cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Bounds on alternating surgery slopes
Creators: name: McCoy, Duncan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that if $p/q$-surgery on a nontrivial knot $K$ yields the branched double cover of an alternating knot or link, then $|p/q|\leq 4g(K)+3$. This generalises a bound for lens space surgeries first established by Rasmussen. We also show that all surgery coefficients yielding the double branched cover of an alternating knot or link must be contained in an interval of width two and this full range can be realised only if $K$ is a cable knot. The work of Greene and Gibbons shows that if $S^3_{p/q}(K)$ bounds a sharp 4-manifold $X$, then the intersection form of $X$ takes the form of a changemaker lattice. We extend this to show that the intersection form is determined uniquely by the knot $K$, the slope $p/q$ and the Betti number $b_2(X)$.
description: Altered to include the referee's suggestions, including a change of title. Accepted for publication in Algebr. Geom. Topol
The Parametric g-Formula for Time-to-event Data: Intuition and a Worked Example
Creators: name: Naimi, Ashley I.
name: Edwards, Jessie K.
name: Richardson, David B.
name: Keil, Alexander P.
name: Cole, Stephen R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: The parametric g-formula can be used to estimate the effect of a policy, intervention, or treatment. Unlike standard regression approaches, the parametric g-formula can be used to adjust for time-varying confounders that are affected by prior exposures. To date, there are few published examples in which the method has been applied.
Visible light carrier generation in co-doped epitaxial titanate films
Creators: name: Comes, Ryan B.
name: Smolin, Sergey Y.
name: Kaspar, Tiffany C.
name: Gao, Ran
name: Apgar, Brent A.
name: Martin, Lane W.
name: Bowden, Mark E.
name: Baxter, Jason B.
name: Chambers, Scott A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Perovskite titanates such as SrTiO$_{3}$ (STO) exhibit a wide range of important functional properties, including high electron mobility, ferroelectricity, and excellent photocatalytic performance. The wide optical band gap of titanates limits their use in these applications, however, making them ill-suited for integration into solar energy harvesting technologies. Our recent work has shown that by doping STO with equal concentrations of La and Cr we can enhance visible light absorption in epitaxial thin films while avoiding any compensating defects. In this work, we explore the optical properties of photoexcited carriers in these films. Using spectroscopic ellipsometry, we show that the Cr$^{3+}$ dopants, which produce electronic states immediately above the top of the O 2p valence band in STO reduce the direct band gap of the material from 3.75 eV to between 2.4 and 2.7 eV depending on doping levels. Transient reflectance spectroscopy measurements are in agreement with the observations from ellipsometry and confirm that optically generated carriers are present for longer than 2 ns. Finally, through photoelectrochemical methylene blue degradation measurements, we show that these co-doped films exhibit enhanced visible light photocatalysis when compared to pure STO.
description: 19 pages including supplement, 8 figures (3 main, 5 supplement)
Attitudes toward public transport post Delta COVID-19 lockdowns: Identifying user segments and policies to restore confidence
Creators: name: Beck, Matthew J.
name: Nelson, John D.
name: Hensher, David A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the propensity to use public transport, with many countries seeing a decline in patronage to as low as 20% of the pre-pandemic levels. Although public transport use is recovering with 60% of pre-COVID-19 levels being a common statistic, there is a view that it could take many years to fully recover, if at all. This paper presents evidence on societal perceptions and attitudes about the use and return to public transport that was obtained from surveys undertaken during COVID-19 at a period in early 2021 in which there were no lockdowns, and during a subsequent period of varying durations of lockdowns in the Greater Sydney Metropolitan Area and South East Queensland. Together with views on future plans, this paper offers policy useful evidence on the challenges that the public transport sector currently faces, and is likely to continue to face, in developing a plan to support a return to using the more sustainable mode of public transport, rather than increased use of the private car. The focus of the paper is on an analysis of attitudinal and open-ended qualitative responses using a mixture of descriptive interpretation and analytical methods of factor and cluster analysis to identify the spectrum of attitudes and concerns about using public transport as a way of guiding future messaging.
Throwing Out the Baby with the Bathwater?: Comparing 2 Approaches to Implausible Values of Change in Body Size
Creators: name: Gray, Christine L.
name: Robinson, Whitney R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: BACKGROUND: In childhood obesity research, the appearance of height loss, or "shrinkage," indicates measurement error. It is unclear whether a common response--excluding "shrinkers" from analysis--reduces bias.

METHODS: Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we sampled 816 female adolescents (≥17 years) who had attained adult height by 1996 and for whom adult height was consistently measured in 2001 and 2008 ("gold-standard" height). We estimated adolescent obesity prevalence and the association of maternal education with adolescent obesity under 3 conditions: excluding shrinkers (for whom gold-standard height was less than recorded height in 1996), retaining shrinkers, and retaining shrinkers but substituting their gold-standard height.

RESULTS: When we estimated obesity prevalence, excluding shrinkers decreased precision without improving validity. When we regressed obesity on maternal education, excluding shrinkers produced less valid and less precise estimates.

CONCLUSION: In some circumstances, ignoring shrinkage is a better strategy than excluding shrinkers.
A few words about Resonances in the Electroweak Effective Lagrangian
Creators: name: Rosell, Ignasi
name: Pich, Antonio
name: Santos, Joaquin
name: Sanz-Cillero, Juan Jose
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Contrary to a widely spread believe, we have demonstrated that strongly coupled electroweak models including both a light Higgs-like boson and massive spin-1 resonances are not in conflict with experimental constraints on the oblique S and T parameters. We use an effective Lagrangian implementing the chiral symmetry breaking SU(2)_L x SU(2)_R -> SU(2)_{L+R} that contains the Standard Model gauge bosons coupled to the electroweak Goldstones, one Higgs-like scalar state h with mass m_h=126 GeV and the lightest vector and axial-vector resonance multiplets V and A. We have considered the one-loop calculation of S and T in order to study the viability of these strongly-coupled scenarios, being short-distance constraints and dispersive relations the main ingredients of the calculation. Once we have constrained the resonance parameters, we do a first approach to the determination of the low energy constants of the electroweak effective theory at low energies (without resonances). We show this determination in the case of the purely Higgsless bosonic Lagrangian.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures. Talk given at XIth Quark Confinement and Hadron Spectrum, 8-12th September (2014), Saint Petersburg (Russia)
Anti-Müllerian Hormone and Lifestyle, Reproductive, and Environmental Factors Among Women in Rural South Africa
Creators: name: Whitworth, Kristina W.
name: Longnecker, Matthew P.
name: Wilson, Ralph E.
name: Steiner, Anne Z.
name: Bornman, Riana M. S.
name: Travlos, Gregory S.
name: Baird, Donna D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Few data exist regarding antiMüllerian hormone, a marker of ovarian reserve, in relation to environmental factors with potential ovarian toxicity.
FMAP: Distributed Cooperative Multi-Agent Planning
Creators: name: Torreño, Alejandro
name: Onaindia, Eva
name: Sapena, Óscar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.8; I.2.11
subject: 68T20, 68T42

description: This paper proposes FMAP (Forward Multi-Agent Planning), a fully-distributed multi-agent planning method that integrates planning and coordination. Although FMAP is specifically aimed at solving problems that require cooperation among agents, the flexibility of the domain-independent planning model allows FMAP to tackle multi-agent planning tasks of any type. In FMAP, agents jointly explore the plan space by building up refinement plans through a complete and flexible forward-chaining partial-order planner. The search is guided by $h_{DTG}$, a novel heuristic function that is based on the concepts of Domain Transition Graph and frontier state and is optimized to evaluate plans in distributed environments. Agents in FMAP apply an advanced privacy model that allows them to adequately keep private information while communicating only the data of the refinement plans that is relevant to each of the participating agents. Experimental results show that FMAP is a general-purpose approach that efficiently solves tightly-coupled domains that have specialized agents and cooperative goals as well as loosely-coupled problems. Specifically, the empirical evaluation shows that FMAP outperforms current MAP systems at solving complex planning tasks that are adapted from the International Planning Competition benchmarks.
description: 21 pages, 11 figures
title: Translating rights : childhoods and the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Oaxaca City, Mexico
Creators: name: Marie. Smith, Anne
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: The starting point for this thesis is the acknowledgement of the gap between the rhetoric around children's rights and the reality of children's lives at grassroots level. The purpose of my research is to bring this gap into focus, by exploring the disparities between the multifaceted and fluid nature of children's roles and the ideals and vision encapsulated in the child rights discourse. This thesis argues that normative perceptions of childhood and children's roles, which are embedded in society, lie at the root of this disparity and maintain a clear boundary between childhood and adulthood. These understandings of childhood are at odds with the lived realities of children's lives in Oaxaca, which blur fixed boundaries and challenge normative perceptions of who, what, where and how children should be. This divergence, between perceptions of childhood and real experiences of childhood, raises important considerations for the practical implementation of the CRC at the grassroots level, and is apparent in terms of language and pedagogical methods within institutional approaches to children's rights. Via a discussion of these embedded notions of childhood and adultist approaches to child rights teaching and advocacy, this thesis uncovers a key obstacle to the implementation of the CRC in terms of meaningful knowledge for children in Mexico. Empirical research was carried out in Oaxaca City, Mexico, with two groups of children who were participants in CANICA, a local NGO for street-working children in the city, and with one group of displaced Zapotec children from the region of Loxicha.1 The major focus of my research centres on this latter group; socially marginalised, displaced, and politically active, these children pose a considerable challenge to normative concepts of childhood and children's roles. Moreover, as participants in a political struggle these children do not fit the kind of participation envisaged by the CRC, local NGOs and the wider advocacy around children's rights, thus raising important questions regarding the limits of 'child participation' framed by articles 12 to 15 of the eRe. The field known as the New Sociology of Childhood Games, Jenks and Prout 1998; Qvortrup 1994), together with the international discourse and advocacy of children's rights, provide useful conceptual tools for the research. However, this thesis argues that normative, dichotomous, and largely Northern concepts of childhood are inadequate for the study of children's lives in Southern contexts such as Mexico. A key aim of the thesis is to explore the development of a Latin American sociology of childhood as a possible and more adequate framework for the study of children's lives in this region.
Application of Latent Variable Methods to the Study of Cognitive Decline When Tests Change over Time
Creators: name: Bandeen-Roche, Karen
name: Gross, Alden L.
name: Coresh, Josef
name: Griswold, Michael
name: Power, Melinda C.
name: Sharrett, A. Richey
name: Wruck, Lisa M.
name: Albert, Marilyn S.
name: Gottesman, Rebecca F.
name: Mosley, Thomas H.
name: Deal, Jennifer A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: The way a construct is measured can differ across cohort study visits, complicating longitudinal comparisons. We demonstrated the use of factor analysis to link differing cognitive test batteries over visits to common metrics representing general cognitive performance, memory, executive functioning, and language.
Comparative Effectiveness of Oxaliplatin Versus 5-flourouricil in Older Adults: An Instrumental Variable Analysis
Creators: name: Brookhart, M. Alan
name: Sandler, Robert S.
name: Mack, Christina DeFilippo
name: Meyer, Anne Marie
name: Glynn, Robert J.
name: Stürmer, Til
name: Carpenter, William R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Oxaliplatin was rapidly adopted for treatment of stage III colon cancer after FDA approval in November 2004, thus providing an opportunity to use calendar time as an instrumental variable (IV) in nonexperimental comparative effectiveness research. Assuming instrument validity, IV analyses account for unmeasured confounding and are particularly valuable in sub-populations of unresolved effectiveness such as older individuals.
Growth and Mortality Outcomes for Different Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation Criteria in Children aged 1-5 Years: A Causal Modelling Analysis
Creators: name: N’Gbeche, Sylvie
name: Schomaker, Michael
name: Technau, Karl-Günter
name: Egger, Matthias
name: Cox, Vivian
name: Malateste, Karen
name: Davies, Mary-Ann
name: Lawson-Evi, Annette
name: Sawry, Shobna
name: Leroy, Valeriane
name: Chimbete, Cleophas
name: Tanser, Frank
name: Amani-Bosse, Clarisse
name: Wood, Robin
name: Sygnaté-Sy, Haby
name: Koueta, Fla
name: Renner, Lorna
name: Giddy, Janet
name: Eboua, François
name: Phiri, Sam
name: Amorissani-Folquet, Madeleine
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: There is limited evidence regarding the optimal timing of initiating antiretroviral therapy (ART) in children. We conducted a causal modelling analysis in children aged 1–5 years from the International Epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS West/Southern-Africa collaboration to determine growth and mortality differences related to different CD4-based treatment initiation criteria, age groups and regions.
Educational' s Milestones in Tafsir "Fī Ẓilāl Al- Quʾrān" of Sayyid Qutb: Analytical Critical Study المعالم التربوية في ظلال القرآن لسيد قطب: دراسة نقدية تحليلية
Creators: name: Bey Zekkoub Abdelali
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015

description: يعتبر سيّد قطب من أكثر الشّخصيّات تأثيرًا في الحركات الإسلاميّة التي وجدت في بداية الخمسينيّات من القرن الماضي، له العديد من المؤلّفات والكتابات حول الحضارة الإسلاميّة، والفكر الإسلامي، صاحب التّفسير المشهور:"في ظلال القرآن"؛ وهو أجلّ وأعظم كتبه؛ حيث أسّس به مدرسة تفسيريّة أصيلة، هي: مدرسة التّفسير الحركيّ. إنّ الغرض من هذه الدّراسة؛ هو التّعريف بهذا الكتاب، وفهم المنهج المتّبع فيه، كذا الكشف عن معالمه التربويّة من جهة العقيدة، والعبادة، والأخلاق، مردوفًا باستخلاص خصائص معالمه التّربوية، موظّفًا المنهج الاستقرائي التّاريخي، والتحليلي النّقدي، مع الاعتماد خاصّة على مواضع منتقاة من تفسير "في ظلال القرآن"، وكتابات سيّد الحركيّة الأخيرة. يرى سيّد قطب أنّ حدود العقيدة تتّسع وتترامى حتّى تتناول كلّ جانب من جوانب الحياة، فمن العقيدة ينبثق منهج الحياة الذي يشتمل الأخلاق والقيم، كما يشتمل الأوضاع والشّرائع سواء بسواء، لذا لاحظنا خلال دراستنا لهذا الكتاب أنّ سيّد قطب أفسح مجالًا واسعًا لقسم العقيدة على حساب قسمي العبادة والأخلاق؛ ممّا يؤكّد على ضرورة استمداد منهج الحياة الذي يشتمل على الشّرائع والشّعائر والأخلاق من قانون الله وحده. وقد توصّلت الدّراسة إلى أنّ المدخل الحقيقي لفهم القرآن العزيز مرهونٌ بالعيش في ظلاله، وأنّ هذا العيش في ظلال القرآن هو الذي يثمر العملَ الحركيَّ الإيجابيَّ للنّهوض بتطبيقه في واقع يشمل كلّ نواحي حياة الإنسان، وتوصّلت الدّراسة أيضًا إلى أنّ الإسلام وحدة لا تنفصم، فكما تمّ إفراد الله وحده في الاعتقاد والشّعائر، كذلك يجب إفراده وحده بحقّ التشريع والأمر والحاكميّة في كل جانب من جوانب الحياة الإنسانية.
Multiple Imputation to Account for Measurement Error in Marginal Structural Models
Creators: name: Cole, Stephen R.
name: Mathews, W. Christopher
name: Edwards, Jessie K.
name: Mugavero, Michael J.
name: Eron, Joseph J.
name: Crane, Heidi
name: Lesko, Catherine R.
name: Boswell, Stephen L.
name: Westreich, Daniel
name: Moore, Richard
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Marginal structural models are an important tool for observational studies. These models typically assume that variables are measured without error. We describe a method to account for differential and non-differential measurement error in a marginal structural model.
Negative Control Outcomes and the Analysis of Standardized Mortality Ratios
Creators: name: Tchetgen Tchetgen, Eric
name: Cooper, Glinda
name: Keil, Alexander P.
name: Richardson, David B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: In occupational cohort mortality studies, epidemiologists often compare the observed number of deaths in the cohort to the expected number obtained by multiplying person-time accrued in the study cohort by the mortality rate in an external reference population. Interpretation of the result may be difficult due to non-comparability of the occupational cohort and reference population. We describe an approach to estimate an adjusted standardized mortality ratio (aSMR) to control for bias due to unmeasured differences between the occupational cohort and the reference population. The approach draws on methods developed for the use of negative control outcomes. Conditions necessary for unbiased estimation are described, as well as looser conditions necessary for bias reduction. The approach is illustrated using data on bladder cancer mortality among male Oak Ridge National Laboratory workers. The SMR for bladder cancer was elevated among hourly-paid males (SMR=1.90; 1.27, 2.72) but not among monthly-paid males (SMR=0.96; 0.67, 1.33). After indirect adjustment using the proposed approach, the mortality ratios were similar in magnitude among hourly- and monthly-paid men (aSMR=2.22; 1.52, 3.24; and, aSMR=1.99; 1.43, 2.76, respectively). The proposed adjusted SMR offers a complement to typical standardized mortality ratio analyses.
Analyzing the spatial determinants of dockless e-scooter & e-bike trips across four U.S. cities
Creators: name: Younes, Hannah
name: Baiocchi, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: In this study, we examine micromobility usage across four U.S. metropolitan areas, comprising over 3 million people. As micromobility increases in popularity and becomes incorporated in policies and city planning, it is important to understand how disadvantaged and underserved communities utilize shared micromobility options. Underserved communities typically have the lowest access to transportation options and thus, opportunities to jobs, health care, and food. While micromobility has the potential to increase opportunities in low-income areas, it is unclear how people in low-income and high minority areas use these options. Using publicly available API data, we analyze how e-scooters and e-bikes are employed in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Detroit, and Louisville. We find that the built environment had a strong impact on both the number of trips within a census block group (CBG) and the duration of those trips. Specifically, pedestrian-friendly intersections (e.g. low-speed roads, bicycle and pedestrian trails) generated more trips than automobile oriented facilities. Presence of fixed transportation and percentage of households with one or less cars had a strong and positive impact on the number of trips. The proportion of minorities and percentage of low-wage employment in a CBG are both negatively associated with trips in all four cities. The results suggest that existing efforts to promote shared micromobility usage in minority and low-income communities may not be sufficient. Designing pedestrian and bicycle-oriented streets, increasing public outreach and promoting access, and enforcing equity zones could increase shared micromobility usage in low-income and minority areas.
Perceived Stress, Reproductive Hormones, and Ovulatory Function: A Prospective Cohort Study
Creators: name: Mumford, Sunni L.
name: Perkins, Neil J.
name: Sjaarda, Lindsey A.
name: Kissell, Kerri A.
name: Schliep, Karen C.
name: Vladutiu, Catherine J.
name: Wactawski-Wende, Jean
name: Ahrens, Katherine A.
name: Schisterman, Enrique F.
name: Prasad, Ankita
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Stress has been shown to suppress ovulation in experimental models, but its effect on human reproduction at the population level is unclear.
In-plane anisotropy effect on critical transition field in nanogranular films with perpendicular anisotropy
Creators: name: Kulyk, M. M.
name: Kalita, V. M.
name: Lozenko, A. F.
name: Ryabchenko, S. M.
name: Stognei, O. V.
name: Sitnikov, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The influence of the in-plane anisotropy on the magnetization of a nanogranular film with perpendicular anisotropy has been studied. It is shown that if a magnetic field is tilted with respect to the film normal, a critical transition from the inhomogeneous magnetic state of granules with noncollinear directions of their moments to the homogeneous one with parallel orientation of granular magnetic moments takes place. The in-plane anisotropy is found to affect the angular dependence of the critical field. The ensemble of oriented biaxial particles is theoretically described in the double-well potential approximation. Despite the biaxial magnetic anisotropy of particles, their ensemble, if in the inhomogeneous state, is divided into two subensembles, with the magnetic moments of particles being collinear in each of them. In the critical field, a transition from the inhomogeneous state with two subensembles into the homogeneous one takes place. The results of theoretical calculations are compared with experimental data for a nanogranular Co/Al2On film with perpendicular anisotropy containing 74.5 at.% Co, which exceeds the percolation threshold. The magnetic moment of this film is a sum of two contributions: from nanogranules with biaxial anisotropy and a phase forming the percolation cluster. The magnetic properties of nanogranules, whose contribution is separated from the total film magnetization, agree well with the calculation data.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures; www.ujp.bitp.kiev.ua
Elliptic multiple zeta values and one-loop superstring amplitudes
Creators: name: Broedel, Johannes
name: Mafra, Carlos R.
name: Matthes, Nils
name: Schlotterer, Oliver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We investigate iterated integrals on an elliptic curve, which are a natural genus-one generalization of multiple polylogarithms. These iterated integrals coincide with the multiple elliptic polylogarithms introduced by Brown and Levin when constrained to the real line. At unit argument they reduce to an elliptic analogue of multiple zeta values, whose network of relations we start to explore. A simple and natural application of this framework are one-loop scattering amplitudes in open superstring theory. In particular, elliptic multiple zeta values are a suitable language to express their low energy limit. Similar to the techniques available at tree-level, our formalism allows to completely automatize the calculation.
description: 39 pages, 1 figure, v2: minor corrections, published version, v3: minor corrections in eqs.(4.5) to (4.9), (4.31) and (4.36)
Diarrhoea prevention in Bolivia through point-of-use water treatment and safe storage: a promising new strategy
Creators: name: CHAVEZ, D.
name: SOLETO, L.
name: MALONEY, K.
name: QUICK, R. E.
name: BOPP, C.
name: TAUXE, R. V.
name: VENCZEL, L. V.
name: MINTZ, E. D.
name: GIRONAZ, M.
name: SOBSEY, M.
name: GREENE, K.
name: HUTWAGNER, L.
name: APARICIO, J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1999

description: A novel water quality intervention that consists of point-of-use water disinfection, safe storage and community education was field tested in Bolivia. A total of 127 households in two periurban communities were randomized into intervention and control groups, surveyed and the intervention was distributed. Monthly water quality testing and weekly diarrhoea surveillance were conducted. Over a 5-month period, intervention households had 44% fewer diarrhoea episodes than control households (P = 0.002). Infants < 1 year old (P = 0.05) and children 5-14 years old (P = 0.01) in intervention households had significantly less diarrhoea than control children. Campylobacter was less commonly isolated from intervention than control patients (P = 0.02). Stored water in intervention households was less contaminated with Escherichia coli than stored water in control households (P < 0.0001). Intervention households exhibited less E. coli contamination of stored water and less diarrhoea than control households. This promising new strategy may have broad applicability for waterborne disease prevention.
องค์กรระหว่างประเทศกับการสร้างอัตลักษณ์ข้ามชาติ: ข้อถกเถียงเชิงทฤษฏี
Creators: name: จุฬาพร เอื้อรักสกุล
Publisher: name: คณะศิลปศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์
Year: 2017
Subjects: การสร้างอัตลักษณ์ข้ามชาติ
อัตลักษณ์ชาติ
สหภาพยุโรป

description: วารสารศิลปศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์, 17, 2, 1-19
Three-term recurrence relations of minimal affinizations of type $G_2$
Creators: name: Qiao, Li
name: Li, Jian-Rong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17B37

description: Minimal affinizations form a class of modules of quantum affine algebras introduced by Chari. We introduce a system of equations satisfied by the $q$-characters of minimal affinizations of type $G_2$ which we call the M-system of type $G_2$. The M-system of type $G_2$ contains all minimal affinizations of type $G_2$ and only contains minimal affinizations. The equations in the M-system of type $G_2$ are three-term recurrence relations. The M-system of type $G_2$ is much simpler than the extended T-system of type $G_2$ obtained by Mukhin and the second author. We also interpret the three-term recurrence relations in the M-system of type $G_2$ as exchange relations in a cluster algebra constructed by Hernandez and Leclerc.
description: 23 pages. The original name of the paper is: Cluster algebras and minimal affinizations of representations of the quantum group of type $G_2$
Uncertain outcomes: adjusting for misclassification in antimalarial efficacy studies
Creators: name: POOLE, C.
name: BURCH, C. L.
name: COLE, S. R.
name: JULIANO, J. J.
name: MESHNICK, S. R.
name: PORTER, K. A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Evaluation of antimalarial efficacy is difficult because recurrent parasitemia can be due to recrudescence or reinfection. PCR is used to differentiate between recrudescences and reinfections by comparing parasite allelic variants before and after treatment. However, PCR-corrected results are susceptible to misclassification: false recrudescences, due to reinfection by the same variant present in the patient before treatment; and false reinfections, due to variants that are present but too infrequent to be detected in the pre-treatment PCR, but are then detectable post-treatment. This article aims to explore factors affecting the probability of false recrudescences and proposes a Monte Carlo uncertainty analysis to adjust for both types of misclassification. Higher levels of transmission intensity, increased multiplicity of infection, and limited allelic variation resulted in more false recrudescences. The uncertainty analysis exploits characteristics of study data to minimize bias in the estimate of efficacy and can be applied to areas of different transmission intensity.
of Enjoying working and learning in vocational education: a multilevel investigation of emotional crossover and contextual moderators
Creators: name: Warwas, Julia
name: Helm, Christoph
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: of Enjoying working and learning in vocational education: a multilevel investigation of emotional crossover and contextual moderators
Costs of illness due to endemic cholera
Creators: name: ISLAM, Z.
name: LUCAS, M.
name: CLEMENS, J.
name: WHITTINGTON, D.
name: POULOS, C.
name: STEWART, J. F.
name: GUH, S.
name: AGTINI, M.
name: SUR, D.
name: RIEWPAIBOON, A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Economic analyses of cholera immunization programmes require estimates of the costs of cholera. The Diseases of the Most Impoverished programme measured the public, provider, and patient costs of culture-confirmed cholera in four study sites with endemic cholera using a combination of hospital- and community-based studies. Families with culture-proven cases were surveyed at home 7 and 14 days after confirmation of illness. Public costs were measured at local health facilities using a micro-costing methodology. Hospital-based studies found that the costs of severe cholera were USD 32 and 47 in Matlab and Beira. Community-based studies in North Jakarta and Kolkata found that cholera cases cost between USD 28 and USD 206, depending on hospitalization. Patient costs of illness as a percentage of average monthly income were 21% and 65% for hospitalized cases in Kolkata and North Jakarta, respectively. This burden on families is not captured by studies that adopt a provider perspective.
อิทธิพลของอัตราจังหวะเพลงต่อพฤติกรรมกล้าเสี่ยง
Creators: name: เกียรติศักดิ์ จังเจริญจิตต์กุล
Publisher: name: คณะศิลปศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์
Year: 2017
Subjects: พฤติกรรมเสี่ยง
พฤติกรรมกล้าเสี่ยง
อัตราจังหวะเพลง
โปรแกรมวัดแนวโน้มพฤติกรรมกล้าเสี่ยง

description: วารสารศิลปศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์, 17, 2, 20-34
Elliptic-cylindrical Wavelets: The Mathieu Wavelets
Creators: name: Lira, M. M. S.
name: de Oliveira, H. M.
name: Cintra, R. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This note introduces a new family of wavelets and a multiresolution analysis, which exploits the relationship between analysing filters and Floquet's solution of Mathieu differential equations. The transfer function of both the detail and the smoothing filter is related to the solution of a Mathieu equation of odd characteristic exponent. The number of notches of these filters can be easily designed. Wavelets derived by this method have potential application in the fields of Optics and Electromagnetism.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures
การวิเคราะห์ระบบตัวอักษรเบรลล์ไทย
Creators: name: วีรชัย อำพรไพบูลย์
Publisher: name: คณะศิลปศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์
Year: 2017
Subjects: เบรลล์ไทย
สระเบรลล์
พยัญชนะเบรลล์

description: วารสารศิลปศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์, 17, 2, 35-58
Thermal Leptophilic Light Vector Dark Matter with Spinor Mediator and Muon (g-2) Anomaly
Creators: name: Ayazi, Seyed Yaser
name: Mohamadnejad, Ahmad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inspired by the recently new measurement of $(g-2)_μ$ at FermiLab and reported upper bound for electron-dark matter (DM) recoil by the XENON1T collaboration, we revisited phenomenology of a light MeV scale vector dark matter in a leptophilic extension of standard model while a new spinor field plays the role of mediator. A viable parameter space is considered to discuss the possibility of light dark matter relic density as well as anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. We study DM-electron direct detection and cosmological bounds on the parameters space of the model. It is shown that although new bound of $(g-2)_μ$ anomaly greatly confines the parametric space of the model, the thermal light dark matter can exist for $\rm M_{DM}\sim 10^{-1}-10^{1}~\rm GeV$.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures
Performance analysis of a gas cyclone with a dustbin inverted hybrid solid cone
Creators: name: Dehdarinejad, E.
name: Parvaz, F.
name: Hosseini, S. H.
name: Ahmadi, G.
name: Elsayed, K.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: This study uses the CFD technique to investigate the influence of a twisted inverted hybrid solid cone (TIHSC) placed at the gas cyclone dustbin on the separator performance. This new design improves the stability and reduces the length of the vortex finder, resulting in a stronger swirl in the cyclone with a higher tangential velocity. The study showed that an increase in the height of the TIHSC increases the maximum tangential velocity up to 2.9 times the inlet velocity. Overall, using TIHSC leads to a significant increase in particle separation efficiency compared to the conventional cyclone. In addition, with an increase in the height of TIHSC, the pressure drop significantly decreases while the separation efficiency increases. For the optimized model, the particle cut size improves from 0.97 to 0.85 µm at 50% separation and from 6.2 to 4.7 µm at 100% separation, while the pressure drop is reduced by 12.7%. Copyright © 2023 American Association for Aerosol Research
Acinetobacter bacteraemia in Thailand: evidence for infections outside the hospital setting
Creators: name: SILUDJAI, D.
name: RHODES, J.
name: THAMTHITIWAT, S.
name: BAGGETT, H. C.
name: PRAPASIRI, P.
name: PERUSKI, L. F.
name: PRASERT, K.
name: KERDSIN, A.
name: DEJSIRILERT, S.
name: KAEWPAN, A.
name: HENCHAICHON, S.
name: PORTER, K. A.
name: JORAKATE, P.
name: MALONEY, S. A.
name: YUENPRAKONE, S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Acinetobacter is a well-recognized nosocomial pathogen. Previous reports of community-associated Acinetobacter infections have lacked clear case definitions and assessment of healthcare-associated (HCA) risk factors. We identified Acinetobacter bacteraemia cases from blood cultures obtained <3 days after hospitalization in rural Thailand and performed medical record reviews to assess HCA risk factors in the previous year and compare clinical and microbiological characteristics between cases with and without HCA risk factors. Of 72 Acinetobacter cases, 32 (44%) had no HCA risk factors. Compared to HCA infections, non-HCA infections were more often caused by Acinetobacter species other than calcoaceticus–baumannii complex species and by antibiotic-susceptible organisms. Despite similar symptoms, the case-fatality proportion was lower in non-HCA than HCA cases (9% vs. 45%, P < 0·01). Clinicians should be aware of Acinetobacter as a potential cause of community-associated infections in Thailand; prospective studies are needed to improve understanding of associated risk factors and disease burden.
A Study on “Delexical Verb+Noun” Collocation Errors of Thai EFL Intermediate and Advanced Learners
Creators: name: Sathinee Sanguannam
Publisher: name: คณะศิลปศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์
Year: 2017
Subjects: Collocation errors
Delexical verb
noun collocation
Proficiency levels
Congruent and non-congruent items

description: วารสารศิลปศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์, 17, 2, 59-84
An approach to multi-agent planning with incomplete information
Creators: name: Torreño, Alejandro
name: Onaindia, Eva
name: Sapena, Óscar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.8; I.2.11
subject: 68T20, 68T42

description: Multi-agent planning (MAP) approaches have been typically conceived for independent or loosely-coupled problems to enhance the benefits of distributed planning between autonomous agents as solving this type of problems require less coordination between the agents' sub-plans. However, when it comes to tightly-coupled agents' tasks, MAP has been relegated in favour of centralized approaches and little work has been done in this direction. In this paper, we present a general-purpose MAP capable to efficiently handle planning problems with any level of coupling between agents. We propose a cooperative refinement planning approach, built upon the partial-order planning paradigm, that allows agents to work with incomplete information and to have incomplete views of the world, i.e. being ignorant of other agents' information, as well as maintaining their own private information. We show various experiments to compare the performance of our system with a distributed CSP-based MAP approach over a suite of problems.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures
Hand hygiene and risk of influenza virus infections in the community: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: COWLING, B. J.
name: AIELLO, A. E.
name: WONG, V. W. Y.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Community-based prevention strategies for seasonal and pandemic influenza are essential to minimize their potential threat to public health. Our aim was to evaluate the efficacy of hand hygiene interventions in reducing influenza transmission in the community and to investigate the possible modifying effects of latitude, temperature and humidity on hand hygiene efficacy. We identified 979 articles in the initial search and 10 randomized controlled trials met our inclusion criteria. The combination of hand hygiene with facemasks was found to have statistically significant efficacy against laboratory-confirmed influenza while hand hygiene alone did not. Our meta-regression model did not identify statistically significant effects of latitude, temperature or humidity on the efficacy of hand hygiene. Our findings highlight the potential importance of interventions that protect against multiple modes of influenza transmission, and the modest efficacy of hand hygiene suggests that additional measures besides hand hygiene may also be important to control influenza.
Quantum microscopy with van der Waals heterostructures
Creators: name: Healey, A. J.
name: Scholten, S. C.
name: Yang, T.
name: Scott, J. A.
name: Abrahams, G. J.
name: Robertson, I. O.
name: Hou, X. F.
name: Guo, Y. F.
name: Rahman, S.
name: Lu, Y.
name: Kianinia, M.
name: Aharonovich, I.
name: Tetienne, J. -P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum microscopes based on solid-state spin quantum sensors have recently emerged as powerful tools for probing material properties and physical processes in regimes not accessible to classical sensors, especially on the nanoscale. Such microscopes have already found utility in a variety of problems, from imaging magnetism and charge transport in nanoscale devices, to mapping remanent magnetic fields from ancient rocks and biological organisms. However, applications of quantum microscopes have so far relied on sensors hosted in a rigid, three-dimensional crystal, typically diamond, which limits their ability to closely interact with the sample under study. Here we demonstrate a versatile and robust quantum microscope using quantum sensors embedded within a thin layer of a van der Waals (vdW) material, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). To showcase the capabilities of this platform, we assemble several active vdW heterostructures, with an hBN layer acting as the quantum sensor. We demonstrate time-resolved, simultaneous temperature and magnetic imaging near the Curie temperature of a vdW ferromagnet as well as apply this unique microscope to map out charge currents and Joule heating in graphene. By enabling intimate proximity between sensor and sample, potentially down to a single atomic layer, the hBN quantum sensor represents a paradigm shift for nanoscale quantum sensing and microscopy. Moreover, given the ubiquitous use of hBN in modern materials and condensed matter physics research, we expect our technique to find rapid and broad adoption in these fields, further motivated by the prospect of performing in-situ chemical analysis and noise spectroscopy using advanced quantum sensing protocols.
The Implementation of a Poster Conference Activity in Thailand’s EFL Classes: English and Dialogic Teaching Implications for Practice
Creators: name: Piyawan Rungwaraphong
Publisher: name: คณะศิลปศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์
Year: 2017
Subjects: Dialogic Education
Thailand’s EFL
Poster Conference
English Speaking
Teaching

description: วารสารศิลปศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์, 17, 2, 85-101
Additional file 2 of Genomic prediction with epistasis models: on the marker-coding-dependent performance of the extended GBLUP and properties of the categorical epistasis model (CE)
Creators: name: Martini, Johannes
name: Gao, Ning
name: Diercles Cardoso
name: Wimmer, Valentin
name: Erbe, Malena
name: Cantet, Rodolfo
name: Simianer, Henner
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: The file presents mathematical arguments for the statements on the properties of the models, which have been made in the main text. (PDF 149 kb)
Comprehensive characterization of particulate matter emissions produced by a liquid-fueled miniCAST burner
Creators: name: Daoudi, Mouad
name: Schiffmann, Philipp
name: Faccinetto, Alessandro
name: Frobert, Arnaud
name: Desgroux, Pascale
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology

description: Soot particles generated by a liquid-fueled miniCAST burner, supplied with diesel B7, was characterized for the first time over a total of 34 operating points covering an overall equivalence ratio (ϕ) range of 0.103–1.645. To characterize the gas and particulate phase emissions, electron microscopy images, mobility-equivalent size distributions and mass concentration of the soot aggregates were recorded, and optical extinction/absorption coefficients of the exhaust were measured. The burner produces soot aggregates with geometric mean diameter size in the range 45-105 nm with primary particle size in the range 18-39 nm. The Ångström absorption exponent (α) was evaluated in the range 400-1000 nm and was found to increase with ϕ and vary in the range 1.05–2.25. The interposition of a catalytic stripper in the sampling line was found to (i) flatten the shape of the size distribution of aggregates, (ii) oxidize most of the gas phase thus impacting optical extinction coefficients particularly below 400 nm and (iii) decrease α. The soot volume fraction (fv) was determined by three independent methods: optical absorption, mass deposit and mobility size distribution combined with morphology data. fv evaluated from size mobility data accounting for morphological aspects agreed within 13% with fv measured optically and within 25% with fv evaluated from mass concentration measurements. The precise methodology developed to characterize engine-like soot particles produced by a liquid-fueled miniCAST can now be transposed to study other regular, renewable, and surrogate liquid fuels to investigate their physical and optical properties before considering their large-scale use. Copyright © 2023 American Association for Aerosol Research