cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Combined use of the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) and the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF): a systematic review
Creators: name: Kirk, M. Alexis
name: Birken, Sarah
name: Shea, Christopher
name: Haines, Emily
name: Powell, Byron
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2017

description: Abstract Background Over 60 implementation frameworks exist. Using multiple frameworks may help researchers to address multiple study purposes, levels, and degrees of theoretical heritage and operationalizability; however, using multiple frameworks may result in unnecessary complexity and redundancy if doing so does not address study needs. The Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) and the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF) are both well-operationalized, multi-level implementation determinant frameworks derived from theory. As such, the rationale for using the frameworks in combination (i.e., CFIR + TDF) is unclear. The objective of this systematic review was to elucidate the rationale for using CFIR + TDF by (1) describing studies that have used CFIR + TDF, (2) how they used CFIR + TDF, and (2) their stated rationale for using CFIR + TDF. Methods We undertook a systematic review to identify studies that mentioned both the CFIR and the TDF, were written in English, were peer-reviewed, and reported either a protocol or results of an empirical study in MEDLINE/PubMed, PsycInfo, Web of Science, or Google Scholar. We then abstracted data into a matrix and analyzed it qualitatively, identifying salient themes. Findings We identified five protocols and seven completed studies that used CFIR + TDF. CFIR + TDF was applied to studies in several countries, to a range of healthcare interventions, and at multiple intervention phases; used many designs, methods, and units of analysis; and assessed a variety of outcomes. Three studies indicated that using CFIR + TDF addressed multiple study purposes. Six studies indicated that using CFIR + TDF addressed multiple conceptual levels. Four studies did not explicitly state their rationale for using CFIR + TDF. Conclusions Differences in the purposes that authors of the CFIR (e.g., comprehensive set of implementation determinants) and the TDF (e.g., intervention development) propose help to justify the use of CFIR + TDF. Given that the CFIR and the TDF are both multi-level frameworks, the rationale that using CFIR + TDF is needed to address multiple conceptual levels may reflect potentially misleading conventional wisdom. On the other hand, using CFIR + TDF may more fully define the multi-level nature of implementation. To avoid concerns about unnecessary complexity and redundancy, scholars who use CFIR + TDF and combinations of other frameworks should specify how the frameworks contribute to their study. Trial registration PROSPERO CRD42015027615
Feedback in low-mass galaxies in the early Universe
Creators: name: Erb, Dawn K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The formation, evolution and death of massive stars release large quantities of energy and momentum into the gas surrounding the sites of star formation. This process, generically termed 'feedback', inhibits further star formation either by removing gas from the galaxy, or by heating it to temperatures that are too high to form new stars. Observations reveal feedback in the form of galactic-scale outflows of gas in galaxies with high rates of star formation, especially in the early Universe. Feedback in faint, low-mass galaxies probably facilitated the escape of ionizing radiation from galaxies when the Universe was about 500 million years old, so that the hydrogen between galaxies changed from neutral to ionized--the last major phase transition in the Universe.
description: Review appearing in Nature, 9 July 2015
On Distributed Vector Estimation for Power and Bandwidth Constrained Wireless Sensor Networks
Creators: name: Sani, Alireza
name: Vosoughi, Azadeh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider distributed estimation of a Gaussian vector with a linear observation model in an inhomogeneous wireless sensor network, where a fusion center (FC) reconstructs the unknown vector, using a linear estimator. Sensors employ uniform multi-bit quantizers and binary PSK modulation, and communicate with the FC over orthogonal power- and bandwidth-constrained wireless channels. We study transmit power and quantization rate (measured in bits per sensor) allocation schemes that minimize mean-square error (MSE). In particular, we derive two closed-form upper bounds on the MSE, in terms of the optimization parameters and propose coupled and decoupled resource allocation schemes that minimize these bounds. We show that the bounds are good approximations of the simulated MSE and the performance of the proposed schemes approaches the clairvoyant centralized estimation when total transmit power or bandwidth is very large. We study how the power and rate allocation are dependent on sensors observation qualities and channel gains, as well as total transmit power and bandwidth constraints. Our simulations corroborate our analytical results and illustrate the superior performance of the proposed algorithms.
description: 14 pages, 18 figures, submitted to Transactions on Signal Processing
Probing and tuning inelastic phonon conductance across finite-thickness interface
Creators: name: Murakami, Takuru
name: Hori, Takuma
name: Shiga, Takuma
name: Shiomi, Junichiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Phonon transmission across an interface between dissimilar crystalline solids is calculated using molecular dynamics simulations with interatomic force constants obtained from first principles. The results reveal that although inelastic phonon-transmission right at the geometrical interface can become far greater than the elastic one, its contribution to thermal boundary conductance (TBC) is severely limited by the transition regions, where local phonon states at the interface recover the bulk state over a finite thickness. This suggests TBC can be increased by enhancing phonon equilibration in the transition region for instance by phonon scattering, which is demonstrated by increasing the lattice anharmonicity.
Efficacy of homemade masks to prevent virus droplet infection : Rapid systematic review
Creators: name: Imoto, Aline
name: Franco, Eduardo
name: Peccin, Maria
name: Puga, Maria
name: Saconato, Humberto
name: Duarte, Márcio
name: Taminato, Mônica
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: “infection”, “prevention”, “masks”, “Respiratory Protective Devices”, “society”

description: Objective: To identify, evaluate and summarise the best available scientific evidence on the efficacy and safety of homemade masks for the community. Research question: What is the effect of the homemade masks to protect the comunity from virus droplets infection? Method: Rapid systematic review. Inclusion criteria: articles that verified the efficacy of homemade masks to protect against the virus transmission. Exclusion criteria: articles involving the use of masks by the health care professionals The following electronic bibliographic databases will be searched: Cochrane Library (via Wiley); Embase (via Elsevier); LILACS; Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online MEDLINE, via PubMed) and Opengrey ( https://opengrey.eu). The terms MeSH were “infection”, “prevention”, “masks”, “Respiratory Protective Devices”, “society” The search will not have limit of year of publication or language. Two independente evaluators will select the studies and a third evaluator will be consulted in case of disagreements. The GRADE approach will be used to assess the methodological quality.
Overabundance of s-process elements in the atmosphere of the active red giant
Creators: name: Pakhomov, Yu. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on high-resolution (R=60000) spectra taken with the NES spectrograph (the 6-m BTA telescope, the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Science), we have determined the abundances of 26 elements, from lithium to europium, in the atmosphere of the active red giant PZ Mon, which belongs to the class of RS CVn variable stars, by the method of model stellar atmospheres. We have taken into account the hyperfine splitting, the isotopic shift, and the departure from local thermodynamic equilibrium. Analysis of our data has revealed an overabundance of lithium and neutron-capture elements compared to normal red giants. For lithium, this is explained by the activity of the star, while the overabundance of s-elements is presumably similar in nature to that in moderate barium stars.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables, accepted in Astronomy Letters
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Creators: name: Jacquemard, Florent
name: Segoufin, Luc
name: Dimino, Jerémie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A data tree is an unranked ordered tree where each node carries a label from a finite alphabet and a datum from some infinite domain. We consider the two variable first order logic FO2(
On the age and formation mechanism of the core of the Quadrantid meteoroid stream
Creators: name: Abedin, Abedin
name: Spurny, Pavel
name: Wiegert, Paul
name: Pokorny, Petr
name: Borovicka, Jiri
name: Brown, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Quadrantid meteor shower is among the strongest annual meteor showers, and has drawn the attention of scientists for several decades. The stream is unusual, among others, for several reasons: its very short duration around maximum activity (~12 - 14 hours) as detected by visual, photographic and radar observations, its recent onset (around 1835 AD) and because it had been the only major stream without an obvious parent body until 2003. Ever since, there have been debates as to the age of the stream and the nature of its proposed parent body, asteroid 2003 EH1. In this work, we present results on the most probable age and formation mechanism of the narrow portion of the Quadrantid meteoroid stream. For the first time we use data on eight high precision photographic Quadrantids, equivalent to gram - kilogram size, to constrain the most likely age of the core of the stream. Out of eight high-precision photographic Quadrantids, five pertain directly to the narrow portion of the stream. In addition, we also use data on five high-precision radar Quadrantids, observed within the peak of the shower. We performed backwards numerical integrations of the equations of motion of a large number of 'clones' of both, the eight high-precision photographic and five radar Quadrantid meteors, along with the proposed parent body, 2003 EH1. According to our results, from the backward integrations, the most likely age of the narrow structure of the Quadrantids is between 200 - 300 years. These presumed ejection epochs, corresponding to 1700 - 1800 AD, are then used for forward integrations of large numbers of hypothetical meteoroids, ejected from the parent 2003 EH$_1$, until the present epoch. The aim is to constrain whether the core of the Quadrantid meteoroid stream is consistent with a previously proposed relatively young age (~ 200 years).}
The hard X-ray emission along the "Z" track in GX 17+2
Creators: name: Ding, G. Q.
name: Huang, C. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the data from the Proportional Counter Array (PCA) and the High-Energy X-ray Timing Experiment (HEXTE) on board it Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer for Z source GX 17+2, we investigate the evolution of its PCA spectra and HEXTE spectra along a "Z" track on its hardness-intensity diagram. A hard X-ray tail is detected in the HEXTE spectra. The detected hard X-ray tails are discontinuously scattered throughout the "Z" track. The found hard tail hardens from the horizontal branch, through the normal branch, to the flaring branch in principle and it contributes ~(20-50)% of the total flux in 20-200 keV. Our joint fitting results of the PCA+HEXTE spectra in 3-200 keV show that the portion of Comptonization in the bulk-motion Comptonization (BMC) model accounts for the hard X-ray tail, which indicates that the BMC process could be responsible for the detected hard tail. The temperature of the seed photons for BMC is ~2.7 keV, implying that these seed photons might be emitted from the surface of the neutron star (NS) or the boundary layer between the NS and the disk and, therefore, this process could take place around the NS or in the boundary layer.
description: 19 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy
A novel TRPC6 mutation in a family with podocytopathy and clinical variability
Creators: name: Lu, Mei
name: Weck, Karen E.
name: Mottl, Amy K.
name: Fine, Catherine A.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2013

description: Abstract Background Mutation in several podocyte-specific genes have been noted to result in phenotypic heterogeneity. Herein, we report a novel, autosomal dominant TRPC6 mutation in a family with disease ranging from asymptomatic minimal change disease to end-stage kidney disease. Case presentation A 35 year old woman developed asymptomatic, nephrotic range proteinuria during pregnancy that did not resolve after delivery. Her mother had end-stage kidney disease of unknown etiology and her brother had asymptomatic proteinuria. Kidney biopsy revealed minimal change disease in both the proband and her brother. Genetic testing was performed in the proband and mother, revealing a novel frameshift mutation in TRPC6, D873fsX878. The proband continues to have subnephrotic range proteinuria and normal creatinine but her brother has since developed progressive chronic kidney disease. Conclusions The current case report underscores the heterogeneity of disease in podocytopathies and related genes. Genetic testing of podocyte genes is useful in order to understand the pathophysiologic processes underlying these overlapping diseases.
From Jeff=1/2 insulator to p-wave superconductor in single-crystal Sr2Ir1-xRuxO4 (0 < x< 1)
Creators: name: Yuan, S. J.
name: Aswartham, S.
name: Terzic, J.
name: Zheng, H.
name: Zhao, H. D.
name: Schlottmann, P.
name: Cao, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Sr2IrO4 is a magnetic insulator assisted by strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) whereas the Sr2RuO4 is a p-wave superconductor. The contrasting ground states have been shown to result from the critical role of the strong SOC in the iridate. Our investigation of structural, transport, and magnetic properties reveals that substituting 4d Ru4+ (4d4) ions for 5d Ir4+(5d5) ions in Sr2IrO4 directly adds holes to the t2g bands, reduces the SOC and thus rebalances the competing energies in single-crystal Sr2Ir1-xRuxO4. A profound effect of Ru doping driving a rich phase diagram is a structural phase transition from a distorted I41/acd to a more ideal I4/mmm tetragonal structure near x=0.50 that accompanies a phase transition from an antiferromagnetic-insulating state to a paramagnetic-metal state. We also make a comparison drawn with Rh doped Sr2IrO4, highlighting important similarities and differences.
description: 18 pages,7 figures
Implementation and performance of FDPS: A Framework Developing Parallel Particle Simulation Codes
Creators: name: Iwasawa, Masaki
name: Tanikawa, Ataru
name: Hosono, Natsuki
name: Nitadori, Keigo
name: Muranushi, Takayuki
name: Makino, Junichiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the basic idea, implementation, measured performance and performance model of FDPS (Framework for developing particle simulators). FDPS is an application-development framework which helps the researchers to develop particle-based simulation programs for large-scale distributed-memory parallel supercomputers. A particle-based simulation program for distributed-memory parallel computers needs to perform domain decomposition, redistribution of particles, and gathering of particle information for interaction calculation. Also, even if distributed-memory parallel computers are not used, in order to reduce the amount of computation, algorithms such as Barnes-Hut tree method should be used for long-range interactions. For short-range interactions, some methods to limit the calculation to neighbor particles are necessary. FDPS provides all of these necessary functions for efficient parallel execution of particle-based simulations as "templates", which are independent of the actual data structure of particles and the functional form of the interaction. By using FDPS, researchers can write their programs with the amount of work necessary to write a simple, sequential and unoptimized program of O(N^2) calculation cost, and yet the program, once compiled with FDPS, will run efficiently on large-scale parallel supercomputers. A simple gravitational N-body program can be written in around 120 lines. We report the actual performance of these programs and the performance model. The weak scaling performance is very good, and almost linear speedup was obtained for up to the full system of K computer. The minimum calculation time per timestep is in the range of 30 ms (N=10^7) to 300 ms (N=10^9). These are currently limited by the time for the calculation of the domain decomposition and communication necessary for the interaction calculation. We discuss how we can overcome these bottlenecks.
description: 22 pages, 27 figures,accepted for publication in PASJ. The FDPS package is here https://github.com/fdps/fdps
Single-cell clonal tracking of persistent T-cells in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Creators: name: Obermayer, Benedikt
name: Keilholz, Luisa
name: Conrad, Thomas
name: Frentsch, Marco
name: Blau, Igor-Wolfgang
name: Vuong, Lam
name: Lesch, Stella
name: Movasshagi, Kamran
name: Tietze-Stolley, Carola
name: Loyal, Lucie
name: Henze, Larissa
name: Penack, Olaf
name: Stervbo, Ulrik
name: Babel, Nina
name: Haas, Simon
name: Beule, Dieter
name: Bullinger, Lars
name: Wittenbecher, Friedrich
name: Na, Il-Kang
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit
subject: scRNAseq
subject: allogeneic HSCT
subject: leukemia
subject: transplantation
subject: T-cells
subject: clonal tracking

description: The critical balance between intended and adverse effects in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (alloHSCT) depends on the fate of individual donor T-cells. To this end, we tracked αβT-cell clonotypes during stem cell mobilization treatment with granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) in healthy donors and for six months during immune reconstitution after transfer to transplant recipients. More than 250 αβT-cell clonotypes were tracked from donor to recipient. These clonotypes consisted almost exclusively of CD8+ effector memory T cells (CD8TEM), which exhibited a different transcriptional signature with enhanced effector and cytotoxic functions compared to other CD8TEM. Importantly, these distinct and persisting clonotypes could already be delineated in the donor. We confirmed these phenotypes on the protein level and their potential for selection from the graft. Thus, we identified a transcriptional signature associated with persistence and expansion of donor T-cell clonotypes after alloHSCT that may be exploited for personalized graft manipulation strategies in future studies.
Reproductive Biology of Fopius vandenboschi (Fullaway) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in the Laboratory
Creators: name: Duangta Julsirikul
Publisher: name: Faculty of Science and Technology, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Fopius vandenboschi (Fullaway), Bactrocera, reproductive biology, natural enemies, mass-rearing

description: Suan Sunandha Science and Technology Journal, 5, 1, 1 to 5
Telomerase expression is sufficient for chromosomal integrity in cells lacking p53 dependent G1checkpoint function
Creators: name: Livanos, Elizabeth
name: Kaufmann, William
name: Heffernan, Timothy P
name: Simpson, Dennis A
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2005

description: Abstract Background Secondary cultures of human fibroblasts display a finite lifespan ending at senescence. Loss of p53 function by mutation or viral oncogene expression bypasses senescence, allowing cell division to continue for an additional 10 – 20 doublings. During this time chromosomal aberrations seen in mitotic cells increase while DNA damage and decatenation checkpoint functions in G2 cells decrease. Methods To explore this complex interplay between chromosomal instability and checkpoint dysfunction, human fibroblast lines were derived that expressed HPV16E6 oncoprotein or dominant-negative alleles of p53 (A143V and H179Q) with or without the catalytic subunit of telomerase. Results Cells with normal p53 function displayed 86 – 93% G1 arrest after exposure to 1.5 Gy ionizing radiation (IR). Expression of HPV16E6 or p53-H179Q severely attenuated G1 checkpoint function (3 – 20% arrest) while p53-A143V expression induced intermediate attenuation (55 – 57% arrest) irrespective of telomerase expression. All cell lines, regardless of telomerase expression or p53 status, exhibited a normal DNA damage G2 checkpoint response following exposure to 1.5 Gy IR prior to the senescence checkpoint. As telomerase-negative cells bypassed senescence, the frequencies of chromosomal aberrations increased generally congruent with attenuation of G2 checkpoint function. Telomerase expression allowed cells with defective p53 function to grow >175 doublings without chromosomal aberrations or attenuation of G2 checkpoint function. Conclusion Thus, chromosomal instability in cells with defective p53 function appears to depend upon telomere erosion not loss of the DNA damage induced G1 checkpoint.
Species Diversity of Aquatic Fauna in Seagrass at Rockgarden Village, Rayong Province
Creators: name: Chanate Wanna
Publisher: name: Faculty of Science and Technology, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University
Year: 2018
Subjects: species diversity
aquatic fauna
seagrass
Rockgarden Village

description: Suan Sunandha Science and Technology Journal, 5, 1, 6 to 12
Longitudinal Associations between Multimorbidities and Patient-Reported Quality of Life
Creators: name: Graham, Eileen
name: Atherton, Olivia
name: Mroczek, Dan
name: Curtis, Laura
name: Cella, David
name: Opsasnick, Lauren
name: Lovett, Rebecca
name: O'Conor, Rachel
name: Wolf, Michael
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This project will use the Health Literacy and Cognitive Function Among Older Adults (LitCog) data to explore whether longitudinal patterns of PRO quality of life are associated with multi-morbidities.
Creation of a low-entropy quantum gas of polar molecules in an optical lattice
Creators: name: Moses, Steven A.
name: Covey, Jacob P.
name: Miecnikowski, Matthew T.
name: Yan, Bo
name: Gadway, Bryce
name: Ye, Jun
name: Jin, Deborah S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultracold polar molecules, with their long-range electric dipolar interactions, offer a unique platform for studying correlated quantum many-body phenomena such as quantum magnetism. However, realizing a highly degenerate quantum gas of molecules with a low entropy per particle has been an outstanding experimental challenge. In this paper, we report the synthesis of a low entropy molecular quantum gas by creating molecules at individual sites of a three-dimensional optical lattice that is initially loaded from a low entropy mixture of K and Rb quantum gases. We make use of the quantum statistics and interactions of the initial atom gases to load into the optical lattice, simultaneously and with good spatial overlap, a Mott insulator of bosonic Rb atoms and a single-band insulator of fermionic K atoms. Then, using magneto-association and optical state transfer, we efficiently produce ground-state molecules in the lattice at those sites that contained one Rb and one K atom. The achieved filling fraction of 25% indicates an entropy as low as $2.2\,k_B$ per molecule. This low-entropy molecular quantum gas opens the door to novel studies of transport and entanglement propagation in a many-body system with long-range dipolar interactions.
A secondary analysis：the effect of the experimental environment on cheating
Creators: name: Liu, Huanxu
name: Yamada, Yuki
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This is a secondary analysis of the cheating-brightness pre-registration studies. It aims to verify the effect of the experimental environment on the results of the two earlier experiments (10.17605/OSF.IO/35GFZ, 10.17605/OSF.IO/NKJQ5).
Statin cost effectiveness in primary prevention a systematic review of the recent cost-effectiveness literature in the United States
Creators: name: Simpson, Ross, Jr.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2012

description: AbstractBackgroundThe literature on the cost-effectiveness of statin drugs in primary prevention of coronary heart disease is complex. The objective of this study is to compare the disparate results of recent cost-effectiveness analyses of statins.FindingsWe conducted a systematic review of the literature on statin cost-effectiveness. The four studies that met inclusion criteria reported varying conclusions about the cost-effectiveness of statin treatment, without a clear consensus as to whether statins are cost-effective for primary prevention. However, after accounting for each study’s assumptions about statin costs, we found substantial agreement among the studies. Studies that assumed statins to be more expensive found them to be less cost-effective, and vice-versa. Furthermore, treatment of low-risk groups became cost-effective as statins became less expensive.ConclusionsDrug price is the primary determinant of statin cost-effectiveness within a given risk group. As more statin drugs become generic, patients at low risk for coronary disease may be treated cost-effectively. Though many factors must be weighed in any medical decision, from a cost-effectiveness perspective, statins may now be considered an appropriate therapy for many patients at low risk for heart disease.
Simultaneous observation of water and class I methanol masers toward class II methanol maser sources
Creators: name: Kang, Hyunwoo
name: Kim, Kee-Tae
name: Byun, Do-Young
name: Lee, Seokho
name: Park, Yong-Sun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a simultaneous single-dish survey of 22 GHz water maser and 44 GHz and 95 GHz class I methanol masers toward 77 6.7 GHz class II methanol maser sources, which were selected from the Arecibo methanol maser Galactic plane survey (AMGPS) catalog.Water maser emission is detected in 39 (51%) sources, of which 15 are new detections. Methanol maser emission at 44 GHz and 95 GHz is found in 25 (32%) and 19 (25%) sources, of which 21 and 13 sources are newly detected, respectively. We find 4 high-velocity (> 30 km/s) water maser sources, including 3 dominant blue- or redshifted outflows.The 95 GHz masers always appear with the 44 GHz maser emission. They are strongly correlated with 44 GHz masers in velocity, flux density, and luminosity, while they are not correlated with either water or 6.7 GHz class II methanol masers. The average peak flux density ratio of 95 GHz to 44 GHz masers is close to unity, which is two times higher than previous estimates. The flux densities of class I methanol masers are more closely correlated with the associated BGPS core mass than those of water or class II methanol masers. Using the large velocity gradient (LVG) model and assuming unsaturated class I methanol maser emission, we derive the fractional abundance of methanol to be in a range of 4.2*10^-8 to 2.3*10^-6, with a median value of 3.3\pm2.7*10^-7.
description: 45 pages, 15 figures, 5 tables. Accepted for publication in ApJS
CircRNA identification and feature interpretability analysis
Creators: name: Mengting Niu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Circular RNAs (circRNAs) can regulate microRNA activity and are related to various diseases, such as cancer. Functional research on circRNAs is the focus of scientific research. Accurate identification of circRNAs is important for gaining insight into their functions. We developed a novel framework, CircDC, for classifying circRNAs from other lncRNAs. CircDC uses four different feature encoding schemes and adopts a multilayer convolutional neural network and bidirectional long short-term memory network to learn high-order feature representation and make circRNA predictions.
Protocol: A scoping review on interprofessional collaborations for children with physical disabilities: the voices of the actors involved
Creators: name: Styczen, Line
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Children
subject: Interprofessional collaboration
subject: Physical disability

description: The overarching concept of interest with this scoping review is to identify the knowledge base concerning interprofessional collaboration for children with physical disabilities, with focus on identifying the literature on the perspectives of the actors involved in the interprofessional collaboration.
Erwachsenenpädagogische Digitalisierungsforschung!? Kritische Betrachtungen zum Selbstverständnis der Erwachsenenbildung im modernen Wissenschaftssystem
Creators: name: Kühn, Christian
Publisher: name: Hamburg : Verlag Dr. Kovac
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Erwachsenenbildung
subject: Digitalisierung
subject: Digitalität
subject: Erziehungswissenschaft
subject: Interdisziplinarität
subject: Disziplinarität
subject: Medienpädagogik
subject: Wissenschaftstheorie
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie

description: Digitalisierung ist zu einem allgegenwärtigen Leitbegriff wissenschaftlicher Diskurse avanciert. Die Bestimmung einer disziplinspezifischen Forschungsper-spektive muss das Problem lösen, Digitalisierung als Zusammenhang technischer und sozial-kultureller Transformationen interdisziplinär zu betrachten. Eine „Erwachsenenpädagogische Digitalisierungsforschung“ muss sich somit ihrer eigenen Disziplinarität im Verhältnis zu anderen Disziplinen bewusstwerden. Historisch betrachtet, ist dies für die Identität der Erwachsenenbildung im modernen Wissenschaftssystem eine zu bearbeitende Daueraufgabe.
title: Hale Woodruff: Wegbereiter der afroamerikanischen Kunst(-didaktik).
title: sein Leben und Werk im Kontext der Neufindung der afroamerikanischen Identität in den Vereinigten Staaten des 20. Jahrhunderts.
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Ahlmer, Sarah Annette
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Hale Woodruff
subject: Afroamerikanische Kunst
subject: Afrikanische Kunst
subject: New Negro
subject: 700
subject: Woodruff, Hale
subject: Afroamerikanische Kunst / USA

description: Hale Aspacio Woodruff (1900-1980) war ein afroamerikanischer Künstler und Kunstpädagoge. Obwohl sein Œuvre nicht in Ansätzen so gut rezipiert ist, wie das der weißen Künstler, Thomas Hart Bentons, John Steuart Currys oder das der abstrakten Expressionisten, Willem de Koonings oder Jackson Pollocks, die zur selben Zeit gewirkt haben, ist Hale Woodruffs Einfluss auf die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts sicherlich ebenso bedeutend. Seine Lehre, sein Aufbau von Institutionen, seine Fähigkeit, Brücken über kulturelle Grenzen hinweg zu bauen, und seine lange Untersuchung des modernistischen Kunstausdrucks durch die Linse traditioneller afrikanischer Kunst machten ihn zu einem der einflussreichsten Künstler der frühen afroamerikanischen Moderne. Sarah Ahlmer stellt in ihrer Arbeit erstmals eine umfängliche Biografie des Künstlers mit zugehörigem Werkkatalog zusammen. Unter den aktuellen politischen Gleichstellungsbestrebungen wird sein Œuvre analysiert und interpretiert. Darüber hinaus wird sein Leben und Schaffen eng mit der Entwicklung der Neufindung der Afroamerikanischen Identität verknüpft. Woodruff kämpfte Zeitlebens gegen das System struktureller Ungleichheit in den Vereinigten Staaten. Ebenso versucht diese Arbeit auf die tief verwurzelten kolonialistischen und rassistischen Denkweisen, die unsere Sprache wie auch unsere Kunst und visuelle Kultur prägen, aufmerksam zu machen. Die Autorin ersetzt deshalb erniedrigende Begrifflichkeiten und Werktitel durch adäquate wertfreie Ausdrücke, um zur Reflexion unserer Sprache und Denkmuster anzuregen.
Sensing in the Presence of Observed Environments
Creators: name: Plenio, M. B.
name: Huelga, S. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Sensing in the presence of environmental noise is a problem of increasing practical interest. In a master equation description, where the state of the environment is unobserved, the effect of signal and noise is described by system operators only. In this context it is well-known that noise that is orthogonal on an external signal can be corrected for without perturbing the signal, while similarly efficient strategies for non-orthogonal signal and noise operators are not known. Here we make use of the fact that system-environment interaction typically arises via local two-body interactions describing the exchange of quanta between system and environment, which are observable in principle. That two-body-interactions are usually orthogonal on system operators, allows us to develop error corrected sensing supported by the observation of the quanta that are emitted into the environment. We describe such schemes and outline a realistic proof-of-principle experiment in an ion trap set-up.
description: 4 pages
Investigating echo state networks dynamics by means of recurrence analysis
Creators: name: Bianchi, Filippo Maria
name: Livi, Lorenzo
name: Alippi, Cesare
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we elaborate over the well-known interpretability issue in echo state networks. The idea is to investigate the dynamics of reservoir neurons with time-series analysis techniques taken from research on complex systems. Notably, we analyze time-series of neuron activations with Recurrence Plots (RPs) and Recurrence Quantification Analysis (RQA), which permit to visualize and characterize high-dimensional dynamical systems. We show that this approach is useful in a number of ways. First, the two-dimensional representation offered by RPs provides a way for visualizing the high-dimensional dynamics of a reservoir. Our results suggest that, if the network is stable, reservoir and input denote similar line patterns in the respective RPs. Conversely, the more unstable the ESN, the more the RP of the reservoir presents instability patterns. As a second result, we show that the $\mathrm{L_{max}}$ measure is highly correlated with the well-established maximal local Lyapunov exponent. This suggests that complexity measures based on RP diagonal lines distribution provide a valuable tool to quantify the degree of network stability. Finally, our analysis shows that all RQA measures fluctuate on the proximity of the so-called edge of stability, where an ESN typically achieves maximum computational capability. We verify that the determination of the edge of stability provided by such RQA measures is more accurate than two well-known criteria based on the Jacobian matrix of the reservoir. Therefore, we claim that RPs and RQA-based analyses can be used as valuable tools to design an effective network given a specific problem.
description: Revised version. 24 pages; 12 figures
Integrated syphilis/HIV screening in China: A qualitative analysis
Creators: name: Cohen, Myron
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2010

description: Abstract Background The last decade has seen enormous advances in HIV treatment and care, but how to implement scaled up HIV testing, prevention, and treatment in low-income areas still presents a formidable public health challenge. South China faces expanding syphilis and sexually transmitted HIV epidemics, but health systems characteristics important for scaling up syphilis and HIV testing have not been defined. Methods A purposive sample to ensure public, private, and public-private hybrid STI clinic inclusion was selected in a South China city. Eight key informant interviews were conducted with the STI clinic manager, followed by eight focus group discussions with physicians. Data collection relied on a semi-structured format that included questions in each of the following domains: 1) clinical facilities; 2) laboratory capacity with a focus on syphilis/HIV diagnosis; 3) clinic personnel; 4) physical space with a focus on locations to disclose confidential results; 5) financial support. Results Public STI clinics had free syphilis testing/treatment and laboratory facilities to perform essential syphilis and HIV tests. However, despite serving a large number of STI patients, private STI clinics lacked nontreponemal syphilis testing, HIV testing, and had fewer connections to the public health infrastructure. Formally trained assistant physicians were 2.5 times as common as physicians at STI clinics. Only one of the 8 sites had onsite voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) services available. Conclusion These STI case studies reveal the potential for expanding integrated syphilis/HIV services at public STI clinics in China. More health services research is needed to guide scale-up of syphilis/HIV testing in China.
Four-dimensional conformal field theory using quaternions
Creators: name: Giardino, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We build a four-dimensional quaternion-parametrized conformal field theory (QCFT) using quaternion holomorphic functions as the generators of quaternionic conformal transformations. Taking the two-dimensional complex-parametrized conformal field theory (CCFT) as our model, we study the stress tensor, the conserved charge, the symmetry generators, the quantization conditions and several operator product expansions (OPE's). Future applications also are addressed.
Nonlinear commutators for the fractional p-Laplacian and applications
Creators: name: Schikorra, Armin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35D30, 35B45, 35J60, 47G20, 35S05, 58E20

description: We prove a nonlocal, nonlinear commutator estimate concerning the transfer of derivatives onto testfunctions. For the fractional $p$-Laplace operator it implies that solutions to certain degenerate nonlocal equations are higher differentiable. Also, weak fractional $p$-harmonic functions which a priori are less regular than variational solutions are in fact classical. As an application we show that sequences of uniformly bounded $\frac{n}{s}$-harmonic maps converge strongly outside at most finitely many points.
A scoping review to identify industry-specific interventions and policies to improve the health of call agents in UK contact centres
Creators: name: Bell, Zoe
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Applied Behavior Analysis
subject: Organization Development
subject: Sports Studies
subject: Industrial and Organizational Psychology
subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: health intervention
subject: health policy
subject: protocol
subject: scoping review

description: This is a registration of a protocol for a scoping review to identify industry-specific interventions and policies to improve the health of call agents in UK contact centres.
Professional meets personal: Bringing the whole self to work
Creators: name: Lang, Reg
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Planners--Practice

description: Professional implies the provision of independent, objective, impersonal, expert opinion. The reality of planning, however, is more that that. Much everyday planning is communicative and collaborative work involving the personal and rational: subjectivity, moral and value judgements, feelings, instinct, intuition and non-traditional forms of knowledge. To create more space for the personal in their professional work, individual practitioners need to become aware of their personal predispositions to different ways of planning, learn to be more flexible with non-preferred ways, expand their behavioural repertoires, and open conversations with other planners to share strategies for managing the professional/personal polarity.
description: Le professionnalisme implique la capacité de fournier une opinion avisée, impartiale, objective et imprersonnelle. Dans les faits, le métier d'urbaniste exige davantae. Aujourd'hui, l'exercice de cette profession consiste, en grande partie, en un travail de communication et de collaboration et fait appel à l'individualité et au non-rationnel, c'est à dire à la subjectivité, au sens critique et au sens moral, aux sentiments, à l'instinct, à l'intuition et à toutes formes non traditionnelles du savoir. Pour accorder plus de place à leurs qualités individuelles, les professionnels de l'urbanisme doivent apprendre à reconnaître leurs aptitudes naturelles dans certains aspects de la profession, à faire preuve de plus de souplesse dans certains autres et à adopter de nouvelles attitudes. Ils doivent également ouvrir le dialogue avec leurs confrères, partager leurs expériences et dégager de nouvelles stratégies qui leur permettront de créer un milieu propice à l'équilibre des ressources individuelles et professionnelles.
description: Abstract in English and French; text in English.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/6047/Article005.pdf?sequence=3
Anisotropic spin relaxation in $n$-GaAs from strong inhomogeneous hyperfine fields produced by the dynamical polarization of nuclei
Creators: name: Harmon, N. J.
name: Peterson, T. A.
name: Geppert, C. C.
name: Patel, S. J.
name: Palmstrøm, C. J.
name: Crowell, P. A.
name: Flatté, M. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The hyperfine field from dynamically polarized nuclei in n-GaAs is very spatially inhomogeneous, as the nu- clear polarization process is most efficient near the randomly-distributed donors. Electrons with polarized spins traversing the bulk semiconductor will experience this inhomogeneous hyperfine field as an effective fluctuating spin precession rate, and thus the spin polarization of an electron ensemble will relax. A theory of spin relaxation based on the theory of random walks is applied to such an ensemble precessing in an oblique magnetic field, and the precise form of the (unequal) longitudinal and transverse spin relaxation analytically derived. To investigate this mechanism, electrical three-terminal Hanle measurements were performed on epitaxially grown Co$_2$MnSi/$n$-GaAs heterostructures fabricated into electrical spin injection devices. The proposed anisotropic spin relaxation mechanism is required to satisfactorily describe the Hanle lineshapes when the applied field is oriented at large oblique angles.
description: submitted to Physical Review B Rapid Communications, 5 pages, 3 figures
Age as a mediating factor of the effect of social comparison on self-esteem
Creators: name: Segev, Tom
name: cohen, stav
name: Kalish, Shahar
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This is a pre-registration of our research as a part of our course 'Experimental Psychology'.
Socio-demographic and AIDS-related factors associated with tuberculosis stigma in southern Thailand: a quantitative, cross-sectional study of stigma among patients with TB and healthy community members
Creators: name: Poole, Charles
name: Strauss, Ronald
name: Kipp, Aaron M
name: Van Rie, Annelies
name: Sengupta, Sohini
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2011

description: Abstract Background Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the most important infectious diseases worldwide. A comprehensive approach towards disease control that addresses social factors including stigma is now advocated. Patients with TB report fears of isolation and rejection that may lead to delays in seeking care and could affect treatment adherence. Qualitative studies have identified socio-demographic, TB knowledge, and clinical determinants of TB stigma, but only one prior study has quantified these associations using formally developed and validated stigma scales. The purpose of this study was to measure TB stigma and identify factors associated with TB stigma among patients and healthy community members. Methods A cross-sectional study was performed in southern Thailand among two different groups of participants: 480 patients with TB and 300 healthy community members. Data were collected on socio-demographic characteristics, TB knowledge, and clinical factors. Scales measuring perceived TB stigma, experienced/felt TB stigma, and perceived AIDS stigma were administered to patients with TB. Community members responded to a community TB stigma and community AIDS stigma scale, which contained the same items as the perceived stigma scales given to patients. Stigma scores could range from zero to 30, 33, or 36 depending on the scale. Three separate multivariable linear regressions were performed among patients with TB (perceived and experience/felt stigma) and community members (community stigma) to determine which factors were associated with higher mean TB stigma scores. Results Only low level of education, belief that TB increases the chance of getting AIDS, and AIDS stigma were associated with higher TB stigma scores in all three analyses. Co-infection with HIV was associated with higher TB stigma among patients. All differences in mean stigma scores between index and referent levels of each factor were less than two points, except for incorrectly believing that TB increases the chance of getting AIDS (mean difference of 2.16; 95% CI: 1.38, 2.94) and knowing someone who died from TB (mean difference of 2.59; 95% CI: 0.96, 4.22). Conclusion These results suggest that approaches addressing the dual TB/HIV epidemic may be needed to combat TB stigma and that simply correcting misconceptions about TB may have limited effects.