cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Electronically monitored medication adherence predicts hospitalization in heart failure patients
Creators: name: Knafl, George J.
name: Riegel, Barbara
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: BackgroundHospitalization contributes enormously to health care costs associated with heart failure. Many investigators have attempted to predict hospitalization in these patients. None of these models has been highly effective in prediction, suggesting that important risk factors remain unidentified.PurposeTo assess prospectively collected medication adherence, objectively measured by the Medication Event Monitoring System, as a predictor of hospitalization in heart failure patients.Materials and methodsWe used recently developed adaptive modeling methods to describe patterns of medication adherence in a sample of heart failure patients, and tested the hypothesis that poor medication adherence as determined by adaptive methods was a significant predictor of hospitalization within 6 months.ResultsMedication adherence was the best predictor of hospitalization. Besides two dimensions of poor adherence (adherence pattern type and low percentage of prescribed doses taken), four other single factors predicted hospitalization: low hemoglobin, depressed ejection fraction, New York Heart Association class IV, and 12 or more medications taken daily. Seven interactions increased the predictive capability of the model: 1) pattern of poor adherence type and lower score on the Letter–Number Sequencing test, a measure of short-term memory; 2) higher number of comorbid conditions and higher number of daily medications; 3) higher blood urea nitrogen and lower percentage of prescribed doses taken; 4) lower hemoglobin and much worse perceived health compared to last year; 5) older age and lower score on the Telephone Interview of Cognitive Status; 6) higher body mass index and lower hemoglobin; and 7) lower ejection fraction and higher fatigue. Patients with none of these seven interactions had a hospitalization rate of 9.7%. For those with five of these interaction risk factors, 100% were hospitalized. The C-index (the area under the receiver-operating characteristics [ROC] curve) for the model based on the seven interactions was 0.83, indicating excellent discrimination.ConclusionMedication adherence adds important new information to the list of variables previously shown to predict hospitalization in adults with heart failure.
Analysing powers and spin correlations in deuteron-proton charge exchange at 726 MeV
Creators: name: Dymov, S.
name: Azaryan, T.
name: Bagdasarian, Z.
name: Barsov, S.
name: Carbonell, J.
name: Chiladze, D.
name: Engels, R.
name: Gebel, R.
name: Grigoryev, K.
name: Hartmann, M.
name: Kacharava, A.
name: Khoukaz, A.
name: Komarov, V.
name: Kulessa, P.
name: Kulikov, A.
name: Kurbatov, V.
name: Lomidze, N.
name: Lorentz, B.
name: Macharashvili, G.
name: Mchedlishvili, D.
name: Merzliakov, S.
name: Mielke, M.
name: Mikirtychyants, M.
name: Mikirtychyants, S.
name: Nioradze, M.
name: Ohm, H.
name: Prasuhn, D.
name: Rathmann, F.
name: Serdyuk, V.
name: Seyfarth, H.
name: Shmakova, V.
name: Ströher, H.
name: Tabidze, M.
name: Trusov, S.
name: Tsirkov, D.
name: Uzikov, Yu.
name: Valdau, Yu.
name: Weidemann, C.
name: Wilkin, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The charge exchange of vector polarised deuterons on a polarised hydrogen target has been studied in a high statistics experiment at the COSY-ANKE facility at a deuteron beam energy of Td = 726 MeV. By selecting two fast protons at low relative energy E_{pp}, the measured analysing powers and spin correlations are sensitive to interference terms between specific neutron-proton charge-exchange amplitudes at a neutron kinetic energy of Tn ~ 1/2 Td =363 MeV. An impulse approximation calculation, which takes into account corrections due to the angular distribution in the diproton, describes reasonably the dependence of the data on both E_{pp} and the momentum transfer. This lends broad support to the current neutron-proton partial-wave solution that was used in the estimation.
Transnational Networks of Communist Musical Propaganda in the Spanish Civil War
Creators: name: Alonso Tomás, Diego
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: music and antifascism
subject: Spanish and German workers’ music movements
subject: Otto Mayer-Serra
subject: Hanns Eisler
subject: Ernst Busch
subject: Comissariat de Propaganda de la Generalitat de Cataluya
subject: 320 Politikwissenschaft (Politik und Regierung)
subject: 355 Militärwissenschaft

description: A unique figure within Spanish music circles of the 1930s, the Berlin-born Jewish musicologist Otto Mayer-Serra was a central figure in a transnational network of communist musicians actively engaging with musical propaganda in support of the Republic during the Spanish civil war. Hanns Eisler, Ernst H. Meyer, Ernst Busch, Grigori Schneerson, Ferencz Szabó and several members of the Union of Soviet Composers belonged to this network. The article’s first section examines Mayer-Serra’s attempts to introduce in Spain a number of propagandistic musical practices that had been central in the communist splinter group of the German Workers’ Music Movement before 1933. In the second section I discuss Mayer-Serra’s intensive promotion in wartime Spain of the genre of overtly propagandistic ‘battle songs’ composed by members of this network. These practices and repertoires are also studied as part of the powerful movement of Catalan nationalism in 1930s Spain.
On One-Parameter Catalan Arrays
Creators: name: Agapito, José
name: Mestre, Ângela
name: Petrullo, Pasquale
name: Torres, Maria M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 15B (Primary), 05A19, 11B37, 11B83, 11C (Secondary)

description: We present a parametric family of Riordan arrays which are obtained by multiplying any Riordan array with a generalized Pascal array. In particular, we focus on some interesting properties of one-parameter Catalan triangles. We obtain several combinatorial identities that involve two special Catalan matrices, the Chebyshev polynomials of the second kind, some periodic sequences, and the Fibonacci numbers.
description: 13 pages
Compactness of conformal metrics with constant $Q$-curvature. I
Creators: name: Li, YanYan
name: Xiong, Jingang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study compactness for nonnegative solutions of the fourth order constant $Q$-curvature equations on smooth compact Riemannian manifolds of dimension $\ge 5$. If the $Q$-curvature equals $-1$, we prove that all solutions are universally bounded. If the $Q$-curvature is $1$, assuming that Paneitz operator's kernel is trivial and its Green function is positive, we establish universal energy bounds on manifolds which are either locally conformally flat (LCF) or of dimension $\le 9$. Moreover, assuming in addition that a positive mass type theorem holds for the Paneitz operator, we prove compactness in $C^4$. Positive mass type theorems have been verified recently on LCF manifolds or manifolds of dimension $\le 7$, when the Yamabe invariant is positive. We also prove that, for dimension $\ge 8$, the Weyl tensor has to vanish at possible blow up points of a sequence of blowing up solutions. This implies the compactness result in dimension $\ge 8$ when the Weyl tensor does not vanish anywhere. To overcome difficulties stemming from fourth order elliptic equations, we develop a blow up analysis procedure via integral equations.
description: 40 pages, published version
Three Halacarid mites of the genus Copidognathus (Acari: Halacaridae) from Zanzibar, Tanzania
Creators: name: CHATTERJEE, Tapas
name: DE TROCH, Marleen
name: CHANG, Cheon Young
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2006

description: Three new halacarid species belonging to the genus Copidognathus are described from the east coast of Zanzibar,
 Tanzania. Copidognathus corallicolus sp. nov. is characterized by dorsal setae 2 on membranous cuticle between anterodor-
 sal plate and ocular plate, posterodosal plate with two single-rosette-pore wide costae, panels on posterodorsal plate sub-
 divided, long rostrum extending to base of fourth palpal segment, tibia IV with a ventromedial pectinate seta, and tarsi III
 and IV with 4:3 dorsal setae. Copidognathus fungiae sp. nov. is a member of C. tamaeus group, and characterized by all
 ventral plates fused in male, posterodorsal plate with two 2- to 3-rosette-pores wide costae, palp a little surpassing anterior
 end of rostrum, second palpal segment with spinular lamella ventrodistally, ventrolateral lamella of telofemur I with medial
 edge slightly protruded, and patella IV with 4 setae. Copidognathus ungujaensis sp. nov., a member of C. bairdi group s.
 str., is closely allied with C. sidellus Bartsch, but differs from it by the presence of areola below second coxal region, almost
 straight anterior margin of posterodorsal plate, 2 rosette pores between gland pores on posterodorsal plate, lateral and
 middle costae not joining anteriorly, and more elongated anterior areola on anterodorsal plate.
A new genus, Leptomenes, for the pontoniine shrimp Periclimenes dolichosternum Okuno & Mitsuhashi, 2003 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae)
Creators: name: BRUCE, Alexander J.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2006

description: A new genus, Leptomenes, is designated for the pontoniine shrimp Periclimenes dolichosternum & Mitsuhashi,
 2003. The single species is known only from the type material from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan.
Characterizing weekly self-reported antihypertensive medication nonadherence across repeated occasions
Creators: name: Reeve, Bryce B.
name: Yancy Jr., William S.
name: Neelon, Brian
name: Maciejewski, Matthew L.
name: King, Heather A.
name: Hoyle, Rick H.
name: Voils, Corrine I.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: BackgroundLittle is known about weekly variability in medication nonadherence both between and within persons.PurposeTo characterize medication nonadherence across repeated, closely spaced occasions.MethodsThis prospective cohort study comprised four unannounced telephone assessment occasions, each separated by approximately 2 weeks. On each occasion, adult outpatients taking at least a single antihypertensive medication completed a measure of extent of, and reasons for, nonadherence.ResultsTwo hundred and sixty-one participants completed 871 (83%) of 1,044 occasions. Nonadherence was reported on 152 (17.5%) of 871 occasions by 93 (36%) of 261 participants. The most commonly endorsed reasons for nonadherence were forgetting (39.5%), being busy (23.7%), and traveling (19.7%). Among 219 participants completing at least three occasions, 50% of the variability in extent of nonadherence was a result of within-person fluctuations, and 50% was a result of between-person differences.ConclusionInterventions to reduce nonadherence should be informed by variability in the extent of nonadherence and specific reasons for nonadherence.
SYNDESMIS-RUBIDA SP-NOV AND S-ALBIDA SP-NOV (TURBELLARIA, NEORHABDOCOELA, UMAGILLIDAE) FROM THE SEA-URCHIN ECHINUS-ESCULENTUS
Creators: name: Kozloff, E. N.
name: Westervelt, C. A.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1990

description: Echinus esculentus is host to 2 species of Syndesmis. One of these, S. rubida sp. nov., is typically reddish, completely ciliated externally, has testes that extend from the intestine nearly to the lateral margins of the body, and has a short penis stylet that protrudes into the lumen of the male antrum. The other species, S. albida sp. nov., is pale pink or nearly white, lacks ciliation on the dorsal surface except near the anterior end, has testes concentrated close to the lateral margins of the body, and has an exceptionally long penis stylet. The distal portion of the stylet does not protrude into the male antrum. It lies within a cylindrical structure that has two sheaths of muscle. The outer sheath is continuous with the muscular sheath of the male antrum. The slightly spiral form of the proximal portion of the vagina of S. albida, and the relatively long, sclerotized distal portion, which has many kinks, are other features that separate this species from S. rubida.
Additional file 1 of Protocol for the development of a core domain set for individuals with ankle osteoarthritis
Creators: name: Alanazi, Sultan Ayyadah
name: Vicenzino, Bill
name: van Bergen, Christiaan J. A.
name: Hunter, David J.
name: Wikstrom, Erik A.
name: Menz, Hylton B.
name: Golightly, Yvonne M.
name: Smith, Michelle D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Medicine
Developmental Biology
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Core Outcome Set-STAndardised Protocol Items (COS-STAP) Checklist
2 NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS SCAPTOGNATHUS (ACARI, HALACARIDAE) FROM THE SEA OF JAPAN
Creators: name: Abe, H.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1990

description: Two new species of the genus Scaptognathus are described on the basis of the specimens from Teuri Is., the Sea of Japan: Scaptognathus magnus sp. nov. and S. teuriensis sp. nov. A tabular key to the species in the genus Scaptognathus is also presented.
Medication adherence: process for implementation
Creators: name: Mendys, Phil
name: Granger, Bradi B.
name: Zullig, Leah L.
name: Burkholder, Rebecca
name: Bosworth, Hayden B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Improving medication adherence is a critically important, but often enigmatic objective of patients, providers, and the overall health care system. Increasing medication adherence has the potential to reduce health care costs while improving care quality, patient satisfaction and health outcomes. While there are a number of papers that describe the benefits of medication adherence in terms of cost, safety, outcomes, or quality of life, there are limited reviews that consider how best to seamlessly integrate tools and processes directed at improving medication adherence. We will address processes for implementing medication adherence interventions with the goal of better informing providers and health care systems regarding the safe and effective use of medications.
Central Provinces, District Gazetteer. Chhindwara District.
Creators: name: Russell, R. V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1907
Subjects: Chhindwara

description: Central Provinces, District Gazetteer. Chhindwara District. Volume A. Descriptive. Bombay, 1907
description: Documentation relevant to Siddhaṃ OB00154 Dudiā plates of Pravarasena II. The location of Dudiā village, the reported find-spot, is debated. According to sources cited by both Shastri and Mirashi, the village is located in Aser pargaṇā, Chhindwārā district, Madhya Pradesh. Smith, in his article of Vākāṭaka inscriptions of Berar, states that he is unable to locate Dudiā or Aser in the region of Chhindwārā and so locates the charter in Chhindwārā. (Smith, V. A., 'The Vakataka Dynasty of Berar in the Fourth and Fifth centuries A.C.', Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, April, 1914, p. 320). The Gazeteer for Chhidwara (1907), p. 208 places Aser pagana in Chhidwara tehsil, but there is no village named Dudia, Dudhi, etc. in that tehsil presently. However, ibid., p. 22 states the plates were obtained from Gonds by C. W. Mongomerie, settlement officer, in Dudhi village in Aser pargana. Based on current village names, this Dudhi may be Dudha village in present Pandhurna tehsil, or Duddi in present Parasia tehsil, or Dudhgoan in present Bichhua Tehsil. Duddi, north east of Parasia, seems the most likely location.
L-Carnitine alleviates hepatic and renal mitochondrial-dependent apoptotic progression induced by letrozole in female rats through modulation of Nrf-2, Cyt c and CASP-3 signaling
Creators: name: Hassan, Neven
name: Rashad, Maha
name: Elleithy, Ebtihal
name: Sabry, Zainab
name: Ali, Ghada
name: Elmosalamy, Sherif
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Letrozole (LTZ) is a non-steroidal aromatase inhibitor that is commonly used in breast cancer therapy. It has several side effects that might lead to the drug's cessation and data of LTZ's potential adverse effects on the hepatorenal microenvironment was conflicting. In addition, searching for therapeutic interventions that could modulate its adverse effects will be very beneficial. So, this study aims to determine the impact of LTZ on the hepatorenal microenvironment in cyclic female rats with a proposed regulatory role of L-Carnitine (LC) supplementation giving molecular insights into its possible mechanism of action. LTZ (1 mg/kg using 0.5% carboxy methyl cellulose as a vehicle for 21 consecutive days orally) to assess its impact on hepatorenal microenvironment. After treatment with LC (100 mg/kg orally) for 14 days, hepatorenal redox state (lipid peroxides (MDA), reduced glutathione (GSH) and catalase enzyme (CAT)), as well as relative gene expression of nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf-2), cytochrome-c (Cyt c) and caspase-3 (CASP-3) were evaluated. Histopathological examination and immunohistochemical staining of CASP-3 in both liver and kidney were done. LTZ altered hepatic and renal functions. Relative gene expression of hepatorenal Nrf-2, Cyt c and CASP-3 as well as redox state revealed significant deterioration. Also, the liver and kidney tissues showed several micromorphological changes and intense reaction to CASP-3 upon immunohistochemical staining. It can be concluded that LC alleviates LTZ induced hepatorenal oxidative stress (OS) and mitochondrial-dependent apoptotic progression through modulation of Nrf-2, Cyt c, and CASP-3 signaling in female rats.
What puts heart failure patients at risk for poor medication adherence?
Creators: name: Riegel, Barbara
name: Knafl, George J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: BackgroundMedication nonadherence is a major cause of hospitalization in patients with heart failure (HF), which contributes enormously to health care costs. We previously found, using the World Health Organization adherence dimensions, that condition and patient level factors predicted nonadherence in HF. In this study, we assessed a wider variety of condition and patient factors and interactions to improve our ability to identify those at risk for hospitalization.Materials and methodsMedication adherence was measured electronically over the course of 6 months, using the Medication Event Monitoring System (MEMS). A total of 242 HF patients completed the study, and usable MEMS data were available for 218 (90.1%). Participants were primarily white (68.3%), male (64.2%), and retired (44.5%). Education ranged from 8–29 years (mean, 14.0 years; standard deviation, 2.9 years). Ages ranged from 30–89 years (mean, 62.8 years; standard deviation, 11.6 years). Analyses used adaptive methods based on heuristic searches controlled by cross-validation scores. First, individual patient adherence patterns over time were used to categorize patients in poor versus better adherence types. Then, risk factors for poor adherence were identified. Finally, an effective model for predicting poor adherence was identified based on identified risk factors and possible pairwise interactions between them.ResultsA total of 63 (28.9%) patients had poor adherence. Three interaction risk factors for poor adherence were identified: a higher number of comorbid conditions with a higher total number of daily medicines, older age with poorer global sleep quality, and fewer months since diagnosis of HF with poorer global sleep quality. Patients had between zero and three risk factors. The odds for poor adherence increased by 2.6 times with a unit increase in the number of risk factors (odds ratio, 2.62; 95% confidence interval, 1.78–3.86; P<0.001).ConclusionNewly diagnosed, older HF patients with comorbid conditions, polypharmacy, and poor sleep are at risk for poor medication adherence. Interventions addressing these specific barriers are needed.
Supplementary material from Possible adverse impact of contaminants on Atlantic cod population dynamics in coastal ecosystems.
Creators: name: Ono, Kotaro
name: Knutsen, Halvor
name: Olsen, Esben M.
name: Ruus, Anders
name: Hjermann, Dag Ø.
name: Stenseth, Nils Chr.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supporting information (text, figures, and tables) to the main text
NEW DATA ON FORMATION AND COMPOSITION OF LARVAL TUBES OF PECTINARIA (=LAGIS) KORENI MALGREN (ANNELIDA, POLYCHAETA)
Creators: name: Vovelle, J.
name: Grasset, M.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1990

description: The membranaceous tube which protects the aulophora larva of Pectinaria koreni is elaborated by glands announcing the adult cement glands. Sphaerular secretions, belonging to the single type "heterogenous with membrane", form this tube by expanding in a layer of hollow and flat elements, making up a thin wall. When metamorphosing, some other secretions intervene to build up the adult interstitial cement, but the early spherules soon possess a mineral composition comparable to the adult ones. Three microanalysis methods characterised a main phosphated component, in association with calcium and some magnesium, plus traces of aluminium. These characteristics allow us to compare the make up, structure and chemical composition of the larval sheath with the adult cement, and emphasize an original feature of the aulophora stage of Amphictenidae.
THE LARGER CRUSTACEA ASSOCIATED WITH HOLDFASTS OF KELP (LAMINARIA HYPERBOREA) IN NORTH-EAST BRITAIN
Creators: name: MOORE, P. G.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1973

description: The composition of the malacostracan crustacean fauna inhabiting kelp holdfasts in North-East Britain is described. Observations on the natural history of each species are presented. The Amphipoda form the dominant group followed by the Isopoda and Tanaidacea. Vagile Mysidacea and Eucarida are possibly under-represented due to sampling technique. Amphipod dominance was largely due to the family Ischyroceridae, followed by the families Corophiidae, Amphilochidae, Calliopiidae, Dexaminidae, Aoridae, Atylidae and Stenothoidae. The majority of the Amphipoda are tubicolous; the non tube-dwelling Amphipoda being characteristically strong swimmers which nestle amongst algae. Their feeding habits and distribution around Britain are described as existing data allow. The importance of geographical temperature factors and exposure to wave action is discussed. Comparison is made between the fauna of British and Californian kelp holdfasts and related to the distinctive differences between the two habitats.
Resonance-type thickness dependence of optical second harmonic generation in thin-films of the topological insulator Bi2Se3
Creators: name: Glinka, Yuri D.
name: Babakiray, Sercan
name: Johnson, Trent A.
name: Holcomb, Mikel B.
name: Lederman, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Optical second harmonic generation (SHG) has been measured for the first time in reflection from the nanometer-thick films (6 to 40 nm) of the topological insulator Bi2Se3 using 1.51 eV (820 nm) Ti:Sapphire laser photons and revealed a strong dependence of the integral SHG intensity on the film thickness. The integral SHG intensity was determined by area integration of the SHG rotational anisotropy patterns measured for different input-output light polarization geometries. A ~100-fold enhancement of the integral SHG intensity with decreasing film thickness has been suggested to result from the DC-electric-field-induced SHG (EFISHG) effects. Two sources of dynamically created DC electric field were proposed: (i) the capacitor-type DC electric field that gradually increases with decreasing film thickness from 40 to 6 nm due to a dynamical imbalance of photoexcited long-lived carriers between the opposite-surface Dirac surface states and (ii) an DC electric field associated with a nonlinearly excited Dirac plasmon, which is responsible for the resonant enhancement of the integral SHG intensity for the 10 nm thick film with a Lorentz-shaped resonance of ~1.6 nm full width at half maximum. Additionally to the general SHG enhancement trends with decreasing film thickness, a relative decrease of the out-of-plane contribution with respect to the in-plane contribution was observed. Using a theoretical treatment of the measured SHG rotational anisotropy patterns, this effect has been suggested to result from the joint contributions of the linear and quadratic DC electric field effects to the EFISHG response.
Celtodoryx girardae gen. nov. sp. nov., a new sponge species (Poecilosclerida: Demospongiae) invading the Gulf of Morbihan (North East Atlantic, France)
Creators: name: PEREZ, Thierry
name: PERRIN, Bertrand
name: CARTERON, Sophie
name: VACELET, Jean
name: BOURY-ESNAULT, Nicole
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2006

description: Celtodoryx girardae is described as new species and new genus. The new genus has clear relationships with
 several genera of the Coelosphaeridae. The choanosomal skeleton is a plumoreticulation of anisostrongyles or anisotylotes,
 with ectosomal tylotes, all megascleres bearing terminal spines. The microscleres belong to three types, arcuate isochelae
 of two sizes and oxychaetes. This sponge was sighted for the first time in the Ria of Etel (1996) and then in the Gulf of
 Morbihan (1999) (Brittany). Since then, the sponge, which seems to have fast spread dynamics, has become very abundant
 with tens of large specimens. On the basis of several criteria, this sponge is thought to be an introduced species: (i) it is new
 to the area; (ii) its distribution is rather localized; (iii) its dispersion from the first localised station follows a perceptible
 pattern; (iv) it has a strong tendency to proliferate; (v) there is a potential introduction source (oyster farms). The sponge is
 a successful competitor overgrowing other sessile invertebrates such as sea fans and other sponges.
Consumer interpretation of ramipril and clopidogrel medication risk information – implications for risk communication strategies
Creators: name: Raynor, David K.
name: Tong, Vivien
name: Aslani, Parisa
name: Blalock, Susan J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: PurposeSide effects and side-effect risk information can be provided using written medicine information. However, challenges exist in effectively communicating this information to consumers. This study aimed to explore broad consumer profiles relevant to ramipril and clopidogrel side-effect risk information interpretation.MethodsThree focus groups were conducted (n=18 consumers) exploring consumer perspectives, understanding and treatment decision making in response to ramipril and clopidogrel written medicine information leaflets containing side effects and side-effect risk information. All discussions were audio recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analyzed to explore consumer profiles pertaining to side-effect risk appraisal.ResultsThree consumer profiles emerged: glass half-empty, glass half-full, and middle-of-the-road consumers, highlighting the influence of perceived individual susceptibility, interpretation of side-effect risk information, and interindividual differences, on consumers’ understanding of side-effect risk information. All profiles emphasized the importance of gaining an understanding of individual side-effect risk when taking medicines.ConclusionWritten side-effect risk information is not interpreted uniformly by consumers. Consumers formulated their own construct of individual susceptibility to side effects. Health care professionals should consider how consumers interpret side-effect risk information and its impact on medication use. Existing risk communication strategies should be evaluated in light of these profiles to determine their effectiveness in conveying information.
INFLUENCE OF BIODEPOSITION BY FILTER-FEEDING BIVALVES ON SALT-MARSH MEIOBENTHIC COMMUNITIES
Creators: name: Dinet, A.
name: Sornin, J. M.
name: Sabliere, A.
name: Delmas, D.
name: Feuilletgirard, M.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1990

description: The influence of biodeposition by filter-feeding bivalves (Crassostrea gigas and Mytilus edulis) on the evolution of salt-marsh meiobenthic communities of the French atlantic coast was studied over a 15-months period. Quantitative variations of meiofauna were analyzed monthly and, during some phases of the year cycle, at two or three-days intervals. The reasons for the recorded faunal variations were searched by principal component analysis among the main physico-chemical factors of the environment and more especially those related to the particulate organic matter of sediments. Over the concerned period, it seemed difficult to point out the subtle effects of biodeposition on meiofauna as the seasonal factor, basically thermal, was found responsible for the largest quantitative variations observed in the communities. Nematodes and harpacticoid copepods inversely reacted to the massive input of biodeposits. Finally, the most striking effect of these was a lowering of populations very likely due to the strong reduction of the substrate (negative Eh) and a rather high content of ammonium in interstitial waters.
Supplementary material from Possible adverse impact of contaminants on Atlantic cod population dynamics in coastal ecosystems
Creators: name: Ono, Kotaro
name: Knutsen, Halvor
name: Olsen, Esben M.
name: Ruus, Anders
name: Hjermann, Dag Ø.
name: Stenseth, Nils Chr.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supporting information (text, figures, and tables) to the main text
Thermofield Duality for Higher Spin Rindler Gravity
Creators: name: Jevicki, Antal
name: Suzuki, Kenta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Thermo-field realization of the duality between the Rindler-AdS higher spin theory and $O(N)$ vector theory. The CFT represents a decoupled pair of free $O(N)$ vector field theories. It is shown how this decoupled domain CFT is capable of generating the connected Rindler-AdS background with the full set of Higher Spin fields.
description: 23 pages, 1 figure; v2 reference added; v3 presentation modified and typos corrected
On the occurrence of Scomberomorus commerson Lacepède, 1800 (Osteichthyes: Scombridae) off Northern Tunisia (Central Mediterranean)
Creators: name: BEN SOUISSI, Jamila
name: GOLANI, Daniel
name: MEJRI, Hamadi
name: ZAOUALI, Jeanne
name: CAPAPÉ, Christian
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2006

description: Scomberomorus commerson Lacepède, 1800 is recorded for the first time in Tunisian waters, off Kelibia, Cape
 Bon, in northern Tunisia, central Mediterranean. This finding constitutes the seventh Lessepsian migrant fish reported in
 the area. This record is probably due to migration from the eastern Mediterranean where populations were previously esta-
 blished.
Two new species of the deep-water asellotan genus Notopais Hodgson, 1910 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Munnopsidae) from the south-western Pacific
Creators: name: MERRIN, Kelly L.
name: BRUCE, Niel L.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2006

description: Two new species of Notopais are described, Notopais echinatus sp. nov. from the continental slope of eastern
 Australia, at a depth of 2400-2500 metres, and Notopais euaxos sp. nov. from the Chatham Rise off the eastern coast of
 South Island, New Zealand, from depths of 2476-2542, the greatest recorded depths for the genus.
Toward A Reconfigurable Quantum Network Enabled by a Broadband Entangled Source
Creators: name: Zhu, E. Y.
name: Corbari, C.
name: Gladyshev, A. V.
name: Kazansky, P. G.
name: Lo, H. K.
name: Qian, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a proof-of-principle experimental demonstration of a reconfigurable entanglement distribution scheme utilizing a poled fiber-based source of broadband polarization-entangled photon pairs and dense wavelength-division multiplexing. A large bandwidth (> 90 nm, centered at 1555 nm) and highly spectrally correlated nature of the entangled source can be exploited to allow for the generation of more than 25 frequency-conjugate entangled pairs when aligned to the standard 200 GHz ITU grid. In this work, three frequency-conjugate entangled pairs are used to demonstrate quantum key distribution, with the wavelength-selective switching done manually. The entangled pairs are delivered over 40 km of actual fiber, and an estimated secure key rate of up to 20 bits/s per bi-party is obtained.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
28-day repeated dose toxicological evaluation of Coronil in Sprague Dawley rats: Behavioral, hematological, biochemical and histopathological assessments under GLP compliance
Creators: name: Balkrishna, Acharya
name: Sinha, Sandeep
name: Varshney, Anurag
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Ayurvedic medicines are widely employed globally for prophylaxis and treatment of a variety of diseases. Coronil is a tri-herbal medicine, constituted with the traditional herbs, Tinospora cordifolia, Withania somnifera and Ocimum sanctum, with known immunomodulatory activities. Based on its proven in-vitro activity and in-vivo efficacy, Coronil has been approved as a ‘Supporting Measure for COVID-19’ by the Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India. The current study was aimed to assess the non-clinical safety of Coronil in a 28-day repeated dose toxicity study along with a 14-day recovery period in Sprague Dawley rats. This toxicity study was conducted in accordance with OECD test guideline 407, under GLP-compliance. Specific-Pathogen-Free animals of either sex, housed in Individually-Ventilated-Cages were particularly used in the study. The tested Coronil dose levels were 0, 100, 300 and 1000 mg/kg/day, orally administered to 5 males and 5 female rats per test group. In the current study, no mortality was observed in any group and in addition, Coronil did not elicit any finding of toxicological relevance with respect to clinical signs, ocular effects, hematology, urinalysis and clinical chemistry parameters, as well as macro- or microscopical changes in any organs, when compared to the control group. Accordingly, the No-Observed-Adverse-Effect-Level (NOAEL) of Coronil was ascertained to be 1000 mg/kg/day, subsequent to its 28-day oral administration to male and female rats. The acceptable safety profile of Coronil paves the way further toxicity assessments in rodents for a longer duration as well as in higher animals, and towards its clinical investigation.
Developing a discrete choice experiment in Malawi: eliciting preferences for breast cancer early detection services
Creators: name: Kohler, Racquel E.
name: Reeve, Bryce B.
name: Weiner, Bryan J.
name: Wheeler, Stephanie B.
name: Gopal, Satish
name: Lee, Clara N.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: BackgroundIn Malawi, routine breast cancer screening is not available and little is known about women’s preferences regarding early detection services. Discrete choice experiments are increasingly used to reveal preferences about new health services; however, selecting appropriate attributes that describe a new health service is imperative to ensure validity of the choice experiment.ObjectiveTo identify important factors that are relevant to Malawian women’s preferences for breast cancer detection services and to select attributes and levels for a discrete choice experiment in a setting where both breast cancer early detection and choice experiments are rare.MethodsWe reviewed the literature to establish an initial list of potential attributes and levels for a discrete choice experiment and conducted qualitative interviews with health workers and community women to explore relevant local factors affecting decisions to use cancer detection services. We tested the design through cognitive interviews and refined the levels, descriptions, and designs.ResultsThemes that emerged from interviews provided critical information about breast cancer detection services, specifically, that breast cancer interventions should be integrated into other health services because asymptomatic screening may not be practical as an individual service. Based on participants’ responses, the final attributes of the choice experiment included travel time, health encounter, health worker type and sex, and breast cancer early detection strategy. Cognitive testing confirmed the acceptability of the final attributes, comprehension of choice tasks, and women’s abilities to make trade-offs.ConclusionApplying a discrete choice experiment for breast cancer early detection was feasible with appropriate tailoring for a low-income, low-literacy African setting.
Additional file 1 of Canadian Veteran chronic disease prevalence and health services use in the five years following release: a matched retrospective cohort study using routinely collected data
Creators: name: Mahar, Alyson L.
name: Cyr, Kate St.
name: Enns, Jennifer E.
name: Aiken, Alice B.
name: Whitehead, Marlo
name: Cramm, Heidi
name: Kurdyak, Paul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Unadjusted and adjusted risk ratios of chronic disease stratified by sex (reference: age-, sex-, geography- and median community income-matched general population cohort). Supplementary Table 2. Relative odds ratios of health care visits, by sex, visit type and Veteran status. Supplementary Table 3. Relative rate ratios of health care visits, by sex, visit type and Veteran status.
NEW INFORMATION ON DECAPOD CRUSTACEA OF THE MEDIOLITTORAL AND INFRALITTORAL ZONES ON THE SOUTH-ATLANTIC ANDALUCIAN COAST (SOUTHWESTERN SPAIN) .1. BRACHYURA
Creators: name: Gonzalezgordillo, J. I.
name: Mariscal, J. A. C.
name: Pablos, F.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1990

description: We are giving new information of the Brachyura from the south altantic coast of Andalucia Spain. This is only refering to the mediolittoral and infralittoral zones, compling information from recent general studies and the Iberian littoral. In total 34 species, representing 14 different families where captured, of which Pisa carinimana is the first record for the working zone. Besides we are including on bathymetric and the period for ovigerous females from the group of species studied.
Development and evaluation of the Measure of Drug Self-Management
Creators: name: Bailey, Stacy Cooper
name: Locklear, Autumn D.
name: Wolf, Michael S.
name: Reuland, Daniel S.
name: Sleath, Betsy L.
name: Annis, Izabela E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: BackgroundCurrent adherence scales often fail to assess the full spectrum of behaviors associated with safe and appropriate drug use and may be unsuitable for patients with limited health literacy. We sought to develop and evaluate a comprehensive yet brief Measure of Drug Self-Management (MeDS) for use in research and clinical settings among diverse patient groups.MethodsExpert opinion, literature reviews, and interviews with patients and providers were utilized to create and revise potential items. Item performance testing was then conducted among 193 adult English-speaking patients with hypertension and diabetes. Factor analysis was used to inform item selection. Reliability was assessed via calculations of internal consistency. To assess construct and predictive validity, MeDS scores were compared with scores from the 8-item Morisky Medication Adherence Scale and relevant clinical measures (HbA1c, blood pressure, and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol).ResultsThe MeDS demonstrated adequate internal consistency with a Cronbach’s α of 0.72. The MeDS was significantly correlated with the Morisky Medication Adherence Scale (r= −0.62; P<0.001). The MeDS was also associated with clinical measures, with statistically significant correlations found between MeDS scores and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (r= −0.27, P≤0.001) and diastolic blood pressure (r= −0.18, P=0.01).ConclusionThe MeDS seems to be a valid and reliable tool that can be used to assess medication self-management skills among diverse patients, including those with limited literacy skills. Future studies are needed to test the tool in actual use and explore clinical applications.
Occurrence of harmful dinoflagellates in two different Tunisian ecosystems: the lake of Bizerte and the gulf of Gabès
Creators: name: TURKI, Souâd
name: HARZALLAH, Ali
name: SAMMARI, Cherif
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2006

description: The dinoflagellate phytoplanktonic species were studied in two different Tunisian ecosystems: the gulf of Gabès,
 and the lake of Bizerte, which are respectively situated South and North of Tunisia. The assemblage diversity of dinofla-
 gellate populations was higher (3.59) in the gulf of Gabès than in the lake of Bizerte, which was closely similar for the two
 surveys (1.76 in summer to 1.84 in winter). In the gulf of Gabès, harmful microalgae were dominated by Prorocentrum
 lima (Ehrenberg) Dodge, 1975 and Ostreopsis siamensis Schmidt, 1901, which are known to be benthic or epiphytic
 species. In the lake of Bizerte, harmful microalgae were dominated by Dinophysis sacculus Stein, 1883 and Dinophysis
 acuminata Clarapède et Lachmann,1859, which are strictly planktonic species. These later species were most abundant in
 winter. The densities of P. lima and O. siamensis represented up to 86.4% of the phytoplankton community in the gulf of
 Gabès while in the lake of Bizerte, their density ranged only between 0-2%. The amount of Dinophysis species reached
 41.7% in the lake of Bizerte while these species, dominated by Dinophysis caudata, did not exceed 8.2% in the gulf of
 Gabès.
Extent and reasons for nonadherence to antihypertensive, cholesterol, and diabetes medications: the association with depressive symptom burden in a sample of American veterans
Creators: name: Weidenbacher, Hollis J.
name: Beadles, Christopher A.
name: Voils, Corrine I.
name: Maciejewski, Matthew L.
name: Reeve, Bryce B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: ObjectivePersons with depressive symptoms generally have higher rates of medication nonadherence than persons without depressive symptoms. However, little is known about whether this association differs by comorbid medical condition or whether reasons for nonadherence differ by depressive symptoms or comorbid medical condition.MethodsSelf-reported extent of nonadherence, reasons for nonadherence, and depressive symptoms among 1,026 veterans prescribed medications for hypertension, dyslipidemia, and/or type 2 diabetes were assessed.ResultsIn multivariable logistic regression adjusted for clinical and demographic factors, the odds of nonadherence were higher among participants with high depressive symptom burden for dyslipidemia (n=848; odds ratio [OR]: 1.42, P=0.03) but not hypertension (n=916; OR: 1.24, P=0.15), or type 2 diabetes (n=447; OR: 1.15, P=0.51). Among participants reporting nonadherence to antihypertensive and antilipemic medications, those with greater depressive symptom burden had greater odds of endorsing medication nonadherence reasons related to negative expectations and excessive economic burden. Neither extent of nonadherence nor reasons for nonadherence differed by depressive symptom burden among patients with diabetes.ConclusionThese findings suggest that clinicians may consider tailoring interventions to improve adherence to antihypertensive and antilipemic medications to specific medication concerns of participants with depressive symptoms.
Axion Induced Oscillating Electric Dipole Moment of the Electron
Creators: name: Hill, Christopher T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A cosmic axion, via the electromagnetic anomaly, induces an oscillating electric dipole for the electron of frequency $m_a$ and strength $\sim$(few)$\times 10^{-32}$ e-cm, two orders of magnitude above the nucleon, and within a few orders of magnitude of the present standard model constant limit. We give a detailed study of this phenomenon via the interaction of the cosmic axion, through the electromagnetic anomaly, with particular emphasis on the decoupling limit of the axion, $\partial_t a(t)\propto m_a \rightarrow 0$. The analysis is subtle, and we find the general form of the action involves a local contact interaction and a nonlocal contribution, analogous to the "transverse current" in QED, that enforces the decoupling limit. We carefully derive the effective action in the Pauli-Schroedinger non-relativistic formalism, and in Georgi's heavy quark formalism adapted to the "heavy electron" ($m_e>>m_a$). We compute the electric dipole radiation emitted by free electrons, magnets and currents, immersed in the cosmic axion field, and discuss experimental configurations that may yield a detectable signal.
description: 18 pages, 1 figure, v5 is equivalent to the published document
Supplemental methods and results from The biggest losers: habitat isolation deconstructs complex food webs from top to bottom.
Creators: name: Ryser, Remo
name: Häussler, Johanna
name: Stark, Markus
name: Brose, Ulrich
name: Rall, Björn C.
name: Guill, Christian
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computational Biology
subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This supplement includes additional methods and results complementing the main manuscript.
1ST CITATION OF JAERA-POSTHIRSUTA FORSMAN 1949 (ISOPODA, ASELLOTA) ON THE EASTERN ATLANTIC LITTORAL
Creators: name: Reboreda, P.
name: Otero, J. C.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1990

description: In this paper new data on the distribution of Jaera posthirsuta Forsman 1949 (Isopoda, Asellota) are given for the time in the eastern atlantic littoral.