cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Association between timing of hot water bathing before bedtime and night-/sleep-time blood pressure and dipping in the elderly: a longitudinal analysis for repeated measurements in home settings
Creators: name: Tai, Yoshiaki
name: Saeki, Keigo
name: Yamagami, Yuki
name: Yoshimoto, Kiyomi
name: Kurumatani, Norio
name: Nishio, Kenji
name: Obayashi, Kenji
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Mental Health
subject: Computational Biology

description: Hot water bathing – a Japanese traditional practice – has not been evaluated for its association with night- and sleep-time blood pressure (BP) in large population. In this longitudinal analysis, bathing parameters and ambulatory BP were repeatedly measured for 2 nights in 758 Japanese elderly individuals. Participants were divided into three groups according to tertile values of time soaked in the bathtub (Duration: tertile value, 11 and 15 min), time from bathing-end to bedtime (Time before bedtime: tertile value, 42 and 106 min), and temperature of hot water in the bathtub (Water temp: tertile value, 40.3 and 41.2 °C). Participants’ mean age was 70.9 years, and mean night- and sleep-time systolic BP (SBP) and dipping were 115.1 ± 16.1, 114.2 ± 16.2 mmHg, and 14.2 ± 8.8%, respectively. Multivariable mixed-effect linear regression models adjusted for potential confounding factors suggested that nighttime SBP was significantly lower in the intermediate Time before bedtime group by 1.7 mmHg (95% CI, 0.2–3.1) and in the short group by 1.9 mmHg (95% CI, 0.1–3.7) than that in the long group. Dipping was significantly greater in the intermediate Time before bedtime group by 1.8% (95% CI, 0.7–2.9) and in the short group by 1.8% (95% CI, 0.6–3.1) than that in the long group. These associations were consistent regarding sleep-time SBP. Conversely, Water temp and Duration did not significantly associate with any ambulatory BP parameter. Remarkably, Time before bedtime significantly prolonged with increases in tertiles of Water temp (P for trend = 0.006). In conclusion, the findings of this study revealed that Japanese hot water bathing, especially the short time from bathing-end to bedtime, was associated with lower night- and sleep-time BP and greater dipping in an elderly population.
Acceptability of a Mobile Health Unit for Rural HIV Clinical Trial Enrollment and Participation
Creators: name: Isler, Malika Roman
name: Corbie-Smith, Giselle
name: Miles, Margaret Shandor
name: Banks, Bahby
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Few rural minorities participate in HIV clinical trials. Mobile health units (MHUs) may be one strategy to increase participation. We explored community perceptions of MHU acceptability to increase clinical trial participation for rural minorities living with HIV/AIDS. We conducted 11 focus groups (service providers and community leaders) and 35 interviews (people living with HIV/AIDS). Responses were analyzed using constant comparative and content analysis techniques. Acceptable MHU use included maintaining accessibility and confidentiality while establishing credibility, community ownership and control. Under these conditions, MHUs can service rural locations and overcome geographic barriers to reaching major medical centers for clinical trials.
Lifetime Maximization of Wireless Sensor Networks with a Mobile Source Node
Creators: name: Pourazarm, Sepideh
name: Cassandras, Christos G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the problem of routing in sensor networks where the goal is to maximize the network's lifetime. Previous work has considered this problem for fixed-topology networks. Here, we add mobility to the source node, which requires a new definition of the network lifetime. In particular, we redefine lifetime to be the time until the source node depletes its energy. When the mobile node's trajectory is unknown in advance, we formulate three versions of an optimal control problem aiming at this lifetime maximization. We show that in all cases, the solution can be reduced to a sequence of Non- Linear Programming (NLP) problems solved on line as the source node trajectory evolves.
description: A shorter version of this work will be published in Proceedings of 2016 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
Can Money Prevent the Spread of HIV? A Review of Cash Payments for HIV Prevention
Creators: name: Rosenberg, Molly
name: Pettifor, Audrey
name: MacPhail, Catherine
name: Nguyen, Nadia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Cash payments to improve health outcomes have been used for many years, however, their use for HIV prevention is new and the impact not yet well understood. We provide a brief background on the rationale behind using cash to improve health outcomes, review current studies completed or underway using cash for prevention of sexual transmission of HIV, and outline some key considerations on the use of cash payments to prevent HIV infections. We searched the literature for studies that implemented cash transfer programs and measured HIV or HIV-related outcomes. We identified 16 studies meeting our criteria; 10 are completed. The majority of studies have been conducted with adolescents in developing countries and payments are focused on addressing structural risk factors such as poverty. Most have seen reductions in sexual behavior and one large trial has documented a difference in HIV prevalence between young women getting cash transfers and those not. Cash transfer programs focused on changing risky sexual behaviors to reduce HIV risk suggest promise. The context in which programs are situated, the purpose of the cash transfer, and the population will all affect the impact of such programs; ongoing RCTs with HIV incidence endpoints will shed more light on the efficacy of cash payments as strategy for HIV prevention.
title: Dysphagia due to benign esophageal stenosis: diagnosis and treatment via retrograde percutaneous radiological gastrostomy access
Creators: name: Hundt, Walter
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Molecular imaging
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Molecular imaging
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Balloon occlusion
subject: Eating disorders

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The purpose of this article was to prospectively evaluate the clinical results of balloon dilatation in the treatment of benign anastomotic strictures after surgery and or radiation therapy using a retrograde percutaneous radiological gastrostomy...
Additional file 3 of Factors associated with COVID-19 vaccine intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic; a systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-sectional studies
Creators: name: Terry, Emily
name: Cartledge, Sapphire
name: Damery, Sarah
name: Greenfield, Sheila
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. Study Characteristics Table. Summary table detailing the characteristics of each included cross-sectional study.
Improving Participant Understanding of Informed Consent in an HIV-Prevention Clinical Trial: A Comparison of Methods
Creators: name: Sorenson, James R.
name: Henderson, Gail E.
name: Moses, Agnes
name: Bowling, J. Michael
name: Corneli, Amy L.
name: Heilig, Charles M.
name: Ahmed, Yusuf
name: Bentley, Margaret E.
name: Van Der Horst, Charles
name: Jamieson, Denise J.
name: Nkhoma, Jacqueline
name: Zulu, Cynthia
name: Chilima, James
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Empirical research on informed consent has shown that study participants often do not fully understand consent information. This study assessed participant understanding of three mock consent approaches describing an HIV-prevention clinical trial in Lilongwe, Malawi prior to trial implementation. Pregnant women (n = 297) were systematically selected from antenatal-care waiting lines and sequentially allocated to receive an enhanced standard consent form (group 1), a context-specific consent form (group 2), or context-specific counseling cards (group 3). Understanding of research concepts and study procedures was assessed immediately postintervention and at 1-week follow-up. At postintervention, participants in groups 2 and 3 understood more about research concepts and study procedures compared with group 1. Group 3 participants also understood more about study procedures compared with group 2. At follow-up, participants in groups 2 and 3 continued to understand more about research concepts and study procedures. Context-specific approaches improved understanding of consent information in this study.
Chronotype, social jetlag, and time perspective
Creators: name: Borisenkov, Mikhail F.
name: Vetosheva, Valentina I.
name: Kuznetsova, Yekaterina S.
name: Khodyrev, Grigoriy N.
name: Shikhova, Asya V.
name: Popov, Sergey V.
name: Pechеrkina, Anna A.
name: Dorogina, Olga I.
name: Symaniuk, Elvira E.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: The phase of entrainment (chronotype) is known to be associated with time perspective (TP), suggesting that the state of circadian system is involved in the long-term planning of human life. However, little is known regarding the influence of circadian misalignment on long-term planning ability. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between social jetlag (SJL) and TP. A total of 1064 schoolchildren and university students (mean age ± standard deviation, 19.2 ± 2.9 years; range, 15–25 years; females, 71.7%) from four cities in the Russian Federation located between 56.9 and 61.7 degrees North completed the Munich ChronoType Questionnaire, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, the Seasonal Pattern Assessment Questionnaire, and Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory. Study participants also indicated personal data (age, sex, height weight, place of residence, and achievements). A multiple regression analysis with stepwise inclusion of predictors in the model was performed to evaluate associations between time perspective characteristics (dependent variables) and predictor variables. The change in R2 was used as the measure of effect size. Chronotype was found to be a moderate predictor of future TP (B = 0.034; ΔR2 = 0.037). In addition, sleep quality was found to be a moderate predictor of past negative (B = 0.043; ΔR2 = 0.074), present fatalistic (B = 0.021; ΔR2 = 0.035), and deviation from balanced TP (B = 0.034; ΔR2 = 0.066). Mood seasonality was a moderate predictor of present hedonistic TP (B = 0.016; ΔR2 = 0.038), and social jetlag was a weak predictor of present fatalistic (B = 0.052; ΔR2 = 0.019), future (B = −0.033; ΔR2 = 0.004), and deviation from balanced TP (B = 0.047; ΔR2 = 0.012). In conclusion, this study found a weak but significant association between social jetlag and TP in adolescents and young adults.
Transformation of chains of deliveries in network economy: priorities and prospects
Creators: name: Kaluzhsky, Mikhail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Development of network economy changes the institutional maintenance of economic relations. On change to traditional channels of distribution virtual networks of distribution of production come. In article features and mechanisms of transformation of chains deliveries in e-commerce reveal.
description: 14 pages, in Russian. ISSN 2073-2872
3-D generalized analytic signal associated with linear canonical transform in Clifford biquaternion domain
Creators: name: Cai, Zhen Feng
name: Kou, Kit Ian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 45P05

description: The analytic signal is a useful mathematical tool. It separates qualitative and quantitative information of a signal in form of the local phase and local amplitude. The Clifford Fourier transform (CFT) plays a vital role in the representation of multidimensional signals. By generalizing the CFT to the Clifford linear canonical transform (CLCT), we present a new type of Clifford biquaternionic analytic signal. Due to the advantages of more freedom, the envelop detection problems of 3D images, with the help of this new analytic signal, can get a better visual appearance. Synthesis examples are presented to demonstrate these advantages.
description: 19 pages and 5 figures
title: MR tractography for evaluation of white matter changes after neuroprotective therapy in multiple sclerosis
Creators: name: Savintseva, Zhanna
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Drugs / Reactions
subject: Inflammation

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Despite the fact that multiple sclerosis (MS) is a demyelinating disease of central nervous system it has been proven that one of the major factors in disability of patients is neurodegeneration. According to the results of histopathological...
title: MRI assessment before and after chemoirradiation therapy in rectal carcinoma: comprehensive study
Creators: name: Rezk, Mahmoud
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Colon
subject: Oncology
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: This work aims to shows the role of pelvic MRI in evaluating the local staging of the rectal cancer and follow up the patients after neoadjuvant therapy to down the size of the tumourto demonstratetheresponse to neoadjuvant therapy before surgery...
(101061) Alfred Hall
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.
Validation of the Chinese Version of the Children’s ChronoType Questionnaire (CCTQ) in school-aged children
Creators: name: Yeung, Wing-Fai
name: Yu, Branda Yee-Man
name: Ho, Yuan-Shan
name: Ho, Fiona Yan Yee
name: Chung, Ka Fai
name: Lee, Regina Lai Tong
name: Wong, Corine
name: Lam, Mei Yuk
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: The Children’s ChronoType Questionnaire (CCTQ) is a valid and reliable measure for assessing prepubertal children aged 4–11 years. The CCTQ is a parent-reported, 27-item questionnaire consisting of sleep-wake parameters for scheduled and free days (16 items), a morningness/eveningness scale (M/E, 10 items), and a five-point, single-item, chronotype score. The CCTQ has been translated into different languages, but a Chinese version is not available. In the present study, we aimed to produce a Chinese version of the CCTQ and test its validity and reliability on school-aged children. A total of 555 children aged 7–11 years were recruited from five primary schools. The parents were told to complete the CCTQ and record their child’s sleep pattern in a 7-day sleep diary. Sixty-six children and their parents were invited to participate in determining the test-retest reliability of the CCTQ over a 2-week interval, and their sleep patterns were assessed using a sleep diary. The internal consistency of the Chinese CCTQ M/E score as measured by Cronbach’s alpha was acceptable (0.74). Regarding the test-retest reliability of the instrument, moderate to strong Spearman’s correlation coefficients were found for most of the CCTQ – sleep-wake items (ρ = 0.52–0.86) and for the CCTQ-M/E total score (ρ = 0.78). For the concurrent validity, Spearman’s correlations between the sleep-wake parameters of the CCTQ and the sleep diary were moderate to high on both the scheduled days (ρ = 0.54 to 0.87) and free days (ρ = 0.36 to 0.60). For the correlations measured with actigraphs, significant correlations were found in the CCTQ sleep-wake parameters, including bedtime, get-up time, sleep latency, sleep period, time in bed, and mid-sleep point on both the scheduled (ρ = 0.31 to 0.76) and free days (ρ = 0.27 to 0.52), but not in sleep latency and sleep period on free days. The results of the present study suggest that the Chinese version of the CCTQ is a reliable and valid tool for assessing chronotypes in Chinese school-aged children in Hong Kong.
title: Covered TIPS vs endoscopic treatment for prevention of variceal rebleeding in patients with cirrhosis: a meta-analysis
Creators: name: Shi, Lei
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Abdomen
subject: Liver
subject: Digital radiography
subject: Stents

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To compare the clinical effects of transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) with covered stent s with endoscopic treatment in terms of variceal rebleeding, hepatic encephalopathy, and survival by using...
(101063) William J Fladin
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.
Additional file 4 of Factors associated with COVID-19 vaccine intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic; a systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-sectional studies
Creators: name: Terry, Emily
name: Cartledge, Sapphire
name: Damery, Sarah
name: Greenfield, Sheila
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 4. Study Results Table. Summary table detailing the results of each included cross-sectional study.
Additional file 5 of Factors associated with COVID-19 vaccine intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic; a systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-sectional studies
Creators: name: Terry, Emily
name: Cartledge, Sapphire
name: Damery, Sarah
name: Greenfield, Sheila
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 5. AXIS Summary Table [41]. Summary table of results of the appraisal of cross-sectional studies (AXIS) for each study.
(101064) Elizabeth Fladin
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: Comparison of the therapeutic effects of endovascular repair of Stanford B aortic dissection with aortic remodeling in single-stent implantation and double-stent implantation
Creators: name: Hao, Liu
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Thorax
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Digital radiography
subject: Stents
subject: Treatment effects
subject: Outcomes

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To compare the therapeutic effect of endovascular aortic repair of Stanford B aortic dissection with single-stent graft or double-stent graft implantation of aortic...
title: Lung ultrasound vs MDCT in the follow up of lung contusions in major trauma
Creators: name: Ianniello, Stefania
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Emergency
subject: Lung
subject: Ultrasound
subject: CT
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Trauma

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The aim of our study was to evaluate the role of lung ultrasound (US) versus thoracic multidetector computer tomography (MDCT) in the follow-up of pulmonary contusions in major trauma, in order to extend the daily use of this method in intensive...
(101065) Rebecca Fladin
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.
Longitudinal Effects of SafeTalk, a Motivational Interviewing-Based Program to Improve Safer Sex Practices Among People Living with HIV/AIDS
Creators: name: Chariyeva, Zulfiya
name: Earp, Jo Anne
name: Swygard, Heidi
name: Kalichman, Seth
name: Suchindran, Chirayath
name: Grodensky, Catherine A.
name: Patel, Shilpa N.
name: Groves, Jennifer
name: Quinlivan, E. Byrd
name: Golin, Carol E.
name: Parikh, Megha
name: Patterson, Kristine
name: Amola, Kemi
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Programs to help people living with HIV/AIDS practice safer sex are needed to prevent transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. We sought to assess the impact of SafeTalk, a multicomponent motivational interviewing-based safer sex program, on HIV-infected patients’ risky sexual behavior. We enrolled sexually active adult HIV-infected patients from one of three clinical sites in North Carolina and randomized them to receive the 4-session SafeTalk intervention versus a hearthealthy attention-control. There was no significant difference in the proportion of people having unprotected sex between the two arms at enrollment. SafeTalk significantly reduced the number of unprotected sex acts with at-risk partners from baseline, while in controls the number of unprotected sex acts increased. Motivational interviewing can provide an effective, flexible prevention intervention for a heterogeneous group of people living with HIV.
Emergence of Wulff-Crystals from atomistic systems on the FCC and HCP lattices
Creators: name: Cicalese, Marco
name: Kreutz, Leonard
name: Leonardi, Gian Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a system of $N$ hard spheres sitting on the nodes of either the $\mathrm{FCC}$ or $\mathrm{HCP}$ lattice and interacting via a sticky-disk potential. As $N$ tends to infinity (continuum limit), assuming the interaction energy does not exceed that of the ground-state by more than $N^{2/3}$ (surface scaling), we obtain the variational coarse grained model by $Γ$-convergence. More precisely, we prove that the continuum limit energies are of perimeter type and we compute explicitly their Wulff shapes. Our analysis shows that crystallization on $\mathrm{FCC}$ is preferred to that on $\mathrm{HCP}$ for $N$ large enough. The method is based on integral representation and concentration-compactness results that we prove for general periodic lattices in any dimension.
Predicting Partner HIV Testing and Counseling Following a Partner Notification Intervention
Creators: name: Pettifor, Audrey
name: Miller, William C.
name: Mmodzi, Pearson
name: Brown, Lillian B.
name: Mapanje, Clement
name: Kaufman, Jay S.
name: Martinson, Francis
name: Cohen, Myron S.
name: Hoffman, Irving F.
name: Dominik, Rosalie C.
name: Nyirenda, Naomi
name: Kamanga, Gift
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Provider-assisted methods of partner notification increase testing and counseling among sexual partners of patients diagnosed with HIV, however they are resource-intensive. The sexual partners of individuals enrolled in a clinical trial comparing different methods of HIV partner notification were analyzed to identify who was unlikely to seek testing on their own. Unconditional logistic regression was used to identify partnership characteristics, which were assigned a score based on their coefficient in the final model, and a risk score was calculated for each participant. The risk score included male partner sex, relationship duration 6–24 months, and index education > primary. A risk score of ≥ 2 had a sensitivity of 68% and specificity of 78% in identifying partners unlikely to seek testing on their own. A risk score to target partner notification can reduce the resources required to locate all partners in the community while increasing the testing yield compared to patient-referral.
Predicting Product Adherence in a Topical Microbicide Safety Trial in Pune, India
Creators: name: Weaver, Mark A.
name: Mehendale, Sanjay
name: Tolley, Elizabeth E.
name: Tsui, Sharon
name: Kohli, Rewa
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: The inconclusive results of past trials and recent findings of partial protection of Tenofovir 1% gel underscore the need to better understand product adherence in microbicide trials. This study aimed to identify factors predicting couples’ ability to sustain topical gel and condom use during clinical trial participation. We enrolled 100 Indian participants of a randomized, controlled safety trial of Tenofovir 1% gel (CT cohort) and 100 similar women who were ineligible or declined trial participation (NCT cohort). Compared to the NCT cohort, CT women reported higher baseline condom use, more positive attitudes towards condoms and higher levels of protection efficacy. While NCT condom use remained low, CT condom use increased dramatically during the study. Reported gel consistency was higher than condom consistency. Individual and couple-related factors predicted condom consistency and interest in future gel use, but not gel consistency. Findings could inform trial recruitment strategies and product introduction.
Additional file 6 of Factors associated with COVID-19 vaccine intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic; a systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-sectional studies
Creators: name: Terry, Emily
name: Cartledge, Sapphire
name: Damery, Sarah
name: Greenfield, Sheila
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 6. Data Extraction Form. A copy of the data extraction form used to extract data from each study included in the review.
Multivariate discriminant and iterated resultant
Creators: name: Han, Jingjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Mathematics (math.GM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we study the relationship between iterated resultant and multivariate discriminant. We show that, for generic form $f(X_n)$ with even degree $d$, if the polynomial is squarefreed after each iteration, the multivariate discriminant $Δ(f)$ is a factor of the squarefreed iterated resultant. In fact, we find a factor $Hp(f,[x_1,\ldots,x_n])$ of the squarefreed iterated resultant, and prove that the multivariate discriminant $Δ(f)$ is a factor of $Hp(f,[x_1,\ldots,x_n])$. Moreover, we conjecture that $Hp(f,[x_1,\ldots,x_n])=Δ(f)$ holds for generic form $f$, and show that it is true for generic trivariate form $f(x,y,z)$.
title: A comparative analysis on the fastest modality and fastest method to load multiple images when reporting on an integrated national PACS system
Creators: name: Banatwala, Maria
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computer applications
subject: PACS
subject: Computer Applications-General
subject: Computer Applications-Virtual imaging
subject: Technology assessment
subject: Quality assurance

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Nimis PACS (Picture Archive and Communication Systems)is the national integrated computerised system in Ireland for reporting radiological images. It allows for theelectronic storage, retrieval, distribution and presentation of medical images...
Additional file 7 of Factors associated with COVID-19 vaccine intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic; a systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-sectional studies
Creators: name: Terry, Emily
name: Cartledge, Sapphire
name: Damery, Sarah
name: Greenfield, Sheila
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 7. AXIS Form. A copy of the AXIS form used for the assessment of bias and quality of each study included in the review.
Cahn-Hilliard-Brinkman model for tumor growth with possibly singular potentials
Creators: name: Colli, Pierluigi
name: Gilardi, Gianni
name: Signori, Andrea
name: Sprekels, Jürgen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We analyze a phase field model for tumor growth consisting of a Cahn-Hilliard-Brinkman system, ruling the evolution of the tumor mass, coupled with an advection-reaction-diffusion equation for a chemical species acting as a nutrient. The main novelty of the paper concerns the discussion of the existence of weak solutions to the system covering all the meaningful cases for the nonlinear potentials; in particular,the typical choices given by the regular, the logarithmic, and the double obstacle potentials are admitted in our treatise. Compared to previous results related to similar models, we suggest, instead of the classical no-flux condition, a Dirichlet boundary condition for the chemical potential appearing in the Cahn-Hilliard-type equation. Besides, abstract growth conditions for the source terms that may depend on the solution variables are postulated.
title: The role of computed tomography in the evaluation of coronary artery bypass grafts prior to transcatheter aortic valve implantation
Creators: name: Tarmey, Tara
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: CT
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Ischaemia / Infarction

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has emerged as an alternative therapy in high-risk patients with severe aortic valve stenosis [1,2]. Risk factors for atherosclerosis are similar to those of aortic stenosis and consequently coronary...
(101060) John Wesley Jr Hall
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.
Quality of Life Among Individuals with HIV Starting Antiretroviral Therapy in Diverse Resource-Limited Areas of the World
Creators: name: Campbell, Thomas
name: Flanigan, Timothy
name: Celentano, David D.
name: Hendriksen, Ellen S.
name: Hosseinipour, Mina C.
name: Smeaton, Laura
name: Barnett, Ronald
name: Safren, Steven A.
name: Klingman, Karin
name: Guanira, Juan
name: Kumarasamy, N.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: As Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) is scaled up in low- and middle-income countries, it is important to understand Quality of Life (QOL) correlates including disease severity and person characteristics and to determine the extent of between-country differences among those with HIV. QOL and medical data were collected from 1,563 of the 1,571 participants at entry into a randomized clinical trial of ART conducted in the U.S. (n = 203) and 8 resource-limited countries (n = 1,360) in the Caribbean, South America, Asia, and Africa. Participants were interviewed prior to initiation of ART using a modified version of the ACTG SF-21, a health-related QOL measure including 8 subscales: general health perception, physical functioning, role functioning, social functioning, cognitive functioning, pain, mental health, and energy/fatigue. Other measures included demographics, CD4+ lymphocyte count, plasma HIV-1 RNA viral load. Higher quality of life in each of the 8 QOL subscales was associated with higher CD4+ lymphocyte category. General health perception, physical functioning, role functioning, and energy/fatigue varied by plasma HIV-1 RNA viral load categories. Each QOL subscale included significant variation by country. Only the social functioning subscale varied by sex, with men having greater impairments than women, and only the physical functioning subscale varied by age category. This was the first large-scale international ART trial to conduct a standardized assessment of QOL in diverse international settings, thus demonstrating that implementation of the behavioral assessment was feasible. QOL indicators at study entry varied with disease severity, demographics, and country. The relationship of these measures to treatment outcomes can and should be examined in clinical trials of ART in resource-limited settings using similar methodologies.
Pembuatan Pupuk Kompos Menggunakan Teknologi M21 dan EM4 di Desa Koto Sentajo Provinsi Riau
Creators: name: Muhammad Zulhidayat, Ayu Liza, Bayu Harris Fadillah, Dea Fitriani, Dwi Nur Febrina, Giovany Giovany, Kessy Silsilia, Lasmiati Harmini, Muharvianti Lestari, Nabila Sapuro Hasibuan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Kegiatan Pengabdian Masyarakat ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan kesadaran dan keterampilan Kelompok Tani Desa Koto Sentajo dalam memproduksi pupuk kompos, yang sangat penting untuk meningkatkan kualitas tanah dan hasil pertanian. Metode yang digunakan adalah sosialisasi dan demonstrasi langsung, dengan fokus pada penerapan teknologi M21 dan EM4 dalam pembuatan pupuk. Partisipasi masyarakat sangat tinggi, menunjukkan antusiasme yang besar terhadap kegiatan ini. Mahasiswa terlibat aktif dalam proses pelatihan, yang diharapkan dapat meningkatkan produktivitas pertanian melalui pemanfaatan pupuk organik yang ramah lingkungan.
Accurate and Efficient Halo-based Galaxy Clustering Modelling with Simulations
Creators: name: Zheng, Zheng
name: Guo, Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Small- and intermediate-scale galaxy clustering can be used to establish the galaxy-halo connection to study galaxy formation and evolution and to tighten constraints on cosmological parameters. With the increasing precision of galaxy clustering measurements from ongoing and forthcoming large galaxy surveys, accurate models are required to interpret the data and extract relevant information. We introduce a method based on high-resolution N-body simulations to accurately and efficiently model the galaxy two-point correlation functions (2PCFs) in projected and redshift spaces. The basic idea is to tabulate all information of haloes in the simulations necessary for computing the galaxy 2PCFs within the framework of halo occupation distribution or conditional luminosity function. It is equivalent to populating galaxies to dark matter haloes and using the mock 2PCF measurements as the model predictions. Besides the accurate 2PCF calculations, the method is also fast and therefore enables an efficient exploration of the parameter space. As an example of the method, we decompose the redshift-space galaxy 2PCF into different components based on the type of galaxy pairs and show the redshift-space distortion effect in each component. The generalizations and limitations of the method are discussed.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS. Fig.2 shows a decomposition of the 3D redshift-space galaxy 2-point correlation function into contributions from different types of galaxy pairs
MQT Bench: Benchmarking Software and Design Automation Tools for Quantum Computing
Creators: name: Quetschlich, Nils
name: Burgholzer, Lukas
name: Wille, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Quantum software tools for a wide variety of design tasks on and across different levels of abstraction are crucial in order to eventually realize useful quantum applications. This requires practical and relevant benchmarks for new software tools to be empirically evaluated and compared to the current state of the art. Although benchmarks for specific design tasks are commonly available, the demand for an overarching cross-level benchmark suite has not yet been fully met and there is no mutual consolidation in how quantum software tools are evaluated thus far. In this work, we propose the MQT Bench benchmark suite (as part of the Munich Quantum Toolkit, MQT) based on four core traits: (1) cross-level support for different abstraction levels, (2) accessibility via an easy-to-use web interface (https://www.cda.cit.tum.de/mqtbench) and a Python package, (3) provision of a broad selection of benchmarks to facilitate generalizability, as well as (4) extendability to future algorithms, gate-sets, and hardware architectures. By comprising more than 70,000 benchmark circuits ranging from 2 to 130 qubits on four abstraction levels, MQT Bench presents a first step towards benchmarking different abstraction levels with a single benchmark suite to increase comparability, reproducibility, and transparency.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures, MQT Bench is hosted at https://www.cda.cit.tum.de/mqtbench/, revised layout and updated tool
Transformers in Time-series Analysis: A Tutorial
Creators: name: Ahmed, Sabeen
name: Nielsen, Ian E.
name: Tripathi, Aakash
name: Siddiqui, Shamoon
name: Rasool, Ghulam
name: Ramachandran, Ravi P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Transformer architecture has widespread applications, particularly in Natural Language Processing and computer vision. Recently Transformers have been employed in various aspects of time-series analysis. This tutorial provides an overview of the Transformer architecture, its applications, and a collection of examples from recent research papers in time-series analysis. We delve into an explanation of the core components of the Transformer, including the self-attention mechanism, positional encoding, multi-head, and encoder/decoder. Several enhancements to the initial, Transformer architecture are highlighted to tackle time-series tasks. The tutorial also provides best practices and techniques to overcome the challenge of effectively training Transformers for time-series analysis.
description: 28 pages, 17 figures
Graviton partial waves and causality in higher dimensions
Creators: name: Caron-Huot, Simon
name: Li, Yue-Zhou
name: Parra-Martinez, Julio
name: Simmons-Duffin, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Do gravitational interactions respect the basic principles of relativity and quantum mechanics? We show that any graviton S-matrix that satisfies these assumptions cannot significantly differ from General Relativity at low energies. We provide sharp bounds on the size of potential corrections in terms of the mass M of new higher-spin states, in spacetime dimensions D>=5 where the S-matrix does not suffer from infrared ambiguities. The key novel ingredient is the full set of SO(D-1) partial waves for this process, which we show how to efficiently compute with Young tableau manipulations. We record new bounds on the central charges of holographic conformal theories.
description: 6 pages + 6 appendices, ancillary files for partial wave data
(101062) Alfred Hubert Roy 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.
Electric field control of Jahn-Teller distortions in bulk perovskites
Creators: name: Varignon, Julien
name: Bristowe, Nicholas C.
name: Ghosez, Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Jahn-Teller distortion, by its very nature, is often at the heart of the various electronic properties displayed by perovskites and related materials. Despite the Jahn-Teller mode being non- polar in nature, we devise and demonstrate in the present letter an electric field control of Jahn-Teller distortions in bulk perovskites. The electric field control is enabled through an anharmonic lattice mode coupling between the Jahn-Teller distortion and a polar mode. We confirm this coupling, and explicitly an electric field effect, through first principles calculations. The coupling will always exist within the P b2 1 m space group, which is found to be the favoured ground state for various perovskites under sufficient tensile epitaxial strain. Intriguingly, the calculations reveal that this mechanism is not only restricted to Jahn-Teller active systems, promising a general route to tune or induce novel electronic functionality in perovskites as a whole.
Social Network Characteristics and HIV Vulnerability Among Transgender Persons in San Salvador: Identifying Opportunities for HIV Prevention Strategies
Creators: name: Barrington, Clare
name: Nieto, Ana Isabel
name: Guardado, Maria Elena
name: Bailey, Gabriela Paz
name: Wejnert, Cyprian
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: The purpose of this study is to improve understanding of HIV vulnerability and opportunities for HIV prevention within the social networks of male-to-female transgender persons in San Salvador, El Salvador. We compare HIV prevalence and behavioral data from a sample of gay-identified men who have sex with men (MSM) (n = 279), heterosexual or bisexual identified MSM (n = 229) and transgender persons (n = 67) recruited using Respondent Driven Sampling. Transgender persons consistently reported higher rates of HIV risk behavior than the rest of the study population and were significantly more likely to be involved in sex work. While transgender persons reported the highest rates of exposure to HIV educational activities they had the lowest levels of HIV-related knowledge. Transgender respondents’ social networks were homophilous and efficient at recruiting other transgender persons. Findings suggest that transgender social networks could provide an effective and culturally relevant opportunity for HIV prevention efforts in this vulnerable population.