cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Economic and environmental impacts of implementing multiple agro-environmental policies in New Zealand
Creators: name: Daigneault, Adam J.
name: Greenhalgh, Suzie
name: Samarasinghe, Oshadhi
name: Daigneault, Adam J.
name: Greenhalgh, Suzie
name: Samarasinghe, Oshadhi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Agriculture and forestry modeling
subject: land use
subject: climate policy
subject: water quality
subject: greenhouse gas emissions
subject: nutrient management

description: Agricultural and forestry GHG emissions are a key feature of New Zealand’s emissions profile, and New Zealand is the only country, to date, to have indicated that agricultural and forestry emissions will be covered under their domestic climate policy – the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme. Coupled with climate policy development is the increasing scrutiny of agricultural impacts on water. This paper uses New Zealand Forest and Agriculture Regional Model (NZ-FARM) to assess the potential economic and environmental impacts of imposing both a climate and nutrient reduction policy on the agricultural and forestry industries in the Manawatu and Hurunui/Waiau catchments in New Zealand. We find that adding a scheme that reduces catchment-level nutrients by 20% on top of a national policy that puts a price of $25 per ton carbon dioxide equivalent on agricultural GHG emissions could result in greater environmental benefits at a relatively small cost, but the converse is not always true and could be significantly more costly for landowners.
Quantum Plasmonic Immunoassay Sensing
Creators: name: Kongsuwan, Nuttawut
name: Xiong, Xiao
name: Bai, Ping
name: You, Jia-Bin
name: Png, Ching Eng
name: Wu, Lin
name: Hess, Ortwin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Plasmon-polaritons are among the most promising candidates for next generation optical sensors due to their ability to support extremely confined electromagnetic fields and empower strong coupling of light and matter. Here we propose quantum plasmonic immunoassay sensing as an innovative scheme, which embeds immunoassay sensing with recently demonstrated room temperature strong coupling in nanoplasmonic cavities. In our protocol, the antibody-antigen-antibody complex is chemically linked with a quantum emitter label. Placing the quantum-emitter enhanced antibody-antigen-antibody complexes inside or close to a nanoplasmonic (hemisphere dimer) cavity facilitates strong coupling between the plasmon-polaritons and the emitter label resulting in signature Rabi splitting. Through rigorous statistical analysis of multiple analytes randomly distributed on the substrate in extensive realistic computational experiments, we demonstrate a drastic enhancement of the sensitivity up to nearly 1500% compared to conventional shifting-type plasmonic sensors. Most importantly and in stark contrast to classical sensing, we achieve in the strong-coupling (quantum) sensing regime an enhanced sensitivity that is no longer dependent on the concentration of antibody-antigen-antibody complexes -- down to the single-analyte limit. The quantum plasmonic immunoassay scheme thus not only leads to the development of plasmonic bio-sensing for single molecules but also opens up new pathways towards room-temperature quantum sensing enabled by biomolecular inspired protocols linked with quantum nanoplasmonics.
description: Just Accepted Manuscript, Nano Letters 2019
The twisted XXZ chain at roots of unity revisited
Creators: name: Korff, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The symmetries of the twisted XXZ spin-chain (alias the twisted six-vertex model) at roots of unity are investigated. It is shown that when the twist parameter is chosen to depend on the total spin an infinite-dimensional non-abelian symmetry algebra can be explicitly constructed for all spin sectors. This symmetry algebra is identified to be the upper or lower Borel subalgebra of the sl_2 loop algebra. The proof uses only the intertwining property of the six-vertex monodromy matrix and the familiar relations of the six-vertex Yang-Baxter algebra.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures. One footnote and some comments in the conclusions added
Initiating Standardized and Structured Handoff for Nurses in the Outpatient Setting
Creators: name: Wagner, Keri
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2022

Background: Handoff is the transfer and acceptance of patient care responsibility achieved through effective communication. Patient-specific information moves from one caregiver to another, to ensure continuity and safety. Ineffective handoffs negatively impact patient safety, patient and staff satisfaction, adverse events, missed care, and treatment delays.
Purpose: To decrease adverse events associated with ineffective handoff and improve nurse satisfaction by implementing a structured, electronic handoff process, inclusive of a standardized handoff report in an outpatient setting.
Methods: This quality improvement project implemented an evidence-based, electronic, structured, handoff process, utilizing situation-background-assessment-recommendation (SBAR). A pre-implementation survey was created to identify intra-organization patient transitions and assess nurse satisfaction. Reporting to Improve Safety and Quality (RISQ™) data for handoff were also evaluated. Four weeks and eight weeks after implementing the new handoff process a repeat satisfaction survey was sent to the nursing staff, RISQ™ data was analyzed and use reports were initiated.
Results: Initiating this structured and standardized handoff process, inclusive of identifying the transitions requiring handoff, led to an increase in nurse satisfaction with statistical significance p<.001 in 87.5% of the satisfaction categories, a 42% decrease in adverse events associated with handoff and an increase in the use of a structured handoff process.
Conclusion: Structuring outpatient handoff for defined care transitions, utilizing a report derived from the electronic medical record can improve patient safety and increase nurse satisfaction.
The Globular Cluster Luminosity Function
Creators: name: McLaughlin, Dean E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The main aspects of the globular cluster luminosity function needing to be explained by a general theory of cluster formation are reviewed, and the importance of simultaneously understanding globular cluster systematics (the fundamental plane) within such a theory is pointed out.
description: 7 pages, to appear in Proceedings of the ESO Workshop on Extragalactic Globular Cluster Systems, ed. M. Kissler-Patig
Slepian-Bangs formula and Cramer Rao bound for circular and non-circular complex elliptical symmetric distributions
Creators: name: Abeida, Habti
name: Delmas, Jean-Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper is mainly dedicated to an extension of the Slepian-Bangs formula to non-circular complex elliptical symmetric (NC-CES) distributions, which is derived from a new stochastic representation theorem. This formula includes the non-circular complex Gaussian and the circular CES (CCES) distributions. Some general relations between the Cramer Rao bound (CRB) under CES and Gaussian distributions are deduced. It is proved in particular that the Gaussian distribution does not always lead to the largest stochastic CRB (SCRB) as many authors tend to believe it. Finally a particular attention is paid to the noisy mixture where closedform expressions for the SCRBs of the parameters of interest are derived.
Improving LGBTQ Provider Competency in the Emergency Department: Guided by Leininger’s Theory of Transcultural Nursing
Creators: name: Casey, Kandyce
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2022

Abstract
Background: The lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) population have poorer health outcomes and health disparities due to stigma and discrimination when compared to the general population. The LGBTQ population represents many ethnicities, races, religions, social classes which creates an additional barrier to care. The LGBTQ person has higher rates of being uninsured and therefore healthcare is often delayed, or medical attention is sought in the emergency department (ED) for nonurgent issues. 
Purpose: To increase competency of ED providers when caring for the LGBTQ population in the ED by implementing an evidence-based educational program. 
Methods: The quality improvement (QI) project was conducted at a community ED and offered to physicians, physician assistants, nurses, and ancillary staff. Provider’s knowledge regarding LGBTQ healthcare was assessed using the Ally Identity Measure (AIM). An educational presentation was offered by a pre-recorded video of a PowerPoint or by attending a 60-minute PowerPoint presentation on LGBTQ specific healthcare needs in the ED to staff. Provider knowledge was evaluated after the educational training to assess AIM scores post-intervention.
Results: Following the intervention, a total of 13 participants showed an increase in knowledge and skills, openness and support, and oppression awareness. A paired samples t-test at p < .05 showed a statistically significant increase in AIM scores from pre to post intervention. 
Conclusion: Findings from the QI project demonstrate that implementing a specific LGBTQ educational intervention for providers increases competency in caring for the LGBTQ population in the ED.             
Keywords: LGBTQ health, provider competency, AIM, emergency department
MOESM2 of The ethical challenges raised in the design and conduct of pragmatic trials: an interview study with key stakeholders
Creators: name: Nicholls, Stuart
name: Carroll, Kelly
name: Merrick Zwarenstein
name: Brehaut, Jamie
name: Weijer, Charles
name: Hey, Spencer
name: Goldstein, Cory
name: Graham, Ian
name: Grimshaw, Jeremy
name: McKenzie, Joanne
name: Fergusson, Dean
name: Taljaard, Monica
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Trial expert interview guide.
The equilibrium fluctuations of a semiflexible filament cross linked into a network
Creators: name: Kernes, Jonathan
name: Levine, Alex J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the equilibrium fluctuation spectrum of a constituent semiflexible filament segment in a network. The effect of this cross linking is to modify the mechanical boundary conditions at the end of the filament. We consider the effect of both tensile stress in the network, and its elastic compliance. Most significantly, the network's compliance introduces a nonlinear term into the filament Hamiltonian even in the small-bending approximation. We analyze the effect of this nonlinearity upon the filament's fluctuation profile. We also find that there are three principal fluctuation regimes dominated by one of the following: (i) network tension, (ii) filament bending stiffness, or (iii) network compliance. We propose that one can use observed filament fluctuations as a noninvasive probe of network tension, and we provide the necessary response function to quantitatively analyze this sort of "tension microrheology" in cross linked semiflexible filament networks.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures
Probing the Inflow/Out-flow and Accretion Disk of Cyg X-1 in the High State with HETG/Chandra
Creators: name: Feng, Y. X.
name: Tennant, A. F.
name: Zhang, S. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cyg X-1 was observed in the high state at the conjunction orbital phase (0) with HETG/Chandra. Strong and asymmetric absorption lines of highly ionized species were detected, such as Fe XXV, Fe XXIV, Fe XXIII, Si XIV, S XVI, Ne X, and etc. In the high state the profile of the absorption lines are composed of an extended red wing and a less extended blue wing. The red wings of higher ionized species are more extended than that of lower ionized species. The detection of these lines provides a way to probe the properties of the flow around the companion and the black hole in Cyg X-1 during the high state. A broad emission feature around 6.5 keV was significantly detected from the both spectra of HETG/Chandra and PCA/RXTE. This feature appears to be symmetric and can be fitted with a Gaussian function rather than the Laor disk line model of fluorescent Fe K$_α$ line from an accretion disk. The implications of these results on the structure of the accretion flow of Cyg X-1 in the high state are discussed.
description: 16 pages, 4 fiugres. accepted for publication in the v597 n2 ApJ November 10, 2003 issue
Opportunities for Western Food Products in China: The Case of Orange Juice Demand
Creators: name: Chen, Xuqi
name: Gao, Zhifeng
name: House, Lisa
name: Chen, Xuqi
name: Gao, Zhifeng
name: House, Lisa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Western food products
subject: orange juice
subject: demand
subject: attitude
subject: willingness to pay

description: The rapid income per capita of Chinese consumers and increasing demand for nearly all agricultural products have attracted western food industries to focus on this booming and huge market. This research investigated the perspectives of western food products in China's market, with focus on one representative western food-orange juice, by studying the Chinese consumer knowledge, perceptions, and willingness to pay (WTP) for different types of orange juice products. Though the Chinese consumers' willingness to pay for 100 % juice exceeded the 10% juice as expected, it would not have been persuasive to conclude meaningful to develop the 100 % juice market in China unless the WTP is around the actual market price.
Additional file 8 of POLYAR, a new computer program for prediction of poly(A) sites in human sequences
Creators: name: Akhtar, Malik Nadeem
name: Bukhari, Syed Abbas
name: Fazal, Zeeshan
name: Raheel Qamar
name: Shahmuradov, Ilham A
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 8:Supplemental Table 8 - Comparative testing results of POLYAR, polya_svm and polyadq programs on 3748 5'-UTR sequences. (PDF 9 KB)
The Cross-Price Effect on Willingness-to-pay Estimates in Open-ended Contingent Valuation
Creators: name: Shi, Lijia
name: Chen, Xuqi
name: Gao, Zhifeng
name: Shi, Lijia
name: Chen, Xuqi
name: Gao, Zhifeng
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Demand and Price Analysis
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Pricing decisions for new product are always challenging due to limited information such as market needs and competition. Contingent valuation is a widely used technique to elicit value for new products or non-market goods. Previous literature has shown that potential buyers use a reference product to form their opinion about the value of a new product (Monroe and Della Bitta, 1978). Therefore, pricing decision is an interactive process. Based on the extensive marketing literature about cross-price effect, we investigate the impact of reference price on consumer willingness-to-pay (WTP) for multiple similar products in an open-ended contingent valuation context. Two generalizations of the cross-price effect: the neighborhood price effect and the asymmetric price effect are examined. Our results show that the cross-price effect on WTP is prominent and the neighborhood price effect also holds in contingent valuation. However, we don’t reach any conclusion about the asymmetric price effect based on our limited information.
An Artificial Intelligence based approach for constraining the redshift of blazars using $γ$--ray observation
Creators: name: Singh, K K
name: Dhar, V K
name: Meintjes, P J
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we discuss an artificial intelligence based approach to constrain the redshift of blazars using combined $γ$--ray observations from the \emph{Fermi} Large Area Telescope (LAT) and ground based atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (ACTs) in GeV and \emph{sub} TeV energy regimes respectively. The spectral measurements in GeV and TeV energy bands show a redshift dependent spectral break in the $γ$--ray spectra of blazars. We use this observational feature of blazars to constrain their redshift. The observed spectral information of blazars with known redshifts reported in the \emph{Fermi} catalogs (3FGL and 1FHL) and TeV catalog are used to train an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) based algorithm. The training of the ANN methodology is optimized using \emph{Levenberg - Marquardt} algorithm with $γ$--ray spectral indices and redshifts of 35 well observed blazars as input and output parameters respectively. After training, we use only observed spectral indices in GeV and sub TeV regimes for 10 blazars as inputs to predict their redshifts. The comparison of predicted redshifts by the ANN with the known redshift suggests that both the values are consistent within $\sim$ 18$\%$ uncertainty. The method proposed in the present work would be helpful in future for constraining or predicting the redshifts of the blazars using only observational $γ$--ray spectral informations obtained from the \emph{Fermi}-LAT and current generation IACTs as well as from the next generation Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) with improved source statistics.
description: 3 Figures, 3 Tables, Accepted for Publication in Experimental Astronomy
Is Primordial He Truly from Big Bang ?
Creators: name: Salvaterra, R.
name: Ferrara, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Population III stars are now believed to contribute to the observed Near Infrared Background (NIRB) and heavy element pollution of the intergalactic medium. Here we show that a Pop III contribution to the primordial He abundance consistent with NIRB constraints, might mask a lower value for the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) He abundance.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication on MNRAS
Famille admise associée à une valuation de K(X)
Creators: name: Vaquié, Michel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let K be a field with a valuation $ν$ and let L = K(x) be a transcendental extension of K, then any valuation $μ$ of L which extends $ν$ is determined by its restriction to the polynomial ring K[x]. We know how to associate to this valuation $μ$ a family of valuations A = ($μ$i)i$\in$I of K[x], called the associated admise family, which converges in a certain sense towards the valuation $μ$. Although the definition of this family, as well as the notion of convergence, essentially imply the structure of the polynomial ring, in particular the degree of polynomials, we show in this note that the family A of valuations of L do not depend on the chosen generator x.
description: in French
An attempt to construct pion distribution amplitude from the PCAC relation in the nonlocal chiral quark model
Creators: name: Bzdak, A.
name: Praszalowicz, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the PCAC relation, we derive a compact formula for the pion decay constant $F_π$ in the nonlocal chiral quark model. For practical calculations this formula may be used both in the Minkowski and in the Euclidean space. For the pion momentum $P_μ\to0$ it reduces to the well known expression derived earlier by other authors. Using a generalized dipole Ansatz for the momentum dependence of the constituent quark mass in the Minkowski space, we express $F_π^{2}$ in terms of a single integral over the quark momentum fraction $u$. We interpret the integrand as a pion distribution amplitude $ϕ(u)$. We discuss its properties and compare with the $π$DA's obtained in other models.
description: To appear in the special issue of Acta Physica Polonica to celebrate the 65th Birthday of Professor Jan Kwiecinski. 14 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 6 of POLYAR, a new computer program for prediction of poly(A) sites in human sequences
Creators: name: Akhtar, Malik Nadeem
name: Bukhari, Syed Abbas
name: Fazal, Zeeshan
name: Raheel Qamar
name: Shahmuradov, Ilham A
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 6:Supplemental Table 6 - Pentamers available in 20% or more of the positive set of PAS-less sequences. (PDF 10 KB)
Utilizing a Toolkit with Individualized Food Label Education for Healthy Food Choices to Reduce the Burden of Chronic Disease Among Black Americans
Creators: name: Kasidi, Johanna M.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2022

Background/Purpose: Black Americans are disproportionately affected by chronic diseases related to diet including hypertension, diabetes, obesity, and stroke when they lack healthy food options and healthy living environments. The purpose of this project was to implement and evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of a toolkit that primary care providers could use to educate and support Black adults in adopting healthy diet habits to improve overall outcomes and work towards decreasing this disparity.
Methods: This quality improvement project took place at a Community Health Clinic in an urban neighborhood. Participants received nutrition education utilizing a graphic titled “Your Nutrition Facts” that contained daily calorie and nutrient needs and a Brief Action Planning Intervention session to assist participants in developing a goal related to improving one nutrient for two weeks. Participants completed pre and post intervention Likert Scale surveys with questions on nutrition knowledge, ability to determine healthy foods from labels, and confidence in making diet changes.
Results: Effectiveness was measured using paired t-tests. Results showed a significant increase in all survey questions post intervention including a 22% overall increase in ability to tell if a food healthy from its label, a 10% increase in confidence of improving diet, and increases in knowledge of daily calorie needs (130%) and daily nutrient needs (151%).
Conclusions: Diet education and support, provided within primary care provider office visits is effective in improving knowledge, ability, and confidence in selecting healthy foods, and can work towards mitigating health disparities and the effects of structural racism.
Evaluating the Implementation of a Wellness Initiative in an Independent Living Community
Creators: name: Hannon, Pamela L
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2022

Background: An independent living community in New England is transforming their philosophical approach to wellness by implementing a new wellness initiative based on the Eight Dimensions of Wellness framework. Purpose: Using implementation science, we evaluated the process of implementing the Eight Dimensions of Wellness. Methods: A Pre-Implementation Survey was given to residents prior to the implementation and Post-Intervention Interviews of residents and staff was planned post-implementation. The post-intervention phase was not completed due to the delay in implementation at the site related to COVID-19. The data analysis of the of the Pre-Implementation Surveys included Kendall’s tau and Kruskal-Wallis tests. The results were intended to guide the implementation at the project site. The results of the Post-Intervention Interviews were meant to provide feedback regarding the success of the implementation. Results: Program participation was significantly related to age (p=.033) and living situation (p=.048). A significant relationship was found between program satisfaction and program participation (p<.001) and living situation (p=.016).Barriers to participation included time conflicts or participation in activities outside the Community; physical limitations; and lack of interest. The social dimension of wellness was a common theme that emerged, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Conclusions: Applying implementation science provided a critical view of the process and success of the implementation of the philosophical shift to Wellness thinking at one independent living community.
Cubic anomalies in WMAP
Creators: name: Land, Kate
name: Magueijo, Joao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a frequentist analysis of the bispectrum of WMAP first year data. We find clear signal domination up to l=200, with overall consistency with Gaussianity except for the following features. There is a flat patch (i.e. a low chi-squared region) in the same-l components of the bispectrum spanning the range l=32-62; this may be interpreted as ruling out Gaussianity at the 99.6% confidence level. There is also an asymmetry between the North and South inter-l bispectrum components at the 99% confidence level. The preferred asymmetry axis correlates well with the (l,b)=(57,10) direction quoted in the literature for asymmetries in the power spectrum and three-point correlation function. However our analysis of the quadrupole (its bispectrum and principal axes) fail to make contact with previously claimed anomalies.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures. Minor edits to match MNRAS version
The Effect of the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program on Childhood Obesity
Creators: name: Qian, Yiwei
name: Nayga, Rodolfo M.
name: Thomsen, Michael R.
name: Rouse, Heather
name: Qian, Yiwei
name: Nayga, Rodolfo M.
name: Thomsen, Michael R.
name: Rouse, Heather
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: body mass index
subject: childhood obesity
subject: fresh fruit and vegetable program
subject: matching
subject: difference-in-differences

description: This paper investigates how the Fresh Fruits and Vegetable Program (FFVP), a national program which provides funding for the distribution of free fresh fruits and vegetables to students in participating schools, affects childhood obesity. Using a panel data set, we combine matching methodology and difference-in-differences analysis to estimate the effect of the FFVP on childhood obesity outcomes. The results suggest that estimates of the FFVP effect are very sensitive to use of different matching methods. With the use of a stricter matching method, the estimate of the FFVP effect is negative and significant, indicating that the program reduces children’s body mass index. Less strict matching methods yield opposite results.
Unitarity corridors to exceptional points
Creators: name: Znojil, Miloslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non-Hermitian quantum one-parametric $N$ by $N$ matrix Hamiltonians $H^{(N)}(λ)$ with real spectra are considered. Their special choice $H^{(N)}(λ)=J^{(N)}+λ\,V^{(N)}(λ)$ is studied at small $λ$, with a general $N^2-$parametric real-matrix perturbation $λ\,V^{(N)}(λ)$, and with the exceptional-point-related "unperturbed" Jordan-block Hamiltonian $J^{(N)}$. A "stability corridor" ${\cal S}$ of the parameters $λ$ is then sought guaranteeing the reality of spectrum and realizing a unitary-system-evolution access to the exceptional-point boundary of stability. The corridors are then shown $N-$dependent and "narrow", corresponding to certain specific, unitarity-compatible perturbations with "admissible" matrix elements $V^{(N)}_{j+k,j}(λ) ={\cal O}(λ^{(k-1)/2})\,$ at subscripts $k=1,2,\ldots,N-1\,$ and at all $j$.
description: 21 pp., 1 fig
Changing Minds, Changing Lives: Increasing Resilience in Undergraduate Nursing Students Through the Implementation of a Resilience Educational Intervention Program
Creators: name: Rivera-Perez, Jennifer
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2022

Background: Nursing students suffer from high levels of stress and psychological distress, especially those with histories of childhood adversity. The COVID-19 pandemic has been an additional source of stress on students. Students who suffer from psychological distress are at greater risk of engaging in maladaptive behaviors that may lead to physical and psychological conditions. Despite this data, college campuses lack resilience intervention programs, which have been shown to reduce psychological distress, perceived stress, and increase resilience. Purpose: The purpose of this Quality Improvement project was to implement a well-established evidence-based resilience program for nursing students, and to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of the program. Methods: A 10-week in-person resilience program was implemented with 6 undergraduate nursing students. The program included active coping exercises, psychoeducational presentations, writing, and peer support. A post-survey was used to assess the feasibility and acceptability of the program. Results:  Six undergraduate nursing students completed the resilience program. After completing the program, one hundred percent of the students thought that their ability to use coping skills, use personal strengths, feel belonged, and supported increased significantly. Participants also described an increased ability to recognize their emotions, and healthily manage stress. One hundred percent indicated that they would recommend this program to incoming nursing students. Conclusion: The results of this QI project support the effectiveness, acceptability, and feasibility of the educational resilience program. 
Keywords: resilience intervention program, psychological distress, stress, nursing students, COVID-19
Analyzing longitudinal data in the presence of informative drop-out: The jmre1 command
Creators: name: Pantazis, Nikos
name: Touloumi, Giota
name: Pantazis, Nikos
name: Touloumi, Giota
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: jmre1
subject: jmre1_p
subject: datajoint1
subject: missing data
subject: informative censoring
subject: informative drop-out
subject: longitudinal data

description: Many studies in various research areas have designs that involve repeated measurements over time of a continuous variable across a group of subjects. A frequent and serious problem in such studies is the occurrence of missing data. In many cases, missing data are caused by an event that leads to a premature termination of the series of repeated measurements on some subjects. When the probability of the occurrence of this event is related to the subject-specific underlying trend of the variable of interest, this missingness process is called informative censoring or informative drop-out. Standard likelihood-based methods (for example, linear mixed models) fail to give consistent estimates. In such cases, one needs to apply methods that simultaneously model the observed data and the missingness process. In this article, we review a method proposed by Touloumi et al. (1999, Statistics in Medicine 18: 1215–1233) to adjust for informative drop-out in longitudinal data analysis. We also present the jmre1 command, which can be used to fit the proposed model. The estimation method combines the restricted iterative generalized least-squares method with a nested expectation-maximization algorithm. The method is implemented mainly using Stata’s matrix programming language, Mata. Our example is derived from the epidemiology of the HIV infection.
Charisia euphrosyne Clarke & Flora & Fauna & Casilla & de & Sierra & Bolivia 2016, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Clarke, Robin O. S.
name: Flora, Hotel
name: Fauna
name: Casilla
name: de, Santa Cruz
name: Sierra
name: Bolivia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Charisia
Charisia euphrosyne

description: Charisia euphrosyne (Newman, 1840), comb. nov.
(Fig. 23, 24)
 Charis euphrosyne Newman, 1840:21.
 Epimelitta euphrosyne; Aurivillius, 1912:284 (cat.); Monné and Giesbert, 1992:250 (syn.); Monné, 2016:811 (cat.).
 Charisia hirsutipennis Zajciw, 1973:14; Monné and Giesbert, 1992:250 (syn.).
 Measurements (mm), 1 female: total length, 14.85; length of pronotum, 2.60; width of pronotum, 2.90; length of elytra, 3.50; width at humeri, 2.80.
description: Published as part of Clarke, Robin O. S., Flora, Hotel, Fauna, Casilla, de, Santa Cruz, Sierra & Bolivia, 2016, Provisional revision of the genus Epimelitta Bates, 1870 and associated genera, with a brief synopsis of the genus Acorethra Bates, 1873 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae), pp. 1-43 in Insecta Mundi 2016 (504) on page 22, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5170799
The impact of a restrictive versus a liberal oxygen strategy on health-related quality of life after trauma – Protocol for a follow-up study on the TRAUMOX2 trial
Creators: name: Dinesen, Felicia
name: Arleth, Tobias
name: Bækgaard, Josefine
name: Siersma, Volkert
name: Heiberg, Johan
name: van Vledder, Mark
name: van Lieshout, Esther M. M.
name: Hautz, Wolf E.
name: Steinmetz, Jacob
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Oxygen
Trauma

description: This is a protocol for a follow-up study on the randomised trial TRAUMOX2.
MOESM1 of The ethical challenges raised in the design and conduct of pragmatic trials: an interview study with key stakeholders
Creators: name: Nicholls, Stuart
name: Carroll, Kelly
name: Merrick Zwarenstein
name: Brehaut, Jamie
name: Weijer, Charles
name: Hey, Spencer
name: Goldstein, Cory
name: Graham, Ian
name: Grimshaw, Jeremy
name: McKenzie, Joanne
name: Fergusson, Dean
name: Taljaard, Monica
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. PRECIS-2 Framework
Computing Murphy–Topel-corrected variances in a heckprobit model with endogeneity
Creators: name: Muro, Juan
name: Suárez, Cristina
name: Del Mar Zamora, María
name: Muro, Juan
name: Suárez, Cristina
name: Del Mar Zamora, María
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: binary choice model
subject: heckprobit
subject: selectivity
subject: endogenous variables
subject: two-step estimation
subject: qualitative models
subject: Murphy–Topel-corrected variances

description: We outline a fairly simple method to obtain in Stata Murphy–Topel-corrected variances for a two-step estimation of a heckprobit model with endogeneity in the main equation. The procedure uses predict’s score option and the powerful matrix tool accum in Stata and builds on previous works by Hardin (2002, Stata Journal 2: 253–266) and Hole (2006, Stata Journal 6: 521–529).
Multivariate outlier detection in Stata
Creators: name: Verardi, Vincenzo
name: Dehon, Catherine
name: Verardi, Vincenzo
name: Dehon, Catherine
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: mcd
subject: detection
subject: multivariate outliers
subject: robustness
subject: minimum covariance determinant

description: Before implementing any multivariate statistical analysis based on empirical covariance matrices, it is important to check whether outliers are present because their existence could induce significant biases. In this article, we present the minimum covariance determinant estimator, which is commonly used in robust statistics to estimate location parameters and multivariate scales. These estimators can be used to robustify Mahalanobis distances and to identify outliers. Verardi and Croux (1999, Stata Journal 9: 439–453; 2010, Stata Journal 10: 313) programmed this estimator in Stata and made it available with the mcd command. The implemented algorithm is relatively fast and, as we show in the simulation example section, outperforms the methods already available in Stata, such as the Hadi method.
Supersymmetry breaking with quasi-localized fields in orbifold field theories
Creators: name: Gersdorff, G. V.
name: Pilo, L.
name: Quiros, M.
name: Rayner, D. A. J.
name: Riotto, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Scherk-Schwarz supersymmetry breaking in five-dimensional orbifold theories with five-dimensional fields which are not strictly localized on the boundaries (quasi-localized fields). We show that the Scherk-Schwarz (SS) mechanism, besides the SS parameter ω, depends upon new parameters, e.g. supersymmetric five-dimensional odd mass terms, governing the level of localization on the boundaries of the five-dimensional fields and study in detail such a dependence. Taking into account radiative corrections, the value of ωis dynamically allowed to acquire any value in the range 0< ω< 1/2.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures
Foreign Agricultural Trade of the United States March/April 1991
Creators: name: Warden, Thomas
name: Warden, Thomas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Imports
subject: exports
subject: noncompetitive products
subject: Market Promotion

description: U.S. agricultural exports fell to $16.5 billion (55 million tons) during the ·first 5 months of FY 1991, a decline of $1.4 billion and 14 million tons... Agricultural imports remained at $9.4 ·billion during the first 5 months of FY 1991....USDA allocated $200 million to 47 trade organizations to conduct export market promotions for a variety of agricultural products during FY 1991... Japan was the top market for U.S. agricultural exports during the past 3 fiscal years, followed by the Soviet Union, Canada, South Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, Taiwan, West Germany, and China.
Improving Medication Adherence in the Older Adult Population Through the Utilization of Home Delivery and Single Dose Packaging Programs
Creators: name: Anderson, Julia
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2022

Background: Older adults often suffer from comorbid conditions, impaired mobility, and lack of transportation, all of which can impact medication adherence.
Purpose: This project sought to analyze the impacts of dose sorted home delivered medication use on health outcomes in older adults and promote its use at a senior center.
Methods: The DNP student intended to assist older adults in enrolling in home delivery pharmacy services, however no participants enrolled. This project then gathered feedback from older adults on hesitancy to utilize online pharmacies as well as professional opinions of pharmacists and nurse practitioners on potential barriers to online pharmacy use. This qualitative data was gathered via in-person interviews and common themes were reviewed with the project chair.
Results: Pharmacists and nurse practitioners identified that medication adherence is impaired in this population but thought that many patients either do not recognize the problem or do not see impaired adherence as problematic. Mail order pharmacy services may be beneficial for this population, but many older adults prefer in-person interaction.  The older adults who were interviewed liked visiting their pharmacy and did not want to change.  Providers also have little knowledge of or experience with these services and therefore do not recommend them to patients.
Conclusions: Impaired medication compliance is a problem for older adults, providers, and the healthcare system. Mail order pharmacy services may alleviate this, but older adults and providers are hesitant to use them. Future projects may benefit from addressing the reasons for hesitancy to utilize these services.
Additional file 7 of POLYAR, a new computer program for prediction of poly(A) sites in human sequences
Creators: name: Akhtar, Malik Nadeem
name: Bukhari, Syed Abbas
name: Fazal, Zeeshan
name: Raheel Qamar
name: Shahmuradov, Ilham A
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 7:Supplemental Table 7 - CPU time comparison of POLYAR and polya_svm programs on 8261 poly(A) site and 19600 intronic sequences. (PDF 7 KB)
Star Cluster Formation and Evolution in Nearby Starburst Galaxies: I. Systematic Uncertainties
Creators: name: de Grijs, R.
name: Alvensleben, U. Fritze-v.
name: Anders, P.
name: Gallagher, J. S.
name: Bastian, N.
name: Taylor, V. A.
name: Windhorst, R. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (ABBREVIATED:) The large majority of extragalactic star cluster studies done to date have essentially used two or three-passband aperture photometry, combined with theoretical stellar population synthesis models, to obtain age, mass and extinction estimates, and sometimes also metallicities. The accuracy to which this can be done depends on the choice of passband combination and, crucially, also on the wavelength range covered. Understanding the systematic uncertainties is of the utmost importance for a well-balanced interpretation of the properties of extragalactic star cluster systems. We simultaneously obtain ages, metallicities and extinction values for ~300 clusters in the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 3310, based on archival Hubble Space Telescope observations from the ultraviolet (UV) to the near-infrared (NIR). We show that, for ages 6 <= log(age/yr) <= 9, and if one can only obtain partial coverage of the spectral energy distribution (SED), an optical passband combination of at least four filters including BOTH blue AND red passbands results in the most representative age distribution. We find that while blue-selected passband combinations lead to age distributions that are slightly biased towards younger ages due to the age-metallicity degeneracy, red-dominated passband combinations should be avoided. NGC 3310 underwent a global burst of cluster formation ~3x10^7 yr ago. This coincides closely with the last tidal interaction or merger with a low-metallicity galaxy that likely induced the formation of the large fraction of clusters with (significantly) subsolar metallicities. The observed cluster system has a median mass of = 5.25 +- 0.1, obtained from scaling the appropriate model SEDs for known masses to the observed cluster SEDs.
description: 17 pages LaTeX, incl. 9 (encapsulated) postscript figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS
The impact of a restrictive versus a liberal oxygen strategy after trauma on 1-year mortality and functional outcome – Protocol for a follow-up study on the TRAUMOX2 trial
Creators: name: Dinesen, Felicia
name: Arleth, Tobias
name: Bækgaard, Josefine
name: Siersma, Volkert
name: Heiberg, Johan
name: van Vledder, Mark
name: van Lieshout, Esther M. M.
name: Hautz, Wolf E.
name: Steinmetz, Jacob
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Oxygen
Trauma

description: This is a protocol for a follow-up study on the randomised trial TRAUMOX2.
Unintegrated parton distributions of pions and nucleons from the CCFM equations in the single-loop approximation
Creators: name: Gawron, Agnieszka
name: Kwiecinski, Jan
name: Broniowski, Wojciech
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The unintegrated quark and gluon distributions in the pion and nucleon are analysed using the CCFM equations in the single-loop approximation. We utilise the transverse-coordinate (or impact-parameter) representation which diagonalises the equations and study in detail the dependence on the transverse coordinate induced by the CCFM evolution. We find considerable broadening of the transverse-momentum distributions with an increasing magnitude of the hard scale, Q. For instance, at the Bjorken x=0.1 the root mean squared transverse momentum of the gluons is enhanced by about 1 GeV when evolved from the the initial low scale to Q^2=10 GeV^2, and by about 2 GeV when evolved up to Q^2=100 GeV^2. The broadening effect is enhanced with decreasing Bjorken x, and is stronger for the gluons than for the quarks. Analytic solution for the average transverse momentum corresponding to the x-moments of the distributions is obtained. The parton luminosities are also discussed.
Charisia melanaria Gounelle 1911
Creators: name: Clarke, Robin O. S.
name: Flora, Hotel
name: Fauna
name: Casilla
name: de, Santa Cruz
name: Sierra
name: Bolivia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Charisia
Charisia melanaria

description: Charisia melanaria Gounelle, 1911, revalidated
(Fig. 25-28)
 Charisia melanaria Gounelle, 1911:57.
 Epimelitta melanaria; Aurivillius, 1912:284 (cat.); Monné, 2016:811 (cat.).
 Measurements (mm) 1 male / 1 female: total length, 16.25/14.75; length of pronotum, 2.70/2.25; width of pronotum, 3.10/2.65; length of elytra, 4.00/3.50; width at humeri, 3.50/3.00.
 Specimens analyzed: BRAZIL, São Paulo, Est. Saúde, male, 28.X.1916, Melzer col. (MZSP); Rio de Janeiro, Itatiaia, 500 m, female, 21.XI.1942, L. Wygodzinsky col. (MZSP).
description: Published as part of Clarke, Robin O. S., Flora, Hotel, Fauna, Casilla, de, Santa Cruz, Sierra & Bolivia, 2016, Provisional revision of the genus Epimelitta Bates, 1870 and associated genera, with a brief synopsis of the genus Acorethra Bates, 1873 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae), pp. 1-43 in Insecta Mundi 2016 (504) on pages 22-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5170799