cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Flüssigkeitstransport durch elektrische Krafteinwirkung an Fluid-Fluid-Grenzflächen
Creators: name: Sinn, Nico
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2020

description: Thema dieser Arbeit ist der mikrofluidische Transport von Flüssigkeiten mit Hilfe von elektrischen Feldern. Dabei werden zwei Arten des Transports experimentell betrachtet: Der erste Teil handelt vom berührungslosen Transport von Tropfen auf glatten, imprägnierten Oberflächen mit Hilfe von inhomogenen elektrischen Feldern (Dielektrophorese). Hierbei werden Experimente gezeigt und mit den Lösungen einer analytischen Beschreibung und einer Simulation des Vorgangs verglichen. Der zweite Teil handelt vom kontinuierlichen Transport von Flüssigkeiten in Kanälen. Dabei soll eine in Vorarbeiten vorgeschlagene Verbesserung des elektroosmotischen Flusses angewandt werden.
Local spatial densities for composite spin-3/2 systems
Creators: name: Alharazin, H.
name: Sun, B. -D.
name: Epelbaum, E.
name: Gegelia, J.
name: Meißner, U. -G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The definition of local spatial densities by using sharply localized one-particle states is applied to spin-3/2 systems. Matrix elements of the electromagnetic current and the energy-momentum tensor are considered and integral expressions of associated spatial distributions in terms of form factors are derived.
Bolaamphiphiles as a novel drug delivery system in the treatment of diseases of the brain
Creators: name: Maclatchy, Amy
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2020

description: The incidence of central nervous system (CNS) diseases, such as glioblastoma, Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, will increase substantially in the next few decades. However, treatment for diseases of the brain is limited due to the restrictive physical and functional blood-brain barrier (BBB) dividing the brain and the vascular system. Bolaamphiphilic (BA) vesicles, produced from vernonia oil, encapsulate a wide range of therapeutic molecules, and offer an alternative drug delivery system to penetrate the brain to treat diseases of the CNS. We present novel anionic BA vesicles that cross biological barriers including the blood-brain barrier. BA vesicles were characterised by dynamic light scattering, transmission electron microscopy, zeta potential analysis and size exclusion column chromatography. In vitro studies were performed on numerous CNS-representative and other cell lines - BV2 microglia, SH-SY5Y neurones, LN229 glioblastoma, HEK-293T epithelia, hCMEC/D3 endothelia and HASTR/ci35 astrocytes. In vivo studies were performed using C57BL/6 male mice. A novel methodology was developed to permit synthesis of the novel BAs first described here, directly from vernonia oil, the starting material. This study has shown that a novel preparation of anionic BA form vesicles that encapsulate a range of different cargoes including tracer dyes and antibody fragments albeit with a low encapsulation efficiency. They do not influence cell viability or cause an acute immune response. They have been shown to penetrate the BBB in vivo. Analysis of the original BA material has shown to consist of two compounds, both of which have been synthesised and characterised. The original material synthesised from vernonia oil and used to produce BA vesicles was thought to be cationic. However, after profiling the vesicles synthesised were found to have a negative zeta potential demonstrating that they are novel. They were further tested and found to cross biological barriers in vitro. Newly synthesised vesicles require further characterisation and optimisation to improve stability and encapsulation efficiency. The original anionic BA material has been shown to cross the BBB within 30 minutes of intravenous injection. These results demonstrate that whilst further studies are required this is a candidate drug delivery system to treat diseases of the brain.
Vitamin or mineral supplement intake and the risk of head and neck cancer: pooled analysis in the INHANCE consortium
Creators: name: Castellsague, Xavier
name: Eluf-Neto, Jose
name: Schwartz, Stephen M.
name: Chen, Chu
name: Menezes, Ana
name: Chuang, Shu-Chun
name: Matos, Elena
name: Lazarus, Philip
name: Franceschi, Silvia
name: Herrero, Rolando
name: McClean, Michael
name: Winn, Deborah M.
name: Koifman, Sergio
name: Purdue, Mark P.
name: Boffetta, Paolo
name: Schantz, Stimson
name: Brennan, Paul
name: Curado, Maria Paula
name: Morgenstern, Hal
name: Yu, Guopei
name: Ferro, Gilles
name: Olshan, Andrew F.
name: Hayes, Richard B.
name: Fernandez, Leticia
name: Wünsch-Filho, Victor
name: Muscat, Joshua
name: Benhamou, Simone
name: Zhang, Zuo-Feng
name: Li, Qian
name: Hashibe, Mia
name: Daudt, Alexander W.
name: Kelsey, Karl T.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: To investigate the potential role of vitamin or mineral supplementation on the risk of head and neck cancer (HNC), we analyzed individual-level pooled data from 12 case-control studies (7,002 HNC cases and 8,383 controls) participating in the International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology consortium. There were a total of 2,028 oral cavity cancer, 2,465 pharyngeal cancer, and 874 unspecified oral/pharynx cancer, 1,329 laryngeal cancer and 306 overlapping HNC cases. Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for self reported ever use of any vitamins, multivitamins, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E, and calcium, beta-carotene, iron, selenium, and zinc supplements were assessed. We further examined frequency, duration and cumulative exposure of each vitamin or mineral when possible and stratified by smoking and drinking status. All ORs were adjusted for age, sex, race/ethnicity, study center, education level, and pack-years of smoking, frequency of alcohol drinking and fruit/vegetable intake. A decreased risk of HNC was observed with ever use of vitamin C (OR=0.76, 95% CI=0.59-0.96) and with ever use of calcium supplement (OR=0.64, 95% CI=0.42-0.97). The inverse association with HNC risk was also observed for 10 or more years of vitamin C use (OR=0.72, 95% CI=0.54-0.97) and more than 365 tablets of cumulative calcium intake (OR=0.36, 95% CI=0.16-0.83), but linear trends were not observed for the frequency or duration of any supplement intake. We did not observe any strong associations between vitamin or mineral supplement intake and the risk of head and neck cancer.
Establishment and characterization of MRT cell lines from genetically engineered mouse models and the influence of genetic background on their development
Creators: name: Roberts, Charles W. M.
name: Kuwahara, Yasumichi
name: Rogers, Arlin B.
name: Mora-Blanco, E. Lorena
name: Fletcher, Christopher
name: Sherman, Larry S.
name: Banine, Fatima
name: Weissman, Bernard E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Malignant rhabdoid tumors (MRTs) are rare, aggressive cancers occuring in young children primarily through inactivation of the SNF5(INI1, SMARCB1) tumor suppressor gene. We and others have demonstrated that mice heterozygous for a Snf5 null allele develop MRTs with partial penetrance. We have also shown that Snf5+/− mice that lack expression of the pRb family, due to TgT121 transgene expression, develop MRTs with increased penetrance and decreased latency. Here, we report that altering the genetic background has substantial effects upon MRT development in Snf5+/− and TgT121;Snf5+/− mice, with a mixed F1 background resulting in increased latency and the appearance of brain tumors. We also report the establishment of the first mouse MRT cell lines that recapitulate many features of their human counterparts. Our studies provide further insight into the genetic influences on MRT development as well as provide valuable new cell culture and genetically engineered mouse models for the study of CNS-MRT etiology.
Additional file 1 of High cortisol levels are associated with oxidative stress and mortality in maintenance hemodialysis patients
Creators: name: Kim, Juhee
name: Yun, Kyu-sang
name: Cho, Ajin
name: Kim, Do Hyoung
name: Lee, Young-Ki
name: Choi, Myung-Jin
name: Kim, Seok-hyung
name: Kim, Hyunsuk
name: Yoon, Jong-Woo
name: Park, Hayne C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Coherent state operators, giant gravitons, and gauge-gravity correspondence
Creators: name: Lin, Hai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We generalize a construction of coherent state operators describing various giant graviton branes. We enlarge the coherent state parameters, by including complementary coherent state parameters, to describe a system of dual giants and giants. One of the advantages of using complementary coherent state parameters is that they have rich sub-block structures that record different type of giant gravitons or wrapped branes. The coherent state parameters are further packaged into supermatrix, to construct special coherent states, which encode information of both giants and dual giants. We add strings onto the coherent state operators. The string-added states capture near-BPS states. Hence the constructions of BPS coherent state operators are also useful for analyzing near-BPS states. The coherent state representation, auxiliary integrals, as well as auxiliary susy integrals, facilitate the computations efficiently. We describe multi-matrix operators and BPS states, and unify some classes of operators. Finally, reduced coherent states as well as their fermionic counterparts are discussed.
description: 36 pages
Additional file 1 of Student-led curricular approaches in medical education: the educational effects of a virtual fundamentals of COVID-19 course
Creators: name: Chiu, Megan Z.
name: Gerena, Rolando G.
name: Roll, Rebekah L.
name: Baker, Joseph M.
name: Gomez, Maritza
name: Brown, Cameron M.
name: Brenner, Abigail M.
name: Huang, Christina C.
name: Ko, Paul Y.
name: Bauer, Margaret E.
name: Trujillo, Daniel J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Fundamentals of COVID-19 Modules Mapped to Course Learning Objectives, Institutional Indiana University School of Medicine Competencies. Table providing the course learning objectives of IUSM’s Fundamentals of COVID-19 course, along with the IUSM Institutional Learning Objective to which the CLO maps, and the course module(s) addressing that CLO.
Discrete mixture representations of spherical distributions
Creators: name: Baringhaus, Ludwig
name: Grübel, Rudolf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62H11, 60E05

description: We obtain discrete mixture representations for parametric families of probability distributions on Euclidean spheres, such as the von Mises--Fisher, the Watson and the angular Gaussian families. In addition to several special results we present a general approach to isotropic distribution families that is based on density expansions in terms of special surface harmonics. We discuss the connections to stochastic processes on spheres, in particular random walks, discrete mixture representations derived from spherical diffusions, and the use of Markov representations for the mixing base to obtain representations for families of spherical distributions.
description: Accepted for publication in "Statistical Papers"
Additional file 2 of Student-led curricular approaches in medical education: the educational effects of a virtual fundamentals of COVID-19 course
Creators: name: Chiu, Megan Z.
name: Gerena, Rolando G.
name: Roll, Rebekah L.
name: Baker, Joseph M.
name: Gomez, Maritza
name: Brown, Cameron M.
name: Brenner, Abigail M.
name: Huang, Christina C.
name: Ko, Paul Y.
name: Bauer, Margaret E.
name: Trujillo, Daniel J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Pre- and Post- Survey Questions. Pre-course and post-course survey tools used to gather data for this study.
Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of Mount Agad-Agad, Lanao del Norte, Southern Philippines
Creators: name: Fulgent P. Coritico
Publisher: name: National Science Museum, Thailand
Year: 2020
Subjects: conservation, endemic, Mindanao, pteridophytes, threatened

description: The Thailand Natural History Museum Journal, 14, 2, 95-102
In search for totemic foods: Exploring discursive foodscapes online in Finnish, English and French
Creators: name: Makela, Marjaana
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2020

description: This interdisciplinary research investigates how chilli and chocolate emerge as totemic foods in online foodie discourse. The corpus is compiled from Social Networking Services (blogs, community websites, recipe sharing sites, and conversation fora) in Finnish, English and French. The theoretical framework is construed with post-Bourdieusian taste and distinction studies on discourse, complemented by a feminist positioning. A netnographically inspired inquiry in an observer’s position enhances the methodology of critical discourse studies. The study introduces a theoretical concept: discursive foodscapes, contributing on two dimensions to extant theorising. It focuses the observation on multivocal online communities and extends foodscape analysis towards non-concrete consumption, on a discursive level. Moreover, the study suggests new practices for taste engineering, relevant in online consumption contexts. Three research questions draw on chilli and chocolate as totemic substances, interpreted in a framework of contemporary tribalism within the paradigmatic viewpoint of Consumer Culture Theory: emergence of chocolate and chilli as totemic foods; taste and distinction performance; and representations of gender and power. They are studied separately, although perceiving the triad as entwined. The discursive foodscape related to each research question reflects findings: it is described with the combination of discursive themes, frames and strategies identified in the empirical analysis. Findings reveal a more diversified vista on chocolate and chilli as discursive foci than extant research mostly claims: they are ascribed with a variety of totemic significations, shifting contextually from highly indulgent to environmentally concerned. Knowledge-intensive foodie discourse emerges as relatively gender-neutral. However, across embodied, experiential elements in consumption the discourse becomes more gender-flagged, and contextual changes are highly significant. This variation generates discursively interesting constellations where stylistic categories reflect areas of culinary and discursive competence. Cross-linguistic variation is detected with all research questions, introducing a pioneer-type endeavor in terms of discourse analysis of foodie sites online, across three languages
Social Media Nework Analysis among members of UPLB-USC and Community influencers over Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 in the Philippinest
Creators: name: Lecaros, Lordjette Leigh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Abstract— The University of the Philippines Los Baños – University Student Council (UPLB-USC) members and the
 community influencers tweeted the hashtags ”#JunkTerrorBill”,”#ActivismIsNotTerrorism” and ”#GrandMañanity” in Twitter to protest and fights against the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020. In this paper, the author analyzed the tweets and its impact to the community. A Social Network Analysis was built and analyzed its network. The analysis revealed that each of association has great number of linked to each nodes (users). The most influential twitter user has been identified gaining popularity in Social Media, particularly in Twitter, shows ”@savesanroque”: with 167 degree of distribution; in-degree (directed) with 153 counts; the shortest path (Betweenness of Centrality) between the users
 (nodes) still ”@savesanroque” with 655 counts. Measurements parameters results as: Modularity with 853 communities generated, Degree of Distribution with Average Degree of 0.929 and Network Diameter of 4 with zero radius and an average path length of 1.310403832991102.
Shopping malls as ideological battlegrounds: discipline and power in Riyadh’s pseudo-public spaces
Creators: name: Almuraiqeb, Abdullah
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2020
Subjects: shopping malls, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, disciplinary power

description: Since the 1950s, Riyadh has witnessed unprecedented urban growth that has put pressure on the fabric of the city and irreversibly changed its urban environment. The accelerated processes of urban modernisation and the car-centric development of Riyadh have created an environment in which urban public life and the human scale were often neglected. The shopping mall typology offered a solution that seemed to provide the city with the public spaces that it needed. Unlike their counterparts in European and North American cities — whose malls have been competing with the city and its urbanity — malls in Middle Eastern and East Asian contexts have been an integral part of the urban process as well as the socio-cultural fabric of cities; Riyadh is no exception. However, the mall typology was introduced at a time when the ideological struggles between economic powers — incentivised to ‘modernise’ the urban environment — and religious powers — which perceive processes of urban modernisation as a threat to the ‘integrity’ of Saudi society — reached its peak. This tension created an urban environment characterised by spatial control, which was absorbed by the mall and resulted in the development of an iteration of the typology that is essentially Saudi in its characteristics. This thesis aims to explore these characteristics and investigate the implications of the inherent tensions that are accentuated within the shopping mall. It aims to uncover the mechanisms that led to the emergence of the Saudi iteration of shopping malls and investigate how the typology has been re-adapted to respond to local requirements. The study of the mall in Riyadh offers a new understanding of the on-going evolution of the mall typology within a global context. More importantly, it is a vehicle through which the limitations that are imposed on urban spaces and public life in Riyadh are examined. The changing socioeconomic climate in Saudi Arabia today offers new opportunities for introducing sustainable and inclusive urban spaces. Understanding the limitations that have been imposed in public spaces in Riyadh — using the mall typology — is essential to efforts seeking to act on such opportunities.
Antibiotic-free PHA-based antibacterial materials for bone regeneration
Creators: name: Marcello, Elena
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2020

description: The current world problem of antibacterial resistance to antibiotics has driven the need to develop new therapeutics as alternatives to antibiotic to prevent and fight infections. In the biomedical field, bone regeneration is one of the applications with the highest risk of infection. Therefore, alongside biological and functional properties, materials used for this application should be able to provide antibacterial features able to inhibit bacterial adhesion and growth. In such a scenario, this work focused on the development of novel antibiotic-free materials based on polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) for bone regeneration following two strategies. For the first strategy, inherently antibacterial PHAs, thioester containing PHAs, were produced by bacterial fermentation. Such materials exhibited antibacterial activity by contact against S. aureus 6538P. Physical blending of thioester-PHA with P(3HHx-co-3HO-co-3HD) was investigated and a polymer ratio of 80:20 (P(3HHx-co-3HO-co-3HD): thioester-PHA) was identified as optimal to develop handleable and processable samples possessing antibacterial and in vitro biocompatibility properties. For the second strategy, novel 2D antibacterial composite materials were produced by combining P(3HB) and P(3HO-co-3HD-co-3HDD) with a novel antibacterial co-substituted hydroxyapatite, containing two therapeutic ions, selenium and strontium, conferring osteoinductive and antibacterial properties to the ceramic. The materials developed showed to be able to induce an inhibitory effect against both Gram positive and Gram negative bacteria. The possibility of developing 3D scaffolds using melt 3D printing of mcl-PHAs was investigated in this study for the first time. The process parameters were successfully optimized to produce well-defined and reproducible 3D P(3HO-co-3HD-co-3HDD) scaffolds. 3D scaffolds with dual porosity were also developed through the combination of 3D printing with salt leaching. Finally, the obtained 2D antibacterial films were used as starting materials for the development of 3D scaffolds for antibacterial synthetic bone substitutes using the optimized melt 3D printing process. Novel 3D composite scaffolds were produced using the 2D composite materials based on P(3HO-co-3HD-co-3HDD) and the antibacterial hydroxyapatite. Based on the antibacterial and cell compatibility studies, the composite material with 10 wt% of Se-Sr-HA as a filler was identified as the optimal candidate for the development of antibacterial scaffolds for bone regeneration. Novel inherently antibacterial scaffolds were produced by melt 3D printing of 20:80 blend films of thioester-PHA with P(3HHx-co-3HO-co-3HD). The 3D blend scaffolds showed an inhibitory effect against S. aureus 6538P by direct contact testing and were able to support the growth of MC3T3-E1 cells, showing potential for bone regeneration.
Inhomogeneous enrichment of radioactive nuclei in the Galaxy: Deposition of live Mn-53, Fe-60, Hf-182, and Pu-244 into deep-sea archives. Surfing the wave?
Creators: name: Wehmeyer, Benjamin
name: López, Andrés Yagüe
name: Côté, Benoit
name: Pető, Maria K.
name: Kobayashi, Chiaki
name: Lugaro, Maria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While modelling the galactic chemical evolution (GCE) of stable elements provides insights to the formation history of the Galaxy and the relative contributions of nucleosynthesis sites, modelling the evolution of short-lived radioisotopes (SLRs) can provide supplementary timing information on recent nucleosynthesis. To study the evolution of SLRs, we need to understand their spatial distribution. Using a 3-dimensional GCE model, we investigated the evolution of four SLRs: Mn-53, Fe-60, Hf-182, and Pu-244 with the aim of explaining detections of recent (within the last $\approx$1-20 Myr) deposition of live Mn-53, Fe-60, and Pu-244 of extrasolar origin into deep-sea reservoirs. We find that core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) are the dominant propagation mechanism of SLRs in the Galaxy. This results in the simultaneously arrival of these four SLRs on Earth, although they could have been produced in different astrophysical sites, which can explain why live extrasolar Mn-53, Fe-60, and Pu-244 are found within the same, or similar, layers of deep-sea sediments. We predict that Hf-182 should also be found in such sediments at similar depths.
description: 22 pages, 11 figures
Lagrangian statistics of a shock-driven turbulent dynamo in decaying turbulence
Creators: name: Hew, Justin Kin Jun
name: Federrath, Christoph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Small-scale fluctuating magnetic fields of order $n$G are observed in supernova shocks and galaxy clusters, where its amplification is likely caused by the Biermann battery mechanism. However, these fields cannot be amplified further without the turbulent dynamo, which generates magnetic energy through the stretch-twist-fold (STF) mechanism. Thus, we present here novel three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of a laser-driven shock propagating into a stratified, multiphase medium, to investigate the post-shock turbulent magnetic field amplification via the turbulent dynamo. The configuration used here is currently being tested in the shock tunnel at the National Ignition Facility (NIF). In order to probe the statistical properties of the post-shock turbulent region, we use $384 \times 512 \times 384$ tracers to track its evolution through the Lagrangian framework, thus providing a high-fidelity analysis of the shocked medium. Our simulations indicate that the growth of the magnetic field, which accompanies the near-Saffman kinetic energy decay ($E_{\textrm{kin}} \propto t^{-1.15})$ without turbulence driving, exhibits slightly different characteristics as compared to periodic box simulations. Seemingly no distinct phases exist in its evolution, because the shock passage and time to observe the magnetic field amplification during the turbulence decay are very short ($\sim\!0.3$ of a turbulent turnover time). Yet, the growth rate is still consistent with those expected for compressive (curl-free) turbulence driving in subsonic, compressible turbulence. Phenomenological understanding of the dynamics of the magnetic and velocity fields are also elucidated via Lagrangian frequency spectra, which are consistent with the expected inertial range scalings in the Eulerian-Lagrangian bridge.
description: 15 pages, 19 figures. Accepted in MNRAS. Comments are welcome
The Ant Genus Discothyrea Roger, 1863 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Proceratiinae) of Thailand
Creators: name: Chaipat Wimolsuthikul
Publisher: name: National Science Museum, Thailand
Year: 2020
Subjects: ants, Discothyrea diana, Discothyrea kamiteta, new record, taxonomy, Thailand.

description: The Thailand Natural History Museum Journal, 14, 2, 103-111
Additional file 1 of Global measurement of intimate partner violence to monitor Sustainable Development Goal 5
Creators: name: Yount, Kathryn M.
name: Cheong, Yuk Fai
name: Khan, Zara
name: Bergenfeld, Irina
name: Kaslow, Nadine
name: Clark, Cari Jo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Monitoring SDG 5 Supplementary Materials.docx contains supplemental tables and figures referenced in the text.
Investigating effects of dark matter on photon orbits and black hole shadows
Creators: name: Anjum, Arshia
name: Afrin, Misba
name: Ghosh, Sushant G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider Kerr black holes (BHs) surrounded by perfect dark fluid matter (PFDM), with an additional parameter ($k$) because of PFDM, apart from mass ($M$) and rotation parameter ($a$) -- the rotating PFDM BHs. We analyze the photon orbits around PFDM BHs and naked singularities (NSs) and emphasise the effect of PFDM on photon \emph{boomerangs}. Interestingly, the azimuthal oscillations first increase and then decrease for retrograde orbits, whereas they first decrease and then increase for prograde orbits, with increasing $k$. Unlike in the Kerr NSs, photon \emph{boomerangs} can form around rotating PFDM NSs. We use the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observational results for Schwarzschild shadow deviations of M87* and Sgr A*, $δ_{M87^*}=-0.01\pm0.17$ and $δ_{Sgr A^*} = -0.08^{+0.09}_{-0.09}~\text{(VLTI)},-0.04^{+0.09}_{-0.10}~\text{(Keck)}$, to report the upper bounds on the PFDM parameter: $0\leq k\leq 0.0792M$ and $k^{max}\in[0.0507M, 0.0611M]$ respectively. Together with the EHT bounds on the shadows of Sgr A$^*$ and M87$^*$, our analysis concludes that a substantial part of the rotating PFDM BH parameter space agrees with the EHT observations. Thus, one must consider the possibility of the rotating PFDM BHs being strong candidates for the astrophysical BHs.
description: 17 pages, 16 figures, 6 tables. Matched to the published version
‘Through the patient’s eyes’: shadowing patients at the end of life
Creators: name: Goodrich, Joanna
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2020

description: Background The priority given to patient-centred care in recent years has included a requirement for healthcare organisations to collect patient experience data, and to improve patients’ experience of care. Shadowing is an experiential technique intended to enable healthcare staff to collect information in a way which will aid them to understand the experience of care from the patient’s perspective. It has been introduced recently to quality improvement projects, but accounts of healthcare staff who undertake shadowing have not hitherto been explored. Aim To explore the experience for healthcare staff of shadowing their patients and their motivation to make improvements. Method An exploratory qualitative study with a diverse sample of 20 clinical and non-clinical healthcare staff in different end of life settings, including acute hospitals, community and mental health, and care and nursing homes. Data were analysed using Thematic Analysis (Braun and Clarke, 2006). Results Participants’ accounts of shadowing revealed that their initial anxieties about aspects of shadowing did not materialise, although for some it was an ‘unusual’ experience, placing them in a novel relationship with patients. For some participants, shadowing had a powerful personal impact, intensified by being with patients who were at end of life. Shadowing promoted better insights into the experience of patients and their families, thus motivating participants to focus their improvement efforts. However, most participants were unaware that they were bringing their personal and professional lens to what they observed, which may influence their interpretation of the patients’ experience. Conclusion The challenge to taking up shadowing is not primarily logistical but emotional. Healthcare staff need to be supported to be aware of how shadowing may affect them. It may involve the need to manage their emotion, and to be reflexive so that appropriate service changes are made for patients and families.
Additional file 1 of A novel method for transforming Geobacillus kaustophilus with a chromosomal segment of Bacillus subtilis transferred via pLS20-dependent conjugation
Creators: name: Mori, Kotaro
name: Fukui, Kaho
name: Amatsu, Ryotaro
name: Ishikawa, Shu
name: Verrone, Valeria
name: Wipat, Anil
name: Meijer, Wilfried J. J.
name: Yoshida, Ken-ichi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Primers used in this study.
Measuring the variability of directly imaged exoplanets using vector Apodizing Phase Plates combined with ground-based differential spectrophotometry
Creators: name: Sutlieff, Ben J.
name: Birkby, Jayne L.
name: Stone, Jordan M.
name: Doelman, David S.
name: Kenworthy, Matthew A.
name: Panwar, Vatsal
name: Bohn, Alexander J.
name: Ertel, Steve
name: Snik, Frans
name: Woodward, Charles E.
name: Skemer, Andrew J.
name: Leisenring, Jarron M.
name: Strassmeier, Klaus G.
name: Charbonneau, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Clouds and other features in exoplanet and brown dwarf atmospheres cause variations in brightness as they rotate in and out of view. Ground-based instruments reach the high contrasts and small inner working angles needed to monitor these faint companions, but their small fields-of-view lack simultaneous photometric references to correct for non-astrophysical variations. We present a novel approach for making ground-based light curves of directly imaged companions using high-cadence differential spectrophotometric monitoring, where the simultaneous reference is provided by a double-grating 360° vector Apodizing Phase Plate (dgvAPP360) coronagraph. The dgvAPP360 enables high-contrast companion detections without blocking the host star, allowing it to be used as a simultaneous reference. To further reduce systematic noise, we emulate exoplanet transmission spectroscopy, where the light is spectrally-dispersed and then recombined into white-light flux. We do this by combining the dgvAPP360 with the infrared ALES integral field spectrograph on the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer. To demonstrate, we observed the red companion HD 1160 B (separation ~780 mas) for one night, and detect $8.8\%$ semi-amplitude sinusoidal variability with a ~3.24 h period in its detrended white-light curve. We achieve the greatest precision in ground-based high-contrast imaging light curves of sub-arcsecond companions to date, reaching $3.7\%$ precision per 18-minute bin. Individual wavelength channels spanning 3.59-3.99 $μ$m further show tentative evidence of increasing variability with wavelength. We find no evidence yet of a systematic noise floor, hence additional observations can further improve the precision. This is therefore a promising avenue for future work aiming to map storms or find transiting exomoons around giant exoplanets.
description: 24 pages, 13 figures, in press in MNRAS; typos corrected, references updated
ARIADNE-D6.5 Business modelling and exploitation plans report.pdf
Creators: name: Cantó, Rafael
name: Hernandez-Gil, José F.
name: Frías, Zoraida
name: Pérez, Jorge
name: Kokkoniemi, Joonas
name: Yaqub, Edwin
name: Klinkenberg, Ralf
name: Alexiou, Angeliki
name: Korhonen, Jari K.
name: Lazarakis, Fotis
name: All Project Partners
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Business
Exploitation
Technoeconomic
D-Band
metasurfaces

description: This deliverable summarizes the activities conducted in T6.3 Business Modelling and Exploitation in WP6. The task has explored business model aspects, identified specific advantages in selected verticals, and assessed the potential for new business models within the ecosystem. It has employed the methodologies of Business Model Canvas (BMC) charts and Value Networks (VN) to account for the complexities of the ecosystem and the relationships between the stakeholders. Also, the deliverable includes the techno-economic assessment elaborated to quantify economic benefits of ARIADNE technologies in a specific deployment setting of B5G networks backhauling, which has been identified as a sensitive use case to cost-efficiency drivers, being an alternative to current fibre technologies. Finally, document includes individual exploitation plans from the partners, highlighting the main innovations and specific opportunities for exploiting the outcomes of ARIADNE that they have identified so far.
Estimating and explaining the effect of education and income on head and neck cancer risk : INHANCE consortium pooled analysis of 31 case-control studies from 27 countries
Creators: name: La Vecchia, Carlo
name: Koifman, Sergio
name: Dal Maso, Luigino
name: Bosetti, Cristina
name: Chen, Chu
name: Herrero, Rolando
name: Lagiou, Pagona
name: Kjaerheim, Kristina
name: Macpherson, Lorna M.D.
name: de Gois Filho, José F.
name: McMahon, Alex D.
name: Holcatova, Ivana
name: Jayaprakash, Vijayvel
name: Hayes, Richard B.
name: Ahrens, Wolfgang
name: Lazarus, Philip
name: Agudo, Antonio
name: Curioni, Otávio A.
name: Brenner, Darren R.
name: Kelsey, Karl
name: Curado, Maria Paula
name: Healy, Claire M.
name: Fabianova, Eleonora
name: Franceschi, Silvia
name: Fernandez, Leticia
name: Edefonti, Valeria
name: Gillison, Maura
name: Conway, David I.
name: Castellsague, Xavier
name: Brenner, Hermann
name: D'Souza, Gypsyamber
name: Daudt, Alexander W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Low socioeconomic status has been reported to be associated with head and neck cancer risk. However, previous studies have been too small to examine the associations by cancer subsite, age, sex, global region and calendar time and to explain the association in terms of behavioral risk factors. Individual participant data of 23,964 cases with head and neck cancer and 31,954 controls from 31 studies in 27 countries pooled with random effects models. Overall, low education was associated with an increased risk of head and neck cancer (OR = 2.50; 95% CI = 2.02 - 3.09). Overall one-third of the increased risk was not explained by differences in the distribution of cigarette smoking and alcohol behaviors; and it remained elevated among never users of tobacco and nondrinkers (OR = 1.61; 95% CI = 1.13 - 2.31). More of the estimated education effect was not explained by cigarette smoking and alcohol behaviors: in women than in men, in older than younger groups, in the oropharynx than in other sites, in South/Central America than in Europe/North America and was strongest in countries with greater income inequality. Similar findings were observed for the estimated effect of low versus high household income. The lowest levels of income and educational attainment were associated with more than 2-fold increased risk of head and neck cancer, which is not entirely explained by differences in the distributions of behavioral risk factors for these cancers and which varies across cancer sites, sexes, countries and country income inequality levels.
title: La discipline positive à l'école : réflexion autour de la posture de l'enseignant/e
title: La discipline positive à l'école : réflexion autour de la posture de l'enseignant/e
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schlegel, Anne-Sylvie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Discipline positive
subject: posture
subject: accompagnement
subject: coopération
subject: relation pédagogique
subject: bienveillance

description: Ce travail de mémoire se propose d’observer et de mesurer les effets de l’approche dite Discipline Positive de Lynn Lott et Jane Nelsen sur les pratiques et les conceptions du métier d’enseignant. Dans ce but, un échantillon de 8 enseignants de degrés différents (1-2H à 9-11VP et une enseignante spécialisée) et de différents niveaux d’expérience professionnelle (de 3 à 42 ans) ayant participé à une formation en Discipline Positive dans le cadre de la formation continue ont été interviewés. L’analyse des entretiens menés auprès de ces enseignants a montré que l’approche de la Discipline Positive induisait de profonds changements chez les enseignants au niveau de la posture d’accompagnement des élèves. Les enseignants qui choisissent d’adopter la Discipline Positive sont amenés à faire un grand travail sur eux-mêmes pour pouvoir adopter une posture qui réponde aux besoins de cette approche. Ils devront changer leur point de vue sur l’élève, adopter des valeurs clairement coopératives et abandonner une conception verticale de la relation pédagogique. S’ils ont le courage et la volonté nécessaires pour entreprendre ces changements, ils découvriront les joies d’un enseignement différent, basé sur le respect de tous et la bienveillance.
Low birth weight and markers of inflammation and endothelial activation in adulthood: The ARIC study
Creators: name: Vigo, Alvaro
name: Erlinger, Thomas P.
name: Rose, Kathryn
name: Pellanda, Lucia C.
name: Duncan, Bruce B.
name: Folsom, Aaron R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: To investigate the hypothesis that intrauterine growth restriction might produce a longstanding pro-inflammatory tendency, we investigated the association of low birth weight with blood levels of markers of inflammation and endothelial activation in middle-aged adults.
Hemostatic markers are associated with the risk and prognosis of atrial fibrillation: The ARIC study
Creators: name: Tang, Weihong
name: Folsom, Aaron R.
name: Chamberlain, Alanna M.
name: Alonso, Alvaro
name: Agarwal, Sunil K.
name: Soliman, Elsayed Z.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Various hemostatic markers are associated with the risk of cardiovascular disease; however, limited information exists on their relationship with the occurrence and prognosis of atrial fibrillation (AF).
Obesity and natriuretic peptides, BNP and NT-proBNP: Mechanisms and diagnostic implications for heart failure
Creators: name: Runge, Marschall S.
name: Alhosaini, Hassan
name: Sumida, Arihiro
name: Madamanchi, Chaitanya
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Many advances have been made in the diagnosis and management of heart failure (HF) in recent years. Cardiac biomarkers are an essential tool for clinicians: point of care B-Type Natriuretic Peptide (BNP) and its N-terminal counterpart (NT-proBNP) levels help distinguish cardiac from non-cardiac causes of dyspnea and are also useful in the prognosis and monitoring of the efficacy of therapy. One of the major limitations of HF biomarkers is in obese patients where the relationship between BNP and NT-proBNP levels and myocardial stiffness is complex. Recent data suggest an inverse relationship between BNP and NT-proBNP levels and body mass index. Given the ever-increasing prevalence of obesity world-wide, it is important to understand the benefits and limitations of HF biomarkers in this population. This review will explore the biology, physiology, and pathophysiology of these peptides and the cardiac endocrine paradox in HF. We also examine the clinical evidence, mechanisms, and plausible biological explanations for the discord between BNP levels and HF in obese patients.
Trends in incidence of hypertension in Chinese adults, 1991–2009: The China Health and Nutrition Survey
Creators: name: Qiu, Chengxuan
name: Liang, Yajun
name: Du, Shufa
name: Liu, Ruijuan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Previous studies have shown an upward trend in the prevalence of hypertension, but data on trend of incidence of hypertension are lacking. We seek to investigate the trends in incidence of hypertension and control of incident hypertension among Chinese adults during 1991–1997 and 2004–2009.
Manx English: a phonological investigation into levelling and diffusion from across the water
Creators: name: Booth, Andrew
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2020

description: This study aims to locate the Isle of Man within the sociolinguistic field of language variation and change. Stigmatised features of speech on island communities are often cited as examples to discuss accent levelling (the loss of traditional features), in addition, the research into geographical diffusion (the inclusion of features from outside) on islands demonstrates the extent of spread that certain features reach. However, there are also certain resistance strategies and barriers islanders can put up. The English spoken on the Isle of Man (referred to as Manx English) has had little coverage within the investigation of linguistic issues. Both apparent- and real-time analysis methods are presented within this thesis. Previous phonological analysis from two separate studies (SED in 1950s/1960s and Recording Mann in 1999) were used to compare to the original corpus created for this thesis. Different generations of families were also analysed for synchronic changes in dialect features. Recordings were obtained through sociolinguistic interviews and were analysed auditorily and acoustically. The overarching aims of the research are to assess the influence of accent features from outside the community,investigate features, which may have been lost over time, and to discuss the social and linguistic factors, which determine the acceptance or resistance of some features. Findings vary from feature to feature. This thesis discovered that there are elements of traditional Manx English that are upheld (vowel lenghtening). The GOAT vowel is showing interesting variation from young to old speakers depending on influences (Liverpool for younger speakers,traditional Manx English forms for older) and the incoming tide of the glottal stop is reaching the Island’s shores. This thesis investigates the mechanisms of change and finds both internal and external factors affect the production of English on the Isle of Man.
Characterization of metabolic syndrome among diverse Hispanics/Latinos living in the United States: Latent class analysis from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL)
Creators: name: Catellier, Diane J.
name: González, Hector M.
name: Loehr, Laura R.
name: Gallo, Linda C.
name: Llabre, Maria M.
name: Schneiderman, Neil
name: Carnethon, Mercedes
name: Penedo, Frank J.
name: Holub, Christina
name: Soliman, Elsayed Z.
name: Sacco, Ralph L.
name: Lee, David J.
name: Arguelles, William
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Empirical investigation of the adequacy of metabolic syndrome (MetS) diagnostic criteria, and whether meaningful subtypes of MetS exist, is needed among Hispanics/Latinos.
Losses of thulium atoms from optical dipole traps operating at 532 and 1064 nm
Creators: name: Tsyganok, V. V.
name: Pershin, D. A.
name: Khlebnikov, V. A.
name: Kumpilov, D. A.
name: Pyrkh, I. A.
name: Rudnev, A. E.
name: Fedotova, E. A.
name: Gaifudinov, D. V.
name: Cojocaru, I. S.
name: Khoruzhii, K. A.
name: Aksentsev, P. A.
name: Zykova, A. K.
name: Akimov, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently thulium has been condensed to Bose-Einstein condensate. Machine learning was used to avoid a detailed study of all obstacles making cooling difficult. This paper analyses the atomic loss mechanism for the 532 nm optical trap, used in the Bose-condensation experiment, and compares it with the alternative and more traditional micron-range optical dipole trap. We also measured the scalar and tensor polarizability of thulium at 1064 nm and was found to be $167\pm 25$ a.u. ($275\pm 41\times {{10}^{-41}}\text{F }\cdot \text{ }{\text{m}^{\text{2}}}$) and $-4\pm 1$ a.u. ($7\pm 2\times {{10}^{-41}}\text{F }\cdot \text{ }{\text{m}^{\text{2}}}$).