cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Reaching the end of the line: Operational issues with implementing phone-based unannounced pill counts in resource-limited settings
Creators: name: Hirsch-Moverman, Yael
name: Burkot, Camilla
name: Saito, Suzue
name: Frederix, Koen
name: Pitt, Blanche
name: Melaku, Zenebe
name: Belachew, Tsigereda Gadisa
name: Howard, Andrea A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Patient compliance
Cell phones
Social medicine

description: Introduction:
Accurate measurement of adherence is necessary to ensure that therapeutic outcomes can be attributed to the recommended treatment. Phone-based unannounced pill counts were shown to be feasible and reliable measures of adherence in developed settings; and have been further used as part of medication adherence interventions. However, it is not clear whether this method can be implemented successfully in resource-limited settings, where cellular network and mobile phone coverage may be low. Our objective is to describe operational issues surrounding the use of phone-based unannounced pill counts in Lesotho and Ethiopia.

Methods:
Phone-based monthly unannounced pill counts, using an adaptation of a standardized protocol from previous US-based studies, were utilized to measure anti-TB and antiretroviral medication adherence in two implementation science studies in resource-limited settings, START (Lesotho) and ENRICH (Ethiopia).

Results:
In START, 19.6% of calls were completed, with 71.9% of participants reached at least once; majority of failed call attempts were due to phones not being available (54.8%) or because participants were away from the pills (32.7%). In ENRICH, 33.5% of calls were completed, with 86.7% of participants reached at least once; the main reasons for failed call attempts were phones being switched off (31.5%), participants not answering (27.3%), participants’ discomfort speaking on the phone (15.4%), and network problems (13.2%). Structural, facility-level, participant-level, and data collection challenges were encountered in these settings.

Discussion:
Phone-based unannounced pill counts were found to be challenging, and response rates suboptimal. While some of these challenges were specific to local contexts, most of them are generalizable to resource-limited settings. In a research study context, a possible solution to ease operational challenges may be to focus phone-based unannounced pill count efforts on a randomly selected sample from participants who are provided with study phones and rigorously ensure that call attempts are made for these participants.
The Public Matters: Technical Note
Creators: name: Pizmony-Levy, Oren
name: Pallas, Aaron M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Education--Public opinion
Child development--Government policy
Social sciences--Research
Social surveys--Methodology

description: Citizen preferences play a key role in a democracy, and there is a substantial body of work that tries to understand the role that public preferences play in the policy process. Despite the important role public opinion plays, there are only limited efforts to document public opinion about education, psychology, and health. The Public Matters project seeks to address this gap by providing reliable, valid public opinion data to inform public debate. The Project includes a series of public opinion surveys on a variety of issues related to governance, policies, and practice that have the potential to affect human development.
Systematic, network-based characterization of therapeutic target inhibitors
Creators: name: Shen, Yao
name: Alvarez, Mariano
name: Bisikirska, Brygida
name: Lachmann, Alexander
name: Realubit, Ronald B.
name: Pampou, Sergey Yu
name: Coku, Jorida
name: Karan Jr., Charles
name: Califano, Andrea
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Therapeutics
subject: Gene expression
subject: Computational biology
subject: Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A large fraction of the proteins that are being identified as key tumor dependencies represent poor pharmacological targets or lack clinically-relevant small-molecule inhibitors. Availability of fully generalizable approaches for the systematic and efficient prioritization of tumor-context specific protein activity inhibitors would thus have significant translational value. Unfortunately, inhibitor effects on protein activity cannot be directly measured in systematic and proteome-wide fashion by conventional biochemical assays. We introduce OncoLead, a novel network based approach for the systematic prioritization of candidate inhibitors for arbitrary targets of therapeutic interest. In vitro and in vivo validation confirmed that OncoLead analysis can recapitulate known inhibitors as well as prioritize novel, context-specific inhibitors of difficult targets, such as MYC and STAT3. We used OncoLead to generate the first unbiased drug/regulator interaction map, representing compounds modulating the activity of cancer-relevant transcription factors, with potential in precision medicine.
On the effect of heterogeneity in stochastic interacting-particle systems
Creators: name: Lafuerza, Luis F.
name: Toral, Raul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study stochastic particle systems made up of heterogeneous units. We introduce a general framework suitable to analytically study this kind of systems and apply it to two particular models of interest in economy and epidemiology. We show that particle heterogeneity can enhance or decrease the collective fluctuations depending on the system, and that it is possible to infer the degree and the form of the heterogeneity distribution in the system by measuring only global variables and their fluctuations.
Improving Sustainability Education Policy through Research Partnerships: Reflections and Analysis from New York City
Creators: name: Pizmony-Levy, Oren
name: McDermott, Meredith
name: Copeland, Thaddeus T.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Sustainability
Education and state
Environmental education

description: This paper examines an ongoing research partnership between the New York City Department of Education Office of Sustainability and Teachers College, Columbia University. Similar to other global cities like London and Hong Kong, New York City recently initiated a groundbreaking effort to address the long-term challenges the city faces relating to climate change and sustainability. Now in its fifth year, the research partnership strives to improve school engagement with sustainability through the development of research-based knowledge and evidence. This paper examines the partnership’s outcomes and assesses the ways in which policymakers use these results to inform policy and practice. Two lines of educational research—the application of improvement science and research use—are utilized to contextualize this work, which concludes with lessons learned and suggestions for potential future research.
Variability in objective and subjective measures affects baseline values in studies of patients with COPD
Creators: name: Anderson, Wayne
name: Ha, Jae Wook
name: Couper, David J.
name: O’Neal, Wanda K.
name: Barr, R. Graham
name: Bleecker, Eugene R.
name: Carretta, Elizabeth E.
name: Cooper, Christopher B.
name: Doerschuk, Claire M.
name: Drummond, M. Bradley
name: Han, MeiLan K.
name: Hansel, Nadia N.
name: Kim, Victor
name: Kleerup, Eric C.
name: Martinez, Fernando J.
name: Rennard, Stephen I.
name: Tashkin, Donald
name: Woodruff, Prescott G.
name: Paine III, Robert
name: Curtis, Jeffrey L.
name: Kanner, Richard E.
name: SPIROMICS Research Group
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Lungs--Diseases, Obstructive
Diagnosis
Pulmonary function tests
Medicine

description: Rationale:
Understanding the reliability and repeatability of clinical measurements used in the diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of disease progression is of critical importance across all disciplines of clinical practice and in clinical trials to assess therapeutic efficacy and safety.

Objectives:
Our goal is to understand normal variability for assessing true changes in health status and to more accurately utilize this data to differentiate disease characteristics and outcomes.

Methods:
Our study is the first study designed entirely to establish the repeatability of a large number of instruments utilized for the clinical assessment of COPD in the same subjects over the same period. We utilized SPIROMICS participants (n = 98) that returned to their clinical center within 6 weeks of their baseline visit to repeat complete baseline assessments. Demographics, spirometry, questionnaires, complete blood cell counts (CBC), medical history, and emphysema status by computerized tomography (CT) imaging were obtained.

Results:
Pulmonary function tests (PFTs) were highly repeatable (ICC’s >0.9) but the 6 minute walk (6MW) was less so (ICC = 0.79). Among questionnaires, the Saint George’s Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ) was most repeatable. Self-reported clinical features, such as exacerbation history, and features of chronic bronchitis, often produced kappa values <0.6. Reported age at starting smoking and average number of cigarettes smoked were modestly repeatable (kappa = 0.76 and 0.79). Complete blood counts (CBC) variables produced intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) values between 0.6 and 0.8.

Conclusions:
PFTs were highly repeatable, while subjective measures and subject recall were more variable. Analyses using features with poor repeatability could lead to misclassification and outcome errors. Hence, care should be taken when interpreting change in clinical features based on measures with low repeatability. Efforts to improve repeatability of key clinical features such as exacerbation history and chronic bronchitis are warranted.
El caso Snowden
Creators: name: Moreno Muñoz, Miguel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Edward Snowden, hipervigilancia, privacidad, NSA, Five Eyes, PRISM, Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning
subject: 590212
subject: 590601
subject: 720703

description: Este trabajo analiza las implicaciones de la información desvelada por E. Snowden sobre el alcance de los programas de vigilancia masiva desarrollados por la NSA estadounidense, en colaboración con otros servicios y agencias de inteligencia.

Colaboración solicitada por el editor de la revista para el nº 4 (marzo-abril 2014), 86-91. Disponible en:

https://lamaletadeportbou.com/numeros/4-marzo-abril-2014/
description: Esta publicación se integra en una línea de trabajo que incluye las aportaciones siguientes: (A) Moreno Muñoz, M. (dic. 2018): "Mediación tecnológica de la interacción social y riesgos de su instrumentalización: el caso de la plataforma Facebook". Gazeta de Antropología, 34/2, art. 08, pp. 1-18. http://hdl.handle.net/10481/54720 | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2563250 | (B) Moreno Muñoz, M. (2018): "Virtualización del espacio público y concepto débil de privacidad. Lecciones del caso Facebook-Cambridge Analytica", Ensayos de Filosofía, nº 8, 2018, semestre 2, artículo 3. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2535703 | (C) Moreno Muñoz, M. (2017): "Privacidad y procesado automático de datos personales mediante aplicaciones y bots". Dilémata: revista internacional de éticas aplicadas, año 9, nº 24: 1-23. | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2561257
Additional file 7 of Multi-omics analysis of DNA replication-associated primase polymerase (PRIMPOL) in pan-cancer: a potential target for prognosis and immune response
Creators: name: Deng, Langmei
name: Thakur, Abhimanyu
name: Peng, Jinwu
name: Song, Liying
name: Li, Zhilan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7: Table S1 Bioinformatics platforms that are employed to analyze the role of PRIMPOL in pan-cancer.
On Transition Functions of Topological Toric Manifolds
Creators: name: Yu, Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57S15, 14M25

description: We show that any topological toric manifold can be covered by finitely many open charts so that all the transition functions between these charts are Laurent monomials of $z_j$'s and $\bar{z}_j$'s. In addition, we will describe toric manifolds and some special class of topological toric manifolds in terms of transition functions of charts up to (weakly) equivariant diffeomorphism.
description: 16 pages, 1 figure. Some grammar problems are fixed
EFFECT OF PHYTOCOMPOSITION ON ALIMENTARY ANEMIA.
Creators: name: Makhsumov, Sh.M.
name: Zayseva, O.A.
name: Mamadaliev, Sh.M.
name: Kakhkharova, Sh.B.
name: Djanaev, G.Yu.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Tincture of DOY (a collection of medicinal plants) has a positive therapeutic effect on experimental animals. The general condition of the animals has improved, appetite for food has increased significantly. By the end of the experiment, the weight of the animals that received the tincture of DOY increased by 18.5% compared to the control group. The following results were obtained in the peripheral blood analyzes conducted during the experiment:
In memoriam Dr. med. Alfred Ulrich-Nüesch, 18. Mai 1869 - 3. Januar 1944
Creators: name: Grob, Rudolf
name: Braun, Friedrich
name: Brunner, Theodor
Publisher: name: [Verlag nicht ermittelbar]
Year: 1944
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf
subject: Ulrich, Alfred
subject: Waltalingen
subject: Zollikon
subject: Zürich

description: Inhalt: Abdankungsrede, gehalten von Herrn Pfarrer Rudolf Grob, Direktor der schweizerischen Anstalt für Epileptische, in der Kirche Zollikon am 5. Januar 1944 ; Gedenkrede, gehalten von Herrn Dr. med. Friedrich Braun, Medizinischer Direktor der Schweizerischen Anstalt für Epileptische, in der Kirche Zollikon am 5. Januar 1944 ; Gedenkrede, gehalten von Herrn Dr. med. Theodor Brunner, Küsnacht, im Rotary-Club Zürich, am 14. Januar 1944
title: Neuer Dämpfer für US-Energie- und Klimapolitik unter Trump: EU muss mit ambitionierten Schritten vorangehen
Creators: name: Holz, Franziska
name: Kemfert, Claudia
name: Hirschhausen, Christian Von
name: Baron, Charlotte
name: Steigerwald, Björn
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Q58 Environmental Economics: Government Policy
subject: Q48 Energy: Government Policy
subject: Q38 Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation: Government Policy
subject: USA
subject: energy policy
subject: climate policy

description: Mit der Wiederwahl von Donald Trump zum US-Präsidenten steht die amerikanische Energie- und Klimapolitik erneut vor einem fundamentalen Einschnitt. Während Trumps Vorgänger Joe Biden mit Investitionsprogrammen wie dem Inflation Reduction Act den klimafreundlichen Umbau der Wirtschaft unterstützte, ist Trump ein ausgesprochener Klimaskeptiker und Freund der fossilen Energien sowie der Atomkraft. Er dürfte erneut Initiativen für Umwelt- und Klimaschutz zurück und die Förderung fossiler Energien hochfahren, dieses Mal vermutlich deutlich zielgerichteter und planvoller als während seiner ersten Amtszeit. Jedoch sind die von ihm angekündigten Maßnahmen widersprüchlich: Eine Ausweitung der Energieexporte könnte zu einer Anpassung der US-Energiepreise ans höhere Weltmarktniveau führen, obwohl es Trumps erklärtes Ziel ist, die Lebenshaltungskosten zu senken. Gleichzeitig werden wohl in einzelnen Bundesstaaten klimapolitische Maßnahmen wie CO2-Preise aufrechterhalten. Deutschland und die EU dürfen sich nicht auf einen klimapolitischen Unterbietungswettbewerb einlassen, sondern müssen den Green Deal der Europäischen Union und den Ausstieg aus fossilen Energien konsequent vorantreiben.
description: DIW Wochenbericht, 92 (2025), 4, S. 47-54
Edu-Activism in the United States: Civic Participation on Educational Issues
Creators: name: Pizmony-Levy, Oren
name: Pallas, Aaron M.
name: Green Saraisky, Nancy
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Political participation
Social movements
Education--Political aspects
Education--Public opinion
Political participation--Public opinion

description: Recently, there has been a resurgence of education activism in the United States. Media headlines suggest that citizens are raising their voices loudly and publicly to challenge various aspects of the education system. As we thought about instances of protest in education, as well as the role of edu-business, we wondered how the general public thinks about civic participation on educational issues, and how active individuals are in voicing their concerns. To address this question, we followed past research on civic engagement in the United States, and conducted a public opinion survey where respondents were asked about different forms of political and social action that they might take regarding education and schools. This survey paints a portrait of today’s education activists. It found that certain groups – liberals, women, blacks, college-educated, parents and young people – are more politically active than others around education issues.
title: Application of Carbon Dioxide Snow in Machining of CGI using an Additively Manufactured Turning Tool
Creators: name: Heep, Thomas
name: Bickert, Christian
name: Abele, Eberhard
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2023

description: The application of conventional cooling lubricants for the tribological conditioning of machining processes involves high additional costs and health risks. The application of a cryogenic carbon dioxide (CO₂) snow cooling strategy is an economical and environmentally sound alternative for oily cooling emulsions since it has a high cooling effect as well as a residue-free sublimation. This article introduces a laser additive manufactured tool holder with an integrated dual nozzle which enables CO₂-snow jet application. Initially this work focuses on the characterization and the selection of a suitable nozzle geometry. The modular tool body features an adapted channel structure for process-reliable and targeted CO₂-snow cooling for turning processes. This enables the simultaneous cooling of the rake and flank face with CO₂-snow, as well as the application of cryogenic multi-component cooling of the rake face. In the context of this study, the focus lies on the technological evaluation of three different supply strategies during the continuous turning of compacted graphite iron CGI-450 at increased cutting speed. It was established that an efficient rake face cooling is indispensable to achieve a low thermal tool load, and thus lower crater wear behavior. Therefore, this study contributes to an improvement in cryogenic machining processes regarding the design of additively manufactured tool bodies for process-reliable CO₂-snow cooling, as well as for the selection of supply strategies to minimize the thermomechanical tool load.
Reconstructing Higgs boson properties from the LHC and Tevatron data
Creators: name: Giardino, Pier Paolo
name: Kannike, Kristjan
name: Raidal, Martti
name: Strumia, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a phenomenological fit to all ATLAS, CMS, CDF and D0 Higgs boson data available after Moriond 2012. We allow all Higgs boson branching fractions, its couplings to standard model particles, as well as to an hypothetical invisible sector to vary freely, and determine their current favourite values. The standard model Higgs boson with a mass 125 GeV correctly predicts the average observed rate and provides an acceptable global fit to data. However, better fits are obtained by non-standard scenarios that reproduce anomalies in the present data (more γγ and less WW signals than expected), such as modified rates of loop processes or partial fermiophobia. We find that present data disfavours Higgs boson invisible decays. We consider implications for the standard model, for supersymmetric and fermiophobic Higgs bosons, for dark matter models, for warped extra-dimensions.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures, references added, discussion clarified (e.g. fit to invisible width), fit to radion added
AZ-identities and Strict 2-part Sperner Properties of Product Posets
Creators: name: Aydinian, Harout
name: Erdős, Péter L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 06A07, 05D05

description: One of the central issues in extremal set theory is Sperner's theorem and its generalizations. Among such generalizations is the best-known BLYM inequality and the Ahlswede--Zhang (AZ) identity which surprisingly generalizes the BLYM inequality into an identity. Sperner's theorem and the BLYM inequality has been also generalized to a wide class of posets. Another direction in this research was the study of more part Sperner systems. In this paper we derive AZ type identities for regular posets. We also characterize all maximum 2-part Sperner systems for a wide class of product posets.
title: Using biotelemetry to investigate cardiovascular tradeoffs in cod feeding under hypoxic conditions
Creators: name: Behrens, Jane Windfeldt
name: Neuenfeldt, Stefan
name: Thygesen, Uffe Høgsbro
Publisher: name: ASC 2009 - Theme session B
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Maximal cardiac output can not perfuse all tissues simultaneously and conflicting requirements for blood flow may arise when digestion and swimming simultaneously place demands on the cardiovascular system. This is because gut blood flow increases profoundly after feeding, to ensure sufficient oxygen to the stomach region for absorption of nutrients, while swimming capacity also depends on sufficient blood flow to support the working muscles with oxygen. The problem is amplified in hypoxic waters because the oxygen up-take across the gills is reduced.
Dynamic response localization in one-dimensional periodic systems
Creators: name: Raghavan, Lalitha
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: This thesis contributes a novel receptance coupling technique to analyse dynamic response localization induced by bandgap mechanisms in advanced periodic light weight material and structural systems. One-dimensional structural systems are used to illustrate the technique with experiments. Localization induced by disorder and nonlinearity is investigated using numerical simulations. Insights on bandgap localization mechanisms offered by the receptance technique can be used to design periodic composite materials such as Phononic Crystals and metamaterials, and periodic structures with enhanced vibroacoustic performance characteristics.
title: Diel behavioral rhythms of the painted comber (Serranus scriba) at Palma Bay Marine Reserve (western Mediterranean)
Creators: name: March, David
name: Aguzzi, Jacopo
Publisher: name: ASC 2009 - Theme session B
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Fifteen adult individuals of Serranus scriba {Serranidae) were surgicall y implanted with acoustic transmitters and monitored within an array of 25 acoustic listening stations at Palma Bay Marine Reserve (Mali orca, Balearic Islands, Spain). We selected 8 individuals with 5 or more days of detection period to look for chrnobiologic rhythms
Task swapping networks in distributed systems
Creators: name: Kim, Dohan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we propose task swapping networks for task reassignments by using task swappings in distributed systems. Some classes of task reassignments are achieved by using iterative local task swappings between software agents in distributed systems. We use group-theoretic methods to find a minimum-length sequence of adjacent task swappings needed from a source task assignment to a target task assignment in a task swapping network of several well-known topologies.
description: This is a preprint of a paper whose final and definite form is published in: Int. J. Comput. Math. 90 (2013), 2221-2243 (DOI: 10.1080/00207160.2013.772985)
title: Medien berichten geschlechterstereotyp über Vorständinnen und Aufsichtsrätinnen von DAX-Unternehmen
Creators: name: Kinne, Lavinia
name: Sondergeld, Virginia
name: Wrohlich, Katharina
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
subject: M14 Corporate Culture; Social Responsibility
subject: M12 Personnel Management; Executive Compensation
subject: women in management
subject: gender equality
subject: board diversity
subject: gender stereotypes
subject: NLP

description: Frauen sind in hohen Führungspositionen privatwirtschaftlicher Unternehmen in Deutschland nach wie vor unterrepräsentiert. Dafür gibt es zahlreiche Ursachen – eine davon sind geschlechterstereotype Zuschreibungen von Fähigkeiten und Eigenschaften, die bei hohen Führungspositionen eine große Rolle spielen. So werden Frauen nach wie vor typischerweise Eigenschaften wie Fürsorglichkeit und Familienorientierung zugeschrieben, während Ehrgeiz und Durchsetzungsvermögen – also Eigenschaften, die tendenziell mit Führungspositionen assoziiert werden – eher mit Männern verbunden werden. Eine quantitative Analyse von über 48 000 Zeitungsartikeln der Jahre 2010 bis 2022 über Frauen und Männer in Vorständen und Aufsichtsräten von 160 DAX-Unternehmen zeigt, dass die Berichterstattung über diese Personen von Geschlechterstereotypen geprägt ist. Die häufigere Nennung familiärer Attribute in der Berichterstattung über Frauen ist dabei nicht von der Realität gedeckt, denn sie sind nicht häufiger verheiratet und leben nicht öfter mit Kindern im Haushalt als Männer in hohen Führungspositionen – im Gegenteil. Medien sollten sich ihrer Rolle als Transporteure von Geschlechterstereotypen bewusst sein und ihre Texte auf stereotypisierende Darstellungen überprüfen.
description: DIW Wochenbericht, 92 (2025), 3, S. 34-39
FED-AMR D3.1 Database of zoonotic C. difficile isolates across participants countries
Creators: name: Oleastro, Monica
name: Persson, Soren
name: Cabal Rosel, Adriana
name: Maurischat, Sven
name: Seyboldt, Christian
name: Tenson, Tanel
name: Mazuet, Christelle
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: FED-AMR
Clostridioides difficile
C. difficile

description: Database of zoonotic C. difficile isolates across participants countries (task 3.1) Each participant partner started a sampling campaign in order to enrich the collection of C. difficile isolates available from different sources, more specifically from diverse animal and environmental sources.
Structural parameters and blue stragglers in Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy globular clusters
Creators: name: Salinas, R.
name: Jílková, L.
name: Carraro, G.
name: Catelan, M.
name: Amigo, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present BV photometry of four Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy globular clusters: Arp 2, NGC 5634, Palomar 12, and Terzan 8, obtained with the Danish telescope at ESO-La Silla. We measure the structural parameters of the clusters using a King profile fitting, obtaining the first reliable measurements of the tidal radius of Arp 2 and Terzan 8. These two clusters are remarkably extended and with low concentrations; with a concentration of only c = 0.41 +/- 0.02, Terzan 8 is less concentrated than any cluster in our Galaxy. Blue stragglers are identified in the four clusters, and their spatial distribution is compared to those of horizontal branch and red giant branch stars. The blue straggler properties do not provide evidence of mass segregation in Terzan 8, while Arp 2 probably shares the same status, although with less confidence. In the case of NGC 5634 and Palomar 12, blue stragglers are significantly less populous, and their analysis suggests that the two clusters have probably undergone mass segregation.
description: 11 pages - 10 figures - MNRAS accepted || v2: minor changes to match published version
Assessment of patient perception of glaucomatous visual field loss and its association with disease severity using Amsler grid
Creators: name: Fujitani, Kenji
name: Su, Daniel
name: Ghassibi, Mark P.
name: Simonson, Joseph L.
name: Liebmann, Jeffrey M.
name: Ritch, Robert
name: Park, Sung Chul
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Ophthalmology
Vision--Testing
Glaucoma
Eye--Diseases

description: Purpose:
To investigate patients’ perception of glaucomatous VF loss and its association with glaucoma severity using the Amsler grid test.

Methods:
In this prospective cross-sectional study, glaucoma patients with abnormal 10–2 Humphrey Swedish Interactive Threshold Algorithm-standard VF tests were enrolled consecutively. All patients underwent a black-on-white Amsler grid test for each eligible eye. They were asked to outline any perceived scotomas (areas with abnormal grid lines) on the grid and then describe verbally their perception of the scotomas. Examiners asked patients to clarify their descriptions. All descriptions used by patients were recorded in their own words, which were then sorted into descriptor categories according to similar themes. The number of descriptor categories was counted for each eye. 10–2 VF mean deviation (MD) was compared among eyes that reported different number of descriptor categories. The mean 10–2 VF MD values were compared among different descriptor categories.

Results:
Fifty glaucoma patients (88 eyes) were included. Patients used a total of 44 different descriptors for their scotomas. Patients’ descriptors were classified into categories that incorporated similar themes, resulting in 4 overarching descriptor categories: Missing/White, Blurry/Gray, Black, and Not Aware. Fifty-two eyes reported one descriptor category and 19 eyes reported two descriptor categories (mean number of descriptor categories = 1.27±0.45). Eyes that reported two descriptor categories had worse VF MD than those that reported one (-17.86±10.31 dB vs. -12.08±7.53 dB; p = 0.012). When eyes were organized according to its combination of descriptor categories, each eye naturally sorted into one of the following 5 groups, in frequency order: Missing/White (27 eyes; 31%), Blurry/Gray (21 eyes; 24%), combined Missing/White and Blurry/Gray (19 eyes; 21%), Not Aware (17 eyes; 19%), and Black (4 eyes; 5%). The mean 10–2 VF MD severity order was Black (-21.18±10.59 dB), combined Missing/White and Blurry/Gray (-17.86±10.31 dB), Missing/White (-11.92±6.76 dB), Blurry/Gray (-10.55±7.03 dB), and Not Aware (-3.91±4.05 dB) (p<0.001).

Conclusion:
Paracentral vision loss in glaucoma is perceived by patients. As the perception of scotomas and the variety of terms to describe scotomas are related to glaucoma severity, clinicians should pay attention to patients’ subjective descriptions of their glaucomatous VF loss. The historical notion that glaucoma patients lose their peripheral vision first and eventually look through a black tunnel needs to be updated to reflect the true perception of glaucoma.
title: Immer mehr Vorständinnen und Aufsichtsrätinnen, aber nach wie vor ein weiter Weg bis zur Geschlechterparität
Creators: name: Sondergeld, Virginia
name: Wrohlich, Katharina
name: Kirsch, Anja
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: D22 Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
subject: J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
subject: J59 Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining: Other
subject: J78 Labor Discrimination: Public Policy
subject: L21 Business Objectives of the Firm
subject: L32 Public Enterprises; Public-Private Enterprises
subject: M14 Corporate Culture; Social Responsibility
subject: M51 Personnel Economics: Firm Employment Decisions; Promotions
subject: corporate boards
subject: board composition
subject: boards of directors
subject: board diversity
subject: women directors
subject: executive directors
subject: gender equality
subject: gender quota
subject: Germany

description: Auch im vergangenen Jahr ist der Frauenanteil in den obersten Entscheidungsgremien der größten Unternehmen in Deutschland gestiegen. In den Vorständen der 200 umsatzstärksten Unternehmen Deutschlands sind mittlerweile gut 19 Prozent aller Vorstandsmitglieder Frauen, bei den 40 größten börsennotierten Unternehmen sogar fast 26 Prozent. Auch der Finanzsektor hat diesbezüglich aufgeholt. Das gesetzliche Mindestbeteiligungsgebot für börsennotierte und paritätisch mitbestimmte Unternehmen mit einem Vorstand mit vier oder mehr Mitgliedern wirkt: Fast alle Unternehmen in dieser Gruppe haben mittlerweile eine Frau im Vorstand, knapp ein Drittel sogar zwei oder mehr Frauen. Im Laufe der letzten 15 Jahre hat sich der Zugang zu Vorstandspositionen für Frauen somit verbessert. Dass dadurch Frauen auch gleich viel Einfluss in den Vorständen haben wie Männer, ergibt sich indes nicht zwangsläufig. Unternehmen müssen auf eine inklusive Unternehmenskultur achten, damit Vielfalt nicht nur in der formellen Zusammensetzung zum Tragen kommt.
description: DIW Wochenbericht, 92 (2025), 3, S. 22-33
Impacts of benzovindiflupyr on the embryonic development of zebrafish (Danio rerio)
Creators: name: Zhou, Ying
name: Yao, Hongzhou
name: Ni, Fengli
name: Xu, Chao
name: Xu, Guoliang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Benzovindiflupyr is a broad spectrum succinate dehydrogenase inhibitor fungicide, and information about its risk to aquatic organisms is limited. The present study examined the developmental effects of benzovindiflupyr exposure to zebrafish under static conditions through fish embryo toxicity test. First, zebrafish hatchability and survivability were decreased. Edema, body deformation, and microcephaly were abnormalities observed in embryos. Secondly, in vivo fluorescence analysis showed that benzovindiflupyr induced the reactive oxygen species. Moreover, stress-related oxidative enzyme experiments showed that malondialdehyde, superoxide dismutase, glutathione S-transferase, peroxidase and glutathione level were affected, and gene experiments showed that catalase, glutathione peroxidase 1a, superoxide dismutase 1 and superoxide dismutase 2 gene transcription levels were upregulated. Fourth, succinate dehydrogenase activity and the associated gene transcription level were decreased. Taken together, this study suggested that benzovindiflupyr could induce oxidative stress and decrease succinate dehydrogenase activity of zebrafish and has the potential to affect embryonic development.
title: Frauenanteil in Spitzenpositionen großer Unternehmen: Ein Schritt nach vorn, aber der Weg bleibt weit: Editorial
Creators: name: Sondergeld, Virginia
name: Wrohlich, Katharina
name: Kinne, Lavinia
name: Kirsch, Anja
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: D22 Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
subject: J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
subject: J59 Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining: Other
subject: J78 Labor Discrimination: Public Policy
subject: L21 Business Objectives of the Firm
subject: L32 Public Enterprises; Public-Private Enterprises
subject: M12 Personnel Management; Executive Compensation
subject: M14 Corporate Culture; Social Responsibility
subject: M51 Personnel Economics: Firm Employment Decisions; Promotions
subject: corporate boards
subject: board composition
subject: boards of directors
subject: board diversity
subject: women directors
subject: executive directors
subject: gender equality
subject: gender quota
subject: Germany
subject: women in management
subject: gender stereotypes
subject: NLP

description: DIW Wochenbericht, 92 (2025), 3, S. 19-21
FED-AMR D3.1 Annex 2
Creators: name: Oleastro, Monica
name: Persson, Soren
name: Cabal Rosel, Adriana
name: Maurischat, Sven
name: Seyboldt, Christian
name: Tenson, Tanel
name: Mazuet, Christelle
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: FED-AMR
C. difficile
Clostridioides difficile

description: Laboratory Operating Procedure (LOP) and protocol for cultivation of Clostridioides difficile from faecal and enviromental samples
Beyond Fisher: exact sampling distributions of the maximum-likelihood estimator in gravitational-wave parameter estimation
Creators: name: Vallisneri, Michele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gravitational-wave astronomers often wish to characterize the expected parameter-estimation accuracy of future observations. The Fisher matrix provides a lower bound on the spread of the maximum-likelihood estimator across noise realizations, as well as the leading-order width of the posterior probability, but it is limited to high signal strengths often not realized in practice. By contrast, Monte Carlo Bayesian inference provides the full posterior for any signal strength, but it is too expensive to repeat for a representative set of noises. Here I describe an efficient semianalytical technique to map the exact sampling distribution of the maximum-likelihood estimator across noise realizations, for any signal strength. This technique can be applied to any estimation problem for signals in additive Gaussian noise.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, RevTeX 4.1. Fixed typos, revised for clarity
Americans Endorse Climate Change Education
Creators: name: Pizmony-Levy, Oren
name: Pallas, Aaron M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Climatic changes
Environmental education--Study and teaching (Elementary)
Environmental education--Study and teaching (Secondary)
Global warming--Study and teaching (Secondary)
Environmental education--Public opinion

description: Scientists and the international community agree: Climate change is a defining issue of our time and we are at a defining moment. Whether referred to as "global warming" or "climate change," these patterns have already had observable effects on our planet, including loss of sea ice, accelerated sea level rise and longer, more intense heat waves. Education, from classrooms to boardrooms, is seen as a critical tool for boosting both resilience and the capacity to carry out the enormous social and technological changes necessary to cut risks as the human surge meets accelerating climate disruption. By engaging students with climate science, energy history and related subjects, schools can help young people grasp reality amid today’s noise and polarization, and shape academic, civic and career paths that can help build a climate-safe future. Public opinion polling on teaching about global warming and climate change is a relatively limited. This research brief examines Americans' views of teaching about global warming and climate change in primary and secondary schools. The brief provides detailed analysis by socio-demographic groups and open-ended reflection from respondents.
title: Scaling Behavior of Pattern Formation in the Flexographic Ink Splitting Process
Creators: name: Brumm, Pauline
name: Sauer, Hans Martin
name: Dörsam, Edgar
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2023

description: We considered pattern formation, i.e. viscous fingering, in the ink splitting process between an elastic flexographic printing plate and the substrate. We observed an unexpected scaling behavior of the emerging pattern length scale (i.e., finger width) as a function of printing velocity, fluid viscosity, surface tension, and plate elasticity coefficients. Scaling exponents depended on the ratio of the capillary number of the fluid flow, and the elastocapillary number defined by plate elasticity and surface tension. The exponents significantly differed from rigid printing plates, which depend on the capillary number only. A dynamic model is proposed to predict the scaling exponents. The results indicate that flexo printing corresponded to a self-regulating dynamical equilibrium of viscous, capillary, and elastic forces. We argue that these forces stabilize the process conditions in a flexo printing unit over a wide range of printing velocities, ink viscosities, and mechanical process settings.
Understanding the information privacy-related perceptions and behaviors of an online social network user
Creators: name: Bulgurcu, Burcu
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: The popularity of Online Social Networks (OSNs) has posed substantial challenges to users in protection of their information privacy. Academic research in this area is still limited in scope and depth. Given the paucity of research in this domain, the following research aims to further our understanding of information privacy in OSNs by focusing on users’ information privacy-related perceptions and behavioral responses. To fulfill this objective, one conceptual and two empirical studies have been conducted in this thesis. The objective of Study #1 is to develop a theoretical foundation for users’ privacy-related perceptions and behavioral responses by integrating two major literatures on coping and information privacy. This study forms the foundation for the theory and methodology of the subsequent two empirical studies. The objective of Study #2 is to develop an empirical understanding of the factors that affect a user’s motivation to cope with a privacy threat associated with using a social application. Drawing on the data collected from 197 Facebook users, the study shows that factors such as a user’s benefit, privacy threat, and threat avoidability perceptions are influential on his privacy threat coping motivations. The objective of Study #3 is to empirically investigate the factors that shape a user’s privacy threat perception, and in turn, his intention to use a social application. Drawing on the data collected from 747 Facebook users, the study reveals that while permission request (i.e., the extent of permissions requested by an application to access, process, and utilize a user’s personal information) can increase a user’s privacy threat perceptions, this effect can be reduced by privacy control (i.e., the extent of privacy safeguards provided by an application to enable a user to customize the requested permissions according to his privacy preferences). Overall, this research contributes to the literature by furthering our understanding of (1) an OSN user’s perceptions and behaviors that can increase his vulnerability to privacy invasions, (2) the processes by which a user copes with a privacy threat associated with his use of an OSN feature, (3) the factors that affect his privacy threat perceptions and intentions to use an OSN feature.
Ultracold collisions between two light indistinguishable diatomic molecules: elastic and rotational energy transfer in HD+HD
Creators: name: Sultanov, Renat A.
name: Guster, Dennis
name: Adhikari, S. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A close coupling quantum-mechanical calculation is performed for rotational energy transfer in a HD+HD collision at very low energy, down to the ultracold temperatures: $T \sim 10^{-8}$ K. A global six-dimensional H$_2$-H$_2$ potential energy surface is adopted from a previous work [Boothroyd {\it et al.}, J. Chem. Phys., {\bf 116}, 666 (2002).] State-resolved integral cross sections $σ_{ij\rightarrow i'j'}(\varepsilon_{kin})$ of different quantum-mechanical rotational transitions $ij\rightarrow i'j'$ in the HD molecules and corresponding state-resolved thermal rate coefficients $k_{ij\rightarrow i'j'}(T)$ have been computed. Additionally, for comparison, H$_2$+H$_2$ calculations for a few selected rotational transitions have also been performed. The hydrogen and deuterated hydrogen molecules are treated as rigid rotors in this work. A pronounced isotope effect is identified in the cross sections of these collisions at low and ultracold temperatures.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication in Physical Review A
FED-AMR D3.1 Annex 1
Creators: name: Oleastro, Monica
name: Persson, Soren
name: Cabal Rosel, Adriana
name: Maurischat, Sven
name: Seyboldt, Christian
name: Tenson, Tanel
name: Mazuet, Christelle
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: FED-AMR

description: Inventory of difficile Zoonotic Types
title: Wavelet analysis of archival time series data
Creators: name: Lam, Chi H.
name: Fuller, Dan W.
name: Tsontos, Vardis M.
name: Kiefer, Dale A.
name: Schaefer, Kurt M.
Publisher: name: ASC 2009 - Theme session B
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Our Objective: To provide a synoptic view of behavior types and dive features in an archival tag (on a bigeye tuna) that occur over different frequencies
title: In der Bauwirtschaft werden wir 2026 die Trendwende schaffen: Interview
Creators: name: Gornig, Martin
name: Wittenberg, Erich
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2025

description: DIW Wochenbericht, 92 (2025), 1/2, S. 15
Histone deacetylase regulates insulin signaling via two pathways in pancreatic β cells
Creators: name: Kawada, Yukina
name: Asahara, Shun-Ichiro
name: Sugiura, Yumiko
name: Sato, Ayaka
name: Furubayashi, Ayuko
name: Kawamura, Mao
name: Bartolome Herranz, Alberto
name: Terashi-Suzuki, Emi
name: Takai, Tomoko
name: Kanno, Ayumi
name: Koyanagi-Kimura, Maki
name: Matsuda, Tomokazu
name: Hashimoto, Naoko
name: Kido, Yoshiaki
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Pancreatic beta cells
Histone deacetylase
Diabetes--Treatment
Medicine

description: Recent studies demonstrated that insulin signaling plays important roles in the regulation of pancreatic β cell mass, the reduction of which is known to be involved in the development of diabetes. However, the mechanism underlying the alteration of insulin signaling in pancreatic β cells remains unclear. The involvement of epigenetic control in the onset of diabetes has also been reported. Thus, we analyzed the epigenetic control of insulin receptor substrate 2 (IRS2) expression in the MIN6 mouse insulinoma cell line. We found concomitant IRS2 up-regulation and enhanced insulin signaling in MIN6 cells, which resulted in an increase in cell proliferation. The H3K9 acetylation status of the Irs2 promoter was positively associated with IRS2 expression. Treatment of MIN6 cells with histone deacetylase inhibitors led to increased IRS2 expression, but this occurred in concert with low insulin signaling. We observed increased IRS2 lysine acetylation as a consequence of histone deacetylase inhibition, a modification that was coupled with a decrease in IRS2 tyrosine phosphorylation. These results suggest that insulin signaling in pancreatic β cells is regulated by histone deacetylases through two novel pathways affecting IRS2: the epigenetic control of IRS2 expression by H3K9 promoter acetylation, and the regulation of IRS2 activity through protein modification. The identification of the histone deacetylase isoform(s) involved in these mechanisms would be a valuable approach for the treatment of type 2 diabetes.