cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Optimal path selection in Graded network using Artificial Bee Colony algorithm with Agent enabled Information
Creators: name: Sooda, Kavitha
name: Nair, T. R. Gopalakrishnan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we propose a network aware approach for routing in graded network using Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm. ABC has been used as a good search process for optimality exploitation and exploration. The paper shows how ABC approach has been utilized for determining the optimal path based on bandwidth availability of the link and how it outperformed non graded network while deriving the optimal path. The selection of the nodes is based on the direction of the destination node also. This would help in narrowing down the number of nodes participating in routing. Here an agent system governs the collection of QoS parameters of the nodes. Also a quadrant is synthesized with centre as the source node. Based on the information of which quadrant the destination belongs, a search is performed. Among the many searches observed by the onlooker bees the best path is selected based on which onlooker bee comes back to source with information of the optimal path. The simulation result shows that the path convergence in graded network with ABC was 30% faster than non-graded ABC.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables, Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS), 2012 12th International Conference on
title: Clinical, MR finding and pathological characteristics in patients with primary central nervous system vasculitis
Creators: name: Du, Tieqiao
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Inflammation
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: Vascular
subject: Neuroradiology spine
subject: Neuroradiology brain

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Primary CNS vasculitis(PCNSV) is an uncommon disease involving the brain and/or the spinal cord. Although MR examination is highly sensitive to the disease, which is easily confused with glioma or other intracerebral inflammatory lesions and...
Anopheles pharoensis Theobald.
Creators: name: F. W. Edwards
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1920
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Culicidae
Anopheles
Anopheles pharoensis

description:  Anopheles pharoensis, Theobald. A single specimen, much damaged but undoubtedly this species, from Tananarive (Ventrillon, 1905).
description: Published as part of F. W. Edwards, 1920, Bulletin of Entomological Research, pp. 133-138 in Bulletin of Entomological Research 11 (2) on page 3, DOI: 10.1017/S0007485300044539, http://zenodo.org/record/163545
title: Diagnosis of biliary complications in liver transplantation
Creators: name: Delgado Moraleda, Juan Jose
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Transplantation
subject: Multidisciplinary cancer care
subject: Grafts
subject: Surgery
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Cholangiography
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Biliary Tract / Gallbladder
subject: Anatomy
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Explain and illustrate by images of patients at our institution the imaging findings of biliary complications after liver...
Unemployment Insurance in Transition and Developing Countries: Moral Hazard vs. Liquidity Constraints in Chile
Creators: name: Sehnbruch, Kirsten
name: Navarrete, Rafael Carranza
name: Guajardo, Dante Contreras
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: One of the most complex policy issues that developing countries will face as a result of the employment crisis caused by the Covid crisis is the question of how they can better protect the unemployed. However, the analysis of unemployment insurance (UI) in developing economies with large informal sectors is in its infancy, with few papers providing solid empirical evidence. This paper therefore makes several contributions: first, it applies Chetty’s 2008 landmark work on UI to a transition economy (Chile) and shows that the moral hazard effects expected by policy makers, who designed the system are minimal, while liquidity effects were entirely neglected. Second, it demonstrates that it is not enough merely to quantify effects such as moral hazard, but to understand their causes as unemployment generated by moral hazard or liquidity constraints has different welfare implications and should therefore result in different policies. By means of an RDD, this paper analyses the Chilean UI system using a large sample of administrative data, which allows for an extremely precise analysis of how the system works, thus providing invaluable empirical lessons for other countries.
title: Vascular complications of liver transplantation: what the radiologist should know
Creators: name: Delgado Moraleda, Juan Jose
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Vascular
subject: CT
subject: Ultrasound
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Surgery
subject: Treatment effects
subject: Transplantation
subject: Grafts
subject: Embolism / Thrombosis

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: ● Explain the findings of vascular complications in patients with liver transplantation. ● Illustrate these findings by images of patients in our...
Political organisation, leadership and communication in authoritarian settings: Digital activism in Belarus and Russia
Creators: name: Herasimenka, Aliaksandr
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2019

description: Citizens of authoritarian regimes face multiple constraints when they express critical political views using digital media. The regime may monitor their activities, censor their speech or persecute them. Despite these challenges, politically-active citizens organise outside of traditional hierarchical arrangements to advocate for pro-democracy changes. I analyse how the affordances of digital media help activists to organise, to select and to protect their leaders, as well as to distribute information. I use interviews, content analysis and participant observation to study two recent cases of successful political campaigning on digital media. Unusually, both cases managed to challenge the state elites in authoritarian countries, Belarus and Russia respectively. I found that the two studied organisations relied on ad hoc, segmented and shadowed organisational configurations that deployed vast digital communication infrastructures to disseminate information. Journalists, the authorities and the public often misperceived these configurations as either over-centralised or not organised at all. This misperception, as well as the management of leadership visibility on social media, allowed activist groups to protect some of their leaders from persecution. The findings contribute to the discussion regarding the nature of political organising in the digital age by refining and problematising social movement theories for digital authoritarian contents. The study also contributes to the discussion of the strategies that authoritarian regimes use to respond to and combat online opposition. These findings challenge the idea that authoritarian regimes have neared full co-optation of the internet. Instead, the internet should be considered as a battlefield for political influence.
title: Imaging findings of the post-surgical abdomen: radiological pearls
Creators: name: Delgado Moraleda, Juan Jose
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Emergency
subject: Management
subject: CT
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Complications
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Surgery
subject: Acute
subject: Obstruction / Occlusion
subject: Abscess

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Explain the main findings and complications of abdominal surgery. Differentiate pathology from normal immediate findings that can be found in the post surgical abdomen. Establish protocols and simple guidelines that allow the characterization of...
title: Pelvic inflammatory disease: what the radiologist should know
Creators: name: Delgado Moraleda, Juan Jose
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Infection
subject: Acute
subject: Abscess
subject: Localisation
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: CT
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female
subject: Emergency
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Describe the clinical and radiological characteristics of pelvic inflammatory disease. Illustrate the characteristic radiographic findings of this entity with cases of our...
Hospital-based health care use correlates with incidence of adverse events among elderly Medicare patients treated in adjuvant chemotherapy trials (Alliance 70802)
Creators: name: Yu, Menggang
name: Zaslavsky, Alan M.
name: Lamont, Elizabeth B.
name: Muss, Hyman
name: He, Yulei
name: Saltz, Leonard
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Medicare claims can be useful in chemotherapy-related comparative effectiveness research (CER) estimating survival, but methods for estimating patients’ treatment morbidity are currently lacking. We sought to determine if patients’ health care use in the claims is a marker of treatment morbidity.
The prevalence of potentially modifiable functional deficits and the subsequent use of occupational and physical therapy by older adults with cancer
Creators: name: Deal, Allison M.
name: Reeve, Bryce B.
name: Muss, Hyman B.
name: Lavery, Jessica
name: Pergolotti, Mackenzi
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Occupational and physical therapy (OT/PT) services seek to reduce morbidity, mortality, and improve the quality of life of individuals; however, little is known about the needs and use of OT/PT for older adults with cancer. The goal of this study was to describe the functional deficits and their associations with other factors, and to examine the use of OT/PT after a noted functional deficit.
title: Volume rendering reconstruction of veins: new contributions of Radiology to Surgery
Creators: name: Delgado Moraleda, Juan Jose
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Veins / Vena cava
subject: Anatomy
subject: Vascular
subject: CT
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Surgery
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Multidisciplinary cancer care
subject: Cancer
subject: Neoplasia

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: ● Review the usefulness of venous volumetric reconstruction of contrast enhanced CT studies for the assessment of venous vascularization of colon adenocarcinoma. ● Assess the usefulness of venous volume reconstruction as "surgical map" for...
Differences in Assisted Living Staff Perceptions, Experiences, and Attitudes
Creators: name: Zimmerman, Sheryl
name: Beeber, Anna S.
name: Cagle, John G.
name: Cohen, Lauren W.
name: Reed, David
name: Gwyther, Lisa P.
name: Washington, Tiffany
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Research within residential care/assisted living (RC/AL) settings has shown that the attitudes of personal care (PC) staff towards their organization, and its residents and families, can affect the quality of resident care. This paper describes the perceptions, experiences, and attitudes of PC staff and their supervisors and considers these data in the context of non-hierarchical staffing patterns – a philosophically expected, yet unproven tenet of RC/AL. Using data collected from 18 RC/AL communities, these analyses compared the characteristics, perceptions, experiences, and attitudes of PC staff (N=250) and supervisors (N=30). Compared to supervisors, PC staff reported greater burden, frustration, depersonalization, hassles, and feeling significantly more controlling of, and less in partnership with, families (p<0.05). Because the PC staff experience is crucial for their and resident outcomes, more work is needed to create a work environment where PC staff are less burdened and have better attitudes towards work and families.
The Beneficial Impacts of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Air Pollution: Evidence from Vietnam
Creators: name: Dang, Hai-Anh H.
name: Trinh, Trong-Anh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Little evidence currently exists on the effects of COVID-19 lockdowns on air quality in low-income countries, where most air pollution-linked deaths occur. We offer the first study on the lockdown impacts in Vietnam, a poorer country with the worsening air pollution that has had a successful fight against early waves of the pandemic. We compile a new, rich database from various sources including satellite air pollution data for the past year from January 2020 to January 2021 that covers both the pre-pandemic and post-pandemic lockdown periods. Employing the Regression Discontinuity Design method, we find NO2 concentration to decrease by 24 per cent to 32 per cent 2 weeks after the COVID-19 lockdown. While these positive effects on air quality are comparable to those found in previous studies on stricter gasoline regulations or transition to cleaner energy sources, they dissipate after 10 weeks. Our findings are robust to different measures of air quality and model specifications. We also find that mobility restrictions are a potential channel for improved air quality. Finally, our back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that 2 weeks after the lockdown, the economic gains from better air quality are at least 33.9 million US dollars.
Dynamical Stability of Terrestrial Planets in the Binary α Centauri System
Creators: name: Andrade-Ines, Eduardo
name: Michtchenko, Tatiana A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we investigate whether hypothetical Earth-like planets have high probability of remaining on stable orbits inside the habitable zones around the stars A and B of α Centauri, for lengths of time compatible with the evolution of life. We introduce a stability criterion based on the solution of the restricted three-body problem and apply it to the α Centauri system. In this way, we determine the regions of the short-term stability of the satellite-type (S-type) planetary orbits, in both planar and three-dimensional cases. We also study the long-term stability of hypothetical planets through the dynamical mapping of the habitable zones of the stars. The topology of the maps is analyzed using the semi-analytical secular Hamiltonian model and possible processes responsible for long-lasting instabilities are identified. We verify that the planetary motion inside the habitable zones is regular, regardless of high eccentricities, for inclinations smaller than 40°. We show that the variation of the orbital distance of the planet located in the habitable zones of the binary is comparable to that of Earth, if the planet is close to the Mode I stationary solution. This result brings positive expectations for finding habitable planets in binary stars.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures, accepted by MNRAS
Combining Frequency Doubling Technology Perimetry and Scanning Laser Polarimetry for Glaucoma Detection
Creators: name: Budenz, Donald L.
name: Warren, Joshua L.
name: Ramulu, Pradeep Y.
name: Hochberg, Jessica T.
name: Mwanza, Jean-Claude
name: Chang, Robert T.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: To determine the ability of frequency doubling technology (FDT) and scanning laser polarimetry with variable corneal compensation (GDx-VCC) to detect glaucoma when used individually and in combination.
Expanding Social Protection Coverage with Humanitarian Aid: Lessons on Targeting and Transfer Values from Ethiopia
Creators: name: Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel
name: Hirvonen, Kalle
name: Lind, Jeremy
name: Hoddinott, John
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: While social protection programmes have multiplied over the last two decades across sub-Saharan Africa, these coexist alongside humanitarian assistance in many places, calling for better integration of assistance delivered through the two channels. Progress on this front is hampered by limited evidence of whether and how these historically siloed sectors can work together. Using quantitative and qualitative data from districts covered by Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) and where humanitarian food assistance (HFA) was delivered, we assess differences in targeting and transfer values. We find that the PSNP and HFA were targeted to households with different characteristics. PSNP transfers did, on average, reach those households that were chronically food insecure. HFA, while delivered through the PSNP systems, was targeted to households that were acutely vulnerable. These are promising findings as they suggest that social protection systems are able to effectively deliver a continuum of support in response to different types of vulnerability and risk. On transfer values, we find that the value of PSNP transfers is greater than those for HFA. One reason for this may be due to the social pressure on local officials to distribute support more widely across a drought-affected population when faced with acute needs.
Absolute Position Measurement in a Gas Time Projection Chamber via Transverse Diffusion of Drift Charge
Creators: name: Lewis, P. M.
name: Vahsen, S. E.
name: Hedges, M. T.
name: Jaegle, I.
name: Seong, I. S.
name: Thorpe, T. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) with charge readout via micro pattern gaseous detectors can provide detailed measurements of charge density distributions. We here report on measurements of alpha particle tracks, using a TPC where the drift charge is amplified with Gas Electron Multipliers and detected with a pixel ASIC. We find that by measuring the 3-D topology of drift charge and fitting for its transverse diffusion, we obtain the absolute position of tracks in the drift direction. For example, we obtain a precision of 1~cm for 1~cm-long alpha track segments. To our knowledge this is the first demonstration of such a measurement in a gas TPC. This technique has several attractive features: it does not require knowledge of the initial specific ionization, is robust against bias from diffuse charge below detection threshold, and is also robust against high charge densities that saturate the detector response.
Determinants of Usual Source of Care Disparities among African American and Caribbean Black Men: Findings from the national Survey of american life
Creators: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: The Aday-Andersen model was used as a framework for investigating the contribution of immigration status (i.e., nativity and acculturation), socioeconomic factors, health care access, health status, and health insurance to usual source of health care (USOC) in a nationally representative sample of African American (n5551) and Caribbean Black men (n51,217).
Investigating the protective role of the natural hormone Melatonin, in reducing drug-induced cardiotoxicity in the therapy of chronic diseases
Creators: name: Kasi Ganeshan, Thulangana
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2019

description: Heart failure (HF) is a highly complex disorder and a major end-point of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). The pathogenesis of HF is mostly unresolved but involves interplay between cardiac structural and electrical remodelling, metabolic alterations, cell death and altered gene expression. Mitochondrial dysfunction and HF are common complications of chronic treatment from diverse groups of drugs, in particular anticancer drugs such as doxorubicin (DOX). Treatment of animals and cardiomyocytes with cardiotoxic chemicals such as β-adrenergic receptor agonists (such as isoproterenol) induces cardiac dysfunction and HF. Previous work done by the group have identified the pineal hormone melatonin was protective against stress-induced cardiac arrhythmias and simulated heart failure in cardiomyocytes in vitro. Melatonin synthesis is also dramatically decreased with age and in patients with CVD. The aim of the present project was to better understand the pathogenesis of druginduced cardiac dysfunction and delineate the role of melatonin in cardioprotection in H9c2, a model rat cell line in vitro. Using the Seahorse XF analyser method, it was demonstrated that commonly used medication for chronic diseases such as amiodarone, amitriptyline, and statins all caused altered mitochondrial dysfunction. In addition, cardiotoxic chemicals (isoproterenol, hydrogen peroxide, DOX) altered oxidative phosphorylation and glycolysis in living cardiomyocyte-derived H9c2 cells; these deleterious metabolic changes were ameliorated by melatonin. Flowcytometry and Alamar Blue staining methods demonstrated that DOX robustly induced apoptosis in H9c2 cells (~30%) which was reversed by melatonin. Doxorubicin-induced stress in H9c2 cells dramatically altered gene expression in several key signalling pathways integral in cardiac function and disease. These included mitochondrial metabolism (UCP2, PPARɣ, Drp1, Mfn1, Parp 1, Parp2, Sirt3 and Cav3), apoptosis (Bcl2 and Bcl-xL), cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmia (Scn5a, SERCA2a), calcium handling (SERCA2a) and cardiac remodelling (Myh7, ms1). Melatonin pre-treatment attenuated or completely blocked this DOX-induced alteration in gene expression in cardiomyocytes. In conclusion, the present result demonstrated for the first time that melatonin is cardioprotective against drug-induced cardiotoxicity and apoptosis via modifying diverse heart failure-related signalling pathways. This provides novel insight on the possible use of melatonin as an adjunct intervention in several therapies including anti-cancer.
title: Follow-up of brain tumors: utility of Fluorine 18-Fluorocholine PET
Creators: name: Delgado Moraleda, Juan Jose
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: CNS
subject: Nuclear medicine
subject: PET
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Staging
subject: Treatment effects
subject: Multidisciplinary cancer care
subject: Cancer
subject: Neoplasia

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: ● Show the usefulness of different MRI techniques and positron emission tomography for studying brain focal lesions. ● Illustrate the utility of positron emission tomography with radiotracer Choline for the study of brain tumors and its utility...
Anopheles
Creators: name: F. W. Edwards
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1920
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Culicidae
Anopheles

description:  Anopheles funestus, Giles. Four females from Moratsiazo, Lac Itasy (Bouet, 1904).
description: Published as part of F. W. Edwards, 1920, Bulletin of Entomological Research, pp. 133-138 in Bulletin of Entomological Research 11 (2) on page 3, DOI: 10.1017/S0007485300044539, http://zenodo.org/record/163545
title: Renal arteries of horseshoe kidneys - do they differ in comparison to renal arteries of typical kidneys? CT Angiography based study.
Creators: name: Majos, Marcin
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Normal variants
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Kidney
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Anatomy
subject: Surgery
subject: Transplantation

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the number of renal arteries and the level at which they branched off their parental vessels in individuals with horseshoe kidney and in persons with normal...
Microwave control of trapped-ion motion assisted by a running optical lattice
Creators: name: Ding, Shiqian
name: Loh, Huanqian
name: Hablutzel, Roland
name: Gao, Meng
name: Maslennikov, Gleb
name: Matsukevich, Dzmitry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experimentally demonstrate microwave control of the motional state of a trapped ion placed in a state-dependent potential generated by a running optical lattice. Both the optical lattice depth and the running lattice frequency provide tunability of the spin-motion coupling strength. The spin-motional coupling is exploited to demonstrate sideband cooling of a Yb171 ion to the ground state of motion.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
title: ADC histogram analysis of muscle lymphoma: correlation with histopathology in a rare entity
Creators: name: Meyer, Hans-Jonas
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: Oncology
subject: MR
subject: Molecular imaging
subject: Lymphoma

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Muscle lymphoma is a rare entity and accounts only for 0.1-1% of all extranodal lymphomas (1). Histopathologically, most frequently B-Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL) occurs with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma as the most prevalent subtype (1,2). Diffusion...
Gang Mediation: Non-Violent Resolution Within a Culture of Violence
Creators: name: Jones, Georgia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002

description: This article distills the experiences of four mediators working with juvenile gangs to suggest a nascent theory of gang mediation. Mediations with the gang population seem to be most successful with the following elements: a positive, established relationship between the gang leader and the mediator; an institutional setting; active persuasion of the gang members to come to the mediation table; respect for all participating individuals, and respect for the gang identity.
Cancer Control Needs of 2-1-1 Callers in Missouri, North Carolina, Texas, and Washington
Creators: name: Kreuter, Matthew W.
name: Morris, Marti
name: Gemmel, Susan
name: Fernandez, Maria E.
name: Purnell, Jason Q.
name: Fagin, Debbie
name: Jobe, David
name: Ribisl, Kurt M.
name: Hannon, Peggy
name: Eddens, Katherine S.
name: Williams, Rebecca S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Innovative interventions are needed to connect underserved populations to cancer control services. With data from Missouri, North Carolina, Texas, and Washington this study a) estimated the cancer control needs of callers to 2-1-1, an information and referral system used by underserved populations, b) compared rates of need to state and national data, and c) examined receptiveness to needed referrals. From October 2009 to March 2010 callers’ (N = 1408) cancer control needs were assessed in six areas: breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening, HPV vaccination, smoking, and smoke-free homes using Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey items. Standardized estimates were compared to state and national rates. Nearly 70% of the sample had at least one cancer control need. Needs were greater for 2-1-1 callers compared to state and national rates, and callers were receptive to referrals. 2-1-1 could potentially be a key partner in efforts to reduce cancer disparities.
Intra-Household Resource Allocation in Rural Tanzania: Why Women Care about Disclosure
Creators: name: D’Exelle, Ben
name: Ignowski, Liz
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: How resources from development or social programs are allocated within the household is important for household welfare. Intra-household resource allocation does not only depend on who receives and allocates the resources, but also on whether the resources are disclosed to other household members. In patrilineal societies in rural Tanzania, like the one we selected for this study, we expect disclosure of the available resources to have a stronger effect on women’s allocation decisions than on their husbands’. To test this, we use a choice experiment with 664 couples in rural Tanzania. Each spouse allocates a hypothetical sum of money between themselves, their spouse, and their children. We randomize whether they are told to assume that these resources are disclosed to their spouse. We find that women respond more strongly to disclosure than their husbands. Disclosure of the resources makes women increase the share allocated to their spouse and reduce the share kept to themselves but does not change the share allocated to their children. This disclosure effect is stronger among women with a controlling husband and women who receive transfers from their husband but gets weaker with higher spousal trust.
What Process is Due – Sanctions Regimes of Multilateral Development Banks
Creators: name: Madir, Jelena
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2019

description: Much has been written about the consequences for companies of criminal convictions for bribery and other corrupt practices. However, less attention has been paid to the sanctions regimes that have been developed by multilateral development banks in order to combat fraud and corruption in their operations. This is likely to change in view of the fact that on 9 April 2010, the heads of five leading multilateral development banks (MDBs) – the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank Group – signed the Agreement for Mutual Enforcement of Debarment Decisions, which provides for mutual and reciprocal enforcement of debarment decisions taken by any one of them against parties that engage in fraud, corruption, coercion or collusion in connection with MDB-financed projects. For parties that are seeking financing form an MDB or are competing for contracts funded by an MDB, this means that a sanctionable practice committed in a single country could result in global sanctions. Against this background, this thesis examines the type of due process rights that should characterise MDBs’ sanctions procedures. More particularly, the thesis analyses the extent to which MDBs’ sanctions regimes should be bound by the rules of law, analogous to those of national judicial bodies, and the level of due process and transparency that should be required from these ever-evolving regimes. In other words, (how) can the tension between the administrative and business considerations of MDBs’ sanctions regimes (coupled with their immunity from judicial review) be reconciled with due process considerations and principles of fairness that underpin a national judicial model?
title: Decentralizacja
Creators: name: Miemiec, Marcin
Publisher: name: E-Wydawnictwo. Prawnicza i Ekonomiczna Biblioteka Cyfrowa. Wydział Prawa, Administracji i Ekonomii Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Year: 2020

description: Tadeusz Bigo przedstawił koncepcję decentralizacji w monografii Związki publiczno-prawne. Zwrócił tam uwagę na to, że jej korelatem jest centralizacja. Skupił się na decentralizacji nazwanej przez niego decentralizacją prawno-administracyjną, wykonywaną przez podmioty samorządowe jako formy decentralizacji korporacyjnej, a także przez podmioty administracji zakładowo-fundacyjnej. Istota samorządu polega według T. Bigi na istnieniu większej liczby samodzielnych prawnie ośrodków (podmiotów) sprawujących administrację, nad którymi jest usytuowane centrum administracyjne, podtrzymujące jedność systemu. Podmioty zdecentralizowane mają samodzielność w stosunkach z tym centrum. Stwierdził, że decentralizacja może być stopniowana. Zwrócił uwagę na to, że w dekoncentracji też następuje zróżniczkowanie podmiotowe administracji, ale brakuje samodzielności prawnej, gdyż nie jest uchylone podporządkowanie hierarchiczne.
title: Pulmonary Embolism(PE) Diagnostic Algorithm Compliance and Comparison of Alternative Diagnostic Methods in a Peripheral Hospital Cohort
Creators: name: Ronan, Geoffrey
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quality assurance
subject: Outcomes
subject: Embolism / Thrombosis
subject: Audit and standards
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Thorax
subject: Lung
subject: Arteries / Aorta

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Computed Topography Pulmonary Angiogram (CTPA) is a frequently requested examination in the diagnosis of PE. Our hospital’s guidelines currently consider Well’s score, Pulmonary Embolism Rule-out Criteria (PERC) and d-dimer levels, if...
Oral Health Activities of Early Head Start and Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Programs
Creators: name: Zeldin, Leslie P.
name: Preisser, John S.
name: Kranz, Ashley M.
name: Rozier, R. Gary
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Guidelines recommend that Migrant and Seasonal Head Start programs (MSHS) address the dental needs of children of migrant and seasonal farmworkers. This study describes parent- and child-oriented oral health activities of North Carolina’s MSHS programs and compares them with non-migrant Early Head Start (EHS) programs using data collected from a questionnaire completed by teachers and family services staff. MSHS staff reported engaging in more oral health activities than EHS staff, which was confirmed by results of logit and ordered logit regression models. Despite promising findings about the engagement of MSHS staff, participation in oral health activities is lower than recommended. Differences between EHS and MSHS programs might be due to differing needs of enrolled children and families or to different approaches to meeting the needs of families.
Gazing at the family: archives, performance and Portuguese photography (1940-1975)
Creators: name: Janeiro Fernandes, Ana
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2019

description: This practice-based PhD thesis investigates photographic family archives and makes critical interpretations of them using performance photography. The two family’s albums contain hundreds of photographs that belonged to my grandparents and represent a period in Portugal’s past (1940-1975) scarred by one of the longest dictatorships in history. The research carries out an ‘iconographic’ analysis of the photographs in the family albums and focuses specifically on images of (my) two grandmothers. As representatives of two women’s lives during this historical period, both women lived under the same dictatorial regime, but one on mainland Portugal and the other in the Portuguese overseas and colonial territories (India, 1951-61 and Mozambique 1962-75). With the end of the regime, these images have been passed down in the form of the identity of women in Portugal to this day, including my own. The key questions of the research thus deal with self-representation, performance and the use of family photographic archives as a method of investigating the processes of identity formation. The thesis draws on cultural theory, including the sociology of family photography, archive fever, cultural memory, postmemory, and representations of femininity and feminism, alongside practices of performance. Relevant authors include Marianne Hirsch, Annette Kuhn, Jacques Derrida, Okwui Enwezor, Anne Whitehead, Hal Foster, Stuart Hall, Joan Riviere and Amelia Jones. The research questions examine four key questions: (i) how can family archives be read as ‘documents’ in relation to social and historical regimes; (ii) how can family photographs be read along official imagery of the regime; (iii) how have other artists developed strategies for questions of inherited family images; and (iv) how can performance photography be used as a practice method for the critical interpretation of archives? These questions and approaches are contextualised by a study of photographic archives, self-portraiture and performance practices including strategies developed by Portuguese artists. A separate iconographic index of the family albums photographs was created to help identify certain specific repeated embodied elements, such as pose and gesture, which were subsequently re-performed for the camera. The different family albums reveal specific social and cultural differences: the specificity of their diverse settings results in distinct family images. The information contained within the archive images is re-written within the performance images. The practice aspect of the thesis has developed a precise performative method for interpreting and enacting the archives. The thesis contributes contribution to knowledge not only by relating specifically to the questions of family, photography and Portuguese history, but has also by developing a method that other photographers and artist can apply to their own performance and family archive work.
title: Structured reporting of CT polytrauma: a proposal
Creators: name: Buccicardi, Duccio
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Trauma
subject: Structured reporting
subject: RIS
subject: CT
subject: Trauma
subject: Emergency
subject: Computer applications

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: We propose a RIS-integrated CT structured report (SR), to be used for the assessment of severely injured patients (SIP) following...
title: Contrast Opacification Difference of Mural Artery and Transluminal Attenuation Gradient on Coronary CT Angiography for Detection of Significant Systolic Compression in Patients with Myocardial Bridge
Creators: name: Yuanliang, Xie
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Haemodynamics / Flow dynamics
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT-Quantitative
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Cardiac
subject: Arteries / Aorta

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Myocardial bridge （MB）is commonly considered a benign inborn variation, and the middle segment of left anterior descending artery (LAD) is the most involved coronary vessel[1]. Previous studies shows MB might be a potential correlative factor...
The Intersection of Everyday Life and Group Prenatal Care for Women in Two Urban Clinics
Creators: name: Novick, Gina
name: Kennedy, Holly Powell
name: Ellen Groce, Nora
name: Sadler, Lois S.
name: Knafl, Kathleen A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Women from vulnerable populations encounter challenging circumstances that generate stress and may adversely affect their health. Group prenatal care (GPNC) incorporates features which address social stressors, and has been demonstrated to improve pregnancy outcomes and prenatal care experiences. In this qualitative study, we describe the complex circumstances in the lives of women receiving care in two urban clinics and how GPNC attenuated them. Stressors included problems with transportation and child care, demanding jobs, poverty, homelessness, difficult relationships with partners, limited family support, and frustrating health care experiences. Receiving prenatal care in groups allowed women to strengthen relationships with significant others, gain social support, and develop meaningful relationships with group leaders. By eliminating waits and providing the opportunity to participate in care, GPNC also offered sanctuary from frustrations encountered in receiving individual care. Reducing such stressors may help improve pregnancy outcomes; however, more evidence is needed on mechanisms underlying these effects.
Influence of primary particle density in the morphology of agglomerates
Creators: name: Camejo, M. D.
name: Espeso, D. R.
name: Bonilla, L. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Agglomeration processes occur in many different realms of science such as colloid and aerosol formation or formation of bacterial colonies. We study the influence of primary particle density in agglomerate structure using diffusion-controlled Monte Carlo simulations with realistic space scales through different regimes (DLA and DLCA). The equivalence of Monte Carlo time steps to real time scales is given by Hirsch's hydrodynamical theory of Brownian motion. Agglomerate behavior at different time stages of the simulations suggests that three indices (fractal exponent, coordination number and eccentricity index) characterize agglomerate geometry. Using these indices, we have found that the initial density of primary particles greatly influences the final structure of the agglomerate as observed in recent experimental works.
description: 11 pages, 13 figures, PRE, to appear
The 3-Loop Pure Singlet Heavy Flavor Contributions to the Structure Function $F_2(x,Q^2)$ and the Anomalous Dimension
Creators: name: Ablinger, J.
name: Behring, A.
name: Blümlein, J.
name: De Freitas, A.
name: von Manteuffel, A.
name: Schneider, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The pure singlet asymptotic heavy flavor corrections to 3-loop order for the deep-inelastic scattering structure function $F_2(x,Q^2)$ and the corresponding transition matrix element $A_{Qq}^{(3), \sf PS}$ in the variable flavor number scheme are computed. In Mellin-$N$ space these inclusive quantities depend on generalized harmonic sums. We also recalculate the complete 3-loop pure singlet anomalous dimension for the first time. Numerical results for the Wilson coefficients, the operator matrix element and the contribution to the structure function $F_2(x,Q^2)$ are presented.
description: 85 pages Latex, 14 Figures, 2 style files
Three-dimensional infrared thermography of buried defects from multi angle long pulse thermography
Creators: name: J. O’Mahony, Charlie
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 51
subject: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Heat diffusing from the bulk of an object manifests at the surface of an object due to variations in structure and materials, which can give rise to thermal property variations. This allows for detection of defects, their size, shape, and location within an object. As such, Infrared Thermography (IRT) finds its applications in aerospace industry, additive manufacturing, welding and carbon fibre composites and medical diagnostics. Combining IRT ability to visualize internal defects with imaging and heating an object from multiple angles, a three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction can be achieved to provide 3D-IR thermography (3D-IRT). The approach outlined here intends to construct the 3D geometry of a defect from a set of 2D surface images. Time domains and pulsed regimes have also been explored in 3D thermography [36-38]. These methods though have shortcomings in edge resolving, resolution and material of use. In this thesis, we demonstrate a relatively simple approach, with the addition of tilting the heat source we can capture thermal images contrast of buried sections from which heat diffuses out to the surface. This differs from conventional thermal-tomography as the camera itself is maintained at a constant angle and the excitation angle is varied. Due to the illumination of the defect originating from the flash heating, the heat sources angle allows for highlighting features of the defect otherwise impossible to visualize with symmetric heating of the defect.This work looks to semi quantitatively present the detectability of defects z-direction information from non-symmetric angled excitation.
Anopheles marhsalli
Creators: name: F. W. Edwards
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1920
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Culicidae
Anopheles
Anopheles marhsalli

description:  Anopheles marshalli, Theo. Females from Tananarive (Neiret, 1904, and Ventrillon, 1905) and Ambohipomana (Bouet, 1905).
description: Published as part of F. W. Edwards, 1920, Bulletin of Entomological Research, pp. 133-138 in Bulletin of Entomological Research 11 (2) on page 3, DOI: 10.1017/S0007485300044539, http://zenodo.org/record/163545