cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Highly stressed: stressful and traumatic experiences among individuals with HIV/AIDS in the Deep South
Creators: name: Leserman, Jane
name: Reif, Susan
name: Thielman, Nathan
name: Mugavero, Michael
name: Pence, Brian Wells
name: Raper, James
name: Whetten, Kathryn
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: A history of traumatic and/or stressful experiences is prevalent among HIV-infected individuals and has been consistently associated with poorer health outcomes. However, little is known about incident stressful experiences and the factors that predict these experiences among HIV-infected individuals. Data from a longitudinal study of 611 HIV-infected individuals in the Southeastern US were used to examine the frequency and types of incident stress reported in a 27-month period and to determine predictors associated with 3 incident stress measures (all stressful events, severe stressful events, and traumatic events such as physical assault). Incident stressful experiences frequently occurred among study participants, as 91% reported at least one stressful experience (median= 3.5 experiences) and 10% of study participants reported traumatic stress in any given 9-month reporting period. Financial stressors were the most frequently reported by study participants. Greater emotional distress, substance use, and number of baseline stressful experiences were significantly associated with reporting a greater number of incident stressful experiences and any traumatic experiences. Study results indicate that efforts are needed to identify individuals at risk for traumatic events and/or substantial stressors and to address the factors, including mental health and substance abuse that contribute to these experiences.
HIV+ caregivers and HIV+ non-caregivers: differences in sociodemographics, immune functioning, and quality-of-life
Creators: name: Zerden, Mathew
name: Ferrando, Stephen J.
name: Marc, Linda G.
name: Testa, Marcia A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: OBJECTIVE: To examine a cohort of HIV+ study participants, who are caregivers (CGs) and non-caregivers (NCGs), to determine whether differences exist across their sociodemographic backgrounds, immune functioning, and quality-of-life (i.e., symptom distress, physical, and mental quality-of-life).

METHODS: A secondary analysis of the cross-sectional subset of the population-based Collaborations HIV Outcomes Research US Cohort (CHORUS). Sample consists of 5521 HIV+ adults; median age 43 years (SD 8.7); 88.6% male; 70.7% non-Hispanic White, 17.6% African-American, and 7.8% Hispanic. Measures include the HIV Symptom Distress Scale and the SF-12. Analytical models included t-tests and multivariate linear regression.

RESULTS: HIV+ CGs have lower educational attainment than HIV+ NCGs (p=0.02). Seropositive CGs also experience greater HIV symptom distress (adjusted p<0.006) and poorer physical quality-of-life (adjusted p<0.001) than their seropostive NCG counterparts.

CONCLUSION: HIV+ CGs may require different supportive services than HIV+ NCGs, suggesting a need to develop tailored interventions to address modifiable factors, such as lower education and poor physical health. Both of these factors have been associated with suboptimal antiretroviral adherence, suggesting a role for the routine screening of adherence predictors amongst HIV+ CGs. These findings may have more relevance in resource-poor settings where the prevalence of HIV is higher, with a likely growing population of informal and family CGs infected with HIV.
Pilot study demonstrating effectiveness of targeted education to improve informed consent understanding in AIDS clinical trials
Creators: name: Eron, Joseph
name: Lo, Bernard
name: Strauss, Ronald P.
name: Gifford, Allen L.
name: Sengupta, Sohini
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Assessing and improving informed consent understanding is equally important as obtaining consent from participants in clinical trial research, but developing interventions to target gaps in participants’ informed consent understanding remains a challenge. We used a randomized controlled study design to pilot test an educational intervention to improve actual informed consent understanding of new enrollees in the Adult AIDS Clinical Trial Group (AACTG). Questionnaires were administered to 24 enrollees to assess their baseline understanding on eight elements of informed consent associated with AIDS clinical trials. Enrollees who scored 18/21(85%) or less were randomly assigned to in-person, targeted education (intervention) or delayed education (control). Two follow-up assessments were administered. Repeated measures ANOVA was performed to determine intervention effectiveness in improving actual informed consent understanding over time. Actual understanding improved at the immediate post-intervention time point with a significant score difference of 2.5 when comparing the intervention and delayed groups. In addition, there was a significant score difference of 3.2 when comparing baseline to 3-month follow-up for the two groups, suggesting a statistically significant intervention effect to improve actual understanding of the basic elements of informed consent. The findings demonstrated that one-time targeted education can improve actual informed consent understanding one week after the intervention, but retention of these concepts may require periodic monitoring to ensure comprehension throughout the course of a clinical trial.
Additional file 1 of Implementation lessons learnt when trialling palliative care interventions in the intensive care unit: relationships between determinants, implementation strategies, and models of delivery—a systematic review protocol
Creators: name: Meddick-Dyson, S. A.
name: Boland, J. W.
name: Pearson, M.
name: Greenley, S.
name: Gambe, R.
name: Budding, J. R.
name: Murtagh, F. E. M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Data Extraction Form.
Re-Inventing Lawns: Investigating Perceived Values of Front Lawns in Hyde Park, Chicago and Possible Barriers to Sustainable Alternatives
Creators: name: Bick, Fabienne
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2022

description: The maintenance residential lawns require has several negative impacts on the environment such as soil and groundwater contamination. Despite this, they remain popular as they, among other things, create an ideal space for activities and are considered aesthetically pleasing. My study investigates what values attributed to front lawns are the most important to homeowners in Hyde Park, Chicago, and what possible barriers are preventing people from converting their lawns to more sustainable alternatives. I also examine how large of a barrier unawareness is in Hyde Park, Chicago, a neighborhood with a significantly higher level of education than the average American one (CMAP 2021). I do so by evaluating a survey I created for homeowners with front yards in Hyde Park. Based on my results, I argue that unawareness about sustainable lawn alternatives offering the same values as lawns is a possible barrier preventing people in Hyde Park from converting their lawns to more sustainable alternatives. My research is significant because it could help inform policy decisions or incentives to spread awareness in the neighborhood.
Higher-Dimensional Bell Inequalities with Noisy Qudits
Creators: name: Polozova, Elena
name: Strauch, Frederick W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Generalizations of the classic Bell inequality to higher dimensional quantum systems known as qudits are reputed to exhibit a higher degree of robustness to noise, but such claims are based on one particular noise model. We analyze the violation of the Collins-Gisin-Linden-Massar-Popescu inequality subject to more realistic noise sources and their scaling with dimension. This analysis is inspired by potential Bell inequality experiments with superconducting resonator-based qudits. We find that the robustness of the inequality to noise generally decreases with increasing qudit dimension.
(101036) Nelson Fedden
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Regional fat deposition and cardiovascular risk in HIV infection: the FRAM study
Creators: name: Tien, Phyllis C.
name: Sidney, Stephen
name: Wohl, David
name: Lake, Jordan E.
name: Scherzer, Rebecca
name: Grunfeld, Carl
name: Currier, Judith S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: HIV-infected individuals are at increased risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and lipodystrophy, but the relationship between regional adipose tissue (AT) depots and CVD risk is not well-described. We determined regional AT volumes and CVD risk in an analysis of 586 HIV-infected and 280 control FRAM study subjects using whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and the Framingham Risk Score (FRS). Median FRS and FRS >10% were higher in HIV than control men (4.7% vs. 3.7%, p=0.0002; 16% vs. 4%, p<0.0001). HIV and control women had similarly-low FRS (1.1% vs. 1.2%, p=0.91). In controls, total AT and all regional AT depots showed strong positive correlations with FRS (p<0.001) in men, and weaker positive correlations in women. Greater visceral AT (VAT) and lower leg subcutaneous AT (SAT) volumes were associated with elevated FRS in HIV subjects, with a trend for upper trunk SAT. Controls in the lowest quartile of leg SAT had the lowest FRS (1.5%), whereas HIV with similarly-low leg SAT had the highest FRS (4.0%, p<0.001 vs. controls). Increased VAT is associated with CVD risk, but the risk is higher in HIV-infected individuals relative to controls at every level of VAT. Peripheral lipoatrophy (as measured by leg SAT) is associated with striking increased CVD risk in HIV-infected patients, even after controlling for VAT, whereas low leg SAT is associated with low CVD risk in controls.
title: Meteorological factors and aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage (ASH): a single centre retrospective analysis
Creators: name: Puglielli, Edoardo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Vascular
subject: CT
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Embolisation
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Safety
subject: Occupational / Environmental hazards
subject: Aneurysms
subject: Haemorrhage

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Aim of this work is to analyze the association between specific meteorological parameters such as atmospheric pressure, temperature, sunlight, humidity and hospital admission rate for ASH. Atmospheric pressure shows a diurnal or semidiurnal...
Additional file 1 of Opening the Conversation: study protocol for a Phase III trial to evaluate a couple-based intervention to reduce reproductive and sexual distress among young adult breast and gynecologic cancer survivor couples
Creators: name: Gorman, Jessica R.
name: Lyons, Karen S.
name: Harvey, S. Marie
name: Acquati, Chiara
name: Salsman, John M.
name: Kashy, Deborah A.
name: Drizin, Julia H.
name: Smith, Ellie
name: Flexner, Lisa M.
name: Hayes-Lattin, Brandon
name: Reese, Jennifer B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Model research consent form.
(101033) Olcher Fedden
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Performance of multiparametric MRI fusion-targeted prostate biopsies in patients with prior negative transrectal ultrasound-guided biopsies
Creators: name: Boesen, Lars
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: Oncology
subject: MR
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Biopsy
subject: Brachytherapy

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Transrectal ultrasound-guided biopsies (TRUS-bx) have limited diagnostic accuracy in detecting prostate cancer (PCa) and often fail to diagnose significant cancers [1]. To overcome this problem, patients with negative TRUS-bx regularly undergo...
“They Have Already Thrown Away Their Chicken”: barriers affecting participation by HIV-infected women in care and treatment programs for their infants in Blantyre, Malawi
Creators: name: Donahue, Marie Collins
name: Dow, Anna
name: Van Rie, Annelies
name: Dube, Queen
name: Umar, Eric
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: HIV-infected infants and young children are at high risk of serious illness and death. Morbidity and mortality can be greatly reduced through early infant diagnosis (EID) of HIV and timely initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART). Despite global efforts to scale-up of EID and infant ART, uptake of these services in resource poor, high HIV burden countries remains low. We conducted a qualitative study of 59 HIV-infected women to identify and explore barriers women face in accessing HIV testing and care for their infants. To capture different perspectives, we included mothers whose infants were known positive (n=9) or known negative (n=14), mothers of infants with unknown HIV status (n=13), and pregnant HIV-infected women (n=20). Five important themes emerged: lack of knowledge regarding EID and infant ART, the perception of health care workers as authority figures, fear of disclosure of own and/or child’s HIV status, lack of psychosocial support, and intent to shorten the life of the child. A complex array of cultural, economic and psychosocial factors creates barriers for HIV-infected women to participate in early infant HIV testing and care programs. For optimal impact of EID and infant ART, reasons for poor uptake should be better understood and addressed in a culturally sensitive manner.
title: The impact of pitch values on image quality and radiation dose in an abdominal adult phantom using CT
Creators: name: Lanca, Luis
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Radiographers
subject: Abdomen
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: CT
subject: Computer Applications-General
subject: Education and training

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Different parameters on CT can be used to reduce the patient radiation dose. One of these parameters is pitch, which is defined as the table movement per 360 degrees rotation time divided by the beam width (1). The use of a high pitch can reduce the...
(101030) Jemima Maggs
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: The change of distal aortic branch malperfusion complicated by Stanford B aortic dissection
Creators: name: Han, Xiaofeng
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Cardiac
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Digital radiography
subject: Arterial access
subject: Angioplasty
subject: Catheters
subject: Dissection

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Introduction : End-organ malperfusion due to the paravisceral aorta and lower extremities artery complicated bytype B aortic dissection (TBAD)has been recognized as one of the most serious complications [1, 2]. Thoracic endovascular aortic repair...
Additional file 1 of Evolution of work ability, quality of life and self-rated health in a police department after remodelling shift schedule
Creators: name: Velasco-Garrido, Marcial
name: Herold, Robert
name: Rohwer, Elisabeth
name: Mache, Stefanie
name: Terschürenm, Claudia
name: Preisser, Alexandra M.
name: Harth, Volker
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Representativity regarding female quote and age. Supplementary Table 2. Participants’ sociodemographic and job characteristics (2015, 2016 and matched subgroup). Supplementary Table 3. Controlled before and after pre-post analysis – Multivariate analysis Work Ability Index. Supplementary Table 4. Controlled before and after pre-post analysis – Multivariate analysis WHOQOL-Bref Global. Supplementary Table 5. Controlled before and after pre-post analysis – Multivariate analysis Quality of life with shift model (Score 0-10). Supplementary Table 6. Controlled before and after pre-post analysis – Multivariate analysis Self-rated health status (Score 0-10). Supplementary Table 7. Long-term follow-up – Multivariate analysis Work Ability Index. Supplementary Table 8. Long-term follow-up – Multivariate analysis WHOQOL-Bref Global. Supplementary Table 9. Long-term follow-up – Multivariate analysis Quality of life with shift model (Score 0-10). Supplementary Table 10. Long-term follow-up – Multivariate analysis Self-rated health status (Score 0-10). Supplementary Table 11. Scores according to attitude regarding change to the remodelled shift schedule.
Using Interpretable Machine Learning to Massively Increase the Number of Antibody-Virus Interactions Across Studies
Creators: name: Einav, Tal
name: Ma, Rong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A central challenge in every field of biology is to use existing measurements to predict the outcomes of future experiments. In this work, we consider the wealth of antibody inhibition data against variants of the influenza virus. Due to this viru's genetic diversity and evolvability, the variants examined in one study will often have little-to-no overlap with other studies, making it difficult to discern common patterns or unify datasets for further analysis. To that end, we develop a computational framework that predicts how an antibody or serum would inhibit any variant from any other study. We use this framework to greatly expand seven influenza datasets utilizing hemagglutination inhibition, validating our method upon 200,000 existing measurements and predicting 2,000,000 new values along with their uncertainties. With these new values, we quantify the transferability between seven vaccination and infection studies in humans and ferrets, show that the serum potency is negatively correlated with breadth, and present a tool for pandemic preparedness. This data-driven approach does not require any information beyond each virus's name and measurements, and even datasets with as few as 5 viruses can be expanded, making this approach widely applicable. Future influenza studies using hemagglutination inhibition can directly utilize our curated datasets to predict newly measured antibody responses against ~80 H3N2 influenza viruses from 1968-2011, whereas immunological studies utilizing other viruses or a different assay only need a single partially-overlapping dataset to extend their work. In essence, this approach enables a shift in perspective when analyzing data from "what you see is what you get" into "what anyone sees is what everyone gets."
(101031) William Joseph Fedden
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Sub-kiloparsec Imaging of Cool Molecular Gas in Two Strongly Lensed Dusty, Star-Forming Galaxies
Creators: name: Spilker, J. S.
name: Aravena, M.
name: Marrone, D. P.
name: Bethermin, M.
name: Bothwell, M. S.
name: Carlstrom, J. E.
name: Chapman, S. C.
name: Collier, J. D.
name: de Breuck, C.
name: Fassnacht, C. D.
name: Galvin, T.
name: Gonzalez, A. H.
name: Gonzalez-Lopez, J.
name: Grieve, K.
name: Hezaveh, Y.
name: Ma, J.
name: Malkan, M.
name: O'Brien, A.
name: Rotermund, K. M.
name: Strandet, M.
name: Vieira, J. D.
name: Weiss, A.
name: Wong, G. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present spatially-resolved imaging obtained with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) of three CO lines in two high-redshift gravitationally lensed dusty star-forming galaxies, discovered by the South Pole Telescope. Strong lensing allows us to probe the structure and dynamics of the molecular gas in these two objects, at z=2.78 and z=5.66, with effective source-plane resolution of less than 1kpc. We model the lensed emission from multiple CO transitions and the dust continuum in a consistent manner, finding that the cold molecular gas as traced by low-J CO always has a larger half-light radius than the 870um dust continuum emission. This size difference leads to up to 50% differences in the magnification factor for the cold gas compared to dust. In the z=2.78 galaxy, these CO observations confirm that the background source is undergoing a major merger, while the velocity field of the other source is more complex. We use the ATCA CO observations and comparable resolution Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array dust continuum imaging of the same objects to constrain the CO-H_2 conversion factor with three different procedures, finding good agreement between the methods and values consistent with those found for rapidly star-forming systems. We discuss these galaxies in the context of the star formation - gas mass surface density relation, noting that the change in emitting area with observed CO transition must be accounted for when comparing high-redshift galaxies to their lower redshift counterparts.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures; accepted for publication in ApJ
title: Detection of liver metastases: concordance between the arterial and venous phases in CT
Creators: name: Tomé García, Susana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Radiographers
subject: Liver
subject: CT
subject: Efficacy studies
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Metastases

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Two series for evaluation of liver, (arterial and venous) are usually used for the localization / diagnosis of hypo and hyper vascular lesions. The purpose of this research study will be the observed concordance between the images appeared in both...
(101032) Ellen Jemima Fedden
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Basic introduction to higher-spin theories
Creators: name: Ponomarev, Dmitry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This is a collection of my lecture notes on the higher-spin theory course given for students at the Institute for Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University. The goal of these lectures is to give an introduction to higher-spin theories accessible to master level students which would enable them to read the higher-spin literature. I start by introducing basic relevant notions of representation theory and the associated field-theoretic descriptions. Focusing on massless symmetric fields I review different approaches to interactions as well as the no-go results. I end the lectures by reviewing some of the currently available positive results on interactions of massless higher-spin fields, namely, holographic, Chern-Simons and chiral higher-spin theories.
description: 160 pages, minor corrections
eHealth interventions for HIV prevention
Creators: name: Noar, Seth M.
name: Willoughby, Jessica Fitts
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: The rapidly changing media landscape and proliferation of new technologies creates vast new opportunities for HIV prevention. The fast growth of the relatively new eHealth field is a testament to the excitement and promise of these new technologies. eHealth interventions in HIV prevention tested to date include computer- and Internet-based interventions; chat room interventions; text messaging interventions; and social media. The current article provides a brief review of these types of interventions in HIV prevention, including their unique advantages and evidence of efficacy. Implications for future research in the eHealth HIV prevention field are discussed.
Gravitating lepton bag model
Creators: name: Burinskii, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As is known, the gravitational and electromagnetic (EM) field of the Dirac electron is described by an over-extremal Kerr-Newman (KN) black hole (BH) solution which has the naked singular ring and two-sheeted topology. This space is regulated by the formation of a regular source based on the Higgs mechanism of broken symmetry. This source shares much in common with the known MIT- and SLAC-bag models, but has the important advantage, of being in accordance with gravitational and electromagnetic field of the external KN solution. The KN bag model is flexible. At rotations, it takes the shape of a thin disk, and similar to other bag models, under deformations it creates a string-like structure which is positioned along the sharp border of the disk.
description: 28 p. 5 fig., to appear in JETP v.148 (7), 2015
title: Neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging (NODDI) maps provide insights into amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Creators: name: Bao, yifang
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Image verification
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: CNS

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, selectively affecting upper and lower motor neurons, resulting in neurogenic muscle wasting, paralysis, and usually leading to death within a few years. The diagnosis...
Production of B12 from Gorse wastes
Creators: name: Soto-Martin, Eva
name: Iyer, Ajay
name: Russell, Wendy
name: Louis, Petra
name: Bestwick, Charles
name: Duncan, Sylvia
Publisher: name: OSF
Year: 2023
Subjects: Invasive plants
Vitamin B12
Waste valorisation

description: The data files and codes required to reproduce the results resported in the paper describing the use of Gorse protein depleted fractions to grow anaerobic microbes capable of synthesising vitamin B12
Expanding provider-initiated HIV testing at STI clinics in China
Creators: name: Chen, Xiang Sheng
name: Bangsberg, David R.
name: Walensky, Rochelle P.
name: Yang, Bin
name: Cohen, Myron S.
name: Tucker, Joseph D.
name: Yang, Li Gang
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Despite expanding sexually transmitted epidemics in South China, the majority of patients presenting to sexually transmitted infection (STI) clinics are not routinely screened for HIV infection. Identifying barriers to offering HIV testing among STI care providers is an important public health priority. The aim of this study was to investigate the frequency of offering HIV testing among STI care providers in South China and reported physician barriers to offering HIV testing. More detailed operational data regarding HIV test offer frequency and barriers to testing may enhance routine HIV testing at STI clinics. A sample of 62 STI care providers within the Pearl River Delta Region of South China completed a survey including socio-demographic and training background information (including sex, age, medical education, year of terminal medical degree, HIV-specific training), reasons for not offering HIV testing routinely, and physical examination and sexual history taking practices. Frequency of offering HIV testing was calculated based on reports from research assistants and operational data. STI care providers offered HIV testing to 3011/10592 (28.4%) of their patients. There was substantial variability across providers in the frequency of offering testing, ranging from 3% to 100%. None of the identified physician factors were associated with offering HIV testing 100% of the time in the multivariate model. The most commonly physician reported barriers to HIV testing included: 1) low perceived prevalence of disease; and 2) not recommended by current guidelines. Forty-seven providers (76%) reported asking about same sex behaviors rarely or never. Further research on HIV screening practices of STI care providers may help scale up HIV provider-initiated testing and counseling programs.
Additional file 1 of Toxic effects on enzymatic activity, gene expression and histopathological biomarkers in organisms exposed to microplastics and nanoplastics: a review
Creators: name: Patra, Indrajit
name: Huy, Dinh Tran Ngoc
name: Alsaikhan, Fahad
name: Opulencia, Maria Jade Catalan
name: Van Tuan, Pham
name: Nurmatova, Kurbanoy Chorievna
name: Majdi, Ali
name: Shoukat, Shehla
name: Yasin, Ghulam
name: Margiana, Ria
name: Walker, Tony R.
name: Karbalaei, Samaneh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Studies summarizing the following criteria: species and common name of organisms, MPs type and size, contaminants absorbed to MPs, MPs and contaminant concentration, duration of the experiment, toxicological effect (enzyme activity, gene expression and histopathology) and organism tissues.
title: Low contrast CT angiography prior to transcatheter aortic valve implantation procedure
Creators: name: Annoni, Andrea
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Contrast agents
subject: Vascular
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Contrast agent-other
subject: Prostheses

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has emerged as the new standard of care for patients with symptomatic severe aortic valve stenosis and high surgical risk (1-2). Correct pre procedural sizing of the aortic annulus and peripheral...
HealthMpowerment.org: Feasibility and acceptability of delivering an Internet intervention to young Black men who have sex with men
Creators: name: Hightow-Weidman, Lisa B.
name: Pike, Emily
name: McCoy, Regina
name: Matthews, Derrick M.
name: Fowler, Beth
name: Adimora, Adaora A.
name: Kibe, Jessica
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Young Black men who have sex with men (BMSM) are disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS in the United States and continue to experience rapidly increasing HIV incidence. We designed a tailored, theory-based interactive HIV/STI prevention website for young BMSM, called HealthMpowerment.org (HMP) and conducted a small pilot trial comparing HMP to currently available HIV/STI websites. We present findings demonstrating feasibility and acceptability of delivering the intervention to the target population of young BMSM. Retention rates were 90% and 78% at one and three month follow-ups, respectively. Evaluation immediately after the intervention’s completion revealed that participants who used the HMP website reported high levels of user satisfaction and interest and low levels of website difficulty and frustration. At the end of the intervention, there was a trend in increased behavioral intentions to use condoms and engage in preparatory condom use behaviors in the intervention group compared to the control group (p=.10). We observed a reduction in mean scores on the CES-D scale among those in the intervention group that was not seen in the control group at the one-month follow-up, though this was not statistically significant. Feedback from exit interviews with study participants suggested that HMP is relevant to the prevention needs of young BMSM. Overall, the findings support the acceptability and feasibility of delivering this prevention program to a group that has few interventions despite bearing a significant burden of the epidemic. Future trials, combining internet and mobile phone technologies, are planned to test HMP among larger and more diverse populations of young BMSM.
Generalised conservation laws in non-local field theories
Creators: name: Kegeles, Alexander
name: Oriti, Daniele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a geometrical treatment of symmetries in non-local field theories, where the non-locality is due to a lack of identification of field arguments in the action. We show that the existence of a symmetry of the action leads to a generalised conservation law, in which the usual conserved current acquires an additional non-local correction term, obtaining a generalisation of the standard Noether theorem. We illustrate the general formalism by discussing the specific physical example of complex scalar field theory of the type describing the hydrodynamic approximation of Bose-Einstein condensates. We expect our analysis and results to be of particular interest for the group field theory formulation of quantum gravity.
description: 24 pages
Individual and community-level tolerance of spouse abuse and the association with the circumstances of first sex among youth from six sub-Saharan African countries
Creators: name: Speizer, I. S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Youth who engage in early and premarital sex are at risk of HIV and sexually transmitted infections. Most prevention programs ignore the mediating influence of the threat and experience of violence on these outcomes. Using nationally representative data from Lesotho, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, multivariate analyses examined the association between individual and community-level tolerance of spouse abuse on the age and circumstances of sexual debut among female youth. The youth sample sizes ranged from a high of 5,007 in Malawi to a low of 3,050 in Lesotho. In the study countries, there were between 521 and 367 communities included in the analysis. Youth who approved of spouse abuse were more likely to have sexually debuted at each age. In Kenya, youth from communities with high female spouse abuse tolerance were more likely to have initiated sex at each age. In Malawi and Zimbabwe, youth from high tolerance communities were less likely to have sexually debuted at each age or to have had premarital sex; the same effect on premarital sex was found for men's tolerance in Kenya and Tanzania. Programs are needed to reduce violence risk and increase youth negotiating power and delayed sexual debut with the objective of reducing young people's risk of negative outcomes.
title: Low-dose computed tomography angiography for evaluation of the thoracic aorta and coronary arteries using 160mm detector coverage and iterative reconstruction algorithm
Creators: name: Annoni, Andrea
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Thorax
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Arteriosclerosis

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Multidetector Computed Tomography Angiography (MDCTA) has been proven to be a valid and accurate tool in diagnostic imaging of vascular structures and is presently the imaging modality of choice for aortic diseases (1-5). However, the effective...
(101029) William Fedden
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Implementasi Pelatihan EcoPrint Berbasis Pemanfaatan Daun Singkong Dalam Meningkatkan Kreativitas PKK  Desa Pematang Duku Timur
Creators: name: Dani Anggoro, Rindi Metalisa, Salma Hidayah, Cindy Tri Yani, Rizki Febrian, Keyzi Fauziah, Wilda Novianti, Fadil Ilham, Shela Afita Sari, Cindy Yulistiawati Sri Suhendi, Rahmadani Syahputra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Kegiatan  ini bertujuan untuk melaksanakan pelatihan ecoprint berbasis pemanfaatan daun singkong untuk meningkatkan kreativitas dan produktivitas kelompok PKK di Desa Pematang Duku Timur. Ecoprint adalah teknik pewarnaan tekstil yang menggunakan bahan alami yang ramah lingkungan dan memiliki nilai estetika tinggi. Daun singkong merupakan salah satu sumber daya alam yang mudah ditemukan di Desa Pematang Duku Timur dan memiliki potensi warna yang unik. Pelatihan ini bertujuan untuk membekali anggota PKK dengan pengetahuan dan keterampilan praktis untuk menghasilkan produk ecoprint seperti kain dan pakaian yang  bernilai jual tinggi. Metode pelatihan ini menggunakan berbagai referensi dan pemberdayaan komunitas  dalam produksi ecoprint, melibatkan 25 orang anggota. Hasil  dari penelitian ini diharapkan dapat meningkatkan ekonomi kreatif dan meningkatkan kreativitas anggota PKK dalam mengolah sumber daya alam lokal menjadi produk yang bernilai dan membuka peluang ekonomi baru melalui pemasaran produk ecoprint. Pelatihan ini tidak hanya memperkuat potensi ekonomi daerah, namun juga mendukung kelestarian ekologi melalui pemanfaatan material alam.
D4M: Bringing Associative Arrays to Database Engines
Creators: name: Gadepally, Vijay
name: Kepner, Jeremy
name: Arcand, William
name: Bestor, David
name: Bergeron, Bill
name: Byun, Chansup
name: Edwards, Lauren
name: Hubbell, Matthew
name: Michaleas, Peter
name: Mullen, Julie
name: Prout, Andrew
name: Rosa, Antonio
name: Yee, Charles
name: Reuther, Albert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The ability to collect and analyze large amounts of data is a growing problem within the scientific community. The growing gap between data and users calls for innovative tools that address the challenges faced by big data volume, velocity and variety. Numerous tools exist that allow users to store, query and index these massive quantities of data. Each storage or database engine comes with the promise of dealing with complex data. Scientists and engineers who wish to use these systems often quickly find that there is no single technology that offers a panacea to the complexity of information. When using multiple technologies, however, there is significant trouble in designing the movement of information between storage and database engines to support an end-to-end application along with a steep learning curve associated with learning the nuances of each underlying technology. In this article, we present the Dynamic Distributed Dimensional Data Model (D4M) as a potential tool to unify database and storage engine operations. Previous articles on D4M have showcased the ability of D4M to interact with the popular NoSQL Accumulo database. Recently however, D4M now operates on a variety of backend storage or database engines while providing a federated look to the end user through the use of associative arrays. In order to showcase how new databases may be supported by D4M, we describe the process of building the D4M-SciDB connector and present performance of this connection.
Relationship between trauma and high-risk behavior among HIV-positive men who do not have sex with men (MDSM)
Creators: name: Whetten, Kathryn
name: Leserman, Jane
name: Toth, Matthew
name: Reif, Susan
name: Jain, Erica
name: Pence, Brian W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: The incidence of heterosexual HIV transmission continues to increase in the US. However, little is known about factors that influence high-risk behavior among men who do not have sex with men (MDSM). This study examines the association of childhood sexual abuse and high-risk behaviors among MDSM. The Coping with HIV/AIDS in the Southeast (CHASE) study included 611 HIV-positive individuals in the Southeastern U.S. Bivariate statistics were used to examine the influence of childhood sexual abuse among MDSM, MSM, and women. Study findings indicated that among MDSM with HIV, childhood sexual abuse predicted a higher number of sexual partners, alcohol and drug use problems, depression, PTSD, and less trust in medical providers. Similar statistically significant relationships between childhood sexual abuse and negative outcomes were not found for MSM and women with the exception of childhood sexual abuse predicting PTSD and alcohol use in women. Study findings indicate a need for more in-depth research to examine the role of childhood sexual abuse in shaping adult risk behaviors among MDSM as well as a need to assess for and address childhood sexual abuse in this population.
title: Optimisation of the Philips AlluraXper FD20 imaging setting allows to halve the radiation and contrast-medium doses during EVAR (abdominal aortic aneurysm repair) procedures
Creators: name: Fronda, Marco
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Radiation physics
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Percutaneous
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Dosimetry
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Aneurysms
subject: Quality assurance
subject: Occupational / Environmental hazards

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Endovascular aortic procedures expose patients and staff to significant doses of ionizing radiation,with a potential risk of radiation-inducedskin damage and later malignancy (1). Virtually, all patients undergoing EVAR need a preoperative CT...