cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Toxicological Assessments of a Pandemic COVID-19 Vaccine—Demonstrating the Suitability of a Platform Approach for mRNA Vaccines
Creators: name: Chervona, Yana
name: Sahin, Ugur
name: Rohde, Cynthia M.
name: Diekmann, Jan
name: Giovanelli, Michael
name: Ramaiah, Lila
name: Lindemann, Claudia
name: Muik, Alexander
name: Sellers, Rani S.
name: Vogel, Annette B.
name: Choudhary, Shambhunath
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2023

description: The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 at the end of 2019 required the swift development of a vaccine to address the pandemic. Nonclinical GLP-compliant studies in Wistar Han rats were initiated to assess the local tolerance, systemic toxicity, and immune response to four mRNA vaccine candidates encoding immunogens derived from the spike (S) glycoprotein of SARS-CoV-2, encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles (LNPs). Vaccine candidates were administered intramuscularly once weekly for three doses at 30 and/or 100 µg followed by a 3-week recovery period. Clinical pathology findings included higher white blood cell counts and acute phase reactant concentrations, lower platelet and reticulocyte counts, and lower RBC parameters. Microscopically, there was increased cellularity (lymphocytes) in the lymph nodes and spleen, increased hematopoiesis in the bone marrow and spleen, acute inflammation and edema at the injection site, and minimal hepatocellular vacuolation. These findings were generally attributed to the anticipated immune and inflammatory responses to the vaccines, except for hepatocyte vacuolation, which was interpreted to reflect hepatocyte LNP lipid uptake, was similar between candidates and resolved or partially recovered at the end of the recovery phase. These studies demonstrated safety and tolerability in rats, supporting SARS-CoV-2 mRNA-LNP vaccine clinical development.
Stable phantom-energy wormholes admitting conformal motions
Creators: name: Kuhfittig, Peter K. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been argued that wormholes are as good a prediction of Einstein's theory as black holes but the theoretical construction requires a reverse strategy, specifying the desired geometric properties of the wormhole and leaving open the determination of the stress-energy tensor. We begin by confirming an earlier result by the author showing that a complete wormhole solution can be obtained by adopting the equation of state $p=ωρ$ and assuming that the wormhole admits a one-parameter group of conformal motions. The main purpose of this paper is to use the assumption of conformal symmetry to show that the wormhole is stable to linearized radial perturbations whenever $-1.5
description: 8 pages, no figures
title: Prospektive klinische Studie mit einer neuen monofokalen Intraokularlinse mit erweiterter Tiefenschärfe
Creators: name: Weindler, Jan
name: Baur, I.
name: Son, H.-S.
name: Yildirim, T.M.
name: Poompokawat, P.
name: Khoramnia, R.
name: Auffarth, G.U.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Beurteilung einer neuen monofokalen IOL mit erweiterter Tiefenschärfe, die die ISO Standards einer monofokalen IOL erfüllt, der xact Mono-EDOF ME4 von Santen. Material und Methoden: Bisher wurden 25 Patienten (42 Augen) mit einem Durchschnittsalter von 71 ± 9.0 Jahren[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 34. Kongress der Deutschsprachigen Gesellschaft für Intraokularlinsen-Implantation, interventionelle und refraktive Chirurgie
Firearm-Related Injury and Death in North Carolina: Trends During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Creators: name: Waller, Anna
name: Geary, Shana
name: Lautenschlager, Ty
Publisher: name: North Carolina Institute of Medicine
Year: 2023

description: The COVID-19 pandemic has had far-reaching impacts on the health and well-being of North Carolinians, including injury and violence. Firearm purchases surged and, as the pandemic evolved, North Carolinians experienced increases in firearm-related deaths and injuries. This paper describes firearm injuries and deaths in the state from 2017 to 2021.
ChaoTech Warriors
Creators: name: Knoors, Annelore
name: Gheldof, Tom
name: Bhaumik, Ujjayanta
name: Boleto, Catarina Arnaud
name: Mirkazemiyan, Fatemeh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Poster for the team ChaoTech Warrior from the 2023 BiblioTech Hackathon Even. The work consists on the analysis of 171 multiligual posters from World War I.
AMEP Digital Literacies: Teaching Resources
Creators: name: Tour, Katrina
name: Creely, Edwin
name: Waterhouse, Peter
name: Henderson, Michael
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: LOTE, ESL and TESOL curriculum and pedagogy
Science, technology and engineering curriculum and pedagogy

description: This booklet includes teaching resources which were designed and piloted by EAL teachers, with their learners participating in this research project. This booklet does not attempt to address all of the units in The AMEP Digital Literacies Framework and Guide; however, these resources do relate directly to five units. These teaching resources illustrate how The AMEP Digital Literacies Framework and Guide can be used in practice, and each of these lesson plans includes: a link to The EAL Framework; a sequence of lessons outlining procedures and activities; relevant teaching materials, including worksheets, discussion questions and instructional videos created by teachers; links to The AMEP Digital Literacies Framework and its key principles.
Violence Directed Against Teachers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Social–Ecological Analysis of Safety and Well-Being
Creators: name: Espelage, Dorothy L.
name: Perry, Andrew H.
name: Martinez, Andrew
name: McMahon, Susan D.
name: Worrell, Frank C.
name: Anderman, Eric M.
name: Reddy, Linda A.
name: Astor, Ron A.
Publisher: name: American Psychological Association (APA)
Year: 2023

description: Violence against teachers is a public health crisis that has devastating effects on school personnel well-being, health, and retention, as well as students' educational outcomes. In collaboration with national organizations, the American Psychological Association Task Force on Violence against Educators conducted the first national survey on educator victimization that included 4,136 pre-K through 12th-grade teachers from all 50 U.S. states and Puerto Rico during the pandemic. In the current study, 43.7% of teachers reported experiencing at least one verbal threat, physical assault, and/or property damage, with verbal threats being the most prevalent form of victimization during the pandemic. Using a social-ecological framework and logistic regression analyses, characteristics of teachers, school climate, and school organizational and community factors were examined as predictors of teacher victimization (i.e., verbal threats, physical, property violence) during the pandemic. Findings revealed that teacher role (i.e., special educators), negative and positive dimensions of school climate, as well as school organizational and community factors (i.e., percent of students receiving free and reduced lunch, instructional modality, school level, and urbanicity) significantly predicted greater teacher victimization. While findings revealed that in-person instruction significantly predicted teacher violence across aggressors, teacher victimization was reported across instructional modality (in-person, hybrid, remote). Results offer insights into possible contextual antecedents to teacher victimization, sense of safety, and well-being in schools. Implications for research and school practice are presented. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
Trojan capture by terrestrial planets
Creators: name: Schwarz, Richard
name: Dvorak, Rudolf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The paper is devoted to investigate the capture of asteroids by Venus, Earth and Mars into the 1:1 mean motion resonance especially into Trojan orbits. Current theoretical studies predict that Trojan asteroids are a frequent by-product of the planet formation. This is not only the case for the outer giant planets, but also for the terrestrial planets in the inner Solar System. By using numerical integrations, we investigated the capture efficiency and the stability of the captured objects. We found out that the capture efficiency is larger for the planets in the inner Solar System compared to the outer ones, but most of the captured Trojan asteroids are not long term stable. This temporary captures caused by chaotic behaviour of the objects were investigated without any dissipative forces. They show an interesting dynamical behaviour of mixing like jumping from one Lagrange point to the other one.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables
Exeptional set estimates for the Hausdorff dimension of intersections
Creators: name: Mattila, Pertti
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: For Borel subsets A and B of the Euclidean n-space the intersection of A with generic rotations and translations of B has often Hausdorff dimension at least dim A + dim B - n. Estimates for the exceptional set of rotations are derived.
Development of bispecific T cell engagers: harnessing quantitative systems pharmacology
Creators: name: Liao, Xiaozhi
name: Qi, Timothy
name: Cao, Yanguang
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2023

description: Bispecific T cell engagers (bsTCEs) have emerged as a promising class of cancer immunotherapy. Several bsTCEs have achieved marketing approval; dozens more are under clinical investigation. However, the clinical development of bsTCEs remains rife with challenges, including nuanced pharmacology, limited translatability of preclinical findings, frequent on-target toxicity, and convoluted dosing regimens. In this opinion article we present a distinct perspective on how quantitative systems pharmacology (QSP) can serve as a powerful tool for overcoming these obstacles. Recent advances in QSP modeling have empowered developers of bsTCEs to gain a deeper understanding of their context-dependent pharmacology, bridge gaps in experimental data, guide first-in-human (FIH) dose selection, design dosing regimens with expanded therapeutic windows, and improve long-term treatment outcomes. We use recent case studies to exemplify the potential of QSP techniques to support future bsTCE development.
Dynamic and predictive dynamic wind turbine control
Creators: name: Dehkordi., Gholam Hossein Riahy
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
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The chaotic four-body problem in Newtonian gravity I: Identical point-particles
Creators: name: Leigh, Nathan W. C.
name: Stone, Nicholas C.
name: Geller, Aaron M.
name: Shara, Michael M.
name: Muddu, Harsha
name: Solano-Oropeza, Diana
name: Thomas, Yancey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we study the chaotic four-body problem in Newtonian gravity. Assuming point particles and total encounter energies $\le$ 0, the problem has three possible outcomes. We describe each outcome as a series of discrete transformations in energy space, using the diagrams first presented in Leigh \& Geller (2012; see the Appendix). Furthermore, we develop a formalism for calculating probabilities for these outcomes to occur, expressed using the density of escape configurations per unit energy, and based on the Monaghan description originally developed for the three-body problem. We compare this analytic formalism to results from a series of binary-binary encounters with identical point particles, simulated using the \texttt{FEWBODY} code. Each of our three encounter outcomes produces a unique velocity distribution for the escaping star(s). Thus, these distributions can potentially be used to constrain the origins of dynamically-formed populations, via a direct comparison between the predicted and observed velocity distributions. Finally, we show that, for encounters that form stable triples, the simulated single star escape velocity distributions are the same as for the three-body problem. This is also the case for the other two encounter outcomes, but only at low virial ratios. This suggests that single and binary stars processed via single-binary and binary-binary encounters in dense star clusters should have a unique velocity distribution relative to the underlying Maxwellian distribution (provided the relaxation time is sufficiently long), which can be calculated analytically.
description: 18 pages, 12 figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: Verbesserung des Fern- und Intermediärvisus durch eine monofokale Intraokularlinse
Creators: name: Wirbelauer, Christopher
name: Linz, J.
name: Lorenz, O.
name: Puk, C.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Mit der gestiegenen Nutzung von PC und Handy gewinnt der Intermediärvisus mit einem Leseabstand um 60 cm immer mehr an Bedeutung. Es wurde die erste Monofokallinse mit erweitertem Intermediärvisus von uns in einer klinischen Studie untersucht. Methoden: Die klinische Untersuchung[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 34. Kongress der Deutschsprachigen Gesellschaft für Intraokularlinsen-Implantation, interventionelle und refraktive Chirurgie
title: Eine neue refraktive Low-Add-EDoF-Intraokularlinse mit violettem Lichtfilter
Creators: name: Klabe, Karsten
name: Breyer, D.R.H.
name: Kaymak, H.
name: Breyer-Pacurar, A.
name: Kirca, M.
name: Beckers, L.
name: Kretz, F.
name: Auffarth, G.U.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Ziel dieser Studie war die Bewertung der visuellen Qualität für Fern-, Mittel- und Nahdistanzen, der subjektiven Refraktion, der Kontrastsensitivität und der Defokusleistung mit einer neuen segmentalen, refraktiven Extended Depth of Fokus (EDoF= erweiterter Fokusbereich)[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 34. Kongress der Deutschsprachigen Gesellschaft für Intraokularlinsen-Implantation, interventionelle und refraktive Chirurgie
title: Negative Dysphotopsie
Creators: name: Wenzel, Martin
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Bisherige Diagnose- und Therapieansätze der Negativen Dysphotopsie (ND) gingen davon aus, dass der Schatten, wie von den Patienten vermutet, in der äußersten Peripherie des Gesichtsfeldes liegen würde. Methode: 17.085 Augen wurden postoperativ auf „ND“[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 34. Kongress der Deutschsprachigen Gesellschaft für Intraokularlinsen-Implantation, interventionelle und refraktive Chirurgie
title: Virtuelle Implantation von Intraokularlinsen mit Zusatzfunktionen bei Patienten mit Makulaerkrankungen
Creators: name: Kaymak, Hakan
name: Neller, K.
name: Nienhaus, S.
name: Fricke, A.
name: Breyer, D.R.H.
name: Klabe, K.
name: Langenbucher, A.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Die funktionellen Ergebnisse nach Implantation von Multifokallinsen bei Patienten mit Makulaerkrankungen sind systematisch bisher nicht untersucht worden. Hier präsentieren wir unsere Ergebnisse. Methoden: Die zu testenden Intraokularlinsen – asphärische monofokale[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 34. Kongress der Deutschsprachigen Gesellschaft für Intraokularlinsen-Implantation, interventionelle und refraktive Chirurgie
Flexible Pilot Contamination Mitigation with Doppler PSD Alignment
Creators: name: Luo, Xiliang
name: Zhang, Xiaoyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Pilot contamination in the uplink (UL) can severely degrade the channel estimation quality at the base station (BS) in a massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system. Thus, it is critical to explore all possible avenues to enable more orthogonal resources for the users to transmit non-interfering UL pilots. In conventional designs, pilot orthogonality typically assumes constant channel gains over time, which limits the amount of orthogonal resources in the case of time-selective channels. To circumvent this constraint, in this paper, we show how to enable orthogonal multiplexing of pilots in the case of Doppler fading by aligning the power spectrum densities (PSD) of different users. From the derived PSD aligning rules, we can see multiple users can be sounded simultaneously without creating/suffering pilot contamination even when these users are experiencing time-varying channels. Furthermore, we provide analytical formulas characterizing the channel estimation mean square error (MSE) performance. Computer simulations further confirm us the PSD alignment can serve as one important decontamination mechanism for the UL pilots in massive MIMO.
description: Accepted to IEEE Signal Processing Letters
Dissecting sources of variability in patient response to targeted therapy: anti-HER2 therapies as a case study
Creators: name: Cao, Yanguang
name: Qi, Timothy
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2023

description: BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Despite their use to treat cancers with specific genetic aberrations, targeted therapies elicit heterogeneous responses. Sources of variability are critical to targeted therapy drug development, yet there exists no method to discern their relative contribution to response heterogeneity.
EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH: We use HER2-amplified breast cancer and two agents, neratinib and lapatinib, to develop a platform for dissecting sources of variability in patient response. The platform comprises four components: pharmacokinetics, tumor burden and growth kinetics, clonal composition, and sensitivity to treatment. Pharmacokinetics are simulated using population models to capture variable systemic exposure. Tumor burden and growth kinetics are derived from clinical data comprising over 800,000 women. The fraction of sensitive and resistant tumor cells is informed by HER2 immunohistochemistry. Growth rate-corrected drug potency is used to predict response. We integrate these factors and simulate clinical outcomes for virtual patients. The relative contributions of these factors to response heterogeneity arecompared.
KEY RESULTS: The platform was verified with clinical data, including response rate and progression-free survival (PFS). For both neratinib and lapatinib, the growth rate of resistant clones influenced PFS to a higher degree than systemic drug exposure. Variability in exposure at labeled doses did not significantly influence response. Sensitivity to drug strongly influenced responses to neratinib. Variability in patient HER2 immunohistochemistry scores influenced responses to lapatinib. Exploratory twice daily dosing improved PFS for neratinib but not lapatinib.
CONCLUSION AND IMPLICATIONS: The platform can dissect sources of variability in response to target therapy, which may facilitate decision-making during drug development.
title: Kat-OP bei Makulapucker
Creators: name: Schmidt, Jörg Christan
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Die Kataraktchirurgie mit Phakoemulsifikation ggf. mit Femtolaserunterstützung hat heute eine Perfektion erreicht, die die einstige Angst vor dem „Starstecher“ vergessen lässt und die jedem Patienten postoperativ ein gullstrandsches Normalauge verspricht, d.h. frei[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 34. Kongress der Deutschsprachigen Gesellschaft für Intraokularlinsen-Implantation, interventionelle und refraktive Chirurgie
Letter from Saul Holiff to Johnny Cash, 27 December 1961
Creators: name: Holiff, Saul, 1925-2005
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Carnegie Hall (New York, N.Y.)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/621719
subject: Music trade--Management
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1030650
subject: Cash, Johnny
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/31281
subject: Country musicians
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/881442
subject: Kapralik, David
subject: Tranquilizing drugs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1154491
subject: Holiff, Barbara
subject: Lieberson, Goddard, 1911-1977
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/146701
subject: Holiff, Saul, 1925-2005
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1958130
subject: Law, Don
subject: Feature films
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/922105
subject: Music trade
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1030641
subject: Interpersonal relations
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/977397
subject: Columbia Records, Inc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/677750

description: Letter from Saul Holiff to Johnny Cash addressed to "Small Sad Sam." Holiff mentions a poem Barbara wrote him called "Mister 17," tranquilizers he ordered, and his recent conversation with Columbia Records executive Dave Kapralik. Tells Cash he will write to Goddard Lieberson, President of Columbia Records, about plans for show at Carnegie Hall. Refers to a film being "terrific" (possibly "Five Minutes to Live," Cash's first movie, which was released in 1961). Says how pleased he is with Cash's attitude and that he believes Cash has the potential for great success. Signed "Preacher Holiff."
ATCA detections of massive molecular gas reservoirs in dusty, high-z radio galaxies
Creators: name: Heywood, I.
name: Contreras, Y.
name: Smith, D. J. B.
name: Cooray, A.
name: Dunne, L.
name: Gomez, L.
name: Ibar, E.
name: Ivison, R. J.
name: Jarvis, M. J.
name: Michalowski, M. J.
name: Riechers, D. A.
name: van der Werf, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations using the 7 mm receiver system on the Australia Telescope Compact Array have revealed large reservoirs of molecular gas in two high-redshift radio galaxies: HATLAS J090426.9+015448 (z = 2.37) and HATLAS J140930.4+003803 (z = 2.04). Optically the targets are very faint, and spectroscopy classifies them as narrow-line radio galaxies. In addition to harbouring an active galactic nucleus the targets share many characteristics of sub-mm galaxies. Far-infrared data from Herschel-ATLAS suggest high levels of dust (>10^9 M_solar) and a correspondingly large amount of obscured star formation (~1000 M_solar / yr). The molecular gas is traced via the J = 1-0 transition of 12CO, its luminosity implying total H_2 masses of (1.7 +/- 0.3) x 10^11 and (9.5 +/- 2.4) x 10^10 (alpha_CO/0.8) M_solar in HATLAS J090426.9+015448 and HATLAS J140930.4+003803 respectively. Both galaxies exhibit molecular line emission over a broad (~1000 km/s) velocity range, and feature double-peaked profiles. We interpret this as evidence of either a large rotating disk or an on-going merger. Gas depletion timescales are ~100 Myr. The 1.4 GHz radio luminosities of our targets place them close to the break in the luminosity function. As such they represent `typical' z > 2 radio sources, responsible for the bulk of the energy emitted at radio wavelengths from accretion-powered sources at high redshift, and yet they rank amongst the most massive systems in terms of molecular gas and dust content. We also detect 115 GHz rest-frame continuum emission, indicating a very steep high-radio-frequency spectrum, possibly classifying the targets as compact steep spectrum objects.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
AMEP Digital Literacies Framework and Guide
Creators: name: Tour, Katrina
name: Creely, Edwin
name: Waterhouse, Peter
name: Henderson, Michael
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: LOTE, ESL and TESOL curriculum and pedagogy
Science, technology and engineering curriculum and pedagogy

description: This resource explains the notion of digital literacies, introduces a pedagogical framework for teaching digital literacies in adult EAL settings and presents 15 teaching units with a range of teaching ideas and loosely sequenced scaffolding activities which allows educators to: connect learning units both to The EAL Framework, syllabus and to learners’ lives to achieve multiple learning objectives adapt learning units for specific teaching contexts by modifying the tasks adjust the level of challenge through different levels of scaffolded support, depending on learners’ strengths and needs innovate by organising learning activities in different ways use The AMEP Digital Literacies Framework and Guide as a model for developing new learning units
title: Irisfixierte Intraokularlinsen im Doppelpack
Creators: name: Troeber, Heike
name: Vossmerbaeumer, U.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Fallbericht über einen 79-jährigen Patienten, bei dem nach intrakapsulärer Kataraktexktraktion aufgrund kongenitalem Katarakt eine Aphakie bestand. Im Alter von 75 Jahren erfolgte eine sekundäre retropupillare Linsenimplantation mit irisfixierten Intraokularlinsen (IOL)[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 34. Kongress der Deutschsprachigen Gesellschaft für Intraokularlinsen-Implantation, interventionelle und refraktive Chirurgie
COVID-19 Surveillance and Vaccination among Non-Healthcare, Non-Congregate Workers in Chicago
Creators: name: Lendacki, Frances R
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023

description: BACKGROUND Occupation has been defined as a primary risk factor for SARS-CoV-2 infection, but utility of surveillance practices among non-healthcare, non-congregate workplaces (NHNCW) have not been well-described. Definitions of workers at disproportionate COVID-19 risk and barriers to their vaccination are needed, to inform public health guidance and interventions. METHODS COVID-19 workplace clusters and outbreaks investigated by the Chicago Department of Public Health (March 2020 - May 2022) were described by workplace type, investigation size, and method of identification over time. Logistic regression assessed associations between occupational COVID-19 risk and vaccination status among NHNCW cases reported June 2021-2022, stratified by Pre-and Post-Omicron periods. A survey of Workplace Encouragement for COVID-19 Vaccination in Chicago (WEVax) was administered to workplaces (July – September 2022). Workplace characteristics, coverage rates and barriers to vaccination among employees were described. Frequencies of vaccination encouragement strategies were compared among high vs. lower-coverage workplaces. RESULTS In total, 496 COVID-19 investigations identified 442 clusters (89%) and 54 outbreaks (11%). Frontline essential workplaces comprised 36% before, versus 15% after vaccine eligibility. Case interviewing identified 84% Pre-Omicron, versus 10% Post-Omicron. Over time, offices, bars and restaurants, and less vulnerable city regions became overrepresented. Among 3,763 NHNCW cases, 18–29-year-olds, Latinx and Black-non-Latinx workers were over-represented among higher-risk occupations and unvaccinated Chicagoans. Among 18-29-year-old Pre-Omicron cases, those in higher-risk occupations had 1.5 times the odds of being unvaccinated (95% CI 1.10-2.14). Among 49 WEVax survey respondents, 59% reported coverage rates ≥ 75%; 75% of lower coverage workplaces were in manufacturing and had ˂ 100 employees. Coverage was higher among workplaces requiring vaccination (93% vs. 49%, p=0.03) or verifying vaccination (84% vs. 38%, p=0.07). Businesses reported using strategies to make vaccinations convenient. Concerns about safety, side effects, and other skepticism remain barriers to uptake. CONCLUSIONS Vaccine prioritization reduced COVID-19 burden among highest-risk workplaces, but surveillance methods became less representative. Vaccine promotion among workers in high-risk environments may increase coverage among under-vaccinated demographic groups in Chicago. Vaccine requirement, verification and addressing low vaccine confidence may improve coverage among NHNCW. Future studies should include low-coverage businesses and assess vaccination motivators (not only barriers) among employees.
Changes in mental health service utilization before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide database analysis in Korea
Creators: name: Hong, Minha
name: Paik, Jong-Woo
name: Han, Kyu-Man
name: Lee, Sang Min
name: Kim, Kyoung Hoon
Publisher: name: Korean Society of Epidemiology
Year: 2023

description: OBJECTIVES: The present study examined the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on mental health service utilization through a comparative analysis of nationwide data regarding inpatient care users, outpatient visits, emergency department (ED) visits, and admissions via the ED before and during the pandemic.
METHODS: Data from approximately 350,000 Koreans diagnosed with mental illness were analyzed in terms of hospitalization, outpatient visits, and ED visits between January 2018 and June 2021. An interrupted time series analysis was conducted to determine the significance of changes in mental health service utilization indicators.
RESULTS: The number of hospital admissions per patient decreased by 1.2% at the start of the pandemic and 0.7% afterward. The length of hospital stay increased by 1.8% at the outbreak of the pandemic, and then decreased by 20.2%. Although the number of outpatients increased, the number of outpatient visits per patient decreased; the number of outpatient visits for schizophrenia (3.4%) and bipolar disorder (3.5%) significantly decreased immediately post-outbreak. The number of ED visits per patient decreased both immediately post-outbreak and afterward, and ED visits for schizophrenia (19.2%), bipolar disorder (22.3%), and depression (17.4%) decreased significantly immediately post-outbreak. Admissions via the ED did not show a significant change immediately post-outbreak.
CONCLUSIONS: Mental health service utilization increased during the pandemic, but medical service use decreased overall, with a particularly significant decrease in ED utilization. As the pandemic worsened, the decline in outpatient visits became more pronounced among those with severe mental illness.
Asteroseismology of the Hyades with K2: first detection of main-sequence solar-like oscillations in an open cluster
Creators: name: Lund, Mikkel N.
name: Basu, Sarbani
name: Aguirre, Víctor Silva
name: Chaplin, William J.
name: Serenelli, Aldo M.
name: García, Rafael A.
name: Latham, David W.
name: Casagrande, Luca
name: Bieryla, Allyson
name: Davies, Guy R.
name: Viani, Lucas S.
name: Buchhave, Lars A.
name: Miglio, Andrea
name: Soderblom, David R.
name: Valenti, Jeff A.
name: Stefanik, Robert P.
name: Handberg, Rasmus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Hyades open cluster was targeted during Campaign 4 (C4) of the NASA K2 mission, and short-cadence data were collected on a number of cool main-sequence stars. Here, we report results on two F-type stars that show detectable oscillations of a quality that allows asteroseismic analyses to be performed. These are the first ever detections of solar-like oscillations in main-sequence stars in an open cluster.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables; accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: Changes in endothelial cell density after uncomplicated phacoemulsification in patients with type 2 diabetes
Creators: name: Bogoev, Atanas
name: Minchev, I.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Introduction: Corneal endothelial cells have a very limited regenerative potential. This can additionally be influenced in a negative way in patients with type 2 diabetes. Purpose: To compare the difference in endothelial cell density (ECD) changes in diabetic and non-diabetic patients before and[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 34. Kongress der Deutschsprachigen Gesellschaft für Intraokularlinsen-Implantation, interventionelle und refraktive Chirurgie
A time-dependent SEIRS model for COVID-19 in China (mainland)
Creators: name: Huang, Zeyan
Publisher: name: IOP Publishing
Year: 2023

description: In the spring of 2022, two years after the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, a second worldwide outbreak is underway, with the number of patients infected with COVID-19 much higher than the peak during the first outbreak. Moreover, the second outbreak was not prevented in mainland China by a series of management measures with few local infections and mandatory quarantine of incoming persons. In this paper, we construct a compartmental model that includes exposed and isolated individuals to address the fact that the COVID-19 virus cannot be permanently immunized and to consider the isolation and treatment process in China. The model is used to analyze which factors have an impact on secondary outbreaks and uses the basic reproduction number to represent the outbreak. We obtained the expression for the basic reproduction number by calculating the basic reproduction number of the model. We used MATLAB to perform sensitivity analysis on each variable included in the expression for the basic reproduction number. In the sensitivity analysis, the increase in the basic reproduction number indicates that the rate of virus transmission and the rate of antibody failure are more critical to the pandemic. Reducing these rates can be effective in mitigating the epidemic. Also, the sensitivity analysis showed that increasing the vaccination rate does not help to reduce the basic reproduction number effectively. Therefore, the Chinese government should urge people to continue wearing masks to reduce the route and likelihood of the COVID-19 virus transmission and could appropriately reduce funding for vaccine promotion until a long-term effective vaccine is invented.
Wie siehst du denn aus? Eine Literaturarbeit zur Förderung eines positiveren Körperbildes bei männlichen und weiblichen Jugendlichen in der Offenen Jugendarbeit
Creators: name: Kupresak, Vedrana
name: Stettler, Nadja
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Diese Bachelorarbeit befasst sich mit der Frage, wie soziokulturelle Animator*innen in der Offenen Jugendarbeit männliche und weibliche Jugendliche im Alter von 12 bis 18 Jahren bei der Auseinandersetzung mit gesellschaftlichen Körperidealen begleiten und unterstützen können, damit sie ein positiveres Körperbild entwickeln. Der gegenwärtige Trend hin zu schlanken Körperformen und gesunder Ernährung, wie durch Bundesamt für Gesundheit (BAG) belegt, wird als einer der Hauptgründe für die zunehmende Verbreitung von Essstörungen in Industrieländern angesehen. Dies steht vielfach im Zusammenhang mit einem verzerrten Körperbild. Dabei ist die Adoleszenz eine entscheidende Lebensphase bei der Entwicklung des Körperbildes, in der die Jugendlichen verschiedene Entwicklungsaufgaben zu bewältigen haben. Kontinuierliche Sinneserfahrungen und das Austesten des Körpers durch Bewegung führen zu einer immer ausgeprägteren Körperwahrnehmung. Dies ist die Grundlage für die Entwicklung des Körperbildes, welches aus den vier Ebenen: Wahrnehmung, Gefühle, Gedanken und Verhalten besteht und sich positiv, neutral oder negativ entwickeln kann. Das biopsychosoziale Modell beschreibt förderliche und hinderliche Faktoren für ein positives Körperbild. Daraus lassen sich Handlungsempfehlungen ableiten wie das Fördern der Selbstwirksamkeit und des Selbstwertgefühls. Die Offene Jugendarbeit kann diese Empfehlungen in die Beziehungsarbeit, Gruppenarbeit und in die narrative Gesprächstechnik aufnehmen. Durch gemeinschaftliche Mahlzeiten, kochen und sportliche Betätigung eröffnen sich Möglichkeiten zur Auseinandersetzung mit dem individuellen Körperbild, wobei gleichzeitig die Partizipation gefördert wird.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa basp + Code Diss LU: hslusa bask+ Fussnote: Bachelor-Arbeit, Hochschule Luzern – Soziale Arbeit, Studienrichtung Sozialpädagogik & Soziokultur, 2023 + NL-Code: NLLUHSA202309
Letter from Saul Holiff to Johnny Cash, 29 December 1966
Creators: name: Holiff, Saul, 1925-2005
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Johnston, Bob
subject: Law, Don
subject: Music trade
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1030641
subject: Columbia Records, Inc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/677750
subject: Cash, Johnny
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/31281
subject: Holiff, Saul, 1925-2005
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1958130
subject: Country musicians
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/881442
subject: Music publishing
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1030595
subject: Music trade--Management
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1030650

description: Letter from Saul Holiff to Johnny Cash urging him to switch producers at Columbia Records from Don Law to Bob Johnston.
Towards Understanding Deep Generative Models for Continuous Data Augmentation
Creators: name: Mishra, Harsh
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023

description: Score-based models, a class of Deep Generative models, are considered state-of-the-art for image generation. The key idea behind such models is to gradually add noise to the data and then use a neural network to recover the original data by reversing the noising process. From a computational perspective, existing score-based models can be efficiently trained only if the forward or the corruption process comprises Gaussian noise, i.e., can be computed in closed form. On this, we first propose the use of continuous data augmenting methods, which provide the alternative to Gaussian noise. We also propose a new framework, named Intermediate Generator Optimization (IGO), that explicitly models such Non-Gaussian forward processes, by using the relationship between the corruption process and the layers in a deep Generative model. The main advantage of our framework is that it can be incorporated into any standard autoencoder pipeline for generative tasks. We provide implementation details to apply our framework on benchmark image generation and point-cloud denoising models, as well as the downstream task of Generative PCA.
Spin- and orbital-Hall effect in cyclic group symmetric metasurface
Creators: name: Lee, Yeon Ui
name: Ozerov, Igor
name: Bedu, Frederic
name: Kim, Ji Su
name: Fages, Frederic
name: Wu, Jeong Weon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Light possesses both spin and orbital angular momentum (AM). While spin AM is determined by helicity of circular-polarization, orbital AM is characterized by topological charge of vortex beam. Interaction of AM with optical beam orbit leads to optical spin Hall or orbital Hall effect, exhibited as spin-dependent or topological charge-dependent transverse shift of optical beam. Conservation of AM enables spin-to-orbital AM conversion, where circular-polarized Gaussian beam is converted to opposite-helicity circular-polarized vortex beam with topological charge $\pm 2$, an example of controlling spatial beam profiling by spin flip. However, the resultant vortex beam has the beam center of gravity unchanged, the same as that of incident Gaussian beam, meaning a null transverse shift. Here we introduce a cyclic group symmetric metasurface to demonstrate generation of vortex beam exhibiting spin-dependent transverse shift, namely, spin- and orbital-Hall effect, attributed to an alteration of dynamical phase of scattered beam according to the order $n$ of cyclic group while keeping geometric phase constant. Capability of spin-controlled spatial beam profiling with a transverse shift via spin- and orbital-Hall effect has important implications for spatial demultiplexing in optical communication utilizing orbital AM mode division multiplexing as well as for optical vortex tweezer and signal processing involving vortex beams.
description: 18 pages, 6 figures
Small optic suspensions for Advanced LIGO input optics and other precision optical experiments
Creators: name: Ciani, G.
name: Arain, M. A.
name: Aston, S. M.
name: Feldbaum, D.
name: Fulda, P.
name: Gleason, J.
name: Heintze, M.
name: Martin, R. M.
name: Mueller, C. L.
name: Kumar, D. M. Nanda
name: Pele, A.
name: Reitze, D. H.
name: Sainathan, P.
name: Tanner, D. B.
name: Williams, L. F.
name: Mueller, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the design and performance of small optic suspensions developed to suppress seismic motion of out-of-cavity optics in the Input Optics subsystem of the Advanced LIGO interferometric gravitational wave detector. These compact single stage suspensions provide isolation in all six degrees of freedom of the optic, local sensing and actuation in three of them, and passive damping for the other three.
title: Häufigkeit der Katarakt-Operation und deren Einfluss auf die visuelle Funktion – Ergebnisse der Gutenberg-Gesundheitsstudie (GHS)
Creators: name: Schuster, Alexander K.
name: Nickels, S.
name: Pfeiffer, N.
name: Schmidtmann, I.
name: Wild, P.S.
name: Münzel, T.
name: Beutel, M.E.
name: Lackner, K.J.
name: Voßmerbäumer, U.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Fragestellung: Die Katarakt-Operation gilt als die häufigste Operation in Deutschland. Zahlen hierzu basieren bisher auf Umfragen oder Verkaufszahlen von Intraokularlinsen. Wir berichten nun die Häufigkeit von Kataraktoperationen über ein Fünfjahresintervall bei Personen im Alter[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 34. Kongress der Deutschsprachigen Gesellschaft für Intraokularlinsen-Implantation, interventionelle und refraktive Chirurgie
A WISE-based search for debris discs amongst M-dwarfs in nearby, young, moving groups
Creators: name: Binks, Alex S.
name: Jeffries, Robin D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a search for debris discs amongst M-dwarf members of nearby, young (5-150 Myr) moving groups (MGs) using infrared (IR) photometry, primarily from the Wide Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). A catalogue of 100 MG M-dwarfs that have suitable WISE data is compiled and 19 of these are found to have significant IR excess emission at 22$μ$m. Our search is likely to be complete for discs where the ratio of flux from the disc to flux from the star $f_{\rm d}/f_{*} > 10^{-3}$. The spectral energy distributions are supplemented with 2MASS photometry and data at longer wavelengths and fitted with simple disc models to characterise the IR excesses. There is a bimodal distribution -- twelve targets have $W1-W4 > 3$, corresponding to $f_{\rm d}/f_{*} > 0.02$ and are likely to be gas-rich, primordial discs. The remaining seven targets have $W1-W4 < 1$ ($f_{\rm d}/f_{*} \lesssim 10^{-3}$) and include three objects with previously known or suspected debris discs and four new debris disc candidates that are all members of the Beta Pic MG. All of the IR excesses are identified in stars that are likely members of MGs with age $< 30$ Myr. The detected debris disc frequency falls from 13 to 5 per cent to $< 7$ per cent (at 95 per cent confidence) for objects younger or older than 30 Myr respectively. This provides evidence for the evolution of debris discs on this timescale and does not support models where the maximum of debris disc emission occurs much later in lower-mass stars.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures, 6 tables. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, accepted version. Apologies for the final 8 pages with oversized figures - there were issues compiling the mn2e.cls templates on the ArXiV uploading site
Quantum electrodynamic approach to the conductivity of gapped graphene
Creators: name: Klimchitskaya, G. L.
name: Mostepanenko, V. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electrical conductivity of graphene with a nonzero mass-gap parameter is investigated starting from the first principles of quantum electrodynamics in (2+1)-dimensional space-time at any temperature. The formalism of the polarization tensor defined over the entire plane of complex frequency is used. At zero temperature we reproduce the results for both real and imaginary parts of the conductivity, obtained previously in the local approximation, and generalize them taking into account the effects of nonlocality. At nonzero temperature the exact analytic expressions for real and imaginary parts of the longitudinal and transverse conductivities of gapped graphene are derived, as well as their local limits and approximate expressions in several asymptotic regimes. Specifically, a simple local result for the real part of conductivity of gapped graphene valid at any temperature is obtained. According to our results, the real part of the conductivity is not equal to zero for frequencies exceeding the width of the gap and goes to the universal conductivity with increasing frequency. The imaginary part of conductivity of gapped graphene varies from infinity at zero frequency to minus infinity at the frequency defined by the gap parameter and then goes to zero with further increase of frequency. The analytic expressions are accompanied by the results of numerical computations. Possible future generalization of the used formalism is discussed.
description: 21 pages, 6 figures; to appear in Phys. Rev. B; several typos are corrected