cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Mitigating cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms in aquatic ecosystems impacted by climate change and anthropogenic nutrients
Creators: name: McCarthy, Mark J.
name: Havens, Karl E.
name: Gardner, Wayne S.
name: Joyner, Alan R.
name: Scott, J. Thad
name: Newell, Silvia E.
name: Qin, Boqiang
name: Paerl, Hans W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Mitigating the global expansion of cyanobacterial harmful blooms (CyanoHABs) is a major challenge facing researchers and resource managers. A variety of traditional (e.g., nutrient load reduction) and experimental (e.g., artificial mixing and flushing, omnivorous fish removal) approaches have been used to reduce bloom occurrences. Managers now face the additional effects of climate change on watershed hydrologic and nutrient loading dynamics, lake and estuary temperature, mixing regime, internal nutrient dynamics, and other factors. Those changes favor CyanoHABs over other phytoplankton and could influence the efficacy of control measures. Virtually all mitigation strategies are influenced by climate changes, which may require setting new nutrient input reduction targets and establishing nutrient-bloom thresholds for impacted waters. Physical-forcing mitigation techniques, such as flushing and artificial mixing, will need adjustments to deal with the ramifications of climate change. Here, we examine the suite of current mitigation strategies and the potential options for adapting and optimizing them in a world facing increasing human population pressure and climate change.
E. M. Jellinek: The Worcester Hospital years (1930-1939)
Creators: name: Thomas, Karen
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: This is the fifth in a series of papers depicting the mostly undocumented life of E.M. Jellinek. His years at the Worcester State Hospital, a psychiatric facility, are summarized in this paper, based on available reports and recollections on the hospital’s daily activities. Included here are his broad research and creative interests during that time, which may tie his Hungarian scholarship with his later output in alcohol studies. The information in these papers was first presented at the 36th Annual Substance Abuse Librarians and Information Specialists (SALIS) Conference on May 1st, 2014, by seven presenters in a panel entitled “Mystery and speculations: Piecing together E.M. Jellinek’s redemption.”
Checklist for Dentists to facilitate collection of dental information for the purpose of personal attribution - Λίστα ελέγχου για οδοντίατρους για τη διευκόλυνση της συλλογής οδοντιατρικών πληροφοριών με σκοπό την ταυτοποίηση προσώπου
Creators: name: Angelakopoulos, Nikolaos
name: Nuzzolese, Emilio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110599 Dentistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Λίστα ελέγχου για κλινικούς οδοντιάτρους για τη διευκόλυνση, την απλοποίηση και την επιτάχυνση της συλλογής οδοντιατρικών πληροφοριών του ατόμου που λείπει.
 Το αίτημα για πληροφορίες οδοντιατρικών δεδομένων ενός ασθενούς θα μπορούσε να προέλθει από: Δικηγόρο/Ιατροδικαστή. Εμπειρογνώμονας (ιατροδικαστής/ιατροδικαστής οδοντολόγος) διορισμένος από την Εισαγγελία. Αστυνομική Υπηρεσία; Οικογένεια Αγνοουμένων ή Εγκληματολογικός Σύμβουλος που ορίζεται από την Οικογένεια Αγνοουμένων).
 Επαληθεύστε τις νομικές απαιτήσεις και τις απαιτήσεις απορρήτου της χώρας σας για την κοινή χρήση δεδομένων.
Space-time singularities in Weyl manifolds
Creators: name: Lobo, I. P.
name: Barreto, A. B.
name: Romero, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend one of the Hawking-Penrose singularity theorems in general relativity to the case of some scalar-tensor gravity theories in which the scalar field has a geometrical character and space-time has the mathematical structure of a Weyl integrable space-time (WIST). We adopt an invariant formalism, so that the extended version of theorem does not depend on a particular frame.
description: 16 pages
Cutaneous head and neck melanoma in OPTiM, a randomized phase 3 trial of talimogene laherparepvec versus granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor for the treatment of unresected stage IIIB/IIIC/IV melanoma
Creators: name: Amatruda, Thomas
name: Milhem, Mohammed
name: Ollila, David W.
name: Kaufman, Howard L.
name: Andtbacka, Robert H. I.
name: Agarwala, Sanjiv S.
name: Harrington, Kevin J.
name: Nemunaitis, John J.
name: Hallmeyer, Sigrun
name: Shilkrut, Mark
name: Chen, Lisa
name: Ross, Merrick
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: BACKGROUND: Cutaneous head and neck melanoma has poor outcomes and limited treatment options. In OPTiM, a phase 3 study in patients with unresectable stage IIIB/IIIC/IV melanoma, intralesional administration of the oncolytic virus talimogene laherparepvec improved durable response rate (DRR; continuous response ≥6 months) compared with subcutaneous granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF).

METHODS: Retrospective review of OPTiM identified patients with cutaneous head and neck melanoma given talimogene laherparepvec (n = 61) or GM-CSF (n = 26). Outcomes were compared between talimogene laherparepvec and GM-CSF treated patients with cutaneous head and neck melanoma.

RESULTS: DRR was higher for talimogene laherparepvec-treated patients than for GM-CSF treated patients (36.1% vs 3.8%; p = .001). A total of 29.5% of patients had a complete response with talimogene laherparepvec versus 0% with GM-CSF. Among talimogene laherparepvec-treated patients with a response, the probability of still being in response after 12 months was 73%. Median overall survival (OS) was 25.2 months for GM-CSF and had not been reached with talimogene laherparepvec.

CONCLUSION: Treatment with talimogene laherparepvec was associated with improved response and survival compared with GM-CSF in patients with cutaneous head and neck melanoma. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Head Neck 38: 1752-1758, 2016.
Effective thermodynamics of isolated entangled squeezed and coherent states
Creators: name: Seroje, King Karl R.
name: Rosa, Rafael S. dela
name: Paraan, Francis N. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Rényi entanglement entropy is calculated exactly for mode-partitioned isolated systems such as the two-mode squeezed state and the multi-mode Silbey-Harris polaron ansatz state. Effective thermodynamic descriptions of the correlated partitions are constructed to present quantum information theory concepts in the language of thermodynamics. Boltzmann weights are obtained from the entanglement spectrum by deriving the exact relationship between an effective temperature and the physical entanglement parameters. The partition function of the resulting effective thermal theory can be obtained directly from the single-copy entanglement.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures, minor typos corrected
Light pollution evolution around the Cíes Islands
Creators: name: Miguel, Ana Ulla
name: Bao-Varela, Carmen
name: Bará, Salvador
name: Pérez-Couto, Xabier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Control and monitoring of light pollution is key to environmental and human wellbeing. To address a proper study of the many factors involved in this research area is mandatory, as well, for particular geographical regions with protected dark skies. ln this context, the worldwide famous Cíes lslands, in the NW Spanish Galician Autonomous Community, hold since 2016 a Starlight Touristic Destination certificate that must be audited every 4 years. Factors as the yearly incoming flux evolution from the nearby town of Vigo, the most populous and densely populated Galician one, versus ageing performance of photometers among other parameters have been carefully evaluated for historical data series starting as early as 2014. A summary of the results obtained, which are not straightforward to interpret, even in some cases ambiguous and lacking a clear explanation, will be here presented and discussed.
An Erd\" os-R\' enyi law for nonconventional sums
Creators: name: Kifer, Yuri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60F15

description: We obtain rge Erd\" os-R\' enyi type law of large numbers for "nonconventional" sums of the form $S_n=\sum^n_{m=1}F(X_m,X_{2m},...,X_{\ell m})$ where $X_1,X_2,...$ is a sequence of i.i.d. random variables and $F$ is a bounded Borel function. The proof relies on nonconventional large deviations obtained in [8].
Changing spatial patterns and increasing rurality of HIV prevalence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 2007 and 2013
Creators: name: Fwamba, Franck
name: Tshefu, Antoinette K.
name: Janko, Mark
name: Morgan, Camille
name: Meshnick, Steven
name: Emch, Michael
name: Mwandagalirwa, Melchior Kashamuka
name: Carrel, Margaret
name: Muwonga, Jérémie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has one of the lowest HIV prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa, estimated at 1.1% [0.9-1.3] of adults aged 15-49 in 2013 (UNAIDS). Within the 2 million km2 country, however, there exists spatial variation in HIV prevalence, with the highest HIV prevalence observed in the large cities of Kinshasa and Lubumbashi. Globally, HIV is an increasingly rural disease, diffusing outwards from urban centers of high HIV prevalence to places where HIV was previously absent or present at very low levels. Utilizing data collected during Demographic and Health Surveillance (DHS) in 2007 and 2013 in the DRC, we sought to update the map of HIV prevalence in the DRC as well as to explore whether HIV in the DRC is an increasingly rural disease or remains confined to urban areas. Bayesian kriging and regression indicate that HIV prevalence in rural areas of the DRC is higher in 2013 than in 2007 and that increased distance to an urban area is no longer protective against HIV as it was in 2007. These findings suggest that HIV education, testing and prevention efforts need to diffuse from urban to rural areas just as HIV is doing.
The interaction between physical activity and obesity gene variants in association with BMI: Does the obesogenic environment matter?
Creators: name: Highland, Heather
name: Mazul,
name: Mohlke,
name: Harris,
name: Richardson,
name: North,
name: Lange,
name: Lange,
name: Graff,
name: Young,
name: Gordon-Larsen,
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Little is known about how obesity susceptibility single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) interact with moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) in relation to BMI during adolescence, once obesogenic neighborhood factors are accounted for. In race stratified models, including European (EA; N=4977), African (AA; N=1726), and Hispanic Americans (HA; N=1270) from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (1996; ages 12-21), we assessed the evidence for a SNP × MVPA interaction with BMI-for-age Z score, once accounting for obesogenic neighborhood factors including physical activity amenities, transportation and recreation infrastructure, poverty and crime. Eight SNP × MVPA interactions with suggestive significance (p<0.10; three in each EA, and AA, two in HA) were observed showing attenuation on BMI-for-age Z score in adolescents with ≥ 5 versus < 5 bouts/week MVPA, except for rs10146997 (near NRXN3). Findings were robust to the inclusion of neighborhood-level variables as covariates. These findings suggest that any attenuation from MVPA on a genetic susceptibility to obesity during adolescence is likely not operating through obesogenic neighborhood factors.
Alliance polynomial of regular graphs
Creators: name: Carballosa, Walter
name: Rodríguez, José M.
name: Sigarreta, José M.
name: Torres-Nuñez, Yadira
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C69, 11B83

description: The alliance polynomial of a graph $G$ with order $n$ and maximum degree $Δ$ is the polynomial $A(G; x) = \sum_{k=-Δ}^Δ A_{k}(G) \, x^{n+k}$, where $A_{k}(G)$ is the number of exact defensive $k$-alliances in $G$. We obtain some properties of $A(G; x)$ and its coefficients for regular graphs. In particular, we characterize the degree of regular graphs by the number of non-zero coefficients of their alliance polynomial. Besides, we prove that the family of alliance polynomials of $Δ$-regular graphs with small degree is a very special one, since it does not contain alliance polynomials of graphs which are not $Δ$-regular. By using this last result and direct computation we find that the alliance polynomial determines uniquely each cubic graph of order less than or equal to $10$.
description: One reference was rectified. Our apology to their authors
A localized quantum walk with a gap in distribution
Creators: name: Machida, Takuya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Quantum walks behave differently from what we expect and their probability distributions have unique structures. They have localization, singularities, a gap, and so on. Those features have been discovered from the view point of mathematics and reported as limit theorems. In this paper we focus on a time-dependent three-state quantum walk on the line and demonstrate a limit distribution. Three coin states at each position are iteratively updated by a coin-flip operator and a position-shift operator. As the result of the evolution, we end up to observe both localization and a gap in the limit distribution.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures
Walkability and cardiometabolic risk factors: Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis
Creators: name: Hirsch, Jana A.
name: Rodríguez, Daniel A.
name: Moore, Kari A.
name: Braun, Lindsay M.
name: Diez Roux, Ana V.
name: Evenson, Kelly R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: We used data from 3,227 older adults in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (2004–2012) to explore cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between walkability and cardiometabolic risk factors. In cross-sectional analyses, linear regression was used to estimate associations of Street Smart Walk Score® with glucose, triglycerides, HDL and LDL cholesterol, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and waist circumference, while logistic regression was used to estimate associations with odds of metabolic syndrome. Econometric fixed effects models were used to estimate longitudinal associations of changes in walkability with changes in each risk factor among participants who moved residential locations between 2004 and 2012 (n=583). Most cross-sectional and longitudinal associations were small and statistically non-significant. We found limited evidence that higher walkability was cross-sectionally associated with lower blood pressure but that increases in walkability were associated with increases in triglycerides and blood pressure over time. Further research over longer time periods is needed to understand the potential for built environment interventions to improve cardiometabolic health.
Two-component integrable generalizations of Burgers equations with nondiagonal linearity
Creators: name: Talati, D.
name: Turhan, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-component second and third-order Burgers type systems with nondiagonal constant matrix of leading order terms are classified for higher symmetries. New symmetry integrable systems with their master symmetries are obtained. Some third order systems are observed to possess conservation laws. Bi-Poisson structures of systems possessing conservation laws are given.
description: 10 pages
Mark Keller and E. M. Jellinek
Creators: name: Stewart, Molly
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: This is the sixth in a series of papers depicting the mostly undocumented life of E.M. Jellinek. Jellinek was known to make a great impact on his co-workers in many ways. Perhaps his closest colleague and friend during his years in alcohol studies was Mark Keller, editor of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol. This paper draws heavily upon the newly discovered content from Keller’s correspondence with Jellinek’s former wife, Thelma Pierce Anderson. These letters provided leads in researching topics presented in the previous five papers, as well as corroborating evidence. The information in these papers was first presented at the 36th Annual Substance Abuse Librarians and Information Specialists (SALIS) Conference on May 1st, 2014, by seven presenters in a panel entitled “Mystery and speculations: Piecing together E.M. Jellinek’s redemption.”
Are buffers around home representative of physical activity spaces among adults?
Creators: name: Howard, Annie Green
name: Rodríguez, Daniel A.
name: Holliday, Katelyn M.
name: Evenson, Kelly R.
name: Emch, Michael
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Residential buffers are frequently used to assess built environment characteristics relevant to physical activity (PA), yet little is known about how well they represent the spatial areas in which individuals undertake PA. We used System for Observing Play and Recreation in Communities data for 217 adults from five US states who wore an accelerometer and a GPS for three weeks to create newly defined PA-specific activity spaces. These PA spaces were based on PA occurring in bouts of ≥10min and were defined as 1) the single minimum convex polygon (MCP) containing all of a participant's PA bout minutes and 2) the combination of many MCPs constructed using each PA bout independently. Participants spent a large proportion of their PA bout time outside of 0.5, 1, and 5 mile residential buffers, and these residential buffers were a poor approximation of the spatial areas in which PA bouts occurred. The newly proposed GPS-based PA spaces can be used in future studies in place of the more general concept of activity space to better approximate built environments experienced during PA.
Families of Riemann Surfaces, Uniformization and Arithmeticity
Creators: name: González-Diez, Gabino
name: Reyes-Carocca, Sebastián
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32G15, 32J25, 14J20, 14J25

description: A consequence of the results of Bers and Griffiths on the uniformization of complex algebraic varieties is that the universal cover of a family of Riemann surfaces, with base and fibers of finite hyperbolic type, is a contractible 2-dimensional domain that can be realized as the graph of a holomorphic motion of the unit disk. In this paper we determine which holomorphic motions give rise to these uniformizing domains and characterize which among them correspond to arithmetic families (i.e. families defined over number fields). Then we apply these results to characterize the arithmeticity of complex surfaces of general type in terms of the biholomorphism class of the 2-dimensional domains that arise as universal covers of their Zariski open subsets. For the important class of Kodaira fibrations this criterion implies that arithmeticity can be read off from the universal cover. All this is very much in contrast with the corresponding situation in complex dimension one, where the universal cover is always the unit disk.
Cohesive Neighborhoods Where Social Expectations Are Shared May Have Positive Impact On Adolescent Mental Health
Creators: name: Garfinkel, Irwin
name: Wagner, Brandon G.
name: Donnelly, Louis
name: Gold, Sarah
name: McLanahan, Sara
name: Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne
name: Jacobsen, Wade C.
name: Gaydosh, Lauren
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Adolescent mental health problems are associated with poor health and well-being in adulthood. This study uses data from a birth cohort of children born in large U.S. cities (N=2,264) to examine whether neighborhood collective efficacy (social cohesion and control) is associated with improvements in adolescent mental health. We find that children who grow up in high collective efficacy neighborhoods experience fewer depressive and anxiety symptoms during adolescence than similar children from low collective efficacy neighborhoods. The magnitude of this neighborhood effect is comparable to the effects of depression prevention programs. Findings do not vary by family or neighborhood income, indicating that neighborhood collective efficacy supports adolescent mental health across diverse populations and urban settings. We recommend greater emphasis on neighborhood environments in individual mental health risk assessments and greater investment in community-based initiatives that strengthen neighborhood social cohesion and control.
The Jellinek project: Summing up, so far
Creators: name: Roizen, Ron
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: This is the seventh in a series of papers depicting the mostly undocumented life of E.M. Jellinek. This paper wraps up and contextualizes the findings of the previous six papers, and points out potential areas for further research. The information in these papers was first presented at the 36th Annual Substance Abuse Librarians and Information Specialists (SALIS) Conference on May 1st, 2014, by seven presenters in a panel entitled “Mystery and speculations: Piecing together E.M. Jellinek’s redemption.”
Evaluating Strategies For Reducing Health Disparities By Addressing The Social Determinants Of Health
Creators: name: Glik, Deborah C.
name: Williams, David R.
name: Glover, Crystal M.
name: Cené, Crystal W.
name: Henderson, Jeffrey A.
name: Thornton, Rachel L.J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Research reveals that the opportunities for healthy choices in homes, neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces can have decisive impacts on health. This article reviews scientific evidence from promising interventions focused on the social determinants of health, and describes ways in which they can improve population health and reduce health disparities. We show that there is sufficient evidence to support policy interventions targeted at education and early childhood; urban planning and community development; housing; income enhancements and supplements; and employment. When available, cost-effectiveness evaluations show that these interventions lead to long-term societal savings; however, more routine attention to cost considerations is needed for these interventions. We also discuss challenges to implementation, including the need for long-term financing in order to scale-up effective interventions for implementation at the local, state, or national level. Although we know enough to act, questions remain about how to optimally scale-up these interventions and maximize their benefits for the most vulnerable populations.
Static spherically symmetric solutions in mimetic gravity: rotation curves & wormholes
Creators: name: Myrzakulov, Ratbay
name: Sebastiani, Lorenzo
name: Vagnozzi, Sunny
name: Zerbini, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we analyse static spherically symmetric solutions in the framework of mimetic gravity, an extension of general relativity where the conformal degree of freedom of gravity is isolated in a covariant fashion. Here we extend previous works by considering in addition a potential for the mimetic field. An appropriate choice of such potential allows for the reconstruction of a number of interesting cosmological and astrophysical scenarios. We explicitly show how to reconstruct such a potential for a general static spherically symmetric space-time. A number of applications and scenarios are then explored, among which traversable wormholes. Finally, we analytically reconstruct potentials which leads to solutions to the equations of motion featuring polynomial corrections to the Schwarzschild spacetime. Accurate choices for such corrections could provide an explanation for the inferred flat rotation curves of spiral galaxies within the mimetic gravity framework, without the need for particle dark matter.
description: Version accepted for publication in Class. Quant. Grav
Checklist pour dentistes afin de faciliter la collecte d'informations et de données dentaires dans le cadre de l’identification d’une personne
Creators: name: Angelakopoulos, Nikolaos
name: Nuzzolese, Emilio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110599 Dentistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Cette liste de contrôle a été créée à l’intention des dentistes afin de faciliter, simplifier et accélérer la collecte des informations dentaires d'une personne disparue.
 L'identification de restes humains non identifiés nécessite la collecte de données d'identification auprès des familles de personnes disparues ainsi que d'informations dentaires recueillies auprès de cabinets dentaires. Sur la base de l'identité présumée de restes humains et en utilisant les informations fournies par les dentistes, il est possible d’identifier une victime.
L'impression 3D au service du recyclage : le LF2L acquiert une imprimante unique en Europe
Creators: name: Nos Tutelles
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Carnot
icéel
LF2L
Gigabot
impression
3D

description: Le Lorraine Fab Living Lab (LF2L) a acquis une nouvelle imprimante 3D : la Gigabot X. Une première en Europe qui a vu le jour grâce à l’implication d’ERPI dans le projet européen INEDIT (Grant agreement ID: 869952). Ce projet est axé sur le développement de l’impression 3D de mobiliers à partir de plastique recyclé.
Modeling The Economic Burden Of Adult Vaccine-Preventable Diseases In The United States
Creators: name: Yang, H. Keri
name: Knoll, Maria
name: Bishai, David
name: Clark, Samantha
name: Portnoy, Allison
name: Getaneh, Hiwote
name: Ozawa, Sachiko
name: Patwardhan, Pallavi D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Vaccines save thousands of lives in the United States every year, but many adults remain unvaccinated. Low rates of vaccine uptake lead to costs to individuals and society in terms of deaths and disabilities, which are avoidable, and they create economic losses from doctor visits, hospitalizations, and lost income. To identify the magnitude of this problem, we calculated the current economic burden that is attributable to vaccine-preventable diseases among US adults. We estimated the total remaining economic burden at approximately $9 billion (plausibility range: $4.7-$15.2 billion) in a single year, 2015, from vaccine-preventable diseases related to ten vaccines recommended for adults ages nineteen and older. Unvaccinated individuals are responsible for almost 80 percent, or $7.1 billion, of the financial burden. These results not only indicate the potential economic benefit of increasing adult immunization uptake but also highlight the value of vaccines. Policies should focus on minimizing the negative externalities or spillover effects from the choice not to be vaccinated, while preserving patient autonomy.
Global small solutions to a tropical climate model without thermal diffusion
Creators: name: Wan, Renhui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35A09, 76D03, 86A10

description: We obtain the global well-posedness of classical solutions to a tropical climate model derived by Feireisl-Majda-Pauluis in \cite{FMP} with only the dissipation of the first baroclinic model of the velocity ($-ηΔv$) under small initial data. The main difficulty is the absence of thermal diffusion as the work by Li-Titi in \cite{LT}. To overcome it, we exploit the structure of the equations coming from the coupled terms, dissipation term and damp term. Then we find the hidden thermal diffusion. In addition, based on the Littlewood-Palay theory, we establish a generalized commutator estimate, which may be applied to other partial differential equations.
description: 15 pages, we have made some modifications
Guidelines for Mental Strength those Admitted in the Field Hospital Roi Et Buddhist College, Thawat Buri District, Roi Et Province
Creators: name: Sanook Singmart
Publisher: name: DR.KEN Institute of Academic Development and Promotion.
Year: 2022
Subjects: Mental Strength
Field Hospital
Roi Et Buddhist College

description: Interdisciplinary Academic and Research Journal, 2, 5, 859-876
IC485: Towards a new maser disk galaxy!?
Creators: name: Ladu, Elisabetta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Megamasers are unique tools for investigating the nuclear regions of the Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) and for better understanding the Unified Model. In addition, the detailed studies of the three known AGN water megamaser classes (disk-, jet-, and outflow-masers) provide information on the different physical aspects of AGNs according to the observed typology. An important and fundamental contribution is also provided by the Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) technique.
 Indeed, the high angular resolution observations of disk masers allow to trace the disk geometry, to estimate the BH mass and to measure accurate distances to their host galaxies. Jet(s)/outflow masers produce important information about the interaction regions of the jets/outflow with the interstellar medium.
 Despite their importance, detections of maser sources are rare, so every new source become a goldmine to understand the physics behind these objects.
 Here, we present our results in continuum and in spectral mode of high-sensitivity, multi-epoch campaign with the VLBA and EVN of the nuclear region of the megamaser galaxy IC485. The outcome of our analysis indicates that the radio continuum emission is dominated by star formation process, with a weak contribution from the AGN. The detection of two complexes of maser emission offset by 472 km/s in velocity and about 0.2 pc at the distance of IC485 (122 Mpc) suggests, instead, an association with an edge-on disk accreting onto a SMBH of ~10^7 M_☉ . This maser nature is also supported by recent ALMA observations of water maser emission at 183 GHz.
 A set of new, ongoing interferometric follow-ups will eventually be outlined.
The Development of Creative Thai Textbooks for Elementary School Students Year 6 Demonstration School, Uttaradit Rajabhat University
Creators: name: Sukunya Rujimethabhas
Publisher: name: DR.KEN Institute of Academic Development and Promotion
Year: 2022
Subjects: Book Development
Creative Thai Language
Uttaradit Rajabhat University Demonstration School

description: Interdisciplinary Academic and Research Journal, 2, 5, 877-894
Using Genetic Technologies To Reduce, Rather Than Widen, Health Disparities
Creators: name: Fullerton, Stephanie M.
name: Maruthur, Nisa M.
name: Ordovás, José M.
name: Hampel, Heather
name: Smith, Caren E.
name: Tin, Adrienne
name: Tucker, Katherine L.
name: Henderson, Jeffrey A.
name: Schisler, Jonathan C.
name: Dookeran, Keith A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Evidence shows that both biological and nonbiological factors contribute to health disparities. Genetics, in particular, plays a part in how common diseases manifest themselves. Today, unprecedented advances in genetically based diagnoses and treatments provide opportunities for personalized medicine. However, disadvantaged groups may lack access to these advances, and treatments based on research on non-Hispanic whites might not be generalizable to members of minority groups. Unless genetic technologies become universally accessible, existing disparities could be widened. Addressing this issue will require integrated strategies, including expanding genetic research, improving genetic literacy, and enhancing access to genetic technologies among minority populations in a way that avoids harms such as stigmatization.
Complementary Audio-Visual Collision Warnings
Creators: name: Fricke, Nicola
name: Thüring, Manfred
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
subject: driver assistance system
subject: collision warning
subject: multimodal
subject: signaling

description: Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
description: This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
description: The growing number of driver assistance systems increases the demand for warnings that are intuitively comprehensible. Particularly in hazardous situations, such as a threatening collision, a driver must understand the warning immediately. For this reason, collision warnings should convey as much information as needed to interpret the situation properly and to prepare preventive actions. The present study investigated whether informing about the object and the location of an imminent crash by a multimodal warning (visual and auditory) leads to shorter reaction times and fewer collisions compared to warning signals which only inform about the object of the crash (auditory icons) or give no additional information (simple tone). Results reveal that multimodal warnings have the potential to produce a significant advantage over unimodal signals as long as their components complement each other in a way that realistically fits the situation at hand.
Risk Aversion, Supply Response, and the Optimality of Random Prices: A Diagrammatic Analysis
Creators: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Newbery, David M. G.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1982
Subjects: Economics

description: This paper analyzes the effect of commodity price stabilization on producers and consumers, both in the short run, and in the long run, when producers have adjusted their production decisions to take account of the change in the price distribution. We derive conditions under which (a) both producers and consumers may be better off; and (b) both producers and consumers may be worse off. Moreover, we show that the long-run effects may differ not only quantitatively but also qualitatively from the short-run effects. The anomalous results may occur even with reasonable assumptions concerning production functions and utility functions of producers and consumers.
Nanowire-based thermoelectric ratchet in the hopping regime
Creators: name: Bosisio, Riccardo
name: Fleury, Geneviève
name: Pichard, Jean-Louis
name: Gorini, Cosimo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a thermoelectric ratchet consisting of an array of disordered nanowires arranged in parallel on top of an insulating substrate, and contacted asymmetrically to two electrodes. Transport is investigated in the Mott hopping regime, when localized electrons can propagate through the nanowires via thermally assisted hops. When the electronic temperature in the nanowires is different from the phononic one in the substrate, we show that a finite electrical current is generated even in the absence of driving forces between the electrodes. We discuss the device performance both as an energy harvester, when an excess heat from the substrate is converted into useful power, and as a refrigerator, when an external power is supplied to cool down the substrate.
Board of Directors and Earnings Management: Evidence from the Nigerian Exchange Group
Creators: name: Yahaya, Onipe Adabenege
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 150102 Auditing and Accountability
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Abstract Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of Board of Directors in reducing earnings management activities in listed non-financial services sector in Nigeria. Design/Methodology/Approach - Earnings management is seen through discretionary accruals as suggested by Kothari et al. (2005). Board of directors is measured using six characteristics: board size, independence, meetings, CEO duality, audit committee, nomination and remuneration committee. These characteristics are tested using a sample of 75 non-financial services companies listed on the Nigerian Exchange Group. The study covers a period of 10 years (2012-2021). The hypotheses are tested using multiple regression analysis. Findings - The results show that some Board of Directors characteristics, such as size and independence, are negatively associated with earnings management at significant levels. The originality of this research is its extension of the literature on the role of Board of Directors in reducing earnings management activities in Nigeria. Research Implications - These results provide empirical evidence to assist regulators in identifying effective Board of Directors characteristics. The findings are also useful to shareholders and capital market operators in evaluating the roles of Board of Directors in reducing earnings management activities in Nigeria. Research Limitations - However, the study is limited to listed non-financial services firms because financial services companies come under strict regulations from the Central Bank of Nigeria, Nigerian Deposit Corporation and Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria. Key words: Agency Theory, Audit Committee Independence, Board of Directors, Board Independence, Board Meetings, Board Size, CEO Duality, Earnings Management, Nomination and Remuneration Committee
Multilevel Interventions To Address Health Disparities Show Promise In Improving Population Health
Creators: name: Thompson, Beti
name: Ammerman, Alice S.
name: Paskett, Electra
name: Ortega, Alexander N.
name: Richardson, DeJuran
name: Marsteller, Jill
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Multilevel interventions are those that affect at least two levels of influence—for example, the patient and the health care provider. They can be experimental designs or natural experiments caused by changes in policy, such as the implementation of the Affordable Care Act or local policies. Measuring the effects of multilevel interventions is challenging, because they allow for interaction among levels, and the impact of each intervention must be assessed and translated into practice. We discuss how two projects from the National Institutes of Health’s Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities used multilevel interventions to reduce health disparities. The interventions, which focused on the uptake of the human papillomavirus vaccine and community-level dietary change, had mixed results. The design and implementation of multilevel interventions are facilitated by input from the community, and more advanced methods and measures are needed to evaluate the impact of the various levels and components of such interventions.
Switching control for incremental stabilization of nonlinear systems via contraction theory
Creators: name: di Bernardo, Mario
name: Fiore, Davide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this paper we present a switching control strategy to incrementally stabilize a class of nonlinear dynamical systems. Exploiting recent results on contraction analysis of switched Filippov systems derived using regularization, sufficient conditions are presented to prove incremental stability of the closed-loop system. Furthermore, based on these sufficient conditions, a design procedure is proposed to design a switched control action that is active only where the open-loop system is not sufficiently incrementally stable in order to reduce the required control effort. The design procedure to either locally or globally incrementally stabilize a dynamical system is then illustrated by means of a representative example.
description: Accepted to ECC 2016
Introduction
Creators: name: Funck, Marcus
name: Reif, Heinz
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: 900 Geschichte und Geografie

description: Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
description: This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
description: With this volume, the European Association of Urban Historians (EAUH) introduces itself for the first time to American readers and includes some of the results of its Fifth International Conference, which took place in August/ September 2000 in Berlin. The EAUH was founded in 1989 by English, Dutch, Belgian, and French historians. The focus of its activities is the International Conference on Urban History. It takes place every two years in a significant European city. After Amsterdam 1992, Strasbourg, Budapest, Venice, and Berlin each hosted the conference consecutively. It has become one of the biggest and most important forums for international academic exchange in the field of historic urban research.
Technical Advances in High-Frequency VLBI: A Focus on Multi-Frequency Receivers and Their Applications
Creators: name: Jung, Taehyun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: High-frequency very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations have made remarkable progress in astrophysics and fundamental physics in recent years, owing to technical advances in receivers, digital backend, high-speed recording systems, and data processing methods. One critical advancement that has facilitated this progress is the use of multi-frequency receivers, such as the Korean VLBI Network (KVN), which allows for simultaneous reception of radio signals at multiple frequencies. Multi-frequency receivers have been particularly effective in millimeter VLBI, as they enable longer integration times up to hundreds of seconds at 130 GHz, demonstrated by KVN, by using fringe phase solutions at lower frequencies to calibrate high-frequency visibility data, known as frequency phase transfer (FPT). Moreover, multi-frequency receivers with FPT are facilitating submillimeter VLBI and space VLBI observatories. This presentation will discuss recent developments and technical aspects of high-frequency VLBI utilizing multi-frequency receivers, as well as scientific perspectives. These advances are promising to enable new discoveries and applications that can only be achieved with VLBI.
In Mexico, Evidence Of Sustained Consumer Response Two Years After Implementing A Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax
Creators: name: Ng, Shu Wen
name: Popkin, Barry M.
name: Arantxa Cochero,
name: Rivera-Dommarco, Juan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: In the first year of a 1 peso per liter excise tax on sugar-sweetened beverages, there was a 6% reduction in purchases of taxed beverages in Mexico. This paper estimates changes in beverage purchases two years after tax implementation.
VLBI architecture of a compact binary with exoplanet
Creators: name: Ortiz-Leon, Gisela
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) offers astrometric precision of tens of micro-arseconds, which is comparable to that offered by the Gaia mission. Using the six-dimensional information (position and velocity) delivered by the two instruments for hundreds of young stars, it has been possible to investigate the three-dimensional structure of star-forming regions and the internal kinematics of their stellar members. The advantage of VLBI is that it can see through the dense material of molecular clouds, reaching the youngest and most embedded stars. In addition, VLBI astrometry of various types of masers now allows the derivation of distances as far as tens of kilo-parsecs, thus proving the structure of the Galaxy at spiral-arm scales. In this talk, I will revisit key results from VLBI and Gaia astrometric studies, and their synergies, in pursuit of constructing a six-dimensional view of the star-formation in our Galaxy.
Item response theory analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Health-Related Quality of Life (CDC HRQOL) items in adults with arthritis
Creators: name: Mielenz, Thelma J.
name: Edwards, Michael C.
name: Callahan, Leigh F.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: BackgroundExamine the feasibility of performing an item response theory (IRT) analysis on two of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention health-related quality of life (CDC HRQOL) modules – the 4-item Healthy Days Core Module (HDCM) and the 5-item Healthy days Symptoms Module (HDSM). Previous principal components analyses confirm that the two scales both assess a mix of mental (CDC-MH) and physical health (CDC-PH). The purpose is to conduct item response theory (IRT) analysis on the CDC-MH and CDC-PH scales separately.Methods2182 patients with self-reported or physician-diagnosed arthritis completed a cross-sectional survey including HDCM and HDSM items. Besides global health, the other 8 items ask the number of days that some statement was true; we chose to recode the data into 8 categories based on observed clustering. The IRT assumptions were assessed using confirmatory factor analysis and the data could be modeled using an unidimensional IRT model. The graded response model was used for IRT analyses and CDC-MH and CDC-PH scales were analyzed separately in flexMIRT.ResultsThe IRT parameter estimates for the five-item CDC-PH all appeared reasonable. The three-item CDC-MH did not have reasonable parameter estimates.ConclusionsThe CDC-PH scale is amenable to IRT analysis but the existing The CDC-MH scale is not. We suggest either using the 4-item Healthy Days Core Module (HDCM) and the 5-item Healthy days Symptoms Module (HDSM) as they currently stand or the CDC-PH scale alone if the primary goal is to measure physical health related HRQOL.