cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Electrophysiological Measurement of Binaural Beats: Effects of Primary Tone Frequency and Observer Age
Creators: name: Mamo, Sara K.
name: Grose, John H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine the reliability of the electrophysiological binaural beat steady state response as a gauge of temporal fine structure coding, particularly as it relates to the aging auditory system. The hypothesis was that the response would be more robust in a lower, than in a higher, frequency region and in younger, than in older, adults.

DESIGN: Two experiments were undertaken. The first measured the 40 Hz binaural beat steady state response elicited by tone pairs in two frequency regions: lower (390 and 430 Hz tone pair) and higher (810 and 850 Hz tone pair). Frequency following responses (FFRs) evoked by the tones were also recorded. Ten young adults with normal hearing participated. The second experiment measured the binaural beat and FFRs in older adults but only in the lower frequency region. Fourteen older adults with relatively normal hearing participated. Response metrics in both experiments included response component signal-to-noise ratio (F statistic) and magnitude-squared coherence.

RESULTS: Experiment 1 showed that FFRs were elicited in both frequency regions but were more robust in the lower frequency region. Binaural beat responses elicited by the lower frequency pair of tones showed greater amplitude fluctuation within a participant than the respective FFRs. Experiment 2 showed that older adults exhibited similar FFRs to younger adults, but proportionally fewer older participants showed binaural beat responses. Age differences in onset responses were also observed.

CONCLUSIONS: The lower prevalence of the binaural beat response in older adults, despite the presence of FFRs, provides tentative support for the sensitivity of this measure to age-related deficits in temporal processing. However, the lability of the binaural beat response advocates caution in its use as an objective measure of fine structure coding.
Neumania (Lemienia) maharashtris Cook 1967
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Unionicolidae
Neumania
Neumania maharashtris

description: Neumania (Lemienia) maharashtris Cook, 1967
Records from the study area: Maharashtra—Cook (1967); Prasad (1974).
Habitat: Streams.
Distribution: India.
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on page 33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
title: From London to New York: peripatetic narratives and the urban imaginary in British and American literature from 1985-present
Creators: name: Hayward, Emma
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2016

description: The thesis focuses on literary-engagements with London and New York from 1985- present. It brings together a diverse range of literary texts and theoretical discourses on postmodernity, post-colonialism, mass culture and difference, and identifies a variety of cognate literary approaches adopted by contemporary authors in response to the more undesirable facets of late-capitalism. Postmodernity is often conceptualised negatively, critiqued for the way in which it diminishes subjectivity, authenticity, meaning, cultural and ideological efficacy, and historical continuity. The thesis challenges this theoretical perspective by showing how contemporary writing on London and New York is characterised by a recuperative agenda that seeks to ascribe these very qualities to everyday urban experience as it is lived and felt under the conditions of postmodernity. In particular, it considers the significant role played by formal experimentation, and the ways in which postmodern literary techniques, such as intertextuality and hybridity, work ironically to recover a high- modernist concern with meaning, authenticity, cultural efficacy and individual agency. The thesis identifies a millennial shift towards a ‘post-postmodern’ or ‘metamodern’ optimism and enthusiasm, and locates contemporary writing on urban space within this new context.
Electrophysiological Properties of Cochlear Implantation in the Gerbil Using a Flexible Array
Creators: name: Adunka, Oliver F.
name: Choudhury, Baishakhi
name: Ahmad, Faisal
name: Wang, Jacob
name: Fitzpatrick, Douglas C.
name: Buchman, Craig A.
name: DeMason, Christine
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Cochlear implants (CI) perform especially well if residual acoustic hearing is retained and combined with the CI in the same ear (also termed hybrid or electric-acoustic stimulation). However, in most CI patients, residual hearing is at least partially compromised during surgery, and in some it is lost completely. At present, clinicians have no feedback on the functional status of the cochlea during electrode insertion. Development of an intraoperative physiological recording algorithm during electrode insertion could serve to detect reversible cochlear trauma and optimal placement relative to surviving hair cells. In this report, an animal model was used to assist in determining physiological markers for these conditions using a flexible electrode similar to human surgery.
Neumania (Neumania) indica K. Viets 1926
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Unionicolidae
Neumania
Neumania indica

description: Neumania (Neumania) indica K. Viets, 1926
Records from the study area: Uttar Pradesh—“ Neumania volzi indica “ K. Viets (1926a, b); Prasad (1974).
Habitat: Ponds.
Distribution: India.
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on page 34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
Preliminary Results of the Relationship Between the Binaural Interaction Component of the Electrically Evoked Auditory Brainstem Response and Interaural Pitch Comparisons in Bilateral Cochlear Implant Recipients
Creators: name: Abbas, Paul J.
name: He, Shuman
name: Brown, Carolyn J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between electrophysiologic measures of the binaural interaction component (BIC) of the electrically evoked auditory brainstem response (EABR) and psychophysical measures of interaural pitch comparisons in Nucleus bilateral cochlear implant users.
Identity Making as a Colonization Process, and the Power of Disability Justice to Cultivate Intersectional Disobedience
Creators: name: Boda, Phillip
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Intersectionality has been used to describe the products of difference but scholars who work intersectionally in the tradition of Disability Justice have argued that attention should focus on the process of identity making—those processes by which some Lives–Hopes–Dreams are positioned as more valuable and Whole because of our societies’ commitments to racial capitalist coloniality. This work uses intersectionality as critical social theory, combined with broader cultural analyses of colonization as a process that did not stop within the creation of the Modern Western world, to visibilize identities often explicitly erased: students labeled with disabilities. Through excavating group-made artifacts from a larger research study, I show how intersectionally-disobedient grammars can serve to illuminate complex identity making beyond juxtaposed colonialities of power, and, therein, I situate this bricolage approach as an embodiment toward Disability Justice.
Characteristics of Hearing Aid Fittings in Infants and Young Children
Creators: name: Roush, Patricia A.
name: McCreery, Ryan W.
name: Bentler, Ruth A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Hearing aids provide the basis for improving audibility and minimizing developmental delays in children with mild to severe hearing loss. Multiple guidelines exist to recommend methods for optimizing amplification in children, but few previous studies have reported hearing aid fitting outcomes for a large group of children. The current study sought to evaluate the proximity of the fitting to prescriptive targets and aided audibility of speech, as well as survey data from pediatric audiologists who provided hearing aids for the children in the current study. Deviations from prescriptive target were predicted to have a negative impact on aided audibility. Additionally, children who were fitted using verification with probe microphone measurements were expected to have smaller deviations from prescriptive targets and improved audibility than cohorts fitted without these measures.
More about Neutron Majorana mass from Exotic Instantons: an alternative mechanism in Low-Scale String theory
Creators: name: Addazi, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss an alternative for Baryon-violating six quarks transitions, in the contest of low scale string theory. In particular, with $M_{S}=10÷10^{3}\rm TeV$, such a transition can be mediated by two color-triplets,through a quartic coupling with down-quarks,generated by exotic instantons, in a calculable and controllable way. We show how FCNCs limits on color-triplet massare well compatible with $n-\bar{n}$ oscillation ones. If a $n-\bar{n}$ transition were found, this would be an indirect hint for our model. This would strongly motivate researches of direct channels in proton-proton colliders. In fact, our model can be directly tested in a experimentally challenging $100÷1000\, \rm TeV$ proton-proton collider, searching for our desired color-triplet states and an evidence for exotic instantons resonances, in addition to stringy Regge resonances, anomalous $Z'$-bosons and gauged megaxion. In particular, our scenario can be related to the $750\, \rm GeV$ diphoton hint identifying it with the gauged megaxion dual to the $B$-field. On the other hand, this scenario is compatible with TeV-ish color triplets visible at LHC and with $1÷10\, \rm TeV$- string scale, {\it i.e} stringy resonances at LHC.
description: Version accepted by Mod.Phys.Lett.A
PRÁTICAS DE ENFERMEIROS PARA PROMOÇÃO DO ALEITAMENTO MATERNO NO PUERPÉRIO IMEDIATO: REVISÃO INTEGRATIVA
Creators: name: Souza Nóbrega, Marcela
name: Mota, Kárita
name: Olimpia Barbosa Felipe, Adriana
name: Ribeiro, Patricia Monica
name: da Silva Moreira, Denis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Nursing not elsewhere classified

description: O aleitameerno vem sendo recomendado há anos por órgãos de saúde do Brasil e do mundo, deve snto mater realizado de forma exclusiva até o sexto mês de vida e complementado até os dois anos ou mais. No puerpério imediato, a amamentação deve ser valorizada pelos enfermeiros por seus benefícios para o binômio materno/infantil. Promova ações de incentivo, proteção e promoção nesse período, especialmente no ambiente hospitalar, viabilizando o sucesso dessa prática. Acredita-se que conhecer como os enfermeiros assistem às puérperas, quais as dificuldades, facilidades, intercorrências e orientações podem ser encontradas na prática do aleitamento materno no puerpério imediato, poderá contribuir para um melhor cuidado materno infantil, redução da morbimortalidade e melhores índices de amamentação exclusivo. O presente estudo tem como objetivo analisar as evidências encontradas na literatura sobre as práticas desenvolvidas por enfermeiros no puerpério imediato para promover o aleitamento materno exclusivo. Trata-se de uma revisão integrativa, a qual possibilita criar uma fonte atualizada de conhecimento sobre o problema em questão e se este conhecimento é adequado para a prática. Será desenvolvido de acordo com o referencial de Whittemore & Knafl percorrendo as seguintes etapas: (1) identificação do problema; (2) busca na literatura; (3) avaliação dos dados; (4) análise de dados; (5) apresentação.
Main R code and figure data for Flash drought impacts on global ecosystems amplified by extreme heat
Creators: name: Gu, Lei
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The R-session 4.2.2 is used for data analysis and to produce main figures, please read 'readme file'. 

To install R, visit https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/old/4.2.2/.
title: Factors influencing the duration of orthodontic treatment for patients with a class II malocclusion treated with a functional/fixed appliance approach
Creators: name: Mohammd, Alaa
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2016

description: Background: Information regarding the various factors that can influence the duration of orthodontic treatment has been investigated before; however, despite the increasing amount of evidence becoming available, controversy still exists. Therefore, this investigation was considered to be useful as additional information to the orthodontic literature. Aim: To determine factors associated with the duration of orthodontic treatment for patients with a Class II malocclusion treated with a functional/fixed appliance approach to treatment. Design: Retrospective, observational study. Setting: Orthodontic Department, Liverpool University Dental Hospital, UK. Method: Data were collected from the records of eligible patients. Inclusion criteria: Patients were included if they had: 1) Undergone a course of orthodontic treatment involving a first phase of treatment with the Twin-Block appliance between the 1st of January 2005 and 31st of December 2008; 2) A Class II dental malocclusion; 3) Required a functional/fixed orthodontic approach to orthodontic treatment; 4) Completed two phases of orthodontic treatment; 5) Records available in a satisfactory condition. Outcome measures: • Duration of the functional appliance phase of orthodontic treatment • Total duration of orthodontic treatment Results: The pre-treatment overjet was the only factor that had a statistically significant influence on the duration of the functional phase of the treatment (p= 0.016). The factors that were statistically significant predictors for the duration of the full course of orthodontic treatment were: the number of treating clinicians (p=0.001), the number of failed appointments (p=0.001), the chronological age of the patient (p=0.002) and whether the patient had extractions or not (p=0.021). Conclusions: 1. The only factor that had a statistically significantly influence on the duration of the functional phase of treatment was the overjet at the start of treatment (positive association). 2. The factors that had a statistically significantly influence on the total treatment duration were the: a) Number of the treating clinicians (positive association); b) Number of appointments the patients failed to attend (positive association); c) Chronological age of the patient (negative association); d) Presence or absence of dental extractions (positive association).
Ästhetische Bildung bei Schüler*innen mit kognitiven Beeinträchtigungen
Creators: name: Casutt, Adriana Tiziana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Masterarbeit
kognitive Beeinträchtigung
ästhetische Bildung
Schule

description: Ästhetische Bildung ist ein zentraler Bestandteil des Bildungsangebots, um die Welt mit allen Sinnen zu erkunden. In dieser Arbeit wird die ästhetische Bildung von Schüler*innen mit kognitiven Beeinträchtigungen thematisiert. Es soll herausgefunden werden, wie Aufgaben gestellt werden müssen, damit sie Individualität zulassen, jedoch die Schüler*innen nicht überfordern. Es wurde ein didaktischer Leitfaden erarbeitet, getestet und evaluiert. Die qualitative Studie hat gezeigt, dass Heilpädagog*innen den Unterricht an die Schüler*innen anpassen müssen, damit sie nicht überfordert sind. Sie müssen Aufgaben motivierend gestalten, inspirierende Räumlichkeiten bieten, Zeit und Freiraum einräumen, Modelling betreiben, Ergebnisfreiheit als Grundvoraussetzung mitbringen sowie über das erforderliche Fachwissen verfügen.
title: Changing the culture of financial regulation: a corporate governance approach
Creators: name: Cairns, Steven
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2015

description: The 2007-09 Global Financial Crisis has been described as the greatest crisis in the history of financial capitalism. The failure of the global financial system was triggered by the ‘Great American Real Estate Bubble,’ however it quickly developed into a global liquidity squeeze that left financial markets at the brink of collapse. The thesis argues that the general culture of banking prevalent at the time both caused and exacerbated the crisis. The Business Strategies were excessively risky, focusing on short-term gains, at the expense of financial security. It is therefore purported that to mitigate the risks of any future global financial crisis a fundamental change in the culture of banking is needed. Behavioural expectations and norms must be redefined and more prudent strategies inculcated. The thesis will show that the only way to hope to achieve such a cultural shift is to employ a holistic approach, encompassing supervision, regulation and crucially corporate governance mechanisms. Previous debates within the UK have tended to focus on macro and micro regulatory reform. However, it is purported that it was in many cases, risk monitoring and management practices within financial institutions that dramatically failed. Whilst prudential regulation is important, the thesis will show that it alone is insufficient to change the culture within the financial system; a multi-faceted approach is needed. The central argument to the thesis will show that corporate governance mechanisms must play a central part in the legal and regulatory response to the Global Financial Crisis, as part of a cohesive package of measures necessary to effect cultural change; it will do this by conducting a case study into the collapse and subsequent nationalisation of Northern Rock Plc.
Cochlear Implantation With Hearing Preservation Yields Significant Benefit for Speech Recognition in Complex Listening Environments
Creators: name: Buchman, Craig A.
name: Dorman, Michael F.
name: Gifford, René H.
name: Roland, Peter
name: Skarzynski, Henryk
name: Lorens, Artur
name: Driscoll, Colin L. W.
name: Polak, Marek
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: The aim of this study was to assess the benefit of having preserved acoustic hearing in the implanted ear for speech recognition in complex listening environments.
title: The effect of stimulation with TSLP and KRN7000 on iNKT cell proliferation and cytokine production
Creators: name: Salman, Suhair
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2016

description: Abstract The effect of stimulation with TSLP and KRN7000 on iNKT cell proliferation and cytokine production (S Salman) iNKT cells are small subset of T lymphocytes that bridge the innate and adaptive immunity. They have the ability to secrete large amount of cytokines upon stimulation with their glycolipid ligand such as αGalactosylceramide or KRN7000 and therefor skew the immune response towards Th1, Th2 or Th17. When in an inflammatory or infectious environment they also are target to signals from other cells that are involved in the immune response. Thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) is a cytokine that is produced by epithelial cells in allergic diseases and it promotes Th2 response. The hypothesis proposed here is that TSLP may affect iNKT cells directly on TSLPr that may be expressed by these cells and induce a Th2 type cytokines such as IL-4 and IL-13. Also the notion that the addition of TSLP to iNKT cells culture with KRN7000 may stimulate these cells and result in increased proliferation and cytokine production. The first approach to investigate the hypothesis was to optimise the experiment parameters such as the best glycolipid ligand with the optimal concentration and the optimal time point. After that the expression of some markers was investigated especially TSLPr both at day 0 and after 14 days stimulation. Finally the effect of adding TSLP to KRN7000 on iNKT cells (proliferation and cytokine production) in PBMC mixed culture and on enriched iNKT cells and iNKT cell lines were investigated. The results of this work demonstrated that iNKT cells express TSLPr, which is up regulated after stimulation with KRN7000 for 14 days. Furthermore, the addition of TSLP to KRN7000 in iNKT cells in PBMC cultures significantly increases their proliferation in the two healthy donors groups, high and low responders. It also increases IFN-γ production in both groups, IL-13 and IL-17 production in high responders. The cytokine production source was further confirmed to be from iNKT cells after enriching these cells and after using iNKT cells lines. In summary, TSLP and KRN7000 stimulate healthy human iNKT cells and significantly increase their proliferation and cytokine production.
Time lagged ordinal partition networks for capturing dynamics of continuous dynamical systems
Creators: name: McCullough, Michael
name: Small, Michael
name: Stemler, Thomas
name: Iu, Herbert Ho-Ching
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We investigate a generalised version of the recently proposed ordinal partition time series to network transformation algorithm. Firstly we introduce a fixed time lag for the elements of each partition that is selected using techniques from traditional time delay embedding. The resulting partitions define regions in the embedding phase space that are mapped to nodes in the network space. Edges are allocated between nodes based on temporal succession thus creating a Markov chain representation of the time series. We then apply this new transformation algorithm to time series generated by the Rössler system and find that periodic dynamics translate to ring structures whereas chaotic time series translate to band or tube-like structures -- thereby indicating that our algorithm generates networks whose structure is sensitive to system dynamics. Furthermore we demonstrate that simple network measures including the mean out degree and variance of out degrees can track changes in the dynamical behaviour in a manner comparable to the largest Lyapunov exponent. We also apply the same analysis to experimental time series generated by a diode resonator circuit and show that the network size, mean shortest path length and network diameter are highly sensitive to the interior crisis captured in this particular data set.
Determining Electrically Evoked Compound Action Potential Thresholds: A Comparison of Computer Versus Human Analysis Methods
Creators: name: Hughes, Michelle L.
name: Glassman, E. Katelyn
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Current cochlear implants (CIs) have telemetry capabilities for measuring the electrically evoked compound action potential (ECAP). Neural Response Telemetry (NRT™; Cochlear) and Neural Response Imaging (NRI; Advanced Bionics [AB]) can measure ECAP responses across a range of stimulus levels to obtain an amplitude growth function. Software-specific algorithms automatically mark the leading negative peak, N1, and the following positive peak/plateau, P2, and apply linear regression to estimate ECAP threshold. Alternatively, clinicians may apply expert judgments to modify the peak markers placed by the software algorithms, and/or use visual detection to identify the lowest level yielding a measurable ECAP response. The goals of this study were to: (1) assess the variability between human and computer decisions for (a) marking N1 and P2, and (b) determination of linear regression threshold (LRT) and visual detection threshold (VDT); and (2) compare LRT and VDT methods within and across human and computer decision methods.
Neumania (Neumania) longipes Walter 1928
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Unionicolidae
Neumania
Neumania longipes

description: Neumania (Neumania) longipes Walter, 1928
Records from the study area: Kerala—Walter (1928); Prasad (1974).
Habitat: Ponds.
Distribution: India.
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on page 34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
ASASSN-14cc: Likely Helium Analog of RZ Leonis Minoris
Creators: name: Kato, Taichi
name: Hambsch, Franz-Josef
name: Monard, Berto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We identified that ASASSN-14cc is a very active dwarf nova spending approximately 60% of the time in outburst. Our long-term photometry revealed that the object shows long outbursts recurring with a period of 21-33 d and very brief short outbursts lasting less than 1 d. The maximum decline rate exceeds 2.8 mag/d. The duration of long outbursts is 9-18 d, comprising 50-60% of the recurrence time of long outbursts. We detected 0.01560-0.01562 d (22.5 min) modulations during long outbursts, which we identified to be superhumps. These features indicate that ASASSN-14cc has outburst parameters very similar to the extreme dwarf nova RZ LMi but with a much shorter superhump period. All the observations can be naturally understood considering that this object is a helium analog (AM CVn-type object) of RZ LMi. The highest outburst activity among AM CVn-type objects can be understood as the high-mass transfer rate expected for the orbital period giving a condition close to the stability limit of the accretion disk. In contrast to RZ LMi, this object shows little evidence for premature quenching of the superoutburst, which has been proposed to explain the unusual outburst parameters in RZ LMi.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ (Letters)
title: Cervical vertebral maturation as a valid predictor of growth
Creators: name: Hosni, Sara
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2016

description: Cervical Vertebral Maturation as a Valid Predictor of Growth S. HOSNI* J. E. HARRISON and G. BURNSIDE (School of Dentistry, The University of Liverpool, UK) Objectives: The primary objective was to assess if a correlation exists between CVM and statural height growth velocity. The secondary objective was to assess if a correlation exists between CVM and mandibular growth velocity. Design/Setting: A prospective longitudinal study undertaken at Liverpool University. Subjects: Participants were aged between 8-18 years, of either gender and enrolled from the orthodontic waiting list at Liverpool University Dental Hospital. Methods: Standing height was measured every 6 weeks with subjects barefoot and in natural head position. Lateral cephalograms were taken at the start of treatment, on completing functional appliance therapy and prior to debond. Mandibular growth was assessed using the area of the triangle condylion-gnathion-gonion. Intra- and inter-observer reliability of CVM staging, cephalometric and statural height measurements were assessed using Cohen’s weighted kappa, intra-class correlation coefficient, and Bland and Altman plots respectively. ANOVA was used to test for statistically significant differences between the CVM stages. Results: 108 participants were included for analysis. The peak in statural height growth velocity occurred at CVM stage 3 (P=0.001). The peak in mandibular growth occurred at CVM stage 3, although this was not statistically significant. Conclusions: The findings of this study demonstrate that CVM staging is valid for identifying the pubertal peak in statural height. The peak in mandibular growth as assessed by the triangle Co-Go-Gn occurred at CVM Stage 3, but this was not statistically significant. Ethical approval was granted from Liverpool East Research Ethics Committee on 30th October 2013 with reference number 13/NW/0408 and protocol number UoL000751.
Cocoa By-Products and Their Utilization as Fertilizer Materials
Creators: name: Walton, G. P.
name: Gardiner, R. F.
name: Walton, G. P.
name: Gardiner, R. F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1926
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Excerpts from the report Introduction: As a result of an interesting economic situation, related to the existing great demand for cacao butter, there are now in the United States three trade residues produced from cacao beans where formerly the husks or shells were the only regular by-product of commercial importance. The two recent arrivals in this field are by-product cocoa press cake and solvent-extracted cocoa, and their advent in important quantities has created renewed interest in the utilization of cacao by-products. All three by-products are available at prices which put them within the reach of the fertilizer industry. One of these potential fertilizer materials, the by-product cocoa cake, is nothing less than the press cake remaining from the manufacture of cacao butter. The enormous demand for cacao butter has resulted in a great surplus of this by-product cocoa press cake, and thousands of tons of the product have had so low a market value that some of the material has been burned under the factory boilers. Its low price has made the cake available for use as fertilizer material, and at least two manufacturers of mixed fertilizers have given the product a trial as a rough ammoniate filler and conditioner in their mixed goods. A certain quantity is being subjected to extraction with a fat-solvent for the recovery of the cacao fat remaining in the cake after the hydraulic pressing, and this solvent-extracted cocoa residue also is available for utilization as fertilizer material. The surplus cocoa cake has been used as a source of the alkaloidal base theobromine and it has also been tried as an ingredient of cattle feed. In view of the quantities of these cocoa by-products available and the dearth of published information relative to their production, chemical composition, and the properties of their nitrogen-bearing constituents, an investigation of their nature and their value as fertilizer material was undertaken.
Pulsar interpretation of the lepton spectra measured by AMS-02
Creators: name: Feng, Jie
name: Zhang, Hong-Hao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: AMS-02 recently published its lepton spectra measurement. The results show that the positron fraction no longer increases above $\sim$200 GeV. The aim of this work is to investigate the possibility that the excess of positron fraction is due to pulsars. Nearby known pulsars from ATNF catalogue are considered as a possible primary positron source of the high energy positrons. We find that the pulsars with age $T\simeq (0.45\sim4.5)\times10^{5}$ yr and distance $d<0.5$ kpc can explain the behavior of positron fraction of AMS-02 in the range of high energy. We show that each of the four pulsars --- Geminga, J1741-2054, Monogem and J0942-5552 --- is able to be a single source satisfying all considered physical requirements. We also discuss the possibility that these high energy $e^{\pm}$ are from multiple pulsars. The multiple pulsars contribution predicts a positron fraction with some structures at higher energies.
description: 27 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in EPJC
Important Sugar-Beet Byproducts and Their Utilization
Creators: name: Skuderna, A. W.
name: Sheets, E. W.
name: Skuderna, A. W.
name: Sheets, E. W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1934
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Livestock Production/Industries

description: Excerpts from the Bulletin: The beet-sugar industry has several byproducts that are of importance to agriculture. In harvesting sugar beets the tops, which constitute about one half of the weight of the marketable roots, are cut off in the field. In the processing of the sugar beet into sugar, pulp and molasses are produced as byproducts. These byproducts are important feeds for fattening cattle and sheep in the areas where they are produced. They are also used advantageously in a variety of rations for dairy cattle and to some extent in feeding other livestock, such as horses, swine, goats, poultry, and rabbits. In general, the dry matter of these byproducts has practically the same feeding value as that of grain when they are fed in properly balanced rations. Lime cake, another byproduct of beet-sugar manufacture, serves the same purpose as ground limestone in growing legumes that do not thrive in an acid soil, and in improving the texture of the soil. The different forms in which these byproducts are available and their value for livestock feeding and soil improvement are discussed in this bulletin. Specimen rations for feeding different classes of livestock are given on pages 27 to 29, inclusive.
Matrix positivity preservers in fixed dimension. I
Creators: name: Belton, Alexander
name: Guillot, Dominique
name: Khare, Apoorva
name: Putinar, Mihai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 15A45 (primary), 05E05, 15A12, 15B48, 26C05, 62H99, 65F15 (secondary)

description: A classical theorem proved in 1942 by I.J. Schoenberg describes all real-valued functions that preserve positivity when applied entrywise to positive semidefinite matrices of arbitrary size; such functions are necessarily analytic with non-negative Taylor coefficients. Despite the great deal of interest generated by this theorem, a characterization of functions preserving positivity for matrices of fixed dimension is not known. In this paper, we provide a complete description of polynomials of degree $N$ that preserve positivity when applied entrywise to matrices of dimension $N$. This is the key step for us then to obtain negative lower bounds on the coefficients of analytic functions so that these functions preserve positivity in a prescribed dimension. The proof of the main technical inequality is representation theoretic, and employs the theory of Schur polynomials. Interpreted in the context of linear pencils of matrices, our main results provide a closed-form expression for the lowest critical value, revealing at the same time an unexpected spectral discontinuity phenomenon. Tight linear matrix inequalities for Hadamard powers of matrices and a sharp asymptotic bound for the matrix-cube problem involving Hadamard powers are obtained as applications. Positivity preservers are also naturally interpreted as solutions of a variational inequality involving generalized Rayleigh quotients. This optimization approach leads to a novel description of the simultaneous kernels of Hadamard powers, and a family of stratifications of the cone of positive semidefinite matrices.
description: Changed notation for extreme critical value from $\mathfrak{C}$ to $\mathcal{C}$. Addressed referee remarks to improve exposition, including Remarks 1.2 and 3.3. Final version, 39 pages, to appear in Advances in Mathematics
An Exploration into Health Outcomes and Trauma of Those Impacted by Gender-Based Violence A Scoping Review Protocol
Creators: name: Lewis, Victoria
name: Soucie, Kendall
name: Mulcaster, Adam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 440999
subject: Social work not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 440509
subject: Women's studies (incl. girls' studies)
classificationCode: 520304
subject: Health psychology
classificationCode: 441011
subject: Sociology of health
classificationCode: 441010
subject: Sociology of gender

description: AbstractObjective: The objective of this scoping review is to understand the extent and type of evidence in relation to the intersection of health outcomes and trauma amongst gender-based violence (GBV) survivors. As well, this scoping review aims to better define and conceptualize how trauma is discussed within health and GBV-related research contexts.Introduction: GBV is a pervasive and urgent human rights concern that have deleterious health outcomes and is associated with heightened risk of trauma. There is limited empirical research that investigates the relationship and intersect of trauma due to violence and the potential health consequences that arise for GBV survivors. This scoping review aims to better grasp and conceptualize the available literature on these concepts.Inclusion criteria: Utilizing the participants, concept, and context (PCC) framework, participants will include women at least 18-years-old, who have experienced GBV historically or presently. For the concept, included studies must discuss both health outcomes and trauma, within the context and result of experiencing violence. Lastly, studies that are peer-reviewed, qualitative or mixed-methods with a qualitative component, and published since 2010 will be included for this review.Methods: Key information sources to be searched include the following: MEDLINE via Ovid, Scopus, CINAHL Complete (EBSCO Host), Social Work Abstracts (EBSCO Host), PTSDPubs (Proquest), and PsycINFO (Proquest). The search will be conducted in September 2024 and only include studies published in English and since 2010. In terms of the study selection process, included studies will be compared to the inclusion criteria and considered accordingly. Included studies will encompass discussion of gender-based violence, women’s health outcomes, and the inclusion of trauma. Subsequently, the extracted data will be presented in a tabulated format with an accompanying the completion of a descriptive qualitative data analysis.Keywords: Gender-based violence; women’s health; trauma; health outcomes; health inequities.
Suppl. material for JIFF20230039 - Comparison of oil quality characteristics of Locusta migratoria, Allomyrina dichotoma, and Tenebrio molitor obtained using different extraction methods
Creators: name: Lee, G.E.
name: Kim, Y.J.
name: Jang, H.B.
name: Cha, J.Y.
name: Choi, Y.-S.
name: Jang, H.W.
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 309999
subject: Other agricultural, veterinary and food sciences not elsewhere classified

description: In preparation of future food shortages, edible insects are receiving more attention as alternative foods. However, research on the fat of edible insects and the newly permitted Locusta migratoria in South Korea has been insufficient. In this study, Soxhlet and three-phase partitioning (TPP) methods were used to extract the oils of L. migratoria, Allomyrina dichotoma, and Tenebrio molitor L., which are permitted as edible insects in South Korea. After measuring the yield of the extracted oils and comparing the difference between the species of edible insects and the extraction methods, the yield of T. molitor was the highest, followed by those of A. dichotoma and L. migratoria. In addition, yields were higher when oils were extracted using the Soxhlet method. The composition of fatty acids and volatile chemicals in the oils was measured using GC-FID and SPME-Arrow-GC-MS, respectively. Volatile concentrations extracted using the Soxhlet method were higher than those obtained using TPP and the major groups in the three oils were acids and pyrazines. The findings of this study can support more intensive research on edible insect oil and food utilisation.
title: Geometric and haemodynamic changes after carotid intervention
Creators: name: Harrison, Gareth
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2016

description: Carotid endarterectomy has been demonstrated to reduce future stroke risk; however, stroke is a procedural risk. Therefore, to achieve the maximum benefit for patients, complications must be minimised. There are variations in the way that the operation is performed which may influence this peri-operative stroke risk. In particular, patch closure of the artery is a possible way of improving outcomes and the evidence is considered. Flow haemodynamics are considered to be a major aspect of the potential benefit with patch closure. The related evidence is presented, though the evidence to date is inadequate to prove that patching improves the haemodynamic profile sufficiently to improve outcomes. The hypothesis of a study is presented to try to answer this key question in carotid disease. Around one third of surgeons use primary closure with patching indicated with a median ICA diameter under 5mm. Of those surgeons who always use patch angioplasty around half use a full size patch of median 8mm diameter and the other half trim the patch width to a median of 6mm. Carotid geometry is complex but can be defined by using an index which uses the long and short axes or the cross-sectional area divided by the dimensions in the CCA proximal to endarterectomy; this index has been validated. Primary closure reduces the diameter and cross-sectional area in contrast to patch angioplasty which increases these dimensions in proportion to the width of the patch. Primary closure, in some cases, causes stenoses in the distal CCA which produces detrimental haemodynamics, whereas in those cases without a stenosis, physiological haemodynamics are produced. Patch closure produces less advantageous haemodynamics, however the larger 8mm patch is considerably worse than the trimmed 5mm patch. There is a direct link between geometry and haemodynamics. Increasing geometry index produces worse haemodynamics, the exception being a CCA stenosis in a primary closure. Increasing model size has only a limited effect on haemodynamics. This study affirms the practice of those surgeons who trim their patches. Very large bifurcations (an internal carotid diameter of around 8mm) are prone to low wall shear stresses and may be best repaired by primary closure.
title: A qualitative study exploring the support experienced by staff members following client related violence in inpatient mental health units
Creators: name: Fell, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2015

description: Aim To explore mental health inpatient staff members’ experiences of the support they have received following client related aggressive incidents. Background Mental health inpatient staff members are exposed to verbal and physical violence and aggression from their clients. It is important to understand how staff make sense of their experiences, the support they receive and what support they would prefer following future aggressive incidents. Design A single-cohort study employing qualitative, in-depth interviews. Qualitative thematic analysis was conducted within a social constructionist perspective. Methods A qualitative study using semi-structured interviews conducted in 2013 in the North West of England. Fourteen mental health inpatient unit staff were recruited using purposive sampling. Findings Thematic analysis identified five overarching themes: opportunities for reflection, making sense, staff self-esteem, feeling valued, and avoidant coping strategies. A thematic map was created to demonstrate the relationships between these themes, and their relevant subthemes. Conclusion: Inpatient mental health staff requested opportunities to reflect as a source of support after incidents of violence and aggression, and for management to acknowledge these difficult experiences. Participants suggested that their professional self-esteem and interaction with clients could be positively affected if they were given an opportunity to reflect after violent and aggressive incidents. Staff self-esteem was further influenced by feeling valued by management and other teams. If opportunities for reflection and managerial support are not provided there may be an increased risk that staff will rely on avoidant coping strategies. Further research could explore the relationships between the concepts of support described in this study.
Neumania (Neumania) nodosa Daday 1898
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Unionicolidae
Neumania
Neumania nodosa

description: Neumania (Neumania) nodosa (Daday, 1898)
New records: India: Uttar Pradesh, Hastinpur, pond, viii.2006 leg. Kumar, (1/1/0).
Records from the study area: Kerala—“ Neumania volzi “ Walter (1928); Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu—Cook (1967); West Bengal, Maharashtra—Lundblad (1969); Prasad (1974).
Habitat: Lakes and ponds.
Distribution: India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Japan, New Caledonia, Palau Islands.
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on page 34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
Multihop Caching-Aided Coded Multicasting for the Next Generation of Cellular Networks
Creators: name: Kiskani, Mohsen Karimzadeh
name: Sadjadpour, Hamid R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Next generation of cellular networks deploying wireless distributed femtocaching infrastructure proposed by Golrezaei et. al. are studied. By taking advantage of multihop communications in each cell, the number of required femtocaching helpers is significantly reduced. This reduction of femtocaches is achieved by using the underutilized storage and communication capabilities in the User Terminals (UTs), which results in reducing the deployment costs of distributed femtocaches. A multihop index coding technique is proposed to code the cached contents in helpers to achieve order optimal capacity gains. This can serve as an efficient content delivery algorithm for the solution provided by Golrezaei et. al. As an example, we consider a wireless cellular system in which contents have a popularity distribution. It has been shown that if the contents follow a high content reuse popularity distribution, our approach can replace many unicast communication with multicast communication. We will prove that simple linear index codes found by heuristics based on graph coloring algorithms can achieve order optimal capacity under Zipfian content popularity distribution.
description: IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technologies (June 2016)