cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Longitudinal Stability of Optical Coherence Tomography Measures of Peripapillary Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Thickness, Macular Thickness, and Macular Volume in Control and Glaucomatous Eyes of Children
Creators: name: Hornbeak, Dana M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Background/Aims: To document baseline and longitudinal values for peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness, macular thickness, and macular volume as measured by optical coherence tomography(OCT) in glaucomatous and control eyes of children, followed prospectively for a mean of 2.4 years (range 0.5-5.3 years). Methods: OCT measurements (Fast RNFL 3.4 Thickness, Fast RNFL Map, and Fast Macular Thickness Map protocols; StratusOCT, Carl-Zeiss-Meditech, Dublin,CA) were obtained at baseline and on follow-up in 27 control and 19 glaucoma participants at the Duke University Eye Center Pediatric Clinic. Longitudinal changes were compared between groups with a two-sample-t-test and multiple linear regression analysis of covariance model adjusting for age, race, and baseline refractive error. Results: Eyes with glaucoma exhibited reduced baseline macular thickness, macular volume, and RNFL thickness, and increased myopia, compared to control eyes (eg. macular volume 6.54 vs. 7.03 mm3, p=0.006; RNFL 3.4 thickness 87.8 vs. 110.6μm, p=0.02). All OCT parameters studied showed minimal change over time, and rates of change were similar between groups. Conclusion: Baseline differences and longitudinal stability of OCT parameters were seen in normal and clinically stable glaucomatous eyes of children. These findings support continued study of OCT as an easily performed clinical adjunct in evaluation and management of children with glaucoma.
‘Turbulent’ shear flow of solids under high-pressure torsion
Creators: name: Beygelzimer, Yan
name: Filippov, Alexander
name: Estrin, Yuri
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The term ‘solid-state turbulence’ may sound like an oxymoron, but in fact it is not. In this article, we demonstrate that ‘solid-state turbulence’ may emerge owing to a defining property of the solid state: the ability of a solid to retain its shape. We consider shear flow under high-pressure torsion of layers of solids with different flow stress and show that the stiffer ones may spontaneously decompose into a set of blocks. This effect is fundamental for the occurrence of ‘solid-state turbulence’ (SST). To visualize SST, we use a heuristic model based on discretization of a continuum into interacting ‘particles’. The outcomes of the numerical experiments conducted support the occurrence of pulsations of velocity and pressure in plastically deforming solids and the emergence of vortices characteristic of classical turbulence. This phenomenon may have important practical implications for solid-state mixing as an ecologically beneficial alternative to conventional metallurgical processing routes.
Effects of Stretch Programs on Musculoskeletal Injuries
Creators: name: Tate, Jason
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) describes conditions that affect the musculoskeletal system, which includes the nerves, tendons, muscles, and supporting structures of the body and physical symptoms that result from repeated trauma or strain. MSDs accounted for 357,000 injuries in workplaces across the United States in 2006 (United States Bureau of Labor Statistics [US BLS], 2007). Although trending data indicate that MSDs have decreased for the past 5 years, the impact on the worker and the company is immense (US BLS, 2008). The muscle is a complex structure that produces force through contraction. The basic contractile unit of the muscle is termed the sarcomere (Llewellyn, Barretto, Delp, Schnitzer, 2008) and is comprised of actin and myosin filaments. The actin filament provides the structure of the sarcomere, similar to the skeletal system in the human body. The muscle is highly adaptable and responds to increased workloads through a compensatory hypertrophic response (Adams, Cheng, Haddad, Baldwin, 2004). Effects of injury and stretching on the microscopic level of the muscle are still not well understood. While stretching has been a foundation of exercise for many years (Black, Freeman, Stevens, 2002), the research suggests that it has mixed results in application (Bazett-Jones, Gibson, McBride, 2008; Herbert Gabriel, 2002; LaRoche, Lussier Roy, 2008; Pope, Herbert, Kirwan Graham, 2000; Shrier, 1999; Thacker, Gilchrist, Stroup, Kimsey, 2004; Witvrouw, Mahieu, Danneels, McNair, 2004). Warm-up and calisthenics prior to exercise have proven to have more positive outcomes prior to muscle activity (Ce, Margonato, Casasco, Veicsteinas, 2008; Woods, Bishop, Jones, 2007). In the occupational setting, MSDs are a leading cause of injury and incur significant costs. The occupational and environmental health nurse (OEHN) plays a critical role in the reactive and proactive assessment and intervention of MSDs. To affect the incidence ofMSDs in the workplace, programs with primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention methods must be implemented. As a proactive measure, and after a hazard assessment of the area, a pre-work warm-up program can be implemented to further reduce the impact of MSDs.
title: Evaluation of a low iodine concentration contrast media in abdominal multiphasic CT using spectral imaging: a prospective study on 210 patients
Creators: name: Roy, Catherine
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Contrast agents
subject: Abdomen
subject: Computer applications
subject: CT
subject: CT-Quantitative
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Safety
subject: Drugs / Reactions

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Demonstrate the non-inferiority of a low iodine concentration contrast media for abdominal multiphasic CT acquired with dual-energy (Spectral Imaging) in comparison with the usual single-energy CT obtained with high concentration contrast media....
MPEC 2023-F22 : 2023 ET2
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 ET2

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
title: Pre- and postoperative head radiography and MSCT imaging in patients with zygomatico-orbital trauma
Creators: name: Pavlova, Olga
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Head and neck
subject: Trauma
subject: CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Surgery
subject: Outcomes analysis

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: The problem of zygomatico-orbital trauma nowadays is even more relevant than 10 years ago [1,8]. Incidence of which is increasing world widely every year due to the urban growth, developing mechanization and various substance abuse [7]. About 24-33%...
title: Abnormal brain development in neonates with congenital heart disease: evaluation with quantitative magnetic resonance spectroscopy
Creators: name: Elshafey, Rasha
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: CNS
subject: MR-Spectroscopy
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Congenital

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Congenital heart disease (CHD) is a common cause of childhood morbidity, occurring in 6 to 8/1000 live births, with up to 50% of these children requiring open heart surgery to correct their defects (1) . Brain injuries occur with high frequency in...
The Metallicities of Stars With and Without Transiting Planets
Creators: name: Buchhave, Lars A.
name: Latham, David W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Host star metallicities have been used to infer observational constraints on planet formation throughout the history of the exoplanet field. The giant planet metallicity correlation has now been widely accepted, but questions remain as to whether the metallicity correlation extends to the small terrestrial-sized planets. Here, we report metallicities for a sample of 518 stars in the Kepler field that have no detected transiting planets and compare their metallicity distribution to a sample of stars that hosts small planets (Rp < 1.7 R_Earth). Importantly, both samples have been analyzed in a homogeneous manner using the same set of tools (Stellar Parameters Classification tool; SPC). We find the average metallicity of the sample of stars without detected transiting planets to be [m/H]_SNTP,dwarf = -0.02 +- 0.02 dex and the sample of stars hosting small planets to be [m/H]_STP = -0.02 +- 0.02 dex. The average metallicities of the two samples are indistinguishable within the uncertainties, and the two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test yields a p-value of 0.68 (0.41 sigma), indicating a failure to reject the null hypothesis that the two samples are drawn from the same parent population. We conclude that the homogeneous analysis of the data presented here support the hypothesis that stars hosting small planets have a metallicity similar to stars with no known transiting planets in the same area of the sky.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ
Cryptography in a Quantum World
Creators: name: Brassard, Gilles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Although practised as an art and science for ages, cryptography had to wait until the mid-twentieth century before Claude Shannon gave it a strong mathematical foundation. However, Shannon's approach was rooted is his own information theory, itself inspired by the classical physics of Newton and Einstein. But our world is ruled by the laws of quantum mechanics. When quantum-mechanical phenomena are taken into account, new vistas open up both for codemakers and codebreakers. Is quantum mechanics a blessing or a curse for the protection of privacy? As we shall see, the jury is still out!
description: 14 pages, Invited talk at SOFSEM 2016, January 2016, Harrachov, Czech Republic. Final publication available at link.springer.com
Cancer disparities in people with HIV: A systematic review of screening for non-AIDS- defining malignancies
Creators: name: Corrigan, Kelsey
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Background: People with HIV (PWHIV) have improved survival due to the advent of antiretroviral therapy. Consequently, PWHIV experience higher rates of many non-AIDS defining malignancies (NADM). Previous studies have shown worsened cancer-specific survival in PWHIV, partly due to advanced cancer stage at diagnosis. The purpose of this systematic review is to evaluate screening disparities for NADM among PWHIV.Methods: PubMed, Cochrane, EMBASE, and ClinicalTrials.gov were searched from January 1, 1996 through April 10, 2018 to identify any study related to screening disparities for NADM in PWHIV. Eligibility criteria included any study performed in a high-income country that compared screening for NADM by HIV status. After review of titles/abstracts, full-text articles, and study quality, results were included studies were synthesized.Results: Of 697 articles identified through searches, 9 studies met full inclusion criteria; 3 addressed breast cancer screening, 4 addressed colorectal cancer screening, and 2 addressed prostate cancer screening. Five studies demonstrated that PWHIV were less likely to receive indicated cancer screenings compared with the general population while 3 showed that screening proportions were higher in PWHIV; 1 showed that screening proportions were comparable. In a majority of the studies, PWHIV with regular access to healthcare were more likely to undergo cancer screening. The studies also demonstrated that patients with poor insurance status, access to healthcare, education, income-level were less likely to receive cancer screening.Conclusions: The available evidence does not uniformly confirm that PWHIV are less likely to receive cancer screening. Social determinants of health were associated with receipt of appropriate cancer screening, suggesting that these barriers need to be addressed to improve cancer screening in PWHIV.
title: The diagnostic value of postcontrast susceptibility-weighted imaging in the assessment of intracranial brain neoplasm at 3T
Creators: name: Kang, Hyunkoo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Neoplasia

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: A high concentration of the paramagnetic contrast medium may influence the susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI) data due to T2 shortening and additional signal loss. The aim of this study is to estimate the diagnostic value of postcontrast SWI in...
Constrained Evolution of a Radially Magnetized Protoplanetary Disk: Implications for Planetary Migration
Creators: name: Russo, Matthew
name: Thompson, Christopher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the inner $\sim$ AU of a protoplanetary disk (PPD), at a stage where angular momentum transport is driven by the mixing of a radial magnetic field into the disk from a T-Tauri wind. Because the radial profile of the imposed magnetic field is well constrained, a deterministic calculation of the disk mass flow becomes possible. The vertical disk profiles obtained in Paper I imply a stronger magnetization in the inner disk, faster accretion, and a secular depletion of the disk material. Inward transport of solids allows the disk to maintain a broad optical absorption layer even when the grain abundance becomes too small to suppress its ionization. Thus a PPD may show a strong middle-to-near infrared spectral excess even while its mass profile departs radically from the minimum-mass solar nebula. The disk surface density is buffered at $\sim 30$ g cm$^{-2}$: below this, X-rays trigger strong enough magnetorotational turbulence at the midplane to loft mm-cm sized particles high in the disk, followed by catastrophic fragmentation. A sharp density gradient bounds the inner depleted disk, and propagates outward to $\sim 1$-2 AU over a few Myr. Earth-mass planets migrate through the inner disk over a similar timescale, whereas the migration of Jupiters is limited by the supply of gas. Gas-mediated migration must stall outside 0.04 AU, where silicates are sublimated and the disk shifts to a much lower column. A transition disk emerges when the dust/gas ratio in the MRI-active layer falls below $X_d \sim 10^{-6}(a_d/μ{\rm m})$, where $a_d$ is the grain size.
description: 22 pp, 18 figures, Astrophysical Journal, in press
Program and Evaluation Plan: Bertie County Adolescent Parent Program - Reducing Repeat Teen Pregnancy
Creators: name: Patterson, Latoya
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Adolescent mothers are at an increased risk of repeat teen pregnancy and the negative consequences that arise with these additional pregnancies. There is even more of a risk for these mothers in rural areas. In an effort to reduce repeat teen pregnancy in a rural low income county in North Carolina, the Bertie County Adolescent Parent Program (BCAPP) is proposed. This school-based program will provide various interventions including weekly peer group meetings, collaboration with the local health department to provide long acting reversible contraception, as well as providing mentors. An analysis of similar existing secondary teen pregnancy prevention programs and their evaluation strategies and findings helped strengthen the design for the Bertie County Adolescent Parent Program. This paper will describe this analysis and provide a detailed program and evaluation plan for the Bertie County Adolescent Parent Program with the hope that this information can be used as a template in other rural settings.
Partition Functions with spin in AdS_2 via Quasinormal Mode Methods
Creators: name: Keeler, Cynthia
name: Lisbao, Pedro
name: Ng, Gim Seng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the results of arXiv:1401.7016, computing one loop partition functions for massive fields with spin half in AdS_2 using the quasinormal mode method proposed by Denef, Hartnoll, and Sachdev in arXiv:0908.2657. We find the finite representations of SO(2,1) for spin zero and spin half, consisting of a highest weight state |h\rangle and descendants with non-unitary values of h. These finite representations capture the poles and zeroes of the one loop determinants. Together with the asymptotic behavior of the partition functions (which can be easily computed using a large mass heat kernel expansion), these are sufficient to determine the full answer for the one loop determinants. We also discuss extensions to higher dimensional AdS_{2n} and higher spins.
description: 18 pages + appendix; V2 has an extended section 5, following a suggestion by the referee
title: Analysis on the characteristics of contrast-enhanced ultrasound in hepatic paragonimiasis
Creators: name: Ma, Lin
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Parasites
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Liver

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To analyze the characteristics of contrast-enhanced ultrasound(CEUS) in Hepatic...
The Role of Social Media in Public Health Marketing
Creators: name: Alden, Sara
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Much has been written about the surging popularity of social media and its potential to revolutionize communications with and among healthcare providers, patients, family members and the interested public. However, little research has been done on its appropriate and effective use within the context of public health marketing campaigns. In this paper, I will review the current academic literature, with a focus on the “Four P” marketing mix, to identify ways in which social media tools may be effectively employed in public health marketing programs to facilitate individual and societal behavior change. The findings will be used to develop recommendations for the use of social media within public health marketing programs.
title: Spinal cord diffuse midline glioma, H3 K27M-mutant
Creators: name: Pires, Ricardo
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology
subject: CNS
subject: Neuroradiology spine
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 26-year-old female was admitted with a 5-month history of progressive weakness of the left inferior limb, recently with numbness of both extremities and urinary incontinence. Upon examination, there was spastic paraparesis of the left inferior limb (G2) and right inferior limb (G4), with hyperreflexia and Babinski sign bilaterally.

description: 26 years, female
title: Postoperative brain MRI in cardiac surgery patients
Creators: name: Samorodova, Oleksandra
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: MR
subject: MR-Angiography
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Diagnostic procedure

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The number of patients undergoing surgery for different types of heart disease is rising. Over the past twentyyears: there has been a steady increase in the age of patients undergoing cardiac surgery [1]. Early postoperative neurological...
Shortage of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists in the US: A Public Health Perspective
Creators: name: Diwan, Shilpa
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists are physicians who specialize in evaluating, diagnosing, and treating children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders, which cause problems with feeling, thinking, and behavior. The patient population they serve ranges from birth to eighteen years of age. They treat a variety of disorders such as depression, ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), conduct disorder, anxiety disorder to name a few. Child psychiatry is a relatively small and young branch of medicine. There has been a shortage of child psychiatrists, which has not improved much despite the opening of new training programs in the 1960's and 70's and by the triple boards programs in the 80's and 90's. It has been estimated that 15 million children and adolescents in the U.S. suffer from diagnosable psychiatric conditions, and about seven million of them exhibit severe to extreme functional impairments due to their psychiatric conditions (Dulcan, et al, 1996). The epidemic of child psychiatric conditions and the inadequate mental health care system has drawn significant attention from the public in general and governmental agencies as evidenced by recent and frequent coverage of child psychiatric issues by the media and several governmental commissions over the years. Several commissions by government agencies and professional organizations have reviewed the status of supply and demand related to child psychiatrists. All of these commissions have recognized a marked shortage of child and adolescent psychiatrists. In the last four decades, various recruitment ideas have been proposed to expand the field to meet the needs of the nation's children and adolescents. However, the number of training programs and the number of trainees, in fact, have decreased in the past decade, from 120 to 113 and 712 to 680 respectively from 1990 to 2003 (Psychiatric News April 20, 2001). This decrease occurred in spite of the major advances in the understanding and treatment of childhood mental disorders. This paper looks at the magnitude of this problem, the reasons causing it, its impact on public health, current efforts by professional bodies and makes some recommendations for change.
Radially Magnetized Protoplanetary Disk: Vertical Profile
Creators: name: Russo, Matthew
name: Thompson, Christopher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper studies the response of a thin accretion disk to an external radial magnetic field. Our focus is on protoplanetary disks (PPDs), which are exposed during their later evolution to an intense, magnetized wind from the central star. A radial magnetic field is mixed into a thin surface layer, is wound up by the disk shear, and is pushed downward by a combination of turbulent mixing and ambipolar and Ohmic drift. The toroidal field reaches much greater strengths than the seed vertical field that is usually invoked in PPD models, even becoming superthermal. Linear stability analysis indicates that the disk experiences the magnetorotational instability (MRI) at a higher magnetization than a vertically magnetized disk when both the effects of ambipolar and Hall drift are taken into account. Steady vertical profiles of density and magnetic field are obtained at several radii between 0.06 and 1 AU in response to a wind magnetic field $B_r \sim (10^{-4}$-$10^{-2})(r/{\rm AU})^{-2}$ G. Careful attention is given to the radial and vertical ionization structure resulting from irradiation by stellar X-rays. The disk is more strongly magnetized closer to the star, where it can support a higher rate of mass transfer. As a result, the inner $\sim 1$ AU of a PPD is found to evolve toward lower surface density. Mass transfer rates around $10^{-8}\,M_\odot$ yr$^{-1}$ are obtained under conservative assumptions about the MRI-generated stress. The evolution of the disk, and the implications for planet migration, are investigated in the accompanying paper.
description: 25 pp, 20 figures, Astrophysical Journal, in press
Testing the Incremental Validity of the IAT using Structural Equation Modeling
Creators: name: Ebersole, Charles
name: Buttrick, Nick
name: Axt, Jordan
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: This project will examine the ability of the Implicit Association Test (IAT) to predict outcomes above and beyond explicit attitudes using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). SEM allows for tests of incremental predictive validity while avoiding some of the issues of ordinary least squares regression with regard to false positives (OLS regression has been the primary model for testing the incremental predictive validity of the IAT in the past).
Two-state Bogoliubov theory of a molecular Bose gas
Creators: name: Peden, Brandon M.
name: Wilson, Ryan M.
name: McLanahan, Maverick L.
name: Hall, Jesse
name: Rittenhouse, Seth T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analytic Bogoliubov description of a BEC of polar molecules trapped in a quasi-2D geometry and interacting via internal state-dependent dipole-dipole interactions. We derive the mean-field ground-state energy functional, and we derive analytic expressions for the dispersion relations, Bogoliubov amplitudes, and dynamic structure factors. This method can be applied to any homogeneous, two-component system with linear coupling, and direct, momentum-dependent interactions. The properties of the mean-field ground state, including polarization and stability, are investigated, and we identify three distinct instabilities: a density-wave rotonization that occurs when the gas is fully polarized, a spin-wave rotonization that occurs near zero polarization, and a mixed instability at intermediate fields. These instabilities are clarified by means of the real-space density-density correlation functions, which characterize the spontaneous fluctuations of the ground state, and the momentum-space structure factors, which characterize the response of the system to external perturbations. We find that the gas is susceptible to both density-wave and spin-wave response in the polarized limit but only a spin-wave response in the zero-polarization limit. These results are relevant for experiments with rigid rotor molecules such as RbCs, $Λ$-doublet molecules such as ThO that have an anomalously small zero-field splitting, and doublet-$Σ$ molecules such as SrF where two low-lying opposite-parity states can be tuned to zero splitting by an external magnetic field.
description: 21 pages, 18 figures, comments welcome
Social Media: Challenges and Opportunities in Public Health
Creators: name: Gilstrap, Johanna M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: This paper examines the exponential growth of social media technologies and their application in public health. Social media is transforming how, when and where personal, communal and organizational communications take place. The examination of previous and potential social media applications in health and emergency communications, barriers to its use, recommendations and best practices for social media in public health is presented. Data have been collected from social media websites, newspapers, public health agencies and organizations, and research reports. When used with prudence and foresight, social media is a valuable tool for public health organizations to broaden outreach with key audiences.
title: Quality assurance in larger hospitals-outsourcing or insourcing?
Creators: name: Brasik, Natasa
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Radiation physics
subject: eHealth
subject: Management
subject: Digital radiography
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Experimental
subject: Physics
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Cost-effectiveness
subject: Quality assurance
subject: Workforce
subject: Education and training

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The outsourcing of quality assurance in radiology reduces costs - that was and still is the common conviction. Until now the management was to focus on few core competencies and to outsource all other, supposedly non value-adding processes to an...
Editorial: From Social Justice to Educational Justice: Challenging Practice, and Finding Hope
Creators: name: Fulford, Amanda
name: Jamieson, Victoria
name: Duckworth, Vicky
Publisher: name: PRISM: Casting New Light on Learning, Theory and Practice
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this Special Issue is to explore, expose and energise issues around the concepts of social justice and education. We recognise that the notion of ‘social justice’ is not static, and is not shaped in a vacuum; it is iterative by nature, and flows across generations and contexts. The multiple historical and ideological perspectives that arise from this flow include education theory, research, and practice. These positionings offer deep insights into the purpose of education; they also raise important questions: are the social and ideological dynamics a force for challenging the status quo, and for rupturing cycles of inequity or perpetuating inequality? Do they interrupt the relations of dominance and subordination?
description: PRISM: Casting New Light on Learning, Theory and Practice, Early View
Reimagining adult learning in community-based contexts: A framework for social justice education in Australia
Creators: name: Ollis, Tracey (Trace)
Publisher: name: PRISM: Casting New Light on Learning, Theory and Practice
Year: 2023

description: In Australia, there is no one cohesive program design or curriculum which provides a framework for adult learning in Adult Community Education (ACE) organisations, with the two major states New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria leading the most developed systems. Many adult learners who learn in these education settings return to study to find pathways to employment, or to re-train for a new role after losing their job. In addition, later-life learners may attend because they want to remain healthy, participate in leisure activities, build friendships and remain active and engaged in their later years. Many of the learners are ‘second chance learners’ who have had prior negative experiences with the neoliberal system which assesses, ranks, and categorises learners according to their academic abilities. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive framework for the delivery of pre-accredited training in Australia, founded on social constructivist theory, learner-centred pedagogy, and course design enhanced by Nussbaum’s Capability Framework. We commence the article by delivering a context for adult education policy and social justice education in the development of the ACE system. What we mean by a socially just education is one in which all people access a critical and democratic curriculum with equity and access to resources at its core. In this paper, we argue for the importance of adult learning, which is holistic, flexible, and nimble to cater for diverse learners and learning needs. Social justice education of this kind, delivered to diverse learners, requires a comprehensive epistemological and theoretical framework for practice that considers learners’ prior experiences of learning, one which accounts for learners’ existing knowledge, skills and experiences and education that provides well-developed pathways to further education and training.
description: PRISM: Casting New Light on Learning, Theory and Practice, Early View
Digit replacement: A generic map for nonlinear dynamical systems
Creators: name: García-Morales, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A simple discontinuous map is proposed as a generic model for nonlinear dynamical systems. The orbit of the map admits exact solutions for wide regions in parameter space and the method employed (digit manipulation) allows the mathematical design of useful signals, such as regular or aperiodic oscillations with specific waveforms, the construction of complex attractors with nontrivial properties as well as the coexistence of different basins of attraction in phase space with different qualitative properties. A detailed analysis of the dynamical behavior of the map suggests how the latter can be used in the modeling of complex nonlinear dynamics including, e.g., aperiodic nonchaotic attractors and the hierarchical deposition of grains of different sizes on a surface.
description: 11 pages in two columns, 5 figures. Final version. Accepted to Chaos (AIP)
title: Endovascular treatment of lower limb ischemia in diabetic type II patients: exeperience on 310 cases
Creators: name: Silvestre, Mattia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Extremities
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Percutaneous
subject: Angioplasty
subject: Recanalisation
subject: Arteriosclerosis
subject: Obstruction / Occlusion

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: In Western world 60% of no-traumatic lower limb amputations is performed on diabetic patients; 22% to 50% of diabetic patients develops lower limb ischemia with ulcers and gangrena. We reports our experience on endovascular approach on 310 patients...
Growing Up Healthy in a Changing Climate: Integrating Global Policies to Improve Children's Health and Adapt to Climate Change
Creators: name: Thigpen Tart, Kimberly
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: With the release in September 2013 of its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scientifically settled the question of whether climate change is occurring and humans' contributions to it. In addition, the IPCC concluded that: "Continued emission of greenhouse gases will cause further warming and long-lasting changes in all components of the climate system, increasing the likelihood of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems" (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2014). Such people include children and young people who make up 30% of the world's population, and nearly 50% in the developing world (United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), 2014b). Major global health policies and agreements are only recently beginning to recognize the need to consider and prioritize the impacts of climate change on children's health. Similarly, global policies to understand and address climate change are only slowly beginning to recognize the particular vulnerabilities of children at all stages of life, including prenatally, to the impacts of climate change. This paper provides a review of the recognition of climate change impacts in global policies to improve children's health (and by extension, maternal health), and of the recognition of the unique vulnerabilities of children and pregnant women in global policies to explain and address climate change. An analysis of the policies identified common points in relation to specific areas of health impacts on children and mothers, as well as gaps that may offer access points opportunities to integrate climate change adaptation recommendations into health policies to produce co-benefits for both the Earth and human health. Lastly, a discussion of emerging areas of global leadership on this topic highlights needs and, in particular, efforts to acknowledge and enlist children and young people themselves to help solve what may well be the greatest global problem of their lifetimes.
The Effect of Correlations on the Heat Transport in a Magnetized Plasma
Creators: name: Ott, Torben
name: Bonitz, Michael
name: Donko, Zoltan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a classical ideal plasma, a magnetic field is known to reduce the heat conductivity perpendicular to the field whereas it does not alter the one along the field. Here we show that, in strongly correlated plasmas that are observed at high pressure or/and low temperature, a magnetic field reduces the perpendicular heat transport much less and even {\it enhances} the parallel transport. These surprising observations are explained by the competition of kinetic, potential and collisional contributions to the heat conductivity. Our results are based on first principle molecular dynamics simulations of a one-component plasma.
title: Ultrasound clip artefact: a possible source of diagnostic error after liver resection
Creators: name: Ilyas, Sumaira
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Ultrasound physics
subject: Liver
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: CT
subject: Physics
subject: Artifacts

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Liver resection is an important curative procedure for both primary as well as secondary liver malignancies. The procedure may vary from a wedge resection to resection of multiple segments depending on the severity of disease. The immediate...
Creating Synergy or Not? An Evaluation of the Synergy Peer Health Education As a Pregnancy Prevention Component At Wilmington Health Access for Teens
Creators: name: Daryani, Renu
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: Description of Evaluation: The primary purpose of this evaluation was to determine the impact of Peer Health Education as a pregnancy prevention program at Wilmington Health Access for Teens. This evaluation measured the influence of the Peer Health Education Program on pregnancy risk behavior and pregnancy using the variables: rate of sexual activity, sexual abstinence, contraceptive use frequency, and pregnancy rate. In addition to the primary analysis, this evaluation also offers a sub-analysis that examines the alternative predictor variable stated intent. This analysis may provide collateral evidence of the Peer Health Education Program efficacy.
DataFolha Survey: Evaluation of President Sarney Job Performance/Expectations for Elected President Collor (I)
Creators: name: DataFolha Institute Of Research
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 1992

description: Evaluation of president Sarney's job performance(3); evaluation of future president Collor's job performance(2); succession date(1 vote for President-2nd round(1); party ID(1).
ABC News/Washington Post Poll: July Monthly--Iraq/2008 Presidential Election
Creators: name: ABC News
name: Washington Post
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2008

description: George W. Bush job performance (4); Dick Cheney job performance (1); Congressional job performance (8); Iraq (12); military proposals (3); Al Queda (3); public surveillance (1); types of presidents (5); partisanship (2); voter interest and involvement (5); Democratic presidential candidates (6); Republican presidential candidates (8); overly conservative (4); qualities in president (2); Supreme Court (3); safety of imports (2); Food and Drug Administration regulating cigarettes (1); abortion (1); familiarity with people in military (1); smoking (1).
1992 Elections
Creators: name: CNN
name: USA Today
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2006

description: Thought given to upcoming election for president (1); do/do not know where people in neighborhood go to vote (1); George Bush and Dan Quayle vs. Bill Clinton and Al Gore vs. Ross Perot and James Stockdale (2); most important factor in determining vote for president (1); elections for Congress (2); certain political office-holders do/do not deserve to be re-elected (2); 1992 presidential campaign (5); agree/disagree that not voting on Election Day is a good way to register a protest against the choice of candidates (1); Republican party vs. Democratic party (2); opinion of candidates (3); George Bush/Bill Clinton/Ross Perot would best handle certain issues (7); words/phrases that describe candidates (4); respondent is/is not better off now than four years ago (1); economy (2); financial worries in next twelve months (3); government is doing too much/should do more to solve our country's problems (1); government should do more to promote traditional values in our society/should not favor one set of values over another (1); 1988 presidential election (1); chances of voting in November 1992 election for president (1).
Public Health 101 for the Undergraduate Student
Creators: name: DeAugustinis, Matthew
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: We propose to design, and begin implementation of a three hour credit undergraduate course introducing students to basics of public health in the United States using the framework outlined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) curriculum framework. We also describe an evaluation plan to assess the outcome related to this course. By implementing such a course, we will be beginning to address the lack of public health education in today's citizenry which is hampering informed decision making among health care reform advocates and voters considering various health care policies as well as addressing a dearth of basic public health knowledge in students pursuing careers in health care. This lack of a basic foundation leads to a lack of educated career decision making, as well as public health practitioners (whether nurses, doctors, public health officials, or health administrators) who are not cognizant of the broader realm within which they operate. Furthermore, we envision participants' improved public health knowledge benefitting them in personal and family health related decision making, contemplating environmental concerns and interpreting health information they encounter in news media, in addition to many other benefits.
Insurance Coverage for Children with Autism: Gaps and Opportunities in North Carolina
Creators: name: Beaufort, Nosipho
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: In 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated total autism spectrum disorder prevalence (ASD) of 6.7 per 1000 eight year olds. Screening, diagnostic and treatment services for ASD have been under-supported for many years. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Part C was enacted to provide early identification and intervention services for children with developmental disabilities, including ASD, but has been implemented differently across the states. During the last decade, many states have enacted specific autism insurance mandates to improve access and close gaps in coverage, most recently the State of North Carolina. North Carolina's mandate still leaves significant gaps in coverage for the ASD population. This paper reviews the current state of ASD insurance coverage nationwide and in North Carolina and recommends creating a North Carolina run health insurance exchange to allow the autism insurance mandate to be extended to health insurance plans purchased in the health insurance exchanges.
Gallup/CNN/USA Today Poll: Pre-Presidential Election, January - Part 2
Creators: name: CNN
name: USA Today
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2013

description: The 1992 election and candidates (7); vote for George Bush or a Democratic challenger (4); Bush job performance (1); Congressional job performance (2); Democratic primary candidates (2); Republican primary candidates (2); vote for David Duke as an independent (1); term limits (1); satisfaction with certain aspects of American life (10); role of the U.S. in the world (2); Persian Gulf War (1); vote for or against a congressman who took specific positions on certain issues (23).
Agenator: An open source computerized dry aging system
Creators: name: Lau, Soon Kiat
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Agenator
subject: air velocity
subject: Arduino
subject: beef
subject: beef aging
subject: C#
subject: control
subject: fan rotational speed
subject: meat science
subject: open source
subject: PID
subject: relative humidity
subject: temperature
subject: weight

description: An open source system with control and/or recording capabilities for relative humidity, fan speed, weight, and air velocity. Designed for dry aging of beef, but is readily adaptable for other applications involving relative humidity.
title: Prevalence of pulmonary multi-nodularity in CT lung cancer screening
Creators: name: Peters, Robin
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Thorax
subject: Lung
subject: Oncology
subject: CT
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Often, more than one nodule is found in lung cancer screening participants, but the association of the nodule count with lung cancer probability is unclear. The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence of multi-nodularity and lung cancer...
CBS/NYT Poll # 2000-09D
Creators: name: CBS News
name: New York Times
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 1

description: 2000 Election (8); Gore (18); Bush (17); Bush v Gore (3); Important Problem (1); Cheney (1); Lieberman (1); Important Issues (16); Republicans (2); Democrats (2); Republicans v Democrats(4); Debates (3); Clinton (1); Congress (2)