cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Einfluss des extrusionsbasierten Recyclings von isotaktischem Polypropylen, high-density-Polyethylen und deren Compounds auf die Molekülarchitektur und ausgewählte Eigenschaften
Creators: name: Siebert, Anna
name: Steuernagel, Leif
name: Fischlschweiger, Michael
name: Zimmermann, Jana
name: Hirschberg, Valerian
Publisher: name: TU Clausthal
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 620

description: Die Hauptbestandteile von Post-Consumer-Kunststoffabfällen sind Polypropylen, low-density Polyethylen und high-density Polyethylen. Aufgrund ihrer ähnlichen Dichte und chemischen Ähnlichkeit sind diese Kunststoffe im Recyclingstrom schwer voneinander zu trennen. Eine Möglichkeit, um die Polyolefine weiterzuverarbeiten, bietet das mechanische Recycling, bei dem der Reststoffstrom durch einen Extruder verarbeitet wird. Im Rahmen dieses Beitrags wird das mechanische Recycling von isotaktischem Polypropylen und high-density Polyethylen sowie deren Compounds simuliert. Die Analyse der Molekulararchitektur erfolgt mittels Kreuzfraktionierungschromatographie und Rheologie. Darüber hinaus wird der Elastizitätsmodul sowie die Nullscherviskosität untersucht. Das Verhalten der mechanischen Eigenschaften beim Recycling hängt von der Materialzusammensetzung ab. High-density Polyethylen zeigt ein konstanteres Verhalten gegenüber den Recyclingzyklen als isotaktisches Polypropylen, was auf Unterschiede im Kristallisationsverhalten zurückgeführt werden kann. Hieraus lässt sich ableiten, dass mit steigendem iPP-Anteil die Auswirkungen der Recyclingzyklen auf die Nullscherviskosität und somit auch auf das Gewichtsmittel zunehmen. Diese Erkenntnisse bieten wertvolle Anhaltspunkte für die zukünftige Identifizierung gezielter Prozessfenster.
description: Tagungsband 6. Symposium Materialtechnik: 20. bis 21. Februar 2025
Fermi-Liquid Theory of Non-S-Wave Superconductivity
Creators: name: Muzikar, P.
name: Rainer, D.
name: Sauls, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: These lectures present the Fermi-liquid theory of superconductivity, which is applicable to a broad range of systems that are candidates for non-s wave pairing, {\it e.g.} the heavy fermions, organic metals and the CuO superconductors. Ginzburg-Landau (GL) theory provides an important link between experimental properties of non-s wave superconductors and the more general Fermi-liquid theory. The multiple superconducting phases of UPt$_3$ provide an ideal example of the role that is played by the GL theory for non-s wave superconductors. The difference between non-s wave superconductivity and conventional anisotropic superconductivity is illustrated here by the unique effects that impurities are predicted to have on the properties of non-s wave superconductors.
description: 15 pages, 1 figure. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1812.09984
Early medical and social-environmental predictors of executive functioning and behavioural outcomes in four- to five-year-old children
Creators: name: Molnar, Holly
Publisher: name: University of Tasmania
Year: 2024

description: Executive functioning (EF) refers to a collection of higher-order cognitive processes, including shifting, updating, and inhibition. Previous research suggests that numerous medical and social-environmental factors increase the risk of cognitive and behavioural deficits associated with EF in preschool age children. Thus, the current study examined how key variables including (a) gestational age, (b) socioeconomic risk, and (c) quality of parenting behaviours predict EF and behaviour outcomes in four- to five-year-old children based on caregiver ratings. A total of 120 participants (52 parents of preterm children; 68 parents of term children) completed an online questionnaire used to assess their child’s EF. The questionnaire included subtests from the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function – Preschool Version (BRIEF-P) and the Child Behaviour Checklist (CBCL). Overall, the results revealed that socioeconomic risk was not a strong predictor of EF and behaviour outcomes. However, both gestational age and quality of parenting behaviour had strong negative associations with children’s EF and behaviour. In particular, lower parental limit setting significantly predicted poorer functioning and thus, should be a target for early intervention programs and supports. The findings suggest that parenting behaviours may play a more important role than social risk in the development of EF in young children.
A Mobile Initiative for Waste Disposal in Bringing Awareness to the Damage Littering Behavior Has on Storm Drains
Creators: name: Hung, Kimberly
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2018

description: Irresponsible dumping of wastes into sewage processes and unmaintained areas not intended for waste processing negatively impacts the surrounding environment and ecosystem homeostasis of the dumpsite. Perhaps one of the most concerning aspects of waste dumping is when the waste, that is improperly disposed as litter, begins to disrupt its local environment, and thus negatively impacting the health of everyone and everything in the relative environment. The overall objective of this capstone project was to develop a user-friendly platform that serves as an educational tool for the public to further improve understanding of waste disposal practices and encourage individuals to work with their communities to take simple steps to establish clean practices in their communities. The project, titled TrashCache, focuses on littering behavior as it contributes to storm drains, which flow directly into waterways. Due to increased popularity in using mobile devices, a mobile approach was produced as a method for distributing the educational material through a mobile-friendly website and social media campaign. A prototype of a mobile application was also developed, which would provide its users with easy access to the educational material, regardless of geographical location and internet availability. Perception of littering behavior was recorded through questionnaires. As a result, the mobile-friendly website and social media campaign were widely accepted and reached over 900 page views, reaching nearly 200 individuals around the United States within a 4 week period. The ever-growing problem of irresponsible waste disposal practice will continue to negatively influence the environment, unless there is more public awareness about this issue.
Automated Educational Question Generation at Different Bloom's Skill Levels using Large Language Models: Strategies and Evaluation
Creators: name: Scaria, Nicy
name: Chenna, Suma Dharani
name: Subramani, Deepak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Developing questions that are pedagogically sound, relevant, and promote learning is a challenging and time-consuming task for educators. Modern-day large language models (LLMs) generate high-quality content across multiple domains, potentially helping educators to develop high-quality questions. Automated educational question generation (AEQG) is important in scaling online education catering to a diverse student population. Past attempts at AEQG have shown limited abilities to generate questions at higher cognitive levels. In this study, we examine the ability of five state-of-the-art LLMs of different sizes to generate diverse and high-quality questions of different cognitive levels, as defined by Bloom's taxonomy. We use advanced prompting techniques with varying complexity for AEQG. We conducted expert and LLM-based evaluations to assess the linguistic and pedagogical relevance and quality of the questions. Our findings suggest that LLms can generate relevant and high-quality educational questions of different cognitive levels when prompted with adequate information, although there is a significant variance in the performance of the five LLms considered. We also show that automated evaluation is not on par with human evaluation.
A Historical Review of the Influenza Outbreaks Within Military Settings and Understanding the Viral Spread of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Creators: name: Ngadiman, Naomi
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2018

description: The influenza pandemic of 1918 was a tragic event that affected every part of the world and killed more people than compared to any other disease outbreak in history. During this epidemic, the United States was the most affected with a total of 675,000 American deaths with majority of them being around the ages of 20 to 40 years old in military training camps. By examining the history of the 1918 influenza pandemic, it will help us to better understand how the outbreak occurred particularly within the confined settings of military camps. The intended research will involve a systematic review of various literatures pertaining to the 1918 influenza pandemic and influenza outbreaks within the U.S. military camps. Examination of these literatures will provide a better understanding of how the virus spreads within the military population, how were the first cases identified, and how was the virus handled during that time. This historical reflection will also allow us to further evaluate current prevention strategies and what we can do to help improve these countermeasures for possible future outbreaks.
Alcohol Use among Orphans in Sub-saharan Africa: a Literature Review
Creators: name: Mallett, Megan
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2018

description: The current global orphan population is estimated to be 130 million children with a large proportion residing in sub-Saharan Africa. Children without parental influence are at increased risk for a range of health-risk behaviors including alcohol use. Despite the magnitude of the problems facing orphans, few studies have examined the prevalence of health-risk behaviors, including alcohol use, in this vulnerable population.  There is also limited guidance in published work related to recommendations for future research and programs that can better meet the needs of orphans, particularly those who live in urban slums.  A literature search of databases (EBSCO, PubMed, Google Scholar and Wiley Online Library) was performed using several key search terms to summarize published research.  The findings show that research related to alcohol use among orphans in sub-Saharan Africa is scarce and primarily comprise youth in Uganda. The literature review on orphans and alcohol within sub-Saharan Africa suggest the need for further research. Some studies suggest the need for program implementation, alcohol prevention marketing strategies, alcohol regulation and overall education on alcohol awareness for the OVC population within sub-Saharan Africa. More research is needed to address the association between orphan status and alcohol consumption within this region.
thought by a s
Creators: name: SAGAR, AMRIT SAGAR
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The Cycle of Consciousness and the Infinite Possibilities of Existence

My insight presents a deep existential realization—that consciousness appears, experiences existence, and then disappears, only to reappear in another possible form. This aligns perfectly with the God Point Theory, which suggests that nothing is fixed, and every possibility is realized in some form.
Assessment of Policies and Programs That Apply Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study Research
Creators: name: Tajik, Rohjan
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2018

description: Introduction: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) are common among the population. Based on the reported data and studies, the prevalence of ACEs related health issues is significantly high throughout the U.S. While policies and programs exist to address ACEs, more information is needed to understand the number of states that have legislation and the specific initiatives that fall under the legislation.
Method: To preliminarily answer this question, several online search engines were utilized: Google, PubMed, ACEs Connection Website, ACE Too High, CDC Website, state health department website, and ASTHO. From these sources, documented state legislations on ACEs were identified using the search terms policies, programs, state legislation, ACEs, toxic stress, childhood trauma, and childhood adversity. Information was organized within Excel Spreadsheets by sector, initiative, for each state.
Result: Based on the CDC website, only 12 states and the District of Columbia utilized the Optional ACE module from 2009 to 2012. Throughout the US, only half of the states have ACE-related legislations within four main sectors identified as education, healthcare, child welfare and juvenile justice. The information on Puerto Rico and U.S. territories for ACEs legislation was not evident. Among the 24 states that have legislation to address ACEs, California and Vermont have 7 specific initiatives, Washington state has 6, Massachusetts has 5, and Oregon and Tennessee have 4. House and Senate Bills were identified for four states including Massachusetts, Tennessee, Virginia, and Washington state. Most legislation are associated with child welfare and education sectors. Juvenile justice sector had the greatest gaps.
Conclusion: From the present assessment it appears that there is a lack of data on the prevalence of ACEs among adults across states. Furthermore, most of the initiatives around ACEs are focused on child welfare and education sectors. However, to have a strong impact on ACEs prevention, legislation should exist that cover multiple sectors. The role of monitoring the population through data collection is needed to inform policies set for the prevention and treatment of ACEs.
How Social and Lifestyle Factors of African American Women Influence Behavior and Prevalence of Obesity: Literature Review
Creators: name: Oliver, Briana
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2018

description: The US is experiencing what many in public health are calling an “obesity epidemic”. The American Heart Association estimates that about 70% of the population is overweight or obese. This issue is especially concerning for minority populations as being overweight or obese disproportionately affects African Americans more so than any other racial grouping in the country. African American women, in particular, are more likely than any other demographic to be overweight or obese throughout their life course.  Intervention programs are proving to be ineffective in curtailing this epidemic because they aren’t addressing the root cause of the issue: changing the attitudes and behaviors of those most affected by obesity. This capstone explores the complex nature of obesity prevention in regards to social and lifestyle factors that influence behavior among African American women and prevalence of obesity via a literature review of previous research done in this area, categorized in four major areas: lack of comprehensive interventions, impact of culture and lifestyle, how African American women view themselves and their health, and the effects mental health issues have on behaviors that influence obesity. Recommendations will also be discussed of the role public health professionals can play in combating the high prevalence of obesity in this community from the social/behavioral level.
Understanding Educational Vulnerability in the Context of Disasters Using Visualizations
Creators: name: Caldwell, Cherish
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2018

description: 
BACKGROUND: Children are particularly vulnerable to the impact of natural disasters, yet limited scholarly attention has been placed on understanding their needs. The effect disasters may have on children’s educational attainment and achievement, otherwise known as educational vulnerability, is one of the least studied aspects of children’s disaster research. The use of visualizations using open access data repositories can facilitate researchers understanding of children’s educational vulnerability post-disaster.
 
AIMS: This paper illustrates how visuals can be used to address challenges that researchers may encounter when using educational datasets to evaluate disaster-related educational vulnerability.  The challenges addressed include: (1) understanding data quality, (2) evaluating patterns within the data, (3) and evaluating for possible moderating variables.

DATA: This paper uses an example dataset containing educational data collected pre and post Hurricane Ike’s landfall in the Texas Gulf Coast in 2008. The publicly available data originated from the Texas Education Agency (TEA) and was compiled into a historical dataset for the school years 2003-2011. Schools served as the primary unit of analysis (n = 464). Performance on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) served as a proxy for school academic functioning.
 
CONCLUSIONS: The use of visualizations serves as a valuable method to aid in the understanding of educational vulnerability in the context of disasters. Visuals can be used to evaluate accuracy during data exploration, identify patterns within the data, and stimulate new questions and hypotheses. Future research should place focus on the utilization of longitudinal educational datasets, which will provide more detailed information regarding students’ educational vulnerability risks and needs.
Supplementary document for High-resolution 3D display using time-division light ray quadruplexing technology - 5871950.pdf
Creators: name: Omura, Takuya
name: Watanabe, Hayato
name: Kawakita, Masahiro
name: Arai, Jun
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Optical Technology

description: Supplemental document on diffusion screen, polarization grating, and control method of polarization switching device.
A Qualitative Analysis of the Environmental and Personal Factors which Influence the Help-Seeking Behaviors of Men who have Sex with Men in Light of the Emerging Threat of Antimicrobial Resistance to Shigella Bacteria
Creators: name: Jacobson, Kathleen
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2018

description: INTRODUCTION: Compared to their male counterparts, men who have sex with men (MSM) in the U.S. are burdened by a number of health disparities. Surveillance has confirmed that the MSM population are disproportionately impacted with shigellosis, a diarrheal condition caused by Shigella bacteria. The bacteria are showing signs of antimicrobial resistance, resulting in a reduction of treatment options and raising the risk of critical outcomes for those with HIV.

AIM: The aim of this study was to determine which elements of the triadic reciprocal causation model most influences the help-seeking behaviors of men who have sex with men both in general and as they relate to the emerging threat of antimicrobial resistance to Shigella bacteria/shigellosis.

METHODS: A total of n=24 participants recruited in metro Atlanta, Georgia took part in one of six focus groups designed to explore the personal and environmental factors which influence and guide their help-seeking behaviors as they relate to the new and emerging threat of antimicrobial resistance to Shigella bacteria. Employing the principles of grounded theory, the data were analyzed using MAXqda to identify themes that emerged during the discussions.

RESULTS: Themes surrounding the factors that influence the help-seeking behaviors of MSM are that most use the internet to search for general and sexual health information because it is convenient and widely available; information from the internet is viewed as less credible and trustworthy than the information received from a doctor, many participants stated a preference for a doctor who is gay-friendly; most turn to their social network for help and advice in finding a gay-friendly doctor. Relating to the emerging threat of shigellosis, the participants revealed an absence of or limited knowledge of the condition; they perceive there is a lack of awareness in the wider population and the medical community; they feel targeted by current shigellosis-related health materials; some feel encumbered by one more life-threatening disease; outcome expectancies related to shigellosis may drive help-seeking behaviors; varying opinions as to whether shigellosis should be labeled an STD; and cost may be a barrier to seeking a medical test for this condition.

DISCUSSION: Understanding the factors which influence help-seeking behaviors of MSM will inform those in research and public health and assist in the design of future health communication campaigns to raise awareness of new and emerging threats.
The Epidemiology of Wasting in Nigeria
Creators: name: Omotosho, Oluwatoyin
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2018

description: Wasting or acute malnutrition can be defined as low weight for height; it is used as an indicator of malnutrition. Wasting is a significant public health problem affecting children aged 5 and below in developing countries around the world. Nigeria, a developing country is severely affected by wasting and it is one of the countries that accounted for the high burden of wasting in the World. Over the last decade, the global prevalence of wasting has decreased. Despite this, the prevalence of wasting in Nigeria has drastically increased at a percentage of 18%. Evidence has shown that wasting leads to high mortality in children. Intervention programs are proving to be ineffective in curtailing wasting because they aren’t addressing the root cause of the issue. This capstone explores the complex nature of the determinants and prevalence of wasting in children under age five via a review of previous literature done in this area. Given its public health importance, the world health assembly in 2012 set a target to reduce wasting in children to less than 5 percent by 2025. Recommendations will also be discussed on the role public health professionals and the government can play in combating the high prevalence of wasting in Nigeria.
Computation of Biological Conductance with Liouville Quantum Master Equation
Creators: name: Papp, Eszter
name: Vattay, Gabor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Recent experiments have revealed that single proteins can display high conductivity, which stays finite for low temperatures, decays slowly with distance, and exhibits a rich spatial structure featuring highly conducting and strongly insulating domains. Here, we intruduce a new formula by combining the density matrix of the Liouville-Master Equation simulating quantum transport in nanoscale devices, and the phenomenological model of electronic conductance through molecules, that can account for the observed distance- and temperature dependence of conductance in proteins. We demonstrate its efficacy on experimentally highly conductive extracellular cytochrome nanowires, which are good candidates to illustrate our new approach by calculating and visualizing their electronic wiring, given the interest in the arrangement of their conducting and insulating parts. As proteins and protein nanowires exhibit significant potential for diverse applications, including energy production and sensing, our computational technique can accelerate the design of nano-bioelectronic devices.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures
Protecting College Students with Good Samaritan Policies: A Call to Action!
Creators: name: Sutton, Nia
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2018

description: This Capstone project centers a five-page policy brief which petitions the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia (USG) to implement a system-wide Good Samaritan amnesty policy for college students and alcohol-related emergencies. Each year, nearly 2,000 college students die due to alcohol-related harm5. College students are most susceptible to dangerous drinking and alcohol misuse6,14.Alcohol misuse describes alcohol consumption that puts individuals at increased risk for adverse social and health consequences3. Alcohol misuse through the form of binge and heavy drinking are the most common patterns of dangerous drinking for college students. Dangerous and excessive alcohol consumption result in problems like academic consequences, sexual assault, fighting and violence, unintentional injury and motor vehicle accidents, increased risk for homicide and suicide, and death by alcohol overdose. This policy brief advocates for protection against academic penalties, like expulsion or suspension, that are likely to dissuade students from stepping up to help. This policy will protect and empower college students to step up and help save the lives of their classmates, peers and friends.
A Resource Guide To Empower Older Adults to Make Informed Health Decisions About Prescription Opioids And The Potential For Misuse
Creators: name: Al-Haddad, Kandia
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2018

description: INTRODUCTION: In the past two decades, the U.S. has been combating the public health crisis of prescription opioids misuse among older adults. There is an increasing prevalence of older adult misuse and abuse of prescription opioids. However, through greater awareness of proper use and alternatives to prescription opioids, this trend can be reversed.
AIM: To develop a resource guide that will empower older adults to engage their health care providers as it pertains to prescription opioid use in the treatment of pain.
METHODS: A literature review of research articles, review of fact sheets, and interviews with three medical doctors in various fields of medicine was conducted.
RESULTS: A guide was created that included key statistics about older adults, the definition and identification of prescription opioids, reasons for and risks of addiction and abuse, key steps to avoid addiction and abuse, and available resources.
DISCUSSION: Research on the misuse and abuse of prescription opioids was limited and, in many cases, outdated. Furthermore, the information available needed to be made more accessible.
CONCLUSION: The creation of a resource guide containing critical information about opioids was feasible. The guide can serve as a key first step in prompting conversations with health care providers.
From Clicks to Carbon: The Environmental Toll of Recommender Systems
Creators: name: Vente, Tobias
name: Wegmeth, Lukas
name: Said, Alan
name: Beel, Joeran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As global warming soars, the need to assess the environmental impact of research is becoming increasingly urgent. Despite this, few recommender systems research papers address their environmental impact. In this study, we estimate the environmental impact of recommender systems research by reproducing typical experimental pipelines. Our analysis spans 79 full papers from the 2013 and 2023 ACM RecSys conferences, comparing traditional "good old-fashioned AI" algorithms with modern deep learning algorithms. We designed and reproduced representative experimental pipelines for both years, measuring energy consumption with a hardware energy meter and converting it to CO2 equivalents. Our results show that papers using deep learning algorithms emit approximately 42 times more CO2 equivalents than papers using traditional methods. On average, a single deep learning-based paper generates 3,297 kilograms of CO2 equivalents - more than the carbon emissions of one person flying from New York City to Melbourne or the amount of CO2 one tree sequesters over 300 years.
description: Accepted for presentation at the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems in the Reproducibility Track
WHO Drinking Water Guidelines
Creators: name: Jagne, Aja
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: INTRODUCTION:  The World Health Organization has a published collection of Guidelines for Drinking Water Quality. These Guidelines are the outcome of the input of various experts in this subject matter from all over the world. This capstone project focuses on providing updated data for three specific viruses: Coronaviruses, Orthomyxoviruses and Filoviruses.  
 
AIM:The project aims to provide updated general descriptions, overviews on human health effects, background on specific epidemiology, transmission, environmental significance and control measures for Coronaviruses, Orthomyxoviruses and Filoviruses. This information will be presented in a way that is consistent with the fact sheets that are already published in the collection. 
 
METHODS:Relevant information for each subsection of the virus outlines was obtained through searches within online databases. The search engines used were PubMED, The Georgia State University Library, and GoogleScholar. To ensure that the most recent data for each virus was found, only information within a 15-20-year time frame was cited. Search terms initially remained broad to ensure that applicable data was not overlooked and was gradually condensed to remain consistent with the information provided in other fact sheets in the collection.  
 
RESULTS:  The information provided from these factsheets will be synthesized from the literature review and will be presented in language accessible to a variety of audiences. 
 
DISCUSSION: The WHO identifies the primary purpose of the Guidelines for Drinking Water as the “protection of Public Health”.  With the data provided in these fact sheets, the public can make informed decisions regarding the maintenance of potable drinking water and controlling these three specific viruses that affect drinking water.
Community Organizing as a Vehicle to Promote Public Health in Clarkston, GA: A Literature Review & Case Study of Georgia Refugee Health and Mental Health
Creators: name: Mulugeta, Maylott
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: Community organizing has long been utilized as an effective and necessary vehicle to promote public health, and more broadly engage communities living at the intersections of racial, gender, housing, education, and immigration injustices. Although meaningful and effective health promotion, and more specifically health equity, requires multiple top-down and bottom-up systems changes, communities organizing around their own health and well-being is fundamentally the crux of many public health strategies and interventions. The aim of this project was to conduct a literature review of community organizing through the lens of: (1) health equity promotion (2) the transformative organizing model (3) impact and power of youth organizing (4) immigrant & refugee-led community organizing and (5) the current funding landscape for community organizing. The summative results of this review suggest that community organizing can serve as a critical and irreplaceable tool for promoting health equity and that in particular; organizing is seen as increasingly impactful among communities that are most marginalized.
In addition to a literature review on community organizing models, practices, and current environmental landscape, a case study was conducted on a small growing organization in Clarkston, GA: The WellRefugee Center (Georgia Refugee Health and Mental Health). This group of local health advocates, mostly from the community they serve, have a history of health justice community organizing for Clarkston residents. The case study highlights their organizing efforts and provides tangible resources and recommendations for expanding their community organizing strategies and approaches to complement their direct services.
Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Opt-out Testing in a Southern Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)
Creators: name: Pinholster, Leah
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: INTRODUCTION The CDC recommends one-time HCV screening of all baby boomers and those at high risk for infection. Despite HCV being the most common blood-borne virus in the US, routine HCV testing is not uniformly practiced. 
AIM To evaluate the prevalence of HIV/HCV screening prior to and following the implementation of a dual routine opt-out program, the linkage to care practices for positive patients, and the demographic characteristics of positive patients in a southern FQHC.
METHODSWe conducted a retrospective, cross-sectional study using electronic health record data from patients receiving care at SMC in Atlanta. 
RESULTS Pre-implementation: Of the 68 HIV+ patients, most were linked to care (97.05%), African American (95.59%), non-Hispanic (98.53%), and male (62.50%). Of the 89 HCV+ patients, most were African American (67.42%), non-Hispanic (97.75%), male (53.93%), and baby boomers (72.02%). There were 3 co-infected patients.Post-implementation: Of the 232 HIV+ patients most were African American (82.33%), non-Hispanic (93.53%), and male (58.19%). The linkage to care rate was 96.98%. Of the 274 HCV+ patients, 52.92% were African American, 94.89% were non-Hispanic, 55.84% were male, 79.71% were linked to care, and 77.38% were baby boomers. There were 13 co-infected patients.
 DISCUSSION These results reflect the population SMC serves: non-Hispanic African Americans.The age distribution of the HCV+ patients matched the trends seen nationwide for the 1945-1965 birth cohort. There was a 286% increase for HIV tests. The increase in HIV/HCV testing and high linkage to care rates may partly be due to the hiring of an Infectious Disease specialist in 2015.
Supplementary document for High-resolution 3D display using time-division light ray quadruplexing technology - 5871950.pdf
Creators: name: Omura, Takuya
name: Watanabe, Hayato
name: Kawakita, Masahiro
name: Arai, Jun
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Optical Technology

description: Supplemental document on diffusion screen, polarization grating, and control method of polarization switching device.
Promoting an Urban Utopia: The Role of Community Gardens on Community Vitality
Creators: name: Staley, Kayla
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: INTRODUCTION: Community gardens are becoming more prevalent in urban environments in efforts to improve the physical, social, and environmental aspects of communities. There are known hypothesized benefits of community gardens about the physical and mental health of individuals who utilize them. However, the role of community gardens on community vitality as a whole has yet to be looked at substantially. The vitality of a community pertains to its ability to self-sustain, as well as promote a greater sense of well-being among its residents.
AIM: This study sought to explore relationships between community gardens and indicators of vitality over time when indicators of vitality are defined as median household income, educational attainment, the establishment of businesses and occupied housing units.
METHODS: A quantitative study design was conceptualized to allow quantitative data analysis of the United State Census Bureau data on the census tract level. Census tract data were obtained for each community garden and analyzed against the indicators of vitality, as defined by this paper, for each census tract that contained a community garden. Patterns and observations were made in an attempt to link the presence of community gardens and the potential role they have to play on the vitality of a community. County-level data were also analyzed for data relating to business and employment.
RESULTS: Results varied for each indicator of vitality for the community gardens within the sample population. All community gardens' census tracts experienced an increase in median household income from the last documented census to the most current datum in 2013. There were no direct associations between the presence of a community garden and the educational attainment of the residents within that census tract. There was an increase in total establishments within all counties included in the study from the last documented census to the most current data in 2013.
DISCUSSION: Overall, there is a loose association between the presence of community gardens and an increase in median household income per census tract. However, the presence of the community garden cannot be solidified as the sole or primary reason for this loose association, along with all other data analyzed. The research suggests that there is potential for a direct link between community gardens and the vitality of a community. However, there is room for further investigation of this topic, to solidify a useful tool to evaluate these potential benefits.
The slaughterhouse of science: turning scientific leftovers into historical data
Creators: name: Volynskaya, Alina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Hegel famously called history a slaughter-bench (Schlachtbank); Franco Moretti transferred this metaphor to literature, referring to the “great unread”, an archive of forgotten books to be rediscovered through distant reading. I will borrow it in order to allude to the extensive array of neglected and overlooked sources in the history of science, which could be brought back into view through datafication. These are what I call leftovers of science: drafts, protocols of failed experiments, obsolete scientific instruments, photographs, reports and other outdated documentation of the laboratory routine. Such artifacts constitute by-products of knowledge production, which are left behind by science. They are, however, of crucial importance for the history of science, as they constitute object-knowledge, bearing testimony to certain facets of science’s history, participating in our understanding of “science in the making”. The question is how to (again) make them part of the knowledge process? How to turn them into data readable and interpretable for the history of science? The poster presents some preliminary reflections toward a new data model for the leftovers of science.
The Use of Art to Increase Awareness about Mental Well-being and Promotion of Mental Health among the African American Community
Creators: name: Murden, Andromada
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: Mental Illness in America affects about 43.8 million individuals in a year’s time. Internationally, the number one cause of disabilities is depression, which impacts the lives of about 16 million people every year. Depression is the most common mental illness in the African American community regardless of age or gender. Stigma around having a mental illness discourages the African American community from pursuing professional help. Mental Illness in Atlanta is unique because the city’s population is over 50% African American/black and this is the major demographic that does not utilize mental health services. Black Communities have developed a mistrust in the health care system, the root of which is multifactorial. In order for Black Communities to have a positive experience there must be access to care, cultural competence, an increase in minority health care providers, and most importantly trust within the patient-physician relationship. Natural helpers are individuals in the community that provide advice, support, and/or aid to other community members. They know what the community is lacking and the best way to ignite change through the social networks already established. Consequently, natural helpers have the ability to create a link between the community and professional health care services. The Emoji Art Show provides an outlet for Artist in various cities, including Atlanta, to heal and express themselves through art.
Global weather map reveals persistent top-of-atmosphere features on the nearest brown dwarfs
Creators: name: Chen, Xueqing
name: Biller, Beth A.
name: Vos, Johanna M.
name: Crossfield, Ian J. M.
name: Mace, Gregory N.
name: Hood, Callie E.
name: Tan, Xianyu
name: Allers, Katelyn N.
name: Martin, Emily C.
name: Bubb, Emma
name: Fortney, Jonathan J.
name: Morley, Caroline V.
name: Hammond, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Brown dwarfs and planetary-mass companions display rotationally modulated photometric variability, especially those near the L/T transition. This variability is commonly attributed to top-of-atmosphere (TOA) inhomogeneities, with proposed models including patchy thick and thin clouds, planetary-scale jets, or chemical disequilibrium. Surface mapping techniques are powerful tools to probe their atmospheric structures and distinguish between models. One of the most successful methods for stellar surface mapping is Doppler imaging, where the existence of TOA inhomogeneities can be inferred from their varying Doppler shifts across the face of a rotating star. We applied Doppler imaging to the nearest brown dwarf binary WISE 1049AB (aka Luhman 16AB) using time-resolved, high-resolution spectroscopic observations from Gemini IGRINS, and obtained for the first time H and K band simultaneous global weather map for brown dwarfs. Compared to the only previous Doppler map for a brown dwarf in 2014 featuring a predominant mid-latitude cold spot on WISE 1049B and no feature on WISE 1049A, our observations detected persistent spot-like structures on WISE 1049B in the equatorial to mid-latitude regions on two nights, and revealed new polar spots on WISE 1049A. Our results suggest stability of atmospheric features over timescale of days and possible long-term stable or recurring structures. H and K band maps displayed similar structures in and out of CO bands, indicating the cold spots not solely due to chemical hotspots but must involve clouds. Upcoming 30-m extremely large telescopes (ELTs) will enable more sensitive Doppler imaging of dozens of brown dwarfs and even a small number of directly-imaged exoplanets.
description: 32 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Il diritto della psiche
The right of psyche
Creators: name: Dimasi, Luca <1985>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2015
Subjects: IUS/10 Diritto amministrativo

description: Il contributo analizza dal punto di vista del diritto e dell'etica il trattamento sanitario del malato psichiatrico.
description: The author deal with the treatment of psychiatric infirm.
A Resource Guide on the Epidemiology, Prevention, and Treatment of Opioid and Other Substance Use.
Creators: name: Rotoloni, Anthony
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: In the wake of the opioid epidemic, there is a need to provide sound educational materials that provide succinct and consolidated information on substance use and their disorders. Substance abuse is a public health epidemic and rates of substance abuse in the United States has been growing substantially. Childhood trauma has been shown to be a predictor of engagement in risky behaviors, like substance abuse and risky sexual behaviors later in life. The rates of HIV/STDs have been increasing alongside increases in substance use. Substance use has been found to raise the risk of a person engaging in risky sexual behavior. Thus, the purpose of this capstone project was to create an educational pamphlet for individuals to learn about the epidemiology, and risks of various substance abuse. The target audience for the pamphlet are MPH students and recent MPH graduates; public health professionals who may work in other fields; substance abuse researchers at the CDC, or CDC researchers moving into substance abuse research from an outside field. The pamphlet covers four of the most commonly abused substances:alcohol, opiates, amphetamines, and cannabis. There are four sections covering each type of substance with information on: 1) What the substance is with both scientific and general language: 2) Mechanisms of how the substance interacts with neurotransmitters; 3) the areas of the brain affected by the substance. The pamphlet also includes a table for each type of substance and current federal, state, and local initiatives to address the public health problem.
Convert and Speak: Zero-shot Accent Conversion with Minimum Supervision
Creators: name: Jia, Zhijun
name: Xue, Huaying
name: Peng, Xiulian
name: Lu, Yan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Low resource of parallel data is the key challenge of accent conversion(AC) problem in which both the pronunciation units and prosody pattern need to be converted. We propose a two-stage generative framework "convert-and-speak" in which the conversion is only operated on the semantic token level and the speech is synthesized conditioned on the converted semantic token with a speech generative model in target accent domain. The decoupling design enables the "speaking" module to use massive amount of target accent speech and relieves the parallel data required for the "conversion" module. Conversion with the bridge of semantic token also relieves the requirement for the data with text transcriptions and unlocks the usage of language pre-training technology to further efficiently reduce the need of parallel accent speech data. To reduce the complexity and latency of "speaking", a single-stage AR generative model is designed to achieve good quality as well as lower computation cost. Experiments on Indian-English to general American-English conversion show that the proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art performance in accent similarity, speech quality, and speaker maintenance with only 15 minutes of weakly parallel data which is not constrained to the same speaker. Extensive experimentation with diverse accent types suggests that this framework possesses a high degree of adaptability, making it readily scalable to accommodate other accents with low-resource data. Audio samples are available at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/convert-and-speak-zero-shot-accent-conversion-with-minimumsupervision/.
description: 9 pages, ACM MM2024(accepted)
Evaluating Strategies for Community-sourced Photography for Mapping Alcohol Adverts in the Urban Slums in Kampala, Uganda
Creators: name: Madden, Joseph
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: The transient and temporary nature of urban slums throughout the world provide a challenge for collecting actionable data on indicators that can accurately predict factors that have  both adverse and protective effects on health.  By studying methods to identify hotspots of alcohol advertising more efficiently, there can be a better system for allocating resources or directing research teams to focus efforts on more in-depth studies.  In this capstone, a pilot exercise performed in May 2019 explored utilizing locally sourced photographs of alcohol advertisements and then digitally mapping this data to identify and visualize areas of concern that contain a large volume of alcohol advertisements.   The aim of this evaluation is to determine the feasibility of this digital mapping method to determine if it is a cost-effective tool that can accurately identify these areas of concern. In addition to the May 2019 pilot project, this paper evaluates other digital mapping projects to continue to improve accuracy, efficiency, and effectiveness.