cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Spillover-Effekte und andere Determinanten der Nutzung von Medizintechnikprodukten bei Vorhandensein einer medizinischen Leitlinie: Eine Analyse von medikamentenbeschichteten Stents
Creators: name: Möllenkamp, Meilin
name: Pongiglione, Benedetta
name: Rabbe, Stefan
name: Torbica, Aleksandra
name: Schreyögg, Jonas
Publisher: name: Zentralinstitut für die kassenärztliche Versorgung in Deutschland (Zi)
Year: 2023

description: Hintergrund: Diese Studie untersuchte die Bedeutung von Spillover-Effekten zwischen Krankenhäusern und anderen Determinanten für die Nutzung von medikamentenbeschichteten Koronarstents in Deutschland in einem Zeitraum, in dem die entsprechende medizinische Leitlinie deren Einsatz eindeutig gegenüber dem Einsatz von herkömmlichen Metallstents empfahl. Methodik: Wir nutzten administrative Daten von Krankenhauspatient:innen mit ST-Hebungs-Myokardinfarkt (STEMI) aus den Jahren 2012-2016, um räumliche Panelmodelle zu schätzen, die globale Spillover- Effekte berücksichtigen. Um die geografische Nähe zwischen benachbarten Krankenhäusern zu erfassen, verwendeten wir eine Matrix mit inversen Entfernungsgewichten, wobei weiter entfernten Nachbarn ein niedrigeres Gewicht zugeordnet wurde. Ergebnisse: Wir fanden eine signifikante positive räumliche Autokorrelation auf der Grundlage des globalen Moran's I-Tests und einen signifikanten, positiven Spatial Lag Parameter über alle Modellspezifikationen hinweg, was auf positive Spillover-Effekte zwischen benachbarten Krankenhäusern hindeutet. Zudem zeigte sich, dass private Trägerschaft und Krankenhauswettbewerb weitere signifikante Determinanten für die Nutzung von medikamentenbeschichteten Koronarstents sind. Schlussfolgerung: Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen die Bedeutung von Spillover-Effekten unter medizinischem Personal für die Diffusion von Medizintechnikprodukten trotz Vorliegen einer positiven Leitlinienempfehlung. Politische Entscheidungsträger könnten daher in Erwägung ziehen, verschiedene Formen des Austauschs und der Zusammenarbeit zwischen medizinischem Personal und Krankenhäusern zu fördern, um die angemessene Nutzung medizinischer Technologien zu gewährleisten und regionalen Unterschieden in der Nutzung entgegenzuwirken. Bei der Untersuchung von regionalen Unterschieden in der Versorgungsforschung sollten Spillover-Effekte zukünftig Berücksichtigung finden. Schlagwörter: Technologie, medizinische Geräte, Diffusion, Spillover-Effekte, medizinische Leitlinien, regionale Unterschiede, Inanspruchnahme, räumliche Paneldatenanalyse
title: Design heat requirements for snow melting systems
Creators: name: Williams, G. P.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Year: 1974
Subjects: subject: Building envelope
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0300
subject: Enveloppe du bâtiment
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0300
subject: snow melting machines
subject: fondeuse à neige
subject: heating loads
subject: charge thermique
subject: heat transfer
subject: transfert de chaleur
subject: costs
subject: coût

description: This Digest contains a brief description of the factors controlling the heat needed to prevent ice formation on snow accumulation on pavements by the use of embedded snow melting systems. Guidelines for estimating design heat requirements for several urban areas in Canada are presented.
Scoping Review Protocol
Creators: name: Basharat, Aysha
name: Barnett-Cowan, Michael
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cognitive Neuroscience
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Neuroscience and Neurobiology
subject: Cognition and Perception
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Aging
subject: Audiovisual Integration
subject: audition
subject: gerontology
subject: Multisensory Integration
subject: vision

description: This is a protocol for a scoping review on auditory and visual acuity measurement and reporting practices within the multisensory integration literature, specifically relating to the aging population.
Protocol: A scoping literature review of the Impact and Evaluation of Mathematics and Statistics Support in Higher Education
Creators: name: Mullen, Claire
name: Howard, Emma
name: Cronin, Anthony
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Science and Mathematics Education
subject: Education
subject: Higher Education
subject: Mathematics and Statistics Support
subject: Mixed methods
subject: Protocol
subject: Scoping Review
subject: Support services

description: This registration provides the study protocol for "A scoping literature review of the Impact and Evaluation of Mathematics and Statistics Support in Higher Education". The study aims to explore what data Mathematics and Statistics Support (MSS) provisions are gathering, how they are analysing that data (including quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods), and how they use the results of that analysis, with a particular focus on the impact of MSS on students, both users and non-users. For the full protocol please read the PDF.
Analysis of mechanisms that could contribute to the neutrinoless double-beta decay
Creators: name: Horoi, Mihai
name: Neacsu, Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutrinoless double-beta decay, if observed, would signal physics beyond the Standard Model that could be discovered at energies significantly lower than those at which the relevant degrees of freedom could be excited. Therefore, it could be challenging to further use the neutrinoless double-beta decay observations to distinguish between many beyond Standard Model mechanisms contributing to this process. Accurate nuclear structure calculations of the nuclear matrix elements necessary to analyze the decay rates could be helpful to narrow down the list of contributing mechanisms, and to better identify the more exotic properties of the neutrinos. We investigate the information one can get from the angular and energy distribution of the emitted electron assuming that the right-handed currents exist. For the analysis of these distributions we calculate the necessary nuclear matrix elements using shell model techniques.
Framing in repeated games of competition
Creators: name: Nax
name: Masiliunas, Aidas
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: We propose a novel way to identify the mechanism (beliefs versus preferences) through which framing operates by comparing behavior across three classes of games (contest games and games with strategic substitutes and complements) designed in a unified framework as ‘games of competition’. In each game, we compare an ‘abstract’ frame with a ‘standard’ frame as used in the literature.
title: Bricks
Creators: name: Ritchie, T.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Year: 1974
Subjects: subject: Brick
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0730
subject: Briques
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0730
subject: masonry products
subject: produit à maçonnerie
subject: physical properties
subject: propriété physique
subject: standards
subject: norme (document)
subject: North America
subject: Amérique du Nord

description: About 800 million bricks, made from clay, concrete and calcium silicate by approximately 100 manufacturers, are used annually in Canadian building. The development of the brick industry, the methods of manufacture, brick dimensions, colour, texture, standards and selection, are outlined in this Digest.
Mist Concentration Measurements: An Evaluation of Sampling Methods
Creators: name: Volckens, John Albert Eggers
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1999

description: Sampling methods to determine occupational exposures to metalworking fluid mists are subject to bias. Light scattering devices may respond differently to variations in particle size, shape, and refractive index. Gravimetric samplers, such as filters, are prone to evaporative losses of semi-volatile components. Electrostatic precipitators, another gravimetric sampler, are designed to minimize evaporative losses of semi-volatile components. The performance of two light scattering devices, an electrostatic precipitator, and filters followed by gravimetric analysis was investigated when measuring metalworking fluid mist in laboratory and field settings. Laboratory tests with mineral oil and soluble oil, and field tests with mineral oil, soluble oil, straight oil, and semi-synthetic fluid, showed significant evaporative losses from filters which retained only 20-85% of the mass measured by the ESP. Light scattering devices tended to overestimate mist concentrations when mass median diameters were less than about 2 μm and underestimate mist concentrations when mass median diameters were larger than this. Filters will under estimate occupational exposures to metalworking fluid mists when semi-volatile components are present.
title: Plantar plate imaging: from the anatomy to the pathology
Creators: name: Corredor Silva, Carlos
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: MR
subject: Normal variants
subject: Education
subject: Athletic injuries
subject: Pathology

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The plantar plate is a fibrocartilaginous anatomical structure that provides stability to the metatarsophalangeal joint, the integrity of the plantar plate is essential for the safety of the proximal phalanges of the lesser toes (second to fifth)....
Topological superconductivity on the surface of Fe-based superconductors
Creators: name: Xu, Gang
name: Lian, Biao
name: Tang, Peizhe
name: Qi, Xiao-Liang
name: Zhang, Shou-Cheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As one of the simplest systems for realizing Majorana fermions, topological superconductor plays an important role in both condensed matter physics and quantum computations. Based on \emph{ab~initio} calculations and the analysis of an effective 8-band model with the superconducting pairing, we demonstrate that the three dimensional extended $s$-wave Fe-based superconductors such as Fe$_{1+\text{y}}$Se$_{0.5}$Te$_{0.5}$ have a metallic topologically nontrivial band structure, and exhibit a normal-topological-normal superconductivity phase transition on the ($001$) surface by tuning the bulk carrier doping level. In the topological superconductivity (TSC) phase, a Majorana zero mode is trapped at the end of a magnetic vortex line. We further show that, the surface TSC phase only exists up to a certain bulk pairing gap, and there is a normal-topological phase transition driven by the temperature, which has not been discussed before. These results pave an effective way to realize the TSC and Majorana fermions in a large class of superconductors.
An Evaluation of Mercury Contamination in the Fish Communities of Abbotts Creek, Davidson County North Carolina
Creators: name: Elmore, Lauren Elizabeth
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1992

description: A fish tissue contamination data set, collected by the North Carolina Division of Environmental Management, was examined to determine the mechanisms behind mercury accumulation in Abbotts Creek fish. Mercury concentrations, undetectable in the water column, bioaccumulate to measurable levels in Abbotts Creek fishes. Piscivorous species bioconcentrate mercury; there is a significant relationship between largemouth bass size and mercury contamination levels. Trophic position, as determined by dietary preferences, affects fish mercury concentrations. Locational differences were observed in the contamination of each species, with highest concentrations observed most consistently at North Carolina Highway 47. Mercury levels in Abbotts Creek fish appear to be changing at different rates. These rates appear to be affected by sampling location. Mercury contamination levels for largemouth bass in 1990 are significantly lower than in 1981 for all Abbotts Creek sites. The largemouth bass appears to be a species which can be used to monitor environmental effects of Hg concentrations that are unmeasurable in industrial and municipal effluents.
title: Acoustical effects of screens in landscaped offices
Creators: name: Warnock, A. C. C.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Year: 1974
Subjects: subject: Speech security
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0851
subject: Confidentialité des entretiens
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0851
subject: Office acoustics
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0850
subject: Acoustique des bureaux
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0850
subject: landscaped offices
subject: bureau paysager
subject: open spaces (interior)
subject: espaces ouverts (intérieur)
subject: sound transmission loss
subject: perte de transmission sonore
subject: partitions
subject: cloison

description: This digest points out the importance of providing an adequate transmission loss through the body of a landscaped screen so that its performance will not be degraded. The variation in speech privacy as the screen dimensions and position are varied is used to emphasize other important parameters. The extreme importance of ceiling reflectivity is also briefly examined.
title: Comparative analysis of the lung cancers between combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema(CPFE) and normal lung parenchyme
Creators: name: Oh, Saelin
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: CT
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema(CPFE) has been proposed as an important phenotype of pulmonary fibrosis, but its prevalence and prognosis remain unclear.(1) The patients with CPFE syndrome commonly result physiologic profile generally...
Estimates of Z'couplings within data on the A_{FB} for Drell-Yan process at the LHC at s^(1/2) = 7 TeV and 8 TeV
Creators: name: Pevzner, A.
name: Skalozub, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Model-independent search for the Abelian Z' gauge boson in the Drell-Yan process at the LHC at s^{1/2}= 7 TeV and 8 TeV is fulfilled. Estimations of the Z' axial-vector coupling a_f^2 to the standard model fermions, the couplings of the axial-vector to lepton vector currents a_f v_l and the couplings of the axial-vector to quark vector currents a_f v_q are derived within data on the forward-backward asymmetry presented by the CMS Collaboration. The analysis takes into consideration the behaviour of the differential cross-section which exhibits itself if the derived already special relations between the couplings proper to the renormalizable theories are accounted for. In particular, they hold in all the models of Abelian Z' usually considered in the model-dependent analysis of the LHC data. The coupling values are estimated at ~ 92 % CL by means of the maximum likelihood function. They weakly depend on the Z' mass in the investigated interval 1.2 TeV < m_Z' < 5 TeV. Taking into account the dependence of Z-Z' mixing angle theta_0 on m_Z' and the LEP constraints |theta_0|~ 10^{-3}-10^{-4}, the optimistic limits on m_{Z'} are established as 3 < m_Z' < 7-8 TeV. Comparison with the results of other authors is given.
description: 8 pages, 9 figures, 2 table, 27 references
Additional file 2 of Genes to specialized metabolites: accumulation of scopoletin, umbelliferone and their glycosides in natural populations of Arabidopsis thaliana
Creators: name: Ihnatowicz, Anna
name: Siwinska, Joanna
name: Perkowska, Izabela
name: Grosjean, Jeremy
name: Hehn, Alain
name: Bourgaud, Frederic
name: Lojkowska, Ewa
name: Olry, Alexandre
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 2_Table S2. Efficiencies of the PCR product amplification by the qPCR primers used in this study
title: A radiological classification of pulmonary involvement in Niemann-Pick type B disease
Creators: name: Brondani, Giovanni
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Respiratory system
subject: Lung
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Treatment effects

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Niemann-Pick disease type B (NPB) is a rare lysosomal storage disorder caused by acid sphyngomyelinase (ASM) deficiency, leading to lipid storage particularly in the reticulum endothelial cells of the liver, spleen and lungs. Pathophysiology of...
Surfactant Enhanced DNAPL Pool Removal with a Dense Brine Barrier Strategy in Hetrogeneous Porous Media
Creators: name: Alfaro, Jose
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2001

description: The contamination of groundwater by dense non-aqueous phase liquid (DNAPL) pools is a long-lived problem in the environmental engineering field. DNAPL pools are regions where the DNAPL is continuous across many pores in the subsurface. Although the importance of DNAPL pools has been recognized, little work has been done to advance strategies specifically designed for their remediation. This report presents laboratory experiments conducted in two- and three-dimensional heterogeneous domains and shows the results from two novel strategies for the remediation of DNAPL pools. These new strategies rely on surfactant enhanced mobilization of the DNAPL pools combined with the use of a dense-brine barrier. The dense-brine barrier proved to be efective in controlling the mobilization of the DNAPL. These experiments demonstrate a significant and controlled reduction of DNAPL pools in both the two- and three-dimensional heterogeneous domains using low pore volumes of flushing solutions.
title: Thermoplastics
Creators: name: Blaga, A.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Year: 1974
Subjects: subject: Plastics
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0710
subject: Plastiques
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0710
subject: thermoplastic resin
subject: résine thermoplastique
subject: properties of materials
subject: propriétés des matériaux
subject: building materials
subject: matériau de construction

description: This Digest discusses briefly the general characteristics of thermoplastics, and presents typical useful properties of the technically important types of these materials. It also gives a brief description of the six major families of thermoplastics. Understanding of the nature and properties of the thermoplastics will enable designers and users to understand their performance and suitability in building and engineering applications. It may also suggest new uses in these and related fields.
title: Fundamental examination of detection limit by radiographs for retained surgi cal needles at the operation
Creators: name: Kawano, Makoto
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Image verification
subject: Artifacts
subject: Surgery
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Management

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Loss of surgical needles at operation poses a significant risk to patients' health. In such a situation, the lost needle is searched thoroughly. However, it may be mixed with a trash or it may adhere to a staff's clothes or footwear, and it may not...
Additional file 7 of Assessing the validity of maternal report on breastfeeding counselling in Kosovo’s primary health facilities
Creators: name: McKay, Melinda
name: Munos, Melinda K.
name: Kim, Sunny S.
name: Bryce, Emily
name: Bucina, Hana
name: Marchant, Tanya
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 7
A note on radial solutions of $Δ^2 u + u^{-q} = 0$ in $\mathbb R^3$ with exactly quadratic growth at infinity
Creators: name: Duoc, Trinh Viet
name: Ngô, Quôc-Anh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35B45, 35J40, 35J60

description: Of interest in this note is the following geometric interesting equation $Δ^2 u + u^{-q} = 0$ in $\mathbb R^3$. It was found by Choi-Xu (J. Differential Equations 246, 216-234) and McKenna-Reichel (Electron. J. Differential Equations 37 (2003)) that the condition $q>1$ is necessary and any radially symmetric solution grows at least linearly and at most quadratically at infinity for any $q>1$. In addition, when $q>3$ any radially symmetric solution is either exactly linear growth or exactly quadratic growth at infinity. Recently, Guerra (J. Differential Equations 253, 3147-3157) has shown that the equation always admits a unique radially symmetric solution of exactly given linear growth at infinity for any $q>3$ which is also necessary. In this note, by using the phase-space analysis, we show the existence of infinitely many radially symmetric solutions of exactly given quadratic growth at infinity for any $q>1$.
description: 9 pages, 1 table, 0 figure
title: Rigid thermosetting plastic foams
Creators: name: Blaga, A.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Year: 1974
Subjects: subject: Cellular plastics (plastic foam)
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0712
subject: Conduites en plastique
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0712
subject: Foam
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0352
subject: Mousse
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0352
subject: thermosetting resin
subject: thermocurcissable
subject: cellular plastics
subject: plastique alvéolaire
subject: foam (state)
subject: mousse (forme)
subject: properties of materials
subject: propriété des matériaux

description: These foams have generally good resistance to solvents and most chemicals. Thermosetting (thermoset) foams do not usually exhibit a melting range and can often be used at higher temperatures than thermoplastic foams, and are adaptable to on-site (in situ) foaming. The best known thermoset foams are polyurethane, phenolformaldehyde and urea-formaldehyde; less well known are epoxy and silicone foams. Some, such as phenol-formaldehyde and urea- formaldehyde, are produced with an inorganic acid catalyst and the acid residue can, in some cases, cause corrosion problems. Polyurethane is the most widely used of all thermoset foams. Applications of thermoset foams include use as thermal insulation, core material in sandwich panels, packaging and fabrication of furniture.
Sacrificing information for the greater good: how to select photometric bands for optimal accuracy
Creators: name: Stensbo-Smidt, Kristoffer
name: Gieseke, Fabian
name: Igel, Christian
name: Zirm, Andrew
name: Pedersen, Kim Steenstrup
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Large-scale surveys make huge amounts of photometric data available. Because of the sheer amount of objects, spectral data cannot be obtained for all of them. Therefore it is important to devise techniques for reliably estimating physical properties of objects from photometric information alone. These estimates are needed to automatically identify interesting objects worth a follow-up investigation as well as to produce the required data for a statistical analysis of the space covered by a survey. We argue that machine learning techniques are suitable to compute these estimates accurately and efficiently. This study promotes a feature selection algorithm, which selects the most informative magnitudes and colours for a given task of estimating physical quantities from photometric data alone. Using k nearest neighbours regression, a well-known non-parametric machine learning method, we show that using the found features significantly increases the accuracy of the estimations compared to using standard features and standard methods. We illustrate the usefulness of the approach by estimating specific star formation rates (sSFRs) and redshifts (photo-z's) using only the broad-band photometry from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). For estimating sSFRs, we demonstrate that our method produces better estimates than traditional spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting. For estimating photo-z's, we show that our method produces more accurate photo-z's than the method employed by SDSS. The study highlights the general importance of performing proper model selection to improve the results of machine learning systems and how feature selection can provide insights into the predictive relevance of particular input features.
description: 20 pages, 13 figures, 3 tables. v2: Significant changes to match revised version, including new photo-z estimation experiment
An Investigation of Long-Term Sorption Phenomena
Creators: name: Bethea, John H., III
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1994

description: Many of the current attempts at predicting the fate and transport of chemicals in the subsurface rely on several questionable assumptions involving the effects of sorption on solute transport: (1)linear isotherms; (2) instantaneous equilibrium; (3) no competitive effects between cosolutes. For accurate predictions to be made, the impact of these phenomena must be understood. Sorption rate and equilibrium experiments were conducted in completely mixed batch reactors for single and bisolute systems of naphthalene and phenanthrene on a native and pulverized version of a subsurface material. In the bisolute system, the concentration of naphthalene was varied while the concentration of phenanthrene was kept constant. Isotherms were best fit with a nonlinear Freundlich model. A suppression of the sorption of naphthalene was observed in the presence of phenanthrene in isotherm data. However, these effects were not evident in rate data. A significant amount of sorption continued over the duration of the 3 month study. Pulverizing the subsurface material resulted in an increased rate of sorption followed by a gradual approach to convergence of the sorption on the pulverized and native material.
Active Galactic Nuclei as High-Energy Neutrino Sources
Creators: name: Murase, Kohta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are believed to be promising candidates of extragalactic cosmic-ray accelerators and sources, and associated high-energy neutrino and hadronic gamma-ray emission has been studied for many years. We review models of high-energy neutrino production in AGN and discuss their implications for the latest IceCube observation of the diffuse neutrino intensity.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures, invited review article to appear in "Neutrino Astronomy - Current status, future prospects", Eds. T. Gaisser & A. Karle (World Scientific). Some comments included in v2
title: Correlation between lung volumes obtained by quantitative thoracic CT and pulmonary function tests
Creators: name: Utrilla, Cristina
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: CT
subject: CT-Quantitative
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Chronic obstructive airways disease

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Recently, there has been huge progress in image quality, mainly due to the advances in multidetector CT scanners that give more detailed imaging of lung tissue. By using this information, functional parameters such as volume, mean lung...
Health promotion interventions to increase cervical cancer screening uptake in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review protocol
Creators: name: Afaya, Agani
name: Konlan, Kennedy
name: Mensah, Eugenia
name: Suuk, Amos
name: Issahaku, Damata
name: Hayford, Linda
name: Yakong, Vida
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: Introduction: Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women and approximately 500,000 new cases are diagnosed yearly. It is increasingly imperative to use effective methods of early detection and the initialization of treatment for cervical cancer especially among women from vulnerable poor communities through the initiation of effective health promotion interventions. This study will coalesce the sporadic, and uncoordinated interventions that have been used by these researchers to give a single unit that describe and assess the most effective means of health promotions interventions. methods: The PRISMA extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) and Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) scoping review methodology will be used to guide the reporting of the scoping review. The three-step search strategy for scoping reviews through the electronic databases search such as; PubMed, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL via EBSCOhost), Web of Science, and EMBASE to include published literature from January 2000 to 2021. After the completion of the search, the citations of the articles will be imported to EndNote X9 (version 1.19.6) reference manager for screening, removal of duplicates, and storage. Two of the researchers (AA, KDK) will independently screen the titles and abstracts in accordance with the inclusion criteria specified in this protocol. The proposed review will consider primary published peer-review articles published articles in English language. Data extracted from included studies will include: author(s), publication year, country, research design and aim, study population, interventions, outcome measure and major finding. The JBI Critical Appraisal Checklist for Systematic Reviews and Research Syntheses will be used to assess the quality of the included articles. Discussion: We envisage that the findings from this review will firstly identify the various types of interventions implemented in the SSA countries to increase the uptake of cervical cancer screening. Secondly, the findings will provide an overview of the outcome measure and identify effective interventions that all the studies implemented to increase cervical cancer uptake in SSA. Thirdly, the review will guide future research in developing, implementing, and evaluating appropriate health promotion interventions tailored towards increasing cervical cancer screening uptake.
title: Thoracic complications post stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for lung cancer – what the radiologist needs to know
Creators: name: Oikonomou, Anastasia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: CT
subject: Thorax
subject: Lung

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To familiarize with the spectrum of imaging findings and potential complications post stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for stage I non-small cell lung cancer...
Modeling Lyman-α Forest Cross-Correlations with LyMAS
Creators: name: Lochhaas, Cassandra
name: Weinberg, David H.
name: Peirani, Sébastien
name: Dubois, Yohan
name: Colombi, Stéphane
name: Blaizot, Jérémy
name: Font-Ribera, Andreu
name: Pichon, Christophe
name: Devriendt, Julien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the Ly-$α$ Mass Association Scheme (LyMAS; Peirani et al. 2014) to predict cross-correlations at $z=2.5$ between dark matter halos and transmitted flux in the Ly-$α$ forest, and compare to cross-correlations measured for quasars and damped Ly-$α$ systems (DLAs) from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) by Font-Ribera et al. (2012, 2013). We calibrate LyMAS using Horizon-AGN hydrodynamical cosmological simulations of a $(100\ h^{-1}\ \mathrm{Mpc})^3$ comoving volume. We apply this calibration to a $(1\ h^{-1}\ \mathrm{Gpc})^3$ simulation realized with $2048^3$ dark matter particles. In the 100 $h^{-1}$ Mpc box, LyMAS reproduces the halo-flux correlations computed from the full hydrodynamic gas distribution very well. In the 1 $h^{-1}$ Gpc box, the amplitude of the large scale cross-correlation tracks the halo bias $b_h$ as expected. We provide empirical fitting functions that describe our numerical results. In the transverse separation bins used for the BOSS analyses, LyMAS cross-correlation predictions follow linear theory accurately down to small scales. Fitting the BOSS measurements requires inclusion of random velocity errors; we find best-fit RMS velocity errors of 399 km s$^{-1}$ and 252 km s$^{-1}$ for quasars and DLAs, respectively. We infer bias-weighted mean halo masses of $M_h/10^{12}\ h^{-1}M_\odot=2.19^{+0.16}_{-0.15}$ and $0.69^{+0.16}_{-0.14}$ for the host halos of quasars and DLAs, with $\sim 0.2$ dex systematic uncertainty associated with redshift evolution, IGM parameters, and selection of data fitting range.
description: Accepted by MNRAS, 23 pages, 20 figures. For a short video summarizing this paper, please visit: https://youtu.be/9ghGNtF16JA
title: Thermosetting plastics
Creators: name: Blaga, A.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Year: 1974
Subjects: subject: Plastics
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0710
subject: Plastiques
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0710
subject: thermosetting resin
subject: thermodurcissable
subject: properties of materials
subject: propriété des matériaux
subject: building materials
subject: matériau de construction

description: The general nature and properties of thermosetting plastics are discussed briefly, and the typical range of the useful properties are presented. The nature, properties and applications of the major thermosetting plastic families are described in greater detail to promote better understanding of the performance of these materials.
Characterization and Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Mutagenic Extracts of Aqueous Monochloraminated Fulvic Acid
Creators: name: Kanniganti, Rohini
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1990

description: Although monochloramine has long been considered as an alternative disinfectant to chlorine, little is known about the by-products from its reactions with natural organics. In this study, the by-products of aqueous monochloraminated fulvic acid were characterized by Ames assays, Total Organic Halide (TOX) analyses and by fractionation on High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC). In character and type, the by-products are very similar to those produced by chlorination. The mutagenic by-products were observed to be polar, acidic compounds that exhibited an increase in mutagenicity with increasing monochloramine dose. In addition, they were shown to be predominantly direct acting, base-pair substituting and electrophilic. The results of concurrent Ames assays and TOX analyses suggested that chlorinated compounds were responsible for the mutagenicity produced by monochloramination. Analyses of ether extracts by High Resolution Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (HRGC/MS) resulted in the identification and quantification of the potent bacterial mutagen 3-chloro-4-(dichloromethyl)-5-hydroxy-2(5H)-furanone (MX) and its analogs E-2-chloro-3-(dichloromethyl)-4- oxobutenoic acid (EMX), E-2-chloro-3-(dichloromethyl)-butenedioic acid (ox-EMX) and 2,3-dichloro-4-oxobutenoic acid (mucochloric acid). MX,EMX and ox-EMX respectively accounted for 11%, 26% and 2% of the mutagenic activity of the monochloramination extracts. Several shortchain (C2-C9) aliphatic chlorinated organic acids, alcohols and aldehydes have also been tentatively identified of which di- and trichloroacetic acids, dichlorosuccinic acid and E-2-chloro-3-(dichloromethyl)-butenedioic acid (ox-EMX) have been confirmed and quantified. Of these, the alkenoic acids may be of toxicological significance due to their structural similarity to the open oxo-butenoic form of MX.
Sexual orientation and gender identity data collection, training, and use in health care settings: A scoping review
Creators: name: Akre, Ellesse
name: Damiano, Ella
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: The aim of this study is to systematically review the literature, reports, websites, and resources for studies investigating the implementation and use of sexual orientation and gender identity in the health care setting.
title: Calcium chloride in concrete
Creators: name: Ramachandran, V. S.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Year: 1974
Subjects: subject: Admixtures
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0742
subject: Adjuvants
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0742
subject: concrete admixtures
subject: adjuvants du béton
subject: concrete (materials)
subject: béton (matériau)
subject: calcium chloride
subject: chlorure de calcium
subject: properties of materials
subject: propriété des matériaux

description: Calcium chloride in small amounts is used as an accelerating admixture in concrete. In addition to reducing the initial and final setting time of concrete, calcium chloride influences other physical, chemical and mechanical properties of concrete. This digest describes the types of calcium chloride, method of addition to concrete, and the effect of this chloride on setting time, strength, volume change, alkali-aggregate reaction, sulfate resistance and corrosion.
Temporal and spatial abstraction for theory of mind inference
Creators: name: Folke, Tomas
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
subject: Quantitative Psychology
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Computer Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
subject: Engineering

description: This is a project on how artificial systems can infer human knowledge states from observed behavior.
title: Plastic foams
Creators: name: Blaga, A.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Year: 1974
Subjects: subject: Cellular plastics (plastic foam)
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0712
subject: Conduites en plastique
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0712
subject: Foam
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0352
subject: Mousse
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0352
subject: cellular plastics
subject: plastique alvéolaire
subject: properties of materials
subject: propriété des matériaux
subject: porosity
subject: porosité

description: This Digest discusses the nature and general properties of plastic foams (or cellular plastics). Plastic foams may be either open-cell or closed-cell; they may be flexible, semi- flexible (or semi-rigid) and rigid, depending on the degree of rigidity of the plastic matrix. Rigid closed-cell foams can have good thermal insulation properties and buoyancy characteristics. Open-cell foams can have good cushioning properties (e.g. flexible) and sound absorbing characteristics. Since plastic foams have a relatively large surface area, the problem of flammability is more acute than with bulk plastics.
Additional file 5 of Assessing the validity of maternal report on breastfeeding counselling in Kosovo’s primary health facilities
Creators: name: McKay, Melinda
name: Munos, Melinda K.
name: Kim, Sunny S.
name: Bryce, Emily
name: Bucina, Hana
name: Marchant, Tanya
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 5
Primordial brusque bounce in Born-Infeld determinantal gravity
Creators: name: Fiorini, Franco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a particular exact solution to the Born-Infeld determinantal gravity consisting of a cosmological model which undergoes a brusque bounce. The latter consists of an event characterized by a non-null (but finite) value of the squared Hubble rate occurring at a minimum (non-null) scale factor. The energy density and pressure of the fluid covering the whole manifold are perfectly well behaved in such an event, but the curvature invariants turn out to be undefined there because of the undefined character of the time derivative of H. It is shown that the spacetime results geodesically complete and singularity free, and that it corresponds to a picture of an eternal Universe in which a (somewhat unconventional) bounce replaces the standard Big Bang singularity. This example tends to emphasize that, beyond Einstein's theory of General Relativity, and in the context of extended theories of gravity formulated by purely torsional means, the criterion of a singularity based on pathologies of scalars constructed upon the Riemann curvature tensor, becomes objectionable.
description: 8 pages, one figure. Typos corrected, some references added and updated. Final version to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Effects of Outdoor Land Use on Indoor Air Quality: A 600-Household Study in the United Arab Emirates
Creators: name: Lee, Chieh-Han
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Land-use regression (LUR) has gained prominence in recent years as a method for predicting outdoor air quality based on land-use characteristics, such as roadway length, traffic volume, commercial and industrial land-use density, and other features of the built and natural environments. However, urban residents spend most of their time indoors. Hence, from an exposure perspective, understanding the factors that influence indoor air quality is at least as important as understanding outdoor air quality. Previous studies have found strong correlations between indoor and outdoor air quality. In this study, we develop regression equations to analyze whether concentrations of particulate matter (PM) of differing diameter can be predicted from local land-use data and individual household characteristics in approximately 600 homes in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in which indoor air quality was recently measured. The regression analysis found that proximity to roadways increases PM concentrations, and the use of central air conditioning decreases PM concentrations. For PM[10] (PM with diameter less than or equal to 10μm), the indoor air concentration increases with length of major roads within a l-km radius of the home, expressed as a quadratic function (p<0.0001 for linear term and p=0.0003 for quadratic term). PM[10] concentration decreases with distance to the nearest four-lane road (p=0.015) and with the use of central air conditioning (p<0.0001). For PM[25] (PM with diameter less than or equal to 2.5 μm), indoor concentrations decrease marginally as distance to the nearest four-lane road increases (p=0.058) and decrease significantly with the use of central air conditioning (p<0.0001). In total, the final regression models for PM[10] and PM[25] explained 19% and 15% of the observed variability, respectively, indicating that while traffic and type of cooling system have important influences on indoor air quality in the UAE, a substantial amount of indoor air quality variability remains unexplained.
title: CT Findings of Convalesce and Longterm Follow-up in Patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome(SARS)
Creators: name: Wu, Xiaohua
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Infection
subject: Comparative studies
subject: CT
subject: Respiratory system
subject: Lung

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a transmissible respiratory tract infection caused by an identified coronavirus (CoV). Most repots were on imaging in acute stage of SARS. Almost no reports on SARS' imaging of obsolving stage were...
Low cost, non-invasive, and continuous vital signs monitoring device for pregnant women in low resource settings (Lvital device)
Creators: name: Dese, Kokeb
name: Ayana, Gelan
name: Simegn, Gizeaddis
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Engineering
subject: Vital signs monitoring of mothers

description: Around 800 women die each day from complications of pregnancy and childbirth in the world. Vital Signs monitoring (such as blood pressure, pulse rate, and temperature) are among fundamental parameters of ensuring the health and safety of women and newborns during pregnancy, labor, and childbirth. Approximately, 10% of women experience hypertension (> 140/90) during pregnancy. High blood pressure during pregnancy can cause extra stress on the heart and kidneys and can increase the risk of heart disease. Therefore, early recognition of abnormal vital signs, which are induced due to pregnancy can allow for timely identification of clinical deterioration. Currently used technologies are expensive and complex design with implementation challenges in low-resource settings where maternal morbidity and mortality is higher. Thus, considering the above need, here a hardware device has been designed and developed, which is a low cost, and portable for pregnant women’s vital signs (with cuff-less blood pressure, heart rate, and body temperature) monitoring device. The developed device would have a remarkable benefit of monitoring the maternal vital signs especially for those in low resource settings, where there is a high paucity of vital signs monitoring devices.
title: Le drainage autour des bâtiments
Creators: name: Williams, G. P.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1974
Subjects: subject: Basements and foundations
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0320
subject: Sous-sol et fondations
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0320
subject: drainage
subject: buildings
subject: bâtiment
subject: foundation work
subject: travaux de fondation
subject: costs
subject: coût

description: L'auteur énonce brièvement les principes d'un drainage efficace autour des édifices comme mesure préventive contre les sous-sols humides, les problèmes de gonflement dû au gel et l'accumulation de pressions hydrostatiques sur les planchers de sous-sol et les murs de soutènement. Des mesures efficaces de drainage en surface sont un terrassement adéquat, un réseau bien étalé de fossés et la mise en place de passages sous chaussée capables d'acheminer le ruissellement maximal prévu. Quant au drainage souterrain, il convient de poser soigneusement les drains agricoles et d'utiliser des filtres appropriés et des matériaux de remblayage perméables.