cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Bridging the gaps for delivering health messages: Identifying barriers and braces for broadcasting health messages through FM radios
Creators: name: Saw Saw
name: Saw  Saw
name: Thanda Lin
name: Phyu Phyu-Aye
name: Kyaw-Lwin Show
name: Khine Nyein-Chan
name: Myat-Hsu Paing-Thaw
name: Saw-Hsar-Mu Htaw-Paw
name: Kyaw Thu
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2019

description: Frequency modulation (FM) radio which is accessible for the community even in rural areas is an effective channel for delivering health messages. A Cross-sectional study was conducted in 2017 to describe process of developing health education programmes by FM radios and current linkage between health service programmes and FM radios; and to identify barriers and possible solutions for broadcasting health messages through FM radios. Total of 208 audio files related to health were collected for one month from nine FM radios. Eleven key informant interviews (KIIs) with programmers from FM radios and focal persons from health literacy promotion unit (HLPU) were conducted. Qualitative data from KIIs and audio files were analyzed with assistance of ATLAS ti version 6.1software. All FM programmers mentioned source of health messages as mainly from printed media such as newspaper and magazines. There are three main types of health education programmes—Public Service Announcement, Mini drama/radio play and health talks. FM radios received important health announcements through Myanmar radio and Tele Vision (MRTV). However, there is no regular linkage between FM radios and health service programmes. Key informants from HLPU mentioned contacts with MRTV to deliver health messages. They also pointed out weak coordination with FM radios. The most common barrier for FM radios was getting health messages from services programmes regularly and finding speakers for health programmes. Another limitation from FM radio was sparing air-time if the health talk is more than 15 minutes. Almost all FM radios contact health personal whom they were acquainting previously to make a health programme such as interview or discussion or health talk. All respondents from FM radios suggested to have updated health messages from health service programmes in time. They highlighted there should be regular communications by emails between health service departments and FM radios. All FM radios are willing to deliver health messages and create health programmes. Findings from this study was utilized by health literacy and promotion unit for strengthening regular communication with FM radios and sending key health messages to FM Radios by emails.
Thermodynamic transformations of nonequilibrium states
Creators: name: Bertini, L.
name: Gabrielli, D.
name: Jona-Lasinio, G.
name: Landim, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a macroscopic system in contact with boundary reservoirs and/or under the action of an external field. We discuss the case in which the external forcing depends explicitly on time and drives the system from a nonequilibrium state to another one. In this case the amount of energy dissipated along the transformation becomes infinite when an unbounded time window is considered. Following the general proposal by Oono and Paniconi and using results of the macroscopic fluctuation theory, we give a natural definition of a renormalized work. We then discuss its thermodynamic relevance by showing that it satisfies a Clausius inequality and that quasi static transformations minimize the renormalized work. In addition, we connect the renormalized work to the quasi potential describing the fluctuations in the stationary nonequilibrium ensemble. The latter result provides a characterization of the quasi potential that does not involve rare fluctuations.
Tetraquark mass relations in quark and diquark models
Creators: name: Anwar, Muhammad Naeem
name: Burns, Timothy J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new linear relations among the masses of S-wave tetraquarks with either one flavour ($QQ \bar Q \bar Q$) or two ($QQ\bar q \bar q$). Because the relations are sensitive to the hidden-colour, spin, and spatial degrees of freedom, comparison to experimental data can help to reveal the internal structure of tetraquarks, and discriminate among different theoretical models. Depending on the model, the relations are either exact, or valid in perturbation theory, and a thorough comparison with existing literature confirms their validity at the MeV level. Additionally, we explore the connections among tetraquark models, and show how those with effective (quark or diquark) masses are related to dynamical potential models. We also show how the spectrum of diquark models is effectively a limiting case of (more general) quark models, and in particular, that the diquark concept is most relevant in the particular combination $QQ\bar q \bar q$, where $Q$ is much heavier than $\bar q$.
description: Published version
Composing and Recomposing Self as Lesbian Birth Mother: A Narrative Inquiry
Creators: name: Mansell, Deborah
Publisher: name: Nursing
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: lesbian
subject: lesbian birth mothers
subject: maternity care
subject: narrative inquiry
subject: health and social care
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Motherhood and mothering are dynamic experiences, yet they are often framed within and by heterosexual contexts, positioning lesbian birth mothers as outside “typical” mothering experiences. Most pregnant women in Canada, including lesbian birth mothers receive some formalized prenatal care and give birth in an acute care setting. Despite this, little is known about the experiences of lesbian birth mothers as they interact with healthcare providers and the maternity health and social care systems. Narrative inquiry research is a way to study experience through story and is a way to generate meaningful insights into the experiences of lesbian birth mothers as they negotiate maternity care. Narrative inquiry is a relational, iterative process in which the research data collection and reporting are negotiated with participants and alongside a response community of advisors and experts. In this narrative inquiry, together with three (3) lesbian birth mothers, I explored their experiences with maternity health and social services, family, institutions, and community in the greater Calgary, Alberta area. Three co-composed narrative accounts of the experiences of being a lesbian birth mother are presented, followed by the narrative threads of (1) Lesbian Maternal Wisdom, (2) Functional Infertility or Free to Decide? (3) Shades of Grey; and (4) Whose Space is this Space? In the final chapter, implications and recommendations for practice, research, and policy are made.
Deuterium spectroscopy for enhanced bounds on physics beyond the Standard Model
Creators: name: Potvliege, Robert M.
name: Nicolson, Adair
name: Jones, Matthew P. A.
name: Spannowsky, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the impact of combining precision spectroscopic measurements made in atomic hydrogen with similar measurements made in atomic deuterium on the search for physics beyond the Standard Model. Specifically we consider the wide class of models that can be described by an effective Yukawa-type interaction between the nucleus and the electron. We find that it is possible to set bounds on new light-mass bosons that are orders of magnitude more sensitive than those set using a single isotope only, provided the interaction couples differently to the deuteron and proton. Further enhancements of these bounds by an order of magnitude or more would be made possible by extending the current measurements of the isotope shift of the 1s$_{1/2}$-2s$_{1/2}$ transition frequency to that of a transition between the 2s$_{1/2}$ state and a Rydberg s-state.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures
Additional file 6: of Genomic analyses based on pulmonary adenocarcinoma in situ reveal early lung cancer signature
Creators: name: Li, Dan
name: Yang, William
name: Zhang, Yifan
name: Yang, Jack
name: Guan, Renchu
name: Xu, Dong
name: Yang, Mary
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Figure S3. An example ROC curve of three machine learning algorithms on TCGA lung adenocarcinoma dataset. The AUROC values were calculated based on one of the 100 randomly selected training and testing datasets. (PDF 49 kb)
Ice Mineralogy Across and Into the Surfaces of Pluto, Triton, and Eris
Creators: name: Tegler, S. C.
name: Grundy, W. M.
name: Olkin, C. B
name: Young, L. A.
name: Romanishin, W.
name: Cornelison, D. M.
name: Khodadadkouchaki, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present three near-infrared spectra of Pluto taken with the IRTF and SpeX, an optical spectrum of Triton taken with the MMT and the Red Channel Spectrograph, and previously published spectra of Pluto, Triton, and Eris. We combine these observations with a two-phase Hapke model, and gain insight into the ice mineralogy on Pluto, Triton, and Eris. Specifically, we measure the methane-nitrogen mixing ratio across and into the surfaces of these icy dwarf planets. In addition, we present a laboratory experiment that demonstrates it is essential to model methane bands in spectra of icy dwarf planets with two methane phases - one highly-diluted by nitrogen and the other rich in methane. For Pluto, we find bulk, hemisphere-averaged, methane abundances of 9.1 \pm 0.5%, 7.1 \pm 0.4%, and 8.2 \pm 0.3% for sub-Earth longitudes of 10\degree, 125\degree, and 257\degree. Application of the Wilcoxon rank sum test to our measurements finds these small differences are statistically significant. For Triton, we find bulk, hemisphere-averaged, methane abundances of 5.0 \pm 0.1% and 5.3 \pm 0.4% for sub-Earth longitudes of 138\degree and 314\degree. Application of the Wilcoxon rank sum test to our measurements finds the differences are not statistically significant. For Eris, we find a bulk, hemisphere-averaged, methane abundance of 10 \pm 2%. Pluto, Triton, and Eris do not exhibit a trend in methane-nitrogen mixing ratio with depth into their surfaces over the few cm range probed by these observations. This result is contrary to the expectation (Grundy & Stansberry 2000) that since visible light penetrates deeper into a nitrogen-rich surface than the depths from which thermal emission emerges, net radiative heating at depth would drive preferential sublimation of nitrogen leading to an increase in the methane abundance with depth.
description: This paper will be published in Astrophysical Journal. It consists of 41 pages, 11 figures, and 5 tables
Development of New Chromatographic Approaches for Bitumen Characterization
Creators: name: Karevan, Azadeh
Publisher: name: Schulich School of Engineering
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Solvent detection
subject: Bitumen Characterization
subject: SARA analysis
subject: Engineering--Chemical
subject: Psychology--Experimental

description: A critical stage in the compositional analysis of crude oils is the group-type separation of the components into saturated hydrocarbons (saturates), aromatic hydrocarbons (aromatics), resins, and asphaltenes (SARA). Despite the continuous improvement of the current methods, they are still suffering from insufficiencies in providing fast, accurate, and repeatable results. In this study, an automated SARA High-Performance Liquid Chromatograph (SARA-HPLC) is developed and evaluated to overcome the limitations and enhance SARA analysis. The developed system is equipped with three columns packed manually with different stationary phases. The sample is separated into four fractions by selective retention through interactions with solvent mobile and column stationary phases. However, preparative columns (manually packed) do not allow adequate replication of the developed analytical method by other researchers since the packing procedures may vary. To standardize the developed SARA-HPLC and make it reproducible by other researchers, standard commercially available packed columns were implemented in this work. The original system was modified in different aspects, including the design and configuration of columns. Consistent SARA fractions results were attained, proving the applicability of the new analytical technique to a wide range of crude oil samples, such as heavy oil and bitumen. Also, the performance of the developed SARA-HPLC was compared with the conventional method, demonstrating that it is more efficient, cost-effective, and consistent. A critical step in evaluating the recovery performance of the ES-SAGD method is the accurate measurement of solvent concentration in the produced bitumen. Therefore, another focus of this study is developing a chromatography approach for solvent detection in the produced bitumen. Additionally, the presence of water in the produced streams adds more complexity. In this work, a new chromatography approach was developed by combining the gel permeation chromatography (GPC) and Gas Chromatography (GC) results to fully characterize bitumen samples. The proposed model is validated and used to characterize the bitumen and measuring solvent in the mixture of bitumen/solvent and bitumen/solvent/water mixtures. The proposed method can measure the solvent content of the produced bitumen in the absence and presence of water, eliminating the error in measurements due to solvent loss associated with dewatering procedures.
The decomposed photon anomalous dimension in QCD and the $\{β\}$-expanded representations for the Adler function
Creators: name: Kataev, A. L.
name: Molokoedov, V. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work is devoted to the study of the $\{β\}$-expansion of the perturbative expressions for the $e^+e^-$ annihilation Adler function $D(Q^2)$ and for the related renormalization group functions, namely for the photon vacuum polarization function and its anomalous dimension $γ(α_s)$ in QCD at the $\mathcal{O}(α^4_s)$ order. We emphasize that $γ(α_s)$ is not a conformal-invariant contribution to $D(Q^2)$ and, therefore, for a consistent analysis it is necessary to decompose its higher-order PT coefficients in powers of the $β$-function coefficients in the same way as for the Adler function. The arguments in favor of this statement are given. The comparison of the $\overline{MS}$ and PMC/BLM approximants are demonstrated.Theoretical and phenomenologically related consequences of this comparison are briefly commented.
description: The version accepted for publication in Phys.Rev.D 9 october 2023 and published 27 November 2023 after several tours of exellent edditing by the EDITOR of PRD and careful clarifications by the authors; content remaining the same as in the original version, apart of number of style clarifications, unsufficient analytical misprint is removed; conclusions remain the same
Scale Consistent RGB Predicted Depth SLAM with Applications to Augmented Reality
Creators: name: Nawal, Mehbas Fairuz
Publisher: name: Schulich School of Engineering
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: SLAM
subject: Augmented Reality
subject: Depth Prediction
subject: Engineering

description: Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) based on visual sensors is a key technology for autonomous navigation and Augmented/Virtual Reality. The fundamental problem involves mapping of an unknown environment from sparse/dense depths, and concurrently localizing the sensor in the environment based on the map built from a sequence of images. Nevertheless, estimation of depth from a single camera is an ill-posed problem, which is why monocular SLAM systems often suffer from heavy scale drifts in long sequences, especially in the absence of loops for correction. With the rapid advancement in deep learning, neural networks have demonstrated noteworthy performance in single image depth estimation (SIDE). However, most unsupervised SIDE methods predict inconsistent depths over a video sequence, thereby limiting their application in SLAM systems. This thesis proposes an additional loss term that takes the spatial geometry of the scene into account during training to further constrain the network to produce scale consistent predictions over a sequence of images in an unsupervised manner. As the neural network learns from unlabeled monocular images, the predictions still suffer from per-frame uncertainty. Thus, the proposed SLAM approach (RGB-PD SLAM) using the CNN-based depth maps incorporates a novel optimization step using sparse bundle adjustment (SBA) to deal with the noises in the predictions. The potency of the proposed SLAM approach is validated through a simple AR application.
Examining uncertainty in environmental DNA analyses in freshwater lotic systems
Creators: name: Harrison, Jori
Publisher: name: Science
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Environmental DNA
subject: eDNA
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Assessment
subject: Aquatic Biodiversity
subject: Fisheries and Aquaculture
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics

description: The use of environmental DNA (eDNA) to quantify aquatic biodiversity is a rapidly emerging technique used for academic, government, and private purposes. The ease and relative low costs of taking environmental samples versus other methods of sampling makes eDNA methods an attractive choice, however, the broad variability in natural environments and a lack of standardization in laboratory analysis methods means that the robustness and replicability of these methods remain difficult to assess while the uncertainty around eDNA estimates requires validation. To address these deficiencies, I designed novel metabarcodes to detect and distinguish between closely related Salmonid species. I then conducted a controlled winter experiment using 12 naturalized experimental streams and stocked caged Brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis), Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), and Cutthroat Trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii) in each stream at varying biomasses. Triplicate water samples were collected from the start, middle, and end of each stream and filtered to collect DNA. I analyzed these samples using the novel, narrow-target DNA metabarcodes, broad-target metabarcodes, and species-specific qPCR to compare the detection rate and quantification reliability of each method. My thesis revealed that both assay choice and bioinformatic choices affect species detection and taxon resolution of eDNA. DNA quantities varied with biomass and distance downstream, consistent with previous research, but also with an ecological gradient present in the naturalized streams. My results indicate that stream ecology is crucial to take into consideration when making inferences from eDNA methods. I also discuss the importance of accounting for overdispersion and non-detects that frequently arise in eDNA data due to the physical state of eDNA in aquatic environments. To my knowledge, this is the first eDNA experiment to directly examine eDNA quantification under a controlled, replicated design within a semi-natural system. This work highlights the need for development of process-based models when using eDNA application to infer species abundances.
Equilibrium Structure and Radial Oscillations of Dark Matter Admixed Neutron Stars
Creators: name: Leung, S. -C.
name: Chu, M. -C.
name: Lin, L. -M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In [Leung et al., Phys. Rev. D 84, 107301 (2011)], we presented our results on using a general relativistic two-fluid formalism to study the hydrostatic equilibrium configuration of an admixture of degenerate dark matter and normal nuclear matter. In this work, we present more analysis to complement our previous findings. We study the radial oscillation modes of these compact stars in detail. We find that these stars in general have two classes of oscillation modes. For a given total mass of the star, the first class of modes is insensitive to the dark-matter particle mass. They also reduce properly to the oscillation modes of the corresponding ordinary neutron star, with the same total mass, when the mass fraction of dark matter tends to zero. On the other hand, the second class of modes is due mainly to the dark-matter fluid. In the small dark-matter mass fraction limit, these modes are characterized purely by the oscillations of dark matter, while the normal matter is essentially at rest. In the intermediate regime where the mass fractions of the two fluids are comparable, the normal matter oscillates with the dark matter due to their coupling through gravity. In contrast to the first class of modes, the frequencies of these dark-matter dominated modes depend sensitively on the mass of dark-matter particles.
description: 11 pages, 18 figures. Minor changes to match the published version
Normalizers of solvable spherical subgroups
Creators: name: Avdeev, Roman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20G07, 14M27

description: For an arbitrary connected solvable spherical subgroup H of a connected semisimple algebraic group G we compute the group N_G(H), the normalizer of H in G. Thereby we complete a classification of all (not necessarily connected) solvable spherical subgroups in semisimple algebraic groups.
description: v2: 12 pages, small corrections
The effects of millipedes (Harpaphe haydeniana) on microbial decomposition of leaf litter
Creators: name: Suzuki, Yoriko
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Most estimates of litter decomposition rates do not account well for the effects of soil macrofauna, and so are suspect in ecosystems in which litter-transforming soil fauna are abundant. In coastal rainforests, millipedes consume substantial amounts of leaf litter, most of which is egested as faecal pellets. Little is known about the fate of this material, which hinders estimation of realistic rates of litter decomposition in these ecosystems. In this study, I assess the influence of feeding by the millipede (Harpaphe haydeniana) on decomposition of leaf litter by comparing rates of CO₂ release during laboratory incubation from leaf litter which has been ingested by millipedes and transformed into faecal pellets with that from litter which has not been ingested by millipedes. Changes in litter microbial communities as a consequence of millipede ingestion are assessed by comparing the PLFA profiles of faeces and uningested litter during incubation. Rates of CO₂ release from faeces and litter were similar. CO₂ release was higher in maple litter than Douglas-fir litter, and this difference persisted in the faeces from litter that millipedes fed on. Differences in bacterial abundance between litter types were also retained during millipede gut passage. Grinding of litter increased CO₂ release, as did grinding of faeces, indicating that structure of litter and millipedes’ faecal pellets may restrict microbial access and thus decrease the decomposition rates. Microbial activity and abundance did not differ between leaf litter and faeces incubated alone vs together.
Novel relations for twist-3 tensor-polarized fragmentation functions in spin-1 hadrons
Creators: name: Song, Qin-Tao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There are three types of fragmentation functions (FFs) which are used to describe the twist-3 cross sections of the hard semi-inclusive processes under QCD collinear factorization, and they are called intrinsic, kinematical, and dynamical FFs. In this work, we investigate the theoretical relations among these FFs for a tensor-polarized spin-1 hadron. Three Lorentz-invariance relations are derived by using the identities between the nonlocal quark-quark and quark-gluon-quark operators, which guarantee the frame independence of the twist-3 spin observables. The QCD equation of motion relations are also presented for the tensor-polarized FFs. In addition, we show that the intrinsic and kinematical twist-3 FFs can be decomposed into the contributions of twist-2 FFs and twist-3 three-parton FFs, and the latter are also called dynamical FFs. If one neglects the dynamical FFs, we can obtain relations which are analogous to the Wandzura-Wilczek relation. Then, the intrinsic and kinematical twist-3 FFs are expressed in terms of the leading-twist ones. Since the FFs of a spin-1 hadron can be measured at various experimental facilities in the near future, these theoretical relations will play an important role in the analysis of the collinear tensor-polarized FFs.
description: 10 pages
Next-to-leading order thermal spectral functions in the perturbative domain
Creators: name: Laine, M.
name: Vuorinen, A.
name: Zhu, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by applications in thermal QCD and cosmology, we elaborate on a general method for computing next-to-leading order spectral functions for composite operators at vanishing spatial momentum, accounting for real, virtual as well as thermal corrections. As an example, we compute these functions (together with the corresponding imaginary-time correlators which can be compared with lattice simulations) for scalar and pseudoscalar densities in pure Yang-Mills theory. Our results may turn out to be helpful in non-perturbative estimates of the corresponding transport coefficients, which are the bulk viscosity in the scalar channel and the rate of anomalous chirality violation in the pseudoscalar channel. We also mention links to cosmology, although the most useful results in that context may come from a future generalization of our methods to other correlators.
description: 24 pages plus detailed appendices. v2: minor improvements; published version
Additional file 15: of Downregulation of miR-133a-3p promotes prostate cancer bone metastasis via activating PI3K/AKT signaling
Creators: name: Tang, Yubo
name: Pan, Jincheng
name: Huang, Shuai
name: Peng, Xinsheng
name: Zou, Xuenong
name: Luo, Yongxiang
name: Ren, Dong
name: Zhang, Xin
name: Li, Ronggang
name: He, Peiheng
name: Wa, Qingde
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Figure S7. (A-C) ELISA analysis of EGF, bFGF, IGF1, IGF2, NGF and HGF concentration in the supernatant of the indicated cells. (PDF 68Â kb)
Alberta Family Integrated Care (FICare) and Breastfeeding for Moderate to Late Preterm Infants: Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial 2 Month Follow-up
Creators: name: Moe, Amanda
Publisher: name: Nursing
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: preterm infant
subject: human milk feeding
subject: breastfeeding
subject: family integrated care
subject: neonatal intensive care
subject: breastfeeding self-efficacy
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Introduction: Human milk, specifically mothers’ own milk, is the optimal nutrition for infants and has significant protective effects, which are even greater for infants born prematurely. Compared to full-term infants, fewer preterm infants achieve exclusive breastfeeding to age 6 months. Aim: The purpose of this study was to examine the risks and protective factors associated with breastfeeding at age 2 months in moderate and late preterm infants who received Alberta Family Integrated Care (FICare) versus Standard Care while in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Alberta FICare is a novel care model that empowers parents to build their knowledge, skill, and confidence in caring for their preterm infant. Methods: A longitudinal follow-up to the Alberta FICare cluster randomized controlled trial was conducted. Alberta FICare data for 455 infants (n = 204 Alberta FICare; n = 251 Standard Care) and their mothers were linked to feeding type data (exclusive human milk, non-exclusive human milk, or no human milk) collected at the infant’s 2-month public health immunization visit. Multinomial logistic regression was used to examine the factors associated with proportions of breastfeeding at age 2 months. Results: After controlling for covariates, there was a significant group difference favoring Standard Care versus Alberta FICare for non-exclusive breastfeeding compared to no breastfeeding at age 2 months. There were no significant group differences in model sub-analyses comparing exclusive breastfeeding versus non-exclusive breastfeeding and exclusive breastfeeding versus no breastfeeding. Mothers with singletons, higher education, higher parental NICU stress, higher breastfeeding self-efficacy, and feeding exclusively human milk at discharge were more likely to provide exclusive breastfeeding at age 2 months. Conclusion: Infants in the Standard Care group were more likely to receive non-exclusive breastfeeding at age 2 months compared to no breastfeeding. Group (Alberta FICare versus Standard Care) was not significant when comparing exclusive breastfeeding outcomes. Of the factors associated with exclusive breastfeeding in preterm infants, breastfeeding self-efficacy is a potentially modifiable one that could be targeted for interventions. Further research is required to examine the association between higher parental NICU stress and exclusive breastfeeding.
Doping - dependent anisotropic superconducting gap in Na$_{1-δ}$(Fe$_{1-x}$Co$_x$)As
Creators: name: Cho, K.
name: Tanatar, M. A.
name: Spyrison, N.
name: Kim, H.
name: Tan, G.
name: Dai, P.
name: Zhang, C. L.
name: Prozorov, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The London penetration depth was measured in single crystals of self-doped Na$_{1-δ}$FeAs (from under - to optimal - doping, $T_c$ from 14 to 27 K) and electron-doped Na(Fe$_{1-x}$Co$_{x}$)As with $x$ ranging from undoped, $x=0$ to overdoped $x= 0.1$. In all samples, the low - temperature variation of the penetration depth exhibits a power-law dependence, $Δλ(T) = AT^n$, with the exponent that varies in a dome - like fashion from $n \sim 1.1$ in the underdoped, reaching a maximum of $n \sim 1.9$ in the optimally doped and decreasing again to $n \sim 1.3$ on the overdoped side. While the anisotropy of the gap structure follows universal dome-like evolution, the exponent at the optimal doping, $n \sim 1.9$, is lower than in other charge - doped Fe-based superconductors (FeSCs). The full - temperature range superfluid density, $ρ_s(T) = (λ(0)/λ(T))^2$, at the optimal doping is also distinctly different from other charge - doped FeSCs but is similar to isovalently - substituted BaFe$_2$(As$_{1-x}$P$_x$)$_2$, believed to be a nodal pnictide at the optimal doping. These results suggest that the superconducting gap in Na(Fe$_{1-x}$Co$_{x}$)As is highly anisotropic even at the optimal doping.
Perceptions of Social Media Fitspiration Among Young Women: A Situational Analysis
Creators: name: Morhun, Janelle
Publisher: name: Werklund School of Education
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: situational analysis
subject: fitspiration
subject: social media
subject: young women
subject: Educational Psychology

description: Fitspiration (i.e., fitness inspiration) is a social media trend consisting of content intended to inspire and motivate individuals to pursue a healthy lifestyle via diet and exercise. However, fitspiration’s focus on a healthy lifestyle often conceals its promotion of the fit ideal body (i.e., thin and toned). I used situational analysis to explore the complexities and competing discourse within fitspiration. Multiple types of data including a pilot study, individual interviews, fitspiration images, fitspiration image creator’s social media biographies, and personal experiences and memos were integrated and developed into analytic maps. These maps portrayed the nuances of fitspiration, showing it to be much more complex than simply “good” or “bad.” The main tension existing in the data occurred between three competing constructions of fitspiration: dominant fitspiration, body positive fitspiration, and weight-neutral approaches to health. Findings from the study have important implications for counselling psychologists’ education and practice, such as the need for a social justice lens and weight-neutral approach when working with clients.
TOOTH workshop - OFA static
Creators: name: Fornai, Cinzia
name: Kullmer, Ottmar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Occlusal Fingerprint Analysis
Occlusal wear pattern
Wear facets
Dental function

description: Dear user, this directory contains worksheets for practicing the concepts of OFA (in OFA_Worksheets_Ottmar_Kullmer) and other files useful to work in Polyworks to run the static OFA protocol. The tutorials, videos, macro, and ply surfaces were compiled/generated by Ottmar Kullmar. Permission to use and share beyond the scope of the TOOTH workshop (Zurich, 13-17 Sept 2021) has to be obtained from Ottmar Kullmer.
Tree based Single LED Indoor Visible Light Positioning Technique
Creators: name: Narasimman, Srivathsan Chakaravarthi
name: Alphones, Arokiaswami
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Visible light positioning(VLP) has gained prominence as a highly accurate indoor positioning technique. Few techniques consider the practical limitations of implementing VLP systems for indoor positioning. These limitations range from having a single LED in the field of view(FoV) of the image sensor to not having enough images for training deep learning techniques. Practical implementation of indoor positioning techniques needs to leverage the ubiquity of smartphones, which is the case with VLP using complementary metal oxide semiconductor(CMOS) sensors. Images for VLP can be gathered only after the lights in question have been installed making it a cumbersome process. These limitations are addressed in the proposed technique, which uses simulated data of a single LED to train machine learning models and test them on actual images captured from a similar experimental setup. Such testing produced mean three dimensional(3D) positioning error of 2.88 centimeters while training with real images achieves accuracy of less than one centimeter compared to 6.26 centimeters of the closest competitor.
description: To be presented in IEEE Region 10 technical conference, 31 oct-3 nov 2023, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Development of Rasa1 arteriovenous malformations
Creators: name: Greysson-Wong, Jasper
Publisher: name: Cumming School of Medicine
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: developmental biology
subject: vascular development
subject: disease model
subject: rasa1
subject: arteriovenous malformation
subject: capillary malformation
subject: blood vessel development
subject: zebrafish
subject: Biology--Cell
subject: Biology--Molecular
subject: Biochemistry

description: Precise regulation of signalling is critical to ensure proper formation of blood vessel networks during development. Mutations in key genes may disturb this finely tuned process, resulting in malformed vessels. Mutations in RASA1, a Ras GTPase activating protein, leads to the development of arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), where arteries are connected directly to veins without interceding capillary beds. Using zebrafish, I show that rasa1 mutants also develop AVMs in their tail vasculature, which subsume the posterior of the dorsal aorta and caudal venous plexus. The development of rasa1 AVMs does not depend on flow and modulating flow does not prevent or rescue AVM formation. However, blood flow slows in the cavernous AVM, changing flow-responsive signalling reducing expression of flow responsive transcription factor klf2a. Incomplete remodelling of the caudal venous plexus is visualized by an excess of residual intraluminal pillars, an indication of impaired intussusceptive angiogenesis. I show that AVM development is dependant on venous activation of MEK/ERK signalling and that inhibition of MEK signalling can prevent AVM development during an early developmental window, but MEK inhibition cannot rescue an AVM that has already formed. For the first time, I show that Bmp and Vegf signalling both play a role in AVM development, pathways that are important in other vascular malformations but had yet to be explored in RASA1 models.
Additional file 7: of Genomic analyses based on pulmonary adenocarcinoma in situ reveal early lung cancer signature
Creators: name: Li, Dan
name: Yang, William
name: Zhang, Yifan
name: Yang, Jack
name: Guan, Renchu
name: Xu, Dong
name: Yang, Mary
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Virology

description: Figure S4. The distribution of the regulatory weights calculated by GENIE3. (PDF 173 kb)
Context-Aware History-Based Access Control for IoT Devices
Creators: name: Shadman, Shauvik
Publisher: name: Science
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: IoT
subject: Access Control
subject: Security
subject: Cybersecurity
subject: Authorization
subject: Information Science

description: Internet-of-things (IoT) devices has taken over every aspect of our daily lives. They control the environment around us and collect personal data. Access to these devices need to be protected, specially in a post-pandemic world where patient data security is of utmost importance. The accessibility of IoT devices is often found to be context dependent, meaning that whether a user may interact with a device often depends on contextual information such as environmental parameters (e.g., time, temperature, pressure). This thesis is a proposal to add context dependency into a previously published distributed authorization system for IoT devices. In this authorization system, the more proof of context a requester can produce, the more access they are granted. A security property is also put forward to make sure that a malicious requester cannot gain more access by willfully withholding context information. I formally proved that the proposed authorization system satisfies this security property. This thesis also presents an implementation of this authorization system and evaluates its performance.
Vertex Operators of Super Wilson Loops
Creators: name: Groeger, Josua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the supersymmetric Wilson loop as introduced by Caron-Huot, which attaches to lightlike polygons certain edge and vertex operators, whose shape is determined by supersymmetry constraints. We state explicit formulas for the vertex operators to all orders in the Graßmann expansion, thus filling a gap in the literature. This is achieved by deriving a recursion formula out of the supersymmetry constraints.
description: 11 pages
Revisiting the Scalar Leptoquark ($S_1$) Model with the Updated Leptonic Constraints
Creators: name: De, Bibhabasu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Standard Model, if extended to the energy scale of $\mathcal{O}(1)$ TeV, the known particle spectrum could be augmented with a scalar leptoquark. Within this minimally extended framework, explaining the anomalous magnetic moment and electric dipole moment simultaneously for the three lepton generations over a parameter space consistent with all the lepton flavor violating bounds is possible. Such a model can be tested or falsified through the collider search experiments and/or by probing the low-energy lepton phenomena. This work studies the current prospects of the model in the presence of recent experimental updates for the leptonic observables.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures
Superconducting gap structure of CeIrIn5 from field-angle-resolved measurements of its specific heat
Creators: name: Kittaka, Shunichiro
name: Aoki, Yuya
name: Sakakibara, Toshiro
name: Sakai, Akito
name: Nakatsuji, Satoru
name: Tsutsumi, Yasumasa
name: Ichioka, Masanori
name: Machida, Kazushige
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to identify the gap structure of CeIrIn5, we measured field-angle-resolved specific heat C(phi) by conically rotating the magnetic field H around the c axis at low temperatures down to 80 mK. We revealed that C(phi) exhibits a fourfold angular oscillation, whose amplitude decreases monotonically by tilting H out of the ab plane. Detailed microscopic calculations based on the quasiclassical Eilenberger equation confirm that the observed features are uniquely explained by assuming the dx2-y2-wave gap. These results strongly indicate that CeIrIn5 is a dx2-y2-wave superconductor and suggest the universal pairing mechanism in CeMIn5 (M = Co, Rh, and Ir).
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, Selected for an Editors' Suggestion and a Synopsis in Physics
Be Careful What You Write, Someone Might Read It: Logging Personally Identifiable Information on Android
Creators: name: Lyons, Allan
Publisher: name: Science
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Privacy
subject: Mobile Privacy
subject: Mobile Systems Security
subject: Computer Science

description: The Android Operating System provides a central, shared logging system that multiplexes messages from all of the various components including the operating system and all of the apps that run on it. A permission system exists that prevents these log messages from being read by processes other than the one that created them; however, there is an exception to this restriction for a privileged class of apps. This includes preinstalled system apps provided by Google, the manufacturer of the device, or the mobile network operator. As a consequence of this exception, Google admonishes developers that for privacy reasons they must refrain from logging personal or sensitive information to the system log. In this thesis, we examine the pervasive logging of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) throughout the Android ecosystem. With local lab experiments we show that freshly reset phones log PII---every phone we tested logged multiple identifiers. Then, through a field study we show that this logging is pervasive in the wild with PII being detected in the logs of 94.1% of the devices in our dataset which represented all of the observed manufacturers. We statically analyze the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) source code to identify the origin of some of the observed excessive logging and are able to attribute log entries to specific parts of the code and find that Google itself does not follow its own specific advice to not log sensitive data and more generally to remove debug logging from release software. Finally, we analyze the privacy policies of major cell-phone manufacturers and find that some report that they may collect these logs.
Focus on Land in Africa Brief: Mozambique. Lesson 1: Land Laws can Provide a Fundamental Basis for Improving the Livelihoods of Those who Depend on Land
Creators: name: Nielson, Robin
name: Tanner, Christopher
name: Knox, Anna
Publisher: name: Gates Open Research
Year: 2019

description: Focus on Land in Africa Brief: Mozambique. Lesson 1: Land Laws can Provide a Fundamental Basis for Improving the Livelihoods of Those who Depend on Land
Land use data as text data. Clustering land use trajectories using edit distances
Creators: name: Rosati, Germán
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: land use trajectories, text data, edit distance

description: How does land use change over time? Can agrarian frontier expansion and deforestation be detected in high resolution images over a long period of time? This question has implications in both environmental and socio-economic dimensions. Since the publication of large government databases derived from processed satellite images, new analytical and methodological approaches have emerged Problems of this kind are usually addressed by aggregating information at higher levels (municipalities, departments, administrative areas). For this talk we propose another approach: to work at the pixel level. We will represent each land use pixel sequence over time as if it were a word. This makes it possible to use the so-called “edit distances” (which measure the number of operations necessary to transform one sequence into another) and to generate a matrix that allows clustering land use trajectories using simple techniques. We will present an illustration of this procedure covering the 1992-2020 period in Argentina (excluding Patagonia region), using information from the European Space Agency and Dynamic World. Our main goal is to obtain a map with the highest possible resolution that shows the following situations: 1) areas of recent expansion of the agrarian frontier; 2) areas of “consolidated” agriculture and 3) areas of recent urban expansion. We will present some cool visualizations of these trajectories and their spatial distributions.