cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
(100781) Sarah Lydia Brown
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(100780) Ann Brown
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(100779) Eliza Jane Brown
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
The 24-month course of manic symptoms in children
Creators: name: Youngstrom, Eric A.
name: Gill, Mary Kay
name: Axelson, David A.
name: Ryan, Neal
name: Brace, Daniel J.
name: Fristad, Mary A.
name: Rowles, Brieana M.
name: Hauser, Jessica C.
name: Horwitz, Sarah Mccue
name: Arnold, Eugene
name: Depew, Judith
name: Demeter, Christine A.
name: Kowatch, Robert A.
name: Frazier, Thomas W.
name: Birmaher, Boris
name: Marsh, Linda E.
name: Jo, Booil
name: Findling, Robert L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: The Longitudinal Assessment of Manic Symptoms (LAMS) study was designed to investigate phenomenology and establish predictors of functional outcomes in children with elevated manic symptoms. The purpose of this series of analyses was to determine whether the participants demonstrated different trajectories of parent-reported manic and biphasic symptoms over the first 24 months of follow-up and to describe the clinical characteristics of the trajectories.
Hybridization of long short-term memory with Sparrow Search Optimization model for water quality index prediction
Creators: name: T, Jarin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Environmental engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Water quality (WQ) analysis is a critical stage in water resource management and should be handled immediately in order to control pollutants that could have a negative influence on the ecosystem. The dramatic increase in population, the use of fertilizers and pesticides, and the industrial revolution have resulted in severe effects on the WQ environment. As a result, the prediction of WQ greatly helped to monitor water pollution. Accurate prediction of WQ is the foundation of managing water environments and is of high importance for protecting water environment. WQ data presents in the form of multi-variate time-sequence dataset. It is clear that the accuracy of predicting WQ will be enhanced when the multi-variate relation and time sequence dataset of WQ are fully utilized. This article presents the Water Quality Prediction utilising Sparrow Search Optimization with Hybrid Long Short-Term Memory (WQP-SSHLSTM) model. The presented WQP-SSHLSTM model intends to examine the data and classify WQ into distinct classes. To achieve this, the presented WQP-SSHLSTM model undergoes data scaling process to scale the input data into uniform format. Followed by, a hybrid long short-term memory-deep belief network (LSTM-DBN) technique is employed for the recognition and classification of WQ. Moreover, Sparrow search optimization algorithm (SSOA) is utilised as a hyperparameter optimizer of the proposed DBN-LSTM model. For demonstrating the enhanced outcomes of the presented WQP-SSHLSTM model, a sequence of experiments has been performed and the outcomes are reviewed under distinct prospects. The WQP-SSHLSTM model has achieved 99.84 percent accuracy, which is the maximum attainable. The simulation outcomes ensured the enhanced outcomes of the WQP-SSHLSTM model on recent methods.
(100778) Henry A Brown
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
An extended view of the Pisces Overdensity from the SCUSS survey
Creators: name: Nie, J. D.
name: Smith, M. C.
name: Belokurov, V.
name: Fan, X. H.
name: Fan, Z.
name: Irwin, M. J.
name: Jiang, Z. J.
name: Jing, Y. P.
name: Koposov, S. E.
name: Lesser, M.
name: Ma, J.
name: Shen, S. Y.
name: Wang, J. L.
name: Wu, Z. Y.
name: Zhang, T. M.
name: Zhou, X.
name: Zhou, Z. M.
name: Zou, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: SCUSS is a u-band photometric survey covering about 4000 square degree of the South Galactic Cap, reaching depths of up to 23 mag. By extending around 1.5 mag deeper than SDSS single-epoch u data, SCUSS is able to probe much a larger volume of the outer halo, i.e. with SCUSS data blue horizontal branch (BHB) stars can trace the outer halo of the Milky Way as far as 100-150 kpc. Utilizing this advantage we combine SCUSS u band with SDSS DR9 gri photometric bands to identify BHB stars and explore halo substructures. We confirm the existence of the Pisces overdensity, which is a structure in the outer halo (at around 80 kpc) that was discovered using RR Lyrae stars. For the first time we are able to determine its spatial extent, finding that it appears to be part of a stream with a clear distance gradient. The stream, which is ~5 degrees wide and stretches along ~25 degrees, consists of 20-30 BHBs with a total significance of around 6sigma over the background. Assuming we have detected the entire stream and that the progenitor has fully disrupted, then the number of BHBs suggests the original system was similar to smaller classical or a larger ultra-faint dwarf galaxy. On the other hand, if the progenitor still exists, it can be hunted for by reconstructing its orbit from the distance gradient of the stream. This new picture of the Pisces overdensity sheds new light on the origin of this intriguing system.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, accepted by ApJ
(100777) Margaret Brown
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Perceived Discrimination and Depressive Symptoms, Smoking, and Recent Alcohol Use in Pregnancy
Creators: name: Elo, Irma T.
name: Culhane, Jennifer F.
name: Hogan, Vijaya
name: Coyne, James C.
name: Mathew, Leny
name: Webb, David A.
name: Bennett, Ian M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Perceived discrimination is associated with poor mental health and health-compromising behaviors in a range of vulnerable populations, but this link has not been assessed among pregnant women. We aimed to determine whether perceived discrimination was associated with these important targets of maternal health care among low-income pregnant women.
Deep convolutional networks for pancreas segmentation in CT imaging
Creators: name: Roth, Holger R.
name: Farag, Amal
name: Lu, Le
name: Turkbey, Evrim B.
name: Summers, Ronald M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automatic organ segmentation is an important prerequisite for many computer-aided diagnosis systems. The high anatomical variability of organs in the abdomen, such as the pancreas, prevents many segmentation methods from achieving high accuracies when compared to other segmentation of organs like the liver, heart or kidneys. Recently, the availability of large annotated training sets and the accessibility of affordable parallel computing resources via GPUs have made it feasible for "deep learning" methods such as convolutional networks (ConvNets) to succeed in image classification tasks. These methods have the advantage that used classification features are trained directly from the imaging data. We present a fully-automated bottom-up method for pancreas segmentation in computed tomography (CT) images of the abdomen. The method is based on hierarchical coarse-to-fine classification of local image regions (superpixels). Superpixels are extracted from the abdominal region using Simple Linear Iterative Clustering (SLIC). An initial probability response map is generated, using patch-level confidences and a two-level cascade of random forest classifiers, from which superpixel regions with probabilities larger 0.5 are retained. These retained superpixels serve as a highly sensitive initial input of the pancreas and its surroundings to a ConvNet that samples a bounding box around each superpixel at different scales (and random non-rigid deformations at training time) in order to assign a more distinct probability of each superpixel region being pancreas or not. We evaluate our method on CT images of 82 patients (60 for training, 2 for validation, and 20 for testing). Using ConvNets we achieve average Dice scores of 68%+-10% (range, 43-80%) in testing. This shows promise for accurate pancreas segmentation, using a deep learning approach and compares favorably to state-of-the-art methods.
description: SPIE Medical Imaging conference, Orlando, FL, USA: SPIE Proceedings | Volume 9413 | Classification
The use of cryptocurrencies for hawala in the Islamic finance
Creators: name: Valeri, Marco
name: Fondacaro, Rosario
name: De Angelis, Cinzia
name: Barella, Andrea
Publisher: name: European Journal of Islamic Finance
Year: 2020

description: This paper aims to evaluate where the application of new fintech solutions like blockchain and cryptocurrencies can be considered as an opportunity to build bridges between Islamic and western culture in order to create a trusted money transfer with low commission and a big transparency and trust. The research question is: Can an Hawala systems based on DLT technologies be considered compliant both with anti-money laundry regulations and with Sharia values? This is a conceptual paper relying upon an understanding of the literature in the fields of technology, sociology, anthropology, criminology and regulatory, as applied to the topic of Islamic practice known as Hawala and emerging new disruptive technologies like Distributed Ledger Technology. The research has been conducted by a literature reviewing on Scopus data base by searching the following keywords: Islamic finance, cryptocurrencies, hawala, stablecoin, globalcoin, money laundering, blockchain. The searching period was set on the last 10 years. The paper discusses some scenarios to define new fintech Hawala system in an evolving scenario of cryptocurrencies, social network commitments and different type of blockchain where it can be digitally transformed by using new fintech technologies while became compliance with anti-money laundering regulations with the respect of Islamic values. As practical implications, this paper could help to encourage researcher and entrepreneurs to evaluate and propose a digital transformation approach with the aim to maintain ancient tradition and, at the same time, apply new technology that improve the life of citizens. As social implications this paper expands upon the understanding of how new fintech solution can be easily be integrated in the real life by using common devices like a mobile phone to be used as wallet for the daily expenses and to receive money from relatives from western countries. The originality/value of this paper is that it covers the literature gap in the field of new fintech solutions applied to Islamic finance by providing a likely proposal by integrating popular tradition, regulations and new technologies. The research limitations and implications are related to that this is a conceptual paper; case studies haven’t been treated, so it is not able to say definitively if the outcomes discussed can be defined as an effective solution and can be developed in the real global society, in a future prospective it’ll be possible to continue to make researches in this field of application with fintech technologies and Islamic Finance.
description: European Journal of Islamic Finance, 2020: Second Special Issue for EJIF Workshop
Use of antihistamine medications during early pregnancy and isolated major malformations
Creators: name: Werler, Martha M.
name: Strickland, Matthew J.
name: Gilboa, Suzanne M.
name: Olshan, Andrew F.
name: Correa, Adolfo
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Antihistamines are commonly used during pregnancy. There is little evidence that they have teratogenic effects, but there are knowledge gaps with respect to newer products, as well as the relationship between specific antihistamines and specific birth defects.
Cleft lip and palate results from Hedgehog signaling antagonism in the mouse: Phenotypic characterization and clinical implications
Creators: name: Gipp, Jerry J.
name: Yan, Dong
name: Song, Chihwa
name: Rowland, Ian J.
name: Sulik, Kathleen K.
name: Everson, Joshua L.
name: Bushman, Wade
name: Lipinski, Robert J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: The Hedgehog (Hh) pathway provides inductive signals critical for developmental patterning of the brain and face. In humans as well as in animal model systems, interference with this pathway yields birth defects; among the most well-studied of which fall within the holoprosencephaly (HPE) spectrum.
An investigation into altering the focus of teacher questioning that occurs in one-to one writing conferences: A naturalistic case study
Creators: name: Haynes, Dawn M
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 130399 Specialist Studies in Education not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: This naturalistic study of teacher questioning, conducted within the context of one-to-one writing conferences between a teacher and six Year 4 students had two goals: (1) to investigate (via various strategies, including collaborative reflection) changing the focus of teacher questioning during one-to-one writing conferences and (2) to describe and highlight how students do or do not revise their first draft text following the conferences. The study's framework emanates from theories of writing and reflection and matters of writing pedagogy. It is based on the assumption, gleaned from past classroom observations, that some teachers' questioning during responses to first draft texts focus on text features rather than meaning intention. This reinforces many students' belief that revision denotes editing and proofreading. By focusing attention on the subject matter of their texts, teachers assist students to dissociate revision from such matters. Changing the focus of teachers' questioning during one-to-one writing conferences means changing teaching practice. This study seeks to challenge teachers to accept responsibility for their own professional development and improve writing teaching practice using a conference approach by reflecting on practice with a colleague. Moreover, it seeks to test the effectiveness of a model of collaborative reflection developed for this study. Data collected included audiotaped teacher -student writing conferences and students' texts. It represents specific social interactions and their outcomes. Two case studies evolved from analyses of the data. One focuses on a teacher interacting with students and their texts. The other uses these interactions and their analyses as a basis for collaborative reflection between the researcher and the teacher. Findings suggest the model of collaborative reflection used was an effective strategy that teachers who wish to work collaboratively to improve writing teaching practice could use. Explanations for what students do or do not revise in response to different kinds of questions in student -teacher writing conferences are proposed. Some of these led to suggested strategies that might be used to improve such conferences. A premise of this study if that to improve writing teaching practice teachers should assume responsibility for their professional development.
Magnetic resonance microscopy-based analyses of the brains of normal and ethanol-exposed fetal mice
Creators: name: Godin, Elizabeth A.
name: O'Leary-Moore, Shonagh K.
name: Parnell, Scott E.
name: Khan, Amber A.
name: Styner, Martin A.
name: Ament, Jacob J.
name: Johnson, G. Allan
name: Dehart, Deborah B.
name: Sulik, Kathleen K.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: The application of magnetic resonance microscopy (MRM) to the study of normal and abnormal prenatal mouse development has facilitated discovery of dysmorphology following prenatal ethanol insult. The current analyses extend this work, providing a regional brain volume-based description of normal brain growth and illustrating the consequences of gestational day (GD) 10 ethanol exposure in the fetal mouse.
Impact of Islamic Microfinance on Borrower’s Income in Pakistan- A Case Study of Akhuwat
Creators: name: Mahmood, Humera Tariq
Publisher: name: European Journal of Islamic Finance
Year: 2020

description: Microfinance is a process of providing financial access in the form of micro-credits, and other services such as micro-insurance, savings, checking accounts and payment systems to the poor who do not have access to conventional banking. Lack of collateral and capital assets put limitations on the marginalized community to access the funds through the conventional banking system which leads to their financial exclusion. It is grasped that the objective of financial inclusion can be achieved at its full potential through redistributive instruments (Zakah, Awqaf, Qard al-hassan) of the Islamic microfinance industry. Pakistan Microfinance Review (2017) revealed that Akhuwat (A leading Islamic microfinance organization based on voluntarism and philanthropy) had maintained its outreach top spot in terms of Active Borrowers (820,000) during the year 2017. This study is conducted to analyze microfinance services provided by Akhuwat and its effects on borrowers’ income and consumption. The study adopted the qualitative research designed by applying questionnaires and interviewing techniques to collect data. The study finds that there was a reasonable increase in the income and consumption of the borrowers. Results indicate an average increase of 18 % in rural borrowers’ income and an average increase of 23% in urban borrowers’ income. The study recommends that vocational training should be provided to people in rural areas to enable them to engage in diverse business activities instead of solely relying on agriculture-related business.
description: European Journal of Islamic Finance, 2020: Second Special Issue for EJIF Workshop
Agrin function associated with ocular development is a target of ethanol exposure in embryonic zebrafish
Creators: name: Mackinnon, Shanta
name: Zhang, Chengjin
name: Cole, Gregory J.
name: Turton, Qwan M.
name: Sulik, Kathleen K.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Alcohol (ethanol) is a teratogen known to affect the developing eyes, face and brain. Among the ocular defects in fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) are microphthalmia and optic nerve hypoplasia. Employing zebrafish as an FASD model provides an excellent system to analyze the molecular basis of prenatal ethanol exposure-induced defects since embryos can be exposed to ethanol at defined developmental stages and affected genetic pathways can be examined. We have previously shown that disruption of agrin function in zebrafish embryos produces microphthalmia and optic nerve hypoplasia.
Barjols, à l'abattoir, poursuite de l'embrochage du boeuf
Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2024

Abstract
(100776) Ann Brown
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Xenopus: An emerging model for studying congenital heart disease
Creators: name: Kaltenbrun, Erin
name: Tandon, Panna
name: Showell, Chris
name: Conlon, Frank L.
name: Waldron, Lauren
name: Amin, Nirav M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Congenital heart defects affect nearly 1% of all newborns and are a significant cause of infant death. Clinical studies have identified a number of congenital heart syndromes associated with mutations in genes that are involved in the complex process of cardiogenesis. The African clawed frog, Xenopus, has been instrumental in studies of vertebrate heart development and provides a valuable tool to investigate the molecular mechanisms underlying human congenital heart diseases. In this review, we discuss the methodologies that make Xenopus an ideal model system to investigate heart development and disease. We also outline congenital heart conditions linked to cardiac genes that have been well-studied in Xenopus and describe some emerging technologies that will further aid in the study of these complex syndromes.
Autobiographical memory in Thai and Australian emerging adults: a cross-cultural study
Creators: name: Somhom, Nattakarn
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The purpose of this research was to examine cultural differences in emerging adults’ autobiographical memory by comparing how young Thai and Australian adults remember salient life events. This project used a quantitative research design and collected data through a Qualtrics online survey. Forty young Thai adults (20 females, 20 males) aged 18–24 residing in Thailand and 40 young Australian adults (23 females, 17 males) aged 18–24 residing in Australia were recruited. In this cross-cultural study, ‘The Life Story’ interview (McAdam, 2008) was adapted to capture aspects of memory coherence and meaning making from three salient life events: a high-point, a low-point and a turning-point. Using a mixed ANOVA test, with culture and gender as independent variables, two aspects of autobiographical memory were coded: (1) narrative coherence (context, chronology and theme) and (2) meaning making (lesson learning and gaining insight). The results showed that Thais had higher chronological coherence than the Australians. In contrast, however, the Australians had higher scores for meaning making, particularly for gaining insight.
Barjols, collégiale, office des complies, l'harmonie municipale joue l'air de la danse des tripettes
Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2024

Abstract
Evaluation of ICD-9-CM codes for craniofacial microsomia
Creators: name: Luquetti, Daniela V.
name: Starr, Jacqueline R.
name: Cassell, Cynthia H.
name: Heike, Carrie L.
name: Hing, Anne V.
name: Saltzman, Babette S.
name: Pimenta, Luiz A.
name: Vivaldi, Daniela
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Craniofacial microsomia (CFM) is a congenital condition characterized by microtia and mandibular underdevelopment. Healthcare databases and birth defects surveillance programs could be used to improve knowledge of CFM. However, no specific ICD-9-CM code exists for this condition, which makes standardized data collection challenging. Our aim was to evaluate the validity of existing ICD-9-CM codes to identify individuals with CFM.
A note on Berezin-Toeplitz quantization of the Laplace operator
Creators: name: Della Vedova, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Given a Hodge manifold, it is introduced a self-adjoint operator on the space of endomorphisms of the global holomorphic sections of the polarization line bundle. Such operator is shown to approximate the Laplace operator on functions when composed with Berezin-Toeplitz quantization map and its adjoint up to an error which tends to zero when taking higher powers of the polarization line bundle.
Maternal occupational exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and congenital heart defects among offspring in the national birth defects prevention study
Creators: name: Lawson, Christina C.
name: Waters, Martha A.
name: Correa, Adolfo
name: Shaw, Gary M.
name: Romitti, Paul A.
name: Lee, Laura J.
name: Gilboa, Suzanne M.
name: Mitchell, Laura E.
name: Lupo, Philip J.
name: Symanski, Elaine
name: Agopian, A. J.
name: Malik, Sadia
name: Langlois, Peter H.
name: Desrosiers, Tania A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: There is evidence in experimental model systems that exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) results in congenital heart defects (CHDs); however, to our knowledge, this relationship has not been examined in humans. Therefore, we conducted a case-control study assessing the association between estimated maternal occupational exposure to PAHs and CHDs in offspring.
Maternal occupational exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and risk of neural tube defect-affected pregnancies
Creators: name: Romitti, Paul A.
name: Lammer, Edward J.
name: Desrosiers, Tania A.
name: Lawson, Christina C.
name: Waters, Martha A.
name: Lupo, Philip J.
name: Langlois, Peter H.
name: Hoyt, Adrienne T.
name: Shaw, Gary M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: This study evaluated whether there is an association between maternal occupational exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and neural tube defects (NTDs) in offspring. This is the first such study of which the authors are aware.
Neural tube defects and maternal intake of micronutrients related to one-carbon metabolism or antioxidant activity
Creators: name: Chandler, Angela L.
name: Shaw, Gary M.
name: Qi, Yan Ping
name: Canfield, Mark A.
name: Berry, Robert J.
name: Mosley, Bridget S.
name: Siega-Riz, Anna Maria
name: Hobbs, Charlotte A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Maternal nutritional status has been evaluated to clarify its role in development of neural tube defects (NTDs). Maternal folate intake during pregnancy has been closely evaluated for its association with NTDs.
Barjols, à l'abattoir, fixation de la corde à la broche
Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2024

Abstract
Supplementary document for The generalized aberration regularization in single-lens computational imaging system design - 6642822.pdf
Creators: name: Li, Zongling
name: Tan, Fanjiao
name: Zhang, Rongshuai
name: Sun, Zaiwu
name: Yang, Changjian
name: Hou, Qingyu
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Axial dispersion-managed liquid-core fibers: A platform for tailored higher-order mode supercontinuum generation
Creators: name: Qi, Xue
name: Scheibinger, Ramona
name: Nold, Johannes
name: Junaid, Saher
name: Chemnitz, Mario
name: Schmidt, Markus A.
Publisher: name: Melville, NY : AIP Publishing
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Soliton-based supercontinuum generation is a powerful approach for generating light with the desired properties, although limited dispersion tuning capabilities remain a key challenge. Here, we introduce liquid-core fibers (LCFs) with longitudinally controlled dispersion of a higher-order mode, achieved by axial modulation of the liquid core diameter. This approach provides a versatile photonic platform with unique dispersion control capabilities that are particularly relevant to ultrafast, non-linear frequency conversion. Our tuning concept uses LCFs with anomalous dispersion at telecommunication wavelengths (TE01-mode) and relies on the strong dependence of dispersion on the core diameter. Non-monotonic, complex dispersion profiles feature multiple dispersive waves formation when launching ultrashort pulses. For example, this effect has been used to fill spectral gaps in fibers with linearly decreasing core diameter in order to spectrally smooth the output spectra. Our results highlight the potential of LCFs for controlling dispersion, particularly along the fiber axis, thus yielding novel dispersion landscapes that can reveal unexplored nonlinear dynamics and generate tailored broadband spectra.
Periconceptional maternal alcohol consumption and neural tube defects
Creators: name: Romitti, Paul A.
name: Burns, Trudy L.
name: Siega-Riz, Anna Maria
name: Druschel, Charlotte M.
name: Olney, Richard S.
name: Sun, Lixian
name: Suarez, Lucina
name: Makelarski, Jennifer A.
name: Olshan, Andrew F.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Neural tube defects (NTD)s, which occur when the neural tube fails to close during early gestation, are some of the most common birth defects worldwide. Alcohol is a known teratogen and has been shown to induce NTDs in animal studies, although most human studies have failed to corroborate these results. Using data from the National Birth Defects Prevention Study, associations between maternal reports of periconceptional (1 month prior through 2 months postconception) alcohol consumption and NTDs were examined.
The national birth defects prevention study: A review of the methods: NBDPS METHODS REVIEW
Creators: name: Olshan, Andrew F.
name: Browne, Marilyn L.
name: Feldkamp, Marcia L.
name: Gilboa, Suzanne M.
name: Shaw, Gary M.
name: Hobbs, Charlotte A.
name: Jenkins, Mary M.
name: Reefhuis, Jennita
name: Newsome, Kimberly B.
name: Tinker, Sarah C.
name: Romitti, Paul A.
name: Shapira, Stuart K.
name: Anderka, Marlene
name: Langlois, Peter H.
name: Honein, Margaret A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: The National Birth Defects Prevention Study (NBDPS) is a large population-based multi-center case-control study of major birth defects in the United States.
Local Quantum Gravity
Creators: name: Christiansen, Nicolai
name: Knorr, Benjamin
name: Meibohm, Jan
name: Pawlowski, Jan M.
name: Reichert, Manuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the ultraviolet behaviour of quantum gravity within a functional renormalisation group approach. The present setup includes the full ghost and graviton propagators and, for the first time, the dynamical graviton three-point function. The latter gives access to the coupling of dynamical gravitons and makes the system minimally self-consistent. The resulting phase diagram confirms the asymptotic safety scenario in quantum gravity with a non-trivial UV fixed point. A well-defined Wilsonian block spinning requires locality of the flow in momentum space. This property is discussed in the context of functional renormalisation group flows. We show that momentum locality of graviton correlation functions is non-trivially linked to diffeomorphism invariance, and is realised in the present setup.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Morphine pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in preterm and term neonates: secondary results from the NEOPAIN trial
Creators: name: Hall, R. W.
name: Holford, N. H.G.
name: Anderson, B. J.
name: Anand, K. J.S.
name: Young, T.
name: Desai, N. S.
name: Shephard, B.
name: Barton, B. A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Relationships between plasma morphine concentrations and neonatal responses to endotracheal tube (ETT) suctioning are unknown in preterm neonates.
Reduced soluble receptor for advanced glycation end-products (sRAGE) scavenger capacity precedes pre-eclampsia in Type 1 diabetes: sRAGE and pre-eclampsia in women with Type 1 diabetes
Creators: name: Stanley, J. R.
name: Basu, A.
name: Chirindel, A.
name: Wu, M.
name: Kalyanaraman, V.
name: Hanssen, K. F.
name: Aston, C. E.
name: Lorentzen, B.
name: Torjesen, P. A.
name: Scardo, J. A.
name: Henriksen, T.
name: Jenkins, A. J.
name: Yu, Y.
name: Scholz, H.
name: Menard, M. K.
name: Nankervis, A. J.
name: Hammad, S. M.
name: Garg, S. K.
name: Lyons, T. J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Increased advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) and their soluble receptors (sRAGE) have been implicated in the pathogenesis of pre-eclampsia (PE). However, this association has not been elucidated in pregnancies complicated by diabetes. We aimed to investigate the serum levels of these factors in pregnant women with Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), a condition associated with a four-fold increase in PE.
Vitamin D status and recurrent preterm birth: a nested case-control study in high-risk women
Creators: name: Peaceman, A. M.
name: Thorp, J. M.
name: Klebanoff, M. A.
name: Mercer, B. M.
name: Carpenter, M. W.
name: Ramin, S. M.
name: Varner, M. W.
name: Harper, M.
name: Caritis, S. N.
name: McGee, P. L.
name: Rouse, D. J.
name: Sciscione, A.
name: Iams, J. D.
name: Anderson, G. B.
name: Camargo, C. A.
name: Wapner, R. J.
name: Sorokin, Y.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: OBJECTIVE: To determine whether vitamin D status is associated with recurrent preterm birth, and any interactions between vitamin D levels and fish consumption.

DESIGN: A nested case-control study, using data from a randomised trial of omega-3 fatty acid supplementation to prevent recurrent preterm birth.

SETTING: Fourteen academic health centres in the USA.

POPULATION: Women with prior spontaneous preterm birth.

METHODS: In 131 cases (preterm delivery at <35 weeks of gestation) and 134 term controls, we measured serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] concentrations by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS) from samples collected at baseline (16-22 weeks of gestation). Logistic regression models controlled for study centre, maternal age, race/ethnicity, number of prior preterm deliveries, smoking status, body mass index, and treatment.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Recurrent preterm birth at <37 and <32 weeks of gestation.

RESULTS: The median mid-gestation serum 25(OH)D concentration was 67 nmol/l, and 27% had concentrations of <50 nmol/l. Serum 25(OH)D concentration was not significantly associated with preterm birth (OR 1.33; 95% CI 0.48-3.70 for lowest versus highest quartiles). Likewise, comparing women with 25(OH)D concentrations of 50 nmol/l, or higher, with those with <50 nmol/l generated an odds ratio of 0.80 (95% CI 0.38-1.69). Contrary to our expectation, a negative correlation was observed between fish consumption and serum 25(OH)D concentration (-0.18, P < 0.01).

CONCLUSIONS: In a cohort of women with a prior preterm birth, vitamin D status at mid-pregnancy was not associated with recurrent preterm birth.
The van den Berg--Kesten--Reimer operator and inequality for infinite spaces
Creators: name: Arratia, Richard
name: Garibaldi, Skip
name: Hales, Alfred W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60E15

description: We remove the hypothesis "$S$ is finite" from the BKR inequality for product measures on $S^d$, which raises some issues related to descriptive set theory. We also discuss the extension of the BKR operator and inequality, from 2 events to 2 or more events, and we remove, in one sense, the hypothesis that $d$ be finite.
description: 15 pages
STARTS Prize'20. Excerpt CyberArts 2020: International Compendium Prix Ars Electronica
Creators: name: Leopoldseder, Hannes
name: Schöpf, Christine
name: Stocker, Gerfried
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: ICT
Interdisciplinary
Innovation
Science
Technology
Arts
STARTS
digital

description: STARTS Prize 2020 On behalf of the European Commission, Ars Electronica, in collaboration with BOZAR and Waag Society, issued an open call for entries to the prestigious STARTS (= Science + Technology + Arts) competition 2020. In this catalog you will find the winners of the European Commission's two Grand Prizes, which honor Innovation in Technology, Industry and Society stimulated by the Arts, and more of the STARTS 2020 highlights.
title: Through from Global Agricultural Commodity Prices to Domestic Food Inflation
Creators: name: Hyun, Daniel
name: Lee, Jacky
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2023

description: This paper examines factors that affect the transmission of fluctuations in global agricultural commodity prices to domestic food inflation. Using panel regressions on data from 53 advanced and emerging-market countries, we investigate how factors such as local crop production conditions, the extent of food industry development and the net agricultural trade status interact with global agricultural prices to affect pass-through to local food prices. Results show that pass-through varies significantly based on these factors. Pass-through decreases during better-than-normal crop conditions, highlighting the importance of local production. Countries with less-developed food industries experience higher pass-through, likely due to the greater importance of raw commodities in diets and less-complex supply chains. Interestingly, net exporters of agricultural commodities exhibit greater pass-through, potentially due to strategic trade adjustments that take advantage of global supply and demand dynamics. These variations in pass-through suggest potential avenues for managing food price inflation in response to shocks to global food prices under different scenarios.
description: Cette étude examine des facteurs qui influent sur la transmission des fluctuations des prix mondiaux des produits agricoles aux hausses de prix des aliments au pays. À l’aide de régressions sur données de panel pour 53 économies avancées et émergentes, nous étudions l’incidence de facteurs comme les conditions locales de culture, le niveau de développement de l’industrie alimentaire et la balance commerciale nette de l’industrie agricole – conjugués aux prix mondiaux des produits agricoles – sur les prix des aliments à l’échelle locale. Les résultats montrent que la transmission des fluctuations des prix mondiaux varie considérablement en fonction de ces facteurs. Elle diminue lorsque les conditions de culture sont anormalement favorables, ce qui souligne l’importance de la production locale. La transmission est plus forte dans les pays ayant une industrie agricole moins développée, probablement en raison de la plus grande importance des produits de base non transformés dans la diète des populations et des chaînes d’approvisionnement moins complexes. Il est intéressant de noter que le niveau de transmission est plus élevé dans les pays qui sont des exportateurs nets de produits agricoles en raison, possiblement, d’ajustements stratégiques des échanges qui tirent parti des dynamiques mondiales d’offre et de demande. Ces variations de la transmission laissent entrevoir des avenues possibles pour la gestion de l’inflation dans l’alimentation qui est attribuable aux chocs des prix mondiaux, dans divers scénarios.
From Canards of Folded Singularities to Torus Canards in a Forced van der Pol Equation
Creators: name: Burke, J.
name: Desroches, M.
name: Granados, A.
name: Kaper, T. J.
name: Krupa, M.
name: Vo, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34E17, 34E15, 34D26, 70K70 (Primary), 34E13, 34D15, 34C29, 34C45, 37G15, 92C20, 70K43 (Secondary)

description: We study canard solutions of the forced van der Pol (fvdP) equation in the relaxation limit for low-, intermediate-, and high-frequency periodic forcing. A central numerical observation is that there are two branches of canards in parameter space which extend across all positive forcing frequencies. For low-frequency forcing, we demonstrate the existence of primary maximal canards induced by folded saddle-nodes of type I, and establish explicit formulas for the parameter values at which the primary maximal canards and their folds exist. We then turn to the intermediate- and high-frequency forcing regimes, and show that the fvdP equation possesses torus canards instead. These torus canards consist of long segments near families of attracting and repelling limit cycles of the fast system, in alternation. We also derive explicit formulas for the parameter values at which the maximal torus canards and their folds exist. Primary maximal canards and maximal torus canards correspond geometrically to the situation in which the persistent manifolds near the family of attracting limit cycles coincide to all orders with the persistent manifolds that lie near the family of repelling limit cycles. The formulas derived for the folds of maximal canards in all three frequency regimes turn out to be representations of a single formula in the appropriate parameter regimes, and this unification confirms our numerical observation. In addition, we study the secondary canards induced by the folded singularities in the low-frequency regime and find that their fold curves turn around in the intermediate-frequency regime. We identify the mechanism responsible for this turning. Finally, we show that the fvdP equation is a normal form for a class of single-frequency periodically-driven slow/fast systems with two fast variables and one slow variable which possess a nondegenerate fold of limit cycles.
description: 37 pages, 13 figures
Appendix S1 from Boldness predicts divorce rates in wandering albatrosses (Diomedea exulans)
Creators: name: Sun, Ruijiao
name: Van de Walle, Joanie
name: Patrick, Samantha C.
name: Barbraud, Christophe
name: Weimerskirch, Henri
name: Delord, Karine
name: Jenouvrier, Stephanie
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Model selection for investigating the effects of boldness on divorce in wandering albatrosses.
(100775) Charles Brown
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.