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Data - arguably the most important product of worldwide materials research investment - are rarely shared. The small and biased proportion of results published are buried in plots and text licensed by journals. This situation wastes resources, hinders innovation, and, in the current era of data-driven discovery, is no longer tenable. In this comment, we identify opportunities for synergistic, collaborative, and global actions to assemble large quantities of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) (1) materials data.

Liver transplantation (LT) is associated with a significant bleeding and the high transfusion requirements (HTR) negatively affect the outcome of LT patients. Our primary aim was to identify potential predictors of intraoperative transfusion requirements. Secondarily, we investigated, the effect of transfusion requirements on different clinical outcomes, including short-term morbidity and mortality.Data collected in 219 adult LT from a deceased donor, grouped according to HTR (defined as the need of 5 or more red blood cell units), were compared.We found that previous portal vein thromboses (p=0.0156), hemoglobin (Hb) (p0.0001), International Normalized Ratio (INR) (p=0.0010) at transplant and veno-venous by-pass (p=0.0048) independently predicted HTR. HTR was always associated with poorer outcomes, including higher simplified acute physiology II score at Intensive Care Unit admission (p=0.0005), higher rates of pulmonary infections (p=0.0015) and early rejection (p=0.0176), longer requirement of mechanical ventilation, (p0.0001), more frequent need for hemodialysis after transplantation (p=0.0036), overall survival (p=0.0010) and rate of day-90 survival (p=0.0016).This study identified specific risk factors for HTR and confirmed the negative impact exerted by HTR on clinical outcomes, including recipient survival. Prospective investigations are worth to assess whether correcting pre-transplant Hb and INR levels may effectively reduce blood product need and improve prognosis.

The International Materials Resource Registries (IMRR) working group of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) was created to spur initial development of a federated registry system to allow for easier discovery and access to materials data. As part of this effort, a controlled vocabulary and metadata schema were developed with contributions from members of the working group and other experts. Here we describe the process, the resulting vocabulary and XML schema, and lessons learned in the development and use of the schema.

As a result of a number of national initiatives, we are seeing rapid growth in the data important to materials science that are available over the web. Consequently, it is becoming increasingly difficult for researchers to learn what data are available and how to access them. To address this problem, the Research Data Alliance (RDA) Working Group for International Materials Science Registries (IMRR) was established to bring together materials science and information technology experts to develop an international federation of registries that can be used for global discovery of data resources for materials science. A resource registry collects high-level metadata descriptions of resources such as data repositories, archives, websites, and services that are useful for data-driven research. By making the collection searchable, it aids scientists in industry, universities, and government laboratories to discover data relevant to their research and work interests. We present the results of our successful piloting of a registry federation for materials science data discovery. In particular, we out a blueprint for creating such a federation that is capable of amassing a global view of all available materials science data, and we enumerate the requirements for the standards that make the registries interoperable within the federation. These standards include a protocol for exchanging resource descriptions and a standard metadata schema for encoding those descriptions. We summarize how we leveraged an existing standard (OAI-PMH) for metadata exchange. Finally, we review the registry software developed to realize the federation and describe the user experience.

Intuitive, flexible, and evolving terminology plays a significant role in capitalizing on recommended knowledge representation models for materials engineering applications. In this article, we present a proposed rules-based approach with initial examples from a growing corpus of materials terms in the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Materials Data Repository. Our method aims to establish a common, consistent, and evolving set of rules for creating or extending terminology as needed to describe materials data. The rules are intended to be simple and generalizable for users to understand and extend as well as for groups to apply to their own repositories. The rules generate terms that facilitate machine processing and decision making.

On March 4-5, 2008, the CODATA Task Group for Exchangeable Material Data Representation to Support Research and Education held a two day seminar cum meeting at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), New Delhi, India, with NPL materials researchers and task group members representing material activities and databases from seven countries: European Union (The Czech Republic, France, and the Netherlands), India, Korea, Japan, and the United States. The NPL seminar included presentations about the researchers' work. The Task Group meeting included presentations about current data related activities of the members. Joint discussions between NPL researchers and CODATA task group members began an exchange of viewpoints among materials data producers, users, and databases developers. The seminar cum meeting included plans to continue and expand Task Group activities at the 2008 CODATA 21st Meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine.

As researchers continue to probe across disciplinary boundaries in their work, it is essential for research libraries to support their need to consult, learn, and analyze information resources that are far afield. This support is increasingly difficult to provide during fiscally tight periods yet today's stretched economic climate may help libraries facilitate cooperative ventures where they might occur. Our exploratory study reports on a university-wide collection monograph approval profiling project undertaken in a research library and focuses on the results with its Geography Department. Analysis of the approval profile for books to be purchased by Geography for its faculty and students can provide guide-posts to actively nurture interdisciplinary information environments within and across disciplinary boundaries.

Objective: This review highlights the most successful non-pharmacological therapies of female orgasmic disorders. Effectivity of different non-pharmacological therapies (sex therapy & communication therapy, bibliotherapy, contact vs. no - contact with therapist, group vs. individual therapy) in the treatment of female orgasmic disorder will be discussed. Design and Method: The inclusion criteria applied in the review included that the studies had to be systemic reviews or randomized controlled trials published from 2005 onwards, had to directly tackle orgasmic problems in females and be written in English language. The exclusion criteria applied were studies that were published before 2005; were not reviews or RCTs; did not tackle orgasmic problems in females, had an organic basis for the sexual problem and were not written in English language. The nine studies that were included were critically appraised using the CASP tools, the SIGN guidelines and the PEDro Scale. After thematic analysis was conducted, four major themes emerged, namely “Sex therapy and communication therapy”; “Bibliotherapy”; “Contact vs. No contact with therapist” and “Group vs. individual therapy”. Results: The result suggests that sex therapy and communication is the most prominent in the studies included. The recommendations suggested are the need for further studies with larger samples so as to get a more comprehensive view of using non-pharmacological therapies. Pereira et al. (2013) underline the fact that Masters and Johnson (1970); and Heiman and LoPiccolo (1988) practices are still the most commonly used. Conclusions: Sex therapy as well as communication skills are the most effective treatment when dealing with FOD.

Library users'research interests and needs are becoming increasingly interdisciplinary. This type of research presents searchers with obstacles that differ from disciplinary research. Using the information search process (ISP) developed by Carol C. kuhlthau as a theoretical model, this study compares the impact of manual and online search methods on the interdisciplinary search task in terms of the relevance of retrieved items, user effort, user satisfaction, user confidence and future use. This comparative investigation examines two senior-level journalism classes researching judicial decisions related to the mass media. One class used printed legal reference sources; the other class used LEXIS, a full-text legal database

Osteoma ed esostosi rappresentano cause frequenti di stenosi acquisita del CUE. È possibile fare una diagnosi differenziale presuntiva in base alle caratteristiche TC delle due lesioni, anche se è soltanto l'esame istologico che ne permette una diagnosi sicura. Gli autori espongono le caratteristiche clinico-radiologiche di osteomi ed esostosi del CUE, le quali permettono di stabilire, in accordo con la letteratura, che trattasi di due entità patologiche distinte e separate.

Studio TC di un caso clinico di tumore gigantocellulare a localizzazione orbitaria. Il tumore gigantocellulare è una neoplasia ossea generalmente benigna, già di per sè rara, ma assolutamente eccezionale nella localizzazione orbitaria. Gli autori, dopo aver descritto le caratteristiche istologiche e cliniche del tumore, presentano un caso clinico studiato con TC mettendo poi in evidenza i vantaggi offerti dall'esame tomodensitometrico rispetto alla radiologia tradizionale, in questo tipo di lesione.

This paper discusses a digital library designed to help undergraduate students draw connections across disciplines, beginning with introductory discipline-specific science courses (including chemistry, materials science, and biophysics). The collection serves as the basis for a design experiment for interdisciplinary educational libraries and is discussed in terms of the three models proposed by Sumner and Marlino. As a cognitive tool, the library is organized around recurring patterns in molecular science, with one such pattern being developed for this initial design experiment. As a component repository, the library resources support learning of these patterns and how they appear in different disciplines. As a knowledge network, the library integrates design with use and assessment.

This poster describes a collaboration involving two NSDL projects: the Materials Digital Library Pathway (MatDL) and the iVia Data Fountains Project. MatDL is testing and providing feedback for refinement of the iVia tools while streamlining its metadata assignment process.