cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Frequency of Malaria Is Similar among Women Receiving either Lopinavir/Ritonavir or Nevirapine-based Antiretroviral Treatment
Creators: name: Stringer, Elizabeth
name: Lockman, Shahin
name: Salata, Robert
name: McCarthy, James S.
name: Chipato, Tsungai
name: Butterworth, Alice S.
name: Eron, Joseph J.
name: D'Amico, Ronald
name: Shaffer, Doug
name: Sawe, Fred
name: Meshnick, Steven R.
name: Skinner-Adams, Tina S.
name: Siika, Abraham
name: Currier, Judith S.
name: Porter, Kimberly A.
name: Hosseinipour, Mina C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: HIV protease inhibitors (PIs) show antimalarial activity in vitro and in animals. Whether this translates into a clinical benefit in HIV-infected patients residing in malaria-endemic regions is unknown. We studied the incidence of malaria, as defined by blood smear positivity or a positive Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein 2 antigen test, among 444 HIV-infected women initiating antiretroviral treatment (ART) in the OCTANE trial (A5208; ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT00089505). Participants were randomized to treatment with PI-containing vs. PI-sparing ART, and were followed prospectively for ≥48 weeks; 73% also received cotrimoxazole prophylaxis. PI-containing treatment was not associated with protection against malaria in this study population.
Entanglement and the Born-Oppenheimer approximation in an exactly solvable quantum many-body system
Creators: name: Bouvrie, P. A.
name: Majtey, A. P.
name: Tichy, M. C.
name: Dehesa, J. S.
name: Plastino, A. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the correlations between different bipartitions of an exactly solvable one-dimensional many-body Moshinsky model consisting of Nn "nuclei" and Ne "electrons". We study the dependence of entanglement on the inter-particle interaction strength, on the number of particles, and on the particle masses. Consistent with kinematic intuition, the entanglement between two subsystems vanishes when the subsystems have very different masses, while it attains its maximal value for subsystems of comparable mass. We show how this entanglement feature can be inferred by means of the Born-Oppenheimer Ansatz, whose validity and breakdown can be understood from a quantum information point of view.
description: Accepted in Eur. Phys. J. D (2014)
Die Evangelien der guten Meister von Prag
Creators: name: Gerhardt, Christoph
Publisher: name: Trier University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Evangelistar
valueUri: http://d-nb.info/gnd/4136648-7
subject: Frühneuhochdeutsch
valueUri: http://d-nb.info/gnd/4129491-9

description: Kritische Edition eines frühneuhochdeutschen Evangelienperikopenwerks (das die in der Messe gelesenen Evangelien-Abschnitte enthält) nach einer Handschrift der 2. Hälfte des 15. Jh.s.; das Werk selbst ist wohl um 1400 entstanden.
PREVALENCE OF CHILDHOOD DISEASES IN ONDO WEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF ONDO STATE (Contemporary Journal of Researches in Early Childhood Care and Education, CJORECCE, 2:133-48, 2021)
Creators: name: Oluwagbemileke, Feranmi Boluwatife
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Disease surveillance

description: This study examined the prevalence of childhood diseases in Ondo West Local Government Area of Ondo State. One hundred and twenty (120) nursing mothers were randomly selected from six (6) wards in the Local Government Area. A structured questionnaire was used for data collection and the data collected were analyzed descriptively using response percentage, mean, and standard deviation. Major findings revealed that malaria, jaundice, tetanus, whooping cough, diarrhea, respiratory infection, cough, trachoma, measles and polio are the prevalent childhood diseases in Ondo West Local Government Area of Ondo State. The causes of these diseases and illness were as a result of poor hygiene, drug abuse, genetic or inherited traits from parents, malnutrition and exposure of a child to extremely harsh weather condition. It was recommended that childhood diseases can be prevented or controlled by through early immunization of infants, adoption of exclusive breast feeding, improvement in hygiene practices, and provision of adequate antenatal and postnatal care for mothers.
Planetesimal fragmentation and giant planet formation: the role of planet migration
Creators: name: Guilera, O. M.
name: Swoboda, D.
name: Alibert, Y.
name: de Elía, G. C.
name: Santamaría, P. J.
name: Brunini, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the standard model of core accretion, the cores of the giant planets form by the accretion of planetesimals. In this scenario, the evolution of the planetesimal population plays an important role in the formation of massive cores. Recently, we studied the role of planetesimal fragmentation in the in situ formation of a giant planet. However, the exchange of angular momentum between the planet and the gaseous disk causes the migration of the planet in the disk. In this new work, we incorporate the migration of the planet and globally study the role of planet migration in the formation of a massive core when the population of planetesimals evolves by planet accretion, migration due to the nebular drag, and fragmentation due to planetesimal collisions.
description: Submitted to Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 310, 2014 "Complex Planetary Systems"
The Fungal Pathogen Moniliophthora perniciosa Has Genes Similar to Plant PR-1 That Are Highly Expressed during Its Interaction with Cacao
Creators: name: Teixeira, Paulo J.P.L.
name: do Prado, Paula F.V.
name: Reis, Osvaldo
name: Pereira, Gonçalo A.G.
name: Baroni, Renata M.
name: Mieczkowski, Piotr
name: Vidal, Ramon O.
name: Franco, Sulamita F.
name: Mondego, Jorge M.C.
name: Thomazella, Daniela P.T.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: The widespread SCP/TAPS superfamily (SCP/Tpx-1/Ag5/PR-1/Sc7) has multiple biological functions, including roles in the immune response of plants and animals, development of male reproductive tract in mammals, venom activity in insects and reptiles and host invasion by parasitic worms. Plant Pathogenesis Related 1 (PR-1) proteins belong to this superfamily and have been characterized as markers of induced defense against pathogens. This work presents the characterization of eleven genes homologous to plant PR-1 genes, designated as MpPR-1, which were identified in the genome of Moniliophthora perniciosa, a basidiomycete fungus responsible for causing the devastating witches' broom disease in cacao. We describe gene structure, protein alignment and modeling analyses of the MpPR-1 family. Additionally, the expression profiles of MpPR-1 genes were assessed by qPCR in different stages throughout the fungal life cycle. A specific expression pattern was verified for each member of the MpPR-1 family in the conditions analyzed. Interestingly, some of them were highly and specifically expressed during the interaction of the fungus with cacao, suggesting a role for the MpPR-1 proteins in the infective process of this pathogen. Hypothetical functions assigned to members of the MpPR-1 family include neutralization of plant defenses, antimicrobial activity to avoid competitors and fruiting body physiology. This study provides strong evidence on the importance of PR-1-like genes for fungal virulence on plants.
The Impact of Expanded Testing for Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis Using Geontype MTBDRplus in South Africa: An Observational Cohort Study
Creators: name: Koornhof, Hendrik
name: Coetzee, Gerrit
name: Golub, Jonathan E.
name: Erasmus, Linda
name: Dorman, Susan E.
name: Hanrahan, Colleen F.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Globally, multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) remains underdiagnosed. The Genotype MTBDRplus®, a rapid drug susceptibility testing (DST) assay used to detect resistance to isoniazid and rifampicin in the diagnosis of MDR-TB, has good diagnostic accuracy, but its impact on patient outcomes in routine practice is unproven. We assessed the clinical impact of routine DST using MTBDRplus in a single health district in South Africa.
The Microbiota Is Essential for the Generation of Black Tea Theaflavins-Derived Metabolites
Creators: name: Hayek, Saeed
name: Ibrahim, Salam A.
name: Chen, Huadong
name: Rivera Guzman, Javier
name: Jobin, Christian
name: Gillitt, Nicholas D.
name: Sang, Shengmin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: BackgroundTheaflavins including theaflavin (TF), theaflavin-3-gallate (TF3G), theaflavin-3′-gallate (TF3′G), and theaflavin-3,3′-digallate (TFDG), are the most important bioactive polyphenols in black tea. Because of their poor systemic bioavailability, it is still unclear how these compounds can exert their biological functions. The objective of this study is to identify the microbial metabolites of theaflavins in mice and in humans.Methods and FindingsIn the present study, we gavaged specific pathogen free (SPF) mice and germ free (GF) mice with 200 mg/kg TFDG and identified TF, TF3G, TF3′G, and gallic acid as the major fecal metabolites of TFDG in SPF mice. These metabolites were absent in TFDG- gavaged GF mice. The microbial bioconversion of TFDG, TF3G, and TF3′G was also investigated in vitro using fecal slurries collected from three healthy human subjects. Our results indicate that TFDG is metabolized to TF, TF3G, TF3′G, gallic acid, and pyrogallol by human microbiota. Moreover, both TF3G and TF3′G are metabolized to TF, gallic acid, and pyrogallol by human microbiota. Importantly, we observed interindividual differences on the metabolism rate of gallic acid to pyrogallol among the three human subjects. In addition, we demonstrated that Lactobacillus plantarum 299v and Bacillus subtilis have the capacity to metabolize TFDG.ConclusionsThe microbiota is important for the metabolism of theaflavins in both mice and humans. The in vivo functional impact of microbiota-generated theaflavins-derived metabolites is worthwhile of further study.
International Affairs Survey
Creators: name: Istituto Per Le Ricerche Statistiche E L'Analisi Dell'Opinione Pubblica (Gallup) (DOXA)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: Most serious problem facing country; unify Western Europe; Italy joining a unified Western European government; Schuman Plan to control production of steel and coal; America's actions since World War Two; United States international policy and influence; Russia's actions since World War Two; Russia's international policy; possibility of war breaking out; disagreement and tension between East and West; Italy consolidating armed forces; trust Belguim as an ally; Western Europe re-arming; creation of Western European army; American military aid to Western Europe; re-arming Italy effect on standard of living; war with Russia; communism; profession; how you spend Sunday mornings; trade union membership.
Thermal Unfolding Pathway of PHD2 Catalytic Domain in Three Different PHD2 Species: Computational Approaches
Creators: name: Dokholyan, Nikolay V.
name: Proctor, Elizabeth A.
name: Hadi-Alijanvand, Hamid
name: Goliaei, Bahram
name: Moosavi-Movahedi, Ali A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Prolyl hydroxylase domain 2 containing protein (PHD2) is a key protein in regulation of angiogenesis and metastasis. In normoxic condition, PHD2 triggers the degradation of hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1α) that induces the expression of hypoxia response genes. Therefore the correct function of PHD2 would inhibit angiogenesis and consequent metastasis of tumor cells in normoxic condition. PHD2 mutations were reported in some common cancers. However, high levels of HIF-1α protein were observed even in normoxic metastatic tumors with normal expression of wild type PHD2. PHD2 malfunctions due to protein misfolding may be the underlying reason of metastasis and invasion in such cases. In this study, we scrutinize the unfolding pathways of the PHD2 catalytic domain’s possible species and demonstrate the properties of their unfolding states by computational approaches. Our study introduces the possibility of aggregation disaster for the prominent species of PHD2 during its partial unfolding. This may justify PHD2 inability to regulate HIF-1α level in some normoxic tumor types.
Towards Prenatal Biomonitoring in North Carolina: Assessing Arsenic, Cadmium, Mercury, and Lead Levels in Pregnant Women
Creators: name: Herring, Amy H.
name: Flood, Kaye
name: Sanders, Alison P.
name: Fry, Rebecca C.
name: Wolf, Leslie
name: Chiang, Shu
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Exposure to toxic metals during the prenatal period carries the potential for adverse developmental effects to the fetus, yet such exposure remains largely unmonitored in the United States. The aim of this study was to assess maternal exposure to four toxic metals (arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), mercury (Hg), and lead (Pb)) in a cohort of pregnant women in North Carolina. We analyzed blood samples submitted to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services for blood typing to assess toxic metal levels in pregnant women (n = 211) across six North Carolina counties. Whole blood metal concentrations were measured by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. The association between maternal characteristics, including county of residence, age, and race, and metal exposure was analyzed using multiple linear regression analysis. A large fraction of the blood samples showed detectable levels for each of the four metals. Specifically, As (65.7%), Cd (57.3%), Hg (63.8%), and Pb (100%) were detected in blood samples. Moreover, compared with adult females participating in the Fourth National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals and guidelines for pregnant women, some women in the sample population exceeded benchmark levels of Cd, Hg, and Pb. Evidence from this pilot study indicates that pregnant women in North Carolina are exposed to As, Cd, Hg, and Pb and suggests that factors related to maternal county of residence and race may impact maternal exposure levels. As increased levels of one or more of these metals in utero have been associated with detrimental developmental and reproductive outcomes, further study is clearly warranted to establish the impacts to newborns.
Финансово—экономический журнал,Выпуск 13 (МКАП) 2022
Creators: name: ООО "Институт развития образования и консалтинга"
Publisher: name: ООО "Институт развития образования и консалтинга"
Year: 2022

description: Финансово—экономический журнал,Выпуск 13 (МКАП) 2022
PREVALENCE OF CHILDHOOD DISEASES IN ONDO WEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF ONDO STATE (CJORECCE, 2:133-48, 2021)
Creators: name: Oluwagbemileke, Feranmi Boluwatife
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Disease surveillance

description: This study examined the prevalence of childhood diseases in Ondo West Local Government Area of Ondo State. One hundred and twenty (120) nursing mothers were randomly selected from six (6) wards in the Local Government Area. A structured questionnaire was used for data collection and the data collected were analyzed descriptively using response percentage, mean, and standard deviation. Major findings revealed that malaria, jaundice, tetanus, whooping cough, diarrhea, respiratory infection, cough, trachoma, measles and polio are the prevalent childhood diseases in Ondo West Local Government Area of Ondo State. The causes of these diseases and illness were as a result of poor hygiene, drug abuse, genetic or inherited traits from parents, malnutrition and exposure of a child to extremely harsh weather condition. It was recommended that childhood diseases can be prevented or controlled by through early immunization of infants, adoption of exclusive breast feeding, improvement in hygiene practices, and provision of adequate antenatal and postnatal care for mothers.
Survey of Attitudes toward Trade Unions and Worker's Problems
Creators: name: Istituto Per Le Ricerche Statistiche E L'Analisi Dell'Opinione Pubblica (Gallup) (DOXA)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: Satisfaction with work; unemployment; changes and improvements in work situation; responsible for present difficulties; political parties; reasons for dissatisfaction with work; living expenses; ways to improve living conditions of workers; trade unions in Italy; assistance from trade unions; biggest defect of Italian employers; worst defect of employees; treatment of workers in different sized firms; company run by single owner or board of directors; work for private or state organization; owners treat employees fairly; personally treated fairly by employer; employees advice for management; profession, industry; number of workers at organization.
Neutron occupancy of the 0d5/2 orbital and the N=16 shell closure in 24O
Creators: name: Tshoo, K.
name: Satou, Y.
name: Bertulani, C. A.
name: Bhang, H.
name: Choi, S.
name: Nakamura, T.
name: Kondo, Y.
name: Deguchi, S.
name: Kawada, Y.
name: Nakayama, Y.
name: Tanaka, K. N.
name: Tanaka, N.
name: Togano, Y.
name: Kobayashi, N.
name: Aoi, N.
name: Ishihara, M.
name: Motobayashi, T.
name: Otsu, H.
name: Sakurai, H.
name: Takeuchi, S.
name: Yoneda, K.
name: Delaunay, F.
name: Gibelin, J.
name: Marqués, F. M.
name: Orr, N. A.
name: Honda, T.
name: Kobayashi, T.
name: Sumikama, T.
name: Miyashita, Y.
name: Yoshinaga, K.
name: Matsushita, M.
name: Shimoura, S.
name: Sohler, D.
name: Hwang, J. W.
name: Zheng, T.
name: Li, Z. H.
name: Cao, Z. X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One-neutron knockout from 24O leading to the first excited state in 23O has been measured for a proton target at a beam energy of 62 MeV/nucleon. The decay energy spectrum of the neutron unbound state of 23O was reconstructed from the measured four momenta of the 22O fragment and emitted neutron. A sharp peak was found at Edecay=50$\pm$3 keV, corresponding to an excited state in 23O at 2.78$\pm$0.11 MeV, as observed in previous measurements. The longitudinal momentum distribution for this state was consistent with d -wave neutron knockout, providing support for a Jπ assignment of 5/2+. The associated spectroscopic factor was deduced to be C2S(0d5/2)=4.1$\pm$0.4 by comparing the measured cross section (View the MathML source) with a distorted wave impulse approximation calculation. Such a large occupancy for the neutron 0d5/2 orbital is in line with the N=16 shell closure in 24O.
description: Published in Physics Letters B (18 October 2014)
InTheMED D6.1 Report on the Development of the Innovative DSS Tool
Creators: name: Anyfanti Ioanna
name: Lyronis Antonis
name: Diakoparaskevas  Paraskevas
name: Varouchakis Emmanouil
name: Karatzas George
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The current document, Deliverable D6.1, is part of Task 6.1 “Initial development and testing of an innovative Decision Support System” (Lead TUC, participants: UPV, UFZ, IST-ID, CERTE and BU), (Month 1 – Month 18) of InTheMED PRIMA project. The aim of D6.1 is to describe the operation of the algorithm that has been developed and will be applied to enable the decision support system (DSS), as well as to present the results of the methodology applied for the Tympaki study area. The DSS will aid groundwater managers in the sustainable management of groundwater resources taking into consideration multiple criteria: socio-economic and environmental. The algorithm is based on the multi-criteria optimization approach, thus meaning the formation of more than one objective function. These objective functions refer to the respective criteria: optimum socio-economic management, optimum environmental management in terms of groundwater quantity and optimum environmental management in terms of groundwater quality. Since optimization processes are usually applied within iterative simulation runs of the study area model, they constitute a time-demanding procedure. Along with the non-linear nature of the problem, the model complexity and time needed are increased. Therefore, the focus has been given to efforts to overcome these difficulties, in order to provide the model with as much automation as possible. The DSS will be in line with a database from which it can retrieve meteorological and hydrological data. The database is developed to function along with the DSS algorithm and its set-up is also described in the current document.
description: This project is part of the PRIMA Program supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under Grant Agreement No 1923
Residual stress prediction in shot blasted cobalt-chromium biomedical cast components
Creators: name: Shortis, Jack
name: TANNER, DAVID
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: Engineering

description: ASTM F75 implants distort due to residual stress released after finishing machining operations, causing implants to fail quality requirements. Previous work has shown that a shot blasting cleaning process could be the source of this distortion. Finite Element Analysis (FEA) is conducted to predict stress and Almen strip arc heights for experimental comparison. 2D and 3D single impact models and 3D multiple impact models are created. 3D multiple impact models with plastically deforming shot are shown to accurately predict the stress state and distortion. For shot with hardness similar to the implants, distortion creating stress magnitudes are induced, with the greatest fluctuations in stress coming from shot velocity. The depth of the predicted compressive stress layer ranges from 0.23-0.6 mm.
The $c$-map, Tits Satake subalgebras and the search for $\mathcal{N}=2$ inflaton potentials
Creators: name: Fré, P.
name: Sorin, A. S.
name: Trigiante, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we address the general problem of including inflationary models exhibiting Starobinsky-like potentials into (symmetric) $\mathcal{N}=2$ supergravities. This is done by gauging suitable abelian isometries of the hypermultiplet sector and then truncating the resulting theory to a single scalar field. By using the characteristic properties of the global symmetry groups of the $\mathcal{N}=2$ supergravities we are able to make a general statement on the possible $α$-attractor models which can obtained upon truncation. We find that in symmetric $\mathcal{N}=2$ models group theoretical constraints restrict the allowed values of the parameter $α$ to be $α=1,\,\frac{2}{3},\, \frac{1}{3}$. This confirms and generalizes results recently obtained in the literature. Our analysis heavily relies on the mathematical structure of symmetric $\mathcal{N}=2$ supergravities, in particular on the so called $c$-map connection between Quaternionic Kähler manifolds starting from Special Kähler ones. A general statement on the possible consistent truncations of the gauged models, leading to Starobinsky-like potentials, requires the essential help of Tits Satake universality classes. The paper is mathematically self-contained and aims at presenting the involved mathematical structures to a public not only of physicists but also of mathematicians. To this end the main mathematical structures and the general gauging procedure of $\mathcal{N}=2$ supergravities is reviewed in some detail.
description: 101 pages, LaTeX source
Tweeting the Meeting: An In-Depth Analysis of Twitter Activity at Kidney Week 2011
Creators: name: Ferris, Maria
name: Shariff, Aabid
name: Kats, Mark
name: Desai, Tejas
name: Christiano, Cynthia
name: Shariff, Afreen
name: Fang, Xiangming
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: In recent years, the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) has increased its efforts to use its annual conference to inform and educate the public about kidney disease. Social media, including Twitter, has been one method used by the Society to accomplish this goal. Twitter is a popular microblogging service that serves as a potent tool for disseminating information. It allows for short messages (140 characters) to be composed by any author and distributes those messages globally and quickly. The dissemination of information is necessary if Twitter is to be considered a tool that can increase public awareness of kidney disease. We hypothesized that content, citation, and sentiment analyses of tweets generated from Kidney Week 2011 would reveal a large number of educational tweets that were disseminated to the public. An ideal tweet for accomplishing this goal would include three key features: 1) informative content, 2) internal citations, and 3) positive sentiment score. Informative content was found in 29% of messages, greater than that found in a similarly sized medical conference (2011 ADA Conference, 16%). Informative tweets were more likely to be internally, rather than externally, cited (38% versus 22%, p<0.0001), thereby amplifying the original information to an even larger audience. Informative tweets had more negative sentiment scores than uninformative tweets (means −0.162 versus 0.199 respectively, p<0.0001), therefore amplifying a tweet whose content had a negative tone. Our investigation highlights significant areas of promise and improvement in using Twitter to disseminate medical information in nephrology from a scientific conference. This goal is pertinent to many nephrology-focused conferences that wish to increase public awareness of kidney disease.
Under-Reporting of Road Traffic Mortality in Developing Countries: Application of a Capture-Recapture Statistical Model to Refine Mortality Estimates
Creators: name: Sankhulani, Edward
name: Samuel, Jonathan C.
name: Baloyi, Paul
name: Thupi, Charles
name: Charles, Anthony G.
name: Miller, William C.
name: Cairns, Bruce A.
name: Lee, Clara N.
name: Qureshi, Javeria S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Road traffic injuries are a major cause of preventable death in sub-Saharan Africa. Accurate epidemiologic data are scarce and under-reporting from primary data sources is common. Our objectives were to estimate the incidence of road traffic deaths in Malawi using capture-recapture statistical analysis and determine what future efforts will best improve upon this estimate. Our capture-recapture model combined primary data from both police and hospital-based registries over a one year period (July 2008 to June 2009). The mortality incidences from the primary data sources were 0.075 and 0.051 deaths/1000 person-years, respectively. Using capture-recapture analysis, the combined incidence of road traffic deaths ranged 0.192–0.209 deaths/1000 person-years. Additionally, police data were more likely to include victims who were male, drivers or pedestrians, and victims from incidents with greater than one vehicle involved. We concluded that capture-recapture analysis is a good tool to estimate the incidence of road traffic deaths, and that capture-recapture analysis overcomes limitations of incomplete data sources. The World Health Organization estimated incidence of road traffic deaths for Malawi utilizing a binomial regression model and survey data and found a similar estimate despite strikingly different methods, suggesting both approaches are valid. Further research should seek to improve capture-recapture data through utilization of more than two data sources and improving accuracy of matches by minimizing missing data, application of geographic information systems, and use of names and civil registration numbers if available.
ABC News/Washington Post Poll: Government performance/Political Parties
Creators: name: ABC News
name: Washington Post
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Clinton job performance(4); direction of country(1); economy(2); Al Gore job performance(1); Gore as president(1); Congressional job performance(1); Newt Gingrich job performance(1); House of Representatives job performance(2); re-elect Congressman(2); satisfaction with government(2); Clinton vs. Congress(3); Social Security(2); Medicare(3); tobacco taxes(1); minimum wage(1); child care programs(1); job performance of leaders(6); computer(1); Microsoft(4); political parties(17); purpose of Congress(1); voting participation(2); 2000 election(1); Congressional elections(2); Paula Jones(1); professional football(3); professional basketball(4); baseball(3); El Nino(1).
InTheMED D6.1 Report on the Development of the Innovative DSS Tool
Creators: name: Anyfanti Ioanna
name: Diakoparaskevas  Paraskevas
name: Lyronis Antonis
name: Varouchakis Emmanouil
name: Karatzas George
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Climate change
Mediterranean Region
Sustainability
Environmental Sustainability
Sustainable Water Resources
Groundwater overexploitation
DSS – Decision Support System
Groundwater management
Groundwater level monitoring
Groundwater level trends
High resolution monitoring
Konya Closed Basin
Grombalia shallow aquifer
Requena-Utiel aquifer
Tympaki aquifer
Geostatistical DC inversion
Groundwater modelling
Surrogate model
Metamodel
Smart model
Fuzzy Logic
Fuzzy C-means
Water management strategies
Climate change adaptation
Adaptive Management
Stakeholder Engagement
Uncertainty Handling
Expert Knowledge Integration
Multi-Criteria Decision Making
Resource Allocation
Water Quality Assessment
Participatory Decision Making

description: Deliverable D6.1, version 2 is part of Task 6.1 “Initial Development and Testing of an Innovative Decision Support System” (Lead TUC, participants: UPV, UFZ, IST-ID, CERTE and BU). The aim of the current document is to update D6.1 Version1 with the description of the Decision Support System tool (DSS tool) operation in its final form. The delivered DSS tool has been formed after testing several alternatives. The final selection was based on the fact that it is operational for all the case study sites and complies with the requirements that had initially been set. More specifically, a Fuzzy Web-DSS tool, that will be available to the interested parties, was developed. The fuzzy approach was the most difficult to fulfill, as it was quite time-demanding to test and conclude to the most suitable algorithm. Two different approaches were attempted with unsuccessful results, until reaching the third operational one. The DSS will aid groundwater managers in the sustainable management of groundwater resources, by enabling the comparison of different user defined scenarios. The tool results in the clustering of the study site areas that encounter with the same groundwater quantity vulnerability.
description: This project is part of the PRIMA Program supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under Grant Agreement No 1923
Using Poison Center Exposure Calls to Predict Methadone Poisoning Deaths
Creators: name: Davis, Jonathan
name: Dart, Richard
name: Dasgupta, Nabarun
name: Jonsson Funk, Michele
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: PurposeThere are more drug overdose deaths in the Untied States than motor vehicle fatalities. Yet the US vital statistics reporting system is of limited value because the data are delayed by four years. Poison centers report data within an hour of the event, but previous studies suggested a small proportion of poisoning deaths are reported to poison centers (PC). In an era of improved electronic surveillance capabilities, exposure calls to PCs may be an alternate indicator of trends in overdose mortality.MethodsWe used PC call counts for methadone that were reported to the Researched Abuse, Diversion and Addiction-Related Surveillance (RADARS®) System in 2006 and 2007. US death certificate data were used to identify deaths due to methadone. Linear regression was used to quantify the relationship of deaths and poison center calls.ResultsCompared to decedents, poison center callers tended to be younger, more often female, at home and less likely to require medical attention. A strong association was found with PC calls and methadone mortality (b = 0.88, se = 0.42, t = 9.5, df = 1, p<0.0001, R2 = 0.77). These findings were robust to large changes in a sensitivity analysis assessing the impact of underreporting of methadone overdose deaths.ConclusionsOur results suggest that calls to poison centers for methadone are correlated with poisoning mortality as identified on death certificates. Calls received by poison centers may be used for timely surveillance of mortality due to methadone. In the midst of the prescription opioid overdose epidemic, electronic surveillance tools that report in real-time are powerful public health tools.
Feedback Network Models for Quantum Transport
Creators: name: Gough, John E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum feedback networks have been introduced in quantum optics as a set of rules for constructing arbitrary networks of quantum mechanical systems connected by uni-directional quantum optical fields, and has allowed for a system theoretic approach to open quantum optics systems. Our aim here is to establish a network theory for quantum transport systems where typically the mediating fields between systems are bi-directional. Mathematically this leads us to study quantum feedback networks where fields arrive at ports in input-output pairs, which is then just a specially case of the uni-directional theory. However, it is conceptually important to develop this theory in the context of quantum transport theory, and the resulting theory extends traditional approaches which tends to view the components in quantum transport as scatterers for the various fields, in the process allows us to consider emission and absorption of field quanta by these components. The quantum feedback network theory is applicable to both Bose and Fermi fields, moreover it applies to nonlinear dynamics for the component systems. In this first paper on the subject, we advance the general theory, but study the case of linear passive quantum components in some detail.
description: 15 pages, 17 figures
Vocal Communications and the Maintenance of Population Specific Songs in a Contact Zone
Creators: name: Servedio, Maria R.
name: Rowell, Jonathan T.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Bird song has been hypothesized to play a role in several important aspects of the biology of songbirds, including the generation of taxonomic diversity by speciation; however, the role that song plays in speciation within this group may be dependent upon the ability of populations to maintain population specific songs or calls in the face of gene flow and external cultural influences. Here, in an exploratory study, we construct a spatially explicit model of population movement to examine the consequences of secondary contact of populations singing distinct songs. We concentrate on two broad questions: 1) will population specific songs be maintained in a contact zone or will they be replaced by shared song, and 2) what spatial patterns in the distribution of songs may result from contact? We examine the effects of multiple factors including song-based mating preferences and movement probabilities, oblique versus paternal learning of song, and both cultural and genetic mutations. We find a variety of conditions under which population specific songs can be maintained, particularly when females have preferences for their population specific songs, and we document many distinct patterns of song distribution within the contact zone, including clines, banding, and mosaics.
Additional file 1 of Feasibility of a new clinical journal club implementation and its association with knowledge, attitudes, and application of evidence-based practice among chiropractic students and trainees: a before-and-after healthcare education improvement study
Creators: name: Häusler, Melanie
name: Lalji, Rahim
name: Hofstetter, Léonie
name: Hincapié, Cesar A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: SQUIRE-EDU checklist; Additional file 2: Information about each journal club session; Additional file 3: The Chiro Journal Club (Chiro JC): 7 simple steps to success; Additional file 4: Modified Johnston EBP questionnaire; Additional file 5: Item-level and subscale score analysis
Fannie Mae National Housing Survey Monthly Key Indicators-August, 2015 (a subset of the complete monthly Fannie Mae National Housing Survey)
Creators: name: Foundation, Fannie Mae
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Economy on right/wrong track (1); personal financial situation (1); good/bad time to buy a house (1); good/bad time to sell a house (1); home price changes (3); rental price changes (3); mortgage interest rate changes (1); ability to obtain a home mortgage today (1); current homeownership status (1); renting vs. buying a home in the future (1); change in income (1); household expenses (1).
Laser assisted proton collision on light nuclei at moderate energies
Creators: name: Barna, I. F
name: Varro, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present analytic angular differential cross section model for laser assisted proton nucleon scattering on a Woods-Saxon optical potential where the nth-order photon absorption is taken into account simultaneously. As a physical example we calculate cross sections for proton - $^{12}$C collision at 49 MeV in the laboratory frame where the laser intensity is in the range of $ 10^{7} - 10^{21}$ W/cm$^2$ at optical frequencies. The upper intensity limit is slightly below the relativistic regime.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, will be submitted to Phys. Rev. C
Who Starts? Factors Associated with Starting Antiretroviral Therapy among Eligible Patients in Two, Public HIV Clinics in Lilongwe, Malawi
Creators: name: Feldacker, Caryl
name: Tweya, Hannock
name: Phiri, Sam
name: Johnson, Derek
name: Hosseinipour, Mina
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: BackgroundLighthouse Trust operates two, public, integrated HIV clinics, Lighthouse (LH) and Martin Preuss Center (MPC), in Lilongwe, Malawi. Approximately 20% of patients eligible for antiretroviral therapy (ART) do not start ART. We explore individual and geographic factors that influence whether ART-eligible patients initiate ART.MethodsAdult patients eligible for ART between 2008–2011 were included. Analysis was stratified by clinic. Using logistic regression, we evaluated factors associated with initiating ART including gender, age, body mass index (BMI), employment, tuberculosis (TB), eligible at initial registration, WHO stage, CD4, months in pre-ART care (from initial registration to eligibility date), and patient neighborhood distance to clinic.ResultsOf 14,216 study patients, 4841 were from LH; 9285 were from MPC. At LH and MPC, respectively, median age was 34.2 and 33.8 years; median BMI was 22.0 and 20.6; and median distance was 5.6 and 4.9 Km. In multivariate models, odds of starting ART was highest among those older than 35 years and those eligible for ART based on WHO stages 3–4 vs. those in WHO stages 1–2 with CD4<250. Patients with 1–12 months in pre-ART were at least 11 times more likely to start ART than peers with less pre-ART time. At LH, living 2.5–5 Km from the clinic increased the likelihood of starting ART over patients living closer.ConclusionsLength of the pre-ART period is the most significant predictor of starting ART among eligible patients. Better understanding of motivation for retention in pre-ART care may reduce attrition along the treatment cascade.
Why Do Species Co-Occur? A Test of Alternative Hypotheses Describing Abiotic Differences in Sympatry versus Allopatry Using Spadefoot Toads
Creators: name: Chunco, Amanda J.
name: Pfennig, Karin S.
name: Jobe, Todd
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Areas of co-occurrence between two species (sympatry) are often thought to arise in regions where abiotic conditions are conducive to both species and are therefore intermediate between regions where either species occurs alone (allopatry). Depending on historical factors or interactions between species, however, sympatry might not differ from allopatry, or, alternatively, sympatry might actually be more extreme in abiotic conditions relative to allopatry. Here, we evaluate these three hypothesized patterns for how sympatry compares to allopatry in abiotic conditions. We use two species of congeneric spadefoot toads, Spea multiplicata and S. bombifrons, as our study system. To test these hypotheses, we created ecological niche models (specifically using Maxent) for both species to create a map of the joint probability of occurrence of both species. Using the results of these models, we identified three types of locations: two where either species was predicted to occur alone (i.e., allopatry for S. multiplicata and allopatry for S. bombifrons) and one where both species were predicted to co-occur (i.e., sympatry). We then compared the abiotic environment between these three location types and found that sympatry was significantly hotter and drier than the allopatric regions. Thus, sympatry was not intermediate between the alternative allopatric sites. Instead, sympatry occurred at one extreme of the conditions occupied by both species. We hypothesize that biotic interactions in these extreme environments facilitate co-occurrence. Specifically, hybridization between S. bombifrons females and S. multiplicata males may facilitate co-occurrence by decreasing development time of tadpoles. Additionally, the presence of alternative food resources in more extreme conditions may preclude competitive exclusion of one species by the other. This work has implications for predicting how interacting species will respond to climate change, because species interactions may facilitate survival in extreme habitats.
ҲОЗИРГИ ЎЗБЕК ШЕЪРИЯТИДА ЭЛЕГИЯ "ИЗЛАРИ"
Creators: name: Абдусаломова, Дурдонахон
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Адабий турларнинг маълум нуқтада кесишиши ва адабий оқимларнинг ўзгариб бориши сабаб, элегия жанри ҳақида кўп манбаларда турфа маълумотлар учрайди. Элегияни фақатгина “ўлим ҳақидаги меланҳолик кайфиятдаги шеър” сифатида қабул қилиш уни жуда енгил, керак бўлса, нотўғри баҳолаш билан тенг.
New Clues to the Cause of Extended Main Sequence Turn-Offs in Intermediate-Age Star Clusters in the Magellanic Clouds
Creators: name: Correnti, Matteo
name: Goudfrooij, Paul
name: Kalirai, Jason S.
name: Girardi, Leo
name: Puzia, Thomas H.
name: Kerber, Leandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) onboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to obtain deep, high resolution images of two intermediate-age star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud of relatively low mass ($\approx$ $10^4$ $M_{\odot}$) and significantly different core radii, namely NGC2209 and NGC2249. For comparison purposes, we also re-analyzed archival HST images of NGC1795 and IC2146, two other relatively low mass star clusters. From the comparison of the observed color-magnitude diagrams with Monte Carlo simulations, we find that the main sequence turnoff (MSTO) regions in NGC2209 and NGC2249 are significantly wider than that derived from simulations of simple stellar populations, while those in NGC1795 and IC2146 are not. We determine the evolution of the clusters' masses and escape velocities from an age of 10 Myr to the present age. We find that the differences among these clusters can be explained by dynamical evolution arguments if the currently extended clusters (NGC2209 and IC2146) experienced stronger levels of initial mass segregation than the currently compact ones (NGC2249 and NGC1795). Under this assumption, we find that NGC2209 and NGC2249 have estimated escape velocities $V_{\rm esc}$ $\geq$ 15 km s$^{-1}$ at an age of 10 Myr, large enough to retain material ejected by slow winds of first-generation stars, while the two clusters that do not feature extended MSTOs have $V_{\rm esc}$ $\leq$ 12 km s$^{-1}$ at that age. These results suggest that the extended MSTO phenomenon can be better explained by a range of stellar ages rather than a range of stellar rotation velocities or interacting binaries.
description: 9 pages (in emulateapj format), 4 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
title: Municipal biowaste treatment plants contribute to the contamination of the environment with residues of biodegradable plastics with putative higher persistence potential
Creators: name: Steiner, Thomas
name: Zhang, Yuanhu
name: Möller, Julia N.
name: Agarwal, Seema
name: Löder, Martin G. J.
name: Greiner, Andreas
name: Laforsch, Christian
name: Freitag, Ruth
Publisher: name: University of Bayreuth
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental sciences
subject: 540
subject: 570
subject: 600

description: Biodegradable plastics (BDP) are expected to mineralize easily, in particular under conditions of technical composting. However, the complexity of the sample matrix has largely prevented degradation studies under realistic conditions. Here composts and fertilizers from state-of-the-art municipal combined anaerobic/aerobic biowaste treatment plants were investigated for residues of BDP. We found BDP fragments \textgreater 1 mm in significant numbers in the final composts intended as fertilizer for agriculture and gardening. Compared to pristine compostable bags, the recovered BDP fragments showed differences in their material properties, which potentially renders them less prone to further biodegradation. BDP fragments \textless 1 mm were extracted in bulk and came up to 0.43 wt% of compost dry weight. Finally, the liquid fertilizer produced during the anaerobic treatment contained several thousand BDP fragments \textless 500 µm per liter. Hence, our study questions, if currently available BDP are compatible with applications in areas of environmental relevance, such as fertilizer production.