cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Semantic Enabled 6G LEO Satellite Communication for Earth Observation: A Resource-Constrained Network Optimization
Creators: name: Hassan, Sheikh Salman
name: Nguyen, Loc X.
name: Tun, Yan Kyaw
name: Han, Zhu
name: Hong, Choong Seon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Earth observation satellites generate large amounts of real-time data for monitoring and managing time-critical events such as disaster relief missions. This presents a major challenge for satellite-to-ground communications operating under limited bandwidth capacities. This paper explores semantic communication (SC) as a potential alternative to traditional communication methods. The rationality for adopting SC is its inherent ability to reduce communication costs and make spectrum efficient for 6G non-terrestrial networks (6G-NTNs). We focus on the critical satellite imagery downlink communications latency optimization for Earth observation through SC techniques. We formulate the latency minimization problem with SC quality-of-service (SC-QoS) constraints and address this problem with a meta-heuristic discrete whale optimization algorithm (DWOA) and a one-to-one matching game. The proposed approach for captured image processing and transmission includes the integration of joint semantic and channel encoding to ensure downlink sum-rate optimization and latency minimization. Empirical results from experiments demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed framework for latency optimization while preserving high-quality data transmission when compared to baselines.
description: Accepted in GLOBECOM 2024
Appendix_correct – Supplemental material for Under a magnifying glass: On the use of experiments in strategy research
Creators: name: Stefano, Giada Di
name: Gutierrez, Cédric
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 150310 Organisation and Management Theory
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Supplemental material, Appendix_correct for Under a magnifying glass: On the use of experiments in strategy research by Giada Di Stefano and Cédric Gutierrez in Strategic Organization
Appendices – Supplemental material for Does Violent Protest Backfire? Testing a Theory of Public Reactions to Activist Violence
Creators: name: Simpson, Brent
name: Willer, Robb
name: Feinberg, Matthew
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, Appendices for Does Violent Protest Backfire? Testing a Theory of Public Reactions to Activist Violence by Brent Simpson, Robb Willer and Matthew Feinberg in Socius
title: Systems, devices and methods for imaging and surgery
Creators: name: Zeitals, Steven M.
name: Farinelli, William A.
name: Anderson, Richard Rox
name: Kobler, James B.
name: Ben-Yakar, Adela
name: Everett, William Neil
name: Hoy, Christopher L.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: A61B18/20
subject: A61B2017/00057
subject: A61B2018/20351
subject: A61B2018/20355
subject: A61B2018/20361
subject: No longer published

description: Provided herein are devices, systems and methods for treating a vocal fold pathology by forming a substantially planar void below the epithelium of the vocal fold using optical energy. Also provided are devices, systems, and methods for combined imaging and treating of a vocal fold pathology.
Topological transitions in quantum jump dynamics: Hidden exceptional points
Creators: name: Pavlov, Andrei I.
name: Gefen, Yuval
name: Shnirman, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Complex spectra of dissipative quantum systems may exhibit degeneracies known as exceptional points (EPs). At these points the systems' dynamics may undergo drastic changes. Phenomena associated with EPs and their applications have been extensively studied in relation to various experimental platforms, including, i.a., the superconducting circuits. While most of the studies focus on EPs appearing due to the variation of the system's physical parameters, we focus on EPs emerging in the full counting statistics of the system. We consider a monitored three level system and find multiple EPs in the Lindbladian eigenvalues considered as functions of a counting field. These "hidden" EPs are not accessible without the insertion of the counting field into the Linbladian, i.e., if only the density matrix of the system is studied. Nevertheless, we show that the "hidden" EPs are accessible experimentally. We demonstrate that these EPs signify transitions between different topological classes which are rigorously characterized in terms of the braid theory. Furthermore, we identify dynamical observables affected by these transitions and demonstrate how experimentally measured quantum jump distributions can be used to spot transitions between different topological regimes. Additionally, we establish a duality between the conventional Lindbladian EPs (zero counting field) and some of the "hidden" ones. Our findings allow for easier experimental observations of the EP transitions, normally concealed by the Lindbladian steady state, without applying postselection schemes. These results can be directly generalized to any monitored open system as long as it is described within the Lindbladian formalism.
Supplemental Material, sj-docx-1-ppq-10.1177_1354068818805248 - Different emphases, same positions? The election manifestos of political parties in the EU multilevel electoral system compared
Creators: name: Braun, Daniela
name: Schmitt, Hermann
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Supplemental Material, sj-docx-1-ppq-10.1177_1354068818805248 for Different emphases, same positions? The election manifestos of political parties in the EU multilevel electoral system compared by Daniela Braun and Hermann Schmitt in Party Politics
title: Prevalence and Risk Factors of Intimate partner Violence in COTE D’IVOIRE
Creators: name: AKANI, Bangaman
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2020

description: INTRODUCTION: Intimate partner violence is a critical and global public health issue that affects numerous women, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Studies from conflict and post-conflict Sub-Saharan Africa nations revealed an increasing risk of violence against women in areas of conflict. Cote d'Ivoire is a West African nation that encountered multiple conflicts from 2002 to 2011.

AIM:
This study aimed at examining the underlying factors of violence against women in a post-conflict context.

METHODS:
This study analyzed data from the 2012 Cote d'Ivoire Demographic Health Survey. The outcome variable was any Intimate partner violence. The predictor variables were socio-demographic among women, economic opportunities, and partner-related characteristics. Three multivariate logistic regression models were performed, and odds ratios (OR) with a confidence interval of 95% (CI 95%) were estimated.

RESULTS:
Just over 30% of respondents in the sample (3,500) ever experienced any Intimate partner violence. Respondents’ age, religion, wealth index, residency, and region were significantly related to Intimate partner violence. Also, partner's education level, alcohol consumption, and polygamous status were significantly associated with IPV. However, results also indicated that respondents' level of education, occupation, and decision-making on large purchases were not associated with Intimate partner violence.

CONCLUSION:
In Cote d'Ivoire, policymakers should consider these risk factors and design intervention methods based on the ecological model to prevent intimate partner violence.
THE EVOLUTION OF LEGAL THEORIES: ADAPTING TO THE CHALLENGES OF THE 21ST CENTURY
Creators: name: Rahmanova, Sayyora
name: Rahmonov, Jaloliddin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The 21st century has presented new and complex challenges to the legal system. Legal theories must adapt to keep pace with these challenges. This article discusses the evolution of legal theories in response to the challenges of the 21st century. It begins by providing a brief overview of the different types of legal theories. It then discusses how these theories have evolved in response to specific challenges, such as globalization, technological advances, and environmental degradation. The article concludes by arguing that legal theories must continue to evolve in order to meet the challenges of the 21st century.
title: Thermo-kinetic mixing for pharmaceutical applications
Creators: name: Williams, Robert O.
name: McGinity, James W.
name: Brough, Chris
name: Miller, Dave A.
name: DiNunzio, James C.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: A61K31/573
subject: A61J3/00
subject: A61J3/07
subject: A61J3/10
subject: A61K9/146
subject: A61K9/1694
subject: A61K9/2077
subject: A61K31/343
subject: A61K31/496
subject: A61K47/32
subject: A61K47/38
subject: No longer published

description: Compositions and methods for making a pharmaceutical dosage form include making a pharmaceutical composition that includes one or more active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) with one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipients by thermokinetic compounding into a composite. Compositions and methods of preprocessing a composite comprising one or more APIs with one or more excipients include thermokinetic compounding, comprising thermokinetic processing the APIs with the excipients into a composite, wherein the composite can be further processed by conventional methods known in the art, such as hot melt extrusion, melt granulation, compression molding, tablet compression, capsule filling, film-coating, or injection molding.
Spectroscopy of excited quarkonium states in the light-front quark model
Creators: name: Acharyya, Ritwik
name: Puhan, Satyajit
name: Kumar, Narinder
name: Dahiya, Harleen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated the ground state ($1S$), radially excited states ($2S$) and ($3S$) along with the orbitally excited state ($1P$) for the heavy charmonia ($c \bar c$) and bottomonia ($b \bar b$) mesons in the light-front quark model (LFQM). The light-front wave functions have been successful in explaining various physical properties of meson states in the past, especially for the $1S$ and $2S$ states. However, studies regarding the radially excited state $3S$ and orbitally excited state $1P$ have hardly been pursued before. In this study, we take up these two excited states and investigate the electromagnetic form factors (EMFFs), charge radii, decay constants, parton distribution functions (PDFs) and the distribution amplitudes (DAs) for the quarkonia system. For the sake of completeness, we have also included the study of the ground and the first excited states of quarkonia mesons. We have also illustrated the 3D wave functions for the radially excited states in order to study their nodal structures.
description: 28 pages and 7 figures
title: Wireless communication methods, systems, and computer program products
Creators: name: Jose, Jubin
name: Bhargava, Vidur
name: Vishwanath, Sriram
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: H04B7/15507
subject: H04L5/0057
subject: H04W28/021
subject: H04W48/20
subject: H04W52/0209
subject: H04W52/245
subject: H04W52/46
subject: H04W72/085
subject: H04W74/0816
subject: H04W88/04
subject: H04B7/2606
subject: H04B17/345
subject: H04B17/373
subject: H04W52/343
subject: H04W84/047
subject: H04W84/18
subject: Y02D70/1222
subject: Y02D70/1242
subject: Y02D70/1262
subject: Y02D70/142
subject: Y02D70/144
subject: Y02D70/146
subject: Y02D70/162
subject: Y02D70/164
subject: Y02D70/22
subject: Y02D70/449
subject: No longer published

description: A method, wireless device and computer program product for expanding the coverage of a cellular network. A wireless device (e.g., cellular telephone) is able to communicate with a base station in a cell of the cellular network over a non-cellular interface via another wireless device in a cell through the use of multi-hopping. A wireless device may request permission to communicate with the base station over a non-cellular interface via hopping off another wireless device when its signal strength is below a threshold. Alternatively, a wireless device may receive a request to communicate with the base station over a non-cellular interface via hopping off the wireless device that sent the request when that wireless device has excess capacity in its bandwidth with the base station. By enabling wireless devices to communicate with a base station in such a manner, the effective capacity of the cellular network is expanded and the effective capacity of the cellular network is improved.
title: The Association Between Child Maltreatment and Impulsivity, Emotional Adjustment, and Substance Use Among First-year Male College Students
Creators: name: Moran, Katherine
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2020

description: Child maltreatment is common in the United States and can cause severe physical and mental illness well into young adulthood. Some studies have shown that child maltreatment may increase impulsivity and emotional adjustment among adolescents but there has been little focus on these factors among college students. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between child maltreatment (physical and sexual abuse and witnessing domestic abuse) on impulsivity and emotional adjustment. Additionally, this study assessed whether impulsivity or emotional adjustment mediate the relationship between child maltreatment and substance use and binge drinking. This study analyzed secondary data from a diverse group of male college freshmen from 30 colleges and Universities in Georgia (51% White, 19% Black/African American). Univariate analyses using SAS 9.4 found that of the 1,129 participants between the ages of 18 and 24, 15% were exposed to at least one form of child maltreatment, 4% were exposed to two forms, and 0.4% had been exposed to all three forms of maltreatment. Among participants, 11% experienced severe physical abuse, 3% experienced severe sexual abuse, and 13% witnessed domestic abuse as a child. Severe child maltreatment was positively correlated with impulsivity, substance use, and binge drinking, and it was negatively correlated with emotional adjustment. Substance use and binge drinking were independently positively associated with impulsivity and negatively associated with emotional adjustment. Four mediation models were analyzed using Hayes PROCESS macro in SAS 9.4. The study found that impulsivity and emotional adjustment were independent partial mediators between severe child maltreatment and substance use and severe child maltreatment and binge drinking while controlling for sociodemographic factors.
title: Programmable deposition of thin films of a user-defined profile with nanometer scale accuracy
Creators: name: Sreenivasan, Sidlgata V.
name: Singhal, Shrawan
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: B05D1/40
subject: B05D1/02
subject: B05D1/34
subject: B05D1/42
subject: B05D3/007
subject: B05D3/067
subject: B05D3/12
subject: B05D5/00
subject: B05D3/0254
subject: B05D3/0466
subject: B05D3/0486
subject: B05D3/0493
subject: B29C35/0888
subject: B29C43/021
subject: B29C59/026
subject: B81C1/0046
subject: B82Y40/00
subject: G03F7/0002
subject: H01L21/0271
subject: No longer published

description: An inkjet-based process for programmable deposition of thin films of a user-defined profile. Drops of a pre-cursor liquid organic material are dispensed at various locations on a substrate by a multi-jet. A superstrate that has been bowed due to a backside pressure is brought down such that a first contact of the drops is made by a front side of the superstrate thereby initiating a liquid front that spreads outward merging with the drops to form a contiguous film captured between the substrate and the superstrate. A non-equilibrium transient state of the superstrate, the contiguous film and the substrate then occurs after a duration of time. The contiguous film is then cured to crosslink it into a polymer. The superstrate is then separated from the polymer thereby leaving a polymer film on the substrate. In such a manner, non-uniform films can be formed without significant material wastage in an inexpensive manner.
title: Examining the Relationship between the Use and Awareness of Alternative Tobacco Products and Smoking Quit Attempt among U.S Adolescents.
Creators: name: Brown, Colvette
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2020

description: Introduction: Public health interventions have heightened awareness of risk factors and ill effects of tobacco use. Though sales of conventional tobacco products have steadily been declining, there is the advent of a new generation of alternative tobacco products that are being marketed with claims of reduced harms and smoking cessation aid.
Aim: The aim of this study is to assess the prevalence of tobacco quit attempt among U.S. adolescents and to examine its relationship to the use and self-reported awareness of two alternative tobacco products (E-cigarettes and Heated Tobacco Products).
Methods: This is a cross-sectional analysis of data (2,271) from the 2019 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) of middle and high school students in the U.S. Logistic regression analysis was employed to determine the odds of tobacco quit attempt adjusting for age, race, gender, school type, and household tobacco exposure.
Results:  The overall prevalence of tobacco quit attempt among e-cigarette users and HTP users was 52.50% and 5.20%, respectively. Results of multivariate regression analyses identified age (OR=0.74, 95% CI:0.57-0.96), race (OR=1.41, 95% CI:1.14-1.75), and household tobacco smoke exposure (OR=1.19, 95% CI:1.01-1.39) as the main factors that are significantly associated with tobacco quit attempt adjusting for all other covariates.
Conclusion: The results of this study did not show a statistically significant association between the awareness and use of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products and tobacco smoking quit attempt. Race, age, and exposure to household tobacco smoking were found to be positively associated with quit attempts. Further studies are needed to clarify whether the use and awareness of e-cigarette and HTPs are associated with smoking quit attempt.
VanDesselSupplementalMaterial – Supplemental material for Consequence-Based Approach-Avoidance Training: A New and Improved Method for Changing Behavior
Creators: name: Dessel, Pieter Van
name: Hughes, Sean
name: Houwer, Jan De
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental material, VanDesselSupplementalMaterial for Consequence-Based Approach-Avoidance Training: A New and Improved Method for Changing Behavior by Pieter Van Dessel, Sean Hughes and Jan De Houwer in Psychological Science
Interacting Holographic dark energy with matter creation: A dynamical system analysis
Creators: name: Mandal, Goutam
name: Biswas, Santosh
name: Biswas, Sujay Kr.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An interacting Holographic dark energy (HDE) with different infra-red (IR) cutoffs (Hubble horizon and future event horizon) is investigated in the background dynamics of flat Friedmann Lemaitre Robertson Walker (FLRW) universe where gravitational particle creation effects via different form of particle creation rates (1) $Γ=3βH$ and (2) $Γ=3αH_{0}+3βH$ are considered. The created particles are considered to be pressureless Dark Matter (DM) which interacts with the HDE through a phenomenological choice of interaction term $Q=3γH ρ_{m}$. We obtain an analytic solution of the cosmological dynamics with Hubble horizon as IR cutoff when the creation rate is taken as $Γ=3 βH$. We find that the interacting HDE from the Hubble horizon as the IR cutoff can give the late-time acceleration and non-interacting cannot give. On the other hand, employing the Hubble horizon and the future event as IR cutoffs for the model of HDE does not provide the analytic solution when the creation rate is taken as $Γ=3αH_{0}+3βH$. We then analyze the model separately using the dynamical systems theory. From the analysis, the model (with Hubble horizon as IR cutoff) provides two sets of critical points. One can give a late-time accelerated universe evolving in quintessence, the cosmological constant, or the phantom era. But, it does not show any matter-dominated era. On the other hand, by applying the future event as an IR cutoff, the model provides the complete evolution of the universe. It also exhibits the late-time scaling attractor gives the possible solution of the coincidence problem. Global dynamics of the model are investigated by defining the appropriate Lyapunov function. Finally, the adiabatic sound speeds of all the models have been calculated and plotted numerically to find the stability of the models.
description: 27 pages, 10 captioned figures, Accepted version in Physics of the Dark Universe
title: Mental Health, Health Coverage, and Perceived Barriers to Care among LGBTQ+ Southerners
Creators: name: Vasi, Andre
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2021

description: Background: Research has found that those who are LGBTQ+ face disproportionate mental health outcomes with transgender and gender diverse (TGD) individuals having even greater mental health disparities than the general population and cisgender LGB+ individuals alike. Cross-sectional and surveillance studies have also found that LGBTQ+ and TGD individuals disproportionately have health access-related disparities in terms of healthcare coverage and perceived barriers to care than the general population. There is indication that LGBTQ+ individuals in the U.S. South have greater and unique health needs due to a widening health coverage gap relative to other regions of the U.S. Aim: Using 2017 LGBT Institute Southern Survey data, this study examines the relationships and disparities in mental health among LGBTQ+ individuals and across sexual and gender identity groups with healthcare coverage and perceived barriers to care to address multiple research gaps in LGBTQ+ and trans health research. Methods: A chi-square analysis was conducted to determine associations and group differences in healthcare coverage with psychological distress. Several One-way ANOVA tests were performed to assess the mental health disparities between sexual, gender and racial/ethnic groups via the mean psychological distress scores. Lastly, multivariate linear regression models were used to investigate the relationships healthcare coverage, perceived barriers to care, and individual LGBTQ+ identities have with psychological distress, after inputting sets of socio-demographic variables and interaction terms into each model. Results: There were disparities in healthcare coverage and mean psychological distress scores between LGBTQ+ groups, with higher uninsured rates and mean distress for respondents identifying as bisexual or other and among those identifying as TGD. In the linear regression, healthcare coverage (p<0.0001) and perceived barriers to care (p<0.0001) were significantly associated with psychological distress, even after all socio-demographic variables were controlled. Trans women (?=1.44, p<0.01) and gender diverse individuals (? =1.05, p<0.05) compared to cis men, and bisexuals (?=0.93, p<0.01) compared to gay men have higher distress. Conclusions: Mental health and health access disparities within LGBTQ+ sub-groups exist, which future studies should further examine utilizing inclusive, robust study designs. Public health policies and interventions which promote cultural responsiveness would be beneficial in reducing health access disparities among LGBTQ+ Southerners associated with poorer mental health statuses.
title: MOS transistor having improved oxynitride dielectric
Creators: name: Lee Kwong, Dim-Lee
name: Kim, Jong Han
name: Yoon, Giwan
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: H01L21/28185
subject: H01L21/28202
subject: H01L29/518
subject: Y10S148/112
subject: 257/410
subject: 257/639
subject: 257/649
subject: 257/760

description: High quality ultrathin gate oxides having nitrogen atoms therein with a profile having a peak at the silicon oxide-silicon interface are formed by oxidizing a surface of a monocrystalline silicon body in an atmosphere of nitrous oxide (N.sub.2 O) at a temperature above 900.degree. C. preferably in the range of 900.degree.-1100.degree. C., and then heating the silicon body and oxidized surface in an atmosphere of anhydrous ammonia to introduce additional nitrogen atoms into the oxide and increase resistance to boron penetration without degrading the oxide by charge trapping. The resulting oxynitride has less degradation under channel hot electron stress and approximately one order of magnitude longer lifetime than that of conventional silicon oxide in MIS applications.
Sustainable Artificial Intelligence  SAI
Creators: name: Obeid, Fadi
name: El Jallad, Soufie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Sustainable consumption
subject: Sustainable architecture
subject: Sustainable building
subject: sustainable
subject: Artificial intelligence
subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Artificial Intelligence/trends
subject: Home automation
subject: Solar Energy
subject: Solar System
subject: Solar energy

description: Presentation on Published Paper Sustainable Artifical Intelligence SAI
title: A Trend Analysis of Prevalence and Association Between Cardiovascular Disease Risk and Key Anthropometrics: 2007-2016 NHANES Data
Creators: name: Tetteh, Ato Kwamena
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2021

description: Introduction:  There is the need for consistent research on cardiovascular diseases and the associated risks to provide more information towards prevention, control, and management.
Aim: This study estimated linear trends of cardiovascular disease risks and their association with selected anthropometric measurements.
Methods: Five bi-annual data from 2007 to 2016 was obtained from the National Health and Nutrition Examination survey. Analysis was performed on all participants aged between 20 and 80 years (n = 29,201). The outcome variable was cardiovascular disease risk (CVDRisk), estimated as the ratio of total cholesterol (TCHOL) to high-density lipoprotein (HDL). Analyses of linear trends were performed for all lipid profiles and selected anthropometric variables. The multiple linear regression analysis procedure was used to estimate anthropometric variables that best predict CVDRisk.

Results:
The mean CVDRisk for the studied population was 4.0 (95% CI: 3.8-4.2). There was a decrease of 0.05 in mean CVDRisk bi-annually from 4.1 in 2007-2008 to 3.9 in 2015-2016 (t = -3.27, p = 0.0467). The percentage with desirable CVDRisk decreased by 0.07 bi-annually from 0.42% in 2007-2008 to 0.1% in 2015-2016 (p = 0.0689). Borderline risk increased by 0.8 bi-annually from 90.7% in 2007-2008 to 93.8% in 2015-2016 (p = 0.1176). High CVDRisk decreased by 0.7 from 8.9% in 2007-2008 to 6.2% in 2015-2016 (t = -1.95, p = 0.1464). CVDRisk was consistently higher in males than females for all the cohorts (p < 0.0001). The risk was high among the 30-69 years age group but declined after age 70. Overall, waist circumference (WC), weight (WT), and the WC*WT interaction term, adjusted for age, gender, and race/ethnicity significantly helped to predict CVDRisk (p < 0.0001).
Discussion:
The majority of the studied population had either borderline or high risk for cardiovascular diseases based on the TCHOL/HDL ratio. Thus suggesting the need to intensify existing primary prevention efforts to minimize risk and avert cardiovascular disease progression.
title: Understanding the Demographics, Behaviors, Attitudes and the Perceived Barriers that Impede Covid-19 Public Health Mitigation Measures among Residents Of Metro Atlanta
Creators: name: Bello, Yomi
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2021

description: INTRODUCTION: The novel COVID-19 is responsible for enormous medical costs, lost earnings, diminished economy, and thousands of deaths in the United States. Face mask-wearing, social distancing, and handwashing habits are effective prevention methods for minimizing the spread of COVID-19 virus infection. However, despite the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Public Health Advisory Committee (PHAC) recommendations in favor of the above non-pharmacological methods, many people are hesitant to adhere to COVID-19 virus infection mitigations guidelines.

AIM: This study aims to describe the characteristics, attitudes, behaviors, and perceived barriers of American adults in adhering to face mask-wearing, social distancing, and handwashing habits for mitigating COVID-19 infection.

METHODS:  Forty-four Metro Atlanta area participants completed a questionnaire that was administered using survey monkey. All study participants (?18 years of age) consented to study participation. Basic statistics, including means and frequencies, were used to describe attitudes, behaviors, and barriers associated with face mask-wearing, social distancing, and handwashing habits for mitigating COVID-19 infection.

RESULTS:  A total of 44 respondents (65.9% female, 34.1% male) aged between 19 and 81 years consented to participate in the study. Almost all participants (97.7%) practiced social distancing; 95.5% practiced handwashing, while all participants wore face masks. Out of the total, 29.5% and 65.9% agreed or strongly agreed that mask-wearing is vital in protecting against COVID-19 infection. In contrast, only 4.5% strongly disagreed that mask-wearing is essential for the prevention of COVID-19 transmission. About 73.5% of the black participants agreed/strongly agreed that wearing a face mask is crucial in mitigating COVID-19 infection compared to 60.0% of white participants. All conservatives agreed/strongly agreed that wearing face mask is for the public good. Out of the 20 who considered themselves politically liberal, 95.0% (19/20) agreed/strongly agreed that wearing a face mask is for the public good. All participants in the independent category strongly agreed that wearing a face mask is for the public good. Regarding perceptions of face mask-wearing, 43.2% of study participants felt uncomfortable, 52.3% agree/strongly agreed it makes hearing difficult, while 6.8% describe face masks as unappealing.
DISCUSSION: This study suggests the need for strong public health messages to avoid misunderstanding regarding COVID-19. Public health messages should be tailored to specific at-risk groups. Framing good public health messaging may reduce adverse attitudes, behaviors, and barriers associated with COVID-19, including vaccination hesitancy in at-risk US populations.
Momentum-entangled two-photon interference for quantum-limited transverse-displacement estimation
Creators: name: Triggiani, Danilo
name: Tamma, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a scheme achieving the ultimate quantum precision for the estimation of the transverse displacement between two interfering photons. Such a transverse displacement could be caused, for example, by the refracting properties of the propagation medium or by the orientation of a system of mirrors. By performing transverse-momentum sampling interference between polarization-entangled pairs of photons that propagate with different momenta, we show that it is possible to perform transverse-displacement estimation with a precision that increases with the difference of the transverse momenta of the photons. We show that the precision achieved with our scheme is independent of the value of the displacement, useful when tracking a variable displacement. Moreover, only for small displacements, we show that the estimation can be performed without the need for transverse-momentum-resolving detectors. More fundamentally, we demonstrate that it is the quantum interference arising from two-photon entanglement in the transverse momenta at the very heart of the foreseen quantum-limited sensitivity in the spatial domain.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures
title: Ultra thin dielectric for electronic devices and method of making same
Creators: name: Lee Kwong, Dim-Lee
name: Kim, Jong Han
name: Yoon, Giwan
name: Han, Liang-Kai
name: Yan, Jiang
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: H01L21/02326
subject: H01L21/02164
subject: H01L21/0217
subject: H01L21/022
subject: H01L21/02247
subject: H01L21/02255
subject: H01L21/02337
subject: H01L21/28185
subject: H01L21/28202
subject: H01L21/3144
subject: H01L21/3185
subject: H01L28/40
subject: H01L29/518
subject: H01L29/66181
subject: H01L21/02211
subject: H01L21/02271
subject: Y10S438/954
subject: 257/296
subject: 257/310
subject: 257/410
subject: 257/411
subject: 257/639
subject: 257/640
subject: 257/649
subject: 257/E21.008
subject: 257/E21.268
subject: 257/E21.293
subject: 257/E21.396

description: High quality, ultra thin SiO.sub.2 /Si.sub.3 N.sub.4 (ON) dielectric layers have been fabricated by in situ multiprocessing and low pressure rapid-thermal N.sub.2 O-reoxidation (LRTNO) of Si.sub.3 N.sub.4 films. Si.sub.3 N.sub.4 film was deposited on the RTN-treated polysilicon by rapid-thermal chemical vapor deposition (RT-CVD) using SiH.sub.4 and NH.sub.3, followed by in situ low pressure rapid-thermal reoxidation in N.sub.2 O (LRTNO) or in O.sub.2 (LRTO) ambient. Results show that ultra thin (T.sub.ox,eq =.about.29 .ANG.) ON stacked film capacitors with LRTNO have excellent electrical properties, and reliability.
Gigantomorpha socialis
Creators: name: Ng, Ting Hui
name: Srisonchai, Ruttapon
name: Golovatch, Sergei I.
name: Sutcharit, Chirasak
name: Panha, Somsak
name: Latim, Martinah
name: Likhitrakarn, Natdanai
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Polydesmida
Paradoxosomatidae
Gigantomorpha
Gigantomorpha socialis

description: Gigantomorpha socialis (Carl, 1912)
Prionopeltis socialis Carl 1912: 139 (D).
Prionopeltis socialis – Attems 1914: 204 (L).
Pratinus socialis – Attems 1937: 116 (D).
Gigantomorpha socialis – Jeekel 1963: 261 (D). — Golovatch 1996: 169 (M, K). — Nguyen & Sierwald 2013: 1244 (L).
Distribution
Indonesia (South Sulawesi), Bontorio, south Celebes (Carl 1912).
description: Published as part of Ng, Ting Hui, Srisonchai, Ruttapon, Golovatch, Sergei I., Sutcharit, Chirasak, Panha, Somsak, Latim, Martinah & Likhitrakarn, Natdanai, 2025, A taxonomic study of millipede genera, Orangutana Golovatch, 1996 and Gigantomorpha Jeekel, 1963 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae), with description of four new species from Sabah, Borneo, East Malaysia, pp. 221-248 in European Journal of Taxonomy 987 on page 234, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.987.2871, http://zenodo.org/record/15275702
Nature of temperature chaos in spin glasses
Creators: name: Li, Hongze
name: He, Jiaming
name: Orbach, Raymond L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Temperature chaos (TC) in spin glasses has been claimed to exist no matter how small the temperature change, $ΔT$. However, experimental studies have exhibited a finite value of $ΔT$ for a transition to TC. This paper explores the onset of TC with much higher resolution than before and over a larger temperature range. We find that TC is always present, though small at the smallest $ΔT$ that we can reliably measure. However, it grows rapidly as $ΔT$ increases, the region of rapid growth coinciding with the $ΔT$ predicted from renormalization group arguments and observed experimentally. We are able to transcend the full range of TC, from the completely reversible state to one that is maximally decorrelated from the initially prepared state.
title: Immunogenic compositions and uses thereof
Creators: name: Croyle, Maria A.
name: Schafer, Stephen Clay
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: A61K39/12
subject: A61K39/39
subject: A61K2039/543
subject: A61K2039/55555
subject: C12N7/00
subject: C12N15/88
subject: C12N2710/10343
subject: C12N2710/10351
subject: C12N2710/10371
subject: C12N2760/14134
subject: C12N2760/16134

description: Immunogenic compositions comprising viral vectors and surfactants are provided. Methods for administration and preparation of such compositions are also provided.
title: Neue Methoden für die bauteilorientierte Ausschreibung und Kalkulation unter Beachtung des Integrated Product Lifecycle Management von Bauwerken
Creators: name: Bargstädt, Hans-Joachim
name: Blickling, Arno
Publisher: name: Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Bauwerk
subject: Kalkulation
subject: Ausschreibung
subject: Bauteil
subject: Katalog
subject: Dreidimensionales Modell
subject: 620

description: Die Autoren stellen Grundlagen und Methoden zur Erstellung von Ausschreibungen und zur Durchführung der Kalkulation vor, die direkt mit dreidimensionalen Bauteilmodellen arbeiten. Dies trägt dazu bei, den gesamten Lebenszyklus eines Bauwerkes durchgängig über 3-D-Modelle beschreiben zu können. Im ersten Abschnitt werden grundlegende Überlegungen zum Einsatz von PLM/PDM-Technologien im Bauwesen angestellt. Im Anschluß daran wird die herkömmliche Ausschreibungsmethodik analysiert. Die Unterschiede zwischen einem konventionellen Leistungsverzeichnis und einem dreidimensionalen Bauteilkatalog (Objektdatenbank) hinsichtlich der Datenstruktur werden dargestellt. Hieraus abgeleitet werden Methoden und Prozesse bei der Erstellung einer 3-D-Leistungsbeschreibung entwickelt. Dazu wird eine geeignete Benutzer-Schnittstelle eines dreidimensionalen Bauteilkataloges vorgestellt. Schließlich werden praxisrelevante Probleme bei der Verwendung von Bauteilkatalogen erörtert. Ein wesentlicher Baustein ist die Kalkulation. Hier werden Kalkulationsmethoden basierend auf einem zweidimensionalen Leistungsverzeichnis und einem dreidimensionalen Bauteilkatalog miteinander verglichen. Ergänzt wird dies um Lösungen zur Anbindung von elektronischen Marktplätzen an den Bauteilkatalog zum Zweck der Preisbildung. Schließlich wird ein Ausblick gegeben, wie eine Synthese zwischen dreidimensionalem Bauteilkatalog und textlichen Standard-Leistungsbeschreibungen erreicht werden kann.
description: Internationales Kolloquium über Anwendungen der Informatik und Mathematik in Architektur und Bauwesen : 10. bis 12.06.2003, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, vol. 16, 2003
Axion-Photon Conversion Signals from Neutron Stars with Spacetime Curvature Accounted for in the Magnetosphere Model
Creators: name: Satherley, Jesse
name: Gordon, Chris
name: Stevens, Chris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Axions are a well-motivated dark matter candidate. They may be detectable from radio line emission due to resonant conversion in neutron star magnetospheres. While radio data collection for this signal has begun, further efforts are required to solidify the theoretical predictions for the resulting radio lines. Usually, the flat spacetime Goldreich-Julian model of the neutron star magnetosphere is used, while a Schwarzschild geometry is assumed for the ray tracing. We assess the impact of incorporating the spacetime curvature into the magnetosphere model. We examine a range of neutron star and axion masses and find an average difference of $37\%$ and $22\%$ in radiated power compared to the standard Goldreich-Julian magnetosphere model for a $1μeV$ and $10μeV$ mass axion, respectively, in the case of a $2.2M_\odot$ mass neutron star. A much lesser difference is found for lower-mass neutron stars, as in that case axion-photon conversion occurs further from the Schwarzschild radius.
description: 17 pages, 10 figures. Updated to match journal
Supplementary document for Near-infrared speckle wavemeter based on nonlinear frequency conversion - 6506432.pdf
Creators: name: Sun, Yiwei
name: Ni, Fengchao
name: Yiwen, Huang
name: Liu, Haigang
name: Chen, Xianfeng
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: S1 Measurement of the transport mean free path of the TiO2 powder S2 Prediction ability of unknown input wavelength
Additional file 1 of Equity in epidemic response: an action-oriented framework for guiding public health in equitable responses to major infectious disease emergencies
Creators: name: de-Winton Cummings, Precious-Junia
name: Baker, Kelly K.
name: Appell, Leah
name: Rios, Marina Del
name: Diekema, Daniel J.
name: Kitzmann, Tricia
name: Marroquin, Naomi
name: Raymond, Gus
name: Carvour, Martha L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
title: Reducing peak electrical demand by air conditioning systems and reducing water consumption by implementing an integrated thermal energy and rainwater storage system
Creators: name: Webber, Michael E.
name: Upshaw, Charles R.
name: Rhodes, Joshua D.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: F24F5/0017
subject: F24F11/46
subject: F24F2005/0025
subject: F24F2005/0032
subject: F24F2140/60
subject: Y02E60/147

description: An integrated thermal energy and rainwater storage system for reducing peak electrical demand by air conditioning systems. Such a system includes a water conveyance system for collecting and conveying water to a storage tank for storing rainwater, where the rainwater functions as a lower temperature thermal reservoir while it is being held and awaiting use. The system further includes a residential air conditioning system with an air-cooled condenser unit along with an additional water-to-refrigerant heat exchanger connected to the storage tank on one side, and on the other side connected into the refrigerant lines with reconfigurable flow paths and actuated valves to control the discharging and recharging of the thermal energy storage. The lower temperature and better heat transfer capabilities of the rainwater improve operating efficiency and reduce power consumption of the compressor when used instead of the air-cooled condenser during the hottest hours of the day.
Network reconstruction may not mean dynamics prediction
Creators: name: Yu, Zhendong
name: Huang, Haiping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With an increasing amount of observations on the dynamics of many complex systems, it is required to reveal the underlying mechanisms behind these complex dynamics, which is fundamentally important in many scientific fields such as climate, financial, ecological, and neural systems. The underlying mechanisms are commonly encoded into network structures, e.g., capturing how constituents interact with each other to produce emergent behavior. Here, we address whether a good network reconstruction suggests a good dynamics prediction. The answer is quite dependent on the nature of the supplied (observed) dynamics sequences measured on the complex system. When the dynamics are not chaotic, network reconstruction implies dynamics prediction. In contrast, even if a network can be well reconstructed from the chaotic time series (chaos means that many unstable dynamics states coexist), the prediction of the future dynamics can become impossible as at some future point the prediction error will be amplified. This is explained by using dynamical mean-field theory on a toy model of random recurrent neural networks.
description: 32 pages, 12 figures, revised manuscript to the journal
SommetSupplementalMaterial – Supplemental material for Income Inequality Affects the Psychological Health of Only the People Facing Scarcity
Creators: name: Sommet, Nicolas
name: Morselli, Davide
name: Spini, Dario
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental material, SommetSupplementalMaterial for Income Inequality Affects the Psychological Health of Only the People Facing Scarcity by Nicolas Sommet, Davide Morselli and Dario Spini in Psychological Science
title: Centrifuge permeameter for unsaturated soils system
Creators: name: Zornberg, Jorge G.
name: McCartney, John S.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: G01N15/08
subject: G01N15/0826
subject: G01N15/0893
subject: 73/38

description: The present invention includes an apparatus, method and centrifuge permeameter system that includes a hydraulic permeameter adapted for use in a centrifuge; and an automated data acquisition system, wherein the centrifuge permeameter non-destructively determines one or more soil characteristics from a sample of granular material such as soil, rock, and concrete when centrifuged.