cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Health of the Slovenian population: Where do we stand?
Creators: name: Zaletel-Kragelj, Lijana
name: Batista, Kaja
name: Bertoncelj, Marusa
name: Brlek, Aljaz
name: Carli, Tanja
name: Grasek, Manja
name: Horvat, Martina
name: Kebler, Ines
name: Mavric, Ana
name: Mozetic, Matija
name: Opresnik, Denis
name: Rozic, Mirjam
name: Strmsek, Anja
name: Sivec, Nastja
name: Smarcan, Vesna
name: Vurzer, Blaz
name: Zadravec, Kristina
name: Zaletel, Rok
name: Kukec, Andreja
name: Erzen, Ivan
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2022

description: Aim: Aiming at assessing the state of the Slovenian population health according to the latest available data, and comparing it with health in selected countries, the objective was to analyse the burden of disease (BoD) data available in a selected database. Methods: The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation Global Burden of Disease Study (IHME-GBD) database was used. Causes of all three big IHME-GBD groups: A) communicable, maternal/neonatal conditions, and nutritional deficiencies, B) non-communicable diseases, and C) injuries, in total 18 groups of causes, were observed. Overall mortality, Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs), Years of Life Lost (YLLs) and Years Lived with Disability (YLDs) (all per 100.000 population), were used as indicators. Percentage of BoD generated by selected cause, and the ratios of rates in 2019 versus rates in 2014 (reference year) in Slovenia, and the ratios of rates in Slovenia versus rates in Western Europe Region countries (WERC) were analysed. Ratios >1.20 or ˂0.83 were considered as important. Results: When considering mortality, the greatest burden was generated by cardiovascular diseases and neoplasms. In maternal/neonatal conditions, an important decrease in overall (0.68) and premature (0.68) mortality, while in nutritional deficiencies an increase in overall mortality (1.27) were observed. An increase in overall mortality was noticed also in neurological disorders (1.21), diabetes (1.21) and skin diseases (1.24). Mortality rates were higher in Slovenia than in WERC in digestive diseases, substance use, unintentional injuries and self-harm. When considering disability, the greatest burden was generated by musculoskeletal and mental disorders, and unintentional injuries. Disability rates were higher in Slovenia than in WERC in maternal/neonatal conditions, and unintentional and transport injuries. Conclusion: In the observed five-year time span, cardiovascular diseases and neoplasms remained at the forefront. However, their burden didn’t change. Causes with burden expressed by disability, musculoskeletal and mental disorders, and unintentional injuries, which has been neglected in the past due to lack of indicators, proved to be an important problem as well. MPHPs in which a lot has to be done to reach rates in WERC, digestive diseases, substance use, and injuries, were identified. Conflict of interest statement The authors declare no conflict of interest
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Special Volume No. 1, 2022: The Population's Health: Could South Eastern Europe Do Better?
Antisocial pool rewarding does not deter public cooperation
Creators: name: Szolnoki, Attila
name: Perc, Matjaz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rewarding cooperation is in many ways expected behaviour from social players. However, strategies that promote antisocial behaviour are also surprisingly common, not just in human societies, but also among eusocial insects and bacteria. Examples include sanctioning of individuals who behave prosocially, or rewarding of freeriders who do not contribute to collective enterprises. We therefore study the public goods game with antisocial and prosocial pool rewarding in order to determine the potential negative consequences on the effectiveness of positive incentives to promote cooperation. Contrary to a naive expectation, we show that the ability of defectors to distribute rewards to their like does not deter public cooperation as long as cooperators are able to do the same. Even in the presence of antisocial rewarding the spatial selection for cooperation in evolutionary social dilemmas is enhanced. Since the administration of rewards to either strategy requires a considerable degree of aggregation, cooperators can enjoy the benefits of their prosocial contributions as well as the corresponding rewards. Defectors when aggregated, on the other hand, can enjoy antisocial rewards, but due to their lack of contributions to the public good they ultimately succumb to their inherent inability to secure a sustainable future. Strategies that facilitate the aggregation of akin players, even if they seek to promote antisocial behaviour, thus always enhance the long-term benefits of cooperation.
description: 9 two-column pages, 5 figures; accepted for publication in Proceedings of the Royal Society B
Sparse Representation for 3D Shape Estimation: A Convex Relaxation Approach
Creators: name: Zhou, Xiaowei
name: Zhu, Menglong
name: Leonardos, Spyridon
name: Daniilidis, Kostas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We investigate the problem of estimating the 3D shape of an object defined by a set of 3D landmarks, given their 2D correspondences in a single image. A successful approach to alleviating the reconstruction ambiguity is the 3D deformable shape model and a sparse representation is often used to capture complex shape variability. But the model inference is still a challenge due to the nonconvexity in optimization resulted from joint estimation of shape and viewpoint. In contrast to prior work that relies on a alternating scheme with solutions depending on initialization, we propose a convex approach to addressing this challenge and develop an efficient algorithm to solve the proposed convex program. Moreover, we propose a robust model to handle gross errors in the 2D correspondences. We demonstrate the exact recovery property of the proposed method, the advantage compared to the nonconvex baseline methods and the applicability to recover 3D human poses and car models from single images.
description: Extended version of the paper: 3D Shape Estimation from 2D Landmarks: A Convex Relaxation Approach. X. Zhou et al., CVPR, 2015. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1411.2942
The willingness of COVID-19 vaccination and associated factors: A systematic review
Creators: name: Fani, Tiara
name: Saptorini, Kriswiharsi Kun
name: Anggreani, Aprilia Diah
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2022

description: Aim: Vaccination is an effective approach to avoid infection and reduce morbidity and mortality of infectious diseases. However, in previous infectious disease vaccination programs, some people were hesitant to get vaccinated. To develop an effective vaccination program or policy, the government or public health officials need to understand the factors that influence the willingness of COVID-19 vaccination from the various studies. Methods: Between 1-18 December 2020, articles were searched from PubMed and ScienceDirect with the following key terms: Willingness, Acceptance, Acceptability, COVID-19 vaccine, and COVID-19 vaccination. Eligibility for article inclusion criteria was determined by PRISMA. Results: 20 studies were included in this review. All studies were conducted in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. The willingness of COVID-19 vaccination ranged from 60-97% among the general population, 28-63% among healthcare workers, 56-65% among parents or caregivers, and 73% among factory workers. The common factors that affected the willingness of COVID-19 vaccination: gender, age, education, individual perception about diseases and the vaccine, trust in the government, statements of public health officials and health providers. Conclusion: Concerns about disease risk, effectiveness, and side effects are important factors associated with vaccination willingness. To avoid vaccination hesitancy in the community, public health officials need to disseminate detailed information about the vaccines like efficacy level and side effects, and continue to provide information about the risks of COVID-19 for personal health and others through various online media to avoid vaccination hesitancy. Conflict: None declared.
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Volume XVIII, 2022
Correlates of level of satisfaction among primary health care workers in Albania
Creators: name: Naum, Alvi
name: Toçi, Ervin
name: Toçi, Dorina
name: Burazeri, Genc
name: Van Kessel, Robin
name: Czabanowska, Katarzyna
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2022

description: Aim: The aim of this study was to explore the level of satisfaction of primary health care staff in Albania and the factors associated with it. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in Tirana city, the Albanian capital, from 11 November 2020 until 25 November 2020. Among all health centers (HCs) and health centers of specialties (HCSs) of Tirana Municipality, there were selected randomly a HC in rural areas, a HC in urban areas and one HCS. All the staff (doctors and nurses) being present at the time of data collection was interviewed, using an international standardized tool (the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center instrument) assessing the satisfaction with various elements of the work in PHC, validated in Albanian. A total of 102 PHC staff were included in the study. Binary logistic regression was used to assess the association of staff satisfaction with independent factors. Results: The aspects of work most appreciated by PHC staff (% satisfied or very satisfied) were: respectful treatment by colleagues (78.2%), staff morale and their positive attitude towards work (73.2%). The most disliked aspects of work by PHC staff (% dissatisfied or very dissatisfied) were: current salary (60.8%), stress at work (38.3%), physical and medical infrastructure in the institution (27%). Staff in rural HCs, older staff, females and nurses and family doctors are more likely to be satisfied compared to their respective colleagues. Conclusion: Our findings suggest various factors associated with the satisfaction of PHC staff in Albania. These findings could be guiding future efforts aiming to improve the work conditions of the professionals working in primary health care in Albania. Conflicts of interest: None declared. Acknowledgment: This study was funded by the “Health for All Project” in Albania (hap.org.al), which is a project of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Volume XVIII, 2022
Non-parametric reconstruction of an inflaton potential from Einstein-Cartan-Sciama-Kibble gravity with particle production
Creators: name: Desai, Shantanu
name: Poplawski, Nikodem J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The coupling between spin and torsion in the Einstein-Cartan-Sciama-Kibble theory of gravity generates gravitational repulsion at very high densities, which prevents a singularity in a black hole and may create there a new universe. We show that quantum particle production in such a universe near the last bounce, which represents the Big Bang gives the dynamics that solves the horizon, flatness, and homogeneity problems in cosmology. For a particular range of the particle production coefficient, we obtain a nearly constant Hubble parameter that gives an exponential expansion of the universe with more than 60 $e$-folds, which lasts about $\sim 10^{-42}$ s. This scenario can thus explain cosmic inflation without requiring a fundamental scalar field and reheating. From the obtained time dependence of the scale factor, we follow the prescription of Ellis and Madsen to reconstruct in a non-parametric way a scalar field potential which gives the same dynamics of the early universe. This potential gives the slow-roll parameters of cosmic inflation, from which we calculate the tensor-to-scalar ratio, the scalar spectral index of density perturbations, and its running as functions of the production coefficient. We find that these quantities do not significantly depend on the scale factor at the Big Bounce. Our predictions for these quantities are consistent with the Planck 2015 observations.
description: 9 pages, 11 figures
Weak and Variable Effects of Exogenous Testosterone on Cognitive Reflection Test Performance in Three Experiments: Commentary on Nave, Nadler, Zava, and Camerer (2017)
Creators: name: Knight, Erik
name: Kutlikova, Hana
name: Morales, Pablo
name: Christian, Colton
name: Mehta, Pranjal
name: Carré, Justin
name: McShane, Blakeley
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Nave and colleagues (2017) presented a single experiment (n=243) finding that exogenous testosterone caused a decrease in performance on the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) by increasing intuitive-but-incorrect responses. We report three new experiments (total n=628) that also examine the effect of exogenous testosterone on CRT performance. When pooling the data across experiments, we find (i) substantial variation in CRT performance across experiments, treatment groups, and participants and (ii) variable treatment effects of testosterone on CRT performance across experiments with any average effect being weak relative to this underlying variability – regardless of whether we considered the three new experiments or all four. Given our modeling assumptions, an average treatment effect of a 7% decrease in the odds of correctly responding to a CRT item is the value most compatible with the data from the three new experiments; however, anything from a 53% decrease to a 99% increase is also reasonably compatible. Similarly, a 27% decrease is the value most compatible with the data from all four experiments; however, anything from a 62% decrease to a 58% increase is also reasonably compatible. We explore potential explanations for the pattern of results observed across the four experiments.
Novel technique to extract experimental symmetry free energy information of nuclear matter
Creators: name: Mabiala, J.
name: Zheng, H.
name: Bonasera, A.
name: Cammarata, P.
name: Hagel, K.
name: Heilborn, L.
name: Kohley, Z.
name: May, L. W.
name: McIntosh, A. B.
name: Youngs, M. D.
name: Zarrella, A.
name: Yennello, S. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new method of accessing information on the symmetry free energy from yields of fragments produced in Fermi-energy heavy-ion collisions is proposed. Furthermore, by means of quantum fluctuation analysis techniques, correlations between extracted symmetry free-energy coefficients with temperature and density were studied. The obtained results are consistent with those of commonly used isoscaling techniques.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures Heavy-ion nuclear reactions at Fermi energies, Nuclear equation of State, Fragmentation
title: Münchner Beiträge zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur, Nr. 1 (2010): Eine deutsch-jüdische Nachkriegsgeographie
title: Eine deutsch-jüdische Nachkriegsgeographie
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Münchner Beiträge Zur Jüdischen Geschichte Und Kultur
Publisher: name: Münchner Beiträge zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur
Year: 2023

description: Mit Beiträgen von Tobias Freimüller, Katharina Friedla, Anne Gemeinhardt, Monika Halbinger, Tamar Lewinsky, Hendrik Niether, Andrea Sinn und Maximilian Strnad
description: „Die Drei Kulturen und spanische Identität(en)“ ...108-111 Angekommen? ...104-107 Zwischen Judenplatz und Kaffeehaus...102-103 „The German Rabbinate Abroad: Transferring German-Jewish Modernity into the World?”...99-101 „Ich schäme mich nicht zu gestehen, daß ich zutiefst ergriffen und bewegt war“...90-98 Frankfurt am Main – Intellektuelles Zentrum jüdischen Lebens in der Bundesrepublik...78-89 „Strandgut eines grausamen Sturmes“...66-77 Warum Düsseldorf?...57-65 Von Breslau nach Erfurt...42-56 Der Saarländische Sonderweg...26-41 Jüdische Displaced Persons im Nachkriegsmünchen...17-25 Skizze zu einer jüdischen Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland nach ’45...8-16
A New Empirical Constraint on the Prevalence of Technological Species in the Universe
Creators: name: Frank, Adam
name: Sullivan, W. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we address the cosmic frequency of technological species. Recent advances in exoplanet studies provide strong constraints on all astrophysical terms in the Drake Equation. Using these and modifying the form and intent of the Drake equation we show that we can set a firm lower bound on the probability that one or more additional technological species have evolved anywhere and at any time in the history of the observable Universe. We find that as long as the probability that a habitable zone planet develops a technological species is larger than ~$10^{-24}$, then humanity is not the only time technological intelligence has evolved. This constraint has important scientific and philosophical consequences.
description: 12 pages. 1 Figure. Submitted to AstroBiology
Transmission Path Flow Modeling to Inform Analysis of Power System Impacts from Wind and Hydrological Extremes
Creators: name: Sun, Yi
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Water resources, agricultural production, and electric power generation are all interdependent. It is therefore necessary to understand how decisions and resources disruptions in these distinct sectors impact overall system sustainability, both now and in the future. A significant, current effort in this area is a project led by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and funded by the National Science Foundation. The aim of this large, multi-institutional project is to design an integrated, open source computational model for the California water-power-agriculture system. This model is will be used to discover key vulnerabilities and tradeoffs across sectors and thus aid utilities and government officials in designing a robust and resilient water-power-agriculture system. This thesis will focus on further developing this model and using it to understand power-generating vulnerabilities on the CAISO and WECC power system. The primary objectives are: 1) to use stochastic time series and power system modeling techniques to study the impacts of the Western US wind-hydrological extremes on CAISO electricity supply and prices; and 2) to examine the sensitivity of the CAISO market to potential changes in spatial/temporal covariance structures and seasonality of wind and hydro. Ultimately, modeling these disruptions will help system planners across multiple sectors incorporate risks from extreme events in short term operations and long-term planning.
Implementation of health protocols in the workplace during the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia
Creators: name: Yuantari, Catur
name: Rachmani, Enny
name: Kusuma, Edi Jaya
name: Ariyanto, Amelia Devi Putri
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2022

description: Background: Covid-19 is a new disease for which no cure has been found; prevention of disease transmission is an alternative to reducing cases. The workplace is one of the places that have the potential for information of Covid-19 because workers will have direct contact in one place with other workers. This study aims to analyze the characteristics and availability of health protocol facilities on worker compliance in the workplace during the Covid-19 pandemic. Methods: The research method uses quantitative methods with a cross-sectional approach. The population in this study are workers who work in formal and informal sectors in Indonesia, with a sample of 217 respondents. Data collection used a survey method and obtained as much as 217 data. For data processing, we used the Rank Spearman test. Results: The results showed that there was a relationship between years of service (p-value 0.008; rho: 0.148), educational level (p-value 0.000; rho: 0.363), number of employees (p-value 0.000; rho: 0.488), and the availability of health protocol facilities (p-value 0.000; r: 0.498) at the workplace. As for age and the level of compliance with the application of health protocols, there was no relationship (p-value 0.044). Discussion: The level of compliance with suitable health protocols at the workplace can help suppress the spread of Covid-19. There are still workplaces where workers do not comply with health protocols, such as workers who do not practice social distancing and lower masks to their chins when talking to colleagues. Conflicts of interest: None declared. Acknowledgments: The researcher would like to thank LPPM and the Faculty of Health at Dian Nuswantoro University for providing financial support for this research.
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Special Volume No. 2, 2022: Young Indonesian Scientists Write On Public Health
TCP Connection Management for Stateful Container Migration at the Network Edge - MedComNet2023
Creators: name: Yu, Yenchia
name: Calagna, Antonio
name: Giaccone, Paolo
name: Chiasserini, Carla F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: SNS
PREDICT-6G
migration
overlay networks
edge computing
MedComNet 2023
IEEE

description: The "TCP Connection Management for Stateful Container Migration at the Network Edge" presentation was delivered by Yenchia Yu (POLITO) in the 21st Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference (MedComNet 2023) held on the 13-15 of June 2023, in Ponza, Italy. The full conference paper is available here.
Dissertation_LeiLi
Creators: name: Li, Lei
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Stochastic analysis and modelling
Operations research
Dynamical systems in applications

description: In the real world, uncertainty is a common challenging problem faced by individuals, organizations, and firms. Decision quality is highly impacted by uncertainty because decision makers lack complete information and have to leverage the loss and gain in many possible outcomes or scenarios. This study explores dynamic decision making (with known distributions) and decision learning (with unknown distributions but some samples) in not-for-profit operations and supply chain management. We first study dynamic staffing for paid workers and volunteers with uncertain supply in a nonprofit operation where the optimal policy is too complex to compute and implement. Then, we consider dynamic inventory control and pricing under both supply and demand uncertainties where unmet demand is lost leading to a challenging non-concave dynamic problem. Furthermore, we explore decision learning from limited data of focal system and available data of related but different systems by transfer learning, cross learning, and co-learning utilizing the similarities among related systems.
Effect of safety and hygiene practices on lung function among Indonesian farmers exposed to pesticides
Creators: name: Mahawati, Eni
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2022

description: Aim: This study aimed to detect lung function impairment in farmers exposed to pesticides related to safety and hygiene practices in pesticide application. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study with respondents are 200 farmers who were exposed to pesticides in Grobogan, the main agricultural center in Central Java, Indonesia, which has 95.75% agricultural workers. Data were collected by a questionnaire-based interview, observation, and spirometry measurement. Chi-square and Multinomial Regression were used for the statistical test. Results: The survey results of all respondents showed that 12% had restriction lung function, 32% had obstruction lung function, and 56% had normal lung function. There was a significant effect between work period, pesticide spraying hour per day, spraying against wind direction, changing clothes directly after exposure to pesticides, taking a bath directly after exposure to pesticides with "farmer's lung function" based on statistical test results. Conclusion: The Safety and hygiene practices of farmers exposed to pesticides could affect their lung function. It is suggested that to improve management and regulation control of pesticide application, educational programs and reinforcement of "safety and hygiene practices" in the workplace as effective approaches for preventing respiratory disorders related to pesticide exposures. Conflicts of interest: None declared.
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Special Volume No. 2, 2022: Young Indonesian Scientists Write On Public Health
HAT-P-57b: A Short-Period Giant Planet Transiting A Bright Rapidly Rotating A8V Star Confirmed Via Doppler Tomography
Creators: name: Hartman, J. D.
name: Bakos, G. Á.
name: Buchhave, L. A.
name: Torres, G.
name: Latham, D. W.
name: Kovács, G.
name: Bhatti, W.
name: Csubry, Z.
name: de Val-Borro, M.
name: Penev, K.
name: Huang, C. X.
name: Béky, B.
name: Bieryla, A.
name: Quinn, S. N.
name: Howard, A. W.
name: Marcy, G. W.
name: Johnson, J. A.
name: Isaacson, H.
name: Fischer, D. A.
name: Noyes, R. W.
name: Falco, E.
name: Esquerdo, G. A.
name: Knox, R. P.
name: Hinz, P.
name: Lázár, J.
name: Papp, I.
name: Sári, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the discovery of HAT-P-57b, a P = 2.4653 day transiting planet around a V = 10.465 +- 0.029 mag, Teff = 7500 +- 250 K main sequence A8V star with a projected rotation velocity of v sin i = 102.1 +- 1.3 km s^-1. We measure the radius of the planet to be R = 1.413 +- 0.054 R_J and, based on RV observations, place a 95% confidence upper limit on its mass of M < 1.85 M_J . Based on theoretical stellar evolution models, the host star has a mass and radius of 1.47 +- 0.12 M_sun, and 1.500 +- 0.050 R_sun, respectively. Spectroscopic observations made with Keck-I/HIRES during a partial transit event show the Doppler shadow of HAT-P-57b moving across the average spectral line profile of HAT-P- 57, confirming the object as a planetary system. We use these observations, together with analytic formulae that we derive for the line profile distortions, to determine the projected angle between the spin axis of HAT-P-57 and the orbital axis of HAT-P-57b. The data permit two possible solutions, with -16.7 deg < lambda < 3.3 deg or 27.6 deg < lambda < 57.4 deg at 95% confidence, and with relative probabilities for the two modes of 26% and 74%, respectively. Adaptive optics imaging with MMT/Clio2 reveals an object located 2.7" from HAT-P-57 consisting of two point sources separated in turn from each other by 0.22". The H and L -band magnitudes of the companion stars are consistent with their being physically associated with HAT-P-57, in which case they are stars of mass 0.61 +- 0.10 M_sun and 0.53 +- 0.08 M_sun. HAT-P-57 is the most rapidly rotating star, and only the fourth main sequence A star, known to host a transiting planet.
description: 18 pages, 14 figures, 5 tables, accepted for publication in AJ
Tuberculosis literacy and stigma: female activists in five areas with the lowest treatment success rate in Semarang, Indonesia
Creators: name: Mubarokah, Kismi
name: Nurjanah, Nurjanah
name: Handayani, Sri
name: Astarini, Hermin Rhema
name: Maharani, Adelia Wahyuningtyas
name: Masitoh, Dewi
name: Salisa, Merisha Dea
name: Yulianah, Sri Dian
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2022

description: Background: The Case Detection Rate of Tuberculosis (TB) in Semarang city increased from 2014 to 2018, while the Treatment Success Rate declined. Low literacy can trigger stigma in society, especially among women, resulting in low awareness of suspect TB for treatment. Objectives: The aims are to analyze the correlation between TB literacy and stigma expressed among female health and social activists. Methods: Cross-sectional research was conducted in five public health centers with the lowest Treatment Success Rate (TSR). A valid and reliable self-administered online questionnaire collected data that involved 391 respondents predominantly in the urban areas. Rank Spearman test was used to analyze the data with a confidence interval of 95%. Results: The respondents were mostly elderly (>45 years; 61.6%), health activists with high school graduation, didn't have a family with a health background and did not work. Most of them showed low TB literacy (Me:60; SD±6.62) and high stigma (Me: 76; SD±10.36). They were also difficult to access, understand, assess, and apply information about TB. Age (p.0.03; r.-0.110), being health activist (p.0.081; r.-0.088), and TB literacy (p.0.001; r.0.165) correlated significantly with stigma. Conclusions: Public Health Center's officers require inserting literacy education materials related to stigma to form a comfortable support system for persons with TB. Conflicts of interest: None declared. Acknowledgment: Many thanks and appreciation to Semarang City of Health Governments, the 5 Public Health Centres, the Faculty of Health Science UDINUS, and AHLA (Asia Health Literacy Association) Indonesia Country Office Universitas Dian Nuswantoro
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Special Volume No. 2, 2022: Young Indonesian Scientists Write On Public Health
Collaborative Cross recombinant inbred inter-crosses (RIX) for the study of the behavioral and structural consequences of chronic antipsychotic treatment
Creators: name: DeCristo, Daniela
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Schizophrenia is an idiopathic disorder that affects approximately 1% of the global population, and presents with persistent delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized behaviors. Antipsychotics are the standard treatment of schizophrenia, but are frequently discontinued by patients due to inefficacy and/or intolerable side effects. Chronic treatment with the antipsychotic haloperidol causes tardive dyskinesia in about 30% of patients, manifested in humans as involuntary and often permanent orofacial movements. Tardive dyskinesia can be effectively modeled in rodents by means of vacuous chewing movements. Recombinant inbred inter-crossed (RIX) mice, derived from the genetically diverse Collaborative Cross murine population, were treated with haloperidol and subjected to a panel of behavioral assessments to monitor the development of side effects. Furthermore, transition electron microscopy (TEM) was used to assess the impact of chronic haloperidol treatment on synaptic structures in wild-type C57BL/6 mice. While there were similar neuronal synaptic architectures in the corpus striata across treatment groups, distinctions were found in phenotypic behavior between strain genotypes. These findings add to our understanding of the genetic basis of the side effects of haloperidol with the aim of higher efficacy and lower burden of haloperidol treatment.
The role of Diabetes mellitus comorbidity on Tuberculosis treatment outcomes in Nepal: A prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Mahato, Roshan Kumar
name: Laohasiriwong, Wongsa
name: Koju, Rajendra
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2022

description: Aim: The Objective of this study was to assess the effect of Diabetes Mellitus (DM) on treatment outcomes of tuberculosis (TB) patients in the Central Development Region of Nepal. Methods: A prospective cohort study was conducted in central Nepal. The study population of n=408 was consecutively recruited from treatment centers of all 19 districts of central Nepal. The TB cases (n=306) and TB with DM (n=102) cases were followed up for the estimation of blood glucose level, HbA1c level, and sputum examination on 2, 5, and 6 months after TB treatment started. The Generalized Estimating Equation (GEE) was performed to identify the risk ratio among TB and TB with DM cases on treatment outcome. Results: Our study identified that the magnitude of treatment failure among the tuberculosis cases was 19.7% (95% CI: 17.44-21.95). The GEE analysis observed that factors associated with the treatment failure had uncontrolled DM (HbA1C ≥7 %) (adj.RR=5.24, 95% CI: 2.58-10.62, P value <0.001), aged ≥ 45 (adj.RR= 6.13, 95% CI: 2.55-14.76, P value <0.001), had inadequate financial status (adj.RR= 2.33, 95% CI: 1.07-5.06, P value 0.033) and had prior TB (adj.RR=2.33, 95% CI: 1.09-4.97, P value 0.028) respectively. Conclusion: The prevalence of worsening TB treatment among patients with TB and DM was significantly higher than those who had TB only. Poor glycaemic control, increasing age, inadequate financial status, and previous history of tuberculosis were strong predictors of worsening tuberculosis treatment outcomes. Conflict of interest: None declared. Ethical approval: The Ethics Committee in Human Research of Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand (HE612209), the Nepal Health Research Council (2640) and Institutional Review Committee (Protocol approved number 01/18), Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences, Dhulikhel, Nepal had approved to conduct this study. Acknowledgment: The author wishes to thank the National Tuberculosis Centre, Nepal, for providing the approval to conduct this study. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the Faculty of Public Health, Khon Kaen University, for their sincere guidance and support during the study period.
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Special Volume No. 2, 2022: Young Indonesian Scientists Write On Public Health
Unconscious top-down contextual modulation at the categorical, but not lexical, level
Creators: name: Biderman, Dan
name: Shir, Yarden
name: Mudrik, Liad
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Psychology
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Cognition and Perception
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: bayesian data analysis
subject: consciousness

description: This page includes our data, stimuli and codes for Biderman, Shir & Mudrik (Psychological Science, 2020)
Medicare Payment and Cost Sharing  for Rural Beneficiaries at FQHCs and RHCs
Creators: name: Schulte, Alex
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Purpose: Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) are similar in mission, services provided, and common patient diagnoses, but have different payment policies under Medicare. The purpose of this study is to investigate how Medicare payment and patient cost sharing differ among FQHCs and RHCs. Methods: The study included all 2014 claims generated at FQHCs and RHCs by rural Medicare beneficiaries. Multivariate linear regression was used to estimate the effect of facility type on Medicare payment and cost sharing, controlling for various facility, geographic, and community factors.Findings: The average Medicare payment across all FQHCs and RHCs was $119 per claim. Compared to rural FQHCs, Medicare payment per claim was $39.95 higher at provider-based RHCs with ≤ 49 beds, $11.83 lower at provider-based RHCs with ≥ 50 beds, and $22.32 lower at independent RHCs.  The average cost sharing across all FQHCs and RHCs was $32 per claim. Compared to rural FQHCs, cost sharing per claim was $18.59 higher at provider-based RHCs with ≥ 50 beds, $15.03 higher at provider-based RHCs with ≤ 49 beds, and $12.96 higher at independent RHCs.Conclusion: Medicare payment and patient cost sharing differed significantly among types of FQHCs and RHCs. The results suggest that there may be a need to assess 1) whether the exemption from the Medicare payment limit for provider-based RHCs with ≤ 49 beds is achieving the policy objective, and 2) whether rural Medicare beneficiaries without access to a rural FQHC are disadvantaged (due to higher cost sharing amounts).
Using bifactor models to examine the predictive validity of hierarchical constructs: Pros, cons, and solutions
Creators: name: Zhang, Bo
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Zhang, B., Sun, T., Cao, M., & Drasgow, F.(conditionally accepted). Using bifactor models to examine the predictive validity of hierarchical constructs: Pros, cons, and solutions. Organizational Research Methods.
Personality Dimensions and Temperaments of Engineering Professors and Students - A Survey
Creators: name: Raza, Arif
name: Zaka-U-Mustafa
name: Capretz, Luiz Fernando
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This research work aims to study personality profiles and temperaments of Pakistani software engineering professors and students. In this survey we have collected personality profiles of 18 professors and 92 software engineering students. According to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) instrument, the most prominent personality type among professors as well as among students is a combination of Introversion, Sensing, Thinking, and Judging (ISTJ). The study shows ITs (Introverts and Thinking) and IJs (Introverts and Judging) are the leading temperaments among the professors. About the students data, the results of the study indicate SJs (Sensing and Judging) and ISs (Introverts and Sensing) as the dominant temperaments.
Assessing Reproductive Health Literacy: Terms of Sex Genital among Caregivers in Semarang city
Creators: name: Rimawati, Eti
name: Kristina, Tri Nur
name: Nugraheni, Sri Achadi
name: Margawati, Ani
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2022

description: Introduction: Taboos, filth, and shame are moral values ​​resulting from cultural construction that limit names, leading to inappropriate sexuality. These values will impact the practice of caregivers in communicating reproductive health to their children. This study aims to describe the terms used for the names of reproductive organs and examine the connotations built in the marking of these names. Methods: The research design was a case report study. The sample comprised 224 caregivers to early childhood who were selected by stratified random sampling in the city of Semarang. Data analysis was carried out by description and basic quantification. Results: Researchers found 27 language terms for the names of male and female genital organs. The name's connotation was built because of inheritance, similarity to certain animals, and texture of the organs. Conclusion: The use of the connotation of reproductive organs in communicating to children will continue to reduce the culture of taboo and shame continuously. It is necessary to increase the ability of parents to say the correct name for the genital organs. Conflicts of interest: None declared. Ethical approval: This research has received ethical approval from the Faculty of Public Health, the University of Diponegoro, number 223/EA/KEPK-FKM/2020.
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Special Volume No. 2, 2022: Young Indonesian Scientists Write On Public Health
Clinical characteristics, treatment and underlying complications of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in pregnant women: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Sathian, Brijesh
name: van Teijlingen, Edwin
name: Nascimento, Israel
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia pandemic, caused by the pathogenic severe acute respiratory syndrome-2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus, is spreading worldwide at an exponential rate. Pregnant women are more vulnerable to COVID-19 infection due to the physiological changes in the respiratory and immune system. This systematic review aims to assess the clinical characteristics, treatment and underlying complications of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in pregnant women. Design Plan Study type Meta-Analysis - A systematic review of published studies. Blinding No blinding is involved in this study. Is there any additional blinding in this study? There is no medical intervention being addressed in the study. We will collect publish data only Study design Literature searches will be conducted on PubMed, MEDLINE and Google scholar electronic databases. The search terms will be used include “Coronavirus Disease 2019” AND “Pregnancy” AND different country names listed in the World published in the period from 08 December 2019 through 15th April 2020. Additional searches will be conducted using reference lists of studies and review articles for selection of relevant articles. Main outcome(s) The clinical findings are going to be analysed on pregnant women diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2. Pneumonia, fever, cough, myalgia, dyspnea, shortness of breath, sore throat, diarrhoea, fatigue, headache and anemia are going to be included in clinical alterations. Measures of effect Percentages and frequency of the main clinical symptoms. Data extraction The titles of the studies resulted from the database searches will be screened initially and relevant papers will be selected. Then the abstracts and full texts will be reviewed according to the inclusion criteria for final selection. The titles, abstracts and full-text articles will be reviewed independently by three researchers (BS, vanTE, and IJBN). Extracted data will include authors, origin of studies, source population, study setting and period, inclusion/exclusion criteria, data sources and measurement, sample size, age distribution, maternal age, gestational age, vertical transmission, maternal characteristics, delivery characteristics, presenting sign & symptoms, ct scan report, treatment, maternal comorbidities, maternal outcome, and neonatal outcome.
Optimal temperature distribution for a nonisothermal Cahn--Hilliard system in two dimensions with source term and double obstacle potential
Creators: name: Colli, Pierluigi
name: Gilardi, Gianni
name: Signori, Andrea
name: Sprekels, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Optimal control
subject: nonisothermal Cahn--Hilliard equation
subject: thermal memory
subject: Cahn--Hilliard equation with source term
subject: Cahn--Hilliard--Oono equation
subject: 35K20
subject: 35K51
subject: 35K55
subject: 49J20
subject: 49J50
subject: 49K20

description: In this note, we study the optimal control of a nonisothermal phase field system of Cahn--Hilliard type that constitutes an extension of the classical Caginalp model for nonisothermal phase transitions with a conserved order parameter. It couples a Cahn--Hilliard type equation with source term for the order parameter with the universal balance law of internal energy. In place of the standard Fourier form, the constitutive law of the heat flux is assumed in the form given by the theory developed by Green and Naghdi, which accounts for a possible thermal memory of the evolution. This has the consequence that the balance law of internal energy becomes a second-order in time equation for the thermal displacement or freezing index, that is, a primitive with respect to time of the temperature. Another particular feature of our system is the presence of the source term in the equation for the order parameter, which entails further mathematical difficulties because the mass conservation of the order parameter is no longer satisfied. In this paper, we study the case that the double-well potential driving the evolution of the phase transition is given by the nondifferentiable double obstacle potential, thereby complementing recent results obtained for the differentiable cases of regular and logarithmic potentials. Besides existence results, we derive first-order necessary optimality conditions for the control problem. The analysis is carried out by employing the so-called deep quench approximation in which the nondifferentiable double obstacle potential is approximated by a family of potentials of logarithmic structure for which meaningful first-order necessary optimality conditions in terms of suitable adjoint systems and variational inequalities are available. Since the results for the logarithmic potentials crucially depend on the validity of the so-called strict separation property which is only available in the spatially two-dimensional situation, our whole analysis is restricted to the two-dimensional case.
Formation of Light Absorbing Secondary Organic Aerosol from Reactive Uptake of Isoprene Epoxydiols
Creators: name: Chu, Kevin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Light­‐absorbing organic carbon, also known as brown carbon (BrC), is an
important climate warming agent that contributes to positive radiative forcing,
but to date it is generally not represented in current climate models in part
due to lack of understanding in its sources and formation processes. Secondary
organic aerosol (SOA) produced from the reactive uptake and multiphase chemistry
of isoprene epoxydiols (IEPOX), which are major gas-­‐phase oxidation products
from isoprene, has been found to substantially contribute to the fine organic
aerosol mass over the southeastern U.S. region, and is significantly enhanced by
anthropogenic emissions. Brown carbon (BrC) in rural areas in this region has
been reported to be associated with secondary sources in summer when influences
from biomass burning are low. This study demonstrates the formation of
light­‐absorbing (290 nm<λ<700 nm) SOA constituents resulting from reactive
uptake of trans­‐β­‐IEPOX onto preexisting sulfate aerosols as a potential
source of regional BrC. These results illustrate a novel chemical process
leading to BrC production from an atmospherically abundant carbon species. In
light of recent developments on the contribution of BrC to the global climate
budget, these results possess major implications for climate models and the role
of secondary aerosols on the global climate system.