cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Chaotic Loss Cones, Black Hole Fueling and the M-Sigma Relation
Creators: name: Merritt, David
name: Poon, M. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In classical loss cone theory, stars are supplied to a central black hole via gravitational scattering onto low angular momentum orbits. Higher feeding rates are possible if the gravitational potential near the black hole is non-axisymmetric and the orbits are chaotic. Motivated by recently published, self-consistent models, we evaluate rates of stellar capture and disruption in triaxial nuclei. Rates are found to substantially exceed those in collisionally-resupplied loss cones, as long as an appreciable fraction of the orbits are centrophilic. The mass captured by a black hole after a given time in a steep nucleus scales as the fifth power of the velocity dispersion, and the accumulated mass in 10^10 yr is of the correct order to reproduce the M-sigma relation. Triaxiality can solve the "final parsec problem" of decaying black hole binaries by increasing the flux of stars into the binary's loss cone.
description: 29 pages, 6 figures
Subulicystidium nikau Julich
Creators: name: Ordynets, Alexander
name: Gruhn, Gérald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Trechisporales
Hydnodontaceae
Subulicystidium
Subulicystidium nikau

description: Subulicystidium nikau (G. Cunn.) Jülich
Fig. 1 B
Type
NEW ZEALAND – Auckland • Cascades, Waitakere Ranges, on dead leaf midribs of palm Rhopalostylis sapida; 3 Apr. 1954; S. D. Baker leg.; holotype: PDD [PDD 13816].
Additional material examined
FRANCE – La Réunion • Saint-Pierre, Saint-Philippe, Sentier de Takamaka; ca 840 m; 21°5’28.7”S, 55°37’11.6”E; on dead wood; 26 Mar. 2015; J. Riebesehl & M. Schroth leg.; KAS, FR [L 1296].
description: Published as part of Ordynets, Alexander & Gruhn, Gérald, 2025, Palliocystidium, a new genus in the family Hydnodontaceae (Trechisporales), pp. 135-154 in Plant Ecology and Evolution 158 (1) on pages 135-154, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.128682
Telehealth Coaching to Improve Exercise Self-Efficacy in Diabetics
Creators: name: Ikoro, Oby C
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

Background and Review of Literature: Exercise is essential to the self-management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM). The literature reveals that many patients with difficulty in the self-management of exercise improve with coaching. The literature also reveals that an adequate exercise routine results in improved blood glucose control and the prevention of complications.
Purpose: This DNP project aims to demonstrate the positive effect of low-cost telehealth coaching to improve self-efficacy in an exercise regimen for T2DM patients.
Methods: A one-group pretest-posttest design was used in this project. Telephone calls and text messaging were used to coach patients to improve exercise self-efficacy A self-efficacy scale was used to measure the pre- and post-intervention self-efficacy.
Implementation plan/Procedure: This project was implemented by recruiting participants from the community and administering three weeks of remote coaching via phone calls and text messaging.
Implication/Conclusion: Evidence from the literature supports the positive effect of telehealth coaching in improving self-efficacy in patients with T2DM. The project’s outcome was a significant improvement in exercise self-efficacy in the participants which far exceeded 5% on the self-efficacy scale after three weeks of coaching. The results showed that telehealth coaching via phone calls and text messaging is an effective, low-cost means of helping T2DM patients improve self-efficacy in maintaining an exercise routine due to the behavior modification that occurred from the intervention.
Keywords: Type 2 diabetes, diabetes and exercise, remote health coaching, blood glucose control, telehealth, behavior change in chronic disease, exercise self-efficacy, telephone coaching.
Supplementary Materials from An atlas of transposable element-derived alternative splicing in cancer
Creators: name: Clayton, Evan A.
name: Lavanya Rishishwar
name: Tzu-Chuan Huang
name: Saurabh Gulati
name: Dongjo Ban
name: McDonald, John F.
name: I. King Jordan
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Health Care
subject: Diseases
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60408 Genomics
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Tables 1-2 and Supplementary Figures 1-7
D2.4 Report on Dissemination (and Communication) Activities
Creators: name: Filosa, Silvia
name: Maracchia, Giovanna
name: Freda, Carmela
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Communication
subject: Information Dissemination
subject: science communication

description: This document reports on the EPOS dissemination and communication activities2 performed during the first 36 months of the EPOS IP project (M1-M36). These activities have been fulfilled strictly following the communication strategy as described in the EPOS Communication Plan.
The High-Energy Limit of 2-to-2 Partonic Scattering Amplitudes
Creators: name: Gardi, Einan
name: Caron-Huot, Simon
name: Reichel, Joscha
name: Vernazza, Leonardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, there has been significant progress in computing scattering amplitudes in the high-energy limit using rapidity evolution equations. We describe the state-of-the-art and demonstrate the interplay between exponentiation of high-energy logarithms and that of infrared singularities. The focus in this talk is the imaginary part of 2 to 2 partonic amplitudes, which can be determined by solving the BFKL equation. We demonstrate that the wavefunction is infrared finite, and that its evolution closes in the soft approximation. Within this approximation we derive a closed-form solution for the amplitude in dimensional regularization, which fixes the soft anomalous dimension to all orders at NLL accuracy. We then turn to finite contributions of the amplitude and show that the remaining hard contributions can be determined algorithmically, by iteratively solving the BFKL equation in exactly two dimensions within the class of single-valued harmonic polylogarithms. To conclude we present numerical results and analyse large-order behaviour of the amplitude.
description: 19 pages, 4 figures; Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Radiative Corrections (RADCOR2019) 9-13 September 2019, Palais des Papes, Avignon, France
Knot theory related to generalized and cyclotomic Hecke algebras of type B
Creators: name: Lambropoulou, Sofia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M25

description: In this paper we consider all possible generalizations of the B-type Hecke algebras, namely the cyclotomic and what we call 'generalized', and we construct Markov traces on each of them, so as to obtain all possible different levels of homfly-pt analogues in the solid torus related to the (Hecke) algebras of B-type.
description: 35 pages, 8 figures, LaTex document. Title on the abstract page has been corrected; otherwise, v2 is identical to v1
Improving Pain Management of Cognitively Intact Older Adults in Long-Term Care Facilities
Creators: name: Howlett, Lorraine
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2022

Abstract
Background: Pain among residents in long-term care facilities (LTCF) is underrecognized and undertreated. Older adults present a pain management challenge due to their altered pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, multiple morbidities, and polypharmacy. Long-term care facility nurses must be knowledgeable of treatment options, assessment of pain before and after treatment interventions, and how to implement any changes needed as indicated by post-treatment assessment. Barriers such as negative staff attitudes and biases, time constraints, and degree of organizational support may need to be overcome.
Purpose: With increased education, resources, and support, LTCF nurses will be better prepared to provide optimal pain management care to their residents.
Methods: A comprehensive pain management in-service developed by the DNP student was provided to the project site nurses. A paired t test and Cohen’s d were used to compare the pre- and post- in-service surveys completed by the nurses to determine the effectiveness of the in-service.
Results: Despite encountering barriers, data indicates that increased education increases LTCF nurses pain management knowledge.
Conclusion: Providing increased pain management education to LTCF nurses has the potential to improve pain management through increased nursing knowledge.
Keywords: pain management, nurse education, long-term care facilities, gerontological nursing
Data envelopment analysis
Creators: name: Ji, Yong-Bae
name: Lee, Choonjoo
name: Ji, Yong-Bae
name: Lee, Choonjoo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: dea
subject: data envelopment analysis
subject: linear programming
subject: nonparametric
subject: efficiency
subject: decision-making units

description: In this article, we introduce a user-written data envelopment analysis command for Stata. Data envelopment analysis is a linear programming method for assessing the efficiency and productivity of units called decision-making units. Over the last decades, data envelopment analysis has gained considerable attention as a managerial tool for measuring performance of organizations, and it has been used widely for assessing the efficiency of public and private sectors such as banks, airlines, hospitals, universities, defense firms, and manufacturers. The dea command in Stata will allow users to conduct the standard optimization procedure and extended managerial analysis. The dea command developed in this article selects the chosen variables from a Stata data file and constructs a linear programming model based on the selected dea options. Examples are given to illustrate how one could use the code to measure the efficiency of decision-making units.
Additional file of Gene expression profile of the skin in the 'hairpoor' (HrHp) mice by microarray analysis
Creators: name: Bong-Kyu Kim
name: In-Cheol Baek
name: Lee, Hwa-Young
name: Jeong-Ki Kim
name: Hae-Hiang Song
name: Sungjoo K Yoon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file of Gene expression profile of the skin in the 'hairpoor' (HrHp) mice by microarray analysis
Generation of nonclassical photon states using a superconducting qubit in a microcavity
Creators: name: Liu, Yu-xi
name: Wei, L. F.
name: Nori, Franco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on the interaction between the radiation field and a superconductor, we propose a way to engineer quantum states using a SQUID charge qubit inside a microcavity. This device can act as a deterministic single photon source as well as generate any Fock states and an arbitrary superposition of Fock states for the cavity field. The controllable interaction between the cavity field and the qubit can be realized by the tunable gate voltage and classical magnetic field applied to the SQUID.
description: 4 pages
A thermogravimetric analysis application to determine coal, carbonate, and non-carbonate minerals mass fractions in respirable mine dust
Creators: name: Agioutanti, Eleftheria
name: Cigdem Keles
name: Sarver, Emily
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Occupational lung diseases such as coal worker’s pneumoconiosis, often called black lung, are caused by exposures to respirable coal mine dust. Dust composition is increasingly understood as an important disease factor, and it can vary significantly depending on dust source materials and generation processes. For regulatory compliance purposes, the mass concentration and quartz percentage of respirable dust are monitored in U.S. coal mines, but the whole composition is not typically determined. Previous work has indicated that thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) can be used to apportion the respirable dust mass to three important component fractions (i.e., coal, non-carbonate minerals, and carbonate), which should generally correlate with three different dust sources (i.e., coal strata, rock strata, and limestone rock dusting products being applied in the mine). However, a primary shortcoming of that previous work was use of fibrous sampling filters, which limited dust recovery and thus analytical accuracy. Here, an improved TGA application is presented using smooth polycarbonate filters. Based on experiments with laboratory-generated dust samples (masses ranging between 95–1,319 µg), the TGA-derived mass fractions (reported as percentage values) for all three components were found to generally be within ±10% of expected values.
Community Education to Encourage Adherence Among African Americans with Type 2 Diabetes
Creators: name: Nkrumah, Theresa B
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

Background/Purpose. South Carolina ranked the 8th highest state with diabetes in the United States, and one out of six African American adults has been diagnosed with diabetes as compared to one out of eight white adults. According to literature, African American communities consume too much fast foods and consider healthy food to be expensive. The purpose of the study was to determine if an online educational program would improve participants’ ability to self-manage their medications, diets, exercise, and improve their diabetes. Methods. This quality improvement project design applied American Association of Diabetes Education 7 (AADE 7) intervention (for 1-hour session per week for six weeks) to encourage adherence through self-management among African Americans 45 to 85 years in Columbia, South Carolina, diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. The Transtheoretical Model (TTM) of behavioral change was used to encourage patients to change their lifestyles. The intervention was computer-based, and quantitative and qualitative analysis of data was collected to evaluate this program.  Results. Posttest results for both Diabetes Self-Management Questionnaire (DSMQ) and Morisky 8-item Medication Adherence Scale (MMAS-8) revealed some benefits of this diabetes self-management education. There was 100% improvement in adherence rate among participants in both DSMQ and MMAS-8 results. The small sample size and limited age may not represent the population. Conclusion. Even though the time frame for this study was very short, and participation was very small (n=5), the result showed that internet-based diabetes education can improve diabetes self-management among African Americans with type two diabetes. Extended time and more participants can provide better evidence of how education can improve diabetes self-management among African Americans.
            Keywords:  African Americans, adherence, medications, exercise, diet, type 2 diabetes,
Speaking Stata: Finding variables
Creators: name: Cox, Nicholas J.
name: Cox, Nicholas J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: findname
subject: ds
subject: variable names
subject: variable labels
subject: value labels
subject: types
subject: formats
subject: characteristics
subject: data management

description: A standard task in data management is producing a list of variable names showing which variables have specific properties, such as being of string type, or having value labels attached, or having a date format. A first-principles strategy is to loop over variables, checking one by one which have the property or properties concerned. I discuss this strategy in detail with a variety of examples. A canned alternative is offered by the official command ds or by a new command, findname, published formally with this column.
Was the Universe Reionized by Massive Population-III Stars?
Creators: name: Wyithe, Stuart
name: Loeb, Abraham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The WMAP satellite has measured a large optical depth to electron scattering after cosmological recombination of 0.17+-0.04, implying significant reionization of the primordial gas only ~200 million years after the big bang. However, the most recent overlap of intergalactic HII regions must have occured at z<9 based on the Lyman-alpha forest constraint on the thermal history of the intergalactic medium. Here we argue that a first generation of metal-free stars with a heavy (rather than Salpeter) mass function is therefore required to account for much of the inferred optical depth. This conclusion holds if feedback regulates star formation in early dwarf galaxies as observed in present-day dwarfs.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure, replaced to match version accepted by ApJ Letters
An upper bound on the number of compatible parameters in simultaneous quantum estimation
Creators: name: Kukita, Shingo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Simultaneous estimation of multiple parameters is required in many practical applications. A lower bound on the variance of simultaneous estimation is given by the quantum Fisher information matrix. This lower bound is, however, not necessarily achievable. There exists a necessary and sufficient condition for its achievability. It is unknown how many parameters can be estimated while satisfying this condition. In this paper, we analyse an upper bound on the number of such parameters through linear-algebraic techniques. This upper bound depends on the algebraic structure of the quantum system used as a probe. We explicitly calculate this bound for two quantum systems: single qubit and two-qubit X-states.
description: 17 pages
Review of Multivariable Model-building: A Pragmatic Approach to Regression Analysis Based on Fractional Polynomials for Modeling Continuous Variables, by Royston and Sauerbrei
Creators: name: Dupont, William D.
name: Dupont, William D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: applied statistics
subject: nonlinear regression
subject: fractional polynomials

description: This article reviews Multivariable Model-building: A Pragmatic Approach to Regression Analysis Based on Fractional Polynomials for Modeling Continuous Variables, by Patrick Royston and Willi Sauerbrei.
The ubiquitous nature of the Horizontal Branch second U-jump: A link with the Blue Hook scenario?
Creators: name: Momany, Y.
name: Bedin, L. R.
name: Cassisi, S.
name: Piotto, G.
name: Ortolani, S.
name: Recio-Blanco, A.
name: De Angeli, F.
name: Castelli, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a previous paper we reported on a discontinuity in the extreme horizontal branch (EHB) of the Galactic globular cluster NGC6752, which we called the second U-jump. This feature was attributed to a combination of post zero-age horizontal branch evolution and diffusion effects. In this follow-up study we analyze other EHB clusters and show that the second U-jump is a common feature among EHB clusters reaching T_{eff}\ge 23,000K, and that its onset in different clusters converges around T_{eff}\sim 21,000\pm3,000K. We also present near-ultraviolet diagrams of ωCen and NGC2808, the only two objects with spectroscopically confirmed ``blue hook'' stars (T_{eff}\ge 35,000K). We confirm predictions of a photometric discontinuity separating late from early-helium flashers. Moreover, we present empirical evidence that the second U-jump population might be mainly composed by early-helium flashers. Lastly, we revisit the discussion on the ubiquitous nature of the gaps and jumps so far identified in the blue HB tails, suggesting a possible discrete nature of the distribution in temperature of the HB stars.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures. Higher resolution version available via ftp at ftp://ftp.pd.astro.it/pub/momany/momany.tar A&A accepted
HQEFT as A Large Component QCD and Comments on The Incompleteness of HQET
Creators: name: Wu, Y. L.
name: Yan, Y. A.
name: Zhong, M.
name: Zuo, Y. B.
name: Wang, W. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Heavy quark effective field theory (HQEFT) is revisited in a more intuitive way. It is shown that HQEFT is a consistent large component QCD of heavy quarks. In the non-relativistic limit, HQEFT recovers the non-relativistic QCD (NRQCD). The resulting new effects in the HQEFT of QCD are carefully reexamined. It is then natural to come to the comments on the usual heavy quark effective theory (HQET). Consistent phenomenological applications of HQEFT exhibit its interesting features and completeness in comparison with HQET. It then becomes manifest why we shall base on the HQEFT of QCD rather than HQET which is an incomplete one for computing 1/m_Q corrections. More precise extraction for |V_{cb}| and |V_{ub}| in the HQEFT of QCD is emphasized.
description: 11 pages, revtex, published version
Additional file 3 of Genomic analysis of worldwide sheep breeds reveals PDGFD as a major target of fat-tail selection in sheep
Creators: name: Dong, Kunzhe
name: Yang, Min
name: Han, Jiangang
name: Ma, Qing
name: Han, Jilong
name: Song, Ziyi
name: Luosang, Cuicheng
name: Gorkhali, Neena Amatya
name: Yang, Bohui
name: He, Xiaohong
name: Ma, Yuehui
name: Jiang, Lin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3 Table S3. Positively selected SNPs identified in comparison of Middle East fat-tailed sheep vs European thin-tailed sheep.
FOLKLORISM IN THE POETRY OF THE INDEPENDENCE PERIOD
Creators: name: Mamiraliyev, Quvonch
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This article discusses the role and significance of folklorisms in Uzbek poetry. The use of folklore in Uzbek poetry of the independence period, processes of stylization, and genre mutation are analyzed. The utilization of folklore in world and Uzbek literature has existed since ancient times. This process has occurred differently in various periods. Specifically, although Uzbek written literature has adopted genres, plots, meter, and rhyme from folklore, it has evolved into a mixed form based on certain principles and developed artistically. In fact, this process existed in the literature of the classical period as well, and many genres have undergone modification in conjunction with the genres of fiction.
Polarization tomography of metallic nanohole arrays
Creators: name: Altewischer, E.
name: Genet, C.
name: van Exter, M. P.
name: Woerdman, J. P.
name: Alkemade, P. F. A.
name: van Zuuk, A.
name: van der Drift, E. W. J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report polarization tomography experiments on metallic nanohole arrays with square and hexagonal symmetry. As a main result, we find that a fully polarized input beam is partly depolarized after transmission through a nanohole array. This loss of polarization coherence is found to be anisotropic, i.e. it depends on the polarization state of the input beam. The depolarization is ascribed to a combination of two factors: i) the nonlocal response of the array due to surface plasmon propagation, ii) the non-plane wave nature of a practical input beam.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, submitted to PRL
An elementary renormalization-group approach to the Generalized Central Limit Theorem and Extreme Value Distributions
Creators: name: Amir, Ariel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Generalized Central Limit Theorem is a remarkable generalization of the Central Limit Theorem, showing that the sum of a large number of independent, identically-distributed (i.i.d) random variables with infinite variance may converge under appropriate scaling to a distribution belonging to a special family known as Levy stable distributions. Similarly, the maximum of i.i.d. variables may converge to a distribution belonging to one of three universality classes (Gumbel, Weibull and Frechet). Here, we rederive these known results following a mathematically non-rigorous yet highly transparent renormalization-group-like approach that captures both of these universal results following a nearly identical procedure.
The Importance of Understanding Military Culture in Delivering Mental Health Care to Veterans: An Educational Intervention and Toolkit to Inform and Assist Civilian Providers
Creators: name: Costa, Ashlee M
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

Abstract
Background and Review of Literature: United States Veterans are a unique population of individuals who require specialized mental health care. A review of literature revealed the Veteran population is primarily treated by civilian providers in the community who are often unaware of the impact of military culture on Veterans. Since this lack of awareness can be very disruptive to treatment and ultimately to the healing process, there is a need for advocacy related to the cultural ramifications of military service. Purpose: The DNP project goal was to increase civilian provider knowledge of the Veteran’s experience.  Method: The project was developed and executed over a one-year period and included an education intervention of a one hour long Military Culture Curriculum with Toolkit for 36 civilian providers who are caring for Veterans in community mental health clinics.  Civilian providers were issued identical surveys before and after an educational intervention. The Toolkit was provided via email after the zoom session for “at your figure tip” access to the screening tool. Results: The results were analyzed using a paired t-test, and included qualitative results from written and verbal participant feedback. Although the survey results were not statistically significant, results were overwhelmingly positive and affirmed that the education was important and well received. Implications/Conclusion:  Civilian providers who are educated regarding military culture will have better insight and knowledge to improve advocacy and  care for  the Veteran population.
title: The effect of array verifies on I/O performance
Creators: name: Thorne, JI
Publisher: name: STFC
Year: 2008
Subjects: array verifies
linux
system performance
hardware

description: There is a need to verify arrays on the RAL Tier 1 disk servers to check for bad blocks and other inconsistencies, therby reducing the risk of data loss. This can be achieved using the array verify commands on the RAID controllers. Recommendations are made on the implementation of array verifies within the RAL Tier 1.
Noteaid: A Comprehension Tool to Improve Patient Understanding
Creators: name: Green, Harriette F
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

Background: Meaningful use mandates allow patients access to provider notes, however, there remain many barriers including the inability of the patient to understand the notes. 
 This project surveyed clinicians on the informatics committee of a large tertiary care facility about their thoughts regarding the Noteaid translation system after presenting examples of translated patient notes and education about the meaningful use mandate. 
Methods: An online PowerPoint presentation and preintervention survey was distributed, followed by a live educational intervention. The members were emailed a post intervention survey about the effectiveness, likeability, usability, and practicality of the Noteaid software tool to translate medical jargon. 
Results: Of the 20 participants, 45% stated they spent more than 40% of their time on patient education and teaching. Most were unaware of the meaningful use mandate, and 68% believed that the release of provider notes alone could not improve the quality of care and/or effect patient outcomes. After the presentation, 100% liked the Noteaid system and 75% believed the system could improve outcomes by improving patient understanding.  The majority (80%) rated both of the translated note examples as a 4 on a 5-point rating scale.
Conclusion: Solutions to patient understanding of medical notes are needed. Noteaid, is a systematic solution that was positively reviewed by this group of clinicians as being a helpful tool for patients in understanding their own medical notes. The meaningful use mandate has the potential to improve patient care and better educate patients.
An XMM-Newton observation of the galaxy group MKW 4
Creators: name: O'Sullivan, E.
name: Vrtilek, J. M.
name: Read, A. M.
name: David, L. P.
name: Ponman, T. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an X-ray study of the galaxy group or poor cluster MKW 4. Working with XMM data we examine the distribution and properties of the hot gas which makes up the group halo. The inner halo shows some signs of structure, with circular or elliptical beta models providing a poor fit to the surface brightness profile. This may be evidence of large scale motion in the inner halo, but we do not find evidence of sharp fronts or edges in the emission. The temperature of the halo declines in the core, with deprojected spectral fits showing a central temperature of ~1.3 keV compared to ~3 keV at 100 kpc. In the central ~30 kpc of the group multi-temperature spectral models are required to fit the data, but they indicate a lack of gas at low temperatures. Steady state cooling flow models provide poor fits to the inner regions of the group and the estimated cooling time of the gas is long except within the central dominant galaxy, NGC 4073. Abundance profiles show a sharp increase in the core of the group, with mean abundance rising by a factor of two in the centre of NGC 4073. Fitting individual elements shows the same trend, with high values of Fe, Si and S in the core. We estimate that ~50% of the Fe in the central 40 kpc was injected by SNIa, in agreement with previous ASCA studies. Using our best fitting surface brightness and temperature models, we calculate the mass, gas fraction, entropy and mass-to-light ratio of the group. At 100 kpc (~0.1 virial radii) the total mass and gas entropy of the system (~2x10^13 Msol and ~300 keV cm^2) are quite comparable to those of other systems of similar temperature, but the gas fraction is rather low (~1%). We conclude that MKW 4 is a fairly relaxed group, which has developed a strong central temperature gradient but not a large-scale cooling flow.
description: 17 pages, 9 postscript figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Culturally Competent LGBT Care
Creators: name: Surreira, Celeste
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2014

Although recent efforts continue to improve the status of those in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, individuals and families continue to suffer from discrimination and stigma in their everyday lives. Such experiences have both direct and indirect effects on the health of LGBT individuals leading to existing health disparities. As a result, a new impetus has developed to improve the quality of care by addressing the gap in LGBT health. Increasing cultural competency is one method by which to improve care and health outcomes. Using current evidence, an educational program was developed to promote the cultural competency of healthcare providers. The program was designed based on The Process of Cultural Competence in the Delivery of Healthcare Services, a theoretical framework by Dr. Campinha-Bacote (2013b).  It was then implemented in three types of primary care practices, each in a culturally different geographic area - one in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the other two in the State of Georgia. The goal of the program was to increase the level of LGBT cultural competency among participating healthcare care providers as well as increased awareness and perceived practice value for other health care staff. This educational program showed positive results in improving the level of cultural competency of healthcare providers in all three settings and received high participant ratings with regard to practice value and willingness to recommend. Some differences among groups also provided information for further program development.
Keywords: cultural, competency, LGBT, health, primary care, providers, education
Increasing the Knowledge and Awareness of the Human Papillomavirus in Young Women in the Primary Care Setting
Creators: name: Fevrier, Brittany
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

Background: Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and is of great concern and often misunderstood. There are several effective vaccinations available to combat transmission of the virus; however, transmission rates of HPV remain high. Patient engagement and vaccination are often lacking due to the poor understanding of the virus. Purpose: This DNP project aimed to implement evidence-based HPV education and examine the impact of the education on young women in the primary care setting by increasing their awareness of HPV, the high-risk behaviors associated with this virus, and the intent to vaccinate. The project explored different educational interventions to increase the knowledge and awareness of HPV in the high-risk group, individuals 18-26 years of age.  Methods: The DNP quality improvement project intervention combined two evidence-based toolkits, John Hopkins HPV campus vaccination campaign and The HPV Vaccine: The Red Light to Cancer from the University of Pittsburgh, aimed at educating individuals within the identified age group about HPV. The educational information gathered in these toolkits was developed into an interactive educational video delivered in an EdPuzzle, an online educational platform. The tool was provided via the primary care patient portal. The participant's knowledge was assessed by pretest to gather baseline knowledge and post-test to evaluate the impact of the HPV toolkits. Results: Increase knowledge and awareness of HPV were present from the pretest to the post-test. The knowledge gain was variable. Conclusion: This DNP project demonstrated that educational interventions increase individuals’ knowledge and, with consistent use from year to year, may lay the groundwork for improving overall outcomes of sexually transmitted diseases.
Third-neighbor and other four-point correlation functions of spin-1/2 XXZ chain
Creators: name: Kato, Go
name: Shiroishi, Masahiro
name: Takahashi, Minoru
name: Sakai, Kazumitsu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The correlation functions of the spin-1/2 XXZ chain in the ground state were expressed in the form of multiple integrals for -1
description: 34 pages
Substance Use Disorder: Primary Care Screening
Creators: name: Shaltout, Shari P
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2022

Substance use disorder is a significant problem in the United States causing considerable distress and cost to the healthcare system as well as familial, community, and societal resources. Based on evidence-based research, a statement by the United States Preventive Services Task Force in 2015, recommends substance use disorder screening for adults in the primary care setting. A review of the literature concerning screening tools for substance use disorder resulted in twelve studies being included. The purpose of this project is to determine if the more comprehensive substance use disorder screening tool, ASSIST, identifies more at risk patients than the current CAGE-AID screening tool in order to improve early identification and intervention. The ASSIST questionnaire consists of 8 questions that investigate past and current use of substances. Developed by the World Health Organization (WHO), it has been shown to be reliable and valid. Patients 21-55 years from one primary care clinic in NJ were asked to voluntarily participate in a substance use disorder screening using the ASSIST screening tool. This tool was administered at well and follow up visits. The results were compared to the results of the CAGE-AID screening tool which is already part of the intake. Results showed that of the 36 people interviewed, ASSIST (n=14, 38.8%) identified more people at moderate or high risk compared to CAGE-AID (n=1, 2.7%). While this was a small study, more investigation is warranted as the results suggest that a more comprehensive screening tool is identifying those at risk more often especially for those in the medium risk category. Those patients in need of intervention are more likely to be identified with ASSIST and intervention can be begun as early as possible.
       Keywords: primary care, screening tools, substance use disorder
Convection and Dynamo in Newly-born Neutron Stars
Creators: name: Masada, Youhei
name: Takiwaki, Tomoya
name: Kotake, Kei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To study properties of magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) convection and resultant dynamo activities in proto-neutron stars (PNSs), we construct a "PNS in a box" simulation model with solving compressible MHD equation coupled with a nuclear equation of state (EOS) and a simplified leptonic transport. As a demonstration, we apply it to two types of PNS models with different internal structures: fully-convective model and spherical-shell convection model. By varying the spin rate of models, the rotational dependence of convection and dynamo that operate inside the PNS is investigated. We find that, as a consequence of turbulent transport by rotating stratified convection, large-scale structures of flow and thermodynamic fields are developed in all models. Depending on the spin rate and the convection zone depth, various profiles of the large-scale structures are obtained, which can be physically understood as steady-state solutions to the "mean-field" equation of motion. Additionally to those hydrodynamic structures, the large-scale magnetic component with $\mathcal{O}(10^{15})$ G is also spontaneously organized in disordered tangled magnetic fields in all models. The higher the spin rate, the stronger the large-scale magnetic component is built up. Intriguingly, as an overall trend, the fully-convective models have a stronger large-scale magnetic component than that in the spherical-shell convection models. The deeper the convection zone extends, the larger the size of the convection eddies becomes. As a result, the rotationally-constrained convection seems to be more easily achieved in the fully-convective model, resulting in the higher efficiency of the large-scale dynamo there. To gain a better understanding of the origin of the diversity of NS's magnetic field, we need to study the PNS dynamo in a wider parameter range.
description: 18 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Additional file of Integrated genomics of susceptibility to alkylator-induced leukemia in mice
Creators: name: Cahan, Patrick
name: Graubert, Timothy A
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file of Integrated genomics of susceptibility to alkylator-induced leukemia in mice
Supporting a Team-Based Approach to Diabetes Management in Primary Care
Creators: name: Howard, Michelle
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

Abstract
Background/Purpose: Diabetes is primarily a self-managed disease. There are 30.3 million Americans living with diabetes. This number is expected to triple by 2060. Primarily specialists are offering diabetes self-management education and support. Primary care provider (PCP) offices need to be better trained in diabetes care so that self-management skills are more accessible to patients. This Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) project provided an educational intervention to primary care nurses about diabetes care and education. The goal was to improve nurse knowledge and comfort levels in caring for people with diabetes.
Methods: The primary care intervention entailed diabetes experts conducting two four-hour educational sessions on diabetes care, management, and education. The efficacy of this QI project was determined by assessing the change in knowledge and comfort levels of primary care nurses using pre-/post assessments, as well as a program evaluation.
Results: Fourteen participants completed the program. There was a return rate of 79% and 93% for post assessment and program evaluation questionnaires respectively. A 15% increase in participants knowledge was noted following the intervention in knowledge assessments. Participants reported statistically significant improvement in 5 out of 7 comfort level areas. The intervention was rated positively with an average satisfaction score of 93%. Five themes emerged: (1) enjoyable pre-reading, (2) technology issues, (3) in-person preference, (4) positive interaction with facilitators, and (5) overall recommendable program.
Conclusion: This positively rated program helped increase participant comfort and knowledge levels in providing diabetes education to their primary care patients. This useful intervention is beneficial to implement system wide.
Key words: Diabetes education, primary care, nursing
Reducing Stigma in the Care of Patients with Substance Use Disorder
Creators: name: Obenauer, Michelle
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

Background and Review of Literature: Healthcare providers may show bias towards individuals with substance use disorder when they attempt to access healthcare services. When bias is not mitigated through intentional suppression efforts, the result is stigmatizing behavior towards patients with substance use disorder.
Purpose: The purpose of this project was to reduce stigma towards patients with substance use disorder. The goal was to teach future nurses how to recognize and reflect on their own biases and to control, or reframe, their thinking. The overarching goal of this intervention is to increase healthcare engagement and to improve healthcare outcomes for this vulnerable population. 
Methods: This project provided an educational session about stigma in healthcare and the impact on patients with substance use disorder to nursing students. 
Implementation Plan/Procedure: The project consisted of one education session with specific goals based on Joyce Travelbee’s Human to Human Relationship Model of Nursing. Nursing students were surveyed before and after attending the session to measure the impact of this brief intervention.
Results: A decrease in mean pre and post-education survey scores could have several potential causes and indicate a need for further research.
Implications/Conclusion: Stigma in healthcare is commonly cited as a barrier to access in the substance use disorder population. Education should be provided to nursing students as part of a comprehensive approach to reducing stigmatization towards patients with substance use disorders.
Inverting the seesaw formula
Creators: name: Falcone, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By inverting the seesaw formula we determine the heavy neutrino mass matrix. The impact on the baryogenesis via leptogenesis and the radiative lepton decays in supersymmetric models is described. Links to neutrinoless double beta decay are also briefly discussed. The analysis leads to two distinct matrix models. One has small mixings while the other has one maximal mixing. Both cannot give a sufficient amount of baryon asymmetry. Then we also comment on a different form of the Dirac neutrino mass matrix, which does provide sufficient baryon asymmetry. In a supersymmetric scenario the branching ratios of radiative lepton decays are enhanced for this model.
description: 12 pages, RevTex4. Few corrections and one reference added
Development of a Pediatric Depression Healthcare Toolkit
Creators: name: Kennedy, Maria Theresa
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

Background:  Depression is a debilitating and life-threatening disease that strongly affects youth in the United States.  Low socioeconomic populations often have high-risk factors for depression, low health literacy, and poor access to care.  Risk factors are amplified for those who identify as gender non-binary or lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ).  Psychoeducation can empower youth to be active participants within their treatment. 
Purpose:  The focus of this project was to evaluate a newly developed healthcare toolkit for pediatric depression in the format of an eBook for mental health professionals. 
Methods:  An eBook focusing on depression pathology, symptoms and treatment was developed and posted online to be accessible to mental health professionals to use with their patients with an attached voluntary survey.  The survey evaluated usefulness, efficacy, and feedback of the eBook.  Open-ended questions were organized into themes, and SPSS was be utilized to analyze quantitative data from the Likert scale. 
Results:  The majority of participants reported the eBook. to be helpful, informative and agreed to use this eBook with their patients. Qualitative feedback for improvement included themes of formatting, helpfulness, and developmental appropriateness.
Conclusion:  Mental health professionals play a key role in supporting youth with depression.  Mental health professionals found this eBook to be a valuable and helpful tool to use in their practice.
Brewery Research Report
Creators: name: Starzyk, Ryan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: CUSTOMER PERSPECTIVETwo different categories affect beer consumption and choice; beer attributes and factors related to the process of purchasing. Previous research reflects “sensorial consumer experiences affect present choice motivations, which in turn depend on brand influence, received stimuli, mental representations together with consumer propensity to refuse a beer basing this attitude on taste and packaging, even if taste was found to be more important in determining such behavior. Particularly regarding taste: ‘‘consumers expect to find flavors, such as bitterness, texture characteristics, such as sparkles or physiological quality, such as being thirst quenching. [. . .] A beer could be rejected if these expectations are not confirmed’’ (Aquilani, Laureti, Poponi, & Secondi, 2015).