cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
E-cigarettes, Hookah Pens and Vapes: Adolescent and Young Adult Perceptions of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems: Table 1.
Creators: name: Sutfin, Erin L.
name: Wiseman, Kimberly D.
name: Teal, Randall
name: Cornacchione, Jennifer
name: Wagoner, Kimberly G.
name: Moracco, Kathryn E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Most studies have assessed use of “e-cigarettes” or “electronic cigarettes,” potentially excluding new electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), such as e-hookahs and vape pens. Little is known about how adolescents and young adults perceive ENDS and if their perceptions vary by sub-type. We explored ENDS perceptions among these populations.
title: Prävalenz und Inzidenz diabetischer Augenerkrankungen in Europa – eine systematische Literatursuche und Meta-Analyse
Creators: name: Li, Jeany
name: Welchowski, T.
name: Schmid, M.
name: Holz, F.G.
name: Finger, R.P.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Diabetische Augenerkrankungen sind die häufigste Ursache für schwerwiegende Sehbehinderung und Erblindung in der erwerbsfähigen europäischen Bevölkerung. Um eine adäquate Planung der ophthalmologischen Versorgung bei kontinuierlich steigender Diabeteshäufigkeit[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 181. Versammlung des Vereins Rheinisch-Westfälischer Augenärzte
Dynamical complexity in the perception-based network formation model
Creators: name: Jo, Hang-Hyun
name: Moon, Eunyoung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many link formation mechanisms for the evolution of social networks have been successful to reproduce various empirical findings in social networks. However, they have largely ignored the fact that individuals make decisions on whether to create links to other individuals based on cost and benefit of linking, and the fact that individuals may use perception of the network in their decision making. In this paper, we study the evolution of social networks in terms of perception-based strategic link formation. Here each individual has her own perception of the actual network, and uses it to decide whether to create a link to another individual. An individual with the least perception accuracy can benefit from updating her perception using that of the most accurate individual via a new link. This benefit is compared to the cost of linking in decision making. Once a new link is created, it affects the accuracies of other individuals' perceptions, leading to a further evolution of the actual network. As for initial actual networks, we consider homogeneous and heterogeneous cases. The homogeneous initial actual network is modeled by Erdős-Rényi (ER) random networks, while we take a star network for the heterogeneous case. In any cases, individual perceptions of the actual network are modeled by ER random networks with controllable linking probability. Then the stable link density of the actual network is found to show discontinuous transitions or jumps according to the cost of linking. As the number of jumps is the consequence of the dynamical complexity, we discuss the effect of initial conditions on the number of jumps to find that the dynamical complexity strongly depends on how much individuals initially overestimate or underestimate the link density of the actual network. For the heterogeneous case, the role of the highly connected individual as an information spreader is discussed.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
Is the E-Liquid Industry Regulating Itself? A Look at E-Liquid Internet Vendors in the United States
Creators: name: Timberlake, David S.
name: Williams, Rebecca S.
name: Nikitin, Dmitriy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: INTRODUCTION: The objective of this study was to assess whether the nascent, but rapidly growing e-liquid industry prohibits Internet sales to minors and employs safety measures to prevent accidental poisonings.

METHODS: A stratified simple random sample (n = 120) was selected from the target population (N = 1107) of US online vendors of e-liquid in July 2015. The vendors were stratified and subsequently oversampled by trade association membership and vendor popularity. Three minors aged 16 to 17, who were supervised by adult research staff, attempted to purchase e-liquid from the 120 online vendors using debit cards issued in their names. Measures included vendors' use of age verification, warning labels on e-liquid bottles, and child-resistant packaging.

RESULTS: Statistically significant differences were observed by vendor popularity, but not by membership in a trade association. The differences by vendor popularity, however, occurred for measures that were limited to an age warning and list of ingredients. The most striking finding was the scant vendors (n = 4) who successfully prevented the sale of e-liquid to the minors. In contrast, 87.5% and 53.9% of the bottles contained child-resistant packaging and a health warning label, respectively.

CONCLUSIONS: Irrespective of trade association membership or vendor popularity, online vendors of e-liquids are not taking the proper precautions in preventing sales to minors. The FDA's upcoming deeming rules on e-cigarette products should include explicit requirements for offline and online e-liquid vendors, particularly the use of effective age verification, warning labels, and child-resistant packaging.

IMPLICATIONS: This study demonstrates that, in the absence of any current FDA regulation of e-liquid products, self-regulation among vendors is not effective in preventing product acquisition by minors. Lax oversight of the e-liquid industry may draw consumers to bypass current tobacco control restrictions implemented in face-to-face sales settings. As a consequence, there may be an increase in online sales to minors. Further regulation of the industry may increase the already prevalent use of child-resistant packaging, leading to fewer cases of accidental nicotine poisoning.
Some properties of U(1) gauged Q-balls
Creators: name: Gulamov, I. E.
name: Nugaev, E. Ya.
name: Panin, A. G.
name: Smolyakov, M. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we examine the properties of $U(1)$ gauged Q-balls in two models with different scalar field potentials. The obtained results demonstrate that in the general case $U(1)$ gauged Q-balls possess properties, which differ considerably from those of Q-balls in the nongauged case with the same forms of the scalar field potential. In particular, it is shown that in some cases the charge of $U(1)$ gauged Q-ball can be bounded from above, whereas it is not so for the corresponding nongauged Q-ball. Our conclusions are supported both by analytical considerations and numerical calculations.
description: 15 pages, 9 figures, LaTeX. v2: typos corrected, minor changes in the text
The double scaling limit of the multi-orientable tensor model
Creators: name: Gurau, Razvan
name: Tanasa, Adrian
name: Youmans, Donald R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study the double scaling limit of the multi-orientable tensor model. We prove that, contrary to the case of matrix models but similarly to the case of invariant tensor models, the double scaling series are convergent. We resum the double scaling series of the two point function and of the leading singular part of the four point function. We discuss the behavior of the leading singular part of arbitrary correlation functions. We show that the contribution of the four point function and of all the higher point functions are enhanced in the double scaling limit. We finally show that all the correlation functions exhibit a singularity at the same critical value of the double scaling parameter which, combined with the convergence of the double scaling series, suggest the existence of a triple scaling limit.
Odontidium parvoapiculatum Juttner, D. M. Williams & E. J. Cox 2017, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Jüttner, I.
name: Williams, D. M.
name: Gurung, S.
name: Vijver, B. Van De
name: Levkov, Z.
name: Sharma, C. M.
name: Sharma, S.
name: Cox, E. J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Littorinimorpha
Caecidae
Odontidium
Odontidium parvoapiculatum

description: Odontidium parvoapiculatum Jüttner, D.M.Williams & E.J.Cox, sp. nov. (Figs 63 – 78)
 LM (Figs 63–70): Frustules rectangular in girdle view (Figs 63, 64). Valves linear with valve margins tapering close to cuneate to slightly apiculate apices (Figs 65 – 70). Valve dimensions (n=10): length 12.5 – 38.5 μm, width 6.0 – 8.5 μm. Primary, transapical ribs perpendicular or at an angle to sternum, 3 – 5 in 10 μm. Striae between ribs more or less perpendicular to sternum. SEM (Figs 71–78): external valve surface smooth with few small spines (spinules) along valve margin including apices. In some valves, spines lacking. When present, spines located on virgae, usually in one row, irregularly spaced (Figs 71 – 74). Virgae have approximately the same width, vimines much shorter. Striae uniseriate, more or less parallel throughout. Sternum slightly irregular, moderately wide extending into apical pore fields (Figs 71 – 74). One rimoportula per valve located close to apical pore field, replacing 3–4 vimines within a stria. External rimoportula opens as a simple slit (Figs 71 – 74). Internally, rimoportula possesses two protruding lips (Fig. 77). Apical pore field at each pole composed of round porelli. Internally, ribs perpendicular or at an angle to valve margin (Figs 75 – 77). Valvocopula with a row composed of 2, rarely 1 or 3 poroids on pars exterior. Copulae with a row composed of 2 or 3 poroids on pars exterior. One row composed of elongate poroids, located on pars interior of valvocopula and copulae (Fig. 78).
 Type: — INDIA, stream NE of Didna, Garhwal region, Uttarakhand, on stones, Ingrid Jüttner, 16.10.1995. The holotype is slide no. NMW.C.2007.006. R 35, National Museum Wales, Cardiff, UK!.
 Etymology: —The name refers to the smaller size of the new species compared to O. apiculatum.
 Ecology and distribution: — Odontidium parvoapiculatum was found on stones in one stream in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, India. The fast flowing alpine stream was located at 3430 m a.s.l. NE of the village of Didna. Its substratum was dominated by cobbles and pebbles and the conductivity was 34 μS/cm (Table 2).
description: Published as part of Jüttner, I., Williams, D. M., Gurung, S., Vijver, B. Van De, Levkov, Z., Sharma, C. M., Sharma, S. & Cox, E. J., 2017, The genus Odontidium (Bacillariophyta) in the Himalaya-a preliminary account of some taxa and their distribution, pp. 1-21 in Phytotaxa 332 (1) on pages 9-10, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13721883
Is There a Relationship Between the Concentration of Same-Sex Couples and Tobacco Retailer Density?
Creators: name: Henriksen, Lisa
name: Goldstein, Adam O.
name: Lee, Joseph G.L.
name: Ribisl, Kurt M.
name: Pan, William K.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Tobacco use is markedly higher among lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations than heterosexuals. Higher density of tobacco retailers is found in neighborhoods with lower income and more racial/ethnic minorities. Same-sex couples tend to live in similar neighborhoods, but the association of this demographic with tobacco retailer density has not been examined.
title: Ganztagsschule in Deutschland
title: Effekte auf Leistungsniveau und soziale Bildungsungleichheit
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Steinmann, Isa
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ganztagsschule
subject: Effektivität
subject: Leistung
subject: Ungleichheit
subject: DESI
subject: NEPS
subject: 370
subject: Ganztagsschule |
subject: Leistung |
subject: Bildung
subject: Effektivität |

description: Die vorliegende kumulative Dissertation evaluiert, inwiefern Ganztagsschulen gegenüber Halbtagsschulen einen Mehrwert für die Leistungsentwicklung von Schüler/-innen und den Abbau sozialer Bildungsungleichheiten bilden. Diese Wirkungen postulierten die politischen Entscheidungsträger bei der Begründung der größten Bildungsreform der letzten 20 Jahre, dem massiven Ausbau ganztägiger Beschulung in Deutschland. Konkret werden in den vier Beiträgen der Dissertation die folgenden Fragestellungen untersucht: Inwiefern weisen Ganztagsschulen über Halbtagsschulen hinausgehende Bildungspotenziale in Hinblick auf Leistungs- und soziale Bildungsungleichheitsentwicklungen auf? Wies das schulische Anbieten nachmittäglicher Förderungsprogramme zu Beginn des Ganztagsschulausbaus Effekte auf Leistungsentwicklungen von Neuntklässler/-innen oder auf soziale Bildungsungleichheiten auf? Unterschieden sich Halb- und Ganztagsschulen im späteren Verlauf des Ausbaus hinsichtlich der Leistungsentwicklungen zwischen fünfter und neunter Klasse, oder hinsichtlich sozialer Ungleichheiten in diesen Entwicklungen? Wirkt die Teilnahme von Schüler/-innen an lernförderlich ausgerichteten Ganztagsangeboten offener Ganztagsschulen leistungssteigernd zwischen fünfter und siebter beziehungsweise siebter und neunter Klasse?
Merging plans with incomplete knowledge about actions and goals through an agent-based reputation system
Creators: name: Carbo, Javier
name: Molina, Jose M
name: Patricio, Miguel A
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Managing transition plans is one of the major problems of people with cognitive disabilities. Therefore, finding an automated way to generate such plans would be a helpful tool for this community. In this paper we have specifically proposed and compared different alternative ways to merge plans formed by sequences of actions of unknown similarities between goals and actions executed by several operator agents which cooperate between them applying such actions over some passive elements (node agents) that require additional executions of another plan after some time of use. Such ignorance of the similarities between plan actions and goals would justify the use of a distributed recommendation system that would provide an useful plan to be applied for a certain goal to a given operator agent, generated from the known results of previous executions of different plans by other operator agents. Here we provide the general framework of execution (agent system), and the different merging algorithms applied to this problem. The proposed agent system would act as an useful cognitive assistant for people with intelectual disabilities such as autism.
Asymptotically safe inflation from quadratic gravity
Creators: name: Bonanno, Alfio
name: Platania, Alessia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Asymptotically Safe theories of gravity have recently received much attention. In this work we discuss a class of inflationary models derived from quantum-gravity modification of quadratic gravity according to the induced scaling around the non-Gaussian fixed point at very high energies. It is argued that the presence of a three dimensional ultraviolet critical surface generates operators of non-integer power of the type $R^{2-θ/2}$ in the effective Lagrangian, where $θ>0$ is a critical exponent. The requirement of a successful inflationary model in agreement with the recent Planck 2015 data puts important constraints on the strenght of this new type of couplings.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures. Physics Letters B, to appear
Passive and Active Tobacco Exposure and Children’s Lipid Profiles
Creators: name: Zakhar, Joseph
name: Amrock, Stephen M.
name: Weitzman, Michael
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: INTRODUCTION: Despite reductions in smoking rates, exposure to cigarette smoke remains common among US children and adolescents. In adults, active smoking and secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure have been linked to adverse changes in lipid profiles and increases in inflammatory markers. Evidence that such changes are present before adulthood remains limited, and the extent to which active smoking and SHS exposure affect these cardiovascular measures in children has not been thoroughly assessed.

METHODS: We employed data from 2008 individuals aged 12-19 years from the 2005-2010 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Comparisons of the lipid and inflammatory marker levels among active smokers, those exposed to SHS (as determined by serum cotinine levels), and those unexposed to tobacco smoke were made using linear regression with multiple propensity score adjustment.

RESULTS: Compared to unexposed children, lipid and inflammatory marker profiles did not differ among those exposed to SHS exposure. Among active smokers, differences compared to unexposed children were observed in triglyceride levels ( β=8.5 mg/dL, P = .01), the ratio of triglycerides to high-density lipoprotein ( β=0.2, P = .045), and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol ( β-4.1 mg/dL , P = .03), though these did not reach levels of confirmatory statistical significance.

CONCLUSIONS: After accounting for sociodemographic characteristics and medical comorbidities, serum lipids and markers of systemic inflammation were not associated with SHS exposure. Tobacco smoke exposure in children may require longer durations of compounded effect before serum lipid abnormalities are detected.

IMPLICATIONS: This paper adds detail to the study of secondhand smoke's effects on lipid profiles of children and adolescents. Prior research on this topic for these age groups has been limited, and this study provides national, cross-sectional data to show that both secondhand smoke and active smoking in childhood and adolescence is not associated with changes in lipid profiles or markers of inflammation. Tobacco smoke exposure may require longer durations of compounded effect before abnormalities are detected.
title: Retinal Dystrophy Experience – Was Augenärzte von der Molekulargenetik lernen können
Creators: name: Kellner, Ulrich
name: Stöhr, H.
name: Kellner, S.
name: Weinitz, S.
name: Farmand, G.
name: Weber, B.H.F.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Evaluierung der molekulargenetischen Befunde von 408 Patienten mit gesicherter molekulargenetischer Ursache einer hereditären Netzhautdystrophien (HND) aus einem deutschen Referenzzentrum. Methoden: Nach der ophthalmologischen Diagnose einer hereditären Netzhautdystrophie[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 181. Versammlung des Vereins Rheinisch-Westfälischer Augenärzte
Exploring Competing Theories of Viscous Emulsion and Fractional Crystallization of the Impact Melt that Formed the Sudbury Igneous Complex
Creators: name: Horman, Alexandra Rose
Publisher: name: IUPUI University Library
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Petrology
subject: Geochemistry
subject: Sudbury Igneous Complex

description: Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
description: The Sudbury Igneous Complex (SIC) in Sudbury, Canada is a remnant geologic structure from a meteor impact that occurred ~1.85 Ga. The impact produced ~30,000 km3 of superheated melt which reached >2200 °C. The existing SIC is composed of three compositionally distinct layers, norite, quartz gabbro, and granophyre, which stretch the entire lateral distance of the complex. The presentation of layers in the SIC is unusual for impact melts, and the crystallization path has been debated by scientists. The SIC differs from more common layered mafic complexes because of its intermediate composition, crustal isotopic signature, and large volume of granophyre. This thesis is an investigation of some of the main theories surrounding the SIC and how it crystallized to form such distinct layers. There are two main theories of how the SIC formed its compositionally distinct layers: (1) fractional crystallization and (2) separation by viscous emulsion. The viscous emulsion theory involves isolated droplets of melt separating from the surrounding melt body due to differences in viscosity and density, similar to an emulsion of oil and water. In this study, viscous emulsion theory was investigated experimentally by heating samples of rock from the SIC to the extreme temperatures associated with the Sudbury impact, and then analyzing the cooled experimental products using electron microscopy to determine if there was evidence of textures that would be consistent with expectations for a viscous emulsion. Fractional crystallization was investigated by modeling using the vii software EasyMELTS to evaluate compositions from the SIC to estimate how they would crystallize according to the temperature, pressure, and other properties of the melt. There was no textural evidence of a viscous emulsion found in the experimental products. The models produced compositions similar to what is seen in the SIC but had limited application to fractional crystallization theory.
Novel side-polished balloon shaped heterocore structured plastic optical fibre ethanol sensor
Creators: name: Farheen, Sanober
name: Wang, Ruoning
name: STRUNZ, ROBERT
name: Chowdhry, Bhawani Shankar
name: PEMBROKE, TONY
name: LEWIS, ELFED
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering
classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: A unique side-polished balloon shaped heterocore structure plastic optical fibre (POF) sensor for real-time measurement of very low to high ethanol concentration in water is reported. The sensor is designed as a large core-small core-large core heterocore structure where small core fibre (SCF) acts as a sensing region, whereas large core fibre (LCFs) are used as input and output light waveguide s as well as to introduce the light leakage in the cladding of SCF at the heterocore structure’s input interface and hence generate the significant evanescent field. The principle of operation of the sensor is based on evanescent field interaction at the interface of modif ied SCF and the liquid boundary. The sensor is characterized for ethanol-water solutions in the ethanol concentration ranges of 20 %v/v to 80 %v/v, 1 %v/v to 10 %v/v, and 0.1 %v/v to 1 %v/v, demonstrating a maximum sensitivity of 54673 %/RIU. The experimentally evaluated high sensitivity of this sensor design for real-time measurement of ethanol concentration in water at different ranges makes it a potential candidate for implementation in the industry as a low-cost and real-time solution for ethanol sensing as well as other RI sensing applications.
Digital Scholarship 101: Managing your data
Creators: name: Woodbrook, Rachel
name: Carruthers, Matthew
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Data management
subject: Digital Scholarship
subject: Data lifecycle
subject: Information and Library Science
subject: Social Sciences

description: Digital Scholarship 101: Workshop Series This series of workshops helps scholars avoid outdated projects, unpreserved knowledge, uncredited labor, and privacy or consent issues by emphasizing process in the project life cycle. Workshop participants learn how to conceptualize the life cycle of a project using human-centered design and backwards modelling when planning their projects to better understand how to version, archive, and preserve their research projects. Throughout the series, thematic questions around sustainability, preservation, accessibility, privacy, consent, grant requirements, and teaching with research will be examined. We encourage you to come with a project in mind and bring materials if available, but is not required to attend.
description: Data, what is it, how and why is it managed, and why do granting agencies care? In this workshop we will talk about what counts as “data” from various definitions, including the National Endowment for the Humanities. Participants will go over the ethical concerns and considerations covered and answered by a data management plan, as well as the practical skills needed in developing and writing a data management plan. This workshop will cover topics such as collection and storage, consent agreements, and contingencies for sensitive information and data. At the end of the workshop, participants will understand how data management plans can help protect and archive their research, help with the IRB process, and contribute significantly to the sustainability of their project.
title: Adjuvante Vakzination als multizentrische Phase-III-Impfstudie bei Uveamelanompatienten (Update)
Creators: name: Kreis, Stefan
name: Guin, C.H.D. Le
name: Schuler-Thurner, B.
name: Zeschnigk, M.
name: Bornfeld, N.
name: Bechrakis, N.E.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Im Rahmen einer randomisierten multizentrischen adjuvanten Phase III-Studie erfolgen bei Patienten mit Uveamelanom und Monosomie 3 Impfungen mit Tumor-RNA-beladenen autologen dendritischen Zellen vs. Verlaufskontrollen in der Kontrollgruppe. Patienten mit einer Monosomie 3 haben ein deutlich erhöhtes[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 181. Versammlung des Vereins Rheinisch-Westfälischer Augenärzte
Predictive and External Validity of a Pre-Market Study to Determine the Most Effective Pictorial Health Warning Label Content for Cigarette Packages
Creators: name: Reid, Jessica L.
name: Thrasher, James F.
name: Huang, Li-Ling
name: Hammond, David
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: INTRODUCTION: Studies examining cigarette package pictorial health warning label (HWL) content have primarily used designs that do not allow determination of effectiveness after repeated, naturalistic exposure. This research aimed to determine the predictive and external validity of a pre-market evaluation study of pictorial HWLs.

METHODS: Data were analyzed from: (1) a pre-market convenience sample of 544 adult smokers who participated in field experiments in Mexico City before pictorial HWL implementation (September 2010); and (2) a post-market population-based representative sample of 1765 adult smokers in the Mexican administration of the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Survey after pictorial HWL implementation. Participants in both samples rated six HWLs that appeared on cigarette packs, and also ranked HWLs with four different themes. Mixed effects models were estimated for each sample to assess ratings of relative effectiveness for the six HWLs, and to assess which HWL themes were ranked as the most effective.

RESULTS: Pre- and post-market data showed similar relative ratings across the six HWLs, with the least and most effective HWLs consistently differentiated from other HWLs. Models predicting rankings of HWL themes in post-market sample indicated: (1) pictorial HWLs were ranked as more effective than text-only HWLs; (2) HWLs with both graphic and "lived experience" content outperformed symbolic content; and, (3) testimonial content significantly outperformed didactic content. Pre-market data showed a similar pattern of results, but with fewer statistically significant findings.

CONCLUSIONS: The study suggests well-designed pre-market studies can have predictive and external validity, helping regulators select HWL content.
title: Langzeitergebnisse nach intraokularer Chirurgie vorbehandelter Retinoblastomaugen
Creators: name: Biewald, Eva
name: Bornfeld, N.
name: Schlüter, S.
name: Metz, K.
name: Sirin, S.
name: Göricke, S.
name: Bechrakis, N.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Retrospektive Analyse intraokularer Chirurgie austherapierter Retinoblastomaugen mit Schwerpunkt auf lokalen Rezidiven, sekundären Enukleationen und Metastasen. Methoden: Retrospektive Datenerhebung von 39 bilateral erkrankten Retinoblastompatienten mit der Notwenigkeit eines [zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 181. Versammlung des Vereins Rheinisch-Westfälischer Augenärzte
Mesoscopic Community Structure of Financial Markets Revealed by Price and Sign Fluctuations
Creators: name: Almog, Assaf
name: Besamusca, Ferry
name: MacMahon, Mel
name: Garlaschelli, Diego
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mesoscopic organization of complex systems, from financial markets to the brain, is an intermediate between the microscopic dynamics of individual units (stocks or neurons, in the mentioned cases), and the macroscopic dynamics of the system as a whole. The organization is determined by "communities" of units whose dynamics, represented by time series of activity, is more strongly correlated internally than with the rest of the system. Recent studies have shown that the binary projections of various financial and neural time series exhibit nontrivial dynamical features that resemble those of the original data. This implies that a significant piece of information is encoded into the binary projection (i.e. the sign) of such increments. Here, we explore whether the binary signatures of multiple time series can replicate the same complex community organization of the financial market, as the original weighted time series. We adopt a method that has been specifically designed to detect communities from cross-correlation matrices of time series data. Our analysis shows that the simpler binary representation leads to a community structure that is almost identical with that obtained using the full weighted representation. These results confirm that binary projections of financial time series contain significant structural information.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures
Designing electric vehicle charging infrastructure to enable disaster evacuation
Creators: name: Lu, Le, 1996-
name: 0000-0002-9843-7803
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2022
Subjects: EV routing
EV charging
Infrastructure resilience
Disaster evacuation
Two-Stage Stochastic Program

description: Natural disasters such as hurricanes can cause widespread power outages and force thousands of people to physically evacuate an affected area. As electric vehicle (EV) adoption grows, ensuring that residents can successfully evacuate during a disaster could become a significant problem. In this study, we develop a Two-Stage Stochastic Program (TSSP) to optimally allocate EV charging infrastructure within a road network to enable disaster evacuations, and then route EVs to safe zones. The objective considers both how many EVs are successfully moved to safe zones and how quickly they reach them, subject to a budget constraint, with charging investments in the first stage, and energy-limited EV routing in the second stage. Uncertainties in our model include the time when people start to evacuate and the severity of the hurricane. We parameterize our model to study the evacuation of the Houston-Galveston region of Texas, an area that is highly vulnerable to hurricanes. Over 50 random scenarios and assuming half of the area's vehicles are EVs, we find that on average 92.4% of EVs are able to evacuate within a 12-hour evacuation window, with a $10 million charging budget, our "high" charge level distribution, and EVs with 195 miles of range. Nodes with large populations, at major intersections, or along key routes to safe zones are particularly attractive targets for installing EV charging capacity. In scenarios where more of the EVs must seek charging during the evacuation, the model's charging allocations are more heavily concentrated on these nodes. We also discover that the model returns more evenly spread out - and therefore, perhaps more realistic - charging station investments with a longer evacuation window (24 hours) than a shorter window (12 hours). Finally, we find that having EVs pre-charged at the start of the evacuation process is crucial and it significantly improves the performance of the evacuation process.
Racial and Ethnic Differences in What Smokers Report Paying for Their Cigarettes
Creators: name: Kong, Amanda Y.
name: Golden, Shelley D.
name: Ribisl, Kurt M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Smoking rates and tobacco-related health problems vary by race and ethnicity. We explore whether cigarette prices, a determinant of tobacco use, differ across racial and ethnic groups, and whether consumer behaviors influence these differences.
title: Der Brückner-Test – Konsequenzen der verpflichtenden Untersuchung seit dem 01.09.2016 bei Kindern mit Retinoblastom
Creators: name: Schlüter, Sabrina
name: Biewald, E.
name: Kiefer, T.
name: Wunderlich, I.
name: Bornfeld, N.
name: Bechrakis, N.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Der Transilluminationstest nach Brückner zur Detektion von Sehstörungen wurde durch den BVA im Rahmen der Kinderleitlinien überarbeitet und als verpflichtende Untersuchung in den Katalog der kindlichen Untersuchungen (U2-U7) aufgenommen. Dieses trat im September 2016 in Kraft.[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
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title: Stellenwert der Pars-plana-Vitrektomie nach Brachytherapie hochprominenter Aderhautmelanome mit exsudativer Netzhautablösung
Creators: name: Gök, Mete
name: Kiefer, T.
name: Bornfeld, N.
name: Bechrakis, N.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Hochprominente Aderhautmelanome sind häufig mit einer exsudativen Begleitablatio vergesellschaftet, die nach einer Brachytherapie zunehmen oder persistieren können. Die pars plana Vitrektomie (ppV) kann in diesen Fällen als operative Methode mit Wiederanlage der Netzhaut und[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
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Odontidium rupestris Juttner & D. M. Williams 2017, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Jüttner, I.
name: Williams, D. M.
name: Gurung, S.
name: Vijver, B. Van De
name: Levkov, Z.
name: Sharma, C. M.
name: Sharma, S.
name: Cox, E. J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Littorinimorpha
Caecidae
Odontidium
Odontidium rupestris

description: Odontidium rupestris (Y.Liu & Quanxi Wang) Jüttner & D.M.Williams, comb. nov. (2010: 338, figs 1 – 17, Figs 79 –
93)
 Basionym: Diatoma rupestris Y. Liu & Quanxi Wang in Y. Liu, C. Fu, Q. Wang & E.F. Stoermer (2010: 338, figs 1 – 17)
Type: CHINA: Stone pond, Aer Mountain in Great Xing’an Mountains, attached to filamentous algae (Slide 043107, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China, holotype)
 LM (Figs 79–93): Large valves linear, tapering to cuneate apices; smaller valves linear-lanceolate with slightly protracted, rostrate apices. Valve dimensions (n=10): length 15.5 – 55.5 μm, width 5.5 – 7.0 (8.0). Most transapical ribs primary, perpendicular or at an angle to sternum, 3 – 5 in 10 μm. Sternum diffuse, narrow, striae between ribs parallel or at an angle to sternum.
 Ecology and distribution: — Odontidium rupestris was found in three streams across the Himalaya in Nepal. It was very rare in a stream in the Jumla district of western Nepal, an alpine stream situated at 3350 m a.s.l. (NMW. C.2007.006.S5). In the Helambu area it was found in a fast flowing stream situated at 4381 m a.s.l., 3.5 m wide, with cobble and pebble substratum (NMW.C.2007.006.He07). In eastern Nepal, in the Gokyo Valley of the Everest National Park, it occurred in a small alpine stream flowing into the lake Dudh Pokhari at its western shore (NMW. C.2009.003.51, G3 inlet north face sand).
description: Published as part of Jüttner, I., Williams, D. M., Gurung, S., Vijver, B. Van De, Levkov, Z., Sharma, C. M., Sharma, S. & Cox, E. J., 2017, The genus Odontidium (Bacillariophyta) in the Himalaya-a preliminary account of some taxa and their distribution, pp. 1-21 in Phytotaxa 332 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13721883
title: Basalzellkarzinom – Eine Fata Morgana?
Creators: name: Herwig-Carl, Martina C.
name: Holz, F.G.
name: Loeffler, K.U.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Das Basalzellkarzinom (BCC) ist der häufigste (semi-)maligne Tumor im Bereich der okulären Adnexe. Das den Tumor umgebende Entzündungszellinfiltrat wird von CD4+ T-Lymphozyten und Makrophagen dominiert. Während Anzeichen einer fokalen Regression histologisch regelmäßig[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
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The antiferromagnetic cross-coupled spin ladder: quantum fidelity and tensor networks approach
Creators: name: Chen, Xi-Hao
name: Cho, Sam Young
name: Batchelor, Murray T.
name: Zhou, Huan-Qiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the phase diagram of the cross-coupled Heisenberg spin ladder with antiferromagnetic couplings. For this model there have been conflicting results for the existence of the columnar dimer phase, which was predicted on the basis of weak coupling field theory renormalisation group arguments. The numerical work on this model has been based on various approaches, including exact diagonalization, series expansions and density-matrix renormalization group calculations. Using the recently developed tensor network states and ground-state fidelity approach for quantum spin ladders we find no evidence for the existence of the columnar dimer phase. We also provide an argument based on the symmetry of the Hamiltonian which suggests that the phase diagram for antiferromagnetic couplings consists of a single line separating the rung-singlet and Haldane phases.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Single Cigarette Sales: State Differences in FDA Advertising and Labeling Violations, 2014, United States
Creators: name: Lee, Joseph G.L.
name: Baker, Hannah M.
name: Ranney, Leah M.
name: Goldstein, Adam O.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Single cigarettes, which are sold without warning labels and often evade taxes, can serve as a gateway for youth smoking. The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 gives the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority to regulate the manufacture, distribution, and marketing of tobacco products, including prohibiting the sale of single cigarettes. To enforce these regulations, the FDA conducted over 335 661 inspections between 2010 and September 30, 2014, and allocated over $115 million toward state inspections contracts.
Online speaker diarization of meetings guided by speech separation
Creators: name: Gruttadauria, Elio
name: Fontaine, Mathieu
name: Essid, Slim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Overlapped speech is notoriously problematic for speaker diarization systems. Consequently, the use of speech separation has recently been proposed to improve their performance. Although promising, speech separation models struggle with realistic data because they are trained on simulated mixtures with a fixed number of speakers. In this work, we introduce a new speech separation-guided diarization scheme suitable for the online speaker diarization of long meeting recordings with a variable number of speakers, as present in the AMI corpus. We envisage ConvTasNet and DPRNN as alternatives for the separation networks, with two or three output sources. To obtain the speaker diarization result, voice activity detection is applied on each estimated source. The final model is fine-tuned end-to-end, after first adapting the separation to real data using AMI. The system operates on short segments, and inference is performed by stitching the local predictions using speaker embeddings and incremental clustering. The results show that our system improves the state-of-the-art on the AMI headset mix, using no oracle information and under full evaluation (no collar and including overlapped speech). Finally, we show the strength of our system particularly on overlapped speech sections.
description: Accepted at ICASSP 2024
Analogues of a Fibonacci-Lucas Identity
Creators: name: Bhatnagar, Gaurav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11B39

description: Sury's 2014 proof of an identity for Fibonacci and Lucas numbers (Identity 236 of Benjamin and Quinn's 2003 book: {\em Proofs that count: The art of combinatorial proof}) has excited a lot of comment. We give an alternate, telescoping, proof of this---and associated---identities and generalize them. We also give analogous identities for other sequences that satisfy a three-term recurrence relation.
description: 6 pages, final version, some typos fixed
title: Indikationen und Komplikationen bei Eviszeration vs Enukleation: Eine retrospektive Studie
Creators: name: Trigaux, Céline
name: Neumann, I.
name: Geerling, G.
name: Borrelli, M.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Bei Eviszeration und Enukleation handelt es sich um ultima-ratio-Optionen für nicht-funktionelle, schmerzhafte und schwerstinfektiöse Augen sowie bei intraokulären Tumoren. In dieser Studie wurden Indikationen und Komplikationen beider Behandlungsoptionen verglichen. [zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 181. Versammlung des Vereins Rheinisch-Westfälischer Augenärzte
Protecting the $\sqrt{SWAP}$ operation from general and residual errors by continuous dynamical decoupling
Creators: name: Fanchini, F. F.
name: Napolitano, R. d. J.
name: Çakmak, B.
name: Caldeira, A. O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the occurrence of errors in a continuously decoupled two-qubit state during a $\sqrt{SWAP}$ quantum operation under decoherence. We consider a realization of this quantum gate based on the Heisenberg exchange interaction, which alone suffices for achieving universal quantum computation. Furthermore, we introduce a continuous-dynamical-decoupling scheme that commutes with the Heisenberg Hamiltonian to protect it from the amplitude damping and dephasing errors caused by the system-environment interaction. We consider two error-protection settings. One protects the qubits from both amplitude damping and dephasing errors. The other features the amplitude damping as a residual error and protects the qubits from dephasing errors only. In both settings, we investigate the interaction of qubits with common and independent environments separately. We study how errors affect the entanglement and fidelity for different environmental spectral densities.
description: Extended version of arXiv:1005.1666. To appear in PRA
title: Evaluation des Vorhersagepotenzials eines neuartigen Assays zur Bestimmung der TSH-Rezeptorantikörper bei Patienten mit Morbus Basedow hinsichtlich der Schilddrüsenerkrankung und der endokrinen Orbitopathie
Creators: name: Stöhr, Mareile
name: Oeverhaus, M.
name: Horstmann, M.
name: Berchner-Pfannschmidt, U.
name: Kaiser, U.
name: Möller, L.
name: Bechrakis, N.
name: Eckstein, A.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Bei der endokrinen Orbitopathie (EO) handelt es sich um eine Autoimmunerkrankung der Augenhöhle, die häufig zusammen mit einer Schilddrüsenüberfunktion vom Typ Basedow auftritt. Allen Patienten gemeinsam ist das Auftreten von TSH-Rezeptor Antikörpern. Die Assoziation hoher Antikörperspiegel[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
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Photo plot of Sonderend, site 3319CD/2
Creators: name: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Centre
Photo plot
Sonderend

description: This is a scanned copy of a photo plot, with diagrams, of Sonderend, site 3319CD/2. The Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center (part of the former South African Forestry Research Institute) was established in 1935 at Jonkershoek, near Stellenbosch, under the directorship of Dr C. L. Wicht. The initial aim was to determine how forestry activities in state plantations would affect climate, water conservation and erosion, and was later expanded to include studies of fynbos ecology, fire and alien species. Studies from the 1930s to the early 1990s saw the accumulation of a large amount of data dealing with fire experiments, detailed vegetation plot surveys, rare plant surveys and ecological studies, hydrological studies and the development of management plans for catchments around the Western Cape. SAEON now houses the archive of data collected by the Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center, which was originally held by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
title: Looking after health : a joint working approach to improving the health outcomes of looked after and accommodated children and young people
Creators: name: Grant, Anne
name: Ennis, John
name: Stuart, Fiona
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2002

description: Looked after and accommodated children and young people represent one of the most vulnerable groups within our society. Inequality and disadvantage impact upon every aspect of their lives, but the health inequalities which they suffer are particularly disturbing. If we are to improve the health outcomes of these young people, then all agencies must commit themselves to working together. Only if we foster a joint working approach can we hope to make a positive impact upon what are wholly unacceptable health outcomes.