cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Ambient UV, personal sun exposure and risk of multiple primary melanomas
Creators: name: Goumas, Chris
name: Mujumdar, Urvi
name: Armstrong, Bruce K.
name: Theis, Beth
name: Thomas, Nancy
name: Hummer, Amanda J.
name: Culver, Hoda Anton
name: Marrett, Loraine D.
name: Rebbeck, Timothy R.
name: Millikan, Robert C.
name: Zanetti, Roberto
name: From, Lynn
name: Gallagher, Richard P.
name: Kricker, Anne
name: Begg, Colin B.
name: Kanetsky, Peter A.
name: Busam, Klaus
name: Litchfield, Melisa
name: Dwyer, Terence
name: Berwick, Marianne
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: Sun exposure is the main cause of melanoma in populations of European origin. No previous study has examined the effect of sun exposure on risk of multiple primary melanomas compared with people who have one melanoma.
Quantum Electrodynamics in d=3 from the epsilon-expansion
Creators: name: Di Pietro, Lorenzo
name: Komargodski, Zohar
name: Shamir, Itamar
name: Stamou, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study Quantum Electrodynamics in d=3 (QED_3) coupled to N_f flavors of fermions. The theory flows to an IR fixed point for N_f larger than some critical number N_f^c. For N_f<= N_f^c, chiral-symmetry breaking is believed to take place. In analogy with the Wilson-Fisher description of the critical O(N) models in d=3, we make use of the existence of a perturbative fixed point in d=4-2epsilon to study the three-dimensional conformal theory. We compute in perturbation theory the IR dimensions of fermion bilinear and quadrilinear operators. For small N_f, a quadrilinear operator can become relevant in the IR and destabilize the fixed point. Therefore, the epsilon-expansion can be used to estimate N_f^c. An interesting novelty compared to the O(N) models is that the theory in d=3 has an enhanced symmetry due to the structure of 3d spinors. We identify the operators in d=4-2epsilon that correspond to the additional conserved currents at d=3 and compute their infrared dimensions.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures. v2: references added, minor corrections
title: Pictorial representation of Structural Epilepsy In Childhood
Creators: name: Farook, Shameema
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: CNS
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Paediatric
subject: MR
subject: Structured reporting
subject: Developmental disease
subject: Infection
subject: Seizure disorders

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Childhood epilepsy is one of the common neurological disorders affecting around 1 % of paediatric population resulting in significant morbidity and intellectual impairment in these children. (1)Underlying etiology for epilepsy is highly varied...
Obstetric history and birth characteristics and Wilms Tumor: A report from the Children’s Onocolgy Group
Creators: name: Olshan, Andrew F.
name: Bunin, Greta R.
name: Daniels, Julie L.
name: Pan, I. Jen
name: Ross, Julie A.
name: Breslow, Norman E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Previous epidemiologic studies have suggested that various pregnancy and birth characteristics may be associated with Wilms tumor, a childhood kidney tumor. We evaluated obstetric events and birth characteristics in relation to Wilms tumor using data from a large North American case-control study. Mothers of 521 children with Wilms tumor and 517 controls, frequency matched on child’s age and geographic region, provided information about their labor and delivery history and their children’s birth characteristics through detailed computer assisted telephone interviews. Most obstetric factors were not associated with Wilms tumor, but modest associations were observed for labor induction (OR:1.4, 95% Confidence Interval (CI): 1.1,1.8), prenatal vaginal infection (OR: 1.8, 95% CI:1.2,2.8), and upper respiratory infection (OR: 1.5, 95% CI: 1.0,2.4). Low (<2500g) and high (>4500g) birth weight and preterm delivery (<37 weeks completed gestation) were associated with an elevated risk of Wilms tumor, as was neonatal respiratory problems. The association for high birth weight was present only among children with perilobar nephrogenic rests (OR: 2.1, 95% CI: 1.2,3.9), possibly distinguishing a specific association among a biologically distinct subgroup of Wilms tumor cases. The results of this large study did not support many of the earlier findings of smaller studies. However, additional investigations of the effects of certain obstetric and birth characteristics among more refined tumor subgroups may further our understanding of these factors in relation to Wilms tumor.
The Stellar Spectral Features of Nearby Galaxies in the Near-Infrared: Tracers of Thermally-Pulsing Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars?
Creators: name: Riffel, Rogério
name: Mason, Rachel E.
name: Martins, Lucimara P.
name: Rodíguez-Ardila, Alberto
name: Ho, Luis C.
name: Riffel, Rogemar A.
name: Lira, Paulina
name: Martin, Omaira Gonzalez
name: Ruschel-Dutra, Daniel
name: Alonso-Herrero, Almudena
name: Flohic, Helene
name: McDermid, Richard M.
name: Almeida, Cristina Ramos
name: Thanjavur, Karun
name: Winge, Claudia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the stellar absorption features in high signal-to-noise ratio near-infrared (NIR) spectra of the nuclear region of 12 nearby galaxies, mostly spirals. The features detected in some or all of the galaxies in this sample are the TiO (0.843 $μ$m\ and 0.886 $μ$m), VO (1.048 $μ$m), CN (1.1 $μ$m\ and 1.4 $μ$m), H$\rm _2$O (1.4 $μ$m\ and 1.9 $μ$m) and CO (1.6 $μ$m\ and 2.3 $μ$m) bands. The C$\rm _2$ (1.17 $μ$m\ and 1.76 $μ$m) bands are generally weak or absent, although C$\rm _2$ (1.76 $μ$m) may be weakly present in the mean galaxy spectrum. A deep feature near 0.93 $μ$m, likely caused by CN, TiO and/or ZrO, is also detected in all objects. Fitting a combination of stellar spectra to the mean spectrum shows that the absorption features are produced by evolved stars: cool giants and supergiant stars in the early- or thermally-pulsing asymptotic giant branch (E-AGB or TP-AGB) phases. The high luminosity of TP-AGB stars, and the appearance of VO and ZrO features in the data, suggest that TP-AGB stars dominate these spectral features. However, a contribution from other evolved stars is also likely. Comparison with evolutionary population synthesis models shows that models based on empirical libraries that predict relatively strong NIR features provide a more accurate description of the data. However, none of the models tested accurately reproduces all of the features observed in the spectra. To do so, the models will need to not only improve the treatment of TP-AGB stars, but also include good quality spectra of red giant and E-AGB stars. The uninterrupted wavelength coverage, high S/N, and quantity of features we present here will provide a benchmark for the next generation of models aiming to explain and predict the NIR properties of galaxies.
description: 12 pages, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Electronic supplementary material from Maintaining mimicry diversity: optimal warning colour patterns differ among microhabitats in Amazonian clearwing butterflies
Creators: name: Willmott, Keith R.
name: Willmott, Julia C. Robinson
name: Elias, Marianne
name: Jiggins, Chris D.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Map of study location, butterfly and bird distribution data, results from analyses and further information about methods.
title: Deciphering the ChitoCode: fungal chitins and chitosans as functional biopolymers
Creators: name: Cord-Landwehr, Stefan
name: Moerschbacher, Bruno
Publisher: name: University of Muenster, Institutional Repository MIAMI
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 570 Biology

description: Chitins and chitosans are among the most widespread and versatile functional biopolymers, with interesting biological activities and superior material properties. While chitins are evolutionary ancient and present in many eukaryotes except for higher plants and mammals, the natural distribution of chitosans, i.e. extensively deacetylated derivatives of chitin, is more limited. Unequivocal evidence for its presence is only available for fungi where chitosans are produced from chitin by the action of chitin deacetylases. However, neither the structural details such as fraction and pattern of acetylation nor the physiological roles of natural chitosans are known at present. We hypothesise that the chitin deacetylases are generating chitins and chitosans with specific acetylation patterns and that these provide information for the interaction with specific chitin‑ and chitosan‑binding proteins. These may be structural proteins involved in the assembly of the complex chitin‑ and chitosan‑containing matrices such as fungal cell walls and insect cuticles, chitin‑ and chitosan‑modifying and ‑degrading enzymes such as chitin deacetylases, chitinases, and chitosanases, but also chitin‑ and chitosan‑recognising receptors of the innate immune systems of plants, animals, and humans. The acetylation pattern, thus, may constitute a kind of 'ChitoCode', and we are convinced that new in silico, in vitro, and in situ analytical tools as well as new synthetic methods of enzyme biotechnology and organic synthesis are currently offering an unprecedented opportunity to decipher this code. We anticipate a deeper understanding of the biology of chitin‑ and chitosan‑containing matrices, including their synthesis, assembly, mineralisation, degradation, and perception. This in turn will improve chitin and chitosan biotechnology and the development of reliable chitin‑ and chitosan‑based products and applications, e.g. in medicine and agriculture, food and feed sciences, as well as cosmetics and material sciences.
description: Finanziert über die DEAL-Vereinbarung mit Wiley 2019-2022.
Asymptotic and optimal Liouville properties for Wolff type integral systems
Creators: name: Villavert, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 45G05, 45G15, 45M05 (Primary), 35B40, 35J62 (Secondary)

description: This article examines the properties of positive solutions to fully nonlinear systems of integral equations involving Hardy and Wolff potentials. The first part of the paper establishes an optimal existence result and a Liouville type theorem for the integral systems. Then, the second part examines the decay rates of positive bound states at infinity. In particular, a complete characterization of the asymptotic properties of bounded and decaying solutions is given by showing that such solutions vanish at infinity with two principle rates: the slow decay rates and the fast decay rates. In fact, the two rates can be fully distinguished by an integrability criterion. As an application, the results are shown to carry over to certain systems of quasilinear equations.
description: 28 pages, author's final version incorporating reviewer comments and suggestions
Cigarette smoking, body mass index, gastro-esophageal reflux disease, and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug use and risk of subtypes of esophageal and gastric cancers by P53 overexpression
Creators: name: Risch, Harvey A.
name: Howe, Christine L.
name: Gammon, Marilie D.
name: Bennett, William P.
name: Figueroa, Jonine D.
name: Terry, Mary Beth
name: Vaughan, Thomas L.
name: Mayne, Susan T.
name: Kleiner, David E.
name: Chow, Wong Ho
name: Dubrow, Robert
name: Zhang, Fang Fang
name: Fraumeni Jr., Joseph F.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: A number of risk factors for esophageal and gastric cancers have emerged, yet little is known whether risk factors map to molecular tumor markers such as overexpression of the tumor suppressor TP53. Using a US multicenter, population-based case-control study (170 cases of esophageal adenocarcinomas, 147 gastric cardia adenocarcinomas, 220 non-cardia gastric adenocarcinomas, and 112 esophageal squamous cell carcinomas), we examined whether the risk associated with cigarette smoking, body mass index (BMI), gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) use varied by P53 overexpression. We defined P53 overexpression through immunohistochemistry of paraffin-embedded tumor tissues, using cutpoints based on percent of cells positive. Polytomous logistic regression was used to assess differences between each case group (defined by tumor subtype and P53 expression) and the control group by risk factors. The proportion of cases overexpressing P53 by tumor subtype was 72% for esophageal adenocarcinoma, 69% for gastric cardia adenocarcinoma, 52% for non-cardia gastric adenocarcinoma, and 67% for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. For most tumor subtypes, we found little difference in risk factors by tumor P53 overexpression. For non-cardia gastric cancer however, an association with cigarette smoking was suggested for tumors that do not overexpress P53, while larger BMI was related with tumors that overexpress P53 verses no overexpression. Overall, this study did not find a clear relationship between P53 protein overexpression and known risk factors for subtypes of esophageal and gastric cancers. Further research with these tumors is needed to identify molecular markers associated with variations in the risk factor profiles.
title: Noise Reduction in Deep Learning-Based Image Reconstruction Using Different Tube Voltages of Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography
Creators: name: Kitagawa, Kaoru
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Cardiac Assist Devices

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Coronary CT angiography (CCTA) has been demonstrated to improve risk-stratification and management of patients with low-to-intermediate risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) [1.2]. The increased use of CCTA has led to concerns regarding an increase...
Consumption of sweet foods and breast cancer risk: a case–control study of women on Long Island, New York
Creators: name: Gammon, Marilie D.
name: Kabat, Geoffrey C.
name: Satia, Jessie A.
name: Neugut, Alfred I.
name: Teitelbaum, Susan L.
name: Bradshaw, Patrick T.
name: Britton, Julie A.
name: Sagiv, Sharon K.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Several epidemiologic studies have reported a positive association between breast cancer risk and high intake of sweets, which may be due to an insulin-related mechanism. We investigated this association in a population-based case-control study of 1434 cases and 1440 controls from Long Island, NY. Shortly after diagnosis, subjects were interviewed in-person to assess potential breast cancer risk factors, and self-completed a modified Block food frequency questionnaire (FFQ), which included 11 items pertaining to consumption of sweets (sweet beverages, added sugars and various desserts) in the previous year. Using unconditional logistic regression models, we estimated the association between consumption of sweets and breast cancer. Consumption of a food grouping that included dessert foods, sweet beverages and added sugars was positively associated with breast cancer risk [adjusted odds ratio (OR) comparing highest to lowest quartile: 1.27, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.00-1.61]. The OR was slightly higher when only dessert foods were considered (OR: 1.55, 95% CI: 1.23-1.96). The association with desserts was stronger among premenopausal women (OR: 2.00, 95% CI: 1.32-3.04) than postmenopausal women (OR: 1.40, 95% CI: 1.07-1.83), although the interaction with menopause was not statistically significant. Our study indicates that frequent consumption of sweets, particularly desserts, may be associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. These results are consistent with other studies that implicate insulin-related factors in breast carcinogenesis.
The three consumer profiles in Italy
Creators: name: Secondulfo, Domenico
Publisher: name: QuiEdit
Year: 2015
Subjects: consumer groups; Italian families; sociology of consumption

description: The purpose of this essay is to identify the choice and purchase profiles that can generalise consumer groups among Italian families. By means of multivariate research, the author has been able to identify three choice profiles, three strategic summaries that direct consumers when they make their purchases. The choice
tendency composition that was used to create the various profiles has remained constant over time and has allowed, furthermore, the author to pursue its progress over the passing of time and compare its extent and evolution.
description: Italian Sociological Review, Vol 2, No 3 (2012)
Dissemination research in cancer control: where are we and where should we go?
Creators: name: Campbell, Marci
name: Sorensen, Glorian
name: Weiner, Bryan J.
name: Bowen, Deborah J.
name: Emmons, Karen
name: Melvin, Cathy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Dissemination of evidence-based programs and policies is a critical final step in reducing the burden of cancer in the general public. Yet we have not been fully successful to date in improving clinical or public health practice by disseminating programs found to be effective in research. Therefore, research is needed into the dissemination process and outcomes, to enable better efforts in the future. This paper explores the definitions and models used for dissemination, the designs of dissemination studies, and possible research questions in dissemination research, all focused on cancer prevention and control. We hope that this paper will encourage dissemination research in our field.
An isoperimetric-type inequality for electrostatic shell interactions for Dirac operators
Creators: name: Arrizabalaga, Naiara
name: Mas, Albert
name: Vega, Luis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article we investigate spectral properties of the coupling $H+V_λ$, where $H=-iα\cdot\nabla +mβ$ is the free Dirac operator in $\mathbb R^3$, $m>0$ and $V_λ$ is an electrostatic shell potential (which depends on a parameter $λ\in\mathbb R$) located on the boundary of a smooth domain in $\mathbb R^3$. Our main result is an isoperimetric-type inequality for the admissible range of $λ$'s for which the coupling $H+V_λ$ generates pure point spectrum in $(-m,m)$. That the ball is the unique optimizer of this inequality is also shown. Regarding some ingredients of the proof, we make use of the Birman-Schwinger principle adapted to our setting in order to prove some monotonicity property of the admissible $λ$'s, and we use this to relate the endpoints of the admissible range of $λ$'s to the sharp constant of a quadratic form inequality, from which the isoperimetric-type inequality is derived.
description: 21 pages
title: The Plant Growth Promoting Ability of the Microbiome of Ceanothus velutinus from the Intermountain West Region
Creators: name: Ganesh, Jyothsna
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: Due to the ever-changing climate and deterioration of the earth’s ecosystem, environmental stresses like abiotic (drought, salinity) and biotic stresses (pathogen infection) gravely affected plant growth. Native plants are a great way of improving these effects on the urban landscape. They can be used as ornamental plants in landscaping as they are accustomed to their natural environment. The Center for Water-Efficient Landscaping at Utah State University has released a list of plants to be used for low water use landscaping. One such native plant is Ceanothus velutinus (snowbrush ceanothus). They are evergreen plants that can grow in dry and harsh conditions and are native to the Intermountain West region of North America. This study focused on the effect of rhizosphere and endosphere microbiome on the growth and development of snowbrush ceanothus plants. A comparative metagenomic study in the bulk soil, rhizosphere, and endosphere of snowbrush ceanothus revealed the microbial diversity and presence of several plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR). So next, the effect of this native soil was observed on the growth and development of snowbrush ceanothus under the greenhouse conditions. Inoculation of native soil to the propagation media enhanced the rooting and survival rate of snowbrush ceanothus cuttings. The inoculation of native soil in the snowbrush ceanothus plants developed from cutting propagation and seedlings in the greenhouse revealed an improved growth compared to control plants. The metagenomic study of the rhizosphere and endosphere of snowbrush ceanothus plants treated with native soil revealed the presence of several PGPR that were absent in the control plants. Nodulation was observed for the first time in snowbrush ceanothus plants grown in the greenhouse and inoculated with native soil. So finally, an attempt was made to isolate as many PGPR species as possible from the rhizosphere and endosphere of snowbrush ceanothus plants. Many of these isolates tested positive for one or more specific traits such as siderophore production, indole acetic acid production, catalase production, nitrogen fixation, and phosphate solubilization. The isolates were further tested for their plant growth-promoting properties in plants. We found many of these bacterial isolates could potentially be used as bio-fertilizers or bio-stimulants.
MPEC 2023-T232 : 2023 TZ9
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 TZ9

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Maternal exposure to medical radiation and Wilms tumor in the offspring: a report from the Children’s Oncology Group
Creators: name: Pollock, Brad H.
name: Breslow, Norman E.
name: Goel, Ruchika
name: Ross, Julie A.
name: Olshan, Andrew F.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: This study examined the association between pre-conception and in-utero maternal medical radiation exposure and Wilms tumor, using data from a large population-based case-control study.
Presentations for EGU GA Townhall meeting: Research Software Engineers in the Geosciences
Creators: name: Nüst, Daniel
name: Hammitzsch, Martin
name: Topping, David
name: Drost, Niels
name: Fritzsch, Bernadette
name: Devaraju, Anusuriya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: RSE
research software engineers
research software
research software engineering
EGU

description: Presentation slides at the Research Software Engineers (RSE) townhall meetings "Research Software Engineers in the Geosciences" at the European Geophysical Union General Assembly (EGU GA) 2018 to 2019

	2018
	2019

Presenters/organisers: Daniel Nüst, Jens Klump, David Topping, Martin Hammitzsch, Niels Drost, Bernadette Fritzsch, Anusuriya Devaraju
Weyl Fermion with various chiralities in a f-electron ferromagnetic system: PrB4
Creators: name: Ryu, Dong-Choon
name: Kim, Junwon
name: Kim, Kyoo
name: Kim, Bongjae
name: Kang, Chang-Jong
name: Min, B. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rare-earth tetraborides ($R$B$_{4}$) have attracted a lot of recent attention due to their intriguing electronic, magnetic, and topological properties. We have theoretically investigated topological properties of PrB$_{4}$, which is unique among $R$B$_{4}$ family due to its ferromagnetic ground state. We have discovered that PrB$_{4}$ is an intrinsic magnetic Weyl system possessing multiple topological band crossings with various chiral charges. Density-functional-theory band calculations combined with tight-binding band analysis reveal large Fermi-arc surface states, which are characteristic fingerprints of Weyl fermions. Anomalous Hall conductivity is estimated to be very large, ranging from 500 to 1000 ($Ω\cdot$cm)$^{-1}$ near the Fermi level, which also demonstrates the topological Weyl character of ferromagnetic PrB$_{4}$. These findings suggest that PrB$_{4}$, being a potential candidate of magnetic Weyl system, would be a promising rare-earth topological system for applications to next-generation spintronic and photonic devices.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
Exact Unification and Admissibility
Creators: name: Metcalfe, George
name: Cabrer, Leonardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A new hierarchy of "exact" unification types is introduced, motivated by the study of admissible rules for equational classes and non-classical logics. In this setting, unifiers of identities in an equational class are preordered, not by instantiation, but rather by inclusion over the corresponding sets of unified identities. Minimal complete sets of unifiers under this new preordering always have a smaller or equal cardinality than those provided by the standard instantiation preordering, and in significant cases a dramatic reduction may be observed. In particular, the classes of distributive lattices, idempotent semigroups, and MV-algebras, which all have nullary unification type, have unitary or finitary exact type. These results are obtained via an algebraic interpretation of exact unification, inspired by Ghilardi's algebraic approach to equational unification.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1410.5583
Presentations for EGU GA Townhall meeting: Research Software Engineers in the Geosciences
Creators: name: Nüst, Daniel
name: Hammitzsch, Martin
name: Topping, David
name: Drost, Niels
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: RSE
research software engineers
research software

description: Presentation slides at the first Research Software Engineers townhall meeting "Research Software Engineers in the Geosciences" at the European Geophysical Union General Assembly (EGU GA) 2018 Presenters: Daniel Nüst, Jens Klump, David Topping, Martin Hammitzsch, Niels Drost
Measuring cervical cancer risk: development and validation of the CARE Risky Sexual Behavior Index
Creators: name: Paskett, Electra D.
name: Katz, Mira L.
name: Ruffin, MacK T.
name: Ferketich, Amy K.
name: Reiter, Paul L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: To develop and validate a risky sexual behavior index specific to cervical cancer research.
Reproductive factors and hormone use and risk of adult gliomas
Creators: name: Schroeder, Jane C.
name: Felini, Martha J.
name: Olshan, Andrew F.
name: Wrensch, Margaret
name: Carozza, Susan E.
name: Miike, Rei
name: Rice, Terri
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Previous research suggests there may be a hormonal influence on glioma risk as evidenced by lower rates in females, change in incidence rates around ages at menarche and menopause and presence of hormone receptors in glial tumors. Using the large San Francisco Bay Area Adult Glioma Study, we investigated whether reported reproductive factors and hormone use were associated with gliomas overall or with histologic subtypes among female cases (n=619) and controls (n=650). We found that reproductive factors were generally not associated with gliomas. Weak to moderately elevated odds ratios were observed for self-reported later age at menarche (14+ years old versus 12–13 years old: adjusted odds ratio (AOR) = 1.39, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.02 –1.89), particularly for non-glioblastoma histologies (AOR = 1.64, 95% CI: 1.11–2.43). Inverse associations were observed for ever self-reported use of exogenous hormones (oral contraceptive use: AOR = 0.72, 95% CI: 0.53–0.99; postmenopausal hormone use: AOR = 0.56, CI: 0.37–0.84). However, cumulative hormone exposure defined multiple ways demonstrated no clear pattern of association. The results of this study suggest that any protective effect of hormones on gliomas may be limited to exogenous hormones, but a more detailed history of exogenous hormone use are needed to confirm findings.
Antioxidant and DNA methylation-related nutrients and risk of distal colorectal cancer
Creators: name: Sandler, Robert S.
name: Satia, Jessie A.
name: Williams, Christina Dawn
name: Keku, Temitope O.
name: Galanko, Joseph
name: Adair, Linda S.
name: Stevens, June
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: To investigate the relationship between antioxidant nutrients (vitamins C and E, β-carotene, selenium) and DNA methylation-related nutrients (folate, vitamins B6 and B12) and distal colorectal cancer risk in whites and African Americans and to examine intakes from food only versus total (food plus dietary supplements) intakes.
Association between cervical dysplasia and human papillomavirus in HIV seropositive women from Johannesburg South Africa
Creators: name: Pettifor, Audrey
name: Williamson, Anna Lise
name: Firnhaber, Cynthia
name: Smith, Jennifer S.
name: Schulze, Doreen
name: Williams, Sophia
name: Levin, Simon
name: Sanne, Ian M.
name: Lewis, David A.
name: Allan, Bruce
name: Rinas, Allen
name: Michelow, Pam
name: Van Le, Hoa
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: ObjectiveTo examine the association between CD4 counts, HPV infection and the risk of cervical neoplasia among HIV-seropositive women.MethodsA cross-sectional observational study was conducted among 1,010 HIV-seropositive women using cytology-based Pap smears. HPV DNA testing using Linear Array genotyping assay (Roche) was carried out in a subset of 191 patients. Multivariable-adjusted prevalence ratios (mPR) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were estimated with log-binomial regression.ResultsAmong 1,010 HIV-seropositive women, the prevalence of AGC/ASCUS, LSIL and HSIL or greater was 8.3, 23.5 and 18.0%, respectively. The risk of cervical lesions was higher with CD4<200 cells/mm3 vs. CD4 levels>500/mm3. HPV types 16 (41.7%) and HPV 56 (22.2%) were the most common types in HSIL cases. Women with CD4 levels<200/mm3 had a higher prevalence of HPV types 16 (p<0.01) and 66 (p=0.04). No statistical relationship between cervical lesions and HAART use was found.ConclusionThe burden of HPV infection and HSIL was high and correlated with HIV-induced immunosuppression. HPV 16 was the most common type in HSIL and increased in prevalence with greater immune suppression. Prophylactic HPV 16 vaccination could prevent approximately 40% of HSIL cases. Strengthening screening programs is imperative in this population.
La communication dans la médecine au quotidien. Un guide pratique
Creators: name: Académie Suisse Des Sciences Médicales (ASSM)
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Communication
Médecine
Patient
Médecin
Entretien avec le patient

description: L'entretien entre le médecin et la patiente/le patient constitue le fondement d'une bonne prise en charge. Les patientes et les patients ne veulent pas uniquement être informés, ils veulent aussi être entendus quand il s’agit de diagnostiquer et, le cas échéant, de traiter leurs plaintes. La littérature montre à quel point une communication insuffisante peut poser problème dans le quotidien médical. On peut citer, comme exemples de conséquences négatives, le risque accru de poser un diagnostic erroné, la difficulté d’établir une relation de confiance, la multiplication des examens inutiles et la non-observance des prescriptions thérapeutiques. Mais comment doit se dérouler un entretien idéal dans le quotidien médical? L’entretien idéal est une discussion, dont le contenu et le déroulement sont contrôlés simultanément par le médecin et le patient. Ces derniers se relaient pour mener la discussion. Ce guide vise à aider les médecins à analyser et améliorer la qualité de leurs entretiens dans la pratique quotidienne. Il tient compte des défis actuels du système de santé suisse et montre, à l’aide d’exemples concrets, comment combler les insuffisances.
The geography of consumption: an analysis of the purchase choice strategies in Italian families
Creators: name: Setiffi, Francesca
Publisher: name: QuiEdit
Year: 2015
Subjects: consumption; social stratificatio;, retail shops;

description: The aim of this paper is to study the change in consumption strategies of Italian families considering their choice of retail stores. The data are taken from the Observatory of the strategies of family consumption coordinated by the Institute of Social Research, University of Verona and SWG concerning the years 2009-
20111 and gathered by CAWI (Computer Assisted Web Interviewing). The longitudinal analysis of the phenomenon highlights a division of the sample into two parts: on one hand, families looking for the cheapest price in order to preserve the overa l quality of their shopping basket, on the other families driven by the services offered which add a surplus to the shopping cart. Most consumers have modified their shopping habits; price is confirmed as the main element directing consumption strategies while large-scale retail trade continues to absorb most of the demand, especially as regards food products. The level of the consumer’s selectivity in the choice of retail stores grows as much as his tendency to discuss the standard of the offered service. Dynamism is a characteristic of the wandering consumer’s behavior in order to interpret the constant change of the retail stores, that does not only express the profile of the “sovereign consumer” but expresses also a constant level of uncertainty about the future. The change in purchase strategies, and consequently in
the choice of retail shops has involved most families, forced to readjust both the purchased goods in the basket and the quality of these goods by the means of a “new” choice of the retail stores. The understanding of consumption strategies
description: Italian Sociological Review, Vol 2, No 3 (2012)
Electroweak standard model with very special relativity
Creators: name: Alfaro, Jorge
name: González, Pablo
name: Ávila, Ricardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Very Special Relativity Electroweak Standard Model (VSR EW SM) is a theory with $SU(2)_L \times U(1)_R$ symmetry, with the same number of leptons and gauge fields as in the usual Weinberg-Salam (WS) model. No new particles are introduced. The model is renormalizable and unitarity is preserved. However, photons obtain mass and the massive bosons obtain different masses for different polarizations. Besides, neutrino masses are generated. A VSR invariant term will produce neutrino oscillations and new processes are allowed. In particular, we compute the rate of the decays $μ\rightarrow e + γ$. All these processes, which are forbidden in the Electroweak Standard Model, put stringent bounds on the parameters of our model and measure the violation of Lorentz invariance. We investigate the canonical quantization of this non-local model. Second quantization is carried out obtaining a well defined particle concept. Additionally, we do a counting of the degrees of freedom associated to the gauge bosons involved in this work, after Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking has been realized. Violations of Lorentz invariance have been predicted by several theories of Quantum Gravity \cite{amu}. It is a remarkable possibility that the low energy effects of Lorentz violation induced by Quantum Gravity could be contained in the non-local terms of the VSR EW SM.
description: Latex, 24 pages. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
3-D refractive index tomograms and deformability of individual human red blood cells from cord blood of newborn infants and maternal blood
Creators: name: Park, HyunJoo
name: Ahnb, Taegyu
name: Kim, Kyoohyun
name: Lee, Sangyun
name: Kook, Songyi
name: Lee, Dongheon
name: Suh, In Bum
name: Nab, Sunghun
name: Park, YongKeun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Red blood cells (RBCs) from the cord blood of newborn infants have distinctive functions for fetal and infant development. To systematically investigate the biophysical characteristics of individual cord RBCs in newborn infants, a comparative study was performed of RBCs from cord blood of newborn infants, and of adult RBCs from mothers or non-pregnant women, employing optical holographic micro-tomography. Optical measurements of 3-D refractive index distributions, and of dynamic membrane fluctuations of individual RBCs, enabled retrieval of the morphological, biochemical, and mechanical properties of cord, maternal, and adult RBCs at the individual cell level. The volume and surface area of the cord RBCs were significant larger than those of RBCs from non-pregnant women, and cord RBCs have more flattened shapes than RBCs in adults. In addition, the Hb content in the cord RBCs of newborns was significantly greater. The Hb concentration in cord RBCs was higher than for non-pregnant women or maternal RBCs, but they were within the physiological range of adults. Interestingly, the amplitude of dynamic membrane fluctuations in cord RBCs were comparable to those in non-pregnant women and maternal RBCs, suggesting that the deformability of cord RBCs is similar to that of healthy RBCs in adults.
La communication dans la médecine au quotidien. Un guide pratique
Creators: name: Académie Suisse Des Sciences Médicales (ASSM)
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Communication
Médecine
Patient
Médecin
Entretien avec le patient

description: L'entretien entre le médecin et la patiente/le patient constitue le fondement d'une bonne prise en charge. Les patientes et les patients ne veulent pas uniquement être informés, ils veulent aussi être entendus quand il s’agit de diagnostiquer et, le cas échéant, de traiter leurs plaintes. La littérature montre à quel point une communication insuffisante peut poser problème dans le quotidien médical. On peut citer, comme exemples de conséquences négatives, le risque accru de poser un diagnostic erroné, la difficulté d’établir une relation de confiance, la multiplication des examens inutiles et la non-observance des prescriptions thérapeutiques. Mais comment doit se dérouler un entretien idéal dans le quotidien médical? L’entretien idéal est une discussion, dont le contenu et le déroulement sont contrôlés simultanément par le médecin et le patient. Ces derniers se relaient pour mener la discussion. Ce guide vise à aider les médecins à analyser et améliorer la qualité de leurs entretiens dans la pratique quotidienne. Il tient compte des défis actuels du système de santé suisse et montre, à l’aide d’exemples concrets, comment combler les insuffisances.
Benchmarking Basis Sets for Density Functional Theory Thermochemistry Calculations: Why unpolarised basis sets and the polarised 6-311G family should be avoided
Creators: name: Pitman, Samuel J.
name: Evans, Alicia K.
name: Ireland, Robbie T.
name: Lempriere, Felix
name: McKemmish, Laura K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Basis sets are a crucial but often largely overlooked choice when setting up quantum chemistry calculations. The choice of basis set can be critical in determining the accuracy and calculation time of your quantum chemistry calculations. Clear recommendations based on thorough benchmarking are essential, but not readily available currently. This study investigates the relative quality of basis sets for general properties by benchmarking basis set performance for a diverse set of 136 reactions (from the diet-150-GMTKN55 dataset). In our analysis, we find the distributions of errors are often significantly non-Gaussian, meaning that the joint consideration of median errors, mean absolute errors and outlier statistics is helpful to provide a holistic understanding of basis set performance. Our direct comparison of performance between most modern basis sets provides quantitative evidence for basis set recommendations that broadly align with the established understanding of basis set experts and is evident in the design of modern basis sets. For example, while zeta is a good measure of quality, it is not the only determining factor for an accurate calculation with unpolarised double and triple-zeta basis sets (like 6-31G and 6-311G) having very poor performance. Appropriate use of polarisation functions (e.g. 6-31G*) is essential to obtain the accuracy offered by double or triple zeta basis sets. In our study, the best performance in our study for double and triple zeta basis set are 6-31++G** and pcseg-2 respectively. The polarised 6-311G basis set family has poor parameterisation which means its performance is more like a double-zeta than triple-zeta basis set. All versions of the 6-311G basis set family should be avoided entirely for valence chemistry calculations moving forward.
description: 20 pages (27 w references), 8 figures
Supplementary Material from Horizontal and vertical species turnover in tropical birds in habitats with differing land use.
Creators: name: Rachakonda Sreekar
name: Corlett, Richard
name: Salindra Dayananda
name: Uromi Manage Goodale
name: Kilpatrick, Adam
name: Sarath W. Kotagama
name: Koh, Lian Pin
name: Eben Goodale
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Large tracts of tropical rainforests are being converted into intensive agricultural lands. Such anthropogenic disturbances are known to reduce species turnover across horizontal distances. But it is not known if they can also reduce species turnover across vertical distances (elevation), which have steeper climatic differences. We measured turnover in birds across horizontal and vertical sampling transects in three land-use types of Sri Lanka: protected forest, reserve buffer and intensive-agriculture, from 90 to 2100 m a.s.l. Bird turnover rates across horizontal distances were similar across all habitats, and much less than vertical turnover rates. Vertical turnover rates were not similar across habitats. Forest had higher turnover rates than the other two habitats for all bird species. Buffer and intensive-agriculture had similar turnover rates, even though buffer habitats were situated at the forest edge. Therefore, our results demonstrate the crucial importance of conserving primary forest across the full elevational range available.
MC1R genotype may modify the effect of sun exposure on melanoma risk in the GEM study
Creators: name: Armstrong, Bruce K.
name: Kricker, Anne
name: Millikan, Robert C.
name: Dwyer, Terence
name: Goumas, Chris
name: Begg, Colin B.
name: Thomas, Nancy E.
name: Marrett, Loraine D.
name: Kanetsky, Peter
name: Rosso, Stefano
name: Gallagher, Richard P.
name: Berwick, Marianne
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: We investigated whether MC1R genotype modifies the effect of sun exposure on melanoma risk in 1,018 cases with multiple melanomas (MPM) and 1,875 controls with one melanoma (SPM). There was some suggestion that MC1R genotype modified the effect of beach and water activities on MPM risk: ORs were 1.94 (95% CI 1.40–2.70) for any activities for no R variants and 1.39 (95% CI 1.05–1.84) with R variants (R151C, R160W, D294H, D84E) (p for interaction 0.08). MC1R modification of sun exposure effects appeared most evident for MPM of the head and neck: for early life ambient UV the OR was 4.23 (95% CI 1.76–10.20) with no R and 1.04 (95% CI 0.40–2.68) with R (p for interaction=0.01; p for three-way interaction=0.01). Phenotype modified the effect of sun exposure and MPM in a similar manner. We conclude that MC1R and pigmentary phenotype may modify the effects of sun exposure on melanoma risk on more continuously sun-exposed skin. Possible explanations include that risk may saturate with higher sun sensitivity for melanomas on continuously sun-exposed sites but continue to increase as sun exposure increases with lower sun sensitivity, or that sun sensitive people adapt their behaviour by increasing sun protection when exposed.
title: MRI Diagnostic Algorithm of Renal Masses
Creators: name: Khoda, Jeevitesh
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: MR
subject: Decision analysis
subject: Education
subject: Observer performance
subject: Cancer

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: 1) Current status of imaging and rationale for using MRI2) MRI sequences and their utility3) Approach to solid renal masses using multiparametric MRI4) Staging and preoperative planning/response...
Our Purchases. Where and what we buy
Creators: name: Lonardi, Cristina
Publisher: name: QuiEdit
Year: 2015
Subjects: places of consumption; family budget; consumer practices

description: This article provides an overview of several places of consumption (stalls and markets, discount stores, specialist shops, shopping centres and new forms of purchasing) and what is bought there. In particular, it will show that the so-called cathedrals of consumption – shopping centres – are the favourite shopping
destinations of today’s consumers, whose expenditure choices are irreversibly directed towards basic essentials, namely food. Indeed, this is the most substantial item of expenditure in family budgets, especially those that declare a low or medium-low socio-economic status. Albeit in a well-structured context with
established forms, there is a slight increase in consumer practices linked to responsible, critical and sustainable consumption, taking shape in new forms of purchasing that differ from the traditional modes.
description: Italian Sociological Review, Vol 2, No 3 (2012)
Oral health and risk for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: the Carolina Head and Neck Cancer Study
Creators: name: Olshan, Andrew F.
name: Funkhouser, William K.
name: Bradshaw, Patrick T.
name: Divaris, Kimon
name: Weissler, Mark C.
name: Smith, Joanna
name: Bell, Mary E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Recent reports have linked oral health and periodontal disease indicators with increased risk of squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck (SCCHN). Thus far, evidence has been inconclusive; our objective was to study the association between oral health and SCCHN risk in the context of a large population-based study.