cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The effects of stochastic resonance electrical stimulation and neoprene sleeve on knee proprioception
Creators: name: Blackburn, J. Troy
name: Olcott, Chris W
name: Collins, Amber T
name: Weinhold, Paul S.
name: Dirschl, Douglas R
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2009

description: Abstract Background A variety of knee injuries and pathologies may cause a deficit in knee proprioception which may increase the risk of reinjury or the progression of disease. Stochastic resonance stimulation is a new therapy which has potential benefits for improving proprioceptive function. The objective of this study was to determine if stochastic resonance (SR) stimulation applied with a neoprene sleeve could improve knee proprioception relative to a no-stimulation/no-sleeve condition (control) or a sleeve alone condition in the normal, healthy knee. We hypothesized that SR stimulation when applied with a sleeve would enhance proprioception relative to the control and sleeve alone conditions. Methods Using a cross-over within subject design, twenty-four healthy subjects were tested under four combinations of conditions: electrical stimulation/sleeve, no stimulation/sleeve, no stimulation/no sleeve, and stimulation/no sleeve. Joint position sense (proprioception) was measured as the absolute mean difference between a target knee joint angle and the knee angle reproduced by the subject. Testing was conducted during both partial-weight bearing (PWB) and non-weight bearing (NWB) tasks. Differences in joint position sense between the conditions were evaluated by repeated-measures analysis of variance testing. Results Joint position sense error during the stimulation/sleeve condition (2.48° ± 1.32°) was found to be more accurate (P < 0.05) relative to the control condition (3.35° ± 1.63°) in the PWB task. No difference in joint position sense error was found between stimulation/sleeve and sleeve alone conditions for the PWB task. Joint position sense error was not found to differ between any of the conditions for the NWB task. Conclusion These results suggest that SR electrical stimulation when combined with a neoprene sleeve is an effective modality for enhancement of joint proprioception in the PWB knee. We believe these results suggest the need for further study of the potential of SR stimulation to correct proprioceptive deficits in a clinical population with knee injury/pathology or in subjects at risk of injury because of a proprioceptive deficit.
Additive manufacturing of dental ceramics: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Al Hamad, Khaled
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Prosthodontics and Prosthodontology
subject: Dentistry
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additive technology has been used recently to fabricate dental ceramics such as zirconia. Previously, zirconia restorations were only fabricated with CAD-CAM milling technology (subtractive manufacturing). Additive manufacturing is a promising technology as it provides the ability to fabricate more complex structures and is more conservative in material waste in comparison with milling technology. This study will evaluate the available evidence on the application of this relatively new technology in the fabrication of dental ceramics of acceptable clinical standards
KASBIY SULOLANING YUZAGA KELISHIGA TA’SIR ETUVCHI OMILLAR GURUHI TADQIQI
Creators: name: Oybek Eshboevich Hayitov
name: Dilrabo Islamovna Ashurova
Publisher: name: Central Asian Research Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies (CARJIS)
Year: 2022
Subjects: oila
shaxs
ota-ona
bola
oilaviy muhit
kasb egasi
farzand
nabira
«ota kasb»
kasbiy sulola.
семя
человек
родител
ребенок
семейное окружение
профессия
внук
«отсовская профессия»
профессионалная династия.

description: Ushbu maqolada shaxsning kasbiy kompetentligi, ijtimoiy еtukligi va ijtimoiypsixologik bilimdonligi masalalari kasbiy sulolani shakllantiruvchi omillar bilan bog„lab yoritilgan.
description: В данной стате раскрываются, вопросы профессионалной компетентности, социалной зрелости и социално-психологической компетенции личности, связанные факторами формирования профессионалной династии.
Mediation analysis of gestational age, congenital heart defects, and infant birth-weight
Creators: name: Wogu, Adane F
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2014

description: Abstract Background In this study we assessed the mediation role of the gestational age on the effect of the infant’s congenital heart defects (CHD) on birth-weight. Methods We used secondary data from the Baltimore-Washington Infant Study (1981–1989). Mediation analysis was employed to investigate whether gestational age acted as a mediator of the association between CHD and reduced birth-weight. We estimated the mediated effect, the mediation proportion, and their corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CI) using several methods. Results There were 3362 CHD cases and 3564 controls in the dataset with mean birth-weight of 3071 (SD = 729) and 3353 (SD = 603) grams, respectively; the mean gestational age was 38.9 (SD = 2.7) and 39.6 (SD = 2.2) weeks, respectively. After adjusting for covariates, the estimated mediated effect by gestational age was 113.5 grams (95% CI, 92.4–134.2) and the mediation proportion was 40.7% (95% CI, 34.7%–46.6%), using the bootstrap approach. Conclusions Gestational age may account for about 41% of the overall effect of heart defects on reduced infant birth-weight. Improved prenatal care and other public health efforts that promote full term delivery, particularly targeting high-risk families and mothers known to be carrying a fetus with CHD, may therefore be expected to improve the birth-weight of these infants and their long term health.
מוטיבציה, מיקוד פידבק ושנת לימוד
Creators: name: Mackmal, Adi
name: Shamir, Aya
name: Gilboa, Ohad
name: team, TAU
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: זוהי ההרשמה מראש למחקר שלנו במסגרת הקורס פסיכולוגיה ניסויית
Triangular and Honeycomb Lattices of Cold Atoms in Optical Cavities
Creators: name: Safaei, Shabnam
name: Miniatura, Christian
name: Grémaud, Benoît
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a two-dimensional homogeneous ensemble of cold bosonic atoms loaded inside two optical cavities and pumped by a far-detuned external laser field. We examine the conditions for these atoms to self-organize into triangular and honeycomb lattices as a result of superradiance. By collectively scattering the pump photons, the atoms feed the initially empty cavity modes. As a result, the superposition of the pump and cavity fields creates a space-periodic light-shift external potential and atoms self-organize into the potential wells of this optical lattice. Depending on the phase of the cavity fields with respect to the pump laser, these minima can either form a triangular or a hexagonal lattice. By numerically solving the dynamical equations of the coupled atom-cavity system, we have shown that the two stable atomic structures at long times are the triangular lattice and the honeycomb lattice with equally-populated sites. We have also studied how to drive atoms from one lattice structure to another by dynamically changing the phase of the cavity fields with respect to the pump laser.
title: “They have better opportunities over there”
Creators: name: Ebimgbo, Samuel
name: Chukwu, Ngozi
name: Okoye, Uzoma
Publisher: name: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin
Year: 2022
Subjects: migration
left behind older parents
social policies
social workers
south-east Nigeria
flight/migration experience
emigration
Nigeria

description: A significant trend in human mobility in recent times is an unbroken upward trend in the number of people that migrate to other countries daily. The increasing migration is as a result of globalization as well as technological improvement in recent times, especially in the areas of communication and transportation which have made movement easier, cheaper, and faster. International migration is therefore a reality of our contemporary world. About 272 million international migrants were recorded across the globe in the year 2019. In Nigeria also, the number of young persons living outside the shores of the country has increased greatly in recent years. With the increasing number of young Nigerians migrating to other countries and given the supportive roles they play in the life of older adults, one expects a more challenging future for the left-behind. Left-behind older family members are found to report cases of chronic diseases, presence of depressive symptoms, and self-perceived loneliness. The study therefore sought to ascertain the views of older adults on emigration of younger family members in South-east Nigeria. The New Economics of Labour Migration (NELM) Theory provided the theoretical framework for this study. In-depth interviews and focus group discussions were conducted to generate data on a sample of (N = 58), left-behind older adults aged 60 years or older. The generated data were subjected to thematic analysis and the findings revealed that the young family members have more opportunities abroad than in Nigeria. The left-behind older family members indicated that they fully support the migration of their young family members because of the economic conditions of the country. The study therefore recommends functional policies that address proper well-being of these older adults. Further we recommend social work interventions aimed at ensuring the strengthening of family ties and maintaining adequate social support to left-behind older adults.
description: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin, Vol. 61 No. 1 (2022): Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin (QRP)
The Effects of Qishen Yiqi Drop Pill for Chronic Heart Failure: An Overview of Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Creators: name: wang, yuanping
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Life Sciences

description: Chronic heart failure (CHF) is a serious manifestation or advanced stage of various heart diseases, and its onset increases with age1. In developed countries, the prevalence of heart failure is 1-2% and 10% in people over 80 years of age2, and its 1- and 5-year mortality rates are 20.2% and 56.2%3, respectively. Qishen Yiqi Drop Pill (QSYQ), a well-known proprietary Chinese medicine, was approved by the State Food and Drug Administration of China in 2003 (Approval number of CFDA: Z20030139) for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, especially heart failureBased on evidence-based medical theory, SRs/MAs are considered the gold standard for assessing the benefits of clinical interventions. However, this must be based on high quality SRs/MAs, poor quality SRs/Mas can even mislead clinicians and medical decision makers. Therefore, we provide a comprehensive overview of the available evidence to clarify the potential benefits and safety of QSYQ in the treatment of heart failure.
Outer-disk reddening and gas-phase metallicities: The CALIFA connection
Creators: name: Marino, R. A.
name: de Paz, A. Gil
name: Sánchez, S. F.
name: Sánchez-Blazquez, P.
name: Cardiel, N.
name: Castillo-Morales, A.
name: Pascual, S.
name: Vílchez, J.
name: Kehrig, C.
name: Mollá, M.
name: Mendez-Abreu, J.
name: Catalán-Torrecilla, C.
name: Florido, E.
name: Perez, I.
name: Ruiz-Lara, T.
name: Ellis, S.
name: López-Sánchez, A. R.
name: Delgado, R. M. González
name: de Lorenzo-Cáceres, A.
name: García-Benito, R.
name: Galbany, L.
name: Zibetti, S.
name: Cortijo, C.
name: Kalinova, V.
name: Mast, D.
name: Iglesias-Páramo, J.
name: Papaderos, P.
name: Walcher, C. J.
name: Bland-Hawthorn, J.
name: Team, the CALIFA
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study, for the first time in a statistically significant and well-defined sample, the relation between the outer-disk ionized-gas metallicity gradients and the presence of breaks in the surface brightness profiles of disk galaxies. SDSS g'- and r'-band surface brightness, (g'- r') color, and ionized-gas oxygen abundance profiles for 324 galaxies within the CALIFA survey are used for this purpose. We perform a detailed light-profile classification finding that 84% of our disks show down- or up-bending profiles (Type II and Type III, respectively) while the remaining 16% are well fitted by one single exponential (Type I). The analysis of the color gradients at both sides of this break shows a U-shaped profile for most Type II galaxies with an average minimum (g'- r') color of ~0.5 mag and a ionized-gas metallicity flattening associated to it only in the case of low-mass galaxies. More massive systems show a rather uniform negative metallicity gradient. The correlation between metallicity flattening and stellar mass results in p-values as low as 0.01. Independently of the mechanism having shaped the outer light profiles of these galaxies, stellar migration or a previous episode of star formation in a shrinking star-forming disk, it is clear that the imprint in their ionized-gas metallicity was different for low- and high-mass Type II galaxies. In the case of Type III disks, a positive correlation between the change in color and abundance gradient is found (the null hypothesis is ruled out with a p-value of 0.02), with the outer disks of Type III galaxies with masses $\leq$10$^{10}$ M$_{\odot}$ showing a weak color reddening or even a bluing. This is interpreted as primarily due to a mass down-sizing effect on the population of Type III galaxies having recently experienced an enhanced inside-out growth.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A. Online material can be requested to the first author. Abridged abstract
Pain coping skills training for African Americans with osteoarthritis (STAART): study protocol of a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Nagle, Caroline T
name: Oddone, Eugene Z
name: Schrubbe, Leah A
name: Allen, Kelli D
name: Gunn, Alexander H
name: Cene, Crystal
name: Ravyts, Scott G
name: Benas, Bernadette C
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Abstract Background African Americans bear a disproportionate burden of osteoarthritis (OA), with higher prevalence rates, more severe pain, and more functional limitations. One key barrier to addressing these disparities has been limited engagement of African Americans in the development and evaluation of behavioral interventions for management of OA. Pain Coping Skills Training (CST) is a cognitive-behavioral intervention with shown efficacy to improve OA-related pain and other outcomes. Emerging data indicate pain CST may be a promising intervention for reducing racial disparities in OA symptom severity. However, there are important gaps in this research, including incorporation of stakeholder perspectives (e.g. cultural appropriateness, strategies for implementation into clinical practice) and testing pain CST specifically among African Americans with OA. This study will evaluate the effectiveness of a culturally enhanced pain CST program among African Americans with OA. Methods/Design This is a randomized controlled trial among 248 participants with symptomatic hip or knee OA, with equal allocation to a pain CST group and a wait list (WL) control group. The pain CST program incorporated feedback from patients and other stakeholders and involves 11 weekly telephone-based sessions. Outcomes are assessed at baseline, 12 weeks (primary time point), and 36 weeks (to assess maintenance of treatment effects). The primary outcome is the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index, and secondary outcomes include self-efficacy, pain coping, pain interference, quality of life, depressive symptoms, and global assessment of change. Linear mixed models will be used to compare the pain CST group to the WL control group and explore whether participant characteristics are associated with differential improvement in the pain CST program. This research is in compliance with the Helsinki Declaration and was approved by the Institutional Review Boards of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, East Carolina University, and Duke University Health System. Discussion This culturally enhanced pain CST program could have a substantial impact on outcomes for African Americans with OA and may be a key strategy in the reduction of racial health disparities. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT02560922 , registered 9/22/2015.
title: Internationale Konferenz "Nachhaltige Entwicklung und Zivilgesellschaft am Beispiel von UNESCO-Welterbestätten"
title: Istanbul, 8.-10. Juli 2016 : Abschlussbericht zum Projekt : Projektbeginn: 29. Juni 2016, Laufzeit: 12 Monate
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Dömpke, Stephan
Publisher: name: World Heritage Watch
Year: 2017

description: Zielstellung der Konferenz war es in erster Linie, alternative Indikatoren für die Messung der Nachhaltigkeit von Schutz und Entwicklung von Welterbestätten auszuarbeiten, da der offizielle Indikator, der auch von der UNESCO, IUCN und ICOMOS abgelehnt wird, als ungeeignet anzusehen ist
Knowledge, perceptions and practices of T&T
Creators: name: Serem, Erick
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Life Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Farmers’ knowledge, perceptions, and practices on animal trypanosomosis and the tsetse fly vector was studied in a cross sectional study around Kenya’s Arabuko-Sokoke Forest Reserve at the livestock-wildlife interface
LEXICAL-SEMANTIC FIELDS OF ENGLISH BORROWINGS
Creators: name: Maftuna Omonova Shermatovna
name: Xusnora Saydullayeva Tajaxmat Qizi
name: Qizi, Aziza Sayfullayeva Ruxulla
Publisher: name: Central Asian Research Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies (CARJIS)
Year: 2022
Subjects: Lexicogology
borrowings
loanwords
definition
translation
education
economics
engineering.

description: This article is dedicated to English borrowings, loan words and their lexical – semantic field, definition and translation of some words.
title: Hardening borders during pandemic in the European Union
Creators: name: Friedery, Réka
Publisher: name: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin
Year: 2022
Subjects: European Union
COVID-19
Schengen Border Code
EU Digital COVID Certificate
mobility
Schengen
EU Digital Covid Certificate

description: The COVID-19 pandemic restricted mobility. Border controls, travel restrictions, bans on entry and exit influenced mobility with implications on EU citizens and third-country nationals. When Member States of the European Union were confronted with COVID-19, the first reaction was to turn to border policy, similarly to the migration crisis in 2015. At the beginning of the pandemic, when the articles of the Schengen Borders Code (SBC) were triggered, workers with certain occupations were exempted from the restrictions, and with the introduction of the EU Digital COVID Certificate, people’s mobility was linked to the possession of the health Certificate. This paper presents the multiple layers of free movement and its restrictions. The main aim of the article is to define the scope of the SBC and the EU Digital COVID Certificate that have been used during the crises. The article helps to understand the shortcomings of the EU’s crises management by emphasising the problematic points of the application of the Code and the Certificate with a critical analysis of these measures.
description: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin, Vol. 61 No. 1 (2022): Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin (QRP)
Academic Preservation Trust Succession Policy, Version 1.0
Publisher: name: University of Virginia / Academic Preservation Trust
Year: 2018
Subjects: Succession policy
Digital Preservation
Digital Stewardship
Governance Policies

description: See the most recent version of this policy at https://aptrust.org/resources/policies/#succession-policy.

This policy applies to all tangible assets owned or managed by the Academic Preservation Trust (APTrust), should any exist. It also applies to digital content owned and/or collected by Depositors but technically managed by AP Trust in its preservation storage environments. Succession protocols differ for these two types of assets.

This Policy establishes a plan for orderly dissolution of the organization and for disposition of assets and of deposited digital content, should those steps ever prove necessary.  It also describes how the Governing Board may oversee an orderly transition to another host entity for the operations and management of APTrust if the University of Virginia cannot continue in that role. The document includes a description of how a Depositor may voluntarily assume direct technical management of its digital content in a third-party provider’s system that APTrust has previously used for the content.
Social housing: a new home living model. The ongoing experimentation between integration of knowledge and practices
Creators: name: Mello, Daniela
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2014

description: The most advanced social housing experiences in Italy have shown that the intrinsic value of these projects lies in the close interplay between the urban-architectural plan and the social plan. These experiences and the analysis of the numerous issues related to this operational modality have since 2011 been the focus of Urbanpromo Social housing – a cultural event aimed at disseminating a new and modern home living culture.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 8 (2014): Research and project knowledge transfer
Technological transfer in an industrial sector in crisis. The relationship between universities and the clay brick and roofing tile industry in Italy
Creators: name: Baratta, Adolfo F. L.
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2014

description: Over the last two decades, technological transfer between universities and the clay brick and roofing tile Italian industry has changed profoundly, going from extremely strategic and anticipative experimental research, which produced product innovation, to research restricted to confirming performance levels of products and solutions already successful on the market. To fully grasp the opportunities for the two sectors to work together, context conditions must be developed able to facilitate the relationship and work plans must be drawn up for carrying out research in those market segments which look all set to grow, so as to provide the clay brick and roofing tile industry with a way to overcome its structural weaknesses and the errors of evaluation it currently suffers from.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 8 (2014): Research and project knowledge transfer
Van der Waals heterojunction devices based on organohalide perovskites and two-dimensional materials
Creators: name: Cheng, Hung-Chieh
name: Wang, Gongming
name: Li, Dehui
name: He, Qiyuan
name: Yin, Anxiang
name: Liu, Yuan
name: Wu, Hao
name: Ding, Mengning
name: Huang, Yu
name: Duan, Xiangfeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recently emerged organohalide perovskites (e.g., CH3NH3PbI3) have drawn intense attention for high efficiency solar cells. However, with a considerable solubility in many solvents, these perovskites are not typically compatible with conventional lithography processes for more complicated device fabrications that are important for both fundamental studies and technological applications. Here we report the creation of novel heterojunction devices based on perovskites and two-dimensional (2D) crystals by taking advantage of the layered characteristic of lead iodide (PbI2) and vapor phase intercalation. We show a graphene/perovskite/graphene vertical stack can deliver a highest photoresponsivity of ~950 A/W and photoconductive gain of ~2200, and a graphene/WSe2/perovskite/graphene heterojunction can display a high on/off ratio (~10^6) transistor behavior with distinct gate-tunable diode characteristics and open-circuit voltages. Such unique perovskite-2D heterostructures have significant potential for future optoelectronic research and can enable broad possibilities with compositional tunability of organohalide perovskites and the versatility offered by diverse 2D materials.
Elevated C-peptide and insulin predict increased risk of colorectal adenomas in normal mucosa
Creators: name: Massa, Berri
name: Lund, Pauline Kay
name: Burcal, Lauren
name: Holston, Rachel
name: Keku, Temitope
name: Sandler, Robert
name: Galanko, Joseph
name: Omofoye, Oluwaseun
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2012

description: Abstract Background Lower concentrations of the insulin–like growth factor binding protein-1 (IGFBP-1) and elevated concentrations of insulin or C-peptide have been associated with an increase in colorectal cancer risk (CRC). However few studies have evaluated IGFBP-1 and C-peptide in relation to adenomatous polyps, the only known precursor for CRC. Methods Between November 2001 and December 2002, we examined associations between circulating concentrations of insulin, C-peptide, IGFBP-1 and apoptosis among 190 individuals with one or more adenomatous polyps and 488 with no adenomatous polyps using logistic regression models. Results Individuals with the highest concentrations of C-peptide were more likely to have adenomas (OR = 2.2, 95% CI 1.4-4.0) than those with the lowest concentrations; associations that appeared to be stronger in men (OR = 4.4, 95% CI 1.7-10.9) than women. Individuals with high insulin concentrations also had a higher risk of adenomas (OR = 3.5, 95% CI 1.7-7.4), whereas higher levels of IGFBP-1 were associated with a reduced risk of adenomas in men only (OR = 0.3, 95% CI 0.1-0.7). Overweight and obese individuals with higher C-peptide levels (>1st Q) were at increased risk for lower apoptosis index (OR = 2.5, 95% CI 0.9-7.1), an association that remained strong in overweight and obese men (OR = 6.3, 95% CI 1.0-36.7). Higher levels of IGFBP-1 in overweight and obese individuals were associated with a reduced risk of low apoptosis (OR = 0.3, 95% CI 0.1-1.0). Conclusions Associations between these peptides and the apoptosis index in overweight and obese individuals, suggest that the mechanism by which C-peptide could induce adenomas may include its anti-apoptotic properties. This study suggests that hyperinsulinemia and IGF hormones predict adenoma risk, and that outcomes associated with colorectal carcinogenesis maybe modified by gender.
Performance based building design to ensure building quality: from standardization to LEAN construction
Creators: name: Zanchetta, Carlo
name: Croatto, Giorgio
name: Paparella, Rossana
name: Turrini, Umberto
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2014

description: The discipline of architectural design is influenced by the standardization activities concerning the construction and the development of tools for the coordination in the design process such as Building Information Modeling. The two disciplines contribute reciprocally to the achievement of the overall quality of the building process. To do so, it is strategic to develop researches on the following aspects: - definition of frameworks for the connection of the building system requirements to space and technology unit that defines it; - development of an inventory of interoperable and compliant technical solutions; - implementation of the discipline of model checking for project validation; and methodologies of comparison between intervention models; - implementation of collaborative environments for verification of compatibility between programs and regulations in order to identify the optimal design solution.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 8 (2014): Research and project knowledge transfer
Differential associations of urbanicity and income with physical activity in adults in urbanizing China: findings from the population-based China Health and Nutrition Survey 1991-2009
Creators: name: Popkin, Barry
name: Attard, Samantha M
name: Aiello, Allison
name: Herring, Amy
name: Howard, Annie Green
name: Du, Shufa
name: Gordon-Larsen, Penny
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Abstract Background High urbanicity and income are risk factors for cardiovascular-related chronic diseases in low- and middle-income countries, perhaps due to low physical activity (PA) in urban, high income areas. Few studies have examined differences in PA over time according to income and urbanicity in a country experiencing rapid urbanization. Methods We used data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, a population-based cohort of Chinese adults (n = 20,083; ages 18-75y) seen a maximum of 7 times from 1991-2009. We used sex-stratified, zero-inflated negative binomial regression models to examine occupational, domestic, leisure, travel, and total PA in Chinese adults according to year, urbanicity, income, and the interactions among urbanicity, income, and year, controlling for age and region of China. Results We showed larger mean temporal PA declines for individuals living in relatively low urbanicity areas (1991: 500 MET-hours/week; 2009: 300 MET-hours/week) compared to high urbanicity areas (1991: 200 MET-hours/week; 2009: 125 MET-hours/week). In low urbanicity areas, the association between income and total PA went from negative in 1991 (p < 0.05) to positive by 2000 (p < 0.05). In relatively high urbanicity areas, the income-PA relationship was positive at all time points and was statistically significant at most time points after 1997 (p < 0.05). Leisure PA was the only domain of PA that increased over time, but >95 % of individuals in low urbanicity areas reported zero leisure PA at each time point. Conclusions Our findings show changing associations for income and urbanicity with PA over 18 years of urbanization. Total PA was lower for individuals living in more versus less urban areas at all time points. However, these differences narrowed over time, which may relate to increases in individual-level income in less urban areas of China with urbanization. Low-income individuals in higher urbanicity areas are a particularly critical group to target to increase PA in China.
Social inequality: from data to statistical physics modeling
Creators: name: Chatterjee, Arnab
name: Ghosh, Asim
name: Inoue, Jun-ichi
name: Chakrabarti, Bikas K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Social inequality is a topic of interest since ages, and has attracted researchers across disciplines to ponder over it origin, manifestation, characteristics, consequences, and finally, the question of how to cope with it. It is manifested across different strata of human existence, and is quantified in several ways. In this review we discuss the origins of social inequality, the historical and commonly used non-entropic measures such as Lorenz curve, Gini index and the recently introduced $k$ index. We also discuss some analytical tools that aid in understanding and characterizing them. Finally, we argue how statistical physics modeling helps in reproducing the results and interpreting them.
description: Mini review. 8 pages, 2 figures; To appear in Conf. Proc. Statphys-Kolkata VIII, Dec 1-5, 2014, Kolkata, India; Contribution dedicated to the memory of Prof. Jun-ichi Inoue
The Young Stellar Population of the Cygnus-X DR15 Region
Creators: name: Rivera-Gálvez, Sandily
name: Román-Zúñiga, Carlos G.
name: Jiménez-Bailón, Elena
name: Ybarra, Jason E.
name: Alves, João F.
name: Lada, Elizabeth A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a multi-wavelength study of the young stellar population in the Cygnus-X DR15 region. We studied young stars forming or recently formed at and around the tip of a prominent molecular pillar and an infrared dark cloud. Using a combination of ground based near-infrared, space based infrared and X-ray data, we constructed a point source catalog from which we identified 226 young stellar sources, which we classified into evolutionary classes. We studied their spatial distribution across the molecular gas structures and identified several groups possibly belonging to distinct young star clusters. We obtained samples of these groups and constructed K-band luminosity functions that we compared with those of artificial clusters, allowing us to make first order estimates of the mean ages and age spreads of the groups. We used a $^{13}$CO(1-0) map to investigate the gas kinematics at the prominent gaseous envelope of the central cluster in DR15, and we infer that the removal of this envelope is relatively slow compared to other cluster regions, in which gas dispersal timescale could be similar or shorter than the circumstellar disk dissipation timescale. The presence of other groups with slightly older ages, associated with much less prominent gaseous structures may imply that the evolution of young clusters in this part of the complex proceeds in periods that last 3 to 5 Myr, perhaps after a slow dissipation of their dense molecular cloud birthplaces.
description: 35 pages, 10 figures. Accepted for Publication in The Astronomical Journal
MAKTABGACHA TA’LIM YOSHIDAGI BOLALARNING IDROK XUSUSIYATLARINI MUSIQA MASHG‘ULOTI JARAYONIDA RIVOJLANTIRISH
Creators: name: Sherzodbek Xomidovich Xaydarov
Publisher: name: Central Asian Research Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies (CARJIS)
Year: 2022
Subjects: Musiqa
ko‗nikima
tasavvur
estetik idrok
estetik tarbiya
hissiyot
tarbiya va ta‘lim
psixologik rivoj
xarakter va vositalar
shaxs
muloqot
trener
empatiya
psixologiya
mimika va harakat.
music
skills
imagination
aesthetic perception
aesthetic education
emotion
upbringing and education
psychological development
character and tools
personality
communication
trainer
empathy
psychology
mimics and action

description: Maktabgacha ta‘lim tashkilotida o‗tiladigan musiqa mashg‗ulotlarini to‗g‗ri tashkil qilishda musiqa rahbari har bir bolaning yosh xususiyatlarni, psixologik rivojini inobatga olishi kerak. Bolaning musiqani idrok qilishi o‗z taraqqiyotida qator bosqichlardan o‗tadi. Musiqa va shodlik kichkintoy ongida uzviy bog‗lanib ketadi. Kichik guruh bolalari uchun repertuar tanlashda ko‗proq obrazli asarlarni tanlash, bolalarni bu asarlarni tinglaganda, kuylaganda obrazli tasavvur qilish orqali idrok qilishiga yordam beradi.
description: In the correct Organization of music lessons in a preschool organization, the music leader must take into account the young characteristics, psychological development of each child. The child's perception of music goes through a number of stages in his development. Music and joy are inextricably linked in the minds of the little girl. Choosing more figurative works when choosing a repertoire for a small group of children will help the child to perceive them by an imaginative imagination when listening to these works, singing.
title: Mandate and practice of the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
Creators: name: Manca, Luigino
Publisher: name: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin
Year: 2022
Subjects: United Nations
Human Rights
Migration

description: The paper explores the role of the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants in the promotion and protection of migrants, considering relevant and recent practice of the body
description: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin, Vol. 61 No. 1 (2022): Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin (QRP)
SketchBio: a scientist’s 3D interface for molecular modeling and animation
Creators: name: Thompson, Peter M
name: Taylor, Russell M.
name: Hahn, Patrick J
name: Waldon, Shawn M
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2014

description: Abstract Background Because of the difficulties involved in learning and using 3D modeling and rendering software, many scientists hire programmers or animators to create models and animations. This both slows the discovery process and provides opportunities for miscommunication. Working with multiple collaborators, a tool was developed (based on a set of design goals) to enable them to directly construct models and animations. Results SketchBio is presented, a tool that incorporates state-of-the-art bimanual interaction and drop shadows to enable rapid construction of molecular structures and animations. It includes three novel features: crystal-by-example, pose-mode physics, and spring-based layout that accelerate operations common in the formation of molecular models. Design decisions and their consequences are presented, including cases where iterative design was required to produce effective approaches. Conclusions The design decisions, novel features, and inclusion of state-of-the-art techniques enabled SketchBio to meet all of its design goals. These features and decisions can be incorporated into existing and new tools to improve their effectiveness.
Sustainable Sites Initiative: US updated rating criteria for open spaces design
Creators: name: Valente, Renata
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2014

description: The paper presents the U.S. Sustainable Sites Initiative, by illustrating and commenting the recent updates of the rating criteria in addition to a number of certified projects, including some sites visited by the author in California. The system is compared with existing tools, as LEED 2009 for Neighborhood Development Rating System, albeit some differences also in scale of interventions. In the work, scientific literature and personal considerations are given about those aspects still not evaluated by the system and its potential wider applicability with regard to directions of research on the topic. The theme fits well in the mainstream of studies dedicated to the design of resilient open spaces, contributing to adaptation and mitigation of climate change.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 8 (2014): Research and project knowledge transfer
Bounds on higher-order Lorentz-violating photon sector coefficients from an asymmetric optical ring resonator experiment
Creators: name: Parker, Stephen R.
name: Mewes, Matthew
name: Baynes, Fred N.
name: Tobar, Michael E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Optical resonators provide a powerful tool for testing aspects of Lorentz invariance. Here, we present a reanalysis of an experiment where a path asymmetry was created in an optical ring resonator by introducing a dielectric prism in one arm. The frequency difference of the two fundamental counter-propagating modes was then recorded as the apparatus was orientation-modulated in the laboratory. By assuming that the minimal Standard-Model Extension coefficients vanish we are able to place bounds on higher-order parity-odd Lorentz-violating coefficients of the Standard-Model Extension. The results presented in this work set the first constraints on two previously unbounded linear combinations of d=8 parity-odd nonbirefringent nondispersive coefficients of the photon sector.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in Physics Letters A
Down-regulation of SFRP1 in a mammary epithelial cell line promotes the development of a CD44high/CD24low population which is invasive and resistant to anoikis
Creators: name: Troester, Melissa
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2009

description: Abstract Background The Wnt family of secreted proteins is implicated in the regulation of cell fate during development, as well as in cell proliferation, morphology, and migration. Aberrant activation of the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway leads to the development of several human cancers, including breast cancer. Secreted frizzled-related protein 1 (SFRP1) antagonizes this pathway by competing with the Frizzled receptor for Wnt ligands resulting in an attenuation of the signal transduction cascade. Loss of SFRP1 expression is observed in breast cancer, along with several other cancers, and is associated with poor patient prognosis. However, it is not clear whether the loss of SFRP1 expression predisposes the mammary gland to tumorigenesis. Results When SFRP1 is knocked down in a non-malignant immortalized mammary epithelial cell line (76 N TERT), nuclear levels of β-catenin rise and the Wnt pathway is stimulated. The SFRP1 knockdown cells exhibit increased expression of the pro-proliferative Cyclin D1 gene and increased cellular proliferation, undergo a partial epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), are resistant to anchorage-independent cell death, exhibit increased migration, are significantly more invasive, and exhibit a CD24low/CD44high cell surface marker expression pattern. Conclusion Our study suggests that loss of SFRP1 allows non-malignant cells to acquire characteristics associated with breast cancer cells.
Data, BigData and smart cities. Considerations and case study on environmental monitoring
Creators: name: Chiesa, Giacomo
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2014

description: The growing interest in technologies and strategies for constructing smart cities and smart buildings promotes the spread of ICT solutions which often use large amounts of data. Nowadays, urban monitoring are often interrelated with the innovations introduced by BigData and the neologism “datization”, passing from the collection of a limited number of datapoints to the accumulation of as much data as possible, regardless of their future uses. The paper focuses on the production phase of data from the monitoring of environmental variables by using several measurement stations spread on the territory. The aim is to identify operational problems and possible solutions for a bottom-up construction of BigData datasets.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 8 (2014): Research and project knowledge transfer
Archival Legacy Investigations of Circumstellar Environments (ALICE): Statistical assessment of point source detections
Creators: name: Choquet, É.
name: Pueyo, L.
name: Soummer, R.
name: Perrin, M. D.
name: Hagan, J. B.
name: Gofas-Salas, E.
name: Rajan, A.
name: Aguilar, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ALICE program, for Archival Legacy Investigation of Circumstellar Environment, is currently conducting a virtual survey of about 400 stars, by re-analyzing the HST-NICMOS coronagraphic archive with advanced post-processing techniques. We present here the strategy that we adopted to identify detections and potential candidates for follow-up observations, and we give a preliminary overview of our detections. We present a statistical analysis conducted to evaluate the confidence level on these detection and the completeness of our candidate search.
description: Proc. SPIE 9605, Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets VII, 96051P
title: Selected developments related to forced migration
Creators: name: Roßkopf, Ralf
Publisher: name: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Developments
subject: 2022
subject: UNHCR
subject: Global Trends
subject: Ukraine
subject: Displacement
subject: Temporary Protection
subject: EUAA
subject: European Union Agency for Asylum
subject: UK
subject: Great Britain
subject: Rwanda
subject: European Court of Human Rights
subject: ECtHR
subject: Memorandum of Understanding
subject: MoU
subject: Politics
subject: Jurisdiction
subject: Legislation
subject: Forced Migration
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This is a compilation of news and notes of relevance for the field of forced displacement
description: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin, Vol. 61 No. 1 (2022): Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin (QRP)
Supplementary Figures S1-S5 Garcia et. al. Delayed metabolic disturbances in the myocardium after exertional heat stroke: contrasting effects of exertion and thermal load
Creators: name: Clanton, Thomas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 319999
subject: Other biological sciences not elsewhere classified

description: These files are supplementary material for a submitted manuscript.Epidemiological studies report higher risks of cardiovascular disease in humans exposed to heat stroke earlier in life. Previously, we explored mechanistic links between heat stroke and developing cardiac abnormalities using a preclinical mouse model of exertional heat stroke (EHS). Profound metabolic abnormalities developed in the ventricles of females after two weeks that were not seen in males. Here we tested whether this lack of response could be attributed to lower exercise performances or reduced thermal loads exhibited by males. We systematically altered environmental temperature (Te) during EHS to manipulate heat exposure and to allow for greater exercise intensity in the males. Three groups of adult C57BL/6 male mice were studied: ‘EHS-34’ (Te = 34°C), ‘EHS-41’ (Te = 41°C), and EHS-39.5 (Te = 39.5°C). Mice ran until symptom limitation (unconsciousness) at max core temperature (Tc,max). After a 2-wk recovery, the mice were euthanized and the ventricles removed for untargeted metabolomics. Results were compared against age-matched non-exercise controls. The EHS-34 mice greatly elevated their exercise performance, but reached lower Tc,max and lower thermal loads. The EHS-41 mice exhibited equivalent thermal loads, exercise times and Tc,max compared to EHS-39.5.The ventricles from EHS-34 mice exhibited the greatest metabolic disturbances, characterized by shifts toward glucose metabolism, reductions in acylcarnitines, increased amino acid metabolites, elevations in antioxidants, altered TCA cycle flux and increased xenobiotics. In conclusion, delayed metabolic disturbances following EHS in male myocardium appear to be greatly amplified by higher levels of exertion in the heat, even with lower thermal loads and max core temperatures.
title: 100 million forcibly displaced
Creators: name: Roßkopf, Ralf
Publisher: name: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 100 Million
subject: Forcibly Displaced
subject: AWR Bulletin
subject: Quarterly on Refugee Problems
subject: Obligation
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Forced Migration
subject: Editorial
subject: Revival

description: 100 million forcibly displaced human beings in 2022 are an obligation to act. The Association for the Study of the World Refugee Problem (AWR) revives its official journal as a contribution to seek, collect and make accessible international and cross-disciplinary expertise for possible solutions. To increase its impact, it becomes open access, under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, with no author fees charged. The inclusive global outreach to the community of scientists and practitioners beyond the members of AWR is further expressed in swapping the previous title and subtitle into Quarterly on Refugee Problems – AWR Bulletin (QRP).
description: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin, Vol. 61 No. 1 (2022): Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin (QRP)