cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Einbezug von Adressaten der Sozialen Arbeit („service users“) in die Lehre : Überlegungen zur Umsetzbarkeit der gap mending Methoden von PowerUs im Rahmen der ZHAW und des Kooperationsmasters
Creators: name: Chiapparini, Emanuela
name: Eicher, Véronique
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2015
Subjects: User involvement
Soziale Arbeit
Service user
Gap-mending courses
Hochschullehre
Empowerment
Partizipation
305: Soziale Gruppen
361: Sozialhilfe und Soziale Wohlfahrt
370: Bildung und Erziehung

description: Empowerment und „service user involvement“ Ansätze sind im gegenwärtigen Diskurs der deutschsprachigen und angelsächsischen Sozialen Arbeit prominent vertreten (z.B. Askheim, 2003; Herriger, 2014). Seit 2011 gibt es das Netzwerk PowerUs, dessen Ziel es ist, die Befähigung von sozial ausgegrenzten Gruppen zu fördern. Das Ziel des Netzwerkes ist „Mend the gap“ und sie verwirklichen dieses im Rahmen von sogenannten gap mending Kursen, in denen Adressat_innen der Sozialen Arbeit und Studierende der Sozialen Arbeit sich auf Augenhöhe kennenlernen. Damit wird ein Freiraum ausserhalb der Rollen als Sozialarbeitende und Adressat_innen geschaffen, in welchem aus den sozialen Anliegen und persönlichen Erfahrungen gemeinsam Projektkonzepte entwickelt werden. Diese Kurse unterscheiden sich durch die Begegnung auf Augenhöhe grundsätzlich von anderen bereits verbreiteten Kursformen, in welchen die Adressat_innen in die Lehre punktuell einbezogen werden, um aus ihrer Perspektive und von ihren Erfahrungen zu berichten. Bei dieser Kursform bleibt der „Austausch“ mit den Adressat_innen einseitig, weil die vom Adressat_innen erzählte Geschichte primär als Grundlage für die professionelle Sensibilisierung und damit für Ausbildung der Studierenden dient. Anders basieren gap mending Kurse sowohl auf dem Erfahrungswissen der Adressat_innen als auch der Studierenden der Sozialen Arbeit. Kurz gefasst, beide sind gleichwertig und unentbehrlich. Im vorliegenden Bericht werden die Ansätze Empowerment und „user involvement“, welche dem Netzwerk PowerUs zugrunde liegen vorgestellt. Anschliessend werden mehrere gap mending Kurse und ihre Evaluation dargestellt, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf den Kurs in Lund, Schweden gelegt wird. Dies aus zwei Gründen: In Lund fand die erste Durchführung des Kurses statt und dieser basiert auf einer fundierten Durchführungserfahrung (17 Durchführungen). Der Bericht schliesst mit verschiedenen Möglichkeiten der Umsetzbarkeit von gap mending Kursen im Rahmen der ZHAW Soziale Arbeit und Empfehlungen ab. Der vorliegende Bericht stützt sich einerseits auf vorhandene Publikationen zu den Ansätzen des Empowerments und „user involvement“. Andererseits hatten die Autorinnen des Berichts die Möglichkeit den gap mending Kurs in Lund während einigen Tagen zu hospitieren, so dass diese Erfahrungen ebenfalls in den Bericht einfliessen.
ATLAS diboson excess from low scale supersymmetry breaking
Creators: name: Petersson, Christoffer
name: Torre, Riccardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide an interpretation of the recent ATLAS diboson excess in terms of a class of supersymmetric models in which the scale of supersymmetry (SUSY) breaking is in the few TeV range. The particle responsible for the excess is the scalar superpartner of the Goldstone fermion associated with SUSY breaking, the sgoldstino. This scalar couples strongly to the Standard Model vector bosons and weakly to the fermions, with all coupling strengths determined by ratios of soft SUSY breaking parameters over the SUSY breaking scale. Explaining the ATLAS excess selects particular relations and ranges for the gaugino masses, while imposing no constraints on the other superpartner masses. Moreover, this signal hypothesis predicts a rate in the $Zγ$ final state that is expected to be observable at the LHC Run II already with a few fb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure, 1 table; v2 bibtex compilation problem fixed
Giuseppe Poggi a Ubaldino Peruzzi (10 aprile 1878)
Creators: name: Poggi, Giuseppe
name: Peruzzi, Ubaldino
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Accademia dei Georgofili
Poggi, Giuseppe
Peruzzi, Ubaldino
1878
Lettera
Carteggio
Correspondence
Letter

description: Lettera di Giuseppe Poggi a Ubaldino Peruzzi del 10 aprile 1878. Segnatura dell’unità documentale: Archivio storico dell’Accademia dei Georgofili, Carteggio amministrativo, Busta 47, 963. Natura: manoscritto. Consistenza: c. 1.
description: Digitalizzato come parte della Mostra virtuale: Ubaldino Peruzzi : un percorso in rete : in occasione del bicentenario della nascita https://www.georgofili.it/contenuti/ubaldino-peruzzi-un-percorso-in-rete/17485
(102675) John Charles Williams
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.
INCREASED STORMINESS AND SEA-LEVEL RISE PROMOTE RAPID SALTMARSH TRANSGRESSION ACROSS LOW-GRADIENT UPLANDS
Creators: name: Miller, Carson B
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Saltmarsh area is decreasing globally due to human and natural stressors. Saltmarsh upland migration (transgression) can offset losses if unimpeded by development. Sea-level rise (SLR) and slope are the primary drivers of transgression, but the contribution from storms is unknown. This study reconstructs transgression rates over the past 600 years under conditions of changing storminess and SLR. Three sites in NC showed that transgression rates were on average >5 times greater during stormy periods than non-stormy periods, and 7 times greater when SLR was 3.2 mm yr-1 than when SLR was 0.9 mm yr-1. Historical imagery shows a similar increase in saltmarsh area during stormy decades. Predictions of transgression rates, using only the paleo-upland slope and sea level, do not match observations and suggest upland gradients and elevations decrease from decomposition and compaction during transgression. Storminess and SLR both modulate transgression rates along low-gradient upland areas.
Abundance and population growth estimates for bare-nosed wombats
Creators: name: Knoblauch, Wiebke
name: Carver, Scott
name: Driessen, Michael
name: Gales, Rosemary
name: Richards, Shane
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Vombatus ursinus ursinus
Vombatus ursinus tasmaniensis
spotlight survey
distance sampling
population estimate

description: Wildlife managers often rely on population estimates, but estimates can be challenging to obtain for geographically widespread species. Spotlight surveys provide abundance data for many species and, when conducted over wide spatial scales, have the potential to provide population estimates of geographically widespread species. The bare-nosed wombat (Vombatus ursinus) has a broad geographic range and is subject to spotlight surveys. We used 19 years (2002–2020) of annual spotlight surveys to provide the first estimates of population abundance for two of the three extant bare-nosed wombat subspecies: V. u. ursinus on Flinders Island; and V. u. tasmaniensis on the Tasmanian mainland. Using distance sampling methods, we estimated annual rates of change and 2020 population sizes for both sub-species. Tasmanian mainland surveys included habitat data, which allowed us to also look for evidence of habitat associations for V. u. tasmaniensis. The average wombat density estimate was higher on Flinders Island (0.42 ha-1, 95% CrI = 0.25 – 0.79) than on the Tasmanian mainland (0.11 ha-1, CrI = 0.07 – 0.19) and both wombat subspecies increased over the 19-year survey period with an estimated annual growth rate of 2.90% (CrI = -1.7 – 7.3) on Flinders Island and 1.20% (CrI = -1.1 – 2.9) on mainland Tasmania. Habitat associations for V. u. tasmaniensis were weak, possibly owing to survey design; however, we detected regional variation in density for this subspecies. We estimated the population size of V. u. ursinus to be 71,826 (CrI = 43,913 – 136,761) on Flinders Island, which when combined with a previously published estimate of 2,599 (CI = 2,254 – 2,858) from Maria Island, where the subspecies was introduced, provides a total population estimate. We also estimated 840,665 (CrI = 531,104 – 1,201,547) V. u. tasmaniensis on mainland Tasmania. These estimates may be conservative, owing to individual heterogeneity in when wombats emerge from burrows. Although these two sub-species are not currently threatened, our population estimates provide an important reference when assessing their population status in the future, and demonstrate how spotlight surveys can be valuable to inform management of geographically widespread species.
Orlov's Theorem for dg-algebras
Creators: name: Brown, Michael K.
name: Sridhar, Prashanth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14F08

description: A landmark theorem of Orlov relates the singularity category of a graded Gorenstein algebra to the derived category of the associated noncommutative projective scheme. We generalize this theorem to the setting of differential graded algebras. As an application, we obtain new cases of the Lattice Conjecture in noncommutative Hodge theory.
description: 23 pages
A uniformly accurate (UA) multiscale time integrator pseudospectral method for the Dirac equation in the nonrelativistic limit regime
Creators: name: Bao, Weizhu
name: Cai, Yongyong
name: Jia, Xiaowei
name: Tang, Qinglin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We propose and rigourously analyze a multiscale time integrator Fourier pseudospectral (MTI-FP) method for the Dirac equation with a dimensionless parameter $\varepsilon\in(0,1]$ which is inversely proportional to the speed of light. In the nonrelativistic limit regime, i.e. $0
description: 25 pages, 1 figure
ACUTE FEEDING: INFLUENCE ON THE VALIDITY OF DUAL-ENERGY X-RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY (DXA) BODY COMPOSITION MEASUREMENT
Creators: name: Brewer, Gabrielle Judith
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: This study evaluated the influence of acute feeding (high carbohydrate [CHO], high protein [PRO], ad libitum [MX], fasted baseline [FAST]) on the validity of body composition measured from dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA), a four compartment model (4C), and metabolism (RMR) measured by indirect calorimetry. Thirty-nine healthy, young adults (49% women) were provided meals (CHO, PRO, MX, FAST) followed by body composition and resting metabolism assessments. Significant differences (p<0.001) were reported for DXA lean mass (CHO, PRO, MX), DXA trunk lean mass (CHO, PRO, MX), and fat mass (CHO). Significant differences were also identified for RMR (CHO, PRO, MX). Prediction error was largest in women and 4C outcomes, particularly percent body fat (%fat: average standard error=3%). Acute consumption of a ~900 g meal, regardless of macronutrient content, may not largely alter the validity of body composition and RMR outcomes. %fat was the most sensitive to food intake.
e-Government per la trasparenza e il buon governo nella pubblica amministrazione
Creators: name: Banchio, Pablo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: La maggior parte delle persone percepisce l'amministrazione come un apparato burocratico rigido che pone molti problemi, soprattutto nelle situazioni in cui è necessario ottenere un determinato documento, esercitare un diritto o tutelare un interesse legale.  In coda e a perdere tempo in tali situazioni dice molto sul "lusso" della burocrazia del modello di stato in calo emerso nella cosiddetta età moderna sotto l'assioma del contratto sociale e dei trattati di Westfalia che, consolidandosi nel  Il 18 e il 19 secolo impose ai cittadini il pesante fardello dell'apparato burocratico della pubblica amministrazione. 

Alle condizioni attuali per lo sviluppo delle tecnologie dell'informazione e della comunicazione (ICT) in tutto il 21 secolo, le aspettative di gestione del governo in termini di qualità, rapidità, trasparenza e disponibilità  i servizi sono in crescita.  Queste aspettative sono principalmente per i cittadini come utenti quotidiani dei servizi forniti dalla pubblica amministrazione.  Oltre ai cittadini, anche le nuove imprese, le PMI, le start up e i giovani imprenditori hanno grandi aspettative, i cui requisiti riguardano soprattutto il miglioramento dell'ambiente aziendale attraverso l'eliminazione di  amministrative inutili.  È quindi logico che la riforma della pubblica amministrazione sia una delle principali necessità per avvicinarla agli utenti, riducendo gli oneri amministrativi attraverso l'applicazione delle moderne ICT. 

In materia di diritto, il tema di questo lavoro è l'analisi teorica dei sistemi giuridici per l'istituzione del governo elettronico, considerando come elemento fondamentale delle risposte giuridiche che la nostra disciplina può offrire,  particolarmente una legge speciale che rappresenterebbe un quadro normativo fondamentale per la configurazione del governo elettronico.
The Story of the Plague in the Maritime Republic of Genoa (Italy) (1656-1657): an innovative Public Health System and an efficacious Method of territorial Health Organization
Creators: name: Martini, Mariano
name: Calcagno, Paolo
name: Brigo, Francesco
name: Ferrando, Francesca
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2023
Subjects: History of Pandemics
Plague
Maritime Republic of Genoa
History of Public Health
Hygiene Regulations
history od pandemics

description: Abstract: Introduction – With the recent Covid-19 pandemic, the terms quarantine, contagion and infection have again become part of our everyday speech, prompting historians to reflect on the settings in which they were originally used and to make comparisons with the present time. How did people cope with epidemics in the past? What measures were taken? Objectives - We analyse the institutional response of the Republic of Genoa to a calamity that shook the city – the plague of 1656-1657. In doing so, we focus particularly on the public health measures implemented, as recorded also in unpublished and archival documents. Discussion - In order to tighten control over the population, Genoa was divided into 20 zones, each of which was placed under the authority of a Commissioner endowed with criminal jurisdiction. The Commissioners' duties concerned the spheres of public health, public order and those tasks which today we would assign to "civil protection". Through the official documentation and the trial records kept by the Chancellor of one of these zones, we can shed light on the Commissioners' everyday activities and assess the impact of the public health measures on the population. Conclusions - The 17th century plague in Genoa provides us with an important testimony of a well-organised and structured public health policy – an institutional response involving the adoption of efficacious measures of safety and prevention in the field of hygiene and public health. From the historical-social, normative and public health perspectives, this meaningful experience highlights the organisation of a large port city, which was at the time a flourishing commercial and financial hub.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 63 No. 4 (2022): Vol. 63 No. 4 (2022)
Determinants of Public Interest in Emerging and Re-Emerging Arboviral Diseases in Europe
Creators: name: Allgoewer, Kristina
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2023
Subjects: Arboviral Diseases
Emerging Diseases
Disease Interest
Google Trends
Perceived Susceptibility
Europeans
Humans
Internet Users

description: Introduction. Climate change, the resulting geographical expansion of arthropod disease vectors, and increasing international mobility are contributing to the emergence of arboviral diseases in Europe. Public interest in vector-borne diseases and a subsequent gain of awareness and knowledge are essential to control outbreaks but had not yet been systematically assessed prior to this analysis. Methods. Trends, patterns, and determinants of public interest in six emerging and re-emerging arboviral diseases were assessed in a spatio-temporal analysis of Google Trends data from 30 European countries between 2008 and 2020 while controlling for potential confounders. Results. Only public interest in endemic arboviral diseases in Europe displays seasonal patterns and has been increasing since 2008, while no significant patterns or trends could be determined for public interest in non-endemic diseases. The main drivers for public interest in all six analysed arboviral diseases are reported case rates, and public interest drops rapidly as soon as cases decline. For Germany, the correlation of public interest and the geographical distribution of locally-acquired reported cases of endemic arboviral infections could be shown on a sub-country level. Conclusions. The results of the analysis indicate that public interest in arboviral diseases in Europe is heavily impacted by perceived susceptibility on a temporal as well as on a spatial level. This result may be crucial for the design of future public health interventions to alert the public to the increasing risk of infection with arboviral diseases.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 63 No. 4 (2022): Vol. 63 No. 4 (2022)
Spin Textures of Polariton Condensates in a Tunable Microcavity with Strong Spin-Orbit Interaction
Creators: name: Dufferwiel, S.
name: Li, F.
name: Cancellieri, E.
name: Giriunas, L.
name: Trichet, A. A. P.
name: Whittaker, D. M.
name: Walker, P. M.
name: Fras, F.
name: Clarke, E.
name: Smith, J. M.
name: Skolnick, M. S.
name: Krizhanovskii, D. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report an extended family of spin textures in coexisting modes of zero-dimensional polariton condensates spatially confined in tunable open microcavity structures. The coupling between photon spin and angular momentum, which is enhanced in the open cavity structures, leads to new eigenstates of the polariton condensates carrying quantised spin vortices. Depending on the strength and anisotropy of the cavity confinement potential and the strength of the spin-orbit coupling, which can be tuned via the excitonic/photonic fractions, the condensate emissions exhibit either spin-vortex-like patterns or linear polarization, in good agreement with theoretical modelling.
“Hepatitis B vaccination” in Iran: historical and ethical policies and programs
Creators: name: Behzadifar, Masoud
name: Behzadifar, Meysam
name: Azari, Samad
name: Shirkhani, Somayeh
name: Gholamrezaei, Shirin
name: Shahabi, Saeed
name: Doshmangir, Leila
name: Ehsanzadeh, Seyed Jafar
name: Martini, Mariano
name: Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2023
Subjects: Health policy, Hepatitis B Virus, Vaccine, Iran
: historical and ethical policies and programs

description: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a main challenge of the health system worldwide. Health policymakers in most countries attempt to help HBV patients by implementing support programs in addition to controlling HBV in their community so that the economic burden caused by HBV do not deprive the patients of accessing health services and reducing their quality of life. The purpose of this study is to review the nature of HBV, its epidemiology in Iran and worldwide, and to review the various policies and programs in Iran regarding the prevention and control of HBV, especially the use of vaccination. One of the goals of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is to consider hepatitis as a threat to human health. In this regard, one of the top priorities of WHO is the prevention and control of HBV. In connection with the prevention of HBV, it is claimed that vaccination is the most effective and best intervention. Thus, vaccination in the safe’s program of countries is highly recommended. According to the Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MOHME) reports, Iran has the lowest prevalence of HBV among the countries in Eastern Mediterranean Region Organization (EMRO). There is a hepatitis unit in MOHME whose responsibility is to coordinate and implement the hepatitis prevention and control programs. The HBV vaccine has been officially included in the vaccination program for children in Iran since 1993, and three doses of the vaccine are given to all infants. In 2007, during a large-scale program in Iran, 17-year-olds received the HBV vaccine, followed by adolescents born in 1990 and 1991. In recent years, the health system in Iran has made significant progress in preventing and controlling HBV. Over 95% coverage of the HBV vaccination is one of the achievements that have had a great impact on reducing the trend of HBV infection. In order to achieve the 2030 goals, the Iranian government, in addition to paying more attention to HBV elimination programs, should encourage other organizations to cooperate more effectively with MOHME.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 63 No. 4 (2022): Vol. 63 No. 4 (2022)
Probing New Physics of Cubic Higgs Interaction via Higgs Pair Production at Hadron Colliders
Creators: name: He, Hong-Jian
name: Ren, Jing
name: Yao, Weiming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Despite the discovery of a Higgs boson h(125GeV) at the LHC Run-1, its self-interaction has fully evaded direct experimental probe so far. Such self-interaction is vital for electroweak symmetry breaking, vacuum stability and electroweak phase transition, and Higgs inflation. It is a most likely place to encode new physics beyond the standard model. We parametrize such new physics by model-independent dimension-6 effective operators, and study their tests via Higgs pair production at hadron colliders. We analyze three major di-Higgs production channels at parton level, and compare the parameter-dependence of total cross sections and kinematic distributions at the LHC(14TeV) and pp(100TeV) hadron collider. We further perform full simulations for the di-Higgs production channel $gg\to hh \to b\bar{b}γγ$ and its backgrounds at the pp(100TeV) hadron collider. We construct four kinds of benchmark points, and study the sensitivities to probing different regions of the parameter space of cubic Higgs interactions. We find that for one-parameter analysis and with a 3/ab (30/ab) integrated luminosity, the $gg\to hh \to b\bar{b}γγ$ channel can measure the SM cubic Higgs coupling and the derivative cubic Higgs coupling to an accuracy of about 13% (4.2%) and 5% (1.6%), respectively.
description: 35pp (13 Figs, 2 Tables), PRD Journal Version, all results unchanged, only minor refinements, references added
title: Industriearchitektur zwischen 1933 und 1945
title: Untersuchungen zum östlichen Ruhrgebiet
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schulte, Sabine Kristin
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Industriearchitektur
subject: Nationalsozialismus
subject: Ruhrgebiet
subject: 720
subject: Industriebau
subject: Architektur
subject: Ruhrgebiet

description: Die Autorin untersucht die stilistische Gestaltung der Industriearchitektur im östlichen Ruhrgebiet zwischen 1933 und 1945. Einleitend werden Stil- und Funktionsgeschichte des Industriebaus vor 1933 und dessen gesellschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen während des Nationalsozialismus aufgezeigt. Im Hauptteil werden Bauten aus den Bereichen Zechenarchitektur, metallverarbeitende Industrie, Hydrier- und Kraftwerke dargestellt und diskutiert. Anschließend wird die architektonische Einflussnahme der Auftraggeber exemplarisch untersucht. Abschließend werden die vorgestellten Gebäude fünf stilistischen Gruppen zugeordnet und so die große gestalterische Bandbreite der Industriearchitektur im Nationalsozialismus aufgezeigt.
Techno-economic assessment of the dimethyl ether synthesis via CO2 hydrogenation: conventional vs membrane assisted process
Creators: name: POTO, S.
name: Vink, T.
name: Gallucci, F.
name: Neira D'Angelo M., F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Netherlands Process Symposium (NPS-17) - Delft University of Technology - 04-05/04/2022 - poster
Predicting Role of Illness Perception on Treatment Self-Regulation among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
Creators: name: Abdollahi, Fariba
name: Bikdeli, Hamed
name: Moghaddam Zeabadi, Sakineh
name: Rezai Sepasi, Rana
name: Kalhor, Roghaye
name: Motalebi, Seyedeh Ameneh
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2023
Subjects: treatment self-regulation, illness perception, chronic disease, type 2 diabetes
Predicting Role of Illness Perception on Treatment Self-Regulation among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

description: Background and Objective: Impaired self-regulation negatively impacts self-efficacy, self-management, blood sugar control, and quality of life of patients with diabetes. Therefore, identifying the predictors for self-regulation is a necessity for healthcare providers. The current study aimed to determine the predictive role of illness perception on treatment self-regulation in patients with type 2 diabetes. Methods: The current study is a descriptive cross-sectional study. A total of 200 patients with type 2 diabetes who were referred to medical centers affiliated with Qazvin University of Medical Sciences in 2019-2020 were enrolled through a convenience sampling method. The brief Illness Perception Questionnaire and the Treatment Self-Regulation Questionnaire were used for data collection. Collected data were analyzed by SPSS v21 using a multivariable regression model. Results: Mean and standard deviation scores of self-regulation and illness perception were 69.11±17.61 and 36.21±7.05, respectively. Results of the multivariate regression model showed that self-regulation was significantly correlated with illness perception, age, cardiovascular complications, diabetic retinopathy, and diabetic foot ulcers. Conclusions: In this study, the level of self-regulation was at a moderate level. The results also showed that illness perception could be a predictor of improving patients’ self-regulation. Therefore, providing infrastructure programs such as continuous education and appropriate care programs for diabetic patients to improve their illness perception can effectively improve their self-regulation behaviors.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 63 No. 4 (2022): Vol. 63 No. 4 (2022)
(102659) Unknown Symonds
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 Italian version of the SexContraKnow instrument
Creators: name: Rossi, Valentina
name: Napolitano, Francesca
name: Hayter, Mark
name: Watson, Roger
name: Calzolari, Michela
name: Aleo, Giuseppe
name: Catania, Gianluca
name: Sasso, Loredana
name: Zanini, Milko
name: Bagnasco, Annamaria
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2023
Subjects: validation study
contraception
sex education
adolescent
health literacy
Health promotion
Health Literacy
Public Health

description: Introduction: A large proportion of all pregnancies worldwide occur in young adolescent women, and almost all these pregnancies are unintentional. To address effective educational interventions, it is necessary to assess adolescents’ knowledge on this topic. The aim of this study was to translate and validate the Italian version of the SexContraKnowinstrument. Methods: This was a methodological study. The validation of the instrument was performed following the EORTC Quality of Life Group translation procedure. The process consisted of four phases: translation, content validation, face validation, and pilot test. Data were collected between May and September 2021. Results: After performing forward and backward translations, we evaluated content validity (Scale-Content Validity Index=0.91) and face validity. We then conducted a pilot test, test re-test, with 10 students (Cronbach α=0.928; Pearson’s R=0.991). Conclusion: The Italian Version of the SexContraKnow instrument has a good level of validation and reliability and can be effectively used by nurses to assess adolescents’ knowledge about the use of contraceptives and to develop targeted educational interventions. This instrument will help to evaluate the effectiveness of education programmes about health literacy about safe sex and contraception. The attention of nurses should be actively directed towards the process of health literacy among adolescents, in the perspective of a society focused on the empowerment of the population.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 63 No. 4 (2022): Vol. 63 No. 4 (2022)
Smear grading at initial treatment association with treatment outcomes among new smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients: A retrospective study
Creators: name: Mohammadbeigi, Abolfazl
name: Hosseinali-Pour, Seyed Abbas
name: Aligol, Mohammad
name: Mohammadi, Mahdi
name: Soleymani-Monfared, Marjan
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2023
Subjects: DOTS, Mycobacterium Sputum Smear, Treatment failure, tuberculosis, Smear grading
Public Health
infectious disease
Tuberculosis
DOTS

description: Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most challenging diseases in diagnosis, treatment and control. We aimed to assess the association of the initial grading of Mycobacterium Sputum Smear (MSS) on the outcomes of TB treatment. Materials and Methods: In a historical study, data of 418 positive pulmonary smear patients were retrieved from the TB registration system in Iran during 2014 to 2020. Patients’ data included demographic, laboratory and clinical information and were recorded in our checklist. The grading of Mycobacterium Sputum Smear (MSS) at the initial treatment was assessed based on WHO guidelines. Chi-square test was used to assess the relationship between tuberculosis treatment outcomes and mycobacterium grade at initial treatment in SPSS. Results: The mean age of cases was 51.19±22.29 years old and varied between 14 and 95 years. Laboratory results showed that the rate of 1-9, 1+,2+ and 3+ mycobacterium tuberculosis was 17.7%, 44.3%, 19.4% and 18.7%, respectively. The rate of cure, death and treatment failure in our patients was 87.1%, 6.9%, and 1.2%, respectively. The highest mortality rate (11.5%) occurred in patients with 3+ and the lower rate of cure was 79.5% in this group. Moreover, by increasing the mycobacterium grade the rate of transferred out and lost to follow up from treatment increased (p=0.024). Conclusion: Death, treatment failure, lost to follow up and transferred out is more common in patients who have higher MSS. Therefore, improvement the health system and patient-diagnosis and screening programs is necessary to on-time diagnosis and facilitate the treatment process.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 63 No. 4 (2022): Vol. 63 No. 4 (2022)
(102660) Unknown Symonds
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.
Dancing in the digitalization: a case study on the sociomaterial platformization of creative organizations
Creators: name: Razzoli, Damiano
name: Scapolan, Anna Chiara
Publisher: name: Department of Economics and Business Studies, University of Genoa
Year: 2022
Subjects: Organization

description: Over the last years, basically due to the Covid pandemic and the related acceleration of digitalization of creative processes, cultural organizations have moved to digital platforms from their traditional physical premises. This shift has modified not only the fruition of cultural services by audiences, but also the production of creative content and the organization of artistic work. To explore these issues in an empirical setting, we adopt the theoretical framework of sociomateriality and carry out a qualitative case study on the screendance “1 Meter CLOSER”, performed during the 2020 lockdown by the Italian contemporary dance company, Fondazione Nazionale della Danza Aterballetto. Our findings reveal sociomaterial relationships between three aggregated dimensions (i.e., means of production, practice sites, organizational culture), suggesting that the platformization of performances gave performing arts organizations the opportunity to renew reciprocal adaptation between humans, sites/sights of production and digital means, also contributing to revitalize organizational purpose and identity.
The Associations of Perceived and Objective Injury Severity with Mental Health Symptoms in Division I Collegiate Athletes
Creators: name: Corona, Madison
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Objectives: To examine acute changes of mental health symptoms after injury. As well as to explore potential associations between perceived injury severity and objective injury severity with mental health symptoms of depression, anxiety, subjective well-being, and satisfaction with life throughout a competitive season. Participants: 70 division I collegiate athletes with an average age of 19.56 +/-1.29 years. 37 males, and 33 females, 81% of the participants identified themselves as “white”. Methods: Depression, anxiety, subjective well-being, and satisfaction with life symptoms were measured at two time points (baseline and within 72 hours after injury) with the PHQ-9, GAD-7, MHC-SF, and PROMIS General Life Satisfaction-SF questionnaires. Perceived injury severity evaluated at time of injury. Objective injury severity collected through time loss (days) via electronic medical records. Results: Athletes on average increased in subjective well- being, life satisfaction, anxiety, and depression symptoms after injury. Significant gender differences were found between males and females on changes in anxiety and depressive symptoms (t9=2.32, p<0.05 and t9=2.76, p<0.05). Perceived injury severity did not predict symptoms changes. Conclusion: Males increased in anxiety and depression symptoms more than females following injury.
The Hardy inequality and the heat flow in curved wedges
Creators: name: Krejcirik, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the polynomial decay rate of the heat semigroup of the Dirichlet Laplacian in curved planar wedges equals the sum of the usual dimensional decay rate and a multiple of the reciprocal value of the opening angle. To prove the result, we develop the method of self-similar variables for the associated heat equation and study the asymptotic behaviour of the transformed non-autonomous parabolic problem for large times. We also establish an improved Hardy inequality for the Dirichlet Laplacian in non-trivially curved wedges and state a conjecture about an improved decay rate in this case.
description: version accepted for publication in Portugaliae Mathematica; introduction rearranged, Proposition 3 corrected, figures updated, new references
On growth-optimal tax rates and the issue of wealth inequalities
Creators: name: Bouchaud, Jean-Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a highly stylized, yet non trivial model of the economy, with a public and private sector coupled through a wealth tax and a redistribution policy. The model can be fully solved analytically, and allows one to address the question of optimal taxation and of wealth inequalities. We find that according to the assumption made on the relative performance of public and private sectors, three situations are possible. Not surprisingly, the optimal wealth tax rate is either 0% for a deeply dysfunctional government and/or highly productive private sector, or 100 % for a highly efficient public sector and/or debilitated/risk averse private investors. If the gap between the public/private performance is moderate, there is an optimal positive wealth tax rate maximizing economic growth, even -- counter-intuitively -- when the private sector generates more growth. The compromise between profitable private investments and taxation however leads to a residual level of inequalities. The mechanism leading to an optimal growth rate is related the well-known explore/exploit trade-off.
description: 9 pages, 1 figure
(102655) Frederic Herbert Bontemps Claudet
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.
(102658) Walter Scadding
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.
Upaya Pelestarian Ekosistem Pesisir oleh Mahasiswa KUKERTA MBKM  dengan Mengadakan Pembibitan dan Penanaman 1000 Mangrove di Desa Buruk Bakul
Creators: name: Eko Prianto, Muhammad Akmal, Intan Purnama Sari, Yuni Sukma Dewi, Eka Pranata, Najiyya Sahilda Lubis, Tiara Utami, Elfahra Dyta Putri Desvind, Ratih Okta Saputri, Wahyu Ikma Ramadhani, Icha Regina Situmorang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Mangroves are tropical trees that thrive in conditions intolerable to most woody species: saline, coastal waters subjected to relentless tidal fluctuations. Due to their significant carbon sequestration capacity, mangroves serve as a crucial weapon in the battle against climate change, yet they face global threats. By protecting mangrove forests, we can contribute to safeguarding our planet's future.The mangrove forest in Buruk Bakul village exemplifies a well-preserved mangrove ecosystem in Indonesia. Situated along the coast, this forest acts as a natural barrier, protecting the village from coastal erosion and saltwater intrusion. In 2024, the MBKM  Community Service Program (Kuliah Kerja Nyata) at the University of Riau implemented a project to cultivate and plant 1,000 mangrove trees in Buruk Bakul Village. This initiative aims to restore the mangrove ecosystem, enhance community awareness about environmental conservation, and provide students with practical experience in environmental conservation efforts.Therefore, a collaborative approach involving government agencies, local communities, and various stakeholders is essential to sustainably preserve and manage the mangrove forest in Buruk Bakul village.
Transient electromagnetic sources can detect solitary black holes in Milky Way galaxy
Creators: name: Jana, Susmita
name: Goswami, Rituparno
name: Shankaranarayanan, S.
name: Maharaj, Sunil D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Milky Way galaxy is estimated to host up to a billion stellar-mass solitary black holes (BHs). The number and distribution of BH masses can provide crucial information about the processes involved in BH formation, the existence of primordial BHs, and the interpretation of gravitational wave (GW) signals detected in LIGO-VIRGO-KAGRA. {Sahu et al. recently confirmed one solitary stellar-mass BH in our galaxy using astrometric microlensing}. This work proposes a novel mechanism to identify such BH by analyzing the frequency and damping of the quasi-normal modes of GW generated from the interaction of the BH and EM wave originating from a transient electromagnetic (TEM) source. The incoming EM waves distort the curvature of a BH, releasing GWs as it returns to a steady state. Using the covariant semi-tetrad formalism, we quantify the generated GWs via the \emph{Regge-Wheeler tensor} and relate the GW amplitude to the energy of the TEM. We demonstrate that isolated BHs at a distance of 50 pc from Earth can be detected by LIGO A+ and 100 pc by Cosmic Explorer/Einstein Telescope. Additionally, we discuss the observational implications for orphan afterglows associated with GRBs, highlighting the potential for further discoveries.
description: V2: Version accepted in MNRAS Letters. The discussions expanded to more generic transient EM sources and implications for LIGO A+, Cosmic Explorer, and Einstein Telescope
On the non-triviality of the $p$-adic Abel-Jacobi image of generalised Heegner cycles modulo $p$, II: Shimura curves
Creators: name: Burungale, Ashay A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Generalised Heegner cycles are associated to a pair of an elliptic newform and a Hecke character over an imaginary quadratic extension $K/\Q$. The cycles live in a middle dimensional Chow group of a Kuga-Sato variety arising from an indefinite Shimura curve over the rationals and a self product of a CM abelian surface. Let $p$ be an odd prime split in $K/\Q$. We prove the non-triviality of the $p$-adic Abel-Jacobi image of generalised Heegner cycles modulo $p$ over the $\Z_p$-anticylotomic extension of $K$. The result implies the non-triviality of the generalised Heegner cycles in the top graded piece of the coniveau filtration on the Chow group and proves a higher weight analogue of Mazur's conjecture. In the case of two, the result provides a refinement of the results of Cornut-Vatsal and Aflalo-Nekovář on the non-triviality of Heegner points over the $\Z_p$-anticylotomic extension of $K$.
description: 35 pages, to appear in J. Institut Math. Jussieu
(102649) Patsy Clare [Stephens]
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.
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRACTICE TIME AND SLEEP IN COLLEGIATE ATHLETES
Creators: name: Lovgren, Alexandra
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Objective: To analyze differences in sleep quality and quantity between collegiate athletes routinely practicing at different times of the day. Participants: 24 male collegiate athletes from the Men’s Lacrosse, Baseball, and Men’s JV Basketball teams. Methods: Participants were divided into morning, midday, and evening cohorts based on their respective team practice times. Sleep quantity and quality were measured daily via online questionnaire (Qualtrics) for 27 days of pre-season practices. Participants reported bedtime, wake time, and ranked sleep quality. Weekly sleep quality was measured via PROMIS sleep disturbance short form via online questionnaire (4 measurements total). Results: There were no significant differences in practice time and reported sleep quantity (F (2,21) = 1.045, p = .369) and sleep quality (F (2,21) = 0.534, p = .594). Conclusion: Based on results of this study, there appears to be no association between practice time and sleep quantity and quality. Further research is recommended.
Kinetic modelling of the methanol synthesis from CO2 and H2 over a CuO/CeO2/ZrO2 catalyst: the role of CO2 and CO hydrogenation
Creators: name: POTO, S.
name: Vico Van Berkel, D.
name: Gallucci, F.
name: Neira D'Angelo M., F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: North American Catalysis Society Meeting (NAM 27) 22-27/05/2022 - New York (USA) - poster