cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Implications of Sexual Narcissism for Sexual and Marital Satisfaction
Creators: name: Widman, Laura
name: McNulty, James K.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: There is theoretical reason to believe narcissism is associated with a number of sexual behaviors and outcomes that affect both sexual and relationship satisfaction. Nevertheless, research on the association between personality and behavior demonstrates that personality traits, such as narcissism, only predict behavior in domains that activate the components of the personality system. Given that global assessments of narcissism do not capture the extent to which the components of narcissism are activated in the sexual domain, we examined the extent to which the facets of a domain-specific measure of sexual narcissism accounted for the trajectories of own and partner sexual and marital satisfaction over the first five years of 120 new marriages. Three of the four facets of sexual narcissism (sexual exploitation, sexual entitlement, and low sexual empathy) were negatively associated with both trajectories. The fourth facet (sexual skill) was positively associated with both trajectories. Notably, sexual satisfaction mediated the effect of every facet of sexual narcissism on marital satisfaction. A global assessment of narcissism was not associated with either trajectory of satisfaction. These findings highlight (1) the importance of narcissistic tendencies for sexual processes, (2) the benefits of using domain-specific measures of personality in research on sexual behavior, and (3) the importance of examining the implications of the specific facets of personality constructs.
Effects of ultrasound on thermosetting polymeric foam structure
Creators: name: Holt, Joseph
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 91399 Mechanical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: The design and manufacture of optimised structural components is desired by many areas of engineering. These components could be optimised for structural performance, weight reduction, or combinations of attributes. Lightweight porous materials offer opportunities to produce such components with designed internal structures of controlled porosity as their mechanical performance is controlled by their porosity and density. Such components can be designed, through methods such as topology optimisation to offer improved mechanical properties when compared to homogeneous counterparts. Yet the production of such heterogeneous materials or components is presently beyond the capabilities of current manufacturing technologies. The manufacture of large-scale heterogeneous porous materials, that could realise the optimised designs of topology optimisation cannot currently be manufactured in high-volumes. In this thesis a method is proposed to modify the localised porous structure of thermosetting polymer foams using ultrasound, as a future method to control the localised porosity of a bulk component. [Continues.]
Additional file 2 of Broadly neutralizing human antibodies against Omicron subvariants of SARS-CoV-2
Creators: name: Chiang, Hsiao-Ling
name: Liang, Kang-Hao
name: Lu, Ruei-Min
name: Kuo, Ting-Wen
name: Lin, Yi‑Ling
name: Wu, Han-Chung
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 2: Figure S2. Characteristics of 16 potent neutralizing antibodies for SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.5. (A) The gene family usage of VH and VL among 16 potent neutralizing antibodies against BA.5-RBD protein. (B) The amino acid lengths of the CDR3 loops of VH and VL for the 16 antibodies. (C) Rates of nucleotide substitutions in VH and VL for the 16 antibodies.
On the Lagrangian structure of transport equations: the Vlasov-Poisson system
Creators: name: Ambrosio, Luigi
name: Colombo, Maria
name: Figalli, Alessio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The Vlasov-Poisson system is a classical model in physics used to describe the evolution of particles under their self-consistent electric or gravitational field. The existence of classical solutions is limited to dimensions $d\leq 3$ under strong assumptions on the initial data, while weak solutions are known to exist under milder conditions. However, in the setting of weak solutions it is unclear whether the Eulerian description provided by the equation physically corresponds to a Lagrangian evolution of the particles. In this paper we develop several general tools concerning the Lagrangian structure of transport equations with non-smooth vector fields and we apply these results: (1) to show that weak solutions of Vlasov-Poisson are Lagrangian; (2) to obtain global existence of weak solutions under minimal assumptions on the initial data.
Associations between airborne crude oil chemicals and symptom-based asthma
Creators: name: Stewart, P.A.
name: Huynh, T.B.
name: Groth, C.P.
name: Pratt, G.C.
name: Niehoff, N.M.
name: Banerjee, S.
name: Lawrence, K.G.
name: Ramachandran, G.
name: Jackson, W.B., II
name: Keil, A.P.
name: Engel, L.S.
name: Curry, M.D.
name: Sandler, D.P.
name: Christenbury, K.
name: Stenzel, M.R.
Publisher: name: Elsevier Ltd
Year: 2022

description: Rationale: The 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill response and cleanup (OSRC) workers were exposed to airborne total hydrocarbons (THC), benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, o-, m-, and p-xylenes and n-hexane (BTEX-H) from crude oil and PM2.5 from burning/flaring oil and natural gas. Little is known about asthma risk among oil spill cleanup workers. Objectives: We assessed the relationship between asthma and several oil spill-related exposures including job classes, THC, individual BTEX-H chemicals, the BTEX-H mixture, and PM2.5 using data from the Gulf Long-Term Follow-up (GuLF) Study, a prospective cohort of 24,937 cleanup workers and 7,671 nonworkers following the DWH disaster. Methods: Our analysis largely focused on the 19,018 workers without asthma before the spill who had complete exposure, outcome, and covariate information. We defined incident asthma 1–3 years following exposure using both self-reported wheeze and self-reported physician diagnosis of asthma. THC and BTEX-H were assigned to participants based on measurement data and work histories, while PM2.5 used modeled estimates. We used modified Poisson regression to estimate risk ratios (RR) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for associations between spill-related exposures and asthma and a quantile-based g-computation approach to explore the joint effect of the BTEX-H mixture on asthma risk. Results: OSRC workers had greater asthma risk than nonworkers (RR: 1.60, 95% CI: 1.38, 1.85). Higher estimated THC exposure levels were associated with increased risk in an exposure-dependent manner (linear trend test p < 0.0001). Asthma risk also increased with increasing exposure to individual BTEX-H chemicals and the chemical mixture: A simultaneous quartile increase in the BTEX-H mixture was associated with an increased asthma risk of 1.45 (95% CI: 1.35,1.55). With fewer cases, associations were less apparent for physician-diagnosed asthma alone. Conclusions: THC and BTEX-H were associated with increased asthma risk defined using wheeze symptoms as well as a physician diagnosis.
Additional file 8 of ATP-citrate lyase B (ACLB) negatively affects cell death and resistance to Verticillium wilt
Creators: name: Liu, Fujie
name: Ma, Zhifeng
name: Cai, Sheng
name: Dai, Lingjun
name: Gao, Jianbo
name: Zhou, Baoliang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 8: Table S3. Comparison of homology between ACLB protein in G. australe, G. hirsutum and G. barbadense.
Prevalence and Predictors of Sexual Inexperience in Adulthood
Creators: name: Cheng, Mariah M.
name: Haydon, Abigail A.
name: Halpern, Carolyn Tucker
name: Herring, Amy H.
name: McRee, Annie-Laurie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: The emergence of partnered sexual behavior represents an important developmental transition. However, little is known about individuals who remain sexually inexperienced well into adulthood. We used data from 2,857 individuals who participated in Waves I, III, and IV of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) and reported no sexual activity (i.e., oral-genital, vaginal, or anal sex) by age 18 to identify, using discrete-time survival models, adolescent sociodemographic, biosocial, and behavioral characteristics that predicted adult sexual inexperience. The mean age of participants at Wave IV was 28.5 years (SD = 1.92). Over 1 out of 8 participants who did not initiate sexual activity during adolescence remained abstinent as young adults. Sexual non-attraction significantly predicted sexual inexperience among both males (aOR = 0.5) and females (aOR = 0.6). Males also had lower odds of initiating sexual activity after age 18 if they were non-Hispanic Asian, reported later than average pubertal development, or were rated as physically unattractive (aORs = 0.6–0.7). Females who were overweight, had lower cognitive performance, or reported frequent religious attendance had lower odds of sexual experience (aORs = 0.7–0.8) while those who were rated by the interviewers as very attractive or whose parents had lower educational attainment had higher odds of sexual experience (aORs = 1.4–1.8). Our findings underscore the heterogeneity of this unique population and suggest that there are a number of different pathways that may lead to either voluntary or involuntary adult sexual inexperience. Understanding the meaning of sexual inexperience in young adulthood may have important implications for the study of sexuality development across the life course.
Sexual Narcissism and Infidelity in Early Marriage
Creators: name: Widman, Laura
name: McNulty, James K.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: There is theoretical reason to believe that narcissism is associated with infidelity. Yet, studies that have examined this association have yielded inconsistent results. Given that these inconsistencies may have emerged because prior studies used global assessments of narcissism that do not capture the extent to which the components of narcissism are activated in the sexual domain, the current research drew from two longitudinal studies of 123 married couples to examine the extent to which sexual narcissism predicted marital infidelity. Consistent with the idea that narcissism predicts sexual behavior when activated in the sexual domain, own sexual narcissism was positively associated with infidelity, controlling for own marital and sexual satisfaction, own globally-assessed narcissism, partner globally-assessed narcissism, and partner sexual narcissism. Helping to explain why this association emerged, further analyses demonstrated that it was driven by all four facets of sexual narcissism—sexual exploitation, grandiose sense of sexual skill, sexual entitlement (Study 1 only), and lack of sexual empathy (husbands only). Additionally, although partner sexual narcissism was unrelated to infidelity on average, partners’ grandiose sense of sexual skill and partners’ sexual entitlement (Study 2 only) were positively associated with infidelity, and partners’ lack of sexual empathy was negatively associated with infidelity (Study 2 only). These findings highlight the benefits of using domain-specific measures of sexual narcissism in research on sexual behavior and the benefits of using domain-specific measures of personality more generally.
Sexual Scripts and Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Black Heterosexual Men: Development of the Sexual Scripts Scale
Creators: name: Tschann, Jeanne M.
name: Burkholder, Gary J.
name: Malebranche, David J.
name: Noar, Seth M.
name: Teti, Michelle
name: Bowleg, Lisa
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Sexual scripts are widely shared gender and culture-specific guides for sexual behavior with important implications for HIV prevention. Although several qualitative studies document how sexual scripts may influence sexual risk behaviors, quantitative investigations of sexual scripts in the context of sexual risk are rare. This mixed methods study involved the qualitative development and quantitative testing of the Sexual Scripts Scale (SSS). Study 1 included qualitative semi-structured interviews with 30 Black heterosexual men about sexual experiences with main and casual sex partners to develop the SSS. Study 2 included a quantitative test of the SSS with 526 predominantly low-income Black heterosexual men. A factor analysis of the SSS resulted in a 34-item, seven-factor solution that explained 68% of the variance. The subscales and coefficient alphas were: Romantic Intimacy Scripts (α = .86), Condom Scripts (α = .82), Alcohol Scripts (α = .83), Sexual Initiation Scripts (α = .79), Media Sexual Socialization Scripts (α = .84), Marijuana Scripts (α = .85), and Sexual Experimentation Scripts (α = .84). Among men who reported a main partner (n = 401), higher Alcohol Scripts, Media Sexual Socialization Scripts, and Marijuana Scripts scores, and lower Condom Scripts scores were related to more sexual risk behavior. Among men who reported at least one casual partner (n = 238), higher Romantic Intimacy Scripts, Sexual Initiation Scripts, and Media Sexual Socialization Scripts, and lower Condom Scripts scores were related to higher sexual risk. The SSS may have considerable utility for future research on Black heterosexual men’s HIV risk.
Light at night and the risk of breast cancer: Findings from the Sister study
Creators: name: Jones, R.R.
name: Engel, L.S.
name: Keil, A.P.
name: James, P.
name: Sweeney, M.R.
name: Sandler, D.P.
name: Nichols, H.B.
name: White, A.J.
name: Olshan, A.F.
name: Jackson, C.L.
Publisher: name: Elsevier Ltd
Year: 2022

description: Background: Light at night (LAN) may alter estrogen regulation through circadian disruption. High levels of outdoor LAN may increase breast cancer risk, but studies have largely not considered possible residual confounding from correlated environmental exposures. We evaluated the association between indoor and outdoor LAN and incident breast cancer. Methods: In 47,145 participants in the prospective Sister Study cohort living in the contiguous U.S., exposure to outdoor LAN was determined using satellite-measured residential data and indoor LAN was self-reported (light/TV on, light from outside the room, nightlight, no light). We used Cox proportional hazards models to calculate hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for the associations between outdoor and indoor LAN and breast cancer risk. Models were adjusted for age, race/ethnicity, educational attainment, annual household income, neighborhood disadvantage, latitude, and population density as a proxy for urbanicity. To evaluate the potential for residual confounding of the outdoor LAN and breast cancer relationship by factors associated with urbanicity, we considered further adjustment for exposures correlated with outdoor LAN including NO2 [Spearman correlation coefficient, rho (ρ) = 0.78], PM2.5 (ρ = 0.36), green space (ρ = − 0.41), and noise (ρ = 0.81). Results: During 11 years of follow-up, 3,734 breast cancer cases were identified. Outdoor LAN was modestly, but non-monotonically, associated with a higher risk of breast cancer (Quintile 4 vs 1: HR = 1.10, 95% CI: 0.99–1.22; Quintile 5 vs 1: HR = 1.04, 95% CI: 0.93–1.16); however, no association was evident after adjustment for correlated ambient exposures (Quintile 4 vs 1: HR = 0.99, 95% CI: 0.86–1.14; Quintile 5 vs 1: HR = 0.89, 95% CI: 0.74–1.06). Compared to those with no indoor LAN exposure, sleeping with a light or TV on was associated with a HR = 1.09 (95% CI: 0.97–1.23) in the adjusted model. Conclusions: Outdoor LAN does not appear to increase the risk of breast cancer after adjustment for correlated environmental exposures.
Use of Multiple Sex Venues and Prevalence of HIV Risk Behavior: Identifying High-Risk Men Who Have Sex with Men
Creators: name: Woods, William J.
name: Kerr, Zachary Y.
name: Pollack, Lance M.
name: Binson, Diane
name: Blair, Johnny
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: The National HIV/AIDS Strategy emphasizes the importance of bringing prevention to the most at-risk populations. Interventions targeting all men who have sex with men (MSM) fail in that respect because only a minority engages in behavior that is likely to lead to HIV infection. Previous studies have shown that MSM who seek male sexual partners in more than one venue type (e.g., bathhouse, cruising area, online) are most likely to engage in unprotected anal intercourse (UAI), compared to men who only meet partners in any one of these setting types or who do not use venues. The present study reports differences in prevalence of UAI among MSM by their use of venue sites to meet sexual partners. A probability sample of 459 bathhouse patrons completed exit surveys. In the three months before the current bathhouse visit, 63.5% visited a bathhouse (not including the visit at which they were recruited), 46.7% visited a cruising area, 46.5% used online cruise sites to find sex partners, and 30.9% reported UAI. While UAI was associated with online cruise site use, prevalence of UAI with men met online was relatively low. The odds of UAI among men who used all three venues was significantly higher compared to men using zero [Odds Ratio (OR)=4.4; 95% Confidence Interval (CI): 1.6, 12.1)] one (OR=5.3; 95% CI: 2.2, 12.8) or two venues (OR=4.3; 95% CI: 1.9, 9.6). The findings suggest that prevention would benefit from screening for venue use to help identify men with the greatest behavioral risk.
Spin and magnetothermal transport in the S = 1/2 XXZ chain
Creators: name: Psaroudaki, C.
name: Zotos, X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a temperature and magnetic field dependence study of spin transport and magnetothermal corrections to the thermal conductivity in the spin S = 1/2 integrable easy-plane regime Heisenberg chain, extending an earlier analysis based on the Bethe ansatz method. We critically discuss the low temperature, weak magnetic field behavior, the effect of magnetothermal corrections in the vicinity of the critical field and their role in recent thermal conductivity experiments in 1D quantum magnets.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 9 of ATP-citrate lyase B (ACLB) negatively affects cell death and resistance to Verticillium wilt
Creators: name: Liu, Fujie
name: Ma, Zhifeng
name: Cai, Sheng
name: Dai, Lingjun
name: Gao, Jianbo
name: Zhou, Baoliang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 9: Table S4. Primers used in this study.
Negative Life Events and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in an Adolescent Inpatient Sample
Creators: name: Simon, Valerie A.
name: Prinstein, Mitchell J.
name: Cataldo, Andrea M.
name: Frazier, Elisabeth A.
name: Liu, Richard T.
name: Spirito, Anthony
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Although life stressors have been implicated in the aetiology of various forms of psychopathology related to non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), particularly depression and suicidal behavior, they have rarely been examined in relation with NSSI. The objective of the current study was to assess the association between life stressors and NSSI in adolescent inpatients.
Training I: The All of Us researcher workbench and creating a project
Creators: name: Coleman, Julie
name: Baker, Jasmine
name: Ketkar, Shamika
name: Butler, Ashley
name: LaTerrica Williams
name: Atkinson, Elizabeth
name: Worley, Kim
name: Murray, Debra
name: Lee, Brendan
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2023

description: This training introduces researchers to the All of Us Research Program, with special emphasis on the data, the Research Hub, and the Researcher Workbench. Researchers are also introduced to how to create a workspace, duplicate a workspace, and run an All of Us Jupyter Notebook.
Additional file 1 of Rationale and design of an investigator-initiated, multicenter, prospective, placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomized trial to evaluate the effects of finerenone on vascular stiffness and cardiorenal biomarkers in type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease (FIVE-STAR)
Creators: name: Tanaka, Atsushi
name: Shibata, Hirotaka
name: Imai, Takumi
name: Yoshida, Hisako
name: Miyazono, Motoaki
name: Takahashi, Naohiko
name: Fukuda, Daiju
name: Okada, Yosuke
name: Teragawa, Hiroki
name: Suwa, Satoru
name: Kida, Keisuke
name: Moroi, Masao
name: Taguchi, Isao
name: Toyoda, Shigeru
name: Shimabukuro, Michio
name: Tanabe, Kengo
name: Tanaka, Kenichi
name: Nangaku, Masaomi
name: Node, Koichi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology

description: Additional file 1. Study organization of the FIVE-STAR trial.
Acute and longer-term cardiovascular conditions in the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Coast Guard Cohort
Creators: name: Barrett, J.
name: Haigney, M.C.
name: Engel, L.S.
name: Christenbury, K.
name: Rowley, N.
name: Denic-Roberts, H.
name: Thomas, D.L.
name: Rusiecki, J.A.
Publisher: name: Elsevier Ltd
Year: 2022

description: Introduction: In 2010, the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) led a clean-up response to the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill. Human studies evaluating acute and longer-term cardiovascular conditions associated with oil spill-related exposures are sparse. Thus, we aimed to investigate prevalent and incident cardiovascular symptoms/conditions in the DHW Oil Spill Coast Guard Cohort. Methods: Self-reported oil spill exposures and cardiovascular symptoms were ascertained from post-deployment surveys (n = 4,885). For all active-duty cohort members (n = 45,193), prospective cardiovascular outcomes were classified via International Classification of Diseases, 9th Edition from military health encounter records up to 5.5 years post-DWH. We used log-binomial regression to calculate adjusted prevalence ratios (aPRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) in the cross-sectional analyses and Cox Proportional Hazards regression to calculate adjusted hazard ratios (aHR) and 95% CIs for incident cardiovascular diagnoses during 2010–2015 and stratifying by earlier (2010–2012) and later (2013–2015) time periods. Results: Prevalence of chest pain was associated with increasing levels of crude oil exposure via inhalation (aPRhigh vs. none = 2.00, 95% CI = 1.16–3.42, p-trend = 0.03) and direct skin contact (aPRhigh vs. none = 2.72, 95% CI = 1.30–5.16, p-trend = 0.03). Similar associations were observed for sudden heartbeat changes and for being in the vicinity of burning oil exposure. In prospective analyses, responders (vs. non-responders) had an elevated risk for mitral valve disorders during 2013–2015 (aHR = 2.12, 95% CI = 1.15–3.90). Responders reporting ever (vs. never) crude oil inhalation exposure were at increased risk for essential hypertension, particularly benign essential hypertension during 2010–2012 (aHR = 2.00, 95% CI = 1.08–3.69). Responders with crude oil inhalation exposure also had an elevated risk for palpitations during 2013–2015 (aHR = 2.54, 95% CI = 1.36–4.74). Cardiovascular symptoms/conditions aPR and aHR estimates were generally stronger among responders reporting exposure to both crude oil and oil dispersants than among those reporting neither. Conclusions: In this large study of the DWH oil spill USCG responders, self-reported spill clean-up exposures were associated with acute and longer-term cardiovascular symptoms/conditions.
Physical activity and depressive symptoms among pregnant women: the PIN3 study
Creators: name: Dole, Nancy
name: Herring, Amy H.
name: Siega-Riz, Anna Maria
name: Demissie, Zewditu
name: Evenson, Kelly R.
name: Gaynes, Bradley N.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Prenatal depression confers health risks for both mother and family. Physical activity may promote better mental health; however, few studies have examined the influence of physical activity on prenatal depression. Data from 1,220 women enrolled in the third Pregnancy, Infection, and Nutrition Study (2001-2005) were used to examine the associations between overall and domain-specific moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and depressive symptoms during pregnancy. Self-reported, past week physical activity assessed at 17-22 weeks' gestation was modeled in logistic regression with self-reported depressive symptoms assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale at 24-29 weeks' gestation. Active women with ≤2.67 h/week of total MVPA had almost half the odds of having high depressive symptoms as compared to women with no MVPA (odds ratio [OR] = 0.56, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.38, 0.83). Increased odds of elevated depressive symptoms were found for women participating in some but ≤2.25 h/week of adult and child care MVPA (OR = 1.84; 95% CI = 1.08, 3.11) and >1 h of indoor household MVPA (OR = 1.63, 95% CI = 0.99, 2.70) when compared to women with no MVPA. While overall MVPA may play a role in reducing the odds of developing elevated depressive symptoms, adult and child care and indoor household activities may increase it.
Stein's method of exchangeable pairs for the Beta distribution and generalizations
Creators: name: Döbler, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60F05 (Primary), 60E99 (Secondary)

description: We propose a new version of Stein's method of exchangeable pairs, which, given a suitable exchangeable pair $(W,W')$ of real-valued random variables, suggests the approximation of the law of $W$ by a suitable absolutely continuous distribution. This distribution is characterized by a first order linear differential Stein operator, whose coefficients $γ$ and $η$ are motivated by two regression properties satisfied by the pair $(W,W')$. Furthermore, the general theory of Stein's method for such an absolutely continuous distribution is developed and a general characterization result as well as general bounds on the solution to the Stein equation are given. This abstract approach is a certain extension of the theory developed in the papers \cite{ChSh} and \cite{EiLo10}, which only consider the framework of the density approach, i.e. $η\equiv1$. As an illustration of our technique we prove a general plug-in result, which bounds a certain distance of the distribution of a given random variable $W$ to a Beta distribution in terms of a given exchangeable pair $(W,W')$ and provide new bounds on the solution to the Stein equation for the Beta distribution, which complement the existing bounds from \cite{GolRei13}. The abstract plug-in result is then applied to derive bounds of order $n^{-1}$ for the distance between the distribution of the relative number of drawn red balls after $n$ drawings in a Pólya urn model and the limiting Beta distribution measured by a certain class of smooth test functions.
description: 37 pages, essential overlap with preprint "Stein's method of exchangeable pairs for absolutely continuous, univariate distributions with applications to the Polya urn model" (arXiv: 1207.0533) but completely new written and with several additional results and also some omissions
Additional file 1 of Recalling fake news during real news corrections can impair or enhance memory updating: the role of recollection-based retrieval
Creators: name: Kemp, Paige L.
name: Alexander, Timothy R.
name: Wahlheim, Christopher N.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Information.
Additional file 2 of Rationale and design of an investigator-initiated, multicenter, prospective, placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomized trial to evaluate the effects of finerenone on vascular stiffness and cardiorenal biomarkers in type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease (FIVE-STAR)
Creators: name: Tanaka, Atsushi
name: Shibata, Hirotaka
name: Imai, Takumi
name: Yoshida, Hisako
name: Miyazono, Motoaki
name: Takahashi, Naohiko
name: Fukuda, Daiju
name: Okada, Yosuke
name: Teragawa, Hiroki
name: Suwa, Satoru
name: Kida, Keisuke
name: Moroi, Masao
name: Taguchi, Isao
name: Toyoda, Shigeru
name: Shimabukuro, Michio
name: Tanabe, Kengo
name: Tanaka, Kenichi
name: Nangaku, Masaomi
name: Node, Koichi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology

description: Additional file 2. SPIRIT 2013 checklist.
Fine Particulate Matter and Lung Function among Burning-Exposed Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Workers
Creators: name: Kwok, R.K.
name: Engel, L.S.
name: Stenzel, M.R.
name: Blair, A.
name: Christenbury, K.
name: Chen, D.
name: Groth, C.P.
name: Pratt, G.C.
name: Jackson, W.B., II
name: Banerjee, S.
name: Sandler, D.P.
name: Stewart, P.A.
name: Curry, M.D.
name: Lawrence, K.G.
Publisher: name: Public Health Services, US Dept of Health and Human Services
Year: 2022

description: BACKGROUND: During the 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DWH) disaster, controlled burning was conducted to remove oil from the water. Workers near combustion sites were potentially exposed to increased fine particulate matter [with aerodynamic diameter ≤2:5 lm (PM2:5 )] levels. Exposure to PM2:5 has been linked to decreased lung function, but to our knowledge, no study has examined exposure encountered in an oil spill cleanup. OBJECTIVE: We investigated the association between estimated PM2:5 only from burning/flaring of oil/gas and lung function measured 1–3 y after the DWH disaster. METHODS: We included workers who participated in response and cleanup activities on the water during the DWH disaster and had lung function measured at a subsequent home visit (n = 2,316). PM2:5 concentrations were estimated using a Gaussian plume dispersion model and linked to work histories via a job-exposure matrix. We evaluated forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1; milliliters), forced vital capacity (FVC; milliliters), and their ratio (FEV1/FVC; %) in relation to average and cumulative daily maximum exposures using multivariable linear regressions. RESULTS: We observed significant exposure–response trends associating higher cumulative daily maximum PM2:5 exposure with lower FEV1 (p-trend = 0:04) and FEV1/FVC (p-trend = 0:01). In comparison with the referent group (workers not involved in or near the burning), those with higher cumulative exposures had lower FEV1 [−166:8 mL, 95% confidence interval (CI): −337:3, 3.7] and FEV1/FVC (−1:7, 95% CI: −3:6, 0.2). We also saw nonsignificant reductions in FVC (high vs. referent: −120:9, 95% CI: −319:4, 77.6; p-trend = 0:36). Similar associations were seen for average daily maximum PM2:5 exposure. Inverse associations were also observed in analyses stratified by smoking and time from exposure to spirom-etry and when we restricted to workers without prespill lung disease. CONCLUSIONS: Among oil spill workers, exposure to PM2:5 specifically from controlled burning of oil/gas was associated with significantly lower FEV1 and FEV1/FVC when compared with workers not involved in burning. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP8930.
Ambient particulate matter, ozone, and neurologic symptoms in U.S. Gulf states adults
Creators: name: Werder, E.J.
name: Engel, L.S.
name: Lawrence, K.G.
name: Sandler, D.P.
Publisher: name: Wolters Kluwer Health
Year: 2021

description: Research on neurologic effects of air pollution has focused on neurodevelopment or later-life neurodegeneration; other effects throughout adulthood have received less attention. We examined air pollution levels and neurologic symptoms among 21,467 adults in US Gulf Coast states. We assigned exposure using Environmental Protection Agency estimates of daily ambient particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) and ozone. Gulf Long-term Follow-up Study participants reported neurologic symptoms at enrollment (2011-2013). We estimated cross-sectional associations between each air pollutant and prevalence of "any" neurologic, central nervous system (CNS), or peripheral nervous system (PNS) symptoms. Ambient PM2.5was consistently associated with prevalence of neurologic symptoms. The highest quartile of 30-day PM2.5was associated with any neurologic symptom (prevalence ratio [PR] = 1.16; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.09, 1.23) and there were increasing monotonic relationships between 30-day PM2.5and each symptom category (P-trend ≤ 0.01). Associations with PM2.5were slightly stronger among nonsmokers and during colder seasons. The highest quartile of 7-day ozone was associated with increased prevalence of PNS symptoms (PR = 1.09; 95% CI = 1.00, 1.19; P-trend = 0.03), but not with other outcomes. Ozone concentrations above regulatory levels were suggestively associated with neurologic symptoms (PR = 1.06; 95% CI = 0.99, 1.14). Mutual adjustment in co-pollutant models suggests that PM2.5is more relevant than ozone in relation to prevalence of neurologic symptoms.
Proof of concept: Partner-Assisted Interpersonal Psychotherapy for perinatal depression
Creators: name: Shivakumar, Geetha
name: Ceccotti, Nadia
name: Hynan, Linda S.
name: Jarrett, Robin B.
name: Johnson, Neysa
name: Brandon, Anna R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Although poor partner support is a key risk factor for depression in pregnant and postpartum women, partners are not generally involved in treatment beyond psychoeducation. The aim of this "proof of concept" study was to test safety, acceptability, and feasibility of Partner-Assisted Interpersonal Psychotherapy (PA-IPT), an intervention that includes the partner as an active participant throughout treatment. Women more than 12 weeks estimated gestational age and less than 12 weeks postpartum were invited to participate if they fulfilled DSM-IV criteria for Major Depressive Disorder and reported moderate symptom severity (HAM-D17 ≥16). The open trial included eight acute-phase sessions and a 6-week follow-up assessment. Ten couples completed the acute phase treatment and nine presented for a 6-week follow-up assessment. There were no study-related adverse events, and no women had symptomatic worsening from intake to Session Eight. All partners attended all sessions, no couples dropped out of treatment, and all reported positive treatment satisfaction at the conclusion of the study. Nine of ten women (90 %) met the criteria for clinical response (HAM-D17=9) at the conclusion of acute phase treatment, and eight of the nine (89 %) presenting at a 6-week follow-up assessment met criteria for symptomatic recovery. Incorporating partners in the treatment of major depressive disorders during the perinatal period is safe, acceptable, and feasible, but needs further testing in a larger population to evaluate efficacy.
A pilot study of heart rate variability biofeedback therapy in the treatment of perinatal depression on a specialized perinatal psychiatry inpatient unit
Creators: name: Meltzer-Brody, Samantha
name: Greene, Tammy B.
name: Beckham, A. Jenna
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Heart rate variability biofeedback (HRVB) therapy may be useful in treating the prominent anxiety features of perinatal depression. We investigated the use of this non-pharmacologic therapy among women hospitalized with severe perinatal depression.
Additional file 1 of A combined spatial score of granzyme B and CD68 surpasses CD8 as an independent prognostic factor in TNM stage II colorectal cancer
Creators: name: Noti, Luca
name: Galván, José A.
name: Dawson, Heather
name: Lugli, Alessandro
name: Kirsch, Richard
name: Assarzadegan, Naziheh
name: Messenger, David
name: Krebs, Philippe
name: Berger, Martin D.
name: Zlobec, Inti
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1.
Epidemic Model with Isolation in Multilayer Networks
Creators: name: Zuzek, L. G. Alvarez
name: Stanley, H. E.
name: Braunstein, L. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) model has successfully mimicked the propagation of such airborne diseases as influenza A (H1N1). Although the SIR model has recently been studied in a multilayer networks configuration, in almost all the research the isolation of infected individuals is disregarded. Hence we focus our study in an epidemic model in a two-layer network, and we use an isolation parameter to measure the effect of isolating infected individuals from both layers during an isolation period. We call this process the Susceptible-Infected-Isolated-Recovered ($SI_IR$) model. The isolation reduces the transmission of the disease because the time in which infection can spread is reduced. In this scenario we find that the epidemic threshold increases with the isolation period and the isolation parameter. When the isolation period is maximum there is a threshold for the isolation parameter above which the disease never becomes an epidemic. We also find that epidemic models, like $SIR$ overestimate the theoretical risk of infection. Finally, our model may provide a foundation for future research to study the temporal evolution of the disease calibrating our model with real data.
description: 18 pages, 5 figures.Accepted in Scientific Reports
Dynamical decoupling efficiency versus quantum non-Markovianity
Creators: name: Addis, Carole
name: Ciccarello, Francesco
name: Cascio, Michele
name: Palma, G. Massimo
name: Maniscalco, Sabrina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the relationship between non-Markovianity and the effectiveness of a dynamical decoupling protocol for qubits undergoing pure dephasing. We consider an exact model in which dephasing arises due to a bosonic environment with a spectral density of the Ohmic class. This is parametrised by an Ohmicity parameter by changing which we can model both Markovian and non-Markovian environments. Interestingly, we find that engineering a non-Markovian environment is detrimental to the efficiency of the dynamical decoupling scheme, leading to a worse coherence preservation. We show that each dynamical decoupling pulse reverses the flow of quantum information and, on this basis, we investigate the connection between dynamical decoupling efficiency and the reservoir spectral density. Finally, in the spirit of reservoir engineering, we investigate the optimum system-reservoir parameters for achieving maximum stationary coherences.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
title: NeRF-FF: a plug-in method to mitigate defocus blur for runtime optimized neural radiance fields
Creators: name: Wirth, Tristan
name: Rak, Arne
name: Buelow, Max von
name: Knauthe, Volker
name: Kuijper, Arjan
name: Fellner, Dieter W.
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2025

description: Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) have revolutionized novel view synthesis, leading to an unprecedented level of realism in rendered images. However, the reconstruction quality of NeRFs suffers significantly from out-of-focus regions in the input images. We propose NeRF-FF, a plug-in strategy that estimates image masks based on Focus Frustums (FFs), i.e., the visible volume in the scene space that is in-focus. NeRF-FF enables a subsequently trained NeRF model to omit out-of-focus image regions during the training process. Existing methods to mitigate the effects of defocus blurred input images often leverage dynamic ray generation. This makes them incompatible with the static ray assumptions employed by runtime-performance-optimized NeRF variants, such as Instant-NGP, leading to high training times. Our experiments show that NeRF-FF outperforms state-of-the-art approaches regarding training time by two orders of magnitude—reducing it to under 1 min on end-consumer hardware—while maintaining comparable visual quality.
Quasi-periodicity in relative quasi-periodic tori
Creators: name: Fassò, Francesco
name: García-Naranjo, Luis C.
name: Giacobbe, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37J35, 37C55, 37C80

description: At variance from the cases of relative equilibria and relative periodic orbits of dynamical systems with symmetry, the dynamics in relative quasi-periodic tori (namely, subsets of the phase space that project to an invariant torus of the reduced system on which the flow is quasi-periodic) is not yet completely understood. Even in the simplest situation of a free action of a compact and abelian connected group, the dynamics in a relative quasi-periodic torus is not necessarily quasi-periodic. It is known that quasi-periodicity of the unreduced dynamics is related to the reducibility of the reconstruction equation, and sufficient conditions for it are virtually known only in a perturbation context. We provide a different, though equivalent, approach to this subject, based on the hypothesis of the existence of commuting, group-invariant lifts of a set of generators of the reduced torus. Under this hypothesis, which is shown to be equivalent to the reducibility of the reconstruction equation, we give a complete description of the structure of the relative quasi-periodic torus, which is a principal torus bundle whose fibers are tori of a dimension which exceeds that of the reduced torus by at most the rank of the group. The construction can always be done in such a way that these tori have minimal dimension and carry ergodic flow.
description: 19 pages. Third version includes corrections suggested by the journal. This version has been accepted for publication in Nonlinearity
Electromigration-driven Evolution of the Surface Morphology and Composition for a Bi-Component Solid Film
Creators: name: Khenner, Mikhail
name: Bandegi, Mahdi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35R37, 35Q74, 37N15, 65Z05, 74H55

description: A two PDEs-based model is developed for studies of a morphological and compositional evolution of a thermodynamically stable alloy surface in a strong electric field, assuming different and anisotropic diffusional mobilities of the two atomic components. The linear stability analysis of a planar surface and the computations of morphology coarsening are performed. It is shown that the conditions for instability and the characteristic wavelength and growth rate differ from their counterparts in a single-component film. Computational parametric analyses reveal the sensitivity of the scaling exponents to the electric field strength and to the magnitude of the anisotropies difference.
pernikahan beda agama
Creators: name: Hutabarat, Priska Sonta Uli
name: Hutabarat, Priska Sonta Uli
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Pernikahan beda agama antara Kristen protestan dan Katolik pada keluarga Batak.

Dalam kasus ini terjadi pertentangan antara religi dan kebudayaan yang terikat pada salah satu pasangan yang berselisih kesepakatan untuk persetujuan pernikahan antara kedua keluarga mempelai dalam konteks pemberkatan gereja.
ISPMD consensus on the management of premenstrual disorders
Creators: name: Rubinow, David
name: O’Brien, Patrick Michael Shaughn
name: Epperson, C. Neill
name: Pearlstein, Teri
name: Panay, Nicholas
name: Ismail, Khalid
name: Brown, Candace
name: Steiner, Meir
name: Eriksson, Elias
name: Reid, Robert
name: Yonkers, Kimberly
name: Dennerstein, Lorraine
name: Schmidt, Peter
name: Studd, John
name: Freeman, Ellen W.
name: Rapkin, Andrea
name: Endicott, Jean
name: Bäckström, Torbjorn
name: Sundström-Poromaa, Inger
name: Nevatte, Tracy
name: Halbreich, Uriel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: The second consensus meeting of the International Society for Premenstrual Disorders (ISPMD) took place in London during March 2011. The primary goal was to evaluate the published evidence and consider the expert opinions of the ISPMD members to reach a consensus on advice for the management of premenstrual disorders. Gynaecologists, psychiatrists, psychologists and pharmacologists each formally presented the evidence within their area of expertise; this was followed by an in-depth discussion leading to consensus recommendations. This article provides a comprehensive review of the outcomes from the meeting. The group discussed and agreed that careful diagnosis based on the recommendations and classification derived from the first ISPMD consensus conference is essential and should underlie the appropriate management strategy. Options for the management of premenstrual disorders fall under two broad categories, (a) those influencing central nervous activity, particularly the modulation of the neurotransmitter serotonin and (b) those that suppress ovulation. Psychotropic medication, such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, probably acts by dampening the influence of sex steroids on the brain. Oral contraceptives, gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists, danazol and estradiol all most likely function by ovulation suppression. The role of oophorectomy was also considered in this respect. Alternative therapies are also addressed, with, e.g. cognitive behavioural therapy, calcium supplements and Vitex agnus castus warranting further exploration.