cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
EXTENSÃO UNIVERSITÁRIA NO BRASIL: O CASO DA UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO
Creators: name: Bacha, Roberta Helena Fiorotto Rodrigues
name: Bacha, Roberta Helena Fiorotto Rodrigues
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: extensão universitária
subject: relação pesquisa-ensino-extensão
subject: USP
subject: dimensão
subject: diversidade

description: O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar a dimensão e a diversidade da atividade de extensão universitária na Universidade de São Paulo (USP), ressaltando a extensão em ciências agrárias. A extensão universitária é definida como um processo educativo, cultural e científico que articula o ensino e a pesquisa de forma indissociável e viabiliza a relação transformadora entre a universidade e a sociedade. Na USP, assim como em outras grandes universidades brasileiras, a extensão universitária é realizada através da prestação de serviços e da transmissão de conhecimento científico à comunidade externa à universidade. Utilizando dados do Anuário Estatístico da USP de 1997 a 2002 e fazendo a análise tabular e gráfica dos mesmos, o artigo ressalta a grandiosidade dos serviços de extensão nas áreas de saúde, jurídico e de educação prestados por algumas faculdades da USP. Esses serviços se viabilizam, em parte, pelas atividades de pós-graduação e pesquisa que a USP executa. Também se destacam as atividades de transferência de conhecimento via participação em bancas e cursos de extensão universitária feitas por professores da USP. Como uma das principais conclusões do trabalho está o fato de que a própria USP não tem o registro total de suas atividades de extensão, bem como seus dirigentes precisam dar a essas atividades uma maior divulgação, como é o caso da extensão feita pela tradicional Escola Superior de Agricultura “Luiz de Queiroz”. Aliás, são essas atividades de extensão que permitem a USP retribuir, em parte, à sociedade os recursos públicos investidos nessa universidade pública.
FEIRAS LIVRES DO BREJO PARAIBANO: CRISE E PERSPECTIVAS
Creators: name: Coutinho, Edilma Pinto
name: Neves, Halanna Cavalcante Da Nobrega
name: Neves, Hamanda Cavalcante Da Nobrega
name: Da Silva, Eurides Marcilio Ginu
name: Coutinho, Edilma Pinto
name: Neves, Halanna Cavalcante Da Nobrega
name: Neves, Hamanda Cavalcante Da Nobrega
name: Da Silva, Eurides Marcilio Ginu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: feira livre
subject: comercialização de alimentos
subject: Brejo Paraibano

description: Historicamente, as feiras livres se consolidaram como importante estrutura de suprimento de alimentos das cidades, especialmente as interioranas. No Nordeste, a feira é uma relevante atividade que promove o desenvolvimento econômico, social e cultural, facilitando o escoamento da produção familiar, comercializando alimentos com preços reduzidos, valorizando a produção artesanal, promovendo a integração social e preservando hábitos culturais. O crescimento das redes de supermercado e as novas exigências do consumo moderno ameaçam a sobrevivência das feiras livres, que apresentam graves problemas ligados à higiene, apresentação e qualidade dos alimentos, colocando em risco a saúde do consumidor. Tal fato repercute no tamanho das feiras e nas oportunidades de negócio: muitos comerciantes reduzem seus lucros ou até abandonam a atividade. Diante do cenário, o presente trabalho objetivou traçar um perfil dos feirantes que comercializam gêneros alimentícios nas principais feiras livres do Brejo Paraibano, enfocando suas condições de trabalho. Foram realizadas visitas às feiras dos municípios de Bananeiras, Solânea, Remígio, Esperança, Guarabira e João Pessoa, locais onde foram realizadas entrevistas e aplicados questionários. A comercialização em feiras livres apresenta baixa lucratividade, mesmo assim, observou-se intensa contratação de empregados. O trabalho é caracterizado pela informalidade, baixa remuneração, carga horária elevada e muito desconforto.
WMAPping inflationary physics
Creators: name: Kinney, William H.
name: Kolb, Edward W.
name: Melchiorri, Alessandro
name: Riotto, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extract parameters relevant for distinguishing among single-field inflation models from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) data set, and from a combination of the WMAP data and seven other Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments. We use only CMB data and perform a likelihood analysis over a grid of models including the full error covariance matrix. We find that a model with a scale-invariant scalar power spectrum ($n=1$), no tensor contribution, and no running of the spectral index, is within the 1-$σ$ contours of both data sets. We then apply the Monte Carlo reconstruction technique to both data sets to generate an ensemble of inflationary potentials consistent with observations. None of the three basic classes of inflation models (small-field, large-field, and hybrid) are completely ruled out, although hybrid models are favored by the best-fit region. The reconstruction process indicates that a wide variety of smooth potentials for the inflaton are consistent with the data, implying that the first-year WMAP result is still too crude to constrain significantly either the height or the shape of the inflaton potential. In particular, the lack of evidence for tensor fluctuations makes it impossible to constrain the energy scale of inflation. Nonetheless, the data rule out a large portion of the available parameter space for inflation. For instance, we find that potentials of the form $V = λϕ^4$ are ruled out to $3σ$ by the combined data set, but not by the WMAP data taken alone.
description: 22 pages, 13 figures. Higher resolution figures available at http://home.fnal.gov/~rocky/Mapping/
CONSUMO DE ÁGUA, ESTRATÉGIAS PRODUTIVAS E ESCASSEZ HÍDRICA: UM LEVANTAMENTO PRELIMINAR COM FAMÍLIAS RURAIS NO ALTO JEQUITINHONHA
Creators: name: Galizoni, Flavia Maria
name: Ribeiro, Eduardo Magalhaes
name: Lima, Vico Mendes Pereira
name: Dos Santos, Isaias Fernades
name: Chiodi, Rafal Eduardo
name: Galizoni, Flavia Maria
name: Ribeiro, Eduardo Magalhaes
name: Lima, Vico Mendes Pereira
name: Dos Santos, Isaias Fernades
name: Chiodi, Rafal Eduardo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: agricultura familiar
subject: água
subject: Jequitinhonha

description: Os objetivos desse artigo são analisar as estratégias familiares de agricultores com relação à água no alto do Jequitinhonha, no nordeste de Minas Gerais investigando disponibilização para o consumo doméstico e produtivo, percepção de escassez, hierarquias de uso e de corte de atividades em função da restrição da água. Visa também investigar o encontro entre as lógicas comunitárias e de programas públicos sobre água e seus impactos no padrão de consumo familiar. É resultado de pesquisa de campo em sete comunidades rurais. Um resultado importante foi “personalizar” regionalmente a noção de escassez, compreendendo-a a partir de perspectivas culturais, ambientais e econômicas das famílias e comunidades rurais do Jequitinhonha. E nesse sentido, poder dar base para interpretar atitudes e estratégias locais para conviver e ou superar escassez d’água e, principalmente, analisar pontos de convergência ou divergência entre essas estratégias, programas e políticas formuladas para enfrentar a questão da água na região.
Exposure to ambient air pollution during trimesters of pregnancy and childhood allergic diseases in Wuhan, China
Creators: name: Guo, Menglan
name: Wei, Liqing
name: Yan, Hong
name: Duan, Zhizhou
name: Niu, Zhiping
name: Xiao, Chenchang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: The study explored the associations between maternal exposure to air pollution during different trimesters and allergic diseases including asthma, allergic rhinitis, allergic conjunctivitis or/and eczema. Individual exposure to air pollutants was assessed by an inverse distance weighted (IDW) method using daily concentrations of SO2, NO2, PM10, and PM2.5 from air quality monitoring stations. Multiple logistic regression model was performed to estimate the associations between air pollution during each trimester of pregnancy and childhood allergic diseases. A total of 332 children (51.3%) were reported by their parents having been diagnosed with allergic diseases. After adjusting for covariates, allergic diseases were significantly associated with per interquartile range (IQR) increase in NO2, PM10, PM2.5 during the second trimester with odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (95%CIs) being 1.292 (1.005,1.662), 1.210 (1.042,1,405) and 1.270 (1.004,1.606), respectively. These findings suggest that maternal exposure to certain air pollutants during pregnancy, especially in the second trimester, is associated with childhood allergic diseases.
Optimal Generic Advertising under Bilateral Imperfect Competition between Processors and Retailers
Creators: name: Chung, Chanjin
name: Eom, Young Sook
name: Yang, Byung Woo
name: Han, Sungill
name: Chung, Chanjin
name: Eom, Young Sook
name: Yang, Byung Woo
name: Han, Sungill
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: bilateral market power
subject: checkoff
subject: import supply
subject: oligopoly
subject: oligopsony
subject: optimal advertising
subject: processor
subject: retailer

description: The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of bilateral imperfect competition between processors and retailers and of import supply on optimal advertising intensity, advertising expenditures, and checkoff assessment rates. First, comparative static analyses were conducted on the newly developed optimal advertising intensity formula. Second, to consider the endogenous nature of optimal advertising, a linear market equilibrium model was developed and applied to the U.S. beef industry. Results showed that the full consideration of retailer-processor bilateral market power lowered the optimal values of assessment rates, advertising expenditures, and advertising intensity for the checkoff board while consideration of importers increases the optimal values. The results indicate that ignoring the import sector in optimal generic advertising modeling should underestimate these optimal values, while ignoring the bilateral market power between processors and retailers overestimates the values.
Rural Areas Feel Effects of Macroeconomic Policy
Creators: name: Malley, James R.
name: Hady, Thomas F.
name: Malley, James R.
name: Hady, Thomas F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1987
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Financial Economics
Labor and Human Capital

description: The rural economy has steadily become more integrated with the national and world economies. Diversification of rural economies, and changes in financial markets and world trade have broken down many of the barriers that insulated rural areas. Monetary and fiscal policy is no exception to this trend. This preliminary analysis suggests that U.S. rural areas in general, and the rural South and Northeast in particular, are now affected slightly more by national monetary and fiscal policies than the Nation's metro areas.
Self-supervising Action Recognition by Statistical Moment and Subspace Descriptors
Creators: name: Wang, Lei
name: Koniusz, Piotr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we build on a concept of self-supervision by taking RGB frames as input to learn to predict both action concepts and auxiliary descriptors e.g., object descriptors. So-called hallucination streams are trained to predict auxiliary cues, simultaneously fed into classification layers, and then hallucinated at the testing stage to aid network. We design and hallucinate two descriptors, one leveraging four popular object detectors applied to training videos, and the other leveraging image- and video-level saliency detectors. The first descriptor encodes the detector- and ImageNet-wise class prediction scores, confidence scores, and spatial locations of bounding boxes and frame indexes to capture the spatio-temporal distribution of features per video. Another descriptor encodes spatio-angular gradient distributions of saliency maps and intensity patterns. Inspired by the characteristic function of the probability distribution, we capture four statistical moments on the above intermediate descriptors. As numbers of coefficients in the mean, covariance, coskewness and cokurtotsis grow linearly, quadratically, cubically and quartically w.r.t. the dimension of feature vectors, we describe the covariance matrix by its leading n' eigenvectors (so-called subspace) and we capture skewness/kurtosis rather than costly coskewness/cokurtosis. We obtain state of the art on five popular datasets such as Charades and EPIC-Kitchens.
description: ACM MM'21
Sonoma konkoworum Chandler. Right 2003
Creators: name: Ferro, Michael L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Sonoma
Sonoma konkoworum

description: Sonoma konkoworum Chandler, 2003 – CA
 USA: CALIFORNIA: Shasta Co.: *USA: CA: Shasta Co. 1 mi. SE Shingletown 3500’, III-13-2001 DSChandler, Ponderosa pine log & bark lit. / PARATYPE Sonoma konkoworum Chandler [♂, DCPC].
description: Published as part of Ferro, Michael L., 2016, Fourteen new species of Sonoma Casey (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae) with a key to species from western North America, pp. 1-57 in Insecta Mundi 2016 (472) on page 50, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5170505
THE DOHA DEVELOPMENT AGENDA AND BRAZIL: A CLOSER LOOK INTO THE DISTRIBUTIONAL IMPACTS INSIDE AGRICULTURE
Creators: name: FERREIRA FILHO, JOAQUIM BENTO DE SOUZA
name: HORRIDGE, MARK
name: FERREIRA FILHO, JOAQUIM BENTO DE SOUZA
name: HORRIDGE, MARK
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Food Security and Poverty

description: In this paper we extend previous results about how trade integration can affect poverty and income distribution in Brazil. To assess the impacts of a Doha Development Agenda (DDA) scenario on poverty and income distribution in Brazil, a 2 computable general equilibrium model (CGE) of Brazil was used, linked to a microsimulation (MS) model. This method was proposed by Ferreira Filho and Horridge, and guarantees consistency between both models. The model comprises 112,055 Brazilian households and 263,938 adults, distinguishing 42 activities, 52 commodities, and 27 regions. The Doha round is simulated with the aid of a modified version of the GTAP model, and its impacts upon poverty and income distribution in Brazil analyzed. Results suggest that even a large shock like the one simulated would not greatly reduce poverty in Brazil, although the poorest households benefit most. The analysis was extended to look more carefully inside agriculture, splitting the households according to their working status (temporary workers, permanent workers, self-employed and employers), as well as according to their land ownership status (land less workers and farmers holding 5 land size farms). Model results show an increase of 253,066 new jobs in the agricultural activities. Most of it (197,187) would be new jobs creation, or workers coming to agriculture from unemployment, and the other part (55,882 workers) would be a net attraction of jobs from contracting industries. The job creation benefits the poor disproportionately : 57% of the new agricultural workers belong to the first three lowest income classes (78% if only count the previously unemployed are considered). As a result of this job increase, total income increases by 3.3% in agriculture as a whole, and almost half of this increase (1.42%) is due to workers coming from unemployment and getting new jobs in agriculture. The simulated DDA scenario, which was found to be poverty-reducing in previous work by the authors, is shown to also reduce poverty inside Brazilian agriculture. Despite the regional differences, all the players in agriculture seem to gain from the policy change. There are complex region/product/technology interactions to be taken into account, and no simple pattern emerges from the analysis. Model results, then, contradict the notion that only landlords would gain from trade liberalization in the DDA agenda, an idea that became somewhat popular recently. The strong agricultural employment effect and the distribution of land ownership must be taken into account for this discussion.
Mappe Topografiche di Città Italiane di Fondazione Romana
Creators: name: Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Topografia
Città romane

description: Di alcune città italiane di fondazione romana sono state fatte in passato delle analisi dell'orientazione della planimetria per individuare possibili relazioni con il sorgere del sole a solstizi o equinozi di decumani e cardini. Ora si propongono alcune mappe topografiche. Nessuna mappa mostra orientazioni delle vie delle città che siano in contrasto con la scelta migliore legata alla topografia locale.
description: {"references": ["Yamazaki D., D. Ikeshima, R. Tawatari, T. Yamaguchi, F. O'Loughlin, J.C. Neal, C.C. Sampson, S. Kanae & P.D. Bates (2017). A high accuracy map of global terrain elevations. Geophysical Research Letters, vol.44, pp.5844-5853, 2017 doi: 10.1002/2017GL072874"]}
Real time localization of Gamma Ray Bursts with INTEGRAL
Creators: name: Mereghetti, S.
name: Gotz, D.
name: Borkowski, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The INTEGRAL satellite has been successfully launched in October 2002 and has recently started its operational phase. The INTEGRAL Burst Alert System (IBAS) will distribute in real time the coordinates of the GRBs detected with INTEGRAL. After a brief introduction on the INTEGRAL instruments, we describe the main IBAS characteristics and report on the initial results. During the initial performance and verification phase of the INTEGRAL mission, which lasted about two months, two GRBs have been localized with accuracy of about 2-4 arcmin. These observations have allowed us to validate the IBAS software, which is now expected to provide quick (few seconds delay) and precise (few arcmin) localization for about 10-15 GRBs per year.
description: 6 pages, latex, 3 figures, submitted to Adv. Sp. Res., Proceedings of the 34th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Houston, 10-19 October 2002
When Ignorance Is Not Bliss: Pest Control Decisions Involving Beneficial Insects
Creators: name: Grogan, Kelly A.
name: Grogan, Kelly A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Production Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: beneficial insect
subject: dynamic optimization
subject: pest control
subject: pesticide

description: Recent survey data revealed that many California citrus growers did not know whether or not important beneficial insects were found on their fields while other growers were relying heavily or even entirely on these insects for pest control. Some pesticides are toxic both to the targeted pest and the predaceous or parasitic insect that could provide pest control. Alternative pesticides with fewer or no negative effects on the beneficial insect often exist but can be more expensive. Additionally, some beneficial insects are commercially available and can be purchased and released in the field. This paper models the pest control decisions of a grower who optimally utilizes a pesticide and a predaceous insect to control the crop pest and compares these decisions to that of a grower who does not know that the predaceous insect exists. The results show that the latter grower will drive the predator population to zero and will overutilize chemical control. The optimal decisions involve entirely mitigating the negative effects of the pesticide as well as releasing additional predators.
Complex Transport and Magnetism in Inhomogeneous Mixed Valence Ce$_3$Ir$_4$Ge$_{13}$
Creators: name: Hallas, A. M.
name: Huang, C. L.
name: Rai, Binod K.
name: Weiland, A.
name: McCandless, G. T.
name: Chan, Julia Y.
name: Beare, J.
name: Luke, G. M.
name: Morosan, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of Ce$_3$Ir$_4$Ge$_{13}$, a new Remeika phase compound with a complex array of structural, electronic, and magnetic properties. Our single crystal x-ray diffraction measurements show that Ce$_3$Ir$_4$Ge$_{13}$ forms in the tetragonally distorted $I4_1/amd$ space group. The electrical resistivity is almost temperature independent over three decades in temperature, from 0.4 K to 400 K, while the Hall coefficient measurements are consistent with a low-carrier semimetal. Magnetic susceptibility measurements reveal an effective moment of $μ^{\text{exp}}_{\text{eff}} = 1.87 μ_B$/Ce, suggesting that this material has a mixture of magnetic Ce$^{3+}$ and non-magnetic Ce$^{4+}$. Upon cooling, Ce$_3$Ir$_4$Ge$_{13}$ first enters a short range magnetically ordered state below $T_{\text{SRO}}=10$ K, marked by a deviation from Curie-Weiss behavior in susceptibility and a broad field-independent heat capacity anomaly. At lower temperatures, we observe a second, sharper peak in the heat capacity at $T^* = 1.7$ K, concurrent with a splitting of the field-cooled and zero-field-cooled susceptibilities. A small resistivity drop at $T^*$ suggests a loss of spin disorder scattering consistent with a magnetic ordering or spin freezing transition. Ce$_3$Ir$_4$Ge$_{13}$ is therefore a rare example of an inhomogeneous mixed valence compound with a complex array of thermodynamic and transport properties.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Materials
Pudrición del Cogollo Disease: The Effects and Value of a Resistant Oil Palm Variety
Creators: name: Grogan, Kelly A.
name: Mosquera, Mauricio
name: Grogan, Kelly A.
name: Mosquera, Mauricio
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Dynamic Optimization
subject: Faustmann Rotation
subject: Resistant Variety
subject: Oil Palm

description: Pudrición del Cogollo (PC) is a major threat to the Colombian oil palm industry. This article develops a forestry model to obtain the optimal control strategy and optimal moment of replanting after PC attacks. Three cases are considered: a benchmark consisting of an oil palm field with no PC incidence, an identical oil palm field with PC present but no resistant variety with which to replant, and an identical oil palm field with PC present and a resistant variety with which to replant. We compare the optimal replanting period between the three scenarios and determine the optimal level of control in each period for the disease scenarios. The singular solution involves complete control of the disease, and in the absence of a resistant variety, the presence of the disease increases the rotation length. With these solutions, we then determine the value of developing a resistant variety. This value depends heavily on the age distribution of the current trees.
title: Least-squares problems, normal equations, and stopping criteria for the conjugate gradient method
Creators: name: Arioli, Mario
name: Gratton, S
Publisher: name: STFC
Year: 2008
Subjects: Stopping criteria
Conjugate gradient
Least squares problem
Linear regression

description: The Conjugate Gradient method can be successfully used in solving the symmetric and positive deﬁnite normal equations obtained from least-squares problems. Taking into account the results of Hestenes and Stiefel (1952), Golub and Meurant (1997), and Strakoˇs and Tichy (2002), which make it possible to approximate the energy norm of the error during the conjugate gradient iterative process, we adapt the stopping criterion introduced by Arioli (2005). Moreover, we show how the energy norm of the error is linked to the statistical properties of the least-squares problem and to the χ2-distribution and to the Fisher-Snedecor distribution. Finally, we present the results of several numerical tests that experimentally validate the eﬀectiveness of our stopping criteria.
Responsabilidad Social & Crecimiento Económico: Desafíos, estratégias y perspectivas
Creators: name: Flores, Ramiro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 380205
subject: Time-series analysis

description: Este estudio analiza la influencia de la responsabilidad social en el crecimiento iento económico de Bolivia, utilizandoselo vectores autorregresivos estructurales para analizar la dinámica entre el gasto público y su impacto en el PIB a largo plazo.
Program Evaluation for Tdap Immunization Standing Orders in a Birthing Hospital
Creators: name: Crean Taugher, Helen
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2010

Newborn infants are vulnerable to pertussis infections. Although the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommends that babies begin their diphtheria, tetanus and acellular pertussis (DTaP) immunization series at two months of age, the minimum age for administration of the vaccine is six weeks of age (Centers for Disease Control [CDC], 2008).  Young infants are at risk for whooping cough infection transmitted from parents, siblings and care-givers during the pre-vaccination period in the first two months of life, particularly pertussis transmitted from their mothers.  Since the licensure of adult/adolescent formulations of tetanus, diphtheria and acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccine in 2005, healthcare providers have been encouraged to use Tdap vaccine in the family and caregivers of susceptible infants. Vaccinating the family and close contacts of the baby helps to establish a ‘protective cocoon’ of immunization against pertussis around the child (CDC, 2008). The ACIP guideline on the prevention of pertussis in post-partum women promotes the use of Tdap vaccine in the period immediately following delivery in the hospital setting for susceptible mothers (CDC, 2008).  
	The purpose of this project was to conduct a program evaluation of current immunization practices, and to assess the feasibility of instituting standing orders for Tdap immunization, in a birthing hospital.  The evaluation was conducted with members of the medical and nursing obstetrical service in a tertiary care medical center of 783 beds in Western Massachusetts during the winter of 2009-2010.  The project was carried out utilizing program evaluation guidelines published by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC, 2007). The program evaluation found that the project hospital met standards for providing immunization in a non-traditional setting and the evaluation culminated with a recommendation for instituting Tdap immunization on the birthing unit. The Capstone experience concluded that the birthing hospital is an apt setting for immunization standing orders and an ideal partner in addressing the public health issue of increasing pertussis incidence.
Little Higgses and Turtles
Creators: name: Kaplan, David E.
name: Schmaltz, Martin
name: Skiba, Witold
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an ultra-violet extension of the "simplest little Higgs" model. The model marries the simplest little Higgs at low energies to two copies of the "littlest Higgs'' at higher energies. The result is a weakly coupled theory below 100 TeV with a naturally light Higgs. The higher cutoff suppresses the contributions of strongly coupled dynamics to dangerous operators such as those which induce flavor changing neutral currents and CP violation. We briefly survey the distinctive phenomenology of the model.
description: 19 pages, clarifications and references added
Charged lepton contributions to the solar neutrino mixing and theta_13
Creators: name: Romanino, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A charged lepton contribution to the solar neutrino mixing induces a contribution to theta_13, barring cancellations/correlations, which is independent of the model building options in the neutrino sector. We illustrate two robust arguments for that contribution to be within the expected sensitivity of high intensity neutrino beam experiments. We find that the case in which the neutrino sector gives rise to a maximal solar angle (the natural situation if the hierarchy is inverse) leads to a theta_13 close to or exceeding the experimental bound depending on the precise values of theta_12, theta_23, an unknown phase and possible additional contributions. We finally discuss the possibility that the solar angle originates predominantly in the charged lepton sector. We find that the construction of a model of this sort is more complicated. We comment on a recent example of natural model of this type.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure
The Role of Cultivated Land Expansion on the Impacts to Global Agricultural Markets from Biofuels
Creators: name: Yang, Jun
name: Huang, Jikun
name: Msangi, Siwa
name: Rozelle, Scott
name: Weersink, Alfons
name: Yang, Jun
name: Huang, Jikun
name: Msangi, Siwa
name: Rozelle, Scott
name: Weersink, Alfons
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Biofuels
subject: land supply
subject: markets

description: The emergence of biofuels has led to an increase in crop price and subsequently global food prices but the extent of the impact is subject to debate. Fully understanding the role of biofuels on agricultural markets requires properly accounting for the response of all affected inputs and outputs. Previous studies have generally forced the amount of cultivated land, the largest input, to remain fixed regardless of price change. This study overcomes this limitation by setting alternative growth rates in farmland expansion within a general equilibrium model (GTAP-E) with a focus on agricultural and energy markets. The simulation of the model under alternative biofuel policies and market conditions reveals that a fuller utilization of available land resources significantly reduces the rise in feedstock prices brought about by biofuel policies and/or higher energy prices. Implicit land supply price elasticies calculated by the model are consistent with previous studies and lend support to the approach taken within the study.
Mixed scalar-pseudoscalar Higgs boson production through next-to-next-to-leading order at the LHC
Creators: name: Jaquier, Matthieu
name: Röntsch, Raoul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the production of a mixed scalar-pseudoscalar Higgs boson in gluon fusion at the LHC, through next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD. We obtain fully differential results, including the decay of the Higgs boson to two charged lepton pairs. We discuss the impact of the interference between the scalar and pseudoscalar states. We also show differential distributions for several kinematic variables whose shape is sensitive to the parity of the Higgs boson, and assess the impact of the NNLO QCD corrections on these shapes.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures
Matching New Jobs to Rural Workers
Creators: name: Gillis, William R.
name: Shaffer, Ron E.
name: Gillis, William R.
name: Shaffer, Ron E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1987
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Labor and Human Capital

description: Communities often try to boost their economies by luring new industry. Sometimes the match does not quite fit. A community could better the odds if it knew the kinds of industries best suited for local workers. This article does just that. It highlights industry hiring preferences: men, women, young, older, and so on. The matchups make an interesting point for working women: health and business services, two of the fastest growing business sectors, tend to have high proportions of women in their workforces.
Additional file 2 of Delayed neutrophil apoptosis may enhance NET formation in ARDS
Creators: name: Song, Chao
name: Li, Haitao
name: Mao, Zhi
name: Peng, Ling
name: Liu, Ben
name: Lin, Fengyu
name: Li, Yi
name: Dai, Minhui
name: Cui, Yanhui
name: Zhao, Yuhao
name: Han, Duoduo
name: Chen, Lingli
name: Huang, Xun
name: Pan, Pinhua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Details of the 22 ARDS patients.
Assessing Korean Consumers’ Valuation for BSE Tested and Country of Origin Labeled Beef Products
Creators: name: Lee, Sang Hyeon
name: Lee, Ji Yong
name: Han, Doo Bong
name: Nayga, Rodolfo M.
name: Lee, Sang Hyeon
name: Lee, Ji Yong
name: Han, Doo Bong
name: Nayga, Rodolfo M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Willingness-to-Pay
subject: BSE test label
subject: Risk Perception
subject: Country of Origin
subject: Choice Experiment

description: The objective of this study is to estimate Korean consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for beef products with BSE testing and country of origin labeling. We use a choice experiment to examine consumers’ valuation for beef products with these labels. In addition to analysis using the pooled sample, we also conduct sub-sample analyses based on consumers’ level of risk perception about beef consumption and selected socio-demographic characteristics. Results suggest that Korean consumers value BSE tested beef. They also have a preference for domestic beef vis-à-vis imported beef. When we conducted separate analysis between respondents who have low vs high risk perception about beef consumption, results suggest that those with high risk perception tend to value BSE testing more than country of origin labeling while those with low risk perception value country of origin labeling more than BSE testing. Moreover, results from separate analysis between respondents who have higher education vs lower education and between older vs younger respondents suggest that young or high educated respondents tend to value BSE testing and imported beef from countries which have not experienced BSE outbreaks more than do older or lower educated respondents.
A Framework of Robust Transmission Design for IRS-aided MISO Communications with Imperfect Cascaded Channels
Creators: name: Zhou, Gui
name: Pan, Cunhua
name: Ren, Hong
name: Wang, Kezhi
name: Nallanathan, Arumugam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Intelligent reflection surface (IRS) has recently been recognized as a promising technique to enhance the performance of wireless systems due to its ability of reconfiguring the signal propagation environment. However, the perfect channel state information (CSI) is challenging to obtain at the base station (BS) due to the lack of radio frequency (RF) chains at the IRS. Since most of the existing channel estimation methods were developed to acquire the cascaded BS-IRS-user channels, this paper is the first work to study the robust beamforming based on the imperfect cascaded BS-IRS-user channels at the transmitter (CBIUT). Specifically, the transmit power minimization problems are formulated subject to the worst-case rate constraints under the bounded CSI error model and the rate outage probability constraints under the statistical CSI error model, respectively. After approximating the worst-case rate constraints by using the S-procedure and the rate outage probability constraints by using the Bernstein-type inequality, the reformulated problems can be efficiently solved. Numerical results show that the negative impact of the CBIUT error on the system performance is greater than that of the direct CSI error.
description: Accepted in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. Keywords: Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), robust transmission design
Rural Areas Weaning Themselves from Farming
Creators: name: Carlin, Thomas A.
name: Carlin, Thomas A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1987
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Labor and Human Capital

description: Farm policy alone is no longer a sufficient development policy for today's rural America. Rural economies have changed over the last 30-40 years, from reliance on farming to greater reliance on manufacturing and service industries. Rural economic development policies need to reflect today's changed rural economy.
Jets in Supermassive and Stellar-Mass Black Holes
Creators: name: Mirabel, I. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Relativistic outflows are a common phenomenon in accreting black holes. Despite the enormous differences in scale, stellar-mass black holes in X-ray binaries and collapsars, and super-massive black holes at the dynamic centre of galaxies are sources of jets with analogous physical properties. Synergism between the research on microquasars, gamma-ray bursts, and Active Galactic Nuclei should help to gain insight into the physics of relativistic jets seen everywhere in the Universe.
description: Invited Review at the XXI Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics (Firenze 9-13 Dec. 2002). 8 pages, 2 figures
Two-Step Sound Source Separation: Training on Learned Latent Targets
Creators: name: Tzinis, Efthymios
name: Venkataramani, Shrikant
name: Wang, Zhepei
name: Subakan, Cem
name: Smaragdis, Paris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this paper, we propose a two-step training procedure for source separation via a deep neural network. In the first step we learn a transform (and it's inverse) to a latent space where masking-based separation performance using oracles is optimal. For the second step, we train a separation module that operates on the previously learned space. In order to do so, we also make use of a scale-invariant signal to distortion ratio (SI-SDR) loss function that works in the latent space, and we prove that it lower-bounds the SI-SDR in the time domain. We run various sound separation experiments that show how this approach can obtain better performance as compared to systems that learn the transform and the separation module jointly. The proposed methodology is general enough to be applicable to a large class of neural network end-to-end separation systems.
description: Submitted to ICASSP 2020
Fluoride Varnish Application in the Pediatric Population
Creators: name: Gnaedinger, Ellen
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

Purpose: The United States (U.S.) has a persistent problem of dental caries in primary teeth with a greater prevalence of dental caries found in minority and poor children. The majority of children in the U.S. experience dental caries in their primary teeth by age eight. This problem could be addressed by primary care providers applying fluoride varnish (FV) to children's teeth starting at the age of primary tooth eruption. The causes of dental caries in children’s primary teeth are multifactorial and therefore require multiple interventions. Around the world providers are utilizing FV as an effective and easily administered strategy. This author implemented a quality improvement project of a FV application program in a Vermont pediatric practice, based on a United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) guideline.
Methods: After thorough preparation a staff training in FV application was done for providers and staff along with the pre-project questionnaire. The DNP student consulted with providers, registered nurses (RNs), the billing person and the office receptionist to determine the number of eligible patients who received FV. Qualitative data about facilitators and barriers to FV application were collected. At the conclusion of 4 months a post-questionnaire was done and a debrief of the project.
Results: Fluoride varnish was applied during well child check-ups (WCC) for children aged 9, 18, 24, and 30 months. Over the course of the project study 56% of patients received FV at their WCCs. Findings included: the staffs thorough understanding of pediatric dental health issues, ease of adding FV application to the flow of WCCs, positive reception by parents, FV as a meaningful use quality measure for AthenaNet, Electronic Health Record (EHR), increased oral health education, consistent reimbursement for the treatment.
Conclusion: This quality improvement project successfully introduced a FV application program to a pediatric practice. Fluoride varnish was applied during WCCs for children aged 9, 18, 24, and 30 months. Future suggestions include implementing similar programs in larger, more urban practices, considering safety studies to include children in the 6 to 12 month age range, and cohort studies to assess the efficacy of FV application programs.
Detecting Mixing Services via Mining Bitcoin Transaction Network with Hybrid Motifs
Creators: name: Wu, Jiajing
name: Liu, Jieli
name: Chen, Weili
name: Huang, Huawei
name: Zheng, Zibin
name: Zhang, Yan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As the first decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) cryptocurrency system allowing people to trade with pseudonymous addresses, Bitcoin has become increasingly popular in recent years. However, the P2P and pseudonymous nature of Bitcoin make transactions on this platform very difficult to track, thus triggering the emergence of various illegal activities in the Bitcoin ecosystem. Particularly, mixing services in Bitcoin, originally designed to enhance transaction anonymity, have been widely employed for money laundry to complicate trailing illicit fund. In this paper, we focus on the detection of the addresses belonging to mixing services, which is an important task for anti-money laundering in Bitcoin. Specifically, we provide a feature-based network analysis framework to identify statistical properties of mixing services from three levels, namely, network level, account level and transaction level. To better characterize the transaction patterns of different types of addresses, we propose the concept of Attributed Temporal Heterogeneous motifs (ATH motifs). Moreover, to deal with the issue of imperfect labeling, we tackle the mixing detection task as a Positive and Unlabeled learning (PU learning) problem and build a detection model by leveraging the considered features. Experiments on real Bitcoin datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our detection model and the importance of hybrid motifs including ATH motifs in mixing detection.
Individualized or non-individualized IDM: What elicits consumer preferences best?
Creators: name: Langena, Nina
name: Klink, Jeanette
name: Hartmann, Monika
name: Langena, Nina
name: Klink, Jeanette
name: Hartmann, Monika
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: In this paper we measure consumers’ preferences for different (ethical) product attributes by questionnaires and compare the results to the ones obtained using an individualized and a nonindividualized Information Display Matrix (IDM). The latter contains only those attributes the respective respondent stated to be important for her purchase decision. The products considered in our study are ham and coffee. The findings first confirm that the IDM is able to reduce social desirability effects, a problem which likely is of relevance in surveys investigating the relevance of ethical product characteristics. Second, using sequence analysis we show that the intensity of the information search process is significantly higher in the case of an individualized IDM compared to a standardized one. In fact in the latter many consumers neglect half of the attributes presented. Thus, using a standardized IDM implies the risk that product characteristics important for consumers’ purchase decision are left out while others that are of little or no relevance are included. Third, we show that it is possible and can be considered as a methodological advancement in IDM research to apply sequence analysis to data acquired via an IDM. Different indicators allow quantifying main characteristics of consumers’ information search process and make it possible to test for significant differences between data obtained from different IDM experiments.
Caring for the adult with intellectual disabilities in the acute care setting
Creators: name: Harmon, Donna
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

The U.S. Surveillance of Health of People with Intellectual Disabilities, A White Paper (2009), reported people with intellectual disability (PWID) are more likely to have complex conditions, limited access, missed cancer screenings, poorly managed chronic conditions, undetected poor vision, and mental health issues.  Research has shown there continues to be a gap in the educational preparation of healthcare providers in the care of people with intellectually disabilities, which contributes to substandard quality of care and increased morbidity and mortality. Best practices for this population include education of the healthcare provider.  A quality improvement project aimed at improving the knowledge and practices of acute care nurses caring for adults with intellectual disabilities was conducted at an academic medical center. The purpose of a two-hour educational program provided to nurses was to articulate the best practices in caring for this patient population. Following the education, 94.4% of the attendees were inspired to learn more about the subject and 88.9% reported they would apply the new knowledge to their practice. Increased knowledge and skill set of nurses caring for the intellectually disabled adult in the acute care setting improves the quality of care and has the potential to decrease morbidity and mortality.  This program further supports the need for expanding nursing curriculums to include the care of this population across the lifespan.