cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Conflict in the Niger Delta and corporate social responsibility of multinational oil companies: An assessment
Creators: name: Nwankwo, Beloveth Odochi
Publisher: name: university of derby
Year: 2016
Subjects: Conflict research
Corporate social responsibility
Environmental polution
Niger Delta
Environmental sustainability

description: The Niger Delta region of Nigeria contributes more than 95 percent of the country’s export incomes and generates more than 40 percent of the Nigerian Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and 85 percent of the nation’s total revenue (Karl and Gray, 2003, p. 26). Although most multinational oil companies (MNOCs) have found the Niger Delta a fertile ground for business, the region remains backward, poor and underdeveloped. The host communities have been frustrated by the effects of oil production on the environment, which include oil spillages, the reduction of arable land, and the destruction of wild life and fish reserves. As a result of the oil bearing communities’ angry sentiments towards the MNOCs and the Nigerian Government, incessant conflict, and violent crises have enveloped the region. To mitigate the anger, the MNOCs have engaged in some programs and projects intended to benefit the oil- bearing communities in the area of corporate social responsibility (CSR). This thesis is focused on how the CSR strategies of the MNOCs have contributed to the perennial conflict in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The mixed methods descriptive design study employed involves the use of survey instruments and content analysis to interrogate the conflict situation. Findings indicate that the failure of MNOCs operating in the Niger Delta region to provide concrete and sustainable CSR, and the government’s inability to regulate the MNOCs and plough back the taxes paid by the latter to develop the region, has led to the current crises. These supported the thesis that the lack of concrete social responsibility contributes to conflicts in the Niger Delta. Building upon the stakeholders’ theory, the theory of frustration and aggression, and conflict theory, this study discovered that the cause of the conflict in the Niger Delta is not solely an issue of corporate social responsibility and revenue allocation, but it largely depends on the divergences of the different stakeholders’ interests. This study, therefore, recommends a revocation of the 60/40 ownership structure between the government and the oil companies. Instead, host communities should be considered part owners of the oil deposits in their land, which would give them a fair percentage in the ownership structure.
The conceptualization of mindfulness in health promotion: A scoping review of the literature on physical activity and healthy eating.
Creators: name: Preissner, Christian
name: de Vries, Hein
name: Vilier, Lieke
name: Eenema, Anke
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: eating behavior
subject: health behavior
subject: health promotion
subject: mindfulness
subject: physical activity
subject: Scoping review

description: This review aims to examine conceptualizations of mindfulness within the published literature on positive health behaviors (i.e., healthy eating and physical activity) in non-clinical adult populations, and to develop an integrative concept map of how to conceptualize, measure, and apply mindfulness in health promotion approaches.
title: MRI features of solitary fibrous tumors in soft-tissues with histological confrontations.
Creators: name: Bourdet, Christopher
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Decision analysis
subject: MR
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: 1) To illustrate the MRI features of the SFTs from soft tissues and muscles with histological correlation 2) To propose differential patterns between benign and malignant...
A Comparison of Two Analytical Techniques for Quantifying Endotoxins in Dutch Animal Feed Animals
Creators: name: Lloyd, Eileen M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1993

description: Occupational exposure to endotoxin has been evaluated in Dutch Animal Feed Mills in 1988 and it has been determined that it is an important factor in the development of respiratory impairment. This evaluation encompassed 530 personal samples analyzed by the KabiVitrum method. A second round of measurements in 1993/94 has commenced and will be analyzed by the easier and more accurate Whittaker method. In 1991, a subset (n=138) of the initial 530 measurements was reanalyzed with the new Whittaker method. From this analysis, it was determined that the KabiVitrum 88 results can be good predictors of the Whittaker 91 results. In 1993, a small subset (n=15) was analyzed side by side with both methods to determine if the two methods are comparable without any correction factors. Results indicate that the two methods are not comparable without correction factors when the correlations of the KabiVitrum88/Whittaker 91 are compared with the KabiVitrum93/Whittaker93.
Elevation and Attitude
Creators: name: Sparks, Adam
name: Fessler, Daniel
name: Holbrook, Colin
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: This project investigates individual differences in the experience of elevation (an emotion associated with prosocial behavior). Specifically, we use the Attitude-Scenario-Emotion framework (Gervais & Fessler, in press) to investigate candidate attitudes that potentiate elevation.
Partial Dynamical Systems, Fell Bundles and Applications
Creators: name: Exel, Ruy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This is a book about Partial Actions and Fell Bundles with applications to C*-algebras generated by partial isometries. Here is the table of contents: 1-Introduction, 2-Partial actions, 3-Restriction and globalization, 4-Inverse semigroups, 5-Topological partial dynamical systems, 6-Algebraic partial dynamical systems, 7-Multipliers, 8-Crossed products, 9-Partial group representations, 10-Partial group algebras, 11-C*-algebraic partial dynamical systems, 12-Partial isometries, 13-Covariant representations of C*-algebraic dynamical systems, 14-Partial representations subject to relations, 15-Hilbert modules and Morita-Rieffel-equivalence, 16-Fell bundles, 17-Reduced cross-sectional algebras, 18-Fell's absorption principle, 19-Graded C*-algebras, 20-Amenability for Fell bundles, 21-Functoriality for Fell bundles, 22-Functoriality for partial actions, 23-Ideals in graded algebras, 24-Pre-Fell-bundles, 25-Tensor products of Fell bundles, 26-Smash product, 27-Stable Fell bundles as partial crossed products, 28-Globalization in the C*-context, 29-Topologically free partial actions, 30-Dilating partial representations, 31-Semigroups of isometries, 32-Quasi-lattice ordered groups, 33-C*-algebras generated by semigroups of isometries, 34-Wiener-Hopf C*-algebras, 35-The Toeplitz C*-algebra of a graph, 36-Path spaces, 37-Graph C*-algebras, 38-References, 39-Subject Index.
description: Expected publication date October 15, 2017
title: The influence of temporal resolution and type of arterial input function in evaluating pharmacokinetic parameters of the prostate dynamic contrast enhanced MRI
Creators: name: Takahashi, Satoru
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: MR
subject: Genital / Reproductive system male

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Dynamic contrast enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI), which is based on the permeability of blood vessels and extravasation of contrast medium into the surrounding tissue, has a high sensitivity in prostate cancer detection Fig. 1 (1-3) . Because appropriate...
Subgeometric rates of convergence for Markov processes under subordination
Creators: name: Deng, Chang-Song
name: Schilling, René L.
name: Song, Yan-Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We are interested in the rate of convergence of a subordinate Markov process to its invariant measure. Given a subordinator and the corresponding Bernstein function (Laplace exponent) we characterize the convergence rate of the subordinate Markov process; the key ingredients are the rate of convergence of the original process and the (inverse of the) Bernstein function. At a technical level, the crucial point is to bound three types of moments (sub-exponential, algebraic and logarithmic) for subordinators as time $t$ tends to infinity. At the end we discuss some concrete models and we show that subordination can dramatically change the speed of convergence to equilibrium.
description: The present arXiv version v3 contains the small corrections (Lemma A.2, proof of Theorem 2.1 c-ii) on page 13) mentioned in an erratum
title: Percutaneous CT-guided irreversible electroporation (IRE) in the management of unresectable pancreatic carcinoma: preliminary results
Creators: name: Belfiore, Maria Paola
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Pancreas
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Oncology
subject: CT
subject: Percutaneous
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: Treatment effects
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Tissue characterisation

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: PAncreatic cancer is the second most Common gastrointestinal malignancy and although it is the ninth most Common cancer among all sites,it is the fourth leading Cause of cancer death in United States.Locally pancreatic cancer patients have limited...
Study 1 - MTurk Allocentric vs. Egocentric Attitude
Creators: name: Sparks, Adam
name: Fessler, Daniel
name: Holbrook, Colin
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: In previous work, we developed a scale to measure an attitude we call idealism/cynicism, which generally indexes expectations about how other people treat *each other,* i.e. their allocentric social expectations. Study 1 results suggest than an alternative measure based on egocentric social expectations (e.g. my expectations of how people will treat *me*) is better associated with elevation. After this finding, we realized that the label "idealism" no longer seemed appropriate for this construct. Thus the earlier documents from this project use somewhat different terminology.
A non-archimedean Ax-Lindemann theorem
Creators: name: Chambert-Loir, Antoine
name: Loeser, François
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03C98, 11G18, 14G22 (Primary), 11D88, 11J91, 14G35 (Secondary)

description: We prove a statement of Ax-Lindemann type for the uniformization of products of Mumford curves whose associated fundamental groups are non-abelian Schottky subgroups of $\mathop{\rm PGL}(2,\bar{\mathbf Q_p})$ contained in $\mathop{\rm PGL}(2,\bar{\mathbf Q})$. In particular, we characterize bi-algebraic irreducible subvarieties of the uniformization.
description: 31 pages; revised version
Langmuir Probe Measurements of Scrape-Off Layer Conditions in RF-Driven Plasmas in TST-2
Creators: name: Rice, James
name: TSUJII, Naoto
name: TAKASE, Yuichi
name: EJIRI, Akira
name: WATANABE, Osamu
name: YAMAZAKI, Hibiki
name: PENG, Yi
name: IWASAKI, Kotaro
name: AOI, Yuki
name: KO, Yongtae
name: MATSUZAKI, Kyohei
name: OSAWA, Yuki
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 20299 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: No description supplied
Pathogen Risk Assessment: Its Development and Use in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Technical Standard for the Use and Disposal of Sewage Sludge
Creators: name: Burruss, Ann E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1993

description: EPA developed a risk assessment computer model for pathogens in sewage sludge. This study examines the EPA methodology, its application in EPA's preliminary risk assessments for parasites, bacteria and viruses; provides a critique and recommendations for improving pathogen risk assessment for pathogens in land application of sludge. Data gaps in dose-response assessment, exposure assessment and risk characterization are evident in the EPA methodology. Inadequate estimates were made from available data for variables in the EPA model, and data to support estimates for dose-response and exposure were lacking. The EPA sewage sludge use and disposal regulation, promulgated in December, 1992, is technology-based, (although arguably not state-of-the-science). The EPA does not use the pathogen risk assessment information in order to set pathogen limits in its' sewage sludge regulation. A review of the literature indicated that data, or techniques to acquire the required data, exist, and could be applied to improve EPA's pathogen risk assessment methodology.
title: Dynamic-energy-adjustment of spectral CT in the demonstration of subtle structures: a comparison study
Creators: name: Tang, Lei
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Anatomy
subject: Abdomen
subject: CT
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Diagnostic procedure

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To investigate the performance of the cine display through dynamic-energy-adjustment on spectral CT in the depiction of the subtle structures of gastrocolic ligament...
Constant Factor Approximation for ATSP with Two Edge Weights
Creators: name: Svensson, Ola
name: Tarnawski, Jakub
name: Végh, László A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We give a constant factor approximation algorithm for the Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem on shortest path metrics of directed graphs with two different edge weights. For the case of unit edge weights, the first constant factor approximation was given recently by Svensson. This was accomplished by introducing an easier problem called Local-Connectivity ATSP and showing that a good solution to this problem can be used to obtain a constant factor approximation for ATSP. In this paper, we solve Local-Connectivity ATSP for two different edge weights. The solution is based on a flow decomposition theorem for solutions of the Held-Karp relaxation, which may be of independent interest.
title: Patient radiation doses in MDCT guided interventional procedures; are they justified?
Creators: name: Tsapaki, Virginia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: CT
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Ablation procedures
subject: Biopsy
subject: Dosimetric comparison

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Various interventional procedures are routinely performed under CT guidance. However, a limited number of references can be found in the literature reporting patient doses from such procedures [1-6]. With only one exception [5], all the other...
Additional file 1 of Impaired glucose metabolism and the risk of vascular events and mortality after ischemic stroke: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Kaynak, Nurcennet
name: Kennel, Valentin
name: Rackoll, Torsten
name: Schulze, Daniel
name: Endres, Matthias
name: Nave, Alexander H.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: Additional file1 (DOCX 3212 kb)
A Comparative Analysis of Hazardous Waste Management on Three University Campuses
Creators: name: Kitzmiller, Mark William
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1993

description: Research and teaching laboratories at universities and university hospitals produce a wide variety of RCRA hazardous waste streams. This analysis will compare hazardous waste management programs on three North Carolina university campuses, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University in Durham, and North Carolina State University in Raleigh. This analysis examines the administrative infrastructure and costs of hazardous waste management and operations on each campus; will attempt to identify major research, teaching and medical activities which contribute to the generation of hazardous waste; and will assess the internal policies, regulatory compliance and effectiveness of each program. The volume of RCRA listed hazardous waste a university generates is a function of the types of research practiced and the presence or absence of a medical center. Costs and liability considerations shape program policies, operations and training functions. The university must decide whether it will take total responsibility for managing its hazardous waste including the operation of a TSDF or use a full time contractor to provide these services. These factors need to be considered in planning a hazardous waste management program.
The organization of the interbank network and how ECB unconventional measures affected the e-MID overnight market
Creators: name: Barucca, Paolo
name: Lillo, Fabrizio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Risk Management (q-fin.RM)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Mathematical Finance (q-fin.MF)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The topological properties of interbank networks have been discussed widely in the literature mainly because of their relevance for systemic risk. Here we propose to use the Stochastic Block Model to investigate and perform a model selection among several possible two block organizations of the network: these include bipartite, core-periphery, and modular structures. We apply our method to the e-MID interbank market in the period 2010-2014 and we show that in normal conditions the most likely network organization is a bipartite structure. In exceptional conditions, such as after LTRO, one of the most important unconventional measures by ECB at the beginning of 2012, the most likely structure becomes a random one and only in 2014 the e-MID market went back to a normal bipartite organization. By investigating the strategy of individual banks, we explore possible explanations and we show that the disappearance of many lending banks and the strategy switch of a very small set of banks from borrower to lender is likely at the origin of this structural change.
description: 33 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 2 of Trades-offs between pollinator attraction and florivore defense maximize reproductive success in the self-incompatible Rivea ornata (Convolvulaceae)
Creators: name: Chitchak, Natthaphong
name: Stewart, Alyssa B.
name: Traiperm, Paweena
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Supplementary Material 2
title: The inner ear imaging anatomy with 3T MRI new sequences: A comprehensive update
Creators: name: Banciu, Eldda
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Head and neck
subject: Anatomy
subject: Ear / Nose / Throat
subject: MR
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Education and training

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: This presentation aims to: - Illustrate and upgrade the normal imaging anatomy of the inner ear with 3T MRI scans using 3D Heavily T2 and 3D FLAIR sequences; - Produce annotated didactical reconstructions where different colors pinpoint each...
Neutron Measurements at a High Energy Proton Accelerator in Brookhaven National Laboratory
Creators: name: Xie, Yunrui
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1989

description: Neutron spectra near the Brookhaven National Laboratory alternating gradient synchrotron (ACS) were measured using the Bonner multisphere neutron spectrometry technique and scintillator or graphite block. Moderators and associated electronics have been mounted on a movable cart so that simultaneous data taking was possible using seven Bonner spheres and carbon activation detectors. A plastic scintillator or graphite block can be irradiated to measure high energy neutrons via the 12^C(n,2n)11^C activation reaction. Spectra were unfolded with a modified version of Sanna's code, BON5, using Bonner system data alone and a combination of data from the Bonner system and a carbon activation detector. A comparison between these two results may indicate the significance of adopting carbon activation detectors in the neutron measurements. Sample spectra are presented and interpreted for absorbed dose and conventional dose equivalent. Tests were performed to evaluate the ability of the code in unfolding different trial spectra. Code testing results are also presented to examine the effect of initial parameters on the unfolded spectrum. The paper presents one method of neutron spectra measurement utilizing the combined data from the Bonner system and plastic scintillator. The field survey data and a brief discussion are also presented.
Using tropical optimization to solve constrained minimax single-facility location problems with rectilinear distance
Creators: name: Krivulin, Nikolai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 90B85 (Primary), 15A80, 65K05, 90C48 (Secondary)

description: The aim of this paper is twofold: first, to extend the area of applications of tropical optimization by solving new constrained location problems, and second, to offer new closed-form solutions to general problems that are of interest to location analysis. We consider a constrained minimax single-facility location problem with addends on the plane with rectilinear distance. The solution commences with the representation of the problem in a standard form, and then in terms of tropical mathematics, as a constrained optimization problem. We use a transformation technique, which can act as a template to handle optimization problems in other application areas, and hence is of independent interest. To solve the constrained optimization problem, we apply methods and results of tropical optimization, which provide direct, explicit solutions. The results obtained serve to derive new solutions of the location problem, and of its special cases with reduced sets of constraints, in a closed form, ready for practical implementation and immediate computation. As illustrations, numerical solutions of example problems and their graphical representation are given. We conclude with an application of the results to optimal location of the central monitoring facility in an indoor video surveillance system in a multi-floor building environment.
description: 29 pages, 3 figures
title: Conventional Imaging Methods in the Evaluation of Unilateral Palpable Male Breast Disease: A Single Institution Experience
Creators: name: Lomic, Dragutin
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Mammography
subject: Biopsy
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Mammography and breast ultrasound are the most commonly used primary imaging methods in breast cancer diagnostic, used also in male population. Radiographic characteristics are mostly identical to those found in female breast cancers. Incidence in...
The Quantum Sabine Law for Resonances in Transmission Problems
Creators: name: Galkowski, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove a quantum version of the Sabine law from acoustics describing the location of resonances in transmission problems. This work extends the author's previous work to a broader class of systems. Our main applications are to scattering by transparent obstacles, scattering by highly frequency dependent delta potentials, and boundary stabilized wave equations. We give a sharp characterization of the resonance free regions in terms of dynamical quantities. In particular, we relate the imaginary part of resonances or generalized eigenvalues to the chord lengths and reflectivity coefficients for the ray dynamics, thus proving a quantum version of the Sabine law.
description: 75 pages, 10 figures. A portion of the semiclassical preliminaries section is taken from arXiv:1204.1305 with the authors' permission
Specific Determinants of Share Prices: A Case Study of Listed Life Insurance Companies in Nepal Stock Exchange
Creators: name: Maskey, Sanam
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Researchers have been trying to understand and establish relationship between various factors influencing the market price of stocks. Similar studies in Nepal have been limited to banking sector only. However, this paper aims to investigate the factors that affect the market share prices of life insurance companies listed in Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE). All the life insurance companies listed in Nepal Stock Exchange with panel data for the period 2012/13-2017/18 was taken as a sample for the study. The data was analyzed through descriptive and inferential statistics, while the hypothesis was tested using the regression coefficients based on the results of the multiple regression model in this study. The study revealed that earning per share, dividend per share, price-earnings ratio, age of the company and dividend yield are the major determinants of share price. The study concludes that dividends play a major role when Nepalese investors make investment. Further, it was revealed that dividend policy of the companies plays a major role in shaping investor decisions in Nepal.
title: Regular screening intervals are associated with less lymph node involvement and less aggressive axillary surgery
Creators: name: Heywang-Köbrunner, Sylvia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Lymph nodes
subject: Mammography
subject: Screening

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The usually recommended screening interval is 22-26 months. Expected advantages of screening include mortality reduction due decrease of late stages and less aggressive therapy with earlier detection. During the first 3.5 years of our program we...
Elimination of quotients in various localisations of premodels into models
Creators: name: Tuyéras, Rémy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The contribution of this article is quadruple. It (1) unifies various schemes of premodels/models including situations such as presheaves/sheaves, sheaves/flabby sheaves, prespectra/$Ω$-spectra, simplicial topological spaces/(complete) Segal spaces, pre-localised rings/localised rings, functors in categories/strong stacks and, to some extent, functors from a limit sketch to a model category versus the homotopical models for the limit sketch; (2) provides a general construction from the premodels to the models; (3) proposes technics that allows one to assess the nature of the universal properties associated with this construction; (4) shows that the obtained localisation admits a particular presentation, which organises the structural and relational information into bundles of data. This presentation is obtained via a process called an elimination of quotients and its aim is to facilitate the handling of the relational information appearing in the construction of higher dimensional objects such as weak $(ω,n)$-categories, weak $ω$-groupoids and higher moduli stacks.
description: The text is the same as in v6; this version contains corrections to the published MDPI paper, the main reason for this change is that the diagram of Proposition 3.1 was meant to be a 3 dimensional diagram (while only the front face appeared in the published paper). The wording of some sentences and the diagram of Example 6.42 are changed accordingly. A typo in the table of Ex. 6.42 is corrected
Additional file 1 of Genomics resources for the Rapa Nui (Eastern Island) spiny lobster Panulirus pascuensis (Crustacea: Decapoda: Achelata)
Creators: name: Baeza, J. Antonio
name: Pirro, Stacy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1: Table S1. Codon usage analysis in the mitochondrial protein coding genes of Panulirus pascuensis. Table S2. Microsatellites in the Control Region of the spiny lobster Panulirus pascuensis detected by the online tool Microsatellite repeats finder. Figure S1. Secondary structure prediction of tRNA-Ser1 gene in the mitochondrial genome of Panulirus pascuensis. Figure S2. Secondary structure prediction (minimum free energy and Centroid optimization, left and right, respectively) of the control region in the mitochondrial genome of Panulirus pascuensis.
title: Touchless intra-operative display for interventional radiologist : it's now !
Creators: name: Iannessi, Antoine
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Computer applications
subject: Oncology
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: CT
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Technology assessment
subject: Computer Applications-General
subject: Intraoperative
subject: Workforce

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Medical imaging is becoming a requirement to plan all invasive procedures and to guide instruments through what is known as “navigation” in surgery or interventional radiology with imaging. One major restriction is the navigation through...
Choosing Technical Education and Vocational Training: A Narrative Inquiry
Creators: name: Maskey, Sanam
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Technical education and vocational training (TEVT) have been given a special place in the national development plan as well as in the educational policies of Nepal. The recent allocation of Rs. 1.38 billion by the government for the fiscal year 2019/20 for providing employment-related trainings and establishing technical schools in the country supports this claim. The government has recognized its potential in being able to alleviate poverty, improve livelihood strategies and provide employment opportunities. Adopting a narrative inquiry method, I interviewed three participants to explore the perception of youths towards this sector. The study revealed that one of the main barriers in choosing technical education and vocational training is the high value the society places upon general education in comparison to vocational education. It also revealed how we have been hegemonised by the ideologies flouted by the dominant class in society and readily give consent to these ideas. I argue that though the government has placed due emphasis on TEVT, its successful implementation can only be possible when the social perception on the divide between general education and technical and vocational education is brought to an end.
title: Evaluation of Cardiac Amyloidosis: A Pictorial Review of Echocardiographic, MRI and Nuclear Findings
Creators: name: Aggarwal, Niti
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: PET
subject: MR
subject: Echocardiography
subject: Cardiac
subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Haematologic diseases

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The purpose of this poster is to A) Review the clinical presentation and subtypes of cardiac amyloidosis B) Illustrate the novel diagnostic and surveillance approaches to cardiac amyloidosis using strain-echocardiography, nuclear and magnetic...
Determining the Transfer Efficiency of a HVLP Spray Gun
Creators: name: Gatano, Betty L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1997

description: In this work, a mathematical relationship between the transfer efficiency of a high volume low pressure (HVLP) spray gun and its operational parameters was developed. Spray paint operations were simulated by a mannequin spraying a nonvolatile oil from the HVLP gun on to a flat plate. The transfer efficiency was calculated from the amount of oil sprayed from the gun and the amount impacted on the plate. Mannequin motion and orientation, air pressure of the spray gun, and air velocity in the wind tunnel were varied to assess their effect on transfer efficiency. The measured transfer efficiencies ranged from 0.66 to 0.87. Transfer efficiency decreased linearly as a function of the mass of air to the mass of liquid sprayed (m2/m1). Mannequin motion also decreased the transfer efficiency at the highest values of m2/m1. A theoretical model for predicting transfer efficiency based on the inertial impaction of particles onto a workpiece was also developed. Although the model overestimated the transfer efficiencies, good agreement was noted between the predicted transfer efficiencies and measured values. The theoretical model has the potential to be a useful tool for estimating concentrations of liquid mists in a worker's breathing zone.
title: Forecasting of prostate cancer malignancy through multiparametric MRI
Creators: name: Mishchenko, Andrey
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To determinate the significance of criterios of multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging in grading of malignancy of adenocarcinomas of...
Bases for cluster algebras from orbifolds
Creators: name: Felikson, Anna
name: Tumarkin, Pavel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13F60

description: We generalize the construction of the bracelet and bangle bases defined by Musiker, Schiffler and Williams, and the band basis defined by D. Thurston to cluster algebras arising from orbifolds. We prove that the bracelet bases are positive, and the bracelet basis for the affine cluster algebra of type $C_n^{(1)}$ is atomic. We also show that cluster monomial bases of all skew-symmetrizable cluster algebras of finite type are atomic.
description: 39 pages, lots of figures; v3: minor changes, accepted version
Life Events and Personality Change: The Role of Life Goals
Creators: name: Nikitin, Jana
name: Weidmann, Rebekka
name: Buehler, Janina
name: Wünsche, Jenna
name: Grob, Alexander
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Life events
subject: Life goals
subject: Personality development
subject: Selection effects
subject: Socialization effects

description: The association between major life events (such as marriage, birth of a child, retirement, etc.) and personality traits is bidirectional. That means, personality traits predict major life events (known as selection effects), but life events also predict changes in personality traits (known as socialization effects; e.g., Bleidorn et al., 2018; Denissen et al., 2018; Jonkmann et al., 2014; Lüdtke et al., 2011; Orth & Luciano, 2015; Specht et al., 2011). Less is known about the mechanisms of selection and socialization effects. In the present research, we investigate the role of life goals as a possible mediator of these effects. As for selection effects, we hypothesize that personality traits predispose people to develop certain life goals (Freund & Riediger, 2006; Roberts & Robins, 2000) and that these life goals predict, in turn, major life events (Salmela-Aro et al., 2007). We compare the hypothesized path to the alternative selection path, that means, the path from life goals to major life events via personality traits. As for socialization effects, we hypothesize that people develop life goals to meet demands associated with major life events and that these goals, in turn, predict personality traits (Baumert et al., 2017; Geukes et al., 2018; Hennecke et al., 2014; Hudson & Fraley, 2015; Wrzus & Roberts, 2017). We compare the hypothesized path to the alternative socialization path, that means, the path from life events to life goals via personality traits. We investigate these hypotheses in the domains of work, close relationships, and health.
title: Placental implantation abnormalities: A Pictorial Review
Creators: name: Zaitout, Zahia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Obstetrics
subject: Complications
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: Foetal imaging

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To understand normal uterine and placental anatomy and the different types of placental implantation abnormalities To present the various characteristic imaging findings of these abnormalities using magnetic resonance (MR) imaging To briefly discuss...
Supplementary document for Experimental implementation for near-field displaying application of bound states in continuum supported by terahertz metasurfaces - 6208970.pdf
Creators: name: Cai, HaoCheng
name: Li, Jitao
name: MAO, LUHONG
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The document concludes two part: S1. Reasons to see the pattern with the naked eye S2. Polarization dependence of transmission of symmetric and asymmetric unit cells
title: The Incremental Value of Breast MRI in BRCA Mutatin Carriers: Is It Dependent On Breast Density?
Creators: name: Arazi-Kleinman, Tal
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Multidisciplinary cancer care

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: It is known that the sensitivity of mammography decreases with raising breast density, thus adjunct imaging with US and MRI is recommended for high risk women with dense breast tissue (1-4). MRI in particular has been shown to be the most sensitive...
Sampling algebraic varieties for sum of squares programs
Creators: name: Cifuentes, Diego
name: Parrilo, Pablo A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 90C22 (Primary), 65H10 (Secondary)

description: We study sum of squares (SOS) relaxations to optimize polynomial functions over a set $V\cap R^n$, where $V$ is a complex algebraic variety. We propose a new methodology that, rather than relying on some algebraic description, represents $V$ with a generic set of complex samples. This approach depends only on the geometry of $V$, avoiding representation issues such as multiplicity and choice of generators. It also takes advantage of the coordinate ring structure to reduce the size of the corresponding semidefinite program (SDP). In addition, the input can be given as a straight-line program. Our methods are particularly appealing for varieties that are easy to sample from but for which the defining equations are complicated, such as $SO(n)$, Grassmannians or rank $k$ tensors. For arbitrary varieties we can obtain the required samples by using the tools of numerical algebraic geometry. In this way we connect the areas of SOS optimization and numerical algebraic geometry.
description: 26 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables
Additional file 1 of Experiences of quality of life and access to health services among rare disease caregivers: a scoping review
Creators: name: Černe, Tina
name: Kragelj, Lijana Zaletel
name: Turk, Eva
name: Pavlič, Danica Rotar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1
Supplementary document for Experimental implementation for near-field displaying application of bound states in continuum supported by terahertz metasurfaces - 6212910.pdf
Creators: name: Cai, HaoCheng
name: Li, Jitao
name: MAO, LUHONG
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: document conclude two parts S1. Reasons to see the pattern with the naked eye and S2. Polarization dependence of transmission of symmetric and asymmetric unit cells
Palladium-catalyzed synthesis of mixed anhydrides via carbonylative telomerization
Creators: name: Hares, Kevin
name: Vogelsang, Dennis
name: Wernsdörfer, Charlotte S.
name: Panke, Dennis
name: Vogt, Dieter
name: Seidensticker, Thomas
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 660

description: For the first time, mixed carboxylic anhydrides were accessed directly via homogeneous palladium catalysis from 1,3-butadiene and carboxylic acids. Under carbonylative telomerization conditions, the respective mixed 3,8-nonadienoic anhydrides are formed in a single reaction step with yields of up to 82%. These very reactive mixed anhydrides can then be used for consecutive reactions in a one-pot manner and selectively transfer the newly formed unsaturated C9 unit. Possible changes in the proposed mechanism were discussed and in a first example, the mixed anhydrides were utilized to form amides.
description: Catalysis science & technology;12(12)
Kalibrierung von Temperatur- Blockkalibratoren bei Temperaturen oberhalb von 600 °C / Pilotstudie zur Ermittlung der Messunsicherheit : Vergleichsbericht DKD-V 5.1
Creators: name: Werner, Barbara
name: Schnelle-Werner, Olaf
name: Jehnert, Diana
name: Schiering, Nadine
name: Rudtsch, Steffen
Publisher: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Year: 2018

description: DKD-Vergleichsberichte verfolgen das Ziel, die Ergebnisse von Vergleichsmessungen offenzulegen, die im Rahmen des Deutschen Kalibrierdienstes organisiert, durchgeführt bzw. ausgewertet wurden. Sie enthalten zahlreiche Informationen über die Messfähigkeiten der teilnehmenden Kalibrierlaboratorien und die Vergleichbarkeit von Messungen. In den Vergleichsberichten wird die Sichtweise der Autoren wiedergegeben, die nicht notwendigerweise in allen Details der Sichtweise des Vorstands oder der Fachausschüsse des DKD entsprechen muss. Die DKD-Vergleichsberichte sollen die im Vergleich untersuchten Aspekte und Ergebnisse der Kalibrierung darstellen und durch die Publikation im Rahmen des DKD der großen Gemeinschaft der Kalibrierlaboratorien national und international zugänglich machen. Experten- und Vergleichsberichte müssen nicht vom Vorstand genehmigt werden (Beschluss auf der 5. DKD-Vorstandssitzung), sondern nur vom jeweiligen Fachausschuss und der Geschäftsstelle.
title: Imaging in Primary Progressive Aphasia
Creators: name: del Carpio, Raquel
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Speech disorders
subject: Education
subject: SPECT
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: CNS

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: 1)Toreview theclinical findings in Progressive Primary Aphasia(PPA) 2)To discuss and compare the imaging findings of PPA onComputed Tomography (CT), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography...
Comparison of Trihalomethanes in Tap Water, Indoor Air, and Blood
Creators: name: Miles, Amy Marie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2001

description: Exposure to trihalomethanes, a class of disinfection by-products found in drinking water, has been examined in relation to a variety of adverse reproductive outcomes, including spontaneous abortion, birth defects, prematurity, low birth weight, and intrauterine growth retardation. However, the epidemiological studies addressing these associations have suffered from a lack of reliable exposure classification. Given the difficulties in gathering accurate information on water quality and consumption for the large number of subjects required in epidemiological studies, trihalomethane concentrations in blood may be useful as a biomarker of exposure. The relationship between trihalomethane concentrations in blood, tap water, and indoor air is investigated. A study established that trihalomethane concentrations in blood are three orders of magnitude lower than the concentrations found in tap water and that showering increased blood concentrations significantly. Trihalomethane concentrations in blood were not significantly correlated to concentrations in tap water, indicating that other factors are important in determining blood levels. A future study is proposed that examines exposure to trihalomethanes in a controlled environment to quantify increases in blood concentration from exposure that occurs as a result of routine water use activities.