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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3407535
title: Dataset related to article "EUS elastography (strain ratio) and fractal-based quantitative analysis for the diagnosis of solid pancreatic lesions"

description: This record contains raw data related to article ""EUS elastography (strain ratio) and fractal-based quantitative analysis for the diagnosis of solid pancreatic lesions EUS elastography is useful in characterizing solid pancreatic lesions (SPLs), and fractal analysis-based technology has been used to evaluate geometric complexity in oncology. The aim of this study was to evaluate EUS elastography (strain ratio) and fractal analysis for the characterization of SPLs. METHODS: Consecutive patients with SPLs were prospectively enrolled between December 2015 and February 2017. Elastographic evaluation included parenchymal strain ratio (pSR) and wall strain ratio (wSR) and was performed with a new compact US processor. Elastographic images were analyzed using a computer program to determine the 3-dimensional histogram fractal dimension. A composite cytology/histology/clinical reference standard was used to assess sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, and area under the receiver operating curve. RESULTS: Overall, 102 SPLs from 100 patients were studied. At final diagnosis, 69 (68%) were malignant and 33 benign. At elastography, both pSR and wSR appeared to be significantly higher in malignant as compared with benign SPLs (pSR, 24.5 vs 6.4 [P &lt; .001]; wSR, 56.6 vs 15.3 [P &lt; .001]). When the best cut-off levels of pSR and wSR at 9.10 and 16.2, respectively, were used, sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, and area under the receiver operating curve were 88.4%, 78.8%, 89.7%, 76.9%, and 86.7% and 91.3%, 69.7%, 86.5%, 80%, and 85.7%, respectively. Fractal analysis showed a significant statistical difference (P = .0087) between the mean surface fractal dimension of malignant lesions (D = 2.66 ± .01) versus neuroendocrine tumor (D = 2.73 ± .03) and a statistical difference for all 3 channels red, green, and blue (P &lt; .0001). CONCLUSIONS: EUS elastography with pSR and fractal-based analysis are useful in characterizing SPLs.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3407536
title: Dataset related to article "EUS elastography (strain ratio) and fractal-based quantitative analysis for the diagnosis of solid pancreatic lesions"

description: This record contains raw data related to article ""EUS elastography (strain ratio) and fractal-based quantitative analysis for the diagnosis of solid pancreatic lesions EUS elastography is useful in characterizing solid pancreatic lesions (SPLs), and fractal analysis-based technology has been used to evaluate geometric complexity in oncology. The aim of this study was to evaluate EUS elastography (strain ratio) and fractal analysis for the characterization of SPLs. METHODS: Consecutive patients with SPLs were prospectively enrolled between December 2015 and February 2017. Elastographic evaluation included parenchymal strain ratio (pSR) and wall strain ratio (wSR) and was performed with a new compact US processor. Elastographic images were analyzed using a computer program to determine the 3-dimensional histogram fractal dimension. A composite cytology/histology/clinical reference standard was used to assess sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, and area under the receiver operating curve. RESULTS: Overall, 102 SPLs from 100 patients were studied. At final diagnosis, 69 (68%) were malignant and 33 benign. At elastography, both pSR and wSR appeared to be significantly higher in malignant as compared with benign SPLs (pSR, 24.5 vs 6.4 [P &lt; .001]; wSR, 56.6 vs 15.3 [P &lt; .001]). When the best cut-off levels of pSR and wSR at 9.10 and 16.2, respectively, were used, sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, and area under the receiver operating curve were 88.4%, 78.8%, 89.7%, 76.9%, and 86.7% and 91.3%, 69.7%, 86.5%, 80%, and 85.7%, respectively. Fractal analysis showed a significant statistical difference (P = .0087) between the mean surface fractal dimension of malignant lesions (D = 2.66 ± .01) versus neuroendocrine tumor (D = 2.73 ± .03) and a statistical difference for all 3 channels red, green, and blue (P &lt; .0001). CONCLUSIONS: EUS elastography with pSR and fractal-based analysis are useful in characterizing SPLs.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3407488
title: Dataset related to article "Evaluation of target dose inhomogeneity in breast cancer treatment due to tissue elemental differences"

description: This record contains raw data related to article "Evaluation of target dose inhomogeneity in breast cancer treatment due to tissue elemental differences" BACKGROUND: Monte Carlo simulations were run to estimate the dose variations generated by thedifference arising from the chemical composition of the tissues. METHODS: CT datasets of five breast cancer patients were selected. Mammary gland was delineated as clinical target volume CTV, as well as CTV_lob and CTV_fat, being the lobular and fat fractions of the entire mammary gland. Patients were planned for volumetric modulated arc therapy technique, optimized in the Varian Eclipse treatment planning system. CT, structures and plans were imported in PRIMO, based on Monte Carlo code Penelope, to run three simulations: AdiMus, where the adipose and muscle tissues were automatically assigned to fat and lobular fractions of the breast; Adi and Mus, where adipose and muscle, respectively were assigned to the whole mammary gland. The specific tissue density was kept identical from the CT dataset. Differences in mean doses in the CTV_lob and CTV_fat structures were evaluated for the different tissue assignments. Differences generated by the tissue composition and estimated by Acuros dose calculations in Eclipse were also analysed. RESULTS: From Monte Carlo simulations, the dose in the lobular fraction of the breast, when adipose tissue is assigned in place of muscle, is overestimated by 1.25 ± 0.45%; the dose in the fat fraction of the breast with muscle tissue assignment is underestimated by 1.14 ± 0.51%. Acuros showed an overestimation of 0.98 ± 0.06% and an underestimation of 0.21 ± 0.14% in the lobular and fat portions, respectively. Reason of this dissimilarity resides in the fact that the two calculations, Monte Carlo and Acuros, differently manage the range of CT numbers and the material assignments, having Acuros an overlapping range, where two tissues are both present in defined proportions. CONCLUSION: Although not clinically significant, the dose deposition difference in the lobular and connective fat fraction of the breast tissue lead to an improved knowledge of the possible dose distribution and homogeneity in the breast radiation treatment
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3407489
title: Dataset related to article "Evaluation of target dose inhomogeneity in breast cancer treatment due to tissue elemental differences"

description: This record contains raw data related to article "Evaluation of target dose inhomogeneity in breast cancer treatment due to tissue elemental differences" BACKGROUND: Monte Carlo simulations were run to estimate the dose variations generated by thedifference arising from the chemical composition of the tissues. METHODS: CT datasets of five breast cancer patients were selected. Mammary gland was delineated as clinical target volume CTV, as well as CTV_lob and CTV_fat, being the lobular and fat fractions of the entire mammary gland. Patients were planned for volumetric modulated arc therapy technique, optimized in the Varian Eclipse treatment planning system. CT, structures and plans were imported in PRIMO, based on Monte Carlo code Penelope, to run three simulations: AdiMus, where the adipose and muscle tissues were automatically assigned to fat and lobular fractions of the breast; Adi and Mus, where adipose and muscle, respectively were assigned to the whole mammary gland. The specific tissue density was kept identical from the CT dataset. Differences in mean doses in the CTV_lob and CTV_fat structures were evaluated for the different tissue assignments. Differences generated by the tissue composition and estimated by Acuros dose calculations in Eclipse were also analysed. RESULTS: From Monte Carlo simulations, the dose in the lobular fraction of the breast, when adipose tissue is assigned in place of muscle, is overestimated by 1.25 ± 0.45%; the dose in the fat fraction of the breast with muscle tissue assignment is underestimated by 1.14 ± 0.51%. Acuros showed an overestimation of 0.98 ± 0.06% and an underestimation of 0.21 ± 0.14% in the lobular and fat portions, respectively. Reason of this dissimilarity resides in the fact that the two calculations, Monte Carlo and Acuros, differently manage the range of CT numbers and the material assignments, having Acuros an overlapping range, where two tissues are both present in defined proportions. CONCLUSION: Although not clinically significant, the dose deposition difference in the lobular and connective fat fraction of the breast tissue lead to an improved knowledge of the possible dose distribution and homogeneity in the breast radiation treatment
DOI: 10.6073/pasta/7f68a42a053dde3ce89915d9981b43ce
title: Temperature and Relative Humidity Time Series across 60 forest plots at Sagehen Creek Field Station, 2016-2019

description: Database contains data downloaded from HOBO loggers placed at 60 sites within the Sagehen Experimental Forest. These plots are a subset of 500+ forest monitoring plots established in 2004 and 2005 for the purpose of testing strategically-placed land area treatments (SPLATS) that impede forest fire progression (Vaillant 2008, UC Berkeley Doctoral Dissertation). HOBO loggers sampled dates between fall 2016 and spring 2019. Some sites have intermittent data due to deactivation for logging activities and some interference from being buried in snow or from wild animals. Please see comments in the plot information file (Logger_Plot_Data.csv) detailing all plot metadata. This monitoring is ongoing through the Sagehen Forest Monitoring Project. Contact the Tahoe National Forest for forest treatment dates, additional information and GIS data.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2012.789
title: Decisions for crossing the border : a case study of Myanmar displaced persons

description: Internal displacement issues are gaining heightened importance worldwide. The 2011 global report of the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center shows that for 2011 there were approximately 26.4 million internally displaced persons (IDPs). Myanmar’s continued armed conflicts still cause movements of forced migration, which makes this phenomenon a current issue. The Myanmar government does not support or recognize IDPs by armed conflicts, which make the circumstances for these individuals even more difficult. This is one of the main reasons why many people in Myanmar have migrated to neighboring countries. As most conflicts take place in South-East Myanmar, neighboring Thailand has consequently received many thousands of displaced persons. Today, Thailand hosts approximately 140,000 displaced persons from Myanmar who are living in temporary shelters along the Thai-Myanmar border. This thesis analysis the decision making process of displaced persons for crossing the border and if these decisions were constrained or if displaced persons had the agency and thus the opportunity to choose by themselves whether to stay in Myanmar or to migrate to Thailand. Taking the current changes in Myanmar into account, this thesis also examines how the future of these persons could change and if they would like to return. Key findings in this conducted research show that nearly all the interviewed displaced persons were able to choose by themselves when making the decision to cross the border to Thailand. Of course the decision was to some extent influenced by the armed conflicts and other factors such as the lack of food; however it was not a constraint decision by institutions or by the whole community. When considering returning back to Myanmar in the future, about half of the interviewees want to return, nevertheless only if there are real peace agreements and no more conflicts.
DOI: 10.17632/29cg95ctkb.1
title: Data for: The 2014-2015 Brazilian Mutual Phenomena campaign for the Jovian satellites and improved results for the 2009 events.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2012.790
title: Football culture and the politics of localism : a case study of Chonburi Football Club

description: This thesis examined how Chonburi Football Club (CFC) is able to ignite forms of localism to emerge. As part of the objectives, it explored the means in which forms of association to the Club create, shape, and reinforce identities of supporters, whom may not be specifically from or tied to the geographic space of Chonburi. As it is in everyday life that football culture is primarily perpetuated, expressed and experienced, this thesis presents a qualitative view on how contemporary identities are created through the powerful vehicle of sport and outlines the implications it has as a social phenomena. Qualitative approaches were used to gather data from semi-structured ethnographic interviews and content analysis was applied further understand the means in which a sense of localism is created. Results from the thesis suggests that there is a three-way relationship between the ‘individual, province, and club’ in which enables interactions to occur in aspects of social, cultural, economical and political dimensions. Through the activity of football, it has enabled up to six to seven thousand individuals from various backgrounds to gather on a weekly basis, creating and heightening a sense of pride like never before. If viewed as a social system, the Football Club, Provincial Administration Organization and the Chalarm Chon Community are agents, relying on one another to maintain and reproduce the structure of the community. Research findings suggests that membership and identification with CFC has served as a fountain, providing a source of ‘we-feelings’ and a solid sense of belonging in both the private and public spheres. In short, the following conclusions to be made: 1. Football serves a socio-emotional function; 2. Football and football-related activities encourage a process of socialization to take place. It is a tool in the transmission of beliefs and norms; 3. Through the use of football, it has served as an integrative function in aiding the integration of individuals, groups and communities together and heightening a sense of unity, pride and belonging; 4. Football has served political function(s) for those in power as the fan clubs provide as political bases for those in power; 5. And lastly, it has served other non-sport purposes such as facilitating community projects through the networks of fan clubs.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2012.791
title: Molecular modeling and molecular dynamics simulation of voltage sensor domain of sodium channel in activated and resting states

description: Voltage-gated sodium (Na[subscript v]) channels are membrane proteins that control the flux of sodium ions through membrane in both eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells. They are responsible for generation and propagation of electrical potential in excitable cells. A structure model of the voltage-sensor domain (VSD) of a Bacillus halodurans Na channel (NaChBac) in the activated or “Up” state was previously developed using Restrained Molecular Dynamics with experimental solvent accessibility data. In this study the putative resting or “Down” conformation was built based on biophysical and biochemical data. Structure and dynamics of both Up and Down conformations were investigated by MD simulations in phospholipid bilayer. From the MD results, the transmembrane structure of the Up state is more stable than that of the Down state. A counter charge exchange between the S4 arginines and the negatively charge residues in S1, S2 and S3 and the increase of water-filled crevice of the VSD cavity supported the observation from experimental studies. Although, all the interpretations of the study are relied on the model developed based on the crystal structure of K[subscript v] channels, the results of this study provide useful information for a general motion of the voltage sensing segment in a context of helical screw mechanism.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2012.792
title: α-glucosidase inhibitors from leaves and seeds of moringa Moringa oleifera

description: Moringa oleifera is an edible plant that has long been used for diabetes therapy. In Thailand, leaves and seeds of M. oleifera are sold in many forms such as herbal infusion and capsule, and used to suppress blood glucose level. To proof this claim, the components responsible for this activity were identified using bioassay-guided isolation. The isolation of aqueous and methanolic extracts of leaves together with methanolic extract of seeds yielded nine compounds named p-hydroxybenzaldehyde-O--L-rhamnopyranoside, keampferol, kaempferol-3-O-β-glucopyranoside, 1-O-(4-hydroxymethylphenyl)-α-L-rhamnopyranoside, 4-methoxybenzene-1,3-diol, p-hydroxybenzoic acid, N,N-Bis(4-hydroxybenzyl) urea, uridine as well as new amide derivative named ME51-4. All the isolated compounds were tested for inhibitory activity against α-glucosidase. Only keampferol and kaempferol-3-O-β-glucopyranoside, which were isolated from leaves aqueous extract, broadly inhibited α-glucosidases intestinal from baker’s yeast and rat intestine. However, kaempferol inhibited α-glucosidase with more slightly improved inhibition than kaempferol-3-O-β-glucopyranoside. Due to highly potent inhibition of keampferol and kaempferol-3-O-β-glucopyranoside, the consumption of M. oleifera leaves in form of herbal infusion would result in higher effective control of blood glucose level and diabetes therapy.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2012.793
title: Isomorphism classes and vertex coloring for graphs C[subscript G](a,b)

description: In this thesis, we use the properties of finite abelian group to derive isomorphism testing on the graph C[subscript G](a,b) defined above. We study classes of isomorphic graphs. This work generalizes Nicoloso and Pietropaoli’s paper, which obtain analogous results when is a cyclic group. In addition, we study the algorithms to give an explicit assignment of colors to the vertices of graph C[subscript G](a,b) such that adjacent vertices receive different colors and the number of colors is minimized.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2012.794
title: Effect of smoking on the peri-implant bacterial ecology

description: Objective To investigate periodontal pathogenic bacteria, Porphyromonas gingivalis, Treponema denticola, Tannerella forsythia, and Prevotella intermedia in the healthy peri-implant sulci of smokers or nonsmokers using 16S rRNA-based PCR. Materials and Methods Patients who received implant-supported fixed partial prostheses were randomly selected and categorized in to smokers (n=7) and nonsmokers (n=7).Sterile paper points were used to collect submucosal samples from healthy peri-implant sulci, and then DNA was extracted. Endpoint and quantitative PCR were performed to identify Porphyromonas gingivalis, Treponema denticola, Tannerella forsythia, Prevotella intermedia and total bacteria. Results The prevalence of periodontal pathogenic bacteria was higher in smoker with statistical significant different in Treponema denticola by Fisher’s exact test (p=0.029). Quantitative PCR showed the ratio of Treponema denticola to total bacteria were significantly higher in smokers when compared to nonsmokers by Mann-Whitney U Test (p=0.026). Conclusions These results suggested that smoking was the environmental factor that strongly influenced the peri-implant microbiota and success rate of the dental implant.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2012.795
title: Analysis of the modern Olympic organization with human organism models

description: With modernization and globalization, human beings are intensely integrated and interdependent. Organization immensely influences the quality of life through its provision of products and services to society and, over the last 150 years, has become the world’s dominant economic institution (Bakan, 2004). Market mechanism however knows no limits as it expands from market economy to market society; of which, the moral limits of market is greatly concerned at the present as it puts society at risk invisible before (Sandel, 2012). The main objective of this dissertation is to develop a Human Organism Models as alternative managerial tools for better value creation of organization. Methodology begins with a review of literature (Human Development, Organization & Management, Sport, Recreation and Olympic), participatory observation (17th International Seminar on Olympic Studies for Postgraduate Students of the International Olympic Academy from 1-30 July 2009 in Olympia, Greece and Advanced Sport Management Course by Olympic Solidarity & Thailand Olympic Academy in 2011-2012), and oral presentation at international conferences (4th Asian Association for Sport Management Conference from 26-29 November 2009 in Bangkok, Thailand) frame a concept of Human Organism Models composed of 4 key variables of organization which are vision, competence, strategy, and value. These variables are indispensable, integrated, interrelated, and irreplaceable. Modern Olympic organizations are purposively selected as samples for analyzed based upon data collected from 1894 to 2010 integrated with results from focus group of Thai Olympic scholars and experts’ opinions from Republic of Korea. Results from the analysis of the modern Olympic organizations with Human Organism Models confirm that the models are correct, comprehensive, and appropriated to be used as a managerial tool for the design and development of organization with different implementations recommended. Merits of Human Organism Models lie in validity (address directly to organization), reliability (applicable to all organization), comprehensiveness (covers all about organization), clarity (definition and relation among variables), and simplicity (a few numbers of variables but sufficient to explain all about organization).
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2012.797
title: Connections and means for positive operators on a Hilbert Space

description: A connection is a binary operation assigned to each pair of positive operators on a Hilbert space satisfying monotonicity, transformer inequality and continuity from above. A mean is a normalized connection. In this work, it is shown that the continuity assumption in the definition of a connection can be relaxed. We also provide various axiomatic characterizations of connections and means, involving concavity and betweenness properties. Each operator connection gives rise to a scalar connection. In fact, there is an affine order isomorphism between connections and induced scalar connections. We give an explicit description of a general connection by decomposing connections. Structures of the set of connections are also investigated. This set is isometrically order-isomorphic, as normed ordered cones, to the set of operator monotone functions on the nonnegative reals. It is isometrically isomorphic, as normed cones, to the set of finite Borel measures on the extended half-line. Moreover, we establish some properties of connections related to operator inequalities.