cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Employment selections of resident and non-resident graduates of physical therapy programs in underserved Western states
Creators: name: Cornia, Trever J.
name: Dutot, Ryan B.
name: Parsons, Jacob T.
name: Swart, Kathryn D.
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2011

description: Background and Purpose:Physical therapy (PT) is an essential component of the healthcare system in providing a comprehensive treatment plan for patients with functional limitations. The demand for physical therapy services is projected to expand in the next eight years, leading to an increased need for practicing physical therapists. The Mountain States plus Washington State (MSPWS) demonstrate the greatest shortage of therapists and are considered to be medically underserved. The purpose of this study was to determine the retention rates of resident and non-resident physical therapy graduates of public universities in the MSPWS and to determine which factors influenced their employment decisions.
Subjects: Two hundred and forty two graduates of physical therapy education programs (PTEP) from six public universities located in the MSPWS participated in the study. The participants' ages ranged from 25 to 55 years old and included 159 females, 82 males, and 1 individual who did not indicate a gender.
Methods: A 10-question internet survey was developed and distributed to graduates of PTEPs. The department chairs of each PTEP as well as individuals who had associated with graduates of these PTEPs helped to distribute the survey to participants.
Results: Resident graduates were 5.2 times more likely than non-resident graduates to accept employment in the state from which they received their PT degree after graduation. Family and spouse played an important role in employment choice and was the most frequent option selected. Female residents were 2.4 times more likely than male residents to obtain employment in the state in which they received their PT education.
Discussion and Conclusion: The results of this study suggest that resident graduates within the MSPWS are more likely than non-resident graduates to accept employment in the state from which they graduated.
A Statistical Learning Theory Approach for Uncertain Linear and Bilinear Matrix Inequalities
Creators: name: Chamanbaz, Mohammadreza
name: Dabbene, Fabrizio
name: Tempo, Roberto
name: Venkataramanan, Venkatakrishnan
name: Wang, Qing-Guo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this paper, we consider the problem of minimizing a linear functional subject to uncertain linear and bilinear matrix inequalities, which depend in a possibly nonlinear way on a vector of uncertain parameters. Motivated by recent results in statistical learning theory, we show that probabilistic guaranteed solutions can be obtained by means of randomized algorithms. In particular, we show that the Vapnik-Chervonenkis dimension (VC-dimension) of the two problems is finite, and we compute upper bounds on it. In turn, these bounds allow us to derive explicitly the sample complexity of these problems. Using these bounds, in the second part of the paper, we derive a sequential scheme, based on a sequence of optimization and validation steps. The algorithm is on the same lines of recent schemes proposed for similar problems, but improves both in terms of complexity and generality. The effectiveness of this approach is shown using a linear model of a robot manipulator subject to uncertain parameters.
description: 19 pages, 2 figures, Accepted for Publication in Automatica
Crocidura gracilipes Peters 1870
Creators: name: Hutterer, Rainer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Insectivora
Soricidae
Crocidura
Crocidura gracilipes

description: Crocidura gracilipes Peters, 1870. Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1870:584. TYPE LOCALITY: "Auf der Reise nach dem Kilimandscharo "; unidentifiable but usually taken as " Kilimanjaro, Tanzania "; see Moreau et al. (1946:395). DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type specimen with unknown origin. COMMENTS: Does not include hildegardeae; see Demeter and Hutterer (1986:201). A recent examination of the type specimen indicated a conspecificy with C. cyanea.
description: Published as part of Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, pp. 69-130 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 86, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085
description: {"references": ["Moreau, R. E., G. H. E. Hopkins, and R. W. Hayman. 1946. The type-localities of some African mammals. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1946: 387 - 447.", "Demeter, R., and R. Hutterer. 1986. Small mammals from Mt. Meru and its environs (Northern Tanzania). Cimbebasia, ser. A, 8: 199 - 207."]}
Additional file 3 of Comparative analysis of the gut microbiota composition between knee osteoarthritis and Kashin-Beck disease in Northwest China
Creators: name: Ning, Yujie
name: Hu, Minhan
name: Gong, Yi
name: Huang, Ruitian
name: Xu, Ke
name: Chen, Sijie
name: Zhang, Feiyu
name: Liu, Yanli
name: Chen, Feihong
name: Chang, Yanhai
name: Zhao, Guanghui
name: Li, Cheng
name: Zhou, Rong
name: Lammi, Mikko J.
name: Guo, Xiong
name: Wang, Xi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 3: Table S1. Characteristics of participants in this study.
Strong cohomological rigidity of toric varieties
Creators: name: Choi, Suyoung
name: Park, Seonjeong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57R19, 57S25, 14M25

description: Every cohomology ring isomorphism between two non-singular complete toric varieties and quasitoric manifolds, respectively, with second Betti number $2$ is realizable by a diffeomorphism and homeomorphism, respectively.
description: 21 pages, 3 figures
title: An Evaluation of Clean the World, Las Vegas Volunteer Program
Creators: name: Cox, Chanton
name: Dahdouh, Bassem
name: Rousell, Madison
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2015

description: Background
Student evaluation team, AVID Advising, conducted an evaluation of a not for profit organization, Clean the World, Las Vegas Volunteer Program from February 2015 through August 2015. The pre-­‐ valuation consisted of an analysis of the organization's growth since opening its Las Vegas doors in 2012, staff responsibilities, and their volunteer program. As a result of the pre-­‐ valuation, AVID Advising and Clean the World Las Vegas Manager, Kevin Williams determined an evaluation on the existing volunteer program would be most beneficial to the organization.
Purpose
The primary purpose of this evaluation is to provide Clean the World, Las Vegas with both short and long term recommendations based on the identified needs of their current volunteer program.
Methodology
To obtain qualitative and quantitative information about the volunteer program, information was collected via interviews with Clean the World, Las Vegas staff members, found in benchmarks studies, and through surveys ADIV Advising developed and distributed to current volunteers.
Findings
The volunteer survey respondents were able to provide important critical feedback regarding the volunteer program; survey data and comment
Recursive meta-Reinforcement Learning for Personalized Sequential Dynamic Treatment Policies
Creators: name: Tardini, Elisa
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In recent years deep meta-reinforcement learning has extended the applicability of reinforcement learning algorithms: by integrating recurrent networks, trained models have the ability to quickly adapt to new unseen environments without the need for further backpropagation. We propose a novel recursive deep meta-reinforcement learning approach which enables the model of each decision of the sequential process to learn from and adapt to unseen circumstances by recursively integrating the feedback of the models of other decisions in the process. We apply this approach to a dataset of 3-step chemo-radiotherapeutic and surgical treatment of head and neck cancer patients, proving its ability to optimally handle previously unseen patient’s (and physician’s) preferences on survival and toxicity outcomes.
Tiwaskar M et al_STROBE checklist
Creators: name: Tiwaskar, Mangesh
name: Soratia, Zubair
name: Karmakar, Arnab
name: Patil, Neelkanth
name: Bhardwaj, Vikas
name: Sharma, Rakesh
name: Majid, Sarfaraz
name: Rao, Akhila
name: SDI, Ranjit
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other biomedical and clinical sciences not elsewhere classified

description: This file is the STROBE checklist included in line with reporting guidelines for observational study.
Die Urkunden Friedrichs I. 1152-1158, bearbeitet von Heinrich Appelt unter Mitwirkung von Rainer Maria Herkenrath, Walter Koch, Josef Riedmann, Winfried Stelzer und Kurt Zeillinger, 1975
Creators: name: Genequand, Jean-Pierre
Publisher: name: Francia
Year: 2018

description: -
description: Francia, Bd. 8 (1980)
Crocidura grandiceps Hutterer 1983
Creators: name: Hutterer, Rainer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Insectivora
Soricidae
Crocidura
Crocidura grandiceps

description: Crocidura grandiceps Hutterer, 1983. Rev. Suisse Zool., 90:699. TYPE LOCALITY: Ghana, Sefwi-Wiawso, Krokosua Hills, N of Asempanaya (Asampaniye). DISTRIBUTION: High forest regions of Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, and possibly Cameroon.
description: Published as part of Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, pp. 69-130 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 86, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085
Additional file 1 of Leukocyte- and platelet-rich fibrin in cranial surgery: study protocol for a prospective, parallel-group, single-blinded randomized controlled non-inferiority trial {1}
Creators: name: Coucke, Birgit
name: Van Hoylandt, Anaïs
name: van Loon, Johannes
name: Van Calenbergh, Frank
name: Van Gerven, Laura
name: Theys, Tom
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. World Health Organization Trial Registration Data Set {2b}.
Constraining the False Positive Rate for Kepler Planet Candidates with Multi-Color Photometry from the GTC
Creators: name: Colón, Knicole D.
name: Ford, Eric B.
name: Morehead, Robert C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the OSIRIS instrument installed on the 10.4-m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) we acquired multi-color transit photometry of four small (Rp < 5 R_Earth) short-period (P < 6 days) planet candidates recently identified by the Kepler space mission. These observations are part of a program to constrain the false positive rate for small, short-period Kepler planet candidates. Since planetary transits should be largely achromatic when observed at different wavelengths (excluding the small color changes due to stellar limb darkening), we use the observed transit color to identify candidates as either false positives (e.g., a blend with a stellar eclipsing binary either in the background/foreground or bound to the target star) or validated planets. Our results include the identification of KOI 225.01 and KOI 1187.01 as false positives and the tentative validation of KOI 420.01 and KOI 526.01 as planets. The probability of identifying two false positives out of a sample of four targets is less than 1%, assuming an overall false positive rate for Kepler planet candidates of 10% (as estimated by Morton & Johnson 2011). Therefore, these results suggest a higher false positive rate for the small, short-period Kepler planet candidates than has been theoretically predicted by other studies which consider the Kepler planet candidate sample as a whole. Furthermore, our results are consistent with a recent Doppler study of short-period giant Kepler planet candidates (Santerne et al. 2012). We also investigate how the false positive rate for our sample varies with different planetary and stellar properties. Our results suggest that the false positive rate varies significantly with orbital period and is largest at the shortest orbital periods (P < 3 days), where there is a corresponding rise in the number of detached eclipsing binary stars... (truncated)
description: 13 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables; revised for MNRAS
Electrical modulation of the edge channel transport in topological insulators coupled to ferromagnetic leads
Creators: name: Li, Yuan
name: Jalil, M. B. A.
name: Tan, Seng Ghee
name: Zhou, GuangHui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The counterpropagating edge states of a two-dimensional topological insulator (TI) carry electrons of opposite spins. We investigate the transport properties of edge states in a two-dimensional TI which is contacted to ferromagnetic leads. The application of a side-gate voltage induces a constriction or quantum point contact (QPC) which couples the two edge channels. The transport properties of the system is calculated via the Keldysh nonequilibrium Green's function method. We found that inter-edge spin-flip coupling can significantly enhance (suppress) the charge current when the magnetization of the leads are anti-parallel (parallel) to one another. On the other hand, spin-conserving inter-edge coupling generally reduces the current by backscattering regardless of the magnetization configuration. The charge current and the conductance as a function of the bias voltage, also exhibit similar trends with respect to spin-flip coupling strength, for both parallel and anti-parallel configurations. Hence, gate voltage modulation of edge states via a QPC can provide a means of modulating the spin or charge current flow in TI-based spintronics devices.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, submitted to J. Appl. Phys
Ernst Manheim, Aufklärung und öffentliche Meinung, Studien zur Soziologie der Öffentlichkeit im 18. Jahrhundert, Hg. u. eingel. von Norbert Schindler, 1979
Creators: name: François, Etienne
Publisher: name: Francia
Year: 2018

description: -
description: Francia, Bd. 8 (1980)
Crocidura grandis Miller 1911
Creators: name: Hutterer, Rainer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Insectivora
Soricidae
Crocidura
Crocidura grandis

description: Crocidura grandis Miller, 1911. Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 38:393. TYPE LOCALITY: Philippines, Mindanao, Grand Malindang Mt., 6100 ft. DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Mt. Malindang, Mindanao, Philippines. COMMENTS: Status unknown; probably confined to primary forest (Heaney et al., 1987:38).
description: Published as part of Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, pp. 69-130 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 86, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085
description: {"references": ["Heaney, L. R., P. C. Gonzales, and A. C. Acala. 1987. An annotated checklist of the taxonomic and conservation status of land mammals in the Philippines. Silliman Journal, 34: 32 - 66."]}
Topological Surface Transport in Epitaxial SnTe Thin Films Grown on Bi2Te3
Creators: name: Taskin, A. A.
name: Yang, Fan
name: Sasaki, Satoshi
name: Segawa, Kouji
name: Ando, Yoichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The topological crystalline insulator SnTe has been grown epitaxially on a Bi2Te3 buffer layer by molecular beam epitaxy. In a 30-nm-thick SnTe film, p- and n-type carriers are found to coexist, and Shubnikov--de Haas oscillation data suggest that the n-type carriers are Dirac fermions residing on the SnTe (111) surface. This transport observation of the topological surface state in a p-type topological crystalline insulator became possible due to a downward band bending on the free SnTe surface, which appears to be of intrinsic origin.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures (main text) + 7 pages, 7 figures (supplemental material); final version, Phys.Rev.B, Rapid Communications
Additional file 2 of Leukocyte- and platelet-rich fibrin in cranial surgery: study protocol for a prospective, parallel-group, single-blinded randomized controlled non-inferiority trial {1}
Creators: name: Coucke, Birgit
name: Van Hoylandt, Anaïs
name: van Loon, Johannes
name: Van Calenbergh, Frank
name: Van Gerven, Laura
name: Theys, Tom
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2: Appendix 1. Information sheet for the patient.
Collaborative Writing & Critical Rhetorical Decision-Making in an After-School Spoken Word Poetry Team
Creators: name: Vaughan, Andrea Rasmussen
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: While there are many thriving communities of youth writers collaborating as they compose, much of the research on writing focuses on individual authorship, processes, and products. Additionally, although sociocultural theories frame writing as more than a cognitive process, less attention has been paid to how writing is a multimodal act in which meaning emerges from embodied experiences and can be represented in nontextual forms. Drawing from critical sociocultural approaches to writing and theories that position writing as embodied and multimodal, this qualitative case study explores three adolescent writers preparing to perform in a youth spoken word poetry competition. Using data including field notes, interview, and analysis of researcher- and youth-created artifacts, this dissertation will discuss (1) how the focal poets collaboratively authored a group piece reflecting their unique perspectives and identities, including how they took up one another’s voices and negotiated (mis)representations of themselves and each other, and (2) how these poets made critical rhetorical decisions drawing from varied multiliterate resources, including their bodies, in their composing. This study of collaborative and embodied composing addresses an underexplored aspect of youth spoken word communities, and attending to this after-school space on the boundary of in- and out-of-school contributes to deeper understandings of the literacies of youth positioned as “struggling” within school. Finally, implications are explored for educators across in- and out-of-school contexts.
Subaru Imaging of Asymmetric Features in a Transitional Disk in Upper Scorpius
Creators: name: Mayama, S.
name: Hashimoto, J.
name: Muto, T.
name: Tsukagoshi, T.
name: Kusakabe, N.
name: Kuzuhara, M.
name: Takahashi, Y.
name: Kudo, T.
name: Dong, R.
name: Fukagawa, M.
name: Takami, M.
name: Momose, M.
name: Wisniewski, J. P.
name: Follette, K.
name: Abe, L.
name: Akiyama, E.
name: Brandner, W.
name: Brandt, T.
name: Carson, J.
name: Egner, S.
name: Feldt, M.
name: Goto, M.
name: Grady, C. A.
name: Guyon, O.
name: Hayano, Y.
name: Hayashi, M.
name: Hayashi, S.
name: Henning, T.
name: Hodapp, K. W.
name: Ishii, M.
name: Iye, M.
name: Janson, M.
name: Kandori, R.
name: Kwon, J.
name: Knapp, G. R.
name: Matsuo, T.
name: McElwain, M. W.
name: Miyama, S.
name: Morino, J. -I.
name: Moro-Martin, A.
name: Nishimura, T.
name: Pyo, T. -S.
name: Serabyn, E.
name: Suto, H.
name: Suzuki, R.
name: Takato, N.
name: Terada, H.
name: Thalmann, C.
name: Tomono, D.
name: Turner, E. L.
name: Watanabe, M.
name: Yamada, T.
name: Takami, H.
name: Usuda, T.
name: Tamura, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report high-resolution (0.07 arcsec) near-infrared polarized intensity images of the circumstellar disk around the star 2MASS J16042165-2130284 obtained with HiCIAO mounted on the Subaru 8.2 m telescope. We present our $H$-band data, which clearly exhibits a resolved, face-on disk with a large inner hole for the first time at infrared wavelengths. We detect the centrosymmetric polarization pattern in the circumstellar material as has been observed in other disks. Elliptical fitting gives the semimajor axis, semiminor axis, and position angle (P.A.) of the disk as 63 AU, 62 AU, and -14 $^{\circ}$, respectively. The disk is asymmetric, with one dip located at P.A.s of $\sim85^{\circ}$. Our observed disk size agrees well with a previous study of dust and CO emission at submillimeter wavelength with Submillimeter Array. Hence, the near-infrared light is interpreted as scattered light reflected from the inner edge of the disk. Our observations also detect an elongated arc (50 AU) extending over the disk inner hole. It emanates at the inner edge of the western side of the disk, extending inward first, then curving to the northeast. We discuss the possibility that the inner hole, the dip, and the arc that we have observed may be related to the existence of unseen bodies within the disk.
description: 21 pages, 3 figures, published 2012 November 7 by ApJL, typo corrected
Entanglement enhances cooling in microscopic quantum fridges
Creators: name: Brunner, Nicolas
name: Huber, Marcus
name: Linden, Noah
name: Popescu, Sandu
name: Silva, Ralph
name: Skrzypczyk, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Small self-contained quantum thermal machines function without external source of work or control, but using only incoherent interactions with thermal baths. Here we investigate the role of entanglement in a small self-contained quantum refrigerator. We first show that entanglement is detrimental as far as efficiency is concerned---fridges operating at efficiencies close to the Carnot limit do not feature any entanglement. Moving away from the Carnot regime, we show that entanglement can enhance cooling and energy transport. Hence a truly quantum refrigerator can outperform a classical one. Furthermore, the amount of entanglement alone quantifies the enhancement in cooling.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
title: The cumulus effect
Creators: name: Kenney, Kate
Publisher: name: Western Washington University
Year: 2014

description:
The Cumulus Effect is the first part of a longer work of contemporary young-adult, realistic fiction regarding the formation of identity, relationships, becoming independent and leaving home. Protagonist Violet is an eighteen year-old female who has just left her middle-class suburb of Alamosa, Colorado to start her first year of college. Her four year relationship has ended leaving her emotionally shattered. Coupled with her parents’ separation and slipping grades, Violet’s once confident and ambitious nature begins to crumble. Over time, through her proclivity for list making and the support of her new college friends, Violet learns to accept change. The Cumulus Effect refers to the rising of warm air from the surface that, when mixed with cool air, causes water vapors to condense, eventually forming a cloud. This process of accumulation is similar to the pressure Violet places on herself to be the person she once was. By embracing the idea that change is constant, Violet is finally able to construct a new self.
Ultra-High Resolution Intensity Statistics of a Scintillating Source
Creators: name: Johnson, Michael D.
name: Gwinn, Carl R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the distribution of flux density of a compact source exhibiting strong diffractive scintillation. Our treatment accounts for arbitrary spectral averaging, spatially-extended source emission, and the possibility of intrinsic variability within the averaging time, as is typical for pulsars. We also derive the modulation index and present a technique for estimating the self-noise of the distribution, which can be used to identify amplitude variations on timescales shorter than the spectral accumulation time. Our results enable a for direct comparison with ultra-high resolution observations of pulsars, particularly single-pulse studies with Nyquist-limited resolution, and can be used to identify the spatial emission structure of individual pulses at a small fraction of the diffractive scale.
description: 14 Pages, 4 Figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Tunable hybrid surface waves supported by a graphene layer
Creators: name: Iorsh, Ivan
name: Shadrivov, Ilya
name: Belov, Pavel
name: Kivshar, Yuri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study surface waves localized near a surface of a semi-infinite dielectric medium covered by a layer of graphene in the presence of a strong external magnetic field. We demonstrate that both TE-TM hybrid surface plasmons can propagate along the graphene surface. We analyze the effect of the Hall conductivity on the disper- sion of hybrid surface waves and suggest a possibility to tune the plasmon dispersion by the magnetic field.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures
title: Integrated Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessment for the South River, Virginia: a Bayesian Approach
Creators: name: Harris, Meagan J.
Publisher: name: Western Washington University
Year: 2015

description:
Regional scale risk assessments can be used to determine the likelihood of effects from multiple stressors on ecological or human endpoints at multiple scales. The Relative Risk Model framework can incorporate ecosystem services as endpoints in this multiple stressor- multiple endpoint approach. Through this research, I aimed to demonstrate an approach to integrating ERA and HHRA that could be applied to assess risk to human health and ecosystem services using the South River, VA as a case study. I applied the Relative Risk Model with Bayesian networks (BN-RRM) to an integrated assessment of four ecosystem services of the South River, Virginia: Human health, Water quality, Recreation, and the Recreational fishery. The BN-RRM approach allowed for the calculation of relative risk to 14 human, biotic, and water quality endpoints from chemical and ecological stressors in the South River. Three separate conceptual models were developed for assessing risk to overall Ecosystem services, Human Health, and Recreation. The services at highest risk in the South River were Water quality and the Recreational fishery. Human health risk for users of the South River was low relative to the risk to other endpoints. Risk to Recreation in the South River was moderate with little spatial variation among the five risk regions. The sensitivity and uncertainty analysis of the BNs identified the parameters that influence risk for each endpoint in each risk region. Mercury concentrations in floodplain soils and river water influence human health risk. River temperature and E. coli bacteria were the main contributors of risk to water quality and recreational river uses. Lack of public access contributed risk to recreation and ecosystem services endpoints. This research is not meant to be a definitive assessment of human health risk to fulfill the regulatory requirements for the site. Rather, it is part of a larger effort to synthesize regional scientific research and better understand the effects of mercury contamination and other stressors in the South River watershed.
Tackling Pandemics: Afro-Brazilian Entrepreneurs and COVID-19
Creators: name: Paixao, Marcelo
name: Rossetto, Irene
name: Monahan, Joseph
name: Islam, Tasnim
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2022
Subjects: Afro-Brazilian
Entrepreneurs
COVID-19

description: How did COVID-19 adversely affect Afro-Brazilian entrepreneurs? This study investigated two aspects of their experience: their access to business credit, and whether they were able to work remotely during the first months of the pandemic in 2020.
Characterization of a Peptide Signaling System Important to Streptococcus mutans Virulence
Creators: name: Szewczyk, Gabriella A
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Dental caries, commonly known as tooth decay, remains an enormous public health concern because of its prevalence, impact on individuals and society, and the expense of treatment. As the global burden of this disease increases, an improved understanding of the pathogenesis of dental caries, thereby managing caries and improving the quality of life, has become crucial. Dental caries is a multifactorial disease, of which Streptococcus mutans is the principle etiologic agent. The pathogenicity of S. mutans involves a diverse array of virulence traits that are coordinately expressed through mechanisms that remain unclear. Many bacteria use intercellular chemical signaling, known as quorum sensing (QS), to coordinate gene expression, and consequently their behavior, across a population. Some streptococci use Rgg-type proteins together with short hydrophobic peptides (SHPs) to mediate quorum sensing. Most species contain multiple Rgg paralogs within their genomes, and studies thus far indicate that each paralog controls a different genetic regulon. The S. mutans genome contains four Rgg paralogs- three of whose regulatory networks are unknown. Some Rgg pathways have been implicated in virulence-related behaviors, including biofilm development and toxin regulation. With this evidence, we hypothesized that virulence gene expression by S. mutans is modulated through Rgg QS pathways. To test this hypothesis, we characterized the regulon of Rgg1509 in S. mutans strain UA159. Using transcriptional luxAB fusions and quantitative reverse transcription-PCR, we demonstrate Rgg1509 comprises a functional quorum sensing system involving an adjacently encoded SHP pheromone that is secreted by an ABC-type transporter (PptAB) and reimported to the cell by an oligopeptide permease (Opp). Under this mechanism, Rgg1509 directly activates the transcription of a proximal biosynthetic gene cluster, encoding a novel natural product of currently unknown function. RNA-seq analysis revealed that Rgg1509 not only regulates the transcription of its proximal target genes but controls the expression of a number of genes throughout the genome, especially those encoding for essential virulence determinants, such as cell surface adhesions. Experimental evidence demonstrated that Rgg1509 plays a key role in adherence, as deletion of rgg1509 increased the aggregative and biofilm forming capabilities of S. mutans under stress. This newly characterized Rgg1509 QS pathway may therefore represent an important mechanism by which S. mutans colonizes the tooth surface, leading to the onset of dental caries.
Crocidura grassei Brosset, Dubost, and Heim de Balsac 1965
Creators: name: Hutterer, Rainer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Insectivora
Soricidae
Crocidura
Crocidura grassei

description: Crocidura grassei Brosset, Dubost, and Heim de Balsac, 1965. Biologia Gabonica, 1:165. TYPE LOCALITY: Gabon, Belinga. DISTRIBUTION: Recorded from high forest regions at Belinga (Gabon), Boukoko (Central African Republic), and Yaounde (Cameroon; see Heim de Balsac, 1968c). STATUS: IUCN - Insufficiently known.
description: Published as part of Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, pp. 69-130 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 86, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085
description: {"references": ["Heim de Balsac, H. 1968 c. Contributions a la faune de la region de Yaounde I. -- Premier apercu sur la faune des Soricidae (Mammiferes Insectivores). Annales de la Faculte des Sciences du Cameroun, 1968 (2): 49 - 58."]}
Multivariate Fuss-Narayana polynomials and their application to random matrices
Creators: name: Lenczewski, Romuald
name: Salapata, Rafal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05A15, 15B52 (Primary), 46L54 (Secondary)

description: It has been shown recently that the limit moments of $W(n)=B(n)B^{*}(n)$, where B(n) is a product of $p$ independent rectangular random matrices, are certain homogenous polynomials in the asymptotic dimensions of these matrices. Using the combinatorics of noncrossing partitions, we explicitly determine these polynomials and show that they are closely related to polynomials which can be viewed as multivariate Fuss-Narayana polynomials. Using this result, we compute the moments of the n-fold free multiplicative convolution of Marchenko-Pastur distributions with arbitrary shape parameters.
description: 12 pages
Mechanisms of Biological Functions Through Polymer Deep Sampling: Protein Gating and Chromatin Folding
Creators: name: Perez-Rathke, Alan Jerome
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: We develop probabilistic models of folded biopolymers which allow detailed insight into mechanisms governing many biological processes. Our computational models complement existing experimental techniques which provide valuable measurements but do not provide 3-D structural details that may be key to understanding the underlying biological processes. We demonstrate how the deep probabilistic sampling methodology developed here can be used to discern important properties of both chromatin and protein.
L’Armée romaine de Dioclétien à Valentinien 1er. Actes du Congrès de Lyon (12–14 septembre 2002), rassemblés et édités par Yann Le Bohec et Catherine Wolff, Paris 2004
Creators: name: Speidel, Michael
name: Hirt, Alfred M.
Publisher: name: Francia
Year: 2018

description: -
description: Francia, Bd. 34, Nr. 1 (2007)
Improving predictive power of physically based rainfall-induced shallow landslide models: a probabilistic approach
Creators: name: Raia, S.
name: Alvioli, M.
name: Rossi, M.
name: Baum, R. L.
name: Godt, J. W.
name: Guzzetti, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Distributed models to forecast the spatial and temporal occurrence of rainfall-induced shallow landslides are based on deterministic laws. These models extend spatially the static stability models adopted in geotechnical engineering, and adopt an infinite-slope geometry to balance the resisting and the driving forces acting on the sliding mass. An infiltration model is used to determine how rainfall changes pore-water conditions, modulating the local stability/instability conditions. A problem with the operation of the existing models lays in the difficulty in obtaining accurate values for the several variables that describe the material properties of the slopes. The problem is particularly severe when the models are applied over large areas, for which sufficient information on the geotechnical and hydrological conditions of the slopes is not generally available. To help solve the problem, we propose a probabilistic Monte Carlo approach to the distributed modeling of rainfall-induced shallow landslides. For the purpose, we have modified the Transient Rainfall Infiltration and Grid-Based Regional Slope-Stability Analysis (TRIGRS) code. The new code (TRIGRS-P) adopts a probabilistic approach to compute, on a cell-by-cell basis, transient pore-pressure changes and related changes in the factor of safety due to rainfall infiltration. Infiltration is modeled using analytical solutions of partial differential equations describing one-dimensional vertical flow in isotropic, homogeneous materials. Both saturated and unsaturated soil conditions can be considered. TRIGRS-P copes with the natural variability inherent to the mechanical and hydrological properties of the slope materials by allowing values of the TRIGRS model input parameters to be sampled randomly from a given probability distribution. [..]
description: 25 pages, 14 figures, 9 tables. Revised version; accepted for publication in Geoscientific Model Development on 13 February 2014
Additional file 1 of kegg_pull: a software package for the RESTful access and pulling from the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Gene and Genomes
Creators: name: Huckvale, Erik
name: Moseley, Hunter N. B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Software
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Information Systems

description: Additional file 1. Supplemental Material.
Lattice Boltzmann method for relativistic hydrodynamics: Issues on conservation law of particle number and discontinuities
Creators: name: Li, Q.
name: Luo, K. H.
name: Li, X. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we aim to address several important issues about the recently developed lattice Boltzmann (LB) model for relativistic hydrodynamics [M. Mendoza et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 014502 (2010); Phys. Rev. D 82, 105008 (2010)]. First, we study the conservation law of particle number in the relativistic LB model. Through the Chapman-Enskog analysis, it is shown that in the relativistic LB model the conservation equation of particle number is a convection-diffusion equation rather than a continuity equation, which makes the evolution of particle number dependent on the relaxation time. Furthermore, we investigate the origin of the discontinuities appeared in the relativistic problems with high viscosities, which were reported in a recent study [D. Hupp et al., Phys. Rev. D 84, 125015 (2011)]. A multiple-relaxation-time (MRT) relativistic LB model is presented to examine the influences of different relaxation times on the discontinuities. Numerical experiments show the discontinuities can be eliminated by setting the relaxation time $τ_e$ (related to the bulk viscosity) to be sufficiently smaller than the relaxation time $τ_v$ (related to the shear viscosity). Meanwhile, it is found that the relaxation time $τ_\varepsilon$, which has no effect on the conservation equations at the Navier-Stokes level, will affect the numerical accuracy of the relativistic LB model. Moreover, the accuracy of the relativistic LB model for simulating moderately relativistic problems is also investigated.
description: 7 figures
Crocidura grayi Dobson 1890
Creators: name: Hutterer, Rainer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Insectivora
Soricidae
Crocidura
Crocidura grayi

description: Crocidura grayi Dobson, 1890. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 6:494. TYPE LOCALITY: Philippines, Luzon. DISTRIBUTION: Luzon and Mindoro, Philippines, in primary forest. SYNONYMS: halconus. COMMENTS: Heaney et al. (1987) included halconus as a synonym.
description: Published as part of Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, pp. 69-130 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 86, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085
description: {"references": ["Heaney, L. R., P. C. Gonzales, and A. C. Acala. 1987. An annotated checklist of the taxonomic and conservation status of land mammals in the Philippines. Silliman Journal, 34: 32 - 66."]}
title: Variation in state seismic mitigation policies: a comparative analysis of seismic risk and policy development
Creators: name: Gouran, Brian D.
Publisher: name: Western Washington University
Year: 2014

description:
Risks associated with earthquakes vary widely from state to state. California and the western United States are widely recognized as having the potential for significant damages and loss of life from earthquakes, however all states have some degree of seismic risk. Considering that public safety and the general welfare of citizens are paramount responsibilities of state government, some states have adopted policies designed to reduce risks from hazards such as earthquakes. California, Missouri and a few other states have embraced policy development as a key method to mitigate against earthquake hazards. Alaska, Washington and a number of other states with significant seismic risk have a much lower level of policy coverage. Through the compilation and consideration of hazard mitigation policies for 47 states, this study examines the role of earthquake related policy development and implementation relative to individual states' seismic risk. The results of this analysis indicate that a number of states have below optimal policy coverage which suggests that factors other than seismic risk likely influence policy development.
Learning about barriers to information diffusion in rural Kenya
Creators: name: Fabregas, Raissa
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2022
Subjects: Kenya
agriculture

description: Our research project, generously funded by IC2, studied potential barriers in agricultural information seeking or sharing among smallholder maize farmers in rural Kenya. For purposes of this research project,we focused on two types of information: external information about soil chemistry in the area, and information collected from farmers who are considered knowledgeable about farming practices.First, to understand whether farmers value this type of agricultural information (and hence would want to obtain it), we ran baseline surveys in which we elicited their valuations for these different types of information. This exercise sheds light on the demand (valuation) for agricultural information and farmers' perception of its "usefulness" in monetary terms.
title: Exploring the Influence of Maternity Leave on Maternal Child Bonding
Creators: name: Wilson, Amber
name: Zimbro, Kathie
name: Rutledge, Carolyn
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: PROBLEM: Approximately half of the women of child-bearing age are eligible for Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). However, taking unpaid maternity leave may place a significant financial burden on any family. Lack of maternity leave, or shorter durations of maternity leave is listed as a significant barrier to breastfeeding, yet there have been no changes implemented to improve that since FMLA was signed into action in 1993. PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to explore relationships between participant characteristics, breastfeeding initiation and duration, maternity leave, motherhood, postpartum mood disorders (anxiety/depression), and maternal child bonding and attachment. EBP QUESTIONS: (1) Is there a relationship between participant characteristics, breastfeeding initiation and duration, maternity leave, motherhood, postpartum mood disorders (anxiety/depression), and maternal child bonding and attachment? (2) Are there differences in participants characteristics, breastfeeding initiation and duration, postpartum mood disorders (anxiety/depression) and maternal child bonding and attachment between women with at least 12 weeks of maternity leave compared to women with less than 12 weeks of maternity leave? METHODS: This descriptive cross-sectional study will be conducted using a single on-line survey posted on social media. OUTCOMES: Longer durations of maternity leave and perceived overall good health positively influenced maternal child bonding. This result was consistent with the literature in that length of maternity leave is positively associated with increased mother-child attachment and interactions. Therefore, longer durations of paid maternity leave and longer durations of breastfeeding may represent mediating factors to improved maternal-child bonding. SIGNIFICANCE: This study may provide evidence to support mandated maternity leave, which will in turn meet the goals of Healthy People 2020 and The Surgeon General’s call to action in 2011 to increase breastfeeding rates and support policies that will improve those rates.
Spectral Theory for $p$-adic Operators
Creators: name: Mihara, Tomoki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We establish an algorithm for a criterion of the diagonalisability of a matrix over a local field by a unitary matrix. For this sake, we define the notion of normality of a $p$-adic operator, and give several criteria for the normality. We study the relation between the normality and the reduction. In the finite dimensional case, the normality of an operator is equivalent to the diagonalisability of a matrix by a unitary matrix. Therefore we also study the relation between the diagonalisability and the reduction. For example, we show that the diagonalisation of the reduction gives a partition of unity corresponding to the reduction of the spectrum, which gives a functorial lift of the eigenspace decomposition of the reduction.
description: 37 pages
title: Sulfur Dioxide From the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment Satellite
Creators: name: Cameron, Doug
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: The version 4.0 dataset from the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment – Fourier Transform Spectrometer (ACE-FTS) on SCISAT, released in March of 2019, has sulfur dioxide (SO2) volume mixing ratio (VMR) profiles as a routine data product. From this dataset, global SO2 distributions between the altitudes of 10.5 km and 23.5 km are analyzed. The global distribution of all SO2 VMR data by altitude is broken down into 30° and 5° latitude zones. Seasonality of the global SO2 distribution is explored. Volcanic SO2 plumes are isolated in the dataset and compared with extinction data from the ACE-FTS Imager.