cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Development of Nutrition Education Modules for Dietetic Undergraduate Students to Increase Counseling Skills
Creators: name: Stephens, Jenna Tulane
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: Objectives: (1) To research effective methods for creating computer-assisted instruction for development of counseling skills (2) Incorporate acquired knowledge into nutrition counseling modules for undergraduate dietetic students to provide increased practice working with real life situations
Intervention: Five modules were created for undergraduate students to better develop their nutrition counseling skills. The modules give students a way to practice counseling theories, methods, and techniques while working with virtual patients in a controlled environment. Research was conducted to assist development of the modules both technically and with content.
Implementation: Modules will be implemented into courses at Utah State University and students will complete each module throughout the semester concurrent with a nutrition counseling course.
Application: With only half (53%) of schools across the country having a dedicated nutrition counseling course, (1) there is a need for another way to educate students on the important skills associated with counseling. Schools could implement online modules such as these to assist students in becoming more proficient in counseling. This paper will summarize research available for counseling theories, skills, and development of modules, and then discuss successful models that have been previously developed.
A General formulation of the Moyal and Voros products and its physical interpretation
Creators: name: Gouba, Laure
name: Kovacevic, Domagoj
name: Meljanac, Stjepan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A unifying perspective on the Moyal and Voros products and their physical meanings has been recently presented in the literature, where the Voros formulation admits a consistent physical interpretation. We define a star product $\star$, in terms of an antisymmetric fixed matrix $Θ$, and an arbitrary symmetric matrix $Φ$, that is a generalization of the Moyal and the Voros products. We discuss the quantum mechanics and the physical meaning of the generalized star product.
description: 10 pages, Journal reference added
Procedures for Correcting Digital Camera Imagery Acquired by the AggieAir Remote Sensing Platform
Creators: name: Clemens, Shannon R.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: Developments in sensor technologies have made consumer-grade digital cameras one of the more recent tools in remote sensing applications. Consumer-grade digital cameras have been the imaging sensor of choice by researchers due to their small size, light weight, limited power requirements, and their potential to store hundreds of images (Hardin 2011). Several studies have focused on the use of digital cameras and their efficacy in remote sensing applications. For satellite and airborne multispectral imaging systems, there is a well established radiometric processing approach. However, radiometric processing lines for digital cameras are currently being researched.
The goal of this report is to describe an absolute method of radiometric normalization that converts digital numbers output by the camera to reflectance values that can be used for remote sensing applications. This process is used at the AggieAir Flying Circus (AAFC), a service center at the Utah Water Research Laboratory at Utah State University. The AAFC is a research unit that specializes in the acquisition, processing, and interpretation of aerial imagery obtained with the AggieAirTM platform. AggieAir is an autonomous, unmanned aerial vehicle system that captures multi-temporal and multispectral high resolution imagery for the production of orthorectified mosaics. The procedure used by the AAFC is based on methods adapted from Miura and Huete (2009), Crowther (1992) and Neale and Crowther (1994) for imagery acquired with Canon PowerShot SX100 cameras. Absolute normalization requires ground measurements at the time the imagery is acquired. In this study, a barium sulfate reflectance panel with absolute reflectance is used. The procedure was demonstrated using imagery captured from a wetland near Pleasant Grove, Utah, that is managed by the Utah Department of Transportation.
Additional file 1 of Assessing real-world effectiveness of therapies: what is the impact of incretin-based treatments on hospital use for patients with type 2 diabetes?
Creators: name: Bussiere, Clémence
name: Chauvin, Pauline
name: Josselin, Jean-Michel
name: Sevilla-Dedieu, Christine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Social Media Interface and the Next Generation Cognitive Mapping in New York City
Creators: name: Uguccioni, Laura
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Public spaces
Public spaces--Planning
Social media
Cognitive maps (Psychology)
City planning

description: The social media revolution is producing a new generation of urban design and planning tools that can augment reading of urban public space and management of next generation distributed urban infrastructure. Deployment of social data analytics has the potential for real-time understanding of the occupation characteristics of public space; from real-time configurations of occupation densities to detailed understanding of diverse cognitive factors related to the users. While there is a long history of "mental mapping" relative to urban fabric, the present revolution on social media promises to significantly expand representative techniques, with new cognitive mapping tools that are more robust than any of the normative means now in common practice. In this research a crowd sourced platform is deployed for definition of public space usage through Twitter-based analytics. Several stages of analysis have been deployed with comparative application for three principal public parks in Manhattan.
Moving Toward Culture Change: Defining Skilled Nursing Facility Residents Dining Style Preferences
Creators: name: Adams, Katheryn
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: Background Public policy fulfillment coupled with skilled nursing facility's desire to increase quality of service to meet changes in residents' expectations and improve marketability warrant a new look at culture change and home like dining as defined by the residents in skilled nursing facilities.
Objective The objectives of this study were to determine residents' home dining practices, define residents' desired dining style practices in the skilled nursing facility and determine the relationship between at home dining and dining preferences in skilled nursing facilities.
Design The quasi-experimental study started with a convenience sample taken from a facility generated potential participant list.
Participants One hundred and four residents in three skilled nursing facilities in the central Texas area who met the cognition criteria and consumed facility-provided food.
Measurements Participants were engaged in a standardized interview using the Resident Dining Style Preferences Survey. The data was then analyzed to determine the degree to which home practices determined skilled nursing facility dining preferences.
Results Participants want hot home cooked meals served in the dining room at the table with everyday plates in a quiet atmosphere seated with friends and neighbors with food served restaurant or table service style. Length of stay and generational group were not statistical indicators of skilled dining style preferences.
Limitations Limitations were two fold: sample size and lack of ethnic diversity.
Conclusions Culture change can not be defined as fine dining or home like dining. Removing dining time restrictions may be the most valuable adaptation for a facility looking to initiate culture change.
Thermodynamics of the Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Model on the Checkerboard Lattice
Creators: name: Khatami, Ehsan
name: Rigol, Marcos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Employing numerical linked-cluster expansions (NLCEs) along with exact diagonalizations of finite clusters with periodic boundary condition, we study the energy, specific heat, entropy, and various susceptibilities of the antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the checkerboard lattice. NLCEs, combined with extrapolation techniques, allow us to access temperatures much lower than those accessible to exact diagonalization and other series expansions. We find that the high-temperature peak in specific heat decreases as the frustration increases, consistent with the large amount of unquenched entropy in the region around maximum classical frustration, where the nearest-neighbor and next-nearest neighbor exchange interactions (J and J', respectively) have the same strength, and with the formation of a second peak at lower temperatures. The staggered susceptibility shows a change of character when J' increases beyond 0.75J, implying the disappearance of the long-range antiferromagnetic order at zero temperature. For J'=4J, in the limit of weakly coupled crossed chains, we find large susceptibilities for stripe and Neel order with Q=(pi/2,pi/2) at low temperatures with antiferromagnetic correlations along the chains. Other magnetic and bond orderings, such as a plaquette valence-bond solid and a crossed-dimer order suggested by previous studies, have also been investigated.
description: 10 pages, 13 figures
Evocative Communication: Selected Projects in Projection, Scenic, and Lighting Design
Creators: name: Weeks, Milinda Esplin
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: I didn’t always want to be a theatrical designer. As a child, I wanted to be a ballerina, an artist, a teacher. My answer to, “what do you want to be when you grow up?” changed ever time someone asked me the question. Though I didn’t understand it a the time, what I wanted was to affect people. I wanted my work to create emotion and thought.
I found that reaction in the theater. Here was a small circle of people who were entirely codependent upon each other to create one large piece of art, all in the hopes of evoking an emotional reaction in the people who viewed that art
While I possessed a talent pertaining to several aspects of the theater, the fact that I labored for my achievements in design made them that much more dear to me. I was used to being naturally good at whatever I put my hand to, and designing a product for the stage was an artistic and intellectual challenge. I struggled and pushed myself for years before I turned out a product I was proud of, a design that people were effected by. Finally, my own work evoked an emotional reaction.
As Oscar Wilde once said, “I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.” This communication is what I strive to accomplish in my designs. It is always my goal to enhance and support the direction, acting, and technical elements so that the combination of all creates a shared human experience.
Through the following chapters I will strive to explain my process of design and give a detailed account of the development of my work on the productions of Issun Boshi, Proof, and Our Country’s Good
Interaction between nectin-1 and the human natural killer cell receptor CD96
Creators: name: Holmes, Veronica M.
name: Maluquer De Motes, Carlos
name: Richards, Paige T.
name: Roldan, Jessenia
name: Bhargava, Arjun K.
name: Orange, Jordan Scott
name: Krummenacher, Claude
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Killer cells
subject: Cell interaction
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Regulation of Natural Killer (NK) cell activity is achieved by the integration of both activating and inhibitory signals acquired at the immunological synapse with potential target cells. NK cells express paired receptors from the immunoglobulin family which share common ligands from the nectin family of adhesion molecules. The activating receptor CD226 (DNAM-1) binds to nectin-2 and CD155, which are also recognized by the inhibitory receptor TIGIT. The third receptor in this family is CD96, which is less well characterized and may have different functions in human and mouse models. Human CD96 interacts with CD155 and ligation of this receptor activates NK cells, while in mice the presence of CD96 correlates with decreased NK cell activation. Mouse CD96 also binds nectin-1, but the effect of this interaction has not yet been determined. Here we show that human nectin-1 directly interacts with CD96 in vitro. The binding site for CD96 is located on the nectin-1 V-domain, which comprises a canonical interface that is shared by nectins to promote cell adhesion. The affinity of nectin-1 for CD96 is lower than for other nectins such as nectin-3 and nectin-1 itself. However, the affinity of nectin-1 for CD96 is similar to its affinity for herpes simplex virus glycoprotein D (HSV gD), which binds the nectin-1 V-domain during virus entry. The affinity of human CD96 for nectin-1 is lower than for its known activating ligand CD155. We also found that human erythroleukemia K562 cells, which are commonly used as susceptible targets to assess NK cell cytotoxicity did not express nectin-1 on their surface and were resistant to HSV infection. When expressed in K562 cells, nectin-1-GFP accumulated at cell contacts and allowed HSV entry. Furthermore, overexpression of nectin-1-GFP led to an increased susceptibility of K562 cells to NK-92 cell cytotoxicity.
Mode-hop-free tuning over 135 GHz of external cavity diode lasers without anti-reflection coating
Creators: name: Dutta, Sourav
name: Elliott, D. S.
name: Chen, Yong P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report an external cavity diode laser (ECDL), using a diode whose front facet is not antireflection (AR) coated, that has a mode-hop-free (MHF) tuning range greater than 135 GHz. We achieved this using a short external cavity and by simultaneously tuning the internal and external modes of the laser. We find that the precise location of the pivot point of the grating in our laser is less critical than commonly believed. The general applicability of the method, combined with the compact portable mechanical and electronic design, makes it well suited for both research and industrial applications.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Validation Study: A Case Study of Calculus 1 (MATH 1210)
Creators: name: Lasisi, Abibat Adebisi
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: This report discusses the process of assessing the validity of a test. We provide an analysis of the validation study of a test administered to the first semester calculus students at Utah State University in the Fall 2011 semester. The results of our analysis suggest that the test has some measurement relevance. This implies that the subject contents of the test correlate with the syllabus of the course. Thus, the measurement has some learning level relevance. Our analysis also revealed that the measurement has a high reliability coefficient which signifies some internal consistency of the mea- surement. The relevancy and reliability of this measurement provides an indication of the validity of the test for it to be administered in a classroom. Furthermore, we perform item analysis to know the quality of the test items. The computed indices of discrimination, difficulty, and efficiency for each measurement item suggest that most of the items are effective (i.e., it is possible to discriminate between high and low students' achievements on the test's objectives), moderate (i.e., the items were neither too easy nor too hard), and efficient (i.e., the items perform well in the test).
Numerical study of a three-state host-parasite system on the square lattice
Creators: name: Hasegawa, Takehisa
name: Konno, Norio
name: Masuda, Naoki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We numerically study the phase diagram of a three-state host-parasite model on the square lattice motivated by population biology. The model is an extension of the contact process, and the three states correspond to an empty site, a host, and a parasite. We determine the phase diagram of the model by scaling analysis. In agreement with previous results, three phases are identified: the phase in which both hosts and parasites are extinct (S_{0}), the phase in which hosts survive but parasites are extinct (S_{01}), and the phase in which both hosts and parasites survive (S_{012}). We argue that both the S_{0}-S_{01} and S_{01}-S_{012} boundaries belong to the directed percolation class. In this model, it has been suggested that an excessively large reproduction rate of parasites paradoxically extinguishes hosts and parasites and results in S_{0}. We show that this paradoxical extinction is a finite size effect; the corresponding parameter region is likely to disappear in the limit of infinite system size.
description: 9 pages, 10 figures
Toda Molecule and Tomimatsu-Sato Solution $\sim$ Towards the complete proof of Nakamura's conjecture$\sim$
Creators: name: Fukuyama, Takeshi
name: Koizumi, Kozo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the Nakamura's conjecture stating that the Tomimatsu-Sato black hole solution with integer deformation parameter $n$ is composed of the special solutions of the Toda molecule equation at the $n$-th lattice site. From the previous work, in which the conjecture was partly analytically proved, we go further towards final full proof by rearranging the rotation parameter. The proof is explicitly performed for the highest and lowest orders. Though the proof for all orders remains still unsolved, the prospect to the full proof becomes transparent and workable by our method.
description: 16 pages, 1 fifure, Typos corrected, reference added
A Study of the Bioherms of the Early Ordovician Garden City Formation and a Literature Review of Early Ordovician Organic Buildups
Creators: name: Pearce, Heidi
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: During the Early Ordovician organic buildups formed in shallow seas across the world. This project contains a literature review on these organic buildups with a focus on those occurring in the warm, shallow seas of North America, but also includes a study on organic buildups formed in the cold water region of Russia. The goal of the study was to characterize these Early Ordovician organic buildups in order to identify similarities and differences in their occurrence. The second part of this project is a preliminary study on organic buildups occurring in the Early Ordovician Garden City Formation in Boss Canyon, Utah.
This project found that warm, shallow-water organic buildups of the Early Ordovician were small scale structures that were typically 1-3 meters in height and several meters in width, with the length variable depending on location. The organic buildups were biotically relatively simple structures formed by algae, lithistid sponges and Calathium with accessory organisms of brachiopods, cephalopods, trilobites, echinoderms, gastropods, ostracods, algal remains and conodonts. The organic buildups are composed of massive to faintly-laminated mudstone to wackestone to packstone to boundstone. Large in situ organisms are found on the organic buildups, while internally they are found as skeletal components. Rock surrounding the organic buildups includes limestone and shale. Channels dissect the organic buildups and some organic buildups show evidence of subaerial exposure. Formation of the organic buildups was dependent on local conditions.
Cold water organic buildups are several meters long and generally less than a meter high. These organic buildups have a calcareous-clay composition. The mound core is composed of clay topped by a carbonate cap and overlain by a hardground surface. Formation of the organic buildups was by dense concentrations of sessile siliceous sponges. Accessory organisms include brachiopods, echinoderms, ostracods, pelmatozoans, bryozoans and conodonts.
Lifelong learning in least developed countries : the case of Nepal
Creators: name: Regmi, Kapil Dev
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: The seventieth session of the General Assembly of the UN declared that the promotion of ‘lifelong learning opportunities for all’ as one of the Sustainable Development Goals. The idea of lifelong learning was first proposed by United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization during the 1970s to mitigate the global educational crisis observed during the 1960s. However, until 2015 it was never taken as an educational policy strategy for the economically poor countries of the global South, known as Least Developed Countries (LDCs). Major supranational organisations such as the World Bank have encouraged LDCs to reorient their national educational policies and practices towards the framework of lifelong learning. This is an important breakthrough; however, almost no attention has been paid to what understandings of lifelong learning are being promoted by the supranational organisations that are increasingly involved in educational policy making and governance of LDCs. Drawing on major theoretical constructs informed by Habermas (lifeworld and communicative rationality) and using critical policy sociology as a methodological tool, this study analysed educational policy documents and interviews undertaken with key educational policy makers of Nepal. This study found that the World Bank has promoted a neoliberal understanding of lifelong learning that takes investment in learning as the responsibility of individuals, promotes privatisation in education and advocates for the decentralisation of educational management to promote global governance in education. This limited notion of lifelong learning is partially adopted in LDCs like Nepal. The study concluded that the neoliberal understanding of lifelong learning has almost no potential in addressing the multifarious problems faced by LDCs such as poverty, illiteracy, and inequality. This study recommended that the international organisations should not limit lifelong learning to an economic strategy aimed at increasing competitiveness and the production of flexible labour force; rather lifelong learning should be taken as the principal means for an inclusive and harmonious form of human development led by community-based initiatives. Providing lifelong learning opportunity for adults, especially those living in rural communities, should be the responsibility of the governments of LDCs for which international organisations may play a complementary role, when needed.
JLSC Board Editorial 2018
Creators: name: Agate, Nicky
name: Clement, Gail
name: Searle, Samantha
name: Kingsley, Danny
name: Vandegrift, Micah
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Scholarly publishing
Communication in science
Academic libraries
Learning and scholarship--Moral and ethical aspects

description: The current scholarly communication landscape is populated by a variety of actors and powered by an ever-increasing array of complementary and competitive systems for the production, publication, and distribution of scholarship. Recent years have also seen increasing numbers of proposals to recast these systems in ways that better align with the needs and values of the academy and its scholars. In this editorial, members of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication consider the present environment and contemplate the future of academy-owned and -supported scholarly communication, as well as the role of libraries in that future.
From the Ground Up: A Group Editorial on the Most Pressing Issues in Scholarly Communication
Creators: name: Agate, Nicky
name: Clement, Gail
name: Kingsley, Danny
name: Searle, Sam
name: Vanderjagt, Leah
name: Waller, Jen
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Scholarly publishing
Communication in science
Academic libraries

description: One of the joys of working with JLSC is the amazing community of intelligent, talented, and passionate people who make up its readers, authors, and reviewers. Nowhere is this more apparent than in its Editorial Board, which is currently made up of twenty-one professionals from across the scholarly communication landscape. Because their work usually happens behind the scenes, readers might not realize how influential they are in the life of the journal. They come from a wide range of organizations and backgrounds (not to mention three continents), but they all deal with scholarly communication issues on the ground, every day. There has been quite a bit of discussion lately about the future of scholarly communication in libraries (for an example, see Clifford Lynch’s guest editorial in the February issue of C&RL), and we wanted to give our board a chance to weigh in. They were asked to share their take on the most pressing issues in scholarly communication today, in their capacity as Editorial Board members (rather than as representatives of their respective institutions), and the following six short pieces are the result. We hope their answers will help inspire the readers, authors, and editors of JLSC to think big, act strategically, and strengthen our growing network of peers.
A Report on the Scenic Design for Seussical the Musical, the Scenic Design for The Three Musketeers, and the Costume Design for Step on a Crack
Creators: name: Burdzy, Andrea Lyman
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: It isn't often that a man as beloved as Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, comes along. Dr. Seuss wrote more than 60 books in his lifetime, many of which have become classics in the world of children’s literature. His poetic tongue twisters and inventive illustrations have become iconic to several generations of children all over the world. Dr. Seuss' books are not only fun and full of imagination, but more often than not they teach powerful lessons of self-confidence, kindness, and even political awareness.
In April 2010, I was asked to design the set for Seussical the Musical by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens for Utah State Theatre’s 2010-2011 season. In a way I felt the weight of doing justice to the wonderful world of Dr. Seuss, but I was also excited to have the chance to help bring these stories to life.
Just after I completed the design for Seussical the Musical, I was asked to design the set for The Three Musketeers, which was going to be performed the following semester. I was really excited about the assignment; nearly everyone knows the story of the musketeers and their adventurous swashbuckling. I was eager to read the script, as I knew it would be packed with adventure.
I was a little surprised when I read the script and found out that it was a lot more like a screenplay than a play script. Ken Ludwig commented in the introduction to the play:
One of the problems for an adaptor of The Three Musketeers involves the story itself. In the novel, the Musketeers and their swashbuckling novitiate roam from one adventure to the next with almost illogical abandon. There is no single over-­‐arching story except d'Artagnan's rise from villager to Musketeer.
The novel, and therefore the play, is extremely episodic as it jumps from one scene to the next quickly. The play contains twenty-two scene changes with only three returns to a previous location. I knew that it was going to be an enormous challenge to design a set for a fast paced action play that was able to portray all of these different locations without slowing down the action for scene shifts. The one thing I knew from the beginning was that I didn’t want to have black outs while the scenes changed--I wanted the action to continue and for the scene shifts to become part of the excitement of the action.
In the fall of 2010, I was asked to design the costumes for the children's show Step on a Crack that would be in the following year's season. I was thrilled to be designing costumes for a main-stage production and couldn't wait to begin the research process.
Ensuring Cache Freshness in On-demand Routing Protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Network: A Cross-layer Framework
Creators: name: Shukla, Ashish
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: One of the big challenges in ad hoc network design is packet routing. Studies have shown that on-demand routing protocols perform better than table-driven routing protocols. In order to avoid route discovery for each packet, on-demand routing protocols cache routes previously learnt. A node in ad hoc network learns routing information by overhearing or forwarding packets to other nodes and keep learned routes in its route cache. However, node movement results broken links and therefore increases risk of cache pollution. Ensuring cache freshness in on-demand routing protocols, therefore, presents a serious challenge. A lot of research has been done in route cache organization, however, little effort has been done for route cache timeout policy to prevent stale routes from being used. In this paper we propose a new cross-layer framework to improve route cache performance in on-demand routing protocols. The proposed framework presents novel use of Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) information to choose cache timeout of individual links in route cache.
description: This paper has been withdrawn as it's available as part of IEEE CCNC 2007 proceedings from IEEExplore
Immunosuppressive treatment and the risk of diabetes in rheumatoid arthritis
Creators: name: Lillegraven, Siri
name: Greenberg, Jeffrey D.
name: Reed, George
name: Saunders, Katherine
name: Curtis, Jeffrey R.
name: Harrold, Leslie
name: Hochberg, Marc C.
name: Pappas, Dimitrios A.
name: Kremer, Joel M.
name: Solomon, Daniel H.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Diabetes--Risk factors
Rheumatoid arthritis
Immunosuppression
Health

description: Objective
Inflammation and anti-inflammatory treatments might influence the risk of diabetes. The objective of this study was to assess factors associated with incident diabetes in rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

Methods
The study population consisted of RA patients from a multi-center cohort study, Corrona. To assess risk associated with disease modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD) exposure, we assessed five mutually exclusive DMARD groups. Additionally, we assessed the risk associated with body mass index (BMI, <25, 25–30, >30 kg/m2) and glucocorticoid usage. Incident cases of diabetes were confirmed through adjudication, and Cox regression models were fit to estimate the risk of incident diabetes.

Results
We identified 21,775 DMARD treatment regimens, the mean (SD) age at the index visit was 58 (13) years, disease duration 10 (10) years, and 30% used oral glucocorticoids at the time. Eighty-four incident cases of diabetes were confirmed within the treatment exposure periods. The hazard ratio (HR, 95% confidence interval) for diabetes was significantly reduced in patients receiving TNF inhibitors, HR 0.35 (0.13, 0.91), compared to patients treated with non-biologic DMARDs other than hydroxychloroquine and methotrexate. Hydroxychloroquine, methotrexate and use of other biologic DMARDs had a numerically reduced risk compared to the same group. Patients prescribed ≥7.5 mg of glucocorticoids had a HR of 2.33 (1.68, 3.22) of incident diabetes compared with patients not prescribed oral glucocorticoids. RA patients with a BMI >30 had a HR of 6.27 (2.97, 13.25) compared to patients with BMI ≤25.

Conclusion
DMARDs, glucocorticoids and obesity influenced the risk of incident diabetes in a large cohort of RA patients. Monitoring for the occurrence of diabetes should be part of routine RA management with a focus on specific subgroups.
A Critical Evaluation of the Sustainable Sites Initiative's Guidelines and Performance Benchmarks 2009 as Applied to the Design and Development of the Orem, Utah Intermodal Center
Creators: name: Dzikowski, Jeffrey E.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: In 2006 the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, the United States Botanical Garden, and additional stakeholders joined together to form the Sustainable Sites InitiativeTM (SITESTM), an organization dedicated to the promotion of sustainable land development and management practices. As part of this effort SITES recently released its Guidelines and Performance Benchmarks 2009, a document which provides a voluntary guideline and rating system for the development, operation, and maintenance of sustainable landscapes.
This guideline and rating system is currently being tested through the Sustainable Sites Initiative pilot program, in which a select group of approximately 150 projects are participating in an initial trial of the SITES certification process. In an effort to provide SITES with in-depth feedback from one of its pilot program participants, the following study involved an interview of a group of key informants who were responsible for development of the SITES pilot application for the Orem Intermodal Center. Through inductive analysis of the data collected from the interviews, this study evaluated the effectiveness of the SITES Guidelines and Performance Benchmarks 2009 as applied to the design and development of the Orem Intermodal Center project. The results and implications of this evaluation are discussed within the study. The study’s findings have also been forwarded to SITES, with the expectation that this information will help inform refinement of the Guidelines and Performance Benchmarks prior to the widespread release of SITES in 2013.
Additional file 1 of Non-communicable diseases and maternal health: a scoping review
Creators: name: Firoz, Tabassum
name: Pineles, Beth
name: Navrange, Nishika
name: Grimshaw, Alyssa
name: Oladapo, Olufemi
name: Chou, Doris
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Reporting guideline checklist. Table S2. Search Strategies. Table S3. Conditions by organ system.
The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Disaster: A Graphical Assessment of its Impact on Wildlife
Creators: name: Suyundikov, Anvar
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: The Deepwater Horizon oil spill occurred in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010. Considered the largest accidental marine oil spill in history, oil flowed for three months and approximately five million barrels of oil spilled through by mid-July 2010. In this report, we analyze fish and bird data to assess the impact of the oil spill on the Gulf wildlife. Our findings based on the available fish data for 2005, 2006, and 2010 are not very helpful to make a judgement on the negative impact of the oil spill on fish species. On the other hand, the bird data analysis shows that the closer the surface oil spill area approached to bird habitats, the more dead birds were observed. The highest number of dead birds was observed in July and August when birds bred and raised their offspring. However, the migration behaviour of different bird species makes it impossible to entirely estimate the full impact of the oil spill on birds.
Hydromagnetic equilibrium in non-barotropic multifluid neutron stars
Creators: name: Glampedakis, Kostas
name: Andersson, Nils
name: Lander, Samuel K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Traditionally, the subject of hydromagnetic equilibrium in neutron stars has been addressed in the context of standard magnetohydrodynamics, with matter obeying a barotropic equation of state. In this paper we take a step towards a more realistic treatment of the problem by considering neutron stars with interior superfluid components. In this multifluid model stratification associated with a varying matter composition (the relative proton to neutron density fraction) enters as a natural ingredient, leading to a non-barotropic system. After formulating the hydromagnetic equilibrium of superfluid/superconducting neutron stars as a perturbation problem, we focus on the particular case of a three-fluid system consisting of superfluid neutrons and normal protons and electrons. We determine the equilibrium structure of dipolar magnetic fields with a mixed poloidal-toroidal composition. We find that, with respect to barotropic models, stratification has the generic effect of leading to equilibria with a higher fraction of magnetic energy stored in the toroidal component. However, even in models with strong stratification the poloidal and toroidal components are comparable, with the former contributing the bulk of the magnetic energy.
description: 11 pages, 8 eps figures. Minor changes and corrections, this version matches the published paper
Universal low-rank matrix recovery from Pauli measurements
Creators: name: Liu, Yi-Kai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the problem of reconstructing an unknown matrix M of rank r and dimension d using O(rd poly log d) Pauli measurements. This has applications in quantum state tomography, and is a non-commutative analogue of a well-known problem in compressed sensing: recovering a sparse vector from a few of its Fourier coefficients. We show that almost all sets of O(rd log^6 d) Pauli measurements satisfy the rank-r restricted isometry property (RIP). This implies that M can be recovered from a fixed ("universal") set of Pauli measurements, using nuclear-norm minimization (e.g., the matrix Lasso), with nearly-optimal bounds on the error. A similar result holds for any class of measurements that use an orthonormal operator basis whose elements have small operator norm. Our proof uses Dudley's inequality for Gaussian processes, together with bounds on covering numbers obtained via entropy duality.
description: v2: corrected typos, added proof details, 9+8 pages, to appear in NIPS 2011
Self-induced suppression of collective neutrino oscillations in a supernova
Creators: name: Duan, Huaiyu
name: Friedland, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate collective flavor oscillations of supernova neutrinos at late stages of the explosion. We first show that the frequently used single-angle (averaged coupling) approximation predicts oscillations close to, or perhaps even inside, the neutrinosphere, potentially invalidating the basic neutrino transport paradigm. Fortunately, we also find that the single-angle approximation breaks down in this regime; in the full multiangle calculation, the oscillations start safely outside the transport region. The new suppression effect is traced to the interplay between the dispersion in the neutrino-neutrino interactions and the vacuum oscillation term.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures; updated to match the PRL version
An Unusual And Intriguing Presentation Of Sydenham’s Chorea
Creators: name: Mehta, Sahil
name: Goyal, Manoj Kumar
name: Kilbane, Camilla
name: Kumar, Rajender
name: Lal, Vivek
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Neurology
Movement disorders
Chorea
Immunoglobulins
Dopamine--Receptors

description: A 26-year-old male born of a non-consanguineous marriage with normal birth and developmental history presented with abnormal movements for the last 15 years. He first noticed changes in his handwriting. The movements were jerky, non-stereotyped, and were associated with violent flinging movements. They were not preceded by any premonitory urge and were only partially suppressible. The movements gradually progressed to involve the face and neck, and, over the next 5 years, became generalized. His parents also complained of behavioral disturbances such as hyperactivity, aggressiveness, and obsessive-compulsive behavior. There was no history of cognitive decline, psychosis, seizures, or myoclonic jerks. Family history was non-contributory. There was no history of rheumatic fever, vasculitis, or exposure to toxins. The patient suffered frequent throat infections until the age of 5 years. He had been previously prescribed multiple medications, without significant improvement (tetrabenazine, haloperidol, valproate, clonazepam in various combinations). This letter shows an unusual presentation of Sydenham’s chorea lasting more than 15 years and highlight the utility of antineuronal antibodies in such a scenario.
Machian Origin of the Entropic Gravity and Cosmic Acceleration
Creators: name: Gogberashvili, Merab
name: Kanatchikov, Igor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the emergence of relativistic effects in the Machian universe with a global preferred frame and use thermodynamic considerations to clarify the origin of gravity as an entropic force and the origin of dark energy/cosmic acceleration as related to the Hawking-Unruh temperature at the universe's horizon.
description: 14 pages, 1 figure, The version accepted by Int. J. Theor. Phys
A Simple Battery Aware Gossip Based Sleep Protocol for Densely Deployed Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks
Creators: name: Shukla, Ashish
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Conserving power in mobile ad-hoc and sensor networks is a big challenge. Most of the nodes in these networks, in general, are battery powered, therefore, an efficient power saving protocol is required to extend the lifetime of such networks. A lot of work has been done and several protocols have been proposed to address this problem. Gossip based protocols, which are based on the results of percolation theory, significantly reduce power consumption with very little implementation overhead. However, not much work has been done to make gossiping battery aware. In this paper we introduce a simple gossip based battery aware sleep protocol. The protocol allows low battery nodes to sleep more, therefore, improves overall network lifetime.
description: This paper has been withdrawn as it's available as part of IEEE CCNC 2008 proceedings from IEEExplore
A Flexible Consent Management System for Master Person Indices
Creators: name: Pakalapati, Aditya
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: In healthcare, a Master Person Index (MPI) is a system that integrates information of individual from multiple data sources. To ensure confidentiality, such systems, particularly in healthcare, need to respect individual and organizational constraints on the sharing of data. This report describes a reusable consent management system that enforces such constraints and how it has been tested in the context of the Utah Department of Health (UDOH) MPI for public health.
First investigation of a novel 2D position-sensitive semiconductor detector concept
Creators: name: Bassignana, D.
name: Fernandez, M.
name: Jaramillo, R.
name: Lozano, M.
name: Munoz, F. J.
name: Pellegrini, G.
name: Quirion, D.
name: Vila, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents a first study of the performance of a novel 2D position-sensitive microstrip detector, where the resistive charge division method was implemented by replacing the metallic electrodes with resistive electrodes made of polycrystalline silicon. A characterization of two proof-of-concept prototypes with different values of the electrode resistivity was carried out using a pulsed Near Infra-Red laser. The experimental data were compared with the electrical simulation of the sensor equivalent circuit coupled to simple electronics readout circuits. The good agreement between experimental and simulation results establishes the soundness of resistive charge division method in silicon microstrip sensors and validates the developed simulation as a tool for the optimization of future sensor prototypes. Spatial resolution in the strip length direction depends on the ionizing event position. The average value obtained from the protype analysis is close to 1.2% of the strip length for a 6 MIP signal.
description: 14 pages, 12 figures
Transient Generalized Chorea in Influenza A Encephalopathy
Creators: name: Prasuhn, Jannik
name: Royl, Georg
name: Wandinger, Klaus P.
name: Brüggemann, Norbert
name: Neumann, Alexander
name: Münte, Thomas F.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Neurology
Chorea
Influenza A virus
Brain--Diseases

description: Background: Influenza A infections are a rare cause of movement disorders. Previously described patients have suffered from acute-onset myoclonus and/or dystonia or post-viral parkinsonism.

Case Report: We present the case of a 74-year-old female patient with transient generalized chorea due to influenza A-mediated encephalopathy.

Discussion: We discuss whether the clinical presentation and the magnetic resonance imaging changes may be attributable to cytokine-mediated encephalopathy or to direct cytotoxic effects of the virus. Additionally, we would like to make clinicians aware of this clinical sign in the context of viral encephalopathy.
Web Based Virtual Environment For Education - S'cape
Creators: name: Thapliyal, Atul
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: Simulations provide an environment to experiment safely, openly, and repeatedly for learning mastery. However, many simulation environments experienced within a classroom fail to include automated assessment components or automated data collection. Even when assessments are included, often they fail to account for the unpredictable nature of decision-making within a complex, 3D, open-ended simulation environment. Embedding assessments within a virtual simulation environment poses several challenges. First, the program must provide assessments aligned with educational requirements that will not take the learner cognitively “away” from their activities. Second, the program must not detract from the game-like experience that learners find engaging. Third, assessments should maximize the benefit of the unique capability of digital deliveries, including the ability to allow for the geographically disparate and asynchronous schedules of instructors and learners. This report addresses each of the above challenges in the context of an implementation of a simulation in a classroom environment. The simulation described in this report is designed to function as a stand-alone module to teach and evaluate core concepts of a K-12 curriculum.