cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Economic development strategies to promote quality childcare
Creators: name: Warner, Mildred
name: Adriance, Shira
name: Barai, Nikita
name: Hallas, Jenna
name: Markeson, Bjorn
name: Morrissey, Taryn
name: Soref, Wendy
Publisher: name: Cornell University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: Across the country as state and local teams have conducted economic analyses of the child care sector, they have faced the challenge of how to take the next step and build linkages between economic development and child care policy. The intent of this document it two fold: 1) to educate the child care community in the core concepts of economic development, and 2) to assist the economic development community to see the connections between their work and the child care sector. To this end the document is split into two distinct sections. STRATEGY GUIDE The main text of the document allows the child care community to understand the intent, process and language of economic developers and economic development planning. It describes the basic principles of economic development and the process of economic development planning. It then makes the connection between child care and economic development. TOOLBOX The second part of this report is a toolbox that goes into more detail regarding the specific tools of economic development and examples of how these tools have been applied to child care. It is designed so that readers can easily identify alternative strategies most applicable to their communities. Short descriptions are provided of specific interventions communities have tried to strengthen the child care sector using economic development strategies. This document is one of a series of extension reports created by the Cornell Linking Economic Development and Child Care project.
Additional file 2 of Effects and safety of the combination of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) and hyaluronic acid (HA) in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Zhao, Jinlong
name: Huang, Hetao
name: Liang, Guihong
name: Zeng, Ling-Feng
name: Yang, Weiyi
name: Liu, Jun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2.
Additional file 1 of Caco-2 Cells for Measuring Intestinal Cholesterol Transport - Possibilities and Limitations
Creators: name: Hiebl, Verena
name: Schachner, Daniel
name: Ladurner, Angela
name: Heiss, Elke H.
name: Stangl, Herbert
name: Dirsch, Verena M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Equipment used and respective manufacturer. Supplementary Table 2. Software used for data acquisition and analysis. Supplementary Protocol #1. Thawing and maintenance of Caco-2 cells. Supplementary Protocol #2. Freezing of Caco-2 cells. Supplementary Protocol #3. Quality control steps during differentiation and experiments with Caco-2 cells - TEER measurement. Supplementary Protocol #4. Paracellular permeability of Dextran Blue and [14C]-mannitol. Supplementary Protocol #5. Determination of protein level of major cholesterol transporters - Western Blotting for ABCA1. Supplementary Protocol #6. Determination of mRNA level of major cholesterol transporters - qRT-PCR for ABCA1, ABCG5, NPC1L1 and ABCB1.
Upper Critical Field of the 3 Kelvin Phase in Sr2RuO4
Creators: name: Matsumoto, Masashige
name: Belardinelli, Cyril
name: Sigrist, Manfred
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The inhomogeneous 3 Kelvin phase is most likely a superconducting state nucleating at the interface between micrometer-sized Ru-metal inclusions and Sr2RuO4 above the bulk onset of superconductivity. This filamentary superconducting state yields a characteristic temperature dependence of the upper critical field which is sublinear, i.e., H_{c2} (T) \propto (T^* - T)^γ with 0.5 \leq γ< 1 (T^*: nucleation temperature). The Ginzburg-Landau theory is used to analyze the behavior of the nucleated spin-triplet phase in a field and the characteristic features of H_{c2} observed in the experiment are explained based on a two-component order parameter in the presence of a filament of enhanced superconductivity with a finite width.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Employer-supported child care : who participates?
Creators: name: Morrissey, Taryn
name: Warner, Mildred E.
Publisher: name: Cornell University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: Child care vouchers are becoming more common and can provide child care assistance to a wide spectrum of the population. There is little empirical research, however, on which workers participate in their employer-supported program. In this exploratory study, employees with children at one large university completed questionnaires to gather information on their child care arrangements and their experience with the employer’s child care voucher program (N = 949). Results indicate that the employees who were most in need of child care assistance in terms of family structure, job type, and child care expenses were more likely to receive vouchers. Federal policy limiting the structure of employer-sponsored voucher programs appeared to present barriers to participation for certain groups of employees.
America's Changing Appetite: Food Consumption and Spending to 2020
Creators: name: Blisard, Noel
name: Lin, Biing-Hwan
name: Cromartie, John
name: Ballenger, Nicole
name: Blisard, Noel
name: Lin, Biing-Hwan
name: Cromartie, John
name: Ballenger, Nicole
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: America's appetite, like its population, is always changing. Foods once favored are now rarely eaten. Foods once only dreamed about are a reality. Dining out, once thought to be a luxury, is now common. The Nation's population is wealthier, older, more educated, and more ethnically diverse than in the past. And these demographic changes are likely to become more pronounced in the next 20 years. Consumers will continue to demand new food products, new packaging, more convenience, new delivery systems, and safer and more nutritious foods. Consequently, USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS) has undertaken an extensive effort to project how population growth, an aging population, ethnic diversity, other demographic trends, and income growth will affect future food choices and how the food system will respond to such changes. By 2020, the U.S. population will add between 50 and 80 million people-all becoming part of the food system. Based on an increase of 50 million food customers, U.S. food expenditures are projected to rise 26 percent between 2000 and 2020. With food spending already approaching $800 billion in 2001, the projected increase will boost food sales of supermarkets, restaurants, fast food outlets, and other retail food establishments by $208 billion. Increased food spending driven by population growth is just one way consumers will shape the future of the U.S. food system. Our research is also designed to understand how shifts in the demographic profile of the projected U.S. population in 2020 will affect what people will eat and how much they will spend, where people will eat, and what product characteristics will command the consumer's food dollar. These future food choices will have implications for the organizational structure of the food industry and for the economic wellbeing of farmers, food processors, retailers, and other participants in the food production and marketing system- our concept of "consumerdriven agriculture."
Employer-supported child care : who participates?
Creators: name: Morrissey, Taryn
name: Warner, Mildred E.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Child care vouchers are becoming more common and can provide child care assistance to a wide spectrum of the population. There is little empirical research, however, on which workers participate in their employer-supported program. In this exploratory study, employees with children at one large university completed questionnaires to gather information on their child care arrangements and their experience with the employer’s child care voucher program (N = 949). Results indicate that the employees who were most in need of child care assistance in terms of family structure, job type, and child care expenses were more likely to receive vouchers. Federal policy limiting the structure of employer-sponsored voucher programs appeared to present barriers to participation for certain groups of employees.
Prokaryotic Community Determination of Metal-Rich Acidic Environment by Comparative Methods
Creators: name: Yaman, Belma Nural
name: Mutlu, Mehmet Burcin
name: Pınar Aytar Çelik
name: Çabuk, Ahmet
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Hematology

description: Acid mine drainage (AMD) is a wastewater caused by mining activities and sulfide minerals oxidation. It occurs generally as a result of the relation of water, oxygen and microorganisms. In this study, the pH and the temperature of samples were determined around 2 and 20 °C, respectively. The chemical analysis was made by - ICP-MS. Sulfur concentration was found in higher amounts to be 21,892 ppm, 6155 ppm, 7893 ppm, and 31,305 ppm and the amounts of iron were also high with concentrations ranging from 14,318 ppm, 2181 ppm, 2715 ppm, and 13,801 ppm in samples including K2, K3, K4, and K5, respectively. Prokaryotic community fingerprints were obtained by DGGE and 16S rRNA gene clone library. High-throughput sequencing of 16S rRNA gene fragments and qPCR were performed by environmental DNAs. FISH was carried out by interacting probes. The extremely acidic four mine ponds contained high concentrations of sulfate and iron. Archaeal genera Acidiplasma sp. and Ferroplasma sp. with high abundance were determined in sulfate-rich sampling area according to metagenomic approach. Acidithiobacillus, Leptospirillum and Acidiphilium were often found in acid mine ponds. Otherwise, Sulfobacillus sp., Ferrithrix sp., Ferrimicrobium sp., Acidimicrobium sp., and Aciditerrimonas sp. were also obtained at the end of analyses. As a consequence, 16S clone library, metagenomic approach, qPCR and DGGE analysis were combined collaboratively, complementarily and comparatively for acidophilic prokaryotic diversity.
Family child care in the United States
Creators: name: Morrissey, Taryn
name: Banghart, Patti
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Nearly one-quarter of all children are in family child care at some point before beginning elementary school. Furthermore, the majority of young children with working mothers are cared for in private homes. These children spend an average of 31 hours per week in family child care ( Johnson, 2005), which can include nights and weekends (Davis & Connelly, 2005). Family child care providers also make up a sizeable portion of small business owners in the United States. Nationally, there are a total of 213,966 licensed family child care homes, which breaks down to 166,514 small family child care homes (serving up to 6 children) and 47,452 large licensed family child care homes (serving 7-12 children) (National Association for Regulatory Administration and the National Child Care Information Center, 2006). Given the prevalence of this type of care and its potential effect on children’s development, a growing body of research has sought to better understand the characteristics of family child care and how children fare in this type of care. This understanding is essential for designing
Additional file 1 of Effects and safety of the combination of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) and hyaluronic acid (HA) in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Zhao, Jinlong
name: Huang, Hetao
name: Liang, Guihong
name: Zeng, Ling-Feng
name: Yang, Weiyi
name: Liu, Jun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Estimate of the charming penguin contributions to B -> pi pi
Creators: name: Melic, Blazenka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the problem of factorization in B decays and illustrate the calculation of nonfactorizable contributions employing the QCD light-cone sum rule method. We present a more detailed calculation of the ``charming penguin'' contributions as a potential source of the substantial nonfactorizable O(1/m_b) effects in the B -> pi pi decay. Although the predicted corrections are not sizable, by calculating the CP asymmetry we illustrate how such corrections can accumulate to a visible effect. In conclusion, nonfactorizable contributions in nonleptonic B decays into charmonium are briefly discussed.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures included, svjour.cls. Based on the invited talks at Flavor Physics and CP Violation (FPCP 2003), Paris, France, 3-6 Jun 2003 and at International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics EPS in Aachen, Germany, 17 - 23.07.2003, to appear in proceedings
Family child care in the United States
Creators: name: Morrissey, Taryn
name: Banghart, Patti
Publisher: name: National Center for Children in Poverty; Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Child Care Bureau; OPRE; Research Connections
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: Nearly one-quarter of all children are in family child care at some point before beginning elementary school. Furthermore, the majority of young children with working mothers are cared for in private homes. These children spend an average of 31 hours per week in family child care ( Johnson, 2005), which can include nights and weekends (Davis & Connelly, 2005). Family child care providers also make up a sizeable portion of small business owners in the United States. Nationally, there are a total of 213,966 licensed family child care homes, which breaks down to 166,514 small family child care homes (serving up to 6 children) and 47,452 large licensed family child care homes (serving 7-12 children) (National Association for Regulatory Administration and the National Child Care Information Center, 2006). Given the prevalence of this type of care and its potential effect on children’s development, a growing body of research has sought to better understand the characteristics of family child care and how children fare in this type of care. This understanding is essential for designing
Da reflexão à ação: "Ethics for Open Science"
Creators: name: Coelho, Patrícia
name: Teixeira, Susana Alexandra
name: França, Ana Paula
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Apresentação realizada na sessão “O meu Póster em 1 minuto”, da 15ª Conferência Lusófona de Ciência Aberta, na Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto (ESEP), de 01 a 04 de outubro de 2024.
Radiation from the impact of broad-line region clouds onto AGN accretion disks
Creators: name: Müller, Ana Laura
name: Romero, Gustavo E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes surrounded by an accretion disk, two populations of clouds, bipolar jets, and a dusty torus. The clouds move in Keplerian orbits at high velocities. In particular, the broad-line region (BLR) clouds have velocities ranging from $1000$ to $10000$ km s$^{-1}$. Given the extreme proximity of these clouds to the supermassive black hole, frequent collisions with the accretion disk should occur. The impact of BLR clouds onto the accretion disk can produce strong shock waves where particles might be accelerated. The goal of this work is to investigate the production of relativistic particles, and the associated non-thermal radiation in these events. In particular, we apply the model we develop to the Seyfert galaxy NGC 1068. We analyze the efficiency of diffusive shock acceleration in the shock of colliding clouds of the BLR with the accretion disk. We calculate the spectral energy distribution of photons generated by the relativistic particles and estimate the number of simultaneous impacts needed to explain the gamma radiation observed by the Fermi satellite in Seyfert galaxies. We find that is possible to understand the measured gamma emission in terms of the interaction of clouds with the disk if the hard X-ray emission of the source is at least obscured between $20\%$ and $40\%$. The total number of clouds contained in the BLR region might be between $3\times10^{8}$ and $6\times10^{8}$, which are values in good agreement with the observational evidence. The maximum energy achieved by the protons ($\sim$ PeV) in this context allows the production of neutrinos in the observing range of IceCube.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures, 6 tables. Accepted for publication in A&A
New Health Information Is Reshaping Food Choices
Creators: name: Variyam, Jayachandran N.
name: Golan, Elise
name: Variyam, Jayachandran N.
name: Golan, Elise
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Health Economics and Policy

description: Over the past half century, consumption patterns of many food commodities have shifted dramatically in the face of changing consumer demand. For example, until the early 1950s, eggs were a staple of the American diet, especially at the breakfast table. Since then, however, egg consumption has steadily dropped. Per capita egg consumption in the United States fell from 390 in 1950 to 233 in 1991, the lowest level ever recorded. Today, annual egg consumption stands at about 250 eggs per person. While other commodities have undergone similar drops in consumption, some have enjoyed booming demand. For example, consumption of whole milk has declined over the past 60 years, while consumption of reduced-fat milk has risen more than threefold. Similarly, the consumption of red meats (beef, veal, pork, and lamb) has declined since the late 1970s, while poultry consumption has shown a continuing upward trend, replacing red meats as the meat of choice in the late 1990s. During this same period, the use of butter and lard has declined, replaced largely by the increased use of salad and cooking oils. What accounts for such shifts in food consumption patterns? While changes in relative prices and income levels are responsible for much of the shift, there is an additional and increasingly important factor at play-the growing scientific evidence linking health to diet. Many consumers have modified their food choices in reaction to the flood of diet and health information coming out of the Nation's labora-tories and research institutions. This article examines how health information is reshaping consumer food preferences and the Nation's food and agricultural sectors.
Optimizing the vertebrate vestibular semicircular canal: could we balance any better?
Creators: name: Squires, Todd M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The fluid-filled semicircular canals (SCCs) of the vestibular system are used by all vertebrates to sense angular rotation. Despite masses spanning seven decades, all mammalian SCCs are nearly the same size. We propose that the SCC represents a sensory organ that evolution has `optimally designed'. Four geometric parameters are used to characterize the SCC, and `building materials' of given physical properties are assumed. Identifying physical and physiological constraints on SCC operation, we find that the most sensitive SCC has dimensions consistent with available data.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Changing Consumer Demands Create Opportunities for U.S. Food System
Creators: name: Davis, David E.
name: Stewart, Hayden
name: Davis, David E.
name: Stewart, Hayden
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Demand and Price Analysis

description: In response to shifts in consumer demand, different sectors of the food system are competing to identify and provide more processed and higher value-added products. The foodservice industry has benefited from Americans' desire for convenience. The retail food industry, however, is now responding to the new challenges by offering consumers a variety of processed, readyto- cook, and ready-to-eat foods.
Food assistance and children's eating patterns, food insecurity, and overweight : The influence of local food prices
Creators: name: Morrissey, Taryn
name: Jacknowitz, Alison
name: Vinopal, Katie
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3099
subject: Other agricultural, veterinary and food sciences

description: Objectives: We examine how local food prices influence children’s body mass index (BMI), overweight, food insecurity, and food consumption, and whether receipt of public food assistance moderates these associations. Methods: We linked data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), a nationally representative study of children from birth to age 5, to local food price data from the ACCRA Cost-of-Living Index (COLI) (approx. 11,700 observations). Using OLS, linear probability, and fixed effects (FE) models, we exploit the variability in food price data over time and among children who move residences. Results: Results indicate that higher-priced fruits and vegetables are associated with higher standardized measures of children’s BMI. This relationship is driven by fresh (vs. frozen or canned) fruits and vegetables. In the FE models, higher-priced soft drinks are associated with a lower likelihood of being overweight, and surprisingly, higher fast food prices are associated with a greater likelihood of being overweight. Food prices are largely unassociated with children’s food consumption. There is limited evidence that food stamp receipt mitigates the effect of food prices on adult-level food insecurity. Conclusions: Policies that reduce the costs of fresh fruits and vegetables may be effective in promoting healthy weight among young children.
Radial expansion preserves hyperbolic convexity and radial contraction preserves spherical convexity
Creators: name: Kohli, Dhruv
name: Rabin, Jeffrey M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: On a flat plane, convexity of a set is preserved by both radial expansion and contraction of the set about any point inside it. Using the Poincaré disk model of hyperbolic geometry, we prove that radial expansion of a hyperbolic convex set about a point inside it always preserves hyperbolic convexity. Using stereographic projection of a sphere, we prove that radial contraction of a spherical convex set about a point inside it, such that the initial set is contained in the closed hemisphere centred at that point, always preserves spherical convexity.
Food assistance and children's eating patterns, food insecurity, and overweight : The influence of local food prices
Creators: name: Morrissey, Taryn
name: Jacknowitz, Alison
name: Vinopal, Katie
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Objectives: We examine how local food prices influence children’s body mass index (BMI), overweight, food insecurity, and food consumption, and whether receipt of public food assistance moderates these associations. Methods: We linked data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), a nationally representative study of children from birth to age 5, to local food price data from the ACCRA Cost-of-Living Index (COLI) (approx. 11,700 observations). Using OLS, linear probability, and fixed effects (FE) models, we exploit the variability in food price data over time and among children who move residences. Results: Results indicate that higher-priced fruits and vegetables are associated with higher standardized measures of children’s BMI. This relationship is driven by fresh (vs. frozen or canned) fruits and vegetables. In the FE models, higher-priced soft drinks are associated with a lower likelihood of being overweight, and surprisingly, higher fast food prices are associated with a greater likelihood of being overweight. Food prices are largely unassociated with children’s food consumption. There is limited evidence that food stamp receipt mitigates the effect of food prices on adult-level food insecurity. Conclusions: Policies that reduce the costs of fresh fruits and vegetables may be effective in promoting healthy weight among young children.
Food assistance and children's eating patterns, food insecurity, and overweight : The influence of local food prices
Creators: name: Morrissey, Taryn
name: Jacknowitz, Alison
name: Vinopal, Katie
Publisher: name: Institute for Research on Poverty
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3099
subject: Other agricultural, veterinary and food sciences

description: Objectives: We examine how local food prices influence children’s body mass index (BMI), overweight, food insecurity, and food consumption, and whether receipt of public food assistance moderates these associations. Methods: We linked data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), a nationally representative study of children from birth to age 5, to local food price data from the ACCRA Cost-of-Living Index (COLI) (approx. 11,700 observations). Using OLS, linear probability, and fixed effects (FE) models, we exploit the variability in food price data over time and among children who move residences. Results: Results indicate that higher-priced fruits and vegetables are associated with higher standardized measures of children’s BMI. This relationship is driven by fresh (vs. frozen or canned) fruits and vegetables. In the FE models, higher-priced soft drinks are associated with a lower likelihood of being overweight, and surprisingly, higher fast food prices are associated with a greater likelihood of being overweight. Food prices are largely unassociated with children’s food consumption. There is limited evidence that food stamp receipt mitigates the effect of food prices on adult-level food insecurity. Conclusions: Policies that reduce the costs of fresh fruits and vegetables may be effective in promoting healthy weight among young children.
Using Machine Learning to Speed Up and Improve Calorimeter R&D
Creators: name: Ratnikov, Fedor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Design of new experiments, as well as upgrade of ongoing ones, is a continuous process in the experimental high energy physics. Since the best solution is a trade-off between different kinds of limitations, a quick turn over is necessary to evaluate physics performance for different techniques in different configurations. Two typical problems which slow down evaluation of physics performance for particular approaches to calorimeter detector technologies and configurations are: - Emulating particular detector properties including raw detector response together with a signal processing chain to adequately simulate a calorimeter response for different signal and background conditions. This includes combining detector properties obtained from the general Geant simulation with properties obtained from different kinds of bench and beam tests of detector and electronics prototypes. - Building an adequate reconstruction algorithm for physics reconstruction of the detector response which is reasonably tuned to extract the most of the performance provided by the given detector configuration. Being approached from the first principles, both problems require significant development efforts. Fortunately, both problems may be addressed by using modern machine learning approaches, that allow a combination of available details of the detector techniques into corresponding higher level physics performance in a semi-automated way. In this paper, we discuss the use of advanced machine learning techniques to speed up and improve the precision of the detector development and optimisation cycle, with an emphasis on the experience and practical results obtained by applying this approach to epitomising the electromagnetic calorimeter design as a part of the upgrade project for the LHCb detector at LHC.
description: "Calorimetry for High Energy Frontier" conference 2019' Fukuoka, Japan
Pair approximation for the noisy threshold $q$-voter model
Creators: name: Vieira, A. R.
name: Peralta, Antonio F.
name: Toral, Raul
name: Miguel, Maxi San
name: Anteneodo, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the standard $q$-voter model, a given agent can change its opinion only if there is a full consensus of the opposite opinion within a group of influence of size $q$. A more realistic extension is the threshold $q$-voter, where a minimal agreement (at least $0
description: 13 pages, 12 figures
Local food prices and their associations with children's weight and food security
Creators: name: Morrissey, Taryn
name: Jacknowitz, Alison
name: Vinopal, Katie
Publisher: name: American Academy of Pediatrics
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3099
subject: Other agricultural, veterinary and food sciences

description: OBJECTIVES: Both obesity and food insecurity are important public health problems facing young children in the United States. A lack of affordable, healthy foods is one of the neighborhood factors presumed to underlie both food insecurity and obesity among children. We examine associations between local food prices and children’s BMI, weight, and food security outcomes. METHODS: We linked data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study- Birth Cohort, a nationally representative study of children from infancy to age 5, to local food price data from the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER) Cost-of-Living Index (n = 11 700 observations). Using ordinary least squares (OLS), linear probability, and within-child fixed effects (FE) models, we exploit the variability in food price data over time and among children who move residences focusing on a subsample of households under 300% of the Federal Poverty Level. RESULTS: Results from ordinary least squares and FE models indicate that higher-priced fruits and vegetables are associated with higher child BMI, and this relationship is driven by the prices of fresh (versus frozen or canned) fruits and vegetables. In the FE models, higher-priced soft drinks are associated with a lower likelihood of being overweight, and surprisingly, higher fast food prices are associated with a greater likelihood of being overweight. CONCLUSIONS: Policies that reduce the costs of fresh fruits and vegetables may be effective in promoting healthy weight outcomes among young children. Pediatrics 2014;133:422–430
Nonparametric estimation of mean-squared prediction error in nested-error regression models
Creators: name: Hall, Peter
name: Maiti, Tapabrata
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62F12, 62J99 (Primary)

description: Nested-error regression models are widely used for analyzing clustered data. For example, they are often applied to two-stage sample surveys, and in biology and econometrics. Prediction is usually the main goal of such analyses, and mean-squared prediction error is the main way in which prediction performance is measured. In this paper we suggest a new approach to estimating mean-squared prediction error. We introduce a matched-moment, double-bootstrap algorithm, enabling the notorious underestimation of the naive mean-squared error estimator to be substantially reduced. Our approach does not require specific assumptions about the distributions of errors. Additionally, it is simple and easy to apply. This is achieved through using Monte Carlo simulation to implicitly develop formulae which, in a more conventional approach, would be derived laboriously by mathematical arguments.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053606000000579 in the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Local food prices and their associations with children's weight and food security
Creators: name: Morrissey, Taryn
name: Jacknowitz, Alison
name: Vinopal, Katie
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: OBJECTIVES: Both obesity and food insecurity are important public health problems facing young children in the United States. A lack of affordable, healthy foods is one of the neighborhood factors presumed to underlie both food insecurity and obesity among children. We examine associations between local food prices and children’s BMI, weight, and food security outcomes. METHODS: We linked data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study- Birth Cohort, a nationally representative study of children from infancy to age 5, to local food price data from the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER) Cost-of-Living Index (n = 11 700 observations). Using ordinary least squares (OLS), linear probability, and within-child fixed effects (FE) models, we exploit the variability in food price data over time and among children who move residences focusing on a subsample of households under 300% of the Federal Poverty Level. RESULTS: Results from ordinary least squares and FE models indicate that higher-priced fruits and vegetables are associated with higher child BMI, and this relationship is driven by the prices of fresh (versus frozen or canned) fruits and vegetables. In the FE models, higher-priced soft drinks are associated with a lower likelihood of being overweight, and surprisingly, higher fast food prices are associated with a greater likelihood of being overweight. CONCLUSIONS: Policies that reduce the costs of fresh fruits and vegetables may be effective in promoting healthy weight outcomes among young children. Pediatrics 2014;133:422–430
title: The Impact of Combating Bribery and Corruption Report Assurance on Financial Analysts' Decisions
Creators: name: Quick, Reiner
name: Yalçin, Neriman
Publisher: name: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2025

description: There is an increasing pressure on companies to provide nonfinancial information. An important element of related nonfinancial reports is information on combating bribery and corruption. This study examines the impact of voluntary assurance on such reports on financial analyst perceptions and decisions. Moreover, it investigates whether the type of assurance provider (financial statement auditor vs. another audit firm) and the assurance level (limited vs. reasonable assurance) exert an influence. For this purpose, we conducted an experiment with a 2 × 2 + 1 between‐subject design and financial analysts from Turkey as participants. The extent of financial analyst reliance on the combating bribery and corruption report of a fictitious company, their likelihood to recommend the purchase of shares of the fictitious company, their related credit risk assessment and the likelihood that they purchase shares in the fictitious company served as dependent variables. The analyses are based on 116 responses after the elimination of manipulation check failures. Our findings indicate that assurance on combating bribery and corruption reports results in perceptions and decisions which are more favourable to the fictitious company. Moreover, they do not indicate a significant impact of the type of assurance provider. However, our participants' perceptions are more positive in the case of reasonable assurance.
Phenomenological Constraints on Extra-Dimensional Scalars
Creators: name: Azuelos, G.
name: Beauchemin, P. -H.
name: Burgess, C. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine whether the ATLAS detector has sensitivity to extra-dimensional scalars (as opposed to components of higher-dimensional tensors which look like 4D scalars), in scenarios having the extra-dimensional Planck scale in the TeV range and $n \ge 2$ nonwarped extra dimensions. Such scalars appear as partners of the graviton in virtually all higher-dimensional supersymmetric theories. Using the scalar's lowest-dimensional effective couplings to quarks and gluons, we compute the rate for the production of a hard jet together with missing energy. We find a nontrivial range of graviscalar couplings to which ATLAS could be sensitive, with experiments being more sensitive to couplings to gluons than to quarks. Graviscalar emission increases the missing-energy signal by adding to graviton production, and so complicates the inference of the extra-dimensional Planck scale from an observed rate. Because graviscalar differential cross sections resemble those for gravitons, it is unlikely that these can be experimentally distinguished from one another should a missing energy signal be observed.
Maternal employment, work schedules, and children's body mass index
Creators: name: Morrissey, Taryn
name: Dunifon, Rachel E.
name: Kalil, Ariel
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Previous work has shown that mothers’ employment is associated with increases in children’s body mass index (BMI), a measure of weight-for-height. Nonstandard work (working evenings/nights, weekends, or an irregular shift) may also be associated with children’s BMI. In this paper we examine the association between maternal work and children’s BMI, and also consider the influence of mothers’ nonstandard work schedules. Using data from school-age children in the NICHD’s Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (N = 990), we found that an increase in the total time a mother is employed is associated with an increase in her child’s BMI; additionally, we find that the association between maternal employment and children’s weight is much stronger at 6th grade relative to younger ages. There was no evidence that maternal or home characteristics or children’s time use mediated these associations, nor was there any evidence that nonstandard work was associated with children’s BMI. Implications for policy and future research are discussed.
Maternal employment, work schedules, and children's body mass index
Creators: name: Morrissey, Taryn
name: Dunifon, Rachel E.
name: Kalil, Ariel
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Previous work has shown that mothers’ employment is associated with increases in children’s body mass index (BMI), a measure of weight-for-height. Nonstandard work (working evenings/nights, weekends, or an irregular shift) may also be associated with children’s BMI. In this paper we examine the association between maternal work and children’s BMI, and also consider the influence of mothers’ nonstandard work schedules. Using data from school-age children in the NICHD’s Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (N = 990), we found that an increase in the total time a mother is employed is associated with an increase in her child’s BMI; additionally, we find that the association between maternal employment and children’s weight is much stronger at 6th grade relative to younger ages. There was no evidence that maternal or home characteristics or children’s time use mediated these associations, nor was there any evidence that nonstandard work was associated with children’s BMI. Implications for policy and future research are discussed.
Additional file 1 of Herbal extract fermented with inherent microbiota improves intestinal health by exerting antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects in vitro and in vivo
Creators: name: Heckmann, Mara
name: Sadova, Nadiia
name: Sandner, Georg
name: Neuhauser, Cathrina
name: Blank-Landeshammer, Bernhard
name: Schwarzinger, Bettina
name: König, Alice
name: Liang, Meizhen
name: Spitzer, Michael
name: Weghuber, Julian
name: Stadlbauer, Verena
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Composition of herbs used in FPM formulation. The table lists each herb included in the formulation by common and binomial name, along with the proportion (%) of each herb in the total extract composition. Fig. S1. Overlay of HPLC-DAD chromatograms of FPM and volatile-depleted FPM. Injection volume was 1 µL each and detection wavelength was set to 260 nm. Compounds were tentatively identified based on the HR-MS measurements as listed in Table S2. Table S2. Overview of the tentatively identified compounds in FPM through HPLC-MS.
Additional file 1 of Are dietary intake and nutritional status influenced by gender? The pattern of dietary intake in Lao PDR: a developing country
Creators: name: Kethmany Ratsavong
name: Elsacker, Tessa Van
name: Daovieng Doungvichit
name: Latsamy Siengsounthone
name: Sengchanh Kounnavong
name: Essink, Dirk
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Additional file 1. Appendix 1
Some characterizations of gradient Yamabe solitons
Creators: name: Shaikh, Absos Ali
name: Mandal, Prosenjit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C20, 53C21

description: In this article we have proved that a gradient Yamabe soliton satisfying some additional conditions must be of constant scalar curvature. Later, we have showed that in a gradient expanding or steady Yamabe soliton with non-negative Ricci curvature if the potential function satisfies some integral condition then it is subharmonic, in particular, for steady case the potential function becomes harmonic. Also we have proved that, in a compact gradient Yamabe soliton, the potential function agrees with the Hodge-de Rham potential upto a constant.
description: 9 pages
Additional file 2 of Are dietary intake and nutritional status influenced by gender? The pattern of dietary intake in Lao PDR: a developing country
Creators: name: Kethmany Ratsavong
name: Elsacker, Tessa Van
name: Daovieng Doungvichit
name: Latsamy Siengsounthone
name: Sengchanh Kounnavong
name: Essink, Dirk
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Additional file 2. Appendix 2
Eliminating Search Intent Bias in Learning to Rank
Creators: name: Sun, Yingcheng
name: Kolacinski, Richard
name: Loparo, Kenneth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Click-through data has proven to be a valuable resource for improving search-ranking quality. Search engines can easily collect click data, but biases introduced in the data can make it difficult to use the data effectively. In order to measure the effects of biases, many click models have been proposed in the literature. However, none of the models can explain the observation that users with different search intent (e.g., informational, navigational, etc.) have different click behaviors. In this paper, we study how differences in user search intent can influence click activities and determined that there exists a bias between user search intent and the relevance of the document relevance. Based on this observation, we propose a search intent bias hypothesis that can be applied to most existing click models to improve their ability to learn unbiased relevance. Experimental results demonstrate that after adopting the search intent hypothesis, click models can better interpret user clicks and substantially improve retrieval performance.
Dynamically Reconfigurable Discrete Distributed Stiffness for Inflated Beam Robots
Creators: name: Do, Brian H.
name: Banashek, Valory
name: Okamura, Allison M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Inflated continuum robots are promising for a variety of navigation tasks, but controlling their motion with a small number of actuators is challenging. These inflated beam robots tend to buckle under compressive loads, producing extremely tight local curvature at difficult-to-control buckle point locations. In this paper, we present an inflated beam robot that uses distributed stiffness changing sections enabled by positive pressure layer jamming to control or prevent buckling. Passive valves are actuated by an electromagnet carried by an electromechanical device that travels inside the main inflated beam robot body. The valves themselves require no external connections or wiring, allowing the distributed stiffness control to be scaled to long beam lengths. Multiple layer jamming elements are stiffened simultaneously to achieve global stiffening, allowing the robot to support greater cantilevered loads and longer unsupported lengths. Local stiffening, achieved by leaving certain layer jamming elements unstiffened, allows the robot to produce "virtual joints" that dynamically change the robot kinematics. Implementing these stiffening strategies is compatible with growth through tip eversion and tendon-steering, and enables a number of new capabilities for inflated beam robots and tip-everting robots.
description: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2020. Video available at https://youtu.be/mUyJ8c2W0bA
The Freund-Rubin Coset, Textures and Group Theory
Creators: name: Ramond, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Contribution to the Peter Freund Memorial volume: a glossary of group-theoretic facts that may relate the seven-dimensional Freund-Rubin coset to Yukawa textures.
description: 10 pages