cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Human motor augmentation - spinal motor neurons control of redundant degrees-of-freedom
Creators: name: Bräcklein, Mario
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2022

description: In 1963, Stan Lee introduced a new villain to the Spiderman Universe: Dr Octopus – a human equipped with multiple robotic arms that can be controlled seamlessly in coordination with his natural limbs. Throughout the last decades, turning such fiction into real-life applications gave rise to the research field of human motor augmentation, ultimately aiming to enable humans to perform motor tasks that are sheer impossible with our natural limbs alone. While a significant process was made in designing artificial supernumerary limbs, a central problem remains: identifying adequate bodily signals that allow moving supernumerary degrees-of-freedom together with our natural ones. So far, neural activity in the brain seems to hold the greatest potential for providing all the flexibility needed to ensure such coordination between natural and supernumerary degrees-of-freedom. However, accessing neural populations in the cortical regions is accompanied by an unacceptable risk for most users. A different group of neural cells can be found in the outmost layer of the motor pathway, driving the contraction of muscles and generation of force – spinal motor neurons. The development of novel neural interfaces has made it possible to study single motor neuron activity with minimal harm to the user. This allows a direct and non-invasive window into the neural activity orchestrating human movement. In this dissertation, I investigate whether these neurons innervating our muscles could provide supernumerary control signals. The results indicate, in essence, that features extracted non-invasively from motor neuron activity have the potential to overcome current limitations in supernumerary control and thus could significantly advance human motor augmentation.
The Milky Way Project: Leveraging Citizen Science and Machine Learning to Detect Interstellar Bubbles
Creators: name: Beaumont, Christopher
name: Goodman, Alyssa
name: Williams, Jonathan
name: Kendrew, Sarah
name: Simpson, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present Brut, an algorithm to identify bubbles in infrared images of the Galactic midplane. Brut is based on the Random Forest algorithm, and uses bubbles identified by >35,000 citizen scientists from the Milky Way Project to discover the identifying characteristics of bubbles in images from the Spitzer Space Telescope. We demonstrate that Brut's ability to identify bubbles is comparable to expert astronomers. We use Brut to re-assess the bubbles in the Milky Way Project catalog, and find that 10-30% of the objects in this catalog are non-bubble interlopers. Relative to these interlopers, high-reliability bubbles are more confined to the mid plane, and display a stronger excess of Young Stellar Objects along and within bubble rims. Furthermore, Brut is able to discover bubbles missed by previous searches -- particularly bubbles near bright sources which have low contrast relative to their surroundings. Brut demonstrates the synergies that exist between citizen scientists, professional scientists, and machine learning techniques. In cases where "untrained" citizens can identify patterns that machines cannot detect without training, machine learning algorithms like Brut can use the output of citizen science projects as input training sets, offering tremendous opportunities to speed the pace of scientific discovery. A hybrid model of machine learning combined with crowdsourced training data from citizen scientists can not only classify large quantities of data, but also address the weakness of each approach if deployed alone.
description: 26 pages, 22 figures, ApJS in press. Code available at https://github.com/ChrisBeaumont/brut . Replication data available at http://thedata.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/brut
title: L'accompagnement infirmier dans un suicide assisté : analyse ethnographique des enjeux publics et privés en Suisse romande
title: L'accompagnement infirmier dans un suicide assisté : analyse ethnographique des enjeux publics et privés en Suisse romande
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Gumy, Hélène
name: Valentim Rodrigues, Samanta
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Assistance au suicide
subject: Accompagnement
subject: Rôle infirmier
subject: Incertitude

description: Introduction : l’assistance au suicide, en Suisse, est tolérée depuis 1942. Elle est gérée par des associations qui militent pour le droit de mourir dans la dignité. Il est possible de mettre en avant plusieurs concepts, en lien avec cette problématique, comme par exemple l’annonce difficile, le deuil, l’accompagnement, mais également le débat public qu’elle suscite. Objectif : identifier la prise en soins idéale d’une personne engagée dans un processus décisionnel d’assistance au suicide. Méthode : une recherche ethnographique a été réalisée, durant une année, à l’aide de deux journaux de bord. Les récits recueillis ont ensuite été triés, selon leur pertinence, puis ils ont été analysés, avec l’aide de la théorie de l’incertitude de Mishel (1988). Finalement, pour pouvoir analyser les informations récoltées, des bases de données, telles que Cinhal, Pubmed et COCHRANE library, ont permis d’obtenir des articles liés à cette problématique. Résultats : le débat concernant l’assistance au décès, en Suisse et dans le monde, est en augmentation. Ce sujet est abordé, tant au niveau public que privé. L’annonce à la famille reste cependant un thème très sensible. Les résultats démontrent que la place des soignants n’est pas toujours claire. Conclusion : la recherche effectuée permet de révéler l’importance du débat public et de démontrer la multiplicité des jugements au sein de la société. De plus, il est possible d’imaginer que la prise en charge des suicides assistés requiert une réévaluation constante du rôle des soignants. Cette démarche ethnographique nécessiterait une réflexivité plus approfondie, afin d’améliorer la prise de position concernant ce sujet.
Phase Identification of Smart Meters Using a Fourier Series Compression and a Statistical Clustering Algorithm
Creators: name: Chiu, Jeremy J.
name: Wong, Albert
name: Park, James
name: Mahony, Joe
name: Ferri, Michael
name: Berson, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Accurate labeling of phase connectivity in electrical distribution systems is important for maintenance and operations but is often erroneous or missing. In this paper, we present a process to identify which smart meters must be in the same phase using a hierarchical clustering method on voltage time series data. Instead of working with the time series data directly, we apply the Fourier transform to represent the data in their frequency domain, remove $98\%$ of the Fourier coefficients, and use the remaining coefficients to cluster the meters are in the same phase. Result of this process is validated by confirming that cluster (phase) membership of meters does not change over two monthly periods. In addition, we also confirm that meters that belong to the same feeder within the distribution network are correctly classified into the same cluster, that is, assigned to the same phase.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables
MPEC 2023-U230 : 2023 UO7
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 UO7

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
title: Quelles interventions infirmières favorisent l’auto-soin chez les personnes adultes atteintes du diabète de type II en situation de migration ?
title: Quelles interventions infirmières favorisent l’auto-soin chez les personnes adultes atteintes du diabète de type II en situation de migration ?
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Herrero, Alara
name: Nunes Da Silva, Tania
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Diabète de type II
subject: Migrants
subject: Auto-soin
subject: Intervention infirmière

description: Introduction : Dans tous les pays, les phénomènes migratoires ne cessent de se répéter et de varier. Parallèlement, le diabète de type II est une pathologie chronique dont la prévalence augmente au niveau mondial. Face à cette double problématique il est nécessaire pour les soignants d’acquérir des compétences transculturelles afin d’adapter leur pratique de soin. Objectif : Le but de ce travail est de déterminer quelles interventions infirmières favorisent l’autosoin chez les personnes adultes atteintes du diabète de type II en situation de migration. Méthode : Une recension d’écrits a été effectuée à l’aide des bases de données PubMed et CINAHL. Six articles de type quantitatifs ont été sélectionnés et analysés. Le modèle conceptuel de la transculturalité selon Madeleine Leininger a été utilisé comme cadre de référence pour la démarche de ce travail. Résultats : Des articles recensés, quatre concepts clés ont pu être identifiés : 1. Partenariat communautaire ; 2. Cohérence culturelle ; 3. Approche communautaire ; 4. Approche individuelle. Discussion : L’intervention infirmière doit être vue comme un processus, c’est-à-dire une approche holistique permettant l’aménagement des conditions nécessaires à l’action et ce dans une optique de cohérence culturelle.
Adaptive control for time-varying systems: congelation and interconnection
Creators: name: Chen, Kaiwen
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2022

description: This thesis investigates the adaptive control problem for systems with time-varying parameters. Two concepts are developed and exploited throughout the thesis: the congelation of variables, and the active nodes. The thesis first revisits the classical adaptive schemes and explains the challenges brought by the presence of time-varying parameters. Then, the concept of congelation of variables is introduced and its use in combinations with passivity-based, immersion-and-invariant, and identification-based adaptive schemes are discussed. As the congelation of variables method introduces additional interconnection in the closed-loop system, a framework for small-gain-like control synthesis for interconnected systems is needed.\vspace{2ex} To this end, the thesis proceeds by introducing the notion of active nodes. This is instrumental to show that as long as a class of node systems that possess adjustable damping parameters, that is the active nodes, satisfy certain graph-theoretic conditions, the desired small-gain-like property for the overall system can be enforced via tuning these adjustable parameters. Such conditions for interconnected systems with quadratic, nonlinear, and linearly parametrized supply rates, respectively, are elaborated from the analysis and control synthesis perspectives. The placement and the computation/adaptation of the damping parameters are also discussed. Following the introduction of these two fundamental tools, the thesis proceeds by discussing state-feedback designs for a class of lower-triangular nonlinear systems. The backstepping technique and the congelation of variables method are combined for passivity-based, immersion-and-invariance, and identification-based schemes. The notion of active nodes is exploited to yield simple and systematic proofs. Based on the results established for lower-triangular systems, the thesis continues to investigate output-feedback adaptive control problems. An immersion-and-invariance scheme for single-input single-output linear systems and a passivity-based scheme for nonlinear systems in observer form are proposed. The proof and interpretation of these results are also based on the notion of active nodes. The simulation results show that the adaptive control schemes proposed in the thesis have superior performance when compared with the classical schemes in the presence of time-varying parameters. Finally, the thesis studies two applications of the theoretical results proposed. The servo control problem for serial elastic actuators, and the disease control problem for interconnected settlements. The discussions show that these problems can be solved efficiently using the framework provided by the thesis.
Diamagnetism and density wave order in the pseudogap regime of YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6+x}$
Creators: name: Hayward, Lauren E.
name: Achkar, Andrew J.
name: Hawthorn, David G.
name: Melko, Roger G.
name: Sachdev, Subir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Clear experimental evidence of charge density wave correlations competing with superconducting order in YBCO have thrust their relationship with the pseudogap regime into the spotlight. To aid in characterizing the pseudogap regime, we propose a dimensionless ratio of the diamagnetic susceptibility to the correlation length of the charge density wave correlations. Using Monte Carlo simulations, we compute this ratio on the classical model of Hayward et. al. (Science 343, 1336 (2014)), which describes angular fluctuations of a multicomponent order, capturing both superconducting and density wave correlations. We compare our results with available data on YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6+x}$, and propose experiments to clarify the value of this dimensionless ratio using existing samples and techniques.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
Association Between Periodontal Disease and Kidney Function Decline in African Americans: The Jackson Heart Study
Creators: name: Griswold, Michael E.
name: Young, Bessie
name: Powe, Neil R.
name: Wang, Wei
name: Vittinghoff, Eric
name: Correa, Adolfo
name: Beck, James D.
name: Grubbs, Vanessa
name: Kshirsagar, Abhijit V.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) remains a prevalent public health problem that disproportionately affects African Americans, despite intense efforts targeting traditional risk factors. Periodontal disease, a chronic bacterial infection of the oral cavity, is both common and modifiable and has been implicated as a novel potential CKD risk factor. We sought to examine to what extent periodontal disease is associated with kidney function decline.
Update on Prevalence of Periodontitis in Adults in the United States: NHANES 2009 to 2012
Creators: name: Eke, Paul I.
name: Borgnakke, Wenche S.
name: Beck, James D.
name: Thornton-Evans, Gina O.
name: Genco, Robert J.
name: Page, Roy C.
name: Taylor, George W.
name: Wei, Liang
name: Slade, Gary D.
name: Dye, Bruce A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: This report describes prevalence, severity, and extent of periodontitis in the US adult population using combined data from the 2009–2010 and 2011–2012 cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).
title: Prévention efficace de l’obésité chez les adolescents par l’infirmière scolaire
title: Prévention efficace de l’obésité chez les adolescents par l’infirmière scolaire
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Humbert, Elodie
name: Oliveira, Salomé
name: Palanca, Deborah
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Infirmière scolaire
subject: Adolescents
subject: Obésité
subject: Surpoids
subject: Alimentation
subject: Activité physique
subject: Prévention
subject: Ecole

description: Problématique : L’obésité est l’une des préoccupations de santé majeure de notre temps. Autrefois un fléau occidental, elle concerne désormais également les pays en voie de développement. Il est connu que l’obésité est l’un des facteurs de risque principal des maladies cardio-vasculaires, responsables de nombreux décès. L’obésité est un phénomène évitable, c’est pourquoi il est important de pouvoir agir en amont. Sa prévalence mondiale a considérablement augmenté ces dernières années, particulièrement chez les enfants. Cela en fait l’une des préoccupations de santé majeures de notre temps. Objectif : Ce travail se centre sur l’infirmière scolaire, professionnelle de santé en première ligne pour accompagner les enfants dans leur quotidien. Le but est de savoir comment elle peut rendre la prévention de l’obésité efficace sur le long terme, auprès des adolescents entre treize et seize ans, dans le contexte scolaire. Méthode : Six articles de recherche infirmière issus de la base de données Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) ont été sélectionnés, grâce à divers critères d’inclusion compatibles avec le but de la recherche (âge, pays de l’étude, etc.). L’analyse des articles à l’aide de grilles tirées du livre « Fondements et étapes du processus de recherche » (Fortin, 2010) a permis d’extraire des résultats, lesquels ont ensuite été interprétés à la lumière du cadre théorique choisi : la théorie de la transition de Meleis. Ces résultats ont finalement été synthétisés et discutés. Résultats : La prévention de l’obésité est le rôle de l’infirmière scolaire. Toutefois, certains facteurs entravent la réalisation efficace de ce rôle. Les interventions effectuées dans les études ont toutes eu un impact positif à différents niveaux, ce qui amène de nouvelles pistes pour une prévention efficace. Conclusion : De nombreuses actions de promotion de la santé et de prévention de l’obésité sont déjà mises en place avec succès. Malgré cela, le phénomène continue de toucher une large proportion de la population. Par conséquent, il est primordial de constamment réévaluer l’impact de ce qui est fait, et de trouver de nouvelles stratégies de prévention, efficaces à long terme.
Optimizing Deep Transformers for Chinese-Thai Low-Resource Translation
Creators: name: Hao, Wenjie
name: Xu, Hongfei
name: Mu, Lingling
name: Zan, Hongying
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we study the use of deep Transformer translation model for the CCMT 2022 Chinese-Thai low-resource machine translation task. We first explore the experiment settings (including the number of BPE merge operations, dropout probability, embedding size, etc.) for the low-resource scenario with the 6-layer Transformer. Considering that increasing the number of layers also increases the regularization on new model parameters (dropout modules are also introduced when using more layers), we adopt the highest performance setting but increase the depth of the Transformer to 24 layers to obtain improved translation quality. Our work obtains the SOTA performance in the Chinese-to-Thai translation in the constrained evaluation.
The Cech filtration and monodromy in log crystalline cohomology
Creators: name: Grosse-Klönne, Elmar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: For a strictly semistable log scheme $Y$ over a perfect field $k$ of characteristic $p$ we investigate the canonical Čech spectral sequence $(C)_T$ abutting to the Hyodo-Kato (log crystalline) cohomology $H_{crys}^*(Y/T)_{\mathbb{Q}}$ of $Y$ and beginning with the log convergent cohomology of its various component intersections $Y^i$. We compare the filtration on $H_{crys}^*(Y/T)_{\mathbb{Q}}$ arising from $(C)_T$ with the monodromy operator $N$ on $H_{crys}^*(Y/T)_{\mathbb{Q}}$. We also express $N$ through residue maps and study relations with singular cohomology. If $Y$ lifts to a proper strictly semistable (formal) scheme $X$ over a finite totally ramified extension of $W(k)$, with generic fibre $X_K$, we obtain results on how the simplicial structure of $X_K^{an}$ (as analytic space) is reflected in $H_{dR}^*(X_K)=H_{dR}^*(X_K^{an})$.
MPEC 2023-U231 : 2023 UP7
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 UP7

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
title: Comment instaurer une prévention optimale auprès d’une population immigrée en Suisse venant d’Afrique subsaharienne, à risque de contracter ou d’être infectée par le VIH ?
title: Comment instaurer une prévention optimale auprès d’une population immigrée en Suisse venant d’Afrique subsaharienne, à risque de contracter ou d’être infectée par le VIH ?
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Jordan, Marion
name: Pidoux, Charlotte
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Soins de premiers recours
subject: VIH
subject: Afrique subsaharienne
subject: Migration

description: Contexte : Les migrants d’Afrique subsaharienne représentent une population particulièrement vulnérable et touchée par le VIH. La prévention effectuée dans les pays industrialisés peine à toucher cette population. Objectif : L’objectif de cette revue de littérature est d’identifier les facteurs influençant la prise en charge et la prévention du VIH chez les migrants d’Afrique subsaharienne, afin d’identifier des interventions de prévention efficaces. Méthode : Plusieurs recherches, avec différents descripteurs, ont été effectuées dans les bases de données CINHAL et MEDLINE. Six articles qualitatifs récents ont été retenus. Ils ont été analysés grâce au guide pour la critique d’une publication de recherche qualitative (Fortin, 2016) puis résumés sous la forme de tableaux et de synthèses narratives. Résultats : Les résultats sont présentés à l’aide du modèle de McGill. Les facteurs entravant l’accès à la prévention, aux soins et aux services sont de plusieurs natures : intra-culturels (stigmatisation des pairs, croyances et valeurs), interculturels (barrière linguistique, mauvaise compréhension du système de soins et stigmatisation par les soignants) ou encore les facteurs liés à la migration (insécurité et précarité). Discussion : La connaissance de ces facteurs permet de mettre en place des interventions infirmières adaptées au contexte migratoire et au changement d’environnement. Les infirmières pourraient notamment être davantage sensibles à la diversité culturelle, utiliser les ressources de la personne et l’impliquer dans leur mobilisation, développer l’utilisation des services de traducteurs ou encore améliorer l’apport d’informations adéquates aux communautés africaines.
Reconstructing the mass assembly history with kinematics and nuclear light profiles
Creators: name: Krajnovic, Davor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this contribution I show that by combining imaging and integral-field spectroscopy it is possible to unravel the internal structure of galaxies. In particular, I will present the photometric and kinematic evidence for discs linking them with stellar angular momentum content of early-type galaxies. Furthermore, I show that the existence of both fast rotators with core and slow rotators with core-less nuclear light profiles challenges the standard formation scenarios for fast and slow rotators and suggests new pathways of mass assembly.
description: Contributed Talk, to appear in Proceedings of IAU Symposium 311, Galaxy Masses as Constraints of Formation Models, M,. Cappellari & S. Courteau, eds. The revised version has one reference added
MPEC 2023-U232 : 2023 UQ7
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 UQ7

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
It's a wonderful life: Mentally subtracting positive events improves people's affective states, contrary to their affective forecasts.
Creators: name: Wilson, Timothy D.
name: Gilbert, Daniel T.
name: Koo, Minkyung
name: Algoe, Sara B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: The authors hypothesized that thinking about the absence of a positive event from one’s life would improve affective states more than thinking about the presence of a positive event but that people would not predict this when making affective forecasts. In Studies 1 and 2, college students wrote about the ways in which a positive event might never have happened and was surprising or how it became part of their life and was unsurprising. As predicted, people in the former condition reported more positive affective states. In Study 3, college student forecasters failed to anticipate this effect. In Study 4, Internet respondents and university staff members who wrote about how they might never have met their romantic partner were more satisfied with their relationship than were those who wrote about how they did meet their partner. The authors discuss the implications of these findings for the literatures on gratitude induction and counterfactual reasoning.
Hypertracking and Hyperrejection: Control of Signals beyond the Nyquist Frequency
Creators: name: Yamamoto, Kaoru
name: Yamamoto, Yutaka
name: Nagahara, Masaaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 49N35, 93B35, 93B36, 93B52, 93C57, 93C62

description: This paper studies the problem of signal tracking and disturbance rejection for sampled-data control systems, where the pertinent signals can reside beyond the so-called Nyquist frequency. In light of the sampling theorem, it is generally understood that manipulating signals beyond the Nyquist frequency is either impossible or at least very difficult. On the other hand, such control objectives often arise in practice, and control of such signals is much desired. This paper examines the basic underlying assumptions in the sampling theorem and pertinent sampled-data control schemes, and shows that the limitation above can be removed by assuming a suitable analog signal generator model. Detailed analysis of multirate closed-loop systems, zeros and poles are given, which gives rise to tracking or rejection conditions. Robustness of the new scheme is fully characterized; it is shown that there is a close relationship between tracking/rejection frequencies and the delay length introduced for allowing better performance. Examples are discussed to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method here.
title: L’accompagnement infirmier dans le processus décisionnel du don d’organes chez les parents dont l’enfant est décédé.
title: L’accompagnement infirmier dans le processus décisionnel du don d’organes chez les parents dont l’enfant est décédé.
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Laurent, Héloïse
name: Raemy, Jilliane
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Don d’organes
subject: Parents
subject: Accompagnement infirmier
subject: Enfant
subject: Processus décisionnel

description: Contexte : En Suisse, la pénurie d’organes est manifeste. La littérature aborde souvent cette problématique sous son aspect biomédical mais traite peu de l’accompagnement des familles confrontées au don d’organes, et encore moins de celui des parents dont l’enfant est décédé. Objectif : L’objectif de cette revue de littérature est d’améliorer l’accompagnement infirmier dans la prise de décision du don d’organes, quel que soit le choix des parents. Méthode : Sept articles scientifiques trouvés sur les bases de données de CINHAL et PubMed ont été sélectionnés puis analysés. Les critères d’inclusion principaux sont la date de publication, de 2006 à 2016, et la population ; celle des proches confrontés au don d’organes. Les résultats ont été interprétés à la lumière du modèle systémique familial d’évaluation et d’intervention de Calgary. Résultats : Ils mettent en avant la difficulté des parents à comprendre et accepter la mort de leur enfant, à pallier le manque d’informations et à considérer la possibilité du don d’organes, question abordée souvent trop précipitamment au milieu d’une vive détresse émotionnelle. L’implication de l’infirmière a alors un impact majeur sur le ressenti et la décision des familles. Discussion : L’omniprésence de l’infirmière et sa relation privilégiée avec la famille sont mises en exergue. Une évaluation approfondie, une communication efficiente et un soutien individualisé sont déterminants dans l’accompagnement des familles. À noter que si la problématique du don d’organes était mieux connue tant du public que des professionnels de la santé, cela faciliterait la prise en charge des familles.
title: Quels sont les effets de la zoothérapie sur les symptômes des enfants atteints d'autisme ?
title: Quels sont les effets de la zoothérapie sur les symptômes des enfants atteints d'autisme ?
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Leali, Stella
name: Monnier, Coralie
name: Merminod, Alisson
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0

description: Contexte : L’autisme est une maladie de plus en plus récurrente dans la société actuelle. Elle est caractérisée par une difficulté de communication importante, créant ainsi un obstacle lors des interactions sociales. De plus, de par la diversité des troubles et des stades, il est important de pouvoir recourir à diverses thérapies ; certaines sont mises en place mais leur coût élevé et leurs difficultés d’accès restent des freins pour une prise en charge globale des enfants atteints d’autisme. Objectifs : Étudier, à l’aide d’études primaires et de la théorie de gestion des symptômes, l'impact de la zoothérapie sur les symptômes de l’autisme afin de pouvoir informer davantage les familles sur cette thérapie complémentaire. Méthode : Rechercher et analyser sept études primaires sur les bases de données de PUBMED, CINAHL et Google Scholar. Résultats : L’ensemble des études montre une évolution significativement favorable des symptômes grâce à la zoothérapie ; la majorité d’entre elles objectivent une amélioration des compétences sociales et des capacités de communication et d’autres symptômes présents chez ces enfants diminuent à la suite de la thérapie. Discussion : La zoothérapie est une thérapie prometteuse dans l’amélioration des symptômes chez les enfants autistes : de par la diversité des manifestations prises en compte lors de la zoothérapie et des multiples choix d’intervention, elle est facile d’accès et polyvalente. Toutefois, les articles présentés dans ce travail étant exploratoires et concernant un échantillon faible, il serait donc pertinent d’effectuer davantage d’études dans le but d’obtenir des données probantes.
Open hearts build lives: Positive emotions, induced through loving-kindness meditation, build consequential personal resources.
Creators: name: Coffey, Kimberly A.
name: Cohn, Michael A.
name: Pek, Jolynn
name: Fredrickson, Barbara L.
name: Finkel, Sandra M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: B. L. Fredrickson’s (1998, 2001) broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions asserts that people’s daily experiences of positive emotions compound over time to build a variety of consequential personal resources. The authors tested this build hypothesis in a field experiment with working adults (n = 139), half of whom were randomly-assigned to begin a practice of loving-kindness meditation. Results showed that this meditation practice produced increases over time in daily experiences of positive emotions, which, in turn, produced increases in a wide range of personal resources (e.g., increased mindfulness, purpose in life, social support, decreased illness symptoms). In turn, these increments in personal resources predicted increased life satisfaction and reduced depressive symptoms. Discussion centers on how positive emotions are the mechanism of change for the type of mind-training practice studied here and how loving-kindness meditation is an intervention strategy that produces positive emotions in a way that outpaces the hedonic treadmill effect.
Can personality traits and intelligence compensate for background disadvantage? Predicting status attainment in adulthood.
Creators: name: Shanahan, Michael
name: Roberts, Brent W.
name: Su, Rong
name: Damian, Rodica Ioana
name: Trautwein, Ulrich
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: This paper investigates the interplay of family background and individual differences, such as personality traits and intelligence (measured in a large US representative sample of high school students; N = 81,000) in predicting educational attainment, annual income, and occupational prestige eleven years later. Specifically, we tested whether individual differences followed one of three patterns in relation to parental SES when predicting attained status: (a) the independent effects hypothesis (i.e., individual differences predict attainments independent of parental SES level), (b) the resource substitution hypothesis (i.e., individual differences are stronger predictors of attainments at lower levels of parental SES), and (c) the Matthew effect hypothesis (i.e., “the rich get richer,” individual differences are stronger predictors of attainments at higher levels of parental SES). We found that personality traits and intelligence in adolescence predicted later attained status above and beyond parental SES. A standard deviation increase in individual differences translated to up to 8 additional months of education, $4,233 annually, and more prestigious occupations. Furthermore, although we did find some evidence for both the resource substitution and the Matthew effect hypotheses, the most robust pattern across all models supported the independent effects hypothesis. Intelligence was the exception, where interaction models were more robust. Finally, we found that although personality traits may help compensate for background disadvantage to a small extent, they do not usually lead to a “full catch up” effect, unlike intelligence. This was the first longitudinal study of status attainment to test interactive models of individual differences and background factors.
title: Les interventions infirmières qui permettent de favoriser une transition positive auprès des personnes âgées lors d’une entrée en EMS
title: Les interventions infirmières qui permettent de favoriser une transition positive auprès des personnes âgées lors d’une entrée en EMS
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Mamusha, Mergime
name: Viecelli, Lena
name: Shurdhani, Ajlina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Transition
subject: Établissement médicosocial
subject: Personnes âgées
subject: Interventions infirmières

description: But : Le but de ce travail est d’identifier les interventions infirmières qui permettent de favoriser une transition positive auprès de personnes âgées lors d’une entrée en EMS. Ce travail porte donc sur l’expérience des personnes âgées en lien avec la théorie de la transition. Méthodes : La recherche a été effectuée sur les bases de données PubMed et CINHAL. Sur un nombre élevé d’articles scientifiques, six d’entre eux ont été retenus pour le présent travail. Résultats : Six articles ont été trouvés, analysés et discutés. Il s’agit de cinq articles en lien avec la théorie de Meleis et un décrivant la formation professionnelle. Discussion : En mettant en perspective le cadre théorique et les articles sélectionnés, plusieurs interventions infirmières ont émergé, ce qui a permis de répondre à la question de recherche. Les différentes thématiques ont permis de guider la prise en charge infirmière vers une transition positive. Recommandations : Les recommandations de ce travail se différencient de plusieurs manières. Elles comportent l'importance de la relation entre le résident et le soignant mais également entre les résidents, les actions infirmières avant et pendant la transition et les formations professionnelles des soignants. Conclusion : Ce travail permet de retenir tout particulièrement les interventions infirmières principales trouvées dans les différents articles scientifiques et de les mettre en lien avec la situation du canton de Vaud.
title: Prévention et gestion des cystites récidivantes chez les femmes de 18 à 45 ans: interventions infirmières
title: Prévention et gestion des cystites récidivantes chez les femmes de 18 à 45 ans: interventions infirmières
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Marchioro, Clara
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Cystites
subject: Récidives
subject: Prévention
subject: Gestion
subject: Interventions infirmières
subject: Autosoin

description: Problématique : Près de 50% des femmes ont au moins un épisode de cystite au cours de leur vie. Parmi ces cas, 27 à 40% récidivent dans l’année qui suit le premier épisode. Il semblerait que ces épisodes soient initialement provoqués par les rapports sexuels. Sachant que l’utilisation récurrente d’antibiotiques entraîne des conséquences néfastes pour la santé, il est conseillé de réduire au maximum le recours à ce type de traitement. But : Revue de littérature ayant pour but de donner des pistes d’interventions infirmières pour prévenir et gérer les cystites récidivantes chez la femme entre 18 et 45 ans, en bonne santé, non sondée, non gravide. Méthode : Analyse de six articles scientifiques sélectionnés sur les bases de données CINHAL, Google et Google Scholar. Résultats : Les principales interventions relevées concernent la prévention plutôt que la gestion d’épisodes de cystites. Il s’agit principalement d’éviter ou diminuer les facteurs de risques. Pour cela, les séances éducatives sont des moyens efficaces pour en mettre les femmes au courant. Conclusion : Malgré les résultats intéressants et pertinents auxquels ont abouti les auteurs, la plupart d’entre eux, relève la même limite. Il s’agit de la petite de taille des échantillons ne permettant pas de caractériser leurs résultats de « statiquement significatifs ». Par conséquent, ils recommandent d’accroître leurs échantillons pour les études qui suivront. Personnellement, les limites que je mets en avant sont : la faible considération de la sphère intime des femmes participants à l’étude, ainsi que la faible considération des conséquences sur leur quotidien, causées par de l’aspect chronique de cette affection. Je recommande de les développer davantage lors des prochaines études menées sur le sujet.
MPEC 2023-U233 : 2023 TU55
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 TU55

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Near-Infrared InGaAs Detectors for Background-limited Imaging and Photometry
Creators: name: Sullivan, Peter W.
name: Croll, Bryce
name: Simcoe, Robert A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Originally designed for night-vision equipment, InGaAs detectors are beginning to achieve background-limited performance in broadband imaging from the ground. The lower cost of these detectors can enable multi-band instruments, arrays of small telescopes, and large focal planes that would be uneconomical with high-performance HgCdTe detectors. We developed a camera to operate the FLIR AP1121 sensor using deep thermoelectric cooling and up-the-ramp sampling to minimize noise. We measured a dark current of 163$~e$- s$^{-1}$ pix$^{-1}$, a read noise of 87$~e$- up-the-ramp, and a well depth of 80k$~e$-. Laboratory photometric testing achieved a stability of 230 ppm hr$^{-1/2}$, which would be required for detecting exoplanet transits. InGaAs detectors are also applicable to other branches of near-infrared time-domain astronomy, ranging from brown dwarf weather to gravitational wave follow-up.
description: Submitted to Proc. SPIE, Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation (2014)
Towards Blind Watermarking: Combining Invertible and Non-invertible Mechanisms
Creators: name: Ma, Rui
name: Guo, Mengxi
name: Hou, Yi
name: Yang, Fan
name: Li, Yuan
name: Jia, Huizhu
name: Xie, Xiaodong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Blind watermarking provides powerful evidence for copyright protection, image authentication, and tampering identification. However, it remains a challenge to design a watermarking model with high imperceptibility and robustness against strong noise attacks. To resolve this issue, we present a framework Combining the Invertible and Non-invertible (CIN) mechanisms. The CIN is composed of the invertible part to achieve high imperceptibility and the non-invertible part to strengthen the robustness against strong noise attacks. For the invertible part, we develop a diffusion and extraction module (DEM) and a fusion and split module (FSM) to embed and extract watermarks symmetrically in an invertible way. For the non-invertible part, we introduce a non-invertible attention-based module (NIAM) and the noise-specific selection module (NSM) to solve the asymmetric extraction under a strong noise attack. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our framework outperforms the current state-of-the-art methods of imperceptibility and robustness significantly. Our framework can achieve an average of 99.99% accuracy and 67.66 dB PSNR under noise-free conditions, while 96.64% and 39.28 dB combined strong noise attacks. The code will be available in https://github.com/rmpku/CIN.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures, 5 tables
MINECRAFT NELLE SCUOLE: Imparare costruendo un mondo a cubetti
Creators: name: Salis, Mara Angela
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Al giorno d’oggi i videogiochi sono una forma di intrattenimento molto diffusa e apprezzata. I videogames possono essere di vario tipo: esplorazione, sparatutto, puzzle e tanto altro. Tra questi, ne esiste uno molto famoso, che da un po’ di tempo attira l’attenzione sia dei giovani che degli adulti: stiamo parlando di Minecraft. Di cosa si tratta? Minecraft è un videogame costituito da un mondo 3D vastissimo e interamente composto di blocchi modificabili. In questo ambiente il giocatore può esplorare, realizzare costruzioni e combattere nemici. Usando proprio Minecraft come riferimento, in questo articolo si proverà a spiegare come il videogame possa essere uno strumento utile nel mondo dell’educazione e della scuola. Cercheremo di spiegare infatti perché Minecraft può essere un alleato speciale nello studio e nello sviluppo di diverse abilità umane. Per fare ciò, abbiamo deciso di servirci di due aiutanti, Steve e Chicko, che accompagneranno i giocatori in una visita all’interno di questo mondo “a cubetti”.
Dads doing diapers: Individual and relational outcomes associated with the division of childcare across the transition to parenthood.
Creators: name: Kohn, Jamie L.
name: Fillo, Jennifer
name: Rholes, W. Steven
name: Simpson, Jeffry A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: This longitudinal study examined how relative contributions to the division of childcare are related to individual and relational outcomes across the first two years of the transition to parenthood. Data were collected from a large sample of first-time parents 6 weeks before the birth of their child and then at 6, 12, 18, and 24 months postpartum. The results revealed that certain individual differences—especially gender and attachment avoidance—shape individual reactions to childcare, above and beyond the proportion of childcare tasks that partners report completing. Women and less avoidantly attached new parents handle the introduction of childcare tasks better than most men, especially those who are more avoidantly attached. In addition, certain reactions to childcare, such as childcare self-efficacy and perceptions of work-family conflict, moderate the relation between childcare contributions and relationship satisfaction over the course of the transition. We also discuss the need for more research on men’s adjustment during this particularly stressful transition.
MPEC 2023-U234 : 2023 UR7
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 UR7

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Improved Iterative Hard- and Soft-Reliability Based Majority-Logic Decoding Algorithms for Non-Binary Low-Density Parity-Check Codes
Creators: name: Xiong, Chenrong
name: Yan, Zhiyuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Non-binary low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes have some advantages over their binary counterparts, but unfortunately their decoding complexity is a significant challenge. The iterative hard- and soft-reliability based majority-logic decoding algorithms are attractive for non-binary LDPC codes, since they involve only finite field additions and multiplications as well as integer operations and hence have significantly lower complexity than other algorithms. In this paper, we propose two improvements to the majority-logic decoding algorithms. Instead of the accumulation of reliability information in the existing majority-logic decoding algorithms, our first improvement is a new reliability information update. The new update not only results in better error performance and fewer iterations on average, but also further reduces computational complexity. Since existing majority-logic decoding algorithms tend to have a high error floor for codes whose parity check matrices have low column weights, our second improvement is a re-selection scheme, which leads to much lower error floors, at the expense of more finite field operations and integer operations, by identifying periodic points, re-selecting intermediate hard decisions, and changing reliability information.
description: 12 pages, 11 figures