cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Towards Homogeneous Modality Learning and Multi-Granularity Information Exploration for Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification
Creators: name: Liu, Haojie
name: Xia, Daoxun
name: Jiang, Wei
name: Xu, Chao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Visible-infrared person re-identification (VI-ReID) is a challenging and essential task, which aims to retrieve a set of person images over visible and infrared camera views. In order to mitigate the impact of large modality discrepancy existing in heterogeneous images, previous methods attempt to apply generative adversarial network (GAN) to generate the modality-consisitent data. However, due to severe color variations between the visible domain and infrared domain, the generated fake cross-modality samples often fail to possess good qualities to fill the modality gap between synthesized scenarios and target real ones, which leads to sub-optimal feature representations. In this work, we address cross-modality matching problem with Aligned Grayscale Modality (AGM), an unified dark-line spectrum that reformulates visible-infrared dual-mode learning as a gray-gray single-mode learning problem. Specifically, we generate the grasycale modality from the homogeneous visible images. Then, we train a style tranfer model to transfer infrared images into homogeneous grayscale images. In this way, the modality discrepancy is significantly reduced in the image space. In order to reduce the remaining appearance discrepancy, we further introduce a multi-granularity feature extraction network to conduct feature-level alignment. Rather than relying on the global information, we propose to exploit local (head-shoulder) features to assist person Re-ID, which complements each other to form a stronger feature descriptor. Comprehensive experiments implemented on the mainstream evaluation datasets include SYSU-MM01 and RegDB indicate that our method can significantly boost cross-modality retrieval performance against the state of the art methods.
description: 15 pages, 9figures
Electronic structure, spin-orbit coupling, and interlayer interaction in bulk MoS2 and WS2
Creators: name: Latzke, Drew W.
name: Zhang, Wentao
name: Suslu, Aslihan
name: Chang, Tay-Rong
name: Lin, Hsin
name: Jeng, Horng-Tay
name: Tongay, Sefaattin
name: Wu, Junqiao
name: Bansil, Arun
name: Lanzara, Alessandra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present in-depth measurements of the electronic band structure of the transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) MoS2 and WS2 using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, with focus on the energy splittings in their valence bands at the K point of the Brillouin zone. Experimental results are interpreted in terms of our parallel first-principles computations. We find that interlayer interaction only weakly contributes to the splitting in bulk WS2, resolving previous debates on its relative strength. We additionally find that across a range of TMDs, the band gap generally decreases with increasing magnitude of the valence-band splitting, molecular mass, or ratio of the out-of-plane to in-plane lattice constant. Our results provide an important reference for future studies of electronic properties of MoS2 and WS2 and their applications in spintronics and valleytronics devices.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Targeting HIV Interventions for Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Southern Africa: Use of the PLACE Methodology in Hwange District, Zimbabwe
Creators: name: Singh, Kavita
name: Chingono, Alfred
name: Munyati, Shungu
name: Sambisa, William
name: Weir, Sharon
name: Monash, Roeland
name: Chandiwana, Brian
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: This paper addresses the issue of how to target interventions to girls 15-19 and young women 20-24 in a resource poor setting of Hwange District, Zimbabwe. The Priorities for Local AIDS Control efforts (PLACE) methodology was used to understand where these young people socialize and also to understand whether age disparate relationships were a common occurrence. Findings indicated prevention efforts for those 15-19 would need to focus on “everyday” sites as these are the places where the majority of girls socialized. However the girls 15-19 with the riskiest sexual behaviors were found at venues affiliated with alcohol. Prevention efforts for those 20-24 would also need to largely focus on venues affiliated with alcohol. Women at such sites generally reported more risky behaviors than women in other types of venues. Reporting of a partner five or more years older was common across age groups and across venues. Tackling HIV in Zimbabwe will take a multifaceted approach targeted towards the places girls 15-19 and young women 20-24 are meeting new partners.
Confirmation of Hostless Type Ia Supernovae Using Hubble Space Telescope Imaging
Creators: name: Graham, Melissa L.
name: Sand, David J.
name: Zaritsky, Dennis
name: Pritchet, Chris J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present deep Hubble Space Telescope imaging at the locations of four, potentially hostless, long-faded Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) in low-redshift, rich galaxy clusters that were identified in the Multi-Epoch Nearby Cluster Survey. Assuming a steep faint-end slope for the galaxy cluster luminosity function ($α_d=-1.5$), our data includes all but $\lesssim0.2\%$ percent of the stellar mass in cluster galaxies ($\lesssim0.005\%$ with $α_d=-1.0$), a factor of 10 better than our ground-based imaging. Two of the four SNe Ia still have no possible host galaxy associated with them ($M_R>-9.2$), confirming that their progenitors belong to the intracluster stellar population. The third SNe Ia appears near a faint disk galaxy ($M_V=-12.2$) which has a relatively high probability of being a chance alignment. A faint, red, point source coincident with the fourth SN Ia's explosion position ($M_V=-8.4$) may be either a globular cluster (GC) or faint dwarf galaxy. We estimate the local surface densities of GCs and dwarfs to show that a GC is more likely, due to the proximity of an elliptical galaxy, but neither can be ruled out. This faint host implies that the SN Ia rate in dwarfs or GCs may be enhanced, but remains within previous observational constraints. We demonstrate that our results do not preclude the use of SNe Ia as bright tracers of intracluster light at higher redshifts, but that it will be necessary to first refine the constraints on their rate in dwarfs and GCs with deep imaging for a larger sample of low-redshift, apparently hostless SNe Ia.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables, accepted to ApJ
A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Culturally Congruent Intervention to Increase Condom Use and HIV Testing Among Heterosexually Active Immigrant Latino Men
Creators: name: Rhodes, Scott D.
name: McCoy, Thomas P.
name: Duck, Stacy
name: Foley, Kristie Long
name: DiClemente, Ralph J.
name: Eng, Eugenia
name: Hergenrather, Kenneth C.
name: Alonzo, Jorge
name: Vissman, Aaron T.
name: Bloom, Fred R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: This randomized controlled trial tested the efficacy of an HIV prevention intervention to increase condom use and HIV testing among Spanish-speaking, heterosexually active immigrant Latino men. A community-based participatory research partnership developed the intervention and selected the study design. Following baseline data collection, 142 immigrant Latino men were randomized to the HIV prevention intervention or the cancer education intervention. Three-month follow-up data were collected from 139 participants, for a 98% retention rate. Mean age of participants was 31.6 years and 60% reported being from Mexico. Adjusting for baseline behaviors, relative to their peers in the cancer education comparison, participants in the HIV prevention intervention were more likely to report consistent condom use and receiving an HIV test. Community-based interventions for immigrant Latino men that are built on state of the art prevention science and developed in partnership with community members can greatly enhance preventive behaviors and may reduce HIV infection.
Continued High Risk Sexual Behavior Following Diagnosis with Acute HIV Infection in South Africa and Malawi: Implications for Prevention
Creators: name: Sibeko, Jabu
name: Macphail, Catherine
name: Rees, Helen
name: Miller, William C.
name: Hoffman, Irving
name: Cohen, Myron S.
name: Rosenberg, Nora
name: Pettifor, Audrey
name: Kamanga, Gift
name: Corneli, Amy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Understanding sexual behavior following diagnosis of acute HIV infection (AHI) is key to developing prevention programs targeting individuals diagnosed with AHI. We conducted separate qualitative and quantitative interviews with individuals newly diagnosed (n = 19) with AHI at 1-, 4- and 12-weeks post-diagnosis and one qualitative interview with individuals who had previously been diagnosed with AHI (n = 18) in Lilongwe, Malawi and Johannesburg, South Africa between October 2007 and June 2008. The majority of participants reported engaging in sexual activity following diagnosis with AHI with a significant minority reporting unprotected sex during this time. Most participants perceived to have changed their behavior following diagnosis. However, participants reported barriers to condom use and abstinence, in particular, long term relationships and the need for disclosure of sero-status. Understanding of increased infectiousness during AHI was limited. Participants reported a desire for a behavioral intervention at the time of AHI diagnosis, however, there were differences by country in the types of interventions participants found acceptable. Studies are underway to determine the feasibility, acceptability and potential effectiveness of interventions designed for individuals with AHI.
Additional file 1 of Optimum flux rerouting for efficient production of naringenin from acetate in engineered Escherichia coli
Creators: name: Kim, Dong Hwan
name: Hwang, Hyun Gyu
name: Jung, Gyoo Yeol
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Additional file 1. It contains supplementary data associated with this article. Table S1. Previous studies on naringenin biosynthesis in similar cultivation conditions. Table S2. Naringenin production performance of bacterial strains used in this study. Table S3. Oligonucleotides used in this study. Table S4. Bacterial strains and plasmids used in this study. Table S5. Synthetic 5′ untranslated region sequences and their predicted expression levels. Fig. S1. Time-course culture profiles of pckA upregulated strain. Fig. S2. Fermentation condition optimization of the BNIAP109 strain in variance of induction time and IPTG concentration. Fig. S3. Normalized expression level of pckA under various promoter strengths.
Factors Associated with Utilization of a Free HIV VCT Clinic by Female Sex Workers in Jinan City, Northern China
Creators: name: Henderson, Gail E.
name: Cohen, Myron S.
name: Sengupta, Sohini
name: Li, Bing
name: Emrick, Catherine Boland
name: Wang, Ying
name: Pan, Jingbin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Based on our previous qualitative exploration, this research presents the second phase in our study of factors associated with utilization of a free HIV VCT clinic in Jinan City, Northern China, by female sex workers (FSWs). A total of 970 FSWs from entertainment venues were interviewed and prospectively followed to determine who ultimately sought and received VCT at the clinic, compared to those who did not. Simple and multiple logistic regressions were performed on factors drawn from the Ecological Perspective, hypothesized to be associated with utilization of testing at the VCT clinic. Despite 69% of FSWs expressing willingness to attend the VCT clinic, only 11% were actually tested. The multiple logistic regression model that provided best goodness of fit included the covariates of willingness to attend the VCT clinic (Adjusted OR 3.13, 95% CI: 1.62–6.59), low perceived HIV infection risk (Adjusted OR 0.64, 95% CI: 0.35–1.11), low fear of FSWs status disclosure in the clinic (Adjusted OR 0.55, 95% CI: 0.31–0.94) and influence of acquaintances (Adjusted OR 0.52, 95% CI: 0.29–0.89) and peers (Adjusted OR 2.45, 95% CI: 1.40–4.50). This is the first study in China to follow FSWs longitudinally to measure factors related to VCT utilization. The low utilization of VCT services by participants in our study is similar to prior reports throughout China. FSWs’ access to VCT service is associated with intrapersonal, institutional, and particularly, interpersonal factors. Based on these findings, we recommend emphasis on confidentiality of services, VCT education for influential peers, and introduction of HIV rapid testing on site.
title: Computed tomographic perfusion imaging for the prediction of response and survival to transarterial chemoembolisation of hepatocellular carcinoma
Creators: name: Garbajs, Manca
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Liver
subject: Oncology
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: CT-Quantitative
subject: CT
subject: Chemoembolisation
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the sixth most common cancer and the third cause of cancer mortality in the world (1) . Patients with HCC are divided into five stages by the Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) staging system. Those classified as...
Selling Safety: Anti-abolitionist visualities, abolitionist guerilla-visualities, and the fight over the University of Chicago’s expansion project
Creators: name: Plotkin, Sophie
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: abolition
subject: visual media
subject: university of chicago
subject: safety

description: This thesis aims to answer the following questions: how is history used as a means of legitimizing social hierarchies? How is history visualized by anti-abolitionists and abolitionists in and around the University of Chicago? How are these aesthetics used to justify or reject the existence and expansion of the UCPD? And how are these aesthetics co-constitutive of each other? Using an interdisciplinary framework that draws from linguistic anthropology, cinema and media studies, history, and the knowledge produced by Chicago organizers, I will analyze abolitionist and anti-abolitionist visual media as means of researching how an anti-abolitionist register is legitimized, and the importance of temporal grounding in creating a language paradigm for discussing issues of racial justice. More specifically, I argue that the University’s anti-abolitionist visuality must necessarily become allochronistic (Fabian 1983) to justify the University’s expansion project. However, the University’s allochronism and anti-abolitionist as register (opposed to pro-police) creates a space within which organizers like those of CareNotCops can create an abolitionist guerilla-visuality that re-imagines safety.
Effective field theory of quantum gravity coupled to scalar electrodynamics
Creators: name: Bevilaqua, L. Ibiapina
name: Lehum, A. C.
name: da Silva, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we use the framework of effective field theory to couple Einstein's gravity to scalar electrodynamics and determine the renormalization of the model through the study of physical processes below Planck scale, a realm where quantum mechanics and general relativity are perfectly compatible. We consider the effective field theory up to dimension six operators, corresponding to processes involving one graviton exchange. Studying the renormalization group functions we see that the beta function of the electric charge is positive and possesses no contribution coming from gravitational interaction. Our result indicates that gravitational corrections do not alter the running behavior of the gauge coupling constants, even if massive particles are present.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
(101068) Jonathan Fladin
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Improvement of image quality and assessment accuracy of radioactive particles implantation in vertebral metastases with knowledge-based iterative model reconstruction technique
Creators: name: Sha, Lin
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Head and neck
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: MR-Angiography
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Segmentation
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Cancer
subject: Trauma
subject: Cirrhosis

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To evaluate knowledge-based iterative model reconstruction(IMR) algorithm in improving image quality and assessment accuracy of radioactive particles implanted in vertebral metastases compared to the FBP (filtered back...
title: The effect of iodinated contrast media on renal function
Creators: name: Da Cunha, Nikita
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Kidney
subject: Abdomen
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Safety
subject: Biological effects
subject: Toxicity

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Iodinated contrast agents are often required to enhance the visualisation of organs and vasculature, and are necessary for clinical diagnosis during computated tomography (CT) scans[1]. Whilst contrast agent is useful, the nephrotoxic effect is well...
HIV Interventions to Reduce HIV/AIDS Stigma: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Smith, Giselle Corbie
name: Banks, Bahby
name: Jonas, Dan
name: Sengupta, Sohini
name: Miles, Margaret Shandor
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: We reviewed the literature to determine the effectiveness of HIV-related interventions in reducing HIV/AIDS stigma. Studies selected had randomized controlled trial (RCT), pretest–posttest with a non-randomized control group, or pretest–posttest one group study designs in which HIV-related interventions were being evaluated, and in which HIV/AIDS stigma was one of the outcomes being measured. A checklist was used to extract data from accepted studies, assess their internal validity, and overall quality. Data were extracted from 19 studies, and 14 of these studies demonstrated effectiveness in reducing HIV/ AIDS stigma. Only 2 of these 14 effective studies were considered good studies, based on quality, the extent to which the intervention focused on reducing HIV/AIDS stigma, and the statistics reported to demonstrate effectiveness. Future studies to reduce HIV/AIDS stigma could improve by designing interventions that pay greater attention to internal validity, use validated HIV/AIDS stigma instruments, and achieve both statistical and public health significance.
title: Renal allograft function: assessable value of DKI
Creators: name: Fu, Wang-xing
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: CNS
subject: Kidney
subject: MR
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: Complications
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Biopsy

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) have demonstrated clinical potential to evaluate renal functions in patients with kidney disease and transplantation. However, inconsistent assessments of renal functions were...
Quantum Bohmian Inspired Potential to Model Non-Gaussian Events and the Application in Financial Markets
Creators: name: Hosseini, Reza
name: Tajik, Samin
name: Lai, Zahra Koohi
name: Jamali, Tayeb
name: Haven, Emmanuel
name: Jafari, G. Reza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Finance (q-fin.MF)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We have implemented quantum modeling mainly based on Bohmian Mechanics to study time series that contain strong coupling between their events. We firstly propose how compared to normal densities, our target time series seem to be associated with a higher number of rare events, and Gaussian statistics tend to underestimate these events' frequency drastically. To this end, we suggest that by imposing Gaussian densities to the natural processes, one will seriously neglect the existence of extreme events in many circumstances. The central question of our study concerns the consideration of the effects of these rare events in the corresponding probability densities and studying their role from the point of view of quantum measurements. To model the non-Gaussian behavior of these time-series, we utilize the multifractal random walk (MRW) approach and control the non-Gaussianity parameter $λ$ accordingly. Using the framework of quantum mechanics, we then examine the role of $λ$ in quantum potentials derived for these time series. Our Bohmian quantum analysis shows that the derived potential takes some negative values in high frequencies (its mean values), then substantially increases, and the value drops again for the rare events. We thus conclude that these events could generate a potential barrier that the system, lingering in a non-Gaussian high-frequency region, encounters, and their role becomes more prominent when it comes to transversing this barrier. In this study, as an example of the application of quantum potential outside of the micro-world, we compute the quantum potentials for the S\&P financial market time series to verify the presence of rare events in the non-Gaussian densities for this real data and remark the deviation from the Gaussian case.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures
Effects of Linear Visual-Vestibular Conflict on Presence, Perceived Scene Stability and Cybersickness in the Oculus Go and Oculus Quest
Creators: name: Kim, J
name: Palmisano, Stephen
name: Luu, W
name: Iwasaki, S
Publisher: name: University of Wollongong
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 460708
subject: Virtual and mixed reality
classificationCode: 4608
subject: Human-centred computing
classificationCode: 4607
subject: Graphics, augmented reality and games
classificationCode: 520406
subject: Sensory processes, perception and performance
classificationCode: 46
subject: Information and computing sciences

description: Humans rely on multiple senses to perceive their self-motion in the real world. For example, a sideways linear head translation can be sensed either by lamellar optic flow of the visual scene projected on the retina of the eye or by stimulation of vestibular hair cell receptors found in the otolith macula of the inner ear. Mismatches in visual and vestibular information can induce cybersickness during head-mounted display (HMD) based virtual reality (VR). In this pilot study, participants were immersed in a virtual environment using two recent consumer-grade HMDs: the Oculus Go (3DOF angular only head tracking) and the Oculus Quest (6DOF angular and linear head tracking). On each trial they generated horizontal linear head oscillations along the interaural axis at a rate of 0.5 Hz. This head movement should generate greater sensory conflict when viewing the virtual environment on the Oculus Go (compared to the Quest) due to the absence of linear tracking. We found that perceived scene instability always increased with the degree of linear visual-vestibular conflict. However, cybersickness was not experienced by 7/14 participants, but was experienced by the remaining participants in at least one of the stereoscopic viewing conditions (six of whom also reported cybersickness in monoscopic viewing conditions). No statistical difference in spatial presence was found across conditions, suggesting that participants could tolerate considerable scene instability while retaining the feeling of being there in the virtual environment. Levels of perceived scene instability, spatial presence and cybersickness were found to be similar between the Oculus Go and the Oculus Quest with linear tracking disabled. The limited effect of linear coupling on cybersickness, compared with its strong effect on perceived scene instability, suggests that perceived scene instability may not always be associated with cybersickness. However, perceived scene instability does appear to provide explanatory power over the cybersickness observed in stereoscopic viewing conditions.
title: Analysis of dynamics of contrast attenuation of pulmonary artery and thoracic aorta using low-dose-computed tomography
Creators: name: Šarac, Dimitrije
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Proper assessment of patients with acute chest pain represents a major challenge for emergency physicians. In this context, prompt recognition and proper treatment of the pulmonary embolism, aortic dissection and acute coronary syndrome plays a...
title: endovasculartreatment of superior cerebellar artery aneurysms
Creators: name: Zaitoun, Mohamed
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: CNS
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: MR
subject: MR-Angiography
subject: Catheters
subject: Aneurysms

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To show our experience in the endovascular treatment of superior cerebellar artery...
Star formation and molecular gas properties of post-starburst galaxies
Creators: name: Baron, Dalya
name: Netzer, Hagai
name: French, K. Decker
name: Lutz, Dieter
name: Davies, Ric I.
name: Prochaska, J. Xavier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Post-starburst galaxies are believed to be in a rapid transition between major merger starbursts and quiescent ellipticals. Their optical spectrum is dominated by A-type stars, suggesting a starburst that was quenched recently. While optical observations suggest little ongoing star formation, some have been shown to host significant molecular gas reservoirs. This led to the suggestion that gas depletion is not required to end the starburst, and that star formation is suppressed by other processes. We present NOEMA CO(1-0) observations of 15 post-starburst galaxies with emission lines consistent with Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) photoionization. We collect post-starburst candidates with molecular gas measurements from the literature, with some classified as classical E+A, while others with line ratios consistent with AGN and/or shock ionization. Using far-infrared observations, we show that systems that were reported to host exceptionally-large molecular gas reservoirs host in fact obscured star formation, with some systems showing star formation rates comparable to ULIRGs. Among E+A galaxies with molecular gas measurements, 7 out of 26 (26\%) host obscured starbursts. Using far-infrared observations, post-starburst candidates show similar SFR-$M_{\mathrm{H_2}}$ and Kennicutt-Schmidt relations to those observed in star-forming and starburst galaxies. In particular, there is no need to hypothesize star formation quenching by processes other than the consumption of molecular gas by star formation. The combination of optical, far-infrared, and CO observations indicates that some regions within these galaxies have been recently quenched, while others are still forming stars in highly obscured regions. All this calls into question the traditional interpretation of such galaxies.
Can We Slow Down Entropy Without Breaking the Laws of Thermodynamics?
Creators: name: Fedotov, Anton
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: What if the relentless march towards higher entropy could be slowed down — not halted, but decelerated? In this thought-provoking article, we introduce the concept of "inertia of entropy," a theoretical force that challenges traditional thermodynamics by proposing a temporary stabilization in the growth of entropy. Through a detailed mathematical experiment, we explore how this effect might manifest in physical systems, offering new insights into the path to equilibrium.
Intensive Case Management Before and After Prison Release is No More Effective Than Comprehensive Pre-Release Discharge Planning in Linking HIV-Infected Prisoners to Care: A Randomized Trial
Creators: name: Smith, Paula
name: Scheyett, Anna
name: Golin, Carol E.
name: Duffin, Faye
name: Matuszewski, Jeanine
name: Earp, Joanne
name: Wohl, David A.
name: Kaplan, Andrew
name: White, Becky
name: Bowling, Michael
name: Rosen, David
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Imprisonment provides opportunities for the diagnosis and successful treatment of HIV, however, the benefits of antiretroviral therapy are frequently lost following release due to suboptimal access and utilization of health care and services. In response, some have advocated for development of intensive case-management interventions spanning incarceration and release to support treatment adherence and community re-entry for HIV-infected releasees. We conducted a randomized controlled trial of a motivational Strengths Model bridging case management intervention (BCM) beginning approximately 3 months prior to and continuing 6 months after release versus a standard of care prison-administered discharge planning program (SOC) for HIV-infected state prison inmates. The primary outcome variable was self-reported access to post-release medical care. Of the 104 inmates enrolled, 89 had at least 1 post-release study visit. Of these, 65.1% of BCM and 54.4% of SOC assigned participants attended a routine medical appointment within 4 weeks of release (P >0.3). By week 12 post-release, 88.4% of the BCM arm and 78.3% of the SOC arm had at attended at least one medical appointment (P = 0.2), increasing in both arms at week 24–90.7% with BCM and 89.1% with SOC (P >0.5). No participant without a routine medical visit by week 24 attended an appointment from weeks 24 to 48. The mean number of clinic visits during the 48 weeks post release was 5.23 (SD = 3.14) for BCM and 4.07 (SD = 3.20) for SOC (P >0.5). There were no significant differences between arms in social service utilization and re-incarceration rates were also similar. We found that a case management intervention bridging incarceration and release was no more effective than a less intensive pre-release discharge planning program in supporting health and social service utilization for HIV-infected individuals released from prison.
title: Endovascular and percutaneous imaging guided treatment of type Ia endoleak post-endovascular aneurysm repair with injection of ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer
Creators: name: Patella, Francesca
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Vascular
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Embolisation
subject: Catheters
subject: Treatment effects
subject: Aneurysms
subject: Arteriosclerosis

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To evaluate safety, technical and clinical success of embolization of type Ia endoleak (T1a EL) using ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer as embolic agent alone or in combination with others...
Microstructural Comparison of the Kinematics of Discrete and Continuum Dislocations Models
Creators: name: Sandfeld, Stefan
name: Po, Giacomo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Continuum Dislocation Dynamics (CDD) theory and the Discrete Dislocation Dynamics (DDD) method are compared based on concise mathematical formulations of the coarse graining of discrete data. A numerical tool for converting from a discrete to a continuum representation of a given dislocation configuration is developed, which allows to directly compare both simulation approaches based on continuum quantities (e.g. scalar density, geometrically necessary densities, mean curvature). Investigating the evolution of selected dislocation configurations within analytically given velocity fields for both DDD and CDD reveals that CDD contains a surprising number of important microstructural details.
Locating the Places People Meet New Sexual Partners in a Southern US City to Inform HIV/STI Prevention and Testing Efforts
Creators: name: Wohl, David A.
name: Weir, Sharon S.
name: Kaplan, Andrew M.
name: Norcott, Kathy
name: Tisdale, Caroline
name: Duncan, Jesse
name: Khan, Maria R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Places where people meet new sex partners can be venues for the delivery of individual and environmental interventions that aim to reduce transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STI). Using the Priorities for Local AIDS Control Efforts (PLACE) methodology we identified and characterized venues where people in a southeastern US city with high prevalence of both HIV and STI go to meet new sexual partners. A total of 123 community informants identified 143 public, private and commercial venues where people meet sex partners. Condoms were available at 14% of the venues, although 48% of venue representatives expressed a willingness to host HIV prevention efforts. Interviews with 373 people (229 men, 144 women) socializing at a random sample of 54 venues found high rates of HIV risk behaviors including concurrent sexual partnerships, transactional sex and illicit substance abuse. Risk behaviors were more common among those at certain venue types including those that may be overlooked by public health outreach efforts. The systematic methodology used was successful in locating venues where risky encounters are established and reveal opportunities for targeted HIV prevention and testing programs as well as research.
Additional file 1 of Factors associated with COVID-19 vaccine intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic; a systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-sectional studies
Creators: name: Terry, Emily
name: Cartledge, Sapphire
name: Damery, Sarah
name: Greenfield, Sheila
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Eligibility Criteria. Eligibility criteria for the research question, using the SPIDER search tool.
Unprotected Sex in Heterosexual Partnerships of Injecting Drug Users in St. Petersburg, Russia
Creators: name: Kozlov, Andrei A.
name: Latkin, Carl A.
name: Kozlov, Andrei P.
name: Batluk, Julia
name: Hoffman, Irving F.
name: Sokolov, Nikolai
name: Tobin, Karin E.
name: Gyarmathy, V. Anna
name: Levchenko, Julia
name: Li, Nan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: We examined the association of individual demographic and behavioral attributes, partnership (dyad) and social network characteristics with unprotected sex in the heterosexual dyads of IDUs in St Petersburg, Russia. Of the individual-level characteristics female gender and younger age; and of the dyad-level characteristics sharing injecting equipment, social exposure to the sex partner (“hanging out with” or seeing each other daily), and both partners self-reporting being HIV infected were associated with unprotected sex. Although self-reported HIV discordant couples were less likely to engage in unprotected sex, it was reported in over half of self-reported HIV discordant relationships. This study highlights the intertwining of sexual risk and injecting risk, and the importance of sero-sorting based on perceived HIV status among IDU sexual partnerships in St Petersburg, Russia. A combination of social network and dyad interventions may be appropriate for this population of IDUs, especially for IDUs who are both injecting and sex partners, supported by free and confidential rapid HIV testing and counseling services to provide a comprehensive response to the wide-spread HIV epidemic among IDUs in St Petersburg.
Why do evening people consider themselves more intelligent than morning individuals? The role of big five, narcissism, and objective cognitive ability
Creators: name: Zajenkowski, Marcin
name: Jankowski, Konrad S.
name: Stolarski, Maciej
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Morningness-eveningness, or chronotype, reflects the timing of sleep-wake patterns across a 24-hour day. Extant research has revealed that chronotype correlates with numerous psychological constructs including cognitive ability. In the current research, we examined how people with different chronotypes perceive their intelligence. We expected eveningness to be positively associated with subjectively assessed intelligence (SAI) because evening chronotypes demonstrate slightly higher intelligence than morning individuals. Furthermore, we considered personality traits (Big Five and narcissism) and objective intelligence (measured with standardized tests of fluid and verbal IQ) as potential variables that could account for this relationship. Across two studies (N = 504 and 232), we found that eveningness was associated with higher SAI. This relationship remained significant even after controlling for objective intelligence. In Study 1, we also found that when conscientiousness and neuroticism were analyzed together with chronotype, the magnitude of positive association between eveningness and SAI increased. Furthermore, Study 2 revealed that evening individuals exhibited higher narcissism, which fully accounted for their intelligence self-views. In the discussion, we speculate that daily struggles of evening chronotypes to function in morning-oriented society give them a basis to think positively about their intelligence to the extent of positive bias.
Additional file 2 of Factors associated with COVID-19 vaccine intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic; a systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-sectional studies
Creators: name: Terry, Emily
name: Cartledge, Sapphire
name: Damery, Sarah
name: Greenfield, Sheila
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Search Strategy. A detailed description of the search strategies for each database searched in the review.
X-ray irradiation of the winds in binaries with massive components
Creators: name: Krticka, Jiri
name: Kubat, Jiri
name: Krtickova, Iva
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Binaries with hot massive components are strong X-ray sources. Besides the intrinsic X-ray emission of individual binary members originating in their winds, X-ray emission stems from the accretion on the compact companion or from wind collision. Since hot star winds are driven by the light absorption in the lines of heavier elements, wind acceleration is sensitive to the ionization state. Therefore, the over-ionization induced by external X-ray source strongly influences the winds of individual components. We studied the effect of external X-ray irradiation on hot star winds. We used our kinetic equilibrium (NLTE) wind models to estimate the influence of external X-ray ionization for different X-ray luminosities and source distances. The models are calculated for parameters typical of O stars. The influence of X-rays is given by the X-ray luminosity, by the optical depth between a given point and the X-ray source, and by a distance to the X-ray source. Therefore, the results can be interpreted in the diagrams of X-ray luminosity vs.~the optical depth parameter. X-rays are negligible in binaries with low X-ray luminosities or at large distances from the X-ray source. The influence of X-rays is stronger for higher X-ray luminosities and in closer proximity of the X-ray source. There is a forbidden area with high X-ray luminosities and low optical depth parameters, where the X-ray ionization leads to wind inhibition. There is excellent agreement between the positions of observed stars in these diagrams and our predictions. All wind-powered high-mass X-ray binary (HMXB) primaries lie outside the forbidden area. Many of them lie close to the border of the forbidden area, indicating that their X-ray luminosities are self-regulated. We discuss the implications of our work for other binary types.
description: 16 pages, accepted for publication in A&A
title: Non traumatic femoral head fractures: a pictorial essay using surface views of MicroCT data with macroscopic correlation
Creators: name: Mourad, Charbel
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Bones
subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Computer Applications-3D

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: - Spontaneous (non-traumatic) fractures of the femoral head are a well-known complication of femoral head osteonecrosis. -More recently,spontaneous fractures of the femoral head have also been recognized in osteoarthritis and in osteoporosis....
(101069) John Franklyn
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
A Venue-Based Approach to Reaching MSM, IDUs and the General Population with VCT: A Three Study Site in Kenya
Creators: name: Brodish, Paul
name: Weir, Sharon
name: Mbai, Fiona
name: Njeru, Carol
name: Sambisa, William
name: Rinyuri, Agnes
name: Mureithi, Patrick
name: Singh, Kavita
name: Kingola, Nzioki
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: A venue-based HIV prevention study which included Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) was conducted in three diverse areas of Kenya— Malindi, Nanyuki and Rachounyo. Aims of the study were to: 1) assess the acceptability of VCT for the general population, men who have sex with men (MSM), and injecting drug users (IDUs) within the context of a venue-based approach; 2) determine if there were differences between those agreeing and not agreeing to testing; and 3) study factors associated with being HIV positive. Approximately 98% of IDUs and 97% of MSM agreed to VCT, providing evidence that populations with little access to services and whose behaviors are stigmatized and often considered illegal in their countries can be reached with needed HIV prevention services. Acceptability of VCT in the general population ranged from 60% in Malindi to 48% in Nanyuki. There were a few significant differences between those accepting and declining testing. Notably in Rachuonyo and Malindi those reporting multiple partners were more likely to accept testing. There was also evidence that riskier sexual behavior was associated with being HIV positive for both men in Rachounyo and women in Malindi. Overall HIV prevalence was higher among the individuals in this study compared to individuals sampled in the 2008–2009 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey, indicating the method is an appropriate means to reach the highest risk individuals including stigmatized populations.
title: Imaging findings suggestive of axial spondyloarthritis in degenerative disease
Creators: name: Regnard, Nor-Eddine
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Pelvis
subject: MR
subject: Decision analysis
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: Perception image
subject: Oedema
subject: Pathology

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Imaging is a crucial tool for the diagnosis and follow-up of axial rheumatism Important place in ASAS criteria for diagnosis of spondyloarthropathy Increasing place of MRI: detection of erosions and inflammation Describe MRI aspects in patients with...