cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Real-world treatment of gout and asymptomatic hyperuricemia: A cross-sectional study of Japanese health insurance claims data
Creators: name: Koto, Ruriko
name: Nakajima, Akihiro
name: Horiuchi, Hideki
name: Yamanaka, Hisashi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: To assess gout and asymptomatic hyperuricemia in Japan and review treatment conditions. This retrospective cross-sectional study analyzed the prevalence of hyperuricemia and gout, and characteristics and treatment of patients with those conditions, using Japanese health insurance claims and medical check-up data collected from April 2016 through March 2017. Among 2,531,383 persons registered in the database, 1.1% (men 1.9%, women <0.1%) were diagnosed with gout and 2.6% (4.1%, 0.4%) with asymptomatic hyperuricemia. Medical check-ups showed 13.4% (19.6%, 1.0%) of patients with hyperuricemia (serum uric acid [sUA] > 7.0 mg/dL). Urate-lowering therapy (ULT) was prescribed for 80.7% of patients identified with gout and 72.4% identified with asymptomatic hyperuricemia. ULT adherence was satisfactory, but most patients were treated with low-dose ULT. Less than half of patients receiving ULT achieved the sUA target (≤6.0 mg/dL). In gout patients, the incidence of gout flare was 47.8% (0.74 flares/person-year). Although hyperuricemia prevalence is similar in Japan and worldwide, gout is comparatively rare in Japan. Gout and asymptomatic hyperuricemia are often treated with low-dose ULT, and many patients fail to reach target sUA, suggesting that gout management is suboptimal in Japan. Patients would benefit from stricter focus on a treat-to-target approach for gout management.
Field Theory of Reaction-Diffusion: Mass Action with an Energetic Variational Approach
Creators: name: Wang, Yiwei
name: Liu, Chun
name: Liu, Pei
name: Eisenberg, Bob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the energetic variational approach so it can be applied to a chemical reaction system with general mass action kinetics. Our approach starts with an energy-dissipation law. We show that the chemical equilibrium is determined by the choice of the free energy and the dynamics of the chemical reaction is determined by the choice of the dissipation. This approach enables us to couple chemical reactions with other effects, such as diffusion and drift in an electric field. As an illustration, we apply our approach to a non-equilibrium reaction-diffusion system in a specific but canonical set-up. We show by numerical simulation that the input-output relation of such a system depends on the choice of the dissipation.
description: 10 pages; 4 figures
DISTRIBUIÇÃO E DETERMINANTES DE PARÂMETROS BIOMÉTRICOS OCULARES EM CANDIDATOS A CIRURGIA DE CATARATA EM PORTUGAL
Creators: name: Ferreira, Tiago
name: Feijoo, Bernardo
name: Zabala, Leyre
name: Campos, Paul
name: Guerra, Paulo
name: Ribeiro, Filomena
Publisher: name: Revista Sociedade Portuguesa de Oftalmologia
Year: 2018

description: Objetivo Descrever os parâmetros biométricos oculares médios e suas associações numa população de candidatos a cirurgia de catarata em Portugal. Material e Métodos Foi realizado um estudo retrospetivo de 3253 olhos de 2928 doentes. O comprimento axial (AL), queratometria média (Km) e astigmatismo, profundidade da câmara anterior (ACD), espessura do cristalino (LT) e branco-a-branco (WTW) foram estudados por refletometria de coerência ótica (Lenstar LS900, Haag-Streit AG). Resultados A idade média foi de 70 ± 10 (45 – 99) anos. O AL, Km e ACD médios foram de 23.83 ± 1.54 mm (19.8 – 31.92), 43.85 ± 1.11 D (40.61 – 54.62) e 3.25 ± 0.46 mm (1.85 – 5.42), respetivamente. A LT média foi de 4.35 ± 0.49 mm (2.73 – 5.77) e o WTW médio de 12.00 ± 0.47 mm (9.13 – 14.15). O astigmatismo corneano médio foi de 1.10 ± 0.90 D (0 – 4.0), tendo 42.7% dos olhos astigmatismo ³ 1 D. Os doentes do sexo masculino apresentaram maiores AL e ACDs (p
description: Revista Sociedade Portuguesa de Oftalmologia, Vol. 41 N.º 4 (2017)
Milgram experiment - ethical or unethical?
Creators: name: Dolinski, Dariusz
name: Grzyb, Tomasz
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Main question of the study: would the societal opinion on the ethics or lack thereof of the Milgram experiment be different if the participants had behaved differently? In other words - if, under the same procedure used by Stanley Milgram, he had obtained results indicating a decisive refusal by the majority of participants, would his study still be considered unethical?
Associated strangeness production at threshold
Creators: name: Kowina, P.
name: Wolke, M.
name: Adam, H. -H.
name: Budzanowski, A.
name: Czyzykiewicz, R.
name: Grzonka, D.
name: Janusz, M.
name: Jarczyk, L.
name: Kamys, B.
name: Khoukaz, A.
name: Kilian, K.
name: Lister, T.
name: Moskal, P.
name: Oelert, W.
name: Rozek, T.
name: Santo, R.
name: Schepers, G.
name: Sefzick, T.
name: Siemaszko, M.
name: Smyrski, J.
name: Steltenkamp, S.
name: Strzalkowski, A.
name: Winter, P.
name: Wustner, P.
name: Zipper, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The associated strangeness dissociation at threshold has been studied at the COSY-11 facility measuring the hyperon - and the K+K- meson pair production. Measurements of the near threshold Lambda and Sigma0 production via the pp -> pK+ Lambda / Sigma0 reaction at COSY-11 have shown that the Lambda / Sigma0 cross section ratio exceeds the value at high excess energies (Q >= 300 MeV) by an order of magnitude. For a better understanding additional data have been taken between 13 MeV and 60 MeV excess energy. The near threshold production of the charged kaon-antikaon pair is related to the discussion about the nature of the scalar states in the 1 GeV/c^2 mass range, i.e. the f0(980) and a0(980). The interpretation as a K anti-K molecule is strongly dependent on the K anti-K interaction which can be studied via the production channel. A first total cross section value on the reaction pp -> ppK+K- at an excess energy of 17 MeV i.e. below the phi production threshold was measured.
description: 3 pages, 2 figures, Presented at Conference on Quarks and Nuclear Physics (QNP 2002), Julich, Germany, 9-14 Jun 2002
Complex organic molecules in comets from remote-sensing observations at millimeter wavelengths
Creators: name: Biver, Nicolas
name: Bockelée-Morvan, Dominique
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Remote observations of comets, especially using high spectral resolution millimeter spectroscopy, have enabled the detection of over 25 molecules in comets for the last twenty years. Among the molecules identified at radio wavelengths, complex organic molecules (COMs) such as acetaldehyde, ethylene-glycol, formamide, methyl-formate or ethanol have been observed in several comets and their abundances relative to water and methanol precisely determined. Significant upper limits on the abundance of several other COMs have been determined and put constraints on the dominant isomer for three of them. The abundances measured in comets are generally of comparable order of magnitude as those measured in star-forming regions, suggesting that comets contain preserved material from the presolar cloud from which the solar system was born.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures
LUXAÇÕES TARDIAS DO COMPLEXO SACO-LENTE INTRA-OCULAR: ANÁLISE DEMOGRÁFICA, FATORES DE RISCO E ABORDAGEM CIRÚRGICA
Creators: name: Feijoo, Bernardo
Publisher: name: Revista Sociedade Portuguesa de Oftalmologia
Year: 2018

description: OBJECTIVOS: Os relatos de luxações tardias espontâneas, parciais ou totais, do complexo saco capsular-lente intraocular (LIO) têm vindo a aumentar. Esta complicação é reportada em média 6.9-10.9 anos após a cirurgia de catarata, em doentes com idades médias entre 71-80 anos. A crescente exigência visual da população, que tem conduzido ao implante de LIOs em indivíduos cada vez mais jovens, tem contribuído para um aumento exponencial da população pseudofáquica. É assim expectável que com o envelhecimento global, possamos vir a assistir a uma prevalência cada vez maior desta complicação. A PEX tem sido reportada como fator de risco mais comum, contribuindo para 40% ou mais dos casos. Não existem para Portugal dados epidemiológicos de complicações com LIOs, nem de prevalência de fatores de risco. O objetivo deste trabalho é caracterizar esta complicação, em termos demográficos, na nossa prática clínica com identificação dos fatores de risco e avaliação das abordagens cirúrgicas utilizadas. MATERIAL E MÉTODOS: Estudo retrospetivo que envolveu 4 centros da área da Grande Lisboa. Foram incluídos casos de subluxações tardias do complexo saco-LIO, pelo menos 3 meses após cirurgia de catarata não complicada, com indicação operatória, diagnosticados entre Janeiro de 2015 e Setembro de 2016. Foi calculado o período de tempo decorrido entre a cirurgia de catarata e o diagnóstico da subluxação. Apresentamos os dados demográficos dos doentes, fatores de risco, abordagem cirúrgica, acuidades visuais pré- e pós-operatórias e complicações pós-operatórias. RESULTADOS: Analisámos 37 olhos de 34 doentes, com idade média de 79.94 anos e predomínio do sexo masculino (73.53%). A subluxação foi diagnosticada em média 9.18 anos depois da cirurgia de catarata. O fator de risco mais frequentemente identificado foi a pseudoexfoliação (67.57%). Na maioria dos doentes operados (92.3%) houve melhoria da acuidade visual corrigida. As abordagens cirúrgicas utilizadas incluíram reposicionamento do complexo com fixação escleral, fixação da lente original à íris, explante do complexo e implante de lente de fixação à iris (pré- ou retro-pupilar), associadas ou não a vitrectomia via pars plana. CONCLUSÕES: Identificámos um número considerável de casos num período de tempo relativamente curto (20 meses). A pseudoexfoliação foi o fator de risco mais frequentemente identificado e com uma prevalência superior à média reportada na literatura. As técnicas cirúrgicas utilizadas ofereceram bons resultados, em termos de acuidade visual. A caracterização desta patologia é fundamental para compreendermos a fisiopatologia deste processo e identificarmos precocemente doentes em risco, de forma a prevenir e otimizar a abordagem desta grave complicação da cirurgia de catarata moderna.
description: Revista Sociedade Portuguesa de Oftalmologia, Vol. 41 N.º 4 (2017)
Open, Transparent and Reproducible Data Science in Clinical Metabolomics using Jupyter Notebooks and Cloud Computing
Creators: name: Broadhurst, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110199 Medical Biochemistry and Metabolomics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Metabonews Vol 9 Issue 10 Dec 2019 feature article contributed by David Broadhurst, Centre for Integrative Metabolomics & Computational Biology, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia.
COMPARAÇÃO DE METODOLOGIAS ACTUAIS PARA CÁLCULO DA POTÊNCIA DA LENTE INTRA-OCULAR
Creators: name: Feijoo, Bernardo
Publisher: name: Revista Sociedade Portuguesa de Oftalmologia
Year: 2018

description: OBJECTIVOS: Comparar o erro refrativo subjetivo determinado por quatro métodos de cálculo de lentes intra-oculares (LIO) – fórmulas SRK-T, Barrett, PhacoOptics e Radial Basis Functions (RBF) – com o equivalente esférico subjetivo residual. Comparar a potência da LIO obtida numa pseudo-população Montecarlo com combinações infrequentes de parâmetros biométricos. MATERIAL E MÉTODOS: Numa amostra populacional Portuguesa de 188 olhos pseudofáquicos com três tipos de lentes monofocais, avaliámos retrospetivamente os quatro métodos de cálculo. A avaliação pré-operatória foi realizada sempre com o Lenstar. RESULTADOS: A RBF apresentou um erro absoluto inferior em 61,2% dos casos para olhos com comprimentos axiais (AL) entre 22 e 24mm, sendo também a que mais se aproximou do zero na amostra populacional total, neste último caso com significância estatística. O erro mediano absoluto foi superior em todos os métodos para olhos com AL≤22,0mm. Em 97,9% dos casos a PhacoOptics teve um erro inferior a 1,00D, seguido da Barrett com 97,3%, RBF com 96,3% e por último a SRK-T com 93,6%. Perante combinações infrequentes, a discrepância entre a escolha das lentes é superior, com 50% dos casos com >1,0D de diferença. Em 39,4% dos casos a SRK-T e a RBF apresentaram os mesmos valores de cálculo de LIO. CONCLUSÕES: No geral, a metodologia RBF apresentou melhores resultados. A metodologia PhacoOptics apresentou, nesta população, um menor erro máximo. A SRK-T e a RBF apresentaram boa concordância no cálculo da LIO. Assim, apenas múltiplas estratégias personalizadas poderão permitir atingir os melhores resultados refrativos.
description: Revista Sociedade Portuguesa de Oftalmologia, Vol. 41 N.º 4 (2017)
Fences, their endpoints, and projective Fraïssé theory
Creators: name: Basso, Gianluca
name: Camerlo, Riccardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03E15, 54F50, 54F65 (Primary)

description: We introduce a new class of compact metrizable spaces, which we call fences, and its subclass of smooth fences. We isolate two families $\mathcal F, \mathcal F_0$ of Hasse diagrams of finite partial orders and show that smooth fences are exactly the spaces which are approximated by projective sequences from $\mathcal F_0$. We investigate the combinatorial properties of Hasse diagrams of finite partial orders and show that $\mathcal F, \mathcal F_0$ are projective Fraïssé families with a common projective Fraïssé limit. We study this limit and characterize the smooth fence obtained as its quotient, which we call a Fraïssé fence. We show that the Fraïssé fence is a highly homogeneous space which shares several features with the Lelek fan, and we examine the structure of its spaces of endpoints. Along the way we establish some new facts in projective Fraïssé theory.
description: Version accepted for publication in the Transaction of the American Mathematical Society
Additional file 1 of Intersectionality in help-seeking for eating disorders: a systematic scoping review
Creators: name: Wilkins, Jessica
name: Ahmed, Muhammad
name: Allen, Karina
name: Schmidt, Ulrike
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1: Search strategy
supplementary material
Creators: name: Xiaoxiao Cheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200102 Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Supplemental material for manuscript RCJC-2019-0144 Who Could Benefit Most from the Web? Heterogeneous Effects of Internet Access on Environmental Knowledge (second round of peer review) in Chinese Journal of Communication.
Response to tocilizumab and work productivity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: 2-year follow-up of FIRST ACT-SC study
Creators: name: Tanaka, Yoshiya
name: Kameda, Hideto
name: Saito, Kazuyoshi
name: Kaneko, Yuko
name: Tanaka, Eiichi
name: Yasuda, Shinsuke
name: Tamura, Naoto
name: Fujio, Keishi
name: Fujii, Takao
name: Toshihisa Kojima
name: Anzai, Tatsuhiko
name: Chikuma Hamada
name: Fujino, Yoshihisa
name: Matsuda, Shinya
name: Kohsaka, Hitoshi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Objectives: We evaluated long-term control of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in Japanese paid workers (PWs) and house workers (HWs) treated with subcutaneous tocilizumab (TCZ-SC) and explored factors affecting response to TCZ-SC regarding work productivity. Methods: This study collected data from patients with RA in the TCZ-SC +/− conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs group. Factors affecting the response to tocilizumab regarding work productivity were explored using logistic regression. Differences in quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) between with/without response were analysed by a linear regression. Results: Data were analysed for 357/360 patients. Patients with a ≥ 75% improvement in activity impairment (AI) were considered responders. EuroQol-5 Dimension (EQ-5D), six-item Kessler psychological distress scale score (K6), Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index (HAQ-DI), and the patient’s disease global health by visual analogue scale were significant contributors to TCZ-SC response based on improvements in AI. Work Functioning Impairment Scale, presenteeism, EQ-5D, K6, and HAQ-DI significantly contributed to the improvement of overall work impairment in PWs. Shorter disease duration also was related to TCZ-SC response based on AI improvements. Responders had significantly larger mean QALYs than non-responders (difference = 0.2614; p Conclusions: These real-world clinical data support long-term work productivity control with TCZ-SC for biologic-naïve HWs and PWs with RA.
The mass function and distribution of velocity dispersions for UZC groups of galaxies
Creators: name: Pisani, Armando
name: Ramella, Massimo
name: Geller, Margaret J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measure the distribution of velocity dispersions of groups of galaxies identified in the UZC catalog; we use the distribution to derive the group mass function. We introduce a new method which makes efficient use of the entire magnitude limited catalog. Our determination of \nst includes a significant contribution from low luminosity systems that would be missing in a volume limited sample. We start from a model for the probability density function of the total number of group members and reproduce the observed distribution. We take several effects like the local fluctuations in volume density, limited sampling and group selection into account. We estimate the relation between total number of members, total luminosity and true velocity dispersion. We can then reproduce not only the observed distribution of \sv but also the distributions of the number of group members, the total groups luminosity, and virial mass. The best fit to the data in the true velocity dispersion range 100 km/s < σ< 750 km/s is a power law model with a slope -3.4 and a normalization (1.27 +/- 0.21) x 10^{-5} h^3 Mpc^{-3}. The predictions of CDM models are consistent with the mass function we derive from this distribution of velocity dispersions.
description: 41 pages; The Astronomical Journal, in press
PREVALÊNCIA E FATORES DE RISCO PARA OPACIFICAÇÃO DE UM MODELO DE LENTE INTRAOCULAR ACRÍLICA HIDROFÍLICA/HIDROFÓBICA
Creators: name: Costa, José F.
name: Ramos, Paula
name: Marques, Marco F.
name: Henriques, Jorge
name: Póvoa, João
name: Lobo, Conceição
name: Rodriguez, Alejandra E.
name: Alio, Jorge L.
name: Werner, Liliana
name: Murta, Joaquim
Publisher: name: Revista Sociedade Portuguesa de Oftalmologia
Year: 2018

description: OBJETIVOS Determinar a prevalência e fatores de risco associados à opacificação da lente intraocular (LIO) LS-502-1. MATERIAL E MÉTODOS Estudo transversal. Doentes submetidos a cirurgia de catarata entre Janeiro 2010 e Março 2012, com implante da LIO Lentis® LS-502-1, foram convocados para observação. Nesta consulta foi realizada uma anamnese completa, com avaliação oftalmológica completa que incluiu determinação da melhor acuidade visual corrigida, biomicroscopia e fundoscopia sob midríase farmacológica. Em todos os casos de lentes opacificadas foi realizado o registo fotográfico. RESULTADOS Foram incluídos 169 olhos de 154 doentes, com idade média de 78.5±7.9 anos. O tempo médio de seguimento desde o implante da LIO foi de 65.6±10.0 meses. A taxa de lentes opacificadas foi de 53.3% (n=90) e a sua proporção variou significativamente com o aumento do número de série: o risco de opacificação foi 6.0 vezes superior para LIOs com número superior a 20000300000. Até Agosto de 2016, 32.2% das lentes opacificadas (n=29) foram explantadas. A avaliação laboratorial destas lentes demonstrou a presença de depósitos de cálcio na superfície e interior do material acrílico. CONCLUSÕES A opacificação da LIO Lentis 502-1 foi observada em 53.3% dos casos, tratando-se da maior prevalência de opacificação até agora descrita para qualquer modelo de lente intraocular. A aglomeração de lentes opacificadas em determinados números de série é sugestiva de, pelo menos em parte, este fenómeno ser secundário ao método de produção da LIO.
description: Revista Sociedade Portuguesa de Oftalmologia, Vol. 41 N.º 4 (2017)
Nintedanib in patients with systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease: A Japanese population analysis of the SENSCIS trial
Creators: name: Kuwana, Masataka
name: Ogura, Takashi
name: Makino, Shigeki
name: Homma, Sakae
name: Kondoh, Yasuhiro
name: Saito, Aiko
name: Ugai, Hiroyuki
name: Gahlemann, Martina
name: Takehara, Kazuhiko
name: Azuma, Arata
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 60506 Virology

description: We examined the efficacy and safety of nintedanib in Japanese patients with systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease (SSc-ILD) in the global Safety and Efficacy of Nintedanib in Systemic Sclerosis (SENSCIS) trial. Randomised patients received oral nintedanib 150 mg (N = 34) twice daily or placebo (N = 36) until the last patient reached 52 weeks of treatment (up to 100 weeks). Data were analysed using a subgroup analysis model with Japanese and non-Japanese patients as subgroup variables. In Japanese patients, the adjusted annual rate of forced vital capacity (FVC) decline over 52 weeks was –86.2 mL/year (nintedanib) and –90.9 mL/year (placebo); treatment difference, 4.67 mL/year (95% confidence interval, −103.28, 112.63). Treatment effect heterogeneity between Japanese and non-Japanese patients was not detected (treatment-by-visit-by-subgroup interaction; p = .49). FVC decline was smaller for nintedanib versus placebo through 100 weeks in Japanese patients. The most commonly reported adverse events with nintedanib were gastrointestinal and liver disorder events; most were mild-to-moderate in severity. In both Japanese and non-Japanese patients with SSc-ILD, nintedanib slowed the progression of ILD, with no heterogeneity detected between the subgroups. The safety profile for nintedanib in Japanese patients was similar to that observed in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02597933).
Decision Making guided by Emotion A computational architecture
Creators: name: Béroule, Dominique
name: Gisquet-Verrier, Pascale
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A computational architecture is presented, in which "swift and fuzzy" emotional channels guide a "slow and precise" decision-making channel. Reported neurobiological studies first provide hints on the representation of both emotional and cognitive dimensions across brain structures, mediated by the neuromodulation system. The related model is based on Guided Propagation Networks, the inner flows of which can be guided through modulation. A key-channel of this model grows from a few emotional cues, and is aimed at anticipating the consequences of ongoing possible actions. Current experimental results of a computer simulation show the integrated contribution of several emotional influences, as well as issues of accidental all-out emotions.
Landau Transport equations in slave-boson mean-field theory of t-J model
Creators: name: Ng, Tai-Kai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we generalize slave-boson mean-field theory for $t-J$ model to the time-dependent regime, and derive transport equations for $t-J$ model, both in the normal and superconducting states. By eliminating the boson and constraint fields exactly in the equations of motion we obtain a set of transport equations for fermions which have the same form as Landau transport equations for normal Fermi liquid and Fermi liquid superconductor, respectively with all Landau parameters explicity given. Our theory can be viewed as a refined version of U(1) Gauge theory where all lattice effects are retained and strong correlation effects are reflected as strong Fermi-liquid interactions in the transport equation. Some experimental consequences are discussed.
description: 19 pages
Additional file 1 of Quantification of facial cues for acute illness: a systematic scoping review
Creators: name: Cramer, Iris C.
name: Cox, Eline G. M.
name: de Kok, Jip W. T. M.
name: Koeze, Jacqueline
name: Visser, Martje
name: Bouma, Hjalmar R.
name: De Bie Dekker, Ashley
name: van der Horst, Iwan C. C.
name: Bouwman, R. Arthur
name: van Bussel, Bas C. T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: Additional file 1.
supplementary material
Creators: name: Xiaoxiao Cheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200102 Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Supplemental material for Who Could Benefit Most from the Web? Heterogeneous Effects of Internet Access on Environmental Knowledge (RCJC-2019-0144) by Xiaoxiao Cheng in Chinese Journal of Communication.
The Environment and Asian-Pacific, Particularly East Asia, Economic Development
Creators: name: Tisdell, Clement A.
name: Tisdell, Clement A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Development
subject: Asia-Pacific
subject: rapid economic growth
subject: tourism development
subject: nature protection
subject: Asian environmental elements

description: While rapid economic growth in the Asian-Pacific region is a potential means for low-income countries in this region to improve their lot, it raises international dilemmas and may be unsustainable. Political bias exists in favour of Asian economic growth both in Asia and abroad even at considerable expense to the environment. The theoretical underpinnings of the bias are discussed. A number of the environmental issues involving water, air and soils in Asia are considered, particularly the global greenhouse problem arising from China's use of fossil fuels. Conservation of living resources and biodiversity is difficult given east Asia's rapid economic growth and is made more difficult by the fact that many areas designated for nature protection are inhabited by villagers or are subject to •encroachment by migrating groups. Furthermore, in• low income countries, •nature protection is often considered to be a luxury and/or there is a perception that more distant frontiers are more suitable for nature conservation. It is difficult to provide those inhabiting protected areas with alternative n1eans of livelihood to their utilisation of the natural area. Tourism development is a possibility but it has limitations. In fact, tourism development in the Asia-Pacific is a source of several environmental problems. Increased urbanisation is another environmental feature of Asia and may have positive long term environmental impact by reducing the rate of •growth of population. With economic growth, interregional and transboundary conflicts will intensify in Asia. It. seems possible that both market mechanism and political ones will be inadequate to deal with Asia's growing environmental problems. The article is critical of the view that economic growth to the neglect of the environment is acceptable even in low income countries and suggests that given the public• good/bad dimensions of Asia development that more assistance from high income countries in relation to environmental conservation in Asia's less developed countries is justified.
Subdynamics of a many-particle classical system driven from an equilibrium state by an external force
Creators: name: Los, Victor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown, that by means of a special projection operator, the Liouville equation for an N-particle distribution function of classical particles, driven from an equilibrium state by an external field, can be exactly converted into a closed linear homogeneous Generalized Master Equations (GMEs) for an s-particle (s
description: 19 pages, Submitted to Physica A
Describing increasing proficiency in teachers’ knowledge of the effective use of digital technology
Creators: name: Saubern, Ralph
name: Urbach, Daniel
name: Koehler, Matthew
name: Phillips, Michael
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Education

description: This paper aims to contribute to the theoretical framing of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) by exploring how a measurement approach can be used to address the need to improve the prescriptive value of the framework. Building on and extending the work described in Saubern, Urbach, Koehler and Phillips (2019), this paper describes the development of an empirically derived qualitative description of increasing proficiency in TPACK Confidence and TPACK Usefulness. Using the results of a partial credit Rasch analysis of survey responses, five bands of proficiency in TPACK Confidence and five bands of proficiency in TPACK Usefulness were delineated and described. The study found that teachers at higher levels of TPACK proficiency more strongly believe in the value of using technology to facilitate deep thinking and learning and are more confident to use technology to support and facilitate deeper thinking and learning in and across curriculum areas than teachers with lower levels of proficiency. By providing a description of lower and higher proficiency and an inferred typical order of acquisition, the resulting construct maps can be used by researchers to help develop and test hypotheses about teachers' acquisition of TPACK and improve the validity and precision of TPACK survey tools and by teacher educators to better understand and evaluate the TPACK of student teachers and inform the development of teacher education curricula.
Charged hadron transverse momentum distributions in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV
Creators: name: Back, B. B.
name: Collaboration, PHOBOS
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present transverse momentum distributions of charged hadrons produced in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV. The spectra were measured for transverse momenta p_T from 0.25 to 4.5 GeV/c in a rapidity range of 0.2 < y_pi < 1.4. The evolution of the spectra is studied as a function of collision centrality, from 65 to 344 participating nucleons. The results are compared to data from proton-antiproton collisions and Au+Au collisions at lower RHIC energies. We find a significant change of the spectral shape between proton-antiproton and peripheral Au+Au collisions. Comparing peripheral to central Au+Au collisions, we find that the yields at high p_T exhibit approximate scaling with the number of participating nucleons, rather than scaling with the number of binary collisions.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Phys.Lett.B
Additional file 2 of Intersectionality in help-seeking for eating disorders: a systematic scoping review
Creators: name: Wilkins, Jessica
name: Ahmed, Muhammad
name: Allen, Karina
name: Schmidt, Ulrike
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 2: Data extraction instrument
A MORFOLOGIA ENDOTELIAL E A ESPESSURA CENTRAL DA CÓRNEA EM IDADE PEDIÁTRICA -ANEXOS
Creators: name: Cardigos, Joana
name: Neri, Guilherme
name: Crisóstomo, Sara
name: Paixão, Ana
name: Martins, Mariza
name: Marques, Margarida
name: Toscano, Alcina
Publisher: name: Revista Sociedade Portuguesa de Oftalmologia
Year: 2018

description: INTRODUÇÃO: A microscopia especular é habitualmente utilizada no estudo da patologia da superfície ocular. Todavia, a análise celular endotelial é essencial para determinar a sua variação ao longo da vida. O objectivo deste estudo é a avaliação da morfologia endotelial e espessura central da córnea (ECC) em crianças saudáveis entre os 5 e os 15 anos, avaliando a sua variação segundo a idade. MÉTODOS: Estudo de coorte prospectivo de 40 olhos de 40 crianças saudáveis, divididos em dois grupos. O grupo 1 formado por 20 crianças entre os 5-9 anos; o grupo 2 formado por 20 crianças entre os 10-15 anos. A densidade celular endotelial (DCE), o coeficiente de variação (CV) e a percentagem de células hexagonais (HEX) foram avaliados por microscopia especular de não contacto. A ECC foi avaliada por tomografia de segmento anterior. RESULTADOS: A DCE é maior no grupo 1 (2906.05 ± 344.91 cel/mm2) comparativamente ao grupo 2 (2597.89 ± 276.61 cel/mm2), (p= 0.003). Não foram encontradas diferenças paquimétricas significativas entre o grupo 1 (556.35 ± 29.03 μm) e o grupo 2 (537.90 ± 29.22 μm). A DCE correlacionou-se negativamente com a idade (r=-0.438 e p=0.005) e a percentagem de células hexagonais correlacionou-se negativamente com o CV (r= - 0.345; p= 0.029). CONCLUSÃO: A DCE diminui com o aumento da idade em crianças saudáveis. Não se verificaram variações significativas da CV, HEX e da ECC entre os dois grupos etários. Salienta-se a importância dos dados obtidos como base normativa e a sua relevância para estudo da patologia da superfície ocular na criança.
description: Revista Sociedade Portuguesa de Oftalmologia, Vol. 41 N.º 4 (2017)
Subjective Logic-based Identification of Markov Chains and Its Application to CAV's Safety
Creators: name: Müller, Johannes
name: Griebel, Thomas
name: Gabb, Michael
name: Buchholz, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: A reliable estimation of the communication chan-nel which connects automated vehicles is an important steptowards the safety of connected and automated vehicles. The communication channel is usually modeled as Markov chain with slowly time-varying transition rates and is identifiedthrough statistics on the observed state transitions. However, the classical identification approach lacks a measure on how reliable the identification results, and thus the channel, are. In this work, we propose an identification method, based onthe subjective logic theory, which features such a reliability measure in terms of statistical uncertainty. We demonstrate through simulations that the proposed method is capable of quickly responding to parameter changes. Furthermore, it is shown that the transition rates of the Markov chain are tracked with high accuracy. Finally, we validate our results by a real-world experiment.
description: published on CAVS2019, 5 pages
Estudo com OCT Visante® do impacto da cirurgia de catarata no segmento anterior
Creators: name: Cristóvão, Diana
Publisher: name: Revista Sociedade Portuguesa de Oftalmologia
Year: 2018

description: RESUMO Objetivos: Analisar a influência da cirurgia de catarata na profundidade da câmara anterior (PCA), ângulo iridocorneano (AIC) e pressão intraocular (PIO) em doentes com e sem glaucoma associado. Material e Métodos: Estudo prospetivo de setenta doentes que foram submetidos a cirurgia de catarata. Os doentes foram divididos em dois grupos: um grupo constituído por doentes com o diagnóstico de glaucoma (de ângulo aberto e ângulo estreito) e um grupo controlo composto por doentes sem glaucoma. Foram avaliadas a PCA e a AIC com o OCT Visante® e a PIO por tonometria de Goldmann no pré operatório e após um mês da cirurgia de catarata. Os dados recolhidos foram analisados no Microsoft Excel, utilizando-se para o cálculo da significância estatística o Teste T de Student. Resultados: Foram analisados e comparados os valores das variáveis do estudo obtidas no pré-operatório e um mês de pós-operatório para os dois grupos. O Grupo Controlo apresentou uma redução média da PIO de 2,1 mmHg e o Grupo Glaucoma de 2,6 mmHg. Obteve-se um aumento médio da PCA de 1,2 mm no Grupo Controlo e 1,5 mm no Grupo Glaucoma e um aumento médio do AIC de 11,7 graus no Grupo Controlo e 15,4 graus no Grupo Glaucoma. Os resultados obtidos demonstraram um aumento significativo da PCA e AIC e uma diminuição significativa da PIO no grupo com glaucoma, comparativamente ao grupo controlo. Conclusões: O OCT Visante® é um exame de não contacto, que possibilita a obtenção de imagens de alta resolução do segmento anterior, permitindo a visualização e quantificação objetiva das alterações ocorridas após a cirurgia de catarata (PCA e AIC) e ajudando a compreender a redução da PIO após a mesma cirurgia. Com os resultados deste estudo constatou-se que a cirurgia de catarata contribui de forma significativa para um aumento da PCA e do AIC e para uma diminuição da PIO, podendo ser importante no tratamento e controlo do glaucoma.
description: Revista Sociedade Portuguesa de Oftalmologia, Vol. 41 N.º 4 (2017)
Sandpile on Scale-Free Networks
Creators: name: Goh, K. -I.
name: Lee, D. -S.
name: Kahng, B.
name: Kim, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the avalanche dynamics of the Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld (BTW) sandpile model on scale-free (SF) networks, where threshold height of each node is distributed heterogeneously, given as its own degree. We find that the avalanche size distribution follows a power law with an exponent $τ$. Applying the theory of multiplicative branching process, we obtain the exponent $τ$ and the dynamic exponent $z$ as a function of the degree exponent $γ$ of SF networks as $τ=γ/(γ-1)$ and $z=(γ-1)/(γ-2)$ in the range $2 < γ< 3$ and the mean field values $τ=1.5$ and $z=2.0$ for $γ>3$, with a logarithmic correction at $γ=3$. The analytic solution supports our numerical simulation results. We also consider the case of uniform threshold, finding that the two exponents reduce to the mean field ones.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, revtex4, final version appeared in PRL
Inconsistent eating time is associated with obesity: A prospective study
Creators: name: Adnan, Darbaz
name: Trinh, Jonathan
name: Bishehsari, Faraz
Publisher: name: IfADo - Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund
Year: 2022
Subjects: food timing
obesity
circadian
lifestyle
Body Mass Index

description: Obesity is characterized by an accumulation of redundant body fat linked to metabolic dysregulation and low-grade systemic inflammation. Lifestyle choices are imperative determining factors of obesity. The contemporary lifestyle is associated with behaviors that disrupt circadian rhythms, impacting metabolic homeostasis. Our animal and human studies suggest that circadian phenotypes could be related to the risk of metabolic dysregulation and obesity. The purpose of this study is to examine the role of inconsistent eating habits on body weight in adults. Individuals who presented for colon cancer screening were enrolled. Subjects received structured questionnaires to capture 7-day eating and sleeping times in a week prospectively. Bodyweight and height were extracted from medical records, and Body Mass Index (BMI) was calculated. Inconsistent eating times were defined as an average difference of >2 hours between the largest meal on weekdays and weekends. Forty-nine of the 61 (80.3 %) individuals enrolled in the study completed the questionnaires. The mean age and standard deviation (SD) were 60.8 (7.9), and 27 (55.1 %) were male. Subjects with inconsistent eating times had a significantly higher BMI (33.8 ± 3.6 SD, n = 9) than subjects who did not (27.5 ± 6.5 SD, n = 40; p = 0.001). The highest BMI was observed in subjects who ate inconsistently and late (35.8 ± 4.6 SD). In this cross-sectional study, time of eating habits was associated with BMI. Controlled cohort studies are needed to determine the potential link between eating time and the risk of obesity in the long term.
description: EXCLI Journal; 21:Doc300; ISSN 1611-2156
Relativity from the Geometrization of Newtonian Dynamics
Creators: name: Friedman, Yaakov
name: Scarr, Tzvi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on the Generalized Principle of Inertia, which states that: \emph{An inanimate object moves freely, that is, with zero acceleration, in its own spacetime, whose geometry is determined by all of the forces affecting it,} we geometrize Newtonian dynamics for any conservative force. For an object moving in a spherically symmetric force field, using a variational principle, conservation of angular momentum and a classical limit, we construct a metric with respect to which the object's worldline is a geodesic. For the gravitational field of a static, spherically symmetric mass, this metric is the Schwarzschild metric. The resulting dynamics reduces in the weak field, low velocity limit to classical Newtonian dynamics and exactly reproduces the classical tests of General Relativity. The metric of gravitoelectromagnetism is extended to handle a gravitational field generated by several sources.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1912.08608
MATERIALES DIGITALES Y PEA EN EL MARCO DEL PLAN NEXOS ARTICULACIÓN ESCUELA UNIVERSIDAD.pdf
Creators: name: Scorzo, Roxana
name: Ocampo, Gabriela Mirta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Education

description: En el presente artículo describiremos los materiales educativos digitales diseñados para la asignatura Matemática, en el marco del plan NEXOS, articulación escuela –universidad, implementado en el curso de ingreso a carreras de ingeniería y arquitectura de la Universidad Nacional de La Matanza, para favorecer las Prácticas Educativas Abiertas (PEA). Mostraremos la organización de los mismos, criterios de selección, tipo de recursos utilizados y sus principales características, como así también el uso de la plataforma educativa “GeoGebra Dynamics Mathematics”, de libre acceso y finalmente una breve opinión de los estudiantes acerca de estos materiales.
Vector Mesons on the Light Front
Creators: name: Naito, K.
name: Maedan, S.
name: Itakura, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply the light-front quantization to the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model with the vector interaction, and compute vector meson's mass and light-cone wavefunction in the large N limit. Following the same procedure as in the previous analyses for scalar and pseudo-scalar mesons, we derive the bound-state equations of a q-qbar system in the vector channel. We include the lowest order effects of the vector interaction. The resulting transverse and longitudinal components of the bound-state equation look different from each other. But eventually after imposing an appropriate cutoff, one finds these two are identical, giving the same mass and the same (spin-independent) light-cone wavefunction. Mass of the vector meson decreases as one increases the strength of the vector interaction.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures, discussion on the cutoff scheme changed, Fig.3 replaced, and one reference added
Parametrizando curvas mediante un hipermedio: una experiencia de cátedra
Creators: name: Williner, Betina
name: Scorzo, Roxana
name: Favieri, Adriana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Education

description: En el presente artículo describimos el diseño e implementación de un hipermedio sobrecurvas dadas en forma paramétrica que utilizamos como recurso didáctico en el aula de AnálisisMatemático I de carreras de ingeniería. Consideramos que la integración de la tecnología al currículoes fundamental. En este caso el recurso diseñado propició dos aspectos: como material didáctico delectura no lineal y como facilitador de uso de software específico de matemática.Mostramos los diversos aspectos que tuvimos en cuenta para su elaboración y algunos resultados delos objetivos de aprendizaje perseguidos en su implementación. Respecto a estos últimos el hipermediofue adecuado para que los alumnos lograran distinguir el efecto que producen las diferentesparametrizaciones de un mismo lugar geométrico.
Stability of slip channel flow revisited
Creators: name: Chai, Chunshuo
name: Song, Baofang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we revisit the temporal stability of slip channel flow. Lauga & Cossu (Phys. Fluids 17, 088106 (2005)) and Min & Kim (Phys. Fluids 17, 108106 (2005)) have investigated both modal stability and non-normality of slip channel flow and concluded that the velocity slip greatly suppresses linear instability and only modestly affects the non-normality. Here we study the stability of channel flow with streamwise and spanwise slip separately as two limiting cases of anisotropic slip and explore a broader range of slip length than previous studies did. We find that, with sufficiently large slip, both streamwise and spanwise slip trigger three-dimensional leading instabilities. Overall, the critical Reynolds number is only slightly increased by streamwise slip, whereas it can be greatly decreased by spanwise slip. Streamwise slip suppresses the non-modal transient growth, whereas spanwise slip enlarges the non-modal growth although it does not affect the base flow. Interestingly, as the spanwise slip length increases, the optimal perturbations exhibit flow structures different from the well-known streamwise rolls. However, in the presence of equal slip in both directions, the three-dimensional leading instabilities disappear and the flow is greatly stabilized. The results suggest that earlier instability and larger transient growth can be triggered by introducing anisotropy in the velocity slip.
description: 22 pages, 14 figures