cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
What Factors Predict the Adoption of Type 2 Diabetes Patients to Wearable Activity Trackers—Application of Diffusion of Innovation Theory
Creators: name: Sun, Xinying
name: Chen, Ping
name: Li, Zeming
name: Fisher, Edwin B.
name: Shen, Ying
name: Feng, Xing Lin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Background: Globally, diabetes has brought an enormous burden to public health resources, and the situation of disease burden caused by diabetes in China is especially severe. China is currently facing the dual threat of aging and diabetes, and wearable activity trackers could promote elderly diabetic patients' physical activity levels and help them to manage blood glucose control. Therefore, examining the influencing factors of elderly patients' adoption intention is critical as wearing adoption determines actual wearing behaviors.Objective: This study aims to explore the predicting factors of Chinese elderly type 2 diabetic patients' adoption intention to wearable activity trackers and their actual wearing behavior, using diffusion of innovation theory as the theoretical framework. We hope to provide insights into future interventions using wearable activity trackers as tools to improve the outcome of patients.Methods: Wearable activity trackers were freely distributed to type 2 diabetic patients in Beijing, China. A questionnaire survey was conducted to examine predicting factors of adoption intention after a week's try-on. Actual wearing behavior for 3-month was obtained from the exclusive cloud. Data were analyzed with structural equation modeling.Results: A total of 725 patients completed the questionnaire. Patients had a mean age of 60.3 ± 7.6 years old and the educational level was generally lower. The results indicated that observability was the primary influencing factor of patients' adoption intention (β = 0.775, P < 0.001). Relative advantage (β = 0.182, P = 0.014) and perceived social image (β = 0.080, P = 0.039) also had a positive influence while perceived risk (β = −0.148, P < 0.001) exerted a negative influence. In addition, results showed that the more intention led to the better actual wearing behavior (β = 0.127, P = 0.003). Observability (β = 0.103, P = 0.005), perceived ease (β = 0.085, P = 0.004), and relative advantage (β = 0.041, P = 0.009) also indirectly influenced the wearing behavior.Conclusion: The intentions of Chinese elderly type 2 diabetic patients to wearable activity trackers directly influenced the actual wearing behavior. In addition, their adoption intention to wearable activity trackers was mainly influenced by observability, perceived ease to use, relative advantage, perceived risk, and social image.
Acromioclavicular joint reconstruction: an analysis of the readability and quality of online information available to patients
Creators: name: O’Dwyer, Liam
name: Murphy, Ben
name: O’Farrell, Dermot
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Currently, patients use the Internet for health information relating to surgery. The aim of this study is to assess the readability and quality of online health information relating to acromioclavicular joint reconstruction. We hypothesise that the information will be of poor quality and be too difcult to read for the average patient. The top 50 results from Google, Bing, and Yahoo (MeSH “acromioclavicular joint reconstruction”, “ac joint reconstruction”) were used for analysis. Readability was assessed using three scores (Gunning FOG (GF), Flesch–Kincaid Grade (FKG), and Flesch Reading Ease (FRE)); these scores were generated using an online calculator (www.readable.com). Quality was assessed using a HONcode Google Toolbar extension and JAMA benchmark criteria. One hundred sixteen webpages were subject to analysis. The mean GF was 12.1 ± 2.9. The mean FKG was 10.6 ± 2.15. The mean FRE was 38.9 ± 13.3. FRE score found no webpage pitched at the 6th grade level, and only 4 (3.4%) and 2 (1.7%) of the webpages were pitched at this level according to the GF and FKG scores, respectively. The mean JAMA score was 1.9 ± 1.5. Only 10 webpages had HONcode certifcation. The quality of online patient information pertaining to acromioclavicular joint reconstruction is of poor quality and is too difcult to read. Physicians and health information providers should conform to health literacy standards. Health information providers should meet the minimum standards of verifed assessment tools.
Complex Background Subtraction by Pursuing Dynamic Spatio-Temporal Models
Creators: name: Lin, Liang
name: Xu, Yuanlu
name: Liang, Xiaodan
name: Lai, Jianhuang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 68U01

description: Although it has been widely discussed in video surveillance, background subtraction is still an open problem in the context of complex scenarios, e.g., dynamic backgrounds, illumination variations, and indistinct foreground objects. To address these challenges, we propose an effective background subtraction method by learning and maintaining an array of dynamic texture models within the spatio-temporal representations. At any location of the scene, we extract a sequence of regular video bricks, i.e. video volumes spanning over both spatial and temporal domain. The background modeling is thus posed as pursuing subspaces within the video bricks while adapting the scene variations. For each sequence of video bricks, we pursue the subspace by employing the ARMA (Auto Regressive Moving Average) Model that jointly characterizes the appearance consistency and temporal coherence of the observations. During online processing, we incrementally update the subspaces to cope with disturbances from foreground objects and scene changes. In the experiments, we validate the proposed method in several complex scenarios, and show superior performances over other state-of-the-art approaches of background subtraction. The empirical studies of parameter setting and component analysis are presented as well.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 271.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 26.11.1985, 08:45, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1985

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 232.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 05.10.1985, 08:45, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1985

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 4.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 283.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 13.12.1985, 09:00, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1985

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 238.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 11.10.1985, 08:15, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1985

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
(500621) Edward Bennett
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Inquietudes en la transición a un modelo de educación media híbrida
Creators: name: Suing, Abel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: COVID-19
educación
híbrida
escuela
colegio
on-line
virtual
presencial
Ecuador
maestros
internet

description: Participación en espacio de opinión de http://antena7.ec/, que se emite desde la ciudad de Loja en Ecuador.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 281.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 11.12.1985, 09:00, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1985

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 223.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 26.09.1985, 08:00, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1985

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
B Cell Receptor Signaling and Protein Kinase D2 Support Regulatory B Cell Function in Pancreatic Cancer
Creators: name: Mirlekar, Bhalchandra
name: Michaud, Daniel
name: Pylayeva-Gupta, Yuliya
name: Steward, Colleen
name: Bishop, Gail
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: B cells can act as potent suppressors of anti-tumor T cell immunity, presenting a mechanism of resistance to immunotherapy. In pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, B cells can display a T cell-suppressive or regulatory phenotype centered on the expression of the cytokine Interleukin 35 (IL-35). While B cell-mediated immunosuppression presents a barrier to anti-tumorigenic T cell function, it is not clear how regulatory B cell function could be targeted, and the signals that promote this suppressive phenotype in B cells are not well understood. Here we use a novel IL-35 reporter model to understand which signaling pathways are important for immunosuppressive properties in B cells. In vitro analysis of IL-35 reporter B cells revealed a synergy between the BCR and TLR4 signaling pathways is sufficient to induce IL-35 expression. However, in vivo, B cell receptor activation, as opposed to MyD88 signaling in B cells, is central to B cell-mediated suppression and promotion of pancreatic cancer growth. Further analysis identified protein kinase D2 (PKD2) as being a key downstream regulator of IL-35 expression in B cells. Regulatory B cells with an inactivating mutation in PKD2 failed to produce IL-35 or fully suppress effector T cell function in vitro. Furthermore, inhibition of PKD in B cells decreased tumor growth and promoted effector T cell function upon adoptive transfer into B cell-deficient mice. Collectively, these data provide insight into how regulatory B cell function is promoted in pancreatic cancer and identify potential therapeutic targets to restrain this function.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 245.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 18.10.1985, 08:15, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1985

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 4.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Treatment priorities among older people if faced with serious illness: improving the quality of life or extending life?
Creators: name: Jorge, Rafaela
name: Freitas, Adelaide
name: Sousa, Liliana
Publisher: name: Journal of Statistics on Health Decision
Year: 2020

description: Objective: This study aimed to analyse older people`s end-of-life care priorities and to identify factors associated with these priorities. Methods: We asked 400 people aged 60 years or older living in Belo Horizonte, Brazil their treatment priorities if faced with a serious illness with limited time to live. Multinomial logistic regressions were used to identify the associated factors. Results: Most participants (65.3%) chose the option ‘improve quality of life for the time they had left’. Only 4% said extending life was the most important priority while the option ‘both equally important’ (quality and extension) was chosen by 30.8 of respondents. Participants in the age group 60-69 years were more likely to choose both quality and life extension than choose to extend life alone (AOR=0.18, 95% CI:0.05-0.72; ref: 80+ years). The group comprised of single + widowers is more likely to prioritize both quality and extension than to prioritize just extending life (AOR=0.28, 95% CI:0.09-0.89; ref: the others marital status) and or just improving the quality of life (AOR=0.62, 95% CI:0.40-0.95; ref: the others marital status). Conclusion: The findings indicated that treatment for improving the quality of life was the most important priority. Two factors influenced the priorities (age group and marital status). To meet people's treatment priorities at end of life policies need to be formulated to develop palliative care services, train health-care professionals and educate patients.
description: Journal of Statistics on Health Decision, Vol 2 No 1 (2020): January 2020
Parental Guidance Suggested: Engaging Parents as Partners in Research Studies of Genomic Screening for a Pediatric Population
Creators: name: O'Daniel, Julianne
name: Owens, Thomas H.
name: Byfield, Grace
name: Osborne, Heather
name: James-Crook, Erin R.
name: Milko, Laura V.
name: Shaw, Jonathan L.
name: Powell, Sabrina N.
name: Harrison, Langston K.
name: Bennetone, Ashley
name: Frantz, Annabelle M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Recent advances in genomic sequencing and genomic medicine are reshaping the landscape of clinical care. As a screening modality, genetic sequencing has the potential to dramatically expand the clinical utility of newborn screening (NBS), though significant barriers remain regarding ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) and technical and evidentiary challenges. Stakeholder-informed implementation research is poised to grapple with many of these barriers, and parents are crucial stakeholders in this process. We describe the formation and activities of a Community Research Board (CRB) composed of parents with diverse backgrounds assembled to participate in an ongoing research partnership with genomic and public health researchers at the University of North Carolina. The mission of the CRB is to provide insight into parental perspectives regarding the prospect of adding genomic sequencing to NBS and collaboratively develop strategies to ensure its equitable uptake. We describe how these contributions can improve the accessibility of research and recruitment methods and promote trust and inclusivity within diverse communities to maximize the societal benefit of population genomic screening in healthy children.
(500643) Eleanor Davison
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Entactogens: How the Name for a Novel Class of Psychoactive Agents Originated
Creators: name: Nichols, David E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: At first glance, it appears there is little difference between the molecular structures of methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), which has an N-methyl attached to its amino group, and methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA), a primary amine that is recognized to have hallucinogenic activity. It is known from studies with other hallucinogenic amphetamines that N-methylation of hallucinogenic amphetamines attenuates or abolishes hallucinogenic activity. Nevertheless, MDMA is biologically active and has a potency only slightly less than its MDA parent. Importantly, it is the Ievo-isomer of hallucinogenic phenethylamines that is more biologically active, whereas it is the dextro isomer of MDMA that is more active. This reversal of stereochemistry for the activity of two very closely related molecules is a very powerful clue that their mechanisms of action differ. Finally, extension of the alpha-methyl of hallucinogenic amphetamines to an alpha-ethyl moiety completely abolishes their hallucinogenic activity. Ultimately, we extended the alpha-methyl group of MDMA to an alpha-ethyl to afford a molecule we named (N-Methyl-1-(1,3-benzodioxol-5-yl)-2-butanamine (MBDB) that retained significant MDMA-like psychoactivity. Hence, there are three structural features that distinguish MDMA from the hallucinogenic amphetamines: (1) the N-methyl on the basic nitrogen, (2) the reversal of stereochemistry and, (3) tolerance of an alpha-ethyl moiety as contrasted with the alpha-methyl of hallucinogenic phenethylamines. Clearly, MDMA is distinct from classical hallucinogenic phenethylamines in its structure, and its psychopharmacology is also unique. Thus, in 1986 I proposed the name “Entactogen” for the pharmacological class of drugs that includes 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) and other substances with a similar psychopharmacological effect. The name is derived from roots that indicate that entactogens produce a “touching within.” Rather than having significant psychostimulant, or hallucinogenic effects, MDMA powerfully promotes affiliative social behavior, has acute anxiolytic effects, and can lead to profound states of introspection and personal reflection. Its mechanism of action is now established as involving transport of MDMA by the neuronal serotonin reuptake carrier followed by carrier-mediated release of stored neuronal serotonin.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 285.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 15.12.1985, 09:30, erstellt von Marco Cortesi, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1985

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 4.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Global quantum correlations in tripartite nonorthogonal states and monogamy properties
Creators: name: Daoud, M.
name: Laamara, R. Ahl
name: Essaber, R.
name: Kaydi, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A global measure of quantum correlations for tripartite nonorthogonal states is presented. It is introduced as the overall average of the pairwise correlations existing in all possible partitions. The explicit expressions for the global measure are derived for squared concurrence, entanglement of formation, quantum discord and its geometric variant. As illustration, we consider even and odd three-mode Schrödinger cat states based on Glauber coherent states. We also discuss limitations to sharing quantum correlations known as monogamy relations.
description: 21 pages
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 263.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 11.11.1985, 08:30, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1985

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 2.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Toolkit RADAR per la misurazione degli impatti sociali delle esperienze culturali e creative
Creators: name: Uboldi, Sara
name: Marasco, Alessandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Partecipazione culturale
Impatti sociali
Misurazione
Benessere
Inclusione sociale

description: Il toolkit RADAR include una serie di strumenti accessibili per misurare l’impatto della partecipazione alle attività culturali e creative sul benessere e la connessione con l’arte e il patrimonio culturale. RADAR è stato realizzato nell’ambito del progetto Inclusive Arts and Culture (ICA) dell’Istituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISPC CNR) attraverso un percorso di co-progettazione con gli utenti e le comunità, i professionisti culturali, i caregiver, i medici e geriatri, i terapisti occupazionali, gli psichiatri, gli educatori e gli psicologi. Questo strumento è stato sviluppato per essere utilizzato sia in contesti culturali e creativi (musei e gallerie, archivi, biblioteche, teatri e festival) sia in luoghi dell’educazione, dell’assistenza e della cura (centri diurni e residenziali, ospedali), per sostenere cultura e creatività in una prospettiva di welfare culturale.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 233.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 06.10.1985, 10:15, erstellt von Marco Cortesi, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1985

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 4.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Equation of state and contact of a strongly interacting Bose gas in the normal state
Creators: name: Liu, Xia-Ji
name: Mulkerin, Brendan
name: He, Lianyi
name: Hu, Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically investigate the equation of state and Tan's contact of a non-degenerate three dimensional Bose gas near a broad Feshbach resonance, within the framework of large-$N$ expansion. Our results agree with the path-integral Monte Carlo simulations in the weak-coupling limit and recover the second-order virial expansion predictions at strong interactions and high temperatures. At resonance, we find that the chemical potential and energy are significantly enhanced by the strong repulsion, while the entropy does not change significantly. With increasing temperature, the two-body contact initially increases and then decreases like $T^{-1}$ at large temperature, and therefore exhibits a peak structure at about $4T_{c0}$, where $T_{c0}$ is the Bose-Einstein condensation temperature of an ideal, non-interacting Bose gas. These results may be experimentally examined with a non-degenerate unitary Bose gas, where the three-body recombination rate is substantially reduced. In particular, the non-monotonic temperature dependence of the two-body contact could be inferred from the momentum distribution measurement.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
Strategies to Reduce Studentification in Boone, NC
Creators: name: Lettau, Eve
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Student housing has grown from a niche investment field to a massive industry. Both large corporations and small mom-and-pop investors are active players, developing properties to satisfy the demand for off-campus housing near universities. While universities and their student populations can be a source of economic development for these communities, they can also put pressure on the housing market. This can result in higher rents, a displaced
workforce, and “studentification” – the idea that students can displace existing residents in an established neighborhood. The purpose of this project is to understand how students have impacted the housing market around Appalachian State University, located in Boone, NC. Using data analysis and stakeholder interviews this project proposes solutions that town officials in Boone can use to protect affordability, prevent displacement, and increase resiliency, while still welcoming students.
Character and Multiplicity Formulas for Compact Hamiltonian G-spaces
Creators: name: Gamse, Elisheva Adina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53D50

description: Let K $\subset$ G be compact connected Lie groups with common maximal torus T. Let (M, $ω$) be a prequantisable compact connected symplectic manifold with a Hamiltonian G-action. Geometric quantisation gives a virtual representation of G; we give a formula for the character $χ$ of this virtual representation as a quotient of virtual characters of K. When M is a generic coadjoint orbit our formula agrees with the Gross-Kostant-Ramond-Sternberg formula. We then derive a generalisation of the Guillemin-Prato multiplicity formula which, for $λ$ a dominant integral weight of K, gives the multiplicity in $χ$ of the irreducible representation of K of highest weight $λ$.
description: 18 pages, 2 figures. To appear in Journal of Geometry and Physics
title: FIDS: Accelerating Network Intrusion Detection Through Strategic Feature Selection
Creators: name: Elmore, James
name: Roy, Ayan
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025

description: Network intrusion detection systems (IDS) typically analyze complete network flows to identify malicious traffic, requiring flows to conclude before classification. This approach creates detection delays for attacks like Slowloris that intentionally keep connections open for extended periods of time. This paper introduces a novel approach that classifies network traffic using only features available from the first few packets of a flow, enabling faster detection while maintaining high accuracy. We evaluate three random forest models on the CICIDS2017 dataset using expanding sets of features: the first-packet model trained on on features available from the first backward packet, the few-packet model which includes features estimable from the first few packets of a flow, and a full-flow model using all features in the dataset for reference. Our few-packet model achieves 99.64% accuracy, 99.80% precision, and 99.64% recall-comparable to state-of-the-art approaches using full-flow information-while enabling significantly faster detection. This approach is particularly effective against slow-rate DoS attacks, achieving over 99% F1 scores for both Slowloris and Slowhttptest traffic. At a low false positive rate of 0.01%, our model maintains a 99.17% true positive rate. These results demonstrate that carefully selected early-flow features can provide effective intrusion detection without sacrificing accuracy.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 244.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 17.10.1985, 09:00, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1985

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 4.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
(500612) Ralph Robinson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 279.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 06.12.1985, 10:30, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1985

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 4.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 257.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 02.11.1985, 08:30, erstellt von Marco Cortesi, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1985

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Associations between a Universal Free Breakfast Policy and School Breakfast Program Participation, School Attendance, and Weight Status: A District-Wide Analysis
Creators: name: Dawson-McClure, Spring
name: Ammerman, Alice S.
name: Aiello, Allison E.
name: Bullock, Sally Lawrence
name: Truesdale, Kimberly Parker
name: Ward, Dianne Stanton
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Breakfast consumption among youth is associated with improved diet quality, weight, cognition, and behavior. However, not all youth in the United States consume breakfast. Participation in the School Breakfast Program (SBP) is also low relative to the lunch program. Universal free breakfast (UFB) policies have been implemented to increase breakfast participation by reducing cost and stigma associated with the SBP. This study examined whether a UFB policy implemented in a school district in the Southeast US was associated with changes in breakfast participation, school attendance, and student weight. A longitudinal study of secondary data was conducted, and a mixed modeling approach was used to assess patterns of change in SBP participation. General linear models were used to assess attendance and student weight change. On average, across schools in the district, there was an increase in breakfast participation of 4.1 percentage points following the implementation of the policy. The change in breakfast participation in schools differed by the percent of students in the school who received school meals for free or at a reduced price, the percent of students of color, and the grade level of the school. Increases in SBP participation were not associated with significant changes in attendance or weight. UFB policies may be effective in increasing participation in the SBP.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 243.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 16.10.1985, 08:00, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1985

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 4.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
(500617) William Trotter
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Pre- and Postnatal Fine Particulate Matter Exposure and Childhood Cognitive and Adaptive Function
Creators: name: Wright, Robert O.
name: Daniels, Julie L.
name: Wiggins, Lisa D.
name: Moody, Eric J.
name: Volk, Heather E.
name: Kasten, Eric
name: McGuinn, Laura A.
name: Windham, Gayle C.
name: Schieve, Laura A.
name: Di, Qian
name: Schwartz, Joel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Increasing evidence exists for an association between early life fine particulate matter (PM2.5) exposure and several neurodevelopmental outcomes, including autism spectrum disorder (ASD); however, the association between PM2.5 and adaptive and cognitive function remains poorly understood. Participants included 658 children with ASD, 771 with a non-ASD developmental disorder, and 849 population controls from the Study to Explore Early Development. Adaptive functioning was assessed in ASD cases using the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales (VABS); cognitive functioning was assessed in all groups using the Mullen Scales of Early Learning (MSEL). A satellite-based model was used to assign PM2.5 exposure averages during pregnancy, each trimester, and the first year of life. Linear regression was used to estimate beta coefficients and 95% confidence intervals, adjusting for maternal age, education, prenatal tobacco use, race-ethnicity, study site, and season of birth. PM2.5 exposure was associated with poorer VABS scores for several domains, including daily living skills and socialization. Associations were present between prenatal PM2.5 and lower MSEL scores for all groups combined; results were most prominent for population controls in stratified analyses. These data suggest that early life PM2.5 exposure is associated with specific aspects of cognitive and adaptive functioning in children with and without ASD.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 248.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 22.10.1985, 10:15, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1985

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
A Novel Statistical Channel Model for Turbulence-Induced Fading in Free-Space Optical Systems
Creators: name: Aminikashani, Mohammadreza
name: Uysal, Murat
name: Kavehrad, Mohsen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we propose a new probability distribution function which accurately describes turbulence-induced fading under a wide range of turbulence conditions. The proposed model, termed Double Generalized Gamma (Double GG), is based on a doubly stochastic theory of scintillation and developed via the product of two Generalized Gamma (GG) distributions. The proposed Double GG distribution generalizes many existing turbulence channel models and provides an excellent fit to the published plane and spherical waves simulation data. Using this new statistical channel model, we derive closed form expressions for the outage probability and the average bit error as well as corresponding asymptotic expressions of free-space optical communication systems over turbulence channels. We demonstrate that our derived expressions cover many existing results in the literature earlier reported for Gamma-Gamma, Double-Weibull and K channels as special cases.
description: 10 Pages, 8 figures, journal paper
The importance of anisotropic Coulomb interaction in LaMnO$_{3}$
Creators: name: Mellan, Thomas A.
name: Cora, Furio
name: Grau-Crespo, Ricardo
name: Ismail-Beigi, Sohrab
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In low-temperature anti-ferromagnetic LaMnO$_{3}$, strong and localized electronic interactions among Mn 3d electrons prevent a satisfactory description from standard local density and generalized gradient approximations in density functional theory calculations. Here we show that the strong on-site electronic interactions are described well only by using direct and exchange corrections to the intra-orbital Coulomb potential. Only DFT+U calculations with explicit exchange corrections produce a balanced picture of electronic, magnetic and structural observables in agreement with experiment. To understand the reason, a rewriting of the functional form of the +U corrections is presented that leads to a more physical and transparent understanding of the effect of these correction terms. The approach highlights the importance of Hund's coupling (intra-orbital exchange) in providing anisotropy across the occupation and energy eigenvalues of the Mn d states. This intra-orbital exchange is the key to fully activating the Jahn-Teller distortion, reproducing the experimental band gap and stabilizing the correct magnetic ground state in LaMnO$_{3}$. The best parameter values for LaMnO$_{3}$ within the DFT (PBEsol) +U framework are determined to be U = 8 eV and J = 1.9 eV.
description: Figures 7 and 8 revised. Minor revisions throughout the Results Sections. Table IV revised, Table VI new
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 251.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 25.10.1985, 08:30, erstellt von Marco Cortesi, Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare Ticinese in Locarno
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1985

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 4.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)