cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Halo effective field theory constrains the solar Beryllium-7 + proton -> Boron-8 + photon rate
Creators: name: Zhang, Xilin
name: Nollett, Kenneth M.
name: Phillips, D. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report an improved low-energy extrapolation of the cross section for the process Beryllium-7+proton -> Boron-8+photon, which determines the Boron-8 neutrino flux from the Sun. Our extrapolant is derived from Halo Effective Field Theory (EFT) at next-to-leading order. We apply Bayesian methods to determine the EFT parameters and the low-energy S-factor, using measured cross sections and scattering lengths as inputs. Asymptotic normalization coefficients of Boron-8 are tightly constrained by existing radiative capture data, and contributions to the cross section beyond external direct capture are detected in the data at E < 0.5 MeV. Most importantly, the S-factor at zero energy is constrained to be S(0)= 21.3 + - 0.7 eV b, which is an uncertainty smaller by a factor of two than previously recommended. That recommendation was based on the full range for S(0) obtained among a discrete set of models judged to be reasonable. In contrast, Halo EFT subsumes all models into a controlled low-energy approximant, where they are characterized by nine parameters at next-to-leading order. These are fit to data, and marginalized over via Monte Carlo integration to produce the improved prediction for S(E).
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables, and 1 supplemental material
Temperature measurement methods in an experimental setup during bone drilling: A brief review on the comparison of thermocouple and infrared thermography
Creators: name: Islam, Md Ashequl
name: Kamarrudin, Nur Saifullah
name: Daud, Ruslizam
name: Ibrahim, Ishak
name: Rahman, Anas
name: Mat, Fauziah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Predicting thermal response in orthopaedic surgery or dental implantation remains a significant challenge. This study aims to find a practical approach for measuring temperature elevation during a bone drilling experiment by analyzing the existing methods. Traditionally thermocouple has frequently been used to predict the bone temperature in the drilling process. However, several experimental studies demonstrate that the invasive method using thermocouple is impractical in medical conditions and prefers the thermal infrared (IR) camera as a non-invasive method. This work proposes a simplified experimental model that uses the thermocouple to determine temperature rise coupled with the thermal image source approach. Furthermore, our new method provides a significant opportunity to calibrate the thermal IR camera by discovering the undetected heat elevation in a workpiece depth.
A Nutritional and Marketing Analysis of Milk-Based, Toddler Drinks on the Market in the United States
Creators: name: Jones, Kerry
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Background: The first 1,000 days of life is an important window for a child’s development that impacts their health throughout their lifetime. Milk-based toddler drinks claim to be nutritionally beneficial for children aged 6-36 months. Despite this claim, medical professionals and public health experts do not recommend these products.

Objective: The objective of this study was to conduct an in-depth analysis of milk-based, toddler drinks for children aged 6-36 months currently on the market in the United States, including the nutritional content, nutrient and health marketing claims, global customer purchasing patterns, and any potential nutritional utility for these products.

Design: Researchers compiled nutritional information and marketing claims from milk-based, toddler drinks currently on the market in the United States, analyzed purchasing patterns of milk-based toddler drinks in the United States and globally, and conducted a literature search of research conducted within the past 10 years that analyzed the energy and nutrient intakes of children 6-36 months of age.

Results: 43 milk-based, toddler drinks were found on the market in the United States, 9 transitional formulas and 34 toddler milks. Toddler drinks varied in their statements of identity, intended age ranges and recommended methods of feeding, contained multiple nutrient and health claims, and frequently contained added sugar. U.S. infants were found to have nutritionally adequate diets on average, while toddlers and young preschoolers had more problematic diets. Toddler drinks sales are on the rise in the United States and globally with the toddler milk formula category being the single largest formula category globally. 

Conclusions: Milk-based, toddler drink packages and claims do not align with recommendations from national health organizations and may cause confusion among parents and caregivers about the healthfulness and necessity of these products. Sales of toddler drinks are increasing globally despite there being no nutritional utility or benefit of these products beyond what a balanced diet and responsive feeding practices could provide. Milk-based, toddler drinks are nutritionally unnecessary and may negatively impact children’s feeding development and acceptance of a nutritious, balanced diet.
Chapel Hill-Carrboro Meals on Wheels Community Outreach Project: An Exploratory Study on the Growing Asian Senior Population's Awareness of CHCMOW and the Need to Receive Its Service
Creators: name: Chou, Kate
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: This community outreach project aims to address one of the Orange County Master Aging Plan goals is to increase awareness of food services, such as Chapel Hill-Carrboro Meals on Wheels (CHCMOW), for older adults. In addition, it also aims to explore the growing Asian senior population's awareness of CHCMOW and also the need to receive its service.
Unique ergodicity for foliations in P^2 with an invariant curve
Creators: name: Dinh, Tien-Cuong
name: Sibony, Nessim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37F75, 37A

description: Consider a foliation in the projective plane admitting a projective line as the unique invariant algebraic curve. Assume that the foliation is generic in the sense that its singular points are hyperbolic. We show that there is a unique positive ddc-closed (1,1)-current of mass 1 which is directed by the foliation and this is the current of integration on the invariant line. A unique ergodicity theorem for the distribution of leaves follows: for any leaf L, appropriate averages of L converge to the current of integration on the invariant line. This property is surprising because for most of such foliations the leaves (except the invariant line) are dense in the projective plane. So one could expect that they spend a significant amount of hyperbolic time in every open set and that there should be a fat ddc-closed non-closed current with support equal to the projective plane. The proof uses an extension of our theory of densities for currents. Foliations on compact Kaehler surfaces with one or several invariant curves are also considered.
description: 28 pages, final version, to appear in Invent. math
SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT OF URBAN WATER SUPPLY DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM
Creators: name: TADESSE DEFAR KETAMA
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: The Sustainability of urban water supply is sensitive issue, since it’s the most stimulating in of Ethiopian towns water distribution networks. Thus, the main finding of the study was sustainability assessment of urban water supply distribution system in Bishoftu town. Apart from this sustainability assessment of existing water supply deficit and predict water demand to the future were determined hydraulic performance in distribution system, and factor of water loss in the distribution system were evaluated. In order to achieve the objectives, the researcher used water GEMS v8i which is used for simulation and modeling scenario of water supply deficit and excessive water demand in the distribution networks.
Learning inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic
Creators: name: Engzell, Per
name: Frey, Arun
name: Verhagen, Mark
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Family, Life Course, and Society
subject: Educational Sociology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Inequality and Stratification
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: During the pandemic-induced lockdown in 2020, schools in many countries were forced to close for extended periods. It is of great policy interest to know whether students are able to have their educational needs met in these cir- cumstances, and identify groups at special risk. In this pre-analysis plan, we outline our data and research questions for a study on learning loss during the pandemic. The data comprise anonymized test scores from Dutch primary school students that we obtain through a partnership with the provider of a digital platform service to schools. We propose a difference-in-differences design to test whether educational performance declines during lockdown relative to previous years, and whether socioeconomically disadvantaged students are particularly affected. We also plan to test for differences by previous performance, gender and subject domain. We expect losses to be concentrated among disadvantaged students and boys, and to be greater in mathematics than spelling or reading.
Parental weight status and household environment affect weight status of child.
Creators: name: Nelson, Kendra
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Objective: The objective of this study was to determine whether and how a parents’ own weight and their lifestyle choices impact the weight of their children.

Methods: Data were collected for 383 participants, 244 children (48.77% male, mean age 11.87 years) and one or both parents (24.82% male, mean age 41.38 years) and included demographics, anthropometric and blood pressure measurements and a questionnaire. Participants described factors related to their lifestyle and household environment including smoking status, sedentary behavior, and sleep duration. A food frequency questionnaire and a 24-hour diet recall were also completed by each participant. BMI-for-Age percentile (BfaP) was calculated for all children. 

Results: Parents who were overweight or obese were more likely to have children with higher weight status; the relationship between a mother and child’s weight status remains similar throughout the childhood (r=0.26, p<0.001), but a father’s weight status is more reflective of the weight status of older (r=0.46, p=0.015) rather than younger (r=0.25, p=0.096) children. Children were more likely to be overweight or obese if they lived in smoking households (non-smoking mean BfAP 57.29 (SE 2.57) vs. smoking BfAP 67.1 (SE4.91)). Fathers (r=0.09, p=0.521) and mothers (r=0.06, p=0.427) who spent more time on sedentary activities had children with higher BfAP. Children with parents who ate fast food more often were more likely to carry excess weight (r= 0.15, p=0.030 for mothers, r=0.10, p=0.374 for fathers). Children with fathers who slept fewer than eight hours per day were more likely to be overweight or obese (r=-0.21, p=0.049); a mother who engaged in very little or in large amounts of sleep was more likely to have offspring who were overweight or obese (p=0.013).

Summary:  Parental weight status predicts a child’s weight status. Parents making healthier lifestyle choices for themselves will likely impact their child’s weight in a desirable manner. Further research should be conducted to characterize to what degree similarities between parent and child weight is a function of genetic heritability, shared environment, overt parenting practices, or parental modeling.
CgT-GAN: CLIP-guided Text GAN for Image Captioning
Creators: name: Yu, Jiarui
name: Li, Haoran
name: Hao, Yanbin
name: Zhu, Bin
name: Xu, Tong
name: He, Xiangnan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The large-scale visual-language pre-trained model, Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP), has significantly improved image captioning for scenarios without human-annotated image-caption pairs. Recent advanced CLIP-based image captioning without human annotations follows a text-only training paradigm, i.e., reconstructing text from shared embedding space. Nevertheless, these approaches are limited by the training/inference gap or huge storage requirements for text embeddings. Given that it is trivial to obtain images in the real world, we propose CLIP-guided text GAN (CgT-GAN), which incorporates images into the training process to enable the model to "see" real visual modality. Particularly, we use adversarial training to teach CgT-GAN to mimic the phrases of an external text corpus and CLIP-based reward to provide semantic guidance. The caption generator is jointly rewarded based on the caption naturalness to human language calculated from the GAN's discriminator and the semantic guidance reward computed by the CLIP-based reward module. In addition to the cosine similarity as the semantic guidance reward (i.e., CLIP-cos), we further introduce a novel semantic guidance reward called CLIP-agg, which aligns the generated caption with a weighted text embedding by attentively aggregating the entire corpus. Experimental results on three subtasks (ZS-IC, In-UIC and Cross-UIC) show that CgT-GAN outperforms state-of-the-art methods significantly across all metrics. Code is available at https://github.com/Lihr747/CgtGAN.
description: Accepted at ACM MM 2023
FiLBy: Bylet modelling
Creators: name: Kraus, Elisabeth
name: Wild, Johannes
name: Hilbert, Sven
name: Schilcher, Anita
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Preregistration is found in the pdf-document: "Preregistration FiLBy_BYLET.pdf"
Ab initio study of the ferroelectric strain dependence and 180$^\circ$ domain walls in the barium metal fluorides BaMgF$_4$ and BaZnF$_4$
Creators: name: Valdez, Maribel Núñez
name: Spanke, Hendrik Th.
name: Spaldin, Nicola A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the strain dependence of the ferroelectric polarization and the structure of the ferroelectric domain walls in the layered perovskite-related barium fluorides, BaMF$_4$ (M=Mg, Zn). The unusual "geometric ferroelectricity" in these materials is driven by the softening of a single polar phonon mode consisting of rotations of the MF$_6$ octahedra accompanied by polar displacements of the Ba cations, and in contrast to conventional ferroelectrics involves minimal electronic rehybridization. We therefore anticipate a different strain dependence of the polarization, and alternative domain wall structures compared with those found in conventional ferroelectric materials. Using first-principles calculations based on density functional theory (DFT) within the general gradient approximation (GGA), we calculate the variation of the crystal structure and the ferroelectric polarization under both compressive and tensile strain. We perform structural relaxations of neutral domain walls between oppositely oriented directions of the ferroelectric polarization and calculate their corresponding energies to determine which are most likely to form. We compare our results to literature values for conventional perovskite oxides to provide a source of comparison for understanding the ferroelectric properties of alternative non-oxide materials such as the barium fluorides.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables
MPEC 2023-F184 : 2023 FD6
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 FD6

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Beyond Insulin to Carb Ratio- The Impact of Dietary Fat and Protein on Postprandial Glycemia and Implications for Mealtime Dosing in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes
Creators: name: Julie Hooper
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019
Subjects: Diet therapy
Diabetes

description: Despite a growing understanding of the impact of fat and protein on post-prandial blood glucose levels, current medical nutrition therapy for treatment of type 1 diabetes continues to focus primarily on carbohydrate counting for mealtime bolus calculation. Standards of care practice guidelines suggest increasing mealtime dose for meals high in fat and/or protein, but do not provide specific guidelines on adjustment of insulin dose and timing for high fat and/or protein meals. There is no recommended macronutrient breakdown for patients with type 1 diabetes, who may follow a variety of diets and dietary patterns.  Both low carbohydrate diets and higher carbohydrate plant-based diets have increased in popularity over recent years, revealing variability in individual response to diet composition and the role of various dietary components beyond solely carbohydrate content on glycemic control.   Variability in response to various dietary components suggests the need for individually tailored dietary education to develop effective mealtime dosing strategies that improve glycemic control within the context of each individual’s dietary preferences and responses. Therefore, this review examines recent research on the impact of dietary fat and protein on post-prandial blood glucose, discusses the current evidence for different mealtime dosing strategies that account for dietary fat and protein, and suggests critical areas for future work with the goal of improving postprandial blood glucose in patients with type 1 diabetes.
MPEC 2023-F185 : 2023 FE6
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 FE6

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Looking for New Naturally Aligned Higgs Doublets at the LHC
Creators: name: Dev, P. S. Bhupal
name: Pilaftsis, Apostolos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Since the current LHC Higgs data suggest the couplings of the observed 125 GeV Higgs boson to be close to the Standard Model (SM) expectations, any extended Higgs sector must lead to the so-called SM alignment limit, where one of the Higgs bosons behaves exactly like that of the SM. In the context of the Two Higgs Doublet Model (2HDM), this alignment is often associated with either decoupling of the heavy Higgs sector or accidental cancellations in the 2HDM potential. We present a novel symmetry justification for 'natural' alignment without necessarily decoupling or fine-tuning. We show that there exist only three different symmetry realizations of the natural alignment scenario in 2HDM. We analyze new collider signals for the heavy Higgs sector in the natural alignment limit, which dominantly lead to third-generation quarks in the final state and can serve as a useful observational tool during the Run-II phase of the LHC.
description: 20 pages, 7 figures, 1 table; added references. Based on arXiv:1408.3405 and arXiv:1503.09140. To appear in the proceedings of Planck 2015, Ioannina, Greece
Holographic entropy inequalities and gapped phases of matter
Creators: name: Bao, Ning
name: Cao, ChunJun
name: Walter, Michael
name: Wang, Zitao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend our studies of holographic entropy inequalities to gapped phases of matter. For any number of regions, we determine the linear entropy inequalities satisfied by systems in which the entanglement entropy satisfies an exact area law. In particular, we find that all holographic entropy inequalities are valid in such systems. In gapped systems with topological order, the "cyclic inequalities" derived recently for the holographic entanglement entropy generalize the Kitaev-Preskill formula for the topological entanglement entropy. Finally, we propose a candidate linear inequality for general 4-party quantum states.
description: 20 pages, 4 figures. v2: section 4 rewritten, where all linear entropy (in)equalities satisfied by area-law systems are derived and an error in their relations to graph theory is corrected
Brazilian programs for elderly people with Alzheimer's disease: an integrative review
Creators: name: Lima, Sara
name: Santos, Elen
name: Gramani-Say, Karina
name: de Oliveira Gomes, Grace
name: de Oliveira Takimoto, Thaís
name: Godoi-Jacomassi, Daniela
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
subject: Community Health and Preventive Medicine
subject: Other Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
subject: Rehabilitation and Therapy
subject: Mental and Social Health
subject: Alzheimer's disease
subject: Brazilian
subject: Dementia
subject: Integrative review
subject: Intervention
subject: non-pharmacological
subject: Older people
subject: Program

description: This is an integrative review whose aim is to search the literature for studies of Brazilian non-pharmacological intervention programs for elderly people with Alzheimer's disease, and to analyse whether the selected programs were beneficial for these patients. This review will be guided by the question: “Are there Brazilian programs for older people with Alzheimer's disease?”. Searches will be carried out in the following databases: PubMed, LILACS, Scopus, SciELO, Clinical Trials, Brazilian Registry of Clinical Trials (ReBEC), and CAPES Catalog of Theses and Dissertations, considering the last five years (2017-2022). The selected studies will be rigorously analysed by two reviewers, and their data will be presented in a characterization table. A synthesis of the findings will be provided, describing the programs, their objectives and their effects for the older people with Alzheimer’s disease in Brazil.
Innovation to Dissemination Workshop: Selecting Outcome Measures to Translate Educational Innovations into Scholarship
Creators: name: Beck Dallaghan, Gary L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Introduction:  Curricular  innovations  are  invaluable  to  the  improvement  of  medical  education  programs, and  thus,  their  dissemination  to  broader  audiences  is  imperative.  However,  medical  educators  often struggle  to  translate  innovative  ideas  into  scholarly  pursuits  due  to  a  lack  of  experience  or  expertise  in selecting  outcome  measures  that  demonstrate  impact.  A  recent  national  call  for  increased  focus  on outcome  measures  for  medical  education  research  highlights  the  need  for  more  training  in  this  area. Methods:  We  developed  a  2-hour  interactive  workshop  to  improve  educator  ability  to  identify  outcome measures  for  educational  innovations.  This  workshop  was  delivered  at  a  national  pediatrics  educational conference  and  at  three  local  institutional  faculty  development  sessions.  Results:  Participants  were  diverse in  terms  of  experience,  expertise,  and  roles  within  their  educational  programs.  Participants  rated  the workshop  positively  in  each  setting  and  identified  next  steps  in  developing  their  own  products  of educational  scholarship.  Discussion:  This  workshop  can  provide  faculty  and  faculty  developers  with  a template  for  developing  a  skill  set  in  identifying  outcome  measures  and  pairing  them  with  educational innovations.
Spin Polarisation of $t\bar{t}γγ$ production at NLO+PS with GoSam interfaced to MadGraph5_aMC@NLO
Creators: name: van Deurzen, Hans
name: Frederix, Rikkert
name: Hirschi, Valentin
name: Luisoni, Gionata
name: Mastrolia, Pierpaolo
name: Ossola, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an interface between the multipurpose NLO Monte Carlo tool MadGraph5_aMC@NLO and the automated one-loop amplitude generator GoSam. As a first application of this novel framework, we compute the NLO corrections to $pp \to t\bar{t}H$ and $pp \to t\bar{t}γγ$ matched to a parton shower. In the phenomenological analyses of these processes, we focus our attention on observables which are sensitive to the polarisation of the top quarks.
description: 18 pages, 15 figures, 2 tables. Version published on EPJC
The use of ‘omics to detect chronic kidney disease and associated risk: A scoping review
Creators: name: Govender, Melanie
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Life Sciences

description: To review and evaluate the current literature on the use of ‘omics platforms (genomics, proteomics, metabolomic, transcriptomics and epigenomics) in detection of CKD and associated risk.
Apprendimento in digitale e processi cognitivi: problemi aperti e riflessioni da ri-avviare
Creators: name: Marzano, Antonio
name: Vegliante, Rosa
name: Iannotta, Iolanda Sara
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2015

description: Il contributo intende esaminare gli apporti di ricerche empiriche, nazionali e internazionali, realizzate nell’ambito della Media Education, con particolare riferimento al rapporto tra tecnologie, supporti digitali e processo di apprendimento. Nella prima parte del contributo è delineata la cornice teorica di riferimento per ricostruire il passaggio da una società monosensoriale ad una multisensoriale sempre più dominata dagli artefatti digitali. La seconda parte si concentra sui supporti digitali di lettura, in particolare sull’e-book. Dopo aver analizzato le tecnologie usate per la fruizione dei testi digitali e descritto i vantaggi e gli svantaggi del supporto digitale, ci si chiede se e quanto sia promettente l’utilizzo dell’e-book nei contesti di formazione. Ci sono numerosi problemi aperti e potenziali direttrici di indagine: le evidenze empirico-sperimentali, che su questo punto sono contrastanti, meritano ulteriori e futuri approfondimenti anche di natura epistemologica.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 15 No. 2 (2015): La comunicazione visiva nella didattica.
Psychological distress, protective factors and resilience during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis with comparison to standard data
Creators: name: Röthke, Nikolaus
name: Kunzler, Angela
name: Blessin, Manpreet
name: Lieb, Klaus
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Psychiatry and Psychology
subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: Authors: Röthke N., Günthner L., Stoffers-Winterling J., Kunzler A. M., Lieb K. This review and relating protocol are elaborated in view of the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The ongoing pandemic is causing a worldwide burden on the population through overtaxing the healthcare system, lockdown of economy, contact ban, curfews and quarantine measures. We intend to conduct a systematic review to identify and summarize the available literature on the psychological distress during the current pandemic in the general population, healthcare workers and patients, as well as possible risk factors and protective factors. The identification of these factors may inform the decisions of researchers and policy makers and might be used to develop psychosocial interventions for different target groups. Building on the searches we conducted for the original review version, and in light of the rapidly accumulating evidence in this field, we considered it worthwhile to broaden the scope and also include different patient groups in addition to the general population and healthcare workers. This is the protocol for an updated version of a review on the same issue comprising more advanced methods, including meta-analysis, more population groups and an updated search period.
Dotazione informatica e uso quotidiano delle TIC nella scuola
Creators: name: Guerra, Luigi
name: Corazza, Laura
name: Reggiani, Andrea
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2015

description: L’articolo intende presentare in modo sintetico alcuni dati, tra i più significativi, raccolti dalla somministrazione di un questionario presentato a circa 500 insegnanti iscritti ai Percorsi Abilitanti Speciali (PAS) erogati dall’Università di Bologna (edizione 2014). Il questionario, raccolto in forma anonima grazie all’attività questionnaire di Moodle (v.2.6) e propedeutico alla frequenza dell’insegnamento “Laboratorio tecnologie” di 3 CFU dei PAS, ha consentito di documentare un quadro generale sulla dotazione informatica e l’uso quotidiano delle tecnologie dell’informazione e della comunicazione (TIC) abbastanza omogeneo tra i partecipanti.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 15 No. 2 (2015): La comunicazione visiva nella didattica.
High-resolution IR absorption spectroscopy of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: the realm of anharmonicity
Creators: name: Maltseva, Elena
name: Petrignani, Annemieke
name: Candian, Alessandra
name: Mackie, Cameron J.
name: Huang, Xinchuan
name: Lee, Timothy J.
name: Tielens, Alexander G. G. M.
name: Oomens, Jos
name: Buma, Wybren Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on an experimental and theoretical investigation of the importance of anharmonicity in the 3 micron CH stretching region of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules. We present mass-resolved, high-resolution spectra of the gas-phase cold (~4K) linear PAH molecules naphthalene, anthracene, and tetracene. The measured IR spectra show a surprisingly high number of strong vibrational bands. For naphthalene, the observed bands are well separated and limited by the rotational contour, revealing the band symmetries. Comparisons are made to the harmonic and anharmonic approaches of the widely used Gaussian software. We also present calculated spectra of these acenes using the computational program SPECTRO, providing anharmonic predictions enhanced with a Fermi-resonance treatment that utilises intensity redistribution. We demonstrate that the anharmonicity of the investigated acenes is strong, dominated by Fermi resonances between the fundamental and double combination modes, with triple combination bands as possible candidates to resolve remaining discrepancies. The anharmonic spectra as calculated with SPECTRO lead to predictions of the main modes that fall within 0.5% of the experimental frequencies. The implications for the Aromatic Infrared Bands, specifically the 3 micron band are discussed.
description: v.2 (02/11/15) Updated: references, figures and affiliation
Self prioritization of avatar faces in a task without familiar labels
Creators: name: Wozniak, Mateusz
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: A research project replicating self-prioritization effect (SPE) from the study by Sui, He & Humphreys (2012, JEP:HPP) with avatar faces, and addressing a potential problem that SPE may be driven by labels rather than arbitrary stimuli by including a version of the experiment in which the labels are replaced by unfamiliar symbols.
A Brief Overview of Phosphorus Binders: Importance, Types, Risks, and Costs
Creators: name: Mackenzie Morgan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: This paper looks at the growing concern over the potential increased risk for cardiovascular disease and related mortality in dialysis patients prescribed a calcium-based binder versus a non-calcium-based binder. In response to this potential increased risk, KDIGO recommends providers reduce the dosage of calcium-based binders. In light of this recommendation, this paper then takes a closer look at Velphoro, another phosphorus binder, to weight its risks and benefits, and gives practical application to providers when prescribing phosphorus binders.
Uso delle tecnologie nel sostegno: il punto di vista di un gruppo di insegnanti in formazione
Creators: name: Bembich, Caterina
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2015

description: Nel presente lavoro sono descritti gli esiti di un’indagine esplorativa, che prende in esame il punto di vista di un gruppo di insegnanti in formazione, sull’uso delle TIC nella didattica rivolta a studenti con disabilità/Bisogni Educativi Speciali (BES). È stato proposto ai docenti un questionario, al termine di un percorso formativo laboratoriale sull’uso delle TIC, che aveva l’obiettivo di indagare tre dimensioni: (1) aspetti formativi (conoscenze di base possedute dagli insegnanti sulle tecnologie; competenze acquisite durante il percorso formativo; applicabilità delle competenze nel lavoro in classe); (2) efficacia percepita nell’utilizzo delle TIC per il raggiungimento di diversi obiettivi didattici; (3) difficoltà e aspetti di criticità rilevati nell’utilizzo delle TIC. Nell’articolo saranno descritti nel dettaglio il metodo, le aree indagate e i risultati principali ottenuti dall’indagine, proponendo una riflessione critica sulle tematiche emerse.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 15 No. 2 (2015): La comunicazione visiva nella didattica.
Video, formazione e consapevolezza. Intrecci metodologici
Creators: name: Cescato, Silvia
name: Bove, Chiara
name: Braga, Piera
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2015

description: L’articolo propone una riflessione teorica sulle potenzialità della videoricerca nella formazione degli educatori nei servizi per l’infanzia. La tesi che verrà argomentata è che la rilevanza formativa propria della videoregistrazione e del suo uso in contesto formativo possa essere implementata e resa ancora più incisiva dall’uso sinergico di diversi strumenti di ricerca/formazione (visuali e testuali). In particolare, l’intreccio tra la revisione di sequenze videoregistrate, l’analisi delle immagini, l’esplicitazione e il confronto sui significati provocati da domande-stimolo e il confronto (individuale e di gruppo), aumenta le potenzialità rappresentative e ri-rappresentative del video, consentendo agli educatori di sperimentare processi di revisione delle pratiche a più livelli.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 15 No. 2 (2015): La comunicazione visiva nella didattica.
L’uso della comunicazione visiva nella scuola primaria: decorativismo o strumento cognitivo?
Creators: name: Menichetti, Laura
name: Sarro, Stefania
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2015

description: La comunicazione visiva utilizzata a fini didattici è al centro di un interessante dibattito: recenti teorie sull’apprendimento multimediale da un lato ne sottolineano le potenzialità in vista di un apprendimento significativo, dall’altro mettono in guardia contro i rischi di un sovraccarico cognitivo che, all’opposto, si traduce in un ostacolo agli apprendimenti. Nella pratica didattica come vengono usati i visual? Si percepiscono i rischi di un uso puramente decorativo e del correlato sovraccarico cognitivo? Quanta consapevolezza esiste relativamente al potenziale cognitivo implicito? Questo contributo indaga comportamenti e conoscenze di docenti della scuola primaria. Dalla ricerca emergono significative criticità e la necessità di interventi di formazione mirata in questo ambito.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 15 No. 2 (2015): La comunicazione visiva nella didattica.
Modelli televisivi e apprendimento. Il talk show “Gladiattori”
Creators: name: Denicolai, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2015

description: L’articolo presenta il talk show “Gladiattori”, format per web tv ideato e sviluppato dal centro interdipartimentale di ricerca Cinedumedia, Dipartimento di Filosofia e Scienze dell’Educazione, Università degli Studi di Torino. Lo scopo del progetto è sperimentare una metodologia didattica innovativa con il video e i linguaggi multimediali. Partendo dalla teoria del dialogo platonico e da alcuni studi di pragmatica, comunicazione, antropologia della performance e televisione, l’articolo analizza come il talk show (e, in genere, il video) possa essere utilizzato nella didattica e nella formazione per acquisire competenze e conoscenza e applicare un nuovo interattivo, collaborativo e collettivo metodo di studio.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 15 No. 2 (2015): La comunicazione visiva nella didattica.
Temporal reordering in the presence of additional congruent explanations.
Creators: name: Castillo, Lucas
name: Bechlivanidis, Christos
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Cognition and Perception
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Recent research has demonstrated that when perceiving a collision causal beliefs can influence the perception of temporal order (Bechlivanidis et al., 2020; Bechlivanidis & Lagnado, 2016). To date, however, this temporal reordering effect has mostly been explored in animations in which a collision is the only causal explanation available, and thus it is unknown whether it can be influenced by the presence of multiple competing ones. In particular, it is unknown if the availability of an explanation congruent with the true order of events may prevent participants from shifting the order in which they perceive events to happen. In the present study we adapt the paradigm used in Bechlivanidis et al. (2020) to ask whether the inclusion of other elements that provide a causal justification for the true order of events can reduce or eliminate the temporal reordering effect.
Hilbert series and operator bases with derivatives in effective field theories
Creators: name: Henning, Brian
name: Lu, Xiaochuan
name: Melia, Tom
name: Murayama, Hitoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a systematic framework for counting and finding independent operators in effective field theories, taking into account the redundancies associated with use of the classical equations of motion and integration by parts. By working in momentum space, we show that the enumeration problem can be mapped onto that of understanding a polynomial ring in the field momenta. All-order information about the number of independent operators in an effective field theory is encoded in a geometrical object of the ring known as the Hilbert series. We obtain the Hilbert series for the theory of N real scalar fields in (0+1) dimensions--an example, free of space-time and internal symmetries, where aspects of our framework are most transparent. Although this is as simple a theory involving derivatives as one could imagine, it provides fruitful lessons to be carried into studies of more complicated theories: we find surprising and rich structure from an interplay between integration by parts and equations of motion and a connection with SL(2,C) representation theory which controls the structure of the operator basis.
description: 27 pages, 3 figures
Keep your distance to save lives! The effects of nudge framing and targeted beneficiary during the COVID-19 pandemic
Creators: name: Bogdanic, Vita
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: The planned study is a field experiment that will be conducted in a supermarket in Lüneburg (Germany). To avoid the spreading of the novel Coronavirus (Sars-CoV-2), it is strongly recommended to keep distance from the people around us. The Robert Koch Institut, the central institution of the Federal Government in the field of disease surveillance and prevention in Germany (similar to the CDS in the United States), currently prescribes a physical distance of 1.5 meters in all areas of our daily lives, including supermarkets. The present study uses signs in supermarket trolleys to nudge people to keep physical distance. The effect of the nudges will be investigated through varying a) the framing of the nudge as either a gain-frame, focusing on customers’ health, or as a loss-frame, showing the potentially lethal risk of getting infected and b) the targeted beneficiary as the person who reads the sign or the other customers. Manipulation of the framing and the target beneficiary of the nudge results in four different phrases, which will be tested in the same supermarket on different days (random assignment). Social distancing behavior is observed by research assistants, blind to experimental condition and hypothesis, who will code participants’ reaction to a confederate with a newly developed behavior observation scale. In addition, the effect of the nudge will be compared to a baseline period without any nudge intervention. To obtain additional insights into the customers’ behavior towards the nudges and to shed light on the underlying psychological mechanisms (mediators), a brief interview with a manipulation check and mediator items on a 7-point Likert scale will be administered after the observation. The research assistant will approach the participants and ask them to participate in a brief interview. The participants will be debriefed at the end of the interview. After the interview, the research assistant will initiate a handshake with the participants, having previously disinfected his/her hands. The reaction of the participants will be assessed.
Best Practices for Food Waste Reduction at Congregate Nutrition Programs – Diverting Food Waste to Feed More Seniors
Creators: name: Ghelli, Anna
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Food waste is a global problem. It is estimated that 40% of all edible food is wasted while many suffer from food insecurity. There is a gap that exists between the food that is produced and the hungry people. North Carolina has the 4th highest rate of senior hunger in the country at 13%.
Congregate meal sites serve 23,337 seniors each year in North Carolina. Still, 83% of low income, food- insecure adults are not receiving the meal services that they need. One way to feed more people is to prevent food waste. There is enough food being produced worldwide, it is just a matter of recovery and redistribution to those in need. This report outlines ways to reduce waste and instead, feed more seniors in need.
An Analysis of Medical School Curriculum with Respect to Physician Education on Nutrition for Diabetes Prevention and Management
Creators: name: Griffin, Kagan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: The public health impact of diabetes is formidable, and in 2015, diabetes was the seventh leading cause of death. Both T1DM and T2DM can be managed through nutrition, and T2DM can be prevented through nutrition lifestyle changes. While there are nearly 90,000 registered dietitians (RDs) in the U.S., considering the size of the population with diabetes, most individuals with diabetes will consult their primary care or family medicine physician to help manage nutrition for their condition. In fact, a majority of patients report that they expect primary care and family medicine physicians to provide nutrition counseling. However, physicians report inadequate nutrition knowledge as well as low confidence in their skills counseling patients on nutrition. This lack of nutrition confidence reported by physicians can be directly related to a lack of training during medical school. This paper will examine the current state of nutrition education for physicians as it pertains to diabetes prevention and management. Medical school curriculum, material tested on the United States Medical Licensing Examinations (USMLE), and opportunities for continuing education on the nutrition for diabetes prevention and management were reviewed in order to determine what opportunities future physicians and current physicians are offered to gain proficiency on this subject. The implications of these findings are then discussed, along with future directions for improving physician confidence with nutrition for diabetes prevention and management.