cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Collaborative Writing Applications in Support Knowledge Management during Global Pandemics: A Scoping Review Protocol
Creators: name: Said Abasse, Kassim
name: Archambault, Patrick
name: Côté, André
name: Smith, Pascal
name: Paquet, Catherine
name: Toulouse-Fournier, Annie
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: collaborative writing applications
subject: disease outbreak
subject: disease outbreaks
subject: evidence-based medicine
subject: knowledge management
subject: knowledge translation
subject: pandemics
subject: wikis

description: Information and communication technologies have paved the way toward collaborative writing applications (CWAs) such as wikis and Google Documents, which hold the potential to enable real time use of evidence-base and response management in outbreak containment. This study aims to explore the depth and breadth of evidence for the use of CWAs to support knowledge translation (KT) in the context of a worldwide pandemic. In the specific context of KT during a viral pandemic, the purposes of this review will be to identify and map the literature on the use of CWAs; describe the evidence of each application’s positive and negative effects; inventory and describe the barriers and facilitators that affect the applications’ use; and produce an action plan and a research agenda. This study aims to explore the depth and breadth of evidence for the use of CWAs to support knowledge translation (KT) in the context of a worldwide pandemic. In the specific context of KT during a viral pandemic, the purposes of this review will be to identify and map the literature on the use of CWAs; describe the evidence of each application’s positive and negative effects; inventory and describe the barriers and facilitators that affect the applications’ use, and produce an action plan and a research agenda.
On a weak maximum principle for a class of fractional diffusive equations
Creators: name: Kenne, Cyrille
name: Mophou, Gisèle
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 26A33, 35B50, 46E35, 49K20

description: We consider two evolution equations involving space fractional Laplace operator of order $0
Uni ja immuunsus
Creators: name: Krigul, Adeele-Ann
name: Uibo, Raivo
Publisher: name: Eesti Arst
Year: 2023

description: Une ja immuunsuse vahel esineb kahesuunaline seos – une häirumine mõjutab immuunvastust ning häired immuunsuses mõjutavad und. Lühiajalised organismi ohustavad tegurid, nagu viirusega kokkupuude või äge unepuudus, viivad uneaja pikenemiseni. Seevastu pikaajaline kokkupuude ohuteguriga viib unerütmi ja põletikulise seisundi häirumiseni. Une ja immuunsuse vahelises seoses on oluline roll põletikulistel tsütokiinidel, prostaglandiinidel ja C-reaktiivsel valgul. Erinevate krooniliste infektsioonide, põletikuliste haiguste ja kasvajate uuringud on kinnitanud unekvaliteedi halvenemise ja põletikumarkerite vahelist seost.
description: Eesti Arst, 2023: September
Perinatal Vitamin D Status Influences Stress Hormone Levels in Adult CC026 Female Mice
Creators: name: Kumar, Padam
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Dysfunction of the body’s stress response system, the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, is a core symptom of many psychiatric disorders. Functional control of the HPA axis is genetically regulated and impacted by environment factors including access to various nutrients in utero. However, very little is known about specific genes or gene variants that interact with perinatal nutritional status to alter the HPA axis. Our laboratory measured basal and stress-induced corticosterone (CORT) after perinatal exposure to one of four nutritionally regulated diets in mice that were produced by reciprocally crossing Collaborative Cross (CC) inbred strains. We identified one mouse line, referred to as a recombinant inbred intercross or CC-RIX, that had markedly increased basal CORT compared to other lines. Interestingly, CORT levels were decreased in offspring exposed to a diet deficient in vitamin D during the perinatal period. We have subsequently shown that elevated CORT in the CC-RIX was primarily driven by one of the CC parent strains and that this phenotype is sex specific with only females exhibiting high CORT. Further, we have shown that high CORT in the CC parent strain can also be decreased by perinatal exposure to vitamin D deficiency. Finally, we examined the effect of exposure to VDD post-weaning on CORT levels in adult CC026 females and found evidence that VDD during this period could alter basal CORT, though these data were highly variable. These data provide further insight into the biological effects of vitamin D on stress hormone levels while illustrating the utility of CC026 in future studies of HPA axis function.
Formally Verifying Algorithms for Real Quantifier Elimination
Creators: name: Cordwell, Katherine
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Computational Logic and Formal Languages

description: Statements in the first-order logic of real arithmetic (FOLR) that involve the “there exists” and “for all” quantifiers arise in various application domains, including the formal verification of cyber-physical systems and robot motion planning. These quantifiers are difficult for both humans and computers to handle. The best way of analyzing quantified formulas in FOLR is to reduce them to logically equivalent quantifier-free formulas, through a process known as quantifier elimination (QE). By removing the quantifiers in a logically sound manner, QE makes formulas significantly simpler to analyze (as quantifier-free formulas can be easily evaluated by arithmetic in individual states, whereas quantified formulas cannot). Given the safety-critical nature of applications involving real quantifier elimination, having correct QE algorithms is crucial. For this, formally verifying QE algorithms—by implementing them in a theorem prover and developing associated proofs of correctness—is very desirable. These proofs of correctness are rigorous, as they rely only on the trusted core of the theorem prover—a (typically small) foundation of trusted code/logical axioms from which all other results are built. This thesis provides formally verified support for real QE with a two-pronged approach: First, develop support for efficient even if incomplete QE algorithms (which are specialized to a fragment of real arithmetic), with a focus on filling gaps in the existing body of related work. Second, develop support for a promising complete QE algorithm with the potential for eventual efficiency / good complexity. For the first goal, the thesis discusses a verification of linear and quadratic virtual substitution with a focus on correctness, experimentation, and optimization; the experiments show that this verified VS implementation is competitive with unverified implementations of VS. For the second goal, the thesis discusses the verification of a complete QE algorithm that uses insights from the influential Ben-Or, Kozen, and Reif (BKR) algorithm; although this verified algorithm does not currently exploit all insights from BKR and does not yet realize practical efficiency, it lays groundwork for eventual verified complete QE algorithms with strong parallel complexity bounds. This thesis uses the theorem prover Isabelle/HOL for both verifications.
Adverse events from pharmacopuncture in Korea: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Park, Jae
name: JANG, BO-HYOUNG
name: Kang, Sohyeon
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Alternative and Complementary Medicine
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: adverse events
subject: pharmacopucnture
subject: risk
subject: safety
subject: side effects

description: Pharmacopuncture is a traditional medicine treatment combining acupuncture and herbal medicines that originated in China and has been actively studied since the 1960s. Recently, various herbal extracts for use in it have been developed and used eﬀectively for various diseases. Currently, it is widely used as one of the major treatment techniques in Korea. However, compared to its effectiveness, studies on its safety are poor. Therefore, we review all kinds of clinical studies to investigate the incidence and characteristics of AEs associated with Pharmacopuncture treatment in Korea and assess the safety of Pharmacopuncture.
Estimating Effects of Two Years of Enriched Math: Third Grade Follow-Up
Creators: name: Mattera, Shira
name: Jacob, Robin
name: Morris, Pamela
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: Early Childhood Education
subject: Elementary Education

description: Making Pre-K Count (MPC) was designed to improve the life trajectories of children living in poverty by supporting skills in a domain, math, that has been associated with improved shorter- and long-term outcomes for children. Making Pre-K Count combines a rigorous and evidence-based preschool math curriculum with high-quality coaching and training to improve teachers’ math instruction and children’s early skills, including math, language, and self-regulation. The High 5s Program is an extension of MPC and is intended to provide a continued emphasis on math skills for Kindergarten students who experienced Building Blocks in Pre-K through MPC. In the High 5s program, groups of approximately four kindergarten students met three times a week with a trained Facilitator from Bank Street College of Education. Facilitators provided students with targeted instruction as they played fun, engaging math games. Previous research estimated the short term impacts of both years of enriched math ( Making Pre-K Count in pre-k and High 5s in kindergarten) on students' Kindergarten outcomes. This analysis estimates the impacts on children’s third grade outcomes for the students who received MPC and High 5s, compared with students who received pre-k and kindergarten-as-usual (a control group).
Canonical Representatives of Morphic Permutations
Creators: name: Avgustinovich, Sergey
name: Frid, Anna
name: Puzynina, Svetlana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: An infinite permutation can be defined as a linear ordering of the set of natural numbers. In particular, an infinite permutation can be constructed with an aperiodic infinite word over $\{0,\ldots,q-1\}$ as the lexicographic order of the shifts of the word. In this paper, we discuss the question if an infinite permutation defined this way admits a canonical representative, that is, can be defined by a sequence of numbers from [0, 1], such that the frequency of its elements in any interval is equal to the length of that interval. We show that a canonical representative exists if and only if the word is uniquely ergodic, and that is why we use the term ergodic permutations. We also discuss ways to construct the canonical representative of a permutation defined by a morphic word and generalize the construction of Makarov, 2009, for the Thue-Morse permutation to a wider class of infinite words.
description: Springer. WORDS 2015, Sep 2015, Kiel, Germany. Combinatorics on Words: 10th International Conference. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1503.06188
Experience and confidence
Creators: name: Lejarraga, Jose
name: Lejarraga, Tomas
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: confidence in choice
subject: decisions from experience
subject: Description-experience gap
subject: sampling paradigm

description: This is an experimental study to explore how different forms of presenting information (described or experienced information) to decision makers affect their confidence in choice and confidence in the realiability/trustworthiness of the information. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Decision makers use estimates of the reliability of the information they encounter to make a decision under uncertainty (Aitchison et al. 2015). For example, a manager will wait until the information she consults is deemed sufficiently reliable and trustworthy to make an important strategic decision. These perceptions of the reliability of the information they use can be communicated to third parties to reflect confidence in their beliefs or opinions, which can be useful in group discussions or leadership roles. The information used by decision makers to make a choice can typically be accessed in two broad ways: either it is access through their own experience (a sample of previously encountered choices) or through convenient descriptions of the probabilities and outcomes of the choice problem. In this study, we ask whether the source of information (experience or convenient descriptions) affects decision makers’ confidence level. More precisely, we ask whether the source of information affects two aspects of confidence: (1) confidence in the reliability of the information they used to make the choice, and (2) confidence in having made the right choice. Previous studies have emphasized the idea that experience breeds confidence even in settings where skills or expertise do not increase with experience (superstitious learning account). Yet, these changes in confidence have not been compared to other ways of learning about a task (e.g. descriptions of risky choices). We wonder whether some of the differences in choice behavior observed in the ‘DE gap’ literature may relate to differences in confidence brought about by the source of information.
Explaining Heterogeneity in Selection of Bangladeshi Migrant Laborers
Creators: name: Wang, Xiaosong
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Low-skilled migrant workers are often directed into foreign labor markets through middleman facilitated trade. Analyzing migration outflows of workers from agricultural Bangladesh, I construct a latent variable model to determine migration decisions. From this, empirical analysis is done on migration data to find relationships between middleman fee and other observable characteristics. I use a Heckman selection model, which provides strong evidence of self-selection by productivity and risk-preference, as well as weaker evidence for selection on the basis of productivity by middlemen. Overall, there is a lack of remigration and loss of experienced workers in the destination marketplace as well as very large degrees of variation in returns to education and productivity between countries.
Internet Use and Access, Behavior, Cyberbullying and Grooming. Revised questionnaire
Creators: name: Meschesi, Viviana
name: Pulvirenti, Giuliana
name: Moroni, Valeria
name: vismara, marco
name: Vismara, Stefano
name: vismara, Roberta
name: Lavano, Serena
name: Rapetto, Umberto
name: Valentini, Antonio
name: Lindmann, Anna
name: Toaff, Joseph
name: Cemicetti, Riccardo
name: Settanni, Chiara
name: Zepponi, Barbara
name: Landolfi, Nicola
name: Cotugno, David
name: Weisz, Filippo
name: Marotta, Rosa
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: cyberbullying
subject: grooming
subject: internet use
subject: questionnaire

description: The way children use the Internet and mobile technologies has changed in the last few years according to the Digital Agenda for Europe. The growing phenomenon of cyberbullying is among the risks associated with the increasing Internet use. Methods of access and use by teenagers are highly important factors in assessing those risks.In order to fight cyberbullying we expanded our previous study adding to our questionnaire a new cluster of 5 more items, specifically developed to investigate cyberbullying and cyber-grooming among the teenage population. This new cluster, proposed by the “Cyber Expert” program created by the Spanish Policia Nacional, is structured to gauge the students’ awareness and knowledge of what cyberbullying is through multiple choice questions. We submitted this updated survey to students of the Liceo Scientifico “G. Keplero” in Rome, while also inviting them to provide their feedback on the study itself. On the methodological side, since the data we gathered strongly hinted at the need to spread surveys and informational material using language and concepts adolescents can relate to more easily, we verified the need to review and update the questionnaire as often as required by the constant evolution of browsing habits in daily life. Here we present our revised questionnaire
Unsteady turbulent buoyant plumes
Creators: name: Woodhouse, Mark J.
name: Phillips, Jeremy C.
name: Hogg, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We model the unsteady evolution of turbulent buoyant plumes following temporal changes to the source conditions. The integral model is derived from radial integration of the governing equations expressing the conservation of mass, axial momentum and buoyancy. The non-uniform radial profiles of the axial velocity and density deficit in the plume are explicitly described by shape factors in the integral equations; the commonly-assumed top-hat profiles lead to shape factors equal to unity. The resultant model is hyperbolic when the momentum shape factor, determined from the radial profile of the mean axial velocity, differs from unity. The solutions of the model when source conditions are maintained at constant values retain the form of the well-established steady plume solutions. We demonstrate that the inclusion of a momentum shape factor that differs from unity leads to a well-posed integral model. Therefore, our model does not exhibit the mathematical pathologies that appear in previously proposed unsteady integral models of turbulent plumes. A stability threshold for the value of the shape factor is identified, resulting in a range of its values where the amplitude of small perturbations to the steady solutions decay with distance from the source. The hyperbolic character of the system allows the formation of discontinuities in the fields describing the plume properties during the unsteady evolution. We compute numerical solutions to illustrate the transient development following an abrupt change in the source conditions. The adjustment to the new source conditions occurs through the propagation of a pulse of fluid through the plume. The dynamics of this pulse are described by a similarity solution and, by constructing this new similarity solution, we identify three regimes in which the evolution of the transient pulse following adjustment of the source qualitatively differ.
description: 41 pages, 16 figures, under consideration for publication in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Push button reproduction attempt of a research claim from Akcinaroglu, S. (2012) in Journal of Conflict Resolution
Creators: name: Talbert, Eli
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: We selected the claim that the higher the number of rebel groups fighting against the government in a given year, the less likely that government will defeat any rebel group (Hypothesis 1). This reflects the following statement from the paper's abstract: "Rebels have the means to avoid government defeat and continue conflict when the number of rebel groups the government has to confront simultaneously is high or when these groups cooperate against their common enemy." The author used competing risks regression for the analysis. Occurrence of a peace agreement, government victory, rebel victory, and attrition in this project present competing events for the termination of conflict; that is, every rebel group–government dyad is at a risk of experiencing multiple ways of ending conflict. Models 7 and 9 show the analysis results for government victory. The model selected is Model 7, and the focal independent variable is number of rebel groups (number of overlapping rebel groups in the civil war country for every year) (see Model 7 in Table 2 for details). Existence of multiple groups allows each group to survive longer by avoiding government victory thus confirming Hypothesis 1 (from Model 7: estimate for 'No of rebel groups' term = 0.64 (0.08); robust standard errors are used; p < .01). The focal test in the original paper is: Existence of multiple groups allows each group to survive longer by avoiding government victory thus confirming Hypothesis 1 (from Model 7: estimate for 'No of rebel groups' term = 0.64 (0.08); robust standard errors are used; p < .01).
Ackah-Jnr et al_2022_ COVID-19 Pandemic.pdf
Creators: name: Ackah-Jnr, Francis R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The study analyses cross-border experiences of international graduate students in two universities, one in Australia and the other in the United States of America, during the COVID-19 pandemic to understand how this impacted their learning and wellbeing. COVID-19 crisis led to dramatic changes in higher education institutions worldwide, affecting the academic and social life of international students, and as well opening windows of opportunities for them. International students of African and Asian backgrounds were purposely selected for the study. Data were collected with an open-ended qualitative questionnaire and analysed thematically. Findings indicate international students had mixed experiences, including stress and hardship, isolation, fear and insecurity, frustration and helplessness that affected their academic and social lives and wellbeing. Other students however developed strong connections, resilience, confidence, and optimism for the future. The shared cross-border experiences raise awareness to the global impact of COVID-19 in higher education. Findings have implications for how universities could respond to the needs of international students, which must be inclusive, equitable, and human-centric, during unforeseen crises
Effects of Dual-Frequency Ultrasound Excitation on the Cavitation of Microbubble Contrast Agents for Use in Tumor Ablation Therapy
Creators: name: Smith, Alanna
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Ultrasound ablation therapy has emerged as a potential cancer tumor treatment because of its ability to selectively destroy tissue in a targeted region.  However, the required energy can cause surface burns on the skin, and the treatment is limited to tumors within a specified size and location.  Ultrasound microbubble contrast agents can be used to improve therapeutic ultrasound treatments.  Phospholipid shelled microbubbles have the advantage of an increased life span, as well as the flexibility to withstand expansion and contraction, while a perfluorocarbon core increases the desired bioeffects by providing additional cavitation nuclei.  Single-frequency ultrasound excitation of microbubbles has been explored as a method of enhancing ablation treatments.  This study explored the effects of dual-frequency ultrasound on the cavitation of microbubble contrast agents for use in ablation therapies.  I propose that a single element transducer is capable of emitting a dual-frequency waveform that, in combination with microbubble contrast agents, allows increased cavitation at a lower pressure, potentially expanding the applications of ultrasound tumor ablation while making high intensity focused ultrasound therapies safer and more efficient.
New Ways of Creating Research Data: Conversion of Unstructured Text to TEI XML using GPT on the Correspondence of Hugo Schuchardt with a Web Prototype for Prompt Engineering. FORGE 2023. Tübingen
Creators: name: Pollin, Christopher
name: Steiner, Christian
name: Zach, Constantin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Digital Edition, Generative AI, Research Data

description: This paper explores the use of prompt engineering to streamline the creation of humanities research data by converting unstructured correspondence texts into the TEI XML format. The approach optimizes language models such as GPT to produce accurate structured data while preserving context. The paper discusses the iterative refinement of the conversion process, challenges and potential solutions, and presents a user-friendly web prototype. Overall, prompt engineering shows potential for improving the efficiency of research data creation in the humanities.
Coleoptera Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Schilthuizen, Menno
name: Perreau, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera

description: (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Cholevinae)
description: Published as part of Schilthuizen, Menno & Perreau, Michel, 2008, New species and new records of Ptomaphaginus Portevin from the Sunda region, Southeast Asia (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Cholevinae), pp. 189-210 in Zool. Med. Leiden 82 (19) on page 189, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3576287
How much is the fish? : openCost for cost transparency and sustainable and FAIR scientific publishing
Creators: name: Wagner, Alexander
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2024

description: 3. Open Science Festival, Mainz, Germany, 17 Sep 2024 - 18 Sep 2024
description: The publication of articles, books, data, software, or any otherscientific output is not free of charge. Often, researchers must usetheir own funds to pay invoices from service providers. As a result,these invoices can easily get lost in the accounting systems ofresearch organizations, even though they consume a considerableportion of the research budget.To counter this risk, costs must be stored as metadata alongside theresearch findings and made publicly available in a standardized andmachine-readable form. To this end, openCost has developed an exchangeformat and proposes the well-established OAI-PMH interface to exposeit from a repository, CRIS, or any other suitably equipped systems.As the name suggests, the openCost format is openly available and canmodel any cost type in any publishing model, thus facilitating costtransparency. Besides external costs (e.g., APCs), the current schemaalso allows for the modeling of internal costs, such as those forstorage, long-term archiving, staff, or indexing services.The workshop will begin with a brief presentation of the openCostschema and its constituent parts. However, the majority of the time isreserved for discussion with the participants. We want to hear aboutyour use cases and requirements for cost mappings in the context ofOpen Science with the aim of integrating them into the schema.
Romantic Relationships in Emerging Adulthood: Modeling Intimacy, Commitment, and Factors Influencing their Interaction
Creators: name: Jameison, Danielle
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Intimacy and commitment are constructs essential to a successful romantic relationship, but for
emerging adults navigating the world of dating, it is not always clear how these two elements
interact. Data from a self-report survey of 162 undergraduate students were used to better
understand how intimacy and commitment are related to one another as a function of gender and
perceived social power. Results showed that intimacy predicted commitment, but differentially
for men and women based on their levels of social power. For men, increased social power was
associated with a decreased effect of intimacy on commitment. Among men with low social
power, intimacy most strongly predicted commitment, whereas for men with high levels of social
power, intimacy ceased to be associated with commitment at all. The opposite effect was found
in women, where for women with greater social power, intimacy much more strongly predicted
commitment than it did among women with little power. These findings suggest that men and
women may both be using social power to achieve their goals in romantic relationships, but that,
consistent with evolutionary theory, men ultimately desire intimacy without commitment and
women, intimacy with commitment.
Driver Drowsiness Detection with Commercial EEG Headsets
Creators: name: Rezaee, Qazal
name: Delrobaei, Mehdi
name: Giveki, Ashkan
name: Dayarian, Nasireh
name: Haghighi, Sahar Javaher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: J.3, J.6

description: Driver Drowsiness is one of the leading causes of road accidents. Electroencephalography (EEG) is highly affected by drowsiness; hence, EEG-based methods detect drowsiness with the highest accuracy. Developments in manufacturing dry electrodes and headsets have made recording EEG more convenient. Vehicle-based features used for detecting drowsiness are easy to capture but do not have the best performance. In this paper, we investigated the performance of EEG signals recorded in 4 channels with commercial headsets against the vehicle-based technique in drowsiness detection. We recorded EEG signals of 50 volunteers driving a simulator in drowsy and alert states by commercial devices. The observer rating of the drowsiness method was used to determine the drowsiness level of the subjects. The meaningful separation of vehicle-based features, recorded by the simulator, and EEG-based features of the two states of drowsiness and alertness have been investigated. The comparison results indicated that the EEG-based features are separated with lower p-values than the vehicle-based ones in the two states. It is concluded that EEG headsets can be feasible alternatives with better performance compared to vehicle-based methods for detecting drowsiness.
description: 546 Preprint version of the manuscript published in the proceedings of the 10th RSI International Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ICRoM 2022), Nov. 15-18, 2022, Tehran, Iran
Efficacy of Virtual Behavioral Health Interventions for Major Depressive Disorders
Creators: name: Lundegard, Laura
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mental Disorders
subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Psychiatry and Psychology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Behavioral Health
subject: Depression
subject: MDD
subject: Mental Health
subject: Telehealth
subject: Virtual Care

description: The growing utilization of virtual behavioral health interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic, has created a call to action to determine the efficacy of virtual behavioral health interventions for the management of major depressive and dysthymic disorders. This systematic rapid review attempts to understand the optimal treatment in managing MDD and dysthymic disorders as measured by remission, response rate, and decrease in symptom severity by comparing care as usual and virtual behavioral health interventions.
Reviewing evolutionary frontiers: Pioneering hyperglycemia detection for disease management
Creators: name: Geethanjali Reddy B
name: Sreedhar Surampudi
name: Fawaz M. A
name: Satyanarayana Rentala
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Detection and diagnosis are pivotal processes in identifying and confirming diseases, often initiated through preliminary tests or screenings. Hyperglycemia, detected through blood glucose tests and symptom observation, is critically important not only in diabetes but also in various diseased states, including oncotherapy, where elevated blood sugar levels can exacerbate outcomes. Effective monitoring and control of blood glucose levels significantly enhance quality of life and reduce health risks. Managing prolonged hyperglycemia is closely associated with Diabetes Mellitus (DM), a pressing global health challenge contributing to an estimated 4.2 million deaths annually. India shoulders a substantial burden, with over 77 million adults currently diagnosed with diabetes, affecting both genders and showing varying prevalence across regions. Given its severe implications, timely and accurate detection is imperative. This review explains the evolution of glucose estimation techniques, tracing their progression from traditional urine-based tests to modern blood glucose monitoring devices. These advancements play a pivotal role in early detection and proactive management of diabetes, aiming to improve patient outcomes and alleviate the disease burden. Innovations like glucometers and continuous glucose monitoring systems have significantly enhanced patient care, leading to improved precision and control in glucose management.
Destroying coherence in high temperature superconductors with current flow
Creators: name: Kaminski, A.
name: Rosenkranz, S.
name: Norman, M. R.
name: Randeria, M.
name: Li, Z. Z.
name: Raffy, H.
name: Campuzano, J. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The loss of single-particle coherence going from the superconducting state to the normal state in underdoped cuprates is a dramatic effect that has yet to be understood. Here, we address this issue by performing angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) measurements in the presence of a transport current. We find that the loss of coherence is associated with the development of an onset in the resistance, in that well before the midpoint of the transition is reached, the sharp peaks in the ARPES spectra are completely suppressed. Since the resistance onset is a signature of phase fluctuations, this implies that the loss of single-particle coherence is connected with the loss of long-range phase coherence.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures
Infall through the evolution of high-mass star-forming clumps
Creators: name: Wyrowski, F.
name: Güsten, R.
name: Menten, K. M.
name: Wiesemeyer, H.
name: Csengeri, T.
name: Heyminck, S.
name: Klein, B.
name: König, C.
name: Urquhart, J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With the GREAT receiver at the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), nine massive molecular clumps have been observed in the ammonia $3_{2+}- 2_{2-}$ line at 1.8~THz in a search for signatures of infall. The sources were selected from the ATLASGAL submillimeter dust continuum survey of our Galaxy. Clumps with high masses covering a range of evolutionary stages based on their infrared properties were chosen. The ammonia line was detected in all sources, leading to five new detections and one confirmation of a previous detection of redshifted absorption in front of their strong THz continuum as a probe of infall in the clumps. These detections include two clumps embedded in infrared dark clouds. The measured velocity shifts of the absorptions compared to optically thin \CSEO\ (3--2) emission are 0.3--2.8~km/s, corresponding to fractions of 3\%\ to 30\% of the free-fall velocities of the clumps. The ammonia infall signature is compared with complementary data of different transitions of HCN, HNC, CS, and HCO$^+$, which are often used to probe infall via their blue-skewed line profiles. The best agreement with the ammonia results is found for the HCO$^+$ (4--3) transitions, but the latter is still strongly blended with emission from associated outflows. This outflow signature is far less prominent in the THz ammonia lines, which confirms it as a powerful probe of infall in molecular clumps. Infall rates in the range from 0.3 to 16~$10^{-3}\,M_\odot/$yr were derived with a tentative correlation with the virial parameters of the clumps. The new observations show that infall on clump scales is ubiquitous through a wide range of evolutionary stages, from $L/M$ covering about ten to several hundreds.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A
T Falls Apart: On the Status of Classical Temperature in Relativity
Creators: name: Chua, Eugene Y. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Taking the formal analogies between black holes and classical thermodynamics seriously seems to first require that classical thermodynamics applies to relativistic regimes. Yet, by scrutinizing how classical temperature is extended into special relativity, I argue that it falls apart. I examine four consilient procedures for establishing classical temperature - the Carnot process, the thermometer, kinetic theory, and black-body radiation. I show how their relativistic counterparts demonstrate no such consilience in defining relativistic temperature. Hence, classical temperature does not appear to survive a relativistic extension. I suggest two interpretations for this situation - eliminativism akin to simultaneity, or pluralism akin to rotation.
description: Presented at the Philosophy of Science Association 2022 meeting. Forthcoming at Philosophy of Science
Buchbesprechung zu HANS G HELMS: Konstruktionen. Texte zur Musik und Kunst. 1954-2010.
Creators: name: Seeburger, Jérôme
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: critical theory
marxism
Hans G Helms
Theodor W. Adorno
ideology critique
aesthetic theory
philosophy
history of art
modern art
avantgarde music
Martin Heidegger
Fa:m' Ahniesgwow
Golem

description: Bookreview of a collection of texts by Hans G Helms on music and art, which have been published between 1954 and 2010. The collection was edited by Stefan Fricke and Achim Huber and published in 2016 at Pfau publishing house. The review starts with a short sketch of Helms's life and work and focuses then on Helms's reflections on his early works, especially Fa:m' Ahniesgwow and Golem, his polemic against Martin Heidegger.
Does von Neumann Entropy Correspond to Thermodynamic Entropy?
Creators: name: Chua, Eugene Y. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Conventional wisdom holds that the von Neumann entropy corresponds to thermodynamic entropy, but Hemmo and Shenker (2006) have recently argued against this view by attacking von Neumann (1955) and his argument. I argue that Hemmo and Shenker's arguments fail due to several misunderstandings: about statistical-mechanical and thermodynamic domains of applicability, about the nature of mixed states, and about the role of approximations in physics. As a result, their arguments fail in all cases: in the single-particle case, the finite particles case, and the infinite particles case.
Changes in Personality Traits and Life Goals in the Transition to Young Adulthood and their association with Occupational Creativity
Creators: name: Sutu, Andreea
name: Damian, Rodica
name: Hoff, Kevin
name: Einarsdóttir, Sif
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: The overarching project has two primary goals: (1) to examine how personality traits (including facet level measures) and goals develop and change during adolescence and young adulthood and (2) to examine whether changes in personality traits and goals (over and above initial levels of personality and goals) predict occupational creativity
No Time for Time from No-Time
Creators: name: Chua, Eugene Y. S.
name: Callender, Craig
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Programs in quantum gravity often claim that time emerges from fundamentally timeless physics. In the semiclassical time program time arises only after approximations are taken. Here we ask what justifies taking these approximations and show that time seems to sneak in when answering this question. This raises the worry that the approach is either unjustified or circular in deriving time from no-time.
description: Presented at Philosophy of Science Association 2021 meeting
Belongingness as a Mediator of the Relationship Between Felt Stigma and Identification in Fans
Creators: name: Tague, Andrew
name: Plante, Courtney
name: Reysen, Stephen
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: In the present study we examined the relationship between felt stigma and fan group identification as well as potential mediators of this relationship. Fans of various interests (e.g., sport, music) completed measures regarding felt stigma toward the fan group, psychological needs obtained through group membership (e.g., self-esteem, belonging), and identification with the fan community. The results showed that felt stigma predicted fan group identification, and the relationship was mediated by a psychological need for belonging. The results support prior research regarding the association between stigma and identification. However, the results add to the literature by showing belongingness as a mediator of this association.
G-Protein Signaling Modulator 3 Regulation of Monocyte Survival
Creators: name: Allyn, Brittney
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: G-Protein Signaling Modulator 3 (GPSM3), a GoLoco family protein that regulates G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), is highly expressed in immune cells, particularly monocytes. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at the GPSM3 gene locus that were associated with a decreased incidence of autoimmunity in humans have been shown to correlate with reduced transcript and protein expression. Furthermore, Gpsm3-/- mice fail to develop inflammatory disease in two preclinical mouse models of rheumatoid arthritis, but the underlying cellular and molecular mechanisms are currently unknown. Our published and preliminary data suggest that Gpsm3 expression levels impact monocyte survival, which could explain why Gpsm3-/- mice fail to develop inflammatory arthritis. To directly test the impact of Gpsm3 on monocyte survival ex vivo, monocytes were differentiated from the bone marrow of wild type and Gpsm3-/- mice and treated with one of four chemokines known to regulate monocyte function (Ccl2, Cx3cl1, chemerin, and Cxcl12) under apoptotic stress. Monocyte survival versus apoptosis was then measured. Preliminary results suggested that Cx3cl1, chemerin and Cxcl12 all protect against apoptosis in wild type monocytes, but fail to protect the Gpsm3-/- monocytes. Future directions involve identifying potential leukocyte subpopulations, including macrophages, which are also dependent on Gpsm3 for survival. Overall, Gpsm3 is critical to the development of monocyte inflammatory responses and could impact future development of novel therapeutic targets for the treatment of arthritis in humans.
Prediction of Metabolic Pathways Involvement in Prokaryotic UniProtKB Data by Association Rule Mining
Creators: name: Boudellioua, Imane
name: Saidi, Rabie
name: Martin, Maria
name: Hoehndorf, Robert
name: Solovyev, Victor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The widening gap between known proteins and their functions has encouraged the development of methods to automatically infer annotations. Automatic functional annotation of proteins is expected to meet the conflicting requirements of maximizing annotation coverage, while minimizing erroneous functional assignments. This trade-off imposes a great challenge in designing intelligent systems to tackle the problem of automatic protein annotation. In this work, we present a system that utilizes rule mining techniques to predict metabolic pathways in prokaryotes. The resulting knowledge represents predictive models that assign pathway involvement to UniProtKB entries. We carried out an evaluation study of our system performance using cross-validation technique. We found that it achieved very promising results in pathway identification with an F1-measure of 0.982 and an AUC of 0.987. Our prediction models were then successfully applied to 6.2 million UniProtKB/TrEMBL reference proteome entries of prokaryotes. As a result, 663,724 entries were covered, where 436,510 of them lacked any previous pathway annotations.
From Cells to Residues: Flame-Retarded Rigid Polyurethane Foams
Creators: name: Günther, M.
name: Lorenzetti, A.
name: Schartel, B.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Rigid polyurethane foams (RPUFs) exhibit short times to ignition as well as rapid flame spread and are therefore considered to be hazardous materials. This paper focuses on the fire phenomena of RPUFs, which were investigated through a multimethodological approach. Water-blown polyurethane (PUR) foams without flame retardants (FRs) as well as water-blown PUR foams containing triethyl phosphate as a gas phase-active FR were examined. The aim of this study is to clarify the influence of the FR on the fire phenomena during combustion of the foams. Additionally, materials’ densities were varied to range from 30 to 100 kg/m3. Thermophysical properties were studied by means of thermogravimetry; fire behavior and flammability were investigated via cone calorimeter and limiting oxygen index, respectively. During the cone calorimeter test, the temperature development inside the burning specimens was monitored with thermocouples, and cross sections of quenched specimens were examined visually, giving insight into the morphological changes during combustion. The present paper delivers a comprehensive study, illuminating phenomena occurring during foam combustion and the influence of a FR active in the gas phase. The superior fire performance of flame-retarded PUR foams was found to be based on flame inhibition, and on increased char yield leading to a more effective protective layer. It was proven that in-depth absorption of radiation is a significant factor for estimation of time to ignition. Cross sections investigated with the electron scanning microscope exhibited a pyrolysis front with an intact foam structure underneath. The measurement of temperature development inside burning specimens implied a shift of burning behavior towards that of non-cellular materials with rising foam density.
Parental restriction and its association with changes in child intake of cakes and sugar sweetened beverages
Creators: name: Lynd, Colleen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Parent feeding practices, such as parental restriction, are thought to influence children’s eating
habits. This study examined the association between parental restriction and changes in child
intake of unhealthy foods, particularly cakes and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs).
Participants (n=172) consisted of parent-child dyads from the My Parenting SOS study that had
complete restriction and diet data at baseline and follow-up (eight months later). Parental
restriction was measured using two subscales of the Comprehensive Feeding Style Questionnaire
(CFPQ)—restriction for health and restriction for weight control. Tertiles of high, moderate, and
low restriction were created and associations with t child diet data evaluated for associations with
changes in cakes and SSB intake. Results suggest no significant associations between different
levels of restrictive feeding practices and child intake of cakes or SSBs (p-values ranging from
0.09 to 0.95). Future research should continue to explore the relationships between low,
moderate, and high restriction and diet outcomes using larger numbers of participants and
additional days of dietary data.