cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Warfarin and dietary vitamin K: A multidisciplinary patient tool to improve INR maintenance
Creators: name: Lee, Krista
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Warfarin is a vitamin K antagonist that is the most commonly prescribed anticoagulant and continued use is anticipated even with the new anticoagulants. It is well known that warfarin has a narrow therapeutic range, potential life-threatening side effects and is known for multiple drug-drug, drug-disease, and drug-food interactions. Despite these known interactions, there is very little consistency regarding the patient education, which is integral to any medication, especially in regards to warfarin which has such life-threatening side effects. While many interactions are unavoidable, drug-food interactions can be controlled by the patient if they have received education. Research has shown that by improving diet education regarding vitamin K content of foods, patients can have more stable INR values (Dennis, Ripley, Planas and Beach, 2008). With adequate education, a patient is capable of maintaining a consistent daily vitamin K intake which will aid in his/her ability to maintain a therapeutic INR. A review of the nursing literature from the last ten years has revealed an extreme deficit of information regarding specific vitamin K content of food items. Since nurses are frequently in the position to offer formal and informal patient education, it is important that they possess essential knowledge about high-risk medications. This enables nurses to educate their patients accurately about these medications. There is some highly detailed patient information available about food items and vitamin K content, but they are long, cumbersome lists. In response, a clear, concise patient tool has been created that sorts foods into categories of low, moderate, high, and extremely high and also groups some food items for simplicity to keep the tool to a single page. It is the aim of this tool to improve patient and nursing education as well as increase patient diet choices regarding vitamin K content of foods which should lead to improvement in maintenance of therapeutic INR.
Prospects for clustering and lensing measurements with forthcoming intensity mapping and optical surveys
Creators: name: Pourtsidou, Alkistis
name: Bacon, David
name: Crittenden, Robert
name: Metcalf, R. Benton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the potential of using intensity mapping surveys (MeerKAT, SKA) and optical galaxy surveys (DES, LSST) to detect HI clustering and weak gravitational lensing of 21cm emission in auto- and cross-correlation. Our forecasts show that high precision measurements of the clustering and lensing signals can be made in the near future using the intensity mapping technique. Such studies can be used to test the intensity mapping method, and constrain parameters such as the HI density $Ω_{\rm HI}$, the HI bias $b_{\rm HI}$ and the galaxy-HI correlation coefficient $r_{\rm HI-g}$.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures, matches version accepted for publication in MNRAS
Author Correction: Suicide risk and mortality among patients with cancer.
Creators: name: Heinrich, Michael
name: Hofmann, Luisa
name: Baurecht, Hansjörg
name: Kreuzer, Peter M.
name: Knüttel, Helge
name: Leitzmann, Michael F.
name: Seliger, Corinna
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin

description: Correction to: Nature Medicine https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-022-01745-y. Published online 28 March 2022. In the version of this article initially published, refs. 12 and 16 were duplicated as refs. 21 and 22, which have now been removed and the list renumbered. There were typographical errors in the Supplementary Information which are reflected in descriptions of the meta-analysis in the main text, as follows: the review included 47,035,065 patients with cancer (not 46,952,813, as stated previously), the number of whom died by suicide is 69,401 (not 69,298 as reported previously), encompassing 107,961,345 person-years of follow-up (not 107,691,796, as noted previously); the “Study population” section of the Results now reports 30 studies performed in the USA and 25 in Europe (not 31 and 24, respectively, as stated previously). The abstract and the “Study population,” “Sensitivity analyses using all 62 eligible studies” and “Assessment of publication bias” sections of the Results have been amended. The typographical errors in the Supplementary Information were corrected as follows: pages 6 and 12, Turaga et al., end-time of recruitment updated from 2015 to 2005; page 7, Patasius et al., standardized mortality ratio updated from 1.01 to 1.10; page 7, Levi et al., follow-up in person-years updated from 57,614 to 57,164; page 8, Alanee et al., number of suicide cases updated from 30 to 33; page 9, Osazuwa-Peters et al., study population count updated from 205,658 to 287,901; pages 7 and 11, Kaceniene et al., country of study updated from USA to Lithuania. The results of the metadata analysis remain unchanged. Updates have now been made in the HTML and PDF versions of the full text, Extended Data Figures 2, 4 and 5 and the Supplementary Information.
MPEC 2023-T128 : 2023 TG4
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 TG4

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Polybotrya puberulenta R. C. Moran, Bull.
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Polybotrya
Polybotrya puberulenta

description: Polybotrya puberulenta R.C.Moran, Bull. Illinois Nat. Hist. Surv. 34: 90, f. 41, map 13. 1987.
 Range: —Andes of Ecuador, (Peru?), and Bolivia (CO, LP).
 Ecology: —Rare; hemiepiphytic in humid forests; 1100–1800 m.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
The current state of human rights in Equatorial Guinea
Creators: name: Ilieva, Slavena
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: democracy
Equatorial Guinea
human rights

description: Second semester University: Université de Montpellier.
description: The present research is focused on the current situation of the Human Rights in Equatorial Guinea. Its goal is to review and assess the current state of human rights in the country. This is done mainly through the use of the Qualitative Method and the Oral History. Besides, official international and national documents, plus articles, books (both scientific and political) and other sources of information have been used. All these sources have been used in order to understand, in depth, the complex situation in the country. With these sources and the use of a Questionnaire we have been able to compare the opinions of the respondents to the national legislative framework and the standpoint of the Government. In the research participated about 80 persons, some of them key figures in the current history of Equatorial Guinea. 32 of them answered the questionnaire. The main conclusion is that the picture presented by the participants is quite different from the one presented by the Government. Most of the participants contributed with constructive criticism and proposed reforms in the field of Human Rights, which in turn will facilitate a peaceful transition towards Democracy in Equatorial Guinea.
An Insolation Activated Dust Layer on Mars
Creators: name: de Beule, Caroline
name: Wurm, Gerhard
name: Kelling, Thorben
name: Koester, Marc
name: Kocifaj, Miroslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The illuminated dusty surface of Mars acts like a gas pump. It is driven by thermal creep at low pressure within the soil. In the top soil layer this gas flow has to be sustained by a pressure gradient. This is equivalent to a lifting force on the dust grains. The top layer is therefore under tension which reduces the threshold wind speed for saltation. We carried out laboratory experiments to quantify the thickness of this activated layer. We use basalt with an average particle size of 67 $μ$m. We find a depth of the active layer of 100 to 200 $\rm μm$. Scaled to Mars the activation will reduce threshold wind speeds for saltation by about 10%.
description: 6 pages, 9 figures, accepted by Icarus
International criminal tribunals as theatres of justice : on their use of historical narratives and dramatic devices
Creators: name: Vautard, Zoé
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: International Criminal Tribunals

description: Second semester University: University College, Dublin.
description: The tendency of war crime tribunals to be carried out in a dramatic fashion has often give rise to many criticisms. These Tribunals came under fire for using dramatic settings in order to attempt to write definitive historical accounts on war crime violations or to provide victims with some closure. The criticisms made were primarily in regard to the Holocaust trials established in Nuremberg or in Israel as these marked a tremendous step forward in punishing mass atrocities by the perpetrators. In this thesis, we will speculate as to whether these criticisms could apply to the current International Criminal Tribunals: the International Criminal Tribunal for Ex-Yugoslavia (ICTY), the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and International Criminal Court (ICC). This analysis will lead us to draw three different observations thus highlighting how traditional criticisms cannot apply to new international war crime tribunals. Firstly, if these Tribunals endorse extralegal aspirations, these take a different shape than the one pointed out by the traditional critics. Secondly, some aspects of theatricality or use of history can be identified in the Tribunals. However, it is worth noting that these do not seem to be carried out solely in order to achieve ideological and extralegal goals. In actual fact, they appear to be necessarily present in the trials dealing with mass atrocities. Thirdly, these scenographical and historical settings could turn out to be inappropriate in terms of the Tribunals achieving the extralegal goals they endorsed.
Democracy promotion in the European Neighbourhood Policy: the case of Morocco
Creators: name: Bergé, Helena
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: democratisation
Morocco
European Union
development aid policy
foreign economic relations
foreign relations
international cooperation

description: Second semester University: Masaryk University Brno.
description: Contrary to European Union (EU) rhetoric on the importance of democracy promotion, security considerations have always been prioritised over democratisation in its relations with the Southern Mediterranean. In a review of the European Neighbourhood Policy after the Lisbon Treaty and the Arab Spring in 2011, the EU pleaded again to give full attention to democracy considerations. This research paper investigates whether democracy promotion in the ENP towards Morocco has undergone any change since the review of the policy, both in substance and importance. A comparative analysis of European democracy support before and after 2011 in Morocco based on policy reports, financial allocations and conditionality mechanisms reveals that socio- economic conditions are the main focus of EU democracy promotion in Morocco, while most changes can be found in an increased support of civil society. However, the EU seems to repeat its previous behaviour by again prioritising security over democratisation.
The right to education of the Syrian refugees in Lebanon : how the Lebanese government is managing to ensure the right to education of the refugees
Creators: name: Anzolini, Fabrizio
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: right to education
Lebanon
Syria
refugees
children rights

description: Second semester University: Saint Joseph University, Beirut.
description: The thesis “The right to education of the Syrian refugees in Lebanon - How the Lebanese Government is managing to ensure the right to education to the refugees” is a research on how the Lebanese government is working to ensure, defend and improve the right to education of the Syrian school aged refugees. Since the beginning of the Syrian crisis, many refugees started to leave and flee the Country, seeking refuge in neighboring countries, which are States that can provide a safer harbor and that are easier to reach because of geographical proximity. In December 2015, Lebanon, a Country with around 4.5 million citizens, was hosting more than 1.5 million refugees from Syria. The UN Refugee Agency stated that, at the end of January 2016, over 472,000 Syrian refugee children between the ages of 3 and 17 were registered with the UNHCR in Lebanon. According to the Inter-Agency Coordination of the United Nations and the Lebanese Government, approximately 336,500 of them were out-of school. The main goal of this research is to analyze what the Government of Lebanon is doing to ensure the rights to education of these children, in which way it is working, with which instruments and with which institutional partners, international organizations and NGOs. After an analysis of the Reaching All Children with Education, the official program of the Lebanese Government to help the Syrian Refugees school-aged children and the vulnerable Lebanese children, the research will compare the institutional activities with what is actually happening, on the ground. To do this, it will need data, reports and papers coming from international organizations, studies centers and NGOs working on the field. Some interviews of experts, representatives of the Ministry of Education and teachers will be of an important help to go deep into the topic.
Who succeeds with weight loss by changing beverage intake? An examination of predictors of weight loss within a randomized trial to reduce caloric beverage intake
Creators: name: Vasa, Sahil
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Background: Sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) have been associated with rising obesity rates. Replacing caloric beverages with noncaloric beverages may be a successful strategy for weight loss however little research has examined predictors of success among those seeking to reduce caloric beverages.Design: Overweight and obese adults (n=318) were randomized to either a control group or 1 of 2 intervention groups.  The intervention groups substituted caloric beverages with water or diet soda. Beverage intake was measured at baseline and weight was measured at baseline and 6 months. This secondary data analyses examined predictors of beverage consumption at baseline and predictors of weight loss at 6 months among participants in the intervention groups.Results: Race and education were associated with greater baseline daily average calories from beverages such that White participants and those with a college degree consumed fewer calories than other minority participants and those without a college degree. Additionally, both race and gender were associated with percent weight loss. Men lost twice as much weight as women, and white participants lost about 1/3 more than more African Americans. High soda consumers (consuming more than 40% of their daily beverage calories from soda) were found to also consume more calories from all beverages however, they did not show more weight loss than low soda consumers and their weight loss did not differ by intervention group (diet vs. water).Conclusions: Replacing caloric beverages with non-caloric beverages resulted in significant weight loss, however, the strategy was most successful among males. Men lost almost 5% of their body weight using this strategy. Future weight loss research should include more male participants to allow further study of this approach.
Patient Safety in the Administration of Antineoplastic Agents and Immunotherapy of oncology treatment: scoping review
Creators: name: de Oliveira, Patrícia
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Antineoplastic Agents
subject: Chemotherapy
subject: Immunotherapy
subject: Medication Errors
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Oncologic Nursing
subject: Patient Safety

description: Patient Safety in the Administration of Antineoplastic Agents and Immunotherapy of oncology treatment: scoping review. This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brazil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001. Objective: to identify and synthesize scientific evidence on the safety of oncology patients in the administration of antineoplastic Agents and immunotherapeutic.
Discrimination in a multicultural primary classroom : a comparative study of the education system of Greece and Portugal
Creators: name: Chorozoglou, Asimenia
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2011
Subjects: discrimination in education
Greece
Portugal

description: Second semester University: New University of Lisbon
description: This paper will give an overview to the EU Education Strategies for the integration of immigrant children. The research begins with the definition of migration and the various reasons of these movements. On second chapter it is introduced the concept of “multicultural” theories aiming to the integration of the various ethnicities in Europe. The concept of multiculturalism is approached under the ideas of “liberal” and “republican”. Further, it is introduced the multiculturalism in education field and the stages that multicultural teaching follows to achieve the successful integration of foreigners students in the classroom. In the third chapter in respect to cultural diversities focuses on the International and European law towards to the right on education in equality and quality in respect to the cultural, linguistic and religious freedom of immigrants students without any discrimination or distinction. In the fourth chapter, it is analysed the primary education system of Greece and Portugal and compared the variations of the both education systems. In the last chapter, both education systems are compared according to the indicators of Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) Assessment that influenced the successful performance of students and the Reports from Greece and Portugal, EU and UNICEF. The outcome of this research is the necessity of schools‟ reforms according to the multicultural values aiming to achieve education in equality and quality for all students‟ immigrants and non-immigrants who will be the future active citizens of EU.
Introducing Virtual Reality for Firefighter Skills Training : Opinions from Sweden and Brazil
Creators: name: Hammar Wijkmark, Cecilia
name: Bail, Rosangela De França
name: Metallinou, Maria-Monika
name: Heldal, Ilona
name: Michaloski, Ariel Orlei
name: Aguiar, Eduardo Jose Slomp
Publisher: name: Journal of Applied Technical and Educational Sciences
Year: 2022

description: Journal of Applied Technical and Educational Sciences, Vol. 12 No. 3 (2022): 2022/3
Accuracy of Interpersonal Stress Appraisals: Relationships between Mother and Adolescent Daughter Depression
Creators: name: Feurer, Cope
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Associations between maternal and offspring depression have been thoroughly established, but many questions remain as to how maternal depression increases risk for depression in youth. Evidence suggests that children of depressed mothers are exposed to elevated levels of interpersonal stress and may be at a higher risk for developing cognitive vulnerabilities to depression. Therefore, this study examined how adolescent girls appraise naturally occurring life stressors and how these stress appraisals are associated with both maternal and offspring depressive symptoms. Depressive symptoms in female participants between the ages of 12 and 16 and their mothers (n = 57) were evaluated at two time points separated by a 9 month interval. Adolescents also participated in a semi-structured interview at the second time point in order to assess episodes of life stress. The accuracy of stress appraisals was assessed by accounting for both subjective appraisals and objective ratings of negative impact stress. In accordance with our hypothesis, elevated appraisals of stress restricted to the interpersonal domain were associated with increases in depressive symptoms in the youth. Additionally, elevated appraisals of interpersonal stress moderated the relationship between maternal and youth depressive symptoms. Contrary to our hypothesis, maternal depression was not related to the way in which youth appraised interpersonal or non-interpersonal stress. Findings from this study contribute to interpersonal models of depression, suggesting that increases in depression are associated with stress appraisals restricted to the interpersonal domain.
Toward superconducting critical current by design
Creators: name: Sadovskyy, I. A.
name: Jia, Y.
name: Leroux, M.
name: Kwon, J.
name: Hu, H.
name: Fang, L.
name: Chaparro, C.
name: Zhu, S.
name: Welp, U.
name: Zuo, J. -M.
name: Zhang, Y.
name: Nakasaki, R.
name: Selvamanickam, V.
name: Crabtree, G. W.
name: Koshelev, A. E.
name: Glatz, A.
name: Kwok, W. -K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the new paradigm of critical current by design. Analogous to materials by design, it aims at predicting the optimal defect landscape in a superconductor for targeted applications by elucidating the vortex dynamics responsible for the bulk critical current. To highlight this approach, we demonstrate the synergistic combination of critical current measurements on commercial high-temperature superconductors containing self-assembled and irradiation tailored correlated defects by using large-scale time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau simulations for vortex dynamics.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures; extended version
Coaching for college success: a qualitative study of students’ perceptions about the influence of performance coaching on non-cognitive development and retention
Creators: name: Barton, Kendall B.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2023

description: The number of initiatives developed to support student persistence and retention in higher education has expanded a great deal within the last 10 years. Many of these solutions have been created with the intent to directly influence and enhance students’ cognitive abilities while disregarding the critical role that non-cognitive factors play in student success. One promising approach that more holistically addresses students’ thoughts, attitudes, and behaviors to better sustain their enrollment is performance coaching—a highly personalized practice wherein students who are novices in some regard are paired with a more experienced individual on campus who supports them in developing specific skills to aid in their academic and personal success. The purpose of this qualitative interview study was to examine college students’ experiences in the Scarlet Scholar Success Coaching Program at Rutgers-Camden and explore their perceptions about which aspects of coaching contributed to their non-cognitive skill development and college persistence. The research questions guiding this study were: 1) What are students’ experiences in the Scarlet Scholar Success Coaching Program at Rutgers-Camden? and 2) What, if anything, do students say they learn after their participation in success coaching?Using focus groups and follow-up individual interviews with current and past coaching cohorts, this study aimed to uncover what students found to be meaningful while participating in coaching and which aspects of the coaching relationship contributed to their non-cognitive skill development and college persistence. Data analysis revealed four major themes: 1) Performance coaching plays an integral role in student retention, 2) Student-coach match determines coaching efficacy, 3) Specific coaching strategies seem to be most impactful, and 4) Success coaching can be a powerful intervention for enhancing students’ sense of belonging. The implications of these findings for researchers and practitioners who support first-year college students are discussed. Recommendations for the Scarlet Scholar Success Coaching Program and other similar student services include utilizing appropriate data and staff recruitment processes to facilitate student-coach match, implementing relevant and comprehensive staff training, evaluating students’ need for continued coaching, and expanding the use of coaching university-wide.
Working memory has better fidelity than long-term memory: The fidelity constraint is not a general property of memory after all
Creators: name: Biderman, Natalie
name: Luria, Roy
name: Teodorescu, Andrei
name: Hajaj, Ron
name: Goshen-Gottstein, Yonatan
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Here we present data files and analyses codes to reproduce the results of our study. (1) Data_files_per_experiment folder includes all individual and summary data files for Experiments 1-3, as well as Matlab and R scripts for our main analyses. (2) Bayesian_hierarchical_modeling folder includes our Stan implementation to the Bayesian version of the two-parameter model of Zhang and Luck (2008) (3) Hue_transformation folder includes scripts for unifying the hue of images. (4) Simulations folder includes a simulation for recovery of parameters using MLE.
Consociationalism, democracy and discrimination : the prospects for constitutional reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Creators: name: Boldt, Hildur
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2011
Subjects: democratisation
discrimination
ethnicity
Bosnia and Herzegovina

description: Second semester University: University of Ljubljana.
description: Consociationalism is frequently adopted as a tool to resolve conflicts in deeply divided societies. It is increasingly considered only a transitional arrangement, because it is an impediment to democracy and social peace in the long-term. It is relevant to explore what the possibilities to end consociational arrangements are. Bosnia and Herzegovina has by all accounts a dysfunctional and discriminatory political system based on ethnic representation. Corporate consociational provisions of the constitution have been found to be in violation of the European Covention of Human Rights in the Sejdić and Finci case. This thesis seeks to understand the legal and political effects of that judgment and the prospects of ending the corporate consociational arrangements in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in order to allow for politics that are not only based on ethnicity. The prospect for constitutional reform are discussed based on previous attempts at constitutional reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina; the Dutch, Austrian and South African experiences; and insights from theory of democratic transitions. Keywords: Bosnia and Herzegovina, consociationalism, constitutional reform, democracy, discrimination, Sejdić and Finci.
Environmental awareness perception of senior high school students in Ghana, the case of the Bolgatanga Municipality
Creators: name: Aryee, Feizel Ayitey
name: Ageziire, Thomas Ameyire
Publisher: name: Journal of Applied Technical and Educational Sciences
Year: 2022

description: Journal of Applied Technical and Educational Sciences, Vol. 12 No. 3 (2022): 2022/3
Polystichum chaparense M. Kessler & A. R. Sm., Brittonia
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Polystichum
Polystichum chaparense

description: Polystichum chaparense M.Kessler & A.R.Sm., Brittonia 57(3): 225, f. 7. 2005.
 Range: —Endemic to Bolivia (CO).
 Ecology: —Rare; terrestrial in humid forests; 1300–2000 m.
 Notes: —Most similar to P. lehmannii, but that has more pinnule-pairs per pinna (28–45 vs. ca. 25 pinnule-pairs) and fewer petiolar scales that become paler from the bases of the petioles distally towards the rachis.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
Giant nonlinearity via breaking parity-time symmetry: a route to low-threshold phonon diodes
Creators: name: Zhang, Jing
name: Peng, Bo
name: Ozdemir, Sahin Kaya
name: Liu, Yu-xi
name: Jing, Hui
name: Lu, Xin-you
name: Liu, Yu-long
name: Yang, Lan
name: Nori, Franco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nonreciprocal devices that permit wave transmission in only one direction are indispensible in many fields of science including, e.g., electronics, optics, acoustics, and thermodynamics. Manipulating phonons using such nonreciprocal devices may have a range of applications such as phonon diodes, transistors, switches, etc. One way of achieving nonreciprocal phononic devices is to use materials with strong nonlinear response to phonons. However, it is not easy to obtain the required strong mechanical nonlinearity, especially for few-phonon situations. Here, we present a general mechanism to amplify nonlinearity using $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric structures, and show that an on-chip micro-scale phonon diode can be fabricated using a $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric mechanical system, in which a lossy mechanical-resonator with very weak mechanical nonlinearity is coupled to a mechanical resonator with mechanical gain but no mechanical nonlinearity. When this coupled system transits from the $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric regime to the broken-$\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric regime, the mechanical nonlinearity is transferred from the lossy resonator to the one with gain, and the effective nonlinearity of the system is significantly enhanced. This enhanced mechanical nonlinearity is almost lossless because of the gain-loss balance induced by the $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric structure. Such an enhanced lossless mechanical nonlinearity is then used to control the direction of phonon propagation, and can greatly decrease (by over three orders of magnitude) the threshold of the input-field intensity necessary to observe the unidirectional phonon transport. We propose an experimentally realizable lossless low-threshold phonon diode of this type. Our study opens up new perspectives for constructing on-chip few-phonon devices and hybrid phonon-photon components.
description: 13 pages, 9 figures
Challenges for diversity management in Norway : the mistrust within the Somali community towards the child welfare system
Creators: name: Nesheim, Laila Elisabeth
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: children
immigrants
multiculturalism
social integration
Somalis
Norway

description: Second semester University: University of Deusto, Bilbao.
description: The objective of this thesis is to increase the understanding of some challenges contemporary Norwegian society faces in diversity management by examining the interaction and dynamics between Somalis and the child welfare system (CWS). Mistrust and tensions dominate many Somalis relationship to the institution, the root causes and consequences of this situation are still unexplored. This thesis seeks to critically review some of the possible root causes by applying a twofold approach thereby allowing for a “broad sweep” exploration on both a macro and micro level. It questions if the causes for mistrust can be found on multiple levels in society. Is there incoherence in policies on a structural level that can have implications for their implementation, and cause a pos- sible discrepancy, posing challenges regarding the interpretation of the principle of equality and when one should recognize diversity? Will these dilemmas furthermore influence the practice of the institutions such as the CWS? It argues that the impact of integration policies on CWS is under-researched, and is possibly greater than one envisages. Secondly it questions if the mistrust can be caused by the use of a rhetoric that emphasises cultural values. The study suggests that while the cause for mistrust is multiple and complex, a combination of incoherence in diversity management on a policy level and the use of a discourse that emphasises cultural values builds boundaries creating categorisations that limit our identities and lead to exclusion and ultimately a mistrust between the actors
Chinas rising impact in Sub-Saharan Africa and the use of child labour: is there room for corporate social responsibility?
Creators: name: Pinto, Ines Alexandra : Castanheira
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2011
Subjects: business corporations
China
child labour
Africa
social responsibility

description: Second semester University: University of Nottingham
description: China‘s increasing rise in Africa has been the topic of many studies and debates in recent years. How Chinese investments and MNEs presence on the continent impact child labour, particularly children‘s right to be free from economic exploitation, and in general African labour standards have, however, received little attention. Drawing on the insights of a country case-study of Chinese mining companies in Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo, where evidence of exploitation of child labour has been found, this thesis will start by providing a brief and broad overview of the Sino-African engagement and its main features to contextualize the motives of much of the critique, followed by elaborated considerations on the importance of considering labour rights as human rights as well as to shed some light on the issue of child labour itself through an analysis of the international legal protection, instruments and concerns on the issue. Finally, the aim of this study is, therefore, to examine whether or not there is indeed a role for corporate social responsibility to play in Sino-African economic partnership. The already existing conceptions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) will probably need to be adjusted in order to reflect the real Sino-African context and include prominent issues, such as child labour. In this context, a non-exhaustive analysis of possible codes of conduct will be identified to highlight the trends with regard to CSR, particularly in relation to children. Initiatives and standards that may be used as a basis for Chinese companies to further adhere or ground their activities. Moreover, it is concluded that Chinese ‗business culture‘ needs to develop more responsible standards and a higher understanding to uptake CSR standards and practices when operating in Africa
Conductivity enhancement in plastic-crystalline solid-state electrolytes
Creators: name: Geirhos, K.
name: Lunkenheimer, P.
name: Michl, M.
name: Reuter, D.
name: Loidl, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Finding new ionic conductors that enable significant advancements in the development of energy-storage devices is a challenging goal of current material science. Aside of material classes as ionic liquids or amorphous ion conductors, the so-called plastic crystals (PCs) have been shown to be good candidates combining high conductivity and favourable mechanical properties. PCs are formed by molecules whose orientational degrees of freedom still fluctuate despite the material exhibits a well-defined crystalline lattice. Here we show that the conductivity of Li+ ions in succinonitrile, the most prominent molecular PC electrolyte, can be enhanced by several decades when replacing part of the molecules in the crystalline lattice by larger ones. Dielectric spectroscopy reveals that this is accompanied by a stronger coupling of ionic and reorientational motions. These findings, which can be understood in terms of an optimised "revolving door" mechanism, open a new path towards the development of better solid-state electrolytes.
description: 5 pages, 4 figure + 2 pages, 2 figures in Supplemental Information
The Effect of Healthy Food Affordability for Children Supported by WIC and/or SNAP
Creators: name: Schafer, Eric
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Aim 1: To define differences in food intake and body mass index (BMI) percentile
between children ages who are beneficiaries in both, neither or either the Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for
Women, Infants and Children (WIC).
Aim 2: To quantify the effect of healthy food affordability on food intake and BMI
percentile among WIC and SNAP beneficiaries, ages two to four years old.
Introduction: Obesity is a serious problem for children in the US. In prior studies,
SNAP and WIC usage have not been found to correlate to obesity. However, children
supported by SNAP have been shown to have poor diets. Many parents supported by
WIC and/or SNAP report cost being a barrier to access of healthy foods.
Methods: We used data from NHANES, on children ages 2-4 from 2003-2010. After
exclusion of participants with missing variables, the sample population was n=1714.
Results: WIC use, but not SNAP use, was associated with higher carbohydrate (242 g
95% CI: 221, 262) and sugar (133 g 95% CI: 121, 145) intake as compared to children
supported by neither WIC nor SNAP [carbohydrates (208 g 95% CI: 195, 221) and
sugar (112 g 95% CI: 105, 119)]. WIC and SNAP was not associated with obesity. WIC
and/or SNAP use was associated with less healthy food affordability. However, healthy
food affordability was not associated with overnutrition or obesity.
Discussion: A longitudinal study is needed to examine effects of WIC participation on
overnutrition. Healthy food affordability was not found to be a risk factor for obesity and
overnutrition. Further studies are needed to determine the risk factors for overnutrition
and obesity among WIC and/or SNAP participants to inform future interventions.
Nationaler Ringvergleich Anstiegszeit Oktober 2015 - November 2016 : Vergleichsbericht DKD-V 2.4
Creators: name: Baaske, Kai
Publisher: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Year: 2018

description: DKD-Vergleichsberichte verfolgen das Ziel, die Ergebnisse von Vergleichsmessungen offenzulegen, die im Rahmen des Deutschen Kalibrierdienstes organisiert, durchgeführt bzw. ausgewertet wurden. Sie enthalten zahlreiche Informationen über die Messfähigkeiten der teilnehmenden Kalibrierlaboratorien und die Vergleichbarkeit von Messungen. In den Vergleichsberichten wird die Sichtweise der Autoren wiedergegeben, die nicht notwendigerweise in allen Details der Sichtweise des Vorstands oder der Fachausschüsse des DKD entsprechen muss. Die DKD-Vergleichsberichte sollen die im Vergleich untersuchten Aspekte und Ergebnisse der Kalibrierung darstellen und durch die Publikation im Rahmen des DKD der großen Gemeinschaft der Kalibrierlaboratorien national und international zugänglich machen. Experten- und Vergleichsberichte müssen nicht vom Vorstand genehmigt werden (Beschluss auf der 5. DKD-Vorstandssitzung), sondern nur vom jeweiligen Fachausschuss und der Geschäftsstelle.
Polystichum congestum M. Kessler & A. R. Sm., Brittonia
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Polystichum
Polystichum congestum

description: Polystichum congestum M.Kessler & A.R.Sm., Brittonia 57(3): 212, f. 2b. 2005.
 Range: — Ecuador, Bolivia (LP); to be expected in Peru.
 Ecology: —Rare; on rocks in humid forests; 1300–2100 m.
 Notes: —The appearance is reminiscent of the much larger Dryopteris wallichiana (Spreng.) Hyl.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
With great power comes great responsibility : China, Sudan and the Crisis in Darfur
Creators: name: Pavlík, Daniel
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: foreign policy
foreign relations
China
Sudan
Darfur
humanitarian intervention
olympic games. Beijing. 2008
war

description: Second semester University: University of Southern Denmark.
description: The crisis in the Sudanese region of Darfur, which began in 2003, is one of world's biggest challenges in the beginning of this century. Between the years 2006 and 2008 the ongoing conflict in Darfur received overwhelming attention from the world media. This was caused by two facts. First, Sudan's main ally was China, which in the last few decades experienced an unparalleled economic growth that made it one of the most important countries in world politics and second, in the year 2008, China was scheduled to organise the world's largest sporting event, the Summer Olympic Games. But the widespread human rights abuses happening in Sudan put China under intense pressure from human rights organisations and activists groups that demanded greater Chinese action in pressuring its ally and stopping the ongoing violence in Darfur. As the negative campaign threatened the success of the approaching Beijing Olympics, China was forced to revaluate its core principle of national sovereignty, territorial integrity and non-interference in domestic affairs of other countries and pressure the Sudanese government to accept the United Nations peacekeeping mission on its territory. In the end, China managed to pressure the Sudanese government to accept the UN peacekeeping mission, at the same time uphold its foreign policy principles, protect its investments in Sudan and organise successful Olympic Games. Key Words: China, Sudan, Darfur, conflict, Africa, oil, international humanitarian intervention, UNAMID, Olympic Games, UN
Jet Quenching from QCD Evolution
Creators: name: Chien, Yang-Ting
name: Emerman, Alexander
name: Kang, Zhong-Bo
name: Ovanesyan, Grigory
name: Vitev, Ivan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent advances in soft-collinear effective theory with Glauber gluons have led to the development of a new method that gives a unified description of inclusive hadron production in reactions with nucleons and heavy nuclei. We show how this approach, based on the generalization of the DGLAP evolution equations to include final-state medium-induced parton showers, can be combined with initial-state effects for applications to jet quenching phenomenology. We demonstrate that the traditional parton energy loss calculations can be regarded as a special soft-gluon emission limit of the general QCD evolution framework. We present phenomenological comparison of the SCET$_{\rm G}$-based results on the suppression of inclusive charged hadron and neutral pion production in $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=2.76$ TeV lead-lead collisions at the Large Hadron Collider to experimental data. We also show theoretical predictions for the upcoming $\sqrt{s_{NN}} \simeq 5.1$ TeV Pb+Pb run at the LHC.
description: 21 pages 6 figures; appendix, figure and references added
Protocol for a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Individual Participant Data on the Magnitude of Racial Disparities of Depressive Symptoms in the United States
Creators: name: Causadias, José
name: Korous, Kevin
name: Cahill, Karina
name: Pyatetskiy, Hannah
name: Fried, Eiko
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: cultural differences hypothesis
subject: cultural similarities hypothesis
subject: depressive symptoms
subject: meta-analysis of individual participant data
subject: racial disparities

description: A growing body of research has documented racial disparities in depressive symptoms in the United States, although the precise magnitude on these differences is less well understood. This issue has important implications for informing public health policy, and developing and administering prevention and intervention strategies. In this protocol, we propose a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data from nationally representative studies from the United States drawn from Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). Our three aims are to: 1) Estimate the overall average difference of depressive symptoms between Whites and minorities, as well as between- (e.g., African-Americans, Latinos) and within- (e.g., Latinos: Mexican-Americans, Cuban-Americans) minority groups; 2) Determine if age, sex, education, income, socioeconomic status, and other variables account for these differences; 3) Test the cultural differences and similarities hypotheses.