cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS AND SOCIAL PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN WITH DISABILITY
Creators: name: KOUTSOGEORGOU, ELENI
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2019

description: Aim: The aim of this study was to explore structural, functional, and cognitive characteristics of social relationships of women across and within three types of disability, as well as aspects of their social participation in the wider community ? barriers and facilitators of their social and physical environment in that respect. The three types of disability explored were: sensory (deafness), physical (inability to move lower limbs), and mental (psychotic disorder). Methods: In the study participated 30 women ? 10 per type of disability ? aged 22-44, living in the metropolitan area of Milan (Italy), and having at least one role of relative autonomy. Qualitative semi-structured face-to-face interviews were conducted. All interviews were held in Italian language [or Italian Sign Language (LIS) for six deaf participants], and were audio recorded and transcribed verbatim. Data analysis was conducted using the template analysis technique of thematic analysis. Comparisons within and across the three types of disability were performed as well. Main findings: The findings highlighted barriers that women with disability face within their social and physical environment. In specific, it emerged that women with mental disability faced prejudice, discrimination, stigmatisation, and/or lack of empathy towards them from other people of the wider population which hinder their social participation. All women with physical disability faced barriers to social participation related to numerous accessibility hindrances of the physical environment, and most of them had also faced prejudice and mentality barriers towards them from persons of the wider population. Women with sensory disability encountered mostly barriers for social participation related to lack of resources for communication with people of the general population, whether in private or public places, when there is no sign language interpreter or subtitles, while they have also limited opportunities for employment compared to hearing persons. From comparison across types of disability various common patterns emerged. Women with mental disability appeared to have the lowest level of social participation, whereas women with physical disability the highest. Conclusion: It appears compelling to focus on the exploration of aspects of the social relationships and social participation of persons with disability since the barriers they face relevantly are numerous, multi-faceted and related to their personal and social development. The biopsychosocial model of health and disability could be employed towards the goal of full social inclusion.
title: A formal fluorinative homologation strategy to convert carbonyl platforms into functionalized 1-fluoro-2-halo skeletons
Creators: name: Szemerei, Daniel Istvan Gabriel
Year: 2022

description: Die Vorteile der Einführung eines Fluoratoms in das organische Grundgerüst eines Pharmakophores sind gut bekannt und spielen in der medizinischen Chemie im Allgemeinen eine wichtige Rolle. Fluorierungsstrategien für medizinische Targets haben in letzter Zeit viel Aufmerksamkeit auf sich gezogen. Da ein Fluoratom einen besonderen Einfluss auf Targets ausüben kann, welche von wesentlicher medizinischer Bedeutung sind, wie z. B. die Modulation der Lipophilie, Elektronegativität, Basizität und Bioverfügbarkeit, letztere als Folge der Membranpermeabilität. In unserem Fall haben wir zunächst eine Reihe von Homologierungsreaktionen mit Hilfe von Lithiumcarbenoiden durchgeführt, gefolgt von einer Fluorierung mit Deoxofluor. Durch diese Zweiphasenreaktion können wir unsere gewünschten fluorierten Verbindungen in einem relativ schnellen und einfachen Verfahren herstellen. Außerdem konnten wir die Verbindungen in guter Ausbeute und mit vollständiger Umwandlung erhalten.
description: The benefits of introducing a fluorine atom into the organic backbone of a pharmacophore are well understood and play an important role in medicinal chemistry in general. Fluorination strategies for medical targets have recently attracted much attention, because of the influence that a fluorine atom can exert on targets of medical importance, such as modulation of the lipophilicity, electronegativity, basicity and bioavailability, latter as a consequence of membrane permeability. In our case, we first performed a series of homologation reactions with the help of lithium carbenoids, followed by fluorination with deoxofluor. Through this two-phase reaction, we are able to generate our desired fluorinated compounds in a relatively fast and simple procedure. We were also able to obtain the compounds in good yields and with complete conversion.
Skin Tissue Engineering for the Infected Wound Site: Biodegradable PLA Nanofibers and a Novel Approach for Silver Ion Release Evaluated in a 3D Coculture System of Keratinocytes and Staphylococcus aureus
Creators: name: Loboa, Elizabeth G.
name: Pourdeyhimi, Behnam
name: Mohiti-Asli, Mahsa
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Wound infection presents a challenging and growing problem. With the increased prevalence and growth of multidrug-resistant bacteria, there is a mounting need to reduce and eliminate wound infections using methodologies that limit the ability of bacteria to evolve into further drug-resistant strains. A well-known strategy for combating bacterial infection and preventing wound sepsis is through the delivery of silver ions to the wound site. High surface area silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) allowing extensive silver ion release have therefore been explored in different wound dressings and/or skin substitutes. However, it has been recently shown that AgNPs can penetrate into the stratum corneum of skin or diffuse into the cellular plasma membrane, and may interfere with a variety of cellular mechanisms. The goal of this study was to introduce and evaluate a new type of high surface area metallic silver in the form of highly porous silver microparticles (AgMPs). Polylactic acid (PLA) nanofibers were successfully loaded with either highly porous AgMPs or AgNPs and the antimicrobial efficacy and cytotoxicity of the two silver-based wound dressings were assessed and compared. To better mimic the physiological environment in vivo where both human cells and bacteria are present, a novel coculture system combining human epidermal keratinocytes and Staphylococcus aureus bacteria was designed to simultaneously evaluate human skin cell cytotoxicity with antimicrobial efficacy in a three-dimensional environment. We found that highly porous AgMPs could be successfully incorporated in nanofibrous wound dressings, and exhibited comparable antimicrobial efficacy and cytotoxicity to AgNPs. Further, PLA nanofibers containing highly porous AgMPs exhibited steady silver ion release, at a greater rate of release, than nanofibers containing AgNPs. The replacement of AgNPs with the newly introduced AgMPs overcomes concerns regarding the use of nanoparticles and holds great promise as skin substitutes or wound dressings for infected wound sites.
Gemini Frontier Fields: Wide-field Adaptive Optics $K_s$-band Imaging of the Galaxy Clusters MACS J0416.1-2403 and Abell 2744
Creators: name: Schirmer, Mischa
name: Carrasco, Rodrigo
name: Pessev, Peter
name: Garrel, Vincent
name: Winge, Claudia
name: Neichel, Benoit
name: Vidal, Fabrice
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have observed two of the six Frontier Fields galaxy clusters, MACS J0416.1-2403 and Abell 2744, using the Gemini Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics System (GeMS) and the Gemini South Adaptive Optics Imager (GSAOI). With 0.08"-0.10" FWHM our data are nearly diffraction-limited over a 100"x100" wide area. GeMS/GSAOI complements the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) redwards of 1.6microns with twice the angular resolution. We reach a 5 sigma depth of Ks = 25.6 mag (AB) for compact sources. In this paper we describe the observations, the data processing and the initial public data release. We provide fully calibrated, co-added images matching the native GSAOI pixel scale as well as the larger plate scales of the HST release, adding to the legacy value of the Frontier Fields. Our work demonstrates that even for fields at high galactic latitude, where natural guide stars are rare, current multi-conjugated adaptive optics technology at 8m-telescopes has opened a new window on the distant Universe. Observations of a third Frontier Field, Abell 370, are planned.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJS; significantly revised compared to the first submission
THE CHALLENGING DIAGNOSIS OF BONE DISEASE: A REAPPRAISAL OF PATHOLOGICAL BONE MARKERS BASED ON THE CAL MILANO CEMETERY SKELETAL COLLECTION
Creators: name: BIEHLER GOMEZ, LUCIE
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2020

description: La corretta identificazione delle malattie � fondamentale per la costruzione del profilo biologico dei casi forensi e archeologici. La diagnosi di patologie ossee consiste nel confronto della posizione e delle caratteristiche morfologiche di lesioni ossee comparando la letteratura clinica e i precedenti casi pubblicati per l'identificazione dell'agente patogeno. Da un lato, la letteratura clinica non � adeguata a comprendere le manifestazioni morfologiche e la distribuzione delle lesioni ossee sull?osso secco; dall?altro, la letteratura paleopatologica si basa principalmente su scheletri archeologici, dei quali si sa molto poco e su esemplari di musei di anatomia patologica, con manifestazioni ossee estreme di malattie. Questa tesi mira a studiare la diagnosi macroscopica di condizioni patologiche basate su scheletri con anamnesi cliniche antemortem utilizzando una collezione osteologica di riferimento: la CAL Milano Cemetery Skeletal Collection, focalizzandosi sull?aterosclerosi, l?artrite reumatoide, il diabete mellito, l?HIV/AIDS, il mieloma multiplo e il carcinoma solido metastatico. Oltre a questo obiettivo principale, sono state esplorate diverse linee di ricerca tra cui l'analisi istologica di manifestazioni calcificate non scheletriche di malattie, il confronto tra analisi macroscopica e radiografica delle lesioni ossee e la descrizione di lesioni ossee per le analisi patologiche attraverso l'esame di materiale scheletrico da casi cimiteriali, forensi e archeologici, nonch� campioni estratti da cadaveri ben conservati durante autopsie. Questa ricerca non solo ha implementato la letteratura scientifica sulle malattie delle ossa, ma ha anche fornito i mezzi per diagnosticare condizioni precedentemente non esaminate e ha sollevato alcuni problemi importanti sulla diagnosi delle condizioni scheletriche sull'osso secco.
DEVELOPMENT OF METHODS FO THE ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX MIXTURES BY USING TANDEM AMASS SPECTROMETRY TECHNIQUES - ION MOLECULE REACTIONS AND QUANTITATIVE LC/MS
Creators: name: Fu, Yue
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Analytical chemistry not elsewhere classified

description: Mass spectrometry (MS) is a powerful and versatile analytical method for the molecular-level characterization of complex mixtures. The accurate determination of ionized analytes' mass-to-charge ratios (m/z) by accurate MS measurements enables the determination of the elemental composition of each ion. Additionally, MS can be used to manipulate and separate ions according to their m/z ratios and examine their structures by using collision-activated dissociation (CAD) or ion-molecule reaction experiments. Furthermore, coupling of MS to gas chromatography (GC) or high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) adds another, invaluable dimension to the analysis of very complex mixtures. The studies discussed in this dissertation sought to improve or develop methods for the characterization of compounds in complex mixtures by using a variety of tandem mass spectrometry techniques. The ionization techniques, the mass spectrometry equipment, and certain modifications to the equipment used to conduct the studies covered in this dissertation are described in Chapter 2. Experiments used to determine the proton affinities of several saturated hydrocarbons by using gas-phase ion-molecule reactions are discussed in Chapter 3. The modification of commercial mass spectrometers for ion-molecule reaction studies is covered in Chapters 4 and 5. A new neutral reagent-introduction setup is discussed in Chapter 4. This setup was developed in order to avoid the drawback of the traditional setup to produce too many water and air adducts for ions in ion-molecule reaction experiments. To obtain high-resolution mass spectrometric information on gas-phase ion-molecule reactions, this innovative system was then combined with a quadrupole/linear quadrupole ion trap/orbitrap tribrid mass spectrometer as described in Chapter 5. Diagnostic gas-phase ion-molecule reactions between protonated vicinal diols and trimethyl orthoformate were identified using this modified tribrid mass spectrometer, as discussed in Chapter 6. Finally, Chapter 7 discusses methods developed for the detection and identification of trace amounts of chlorinated free fatty acids in waste cooking oil samples by using HPLC/high-resolution tandem mass spectrometry along with other separation techniques, such as solid-phase extraction.
Juvenile Swine Surgical Alveolar Cleft Model to Test Novel Autologous Stem Cell Therapies
Creators: name: Pharaon, Michael R.
name: van Aalst, John A.
name: Caballero, Montserrat
name: Halevi, Alexandra E.
name: Morse, Justin C.
name: Wood, Jeyhan S.
name: Emodi, Omri
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Reconstruction of craniofacial congenital bone defects has historically relied on autologous bone grafts. Engineered bone using mesenchymal stem cells from the umbilical cord on electrospun nanomicrofiber scaffolds offers an alternative to current treatments. This preclinical study presents the development of a juvenile swine model with a surgically created maxillary cleft defect for future testing of tissue-engineered implants for bone generation. Five-week-old pigs (n=6) underwent surgically created maxillary (alveolar) defects to determine critical-sized defect and the quality of treatment outcomes with rib, iliac crest cancellous bone, and tissue-engineered scaffolds. Pigs were sacrificed at 1 month. Computed tomography scans were obtained at days 0 and 30, at the time of euthanasia. Histological evaluation was performed on newly formed bone within the surgical defect. A 1 cm surgically created defect healed with no treatment, the 2 cm defect did not heal. A subsequently created 1.7 cm defect, physiologically similar to a congenitally occurring alveolar cleft in humans, from the central incisor to the canine, similarly did not heal. Rib graft treatment did not incorporate into adjacent normal bone; cancellous bone and the tissue-engineered graft healed the critical-sized defect. This work establishes a juvenile swine alveolar cleft model with critical-sized defect approaching 1.7 cm. Both cancellous bone and tissue engineered graft generated bridging bone formation in the surgically created alveolar cleft defect.
The Effect of CRC Risk Calculator Use on CRC Screening Intention - Experiment Result (SPSS)
Creators: name: Lee, Jungmin
name: Keil, Mark
name: Lee, Jong Seok
name: Baird, Aaron
name: Choi, Hyoung Yong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Applications in health

description: Data was collected from the Qualtrics survey platform and exported as an SPSS dataset.
 The following describes the main variables of interest. X.disp: treatment group, 0: control, 1: treatment M.scpt: perceived susceptibility Y.intt: intent to sign up for screening W.gender: male=0, female=1 cleanScore: objective risk score bmi_calc: BMI agg.pre.scpt: pre-test measure of perceived susceptibility to CRC agg.post.scpt: post-test measure of perceived susceptibility to CRC agg pre.intent: pre-test measure of intent to sign up for CRC screening agg.post.intent: post-test measure of intent to sign up for CRC screening age
Differential cross section measurements for the production of a W boson in association with jets in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurements are reported of differential cross sections for the production of a W boson, which decays into a muon and a neutrino, in association with jets, as a function of several variables, including the transverse momenta (pt) and pseudorapidities of the four leading jets, the scalar sum of jet transverse momenta (HT), and the difference in azimuthal angle between the directions of each jet and the muon. The data sample of pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV was collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 inverse femtobarns. The measured cross sections are compared to predictions from Monte Carlo generators, MADGRAPH + PYTHIA and SHERPA, and to next-to-leading-order calculations from BLACKHAT + SHERPA. The differential cross sections are found to be in agreement with the predictions, apart from the pt distributions of the leading jets at high pt values, the distributions of the HT at high-HT and low jet multiplicity, and the distribution of the difference in azimuthal angle between the leading jet and the muon at low values.
description: Replaced with published version. Added journal reference and DOI
ADORNO BAJO LA SOMBRA DE HABERMAS
Creators: name: SCOPEL, ALAN
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2014

description: This research project has addressed the problem of Th. W. Adorno's thought reception in Spain. Through a important fieldwork it was attempted to provide the reader with a overview of several considerations resulted by local reception of Adorno during last 50 years. In order to provide originality and historical prospective, the research was completed with unpublished contributions offered by representatives of Spanish critics. In addition to have established the peculiarity of Spanish reception of Adorno, which reflects the difficulties of absorption observed in many other countries (as well as in Germany), it was thrown light on the social, political and cultural fabric of Franco's Spain first, from the period called Transaction, then the Spain which wants to be Europe but which does not believe in its own Constitution and finally the Spain of XXI century crisis; this dissertation intended to explain the national and international reasons which made particularly difficult the interpretation of Adorno in Spain. This work includes references of all studies regarding the Spanish reception of Adorno since early 60's, when first texts about Adorno were written in Spain, until 2010. Aware of the difficulties which such ambitious project involves, no pretences of full success are advanced.
Introduction aux impacts environnementaux du numérique (AG AgroDataRing, 2021)
Creators: name: Benaben, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30749549

description: Présentation "Introduction aux impacts environnementaux du numérique" Assemblée Générale AgroDataRing, 9 novembre 2021
description: {"references": ["Pierre Adenot, St\u00e9phane Bansard, David Benaben, Veronique Brunaud, Christophe Caron, et al.. AgroDataRing: Une infrastructure partag\u00e9e et mutualis\u00e9e pour le stockage longue dur\u00e9e. Cahier des Techniques de l'INRA, 2018, pp.1-7. \u27e8hal-02097192\u27e9", "https://datapartage.inrae.fr/Gerer/Stocker-les-donnees/AgroDataRing"]}
Additional file 1 of La-doped BaSnO3 for electromagnetic shielding transparent conductors
Creators: name: Jeon, Jingyeong
name: Ha, Youngkyoung
name: MacManus-Driscoll, Judith L.
name: Lee, Shinbuhm
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Inverse type II seesaw mechanism and its signature at the LHC and ILC
Creators: name: Freitas, F. F.
name: Pires, C. A. de S.
name: da Silva, P. S. Rodrigues
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The advent of the LHC, and the proposal of building future colliders as the ILC, both programmed to explore new physics at the TeV scale, justifies the recent interest in studying all kind of seesaw mechanisms whose signature lies on such energy scale. The natural candidate for this kind of seesaw mechanism is the inverse one. The conventional inverse seesaw mechanism is implemented in an arrangement involving six new heavy neutrinos in addition to the three standard ones. In this paper we develop the inverse seesaw mechanism based on Higgs triplet model and probe its signature at the LHC and ILC. We argue that the conjoint analysis of the LHC together with the ILC may confirm the mechanism and, perhaps, infer the hierarchy of the neutrino masses.
description: 24 pages, 22 figures
Costs of smoking during pregnancy: development of the Maternal and Child Health Smoking Attributable Mortality, Morbidity and Economic Costs (MCHSAMMEC) software
Creators: name: Melvin, C. L
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2000

description: The development and availability is described of new, user friendly software, the Maternal and Child Health Smoking Attributable Mortality, Morbidity and Economic Costs (MCHSAMMEC), that will allow states and other entities to estimate pregnancy related, smoking attributable costs for their population. The methodology underlying the MCHSAMMEC software, including calculations used in the prevalence based analysis of smoking attributable mortality and costs of infant neonatal care, are described, along with design and data management features and possible applications of the software for policy and program development at various levels of the health care system.Keywords: smoking; pregnancy; costs
Measurement and definition for smoking cessation intervention research: the Smoke-Free Families experience
Creators: name: Melvin, C. L
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2000

description: The measures, definitions, and processes used in the Smoke-Free Families clinical trials to assure consistent measurement and reporting of various aspects of the trials are described. Definitions of current smokers at different points in the pregnancy, levels of addiction, biological verification, cessation, stages of change, and intervention approaches are presented along with the rationale underlying their adoption and development.Keywords: smoking cessation; pregnancy; clinical trials; addiction
Gauge-independent "Abelian" and magnetic-monopole dominance, and the dual Meissner effect in lattice $SU(2)$ Yang-Mills theory
Creators: name: Kato, Seikou
name: Kondo, Kei-Ichi
name: Shibata, Akihiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the $SU(2)$ Yang-Mills theory on the four-dimensional Euclidean lattice, we confirm the gauge-independent "Abelian" dominance (or the restricted field dominance) and gauge-independent magnetic-monopole dominance in the string tension of the linear potential extracted from the Wilson loop in the fundamental representation. The dual Meissner effect is observed by demonstrating the squeezing of the chromoelectric field flux connecting a pair of quark and antiquark. In addition, the circular magnetic-monopole current is induced around the chromoelectric flux. The type of the dual superconductivity is also determined by fitting the result with the dual Ginzburg-Landau model. Thus the dual superconductor picture for quark confinement is supported in a gauge-independent manner. These results are obtained based on a reformulation of the lattice Yang-Mills theory based on the change of variables a la Cho-Duan-Ge-Faddeev-Niemi combined with a non-Abelian Stokes theorem for the Wilson loop operator. We give a new procedure (called the reduction) for obtaining the color direction field which plays the central role in this reformulation.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures, 4 tables, The completely revised version according to the new data: Fig.1, Fig.3, Fig.4, Fig.5, Fig.6, Fig.7; Table I, Table II, Table III, Table IV; eq.(35),(36),(37),(38),(60),(61),(62) are improved. The ref.[33][34][35][41:2nd ref.][43][44] are added. The conclusion is also modified
Quit for keeps: tailored smoking cessation guides for pregnancy and beyond
Creators: name: Strecher, V. J
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2000

description: Although health care providers appear to be an obvious choice for delivering smoking cessation education, they often lack the resources, training, and time to provide anything more than a recommendation to quit and generic pamphlets for reinforcement. Traditionally, this type of material is designed to include information for many potential users, thus making it difficult for an individual to find the pieces most relevant to them. In contrast, tailored print materials provide only information which is relevant to a subject, making it far more usable. One study assessing tailored print messages found a threefold increase in cessation rates among patients in a family practice setting, four months after receipt of tailored versus untailored smoking cessation messages.1 Numerous other studies, targeting a number of different populations, have also shown that tailored messages are an effective intervention for smoking cessation.2 In tailoring, we use individual patient responses to select only relevant behaviour change messages. These messages provide information specific to an individual's needs and interests and can reinforce messages from health professionals. Because they are personalised, tailored materials offer a potentially superior alternative to generic materials designed to reach a broad audience. Quit for Keeps used a pre-test/post-test experimental design to test the effects of tailored interventions on pregnant smokers. Participants in this study included 92 women enrolled at the Taubman obstetrics and gynaecology (ob/gyn) clinic at the University of Michigan and 81 women enrolled at the ob/gyn clinic at the University of North Carolina hospital from December 1996 to December 1997. Eligible participants were those who reported having smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their lifetime and who were either still smoking or had quit since becoming pregnant. Subjects were screened for eligibility during the New to the Nurse orientation program in North Carolina or during their first pre-natal …
Coherent Tunneling by Adiabatic Passage of an exchange-only spin qubit in a double quantum dot chain
Creators: name: Ferraro, E.
name: De Michielis, M.
name: Fanciulli, M.
name: Prati, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A scheme based on Coherent Tunneling by Adiabatic Passage (CTAP) of exchange-only spin qubit quantum states in a linearly arranged double quantum dot chain is demonstrated. Logical states for the qubit are defined by adopting the spin state of three electrons confined in a double quantum dot. The possibility to obtain gate operations entirely with electrical manipulations makes this qubit a valuable architecture in the field of quantum computing for the implementation of quantum algorithms. The effect of the external control parameters as well as the effect of the dephasing on the coherent tunneling in the chain is studied. During adiabatic transport, within a constant energy degenerate eigenspace, the states in the double quantum dots internal to the chain are not populated, while transient populations of the mixed states in the external ones are predicted.
description: 8 pages
Analysis of Factors Influencing Agri-food Exporters’ Participation in Online Exports and Intentions of Investment in Digital Technology
Creators: name: Lee, Douyoung
name: Lee, Douyoung
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: agricultural exports
subject: online exports
subject: investment intention

description: This study investigates factors influencing agri-food exporters’ participation in online exports and investment intention in digital technology. We surveyed 295 agri-food exporters to examine their use of digital technology. The results show that the characteristics of exporters, such as the proportion of sales to importers, whether to sell fresh agri-food or not, their heads’ age and educational levels, were related to the exporters’ decision making. Also, positive relationships are found between attitudes toward digital technology (technological understanding, prospects, and self-capability evaluation), exporters' online participation, and investment intention. The key findings indicate that support customized for agri-food exporters’ conditions and enhanced understanding and utilization of digital technology are essential for their online exports and investment in digital technology.
Additional file 1 of Associations Between Leisure-Time Physical Activity Level and Peripheral Immune Cell Populations in the US General Population, Analysis of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Data, 1999–2018
Creators: name: Lin, Dan
name: Thompson, Cheryl L.
name: Ba, Djibril M.
name: Muscat, Joshua E.
name: Zhou, Shouhao
name: Rogers, Connie J.
name: Sturgeon, Kathleen M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Adjusted means (95% CI) for peripheral immune cell populations by leisure-time physical activity level in men (N = 8363). Table S2. Adjusted means (95% CI) for peripheral immune cell populations by leisure-time physical activity level in women (N = 8730). Table S3. Adjusted means (95% CI) for peripheral immune cell populations and their ratios by leisure-time physical activity level in population without a history of stroke, COPD, and Hepatitis B (N = 16,183).
Cryptocurrency: Value Formation Factors and Investment Risks
Creators: name: Britchenko, Igor
name: Pakhnenko, Olena
name: Rubanov, Pavlo
name: Girzheva, Olga
name: Ivashko, Larysa
name: Kozachenko, Liliia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 140207 Financial Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150201 Finance
subject: 150299 Banking, Finance and Investment not elsewhere classified

description: Scientific sources demonstrate different attitudes of researchers to cryptocurrencies because they treat them as a category of currency, virtual money, commodity, etc. Accordingly, the relation to the valuation and risk of cryptocurrency as an investment object is different. The purpose of the article is to identify cryptocurrency value formation factors and determine the risks of investing in cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency is simultaneously considered a currency, an asset with uncertain income, and a specific product, the price of which is determined by the energy costs for mining new cryptocurrency blocks. Thus, the paper examines the risks of investing in cryptocurrency from several positions. First, the study identifies the factors of formation of the value and risk of cryptocurrency as ordinary money based on comparing cryptocurrency with traditional money. Unlike traditional money, cryptocurrency is not tied to the economic performance of a particular country; also, central banks do not control or regulate their mining. Instead, the cryptocurrency emissions depend on the computational capacity of the equipment used for their mining. As a financial asset, cryptocurrency can be a “financial bubble” because their value increasing often exceeds the cost of mining. On the other hand, given the emergence of cryptocurrency as a phenomenon of the information economy, the paper analyses the impact of specific technical features (cryptographic hashing algorithm, the complexity of creating new blocks, the technology of verification of mining operations, etc.) on the risk of investing in cryptocurrency assets.
Recommended cessation counselling for pregnant women who smoke: a review of the evidence
Creators: name: Melvin, C. L
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2000

description: OBJECTIVE—To review the evidence base underlying recommended cessation counselling for pregnant women who smoke, as it applies to the steps identified in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's publication, Treating tobacco use and dependence: a clinical practice guideline.DATA SOURCES—Secondary analysis of literature reviews and meta-analyses.DATA SYNTHESIS—A brief cessation counselling session of 5-15 minutes, when delivered by a trained provider with the provision of pregnancy specific, self help materials, significantly increases rates of cessation among pregnant smokers. This low intensity intervention achieves a modest but clinically significant effect on cessation rates, with an average risk ratio of 1.7 (95% confidence interval 1.3 to 2.2). There are five components of the recommended method—"ask, advise, assess, assist, and arrange".CONCLUSIONS—We recommend these evidence based procedures be adopted by all prenatal care providers. The use of this evidence based intervention is feasible in most office or clinic settings offering prenatal care and can be implemented without inhibiting other important aspects of prenatal care or disrupting patient flow. If implemented widely, this approach has the potential to achieve an important reduction in a number of adverse maternal, infant, and pregnancy outcomes and to reduce associated, excess health care costs.Keywords: smoking cessation; pregnancy
Note on local-to-global properties of BLD-mappings
Creators: name: Luisto, Rami
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 30C65, 30L10, 57M12

description: We give a proof, based on Lipschitz quotient mappings, for the fact that limits of BLD-mappings between manifolds of bounded geometry are BLD. Furthermore we show that such mappings share some properties of covering maps and especially have no asymptotic values.
Are adolescents attempting to buy cigarettes on the internet?
Creators: name: Unger, J. B
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2001

description: OBJECTIVE— To assess the prevalence of, and demographic and smoking behaviour correlates of, attempting to purchase cigarettes via the internet among adolescent current smokers.METHODS— A representative sample of 17 181 10th and 12th grade California students completed a written questionnaire on tobacco related attitudes and behaviour during the 1999-2000 school year. Logistic regression analyses were used to determine the variables associated with attempting to purchase cigarettes on the internet.RESULTS—Among youth under 18 years of age who were current smokers (n = 1689), 2.2% (95% confidence interval 1.5% to 2.9%) reported attempting to purchase cigarettes on the internet. Attempted internet purchases were more likely among younger respondents, males, frequent smokers, and respondents reporting lower perceived availability of tobacco products from retail and social sources.CONCLUSIONS—Few adolescent smokers in California surveyed during the 1999-2000 school year had attempted to obtain cigarettes from the internet. As internet access increases, future studies should examine whether internet cigarette vendors sell to minors and whether adolescents are purchasing cigarettes on the internet.Keywords: internet cigarette vendors; adolescent smokers; purchasing
Financing for Development: A Monetary Issue in which Money hasno Say
Creators: name: Dissaux, Tristan
Publisher: name: International Journal of Community Currency Research (IJCCR)
Year: 2018
Subjects: development financing
money
social and complementary currencies

description: For developing countries, financing needs remain important, especiallyto meet the Sustainable Development Goals. This paper deals with theproblematic of financing for development (FfD), by focusing on what wethink to be its major blind spot: money. If development is far frombeing only about money, its financing does have monetary aspects,which are most often omitted. We first emphasise the currentprevailing FfD paradigm and show that it stands on a particulartheoretical corpus. In particular, it adopts a restrictiveunderstanding of money, carrying important political, economic andsocial implications. Against what can be described as a non‐monetaryapproach to financing for development, we consider the nature andorigins of money. In this light, the current FfD paradigm appears asinconsistent, while tools such as social and complementary currenciescan be relevant. We here explore their participation to financing andtheir potentials regarding this issue.
Additional file 1 of Can peer effects explain prescribing appropriateness? a social network analysis
Creators: name: Wang, Sophie Y.
name: Larrain, Nicolas
name: Groene, Oliver
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1.
Electronic stopping power in a narrow band gap semiconductor from first principles
Creators: name: Ullah, Rafi
name: Corsetti, Fabiano
name: Sánchez-Portal, Daniel
name: Artacho, Emilio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The direction and impact parameter dependence of electronic stopping power, along with its velocity threshold behavior, is investigated in a prototypical small band gap semiconductor. We calculate the electronic stopping power of H in Ge, a semiconductor with relatively low packing density, using time-evolving time-dependent density-functional theory. The calculations are carried out in channeling conditions with different impact parameters and in different crystal directions, for projectile velocities ranging from 0.05 to 0.6 atomic units. The satisfactory comparison with available experiments supports the results and conclusions beyond experimental reach. The calculated electronic stopping power is found to be different in different crystal directions; however, strong impact parameter dependence is observed only in one of these directions. The distinct velocity threshold observed in experiments is well reproduced, and its non-trivial relation with the band gap follows a perturbation theory argument surprisingly well. This simple model is also successful in explaining why different density functionals give the same threshold even with substantially different band gaps.
description: additional references and figures
A Research on Mid-to-long-term Supply and Demand Model of Korean Beef Using Cattle Slaughter Rates
Creators: name: Jeon, Sanggon
name: Jeon, Sanggon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Hanwoo industry
subject: forecast model
subject: demand and supply model

description: This study aims to refine the forecast model for Korean cattle supply and demand amid concerns about price drops due to a steady increase in Korean cattle breeding. Also, our research aims to contribute significantly to refining the identification and analysis of the breeding and slaughtering status in the Korean cattle industry. This study established a ‘mid-to-long-term forecast model for Korean beef supply and demand, far different from the previous ones by using slaughter rates instead of the number of cattle heads. In addition, the model successfully reflects concerns about farmers’ risks and structural changes in the current Korean beef breeding structure. As a result, the model we devised through our research will make it easier to forecast farmers’ mid-to-long-term breeding intentions and the supply-demand status in the Korean beef industry.
Cigarette advertising and promotional strategies in retail outlets: results of a statewide survey in California
Creators: name: Feighery, E. C
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2001

description: OBJECTIVE—To examine the extent and types of cigarette advertising materials in stores and to assess tobacco company compliance with the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA).DESIGN—A cross-sectional analysis of a random sample of 586 stores that sold cigarettes.SETTING— US state of California.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES—Trained data collectors classified cigarette advertising materials by type (signs, displays, functional items), location (interior or exterior), and placement (below 3 feet (1 m) or near candy).RESULTS—California retail outlets featured 17.2 (SD 16.1) tobacco advertising materials on average, and 94% of stores featured at least some advertising. About 85% of these were within 4 feet (1.3 m) of the counter. About 50% of the stores had ads at or below 3 feet, and 23% had cigarette product displays next to candy. In violation of the MSA, 3% of stores featured signs with cartoons and 11% had large exterior signs.CONCLUSIONS—Tobacco companies are aggressively using stores to market cigarettes. Moreover, the spirit of the MSA—to protect children from cigarette advertising—has not been realised. Future studies should monitor industry use of this venue and assess the impact of exposure to cigarette advertising materials in stores on adult smokers and youth.Keywords: advertising; point-of-sale advertising; tobacco industry
Additional file 1 of Exploring the feasibility of introducing triple artemisinin-based combination therapy in the malaria treatment policy in Vietnam
Creators: name: Cao, Van  Anh Thi
name: Nguyen, Thieu Quang
name: Le Quyen, Duong
name: Boon, Wouter P. C.
name: Moors, Ellen H. M.
name: Dondorp, Arjen M.
name: de Haan, Freek
name: Amaratunga, Chanaki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Qualitative Interview Guide for Stakeholders in Vietnam.
Web sites selling cigarettes: how many are there in the USA and what are their sales practices?
Creators: name: Ribisl, K. M
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2001

description: OBJECTIVES—To estimate the number and geographic location of web sites selling cigarettes in the USA, and to examine their sales and marketing practices.METHODS—Comprehensive searches were conducted using four keyword terms and five popular internet search engines, supplemented by sites identified in a news article. Over 1800 sites were examined to identify 88 internet cigarette vendors.MEASURES—Trained raters examined the content of each site using a standardised coding instrument to assess geographic location, presence of warnings, products sold, and promotional strategies.SETTING—USA.RESULTS—Internet cigarette vendors were located in 23 states. Nearly half (n = 43) were located in New York state, and many were in tobacco producing states with low cigarette excise taxes. Indian reservations housed 49 of the 88 sites. Only 28.4% of sites featured the US Surgeon General's health warnings and 81.8% featured minimum age of sale warnings. Nearly all sites (96.6%) sold premium or value brand cigarettes, 21.6% sold duty-free Marlboros, and 8.0% sold bidis. Approximately one third featured special promotional programmes.CONCLUSIONS—Internet cigarette vendors present new regulatory and enforcement challenges for tobacco control advocates because of the difficulty in regulating internet content and because many vendors are on Indian reservations.Keywords: youth access; internet; web sites; policy
Lozenge tilings and Hurwitz numbers
Creators: name: Novak, Jonathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give a new proof of the fact that, near a turning point of the frozen boundary, the vertical tiles in a uniformly random lozenge tiling of a large sawtooth domain are distributed like the eigenvalues of a GUE random matrix. Our argument uses none of the standard tools of integrable probability. In their place, it uses a combinatorial interpretation of the Harish-Chandra/Itzykson-Zuber integral as a generating function for desymmetrized Hurwitz numbers.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures. Version 2 fixes errors, adds clarifications and new material; title changed