cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Personal Protective Equipment
Creators: name: Women's Occupational Health Resource Center
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1981
Subjects: Protective clothing
Industrial safety--Equipment and supplies
Public health
Medicine, Industrial

description: Information packet on personal protective equipment produced by the Women’s Occupational Health Resource Center (WOHRC). The WOHRC (1979-1987) was a research and training program devoted to identifying and better understanding hazards faced by women workers. WOHRC was housed in Columbia’s School of Public Health and directed by Professor Jeanne Mager Stellman. WOHRC was a designated OSHA New Directions Training program, and also received support from other federal and private agencies. As a New Directions project, WOHRC trained thousands of workers and professionals in hazard recognition and accident and illness prevention for women workers. In order to carry out its public health programs, WOHRC developed and disseminated original educational materials. The materials were designed to be authoritative while at the same time accessible to non-professional users (e.g. the workers). WOHRC published a monthly newsletter that contained a “fact sheet” focusing on a particular job or a particular hazard. The fact sheets were also made available individually or collected into “fact packs” of related materials.
title: Comparative studies of populations of perch (Perca fluviatilis L.) and pike (Esox lucius L.) in two Scottish lochs
Creators: name: Shafi, Muhammed
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 1969

description: Several aspects of the population biology of perch (Perca fluviatilis L.) and pike (Esox lucius L.) have been studied in various lakes in the Palaearctic area. Thus, in England, the perch and pike of Windermere have been extensively studied by Le Cren (1947, 1951, 1958) and Frost (1954, 1959, 1967) respectively. The perch and pike populations in Loch Lomond, however, the largest freshwater lake in Great Britain, have so far been rather neglected. The brief publication of Hartley (1947) on the growth of perch, based on only a small number of fish, and the work of Copland (1956) on the food and parasites of pike in Loch Lomond have been the only two studies carried out so far.In 1966, it was decided to embark on a study of the population dynamics of perch and pike in Loch Lomond and the neighbouring Dubh Lochan. This project had as its principal aims (i) the estimation of the populations of various fish species in the Dubh Lochan (perch, pike and eels), (ii) the annual gross production of these fish there and (iii) a comparison of the populations of perch and pike with those in Loch Lomond with respect to age, growth, food and fecundity.
The superluminous supernova PS1-11ap: bridging the gap between low and high redshift
Creators: name: McCrum, M.
name: Smartt, S. J.
name: Kotak, R.
name: Rest, A.
name: Jerkstrand, A.
name: Inserra, C.
name: Rodney, S. A.
name: Chen, T. -W.
name: Howell, D. A.
name: Huber, M. E.
name: Pastorello, A.
name: Tonry, J. L.
name: Bresolin, F.
name: Kudritzki, R. -P.
name: Chornock, R.
name: Berger, E.
name: Smith, K.
name: Botticella, M. T.
name: Foley, R. J.
name: Fraser, M.
name: Milisavljevic, D.
name: Nicholl, M.
name: Riess, A. G.
name: Stubbs, C. W.
name: Valenti, S.
name: Wood-Vasey, W. M.
name: Wright, D.
name: Young, D. R.
name: Drout, M.
name: Czekala, I.
name: Burgett, W. S.
name: Chambers, K. C.
name: Draper, P.
name: Flewelling, H.
name: Hodapp, K. W.
name: Kaiser, N.
name: Magnier, E. A.
name: Metcalfe, N.
name: Sweeney, W.
name: Wainscoat, R. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present optical photometric and spectroscopic coverage of the superluminous supernova (SLSN) PS1-11ap, discovered with the Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey at z = 0.524. This intrinsically blue transient rose slowly to reach a peak magnitude of M_u = -21.4 mag and bolometric luminosity of 8 x 10^43 ergs^-1 before settling onto a relatively shallow gradient of decline. The observed decline is significantly slower than those of the superluminous type Ic SNe which have been the focus of much recent attention. Spectroscopic similarities with the lower redshift SN2007bi and a decline rate similar to 56Co decay timescale initially indicated that this transient could be a candidate for a pair instability supernova (PISN) explosion. Overall the transient appears quite similar to SN2007bi and the lower redshift object PTF12dam. The extensive data set, from 30 days before peak to 230 days after, allows a detailed and quantitative comparison with published models of PISN explosions. We find that the PS1-11ap data do not match these model explosion parameters well, supporting the recent claim that these SNe are not pair instability explosions. We show that PS1-11ap has many features in common with the faster declining superluminous Ic supernovae and the lightcurve evolution can also be quantitatively explained by the magnetar spin down model. At a redshift of z = 0.524 the observer frame optical coverage provides comprehensive restframe UV data and allows us to compare it with the superluminous SNe recently found at high redshifts between z = 2-4. While these high-z explosions are still plausible PISN candidates, they match the photometric evolution of PS1-11ap and hence could be counterparts to this lower redshift transient.
description: 19 pages, 10 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Balancing the personal, local, institutional, and global: multiple case study and multidimensional scaling analysis of African experiences...
Creators: name: Ager, Alastair
name: Zarowsky, Christina
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Globalization--Health aspects
Developing countries
Public health--Research--Evaluation
Public health

description: Background
Strengthening health research capacity in low- and middle-income countries remains a major policy goal. The Health Research Capacity Strengthening (HRCS) Global Learning (HGL) program of work documented experiences of HRCS across sub-Saharan Africa.

Methods
We reviewed findings from HGL case studies and reflective papers regarding the dynamics of HRCS. Analysis was structured with respect to common challenges in such work, identified through a multi-dimensional scaling analysis of responses from 37 participants at the concluding symposium of the program of work.

Results
Symposium participants identified 10 distinct clusters of challenges: engaging researchers, policymakers, and donors; securing trust and cooperation; finding common interest; securing long-term funding; establishing sustainable models of capacity strengthening; ensuring Southern ownership; accommodating local health system priorities and constraints; addressing disincentives for academic engagement; establishing and retaining research teams; and sustaining mentorship and institutional support. Analysis links these challenges to three key and potentially competing drivers of the political economy of health research: an enduring model of independent researchers and research leaders, the globalization of knowledge and the linked mobility of (elite) individuals, and institutionalization of research within universities and research centres and, increasingly, national research and development agendas.

Conclusions
We identify tensions between efforts to embrace the global ‘Community of Science’ and the promotion and protection of national and institutional agendas in an unequal global health research environment. A nuanced understanding of the dynamics and implications of the uneven global health research landscape is required, along with a willingness to explore pragmatic models that seek to balance these competing drivers.

Keywords

Capacity strengthening Complexity Global health research Globalization Institutional capacity North-South-South partnerships Political economy of health research Mentorship
The ALHAMBRA survey: Discovery of a faint QSO at z = 5.41
Creators: name: Matute, I.
name: Masegosa, J.
name: Márquez, I.
name: Fernández-Soto, A.
name: Husillos, C.
name: del Olmo, A.
name: Perea, J.
name: Pović, M.
name: Ascaso, B.
name: Alfaro, E. J.
name: Moles, M.
name: Aguerri, J. A. L.
name: Aparicio--Villegas, T.
name: Benítez, N.
name: Broadhurst, T.
name: Cabrera--Cano, J.
name: Castander, F. J.
name: Cepa, J.
name: Cerviño, M.
name: Cristóbal-Hornillos, D.
name: Infante, L.
name: Delgado, R. M. González
name: Martínez, V. J.
name: Molino, A.
name: Prada, F.
name: Quintana, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We aim to illustrate the potentiality of the Advanced Large, Homogeneous Area, Medium-Band Redshift Astronomical (ALHAMBRA) survey to investigate the high redshift universe through the detection of quasi stellar objects (QSOs) at redshifts larger than 5. The search for z>5 QSOs candidates was done by fitting an extensive library of spectral energy distributions --including active and non-active galaxy templates as well as stars-- to the photometric database of the ALHAMBRA survey (composed of 20 optical medium-band plus the 3 broad-band JHKs filters). Our selection over ~1 square degree of ALHAMBRA data (~1/4 of the total area covered by the survey), combined with GTC/OSIRIS spectroscopy, has yielded the identification of an optically faint QSO at very high redshift (z = 5.41). The QSO has an absolute magnitude of ~-24 at the 1450Å continuum, a bolometric luminosity of ~2x10^46 erg/s and an estimated black hole mass of ~10^8 Msolar. This QSO adds itself to a reduced number of known UV faint sources at these redshifts. The preliminary derived space density is compatible with the most recent determinations of the high-z QSO luminosity functions (QLF). This new detection shows how ALHAMBRA, as well as forthcoming well designed photometric surveys, can provide a wealth of information on the origin and early evolution of this kind of objects.
description: 6 pages. Accepted for publication by A&A
The DANS Data Station Social Sciences & Humanities - Enabling FAIR data in the Dutch SSH community
Creators: name: Braukmann, Ricarda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Data repository
Social Sciences
FAIR Data

description: Presentation given at the BY-COVID Spring 23 Use Cases Workshop: Integration of socioeconomic data in observational studies on vaccine effectiveness presenting the DANS Data Station Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH). The Data Station is one of the data archiving services that DANS offers to the SSH community as part of our role as Dutch national centre for expertise and repository for research data. The presentation introduces the Data Station and shows how it is embedded in the SSH landscape connecting to national and international infrastructures like ODISSEI or CESSDA.
Nonperturbative renormalization of the chiral nucleon-nucleon interaction up to next-to-next-to-leading order
Creators: name: Marji, E.
name: Canul, A.
name: MacPherson, Q.
name: Winzer, R.
name: Zeoli, Ch.
name: Entem, D. R.
name: Machleidt, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the nonperturbative renormalization of the nucleon-nucleon (NN) interaction at next-to-leading order (NLO) and next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) of chiral effective field theory. A systematic variation of the cutoff parameter is performed for values below the chiral symmetry breaking scale of about 1 GeV. The accuracy of the predictions is determined by calculating the $χ^2$ for the reproduction of the NN data for energy intervals below pion-production threshold. At NLO, the NN data are described well up to about 100 MeV laboratory energy and, at NNLO, up to about 200 MeV---with, essentially, cutoff independence for cutoffs between about 450 and 850 MeV.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF RISK ASSESSMENT AND AUDIT REPORTING IN NIGERIA'S LISTED DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS
Creators: name: Olumide, Adebayo Olorunfemi
Publisher: name: kEITH jOURNAL
Year: 2025
Subjects: Risks, Assessment, Vulnerabilities, Technique, Imbalances, Management, Audit reporting quality. JEL Classification: G32, M29

description: This paper investigates the effect of risk assessment procedures in audit reporting quality in listed deposit money banks in Nigeria. This is done from the fact that the banks in Nigeria despite their banking regulation, there is no consensus on the impact of risk assessment procedure in the banking sector. The population for the study comprises of 10 listed commercial banks in the Nigerian Exchange group. A simple random sampling technique was used, and data were obtained from the audited annual financial reports of the firms for a period of 2010 -2021. Panel least square (PLS) was used to analyze the collected data. The study found out that risk assessment has negative and significance influence in the audit reporting quality. The implication of the findings is that management of financial risk in the banking sector is deficient, and it has a negative consequence on the quality of the report released to the investors for the assessment of the company’s performance. The study therefore concludes that risk assessment procedures are a significant underlying factor that can negatively influence the quality of audit reporting in the banking sector
The Strain Derivatives of $T_c$ in HgBa$_2$CuO$_{4+δ}$: CuO$_2$ Plane Alone is Not Enough
Creators: name: Wang, Shibing
name: Zhang, Jianbo
name: Yan, Jinyuan
name: Chen, Xiao-Jia
name: Struzhkin, Viktor
name: Tabis, Wojciech
name: Barišic, Neven
name: Chan, Mun
name: Dorow, Chelsey
name: Zhao, Xudong
name: Greven, Martin
name: Mao, Wendy L.
name: Geballe, Ted
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The strain derivatives of $T_c$ along the $a$ and $c$ axes have been determined for HgBa$_2$CuO$_{4+δ}$ (Hg1201), the simplest monolayer cuprate with the highest $T_c$ of all monolayer cuprates ($T_c$ = 97 K at optimal doping). The underdoped compound with the initial $T_c$ of 65 K has been studied as a function of pressure up to 20 GPa by magnetic susceptibility and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The observed linear increase in $T_c$ with pressure is the same as previously been found for the optimally-doped compound. The above results have enabled the investigation of the origins of the significantly different $T_c$ values of optimally doped Hg1201 and the well-studied compound La$_{2-x}$Sr$_{x}$CuO$_{4}$ (LSCO), the latter value of $T_c$ = 40 K being only about 40% of the former. Hg1201 can have almost identical CuO$_6$ octahedra as LSCO if specifically strained. When the apical and in-plane CuO$_2$ distances are the same for the two compounds, a large discrepancy in their $T_c$ remains. Differences in crystal structures and interactions involving the Hg-O charge reservoir layers of Hg1201 may be responsible for the different $T_c$ values exhibited by the two compounds.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, and Appendix
Echinoprocta rufescens
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Erethizontidae
Echinoprocta
Echinoprocta rufescens

description: Echinoprocta rufescens (Gray, 1865). Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865:321. TYPE LOCALITY: Colombia. DISTRIBUTION: Colombia.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 571, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
Review of Biomedical Image Processing
Creators: name: Ciaccio, Edward J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Imaging systems in medicine
Image processing--Mathematics
Textbooks
Diagnostic imaging

description: This article is a review of the book: 'Biomedical Image Processing', by Thomas M. Deserno, which is published by Springer-Verlag. Salient information that will be useful to decide whether the book is relevant to topics of interest to the reader, and whether it might be suitable as a course textbook, are presented in the review. This includes information about the book details, a summary, the suitability of the text in course and research work, the framework of the book, its specific content, and conclusions.
The ODISSEI Portal: collecting metadata from Dutch data providers
Creators: name: Maineri, Angelica Maria
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The ODISSEI Portal combines metadata from a wide variety of research data repositories into a single interface, allows advanced semantic queries to support findability, and facilitates data access.The slides accompanied a presentation the ODISSEI Portal given at the BY-COVID Spring 23 Use Cases Workshop on 26 April 2023.
Dynamic Conduction and Repolarisation Changes in Early Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy versus Benign Outflow Tract Ectopy Demonstrated by High Density Mapping and Paced Surface ECG Analysis
Creators: name: Finlay, Malcolm C.
name: Ahmed, Akbar K.
name: Sugrue, Alan
name: Bhar-Amato, Justine
name: Quarta, Giovanni
name: Pantazis, Antonis
name: Ciaccio, Edward J.
name: Syrris, Petros
name: Sen-Chowdhry, Srijita
name: Ben-Simon, Ron
name: Chow, Anthony W.
name: Lambiase, Pier D.
name: Segal, Oliver R.
name: Lowe, Martin D.
name: McKenna, William J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Human body--Density
Myocardium--Diseases
Medical sciences

description: Aims:

The concealed phase of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) may initially manifest electrophysiologically. No studies have examined dynamic conduction/repolarization kinetics to distinguish benign right ventricular outflow tract ectopy (RVOT ectopy) from ARVC's early phase. We investigated dynamic endocardial electrophysiological changes that differentiate early ARVC disease expression from RVOT ectopy.

Methods:

22 ARVC (12 definite based upon family history and mutation carrier status, 10 probable) patients without right ventricular structural anomalies underwent high-density non-contact mapping of the right ventricle. These were compared to data from 14 RVOT ectopy and 12 patients with supraventricular tachycardias and normal hearts. Endocardial & surface ECG conduction and repolarization parameters were assessed during a standard S1-S2 restitution protocol.

Results:

Definite ARVC without RV structural disease could not be clearly distinguished from RVOT ectopy during sinus rhythm or during steady state pacing. Delay in Activation Times at coupling intervals just above the ventricular effective refractory period (VERP) increased in definite ARVC (43±20 ms) more than RVOT ectopy patients (36±14 ms, p = 0.03) or Normals (25±16 ms, p = 0.008) and a progressive separation of the repolarisation time curves between groups existed. Repolarization time increases in the RVOT were also greatest in ARVC (definite ARVC: 18±20 ms; RVOT ectopy: 5±14, Normal: 1±18, p<0.05). Surface ECG correlates of these intracardiac measurements demonstrated an increase of greater than 48 ms in stimulus to surface ECG J-point pre-ERP versus steady state, with an 88% specificity and 68% sensitivity in distinguishing definite ARVC from the other groups. This technique could not distinguish patients with genetic predisposition to ARVC only (probable ARVC) from controls.

Conclusions:

Significant changes in dynamic conduction and repolarization are apparent in early ARVC before detectable RV structural abnormalities, and were present to a lesser degree in probable ARVC patients. Investigation of dynamic electrophysiological parameters may be useful to identify concealed ARVC in patients without disease pedigrees by using endocardial electrogram or paced ECG parameters.
Health Care Workers FactPack
Creators: name: Women's Occupational Health Resource Center
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1988
Subjects: Medical personnel--Health and hygiene
Industrial hygiene
Medical personnel--Health risk assessment
Public health
Medicine, Industrial

description: Information packet on health care workers produced by the Women’s Occupational Health Resource Center (WOHRC). The WOHRC (1979-1987) was a research and training program devoted to identifying and better understanding hazards faced by women workers. WOHRC was housed in Columbia’s School of Public Health and directed by Professor Jeanne Mager Stellman. WOHRC was a designated OSHA New Directions Training program, and also received support from other federal and private agencies. As a New Directions project, WOHRC trained thousands of workers and professionals in hazard recognition and accident and illness prevention for women workers. In order to carry out its public health programs, WOHRC developed and disseminated original educational materials. The materials were designed to be authoritative while at the same time accessible to non-professional users (e.g. the workers). WOHRC published a monthly newsletter that contained a “fact sheet” focusing on a particular job or a particular hazard. The fact sheets were also made available individually or collected into “fact packs” of related materials.
Modified recombination and the Hubble tension
Creators: name: Mirpoorian, Seyed Hamidreza
name: Jedamzik, Karsten
name: Pogosian, Levon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the extent to which modifying the ionization history at cosmological recombination can relieve the Hubble tension, taking into account all relevant datasets and considering the implications for the galaxy clustering parameter $S_8$ and the matter density fraction $Ω_m$. We use the linear response approximation to systematically search for candidate ionization histories parameterized with a cubic-spline that provide good fits to the Planck CMB and DESI BAO data while relieving the $H_0$ tension, followed by MCMC fits of the most promising candidate models to the data. We also fit to the data a physically motivated phenomenological model of ionization history that has four parameters. Our main result is that models of modified recombination can reduce the Hubble tension to below 2$σ$ while improving the fit to the current CMB and BAO data and reducing the $S_8$ tension. The promising candidate ionization histories have simple shapes, with no need for an oscillatory dependence on redshift. Our study also demonstrates the importance of the high-resolution CMB temperature and polarization anisotropies for constraining modified recombination, with the candidate models in this study showing varying levels of agreement with the current ACT DR4 and SPT-3G data.
description: 10 pages + appendices, 10 figures (6 in the main text), minor revisions in version 2, matches the published version
Health-RI COVID19 project Experiences and bottlenecks re: SSH data
Creators: name: Belien, Jeroen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: FAIR
lessons learned
machine readable
human readable
COVID-19

description: Presentation given at the BY-COVID Spring 23 Use Cases Workshop: Integration of socioeconomic data in observational studies on vaccine effectiveness presenting the Health-RI COVID-19 project experiences and bottlenecks with a link to the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH). The presentation shows the roadmap, work accomplished as well as lessons learned towards a (Dutch) national observational COVID portal.
description: The work described was also (in part) funded by ZonMw
RNA sequencing from human neutrophils reveals distinct transcriptional differences associated with chronic inflammatory states
Creators: name: Jiang, Kaiyu
name: Sun, Xiaoyun
name: Chen, Yanmin
name: Shen, Yufeng
name: Jarvis, James N.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biochemical markers
subject: Rheumatism
subject: Genetic transcription
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Background
The transcriptional complexity of mammalian cells suggests that they have broad abilities to respond to specific environmental stimuli and physiologic contexts. These abilities were not apparent a priori from the structure of mammalian genomes, but have been identified through detailed transcriptome analyses. In this study, we examined the transcriptomes of cells of the innate immune system, human neutrophils, using RNA sequencing (RNAseq).

Methods
We sequenced poly-A RNA from nine individual samples corresponding to specific phenotypes: three children with active, untreated juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)(AD), three children with the same disease whose disease was inactive on medication (CRM), and three children with cystic fibrosis (CF).

Results
We demonstrate that transcriptomes of neutrophils, typically considered non-specific in their responses and functions, display considerable specificity in their transcriptional repertoires dependent on the pathologic context, and included genes, gene isoforms, and long non-coding RNA transcripts. Furthermore, despite the small sample numbers, these findings demonstrate the potential of RNAseq approaches to biomarker development in rheumatic diseases.

Conclusions
These data demonstrate the capacity of cells previously considered non-specific in function to adapt their transcriptomes to specific biologic contexts. These data also provide insight into previously unrecognized pathological pathways and show considerable promise for elucidating disease and disease-state specific regulatory networks.
title: Everyday life in focus in residential child care
Creators: name: Schjellerup Nielsen, Helle
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2010

description: This paper is based on a study of relationships within a community-based residential establishment in Denmark. The residential unit involved in the study receives children from 4 -17 years, though the average age is 14. Admission on an emergency basis is possible and often used. However, most children are in long-term care (1-2 years) and a few of them for the rest of their childhood. The unit has two sections, each with six children. The sections work separately, but they are within the same house, connected by a corridor and they share playgrounds, meeting rooms and office facilities. Eleven young people were interviewed. Two of the young people, aged 14 and over, still lived in the residential unit, while the rest of the interviewees had moved out of residential care and lived independently. All the statements included in this paper are from the latter group. The study was conducted in cooperation with Karen Zobbe and published in Schjellerup Nielsen & Zobbe (2003).
Data landscape for infectious diseases surveillance in Belgium and use of socio-economic indicators
Creators: name: Van Goethem, Nina
name: Cavillot, Lisa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: infectious diseases surveillance
socio-economic indicators

description: Presentation given at the BY-COVID Spring 23 Use Cases Workshop: Integration of socioeconomic data in observational studies on vaccine effectiveness presenting the data landscape for infectious diseases surveillance in Belgium and the use of socio-demographic and socio-economic indicators.
Operating Characteristics of a Tuberculosis Screening Tool for People Living with HIV in Out-Patient HIV Care and Treatment Services, Rwanda
Creators: name: Turinawe, Kenneth
name: Vandebriel, Greet
name: Lowrance, David W.
name: Uwinkindi, Francois
name: Mutwa, Philippe
name: Boer, Kimberly R.
name: Mutembayire, Grace
name: Nsanzimana, Sabin
name: Tugizimana, David
name: Pevzner, Eric
name: Howard, Andrea A.
name: Gasana, Michel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: HIV-positive persons
Tuberculosis--Diagnosis
Public health

description: Background:
The World Health Organization (WHO) 2010 guidelines for intensified tuberculosis (TB) case finding (ICF) among people living with HIV (PLHIV) includes a recommendation that PLHIV receive routine TB screening. Since 2005, the Rwandan Ministry of Health has been using a five-question screening tool. Our study objective was to assess the operating characteristics of the tool designed to identify PLHIV with presumptive TB as measured against a composite reference standard, including bacteriologically confirmed TB.

Methods:

In a cross-sectional study, the TB screening tool was routinely administered at enrolment in outpatient HIV care and treatment services at seven public health facilities. From March to September 2011, study enrollees were examined for TB disease irrespective of TB screening outcome. The examination consisted of a chest radiograph (CXR), three sputum smears (SS), sputum culture (SC) and polymerase chain reaction line-probe assay (Hain test). PLHIV were classified as having “laboratory-confirmed TB” with positive results on SS for acid-fast bacilli, SC on Lowenstein-Jensen medium, or a Hain test.

Results:

Overall, 1,767 patients were enrolled and screened of which; 1,017 (57.6%) were female, median age was 33 (IQR, 27–41), and median CD4+ cell count was 385 (IQR, 229–563) cells/mm^3. Of the patients screened, 138 (7.8%) were diagnosed with TB of which; 125 (90.5%) were laboratory-confirmed pulmonary TB. Of 404 (22.9%) patients who screened positive and 1,363 (77.1%) who screened negative, 79 (19.5%) and 59 (4.3%), respectively, were diagnosed with TB. For laboratory-confirmed TB, the tool had a sensitivity of 54.4% (95% CI 45.3–63.3), specificity of 79.5% (95% CI 77.5–81.5), PPV of 16.8% and NPV of 95.8%.

Conclusion:

TB prevalence among PLHIV newly enrolling into HIV care and treatment was 65 times greater than the overall population prevalence. However, the performance of the tool was poorer than the predicted performance of the WHO recommended TB screening questions.
Continuously evolving demonstrator - Baseline use case: Prototyping a workflow that is standard to population health research
Creators: name: Van Goethen, Nina
name: Meurisse, Marjan
name: González-Galindo, Javier
name: Martínez-Lizaga, Natalia
name: Estupiñán-Romero, Francisco
name: Bernal-Delgado, Enrique
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2
vaccines
comparative effectiveness
population health
real-world data
workflow

description: This publication contains the slidedeck of the presentation with the title "Continuously evolving demonstrator", and subtitled "Baseline use case: Prototyping a workflow that is standard to population health research" given by Enrique Bernal-Delgado at the BY-COVID Spring 23 Use Cases Workshop: Integration of socioeconomic data in observational studies on vaccine effectiveness organised as part of BY-COVID WP5 activities. The use cases explored in the BY-COVID project are thought to be developed as demonstrators showcasing methodologies and tools incresing preparedness for tackling the next pandemics via the analysis of health and life sciences data. The presentation introduces the baseline use case as a support to prototype a standard workflow aiming at responding relevant population health research questions, assessing public health interventions by reusing routinely collected health data (i.e., real-world data) from multiple sources in different countries using a federated approach.
Erethizon F. Cuvier 1822
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Erethizontidae
Erethizon

description: Erethizon F. Cuvier, 1822. Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 9:432. COMMENT: Erithizon Burnett, 1829, is a later spelling; see Corbet and Hill, 1980:189.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 572, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
description: {"references": ["Burnett, G. T. 1829. Illustrations of the Alipeda. Quarterly Journal of Literature, Science and the Arts, 262 - 269.", "Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1980. A world list of mammalian species. British Museum (Natural History), London, 226 pp."]}
Differing Causes of Lactic Acidosis and Deep Breathing in Cerebral Malaria and Severe Malarial Anemia May Explain Differences in Acidosis-Related Mortality
Creators: name: Brand, Nathan R.
name: Opoka, Robert O.
name: Hamre, Karen E. S.
name: John, Chandy C.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Acidosis
Cerebral malaria
Malaria--Mortality
Pathology

description: Lactic acidosis (LA) is a marker for mortality in severe malaria, but the mechanisms that lead to LA in the different types of severe malaria and the extent to which LA-associated mortality differs by type of severe malaria are not well described. We assessed the frequency of LA in children admitted to Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda with cerebral malaria (CM, n = 193) or severe malarial anemia (SMA, n = 216). LA was compared to mortality and measures of parasite biomass and sequestration (P. falciparum histidine-rich protein-2 (PfHRP2) concentration, platelet count), and to a measure of systemic tissue oxygen delivery (hemoglobin level). LA was more frequent in children with SMA than CM (SMA, 47.7%, CM, 34.2%, P = 0.006), but mortality was higher in children with CM (13.0%) than SMA (0.5%, P<0.0001). In CM, LA was associated with increased PfHRP2 concentration and decreased platelet count but was not associated with hemoglobin level. In contrast, in SMA, LA was associated with a decreased hemoglobin level, but was not associated with PfHRP2 concentration or platelet count. LA was related to mortality only in CM. In multivariable regression analysis of the effect PfHRP2 and hemoglobin levels on LA and DB, only PfHRP2 level increased risk of LA and DB in CM, while in SMA, elevated hemoglobin strongly decreased risk of LA and DB, and PfHRP2 level modestly increased risk of LA. The study findings suggest that LA in CM is due primarily to parasite sequestration, which currently has no effective adjunctive therapy, while LA in SMA is due primarily to anemia, which is rapidly corrected with blood transfusion. Differing etiologies of LA in CM and SMA may explain why LA is associated with mortality in CM but not SMA.
Social Involvement Modulates the Response to Novel and Adverse Life Events in Mice
Creators: name: Colnaghi, Luca
name: Clemenza, Kelly
name: Groleau, Sarah E.
name: Weiss, Shira
name: Lopez-Rosas, Mariana
name: Snyder, Anna M.
name: Levine, Amir A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Behaviorism (Psychology)
subject: Social participation
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Epidemiological findings suggest that social involvement plays a major role in establishing resilience to adversity, however, the neurobiology by which social involvement confers protection is not well understood. Hypothesizing that social involvement confers resilience by changing the way adverse life events are encoded, we designed a series of behavioral tests in mice that utilize the presence or absence of conspecific cage mates in measuring response to novel and adverse events. We found that the presence of cage mates increased movement after exposure to a novel environment, increased time spent in the open arms of the elevated plus maze, and decreased freezing time after a foot shock as well as expedited fear extinction, therefore significantly changing the response to adversity. This is a first description of a mouse model for the effects of social involvement on adverse life events. Understanding how social involvement provides resilience to adversity may contribute to the future treatment and prevention of mental and physical illness.
Spurious Velocities in Dynamically-Cold Systems Due to the Gravitational Redshifts of their Constituent Stars
Creators: name: Loeb, Abraham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Doppler effect is commonly used to infer the velocity difference between stars based on the relative shifts in the rest-frame wavelengths of their spectral features. In dynamically-cold systems with a low velocity dispersion, such as wide binaries, loose star clusters, cold stellar streams or cosmological mini-halos, the scatter in the gravitational redshift from the surface of the constituent stars needs to be taken into account as well. Gravitational redshifts could be important for wide binaries composed of main sequence stars with separations >0.01 pc or in mini-halos with velocity dispersions <1 km/s. Variable redshift could also lead to a spurious "detection" of low-mass planets around a star with periodic photospheric radius variations.
description: 2 pages, no figures, references added
A probabilistic explanation for the size-effect in crystal plasticity
Creators: name: Derlet, Peter M.
name: Maass, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, the well known power-law relation between strength and sample size, $d^{-n}$, is derived from the knowledge that a dislocation network exhibits scale-free behaviour and the extreme value statistical properties of an arbitrary distribution of critical stresses. This approach yields $n=(τ+1)/(α+1)$, where $α$ reflects the leading order algebraic exponent of the low stress regime of the critical stress distribution and $τ$ is the scaling exponent for intermittent plastic strain activity. This quite general derivation supports the experimental observation that the size effect paradigm is applicable to a wide range of materials, differing in crystal structure, internal microstructure and external sample geometry.
description: 22 pages, 4 figures, to be published in Phil. Mag
Neutrino oscillations in the presence of the crust magnetization
Creators: name: Syska, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is noted that the crustal magnetic spectrum exhibits the signal from the partly correlated domain dipoles on the space-scale up to approximately 500 km. This suggests the nonzero correlation among the dynamical variables of the ferromagnetic magnetization phenomenon on the small domain scale inside the earth's crust also. Therefore the influence of the mean of the zero component of the polarization on the CP matter-induced violation indexes is discussed.
description: 4 pages; 5 figures; In comparison with the published version, three new footnotes are added; 2nd Roma International Conference on Astroparticle Physics (RICAP 2009)
Transcriptome Analysis Identifies the Dysregulation of Ultraviolet Target Genes in Human Skin Cancers
Creators: name: Shen, Yao
name: Kim, Arianna L.
name: Du, Rong
name: Liu, Liang
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Skin--Cancer--Etiology
Keratinocytes
Ultraviolet radiation--Physiological effect
Oncology

description: Exposure to ultraviolet radiation (UVR) is a major risk factor for both melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers. In addition to its mutagenic effect, UVR can also induce substantial transcriptional instability in skin cells affecting thousands of genes, including many cancer genes, suggesting that transcriptional instability may be another important etiological factor in skin photocarcinogenesis. In this study, we performed detailed transcriptomic profiling studies to characterize the kinetic changes in global gene expression in human keratinocytes exposed to different UVR conditions. We identified a subset of UV-responsive genes as UV signature genes (UVSGs) based on 1) conserved UV-responsiveness of this subset of genes among different keratinocyte lines; and 2) UV-induced persistent changes in their mRNA levels long after exposure. Interestingly, 11 of the UVSGs were shown to be critical to skin cancer cell proliferation and survival. Through computational Gene Set Enrichment Analysis, we demonstrated that a significant portion of the UVSGs were dysregulated in human skin squamous cell carcinomas, but not in other human malignancies. This highlights the potential and specificity of the UVSGs in clinical diagnosis of UV damage and stratification of skin cancer risk.
Erethizon dorsatum
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Erethizontidae
Erethizon
Erethizon dorsatum

description: Erethizon dorsatum (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:57. REVIEWED BY: J. Ramirez-Pulido (JRP). TYPE LOCALITY: E. Canada (= Quebec Prov.). DISTRIBUTION: C. Alaska (U.S.A.) to S. Hudson Bay and Labrador (Canada), south to E. Tennessee, and C. Iowa, C. Texas (U.S.A.), N. Coahuila, Chihuahua, and Sonora (Mexico), and S. California (U.S.A.). COMMENT: Reviewed by Miller and Kellogg, 1955, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 205:631, who restricted the type locality; also see Anderson and Rand, 1943, Can. J. Res., 21:292-309. Includes couesi; see review by Woods, 1973, Mamm. Species, 29:1-6.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 572, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
description: {"references": ["Miller, G. S., Jr., and R. Kellogg. 1955. List of North American Recent mammals. Bulletin of United States National Museum, 205: 1 - 954.", "Anderson, R. M., and A. L. Rand. 1943. Variation in the porcupine (Genus Erethizon) in Canada. Canadian Journal of Research, section D, 21: 292 - 309.", "Woods, C. A. 1973. Erethizon dorsatum. Mammalian Species, 29 - 1 - 6."]}
Large-Scale microRNA Expression Profiling Identifies Putative Retinal miRNA-mRNA Signaling Pathways Underlying Form-Deprivation Myopia in Mice
Creators: name: Tkatchenko, Andrei V.
name: Luo, Xiaoyan
name: Tkatchenko, Tatiana V.
name: Vaz, Candida
name: Tanavde, Vivek M.
name: Maurer-Stroh, Sebastian
name: Zauscher, Stefan
name: Gonzalez, Pedro
name: Young, Terri L.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Non-coding RNA
subject: Genetic regulation
subject: Myopia
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ophthalmology

description: Development of myopia is associated with large-scale changes in ocular tissue gene expression. Although differential expression of coding genes underlying development of myopia has been a subject of intense investigation, the role of non-coding genes such as microRNAs in the development of myopia is largely unknown. In this study, we explored myopia-associated miRNA expression profiles in the retina and sclera of C57Bl/6J mice with experimentally induced myopia using microarray technology. We found a total of 53 differentially expressed miRNAs in the retina and no differences in miRNA expression in the sclera of C57BL/6J mice after 10 days of visual form deprivation, which induced -6.93 ± 2.44 D (p < 0.000001, n = 12) of myopia. We also identified their putative mRNA targets among mRNAs found to be differentially expressed in myopic retina and potential signaling pathways involved in the development of form-deprivation myopia using miRNA-mRNA interaction network analysis. Analysis of myopia-associated signaling pathways revealed that myopic response to visual form deprivation in the retina is regulated by a small number of highly integrated signaling pathways. Our findings highlighted that changes in microRNA expression are involved in the regulation of refractive eye development and predicted how they may be involved in the development of myopia by regulating retinal gene expression.
EO-Performance relationships in Reverse Internationalization by Chinese Global Startup OEMs: Social Networks and Strategic Flexibility
Creators: name: Chin, Tachia
name: Tsai, Sang-Bing
name: Fang, Kai
name: Zhu, Wenzhong
name: Liu, Ren-Huai
name: Yang, Dongjin
name: Tsuei, Richard Ting Chang
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Structural equation modeling
International economic relations
Globalization--Economic aspects
Internationalized territories
Commerce

description: Due to the context-sensitive nature of entrepreneurial orientation (EO), it is imperative to in-depth explore the EO-performance mechanism in China at its critical, specific stage of economic reform. Under the context of “reverse internationalization” by Chinese global startup original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), this paper aims to manifest the unique links and complicated interrelationships between the individual EO dimensions and firm performance. Using structural equation modeling, we found that during reverse internationalization, proactiveness is positively related to performance; risk taking is not statistically associated with performance; innovativeness is negatively related to performance. The proactiveness-performance relationship is mediated by Strategic flexibility and moderated by social networking relationships. The dynamic and complex institutional setting, coupled with the issues of overcapacity and rising labor cost in China may explain why our distinctive results occur. This research advances the understanding of how contingent factors (social network relationships and strategic flexibility) facilitate entrepreneurial firms to break down institutional barriers and reap the most from EO. It brings new insights into how Chinese global startup OEMs draw on EO to undertake reverse internationalization, responding the calls for unraveling the heterogeneous characteristics of EO sub-dimensions and for more contextually-embedded treatment of EO-performance associations.
Sphiggurus F. Cuvier 1825
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Erethizontidae
Sphiggurus

description: Sphiggurus F. Cuvier, 1825. Des Dentes des Mammiferes, p. 256. REVIEWED BY: K. F. Koopman (KFK); C. A. Woods (CAW). COMMENT: Formerly included in Coendou by Cabrera, 1961:600, Walker et al., 1975: 1012, and Hall, 1981:853. Considered a distinct genus by Husson, 1978:484-490. May include Coendou pallidus (CAW); probably includes C. mexicanus (KFK).
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 572, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
description: {"references": ["Walker, E. P., F. Warnick, S. E. Hamlet, K. I. Lange, M. A. Davis, H. E. Uible, and P. F. Wright. 1975. Mammals of the world. Third ed. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1: 1 - 646; 2: 647 - 1500.", "Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.", "Husson, A. M. 1978. The mammals of Suriname. E. J. Brill, Leiden, 569 pp., 160 pls."]}