cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Developing a Curriculum for the End-of-Life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Creators: name: Bick, Emma
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Background: The importance of the end-of-life (EOL) care in medical education is well recognized. However, there are minimal opportunities for medical students to practice these skills when they reach the clinical portion of their training. This curriculum was designed to allow medical students to practice and receive feedback on EOL skills before entering residency. 

Methods: Fourth-year UNC medical students (n=36), during their Acting Internship (AI) block, completed a half-day EOL curriculum which included: pre-post, and post-then-pre surveys, a didactic presentation, two standardized patient cases, a debrief with their peers and Palliative Care fellows. Pre- and post- tests were compared using the Wilcoxan rank-sum test.

Results: Students were least confident in having code status discussions with patients and in recommending pain control options at the end-of-life. They reported being significantly more confident and comfortable with EOL care after the intervention (p<0.0001). Students reported that they were significantly more prepared to handle EOL issues after the intervention (p<0.0001). 

Conclusion: A half day of didactics and standardized patient cases is an effective method to improve student self-perceived comfort and confidence in EOL topics such as: diagnosing delirium, discussing goals of care, having code status discussion, providing goal-concordant care, and recommending pain control options.
Scoping review statistical methodology in pharmacovigilance
Creators: name: Scholl, Joep
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Other Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
subject: Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Epidemiology

description: This project aims to provide a scoping review of statistical methods developed for signal detection of ADRs in spontaneous reporting systems
Rotation periods and seismic ages of KOIs - comparison with stars without detected planets from Kepler observations
Creators: name: Ceillier, T.
name: van Saders, J.
name: Garcia, R. A.
name: Metcalfe, T. S.
name: Creevey, O.
name: Mathis, S.
name: Mathur, S.
name: Pinsonneault, M. H.
name: Salabert, D.
name: Tayar, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the most difficult properties to derive for stars is their age. For cool main-sequence stars, gyrochronology relations can be used to infer stellar ages from measured rotation pe- riods and HR Diagram positions. These relations have few calibrators with known ages for old, long rotation period stars. There is a significant sample of old Kepler objects of inter- est, or KOIs, which have both measurable surface rotation periods and precise asteroseismic measurements from which ages can be accurately derived. In this work we determine the age and the rotation period of solar-like pulsating KOIs to both compare the rotation properties of stars with and without known planets and enlarge the gyrochronology calibration sample for old stars. We use Kepler photometric light curves to derive the stellar surface rotation peri- ods while ages are obtained with asteroseismology using the Asteroseismic Modeling Portal in which individual mode frequencies are combined with high-resolution spectroscopic pa- rameters. We thus determine surface rotation periods and ages for 11 planet-hosting stars, all over 2 Gyr old. We find that the planet-hosting stars exhibit a rotational behaviour that is consistent with the latest age-rotation models and similar to the rotational behaviour of stars without detected planets. We conclude that these old KOIs can be used to test and calibrate gyrochronology along with stars not known to host planets.
description: Paper accepted with minor revision in MNRAS, 7 pages, 4 figures, and 2 tables
Massive scalar Casimir interaction beyond proximity force approximation
Creators: name: Teo, L. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Since massive scalar field plays an important role in theoretical physics, we consider the interaction between a sphere and a plate due to the vacuum fluctuation of a massive scalar field. We consider combinations of Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions. There is a simple prescription to obtain the functional formulas for the Casimir interaction energies, known as TGTG formula, for the massive interactions from the massless interactions. From the TGTG formulas, we discuss how to compute the small separation asymptotic expansions of the Casimir interaction energies up to the next-to-leading order terms. Unlike the massless case, the results could not be expressed as simple algebraic expressions, but instead could only be expressed as infinite sums over some integrals. Nonetheless, it is easy to show that one can obtain the massless limits which agree with previously established results. We also show that the leading terms agree with that derive using proximity force approximation. The dependence of the leading order terms and the next-to-leading order terms on the mass of the scalar field is studied both numerically and analytically. In particular, we derive the small mass asymptotic expansions of these terms. Surprisingly, the small mass asymptotic expansions are quite complicated as they contain terms that are of odd powers in mass as well as logarithms of mass terms.
description: 15 pages
The Reference Interview: Theories and Practice
Creators: name: Stephanie Willen Brown
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008
Subjects: Public services (Libraries)
Reference services (Libraries)

description: The reference librarian's task is to translate the patron's question into one that can be answered with the library's resources. The first element of that task is to know what the patron wants; the second is to know what resources the library has and how to use them. Reference librarians must learn continuously throughout their careers, both because new resources become available, but also because patrons present questions requiring new resources. This article will focus on how to determine what kind of information the patron needs through the reference interview.


This article provides a comprehensive analysis and description of the reference interview and expands upon the reference guidelines published by the American Library Association’s Reference and User Services Association. These include approachability, interest, listening, searching, and follow up. Discusses how to identify the true nature of the question being asked. 

The article was commissioned by a former student and resident of Kosovo. He solicited the article to be published in the Kosovar library journal Biblioletra; as a summary of the reference interview process as taught in the basic public services class taught at Simmons College’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science.
Effects of refraction on transmission spectra of gas giants: decrease of the Rayleigh scattering slope and breaking of retrieval degeneracies
Creators: name: Bétrémieux, Yan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Detection of the signature of Rayleigh scattering in the transmission spectrum of an exoplanet is increasingly becoming the target of observational campaigns because the spectral slope of the Rayleigh continuum enables one to determine the scaleheight of its atmosphere in the absence of hazes. However, this is only true when one ignores the refractive effects of the exoplanet's atmosphere. I illustrate with a suite of simple isothermal clear Jovian H2-He atmosphere models with various abundances of water that refraction can decrease significantly the spectral slope of the Rayleigh continuum and that it becomes flat in the infrared. This mimics a surface, or an optically thick cloud deck, at much smaller pressures than one can probe in the non-refractive case. The relative impact of refraction on an exoplanet's transmission spectrum decreases with atmospheric temperatures and increases with stellar temperature. Refraction is quite important from a retrieval's perspective for Jovian-like planets even at the highest atmospheric temperatures (1200 K) considered in this paper, and for all stellar spectral types. Indeed, refraction breaks in large part the retrieval degeneracy between abundances of chemical species and the planet's radius because the size of spectral features increases significantly with abundances, in stark contrast with the non-refractive case which simply shifts them to a larger or smaller effective radius. Abundances inferred assuming the atmosphere is cloud-free are lower limits. These results show how important it is to include refraction in retrieval algorithms to interpret transmission spectra of gas giants accurately.
description: 11 pages, 3 Tables, 12 Figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Management of Functional Disorders (Fibromyalgia; Functional Neurological Disorder; Irritable Bowel Syndrome): A Scoping Review
Creators: name: Harrison, Isabelle
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Neuroscience and Neurobiology
subject: fibromyalgia
subject: FND
subject: functional disorders
subject: functional neurological disorder
subject: IBS
subject: irritable bowel syndrome

description: Systematic scoping review on the management of three functional disorders: Fibromyalgia, Functional Neurological Disorder, and Irritable Bowel Syndrome
An Exploration of the Black Hole Entropy via the Weyl Tensor
Creators: name: Li, Nan
name: Li, Xiao-Long
name: Song, Shu-Peng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Weyl tensor is the trace-free part of the Riemann tensor. Therefore, it is independent of the energy-momentum tensor and is thus not linked to the dynamics of gravitational fields. In this paper, we explore its possible thermodynamical property (i.e. its relationship with the black hole entropy). For a Schwarzschild black hole, the Weyl scalar invariant, $C_{μνλρ}C^{μνλρ}$, is proportional to its Bekenstein--Hawking entropy. This observation inspires us to interpret $C_{μνλρ}C^{μνλρ}$ as the entropy density of the gravitational fields of black holes. A dimensional analysis indicates that this interpretation is only valid in 5-dimensional space-time. We calculate the volume integrals of $C_{μνλρ}C^{μνλρ}$ for the 5-dimensional Schwarzschild and Schwarzschild--anti-de Sitter black holes, and find that these integrals indeed lead to the correct entropy formulae, only up to some coefficients.
description: 5 pages
Greek Politics and the Migratory Influx of 2015
Creators: name: Tantsi, Margarita
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: In 2015 a disproportionate migratory influx caused socked waves to Europe. Generators of this

influx were considered to be primarily the Syrian war and secondly the instrumentalization of

the migratory flow by the Turkish government. This dissertation aims at inquiring whether a

third factor can be added, contributing to a better understanding of the case that being Greece’s

political stand during the first quarter of 2015.

The theoretical part will demonstrate how the distinctiveness of the refugee may be used by

nation states to transform migrants into weapons and under which conditions this is considered

as Coercive Engineered Migration practice. The research will be carried out using Critical

Discourse Analysis in the form of Discourse Critical Analysis as the data represent ongoing

discourses between states and institutions.

The dissertation’s findings lean on the conclusion that Greece did deploy a rhetoric that could

exemplify the practice of CEM. At the same time the preferred migratory path shifted from that

of Libya-Italy in 2014 to Turkey Greece in 2015. Whereas, a causal link between Greece’s

actions and the migratory inflation was not firmly proven, the simultaneous developments of

the investigated events establish a strong connection between them. According to the

conclusions reached in this thesis, the claim that CEM was exerted by Greece (in an implicit

and indirect manner and method) has a valid case.
Noble Gas Clusters and Nanoplasmas in High Harmonic Generation
Creators: name: Aladi, M.
name: Bolla, R.
name: Rácz, P.
name: Földes, I. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a study of high harmonic generation from noble gas clusters of xenon atoms in a gas jet. Harmonic spectra were investigated as a function of backing pressure, showing spectral shifts due to the nanoplasma electrons in the clusters. At certain value of laser intensity this process may oppose the effect of the well-known ionization-induced blueshift. In addition, these cluster-induced harmonic redshifts may give the possibility to estimate cluster density and cluster size in the laser-gas jet interaction range.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Book Reviews and the Consolidation of Genre
Creators: name: Underwood, William
name: Shang, Wenyi
name: Hu, Yuerong
name: Singhal, Shubhangi
name: Sharma, Aniruddha
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Arts and Humanities
subject: Burrows' Delta
subject: genre

description: Several interconnected experiments that use book reviews of fiction to trace the rise and fall of genre concepts.
Exploring the Feasibility of the Expansion of Social Prescribing in the United States: A Policy Analysis
Creators: name: McDonald, Zachary
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Consideration of patients’ social needs is a chief element of comprehensive primary care, as articulated by multiple American professional societies. A new model of community referral from the primary care setting, known as social prescribing, originated in the United Kingdom and seeks to standardize and expand the availability of this longstanding practice. I interviewed three key stakeholders to determine the series of conditions under which an expansion of social prescribing schemes in the United States would be most feasible and for which populations it could be most advantageous. Preliminary results of these interviews confirm the presence of a diverse set of social needs intervention models in the United States. Interestingly, the term social prescribing has not been widely adopted to refer to American programs that share its core features, as the moniker has not gained wide traction in this country to date. My findings indicate that community health centers (CHCs) are best positioned to serve as sites of future pilot projects utilizing the social prescribing model in the United States. CHCs are more likely to serve socioeconomically disadvantaged clients and have pre-existing, sophisticated relationships with the community sector required for such schemes. My recommendations include increased international efforts to develop American experts in this area and the identification of American physician advocates for the implementation of social prescribing in well-resourced communities to lead explorations of its feasibility within their local contexts.
Witnessing multipartite entanglement by detecting asymmetry
Creators: name: Girolami, Davide
name: Yadin, Benjamin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The characterization of quantum coherence in the context of quantum information theory and its interplay with quantum correlations is currently subject of intense study. Coherence in an Hamiltonian eigenbasis yields asymmetry, the ability of a quantum system to break a dynamical symmetry generated by the Hamiltonian. We here propose an experimental strategy to witness multipartite entanglement in many-body systems by evaluating the asymmetry with respect to an additive Hamiltonian. We test our scheme by simulating asymmetry and entanglement detection in a three-qubit GHZ-diagonal state.
description: more examples and discussion in the open access published version
Navigating learning and teaching in expanding culturally diverse higher education settings
Creators: name: MARKEY, KATHLEEN
name: GRAHAM, MARGARET
name: TUOHY, DYMPNA
name: MC CARTHY, JANE
name: O'DONNELL, CLAIRE
name: HENNESSY, THERESE
name: FAHY, ANNE
name: O'Brien, Brid
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education

description: Developing a deeper understanding of factors that influence learning and teaching in widening culturally diverse learning environments is necessary in proactively planning supports and pedagogical approaches that encourage integration, intercultural understanding and respect for cultural difference. This qualitative descriptive study reports on the experiences and perceptions of teaching faculty and students (domestic and international) of learning and teaching in postgraduate culturally diverse environments. Three themes were generated from the data: ‘early apprehension’, ‘cautious engagement’ and ‘shared acceptance’, highlighting the multifaceted responses to cultural diversity in the learning environment. These findings illuminate how learning and teaching in widening culturally diverse education settings require careful, sensitive and proactive planning and supports. The individuality of learning experiences, self-preservation of identities, narrow perceptions of cultural difference and unconscious ‘othering’, influenced learning behaviours, integration and cohesive learning. The findings also highlight the necessity of adopting culturally responsive pedagogies.
Psychological impacts of quarantine amongst older adults during the 21st century: A rapid review (protocol)
Creators: name: Ghuman, Prineet
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Respiratory Tract Diseases
subject: Diseases
subject: Psychiatric and Mental Health
subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Other Mental and Social Health
subject: Virus Diseases
subject: Mental and Social Health
subject: covid19
subject: epidemic
subject: older adult
subject: pandemic
subject: psychological impact
subject: quarantine

description: Please see summary tab.
The Association Between a History of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Current Parenting Beliefs and Attitudes
Creators: name: Barnes, Megan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Background: Adverse Childhood Experiences are a significant health problem with some negative consequences persisting into subsequent generations. One proposed mechanism for this is the influence of ACEs on parenting behavior. 

Objective: This study seeks to examine the relationship between a history of ACEs and parenting attitudes and styles.

Participants and Setting: This study investigates the baseline data of the Child Adult Relationship Enhancement in Primary Care (PriCARE) trial at the University of North Carolina Children’s Primary Care Clinic. 150 parents of 2 to 6 year old children were enrolled. 

Methods: Parents filled out questionnaires that assessed ACEs and parenting beliefs and styles. The measures to assess parenting beliefs and styles included the Adult Adolescent Parenting Interview-2 (AAPI-2) and the Parenting Scale. Further data were collected on demographics, depression risk, and resiliency. Regression analyses were used to analyze the relationships. 

Results: After adjustment for gender, race, and income, when compared to experiencing zero ACEs, prior exposure to four or more ACEs was associated with lower odds of being high risk for inappropriate parental empathy and oppression of children’s power and independence using the AAPI-2. A history of ACEs was not associated with differences in the parenting scale measures. Experiencing an increasing number of ACEs did not demonstrate increased odds in adopting riskier parenting behaviors in a dose-responsive manner.

Conclusions: These findings contradict previous and expected findings of a positive relationship between number of ACEs and higher risk parenting attitudes and styles. Findings indicate the need to identify additional factors that may moderate the relationship between a history of adversity and parenting beliefs.
Mapping the chemical potential dependence of current-induced spin polarization in a topological insulator
Creators: name: Lee, Joon Sue
name: Richardella, Anthony
name: Hickey, Danielle Reifsnyder
name: Mkhoyan, K. Andre
name: Samarth, Nitin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report electrical measurements of the current-induced spin polarization of the surface current in topological insulator devices where contributions from bulk and surface conduction can be disen- tangled by electrical gating. The devices use a ferromagnetic tunnel junction (permalloy/Al2O3) as a spin detector on a back-gated (Bi,Sb)2Te3 channel. We observe hysteretic voltage signals as the magnetization of the detector ferromagnet is switched parallel or anti-parallel to the spin polariza- tion of the surface current. The amplitude of the detected voltage change is linearly proportional to the applied DC bias current in the (Bi,Sb)2Te3 channel. As the chemical potential is tuned from the bulk bands into the surface state band, we observe an enhancement of the spin-dependent voltages up to 300% within the range of the electrostatic gating. Using a simple model, we extract the spin polarization near charge neutrality (i.e. the Dirac point).
Tales of Decline: Reading Social Pathology into Individual Suicide in South India
Creators: name: Chua, Jocelyn Lim
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2012
Subjects: Physiology, Pathological
Families
Health attitudes
Suicidal behavior
India

description: In the south Indian state of Kerala, the nation’s so-called suicide capital, suicide can often appear self-evident in meaning and motivation to casual onlookers and experts alike. Drawing on explanatory accounts, rumors, and speculative tales of suicide collected between 2004 and 2007, this article explores the ontological power of certain deaths to assert themselves as always-already known on the basis of perceived and reported demographic patterns of suicide. I demonstrate the ways suicides are commonly read, less through the distinct details of their individual case presentations than “up” to broader scales of social pathology. Shaped by the intertwined histories of public health intervention and state taxonomic knowledge in India, these “epidemic readings” of suicide enact a metonymy between individual suffering and ideas of collective decline that pushes the suicide case to fit—and thus to stand for—aggregate trends at the level of populations. Focusing on how family navigated the generic meanings and motivations ascribed to the deaths of their loved ones, I argue that the ability of kin to resist, collude with, or strategically deploy epidemic readings in their search for truth and closure hinged significantly on their classed fluency in the social, legal, and bureaucratic discourses of suicide.
Characterizing eigenstate thermalization via measures in the Fock space of operators
Creators: name: Hosur, Pavan
name: Qi, Xiao-Liang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) attempts to bridge the gap between quantum mechanical and statistical mechanical descriptions of isolated quantum systems. Here, we define unbiased measures for how well the ETH works in various regimes, by mapping general interacting quantum systems on regular lattices onto a single particle living on a high-dimensional graph. By numerically analyzing deviations from ETH behavior in the non-integrable Ising model, we propose a quantity that we call the $n$-$weight$ to democratically characterize the average deviations for all operators residing on a given number of sites, irrespective of their spatial structure. It appears to have a simple scaling form, that we conjecture to hold true for all non-integrable systems. A closely related quantity, that we term the $n$-$distinguishability$, tells us how well two states can be distinguished if only $n$-site operators are measured. Along the way, we discover that complicated operators on average are worse than simple ones at distinguishing between neighboring eigenstates, contrary to the naive intuition created by the usual statements of the ETH that few-body (many-body) operators acquire the same (different) expectation values in nearby eigenstates at finite energy density. Finally, we sketch heuristic arguments that the ETH originates from the limited ability of simple operators to distinguish between quantum states of a system, especially when the states are subject to constraints such as roughly fixed energy with respect to a local Hamiltonian.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures; Typos fixed, references added
The long-term impacts of opioid use before and after joint replacement surgery
Creators: name: Wilson, Ross
name: Pryymachenko, Yana
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Orthopedics
subject: Diseases
subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Epidemiology
subject: Medical Specialties
subject: Musculoskeletal Diseases

description: This project aims to identify the medium- to long-term health, economic, and social outcomes of pre- and perioperative opioid use in patients undergoing total hip and knee replacement surgery in New Zealand. We hypothesise that patients prescribed opioids before TJR or for short-term postoperative pain management will have worse outcomes than patients not prescribed opioid medications.
Making Time for the Children: Self‐Temporalization and the Cultivation of the Antisuicidal Subject in South India
Creators: name: Chua, Jocelyn Lim
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2011
Subjects: Self-destructive behavior in children
Consumer behavior
Suicide--Prevention
Children

description: This article examines suicide prevention among children in India's “suicide capital” of Kerala to interrogate the ways temporalization practices inform the cultivation of ethical, life‐avowing subjects in late capitalism. As economic liberalization and migration expand consumer aspiration in Kerala, mental health experts link the quickening of material gratification in middle‐class parenting to the production of insatiable, maladjusted, and impulsively suicidal children. Experiences of accelerated time through consumption in “modern” Kerala parenting practice reflect ideas about the threats of globalization that are informed both by national economic shifts and by nostalgia for the state's communist and developmentalist histories, suggesting that late capitalism's time–space compression is not a universalist phenomenon so much as one that is unevenly experienced through regionally specific renderings of the past. I demonstrate how experts position the Malayali child as uniquely vulnerable to the fatal dangers of immediate gratification, and thus exhort parents to retemporalize children through didactic games built around the deferral of desires for everyday consumer items. Teaching children how to wait as a pleasurable and explicitly antisuicidal way of being reveals anxieties, contestations, and contradictions concerning what ought to constitute “quality” investment in children as temporal subjects of late capitalism. The article concludes by bringing efforts to save elite lives into conversation with suicide prevention among migrants to draw out the ways distinct vulnerabilities and conditions of precarity situate waiting subjects in radically different ways against the prospect of self‐destruction.
Accounting for the Diversity of Women’s Experiences in Surveys
Creators: name: Dang, Emily
name: Joo, Shih
name: Keel, Chloe
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 440299
subject: Criminology not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 441099
subject: Sociology not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 441006
subject: Sociological methodology and research methods

description: Sexual harassment of women in the workplace has received growing attention in the past decade and is recognised as a substantial human rights and public health issue, with significant ramifications for workplaces and communities (Willness, Steel & Lee 2007). Nationally, this is reflected in recent legislative amendments:In 2022, the Anti-Discrimination and Human Rights Legislation Amendment (Respect at Work) Act 2022 (Cth), introduced a positive duty on employers and persons conducting business or undertaking (PCBUs).In 2023, the Fair Work Act was amended to prohibit sexual harassment in the workplace, and is now considered as a form of ‘serious misconduct’.These efforts reflect a commitment to eliminating gender-based violence and harassment, and ensuring safe working environments for women.Underpinning and driving these efforts for change is the growing body of research that have sought to bridge the significant gaps in current knowledge pertaining to sexual harassment in the workplace. This includes studies examining the impacts of workplace sexual harassment (Birinxhikai & Guggisberg 2017), its risk factors, preventative measures and responses (Champions of Change Coalition 2021, Healey 2018, Saunders & Easteal 2013, Wynen 2016), and issues around underreporting (MacDermott 2020, Charlesworth, McDonald & Cerise 2011).Since 2003, the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has also regularly conducted national surveys into workplace sexual harassment, with the fifth iteration released in 2022. The survey has offered important insights and data on the prevalence and nature of workplace sexual harassment in Australia. However, there remain significant gaps in accounting for the breadth of diversity and intersectionality of women’s experiences of violence and harassment. Specifically, migrant and refugee women were captured only through a single variable of ‘language spoken at home.’This gap has prompted the development of an ANROWS-funded study (ANROWS 2022) focusing on migrant and refugee women’s experiences of sexual harassment in the workplace. Utilising a mixed-methods approach of large-scale surveys, focus groups and interviews, the study builds on existing knowledge of workplace sexual harassment to further contribute to the national picture of the diverse experiences of migrant and refugee women.This research brief maps out the role, contribution and limitations of utilising large-scale surveys in gender-based violence research in Australia, specifically in relation to workplace sexual harassment.
“Reaching Out to the People”: The Cultural Production of Mental Health Professionalism in the South Indian Public Sphere
Creators: name: Chua, Jocelyn Lim
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2013
Subjects: Professional employees--Mental health
Quacks and quackery
Medical care

description: Although a significant body of scholarship has examined medical discourse in clinical and other institutional settings, far less has been studied in regard to the discursive activity of health professionals in the public sphere. This line of inquiry is particularly relevant in Kerala, south India, where, for reasons including felt obligation, the political economy of allopathic mental health care, and desires for social prestige, many psychologists and psychiatrists actively engage the public as lecturers, authors, and guests of television and radio programs alongside their clinical work. Ethnographic attention to discursive activity in the public sphere reveals how these experts blur the boundaries between clinical and popular registers of speech and forge alternative ethical sensibilities and values that challenge institutionally prescribed ideas of clinical professionalism. They do so in ways that can attract reprobation and accusations of quackery among critical peers who hold competing ideas of where, how, and to whom mental health professionals “should” speak.
Zoom Fatigue
Creators: name: Slatcher, Richard
name: Balzarini, Rhonda
name: Zoppolat, Giulia
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: close relationships
subject: coronavirus
subject: COVID-19
subject: extraversion
subject: fatigue
subject: introversion
subject: love
subject: personality
subject: relationships
subject: social relationships
subject: zoom
subject: #zoomfatigue
subject: zoom fatigue

description: We are testing 4 primary research questions to investigate the links between frequency of video chatting during the COVID-19 pandemic and people's fatigue and enjoyment based on group size and personality. Data collection is in process but no data pertaining to the hypotheses has been looked at.
Stern Sequences for a Family of Multidimensional Continued Fractions: TRIP-Stern Sequences
Creators: name: Amburg, Ilya
name: Dasaratha, Krishna
name: Flapan, Laure
name: Garrity, Thomas
name: Lee, Chansoo
name: Mihaila, Cornelia
name: Neumann-Chun, Nicholas
name: Peluse, Sarah
name: Stoffregen, Matthew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The Stern diatomic sequence is closely linked to continued fractions via the Gauss map on the unit interval, which in turn can be understood via systematic subdivisions of the unit interval. Higher dimensional analogues of continued fractions, called multidimensional continued fractions, can be produced through various subdivisions of a triangle. We define triangle partition-Stern sequences (TRIP-Stern sequences for short), higher-dimensional generalizations of the Stern diatomic sequence, from the method of subdividing a triangle via various triangle partition algorithms. We then explore several combinatorial results about TRIP-Stern sequences, which may be used to give rise to certain well-known sequences. We finish by generalizing TRIP-Stern sequences and presenting analogous results for these generalizations.
description: Expanded exposition
Orte und Mobilität auf Epitaphien des 17. Jahrhunderts in der Berliner Marienkirche
Creators: name: Küster, Marthe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Das Poster stellt sich der Fragestellung, wie Orte und Mobilität auf Epitaphien des 17. Jahrhunderts in der Berliner Marienkirche dargestellt werden. Eine Kartierung der genannten Ort gibt einerseits wichtige biographische Hinweise, andererseits hebt es die Rolle der biographischen Information "Mobilität" im 17. Jahrhundert hervor.
description: Posterpräsentation der X-Student Research Group "Berliner Inschriften als Quelle für die historische Registerforschung" (Gohar Schnelle, Dina Serova, finanziert durch die Berlin University Alliance) am 03.04.2023.
Social Robots in Nursing Homes: Factors Facilitating and Hindering Acceptance: A Scoping Review
Creators: name: Felding, Simone Anna
name: Koh, Wei Qi
name: Teupen, Sonja
name: Budak, Beliz
name: Uribe, Franziska
name: Roes, Martina
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: AAL technology
subject: Acceptance
subject: Nursing homes
subject: Older adults
subject: Social robots

description: This is the registration for our scoping review synthesizing the literature on factors facilitating and hindering acceptance of social robot in nursing homes.
The Register of “Complaint”: Psychiatric Diagnosis and the Discourse of Grievance in the South Indian Mental Health Encounter
Creators: name: Chua, Jocelyn Lim
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2012
Subjects: Ethnology
Stigma (Social psychology)
Mental health policy
Mental illness--Diagnosis

description: In the language of the medical file, “complaint” refers to the symptoms and ailments reported by the patient. In this article, I draw on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2004 and 2007 in the mental healthcare setting in South India to argue that the typology of “complaint” and the dialogic exchanges involved in its production mark a far wider catchment area for the allegations and grievances that circulate between patient, kin, clinician, and observing anthropologist. I propose the notion of the register of complaint as a hermeneutic for grappling with the emotionally charged, interactional processes of accusation, arbitration, and reportage that drive clinical modes of inquiry and evaluation in the South Indian mental health encounter. Ethnographic case studies suggest that grievance and accusation command both a vital directive force and evidentiary role in the social, moral, and emotional work of psychiatric diagnosis.
title: Καταγραφή και μελέτη υφάλμυρων υδάτων ως προς τη μεταλλικότητά τους κατά μήκος του νότιου παραλιακού μετώπου της Κρήτης
Creators: name: Περδικακης Χαραλαμπος-Χαριλαος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2024

description: Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία εστιάζει έμφαση στην ανάλυση των υφάλμυρων υδάτων και των μηχανισμών που τα διέπουν σε παράκτιους υδροφορείς στη νότια ακτογραμμή της Κρήτης. Μετά από μια εισαγωγή στο φαινόμενο της υφαλμύρινσης στο ουσιαστικό μέρος της εργασίας αυτής γίνεται μια προσπάθεια ανάλυσης της γενικής σύνθεσης και χημείας των ανόργανών συστατικών των κύριων και ιχνοστοιχείων της ιδιαίτερης αυτής κατηγορίας  υδάτων. Εξετάζονται οι φυσικοχημικές παραμέτροι, τα χαρακτηριστικά ποιότητας και η ευκινησία των χημικών στοιχείων σε διαλύματα. Επιπλέον, εξετάζονται τα μεταλλικά ύδατα,  εστιάζοντας στα θερμομεταλλικά και ιαματικά νερά, αναλύοντας τον ρόλο τους στην ανθρώπινη υγεία και ευεξία.
Η μεθοδολογία της έρευνας περιλαμβάνει την επεξεργασία και παρουσίαση των
αποτελεσμάτων μέσα από υδροχημικά διαγράμματα, τα οποία παρέχουν ουσιαστικές και εποπτικές πληροφορίες για τη σύνθεση των υδάτων. Τα διαγράμματα αυτά αποκαλύπτουν σημαντικά ευρήματα σχετικά με την προέλευση και την εξέλιξη της υφαλμύρινσης, ενώ παράλληλα αναδεικνύουν τις επιπτώσεις του φαινομένου στην ποιότητα των υδάτων και την καταλληλότητα τους για διάφορες χρήσεις.
Πιο συγκεκριμένα, μέσα από τα υδροχημικά διαγράμματα που αναλύθηκαν, προέκυψαν σημαντικά συμπεράσματα που αναδεικνύουν τη δυναμική της υφαλμύρινσης στη νότια Κρήτη. Τα διαγράμματα Piper, Schoeller και Langelier έδειξαν σαφείς ενδείξεις ανάμειξης θαλασσινού νερού στα υπόγεια ύδατα, κυρίως σε περιοχές με αυξημένες συγκεντρώσεις χλωριούχων ιόντων. Το διάγραμμα Piper κατέδειξε την ύπαρξη τριών κυρίων υδροχημικών τύπων, με σχεδόν τα μισά δείγματα να κατατάσσονται ως ασβεστομαγνησιούχα και εξίσου σημαντικό μέρος του συνόλου σε κάλιο-νατριούχο-χλώριο-θειικά, πράγμα που υποδηλώνει διάλυση ασβεστολιθικών και υπερβασικών πετρωμάτων στην σύνθεση του νερού και σημαντική επίδραση από την εισχώρηση θαλασσινού νερού, αντίστοιχα. Οι παρατηρήσεις αυτές επαληθεύτηκαν και από το διάγραμμα Schoeller, όπου παρατηρήθηκαν αντίστοιχες κατανομές ιόντων, αλλά και από το διάγραμμα Langelier. Το διάγραμμα Wilcox προσέφερε κρίσιμες πληροφορίες για την ποιότητα και καταλληλότητα του νερού για άρδευση και ανέδειξε ότι τα περισσότερα δείγματα νερού εμπίπτουν σε κατηγορίες που χαρακτηρίζονται ως «μέτριες» έως «κακές-ακατάλληλες» για άρδευση, με πολλά δείγματα να δείχνουν αυξημένη αλατότητα, γεγονός που μπορεί να περιορίσει τη χρήση τους στη γεωργία χωρίς κατάλληλη διαχείριση.
Συνολικά, τα συμπεράσματα της έρευνας υπογραμμίζουν την ανάγκη για βιώσιμη διαχείριση των υδάτινων πόρων, προκειμένου να μετριαστούν οι αρνητικές επιπτώσεις της υφαλμύρινσης στους παράκτιους υδροφορείς και να διασφαλιστεί η μακροπρόθεσμη προστασία τους.
Monte Carlo simulations of vector pseudospins for strains: Microstructures, and martensitic conversion times
Creators: name: Shankaraiah, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present systematic temperature-quench Monte Carlo simulations on discrete-strain pseudospin model Hamiltonians to study microstructural evolutions in 2D ferroelastic transitions with two-component vector order parameters ($N_{OP}=2$). The zero value pseudospin is the single high-temperature phase while the low-temperature phase has $N_v$ variants. Thus the number of nonzero values of pseudospin are triangle-to-centered rectangle ($N_v=3$), square-to-oblique ($N_v=4$) and triangle-to-oblique ($N_v=6$). The model Hamiltonians contain a transition-specific Landau energy term, a domain wall cost or Ginzburg term, and power-law anisotropic interaction potential, induced from a strain compatibility condition. On quenching below a transition temperature, we find behaviour similar to the previously studied square-to-rectangle transition ($N_{OP} =1, N_v = 2$), showing that the rich behaviour found, is generic. Thus we find for two-component order parameters, that the same Hamiltonian can describe both athermal and isothermal martensite regimes for different material parameters. The athermal/isothermal/austenite parameter regimes and temperature-time-transformation diagrams are understood, as previously, through parametrization of effective-droplet energies. In the athermal regime, we find rapid conversions below a spinodal like temperature and austenite-martensite conversion delays above it, as in the experiment. The delays show early incubation behaviour, and at the transition to austenite the delay times have Vogel-Fulcher divergences and are insensitive to Hamiltonian energy scales, suggesting that entropy barriers are dominant.
description: 11 pages, 16 Figures
bed distance for prevention of infections in hospitals
Creators: name: Sharma, Meenakshi
name: Sharma, Raman
name: Singh, Manvi
name: Jaiswal, Nishant
name: Pradhan, Pranita
name: Singh, Meenu
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus. The disease is transmitted by inhalation or contact with infected droplets and the incubation period ranges from 2 to 14 days. The case fatality rate is estimated to range from 2 to 3%. As this virus spread very easily in dense places a lot emphasis has been laid down on preventing measures such as social distancing, isolation and quarantine, hand hygiene, respiratory etiquette, environment cleaning besides other measures to minimize the spread.In healthcare organizations, this distancing is achieved through proper layout and designing and through functional segregation of OPD, inpatients, diagnostic services and supportive services along with application of the principles of asepsis and hygiene.
The road to systemic therapy in von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease: Are we there yet?
Creators: name: Shepherd, Scott TC
name: Drake, William M
name: Turajlic, Samra
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2023
Subjects: Tumour Biology
Signalling & Oncogenes
Genetics & Genomics
Genome Integrity & Repair
Computational & Systems Biology

description: Pathogenic germline mutations in VHL gene cause von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease, an autosomal dominant hereditary cancer syndrome associated with high penetrance of benign and malignant neoplasms, including clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC), central nervous system haemangioblastomas (CNS-HB), retinal angiomas, phaeochromocytomas and pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours (pNET). Management of VHL disease involves lifelong radiological and biochemical surveillance, often leading to repeat surgical intervention causing significant morbidity and mortality. Systemic therapy that prevents or reduces the need for surgical intervention could improve clinical outcomes and quality of life for affected individuals. Belzutifan is a second-generation small molecule hypoxia-inducible factor 2α (HIF-2α) inhibitor recently approved by US and UK regulators for the treatment of VHL (disease)-associated ccRCC, CNS-HB and pNET. While this is a welcome step forward, it is vital that we consider in what circumstances these drugs are recommended and how they fit into the overall management of VHL disease. In this personal view article, we reflect on the history of the use of systemic therapy in localised VHL disease and consider open questions relating to the use of HIF-2α inhibitors, including the need to involve medical oncologists in the multidisciplinary team moving forward. Indeed, VHL disease is the perfect paradigm for similar settings in the future.
Fog of War: Psychopharmaceutical “Side Effects” and the United States Military
Creators: name: Chua, Jocelyn Lim
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: Psychotropic drugs
Soldiers
Medicine, Military
Drugs--Side effects
Disabled veterans

description: The unprecedented reliance today on psychiatric drugs to maintain mission readiness in war and to treat veterans at home has been the subject of ethical debate in the United States. While acknowledging these debates, I advocate for an ethnography of how US soldiers and veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars themselves articulate political and ethical tensions in their experiences of psychiatric drug treatment. Detailing one army veteran’s interpretations of drug effects as narrated through the lens of his current antiwar politics, I examine the radicalizing transformations of self and subjectivity that he attributes both to his witnessing drug use in Iraq and to the neurochemical effects of his own medications. Playing on the biomedical notion of “side effects,” I highlight surprising political and ethical openings that can surface when psychopharmaceuticals and war intersect. Psychotropic medication use offers a critical realm for furthering the ethnographic study of the lived tensions and contradictions of military medicine and medicalization as revealed in militarized embodied experience.
A sign preserving WENO reconstruction method
Creators: name: Fjordholm, Ulrik S.
name: Ray, Deep
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65M06, 35L65, 35L67

description: We propose a third-order WENO reconstruction which satisfies the sign property, required for constructing high resolution entropy stable finite difference scheme for conservation laws. The reconstruction technique, which is termed as SP-WENO, is endowed with additional properties making it a more robust option compared to ENO schemes of the same order. The performance of the proposed reconstruction is demonstrated via a series of numerical experiments for linear and nonlinear scalar conservation laws. The scheme is easily extended to multi-dimensional conservation laws.
description: Accepted for publication by Springer Journal of Scientific Computing