S.
name: Voulgarakis, Apostolos
name: Kinney, Patrick L.
name: Randerson, James T.
name: Shindell, Drew T.
name: Chen, Yang
name: Faluvegi, Gregory S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Public health
Environmental sciences

description: Emissions from landscape fires affect both climate and air quality. Here, we combine satellite-derived fire estimates and atmospheric modelling to quantify health effects from fire emissions in southeast Asia from 1997 to 2006. This region has large interannual variability in fire activity owing to coupling between El Niño-induced droughts and anthropogenic land-use change. We show that during strong El Niño years, fires contribute up to 200 μg m−3 and 50 ppb in annual average fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ozone surface concentrations near fire sources, respectively. This corresponds to a fire contribution of 200 additional days per year that exceed the World Health Organization 50 μg m−3 24-hr PM2.5 interim target and an estimated 10,800 (6,800–14,300)-person (~ 2%) annual increase in regional adult cardiovascular mortality. Our results indicate that reducing regional deforestation and degradation fires would improve public health along with widely established benefits from reducing carbon emissions, preserving biodiversity and maintaining ecosystem services.