cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Eco-efficiency Model for Outdoor Environmental Design of the MixeduseReal Estate Development in Bangkok, Thailand
Creators: name: Jittapat Choruengwiwat
Publisher: name: Thammasat University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Eco-efficiency
Water Sensitive
Outdoor Thermal Comfort
Physiological Equivalent Temperature (PET)
Stormwater Runoff
Simulation

description: Journal of Architectural/Planning Research and Studies, 16, 1, 35-44
title: Food for thought – a pictorial exhibit of radiological food-related signs
Creators: name: Otukoya, Esther
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Lung
subject: CNS
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Dynamic swallowing studies
subject: Education and training
subject: Swallowing disorders
subject: Pathology

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To demonstrate the commonly and infrequently encountered radiological food-related signs in everyday practice. This pictorial exhibit will serve as a fun and ‘palatable’ educational tool for fellow radiology trainees and general...
(101289) Thomas King
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Functional gastrointestinal disorders are increased in joint hypermobility-related disorders with concomitant postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome
Creators: name: Aziz, I.
name: Whitehead, W.E.
name: Simren, M.
name: Tai, F.W.D.
name: Palsson, O.S.
name: Lam, C.Y.
name: Tornblom, H.
name: Sperber, A.D.
Publisher: name: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Year: 2020

description: Background: Individuals with hypermobility spectrum disorders/hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (HSD/hEDS) frequently fulfill criteria for Rome IV functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs). Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) is also commonly reported in HSD/hEDS and may impact on co-morbidity with and severity of FGIDs, although this remains to be studied. We determined the impact of concomitant POTS and HSD/hEDS on their association with Rome IV FGIDs. Methods: With the help of the charity organization Ehlers-Danlos Support UK, an online cross-sectional health survey was completed by individuals with HSD/hEDS. The survey enquired for (a) self-reported doctor diagnosis of POTS, chronic fatigue syndrome, and fibromyalgia, (b) the presence and symptom frequency of Rome IV FGIDs, and (c) anxiety and depression scores. Key Results: Of 616 subjects with HSD/hEDS, 37.5% reported a doctor diagnosis of POTS. POTS-positive individuals were significantly younger than POTS-negative subjects (37 vs 40 years, P = 0.002), more likely to report chronic fatigue syndrome (44% vs 31%, P < 0.0001), and showed a trend toward increased prevalence of fibromyalgia (44% vs 37%, P = 0.06) and higher depression score (P = 0.07). POTS-positive subjects were also more likely to fulfill criteria for Rome IV FGIDs across various organ domains and experienced both upper and lower gastrointestinal symptoms significantly more frequently. The increased associations for FGIDs and GI symptom frequency remained unchanged in HSD/hEDS subjects with POTS following adjustments for age, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and depression scores. Conclusions and Inferences: The high FGID burden in HSD/hEDS is further amplified in the presence of POTS. Future studies should elucidate the mechanism by which POTS arises in HSD/hEDS and is associated with increased GI symptoms.
Stavros Lazaris, Le Physiologus grec. Volume I, II.
Creators: name: Murace, Andrea
Publisher: name: The Byzantine Review
Year: 2023
Subjects: Physiologus graecus

description: Stavros Lazaris, Le Physiologus grec. Volume I. La réécriture de l’histoire naturelle antique (Micrologus Library 77/1), pref. di Arnaud Zucker. Firenze: Sismel – Edizioni del Galluzzo 2016. XXI, 178 pp., 11 figg., 3 tabb. – ISBN 978-88-8450-738-9 (€40.00). ID., Le Physiologus grec. Volume II. Donner à voir la nature (Micrologus Library 107 [77/2]), pref. di Guglielmo Cavallo. Firenze: Sismel – Edizioni del Galluzzo 2021. XVI, 432 pp., 31+317 figg., 4 tabb. -- ISBN 978-88-9290-137-7 (€85.00).
description: The Byzantine Review, Vol. 5 (2023)
Robust Sparse Blind Source Separation
Creators: name: Chenot, Cecile
name: Bobin, Jerome
name: Rapin, Jeremy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Blind Source Separation is a widely used technique to analyze multichannel data. In many real-world applications, its results can be significantly hampered by the presence of unknown outliers. In this paper, a novel algorithm coined rGMCA (robust Generalized Morphological Component Analysis) is introduced to retrieve sparse sources in the presence of outliers. It explicitly estimates the sources, the mixing matrix, and the outliers. It also takes advantage of the estimation of the outliers to further implement a weighting scheme, which provides a highly robust separation procedure. Numerical experiments demonstrate the efficiency of rGMCA to estimate the mixing matrix in comparison with standard BSS techniques.
description: Submitted to IEEE Signal Processing Letters
title: Predicting Effect Of Radiosurgery On Optic Tracts By Diffusion Tensor Imaging: Initial Report
Creators: name: Yazol, Merve
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Endocrine disorders
subject: Stereotactic radiotherapy
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Radiation effects
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Computer applications
subject: Radiotherapy techniques

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is being increasingly used to treat patients with sellar and parasellar tumors, including pituitary adenomas, meningiomas and craniopharyngiomas (1). The safety and efficacy of SRC has been demonstrated in the...
title: Diagnostic value of MRI in the diagnosis of joint involvement in malignant primitive tumors of the knee
Creators: name: Omri, Amine
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: Neoplasia

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: •Establishing the presence or absence of joint involvement is particularly important in malignant primitive bone tumors in order to choose the appropriate surgical procedure: intra or extra articular resection. •MRI is now considered to be the...
Prevalence of Rome IV Functional Bowel Disorders Among Adults in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom
Creators: name: Palsson, O.S.
name: Törnblom, H.
name: Sperber, A.D.
name: Simren, M.
name: Whitehead, W.
Publisher: name: W.B. Saunders
Year: 2020

description: Background & Aims: Little is known about the population prevalence or demographic distributions of Rome IV functional bowel disorders (FBDs) or their effects on quality of life. We examined these in a multinational survey. Methods: We analyzed data from a population-based survey of adults in the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom (5931 valid responders; 49.2% female; mean age, 47.4 years; range, 18–92 years). The survey included the Rome IV Diagnostic Questionnaire, Rome III irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and constipation questions, and the SF-8 quality of life questionnaire. Results: The prevalence values of census-adjusted Rome IV FBDs were similar among the 3 countries; ranges were: 4.4%–4.8% for IBS, 7.9%–8.6% for functional constipation, 3.6%–5.3% for functional diarrhea, 2.0%–3.9% for functional bloating or distention, 1.1%–1.9% for opioid-induced constipation, 7.5%–10.0% for unspecified FBDs, and 28.6%–31.7% for any Rome IV FBD. FBDs were less common in older individuals, and all except functional diarrhea were more common in women. IBS was only half as prevalent by Rome IV as by Rome III criteria (4.6% vs 9.0% overall), primarily due to higher Rome IV minimum pain frequency. Functional diarrhea and functional constipation were more prevalent by Rome IV than Rome III criteria. Subjects with FBD had significant reductions in quality of life and reported more gastrointestinal doctor consultations than other subjects. Conclusions: More than 1 in 4 adults in the general population meet the Rome IV criteria for FBDs. These disorders affect quality of life and increase use of gastrointestinal health care. The switch from Rome III to Rome IV criteria reduces the prevalence of IBS by half, but increases the prevalence of functional constipation and functional diarrhea.
Do file STATA- Journal Article - "Improving foreign language education for scientific-based instructional design".
Creators: name: Prats Porcar, Elena
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 130103 Higher Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 130303 Education Assessment and Evaluation
subject: 130306 Educational Technology and Computing

description: DO file code in STATA for the analysis of data in Questionnaire I. It includes a multi level model Ordinary logistic regression modeling is used to examine students’ support for the integration of online assignments and blended learning.
Do file STATA- Journal Article - "Improving foreign language education for scientific-based instructional design"- Languages, MDPI.
Creators: name: Prats Porcar, Elena
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 200401 Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: This file is the DO file code in STATA for the analysis of Questionnaire I, and the execution of the Fisher's exact test - comparing Questionnaire I and Questionnaire II. Both questionnaires analyze students' perceptions on the introduction of e-learning in the Spanish as a foreign language classroom at Kyoto University.
(101290) Matilda King
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Cystic pancreatic lesions: How a radiologist can face this lesions?
Creators: name: Brunie, Francois Xavier
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Cysts
subject: Cholangiography
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Pancreas
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Recognize the imaging findings that may be useful in the characterization of lesions, narrowing the differential diagnosis of cystic lesions of the...
Epidemiology, Clinical Characteristics, and Associations for Rome IV Functional Nausea and Vomiting Disorders in Adults
Creators: name: Aziz, I.
name: Whitehead, W.E.
name: Palsson, O.S.
name: Törnblom, H.
name: Sperber, A.D.
name: Simrén, M.
Publisher: name: W.B. Saunders
Year: 2019

description: Background & Aims: Functional nausea and vomiting disorders (FNVDs) are classified as chronic nausea and vomiting syndrome (CNVS) or cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS)—CVS includes cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome. We investigated the population prevalence of FNVDs, their characteristics, and associated factors. Methods: In the year 2015, an Internet cross-sectional health survey was completed by 5931 adults in the general populations of 3 English-speaking countries; 2100 participants were in the United States, Canada, or the United Kingdom. Quota-based sampling was used to generate demographically balanced and population-representative samples. The survey collected data on demographics, health care visits, medications, somatic symptom severity, quality of life, and symptom-based diagnostic criteria for Rome IV FNVDs as well as for irritable bowel syndrome and functional dyspepsia. Subsequent comparisons were made between Rome IV FNVD subjects and individuals without FNVDs (controls). Results: Overall, 2.2% of the population (n = 131) fulfilled symptom-based diagnostic criteria for Rome IV FNVDs: the United States (3%) had a greater prevalence than Canada (1.9%) or the United Kingdom (1.8%) (P =.02). The prevalence of CNVS was similar among the countries, ranging from 0.8% to 1.2%. However, the prevalence of CVS was higher in the United States (2%) than in Canada (0.7%) or the United Kingdom (1%) (P =.03). The proportion of subjects with CVS taking cannabis did not differ significantly among countries (P =.31), although the 7 cases of cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome were in the United States. A significantly higher proportion of subjects with CVS reported a compulsive need for hot water bathing to alleviate emetic symptoms than subjects with CNVS (44% vs 19%; P =.03); this behavior was independent of cannabis but augmented by its use. Subjects with FNVDs had significantly greater health impairment and health care utilization than controls. On multivariate analysis, independent factors associated with FNVDs were younger age, increasing somatic symptom severity, lower quality of life, presence of irritable bowel syndrome, and functional dyspepsia. However, on subgroup analysis, somatic symptom severity was associated with CVS but not CNVS, whereas poor quality of life was associated with CNVS but not CVS. Conclusions: Based on a cross-sectional health survey of adults in the general populations of 3 English-speaking countries, approximately 2% of subjects meet symptom-based criteria for Rome IV FNVDs and have considerable health impairments. Hot water bathing to alleviate emetic symptoms is reported for all FNVDs, and is perpetuated by cannabis use.
Supplementarity is Necessary for Quantum Diagram Reasoning
Creators: name: Perdrix, Simon
name: Wang, Quanlong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ZX-calculus is a powerful diagrammatic language for quantum mechanics and quantum information processing. We prove that its π/4-fragment is not complete, in other words the ZX-calculus is not complete for the so called "Clifford+T quantum mechanics". The completeness of this fragment was one of the main open problems in categorical quantum mechanics, a programme initiated by Abramsky and Coecke. The ZX-calculus was known to be incomplete for quantum mechanics. On the other hand, its π/2-fragment is known to be complete, i.e. the ZX-calculus is complete for the so called "stabilizer quantum mechanics". Deciding whether its π/4-fragment is complete is a crucial step in the development of the ZX-calculus since this fragment is approximately universal for quantum mechanics, contrary to the π/2-fragment. To establish our incompleteness result, we consider a fairly simple property of quantum states called supplementarity. We show that supplementarity can be derived in the ZX-calculus if and only if the angles involved in this equation are multiples of π/2. In particular, the impossibility to derive supplementarity for π/4 implies the incompleteness of the ZX-calculus for Clifford+T quantum mechanics. As a consequence, we propose to add the supplementarity to the set of rules of the ZX-calculus. We also show that if a ZX-diagram involves antiphase twins, they can be merged when the ZX-calculus is augmented with the supplementarity rule. Merging antiphase twins makes diagrammatic reasoning much easier and provides a purely graphical meaning to the supplementarity rule.
description: Generalised proof and graphical interpretation. 16 pages, submitted
title: Pulmonary Mycobacterium Tuberculosis infection: Retrospective Analysis of radiologic findings
Creators: name: Urquieta, Gabriela
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: Thorax
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Observer performance
subject: Infection

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, it is estimated there are 2–3 billion people infected of whom a small proportion (5–15%) will...
title: Breast lesions related to pregnancy and lactation - a diagnostic challenge
Creators: name: Szep, Madalina
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Biopsy
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: Mammography
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Breast

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To highlight the selection of the appropriate imaging workup and intervention for evaluating the breast during pregnancy and lactation. Describe radiologic manifestations of the most common disorders. Discuss the most common and relevant clinical...
Reply
Creators: name: Palsson, O.S.
name: Simrén, M.
name: Törnblom, H.
name: Clevers, E.
name: Whitehead, W.E.
name: Sperber, A.D.
name: Van Oudenhove, L.
name: Tack, J.
Publisher: name: W.B. Saunders
Year: 2019

description: Reply. We thank Drs Siah and Gwee for their interest in our study, in which we reported an exploratory factor analysis of Rome IV symptoms (Clevers et al), which we refer to as the Rome IV exploratory model (R4EM) similar to Siah and Gwee.
(101291) William Knowler
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Data Questionnaire I - Journal Article "Improving foreign language education for scientific-based instructional design".
Creators: name: Prats Porcar, Elena
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 130103 Higher Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 130303 Education Assessment and Evaluation
subject: 130306 Educational Technology and Computing

description: This is the .dta file from Questionnaire I as reported in journal article "Improving foreign language education for scientific-based instructional design".
Subgroups of IBS patients are characterized by specific, reproducible profiles of GI and non-GI symptoms and report differences in healthcare utilization: A population-based study
Creators: name: Sperber, A.D.
name: Whitehead, W.E.
name: Polster, A.V.
name: Simrén, M.
name: Palsson, O.S.
name: Törnblom, H.
name: Öhman, L.
Publisher: name: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Year: 2019

description: Background: In a previous clinical sample of IBS patients, subgroups characterized by profiles of GI and non-GI symptoms were identified. We aimed to replicate these subgroups and symptom associations in participants fulfilling IBS diagnostic criteria from a population-based study and relate them to healthcare utilization. Methods: An Internet-based health survey was completed by general population adults from United States, Canada, and UK. Respondents fulfilling IBS diagnosis (Rome III and IV) were analyzed for latent subgroups using Gaussian mixture model analysis. Symptom measures were derived from validated questionnaires: IBS-related GI symptoms (Rome IV), extraintestinal somatic symptoms (PHQ-12), and psychological symptoms (SF-8). Key Results: A total of 637 respondents fulfilled Rome III criteria (average age 46 years, range 18-87, 66% females) and 341 Rome IV criteria (average age 44, range 18-77, 64% female) for IBS. Seven subgroups were identified in the Rome III cohort, characterized by profiles of GI symptoms (constipation-related, diarrhea-related, and mixed, respectively), and further distinguished by the presence or absence of non-GI comorbidities. The Rome IV cohort showed five similar but less distinct subgroups with a preponderance of mixed symptom profiles. Higher severity of non-GI comorbidities was associated with more frequent healthcare visits and medication usage. Conclusions and Inferences: In line with previous findings in a clinical IBS cohort, we were able to identify population-based subgroups characterized by a combination of GI symptoms with the additional distinction made by varying severity of non-GI symptoms and with differences in healthcare utilization.
(101292) Harriet Knowles
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Cumulative Effects of Psychologic Distress, Visceral Hypersensitivity, and Abnormal Transit on Patient-reported Outcomes in Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Creators: name: Törnblom, H.
name: Tack, J.
name: Van Oudenhove, L.
name: Simrén, M.
name: Palsson, O.S.
name: Whitehead, W.E.
Publisher: name: W.B. Saunders
Year: 2019

description: Background & Aims: Little is known about the link between pathophysiologic factors and symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), or whether these factors have cumulative effects on patient-reported outcomes (PROs). We investigated whether pathophysiologic alterations associated with IBS have cumulative or independent effects on PROs. Methods: We performed a retrospective analysis of data from 3 cohorts of patients with IBS (n = 407; 74% female; mean age, 36 ± 12 years), based on Rome II or Rome III criteria, seen at a specialized unit for functional gastrointestinal disorders in Sweden from 2002 through 2014. All patients underwent assessments of colonic transit time (radiopaque markers); compliance, allodynia, and hyperalgesia (rectal barostat); anxiety and depression (Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale), as pathophysiologic factors. Dysfunction was defined by available normal values. PROs included IBS symptom severity, somatic symptom severity, and disease-specific quality of life. Results: Allodynia was observed in 36% of patients, hyperalgesia in 22%, accelerated colonic transit in 18%, delayed transit in 7%, anxiety in 52%, and depression in 24%: each of these factors was associated with severity of at least 1 symptom of IBS. Rectal compliance was not associated with more severe symptoms of IBS. At least 3 pathophysiologic factors were present in 20% of patients, 2 in 30%, 1 in 31%, and none in 18%. With increasing number of pathophysiologic abnormalities, there was a gradual increase in IBS symptom severity (P < .0001) and somatic symptom severity (P < .0001), and a gradual reduction in quality of life (P < .0001). Conclusion: Visceral hypersensitivity, including allodynia and hyperalgesia, abnormal colonic transit, and psychologic factors are all associated with IBS symptoms. These factors have a cumulative effect on gastrointestinal and nongastrointestinal symptoms, as well as on quality of life, in patients with IBS and are therefore relevant treatment targets.
title: Imaging of head and neck masses in the neonate
Creators: name: BenSalem, Amina
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Congenital
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Biopsy
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Paediatric
subject: Head and neck

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Neonatal neck masses are a heterogeneous group of lesions that include both benign and malignant neoplasms and lesions that arise from errorsin development. In many cases,a detailed history and physical examination are sufficient to make a...
Taking Care of the Other: Visions of a Caring Integration in Female Refugee Support Work
Creators: name: Schmid, Sophia
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: cultural difference
subject: ethics of care
subject: Germany
subject: integration
subject: refugees
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften

description: European societies have been significantly challenged recently by intensifying debates around migration and integration. In Germany, the controversy around refugees has put the question of how to negotiate cultural differences back on the agenda. This article argues that female refugee support work volunteers in Germany have developed a compelling approach to handling cultural diversity in emotional, social and cultural practices. Building on interviews with female volunteers, this article demonstrates that research subjects’ interaction with refugees is guided by an ‘ethics of care’. Care ethics is characterised by the recognition of interdependence and relationships, attention to the context and to the particular, blurring of the public and the private and orientation towards the needs of others. The research subjects show that care values, such as responsibility and attentiveness, can serve as an alternative framework to integration and to the negotiation of diversity in everyday encounters. Data from quantitative studies on refugee support work in Germany then reveals that female volunteers politicise their care work to respond to racism and right-wing xenophobia. Ultimately, a political ethics of care has the potential to structurally, politically and emotionally change established understandings of integration and the relations between host societies and immigrants.
Oesophageal symptoms are common and associated with other functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs) in an English-speaking Western population
Creators: name: Simrén, M.
name: Törnblom, H.
name: Palsson, O.
name: Whitehead, W.
name: Josefsson, A.
name: Sperber, A.D.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Ltd
Year: 2018

description: mean age 46.7 years) were available for analysis. Symptom prevalence was 8.1% for globus, 6.5% for heartburn, 4.5% for dysphagia and 5.2% for chest pain, and 17.0% reported at least one oesophageal symptom. Oesophageal symptoms were independently associated with younger age, female gender, previous abdominal surgery and the presence of other functional GI disorders. Reporting oesophageal symptoms was associated with reduced quality of life. Conclusion: Oesophageal symptoms are common in the general population and important predictors include other functional GI disorders, age and gender. Oesophageal symptoms are associated with poorer quality of life.
description: Background: The prevalence and frequency of oesophageal symptoms suggestive of a functional oesophageal disorder according to the Rome IV criteria are unknown. Objective: We aimed to describe the prevalence and risk factors for oesophageal symptoms compatible with functional oesophageal disorders in the general population. Methods: Data were analysed from a population-based online survey of 6300 individuals aged ≥ 18 years in the USA, UK and Canada with equal demographic proportions across countries. Questions included the Rome IV diagnostic questionnaire, demographics, medication, somatization, quality of life, and organic gastrointestinal (GI) disease. Multivariate analysis was used to identify factors independently related to oesophageal symptoms. Results: Data from 5177 participants (47.8% female
A renormalization group improved computation of correlation functions in theories with non-trivial phase diagram
Creators: name: Codello, Alessandro
name: Tonero, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a simple and consistent way to compute correlation functions in interacting theories with non-trivial phase diagram. As an example we show how to consistently compute the four-point function in three dimensional $\mathbb{Z}_2$-scalar theories. The idea is to perform the path integral by weighting the momentum modes that contribute to it according to their renormalization group (RG) relevance, i.e. we weight each mode according to the value of the running couplings at that scale. In this way, we are able encode in a loop computation the information regarding the RG trajectory along which we are integrating. We show that depending on the initial condition, or initial point in the phase diagram, we obtain different behaviors of the four-point function at the end point of the flow.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures; v2: references added
title: Surgical procedures of the ascending aorta: a radiological approach
Creators: name: Antunes, Natalie
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Thorax
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: MR-Angiography
subject: Surgery
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Aneurysms
subject: Education and training

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: - Describe and illustrate the surgical techniques regarding the repair of the ascending aorta and aortic arch. - Demonstrate the main imaging features of these procedures, allowing their diagnostic...
The DES Science Verification Weak Lensing Shear Catalogues
Creators: name: Jarvis, M.
name: Sheldon, E.
name: Zuntz, J.
name: Kacprzak, T.
name: Bridle, S. L.
name: Amara, A.
name: Armstrong, R.
name: Becker, M. R.
name: Bernstein, G. M.
name: Bonnett, C.
name: Chang, C.
name: Das, R.
name: Dietrich, J. P.
name: Drlica-Wagner, A.
name: Eifler, T. F.
name: Gangkofner, C.
name: Gruen, D.
name: Hirsch, M.
name: Huff, E. M.
name: Jain, B.
name: Kent, S.
name: Kirk, D.
name: MacCrann, N.
name: Melchior, P.
name: Plazas, A. A.
name: Refregier, A.
name: Rowe, B.
name: Rykoff, E. S.
name: Samuroff, S.
name: Sánchez, C.
name: Suchyta, E.
name: Troxel, M. A.
name: Vikram, V.
name: Abbott, T.
name: Abdalla, F. B.
name: Allam, S.
name: Annis, J.
name: Benoit-Lévy, A.
name: Bertin, E.
name: Brooks, D.
name: Buckley-Geer, E.
name: Burke, D. L.
name: Capozzi, D.
name: Rosell, A. Carnero
name: Kind, M. Carrasco
name: Carretero, J.
name: Castander, F. J.
name: Clampitt, J.
name: Crocce, M.
name: Cunha, C. E.
name: D'Andrea, C. B.
name: da Costa, L. N.
name: DePoy, D. L.
name: Desai, S.
name: Diehl, H. T.
name: Doel, P.
name: Neto, A. Fausti
name: Flaugher, B.
name: Fosalba, P.
name: Frieman, J.
name: Gaztanaga, E.
name: Gerdes, D. W.
name: Gruendl, R. A.
name: Gutierrez, G.
name: Honscheid, K.
name: James, D. J.
name: Kuehn, K.
name: Kuropatkin, N.
name: Lahav, O.
name: Li, T. S.
name: Lima, M.
name: March, M.
name: Martini, P.
name: Miquel, R.
name: Mohr, J. J.
name: Neilsen, E.
name: Nord, B.
name: Ogando, R.
name: Reil, K.
name: Romer, A. K.
name: Roodman, A.
name: Sako, M.
name: Sanchez, E.
name: Scarpine, V.
name: Schubnell, M.
name: Sevilla-Noarbe, I.
name: Smith, R. C.
name: Soares-Santos, M.
name: Sobreira, F.
name: Swanson, M. E. C.
name: Tarle, G.
name: Thaler, J.
name: Thomas, D.
name: Walker, A. R.
name: Wechsler, R. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present weak lensing shear catalogues for 139 square degrees of data taken during the Science Verification (SV) time for the new Dark Energy Camera (DECam) being used for the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We describe our object selection, point spread function estimation and shear measurement procedures using two independent shear pipelines, IM3SHAPE and NGMIX, which produce catalogues of 2.12 million and 3.44 million galaxies respectively. We detail a set of null tests for the shear measurements and find that they pass the requirements for systematic errors at the level necessary for weak lensing science applications using the SV data. We also discuss some of the planned algorithmic improvements that will be necessary to produce sufficiently accurate shear catalogues for the full 5-year DES, which is expected to cover 5000 square degrees.
description: Accepted by MNRAS; 38 pages, 29 figures; v3: minor edits based on referee's comments, switched to mnras style, added figure 8, updated info about released catalogs
Factor Analysis Defines Distinct Upper and Lower Gastrointestinal Symptom Groups Compatible With Rome IV Criteria in a Population-based Study
Creators: name: Van Oudenhove, L.
name: Simrén, M.
name: Clevers, E.
name: Whitehead, W.E.
name: Sperber, A.D.
name: Tack, J.
name: Palsson, O.S.
name: Törnblom, H.
Publisher: name: W.B. Saunders
Year: 2018

description: Background & Aims: The Rome IV criteria define functional gastrointestinal (GI) disorders by specific combinations of symptoms. It is possible to empirically evaluate these symptom combinations by factor analysis (a statistical procedure that groups variables that correlate). However, this analysis has not been performed for the Rome IV criteria, and factor analyses based on the previous versions of the Rome criteria did not use population-based data. We therefore investigated symptom grouping by the Rome IV questionnaire using factor analysis of a population-based sample. Methods: The Rome IV questionnaire was completed online in English by 5931 respondents from the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada (49% female, age range, 18–92 years). We performed an exploratory factor analysis on the Rome IV questions. Next, we performed a confirmatory factor analysis to compare the exploratory factor result to that of the Rome IV criteria. Results: The exploratory factor analysis identified 8 factors that accounted for 45% of the variance in response: constipation, diarrhea, irritable bowel syndrome, abdominal pain, heartburn, nausea or vomiting, globus, and other upper GI symptoms. Most factors corresponded to distinct functional GI disorders defined by the Rome IV criteria—exceptions included abdominal pain and upper GI symptoms. In confirmatory factor analysis, the exploratory model fitted slightly better than that based on the Rome IV criteria (root mean square error of approximation, 0.063 vs 0.077). Conclusions: We used factor analysis to identify distinct upper and lower GI symptom groups that are compatible with the Rome IV criteria. Our findings support the use of the Rome IV criteria in research and clinical practice as a basis for development of diagnostics and management of patients.
VERITAS Observations Of M~31 (The Andromeda Galaxy)
Creators: name: Bird, Ralph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Diffuse gamma rays are tracers of cosmic rays, providing information on their origin, interaction and diffusion through a galaxy. M 31 (the Andromeda Galaxy) is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way (d = 780 kpc) and is very well studied at all wavelengths. Thus it is a prime target for the study of diffuse gamma-ray emission. The very-high-energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray observatory VERITAS has conducted 54 hours of observations of M 31 and an upper limit on the VHE flux is presented along with an updated \Fermis (0.1 < E < 300 GeV) analysis. These observations will be compared with predictions of the gamma-ray flux derived from models of the inelastic scattering of VHE cosmic rays of the interstellar medium (ISM) and the interstellar radiation field. M 31 provides an ideal opportunity to probe this mechanism. Its proximity and spatial extent, significantly larger than the VERITAS point spread function but smaller than the field-of-view, potentially enables the star-forming ring, 10 kpc from the galaxy core, with its dense ISM and numerous supernova remnants to be resolved.
description: Presented at The 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference
title: MRI of ovarian neoplasms: Pictorial Review
Creators: name: Ali, Amal
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: - Illustrate the MR imaging features of the main ovarian tumors with pathologic correlation. - Recognize the role of MRI in histological approach - Know important imaging clues for differential...
Efficient Learning of Discrete-Continuous Computation Graphs
Creators: name: Friede, David
name: Niepert, Mathias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Numerous models for supervised and reinforcement learning benefit from combinations of discrete and continuous model components. End-to-end learnable discrete-continuous models are compositional, tend to generalize better, and are more interpretable. A popular approach to building discrete-continuous computation graphs is that of integrating discrete probability distributions into neural networks using stochastic softmax tricks. Prior work has mainly focused on computation graphs with a single discrete component on each of the graph's execution paths. We analyze the behavior of more complex stochastic computations graphs with multiple sequential discrete components. We show that it is challenging to optimize the parameters of these models, mainly due to small gradients and local minima. We then propose two new strategies to overcome these challenges. First, we show that increasing the scale parameter of the Gumbel noise perturbations during training improves the learning behavior. Second, we propose dropout residual connections specifically tailored to stochastic, discrete-continuous computation graphs. With an extensive set of experiments, we show that we can train complex discrete-continuous models which one cannot train with standard stochastic softmax tricks. We also show that complex discrete-stochastic models generalize better than their continuous counterparts on several benchmark datasets.
Data Questionnaire I - Journal Article "Improving foreign language education for scientific-based instructional design" - Languages, MDPI.
Creators: name: Prats Porcar, Elena
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 200401 Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: This file contains the data from Questionnaire I as reported in journal article "Improving foreign language education for scientific-based instructional design, in Languages, MDPI".
Breaking properties of multicomponent neutron star crust
Creators: name: Kozhberov, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study breaking properties of a solid neutron star crust. We consider the case in which the crust at any fixed density consists of two types ions, forming a strongly ordered Coulomb crystal. It is shown that the breaking stress of a such matter noticeably depends on ionic composition, and it is typically larger than for a one-component crystal. The difference may reach a factor of several.
Systemic cytokines are elevated in a subset of patients with irritable bowel syndrome but largely unrelated to symptom characteristics
Creators: name: Barrow, D.A.
name: Simrén, M.
name: Törnblom, H.
name: Palsson, O.
name: Öhman, L.
name: Bennet, S.M.P.
name: van Tilburg, M.A.L.
name: Whitehead, W.E.
Publisher: name: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Year: 2018

description: Background: Serum levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines tend to be increased in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) patients, or subgroups thereof. Still, the link between cytokine levels and IBS symptoms is unclear. We aim to determine systemic cytokine levels in IBS patients and healthy subjects (HS), confirm the presence of a subset of patients with an increased immune activity and to establish if cytokines are linked to IBS symptoms and pathophysiological factors. Methods: Serum levels of interleukin (IL)-1β, IL-6, IL-8, tumor necrosis factor (TNF), and IL-10 were measured. All subjects reported IBS symptoms using validated questionnaires and underwent colonic sensorimotor testing. Multivariate supervised orthogonal partial least squares-discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA) and unsupervised principal component analysis (PCA) and hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) were implemented. Key Results: Irritable bowel syndrome patients (n = 246) had higher serum levels of IL-1β, IL-6, IL-8, TNF, and IL-10 compared to HS (n = 21); however, serum cytokine profiles could not discriminate patients from HS. Moreover, cytokine levels were not correlated with symptoms among patients. Supervised OPLS-DA identified 104 patients (40% of patients) and unsupervised HCA analysis identified 49 patients (20%) with an increased immune activity indicated by elevated levels of serum cytokines compared to HS and the other patients. However, irrespective of how patients with increased immune activity were identified they were symptomatically similar to patients with no indication of increased immune activity. Conclusions & Inferences: Serum cytokines are elevated in IBS patients compared to HS. Immune activation characterizes a subset of patients, but modest associations between cytokine profile and symptoms suggest immune activity does not directly influence symptoms in IBS.
Relationship between symptoms and quality of life in fecal incontinence
Creators: name: Palsson, O.S.
name: Whitehead, W.E.
name: Heymen, S.
name: Bharucha, A.E.
name: Bedard, K.
Publisher: name: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Year: 2018

description: Background: Most measures of fecal incontinence (FI) severity assess the frequency of solid and liquid FI, but may incorporate other features. We compared two scales—the Fecal Incontinence Severity Score (FISS) and Fecal Incontinence Severity Index (FISI)—to determine which questionnaire and which individual questions predict FI Quality of Life (FIQOL). Methods: A national sample of American adults completed a health questionnaire, and 234 with monthly FI were selected. Participants completed assessments of FI severity, FIQOL, and somatization. Stepwise linear regression models evaluated whether FISS and FISI total scores, or individual items on the FISS and FISI predicted FIQOL after adjusting for gender, age, income, and somatization (Brief Symptom Inventory-18). Key Results: Reliable responses were provided by 186. Age was 49 years, and 52% were women. The mean FISS score was 8.4 (95% confidence interval [CI] 8.0-8.9, 13 questions) and mean FISI was 29.9 (95% CI 27.4-32.4, 62 questions), indicating moderate FI severity. The mean FIQOL was 2.6 (95% CI 2.4-2.7, 5 questions). Lower income, greater somatization, and total FISS and FISI scores explained 69% of FIQOL; and total FISS and FISI scores were independent predictors. On the FISS, frequency, amount, and urgency to defecate were independently associated with FIQOL. After adding somatization, all but amount remained significant. For the FISI scale, solid and liquid FI and gas were significant predictors, but adjusting for somatization excluded solid FI. Conclusions and Inferences: Five variables independently explained FIQOL: overall frequency of FI, frequency of liquid and gas leakage, urgency, and somatization.
(101287) Rosabella Juliana King
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Assessment of maxillary and mandibular bone quality
Creators: name: Bulut, Omer Engin
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Demineralisation-Bone
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Cone beam CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Bones
subject: Head and neck
subject: Metabolic disorders

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: •To review the various definitions of bone quality. •To understand the radiographic methods of determining the quality of available maxillary and mandibular bone. •To learn about the different assessment methods and classifications of bone in...