cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dynamic modeling of multi-factor construction productivity for equipment-intensive activities.
Creators: Seresht, Nima Gerami
Fayek, Aminah Robinson
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2018

Construction productivity is a major research interest within the construction domain. Because construction is a labor-intensive industry, previous research has often focused on construction labor productivity (CLP). However, equipment is the main driver of productivity for some construction activities, so-called equipment-intensive activities. Existing models of activity-level productivity often predict a single-factor productivity measure—namely CLP—yet determining multifactor productivity, including labor, material, and equipment, provides more comprehensive predictions of productivity. Construction productivity models are often static in nature, or incapable of capturing the subjective uncertainty of some factors influencing productivity. Fuzzy system dynamics is an appropriate technique for modeling construction productivity because it captures the dynamism of construction projects and addresses the subjective and probabilistic uncertainty of factors influencing productivity. The contributions of this paper are threefold: identifying the key factors influencing the productivity of equipment-intensive activities, developing a predictive model of multifactor productivity for equipment-intensive activities using fuzzy system dynamics technique, and developing an approach to reduce uncertainty overestimation in the simulation results of fuzzy system dynamics models.
Clinical Psychology and Clinical Immunology: is there a link between Alexithymia and severe Asthma?
Creators: name: Ricciardi, Luisa
name: Spatari, Giovanna
name: Vicario, Carmelo Mario
name: Liotta, Marta
name: Cazzato, Valentina
name: Gangemi, Sebastiano
name: Martino, Gabriella
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2023
Subjects: Clinical psychology; Severe asthma; Alexithymia; Asthma follow-up; Respiratory chronic disease management.

description: Background: Severe asthma patients are those suffering from asthma exacerbations despite adherence to maximal optimized asthma treatment such as high dose inhalant corticosteroids and long-acting beta2 agonists (ICS-LABA). It is estimated that about 300 million people in the world are affected from asthma and among them a percentage between 3-10% suffer from severe asthma. The prevalence of Alexithymia in chronic illness is notably high and it is strictly related to clinical severity of chronic diseases. Methods: Pub Med and Google Scholar databases were consulted using the terms “severe asthma” AND “alexithymia” to search English-language articles. According to inclusion criteria 37 articles were finally included and analyzed. Alexithymia may interfere with the perception of the disease and the patients’ awareness of the need of a strict follow-up, to adhere to the physicians’ treatment plans. Results: Alexithymia and related psychological distress as anxiety and depression may compromise the patient’s compliance and adherence, leading to a severe clinical presentation and pathologies’ course. This review highlights a potential relationship between alexithymia and severe asthma as a chronic inflammatory disease and the ways this correlation can be assessed and managed in the Outpatient Asthma Clinic to ensure a global approach to SA patients. Findings reported in literature suggest that, among severe asthma patients, alexithymia is present even if the prevalence of this disorder has not yet been defined. Conclusions: It is likely that the introduction of a gold standard clinical psychological evaluation in medical settings, such as clinical allergy and immunology, may allow to support suffering patients helping them to adequately elaborate their particular condition developing useful strategies to control and to manage with their severe asthma.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 11, No 1 (2023)
Hierarchy problem, gauge coupling unification at the Planck scale, and vacuum stability
Creators: name: Haba, Naoyuki
name: Ishida, Hiroyuki
name: Takahashi, Ryo
name: Yamaguchi, Yuya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: From the point of view of the gauge hierarchy problem, introducing an intermediate scale in addition to TeV scale and the Planck scale ($M_{\rm Pl} = 2.4 \times 10^{18}\,{\rm GeV}$) is unfavorable. In that way, a gauge coupling unification (GCU) is expected to be realized at $M_{\rm Pl}$. We explore possibilities of GCU at $M_{\rm Pl}$ by adding a few extra particles with TeV scale mass into the standard model (SM). When extra particles are fermions and scalars (only fermions) with the same mass, the GCU at $M_{\rm Pl}$ can (not) be realized. On the other hand, when extra fermions have different masses, the GCU can be realized around $\sqrt{8 π} M_{\rm Pl}$ without extra scalars. This simple SM extension has two advantages that a vacuum becomes stable up to $M_{\rm Pl}$ ($\sqrt{8 π} M_{\rm Pl}$) and a proton lifetime becomes much longer than an experimental bound.
description: 19 pages, 4 figures. Published version in NPB. Abstract and Introduction are revised
Additional file 1 of Workplace violence and its associated factors among nurses working in public hospitals of eastern Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Legesse, Henok
name: Assefa, Nega
name: Tesfaye, Dejene
name: Birhanu, Simon
name: Tesi, Seid
name: Wondimneh, Fenta
name: Semahegn, Agumasie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
title: On factor models for high-dimensional time series
Creators: name: Sabharwal, Ragvir Singh
Publisher: name: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Year: 2023

description: The aim of this thesis is to develop statistical methods for use with factor models for high-dimensional time series. We consider three broad areas: estimation, changepoint detection, and determination of the number of factors. In Chapter 1, we sketch the backdrop for our thesis and review key aspects of the literature. In Chapter 2, we develop a method to estimate the factors and parameters in an approximate dynamic factor model. Specifically, we present a spectral expectation-maximisation (or \spectral EM") algorithm, whereby we derive the E and M step equations in the frequency domain. Our E step relies on the Wiener-Kolmogorov smoother, the frequency domain counterpart of the Kalman smoother, and our M step is based on maximisation of the Whittle Likelihood with respect to the parameters of the model. We initialise our procedure using dynamic principal components analysis (or \dynamic PCA"), and by leveraging results on lag-window estimators of spectral density by Wu and Zaffaroni (2018), we establish consistency-with-rates of our spectral EM estimator of the parameters and factors as both the dimension (N) and the sample size (T) go to infinity. We find rates commensurate with the literature. Finally, we conduct a simulation study to numerically validate our theoretical results. In Chapter 3, we develop a sequential procedure to detect changepoints in an approximate static factor model. Specifically, we define a ratio of eigenvalues of the covariance matrix of N observed variables. We compute this ratio each period using a rolling window of size m over time, and declare a changepoint when its value breaches an alarm threshold. We investigate the asymptotic behaviour (as N;m ! 1) of our ratio, and prove that, for specific eigenvalues, the ratio will spike upwards when a changepoint is encountered but not otherwise. We use a block-bootstrap to obtain alarm thresholds. We present simulation results and an empirical application based on Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Index (or \FTSE 100") data. In Chapter 4, we conduct an exploratory analysis which aims to extend the randomised sequential procedure of Trapani (2018) into the frequency domain. Specifically, we aim to estimate the number of dynamically loaded factors by applying the test of Trapani (2018) to eigenvalues of the estimated spectral density matrix (as opposed to the covariance matrix) of the data.
Minimal discs in hyperbolic space bounded by a quasicircle at infinity
Creators: name: Seppi, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53A10, 57M50, 30F60, 32G15

description: We prove that the supremum of principal curvatures of a minimal embedded disc in hyperbolic three-space spanning a quasicircle in the boundary at infinity is estimated in a sublinear way by the norm of the quasicircle in the sense of universal Teichmüller space, if the quasicircle is sufficiently close to being the boundary of a totally geodesic plane. As a by-product we prove that there is a universal constant C independent of the genus such that if the Teichmüller distance between the ends of a quasi-Fuchsian manifold $M$ is at most C, then $M$ is almost-Fuchsian. The main ingredients of the proofs are estimates on the convex hull of a minimal surface and Schauder-type estimates to control principal curvatures.
description: 24 pages, 4 figures. Final version. Improvements on the presentation of the proof of Lemma 4.11, some remarks and final discussion added
A Guide to Accessible Writing
Creators: name: Srinivasan, Rama
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: A guide that can aid scholars to write more accessibly for a more mainstream audience.
description: This guide is part of a project that has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No.890826
Supporting University Students During the Pandemic: A Study on The Efficacy of a Mentalizing Online Group Counselling
Creators: name: Esposito, Giovanna
name: Passeggia, Raffaella
name: Pepicelli, Giuliana
name: Cannata, Anna
name: Di Natale, Maria Rosaria
name: Parlato, Federica
name: Freda, Maria Francesca
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2023
Subjects: Online group counselling; Mentalization; Psychological well-being; Academic engagement; University drop-out.

description: Background: University counselling services assume a fundamental support function for students who are facing moments of crisis during their academic career. Such services often aim to reduce drop-out rates and achieve improvement in terms of psychological well-being. COVID-19 contagion containment measures have also had an impact on the psychological health of university students and their ability to cope with important developmental tasks. It has become necessary, therefore, to offer online counselling services which has become, however, the means of choice to support students during the university course in the pandemic era, as a complementary intervention to the traditional face-to-face approach. Methods: In a clinical and health psychology perspective, this study aims to analyze the efficacy of 13 online counselling groups involving 66 underachieving students, lagging with their studies. The intervention has adopted the methodology of the Narrative Mediation Path, which aims at promoting mentalization, academic engagement and psychological well-being in order to have an impact on students’ academic performance and prevent university dropouts. At the beginning and end of counselling the following measures were administered: a) Reflective Functioning Questionnaire, b) Psychological General Well-Being Index Short Form, c) Academic Performance Inventory, d) University Student Engagement Inventory, e) Group Climate Questionnaire. Results: The results showed that online counselling groups enabled an overall improvement in all the variables considered. Conclusion: Overall, the present study showed the efficacy of the online group counselling service in supporting students during the pandemic period and in coping with the difficulties encountered during the academic career.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 11, No 1 (2023)
Additional file 1 of Custom gene expression panel for evaluation of potential molecular markers in hepatocellular carcinoma
Creators: name: Pallerla, Srinivas Reddy
name: Hoan, Nghiem Xuan
name: Rachakonda, Sivaramakrishna
name: Meyer, Christian G.
name: Van Tong, Hoang
name: Toan, Nguyen Linh
name: Linh, Le Thi Kieu
name: Giang, Dao Phuong
name: Kremsner, Peter G.
name: Bang, Mai Hong
name: Song, Le Huu
name: Velavan, Thirumalaisamy P.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Table S1. List of genes and primers.
Informing the dosing of interventions in randomized trials
Creators: name: Chang, YunKyung
name: Voils, Corrine I.
name: Maciejewski, Matthew L.
name: Leeman, Jennifer
name: Crandell, Jamie
name: Sandelowski, Margarete
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Dosing is potentially the most important decision that must be made when building or refining behavioral interventions. In this paper, we propose standardized terminology and reporting of dosing information, which would inform intervention development, refinement for dissemination, and systematic reviews of dose-response relationships. Dosing of interventions may be characterized by duration, frequency, and amount. To illustrate the value of operationalizing these three parameters to evaluate dose-response relationships, 31 published reports of behavioral interventions to increase adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) were reviewed. The ART literature was characterized by under-reporting of dosing parameters, heterogeneity in dosing schedules, and heterogeneity in type of control group, which complicate analysis of dose-response relationships in systematic review and determination of the optimal dose for intervention dissemination. Improved reporting of the three dosing parameters and comparison of intended to actual delivery can inform the identification of the most effective intervention doses and the efficient implementation of efficacious interventions in clinical practice.
Parsimony: A Forgotten Principle in Clinical Psychology and Classics
Creators: name: MacKenzie Myles, Liam Alexander
name: Guy Browne Johnson, Patrick
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2023
Subjects: Classics; Clinical Psychology; Theoretical reflection; Parsimony.

description: According to a recent global meta-analysis, approximately 50% of people experience mental health difficulties (Nochaiwong et al., 2021). Psychologists have long been interested in conceptualising the basis of psychological difficulties, with theories dating back to the inception of the field (James, 1892).
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 11, No 1 (2023)
Learning and Developing Individual Exercise Skills (L.A.D.I.E.S.) for a Better Life: A physical activity intervention for black women
Creators: name: Heil, Daniel P.
name: Gizlice, Ziya
name: Goldmon, Moses V.
name: Whitt-Glover, Melicia C.
name: Karanja, Njeri
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Physical activity (PA) is low among African American women despite awareness of its positive impact on health. Learning and Developing Individual Exercise Skills for a Better Life (L.A.D.I.E.S.) compares three strategies for increasing PA among African American women using a cluster randomized, controlled trial. Underactive adult women from 30 churches (n=15 participants/church) were recruited. Churches were randomized to a faith-based intervention, a non-faith based intervention, or an information only control group. Intervention groups will meet 25 times in group sessions with other women from their church over a 10-month period. Control group participants will receive standard educational material promoting PA. All participants will be followed for an additional 12 months to assess PA maintenance. Data will be collected at baseline, 10, and 22 months. The primary outcome is PA (steps/day, daily moderate-to-vigorous PA). We expect treatment effects indicating that assignment to either of the active interventions is associated with greater magnitude of change in PA compared to the control group. In exploratory analyses, we will test whether changes in the faith-based intervention group are greater than changes in the non-faith-based intervention group. L.A.D.I.E.S. focuses on a significant issue—increasing PA levels—in a segment of the population most in need of successful strategies for improving health. If successful, L.A.D.I.E.S. will advance the field by providing an approach that is successful for initiating and sustaining change in physical activity, which has been shown to be a primary risk factor for a variety of health outcomes, using churches as the point of delivery.
MPEC 2024-R285 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2024 September 12)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Italian Academic Third Mission and Clinical Psychology
Creators: name: Settineri, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2023
Subjects: Clinical Psychology; Scientific communication; Research; Teaching; Third mission.

description: The topic is not new with reference to previous Editorials of MJCP (Settineri, 2022; Settineri Femminò, 2019; Settineri Merlo, 2022) and this time it takes its cue from a reflection, resulting from the recent annual assembly of the College of Professors and Researchers of Clinical Psychology. In fact, in the last assembly, the Council dealt with the work of the three commissions that are engaged in teaching, research and the third mission precisely.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 11, No 1 (2023)
The effectiveness of a positive group psychotherapy on the promotion of young adults' mental health
Creators: name: Fonte, Carla Alexandra
name: Melo, Mariana
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2023
Subjects: Well-being; Mental health; Positive psychological interventions; Group psychotherapy.

description: Background: Positive mental health has had different definitions, but the current one embraces the presence of levels of well-being and decreased levels of psychopathology. This vision of positive mental health has increased the interest in developing positive psychological intervention programs and activities that promote mental health, increasing levels of well- being and decreasing levels of psychopathology. This study aimed to verify the impact and effectiveness of a positive psychotherapy-based group intervention plan, in a non-clinical sample on the increase of well-being and reduction of psychopathology. Method: The sample was selected by non-random convenience, consisting of 40 participants, who were subdivided into an experimental group and a comparison group, each consisting of 20 elements. The experimental group is made up by 11 men (55%) and 9 women (45%), with ages between 18- 27 years old, being the average of ages 20,70 (SD= 2,830). The comparison group is composed by 10 women (50%) and 10 men (50%) aged between 18 and 27 years old, being the average of the ages 22 (SD=6,808). To evaluate the effectiveness of the program, an assessment was done in two moments (pre and posttest), using the MHC-SF (for well-being assessment) and the DASS-21 (for psychopathology assessment) as assessment measures. Results: The results obtained show a significant improvement in social well-being as well as a reduction in the levels of psychopathology (anxiety, depression, and stress). Conclusions: These results demonstrate that participation in the program is beneficial for mental health promotion. It is suggested that a larger sample size and a randomization process may be used in future research.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 11, No 2 (2023)
Using linear mixed models to analyze learning processes within sessions improves detection of treatment effects: An exemplary study of chronometric mental rotation
Creators: name: Jost, Leonardo
name: Jansen, Petra
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Practice effects Linear mixed models Mental rotation
subject: 150 Psychologie

description: Practice effects occur for many cognitive tasks. They are observed not only between repeated tests, but also within sessions. They can confound the detection of treatment effects, even when compared with control groups. We present an approach to reduce the impact of within-session practice effects through inclusion and manipulation of time in linear mixed models. With an exemplary mental rotation task, we demonstrate the possibility to investigate performance within sessions. We show how controlling for practice effects can improve comparisons between treatments. Through simulations, we demonstrate the impact of within-session practice effects and the usefulness of the presented approach.
Additional file 2 of Spatio-temporal forecasting of future volcanism at Harrat Khaybar, Saudi Arabia
Creators: name: Alohali, Abdullah
name: Bertin, Daniel
name: de Silva, Shanaka
name: Cronin, Shane
name: Duncan, Robert
name: Qaysi, Saleh
name: Moufti, Mohammed R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Additional file 2. Analytical data for each of the 15 age determinations of Harrat Khaybar rock that was used in this study.
Overlap and common correlates between depression and COPD: a narrative review
Creators: name: Iannuzzo, Fiammetta
name: Nucera, Francesco
name: Bruno, Antonio
name: Muscatello, Maria Rosaria Anna
name: Caramori, Gaetano
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2023
Subjects: Depression; COPD; Pulmonary Disease; Hypoxia; Mood Disorders; Inflammation.

description: Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterized by a burden of comorbid conditions, including depression, that has been related with an increased risk of exacerbations, low adherence to pharmacological treatments and behavioral interventions, and overall mortality rates. The aim of the present review was to explore the comorbidity between depression and COPD by examining epidemiological and etiopathogenetic perspectives, along with shared risk factors including the potential role of hypoxia, systemic inflammation, and drugs for COPD treatment. Methods: the aim of this work was to review studies published in the last eleven years, using Medline/PubMed, Scopus, and Google Scholar as search engines and the following terms “Mood Disorders", "Hypoxia "Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive", “Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease”, linked by the Boolean operator “AND”. Articles were included in the review if written in English and containing quantitative and qualitative information on Depression, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, and Hypoxia. Exclusion criteria were studies in languages other than English, irrelevant articles to the examined topic reviews, case reports, case series, and articles on animal models. Results: The present review has confirmed the increased risk of depression onset in COPD patients, suggesting a strong multifactorial and bidirectional correlation between the two conditions. Hypoxia has been emphasized as a key mechanism in both diseases, whereas evidence on shared inflammatory and molecular pathways is still limited. Conclusions: The multifactorial nature of the bidirectional correlation between COPD and depression is far from being entirely understood. Comorbid depression negatively affects COPD course and severity, along with patients’ functioning, psychological well-being and quality of life. Well-designed pre-clinical and clinical studies on the genetic, molecular, and neurobiological pathways which underlie the comorbidity between COPD and depression are needed for addressing the clinical implications and treatment options. needs more research efforts to be clarified. Further studies are mandatory to improve our knowledge on the co-presence of these two widespread diseases.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 11, No 2 (2023)
Nourishing Our Understanding of Role Modeling to Improve Support and Health (NOURISH): Design and methods
Creators: name: Evans, Ronald K.
name: Mazzeo, Suzanne E.
name: Serdar, Kasey
name: Jones, Resa M.
name: Kelly, Nichole R.
name: Gow, Rachel W.
name: Stern, Marilyn
name: Bulik, Cynthia M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Pediatric overweight is associated with numerous physical and psychological health risks, and overweight children are at significant risk for obesity in adulthood. African-American children are at particularly high risk for obesity and related health complications. However, this racial group has traditionally had limited access to obesity treatment and relatively few studies have included sufficient numbers of lower-SES, African American participants. Further, although parental involvement in treatment for pediatric overweight has been found to be beneficial, few studies have examined the efficacy of offering treatment exclusively to parents, a potentially cost-effective approach which could benefit the entire family. This pilot project will evaluate the efficacy of an intensive parenting intervention, (NOURISH; Nourishing Our Understanding of Role modeling to Improve Support and Health), targeting racially diverse parents of overweight children (ages 6–11). NOURISH addresses several urgent research priorities by targeting the underserved and addressing the significant disparity in obesity treatment services. Parents meeting study criteria (having a child between the ages of 6 and 11 with a BMI ≥ the 85th percentile) will be offered participation in the randomized trial comparing NOURISH with a control group. We hypothesize that children whose parents participate in NOURISH will manifest greater decreases in BMI, and greater improvements in dietary intake, and quality of life compared to children whose parents do not participate. This study is designed explicitly to gather preliminary feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness data to inform a subsequent larger randomized controlled trial.
Statistical considerations for the HPTN 052 Study to evaluate the effectiveness of early versus delayed antiretroviral strategies to prevent the sexual transmission of HIV-1 in serodiscordant couples
Creators: name: Donnell, Deborah
name: Fleming, Thomas R.
name: Chen, Ying Qing
name: Wang, Lei
name: McCauley, Marybeth
name: Cohen, Myron S.
name: Masse, Benoit
name: Ribauldo, Heather J.
name: Gamble, Theresa
name: Li, Xin
name: Ou, San-San
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: The HIV Prevention Trial Network (HPTN) 052 Study is a Phase III, two-arm, controlled, open-labeled, randomized clinical trial designed to determine whether early antiretroviral therapy (ART) can prevent the sexual transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). A total of 1,763 couples in which one partner was HIV-1-positive and the other was HIV-1-negative were enrolled in four continents, nine countries and thirteen study sites. The HIV-1-positive partner was randomly assigned to either of the two arms: “immediate” (early) therapy with ART initiated upon enrollment plus HIV primary care, or “delayed” therapy with HIV primary care but ART initiated when the index case would have two consecutive measurements of a CD4+ cell count within or below the range of 200–250 cells/mm3, or develop an AIDS-defining illness. In this paper, we describe several key statistical considerations for the design of this landmark study. Despite that the observed event rates were lower than expected, which might have compromised the study power, an early release of the trial results in May 2011 showed an overwhelming 96% risk reduction for the immediate therapy in the prevention of genetically linked HIV-1 incident transmissions. Nevertheless, the durability of its long-term effectiveness is yet to be assessed. The HPTN 052 Study is still ongoing and will not complete till 2015.
Additional file 3 of Spatio-temporal forecasting of future volcanism at Harrat Khaybar, Saudi Arabia
Creators: name: Alohali, Abdullah
name: Bertin, Daniel
name: de Silva, Shanaka
name: Cronin, Shane
name: Duncan, Robert
name: Qaysi, Saleh
name: Moufti, Mohammed R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Additional file 3. Spatial probability isocontour maps of age group 1, 2, 3 and 5. (a, b, c, and d) Maps depict the distribution of probabilities throughout the harrat based on the locations of visible vents in age group 1, 2, 3 and 5, respectively, without using age-weighting procedure.
ASSOCIATION OF VIRTUAL REALITY INTO HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS
Creators: name: Kochkorova, Gulnara
name: Irmatova, Dilyora
name: Abdurasulova, Dilnoza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Success in any area of life requires the ability to learn and apply knowledge in creative and effective ways. The article discusses issues of adapting the educational process to new technologies.
Female gender and psychological profile of outpatients attending Post-COVID-19 follow-up: some preliminary results
Creators: name: Petito, Annamaria
name: Loconsole, Annalisa
name: Severo, Melania
name: Ricciardi, Elisabetta
name: Angelillo, Marco
name: Iuso, Salvatore
name: Ferrante, Stefania
name: Scioscia, Giulia
name: Pierucci, Paola
name: Portacci, Andrea
name: Lacedonia, Donato
name: Carpagnano, Giovanna Elisiana
name: Mancini, Francesco
name: Foschino Barbaro, Maria Grazia
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2023
Subjects: Gender; medical setting; Post-COVID syndrome; Outpatients; Psychological profile.

description: Background: The Post-COVID syndrome, characterized by persistence of psychological, neurologic, and physical symptoms, affects a large proportion of COVID-19 survivors. Specifically, females seem at increased risk of experiencing more psychological manifestations of Post-COVID Syndrome. Methods: A sample of 60 PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) confirmed COVID-19 outpatients (48.3% female; age mean= 56.1; SD= 10.8) attending an outpatient clinic dedicated to Post-COVID-19 follow-up was enrolled for this study. Each participant completed the Psychosocial Index to assess stress, well-being, psychological distress, and illness behavior, the Impact of Event Scale – Revised to evaluate post-traumatic stress symptoms and, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale to assess anxiety and depression; the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale to assess resilience; and N scale of NEO Five Factor to assess “Neuroticism”. Results: More than half of patients showed clinical or subclinical anxiety and depressive symptoms. Post-traumatic stress symptoms were found in 58.3% of sample. Resilience levels were in a medium range (71.0 ± 15.2). Statistical analysis found a predominance of depressive symptomatology (p = 0.0453), hyperarousal manifestations (p = 0.0049), perception of stress (p = 0.0001) and trait of neuroticism in women (p 0.0001). Our results show psychological distress, post-traumatic symptoms, poor psychological well-being, depression and anxiety symptoms for several weeks after infection in patients who had COVID-19. Moreover, female outpatients had a higher perception of distress, hyperarousal manifestations and depressive symptomatology than the male counterpart. Conclusions: As a novelty, this study gives us a deeper understanding of the psychological Post-COVID-19 profile in a clinical sample of pneumological outpatients. Moreover, it focused on gender differences identifying the female gender as a risk factor with respect to psychological illness. Our findings suggest the relevance of planning personalized interventions and assessment aimed at higher psychopathological risk groups, such as females.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 11, No 2 (2023)
Building the Observer into the System: Toward a Realistic Description of Human Interaction with the World
Creators: name: Fields, Chris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Human beings do not observe the world from the outside, but rather are fully embedded in it. The sciences, however, often give the observer both a "god's eye" perspective and substantial a~priori knowledge. Motivated by W. Ross Ashby's statement, "the theory of the Black Box is merely the theory of real objects or systems, when close attention is given to the question, relating object and observer, about what information comes from the object, and how it is obtained" (Introduction to Cybernetics, 1956, p. 110), I develop here an alternate picture of the world as a black box to which the observer is coupled. Within this framework I prove purely-classical analogs of the "no-go" theorems of quantum theory. Focussing on the question of identifying macroscopic objects, such as laboratory apparatus or even other observers, I show that the standard quantum formalism of superposition is required to adequately represent the classical information that an observer can obtain. I relate these results to supporting considerations from evolutionary biology, cognitive and developmental psychology, and artificial intelligence.
description: Expanded, published version
The Land Use and Individual Correlates of Pedestrian Commuting: Who Walks to Their Work or Place of Study in the Large Cities of the MENA Region?
Creators: name: Masoumi, Houshmand
name: Sierpiński, Grzegorz
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 380 Handel, Kommunikation, Verkehr
subject: urban transportation planning
subject: travel behavior
subject: land use
subject: commute mode choice
subject: walking
subject: MENA region

description: The body of research on the determinants of pedestrian commuting and the characteristics of on-foot commuters at the international level and especially in the Global South is inconsistent; hence, this study focuses on this topic with the case of megacities in the Middle East and North Africa. The study is based on 8284 face-to-face interviews with respondents in the three cities, 4543 of whom worked, and of those 4543, 658 individuals walked to their work or place of study. By using binary logistic regression, the determinants of walking to work were identified. Age, household car ownership, last relocation time, intersection density, number of accessed facilities from home, average walking accessibility to neighborhood amenities, and commuting distance are the significant determinants of on-foot commuting. The study identifies younger commuters with fewer cars or no driving license living in neighborhoods with connected street networks as the walkers. The results of the Mann–Whitney U Test show that there is a significant difference between the values of these determinants for walking commuters and those who commute by other modes. Based on these findings, this paper encourages urban planners and decision-makers of the MENA region to use urban land use, including street networks and access to local facilities, to motivate commuters to commute on foot, especially those who work within a walkable distance to their work or place of study.
Placement, survival and predator identity of Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata nests on lowland grass-heath
Creators: name: Zielonka, Natalia B.
name: Hawkes, Robert W.
name: Jones, Helen
name: Burnside, Robert J.
name: Dolman, Paul M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Within the UK’s largest lowland Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata population, curlew preferentially nested on physically disturbed (treated) than undisturbed (control) grassland, and low nest survival rates were primarily attributable to predation by Red Fox Vulpes vulpes. To inform conservation interventions for Curlew within semi-natural lowland dry-grassland landscapes. Across a 3700 ha lowland dry-grassland landscape, over two years, effects of ground-disturbance management on Curlew nest placement (n = 41) were examined using generalized linear models controlling for vegetation strata. The effects of site and management on nest survival (n = 44) were also examined, controlling for lay date and year. Nest predator identity was investigated using temperature sensors (n = 28) and nest cameras (n = 10). Curlews were five times more likely to nest on physically disturbed than undisturbed grassland. Nest survival (overall mean ± se = 0.24 ± 0.07) was not influenced by year or ground-disturbance but declined with lay date and differed markedly between the two sites, consistent with predator control. Predation accounted for 29/32 failed nests and was predominantly at night (17/23 cases where timing was known), consistent with mammalian predators. Cameras indicated Red Foxes to be the main predator (4/5 cases). Overall breeding productivity was 0.16 ± 0.01 (SE) chicks per nesting attempt. Curlew suffered from unsustainably high rates of nest predation primarily attributable to Red Foxes. A combination of perimeter fencing and lethal predator control appeared to improve nest success at one site. Ground-disturbance treatment could encourage nesting attempts in areas managed to minimize predator density.
QUEERED DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS: QUEERNESS IN BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENTS
Creators: name: Benson, Jarvis
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: This study employs Du Bois' concept of double consciousness as a theoretical lens to look at the nuanced experiences of Black queer movement actors. Employing qualitative methods, I uncover how these organizers employ the metaphorical veil, twoness, and second sight to navigate movement spaces. By embracing their intersecting identities and using them as tools for resistance, relationship-building, and envisioning change, these organizers demonstrate the ongoing relevance of Du Bois' ideas in contemporary discussions of intersectionality. However, the study also highlights the need for further attention to queer acceptance within the broader movement for Black lives. Insights from this paper contribute to a deeper understanding of the intricate dynamics of identity, solidarity, and social change in the realm of Black queer movement work.
Stopping the control arm in response to the DSMB: Mother's choice of HIV prophylaxis during breastfeeding in the BAN Study
Creators: name: Kayira, Dumbani
name: King, Caroline C.
name: Chigwenembe, Margret
name: Long, Dustin
name: Chasela, Charles
name: Chavula, Charity
name: Hosseinipour, Mina
name: Mzembe, Enalla
name: Jamieson, Denise J.
name: Hudgens, Michael G.
name: van der Horst, Charles
name: Ellington, Sascha
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: The Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) for the Breastfeeding, Antiretrovirals, and Nutrition study, a clinical trial aimed to prevent postnatal HIV transmission, recommended halting randomization to the enhanced standard-of-care (control) arm. The 67 mother-infant pairs on the control arm and less than 21 weeks postpartum at the time of the DSMB recommendation were read a script informing them of the DSMB decision and offering them the the maternal or infant antiretroviral interventions for the remainder of the 28-week breastfeeding period. This paper describes the BAN study response to the DSMB decision and what the women on the control arm chose, when given a choice to start the maternal or infant antiretroviral interventions.
MOESM2 of Underground transfer of carbonised organic residues to lithics during preliminary fire experiments: implications for archaeology
Creators: name: Wadley, Lyn
name: Luong, Susan
name: Sievers, Christine
name: Prinsloo, Linda
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2. Gas chromatology-mass spectrometry results
Additional file 1 of Prevalences of cardiometabolic risk and lifestyle factors in young parents: evidence from a German birth cohort study
Creators: name: Brunner, Jana
name: Fill Malfertheiner, Sara
name: Brandstetter, Susanne
name: Seelbach-Göbel, Birgit
name: Apfelbacher, Christian
name: Melter, Michael
name: Kabesch, Michael
name: Baessler, Andrea
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Basic characteristics of participants dropped out before 1-year-questionnaire.
Lockdown Young Adult Concerns Scale (LYACS): The Development and Validation Process
Creators: name: Regnoli, Giorgio Maria
name: Tiano, Gioia
name: Sommantico, Massimiliano
name: De Rosa, Barbara
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2023
Subjects: Young Adults; COVID-19; Scale Validation; Concerns about Loss of Life Control and Infection/contagion; Clinical Psychology.

description: Background: The COVID-19 pandemic as well as the social, relational, and economic transformations of the lockdown had a strong traumatic impact on the mental health of the word population, even more so on specific targets such as young adults. The spread of what was an unknown virus and the lockdown experience have raised concerns for the preservation of people’s physical and mental health and their private, relational, and work life. Objectives: The current study presents the construction, development, and validation process of the Lockdown Young Adult Concerns Scale (LYACS), an instrument assessing the level of two principal concerns during the pandemic lockdown, i.e., Loss of Life Control (CLLC) and Infection/Contagion (CIF). Methods: After a pilot study that defined the dimensions, selected the items, and carried out Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) on a sample of 100 subjects (M = 24; DS = 3.9), a new sample of 259 Italian young adults (ages 18-35 yrs.; M = 24; SD = 3.8) was used to assess the psychometric validity of LYACS through Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), reliability, convergent and divergent validity. Further descriptive analyses of the final version of scale as well as Two-way Analyses of Variance (ANOVA) on selected sociodemographic variables were conducted. Results: The outcome of Confirmatory Factor Analysis, which resulted in high goodness of fit (χ2/df = 2.0; GFI = .98; TLI = .98; RMSEA = .06; SRMR = .04), supports two identifiable factors reflecting the theoretically-based constructs of LYACS, thus supporting the EFA results. Furthermore, internal consistency as well as convergent and divergent validity analyses allow the scale to be considered a reliable and valid instrument for the present investigation. Finally, variance analysis shows that there are significant differences among the factor levels regarding gender, occupation, perception of the home space during lockdown, and having/not having worked on Concern about Loss of Life Control (CLLC), and between gender and confinement cohabitation on Concern about Infection/Contagion (CIF). Conclusion: Overall, the reported results show good psychometric proprieties for the scale and shed new light on how Italian young adults lived the COVID-19 pandemic.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 11, No 2 (2023)
Sustainability and performance of the National Cancer Institute's Community Clinical Oncology Program
Creators: name: Fortune-Greeley, Alice K.
name: Zullig, Leah L.
name: Lee, Shoou-Yih
name: Weiner, Bryan J.
name: Carpenter, William R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: The National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Community Clinical Oncology Program (CCOP) contributes one third of NCI treatment trial enrollment (“accrual”) and most cancer prevention and control (CP/C) trial enrollment. Prior research indicated that the local clinical environment influenced CCOP accrual performance during the 1990s. As the NCI seeks to improve the operations of the clinical trials system following critical reports by the Institute of Medicine and the NCI Operational Efficiency Working Group, the current relevance of the local environmental context on accrual performance is unknown.
Superspace de Rham Complex and Relative Cohomology
Creators: name: Linch, William D.
name: Randall, Stephen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the super-de Rham complex of five-dimensional superforms with $N=1$ supersymmetry. By introducing a free supercommutative algebra of auxiliary variables, we show that this complex is equivalent to the Chevalley-Eilenberg complex of the translation supergroup with values in superfields. Each cocycle of this complex is defined by a Lorentz- and iso-spin-irreducible superfield subject to a set of constraints. Restricting to constant coefficients results in a subcomplex in which components of the cocycles are coboundaries while the constraints on the defining superfields span the cohomology. This reduces the computation of all of the superspace Bianchi identities to a single linear algebra problem the solution of which implies new features not present in the standard four-dimensional, $N=1$ complex. These include splitting/joining in the complex and the existence of cocycles that do not correspond to irreducible supermultiplets of closed differential forms. Interpreting the five-dimensional de Rham complex as arising from dimensional reduction from the six-dimensional complex, we find a second five-dimensional complex associated to the relative de Rham complex of the embedding of the latter in the former. This gives rise to a second source of closed differential forms previously attributed to the phenomenon called "Weyl triviality".