cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The first gamma-ray detection of the narrow-line Seyfert 1 FBQS J1644+2619
Creators: name: D'Ammando, F.
name: Orienti, M.
name: Larsson, J.
name: Giroletti, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of gamma-ray emission from the narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLSy1) galaxy FBQS J1644+2619 by the Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi satellite. The Third Fermi LAT Source catalogue reports an unidentified gamma-ray source, detected over the first four years of Fermi operation, 0.23 deg from the radio position of the NLSy1. Analysing 76 months of gamma-ray data (2008 August 4 - 2014 December 31) we are able to better constrain the localization of the gamma-ray source. The new position of the gamma-ray source is 0.05 deg from FBQS J1644+2619, suggesting a spatial association with the NLSy1. This is the sixth NLSy1 detected at high significance by Fermi-LAT so far. Notably, a significant increase of activity was observed in gamma-rays from FBQS J1644+2619 during 2012 July-October, and an increase of activity in V-band was detected by the Catalina Real-Time Sky Survey in the same period.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures. accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
A String-Inspired Model for the Low-$\ell$ CMB
Creators: name: Kitazawa, N.
name: Sagnotti, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a semi--analytic exploration of some low--$\ell$ angular power spectra inspired by "Brane Supersymmetry Breaking". This mechanism splits Bose and Fermi excitations in String Theory, leaving behind an exponential potential that is just too steep for the inflaton to emerge from the initial singularity while descending it. As a result, the scalar generically bounces against the exponential wall, which typically introduces an infrared depression and a pre--inflationary peak in the power spectrum of scalar perturbations. We elaborate on a possible link between this phenomenon and the low--$\ell$ CMB. For the first 32 multipoles, combining the hard exponential with a milder one leading to $n_s\simeq 0.96$ and with a small gaussian bump we have attained a reduction of $χ^{\,2}$ to about 46% of the standard $Λ$CDM setting, with both WMAP9 and PLANCK 2013 data. This result corresponds to a $χ^{\,2}/DOF$ of about 0.45, to be compared with a $Λ$CDM value of about 0.85. The preferred choices combine naturally quadrupole depression, a first peak around $\ell=5$ and a wide minimum around $\ell=20$. We have also gathered some evidence that similar spectra emerge if the hard exponential is combined with more realistic models of inflation. A problem of the preferred examples is their slow convergence to an almost scale--invariant profile.
description: 12 pages, latex, 7 figures. Power and limitations of the models and of the semi-analytic approach stressed, misprints corrected. Final version to appear in Mod. Phys. Lett. A
Correlates of accelerometer-assessed physical activity in pregnancy—The 2015 Pelotas (Brazil) Birth Cohort Study
Creators: name: Evenson, K.R.
name: da Silveira, M.F.
name: da Silva, S.G.
name: da Silva, I.C.M.
name: Ekelund, U.
name: Hallal, P.C.
name: Mendes, M.A.
name: Wehrmeister, F.C.
name: Domingues, M.R.
Publisher: name: Blackwell Munksgaard
Year: 2018

description: Objective methods to measure physical activity (PA) have become available and widely used given the high degree of precision to evaluate PA. However, few studies have used accelerometers to measure PA during pregnancy, especially in low- and middle-income countries. We assessed overall PA, moderate, vigorous, and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) objectively measured among pregnant women and their correlates in a population-based study. PA was assessed for seven consecutive days using a raw triaxial wrist-worn accelerometer in women interviewed around 16 and 24 weeks of gestation in the 2015 Pelotas (Brazil) Birth Cohort Study. The average acceleration, which expresses overall PA, was presented in milli-g (1 mg = 0.001 g), and average time (min/day) spent in MVPA (>100 mg) was also analyzed in 5- and 10-min bouts. Analyses were performed using linear regression. In total, 2317 women were included in the analyses. Overall PA was 27.6 mg. Pregnant women spent on average 14 min/day in MVPA and 0.4 min in vigorous PA. Time spent in MVPA and total PA were inversely associated with years in school and income, and were lower among women receiving advice to not exercise. MVPA was also inversely associated with age, lower among women living with a partner, and higher among non-white women. The study indicated low levels of PA among pregnant women. The identified correlates may provide a framework to better understand factors influencing PA during pregnancy and thus inform future interventions.
Books About Music
Creators: name: Skinner, Anthea
Publisher: name: University of Melbourne
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 360306
subject: Musicology and ethnomusicology
classificationCode: 420318
subject: People with disability
classificationCode: 360201
subject: Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting)

description: Reviews of two books about disability and music. 'Carry A Big Stick' memoir by Tim Ferguson (Hachette) and 'Look Ma, No Feet' an instruction manual for drummers with disability by Michael Mignogna (Self Published). Originally published in Link Disability Magazine. Vol 22, No 5, 2013, Books About Music pp38-40
Additional file 2 of Social service providers’ perspectives on caring for structurally vulnerable hospital patients who use drugs: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Gehring, Nicole D.
name: Speed, Kelsey A.
name: Dong, Kathryn
name: Pauly, Bernie
name: Salvalaggio, Ginetta
name: Hyshka, Elaine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Semi-structured interview guide.
Diffusing innovative road safety practice: A social network approach to identifying opinion leading U.S. cities
Creators: name: Heiny, S.
name: Evenson, K.R.
name: Cooper, J.F.
name: Fiedler, L.M.
name: LaJeunesse, S.
Publisher: name: Taylor and Francis Inc.
Year: 2018

description: Objective: This study sought to identify opinion-leading U.S. cities in the realm of safe transportation systems by surveying road safety professionals and asking them to identify places that served as models for road safety. Methods: Using a purposive sampling methodology, we surveyed professionals employed in road safety–related professions (e.g., transportation engineering, planning, public health, law enforcement, and emergency response). Using 183 professionals’ complete responses, we carried out social network analysis to both describe the structure of intermunicipal advice-seeking patterns among road safety professionals and identify those municipalities with relatively high degrees of influence. Results: We discovered a large intermunicipal monitoring network related to improving road user safety. Half of the network ties (50.4%) crossed regional U.S. census boundaries. Social network statistics informed the identification of 7 opinion-leader and 4 boundary-spanning municipalities. Conclusions: This study indicated a large intermunicipal monitoring network, half of which crossed regional boundaries. Road safety professionals have formed a country-spanning example-following network on the topic of improving road user safety in the United States. Researchers and intervention teams can tap into this network to accelerate the uptake and spread of evidence-based road safety practices.
Assessing Validity of the Fitbit Indicators for U.S. Public Health Surveillance
Creators: name: Evenson, K.R.
name: Wen, F.
name: Furberg, R.D.
Publisher: name: Elsevier Inc.
Year: 2017

description: Personally generated health data are increasingly used to report on population prevalence and trends, providing a new avenue for public health surveillance. Documentation of acceptable measurement properties to ensure correct interpretations should precede their use. One common source of personally generated health data comes from activity trackers, selfworn devices that provide feedback and long-term tracking on physical activity–related metrics. Activity trackers are relatively unobtrusive and low cost, with 12.5% of U.S. adults reporting wearing one in 2015. Companies selling activity trackers already report on data acquired by their users.
title: Regulation of E2F through the DP component
Creators: name: Cruickshank, Amanda Jayne Mary
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Cellular biology.

description: Transcription factor E2F plays an important role in orchestrating early cell cycle progression through its ability to co-ordinate and integrate the cell cycle with the transcriptional apparatus. Physiological E2F arises when members of two distinct families interact as E2F-DP heterodimers, in which the E2F component mediates transcriptional activation and physical interaction with pocket proteins, such as the tumour suppressor protein pRB. However, very little information is available regarding the mechanisms, which control the levels of functional E2F. In this study I have defined the DP component as an integrator of the E2F transcription factor with the nuclear transport pathway and the ubiquitin-proteasome mediated degradation pathway. Specifically, a bipartite nuclear localisation signal in DP is defined and shown to be necessary for nuclear accumulation of a non-NLS-containing heterodimeric partner. Pocket protein association also offers an alternative in trans NLS for translocation of the heterodimer into the nucleus. Surprisingly, the basic region of the NLS is also necessary for efficient nuclear accumulation of NLS-containing E2F heterodimeric partners. The basic region is also instrumental in the association of DP-3 with the epsilon isoform of the 14-3-3 family of signalling molecules. Using a mutant DP that fails to bind 14-3-3 has uncovered a role for 14-3-3 in the E2F pathway. An association targets the E2F heterodimer for ubiquitin-proteasome-mediated degradation to reduce excessive levels of E2F and allow cells to progress into G2 phase of the cell cycle. This study defines new pathways of growth control that are integrated with the E2F pathway through the DP subunit.
Multi-Step Cascade Annihilations of Dark Matter and the Galactic Center Excess
Creators: name: Elor, Gilly
name: Rodd, Nicholas L.
name: Slatyer, Tracy R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If dark matter is embedded in a non-trivial dark sector, it may annihilate and decay to lighter dark-sector states which subsequently decay to the Standard Model. Such scenarios - with annihilation followed by cascading dark-sector decays - can explain the apparent excess GeV gamma-rays identified in the central Milky Way, while evading bounds from dark matter direct detection experiments. Each 'step' in the cascade will modify the observable signatures of dark matter annihilation and decay, shifting the resulting photons and other final state particles to lower energies and broadening their spectra. We explore, in a model-independent way, the effect of multi-step dark-sector cascades on the preferred regions of parameter space to explain the GeV excess. We find that the broadening effects of multi-step cascades can admit final states dominated by particles that would usually produce too sharply peaked photon spectra; in general, if the cascades are hierarchical (each particle decays to substantially lighter particles), the preferred mass range for the dark matter is in all cases 20-150 GeV. Decay chains that have nearly-degenerate steps, where the products are close to half the mass of the progenitor, can admit much higher DM masses. We map out the region of mass/cross-section parameter space where cascades (degenerate, hierarchical or a combination) can fit the signal, for a range of final states. In the current work, we study multi-step cascades in the context of explaining the GeV excess, but many aspects of our results are general and can be extended to other applications.
description: 18 pages, 15 figures, 2 tables; comments welcome. Updated to published version
Successful long-term weight loss among participants with diabetes receiving an intervention promoting an adapted Mediterranean-style dietary pattern: The Heart Healthy Lenoir Project
Creators: name: Embree, G.G.R.
name: Garcia, B.A.
name: Gizlice, Z.
name: Ammerman, A.S.
name: Johnston, L.F.
name: Keyserling, T.C.
name: Evenson, K.R.
name: Samuel-Hodge, C.D.
name: DeWalt, D.A.
Publisher: name: BMJ Publishing Group
Year: 2017

description: Objective: To examine weight change by diabetes status among participants receiving a Mediterraneanstyle diet, physical activity, and weight loss intervention adapted for delivery in the southeastern USA, where rates of cardiovascular disease (CVD) are disproportionately high. Research design and methods: The intervention included: Phase I (months 1-6), an individually tailored intervention promoting a Mediterranean-style dietary pattern and increased walking; Phase II (months 7-12), option of a 16-week weight loss intervention for those with BMI≥25 kg/m2 offered as 16 weekly group sessions or 5 group sessions and 10 phone calls, or a lifestyle maintenance intervention; and Phase III (months 13-24), weight loss maintenance intervention for those losing ≥8 pounds with all others receiving a lifestyle maintenance intervention. Weight change was assessed at 6, 12, and 24-month follow-up. Results: Baseline characteristics (n=339): mean age 56, 77% female, 65% African-American, 124 (37%) with diabetes; mean weight 103 kg for those with diabetes and 95 kg for those without. Among participants with diabetes, average weight change was -1.2 kg (95% CI -2.1 to -0.4) at 6 months (n=92), -1.5 kg (95% CI -2.9 to -0.2) at 12 months (n=96), and -3.7 kg (95% CI -5.2 to -2.1) at 24 months (n=93). Among those without diabetes, weight change was -0.4 kg (95% CI -1.4 to 0.6) at 24 months (n=154). Conclusions: Participants with diabetes experienced sustained weight loss at 24-month follow-up. High-risk US populations with diabetes may experience clinically important weight loss from this type of lifestyle intervention.
Additional file 1 of Healthcare practitioner perceptions on barriers impacting cannabis prescribing practices
Creators: name: Hachem, Yasmina
name: Abdallah, Sara J.
name: Rueda, Sergio
name: Wiese, Jessica L.
name: Mehra, Kamna
name: Rup, Jennifer
name: Cowan, Juthaporn
name: Vigano, Antonio
name: Costiniuk, Cecilia T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Table 1. List of organizations contacted and organizations that agreed to circulate the survey.
Examining the Association between Intervention-Related Changes in Diet, Physical Activity, and Weight as Moderated by the Food and Physical Activity Environments among Rural, Southern Adults
Creators: name: Evenson, K.R.
name: Whitt, O.R.
name: Johnston, L.F.
name: Keyserling, T.C.
name: Gizlice, Z.
name: Ammerman, A.S.
name: McGuirt, J.T.
name: Jilcott Pitts, S.B.
Publisher: name: Elsevier B.V.
Year: 2017

description: Background Few studies have been conducted in rural areas assessing the influence of community-level environmental factors on residents’ success improving lifestyle behaviors. Objective Our aim was to examine whether 6-month changes in diet, physical activity, and weight were moderated by the food and physical activity environment in a rural adult population receiving an intervention designed to improve diet and physical activity. Design We examined associations between self-reported and objectively measured changes in diet, physical activity, and weight, and perceived and objectively measured food and physical activity environments. Participants were followed for 6 months. Participants/setting Participants were enrolled in the Heart Healthy Lenoir Project, a lifestyle intervention study conducted in Lenoir County, located in rural southeastern North Carolina. Sample sizes ranged from 132 to 249, depending on the availability of the data. Intervention Participants received four counseling sessions that focused on healthy eating (adapted Mediterranean diet pattern) and increasing physical activity. Potential moderating factors Density of and distance to food and physical activity venues, modified food environment index, Walk Score, crime, and perceived nutrition and physical activity neighborhood barriers were the potential mediating factors. Outcome measures Diet quality, physical activity, and weight loss were the outcomes measured. Statistical analyses Statistical analyses included correlation and linear regression and controlling for potential confounders (baseline values of the dependent variables, age, race, education, and sex). Results In adjusted analysis, there was an inverse association between weight change and the food environment, suggesting that participants who lived in a less-healthy food environment lost more weight during the 6-month intervention period (P=0.01). Also, there was a positive association between self-reported physical activity and distance to private gyms (P=0.04) and an inverse association between private gym density and pedometer-measured steps (P=0.03), indicating that those who lived farther from gyms and in areas with lower density of gyms had greater increases in physical activity and steps, respectively. Conclusions Contrary to our hypotheses, results indicated that those living in less-favorable food and physical activity environments had greater improvements in diet, physical activity, and weight, compared to those living in more favorable environments. Additional research should be undertaken to address these paradoxical findings and, if confirmed, to better understand them.
[CAD] Next-Generation Circular One-Hand Keyboard (opensource.com / 2023)
Creators: name: Teia, Luis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 400902
subject: Digital electronic devices
classificationCode: 400905
subject: Electronic instrumentation
classificationCode: 400999
subject: Electronics, sensors and digital hardware not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 400904
subject: Electronic device and system performance evaluation, testing and simulation

description: One-hundred years of evolution in typewriting capability, and our keyboard layout still remains essentially the same. A rectangular board with apparent randomly clustered keys. Why, and how can we do better?The present CAD construction of a novel one-hand keyboard has been published as part of an integral article released by the online magazine opensource.com (which is accessible via the link below).https://opensource.com/article/23/3/open-source-circular-one-handed-keyboardCAD files are found in annex with both FreeCAD and STEP formats.-------------------------------------------------------------------------For more public data, please visit my Figshare profile: https://figshare.com/authors/Luis_Teia/10811244
Randomizing bipartite networks: the case of the World Trade Web
Creators: name: Saracco, Fabio
name: Di Clemente, Riccardo
name: Gabrielli, Andrea
name: Squartini, Tiziano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: General Finance (q-fin.GN)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Within the last fifteen years, network theory has been successfully applied both to natural sciences and to socioeconomic disciplines. In particular, bipartite networks have been recognized to provide a particularly insightful representation of many systems, ranging from mutualistic networks in ecology to trade networks in economy, whence the need of a pattern detection-oriented analysis in order to identify statistically-significant structural properties. Such an analysis rests upon the definition of suitable null models, i.e. upon the choice of the portion of network structure to be preserved while randomizing everything else. However, quite surprisingly, little work has been done so far to define null models for real bipartite networks. The aim of the present work is to fill this gap, extending a recently-proposed method to randomize monopartite networks to bipartite networks. While the proposed formalism is perfectly general, we apply our method to the binary, undirected, bipartite representation of the World Trade Web, comparing the observed values of a number of structural quantities of interest with the expected ones, calculated via our randomization procedure. Interestingly, the behavior of the World Trade Web in this new representation is strongly different from the monopartite analogue, showing highly non-trivial patterns of self-organization.
description: 22 pages, 13 figures
Additional file 2 of Healthcare practitioner perceptions on barriers impacting cannabis prescribing practices
Creators: name: Hachem, Yasmina
name: Abdallah, Sara J.
name: Rueda, Sergio
name: Wiese, Jessica L.
name: Mehra, Kamna
name: Rup, Jennifer
name: Cowan, Juthaporn
name: Vigano, Antonio
name: Costiniuk, Cecilia T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Survey.
Accelerometer-Measured Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity and Incidence Rates of Falls in Older Women
Creators: name: Zhang, Y.
name: Marshall, S.W.
name: LaCroix, A.Z.
name: Lewis, C.E.
name: Evenson, K.R.
name: Hunt, J.
name: Rosenberg, D.E.
name: Rillamas-Sun, E.
name: Lee, I.-M.
name: Di, C.
name: LaMonte, M.J.
name: Stefanick, M.L.
name: Buchner, D.M.
name: Herring, A.H.
Publisher: name: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
Year: 2017

description: Objectives: To examine whether moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) measured using accelerometry is associated with incident falls and whether associations differ according to physical function or history of falls. Design: Prospective study with baseline data collection from 2012 to 2014 and 1 year of follow-up. Setting: Women's Health Initiative participants living in the United States. Participants: Ambulatory women aged 63 to 99 (N = 5,545). Measurements: Minutes of MVPA per day measured using an accelerometer, functional status measured using the Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB), fall risk factors assessed using a questionnaire, fall injuries assessed in a telephone interview, incident falls ascertained from fall calendars. Results: Incident rate ratios (IRRs) revealed greater fall risk in women in the lowest quartile of MVPA compared to those in the highest (IRR = 1.18, 95% confidence interval = 1.01–1.38), adjusted for age, race and ethnicity, and fall risk factors. Fall rates were not significantly associated with MVPA in women with high SPPB scores (9–12) or one or fewer falls in the previous year, but in women with low SPPB scores (≤ 8) or a history of frequent falls, fall rates were higher in women with lower MVPA levels than in those with higher levels (interaction P <.03 and <.001, respectively). Falls in women with MVPA above the median were less likely to involve injuries requiring medical treatment (9.9%) than falls in women with lower MVPA levels (13.0%) (P <.001). Conclusion: These findings indicate that falls are not more common or injurious in older women who engage in higher levels of MVPA. These findings support encouraging women to engage in the amounts and types of MVPA that they prefer. Older women with low physical function or frequent falls with low levels of MVPA are a high-risk group for whom vigilance about falls prevention is warranted.
Neighborhood Environment and Adiposity among Older Adults: the Cardiovascular Health of Seniors and the Built Environment Study
Creators: name: Morland, Kimberly B.
name: Scanlin, Kathleen
name: Granieri, Evelyn
name: Godbold, James
name: Bordowitz, Richard
name: Evenson, Kelly R.
name: Filomena, Susan
name: Spark, Arlene
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Background. Individual neighborhood factors are associated with obesity-related health behaviors and rates; however, there remains a paucity of information characterizing whole environments in these relationships and limited information on the effect for older adults. Methods. Adults, aged 60 or older living in New York City, were enrolled into the Cardiovascular Health of Seniors and the Built Environment between January 2009 and June 2011. Walking audits of all streets within 300-meter buffer zones around residential addresses were conducted resulting in the assessment of 34 different neighborhood features hypothesized to be associated with obesity through physical activity and diet. Outcomes included objective measures of body fat mass (FM), waist circumference (WC), and body mass index (BMI). Stratified linear regression models were used to calculate geographic differences in associations between neighborhood resources and adiposity by gender and age categories in areas where Black, White and Latino residents lived. Results. For women 60-69 years of age living in black areas, neighborhood features resulted in a higher FM than the average Brooklyn neighborhood (Difference (D) =2.15, 95% CI [1.15, 3.15]). Conversely, for women of the same age living in white and Latino areas, a lower prevalence of FM was observed: white areas: (D= -2.01, 95% CI [-3.62, -0.40]); Latino areas: (D= -1.43, 95% CI [-2.72, -0.14]). The direction of the effects remained similar for other age groups, although the estimates were less precise. Estimates of FM were inconsistent across age groups for men living in each of the areas. Other measurements of adiposity showed similar results. Conclusions. The composition of neighborhood features in white and Latino residential areas is protective of adiposity, whereas features located in black areas appear to place residents at greater risk.
Code and Statistics from Madagascan highlands: originally woodland and forest containing endemic grasses, not grazing-adapted grassland
Creators: name: Joseph, Grant S.
name: Seymour, Colleen L.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 40308 Palaeontology (incl. Palynology)
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: R Code, data, and statistical analyses
Additional file 1 of Empowering the willing: the feasibility of tele-mentored self-performed pleural ultrasound assessment for the surveillance of lung health
Creators: name: Kirkpatrick, Andrew W.
name: McKee, Jessica L.
name: Ball, Chad G.
name: Ma, Irene W. Y.
name: Melniker, Lawrence A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Subject pre-test evaluation form.
Containment for Conditional Tree Patterns
Creators: name: Facchini, Alessandro
name: Hirai, Yoichi
name: Marx, Maarten
name: Sherkhonov, Evgeny
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A Conditional Tree Pattern (CTP) expands an XML tree pattern with labels attached to the descendant edges. These labels can be XML element names or Boolean CTPs. The meaning of a descendant edge labelled by A and ending in a node labelled by B is a path of child steps ending in a B node such that all intermediate nodes are A nodes. In effect this expresses the until B, A holds construction from temporal logic.This paper studies the containment problem for CTP. For tree patterns (TP), this problem is known to be coNP-complete. We show that it is PSPACE-complete for CTP. This increase in complexity is due to the fact that CTP is expressive enough to encode an unrestricted form of label negation: ${*}\setminus a$, meaning "any node except an a-node". Containment of TP expanded with this type of negation is already PSPACE-hard. CTP is a positive, forward, first order fragment of Regular XPath. Unlike TP, CTP expanded with disjunction is not equivalent to unions of CTP's. Like TP, CTP is a natural fragment to consider: CTP is closed under intersections and CTP with disjunction is equally expressive as positive existential first order logic expanded with the until operator.
Environmental Disparities in the Objectively and Longitudinally Measured Local Food Environments of Urban Older Adults
Creators: name: Spark, Arlene
name: Granieri, Evelyn
name: Evenson, Kelly R.
name: Filomena, Susan
name: Morland, Kimberly B.
name: Scanlin, Kathleen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Background: Valid measures of local food environments are needed to quantify disparities in the availability of healthy foods and estimate the effect of built environments on health. Limited measures are available to describe the fluctuation of food retail environments over time, and how food environments are utilized by older adults. Purpose: This study measured neighborhood environments of older adults living in Brooklyn, NY, using an objective, prospective audit tool in order to document variations in the availability of food retailers and other neighborhood resources over a two-year period. Additionally, neighborhood utilization patterns, which may mitigate exposure to the built environment, were assessed using surveys of participating older adults. Methods: Older adults enrolled in the Cardiovascular Health of Seniors and the Built Environment study in New York City (NYC) between 2009-2011 completed surveys in person at baseline and two years later (n=1,318). Auditors documented food retailers located on NYC streets within 300-meters of each participant’s home, within six months of baseline surveys, and two years later. Results: Most participants walked to food stores, purchased food less than 0.5 mile from home, and consumed meals at home. Changes to food retail environments were observed by race and ethnicity, with decreases in bodegas (b= -1.28, standard error (SE) = 0.18) and liquor stores (b= -0.19, SE 0.05) in the buffer zones of white participants compared with that of black participants. Increases in supermarkets were observed in both white (b= 0.27, SE 0.07) and Latino buffer zones (b= 0.28, SE 0.08). Conclusions: Changes in food environments varied by areas where Black, White, and Hispanic participants lived. Understanding the variation of exposure to local food environments over time, and how the exposures may be mediated by behaviors, will lead to more precision in exposure assignment within this area of environmental and health science.
title: Variable resolution Micro-CT for in-vivo and in-vitro bone healing assessment in a large lesion model on rat femurs
Creators: name: Panetta, Daniele
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Drugs / Reactions
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Musculoskeletal bone

description: Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information
description: Purpose: Interest is growing in regenerative medicine on validated animal models. A micro-CT approach to quantitate bone regeneration in large lesions on rat femurs is presented here. Bone pathologies involve a growing number of people. Traditional...
Un'analisi disaggregata delle spese per consumo in Italia
Creators: name: Stagni, Anna
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 1986
Subjects: SECS-P/01 Economia politica

description: I mutamenti nella composizione della spesa per consumi sono uno degli elementi di maggior rilievo che nel medio periodo possono provocare variazioni di struttura nelle branche produttive. Affinché un modello possa cogliere questo tipo di effetti è essenziale che esso analizzi, accanto al consumo aggregato, anche la sua allocazione su un numero sufficientemente ampio di categorie di beni, consentendo di individuare il più correttamente possibile gli elementi che modificano nel tempo l'evoluzione delle singole voci di spesa.
Additional file 4 of Empowering the willing: the feasibility of tele-mentored self-performed pleural ultrasound assessment for the surveillance of lung health
Creators: name: Kirkpatrick, Andrew W.
name: McKee, Jessica L.
name: Ball, Chad G.
name: Ma, Irene W. Y.
name: Melniker, Lawrence A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 4. Pleural Scoring System for COVID 19.
Origin of structure: Statistical characterization of the primordial density fluctuations and the collapse of the wave function
Creators: name: Leon, Gabriel
name: Sudarsky, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The statistical properties of the primordial density perturbations has been considered in the past decade as a powerful probe of the physical processes taking place in the early universe. Within the inflationary paradigm, the properties of the bispectrum are one of the keys that serves to discriminate among competing scenarios concerning the details of the origin of cosmological perturbations. However, all of the scenarios, based on the conventional approach to the so-called "quantum-to-classical transition" during inflation, lack the ability to point out the precise physical mechanism responsible for generating the inhomogeneity and anisotropy of our universe starting from and exactly homogeneous and isotropic vacuum state associated with the early inflationary regime. In past works, we have shown that the proposals involving a spontaneous dynamical reduction of the quantum state provide plausible explanations for the birth of said primordial inhomogeneities and anisotropies. In the present manuscript we show that, when considering within the context of such proposals, the characterization of the spectrum and bispectrum turn out to be quite different from those found in the traditional approach, and in particular, some of the statistical features, must be treated in a different way leading to some rather different conclusions.
description: 24 pages, 3 figures. Minor corrections, accepted for publication in JCAP. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1312.7590
Supplementary document for Visualization of transparent particles based on optical spatial differentiation - 6062379.pdf
Creators: name: He, Shanshan
name: wang, Ruisi
name: xu, wenhao
name: Luo, Zhao
name: Luo, Hailu
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Explanation about the innovations of our theoretical model
Additional file 5 of Empowering the willing: the feasibility of tele-mentored self-performed pleural ultrasound assessment for the surveillance of lung health
Creators: name: Kirkpatrick, Andrew W.
name: McKee, Jessica L.
name: Ball, Chad G.
name: Ma, Irene W. Y.
name: Melniker, Lawrence A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 5. Mentors and Blinded Reviewers Assessment of Pleural Lung Health Scoring.
EFFECT OF BONE POWDER IN COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH OF SELF COMPACTING CONCRETE
Creators: name: EYOB ROBEL
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019
Subjects: self-compacting concrete, bone powder, compressive strength, tensile strength, fresh physical test, water cement ratio.

description: In Ethiopia the construction industry is the leading development sector which is up to 9.5 percent of the total gross domestic products of the country. The main objective of this research is to study on behavior of Self-compacting concrete (SCC) in the fresh and hardened states and to evaluate the effect of bone powder in compressive strength. SCC mix was designed with a constant ratio of mixing constituents and varying water to cement ratio (W/C) which are 0.5, 0.45, 0.4, 0.35, 0.32, and 0.3. Fresh physical property tests were conducted for the selection of suitable W/C. W/C of 0.32 gives a good result among the six mixes, and taken as a controlling mix. The fresh physical test and hardened compressive and flexural tests are made three times for controlling mix. Bone powder was added to the controlling mix in 3%. 6%, 9%, 12% and 15% then, fresh and harden state property are checked for each mix. The results show that the fresh property of SCC is upgraded in the presence of bone powder especially for 6% and 9%. The mix with 3% and 6% of bone powder has recorded higher flexural and compressive strength where the strength results for 9%, 12% and 15% record lower strength values compared to that of the control. Thus cement can be replaced up to 6% by bone powder to upgrade the fresh property of SCC without affecting compressive and flexural strength.
Cardiometabolic Correlates of Physical Activity and Sedentary Patterns in U.S. Youth
Creators: name: Stevens, J.
name: Jenkins, G.P.
name: Herring, A.H.
name: Hales, D.
name: Evenson, K.R.
Publisher: name: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Year: 2017

description: Introduction Daily or weekly averages of physical activity and sedentary behavior could mask patterns of behavior throughout the week that independently affect cardiovascular health. We examined associations between day-to-day physical activity and sedentary behavior latent classes and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in U.S. youth. Methods Data were from 3984 youth ages 6-17 yr from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2003-2006) and from previously published accelerometry latent classes characterizing average counts per minute and percent of wear time in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and sedentary behavior. Multiple linear regression was used to examine associations of the classes with waist circumference, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, HDL-C and LDL-C, triglycerides, glucose, and insulin. Results Participants spent 50.4% of the day in sedentary behavior and 5.3% of the day in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity. Average counts per minute were 516.4 for a 7-d period. Significant differences in CVD risk factors were between extreme classes with few differences observed in intermediate classes. Youth in latent class 4 (highest average counts per minute) had lower systolic blood pressure (-4.11 mm Hg, 95% confidence interval [CI] = -7.74 to -0.55), lower glucose (-4.25 mg·dL-1, 95% CI = -7.84 to -0.66]), and lower insulin (-6.83 μU·mL-1, 95% CI = -8.66 to -4.99]) compared with youth in class 1 (lowest average counts per minute). Waist circumference was lower for the least sedentary class (-2.54 cm, 95% CI = -4.90 to -0.19) compared with the most sedentary class. Some associations were attenuated when classes were adjusted for mean physical activity or sedentary level. Conclusions There is some indication that patterns, in addition to the total amount of physical activity and sedentary behavior, may be important for cardiovascular health in youth. Longitudinal studies are needed to examine associations between physical activity and sedentary behavior patterns and changes in CVD risk factors.
Additional file 1 of Development of a cost of illness inventory questionnaire for children with autism spectrum disorder in South Asia
Creators: name: Chaudhary, Divya
name: Bhat, Bhargav
name: Shields, Gemma E.
name: Davies, Linda M.
name: Green, Jonathan
name: Verghis, Tara
name: Roy, Reetabrata
name: Kumar, Divya
name: Kakra, Minal
name: Vajaratkar, Vivek
name: Lall, Gitanjali
name: Pandey, Sonakshi
name: Johri, Sanchita
name: Shakeel, Saani
name: Patel, Vikram
name: Juneja, Monica
name: Gulati, Sheffali
name: Divan, Gauri
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary material.
Additional file 1 of Constitutive overexpression of GsIMaT2 gene from wild soybean enhances rhizobia interaction and increase nodulation in soybean (Glycine max)
Creators: name: Darwish, Doaa Bahaa Eldin
name: Ali, Mohammed
name: Abdelkawy, Aisha M.
name: Zayed, Muhammad
name: Alatawy, Marfat
name: Nagah, Aziza
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Bayesian phylogenetic analysis for the wild soybean phenolic glucoside malonytransferase GsIMaT2 (A0A445FY23) and its paralogous from Glycine soja and its orthologous from Glycine soja, Glycine max, Nicotiana tabacum, Arabidopsis thaliana, and Salvia splendens. The uniport IDs for various homologous proteins are labelled on the tree after the plant abbreviation.
Video Inpainting of Complex Scenes
Creators: name: Newson, Alasdair
name: Almansa, Andrés
name: Fradet, Matthieu
name: Gousseau, Yann
name: Pérez, Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We propose an automatic video inpainting algorithm which relies on the optimisation of a global, patch-based functional. Our algorithm is able to deal with a variety of challenging situations which naturally arise in video inpainting, such as the correct reconstruction of dynamic textures, multiple moving objects and moving background. Furthermore, we achieve this in an order of magnitude less execution time with respect to the state-of-the-art. We are also able to achieve good quality results on high definition videos. Finally, we provide specific algorithmic details to make implementation of our algorithm as easy as possible. The resulting algorithm requires no segmentation or manual input other than the definition of the inpainting mask, and can deal with a wider variety of situations than is handled by previous work. 1. Introduction. Advanced image and video editing techniques are increasingly common in the image processing and computer vision world, and are also starting to be used in media entertainment. One common and difficult task closely linked to the world of video editing is image and video " inpainting ". Generally speaking, this is the task of replacing the content of an image or video with some other content which is visually pleasing. This subject has been extensively studied in the case of images, to such an extent that commercial image inpainting products destined for the general public are available, such as Photoshop's " Content Aware fill " [1]. However, while some impressive results have been obtained in the case of videos, the subject has been studied far less extensively than image inpainting. This relative lack of research can largely be attributed to high time complexity due to the added temporal dimension. Indeed, it has only very recently become possible to produce good quality inpainting results on high definition videos, and this only in a semi-automatic manner. Nevertheless, high-quality video inpainting has many important and useful applications such as film restoration, professional post-production in cinema and video editing for personal use. For this reason, we believe that an automatic, generic video inpainting algorithm would be extremely useful for both academic and professional communities.
Physical Activity as a Vital Sign: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Golightly, Y.M.
name: Evenson, K.R.
name: Stiller, J.L.
name: Hootman, J.M.
name: Allen, K.D.
name: Ambrose, K.R.
name: Callahan, L.F.
name: Voisin, C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: INTRODUCTION: Physical activity (PA) is strongly endorsed for managing chronic conditions, and a vital sign tool (indicator of general physical condition) could alert providers of inadequate PA to prompt counseling or referral. This systematic review examined the use, definitions, psychometric properties, and outcomes of brief PA instruments as vital sign measures, with attention primarily to studies focused on arthritis.METHODS: Electronic databases were searched for English-language literature from 1985 through 2016 using the terms PA, exercise, vital sign, exercise referral scheme, and exercise counseling. Of the 838 articles identified for title and abstract review, 9 articles qualified for full text review and data extraction.RESULTS: Five brief PA measures were identified: Exercise Vital Sign (EVS), Physical Activity Vital Sign (PAVS), Speedy Nutrition and Physical Activity Assessment (SNAP), General Practice Physical Activity Questionnaire (GPPAQ), and Stanford Brief Activity Survey (SBAS). Studies focusing on arthritis were not found. Over 1.5 years of using EVS in a large hospital system, improvements occurred in relative weight loss among overweight patients and reduction in glycosylated hemoglobin among diabetic patients. On PAVS, moderate physical activity of 5 or more days per week versus fewer than 5 days per week was associated with a lower body mass index (-2.90 kg/m2). Compared with accelerometer-defined physical activity, EVS was weakly correlated (r = 0.27), had low sensitivity (27%-59%), and high specificity (74%-89%); SNAP showed weak agreement (κ = 0.12); GPPAQ had moderate sensitivity (46%) and specificity (50%), and SBAS was weakly correlated (r = 0.10-0.28), had poor to moderate sensitivity (18%-67%), and had moderate specificity (58%-79%).CONCLUSION: Few studies have examined a brief physical activity tool as a vital sign measure. Initial investigations suggest the promise of these simple and quick assessment tools, and research is needed to test the effects of their use on chronic disease outcomes.