cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The Emperor’s New Clothes?! Understanding the experience of educators in their transition to school management roles in the secondary school system in Jamaica
Creators: name: Stewart-Mcintosh, Deana-Kay Anna
Publisher: name: Edinburgh Napier University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/03zjvnn91
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: A report by the National Education Inspectorate (2015) claimed that as many as 20% of the 28 schools graded leadership and management as unsatisfactory (Hibbert, 2020). This research seeks to explore the experiences of educators in the Jamaican secondary school system as they make the transition to school management roles. This is to identify and examine the challenges experienced in school management. This research provides detailed account of the experiences and perceptions of a purposive sample of 12 school leaders including senior teachers, grade coordinators/ supervisors and principals who have experience of that position for at least 10 years. The research followed a qualitative approach rooted in an interpretivist perspective and drew from a phenomenological design. The experiences were collected by semi-structured interviews and analysed using Interpretivists Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Four research questions were used to guide the research process in which the research findings indicate that the transitional process is challenging and impacts performance within the first year. The process was described as a learning process and often overwhelming. The key themes identified were unpreparedness for the role, lack of a standardised process for selection, learning on the job, active resistance, and seniority. The challenges encountered were internal and external, however, those transitioning used strategies to adjust within the first year such as reading, past experiences or mentors. The key findings were used to develop a conceptual model to assist educators in transitioning into school management. The model provides guidelines aimed at improving the transitional process. The research delivers an understanding and awareness of the impact of the transitional process on performance in school management, thereby providing recommendations to improve practice and alter perceptions/ behaviour during the transition. Finally, the research contributes and provides insight into the learning experiences aimed at improving quality and performance in this setting.
Psychometric evaluation of the Worst Pruritus Numerical Rating Scale (NRS), Atopic Dermatitis Symptom Scale (ADerm-SS), and Atopic Dermatitis Impact Scale (ADerm-IS)
Creators: name: Silverberg, Jonathan I.
name: Leshem, Yael A.
name: Calimlim, Brian M.
name: McDonald, Jeffrey
name: Litcher-Kelly, Leighann
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease characterized by pruritus, skin pain, and sleep impacts, which are only reportable by patients themselves. The goal of this research is to evaluate the reliability, validity, and interpretability of the scores from three patient-reported outcome measures within the context of a clinical trial for adolescents and adults with moderate to severe AD. Data from a Phase 3 randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multinational clinical trial for individuals 12–75 years of age with moderate to severe AD (AD Up [ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03568318]) were used to assess the reliability, validity, and interpretability of scores on the Worst Pruritus Numerical Rating Scale (NRS) and the Atopic Dermatitis Symptom and Impact Scales (ADerm-SS and ADerm-IS). Analyses were conducted separately for the adult and adolescent subgroups. Of the 882 participants included in the psychometric analyses, the majority were adults (n = 769, 87.2%), male (n = 536, 60.8%), and white (n = 630, 71.4%). Multi-item scores from the ADerm-SS and ADerm-IS had good internal consistency reliability, and most scores demonstrated acceptable test-retest reliability. Scores from the three questionnaires demonstrated adequate validity, exhibiting correlations with other conceptually related outcome assessments and score differences between clinically distinct subgroups. Finally, the score interpretation analyses provide estimates for meaningful within-person change and between-groups difference thresholds that may be useful for future research in adults and adolescents with moderate to severe AD. These results provide evidence that the scores produced by the Worst Pruritus NRS, ADerm-SS, and ADerm-IS are reliable and construct-valid when completed by adults and adolescents with moderate to severe AD in a clinical trial setting. The results presented here expand upon the previous qualitative evidence of these tools and provide further support for their use in future clinical studies. While results are specific to clinical trials, next steps would be to evaluate the use of these questionnaires in clinical practice. This can provide clinicians and dermatologists a window into the patient’s disease experience outside of the clinic, aid in shared decision making, and support a patient-centric approach to management of moderate to severe AD.
title: Mesial Temporal Sclerosis - Hard Seahorses and Shrunken Horns?
Creators: name: Waters, Nicole
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Surgery
subject: SPECT-CT
subject: PET-CT
subject: MR
subject: Nuclear medicine
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Seizure disorders

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Provide an overview of mesial temporal sclerosis Illustrate the clinically relevant radiological anatomy and imaging findings in mesial temporal...
Efficiency of random search with space-dependent diffusivity
Creators: name: Santos, M. A. F. dos
name: Menon, L.
name: Anteneodo, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the problem of random search for a target in an environment with space-dependent diffusion coefficient $D(x)$. From a general form of the diffusion differential operator that includes Itô, Stratonovich, and Hänggi-Klimontovich interpretations of the associated stochastic process, we obtain the first-passage time distribution and the search efficiency $\mathcal{E}=\langle 1/t \rangle$. For the paradigmatic power-law diffusion coefficient $D(x) = D_0|x|^α$, with $α<2$, which controls whether the mobility increases or decreases with the distance from a target at the origin, we show the impact of the different interpretations. For the Stratonovich framework, we obtain a closed expression of the search efficiency, valid for arbitrary diffusion coefficient $D(x)$. We show that a heterogeneous diffusivity profile leads to lower efficiency than the homogeneous average level, and the efficiency depends only on the distribution of diffusivity values and not on its spatial organization, features that breakdown under other interpretations.
title: Бағалы қағаздар нарығы
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: EDP Hub (Идипи Хаб), Профобразование
Year: 2024

description: Семинарда пәндерде қолданылатын негізгі терминдердің анықтамалары бойынша сұрақтар берілген. Сондай-ақ бағалы қағаздардың негізгі анықтамалары.\nПрактикум «Бағалы қағаздар нарығы» пәнін оқитын «Қаржы, банк және сақтандыру дело» мамандығының техникалық және кәсіптік білім беру студенттеріне ұсынылады.
¡Viva el camarada Leonid Ilich Brézhnev!: Leonid Il’ich Brezhnev’s 1974 Visit to Cuba
Creators: name: Zang, William Woodfield
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: This essay on General Secretary Leonid Il’ich Brezhnev’s visit to Cuba from January 28 to February 3, 1974, examines the influence of détente on the Soviet-Cuban relationship using Brezhnev’s Cuban tour as a case study. I argue that Brezhnev, recognizing Cuba’s importance in maintaining détente with the United States, traveled to Cuba to ensure the success of this policy by strengthening the Soviet-Cuban alliance. Brezhnev consolidated détente by using his time in Cuba to allay Cuban fears that a thaw in U.S.-Soviet relations took precedent over Cuban security from American intervention. I show that Brezhnev succeeded in extracting a cautious public endorsement of détente from Havana and in doing so found the limits of Soviet influence on Cuban behavior. I also determine that the vicissitudes of détente ultimately served to reinforce the improvement in Soviet-Cuban relations that began in 1968.
Report on S-LCA: Final results and recommendations
Creators: name: Pfleger, Axel
name: Jensen, Eric A
name: Jensen, Aaron M
name: Noles, Sarah
name: van Zuydam, Lali
name: Lorenz, Lars
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Project Ô
water circular economy
water resources
water reuse
EU
funded
project
water
treatment
technologies

description: Project Ô is working to show how water treatment technologies can be implemented in a way that bolsters social and environmental sustainability through circular water management. As part of Work Package 6, this social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) has the objective of determining the ecological impacts of water treatments at Project Ô demosites. Project Ô is working on four demosites, which in total incorporate four new water treatment modules and a total of 6 new technologies. The modules include ADV.ERT in Italy, SALTECH in Israel, MOBILE3TECH in Spain, and PHOTO.CAT in Croatia. The technologies – some of which are implemented in multiple modules – are photocatalysis, high-voltage nanosecond Pulsed Electric Field, molecular separation membranes (membrane distillation and nanofiltration), advanced adsorption technology, photo-Fenton, advanced control, and biological mixed treatment. The implementation status of the modular technologies varies between the demosites. Therefore, this Deliverable 6.12 - Report on S LCA: Final Results and Recommendations (D6.12) presents the last set of results of the Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) of Project Ô technologies based on the latest available data, and offers recommendations on this basis.
On the dimensions of oscillator-like algebras induced by orthogonal polynomials: non-symmetric case
Creators: name: Honnouvo, G.
name: Thirulogasanthar, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 33C45

description: There is a generalized oscillator-like algebra associated with every class of orthogonal polynomials $\{Ψ_n(x)\}_{n=0}^{\infty}$, on the real line, satisfying a four term non-symmetric recurrence relation $xΨ_n(x)=b_nΨ_{n+1}(x)+a_nΨ_n(x)+b_{n-1}Ψ_{n-1}(x),~Ψ_0(x)=1,~b_{-1}=0$. This note presents necessary and sufficient conditions on $a_n$ and $b_n$ for such algebras to be of finite dimension. As examples, we discuss the dimensions of oscillator-like algebras associated with Laguerre and Jacobi polynomials.
Numerical simulation of non-abelian anyons
Creators: name: Kirchner, Nico
name: Millar, Darragh
name: Ayeni, Babatunde M.
name: Smith, Adam
name: Slingerland, Joost K.
name: Pollmann, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-dimensional systems such as quantum spin liquids or fractional quantum Hall systems exhibit anyonic excitations that possess more general statistics than bosons or fermions. This exotic statistics makes it challenging to solve even a many-body system of non-interacting anyons. We introduce an algorithm that allows to simulate anyonic tight-binding Hamiltonians on two-dimensional lattices. The algorithm is directly derived from the low energy topological quantum field theory and is suited for general abelian and non-abelian anyon models. As concrete examples, we apply the algorithm to study the energy level spacing statistics, which reveals level repulsion for free semions, Fibonacci anyons and Ising anyons. Additionally, we simulate non-equilibrium quench dynamics, where we observe that the density distribution becomes homogeneous for large times - indicating thermalization.
description: 39 pages, 19 figures
Examining Clinical Trials Transparency Policies and Staffing at UK Public Universities and NHS Hospital Trusts
Creators: name: DeVito, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Science and Technology Policy
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
subject: Health Policy
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Bioethics and Medical Ethics
subject: FOI
subject: Freedom of Information
subject: Research Integrity
subject: Trials Transparency

description: A project using FOI methods to assess trials transparency policies at UK public research institutions.
title: Imaging Findings of Stroke Mimics and Uncommon Causes of Stroke - A Pictorial Review
Creators: name: Hill, Talia
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Ischaemia / Infarction

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To understand the spectrum and key imaging findings of stroke mimics. To review the less common causes and associated imaging findings of ischaemic and haemorrhagic cerebral...
A systematic review of help-seeking behaviours for self-harm among adolescents aged between 11 to 25 years old.
Creators: name: Kirkpatrick, Alison
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: A mini-systematic review of the literature of help-seeking behaviours for self-harm among young people aged 11 and 25 years old, with no restrictions on location. Submitted in fulfilment of MSc project.
title: Transoral Robotic Surgery - Radiological Assessment of the Oropharynx
Creators: name: Waters, Nicole
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Management
subject: Head and neck
subject: Ear / Nose / Throat
subject: Surgery
subject: Multidisciplinary cancer care

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Describe the current use, advantages and contraindications of transoral robotic surgery (TORS) in the oropharynx Illustrate the clinically relevant radiological anatomy in relation to the TORS...
The effectiveness of refutation for addressing misconceptions: A protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Wood, Rachel
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Educational Psychology
subject: Education
subject: Higher Education
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: conceptual change
subject: misconceptions
subject: refutation

description: A systematic review examining the effectiveness of refutation for addressing misconceptions
title: The use of Checklists in Radiology: An Australia-Wide Cross-Sectional Study
Creators: name: Mandel, Catherine
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Professional issues
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Catheter venography
subject: Safety
subject: Health policy and practice
subject: Medico-legal issues
subject: Outcomes
subject: Quality assurance

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: The use of surgical safety checklists (‘checklists’) in the operating theatre is proven to decrease morbidity and mortality This study looked at the use of checklists in the operating theatre and in radiology procedure rooms across Australia Our...
Thin Red Lines: Early Cold War Military Censorship of Hollywood War Movies
Creators: name: Winkie, J. Davis
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: The U.S. military has long enjoyed a symbiotic relationship with Hollywood, stretching from the early 20th century to the present day. But during the 1950s, the Department of Defense enforced an ad hoc censorship system on war movies through economic leverage provided by its Hollywood production support program. Thin Red Lines explores the origins, mechanics, and impact of the DOD's Hollywood liaison office, founded in 1949 under Don Baruch.      Baruch's office made edits to film scripts, and a thematic analysis of the edits reveals the "red lines" that filmmakers could not cross in their war movies. Seven red lines emerge: American war crimes, mass American casualties, disturbing combat scenes, excessive indiscipline/insubordination, toxic/incompetent leadership, American racial inequality, and excessive German or Japanese war crimes. Thus the Baruch office played a large role in shaping America's burgeoning memory of WWII and perhaps opened the door to moral injury in Vietnam vets.
Report on LCC: Final results and recommendations
Creators: name: Pfleger, Axel
name: Jensen, Eric A
name: Lorenz, Lars
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Project Ô
water circular economy
water resources
water reuse
EU
funded
project
water
treatment
technologies

description: Project Ô aims to demonstrate how water treatment technologies can be implemented locally and collaboratively to enable a more sustainable future through circular water management. As part of the suite of sustainability analyses conducted in Work Package 6, a life cycle costing (LCC) has been undertaken with the objective of determining the economic viability of water treatments at Project Ô demosites. Four Project Ô demosites incorporate four new water treatment modules and a total of 8 new technologies. The modules are ADV.ERT in Italy, SALTECH in Israel, MOBILE3TECH in Spain, and PHOTO.CAT in Croatia. The technologies – some of which are implemented in multiple modules – are photocatalysis, high-voltage nanosecond pulsed electric field, molecular separation membranes (membrane distillation and nanofiltration), advanced adsorption technology, solar photo-Fenton, advanced control, and biological mixed treatment. This Deliverable, D6.9 - Report on LCC: Final Results and Recommendations, presents results from the Life Cycle Costing (LCC) of Project Ô technologies based on the latest available data, and offers recommendations on this basis.
Queer Nightspots and the Sounding of Utopia
Creators: name: Hogg Jr, Aldwyn
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: I argue in this thesis that music and sound act upon queer patrons in nightspots (primarily clubs and bars) in ways that generate moments of what Jill Dolan calls utopian performatives. In this thesis I interweave theory with ethnographic fieldwork I conducted in local queer nightspots in Durham and Raleigh, North Carolina, and interviews with local DJs and individuals who frequent these spaces. This thesis illuminates the merits that the utopian performative has for the broader field of ethnomusicology, and proposes a new, sonic way of thinking of these moments. In my conclusion, I gesture towards some of the political implications of this sonic utopian thinking about queerness in contemporary society. Several years after the horrific shooting at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida in 2016, imagining better futures for queer folk remains as vital as ever.
Report on LCA: Final results and recommendations
Creators: name: Pfleger, Axel
name: Jensen, Eric A
name: Lorenz, Lars
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Project Ô
water circular economy
water resources
water reuse
EU
funded
project
water
treatment
technologies

description: Project Ô is working on four demosites, which in total incorporate four new water treatment modules and a total of 8 new technologies. The water treatment modules include ADV.ERT in Italy, SALTECH in Israel, MOBILE3TECH in Spain, and PHOTO.CAT in Croatia. The technologies – some of which are implemented in multiple modules – are photocatalysis, high-voltage nanosecond pulsed electric field, molecular separation membranes (membrane distillation and nanofiltration), advanced adsorption technology, photo Fenton, advanced control, and biological mixed treatment. This Deliverable, D6.6 - Report on LCA: Final Results and Recommendations, presents results from the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Project Ô technologies based on the latest available data, and offers recommendations on this basis.
Experimental Study of Synchronization of Coupled Electrical Self-Oscillators and Comparison to the Sakaguchi-Kuramoto model
Creators: name: English, Lars Q.
name: Zeng, Zhuwei
name: Mertens, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the collective phase dynamics of Wien-bridge oscillators coupled resistively. We carefully analyze the behavior of two coupled oscillators, obtaining a transformation from voltage to effective phase. From the phase dynamics we show that the coupling can be quantitatively described by Sakaguchi's modification to the Kuramoto model. We also examine an ensemble of oscillators whose frequencies are taken from a flat distribution within a fixed frequency interval. We characterize in detail the synchronized cluster, its initial formation, as well as its effect on unsynchronized oscillators, all as a function of a global coupling strength.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures, accepted with PRE
title: CT-Guided Lung FNA vs Core Biopsies in a Large Tertiary Hospital: Diagnostic Accuracy, Complications, Therapeutic Impact and the Value of an Onsite Cytopathologist
Creators: name: Kusuma, David
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: CT
subject: Biopsy
subject: Quality assurance

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: To perform a retrospective cohort study comparing FNA and Core biopsies in terms of accuracy, complication rates, and whether an onsite cytopathologist increases FNA yield or influences the number of passes. To determine if accuracy and complication...
Inviscid Limit for Stochastic Second-Grade Fluid Equations
Creators: name: Luongo, Eliseo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider in a smooth and bounded two dimensional domain the convergence in the $L^2$ norm, uniformly in time, of the solution of the stochastic second-grade fluid equations with transport noise and no-slip boundary conditions to the solution of the corresponding Euler equations. We prove, that assuming proper regularity of the initial conditions of the Euler equations and a proper behavior of the parameters $ν$ and $α$, then the inviscid limit holds without requiring a particular dissipation of the energy of the solutions of the second-grade fluid equations in the boundary layer.
Origin of the turn-on temperature behavior in WTe$_2$
Creators: name: Wang, Y. L.
name: Thoutam, L. R.
name: Xiao, Z. L.
name: Hu, J.
name: Das, S.
name: Mao, Z. Q.
name: Wei, J.
name: Divan, R.
name: Luican-Mayer, A.
name: Crabtree, G. W.
name: Kwok, W. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A hallmark of materials with extremely large magnetoresistance (XMR) is the transformative 'turn-on' temperature behavior: when the applied magnetic field $H$ is above certain value, the resistivity versus temperature $ρ(T)$ curve shows a minimum at a field dependent temperature $T^*$, which has been interpreted as a magnetic-field-driven metal-insulator transition or attributed to an electronic structure change. Here, we demonstrate that $ρ(T)$ curves with turn-on behavior in the newly discovered XMR material WTe$_2$ can be scaled as MR $\sim(H/ρ_0)^m$ with $m\approx 2$ and $ρ_0$ being the resistivity at zero-field. We obtained experimentally and also derived from the observed scaling the magnetic field dependence of the turn-on temperature $T^* \sim (H-H_c)^ν$ with $ν\approx 1/2$, which was earlier used as evidence for a predicted metal-insulator transition. The scaling also leads to a simple quantitative expression for the resistivity $ρ^* \approx 2 ρ_0$ at the onset of the XMR behavior, which fits the data remarkably well. These results exclude the possible existence of a magnetic-field-driven metal-insulator transition or significant contribution of an electronic structure change to the low-temperature XMR in WTe$_2$. This work resolves the origin of the turn-on behavior observed in several XMR materials and also provides a general route for a quantitative understanding of the temperature dependence of MR in both XMR and non-XMR materials.
ABDULLA QAHHOR IJODIDA OʻZIGA XOSLIK
Creators: name: Orazbaeva, Asal
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqolada oʻzbek adabiyotining zabardast vakillaridan biri boʻlgan Abdulla Qahhor ijodidagi oʻziga xoslik, yozuvchining ijodiy mahorati haqida fikr yuritilgan. Tadqiqot obyekti sifatida yozuvchining “Oʻgʻri” hikoyasi tanlab olingan.
title: Accuracy of Preliminary Registrar CTPA Reports: An Audit of the Differences between Preliminary Registrar and Finalised Consultant Reports
Creators: name: Van, Andrew
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Pulmonary vessels
subject: Respiratory system
subject: Lung
subject: CT
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Safety
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Embolism / Thrombosis

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Computed tomography pulmonary angiograms (CTPAs) continue to be the standard diagnostic tool for investigation of pulmonary embolism in patients with adequate renal function. The diagnosis of pulmonary embolism is time critical, often requiring...
Essential Therapeutic Communication Training for Mental Health Nurses: A Program Evaluation
Creators: name: Glance, Olivia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Therapeutic communication is an essential skill in psychiatric nursing, and has been shown to result in improved outcomes for mental health patients. Such outcomes include decreased anxiety, enhanced coping ability, improved emotional management skills, and increased adherence to treatment. However, there is no evidence indicating that mental health facilities commonly provide training in therapeutic communication to their nurses, and, without adequate training, psychiatric nurses may not have the knowledge to implement these skills in their interactions with patients. The purpose of this project was to create and implement an online training program on therapeutic communication skills for mental health nurses, with the goal of increasing the frequency and effectiveness with which nurses implement these skills in their interactions with patients. For this project, an online therapeutic communication training program was created and implemented among the nurses at a residential eating disorder treatment facility over the course of a month. The Consultation and Relational Empathy (CARE) measure, a validated provider empathy survey, was administered to the patients at the facility prior to and after the training to determine the effectiveness of the training program on improving the nurses' therapeutic communication skills. Differences in average patient ratings of nursing staff on the pre- and post-training CARE measure survey questions were analyzed, and patient ratings of nurses' therapeutic communication skills after the training program were found to be significantly higher. These results indicated that completion of the training program was associated with clinically significant improvements in the nurses' therapeutic communication skills. Since evidence has associated effective therapeutic communication with positive outcomes among psychiatric patients, a clinically significant improvement in the nurses' therapeutic communication skills following this training program indicates the potential value of the program, as well as a clinical need to provide mental health nurses with therapeutic communication training. The results also suggest the potential value in expanding this training program to a wider community of mental health nurses.
title: Relationship between CT-Derived Gross Tumour Volume (GTV) and the FDG-PET/CT-Derived Metabolic Tumour Volume (MTV): An Exploratory Study in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients Treated with Radical Radiotherapy
Creators: name: Oar, Andrew
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: Radiation physics
subject: Oncology
subject: PET-CT
subject: CT
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Neoplasia

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Metabolic Tumour Volume (MTV) is defined as the volume on FDG-PET/CT with increased FDG uptake.MTV has been shown to be of superior prognostic valuecompared toSUVmax in NSCLC[1,2].This study aims to explorethe spatial overlap between CT-derived...
Robust and accurate depth estimation by fusing LiDAR and Stereo
Creators: name: Xu, Guangyao
name: Fan, Junfeng
name: Li, En
name: Long, Xiaoyu
name: Guo, Rui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Depth estimation is one of the key technologies in some fields such as autonomous driving and robot navigation. However, the traditional method of using a single sensor is inevitably limited by the performance of the sensor. Therefore, a precision and robust method for fusing the LiDAR and stereo cameras is proposed. This method fully combines the advantages of the LiDAR and stereo camera, which can retain the advantages of the high precision of the LiDAR and the high resolution of images respectively. Compared with the traditional stereo matching method, the texture of the object and lighting conditions have less influence on the algorithm. Firstly, the depth of the LiDAR data is converted to the disparity of the stereo camera. Because the density of the LiDAR data is relatively sparse on the y-axis, the converted disparity map is up-sampled using the interpolation method. Secondly, in order to make full use of the precise disparity map, the disparity map and stereo matching are fused to propagate the accurate disparity. Finally, the disparity map is converted to the depth map. Moreover, the converted disparity map can also increase the speed of the algorithm. We evaluate the proposed pipeline on the KITTI benchmark. The experiment demonstrates that our algorithm has higher accuracy than several classic methods.
Natural catastrophe reinsurance: essays on market design, risk modelling, and innovation
Creators: name: Joniec, Robert Thomas
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: Finance

description: Natural catastrophe reinsurance has a positive impact on welfare and long-term economic growth. It plays a vital role in generating and distributing knowledge and the diversification of risk on a global scale. Understanding the economics of natural catastrophe reinsurance is important in addressing issues related to the availability and affordability of natural catastrophe risk transfer in general. Current literature is constrained by limited access to privately held transaction data and the opaqueness of the reinsurance market system. Moreover, existing knowledge is challenged by climate change and technological developments affecting the nature of risk and transactions, respectively. In this context, this thesis aims to expand the understanding of the economics of natural catastrophe reinsurance, focusing on issues relating to loss shocks and risk modelling, alternatives to conventional natural catastrophe reinsurance, and the design of reinsurance marketplaces. The first essay uses a sample of reinsurance contract data to examine the relative effects of loss shocks and catastrophe model updates on reinsurance supply and demand during 2005–2018. In a first in the literature, the impact of model-driven probability updating on reinsurance transactions is observed. Furthermore, the results provide evidence for an absence of supply related effects and a measurable influence of budget constraints on insurers’ demand decisions. The second essay addresses the high transaction costs for insurance linked securities and uses expert testimony to assess the challenges to the adoption of reinsurance derivatives. Against this backdrop, swap contracts’ proportional risk transfer capabilities are formally presented along with accounting and legal implications. The results suggest economically important aspects to alternative risk transfer that can address capacity constraints and financial market imperfections. In the third essay, the infrastructure, rules and customs of traditional reinsurance transactions, insurance linked securities, and reinsurance auctions are documented using semi-structured expert interviews. Additionally, the main challenges underlying natural catastrophe transactions are identified and auction theory is reviewed for general lessons learned. The essay initiates a market design discussion and provides missing insights into the transaction modes in natural catastrophe reinsurance. Overall, this thesis addresses important gaps in the literature on reinsurance economics and provides policymakers, market participants, and researchers with practical implications and direction for future research.
Inter-comparaison d'équipements de mesure de houle
Creators: name: Bothorel, Pierre
name: Trasch, Martin
name: Perier, Vincent
name: Repecaud, Michel
Publisher: name: Ifremer
Year: 2023
Subjects: inter-comparaison
mesure de houle
bouée
capteur de pression
ADCP
analyse spectrale

description: Ifremer operates the Sainte-Anne du Portzic sea trials site. This coastal area is used to test structures and sensors that are to be deployed at sea, as well as marine renewable energy prototypes, such as wave motor systems or floating wind turbines. There is therefore a need to be able to accurately characterise the waves encountered on the site. To determine which instrument to use, a wave measurement campaign was carried out between October and April 2023 using Spotter and Datawell wave buoys, RBR pressure sensors and a Nortek Signature ADCP. The aim of this internship is to process the data obtained and to carry out an inter-comparison of the results in order to determine the relative characteristics of the various wave measurement instruments.
description: L'Ifremer opére le site d'essais en mer de Sainte-Anne du Portzic. Cette zone côtière est utilisée pour tester des structures et des capteurs qui doivent être déployées en mer, ainsi que des prototypes d'énergie marine renouvelable, comme des systèmes houlomoteurs ou des éoliennes flottantes. Il y a donc un besoin de pouvoir caractériser avec précision des vagues rencontrées sur le site. Pour déterminer quel instrument utilisé, une campagne de mesure de houle a été réalisée entre octobre et avril 2023 en utilisant des bouées houlographes Spotter et Datawell, des capteurs de pression RBR et un ADCP Nortek Signature. L'objectif de ce stage est de traiter les données obtenues et de réaliser une inter-comparaison des résultats pour déterminer les caractéristiques relatives des différents instruments de mesure de houle.
A Method for Generating All Uniform $π$-Pulse Sequences Used in Deterministic Dynamical Decoupling
Creators: name: Qi, Haoyu
name: Dowling, Jonathan P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dynamical decoupling has been actively investigated since Viola first suggested using a pulse sequence to protect a qubit from decoherence. Since then, many schemes of dynamical decoupling have been proposed to achieve high-order suppression, both analytically and numerically. However, hitherto, there has not been a systematic framework to understand all existing uniform $π$-pulse dynamical decoupling schemes. In this report, we use the projection pulse sequences as basic building blocks and concatenation as a way to combine them. We derived a new concatenated-projection dynamical decoupling (CPDD), a framework in which we can systematically construct pulse sequences to achieve arbitrary high suppression order. All previously known uniform dynamical decoupling sequences using $π$ pulse can be fit into this framework. Understanding uniform dynamical decoupling as successive projections on the Hamiltonian will also give insights on how to invent new ways to construct better pulse sequences.
description: 10 pages and 1 figure. Submitted for publication to Phys. Rev. A
title: Foot and Ankle X-ray: Is Dual Body Part Imaging Necessary in Minor Trauma in the Emergency Department?
Creators: name: Srivastava, Ankur
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Trauma
subject: Extremities
subject: Computer applications
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Health policy and practice
subject: Trauma

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Determine whether both ankle and foot x-rays are required for minor trauma in the Emergency Department Determine whether electronic medical records facilitates unecessary imaging of the...
Perfect fluids with $ω=\mathrm{const}$ as sources of scalar cosmological perturbations
Creators: name: Eingorn, Maxim
name: Brilenkov, Ruslan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We make a generalization of a self-consistent first-order perturbation scheme, being suitable for all (sub-horizon and super-horizon) scales, which has been recently constructed for the concordance cosmological model and discrete presentation of matter sources, to the case of extended models with extra perfect fluids and continuous presentation. Namely, we derive a single equation determining the scalar perturbation and covering the whole space as well as define the corresponding universal Yukawa interaction range. We also demonstrate explicitly that the structure growth is suppressed at distances exceeding this fundamental range.
description: 14 pages, no figures
title: Prevalence of Accessory Parotid Tissue: Review of 68Ga - Dotatate Scans
Creators: name: Srivastava, Ankur
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear medicine
subject: Anatomy
subject: Head and neck
subject: PET-CT
subject: PET
subject: Molecular imaging
subject: Education and training

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: 68Gallium – Dotatate (68Ga – Dotatate) scans can accurately delineate the parotid gland tissue, main or accessory, which is somatostatin receptor (SSR) expressing. Accessory parotid tissue is completely separated form the main parotid gland and...
A hybrid-qudit representation of digital RGB images
Creators: name: Das, Sreetama
name: Caruso, Filippo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum image processing is an emerging topic in the field of quantum information and technology. In this paper, we propose a new quantum image representation of RGB images, which is an improvement to all the existing representations in terms of using minimum resource. We use two entangled quantum registers constituting of total 7 qutrits to encode the color channels and their intensities. Additionally, we generalize the existing encoding methods by using both qubits and qutrits to encode the pixel positions of a rectangular image. This hybrid-qudit approach aligns well with the current progress of NISQ devices in incorporating higher dimensional quantum systems than qubits. We then describe the image encoding method using higher-order qubit-qutrit gates, and demonstrate the decomposition of these gates in terms of simpler elementary gates. We use the Google Cirq's quantum simulator to verify the image retrieval. We show that the complexity of the image encoding process is linear in the number of pixels. Lastly, we discuss the image compression and some basic RGB image processing protocols using our representation.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures
CONCEPTUAL REPLICATION Confronting Sexism: The role of confronter race and type of confrontation on perceived warmth and competence
Creators: name: Woodzicka, Julie
name: Anekwe-Desince, Enuma
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This study is a conceptual replication. We are examining the effect of confrontation type (witty vs. serious) and confronter race (Black vs. White) on warmth and competence ratings. A difference scenario is used.
'Towards retreat': modernism, craftsmanship and spirituality in the work of Geoffrey Clarke
Creators: name: LeGrove, Judith
Publisher: name: University of Derby
Year: 2007
Subjects: Twentieth century British sculpture
Geoffrey Clarke
British avant-garde

description: Currently, Geoffrey Clarke (b 1924) is best known for his work in iron, exhibited with the group of 'young' British sculptors at the 1952 Venice Biennale: Robert Adams, Kenneth Armitage, Reg Butler, Lynn Chadwick, Bernard Meadows, Eduardo Paolozzi, and William Turnbull. Through this group, which Read identified as 'participating in a general revival of the art of sculpture', Clarke touched the circle of the British avant-garde in the early 19508, gaining prominence and a considerabledegree of notoriety for his work. While Clarke's work in no way supported Read's interpretation of intent - that the new sculpture transmitted a collective guilt, an 'iconography of despair' - it did accord with Read in propounding art as a psychological construct, and in reflecting an awareness of the current interest in Jungian psychoanalysis. Throughout his career, Clarke has repeatedly engaged with issues of British modernism (a definition of which will be one aim of this thesis). In the early 1960s he changed his medium to aluminium; developing his own, fast method of casting using expanded polystyrene, subjecting his sculpture to a process of increased abstraction and inviting comparison with Caro's sculpture and the fonnalist criticism of Greenberg. In the late 1960s he produced a series of landscape works which paralleled the work of Richard Long and other 'land' artists. Clarke also experimented in the early 19708 with the extension of sculpture from purely visual parameters, for instance using aroma as a constituent, or involving the active participation of the viewer. This thesis seeks to address the current critical neglect of Clarke's work by contextualising his work in relation to that of other sculptors and by identifying those aspects which are innovative or particular. His work is thus considered from four viewpoints. 'Philosophy and Spirituality' considers the sources of the artist's beliefs. 'Symbolism and Form' traces the formation of Clarke's visual imagery and its application. 'Craftsmanship: Materials, Processes, Applications' examines Clarke's experimental approach to materials and his commitment to creating his own work.Finally, 'Architectural and Design Projects' discusses issues of collaboration and patronage and how the elements of spirituality, symbolism, craftsmanship and creative purpose function in the artist's work. Issues relating to notions of vii modernism and postmodernism are discussed throughout the text and drawn together in the Conclusion, which also suggests reasons for the artist's critical neglect.
ElecTra Code: Full-Band Electronic Transport Properties of Materials
Creators: name: Graziosi, Patrizio
name: Li, Zhen
name: Neophytou, Neophytos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper introduces ElecTra, an open-source code which solves the linearized Boltzmann transport equation in the relaxation time approximation for charge carriers in a full-band electronic structure of arbitrary complexity, including their energy, momentum, and band-index dependence. ElecTra stands for 'ELECtronic TRAnsport' and computes the electronic and thermoelectric transport coefficients electrical conductivity, Seebeck coefficient, electronic thermal conductivity, and mobility, for semiconductor materials, for both unipolar and bipolar (small bandgap) materials. The code uses computed full-bands and relevant scattering parameters as inputs and considers single crystal materials in 3D and 2D. The present version of the code (v1) considers: i) elastic scattering with acoustic phonons and inelastic scattering with non-polar optical phonons in the deformation potential approximation, ii) inelastic scattering with polar phonons, iii) scattering with ionized dopants, and iv) alloy scattering. The user is given the option of intra- and inter-valley scattering considerations. The simulation output also includes relevant relaxation times and mean-free-paths. The transport quantities are computed as a function of Fermi level position, doping density, and temperature. ElecTra can interface with any DFT code which saves the electronic structure in the '.bxsf' format. In this paper ElecTra is validated against ideal electronic transport situations of known analytical solutions, existing codes employing the constant relaxation time approximation, as well as experimentally well-assessed materials such as Si, Ge, SiGe, and GaAs.