cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Role of functional MRI in evaluating intraaxial brain tumors – Advances and pitfalls.
Creators: name: Udare, Amar
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Staging
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR
subject: Oncology
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Molecular imaging

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: 1.Provide an overview of newer functional MRI techniques including DWI, Perfusion, DTI and MRS including a basic understanding of the physics of these imaging sequences. 2. To evaluate the role of these functional MR techniques in pre-operative...
Risk aversion in an era of Covid-19: Framing effects under concrete conditions
Creators: name: Serritzlew, Søren
name: Bækgaard, Martin
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Political Science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Kahneman & Tversky (1981) studied how framing outcomes as either gains or losses had a massive impact on whether individuals are risk averse. In the famous Asian Disease experiment they found that people are much likely to choose a risky over a certain outcome when it is framed as a loss. This is a fundamental result of importance to economics, psychology, and political science. One major problem in the ‘Asian Disease’ experiment is the realism and external validity of the experiment. It is a very abstract and fictitious situation that people have to consider an unknown Asian disease. This is important because individual biases depend on the context. Daily evaluations are made in ‘system I’. They are fast, instinctive, emotional, and often very biased. However, if people have to consider an important and relevant problem, their considerations will take place in ‘system II’ which is slow, logical, and rational. Similar insights can be drawn from construal level theory. The Covid-19 crisis offers an opportunity to vary importance and relevance of the context. The main expectation is that the Asian disease experiment will provide different results depending on if it is framed as Covid-19 or – as in the Kahneman and Tversky experiment – an abstract unknown disease. In the Covid-19 variant, the framing into either gains or losses is expected to matter much less (ie. we expect less bias) because people to a higher extent rely on careful consideration of the problem at hand.
title: Molecular MRI monitoring human hepatocyte growth factor infected bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells for acute ischemic myocardial infarction: an experimental study
Creators: name: Guo, Ying-kun
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Molecular imaging
subject: MR
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Molecular, genomics and proteomics

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The previous studies indicated that bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) transplantation may be beneficial for acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Combined with hepatocyte growth factor (hHGF), BMSCs is associated with a significant improvement...
title: Differentiating post treatment appearances from recurrence of malignancy in treated colorectal liver metastases - Challenges and the Role of multimodality and functional imaging.
Creators: name: Jayan, Radhakrishnan
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Metastases
subject: Chemotherapy
subject: Chemoembolisation
subject: Ablation procedures
subject: PET-CT
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: CT
subject: Oncology
subject: Liver
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: 1.To be familiar with expected post treatment appearances after standard treatment procedures for colorectal liver metastases such as surgical resection, chemotherapy, radiofrequency ablation, microwave ablation and chemoembolisation. 2. To...
Do Prices Coordinate Markets?
Creators: name: Hsu, Justin
name: Morgenstern, Jamie
name: Rogers, Ryan
name: Roth, Aaron
name: Vohra, Rakesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Walrasian equilibrium prices can be said to coordinate markets: They support a welfare optimal allocation in which each buyer is buying bundle of goods that is individually most preferred. However, this clean story has two caveats. First, the prices alone are not sufficient to coordinate the market, and buyers may need to select among their most preferred bundles in a coordinated way to find a feasible allocation. Second, we don't in practice expect to encounter exact equilibrium prices tailored to the market, but instead only approximate prices, somehow encoding "distributional" information about the market. How well do prices work to coordinate markets when tie-breaking is not coordinated, and they encode only distributional information? We answer this question. First, we provide a genericity condition such that for buyers with Matroid Based Valuations, overdemand with respect to equilibrium prices is at most 1, independent of the supply of goods, even when tie-breaking is done in an uncoordinated fashion. Second, we provide learning-theoretic results that show that such prices are robust to changing the buyers in the market, so long as all buyers are sampled from the same (unknown) distribution.
Additional file 3 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 3_Table S3. Primers sequences used for re-sequencing (gene-specific primers used for CDS amplification)
The Gini Coefficient as a Morphological Measurement of Strongly Lensed Galaxies in the Image Plane
Creators: name: Florian, Michael K.
name: Li, Nan
name: Gladders, Michael D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Characterization of the morphology of strongly lensed galaxies is challenging because images of such galaxies are typically highly distorted. Lens modeling and source plane reconstruction is one approach that can provide reasonably undistorted images from which morphological measurements can be made, although at the expense of a highly spatially variable telescope PSF when mapped back to the source plane. Unfortunately, modeling the lensing mass is a time and resource intensive process, and in many cases there are too few constraints to precisely model the lensing mass. If, however, useful morphological measurements could be made in the image plane rather than the source plane, it would bypass this issue and obviate the need for a source reconstruction process for some applications. We examine the use of the Gini coefficient as one such measurement. Because it depends on the cumulative distribution of the light of a galaxy, but not the relative spatial positions, the fact that surface brightness is conserved by lensing means that the Gini coefficient may be well-preserved by strong gravitational lensing. Through simulations, we test the extent to which the Gini coefficient is conserved, including by effects due to PSF convolution and pixelization, to determine whether it is invariant enough under lensing to be used as a measurement of galaxy morphology that can be made in the image plane.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures, submitted to ApJ
title: Cystic adenomatoid malformation in adults: radiological findings and pathologic correlation
Creators: name: Batz Colvée, Cristina
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Congenital
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Thorax
subject: Lung

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: - To describe the radiological findings in 12 adult cases of congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation(CCAM) diagnosed in our institution within the past 14 years, including their pathologic correlation. - To compare these findings with those in...
Lifecycle Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Infant Formula
Creators: name: Tinling, Melissa
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Infant formula contributes to greenhouse gas emissions at all stages of the life cycle, from dairy farm to landfill. Although the health concerns of infant formula are well documented the environmental impacts have not been examined. This study is a partial life cycle assessment of the total greenhouse gas emissions from all stages in a model US infant formula lifecycle. 14.7 kg CO2-eq are emitted per kg of infant formula consumed, or over 2.6 million tons CO2-eq for total US production in 2005. Offsetting these emissions would cost about $8 per infant per year of consumption. Greatest contributing sectors to the lifecycle are raw milk production at the dairy farm (55.4%) and consumer preparation activities (17.4%). The results of this preliminary LCA suggest that breast milk substitution is a significant source of anthropogenic greenhouse gases. Evidence-based advocacy for breastfeeding may benefit from understanding the environmental consequences of infant formula.
title: Post Hepatic Percutaneous Radiofrequency Ablation Imaging - The Expected and the Unexpected
Creators: name: Baptista, Marta
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Ablation procedures
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Liver

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To review the expected and unexpected liver cross-sectional and ultrasound imaging findings post...
Additional file 4 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 4_ Figure S1. Skimmin and scopolin quantification in Arabidopsis roots grown in vitro
title: Variability of the liver MR stiffness measurements in healthy adults: preliminary experience.
Creators: name: Rusak, Grażyna
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Liver
subject: MR
subject: Elastography
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: Observer performance
subject: Segmentation
subject: Quality assurance

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: MR elastography (MRE) is a recent non-invasive technique that provides in-vivo data about the viscoelasticity of the liver [1]. Elasticity, which is indirectly measured as stiffness, is known as a strong predictor of the liver fibrosis presenting a...
Nonperturbative Regulator for Chiral Gauge Theories?
Creators: name: Grabowska, Dorota M.
name: Kaplan, David B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a nonperturbative gauge invariant regulator for d-dimensional chiral gauge theories on the lattice. The method involves simulating domain wall fermions in d + 1 dimensions with quantum gauge fields that reside on one d-dimensional surface and are extended into the bulk via gradient flow. The result is a theory of gauged fermions plus mirror fermions, where the mirror fermions couple to the gauge fields via a form factor that becomes exponentially soft with the separation between domain walls. The resultant theory has a local d-dimensional interpretation only if the chiral fermion representation is anomaly free. A physical realization of this construction would imply the existence of mirror fermions in the standard model that are invisible except for interactions induced by vacuum topology, and which could gravitate differently than conventional matter.
description: 5 pages. Updated to match the published version
Community-based Models of Care for Treatment of Adolescent and Adult Depression, Suicidal Behavior, Anxiety, Trauma, and Substance Use in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review Protocol
Creators: name: Belus, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mental Disorders
subject: Psychiatry and Psychology
subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Community Health and Preventive Medicine

description: This is a scoping review protocol that has the following aims: 1. To compile, describe, and categorize types or models of community-based care for mental health (depression, suicidal behavior, anxiety, and trauma) and SU in adolescents (10 years or older, in line with the WHO definition of ‘adolescents’34) or adults in sub-Saharan Africa 2. To assess the performance of the described models of care in terms of relevant outcomes: intervention acceptability, intervention feasibility, patient engagement in care, mental health and SU diagnoses and symptoms, and other psychosocial outcomes (e.g., alcohol-related problems). All outcomes will be defined according to the study authors. Where available, we will summarize results from community-based versus facility-based intervention comparisons 3. To identify gaps in the literature with respect to evidence for community-based interventions for mental health and SU in sub-Saharan Africa
The sparkling Universe: a scenario for cosmic void motions
Creators: name: Ceccarelli, Laura
name: Ruiz, Andrés N.
name: Lares, Marcelo
name: Paz, Dante J.
name: Maldonado, Victoria E.
name: Luparello, Heliana E.
name: Lambas, Diego Garcia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a statistical study of the global motion of cosmic voids using both a numerical simulation and observational data. We analyse their relation to large-scale mass flows and the physical effects that drive those motions. We analyse the bulk motions of voids, defined by the mean velocity of haloes in the surrounding shells in the numerical simulation, and by galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7. We find void mean bulk velocities close to 400 km/s, comparable to those of haloes (~ 500-600 km/s), depending on void size and the large-scale environment. Statistically, small voids move faster than large ones, and voids in relatively higher density environments have higher bulk velocities than those placed in large underdense regions. Also, we analyze the mean mass density around voids finding, as expected, large-scale overdensities (underdensities) along (opposite to) the void motion direction, suggesting that void motions respond to a pull-push mechanism. This contrasts with massive cluster motions who are mainly governed by the pull of the large-scale overdense regions. Our analysis of void pairwise velocities shows how their relative motions are generated by large-scale density fluctuations. In agreement with linear theory, voids embedded in low (high) density regions mutually recede (attract) each other, providing the general mechanism to understand the bimodal behavior of void motions. In order to compare the theoretical results and the observations we have inferred void motions in the SDSS using linear theory, finding that the estimated observational void motions are in statisticalagreement with the results of the simulation. Regarding large-scale flows, our results suggest a scenario of galaxies and galaxy systems flowing away from void centers with the additional, and morerelevant, contribution of the void bulk motion to the total velocity.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Effect of Combustion Temperature on the Atmospheric Stability of Polybrominated Dibenzo-p Dioxins and Dibenzofurans
Creators: name: Birla, Parag
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1993

description: The incineration of materials containing polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDPE) flame retardants can potentially lead to the formation of polybrominated dibenzo-p-dioxins and furans (PBDDs and PBDFs). Some of these compounds may exhibit toxicities similar to those of their chlorinated analogues. Little is known about the atmospheric stability of PBDDs and PBDFs. In this study PBDDs and PBDFs produced from the combustion of polyurethane foam containing 4.4% PBDPEs were injected into outdoor teflon film chambers and aged in the presence of sunlight under typical atmospheric conditions. Combustion temperatures in the range of 400-450°C were categorized as "low temperature" experiments and those in the range of 650-750°C as "high temperature" experiments. PBDDs and PBDFs have been found to occur predominantly in the particulate phase, thus filter samples were collected over time to ascertain the atmospheric stability of these compounds. Production of PBDFs, namely, tetrabrominated-p-dibenzofuran (TBDF) and pentabrominated-p-dibenzofuran (PeBDF) and decay of tetrabrominated-p-dioxin (TBDD) was observed in "low temperature" experiments. Production of TBDF and PeBDF is believed to occur from photolysis of unburnt PBDPEs. TBDF,PeBDF and TBDD emissions from "high temperature" experiments were stable. Validation of PBDF and PBDD behavior was done by collecting particulate- and gas-phase samples of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Particle-bound PAHs from "low temperature" experiments degraded while corresponding PAHs from "high temperature" experiments were stable. Particle formation and composition from the two kinds of experiments have been investigated to explain these differences. These observations suggest that under typical incinerator conditions particulate-bound emissions of these compounds will be transported over long distances. Incineration tempaeratures around 450°C can lead to unstable emissions with atmospheric half-lives of 1-2 h. The dependence of the atmospheric stability of incineration-generated pollutants on the combustion temperature is an important finding of this study.
Additional file 1 of TopoRoot+: computing whorl and soil line traits of field-excavated maize roots from CT imaging
Creators: name: Ju, Yiwen
name: Liu, Alexander E.
name: Oestreich, Kenan
name: Wang, Tina
name: Topp, Christopher N.
name: Ju, Tao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
Coherent modification of entanglement: benefits due to extended Hilbert space
Creators: name: Solenov, Dmitry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A quantum computing system is typically represented by a set of non-interacting (local) two-state systems - qubits. Many physical systems can naturally have more accessible states, both local and non-local. We show that the resulting non-local network of states connecting qubits can be efficiently addressed via continuous time quantum random walks, leading to substantial speed-up of multiqubit entanglement manipulations. We discuss a three-qubit Toffoli gate and a system of superconducting qubits as an illustration.
description: 16 pages, 7 figures
title: Analysis of opportunities 3DFFE CE-MRA brain vessels compared with 3DTOF MRA
Creators: name: Borodin, Oleg
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Vascular
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: CNS
subject: MR-Angiography
subject: MR
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Arteriovenous malformations
subject: Aneurysms

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: High occurrence of cerebrovascular diseases, high disability rate and mortality evidence urgent need for accurate diagnostic methods of cerebrovascular diseases, which have been an important medical and medical-social problem [Ternovoy S.K., Epanova...
Additional file 1 of Whether medicine supply is really meeting primary health care needs: a mixed-methods study in Shandong Province, China
Creators: name: Fan, Zhixin
name: Gao, Tiantian
name: Sun, Qiang
name: Babar, Zaheer-Ud-Din
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Appendix 1. Structured questionnaire for medical institutions in the CMCs.
Strategy for Chemical Exposure Assessment in the Electric Utility Industry
Creators: name: Chen, Kevin Y.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1991

description: There have been many approaches to determining historical exposures to chemicals in exposure assessment studies. This study used committees of industry experts to obtain qualitative exposure estimates for workers in two electric utility companies potentially exposed to five chemicals of interest (benzene, creosote, herbicides, polychlorinated biphneyls, and solvents) since the 1930s. The selection of these five chemical was based on evidence suggesting an association between them and leukemia and brain cancer. Study objectives, list of most common job titles within each occupational category, occupational job category descriptions, and five chemical survey forms were distributed to the each company for review and later used in the exposure assessment process. The results obtained show discrepancies in exposures between the two companies to be possibly attributed to differences between company committee members, differences in tasks performed by persons holding the most common job titles in occupational categories, regulatory changes and their effects, technological changes, and unclear definitions of exposure levels. These discrepancies raise concerns regarding the reliability of the estimates made by the company committees. However, the committees did consistently indicate occupational categories with potential exposure to the chemicals (creosote, herbicides, PCBs, and solvents). Thus, the exposure information can be used to determine if a relationship exists between exposure to the chemicals and the diseases of interest (leukemia and brain cancer).
Which e-books work for which children? The effect of interactive e-book features on children’s engagement, language, and literacy outcomes: A structured review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Kucirkova, Natalia
name: Braak, Dieuwer
name: Bus, Adriana
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instructional Media Design
subject: Educational Psychology
subject: Education

description: E-books engage children in stories. Most children’s story e-books include interactive features (e.g., hotspots, questions, games) to increase young children’s engagement (e.g., attention, interest, motivation, and enjoyment) to read, with the ultimate goal to increase their language and literacy learning. There is a lot of variation in the type and nature of these interactive features, and little is known about their actual impact on children. In this meta-analysis we aim to find out whether these interactive features are effective in increasing children’s engagement in the e-books and their language and literacy learning or not (RQ1&RQ7), whether some children benefit more than others (RQ2), whether some features are more effective than others (RQ3&RQ4&RQ5). We also examine whether adults’ active involvement increases or hinders children’s learning with interactive e-books (RQ6).
title: Variability analysis of 3D-ultrasound and MRI in quantitative assessment of the carotid atherosclerotic plaque volume.
Creators: name: Ustyuzhanin, Dmitry
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Arteriosclerosis
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR-Angiography
subject: MR
subject: Vascular
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Arteries / Aorta

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To compare the intraobserver and interobserver agreement of ultrasound scanning in a three-dimensional mode (3D-ultrasound) and MRI for carotid atherosclerotic plaques (ASP) volume...
An Analysis of Jordan Lake Water Quality and its Impact on the Cary/Apex Water Treatment Facility
Creators: name: Kelly, Eric J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: Understanding the variability in raw water quality at water treatment plant intakes is important because the variations will affect the water treatment plant's processes, chemical usage, and chemical costs. The variation in raw water quality of Jordan Lake was analyzed to evaluate its influence on the Cary/Apex water treatment facility. This process included assessing seasonal fluctuations in coliform bacteria, examining correlations between coliform bacteria and other source water quality parameters such as turbidity and temperature, and exploring relationships between source water quality parameters and chemical usage and corresponding chemical costs using linear regression analysis. The results obtained for Jordan Lake and the Cary/Apex water treatment facility were compared to those for Falls Lake and the Raleigh water treatment facility. A strong correlation was observed between coliform bacteria counts and water temperature for both of the source waters. Surprisingly, a weak correlation was observed between coliform bacteria counts and turbidity, despite the fact that turbidity is used as a surrogate for microbial contamination. The extent of microbial inactivation, in terms of residual disinfectant concentrations times contact time(CT), ranged between 3 and 38 times and between 3 and 24 times the required CT for the Cary/Apex and Raleigh water treatment plants, respectively. A greater excess in activation potential was exhibited during the warmer summer months, the period of the year when consumer water demand and coliform bacteria counts are at their highest levels. A multiple linear regression analysis relating chemical cost with various source water quality parameters at the Gary/Apex facility proved to be insignificant at best, with an R^2 value of 0.30. Alum dosages were relatively constant throughout the year, despite seasonal fluctuations in source water quality.
Additional file 2 of Changes in nitric oxide inhibitors and mortality in critically ill patients: a cohort study
Creators: name: Mortensen, Karoline Myglegård
name: Itenov, Theis Skovsgaard
name: Stensballe, Jakob
name: Hillig, Thore
name: Jensen, Claus Antonio Juel
name: Schønemann-Lund, Martin
name: Bestle, Morten Heiberg
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Virology

description: Supplementary Material 2
Analysis of Artificial Intelligence in Traffic Congestion and Management System
Creators: name: Samim, Asifullah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Computer graphics
Computer gaming and animation
Fairness, accountability, transparency, trust and ethics of computer systems
Computer aided design
Human-computer interaction
Computer vision
Computer vision and multimedia computation not elsewhere classified

description: The management of road traffic has undergone a radical change as a result of the quick development of artificial intelligence (AI). The movement of people, things, cars, and cargo at various points on the transportation network may now be predicted and controlled by AI with remarkable accuracy. AI is making it feasible to prevent accidents by optimising flows at crossings and enhancing safety during times when roads are closed due to construction or other activities, in addition to offering citizens better service than ever before. Furthermore, efficient mass transit, like ride-sharing services, has been made possible by AI's capacity to process and analyse enormous volumes of data. Then how is road traffic management being revolutionised by AI? The study uses secondary data for analysis of the present study. This study is limited to automated vehicles including Taxis, Buses, Delivery vans or drones Trains, Commercial aircraft etc. .
title: Imaging Findings in Liver Hydatidosis: Pictorial Assay
Creators: name: Eksioglu, Ayse Secil
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Parasites
subject: Infection
subject: Cysts
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Paediatric
subject: Liver
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: We aim to assess different ultrasound (US), Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) findings in liver hydatidosis at different stages of the disease. US is the modality of choice for diagnosis. The sonographic findings...
Reductions of Hepatitis A Virus, Echovirus, Poliovirus, and MS-2 in Miniature Soil Columns
Creators: name: Hall, Richard M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1991

description: The removal of viruses from wastewater or groundwater is a public health concern for land disposal of wastes. Hepatitis A virus (HM175), echovirus 1 (V239), poliovirus l (LSc) and coliphage MS-2 seeded into groundwater or primary effluent were dosed onto miniature soil columns (1 in. diameter x 4 in. deep) incubated at 5°C or 25°C 16 times over 8 weeks (1 in./dose). Few or no viruses were detected in Cecil clay column effluents for either suspending media or temperature (>99.98% reduction). Virus removal in Ponzer organic muck columns was not as efficient (30-98%). Virus removal was greater at 25°C than at 5°C and water quality did not influence removal. Hepatitis A virus and MS-2 were generally reduced less than the other viruses. Substantial amounts of all viruses were recovered from the soil columns after dosing ceased. Virus penetration into columns was greater in Ponzer than in Cecil soil. The substantial breakthrough of viruses in Ponzer column effluents indicates that soils rich in organic material may not be suitable for land application of wastewater in areas where the water table is shallow. The data also indicate MS-2 may be a good, conservative model for Hepatitis A virus and other enteroviruses.
Additional file 6 of Changes in nitric oxide inhibitors and mortality in critically ill patients: a cohort study
Creators: name: Mortensen, Karoline Myglegård
name: Itenov, Theis Skovsgaard
name: Stensballe, Jakob
name: Hillig, Thore
name: Jensen, Claus Antonio Juel
name: Schønemann-Lund, Martin
name: Bestle, Morten Heiberg
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Virology

description: Supplementary Material 6
title: Primary lymphoproliferative pulmonary disorders: A radiological diagnosis to be considered
Creators: name: Gomez Valencia, Diana Patricia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: Respiratory system
subject: Thorax
subject: CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Lymphoma

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To review primary lymphoproliferative pulmonary disorders (PLPD) in immunocompetent patients and classified them according to its malignancy or benignity and depending to the origin’s cell. To describe the radiological features most representative...
title: Role of the malpositioned needle in CT-guided lung biopsy in difficult and poorly cooperative patients
Creators: name: Ha, Jee Young
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: CT
subject: Biopsy
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: CT–guided percutaneous needle biopsy of lung lesions is a well-established technique for the diagnosis of malignant and benign lung lesions. Despite many suggestions of accessing lesions in difficult cases, malpositioning of biopsy...
Effects of Diet on the Survival, Reproduction and Sensitivity of Ceriodaphnia dubia
Creators: name: LaRocca, Christine Ann
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1991

description: The effect of diet on the health and robustness of Ceriodaphnia dubia was investigated. C. dubia were raised on three diets for 19 generations to evaluate survival and reproduction. The three diets used to culture C. dubia were the green alga Selenastrum capricornutum plus a mixture of yeast, Cerophyl^R, and trout chow (YCT), the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii plus YCT, and a combination of the two species of algae plus YCT. C. dubia were also subjected to various copper concentrations to evaluate the relative sensitivity to toxicants of animals raised on different diets. The levels of survival and reproduction of C. dubia raised on all three diets satisfied the North Carolina Division of Environmental Management Mini-chronic Pass/Fail Ceriodaphnia Effluent Toxicity Test minimum standards for control animals used in a chronic toxicity test. Survival was not significantly different in any diet tested. Reproduction was higher in the S. capricornutum/C. reinhardtii/YCT diet than in the other diets. C. dubia raised on the S. capricornutum/C. reinhardtii/YCT diet were also less sensitive to copper than animals raised on the single algae diets. The results suggest that a diet that includes multiple species of algae is nutritionally superior to one that includes a single species of algae.
Additional file 6 of Randomised controlled trial of a psychotherapeutic intervention to improve quality of life and other outcomes in people who repeatedly self-harm: FReSH START study protocol
Creators: name: Farley, K.
name: Copsey, B.
name: Wright-Hughes, A.
name: Farrin, A.
name: Bojke, C.
name: McMillan, D.
name: Graham, C.  D.
name: Mattock, R.
name: Brennan, C. A.
name: Gates, C.
name: Martin, A.
name: Dowse, A.
name: Horrocks, J.
name: House, A. O.
name: Guthrie, E. A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 6. 3 month Outcome Questionnaire.
When ostracism is mandated: COVID-19, social distancing, and psychological needs
Creators: name: Pfundmair, Michaela
name: Graupmann, Verena
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: COVID-19
subject: needs
subject: ostracism
subject: social distancing

description: This project serves as an open access data repository for the article "When ostracism is mandated: COVID-19, social distancing, and psychological needs"
Departures from the FLRW Cosmological Model in an Inhomogeneous Universe: A Numerical Examination
Creators: name: Giblin, John T.
name: Mertens, James B.
name: Starkman, Glenn D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While the use of numerical general relativity for modeling astrophysical phenomena and compact objects is commonplace, the application to cosmological scenarios is only just beginning. Here, we examine the expansion of a spacetime using the Baumgarte-Shapiro-Shibata-Nakamura (BSSN) formalism of numerical relativity in synchronous gauge. This work represents the first numerical cosmological study that is fully relativistic, non-linear and without symmetry. The universe that emerges exhibits an average Friedmann-Lemaïtre-Robertston-Walker (FLRW) behavior, however this universe also exhibits locally inhomogeneous expansion beyond that expected in linear perturbation theory around a FLRW background.
description: Updated to match published version
Sensitivity of the SRBC PFC Assay vs. Eliza for Detection of Immunosuppression by TCDD and TCDD-like Congeners
Creators: name: Johnson, Cordelia W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1999

description: The splenic antibody plaque-forming cell (PFC) assay to sheep red blood cells (SRBC) is considered to be one of the most sensitive assays for detection of immunosuppression, and traditionally has been used in immunotoxicity testing. However, an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) (Temple et al., 1993), is gaining popularity as a more convenient and less expensive alternative. The PFC assay quantifies the number of anti-SRBC producing plasma cells in the spleen, while the ELISA measures SRBC-specific IgM antibody in the serum. This study was performed to compare the sensitivity of these two assays to detect immunosuppression by 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) and TCDD-like congeners. Two sets of 6-7 groups of female B6C3F1 mice (6-7 mice/group, 8-weeks-old) were given a single oral exposure to corn oil or different doses of TCDD or congeners. Seven days later, mice were immunized i.v. with SRBC. The first set of mice was evaluated by the PFC assay and the second by the ELISA, on day 4 or 5 post-immunization, respectively. The four TCDD congeners tested were: l,2,3,7,8-pentachlorodibenzo-ρ-dioxin (PeCDD), 1,2,3,4,7,-pentachlorodibenzofuran (4PeCDF), 3,3',4,4',5-pentachlorobiphenyl (PCB126) and 2,3',4,4',5-pentachlorobiphenyl (PCB118). The ED[50s] for TCDD and each congener were determined from the PFC and ELISA data. For all the chemicals tested the ED[50s] for the ELISA were lower than the ED[50s] for the PFC, with percent differences ranging from 33 to 84%. These results indicate that the ELISA is a more sensitive assay for detecting suppression of the SRBC-specific IgM response of dioxin-like chemicals in this rodent model and supports its use as a sensitive alternative to the PFC assay.
title: Lymphoma - The Great Imitator.
Creators: name: Abdulkarim, Jamal
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Oncology
subject: Lymphoma

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: This poster provides a pictorial review of a selection of unusual and diverse presentations of lymphoma on imaging. Our aim is to: - illustrate the spectrum of appearances of extranodal lymphoma on cross sectional imaging, - demonstrate the...
Js5 - A low power, low cost sap flow device
Creators: name: Beslity, Justin
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences
subject: Forest Biology
subject: Water Resource Management
subject: Forest Sciences
subject: Engineering

description: 1. Gerber_js5_2022-03-01: The file used to order designed printed circuit board. 2. Board_Configuration_SD.ino: The file used to program the RTC unit and initialize the SD card 3. Write-Sap-Flow-Code_SD_Card.ino: The file used to run sap flux measurment operations.
Trajectories entropy in dynamical graphs with memory
Creators: name: Caravelli, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we investigate the application of non-local graph entropy to evolving and dynamical graphs. The measure is based upon the notion of Markov diffusion on a graph, and relies on the entropy applied to trajectories originating at a specific node. In particular, we study the model of reinforcement-decay graph dynamics, which leads to scale free graphs. We find that the node entropy characterizes the structure of the network in the two parameter phase-space describing the dynamical evolution of the weighted graph. We then apply an adapted version of the entropy measure to purely memristive circuits. We provide evidence that meanwhile in the case of DC voltage the entropy based on the forward probability is enough to characterize the graph properties, in the case of AC voltage generators one needs to consider both forward and backward based transition probabilities. We provide also evidence that the entropy highlights the self-organizing properties of memristive circuits, which re-organizes itself to satisfy the symmetries of the underlying graph.
description: 15 pages one column, 10 figures; new analysis and memristor models added. Text improved
Effect of carbohydrate dose on liver and muscle glycogen metabolism during exercise
Creators: name: King, Andrew
Publisher: name: Leeds Beckett University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Carbohydrate (CHO) ingestion during prolonged exercise is common practice amongst athletes and improves endurance performance. Glycogen is a limited energy resource during prolonged exercise and as such sparing glycogen has been proposed as a mechanism behind the ergogenic effect of CHO. However, evidence to support such an effect is equivocal and it appears that the dose of CHO may play an important role in this regard. The aim of this thesis was to investigate a dose response to prolonged exercise CHO ingestion on exogenous CHO, liver and muscle glycogen utilisation and exercise performance. Two multiple condition studies were conducted consisting of either a 2 or 3 hour continuous period of fixed workload cycling followed by a 30 minute time trial. During the fixed workload period, a placebo solution or various CHO solutions were ingested which had been artificially labelled with a 13Carbon (13C) stable mass isotope tracer. By analysing the appearance of the 13C tracer in expired air and plasma glucose, rates of exogenous CHO, plasma glucose and liver and muscle glycogen were calculated. Study 1 investigated 4 CHO doses (60 to 112.5 g.h-1) using both single and multiple transportable CHO designed to saturate and over saturate the intestinal transport proteins SGLT1 and GLUT5 during 2 hours of continuous cycling at 77% V̇ O2max. Study 2 examined a smaller dose range (80 to 100 g.h-1) in order to provide evidence to the effectiveness of a 90 g.h-1 dose during 3 hours of continuous cycling at 60% VO2max. ̇ In Study 1 the ingestion of multiple transportable CHO at 90 g.h-1 improved performance by 9-15% and spared muscle glycogen relative to the ingestion of glucose only. Fat oxidation was spared relative to placebo ingestion with CHO. It was also seen that increasing CHO dose with ingestion of both single CHO and multiple transportable CHO at rates exceeding intestinal saturation did not further increase exogenous CHO oxidation, and had potentially negative consequences on time trial performance and endogenous substrate (fat and glycogen) oxidation. Study 2 showed that multiple transportable CHO ingestion at 90 g.h-1 produced a small reduction (17.8%) in muscle glycogen oxidation rate and an improvement (3.6 - 7.1%) in mean power output in the time trial, relative to 80 and 100 g.h-1 . This thesis provides novel evidence that with the right dose of CHO ingestion during prolonged exercise, muscle glycogen was spared, which coincided with improved subsequent time trial performance. Further, the effect of ‘over-dosing’ exogenous CHO intake was potentially detrimental to endogenous substrate oxidation and time trial performance.
Remediation of Contaminated Soil from a former Manufactured Gas Plant with Heat-Activated Sodium Persulfate
Creators: name: Lebron, Benjamin L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Contaminated wastes from Manufactured Gas Plants (MGP's) are a widespread problem in the United States, and the surrounding soils are most likely contaminated with Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH's), some of which are known or suspected carcinogens. Soil from a former MGP site in Salisbiuy, NC, was studied in batch and column chemical oxidation experiments. Sodium persulfate was selected as the oxidant of interest due to its complex radical formation chemistry, yet relatively long persistence in the subsurface. Heat activation of the oxidant was chosen because of its documented effectiveness at remediating a variety of chemical contaminants. The depletion of oxidant in the subsurface is a function of the initial concentration, and therefore its relative concentration with respect to the soil. The maximum soil oxidant anion demand was 8.88 ± 0.70grams oxidant consumed per kg of soil, which occurred at 7 days, 40°C, and 40 g/kg sodium persulfate to soil. The total batch oxidant demand at 20 days was 31.52 ± 0.12 grams oxidant consumed per kg of soil at 40°C and 40 g/kg sodium persulfate to soil. The maximum PAH degradation in batch experiments were 44 ± 33% at 40°C and 55 ± 5% at 20°C. Because of the high fraction of non-extractable organic material in MGP soils, which can contain sorbed PAH's, the concentration of PAH's available to the per sulfate may only be a small fraction of the total concentration in a given soil. The total organic carbon must be taken into account in both batch and column experiments. Column experiments were conducted using a 50/50 dry weight ratio of Salisbury MGP soil and Accusand 40-50 quartz sand. Three to four ring PAH's were the most abundant and degraded of the group, yet some PAH's were pushed out of small column experiments in colloidal and fine particulate matter that had been oxidized. In a stainless steel column of 100-cm length and 10.2-cm diameter, PAH's were oxidized using 20 g/L sodium persulfate for 5.29 pore volumes at 40°C, and the vertical degradation profile was examined. The Influent, Port A, B, and C degradation percentages were 42 ± 33%, 19 ± 4.3%, 31 ± 4.0%, and 5.6 ± 0.9%, respectively. In order to model such experiments, further investigation is needed on reaction rates of sodium persulfate with contaminants of concern.