cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Pew Research Center Poll: July 2010, Omnibus Week 4--Gulf Oil Spill
Creators: name: Pew Research Center
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2010

description: Congressional party job performance (2); republican party handling certain issues (3); Democratic party handling certain issues (3); improving economic conditions (1); following certain news stories (6); most closely followed story (1); press coverage of certain issues (4); news about Gulf oil spill (1); information on Gulf oil spill coming from certain sources (3); George W. Bush Tax cuts (1).
CREATIVE SYSTEM INTEGRATION: BUILDING TOOLS FOR COLLABORATIVE WORKFLOW IN LIVE PERFORMANCE
Creators: name: Williams, Mark
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Performing arts
subject: Theater
subject: Dance

description: Creative System Integration is the process of assembling systems of technology for design that supports the creative needs of a performance. In these writings, I document and reflect on the steps my collaborators and I took in two productions, “DanceXDance” and “The Late Wedding”. I examine the processes and performance objectives of these two shows with attention to how technology and the medium of media was utilized, and the advantages or limitations it presented. I explore how new technology can be leveraged to create new collaborative workspaces, new methodologies, subvert expectations about media, and improve creative agency, all while meeting the unique narrative and mediaturgical needs of each production.
Pew Research Center Poll: August 2010, Omnibus Week 1--News Interest Index
Creators: name: Pew Research Center
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2011

description: Following certain news stories (6); story followed most closely (1); impression of Barack Obama (1); news about economy (1); news about Gulf oil spill (1); classifying self as Democratic (2); classfying self as Republican (2).
Recommendations to Improve Human Milk Feeding Rates for Preterm Infants in NICUs in North Carolina and the United States
Creators: name: Whelan, Jessica
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Preterm birth rates remain high in North Carolina and throughout the United States (12.9% and 12.3% respectively), while human milk feeding rates are lower for preterm infants than for full term infants. Human milk is widely known to be the optimal form of nutrition for preterm infants, due to its multiple health, psychological, and economic benefits. Breastfeeding helps prevent many health problems to which preterm infants are susceptible; breastfeeding is therefore an important public health intervention. However, mothers of preterm infants face unique challenges to initiating and sustaining lactation. Mothers of preterm infants need to be supported in overcoming these challenges in order to improve human milk feeding rates. Hospitalization in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) presents an opportunity for mothers to receive specialized support from hospital personnel. The objectives of this paper are to review the literature on human milk feedings in the preterm population in order to explore barriers to lactation and recommend NICU interventions for addressing these barriers, thereby increasing lactation initiation and duration rates. This paper also discusses the use of donor human milk and makes recommendations on how to increase access to its use in the NICU and in the outpatient setting. More research is needed on human milk feeding and preterm infants, but the literature demonstrates that there have been successful interventions at improving human milk feeding rates. Successful interventions must be multi-tiered and focus on multiple levels of the social ecological model in order to be most effective. Recommendations in this paper span a range of interventions, from the inpatient setting to post-discharge, and include both general and specific (for North Carolina) recommendations for NICUs.
MassINC Poll # 2005-25032: Baby Boomers Survey
Creators: name: MassINC
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Satisfaction with family's state of affairs (1); biggest concerns for family (3); children/step-children (3); residence (2); ownership of residence (4); value of equity (1); expectations to move (3); importance of making a profit on sale of property (1); employment (4); plans for retirement (22); marital status (1); partner's employment (5); partner's plans for retirement (3); savings for retirement (6); residence during retirement (12); ownership of additional homes (5); health status (1); health status of partner (2); health insurance (3); health care during retirement (4); involvement in activities (6); involvement in during retirement (9); support of adult children (4); aid to elderly parents (11); personal financial situation (8); debt (1).
title: Modeling and empirically assessing climate policies and asset stranding
title: Patterns of policy-induced losses in the fossil fuel extraction, power, and financial sector
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Von Dulong, Angelika
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Klimapolitik
subject: Wertverlust von Vermögensgegenständen
subject: Verteilungseffekte
subject: Depositenmärkte
subject: systemische Risiken
subject: asset stranding
subject: climate policies
subject: distributional effects
subject: deposit markets
subject: systemic risk
subject: 330 Wirtschaft
subject: QT 000
subject: MF 9150
subject: AR 28110

description: Die Umsetzung einer effektiven Klimapolitik ermöglicht die Verringerung von Treibhausgasemissionen und damit die Eindämmung des Klimawandels. Eine solche Politik hat jedoch negative Auswirkungen auf die direkt oder indirekt in der fossilen Industrie tätigen Akteure, wenn deren Vermögensgegenstände wertlos werden (auch „Asset Stranding“ genannt). Diese Arbeit leistet einen Beitrag zum Verständnis der Wechselwirkung zwischen Klimapolitik und Asset Stranding: Sie untersucht angebotsseitige Politikmaßnahmen in der fossilen Brennstoffindustrie, das Ausmaß und die Verteilung von Asset Stranding auf Ebene der Anlagenbesitzer im Energiesektor und die Wechselwirkungen zwischen Asset Stranding, Erwartungen über Klimapolitik und systemischen Finanzkrisen. Darüber hinaus gibt die Arbeit einen Überblick über die Literatur im Bereich Klimaökonomie zu Asset Stranding und zu entgangenen Gewinnen der Produzenten fossiler Brennstoffe aufgrund von Klimapolitik. Die Arbeit besteht aus fünf Artikeln (Kapitel 2-6), die von einer allgemeinen Einleitung und einer Schlussfolgerung umschlossen werden.
description: The implementation of effective climate policies facilitates reducing greenhouse gas emissions and thereby mitigating climate change. Such policies, however, have adverse effects on stakeholders directly or indirectly engaged in the fossil industry if they find the value of their assets "stranded". This thesis contributes to our understanding of the interaction between climate policies and asset stranding: It studies supply-side policies in the upstream fossil fuel extraction industry, the extent and distribution of stranded assets at the asset owner level in the power sector, and the interaction of asset stranding, expectations of climate policies, and financial systemic crises. Further, the thesis surveys the climate economics literature on stranded assets and fossil fuel producers' lost profits due to climate policies. The thesis is a compilation of five articles (Chapters 2-6) encased by a general introduction and a conclusion.
title: Post-mortem computed tomography (PMCT) techniques in forensic investigations of fatal gunshot wounds
Creators: name: Filograna, Laura
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Forensic / Necropsy studies
subject: CT
subject: Medico-legal issues
subject: Forensics

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The aims of this education exhibit are: to understand the role of PMCT in forensic investigations of gunshot fatalities; to discuss thecontribution of PMCT in the definition of the entrance and exit wound, and of the bullet track; to suggest...
Absorption spectra from galactic wind models: a framework to link PLUTO simulations to TRIDENT
Creators: name: Casavecchia, Benedetta
name: Banda-Barragán, Wladimir
name: Brüggen, Marcus
name: Brighenti, Fabrizio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Galactic winds probe how feedback regulates the mass and metallicity of galaxies. Galactic winds have cold gas, which is mainly observable with absorption and emission lines. Theoretically studying how absorption lines are produced requires numerical simulations and realistic starburst UV backgrounds. We use outputs from a suite of 3D PLUTO simulations of wind-cloud interactions to first estimate column densities and temperatures. Then, to create synthetic spectra, we developed a python interface to link our PLUTO simulations to TRIDENT via the YT-package infrastructure. First we produce UV backgrounds accounting for the star formation rate of starbursts. For this purpose, we use fluxes generated by STARBURST99, which are then processed through CLOUDY to create customised ion tables. Such tables are subsequently read into TRIDENT to generate absorption spectra. We explain how the various packages and tools communicate with each other to create ion spectra consistent with spectral energy distributions of starburst systems.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the IAU Symposium 362 "Predictive Power of Computational Astrophysics as a Discovery Tool"
title: Subcutaneous venous port implantation in cancer patients.
Creators: name: Sarajlic, Vesna
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Oncology
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Catheter venography
subject: Venous access
subject: Cancer

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: How to perform a two-incision subcutaneous technique of central venous port system implantation in cancer patients. An experienced interventional radiologist under the guidance of ultrasound and fluoroscopy can safely perform the...
Baryon Number Fluctuations from a Crossover Equation of State Compared to Heavy-Ion Collision Measurements in the Beam Energy Range $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 7.7 to 200 GeV
Creators: name: Albright, M.
name: Kapusta, J.
name: Young, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fluctuations of the proton number distribution in central Au-Au collisions have been measured by the STAR collaboration in a beam energy scan at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The motivation is a search for evidence of a critical point in the equation of state. It was found that the skewness and kurtosis display an interesting energy dependence. We compare these measurements to an equation of state which smoothly interpolates between an excluded volume hadron resonance gas at low energy density to a perturbative plasma of quarks and gluons at high energy density. This crossover equation of state agrees very well with the lattice QCD equation of state. The crossover equation of state can reproduce the data if the fluctuations are frozen at a temperature significantly lower than the average chemical freeze-out.
description: 17 pages, 10 figures
Times Mirror Poll # 1992-NII0292: February News Interest Index
Creators: name: Times Mirror Center For The People & The Press
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2013

description: George H. W. Bush job performance (1); most important recent news event (1); following of news stories (11); press job performance (3); viewing of televised debates between Democratic candidates (1); viewing of President Bush's State of the Union address (1); source of news about 1992 Presidential election campaign (2); preferred candidates for 1992 Presidential election (5); most likely candidate to win the 1992 Presidential election (1); opinion of men running for 1992 Democratic presidential nomination (1); quality of 1992 Presidential candidates (5); 1992 Presidential candidate with cancer (1); themes of the 1992 Presidential campaign (8); 1992 Presidential candidates that would do best job looking out for interests of groups of people (2); new organizations coverage of the 1992 Presidential campaign (1); influence of news organizations on Presidential nominees (1); news coverage of Governor Bill Clinton's presidential campaign (4); countries representing greatest danger to country (1); leak to press about Anita Hill accusations against Clarence Thomas (3); opinion of public figures (8); agree/disagree with statement (17); voting habits (1); readership of publications (1); listening to programs (5).
title: Airway stent placement for malignant tracheobronchial strictures in patients with an endotracheal tube
Creators: name: Kim, Min Jung
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Lung
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Stents
subject: Dilation
subject: Dilatation
subject: Obstruction / Occlusion

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Malignant tracheobronchial obstruction can cause dyspnea, stridor, and obstructive pneumonia and is occasionally life-threatening due to the possibility of suffocation [1, 2]. When obstruction occurs, an endotracheal tube is inserted into the...
Study DP 584
Creators: name: Service De Sondages Et Statistiques
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 1997

description: Use of spare time; Sundays; most important daily problem; evaluation of France; government's handling of country's problems; usefulness of political parties; evaluation of U.N.R. party; de Gaulle as President; role of the president of the Republic; evaluation of present government; voting intention; party preference; party platform information; evaluation of department personalities; party preference.
title: Evaluation of sentinel nodes metastases identified by CT lymphography in patients with primary breast cancer without clinical evidence of lymph node metstases
Creators: name: Tokuda, Yukiko
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: CT
subject: Lymph nodes
subject: Breast
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy has replaced axillary lymph node dissection as the standard of care for patients with primary breast cancer without clinical evidences of lymph node metastases. SLNs are commonly marked by the combination of a blue...
Large magnetoresistance in LaBi: origin of field-induced resistivity upturn and plateau in compensated semimetals
Creators: name: Sun, Shanshan
name: Wang, Qi
name: Guo, Peng-Jie
name: Liu, Kai
name: Lei, Hechang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The discovery of non-magnetic extreme magnetoresistance (XMR) materials has induced great interests because the XMR phenomenon challenges our understanding of how a magnetic field can alter electron transport in semimetals. Among XMR materials, the LaSb shows XMR and field-induced exotic behaviors but it seems to lack the essentials for these properties. Here, we study the magnetotransport properties and electronic structure of LaBi, isostructural to LaSb. LaBi exhibits large MR as in LaSb, which can be ascribed to the nearly compensated electron and hole with rather high mobilities. More importantly, our analysis suggests that the XMR as well as field-induced resistivity upturn and plateau observed in LaSb and LaBi can be well explained by the two-band model with the compensation situation. We present the critical conditions leading to these field-induced properties. It will contribute to understanding the XMR phenomenon and explore novel XMR materials.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures
Boundary Conditions for $\mathrm{AdS_2}$ Dilaton Gravity
Creators: name: Valcárcel, Carlos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a bi-parametric family of dilaton gravity models with constant and negative curvature. This family includes the Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity and the Liouville gravity model induced by a bosonic string. Furthermore, this family is conformally equivalent to the hiperbolic dilaton models. We propose boundary conditions in the Fefferman-Graham and in the Eddington-Finkelstein gauge. We check the consistency of the asymptotic conditions by computing the entropy of their black hole solution.
description: 14 pages. v3: typos corrected, references added, modifications on the introduction and final remarks section
QUELLES RELATIONS EXISTENT LES PRÉNOMS ET L’IDENTITÉ FRANÇAISE, ET COMMENT CETTE RELATION A-T-ELLE EVOLUÉ DEPUIS 1803 ?
Creators: name: Laverdiere, Marie
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: French literature

description: This thesis analyzes the connection between prénoms (first names) and l’identité française (French identity). Today, l’identité française is a term that can be used to create a negative view of immigrants, favoring a homogenous national identity. This paper analyzes the history and evolution of l’identité française to better understand how and why the term can be negatively associated. Simultaneously, this paper tries to connect the evolution of l’identité française with analyses of the changing prénoms in France.
Spectroscopy of divalent rare earth ions in fluoride crystals
Creators: name: Shendrik, R.
name: Myasnikova, A. S.
name: Radzhabov, E. A.
name: Nepomnyashchikh, A. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the absorption spectra of x-ray irradiation-induced Ce2+ and Pr2+ ions in crystals of alkaline-earth fluorides. We have calculated absorption spectra of divalent praseodymium ions in SrF2 crystals doped with Pr2+ for the first time. The calculated spectra agree rather well with the experimental data. In crystals containing induced Ce2+ ions we have found strong electron-phonon coupling. In BaF2, we do not observe bands corresponded to divalent Ce or Pr ions.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures, 1 table
title: MR-guided vaccum-assisted breast biopsy device: our experience and outcomes
Creators: name: Perez Montilla, Maria Eugenia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Breast MR imaging enables the identification of additional malignancies that are mammographically and ultrasonographically occult in approximately 10% to 20% of patients with a malignant breast lesion (1). Sometimes, histopathological analysis is...
Sparsity assisted solution to the twin image problem in phase retrieval
Creators: name: Gaur, Charu
name: Mohan, Baranidharan
name: Khare, Kedar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The iterative phase retrieval problem for complex-valued objects from Fourier transform magnitude data is known to suffer from the twin image problem. In particular, when the object support is centro-symmetric, the iterative solution often stagnates such that the resultant complex image contains the features of both the desired solution and its inverted and complex-conjugated replica. The conventional approach to address the twin image problem is to modify the object support during initial iterations which can possibly lead to elimination of one of the twin images. However, at present there seems to be no deterministic procedure to make sure that the twin image will always be very weak or absent. In this work we make an important observation that the ideal solution without the twin image is typically more sparse (in some suitable transform domain) as compared to the stagnated solution containing the twin image. We further show that introducing a sparsity enhancing step in the iterative algorithm can address the twin image problem without the need to change the object support throughout the iterative process even when the object support is centro-symmetric. In a simulation study, we use binary and gray-scale pure phase objects and illustrate the effectiveness of the sparsity assisted phase recovery in the context of the twin image problem. The results have important implications for a wide range of topics in Physics where the phase retrieval problem plays a central role.
Prescription Opioid Overdose Prevention in North Carolina: A Program and Evaluation Plan
Creators: name: Hignutt, Emanuel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Prescription opioid analgesics have been implicated as a contributing factor in the precipitous rise in unintentional poisonings in North Carolina over the past decade. Epidemiological data suggest that the recent rise in unintentional poisonings is associated with a corresponding increase in the sale of opioid analgesics. A literature review was conducted to evaluate the status of intervention programs that address the factors thought to be associated with opioid overdose and inform elements of a program to reduce mortality. In this paper I present an evidence-based program and evaluation plan that combines elements from the literature that were found to reduce overdose mortality. The plan emphasizes primary prevention through community involvement, physician education, uniform opioid prescribing guidelines, and modification of emergency department prescribing policies. Secondary and tertiary prevention components of the plan include increased use of the Controlled Substance Reporting System, the use of universal safety precautions, and distribution of Naloxone "rescue kits" to high-risk patients. Implementation of the plan requires the development of a community coalition at the county level, consisting of representatives from the local health department, physicians, hospitals, and other stakeholders. Strong leadership on the part of the coalition is crucial to achieving successful outcomes.
TRAP: using TaRgeted Ads to unveil Google personal Profiles
Creators: name: Conti, Mauro
name: Cozza, Vittoria
name: Petrocchi, Marinella
name: Spognardi, Angelo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the last decade, the advertisement market spread significantly in the web and mobile app system. Its effectiveness is also due thanks to the possibility to target the advertisement on the specific interests of the actual user, other than on the content of the website hosting the advertisement. In this scenario, became of great value services that collect and hence can provide information about the browsing user, like Facebook and Google. In this paper, we show how to maliciously exploit the Google Targeted Advertising system to infer personal information in Google user profiles. In particular, the attack we consider is external from Google and relies on combining data from Google AdWords with other data collected from a website of the Google Display Network. We validate the effectiveness of our proposed attack, also discussing possible application scenarios. The result of our research shows a significant practical privacy issue behind such type of targeted advertising service, and call for further investigation and the design of more privacy-aware solutions, possibly without impeding the current business model involved in online advertisement.
description: 7th IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS) 2015. 6 pages
The use of digital technologies for education and training programs for healthcare providers on newborn resuscitation and complication management: protocol for a scoping review
Creators: name: Horiuchi, Sayaka
name: Vogel, Joshua
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Maternal and Child Health
subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Maternal, Child Health and Neonatal Nursing
subject: Medical Specialties
subject: Pediatrics
subject: Medical Education
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This aims to identify and document all available digital technologies for healthcare provider education and training programs on newborn resuscitation and management of neonatal sepsis and respiratory distress in the early postnatal period, and determine which (if any) programs can help meet training needs in resource-limited settings.
Tunable photochemical deposition of silver nanostructures on layered ferroelectric CuInP$_2$S6
Creators: name: Kong, Fanyi
name: Zhang, Lei
name: Cong, Tianze
name: Wu, Zhiwei
name: Liu, Kun
name: Sun, Changsen
name: Pan, Lujun
name: Li, Dawei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 2D layered ferroelectric materials such as CuInP$_2$S6 (CIPS) are promising candidates for novel and high-performance photocatalysts, owning to their ultrathin layer thickness, strong interlayer coupling, and intrinsic spontaneous polarization, while how to control the photocatalytic activity in layered CIPS remains unexplored. In this work, we report for the first time the photocatalytic activity of ferroelectric CIPS for the chemical deposition of silver nanostructures (AgNSs). The results show that the shape and spatial distribution of AgNSs on CIPS are tunable by controlling layer thickness, environmental temperature, and light wavelength. The ferroelectric polarization in CIPS plays a critical role in tunable AgNS photodeposition, as evidenced by layer thickness and temperature dependence experiments. We further reveal that AgNS photodeposition process starts from the active site creation, selective nanoparticle nucleation/aggregation, to the continuous film formation. Moreover, AgNS/CIPS heterostructures prepared by photodeposition exhibit excellent resistance switching behavior and good surface enhancement Raman Scattering activity. Our findings provide new insight into the photocatalytic activity of layered ferroelectrics and offer a new material platform for advanced functional device applications in smart memristors and enhanced chemical sensors.
description: 18 pages, 5 figures
Effect of Rotavirus Immunization on Childhood Diarrhea in Nicaragua, Research Plan for International Research Scientist Development Award (K01) Fogarty International Center
Creators: name: Becker-Dreps, Sylvia, MD
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: The impact of universal rotavirus immunization on childhood diarrhea in Nicaragua is unknown. A clear understanding of the magnitude of the effect of UIRI is important information for Nicaragua and other developing world countries who are considering adding rotavirus vaccines to their current vaccine armamentarium. Although preliminary research is measuring the impact of rotavirus immunization in the hospital setting, virtually nothing is known about the effect of UIRI at the primary care or community level. Also, it is not known if genotype shift of the virus is occurring, which could limit the future effectiveness of rotavirus immunization and would inform needed improvements in the vaccine. Finally, we do not know if UIRI is inducing herd immunity. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of UIRI on diarrheal disease in Nicaragua at the primary care and community levels. Our specific aims are to: 1. Determine the effectiveness of the rotavirus vaccine in primary care clinical practice, using a case-control study. Hypothesis: We expect that UIRI with Rotateq® will have a vaccine effectiveness of about 75% in reducing rotavirus infections that present to primary care centers. 2. Determine the effect of UIRI on diarrhea incidence at the community level, using an existing population-based surveillance system. We will compare incidences prior to UIRI to incidences following UIRI separately for children who did and did not receive the immunization. Hypothesis: Prior hospital-based studies would lead us to expect a one-third reduction in diarrhea incidence among immunized children at the community level. We expect this reduction to be most pronounced during the dry season, when the incidence of rotavirus infection is higher. We expect to find a modest, but measurable reduction in incidence among unimmunized children. 3. Explore if circulating genotypes of the virus have changed following UIRI. We will compare the distribution of rotavirus genotypes prior to UIRI with the distribution following UIRI. Hypothesis: We expect to find a higher percentage of genotypes not covered by the Rotateq® vaccine among immunized children who subsequently develop rotavirus infection. Our analysis of the overall distribution of genotypes following UIRI is exploratory in nature.
Multi-frequency Variability Study of Flat-Spectrum Radio Quasar PKS 0346-27
Creators: name: Kamaram, Sushanth Reddy
name: Prince, Raj
name: Pramanick, Suman
name: Bose, Debanjan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have presented a multiwavelength temporal and spectral study of the Blazar PKS 0346-27 for the period 2019 January-2021 December (MJD 58484-59575) using data from Fermi-LAT (gamma-rays), Swift-XRT (X-rays) and Swift-UVOT (ultra-violet and optical). We identified multiple flaring episodes by analyzing the gamma-ray light curve generated from the Fermi-LAT data over a two-year period. The light curves of these individual gamma-ray flares with one-day binning were then modeled using a sum-of-exponentials fit. We found the minimum variability times for the gamma-ray light curve to be 1.34 +\- 0.3 days and a range of 0.1-3.2 days for the Swift wavelengths suggesting the compactness of the source. The broadband emission mechanism was studied by modeling the simultaneous multi-waveband Spectral Energy Distributions (SED) using the one-zone leptonic emission mechanism. We found that the optical-UV and X-ray data can be explained by the synchrotron and Synchrotron Self-Compton (SSC) emissions. However, the disk component of the External Compton radiation is dominant at higher energies with contributions from the EC broad line region component and SSC. Further, we performed a power spectral density (PSD) analysis with data from the gamma-ray light curve using the power spectrum response (PSRESP) method. With the power law model, a best-fit slope of 2.15 +\- 0.87 was found. This source could be a promising target for upcoming CTA for its harder spectrum at lower energies (tens of GeV).
title: Gender as a determinant of the relationship between somatotype and left atrio-ventricular end-systolic ratio in normal subjects
Creators: name: Adamu, Abdullahi
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Anatomy
subject: Echocardiography
subject: Normal variants
subject: Education and training

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The purpose of the study was to assess the role of gender on the dynamics of left atrio-ventricular end-systolic volumetric ratio in normal subjects categorized in order of increasing body...
British Gallup Poll: CQ 922
Creators: name: Social Surveys (Gallup Poll) Limited
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 1997

description: Government approval rating(1); Thatcher approval rating(1); political party leaders(3); political party(5); 1987 election(2); allies(2); attitudes(5); Europe(9); langiages(1); European community(17); future of Britain(6); 1992(1); European Commision(8).
Polarization-Independent and High-Efficiency Dielectric Metasurfaces Spanning 600-800 nm Wavelengths
Creators: name: Li, Qi-Tong
name: Dong, Fengliang
name: Wang, Bo
name: Gan, Fengyuan
name: Chen, Jianjun
name: Chu, Weiguo
name: Xiao, Yun-Feng
name: Gong, Qihuang
name: Li, Yan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Artificial metasurfaces are capable of completely manipulating the phase, amplitude, and polarization of light with high spatial resolutions. The emerging design based on high-index and low-loss dielectrics has led to the realization of novel metasurfaces with high transmissions, but these devices usually operate at the limited bandwidth, and are sensitive to the incident polarization. Here, for the first time we report experimentally the polarization-independent and high-efficiency dielectric metasurfaces spanning the visible wavelengths about 200 nm, which are of importance for novel flat optical devices operating over a broad spectrum. The diffraction efficiencies of the gradient metasurfaces consisting of the multi-fold symmetric nano-crystalline silicon nanopillars are up to 93% at 670 nm, and exceed 75% at the wavelengths from 600 to 800 nm for the two orthogonally polarized incidences. These dielectric metasurfaces hold great potential to replace prisms, lenses and other conventional optical elements.
Medication Adherence in Patients with Low Health Literacy
Creators: name: Fowler, Jessica C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Objective: To perform a brief review of interventions designed to improve medication adherence in persons with low literacy. Data Sources: We searched PubMed up to 2010 and Google Scholar from 2000 to 2010. Search strategies were reviewed with a health sciences librarian and the search results supplemented with recommendations from clinical faculty. Study Selection: We included published clinical trials and systematic reviews that focused on interventions to improve medication adherence or that studied interventions to improve health outcomes in low-literacy participants. One reader reviewed each article for inclusion and verified the selection with clinical faculty. Data Extraction: One reviewer abstracted data from each study into an evidence table. Two appraisal templates were used to guide the abstracter to grade each article based on potential selection bias, measurement bias, confounding, and analysis. Each study was a grade of good, fair, or poor. Final table details were reviewed by clinical faculty. Data Synthesis: We identified 10 articles for this review, 7 of which examined interventions designed to improve medication adherence and 3 that examined interventions designed to improve health outcomes in low-literacy participants. The results of the studies were mixed with some showing significant improvement in medication adherence and others showing no effect. For interventions targeting low-literacy participants, mixed results were also seen with some interventions working better for low-literacy persons and others having the same effect for high- and low-literacy study participants. Medication adherence was measured in various ways, making it difficult to compare and draw conclusions about effective intervention strategies. Similarly, the health outcomes measured for interventions targeting low-literacy persons varied and the mixed results made conclusions about the most effective strategies difficult. Conclusions: Numerous interventions have been developed to try and improve medication adherence and to improve health outcomes for low-literacy populations. The effects of these intervention strategies are mixed and variations in outcome measures and study methodologies make it difficult to draw conclusions about the best strategies. More standardized methods of measuring medication adherence are needed so that interventions studies can be compared and the most effective interventions better identified and understood. Further research is needed to determine the best interventions to improve medication adherence, as well as their effect on measurable health outcomes. Further research is also needed on interventions targeting low-literacy persons, as current strategies have not proven to be consistently effective in this population.
Fractional-Step Runge--Kutta Methods: Representation and Linear Stability Analysis
Creators: name: Spiteri, Raymond J.
name: Wei, Siqi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Fractional-step methods are a popular and powerful divide-and-conquer approach for the numerical solution of differential equations. When the integrators of the fractional steps are Runge--Kutta methods, such methods can be written as generalized additive Runge--Kutta (GARK) methods, and thus the representation and analysis of such methods can be done through the GARK framework. We show how the general Butcher tableau representation and linear stability of such methods are related to the coefficients of the splitting method, the individual sub-integrators, and the order in which they are applied. We use this framework to explain some observations in the literature about fractional-step methods such as the choice of sub-integrators, the order in which they are applied, and the role played by negative splitting coefficients in the stability of the method.
title: Efficiency of DWI MRI in detection of abdominal peritoneal dissemination in case of recurrent ovarian cancer
Creators: name: Sychenkova, Irina
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female
subject: Oncology
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Education
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The purpose of the study was to determine the possibilities of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI MRI) in detection of dissemination on the peritoneum of abdomen in patients with ovarian cancer, who underwent specialized...
Quantum Computing and Preconditioners for Hydrological Linear Systems
Creators: name: Golden, John
name: O'Malley, Daniel
name: Viswanathan, Hari
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Modeling hydrological fracture networks is a hallmark challenge in computational earth sciences. Accurately predicting critical features of fracture systems, e.g. percolation, can require solving large linear systems far beyond current or future high performance capabilities. Quantum computers can theoretically bypass the memory and speed constraints faced by classical approaches, however several technical issues must first be addressed. Chief amongst these difficulties is that such systems are often ill-conditioned, i.e. small changes in the system can produce large changes in the solution, which can slow down the performance of linear solving algorithms. We test several existing quantum techniques to improve the condition number, but find they are insufficient. We then introduce the inverse Laplacian preconditioner, which improves the scaling of the condition number of the system from $O(N)$ to $O(\sqrt{N})$ and admits a quantum implementation. These results are a critical first step in developing a quantum solver for fracture systems, both advancing the state of hydrological modeling and providing a novel real-world application for quantum linear systems algorithms.
Repetitive Transients Extraction Algorithm for Detecting Bearing Faults
Creators: name: He, Wangpeng
name: Ding, Yin
name: Zi, Yanyang
name: Selesnick, Ivan W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper addresses the problem of noise reduction with simultaneous components extrac- tion in vibration signals for faults diagnosis of bearing. The observed vibration signal is modeled as a summation of two components contaminated by noise, and each component composes of repetitive transients. To extract the two components simultaneously, an approach by solving an optimization problem is proposed in this paper. The problem adopts convex sparsity-based regularization scheme for decomposition, and non-convex regularization is used to further promote the sparsity but preserving the global convexity. A synthetic example is presented to illustrate the performance of the proposed approach for repetitive feature extraction. The performance and effectiveness of the proposed method are further demonstrated by applying to compound faults and single fault diagnosis of a locomotive bearing. The results show the proposed approach can effectively extract the features of outer and inner race defects.
Scaling limit of a generalized contact process
Creators: name: Chariker, Logan
name: De Masi, Anna
name: Lebowitz, Joel L.
name: Presutti, Errico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive macroscopic equations for a generalized contact process that is inspired by a neuronal integrate and fire model on the lattice $\mathbb{Z}^d$. The states at each lattice site can take values in $0,\ldots,k$. These can be interpreted as neuronal membrane potential, with the state $k$ corresponding to a firing threshold. In the terminology of the contact processes, which we shall use in this paper, the state $k$ corresponds to the individual being infectious (all other states are noninfectious). In order to reach the firing threshold, or to become infectious, the site must progress sequentially from $0$ to $k$. The rate at which it climbs is determined by other neurons at state $k$, coupled to it through a Kac-type potential, of range $γ^{-1}$. The hydrodynamic equations are obtained in the limit $γ\rightarrow 0$. Extensions of the microscopic model to include excitatory and inhibitory neuron types, as well as other biophysical mechanisms, are also considered.
description: 25 pages, 0 figures
title: Radiation dose of the staff is affected by patient´s BMI during the radiological intervention: is there any practical evidence?
Creators: name: Chudacek, Zdenek
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Radiation physics
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Physics
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Patterns of Care

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The aim of this study was to verify the objective relation between the constitution of the patient and the dose affecting the interventional radiologist performing an intervention , who in majority is the most irradiated member of the team. For this...
Linking Primary Care with Public Health: Reducing Barriers and Enhancing Facilitators to Collaboration
Creators: name: Reddick, Bonzo
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Purpose: This study identifies facilitators and barriers to collaboration between primary care offices and health education resources available in county health departments and Cooperative Extension (CE) agencies. Methods: As part of a prevention collaborative aimed at linking primary care practices with county health education resources, in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted and audio-recorded with twelve key informants from participating family medicine clinics and the community agency staff who had worked with these practice members to establish partnerships. Interviews inquired about the history of collaboration, factors promoting and inhibiting collaboration, and recommendations for others interested in building collaborations. Analysis employed a grounded theory approach and used an iterative group analysis process to identify salient themes. Results: Facilitators of successful linkages included: (1) face-to-face meetings between clinics and community resource agents (e.g., health educators) to discuss shared interests, (2) joint decisions about how the relationship should be structured, (3) periodic assessments of the successes and challenges, and (4) development of a champion within the physician offices-often a non-physician-to assure continued contact and accomplishment of proposed goals. Specific barriers identified included time pressures, personnel turnover, and absence of funding to support collaboration. Conclusions: A number of common barriers arise when attempts at community participation originate from primary care offices across a number of different types of communities. With increased awareness of these barriers, they may be identified early when primary care offices attempt to form linkages with community resources; structuring clinics' chronic care models with the goal of minimizing these barriers may be one way to improve patient access to these resources.
Radiative $μ$ and $τ$ leptonic decays at NLO
Creators: name: Fael, M.
name: Mercolli, L.
name: Passera, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the differential rates and branching ratios of the radiative decays $τ\to l \barν νγ$, with $l=e$ or $μ$, and $μ\to e \barν νγ$ in the Standard Model at next-to-leading order. Radiative corrections are computed taking into account the full depencence on the mass $m_l$ of the final charged leptons, which is necessary for the correct determination of the branching ratios. Only partial agreement is found with previous calculations performed in the $m_l \to 0$ limit. Our results agree with the measurements of the branching ratios $\mathcal{B} (μ\to e \barν νγ)$ and $\mathcal{B} (τ\to μ\barν νγ)$ for a minimum photon energy of 10 MeV in the $μ$ and $τ$ rest frames, respectively. Babar's recent precise measurement of the branching ratio $\mathcal{B} (τ\to e \barν νγ)$, for the same photon energy threshold, differs from our prediction by 3.5 standard deviations.
description: 13 pages, 1 figure, results included as ancillary files