cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence and Associations With Condom Use Among Men in Haiti: An Analysis of the Nationally Representative Demographic Health Survey
Creators: name: Surkan, Pamela J.
name: Whembolua, Guy-Lucien S.
name: Conserve, Donaldson F.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Although men have substantial decision-making power regarding condom use, the majority of HIV knowledge and prevention studies in the general Haitian population have been conducted among youth and women. We investigated attitudes towards intimate partner violence, knowledge of and use of condoms among 9,493 men in Haiti using data from the 2012 nationally representative Demographic and Health Survey. Only 36% of HIV-negative and 44% of HIV-positive men reported using a condom the last time they had sex. Logistic regression revealed that believing it was justified for a man to hit or beat his wife if she refuses to have sex with him was associated with a lower odds of condom use. The odds of using a condom during last sex was higher among men who reported knowing condoms can prevent HIV and who had been tested for HIV. Given the low rate of condom use among men in Haiti, these findings suggest that interventions promoting HIV knowledge, HIV testing, and gender-violence prevention among men may also increase condom use.
Germainiella maolaniana Kociolek, You, R. Lowe & Q. Wang 2019, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Kociolek, J. P.
name: You, Q. M.
name: Lou, F.
name: P. Yu
name: Lowe, R. L.
name: Wang, Q. X.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ochrophyta
Bacillariophyceae
Naviculales
Naviculaceae
Germainiella
Germainiella maolaniana

description: Germainiella maolaniana Kociolek, You, R.Lowe & Q.Wang, sp. nov.
Figures 8–10, 20–23.
Description: Valves lanceolate, with expanded central area and rounded apices, not protracted. Length 11–13 μm, breadth 3.0–3.5μm. A narrow axial area runs the length of the valve. Raphe filiform, with proximal raphe ends barely distinguished. Striae not visible in the light microscope.
In SEM (Figs 20–23), a wide conopeum covers the valve face, interrupted on the valve face towards the margin, being continuous at the apices (Fig. 20). The conopeum is covered with rounded holes and depressions, organized nearly into striae of varying lengths, ca. 150–180 / 10 μm (Figs 19–21). Raphe filiform, with external proximal raphe ends dilated slightly and curved in the same direction. Distally, external raphe ends are curved in the same direction (Fig. 21). Along the raphe opening, the small siliceous struts are not evident in complete valves (e.g. Figs 21, 23), but a break in the valve indicates they are present (Fig. 22). Internally, each stria is composed of a single slit covered by a hymenate occlusion (Fig. 22).
 Type: CHINA. Guizhou Province: Maolan Nature Reserve, 25 o 15′42” N, 108 o 04′13” E, The new species was found in mixed samples of benthos, roots and scrapings from rocks from a tree-lined stream, collected by Q–X. Wang & J.P. Kociolek, 4 October 2015 (holotype: SHTU! slide and material GZ-1510081, Biology Department Diatom Herbarium, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China, here illustrated as Fig. 10; isotype: COLO! material 10419, Kociolek Collection, University of Colorado, Museum of Natural History Diatom Herbarium, Boulder, USA).
Etymology: Named for the natural reserve in which it was found.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
description: Published as part of Kociolek, J. P., You, Q. M., Lou, F., P. Yu, Lowe, R. L. & Wang, Q. X., 2019, First Report and New Freshwater Species of Germainiella (Bacillariophyta) from the Maolan Nature Reserve, Guizhou Province, China, pp. 35-46 in Phytotaxa 393 (1) on page 37, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.393.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/13718314
Serbian Citizens’ Opinion on the COVID-19 Epidemic
Creators: name: Marta, Ivanović
name: Mirjana, Đorđević
name: Aleksandar MA, Klarić
name: Filip, Mikanović
name: Kristina, Nikolić
name: Tamara, Perić
name: Tamara, Savić
name: Katarina, Steljić
name: Lazar, Subotić
name: Marko, Todorović
name: Irena, Todorovski
name: Bojan, Totić
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2020

description: Aim: The Centre for International Public Policy has undertaken a public opinion research in which we tested the opinions of the citizens of Serbia on the coronavirus epidemic. The respondents had the opportunity to express their opinion on measures undertaken by the Serbian Government to combat the virus, to state their trust in the media, as well as the health system in general. In addition, we tested the prevalence of different conspiracy theories among citizens, whether the pandemic gave China a new image in the minds of the people and, most importantly, the level of solidarity among Serbian citizens as well as within the European / international community as a whole. Methods: In seven days, from 8-15th April 2020, we gathered a convenient sample of N=5989 respondents, which makes this the largest public opinion research project in Serbia on the topic of COVID-19 since the start of the epidemic. The electronic questionnaire consisted of 24 questions of mixed and closed type. Results: The findings of this research suggest that citizens of Serbia are not afraid of COVID-19, but are nevertheless cautious (86%). The percentage of those willing to consult a doctor when they notice any symptoms lies at 70%. Half of the respondents do not believe in alternative theories regarding the origin of the COVID-19 virus. The majority of the respondents (55%) hold government officials accountable for spreading panic through public speeches and daily public addresses. Moreover, 60% of the respondents do not trust the Serbian media outlets that are currently reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, over half of the respondents are prepared to report their neighbour when he or she is coming from abroad and violates the obligation to self-isolate. However, mostly due to the significant fines, 65% of the respondents would not report the elderly when they are breaking the limited-movement restriction measures. Conclusion: As before the epidemic, opinions of the Serbian population on current topics are somewhat polarized. Although the majority of the respondents are cautious, a significant number also believes in conspiracy theories and does not fully trust the information provided by the media or the government.
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Volume XIV, 2020
Primordial magnetic fields in Population III star formation: a magnetised resolution study
Creators: name: Prole, Lewis
name: Clark, Paul
name: Klessen, Ralf
name: Glover, Simon
name: Pakmor, Ruediger
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Population III stars form in groups due to the fragmentation of primordial gas. While uniform magnetic fields have been shown to support against fragmentation in present day star formation, it is unclear whether realistic k^3/2 primordial fields can have the same effect. We bypass the issues associated with simulating the turbulent dynamo by introducing a saturated magnetic field at equipartition with the velocity field when the central densities reaches 10-13 g cm-3. We test a range of sink particle creation densities from 10-10-10-8 g cm-3. Within the range tested, the fields did not suppress fragmentation of the gas and hence could not prevent the degree of fragmentation from increasing with increased resolution. The number of sink particles formed and total mass in sink particles was unaffected by the magnetic field across all seed fields and resolutions. The magnetic pressure remained sub-dominant to the gas pressure except in the highest density regions of the simulation box, where it became equal to but never exceeded gas pressure. Our results suggest that the inclusion of magnetic fields in numerical simulations of Pop III star formation is largely unimportant.
description: Submitted to MNRAS
Additional file 1 of Patient reported outcomes for phosphomannomutase 2 congenital disorder of glycosylation (PMM2-CDG): listening to what matters for the patients and health professionals
Creators: name: Pascoal, C.
name: Ferreira, I.
name: Teixeira, C.
name: Almeida, E.
name: Slade, A.
name: Brasil, S.
name: Francisco, R.
name: Ligezka, A. N.
name: Morava, E.
name: Plotkin, H.
name: Jaeken, J.
name: Videira, P. A.
name: Barros, L.
name: dos Reis Ferreira, V.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary information of the methodology and results of the study: additional information concerning the semi-structured interviews guide (Table 1), the demographics of interviewed patients (Table 2), search keywords (Table 3) and the list of references of the included QoL tools (Table 4).
Entanglement harvesting of three Unruh-DeWitt detectors
Creators: name: Mendez-Avalos, Diana
name: Henderson, Laura J.
name: Gallock-Yoshimura, Kensuke
name: Mann, Robert B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze a tripartite entanglement harvesting protocol with three Unruh-DeWitt detectors adiabatically interacting with a quantum scalar field. We consider linear, equilateral triangular, and scalene triangular configurations for the detectors. We find that, under the same parameters, more entanglement can be extracted in the linear configuration than the equilateral one, consistent with single instantaneous switching results. No bipartite entanglement is required to harvest tripartite entanglement. Furthermore, we find that tripartite entanglement can be harvested even if one detector is at larger spacelike separations from the other two than in the corresponding bipartite case. We also find that for small detector separations bipartite correlations become larger than tripartite ones, leading to an apparent violation of the Coffman-Kundu-Wootters (CKW) inequality. We show that this is not a consequence of our perturbative expansion but that it instead occurs because the harvesting qubits are in a mixed state.
description: 15 pages; 10 figures
When the world depends on effective public health intervention – and public health does not deliver
Creators: name: Holst, Jens
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2020

description: The COVID-19 crisis offers both special opportunities and challenges for Public Health. The initial management of the pandemic was dominated by virologists, supported by epidemiologists who did not always meet indispensable scientific requirements. Interdisciplinary and complex Public Health concerns and expertise, however, did not have tangible impact in the COVID-19 debate. Public Health is universal and goes beyond health security as social and other upstream determinants of health play a central role. As an explicitly political concept Public Health must safeguard its broad socio-political approach and obviate all tendency towards biomedical reductionism. Conflicts of interest: None declared.
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Volume XIV, 2020
Father Involvement, Dating Violence, and Sexual Risk Behaviors Among a National Sample of Adolescent Females
Creators: name: Clark, Trenette T
name: Quinn, Camille R
name: Grinnell-Davis, Claudette
name: Alleyne-Green, Binta
name: Cryer-Coupet, Qiana R
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: This study explored the relationship between the involvement of biological fathers and the sexual risk behaviors and dating violence/victimization and/ or perpetration of adolescent girls. The data used in this cross-sectional analysis were drawn from the second wave of the public release of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Only adolescents who reported their biological sex as female, reported a history of being sexually active, and reported having a romantic partner in the previous 18 months were selected (N = 879). This study focused on overall positive sexual behaviors and use of contraception. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to best utilize capacity for dealing with latent variables and to test for possible mediation effects. The analysis demonstrated main effects of dating violence and father involvement on sexual behaviors. The more dating violence an adolescent girl experiences, the less likely she is to engage in healthy sexual behaviors. Likewise, the more involvement the biological father has in a woman’s life, the more likely she is to engage in positive sexual behaviors. Perceived father involvement was associated with risky sexual behaviors among sexually experienced adolescent girls. Dating violence was directly associated with risky sexual behaviors among sexually experienced adolescent girls, particularly non-White girls. Future studies should use longitudinal models and test theoretically and empirically guided potential mediators. Future studies should also consider father figures such as step-fathers and grandfathers in addition to biological fathers, as having a father figure may be a stronger predictor of adolescent sexual behaviors than having a biological connection.
Assessment of knowledge, attitude and practice regarding malaria prevention toward internal migrant population in Kawthoung Township, Kawthoung district, Tanintharyi region, Myanmar: A cross sectional study
Creators: name: Hein, Sa Aung
Publisher: name: Chulalongkorn University Press
Year: 2018
Subjects: Attitude knowledge and practice
Internal migrant
Malaria prevention
Myanmar

description: Journal of Health Research, 32, Suppl.2, S159-S166
Germainiella guizhouiana Kociolek, You, R. Lowe & Q. Wang 2019, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Kociolek, J. P.
name: You, Q. M.
name: Lou, F.
name: P. Yu
name: Lowe, R. L.
name: Wang, Q. X.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ochrophyta
Bacillariophyceae
Naviculales
Naviculaceae
Germainiella
Germainiella guizhouiana

description: Germainiella guizhouiana Kociolek, You, R.Lowe & Q.Wang, sp. nov.
Figures 11–13, 18, 19.
Description: Valves elliptical-lanceolate, with rounded apices, barely protracted. Length 9–13 μm, breadth 3–4 μm. A narrow axial area runs the length of the valve. Raphe filiform, with proximal raphe ends barely distinguished. Striae are not visible in the light microscope.
External valve views with SEM (Figs 18, 19) show the large conopeum, with a straight raphe, slightly curved proximal raphe ends, and distal raphe ends that extend onto the valve mantle and hooked there (Figs 18, 19). Siliceous struts are oriented perpendicular to the raphe slight are evident along the course of the raphe. The conopeum appears to have no perforations. Internally, there are round occlusions over the areolae (Fig. 19, arrow).
 Type: CHINA. Guizhou Province: Maolan Nature Reserve, 25 o 15′42” N, 108 o 04′13” E, The new species was found in mixed samples of benthos, roots and scrapings from rocks from a tree-lined stream, collected by Q-X. Wang & J.P. Kociolek, 4 October 2015 (holotype: SHTU! slide and material GZ-1510081, Biology Department Diatom Herbarium, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China, here illustrated as Fig. 11; isotype: COLO! material 10419, Kociolek Collection, University of Colorado, Museum of Natural History Diatom Herbarium, Boulder, USA).
description: Published as part of Kociolek, J. P., You, Q. M., Lou, F., P. Yu, Lowe, R. L. & Wang, Q. X., 2019, First Report and New Freshwater Species of Germainiella (Bacillariophyta) from the Maolan Nature Reserve, Guizhou Province, China, pp. 35-46 in Phytotaxa 393 (1) on page 38, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.393.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/13718314
Navigating barriers to gender equality in the European Union context: The case of healthcare sector
Creators: name: Kalaitzi, Stavroula
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2020

description: Context: Progress towards achieving gender equality in the European Union context is reported slow and fragmented, although some achievements have been made. Scholarship has been discuss-ing extensively the gendered barriers, yet their manifestation on a comprehensive and prevalence basis has received scant attention so far. Highlighting the big picture of all (in)visible gendered barriers and their manifestation in relation to countries’ specificity may contribute in understand-ing better the missing link between policy and practice. This study aims firstly, to identify com-prehensively the gendered barriers and their prevalence, and secondly, to gain deeper insights on how a persisting policy problem at the EU and Member States level remained poorly addressed for over two decades. Methods: A mixed methods approach was adopted to ensure the qualitative research quality cri-teria. The systematic literature review, questionnaire and semi-structured interviews methods to obtain and analyze data were included. Qualitative analysis was supplemented by the fundamental tenet of feminist research on the centrality of women. Results: Twenty-six gendered barriers with quantitative logic and varying degree of prevalence were identified and depicted in the Barriers Thematic Map (BTM) across healthcare, academia and business sectors. Twenty and twenty-one gendered barriers in Greek and Maltese healthcare set-tings were found respectively unveiling the country’s specificity in barriers’ manifestation. The sustainable development thinking in gender equality objectives in EU and MS was found suffering from inconsistencies and misplaced priorities. Conclusion: The gendered barriers are multiple, manifest themselves in chorus and with a varying degree of prevalence across sectors and are greatly influenced by country’s specificity. Evidence informed gendered policies respecting national priorities may need to be revisited by policy actors to deliver the promised egalitarian social orderand sustainable future for the EU citizens.
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Volume XIV, 2020
HI Properties of Satellite Galaxies around Local Volume Hosts
Creators: name: Karunakaran, Ananthan
name: Spekkens, Kristine
name: Carroll, Rhys
name: Sand, David J.
name: Bennet, Paul
name: Crnojević, Denija
name: Jones, Michael G.
name: Mutlu-Pakdil, Burçin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) observations using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) along the lines of sight to 49 dwarf satellite galaxy candidates around eight Local Volume systems (M104, M51, NGC1023, NGC1156, NGC2903, NGC4258, NGC4565, NGC4631). We detect the HI reservoirs of two candidates (dw0934+2204 and dw1238$-$1122) and confirm them as background sources relative to their nearest foreground host systems. The remaining 47 satellite candidates are not detected in HI, and we place stringent $5σ$ upper limits on their HI mass. We note that some (15/47) of our non-detections stem from satellites being occluded by their putative host's HI emission. In addition to these new observations, we compile literature estimates on the HI mass for an additional 17 satellites. We compare the HI properties of these satellites to those within the Local Group, finding broad agreement between them. Crucially, these observations probe a ``transition'' region between $-10\gtrsim M_V \gtrsim -14$ where we see a mixture of gas-rich and gas-poor satellites and where quenching processes shift from longer timescales (i.e. via starvation) to shorter ones (i.e. via stripping). While there are many gas-poor satellites within this region, some are gas rich and this suggests that the transition towards predominantly gas-rich satellites occurs at $L_{V}\sim10^{7}L_{\odot}$, in line with simulations. The observations presented here are a key step toward characterizing the properties of dwarf satellite galaxies around Local Volume systems and future wide-field radio surveys with higher angular resolution (e.g.~WALLABY) will vastly improve upon the study of such systems.
description: 12 pages, 5 Figures, 3 Tables; Submitted to MNRAS; Comments welcome!
¿Educación o desintegración? Parental Migration, Remittances and Left-behind Children's Education in Western Guatemala
Creators: name: Davis, Jason
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Abstract Many Guatemalan parents migrate to the United States with the intention of returning earned income to improve the human capital prospects of their left-behind children. This laudable goal is achieved by many – arguably benefiting girls more than boys. However, negative international migration externalities including migration failure, familial abandonment, psychosocial harms and a culture of migration that disproportionally limits the educational prospects of boys need to be considered. Based on qualitative field interviews in western Guatemala with parents and educators, this article presents a nuanced view of economic migration and left-behind children's education, capturing both its remittance-related benefits and parental absence harms.
An Application of Internet of Things Technology to Control the Illumination Systems in Smart Home
Creators: name: เจษฎา ขจรฤทธิ์
Publisher: name: Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Mahanakorn University of Technology
Year: 2017
Subjects: Internet of Things
Smart Home
NETPIE Service
Android Application
Arduino Microcontroller

description: Journal of Information Science and Technology, 7, 1, 1-11
Translation invariant realizability problem on the $d-$dimensional lattice: an explicit construction
Creators: name: Caglioti, Emanuele
name: Infusino, Maria
name: Kuna, Tobias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 44A60, 60G55, 82B20

description: We consider a particular instance of the truncated realizability problem on the $d-$dimensional lattice. Namely, given two functions $ρ_1({\bf i})$ and $ρ_2({\bf i},{\bf j})$ non-negative and symmetric on $\mathbb{Z}^d$, we ask whether they are the first two correlation functions of a translation invariant point process. We provide an explicit construction of such a realizing process for any $d\geq 2$ when the radial distribution has a specific form. We also derive from this construction a lower bound for the maximal realizable density and compare it with the already known lower bounds.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
A Blind All-sky Search for Star Clusters in Gaia EDR3: 886 Clusters within 1.2 kpc of the Sun
Creators: name: He, Zhihong
name: Wang, Kun
name: Luo, Yangping
name: Li, Jing
name: Liu, Xiaochen
name: Jiang, Qingquan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Although previous searches for star clusters have been very successful, many clusters are likely still omitted, especially at high Galactic latitude regions. In this work, based on the astrometry of Gaia EDR3, we searched nearby (parallax > 0.8 mas) all-sky regions, obtaining 886 star clusters, of which 270 candidates have not been cataloged before. At the same time, we have presented the physical parameters of the clusters by fitting theoretical isochrones to their optical magnitudes. More halo members and expanding structures in many star clusters were also found. Most of the new objects are young clusters that are less than 100 million years old. Our work greatly increased the sample size and physical parameters of star clusters in the solar neighborhood, in particular, 46 clusters are newly found with |b| > 20 deg, which represents an increase of nearly three fold of cluster numbers at high Galactic latitude regions. The cluster parameters and member stars are available at CDS via https://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/ftp/vizier.submit//hezh22b/, and the cluster figure sets are available via https://doi.org/10.12149/101133.
description: 16 figures, 2 tables (full version available at CDS), 886 figures in figure set, accepted for publication on ApJs
COVID-19 in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank under the political
Creators: name: Abed, Yehia
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2020

description: COVID-19 is a serious pandemic with variation of spread, morbidity, and fatalities between countries. Palestinians are facing the epidemic, with around 2 million inhabitants under siege in the highly populated Gaza Strip for the last 14 years. The siege may be the main threat for the spread of disease among the Palestinian population. The Palestinians faced the Corona epidemic with limited facilities in their hand. However, the risk factors remain multiple, the most important are overcrowding in the Gaza Strip, poor health care facilities, and the risk of workers moving between the West Bank and Israel. Palestinian Health authorities responded directly to the pandemic and took strict closure measures to prevent rapid spread. The Palestinian strategy has focused on social spacing, personal hygiene, control of border crossings and health preparedness to deal with medical cases while continuing to provide health services to the population. The difficult economic situation is the major obstacle facing Palestinians to overcome the disease spread where workers continue their jobs inside Israel and Gaza cannot enforce low-income workers to stay at home. More is needed to ensure community engagement, support coordination among all health care providers in Palestine, and take effective steps to promote social spacing. Friendly countries and international organizations can assist and support the Palestinian population in providing laboratory diagnostic materials, providing personal protective devices, strengthening intensive care units, and supporting outreach activities and training programmes. Conflicts of interest: None declared.
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Volume XIV, 2020
Exploring the disk-jet connection in NGC 315
Creators: name: Ricci, L.
name: Boccardi, B.
name: Nokhrina, E.
name: Perucho, M.
name: MacDonald, N.
name: Mattia, G.
name: Grandi, P.
name: Madika, E.
name: Krichbaum, T. P.
name: Zensus, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aims. Hot accretion flows are thought to be able to power the relativistic jets observed in Active Galactic Nuclei. They can present themselves as SANE (Standard And Normal Evolution) disks or MAD (Magnetically Arrested Disks), two states implying profound differences in the physical properties of the disks themselves and of the outflows they produce. Methods. In this paper we use a multi-frequency and multi-epoch data set to study the giant radio galaxy NGC 315, with the goal to explore the properties of its accretion disk and sub-parsec jet. We analyze the source maps with a pixel-based analysis and we use theoretical models to link the observational properties of the jet to the physical state of the accretion disk. Results. We propose that the bulk flow in NGC 315 accelerates on sub-pc scales, concurrently with the parabolic expansion. We show that this fast acceleration can be theoretically reconciled with a magnetically driven acceleration. Along the acceleration and collimation zone, we observe an unexpected spectral behavior, with very steep spectral index values $α\sim -1.5$ ($S_ν\propto ν^α$) between 22 GHz and 43 GHz. Based on the properties of this region, we predict the black hole of NGC 315 to be fast rotating and the magnetic flux threading the accretion disk to be in excellent agreement with that expected in the case of a MAD. Using a new formalism based on the core-shift effect, we model the magnetic field downstream a quasi-parabolic accelerating jet and we reconstruct it up to the event horizon radius. In the MAD scenario, we compare it with the expected magnetic saturation strengths in the disk, finding a good agreement.
description: 12 pages plus appendix, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A
Spin relaxation characteristics in Ag nanowire covered with various oxides
Creators: name: Karube, Shutaro
name: Idzuchi, Hiroshi
name: Kondou, Kouta
name: Fukuma, Yasuhiro
name: Otani, YoshiChika
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied spin relaxation characteristics in a Ag nanowire covered with various oxide layers of Bi2O3, Al2O3, HfO2, MgO or AgOx by using non-local spin valve structures. The spin-flip probability, a ratio of momentum relaxation time to spin relaxation time at 10 K, exhibits a gradual increase with an atomic number of the oxide constituent elements, Mg, Al, Ag and Hf. Surprisingly the Bi2O3 capping was found to increase the probability by an order of magnitude compared with other oxide layers. This finding suggests the presence of an additional spin relaxation mechanism such as Rashba effect at the Ag/Bi2O3 interface, which cannot be explained by the simple Elliott-Yafet mechanism via phonon, impurity and surface scatterings. The Ag/Bi2O3 interface may provide functionality as a spin to charge interconversion layer.
description: 11pages, 1table, and 3figures
Revising Properties of Planet-host Binary Systems I.: Methods and Pilot Study
Creators: name: Sullivan, Kendall
name: Kraus, Adam L.
name: Mann, Andrew W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To fully leverage the statistical strength of the large number of planets found by projects such as the Kepler survey, the properties of planets and their host stars must be measured as accurately as possible. One key population for planet demographic studies is circumstellar planets in close binaries ($ρ< 50$au), where the complex dynamical environment of the binary inhibits most planet formation, but some planets nonetheless survive. Accurately characterizing the stars and planets in these complex systems is a key factor in better understanding the formation and survival of planets in binaries. Toward that goal, we have developed a new Markov Chain Monte Carlo fitting algorithm to retrieve the properties of binary systems using unresolved spectra, unresolved photometry, and resolved contrasts. We have analyzed 8 Kepler Objects of Interest in M star binary systems using literature data, and have found that the temperatures of the primary stars (and presumed planet hosts) are revised upward by an average of 200 K. The planetary radii should be revised upward by an average of 20% if the primary star is the host, and 80% if the secondary star is the planet host. The average contrast between stellar components in the Kepler band is 0.75 mag, which is small enough that neither star in any of the binaries can be conclusively ruled out as a potential planet host. Our results emphasize the importance of accounting for multiplicity when measuring stellar parameters, especially in the context of exoplanet characterization.
description: Accepted to ApJ. 28 pages, 15 figures, 4 tables (including 1 appendix). The code to reproduce the analysis is available on GitHub (see https://github.com/kendallsullivan/binary_fitting_2022b) and the first author is happy to assist with any issues!
The Hadron-Quark Crossover in Neutron Star within Gaussian Process Regression Method
Creators: name: Huang, Kaixuan
name: Hu, Jinniu
name: Zhang, Ying
name: Shen, Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The equations of state of the neutron star at the hadron-quark crossover region are interpolated with the Gaussian process regression (GPR) method, which can reduce the randomness of present interpolation schemes. The relativistic mean-field (RMF) model and Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model are employed to describe the hadronic phase and quark phase, respectively. In the RMF model, the coupling term between $ω$ and $ρ$ mesons is considered to control the density-dependent behaviors of symmetry energy, i.e. the slope of symmetry energy, $L$. Furthermore, the vector interaction between quarks is included in the NJL model to obtain the additional repulsive contributions. Their coupling strengths and the crossover windows are discussed in the present framework under the constraints on the neutron star from gravitational wave detections, massive neutron star measurements, mass-radius simultaneous observation of NICER collaboration, and the neutron skin thickness of $^{208}$Pb from PREX-II. It is found that the slope of symmetry energy, $L$ should be around $50-90$ MeV and the crossover window is $(0.3,~0.6)~\rm fm^{-3}$ with these observables. Furthermore, the uncertainties of neutron star masses and radii in the hadron-quark crossover regions are also predicted by the GPR method.
description: 18 pages, 4 figures, 6 tables, accepted by Astrophysical Journal
Clinical Performance Validation of 4 Point-of-Care Cervical Cancer Screening Tests in HIV-Infected Women in Zambia
Creators: name: Parham, Groesbeck P.
name: Hamusimbi, Chalwa
name: Chibwesha, Carla J.
name: Frett, Brigitte
name: Polepole, Pascal
name: Banda, Susan
name: Katundu, Katundu
name: Bateman, Allen C.
name: Kapambwe, Sharon
name: Mwanahamuntu, Mulindi H.
name: Shibemba, Aaron
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: We sought to determine the clinical performance of visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA), digital cervicography (DC), Xpert HPV, and OncoE6 for cervical cancer screening in an HIV-infected population.
Additional file 1 of ATM kinase inhibitor AZD0156 in combination with irinotecan and 5-fluorouracil in preclinical models of colorectal cancer
Creators: name: Davis, S. Lindsey
name: Hartman, Sarah J.
name: Bagby, Stacey M.
name: Schlaepfer, Marina
name: Yacob, Betelehem W.
name: Tse, Tonia
name: Simmons, Dennis M.
name: Diamond, Jennifer R.
name: Lieu, Christopher H.
name: Leal, Alexis D.
name: Cadogan, Elaine B.
name: Hughes, Gareth D.
name: Durant, Stephen T.
name: Messersmith, Wells A.
name: Pitts, Todd M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Table 1. Prototypical DNA Damage Repair Mutations in CRC Models Utilized in this Study. Supplemental Figure 1. Effect of AZD0156 and SN38 on proliferation in CRC cell lines. AZD0156 dose 50nM, SN38 dose 10nM. Percent confluence relative to vehicle at 120 hours as assessed by Incucyte ZOOM. Supplemental Figure 2. Effect of AZD0156 and SN38 on proliferation in additional CRC cell lines. Percent confluence relative to vehicle as measured by IncuCyte ZOOM™ over 120 hours in an additional 8 CRC cell lines treated with AZD0156 50 nM and 100 nM and SN38 10 nM, alone and in combination. Supplemental Figure 3. Statistical evaluation of synergy based on Bliss independence. Comparison of single agent and combination effect as assessed by Incucyte ZOOM™ to Bliss independence, derived from individual groups by computing survival fraction under the assumption that treatments act independently, as per Demidenko E, et al. [12]. Supplemental Figure 4. In vivo effects of AZD0156 and chemotherapy in CRC PDX models. (A) Effect of AZD0156, irinotecan, and 5FU, alone and in combination in the CRC026 and CRC102 PDX models. Additional treatment groups added to data provided in Figure 5 of the main text. Doses of irinotecan and 5FU were reduced in single-agent and combination arms at day 11 in the CRC026 model due to its sensitivity to these single agents. (B) Specific Growth Rates of CRC026 and CRC102. Supplemental Figure 5. (A) Effect of AZD0156, irinotecan, and 5FU, alone and in combination in additional CRC001 and CRC042 PDX models. (B) Specific growth rates of CRC001 and CRC042.
Clinical and epidemiological evaluation of Tuberculosis in Albania during the period 2009-2018
Creators: name: Peposhi, Ilir
name: Tafa, Holta
name: Bardhi, Donika
name: Hafizi, Hasan
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2020

description: Aim: To estimate the clinical and epidemiological pattern of Tuberculosis (TB) in Albania over the period 2009-2018. Methods: A retrospective analysis of clinical and epidemiological data based on TB individual notification forms during the period 2009-2018. Results: During the 10-years period, TB incidence increased from 14 to 15.5, but without a significant increasing trend. The total number of TB cases increased from 440 to 447. The proportion of extra-pulmonary TB decreased from 32% to 25% in 2018 (p=0.015), with and average mean change of 29 cases. Males prevail among TB cases and male-to-female ratio ranges from 2:1 to 3:1. Drug susceptibility testing (DST) was carried out depending on the availability of the reagents and there were 54%, 18% and 96% culture cases confirmed positive in 2009, 2014 and 2019, respectively. The overall treatment completion rate was 85% and 88.2% in 2009 and 2018, respectively. However, there was a significant drop in cured cases from 26% in 9.3%, whereas the percentage of deaths has increased from 0.5% in 4.1%. All treatment outcomes exhibited a significant change (p<0.001). Conclusion: TB continues to be a public health challenge in Albania regardless of the seemingly generally stable epidemiological situation. Conflicts of interest: None declared.
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Volume XIV, 2020
Permutations sortable by two stacks in series
Creators: name: Price, Andrew Elvey
name: Guttmann, Anthony J
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 05Axx

description: We address the problem of the number of permutations that can be sorted by two stacks in series. We do this by first counting all such permutations of length less than 20 exactly, then using a numerical technique to obtain nineteen further coefficients approximately. Analysing these coefficients by a variety of methods we conclude that the OGF behaves as $$S(z) \sim A (1 - μ\cdot z)^γ,$$ where $μ=12.45 \pm 0.15,$ $γ= 1.5 \pm 0.3,$ and $A \approx 0.02$.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures. Improved analysis, updated references
Dust emissivity in resolved spiral galaxies
Creators: name: Bianchi, S.
name: Casasola, V.
name: Corbelli, E.
name: Galliano, F.
name: Magrini, L.
name: Nersesian, A.
name: Salvestrini, F.
name: Baes, M.
name: Cassara, L. P.
name: Clark, C. J. R.
name: De Looze, I.
name: Jones, A. P.
name: Madden, S. C.
name: Mosenkov, A.
name: Ysard, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context: The far-infrared (FIR) and sub-millimeter (submm) emissivity of the Milky Way (MW) cirrus is an important benchmark for dust grain models. Dust masses in other galaxies are generally derived from the FIR/submm using the emission properties of these MW-calibrated models. Aims: We seek to derive the FIR/submm emissivity in nine nearby spiral galaxies to check its compatibility with MW cirrus measurements. Methods: We obtained values of the emissivity at 70 to 500 um, using maps of dust emission from the Herschel satellite and of gas surface density from the THINGS and HERACLES surveys on a scale generally corresponding to 440 pc. We studied the variation of the emissivity with the surface brightness ratio I(250um)/I(500um), a proxy for the intensity of the interstellar radiation field heating the dust. Results: We find that the average value of the emissivity agrees with MW estimates for pixels sharing the same color as the cirrus, namely, for I(250um)/I(500um) = 4.5. For I(250um)/I(500um) > 5, the measured emissivity is instead up to a factor ~2 lower than predicted from MW dust models heated by stronger radiation fields. Regions with higher I(250um)/I(500um) are preferentially closer to the galactic center and have a higher overall (stellar+gas) surface density and molecular fraction. The results do not depend strongly on the adopted CO-to-molecular conversion factor and do not appear to be affected by the mixing of heating conditions. Conclusions: Our results confirm the validity of MW dust models at low density, but are at odds with predictions for grain evolution in higher density environments. If the lower-than-expected emissivity at high I(250um)/I(500um) is the result of intrinsic variations in the dust properties, it would imply an underestimation of the dust mass surface density of up to a factor ~2 when using current dust models.
description: 16 pages, 11 figures, A&A accepted
Can Russia’s high mortality return until 2030 to trajectory of the 1980-ies and reach the SDGs evenly across the country?
Creators: name: Chernyavskiy, Valery
name: Wenzel, Helmut
name: Mikhailova, Julia
name: Ivanova, Alla
name: Zemlyanova, Elena
name: Bjegovic-Mikanovic, Vesna
name: Mikhailov, Alexander
name: Laaser, Ulrich
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2020

description: Aim: This study reviews the ability of the Russian Federation to reduce the high mortality until 2030 evenly across the country and in accordance with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Methods: We adopted the method suggested by Haenszel for estimating Premature Years of Life Lost for the age group <70 years and applied a projected reduction of 33% by 2030 as proposed for SDG 3.4. To calculate the potential time gap we used the model of the United Nations Development Programme and standardized the rates by the OECD 1980 Standard Population employing the direct method. Results: If Russia keeps the present level of effort the reduction by one third of the level of premature mortality as in 2013 will be in reach already in 2024 i.e. 5.9 years in advance of the SDG 3 target for 2030. This target is achieved quite evenly also throughout the 8 districts of the Russian Federation between 10.6 and 5.0 years in advance and in selected special districts/republics with the highest and lowest mortality rates. Conclusion: After the steep decrease of life expectancy during the 1990ies the Russian Federation returned to the original trajectory. Keywords: gap analysis, premature mortality, public health, Russian Federation, SDG. Conflicts of interest: None declared. Statement of Funding: None declared. Note: This article by Valery Chernyavskiy, Helmut Wenzel, Julia Mikhailova, Alla Ivanova, Elena Zemlyanova, Vesna Bjegovic-Mikanovic, Alexander Mikhailov, Ulrich Laaser: Can Russia’s high mortality return until 2030 to trajectory of the 1980-ies and reach the SDGs evenly across the country? will be published also in the Russian journal Social aspects of population health with permission of authors and editorial staff of the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health, translation of the article into Russian by V.E. Chernyavsky and E.V. Zemlyanova. The title of the article, the names of the authors, affiliations, and abstract in Russian fully correspond to the original.
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Volume XV, 2020
Additional file 2 of ATM kinase inhibitor AZD0156 in combination with irinotecan and 5-fluorouracil in preclinical models of colorectal cancer
Creators: name: Davis, S. Lindsey
name: Hartman, Sarah J.
name: Bagby, Stacey M.
name: Schlaepfer, Marina
name: Yacob, Betelehem W.
name: Tse, Tonia
name: Simmons, Dennis M.
name: Diamond, Jennifer R.
name: Lieu, Christopher H.
name: Leal, Alexis D.
name: Cadogan, Elaine B.
name: Hughes, Gareth D.
name: Durant, Stephen T.
name: Messersmith, Wells A.
name: Pitts, Todd M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 2. Original, full-length images from immunoblotting, corresponding to cropped images shown in Fig. 4.
Childhood adversity and leisure time physical and sports activity in older adults: A cross-sectional analysis from the International Mobility in Aging Study
Creators: name: W. Hwang, Phoebe
name: Dos Santos Gomes, Cristiano
name: Auais, Mohammad
name: L. Braun, Kathryn
name: M. Pirkle, Catherine
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2020

description: Aim: The purpose is to examine the relationship between childhood adversity and leisure time physical activity (LTPA) among community-dwelling older adults from high and middle-income sites. Methods: Cross-sectional analysis of 2012 data from older adult ages 64-75 years old from King-ston, Canada; St. Hyacinthe, Canada; Tirana, Albania; Manizales, Colombia; and Natal, Brazil. Principal exposure variables were childhood social and economic adversity. Covariates included participant age, sex, income, and educational attainment. Outcome variables were LTPA and lei-sure time sports activity (LTSA). Results: High-income sites had higher LTPA prevalence than middle-income sites. Females were less likely to engage in LTPA compared to males in Tirana (OR:0.53, 95%CI:0.30-0.94), but were more likely to engage in LTPA in Manizales (OR:2.54, 95%CI:1.54-4.18). Low education was less likely than high education to engage in LTPA in Kingston (OR:0.38, 95%CI:0.19-0.73) and Natal (OR: 0.52, 95%CI:0.28-0.97). Low income was less likely than high income to engage in LTPA in St. Hyacinthe (OR: 0.42, 95%CI:0.20-0.89) and Manizales (OR:0.33, 95%CI:0.16-0.55). In Tirana, low income was more likely than high income to engage in LTPA (OR:5.27, 95%CI:2.06-13.51). Conclusions: Childhood economic and social adversity were not significantly associated with LTPA. Sex, income, and education were associated with older adult PA engagement, however the direction of the association varied by site location. This suggests that the paradigms surrounding PA behavior may vary from city to city. Understanding the site-specific risk factors to PA engage-ment may better inform clinical recommendations and public health approaches to increase PA engagement among older adults across the globe. Conflicts of interest: None declared.
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Volume XV, 2020