cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Fluoride in the drinking water and dental caries experience by tooth surface susceptibility among adults
Creators: name: Stangvaltaite-Mouhat, Lina
name: Puriene, Alina
name: Stankeviciene, Indre
name: Aleksejuniene, Jolanta
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background: Dental caries is the most prevalent non-communicable health condition globally. The surface-based susceptibility hierarchy indicates that surfaces in the same group have similar susceptibility to caries, where the most susceptible group consists of occlusal surfaces of first molars and buccal surfaces of lower first molars, and the least susceptible surfaces are smooth and proximal surfaces of first premolars, canines and incisors. Therefore, fluoride in the drinking water could impact one group more than the other group. The present study examined the association between fluoride levels in the drinking water and dental caries experience in adults in the context of varying tooth surface susceptibility. Methods: Data from the cross-sectional National Lithuanian Oral Health Survey conducted in 2017–2019 included a stratified random sample of 1398 35–74-year-olds (52% response rate). Dental caries experience in dentine was measured at a surface level. The surfaces were grouped according to their caries susceptibility (group 1 being the most and group 4 the least susceptible), and dental caries experience was calculated separately for each susceptibility group, creating four outcomes. Information about explanatory variable, fluoride levels in the drinking water, was provided by the water suppliers. The questionnaire inquired about potential determinants: sociodemographic characteristics and oral health-related behaviors. Chi-square, Mann–Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis tests were used for descriptive statistics, and linear regression analyses to examine the association between fluoride levels and four outcomes. Results: The proportions of median decayed, missing, filled surfaces decreased following the surface-based susceptibility hierarchy (group 1–33%, group 2–28%, group 3–24%, group 4–15%). When adjusted for potential determinants, higher-level fluoride (≥ 0.7 ppm vs < 0.7 ppm) in the drinking water associated with lower dental caries experience in all surface-based susceptibility hierarchy groups; Group 1: β = − 0.23 (95 %CI − 0.44; − 0.001), Group 2: β = − 0.44 (95 %CI − 0.82; − 0.07), Group 3: β = − 1.14 (95 %CI − 1.88; − 0.41) and Group 4: β = − 6.28 (95 %CI − 9.29; − 3.30). Conclusions: The higher-level fluoride in the drinking water associated with lower dental caries experience in adults and this was observed in all surface-based susceptibility groups. However, there is a need to validate the surface-based susceptibility hierarchy in longitudinal adult studies.
Determinants of further survival in centenarians from the province of Mantova
Creators: name: GUERESI, PAOLA; Dipartimento Di Scienze Statistiche “P. Fortunati”-Università Degli Studi Di Bologna
name: MIGLIO, ROSSELLA; Dipartimento Di Scienze Statistiche “P. Fortunati”-Università Degli Studi Di Bologna
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The MALVA project, one of the first Italian studies on population-based samples of centenarians, was addressed to the subjects aged 98+ residing in the province of Mantova (Northern Italy) at the 1st April 1998. The present study aims at analyzing the impact of selected clinical and socio-demographic variables on further survival of the 77 participants in the MALVA study.Adopting methods for multiple imputation of missing value, four distinct Cox regression models were estimated using groups of predefined variables describing sociodemographic characteristics, functional status, nutritional status, cardiovascular risk factors. Each model was adjusted for the effects of gender and age. Finally two complete models have been considered: the first one including the statistically significant variables in the previous analysis, and the second one obtained with a backward selection procedure. The variables included in the final models can be seen as markers of “frailty” or correlated conditions. Most of these variables maintained a significant influence on survival, however belonging to the “underweight” BMI category and being institutionalized emerged as the best “frailty” indicators in the centenarians from the province of Mantova. The results of this study are in agreement with several previous studies in recognizing that factors predicting mortality in centenarians are not the same well-known predictors of mortality in the middle-aged and younger elderly.
description: Statistica; Vol 70, No 3 (2010); 293-309
Some issues concerning the statistical evaluation of a screening test: the arfi ultrasound case
Creators: name: ATTANASIO, MASSIMO; Department Of Scienze Statistiche E   Matematiche “S. Vianelli”-University Of Palermo
name: ENEA, MARCO; Department Of Scienze Statistiche E   Matematiche “S. Vianelli”-University Of Palermo
name: RIZZO, LEONARDO; Ultrasuoni S.R.L., Catania
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: In this paper we analyze some issues concerning the statistical evaluation of a screening test for classification. The case study is ARFI, an ultrasound device recently introduced, and used for the evaluation of liver fibrosis. First, we present a simple statistical evaluation based on a novel index that compare two competitors with respect to a gold standard, and then we propose a procedure that determines a table with the “acceptable” number of measurements to get an “accurate” diagnosis using the ARFI device.
description: Statistica; Vol 70, No 3 (2010); 311-322
title: What do users expect from climate adaptation services? Developing an information platform based on user surveys
title: What do users expect from climate adaptation services?
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Esther
name: Rupp, Johannes
name: Sander, Kirsten
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Bahnsteig
Netz
Eignungsprüfung

description: We present the preparatory research for the German Climate Preparedness Portal (KLiVO-www.klivoportal.de) -a meta-portal of climate adaptation and climate information services initiated by the German Government. Our work focuses on user needs and expectations and we followed the four-step user integration process suggested by Swart et al. (2017), but added a fifth step, which involves continuing the exchange with users after implementation of the KLiVO Portal through developing a user-provider network. To analyze user needs we conducted two online surveys with a total of 972 participants and 55 qualitative interviews. The overarching research questions for our analysis were: What kind of adaptation services do users need? What are current deficits in addressing user needs? How can authoritative climate adaptation services be selected and presented on the KLiVO Portal? Even though 82% of the respondents deal with climate adaptation in their work, only a third were aware of the adaptation services presented and only one in ten had actually used them. Respondents reported that the services are difficult to find, not sufficiently specific, and of indeterminate quality. Demand, however, is high: half of the respondents reported a need for such adaptation services for assessing risks and for planning, assessing, and implementing adaptation measures. We used the results of our research to develop the KLiVO Portal and draw conclusions for climate adaptation services and meta-platforms in general: The landscape of climate adaptation services needs to be restructured; quality assurance would ensure reliability; communication between users and providers must be improved and must continue when services are on the market. We suggest further research on continuous user integration and an evaluation of climate adaptation services regarding their effectiveness. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Modeling the relationship between perceived neighbourhood characteristics and adult hospitalization frequencies
Creators: name: BELLINI, PIERANTONIO; Department Of Statistical Sciences-University Of Padua
name: LO CASTRO, DANIELA; ISTAT
name: PAULI, FRANCESCO; Department Of Statistical Sciences-University Of Padua
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: Interest in the quantitative effects of neighbourhood characteristics on urban health has recently increased in social epidemiology. Such effects are mostly studied employing multilevel models based on some definition of the neighbourhood. We investigate the statistical relationship between health and the neighourhood quality as perceived by individuals, thus avoiding the need of choosing a specific definition of neighbourhood.We use data from the Los Angeles Family and Neighbourhood Survey (L.A.FANS). We measure health status of an individual as the number of hospitalizations in the last two years. This number is related to individual carachteristics (including neighbourhood perceptions) through generalized additive models (GAM), focusing particularly on the Zero Inflated Poisson (ZIP), which is an unusual choice in this context.We also overcome to some extent the difficulties in interpreting the results from a GAM with a ZIP distribution by simulating predicted values under varying assumptions in order to reveal the relationship of interest.The analysis confirms that the quality of neighbourhood – as measured by perceptions of individuals – significantly relates to the health status of inhabitants – as measured by the number of hospitalizations.
description: Statistica; Vol 70, No 3 (2010); 323-341
Distributed Learning of Distributions via Social Sampling
Creators: name: Javidi, Tara
name: Sarwate, Anand D.
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2015
Subjects: Distributions
Telecommunication--Message processing
Social sampling

description: A protocol for distributed estimation of discrete distributions is proposed. Each agent begins with a single sample from the distribution, and the goal is to learn the empirical distribution of the samples. The protocol is based on a simple message-passing model motivated by communication in social networks. Agents sample a message randomly from their current estimates of the distribution, resulting in a protocol with quantized messages. Using tools from stochastic approximation, the algorithm is shown to converge almost surely. Examples illustrate three regimes with different consensus phenomena. Simulations demonstrate this convergence and give some insight into the effect of network topology.
Material deprivation as marker of health need
Creators: name: GRISOTTO, LAURA; Department Of Statistics “G. Parenti”-  University Of Florence
name: CATELAN, DOLORES; Department Of Statistics “G. Parenti”-  University Of Florence
name: ACCETTA, GABRIELE; Biostatistics Unit-ISPO Cancer Prevention And Research Institute
name: BIGGERI, ANNIBALE; Biostatistics Unit-ISPO Cancer Prevention And Research Institute
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: A relationship between socio-economic status and health has been widely documented both by individual-level and ecological regression studies. We addressed the problem known in the literature as using a material deprivation index as predictor of health needs and comparing results when adjusting or not the health outcome and the deprivation index for the same confounding variables. We focus on non-linear hierarchical models. We take as example the the issue of introducing socio-economic indicators in national or regional resources allocation formulas. We fitted a series of models with different data hierarchies to evaluate both the individual effect and the aggregate (census block) effect of material deprivation on heath status, disentagling the individual from the contextual effects. Individual mortality records came from the Florence census cohort 1991-1995 which is part of the Tuscan Longitudinal Study. Data on socio-economic factors derived from individual records of the 1991 census. Our results suggested that after adjusting for age, material deprivation is a good predictor of health needs both at individual and at aggregate level (census block). The presence of a contextual effect increases the interest in  using deprivatin in the allocation formula, since it would permit a better distribution of resources to disadvantaged micro-areas. In the present paper, we stress the need to estimate the association between deprivation and health appropriately adjusting for age. The ideal goal would be having information at small geographical level on the joint distribution of age and deprivation to age-standardize both the response and the predictor. A temporary solution should be to regress crude mortality rates on deprivation and age. The current common practice, in absence of individual data, to regress standardized mortality on material deprivation may be inappropriate.
description: Statistica; Vol 70, No 3 (2010); 343-352
Improved thermal properties of paraffin wax by the addition of TiO2 nanoparticles
Creators: name: Wang, Jifen
name: Xie, Huaqing
name: Guo, Zhixiong
name: Guan, Lihui
name: Li, Yang
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Phase-change materials
Thermal conductivity
Latent heat
Heat transfer enhancement
Energy storage
Nanoparticles

description: TiO2 nanoparticles about 20 nm in diameter in the form of anatase were prepared and characterized. The nanoparticles were successfully dispersed into a paraffin wax (PW) matrix without any surfactant. The differential scanning calorimetric instrument and the transient short hot-wire method were used to measure the thermal properties of the TiO2/PW composites. It is found that the phase-change temperature and latent heat capacity vary with TiO2 nanoparticles loading levels. When the loading is not over 1 wt%, the phase-change temperature drops, and the latent heat capacity increases. When the loading is over 2 wt%, the phase-change temperature increases, and the latent heat capacity drops. A significant increase in latent heat capacity is found around 0.7 wt% loading. The thermal conductivity of the composites increases monotonically with increasing TiO2 loading. But such a tendency tends to decrease when the loading is over 3 wt%.
Placenta Accreta and Placenta Increta: An Approach to Pathogenesis Based on the Trophoblastic Differentiation Pathway
Creators: name: Cramer, Stewart F.
name: Heller, Debra
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Decidua
Trophoblast
Myometrial tone
Antiprotease

description: Morbid adherence remains a puzzling disease. This paper suggests that normal and morbidly adherent placentation may best be viewed in terms of trophoblastic stem cells, and the mutually exclusive branches of the trophoblastic differentiation pathway - villous trophoblast, interstitial and endovascular nonvillous trophoblast (NVT) at the implantation site, and a positional variation in the chorion. Based on hysterectomies for morbid adherence seen over 30 years at a community hospital; analyzed with routine keratin stains, with actin and trichrome stains as indicated, and attempts at sonographic-pathologic correlation; we present selected observations. In true accreta, the site of morbid adherence was to dilated basal plate vessels, infiltrated by endovascular NVT; with scant interstitial NVT, and normal myometrium. It appeared that excess blood flow into the placenta was due to excessively deep keratin-positive endovascular NVT that spread - independently of interstitial NVT - in an angiocentric fashion, in both accreta and increta. Retroplacental abnormalities were due to myometrial destruction by interstitial NVT in increta, sometimes requiring actin stains for detection; and to an admixture of markedly dilated endometrial glands and vessels in true accreta, best appreciated with keratin stains. Variations of depth and extent in increta may be due to variations in myometrial tone, and in the protease-antiprotease balance. Morbidly adherent fetal membranes are described. The role of C-section scars in incretas is addressed.
Cucullia tanaceti
Creators: name: Dobado, Pablo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Cucullia
Cucullia tanaceti

description: Cucullia tanaceti ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)    Citada de Bujalance (PÉREZ-GUERRERO et al., 2011).
description: Published as part of Dobado, Pablo M., 2020, Lista provisional de los Noctuoidea de la provincia de Córdoba (sur de España): II. Noctuidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera)., pp. 319-345 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 22 on page 322, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244049
Early child neglect: Does it predict obesity or underweight in later childhood?
Creators: name: Bennett, David S.
name: Sullivan, Margaret Wolan
name: Thompson, Shanel M.
name: Lewis, Michael
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Child neglect
BMI (Body mass index)
Weight
Obesity

description: Child neglect has been hypothesized to be a risk factor for both obesity and underweight in early childhood, although little research has examined the relation between neglect and body mass index (BMI). The present study examined the relation between neglect and BMI among 185 children (91 with a Child Protective Services history of neglect) who were initially seen at ages 4 to 6 years and who were followed through ages 7 to 9 years. Neglected and comparison children were found to have similar BMIs, although both groups had BMIs that were significantly greater than CDC norms for age, gender, and ethnicity. Neglect chronicity did predict lower BMIs but only at age 8 and 9 years. The present findings suggest that greater examination of moderators is needed to identify the specific contexts in which neglect is related to children’s weight.
Introductive remarks on causal inference
Creators: name: ROMIO, SILVANA A.; Department Of Medical Informatics Erasmus Me Department Of Statistics-University Of Milano-Bicocca
name: BELLOCCO, RINO; Department Of Medical Epidemiology And Biostatistics -Karolinska Institutet
name: CORRAO, GIOVANNI; Department Of Statistics-University Of Milano-Bicocca
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: One of the more challenging issues in epidemiological research is being able to provide an unbiased estimate of the causal exposure-disease effect, to assess the possible etiological mechanisms and the implication for public health. A major source of bias is confounding, which can spuriously create or mask the causal relationship. In the last ten years, methodological research has been developed to better de_ne the concept of causation in epidemiology and some important achievements have resulted in new statistical models. In this review, we aim to show how a technique the well known by statisticians, i.e. standardization, can be seen as a method to estimate causal e_ects, equivalent under certain conditions to the inverse probability treatment weight procedure.
description: Statistica; Vol 70, No 3 (2010); 353-362
Vulvar Adenocarcinoma with Neuroendocrine Differentiation: A Case Report
Creators: name: Gabrilovitch, Sofia
name: Cracchiolo, Bernadette
name: Heller, Debra
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Vulvar neoplasms
Adenocarcinoma
Neuroendocrine differentiation

description: Vulvar adenocarcinomas are uncommon. An exceptionally rare adenocarcinoma with neuroendocrine differentiation is presented.
Additional file 6 of Development of the German social attitude barriers and facilitators to participation-scales: an analysis according to the Rasch model
Creators: name: Upegui-Arango, Luz Dary
name: Mainz, Verena
name: Gecht, Judith
name: Mueller, Christian-Andreas
name: Quack, Valentin
name: Heinemann, Allen W.
name: Boecker, Maren
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 6: Supplementary Table 6. Item fit statistics of the societal barriers subscale sorted by location order in the final analysis.
What doesn’t work with Phase IV studies? A real experience from an Ethics Committee
Creators: name: GRIGOLETTO, F.; Department Of Environmental Medicine  And Public Health, School Of Medicine-University Of Padua
name: FRIGO, A. C.; Department Of Environmental Medicine  And Public Health, School Of Medicine-University Of Padua
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: Phase IV studies are conducted in real-life conditions to expand the knowledge on the efficacy and safety of an approved drug. Carried out either in hospital or general practice setting, they can be distinguished in Phase IV trials and post-marketing surveillance studies. Limited information is available in Italy about their characteristics as the proportion of observational studies, the average size and the importance of the non-sponsored research. In order to investigate these and other features, we analysed 1,881 protocols presented to the Ethics Committee of a large size University Hospital in the decade 1999-2008. Out of the 188 (10%) Phase IV studies, about three fourths were controlled clinical trials, 48.4% had an active drug and 16.0% a placebo as comparator; only 8.5% was presented as observational. Most of the Phase IV studies could be classifiable as Phase IIIb. The median sample size value was 200 patients, while the Phase III studies reported a median of 360 patients, this contradicting the “large-scale” characteristic of the Phase IV studies reported in the literature.
description: Statistica; Vol 70, No 3 (2010); 363-369
Byzantine Fault Tolerant Authentication
Creators: name: Pathak, Vivek
name: Iftode, Liviu
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2004

description: A Byzantine fault tolerant public key infrastructure is presented. It aims to fulfill the authentication requirements of large distributed systems consisting of semi-trusted parties. The distributed trust model does not demand the existence of predefined trusted parties and provides authentication if more than a threshold of the participants are honest. A voting based protocol implements distributed trust and supports dynamic membership without fail safe multi-cast or synchrony. This paper describes the system design and discusses its applicability to mobile networks and peer-to-peer systems on the Internet. It also demonstrates the Byzantine fault tolerance of distributed authentication.
Nano-Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Nano-MRI) gives personalized medicine a new perspective
Creators: name: Rosa, Lorenzo
name: Boretti, Albert
name: Blackledge, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper reviews some of the major and most recent advances in nanoscale-magnetic resonance imaging (nano-MRI) for personalized medicine (PM). Nano-MRI may drastically expand the capabilities of the traditional magnetic resonance images (MRI), down to the nanometer scale and possibly, in the near future, at the atomic scale. Nano-MRI is potentially able to observe structures which cannot be seen using today's molecular imaging, with sensitivities of many billions of times better than MRI as currently used in hospitals, for example. The paper briefly reports on the foremost research themes in nano-MRI.
Generalized linear models and Capture-Recapture Method in a closed population: strengths and weaknesses
Creators: name: ROSSI, GIUSEPPE; Unit Of Epidemiology And Biostatistics,   Institute Of Clinical Physiology,   CNR, Pisa
name: PEPE, PASQUALE; Unit Of Epidemiology And Biostatistics,   Institute Of Clinical Physiology,   CNR, Pisa
name: CURZIO, OLIVIA; Unit Of Epidemiology And Biostatistics,   Institute Of Clinical Physiology,   CNR, Pisa
name: MARCHI, MARCO; Department Of Statistics “G. Parenti”,   University Of Florence, Florence, Italy
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: Capture-recapture methods are used by epidemiologists in order to estimate the size of hidden populations using incomplete and overlapping lists of cases. These models can be both continuous and discrete time and the particular population we want to obtain a quantitative evaluation can be assumed to be closed or open. Here we specifically consider discrete-time models for closed population. The problem was treated using Generalized Linear Models as they allow to treat simultaneously both forms of dependence between sources than observed heterogeneity due to covariates effects. Specifically, we analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of Multinomial Conditional Logistic Model and presented a comparison with a correspondent Bayesian approach. The estimates obtained on simulated and real data appear to be enough reliable.
description: Statistica; Vol 70, No 3 (2010); 371-390
Cucullia verbasci
Creators: name: Dobado, Pablo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Cucullia
Cucullia verbasci

description: Cucullia verbasci (Linnaeus, 1758)   Citada del centro de la provincia: oruga en mayo (LÓPEZ, 2013).
description: Published as part of Dobado, Pablo M., 2020, Lista provisional de los Noctuoidea de la provincia de Córdoba (sur de España): II. Noctuidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera)., pp. 319-345 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 22 on page 322, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244049
Calophasia platyptera
Creators: name: Dobado, Pablo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Calophasia
Calophasia platyptera

description: Calophasia platyptera (Esper, 1788)
 Citada de Bujalance: imagos en septiembre-octubre, poco abundantes (REDONDO & PÉREZ,
  2001b; PÉREZ-GUERRERO et al., 2011).
  * Cleonymia baetica (Rambur, [1837])
 Nc: El Vacar (20-IV-2017, Fig. 3b).
  * Amephana aurita (Fabricius, 1787)
 Nc: Zagrilla Baja (8-IV-2005).
  * Lophoterges millierei (Staudinger, 1870)
 Nc: Zagrilla Baja (9-VII-2004).
description: Published as part of Dobado, Pablo M., 2020, Lista provisional de los Noctuoidea de la provincia de Córdoba (sur de España): II. Noctuidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera)., pp. 319-345 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 22 on page 323, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244049
Integrating qualitative and quantitative shape recovery
Creators: name: Dickinson, Sven J.
name: Metaxas, Dimitris
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 1994

description: Recent work in qualitative shape recovery and object recognition has focused on solving the what is it" problem, while avoiding the where is it" problem. In contrast, typical CAD-based recognition systems have focused on the where is it" problem, while assuming they know what the object is. Although each approach addresses an important aspect of the 3-D object recognition problem, each falls short in addressing the complete problem of recognizing and localizing 3-D objects from a large database. In this paper, we rst synthesize a new approach to shape recovery for 3-D object recognition that decouples recognition from localization by combining basic elements from these two approaches. Specically, we use qualitative shape recovery and recognition techniques to provide strong tting constraints on physics-based deformable model recovery techniques. Secondly, we extend our previously developed technique of fitting deformable models to occluding image contours to the case of image data captured under general orthographic, perspective, and stereo projections. On one hand, integrating qualitative knowledge of the object being fitted to the data, along with knowledge of occlusion supports a much more robust and accurate quantitative fitting. On the other hand, recovering object pose and quantitative surface shape not only provides a richer description for indexing, but supports interaction with the world when object manipulation is required. This paper presents the approach in detail and applies it to real imagery.
Metopoceras felicina
Creators: name: Dobado, Pablo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Metopoceras
Metopoceras felicina

description: Metopoceras felicina (Donzel, 1844)    Citada de Bujalance: imago en abril (REDONDO & PÉREZ, 2001b; PÉREZ-GUERRERO et al., 2011).
  * Recoropha canteneri (Duponchel, 1833)
  Nc: Névalo (31-V-2018, imago libando Thymus, Fig. 3c).
description: Published as part of Dobado, Pablo M., 2020, Lista provisional de los Noctuoidea de la provincia de Córdoba (sur de España): II. Noctuidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera)., pp. 319-345 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 22 on page 323, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244049
Additional file 7 of Development of the German social attitude barriers and facilitators to participation-scales: an analysis according to the Rasch model
Creators: name: Upegui-Arango, Luz Dary
name: Mainz, Verena
name: Gecht, Judith
name: Mueller, Christian-Andreas
name: Quack, Valentin
name: Heinemann, Allen W.
name: Boecker, Maren
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 7: Supplementary Table 7. Raw Score to Rasch Parameter Transformation Table.
Regulatory framework for the certification of carbon removals - remarks on the EU commission's roadmap
Creators: name: Bretschneider, Lisa
name: Erxleben, Friederike
name: Balzer, Frederike
name: Hipt, Kirsten Op De
name: Döring, Ulrike
name: Köder, Lea
name: Marx, Marc
name: Hipt, Kirsten Op De
name: Ruddigkeit, Dana
name: Voß-Stemping, Judith
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Kohlenstoffzyklus
subject: Carbon Sequestration
subject: certification framework
subject: carbon cycle
subject: climate protection architecture
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Climate | Energy

description: On 15.12.2021, the European Commission announces to create a legal framework in a communication on "Sustainable carbon cycles" according to which procedures for natural carbon sequestration and technical CO2 extraction and storage can be certified. By the end of 2022, the European Commission wants to make a legislative proposal. In this short position, the German Environment Agency points to gaps in the European Commission's proposal, refers to essential minimum requirements for the certification of carbon sequestrations and calls for a clearer integration of the certification framework with regard to its steering effect and its steering objective in the climate protection target architecture of the European Union. Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: On 15.12.2021, the European Commission announces to create a legal framework in a communication on "Sustainable carbon cycles" according to which procedures for natural carbon sequestration and technical ⁠CO2⁠ extraction and storage can be certified. By the end of 2022, the European Commission wants to make a legislative proposal.In this short position, the German Environment Agency points to gaps in the European Commission's proposal, refers to essential minimum requirements for the certification of carbon sequestrations and calls for a clearer integration of the certification framework with regard to its steering effect and its steering objective in the climate protection target architecture of the European Union.
Blue wing asymmetries in Balmer lines during mid M dwarf flares and possible stellar mass ejections
Creators: name: Notsu, Yuta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Flares are releases of magnetic energy in the solar/stellar atmosphere. During some M dwarf flares, chromospheric line profiles show blue wing asymmetries, which may provide clues for the early phases of stellar coronal mass ejections (CMEs), but this is still controversial. We conducted 31-nights of simultaneous optical spectroscopic and photometric observations of mid M dwarf flare stars, using APO 3.5m and SMARTS 1.5m telescopes. Among the 41 detected flares, 7 flares showed clear blue wing asymmetries in Balmer lines, with various correspondences in flare properties. The line-of-sight velocities of the blue-shifted components range from -73 to -122 km s^{-1}. Assuming that the blue-shifts were caused by prominence eruptions, the mass of upward moving plasma was estimated to be 10^{15} - 10^{19}g, which are roughly on the relation between flare energy and erupting mass expected from solar CMEs. In contrast, the kinetic energies of these events are roughly two orders of magnitude smaller than the relation expected from solar CMEs, as also shown in previous M-dwarf CME studies. These low kinetic energies may be explained by assuming a difference in velocities between prominence eruptions and CMEs, though further investigation on the evolutions of these stellar chromospheric and coronal eruptions is needed. In this presentation, we introduce these results and discuss prospects for further multi-wavelength observations and collaborations with modeling studies.

Theme(s): The Sun and Cool Stars in the Time Domain
title: Aid Fragmentation, Commitments and Progress: A textbook provision case study from Afghanistan
Creators: name: Andar, Zia
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: textbook production and distribution
subject: Afghanistan
subject: Education
subject: International and Comparative Education

description: This study reviews aid fragmentation and implementation effectiveness using a textbook production and distribution project in Afghanistan as a case study. The aid effectiveness debate has been part of the development discussion for both academics and practitioners since the beginning of modern aid. An overall consensus exists that development aid programs are not as effective as they should be. The debate over aid effectiveness has intensified in the last two decades and a series of international forums on aid effectiveness convened in this period, the most prominent of which are the High Level Forums on Aid Effectiveness, hosted by the OECD. In these aid effectiveness forums, International development stakeholders committed to aid effectiveness, proposed principles for good implementation practices. One of the main reason for aid ineffectiveness identified is aid fragmentation which may lead to increased transaction cost, duplication and corruption. The aid effectiveness forums proposed a division of labor among donors for effective harmonization and complementarity among development partners. To see the result of the internationally committed principles in the country-level practices of the donors and their implementing partners, I used a textbook provision project in Afghanistan as a case study to examine aid fragmentation and its effects on aid effectiveness. For this purpose, using a qualitative approach, I interviewed officials from different organizations, including donor agencies and the Afghan government to better understand the effect of aid fragmentation on textbook provision. Based on the interviews, I also provide some other examples of aid fragmentation and ineffectiveness. This case study demonstrates how aid fragmentation and lack of an overall donor coordination architecture prevent aid effectiveness.
Inferring causal relations by modelling structures
Creators: name: MOUCHART, MICHEL; ISBA, Université Catholique De Louvain
name: RUSSO, FEDERICA; Philosophy, University Of Kent At Canterbury
name: WUNSCH, GUILLAUME; Demography, Université Catholique De Louvain
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: This paper provides an overview of structural modelling in its close relation to explanation and causation. It stems from previous works by the authors and stresses the role and importance of the notions of invariance, recursive decomposition, exogeneity and background knowledge. It closes with some considerations about the importance of the structural approach for practicing scientists.
description: Statistica; Vol 70, No 4 (2010); 411-432
Additional file 1 of Reasons for bias in ambulance clinicians’ assessments of non-conveyed patients: a mixed-methods study
Creators: name: Johansson, Helena
name: Lundgren, Kristin
name: Hagiwara, Magnus Andersson
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1.
Administration and Curricula of the Introductory Graduate Music Research Course
Creators: name: Sauceda, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Music Library Association
Year: 2016
Subjects: Library instruction
Music librarianship
Music research
Library orientation

description: The introductory research course is an integral part of many graduate music programs, yet there have been few studies that discuss its curricula across institutions. A questionnaire was sent to instructors of the course to identify shared pedagogical approaches among North American schools of music. The survey was divided into sections that prompted respondents to identify issues discussed in the course, including the types and titles of resources, research methodologies, and library use topics. With a response rate of over 40 percent, the survey also contains valuable data concerning the professional identifications of instructors, assignments used for grading, common textbooks, perception of the course’s efficacy, and more. Shared features of the course included the importance of electronic resources; the minimal use of Internet-mediated instruction formats; a strong preference for English-language materials; and a focus on resources such as databases, style guides, collected works, monuments of music, and thematic catalogs over and above others such as repertoire guides, discographies, directories, and iconographies.
Xylocampa areola
Creators: name: Dobado, Pablo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Xylocampa
Xylocampa areola

description: Xylocampa areola (Esper, 1789)
  Citada de Bujalance: imago en febrero (REDONDO & PÉREZ, 2001b; PÉREZ-GUERRERO et al., 2011).
 Nc: Zagrilla Baja (22-II-2009 / 24-III-2009).
description: Published as part of Dobado, Pablo M., 2020, Lista provisional de los Noctuoidea de la provincia de Córdoba (sur de España): II. Noctuidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera)., pp. 319-345 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 22 on page 323, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244049
Holocene Relative Sea-Level Changes from Near-, Intermediate-, and Far-Field Locations
Creators: name: Kopp, Robert E.
name: Horton, Benjamin P.
name: Khan, Nicole S.
name: Vacchi, Matteo
name: Walker, Jennifer
name: Peltier, W. R.
name: Ashe, Erica
name: Shaw, Timothy A.
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Geology, Stratigraphic--Holocene
Relative sea-level change
Sea level
Glacial isostasy
Noisy-input Gaussian Process model
Gaussian processes

description: Holocene relative sea-level (RSL) records exhibit spatial and temporal variability that arises mainly from the interaction of eustatic (land ice volume and thermal expansion) and isostatic (glacio- and hydro-) factors. We fit RSL histories from near-, intermediate-, and far-field locations with noisy-input Gaussian process models to assess rates of RSL change. Records from near-field regions (e.g., Antarctica, Greenland, Canada, Sweden, and Scotland) reveal a complex pattern of RSL fall from a maximum marine limit due to the net effect of eustatic sea-level rise and glacio-isostatic uplift with rates of RSL fall as great as -69 ± 9 m/ka. Intermediate-field regions (e.g., mid-Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States, Netherlands, Southern France, St. Croix) display variable rates of RSL rise from the cumulative effect of isostatic and eustatic factors. Fast rates of RSL rise (up to 10 ± 1 m/ka) are found in the early Holocene in regions near the center of forebulge collapse. Far-field RSL records exhibit a mid-Holocene highstand, the timing (between 8 and 4 ka) and magnitude (between <1 and 6 m) of which varies among South America, Africa, Asia and Oceania regions.
Courants traditionnels et innovatifs pour l'apprentissage des sciences physiques et naturelles à l'éducation préscolaire
Creators: name: OKRESI, BHUMIBOL
name: ADENAL, TINO
name: KOLOKOURI, ELENI
name: KORNELAKI, ATHINA CHRISTINA
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Education
Year: 2025
Subjects: Physical and natural science activities, didactics, kindergarten

description: This article presents and discusses a number of key issues concerning the introduction of young children in pre-school institutions to the physical and natural sciences. From this perspective, we try to distinguish traditional approaches from innovative approaches, by referring to three dimensions: the object of learning, the level of development of children's thinking and teaching practices. The ensuing discussion attempts to distinguish contemporary scientific education from traditional efforts and focuses on the level of educational research that is primarily concerned with deepening our knowledge of issues related to the nature of learning and teaching in relation to child development.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Education, Vol. 4, N. 1 (2024)
Institutional supervision and teachers’ professional competency development in Public Senior Secondary Schools in Oyo State, Nigeria
Creators: name: ISIAKA, BABATUNDE AKANMU
name: GUNBAYI, ILHAN
name: ATOLAGBE, ADEDAPO ADETIBA
name: OJO, OLUBUKOLA JAMES
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Education
Year: 2024
Subjects: Institutional supervision, challenge adjustment, policy conformance, interaction initiation and professional competency

description: This study investigated institutional supervision and teachers’ professional competency development in public secondary schools in Oyo State, Nigeria. A descriptive survey method of research was adopted for the study. The study randomly selected 15 schools as the research sample and 20 teachers were selected from each school purposively making a total of 300 respondents in the study area. Data were obtained from the respondents through a self-designed questionnaire titled, ‘Institutional Supervision Questionnaire’ (ISQ) and ‘Teachers Professional Competency Development Questionnaire’ (TPCDQ). Mean and rank-order were used to answer the research question while Pearson product-moment correlation statistics was used to test the hypotheses formulated. All the formulated hypotheses were rejected. This revealed that there was no relationship between assistance in adjusting to challenge, facilitating conformance to policy and initiation of effective interaction and the teachers’ professional competency development. The study made the following recommendations amongst others; adherence to policies formulated by the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) on the educational system would go a long way in contributing to the educational advancement of the nation, supervisors should ensure adequate conformance to policy in such a way that it will influence teacher’s professional competency development.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Education, Vol. 4, N. 2 (2024)
Peace in the shadow of unrest: medical disturbance and state response in China
Creators: name: Huang, Xian
Publisher: name: Rutgers University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Yinao
Trust
Policy feedback
Healthcare
State repression
China

description: Much research on contentious politics focuses on origins and dynamics of contention or impacts of contention on policy change. Although some studies have delved into the state reactions to contention, we know relatively little about the outcome or effectiveness of state responses, especially in nondemocratic settings. This paper attempts to fill this gap and to uncover the policy feedback effect in nondemocratic settings by studying the Chinese state’s repression of violent medical disturbances (yinao). I argue that without comprehensive health reforms to tackle the root causes of yinao, state repression of yinao generates unintended adverse outcomes, causing the doctor-patient relationship to deteriorate. Using the difference-in-differences method with China Family Panel Studies data for 2014 and 2016, I find that the criminalization of yinao decreased public trust in doctors and belief in hospitals’ competence, while increasing public concerns about the healthcare system.
description: Resource replaces submitted Manuscript Under Review (SMUR)
Amphipyrinae
Creators: name: Dobado, Pablo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae

description: Subfam. Amphipyrinae    * Amphipyra effusa (Boisduval, [1828])
 Nc: El Salado (9-X-2005); arroyo Bejarano (9-VIII-2010); Medina Azahara (22-II-2013); casco urbano de Córdoba (14-V-2015 / 29-V-2019).
description: Published as part of Dobado, Pablo M., 2020, Lista provisional de los Noctuoidea de la provincia de Córdoba (sur de España): II. Noctuidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera)., pp. 319-345 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 22 on page 323, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244049
Additional file 1 of Comparative analysis of novel and common reference genes in adult tissues of the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis
Creators: name: Salatiello, Federica
name: Gerdol, Marco
name: Pallavicini, Alberto
name: Locascio, Annamaria
name: Sirakov, Maria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Time series modeling and decomposition
Creators: name: BEE DAGUM, ESTELA; Department Of Statistics-University Of Bologna
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The paper provides an overview of techniques and methods in time series modeling and decomposition with focus on the business cycle, models for seasonality, the moving holiday component, the trading-day component and the irregular component.
description: Statistica; Vol 70, No 4 (2010); 433-457
The Autoregressive metric for comparing time series models
Creators: name: PICCOLO, DOMENICO; Dipartimento Di Teorie E Metodi Delle Scienze Umane E Sociali, Sezione Di Scienze Statistiche-Università Degli Studi Di Napoli Federico II
Publisher: name: Dep. of Statistical Sciences "Paolo Fortunati", Università di Bologna
Year: 2013

description: The Autoregressive metric was firstly introduced in 1983 as a tool for choosing a representative element from a large collection of time series and for clustering temporal data. The proposal has been extended to many contexts and has raised increasing interests in both time series methods and applications. The main results concerning this metric, its asymptotic distribution and some operational and comparative issues are presented. A discussion about the merits of this distance criterion and some caveats about its usage conclude the paper.
description: Statistica; Vol 70, No 4 (2010); 459-480
Tyta luctuosa
Creators: name: Dobado, Pablo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Tyta
Tyta luctuosa

description: Tyta luctuosa ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
  Citada de La Campiña (HUERTAS DIONISIO & FUENTES, 2004; PÉREZ-GUERRERO et al., 2011).
 Nc: Casco urbano de Córdoba (1-XI-2013 / 26-III-2016 / 16-VI-2017); casco urbano de Guadalcázar (17-V-2017); cuesta del Espino (12-III-2020).
description: Published as part of Dobado, Pablo M., 2020, Lista provisional de los Noctuoidea de la provincia de Córdoba (sur de España): II. Noctuidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera)., pp. 319-345 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 22 on page 323, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244049