cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Quel est le rôle infirmier dans l’inclusion des familles à la prise en soins des adolescentes touchées par l’anorexie mentale lors d’une hospitalisation ?
title: Quel est le rôle infirmier dans l’inclusion des familles à la prise en soins des adolescentes touchées par l’anorexie mentale lors d’une hospitalisation ?
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Comanescu, Louise
name: Comte, Alice
name: Fallet, Lori
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Anorexia nervosa
subject: eating disorders
subject: adolescents
subject: family therapy
subject: nursing care
subject: nurse
subject: therapeutic alliance
subject: therapeutic relationship
subject: nursing role
subject: family
subject: adolescent hospitalized
subject: patient centered care
subject: hospitalization
subject: hesav TB SI

description: Problématique : L’anorexie mentale (AM) est un trouble du comportement alimentaire (TCA) se manifestant par le besoin inconditionnel de maigrir. Les infirmières sont essentielles dans le traitement de cette pathologie psychiatrique contribuant à la continuité des soins. Les familles, déstabilisées par cette maladie, jouent donc un rôle dans la prise en soins des adolescentes atteintes d’AM. Une implication active du système familial durant le processus de rétablissement en partenariat avec les professionnels de la santé est alors indispensable. Objectif : Comment permettre aux familles de participer activement à la prise en soins d’adolescentes atteintes d’AM. Les infirmières ont donc un rôle considérable à jouer dans l’inclusion des proches lors de l’hospitalisation. Méthode : Les deux bases de données scientifiques, CINAHL et PUBMED ont été utilisées. Grâce à cinq équations de recherche, sept articles qualitatifs ont été sélectionnés afin de répondre à la question posée. Le modèle de McGill a servi comme cadre théorique dans l’analyse de ce travail. Résultats : La synthèse des résultats a permis d'identifier plusieurs thèmes subdivisés également en sous-parties visant l’analyse de la problématique. Discussion : Les notions émergentes des résultats ont été mises en lien avec les quatre piliers du modèle de McGill. Conclusion : Malgré le manque d'articles suisses, les recommandations des autres pays ont pu être mises en avant en ce qui concerne le rôle infirmier, les familles et les adolescentes atteintes d’AM. Cependant, la transférabilité des données dans la pratique reste à être confirmée.
title: Les interventions infirmières holistiques les plus adaptées aux patients psychotiques afin de réduire et contenir leurs agitations dans des situations de crise
title: Zeineb Elhaouari, Abdou Khader Moustapha, Suzana Vrazitorovic
titleType: Subtitle
title: Les interventions infirmières holistiques les plus adaptées aux patients psychotiques afin de réduire et contenir leurs agitations dans des situations de crise
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Elhaouari, Zeineb
name: Moustapha, Abdou Khader
name: Vrazitorovicy, Suzana
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Psychiatrie
subject: Psychose
subject: Agitation
subject: Violence/Agressivité
subject: Soins infirmiers
subject: Proches aidants
subject: Interventions infirmières non pharmacologique
subject: hesav TB SI

description: Problématique La population est des personnes présentant des agitations psychomotrices dans la maladie de la schizophrénie et hospitalisées dans une unité psychiatrique aigüe. Actuellement, les interventions infirmières sont principalement basées sur de la pharmacologie et la contention mécanique ce qui entrainent une diminution de la compliance aux traitements par les patients. Objectif Élaborer des interventions infirmières holistiques et non pharmacologiques dans une unité psychiatrique de soins aigus adultes aux patients psychotiques afin de réduire et contenir leurs agitations et de maintenir une prise en soins optimale. Méthode Ces recherches ont été faites sur les bases de données : CINAHL et Medline-PubMed. La méthode PICO a été utilisée pour définir la problématique. Les critères d’inclusion ont été : une population entre 18 et 65 ans, les deux sexes confondus (H/F), des patients ayant une ou plusieurs agitations psychotiques, l’intégration de l’entourage et des ressources externes dans la prise en soin, milieu hospitalier aigu de psychiatrie et une prise en soin systémique. La question de recherche a permis d’identifier des articles pertinents pour ce travail. La méthodologie a permis de sélectionner six articles prioritaires. Résultats Les résultats extraits des articles sélectionnés démontrent le manque de formation chez les soignants et les proches aidants, le manque de connaissance concernant la détection des symptômes psychotiques, l’intégration des proches dans la prise en soin ainsi que le manque de sensibilisation et l’effet de la stigmatisation dans la société. Discussion La discussion permet de relier les principaux résultats aux cadres théoriques ainsi qu’aux concepts centraux afin d’appuyer les ressources identifiées à la prise en soin de l’agitation et de la violence chez les patients atteints de trouble psychotique.
Semismooth Newton Method for Boundary Bilinear Control
Creators: name: Casas, Eduardo
name: Chrysafinos, Konstantinos
name: Mateos, Mariano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35J61, 49K20, 49M15, 49M05

description: We study a control-constrained optimal control problem governed by a semilinear elliptic equation. The control acts in a bilinear way on the boundary, and can be interpreted as a heat transfer coefficient. A detailed study of the state equation is performed and differentiability properties of the control-to-state mapping are shown. First and second order optimality conditions are derived. Our main result is the proof of superlinear convergence of the semismooth Newton method to local solutions satisfying no-gap second order sufficient optimality conditions as well as a strict complementarity condition.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2309.07554
A progressive geometric enhancement method for automated recognition of steel bar drawings in prefabricated construction
Creators: name: Guo, Xinfei
name: Huang, Yimiao
name: Ma, Guowei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: Space Science
Molecular Biology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Prefabricated construction has gained significant attention in the construction industry due to its higher production efficiency and reduced labor demands. However, the transfer of graphical information from steel bar drawings to rebar equipment still largely depends on manual recognition methods. This paper proposes the progressive geometric enhancement method (PGEM) to automate the recognition of rebar drawings using enhanced kernel density estimation and Hough transform. It transforms the problem of graphics recognition into the problem of density estimation and fitting of dot units for automated solving. The automated recognition results from over 480 steel bar drawings demonstrated a accuracy of 97.7% and an average efficiency over 11.8 times higher than manual method. Moreover, a graphical user interface was developed and applied to over 100,000 drawings in collaboration with various construction companies. The application demonstrates PGEM’s potential to replace manual recognition, thereby improving the efficiency and reducing the labor-intensive nature of the drawing recognition process in prefabricated construction.
Additional file 1 of Nutritional management recommendation systems in polycystic ovary syndrome: a systematic review
Creators: name: Shahmoradi, Leila
name: Azadbakht, Leila
name: Farzi, Jebraeil
name: Kalhori, Sharareh Rostam Niakan
name: Yazdipour, Alireza Banaye
name: Solat, Fahimeh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
title: Interventions infirmières en milieu scolaire pour la prévention des infections au papillomavirus humain et la promotion de la santé
title: Interventions infirmières en milieu scolaire pour la prévention des infections au papillomavirus humain et la promotion de la santé
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Manxholli, Vanesa
name: Gasser, Audrey
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Virus du papillome humain
subject: Prévention primaire
subject: Promotion de la santé
subject: Éducation sexuelle
subject: Infirmière scolaire
subject: Rôle infirmier
subject: hesav TB SI

description: Problématique : Les virus du papillome humain (VPH) risquent de provoquer des maladies graves telles que des cancers. Malgré les campagnes de prévention réalisées, l’incidence de ces infections continue d’augmenter et la couverture vaccinale reste faible et hétérogène entre les différents cantons suisses. Objectif : Déterminer quels moyens de prévention sont les plus efficaces pour engendrer un comportement permettant de prévenir la transmission du papillomavirus humain au sein de la population nouvellement active sexuellement. Méthode : Les bases de données Pubmed, CINHAL et Cairn.Info ont été utilisées afin de trouver des articles correspondant au sujet de recherche. Six articles ont été sélectionnés puis analysés à l’aide des grilles issues du Fortin et Gagnon (2010). Résultats : Les six articles ont été synthétisé à l’aide des grilles d’extraction des données ainsi que des résumés. Les résultats ont ensuite été mis à la lumière du cadre théorique de McGill. Plusieurs méthodes efficaces sont nécessaires afin de favoriser l’adoption de comportements de prévention contre la transmission du VPH. Discussion : Les infirmier-ère-s scolaires doivent promouvoir la participation active des adolescent-e-s lors des actions de prévention du VPH. Une bonne formation des infirmier-ère-s scolaires est nécessaire afin d’atteindre des comportements favorables à la santé. La motivation des adolescent-e-s est essentielle à encourager ainsi que la réflexion sur les croyances. Conclusion : Les moyens de promotion de la santé et de préventions du VPH chez les adolescent-e-s sont un thème de la recherche qui nécessite encore d’être développé afin de mieux cerner les réticences de ces derniers à l’adoption de comportements de santé.
Fast counting with tensor networks
Creators: name: Kourtis, Stefanos
name: Chamon, Claudio
name: Mucciolo, Eduardo R.
name: Ruckenstein, Andrei E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We introduce tensor network contraction algorithms for counting satisfying assignments of constraint satisfaction problems (#CSPs). We represent each arbitrary #CSP formula as a tensor network, whose full contraction yields the number of satisfying assignments of that formula, and use graph theoretical methods to determine favorable orders of contraction. We employ our heuristics for the solution of #P-hard counting boolean satisfiability (#SAT) problems, namely monotone #1-in-3SAT and #Cubic-Vertex-Cover, and find that they outperform state-of-the-art solvers by a significant margin.
description: v2: added results for monotone #1-in-3SAT; published version
Bringing BCI into everyday life: Motor imagery in a pseudo realistic environment
Creators: name: Brandl, Stephanie
name: Höhne, Johannes
name: Müller, Klaus-Robert
name: Samek, Wojciech
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 006 Spezielle Computerverfahren
subject: brain-computer interface
subject: BCI
subject: out-of-lab environment
subject: motor imagery
subject: distraction
subject: performance evaluation

description: Bringing Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) into everyday life is a challenge because an out-of-lab environment implies the presence of variables that are largely beyond control of the user and the software application. This can severely corrupt signal quality as well as reliability of BCI control. Current BCI technology may fail in this application scenario because of the large amounts of noise, nonstationarity and movement artifacts. In this paper, we systematically investigate the performance of motor imagery BCI in a pseudo realistic environment. In our study 16 participants were asked to perform motor imagery tasks while dealing with different types of distractions such as vibratory stimulations or listening tasks. Our experiments demonstrate that standard BCI procedures are not robust to theses additional sources of noise, implicating that methods which work well in a lab environment, may perform poorly in realistic application scenarios. We discuss several promising research directions to tackle this important problem.
A preliminary randomized trial of the mechanical insufflator-exsufflator versus breath-stacking technique in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Creators: name: Shaw, Pamela J.
name: Rafiq, Muhammad K.
name: Bradburn, Michael
name: Proctor, Alison R.
name: Billings, Catherine G.
name: Bianchi, Stephen
name: McDermott, Christopher J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Medicine
subject: Biophysics

description: A major problem faced by patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in respiratory failure is the inability to cough effectively. Forty eligible ALS patients were randomized to the breath-stacking technique using a lung volume recruitment bag (n = 21) or mechanical insufflator-exsufflator MI-E (n = 19) and followed up at three-monthly intervals for at least 12 months or until death. Results showed that there were 13 episodes of chest infection in the breath-stacking group and 19 episodes in the MI-E group (p = 0.92), requiring 90 and 95 days of antibiotics, respectively (p = 0.34). The mean duration of symptoms per chest infection was 6.9 days in the breath-stacking group and 3.9 days in MI-E group (p = 0.16). There were six episodes of hospitalization in each group (p = 0.64). The chance of hospitalization, in the event of a chest infection, was 0.46 in the breath-stacking group and 0.31 in MI-E group (p = 0.47). Median survival in the breath-stacking group was 535 days and 266 days in the MI-E group (p = 0.34). The QoL was maintained above 75% of baseline for a median of 329 days in the breath-stacking group and 205 days in the MI-E group (p = 0.41). In conclusion, lack of statistically significant differences due to sub-optimal power and confounders precludes a definitive conclusion with respect to the relative efficacy of one cough augmentation technique over the other. This study however, provides useful lessons and informative data, needed to strengthen the power calculation, inclusion criteria and randomization factors for a large scale definitive trial. Until such a definitive trial can be undertaken, we recommend the breath-stacking technique as a low-cost, first-line intervention for volume recruitment and cough augmentation in patients with ALS who meet the criteria for intervention with non-invasive ventilation.
Experimental Evaluation of the ETSI DCC Adaptive Approach and Related Algorithms
Creators: name: Amador, Oscar
name: Soto, Ignacio
name: Calderon, Maria
name: Urueña, Manuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Decentralized Congestion Control (DCC) mechanisms have been a core part of protocol stacks for vehicular networks since their inception and standardization. The ETSI ITS-G5 protocol stack for vehicular communications considers the usage of DCC not only in the network or access layers, but also as a part of the cross-layer architecture that influences how often messages are generated and transmitted. ETSI DCC mechanisms have evolved from a reactive approach based on a finite state machine, to an adaptive approach that relies on a linear control algorithm. This linear control algorithm, called LIMERIC, is the basis of the mechanism used in the ETSI DCC Adaptive Approach. The behavior of this algorithm depends on a set of parameters. Different values for these parameters have been proposed in the literature, including those defined in the ETSI specification. A recent proposal is Dual-$α$, which chooses parameters to improve convergence and fairness when the algorithm has to react to fast changes in the use of the shared medium (transitory situations). This article evaluates, by means of simulations, the performance of the ETSI DCC Adaptive Approach and related algorithms, considering both steady state and transitory situations. Results show that a bad selection of parameters can make a DCC algorithm ineffective, that the ETSI DCC Adaptive algorithm performs well in steady state conditions, and that Dual-$α$ performs as well in steady state conditions and outperforms the ETSI DCC Adaptive Approach in transitory scenarios.
ANÁLISE DA COBERTURA E ADMINISTRAÇÃO DE VACINAS CONTRA HPV EM UMA CLÍNICA PRIVADA EM ARAGUAÍNA
Creators: name: Taynara Monteiro da Silva LOPES
name: Lígia Linhares Moraes CUNHA
name: Renato Antônio Campos FREIRE
name: Igor Costa Campos FREIRE
name: Karina Almeida MACIEL
name: Rejanne Lima ARRUDA
name: Carolina Galgane Lage MIRANDA
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Cobertura vacinal
HPV
Saúde coletiva

description: RESUMO

O estudo teve como objetivo analisar o perfil epidemiológico de pacientes vacinados contra HPV no período de 2020 a 2023 em uma clínica de vacinação particular da cidade de Araguaína- TO. Trata-se de um estudo de natureza descritiva, transversal e analítica, utilizando prontuários de pacientes vacinados contra o HPV entre 2020 a 2023 em uma clínica de vacinação particular localizada em Araguaína-TO cujo as variáveis observacionais foram: sexo, idade, e quantidade de doses tomadas, sendo que na clínica escolhida o protocolo são três doses com intervalo de 0,2 e 6 meses. Foi realizado a contabilização dos dados na Clínica e para garantir a ética em pesquisa e por se tratar de um projeto de iniciativa privada, ele foi submetido ao Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa (CEP) para as devidas aprovações no manejo dos dados dos pacientes.
A common functional allele of the Nogo receptor gene, reticulon 4 receptor (RTN4R), is associated with sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in a French population
Creators: name: René, Frédérique
name: Blasco, Hélène
name: Gordon, Paul H.
name: Camu, William
name: Corcia, Philippe
name: Jean-Philippe Loeffler
name: Palkovits, Miklós
name: Andres, Christian R.
name: Maïté Amy
name: Staehlin, Oliver
name: Marouillat, Sylviane
name: Daoud, Hussein
name: Vourc’h, Patrick
name: Sommer, Wolfgang H.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is sporadic (SALS) in 90% of cases and has complex environmental and genetic influences. Nogo protein inhibits neurite outgrowth and is overexpressed in muscle in ALS. Our aims were to study the reticulon 4 receptor gene RTN4R which encodes Nogo 1 receptor (NgR1) in SALS, to test if the variants were associated with variable expression of the gene and whether NgR1 protein expression was modified in a transgenic mouse model of ALS. We genotyped three single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs; rs701421, rs701427, and rs1567871) of the RTN4R gene in 364 SALS French patients and 430 controls. We examined expression of RTN4R mRNA by quantitative PCR in control post mortem human brain tissue. We determined the expression of NgR1 protein in spinal motor neurons from a SOD1 G86R ALS mouse model. We observed significant associations between SALS and RTN4R alleles. Messenger RNA expression from RTN4R in human cortical brain tissue correlated significantly with the genotypes of rs701427. NgR1 protein expression was reduced in Nogo A positive motor neurons from diseased transgenic animals. In conclusion, these observations suggest that a functional RTN4R gene variant is associated with SALS. This variant may act in concert with other genetic variants or environmental influences.
Faster identification of optimal contraction sequences for tensor networks
Creators: name: Pfeifer, Robert N. C.
name: Haegeman, Jutho
name: Verstraete, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The efficient evaluation of tensor expressions involving sums over multiple indices is of significant importance to many fields of research, including quantum many-body physics, loop quantum gravity, and quantum chemistry. The computational cost of evaluating an expression may depend strongly upon the order in which the index sums are evaluated, and determination of the operation-minimising contraction sequence for a single tensor network (single term, in quantum chemistry) is known to be NP-hard. The current preferred solution is an exhaustive search, using either an iterative depth-first approach with pruning or dynamic programming and memoisation, but these approaches are impractical for many of the larger tensor network Ansaetze encountered in quantum many-body physics. We present a modified search algorithm with enhanced pruning which exhibits a performance increase of several orders of magnitude while still guaranteeing identification of an optimal operation-minimising contraction sequence for a single tensor network. A reference implementation for MATLAB, compatible with the ncon() and multienv() network contractors of arXiv:1402.0939 and arXiv:1310.8023 respectively, is supplied.
description: 25 pages, 12 figs, 2 tables, includes reference implementation of algorithm, v2.01. Update corrects the display of contraction sequences involving single-tensor traces (i.e. where an index in the input appears twice on the same tensor)
Improving Uncertainty Sampling with Bell Curve Weight Function
Creators: name: Chong, Zan-Kai
name: Ohsaki, Hiroyuki
name: Goi, Bok-Min
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Typically, a supervised learning model is trained using passive learning by randomly selecting unlabelled instances to annotate. This approach is effective for learning a model, but can be costly in cases where acquiring labelled instances is expensive. For example, it can be time-consuming to manually identify spam mails (labelled instances) from thousands of emails (unlabelled instances) flooding an inbox during initial data collection. Generally, we answer the above scenario with uncertainty sampling, an active learning method that improves the efficiency of supervised learning by using fewer labelled instances than passive learning. Given an unlabelled data pool, uncertainty sampling queries the labels of instances where the predicted probabilities, p, fall into the uncertainty region, i.e., $p \approx 0.5$. The newly acquired labels are then added to the existing labelled data pool to learn a new model. Nonetheless, the performance of uncertainty sampling is susceptible to the area of unpredictable responses (AUR) and the nature of the dataset. It is difficult to determine whether to use passive learning or uncertainty sampling without prior knowledge of a new dataset. To address this issue, we propose bell curve sampling, which employs a bell curve weight function to acquire new labels. With the bell curve centred at p=0.5, bell curve sampling selects instances whose predicted values are in the uncertainty area most of the time without neglecting the rest. Simulation results show that, most of the time bell curve sampling outperforms uncertainty sampling and passive learning in datasets of different natures and with AUR.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures, journal
Spatiotemporal Changes in Comfortable Weather Duration in the Continental United States and Implications for Human Wellness
Creators: name: Knapp, Paul A.
name: Maxwell, Justin T.
name: Ortegren, Jason T.
name: Soulé, Peter T.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Neuroscience

description: We examined the spatial distribution of monthly, seasonal, and annual changes in comfortable weather hours (CWHs) between 1950 and 2011 and explored the relationship between human wellness and the amount and timing of CWHs. Using a thermohygrometric index based on air temperature and dewpoint temperature recorded every three hours from thirty-five U.S. cities, we determined whether changes in human thermal comfort were coincident with warming and more humid atmospheric conditions. We tested for significant trends in CWHs for every season for each city for nighttime, daytime, and total (i.e., night and day) periods. Although approximately 75 percent of the cities did not experience significant changes in CWHs on an annual basis, total changes in CWHs were marked by increases during spring and decreases in summer conditions, with the largest positive changes in CWHs found during spring nights, spring days, and autumn nights and the largest negative changes during summer nights and days. Spatially, increases in CWHs were principally located west of 117°W and decreases in cities east of 81°W. Significant relationships existed between wellness metrics and seasonal and annual CWHs. Greater CWHs during the summer were positively correlated with happiness and well-being and negatively correlated with obesity. These results suggest that further declines in summer CWHs for cities might affect human wellness, as peak optimal weather conditions shift toward spring and autumn months.
Additional file 1 of Witnessing inter-parental violence in childhood and help-seeking behaviours in violence against women in Peru
Creators: name: Bazo-Alvarez, Juan Carlos
name: Copez-Lonzoy, Anthony
name: Ipanaqué-Zapata, Miguel
name: Bazalar-Palacios, Janina
name: Rivera, Elizabeth López
name: Flores-Ramos, Elaine C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
CovidStat project primer
Creators: name: Menasce, Dario
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: COVID-19
CovidStat project
FAIR data
Open Science

description: This record contains a primer (in Italian) for the use of the data of the CovidStat project. CovidStat is a project carried out by the CovidStat Working Group at INFN, whose creation was promoted within the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics with the aim of making a statistical analysis of the data provided daily by the Civil Protection on the spread of the pandemic in Italy. CovidStat data can interactively be browsed at https://covid19.infn.it.
Responsible innovation: an approach for extracting public values concerning advanced biofuels
Creators: name: Longstaff, Holly
name: Capurro, Gabriela
name: Hanney, Patricia
name: Secko, David M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Information and Computing Sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The objective of our study was to test an approach for extracting public values concerning a virtually unknown and scientifically complex topic, namely advanced lignocellulosic biofuels, in order to foster responsible innovation of this novel technology in Canada as early on in the policy-making process as possible. As advanced lignocellulosic biofuels are currently an emerging form of liquid fuel for transport, it may be beneficial to open the development of this technology to “upstream” public input. We thereby explore how a deliberative mini-public views the need for advanced lignocellulosic biofuels and their recommendations for supporting or opposing its development and production. Participants of the study engaged in four days of deliberation on their value-based considerations concerning the social acceptability of this technology. On the final day, they developed a series of collective recommendations on three participant-generated agenda items: economic sustainability, unknown environmental and health impacts, and governance issues related to responsibility for advanced biofuels policy. The results provide a novel input into interdisciplinary research aimed at better understanding what may be driving public values on wider, sometimes controversial, issues related to biofuels.
title: De l'incertitude à la posture infirmière
title: l'efficacité symbolique du placebo chez les adultes atteints de douleur chronique
titleType: Subtitle
title: De l'incertitude à la posture infirmière
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Jaunin, Marie Léa
name: Passerini, Zoé
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: effets placebo
subject: efficacité symbolique
subject: douleur chronique
subject: personne adulte
subject: rôle infirmier
subject: hesav TB SI

description: Problématique : À ce jour, la douleur chronique est un syndrome encore difficile à soigner. La polypharmacothérapie engendre des comorbidités telles que l’insomnie, la perturbation de l’image de soi, l’impossibilité de travailler, l’isolement social et des troubles de l’humeur. Ces éléments sont capables d’influencer la qualité de vie des personnes affectées. Le placebo et son efficacité symbolique, source de débat, pourraient être une solution alternative pour diminuer la douleur et ses répercussions. Objectif : Découvrir comment le rôle infirmier peut contribuer à l’efficacité symbolique du placebo lors de la prise en soin d’un adulte atteint de douleur chronique. Méthode : Deux bases de données ont été utilisées pour rechercher des articles scientifiques permettant la réalisation de ce travail, Pubmed et CINAHL. Résultats : La synthèse des résultats des six articles analysés via le cadre théorique de l’Approche Centrée sur le Patient a permis d’identifier trois concepts principaux influençant l’efficacité symbolique du placebo : l’alliance thérapeutique, le partenariat et les représentations. Discussion : Plusieurs postures infirmières peuvent influencer l’efficacité symbolique du placebo en diminuant la quantité d’antalgiques chez les personnes atteintes de douleur chronique. Le rôle infirmier est alors important afin d’améliorer la qualité de vie des adultes souffrant de ce syndrome.
Analysis of Cosmic Evolution admitting Garcia-Salcedo Ghost and Generalized Ghost Dark Energy Models
Creators: name: Gul, Muhammad Zeeshan
name: Sharif, Muhammad
name: Hashim, Imran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This study aims to explore the Garcia-Salcedo ghost dark energy and generalized ghost dark energy models in the context of $f(\mathrm{R},\mathrm{T^2})$ theory, where $\mathrm{R}$ is the Ricci scalar and $\mathrm{T^2}$ is the self-contraction of stress-energy tensor. We investigate the non-interacting case only corresponding to flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe. We reconstruct the corresponding $f(\mathrm{R},\mathrm{T^2})$ gravity models using the considered dark energy models by taking two particular models of this gravity. The stability analysis is performed for all the cases. The behavior of the equation of state parameter is also checked. It is found that some of the reconstructed $f(\mathrm{R},\mathrm{T^2})$ models successfully describe both the phantom and quintessence epochs of the universe, which support the current cosmic accelerated expansion. This exploration reveals the intricate connections between dark energy models and modified gravitational theory, providing significant understanding into the dynamics of the cosmos on a large scale.
description: 26 pages, 11 figures, Accepted
MTS: Bringing Multi-Tenancy to Virtual Networking
Creators: name: Thimmaraju, Kashyap
name: Hermak, Saad
name: Rétvári, Gábor
name: Schmid, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Multi-tenant cloud computing provides great benefits in terms of resource sharing, elastic pricing, and scalability, however, it also changes the security landscape and introduces the need for strong isolation between the tenants, also inside the network. This paper is motivated by the observation that while multi-tenancy is widely used in cloud computing, the virtual switch designs currently used for network virtualization lack sufficient support for tenant isolation. Hence, we present, implement, and evaluate a virtual switch architecture, MTS, which brings secure design best-practice to the context of multi-tenant virtual networking: compartmentalization of virtual switches, least-privilege execution, complete mediation of all network communication, and reducing the trusted computing base shared between tenants. We build MTS from commodity components, providing an incrementally deployable and inexpensive upgrade path to cloud operators. Our extensive experiments, extending to both micro-benchmarks and cloud applications, show that, depending on the way it is deployed, MTS may produce 1.5-2x the throughput compared to state-of-the-art, with similar or better latency and modest resource overhead (1 extra CPU). MTS is available as open source software.
Circular Programs and Self-Referential Structures
Creators: name: Allison, Lloyd
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.1; E.1

description: A circular program creates a data structure whose computation depends upon itself or refers to itself. The technique is used to implement the classic data structures circular and doubly-linked lists, threaded trees and queues, in a functional programming language. These structures are normally thought to require updatable variables found in imperative languages. For example, a functional program to perform the breadth-first traversal of a tree is given. Some of the examples result in circular data structures when evaluated. Some examples are particularly space-efficient by avoiding the creation of intermediate temporary structures which would otherwise later become garbage. Lastly, the technique can be applied in an imperative language to give an elegant program.
COVID-19: Strategies for Online Engagement of Remote Learners
Creators: name: Zayabalaradjane Zayapragassarazan
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2020

description: The COVID-19 outbreak across the globe has forced educational institutions including medical schools to suspend campus learning in order to curb the spread of the virus. This has forced the teaching community to think of new avenues and alternate strategies for engaging our students. Many institutes of higher education have shifted to online-mode to ensure continuity of teaching-learning and assessment processes. In online mode of flexible learning, students are provided with a variety of choices for their learning and allows them to take more responsibility for their own learning. Since, many of the teachers are new to online mode of teaching their apprehension towards active online engagement of their students is inevitable. This document presents a variety of strategies for increasing and ensuring higher levels of student engagement in online teaching.
Trade union density and social expenditure: a longitudinal analysis of policy feedback effects in OECD countries, 1980–2010
Creators: name: Hooghe, Marc
name: Oser, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Two causal mechanisms have been invoked to explain the positive correlation between union membership and social expenditure. Unions try to influence policy, but they are also more successful in mobilizing members in economic systems in which actors engage in co-ordinated strategic interaction. Applying insights from the policy feedback and comparative capitalism literatures, our analysis indicates that union density is a determinant of social expenditure. A strong policy feedback effect is also present whereby social expenditure has a positive effect on union density. We find a positive effect of union density on social expenditure in co-ordinated market economies, but not in liberal market economies. We discuss the implications of these findings for citizens’ capacity to influence policy in varied contexts and for the ‘varieties of capitalism’ literature, and we close with some speculation about the implications of these findings in the current economic downturn.
Development of an open education resources (OER) system: a comparative analysis and implementation approach
Creators: name: Thuon, Nimol
name: Zhang, Wangrui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Several institutions are collaborating on the development of a new web-based Open Education Resources (OER) system designed exclusively for non-commercial educational purposes. This initiative is underpinned by meticulous research aimed at constructing an OER system that optimizes user experiences across diverse user profiles. A significant emphasis is placed on utilizing open-source tools, frameworks, and technologies. The project includes a comparative analysis of the top five open-source Learning Management Systems (LMS), providing critical insights to inform the development process. The primary objective is to create a web-based system that facilitates the sharing of educational resources for non-commercial users, leveraging information and communication technologies. The project is structured around two key teams: a research team and a development team. This comprehensive approach is intended to establish a robust, user-centric OER system, informed by insights from existing platforms and the latest advancements in open education resource development.
Identification of local structures in water from supercooled to ambient conditions
Creators: name: Foffi, Riccardo
name: Sciortino, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Studies of water thermodynamics have long been tied to the identification of two distinct families of local structures, whose competition could explain the origin of the many thermodynamic anomalies and of the hypothesized liquid-liquid critical point in water. Despite the many successes and insights gained, the structural indicators proposed throughout the years were not able to unequivocally identify these two families over a wide range of conditions. We show that a recently introduced indicator, $Ψ$, which exploits information on the HB network connectivity, can reliably identify these two distinct local environments over a wide range of thermodynamic conditions (188 to 300 K and 0 to 13 kbar), and that close to the liquid-liquid critical point the spatial correlations of density fluctuations are identical to those of the $Ψ$ indicator. Our results strongly support the idea that water thermodynamic properties arise from the competition between two distinct and identifiable local environments.
description: Published on The Journal of Chemical Physics. Main: 8 pages, 6 figures. SI: 10 pages, 6 figures
title: Sexualité des patientes traitées par mastectomie
title: Comment améliorer la prise en charge infirmière ?
titleType: Subtitle
title: Sexualité des patientes traitées par mastectomie
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Lombardo, Fabiola
name: Marin, Camilla
name: Merminod, Céline
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: cancer du sein
subject: mastectomie
subject: sexualité
subject: estime de soi
subject: prise en charge infirmière
subject: hesav TB SI

description: Contexte : Le cancer du sein est le cancer le plus fréquent chez la femme. La mastectomie serait proposée dans environ 30% des cas. L’impact de cette-dernière sur la sexualité des femmes est certain. Néanmoins, le rôle infirmier autour de cette problématique reste peu développé et la sexualité peu évaluée dans les soins. Objectifs : Comprendre l’impact de la mastectomie sur l’estime de soi, le sentiment de féminité, l’image corporelle et la sexualité. Identifier le rôle infirmier concernant ces problématiques. Méthode : Une recension des écrits a été réalisée à l’aide de mots clés dans les bases de données CINHAL et PubMed. Sept articles en français et en anglais ont été retenus. Les résultats extraits de ces-derniers ont été analysés à la lumière des concepts de la théorie de la transition de Meleis. Résultats : Le cancer du sein et la mastectomie ont un impact non négligeable sur la qualité de vie des patientes. L’estime de soi et l’image corporelle sont atteintes et impactent négativement la vie sexuelle et les relations intimes avec les partenaires. Le manque de formation des infirmiers concernant la sexualité implique des difficultés de prise en charge, parfois ressenties par les patientes et pouvant impacter le vécu de la transition. Discussion : Les patientes manquent globalement d’informations et de soutien concernant leur sexualité. Un développement des compétences infirmières autour du sujet permettrait d’améliorer la prise en charge de cette problématique.
Additional file 1 of Selective omission of sentinel lymph node biopsy in mastectomy for ductal carcinoma in situ: identifying eligible candidates
Creators: name: Bae, Soong June
name: Kook, Yoonwon
name: Jang, Ji Soo
name: Baek, Seung Ho
name: Moon, Sohyun
name: Kim, Jung Hyun
name: Lee, Seung Eun
name: Kim, Min Ji
name: Ahn, Sung Gwe
name: Jeong, Joon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
Studies of levels of biogenic amines in meat samples in relation to the content of additives
Creators: name: Jastrzębska, Aneta
name: Kowalska, Sylwia
name: Szłyk, Edward
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: The impact of meat additives on the concentration of biogenic amines and the quality of meat was studied. Fresh white and red meat samples were fortified with the following food additives: citric and lactic acids, disodium diphosphate, sodium nitrite, sodium metabisulphite, potassium sorbate, sodium chloride, ascorbic acid, α-tocopherol, propyl 3,4,5-trihydroxybenzoate (propyl gallate) and butylated hydroxyanisole. The content of spermine, spermidine, putrescine, cadaverine, histamine, tyramine, tryptamine and 2-phenylethylamine was determined by capillary isotachophoretic methods in meat samples (fresh and fortified) during four days of storage at 4°C. The results were applied to estimate the impact of the tested additives on the formation of biogenic amines in white and red meat. For all tested meats, sodium nitrite, sodium chloride and disodium diphosphate showed the best inhibition. However, cadaverine and putrescine were characterised by the biggest changes in concentration during the storage time of all the additives. Based on the presented data for the content of biogenic amines in meat samples analysed as a function of storage time and additives, we suggest that cadaverine and putrescine have a significant impact on meat quality.
Dietary intake of non-nutritive sweeteners in type 1 diabetes mellitus children
Creators: name: Dewinter, Louise
name: Casteels, Kristina
name: Corthouts, Karen
name: Kerckhove, Kristel Van De
name: Vaerent, Katrien Van Der
name: Vanmeerbeeck, Kelly
name: Matthys, Christophe
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: The aims of the current cross-sectional study were (1) to assess the intake of aspartame, cyclamate, acesulfame-k, neohesperidine dihydrochalcone, sucralose, saccharin, steviol glycosides and neotame among children with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D); (2) to compare the obtained intakes with the respective acceptable daily intake (ADI) values; and (3) to conduct a scenario analysis to obtain practical guidelines for a safe consumption of non-nutritive sweeteners (NNS) among children with T1D. T1D patients of the Paediatrics Department of the University Hospitals Leuven were invited to complete a food frequency questionnaire designed to assess NNS intake using a tier 2 and tier 3 exposure assessment approach. A scenario analysis was conducted by reducing the P95 consumption of the most contributing food categories in order to reach a total sweetener intake lower than or equal to the ADI. Estimated total intakes higher than ADIs were only found for the P95 consumers only of acesulfame-k, cyclamate and steviol glycosides (tier 2 and tier 3 approach). Scenario analysis created dietary guidelines for each age category for diet soda, bread spreads and dairy drinks. There is little chance for T1D children to exceed the ADI of the different NNS, however diabetes educators and dieticians need to pay attention regarding the use of NNS.