cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Intelligent privacy safeguards for the digital society
Creators: name: Guarino, Alfonso
Publisher: name: Universita degli studi di Salerno
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: INF/01 INFORMATICA
subject: Privacy
subject: Machine learning
subject: Techno-regulation

description: 2019 - 2020
description: The growth of the Internet and the pervasiveness of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have led to a radical change in our society, a deep economical, commercial and social impact on our lives. To date, most of our lives takes place online where algorithms shape and guide our behaviour and the governance of our societies. One of the drawbacks of this change is an increased risk for Internet users about their personal information privacy. Indeed an enormous amount of data is being generated and disseminated by people at high pace, often without knowing who is recording what about them. Online browsing, banking, shopping, social network interactions, and any type of online economic, social, personal collaboration and communication could undermine the individuals’ privacy due to a variety of factors that include not only the frightening increase of information leakage. Indeed, specific private information can be also inferred/extracted via computational heuristics applied on data (apparently unrelated to such information) users voluntarily disclose on the Internet. .. [edited by Author]
description: La crescita di Internet e la pervasività delle tecnologie dell’informazione e della comunicazione (TIC) hanno portato a un cambiamento radicale nella nostra societ`a, un profondo impatto economico, commerciale e sociale sulle nostre vite. Ad oggi, la maggior parte della nostra vita si svolge online dove gli algoritmi modellano e guidano il nostro comportamento e governano le nostre società. Uno degli svantaggi di questo cambiamento è un aumento del rischio per gli utenti di Internet per la privacy delle loro informazioni personali. In effetti, un’enorme quantità di dati viene generata e diffusa da persone a ritmi elevati, spesso senza sapere chi sta registrando e cosa su di loro. La navigazione online, le operazioni bancarie, gli acquisti, le interazioni con i social network e qualsiasi tipo di collaborazione e comunicazione economica, sociale e personale online potrebbero minare la privacy degli individui a causa di una varietà di fattori che includono non solo lo spaventoso aumento della fuga di informazioni. In effetti, informazioni private specifiche possono anche essere dedotte/estratte tramite euristiche computazionali applicate ai dati (apparentemente non correlati a tali informazioni) che gli utenti divulgano volontariamente su Internet. .. [a cura dell'Autore]
О грамматике русского языка проф. Войновича
Creators: name: Чифариелло, Алессандро
Publisher: name: Universita' degli Studi di Salerno
Year: 2018
Subjects: Russian phonetics
Russian grammar
Grammar books of Russian as a Second Language in Italian
19th Century

description: The purpose of this article is to examine 19th century Russian grammar books written in Italian. The article reviews the history of 19th century Russian grammars written in different foreign languages, which were used to teach Russian as a foreign language. The main purpose of this work is to place Prof. Voinovich’s Russian grammar book and its author in the history of Grammar books of Russian as a foreign language. This research is the first to be entirely dedicated to this very subject.
Action Potential Timing Precision in Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus Pyramidal Cells
Creators: name: Manis, Paul B.
name: Street, Sarah E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: Many studies of the dorsal cochlear nucleus (DCN) have focused on the representation of acoustic stimuli in terms of average firing rate. However, recent studies have emphasized the role of spike timing in information encoding. We sought to ascertain whether DCN pyramidal cells might employ similar strategies and to what extent intrinsic excitability regulates spike timing. Gaussian distributed low-pass noise current was injected into pyramidal cells in a brain slice preparation. The shuffled auto-correlation-based analysis was used to compute a correlation index of spike times across trials. The noise causes the cells to fire with temporal precision (standard deviation ≅ 1-2 msec) and high reproducibility. Increasing the coefficient of variation of the noise improved the reproducibility of the spike trains, whereas increasing the firing rate of the neuron decreased the neurons' ability to respond with predictable patterns of spikes. Simulated IPSPs superimposed on the noise stimulus enhanced spike timing for > 300 msec, although the enhancement was greatest during the first 100 msec. We also found that populations of pyramidal neurons respond to the same noise stimuli with correlated spike trains, suggesting that ensembles of neurons in the DCN receiving shared input can fire with similar timing. These results support the hypothesis that spike timing can be an important aspect of information coding in the DCN.
title: Radiation dose from introperative fluoroscopy in paediatrics
Creators: name: Costa Carvalho, Diana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Paediatric
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Radiographers
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Surgery

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Intraoperative fluoroscopy allows real-time control of surgical procedures, permitting using minimally invasive techniques, with reduced anesthetic times. However, high exposure levels could be achieved, either in a single procedure or as a...
Measurements of Direct CP Asymmetries in B to X_s gamma decays using Sum of Exclusive Decays
Creators: name: The Babar Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measure the direct CP violation asymmetry, A_CP, in B to X_s gamma and the isospin difference of the asymmetry, Delta A_CP, using 429 fb^-1 of data collected at Upsilon(4S) resonance with the BaBar detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e+e- storage rings operating at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. B mesons are reconstructed from 10 charged B final states and 6 neutral B final states. We find A_CP = +(1.7 +- 1.9 +- 1.0)%, which is in agreement with the Standard Model prediction and provides an improvement on the world average. Moreover, we report the first measurement of the difference between A_CP for charged and neutral decay modes, Delta A_CP = +(5.0 +- 3.9 +- 1.5)%. Using the value of Delta A_CP, we also provide 68% and 90% confidence intervals on the imaginary part of the ratio of the Wilson coefficients corresponding to the chromo-magnetic dipole and the electromagnetic dipole transitions.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures Submitted to Phys. Rev. D
title: Assessment of Coronary Flow Reserve in patients with coronary artery diseases using dynamic single-photon emission computed tomography
Creators: name: Mochula, Andrei
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Vascular
subject: SPECT-CT
subject: SPECT
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Surgery
subject: Arteriosclerosis
subject: Ischaemia / Infarction

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The purpose of this study was to assess the coronary flow reserve in patients with one, two and multi-vessel coronary artery diseases by dynamic SPECT using semiconductor (cadmium-zinc-telluride)-based gamma...
Code Structure
Creators: name: Barrass, Joshua
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: programming
code structure
code style

description: Presentation on Coding Structure for the "We Don't Byte" PGR Coding Club at the University of Birmingham. Originally presented 2022-11-09. Looks at the motivations for writing well-structured code and presents suggestions for improving the quality of your code through this lens, though noting that opinions on good structure and style may differ. Three areas in particular -- style, layout, and documentation -- are examined in detail, with suggestions and Python examples provided for these areas. Finally, suggestions of tools to help with maintaining good structure are presented.
title: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based evaluation of the risk of supraventricular arrhythmias in patients with resistant hypertension
Creators: name: Mochula, Olga
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: MR
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Hypertension

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Assess the state of the left atrium of the heart using MRI with contrast in patients with resistant hypertension and left ventricular hypertrophy in the dynamics of treatment of radiofrequency sympathetic denervation of the renal arteries in the...
OPUS 4 - Die Standardsoftware für Repositorien
Creators: name: Boltze-Fütterer, Julia
name: Conrad-Rempel, Steffi
name: Weimar, Alexander
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Das Poster stellt die Repopsitoriensoftware OPUS 4 und die Hosting-Services des BSZ und des KOBV (letzterer DINI-ready zertifiziert) vor. Wir möchten interessierten Hochschulen und anderen Einrichtungen eine Anregung bieten, wie sie sich in ihren Open-Access-Aktivitäten unterstützen lassen können. Darüber hinaus liefert das Poster einen kleinen Überblick zur über 25-jährigen Geschichte der OPUS-Software.
Cutaneous Sensory Neurons Expressing the Mrgprd Receptor Sense Extracellular ATP and Are Putative Nociceptors
Creators: name: Zylka, M. J.
name: Anderson, D. J.
name: Dussor, G.
name: McCleskey, E. W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Sensory neurons expressing the Mrgprd receptor are known to innervate the outermost living layer of the epidermis, the stratum granulosum. The sensory modality that these neurons signal and the stimulus that they respond to are not established, although immunocytochemical data suggest they could be nonpeptidergic nociceptors. Using patch clamp of dissociated mouse dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons, the present study demonstrates that Mrgprd+ neurons have several properties typical of nociceptors: long-duration action potentials, TTX-resistant Na+ current, and Ca2+ currents that are inhibited by mu opioids. Remarkably, Mrgprd+ neurons respond almost exclusively to extracellular ATP with currents similar to homomeric P2X3 receptors. They show little or no sensitivity to other putative nociceptive agonists, including capsaicin, cinnamaldehyde, menthol, pH 6.0, or glutamate. These properties, together with selective innervation of the stratum granulosum, indicate that Mrgprd+ neurons are nociceptors in the outer epidermis and may respond indirectly to external stimuli by detecting ATP release in the skin.
Anomalous diffusion for inertial particles under gravity in parallel flows
Creators: name: Afonso, Marco Martins
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the bounds between normal or anomalous effective diffusion for inertial particles transported by parallel flows. The infrared behavior of the fluid kinetic-energy spectrum, i.e. the possible presence of long-range spatio-temporal correlations, is modeled as a power law by means of two parameters, and the problem is studied as a function of these latter. Our results, obtained in the limit of weak relative inertia, extend well-known results for tracers and apply to particles of any mass density, subject to gravity and Brownian diffusion. We consider both steady and time-dependent flows, and cases of both vanishing and finite particle sedimentation.
description: 5 figures
title: Assessment of coronary artery disease risk factors for patients with HIV infection treated with HAART
Creators: name: cui, mingyu
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Radiographers
subject: Vascular
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: SPECT-CT
subject: CAD
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Image compression
subject: AIDS
subject: Calcifications / Calculi
subject: Pathology

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Recently, advances in technology have allowed for a more comprehensive evaluation ofsubclinical coronary atherosclerosis using coronary CT angiography (CTA) at lowerradiation exposure. CTA allows for accurate assessment ofthe presence and extent...
A portable tactile sensory diagnostic device
Creators: name: Dennis, R.G.
name: Tannan, V.
name: Zhang, Z.
name: Tommerdahl, M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: Current methods for applying multi-site vibratory stimuli to the skin typically involve the use of two separate vibrotactile stimulators, which can lead to difficulty with positioning of stimuli and in ensuring that stimuli are delivered perfectly in phase at the same amplitude and frequency. Previously, we reported a Two-Point Stimulator (TPS) that was developed in order to solve the problem of delivering two-point stimuli to the skin at variable distances between the sites of stimulation. Because of the success of the TPS, we designed and fabricated a new stimulator with 4 significant improvements over our original device. First, the device is portable, lightweight and can be used in a variety of non-laboratory settings. Second, the device consists of two independently controlled stimulators which allow delivery of stimuli simultaneously to two distinct skin sites with different amplitude, frequency and/or phase. Third, the device automatically detects the skin surface and thus allows for much better automated control of stimulus delivery. Fourth, the device is designed for rapid manufacture and, therefore, can be made readily available to other research (non-laboratory) settings. To demonstrate the device, a modified Bekesy tracking method was used to evaluate the simultaneous amplitude discrimination capacity of 20 subjects.
Possible coupling between magnons and phonons in multiferroic CaMn7O12
Creators: name: Kadlec, Filip
name: Goian, Veronica
name: Kadlec, Christelle
name: Kempa, Martin
name: Vanek, Premysl
name: Taylor, Jon
name: Rols, Stephane
name: Prokleska, Jan
name: Orlita, Milan
name: Kamba, Stanislav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spin and lattice dynamics of CaMn7O12 ceramics were investigated using infrared, THz and inelastic neutron scattering (INS) spectroscopies in the temperature range 2 to 590 K, and, at low temperatures, in applied magnetic fields of up to 12 T. On cooling, we observed phonon splitting accompanying the structural phase transition at Tc = 450K as well as the onset of the incommensurately modulated structure at 250 K. In the two antiferromagnetic phases below T_N1 = 90K and T_N2 = 48 K, several infrared-active excitations emerge in the meV range; their frequencies correspond to the maxima in the magnon density of states obtained by INS. At the magnetic phase transitions, these modes display strong anomalies and for some of them, a transfer of dielectric strength from the higher-frequency phonons is observed. We propose that these modes are electromagnons. Remarkably, at least two of these modes remain active also in the paramagnetic phase; for this reason, we call them paraelectromagnons. In accordance with this observation, quasielastic neutron scattering revealed short-range magnetic correlations persisting within temperatures up to 500K above T_N1.
title: CT based evaluation of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis in adult population: prevalence, associations and interobserver agreement
Creators: name: Khanzada, Usman
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal spine
subject: CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Epidemiology

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To determine the prevalence and associated factors of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH), Secondly, to calculate the interobserver agreement for computed tomography (CT) based diagnosis of DISH based upon Resnick criteria and reporting...
Additional file 7 of Patterns of genetic variation and QTLs controlling grain traits in a collection of global wheat germplasm revealed by high-quality SNP markers
Creators: name: Chou, Chia-Hui
name: Lin, Hsun-Shih
name: Wen, Chen-Hsin
name: Tung, Chih-Wei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7: Supplementary Fig. S7. Genome-wide association mapping for the grain perimeter. Manhattan plots of the four models (GLM, GLM_PC, MLM, MLM_PC) and associated quantile-quantile (Q-Q) plots representing the statistical association between each SNP and grain perimeter.
title: Perfusion CT utility in the therapeutic choice of patients with acute ischemic stroke.
Creators: name: Rebella, Giacomo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Vascular
subject: CT
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Acute
subject: Ischaemia / Infarction

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Systemic thrombolytic therapy with rtPA is the standard treatmentfor acute ischemic stroke in patients within 4.5h fromstroke onset [1, 2]. An extension of this time window is possiblefor endovascular treatment (EVT), using...
title: CT based evaluation of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis in adult population: Prevalence, associations and interobserver agreement.
Creators: name: Khanzada, Usman
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Bones
subject: Musculoskeletal spine
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: CT
subject: PACS
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Epidemiology
subject: Metabolic disorders

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To determine the prevalence and associated factors of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH), Secondly, to calculate the interobserver agreement for computed tomography (CT) based diagnosis of DISH based upon Resnick criteria and reporting...
Additional file 8 of Patterns of genetic variation and QTLs controlling grain traits in a collection of global wheat germplasm revealed by high-quality SNP markers
Creators: name: Chou, Chia-Hui
name: Lin, Hsun-Shih
name: Wen, Chen-Hsin
name: Tung, Chih-Wei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 8: Supplementary Fig. S8. Genome-wide association mapping for grain area. Manhattan plots of the four models (GLM, GLM_PC, MLM, MLM_PC) and associated quantile-quantile (Q-Q) plots representing the statistical association between each SNP and grain area.
Position representation of single-mode Gaussian channels beyond the Gaussian functional form
Creators: name: Davalos, David
name: Moreno, Camilo
name: Urbina, Juan Diego
name: Pineda, Carlos
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 530 Physik
subject: 03.65.Yz
subject: 03.65.Ta
subject: 05.45.Mt

description: We study one-mode Gaussian quantum channels in continuous-variable systems by performing a black-box characterization using complete positivity and trace preserving conditions, and report the existence of two subsets that do not have a functional Gaussian form. Our study covers as a particular limit the case of singular channels, thus connecting our results with their known classification scheme based on canonical forms. Our full characterization of Gaussian channels without Gaussian functional form is completed by showing how Gaussian states are transformed under these operations, and by deriving the conditions for the existence of master equations for the non-singular cases. We show that although every functional form can be found in the vicinity of the identity, one of them does not parametrize unitary channels.
Lassen sich mit DeepGreen jetzt auch Diamanten schürfen?
Creators: name: Stompor, Tomasz
name: Boltze-Fütterer, Julia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Das Poster beschäftigt sich mit der Bedeutung von Diamond Open Access Journals für die Distributionssoftware DeepGreen. Es werden drei Hauptfragen untersucht: die Begriffsproblematik, die Nachhaltigkeit von Diamond OA und die Voraussetzungen für die Verarbeitung mit DeepGreen. Jedes dieser Themenfelder wird von spezifischen Fragen begleitet, die den Teilnehmer:innen der Konferenz als Diskussionsgrundlage dienen sollen. Ziel ist es, Ideen zur Integration von Diamond Open Access Journals in eine Open-Access-Infrastruktur zu sammeln, wobei DeepGreen als Teil dieser Infrastruktur betrachtet wird.
A cellular model of inflammation for identifying TNF-α synthesis inhibitors
Creators: name: Greig, Nigel H.
name: Holloway, Harold W.
name: Yu, Qian-sheng
name: Short, Ryan G.
name: Brossi, Arnold
name: Tweedie, David
name: Luo, Weiming
name: Li, Yazhou
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Neuroinflammation is a common facet of both acute and chronic neurodegenerative conditions, exemplified by stroke and by Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, and the presence of elevated levels of the proinflammatory cytokine, tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) has been documented in each. Although initial TNF-α generation is associated with a protective compensatory response, its unregulated chronic elevation is generally detrimental and can drive the disease process. In such circumstances, therapeutic strategies that can both gain access to the brain and target the production of TNF-α are predicted to be of clinical benefit. An in vitro mouse macrophage-like cellular screen, utilizing RAW 264.7 cells, was hence developed to identify novel TNF-α lowering agents incorporating lipophilic physicochemical characteristics predicted to allow penetration of the blood-brain barrier. Cultured RAW 264.7 cells exposed to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) induced a rapid, marked and concentration-dependent cellular release of TNF-α into the cell culture media, which was readily detected by Enzyme Linked ImmunoSorbent Assay (ELISA). The effects of four characterized thalidomide-based TNF-α lowering agents were assessed alongside 10 novel uncharacterized compounds synthesized on the same backbone. One of these new analogs possessed activity of sufficient magnitude to warrant further investigation. Activity determined in the cellular model translated to an in vivo rodent model of acute LPS-induced TNF-α elevation. The utility of the TNF-α cellular assay lies in its simplicity and robust nature, providing a tool for initial pharmacological screening to allow for the rapid identification novel TNF-α lowering agents.
Room temperature spin thermoelectrics in metallic films
Creators: name: Tölle, Sebastian
name: Gorini, Cosimo
name: Eckern, Ulrich
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 530 Physik

description: Considering metallic films at room temperature, we present the first theoretical study of the spin Nernst and thermal Edelstein effects that takes into account dynamical spin-orbit coupling, i.e., direct spin-orbit coupling with the vibrating lattice (phonons) and impurities. This gives rise to a novel process, namely, a dynamical side-jump mechanism, and to dynamical Elliott-Yafet spin relaxation, never before considered in this context. Both are the high-temperature counterparts of the well-known T=0 side-jump and Elliott-Yafet, central to the current understanding of the spin Hall, spin Nernst and Edelstein (current-induced spin polarization) effects at low T. We consider the experimentally relevant regime T>TD, with TD the Debye temperature, as the latter is lower than room temperature in transition metals such as Pt, Au and Ta typically employed in spin injection/extraction experiments. We show that the interplay between intrinsic (Bychkov-Rashba type) and extrinsic (dynamical) spin-orbit coupling yields a nonlinear T dependence of the spin Nernst and spin Hall conductivities.
Additional file 9 of Patterns of genetic variation and QTLs controlling grain traits in a collection of global wheat germplasm revealed by high-quality SNP markers
Creators: name: Chou, Chia-Hui
name: Lin, Hsun-Shih
name: Wen, Chen-Hsin
name: Tung, Chih-Wei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 9: Supplementary Fig. S9. Genome-wide association mapping for color channel 1. Manhattan plots of the four models (GLM, GLM_PC, MLM, MLM_PC) and associated quantile-quantile (Q-Q) plots representing the statistical association between each SNP and color channel 1.
Scanning gate induced effects in nonlinear transport through nanostructures
Creators: name: Gorini, Cosimo
name: Weinmann, Dietmar
name: Jalabert, Rodolfo A.
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 530 Physik

description: We investigate the effect of a scanning gate tip on the nonlinear quantum transport properties of nanostructures. Generally, we predict that the symmetry of the current-voltage characteristic in reflection-symmetric samples is broken by a tip-induced rectifying conductance correction. Moreover, in the case of a quantum point contact (QPC), the tip-induced rectification term becomes dominant as compared to the change of the linear conductance at large tip-QPC distances. Calculations for a weak tip probing a QPC modeled by an abrupt constriction show that these effects are experimentally observable.
Rapid, semi-automated, and inexpensive radioimmunoassay of cAMP: Application in GPCR-mediated adenylate cyclase assays
Creators: name: Brown, Justin T.
name: Mailman, Richard B.
name: Kant, Andrew
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Cyclic AMP (cAMP) is an important signal transduction second messenger that is commonly used as a functional mirror on the actions of G protein-coupled receptors that can activate or inhibit adenylate cyclases. A radioimmunoassay for cAMP with femtomole sensitivity was first reported by Steiner more than 30 years ago, and there have been several subsequent modifications that have improved this assay in various ways. Here we describe additional improvement to existing methods that markedly improve speed and reduce cost without sacrificing sensitivity, and is also adaptable to analysis of cGMP. The primary antibody is coupled directly to magnetic beads that are then separated from unbound marker using filtration on microplates. This eliminates the need for a secondary antibody, and markedly increases throughput. In addition, we report a simple, reproducible, and inexpensive method to make the radiomarker used for this assay. Although still requiring the use of radioactivity, the resulting method retains a high degree of accuracy and precision, and is suitable for low-cost high-throughput screening. Use of aspects of this method can also improve throughput in other radioimmunoassays.
title: Dissociated functional pattern for extrastriate and primary visual networks – a resting state fMRI study
Creators: name: Onu, Mihaela
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biological effects
subject: Computer Applications-General
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Computer applications

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Previous PET/fMRI studies suggested dissociated pattern for cerebral blood flow/BOLD signals in extrastriate visual cortex compared to primary visual cortex under different conditions (REM sleep/somatosensory tasks/transcranial magnetic...
Gate-modulated thermopower of disordered nanowires: II. Variable-Range Hopping Regime
Creators: name: Bosisio, Riccardo
name: Gorini, Cosimo
name: Fleury, Geneviève
name: Pichard, Jean-Louis
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: thermoelectricity, nanowires, hopping transport, field effect transistor
subject: 530 Physik

description: We study the thermopower of a disordered nanowire in the field effect transistor configuration. After a first paper devoted to the elastic coherent regime (Bosisio, Fleury and Pichard 2014 New J. Phys. 16 035004), we consider here the inelastic activated regime taking place at higher temperatures. In the case where the charge transport is thermally assisted by phonons (Mott Variable Range Hopping regime), we use the Miller–Abrahams random resistor network model as recently adapted by Jiang et al for thermoelectric transport. This approach, previously used to study the bulk of the nanowire impurity band, is extended for studying its edges. In this limit, we show that the typical thermopower is largely enhanced, attaining values larger than $10\;{{k}_{{\rm B}}}/e\sim 1\;{\rm mV}\;{{{\rm K}}^{-1}}$ and exhibiting a non-trivial behaviour as a function of the temperature. A percolation theory by Zvyagin extended to disordered nanowires allows us to account for the main observed edge behaviours of the thermopower.
A novel device for the study of somatosensory information processing
Creators: name: Tommerdahl, Mark
name: Nguyen, Richard H.
name: Holden, Jameson K.
name: Francisco, Eric M.
name: Zhang, Zheng
name: Dennis, Robert G.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Current methods for applying multi-site vibratory stimuli to the skin typically involve the use of multiple, individual vibrotactile stimulators. Limitations of such an arrangement include difficulty with both positioning the stimuli as well as ensuring that stimuli are delivered in a synchronized and deliberate manner. Previously, we reported a two-site tactile stimulator that was developed in order to solve these problems (Tannan et al., 2007a). Due to both the success of that novel stimulator and the limitations that were inherent in that device, we designed and fabricated a four-site stimulator that provides a number of advantages over the previous version. First, the device can stimulate four independent skin sites and is primarily designed for stimulating the digit tips. Second, the positioning of the probe tips has been re-designed to provide better ergonomic hand placement. Third, the device is much more portable than the previously-reported stimulator. Fourth, the stimulator head has a much smaller footprint on the table or surface where it resides. To demonstrate the capacity of the device for delivering tactile stimulation at four independent sites, a finger agnosia protocol, in the presence and absence of conditioning stimuli, was conducted on seventeen healthy control subjects. The study demonstrated that with increasing amplitudes of vibrotactile conditioning stimuli concurrent with the agnosia test, inaccuracies of digit identification increased, particularly at digits D3 and D4. The results are consistent with prior studies that implicated synchronization of adjacent and near-adjacent cortical ensembles with conditioning stimuli in impacting TOJ performance (Tommerdahl et al., 2007).
Ionization of helium by slow antiproton impact: total and differential cross sections
Creators: name: Borbély, S.
name: Feist, J.
name: Nagele, S.
name: Tőkési, K.
name: Nagy, L.
name: Burgdörfer, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically investigate the single and double ionization of the He atom by antiproton impact for projectile energies ranging from $3$~keV up to $1000$~keV. We obtain accurate total cross sections by directly solving the fully correlated two-electron time-dependent Schrödinger equation and by performing classical trajectory Monte-Carlo calculations. The obtained quantum-mechanical results are in excellent agreement with the available experimental data. Along with the total cross sections, we also present the first fully \textit{ab initio} doubly differential data for single ionization at 10 and 100~keV impact energies. In these differential cross sections we identify the binary-encounter peak along with the anticusp minimum. Furthermore, we also point out the importance of the post-collisional electron-projectile interaction at low antiproton energies which significantly suppresses electron emission in the forward direction.
title: Spazio e tempo nella cosmologia di Kant
Creators: name: Failla , Mariannina
Publisher: name: Roma Tre-Press
Year: 2012

description: Il termine cosmo rimanda alla critica di Kant delle antinomie cosmologiche nelle quali spazio e tempo hanno un ruolo cruciale e cosituiscono il fondamento della riflessione sulla totalità del mondo. Spazio e tempo, infatti, sono collegati alla questione metafisica dell'infinità del mondo. Nondimeno, per comprendere appieno il ruolo centrale che lo spazio e il tempo hanno nelle riflessioni, il contributo illustra tre punti fondamentali: 1) l'importanza della questione kantiana sulla metafisica come scienza; 2) la deduzione soggettiva e oggettiva delle idee cosmologiche la cui differenza indica il discrimine tra l'uso e l'abuso delle forme spaziali e temporali dell'intuizione nelle antinomie cosmologiche; 3) la loro critica demolitrice.

description: B@belonline vol. 13 Chaos/Kosmos
Spin Hall and Edelstein effects in metallic films: From two to three dimensions
Creators: name: Borge, Juan
name: Gorini, Cosimo
name: Vignale, Giovanni
name: Raimondi, Roberto
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 530 Physik

description: A normal metallic film sandwiched between two insulators may have strong spin-orbit coupling near the metal-insulator interfaces, even if spin-orbit coupling is negligible in the bulk of the film. In this paper, we study two technologically important and deeply interconnected effects that arise from interfacial spin-orbit coupling in metallic films. The first is the spin Hall effect, whereby a charge current in the plane of the film is partially converted into an orthogonal spin current in the same plane. The second is the Edelstein effect, in which a charge current produces an in-plane, transverse spin polarization. At variance with strictly two-dimensional Rashba systems, we find that the spin Hall conductivity has a finite value even if spin-orbit interaction with impurities is neglected and “vertex corrections” are properly taken into account. Even more remarkably, such a finite value becomes “universal” in a certain configuration. This is a direct consequence of the spatial dependence of spin-orbit coupling on the third dimension, perpendicular to the plane of the film. The nonvanishing spin Hall conductivity has a profound influence on the Edelstein effect, which we show to consist of two terms, the first with the standard form valid in a strictly two-dimensional Rashba system, and a second arising from the presence of the third dimension. Whereas the standard term is proportional to the momentum relaxation time, the new one scales with the spin relaxation time. Our results, although derived in a specific model, should be valid rather generally, whenever a spatially dependent Rashba spin-orbit coupling is present and the electron motion is not strictly two dimensional.
A novel device for the calibration of sonic and ultrasonic recording transducers
Creators: name: Hubbard, Devin K.
name: McMurray, Matthew S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Recently, there has been an increase in the analysis of animal vocalizations in behavioral neuroscience as a social cue or indicator of neurological integrity. Despite the multitude of researchers examining vocalizations in a variety of species, no inexpensive, tunable devices currently exist to calibrate the amplification applied to such vocalizations before data are collected. Many commercially available recording systems have analogue adjustments for gain, but such methods are notoriously unreliable and highly variable. Without a consistent level of gain, the amplitudes of recorded acoustic signals cannot be reliably compared. Here, we describe an apparatus designed to fulfill this need, which we have labeled the Calibration Unit for Recording Transducers (CURT). To maximize application to various fields, its emitted frequency and amplitude are tunable to output frequencies in both human-sonic (20 Hz – 20 kHz) and human-ultrasonic ranges (20–100 kHz). Additionally, it is a portable (weighing approximately 180 g), customizable, stand-alone unit, and fits a variety of microphone connector types. The CURT is also relatively low cost to build (under 250.00 USD), thereby making such a device available to as many researchers as possible in animal behavior and neuroscience.
title: Are you ready to take the comprehensive knowledge about the benign to malignant peritoneal and mesenteric-origin diseases? Let’s take the self-assessment study!
Creators: name: Hong, Wonju
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Infection
subject: Education and training
subject: Education
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: CT
subject: Abdomen
subject: Peritoneum

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To illustrate the characteristic imaging findings of mesentery or peritoneal diseases from common to uncommon disease subdividing into neoplastic and non-neoplastic pathology To evaluate knowledge of imaging findings of these diseases by...
Living Norway Ecological Data Network – Status and vision
Creators: name: Nilsen, Erlend B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: FAIR data
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Darwin Core
subject: Data management

description: Open science and open data is providing some new challenges but also opportunities for applied ecologists that are unprecedented in the history of science. Living Norway Ecological Data Network has a core mission to promote open data based on the FAIR guiding principles, but also engage with and work for an open scientific culture across the ecological and related sciences. In this talk, the main vision, activities and motivation behind the Living Norway Ecological Data Network will be presented, and I will describe why we believe building a strong culture for open data and open science in general is needed to successfully increase the societal impact of applied ecological research in the years and decades ahead of us. The talk was presented at the Living Norway Colloquium 2020 (https://livingnorway.no/towards-open-science-in-applied-ecology/).
A Mapping review of airway management in trauma
Creators: name: Tasigchana-Paredes, Carlos
name: Reytor, Claudia
name: Montesinos-Guevara, Camila
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medical Specialties
subject: Medical Sciences
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Emergency Medicine
subject: Critical Care

description: Airway management is a crucial part of trauma care, and it can significantly impact patient outcomes. Proper airway management can prevent hypoxia and ensure that the patient receives adequate ventilation. This review will seek the evidence gaps in the different techniques used for airway management. This review may help identify areas where further training and education are needed for healthcare professionals.
A vibrotactile behavioral battery for investigating somatosensory processing in children and adults
Creators: name: Puts, Nicolaas A.J.
name: Tommerdahl, Mark
name: Edden, Richard A.E.
name: Wodka, Ericka L.
name: Mostofsky, Stewart H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: The cortical dynamics of somatosensory processing can be investigated using vibrotactile psychophysics. It has been suggested that different vibrotactile paradigms target different cortical mechanisms, and a number of recent studies have established links between somatosensory cortical function and measurable aspects of behavior. The relationship between cortical mechanisms and sensory function is particularly relevant with respect to developmental disorders in which altered inhibitory processing has been postulated, such as in ASD and ADHD. In this study, a vibrotactile battery consisting of nine tasks (incorporating reaction time, detection threshold, and amplitude- and frequency discrimination) was applied to a cohort of healthy adults and a cohort of typically developing children to assess the feasibility of such a vibrotactile battery in both cohorts, and the performance between children and adults was compared. These results showed that children and adults were both able to perform these tasks with a similar performance, although the children were slightly less sensitive in frequency discrimination. Performance within different task-groups clustered together in adults, providing further evidence that these tasks tap into different cortical mechanisms, which is also discussed. This clustering was not observed in children, which may be potentially indicative of development and a greater variability. In conclusion, in this study, we showed that both children and adults were able to perform an extensive vibrotactile battery, and we showed the feasibility of applying this battery to other (e.g., neurodevelopmental) cohorts to probe different cortical mechanisms.
Adaptive prior probability and spatial temporal intensity change estimation for segmentation of the one-year-old human brain
Creators: name: Evans, Alan C.
name: Smith, Rachel G.
name: Collins, D. Louis
name: Gerig, Guido
name: Fonov, Vladimir S.
name: Hazlett, Heather C.
name: Paterson, Sarah
name: Gilmore, John H.
name: Dager, Stephen R.
name: Kim, Sun Hyung
name: McKinstry, Robert C.
name: Vachet, Clement
name: Graves, Michael M.
name: Dietrich, Cheryl
name: Styner, Martin Andreas
name: Piven, Joseph
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: The degree of white matter (WM) myelination is rather inhomogeneous across the brain. White matter appears differently across the cortical lobes in MR images acquired during early postnatal development. Specifically at 1-year of age, the gray/white matter contrast of MR T1 and T2 weighted images in prefrontal and temporal lobes is reduced as compared to the rest of the brain, and thus, tissue segmentation results commonly show lower accuracy in these lobes. In this novel work, we propose the use of spatial intensity growth maps (IGM) for T1 and T2 weighted images to compensate for local appearance inhomogeneity. The IGM captures expected intensity changes from 1 to 2 years of age, as appearance homogeneity is greatly improved by the age of 24 months. The IGM was computed as the coefficient of a voxel-wise linear regression model between corresponding intensities at 1 and 2 years. The proposed IGM method revealed low regression values of 1–10% in GM and CSF regions, as well as in WM regions at maturation stage of myelination at 1 year. However, in the prefrontal and temporal lobes we observed regression values of 20–25%, indicating that the IGM appropriately captures the expected large intensity change in these lobes mainly due to myelination. The IGM is applied to cross-sectional MRI datasets of 1-year-old subjects via registration, correction and tissue segmentation of the IGM-corrected dataset. We validated our approach in a small leave-one-out study of images with known, manual ‘ground truth’ segmentations.
RATS: Rapid Automatic Tissue Segmentation in rodent brain MRI
Creators: name: Oguz, Ipek
name: Zhang, Honghai
name: Sonka, Milan
name: Rumple, Ashley
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: High-field MRI is a popular technique for the study of rodent brains. These datasets, while similar to human brain MRI in many aspects, present unique image processing challenges. We address a very common preprocessing step, skull-stripping, which refers to the segmentation of the brain tissue from the image for further processing. While several methods exist for addressing this problem, they are computationally expensive and often require interactive post-processing by an expert to clean up poorly segmented areas. This further increases total processing time per subject.
“Getting stuck in”: body work and physical capital in non-traditional occupations
Creators: name: Murphy, Caroline
name: O’Meara, Aoife
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 350504
subject: Industrial and employee relations

description: Purpose –Drawing on Bourdieu’s conceptualisation of physical capital, this article explores the experiences of male and female employees in non-traditional occupations where body work is an integral part of the role. Specifically, the authors examine how being an underrepresented gender in this context impacts the experience of work, including challenges faced and perceptions for future opportunities in the role.
Design/methodology/approach – The research is based on two in-depth case studies undertaken in the social care and security/door work sector. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with male social care workers and female security workers in the night-time hospitality sector. Management representatives were also interviewed in each case. The interviews examined how the nature of the work in these roles impacted on the underrepresented gender’s perceptions of various aspects of their working lives.
Findings –The findings illustrate how many of the challenges associated with non-traditional occupations are experienced differently in body work roles, either being amplified or instead presenting opportunities for the role holder with implications for the day-to-day and longer-term experience of work. The findings illustrate how the actions and behaviour of management and colleagues can exacerbate the extent to which underrepresented gender feel accepted within their role and organisation.
Practical implications – Organisational decision makers need to be aware of the importance of reviewing practices regarding hiring, promotion and the allocation of tasks and duties for non-traditional role holders engaged in body work.
Originality/value – The article contributes to understandings of “body work” and physical capital in non-traditional occupations, illustrating how gender-based assumptions can restrict individuals in these roles to a greater extent than in other forms of work where the body is salient to the performance of the role.