cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Grid-free compressive beamforming
Creators: name: Xenaki, Angeliki
name: Gerstoft, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation problem involves the localization of a few sources from a limited number of observations on an array of sensors, thus it can be formulated as a sparse signal reconstruction problem and solved efficiently with compressive sensing (CS) to achieve high-resolution imaging. On a discrete angular grid, the CS reconstruction degrades due to basis mismatch when the DOAs do not coincide with the angular directions on the grid. To overcome this limitation, a continuous formulation of the DOA problem is employed and an optimization procedure is introduced, which promotes sparsity on a continuous optimization variable. The DOA estimation problem with infinitely many unknowns, i.e., source locations and amplitudes, is solved over a few optimization variables with semidefinite programming. The grid-free CS reconstruction provides high-resolution imaging even with non-uniform arrays, single-snapshot data and under noisy conditions as demonstrated on experimental towed array data.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures, journal paper
Erratum: The RNA polymerase activity of SARS-coronavirus nsp12 is primer dependent
Creators: name: Snijder, Eric J.
name: Arnold, Jamie J.
name: van den Worm, Sjoerd H. E.
name:  te Velthuis, Aartjan J. W.
name: Cameron, Craig E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: The authors wish to apologise for an error in the concentration of tetracycline used to induce SARS-coronavirus nsp12 expression in E. coli. In the second paragraph of Materials and Methods, the sentence: “Subsequently, the cells were slowly cooled to room temperature, tetracycline was added to a final concentration of 200 μg/ml and the cells were further grown at 20°C for another 16 h.” should read “Subsequently, the cells were slowly cooled to room temperature, tetracycline was added to a final concentration of 200 ng/ml and the cells were further grown at 20°C for another 16 h.”
Individuals with long-term illness, disability or infirmity are more likely to smoke than healthy controls: An instrumental variable analysis.
Creators: name: Zhou, Xingzuo
name: Li, Yiang
name: Zhu, Tianning
name: Xu, Yiran
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: Public Health
smoking
long-term illness or disability
causal inference
instrumental variable (IV)
public health
simultaneous effect

description: Peer reviewed: True
description: Acknowledgements: We appreciate Aureo de Paula and editors from Springer Nature Author Services for their comments and suggestions.
description: Despite the prevalence of smoking cessation programs and public health campaigns, individuals with long-term illness, disability, or infirmity have been found to smoke more often than those without such conditions, leading to worsening health. However, the available literature has mainly focused on the association between long-term illness and smoking, which might suffer from the possible bidirectional influence, while few studies have examined the potential causal effect of long-term illness on smoking. This gap in knowledge can be addressed using an instrumental variable analysis that uses a third variable as an instrument between the endogenous independent and dependent variables and allows the identification of the direction of causality under the discussed assumptions. Our study analyzes the UK General Household Survey in 2006, covering a nationally representative 13,585 households. We exploited the number of vehicles as the instrumental variable for long-term illness, disability, or infirmity as vehicle numbers may be related to illness based on the notion that these individuals are less likely to drive, but that vehicle number may have no relationship to the likelihood of smoking. Our results suggested that chronic illness status causes a significantly 28% higher probability of smoking. The findings have wide implications for public health policymakers to design a more accessible campaign around smoking and for psychologists and doctors to take targeted care for the welfare of individuals with long-term illnesses.
Prediction of complicated disease course for children newly diagnosed with Crohn's disease: a multicentre inception cohort study
Creators: name: Gibson, Greg
name: Evans, Jonathan S
name: Sylvester, Francisco A
name: Keljo, David
name: Rosh, Joel R
name: Crandall, Wallace V
name: Stephens, Michael C
name: Kellermayer, Richard
name: Kirschner, Barbara S
name: Trapnell, Bruce C
name: Shapiro, Jason M
name: Noe, Joshua D
name: Markowitz, James F
name: Huttenhower, Curtis
name: Baker, Susan S
name: Liu, Chunyan
name: Patel, Ashish S
name: Griffiths, Anne
name: Xavier, Ramnik J
name: Mondal, Kajari
name: Snapper, Scott
name: Cho, Judy
name: Ziring, David
name: Dubinsky, Marla C
name: Walters, Thomas D
name: Kappelman, Michael D
name: Marigorta, Urko M
name: Denson, Lee A
name: Aronow, Bruce J
name: Mack, David R
name: Baldassano, Robert N
name: Schirmer, Melanie
name: Hyams, Jeffrey S
name: Heyman, Melvin B
name: Kugathasan, Subra
name: Rabizadeh, Shervin
name: Guthery, Stephen
name: Kim, Mi-Ok
name: Oliva-Hemker, Maria
name: Steiner, Steven
name: Moulton, Dedrick E
name: Cohen, Stanley
name: Otley, Anthony R
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Stricturing and penetrating complications account for substantial morbidity and health-care costs in paediatric and adult onset Crohn’s disease. Validated models to predict risk for complications are not available, and the effect of treatment on risk is unknown.
Classical Dynamics of Free Electromagnetic Laser Pulses
Creators: name: Goto, S.
name: Tucker, R. W.
name: Walton, T. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a class of exact finite energy solutions to the vacuum source-free Maxwell field equations as models for multi- and single cycle laser pulses in classical interaction with relativistic charged test particles. These solutions are classified in terms of their chiral content based on their influence on particular charge configurations in space. Such solutions offer a computationally efficient parameterization of compact laser pulses used in laser-matter simulations and provide a potential means for experimentally bounding the fundamental length scale in the generalized electrodynamics of Bopp, Lande and Podolsky.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, 1 table; Proceedings of PIPAMON Conference, Debrecen, March 2015
The global burden of women’s cancers: a grand challenge in global health
Creators: name: Blas, Magaly M
name: Ginsburg, Ophira
name: Bray, Freddie
name: Parham, Groesbeck
name: Coleman, Michel P
name: Oomman, Nandini
name: Yeates, Karen
name: Krishnan, Suneeta
name: Sullivan, Richard
name: Kassami, Natasha
name: Dvaladze, Allison
name: Huong, Tran Thanh
name: Vanderpuye, Verna
name: Conteh, Lesong
name: Gralow, Julie
name: Kombe, Dominista
name: Allemani, Claudia
name: Taylor, Carolyn
name: Eniu, Alexandru
name: Kotha, S Rani
name: Sarker, Malabika
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Every year, more than 2 million women worldwide are diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer, yet where a woman lives, her socioeconomic status, and agency largely determines whether she will develop one of these cancers and will ultimately survive. In regions with scarce resources, fragile or fragmented health systems, cancer contributes to the cycle of poverty. Proven and cost-effective interventions are available for both these common cancers, yet for so many women access to these is beyond reach. These inequities highlight the urgent need in low-income and middle-income countries for sustainable investments in the entire continuum of cancer control, from prevention to palliative care, and in the development of high-quality population-based cancer registries. In this first paper of the Series on health, equity, and women's cancers, we describe the burden of breast and cervical cancer, with an emphasis on global and regional trends in incidence, mortality, and survival, and the consequences, especially in socioeconomically disadvantaged women in different settings.
Prethermalization and thermalization in models with weak integrability breaking
Creators: name: Bertini, Bruno
name: Essler, Fabian H. L.
name: Groha, Stefan
name: Robinson, Neil J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effects of integrability breaking perturbations on the non-equilibrium evolution of many-particle quantum systems. We focus on a class of spinless fermion models with weak interactions. We employ equation of motion techniques that can be viewed as generalizations of quantum Boltzmann equations. We benchmark our method against time dependent density matrix renormalization group computations and find it to be very accurate as long as interactions are weak. For small integrability breaking, we observe robust prethermalization plateaux for local observables on all accessible time scales. Increasing the strength of the integrability breaking term induces a "drift" away from the prethermalization plateaux towards thermal behaviour. We identify a time scale characterizing this cross-over.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
STIRAP in sodium vapor with picosecond laser pulses
Creators: name: Hicks, Jim L.
name: Tanjaroon, Chakree
name: Allen, Susan D.
name: Tilley, Matt
name: Hoke, Steven
name: Johnson, J. Bruce
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Experimental measurements and calculations of STIRAP transfer efficiencies were made on a sodium gas starting from the $3^2{\rm S}_{1/2}$ electronic ground state, passing through the $3^2{\rm P}_{1/2}$ and/or the $3^2{\rm P}_{3/2}$ to the $5^2{\rm S}_{1/2}$ state. The lasers used in the experiments had a pulse width of several picoseconds and were close to the Fourier transform limit. Although the linewidth of the laser was much smaller than the spin orbit splitting between the $3^2{\rm P}_{1/2}$ and $3^2{\rm P}_{3/2}$ states, Experiments and calculations reveal that both 3p states play a role in the transfer efficiency when the lasers are tuned to resonance through the $3^2{\rm P}_{1/2}$ state, revealing evidence for quantum interference between the competing pathways.
description: 16 pages, 13 figures
High-energy interactions in Kinetic Inductance Detectors arrays
Creators: name: D'Addabbo, A.
name: Calvo, M.
name: Goupy, J.
name: Benoit, A.
name: Bourrion, O.
name: Catalano, A.
name: Macias-Perez, J. F.
name: Monfardini, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The impacts of Cosmic Rays on the detectors are a key problem for space-based missions. We are studying the effects of such interactions on arrays of Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KID), in order to adapt this technology for use on board of satellites. Before proposing a new technology such as the Kinetic Inductance Detectors for a space-based mission, the problem of the Cosmic Rays that hit the detectors during in-flight operation has to be studied in detail. We present here several tests carried out with KID exposed to radioactive sources, which we use to reproduce the physical interactions induced by primary Cosmic Rays, and we report the results obtained adopting different solutions in terms of substrate materials and array geometries. We conclude by outlining the main guidelines to follow for fabricating KID for space-based applications.
Dr Eamon O’Sullivan: psychiatrist and forgotten pioneer of occupational therapy
Creators: name: PETTIGREW, JUDITH
name: Robinson, Katie
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Objectives: This paper provides a brief overview of the history of occupational therapy in psychiatry in Ireland and explores why the contri?bution of an early Irish psychiatrist and proponent of occupational therapy, Dr Eamon O’Sullivan (1897–1966), was not fully recognised in the decades after his retirement in 1962. Methods: A review of selected key reports, papers and publications related to the history of occupational therapy was undertaken. Results: Eamon O’Sullivan was appointed Resident Medical Superintendent at Killarney Mental Hospital Co. Kerry in 1933 and developed an occupational therapy department at the hospital from the 1930s until his retirement in 1962. He wrote one of the first textbooks of occupational therapy published in 1955. His occupational therapy philosophy reflects the early decades after the formalisation of the profession in 1917 when beliefs about the curative properties of occupation flourished and professional education programmes were scarce. By the time O’Sullivan’s textbook was published it received a lukewarm reception within occupational therapy as it did not reflect 1950s practice and professional philosophy. The professionalisation of occupational therapy in Ireland in the 1960s was also a factor in the lack of acknowledgement of O’Sullivan’s contribution to the profession. Conclusion: Practice and professional philosophy change and the paper concludes by considering O’Sullivan’s work in light of contemporary occupational therapy which once again places occupation at its centre and emphasises the importance of balance, health and wellbeing.
title: Effect of Marijuana Legalization on marijuana use and days of marijuana use
Creators: name: Eau, Grace
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2022

description:
INTRODUCTION:  Medical marijuana is legal in 25 states and recreational marijuana is legal in 5 states in 2016.




AIM: This study investigates if and how marijuana legalization expansion affects the use of marijuana and how medical and recreational use are different.




METHODS: Identification strategies use a base line Difference in Difference, and a staggered Difference in Difference which estimates with relaxed assumptions and with a time varying treatment.




RESULTS:  Proportion of people who responded to use marijuana past 30 days increased by 1.82 percentage point from 4% baseline in MML states and 1.24 percentage point from the baseline 5% in RML states using linear regression after the legalization expansion. Base DID estimator did not find any statistically significant increase of marijuana use in MML states and only 0.72% increase in RML states. Days of using marijuana past 30 days increase slightly in both MML and RML states using linear regression. DID estimator was negative in RML states, making 16 days in RML states from the baseline 16.7 days.  Staggered DID estimators for both marijuana use and days of marijuana use were negative.




DISCUSSION: Compared to estimation from existing literature, DID estimators and staggered DID estimators have smaller magnitude of marijuana use and days of marijuana due to legalization expansion.
Magnetised cosmological perturbations in the post-recombination era
Creators: name: Vasileiou, Hera
name: Tsagas, Christos G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study inhomogeneous magnetised cosmologies through the post-recombination era in the framework of Newtonian gravity and the ideal-magnetohydrodynamic limit. The nonlinear kinematic and dynamic equations are derived and linearised around the Newtonian counterpart of the Einstein-de Sitter universe. This allows for a direct comparison with the earlier relativistic treatments of the issue. Focusing on the evolution of linear density perturbations, we provide new analytic solutions which include the effects of the magnetic pressure as well as those of the field's tension. We confirm that the pressure of field inhibits the growth of density distortions and can induce a purely magnetic Jeans length. On scales larger than the aforementioned characteristic length the inhomogeneities grow, though slower than in non-magnetised universes. Wavelengths smaller than the magnetic Jeans length typically oscillate with decreasing amplitude. We also identify a narrow range of scales, just below the Jeans length, where the perturbations exhibit a slower power-law decay. In all cases, the effect of the field is proportional to its strength and increases as we move to progressively smaller lengths.
description: Published version
Intermediate Inclinations of Type 2 Coronal-Line Forest AGN
Creators: name: Rose, Marvin
name: Elvis, Martin
name: Crenshaw, Michael
name: Glidden, Ana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Coronal-Line Forest Active Galactic Nuclei (CLiF AGN) are remarkable in the sense that they have a rich spectrum of dozens of coronal emission lines (e.g. [FeVII], [FeX] and [NeV]) in their spectra. Rose, Elvis & Tadhunter (2015) suggest that the inner obscuring torus wall is the most likely location of the coronal line region in CLiF AGN, and the unusual strength of the forbidden high ionization lines is due to a specific AGN-torus inclination angle. Here we test this suggestion using mid-IR colours (4.6$μ$m-22$μ$m) from the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) for the CLiF AGN. We use the Fischer et al. (2014) result that showed that as the AGN-torus inclination becomes more face on, the Spitzer 5.5$μ$m to 30$μ$m colours become bluer. We show that the [W2-W4] colours for the CLiF AGN ($\langle$[W2-W4]$\rangle$ = 5.92$\pm$0.12) are intermediate between SDSS type 1 ($\langle$[W2-W4]$\rangle$ = 5.22$\pm$0.01) and type 2 AGN ($\langle$[W2-W4]$\rangle$ = 6.35$\pm$0.03). This implies that the AGN-torus inclinations for the CLiF AGN are indeed intermediate, supporting the work of Rose, Elvis \& Tadhunter (2015). The confirmed relation between CLiF AGN and their viewing angle shows that CLiF AGN may be useful for our understanding of AGN unification.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, 4 tables, resubmitted to MNRAS after corrections, posted here to support HST proposals
Single particle electron microscopy of native cell extracts
Creators: name: Verbeke, Eric James
name: 0000-0001-9506-424X
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2021
Subjects: Cryo-EM
Single particle analysis
Cell lysate

description: After the linking of genetic information to the biochemical composition of proteins in the mid 20th century, the emergent field of structural biology has focused on how the three-dimensional arrangement of atoms in a protein defines its cellular function. One rapidly evolving method for probing this structure-function relationship, and the focus of this work, is single particle transmission electron microscopy. Traditionally, single to few proteins of interest are first purified to near homogeneity from a biological source before structural characterization. However, a key advantage of electron microscopy over other methods is that proteins do not need to be purified, or in the case of electron tomography, even removed from the cell. The ability to study protein structure in as close to native conditions as possible can inform biology broadly. In this dissertation, I will present work towards expanding the use of single particle electron microscopy to native cell extracts. First, we explore a pilot analysis characterizing protein structures from chromatographically separated cell lysate guided by information from mass spectrometry. Extending on our initial studies, we next investigate protein structures from individual Caenorhabditis elegans embryos. We then introduce an image processing algorithm developed to assist single particle analysis of samples containing multiple distinct protein structures. Finally, we demonstrate an application combining methods presented in this dissertation to investigate protein-protein interactions in red blood cells and their structural architectures
PU.1 and maturational plasticity in acute myeloid leukaemia
Creators: name: OXLEY, ETHAN PAUL
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Oncology and carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
Haematological tumours

description: Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) is a haematological malignancy often framed in the context of a hierarchical leukaemia stem cell model whereby only a small proportion of immature leukaemia cells maintain the entire tumour bulk. In this project, we demonstrate that mature and non-leukaemogenic AML cells can reacquire leukaemia-initiating activity and promote disease progression through de-differentiation. Furthermore, extensive mechanistic and transcriptomic analysis revealed that this maturational plasticity was largely dependent on the myeloid transcription factor PU.1, a protein frequently disrupted in AML. These results prompt new interpretations of intratumoural phenotypic heterogeneity in AML, and may reveal novel avenues of disease relapse.
Unique transcriptomic landscapes identified in idiopathic spontaneous and infection related preterm births compared to normal term births
Creators: name: Brockway, Heather M
name: Kallapur, Suhas G
name: Buhimschi, Irina
name: Buhimschi, Catalin
name: Ackerman, William
name: Muglia, Louis J
name: Jones, Helen N
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Preterm birth (PTB) is leading contributor to infant death in the United States and globally, yet the underlying mechanistic causes are not well understood. Histopathological studies of preterm birth suggest advanced villous maturity may have a role in idiopathic spontaneous preterm birth (isPTB). To better understand pathological and molecular basis of isPTB, we compared placental villous transcriptomes from carefully phenotyped cohorts of PTB due to infection or isPTB between 28-36 weeks gestation and healthy term placentas. Transcriptomic analyses revealed a unique expression signature for isPTB distinct from the age-matched controls that were delivered prematurely due to infection. This signature included the upregulation of three IGF binding proteins (IGFBP1, IGFBP2, and IGFBP6), supporting a role for aberrant IGF signaling in isPTB. However, within the isPTB expression signature, we detected secondary signature of inflammatory markers including TNC, C3, CFH, and C1R, which have been associated with placental maturity. In contrast, the expression signature of the gestational age-matched infected samples included upregulation of proliferative genes along with cell cycling and mitosis pathways. Together, these data suggest an isPTB molecular signature of placental hypermaturity, likely contributing to the premature activation of inflammatory pathways associated with birth and providing a molecular basis for idiopathic spontaneous birth.
Dyckia tomentella Mez, Repert. 2018, Spec. Nov.
Creators: name: Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña
name: Egea, Juana De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Bromeliaceae
Dyckia
Dyckia tomentella

description: Dyckia tomentella Mez, Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 16: 69. 1919.
Herb.
 Vouchers: Amambay: Fiebrig 4046, type (B, BM, F, G, GH, K, WU). Presidente Hayes: Brunner 1346 (MO, PY); Brunner et al. 992 (MO, PY). Unknown: Prive s.n. (K).
description: Published as part of Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña & Egea, Juana De, 2018, Checklist of the endemic vascular plants of Paraguay, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 384 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.384.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13725946
title: LIBANO, TRA TERRA E FUOCHI Esempio di un viaggio studio utilizzato per educare alla cittadinanza globale
Creators: name: Liggi, Davide
Publisher: name: Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies
Year: 2023

description: Il testo che segue è frutto delle impressioni accumulate durante il viaggio-studio effettuato in Libano nell’ambito del “lavoro di campo” previsto dal corso di “Competenze di cittadinanza globale – LM”, tenuto da Prof. M. Tarozzi da marzo a maggio 2023, cui ho attivamente partecipato. Trattasi dunque di una pagina di diario di viaggio, o quasi. Il corso, diviso in tre moduli e con un approccio interdisciplinare, era volto alla promozione di una coscienza critica sui temi della cittadinanza globale e, più in generale, a favorire la partecipazione attiva alla vita civica. Il gruppo selezionato per il viaggio, composto da 5 student* magistrali e 2 dottorand* Unibo, accompagnat* da Prof. M. Tarozzi, ha visitato Beirut a maggio 2023. Contestualmente, nell’ambito del progetto di scambio internazionale “Global South 22-23” (coordinato da Prof. F. Del Lucchese, Unibo), un gruppo di student* accompagnat* dalla Prof.ssa Carmen Abou-Joudé (USJ) ha visitato Bologna a giugno 2023.
Dyckia velloziifolia Mez, Repert. 2018, Spec. Nov.
Creators: name: Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña
name: Egea, Juana De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Bromeliaceae
Dyckia
Dyckia velloziifolia

description: Dyckia velloziifolia Mez, Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 16: 70. 1919.
Herb.
 Vouchers: Caaguazú: Hassler 10500-A (G); Hassler 9576, type (B).
description: Published as part of Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña & Egea, Juana De, 2018, Checklist of the endemic vascular plants of Paraguay, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 384 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.384.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13725946
Sleep, Mood, and Affect in Adolescents
Creators: name: SHEN, LIN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Mental health services
Psychology of ageing

description: Most teenagers experience chronic sleep restriction during school terms, which has been linked to elevated negative mood. This thesis found that teenagers’ sleep duration and quality affected positive and negative emotions to different extents. Overall levels of sleep, rather than daily fluctuations, were more important for teenager’s mood (and vice versa). Finally, with consecutive days of restricted sleep, teenagers desired more sleep as the school week progressed, and utilised weekends/ vacations as opportunities to catch-up on sleep. These findings can inform future research, and the development of personalised interventions that can improve teenagers’ sleep and mood on a daily basis.
The effect of a conditional cash transfer on HIV incidence in young women in rural South Africa (HPTN 068): a phase 3, randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Hughes, James P
name: Selin, Amanda
name: Andrew, Philip
name: Laeyendecker, Oliver
name: Mokoena, Immitrude
name: Gómez-Olivé, F Xavier
name: Tollman, Stephen
name: Khoza, Nomhle
name: Townley, Ellen
name: Wagner, Ryan G
name: Agyei, Yaw
name: Twine, Rhian
name: MacPhail, Catherine
name: Wang, Jing
name: Suchindran, Chirayath
name: Eshleman, Susan H
name: Mabuza, Wonderful
name: Kahn, Kathleen
name: Pettifor, Audrey
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Cash transfers have been proposed as an intervention to reduce HIV-infection risk for young women in sub-Saharan Africa. However, scarce evidence is available about their effect on reducing HIV acquisition. We aimed to assess the effect of a conditional cash transfer on HIV incidence among young women in rural South Africa.
Dyckia vestita Hassl., Annuaire Conserv. Jard. Bot. Genève
Creators: name: Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña
name: Egea, Juana De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Bromeliaceae
Dyckia
Dyckia vestita

description: Dyckia vestita Hassl., Annuaire Conserv. Jard. Bot. Genève 30: 315. 1919.
Herb.
 Vouchers: Boquerón: Amerhauser s.n. (WU). Concepción: Fiebrig 5311, type (G). Paraguarí: Till & Till 6018 (WU); Till & Till 6019 (WU).
description: Published as part of Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña & Egea, Juana De, 2018, Checklist of the endemic vascular plants of Paraguay, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 384 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.384.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13725946
Description of classical and quantum interference in view of the concept of flow line
Creators: name: Davidovic, M.
name: Sanz, A. S.
name: Bozic, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bohmian mechanics, a hydrodynamic formulation of quantum mechanics, relies on the concept of trajectory, which evolves in time in compliance with dynamical information conveyed by the wave function. Here this appealing idea is considered to analyze both classical and quantum interference, thus providing an alternative and more intuitive framework to understand the time-evolution of waves, either in terms of the flow of energy (for mechanical waves, sound waves, electromagnetic waves, for instance) or, analogously, the flow of probability (quantum waves), respectively. Furthermore, this procedure also supplies a more robust explanation of interference phenomena, which currently is only based on the superposition principle. That is, while this principle only describes how different waves combine and what effects these combinations may lead to, flow lines provide a more precise explanation on how the energy or probability propagate in space before, during and after the combination of such waves, without dealing with them separately (i.e., the combination or superposition is taken as a whole). In this sense, concepts such as constructive and destructive interference, typically associated with the superposition principle, physically correspond to more or less dense swarms of (energy or probability) flow lines, respectively. A direct consequence of this description is that, when considering the distribution of electromagnetic energy flow lines behind two slits, each one covered by a differently oriented polarizer, it is naturally found that external observers' information on the slit crossed by single photons (understood as energy parcels) is totally irrelevant for the existence of interference fringes, in striking contrast with what is commonly stated and taught.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures
title: A County-Level Analysis of the Association of Social Determinants and Age-Adjusted Suicide Rates in the State of Georgia, 2000-2019
Creators: name: Jones, Taylor
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2022

description:
Introduction: Suicide rates in the United States continue to increase and are a significant public health concern. Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in Georgia and is largely preventable. Georgia (GA) ranks low for mental health care access which influences mental health outcomes such as suicide. In addition, understanding data on social determinants of health may have implications for the role that they may play in suicide and could help us to understand ways to improve health equity and poor mental health outcomes.


Aim: The purpose of this study was to examine trends in suicide deaths in GA counties and assess the association between age-adjusted suicide rates and social determinants across urban and rural counties of GA over a 20-year period.


Methods: CDC WONDER was used to request age-adjusted suicide rates from 2000 to 2019 among Georgia residents at the county level. Suicide death data was derived from death certificates using ICD-10 underlying cause-of-death codes U03, X60-X84, and Y87.0. A literature review was conducted to determine social determinants associated with suicidal behavior. The US Census Bureau database was used to query indicator data of the ten social determinant factors chosen from the literature review.  Linear regression analyses were conducted to evaluate the association between selected indicators and age-adjusted suicide rates at the county level over two periods, 2000-2009 and 2010-2019.


Results: A total of 159 counties in Georgia were analyzed in this study. There are 74 urban counties and 85 rural counties. In 2000, bivariate results indicate that race, ethnicity, education, employment, income, and urbanization were associated with age-adjusted suicide rates. The bivariate analysis results of 2010 data show that race, ethnicity, education, and poverty were associated with age-adjusted suicide rates. In the multivariate analyses, none of the variables were statically significant associated with age-adjusted suicide rates.  There was multicollinearity observed among the independent variables.


Discussion: While bivariate associations between variables and age-adjusted suicide rate were identified, none remained statistically significant in a multivariate linear regression model. This change may be attributed to multicollinearity, making it challenging to estimate regression coefficients reliably. Percent population White, percent population non-Hispanic, percent population employed, and urbanization are factors that were statistically significant and positively correlated with increased age-adjusted suicide rates in the 2000 & 2010 bivariate analyses and should still be considered as possible factors that influence suicide rates.
Application of statistical process control methods in the retrospective review and design of patient-specific quality assurance processes
Creators: name: Crowe, Scott
name: Yu, Liting
name: Peet, Samuel
name: Kairn, Tanya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: radiotherapy
patient-specific quality assurance
statistical process control
control charts

description: Poster describing application of control charts to determine appropriate tolerance limits for pre-treatment patient-specific quality assurance of external beam radiotherapy treatments.
Coupled SU(3)-structures and Supersymmetry
Creators: name: Fino, Anna
name: Raffero, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review coupled ${\rm SU}(3)$-structures, also known in the literature as restricted half-flat structures, in relation to supersymmetry. In particular, we study special classes of examples admitting such structures and the behaviour of flows of ${\rm SU}(3)$-structures with respect to the coupled condition.
description: 24 pages, to appear in the special issue "Supersymmetry 2014" of Symmetry Journal
Dyckia virgata Mez, Repert. 2018, Spec. Nov.
Creators: name: Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña
name: Egea, Juana De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Bromeliaceae
Dyckia
Dyckia virgata

description: Dyckia virgata Mez, Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 16: 68. 1919.
Herb.
 Vouchers: Paraguarí: Till & Till 6067 (WU). Presidente Hayes: Rojas 46, type (B).
description: Published as part of Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña & Egea, Juana De, 2018, Checklist of the endemic vascular plants of Paraguay, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 384 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.384.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13725946
A hybrid mobile approach for population-wide HIV testing in rural east Africa: an observational study
Creators: name: Kabami, Jane
name: Petersen, Maya L
name: Liegler, Teri
name: Kwarisiima, Dalsone
name: Kamya, Moses R
name: Lavoy, Geoff
name: Thirumurthy, Harsha
name: Cohen, Craig R
name: Bukusi, Elizabeth A
name: Sang, Norton
name: Charlebois, Edwin D
name: Kadede, Kevin
name: Jain, Vivek
name: Havlir, Diane V
name: Steinfeld, Rachel
name: Clark, Tamara D
name: Balzer, Laura B
name: Chamie, Gabriel
name: Ssemmondo, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Despite large investments in HIV testing, only 45% of HIV-infected persons in sub-Saharan Africa are estimated to know their status. Optimal methods for maximizing population-level testing remain unknown. We sought to demonstrate the effectiveness at achieving population-wide testing coverage of a hybrid mobile HIV testing approach.
Does Gaming Help Improve Cognitive Skills?
Creators: name: Chakravarti, Mohnish
name: Chakravarti, Arati
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A nationally representative study of video game play among adolescents in the United States showed that 97% of adolescents aged 12 to 17 years play computer, web, and portable (or console) video games (Lenhart et al., 2008). We hypothesized that if people play games as a regular exercise regime, gaming will correlate with an improvement in their cognitive skills. For this experiment, a few games that tested the logical reasoning and critical analysis skills under a given time constraint were coded in Python using Pygame and were played by a group of 7th grade students. In order to test whether there is a relationship between gaming and test performance, we divided the students into two groups and gave them tests before and after the experimentation period in order to measure their improvement. One group played the games while the other did not. In the group of students that played the games, an average improvement of 62.19% was seen (p < 0.0001). The group that did not play the games only improved their performance by an average of 18.51% (p = 0.0882).
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Establishing Prostate MRI as a Standard of Care in Early Prostate Cancer Detection
Creators: name: MILLER, ROWAN JAMES SINCLAIR
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Radiology and organ imaging
Other biomedical and clinical sciences not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis examined MRI accuracy in early prostate cancer diagnosis. MRI scans were compared to biopsy or prostatectomy specimens in more than 1000 men.This thesis analysed factors responsible for influencing Prostate MRI accuracy. Artefact and small tumours were found to play a minor role in inaccurate scans. The major factor in diagnostic accuracy was the experience of the reporting radiologist. The use of gadolinium contrast did not change the diagnostic accuracy. Non-contrast scans show promise as a faster more cost effective test in the early diagnosis of prostate cancer.
Pitcairnia paraguayensis L. B. Sm., Revista Argent. Agron.
Creators: name: Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña
name: Egea, Juana De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Bromeliaceae
Pitcairnia
Pitcairnia paraguayensis

description: Pitcairnia paraguayensis L.B.Sm., Revista Argent. Agron. 7: 163, f. 4-6. 1940.
Herb.
 Vouchers: Amambay: Bernardi 20558 (G); Fernández Casas & Molero 6128 (G); Fernández Casas & Molero s.n. (MO); Krapovickas et al. 45978 (CTES); Rojas 6791, type (GH, FZ): Till & Till 6025 (WU); Vogt et al. 810 (FCQ, WU); Zardini & Acosta 56212 (MO); Zardini & Acosta 56264 (MO); Zardini & Cardozo 45109 (AS, MO); Zardini & Cardozo 56254 (MO).
description: Published as part of Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña & Egea, Juana De, 2018, Checklist of the endemic vascular plants of Paraguay, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 384 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.384.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13725946
Conditional cash transfers and uptake of and retention in prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission care: a randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Wenzi, Landry Kipula
name: Thompson, Deidre
name: Kawende, Bienvenu
name: Edmonds, Andrew
name: Thirumurthy, Harsha
name: Chalachala, Jean Lambert
name: Moracco, Kathryn E.
name: Okitolonda, Emile W.
name: Behets, Frieda
name: Ravelomanana, Noro Lantoniaina Rosa
name: Yotebieng, Marcel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Novel strategies are needed to increase retention in and uptake of prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) services in sub-Saharan Africa.
Ring-polymer instanton theory of electron transfer in the nonadiabatic limit
Creators: name: Richardson, Jeremy O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We take the golden-rule instanton method derived in the previous paper [arXiv:1509.04919] and reformulate it using a ring-polymer approach. This gives equations which can be used to compute the rates of electron-transfer reactions in the nonadiabatic (golden-rule) limit numerically within a semiclassical approximation. The multidimensional ring-polymer instanton trajectories are obtained efficiently by minimization of the action. In this form, comparison with Wolynes' quantum instanton method [P. G. Wolynes, J. Chem. Phys. 87, 6559 (1987)] is possible and we show that our semiclassical approach is the steepest-descent limit of this method. We discuss advantages and disadvantages of both methods and give examples of where the new approach is more accurate.
description: Submitted to the Journal of Chemical Physics. 10 pages, 1 figure
Diethylaluminum chloride-co-initiated cationic polymerization of isoprene: dramatic effect of the nature of alkyl halide on the properties of synthesized polymers
Creators: name: Rozentsvet, Victor A.
name: Ulyanova, Daria M.
name: Sablina, Nelly A.
name: Kostjuk, Sergei V.
name: Sidorenko, Nina V.
name: Tolstoy, Peter M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mental Health
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: The cationic polymerization of isoprene using alkyl halide/Et2AlCl initiating system (alkyl halide: tert-butyl chloride, tert-butyl bromide, 2-chloro-2-methylbutane and isopropyl chloride) at different temperatures has been studied. It was shown for the first time that using of tertiary alkyl halide in conjunction with Et2AlCl allowed to synthesize fully soluble solid thermoplastic polymers with reduced unsaturation (41–48 mol%) as well as relatively high glass transition temperature (52–60°С) and softening point (102–128°С). The substitution of tertiary alkyl halides on the secondary one (isopropyl chloride) results in the obtaining of cross-linked polymers due to the low activity of isopropyl chloride in chain transfer to alkyl halide. It was found that alkyl halide nature, the ratio of alkyl halide to Et2AlCl, duration and temperature of the polymerization of isoprene have dramatic effect on the unsaturation of synthesized polymers as well as their molecular weight, polydispersity, physical and chemical properties.
On the number of SQSs, latin hypercubes and MDS codes
Creators: name: Potapov, Vladimir N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: It is established that the logarithm of the number of latin $d$-cubes of order $n$ is $Θ(n^{d}\ln n)$ and the logarithm of the number of pairs of orthogonal latin squares of order $n$ is $Θ(n^2\ln n)$. Similar estimations are obtained for systems of mutually strong orthogonal latin $d$-cubes. As a consequence, it is constructed a set of Steiner quadruple systems of order $n$ such that the logarithm of its cardinality is $Θ(n^3\ln n)$ as $n\rightarrow\infty$ and $n\ {\rm mod}\ 6= 2\ {\rm or}\ 4$.
description: 10 pages
title: Biting and Chewing as Sculptural Gestures
Creators: name: Huijnen, Patricia
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Conceptual art
valueUri: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029624
subject: Mouth
valueUri: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85087988
subject: Research
valueUri: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85113021
subject: Sculpture
valueUri: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85119004

description: This thesis essay contextualizes a specific aspect of my art practice - the use of the mouth as sculptural tool. It examines the destructive and formative element of the bite exploring this gesture from a physiological, sense-related and art historical perspective. What drives my practice-based research (Borgdorff, Sullivan) is the question of how embodied sensations can be transferred from the mouth to an object. Descriptions of bodily sensations related to the ingestion of food and its rejection (De Beauvoir) and theories of embodied perception (Merleau-Ponty, Grosz) inform my investigation of the biting process. Affect as a liminal space of acting and being acted upon (Seigworth, Gregg) and the relation between sensorial perception and emotions (Highmore) are considered in relation to the mouth. The process of biting and chewing is compared to traditional sculpting techniques backdrop. Related to explorations of soft materials and chance (Duchamp, Oppenheim, Benglis), as well as feminist art practices involving the body, I focus on the works Petit Dessert I (1970-71) and Photosculptures (1971) by Alina Szapocznikow, The Destruction of the Father (1974) by Louise Bourgeois, and Gnaw (1992) by Janine Antoni to situate my practice within a specific artistic context. The essay also considers the physical contextualization of the chewed objects within the sculptures through the concept of ‘spitting’. The sculptures represent the liminal position of biting, between destruction and formation, through physical instability and suggestion.
Ecological Restoration: Introductory Concepts and Application to Tropical Rainforest Restoration
Creators: name: Raman, T. R. Shankar
name: Mudappa, Divya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: ecological restoration
natural regeneration
rehabilitation
reclamation
afforestation
invasive alien species
reforestation
Anamalai Hills
tropical rainforest
Western Ghats

description: This presentation gives a basic introduction to concepts of ecological restoration and describes a case study of ecological restoration of degraded tropical rainforest fragments in the Anamalai Hills, Western Ghats, India. This presentation is a modified version of a presentation made at the Ecological Restoration Workshop at Valparai, March 2023. Open document format presentation file (ODP) and PDF version of the presentation are provided.