cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Chemical Feature of Eu abundance in the Draco dwarf spheroidal galaxy
Creators: name: Tsujimoto, Takuji
name: Ishigaki, Miho N.
name: Shigeyama, Toshikazu
name: Aoki, Wako
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chemical abundance of r-process elements in nearby dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies is a powerful tool to probe the site of r-process since their small-mass scale can sort out individual events producing r-process elements. A merger of binary neutron stars is a promising candidate of this site. In faint, or less massive dSph galaxies such as the Draco, a few binary neutron star mergers are expected to have occurred at most over the whole past. We have measured chemical abundances including Eu and Ba of three red giants in the Draco dSph by Subaru/HDS observation. The Eu detection for one star with [Fe/H]=-1.45 confirms a broadly constant [Eu/H] of ~-1.3 for stars with [Fe/H]>-2. This feature is shared by other dSphs with similar masses, i.e., the Sculptor and the Carina, and suggests that neutron star merger is the origin of r-process elements in terms of its rarity. In addition, two very metal-poor stars with [Fe/H]=-2.12 and -2.51 are found to exhibit very low Eu abundances such as [Eu/H]
description: 6 pages including 5 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ Letter, Subaru special issue
MPEC 2023-T209 : 2023 TL8
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 TL8

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.
COMPARATIVE MORPHOLOGY OF THE GENITAL APPARATUSES OF BUTTERFLIES OF THE GENUS COENONYMPHA OF THE FAMILY SATYRIDAE OF YAKUTIA
Creators: name: Pestryakova, S.M.
name: Petrov, V.V.
name: Davydova, N.G.
Publisher: name: Международный журнал гуманитарных и естественных наук
Year: 2022
Subjects: BUTTERFLIES
GENITAL APPARATUS
FEMALES
MALES
GENUS COENONYMPHA

description: In this work, the species features of the genital apparatuses of species of the genus Coenonympha of the family Satyridae of Yakutia were studied. The materials of 4 species of butterflies of the genus Coenonympha were summarized on the basis of the structure of the genital apparatus. As a result of a comparative analysis, the features of differences and external similarity of the species were revealed, which can later be used for more accurate identification of the Satyridae family of Yakutia, which is very difficult in terms of determining this genus. For a visual image of the processed material, objects were photographed from nature through a stereoscopic microscope using digital photographic equipment.
(101089) Margaret Gilmore
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: First experience of using high focused ultrasound (HIFU) in Ukraine
Creators: name: Karacharova, Irina
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genital / Reproductive system female
subject: Pelvis
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Ablation procedures
subject: Pathology

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To study the efficacy and safety of ultrasound ablation (HIFU - technology) in the treatment of uterine fibroids. Fibroids frequency among gynecological diseases is 20-44%. Primary infertility occurs, approximately, in one of five patients with...
Health outcomes of HIV-exposed uninfected African infants
Creators: name: Wiener, Jeffrey
name: Kayira, Dumbani
name: Van Der Horst, Charles
name: Hosseinipour, Mina
name: Kourtis, Athena P.
name: Jamieson, Denise J.
name: Chasela, Charles
name: Ellington, Sascha R.
name: Hyde, Lisa
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: To evaluate severe (grade 3/4) morbidity and mortality in HIV-exposed, uninfected infants.
(101091) John Crosby Gilmore
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Improved employment and education outcomes in households of HIV-infected adults with high CD4 cell counts: evidence from a community health campaign in Uganda
Creators: name: Charlebois, Edwin D.
name: Chamie, Gabriel
name: Kabami, Jane
name: Kamya, Moses R.
name: Geng, Elvin
name: Havlir, Diane V.
name: Petersen, Maya L.
name: Thirumurthy, Harsha
name: Jain, Vivek
name: Kwarisiima, Dalsone
name: Clark, Tamara D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: BACKGROUND: There is limited evidence on the association between socioeconomic outcomes and CD4 counts in populations that include HIV-infected adults who have high CD4 counts or have not been diagnosed. We examined this association among adults in a rural Ugandan parish.

METHODS: A community health campaign offering diagnostic and treatment services for HIV and other diseases was conducted with Ministry of Health support. Data on campaign participants' education and employment were collected and a detailed household socioeconomic survey was conducted among a subset of participants. Regression analyses were used to assess relationships between CD4 count and employment and education outcomes.

RESULTS: A total of 2323 adults (74% of the community) participated in the campaign; 179 of 2282 (7.8%) tested HIV-positive and 46% were newly diagnosed. Among HIV-infected adults not on antiretroviral therapy (ART), those with CD4 at least 500 worked 6.9 more days/month (P < 0.01; 39% more) and 2.5 more h per day (P < 0.05, 44% more) than those with CD4 less than 200. These effects were not significantly different from the effects for those with CD4 350-499. Children aged 6-11 years in households of adults with CD4 at least 350 did not have significantly different school enrollment rates than children in households of adults with CD4 less than 350, but differences were larger among children aged 12-18 years.

CONCLUSION: Outcomes of HIV-infected adults with CD4 at least 350 were better than those of adults with CD4 less than 200 and resembled those of HIV-uninfected adults. The results suggest that early ART initiation may generate economic benefits by preventing a decline in socioeconomic status, but further research is needed to determine the CD4 threshold at which these benefits would be largest.
Different Formation Scenarios of Counter-rotating Stellar Disks in Nearby Galaxies
Creators: name: Bao, Min
name: Chen, Yanmei
name: Zhu, Pengpei
name: Shi, Yong
name: Bizyaev, Dmitry
name: Zhu, Ling
name: Yang, Meng
name: Beom, Minje
name: Brownstein, Joel R.
name: Lane, Richard R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the integral field unit (IFU) data from Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey, we select a sample of 101 galaxies with counter-rotating stellar disks and regularly-rotating ionized gas disk. We classify the 101 galaxies into four types based on the features of their stellar velocity fields. The relative fractions and stellar population age radial gradients of the four types are different in blue cloud (BC), green valley (GV) and red sequence (RS) populations. We suggest different formation scenarios for the counter-rotating stellar disks, and the key factors in the formation of counter-rotating stellar disks include: (1) the abundance of pre-existing gas in progenitor, (2) the efficiency in angular momentum consumption.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL
Priorities of institutional regulation of e-commerce: Russia and world trends
Creators: name: Kaluzhsky, Mikhail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: E-commerce is gradually transformed from a version of trading activity to independent branch of global network economy which cannot be ignored. The Russian Federation is in the lead in the CIS on development of e-commerce, but lags behind world leaders in institutionalization of e-commerce. Problems of state regulation of e-commerce in Russia are analyzed in article, ways of their decision are offered.
description: 14 pages, in Russian. ISSN 2073-2872
ผลของการใช้บทเรียน PISA ที่มีต่อความสามารถด้านทักษะกระบวนการทางคณิตศาสตร์ ของนักเรียนระดับประถมศึกษา
Creators: name: Wichai Panichsuay
Publisher: name: Naresuan University Graduate School
Year: 2019
Subjects: บทเรียน
PISA
ทักษะกระบวนการทางคณิตศาสตร์
PISA Lesson
Mathematical
Process Skills

description: Journal of Community Development Research (Humanities and Social Sciences), 12, 3, 133-160
Moffatt drift driven large scale dynamo due to $α$ fluctuations with nonzero correlation times
Creators: name: Singh, Nishant K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a theory of large-scale dynamo action in a turbulent flow that has stochastic, zero-mean fluctuations of the $α$ parameter. Particularly interesting is the possibility of the growth of the mean magnetic field due to Moffatt drift, which is expected to be finite in a statistically anisotropic turbulence. We extend the Kraichnan-Moffatt model to explore effects of finite memory of $α$ fluctuations, in a spirit similar to that of Sridhar & Singh (2014), hereafter SS14. Using the first-order smoothing approximation, we derive a linear integro-differential equation governing the dynamics of the large-scale magnetic field, which is non-perturbative in the $α$-correlation time $τ_α$. We recover earlier results in the exactly solvable white-noise (WN) limit where the Moffatt drift does not contribute to the dynamo growth/decay. To study finite memory effects, we reduce the integro-differential equation to a partial differential equation by assuming that the $τ_α$ be small but nonzero and the large-scale magnetic field is slowly varying. We derive the dispersion relation and provide explicit expression for the growth rate as a function of four independent parameters. When $τ_α\neq 0$, we find that: (i) in the absence of the Moffatt drift, but with finite Kraichnan diffusivity, only strong $α$-fluctuations can enable a mean-field dynamo; (ii) in the general case when also the Moffatt drift is nonzero, both, weak or strong $α$ fluctuations, can lead to a large-scale dynamo; and (iii) there always exists a wavenumber ($k$) cutoff at some large $k$ beyond which the growth rate turns negative. Thus we show that a finite Moffatt drift can always facilitate large-scale dynamo action if sufficiently strong, even in case of weak $α$ fluctuations, and the maximum growth occurs at intermediate wavenumbers.
description: 20 pages, 4 figures, submitted to the Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Initiating antiretroviral therapy when presenting with higher CD4 cell counts results in reduced loss to follow-up in a resource-limited setting
Creators: name: Pettifor, Audrey
name: Behets, Frieda
name: Bassett, Jean
name: Fox, Matthew P.
name: Van Rie, Annelies
name: Clouse, Kate
name: Maskew, Mhairi
name: Gay, Cynthia
name: Sanne, Ian
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: OBJECTIVE: In August 2011, South Africa expanded its adult antiretroviral therapy (ART) guidelines to allow treatment initiation at CD4 cell values 350 cells/μl or less. Mortality and morbidity are known to be reduced when initiating at higher CD4 levels; we explored the impact on patient loss to follow-up.

DESIGN: An observational cohort study.

METHODS: We analyzed routine data of 1430 adult patients initiating ART from April to December 2010 from a Johannesburg primary healthcare clinic offering ART initiation at CD4 cell count 350 cells/μl or less since 2010. We compared loss to follow-up (≥3 months late for the last scheduled visit), death, and incident tuberculosis within 1 year of ART initiation for those initiating at CD4 cell values 200 or less versus 201-350 cells/μl.

RESULTS: : Half (52.0%) of patients presented in the lower CD4 cell group [≤200 cells/μl, median: 105 cells/μl, interquartile range (IQR): 55-154] and initiated ART, and 48.0% in the higher group (CD4 cell count 201-350 cells/μl, median: 268 cells/μl, IQR: 239-307). The proportion of women and pregnant women was greater in the high CD4 cell group; the lower CD4 cell group included more patients with prevalent tuberculosis. Among men and nonpregnant women, initiating at 201-350 cells/μl was associated with 26-42% reduced loss to follow-up compared to those initiating 200 cells/μl or less. We found no CD4 cell effect among pregnant women. Risk of mortality [adjusted hazard ratio (aHR) 0.34, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.13-0.84] and incident tuberculosis (aHR 0.44, 95% CI 0.23-0.85) was lower among the higher CD4 cell group.

CONCLUSION: This is one of the first studies from a routine clinical setting to demonstrate South Africa's 2011 expansion of ART treatment guidelines can be enacted without increasing program attrition.
Anti- (Conjugate) Linearity
Creators: name: Uhlmann, Armin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This is an introduction to antilinear operators. In following E.P.Wigner the terminus "antilinear" is used as it is standard in Physics. Mathematicians prefer to say "conjugate linear". By restricting to finite-dimensional complex-linear spaces, the exposition becomes elementary in the functional analytic sense. Nevertheless it shows the amazing differences to the linear case. Basics of antilinearity is explained in sections 2, 3,4, 7 and in subsection 1.2: Spectrum, canonical Hermitian form, antilinear rank one and two operators, the Hermitian adjoint, classification of antilinear normal operators, (skew) conjugations, involutions, and acq-lines, i.e. the antilinear counterparts of 1-parameter operator groups. Applications include the representation of the Lagrangian Grassmannian by conjugations, its covering by acq-lines, as well as results on equivalence relations. After remembering elementary Tomita-Takesaki theory, antilinear maps, assiciated associated to a two-partite quantum system, are defined. By allowing to write modular objects as twisted products of pairs of them, they open some new ways to express EPR and teleportation tasks. The appendix presents a look onto the rich structure of antilinear operator spaces.
description: 88 pages, comments and remarks are wellcome
Proposed parameter-free model for interpreting the measured positron annihilation spectra of materials using a generalized gradient approximation
Creators: name: Barbiellini, Bernardo
name: Kuriplach, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Positron annihilation spectroscopy is often used to analyze the local electronic structure of materials of technological interest. Reliable theoretical tools are crucial to interpret the measured spectra. Here, we propose a parameter-free gradient correction scheme for a local-density approximation obtained from high quality quantum Monte Carlo data. The results of our calculations compare favorably with positron affinity and lifetime measurements opening new avenues for highly precise and advanced positron characterization of materials.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables
How digital tools make circular economy operational in industrial areas: The example of BE CIRCLE
Creators: name: Bergmann, Thorsten
name: Guyot-Phung, Carola
name: Antoniucci, Delphine
Publisher: name: Institut für betriebswirtschaftliches Management im Fachbereich Chemie und Pharmazie
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 330 Economics

description: Industry is facing growing pressure to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and waste by regulation. Circular economy principles can be used to optimize resource flows in industry. However, industry still faces concrete financial, regulatory, technological, and organizational barriers to do so. For the establishment of industrial synergies, ecosystems can be seen as a useful concept to frame and implement circular economy principles. New digital tools can support the implementation of circular economy projects, which use field and publicly available data. In this article, we present “BE CIRCLE” as an example for digital services that help to identify new opportunities to cut GHG emissions by closing resource loops. During the development of BE CIRCLE, three case studies with two industrial parks and one port were conducted. The outcomes and learnings are described. In addition, recommendations for data management will be proposed.
title: A new coaxial biopsy needle (Soft-guard) while performing percutaneous image-guided biopsies
Creators: name: Cazzato, Roberto Luigi
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Percutaneous
subject: CT
subject: Biopsy
subject: Pathology

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: In 1989, Akins et al. reported for the first time about the blunt-tip technique [1] applied while performing biopsies and drainages; in particular, authors were interested in testing such technique in order to prevent iatrogenic haemorrhagic...
Investigating full-heavy tetraquarks composed of $cc\bar{c}\bar{b}$ and $bb\bar{b}\bar{c}$
Creators: name: Hu, Jing
name: He, Bing-Ran
name: Ping, Jia-Lun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The full-heavy tetraquarks $cc\bar{c}\bar{b}$ and $bb\bar{b}\bar{c}$ are systematically investigated within the chiral quark model. The meson-meson structure, diquark-antidiquark structure and K-structure are considered in this work. There is no bound state for $cc\bar{c}\bar{b}$ and $bb\bar{b}\bar{c}$ systems in $ IJ^{P}=00^{+},01^{+}$ and $ 02^{+}$ channels. However, for $cc\bar{c}\bar{b}$ system, three possible resonance states with energy of $ 10079~{\rm MeV} $, $ 10081~{\rm MeV} $ and $ 10177~{\rm MeV} $ are found in $ IJ^{P}=00^{+},01^{+}$ and $ 02^{+}$, respectively, and their decay width $ Γ$ are $6.7-8.4~{\rm MeV} $, $1.4-7.2~{\rm MeV} $ and $9.1-11.1~{\rm MeV} $. For $bb\bar{b}\bar{c}$ system, there also exist three possible resonance states with energy of $ 16474~{\rm MeV} $, $ 16474~{\rm MeV} $ and $ 16541~{\rm MeV} $ in $ IJ^{P}=00^{+},01^{+}$ and $ 02^{+}$, respectively, and the decay widths $ Γ$ of them are $2.2-6.1~{\rm MeV} $, $2.2-6.9~{\rm MeV} $ and $5.3-8.5~{\rm MeV} $. $bc\bar{c}\bar{c}$ and $cb\bar{b}\bar{b}$ systems will have the same results as $cc\bar{c}\bar{b}$ and $bb\bar{b}\bar{c}$, respectively. These full-heavy resonance states are worthy to be searched in the future experiments.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures
Joint Answering and Explanation for Visual Commonsense Reasoning
Creators: name: Li, Zhenyang
name: Guo, Yangyang
name: Wang, Kejie
name: Wei, Yinwei
name: Nie, Liqiang
name: Kankanhalli, Mohan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Visual Commonsense Reasoning (VCR), deemed as one challenging extension of the Visual Question Answering (VQA), endeavors to pursue a more high-level visual comprehension. It is composed of two indispensable processes: question answering over a given image and rationale inference for answer explanation. Over the years, a variety of methods tackling VCR have advanced the performance on the benchmark dataset. Despite significant as these methods are, they often treat the two processes in a separate manner and hence decompose the VCR into two irrelevant VQA instances. As a result, the pivotal connection between question answering and rationale inference is interrupted, rendering existing efforts less faithful on visual reasoning. To empirically study this issue, we perform some in-depth explorations in terms of both language shortcuts and generalization capability to verify the pitfalls of this treatment. Based on our findings, in this paper, we present a plug-and-play knowledge distillation enhanced framework to couple the question answering and rationale inference processes. The key contribution is the introduction of a novel branch, which serves as the bridge to conduct processes connecting. Given that our framework is model-agnostic, we apply it to the existing popular baselines and validate its effectiveness on the benchmark dataset. As detailed in the experimental results, when equipped with our framework, these baselines achieve consistent and significant performance improvements, demonstrating the viability of processes coupling, as well as the superiority of the proposed framework.
(101086) Ellen Gilmore
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(101082) John Gilmore
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Image quality and radiation exposure of coronary CT angiography performed by the novel whole-heart coverage CT-scanner in a large population of patients with atrial fibrillation
Creators: name: Andreini, Daniele
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Cardiac
subject: CT
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: CAD
subject: Artifacts
subject: Arteriosclerosis
subject: Artifacts

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Coronary CT angiography (CCTA) is gaining widespread acceptance for the non-invasive evaluation of coronary arteries and its clinical use has been recognized by the latest guidelines on the management of stable coronary artery disease...
Joint effects of alcohol consumption and high-risk sexual behavior on HIV seroconversion among men who have sex with men
Creators: name: Ostrow, David G.
name: Cole, Stephen R.
name: Jacobson, Lisa P.
name: Eron, Joseph J.
name: Stall, Ronald D.
name: Sander, Petra M.
name: Gaynes, Bradley N.
name: Bolan, Robert K.
name: Napravnik, Sonia
name: Johnson-Hill, Lisette M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: OBJECTIVE: To estimate the effects of alcohol consumption and number of unprotected receptive anal intercourse partners on HIV seroconversion while appropriately accounting for time-varying confounding.

DESIGN: Prospective cohort of 3725 HIV-seronegative men in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study between 1984 and 2008.

METHODS: Marginal structural models were used to estimate the joint effects of alcohol consumption and number of unprotected receptive anal intercourse partners on HIV seroconversion.

RESULTS: Baseline self-reported alcohol consumption was a median 8  drinks/week (quartiles: 2, 16), and 30% of participants reported multiple unprotected receptive anal intercourse partners in the prior 2 years. Five hundred and twenty-nine HIV seroconversions occurred over 35 ,870 person-years of follow-up. After accounting for several measured confounders using a joint marginal structural Cox proportional hazards model, the hazard ratio for seroconversion associated with moderate drinking (1-14 drinks/week) compared with abstention was 1.10 [95% confidence limits: 0.78, 1.54] and for heavy drinking (>14 drinks/week) was 1.61 (95% confidence limits: 1.12, 2.29) (P for trend <0.001). The hazard ratios for heavy drinking compared with abstention for participants with 0-1 or more than 1 unprotected receptive anal intercourse partner were 1.37 (95% confidence limits: 0.88, 2.16) and 1.96 (95% confidence limits: 1.03, 3.72), respectively (P for interaction = 0.42).

CONCLUSION: These findings suggest that alcohol interventions to reduce heavy drinking among men who have sex with men should be integrated into existing HIV prevention activities.
Results of the Classical and other Long-Term Experiments - 2017
Creators: name: Rothamsted Experimental Station
Publisher: name: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: rothamsted research
subject: crop yield
subject: broadbalk long-term experiment
subject: park grass long-term experiment
subject: rothamsted long-term experiments
subject: hoosfield alternate wheat and fallow long-term experiment
subject: exhaustion land long-term experiment
subject: broadbalk wilderness experiment
subject: geescroft wilderness experiments
subject: agdell long-term experiment
subject: barnfield long-term experiment
subject: Garden clover long-term experiment

description: Scanned PDF of Results of the Classical and other Long-Term Experiments - 2017
Older HIV-infected patients on antiretroviral therapy have B-cell expansion and attenuated CD4 cell increases with immune activation reduction
Creators: name: Pollard, Richard B.
name: Kalayjian, Robert C.
name: Lederman, Michael M.
name: Matining, Roy M.
name: Landay, Alan
name: Spritzler, John
name: Gross, Barry H.
name: Francis, Isaac R.
name: Fiscus, Susan A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: The contribution of immune activation to accelerated HIV-disease progression in older individuals has not been delineated.
Opportunities for sexual transmission of antiretroviral drug resistance among HIV-infected patients in care
Creators: name: Napravnik, Sonia
name: Zakharova, Oksana M.
name: Hurt, Christopher B.
name: Soeters, Heidi M.
name: Eron, Joseph J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: OBJECTIVE: To assess opportunities for transmitted drug resistance (TDR), we examined sexual risk behaviours, HIV viraemia and antiretroviral resistance among patients in care.

DESIGN: A retrospective, cross-sectional analysis of clinical cohort data.

METHODS: For 244 UNC Center for AIDS Research HIV Clinical Cohort participants, demographic and behavioural data were obtained during in-person interviews between 2000 and 2011. Genotypic resistance tests were interpreted using WHO surveillance drug resistance mutations (SDRMs). Log-linear binomial regression was used to evaluate associations with TDR risk, defined as unprotected sex in the prior 6 months, HIV RNA at least 400 copies/ml and at least one SDRM.

RESULTS: Participants included 91 (37%) women and 153 men, of whom 92 (60%) were MSM. Median age was 43 years; 70% were Black (n = 171). Most (97%) were antiretroviral-experienced; 44% had exposure to more than four regimens. Among 204 individuals on antiretrovirals, 42% reported suboptimal adherence and 29% were viraemic. Over half of participants had at least one SDRM (n = 131); 26 (11%) had triple-class resistance. Overall, 70% were sexually active, and 55% used condoms inconsistently. Thirty (12%) reported unprotected sex during periods of drug-resistant viraemia. Higher TDR risk was associated with prior homelessness [adjusted prevalence ratio (aPR) 2.20, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.16-4.18], active substance use (aPR 3.12, 95% CI 1.47-6.62) and nonsignificantly with MSM (aPR 1.75, 95% CI 0.93-3.28).

CONCLUSION: A small but significant proportion of clinic patients with drug-resistant HIV engage in sexual behaviours that place others at risk for TDR. Targeted efforts in secondary prevention could have an impact on TDR incidence, over time.
Landau Damping of Electrostatic Waves in Arbitrarily Degenerate Quantum Plasmas
Creators: name: Rightley, Shane
name: Uzdensky, Dmitri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We carry out a systematic study of the dispersion relation for linear electrostatic waves in an arbitrarily degenerate quantum electron plasma. We solve for the complex frequency spectrum for arbitrary values of wavenumber $k$ and level of degeneracy $μ$. Our finding is that for large $k$ and high $μ$ the real part of the frequency $ω_{r}$ grows linearly with $k$ and scales with $μ$ only because of the scaling of the Fermi energy. In this regime the relative Landau damping rate $γ/ω_{r}$ becomes independent of $k$ and varies inversly with $μ$. Thus, damping is weak but finite at moderate levels of degeneracy for short wavelengths.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, replaced with the final version accepted for publication in Physics of Plasmas Letters
Safety and immunological responses to human mesenchymal stem cell therapy in difficult-to-treat HIV-1-infected patients
Creators: name: Zhang, Zheng
name: Su, Lishan
name: Nie, Weimin
name: Wang, Siyu
name: Wang, Xicheng
name: Wang, Fu Sheng
name: Zhao, Min
name: Fu, Junliang
name: Xu, Ruonan
name: Xu, Xiangsheng
name: Li, Taisheng
name: Zhang, Jiyuan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: HAART largely decreases morbidity and mortality in chronic HIV-1-infected patients, but immune nonresponders (INRs) with full viral suppression still fail to reverse the immune deficiency. This study evaluated the safety and immunological responses of human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) therapy in HIV-1-infected INRs.
title: The enhancement of diagnostic algorithm of patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Creators: name: Venidiktova, Darya
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Liver
subject: Computer applications
subject: Abdomen
subject: Absorptiometry / Bone densitometry
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Elastography
subject: Screening
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Puncture
subject: Metabolic disorders
subject: Cirrhosis
subject: Pathology

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To evaluate the efficiency of diagnostic complex of dual-energy x-ray absorbtiometry (DEXA), ultrasound steatosis module (US-SM) and ultrasound share-wave elastography (SWE) as the enhancement of diagnostic algorithm for patients with non-alcoholic...
(101084) Francis Augustus Barnett
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Model Comparison and Calibration Assessment: User Guide for Consistent Scoring Functions in Machine Learning and Actuarial Practice
Creators: name: Fissler, Tobias
name: Lorentzen, Christian
name: Mayer, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: One of the main tasks of actuaries and data scientists is to build good predictive models for certain phenomena such as the claim size or the number of claims in insurance. These models ideally exploit given feature information to enhance the accuracy of prediction. This user guide revisits and clarifies statistical techniques to assess the calibration or adequacy of a model on the one hand, and to compare and rank different models on the other hand. In doing so, it emphasises the importance of specifying the prediction target functional at hand a priori (e.g. the mean or a quantile) and of choosing the scoring function in model comparison in line with this target functional. Guidance for the practical choice of the scoring function is provided. Striving to bridge the gap between science and daily practice in application, it focuses mainly on the pedagogical presentation of existing results and of best practice. The results are accompanied and illustrated by two real data case studies on workers' compensation and customer churn.
description: 70 pages, 22 figures
Trade, uneven development and people in motion: Used territories and the initial spread of COVID-19 in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean
Creators: name: Chaves, LF
name: Friberg, MD
name: Hurtado, LA
name: Rodríguez, R Marín
name: O'Sullivan, D
name: Bergmann, LR
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4404
subject: Development studies
classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4901
subject: Applied mathematics
classificationCode: 3304
subject: Urban and regional planning

description: Mesoamerica and the Caribbean form a region comprised by middle- and low-income countries affected by the COVID-19 pandemic differently. Here, we ask whether the spread of COVID-19, measured using early epidemic growth rates (r), reproduction numbers (Rt), accumulated cases, and deaths, is influenced by how the ‘used territories’ across the regions have been differently shaped by uneven development, human movement and trade differences. Using an econometric approach, we found that trade openness increased cases and deaths, while the number of international cities connected at main airports increased r, cases and deaths. Similarly, increases in concentration of imports, a sign of uneven development, coincided with increases in early epidemic growth and deaths. These results suggest that countries whose used territory was defined by a less uneven development were less likely to show exacerbated COVID-19 patterns of transmission. Health outcomes were worst in more trade-dependent countries, even after controlling for the impact of transmission prevention and mitigation policies, highlighting how structural effects of economic integration in used territories were associated with the initial COVID-19 spread in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean.
title: Low-dose coronary CT angiography in patients with atrial fibrillation: comparison of image quality and radiation exposure with two different approaches
Creators: name: Andreini, Daniele
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Cardiac
subject: CT
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: CAD
subject: Artifacts
subject: Arteriosclerosis
subject: Artifacts

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: A newest scanner that combines a 0.23 mm spatial resolution, a new generation of iterative reconstruction, fast gantry rotation time and the intracycle motion-correction algorithm to improve the temporal resolution was introduced in the clinical...
Precise QCD predictions for the production of a Z boson in association with a hadronic jet
Creators: name: Ridder, A. Gehrmann-De
name: Gehrmann, T.
name: Glover, E. W. N.
name: Huss, A.
name: Morgan, T. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the cross section and differential distributions for the production of a Z boson in association with a hadronic jet to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in perturbative QCD, including the leptonic decay of the Z boson. We present numerical results for the transverse momentum and rapidity distributions of both the Z boson and the associated jet at the LHC. We find that the NNLO corrections increase the next-to-leading order (NLO) predictions by approximately 1% and significantly reduce the scale variation uncertainty.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures. Revised version corrects a numerical issue and improves Monte Carlo statistics
(101085) Edward Clark
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Teilhabe durch performative Musikpraxis
title: eine Untersuchung zur gesellschaftichen Akzeptanz von Menschen mit Behinderung bei öffentlich musikalischen Auftritten
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Wieczorek, Meike
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Musik
subject: Teilhabe
subject: Behinderung
subject: 360
subject: 370
subject: Musik
subject: Teilhabe
subject: Behinderung

description: Die Dissertationsschrift Teilhabe durch performative Musikpraxis. Eine Untersuchung zur gesellschaftlichen Akzeptanz von Menschen mit Behinderung bei öffentlich musikalischen Auftritten setzt sich mit der Frage zur gesellschaftlichen Reaktion auf das Phänomen der Behinderung im Kontext von Musik und öffentlicher Kultur auseinander. Das Forschungs-projekt bezieht sich auf den außerschulischen Bereich der kulturellen Teilhabe und stützt sich auf Artikel 30 Abs. 2 der UN-BRK. Theoretisch knüpft die Untersuchung an den wissenschaftlichen Diskurs über kulturelle Teilhabe und den beiden an der TU Dortmund durch-geführten Modellversuchen, Bochumer Modell und Dortmunder Modell: Musik an. Im Sinne der quantitativ-empirischen Sozialforschung wird die Akzeptanz von Musiker_innen mit Behinderung und die Musizierfähigkeit von Menschen mit Behinderung erhoben und in Bezug auf verschiedene Variablen analysiert.
title: Whole-lesion histogram analysis of contrast-enhanced breast MRI: correlation with Ki-67 expression.
Creators: name: Cuocolo, Renato
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Oncology
subject: MR
subject: Computer Applications-General
subject: Segmentation
subject: Statistics
subject: Cancer
subject: Genetic defects

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Histogram analysis of breast lesions has been proposed as a tool to help both in characterization and prognostic evaluation of breast lesions. Among the genotypic evaluations of breast cancer, Ki-67 is a known marker of cell proliferation and its...
Reducible chiral four-body interactions in nuclear matter
Creators: name: Kaiser, N.
name: Milkus, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The method of unitary transformations generates five classes of leading-order reducible chiral four-nucleon interactions which involve pion-exchanges and a spin-spin contact-term. Their first-order contributions to the energy per particle of isospin-symmetric nuclear matter and pure neutron matter are evaluated in detail. For most of the closed four-loop diagrams the occurring integrals over four Fermi-spheres can be reduced to easily manageable one- or two-parameter integrals. One observes substantial cancelations among the different contributions arising from 2-ring and 1-ring diagrams. Altogether, the net attraction generated by the chiral four-nucleon interaction does not exceed values of $-1.3$\,MeV for densities $ρ<2ρ_0$.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures, submitted to European Physical Journal A
Adherence to extended postpartum antiretrovirals is associated with decreased breast milk HIV-1 transmission
Creators: name: Tegha, Gerald
name: Zimba, Chifundo
name: Kamthunzi, Portia
name: Majawa, Maganizo
name: Ahmed, Yusuf
name: Mndala, Gertrude
name: Loeliger, Edde
name: Piwoz, Ellen
name: Bayer, Ronald
name: Nelson, Julie A.E.
name: Bramson, Brian
name: Tembo, Martin
name: Chavula, Charity
name: Kazembe, Peter
name: Nkhoma, Jacqueline
name: Mita, Khama
name: Guay, Laura
name: Kayira, Dumbani
name: Merry, Ceppie
name: Rublein, John
name: Kamanga, Esmie
name: Kamwendo, Deborah
name: Musis, Bonface
name: Heilig, Chad
name: Raines, Byron
name: Tohill, Beth
name: Sellers, Christopher
name: Adair, Linda
name: Luhanga, Misheck
name: Eron, Joseph
name: Bobrow, Emily
name: Marcus, Cheryl
name: Jamieson, Denise J.
name: Ait-Khaled, Mounir
name: Van Der Horst, Charles
name: Wiyo, Patricia
name: Boyle, Nicola
name: Shugars, Diane
name: Madhlopa, Victor
name: Mwapasa, Gerald
name: Corneli, Amy
name: Kanyama, Cecilia
name: Waalberg, Esther
name: Kumwenda, Jacob
name: Chikhungu, Norah
name: Chiudzu, Grace
name: Fokar, Ali
name: Tien, Hsiao Chuan
name: McDonough, Marita
name: Maida, Alice
name: Chasela, Charles S.
name: Mayuni, Isabel
name: Mkomawanthu, Chimwemwe
name: Miller, William C.
name: Spensley, Allison
name: Bentley, Margaret
name: King, Caroline C.
name: Joaki, George
name: Pendame, Richard
name: Bangdiwala, Shrikant
name: Muita, Jane
name: Snowden, Wendy
name: Ferguson, Yvonne Owens
name: Flax, Valerie
name: Kourtis, Athena P.
name: Davis, Nicole L.
name: Ramdas, Zane
name: Wiener, Jeffrey
name: Parker, Megan
name: Mayers, Douglas
name: Albrecht, Sandra
name: Widen, Elizabeth
name: Kampani, Coxcilly
name: Hurst, Stacy
name: Butera, Sal
name: Mwansambo, Charles
name: Ellington, Sascha R.
name: Sichali, Dorothy
name: Meme, Joyce
name: Dow, Anna
name: Mndala, Ibrahim
name: Jordan-Bell, Elizabeth
name: Martinson, Francis
name: Hosseinipour, Mina
name: Soko, Alice
name: Wilfert, Cathy
name: Chimerang'ambe, Joseph
name: Chilongozi, David
name: Krysiak, Robert
name: Hoffman, Irving
name: Farr, Sherry
name: Moses, Agnes
name: Long, Dustin
name: Msika, Albans
name: Knight, Rodney
name: Kathyola, Damson
name: Ryan, Mairin
name: Hyde, Lisa
name: Chikasema, Maria
name: Mumba, Noel
name: Kacheche, Zebrone
name: Matiki, Chrissie
name: Corbett, Amanda
name: Lee, Hana
name: Chome, Lenesi
name: Zgambo, Innocent
name: Kashuba, Angela
name: Fiscus, Susan
name: Eliya, Henry
name: Mtimuni, Beatrice
name: Cole, Anne
name: Thomas, Roshan
name: Jones, David
name: Duerr, Ann
name: Msungama, Wezi
name: Kamanga, Gift
name: Steens, Jean Marc
name: Hooten, Elizabeth
name: Galvin, Shannon
name: Stringer, Jeffrey S.A.
name: Thoofer, Navdeep
name: Chigwenembe, Maggie
name: Hudgens, Michael G.
name: Sanne, Ian
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Estimate association between postpartum antiretroviral adherence and breastmilk HIV-1 transmission
Managing product variety under operational constraints: A process-industrial outlook
Creators: name: Samuelson, Peter
name: Lager, Thomas
Publisher: name: Institut für betriebswirtschaftliches Management im Fachbereich Chemie und Pharmazie
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 330 Economics

description: Using a newly developed conceptual framework on “platform-based design of non-assembled products,” the process-industrial applicability of the framework in production and product design was investigated. In a survey of Nordic process industries the research instrument included a comprehensive questionnaire designed to stimulate respondents to act as “multiple informants”. The results indicate that the presented framework challenged company paradigms and working practices, but acknowledged the applicability of many components in the new framework. Moreover, the new findings suggest that the framework additionally can be deployed as an instrument in an assessment of corporate strategic production capabilities. The framework can already serve as a “theoretical coat hanger” for analyzing current company practices, but moreover as a point of departure for company introduction of platform-based production philosophy and a platform-based design of non-assembled products. Apart from the framework used in this study, publications in this area are scarce. The findings fulfill the criteria for a theoretical contribution since the results have both originality and high utility for academics as well as practitioners.