cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Selected problems relating to the dynamics of block-type foundations for machines
Creators: name: Zombroń, Marek
name: Mironowicz, Władysław
name: Bartlewska-Urban, Monika
name: Smolińska, Joanna
Publisher: name: Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining and Geology
Year: 2014
Subjects: block – type foundations dynamics, stratified soil

description: Mining Science
Optimal Sequential Selection of a Unimodal Subsequence of a Random Sequence
Creators: name: Arlotto, Alessandro
name: Steele, J. Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary: 60C05, 90C40, Secondary: 60G42, 90C27, 90C39

description: We consider the problem of selecting sequentially a unimodal subsequence from a sequence of independent identically distributed random variables, and we find that a person doing optimal sequential selection does within a factor of the square root of two as well as a prophet who knows all of the random observations in advance of any selections. Our analysis applies in fact to selections of subsequences that have d+1 monotone blocks, and, by including the case d=0, our analysis also covers monotone subsequences.
Midwifery-led care to support parents’ psychosocial wellbeing in pregnancy following perinatal loss: a scoping review
Creators: name: A/Prof Clemence Due
name: Robinson, Kelly
name: Dr Siobhan Loughnan
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Maternal and Child Health
subject: Women's Health
subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Nursing Midwifery
subject: Grief and bereavement
subject: Maternal Child Health and Neonatal Nursing
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Midwifery
subject: Midwifery Continuity of Care
subject: Nursing Midwifery
subject: Perinatal Loss
subject: Pregnancy after Loss
subject: Psychosocial support
subject: Public Health
subject: Scoping Review

description: A scoping review to review and synthesise evidence of midwifery continuity of care provision for parents experiencing a subsequent pregnancy after perinatal loss.
Revisiting the Paleoenvironment and Mammal Fauna of the late Uintan Swift Current Creek Locality, Saskatchewan
Creators: name: Ehrman, Benjamin A.
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Swift Current Creek
subject: Uintan
subject: Mammal
subject: Paleoenvironment
subject: Myton Pocket
subject: Badwater
subject: Locality
subject: Paleontology
subject: Paleoecology

description: The Swift Current Creek (SCC) locality was previously described as being similar to the “Rocky Mountains” fauna, an informal grouping of near-coeval assemblages in Utah and Wyoming, but otherwise having high faunal endemism (Storer 1984). Its paleoenvironment was described as a semi-arid, “tropical,” enclosed forest (Storer 1984). This interpretation of its environment contradicts the “Rocky Mountains” fauna comparison, as its Utah component (Myton Pocket- MP) is now interpreted to have been a savannah. This thesis sought to review SCC’s paleoenvironment and faunal endemism using a revised faunal list with palaeoecological methods not applied during previous studies of SCC. First, a rarefaction analysis was used to quantify the locality’s level of sampling, the likelihood of finding new mammal genera, and the diversity of specific taxonomic groups. A cenogram analysis was used to interpret SCC’s paleoenvironment based on body mass distribution (BMD) data. Similarity index calculations served to quantify SCC’s generic faunal similarity with near-coeval localities, including the Rocky Mountain’s MP and Badwater 6 (BW6; in Wyoming) localities. Faunal endemism was interpreted using a distance decay regression analysis, with Holocene localities serving as a baseline for comparative interpretation of differing patterns in faunal similarity. The rarefaction analysis results indicated that SCC is moderately sampled, and that continued sampling may result in the discovery of new mammal genera (especially rodents). The cenogram’s BMD is reflective of a humid, warm, enclosed forest. Some diversity signals from the rarefaction analysis support the interpretations of SCC’s environment, while others leave room for doubt. Descriptions of SCC being similar to the “Rocky Mountains” fauna were found to be inaccurate. The Swift Current Creek locality has high similarity value with BW6, but not with MP. The distance decay regression for SCC and its coeval localities did not express a significant decline in faunal similarity, and the rate of declining faunal similarity was much less drastic than in Holocene localities; demonstrating that SCC’s faunal endemism is not as high as past literature has indicated.
Diabetic Foot Ulcer Grand Challenge 2022 Summary
Creators: name: Kendrick, Connah
name: Cassidy, Bill
name: Reeves, Neil D.
name: Pappachan, Joseph M.
name: O'Shea, Claire
name: Chandrabalan, Vishnu
name: Yap, Moi Hoon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Diabetic Foot Ulcer Challenge 2022 focused on the task of diabetic foot ulcer segmentation, based on the work completed in previous DFU challenges. The challenge provided 4000 images of full-view foot ulcer images together with corresponding delineation of ulcer regions. This paper provides an overview of the challenge, a summary of the methods proposed by the challenge participants, the results obtained from each technique, and a comparison of the challenge results. The best-performing network was a modified HarDNet-MSEG, with a Dice score of 0.7287.
Attribute Preferences for Reditry Predicting Situation Selection at a Distance vs. with Experience
Creators: name: Da Silva Frost, Aline
name: Ledgerwood, Alison
name: Yilin Andre Wang
name: Eastwick, Paul
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This is the pre-analysis plan for a study on summarized and functional preferences for Reditry predicting situation selection DVs (at a distance vs. with experience).
Evidence based hand hygiene. Liquid or gel handrub, does it matter
Creators: name: Voniatis, Constantinos
name: Bansaghi, Szava
name: Veres, Daniel Sandor
name: Szeremy, Peter
name: Hajdu, Angela Jedlovszky
name: Szijarto, Attila
name: Haidegger, Tamas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Recent studies put under scrutiny the prevailing hand hygiene guidelines, which incorporate quantitative parameters regarding handrub volume and hand size. Understanding the criticality of complete (i.e., efficient) hand hygiene in healthcare, objectivization of hand hygiene related parameters are paramount, including the formulation of the ABHR. Senior medical students were invited, and randomly assigned to receive predetermined ABHR volumes (1.5 or 3ml). 340 participants were given equal amounts of gel and liquid on two separate hand hygiene occasions, which occurred two weeks apart. During the hand hygiene events, by employing a digital, fully automated system paired with fluorescent-traced ABHRs, disinfectant hand coverage was objectively investigated. The 1.5 ml ABHR volume (commonly applied in healthcare settings) is insufficient in either formulation, as the non-covered areas exceeded significant (5%+) of the total hand surface area. 3 ml, on the contrary, resulted in almost complete coverage (uncovered areas remained below 1.5%). Participants typically underestimated the volume which they needed to apply. While the liquid ABHR spreads better in the lower, 1.5ml volume compared to the gel, the latter was easier handled at larger volume. Drying times were 30/32s (gel and liquid formats, respectively) when 1.5ml handrub was applied, and 40/42s when 3ml was used. As the evaporation rates of the ABHR used in the study are similar to those available on the market, one can presume that the results presented in the study apply for most WHO conform ABHRs. The results show that applying 1.5ml volume was insufficient, as large part of the hand surface remained uncovered (7.0+-0.7% and 5.8+-1.0% of the hand surface in the case of gel and liquid, respectively). When 3ml handrub was applied drying times were 40/42s (gel and liquid, respectively).
Connecting the Sun and the Solar Wind: The First 2.5 Dimensional Self-consistent MHD Simulation under the Alfvén Wave Scenario
Creators: name: Matsumoto, Takuma
name: Suzuki, Takeru Ken
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The solar wind emanates from the hot and tenuous solar corona. Earlier studies using 1.5 dimensional simulations show that Alfvén waves generated in the photosphere play an important role in coronal heating through the process of non-linear mode conversion. In order to understand the physics of coronal heating and solar wind acceleration together, it is important to consider the regions from photosphere to interplanetary space as a single system. We performed 2.5 dimensional, self-consistent magnetohydrodynamic simulations, covering from the photosphere to the interplanetary space for the first time. We carefully set up the grid points with spherical coordinate to treat the Alfvén waves in the atmosphere with huge density contrast, and successfully simulate the solar wind streaming out from the hot solar corona as a result of the surface convective motion. The footpoint motion excites Alfvén waves along an open magnetic flux tube, and these waves traveling upwards in the non-uniform medium undergo wave reflection, nonlinear mode conversion from Alfvén mode to slow mode, and turbulent cascade. These processes leads to the dissipation of Alfvén waves and acceleration of the solar wind. It is found that the shock heating by the dissipation of the slow mode wave plays a fundamental role in the coronal heating process whereas the turbulent cascade and shock heating drive the solar wind.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Gratitude writing for positive affect: the role of demand characteristics
Creators: name: Smith, Michael A.
name: Allen, Sarah
name: Colborne, Yasmin
name: Hoult, Lauren
name: Wetherell, Mark
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The aim of the present study is to investigate whether informing participants about the potential benefits of expressing gratitude prior to writing a gratitude letter increases positive affect to a greater extent than writing a gratitude letter in the absence of information about its benefits.
Pre-reg_ Feeling of Fit and Authenticity in STEM
Creators: name: Yingchi Guo
name: Schmader, Toni
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Academic identification
subject: Authenticity
subject: Belonging
subject: Fit
subject: Gender
subject: SAFE model
subject: STEM

description: This document pre-registers a suite of hypotheses related to students' feelings of fit and authenticity in STEM fields.
Addictions and Mental Health Patient Boarding in Emergency Departments: Protocol for a Scoping Review
Creators: name: Ridout, Amelia
name: Antonio, Anjolaoluwa
name: Bolton, James
name: Chan, Eric
name: Chisholm, Cassandra
name: Chow, Kristian
name: Ganshorn, Heather
name: Grimminck, Rachel
name: Major, Daniel
name: Nordstrom, Kimberly
name: Pearlmutter, Mark
name: Lang, Eddy
Publisher: name: University of Calgary, University of Manitoba, University of Alberta, University of Ottawa, university of British Columbia, University of Colorado, Tufts University, Alberta Health Services, Manitoba Centre for Health Policy
Year: 2023

description: Objective: The objective of this scoping review is to understand the extent, nature, and quality of evidence relating to the boarding of addictions and mental health (AMH) patients in emergency departments (EDs). Introduction: ‘Boarding’ refers to the time a patient spends in the ED before being transferred to an inpatient bed after an admission decision has been made (1-4). AMH patients are disproportionately likely to experience boarding (1,4,5). Patients can be boarded in the ED for many hours or days, often under suboptimal conditions that harm their health and wellbeing (6). Despite the ongoing issue of AMH patient boarding in EDs across Canada and globally, there is a lack of scoping or systematic reviews that synthesize the literature on this topic. Inclusion criteria: This scoping review will include peer-reviewed literature of all study designs and methodologies that meets the following inclusion criteria: (1) involve a participant population of pediatric and/or adult patients with substance use and/or mental health disorders, (2) focus on the concept of boarding or delayed transfer, and (3) occur within the context of a hospital ED. Methods: We will search the following electronic databases: MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO (on the Ovid platform), and CINAHL (on the Ebsco platform). Covidence software will be used to manage the results of the search, select studies that meet the inclusion criteria, remove duplicates, and extract data. Studies will be critically appraised using JBI critical appraisal checklists (7). Results will be reported in accordance with the PRISMA-ScR checklist (8).
A land use regression model for ultrafine particles in Vancouver, Canada
Creators: name: Abernethy, Rebecca
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Background and Aims: Epidemiologic studies have associated adverse health outcomes with exposure to traffic-related air pollutants, principally NO₂, at levels below those showing effects in controlled exposure studies. This suggests the importance of related outdoor air contaminants, such as ultrafine particles (UFP) (<0.1µm in diameter). Presently, no UFP monitoring exists in North America and little information is available regarding UFP spatial distributions. We measured particle number concentrations (PNC) in Vancouver to develop a land use regression (LUR) model for use in epidemiologic studies and to identify important sources of UFP. Methods: During a two-week sampling period in spring 2010, PNC were measured with portable condensation particle counters (CPC) for 60-minutes at eighty locations used previously to characterize spatial variability in nitrogen oxides. Continuous PNC measuring occurred at four additional locations to assess temporal variation. LUR modeling was conducted using 135 geographic predictors, including: road length, vehicle density, intersection and bus stop density, land use type, fast food restaurant density, population density and others, following previously developed methods. A novel buffer approach incorporated meteorologic data through wedge-shaped wind roses from measurements made during PNC sampling, in addition to circular buffers. Results: The range of measured (60-minute median) PNC across locations varied 70-fold (range: 1500 – 105 000 particles/cm³, mean [SD] = 18 200 [15 900] particles/cm³). Correlations of PNC with concurrently measured two-week average NO₂, NO and NOX concentrations at the same sites were 0.64, 0.65 and 0.70. A model (R² = 0.48, leave-one-out cross validation R² = 0.32) predicting PNC included length of truck routes within 50m, density of fast food locations within 200m and ln-distance to the nearest port. LUR models created with wind rose shaped buffers had lower predictive power than models with circular buffers (R² = 0.29 – 0.34). Conclusions: Measured PNC was highly variable across the Metro Vancouver region and correlated with nitrogen oxides. Geographic predictors explained a smaller proportion of variability in PNC than found previously for nitrogen oxides, suggesting some common sources and additional unknown factors influencing PNC spatial variability. This represents the first LUR model for UFP in North America.
Developing SINrep5 as a Viral Vector Platform to Test SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Candidates
Creators: name: Chen, Michelle
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Sindbis
subject: SINrep5
subject: Virus
subject: COVID-19
subject: SARS-CoV-2
subject: Alphavirus
subject: Coronavirus
subject: Vaccine
subject: VLP
subject: Viral Vector
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Virology

description: The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by SARS-CoV-2, serves as a stark reminder of the importance of vaccines and immunization in the arms race against novel viral agents. SARS-CoV-2 vaccines target the mutation-prone Spike Protein, leading to the rise of viral variants, and warranting additional research into the potential of diversifying vaccine target candidates, as well as vaccine options. One particular vaccine of interest is the adenovirus vector-based vaccine, which has raised apprehension since its use against SARS-CoV-2. Public hesitation and unclear human-use risks surrounding adenovirus vector vaccines have warranted exploration into other vectors—not just as ready-for-use vaccines, but also as expression platforms for vaccine study. SINrep5, derived from the Sindbis alphavirus, is one expression platform that has been studied for its unique protein expression abilities. A workflow was developed to use SINrep5 as an expression platform for SARS-CoV-2 proteins of interest—Nucleocapsid-N, Envelope-E, and Membrane-M. The N gene was subcloned into a mammalian SINrep5 plasmid (pmSINrep5) to test the vector’s protein expression in vitro. Vector transfections were optimized for protein expression and Virus-Like Particles (VLP) production. Techniques to purify, concentrate, and quantify VLP titres were also optimized. C57Bl/6 Mice were received VLP vaccines and humoral immunity was assessed. An efficient cloning system was developed for the SINrep5 mammalian expression plasmid (pmSINrep5) construct. Applying the system to N, E, and M resulted in successful pmSINrep5-N, pmSINrep5-E, and pmSINrep5-M creation. Transfections optimized using pmSINrep5-eGFP achieved high protein expression in nearly all transfected cells. Applied to the other pmSINrep5 constructs, low E and M Protein expression was detected, likely due to altered subgenomic promoter activity and cytotoxicity. Conversely, high N Protein expression was detected from Western Blot analysis. Transfections were able to produce mSINrep5(SV)-eGFP and SV-N VLPs. Purification was achieved by adjusting the optimized transfection protocol to eliminate contaminating proteins, and SV VLP quantification was subsequently optimized in a two-pronged approach involving VLP infection titration and RT-qPCR. The development of a working pipeline to efficiently construct and test the SINrep5 viral vector expression vector highlights its utility in studying viral proteins and antigens, diversifying the tools already proffered by alphaviruses in immunotherapy research.
On Production of Hadrons in Proton-Proton Collisions at RHIC and LHC Energies and an Approach
Creators: name: Guptaroy, P.
name: Sau, Goutam
name: Bhattacharyya, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: From the very early days of Particle Physics, both experimental and theoretical studies on proton-proton collisions had occupied the center-stage of attention for very simple and obvious reasons. And this intense interest seems now to be at peak value with the onset of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)-studies at TeV ranges of energies. In this work, we have chosen to analyse the inclusive cross-sections, the rapidity density, the $K/π$ and $p/π$-ratio behaviours and the $$-values, in the light of the Sequential Chain Model (SCM). And the limited successes of the model encourage us to take up further studies on several other aspects of topmost importance in particle physics with the same approach.
description: 14 pages, 3 tables, 7 figures; to appear in Journal of Modern Physics
Environment-Aware Codebook for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided MISO Communications
Creators: name: Jia, Xing
name: An, Jiancheng
name: Liu, Hao
name: Liao, Hongshu
name: Gan, Lu
name: Yuen, Chau
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a revolutionary technology that can customize the wireless channel and improve the energy efficiency of next-generation cellular networks. This letter proposes an environment-aware codebook design by employing the statistical channel state information (CSI) for RIS-assisted multiple-input single-output (MISO) systems. Specifically, first of all, we generate multiple virtual channels offline by utilizing the location information and design an environment-aware reflection coefficient codebook. Thus, we only need to estimate the composite channel and optimize the active transmit beamforming for each reflection coefficient in the pre-designed codebook, while simplifying the reflection optimization substantially. Moreover, we analyze the theoretical performance of the proposed scheme. Finally, numerical results verify the performance benefits of the proposed scheme over the cascaded channel estimation and passive beamforming as well as the existing codebook scheme in the face of channel estimation errors, albeit its significantly reduced overhead and complexity.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures,
Fuming factors affecting vision after cataract surgery and exploration of prognosis, health problems
Creators: name: Liu, Wenlan
Publisher: name: The Ethiopian Journal of Health Development
Year: 2023

description: Objective Logistic regression analysis was used to analyze the single factor and multiple factors affecting visual acuity after cataract restoration and comprehensively analyzed the prognosis of patients. Methods We retrospectively in our hospital in the January 2018 - January 2020 period treated 186 cases of cataract patients for the study, a total of 230, all patients underwent phacoemulsification or intracapsular extraction were fuming treatment, recovery based on visual acuity divided into two groups, we analyze the factors affecting postoperative visual acuity impact. Results The mean level of visual acuity (0.13±0.02) grade, the visual acuity level (0.26±0.05) grade, significantly increased after treatment visual acuity level, compared to pre-treatment difference was statistically significant (P<0.05). After 3 days, the obtained recovery of visual acuity were <0.3 in 98, accounting for 42.61% (98/230), and were visually ?0.3 in 132, accounting for 57.39% (132/230). By univariate analysis, the former age, axial length, anterior chamber depth, preoperative visual acuity levels, macular degeneration and posterior staphyloma are risk factors of postoperative visual acuity, visual acuity <0.3 group and the difference in visual acuity ?0.3 set of data statistically significant (P<0.05); multivariate Logistic regression analysis, preoperative visual acuity levels, macular degeneration and posterior staphyloma led to the recovery of visual acuity in patients with poor independent risk factor (P<0.05); postoperative no significant change in corneal refractive power, axial length decreased more normal anterior chamber depth increased gradually become normal visual acuity <0.3 axial length than the patients vision ?0.3 group, anterior chamber depth below the vision group ?0.3 (P<0.05); visual acuity <0.3 ?0.3 group and the group of visual acuity after VF, QOL score was significantly increased, and visual acuity ?0.3 groups VF, QOL score is above VA <0.3 group, the difference statistically significant (P<0.05). Conclusion These were independent risk factors for recovery of visual acuity in patients with preoperative visual acuity level include, macular degeneration and posterior staphyloma. Exploring the influencing factors of visual acuity after cataract restoration can provide a theoretical basis and basis for postoperative visual recovery of patients, and has high application value.
description: The Ethiopian Journal of Health Development , Vol. 37 No. 1 (2023)
Factors Influencing Legitimacy
Creators: name: Calvert W Jones
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This project will assess the extent to which authoritarian regimes in the Middle East can gain legitimacy among foreign audiences through a variety of reform types. It will also assess other factors that may influence legitimacy using a conjoint design and a nationally representative sample. This study is an extension of a previous study and part of the same longer-term project, whose main purpose will be to gain insight into a wider variety of reform types and their effects on public opinion. The study serves two main purposes. The first is to replicate the findings from the prior study, and the second is to extend them via several new hypotheses. As before, the study takes advantage of a conjoint design in which a US nationally representative sample is presented with four conjoint tasks in which respondents evaluate hypothetical countries with autocratic governments in the Middle East. Within each task, various attributes of the country and the rulers’ actions with respect to reforms are varied to gain insight into the most important factors that influence public opinion. The study also includes a fifth task describing a real country (Saudi Arabia) rather than a hypothetical country in the Middle East to assess the robustness of findings to actual cases. Finally, the study includes three question matrices assessing baseline expectations about the likelihood of different events, such as achieving economic growth, within different authoritarian regime types.
Perfil investigador en el ámbito de las Ciencias Sociales
Creators: name: García-Peñalvo, F. J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Diseminación científica; Divulgación científica; Identidad digital del investigador; Ciencia abierta; Conocimiento abierto

description: Esta sesión se ha impartido en el curso “Posicionamiento del trabajo científico y perfil investigador en el ámbito de las Ciencias Sociales” el día 12 de febrero de 2019 en la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Salamanca, dentro de su Plan de Formación del Profesorado.

Los objetivos de esta sesión son:

	Desarrollar una estrategia para difundir y hacer más visible la producción científica y académica de un investigador.
	Conocer distintas herramientas y redes sociales para promocionar las publicaciones científicas en Internet.
	Adquirir conocimientos básicos sobre marca personal investigadora en la Red.
	Construir el perfil académico de un investigador de Ciencias Sociales.

Los contenidos de la sesión son:

	Reputación científica
	Protocolo para crear la identidad digital del investigador
	Recomendaciones
The QCD phase diagram for external magnetic fields
Creators: name: Bali, G. S.
name: Bruckmann, F.
name: Endrodi, G.
name: Fodor, Z.
name: Katz, S. D.
name: Krieg, S.
name: Schafer, A.
name: Szabo, K. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of an external (electro)magnetic field on the finite temperature transition of QCD is studied. We generate configurations at various values of the quantized magnetic flux with $N_f=2+1$ flavors of stout smeared staggered quarks, with physical masses. Thermodynamic observables including the chiral condensate and susceptibility, and the strange quark number susceptibility are measured as functions of the field strength. We perform the renormalization of the studied observables and extrapolate the results to the continuum limit using $N_t=6,8$ and 10 lattices. We also check for finite volume effects using various lattice volumes. We find from all of our observables that the transition temperature $T_c$ significantly decreases with increasing magnetic field. This is in conflict with various model calculations that predict an increasing $T_c(B)$. From a finite volume scaling analysis we find that the analytic crossover that is present at B=0 persists up to our largest magnetic fields $eB \approx 1 \textmd{GeV}^2$, and that the transition strength increases mildly up to this $eB\approx1 \textmd{GeV}^2$.
description: 22 pages, 13 figures
Parental Technology Use and its Implications for Parent-Child Interactions and Children’s Health and Development
Creators: name: Komanchuk, Jelena
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: digital parenting intervention
subject: serve and return
subject: parent-child interaction quality
subject: child development
subject: vulnerability
subject: randomized controlled trial
subject: technoference
subject: Education--Early Childhood
subject: Education--Health
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Adverse experiences (e.g., poverty, family violence, neglect in childhood) can lead to negative health and developmental consequences, yet impacts may be buffered by positive parent-child interactions. While families experiencing adversity (e.g., poverty) report barriers to attending in-person parenting programs, online parenting programs have potential to improve children’s health and development by increasing accessibility. In contrast, parental technoference (i.e., parental technology use that interrupts interactions with one’s child) can negatively affect parent-child relationships and children’s outcomes (e.g., behavior, mental health). Research is needed on digitally delivered parenting programs for families experiencing adversity and on the implications of parental technoference on parent-child relationships and children’s outcomes. The first manuscript in this dissertation is a realist review of research and theory on serve and return interactions (a metaphor utilized to convey the importance of sensitive and responsive caregiving) and a synthesis of research examining its impacts on children’s health (e.g., mental, physical) and development. The second manuscript presents findings from a randomized controlled trial evaluation of the First Pathways program with families experiencing adversity in Alberta. The First Pathways program is an online tool designed to improve parent-child interactions and children’s development by sharing brain development knowledge and activities for parents and children. Compared to the quartile of parent-child dyads who seldom accessed the website (n = 12), the quartile of parent-child dyads who accessed the website the most (n = 13) demonstrated significantly greater improvements in parent-child interaction quality. Further, daily reminders significantly increased website access. High retention (99%) was observed in the First Pathways study; thus, the third manuscript describes the effective recruitment and retention strategies employed. In the fourth manuscript, a realist review of literature on the psychometrics of digitally delivered child development tools is presented. The last manuscript is a scoping review on parental technoference and its effects on parent-child relationships, children’s health, and development. This dissertation concludes with a discussion of the positive and negative implications of parental technology use on children’s health and development and recommendations for nursing research, education, and practice.
A scoping review of neighborhood effects and health: Mapping social determinants of health
Creators: name: Gresham, Bria
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Psychiatry and Psychology
subject: Diseases
subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Registration for a scoping review of neighborhood effects and health
Additional file 1 of Predictive power of extubation failure diagnosed by cough strength: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Duan, Jun
name: Zhang, Xiaofang
name: Song, Jianping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure 1. Pooled extubation failure in patients with weak and strong cough tested by cough peak flow (CPF). CI = confidence interval.
Study 1 - Noticing of Italian or South African Flags by Italian or South African participants
Creators: name: Simons, Daniel J.
name: Ding, Yifan
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Cognition and Perception
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Examining the effect of familiarity on noticing by fully crossing nationality and country flag. The preregistration information is in a pdf file under Files and is part of this registration. Code and data are under Files as well.
Flavour-Changing Decays of a 125 GeV Higgs-like Particle
Creators: name: Blankenburg, Gianluca
name: Ellis, John
name: Isidori, Gino
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC have reported the observation of a possible excess of events corresponding to a new particle $h$ with mass $\sim 125$ GeV that might be the long-sought Higgs boson, or something else. Decyphering the nature of this possible signal will require constraining the couplings of the $h$ and measuring them as accurately as possible. Here we analyze the indirect constraints on flavour-changing $h$ decays that are provided by limits on low-energy flavour-changing interactions. We find that indirect limits in the quark sector impose such strong constraints that flavour-changing $h$ decays to quark-antiquark pairs are unlikely to be observable at the LHC. On the other hand, the upper limits on lepton-flavour-changing decays are weaker, and the experimental signatures less challenging. In particular, we find that either ${\mathcal B}(h \to τ\bar μ+ \bar μτ)$ or ${\mathcal B}(h \to τ\bar e + \bar e τ) $ could be ${\cal O}(10)%$, i.e., comparable to ${\mathcal B}(h \to τ^+ τ^-)$ and potentially observable at the LHC.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure. v2: a few typos and numerical errors corrected, discussion of 2-loop bounds added, extended list of references, conclusions unchanged
Licania spicata Hook. f.
Creators: name: Maia, Valéria Cid
name: Mascarenhas, Bernardo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Malpighiales
Chrysobalanaceae
Licania
Licania spicata

description: Licania spicata Hook. f. (n = 1)
 Gall: on leaf, globoid, brown, glabrous. Gall-inducer: not determined. Trails: Teresópolis: Mozart Catão to Primavera (25.X.2021), 360 (26.X.2021), Mozart Catão (25.V.2022).
 Maia et al. (2008) reported leaf and stem galls on Licania spicata Hook. f. in SP. Galls on this plant genus are known from AM (Almada & Fernandes, 2011), GO (Santos et al., 2010; Araújo et al., 2014) and MG (Maia & Fernandes, 2004, Coelho et al., 2013).
description: Published as part of Maia, Valéria Cid & Mascarenhas, Bernardo, 2023, Insect galls of Parque Nacional da Serra dos Órgãos (Rio de Janeiro State, Southeastern Brazil), pp. 1-56 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 63 on page 19, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2023.63.040, http://zenodo.org/record/10270483
DEP Bulletin:Volume 38 Issue 8
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: The DEP bulletin is a semi-monthly publication of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. It contains a list of construction permit applications recently filed or acted upon by the Department along with a calendar of events of interest, a schedule of public hearings, and Environmental Impact Statements acted upon during the period.
SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL ANALYSIS OF DETERMINING THE ADMISSIBILITY OF AN APPLICATION (COMPLAINT) IN THE ADMINISTRATIVE LITIGATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN
Creators: name: Nematov, Jurabek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: In this article, we will try to reveal some legal problems regarding the determination of the admissibility of an application (complaint) in the administrative proceedings of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The judicial practice and legislation of Uzbekistan do not use the concept of admissibility of administrative claims. But based on the experience of Germany and a number of other countries, one can learn that in administrative proceedings the concepts of the admissibility and validity of administrative claims stand out. These concepts are used to ensure that in administrative proceedings the court has the opportunity to cut off those claims that, according to formal requirements, cannot be considered on the merits. This makes it possible for the courts not to waste time and resources on cases that cannot be considered according to formal requirements.
title: Integrated geospatial-geochemical catchment analysis of Newfoundland stream waters draining endmember silicate bedrock types (ultramafic-mafic rocks vs. granite)
Creators: name: Ledesma, Gabrielle Maria
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04haebc03
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: The dissolved inorganic element chemistry of stream waters is a reflection of local bedrock composition, but also other catchments properties such as hydrology, surficial geology, vegetation/soil type, and elevation. Studies from small hydrological catchments with a singular or restricted range of bedrock type(s) are ideal for isolating geologic controls on water chemistry from other physicochemical and environmental controls. This study assesses dissolved major, trace, and rare earth element data from streams at two study sites within the same (boreal) climate zone of Newfoundland that each drain a silicate-endmember bedrock composition: (1) Bay of Islands in western Newfoundland draining an ophiolite sequence of mafic/ultramafic bedrock, and (2) Burin Peninsula draining a large Devonian carboniferous granite pluton (St. Lawrence granite) that hosts fluorite mineralization. Through integrating geochemical data with geospatially quantified catchment property data, this study has isolated the elements most strongly controlled by: bedrock geology (Mg, Cr, Ni in ultramafic rock streams; Cs, Rb in granite streams; contrasting REE abundances and Eu anomalies); weathering/soil/vegetation effects and associated flux of dissolved organic matter to streams (K, Co, Ce anomalies); and short temporal events or local geological features such as the fluorite mineralization (elevated element flux, high Y/Ho). Several of these more local water chemical features were traceable into larger catchment areas of Newfoundland major rivers. The low-abundance trace element data are the first to be reported for any Newfoundland surface water and have exposed this research approach as useful to trace boreal catchment dynamics through the lens of trace element geochemistry.
Using MRI and Atlas-based Volumetrics to Investigate Grey Matter Atrophy in Animal Models of Multiple Sclerosis
Creators: name: Hamilton, Andrew Max
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
subject: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
subject: Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis (EAE)
subject: Cuprizone
subject: Atrophy
subject: Atlas-based Volumetrics
subject: Cerebral Blood Flow
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Radiology
subject: Biophysics--Medical

description: Loss of brain volume known as atrophy, occurs at an accelerated rate in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) compared to healthy adults and is closely associated with clinical disability and disease progression. To better understand and treat atrophy, mouse models that feature atrophy along with other aspects of MS pathology are needed. The objective of this thesis was to utilize magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and atlas-based volumetrics to investigate animal models of MS for atrophy and determine if they are suitable for studying atrophy in MS. First, we investigated the experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) model commonly used to study neuroinflammation in MS. EAE mice had lower brain volumes at chronic long-term disease duration with atrophy identified in both white (WM) and grey matter (GM) regions including the cerebral cortex, cerebellum, hippocampus, corpus callosum, basal forebrain, midbrain, optic tract, and colliculus. Like MS, atrophy was associated with neurodegeneration and long-term physical disability. Next, to validate these results, we measured atrophy in EAE along with cerebral blood flow (CBF), another aspect of MS pathology possibly associated with atrophy. Using continuous arterial spin labelling MRI, we observed a reduction in cortical CBF at peak clinical disease and long-term disease in EAE. Reduced CBF at peak clinical disease appears to be related to systemic inflammation and blood brain barrier breakdown as reduced CBF was also seen in the systemic inflammation controls. Reduced CBF at long-term was instead correlated with atrophy. Finally, we investigated the cuprizone model, commonly used to study demyelination. Following chronic demyelination, atrophy was seen in WM and subcortical GM regions including the corpus callosum, internal capsule, stria terminalis, striatum, thalamus, and globus pallidus. Atrophy coincided with demyelination, and WM axonal injury, but not neuronal or axonal loss. This lack of neuroaxonal loss suggests demyelination alone is not sufficient to cause neurodegeneration and the inflammatory infiltration seen in EAE and MS may be necessary. Overall, this thesis provides a foundation for future studies into atrophy in animal models of MS and demonstrates the utility of our methods for assessing neuroprotective therapies or investigating the pathophysiology behind atrophy in MS.
VR Facial Animation for Immersive Telepresence Avatars
Creators: name: Rochow, Andre
name: Schwarz, Max
name: Schreiber, Michael
name: Behnke, Sven
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: VR Facial Animation is necessary in applications requiring clear view of the face, even though a VR headset is worn. In our case, we aim to animate the face of an operator who is controlling our robotic avatar system. We propose a real-time capable pipeline with very fast adaptation for specific operators. In a quick enrollment step, we capture a sequence of source images from the operator without the VR headset which contain all the important operator-specific appearance information. During inference, we then use the operator keypoint information extracted from a mouth camera and two eye cameras to estimate the target expression and head pose, to which we map the appearance of a source still image. In order to enhance the mouth expression accuracy, we dynamically select an auxiliary expression frame from the captured sequence. This selection is done by learning to transform the current mouth keypoints into the source camera space, where the alignment can be determined accurately. We, furthermore, demonstrate an eye tracking pipeline that can be trained in less than a minute, a time efficient way to train the whole pipeline given a dataset that includes only complete faces, show exemplary results generated by our method, and discuss performance at the ANA Avatar XPRIZE semifinals.
description: Published in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2022
The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: a large sample of mock galaxy catalogues
Creators: name: Manera, Marc
name: Scoccimarro, Roman
name: Percival, Will J.
name: Samushia, Lado
name: McBride, Cameron K.
name: Ross, Ashley J.
name: Sheth, Ravi K.
name: White, Martin
name: Reid, Beth A.
name: Sánchez, Ariel G.
name: de Putter, Roland
name: Xu, Xiaoying
name: Berlind, Andreas A.
name: Brinkmann, Jonathan
name: Nichol, Bob
name: Montesano, Francesco
name: Padmanabhan, Nikhil
name: Skibba, Ramin A.
name: Tojeiro, Rita
name: Weaver, Benjamin A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a fast method of producing mock galaxy catalogues that can be used to compute covariance matrices of large-scale clustering measurements and test the methods of analysis. Our method populates a 2nd-order Lagrangian Perturbation Theory (2LPT) matter field, where we calibrate masses of dark matter halos by detailed comparisons with N-body simulations. We demonstrate the clustering of halos is recovered at ~10 per cent accuracy. We populate halos with mock galaxies using a Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) prescription, which has been calibrated to reproduce the clustering measurements on scales between 30 and 80 Mpc/h. We compare the sample covariance matrix from our mocks with analytic estimates, and discuss differences. We have used this method to make catalogues corresponding to Data Release 9 of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS),producing 600 mock catalogues of the "CMASS" galaxy sample. These mocks enabled detailed tests of methods and errors that formed an integral part of companion analyses of these galaxy data.
description: 21 pages, 18 figures, 2 tables. See companion papers that share the "The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey:" title. Mocks and covariance matrices will be available at http://www.marcmanera.net/mocks when the paper is accepted and DR9 released. Minor edits. Amended author's names. Submitted to MNRAS
Tetraquark bound states in a Bethe-Salpeter approach
Creators: name: Heupel, Walter
name: Eichmann, Gernot
name: Fischer, Christian S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine the mass of tetraquark bound states from a coupled system of covariant Bethe-Salpeter equations. Similar in spirit to the quark-diquark model of the nucleon, we approximate the full four-body equation for the tetraquark by a coupled set of two-body equations with meson and diquark constituents. These are calculated from their quark and gluon substructure using a phenomenologically well-established quark-gluon interaction. For the lightest scalar tetraquark we find a mass of the order of 400 MeV and a wave function dominated by the pion-pion constituents. Both results are in agreement with a meson molecule picture for the f_0(600). Our results furthermore suggest the presence of a potentially narrow all-charm tetraquark in the mass region 5-6 GeV.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, Refs added, Typos corrected, version accepted by PLB