cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Axions and Dark Matter
Creators: name: Yang, Qiaoli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dark matter constitutes about $23\%$ of the total energy density of the universe but its properties are still little known besides that it should be composed by cold and weakly interacting particles. Many beyond standard model theories can provide proper candidates to serve as dark matter and the axion introduced to solve the strong CP problem turns out to be an attractive one. In this paper, we briefly review several important features of the axion and the axion dark matter.
description: 10 pages, a contribution to the special issue of the Modern Physics Letters A "Dark Matter Particle Candidates"
Regionale Spitzentechnologie auf internationalen Märkten
Creators: name: Kranich, Jan
name: Ott, Ingrid
Publisher: name: Medien- und Informationszentrum, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Vertical Linkages
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Wirtschaftsgeographie
subject: Biotechnologie
subject: Wertschöpfungskette
classificationCode: 330
subject: 330 Wirtschaft

description: Die Biotechnologie, identifiziert als eine der strategischen Zukunftstechnologien, ist gekennzeichnet durch eine hohe Forschungsintensität mit breiten Anwendungsfeldern. Nach einer seit 2001 andauernden Konsolidierungsphase steht die Branche gegenwärtig vor neuen Herausforderungen: der EU-Osterweiterung sowie der massiv vorangetriebenen Technologiepolitik in den Schwellenländer Indien und China. Einerseits entstehen durch die Integration dieser Wachstumsmärkte neue Forschungs-, Produktions- und Absatzmöglichkeiten, andererseits birgt der steigende Wettbewerbsdruck ein nicht unwesentliches Risiko für die junge deutsche Branche. Der vorliegende Beitrag setzt die Ergebnisse einer 2006 durchgeführten Online-Befragung deutscher BT-Unternehmen in direkten Bezug zur niedersächsischen BT-Industrie. Im zweiten Schritt wird die Analyse durch numerische Simulationen der EU-Erweiterung 2004 im Rahmen der so genannten New Economic Geography ergänzt. Die Analysen zeigen eine Verlagerungstendenz der Biotechnologiebranche in die europäische Peripherie. Diese Tendenz wird jedoch aufgrund von Infrastruktur- und Faktormarktrestriktionen gravierend gedämpft.
Towards More Security in Data Exchange: Defining Unparsers with Context-Sensitive Encoders for Context-Free Grammars
Creators: name: Hermerschmidt, Lars
name: Kugelmann, Stephan
name: Rumpe, Bernhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: To exchange complex data structures in distributed systems, documents written in context-free languages are exchanged among communicating parties. Unparsing these documents correctly is as important as parsing them correctly because errors during unparsing result in injection vulnerabilities such as cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection. Injection attacks are not limited to the web world. Every program that uses input to produce documents in a context-free language may be vulnerable to this class of attack. Even for widely used languages such as HTML and JavaScript, there are few approaches that prevent injection attacks by context-sensitive encoding, and those approaches are tied to the language. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to derive context-sensitive encoder from context-free grammars to provide correct unparsing of maliciously crafted input data for all context-free languages. The presented solution integrates encoder definition into context-free grammars and provides a generator for context-sensitive encoders and decoders that are used during (un)parsing. This unparsing process results in documents where the input data does neither influence the structure of the document nor change their intended semantics. By defining encoding during language definition, developers who use the language are provided with a clean interface for writing and reading documents written in that language, without the need to care about security-relevant encoding.
description: 8 pages, 4 listings
Facial soft tissue effects produced by bone-anchored maxillary protraction: A systematic review
Creators: name: Abdul-Aziz, Ahmed
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Orthodontics and Orthodontology
subject: Dentistry
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: A protocol for systematic review topic addressing the facial soft tissue effects produced by bone-anchored maxillary protraction.
Policy for change: Steps towards improving quality of life and protecting the health of the Rohingyas of Cox’s Bazar
Creators: name: Sen, Aninda
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: The recent wave of violence that took place during August 2017 in Myanmar has led to the largest mass exodus of people in the modern world (Islam, 2018). Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar state of Rakhine have been driven out of their homes and into the district of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh by the hundreds of thousands. Approximately 750,000 men, women and children have fled their homes in the hopes of escaping systematic discrimination, targeted violence and violation of human rights carried out by the Myanmar military forces (International Organization for Migration, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, UN Resident Coordinator for Bangladesh, & Inter Sector Coordination Group, 2019). Mostly, they flee into neighboring Bangladesh to join the already stranded 200,000 plus Rohingya refugees who have been carving out an existence in the two officially registered refugee settlements, as well as in the various make shift unofficial camps, local towns and villages within the district of Cox’s Bazar. Besides being boxed off into their camps by the Government of Bangladesh (GOB), the vast majority of the refugees in Bangladesh are unregistered and therefore, not receiving any form of food, medicine or socio-economic aid from NGOs (Non-Governmental Organization) or local governments, which led to gradual deterioration in the quality of life inside and around the camps (Crabtree, 2010). This not only affects the Rohingyas, but also, the people living in the district of Cox’s Bazar, who face increased competition for limited resources as the number of refugees in the region has increased by more than four times in numbers compared to the pre-2017 numbers. Although there are several areas requiring urgent attention from humanitarian aid agencies and the GOB, some of the more pressing public health concerns include land management both within and outside the refugee camps, the provision of effective, efficient and equitable healthcare, and the supply of water, sanitation and hygiene services (International Organization for Migration et al., 2019). While world leaders and governments try to develop a peaceful solution to the Rohingya conflict in Myanmar before displace populations can begin to return home, it is vital in the interim period that living conditions for the refugees living in Bangladesh are improved. Lessons from past failings can help guide future policies, and allows stakeholders to steer the current situation from a state of disaster response to a state of recovery.
The Evolution of Dust Mass in the Ejecta of SN1987A
Creators: name: Dwek, Eli
name: Arendt, Richard G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new analysis of the infrared (IR) emission from the ejecta of SN1987A covering days 615, 775, 1144, 8515, and 9090 after the explosion. We show that the observations are consistent with the rapid formation of about 0.4 Msun of dust, consisting of mostly silicates, near day 615, and evolving to about 0.45 Msun of composite dust grains consisting of ~0.4 Msun of silicates and ~ 0.05 Msun of amorphous carbon after day ~8500. The proposed scenario challenges previous claims that dust in SN ejecta is predominantly carbon, and that it grew from an initial mass of ~1e-3 Msun, to over 0.5 Msun by cold accretion. It alleviates several problems with previous interpretations of the data: (1) it reconciles the abundances of silicon, magnesium, and carbon with the upper limits imposed by nucleosynthesis calculations; (2) it eliminates the requirement that most of the dust observed around day 9000 grew by cold accretion onto the1e-3 Msun of dust previously inferred for days 615 and 775 after the explosion; and (3) establishes the dominance of silicate over carbon dust in the SN ejecta. At early epochs, the IR luminosity of the dust is powered by the radioactive decay of 56Co, and at late times by at least (1.3-1.6)e-4 Msun 44Ti. Even if only a fraction greater than ~10% of the silicate dust survives the injection into the ISM, the observations firmly establish the role of core collapse SNe as the major source of thermally condensed silicate dust in the universe.
description: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal. The manuscript has 10 pages, 6 figures, and 4 tables
Exports and productivity in Germany
Creators: name: Wagner, Joachim
Publisher: name: Medien- und Informationszentrum, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Export
subject: Productivity
subject: Micro Data
subject: Germany
subject: Produktivität
subject: Personenbezogene Daten
subject: Deutschland
classificationCode: 330
subject: 330 Wirtschaft

description: Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality longitudinal data at the plant level, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It applies and extends the now standard approach from the international literature to document that the positive productivity differential of exporters compared to non-exporters is statistically significant, and substantial, even when observed firm characteristics and unobserved firm specific effects are controlled for. For West German plants (but not for East German plants) some empirical evidence for self-selection of more productive firms into export markets is found. There is no evidence for the hypothesis that plants which start to export perform better in the three years after the start than their counterparts which do not start to sell their products on the world market. Results for West Germany support the hypothesis that the productivity differential between exporters and nonexporters is at least in part the result of a market driven selection process in which those export starters that have low productivity at starting time fail as a successful exporter in the years after the start, and only those that were more productive at starting time continue to export.
Extending Science Engagement through NC State's Extension Cooperative
Creators: name: Mentnech, Tisha
name: Fox, Hillary
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Life Sciences
subject: Library and Information Science
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: extension
subject: library
subject: needs assessment

description: This study will investigate the current library services and needs of our Cooperative Extension stakeholders and explore the ways that this can be further developed through collaborative research and development with our Extension colleagues. The major goal of this effort will be to assess the NC State University Libraries’ connections with our 101 Extension offices. We will have the opportunity to research and develop alongside Extension staff to create Libraries support tailored to their unique needs. The study will support the development and deployment of an extension wide survey and follow-up interviews to better understand the current gaps and needs that extension faculty and staff experience. The responses will then allow the authors to participate in evidence-based decision making as we work to develop support for Cooperative Extension staff and faculty.
Open for Climate Justice: A Brief Overview of Digital Library on Green Mobility
Creators: name: Das, Anup Kumar Das
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Climate Justice
Green Mobility
Open Access
Open Science
India
Open Access Week 2022
Open Access Week

description: Department of Library and Information Science, Central University of Tamil Nadu, India organizes an invited lecture every year in relation to International Open Access Week. This year CUTN invited Dr. Anup Kumar Das to share his views on "Open for Climate Justice", the theme of International Open Access Week 2022. The webinar was scheduled for 26th October 2022. #OpenAccessWeek2022 #OAWeek2022 #OpenforClimateJustice
Upgrade rate of Pure Flat Epithelial Atypia Diagnosed on Core Needle Biopsy: Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis
Creators: name: Wahab, Rifat
name: Lee, Su-Ju
name: Zhang, Bin
name: Mulligan, Margaret
name: Mahoney, Mary
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Radiology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Medical Specialties
subject: Breast core needle biopsy
subject: Flat epithelial atypia
subject: Upgrade to invasive breast cancer

description: To perform a systematic review and meta-analysis to calculate the pooled upgrade rate of pure flat epithelial atypia diagnosed at core needle breast biopsy.
Geographische Restrukturierung internationaler Wertschöpfungsketten - Standortentscheidungen von KMU aus regionalökonomischer Perspektive
Creators: name: Kranich, Jan
name: Ott, Ingrid
Publisher: name: Medien- und Informationszentrum, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Vertical Linkages
subject: Technology
subject: Wirtschaftsgeographie
subject: Wertschöpfungskette
subject: Technologie
classificationCode: 330
subject: 330 Wirtschaft

description: Die ökonomischen Implikationen einer verstärkten Migration deutscher Unternehmen nach Osteuropa und Asien werden derzeit intensiv diskutiert. Wichtige wirtschaftliche Akteure sind KMU des verarbeitenden Gewerbes, die zum einen Elemente komplexer Wertschöpfungsketten bilden, zum anderen häufig durch Produktdifferenzierung die Märkte jeder Lieferstufe gestalten. Das vorliegende Papier soll in dieser Diskussion einen Beitrag aus Sicht der Neuen Ökonomischen Geographie leisten. In einem partialanalytischen Modell wird untersucht, welchen Einfluss das Spannungsfeld von Produktions- und Transportkosten auf die Standortwahl der Unternehmen ausübt und welche Parameterkonstellationen industrielle Agglomeration fördern bzw. behindern. In diesem Zuge wird das Modell von Venables (1996) um standortdifferenzierte Technologien erweitert und im Rahmen einer Simulation auf Unternehmen des metallerzeugenden und -verarbeitenden Gewerbes übertragen.
One-Loop quantum gravity in the Einstein universe
Creators: name: Avramidi, Ivan G.
name: Collopy, Samuel J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81T20, 81T28

description: We study quantum gravity with the Einstein-Hilbert action including the cosmological constant on the Euclidean Einstein universe $S^1\times S^3$. We compute exactly the spectra and the heat kernels of the relevant operators on $S^3$ and use these results to compute the heat trace of the graviton and ghost operators and the exact one-loop effective action on $S^1\times S^3$. We show that the system is unstable in the infrared limit due to the presence of the negative modes of the graviton and the ghost operators. We study the thermal properties of the model with the temperature $T=(2πa_1)^{-1}$ determined by the radius $a_1$ of the circle $S^1$. We show that the heat capacity $C_v$ is well defined and behaves like $\sim T^3$ in the high temperature limit and has a singularity of the type $\sim (T-T_c)^{-1}$, indicating a second-order phase transition, with the critical temperature $T_c$ determined by the cosmological constant $Λ$ and the radius $a$ of the sphere $S^3$. We also discuss some peculiar properties of the model such as the negative heat capacity as well as possible physical applications.
description: 50 pages, 2 figures; misprints in eqs. (5.114), (5.115), (5.181), (5.186), (5.187) corrected; final results not affected
A Master’s Paper submitted to the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Public Health in the Public Health Leadership Program
Creators: name: Hanna, Emily
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Background:The role of local health departments (LHDs) in addressing cancer prevention and control (CPC) is not well defined. Only general information about LHD services is described in the periodic national survey of LHDs conducted by the National Association of City and County Health Officials (NACCHO). The objective of this analysis is to describe the role and function of North Carolina (NC) LHDs in CPC.Methods:A survey of medical directors of NC LHDs (n= 85) was conducted between September and December 2018, to understand both the services provided by the LHD and medical director and the necessary training to provide those services. Nonrespondents received several reminders by email, and two phone call attempts were made to the health departments with no response to email reminders. The response rate was 70.6%. Results:Preventive counseling around tobacco cessation, nutrition, and physical activity is provided by 77.6%, 94.8%, and 82.8% of LHDs respectively, with 27.6%, 19.0%, 24.1% of LHDs having these services provided by medical directors directly either exclusively or along with other staff. Cancer screening is provided by 98.3% of LHDs. Mostcommonly is cervical cancer screening (98.3%), and other cancer screening (93.3%). In 51.7% of LHDs, screening is provided by medical directors directly.Conclusions:Cancer prevention activities are fairly common among NC LHDs, and cancer screening is almost universal. Comparing data from this survey of NC LHDs to the 2016 national NACCHO survey, rates of cancer screening may be higher in NC. Nationwide, 32% of LHD’s perform cancer screening; while our survey reports 98.2% do so. The NACCHO survey does not include comparable questions on cancer prevention services.
Perfectionism in the Corona-Crisis: The role of anticipatory appraisals in predicting affective responses in university students
Creators: name: Prestele, Elisabeth
name: Altstötter-Gleich, Christine
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: The present study is part of a larger project investigating the role of perfectionism for students cognitive and affective experience, self-control and performance from the beginning to the completion of their bachelor studies. Given the Corona crisis and the resulting transition from traditional attendance study to digital teaching represents a special challenge to university freshmen. In the present study we investigate the role of perfectionism in predicting anticipatory appraisal (threat, challenge, control expectation, self-confidence) of and discrete emotions (joy, relief, anxiety, anger) in response to the upcoming digital semester in second semester university students.
Higgs CP Violation from Vectorlike Quarks
Creators: name: Chen, Chien-Yi
name: Dawson, S.
name: Zhang, Yue
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore CP violating aspects in the Higgs sector of models where new vectorlike quarks carry Yukawa couplings mainly to the third generation quarks of the Standard Model. We point out that in the simplest model, Higgs CP violating interactions only exist in the hWW channel. At low energy, we find that rare B decays can place similarly strong constraints as those from electric dipole moments on the source of CP violation. These observations offer a new handle to discriminate from other Higgs CP violating scenarios such as scalar sector extensions of the Standard Model, and imply an interesting future interplay among limits from different experiments.
description: 19 pages, 5 figures
FAIRChemistry_Webinar01_09222022_Flyer
Creators: name: WorldFAIR Chemistry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Webinar, FAIR, Cheminformatics, Chemical Data

description: IUPAC WorldFAIR Chemistry Webinar “What is a chemical? Handling Chemical Data Across Disciplines". September 22, 2022
Workplace Violence in Health Care: Prevention Strategies For the Occupational Health Nurse
Creators: name: Rodriguez, Marisol
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Workplace violence in health care is a serious issue impacting health care delivery and quality.  Health care workers have been assaulted at increasing rates over the past decade with only serious incidents making a presence in the media when major incidents such as shootings occur.  The more frequently endured incidents of violent assaults and harassment go unnoticed by the public.  This hazard is recognized differently across the United States with disproportionate severity of regulations per state.  The lack of regulatory requirements influences how health care institutions address the problem, with health care administrators taking varying actions on these incidents and with variable priority in their institutions. Following a workplace violence event, institutional policies may not encourage workers to recognize the assaults as serious and may excuse incidents as part of their job duties.  Reporting methods may vary based on institution and follow up may be lacking.  Post-event follow up may include: pressing charges which is rarely performed; emotional support to help workers through the traumatic event but this may be insufficient to prevent long term damage; and employee discontent with their organization resulting in employee turnover.  Occupational health nurses are equipped with skills and abilities that can make them integral in identifying workplace violence hazards, participating in workplace education, generating policy revision, supporting reporting protocol, and providing post-event emotional support, all essential aspects of a comprehensive workplace violence prevention program.
Exploring N-rich phases in LixNy clusters for hydrogen storage at nano-scale
Creators: name: Bhattacharya, Amrita
name: Bhattacharya, Saswata
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have performed cascade genetic algorithm and ab initio atomistic thermodynamics under the framework of first-principles density functional theory to study the (meta-)stability of a wide range of LixNy clusters. We found that hybrid xc-functional is essential to address this problem as a local/semi-local functional simply fails even to predict a qualitative prediction. Most importantly, we find that though in bulk Lithium Nitride, Li rich phase, i.e. Li3N, is the stable stoichiometry, in small LixNy clusters N-rich phases are more stable at thermodynamic equilibrium. We further show a that these N-rich clusters are promising hydrogen storage material because of their easy adsorption and desorption ability at respectively low (< 300K) and moderately high temperature (> 600K).
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
An Analysis of Aggregated Community Health Assessments in North Carolina
Creators: name: Rodriguez, Timothy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: There is no existing process or current research efforts that summarize the local health priorities found in the accreditation-mandated Community Health Assessments across North Carolina. This paper proposes a method for aggregating and analyzing multiple CHAs and specifically reviews CHAs from all 100 counties in NC from recent years. The method involves a process that collects CHAs, standardizes each included set of health priorities, balances and weights the priorities, and provides analysis of the summarized results using various variables relevant to public health leaders for the purposes of health improvement planning. The health priorities most reported by local counties across NC were Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity; Substance Abuse; Access to Health Services; and Mental Health. The results from this method of analysis are pertinent to public health leaders for the purposes of state and regional health improvement planning.
Protocol - Fluoroquinolones and the risk of aortic aneurysm or dissection: systematic review
Creators: name: Caldeira, Daniel
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Amoxicillin
subject: Aneurysm
subject: Aorta
subject: Aortic aneurysm
subject: Aortic dissection
subject: Aortic rupture
subject: Beta-lactams
subject: Ciprofloxacin
subject: Fluoroquinolones
subject: Levofloxacin
subject: meta-analysis
subject: systematic review

description: **Type of project:** Systematic review **Principal Investigator and guarantor:** Daniel Caldeira, MD, PhD. **Institution:** Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. Departments: CCUL - Centro Cardiovascular da Universidade de Lisboa; Laboratory of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. *Project aimed to be the Master Thesis of Nuno Vouga Ribeiro (Medicine Student)* Funding: None. ---------- **PICOS data:** Patients: All patients Intervention: Fluoroquinolones Comparator/Control: No fluoroquinolones / beta-lactams Outcome: Risk orf aortic disease (aneurysm/dissection) Study design: Randomized controlled trials; Controlled longitudinal observational studies ---------- **Brief Methodological and Statistical Analysis Plan:** Databases for Search: MEDLINE, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), Web of Science Core Collection Meta-analysis planned: Yes. Review Manager 5.3 and/or STATA 12 Risk of Bias evaluation: Cochrane RoB tool 2.0 and ROBINS-I Pooled data confidence evaluation: GRADE. ---------- **Milestones:** Project Initiation: March 2019 Literature Search Date: March 2019 Expected Project end: April/May 2020
MPEC 2024-R108 : 2024 RO3
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 RO3

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Assessing Sexual Health and Healthy Relationships at Duke University: An Analysis of Quantitative Survey Methods and Design
Creators: name: Dooley, Caitlin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Assessment is a valuable tool often used by public health practitioners to better understand the context and scope of health issues plaguing the populations in which they serve. Practitioners working in the field of sexual health on college campuses face barriers to fully understanding the extent of attitudes, motivations and behaviors surrounding student sexual activity. A quality assessment tool is vital to procuring this information for practitioners. Practitioners use findings to identify the sexual health needs of students on campus and conceptualize and implement effective solutions that target these needs. A review of a current sexual health assessment tool used at Duke University revealed opportunities for quality improvement in the survey design.  Assessments that lack quality survey designs are inefficient or incapable of collecting the data practitioners need. This paper reviews evidence to help redefine the purpose of sexual health assessment at Duke University. Core attributes of gold-standard survey design including validity, reliability, accuracy, and relevancy are applied in the development of a new quality assessment tool. In submitting the tool to an assessment analysis in which standards of quality are critically reviewed, preliminary conclusions identify several quality indicators within the tool. The product of this activity is a quality survey instrument that better meets the sexual health assessment needs of DuWell at Duke University. The new survey will aid practitioners in understanding the full context and scope of sexual activity and behaviors on campus for the purpose of developing appropriate response strategies.
Nitrogen and boron doped carbon layer coated multiwall carbon nanotubes as high performance anode materials for lithium ion batteries
Creators: name: Liu, Bo
name: Sun, Xiaolei
name: Liao, Zhongquan
name: Lu, Xueyi
name: Zhang, Lin
name: Hao, Guang-Ping
Publisher: name: London : Nature Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Energy storage
subject: Materials for energy and catalysis
subject: Materials science
subject: Nanoscale materials
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik

description: Lithium ion batteries (LIBs) are at present widely used as energy storage and conversion device in our daily life. However, due to the limited power density, the application of LIBs is still restricted in some areas such as commercial vehicles or heavy-duty trucks. An effective strategy to solve this problem is to increase energy density through the development of battery materials. At the same time, a stable long cycling battery is a great demand of environmental protection and industry. Herein we present our new materials, nitrogen and boron doped carbon layer coated multiwall carbon nanotubes (NBC@MWCNTs), which can be used as anodes for LIBs. The electrochemical results demonstrate that the designed NBC@MWCNTs electrode possesses high stable capacity over an ultra-long cycling lifespan (5000 cycles) and superior rate capability even at very high current density (67.5 A g−1). Such impressive lithium storage properties could be ascribed to the synergistic coupling effect of the distinctive structural features, the reduced diffusion length of lithium ions, more active sites generated by doped atoms for lithium storage, as well as the enhancement of the electrode structural integrity. Taken together, these results indicate that the N, B-doped carbon@MWCNTs materials may have great potential for applications in next-generation high performance rechargeable batteries.
Mechanochemically induced solid-state transformations of levofloxacin
Creators: name: Kadri, Lena
name: Carta, Maria
name: Lampronti, Giulio
name: Delogu, Francesco
name: Tajber, Lidia
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Levofloxacin hemihydrate (LVXh) is a complex fluoroquinolone drug that exists in both hydrated and anhydrous/ dehydrated forms. Due to the complexity of such a compound, the primary aim of this study was to investigate the amorphization capabilities and solid-state transformations of LVXh when exposed to mechanical treatment using ball milling. Spray drying was utilized as a comparative method for investigating the capabilities of complete LVX amorphous (LVXam) formation. The solid states of the samples produced were comprehensively characterized by powder X-ray diffraction, thermal analysis, infrared spectroscopy, Rietveld method, and dynamic vapor sorption. The kinetics of the process and the quantification of phases at different time points were conducted by Rietveld refinement. The impact of the different mills, milling conditions, and parameters on the composition of the resulting powders was examined. A kinetic investigation of samples produced using both mills disclosed that it was in fact possible to partially amorphize LVXh upon mechanical treatment. It was discovered that LVXh first transformed to the anhydrous/dehydrated form γ (LVXγ), as an intermediate phase, before converting to LVXam. The mechanism of LVXam formation by ball milling was successfully revealed, and a new method of forming LVXγ and LVXam by mechanical forces was developed. Spray drying from water depicted that complete amorphization of LVXh was possible. The amorphous form of LVX had a glass transition temperature of 80 °C. The comparison of methods highlighted that the formation of LVXam is thus both mechanism- and process-dependent. Dynamic vapor sorption studies of both LVXam samples showed comparable stability properties and crystallized to the most stable hemihydrate form upon analysis. In summary, this work contributed to the detailed understanding of solid-state transformations of essential fluoroquinolones while employing greener and more sustainable manufacturing methods.
Bridging the Reproductive Health Gap Between the Humanitarian and Development Nexus
Creators: name: Barrow, Flora
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Approximately one in four individuals requiring humanitarian assistance are women of reproductive age (15–49). A minimum standard was established to address reproductive health in humanitarian settings (RHHS), but RHHS still remains a largely unmet need. This systematic review intends to update readers on current RHHS practices and programs; discuss the impediments to bridging short-term humanitarian responses and long-term development strategies; and provide recommendations for human-development focused, non-governmental organization leaders to better address reproductive health (RH) and family planning (FP) in humanitarian crises. The systematic review included peer-reviewed, quantitative evaluations of RH programs in humanitarian or crisis settings reporting outcome data published in English between January 2014 and March 2019. Ten papers set in five countries met the outlined inclusion criteria from a total of 684 papers identified through the Africa-Wide Information, Academic Search Premier, and Global Health databases. Four papers reported on family planning programs and six on maternal and newborn health (MNH). Evidence from the evaluations reported sexual and reproductive health (SRH) interventions that strengthen existing health system care delivery, apply quality improvement (QI) methodologies, and use of community health worker home-visits to increase SRH knowledge and use of services. Effective coordination is necessary to bridge the recovery gap between humanitarian relief and development. The relatively narrow RHHS literature base highlights the need for further generation of evidence to identify best practices and inform future program implementation. Human development non-governmental organizations have an opportunity to bridge the humanitarian relief and development nexus gap by increasing their internal capacity and expanding their expertise to humanitarian settings.
Electrodynamics of the antiferromagnetic phase in URu$_2$Si$_2$
Creators: name: Hall, Jesse S.
name: Movassagh, M. Rahimi
name: Wilson, M. N.
name: Luke, G. M.
name: Kanchanavatee, N.
name: Huang, K.
name: Janoschek, M.
name: Maple, M. B.
name: Timusk, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present data on the optical conductivity of URu$_{2-x}$(Fe,Os)$_{x}$Si$_{2}$. While the parent material URu$_2$Si$_2$ enters the enigmatic hidden order phase below 17.5 K, an antiferromagnetic phase is induced by the substitution of Fe or Os onto the Ru sites. We find that both the HO and the AFM phases exhibit an identical gap structure that is characterized by a loss of conductivity below the gap energy with spectral weight transferred to a narrow frequency region just above the gap, the typical optical signature of a density wave. The AFM phase is marked by strong increases in both transition temperature and the energy of the gap associated with the transition. In the normal phase just above the transition the optical scattering rate varies as $ω^2$. We find that in both the HO and the AFM phases, our data are consistent with elastic resonant scattering of a Fermi liquid. This indicates that the appearance of a coherent state is a necessary condition for either ordered phase to emerge. Our measurements favor models in which the HO and the AFM phases are driven by the common physics of a nesting-induced density-wave-gap.
Hittite Monuments Site Index (HMSI)
Creators: name: Rutishauser, Susanne
name: Bätscher, Fabrizio
name: Heim, Joëlle
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The Hittite Monuments Site Index (HMSI) is based on information from the website Hittite Monuments (https://www.hittitemonuments.com/), maintained by Tayfun Bilgin. This digital humanities project aims to provide visual references to all major Hittite/Neo-Hittite period stone monuments in a Turkish and English version. A brief description, photographs and bibliographical references make this data collection an essential up-to-date reference work. For the Hittite Monuments Site Index (HMSI) the information available on the website Hittite Monuments was recorded in a table, provided with a standardised object description and thus published on the repository zenodo as the Hittite Monuments Site Index (HMSI). Columns: OID: object ID.
 Name: site name.
 Period: Empire Period; Neo-Hittite Period.
 Type:
 mobile object: base (bull-base; lion-base; sphinx-base); building inscription; orhostat; statue (bull-man; portal-bull; portal-lion; portal-sphinx; storm-god; winged-genie); stele.
 immobile object: complex; rock inscription; rock relief.
 further details: image; inscription.
 condition: fragment.
 iconography: altar; bull; deity; Enki; funerary-stele; Giglamesh; king; Kubaba; lion; mountain-god; queen; sphinx; stag-god; storm-god.
 language: aramaic; assyrian; greek; hittite; luwian; phoenician; roman; 0 [=no inscription].
 link: URL of the website Hittite Monuments.
 accuracy of point: certain; representative; tentative.
 x: longitude coordinate (WGS 84)
 y: coordinate latitude coordinate (WGS 84)
 museum: current location (museum name; in situ)
 dimension: in cm
 in situ: yes; no; ?
Hittite Monuments Site Index (HMSI)
Creators: name: Rutishauser, Susanne
name: Bätscher, Fabrizio
name: Heim, Joëlle
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The Hittite Monuments Site Index (HMSI) is based on information from the website Hittite Monuments (https://www.hittitemonuments.com/), maintained by Tayfun Bilgin. This digital humanities project aims to provide visual references to all major Hittite/Neo-Hittite period stone monuments in a Turkish and English version. A brief description, photographs and bibliographical references make this data collection an essential up-to-date reference work. For the Hittite Monuments Site Index (HMSI) the information available on the website Hittite Monuments was recorded in a table, provided with a standardised object description and thus published on the repository zenodo as the Hittite Monuments Site Index (HMSI). A short article about the HMSI was published in the journal Antike Welt 02/2023 (https://wbg-zeitschriften.de/produkt/die-neohethiter/). Columns OID: object ID.
 Name: site name.
 Period: Empire Period; Neo-Hittite Period.
 Type:
 mobile object: base (bull-base; lion-base; sphinx-base); building inscription; orhostat; statue (bull-man; portal-bull; portal-lion; portal-sphinx; storm-god; winged-genie); stele.
 immobile object: complex; rock inscription; rock relief.
 further details: image; inscription.
 condition: fragment.
 iconography: altar; bull; deity; Enki; funerary-stele; Giglamesh; king; Kubaba; lion; mountain-god; queen; sphinx; stag-god; storm-god.
 language: aramaic; assyrian; greek; hittite; luwian; phoenician; roman; 0 [=no inscription].
 link: URL of the website Hittite Monuments.
 accuracy of point: certain; representative; tentative.
 x: longitude coordinate (WGS 84)
 y: coordinate latitude coordinate (WGS 84)
 museum: current location (museum name; in situ)
 dimension: in cm
 in situ: yes; no; ?
WorldFAIR Chemistry: FAIR-enabling resources
Creators: name: McEwen, Leah
name: Bruno, Ian
name: Chalk, Stuart
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This presentation was delivered at the FAIR Convergence Symposium (24-26 October) which took place hybrid in Leiden 2022: European City of Science. The 2nd FAIR Convergence Symposium (24-26 October) was co-organized by CODATA and GO FAIR. The event explored the contention that the FAIR guiding principles to enhance the machine actionability of data and other information. Along with the other five case studies, the chemistry case discussed how they created their FAIR Implementation Profiles (FIPs) and offered reflections on what they learned from the process, whether using FIPs helped describe FAIR practices, whether the FIP helped identify any gaps or areas that would benefit from further attention, how the FIPs methodology and the tools associated with it can be improved, and how they determined their next steps. *WorldFAIR “Global cooperation on FAIR data policy and practice” is funded by the EC HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01-41 Coordination and Support Action under Grant Agreement No. 101058393
Interaction between the two sides of the brain in chronic pain
Creators: name: Di Pietro, Flavia
name: Berryman, Carolyn
name: Hordacre, Brenton
name: Stanton, Tasha
name: Moseley, G.
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: We propose that something grossly ignored thus far in CRPS is the concept that the two sides of the brain are not communicating in the way they should. Control of movement and accurate processing of sensory information relies on functional pathways between the brain’s two hemispheres (Geffen, Jones et al. 1994, Seyal, Ro et al. 1995). We have compelling evidence from the CRPS literature to date, including important work of our own, to suggest that this chronic limb disorder – so characterised by neglect-like dysfunction in movement and sensation - usually on one side – can be explained by disruption in the delicate balance in and between sensory and motor systems. We propose to investigate interaction, specifically inhibition, between the hemispheres of the brain in CRPS for the first time.
Comparison of the efficiency and safety of RCHOP-14 versus RCHOP-21 for aggressive or advanced stage indolent B-cell Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma treatment：a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Chen, Guoan
name: HE, Yue
name: Tao, Wenqiang
name: Lu, Wei
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: aggressive
subject: a systematic review
subject: B-cell lymphoma
subject: indolent
subject: meta-analysis
subject: RCHOP

description: Objective: This study aims to verify the efficacy and toxicity of RCHOP-14 versus RCHOP-21 for patients with aggressive or advanced stage indolent B-cell NHL. Methods: To verify the befitting chemotherapy regimens for B-cell NHL patients，we searched the electronic databases for relevant English-language literature published through January 2020. The primary outcomes were complete response(CR),progression-free survival (PFS), overall survival(OS), and Adverse events (AEs). Six eligible Phase II and III clinical randomized controlled trials（RCTs）and two high-quality observational comparative studies (OCSs)were extracted, and 5565 patients involved in evaluable.Results:The analysis demonstrated no significant difference for CR rate (OR= 0.98,95%CI 0.77-1.24，P=0.85)between RCHOP-14 and RCHOP-21. Compared with RCHOP-21, the merged hazard ratio (HR) for PFS and OS was, respectively, 0.94 (95% CI: 0.84-1.06, P=0.32) and 0.91(95% CI: 0.83-1.01, P= 0.08) after treatment with RCHOP-14.A subgroup analysis based on the international prognostic index(IPI) score showed that both chemotherapy regimens were applicable in B-cell NHL patients with different prognosis. The frequency of toxic side-effects was similar between schemes. Conclusions:The efficacy and safety of both regimens are comparable,so the regimen should be selected individually demands.
MPEC 2024-R109 : 2024 RP3
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 RP3

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Developing a Crisis and Emergency Risk Communications Plan:  A Formative Evaluation of the Durham County, North Carolina Emergency Communications Program.
Creators: name: Ovenden, Andrew
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Preparedness prior to a disaster and how individuals respond to an emergency is largely dependent upon the information provided to the community before, during and after the crisis occurs. Crisis and emergency risk communications (CERC) has evolved throughout the post-9/11 era to formalize how emergency managers approach how the public are notified of impending risks and the protective actions they can take to mitigate those risks. Communication has also evolved that allows for two-way communications via social media. Emergency managers can now gain situational awareness from the public while targeting messages to affected communities. However, technology changes have consequences such that populations who already face health disparities may not receive communications before or during an emergency. Best practices have emerged in the CERC literature that can inform both the process and content of emergency messages, and to help emergency managers recognize gaps in local emergency communications plans. Methods: A mixed methods analysis was performed including (1) a literature review of best practices in CERC; (2) Personal interviews were conducted from a “snowball sample” of stakeholders involved with delivering crisis and emergency risk communications, media, and community outreach. Interviews focused upon stakeholders’ recent experience in emergency communications, and challenges with recent emergencies that occurred within the past year.; (3) an analysis of outgoing AlertDurham emergency messages were compared to best practices found in CERC literature. Conclusions: Best practices literature suggest that emergency message content cannot be considered separately from the messaging process. Challenges that arose during preparation and response to recent emergencies might have been mitigated through adherence to various “best practices” that would allow emergency managers to evaluate communications plans. The most common theme arising from the interviews suggested a need for strong leadership well ahead of emergencies to formalize and unify the communications process between government agencies. Leadership outreach efforts in the community would also allow for emergency managers to assess communication needs and build and maintain trust among segments of the community. Lastly, innovative technology and social media are useful tools for emergency messaging but also carry significant risks and considerations.