cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Building an Information Management System for Emergency Preparedness and Response to Promote Assurance: A Case Study of the Fulton County Department of Health and Wellness
Creators: name: Robinson, Judith
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: The Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) is a program that provides medical countermeasures during a public health emergency.  A public health emergency can be a natural or man-made disaster, an act of terrorism, or a pandemic.    The Cities Readiness Initiative (CRI) was created to help the nation’s largest metropolitan regions develop the ability to provide SNS life-saving medications in the event of a large-scale bioterrorist attack or naturally occurring disease outbreak.   To address the risks associated with a public health emergency the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) requires a comprehensive emergency response plan for distributing SNS/CRI materials quickly and efficiently. The Fulton County Department of Health and Wellness (FCDHW) is tasked with responsibility for distributing and dispensing of  SNS/CRI medical assets delivered during a public health emergency. FCDHW is also tasked with the development of a comprehensive response plan. Past TAR scores revealed that passing SNS/CRI audits has been a challenge for FCDHW.  A case study was conducted to note if the development of an information management system could facilitate successful future SNS/CRI audits.

	 A needs assessment revealed that an information management system for emergency preparedness and response compliance was needed.  Microsoft SharePoint 2007 was used to develop the information management system.   SharePoint contains a secure document repository that linked the work products of all relevant internal and external stakeholders and revealed compliance deficiencies early enough to allow for corrective actions.  The result was a passing TAR score that was a 59 point increase from the last published score.
Goniodes gigas Taschenberg 1879
Creators: name: Sánchez-Montes, Sokani
name: Colunga-Salas, Pablo
name: Álvarez-Castillo, Lucía
name: Guzmán-Cornejo, Carmen
name: Montiel-Parra, Griselda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Philopteridae
Goniodes
Goniodes gigas

description: Goniodes gigas Taschenberg, 1879
Goniodes gigas Taschenberg, 1879: 104, pl. 1, fig. 10. Nuevo León: no host, no date (Quiroz-Martínez & Cantu 1995).
description: Published as part of Sánchez-Montes, Sokani, Colunga-Salas, Pablo, Álvarez-Castillo, Lucía, Guzmán-Cornejo, Carmen & Montiel-Parra, Griselda, 2018, Chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) associated with vertebrates in Mexico, pp. 1-109 in Zootaxa 4372 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4372.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3098143
Supplementary document for Misalignment tolerant measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution - 5946596.pdf
Creators: name: Lu, Feng-Yu
name: wang, ze-hao
name: Yin, Zhen-Qiang
name: Wang, Shuang
name: Wang, Rong
name: Fan-Yuan, Guan-Jie
name: Huang, Xiao-Juan
name: He, De-Yong
name: Chen, Wei
name: Zhou, Zheng
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: details of proof
A Proposal for Enhancing and Measuring Infant-Directed Maternal Utterances and Incidental Teaching within the SafeCare® Parent-Infant Interaction Module
Creators: name: Smith, Megan
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: Child maltreatment is a serious and pervasive public health problem in the United States.  In 2008, there were 772,000 children who were substantiated victims of maltreatment and 1,740 children died as a result of maltreatment. Approximately 33 percent of maltreatment victims were under the age of four. 	Among numerous other negative sequelae, children who have been maltreated have an elevated incidence of language delay and poor cognitive functioning, both strong predictors of literacy skills and later academic achievement. Further, maternal language input is critical to a child’s cognitive development and language acquisition. Maltreating mothers provide their children with far less verbal stimulation and are less likely to engage their children in learning opportunities. 	Home visiting programs are effective means of preventing child maltreatment or further maltreatment by parents and may be better utilized to improve language of children. SafeCare® represents one such program.  It is an evidence-based program for the treatment and prevention of child maltreatment, consisting of four modules:  Parent- Infant Interaction (PII), Parent-Child Interaction (PCI), Health and Safety.  	The purpose of the proposed research is to determine whether PII or a language-enhanced version of the module is effective in increasing the number of maternal utterances with her infant and the frequency of incidental teaching.  The enhanced PII segment was created, not only to be an effective tool for promoting language, but also to be succinct enough to imbed into the extant protocols so as not to add a cumbersome burden to SafeCare home visitors or parents participating in the program.
Guimaraesiella abbasi subsp. abbasi
Creators: name: Sánchez-Montes, Sokani
name: Colunga-Salas, Pablo
name: Álvarez-Castillo, Lucía
name: Guzmán-Cornejo, Carmen
name: Montiel-Parra, Griselda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Philopteridae
Guimaraesiella
Guimaraesiella abbasi

description: Guimaraesiella abbasi (Carriker, 1956)
Brüelia melanococca abbasi Carriker, 1956: 119, figs 66b, 67. San Luis Potosí: Thraupis abbas, Xilitla, 27 Jan. 1947, R. Newman (Carriker 1956; Gustafsson & Bush 2017). Types: Holotype female deposited in LSAM.
description: Published as part of Sánchez-Montes, Sokani, Colunga-Salas, Pablo, Álvarez-Castillo, Lucía, Guzmán-Cornejo, Carmen & Montiel-Parra, Griselda, 2018, Chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) associated with vertebrates in Mexico, pp. 1-109 in Zootaxa 4372 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4372.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3098143
The Impact of Physical Activity on the Association between Smoking and Hypertension
Creators: name: Tadjalli, Sobhan
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: Background: Hypertension is synonymous with high blood pressure, where blood exerts a great force on the arterial walls. Smoking cigarettes is known to cause negative health outcomes, specifically increase blood pressure. Adversely, physical activity is known to provide many health benefits, including the reduction of blood pressure. This study examines the impact of physical activity on the association between smoking and hypertension. Methods: Using secondary data from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2007-2008, demographics of the population were described via descriptive statistics. Regressions were run using different models, controlling for various variables (age, ethnicity, sex, poverty to income ratio (PIR), body mass index (BMI), and interaction (smoking x physical activity)) to determine the association between smoking and hypertension. Odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals were used to determine statistical significance throughout all the analyses performed. Results: In total, 10,149 cases were included in the study analysis. 10.9% of the cases were smokers, 48.1% were physically activity, and 28.6% were hypertensive. OR’s for the various models observing smoking and hypertension were 1.48 (1.29, 1.69), 1.42 (1.22, 1.65), 1.37 (1.12, 1.67), and 1.36 (1.10, 1.68). In the final model which controlled for all variables including the interaction term, the OR was 1.12 (0.47, 2.67). Conclusions: Smokers had significantly higher rates of hypertension in all the models. The final model which observed smokers who were physical active found that the relationship between smoking and hypertension was no longer significant. This study suggests physical activity as a mode of intervention to reduce blood pressure in smokers.
A Descriptive Review of Balamuthia and Non-Keratitis Acanthamoeba Cases in the United States, 1955-2009
Creators: name: Moser, Melanie
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: Free-living amebae are ubiquitous in the environment and occasionally invade and parasitize host tissues causing illness in humans.  Despite possibly frequent exposure to these organisms, infection is rare and why some people, healthy or not, end up with illness and others do not is still unclear.  Human infections are rare; when illness does occur, it is often fatal.  Only two papers have examined data from the literature and cases reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and both were published over twenty years ago.  The purpose of this study is to better document the epidemiology of Balamuthia and non-keratitis Acanthamoeba, give insight into trends of these infections over time, and contribute to the scientific and medical community by producing the only comprehensive review of all Balamuthia and non-keratitis Acanthamoeba cases in the United States from 1955 through 2009.  This study also examines cases that have survived in an attempt to determine if there is evidence for the effectiveness of a particular treatment regimen.  Only a small number of patients have survived these infections, so any evidence for a successful course of treatment could be crucial for future cases.
The Challenges of Bringing Cryptography from Research Papers to Products: Results from an Interview Study with Experts.
Creators: name: Fischer, Konstantin
name: Trummová, Ivana
name: Gajland, Phillip
name: Acar, Yasemin
name: Fahl, Sascha
name: Sasse, M Angela
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2024

description: Cryptography serves as the cornerstone of information security and privacy in modern society. While notable progress has been made in the implementation of cryptographic techniques, a substantial portion of research outputs in cryptography, which strive to offer robust security solutions, are either implemented inadequately or not at all. Our study aims to investigate the challenges involved in bringing cryptography innovations from papers to products.

To address this open question, we conducted 21 semistructured interviews with cryptography experts who possess extensive experience (10+ years) in academia, industry, and nonprofit and governmental organizations. We aimed to gain insights into their experiences with deploying cryptographic research outputs, their perspectives on the process of bringing cryptography to products, and the necessary changes within the cryptography ecosystem to facilitate faster, wider, and more secure adoption.

We identified several challenges including misunderstandings and miscommunication among stakeholders, unclear delineation of responsibilities, misaligned or conflicting incentives, and usability challenges when bringing cryptography from theoretical papers to end user products. Drawing upon our findings, we provide a set of recommendations for cryptography researchers and practitioners. We encourage better supporting cross-disciplinary engagement between cryptographers, standardization organizations, and software developers for increased cryptography adoption.
Diabetes Guidelines Implementation Toolkit
Creators: name: Arguello Lacayo, Gustavo
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: Diabetes Guidelines Implementation Toolkit is a capstone project aimed to help the Grady North Fulton Health Center to implement the American Diabetes Association (ADA) “Standards in Medical Care in Diabetes, 2011” guidelines. This toolkit can also be used to implement the diabetes guidelines in any other primary or community healthcare facility to improve diabetes care.
Diabetes can affect many parts of the body and can lead to serious complications such as blindness, kidney damage, and lower-limb amputations. Working together, people with diabetes, their support network, and their health care providers can reduce the occurrence of these and other diabetes complications by controlling the levels of blood glucose, blood pressure, blood lipids, and by receiving other preventive care practices in a timely manner.
Once the decision to put into practice the evidence-based diabetes guidelines has been made, this implementation toolkit will serve as a guide to help go through the process of implementation. The toolkit will suggest practical ways to implement the use of the guidelines using a stepwise approach, resources and template materials such as information handouts, flow sheets, referral forms, sample patient letters, etc. will be provided in the toolkit to facilitate the implementation.
The final goal of the implementations is to improve the delivery of effective preventive health care services and promote diabetes preventive behaviors in order to prevent diabetes, its complications and disabilities, and the burden associated with the disease.
Guimaraesiella cicchinoi
Creators: name: Sánchez-Montes, Sokani
name: Colunga-Salas, Pablo
name: Álvarez-Castillo, Lucía
name: Guzmán-Cornejo, Carmen
name: Montiel-Parra, Griselda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Philopteridae
Guimaraesiella
Guimaraesiella cicchinoi

description: Guimaraesiella cicchinoi (Valim & Weckstein, 2011)
Brueelia cicchinoi Valim & Weckstein, 2011: 6, figs 7–12, 15, 16.
Campeche: Trogon massena, 24 km S Sivituc, 6 Mar, 1998, D.H. Clayton; Trogon melanocephalus, 24 km S Sivituc, 9 Mar, 1998, D.H. Clayton (Valim & Weckstein 2011).
No State: Trogon massena, no data; Trogon melanocephalus, no data (Johnson et al. 2002b). Genbank Accesion Numbers: AY149382, AY149383 from Johnson et al. (2002b).
description: Published as part of Sánchez-Montes, Sokani, Colunga-Salas, Pablo, Álvarez-Castillo, Lucía, Guzmán-Cornejo, Carmen & Montiel-Parra, Griselda, 2018, Chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) associated with vertebrates in Mexico, pp. 1-109 in Zootaxa 4372 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4372.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3098143
Readiness Assessment of Area Agencies on Aging in Georgia to Prevent Elder Abuse
Creators: name: Dighe, Shatabdi
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: Elder abuse has traditionally been a silent social issue in America. However, with an estimated increase in the older population over the next 50 years, and given the preventable nature of violence, it is quickly becoming a major public health priority area. Each year hundreds of thousands of elderly are abused, neglected, or exploited financially worldwide. In the United States alone, it is estimated that 500,000 cases of elder abuse occur annually—with research indicating that substantiated cases are a mere underreport of the true problem.  The US federal government has appointed State Units on Aging to address elder abuse. Georgia’s Division of Aging Services (DAS) is located within the Department of Human Services and administers various services to elderly including advocating for their safety and well being. DAS carries out its work through locally appointed Area Agencies on Aging (AAA). While AAAs serves as a first point of entry for elderly population locally, their involvement in reporting and intervening in elder abuse cases has been limited. The purpose of this capstone project is to examine the AAAs’ stage of readiness to address elder abuse using the Community Readiness Model, developed by researchers at the University of Colorado.  Telephone administered surveys were completed with 7 out of the 12 Georgia AAAs. Through a double rater review process, transcripts were coded according to diverse constructs of the Community Readiness Model and ultimately a readiness score was produced. The Community Readiness Score provides insight into evidence-based strategies that can be implemented in order to advance elder abuse intervention and prevention within the AAA communities.  The findings from this study provide insights into cost-efficient, tailored strategies that can maximize the use of DAS funding for AAA elder abuse case response and service delivery.
Evaluation on Health Impact of Government Support for GER (Traditional Dwelling) District's Electricity Night Rates in Ulaanbaatar City
Creators: name: Nansalmaa, Erdenekhuu
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: During the last 10 years, air pollution has become one of the major public health problems in Ulaanbaatar city of Mongolia, and concentrations of pollutants were measured 3 to 50 times higher than WHO recommendation. This devastating air pollution is produced mostly by thousands of families who migrated from countryside and live in gers (traditional dwellings) in the suburban area which is not connected to the central heating system, and nearly all of them burn coal to keep them warm. Due to air pollution, residents living in Ulaanbaatar city suffer health problems that equal to the smoking of 4-5 packs of cigarettes. During the winter time, PM10 hourly average concentrations increased to 2,300 ?g/m3, and daily average became over than 1,000 ?g/m3 in the most polluted parts of the city. At present, Mongolian government has accepted that the health of Mongolian residents has deteriorated at an alarming level.
In January of 2011, Mongolian Parliament approved the Law on Reduction of Air Pollution in the Capital City to control air pollution and eliminate the gaps in practice. One main provision of this law was to improve ger district electricity transmission and distribution network and reduce the night-time price of electricity by 50 percent. Therefore, this study aimed to estimate direct health benefits of Government Provision on cutting electricity payment by 50 percent during the night time and analyze the efficiency of this program on reducing air pollution and its related health impact.
The study result showed when this new regulation is fully implemented in the ger districts, the annual consumption of coal and wood would be decreased by about 550,000 tons and 415,000 tons, accompanied by massive reduction of the emission.  These changes would lead into noteworthy health benefits such as 15.7 and 17.4 percent of reduction of total and infant mortality rates and 4.3 and 4.7 percent decrease of cardiovascular and respiratory disease morbidity cases, annually.
Comparison of Post-Licensure Safety Surveillance of 13-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine and 7-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine: Data from the Vaccine Advere Event Reporting System (Vaers)
Creators: name: Arana, Jorge
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: Comparison of Post-licensure safety surveillance of 13-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate vaccine and 7-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate vaccine: Data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

Background: On February 24, 2010, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) licensed a 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (Prevnar 13®, [PCV13]) for use among children aged 6 weeks--71 months. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended PCV13 routine vaccination of all children aged 2--59 months, children aged 60--71 months with underlying medical conditions, with PCV13 replacing PCV7 for all doses.
Methods: We searched case reports to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a US passive surveillance system, for adverse events (AEs) reported after immunization with PCV13 vaccine from February 24, 2010 through February 24, 2011 for persons vaccinated from February 24, 2010 through December 31, 2010 and compared them with AEs reported by persons who were vaccinated with PCV7.
Results: VAERS received 1503 reports of AEs after PCV13; multiple vaccines were given in 79.0% of reports. One hundred eighty (11.9%) were coded as serious, including nineteen reports of death. The most frequently reported symptoms were injection site reactions, fever, irritability and vomiting. Seven hundred fifty-eight (50.4%) reports comprised males. Most reports (37.7%) were from children 1-2 years. Total number of reports received for PCV13 was very similar to those received after vaccination with PCV7.
Conclusions: AEs reported to VAERS following 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine were consistent with AEs previously observed in pre-licensure trials. We did not identify any major safety concerns or outcomes.
Guimaraesiella polyglotta
Creators: name: Sánchez-Montes, Sokani
name: Colunga-Salas, Pablo
name: Álvarez-Castillo, Lucía
name: Guzmán-Cornejo, Carmen
name: Montiel-Parra, Griselda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Philopteridae
Guimaraesiella
Guimaraesiella polyglotta

description: Guimaraesiella polyglotta (Williams, 1983)
Brueelia polyglotta Williams, 1983: 602, figs 7–9.
Distrito Federal: Mimus polyglottos, Pueblo de Santa Rosa, Suroeste de la Ciudad de Mexico, sobre los kilómetros 27–31 de la carretera que va al Desierto de los Leones (Zavaleta 1943a) (CNIN-PHT0015). Note: Specimens of G. polyglotta were identified by Zavaleta (1943a) as “ Degeeriella interpositus ”.
description: Published as part of Sánchez-Montes, Sokani, Colunga-Salas, Pablo, Álvarez-Castillo, Lucía, Guzmán-Cornejo, Carmen & Montiel-Parra, Griselda, 2018, Chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) associated with vertebrates in Mexico, pp. 1-109 in Zootaxa 4372 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4372.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3098143
Federated Learning from Small Datasets.
Creators: name: Kamp, Michael
name: Fischer, Jonas
name: Vreeken, Jilles
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2024

description: Federated learning allows multiple parties to collaboratively train a joint model without having to share any local data. It enables applications of machine learning in settings where data is inherently distributed and undisclosable, such as in the medical domain. Joint training is usually achieved by aggregating local models. When local datasets are small, locally trained models can vary greatly from a globally good model. Bad local models can arbitrarily deteriorate the aggregate model quality, causing federating learning to fail in these settings. We propose a novel approach that avoids this problem by interleaving model aggregation and permutation steps. During a permutation step we redistribute local models across clients through the server, while preserving data privacy, to allow each local model to train on a daisy chain of local datasets. This enables successful training in data-sparse domains. Combined with model aggregation, this approach enables effective learning even if the local datasets are extremely small, while retaining the privacy benefits of federated learning.
Guimaraesiella saltatora
Creators: name: Sánchez-Montes, Sokani
name: Colunga-Salas, Pablo
name: Álvarez-Castillo, Lucía
name: Guzmán-Cornejo, Carmen
name: Montiel-Parra, Griselda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Philopteridae
Guimaraesiella
Guimaraesiella saltatora

description: Guimaraesiella saltatora (Carriker, 1956)
Brüelia saltatora Carriker, 1956: 119, figs 64–66a
San Luis Potosí: Saltator coerulescens vigorsii, Xilitla, 22 Jan. 1947, R. Newman (Carriker 1956; Gustafsson & Bush 2017).
Types: Holotype male deposited in LSAM; allotype female in USNM (65411).
description: Published as part of Sánchez-Montes, Sokani, Colunga-Salas, Pablo, Álvarez-Castillo, Lucía, Guzmán-Cornejo, Carmen & Montiel-Parra, Griselda, 2018, Chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) associated with vertebrates in Mexico, pp. 1-109 in Zootaxa 4372 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4372.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3098143
Public Health Implications of Mass Rape as a Weapon of War
Creators: name: Ayele, Missale
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: Although rape and other forms of sexual violence have historically been present during wartime, it has recently become a strategic weapon of war in many settings.  The term mass rape as a weapon of war is defined as a systematic pattern of rape perpetrated by fighters usually against civilian women and children at a rate much higher than the rate of rape prevailing during peacetime.  This study will examine issues surrounding mass rape as a weapon of war including: emerging theories, effectiveness of current international law, public health consequences, and relevant indicators of likelihood of occurrence.  Grave physical and mental health outcomes associated with mass rape highlight the need for intervention through policy and program planning.  The proposed multi-dimensional prevention pathway addresses the ecological determinants of mass rape.
Masks, Signs, And Learning Rate Rewinding.
Creators: name: Gadhikar, Advait
name: Burkholz, Rebekka
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2024

description: Learning Rate Rewinding (LRR) has been established as a strong variant of Iterative Magnitude Pruning (IMP) to find lottery tickets in deep overparameterized neural networks. While both iterative pruning schemes couple structure and parameter learning, understanding how LRR excels in both aspects can bring us closer to the design of more flexible deep learning algorithms that can optimize diverse sets of sparse architectures. To this end, we conduct experiments that disentangle the effect of mask learning and parameter optimization and how both benefit from overparameterization. The ability of LRR to flip parameter signs early and stay robust to sign perturbations seems to make it not only more effective in mask identification but also in optimizing diverse sets of masks, including random ones. In support of this hypothesis, we prove in a simplified single hidden neuron setting that LRR succeeds in more cases than IMP, as it can escape initially problematic sign configurations.
Halipeurus pelagicus
Creators: name: Sánchez-Montes, Sokani
name: Colunga-Salas, Pablo
name: Álvarez-Castillo, Lucía
name: Guzmán-Cornejo, Carmen
name: Montiel-Parra, Griselda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Philopteridae
Halipeurus
Halipeurus pelagicus

description: Halipeurus pelagicus (Denny, 1842)
Lipeurus pelagicus Denny, 1842: 58, 173, pl. 14, fig. 2.
Colima: Fregata magnificens, Clarion Island, 1901, R. Beck (Kellogg 1906).
Baja California: Hydrobates leucorhous, Coronados Islands, 19 Jun. 1913, A.B. Howell (Palma 2011). Note: Specimens of Halipeurus pelagicus were identified by Kellogg (1906) as “ Lipeurus exiguus Kellogg & Kuwana ”. The host association of H. pelagicus with Fregata magnificens is most likely the result of a contamination because this louse does not parasitise any species of Fregata (see Price et al. 2003; Palma 2011).
description: Published as part of Sánchez-Montes, Sokani, Colunga-Salas, Pablo, Álvarez-Castillo, Lucía, Guzmán-Cornejo, Carmen & Montiel-Parra, Griselda, 2018, Chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) associated with vertebrates in Mexico, pp. 1-109 in Zootaxa 4372 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4372.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3098143
The Relation between Perceived and Real Obesity in School Children from Georgia
Creators: name: Pillai, Kartik
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: Background: Physical activity and childhood obesity have been studied extensively across the globe, but only few studies have been done in children who are aware of their obesity, overweight status and among children who are taking measures to control their weight.  The purpose of this study is to examine agreement between perceived weight and ideal weight differences across gender, grade level, race and levels of weight control.
METHODS: This study is based on the secondary analysis of the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) conducted in the state of Georgia in 2009 (n=1882). The 2009 YRBS for each state that participated used a two-stage cluster sample design to produce a fairly representative sample of public school students in the grades of 9-12. Agreement between the perceived weight and the ideal weight differences across gender, grade level and race was measured using Kappa statistic.
RESULTS: In general, agreement between perceived weight and the ideal weight were better in females compared to males. A much higher degree of concordance between perceived weight and the ideal weight was observed in Whites compared to Blacks and Hispanics. The analysis by grade resulted in 12th grade participants showing a high concordance value between their ideal weight and their perceived weight than the lower grade levels.
CONCLUSION: The results are in particular very insightful to the public health professionals who are in the process of promoting healthy behaviors. The study implies that minority groups such as Blacks and Hispanics may be more uninformed about their obesity status. Public health programs that are specifically designed to increase obesity awareness may help to alleviate obesity and its related consequences. Race and gender specific programs may help to increase perception about obesity in at-risk 9-12 children and adolescents.
Halipeurus placodus Edwards 1961
Creators: name: Sánchez-Montes, Sokani
name: Colunga-Salas, Pablo
name: Álvarez-Castillo, Lucía
name: Guzmán-Cornejo, Carmen
name: Montiel-Parra, Griselda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Philopteridae
Halipeurus
Halipeurus placodus

description: Halipeurus placodus Edwards, 1961
Halipeurus (Halipeurus) placodus Edwards, 1961: 141, figs 3E–7E. Colima: Puffinus auricularis, Clarion Island, 1901, R. Beck (Kellogg 1906); Clarion Island, no date, Edwards (1961).
Note: Specimens of H. placodus were identified by Kellogg (1906) as “ Lipeurus exiguus Kellogg ” and as “ Lipeurus limitatus Kellogg ”.
description: Published as part of Sánchez-Montes, Sokani, Colunga-Salas, Pablo, Álvarez-Castillo, Lucía, Guzmán-Cornejo, Carmen & Montiel-Parra, Griselda, 2018, Chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) associated with vertebrates in Mexico, pp. 1-109 in Zootaxa 4372 (1) on page 31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4372.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3098143
Bullying in Georgia Schools: Demographic Profiles and Psychosocial Correlates of Students Who Would Intervene in a Bullying Situation
Creators: name: Goldammer, Lori
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: While researchers have assessed the prevalence and health impact of bullying, there are still relatively few successful interventions and strategies implemented to reduce and prevent bullying.  A particular promising area is to know more about students who may be willing to intervene in a bullying situation, which is the focus of this thesis.  Using the data from the Georgia Student Health Survey II (GSHS 2006) (n=175,311) an empirical analyses of students who state that they are willing to intervene in a bullying situation, their demographic characteristics and psychosocial attributes will be examined. The survey administered to students across Georgia in grades 6th, 8th, 10th and 12th measured the number of students who reported being a bully-victim, bully or a victim of bullying, and their likelihood to engage in risky behaviors. 
The results demonstrated students who were white and were girls were most likely to intervene in bullying situations. Grade level was not significant when it involved intervening, but was an important marker for the co-occurrence of bully-victims.  One compelling finding is that the bully subgroup was most likely to always intervene.  School climate factors such as success in school, clear expectations and liking school were significant indicators of willingness to intervene.
These findings assist researchers and schools to better understand the characteristics of students who are willing to intervene and school factors that may promote students likelihood of intervening. These findings may guide how bullying is addressed in Georgia schools, and underscore the importance of providing safe school climates.
A Multi-Vitamin for the Built Environment: Exploring how a Multi-Sectoral and Multi-Institutional Partnership Links Health and the BeltLine
Creators: name: Barnes, Brooke
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: The Atlanta BeltLine is an innovative redevelopment project re-shaping Atlanta residents’ access to, multi-use trails, parks, public transportation, housing and employment opportunities. The primary purpose of this project was to develop a research proposal to study and analyze the health benefits associated with multi-use trails within BeltLine communities. A secondary purpose of this project was to evaluate the multi-sectoral and multi-institutional partnership that was formed to develop the research proposal and study the influence of the BeltLine on health outcomes. In August 2010 representatives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia State University, the Atlanta BeltLine Inc. and the Atlanta BeltLine Partnership formed the BeltLine Health Proposal Committee. Two online surveys using Survey Monkey were conducted to evaluate how this committee was operating, if roles and responsibilities were clear and to determine if this committee was an effective mechanism to integrate health and the built environment. Findings from the survey indicated that committee members believed this group was a unique partnership comprised of dedicated professionals sharing a common interest. Survey findings indicated there were several challenges that needed attention including improving communication, resolving competing interests, and identifying a lead organization. Findings from this evaluation can help resolve these issues and help the committee transition into a Health Advisory Group. The Health Advisory Group will serve as formal body that will review research proposals, conduct research, leverage funding and disseminate key health findings related to the BeltLine.
Halipeurus raphanus Timmermann 1961
Creators: name: Sánchez-Montes, Sokani
name: Colunga-Salas, Pablo
name: Álvarez-Castillo, Lucía
name: Guzmán-Cornejo, Carmen
name: Montiel-Parra, Griselda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Philopteridae
Halipeurus
Halipeurus raphanus

description: Halipeurus raphanus Timmermann, 1961
Halipeurus raphanus Timmermann, 1961: 415, fig. 11.
Baja California: Hydrobates macrodactylus, Guadalupe Island, 1897, R.C. McGregor (Kellogg & Mann 1912); Guadalupe Island, no date (Timmermann 1961; Palma 2011).
Type: Holotype male deposited in NHML.
Note: Specimens of H. raphanus were identified by Kellogg & Mann (1912) as “ Lipeurus diversus Kellogg ” and “ Lipeurus limitatus Kellogg ”.
description: Published as part of Sánchez-Montes, Sokani, Colunga-Salas, Pablo, Álvarez-Castillo, Lucía, Guzmán-Cornejo, Carmen & Montiel-Parra, Griselda, 2018, Chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) associated with vertebrates in Mexico, pp. 1-109 in Zootaxa 4372 (1) on page 31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4372.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3098143
Recalled Fruit and Vegetable Intake while Growing up and its Association with Adult Fruit and Vegetable Intake among U.S. Adults - Analysis of the Food Attitudes and Behaviors Survey
Creators: name: Hill, Mary
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: High dietary intake of fruits and vegetables (FVs) is associated with a lower risk for chronic disease including certain cancers, optimal child growth, and weight management. More than 72 million U.S. adults are obese; therefore, fruit and vegetable intake is important in weight management.  Using data from the Food Attitude and Behavior survey, this study will address the following questions:  is there a correlation between recalled fruit and vegetable intake during childhood and adult fruit and vegetable intake among U.S. adults?  Secondly, is reported fruit and vegetable consumption associated with sociodemographic variables and other health-related behaviors?  Results indicated there is a positive correlation between recalled FV intake and reported FV intake in adults.  Therefore, public health practitioners should develop initiatives to increase the amount of FV intake in children so that these FV consumption habits may continue in adulthood.
An Examination of the Association between HIV Related Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors and HIV Infection Status in Five High HIV Prevalence States in India.
Creators: name: Lwin, Thein
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: Although data shows that the incidence of HIV in India is falling, it is still a prevailing disease in India. The lack of knowledge about HIV and risky behaviors greatly influence the role of HIV transmission among the Indian population. These factors also contribute to the numbers of new HIV infections caused by unprotected sex, which account for 90% of the new HIV infections. Knowledge, attitudes and behaviors among the people living with HIV/AIDS also play an important role in HIV transmission. This study was conducted to explore the association between selected demographic variables on HIV related knowledge, attitudes and behaviors among people living in five high HIV prevalence states in India (Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Manipur, and Tamil Nadu). This study also examined the association between HIV infection status and HIV related knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors in those five states. The data used in this study was from 2005-2006 Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) collected for India. Univariate and multivariate analyses were conducted to study the association. The results showed that the proportion of people with “high HIV related knowledge” was greater than those who have “low HIV related Knowledge”. However, the proportion of people with “comprehensive knowledge of HIV prevention and transmission” was less. Similarly, a higher proportion of the study population showed “HIV/AIDS related positive attitudes”, however, the proportion of the study population with all 4 positive attitudes towards People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) was lower. Increase in highest education level and wealth was found to be significantly associated with the “high HIV related knowledge”, “have comprehensive knowledge”, “have HIV related positive attitudes”, “have accepting attitudes towards PLHA”, and HIV related “less risky behaviors”. The data has shown that HIV positive males were more likely to have comprehensive knowledge of HIV prevention and transmission compared to HIV positive female. The study also showed that HIV positive individuals were more likely to have all 4 positive attitudes towards PLHA and they were likely to have more risky behaviors, although not statistically significant.
SIMurai: Slicing Through the Complexity of SIM Card Security Research.
Creators: name: Lisowski, Tomasz Piotr
name: Chlosta, Merlin
name: Wang, Jinjin
name: Muench, Marius
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2024

description: SIM cards are widely regarded as trusted entities within mobile networks. But what if they were not trustworthy? In this paper, we argue that malicious SIM cards are a realistic threat, and demonstrate that they can launch impactful attacks against mobile devices and their basebands.

We design and implement SIMURAI, a software platform for security-focused SIM exploration and experimentation. At its core, SIMURAI features a flexible software implementation of a SIM. In contrast to existing SIM research tooling that typically involves physical SIM cards, SIMURAI adds flexibility by enabling deliberate violation of application-level and transmission-level behavior—a valuable asset for further exploration of SIM features and attack capabilities.

We integrate the platform into common cellular security test beds, demonstrating that smartphones can successfully connect to mobile networks using our software SIM. Additionally, we integrate SIMURAI with emulated baseband firmwares and carry out a fuzzing campaign that leads to the discovery of two high-severity vulnerabilities on recent flagship smartphones. We also demonstrate how rogue carriers and attackers with physical access can trigger these vulnerabilities with ease, emphasizing the need to recognize hostile SIMs in cellular security threat models.
Discordance of Drug Susceptibility Test Data between the CDC Mycobacteriology Laboratory and Local Public Health Laboratories Participating in Tuberculosis Clinical Trials, TBTC, CDC
Creators: name: Patala, Anne
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: 
BACKGROUND:  Multi drug resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a serious public health concern in many parts of the world. As per the WHO- 2010 global report on 
Surveillance and response 3.6% of all incident TB cases globally are multidrug resistant. In this regard, there is an increasing demand for timely, reliable and comprehensive drug susceptibility testing (DST) as MDR-TB surveillance is being geared up. The intent of this analysis is to determine whether there is a need to continue routine confirmatory DST testing at CDC in addition to just sending the isolates for genotyping. Analysis is done by measuring the discordance between the results of laboratory DST at CDC and the local labs drug type, drug testing concentrations, and study sites.
METHODS: The data for this analysis was provided by the Tuberculosis Trials Consortium (TBTC), CDC. Data for this analysis was collected over nearly two decades (1993-2011), gathered from 7 clinical trials. Discordance between the local and CDC lab DST results was measured using Kappa statistic. Sensitivity and specificity analysis was done by taking the CDC DST lab results as the gold standard. Discordance levels were calculated by local sites and baseline drug resistance for each antibiotic in each study was measured.
RESULTS: Average Kappa values for inter rater agreement for all the studies was 0.6444 whereas the overall level of discordance across all studies is 7.786%.   Drug resistance at baseline was highest for Isoniazid and Streptomycin (except Study 23 and 22).
CONCLUSION: Though the current results show few DST result discordances between local and CDC labs, it is better to continue to send isolates to the centralized lab (CDC) in view of the worldwide threat of drug resistant TB epidemic, the recommendations of the current literature and the benefits of reliable confirmatory testing services and availability of other molecular diagnostic methods.
PyHEP.dev 2024 Workshop Summary Report, August 26-30 2024, Aachen, Germany
Creators: name: Alshehri, Azzah
name: Bürger, Jan
name: Chopra, Saransh
name: Eich, Niclas
name: Eppelt, Jonas
name: Erdmann, Martin
name: Eschle, Jonas
name: Fackeldey, Peter
name: Farkas, Máté Zoltán
name: Feickert, Matthew
name: Fillinger, Tristan
name: Fischer, Benjamin
name: Fröse, Stefan
name: Gerlach, Lino Oscar
name: Hartmann, Nikolai
name: Heidelbach, Alexander
name: Held, Alexander
name: Ivanov, Marian I.
name: Molina, Josué
name: Nikitenko, Yaroslav
name: Osborne, Ianna
name: Padulano, Vincenzo Eduardo
name: Pivarski, Jim
name: Praz, Cyrille
name: Rieger, Marcel
name: Rodrigues, Eduardo
name: Shadura, Oksana
name: Smieško, Juraj
name: Holtsberg Stark, Giordon
name: Steinfeld, Judith
name: Warkentin, Angela
Publisher: name: RWTH Aachen University
Year: 2024
Subjects: "Python in HEP" Developer's Workshop, PyHEP.dev 2024, 2024-08-26 - 2024-08-30, Aachen, Germany

description: 16 Seiten (2024). doi:10.48550/arXiv.2410.02112
SECURING SMART GRIDS USING THE DEEP LEARNING APPROACHES FOR INTELLIGENT INTRUSION DETECTION AND CYBERSECURITY ENHANCEMENT
Creators: name: Lokesh S
name: Mala Malik
name: Leeth Hassen Jaseem
name: T. Gavaskar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Intrusion Detection, Smart Grids, Deep Learning, Cybersecurity, Data Tampering.

description: Abstract

This research focuses on developing deep learning models to enhance cybersecurity in smart grid systems by providing an intelligent intrusion detection system. Long short-term memory, K-nearest neighbors, Recurrent Neural Networks, and Convolutional Neural Networks were used to develop the intrusion detection system. The utilized dataset employs 3200 electricity readings and bills from the KDD99 dataset. The ability of the deep learning models to analyze the electricity readings and pinpoint data modifications despite the time and the type of the bills was tested via comprehensive preprocessing and training. The results indicated that LSTM was the most effective model, with an accuracy rate of 98.56%. This model was effective at capturing the temporal dependencies in the complex dataset. At the same time, KNN was also relatively effective, with an accuracy rate of 95.67%, which is an effective outcome for an instance-based learning technique. However, the performance of both RNN and CNN was slightly worse, with an accuracy rate of 93.4% and 91.23%, respectively. As such, the outcomes of this study indicate that the current models are quite effective and can be developed to address intrusions into other system elements as well. The outcomes are also important for their ability to increase the cybersecurity of smart grids and ensure the safety and privacy of electricity-related data. Such improved systems can also raise the trust of consumers within their communities by demonstrating the safety of smart grids and similar systems.
Gated Domain Units for Multi-source Domain Generalization.
Creators: name: Föll, Simon
name: Dubatovka, Alina
name: Ernst, Eugen
name: Chau, Siu Lun
name: Maritsch, Martin
name: Okanovic, Patrik
name: Thäter, Gudrun
name: Buhmann, Joachim M
name: Wortmann, Felix
name: Muandet, Krikamol
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2024

description: The phenomenon of distribution shift (DS) occurs when a dataset at test time differs from the dataset at training time, which can significantly impair the performance of a machine learning model in practical settings due to a lack of knowledge about the data's distribution at test time. To address this problem, we postulate that real-world distributions are composed of latent Invariant Elementary Distributions (I.E.D) across different domains. This assumption implies an invariant structure in the solution space that enables knowledge transfer to unseen domains. To exploit this property for domain generalization, we introduce a modular neural network layer consisting of Gated Domain Units (GDUs) that learn a representation for each latent elementary distribution. During inference, a weighted ensemble of learning machines can be created by comparing new observations with the representations of each elementary distribution. Our flexible framework also accommodates scenarios where explicit domain information is not present. Extensive experiments on image, text, and graph data show consistent performance improvement on out-of-training target domains. These findings support the practicality of the I.E.D assumption and the effectiveness of GDUs for domain generalisation.
The STEPS to Atlanta Streets Alive Activity Guide
Creators: name: Greear, Dana
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: Atlanta Streets Alive (ASA) is a continually developing ciclovía recreativa based program occurring in urban Atlanta. Creating multi-sectoral partnerships and providing complementary activities to participants are key to ciclovía program sustainability. The objective of this capstone project was to create the STEPS to Atlanta Streets Alive Activity Guide (STEPS guide) by using a process method of evaluation framework for planning, conducting, and evaluating activities performed within ASA events. A pilot activity was conducted during the Atlanta Streets Alive event on October 17, 2010. The STEPS guide was assembled by using information collected during the pilot activity, with secondary analysis of the STEPS guide, including expert and focus group critique, to ensure accuracy and feasibility of use. The STEPS guide is a structured method of collecting static information about the individual activities conducted within ASA events. This information can be used by future activity partners to develop dynamic complementary activities within ASA events.