cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Gioco, tecnologia e apprendimento: un esempio di approccio ludico per lo studio dell’arte contemporanea nella scuola primaria
Creators: name: Nisdeo, Michela
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2014

description: L’educazione all’arte contemporanea costituisce una dimensione spesso trascurata nelle scuole italiane. Il legame tra tecnologie digitali, dimensione ludica e arte può costituire un’interessante prospettiva da indagare. In questa direzione il contributo presenta un’esperienza relativa all’opera di Gino Marotta, un artista italiano, realizzata in una scuola primaria. L’aspetto che viene sottolineato è la relazione tra laboratori, attività online e giochi da un lato e risorse museali dall’altro.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2014): Instructional design e game-based learning
High resolution imaging of NGC 2346 with GSAOI/GeMS: disentangling the planetary nebula molecular structure to understand its origin and evolution
Creators: name: Manchado, Arturo
name: Stanghellini, Letizia
name: Villaver, Eva
name: Garcia-Segura, Guillermo
name: Shaw, Richard A.
name: Garcia-Hernandez, D. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present high spatial resolution ($\approx$ 60--90 milliarcseconds) images of the molecular hydrogen emission in the Planetary Nebula (PN) NGC 2346. The data were acquired during the System Verification of the Gemini Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics System + Gemini South Adaptive Optics Imager. At the distance of NGC 2346, 700 pc, the physical resolution corresponds to $\approx$ 56 AU, which is slightly higher than that an [N II] image of NGC 2346 obtained with HST/WFPC2. With this unprecedented resolution we were able to study in detail the structure of the H$_2$ gas within the nebula for the first time. We found it to be composed of knots and filaments, which at lower resolution had appeared to be a uniform torus of material. We explain how the formation of the clumps and filaments in this PN is consistent with a mechanism in which a central hot bubble of nebular gas surrounding the central star has been depressurized, and the thermal pressure of the photoionized region drives the fragmentation of the swept-up shell.
description: accepted in ApJ (17 pages, 7 figures, 1 Table)
Richard E. Mayer, Computer Games for Learning. An Evidence-Based Approach. Cambridge & London: The MIT Press (2014).
Creators: name: Pellegrini, Marta
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2014

description: Recensione.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2014): Instructional design e game-based learning
Bayesian statistics study of a sustainable dissolution of cobalt bearing minerals from Cu-Co ores
Creators: name: Mbuya, Bienvenu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Chemical engineering not elsewhere classified
Separation technologies
Chemical engineering design

description: The present paper discusses the dissolution of cobalt bearing minerals from a copper-cobalt ore using probabilistic models where a priori and a posteriori knowledges on leaching are used to predict the dissolution of cobalt bearing minerals in a sulfuric acid medium in the presence of a reducing agent. Priorily, the dissolution of cobalt bearing minerals depends on their mineralogy, leading to the use of FeSO4 as a reducing agent of the trivalent (Co3+) form of cobalt (CoOOH). A posteriori, the dissolution of Co3+ is improved by the presence of ferrous ions resulting from the dissolution of Fe-bearing minerals, including Fe from Co(Fe)OOH. The results showed that the predictive oriented probabilistic graphic models based on the Bayesian approach, in combination with the design of experiments data, made it possible to model the leaching of cobalt bearing minerals. The results from the design of experiment using the experimental tree methodology associated with the optimization of the multiple responses, in a multiple input for a multiple output set – up derived the following optimised parameters: 60°C for the temperature (T), 850 rpm for the agitation, 40% for the solid percentage, 1.5 for the pH and 4 g/L for the concentration of the Fe2+ ion. The cobalt dissolution yield obtained was 89.95%. The analysis of the dependence between the random variables only (P(Fe2+|T), P(pH|T), P(Fe2+|pH)), of the dependence between the random variables and the responses (P(Co-yield | pH, Eh)) allowed the construction of two Bayesian networks, respectively with and without posterior knowledge. For the Bayesian network with posteriori knowledge, the {5-2} structure was found as the most appropriate arrangement. The model predicted cobalt yield value and the experimental value indicated a correlation coefficients (R2) of 0.861.
Supported Imidazolium Based Ionic Liquids on a Polysulfone Matrix for Enhanced CO2 Capture
Creators: name: Domingo, David
name: Gual, Aitor
name: Garcia-Valls, Ricard
name: De Los Bernardos, Míriam Díaz
name: Nogalska, Adrianna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: SunCoChem-based poster exhibited by partners from Eurecat during the 15th Mediterranean Congress in Chemical Engineering (MECCE), organised as part of the Expoquimia Chemical Industry fair and celebrated from 30th May – 2nd June, 2023, in Barcelona.
Franco Landriscina, Simulation and Learning. New York: Springer (2013).
Creators: name: Menichetti, Laura
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2014

description: Recensione.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2014): Instructional design e game-based learning
DataFolha Survey: Evaluation of Maluf; 7 Months in Office
Creators: name: DataFolha Institute Of Research
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2013

description: Paulo Maluf job performance (1); Municipal Council job performance (1); preferred political party (1); Carlos Alberto Parreira job performance (1); Parreira replacement (1); Brazil making World Cup playoffs (1); ways to improve soccer skills (1); best soccer player (1); worst soccer player (1); rating Brazil vs. Venezuela match (1); rating Carlos Alberto Parreira (1).
Instructional design e game-based learning.
Creators: name: Bonaiuti, Giovanni
name: Bruni, Filippo
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2014

description: Editoriale.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2014): Instructional design e game-based learning
Thermopower enhancement from engineering the Na$_{0.7}$CoO$_2$ interacting fermiology via Fe doping
Creators: name: Richter, Raphael
name: Shopova, Denitsa
name: Xie, Wenjie
name: Weidenkaff, Anke
name: Lechermann, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The sodium cobaltate system Na$_{x}$CoO$_2$ is a prominent representant of strongly correlated materials with promising thermoelectric response. In a combined theoretical and experimental study we show that by doping the Co site of the compound at $x$=0.7 with iron, a further increase of the Seebeck coefficient is achieved. The Fe defects give rise to effective hole doping in the high-thermopower region of larger sodium content $x$. Originally filled hole pockets in the angular-resolved spectral function of the Fe-free material shift to low energy when introducing Fe, leading to a multi-sheet interacting Fermi surface. Because of the higher sensitivity of correlated materials to doping, introducing adequate substitutional defects is thus a promising route to manipulate their thermopower.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, revised version, additional data
Hispanic Safety in the Workplace: Higher Fatality and Injury Rates Among Hispanic Population
Creators: name: Johnson, Shelly, RN, BSN, COHN-S
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: The purpose of this paper is to review the higher fatality and injury rate in the Hispanic population in the United States (US) whether legal immigrants, citizens, or illegal immigrants; to review the current government and private industry regulations and safety programs; to propose additional legislation or programs; and to describe the role of the occupational and environmental health nurse in reducing injuries and fatalities in this population. This paper will review recommendations from unions and national conference participants on action items proposed to reduce workplace injuries for the Hispanic population. A summary of these recommendations include strengthening and expanding OSHA's enforcement role, strengthening existing labor laws, and recommending strategies to provide outreach and training to the Hispanic population.
Optical meta-atom for localization of light with quantized energy
Creators: name: Lannebère, Sylvain
name: Silveirinha, Mário G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The capacity to confine light into a small region of space is of paramount importance in many areas of modern science. Here, we suggest a mechanism to store a quantized "bit" of light - with a very precise amount of energy - in an open core-shell plasmonic structure ("meta-atom") with a nonlinear optical response. Notwithstanding the trapped light state is embedded in the radiation continuum, its lifetime is not limited by the radiation loss. Interestingly, it is shown that the interplay between the nonlinear response and volume plasmons enables breaking fundamental reciprocity restrictions, and coupling very efficiently an external light source to the meta-atom. The collision of an incident optical pulse with the meta-atom may be used to release the trapped radiation "bit".
description: Article in press in Nature Communications (29/09/2015). Attached: Supplementary Movies 1 and 2 (small size version)
MIT TEEPS BCD Study: European Public Affairs 1965
Creators: name: Massachussetts Institute Of Technology
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2013

description: Action toward Chinese nuclear weapons (1); British ally to hamper world affairs (1); most important organizations to Britain (6); most powerful nations by end of century (3); importance of Anglo-American relations (1); method of arms negotiations (1); country responsible for divided situation (1); communist Britain (1); spread of economic aid (1); development of Cold War (1); future alignment of communist parties (1); new weapons affecting American protection of Europe (2); source of political problems (1); banning nuclear weapons (1); threat of Russia (1); Sino-Russian rift (1); current most powerful nations (6); forming larger economic community (1); American dollar problem (3); influences on American foreign policy (1); racial alignment of communist parties (1); likelihood of disarmament agreement (1); Britain reducing commonwealth ties (2); country to suffer from differences (1); communist vs. western worlds (1); integrating British troops in international body (3); North Atlantic Treaty Organization strength (2); importance of Commonwealth (1); leading country (1); living in foreign country (1); type of danger (1); British military significance (1); German role in NATO (1); Common Market counterpoise in foreign nations (2); auspices for atomic energy (1); France maintaining deterrent plans (1); Polaris System (1); preferential terms for underdeveloped countries (2); Sino-Soviet victor (1); European Defense Council (2); Charles de Gaulles affecting American leadership (1); British ownership of ballistic missiles (2); multi-national political force (2); British manufacturing nuclear weapons (2); Britain independent position (2); British force (1); French military significance (2); German reunification (1); weakened alliance (1); international council for atomic energy (1); limiting sovereignty (1); pooling armaments (1).
Plant Wilting Estimation And Field-Based Plot Extraction
Creators: name: Yang, Changye
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 400899
subject: Electrical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Plant phenotyping is the process of characterization and quantification of physical traits
of plants such as height, leaf area, biomass, wilting degree, or flowering time. Many plants
become limp or droop through heat, loss of water, or disease. This is also known as wilting.
In this thesis, we propose multiple quantifiable wilting metrics that will be useful in studying
bacterial wilt and identifying resistance genes. In order to obtain the wilting metrics, we use
machine learning methods to identify the center of the stem. We also propose a fast ground
truthing method to speed up training data generation. We test our metrics on both tomato
plants and soybean plants with wilting caused by either bacteria or drought. We successfully
demonstrated that our metrics are effective at estimating wilting in plants.
Field experiments often comprise thousands of plants. For many Unmanned Aerial Vehi-
cles (UAVs) image-based plant phenotyping analyses, we need to examine smaller groups of
plants known as ”plots”. We propose a method to extract plots from images acquired from
UAVs. In addition, we proposed a system that will allow us to combine our plot extraction
results with field data such as plant ID, plant genotype, and experiment type provided by
the planters. We also developed a method to generate synthetic plant center location data.
Perceptions of CVD Risk: A Focus Group Study of North Carolina African American Women
Creators: name: Mainor, Avia G.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Among women, African American women have a death rate for cardiovascular disease (CVD) almost four times higher than that of their Caucasian counterparts. Increased study of African American women's perception of risk is necessary to inform the development of effective intervention strategies to specifically address the barriers and challenges African American women face in reducing their risk for CVD. The Heart Talk perceptions project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill conducted ten focus groups with 115 African American women over the age 40. Participants associated CVD with risk factors such as having a family history of the disease, eating habits and being stressed. Likewise, participants considered themselves to be highly susceptible for heart disease compared to other women their age. Despite these recognitions, participants expressed the tendency to neglect their heart health because of competing priorities. A primary barrier cited during the discussions included the traditional cultural belief regarding women‟s role as primary caregiver for the family, which makes it difficult for African American women to place their health as a priority over the competing needs of their family.
title: Attitudes et connaissances infirmières en gestion de la douleur des patients adultes hospitalisés
title: Attitudes et connaissances infirmières en gestion de la douleur des patients adultes hospitalisés
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Maatouk Al-Sabbagh, Sami
name: Miazza, Félix
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Attitudes et connaissances infirmières
subject: Douleur
subject: Gestion de la douleur
subject: Évaluation de la douleur
subject: Milieu hospitalier
subject: Patients adultes
subject: hesav TB SI

description: Contexte : La douleur est une notion complexe que chaque individu est amené à expérimenter. C’est particulièrement le cas dans le milieu hospitalier où la douleur est très présente. Les infirmiers sont formés pour évaluer et traiter cette dernière en fonction des contextes et situations de soins. C’est notamment le cas pour les patients adultes hospitalisés. Objectifs : Identifier les domaines dans lesquels les infirmiers ont encore des lacunes concernant l’évaluation et la gestion de la douleur avec des patients adultes hospitalisés. Méthode : Une revue de littérature a été réalisée en utilisant deux bases de données, CINAHL et PubMed. Sept articles ont été sélectionnés et analysés en utilisant un tableau d'extraction. Les résultats clés de ces articles ont été regroupés et présentés dans la synthèse des résultats. Nous avons utilisé la théorie du Social Communication Model of Pain de Craig pour interpréter nos résultats dans la discussion. Résultats : Les articles relèvent un manque de connaissance des infirmiers concernant la gestion des traitements antalgique, surtout des opioïdes. Les infirmiers avec plus d’expérience ainsi que ceux avec un meilleur niveau de formation ont obtenu de meilleurs scores aux questionnaires évaluant les connaissances en gestion de la douleur. Finalement, le manque de formation continue a été relevé comme une barrière dans l’acquisition de compétences en gestion de la douleur par les infirmiers interrogés. Conclusion : La prise en charge de la douleur comporte de nombreux obstacles. Cependant, il existe des pistes d’amélioration tels que le renforcement de la formation et l’harmonisation des pratiques en matière de gestion de la douleur.
Reproduction of endangered Big-headed Turtle, Platysternon megacephalum (Reptilia: Testudines: Platysternidae)
Creators: name: Sung, Yik-Hei
name: Hau, Billy
name: Karraker, Nancy
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2014

description: The big-headed turtle (Platysternon megacephalum) is heavily harvested to support tremendous demands from food and pet markets, and thus its ecology remains poorly understood. The presence of self-sustaining populations in Hong Kong (22°09’-22°37’N, 113°50’-114°30’E) provides important opportunities to advance our understanding of this species. We employed mark-recapture surveying, radio-tracking of two gravid females, and directed streamside searches to document the reproductive ecology of the species between September 2009 and June 2011 in Hong Kong. We found seven gravid females between 20-27 June 2010 and 2011, and which subsequently oviposited on average three eggs (range 2-8), with mean length and width of 36 mm and 21 mm, in early July. There was positive correlation between the size of females and clutch sizes. We found one clutch in leaf litter 1.6 m away from the stream, which hatched between 14 to 18 October. The incubation period was estimated to be between 103 and 110 days. The results of this study provide important information to formulate conservation plan for this endangered species.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 9 No 2 (2014)
Almost even-Clifford hermitian manifolds with large automorphism group
Creators: name: Arizmendi, Gerardo
name: Herrera, Rafael
name: Santana, Noemi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study manifolds endowed with an (almost) even Clifford (hermitian) structure and admitting a large automorphism group. We classify them when they are simply connected and the dimension of the automorphism group is maximal, and also prove a gap theorem for the dimension of the automorphism group.
Dipping Tobacco in New England Boarding Schools
Creators: name: Orben, Andrea (Andi)
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Dipping tobacco usage among male New England (NE) boarding school students has been prevalent since the mid-1980s. This paper attempts to understand the history and present culture of dipping on NE boarding school campuses and to identify strategies for both preventative and discipline response measures. In addition, specific action steps for boarding school faculty and public health leaders are identified and presented. Due to the unique culture of NE boarding high schools and the characteristics of faculty and staff who work on these campuses, this paper was written using a colloquial tone to reach the audience that will have the greatest chance of benefiting from the paper’s content, the faculty and staff in NE boarding schools. Keywords: Dipping tobacco; smokeless tobacco; spitting tobacco; boarding school; adolescent health; school health
DEMO Survey # 1950-0035: Politics/German Army/Sources of News/Consumerism/Smoking
Creators: name: Institut Fuer Demoskopie Allensbach
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2015

description: Apartment (3); German army (5); Communist Party (1); Adenauer's policy (1); ration cards (1); money (4); living preference (1); periodical, magazine, weekly paper (6); laundry detergent (4); condensed milk (9); smoking (7); field of interest (1); religious denomination (1).
Understanding Symmetric Smoothing Filters: A Gaussian Mixture Model Perspective
Creators: name: Chan, Stanley H.
name: Zickler, Todd
name: Lu, Yue M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many patch-based image denoising algorithms can be formulated as applying a smoothing filter to the noisy image. Expressed as matrices, the smoothing filters must be row normalized so that each row sums to unity. Surprisingly, if we apply a column normalization before the row normalization, the performance of the smoothing filter can often be significantly improved. Prior works showed that such performance gain is related to the Sinkhorn-Knopp balancing algorithm, an iterative procedure that symmetrizes a row-stochastic matrix to a doubly-stochastic matrix. However, a complete understanding of the performance gain phenomenon is still lacking. In this paper, we study the performance gain phenomenon from a statistical learning perspective. We show that Sinkhorn-Knopp is equivalent to an Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm of learning a Gaussian mixture model of the image patches. By establishing the correspondence between the steps of Sinkhorn-Knopp and the EM algorithm, we provide a geometrical interpretation of the symmetrization process. This observation allows us to develop a new denoising algorithm called Gaussian mixture model symmetric smoothing filter (GSF). GSF is an extension of the Sinkhorn-Knopp and is a generalization of the original smoothing filters. Despite its simple formulation, GSF outperforms many existing smoothing filters and has a similar performance compared to several state-of-the-art denoising algorithms.
description: 14 pages
Geographic variation in the morphology of Macrovipera lebetina (Linnaeus, 1758) (Ophidia: Viperidae) in Iran
Creators: name: Moradi, Naeim
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2014

description: The Levantine viper, Macrovipera lebetina, has an extensive geographical range being distributed in central Asia and the Middle East. The species exhibits high levels of polymorphism, especially in colouration and pattern. Recent studies revealed significant morphological differences between the two subspecies from northeastern and western portions of Iran. However, considering limited geographic samplings, taxonomic status of Iranian Macrovipera are controversial. In this study, uni- and multivariate statistical techniques were used to analyze geographic variation in 31 morphological characters measured in 117 specimens of Macrovipera lebetina covering its entire range in Iran. Sexual dimorphism was obvious in number of scales across the head and subcaudals. Univariate analyses detected substantial geographic variation in several meristic characters. Pholidosis exhibits a general north-south pattern of variation and most scale counts averaged higher in southern regions. Colouration displayed a pattern of strong clinal variation among three broad areas consisting of the combined western and northwestern, northeastern, and southern highland regions. Also, morphometric characters exhibited a general north-south pattern of geographic variation and some characters averaged lower in southern regions. Populations from the southern regions remained clearly distinct in Principal Component, Cluster and Discriminant analyses. In the light of these differences, it is concluded that the southern Iranian populations should not be identified as belonging to Macrovipera lebetina obtusa (Dwigubsky, 1832), which occurs in northwestern and western regions of the Iranian Plateau.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 9 No 2 (2014)
Medical Students as Contributors in Community Practices: A Focus Group Analysis
Creators: name: Antono, Brian
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Background: Community preceptors play an important role in medical education. However, the intrinsic rewards of teaching may no longer outweigh the challenges of training students in the community setting. One potential remedy to increase preceptor retention is to increase medical student contribution in community practices. Objective: To gather medical student opinion and suggestions on innovative ways that medical students can contribute to community practices while still maximizing their learning during clinical clerkships. Methods: I conducted four focus groups with a total of 28 medical students at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine: two groups comprised of preclinical medical students and two groups comprised of clinical medical students. I audiotaped and transcribed all four focus groups. I performed content analysis of the transcripts by hand using the Classic Analysis Strategy as previously described by Krueger and Casey. Findings: Medical students support efforts to have students as contributors to community practices. They strongly favor contributions that involve active roles in patient care or skills training to prepare them for residency. Several potential benefits to community practices include more efficient use of clinical time, greater clinical productivity, and improved quality of care. However, medical students are unconvinced that these new roles will be effectively incorporated into individual community practices. The wide variability in practice styles and infrastructure is seen as an immense barrier to implementing this initiative. Interestingly, medical students suggest that schools hire a practice consultant who can curate a list of best practices and offer strategies for practices to better incorporate medical students into their routine. Conclusion: Medical students see the potential benefits of contributory roles, but are generally apprehensive about the implementation of such roles in community practices. To effectively balance student contribution and student learning, educators must develop clear educational goals, set appropriate expectations among students, and offer faculty development to preceptors. Looking ahead, investigators must acquire the preceptor's perspective on this initiative. In turn, educators can craft favorable pilot programs by accounting for the needs and concerns of both medical students and community preceptors.
No evidence for conspecificity between two high Andes Liolaemus lizards (Squamata: Liolaemidae)
Creators: name: Pincheira-Donoso, Daniel
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2014

description: The remarkable taxonomic, ecological and geographic diversity achieved by the South American lizard genus Liolaemus has inspired persistent debate about species boundaries and the reliability of phenotypic predictors/indicators of reproductive isolation between species (i.e., signatures of speciation). Many aspects of these debates remain unsettled and part of the diversity of the genus remains under controversy. Factors such as small samples, or lack of molecular data to quantify genetic differences between species can be regarded as legitimate limitations on the ability to draw definite taxonomic conclusions. However, conclusions drawn from careless and negligent observations should be taken with high degree of caution. A recent paper offers a clear example of this latter scenario, in which it is suggested that Liolaemus filiorum Pincheira-Donoso and Ramirez, 2005 is a synonym of Liolaemus puritamensis Nuñez and Fox, 1989 based on qualitative analyses of the “holotype” of the former which is, in fact, not the holotype of this taxon, but rather one of the paratypes of the latter species. Editors and referees should play a central role in preventing publication of studies of this nature.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 9 No 2 (2014)
Social and Psychological Factors in Dental Health
Creators: name: Israeli Institute Of Applied Social Research
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 1988

description: Details of respondent's work in dentistry; country in which he studied; years of practice; professional journals; professional group activities; respondent's health in past year; reasons for becoming a dentist; job satisfaction; functons of the dental profession; consultation with other dentsts; volume of patients; appointment back-log; advice to patients; preventive dentistry; child patients; preference for men or women patients, from Western Europe or East, and with higher or lower education level; patients' fear of pain; emphasis on certainties or uncertainties of dentisty; relative status of dentistry compared with teaching, medicine, law, and nursing; importance of the appearance of teeth; time spent with family and friends; general mental attitude; pressure of work. (Following, sample of female dental aides): care of children while respondent works; children's problems connected with mother's working; problems in managing home and job; husband's feeling about wife working; days missed because of illness; hesitation of men patients to consult women.
Secure Image Steganography using Cryptography and Image Transposition
Creators: name: Muhammad, Khan
name: Ahmad, Jamil
name: Sajjad, Muhammad
name: Zubair, Muhammad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Information security is one of the most challenging problems in today's technological world. In order to secure the transmission of secret data over the public network (Internet), various schemes have been presented over the last decade. Steganography combined with cryptography, can be one of the best choices for solving this problem. This paper proposes a new steganographic method based on gray-level modification for true colour images using image transposition, secret key and cryptography. Both the secret key and secret information are initially encrypted using multiple encryption algorithms (bitxor operation, bits shuffling, and stego key-based encryption); these are, subsequently, hidden in the host image pixels. In addition, the input image is transposed before data hiding. Image transposition, bits shuffling, bitxoring, stego key-based encryption, and gray-level modification introduce five different security levels to the proposed scheme, making the data recovery extremely difficult for attackers. The proposed technique is evaluated by objective analysis using various image quality assessment metrics, producing promising results in terms of imperceptibility and security. Moreover, the high quality stego images and its minimal histogram changeability, also validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
description: A simple but effective image steganographic method, providing secure transmission of secret data over Internet. The final published version of the paper can be downloaded from the link: (http://www.neduet.edu.pk/NED-Journal/2015/15vol4paper3.html). Please contact me at khan.muhammad.icp@gmail.com if you need the final formatted published version of the paper
Sexing freshwater turtles: penile eversion in Phrynops tuberosus (Testudines: Chelidae)
Creators: name: Rodrigues, João
name: Soares, Diego
name: Silva, José
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2014

description: Here, we described a noninvasive method for sexing freshwater turtles by stimulating penile eversion. We immobilized the neck and limbs of animals using fingers and, after some seconds, turtles everted their penis. This method was tested in 33 male Phrynops tuberosus, and 28 everted the penis. The efficiency of the method was not dependent of animal size, which reinforces its applicability. Our method allows sexing turtles in the field, avoiding killing the animal or causing major injuries in order to assess the sex.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 9 No 2 (2014)
Using Sertraline as Therapeutic Assistant in the Treatment of Neoplasms: a scoping review
Creators: name: Cavassin, Francelise
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neoplasms
subject: Chemicals and Drugs
subject: Diseases
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: Scoping review about sertraline as therapeutic assistant in the treatment of neoplasms
PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS AND NOVEL BIOMARKERS IN EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE
Creators: name: Youkhana, Sharokeen
name: Da Silva, Edgar
name: Vakyl, Jibran
name: Silverman, Rosalind
name: Silverman, Lorelei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Other health sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) is a rare and life-threatening disease in people and nonhuman primates (such as monkeys, gorillas, and chimpanzees).
 It is caused by an infection with a group of viruses within the genus Ebolavirus, that causes severe inflammation and tissue damage throughout the body. It is known as a hemorrhagic fever virus, because it can cause problems with the clotting system of the body and lead to internal bleeding, as blood leaks from small blood vessels. Four out of six KNOWN species cause disease in humans: Zaire ebolavirus (EBOV), Sudan ebolavirus (SUDV), Tai Forest ebolavirus (TAFV) (formerly known as Ebola Ivory Coast), Bundibugyo ebolavirus (BDBV).
 Scientists do not know where Ebola virus comes from. Based on similar viruses, they believe EVD is animal-borne, with bats or nonhuman primates being the most likely source. Infected animals as well as a sick or dead person carrying the virus can transmit it to other animals, like apes, monkeys, duikers, and humans by direct contact with body fluids ― blood, saliva, sweat, tears, mucus, vomit, feces, breast milk, urine, and semen. It is also spread by touching things that have been contaminated with these fluids.
Records of sunspot and aurora during CE 960-1279 in the Chinese chronicle of the Song dynasty
Creators: name: Hayakawa, Hisashi
name: Tamazawa, Harufumi
name: Kawamura, Akito D
name: Isobe, Hiroaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Records of sunspots and aurora observations in pre-telescopic historical documents can provide useful information about solar activity in the past. This is also true for extreme space weather events, as they may have been recorded as large sunspots observed by the naked eye or as low-latitude auroras. In this paper, we present the results of a comprehensive survey of records of sunspots and auroras in the Songshi, a Chinese formal chronicle spanning the tenth to the thirteenth century. This chronicle contains a record of continuous observations with well-formatted reports conducted as a policy of the government. A brief comparison of the frequency of observations of sunspots and auroras and the observations of radioisotopes as an indicator of the solar activity during corresponding periods is provided. This paper is the first step of our project in which we survey and compile the records of sunspots and aurora in historical documents from various locations and languages, ultimately providing it to the science community as online data.
description: Accepted for for publication in Earth, Planets and Space. This manuscript includes the original texts in Chinese, which is omitted in the version published in EPS
Performance and productivity changes in microfinance banks in South-West Nigeria
Creators: name: Olasupo, Musa
name: Afolami, Caroline
name: Shittu, Adebayo
name: Agboola, A.A.A.
Publisher: name: Bio-based and Applied Economics
Year: 2014

description: The Nigerian Microfinance sub-sector is yet to attain the desired level of global best practice. This paper thus investigated the performance and productivity changes of MFBs in South-West Nigeria, from 2006 to 2010, having had the Microfinance Policy launched in 200. From the use of relevant accounting ratios, the study revealed that only 16% of the sampled MFBs met the recommended maximum PAR value of 5% in 200. It was also revealed that 31% of the sampled MFBs reported a debt/equity ratio above the recommended value of 2 in 2006, while 32% had gearing of over 2 in 2010. The Malmquist productivity index revealed that the MFBs experienced fluctuating performances in their productivity changes, with pure technical efficiency improvements in 2007 and 2009. Overall, the performance and productivity changes experienced by the MFBs depicted a sub-sector with huge potentials and hence require nurturing to achieve its goals.
description: Bio-based and Applied Economics, Vol 3 No 3 (2014): Feeding the Planet and Greening Agriculture: Challenges and opportunities for the bio-economy
An Analytic Model for Left-Invertible Weighted Shifts on Directed Trees
Creators: name: Chavan, Sameer
name: Trivedi, Shailesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 47B37, 47A10, Secondary 46E22, 47B38

description: Let $\mathscr T$ be a rooted directed tree with finite branching index $k_{\mathscr T}$ and let $S_λ \in B(l^2(V))$ be a left-invertible weighted shift on ${\mathscr T}$. We show that $S_λ$ can be modelled as a multiplication operator $\mathscr M_z$ on a reproducing kernel Hilbert space $\mathscr H$ of $E$-valued holomorphic functions on a disc centered at the origin, where $E:=\ker S^*_λ$. The reproducing kernel associated with $\mathscr H$ is multi-diagonal and of bandwidth $k_{\mathscr T}.$ Moreover, $\mathscr H$ admits an orthonormal basis consisting of polynomials in $z$ with at most $k_{\mathscr T}+1$ non-zero coefficients. As one of the applications of this model, we give a complete spectral picture of $S_λ.$ Unlike the case $\dim E = 1,$ the approximate point spectrum of $S_λ$ could be disconnected. We also obtain an analytic model for left-invertible weighted shifts on rootless directed trees with finite branching index.
A multi-region approach to assessing fiscal and farm level consequences of government support for farm risk management
Creators: name: Cooper, Joseph
name: Delbecq, Benoit
Publisher: name: Bio-based and Applied Economics
Year: 2014

description: The 2014 U.S. Farm Act has new programs for providing producers with commodity support payments covering “shallow losses” in revenue. We develop an approach to examine the sensitivity of the farmer’s downside risk protection to marginal changes in the deductible in shallow loss program scenarios. The copula approach we use simultaneously considers price and yield correlation across all U.S. counties producing several major field crops. We find that average payments under the shallow loss program scenarios are elastic with respect to the program’s payment coverage rate. To empirically assess where shallow loss is likely to most benefit producers, we map at the county level the ratios of expected shallow loss payments to crop insurance premiums for corn, soybeans, cotton, and winter wheat. As tail dependencies among individual crop yield densities may vary spatially, we propose a method for grouping counties in a t-copula that allows for heterogeneity in tail dependencies.
description: Bio-based and Applied Economics, Vol 3 No 3 (2014): Feeding the Planet and Greening Agriculture: Challenges and opportunities for the bio-economy
Literacy Instruction for Children with Hearing Loss: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Creators: name: Salins, Andrea
name: arciuli, Joanne
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: children with hearing loss
subject: DHH
subject: Literacy
subject: reading
subject: Spelling
subject: Writing

description: The present study aims to conduct a systematic review of the available evidence on the strategies employed in literacy instruction and intervention for primary school children with hearing loss.
Black Hole Entropy and Viscosity Bound in Horndeski Gravity
Creators: name: Feng, Xing-Hui
name: Liu, Hai-Shan
name: Lü, H.
name: Pope, C. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Horndeski gravities are theories of gravity coupled to a scalar field, in which the action contains an additional non-minimal quadratic coupling of the scalar, through its first derivative, to the Einstein tensor or the analogous higher-derivative tensors coming from the variation of Gauss-Bonnet or Lovelock terms. In this paper we study the thermodynamics of the static black hole solutions in $n$ dimensions, in the simplest case of a Horndeski coupling to the Einstein tensor. We apply the Wald formalism to calculate the entropy of the black holes, and show that there is an additional contribution over and above those that come from the standard Wald entropy formula. The extra contribution can be attributed to unusual features in the behaviour of the scalar field. We also show that a conventional regularisation to calculate the Euclidean action leads to an expression for the entropy that disagrees with the Wald results. This seems likely to be due to ambiguities in the subtraction procedure. We also calculate the viscosity in the dual CFT, and show that the viscosity/entropy ratio can violate the $η/S\ge 1/(4π)$ bound for appropriate choices of the parameters.
description: 30 pages, no figure, minor revisions
Assessment and governance of Ecosystem Services for improving management effectiveness of Natura 2000 sites
Creators: name: Marino, Davide
name: Gaglioppa, Pierluca
name: Schirpke, Uta
name: Guadagno, Rossella
name: Marucci, Angelo
name: Palmieri, Margherita
name: Pellegrino, Davide
name: Gusmerotti, Natalia
Publisher: name: Bio-based and Applied Economics
Year: 2014

description: The Natura 2000 network is the cornerstone of the EU Biodiversity Strategy aimed at halting the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Yet in many EU Member States the level of development and execution of management plans and conservation measures of Natura 2000 sites is often very low due to scarce financial resources; for this reason management effectiveness is rarely achieved. This paper presents initial insights from the Life+ MGN project and highlights the costs and benefits associated with 2 out of 21 Natura 2000 study sites in Italy in order to present a new governance approach relying on the qualitative and quantitative valuation of Ecosystem Services (ES). Preliminary results suggest that the quantification of costs and benefits related to the Natura 2000 network is crucial for reaching Natura 2000 conservation objectives and measuring management effectiveness.
description: Bio-based and Applied Economics, Vol 3 No 3 (2014): Feeding the Planet and Greening Agriculture: Challenges and opportunities for the bio-economy
Should adolescents prioritize several strategies to regulate negative affect? Exploring within-person effects between emotion regulation variability and negative affect in adolescents’ daily life
Creators: name: Debra, Gillian
name: Michels, Nathalie
name: Braet, Jolien
name: Giletta, Matteo
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Developmental Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Adolescence
subject: Emotion Regulation Variability
subject: Experience Sampling Methods
subject: Negative affect

description: Early adolescence is characterized by increased levels of negative affect (NA) compared to child-and adulthood (Somerville et al., 2010; Spear, 2009). One important mechanism that aid adolescents in dealing with NA is emotion regulation (ER; Gross, 1998). While numerous studies demonstrated that the use of certain ER strategies (e.g., cognitive reappraisal) could downregulate NA, the reliance on single strategies may not consistently lead to beneficial effect across situations (e.g., Colombo et al., 2020). Instead, recent studies has shown that selecting between different emotion regulation strategies and in particular prioritizing the use of some emotion regulation strategies over others at a given occasion (i.e., between-strategy variability) may be even more effective in lowering momentary negative affect (Blanke et al., 2020; Wenzel et al., 2021). However, no study thus far examined how between-strategy variability may influence NA in adolescents’ daily life. The current study aims to shed light on the above dynamics.
Estimating the Economic Burden of Abusive Head Trauma in Children in North Carolina
Creators: name: Pointer, Ivy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Introduction: Abusive head trauma causes significant morbidity and mortality in the pediatric population. Information on the economic burden of this condition is limited, making it difficult to determine how much funding to direct toward prevention. The Period of PURPLE Crying® is a promising abusive head trauma prevention program in the state of North Carolina. By collecting cost data on abusive head trauma victims and comparing it to the cost of the prevention program, the objective of this study is to demonstrate cost savings and suggest potential policy changes nationwide. Methods: Using ICD-9 codes, we identified all children less than 3 years old admitted to the North Carolina Children’s Hospital Pediatric Intensive Care Unit with traumatic brain injury between 2005 and 2010. Demographic data (age, gender, year, payer type), hospital and physician charges, length of stay, intensive care unit days, and ventilator days were collected on each patient. Charges were further divided into pharmaceutical, laboratory, blood product transfusion, and radiology charges. The cases were classified as abusive head trauma and accidental head trauma based on the CDC recommendations for determining abuse from ICD-9 codes. The mean cost of hospitalization per patient was calculated for each group. The cost of the prevention program per patient was calculated. Results: 74 cases were identified with 27 cases of abusive head trauma and 47 cases of accidental head trauma or unknown etiology. The mean charges for hospitalization of abusive head trauma victims were $99,970 with a median of $64,643. The mean charges for the accidental head trauma group were significantly less at $46,406. This difference was statistically significant in the 25th and 50th quartiles. There were also significant differences between the two groups in length of stay, PICU days, and ventilator days. The cost of the Period of PURPLE Crying® program is $3.93 per infant exposed. Conclusion: The charges of hospitalizing abusive head trauma victims average nearly $100,000, significantly higher than the cost of caring for children with head trauma from other causes. For the charges associated with one abusive head trauma admission, 25,000 infants can be exposed to the Period of PURPLE Crying®. Preventing at least 6 cases per year would make this program cost effective. This program demonstrates the potential to provide significant costs savings through prevention.
James P. Gee, Come un videogioco. Insegnare e apprendere nella scuola digitale. Milano: Cortina (2013).
Creators: name: Guidone, M. Cristina
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2014

description: Recensione.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2014): Instructional design e game-based learning