cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Assisted reproductive technology: Prevalence and associated factors in Southern Brazil
Creators: name: da Silveira, M.F.
name: Bertoldi, A.D.
name: Domingues, M.R.
name: da Silva, S.G.
name: Evenson, K.R.
name: dos Santos, I.S.
Publisher: name: Universidade de Sao Paulo
Year: 2019

description: OBJECTIVE: To assess the prevalence of successful assisted reproductive technology and to identify the associated factors. METHODS: This population-based birth cohort study was carried out with 4,333 pregnant women expected to deliver in 2015 in the urban area of Pelotas, Southern Brazil. Use of an assisted reproductive technology procedure, type of assisted reproductive technology [in vitro fertilization or intracytoplasmic sperm injection or artificial insemination], number of embryos transferred, success of embryo transfer, number of attempts, and reported reasons for seeking assisted reproductive technology were the main outcomes measured. Use of an assisted reproductive technology procedure was analyzed according to sociodemographic, nutritional, reproductive history, and behavioral characteristics. Unadjusted and adjusted analyses were performed by logistic regression. RESULTS: A mong t he 4, 275 n ewborns e nrolled i n t he P elotas 2 015 B irth C ohort S tudy, 18 births (0.4%) were conceived by assisted reproductive technology. Most cases of assisted reproductive technology were by in vitro fertilization (70.6%). All cycles were performed in private clinics under direct out-of-pocket payment. Even after controlling for confounders, maternal age < 35 years, nulliparity and high family monthly income were strongly associated with assisted reproductive technology. CONCLUSIONS: The use of assisted reproductive technology services was reported by only a few women in the Pelotas 2015 Birth Cohort Study. Our study highlights sociodemographic factors associated to assisted reproductive technology procedures. To better understand the patterns and barriers in overall use of assisted reproductive technology services over time, national-level trend studies in assisted reproductive technology treatments and outcomes, as well as studies exploring the characteristics of women who have sought this kind of treatment are needed in low-middle income countries.
Inimese tüvirakud ja rakuteraapia
Creators: name: Neuman, Toomas
Publisher: name: OÜ Celsius Healthcare
Year: 2006

description: Inimese tüvirakkude avastamine ja meetodikate väljatöötamine nende kasvatamiseks in vitro on loonud võimaluse autoloogilise rakuteraapia tekkeks. Koos tüvirakkude temaatikaga on viimasel kümnendil ühiskonna tähelepanu keskmesse kerkinud ka inimese ja loomade kloonimine. Teadusliku kontseptsioonina on nii tüvirakud kui ka kloonimine suhteliselt vanad valdkonnad. Efektiivse rakuteraapia areng eeldab täpseid teadmisi tüvi rakkude bioloogiast ja nendel teadmistel põhinevate meetodite loomist tüvirakkude suunatud kultiveerimiseks.

Eesti Arst 2006; 85 (9): 565–569
description: Eesti Arst, September 2006
Arstiõppe ja residentuuri rahastamine aastatel 1994–2006
Creators: name: Kiivet, Raul-Allan
name: Asser, Toomas
Publisher: name: OÜ Celsius Healthcare
Year: 2006

description: Eesti taasiseseisvumisel, kui avanes võimalus ja tekkis kohustus ise planeerida ja juhtida Eesti tervishoidu, tehti hulk kaalukaid otsuseid. Kõige esimene ja otsustavam reform oli aastatel 1991–1992 ravikindlustusele üleminek, mis muutis arstiabi rahastamise läbipaistvaks ja stabiilseks ning tagas tervishoiusüsteemi tasakaalustatud
arengu.

Eesti Arst 2006; 85 (9): 559–563
description: Eesti Arst, September 2006
Lattice construction of logarithmic modules for certain vertex algebras
Creators: name: Adamovic, Drazen
name: Milas, Antun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 17B69; 17B67; 81R10

description: A general method for constructing logarithmic modules in vertex operator algebra theory is presented. By utilizing this approach, we give explicit vertex operator construction of certain indecomposable and logarithmic modules for the triplet vertex algebra W(p) and for other subalgebras of lattice vertex algebras and their N=1 super extensions. We analyze in detail indecomposable modules obtained in this way, giving further evidence for the conjectural equivalence between the category of W(p)-modules and the category of modules for the restricted quantum group $\bar{\mathcal{U}}_q(sl_2)$ at root of unity. We also construct logarithmic representations for a certain affine vertex operator algebra at admissible level realized in \cite{A-2005}. In this way we prove the existence of the logarithmic representations predicted in \cite{G}. Our approach enlightens related logarithmic intertwining operators among indecomposable modules, which we also construct in the paper.
description: 28 pages; a few minor changes, to appear in Selecta Mathematica (NS)
Driven to Support: Individual- and County-Level Factors Associated With Public Support for Active Transportation Policies
Creators: name: Tabak, R.G.
name: Evenson, K.R.
name: Schmid, T.L.
name: Chriqui, J.F.
name: Perry, C.K.
name: Goins, K.V.
name: Valko, C.
name: Umstattd Meyer, M.R.
name: Gustat, J.
name: Heinrich, K.M.
name: Barrett, J.L.
name: Cradock, A.L.
name: Scanze, M.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Inc.
Year: 2018

description: Purpose: To assess predictors of stated support for policies promoting physically active transportation. Design: Cross-sectional. Setting: US counties selected on county-level physical activity and obesity health status. Participants: Participants completing random-digit dialed telephone survey (n = 906). Measures: Survey measures assessed stated support for 5 policies to promote physically active transportation, access to active transportation facilities, and time spent in a car. County-level estimates included household car dependence and funding for bicycle–pedestrian projects. Analysis: Multivariable generalized linear mixed models using binary distribution and logit link, accounting for clustering within county. Results: Respondents supported policies for accommodating bicyclists and pedestrians through street improvements (89%), school active transportation programs (75%), employer-funded active commuting incentives (67%), and allocation of public funding (68%) and tax support (56%) for building and maintaining public transit. Residents spending >2 h/d (vs <0.7 hours) in cars were more likely to support street (odds ratio [OR]: 1.87; confidence interval [CI]: 1.09-3.22) and public transit (OR: 1.85; CI: 1.24-2.77) improvements. Residents in counties investing >$1.6 million in bicycle and pedestrian improvements expressed greater support for funding (OR: 1.71; CI: 1.04-2.83) and tax increases (OR: 1.73; CI: 1.08-2.75) for transit improvements compared to those with lower prior investments (<$276 100). Conclusion: Support for policies to enable active transportation is higher where relevant investments in active transportation infrastructure are large (>$1.6 M), public transit is nearby, and respondents drive >2 h/d.
Endokannabinoidsüsteemi CB1 retseptori blokaator rimonabant – uus võimalus metaboolse sündroomi ravis
Creators: name: Sinisalu, Väino
Publisher: name: OÜ Celsius Healthcare
Year: 2006
Subjects: endogeenne kannabinoidsüsteem, metaboolne sündroom, endokannabinoidsüsteemi CB1 retseptorid, rimonabant

description: Endogeenne endokannabinoidsüsteem (EC) reguleerib organismi energia homeostaasi, rasva ladestumist ning glükoosi ja lipiidide ainevahetust. Selle süsteemi üleaktivatsiooni korral kaasneb liigsöömine, rasvumine, häirub lipiidide ja glükoosi ainevahetus. Need häired – metaboolne sündroom – suurendavad riski haigestuda südameveresoonkonnahaigustesse ja diabeeti. Uut tüüpi ravim rimonabant, blokeerides IEC aktiivsust, on osutunud kliinilistes katsetes metaboolse sündroomi ravis tõhusaks.

Eesti Arst 2006; 85 (9): 591–594
description: Eesti Arst, September 2006
Tonal organization in tuning of Paleolithic and Neolithic pipes: a new method of reconstructing prehistoric music
Creators: name: Nikolsky, Aleksey
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 190409 Musicology and Ethnomusicology
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)
subject: Archaeology

description: Organological evidence provides an important data for reconstruction of tonal organization in prehistoric music that most researchers deem forever unknown. Viktor Beliayev, an expert in tuning of Eurasian folk instruments, stressed that musical instruments with finger-holes and frets preserve historical stages in the development of melody by fixing those pitch values that prevail in culturally important music. Such instruments are equivalent to musical notation – they perpetuate modes that are most popular within a community. It is possible to “read” this notation following a set of principles proposed in this technical paper. This paper overviews the relative positioning of holes on all the recovered Paleolithic and Neolithic bone pipes. Distances between these holes represent the interval-sets in pitch-sets of music for which those bone pipes were designed.
Longitudinal Associations of Neighborhood Crime and Perceived Safety with Blood Pressure: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)
Creators: name: Block, R.
name: Evenson, K.R.
name: Kershaw, K.N.
name: Moore, K.A.
name: Mayne, S.L.
name: Powell-Wiley, T.M.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2018

description: Background: High neighborhood crime and low perceptions of safety may influence blood pressure (BP) through chronic stress. Few studies have examined these associations using longitudinal data. Methods: We used longitudinal data from 528 participants of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (aged 45-84, nonhypertensive at baseline) who lived in Chicago, Illinois. We examined associations of changes in individual-level perceived safety, aggregated neighborhood-level perceived safety, and past-year rates of police-recorded crime in a 1, =, or = mile buffer per 1,000 population with changes in systolic and diastolic BPs using fixed-effects linear regression. BP was measured five times between 2000 and 2012 and was adjusted for antihypertensive medication use (+10 mm Hg added to systolic and +5 mm Hg added to diastolic BP for participants on medication). Models were adjusted for time-varying sociodemographic and healthrelated characteristics and neighborhood socioeconomic status. We assessed differences by sex. Results: A standard deviation increase in individual-level perceived safety was associated with a 1.54 mm Hg reduction in systolic BP overall (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.25, 2.83), and with a 1.24 mm Hg reduction in diastolic BP among women only (95% CI: 0.37, 2.12) in adjusted models. Increased neighborhood-level safety was not associated with BP change. An increase in police-recorded crime was associated with a reduction in systolic and diastolic BPs among women only, but results were sensitive to neighborhood buffer size. Conclusions: Results suggest individual perception of neighborhood safety may be particularly salient for systolic BP reduction relative to more objective neighborhood exposures.
HELLP-sündroom
Creators: name: Rakitin, Aleksei
name: Ellervee, Anneli
name: Reinhard, Veronika
Publisher: name: OÜ Celsius Healthcare
Year: 2006
Subjects: HELLP-sündroom, preeklampsia, ajusisene hemorraagia

description: HELLP-sündroom on üks raske preeklampsia ilmingutest, mida iseloomustab hemolüüs, maksaensüümide suurenenud aktiivsus ja väike vereliistakute arv patsiendi veres. Enamikul haigetest esineb ülakõhuvalu, iiveldus, oksendamine, hüpertensioon, proteinuuria. Varajane diagnoos on eriti oluline, kuna HELLP-sündroomi puhul on ema- ja lootepoolsete raskete tüsistuste risk suurenenud. Ravitaktika sõltub raseduse kestu-
sest ja patsiendi üldseisundist. Artiklis on kirjeldatud 27aastase naise haigusjuhtu, kellel 27. rasedusnädalal tekkis HELLP-sündroom, mille tüsistuseks oli platsenta enneaegne irdumine ja ajusisene hemorraagia.
Eesti Arst 2006; 85 (9): 595–600
description: Eesti Arst, September 2006
Meditsiinidoktor Arno Ruusalepp
Creators: name: Tähepõld, Peeter
Publisher: name: OÜ Celsius Healthcare
Year: 2006

description: 2. juunil 2006 kaitses Stockholmi Karolinska Instituudis edukalt doktoriväitekirja Tartu Ülikooli Kliinikumi kardiokirurgia osakonna arst-õppejõud Arno Ruusalepp. Mainimisväärne on tõsiasi, et üle mitme aastakümne on see Eesti südamekirurgi kaitstud doktoritöö. Väitekirja teemaks oli „Signal Transduction in Restenosis and Myocardial Protection by Hyperoxia“.
Eesti Arst 2006; 85 (9): 604–605
description: Eesti Arst, September 2006
Exercise and pregnancy in recreational and elite athletes: 2016/2017 evidence summary from the IOC expert group meeting, Lausanne. Part 5. Recommendations for health professionals and active women
Creators: name: Davies, G.A.L., , Kingston, ON, Canada
name: Brown, W.J.
name: Nygaard, I.
name: Kayser, B.
name: Evenson, K.R.
name: Stuge, B.
name: Bø, K.
name: Mottola, M.F.
name: Larsen, K.
name: Haakstad, L.A.H.
name: Khan, K.M.
name: Artal, R.
name: Kinnunen, T.I.
name: Dooley, M.
name: Van Poppel, M.
name: Barakat, R.
Publisher: name: BMJ Publishing Group
Year: 2018

description: This is part 5 in the series of reviews from the IOC expert committee on exercise and pregnancy in recreational and elite athletes. Part 1 focused on the effects of training during pregnancy and on the management of common pregnancy-related complaints that may be experienced by athletes; part 2 addressed maternal and fetal perinatal outcomes; part 3 reviewed the implications of pregnancy and childbirth on return to exercise and on common illnesses and complaints in the postpartum period. Part 4 provided recommendations for future research based on parts 1 through 3. In part 5, we summarise our recommendations for exercise during pregnancy and after childbirth in recreational exercisers and elite athletes experiencing healthy pregnancies. Part 5 also serves as a background for healthcare personnel to advise women who wish to stay active at a high level.
Fractional Poincaré inequalities for general measures
Creators: name: Mouhot, Clément
name: Russ, Emmanuel
name: Sire, Yannick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 26A33, 46N20, 47G20

description: We prove a fractional version of Poincaré inequalities in the context of $\R^n$ endowed with a fairly general measure. Namely we prove a control of an $L^2$ norm by a non local quantity, which plays the role of the gradient in the standard Poincaré inequality. The assumption on the measure is the fact that it satisfies the classical Poincaré inequality, so that our result is an improvement of the latter inequality. Moreover we also quantify the tightness at infinity provided by the control on the fractional derivative in terms of a weight growing at infinity. The proof goes through the introduction of the generator of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck semigroup and some careful estimates of its powers. To our knowledge this is the first proof of fractional Poincaré inequality for measures more general than Lévy measures.
description: 18 pages. Version 2 includes corrections of 2 misprints and an additionnal reference [BBCG08] providing a weaker condition (1.2) (none of these corrections modifies the main result nor its proof). Thanks to Arnaud Guillin for pointing out these corrections
Accelerometer-measured physical activity and sedentary behavior in relation to all-cause mortality: The women's health study
Creators: name: LaCroix, A.Z.
name: Buring, J.E.
name: Shiroma, E.J.
name: Lee, I.-M.
name: Evenson, K.R.
name: Kamada, M.
Publisher: name: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Year: 2018

description: Physical inactivity is estimated to cause as many deaths globally each year as smoking. Current guidelines recommend ≥150 min/wk of moderate-intensity aerobic physical activity (PA) and muscle-strengthening exercises on ≥2 d/wk. These guidelines are based primarily on studies using self-reported moderate-to vigorous-intensity PA (MVPA). Technological developments now enable device assessments of light-intensity PA (LPA) and sedentary behavior, and well-designed studies with such assessments that investigate clinical outcomes are needed for updating current guidelines. Here, we present data from the WHS (Women’s Health Study). (The data, analytical methods, and study materials will not be made available to other researchers for purposes of reproducing the results or replicating the procedure.)
KROONILISE C-HEPATIIDI RAVIJUHEND
Creators: name: Ott, Kristi
name: Salupere, Riina
name: Prükk, Tiina
Publisher: name: OÜ Celsius Healthcare
Year: 2006

description: Krooniline C-hepatiit on oluline tervishoiuprobleem. C-hepatiidi (HCV) levimus maailma erinevates piirkondades on erinev, haigestunuid on mõnes piirkonnas isegi üle 10% rahvastikust; Eestis hinnanguliselt umbes 1%. Kuni 70% kroonilise viirushepatiidi juhtudest on põhjustanud C-hepatiidi viirus. C-hepatiidi viiruse ülekanne toimub põhiliselt nakatatud vere ja kehavedelike kaudu. Kuigi verekomponentide ülekande ja teiste meditsiiniliste protseduuride puhul järgitakse tänapäeval ohutusnõudeid, on siiski võimalik nakatuda C-hepatiidi viirusega.

Eesti Arst 2006; 85 (9): 610–613
description: Eesti Arst, September 2006
Accelerometer-Measured Physical Activity and Mortality in Women Aged 63 to 99
Creators: name: Evenson, K.R.
name: Eaton, C.B.
name: LaMonte, M.J.
name: Stefanick, M.L.
name: Tinker, L.F.
name: Di, C.
name: Rillamas-Sun, E.
name: Zaslovsky, O.
name: Buchner, D.M.
name: Lewis, C.E.
name: LaCroix, A.Z.
name: Seguin, R.
name: Lee, I.-M.
name: Bellettiere, J.
Publisher: name: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
Year: 2018

description: Objectives: To prospectively examine associations between accelerometer-measured physical activity (PA) and mortality in older women, with an emphasis on light-intensity PA. Design: Prospective cohort study with baseline data collection between March 2012 and April 2014. Setting: Women's Health Initiative cohort in the United States. Participants: Community-dwelling women aged 63 to 99 (N = 6,382). Measurements: Minutes per day of usual PA measured using hip-worn triaxial accelerometers, physical functioning measured using the Short Physical Performance Battery, mortality follow-up for a mean 3.1 years through September 2016 (450 deaths). Results: When adjusted for accelerometer wear time, age, race-ethnicity, education, smoking, alcohol, self-rated health, and comorbidities, relative risks (95% confidence intervals) for all-cause mortality across PA tertiles were 1.00 (referent), 0.86 (0.69, 1.08), 0.80 (0.62, 1.03) trend P =.07, for low light; 1.00, 0.57 (0.45, 0.71), 0.47 (0.35, 0.61) trend P <.001, for high light; and, 1.00, 0.63 (0.50, 0.79), 0.42 (0.30, 0.57) trend P <.001, for moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA). Associations remained significant for high light-intensity PA and MVPA (P <.001) after further adjustment for physical function. Each 30-min/d increment in light-intensity (low and high combined) PA and MVPA was associated, on average, with multivariable relative risk reductions of 12% and 39%, respectively (P <.01). After further simultaneous adjusting for light intensity and MVPA, the inverse associations remained significant (light-intensity PA: RR = 0.93, 95% CI = 0.89–0.97; MVPA: RR = 0.67, 95% CI = 0.58–0.78). These relative risks did not differ between subgroups for age or race and ethnicity (interaction, P ≥.14, all). Conclusion: When measured using accelerometers, light-intensity and MVPA are associated with lower mortality in older women. These findings suggest that replacing sedentary time with light-intensity PA is a public health strategy that could benefit an aging society and warrants further investigation.
The stratigraphy and structure of the type-area of the Chilliwack group, : southwestern British Columbia
Creators: name: Monger, James William Heron
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The stratigraphy and structure of Upper Palaeozoic and Mesozoic sedimentary and volcanic rocks, and of amphibolitic rocks of unknown age, were studied in an area of about 140 square miles in the Cascade Mountains of southwestern British Columbia. The amphibolitic rocks are probably of diverse origins; their stratigraphic relationship to the other rocks is not known, although they may, in part, be equivalent to pre-Devonian rocks in northwestern Washington. Upper Palaeozoic rocks comprise the Chilliwack Group. The base is not exposed. Oldest rocks are volcanic arenites and argillites which are overlain by an argillaceous limestone, about 100 feet thick, in which Early Pennsylvanian (Morrowan) fusulinids occur. Apparently conformably overlying the limestone is a succession of argillites, coarse volcanic arenites, minor conglomerate and local tuff, which contains both marine and terrestrial fossils and ranges in thickness from 450 to 800 feet. A cherty limestone, generally about 300 feet thick, in which there is an Early Permian (Leonardian) fusulinid fauna, is conformable upon the clastic sequence. Altered lavas and tuffs are in part laterally equivalent to this Permian limestone, and, in part, overlie it; these volcanic rocks range in thickness from 700 to 2,000 feet. Disconformably above the Permian volcanic rocks are argillites and volcanic arenites of the Cultus Formation. This formation is apparently about 4,000 feet thick, contains Late Triassic, Early and Late Jurassic fossils and no stratigraphic breaks have been recognized within it. All of these rocks underwent two phases of deformation between Late Jurassic and Miocene time. The first phase, correlated with mid-Cretaceous deformation in northwestern Washington, was the most severe., and thrusts and major, northeast-trending recumbent folds were formed. These structures subsequently were folded and faulted along a northwest trend, possibly in response to differential uplift of the Cascade Mountains.
title: Attitudes of Truck Drivers and Carriers on the Use of Electronic Logging Devices (ELDs) and Harassment [Research Brief]
Creators: name: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Publisher: name: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/01jt5mq34
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2014
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91748
subject: Truck drivers
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91865
subject: Attitudes
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97333
subject: Data logging
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88571
subject: Hours of labor
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/93917
subject: Electronic equipment
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97433
subject: Surveys
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88619
subject: Job satisfaction
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91993
subject: Motor carriers
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88606
subject: Employee relations

description: Truck drivers and carrier personnel were interviewed on the use of electronic logging devices (ELDs) for keeping track of driving hours and whether these devices were used to harass drivers. This research examined the following issues:

• Whether drivers considered their ELD-related experiences and interactions with their carriers as harassment.

• How frequently drivers reported the occurrence of ELD-related harassment.

• Whether these interactions were enabled by the carrier using hours-of-service (HOS) data collected via an ELD and whether it was a standalone ELD or a comprehensive system which included ELD capability.

• Whether drivers who use ELDs for tracking HOS differ from those who use paper logs.
The influence of physical activity and sedentary behavior on living to age 85 years without disease and disability in older women
Creators: name: Coday, M.C.
name: Evenson, K.R.
name: Lacroix, A.Z.
name: Thomson, C.A.
name: Lamonte, M.J.
name: Li, W.
name: Manini, T.M.
name: Beresford, S.A.
name: Rillamas-Sun, E.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2018

description: Background Whether physical activity (PA) and sedentary behavior influence the odds of women living to age 85 years without chronic disease or disability is not well described. Methods Participants of the Women's Health Initiative (n = 49,612) were categorized based on health status by age 85 years: (i) lived without developing major chronic disease or mobility disability ("healthy"); (ii) lived and developed mobility disability with or without disease; (iii) lived and developed major chronic disease, but not mobility disability; and (iv) died before their 85th birth year. Multinomial logistic regression models that adjusted for covariates such as age, race/ethnicity, and body size estimated associations of self-reported PA and sitting time on developing major disease or mobility disability or dying before age 85 relative to being healthy. Results Mean ± SD baseline age was 70.2 ± 3.6 years. Distributions were: 22% healthy, 23% had mobility disability, 26% had major disease, and 29% died. Relative to those with high total PA, the adjusted odds ratios (OR) (confidence intervals [CI]) for mobility disability was 1.6 (1.4-1.7), 1.2 (1.1-1.3), and 1.1 (1.0-1.2) for women with no, low, and moderate total PA, respectively (p-trend <.001). The corresponding covariate-adjusted OR (CI) for mortality was 1.7 (1.5-1.8), 1.2 (1.1-1.3), and 1.0 (1.0-1.1) (p-trend <.001). Total PA was not associated with developing chronic disease before age 85 years. Sitting ≥10 relative to <5 hours per day increased the odds of mobility disability (1.1, CI: 1.0-1.3) and mortality (1.2, CI: 1.0-1.3) prior to age 85 years (p <.001). Conclusions Increasing PA to recommended levels and reducing sitting time are modifiable behaviors that may improve healthy aging in older women.
How many days are needed to estimate wrist-worn accelerometry-assessed physical activity during the second trimester in pregnancy?
Creators: name: Da Silva, I.C.M.
name: Da Silva, B.G.C.
name: Evenson, K.R.
name: Cruz, G.I.N.
name: Hallal, P.C.
name: Ekelund, U.
name: de Almeida Mendes, M.
name: Domingues, M.R.
name: Da Silva, S.G.
Publisher: name: Public Library of Science
Year: 2018

description: Background Objective methods to measure physical activity (PA) can lead to better cross-cultural comparisons, monitoring temporal PA trends, and measuring the effect of interventions. However, when applying this technology in field-work, the accelerometer data processing is prone to methodological issues. One of the most challenging issues relates to standardizing total wear time to provide reliable data across participants. It is generally accepted that at least 4 complete days of accelerometer wear represent a week for adults. It is not known if this same assumption holds true for pregnant women. Aim We assessed the optimal number of days needed to obtain reliable estimates of overall PA and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) during the 2nd trimester in pregnancy using a raw triaxial wrist-worn accelerometer. Methods Cross-sectional analyses were carried out in the antenatal wave of the 2015 Pelotas (Brazil) Birth Cohort Study. Participants wore the wrist ActiGraph wGT3X-BT accelerometer for seven consecutive days. The daily average acceleration, which indicated overall PA, was measured as milli-g (mg), and time spent in MVPA (minutes/day) was analyzed in 5-minute bouts. ANOVA and Kruskal-Wallis tests were used to compare variability across days of the week. Bland-Altman plots and the Spearman-Brown Prophecy Formula were applied to determine the reliability coefficient associated with one to seven days of measurement. Results Among 2,082 pregnant women who wore the accelerometer for seven complete days, overall and MVPA were lower on Sundays compared to other days of the week. Reliability of > = 0.80 to evaluate overall PA was reached with at least three monitoring days, whereas seven days were needed to estimate reliable measures of MVPA. Conclusions Our findings indicate that obtaining one week of accelerometry in adults is appropriate for pregnant women, particularly to obtain differences on weekend days and reliably estimate overall PA and MVPA.
Arst ja avalik arvamus
Creators: name: Kaasik, Ain-Elmar
Publisher: name: OÜ Celsius Healthcare
Year: 2006

description: Kolleeg Helle Nurme kommentaar, milles ta viitas president Arnold Rüütli kognitiivsetele häiretele (PM 16.08.2006), tekitas ajakirjanduses elava vastukaja ning veelgi enam arutelusid arstkonnas ja elanikkonna erinevates rühmades. Käesolev kirjutis ei püüa omakorda hinnata Arnold Rüütli sobivust sellele kõrgele ametikohale – seda enam, et selle ilmumise ajaks on vabariigi president valitud. Püüan siiski lühidalt kommenteerida mõningaid Helle Nurme avaldusest johtunud arvamusi ja seisukohti. Küsimus on üsna keeruline ning see takistab lõplike seisukohtade kujunemist.

Eesti Arst 2006; 85 (9): 601–602
description: Eesti Arst, September 2006
Physical activity and sedentary behavior during pregnancy and postpartum, measured using hip and wrist-worn accelerometers
Creators: name: Evenson, K.R.
name: Hesketh, K.R.
name: Clancy, S.M.
name: Stroo, M.
name: Østbye, T.
name: Benjamin-Neelon, S.E.
Publisher: name: Elsevier Inc.
Year: 2018

description: Background: Physical activity in pregnancy and postpartum is beneficial to mothers and infants. To advance knowledge of objective physical activity measurement during these periods, this study compares hip to wrist accelerometer compliance; assesses convergent validity (correlation) between hip- and wrist-worn accelerometry; and assesses change in physical activity from pregnancy to postpartum. Methods: We recruited women during pregnancy (n = 100; 2014–2015), asking them to wear hip and wrist accelerometers for 7 days during Trimester 2 (T2), Trimester 3 (T3), and 3-, 6-, 9- and 12-months postpartum. We assessed average wear-time and correlations (axis-specific counts/minute, vector magnitude counts/day and step counts/day) at T2, T3, and postpartum. Results: Compliance was higher for wrist-worn accelerometers. Hip and wrist accelerometers showed moderate to high correlations (Pearson's r 0.59 to 0.84). Hip-measured sedentary and active time differed little between T2 and T3. Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity decreased at T3 and remained low postpartum. Light physical activity increased and sedentary time decreased throughout the postpartum period. Conclusions: Wrist accelerometers may be preferable during pregnancy and appear comparable to hip accelerometers. As physical activity declines during later pregnancy and may not rebound post birth, support for re-engaging in physical activity earlier in the postpartum period may benefit women.
Distribution and characteristics of Infrared Dark Clouds using genetic forward modelling
Creators: name: Marshall, D. J.
name: Joncas, G.
name: Jones, A. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Infrared Dark Clouds (IRDCs) are dark clouds seen in silhouette in mid-infrared surveys. They are thought to be the birthplace of massive stars, yet remarkably little information exists on the properties of the population as a whole (e.g. mass spectrum, spatial distribution). Genetic forward modelling is used along with the Two Micron All Sky Survey and the Besancon Galactic model to deduce the three dimensional distribution of interstellar extinction towards previously identified IRDC candidates. This derived dust distribution can then be used to determine the distance and mass of IRDCs, independently of kinematic models of the Milky Way. Along a line of sight that crosses an IRDC, the extinction is seen to rise sharply at the distance of the cloud. Assuming a dust to gas ratio, the total mass of the cloud can be estimated. The method has been successfully applied to 1259 IRDCs, including over 1000 for which no distance or mass estimate currently exists. The IRDCs are seen to lie preferentially along the spiral arms and in the molecular ring of the Milky Way, reinforcing the idea that they are the birthplace of massive stars. Also, their mass spectrum is seen to follow a power law with an index of -1.75 +/- 0.06, steeper than giant molecular clouds in the inner Galaxy, but comparable to clumps in GMCs. This slope suggests that the IRDCs detected using the present method are not gravitationally bound, but are rather the result of density fluctuations induced by turbulence.
description: 15 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Some oceanographic features of northern Chilean waters in July, 1962
Creators: name: Inostroza Villagra, Hector M.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: A description is presented of some of the oceanographic features of the northern Chilean waters as indicated by a study of the distribution of properties and of direct current measurements during the Marchile II Expedition, 1962. A narrow band of cold, low salinity water of low oxygen content close to the coast; an oxygen minimum layer from 50 to 400 m and the permanence of the Peru - Chile undercurrent are the outstanding features of the area. The process of upwelling is suggested as the main cause of the distribution of properties near the coast. However this process of upwelling was probably in a quiescent state during the Marchile II Expedition, being much less intense than during other expeditions in the same area, and than in other similar upwelling regions of the world.
How Does the Brain Organize Information?
Creators: name: Kroger, Helmut
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Cognitive processes in the brain, like learning, formation of memory, recovery of memorized images, classification of objects have two features: First, there is no supervisor in the brain who controls these processes. Second there is a hugh number of neurons (10^{6} to 10^{10}) involved in those cognitive tasks. For this reason, the search of understanding cognitive processes uses models built from a large number of neurons, but very much simplified neurons. The so-called neural networks have been quite successful in describing certain aspects of brain functions, like the mechanism of associative memory or recently the prediction of epileptic seizures. At hand of the Kohonen network we discuss the treatment of information in the brain, in particular how the brain organizes such information without supervisor. Recently, networks of small-world and scale-free architecture came into focus. There is evidence indicating that the brain (cat cortex, macaque cortex, human brain) uses such connectivity architecture. Tasks like treatment of information, learning and classification take advantage of such scale-free and small-world connectivity and thus play a potentially important role in self-organization of the brain.
The Austronesian-Papuan contact history of eastern Timor: What lexical borrowing can tell us
Creators: name: Schapper, Antoinette
name: Huber, Juliette
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Speakers of Austronesian and Papuan languages have lived in close proximity on the island of Timor for at least 3000 years (see Klamer & Ewing 2010 and references therein). In this talk, I use evidence from loanwords to further our understanding of the nature and timing of contact between these two groups, focusing on the eastern tip of Timor. Three Papuan languages are spoken today in that area: Makasae, Makalero and Fataluku. Together with Oirata on the adjacent Indonesian island of Kisar, they form a well-defined subgroup within the Papuan Timor-Alor-Pantar (TAP) family, i.e. the Eastern Timor (ET) subgroup. Isolated from the other members of the TAP family, these four languages show considerable linguistic and cultural influence from the surrounding Austronesian languages. The two subgroups of Austronesian languages they are in contact with are (i) Kawaimina languages (Kairui, Waima’a Midiki and Naueti), and (ii) Kisar-Luangic languages (Kisar/Meher, Leti, Luang, possibly also Makuva). Several interesting observations emerge from a preliminary study of a list of Austronesian etyma found in ET languages: firstly, a large number of Austronesian etyma does not show the expected sound correspondences. Secondly, there is a significant number of Austronesian etyma in ET that do not appear to have a reflex in the modern Austronesian languages of the region. This suggests that ET may have been in contact with one (or more) Austronesian language(s) that is (are) no longer extant today. Thirdly, there are many ‘regional’ etyma, which are widespread in both the Papuan and the Austronesian languages, but are not reconstructed to Austronesian at large. The direction of borrowing is not clear in those cases. The goals of this talk are to: • Identify layers of borrowings from Austronesian languages either directly into PET or subsequently into its daughter languages • Trace borrowings back to Austronesian languages, in particular Kawaimina languages on Timor or Kisar-Luang languages in Southwest Maluku • Inform our understanding of the historical interactions of Austronesian- and Papuanspeaking groups in the Timor area
Vastsündinute jälgimine Tallinna perearstipraksistes
Creators: name: Suurorg, Lagle
name: Toome, Liis
name: Riikjärv, Mall-Anne
Publisher: name: OÜ Celsius Healthcare
Year: 2009
Subjects: vastsündinu jälgimine perearsti ja -õe poolt, vanemate rahulolu

description: Töö eesmärgiks oli hinnata vastsündinute jälgimise vastavust terve lapse jälgimise juhendile, vastsündinu terviseseisundit ning emade rahulolu perearsti ja -õe tegevusega. Ankeetküsitluse meetodil uuriti 256 ema, kelle lapsed sündisid kahes Tallinna sünnitusmajas 2007. aastal. Selgus, et juhendi kohaselt jälgis vastsündinuid 24% perearstidest ja 2% pereõdedest. Ligi pooled emadest jätkasid vastsündinu tervisekontrolli sünnitusmajade juures. Ligi kahel kolmandikul vastsündinutest esines terviseprobleeme, mille lahendas ühel neljandikul juhtudest perearst, ülejäänud said võrdselt abi kas lastehaigla vastuvõtutoast või mujalt. Seevastu on perearstikeskuste külastamine sage ja vastab ettenähtule. Uuritavad väljendasid rahulolu pereõega ligi 60%-l ja perearstiga 85%-l juhtudest. 95,7% emadest soovis lastearsti osalemist vastsündinu jälgimises.


Eesti Arst 2009; 88(7−8):461−467
description: Eesti Arst, Juuli-August 2009
Classification and Detection of Rice Diseases Using a 3-Stage CNN Architecture with Transfer Learning Approach
Creators: name: Gogoi, Munmi
name: Kumar, Vikash
name: Begum, Shahin Ara
name: Sharma, Neelesh
name: Kant, Surya
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3004
subject: Crop and pasture production
classificationCode: 3002
subject: Agriculture, land and farm management
classificationCode: 300409
subject: Crop and pasture protection (incl. pests, diseases and weeds)

description: Rice is a vital crop for global food security, but its production is vulnerable to various diseases. Early detection and treatment of rice diseases are crucial to minimise yield losses. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown great potential for disease detection in plant leaves, but training CNNs requires large datasets of labelled images, which can be expensive and time-consuming. Here, we have experimented a 3-Stage CNN architecture with a transfer learning approach that utilises a pre-trained CNN model fine-tuned on a small dataset of rice disease images. The proposed approach significantly reduces the required training data while achieving high accuracy. We also incorporated deep learning techniques such as progressive re-sizing and parametric rectified linear unit (PReLU) to enhance rice disease detection. Progressive re-sizing improves feature learning by gradually increasing image size during training, while PReLU reduces overfitting and enhances model performance. The proposed approach was evaluated on a dataset of 8883 and 1200 images of disease and healthy rice leaves, respectively, achieving an accuracy of 94% when subjected to the 10-fold cross-validation process, significantly higher than other methods. These simulation results for disease detection in rice prove the feasibility and efficiency and offer a cost-effective, accessible solution for the early detection of rice diseases, particularly useful in developing countries with limited resources that can significantly contribute toward sustainable food production.
Quantum error correction beyond qubits
Creators: name: Aoki, Takao
name: Takahashi, Go
name: Kajiya, Tadashi
name: Yoshikawa, Jun-ichi
name: Braunstein, Samuel L.
name: van Loock, Peter
name: Furusawa, Akira
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum computation and communication rely on the ability to manipulate quantum states robustly and with high fidelity. Thus, some form of error correction is needed to protect fragile quantum superposition states from corruption by so-called decoherence noise. Indeed, the discovery of quantum error correction (QEC) turned the field of quantum information from an academic curiosity into a developing technology. Here we present a continuous-variable experimental implementation of a QEC code, based upon entanglement among 9 optical beams. In principle, this 9-wavepacket adaptation of Shor's original 9-qubit scheme allows for full quantum error correction against an arbitrary single-beam (single-party) error.
description: realization of a Gaussian error correction protocol suitable for non-Gaussian error correction
title: Results from the 2012 Drug and Alcohol Testing Survey: Analysis Brief
Creators: name: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Publisher: name: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/01jt5mq34
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2014
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90890
subject: Drug tests
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90891
subject: Alcohol tests
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90883
subject: Blood alcohol levels
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91741
subject: Commercial drivers
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97433
subject: Surveys
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97115
subject: Trend (Statistics)

description: This report summarizes the results of the 2012 Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) Drug and Alcohol Testing Survey. This annual survey measures the percentage of drivers with commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) who test positive for controlled substances (referred to as drugs in this report) and/or alcohol, as a result of random and non-random (pre-employment, post-accident, reasonable suspicion, return to duty, and follow-up) testing.
Sõeluuringu rakendamise põhjendatus osteoporoosi varaseks diagnoosimiseks Eestis
Creators: name: Uusküla, Anneli
name: Kallikorm, Riina
name: Jürisson, Mikk
name: Võrk, Andres
Publisher: name: OÜ Celsius Healthcare
Year: 2009
Subjects: osteoporoos, osteoporootiline luumurd, sõeluuringud

description: Sõeluuringu eesmärgiks on haiguse varajane kindlakstegemine rahvastikus, et võimaldada varajast sekkumist ja tegevuse juhtimist eesmärgiga vähendada haigestumist ja suremust. Sõeluuringu eelduseks on, et uuritaval haigusel on määratletav prekliiniline faas, mille avastamise korral on rakendatav ravi, mis on tõhusam/odavam haiguse ravist kliinilises faasis. Osteoporoos ja sellega seonduvad luumurrud on oluliseks rahvatervise probleemiks, põhjustades haige elukvaliteedi halvenemist ning haigestumise ja suremuse enneaegset kasvu.
Artikli eesmärgiks on kaaluda sõeluuringu kui osteoporoosiga seonduvate luumurdude kontrollistrateegia rakendamist Eestis. Uuringus kasutati teaduskirjanduse ja administratiivsete dokumentide analüüsi ning autorite eksperdihinnanguid.
Olemasoleva tõenduse põhjal ei saa soovitada rahvastikupõhise osteoporoosi sõeluuringu rakendamist Eestis lähiaastatel. Selle alternatiivina võib kaaluda võimalusepõhise skriiningu rakendamist FRAX-instrumendi abil.


Eesti Arst 2009; 88(6):402−413
description: Eesti Arst, Juuni 2009
Topology and higher dimensional representations
Creators: name: Fodor, Zoltan
name: Holland, Kieran
name: Kuti, Julius
name: Nogradi, Daniel
name: Schroeder, Chris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: SU(3) gauge theory in the 2-index symmetric (sextet) and fundamental representations is considered in symmetric and periodic boxes. Using the overlap formulation in the quenched approximation it is shown that the topological charge obtained from the sextet index theorem always leads to an integer value and agrees with the charge obtained from the fundamental index theorem in the continuum. At larger lattice spacing configurations exist with fractional topological charge if the sextet index is used but these are lattice artifacts and the probability of finding such a configuration rapidly approaches zero. By considering the decomposition of the sextet representation with respect to an SU(2) subgroup it is shown that the SU(2) adjoint index theorem leads to integer charge as well. We conclude that the non-zero value of the bilinear gaugino condensate in N=1 super-Yang-Mills theory cannot be attributed to configurations with fractional topological charge once periodic boundary conditions are imposed.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures; discussion and references added
Ülevaade Eestis 2001/2002. ja 2005/2006. õppeaastal toimunud kooliõpilaste tervisekäitumise uuringutest (HBSC uuring) teiste riikide taustal
Creators: name: Maser, Mai
name: Aasvee, Katrin
Publisher: name: OÜ Celsius Healthcare
Year: 2009
Subjects: kooliõpilased, tervisekäitumine, rahvastikupõhine ankeetküsitlus, HBSC uuring

description: Rahvusvaheline kooliõpilaste tervisekäitumise uuring (HBSC study), mis tehti 2006. aastal Eestis neljandat korda, sedastas nii positiivseid kui ka negatiivseid trende võrreldes 2001/2002. õppeaasta uuringuga. Õpilaste enese hinnanguline tervis on paranenud, ent nooremate vanuserühmade poisid on sagedamini ülekaalulised kui varem. Suurenenud on kehaliselt aktiivsete õpilaste osakaal, tervislikumatele toitumisharjumustele viitab puuviljade ja köögiviljade tunduvalt suurenenud tarbimine. Tõsisteks ohumärkideks on kanepit proovinud õpilaste arvu suurenemine ning enne 13. eluaastat suitsu proovinud ja end purju joonud õpilaste suurim osakaal uuringus osalenud riikide/regioonide seas.


Eesti Arst 2009; 88(6):390−401
description: Eesti Arst, Juuni 2009
title: FMCSA Safety Program Effectiveness Measurement: Carrier Intervention Effectiveness Model, Version 1.0 [Analysis Brief]
Creators: name: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Publisher: name: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/01jt5mq34
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2015
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91993
subject: Motor carriers
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/93227
subject: Commercial vehicles
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90631
subject: Safety programs
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/89726
subject: Performance measurement
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90662
subject: Traffic crashes
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88959
subject: Compliance
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90726
subject: Crash data
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90730
subject: Crash rates
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90601
subject: Traffic safety

description: The Carrier Intervention Effectiveness Model (CIEM)

provides the Federal Motor Carrier Safety

Administration (FMCSA) with a tool for measuring

the safety benefits of carrier interventions conducted

under the Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA)

enforcement program. The CSA program includes an

array of carrier intervention types that replace the

universally-implemented compliance review that was

used as part of the previous enforcement model. A

major benefit of the new enforcement model will be

an improved level of safety in the operation of

commercial motor vehicles.