cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Impact of 10- and 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccines on incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease in children aged under 16 years in Germany, 2009 to 2012
Creators: name: Weiss, Susanne
name: Falkenhorst, Gerhard
name: Linden, M. Van Der
name: Imöhl, M.
name: Kries, Rüdiger Von
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionsepidemiologie
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Humans
subject: Female
subject: Male
subject: Adolescent
subject: Germany/epidemiology
subject: Population Surveillance
subject: Vaccination/statistics & numerical data
subject: Child Preschool
subject: Incidence
subject: Infant
subject: Child
subject: Treatment Outcome
subject: Infant Newborn
subject: Meningitis Pneumococcal/epidemiology
subject: Meningitis Pneumococcal/prevention & control
subject: Pneumococcal Infections/epidemiology
subject: Pneumococcal Infections/prevention & control
subject: Pneumococcal Vaccines/administration & dosage
subject: Pneumococcal Vaccines/immunology
subject: Vaccines Conjugate/administration & dosage
subject: 610 Medizin

description: We assessed the impact of 10-valent and 13-valent pneumococcal vaccines (PCV10 and PCV13), which were introduced in Germany in 2009, on the incidence of meningitis and non-meningitis invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in children aged under 16 years in a population previously vaccinated with a seven-valent vaccine (PCV7). Surveillance of IPD (isolation of Streptococcus pneumonia from a normally sterile body site) is based on data from two independent reporting sources: hospitals and laboratories. IPD incidence was estimated by capture–recapture analysis. Incidence rate ratios (IRRs) were calculated for 2009 and 2012, thus comparing pre- and post-PCV10 and PCV13 data. IPD incidence caused by serotypes included in PCV13 decreased in all age and diagnosis groups. A rise in non-vaccine serotype incidence was seen only in children aged under two years. The overall impact varied by age group and infection site: for meningitis IPD in children aged under 2, 2–4 and 5–15 years, incidence changed by 3% (95% CI: −31 to 52), −60% (95% CI: −81 to −17) and −9% (95% CI: −46 to 53), respectively. A more pronounced incidence reduction was observed for non-meningitis IPD: −30% (95% CI: −46 to −7), −39% (95% CI: −54 to −20) and −83% (95% CI: −89 to −73) in children aged under 2, 2–4 and 5–15 years, respectively. A higher tropism of the additional serotypes for non-meningitis IPD may be a potential explanation. The heterogeneous findings emphasise the need for rigorous surveillance.
UNIV 2002: Global Issues
Creators: name: Gifford, James
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Education, Higher
subject: Economics and literature
subject: United States
subject: History, Modern
subject: Canada
subject: History

description: UNIV 2002 "Global Issues" is the final sophomore course in the CORE Program, an interdisciplinary four course sequence taken by all undergraduate students in all programs on all campuses. The most recent major revision to the curriculum is the result of a three year Task Force composed of faculty members across the University as a whole. UNIV 1001 & 1002 deployed in the 2015/16 academic year and UNIV 2001 & 2002 in the 2016/17 year.
ბიბლიოთეკები ანტიკურ ლიტერატურაში = Libraries in Ancient Literature
Creators: name: Chichinadze, Giorgi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 470513
subject: Latin and classical Greek literature
classificationCode: 461006
subject: Library studies

description: The origin of libraries has an ancient history and like so many things, its history begins in ancient Greece and Rome. We find information about libraries not only in official historical and scientific sources, but also in fiction, with such authors as: Aristophanes, Callimachus, Apollonius of Rhodes, Ovid and others. In this article, we will focus on the information provided by them about libraries in fiction.
UNIV 2002: Global Issues
Creators: name: Gifford, James
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Education, Higher
subject: United States
subject: History
subject: Canada
subject: Economics and literature
subject: History, Modern

description: UNIV 2002 "Global Issues" is the final sophomore course in the CORE Program, an interdisciplinary four course sequence taken by all undergraduate students in all programs on all campuses. The most recent major revision to the curriculum is the result of a three year Task Force composed of faculty members across the University as a whole. UNIV 1001 & 1002 deployed in the 2015/16 academic year and UNIV 2001 & 2002 in the 2016/17 year.
Comparative Genomic Analysis of Two Novel Sporadic Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli O104:H4 Strains Isolated 2011 in Germany
Creators: name: Tietze, Erhard
name: Dabrowski, Piotr Wojtek
name: Prager, Rita
name: Radonić, Aleksandar
name: Fruth, Angelika
name: Aurass, Philipp
name: Nitsche, Andreas
name: Mielke, Martin
name: Flieger, Antje
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionskrankheiten / Erreger
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Animals
subject: Humans
subject: Molecular Sequence Data
subject: Germany/epidemiology
subject: Escherichia coli Infections/microbiology
subject: Phylogeny
subject: Sequence Analysis DNA
subject: Virulence/genetics
subject: Genome Bacterial
subject: Polymorphism Single Nucleotide
subject: Hep G2 Cells
subject: Disease Outbreaks
subject: Escherichia coli Infections/epidemiology
subject: DNA Bacterial/genetics
subject: Shiga-Toxigenic Escherichia coli/classification
subject: Shiga-Toxigenic Escherichia coli/genetics
subject: Cercopithecus aethiops
subject: Vero Cells
subject: Bacterial Adhesion
subject: Plasmids/genetics
subject: Serogroup
subject: Shiga-Toxigenic Escherichia coli/pathogenicity
subject: 610 Medizin

description: A large outbreak of gastrointestinal disease occurred in 2011 in Germany which resulted in almost 4000 patients with acute gastroenteritis or hemorrhagic colitis, 855 cases of a hemolytic uremic syndrome and 53 deaths. The pathogen was an uncommon, multiresistant Escherichia coli strain of serotype O104:H4 which expressed a Shiga toxin characteristic of enterohemorrhagic E. coli and in addition virulence factors common to enteroaggregative E. coli. During post-epidemic surveillance of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) all but two of O104:H4 isolates were indistinguishable from the epidemic strain. Here we describe two novel STEC O104:H4 strains isolated in close spatiotemporal proximity to the outbreak which show a virulence gene panel, a Shiga toxin-mediated cytotoxicity towards Vero cells and aggregative adherence to Hep-2 cells comparable to the outbreak strain. They differ however both from the epidemic strain and from each other, by their antibiotic resistance phenotypes and some other features as determined by routine epidemiological subtyping methods. Whole genome sequencing of these two strains, of ten outbreak strain isolates originating from different time points of the outbreak and of one historical sporadic EHEC O104:H4 isolate was performed. Sequence analysis revealed a clear phylogenetic distance between the two variant strains and the outbreak strain finally identifying them as epidemiologically unrelated isolates from sporadic cases. These findings add to the knowledge about this emerging pathogen, illustrating a certain diversity within the bacterial core genome as well as loss and gain of accessory elements. Our results do also support the view that distinct new variants of STEC O104:H4 repeatedly might originate from yet unknown reservoirs, rather than that there would be a continuous diversification of a single epidemic strain established and circulating in Germany after the large outbreak in 2011.
The Poetics of Practicality
Creators: name: Cooper, Lisa H.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Literature, Medieval
subject: English literature
subject: Poetics

description: This essay explores insistently practical medieval texts—works whose explicit goal is to assist their readers to make something in the world beyond the page (a book, a culinary dish, an ointment, an object) and asks if they can be said to have a poetics. Drawing on Michel de Certeau and Pierre Bourdieu's theories of practice as well as Gérard Genette's concepts of literariness, the article examines medieval vocabularies, medical texts, recipes, carving manuals, and several works by Geoffrey Chaucer and John Lydgate to consider the relationship of the poetic and the practical and the broad appeal of the how-to text in late medieval English literature and culture.
Spatial and Functional Heterogeneities Shape Collective Behavior of Tumor-Immune Networks
Creators: name: Wells, Daniel K.
name: Chuang, Yishan
name: Knapp, Louis M.
name: Brockmann, Dirk
name: Kath, William L.
name: Leonard, Joshua N.
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Humans
subject: Algorithms
subject: Cytokines/immunology
subject: Computational Biology
subject: Computer Simulation
subject: Cell- and Tissue-Based Therapy
subject: Macrophages/immunology
subject: Models Immunological
subject: Neoplasms/immunology
subject: Neoplasms/pathology
subject: Neoplasms/therapy
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Tumor growth involves a dynamic interplay between cancer cells and host cells, which collectively form a tumor microenvironmental network that either suppresses or promotes tumor growth under different conditions. The transition from tumor suppression to tumor promotion is mediated by a tumor-induced shift in the local immune state, and despite the clinical challenge this shift poses, little is known about how such dysfunctional immune states are initiated. Clinical and experimental observations have indicated that differences in both the composition and spatial distribution of different cell types and/or signaling molecules within the tumor microenvironment can strongly impact tumor pathogenesis and ultimately patient prognosis. How such “functional” and “spatial” heterogeneities confer such effects, however, is not known. To investigate these phenomena at a level currently inaccessible by direct observation, we developed a computational model of a nascent metastatic tumor capturing salient features of known tumor-immune interactions that faithfully recapitulates key features of existing experimental observations. Surprisingly, over a wide range of model formulations, we observed that heterogeneity in both spatial organization and cell phenotype drove the emergence of immunosuppressive network states. We determined that this observation is general and robust to parameter choice by developing a systems-level sensitivity analysis technique, and we extended this analysis to generate other parameter-independent, experimentally testable hypotheses. Lastly, we leveraged this model as an in silico test bed to evaluate potential strategies for engineering cell-based therapies to overcome tumor associated immune dysfunction and thereby identified modes of immune modulation predicted to be most effective. Collectively, this work establishes a new integrated framework for investigating and modulating tumor-immune networks and provides insights into how such interactions may shape early stages of tumor formation.
ბიბლიოთეკები ანტიკურ ლიტერატურაში=Libraries in Ancient Literature
Creators: name: Chichinadze, Giorgi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 470513
subject: Latin and classical Greek literature
classificationCode: 461006
subject: Library studies

description: The origin of libraries has an ancient history and like so many things, its history begins in ancient Greece and Rome. We find information about libraries not only in official historical and scientific sources, but also in fiction, with such authors as: Aristophanes, Callimachus, Apollonius of Rhodes, Ovid and others. In this article, we will focus on the information provided by them about libraries in fiction.
'The Selfish Giant': A Study of Christian Selfishness
Creators: name: Szewczyk, Joseph
Publisher: name: Uisio
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: English literature
subject: Religion
subject: Irish literature
subject: British literature

description: 'The Selfish Giant' by Oscar Wilde has a history rooted in Christianity. There are ample journals, books, and even some occasional movies that demonstrate Wilde's work as a Christian allegory. In a Christian analysis, the giant is seen as either St. Christopher or an unknown man whereas the child who cries is the Christ child. A Christian reading often incorporates redemption and symbolism, such as the tree the giant wishes to put the child on is a reflection of the True Cross. Nevertheless, there is a problem with most of the Christian analyses currently developed from the story. This paper explores the Christian analysis offered by recent critics and examines how Wilde demonstrates not the usual 'Christian values' but that of the reflected Christian self.
Induction of neutralizing antibodies specific for the envelope proteins of the koala retrovirus by immunization with recombinant proteins or with DNA
Creators: name: Fiebig, Uwe
name: Dieckhoff, Britta
name: Wurzbacher, Christian
name: Möller, Annekathrin
name: Kurth, Reinhard
name: Denner, Joachim
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionskrankheiten / Erreger
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neutralizing antibodies
subject: Retroviruses
subject: Koala
subject: Transmembrane envelope proteins
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Background: The koala retrovirus (KoRV) is the result of a transspecies transmission of a gammaretrovirus with fatal consequences for the new host. Like many retroviruses, KoRV induces lymphoma, leukemia and an immunodeficiency that is associated with opportunistic infections in the virus-infected animals. We recently reported the induction of neutralizing antibodies by immunization with the recombinant ectodomain of the transmembrane envelope protein p15E of KoRV. Since the neutralization titers of the p15E-specific sera were only moderate, we investigated the use of the surface envelope protein gp70 to induce neutralizing antibodies. Findings: We immunized rats and goats with the recombinant gp70 protein of the KoRV, an unglycosylated protein of 52kD (rgp70/p52) or with the corresponding DNA. In parallel we immunized with recombinant rp15E or with a combination of rp15E and rgp70/p52. In all cases binding and neutralizing antibodies were induced. The gp70-specific sera had titers of neutralizing antibodies that were 15-fold higher than the p15E-specific sera. Combining rp15E and rgp70/p52 did not significantly increase neutralizing titers compared to rgp70/p52 alone. High titers of neutralizing antibodies specific for gp70 were also induced by immunization with DNA. Since KoRV and PERV are closely related, we investigated cross-neutralization of the antisera. The antisera against p15E and gp70 of PERV and KoRV inhibited infection by both viruses. Conclusion: The envelope proteins of the KoRV may therefore form the basis of an effective preventive vaccine to protect uninfected koalas from infection and possibly an immunotherapeutic treatment for those already infected.
sj-docx-15-hpq-10.1177_13591053211027626 – for Mitigating the identity and health threat of COVID-19: Perspectives of middle-class South Asians living in the UK
Creators: name: Hanson, Kristin
name: O’Dwyer, Emma
name: Chaudhuri, Sharmistha
name: Silva Souza, Luiz Gustavo
name: Vandrevala, Tushna
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: sj-docx-15-hpq-10.1177_13591053211027626 for Mitigating the identity and health threat of COVID-19: Perspectives of middle-class South Asians living in the UK by Kristin Hanson, Emma O’Dwyer, Sharmistha Chaudhuri, Luiz Gustavo Silva Souza and Tushna Vandrevala in Journal of Health Psychology
‘The Selfish Giant’: A Study of Christian Selfishness
Creators: name: Szewczyk, Joseph
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: British literature
subject: English literature
subject: Irish literature
subject: Religion

description: ‘The Selfish Giant’ by Oscar Wilde has a history rooted in Christianity. There are ample journals, books, and even some occasional movies that demonstrate Wilde’s work as a Christian allegory. In a Christian analysis, the giant is seen as either St. Christopher or an unknown man whereas the child who cries is the Christ child. A Christian reading often incorporates redemption and symbolism, such as the tree the giant wishes to put the child on is a reflection of the True Cross. Nevertheless, there is a problem with most of the Christian analyses currently developed from the story. This paper explores the Christian analysis offered by recent critics and examines how Wilde demonstrates not the usual 'Christian values' but that of the reflected Christian self.
On 2nd-order fully-nonlinear equations with links to 3rd-order fully-nonlinear equations
Creators: name: Euler, Marianna
name: Euler, Norbert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the general conditions for fully-nonlinear symmetry-integrable second-order evolution equations and their first-order recursion operators. We then apply the established Propositions to find links between a class of fully-nonlinear third-order symmetry-integrable evolution equations and fully-nonlinear second-order symmetry-integrable evolution equations.
description: 12 pages
sj-docx-2-hpq-10.1177_13591053211027626 – for Mitigating the identity and health threat of COVID-19: Perspectives of middle-class South Asians living in the UK
Creators: name: Hanson, Kristin
name: O’Dwyer, Emma
name: Chaudhuri, Sharmistha
name: Silva Souza, Luiz Gustavo
name: Vandrevala, Tushna
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: sj-docx-2-hpq-10.1177_13591053211027626 for Mitigating the identity and health threat of COVID-19: Perspectives of middle-class South Asians living in the UK by Kristin Hanson, Emma O’Dwyer, Sharmistha Chaudhuri, Luiz Gustavo Silva Souza and Tushna Vandrevala in Journal of Health Psychology
Large and prolonged food-borne multistate hepatitis A outbreak in Europe associated with consumption of frozen berries, 2013 to 2014
Creators: name: Severi, Ettore
name: Verhoef, Linda
name: Thornton, L.
name: Guzman-Herrador, B. R.
name: Faber, Mirko
name: Sundqvist, L.
name: Rimhanen-Finne, R.
name: Roque-Afonso, A. M.
name: Ngui, S. L.
name: Allerberger, Franz
name: Baumann-Popczyk, A.
name: Muller, L.
name: Parmakova, K.
name: Alfonsi, V.
name: Tavoschi, L.
name: Vennema, H.
name: Fitzgerald, M.
name: Myrmel, M.
name: Gertler, Maximilian
name: Ederth, J.
name: Kontio, M.
name: Vanbockstael, C.
name: Mandal, S.
name: Sadkowska-Todys, M.
name: Tosti, M. E.
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionsepidemiologie
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Humans
subject: Female
subject: Male
subject: Adolescent
subject: Adult
subject: Middle Aged
subject: Europe/epidemiology
subject: Child Preschool
subject: Foodborne Diseases/diagnosis
subject: Disease Outbreaks
subject: European Union
subject: Epidemiologic Studies
subject: Foodborne Diseases/epidemiology
subject: Surveys and Questionnaires
subject: Hepatitis A/epidemiology
subject: Hepatitis A/virology
subject: Contact Tracing
subject: Food Contamination
subject: Foodborne Diseases/virology
subject: Frozen Foods/poisoning
subject: Frozen Foods/virology
subject: Fruit/poisoning
subject: Fruit/virology
subject: Hepatitis A virus/genetics
subject: Hepatitis A virus/isolation & purification
subject: 610 Medizin

description: In May 2013, Italy declared a national outbreak of hepatitis A, which also affected several foreign tourists who had recently visited the country. Molecular investigations identified some cases as infected with an identical strain of hepatitis A virus subgenotype IA. After additional European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) countries reported locally acquired and travel-related cases associated with the same outbreak, an international outbreak investigation team was convened, a European outbreak case definition was issued and harmonisation of the national epidemiological and microbiological investigations was encouraged. From January 2013 to August 2014, 1,589 hepatitis A cases were reported associated with the multistate outbreak; 1,102 (70%) of the cases were hospitalised for a median time of six days; two related deaths were reported. Epidemiological and microbiological investigations implicated mixed frozen berries as the vehicle of infection of the outbreak. In order to control the spread of the outbreak, suspected or contaminated food batches were recalled, the public was recommended to heat-treat berries, and post-exposure prophylaxis of contacts was performed. The outbreak highlighted how large food-borne hepatitis A outbreaks may affect the increasingly susceptible EU/EEA general population and how, with the growing international food trade, frozen berries are a potential high-risk food.
"The Black", space, and sexuality: Examining resistance in Selvon's The Lonely Londoners
Creators: name: Herald, Patrick
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: British literature
subject: Literature, Modern

description: This article argues that theoretical notions of resistance and agency prove inadequate for considering the complexities of the treatment of Sam Selvon’s Trinidadian characters. Indeed, to proceed from a binary logic of resistance and oppression carries the danger of universalizing those seen as oppressed, and smoothing over important complications in the novel. The Lonely Londoners, written at a pivotal moment of imperial decline, offers a valuable perspective on the experience of colonial immigration to England (and the accompanying complications of race and sexuality it wrought) as well as theories of resistance. By drawing on the circumspection of recent theorists, this article goes beyond the sort of analysis which might impose a binary logic of resistance and oppression on the complex intersections of race and sexuality on display in the novel. More specifically, The Lonely Londoners can be seen as grappling with and critiquing individualism, one of liberalism’s chief values; formally, the novel’s title invokes a group yet the narrative itself spends the majority of its pages detailing the individual lives of its characters, individual lives which stand in tension with their shared group identity and their daily struggles in postwar London. This tension between individualism and community reveals key moments — such as one character’s personification of the colour black — as being symptomatic of a complex field of identity categories that Selvon’s novel engages with. I argue that these categories should indeed be interrogated alongside the novel’s depictions of metropolitan geography; however, I suggest that such an analysis is best served by also treating a key concept that might be taken for granted with the same complexity and diligence: resistance.
Water and Liminality in Praisesong for the Widow and Daughters of the Dust
Creators: name: Lopez, Carmen
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Metaphysics
subject: African Americans--Social life and customs
subject: American literature--African American authors
subject: Spirituality
subject: Culture--Study and teaching

description: This essay examines the influence and effects of water in post-colonial African American women of the Gullah and Gee-Chee cultures from the sea islands of Georgia and south Carolina, reviewing the ecological theory of phenotypes establishing the eco-boundaries of the resulting pure-selves through the examination of one film and a novel: Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust and Pauli Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow. Both works show how the water cycle, involving all its different form in nature, demolishe the essentialist post-colonial theory. These post-colonial works solicit an embedded palimpsest addition by the incorporation of textual allusions to Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Coleridge's Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, evidencing the need of water for the realization of what Viktor Frankl's describes as the human responsibility in life (Frankl, V. 1999). These African-American women will give an answer to their lives' existential meaning by recycling and widespreading their coexisting selves' "eco-self", using water as their main dynamic force.
Software and Data for: JGR ML: Categorizing Characteristic Regions of High-Latitude Scintillations Using a Combination of Isolation Forest and Neural Network Machine Learning Algorithms
Creators: name: Deshpande, Kshitija
name: Gachancipa, Nicholas
name: Thakrar, Chintan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: These are the codes for machine learning and neural network scintillation classification software licensed under MIT license was created as a part of the work for the ML-NN manuscript: Categorizing Characteristic Regions of High-Latitude Scintillations Using a Combination of Isolation Forest and Neural Network Machine Learning Algorithms. Example input data file is included. Please refer to the README file on how to run the software.
THE INFLUENCE OF BUILD PARAMETERS AND WIRE BATCH ON POROSITY OF WIRE AND ARC ADDITIVE MANUFACTURED ALUMINIUM ALLOY 2319
Creators: name: Ryan, Emma
name: Watts, John
name: Whiting, Mark
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2018
Subjects: Metals and alloy materials
Additive manufacturing

description: Mounted and polished samples from 21 WAAM aluminium alloy 2319 panels.
40 reflected light microscopy images for each sample across two independent planes, totalling an area of 84 mm^2.
Four excel data files for each sample containing measurements of total area porosity, size of pores, roundness of pores, aspect ratio of pores.
ICP-OES results for 5 x 5g samples of five different batches of wire.
SEM and RLM images at different magnifications and orientations of the surface of samples from five different batches of wire.
Software and Data for: JGR ML: Categorizing Characteristic Regions of High-Latitude Scintillations Using a Combination of Isolation Forest and Neural Network Machine Learning Algorithms
Creators: name: Deshpande, Kshitija
name: Gachancipa, Nicholas
name: Thakrar, Chintan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This is the code for neural network software licensed under MIT license was created as a part of the work for the ML-NN manuscript: Categorizing Characteristic Regions of High-Latitude Scintillations Using a Combination of Isolation Forest and Neural Network Machine Learning Algorithms. Example input data file is included. Please refer to the README file on how to run the neural_network.py code.
Kinematics and star formation of hub-filament systems in W49A
Creators: name: Zhang, WenJun
name: Zhou, Jianjun
name: Esimbek, Jarken
name: Baan, Willem
name: He, Yuxin
name: Tang, Xindi
name: Li, Dalei
name: Ji, Weiguang
name: Wu, Gang
name: Ma, Yingxiu
name: Li, Jiasheng
name: Zhou, Dongdong
name: Tursun, Kadirya
name: Komesh, Toktarkhan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: W49A is a prominent giant molecular cloud (GMC) that exhibits strong star formation activities, yet its structural and kinematic properties remain uncertain. Our study aims to investigate the large-scale structure and kinematics of W49A, and elucidate the role of filaments and hub-filament systems (HFSs) in its star formation activity. We utilized continuum data from Herschel and the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) as well as the molecular lines 12CO (3-2), 13CO (3-2), and C18O (3-2) to identify filaments and HFS structures within W49A. Further analysis focused on the physical properties, kinematics, and mass transport within these structures. Additionally, recombination line emission from the H I/OH/Recombination (THOR) line survey was employed to trace the central H II region and ionized gas. Our findings reveal that W49A comprises one blue-shifted (B-S) HFS and one red-shifted (R-S) HFS, each with multiple filaments and dense hubs. Notably, significant velocity gradients were detected along these filaments, indicative of material transport toward the hubs. High mass accretion rates along the filaments facilitate the formation of massive stars in the HFSs. Furthermore, the presence of V-shaped structures around clumps in position-velocity diagrams suggests ongoing gravitational collapse and local star formation within the filaments. Our results indicate that W49A consists of one R-S HFS and one B-S HFS, and that the material transport from filaments to the hub promotes the formation of massive stars in the hub. These findings underscore the significance of HFSs in shaping the star formation history of W49A.
description: 19 pages, 22 figures. Accepted to A&A
Software and Data for: JGR ML: Categorizing Characteristic Regions of High-Latitude Scintillations Using a Combination of Isolation Forest and Neural Network Machine Learning Algorithms
Creators: name: Deshpande, Kshitija
name: Gachancipa, Nicholas
name: Thakrar, Chintan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: These are the code for neural network software licensed under MIT license was created as a part of the work for the ML-NN manuscript: Categorizing Characteristic Regions of High-Latitude Scintillations Using a Combination of Isolation Forest and Neural Network Machine Learning Algorithms. Example input data file is included. Please refer to the README file on how to run the neural_network.py code.
Frequency and impact of confounding by indication and healthy vaccinee bias in observational studies assessing influenza vaccine effectiveness: a systematic review
Creators: name: Remschmidt, Cornelius
name: Wichmann, Ole
name: Harder, Thomas
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionsepidemiologie
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Influenza
subject: Vaccination
subject: Bias
subject: Effectiveness
subject: Confounding by indication
subject: Healthy user bias
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Background: Evidence on influenza vaccine effectiveness (VE) is commonly derived from observational studies. However, these studies are prone to confounding by indication and healthy vaccinee bias. We aimed to systematically investigate these two forms of confounding/bias. Methods: Systematic review of observational studies reporting influenza VE and indicators for bias and confounding. We assessed risk of confounding by indication and healthy vaccinee bias for each study and calculated ratios of odds ratios (crude/adjusted) to quantify the effect of confounder adjustment. VE-estimates during and outside influenza seasons were compared to assess residual confounding by healthy vaccinee effects. Results: We identified 23 studies reporting on 11 outcomes. Of these, 19 (83 %) showed high risk of bias: Fourteen due to confounding by indication, two for healthy vaccinee bias, and three studies showed both forms of confounding/bias. Adjustment for confounders increased VE on average by 12 % (95 % CI: 7–17 %; all-cause mortality), 9 % (95 % CI: 4–14 %; all-cause hospitalization) and 7 % (95 % CI: 4–10 %; influenza-like illness). Despite adjustment, nine studies showed residual confounding as indicated by significant off-season VE-estimates. These were observed for five outcomes, but more frequently for all-cause mortality as compared to other outcomes (p = 0.03) and in studies which indicated healthy vaccinee bias at baseline (p = 0.01). Conclusions: Both confounding by indication and healthy vaccinee bias are likely to operate simultaneously in observational studies on influenza VE. Although adjustment can correct for confounding by indication to some extent, the resulting estimates are still prone to healthy vaccinee bias, at least as long as unspecific outcomes like all-cause mortality are used. Therefore, cohort studies using administrative data bases with unspecific outcomes should no longer be used to measure the effects of influenza vaccination.
Water and Liminality in Praisesong for the Widow and Daughters of the Dust
Creators: name: Lopez, Carmen
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: African Americans--Social life and customs
subject: American literature--African American authors
subject: Culture--Study and teaching
subject: Metaphysics
subject: Spirituality

description: This essay examines the influence and effects of water in post-colonial African American women of the Gullah and Gee-Chee cultures from the sea islands of Georgia and south Carolina, reviewing the ecological theory of phenotypes establishing the eco-boundaries of the resulting pure-selves through the examination of one film and a novel: Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust and Pauli Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow. Both works show how the water cycle, involving all its different form in nature, demolishe the essentialist post-colonial theory. These post-colonial works solicit an embedded palimpsest addition by the incorporation of textual allusions to Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and Coleridge’s Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, evidencing the need of water for the realization of what Viktor Frankl’s describes as the human responsibility in life (Frankl, V. 1999). These African-American women will give an answer to their lives’ existential meaning by recycling and widespreading their coexisting selves’ “eco-self”, using water as their main dynamic force.
sj-pdf-1-ade-10.1177_16878140211028056 – Supplemental material for Numerical analysis on the performance characteristics of a new gas journal bearing by using finite difference method
Creators: name: Li, Yuntang
name: Li, Ruirui
name: Ye, Yueliang
name: Li, Xiaolu
name: Chen, Yuan
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-ade-10.1177_16878140211028056 for Numerical analysis on the performance characteristics of a new gas journal bearing by using finite difference method by Yuntang Li, Ruirui Li, Yueliang Ye, Xiaolu Li and Yuan Chen in Advances in Mechanical Engineering
Contextual Distillation Model for Diversified Recommendation
Creators: name: Li, Fan
name: Si, Xu
name: Tang, Shisong
name: Wang, Dingmin
name: Han, Kunyan
name: Han, Bing
name: Zhou, Guorui
name: Song, Yang
name: Chen, Hechang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The diversity of recommendation is equally crucial as accuracy in improving user experience. Existing studies, e.g., Determinantal Point Process (DPP) and Maximal Marginal Relevance (MMR), employ a greedy paradigm to iteratively select items that optimize both accuracy and diversity. However, prior methods typically exhibit quadratic complexity, limiting their applications to the re-ranking stage and are not applicable to other recommendation stages with a larger pool of candidate items, such as the pre-ranking and ranking stages. In this paper, we propose Contextual Distillation Model (CDM), an efficient recommendation model that addresses diversification, suitable for the deployment in all stages of industrial recommendation pipelines. Specifically, CDM utilizes the candidate items in the same user request as context to enhance the diversification of the results. We propose a contrastive context encoder that employs attention mechanisms to model both positive and negative contexts. For the training of CDM, we compare each target item with its context embedding and utilize the knowledge distillation framework to learn the win probability of each target item under the MMR algorithm, where the teacher is derived from MMR outputs. During inference, ranking is performed through a linear combination of the recommendation and student model scores, ensuring both diversity and efficiency. We perform offline evaluations on two industrial datasets and conduct online A/B test of CDM on the short-video platform KuaiShou. The considerable enhancements observed in both recommendation quality and diversity, as shown by metrics, provide strong superiority for the effectiveness of CDM.
description: accepted by KDD 2024 v2
Deep Learning Applied to Attractor Images Derived from ECG Signals for Detection of Genetic Mutation
Creators: name: Aston, Philip
name: Lyle, Jane
name: Bonet Luz, Esther
name: Huang, Christopher
name: Zhang, Yanmin
name: Jeevaratnam, Kamalan
name: Nandi, Manasi
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biological mathematics

description: Data provided consists of the figures shown in Figs 2, 3 and 4.
sj-pdf-1-ecl-10.1177_14687984211029031 - Supplemental material for Depictions of teachers and teacher practices in picture books about starting kindergarten
Creators: name: Cutler, Laura
name: Slicker, Gerilyn
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 130312 Special Education and Disability
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-ecl-10.1177_14687984211029031 for Depictions of teachers and teacher practices in picture books about starting kindergarten by Laura Cutler and Gerilyn Slicker in Journal of Early Childhood Literacy
Lovesickness: Medieval Literary Representations of a Medical Discourse
Creators: name: Polhill, Marian Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Literature and medicine
subject: Literature, Medieval

description: Abstract for article and longer project on literary representations of the medical discourse of lovesickness, with particular attention to gender and violence. Part of the project was presented at the Nineteenth Biennial International Congress of the New Chaucer Society held in Reykjavik, Iceland in 2014, and is currently being prepared for submission to an open access journal.
A formation pathway for terrestrial planets with moderate water content involving atmospheric-volatile recycling
Creators: name: Müller, Jonas
name: Bitsch, Bertram
name: Schneider, Aaron David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Of the many recently discovered terrestrial exoplanets, some are expected to harbor moderate water mass fractions of a few percent. The formation pathways that can produce planets with these water mass fractions are not fully understood. Here, we use the code chemcomp, which consists of a semi-analytical 1D protoplanetary disk model harboring a migrating and accreting planet, to model the growth and composition of planets with moderate water mass fractions by pebble accretion in a protoplanetary disk around a TRAPPIST-1 analog star. This star is accompanied by seven terrestrial planets, of which the outer four planets likely contain water mass fractions of between 1\% and 10\%. We adopt a published model that considers the evaporation of pebbles in the planetary envelope, from where recycling flows can transport the volatile vapor back into the disk. We find that with this model, the planetary water content depends on the influx rate of pebbles onto the planet. A decreasing pebble influx with time reduces the envelope temperature and consequently allows the formation of planets with moderate water mass fractions as inferred for the outer TRAPPIST-1 planets for a number of different simulation configurations. This is further evidence that the recycling of vapor is an important component of planet formation needed to explain the vast and diverse population of exoplanets.
description: Accepted by A&A, 19 pages, 8 figures
Lovesickness: Medieval Literary Representations of a Medical Discourse
Creators: name: Polhill, Marian Elizabeth
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Literature, Medieval
subject: Literature and medicine

description: Abstract for article and longer project on literary representations of the medical discourse of lovesickness, with particular attention to gender and violence. Part of the project was presented at the Nineteenth Biennial International Congress of the New Chaucer Society held in Reykjavik, Iceland in 2014, and is currently being prepared for submission to an open access journal.
Genres of Identification: Holocaust Testimony and Postcolonial Witness
Creators: name: Bethlehem, Louise
Publisher: name: Berghahn Books
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Jews--Study and teaching
subject: Literature and history
subject: Europe
subject: History
subject: Culture--Study and teaching

description: This chapter explores the strange intimacies of dis/avowal that obtain between Holocaust studies and postcolonial theory, with particular reference to writing by Aimé Césaire and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. For all that the Jewish body remains, by and large, unmourned in the canonical texts of postcolonial theory, the Holocaust has, I seek to argue, made an engagement with the ascendancy of witness compelling for postcolonialism precisely because it, too, comes after; it, too, inhabits the traumatic belatedness of catastrophe
Information seeking, screening and health behaviors of cancer survivors
Creators: name: Mayer, Deborah Kay
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Health Behavior

description: Ten cancer million survivors, representing 3.5% of the US population, are at increased risk for addition cancer and other health problems.  This retrospective secondary data analysis study examined the impact a cancer diagnosis has on survivor's (n=763) screening, health, and information seeking behaviors compared to those without cancer (n=2114).  This was a secondary data analysis of the NCI's 2003 Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS).  The cancer survivors were predominantly White, married, employed women with more than a high school education with access to health care.  The average age of the cancer survivor was 58 with an average of 11 years since diagnosis.  The cancer survivors were significantly different from the NoCancer group in a number of these variables.  These differences were controlled for in the statistical analyses.  Being a cancer survivor influenced risk perceptions, barriers and benefits to cancer screening, but cancer status did not inform actual cancer screening behaviors, with the exception of higher screening rates for cancer survivors for colorectal cancer screening.  CaSurvivors were no different in adopting healthy behaviors than the Nocancer group with controlling for other demographic variables; 22.5% of CaSurvivors and 18.4 of NoCancer were current smokers; 45.3% of CaSurvivors and 53% of NoCancer at least  weekly; 18% of CaSurvivors and 14.9% of NoCancer consumed at least five fruits and vegetables per day, and 58% of CaSurvivor and 54.9% of NoCaner were either overweight or obese.  Only 7.4% of CaSurvivors and 6.4% of Nocancer reported all three health behaviors (exercised regularly, and consumed at least five F/V per day; and did not smoke) and had a healthy weight.  Two thirds (67.5%, n=418) of the survivors sought cancer information (InfoSeek) and 32.5% (n=201) did not (NoInfoSeek).  Significant predictors of cancer information seeking included age (less the 65) , gender (female), income (.%25,000/yr) and having a regular health care provider.  Although most survivors prefer receiving cancer information from their health care provider, many turn to a variety of other sources, primarily the internet.  Advancing the cancer experience as a teachable moment or cue to action for  health promotion needs to be explored further.
sj-pdf-2-ecl-10.1177_14687984211029031 - Supplemental material for Depictions of teachers and teacher practices in picture books about starting kindergarten
Creators: name: Cutler, Laura
name: Slicker, Gerilyn
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 130312 Special Education and Disability
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-2-ecl-10.1177_14687984211029031 for Depictions of teachers and teacher practices in picture books about starting kindergarten by Laura Cutler and Gerilyn Slicker in Journal of Early Childhood Literacy
The bad boy antihero and contemporary politics: Scarface and Gunday
Creators: name: Castillo, Debra Ann
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Comparative literature
subject: Literature, Modern
subject: Indian literature
subject: American literature

description: In this short piece I look at media creations of the contemporary political landscape by way of popular history as accessed through films. I suggest that one of the ways figures like Donald Trump or Narendra Modi access a certain violent masculinity is through a shared understanding of this repertoire of images.
The bad boy antihero and contemporary politics: Scarface and Gunday
Creators: name: Castillo, Debra Ann
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: American literature
subject: Comparative literature
subject: Indian literature
subject: Literature, Modern

description: In this short piece I look at media creations of the contemporary political landscape by way of popular history as accessed through films.  I suggest that one of the ways figures like Donald Trump or Narendra Modi  access a certain violent masculinity is through a shared understanding of this repertoire of images.