cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Cultural Communication For New Nurse Residents: K.I.N.D Communication Toolkit
Creators: name: Caraballo, Jennifer
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

Background: Microaggressions can create a hostile work environment and decrease rapport and functioning in clinical and personal relationships. Exposure to micro aggression and implicit bias results in micro trauma and possible compassion fatigue by medical staff. Symptoms can include headaches, poor sleep, depressions, and anxiety, similar to compassion fatigue.
Purpose: To develop a toolkit for healthcare staff to use as educational material to facilitate for cultural communication and cultural humility.
Methods: Nurses that were enrolled in a nurse residency program at a level 1 trauma center participated in the education of a communication toolkit related to K.I.N.D communication project. K.I.N.D stands for knowledgeable, inclusive, non-bias and delivery. It was developed in part of a capstone project that focuses on implicit bias awareness in communication to decrease microaggressions and increase health outcomes for disadvantaged populations. Education was provided using PowerPoint, interactive activities, videos and open-ended dialogue discussions.
Results: The Cultural Assessment Screening tool was administered both pre and post to 35 new nurse residents with resulting changes in cultural competence scores not statistically significantly. However, qualitative data yielded positive responses, reporting personal experiences with implicit bias and a desire to utilize resources in the tool kit as well as an appreciation for the in-service.
Conclusion: Utilization of toolkit increases awareness of cultural micro aggression, implicit bias by healthcare staff and decrease micro traumas in the clinical setting an. While survey tool may not have been sensitive enough for the specific intervention, qualitative data was able to yield positive results and feedback regarding the toolkit.
MOESM1 of Effect of a community-based intervention for cardiovascular risk factor control on stroke mortality in rural Gadchiroli, India: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Yogeshwar Kalkonde
name: Deshmukh, Mahesh
name: Sindhu Nila
name: Jadhao, Sunil
name: Bang, Abhay
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Trial manpower and management.
Human Capital, Innovation, and Climate Policy: An Integrated Assessment
Creators: name: Carraro, Carlo
name: De Cian, Enrica
name: Tavoni, Massimo
name: Carraro, Carlo
name: De Cian, Enrica
name: Tavoni, Massimo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Climate Policy
subject: Innovation
subject: Human capital

description: This paper looks at the interplay between human capital and innovation in the presence of climate and educational policies. Using recent empirical estimates, human capital and general purpose R&D are introduced in an integrated assessment model that has been extensively applied to study climate change mitigation. Our results suggest that climate policy stimulates general purpose as well as clean energy R&D but reduces the incentive to invest in human capital formation. Human capital increases the productivity of labour and the complementarity between labour and energy drives its pollution-using effect (direct effect). When human capital is an essential input in the production of generic and energy dedicated knowledge, the crowding out induced by climate policy is mitigated, thought not completely offset (indirect effect). The pollution-using implications of the direct effect prevail over the indirect contribution of human capital to the creation of new and cleaner knowledge. A policy mix that combines educational as well as climate objectives offsets the human capital crowding-out with a moderate, short-term consumption loss. Human capital is complement to all forms of innovation and an educational policy stimulates both energy and general purpose innovation. This result has important policy implications considering the growing concern that effective climate policy is conditional on solid economic development and therefore it needs to be supplemented by other policy targets.
Pediacus smirnovi Nikitsky and Belov 1979
Creators: name: Thomas, Michael C.
name: Ghahari, Hassan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cucujidae
Pediacus
Pediacus smirnovi

description: Pediacus smirnovi Nikitsky and Belov, 1979
 Distribution in Iran. Iran (no locality cited) (Thomas 2003).
 General distribution. Azerbaijan, Iran (Thomas 2003).
description: Published as part of Thomas, Michael C. & Ghahari, Hassan, 2016, Checklists of Cucujidae, Laemophloeidae, and Silvanidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) from Iran, pp. 1-12 in Insecta Mundi 2016 (498) on page 3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5170675
MOESM1 of Enterobacter sp. AA26 gut symbiont as a protein source for Mediterranean fruit fly mass-rearing and sterile insect technique applications
Creators: name: Kyritsis, Georgios
name: Augustinos, Antonios
name: Ntougias, Spyridon
name: Papadopoulos, Nikos
name: Bourtzis, Kostas
name: CÃ¡Ceres, Carlos
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1. Daily allocation of the immature stages duration for the four protein source treatments.
Health Literacy Universal Precautions: A Quality Improvement Project to Promote Effective Use of Clear, Plain Language Communication Within Primary Care
Creators: name: Canfield, Brittany
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

Background/Purpose: Understanding the dynamics involved for patients to truly comprehend their health care needs for optimal self-care management are complex. The ways patients interact within the healthcare system can be stressful, overwhelming, and confusing. Failing to grasp even basic instructions can make patients prone to poor health outcomes. Evidence indicates that 36% of adults in the United States have basic or below basic health literacy levels and only 12% of adults are considered health literate. The purpose of this project was to implement clear, plain language communications, or health literacy universal precautions, within a primary care office. Methods: The DNP student used The Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit, designed by The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in conjunction with Lewin’s Theory of Planned Change, to implement: 1) a one-hour health literacy education session for healthcare staff and 2) a health literacy readability assessment and replacement of current patient forms and education materials to achieve the desired fifth to sixth grade literacy level. Results/Interpretation: Education session results revealed an average score increase from 76.2% on the pre-quiz to 97.6% on the post-quiz. The readability of office forms increased from only 12.5% of forms being at a fifth to sixth grade reading level initially to 50% of the forms meeting this criterion at the conclusion of the readability intervention. The results highlighted that the AHRQ Toolkit was beneficial in increasing healthcare staff knowledge of health literacy and improving the readability of office forms being provided to patients. Discussion/Conclusion: This quality improvement project provided an opportunity for the healthcare staff to become more aware of, and align their efforts in support of, health literacy universal precautions, which has the potential to impact positive change in patient care outcomes.
Diffractive production of dijets by double Pomeron exchange processes
Creators: name: Covolan, R. J. M.
name: Soares, M. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A phenomenological description of diffractive dijet hadroproduction via double Pomeron exchange is presented. This description is based on a modified version of the Ingelman-Schlein model which includes the evolution of the Pomeron structure function and corrections regarding rapidity gap suppression effects. The same quark-dominant Pomeron structure function employed in a previous report to describe diffractive dijet and W production via single Pomeron processes is shown here to yield results consistent with the available data for double Pomeron processes as well.
description: 4 pages, REVTEX4.0
School-based Telemental Health and Family Psychoeducation: A Program Evaluation
Creators: name: Koren, Ainat
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

Background: Telemental Health has been established as an effective model of care in the adult population. There are few studies that addressed the effects of providing child and parent telehealth services in underserved communities where mental health services are sparse. Families who attend face to face mental health support report high levels of satisfaction, show increased knowledge about mental illness/treatment, and youth have a lower risk of relapse.
Purpose: The purpose of this DNP project was to evaluate an innovative Telemental Health model offering timely social/behavioral health support for children/families’ mental health services in rural Massachusetts.
Methods: Process evaluation included assessing technology functionality and patient parents’ satisfaction. Project outcomes measured improvements in reported family communication, caregiver strain, and student clinical outcomes, based upon the following screenings and assessments: Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ9), Generalized Anxiety Scale (GAD-7) and PROMIS pediatric self-administered scale.
Results: Teens and parents were satisfied with the service quality of technology accessibility and convenience. Students noted increased communication with parents (94.1%), peers (88.24%) and teachers (82.3%). This included increased involvement in school (64.6). Teens who reported parent active involvement in the program showed higher percent of increased communication. Teen’s clinical outcomes showed continuous improvement in mental health assessment scores.
Conclusions/implications: Families are an integral part of their teens’ care. Shortages of child and adolescent mental health in underserved communities are expected to continue. However, the rapid growth of reliable and affordable telecommunication technologies could effectively include family participation and improve clinical outcomes for children and their families.
An Evaluation of “Diabetes Day” using Implementation Science to Improve Support for Families of Children with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
Creators: name: Shea, Georgianna R
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

Background: Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is one of the most common life-long endocrine disorders in children and adolescents.  Attending to the psychosocial and emotional needs of children with T1D and their families is fundamental in attaining optimal clinical health outcomes. Diabetes Day is a collaborative effort that is offered at a pediatric endocrinology clinic in Western Massachusetts. The Diabetes Day team spends multiple hours planning, recruiting and implementing Diabetes Day as a way to provide this requested support; however, participation rates of families continues to decrease.Purpose: The purpose of this DNP project was to evaluate the process of planning, implementation and evaluation of Diabetes Day to improve family participation and attendance. Methods: The plan, do, study, act (PDSA) model was used to implement this QI project consisting of qualitative questionnaires from Diabetes Day family participants as well as the Diabetes Day staff.
Results: Barriers to participation included a fear of missing work/school or the time of the day. Suggestions for improving the implementation process include updating recruitment methods, sharing the burden of recruitment, and providing more education to families describing Diabetes Day. 
Conclusion: Successful implementation of Diabetes Day can provide improved diabetes management and patient outcomes.  The results of this project will continue to be used to guide the Diabetes Day team to uncover additional barriers to participation that can be overcome using a different approach to recruitment resulting in an increase in family participation.
Big Data in Cloud Computing Review and Opportunities
Creators: name: Muniswamaiah, Manoj
name: Agerwala, Tilak
name: Tappert, Charles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Big Data is used in decision making process to gain useful insights hidden in the data for business and engineering. At the same time it presents challenges in processing, cloud computing has helped in advancement of big data by providing computational, networking and storage capacity. This paper presents the review, opportunities and challenges of transforming big data using cloud computing resources.
Stellar Masses of Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies at Redshifts z=0.4-1.2
Creators: name: Guzman, R.
name: Ostlin, G.
name: Kunth, D.
name: Bershady, M.
name: Koo, D.
name: Pahre, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present stellar mass measurements for a sample of 36 Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies (LCBGs) at redshifts z = 0.4-1.2 in the Flanking Fields around the Hubble Deep Field North. The technique is based on fitting a two-component galaxy population model to multi-broadband photometry. Best-fit models are found to be largely independent on the assumed values for the IMF and the metallicity of the stellar populations, but are sensitive to the amount of extinction and the extinction law adopted. On average, the best-fit model corresponds to a LMC extinction law with E(B-V)=0.5. Stellar mass estimates, however, are remarkably independent on the final model choice. Using a Salpeter IMF, the derived median stellar mass for this sample is 5 x 10^9 Mo, i.e., ~2 times smaller than previous virial mass estimates. Despite uncertainties of a factor 2-3, our results strengthen prior claims that L* CBGs at intermediate redshifts are, on average, about 10 times less massive than a typical L* galaxy today.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures
Which acceleration process for UHE-Cosmic Rays in Gamma Ray Bursts ?
Creators: name: Gialis, D.
name: Pelletier, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we have made an accurate investigation of proton acceleration in GRBs and we have predicted a possible signature of cosmic rays, in a sufficiently baryon-loaded fireball, via GeV $γ$-ray emission produced by $π^{0}$-meson decay. If two ungrounded assumptions are removed, namely, Bohm's scaling and a slow magnetic field decrease, the usual Fermi processes are unable to generate ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) in GRBs. We propose to develop another scenario of relativistic Fermi acceleration in the internal shock stage. We present the results of a realistic Monte-Carlo simulation of a multi-front acceleration which clearly shows the possible generation of UHECR. The amount of energy converted into UHECRs turns out to be a sizeable fraction of the magnetic energy.
description: 22 pages, accepted for publication in A&A
TRAIL 2.3: Towards interoperability of archaeological and natural history object data
Creators: name: Thiery, Florian
name: Mees, Allard
name: Bölling, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: NFDI
NFDI4Objects

description: Interdisciplinary collection-based research is impeded by the fact that object data in collections are created with different domain-specific perspectives. This heterogeneity prevents the linking of object data, even if they have subject-related references to each other, and affects the following phases in the research data lifecycle: describe, discover, integrate. This TRAIL focuses on one aspect of this problem: interoperability of prove-nance descriptions of objects from archaeological and natural history collections. Based on domain-specific data models, the subject of this TRAIL is the development of a con-ceptual data model realizing semantic interoperability for collection object provenance data for the different disciplines, its formal description using the Web Ontology Lan-guage (OWL) and its reference implementation in WissKI.
Road to Health Diabetes Program
Creators: name: Johnson, Alicia
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2013

Diabetes is a major health problem in the United States. Individuals with diabetes are at greater risk of developing other health problems such as heart or kidney disease. African Americans are at 1.8 times greater risk of developing diabetes, and they suffer more severe consequences and complications from the disease. One major reason for poor outcomes in African Americans with diabetes is a lack of knowledge and understanding of the disease process and sequelae of diabetes. This DNP scholarly project focused on implementing a culturally sensitive diabetes education program in the hope of improving glycemic control among participants. The project was implemented in a rural clinic outside of Oklahoma City. Prior to implementation of the project, all healthcare providers and their staff were informed about the program and asked to refer their patients to it. The DNP scholarly project occurred over a five-week period, and each session lasted from 1–3 hours depending upon the depth of the information covered as well as the participation level. In the first week, the sessions were accomplished on a one-to-one basis in an effort to establish a personal connection with participants and to build rapport with them. Those individuals who returned for more than one session experienced an improvement in their HgA1c at the completion of the DNP scholarly project: One participant had a 2 point decrease while the other return participant had a .2 decrease. All participants had an increase of 40–50% of their pre- and post-test scores.
MOESM1 of Eumelanin and pheomelanin pigmentation in mollusc shells may be less common than expected: insights from mass spectrometry
Creators: name: Affenzeller, Susanne
name: Wolkenstein, Klaus
name: Frauendorf, Holm
name: Jackson, Daniel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. The three replicate samples of Clanculus pharaonius analysed in this study.
Bond particle theory for the pseudogap phase of underdoped cuprates
Creators: name: Eder, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a theory for the lightly doped t-J model which is of possible relevance for the normal state of underdoped cuprates. Starting from an arbitrary dimer covering of the plane an exact representation of the t-J Hamiltonian in terms of bond bosons and fermions can be derived. Since all dimer coverings must give identical results for observable quantities we construct an approximate but translationally invariant Hamiltonian by averaging the bond particle Hamiltonian over all possible dimer coverings. Treating the resulting Hamiltonian in mean-field approximation we find fermi pockets centered near (pi/2,pi/2) with a total area of x/2 (with x the hole concentration) and a gapped spin-wave-like band of triplet excitations.
description: 15 pages, 12 figures
Food Safety and Risk of Foodborne Illness at a Food Center Extension: Toolkit for Front-line Volunteers
Creators: name: Anderson, Sara
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

Background: Foodborne illness is a serious public health issue. One in six Americans has an episode of foodborne illness each year and over 50,000 are hospitalized. Food distribution centers are instrumental in decreasing food insecurity, however, some of the food donated is expired or may be damaged leading to increased risk of foodborne illness.
Purpose: The purpose of this project was to educate front-line volunteers at a local food center regarding food safety.
Methods: A toolkit was developed to teach food safety to the front-line volunteers. Seven classes were given to front-line volunteers including a pre and post intervention survey to evaluate if teaching and objectives were met. Reports of foodborne illness by recipients of the food center as well as number of toolkits given to the extension were also tracked.
Results: During the seven classes given over a two-month period, participants had a greater than 25% increase in learning regarding safety and foodborne illness as measured by the pre and post intervention survey given. Fifteen copies of the educational toolkit were given to the extension as well as pamphlets regarding dates on packages and shell-life of common foods. Furthermore, there were no increases or reports of foodborne illness from the recipients and food center’s extension.
Conclusion: Front-line volunteers at the local food distribution centers were effectively taught food safety and how to prevent foodborne illness. Developing a toolkit for front-line volunteers to use on food safety and foodborne illness and providing on-site teachings enhancing the knowledge of this high impact population resulting in strong public health regarding food safety.
Thermodynamic Properties of the Dipolar Spin Ice Model
Creators: name: Melko, Roger G.
name: Enjalran, Matthew
name: Hertog, Byron C. den
name: Gingras, Michel. J. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed theoretical overview of the thermodynamic properties of the dipolar spin ice model, which has been shown to be an excellent quantitative descriptor of the Ising pyrochlore materials Dy_2Ti_2O_7 and Ho_2Ti_2O_7. We show that the dipolar spin ice model can reproduce an effective quasi macroscopically degenerate ground state and spin-ice behavior of these materials when the long-range nature of dipole-dipole interaction is handled carefully using Ewald summation techniques. This degeneracy is, however, ultimately lifted at low temperature. The long-range ordered state is identified via mean field theory and Monte Carlo simulation techniques. Finally, we investigate the behavior of the dipolar spin ice model in an applied magnetic field, and compare our predictions with experimental results. We find that a number of different long-range ordered states are favored by the model depending on field direction.
description: 30 pages, 29 figures
MOESM1 of Comparing the effect of auricular acupressure and body acupressure on pain and duration of the first stage of labor: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Alimoradi, Zainab
name: Kazemi, Farideh
name: Mahboubeh Valiani
name: Gorji, Maryam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file: Appendix 1: SPIRIT checklist..
A Review of Grey Literature Cited by Food Loss Law and Policy Scholarship
Creators: name: Hackstadt, Angela
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: In the United States, state and federal programs, rules, and legislation attempt to address the social, economic, and environmental impacts of food waste. Research on the efficacy of these interventions rely on a variety of grey literature resources. Grey literature is valuable to policy research but may be overlooked because it is not published commercially and is often deemed unauthoritative. This review focuses on the use of grey literature in food waste law and policy scholarship to identify the most used sources and to determine what, if any, archiving strategies authors use. Recommendations for librarians and researchers are discussed. This article has been republished with minor changes. These changes do not impact the academic content of the article.
Free-Free Absorption and the Unified Scheme
Creators: name: Kameno, Seiji
name: Inoue, Makoto
name: Wajima, Kiyoaki
name: Sawada-Satoh, Satoko
name: Shen, Zhi-Qinag
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report Very-Long-Baseline Array (VLBA) observations at 2.3, 8.4, and 15.4 GHz towards nine GHz-Peaked Spectrum (GPS) sources. One Seyfert 1 galaxy, one Seyfert 2 galaxy, three radio galaxies, and four quasars were included in our survey. We obtained spatial distributions of the Free-Free Absorption (FFA) opacity with milliarcsec resolutions for all sources. It is found that type-1 (Seyfert 1 and quasars) and type-2 (Seyfert 2 and radio galaxies) sources showed different distributions of the FFA opacities. The type-1 sources tend to show more asymmetric opacity distributions towards a double lobe, while those of the type-2 sources are rather symmetric. Our results imply that the different viewing angle of the jet causes the difference of FFA opacity along the external absorber. This idea supports the unified scheme between quasars and radio galaxies, proposed by Barthel (1989).
description: 17 pages, including 8 figures. Proceedings of the 3rd Compact Steep Spectrum and GHz Peaked Spectrum Sources, 2002, Greece. Submitted to the Publications of Astronomical Society of Australia
Routine Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention in the College-Aged Population: A Quality Improvement Project for University Health Services Staff
Creators: name: Chevalier, Rebecca
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

Abstract
Background: Alcohol abuse is a significant concern in the college-aged population (18 to 24 years old) in the United States.  Evidence supports the use of the alcohol screening and brief intervention (SBI) and the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test for Consumption (AUDIT-C) for this population in reducing negative consequences associated with high-risk alcohol use.
Purpose: The purpose of this quality improvement (QI) project was to engage University Health Services (UHS) staff to use a routine SBI protocol with the AUDIT-C on all students that entered UHS and based on risk profile, if necessary, staff performed a brief educational intervention.
Methods: This QI project used an educational intervention design using the teach-back method to educate UHS staff on the SBI protocol, which was implemented on students attending UHS for four weeks (October 1st through October 25th) in the fall 2019 semester.  The DNP project leader monitored the project via weekly staff meetings including discussion of how the protocol was going and collection of daily checklists that compared the number of students who visited UHS, versus the number of students screened, and the total number of students that scored high-risk and received brief intervention.  Data were analyzed for themes and numbers were totaled weekly from checklists concerning students seen, screened, and given brief intervention.
Results/Interpretation: Useful themes to evaluate sustainability were detected during the weekly discussion meetings.  During the four weeks, staff screened 74% of the students seen and an alarming 22.6%, 74 students, scored high-risk and agreed to brief intervention education.
Discussions/Conclusions: Staff decided the routine SBI protocol would be sustainable for everyday practice to assist in the identification and intervention with high-risk students to reduce negative consequences associated with drinking and improve their overall health and well-being.
Nurse-delivered Standardized Chemotherapy Education Intervention to Reduce Distress among Older Adults in an Outpatient Setting
Creators: name: Viveiros, Michelle
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

Background/Review of Literature: A new cancer diagnosis is overwhelming and stressful.  A multitude of information will be shared, and treatment initiated quickly. To prepare patients for chemotherapy, a comprehensive and systematic education program should be utilized. Combining written instructions and supportive material with nurse-led teaching sessions have been found to be most beneficial. Well prepared patients have been shown to have less anxiety, more confidence to handle adverse effects at home, and improved quality of life. Purpose: The quality improvement (QI) project purpose was to explore the effect of a nurse-delivered, enhanced education intervention on distress among older adults receiving chemotherapy in an outpatient setting. Design/Methods: The enhanced chemotherapy education intervention consisted of a 1-hour educational class facilitated by an oncology nurse, PowerPoint presentation, and written materials. A quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest design was used to compare outcomes across two groups of patients. Procedures: Group 1 received whatever pre-chemotherapy educational materials usually offered to patients by the unit (usual care). Group 2 received enhanced educational intervention prior to their first cycle of treatment. Both groups completed a Distress Thermometer and Problem List prior to Cycle 1, and prior to Cycle 2. All participants completed an investigator-designed patient satisfaction survey. Results/Interpretation: Both groups reported less distress prior to Cycle 2. Group 2 reported higher satisfaction scores (100% vs. 89%), called/came to office with fewer concerns (2 vs. 7), and fewer Emergency Room and hospital visits (1 vs. 2). The QI project resulted in improved patient satisfaction, decreased need for intervention with side effects, and fewer hospital visits among adult cancer patients receiving chemotherapy in an outpatient community setting.
Quiver Matrix Mechanics for IIB String Theory (II): Generic Dual Tori, Fractional Matrix Membrane and $SL(2,\integer)$ Duality
Creators: name: Dai, Jian
name: Wu, Yong-Shi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With the deconstruction technique, the geometric information of a torus can be encoded in a sequence of orbifolds. By studying the Matrix Theory on these orbifolds as quiver mechanics, we present a formulation that (de)constructs the torus of {\em generic shape} on which Matrix Theory is ``compactified''. The continuum limit of the quiver mechanics gives rise to a $(1+2)$-dimensional SYM. A hidden (fourth) dimension, that was introduced before in the Matrix Theory literature to argue for the electric-magnetic duality, can be easily identified in our formalism. We construct membrane wrapping states rigorously in terms of Dunford calculus in the context of matrix regularization. Unwanted degeneracy in the spectrum of the wrapping states is eliminated by using $SL(2,\integer)$ symmetry and the relations to the FD-string bound states. The dual IIB circle emerges in the continuum limit, constituting a critical evidence for IIB/M duality.
description: LaTeX2e file, 41 pages + 2 eps figures; v2: typos corrected, more clarifications added
A Review of Grey Literature Cited by Food Loss Law and Policy Scholarship
Creators: name: 0000-0003-4583-4351Angela Hackstadt
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: In the United States, state and federal programs, rules, and legislation attempt to address the social, economic, and environmental impacts of food waste. Research on the efficacy of these interventions rely on a variety of grey literature resources. Grey literature is valuable to policy research but may be overlooked because it is not published commercially and is often deemed unauthoritative. This review focuses on the use of grey literature in food waste law and policy scholarship to identify the most used sources and to determine what, if any, archiving strategies authors use. Recommendations for librarians and researchers are discussed. This article has been republished with minor changes. These changes do not impact the academic content of the article.
Additional file of Skeletal muscle gene expression in response to resistance exercise: sex specific regulation
Creators: name: Dongmei Liu
name: Sartor, Maureen A
name: Nader, Gustavo A
name: Gutmann, Laurie
name: Treutelaar, Mary K
name: Pistilli, Emidio E
name: IglayReger, Heidi B
name: Burant, Charles F
name: Hoffman, Eric P
name: Gordon, Paul M
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file of Skeletal muscle gene expression in response to resistance exercise: sex specific regulation
Aggregation Signature for Small Object Tracking
Creators: name: Liu, Chunlei
name: Ding, Wenrui
name: Yang, Jinyu
name: Murino, Vittorio
name: Zhang, Baochang
name: Han, Jungong
name: Guo, Guodong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Small object tracking becomes an increasingly important task, which however has been largely unexplored in computer vision. The great challenges stem from the facts that: 1) small objects show extreme vague and variable appearances, and 2) they tend to be lost easier as compared to normal-sized ones due to the shaking of lens. In this paper, we propose a novel aggregation signature suitable for small object tracking, especially aiming for the challenge of sudden and large drift. We make three-fold contributions in this work. First, technically, we propose a new descriptor, named aggregation signature, based on saliency, able to represent highly distinctive features for small objects. Second, theoretically, we prove that the proposed signature matches the foreground object more accurately with a high probability. Third, experimentally, the aggregation signature achieves a high performance on multiple datasets, outperforming the state-of-the-art methods by large margins. Moreover, we contribute with two newly collected benchmark datasets, i.e., small90 and small112, for visually small object tracking. The datasets will be available in https://github.com/bczhangbczhang/.
description: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2019
Piestinae Erichson 1839
Creators: name: Peck, Stewart B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae

description: SUBFAMILYPIESTINAE   Hypotelus insulanus Bierig 1934b: 343; Blackwelder 1943: 42; Herman 2001: 1785. Distribution. Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, St. Vincent; widespread Antillesendemic.
 Piestus capricornis Laporte 1835: 129; Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 382: Blackwelder 1943: 50; Herman 2001: 1789; Caron et al. 2011: 513. Distribution. Guadeloupe. French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil; the Lesser Antillesand Latin America.
 Piestus minutus Erichson 1840: 834; Caron et al. 2011: 528. Distribution. Dominica, Grenada. Mexico to Panama, Colombia to Trinidad, south to Argentina; Galapagos; the Lesser Antilles and Latin America.
 Piestus penicillatus (Dalman) 1821: 375 (Zirophorus); Blackwelder 1943: 46; Herman 2001: 1793. = Piestus erythropus Erichson 1840: 834; Blackwelder 1943: 100, as synonym of Piestus penicillatus (Dalman) 1821: 375 (Zirophorus); Scheerpeltz 1952: 290; Herman 2001: 1790; Caron et al. 2011: 530, synonymy. = Piestus fulvipes Erichson 1840: 833; Fleutiauxand Sallé 1890: 382; Blackwelder 1943: 45; Scheerpeltz 1952: 288; Herman 2001: 1791 of Guadeloupe; treated as “species inquiriendae” (types not seen), probably asynonym of P. penicillatus. Distribution. Cuba, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Hispaniola, Jamaica, PuertoRico, St. Barthélemy, St. Lucia. Mexico, Trinidad, Tobago, French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Brazil; widespread Antillesand Latin America.
 Piestus pygmaeus Laporte 1835: 130; Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 382; Blackwelder 1943: 49; Scheerpeltz 1952: 290; Herman 2001: 1793; Ivie et al. 2008b: 242; Caron et al. 2011: 523. Distribution. Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Hispaniola, Montserrat, St. Lucia, St. Vincent. Mexico to Argentina, Galapagos Islands, Trinidad; widespread Antillesand Latin America.
 Piestus sulcatus Gravenhorst 1806: 224; Blackwelder 1943: 44; Scheerpeltz 1952: 286; Herman 2001: 1795; Caron et al. 2011: 533. Distribution. Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent. Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana, Ecuador, Galapagos, Peru, Brazil; the Lesser Antillesand Latin America.
description: Published as part of Peck, Stewart B., 2016, The beetles of the Lesser Antilles (Insecta, Coleoptera): diversity and distributions, pp. 1-360 in Insecta Mundi 2016 (460) on page 69, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5182961
Exact Groundstates of Rotating Bose Gases close to a Feshbach Resonance
Creators: name: Cooper, N. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the groundstates of rotating Bose gases when interactions are affected by a nearby Feshbach resonance. We show that exact groundstates at high angular momentum can be found analytically for a general and realistic model for the resonant interactions. We identify parameter regimes where the exact groundstates are exotic fractional quantum Hall states, the excitations of which obey non-abelian exchange statistics.
description: 4 pages
KIND Communication: An Educational Intervention to Raise Nurse Resident's Awareness Towards Decreasing Implicit Bias Through Effective Communication Strategies
Creators: name: Tuitt, Khadijah
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

Background: There is an increasing need for healthcare institutions to become more aware of how provider biases can affect patient outcomes and contribute to health care disparities for Black and other diverse populations. Implicit biases can result in poor patient outcomes and a breakdown in trust between patients and health care providers.
Purpose: To educate nurse residents on the use of the Kinesics, Inclusive, Non-biased and Deliverable KIND, Communications technique to decrease biases during interactions.
Methods: Nurses enrolled in the institutions Nurse Residency program participated in the training session during their monthly educational meeting. Education was provided using a power-point presentation which included videos and open-dialogue discussions. The nurses were administered the Cultural Assessment Screening tool and asked about the trainings effect.
Results: A total of 32 nurse residents attended the programming with a yield of 19 paired pre and post-tests for cultural awareness. Although scores for culture awareness increased the change was not significant (p-.551). Open ended responses were positive including that hearing the personal experiences of others aided in their ability to reflect on their own biases was valuable and that the film shared on the experience of being Black was eye opening.
Discussion: The modest changes on cultural awareness and written responses to the open-ended question may indicate benefits in utilizing KIND communication in practice. Increasing awareness of unconscious attitudes towards racial groups through storytelling and gaining understanding of one’s own biases by hearing the lived experiences of others.
An Educational Intervention to Improve Healthcare Provider Confidence and Utilization of the Teach-Back Method When Providing Patient Education on Inhaler Technique
Creators: name: Crowley, Caitlin
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

Background: Patients with asthma and COPD often do not use prescribed inhalers correctly. This impacts the safety and effectiveness of the medication and potentially leads to increased symptoms, exacerbations, and hospitalizations. Inhaler technique should be assessed regularly; however, many patients do not receive initial education on devices or follow up evaluation to ensure correct use. Many healthcare providers (HCPs) are not properly educated on how to use inhalers, and a correlation exists between poor patient inhaler technique and improper training by HCPs. Purpose: The purpose of this quality improvement project is to increase HCPs ability and confidence to teach and assess inhaler technique among asthma and COPD patients. Methods: This project included an educational in-service at a primary care office. HCPs were provided education on how to teach and assess inhaler technique utilizing the teach-back method. The intervention included pre-intervention surveys and presentation of a PowerPoint. Post-intervention included an immediate post- intervention survey following the PowerPoint presentation to evaluate effectiveness of the in-service. Four weeks following the in-service participants were given another survey to evaluate HCPs use of learnings as part of their routine plan of care in practice. Results: Findings included overall increases in HCP confidence and utilization of the teach-back method as a result of the intervention. Conclusion: This DNP project supported findings in literature that many HCPs do not assess inhaler technique at office visits and are not adequately trained to teach and assess technique. The teach-back method proved to be an effective method to help increase HCPs ability and confidence to teach and assess inhaler technique in asthma and COPD patients.
Additional file 1 of Hypoglycemia unawareness identified by continuous glucose monitoring system is frequent in outpatients with type 2 diabetes without receiving intensive therapeutic interventions
Creators: name: Huang, Bingkun
name: Jiang, Qiuhui
name: Wu, Ting
name: Shen, Qingbao
name: Wang, Wengui
name: Wang, Shoubi
name: Huang, Yinxiang
name: Wang, Shunhua
name: Huang, Peiying
name: Lin, Mingzhu
name: Shi, Xiulin
name: Li, Xuejun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Analysis of influencing factors of AH, Level 1 AH, and Level 2 AH by univariate logistic regression model.
Ultrafast Laser Inscription of High Performance Mid-Infrared Waveguides in Chalcogenide Glass
Creators: name: Masselin, Pascal
name: Bychkov, Eugène
name: Coq, David Le
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the realization of mid-infrared waveguide by ultrafast laser inscription technique in a chalcogenide glass. Our approach is based on multicore waveguide that consists in an alignment on a mesh of positive refractive index channels placed parallel to each other. Two different meshes are investigated with different refractive index contrasts between the channel and the glass matrix. A detailed analysis of the performances at a wavelength of 4.5 $μ$m shows propagation losses of 0.20 $\pm$ 0.05 dB/cm and coupling efficiencies higher than 60 %.
Precision Electroweak Data and Unification of Couplings in Warped Extra Dimensions
Creators: name: Carena, Marcela
name: Delgado, Antonio
name: Ponton, Eduardo
name: Tait, Tim M. P.
name: Wagner, C. E. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Warped extra dimensions allow a novel way of solving the hierarchy problem, with all fundamental mass parameters of the theory naturally of the order of the Planck scale. The observable value of the Higgs vacuum expectation value is red-shifted, due to the localization of the Higgs field in the extra dimension. It has been recently observed that, when the gauge fields propagate in the bulk, unification of the gauge couplings may be achieved. Moreover, the propagation of fermions in the bulk allows for a simple solution to potentially dangerous proton decay problems. However, bulk gauge fields and fermions pose a phenomenological challenge, since they tend to induce large corrections to the precision electroweak observables. In this article, we study in detail the effect of gauge and fermion fields propagating in the bulk in the presence of gauge brane kinetic terms compatible with gauge coupling unification, and we present ways of obtaining a consistent description of experimental data, while allowing values of the first Kaluza Klein mode masses of the order of a few TeV.
description: 32 pages, 7 figures. References added
DOIS MOMENTOS DA REFORMA AGRÁRIA DE MERCADO NO ESTADO DA BAHIA
Creators: name: OLIVEIRA, GILCA GARCIA DE
name: OLALDE, ALICIA RUIZ
name: GERMANI, GUIOMAR INEZ
name: OLIVEIRA, GILCA GARCIA DE
name: OLALDE, ALICIA RUIZ
name: GERMANI, GUIOMAR INEZ
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Reforma agrária de mercado
subject: Políticas do Banco Mundial
subject: PCT
subject: PCF
subject: Bahia

description: Este artigo busca a reflexão sobre os programas orientados pelo modelo de reforma agrária de mercado no Estado da Bahia, particularmente o PCT, 1997 a 2002 e seu sucessor, PCF, desde 2002 até hoje. Observou-se diversos aspectos de improvisação e precariedade presentes, não só na efetiva implementação do Programa, mas, especialmente na sua concepção original. Estes aspectos estariam ligados principalmente a: mercado de terras artificialmente construído, desinformação dos “beneficiários”, assistência técnica inapropriada, atuação ambígua do Estado. Observou-se de positivo a obtenção da moradia mesmo sem saneamento básico adequado. Os referidos aspectos podem vir a contribuir com o fracasso da reforma agrária de mercado.