cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
eRImote WP3 D3.1 Preliminary overview of RI access provision changes during the pandemic
Creators: name: Bell, Darren
name: Sanderson, John
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: remote access
Research Infrastructures
eRImote
Project Deliverable

description: This deliverable report (D3.1) of the eRImote project gives a landscape overview over the changes of research infrastructure provision changing from physical to remote access during the COVID-19 pandemic.
On Inverse Probability Weighting for Nonmonotone Missing at Random Data
Creators: name: Sun, BaoLuo
name: Tchetgen, Eric J. Tchetgen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The development of coherent missing data models to account for nonmonotone missing at random (MAR) data by inverse probability weighting (IPW) remains to date largely unresolved. As a consequence, IPW has essentially been restricted for use only in monotone missing data settings. We propose a class of models for nonmonotone missing data mechanisms that spans the MAR model, while allowing the underlying full data law to remain unrestricted. For parametric specifications within the proposed class, we introduce an unconstrained maximum likelihood estimator for estimating the missing data probabilities which can be easily implemented using existing software. To circumvent potential convergence issues with this procedure, we also introduce a Bayesian constrained approach to estimate the missing data process which is guaranteed to yield inferences that respect all model restrictions. The efficiency of the standard IPW estimator is improved by incorporating information from incomplete cases through an augmented estimating equation which is optimal within a large class of estimating equations. We investigate the finite-sample properties of the proposed estimators in a simulation study and illustrate the new methodology in an application evaluating key correlates of preterm delivery for infants born to HIV infected mothers in Botswana, Africa.
The Relationship of Self-Reported Pain and Functional Impairment to Gait Mechanics in Overweight and Obese Persons With Knee Osteoarthritis
Creators: name: Kraus, Virginia B.
name: Nebel, Mary Beth
name: Pells, Jennifer J.
name: Caldwell, David S.
name: Sims, Ershela L.
name: Guilak, Farshid
name: Schmitt, Daniel
name: Keefe, Francis J.
name: Queen, Robin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: To examine the degree to which 2 commonly used measures of pain and disability, the Arthritis Impact Measurement Scales (AIMS) and Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC), relate to objective gait measurements.
A cut finite element method for coupled bulk-surface problems on time-dependent domains
Creators: name: Hansbo, Peter
name: Larson, Mats G.
name: Zahedi, Sara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this contribution we present a new computational method for coupled bulk-surface problems on time-dependent domains. The method is based on a space-time formulation using discontinuous piecewise linear elements in time and continuous piecewise linear elements in space on a fixed background mesh. The domain is represented using a piecewise linear level set function on the background mesh and a cut finite element method is used to discretize the bulk and surface problems. In the cut finite element method the bilinear forms associated with the weak formulation of the problem are directly evaluated on the bulk domain and the surface defined by the level set, essentially using the restrictions of the piecewise linear functions to the computational domain. In addition a stabilization term is added to stabilize convection as well as the resulting algebraic system that is solved in each time step. We show in numerical examples that the resulting method is accurate and stable and results in well conditioned algebraic systems independent of the position of the interface relative to the background mesh.
Additional file 1 of Clinical outcomes and safety of anakinra in the treatment of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children: a single center observational study
Creators: name: Dizon, Brian L.P.
name: Redmond, Christopher
name: Gotschlich, Emily C.
name: Sule, Sangeeta
name: Ronis, Tova
name: Vazzana, Kathleen M.
name: Sherman, Matthew A.
name: Connor, Rachael
name: Bosk, Abigail
name: Dham, Niti
name: Harahsheh, Ashraf S.
name: Wells, Elizabeth
name: DeBiasi, Roberta
name: Srinivasalu, Hemalatha
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
title: Les quotas de genre dans le monde académique  (Débats du LIEPP, n°5)
Creators: name: Deschamps, Pierre
name: Revillard, Anne
name: Sautier, Marie
name: Arbogast, Mathieu
Publisher: name: Sciences Po - LIEPP
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: FOS: Social sciences
valueUri: http://www.oecd.org/science/inno/38235147.pdf

description: Quel peut être l’effet de l’introduction de quotas face aux inégalités de genre dans l’enseignement supérieur et la recherche ? Dans une étude récente, Pierre Deschamps s’est intéressé à l’impact de la mise en place depuis 2015 d’un quota de 40% de femmes dans les comités de sélection à l’université en France. Il s’est appuyé sur des données administratives sur 455 comités académiques et 1548 candidates appartenant à 3 universités publiques françaises. Publiés dans le Working paper n°82 du LIEPP « Gender Quotas in Hiring Committees : a Boon or a Bane for Women », les résultats de cette étude interrogent la conception et les effets des politiques d’égalité dans l’enseignement supérieur et la recherche. En effet, si le quota est effectivement respecté, la progression de la proportion de femmes dans les comités semble s’être accompagnée d’une diminution des chances de recrutement des femmes candidates. Ces conclusions ont fait l’objet d’une discussion interdisciplinaire lors d’un « Débat du LIEPP » organisé le 5 avril 2019. Prenant appui sur des travaux de droit et de science politique, Anne Revillard est revenue sur l’origine et les objectifs des réformes instituant le quota. Marie Sautier a mis en perspective les résultats de cette étude à partir d’une analyse sociologique des mécanismes de production des inégalités de genre. Représentant la Mission pour la place des femmes au CNRS, Mathieu Arbogast a pointé les obstacles spécifiques à la mise en œuvre des quotas dans le monde de la recherche, et présenté plusieurs pistes de réformes dans le prolongement de ces travaux.
Forced desorption of semiflexible polymers, adsorbed and driven by molecular motors
Creators: name: Chaudhuri, Abhishek
name: Chaudhuri, Debasish
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Subcellular Processes (q-bio.SC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We formulate and characterize a model to describe the dynamics of semiflexible polymers in the presence of activity due to motor proteins attached irreversibly to a substrate, and a transverse pulling force acting on one end of the filament. The stochastic binding-unbinding of the motor proteins and their ability to move along the polymer, generates active forces. As the pulling force reaches a threshold value, the polymer eventually desorbs from the substrate. Performing molecular dynamics simulations of the polymer in presence of a Langevin heat bath, and stochastic motor activity, we obtain desorption phase diagrams. The correlation time for fluctuations in desorbed fraction increases as one approaches complete desorption, captured quantitatively by a power law spectral density. We present theoretical analysis of the phase diagram using mean field approximations in the weakly bending limit of the polymer and performing linear stability analysis. This predicts increase in the desorption force with the polymer bending rigidity, active velocity and processivity of the motor proteins to capture the main features of the simulation results.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
Disparities in Postacute Rehabilitation Care for Stroke: An Analysis of the State Inpatient Databases
Creators: name: Holmes, George M.
name: Ku, Li-Jung E.
name: Cutchin, Malcolm P.
name: Edwards, Lloyd J.
name: Freburger, Janet K.
name: Heatwole-Shank, Kendra
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Abstract Freburger JK, Holmes GM, Ku L-JE, Cutchin MP, Heatwole-Shank K, Edwards LJ. Disparities in postacute rehabilitation care for stroke: an analysis of the state inpatient databases. Objective To determine the extent to which sociodemographic and geographic disparities exist in the use of postacute rehabilitation care (PARC) after stroke. Design Cross-sectional analysis of data for 2 years (2005–2006) from the State Inpatient Databases. Setting All short-term acute-care hospitals in 4 demographically and geographically diverse states. Participants Individuals (age, ≥45y; mean age, 72.6y) with a primary diagnosis of stroke who survived their inpatient stay (N=187,188). The sample was 52.4% women, 79.5% white, 11.4% black, and 9.1% Hispanic. Interventions Not applicable. Main Outcome Measures (1) Discharge to an institution versus home. (2) For those discharged to home, receipt of home health (HH) versus no HH care. (3) For those discharged to an institution, receipt of inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) or skilled nursing facility (SNF) care. Multilevel logistic regression analyses were conducted to identify sociodemographic and geographic disparities in PARC use, controlling for illness severity/comorbid conditions, hospital characteristics, and PARC supply. Results Blacks, women, older individuals, and those with lower incomes were more likely to receive institutional care; Hispanics and the uninsured were less likely. Racial minorities, women, older individuals, and those with lower incomes were more likely to receive HH care; uninsured individuals were less likely. Blacks, women, older individuals, the uninsured, and those with lower incomes were more likely to receive SNF versus IRF care. PARC use varied significantly by hospital and geographic location. Conclusions Several sociodemographic and geographic disparities in PARC use were identified.
NAVIGATING UNCHARTED WATERS: INSIGHTS INTO CHALLENGES FACED  BY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL LEADERS AMIDST THE COVID-19 CRISIS
Creators: name: Pretorius, EIleen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Navigating Uncharted Waters: Insights into Challenges Faced by International School Leaders Amidst the COVID-19 Crisis by Eileen Pretorius explores the multifaceted challenges encountered by international school leaders during the global COVID-19 pandemic. The thesis provides an in-depth analysis of leadership strategies, decision-making processes, and the adaptability required to navigate unprecedented times. Through qualitative research, Pretorius examines the pressures and evolving dynamics within international education, offering valuable insights for future crisis management in educational settings.
Estimates of Occupational Inhalation Exposures to Six Oil-Related Compounds on the Four Rig Vessels Responding to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Creators: name: Blair, A.
name: Huynh, T.B.
name: Kwok, R.K.
name: Stewart, P.A.
name: Sandler, D.P.
name: Engel, L.S.
name: Stenzel, M.R.
name: Ramachandran, G.
name: Quick, H.
name: Banerjee, S.
name: Groth, C.P.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2022

description: Background: The 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill involved thousands of workers and volunteers to mitigate the oil release and clean-up after the spill. Health concerns for these participants led to the initiation of a prospective epidemiological study (GuLF STUDY) to investigate potential adverse health outcomes associated with the oil spill response and clean-up (OSRC). Characterizing the chemical exposures of the OSRC workers was an essential component of the study. Workers on the four oil rig vessels mitigating the spill and located within a 1852 m (1 nautical mile) radius of the damaged wellhead [the Discoverer Enterprise (Enterprise), the Development Driller II (DDII), the Development Driller III (DDIII), and the HelixQ4000] had some of the greatest potential for chemical exposures. Objectives: The aim of this paper is to characterize potential personal chemical exposures via the inhalation route for workers on those four rig vessels. Specifically, we presented our methodology and descriptive statistics of exposure estimates for total hydrocarbons (THCs), benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene, and n-hexane (BTEX-H) for various job groups to develop exposure groups for the GuLF STUDY cohort. Methods: Using descriptive information associated with the measurements taken on various jobs on these rig vessels and with job titles from study participant responses to the study questionnaire, job groups [unique job/rig/time period (TP) combinations] were developed to describe groups of workers with the same or closely related job titles. A total of 500 job groups were considered for estimation using the available 8139 personal measurements. We used a univariate Bayesian model to analyze the THC measurements and a bivariate Bayesian regression framework to jointly model the measurements of THC and each of the BTEX-H chemicals separately, both models taking into account the many measurements that were below the analytic limit of detection. Results: Highest THC exposures occurred in TP1a and TP1b, which was before the well was mechanically capped. The posterior medians of the arithmetic mean (AM) ranged from 0.11 ppm ('Inside/Other', TP1b, DDII; and 'Driller', TP3, DDII) to 14.67 ppm ('Methanol Operations', TP1b, Enterprise). There were statistical differences between the THC AMs by broad job groups, rigs, and time periods. The AMs for BTEX-H were generally about two to three orders of magnitude lower than the THC AMs, with benzene and ethylbenzene measurements being highly censored. Conclusions: Our results add new insights to the limited literature on exposures associated with oil spill responses and support the current epidemiologic investigation of potential adverse health effects of the oil spill.
Cognitive-Motor Interference During Functional Mobility After Stroke: State of the Science and Implications for Future Research
Creators: name: Campbell, Grace
name: Plummer, Prudence
name: Giuffrida, Clare
name: Eskes, Gail
name: Clifton, KerryLee
name: Fraas, Michael
name: Wallace, Sarah
name: Skidmore, Elizabeth R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Cognitive-motor interference (CMI) is evident when simultaneous performance of a cognitive task and a motor task results in deterioration in performance in one or both of the tasks, relative to performance of each task separately. The purpose of this review is to present a framework for categorizing patterns of CMI and to examine the specific patterns of CMI evident in published studies comparing single-task and dual-task performance of cognitive and motor tasks during gait and balance activities after stroke. We also examine the literature for associations between patterns of CMI and history of falls, as well as evidence for the effects of rehabilitation on CMI after stroke. Overall, this review suggests that during gait activities with an added cognitive task, people with stroke are likely to demonstrate significant decrements in motor performance only (cognitive-related motor interference) or decrements in both motor and cognitive performance (mutual interference). In contrast, patterns of CMI were variable among studies examining balance activities. Comparing people post-stroke with and without a history of falls, patterns and magnitude of CMI were similar for fallers and non-fallers. Longitudinal studies suggest that conventional rehabilitation has minimal effects on CMI during gait or balance activities. However, early phase pilot studies suggest that dual-task interventions may reduce CMI during gait performance in community-dwelling stroke survivors. It is our hope that this innovative and critical examination of the existing literature will highlight the limitations in current experimental designs and inform improvements in the design and reporting of dual-task studies in stroke.
Using Real-Time Area VOC Measurements to Estimate Total Hydrocarbons Exposures to Workers Involved in the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Creators: name: Ramachandran, G.
name: Stenzel, M.R.
name: Stewart, P.A.
name: Kwok, R.K.
name: Banerjee, S.
name: Sandler, D.P.
name: Huynh, T.B.
name: Groth, C.P.
name: Engel, L.S.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2022

description: Even though the Deepwater Horizon oil spill response and clean-up (OSRC) had one of the largest exposure monitoring efforts of any oil spill, a number of exposure groups did not have sufficient personal data available or there were gaps in days measured to adequately characterize exposures for the GuLF STUDY, an epidemiologic study investigating the health of the OSRC workers. Area measurements were available from real-time air monitoring instruments and used to supplement the personal exposure measurements. Objectives: The objective was to present a method that used real-time volatile organic compounds (VOCs) area measurements transformed to daily total hydrocarbons (THC) time-weighted averages (TWAs) to supplement THC personal full-shift measurements collected using passive charcoal badges. A second objective was to develop exposure statistics using these data for workers on vessels piloting remotely operated vehicle (ROV) vessels and other marine vessels (MVs) not at the job title level, but at the vessel level. Methods: From hourly vessel averages derived from ~26 million real-time VOC measurements, we estimated full-shift VOC TWAs. Then, we determined the relationship between these TWAs and corresponding full-shift THC personal measurements taken on the same vessel-day. We used this relationship to convert the full-shift VOC measurements to full-shift 'THC' TWA estimates when no personal THC measurements existed on a vessel-day. We then calculated arithmetic means (AMs) and other statistics of THC exposures for each vessel. Results: The VOC-derived estimates substantially supplemented the THC personal measurements, with the number of vessel-days for which we have exposure estimates increasing by ~60%. The estimates of the AMs are some of the highest observed in the GuLF STUDY. As expected, the AMs decreased over time, consistent with our findings on other vessels. Conclusions: Despite the inherent limitations of using real-time area measurements, we were able to develop additional daily observations of personal THC exposures for workers on the ROV vessels and other MVs over time. The estimates likely resulted in more representative estimates of the AMs in the GuLF STUDY. The method used here can be applied in other occupational settings and industries for personal exposure estimation where large amounts of area measurements and more limited numbers of personal measurements are available.
nIFTy Cosmology: Galaxy/halo mock catalogue comparison project on clustering statistics
Creators: name: Chuang, Chia-Hsun
name: Zhao, Cheng
name: Prada, Francisco
name: Munari, Emiliano
name: Avila, Santiago
name: Izard, Albert
name: Kitaura, Francisco-Shu
name: Manera, Marc
name: Monaco, Pierluigi
name: Murray, Steven
name: Knebe, Alexander
name: Scoccola, Claudia G.
name: Yepes, Gustavo
name: Garcia-Bellido, Juan
name: Marin, Felipe A.
name: Muller, Volker
name: Skibba, Ramin
name: Crocce, Martin
name: Fosalba, Pablo
name: Gottlober, Stefan
name: Klypin, Anatoly A.
name: Power, Chris
name: Tao, Charling
name: Turchaninov, Victor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a comparison of major methodologies of fast generating mock halo or galaxy catalogues. The comparison is done for two-point and the three-point clustering statistics. The reference catalogues are drawn from the BigMultiDark N-body simulation. Both friend-of-friends (including distinct halos only) and spherical overdensity (including distinct halos and subhalos) catalogs have been used with the typical number density of a large-volume galaxy surveys. We demonstrate that a proper biasing model is essential for reproducing the power spectrum at quasilinear and even smaller scales. With respect to various clustering statistics a methodology based on perturbation theory and a realistic biasing model leads to very good agreement with N-body simulations. However, for the quadrupole of the correlation function or the power spectrum, only the method based on semi-N-body simulation could reach high accuracy (1% level) at small scales, i.e., r<25 Mpc/h or k>0.15 h/Mpc. Full N-body solutions will remain indispensable to produce reference catalogues. Nevertheless, we have demonstrated that the far more efficient approximate solvers can reach a few percent accuracy in terms of clustering statistics at the scales interesting for the large-scale structure analysis after calibration with a few reference N-body calculations. This makes them useful for massive production aimed at covariance studies, to scan large parameter spaces, and to estimate uncertainties in data analysis techniques, such as baryon acoustic oscillation reconstruction, redshift distortion measurements, etc.
description: 16 pages, 15 figures; matches the version accepted by MNRAS; a bug in PINOCCHIO code has been fixed; no major modification from previous version
Upper-Extremity and Mobility Subdomains From the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Adult Physical Functioning Item Bank
Creators: name: Spritzer, Karen L.
name: Hays, Ron D.
name: DeWitt, Esi Morgan
name: Lai, Jin-Shei
name: Fries, James F.
name: DeWalt, Darren A.
name: Riley, William T.
name: Amtmann, Dagmar
name: Rothrock, Nan
name: Krishnan, Eswar
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: To create upper-extremity and mobility subdomain scores from the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) physical functioning adult item bank.
Additional file 2 of Clinical outcomes and safety of anakinra in the treatment of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children: a single center observational study
Creators: name: Dizon, Brian L.P.
name: Redmond, Christopher
name: Gotschlich, Emily C.
name: Sule, Sangeeta
name: Ronis, Tova
name: Vazzana, Kathleen M.
name: Sherman, Matthew A.
name: Connor, Rachael
name: Bosk, Abigail
name: Dham, Niti
name: Harahsheh, Ashraf S.
name: Wells, Elizabeth
name: DeBiasi, Roberta
name: Srinivasalu, Hemalatha
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 2
Production and Cost Implications of a Multi-Pest Management Program for Pecans
Creators: name: Reichelderfer, Katherine H.
name: Reichelderfer, Katherine H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1979
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Budget analysis
subject: Multi-pest management program
subject: Pecan pest control

description: This study examines the impacts on pecan production that could result from adoption of a newly developed multi-pest management program for Southeastern pecans. The cost of the program is greater than the cost of conventional control of pecan pests. Analysis of yield data suggests, however, that employment of the multi-pest management program may increase pecan yield over that obtained using the conventional system of pesticide applications. The value of yield increases on experimental acreage was sufficiently high to offset the increased cost of pest control. Further research is required to examine the impacts of widespread adoption of the program.
Recovery of Paretic Lower Extremity Loading Ability and Physical Function in the First Six Months After Stroke
Creators: name: Preisser, John S.
name: Freburger, Janet Kues
name: Yin, Zhaoyu
name: Mercer, Vicki Stemmons
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: To evaluate post-stroke recovery of paretic lower extremity loading, walking ability, and self-reported physical function, and to identify subject characteristics associated with recovery.
Estimates of Inhalation Exposures among Land Workers during the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Clean-up Operations
Creators: name: Sandler, D.P.
name: Stewart, P.A.
name: Huynh, T.B.
name: Kwok, R.K.
name: Blair, A.
name: Groth, C.P.
name: Stenzel, M.R.
name: Ramachandran, G.
name: Banerjee, S.
name: Engel, L.S.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2022

description: Following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster, thousands of workers and volunteers cleaned the shoreline across four coastal states of the Gulf of Mexico. For the GuLF STUDY, we developed quantitative estimates of oil-related chemical exposures [total petroleum hydrocarbons (THC), benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene, and n-hexane (BTEX-H)] from personal measurements on workers performing various spill clean-up operations on land. These operations included decontamination of vessels, equipment, booms, and personnel; handling of oily booms; hazardous waste management; beach, marsh, and jetty clean-up; aerial missions; wildlife rescue and rehabilitation; and administrative support activities. Exposure estimates were developed for unique groups of workers by (i) activity, (ii) state, and (iii) time period. Estimates of the arithmetic means (AMs) for THC ranged from 0.04 to 3.67 ppm. BTEX-H estimates were substantially lower than THC (in the parts per billion range). Both THC and BTEX-H estimates were substantially lower than their respective occupational exposure limits. The work group, 'Fueled engines' consistently was one of the higher exposed groups to THC and BTEX-H. Notable differences in the AM exposures were observed by activity, time and, to a lesser degree, by state. These exposure estimates were used to develop job-exposure matrices for the GuLF STUDY.
Psychometric Properties of the Young Children's Participation and Environment Measure
Creators: name: Davies, Patricia L.
name: Simeonsson, Rune J.
name: Khetani, Mary A.
name: Law, Mary C.
name: Graham, James E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: To evaluate the psychometric properties of the newly developed Young Children’s Participation and Environment Measure (YC-PEM).
Additional file 6 of ATP-citrate lyase B (ACLB) negatively affects cell death and resistance to Verticillium wilt
Creators: name: Liu, Fujie
name: Ma, Zhifeng
name: Cai, Sheng
name: Dai, Lingjun
name: Gao, Jianbo
name: Zhou, Baoliang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 6: Table S1. Distribution and name of ATP citrate lyase in cotton.
Endnote 20 Workshop for Mac
Creators: name: HKU Libraries, Learning and Research Services
Publisher: name: HKU Data Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: Library and information studies not elsewhere classified

description: Endnote 20 is a citation management software and the HKU site license covers current HKU staff and students.
Through this workshop, you will learn how to: Create an EndNote 20 library Build your Endnote 20 library by exporting citations from FIND@HKUL, Academic Search Complete and Google Scholar Create in-text citations and reference list in Word document using Cite While You WriteManage EndNote 20 library by creating groups
The Page-R{é}nyi parking process
Creators: name: Gerin, Lucas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In the Page parking (or packing) model on a discrete interval (also known as the discrete R{é}nyi packing problem or the unfriendly seating problem), cars of length two successively park uniformly at random on pairs of adjacent places, until only isolated places remain. We give a probabilistic proof of the (known) fact that the proportion of the interval covered by cars goes to 1-exp(-2) , when the length of the interval goes to infinity. We obtain some new consequences, and also study a version of this process defined on the infinite line.
Modeled Air Pollution from In Situ Burning and Flaring of Oil and Gas Released Following the Deepwater Horizon Disaster
Creators: name: Groth, C.P.
name: Pratt, G.C.
name: Kwok, R.K.
name: Engel, L.S.
name: Stewart, P.A.
name: Arnold, S.F.
name: Sandler, D.P.
name: Banerjee, S.
name: Stenzel, M.R.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2022

description: The GuLF STUDY, initiated by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, is investigating the health effects among workers involved in the oil spill response and clean-up (OSRC) after the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) explosion in April 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico. Clean-up included in situ burning of oil on the water surface and flaring of gas and oil captured near the seabed and brought to the surface. We estimated emissions of PM2.5 and related pollutants resulting from these activities, as well as from engines of vessels working on the OSRC. PM2.5 emissions ranged from 30 to 1.33e6 kg per day and were generally uniform over time for the flares but highly episodic for the in situ burns. Hourly emissions from each source on every burn/flare day were used as inputs to the AERMOD model to develop average and maximum concentrations for 1-, 12-, and 24-h time periods. The highest predicted 24-h average concentrations sometimes exceeded 5000 μg m-3 in the first 500 m downwind of flaring and reached 71 μg m-3 within a kilometer of some in situ burns. Beyond 40 km from the DWH site, plumes appeared to be well mixed, and the predicted 24-h average concentrations from the flares and in situ burns were similar, usually below 10 μg m-3. Structured averaging of model output gave potential PM2.5 exposure estimates for OSRC workers located in various areas across the Gulf. Workers located nearest the wellhead (hot zone/source workers) were estimated to have a potential maximum 12-h exposure of 97 μg m-3 over the 2-month flaring period. The potential maximum 12-h exposure for workers who participated in in situ burns was estimated at 10 μg m-3 over the ~3-month burn period. The results suggest that burning of oil and gas during the DWH clean-up may have resulted in PM2.5 concentrations substantially above the U.S. National Ambient Air Quality Standard for PM2.5 (24-h average = 35 μg m-3). These results are being used to investigate possible adverse health effects in the GuLF STUDY epidemiologic analysis of PM2.5 exposures.
Analisis Contoh Kasus Menakar Eksitensi Dan Perlindungan Hukum Terhadap Sengketa Hak Atas Tanah Masyarakat Hukum Adat Berdasarkan Hukum Positif Indonesia (Studi Kasus Prkebunan Sawit Di Kalimantan Selatan)
Creators: name: Siregar, maung nauli
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Kasus ini berawal dari klaim hak atas tanahantara masyarakat hukum adat di Kalimantan Selatan, terutama Suku Dayak, dengan pengusaha perkebunansawit. Tanah ulayat adalah tanah yang dikuasai oleh masyarakat hukum adat dan memiliki nilai pentingsecara ekonomi, sosial, dan budaya bagi mereka. Perkebunan sawit memicu konflik ketika pengusahamengklaim hak atas tanah tersebut untuk kepentinganusaha.
Additional file 1 of Broadly neutralizing human antibodies against Omicron subvariants of SARS-CoV-2
Creators: name: Chiang, Hsiao-Ling
name: Liang, Kang-Hao
name: Lu, Ruei-Min
name: Kuo, Ting-Wen
name: Lin, Yi‑Ling
name: Wu, Han-Chung
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Neutralizing capacities of RBD-hAbs toward SARS-CoV-2 variant pseudoviruses. (A) Neutralization curves from one independent experiment with BA.5 in the first screening. (B) Neutralization curves from one independent experiment with RBD-hAb-B22 to RBD-hAb-B37 in the BQ.1.1 cross-reactivity screening. (C) Neutralization curves from one independent experiment with RBD-hAb-B22 to RBD-hAb-B37 in the XBB.1 cross-reactivity screening.
Adaptive Semi-linear Inversion of Strong Gravitational Lens Imaging
Creators: name: Nightingale, James
name: Dye, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new pixelized method for the inversion of gravitationally lensed extended source images which we term adaptive semi-linear inversion (SLI). At the heart of the method is an h-means clustering algorithm which is used to derive a source plane pixelization that adapts to the lens model magnification. The distinguishing feature of adaptive SLI is that every pixelization is derived from a random initialization, ensuring that data discretization is performed in a completely different and unique way for every lens model parameter set. We compare standard SLI on a fixed source pixel grid with the new method and demonstrate the shortcomings of the former when modeling singular power law ellipsoid (SPLE) lens profiles. In particular, we demonstrate the superior reliability and efficiency of adaptive SLI which, by design, fixes the number of degrees of freedom (NDOF) of the optimization and thereby removes biases present with other methods that allow the NDOF to vary. In addition, we highlight the importance of data discretization in pixel-based inversion methods, showing that adaptive SLI averages over significant systematics that are present when a fixed source pixel grid is used. In the case of the SPLE lens profile, we show how the method successfully samples its highly degenerate posterior probability distribution function with a single non-linear search. The robustness of adaptive SLI provides a firm foundation for the development of a strong lens modeling pipeline, which will become necessary in the short-term future to cope with the increasing rate of discovery of new strong lens systems.
description: 19 pages, 16 figures, 4 tables, Revised Submission to MNRAS
Sexual Partnerships, Risk Behaviors, and Condom Use Among Low-Income Heterosexual African Americans: A Qualitative Study
Creators: name: Webb, Elizabeth
name: Feist-Price, Sonja
name: Van Stee, Stephanie
name: Troutman, Adewale
name: Crosby, Richard
name: Noar, Seth M.
name: Willoughby, Jessica Fitts
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: The purpose of the current investigation was to contextualize the sexual relationships and risk behaviors of heterosexually active African Americans. A total of 38 participants (20 females and 18 males) aged 18–44 years were recruited in a large city in the southeastern U.S. to participate in focus group discussions exploring sexual partnerships, general condom perceptions, and condom negotiation. Results indicated that participants distinguished among at least three partner types–one-night stand, “regular” casual partner, and main partner. Partner types were found to shape and influence types of sexual behaviors, perceptions of risk and condom use, and condom negotiation. Participants also shared general perceptions about condoms and elucidated situations in which intentions to use condoms were not realized. Gender differences emerged in many of these areas. Implications of these findings are discussed and directions for future research on sexual partnerships and risk behavior are offered.
Endnote 20 Workshop for Mac
Creators: name: HKU Libraries, Learning and Research Services
Publisher: name: HKU Data Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: Library and information studies not elsewhere classified

description: Endnote 20 is a citation management software and the HKU site license covers current HKU staff and students.
Through this workshop, you will learn how to: Create an EndNote 20 library Build your Endnote 20 library by exporting citations from FIND@HKUL, Academic Search Complete and Google Scholar Create in-text citations and reference list in Word document using Cite While You WriteManage EndNote 20 library by creating groups
Additional file 7 of ATP-citrate lyase B (ACLB) negatively affects cell death and resistance to Verticillium wilt
Creators: name: Liu, Fujie
name: Ma, Zhifeng
name: Cai, Sheng
name: Dai, Lingjun
name: Gao, Jianbo
name: Zhou, Baoliang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 7: Table S2. Cis-element prediction of upstream sequence of GausACLB-2 gene.
BICEP2 III: Instrumental Systematics
Creators: name: BICEP2 Collaboration
name: Ade, P. A. R.
name: Aikin, R. W.
name: Barkats, D.
name: Benton, S. J.
name: Bischoff, C. A.
name: Bock, J. J.
name: Brevik, J. A.
name: Buder, I.
name: Bullock, E.
name: Dowell, C. D.
name: Duband, L.
name: Filippini, J. P.
name: Fliescher, S.
name: Golwala, S. R.
name: Halpern, M.
name: Hasselfield, M.
name: Hildebrandt, S. R.
name: Hilton, G. C.
name: Irwin, K. D.
name: Karkare, K. S.
name: Kaufman, J. P.
name: Keating, B. G.
name: Kernasovskiy, S. A.
name: Kovac, J. M.
name: Kuo, C. L.
name: Leitch, E. M.
name: Lueker, M.
name: Netterfield, C. B.
name: Nguyen, H. T.
name: O'Brient, R.
name: Ogburn, R. W.
name: Orlando, A.
name: Pryke, C.
name: Richter, S.
name: Schwarz, R.
name: Sheehy, C. D.
name: Staniszewski, Z. K.
name: Sudiwala, R. V.
name: Teply, G. P.
name: Tolan, J. E.
name: Turner, A. D.
name: Vieregg, A. G.
name: Wong, C. L.
name: Yoon, K. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a companion paper we have reported a $>5σ$ detection of degree scale $B $-mode polarization at 150 GHz by the BICEP2 experiment. Here we provide a detailed study of potential instrumental systematic contamination to that measurement. We focus extensively on spurious polarization that can potentially arise from beam imperfections. We present a heuristic classification of beam imperfections according to their symmetries and uniformities, and discuss how resulting contamination adds or cancels in maps that combine observations made at multiple orientations of the telescope about its boresight axis. We introduce a technique, which we call "deprojection", for filtering the leading order beam-induced contamination from time ordered data, and show that it removes power from BICEP2's $BB$ spectrum consistent with predictions using high signal-to-noise beam shape measurements. We detail the simulation pipeline that we use to directly simulate instrumental systematics and the calibration data used as input to that pipeline. Finally, we present the constraints on $BB$ contamination from individual sources of potential systematics. We find that systematics contribute $BB$ power that is a factor $\sim10\times$ below BICEP2's 3-year statistical uncertainty, and negligible compared to the observed $BB$ signal. The contribution to the best-fit tensor/scalar ratio is at a level equivalent to $r=(3-6)\times10^{-3}$.
description: 26 pages, 16 figures, higher quality figures available at http://bicepkeck.org
On the Relationship Between Automatic Attitudes and Self-Reported Sexual Assault in Men
Creators: name: Olson, Michael
name: Widman, Laura
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Research and theory suggest rape supportive attitudes are important predictors of sexual assault; yet, to date, rape supportive attitudes have been assessed exclusively through self-report measures that are methodologically and theoretically limited. To address these limitations, the objectives of the current project were to: (1) develop a novel implicit rape attitude assessment that captures automatic attitudes about rape and does not rely on self-reports, and (2) examine the association between automatic rape attitudes and sexual assault perpetration. We predicted that automatic rape attitudes would be a significant unique predictor of sexual assault even when self-reported rape attitudes (i.e., rape myth acceptance and hostility toward women) were controlled. We tested the generalizability of this prediction in two independent samples: a sample of undergraduate college men (n = 75, M age = 19.3 years) and a sample of men from the community (n = 50, M age = 35.9 years). We found the novel implicit rape attitude assessment was significantly associated with the frequency of sexual assault perpetration in both samples and contributed unique variance in explaining sexual assault beyond rape myth acceptance and hostility toward women. We discuss the ways in which future research on automatic rape attitudes may significantly advance measurement and theory aimed at understanding and preventing sexual assault.
The (u,v)-Calkin-Wilf Forest
Creators: name: Han, Sandie
name: Masuda, Ariane M.
name: Singh, Satyanand
name: Thiel, Johann
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11A55, 11B75, 05C05

description: In this paper we consider a refinement, due to Nathanson, of the Calkin-Wilf tree. In particular, we study the properties of such trees associated with the matrices $L_u=\begin{bmatrix} 1 & 0 \\ u & 1\end{bmatrix}$ and $R_v=\begin{bmatrix} 1 & v \\ 0& 1\end{bmatrix}$, where $u$ and $v$ are nonnegative integers. We extend several known results of the original Calkin-Wilf tree, including the symmetry, numerator-denominator, and successor formulas, to this new setting. Additionally, we study the ancestry of a rational number appearing in a generalized Calkin-Wilf tree.
description: 18 pages
GuLF DREAM: A Model to Estimate Dermal Exposure Among Oil Spill Response and Clean-up Workers
Creators: name: Engel, L.S.
name: Sleeuwenhoek, A.
name: Cherrie, J.W.
name: Ng, M.G.
name: Cavallari, J.M.
name: Stewart, P.A.
name: Kwok, R.K.
name: Stenzel, M.R.
name: Sandler, D.P.
name: Blair, A.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2022

description: Tens of thousands of individuals performed oil spill response and clean-up (OSRC) activities following the 'Deepwater Horizon' oil drilling rig explosion in 2010. Many were exposed to oil residues and dispersants. The US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences assembled a cohort of nearly 33 000 workers to investigate potential adverse health effects of oil spill exposures. Estimates of dermal and inhalation exposure are required for those individuals. Ambient breathing-zone measurements taken at the time of the spill were used to estimate inhalation exposures for participants in the GuLF STUDY (Gulf Long-term Follow-up Study), but no dermal measurements were collected. Consequently, a modelling approach was used to estimate dermal exposures. We sought to modify DREAM (DeRmal Exposure Assessment Method) to optimize the model for assessing exposure to various oil spill-related substances and to incorporate advances in dermal exposure research. Each DREAM parameter was reviewed in the context of literature published since 2000 and modified where appropriate. To reflect the environment in which the OSRC work took place, the model treatment of evaporation was expanded to include vapour pressure and wind speed, and the effect of seawater on exposure was added. The modified model is called GuLF DREAM and exposure is estimated in GuLF DREAM units (GDU). An external validation to assess the performance of the model for oils, tars, and fuels was conducted using available published dermal wipe measurements of heavy fuel oil (HFO) and dermal hand wash measurements of asphalt. Overall, measured exposures had moderate correlations with GDU estimates (r = 0.59) with specific correlations of -0.48 for HFO and 0.68 for asphalt. The GuLF DREAM model described in this article has been used to generate dermal exposure estimates for the GuLF STUDY. Many of the updates made were generic, so the updated model may be useful for other dermal exposure scenarios.
The Personal and the Planetary: Buddhism, Climate Change, and Anthropocene Time
Creators: name: Verchery, Lina
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 5005
subject: Theology
classificationCode: 5004
subject: Religious studies

description: Dipesh Chakrabarty describes the problem of climate change as in part one of temporal incommensurability. For most of human history, we have enjoyed the primacy of anthropocentric “world-historical” time. But as climate change becomes an increasingly dominant preoccupation in our daily lives, we experience a rupture in everyday world-historical time and the incursion of a new timescale: the inconceivably vast and impersonal scale of “planetary-geologic” time. The incommensurability between the personal scale of human time and the vast planetary scale of climate change has produced an affective crisis, confronting us with the very limits of our imaginative capacity. In this essay, I argue that although the specifics of climate change may be new, human imaginative engagement with deep time is not. Animated by the conviction that Buddhist literature and thought contain robust theoretical and conceptual ideas that can enrich philosophical and ethical thinking, I bring select Buddhist concepts to bear on the problem of temporal incommensurability. Rather than suggest any general “Buddhist” way of thinking about time, I argue that Buddhist sources can offer new conceptual points of entry into the problem of temporal incommensurability itself, specifically addressing how we might differently conceptualize the relationship between the personal and the planetary in order to address the affective crisis identified by Chakrabarty.