cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Autoparallel variational description of the free relativistic top third order dynamics
Creators: name: Matsyuk, Roman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 70H40, 70G45, 83A05, 70E99, 70H30, 70H50

description: A second order variational description of the autoparallel curves of some differential-geometric connection for the third order Mathisson's 'new mechanics' of a relativistic free spinning particle is suggested starting from general requirements of invariance and 'variationality'.
description: Conf. "Differential Geometry and Its Applicatons" (Opava, Czech Republic, August 27-31, 2001). Corrected after publ.: page 456, second formula. MR1978798(2004d:70025)
Determinants and Consequences of Adherence to the DASH Diet in African American and White Adults with High Blood Pressure: Results from the ENCORE Trial
Creators: name: Caccia, Carla
name: Lin, Pao-Hwa
name: Craighead, Linda
name: Epstein, Dawn E.
name: Johnson, Julie J.
name: Smith, Patrick J.
name: Babyak, Michael A.
name: Blumenthal, James A.
name: Hinderliter, Alan
name: Sherwood, Andrew
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Although the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet is an accepted non-pharmacologic treatment for hypertension, little is known about what patient characteristics affect dietary adherence and what level of adherence is needed to reduce blood pressure (BP).
Pathways to Anxiety and Depression in Autistic Adolescents and Adults
Creators: name: Richdale, Amanda
name: Lawson, Lauren
name: Chalmers, Alexa
name: Uljarevic, Mirko
name: Morris, Eric
name: Arnold, Samuel RC
name: Trollor, Julian N
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 5205
subject: Social and personality psychology
classificationCode: 3202
subject: Clinical sciences
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology

description: Individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (autism) commonly experience co-occurring anxiety and depression, which are significantly associated. These mental health conditions are also variously associated with increased autistic traits, insomnia, intolerance of uncertainty (IU), sensory sensitivity, and autonomic symptoms. However, no research has explored the relationships between IU, sensory sensitivity, autonomic symptoms, insomnia, and autistic traits and how they might be associated with anxiety and depression in autism. This study took a transdiagnostic approach to explore the relationships between anxiety, depression, autistic traits, insomnia, IU, sensory sensitivities, and autonomic arousal in 222 autistic people aged 15-80 years (55.7% female) using path analysis. Four plausible, theoretical models were tested, with model 1 providing best fit and explaining 48% of variance in depression, 37% of variance in anxiety, and 29% of variance in insomnia. Autistic traits and IU were directly associated with anxiety and indirectly associated with depression through anxiety. Anxiety, insomnia, IU, and sensory sensitivity were all directly associated with depression; autonomic arousal and sensory sensitivity were also indirectly associated with depression through insomnia. Thus, multiple pathways can lead to anxiety and depression in autism, not only via known paths such as insomnia and IU but additionally via autonomic arousal and sensory sensitivities which are also elevated in autism. These findings suggest that careful clinical evaluation and individualised treatment plans are needed for autistic adults with anxiety or depression. When considering prevention, programs that help autistic adults reduce arousal, maintain good sleep, and reduce IU may prove fruitful.
L'omogenitorialità tra autodeterminazione e desiderio di trasparenza. Autobiografie di famiglia
Creators: name: Masullo, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Universita' degli Studi di Salerno
Year: 2020
Subjects: Same-sex families
Rainbow families
Recognition

description: The article examines some aspects called into question by the debate on same-sex families in Italy. We start from the writings of Giuseppina La Delfa, French language teacher and LGBT activist, who has been fighting for years for the recognition of the rights of “Famiglie Arcobaleno” (Rainbow Families), the name of the association she founded in 2005. The two autobiographical books here reviewed testify to the strong link existing be-tween self-acceptance as homosexuals and the possibility of creating a same-sex family. Transparency and visibility of choices thus become the most effective weapons to address the complex issues posed by a society that still struggles to conceive the family as the result of “conscious” and “co-responsible” choices and the parental skills as independent from gender and sexual orientation.
Pregravid Body Mass Index Is Associated with Early Introduction of Complementary Foods
Creators: name: Adair, Linda S.
name: Herring, Amy H.
name: Mehta, Ushma J.
name: Bentley, Margaret E.
name: Siega-Riz, Anna Maria
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: To determine whether women who entered pregnancy overweight or obese were less likely to follow American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) guidelines for introducing complementary foods to infants after four months of age. In addition, to explore whether psychological factors accounted for any of the effect of pregravid body mass index (BMI) on age of complementary food introduction.
Angular Dependence of the Polarization Transfer to the Proton in the $e \vec p \to e \vec p$ Process
Creators: name: Galynskii, M. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dependence of the longitudinal polarization transfer to the proton in the $ e \vec p \to e \vec p$ process on the proton scattering angle has been numerically analyzed for the case where the initial (at rest) proton is partially polarized along the direction of motion of the detected recoil proton. The analysis is based on the results of JLab polarization experiments on measuring the ratio of the Sachs form factors in the $\vec e p \to e \vec p$ process using the Kelly (2004) and Qattan (2015) parameterizations for their ratio, in the kinematics of the SANE Collaboration experiment (2020) on measuring the double spin asymmetry in the $\vec e \vec p \to e p$ process. It is shown that the violation of the scaling of the Sachs form factors leads to a significant increase in the magnitude of the polarization transfer to the proton in comparison with the case of dipole dependence.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables; version published in the JETP Letters
Randomized Nutrition Education Intervention to Improve Carbohydrate Counting in Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes Study: Is More Intensive Education Needed?
Creators: name: Owen, Darcy
name: Bortsov, Andrey
name: Bishop, Franziska K.
name: Maahs, David M.
name: Spiegel, Gail
name: Mayer-Davis, Elizabeth J.
name: Klingensmith, Georgeanna J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Youth with type 1 diabetes do not count carbohydrates (CHOs) accurately, yet it is an important strategy in blood glucose control. The study objective was to determine whether a nutrition education intervention would improve CHO counting accuracy and glycemic control.
Magnetic Pair Creation Transparency in Gamma-Ray Pulsars
Creators: name: Story, Sarah A.
name: Baring, Matthew G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic pair creation $γ\to e^+e^-$ has been at the core of radio pulsar paradigms and central to polar cap models of gamma-ray pulsars for over three decades. The Fermi gamma-ray pulsar population now exceeds 140 sources and has defined an important part of Fermi's science legacy. Among the population characteristics well established is the common occurrence of exponential turnovers in their spectra in the 1--10 GeV range. These turnovers are too gradual to arise from magnetic pair creation in the strong magnetic fields of pulsar inner magnetospheres. By demanding insignificant photon attenuation precipitated by such single-photon pair creation, the energies of these turnovers for Fermi pulsars can be used to compute lower bounds for the typical altitude of GeV band emission. This paper explores such pair transparency constraints below the turnover energy, and updates earlier altitude bound determinations of that have been deployed in various Fermi pulsar papers. For low altitude emission locales, general relativistic influences are found to be important. Rotational aberration influences are also explored, and are found to be small at low altitudes, except near the magnetic pole. The altitude bounds are typically in the range of 2-7 stellar radii for the young Fermi pulsar population, and provide key information on the emission altitude in radio quiet pulsars that do not possess double-peaked pulse profiles. The bound for the Crab pulsar is at a much higher altitude, with the putative detection by MAGIC out to 350-400 GeV implying a lower bound of 310km to the emission region, i.e., approximately 20% of the light cylinder radius. These results are also extended to the super-critical field domain, where it is found that emission in magnetars originating below around 10 stellar radii will not appear in the Fermi-LAT band.
description: 33 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Direct measurements of carbon and sulfur isotope ratios in the Milky Way
Creators: name: Yan, Y. T.
name: Henkel, C.
name: Kobayashi, C.
name: Menten, K. M.
name: Gong, Y.
name: Zhang, J. S.
name: Yu, H. Z.
name: Yang, K.
name: Xie, J. J.
name: Wang, Y. X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With the IRAM 30 meter telescope, we performed observations of the $J$ = 2-1 transitions of CS, C$^{33}$S, C$^{34}$S, C$^{36}$S, $^{13}$CS, $^{13}$C$^{33}$S, and $^{13}$C$^{34}$S as well as the $J$ = 3-2 transitions of C$^{33}$S, C$^{34}$S, C$^{36}$S, and $^{13}$CS toward a large sample of 110 HMSFRs. We measured the $^{12}$C/$^{13}$C, $^{32}$S/$^{34}$S, $^{32}$S/$^{33}$S, $^{32}$S/$^{36}$S, $^{34}$S/$^{33}$S, $^{34}$S/$^{36}$S, and $^{33}$S/$^{36}$S abundance ratios with rare isotopologs of CS, thus avoiding significant saturation effects. With accurate distances obtained from parallax data, we confirm previously identified $^{12}$C/$^{13}$C and $^{32}$S/$^{34}$S gradients as a function of galactocentric distance (RGC). In the CMZ, $^{12}$C/$^{13}$C ratios are higher than suggested by a linear fit to the disk values as a function of RGC. While $^{32}$S/$^{34}$S ratios near the Galactic center and in the inner disk are similar, this is not the case for $^{12}$C/$^{13}$C, when comparing central values with those near RGC of 5 kpc. As was already known, there is no $^{34}$S/$^{33}$S gradient but the average ratio of 4.35~$\pm$~0.44 derived from the $J$ = 2-1 transition lines of C$^{34}$S and C$^{33}$S is well below previously reported values. A comparison between solar and local interstellar $^{32}$S/$^{34}$S and $^{34}$S/$^{33}$S ratios suggests that the Solar System may have been formed from gas with a particularly high $^{34}$S abundance. For the first time, we report positive gradients of $^{32}$S/$^{33}$S, $^{34}$S/$^{36}$S, $^{33}$S/$^{36}$S, and $^{32}{\rm S}/^{36}{\rm S}$ in our Galaxy. The predicted $^{12}$C/$^{13}$C ratios from the latest GCE models are in good agreement with our results. While $^{32}$S/$^{34}$S and $^{32}$S/$^{36}$S ratios show larger differences at larger RGC, $^{32}$S/$^{33}$S ratios show an offset across the entire inner 12 kpc of the Milky Way.
description: HMSFRs: high-mass star-forming regions. CMZ: central molecular zone. GCE: Galactic chemical evolution. 68 pages, 12 tables, 18 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A
On the finite space blow up of the solutions of the Swift-Hohenberg equation
Creators: name: Ferreira, Vanderley
name: Santos, Ederson Moreira dos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34A12, 34C11, 34C25

description: The aim of this paper is to study the finite space blow up of the solutions for a class of fourth order differential equations. Our results answer a conjecture in [F. Gazzola and R. Pavani. Wide oscillation finite time blow up for solutions to nonlinear fourth order differential equations. Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., 207(2):717--752, 2013] and they have implications on the nonexistence of beam oscillation given by traveling wave profile at low speed propagation.
description: 24 pages, 2 figures
CELL BLOCKS OF CANINE AND FELINE EFFUSION
Creators: name: CRIPPA, VALENTINA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2016

description: ABSTRACT Valentina Crippa Cell Blocks from canine and feline effusions Objective: To evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of a panel of markers in distinguishing mesothelial cells from metastatic adenocarcinoma cells in Cell blocks from canine and feline effusion. Methods: This study included 28 effusion specimens from dogs and cats with a cytological diagnosis of reactive effusion or malignancy of non-hematopoietic origin. Cell Blocks were stained with a standard panel of Vimentin, panCK (MNF116), CK 5/6 and HBME-1 as mesothelial cell markers; Desmin as marker of benign mesothelial cells; Claudin 4 as epithelial marker and CK7/CK20 as a marker of metastasis. Malignancy was confirmed by histologic evaluation; non-malignant conditions were confirmed by histopathology or follow up. Sensitivities, specificities, predictive values and accuracy were calculated. Results: CK5/6 demonstrated a high specificity (100%) for mesothelium. For the detection of canine and feline mesothelial cells the coexpression of panCK and VIM displayed the best sensibility (94,1%) while HBME-1 was the antibody that presented highest accuracy. Claudin 4 demonstrated a very low sensibility versus canine and feline epithelial cells. Conclusion: The most specific marker, with for the identification of mesothelial cells in canine and effusion, is the Vim/CK coexpression, being CK5/6 the most specific and HBME-1 the marker with the highest overall accuracy. Desmin is a useful marker in discriminating between benign and malignant mesothelial cells. The coordinate expression of CK7/CK20+ has not proved to be useful on the identification of metastatic cells on effusion. The study of Claudin 4 necessitate to be deepened in veterinary medicine. In conclusion, the combination of both cytology and immunohistochemistry studies can greatly enhance the diagnostic accuracy, sensitivity and specificity in malignant effusions.
Audiovisual Database with 360 Video and Higher-Order Ambisonics Audio for Perception, Cognition, Behavior, and QoE Evaluation Research
Creators: name: Robotham, Thomas
name: Singla, Ashutosh
name: Rummukainen, Olli S.
name: Raake, Alexander
name: Habets, Emanuël A. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Research into multi-modal perception, human cognition, behavior, and attention can benefit from high-fidelity content that may recreate real-life-like scenes when rendered on head-mounted displays. Moreover, aspects of audiovisual perception, cognitive processes, and behavior may complement questionnaire-based Quality of Experience (QoE) evaluation of interactive virtual environments. Currently, there is a lack of high-quality open-source audiovisual databases that can be used to evaluate such aspects or systems capable of reproducing high-quality content. With this paper, we provide a publicly available audiovisual database consisting of twelve scenes capturing real-life nature and urban environments with a video resolution of 7680x3840 at 60 frames-per-second and with 4th-order Ambisonics audio. These 360 video sequences, with an average duration of 60 seconds, represent real-life settings for systematically evaluating various dimensions of uni-/multi-modal perception, cognition, behavior, and QoE. The paper provides details of the scene requirements, recording approach, and scene descriptions. The database provides high-quality reference material with a balanced focus on auditory and visual sensory information. The database will be continuously updated with additional scenes and further metadata such as human ratings and saliency information.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, accepted and presented at the 2022 14th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX). Database is publicly accessible at https://qoevave.github.io/database/
Serving Larger Portions of Fruits and Vegetables Together at Dinner Promotes Intake of Both Foods among Young Children
Creators: name: Davey, Adam
name: Kral, Tanja V.E.
name: Birch, Leann L.
name: Rolls, Barbara J.
name: Hanna, Elizabeth L.
name: Fisher, Jennifer O.
name: Mathias, Kevin C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Serving larger portions of energy dense foods has been shown to promote children’s energy intake at meals. Whether larger portions increase children’s intake of both fruits and vegetables (F&V) is less clear. A 2×2 within-subjects design systematically varied portion sizes of fruit (75 vs. 150 g) and vegetable (75 vs. 150 g) side dishes served at dinner. Children’s F&V liking was measured using a validated tasting method. Thirty 4- to 6-year-olds were tested in a laboratory setting at 5:00 PM on weekdays from November 2008 through March 2009. Mixed linear models were used to determine effects of fruit portion size, vegetable portion size, and their interaction on food and energy intakes. Data are presented as model-based means ± standard error unless otherwise indicated. When portions were doubled, children increased their vegetable intake by 37% (12 ± 4 g; P
Metamaterial lens of specifiable frequency-dependent focus and adjustable aperture for electron cyclotron emission in the DIII-D tokamak
Creators: name: Hammond, K. C.
name: Capecchi, W. J.
name: Massidda, S. D.
name: Volpe, F. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electron Cyclotron Emission (ECE) of different frequencies originates at different locations in non-uniformly magnetized plasmas. For simultaneous observation of multiple ECE frequencies from the outside edge of a toroidal plasma confinement device (e.g. a tokamak), the focal length of the collecting optics should increase with the frequency to maximize the resolution on a line of sight along the magnetic field gradient. Here we present the design and numerical study of a zoned metamaterial lens with such characteristics, for possible deployment with the 83-130 GHz ECE radiometer in the DIII-D tokamak. The lens consists of a concentric array of miniaturized element phase-shifters. These were reverse-engineered starting from the desired Gaussian beam waist locations and further optimized to account for diffraction and finite-aperture effects that tend to displace the waist. At the same time we imposed high and uniform transmittance, averaged over all phase-shifters. The focal length is shown to increase from 1.37 m to 1.97 m over the frequency range of interest, as desired for low-field DIII-D discharges (B = -1.57 T). Retracting the lens to receded positions rigidly moves the waists accordingly, resulting in a good match -within a fraction of the Rayleigh length- of the EC-emitting layer positions at higher fields (up to B = -2.00 T). Further, it is shown how varying the lens aperture might move the waists "non-rigidly" to better match the non-rigid movement of the EC-emitting layers with the magnetic field. The numerical method presented is very general and can be used to engineer any dependence of the focal length on the frequency, including zero or minimal chromatic aberration.
description: 18 pages, 9 figures, http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10762-013-9987-1
The Inter-Relationships between Vegetarianism and Eating Disorders among Females
Creators: name: Robinson, D. Paul
name: Lawson, Melissa A.
name: Maldonado, Christine R.
name: Fitzsimmons-Craft, Ellen E.
name: Bardone-Cone, Anna M.
name: Smith, Roma
name: Harney, Megan B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: When individuals with a suspected or diagnosed eating disorder adopt a vegetarian diet, health care professionals may worry that this choice may function as a socially acceptable way to legitimize food avoidance. Yet, limited research has examined vegetarianism in relation to eating disorders. Study objectives were to compare individuals with and without an eating disorder history, and individuals at different stages of eating disorder recovery, on past and current vegetarianism and motivations for and age at becoming vegetarian. Participants were females seen at some point for an eating disorder (n=93) as well as controls who never had an eating disorder (n=67). Recruitment and data collection for this cross-sectional study occurred in 2007-2008. Chi square analyses and analyses of variance and covariance were used to examine the research questions. Compared to controls, individuals with an eating disorder history were significantly more likely to ever have been vegetarian (52% vs. 12%), to be currently vegetarian (24% vs. 6%), and to be primarily motivated by weight-related reasons (42% vs. 0%). The three recovery status groups (fully recovered, partially recovered, active eating disorder) did not differ significantly in percentiles endorsing a history of vegetarianism or weight-related reasons as primary, but they differed significantly in current vegetarianism (33% of active cases, 13% of partially recovered, 5% of fully recovered). Most perceived that their vegetarianism was related to their eating disorder (68%) and emerged after its onset. Results shed light on the vegetarianism-eating disorders relation and suggest intervention considerations for clinicians (e.g., investigating motives for vegetarianism).
Fluid Inclusion Research: Proceedings of COFFI. Volume 12, 1979.
Creators: Roedder, Edwin, editor
Kozlowski, Andrzej, associate editor
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 1979

A yearly volume to provide communication between workers in various fields of research on fluid inclusions, using the term in its broadest sense to embrace inclusions of any fluid, gas, liquid, or melt, and in any natural material, terrestrial or extraterrestrial.
Use of Caloric and Noncaloric Sweeteners in US Consumer Packaged Foods, 2005-2009
Creators: name: Slining, Meghan M.
name: Popkin, Barry M.
name: Ng, Shu Wen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Our understanding of the use of caloric (CS) and non-caloric sweeteners (NCS) in the US food supply is limited. This study utilizes full ingredient list and nutrition facts panel (NFP) data from Gladson Nutrition Database, and nationally representative purchases of consumer packaged foods from Nielsen Homescan in 2005 through 2009 to understand the use of CS (including FJC) and NCS in CPG foods.
Confined disclinations: exterior vs material constraints in developable thin elastic sheets
Creators: name: Efrati, Efi
name: Pocivavsek, Luka
name: Meza, Ruben
name: Lee, Ka Yee C.
name: Witten, Thomas A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the shape change of a thin disk with an inserted wedge of material when it is pushed against a plane, using analytical, numerical and experimental methods. Such sheets occur in packaging, surgery and nanotechnology. We approximate the sheet as having vanishing strain, so that it takes a conical form in which straight generators converge to a disclination singularity. Then its shape is that which minimizes elastic bending energy alone. Real sheets are expected to approach this limiting shape as their thickness approaches zero. The planar constraint forces a sector of the sheet to buckle into the third dimension. We find that the unbuckled sector is precisely semicircular, independent of the angle $δ$ of the inserted wedge. We generalize the analysis to include conical as well as planar constraints and thereby establish a law of corresponding states for shallow cones of slope $ε$ and thin wedges. In this regime the single parameter $δ/ε^2$ determines the shape. We discuss the singular limit in which the cone becomes a plane. We discuss the unexpected slow convergence to the semicircular buckling seen experimentally.
Discrete Choice Experiments and Conjoint Analysis in Health Screening Programs for Type 2 Diabetes and Liver Disease: A Scoping Review Protocol
Creators: name: Betel, Michael
name: Long, Clara
name: Saeed, Sahar
name: Keyur Patel
name: Gore, Genevieve
name: Cinque, Felice
name: Poder, Thomas G.
name: Swain, Mark
name: Sebastiani, Giada
name: Dinh, Duy
name: Alnoor Ramji
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Conjoint analysis
subject: Discrete choice experiment
subject: Health screening
subject: Liver Disease
subject: Preference
subject: Type 2 Diabetes

description: Background: Although international societies recommend screening for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM), MASLD is often underdiagnosed. Discrete choice experiments (DCE) and conjoint analysis are commonly used to quantify stakeholders' health preferences for decision making, but it is unknown whether these systematic methods have been used to inform screening programs for T2DM and liver disease. Objective: To summarize and critically appraise evidence on the use of DCE and conjoint analysis to elicit health preferences regarding screening programs for T2DM, T2DM complications, and liver disease, with a focus on MASLD. Inclusion criteria: Eligible studies will include any stakeholder (patients, healthcare providers, policy makers etc) who have been asked to express their preferences regarding a screening program for T2DM, T2DM complications, and liver disease using DCE or conjoint analysis. The review will include only studies written in English, French or Spanish after January 1990. Methods: The proposed scoping review will be conducted in accordance with the scoping review framework developed by the Joanna Briggs Institute, originally described by Arksey and O’ Malley. With the assistance of a research librarian specialized in public health research, the following databases will be searched for published and unpublished studies: PubMED (MEDLINE), PubMed Central, EMBASE, Google scholar, Europe PMC preprints. Two independent reviewers will screen the titles and abstracts of the articles, followed by the full text, for eligibility against a priori inclusion criteria. Data will be extracted from the included studies. Results will be summarized in a narrative description, accompanied by tables and graphs, aimed at answering the research questions.
Operational Entanglement Detection Based on $Λ$-Moments
Creators: name: Wang, Ke-Ke
name: Wei, Zhi-Wei
name: Fei, Shao-Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce $Λ$-moments with respect to any positive map $Λ$. We show that these $Λ$-moments can effectively characterize the entanglement of unknown quantum states without theirs prior reconstructions. Based on $Λ$-moments necessary and sufficient separability criteria, as well as necessary optimized criteria are presented, which include the ones in [\href{https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.060504}{Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{127}, 060504 (2021)}] as special cases. Detailed example is given to show that our criteria can detect bound entanglement that can not be identified by positive partial transpose criterion, with the explicit measurement operators to experimentally measure the corresponding $Λ$-moments.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure
Trigonometric Parallax of IRAS 22555+6213 with VERA: 3-Dimensional View of Sources Along the Same Line of Sight
Creators: name: Chibueze, James O.
name: Sakanoue, Hirofumi
name: Nagayama, Takumi
name: Omodaka, Toshihiro
name: Handa, Toshihiro
name: Kamezaki, Tatsuya
name: Burns, Ross
name: Kobayashi, Hideyuki
name: Nakanishi, Hiroyuki
name: Honma, Mareki
name: Ueno, Yuji
name: Kurayama, Tomoharu
name: Matsuo, Mitsuhiro
name: Sakai, Nobuyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results of the measurement of the trigonometric parallax of an H$_2$O maser source in \r22 with the VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry (VERA). The annual parallax was determined to be 0.314$\pm$0.070~mas, corresponding to a distance of 3.18$^{+0.90}_{-0.66}$~kpc. Our results confirm \r22 to be located in the Perseus arm. We computed the peculiar motion of \r22 to be $(U_{src}, V_{src}, W_{src}) = (4\pm4, -32\pm6, 8\pm6)$~\kms, where $U_{src}$, $V_{src}$, and $W_{src}$ are directed toward the Galactic center, in the direction of Galactic rotation and toward the Galactic north pole, respectively. \r22, NGC\,7538 and Cepheus A lie along the same line of sight, and are within 2$^{\circ}$ on the sky. Their parallax distances with which we derived their absolute position in the Milky Way show that \r22 and \ngc~are associated with the Perseus Arm, while \cepa~is located in the Local Arm. We compared the kinematic distances of \iras, \ga, \gb, \gc, \gd, \cepa, \ngc, \ge, \gf~and \r22~derived with flat and non-flat rotation curve with its parallax distance and found the kinematic distance derived from the non-flat rotation assumption ($-$5 to $-$39 \kms~lag) to be consistent with the parallax distance.
description: Accepted for publication in PASJ
Use of Vendedores (Mobile Food Vendors), Pulgas (Flea Markets), and Vecinos o Amigos (Neighbors or Friends) as Alternative Sources of Food for Purchase among Mexican-Origin Households in Texas Border Colonias
Creators: name: Sharkey, Joseph R.
name: Johnson, Cassandra M.
name: Dean, Wesley R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: There is a paucity of studies acknowledging the existence of alternative food sources, and factors associated with food purchasing from three common alternative sources: vendedores (mobile food vendors), pulgas (flea markets), and vecinos/amigos (neighbors/friends). This analysis aims to examine the use of alternative food sources by Mexican-origin women from Texas-border colonias and determine factors associated with their use. The design was cross-sectional. Promotora-researchers (promotoras de salud trained in research methods) recruited 610 Mexican-origin women from 44 colonias and conducted in-person surveys. Surveys included participant characteristics and measures of food environment use and household food security. Statistical analyses included separate logistic regressions, modeled for food purchase from mobile food vendors, pulgas, or neighbors/friends (NFs). Child food insecurity was associated with purchasing food from mobile food vendors, while household food security was associated with using pulgas or NFs. School nutrition program participants were more likely to live in households that depend on alternative food sources. Efforts to increase healthful food consumption such as fruits and vegetables should acknowledge all potential food sources (traditional, convenience, non-traditional, and alternative), especially those preferred by colonia residents. Current findings support the conceptual broadening of the retail food environment, and the importance of linking use with spatial access (proximity) to more accurately depict access to food sources.
Optimal scheduling of island integrated energy systems considering multi-uncertainties and hydrothermal simultaneous transmission: A deep reinforcement learning approach
Creators: name: Li, Yang
name: Bu, Fanjin
name: Li, Yuanzheng
name: Long, Chao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Multi-uncertainties from power sources and loads have brought significant challenges to the stable demand supply of various resources at islands. To address these challenges, a comprehensive scheduling framework is proposed by introducing a model-free deep reinforcement learning (DRL) approach based on modeling an island integrated energy system (IES). In response to the shortage of freshwater on islands, in addition to the introduction of seawater desalination systems, a transmission structure of "hydrothermal simultaneous transmission" (HST) is proposed. The essence of the IES scheduling problem is the optimal combination of each unit's output, which is a typical timing control problem and conforms to the Markov decision-making solution framework of deep reinforcement learning. Deep reinforcement learning adapts to various changes and timely adjusts strategies through the interaction of agents and the environment, avoiding complicated modeling and prediction of multi-uncertainties. The simulation results show that the proposed scheduling framework properly handles multi-uncertainties from power sources and loads, achieves a stable demand supply for various resources, and has better performance than other real-time scheduling methods, especially in terms of computational efficiency. In addition, the HST model constitutes an active exploration to improve the utilization efficiency of island freshwater.
description: Accepted by Applied Energy
Specification tests for nonlinear dynamic models
Creators: name: Kheifets, Igor L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose a new adequacy test and a graphical evaluation tool for nonlinear dynamic models. The proposed techniques can be applied in any setup where parametric conditional distribution of the data is specified, in particular to models involving conditional volatility, conditional higher moments, conditional quantiles, asymmetry, Value at Risk models, duration models, diffusion models, etc. Compared to other tests, the new test properly controls the nonlinear dynamic behavior in conditional distribution and does not rely on smoothing techniques which require a choice of several tuning parameters. The test is based on a new kind of multivariate empirical process of contemporaneous and lagged probability integral transforms. We establish weak convergence of the process under parameter uncertainty and local alternatives. We justify a parametric bootstrap approximation that accounts for parameter estimation effects often ignored in practice. Monte Carlo experiments show that the test has good finite-sample size and power properties. Using the new test and graphical tools we check the adequacy of various popular heteroscedastic models for stock exchange index data.
Assessing Foods Offered to Children at Child-Care Centers Using the Healthy Eating Index-2005
Creators: name: Ball, Sarah C.
name: Vaughn, Amber E.
name: Hanson, Phillip P.
name: Erinosho, Temitope O.
name: Ward, Dianne Stanton
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: The Healthy Eating Index-2005 (HEI-2005) has been applied primarily to assess the quality of individual-level diets, but was recently applied to environmental-level data. Currently, no studies have applied the HEI-2005 to foods offered in child-care settings. This cross-sectional study used the HEI-2005 to assess the quality of foods/beverages offered to preschool children (three-five years old) in child-care centers. Two days of dietary observations were conducted, and 120 children (six children per center) were observed, at 20 child-care centers in North Carolina between July 2005 and January 2006. Data were analyzed between July 2011 and January 2012 using t-tests. The mean total HEI-2005 score (59.12) was significantly (p<0.01) lower than the optimal score of 100, indicating the need to improve the quality of foods offered to children. All centers met the maximum score for milk. A majority also met the maximum scores for total fruit (17 of 20 centers), whole fruit (15 of 20 centers), and sodium (19 of 20 centers). Mean scores for total vegetable (mean=2.26±1.09), dark green/orange vegetables and legumes (mean=0.20±0.43), total grain (mean=1.09±1.25), whole grain (mean=1.29±1.65), oils (mean=0.44±0.25), and meat/beans (mean=0.44±0.25) were significantly (p<0.01) lower than the maximum scores recommended. Mean scores for saturated fat (mean=3.32±3.41; p<0.01), and calories from solid fats and added sugars (mean=14.76±4.08; p<0.01) suggest the need to decrease the provision of foods high in these components. These findings indicate the need to improve the quality of foods offered to children at the centers to ensure that foods provided contribute to children’s daily nutrition requirements.
Neutrino flavor mixing with approximate $μ$-$τ$ symmetry within the low-scale minimal linear seesaw model
Creators: name: Matute, Ernesto A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutrino flavor mixing is explained within the recently proposed low-scale minimal linear seesaw model of neutrino mass generation, a variant of the standard linear seesaw led by a Dirac pair of extra sterile neutrinos which is odd under a discrete $Z_2$ symmetry and has a mass at or below the GeV scale. The tri-bimaximal mixing and its deviations are derived straightforwardly on the basis of the symmetry between $μ$ and $τ$ flavors, without introducing non-abelian discrete flavor symmetries in the first place.
description: 15 pages
Predictors of sustained reduction in energy and fat intake in the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study (DPPOS) Intensive Lifestyle Intervention
Creators: name: Delahanty, Linda M.
name: Kriska, Andrea M.
name: Franks, Paul W.
name: Brown-Friday, Janet
name: Ma, Yong
name: Hoffman, Heather J.
name: Isonaga, Mae
name: Mayer-Davis, Elizabeth
name: Venditti, Elizabeth M.
name: Wylie-Rosett, Judith
name: Davis, Nichola J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Few lifestyle intervention studies examine long-term sustainability of dietary changes.
Self-Reported Dietary Intake of Youth with Recent Onset of Type 2 Diabetes: Results from the TODAY Study
Creators: name: El ghormli, Laure
name: Haymond, Morey
name: Copeland, Kenneth
name: Edelstein, Sharon
name: Lassiter, Chad
name: Mayer-Davis, Elizabeth
name: Milaszewski, Kerry
name: Chadwick, Jennifer
name: Amodei, Nancy
name: Kelsey, Megan M.
name: Delahanty, Linda
name: Galvin, Bryan
name: Syme, Amy
name: Kriska, Andrea
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Despite the widely recognized importance of diet in managing diabetes, few studies have documented usual dietary intake in youth with type 2 diabetes (T2D). The objectives of this study were to assess dietary intake among a large, ethnically diverse cohort of youth with T2D and compare intake to current recommendations. Treatment Options for type 2 Diabetes in Adolescents and Youth (TODAY) is a multi-center randomized clinical trial of 699 youth aged 10-17. At baseline, following a run-in period that included standard diabetes education, diet was assessed using a food frequency questionnaire between 2004 and 2009. Analysis of variance and non-parametric tests were used to compare mean and median nutrient intakes; logistic regression was used to compare the odds of meeting pre-defined dietary intake recommendation cut points between subgroups of age, sex and race-ethnicity. Percent of energy from saturated fat was consistently 13-14% across all subgroups – substantially exceeding national recommendations. Overall, only 12% of youth met Healthy People (HP) 2010 guidelines of < 10% saturated fat and only 1% of youth met American Diabetes Association recommendations of <7% saturated fat. Dietary intake fell substantially below other HP 2010 targets; only 3% met calcium intake goals, 11% met fruit consumption goals, 5% met vegetable consumption goals, and 67% met grain intake goals. Overall, dietary intake in this large cohort of youth with T2D fell substantially short of recommendations, in ways that were consistent by sex, age, and race-ethnicity. The data suggest a critical need for better approaches to improve dietary intake of these youth.
Structure of a low-lying isomer of BOSi$_2$, as a free-space planar cluster, using the Hartree-Fock method plus second order perturbations
Creators: name: Forte, G.
name: Angilella, G. G. N.
name: March, N. H.
name: Pucci, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Hartree-Fock (HF) method, supplemented by low-order Moller-Plesset (MP2) perturbation theory, has been utilized to predict the nuclear geometry, assuming planarity, of a low-lying isomer of the free space cluster BOSi$_2$. The planar structure found at equilibrium geometry is shown to be stable against small amplitude molecular vibrations. Finally, some brief comments are made on the possible relevance of the above free-space cluster geometry to the known B-O defects which limit the improvement of minority carrier lifetime in a form of p-type silicon.
description: Chem. Phys. Lett., to appear
Trends in Dietary Intake among US 2- to 6-Year-Old Children, 1989-2008
Creators: name: Slining, Meghan M.
name: Popkin, Barry M.
name: Ford, Christopher N.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Between 1989 and 2008, obesity increased markedly in children of all ages. We examine changes in the diets of children ages 2-6 in the US between 1989 and 2008. Our study provides new insight into diet changes that may have contributed to the sharp rise in obesity during this period.
Un approccio di rete all'analisi delle relazioni amicali dei disoccupati nella città di Napoli
Creators: name: De Stefano, Domenico
name: Ragozini, Giancarlo
name: Vitale, Maria Prosperina
Publisher: name: Universita' degli Studi di Salerno
Year: 2008
Subjects: Affiliation matrix
Correspondence analysis
Occupational segregation

description: Several studies highlight that the labour market entry is strongly influenced by informal relational networks (friendship and kinship). Given that informal networks have a relevant role in job position, the present work deals with the analysis of the relationship between social and occupational segregation in the labour market context. Starting from a panel survey on 506 unemployed people (and informal economy workers) enrolled in the database of the Labour Agency of Scampia in Naples, we define a network structure. In particular, the analysis of the affiliation matrix, where professional profiles related to undeclared works of officially unemployed people are the nodes and professional profiles of their three most important friends are the events, is performed to identify the underlying dimensions of the joint factorial map defined by both actors and events.
Trends in Food and Beverage Sources among US Children and Adolescents: 1989-2010
Creators: name: Slining, Meghan M.
name: Popkin, Barry M.
name: Mathias, Kevin C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Despite the historical rise and recent plateau of child overweight and obesity, levels remain exceedingly high. To understand these trends and identify targets for intervention it is important to examine concomitant trends in children’s diets. The objective of the current analysis was to describe 21-year trends in total energy intake and the major food and beverage sources of energy among 2- to 18- year olds in the United States (US). Six nationally representative surveys were examined in 2012, the Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals Surveys (1989–1991 and 1994–1996, 1998) and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (2003–2004, 2005–2006, 2007–2008 and 2009–2010). Total energy intake among US children and adolescents rose considerably from 1989 to 2004, and subsequently declined through 2010. Seven sources were consistently major contributors across all time points: sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB), pizza, high fat milk, grain-based desserts, breads, pasta dishes and savory snacks. Intakes of high fat milk, meats and processed meat products, ready-to-eat cereals, burgers, fried potatoes, fruit juice and vegetables decreased from 1989–2010 while intakes of low fat milk, poultry, sweet snacks and candies and tortilla and corn-based dishes increased linearly over the 21-year period. Significant non-linear time trends were observed with recent decreases in intakes of SSBs, pizza, pasta dishes, breads and rolls and savory snacks and recent increases in intake of fruit. Energy intakes of US children began to decline in 2003–2004 and continued to decline through 2009–2010. However among preschool children (2–5 years old) and children from low income families, total energy intakes in 2009–2010 still remained significantly higher than in 1989–1991.