cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
THE SYNTHESES, CHARACTERIZATIONS, & STRATEGIES OF HIGH-VALUE, DIVERSE, ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
Creators: name: Gomez, Caesar D
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 340503
subject: Organic chemical synthesis
classificationCode: 340502
subject: Natural products and bioactive compounds
classificationCode: 340505
subject: Physical organic chemistry

description: Organic synthesis is the application of one or more reactions to the preparation of a particular target molecule, and can pertain to a single-step transformation or to a number of sequential chemical steps depicted by a scheme overall. The selection of a reaction or series of reactions while considering chemo-, regio-, and stereoselectivities in addition to protecting group strategies & redox manipulations highlights the complexity in designing & executing a synthetic plan while making a judgement about what is the most effective and efficient plan to synthesize any given chemical compound among numerous available options. To this end, chemical synthesis is the unifying theme of this thesis & was utilized and strategically applied to construct increasingly complex and diverse molecular architectures. Being the precise science that organic chemistry is, this discipline extends into many areas such as technology, biology & medicine, and even into the fine arts since it fosters unparalleled creativity and imagination in its practice. Research foci in chemical synthesis can encompass both the discovery and development of powerful reactions and the invention of strategies for the construction of defined target molecules, natural or man-made, more or less complex. Studies in the former area, synthetic methodology, fuel and enable studies in the latter area, target molecule and total synthesis campaigns, where the latter area offers a testing ground for the former. Consequently, the bulk of this research work is in organic methodology and will be covered in greater depth during chapters 2 and 3 where strategies, optimizations, & analyses are elaborated upon in light of searching & navigating the vast body of chemical literature in an effort to broaden and strengthen one's laboratory expertise as a synthetic chemist. Lastly, chapter 4 focuses not on traditional synthesis but on organic structure analysis relying on various techniques such as nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), infrared (IR), ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) spectroscopy in combination with mass spectrometry (MS) and/or X-ray crystallography to hypothesize and confirm established structures, specifically phenolic oligomers. An ability to use spectroscopic data to evaluate organic structures by combining practical experience with fundamental knowledge will serve as a hallmark skill in one’s ability to problem-solve as an organic chemist.
African American Women's Perspectives on Breast Cancer: Implications for Communicating Risk of Basal-like Breast Cancer
Creators: name: Allicock, Marlyn
name: Gray, Kathleen
name: Graves, Neasha
name: Troester, Melissa A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: African American women suffer a higher burden of basal-like breast cancer, an aggressive subtype that has no targeted therapy. While epidemiologic research has identified key prevention strategies, little is known about how best to communicate risk to this population. This study explored women’s knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes about breast cancer to learn about risk perceptions. Six focus groups with 57 women (ages 18–49) women were conducted in North Carolina. Findings revealed that age, race (especially perceptions of cancer as a “White disease”), and lack of family history of breast cancer contributed to women’s perceptions of low breastcancer susceptibility. Perceptions of low risk were also attributed to conflicting risk information from family, media, and health providers. Women had little knowledge about breast cancer subtypes, but emphasized that health communications should be personally relevant, culturally appropriate, and convenient. These study findings will assist in developing health communication tools that encourage prevention.
Multithreshold Entropy Linear Classifier
Creators: name: Czarnecki, Wojciech Marian
name: Tabor, Jacek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Linear classifiers separate the data with a hyperplane. In this paper we focus on the novel method of construction of multithreshold linear classifier, which separates the data with multiple parallel hyperplanes. Proposed model is based on the information theory concepts -- namely Renyi's quadratic entropy and Cauchy-Schwarz divergence. We begin with some general properties, including data scale invariance. Then we prove that our method is a multithreshold large margin classifier, which shows the analogy to the SVM, while in the same time works with much broader class of hypotheses. What is also interesting, proposed method is aimed at the maximization of the balanced quality measure (such as Matthew's Correlation Coefficient) as opposed to very common maximization of the accuracy. This feature comes directly from the optimization problem statement and is further confirmed by the experiments on the UCI datasets. It appears, that our Multithreshold Entropy Linear Classifier (MELC) obtaines similar or higher scores than the ones given by SVM on both synthetic and real data. We show how proposed approach can be benefitial for the cheminformatics in the task of ligands activity prediction, where despite better classification results, MELC gives some additional insight into the data structure (classes of underrepresented chemical compunds).
Automatisierte Lernsysteme und KI-Anwendungen an Schulen
Creators: name: Galla, Nina; Hartong, Sigrid; Dusse, Odarjuk, RobertAlbers, Anne; Birgita;
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: ADM, KI, Learning Analytics, Schule, Bildung

description: ChatGPT, Learning Analytics und Intelligente Tutorsysteme: Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) findet über verschiedene Anwendungen immer mehr Einzug in Schulen und Klassenzimmer. Viele Schulen und Lehrkräfte haben schon damit begonnen, sich mit den Möglichkeiten, aber auch Risiken der Programme zu beschäftigen. Ein neuer Leitfaden hilft nun zusätzlich dabei, KI-Systeme sowohl pädagogisch als auch technologisch einzuordnen, den Einsatz reflektiert zu planen und aufmerksam zu begleiten. Der Leitfaden geht dabei über die Anwendung ChatGPT hinaus und gibt insbesondere Laien Schritt für Schritt Impulse, Fragestellungen und Tipps an die Hand. Zusätzlich gibt der Leitfaden Hinweise für Beschäftigte und beinhaltet Beispiele und Hintergrundwissen. Er ist kostenfrei zum Download und Ausdruck verfügbar. Hintergrund der Leitfadenentwicklung ist der zunehmende Einzug von KI in Bildungseinrichtungen, der durch ChatGPT Anfang 2023 massiv an Relevanz gewonnen hat. Gleichzeitig geht das Thema KI weit über derartige Technologie hinaus. Entsprechend bietet der Leitfaden auf zehn Seiten eine Reihe an Fragen und Anregungen, die dabei helfen, sich dem Thema KI grundsätzlich und strukturiert Schritt für Schritt zu nähern. Dabei ist er so formuliert, dass vor allem auch Lehrkräfte und Schulleitungen ohne Vorwissen profitieren können und darin gestärkt werden, kritische Fragen an Anbieter*innen von KI-basierten Bildungstechnologien zu stellen. In diesem Sinne ist der Leitfaden als Entscheidungshilfe, Weiterbildungsinstrument oder auch als Planungswerkzeug einsetzbar. Der Leitfaden ist aus einer Kollaboration zwischen Nina Galla (Büroleiterin und Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin für KI bei der Bundestagsabgeordneten Dr. Petra Sitte, Fraktion DIE LINKE.), Prof. Dr. Sigrid Hartong (Professorin für Soziologie an der Helmut-Schmidt-Universität Hamburg; Leiterin der Initiative Unblack the Box) und Birgita Dusse (Referentin „Bildung in der digitalen Welt“ der Gewerkschaft für Erziehung und Wissenschaft, GEW) entstanden. Die GEW unterstützt den Leitfaden.
title: Presentazione. “Chaos” e “Kosmos”. La ricchezza della contrarietà
Creators: name: Gambetti , Francesca
Publisher: name: Roma Tre-Press
Year: 2012

description: Per molti secoli la filosofia ha impostato se stessa come logos ordinatore, con lo scopo di sottrarre dalle questioni umane "quanto più chaos possibile", e di costruire un kosmos che logicamente nega il disordine in quanto reale contraddizione all'ordine stesso. La critica kantiana alle antinomie della ragione segna un radicale spostamento nel modo in cui noi concepiamo il kosmos, il quale ha prodotto l'opposizione semantica chaos/kosmos, la quale, da una parte, ha dato inizio al "chaos deterministicamente ordinato" della scienza contemporanea, e, dall'altra, è stata l'insieme dei cambiamenti che la filosofia, dopo la crisi dei grandi sistemi e delle grandi narrazioni, ha provato a ristabilire se stessa, delineando nuovi e complessi "ordini" sociali, politici, antropologici e ontologici.

description: B@belonline vol. 13 Chaos/Kosmos
When Patients Govern: Federal Grant Funding and Uncompensated Care at Federally Qualified Health Centers
Creators: name: Ricketts, Thomas C.
name: Wright, Brad
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: To determine if the proportion of consumers on federally qualified health center (FQHC) governing boards is associated with their use of federal grant funds to provide uncompensated care.
Fem Modelling and Characterization of Ultrasonic Flextensional Transducers
Creators: name: La Mura, Monica
Publisher: name: Universita degli studi di Salerno
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: ING-INF/01 ELETTRONICA
subject: Acoustic tansducers
subject: Ultrasound imaging
subject: CMUTS

description: 2017 - 2018
description: This work describes the finite element modelling and characterization of ultrasonic flextensional transducer arrays. Flexural acoustic transducers can be piezoelectrically actuated plates or capacitive devices based on the electrostatic attraction between a moving electrode and a substrate. Due to the limited miniaturization allowed by the piezoceramic fabrication process, piezoelectric flexural devices based on bulk ceramics are able to work in the low-frequency ultrasonic range. Capacitive flexural devices, instead, can take advantage of the Silicon micromachining techniques to be fabricated to reach higher frequencies. Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers (CMUTs) are MEMS devices consisting of miniaturized metallized membranes, forced into flexural vibration by an electric signal during transmission, and vice versa generating a voltage signal when actuated by an incident acoustic signal. Due to their low acoustic impedance, CMUT arrays have given excellent results in ultrasound imaging applications. The most recent frontier of ultrasound imaging is real-time volumetric imaging. 3D images have been originally obtained by means of linear phased arrays mechanically titled along the elevation plane. More complex structures like 2D arrays allow electronic beam steering and dynamic focusing in both azimuthal and elevation planes, thus achieving better performance. In order to increase the achievable frame rate, though, part of the front-end transceive and beamforming operations must be performed in probe. Therefore, 2D arrays should be small-sized and easily interfaced with the front end. Nevertheless, 2D arrays with good radiation characteristics require wide apertures with a small pitch between elements, therefore a great number of elements and many channels to wire and control individually. To overcome these issues, much attention is being focused on the design of sparse arrays, which try to achieve comparable performance by counting a lower element number. ... [edited by Author]
Caesar Gomez's Chemistry Thesis
Creators: name: Gomez, Caesar D
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 340503
subject: Organic chemical synthesis
classificationCode: 340502
subject: Natural products and bioactive compounds
classificationCode: 340505
subject: Physical organic chemistry

description: Organic synthesis is the application of one or more reactions to the preparation of a particular target molecule, and can pertain to a single-step transformation or to a number of sequential chemical steps depicted by a scheme overall. The selection of a reaction or series of reactions while considering chemo-, regio-, and stereoselectivities in addition to protecting group strategies & redox manipulations highlights the complexity in designing & executing a synthetic plan while making a judgement about what is the most effective and efficient plan to synthesize any given chemical compound among numerous available options. To this end, chemical synthesis is the unifying theme of this thesis & was utilized and strategically applied to construct increasingly complex and diverse molecular architectures. Being the precise science that organic chemistry is, this discipline extends into many areas such as technology, biology & medicine, and even into the fine arts since it fosters unparalleled creativity and imagination in its practice. Research foci in chemical synthesis can encompass both the discovery and development of powerful reactions and the invention of strategies for the construction of defined target molecules, natural or man-made, more or less complex. Studies in the former area, synthetic methodology, fuel and enable studies in the latter area, target molecule and total synthesis campaigns, where the latter area offers a testing ground for the former. Consequently, the bulk of this research work is in organic methodology and will be covered in greater depth during chapters 2 and 3 where strategies, optimizations, & analyses are elaborated upon in light of searching & navigating the vast body of chemical literature in an effort to broaden and strengthen one's laboratory expertise as a synthetic chemist. Lastly, chapter 4 focuses not on traditional synthesis but on organic structure analysis relying on various techniques such as nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), infrared (IR), ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) spectroscopy in combination with mass spectrometry (MS) and/or X-ray crystallography to hypothesize and confirm established structures, specifically phenolic oligomers. An ability to use spectroscopic data to evaluate organic structures by combining practical experience with fundamental knowledge will serve as a hallmark skill in one’s ability to problem-solve as an organic chemist.
title: Strong Association between Coronary Artery Calcification Detected on Noncardiac Chest Computed Tomography and myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography
Creators: name: Aldureaibi, Alaa
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Nuclear medicine
subject: Cardiac
subject: Thorax
subject: SPECT
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Image compression
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Observer performance
subject: Calcifications / Calculi

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Introduction: The presence ofcoronary artery calcification (CAC)has a strongcorrelation with the presence of myocardial ischemia onmyocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography (MPS). There are few studies that have shown that CAC...
Adverse childhood events: Incarceration of household members and health-related quality of life in adulthood
Creators: name: Dumont, Dora M.
name: Nunn, Amy
name: Rosen, David L.
name: Gjelsvik, Annie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Incarceration of a household member has been associated with adverse outcomes for child well-being.
title: Utility of advanced monoenergetic reconstruction technique in dual-energy computed tomography for evaluation of the perforator vein of lower extremity varix.
Creators: name: Nakagawa, Motoo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Screening
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Veins / Vena cava
subject: Varices

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To treat the lower extremity varix, identification of the perforator vein is important [1]. Contrast-enhanced CT (CE-CT) is useful to evaluate the perforator vein. In usual CE-CT, however, enhancement of the vein is sometimes insufficient. Using...
A multilevel correction method for optimal controls of elliptic equation
Creators: name: Gong, Wei
name: Xie, Hehu
name: Yan, Ningning
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 49J20, 49K20, 65N15, 65N30

description: We propose in this paper a multilevel correction method to solve optimal control problems constrained by elliptic equations with the finite element method. In this scheme, solving optimization problem on the finest finite element space is transformed to a series of solutions of linear boundary value problems by the multigrid method on multilevel meshes and a series of solutions of optimization problems on the coarsest finite element space. Our proposed scheme, instead of solving a large scale optimization problem in the finest finite element space, solves only a series of linear boundary value problems and the optimization problems in a very low dimensional finite element space, and thus can improve the overall efficiency for the solution of optimal control problems governed by PDEs.
Hepatitis-C Multimedia Prevention Program in Poor Hispanic HIV-Infected Injecting drug users: Six Months after Intervention
Creators: name: Hunter-Mellado, Robert F.
name: Miranda, Christine
name: Mayor, Angel M.
name: Colón, Héctor M.
name: Thomas, James C.
name: Fernández, Diana M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: In order to prevent the spread of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) amongst Hispanic injecting drug users (IDUs), we developed, validated, and implemented a multimedia educational intervention program.
Primordial black holes from temporally enhanced curvature perturbation
Creators: name: Suyama, Teruaki
name: Wu, Yi-Peng
name: Yokoyama, Jun'ichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scalar field with generalized kinetic interactions metamorphoses depending on its field value, ranging from cosmological constant to stiff matter. We show that such a scalar field can give rise to temporal enhancement of the curvature perturbation in the primordial Universe, leading to efficient production of primordial black holes while the enhancement persists. If the inflation energy scale is high, those mini-black holes evaporate by the Hawking radiation much before Big Bang nucleosynthesis and the effective reheating of the Universe is achieved by the black hole evaporation. Dominance of PBHs and the reheating by their evaporation modify the expansion history of the primordial Universe. This results in a characteristic feature of the spectrum of primordial tensor modes in the DECIGO frequency band, opening an interesting possibility of testing PBH reheating scenario by measuring the primordial tensor modes. If the inflation energy scale is low, the PBH mass can be much larger than the solar mass. In this case, PBH is an interesting candidate for seeds for supermassive black holes residing in present galaxies.
description: 25 pages, 3 figures
title: CT urography combining high oral fluid intake, intravenous furosemide and individualised excretory phase timing achieves excellent distension and opacification of the urinary system
Creators: name: Dodig, Doris
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Contrast agent-oral

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Optimal distention and homogenous opacification of the urinary tract are the main technical considerations of CT urography (CTU) that ensure high diagnostic quality of the exam. Many maneuvers for achieving optimal CTU have been investigated. We...
Understanding Social and Sexual Networks of Sexual Minority Men and Transgender Women in Guatemala City to Improve HIV Prevention Efforts
Creators: name: Paz-Bailey, G.
name: Tucker, C.
name: Barrington, C.
name: Bolaños, J. Herbert
name: Arandi, C. Galindo
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Sexual minority men and transgender women are disproportionately affected by HIV in Guatemala. Innovative prevention strategies are urgently needed to address these disparities. While social network approaches are frequently used to reach sexual minorities, little is known about the unique network characteristics among sub-groups. We conducted in-depth qualitative interviews with 13 gay-identifying men, eight non-gay-identifying men who have sex with men (MSM) and eight transgender women in Guatemala City. Using narrative and thematic coding procedures, we identified distinct patterns in the size, composition, and overlap between social and sexual networks across groups. Gay-identifying men had the largest, most supportive social networks, predominantly comprising family. For both non-gay-identifying MSM and transgender women, friends and sex clients provided more support. Transgender women reported the smallest social networks, least social support, and the most discrimination. HIV prevention efforts should be tailored to the specific sexual minority population and engage with strong ties.
A Simulation Framework for Function as a Service: Supporting Materials
Creators: name: Manner, Johannes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Function as a Service
Serverless Computing
Simulation
Benchmarking

description: This is a collection of supporting material collected and developed during my disseration project about building a "Simulation Framework for Function as a Service". It contains PDF prints of footnotes at the time I accessed them Raw data of all experiments Scripts to produce figures of the doctorol thesis PDFs of all figures within the doctoral thesis Last release of my research prototype, where I performed the experiments Dump of the database (PostgreSQL) at the time finishing the dissertation project Therefore this package should be a self-contained snapshot at the time submitting my doctoral thesis for reproducing experiments and checking the footnotes I included in the work, especially the quotes from some references like the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Bamberg, 02.08.2023
Perceptions of Community HIV/STI Risk Among U.S Women Living in Areas with High Poverty and HIV Prevalence Rates
Creators: name: Adimora, Adaora A.
name: Rompalo, Anne
name: Blackstock, Oni J.
name: Kuo, Irene
name: Wang, Jing
name: Soto-Torres, Lydia
name: Hodder, Sally L.
name: Bota, Dorothy
name: Vo-Green, Linda
name: Franks, Julie
name: Mannheimer, Sharon B.
name: Frew, Paula
name: Haley, Danielle F.
name: Justman, Jessica
name: Golin, Carol E.
name: Parker, Kim
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Although studies have consistently demonstrated that women at high risk for HIV and non-HIV sexually transmitted infections (STIs) tend to underestimate their individual risk, little is known about how women at risk perceive their community’s HIV/STI risk. We explored perceptions of community HIV/ STI risk among U.S. women living in areas with high poverty and HIV prevalence rates as part of a qualitative substudy of the Women’s HIV SeroIncidence Study. Semi-structured focus groups were conducted. Data were coded and analyzed using the constant comparative method. Participants expressed the perception that their communities were at elevated HIV/STI risk, mostly due to contextual and structural factors such as lack of access to health care and education. Findings suggest that HIV prevention messages that target U.S. women at high risk for HIV may be strengthened by addressing the high perceived community HIV/ STI risk driven by structural factors.
Altern mit Querschnittlähmung : Wohin führt der Weg?
Creators: name: Keusen, Patricia
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2016
Subjects: Querschnittlähmung
Altern
Ergotherapie
Lebensqualität
Betätigungsperformanz
615.8515: Ergotherapie

description: Darstellung des Themas: Eine Querschnittlähmung stellt eine lebenslange Zustandsveränderung eines Menschen dar. Die Auswirkungen des Alterns mit einer Querschnittlähmung sind jedoch nahezu unerforscht, wodurch die Ergotherapie keine umfassende Langzeitbetreuung
gewährleisten kann.
Ziel: Ziel ist es, eine literaturfundierte Informationsgrundlage bezüglich den Auswirkungen des Alterns mit einer traumatisch bedingten Querschnittlähmung auf betroffene Personen zu schaffen. Ergotherapeutische Handlungsbereiche zur Erhaltung der grösstmöglichen Lebensqualität und Betätigungsperformanz werden daraus abgeleitet.
Methode: Eine systematische Literaturrecherche nach Guba (2008) wurde durchgeführt. Fünf Studien und zwei Reviews aus vordefinierten Datenbanken erfüllten alle Einschlusskriterien. Zur Ergebnisdarstellung wurden die Modelle „Canadian Model of Occupational Performance and Engagement” (CMOP-E) und „International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health” (ICF) verwendet.
Relevante Ergebnisse: Veränderungen finden in allen Körpersystemen sowie Betätigungsbereichen statt, wobei sich die Lebensqualität mit zunehmender Anzahl posttraumatischer Jahre beachtlich steigert. Als Einflussfaktoren auf die Lebensqualität und die Betätigungsperformanz liessen sich die gesundheitlichen Sekundäreinschränkungen, die soziale Partizipation, das zufriedenstellende Ausführen von Betätigungen, die Umweltfaktoren, die Anpassungsfähigkeit, der „Überlebenseffekt“ und der individuelle Lebensstil herausarbeiten.
Schlussfolgerung: Das Altern mit einer Querschnittlähmung hat Auswirkungen auf alle Lebensbereiche einer Person, weshalb die Förderung der Lebensqualität und Betätigungsperformanz als Fokus in der ganzheitlichen Rehabilitation empfohlen wird. Weiterführende Forschung wird angeraten.
Anopheles
Creators: name: F. W. Edwards
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1920
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Culicidae
Anopheles

description:  Anopheles transvaalensis, Carter. Two females from Tananarive (Bouet, 1905).
description: Published as part of F. W. Edwards, 1920, Bulletin of Entomological Research, pp. 133-138 in Bulletin of Entomological Research 11 (2) on page 3, DOI: 10.1017/S0007485300044539, http://zenodo.org/record/163545
Religiosity, Spirituality, and HIV Risk Behaviors among African American Women from Four Rural Counties in the Southeastern U.S.
Creators: name: Doherty, Irene A.
name: Villar-Loubet, Olga
name: Adimora, Adaora A.
name: Simpson, Cathy A.
name: White, Becky L.
name: McLellan-Lemal, Eleanor
name: O’Daniels, Christine M.
name: Ludema, Christina
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: In a cross- sectional survey of 1,013 African American women from rural Alabama and North Carolina, we examined the relationship of (1) organizational religiosity (i.e., religious service attendance), (2) non- organizational religiosity (e.g., reading religious materials), and (3) spirituality with these outcomes: women’s reports of their sexual behaviors and perceptions of their partners’ risk characteristics. Women with high non-organizational religiosity, compared with low, had fewer sex partners in the past 12 months (adjusted prevalence ratio (aPR): 0.58, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.42, 0.80) and were less likely to have concurrent partnerships (aPR: 0.47, 95% CI: 0.30, 0.73). Similar results were observed for spirituality, and protective but weaker associations were observed for organizational religiosity. Weak associations were observed between organizational religiosity, non- organizational religiosity, and spirituality with partners’ risk characteristics. Further exploration of how religiosity and spirituality are associated with protective sexual behaviors is needed to promote safe sex for African American women.
MPEC 2023-U207 : 2023 UJ6
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 UJ6

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Perspective: The Role of Numeracy in Health Care
Creators: name: Pignone, Michael P.
name: Cherrington, Andrea
name: Rothman, Russell L.
name: Montori, Victor M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Numeracy, the “ability to understand and use numbers in daily life” is an important but understudied component of literacy. Numeracy-related tasks are common in healthcare and include understanding nutrition information, interpreting blood sugar readings and other clinical data, adjusting medications, and understanding probability in risk communication. While literacy and numeracy are strongly correlated, we have identified many patients with adequate reading ability but poor numeracy skills. Better tools to measure numeracy and more studies to assess the unique contribution of numeracy are needed. This research can contribute to developing interventions to improve outcomes for patients with poor numeracy.
High-contrast imager for Complex Aperture Telescopes (HiCAT): 1. Testbed design
Creators: name: N'Diaye, Mamadou
name: Choquet, Elodie
name: Pueyo, Laurent
name: Elliot, Erin
name: Perrin, Marshall D.
name: Wallace, J. Kent
name: Groff, Tyler
name: Carlotti, Alexis
name: Mawet, Dimitri
name: Sheckells, Matt
name: Shaklan, Stuart
name: Macintosh, Bruce
name: Kasdin, N. Jeremy
name: Soummer, Rémi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Searching for nearby habitable worlds with direct imaging and spectroscopy will require a telescope large enough to provide angular resolution and sensitivity to planets around a significant sample of stars. Segmented telescopes are a compelling option to obtain such large apertures. However, these telescope designs have a complex geometry (central obstruction, support structures, segmentation) that makes high-contrast imaging more challenging. We are developing a new high-contrast imaging testbed at STScI to provide an integrated solution for wavefront control and starlight suppression on complex aperture geometries. We present our approach for the testbed optical design, which defines the surface requirements for each mirror to minimize the amplitude-induced errors from the propagation of out-of-pupil surfaces. Our approach guarantees that the testbed will not be limited by these Fresnel propagation effects, but only by the aperture geometry. This approach involves iterations between classical ray-tracing optical design optimization, and end-to-end Fresnel propagation with wavefront control (e.g. Electric Field Conjugation / Stroke Minimization). The construction of the testbed is planned to start in late Fall 2013.
description: Proc. of the SPIE 8864, 10 pages, 3 figures, Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets VI
title: Vascular complications of pancreatitis: know your enemy!
Creators: name: Zaharie, Andreea
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Embolism / Thrombosis
subject: Aneurysms
subject: Education
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT
subject: Vascular
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To present a pictorial review of vascular complications of pancreatitis. To underline the most common causes. To emphasize the importance of the radiological investigations in the management of these...
Transport of the repulsive Bose-Einstein condensate in a double-well trap: interaction impact and relation to Josephson effect
Creators: name: Nesterenko, V. O.
name: Novikov, A. N.
name: Suraud, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two aspects of the transport of the repulsive Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in a double-well trap are inspected: impact of the interatomic interaction and analogy to the Josephson effect. The analysis employs a numerical solution of 3D time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation for a total order parameter covering all the trap. The population transfer is driven by a time-dependent shift of a barrier separating the left and right wells. Sharp and soft profiles of the barrier velocity are tested. Evolution of the relevant characteristics, involving phase differences and currents, is inspected. It is shown that the repulsive interaction substantially supports the transfer making it possible i) in a wide velocity interval and ii) three orders of magnitude faster than in the ideal BEC. The transport can be approximately treated as the d.c. Josephson effect. A dual origin of the critical barrier velocity (break of adiabatic following and d.c.-a.c. transition) is discussed. Following the calculations, robustness of the transport (d.c.) crucially depends on the interaction and barrier velocity profile. Only soft profiles which minimize undesirable dipole oscillations are acceptable.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures, accepted by Laser Physis. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1312.2750 The replaced version has a few corrections and additional references
Randomized Trial on the 5 a Day, the Rio Grande Way Website, A Web-based Program to Improve Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in Rural Communities
Creators: name: Starling, Randall
name: Davis, Glenna Sue
name: Heimendinger, Jerianne
name: Buller, David B.
name: Zimmerman, Donald E.
name: Slater, Michael D.
name: Woodall, W. Gill
name: Cutter, Gary R.
name: Waters, Emily
name: Saba, Laura
name: Hau, Barbara
name: Hines, Joan M.
name: Burris-Woodall, Patricia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: The Internet is a new technology for health communication in communities. The 5 a Day, the Rio Grande Way website intended to increase fruits and vegetables (FV) consumption was evaluated in a rural region enrolling 755 adults (65% Hispanic, 9% Native American, 88% female) in a randomized pretest–posttest controlled trial in 2002–2004. A total of 473 (63%) adults completed a 4-month follow-up. The change in daily intake on a food frequency questionnaire (control: mean = − 0.26 servings; intervention: mean = 0.38; estimated difference = 0.64, SD = 0.52, t(df = 416) = 1.22, p = 0.223) and single item (13.9% eating 5+ servings at pretest, 19.8% posttest for intervention; 17.4%, 13.8% for controls; odds ratio (OR) = 1.84, 95% CI = 1.07, 3.17) was in the expected direction but significant only for the single item. Website use was low and variable (logins: M = 3.3, range = 1 to 39.0; total time: M = 22.2 minutes, range = 0 to 322.7), but it was associated positively with fruit and vegetable intake (total time: Spearman r = 0.14, p = 0.004 for food frequency; Spearman r = 0.135, p = 0.004 for single item). A nutrition website may improve FV intake. The comparison on the food frequency measure may have been undermined by its high variability. Websites may be successful in community settings only when they are used enough by adults to influence them.
title: Noise and spatial resolution properties in head CT imaging with different scanners and acquisition protocols – a phantom study.
Creators: name: Barca, Patrizio
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Radiation physics
subject: CT
subject: Physics
subject: Dosimetric comparison

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: In spite of its clinical employment and diagnostic benefits, CT imaging is the largest source of population exposure to ionising radiation in industrialised countries, generating concerns about individual and global absorbed dose [1, 2]. In this...
MPEC 2023-U208 : 2023 UK6
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 UK6

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
“Teach to Goal”: Theory and Design Principles of an Intervention to Improve Heart Failure Self-Management Skills of Patients with Low Health Literacy
Creators: name: Bibbins-Domingo, Kirsten
name: Schillinger, Dean
name: Pignone, Michael
name: DeWalt, Darren A.
name: Baker, David W.
name: Ruo, Bernice
name: Macabasco-O'Connell, Aurelia
name: Hawk, Victoria
name: Weinberger, Morris
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Self-management is vital for achieving optimal health outcomes for patients with heart failure (HF). We sought to develop an intervention to improve self-management skills and behaviors for patients with HF, especially those with low health literacy. Individuals with low health literacy have difficulty reading and understanding written information and comprehending numerical information and performing calculations, and they tend to have worse baseline knowledge, short-term memory, and working memory compared to individuals with higher health literacy. This paper describes theoretical models that suggest methods to improve the design of educational curricula and programs for low literate audiences, including cognitive load theory and learning mastery theory. We also outline the practical guiding principles for designing our intervention, which includes a multi-session educational strategy that teaches patients self-care skills until they reach behavioral goals (“Teach to Goal”). Ourintervention strategy is being tested in a randomized controlled trial to determine if it is superior to a single-session brief educational intervention for reducing hospitalization and death. If this trial shows that the “Teach to Goal” approach is superior, this would support the value of incorporating these design principles into educational interventions for other diseases.
Zuhause in einer anderen Kultur : Ältere Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund in der Spitex
Creators: name: Janz, Deborah
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2016
Subjects: Migrants
Elderly
Immigrants
Homecare
Needs
Expectations
Experience
Health care
610.73: Pflege

description: Ausgangslage: Pflegefachpersonen äussern ein Gefühl der Überforderung bei der Pflege von älteren Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund, da sie unsicher sind, was diese von professioneller Pflege im häuslichen Setting erwarten.
Ziel: Die Erwartungen und Bedürfnisse von älteren Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund an die professionelle Pflege im häuslichen Setting sollen eruiert werden. Daraus sollen mögliche Handlungsstrategien für die Praxis abgeleitet werden.
Methode: An die aktuelle Forschungsliteratur wurde eine Frage formuliert, welche eine systematisierte Recherche auf den Datenbanken Cinahl, Medline, Cochrane Library und PsycINFO leitete. Die gefundenen Studien wurden auf ihre Güte hin beurteilt und gewürdigt.
Ergebnisse: Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund möchten, dass die Pflegenden ihre Biografie anhören und sie nicht als Mensch einer bestimmten Ethnie behandeln. Sie wollen teilhaben an ihrem Pflegeprozess. Dazu muss die Möglichkeit zur Kommunikation geschaffen werden. Die Familien der Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund wollen in die Pflege einbezogen werden.
Schlussfolgerung: Das Pflegepersonal soll für migrationsspezifische Themen sensibilisiert werden und eine Schulung in transkulturellen Kompetenzen erhalten. Die transkulturelle Pflegeanamnese soll mit einem familienzentrierten Ansatz unterstützt werden. Dies gibt allen Beteiligten des Pflegeprozesses die Möglichkeit, ihre Erwartungen und Bedürfnisse zu formulieren.
Ein Drittel prüft Alternativen
Creators: name: Greber, Daniel
name: Moor, Markus
Publisher: name: Verlag Personalvorsorge und Sozialversicherung
Year: 2017
Subjects: 344: Öffentliches Recht (CH), Arbeits-, Sozial-, Bildungs- und Kulturrecht
360: Soziale Probleme und Sozialversicherungen

description: Kleinere und mittelgrosse Arbeitgeber sind von der zunehmenden Regulierung in der beruflichen Vorsorge besonders betroffen. Während ein Teil Alternativen prüft, unterstreicht der andere die Vorteile der eigenen Vorsorgelösung.
Schmecken Senioren anders? : Einblick in die Arbeit mit dem Wädenswiler Seniorenpanel
Creators: name: Kinner, Julia
name: Bruckner, Michael Josef
name: Rudorf, Julia
name: Bongartz, Annette
Publisher: name: DLG
Year: 2014
Subjects: Senior
Beliebtheit
Apfelsaft
Sensorik
664: Lebensmitteltechnologie

description: Die Bevölkerung wird in den Industriestaaten immer älter, was Veränderungen in vielen Lebensbereichen nach sich zieht. Für die Lebensmittelindustrie ergeben sich daraus für die Entwicklung und Gestaltung von bedarfs- und bedürfnisgerechten Lebensmittelangeboten neue Herausforderungen. Am Institut für Lebensmittel- und Getränkeinnovation (ILGI) der Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften (ZHAW) werden im Rahmen einer mehrjährigen Studie die Zusammenhänge zwischen Alter, Ernährungs- und Gesundheitsstatus, sowie der sensorischen Wahrnehmung von Lebensmitteln untersucht.
title: Evaluation of MRI and USS in rotator cuff surgery
Creators: name: Azam, Ibrahim
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Pathology
subject: Surgery
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: Musculoskeletal joint

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Shoulder pain is a significant cause of morbidity. According to the National Institute for Health Research, it is the third most common cause of musculoskeletal consultation, with the prevalence of self-reported pain estimated to be between 16 and...
„Ich muss jetzt aber nach Hause...“ : Pflegeinterventionen zur Linderung von Sundowning bei Menschen mit Demenz
Creators: name: Brenner, Sven
name: Puthuppaledathu, Ancy
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Behavioral symptoms
subject: Psychomotor agitation
subject: Sundowning
subject: Chronobiological disorders
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Care
subject: Intervention
subject: Geriatric home
subject: Geriatric psychiatry
subject: Alzheimer disease
subject: Dementia
subject: Long term-care
subject: Nursing home
subject: 610.73: Pflege
subject: 616.8: Neurologie und Krankheiten des Nervensystems

description: Die Menschen in unserer Gesellschaft werden durch verbesserte Umweltbedingungen und erhöhtem Gesundheitsbewusstsein immer älter. Dies hat zur Folge, dass trotz der fortschrittlichen medizinischen Versorgung mehr Menschen an Demenzerkrankungen leiden. Im Rahmen der Erkrankung treten zusätzlich zu den Zeichen der Demenz behaviorale und psychologische Symptome auf. Diese zeigen sich als Agitationen, Unruhe, Schreien, Umherlaufen, Aggressionen, Beschimpfungen, Depressionen und andere. Treten sie in den Nachmittags- und Abendstunden wiederholt auf, spricht man vom Sundowning. Welche non-pharmakologischen Interventionen können Pflegende durchführen, um diese belastenden Symptome zu lindern? 
Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, durch eine systematisierte Literaturrecherche wirksame Interventionen identifizieren zu können. Diese sollen in dieser Arbeit vorgestellt, kategorisiert und diskutiert werden. Viele dieser Interventionen können leicht und ohne grossen Aufwand durch Pflegefachpersonen, aber auch von Angehörigen in die Praxis implementiert werden. Hervorzuheben ist hier im Vorfeld, dass Schulungen für Pflegende der Schlüssel für die erfolgreiche Umsetzung dieser Massnahmen sind.
Information Processes Mediate the Effect of a Health Communication Intervention on Fruit and Vegetable Consumption
Creators: name: Campbell, Marci K.
name: Ko, Linda K.
name: Earp, Jo Anne
name: DeVellis, Brenda
name: Lewis, Megan A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Health communication interventions have been effective in promoting fruit and vegetable consumption (FVC). To explore mechanisms underlying health communication effectiveness, we investigated whether information processes mediated the relationship between health communication and FVC, using data from NC STRIDES. NC STRIDES tested the efficacy of two health communication strategies to promote FVC among a diverse population-based sample of older adults. Participants were randomized to one of four groups: control, tailored print communication (TPC), telephone motivational interviewing (TMI), or combined (TPC+TMI). Multi-sample structural equation models were constructed to analyze data from 469 participants. Information processes mediated the effect of TMI and TPC+TMI on FVC. TMI had an indirect effect on FVC through relevance of the communications. TPC+TMI influenced FVC through perceived relevance of the communications, trust in the communications, and dose recall via two paths. In the first path, relevance was associated with trust. Trust was associated with recall, and greater recall predicted FVC. In the second path, relevance was associated with dose recall, and more recall predicted FVC. Thus, we found that key information processes mediated the relationship between a health communication intervention and FVC. Further research should investigate ways to enhance relevance, trust, and recall during the delivery of interventions.
The Effects of Drug-Prevention Messages on the Accessibility of Identity-Related Constructs
Creators: name: Comello, Maria Leonora G.
name: Slater, Michael D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Recent theoretical work has posited that the self-system guides behavior via currently activated self-concepts. We adopt this framework to the study of drug-prevention messages by examining the extent to which messages can alter the accessibility of views of self and of drugs that would support non-use. Participants were exposed to one of three print-ad conditions: autonomy-themed prevention messages (treatment), health-information themed prevention messages (comparison), and informational consumer ads (control). Outcomes were reaction times to make dichotomous judgments. Relative to comparison and control ads, treatment ads were more successful at activating a self-view as a nonuser, a view that marijuana use is inconsistent with autonomy, and unwillingness to use marijuana. Post-hoc analysis revealed that the effect of ad condition on unwillingness was partially mediated by the accessibility of self-view as a nonuser.