cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
National Trends in Health Care Utilization And Disparities in Pediatric Pyogenic Arthritis
Creators: name: Freedman, Joshua N.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: OBJECTNE: To detennine the national trends in health care utilization and disparities in pediatric pyogenic arthritis over a thirteen-year period. METHODS: We determined the trends in length of hospital stay, disposition, and total cost for pediatric patients hospitalized with pyogenic arthritis from 1988 to 2000. Patients were selected using International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9, CM) codes in the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS). The NIS is part of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). There were 12,925 cases analyzed by age, prematurity, joint location, socioeconomic status, and race. RESULTS: The average length of stay (LOS) decreased from 10 days in 1988 to 5 days in 2000, with whites having a shorter LOS than non-whites. LOS decreased for both whites and non-whites but the difference in length of stay between the two remained constant. LOS was also shorter for patients with a higher socioeconomic status but differences in LOS between socioeconomic classes decreased from 1988 to 2000. The percentage of patients being discharged to home health care increased from 1988 to 2000. Both whites and non-whites had an increase in percentage of patients discharged to home health care but the increase was much greater for whites than nonwhites. Inflation adjusted total cost increased over time. CONCLUSIONS: There was a trend toward decreased health care utilization but no decrease in cost due to pediatric pyogenic arthritis from 1988 to 2000. Disparities between whites and non-whites exist and have not improved over time. Keywords: length of stay I utilization I arthritis, infectious I costs and cost analysis I patient discharge/pediatrics.
In Search of Speech Acts
Creators: name: Zulfaa Y. W.
name: Acheoah J.E.
Publisher: name: gjrpublication
Year: 2024

description: This study investigates critical notions on the linguistic phenomenon known as “speech act”. The literature reveals diverse perspectives on speech act. See Austin (1962), Searle (1969), Grice (1975), Saddok (1974), Bach and Harnish (1979), Mey (2001) and Acheoah (2015) for instructive submissions on pragmatics and speech acts. The study of speech acts is essentially a study of the functional perspective of language use. Scholars align with the idea that language use is not arbitrary as it serves the fundamental purpose of achieving speakers’ communicative intentions. Early speech act theorists note that the minimal unit of communication transcends the sentence; it is the performance of discrete acts: ordering, informing, requesting, persuading, asking, ascribing, praising, acknowledging, etc. Hinging on the Modular Speech Act Theory, this study concludes that the features of speech acts include the facts that: they are loosely categorized; they can be directly or indirectly performed; they can be performed figuratively; they are performed contextually; they are performed with preparatory conditions; and they can be performed with non-performative formula; and felicity conditions are involved in their performance.
title: Outcome of sonographic detected isolated choroid plexus cyst in IVF-concieved pregnancies
Creators: name: Irani, Shohreh
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Obstetrics (Pregnancy / birth / postnatal period)
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Outcomes

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Choroid plexus cysts (CPCs), small fluid-filled structures constituted from the lateral ventricles of the fetus brain, are found in second trimester screening sonography (Fig.1). Several studies have assessed the correlation of T18 and CPC in these...
Community planning in Nunavut: The creation of Nunavut
Creators: name: Winter, Wayne
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Public administration--Nunavut
subject: Nunavut--Politics and government
subject: Nunavut--History
subject: City planning--Nunavut

description: On April 1, 1999, Nunavut, Canada's newest territory, became a reality. Comprising one-fifth of Canada's landmass, but only one one-thousandth of its population, the territory faces a unique set of challenges. This article describes the baseline against which changes in the territory's community planning program will be measured. Many of the changes to the community planning program and policy challenges that Community Planning and Lands staff will face over the next five to ten years will come from the discussions in the Nunavut Community Consultation Conference held in November 1998. Perhaps the greatest challenges facing community planners in Nunavut will come from the high expectations the residents have placed on their government. The short-term focus will be on ensuring on-going delivery of programs and services. In the long term, the task will be to meet the needs and expectations of a rapidly increasing and youthful population.
description: Le 1er avril 1999, le Nunavut, nouveau territoire canadien, est devenu une réalité. Représentant un cinquième de la masse continentale canadienne, mais seulement un millième de sa population, ce territoire relève plusieurs défis. Cet article fait une description du modèle qui permettra d'évaluer les changements apportés au programme d'aménagement du territoire. Les difficultés techniques et politiques auxquelles feront face au cours des cinq à dix prochaines années les responsables du territoire et de l'aménagement, ont été définies à l'issue de la réunion consultative de la communauté du Nunavut qui s'est tenue en novembre 1998. La plus grande difficulté pour les responsables de l'aménagement du territoire du Nunavut viendra peut-être des attentes élevées de la population face à leur gouvernement. Dans un premier temps, les efforts seront concentrés sur la mise en oeuvre des programmes et des services. Puis, la tâche essentielle consistera à satisfaire les besoins et les désirs d'une population jeune et en rapide croissance.
description: Abstract in English and French; text in English.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/6510/Winter.pdf?sequence=3
From theory to practice: Land use planning in the Gwich'in Settlement Area
Creators: name: Greening, Hillaire
name: Gonzales, Neida
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: City planning--Northwest Territories--Gwich'in Settlement Area--Citizen participation
subject: Land use--Northwest Territories--Gwich'in Settlement Region--Planning
subject: Gwich'in
subject: Gwich'in Land Use Planning Board

description: Land use planning in the Gwich'in Settlement Area is based on a co-management framework in which a variety of stakeholders work together in a formal relationship. Comanagement represents a shift in resource management, from a "top-down" government-led process to one that is inclusive and involves a variety of stakeholders in decision-making processes. The Gwich'in Land Use Planning Board uses a community-based planning approach to develop its land use plans. The local communities in the Gwich'in Settlement Area play a special role in the process, as the Planning Board is mandated to deal with community issues within the context of land claims and comanagement. Planners play a unique role as facilitators. They are required to find innovative and flexible methods of achieving goals.
description: L'aménagement du territoire dans la zone d'établissement de Gwich'in s'inscrit dans le cadre d'une cogestion où diverses parties prenantes collaborent de manière officielle. En matière de gestion des ressources, le principe de la cogestion marque le passage d'un processus pyramidal dirigé par le gouvernement à une politique de participation et de prise de décisions de la part des parties intéressées. C'est en collaborant avec ces dernières que le Conseil de l'aménagement du territoire de Gwich'in peut servir davantage les intérêts de la communauté. Les collectivités locales dans la zone d'établissement de Gwich'in jouent un rôle particulier dans ce processus alors que le Conseil a pour mandat le règlement des problèmes d'ordre communautaire dans les revendications territoriales et l'établissement des bases de la cogestion. Le rôle des urbanistes est capital dans la mesure où ils facilitent la collaboration dans le cadre de cette cogestion formelle. Dans cette optique, on attend d'eux qu'ils fassent preuve de souplesse et d'originalité pour atteindre les objectifs.
description: Abstract in English and French; text in English.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/6511/Greening.pdf?sequence=3
Brain-wide multimodal associations of polygenic scores (BIG BEAR - PGS project)
Creators: name: Koellinger, Philipp
name: Nooshin
name: Nave, Gideon
name: Okbay, Aysu
name: Dagher, Alain
name: Bzdok, Danilo
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Life Sciences
subject: Neuroscience and Neurobiology
subject: Genetics and Genomics
subject: Brain anatomy
subject: GWAS
subject: Neuroimaging
subject: Polygenic scores
subject: UK Biobank

description: Numerous large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have recently been conducted on traits that are of interest to social scientists, spanning various measures of personality, cognition, reproduction, well-being, and health-related factors. These GWAS have identified thousands of genome-wide significant loci and enabled the creation of polygenic scores that begin to capture observed differences between individuals in a robust, replicable manner. Not surprisingly, bioinformatic annotations of these GWAS results all point to cell types and biological processes in the brain. Yet, more precise bioinformatic annotations (for example to identify specific brain regions or systems) are limited by the small sample sizes of brain tissue datasets. Furthermore, the available brain tissue samples were extracted either from non-human species or deceased humans and they provide only a limited resolution regarding the relevant features of brain anatomy and function. Here, we aim to provide new insights into which aspects of brain anatomy and function these GWAS results tap into, either as precursors or consequences of human behavior. Specifically, we plan to empirically test the relationship between a set of polygenic risk scores (PRS) derived from large-scale GWAS of selected behavioral traits to identify related differences in brain morphology and function obtained from multimodal MRI scans.
Sportfan motivation on members of a german football club - an investigation with the sport fan motivation scale
Creators: name: Maas, Rüdiger
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: german football club
subject: quantitative survey
subject: Sport fan motivation scale

description: The Sport Fan Motivation Scale (from Daniel L. Wann) will be translated and used to analyze the members of a german football club (1. FC Köln)
DataFolha Survey: Avaliacao de Governadores - 4 anos Expectativa/Avaliacao do Governo Collor
Creators: name: DataFolha Institute Of Research
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2013

description: Fernando Collor job performance (1); Collor government compared to previous leaders (2); Collor fulfilling campaign promises (1); 1989 presidential election (2); best form of government (1); personal definition of democracy (1); effect of Plano Collor 2 (2); price freezes (1); change of purchasing power (1); adequacy of salary (1); future of inflation (1); future of unemployment (1); government solving economic problems (1); Orestes Quercia job performance (1); reelecting Quercia (1); best aspect of Quércia government (1); Luiz Antonio Fleury affecting government (2); governor candidate preference (1).
Overnight 5% Lidocaine Therapy for Treatment of Vulvar Vestibulitis
Creators: name: Zolnoun, Denniz, MD
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2002

description: Vulvar vestibulitis is clinically similar to PHN in that it appears to have variable degrees of severity. Similar to PHN, majority of women with VVS have touch-invoked allodynia. As such, one might see a similar reduction in pain of VVS using established treatments for PHN with touch invoked allodynia. The objective of this study was to assess the response of women with VVS to treatment with prolong local anesthetics, 5% lidocaine ointment.
title: DWI with ADC evaluation: an imaging biomarker for predicting high-risk recurrence disease after chemo-radiotherapy in advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinomas?
Creators: name: Fornari, Alberto
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Head and neck
subject: Oncology
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Chemotherapy
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Outcomes

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCCs) are among the most common neoplasms of the upper aerodigestive tract in humans. Accurate assessment of the extent and location of primary tumors at the time of diagnosis is crucial for selection of the...
Speech vocoding for laboratory phonology
Creators: name: Cernak, Milos
name: Benus, Stefan
name: Lazaridis, Alexandros
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Using phonological speech vocoding, we propose a platform for exploring relations between phonology and speech processing, and in broader terms, for exploring relations between the abstract and physical structures of a speech signal. Our goal is to make a step towards bridging phonology and speech processing and to contribute to the program of Laboratory Phonology. We show three application examples for laboratory phonology: compositional phonological speech modelling, a comparison of phonological systems and an experimental phonological parametric text-to-speech (TTS) system. The featural representations of the following three phonological systems are considered in this work: (i) Government Phonology (GP), (ii) the Sound Pattern of English (SPE), and (iii) the extended SPE (eSPE). Comparing GP- and eSPE-based vocoded speech, we conclude that the latter achieves slightly better results than the former. However, GP - the most compact phonological speech representation - performs comparably to the systems with a higher number of phonological features. The parametric TTS based on phonological speech representation, and trained from an unlabelled audiobook in an unsupervised manner, achieves intelligibility of 85% of the state-of-the-art parametric speech synthesis. We envision that the presented approach paves the way for researchers in both fields to form meaningful hypotheses that are explicitly testable using the concepts developed and exemplified in this paper. On the one hand, laboratory phonologists might test the applied concepts of their theoretical models, and on the other hand, the speech processing community may utilize the concepts developed for the theoretical phonological models for improvements of the current state-of-the-art applications.
Presidential Elections: August 1994
Creators: name: Office Of The Technical Advisor To The President Of Mexico
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 1997

description: Mexico's economic situation(1); Mexico's political situation(1); most important problem(1); personal economic situation(2); most economic problem(1); political attitudes(2); presidential political preference(2); political atmosphere during presidential elections(3); trust and feeling on election results(4); perception of fraud(3); political participation(7); Salinas job performance(7); presidential candidate preference(6); party ID(1).
title: Cerebral perfusion of 256-slice MDCT in a rabbit model: comparison between low-concentration Iodixanol 270 and Iohexol 350
Creators: name: Wang, Yun
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: CNS
subject: CT-Quantitative
subject: Computer Applications-General

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To evaluate the feasibility of low-concentration iso-osmolar Iodixanol 270(Visipaque, GE Healthcare) compared with Iohexol (Omnipaque, GE Healthcare) 350 in a rabbit model with cerebral perfusion on a 256-slice MDCT...
Update of the MCSANC Monte Carlo Integrator, v.1.20
Creators: name: Arbuzov, A.
name: Bardin, D.
name: Bondarenko, S.
name: Christova, P.
name: Kalinovskaya, L.
name: Klein, U.
name: Kolesnikov, V.
name: Rumyantsev, L.
name: Sadykov, R.
name: Sapronov, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article presents new features of the MCSANC v.1.20 program, a Monte Carlo tool for calculation of the next-to-leading order electroweak and QCD corrections to various Standard Model processes. The extensions concern implementation of Drell--Yan-like processes and include a systematic treatment of the photon-induced contribution in proton--proton collisions and electroweak corrections beyond NLO approximation. There are also technical improvements such as calculation of the forward-backward asymmetry for the neutral current Drell--Yan process. The updated code is suitable for studies of the effects due to EW and QCD radiative corrections to Drell--Yan (and several other) processes at the LHC and for forthcoming high energy proton--proton colliders.
An exciton-polariton laser based on biologically produced fluorescent protein
Creators: name: Dietrich, Christof P.
name: Steude, Anja
name: Tropf, Laura
name: Schubert, Marcel
name: Kronenberg, Nils M.
name: Ostermann, K.
name: Höfling, Sven
name: Gather, Malte C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Under adequate conditions, cavity-polaritons form a macroscopic coherent quantum state, known as Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). Compared to Wannier-Mott excitons in inorganic semiconductors, the localized Frenkel excitons in organic emitter materials show weaker interaction but stronger coupling, which recently enabled the first realization of BEC at room temperature. However, this required ultrafast optical pumping which limits the applications of organic BECs. Here, we demonstrate room-temperature BEC of cavity-polaritons in simple laminated microcavities filled with the biologically produced enhanced green fluorescent protein (eGFP). The unique molecular structure of eGFP prevents exciton annihilation even at high excitation densities, thus facilitating BEC under conventional nanosecond pumping. BEC is clearly evidenced by a distinct threshold, an interaction-induced blueshift of the condensate, long-range coherence and the presence of a second threshold at higher excitation density which is associated with the onset of photon lasing and results from thermalization of the exciton reservoir.
description: 13(+8) pages, 4(+7) figures
title: Prospective within-patient comparison of Gd-EOB-DTPA- and gadobutrol-enhanced MRI for the diagnosis of hepatic hemangioma: implications for diagnostic confidence and patient management
Creators: name: Schalkx, Hanke
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Liver
subject: Contrast agents
subject: Management
subject: MR
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Contrast agent-other
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Haemangioma

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Hepatic hemangiomas are benign liver lesions that require no further follow-up or treatment. Therefore, it is essential to differentiate them with a high certainty from other focal liver lesions that require a different strategy. Pathognomonic...
title: Manual vs. instrument-guided needle insertion using a navigational system
Creators: name: Kettenbach, Joachim
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Computer applications
subject: CT
subject: Experimental
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: Biopsy
subject: Laboratory tests
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: Outcomes
subject: Image registration
subject: Workforce

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To compare three techniques of CT-guided needle insertion using a navigational system...
Mid Continent Omnibus Survey #2-3
Creators: name: Mid Continent Surveys
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: President Richard Nixon job performance (1); President Nixon handling Vietnam (1); North-South Vietnam peace (1); draft deserters (1); President Nixon handling US (1); economic future (1); wage-price freeze (1); Watergate (1); Walter Mondale job performance (1); Hubert Humphrey job performance (1); Vice President Spiro Agnew job performance (1); purpose of prisons (1); prison sizes (1); half-way houses (1); year-round schooling (1); living wills (1).
Developing an education and evaluation plan for teaching global health to primary care residents at the University of North Carolina
Creators: name: Hodge, Bethany
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: In the following pages, I outline a global health education program and evaluation plan to be used by primary care graduate medicine programs. U.S. residents are increasingly interested in learning global health concepts and participating in international clinical activities, and many residency programs are seeking to support these interests with a formalized curriculum. In the past, residents in primary care specialties at the University of North Carolina (UNC) have had access to few resources for helping them learn about global health or assist them in planning international electives. Currently, the Office of International Activities at UNC is expanding the existing global health curriculum to meet the needs of residents. As part of this process, I first discuss the models for teaching global health currently in use at other institutions. I then describe the framework in which the curriculum will function and applicable educational theories. Next, I define goals and objectives specific to a program plan suitable for primary care residents at UNC. Last, I outline implementation strategies and a detailed evaluation plan for this program.
Electron-phonon vertex and its influence on the superconductivity of two-dimensional metals on a piezoelectric substrate
Creators: name: González, David G.
name: Sols, Fernando
name: Guinea, Francisco
name: Zapata, Ivar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the interaction between the electrons of a two-dimensional metal and the acoustic phonons of an underlying piezoelectric substrate. Fundamental inequalities can be obtained from general energy arguments. As a result, phonon mediated attraction can be proven to never overcome electron Coulomb repulsion, at least for long phonon wavelengths. We study the influence of these phonons on the possible pairing instabilities of a two-dimensional electron gas such as graphene.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
title: Gestion de la douleur chronique par opiacés chez les personnes âgées de plus de 65 ans en milieu hospitalier
title: Gestion de la douleur chronique par opiacés chez les personnes âgées de plus de 65 ans en milieu hospitalier
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Pernet, Baptiste
name: Zaffinetti, Timothé
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Opioïdes
subject: Douleur chronique
subject: Personnes âgées
subject: Hospitalisé
subject: Gestion
subject: hesav TB SI
subject: Opioïds
subject: Chronic pain
subject: Elderly
subject: hospitalized
subject: managing

description: Contexte : De nos jours, les avancées dans le domaine médical, les progrès technologiques et les mesures de santé publique contribuent à une augmentation de la durée de vie. Par conséquent, il y a une augmentation croissante de la probabilité de l'apparition de maladies chroniques et de tous les signes et symptômes qui y sont associés dont la douleur. De ce fait, le nombre de patients âgés traités par opiacés est en constante augmentation Ces traitements mènent à un enjeu majeur, celui de coordonner et sécuriser leur prescription pour un usage optimal Objectif : Comprendre quelle est la gestion de la douleur chronique par opiacés chez les patients âgés de 65 ans et plus en milieu hospitalier. Méthode : Critère d’inclusion : des personnes âgées traitées par opiacés pour des douleurs chroniques Stratégies de recherche : Deux bases de données renommées dans la santé : CINHAL et PubMed. Synthèses des données : Six articles ont été sélectionnés et analysés Résultats : L’utilisation d’opiacés chez les personnes âgées nécessite une approche prudente en raison des risques associés. Les personnes âgées sont plus souvent sensibles aux effets de ces médicaments en raison de changements physiologiques liés à l’âge. De ce fait, il est important que les professionnels de la santé évaluent attentivement les bénéfices potentiels par rapport aux risques chez les personnes âgées avant l’administration des opiacés. Il est recommandé de suivre une approche individualisée en tenant compte des caractéristiques spécifiques de chaque patient, de sa condition médicale globale, de ses antécédents médicaux et de son risque individuel de complications liées aux opiacés. Conclusion : Bien que les opiacés peuvent être utilisés pour le traitement de la douleur chez les personnes âgées, leur utilisation doit être soigneusement évaluée et surveillée en raison des risques potentiels associés. La prise de décision de prescription d’opiacés devrait être basée sur une évaluation approfondie des bénéfices et des risques individuels, en prenant en compte d’autres options de traitements disponibles.
title: Multiple arterial phase MR imaging of small (<2cm) hyper-enhanced liver metastases from pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours
Creators: name: Wang, Xuan
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Liver
subject: Contrast agents
subject: MR
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Metastases

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNETs) have an annual incidence of less than one per 100,000 people, which has increased significantly in recent decades [1]. Most PNETs present with metastatic disease, the rate can reach to 50–85 %, and liver is...
The protein corona of mesoporous materials as a platform in drug delivery
Creators: name: Giri, Kalpeshkumar Chandrakant
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 399999
subject: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: For a drug to achieve systemic absorption orally, it needs to be present in a soluble form in the gastrointestinal tract and to permeate across the intestinal wall. Low oral bioavailability remains a big problem in the pharmaceutical industry, especially for poorly soluble compounds. It is advantageous in terms of solubility and bioavailability to prepare amorphous drug forms that can be loaded and stabilised within mesoporous silica particles. It is vital to understand their interaction with physiological media. This occurs via the formation of protein layers on the particle surface, which is termed the biological protein corona. As particles travel through the gastrointestinal tract they will encounter different protein and enzymatic environments which can modify their size, composition and behaviour giving them a new biological identity and properties. This thesis focuses on evaluating the protein corona of mesoporous silica particles with different morphology and mesopore structure. This thesis also aims to understand how the protein corona can influence the pharmacokinetics of drugs loaded within the mesopores. Advanced characterization is conducted using X-ray diffraction (XRD), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), adsorption isotherms, a range of spectroscopic techniques, scanning and transmission electron microscopy (SEM and TEM), gel electrophoresis and proteomics to fully understand the nature of the corona. In vivo oral pharmacokinetics with protein corona-complexes using Testosterone and Probucol as poorly soluble drug compounds are also performed. Proteomic analysis demonstrates large variations in the protein-particle complex as a function of morphology, pore size and serum incubation time. The hard corona surrounds the particles tightly on the external surface and forms a layer of proteins of approximately 10 nm in size, for spherical particles. It is possible to load pharmaceutical compounds within the mesopores and form a protein corona complex without loss of drug or potential to enhance the solubility. The pharmacokinetic parameters of Testosterone are altered both in vitro and in vivo in the presence of a protein corona, whose composition is dominated by serum albumin. Further control is obtained when the protein corona is composed of stronger affinity proteins such as lysozyme, as demonstrated with the compound Probucol. Overall this thesis suggests that the protein corona can be developed into a new formulation strategy to achieve specific physiological objectives such as the efficient release of poorly soluble compounds with desired pharmacokinetic profiles.
Mid Continent Omnibus Survey #5-3
Creators: name: Mid Continent Surveys
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Richard Nixon job performance (1); Nixon handling Vietnam War (1); treatment of draft dodgers (1); Nixon handling domestic policy (1); standard of living (1); future of economy (1); seriousness of inflation (1); blame for high meat prices (1); reducing food spending (1); trials for Watergate participants (1); Nixon knowing about Watergate (1); bringing Nixon to trial (1); adequacy of pollution control (1); industries that cause pollution (1).
Algorithm vs. human advice motivations
Creators: name: Efendic, Emir
name: van de Calseyde, Philippe
name: Bahník, Štěpán
name: Vranka, Marek
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: advice-seeking
subject: algorithms
subject: human-computer interaction
subject: motivations

description: We will investigate how people evaluate the fairness motivations of individuals who seek out and follow advice either from an algorithm or a human.
Mid Continent Omnibus Survey #8-3
Creators: name: Mid Continent Surveys
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Richard Nixon job performance (1); Nixon handling Vietnam war (1); treatment of draft dodgers (1); Nixon handling domestic policy (1); standard of living (1); future economic conditions (1); seriousness of inflation (1); following Watergate investigation (1); Nixon involvement in Watergate (1); pornography censorship (1); driving car less due to gas shortage (1); need for post high school education (1); change in church attendance (1); Walter Mondale job performance (1); Hubert Humphrey job performance (1); Spiro Agnew job performance (1); Wendell Anderson job performance (1); Charles Stenvig job performance (1); Lawrence Cohen job performance (1); mayoral candidate preference (1).
title: Indices of diastolic function assessed by cardiac magnetic resonance cine imaging in domestic pigs under rest and β-adrenergic stress
Creators: name: Adelsmayr, Gabriel
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Animal (veterinary) studies
subject: Management
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Haemodynamics / Flow dynamics

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Heart failure is a growing epedemic and is now one oft he most common primary diagnosisof all hospitalized patients in the Western world. Nearly one half of patients with heart failure meet theclinical criteria for heart failure with preserved...
Crystal growth and intrinsic magnetic behavior of Sr$_2$IrO$_4$
Creators: name: Sung, N. H.
name: Gretarsson, H.
name: Proepper, D.
name: Porras, J.
name: Tacon, M. Le
name: Boris, A. V.
name: Keimer, B.
name: Kim, B. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the growth of stoichiometric Sr$_2$IrO$_4$ single crystals, which allow us to unveil their intrinsic magnetic properties. The effect of different growth conditions has been investigated for crystals grown by the flux method. We find that the magnetic response depends very sensitively on the details of the growth conditions. We assess the defect concentration based on magnetization, X-ray diffraction, Raman scattering, and optical conductivity measurements. We find that samples with a low concentration of electronically active defects show much reduced in-gap spectral weight in the optical conductivity and a pronounced two-magnon peak in the Raman scattering spectrum. A prolonged exposure at high temperature during the growth leads to higher defect concentration likely due to creation of oxygen vacancies. We further demonstrate a systematic intergrowth of Sr$_2$IrO$_4$ and Sr$_3$Ir$_2$O$_7$ phases by varying the growth temperature. Our results thus emphasize that revealing the intrinsic magnetic properties of Sr$_2$IrO$_4$ and related materials requires a scrupulous control of the crystal growth process.
title: Role of endovascular treatment of pelvic fractures bleedings in emergency setting
Creators: name: De Marchi, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Emergency
subject: Vascular
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Embolisation
subject: Arterial access
subject: Haemorrhage
subject: Trauma

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To evaluate the role of endovascular treatment in controlling active bleeding, false aneurysms or vessel occlusions in polytrauma patients with pelvic vascular injuries with or without associated pelvic...
Mid Continent Omnibus Survey #X-3
Creators: name: Mid Continent Surveys
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: President Richard Nixon job performance (1); President Nixon resignation (1); Watergate Investigation (1); President Nixon Watergate involvement (1); Spiro Agnew sentencing (1); Agnew guilt (1); Minnesota Senators (1); Minnesota Congressman (1); economic future (1); inflation (1); Walter Mondale job performance (1); Mondale as President (1); Hubert Humphrey job performance (1); Wendell Anderson job performance (1); legislator changes (1); right to strike (6); hiring homosexual employees (1); checking accounts (1); Charles Stenvig job performance (1); Lawrence Cohen job performance (1).
Search Volume Indices, Absolutist thinking and Suicide rates
Creators: name: Adam-Troian, Jais
name: Arciszewski, Thomas
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Health Psychology
subject: Social Psychology
subject: Biological Psychology
subject: Quantitative Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Analysis of the links between absolutist words from search volume (google trends) and suicide rates across the US from 2004 to 2017.
title: Extending indications for percutaneous intra-portal islet auto-transplantation (PIPIAT) after pancreatic surgery to prevent diabetes: feasibility, technical aspects, complications, and clinical outcome
Creators: name: Sallemi, Claudio
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Pancreas
subject: Percutaneous
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Puncture
subject: Catheters
subject: Transplantation
subject: Endocrine disorders
subject: Neoplasia

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The loss of parenchyma after pancreatic resection causes anextreme disruption of glucose homeostasis known as “pancreatogenicdiabetes” 1,2 ,which is characterized by disabling episodesof hyperglycemia or hypoglycemia 3,4 , increased morbidity...
Existence of solutions for degenerate parabolic equations with singular terms
Creators: name: Dall'Aglio, Andrea
name: Orsina, Luigi
name: Petitta, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we deal with parabolic problems whose simplest model is $$ \begin{cases} u'- Δ_{p} u + B\frac{|\nabla u|^p}{u} = 0 & \text{in} (0,T) \times Ω,\newline u(0,x)= u_0 (x) &\text{in}\ Ω, \newline u(t,x)=0 &\text{on}\ (0,T) \times \partialΩ, \end{cases} $$ where $T>0$, $N\geq 2$, $p>1$, $B > 0$, and $u_{0}$ is a positive function in $L^{\infty}(Ω)$ bounded away from zero.
Antwerp Police tests a Digital Twin and a Serious Game to Manage and Anticipate the Cascading Effects of a Flooding
Creators: name: Delannoy, Shirley; Verwee, Shirley; Witvrouwen, Helen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Dutch
Cascading Effects
Living Lab
Flooding
Digital Twin
Serious Game

description: This article (available in Dutch and French) detail the use of a digital twin and serious game in Antwerp as part of LL2 in order to better understand the cascading effects of flooding on CI.
Vertical D4-D2-D0 bound states on K3 fibrations and modularity
Creators: name: Bouchard, Vincent
name: Creutzig, Thomas
name: Diaconescu, Duiliu-Emanuel
name: Doran, Charles
name: Quigley, Callum
name: Sheshmani, Artan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: An explicit formula is derived for the generating function of vertical D4-D2-D0 bound states on smooth K3 fibered Calabi-Yau threefolds, generalizing previous results of Gholampour and Sheshmani. It is also shown that this formula satisfies strong modularity properties, as predicted by string theory. This leads to a new construction of vector valued modular forms which exhibits some of the features of a generalized Hecke transform.
description: v2. 56 pages, some formulas corrected, modularity statement improved
Information complementarity in multipartite quantum states and security in cryptography
Creators: name: Bera, Anindita
name: Kumar, Asutosh
name: Rakshit, Debraj
name: Prabhu, R.
name: De, Aditi Sen
name: Sen, Ujjwal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive complementarity relations for arbitrary quantum states of multiparty systems, of arbitrary number of parties and dimensions, between the purity of a part of the system and several correlation quantities, including entanglement and other quantum correlations as well as classical and total correlations, of that part with the remainder of the system. We subsequently use such a complementarity relation, between purity and quantum mutual information in the tripartite scenario, to provide a bound on the secret key rate for individual attacks on a quantum key distribution protocol.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, 1 table; v2: table updated, implications unchanged
title: Heritability of ascending aortic geometry
Creators: name: CELENG, Csilla
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: CT
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Arteriosclerosis

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Aortic root dilation and its’ association with the occurence of future aortic regurgitation, dissection and/or rupture is a well-known phenomenom 1-2 .This pathophysiological mechanism likely involving the interplay of genetic and environmental...
Pew Research Center Poll: August 2014 Omnibus Week 2--News Stories/Iraq/Police Shooting in Ferguson, Missouri
Creators: name: Pew Research Center
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2015

description: News stories followed closely (5); United States responsibility to stop violence in Iraq (1); airstrikes against militants (1); concerns about US military action in Iraq (1); issue of race in Michael Brown murder (1); police response to Ferguson aftermath (1); confidence in Ferguson investigations (1).
Identifying Factors That Influence Dropout Rates in Lee County, North Carolina
Creators: name: Vahdat, Heather L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: Lee County, North Carolina has been challenged by a steadily increasing dropout rate since 2002. During the 2005-2006 school year, Lee County Schools experienced the third highest dropout rate in the state of North Carolina, prompting school administrators to intensify efforts to identify and address contributing factors. Dropout data are collected annually on the state level and made publicly available through the North Carolina Department of Education website. Analysis of these data between the years 1999-2005 clearly shows a link between age and dropout with students between the ages of 15-16 years experiencing a significantly higher rate of dropout than all other ages (p<0.001). Analysis of gender and race issues is also quite telling, with males having a greater rate of dropout than women overall (p<0.001) and White females and White males and females combined experienced a much higher rate of dropout than the corresponding Black students (p=0.006, 0.03, respectively). The Department of Education data also provides information pertaining to reasons for dropout based on up to 20 indicators. The most frequently reported reasons for dropout in Lee County between the years 1999-2005 were attendance (excessive absences) and academic issues. Unfortunately these classifications are non-specific in nature and could be the result of any number of other issues such as behavioral problems, social issues, or language barriers. Based on this analysis, a determination was made that additional information is required to identify specific factors that could explain the high dropout rate in Lee County before potential interventions can be explored. The best means of obtaining this information will be approaching students who have left school early in the past. To aid in this effort, a modified version of the 2002 Educational Longitudinal Study questionnaire for dropouts was developed (National Center for Education Statistics, 2002). Additional questions were added to address specific concerns within Lee County Schools related to the growing Hispanic population. This questionnaire will serve as a critical tool in gathering the data necessary to ensure that a relevant intervention strategy is developed to address the specific dropout issues faced in Lee County.
title: Novel hybrid nitinol ring stent (TIGRIS Gore)placement for atherosclerotic disease in the popliteal artery in 50 limbs
Creators: name: Parthipun, Aneeta
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Vascular
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Stents
subject: Angioplasty

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The TIGRIS (Gore Medical) stent is a novel hybrid vascular stent that consists of independent nitinol rings encapsulated and interconnected by an expanded heparin- bonded PTFE structure. The authors report the immediate and mid interim results of a...
Pew Research Center Poll: January 2015 Political Survey
Creators: name: Pew Research Center
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2015

description: Barack Obama job performance (1); satisfaction with direction of country (1); impression of Obama (1); Obama as successful president (1); Obama accomplishments outweighing failures (1); State of the Union address (1); domestic or foreign policy as more important (1); difference between political parties (1); opinion of various political entities (10); cooperation between political parties (1); Guantanamo Bay (2); priorities for Obama and Congress (24); Obama personal qualities (8); Obama's economic policies (1); Obama as too tough (1); economic rating (2); personal financial situation (2); economic recovery (1); job opportunities (1); income compared to cost of living (1); confidence in groups to handle economy (3); worried about terrorist attacks (1); re-establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba (2); ending Cuba trade embargo (1); Cuba becoming more democratic (1); Republican policies and future plans (2); financial regulation (1); reducing terrorism threat (1); anti-terrorism policies restricting civil liberties (1); torture as justified (1).