cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
NORC Survey # 1946-0243: Foreign Affairs
Creators: name: NORC
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2005

description: Do/do not think there will be a serious depression in this country in the next five years (1); letting homeless Europeans come to U.S. (2); what policy should U.S. follow in order to protect ourselves against future attacks (1); United Nations (10); interest in current issues (5); U.S. relations with Russia (3); size of our armed forces (8); peace conference now being held in Paris (3); occupation of Germany (6); international trade (5); tariffs (5); did/did not serve in any branch of armed forces during World War II (1); favored Roosevelt/Dewey in last presidential election (1).
FaRe: a Mathematica package for tensor reduction of Feynman integrals
Creators: name: Fiorentin, Michele Re
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present FaRe, a package for Mathematica that implements the decomposition of a generic tensor Feynman integral, with arbitrary loop number, into scalar integrals in higher dimension. In order for FaRe to work, the package FeynCalc is needed, so that the tensor structure of the different contributions is preserved and the obtained scalar integrals are grouped accordingly. FaRe can prove particularly useful when it is preferable to handle Feynman integrals with free Lorentz indices and tensor reduction of high-order integrals is needed. This can then be achieved with several powerful existing tools.
description: Matches version to appear on the International Journal of Modern Physics C
title: Müllerian cyst: A rare cause of retroperitoneal cystic mass
Creators: name: Costa, Ana Catarina
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genital (female) imaging
subject: Retroperitoneum
subject: CT
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 33-year-old woman was referred to our institution due to left lumbar pain. Past medical history included a cholecystectomy and an appendectomy. The patient had taken oral contraceptives for menstrual irregularities. No previous history of trauma or pancreatitis was reported. The physical examination was normal and the routine laboratory tests were unremarkable.

description: 33 years, female
title: The evaluation of MRI in diagnosis of osteomyelitis in diabetic foot
Creators: name: Zamyshevskaya, Mary
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Extremities
subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Inflammation
subject: Infection

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: to define the role of MRI in the establishment of osteomyelitis (OM) in diabetic foot...
การสำรวจปริมาณขยะและจำแนกชนิดขยะบนชายหาดบางแสน
Creators: name: ธิฆัมพร บุญชัย
Publisher: name: คณะสถาปัตยกรรมศาสตร์
Year: 2023
Subjects: การสำรวจขยะ
ประเภทขยะ
ชายหาดบางแสน

description: วารสาร สิ่งแวดล้อมสรรค์สร้างวินิจฉัย (Built Environment Inquiry BEI), 22, 1, 1-16
กระบวนการการขอสัญชาติสำหรับแรงงานข้ามชาติสัญชาติเมียนมาร์ ในจังหวัดนครศรีธรรมราช
Creators: name: เดโช แขน้ำแก้ว
Publisher: name: สถาบันเทคโนโลยีนวัตกรรมทางการศึกษาและการวิจัยแห่งสุวรรณภูมิ (สนว.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: แรงงานข้ามชาติ
เมียนมาร์
บริบทและการดำเนินการ

description: วารสารนวัตกรรมการศึกษาและการวิจัย, 7, 3, 995-1011
title: Comparison of radiation dose from X-ray, CT, and PET/CT in paediatric patients with neuroblastoma using a dose monitoring program
Creators: name: Kim, Yeun Yoon
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Paediatric
subject: CT
subject: PET-CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Dosimetry
subject: Dosimetric comparison

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Children are more radiosensitive than adults, with more than ten times increased risk to develop malignancy in an infant by the same radiation dose (1). The increasing use of diagnostic imaging studies with ionizing radiation in pediatric practice...
Conservative management of hand impairment and function in children and adolescents with Heritable Disorders of Connective Tissue: a scoping protocol.
Creators: name: Wesley, Alison
name: Coussans, Marie
name: Chan, Cliffton
name: Pacey, Verity
name: Bray, Paula
name: Nicholson, Leslie
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: There is limited empirical evidence on the best types of intervention to assist Allied Health Professionals address hand dysfunction for children and adolescents with Heritable Disorders of Connective Tissue. Clinicians may rely on non-peer reviewed sources of information to inspire and guide their treatment. A scoping review methodology will be used to explore the range and quality of available evidence of interventions to inform the conservative management of hand dysfunction for children and adolescents with Heritable Disorders of Connective Tissue.
ภาวะผู้นำเชิงนวัตกรรมของผู้บริหารสถานศึกษาในศตวรรษที่ 21
Creators: name: กรรวี โพธิ์ทอง
Publisher: name: สถาบันเทคโนโลยีนวัตกรรมทางการศึกษาและการวิจัยแห่งสุวรรณภูมิ (สนว.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: ภาวะผู้น าเชิงนวัตกรรม
ผู้บริหารสถานศึกษาในศตวรรษที่ 21

description: วารสารนวัตกรรมการศึกษาและการวิจัย, 7, 3, 1012-1026
title: Radiation exposure in CT angiography of coronary bypasses and myocardial perfusion in 320-detector row volume cardiac CT
Creators: name: Talakic, Emina
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: CT
subject: Dosimetry

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To prospectively evaluate effective dose and breast equivalent dose in CT angiography (CTA) of coronary bypasses and myocardial CT perfusion (CTP) in 320-detector row volume...
The Rise of China-Africa Relations
Creators: name: Hathairat Kuanrudee
Publisher: name: สถาบันเทคโนโลยีนวัตกรรมทางการศึกษาและการวิจัยแห่งสุวรรณภูมิ (สนว.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: China-Africa Relations
Model development
Technology transportation

description: วารสารนวัตกรรมการศึกษาและการวิจัย, 7, 3, 1027-1037
title: Value of MRI in the location of atypical muscle injuries
Creators: name: Schvartzman, Pablo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Arthrography
subject: Athletic injuries

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To show MRI findings in the diagnosis of muscular injuries with atypical or unusual location that cannot be evaluated by...
NORC Survey # 1947-0148: Foreign Affairs
Creators: name: NORC
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2005

description: Have/have not been talking about certain things in the news with friends during last week or so (10); U.S. interests abroad (2); peace settlement for Germany (1); cooperation between Russia, England and U.S. at present time (2); Russia can/cannot be trusted to meet us half-way in working out world problems (1); impression of present government of China (1); would approve/disapprove of making a loan to China at present time (3); European countries that need our help (2); would approve/disapprove of Congress setting aside $400 million for foreign relief this year (1); we should/should not send food or relief to countries where the governments say or do unfriendly things to U.S. (1); atomic energy (16); plans about what should be done with Pacific islands we captured from Japan (2); club/organization membership (2); service in World War II (2); 1944 presidential election (2).
A School-based Program to Improve Hypertension Awareness and Blood Pressure Control in the Community: Rationale, Design, and Planned Pilot Testing
Creators: name: Viera, Anthony J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: Context: Despite the existence of national guidelines and over 70 antihypertensive medications, 42% of hypertensives are not being treated, and up to 75% of those treated are not at goal blood pressure. Over 30% of adults are not even aware that they have hypertension. Innovative strategies aimed at the community level might lead to improved hypertension awareness and control. Objectives: (1) To describe the rationale behind a school-based intervention designed to raise children's awareness of the health risks of high blood pressure as well as strategies that can help reduce those health risks and to serve as an innovative means of deploying home blood pressure monitors in an effort to raise community awareness of high blood pressure. (2) To describe planned pilot testing of the program. Design: Pilot, crossover trial. Setting: Public school in a suburban community. Participants: Fifth grade students and their parents/guardians. Intervention: (1) Classroom didactic about hypertension followed by an in-class laboratory consisting of measurement of blood pressure using automatic oscillometric devices. (2) Automatic blood pressure devices taken home by students for measurement of parent/guardian blood pressures with a form of immediate feedback. Main and Secondary Outcomes: (1) Child and parent/guardian knowledge about high blood pressure, (2) Parent/guardian intent to have blood pressure checked by health professional, (3) Parent/guardian reported control of blood pressure. Results/Conclusions: The pilot study (n=60 students) is currently ongoing. Results will not be available until June/July 2006-05. Importantly, as a pilot study, the goal is not to demonstrate effectiveness but to assess feasibility in preparation for a larger trial.
Enhanced nonlinear interactions in quantum optomechanics via mechanical amplification
Creators: name: Lemonde, Marc-Antoine
name: Didier, Nicolas
name: Clerk, Aashish A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an approach for exponentially enhancing the single-photon coupling strength in an optomechanical system using only additional linear resources. It allows one to reach the quantum nonlinear regime of optomechanics, where nonlinear effects are observed at the single photon level, even if the bare coupling strength is much smaller than the mechanical frequency and cavity damping rate. Our method is based on using a large amplitude, strongly detuned mechanical parametric drive to amplify mechanical zero-point fluctuations and hence enhance the radiation pressure interaction. It has the further benefit of allowing time-dependent control, enabling pulsed schemes. For a two-cavity optomechanical setup, we show that our scheme generates photon blockade for experimentally accessible parameters, and even makes the production of photonic states with negative Wigner functions possible. We discuss how our method is an example of a more general strategy for enhancing boson-mediated two-particle interactions and nonlinearities.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, 6 pages of supplemental materials
Universal Scaling Laws for Dense Particle Suspensions in Turbulent Wall-Bounded Flows
Creators: name: Costa, Pedro
name: Picano, Francesco
name: Brandt, Luca
name: Breugem, Wim-Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The macroscopic behavior of dense suspensions of neutrally-buoyant spheres in turbulent plane channel flow is examined. We show that particles larger than the smallest turbulence scales cause the suspension to deviate from the continuum limit in which its dynamics is well described by an effective suspension viscosity. This deviation is caused by the formation of a particle layer close to the wall with significant slip velocity. By assuming two distinct transport mechanisms in the near-wall layer and the turbulence in the bulk, we define an effective wall location such that the flow in the bulk can still be accurately described by an effective suspension viscosity. We thus propose scaling laws for the mean velocity profile of the suspension flow, together with a master equation able to predict the increase in drag as function of the particle size and volume fraction.
description: Accepted for publication in PRL. Supplemental material included
title: CT characteristics of coronary arteriovenous fistula
Creators: name: Lee, Chul-Min
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Coronary arteriovenous fistula (AVF) is a rare congenital cardiac anomaly (0.2-0.4% of congenital cardiac anomalies) [1]. Coronary AVF can be further divided according to the termination chambers, including right ventricle, right atrium, pulmonary...
title: Cryostatic micro-CT imaging of large specimens: evaluation of a new technique to maintain cellular and molecular integrity
Creators: name: Kampschulte, Marian
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Bones
subject: Animal (veterinary) studies
subject: Cone beam CT
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Experimental investigations

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Preclinical research in animal models often requires a multimodality approach for investigation of complex pathophysiological issues. Therefore, specimens sometimes need to be examined in a sequence of different modalities, for example starting with...
title: Abdominal aorta CT angiography with 80 kV and reduced contrast medium volume: a comparative analysis of image quality and radiation dose
Creators: name: Nijhof, Wouter
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Vascular
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Efficacy studies
subject: Dosimetry

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The objective of this study was to determine the effect of using 80 kV tube voltage and a reduced amount of contrast medium volume on the image quality and radiation dose of computed tomography angiography (CTA) of the abdominal...
The Bush Administration's Decision to Redefine 'Child' as Conception to Age 19 as a way to increase prenatal care: advantages, disadvantages and controversy
Creators: name: Zimmermann, Anna
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: The United States is one of the wealthiest nations in the world and is considered to be a leader in health care technology and cutting edge research. Currently, 14% of the United States national budget goes towards health care expenses. Despite spending $1.4 trillion in 2001 on health care and ranking #1 in health care expenditures, in 1995 the US infant mortality rate ranked 25th among industrialized nations, a statistic believed to be an important measure of a nation's overall health. This ranks the United States behind other industrialized nations with lower per capita health care expenditures. Given the United States' relatively poor infant mortality rates, health care organizations and policy makers in the US have aimed to improve infant mortality rates throughout the United States. Much of the efforts have focused on examining the benefits of prenatal care on infant mortality and infant outcomes, as prenatal care is considered to be an essential part of improving infant mortality rates and maternal and fetal outcomes. Healthy People 2010 published a list of goals for the health of the United States, one of them being to "improve the health and wellbeing of women, infants, children, and families". They have set specific objectives aimed at accomplishing this goal, including a 2010 target infant mortality rate in the United States of 4.5 per 1,000 live births. The United States' comparatively poor Infant Mortality Rate has brought about the discussion of many potential solutions and proposals, all with the goal to improve maternal and fetal outcomes by increasing prenatal care services in the United States. Three proposals aimed at improving prenatal care and infant mortality rates that have garnered recent discussion in newspapers and policy and medical literature. First, the government could increase existing Medicaid coverage to all pregnant uninsured women, regardless in income. Second, states could be granted a federal waiver allowing State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) funds to be used for prenatal care for women over the age of 18. Finally, SCHIP funds could be used for prenatal care by making fetuses eligible for health insurance, negating the need for a federal waiver. In February 2002, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson and the Bush Administration proposed to redefine the word "child" as " conception to age 18" as a way to make fetuses eligible for health insurance under SCHIP and thereby use existing SCHIP funds for prenatal care. This paper looks at the potential advantages, disadvantages and subsequent controversy surrounding this proposal.
A Validation Study of the Dimensional Personality Symptom Itempool - Short Form (DIPSI-SF)
Creators: name: Reardon, Kathleen
name: Tackett, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: compulsivity
subject: criterion validity
subject: disagreeableness
subject: emotional instability
subject: introversion
subject: measurement
subject: measure validation
subject: nomological network
subject: personality pathology
subject: youth

description: The purpose of this study is to investigate the validity of a newly-formed short form of a measure of youth personality pathology (the Dimensional Personality Symptom Itempool; DIPSI). The DIPSI is a very well-validated and reliable measure of personality pathology, but it consists of 172 items, which can be burdensome for participants. In an effort to reduce the burden of this measure and allow the DIPSI to be used in as many contexts as possible, IRT analyses were used to create a Short Form (81 items). Now that this new version as been created, we need to know whether this Short Form performs adequately in relation to other measures (i.e., establish the validity of the Short Form). This is the question that will guide the study.
title: Relation between left ventricular systolic dysfunction in myocarditis and cardiac magnetic resonance findings
Creators: name: Patriarca, Lucia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
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On T(n,4) torus knots and Chebyshev polynomials
Creators: name: Pavlyuk, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Alexander polynomials Δ_{n,3}(t) and Δ_{n,4}(t) are presented as a sum of the Alexander polynomials Δ_{k,2}(t). These polynomials are also expressed in the form of a sum of Chebyshev polynomials of the second kind. These expansions allow one to introduce the "coordinates" in corresponding bases, which are proposed to be the numerical invariants characterizing links and knots.
description: 4 pages (2-column UJP style)
title: At the vanishing point of international law: a classical realist analysis of arms control and disarmament
Creators: name: Chas Bartolomé, Carmen Chas
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2023

description: This thesis addresses the questions that the laws of war present as the vanishing point of international law, wherein they are subject to the forces of political and national interests, and examines the limits of the law as seen through arms control and disarmament treaties. It does this through the use and employment of international law and international relations theory, focusing primarily on what international law can achieve when regulating heavily political issues. The research conducted in this thesis is guided by the following three questions: a) Why and how did an international legal regime emerge in relation to arms control and disarmament? b) Has this international legal regime been successful in maintaining a taboo over the use of biological, chemical, nuclear, and conventional weapons? c) How can instances of failure to observe the taboo be best explained? This thesis is, therefore, an investigation into the 'how' and 'why' of the laws of arms control and disarmament and, more particularly, into the relevance of the principle inter arma enim silent lēgēs-in times of war the laws are silent. It confronts the prevailing analysis of the international laws of arms control and disarmament, deepening it through the application of classical realist scholarship, as well as the notion that the way we conventionally think about international law is in need of serious revision. The usage of the works of E.H. Carr, Hans J. Morgenthau, and Georg Schwarzenberger allows for new insights which would otherwise not be possible. The works and theories of these three theorists allow us to think through the implications of eroded taboos by political necessity and what it means for the fabric and overriding logic of international society. By employing them, this thesis bridges the divide between international law and international relations scholarship, and benefits from the expertise of both of these fields.
Non-destructive shadowgraph imaging of ultracold atoms
Creators: name: Wigley, Paul B.
name: Everitt, Patrick J.
name: Hardman, Kyle S.
name: Hush, Michael R.
name: Wei, Chunhua
name: Sooriyabandara, Mahasen A.
name: Perumbil, Manju
name: Close, John D.
name: Robins, Nicholas P.
name: Kuhn, Carlos C. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An imaging system is presented that is capable of far-detuned non-destructive imaging of a Bose-Einstein condensate with the signal proportional to the second spatial derivative of the density. Whilst demonstrated with application to $^{85}\text{Rb}$, the technique generalizes to other atomic species and is shown to be capable of a signal to noise of ${\sim}25$ at $1$GHz detuning with $100$ in-trap images showing no observable heating or atom loss. The technique is also applied to the observation of individual trajectories of stochastic dynamics inaccessible to single shot imaging. Coupled with a fast optical phase lock loop, the system is capable of dynamically switching to resonant absorption imaging during the experiment.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
title: Quantitative comparison of ADC and SUV in simultaneous 68Ga-DOTATOC-PET/MRI in patients with neuroendocrine tumours
Creators: name: Maiwald, Bettina
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Molecular imaging
subject: Oncology
subject: PET-MR
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Neoplasia

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Neuroendocrine tumours (NET) are estimated with an annual incidence of 5 per 100,000 in adults [1]. They show – depending on their grading (especially G1 and G2) - an overexpression of somatostatin-receptors. Therefore imaging with Ga-68-labelled...
Implementing Cultural Competence in the Health Care Organization: Recommendations for Planned Parenthood Health Systems
Creators: name: Thornton, Lori A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Cultural competence in health care organizations is a way to extend to patients from every culture or ethnic background equal access to quality health care. Constantly shifting demographics are changing the health care needs of communities; language and culture barriers have the potential to create enormous gaps in health care for members of racial and/or ethnic minority groups. This study explores similarities of culturally competent health care organizations and examines their keys to successful implementation. Leadership buy-in and self assessment as essential steps are explored and several models of delivery are reviewed. Barriers in this process are also examined and discussed and then recommendations on cultural competence implementation for private health care organizations are given. Specific recommendations are made to Planned Parenthood health services programs that can be extended to other health care organizations.
Mixed random walks with a trap in scale-free networks including nearest-neighbor and next-nearest-neighbor jumps
Creators: name: Zhang, Zhongzhi
name: Dong, Yuze
name: Sheng, Yibin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Random walks including non-nearest-neighbor jumps appear in many real situations such as the diffusion of adatoms and have found numerous applications including PageRank search algorithm, however, related theoretical results are much less for this dynamical process. In this paper, we present a study of mixed random walks in a family of fractal scale-free networks, where both nearest-neighbor and next-nearest-neighbor jumps are included. We focus on trapping problem in the network family, which is a particular case of random walks with a perfect trap fixed at the central high-degree node. We derive analytical expressions for the average trapping time (ATT), a quantitative indicator measuring the efficiency of the trapping process, by using two different methods, the results of which are consistent with each other. Furthermore, we analytically determine all the eigenvalues and their multiplicities for the fundamental matrix characterizing the dynamical process. Our results show that although next-nearest-neighbor jumps have no effect on the leading sacling of the trapping efficiency, they can strongly affect the prefactor of ATT, providing insight into better understanding of random-walk process in complex systems.
description: Definitive version accepted for publication in The Journal of Chemical Physics
Building the Capacity of the Global Health Workforce: Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Directions
Creators: name: Barker, Kathryn M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Global flows of development assistance for health programs have increased greatly over the past decade. However, an adequately trained global health workforce – an integral component of a well-functioning health system - has not grown commensurate with the burgeoning public health programs funded by international donors. This has negatively affected the ability to expeditiously address global health disparities and inequalities as set forth in the internationally-recognized Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The size and capacity of the health workforce in less-developed countries (LDCs) are currently constrained by limited educational opportunities within country. Individuals with enough resources to pursue higher education tend to do so in western nations, and often stay in those nations upon graduation so as to gain a higher income, in a concept known as 'brain drain.' Those individuals remaining in their home countries may be trained in the technical concepts of public health practice (i.e. clinical knowledge), but there is shortage of management and operational skills needed to make the technical programs run effectively. Innovative, low-cost and locally-available solutions to address the paucity of a trained health workforce are needed if the MDGs are to be met by the target-date of 2015 and maintained in subsequent years. These solutions must draw on proven management theories and techniques as well as the local knowledge of on-the-ground realities to sustainably address the needs of the communities in LDCs around the world. One example of such a solution is the online distance learning program offered through the University of North Carolina's Public Health Leadership Program known as the 'Global Learning Program.' This program has been shown to increase not only the management skills of global public health professionals, but also to empower these individuals at a personal level to enact change in their health programs and communities. More initiatives such as the UNC Global Learning Program Barker 4 are required to respond to the global community's need for education programs in a local context, which will ultimately lead to the attainment of the MDGs and increased global equity.
Ranunculus codyanus B. Boivin, Canad. Field-Naturalist
Creators: name: Wiegleb, Gerhard
name: Bobrov, Alexander A.
name: Zalewska-Gałosz, Joanna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ranunculales
Ranunculaceae
Ranunculus
Ranunculus codyanus

description: 26. Ranunculus codyanus B. Boivin, Canad. Field-Naturalist 65: 3 (1951).
Type: CANADA. Keewatin: Southampton Island, Coral Harbor, 1 August 1948, W. J. Cody, no. 1712 (DAO; isotypes GH, MIN, MO, NY, S, RSA, US, YU etc.).
description: Published as part of Wiegleb, Gerhard, Bobrov, Alexander A. & Zalewska-Gałosz, Joanna, 2017, A taxonomic account of Ranunculus section Batrachium (Ranunculaceae), pp. 1-55 in Phytotaxa 319 (1) on page 38, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.319.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13697035
Performance evaluation of regression splines for propensity score adjustment in post-market safety analysis with multiple treatments
Creators: name: Tian, Yuxi
name: Baro, Elande
name: Zhang, Rongmei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Observational studies provide a core resource in assessing post-market drug safety and effectiveness. Propensity scores are a predominant method for confounding adjustment to achieve unbiased estimation of average treatment effects in observational data. However, the use of propensity score methods has been limited to comparing two treatment groups, while medical situations frequently present with multiple treatment options. Inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) is a popular propensity score adjustment method, but its performance degrades with decreased positivity leading to extreme weights, a problem that can be amplified with multiple treatment groups. Meanwhile, regression on a spline of the propensity score has shown favorable performance compared to other propensity score methods in recent studies involving two treatments. This project utilizes a simulation study to compare IPTW and propensity score splines as adjustment methods in a three-treatment setting. We test a variety of spline methods, including natural cubic splines with varying numbers of interior knots, and thin-plate regression splines. We vary several parameters across simulations, including the degree of propensity score overlap among treatment groups, treatment prevalence, outcome prevalence, and true marginal relative risk. We assess methods based on their bias, root mean squared error, and coverage of the true marginal relative risk across simulations. We find that all methods perform similarly well when there is good propensity score distribution overlap. However, with even moderate decrease in overlap or low outcome prevalence, IPTW produces more biased estimates and higher variance than propensity score splines. Low treatment prevalence or unequal treatment prevalences across groups also worsens IPTW performance. Overall, a natural cubic spline with a relatively small number of interior knots provides good performance across a range of simulations.
Understanding Jokes
Creators: name: Kline Struhl, Melissa
name: Gallée, Jeanne
name: Balewski, Zuzanna
name: Fedorenko, Evelina
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: new tag
subject: PreregStatus
subject: under_revision
subject: updated 2018-06-17

description: Studies about neural activity related to processing jokes! Project status: This repository currently contains the preprint of Study 1 (the original version of the study & paper), analysis materials for Study 1, and a preregistration of Study 2 (a self-replication of the study with a larger sample and an additional theory-of-mind localizer.) Soon we will officially preregister Study 2, and then create a component for Study 2 analyses. Abstract: To communicate successfully, we often go beyond literal meaning: we make sarcastic remarks, ask others for favors, and engage in face-saving acts. Do these abilities rely on the same mechanisms as literal sentence interpretation? Or does pragmatic reasoning draw on general social-cognitive abilities? Using a functional localization fMRI approach, we examined activity in i) the language system, ii) the Theory-of-Mind (ToM) system, and iii) the domain-general “multiple demand” system, sensitive to diverse demanding tasks, while participants processed one-liner-style jokes and non-joke controls. Only the ToM system was robustly sensitive to jokes. Further, funnier stimuli (as judged by the participants) elicited stronger responses, and the size of the jokes>non-jokes effect in ToM regions across individuals was predictive of how funny they found the jokes. Thus ‘getting’ jokes – and perhaps pragmatic processing more broadly – appears to stem from the same cognitive abilities that allow us to imagine what another person is thinking.
Conceptual replication of "Mental fatigue impairs physical performance in humans"
Creators: name: Holgado, Darias
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: In this replication study, we aim to replicate the main results of Marcora’s study, i.e., the effect of the demanding cognitive task on mental fatigue and exercise performance. The method section provides the details of the proposed design and data analysis.
Screening Colposcopy: Evaluation of a Novel Method For Cervical Cancer Screening in Low Resource Settings
Creators: name: Kenerson, Jessica J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: Background: Strategies to decrease the burden of cervical cancer in developed countries are often difficult to implement in low resource settings, which has stimulated researchers and others to search for novel approaches for screening. Colposcopy offers some advantages that might make it a reasonable strategy as a standalone screen and treat protocol in communities where the incidence of disease is high. To date, results for the screening accuracy of colposcopy as a screening tool have varied widely from low to high sensitivity and specificity in different studies. Methods: In this study, I analyzed cross sectional data from the medical records of 2,094 self referred women in a community cervical screening program in Haiti. The patients included in the final analyses received some combination of Pap smear, colposcopy and/or cervical biopsy, which allowed me to compare these techniques. The final study populations included 198 women who had both Pap smear and cervical biopsy, and 221 patients who had both colposcopy and cervical biopsy. The main outcome measure (cancer and precancer diagnoses) were operationalized as mild dysplasia or worse lesions on cervical biopsy. Diagnostic accuracy was determined by calculating the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive values, and negative predictive values with 95% confidence intervals using cervical biopsy as the gold standard. Results: The prevalence of dysplasia or cancer on biopsy for the study populations was 41.9%-48.0%% while prevalence detected by Pap was 30.8%. Prevalence in the study populations detected by colposcopy was 66.7%-70.1%. Pap smear had a sensitivity of 68.7% (CI 57.6-78.4) and specificity was 96.5% (CI 91.0-99.0) using biopsy as the gold standard. The sensitivity for colposcopy was 96.2% (CI 91.0-99.0) compared to biopsy, and a specificity of Sp 53.9% (CI 44.0-63.0). Conclusion: Colposcopy identifies a population that includes most ofthe dysplasia at a price of including many false positives, placing the screened population at a significant risk of over treatment. Therefore, colposcopy is a reasonable screening strategy if the disease prevalence is high in the population of interest and the co-morbidity from over treatment is low.
title: The diagnostic accuracy of unenhanced whole-body MRI for detection of prostate cancer metastases after primary treatment compared with 18F-cholin-PET/CT
Creators: name: Vasselli, Federica
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: MR
subject: PET-CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Radical prostatectomy (RP) represents the first line treatment with curative intent, followed by radiation treatment (interstitial or external-beam) which is becoming a valid alternative to surgery in patients with low- to intermediate-risk PCa and...
title: The role of combined 3T DWI with MRS in the differentiation of loco-regional recurrence from residual glandular tissue after radical prostatectomy
Creators: name: Vasselli, Federica
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Currently most of patients (about 50%) affected by prostate cancer (PCa) are treated with radical prostatectomy (RP). This is due because good functional results regarding oncological radical criteria can be achieved thanks to modern surgical...
title: Opto-acoustic breast imaging: imaging-pathology correlation of opto-acoustic features respecting malignancy
Creators: name: Butler, Reni
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Molecular imaging
subject: Oncology
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Molecular imaging
subject: Physiological studies
subject: Blood
subject: Cancer
subject: Tissue characterisation

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Opto-acoustic (OA) Imagio® (Seno Medical Instruments, San Antonio, TX) is a novel investigational device (Figure 1) with functional modality that integrates laser optics with ultrasound in an effort to improve the performance of currently available...
Ranunculus tripartitus DC.
Creators: name: Wiegleb, Gerhard
name: Bobrov, Alexander A.
name: Zalewska-Gałosz, Joanna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ranunculales
Ranunculaceae
Ranunculus
Ranunculus tripartitus

description: 3. Ranunculus tripartitus DC.
Online Atlas of the British & Irish Flora (http://www.brc.ac.uk/plantatlas/index.php?q=plant/ranunculus-tripartitus) (accessed 14 Oct 2016)
Wilde planten in Nederland enBelgie (http://wilde-planten.nl/driedelige%20waterranonkel.htm) (accessed 22 Oct 2016)
description: Published as part of Wiegleb, Gerhard, Bobrov, Alexander A. & Zalewska-Gałosz, Joanna, 2017, A taxonomic account of Ranunculus section Batrachium (Ranunculaceae), pp. 1-55 in Phytotaxa 319 (1) on pages 52-53, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.319.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13697035
Trauma Patient Mortality at a Level I Trauma Center: Is the Tiered Trauma System Effective at Minimizing Mortality?
Creators: name: Ross, Samuel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: This thesis contains two clinical research studies carried out on the topic of trauma patient mortality at a Level I trauma center. Both studies are examining the question of: Do trauma patients that are transferred to a Level I trauma center from a lower level trauma center have worse outcomes compared to patients brought directly from the scene of their injury to a Level I trauma center? Each study is accompanied by an abstract briefly summarizing the key points of the individual study. The first study is a systematic literature review of the current evidence on the topic using studies based in North America. The study was conducted using several electronic medical literature databases. The second study is a retrospective cohort study using the University of North Carolina Hospitals Trauma Registry database. This study was carried out using data from over 11,000 patients over a 10-year period, looking at the outcomes of mortality, intensive care unit and hospital length of stay compared by transfer status.
The Lefschetz coincidence theorem in o-minimal expansions of fields
Creators: name: Edmundo, Mario J.
name: Woerheide, Arthur
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03C64, 20E99

description: In this paper we prove the Lefschetz coincidence theorem in o-minimal expansions of fields using the o-minimal singular homology and cohomology.
title: Anatomic variants of the biliary tree at MRCP: still too rarely reported!
Creators: name: Picone, Dario
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: MR
subject: Cholangiography
subject: Congenital

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) is a non-invasive and fast method for evaluating requiring neither the use of contrast medium injection nor any biliary intervention. It is actually indicated for the direct visualization of the...
The longevity of habitable planets and the development of intelligent life
Creators: name: Simpson, Fergus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Why did the emergence of our species require a timescale similar to the entire habitable period of our planet? Our late appearance has previously been interpreted by Carter (2008) as evidence that observers typically require a very long development time, implying that intelligent life is a rare occurrence. Here we present an alternative explanation, which simply asserts that many planets possess brief periods of habitability. We also propose that the rate-limiting step for the formation of observers is the enlargement of species from an initially microbial state. In this scenario the development of intelligent life is a slow but almost inevitable process, greatly enhancing the prospects of future SETI experiments such as the Breakthrough Listen project.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures, published in the International Journal of Astrobiology, Figure 2 now includes new data point from Zhu et al
Mejores Hábitos Mejor Vida: An obesity prevention program plan and evaluation for underserved populations of Costa Rica
Creators: name: DeCoster, Julie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: The burden of obesity and related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in low- and middle-income countries such as Costa Rica is rapidly increasing due to globalization, urbanization, and increasingly sedentary lifestyles. NCDs are responsible for about 80% of deaths, yet these could be prevented by modifying major risk factors such as unhealthy diets and physical inactivity, which can lead to overweight and obesity. Mejores Hábitos Mejor Vida is a program created for International Service Learning (ISL), a non-governmental organization that enlists student volunteer teams, to educate underserved communities about improving nutrition and physical activity to prevent obesity and NCDs. This paper provides a review of community-based programs in Latin America that provide education about diet and exercise. Next, it provides a detailed description of the program plan, including its theoretical framework, goals and objectives, and plan for implementation. Activities for the program include curriculum development, volunteer and staff training, community member recruitment, and patient education. This is followed by a plan for evaluation of the program, which describes both observational and pre-test/post-test study designs, including evaluation planning tables, and presents the plan for dissemination. Lastly, the paper concludes with a summary of lessons learned, personal experience working with ISL in Costa Rica, and future implications.
Data-driven computational mechanics
Creators: name: Kirchdoerfer, Trenton
name: Ortiz, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We develop a new computing paradigm, which we refer to as data-driven computing, according to which calculations are carried out directly from experimental material data and pertinent constraints and conservation laws, such as compatibility and equilibrium, thus bypassing the empirical material modeling step of conventional computing altogether. Data-driven solvers seek to assign to each material point the state from a prespecified data set that is closest to satisfying the conservation laws. Equivalently, data-driven solvers aim to find the state satisfying the conservation laws that is closest to the data set. The resulting data-driven problem thus consists of the minimization of a distance function to the data set in phase space subject to constraints introduced by the conservation laws. We motivate the data-driven paradigm and investigate the performance of data-driven solvers by means of two examples of application, namely, the static equilibrium of nonlinear three-dimensional trusses and linear elasticity. In these tests, the data-driven solvers exhibit good convergence properties both with respect to the number of data points and with regard to local data assignment. The variational structure of the data-driven problem also renders it amenable to analysis. We show that, as the data set approximates increasingly closely a classical material law in phase space, the data-driven solutions converge to the classical solution. We also illustrate the robustness of data-driven solvers with respect to spatial discretization. In particular, we show that the data-driven solutions of finite-element discretizations of linear elasticity converge jointly with respect to mesh size and approximation by the data set.