cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Standardized use of a screening tool to trigger referrals for early integration of palliative care for patients with an advanced cancer diagnosis
Creators: name: Marin, Jennifer
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2023

description: Purpose of the ProjectThe purpose of this quality improvement project was to implement the Palliative Performance Scale(PPS) as a screening tool to promote early palliative care integration for patients with cancer. The use of the PPS provides clinicians with a standardized practice to screen and identify palliative care needs. It promotes the benefits of early palliative care integration, prevents delays, and facilitates recognition of symptoms before a decline in functional status.MethodologyA quantitative method design using a pre and post-tool implementation survey for clinicians to complete and evaluate the PPS. The survey was completed by seven registered nurses and five nurse practitioners to assess clinician knowledge of early palliative care integration, the implementation of the PPS, and to measure palliative care integration. An educational program was conducted on the benefits of early palliative care integration and the validated and reliable PPS tool. The post-survey was completed at three-time points. ResultsAfter the educational program and the implementation of the PPS, there were no statistical improvements in knowledge of early palliative care benefits, number of palliative care consults, and use of the PSS tool across the four time points. However, participants reported entering 3-5 consults per month significantly increased from 8% at baseline to 63.6% at the second post-test results (X2 = 7.73, p < .01).Implications for PracticeClinicians’ knowledge of the benefits of early palliative integration and the standardized screening tool can increase patient satisfaction, improve patient outcomes and decrease healthcare costs. Recommendations include continuity of formal training on the benefits of early palliative care integration and institutional-wide training may encourage compliance in the use of screening tools amongst clinicians.
D4.6 Validation and Evaluation initial Report
Creators: name: Oldani, Federico
name: Monopoli, Tommaso
name: Blanco, Giacomo
name: Salza, Dario
name: Otero, Marta
name: Fabregat, Raimon
name: Pujol, Alex.
name: Pérez-Zanón, Núria
name: Snoek, Jessica
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The document outlines the validation process for the Intelligent Services developed as part of the VitiGEOSS project. This project aims to provide the winemaking community with cutting-edge tools to improve their sustainability practices and optimize their production processes. In the second vegetative season (2022), the Intelligent Services are thoroughly validated using data collected from three demo sites. The performances of the VitiGEOSS services are monitored and evaluated using various metrics. This includes the ability of the tool to forecast vine phenology, monitor key crop indicators, provide climate prediction, predict the occurrence of vine diseases, deliver precise disease treatment recipes, optimize the use of resources and tasks, and evaluate sustainable indicators. Data collected during this second season are used to calculate intermediate performance and propose improvements to be implemented in the third year. The final performance of the intelligent services will be determined using data from the third vegetative season (D4.7). Overall, this document provides an overview of the validation process for the Intelligent Services developed as part of the VitiGEOSS project. These tools aim to help the winemaking community to improve their current strategies and move towards more sustainable practices as well as help them make decisions on a week to week basis throughout the growing season.
Gallup/CNN/USA Today Poll: Energy Problems/2004 Election/Stem Cell Research
Creators: name: CNN
name: USA Today
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2001

description: Bush Job Performance (1): Congress Job Performance (1): People in the News (9): Bush (3): Congress (7): Health Care (1): Energy (6): Gore (4): Stem Cell Research (7): Chandra Levy (5): Affirmative Action (7): Foreign Trucks (2): Traffic Cameras (1): Marijuana (1): Stocks (4): Children and Sports (3)
TB/HIV Integration at Primary Care Level: A Quantitative Assessment at Three Clinics in Johannesburg, South Africa
Creators: name: Page-Shipp, Liesl Shirley
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Objective: In 2004 the WHO released the Interim Policy on Collaborative TB/HIV activities. For People living with HIV (PLWH), activities include intensified case finding, isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) and infection control. For TB patients, activities include HIV counseling and testing (HCT), prevention messages, and cotrimoxazole preventive therapy (CPT); care and support, and antiretroviral treatment (ART) for those with HIV-associated TB. Implementation of collaborative activities in South Africa and globally remains sub-optimal. We aimed to quantify TB/HIV integration at three primary health care clinics in Johannesburg, South Africa. Methods: Routinely collected TB and HIV data from the HCT register, TB suspect register, TB treatment register, clinic file and HIV electronic database collected over a period of three months was reviewed. Results: Of 1104 people receiving HCT, 306 (28%) were HIV positive, only 57% of these had a CD4 count, few were screened for TB or offered IPT. Among all clinic encounters with PLWH, 921 (15%) had documented TB symptoms, but only 10% were assessed by smear microscopy, and few asymptomatic PLWH were offered IPT. Infection control was poorly documented and implemented. Among 208 TB patients, 155 (75%) had documented HIV status, of which 90% were HIV positive and 88% had a documented CD4 count. Provision of CPT and ART was poorly documented. Conclusion: Coverage of most TB/HIV collaborative activities was below global plan targets. The lack of standardized recording tools and incomplete documentation impeded assessment at facility level, and limits the accuracy of data compiled at district level.
title: Clinical indications and radiation doses to the conceptus associated with CT scanning in pregnancy: a retrospective study
Creators: name: Woussen, Sofie
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Foetal imaging
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: CT
subject: Dosimetry

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: The aim of our study was to evaluate the number and clinical indication of CT scans performed on pregnant patients, to estimate the associated radiation doses to the conceptus and to compare our results with published...
Genomics Education for Public Health: A Resource Guide for Curriculum Development
Creators: name: Dawson, Linda J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: Genomics has been identified by the Institute of Medicine (I OM) as one of eight new emerging areas critically important to building public health infrastructure and capacity in workforce development initiatives. The completion of the human genome map in 2003, creates new possibilities for the public health workforce to respond to these new scientific advances. A number of genomic competencies have been developed with dialogue among interdisciplinary teams representing various organizations. These competencies were developed in an effort to ensure a basic level of needed competence in genomics in practice and training of the public health workforce. With appropriate training, the role of genomic influences may be woven into existing knowledge of environmental, behavioral and lifestyle factors and applied to an improved understanding of the risks of disease predisposition and acquisition. Many of the top ten causes of death in the United States are potentially preventable, with nine having a known genetic component. One of the challenges for the public health educational system as discussed herein is to train new students as well as the existing workforce in the applications of genomics to population health in order to achieve its remit of improving health and preventing disease. The uptake of genomics into public health practice will take place in the context of a variety of potential impact factors which will be considered along with acknowledgement of shrinking budgets for public health services, programs and education. The public health community must avail themselves of freely available existing educational resources in genomics and forge new partnerships to assure the appropriate education and training is taking place. The Genomics Competency/Resource Project described here is one such initiative to make use of these existing electronic resources and match them with competencies and associated learning objectives customized for public health personnel with no background in genetics. This Resource Guide is primarily intended to be used to aid in curriculum development but is not limited to that purpose as anyone with an interest in genetics can benefit from the competencies, learning objectives and resources described.
The Minnesota Poll # 228
Creators: name: Minneapolis Tribune
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2015

description: Russians purchasing surplus wheat (1); Russian purchasing manufactured goods (1); Russia stopping lunar exploration (3); United States continuing lunar exploration (1); John F. Kennedy reelection (1); presidential candidate preferences (3); political leaning (1); approval of various people (6); political leaning of government issues (6); new political parties (1); new car differences (2); new car purchase (1); attention to South Vietnam activity (1); aid to South Vietnam (2); racial equality laws (1); African American Minnesota residents (3); reducing federal income tax (5); sales tax (2); balanced budget (1); budget reductions (1); newspaper readership (2); television schedule (3).
Distinguished connections on $(J^{2}=\pm 1)$-metric manifolds
Creators: name: Etayo, Fernando
name: Santamaría, Rafael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C15, 53C05, 53C50, 53C07

description: We study several linear connections (the first canonical, the Chern, the well adapted, the Levi Civita, the Kobayashi-Nomizu, the Yano, the Bismut and those with totally skew-symmetric torsion) which can be defined on the four geometric types of $(J^2=\pm1)$-metric manifolds. We characterize when such a connection is adapted to the structure, and obtain a lot of results about coincidence among connections. We prove that the first canonical and the well adapted connections define a one-parameter family of adapted connections, named canonical connections, thus extending to almost Norden and almost product Riemannian manifolds the families introduced in almost Hermitian and almost para-Hermitian manifolds. We also prove that every connection studied in this paper is a canonical connection, when it exists and it is an adapted connection.
description: Corrected typos and updated references
AI and Data Visitation: Addressing challenges in data transfers in clinical research within the framework of Open Science
Creators: name: Crawley, Francis P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Artificial Intelligence, Data Visitation, Clinical Trials, Data policy, COVID, Open Science, UNESCO, Ethics, Law, Science Policy

description: The legal and ethical frameworks for innovation in data acquisition and transfer Federated data, blockchain, and quality assurance Developing instruments for improving data utility in clinical trials The views presented here are those of the speaker’s. They do not necessarily reflect those of any organisation. Francis gratefully acknowledges the work Ukraine Clinical Research Support Initiative (UCRSI), of the International Science Council’s CODATA International Data Policy Committee (IDPC), and the EOSC-Future / RDA Artificial Intelligence & Data Visitation Working Group (AIDV-WG). Francis’ EOSC Future / RDA Ambassador for Ethics & Law and the EOSC-Future projects are co-funded by the European Union’s Horizon Programme call INFRAEOSC-03-2020 - Project ID 101017536. CODATA is funded by the International Science Council (ISC) and Horizon Europe as well as by other funding organisations. The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is funded by Horizon Europe as well as by other funding organisations (see here). Francis is grateful for the support provided by CODATA and the EOSC-Future and the RDA communities, structures, and secretariats.
Positive Health Promotion: Orienting Health Promotion within a Wellness Framework to Improve Public Health Quality
Creators: name: Peterson, Travis
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: While health professions often purport a multidimensional and holistic view of health, these views typically do not translate into practice. In public health, best practices are not positioned to lead population-based approaches focused on a holistic perspective of health. The public health field continues largely to emphasize physical constructs and health problems rather than positive health dimensions. In order to move toward an authentic adoption of holistic health, two things need to happen: (1) more focus on a full range of health domains in proportion to physical health, and (2) a greater emphasis on optimum health versus health problems across all domains. Health promotion efforts oriented toward wellness offer a context for shifting health approaches towards a positive framework for optimal health. The purpose of this paper is to advance holistic health and wellness by clarifying concepts and constructs for “positive” health as a means for improving public health quality. A wellness paradigm shifts health status towards optimum human potential and thriving instead of an overreliance on deficits or status quo functioning. From a public health perspective, wellness is not only limited to individual capacity but also applies to population health. Public health quality is explored as a reference point for incorporating the aforementioned concepts.
The Minnesota Poll # 229
Creators: name: Minneapolis Tribune
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2015

description: John F. Kennedy Minnesota visits (1); Kennedy memorials (1); Kennedy assassination blame (1); assassination teaching a lesson (2); Lyndon B. Johnson job performance (3); Kennedy-Johnson comparative political leanings (5); farmers under Johnson (1); labor unions under Johnson (1); retaining Kennedy cabinet (2); Democratic presidential nominee (2); presidential candidate preferences (4); vice presidential candidates (4); line of succession to presidency (2); approval of various people (6); interest in boxing (4); most respectable professions (3); family doctor (2); doctor fees (1); eliminating religion in public schools (2).
Additional file 1 of APOE4 carrier status determines association between white matter disease and grey matter atrophy in early-stage dementia
Creators: name: Vipin, Ashwati
name: Kumar, Dilip
name: Soo, See Ann
name: Zailan, Fatin Zahra
name: Leow, Yi Jin
name: Koh, Chen Ling
name: Ng, Adeline Su Lyn
name: Ng, Kok Pin
name: Kandiah, Nagaendran
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Figure 1. White matter hyperintensity load among early-stage dementia APOE4 non-carriers relates to worse cognition than APOE4 carriers. In early-stage dementia participants, there was a significant interaction effect between WMH load and APOE4 status on cognition. Increasing white matter hyperintensity load was associated with (A) lower MMSE scores and (B) poorer Color Trails 2 performance in APOE4 non-carriers compared to APOE4 carriers. The solid line refers to APOE4 non-carriers while the dashed line refers to APOE4 carriers. Abbreviations: APOE4, apolipoprotein E4; MMSE, mini-mental state examination; WMH, white matter hyperintensity.
On the N-wave Equations with PT-symmetry
Creators: name: Gerdjikov, Vladimir S.
name: Grahovski, Georgi G.
name: Ivanov, Rossen I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study extensions of N-wave systems with PT-symmetry. The types of (nonlocal) reductions leading to integrable equations invariant with respect to P- (spatial reflection) and T- (time reversal) symmetries is described. The corresponding constraints on the fundamental analytic solutions and the scattering data are derived. Based on examples of 3-wave (related to the algebra sl(3,C)) and 4-wave (related to the algebra so(5,C)) systems, the properties of different types of 1- and 2-soliton solutions are discussed. It is shown that the PT symmetric 3-wave equations may have regular multi-soliton solutions for some specific choices of their parameters.
description: 20 pages, LaTeX
The Gaia-ESO Survey: Catalogue of H$α$ emission stars
Creators: name: Traven, Gregor
name: Zwitter, Tomaž
name: Van Eck, Sophie
name: Klutsch, Alexis
name: Bonito, Rosaria
name: Lanzafame, Alessandro C.
name: Alfaro, Emilio J.
name: Bayo, Amelia
name: Bragaglia, Angela
name: Costado, María Teresa
name: Damiani, Francesco
name: Flaccomio, Ettore
name: Frasca, Antonio
name: Hourihane, Anna
name: Jimenez-Esteban, Fran
name: Lardo, Carmela
name: Morbidelli, Lorenzo
name: Pancino, Elena
name: Prisinzano, Loredana
name: Sacco, Germano G.
name: Worley, Clare C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the properties of H$α$ emission stars across the sample of 22035 spectra from the Gaia-ESO Survey internal data release, observed with the GIRAFFE instrument and largely belonging to stars in young open clusters. Automated fits using two independent Gaussian profiles and a third component that accounts for the nebular emission allow us to discern distinct morphological types of H$α$ line profiles with the introduction of a simplified classification scheme. All in all we find 3765 stars with intrinsic emission and sort their spectra into eight distinct morphological categories: single--component emission, emission blend, sharp emission peaks, double emission, P-Cygni, inverted P-Cygni, self--absorption, and emission in absorption. We have more than one observation for 1430 stars in our sample, thus allowing a quantitative discussion of the degree of variability of H$α$ emission profiles, which is expected for young, active objects. We present a catalogue of stars with properties of their H$α$ emission line profiles, morphological classification, analysis of variability with time and the supplementary information from the SIMBAD, VizieR, and ADS databases. The records in SIMBAD indicate the presence of H$α$ emission for roughly 25% of all stars in our catalogue, while at least 305 of them have already been more thoroughly investigated according to the references in ADS. The most frequently identified morphological categories in our sample of spectra are emission blend (23%), emission in absorption (22%), and self--absorption (16%). Objects with repeated observations demonstrate that our classification into discrete categories is generally stable through time, but categories P-Cygni and self--absorption seem less stable, which is the consequence of discrete classification rules, as well as of the fundamental change in profile shape.
The Minnesota Poll # 230
Creators: name: Minneapolis Tribune
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2015

description: Businesses open on Sunday (3); United States financial conditions (2); personal financial situation (1); government spending reductions (3); single defense department (2); US-Russian relations (5); third world war (1); vacation plans (13); attendance of Minnesota events (5); attendance of Minneapolis events (1); most enjoyed sport (1); presidential candidate preference (1); vice presidential choices (3); statement recognition (4); professor ideas (1); taconite production amendment (2); new car purchase (2); household appliance purchases (1); newspaper readership (2).
Personal Data Masking the Public Good in the GDPR: An Excursion into Personal Privacy and Private Goods
Creators: name: Crawley, Francis P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Data policy, GDPR, Privacy, Ethics, Law, Open Science, UNESCO, Science Policy

description: This event was centered on ethical use of data and concerns on privacy versus common good. Ethics in the use of data was the theme of the Permanent Forum. In order to think about the ethical and legal aspects of data use, a new area of knowledge is constituted, involving philosophers, lawyers, economists, computer scientists, among other areas of knowledge. Ethics in the use of data, or data ethics, permeates research and business, requiring debate and training.  This presentation examines the goods promoted by the European Union’s Regulation 2016/679 (the General Data Protection Regulation [GDPR]) and the privacy the GDPR intends to protect. It looks at the role of personal data in the EU in terms of citizens, economics, and politics. It asks the question ‘Wherefore the public good in the EU law and legislation on data and AI?’ The role of the uses of data for health and science are examined against the background of the GDPR and the foreground of Open Science. The views presented here are those of the speaker’s. They do not necessarily reflect those of any organisation. Francis gratefully acknowledges the work of the membership of the International Science Council’s CODATA International Data Policy Committee (IDPC), the RDA COVID-19 Working Group, and the EOSC-Future / RDA Artificial Intelligence & Data Visitation Working Group (AIDV-WG). Francis’ EOSC Future / RDA Ambassador for Ethics & Law and the EOSC-Future projects are co-funded by the European Union’s Horizon Programme call INFRAEOSC-03-2020 - Project ID 101017536. CODATA is funded by the International Science Council (ISC) and Horizon Europe as well as by other funding organisations. The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is funded by Horizon Europe as well as by other funding organisations (see here). Francis is grateful for the support provided by CODATA and the EOSC-Future and the RDA communities, structures, and secretariats.
Prevention of Youth Baseball and Softball Injuries
Creators: name: Johnston, Horace C., III
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: Injuries suffered by youth participating in baseball and softball activities have reached an alarming rate. Each year more boys and girls participate in organized baseball and softball programs across the nation. It is estimated that 4.8 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 participate in organized baseball and softball programs. This increased participation leads to an increasing number of injuries that result in disabilities and death, which could be reduced through the adoption of several prevention techniques. Studies have been conducted to show the injury rates involved in these activities, and how these injuries are occurring. The majority of these injuries are related to impact with the ball or other objects, sliding injuries, or overuse injuries. There have also been many studies showing how these injuries and deaths can be reduced through prevention and education programs. Most of these injuries can be eliminated or have the severity reduced by enforcing the use of protective equipment such as batting helmets and chest protectors, enforcing feet first sliding, placing breakaway bases on the fields, placing padding on fences, providing educational opportunities for the coaches, and assuring that players are conditioning year round.
Novel phase of beryllium fluoride at high pressure
Creators: name: Rakitin, Maksim S.
name: Oganov, Artem R.
name: Niu, Haiyang
name: Esfahani, M. Mahdi Davari
name: Zhou, Xiang-Feng
name: Qian, Guang-Rui
name: Solozhenko, Vladimir L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A previously unknown thermodynamically stable high-pressure phase of BeF$_{2}$ has been predicted using the evolutionary algorithm USPEX. This phase occurs in the pressure range 18-27 GPa. Its structure has $C2/c$ space group symmetry and contains 18 atoms in the primitive unit cell. Given the analogy between BeF$_{2}$ and SiO$_{2}$, silica phases have been investigated as well, but the new phase has not been observed to be thermodynamically stable for this system. However, it is found to be metastable and to have comparable energy to the known metastable phases of SiO$_{2}$, suggesting a possibility of its synthesis.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures
Office of Public Opinion Research, Survey #814: War
Creators: name: Office Of Public Opinion Research
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: German invasion of South America (1); similarities between South America and the U.S. (1); impression of South America (2); U.S Loans for Amazon River Basin (4); Brazil co-operation after war (1); knowledge of maps (1); getting South American workers (1); Pan-American Conference (1); special programs on South America (1); U.S. role in world affairs (1); vote in 1940 Presidential election (1).
The PhotoDissociation Region Toolbox: Software and Models for Astrophysical Analysis
Creators: name: Pound, Marc W.
name: Wolfire, Mark G.
Publisher: name: The Astronomical Journal
Year: 2023

description: This manuscript describes an astrophyics data analysis software package, that allows researchers to compare observations to state-of-the-art theoretical/numerical models to determine characteristics of photodissociation regions in interstellar space.
description: The PhotoDissociation Region Toolbox provides comprehensive, easy-to-use, public software tools and models that enable an understanding of the interaction of the light of young, luminous, massive stars with the gas and dust in the Milky Way and in other galaxies. It consists of an open-source Python toolkit and photodissociation region (PDR) models for analysis of infrared and millimeter/submillimeter line and continuum observations obtained by ground-based and suborbital telescopes, and astrophysics space missions. PDRs include all of the neutral gas in the interstellar medium where far-ultraviolet photons dominate the chemistry and/or heating. In regions of massive star formation, PDRs are created at the boundaries between the H II regions and neutral molecular cloud, as photons with energies 6 eV < hν < 13.6 eV photodissociate molecules and photoionize metals. The gas is heated by photoelectrons from small grains and large molecules and cools mostly through far-infrared (FIR) fine-structure lines like [O I] and [C II]. The models are created from state-of-the art PDR codes that include molecular freezeout; recent collision, chemical, and photorates; new chemical pathways, such as oxygen chemistry; and allow for both clumpy and uniform media. The models predict the emergent intensities of many spectral lines and FIR continuum. The tools find the best-fit models to the observations and provide insight into the physical conditions and chemical makeup of the gas and dust. The PDR Toolbox enables novel analysis of data from telescopes such as the Infrared Space Observatory, Spitzer, Herschel, the Stratospheric Terahertz Observatory, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, the Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite, the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, and the JWST.
Representations of Indigenous Women in Cultural Texts Set in British Guiana/Guyana
Creators: name: Bennett, Romona M.
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: My thesis is the first full length study of representations of Indigenous women in Anglophone Caribbean literature. It explores the representation of Indigenous women in a variety of cultural texts set in British Guiana/Guyana, from the nineteenth century to the present. It also focuses on texts which have been neglected in the criticism regarding Indigenous women’s representation. Most of the works I discuss present Indigenous women in problematic ways, but I argue that the women’s obscured and peripheral presence within the texts offers opportunity for interpreting and rereading them in ways that make Indigenous women central. My thesis therefore focuses on and explores the complexities of Indigenous women’s existence and identity within modernity. My emphasis on centring and affirming the place of Indigenous women in their families and societies builds on Indigenous feminism. The texts I analyse include nineteenth and twentieth-century travel writing, imperial romance novels, post-war literary fiction and photographs from the travel texts. My thesis argues that the representation of women in these works is influenced by genre, as well as political, historical and socioeconomic contexts. Throughout, the thesis establishes the centrality of women in Indigenous social organisation, Indigenous knowledge, cultural heritage, cosmologies and history. While some of the texts reveal women’s vulnerability to marginalisation and abuse, I argue that these are connected to larger issues such as resource extraction and insecure land tenure and rights for Guyanese Indigenous Peoples. Additionally, I posit that many of the women represented in the texts have agency, even when their authors attempt to show them as victimised Others. Finally, my thesis also examines how Indigenous women are presented in relation to the different representations of the coastal and hinterland landscapes, which influence the women’s positioning in many of the works.
Clinical Research, Situationally Adaptive Clinical Trials, and Open Science: Learning from the Ukraine Crisis
Creators: name: Crawley, Francis P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Clinical Trials, Adaptive Trials, Human Rights, Data policy, Crisis, Ukraine War, Open Science, WHO, UNESCO, Ethics, Science Policy

description: This presentation gratefully acknowledges the work Ukraine Clinical Research Support Initiative (UCRSI), of the International Science Council’s CODATA International Data Policy Committee (IDPC), and the EOSC-Future / RDA Artificial Intelligence & Data Visitation Working Group (AIDV-WG). Francis’ EOSC Future / RDA Ambassador for Ethics & Law and the EOSC-Future projects are co-funded by the European Union’s Horizon Programme call INFRAEOSC-03-2020 - Project ID 101017536. CODATA is funded by the International Science Council (ISC) and Horizon Europe as well as by other funding organisations. The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is funded by Horizon Europe as well as by other funding organisations (see here). Francis is grateful for the support provided by CODATA and the EOSC-Future and the RDA communities, structures, and secretariats.
Hyperbolicity of cyclic covers and complements
Creators: name: Liu, Yuchen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that a cyclic cover of a smooth complex projective variety is Brody hyperbolic if its branch divisor is a generic small deformation of a large enough multiple of a Brody hyperbolic base-point-free ample divisor. We also show the hyperbolicity of complements of those branch divisors. As an application, we find new examples of Brody hyperbolic hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{P}^{n+1}$ that are cyclic covers of $\mathbb{P}^n$.
description: 17 pages; comments welcome. v3: final version. To appear in Trans. Amer. Math. Soc
Models for asymmetric hybrid brane
Creators: name: Bazeia, D.
name: Marques, M. A.
name: Menezes, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We deal with relativistic models described by a single real scalar field, searching for topological structures that behave asymmetrically, connecting minima with distinct profile. We use such features to build a new braneworld scenario, in which the source scalar field contributes to generate asymmetric hybrid brane.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures; to appear in PRD
The Increasing Risk of a Bioterrorist Attack in the United States: How Occupational Health Nurses Can Play a Key Role in Early Detection of Disease Outbreak
Creators: name: Spence, Thais H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2002

description: For over 2500 years disease organisms have been used as weapons. Bioterrorism remains the greatest national security threat to our country. Bioweapons are highly lethal, easily accessible, inexpensive, and with the advances in biotechnology, the ability to alter pathogens into more virulent strains could make bioterrorism agents even more difficult to fight. In June of 2001, The Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies partnered with other non-military agencies to simulate a national security response to a bioterrorist attack. After the exercise was reviewed by the Hopkins Center, the conclusions reached included significant deficiencies in the United States' ability to manage a bioterrorist attack. A major deficiency is the weak infrastructure of the Public Health System. As a specialty in public health, occupational health nurses can play a key role in the detection of a disease outbreak associated with a bioterrorism attack. But first, they must be knowledgeable about common bioterrorism pathogens and use epidemiological principles to monitor for unusual patterns of illness that could indicate an outbreak. In addition, they must network with local public departments and report unusual findings to local and state public health authorities immediately. Occupational health nurses must exercise their roles as leaders, providing guidance to administrators for the development of policies to address bioterrorism threats in the workplace, training programs for emergency response, reporting procedures for staff, and educational materials and straight foreword information for workers. This paper will serve to familiarize the occupational health nurse with bioterrorism agents mostly likely to be used as weapons of mass destruction and to describe the occupational health implications of bioterrorism on the workforce and at the workplace.
The agency of computer vision models as optical instruments
Creators: name: Smits, Thomas
name: Wevers, Melvin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 460304
subject: Computer vision

description: Industry and governments have deployed computer vision models to make high-stake decisions in society. While they are often presented as neutral and objective, scholars have recognized that bias in these models might lead to the reproduction of racial, social, cultural and economic inequity. A growing body of work situates the provenance of bias in the collection and annotation of datasets that are needed to train computer vision models. This article moves from studying bias in computer vision models to the agency that is commonly attributed to them: the fact that they are universally seen as being able to make biased decisions. Building on the work of Bruno Latour and Jonathan Crary, the authors discuss computer vision models as agential optical instruments in the production of contemporary visuality. They analyse five interconnected research steps – task selection, category selection, data collection, data labelling and evaluation – of six widely cited benchmark datasets, published during a critical stage in the development of the field (2004–2020): Caltech 101, Caltech 256, PASCAL VOC, ImageNet, MS COCO and Google Open Images. They found that, despite all sorts of justifications, the selection of categories is not based on any general notion of visuality, but depends heavily upon perceived practical applications, the availability of downloadable images and, in conjunction with data collection, favours categories that can be unambiguously described by text. Second, the reliance on Flickr for data collection introduces a temporal bias in computer vision datasets. Third, by comparing aggregate accuracy rates and ‘human’ performance, the dataset papers introduce a false dichotomy between the agency of computer vision models and human observers. In general, the authors argue that the agency of datasets is produced by obscuring the power and subjective choices of its creators and the countless hours of highly disciplined labour of crowd workers
Systematic review and Meta-Analysis of maternal and neonatal outcomes in preeclamtic and normotensive women who underwent cesarean section under spinal Anesthesia
Creators: name: Mekonnen, Semagn
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: The maternal and neonatal mortality associated with preeclamsia is very high. Anesthesia related maternal mortality in parturition with preeclamsia is very high as compared to nonsensitive women undergoing cesarean section. The anesthetic management of preeclamsia is very challenging as patients have presented with hypertension, hepatic and renal compartment, thromboctopenia, etc. Recent observational studies revealed that spinal anesthesia is well tolerated in preeclamtic women as compared to nonsensitive women. However, strong body of evidence is lacking to support or refute this condition. Therefore, this systemic review is intended to provide evidences on maternal and neonatal outcomes in preeclamtic and normotensive women undergoing cesarean section under spinal anesthesia
Multiobjective strategies for farms, using the Dominance-based Rough Set Approach
Creators: name: Paolotti, Luisa
name: Greco, Salvatore
name: Boggia, Antonio
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2015

description: The objective of this work is to present how the decision support method IMO-DRSA, combining the Interactive Multiobjective Optimization (IMO) with the Dominance-based Rough Set Approach (DRSA), can be efficiently applied in the agricultural sector, in order to determine optimal and sustainable planning strategies for farms. The method, elaborated by Greco, Matarazzo and Slowinski in 2008, is a novelty in the multiobjective optimization sector. Through IMO-DRSA, we found an optimal multiobjective strategy related to the farm planning of our case study, conciliating four different objectives, one of economic and three of environmental nature. Concerning some practical problems for the application of the method in the agricultural sector, availability and completeness of both environmental and economic data represented a crucial aspect. Another important point concerned the level of subjectivity intrinsic in the method.
description: Aestimum, Aestimum 65 (2014)
Investigating the Selectivity of KcsA Channel by an Image Charge Solvation Method (ICSM) in Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Creators: name: Baker, Katherine
name: Chen, Duan
name: Cai, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: In this paper, we study the selectivity of the potassium channel KcsA by a recently developed image-charge solvation method(ICSM) combined with molecular dynamics simulations. The hybrid solvation model in the ICSM is able to demonstrate atomistically the function of the selectivity filter of the KcsA channel when potassium and sodium ions are considered and their distributions inside the filter are simulated. Our study also shows that the reaction field effect, explicitly accounted for through image charge approximation in the ICSM model, is necessary in reproducing the correct selectivity property of the potassium channels.
Caratteristiche fondiarie e sostenibilità globale in agricoltura: un’esplorazione in Campania
Creators: name: Cupo, Paolo
name: Di Cerbo, Rinalda Alberta
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2015

description: This paper aims to assess the state of the agricultural global sustainability and the role that, with respect to the objective, can develop the characteristics of the land factor. The results show, at farm level, a trade-off between environmental and socio-economic sustainability in terms of altitude, of some productive potential of the land and in correspondence with an enlargement of the farm size. Moreover, the land factor plays a potential role also in terms of improvement of the global sustainability; a result this, that attributes great relevance to the land values. For this reason, the variables that explain the economic capacity of the farms assume strategic importance, given that the preservation of the quantity of land available for farming passes through the increase of the agricultural rent which, in turn, determines higher land values.
description: Aestimum, Aestimum 65 (2014)
British Gallup Poll CQ 82
Creators: name: Social Surveys (Gallup Poll) Limited
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2014

description: Electric light bulb brands (3); water biscuits brands (3); knowledge of Glaxo name brand (2); eating sweets (1); betting on animal racing (10); trade union issues (3); likelihood of unemployment (1); trade unions as good or bad (1); trade union card (2); efficiency of union officials (2); higher wages effecting unemployment (1); approval of government economic measures (1); Iain Macleod job performance (1); right to strike (1); sympathy for workers or employers (1); knowledge of economic terms (2); greater economic problem (1); combining trade unions (1); dividing into smaller trade unions (1); striking with fellow workers (1); leaving union (1); benefits and drawbacks of union membership (2); general election party preference (1); 1955 general election (1); newspaper treatment of royal family (3); agreement with advertisement statements (2); papers seen yesterday (1); kind of shop to buy electric bulbs at (1); car ownership (1); trade union card (1); frequency of cinema visits (1); radio and TV sets owned (1); channels received (2).
British Gallup Poll CQ 91
Creators: name: Social Surveys (Gallup Poll) Limited
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2014

description: Car ownership (1); trade union card (1); frequency of cinema visits (1); radio and TV sets owned (1); channels received (2); opening of Parliament ceremony (4); agreeing with Gaitskell legislation statement (1); approval of Parliament proposals (5); Hire Purchase restrictions removal (1); general election party preference (1); 1955 general election (1); "immediate delivery" advertisements (1); after-shave lotion (2).
A Framework for Improving Workplace Wellness Programs
Creators: name: Kalkas, Hoce
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Employers face a workforce characterized by an aging population with higher prevalence of obesity and chronic illnesses, which directly impacts overall employee productivity and increases employer expenses. The increase of health care costs and expenses due to obesity and chronic illness in the workforce warrant action within the workplace environment. Because of the potential to stem and possibly reverse these health-related expenditures, workplaces are practical and ideal settings to use key structural concepts of health behavior within a multi-level concept, fostering environmental conditions which can support social norms and culture conducive to healthier lifestyles. A framework composed of a systematic approach to program planning and evaluation paired with evidence-based recommendations for a multi-level intervention to achieve an effective worksite wellness program, aims to provide a tool for employers who seek to foster a favorable environment for improved health outcomes.
Examination of experimental conditions for the production of proton-rich and neutron-rich hypernuclei
Creators: name: Rappold, C.
name: Fidalgo, J. F. López
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: After the demonstration of the feasibility of hypernuclear spectroscopy with heavy-ion beams, the HypHI Collaboration will next focus on the study of proton- and neutron-rich hypernuclei. The use of a fragment separator for the production and separation of rare isotope beams is a crucial aspect to producing hypernuclei far from the stability line. Precise spectroscopy of exotic hypernuclei is planned to be carried out at the GSI and later at the FAIR facility with the FRS and Super-FRS fragment separators. A systematic study and an optimization analysis were performed in order to determine optimal experimental conditions for producing hypernuclei with high isospin. The optimal conditions are obtained based on theoretical models for the heavy-ion induced reaction and hypernuclei production. Experimental efficiencies for the production of exotic secondary beams were also taken into account via Monte Carlo simulations of the fragment separator. The developed methodology is presented to deduce the expected yields of $^8_Λ$Be and subsequently other proton-rich and neutron-rich hypernuclei.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures, 1 table, accepted to PRC (proofed version)
Sharp $L^p$ estimates for discrete second order {R}iesz transforms
Creators: name: Domelevo, Komla
name: Petermichl, Stefanie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that multipliers of second order Riesz transforms on products of discrete abelian groups enjoy the $L^{p} $ estimate $p^{\ast} -1$, where $p^{\ast} = \max \{ p,q \}$ and $p$ and $q$ are conjugate exponents. This estimate is sharp if one considers all multipliers of the form $\sum_i σ_{i} R_{i} R^{\ast}_{i}$ with $| σ_{i} | \leqslant 1$ and infinite groups. In the real valued case, we obtain better sharp estimates for some specific multipliers, such as $\sum_{i} σ_{i} R_{i} R^{\ast}_{i}$ with $0 \leqslant σ_{i} \leqslant 1$. These are the first known precise $L^{p} $ estimates for discrete Calderón-Zygmund operators.
description: 22 pages
The impact of Energy Performance Certificate level on house listing prices. First evidence from Italian real estate
Creators: name: Fregonara, Elena
name: Rolando, Diana
name: Semeraro, Patrizia
name: Vella, Marta
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2015

description: The recent dispositions related to the energy performance of buildings, launched by the European Directives 2002/91/EC and 2010/31/EU, turned attention to the Energy Performance Certificate (EPC). The aim of this study is to investigate the economic effects of the recent Italian statutory provisions related to energy performance of buildings on listing behaviour. With this aim an hedonic regression analysis is performed, in order to measure the impact of EPC level on listing prices. The study, based on a set of more than 500 housing property asset collected in 2012 from real estate advertisements websites, is focused on the Turin real estate market as a case study. Furthermore this paper contributes to the early limited literature on implication of the impact of EPC level on Italian housing market, representing one of the first systematic evidence about the energy certifications in the housing listing prices.
description: Aestimum, Aestimum 65 (2014)