cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Prevalence of Low Cardiovascular Risk Profile Among Diverse Hispanic/Latino Adults in the United States by Age, Sex, and Level of Acculturation: The Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos
Creators: name: Schneiderman, Neil
name: Kaplan, Robert C.
name: Avilés-Santa, Larissa
name: Pirzada, Amber
name: Allison, Matthew
name: Durazo-Arvizu, Ramon
name: Chen, Jinsong
name: Sorlie, Paul D.
name: González, Hector M.
name: Stamler, Jeremiah
name: Cai, Jianwen
name: Talavera, Gregory A.
name: Daviglus, Martha L.
name: Wassertheil-Smoller, Sylvia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: BACKGROUND: Favorable levels of all readily measurable major cardiovascular disease risk factors (ie, low risk [LR]) are associated with lower risks of cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality. Data are not available on LR prevalence among Hispanic/Latino adults of diverse ethnic backgrounds. This study aimed to describe the prevalence of a low cardiovascular disease risk profile among Hispanic/Latino adults in the United States and to examine cross-sectional associations of LR with measures of acculturation.

METHODS AND RESULTS: The multicenter, prospective, population-based Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos examined 16 415 men and women aged 18 to 74 years at baseline (2008-2011) with diverse Hispanic/Latino backgrounds. Analyses involved 14 757 adults (mean age 41.3 years; 60.6% women). LR was defined using national guidelines for favorable levels of serum cholesterol, blood pressure, and body mass index and by not having diabetes mellitus and not currently smoking. Age-adjusted LR prevalence was low (8.4% overall; 5.1% for men, 11.2% for women) and varied by background (4.2% in men of Mexican heritage versus 15.0% in women of Cuban heritage). Lower acculturation (assessed using proxy measures) was significantly associated with higher odds of a LR profile among women only: Age-adjusted odds ratios of having LR were 1.64 (95% CI 1.24-2.17) for foreign-born versus US-born women and 1.96 (95% CI 1.49-2.58) for women residing in the United States <10 versus ≥10 years.

CONCLUSIONS: Among diverse US Hispanic/Latino adults, the prevalence of a LR profile is low. Lower acculturation is associated with higher odds of a LR profile among women but not men. Comprehensive public health strategies are needed to improve the cardiovascular health of US Hispanic/Latino adults.
EPIDEMIC DISEASES AND HEALTH
Creators: name: Dr. Prakash Laxmanrao Dompale
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Diarrhoea, Jaundice, Gastro, Polio, Typhoid,

description: Abstract: Many epidemic diseases spread due to the contaminated water accumulated during the monsoon season. Contaminated water is drunk unknowingly. Viruses enter the body through contaminated water. Therefore, diseases have to be faced. Diseases like diarrhoea, vomiting, typhoid, gastro are caused due to the growth of virus, bacteria germs. These symptoms appear within four to five hours after drinking contaminated water. During the rainy season, these symptoms spread like an epidemic. Gastro-vomiting, diarrhoea quantity less volatile in the body. Stomach hurts a lot, you know. High fever for three to four days. Very sweet antibiotics are good for the patient. Contamination product causes the third type of jaundice. Jaundice is common in hepatitis 'A' or ‘E’ type. This is not a separate contaminant I believe. Symptoms include vomiting, fever, yellow urine or loss of appetite within seven to eight days after drinking contaminated water. Apart from that, the eyes start to look yellow after four to five days. The symptoms of this disease persist for a month and a half. This disease is seen in 90 to 95 percent of citizens. Typhoid is another disease caused by contaminated water. In four to five days there is a high fever. Stomach hurts a lot. If left untreated, typhoid germs enter the bloodstream. There is a fear of some patients dying in this.
Statin and Aspirin Use Among Hispanic and Latino Adults at High Cardiovascular Risk: Findings From the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos
Creators: name: Wu, Donghong
name: Talavera, Gregory A.
name: Reina, Samantha A.
name: Lee, Todd A.
name: Qato, Dima M.
name: Daviglus, Martha L.
name: Durazo-Arvizu, Ramon
name: Gonzalez, Franklyn
name: Wilder, Jocelyn
name: Cai, Jianwen
name: Ostfeld, Robert J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: BACKGROUND: Despite variations in the prevalence of cardiovascular disease and related risk factors among US Hispanic/Latino adults of diverse backgrounds, there is little information on whether disparities exist in the use of medications for the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease. We examined the prevalence of statin and aspirin use among diverse US Hispanic/Latino adults at high cardiovascular risk.

METHODS AND RESULTS: A multicenter population-based study, the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study Of Latinos, included a total of 16 415 participants of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, South American, and Central American backgrounds who were aged 18 to 74 years and enrolled between March 2008 and June 2011. Our analyses were limited to 4139 participants considered to be at high cardiovascular risk. Age-adjusted prevalence of statin and aspirin use was 25% and 44%, respectively, overall but varied by Hispanic/Latino background among those at high cardiovascular risk; statin use was significantly higher (P<0.001) among adults of Puerto Rican (33%) and Dominican (28%) backgrounds compared with adults of other backgrounds (Mexican, 24%; Cuban, 22%; Central American, 20%; South American, 22%). There was no difference in aspirin use. After adjusting for health insurance coverage, the difference in prevalence of statin use was substantially reduced among participants with a Puerto Rican background, from an odds ratio of 1.73 (95% CI 1.30-2.31) to 1.30 (95% CI 0.97-1.75), and with a Dominican background, from an odds ratio of 1.45 (95% CI 1.04-2.02) to 1.07 (95% CI 0.75-1.52), in comparison to their counterparts.

CONCLUSIONS: Among Hispanic/Latino adults of diverse backgrounds, statin use was more prevalent among adults with Puerto Rican and Dominican backgrounds at high cardiovascular risk. These differences in statin use were explained, in part, by differences in insurance coverage. These findings have important implications for the prevention of disparities in cardiovascular outcomes within the growing US Hispanic/Latino population.
Optical and mechanical properties of nanofibrillated cellulose: towards a robust platform for next-generation green technologies
Creators: name: Simao, Claudia D.
name: Reparaz, Juan S.
name: Wagner, Markus. R.
name: Graczykowski, Bartlomiej
name: Kreuzer, Martin
name: Ruiz-Blanco, Yasser B.
name: Garcia, Yamila
name: Malho, Jani-Markus
name: Goni, Alejandro R.
name: Ahopelto, Jouni
name: Torres, Clivia M. Sotomayor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nanofibrillated cellulose, a polymer that can be obtained from one of the most abundant biopolymers in Nature, is being increasingly explored due to its outstanding properties for packaging and device applications. Still, open challenges in engineering its intrinsic properties remain to address. The results obtained show the precise determination of significant properties as elastic properties and interactions that are compared with similar works and, moreover, demonstrate that nanofibrillated cellulose properties can be reversibly controlled, supporting the extended potential of nanofibrillated cellulose as a robust platform for green-technology applications
description: in press in Carbohydrate Polymers (2015)
Weight Gain Trajectories Associated With Elevated C‐Reactive Protein Levels in Chinese Adults
Creators: name: Gordon-Larsen, Penny
name: Herring, Amy H.
name: Koehler, Elizabeth
name: Thompson, Amanda L.
name: Popkin, Barry
name: Paynter, Lauren
name: Zhang, Bing
name: Du, Shufa
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: BACKGROUND: Recent longitudinal work suggests that weight change is an important risk factor for inflammation across the full range of BMI. However, few studies have examined whether the risk of inflammation differs by patterns of weight gain over time. Using latent class trajectory analysis, we test whether patterns of weight gain are associated with elevated high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP 2-10 mg/L).

METHODS AND RESULTS: Data come from China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) participants (n=5536), aged 18 at baseline to 66 years in 2009, with measured weight over 18 years. Latent class trajectory analysis was used to identify weight-change trajectories in 6 age and sex strata. Multivariable general linear mixed-effects models fit with a logit link were used to assess the risk of elevated hs-CRP across weight trajectory classes. Models were fit within age and sex strata, controlling for baseline weight, adult height, and smoking, and included random intercepts to account for community-level correlation. Steeper weight-gain trajectories were associated with greater risk of elevated hs-CRP compared to more moderate weight-gain trajectories in men and women. Initially high weight gain followed by weight loss was associated with lower risk of elevated hs-CRP in women aged 18 to 40.

CONCLUSIONS: Latent class trajectory analysis identified heterogeneity in adult weight change associated with differential risk of inflammation independently of baseline weight and smoking. These results suggest that trajectories of weight gain are an important clinical concern and may identify those at risk for inflammation and the development of cardiometabolic disease.
A STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF PROMOTIONAL STRATEGIES OF AMAZON ON THE WORKING MALES
Creators: name: Dr. Vishnu H. Fulzele1   Sambhaji Shivaji Shinde2
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Amazon, Promotion, Online Shopping, Working Male, E-Commerce

description: Abstract: “Amazon” the American based company providing goods and services on the online basis. Amazon conducted many sales promotional strategies such as Big Billion Day sale, special launch of electronic gadget sale, Indian Republic and Independence Day sale and Great Indian Festival; Present study conducted with help of structured questionnaire with 150 working males as respondents, who purchase online products from Amazon. Consumers have been satisfied with services provided by amazon. Present study highlights on the impact of promotional strategies of amazon on the level of satisfaction of working males. 
Optimized intelligent speech signal verification system for identifying authorized users
Creators: name: Pravin Marotrao Ghate
name: Bhagvat D Jadhav
name: Prabhakar N Kota
name: Chavan, Shankar Dattatray
name: Pravin Balaso Chopade
Publisher: name: Faculty of Engineering, Khon Kaen University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Speech processing
Authorized users
Speech verification
Audio signal
Noise filtering

description: Engineering and Applied Science Research, 50, 6, 525-537
American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) Class I Guidelines for the Treatment of Cholesterol to Reduce Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Risk: Implications for US Hispanics/Latinos Based on Findings From the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL)
Creators: name: Jung, Molly
name: Reina, Samantha A.
name: Davis, Sonia
name: Burke, Gregory
name: Qureshi, Waqas T.
name: Daviglus, Martha
name: Kaplan, Robert C.
name: Talavera, Gregory A.
name: Swett, Katrina
name: Rodriguez, Carlos J.
name: Chirinos, Diana A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: BACKGROUND: The prevalence estimates of statin eligibility among Hispanic/Latinos living in the United States under the new 2013 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) cholesterol treatment guidelines are not known.

METHODS AND RESULTS: We estimated prevalence of statin eligibility under 2013 ACC/AHA and 3rd National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel (NCEP/ATP III) guidelines among Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (n=16 415; mean age 41 years, 40% males) by using sampling weights calibrated to the 2010 US census. We examined the characteristics of Hispanic/Latinos treated and not treated with statins under both guidelines. We also redetermined the statin-therapy eligibility by using black risk estimates for Dominicans, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, and Central Americans. Compared with NCEP/ATP III guidelines, statin eligibility increased from 15.9% (95% CI 15.0-16.7%) to 26.9% (95% CI 25.7-28.0%) under the 2013 ACC/AHA guidelines. This was mainly driven by the ≥7.5% atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk criteria (prevalence 13.9% [95% CI 13.0-14.7%]). Of the participants eligible for statin eligibility under NCEP/ATP III and ACC/AHA guidelines, only 28.2% (95% CI 26.3-30.0%) and 20.6% (95% CI 19.4-21.9%) were taking statins, respectively. Statin-eligible participants who were not taking statins had a higher prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors compared with statin-eligible participants who were taking statins. There was no significant increase in statin eligibility when atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk was calculated by using black estimates instead of recommended white estimates (increase by 1.4%, P=0.12) for Hispanic/Latinos.

CONCLUSIONS: The eligibility of statin therapy increased consistently across all Hispanic/Latinos subgroups under the 2013 ACC/AHA guidelines and therefore will potentially increase the number of undertreated Hispanic/Latinos in the United States.
Flip the Cloud: Cyber-Physical Signaling Games in the Presence of Advanced Persistent Threats
Creators: name: Pawlick, Jeffrey
name: Farhang, Sadegh
name: Zhu, Quanyan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Access to the cloud has the potential to provide scalable and cost effective enhancements of physical devices through the use of advanced computational processes run on apparently limitless cyber infrastructure. On the other hand, cyber-physical systems and cloud-controlled devices are subject to numerous design challenges; among them is that of security. In particular, recent advances in adversary technology pose Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) which may stealthily and completely compromise a cyber system. In this paper, we design a framework for the security of cloud-based systems that specifies when a device should trust commands from the cloud which may be compromised. This interaction can be considered as a game between three players: a cloud defender/administrator, an attacker, and a device. We use traditional signaling games to model the interaction between the cloud and the device, and we use the recently proposed FlipIt game to model the struggle between the defender and attacker for control of the cloud. Because attacks upon the cloud can occur without knowledge of the defender, we assume that strategies in both games are picked according to prior commitment. This framework requires a new equilibrium concept, which we call Gestalt Equilibrium, a fixed-point that expresses the interdependence of the signaling and FlipIt games. We present the solution to this fixed-point problem under certain parameter cases, and illustrate an example application of cloud control of an unmanned vehicle. Our results contribute to the growing understanding of cloud-controlled systems.
description: To be presented at the 2015 Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec 2015)
Super-resolved multimodal multiphoton microscopy with spatial frequency-modulated imaging
Creators: name: Field, Jeffrey J.
name: Wernsing, Keith W.
name: Domingue, Scott R.
name: Motz, Alyssa M. Allende
name: DeLuca, Keith F.
name: DeLuca, Jennifer G.
name: Kuciauskas, Darius
name: Levi, Dean H.
name: Squier, Jeff A.
name: Bartels, Randy A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Super-resolved far-field microscopy has emerged as a powerful tool for investigating the structure of objects with resolution well below the diffraction limit of light. Nearly all super-resolution imaging techniques reported to date rely on real energy states of probe molecules to circumvent the diffraction limit, preventing super-resolved imaging of contrast mechanisms that occur via virtual energy states such as harmonic generation (HG). Here we report a super-resolution technique based on SPatIal Frequency modulated Imaging (SPIFI) that permits super-resolved nonlinear microscopy with any contrast mechanism, and with single-pixel detection. We show multimodal super-resolved images with two-photon excited fluorescence (TPEF) and second-harmonic generation (SHG) from biological and inorganic media. Multiphoton SPIFI (MP-SPIFI) provides spatial resolution up to 2$η$ below the diffraction limit, where $η$ is the highest power of the nonlinear intensity response. MP-SPIFI has the potential to not only provide enhanced resolution in optically thin media, but shows promise for providing super-resolved imaging at depth in scattering media - opening the possibility of $\textit{in vivo}$ super-resolved imaging.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures
A Higher-Order VOF Interface Reconstruction Scheme for Non-Orthogonal Structured Grids with Application to Surface Tension Modelling
Creators: name: Niran A. Ilangakoon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The volume-of-fluid (VOF) method [24] is widely used to track the interface for the purpose of simulating liquid-gas interfacial flows numerically. The key strength of VOF is its mass conserving property. However, interface reconstruction is required when geometric properties such as curvature need to be accurately computed. For surface tension modelling in particular, computing the interface curvature accurately is crucial to avoiding so-called spurious or parasitic currents. Of the existing VOF-based schemes, the height-function (HF) method [10, 16, 18, 42, 46, 53] allows accurate interface representation on Cartesian grids. No work has hitherto been done to extend the HF philosophy to non-orthogonal structured grids. To this end, this work proposes a higher-order accurate VOF interface reconstruction method for non-orthogonal structured grids. Higher-order in the context of this work denotes up to 4 th-order. The scheme generalises the interface reconstruction component of the HF method. Columns of control volumes that straddle the interface are identified, and piecewise-linear interface constructions (PLIC) are computed in a volume-conservative manner in each column. To ensure efficiency, this procedure is executed by a novel sweep-plane algorithm based on the convex decomposition of the control volumes in each column. The PLIC representation of the interface is then smoothed by iteratively refining the PLIC facet normals. Rapid convergence of the latter is achieved via a novel spring-based acceleration procedure. The interface is then reconstructed by fitting higher-order polynomial curves/surfaces to local stencils of PLIC facets in a least squares manner [29]. Volume conservation is optimised for at the central column. The accuracy of the interface reconstruction procedure is evaluated via grid convergence studies in terms of volume conservation and curvature errors. The scheme is shown to achieve arbitrary-order accuracy on Cartesian grids and up to fourth-order accuracy on non-orthogonal structured grids. The curvature computation scheme is finally applied in a balanced-force continuum-surface-force (CSF) [4] surface tension scheme for variable-density flows on nonorthogonal structured grids in 2D. Up to fourth-order accuracy is demonstrated for the Laplace pressure jump in the simulation of a 2D stationary bubble with a high liquid-gas density ratio. A significant reduction in parasitic currents is demonstrated. Lastly, second-order accuracy is achieved when computing the frequency of a 2D inviscid oscillating droplet in zero gravity. The above tools were implemented and evaluated using the Elemental®multi-physics code and using a vertex-centred finite volume framework. For the purpose of VOF advection the algebraic CICSAM scheme (available in Elemental®) was employed.
A scoping review of team communication breakdowns
Creators: name: McEwan, Desmond
name: Brown, Olivia
name: Gotham-Pardo, Sara
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Business
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: breakdowns
subject: communication
subject: information exchange
subject: information sharing
subject: miscommunication
subject: team dynamics
subject: teamwork

description: Team communication is a key component of teamwork (e.g., McEwan & Beauchamp, 2014; Rousseau et al., 2006) and substantive predictor of team effectiveness (e.g., Marlow et al., 2018; Mesmer-Magnus & DeChurch, 2009) across a range of contexts such as military, business, healthcare, and sport. As a dynamic process, communication can fluctuate over the course of a team’s tenure—at times, teammates communicate clearly, efficiently, and effectively, but in other cases, teams may experience breakdowns in that communication. Much research to date (including an array of review studies) has enhanced our understanding of high-quality communication, including measurement, correlates, and intervention strategies. While this has no doubt made an important contribution for researchers and applied practitioners (e.g., how communication can be improved, the consequences of high-quality communication), there does not yet appear (to the best of our knowledge) to be a review that summarizes the research on breakdowns in team communication execution. To gain a comprehensive understanding of team effectiveness, we argue that it is important to not only examine high-quality team functioning but poor team functioning as well, which no doubt includes team communication quality. From an intervention perspective, for example, team leaders and practitioners would not only be equipped with strategies to enhance/maximize team communication, but they would also be better positioned to prevent breakdowns in communication or manage them if/when they do occur. In this review, we will aim to cover a broad range of information concerning team communication breakdowns. The main purposes of the review are to: gain conceptual clarity on communication breakdowns (i.e., how have researchers described and conceptualised a breakdown in communication during team tasks); explore how communication breakdowns have been studied (i.e., study designs, measurement); summarize correlates of communication breakdowns (i.e., ideally broken down specifically into antecedents, consequences, moderators); and identify current gaps in knowledge and associated next steps in this line of research. As such, we have selected a scoping review as the type of review study. Whereas a systematic review (with or without meta-analysis) addresses a narrow and specific research question, a scoping review is defined as ‘a form of knowledge synthesis that addresses an exploratory research question aimed at mapping key concepts, types of evidence, and gaps in research related to a defined area or field by systematically searching, selecting, and synthesizing existing knowledge’ (Colquhoun et al., 2014, pp. 1293–1294).
Associations of Blood Pressure Dipping Patterns With Left Ventricular Mass and Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Blacks: The Jackson Heart Study
Creators: name: Tanner, Rikki M.
name: Sims, Mario
name: Ravenell, Joseph
name: Shimbo, Daichi
name: Muntner, Paul
name: Anstey, D Edmund
name: Abdalla, Marwah
name: Viera, Anthony J.
name: Booth, John N.
name: Caughey, Melissa C.
name: Diaz, Keith M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: BACKGROUND: Abnormal diurnal blood pressure (BP), including nondipping patterns, assessed using ambulatory BP monitoring, have been associated with increased cardiovascular risk among white and Asian adults. We examined the associations of BP dipping patterns (dipping, nondipping, and reverse dipping) with cardiovascular target organ damage (left ventricular mass index and left ventricular hypertrophy), among participants from the Jackson Heart Study, an exclusively black population-based cohort.

METHODS AND RESULTS: Analyses included 1015 participants who completed ambulatory BP monitoring and had echocardiography data from the baseline visit. Participants were categorized based on the nighttime to daytime systolic BP ratio into 3 patterns: dipping pattern (≤0.90), nondipping pattern (>0.90 to ≤1.00), and reverse dipping pattern (>1.00). The prevalence of dipping, nondipping, and reverse dipping patterns was 33.6%, 48.2%, and 18.2%, respectively. In a fully adjusted model, which included antihypertensive medication use and clinic and daytime systolic BP, the mean differences in left ventricular mass index between reverse dipping pattern versus dipping pattern was 8.3±2.1 g/m2 (P<0.001) and between nondipping pattern versus dipping pattern was -1.0±1.6 g/m2 (P=0.536). Compared with participants with a dipping pattern, the prevalence ratio for having left ventricular hypertrophy was 1.65 (95% CI, 1.05-2.58) and 0.96 (95% CI, 0.63-1.97) for those with a reverse dipping pattern and nondipping pattern, respectively.

CONCLUSIONS: In this population-based study of blacks, a reverse dipping pattern was associated with increased left ventricular mass index and a higher prevalence of left ventricular hypertrophy. Identification of a reverse dipping pattern on ambulatory BP monitoring may help identify black at increased risk for cardiovascular target organ damage.
title: Adhesion of cytomegalovirus-specific CD8+ T cells in systemic sclerosis
Creators: name: Balsen, Gesa
name: Dimitrov, Stoyan
name: Müller, Antje
name: Pitann, Silke
name: Mosenthin, Kerstin
name: Lamprecht, Peter
name: Riemekasten, Gabriela
name: Lange, Tanja
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Background: The pathogenesis of systemic sclerosis (SSc) is linked to cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, for instance through infected endothelial cells or via molecular mimicry inducing an autoimmune response. Further, in SSc endothelial damage could be mediated by adhesion of CMV-specific T cells. We[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 46. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 32. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh), Wissenschaftliche Herbsttagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie (GKJR)
Both Light Intensity and Moderate‐to‐Vigorous Physical Activity Measured by Accelerometry Are Favorably Associated With Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Older Women: The Objective Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Health (OPACH) Study
Creators: name: Eaton, Charles B.
name: Lee, I-Min
name: LaCroix, Andrea Z.
name: LaMonte, Michael J.
name: Stefanick, Marcia L.
name: Howard, Barbara V.
name: Di, Chongzhi
name: Bellettiere, John
name: Lewis, Cora E.
name: Buchner, David M.
name: Rillamas-Sun, Eileen
name: Bird, Chloe
name: Evenson, Kelly R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: BACKGROUND: The relationship between light intensity physical activity (PA), which is common in older adults, and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors is unclear. This study examined associations of accelerometer-measured PA intensity with CVD risk factors in older women of different race-ethnicities.

METHODS AND RESULTS: Cross-sectional analyses were conducted in 4832 women (mean age 78.9 years; 52.5% white, 30.5% black, 17.1% Hispanic) who were without known CVD and wore triaxial accelerometers a minimum of 4 of 7 days with ≥10 hours/d awake wear-time. Vector magnitude counts per 15-s epoch were used to define time spent in low light (19-225 counts/15 s), high light (226-518), and moderate-to-vigorous; ≥519) intensity PA. Fasting CVD biomarkers, resting blood pressure, waist girth, body mass index, and 10-year predicted CVD risk (Reynolds Risk Score) were measured. After adjusting for age, wear time, race-ethnicity, and potential confounders, each PA measure was favorably associated with mean high-density lipoprotein, triglyceride, glucose, C-reactive protein, body mass index, waist girth, and Reynolds Risk Score (P<0.05, all). Associations with mean blood pressure, insulin, and total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol were variable. A 30-minute/d increment in PA was associated, on average, with odds ratios for high predicted CVD risk (Reynolds Risk Score ≥20) of 0.96 (95% confidence interval, 0.92, 1.00), 0.88 (0.83, 0.94), and 0.85 (0.79, 0.91) for low light, high light, and moderate-to-vigorous, respectively, and remained significant with further mutual control for PA intensity.

CONCLUSIONS: PA measured by accelerometry, including light intensity PA, was associated with lower CVD risk factor levels in race-ethnically diverse older women.
Leonardo Ricci and the Project for the “Man-Machine Space”: the Goti Factory (1959)
Creators: name: Cattabriga, Ilaria
Publisher: name: Histories of Postwar Architecture
Year: 2023

description: The Goti factory is a civil architecture, built between 1959 and 1960, when Ricci was managing to translate into reality some fundamental principles of his spatial research: the design method of the "form-act", the community ideal and the anonymous, relational and existential architecture. This text aims to frame the project in Ricci’s work and clarify these design ideals and how they are found in the analyzed project, exploiting the reading of archival sources and contemporary projects or with a similar program. Furthermore, the Goti Factory is placed in the years in which Ricci begins an intense exchange with the United States, which will allow him to approach the founding theories of Urban Design, therefore to resolve, thanks to them, that tension between opposites that animated his research, finally reaching the definitive evolution of his design method.
description: Histories of Postwar Architecture, No. 9 (2021): Leonardo Ricci (1918-1994). Archives I
Exceptional Cosmetic surgeries on $S^3$
Creators: name: Ravelomanana, Huygens C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper concerns the truly or purely cosmetic surgery conjecture. We give a survey on exceptional surgeries and cosmetic surgeries. We prove that the slope of an exceptional truly cosmetic surgery on a hyperbolic knot in $S^3$ must be $\pm 1$ and the surgery must be toroidal but not Seifert fibred. As consequence we show that there are no exceptional truly cosmetic surgeries on certain types of hyperbolic knot in $S^3$. We also give some properties of Heegaard Floer correction terms and torsion invariants for exceptional cosmetic surgeries on $S^3$.
description: 23 pages
Electromagnetic production of positron and electron in collisions of heavy nuclei
Creators: name: Khriplovich, I. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the electromagnetic production of positron and electron in collisions of slow heavy nuclei. This process is dominated by emission of positron, with the electron captured by nucleus.
title: Filling of emptied survival niches with protective plasma cells in lupus prone BcN/LmoJ mice
Creators: name: Khodadadi, Laleh
name: Cheng, Qingyu
name: Taddeo, Adriano
name: Hoyer, Bimba Franziska
name: Radbruch, Andreas
name: Hiepe, Falk
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Background: Immunoablation with antithymocyte globulin flollowed by autologous stem cell transplantation is able to deplete long-lived plasma cells in severe autoimmune disease such as SLE. However, there is a high risk of infections and development of secondary autoimmune disorders. Our aim is to improve[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 46. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 32. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh), Wissenschaftliche Herbsttagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie (GKJR)
"A CRITICAL ANALYSIS ON MONTESSORI AND FROBEL EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION CONCEPT"
Creators: name: Naziya Khanum
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Elementary Education, Montessori, Frobel, Early Childhood Education

description: Abstract:  The foundation for future learning, personal growth, and development is laid by elementary education. The two most prevalent models for innovative early childhood learning concept are the Montessori, Frobel education Concept. Each of these strategies has a long history of promoting children's educational freedom and has witnessed continuous improvement. Early childhood teachers and academics can better comprehend the objectives, philosophical and theoretical foundations, advantages, and drawbacks of these concepts and their practice-oriented approaches from this narrative analysis. Understanding these alternatives to established educational approaches are crucial as early education develops with technology and as conceptions of childhood education change. This analysis enables educators to think about these models' uses and cultural competency in particular local and community contexts. So this critical analysis contribute to frame well structured curriculum of elementary education according to environment settings by following footsteps of Montessori and Frobel approach.
Cardiometabolic Risk Variables in Preadolescent Children: A Factor Analysis
Creators: name: Castro, Nicholas
name: Faulkner, James
name: Weatherall, Mark
name: Williams, Michelle A.
name: Stoner, Lee
name: Lark, Sally
name: Skidmore, Paula
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: BACKGROUND: Atherosclerosis begins during preadolescence and is occurring at an accelerated rate. This acceleration has been linked to poor lifestyle behaviors and subsequent cardiometabolic complications. Although the clustering of cardiometabolic risk factors has been recognized for over 2 decades, previous studies in children have predominantly examined the relationships between atherosclerosis and individual cardiometabolic risk factors or have grouped together preadolescent and adolescent children. Further, no known studies have included glycated hemoglobin or central hemodynamic measures such as central systolic blood pressure and augmentation index.

METHODS AND RESULTS: Principal component analysis was performed on a cross-sectional sample of 392 children (aged 9.5 years, 50% girls) from 3 representative sample sites across New Zealand. Four factors explained 60% of the variance in the measured variables. In order of variance explained, the factors were: blood pressure (central systolic blood pressure and peripheral systolic and diastolic blood pressure), adiposity (waist circumference, body mass index, and glycated hemoglobin), lipids (total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol), and vascular (augmentation index, heart rate, and fasting blood glucose).

CONCLUSIONS: In accordance with previous findings in adults and adolescents, one common factor is unlikely to define cardiometabolic health in preadolescent children. Each of the factors, except vascular, which was predominantly explained by augmentation index, are in agreement with previous findings in adolescents. An additional novel finding was that glycated hemoglobin and fasting blood glucose loaded onto different factors, supporting previous work suggesting that fasting blood glucose indicates short-term glycemic control, whereas glycated hemoglobin reflects chronic glycemic control.

CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION: URL: www.anzctr.org.au/. ID: ACTRN12614000433606.
Staging of the Costume Sector in the Italian Pavilion of Expo 67 in Montréal, Canada (1966-1967). From “Urschrei” to “Correalism”. Considerations on Some Motifs in Leonardo Ricci (1962-1967)
Creators: name: Cassani Simonetti, Matteo
Publisher: name: Histories of Postwar Architecture
Year: 2023

description: The design of the Italian pavilion at Expo 67 in Montréal, Canada (1966-1967) was the result of a choral effort which involved Giulio Carlo Argan, Cosimo Carlucci, Umberto Eco, Leoncillo Leonardi, Bruno Munari, the Passarelli studio, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Leonardo Ricci, Carlo Scarpa, Emilio Vedova and Bruno Zevi. Leonardo Ricci designed the Staging of the costume sector by creating cavernous concretions that housed an exhibition curated by Umberto Eco. The interpretation proposed here, focuses on the formal genealogies of the work, trying to contextualise its birth in the Florentine cultural context during the 1960s and within Ricci’s research.
description: Histories of Postwar Architecture, No. 9 (2021): Leonardo Ricci (1918-1994). Archives I
title: Increased expression of the costimulatory c-type lectin (CD161) on circulating PR3-specific CD8+ and CD4+CD8+ T-cells in GPA
Creators: name: Klapa, Sebastian
name: Kerstein, Anja
name: Koch, Andreas
name: Pitann, Silke
name: Nieberding, Relana
name: Riemekasten, Gabriela
name: Müller, Antje
name: Lamprecht, Peter
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Background: Alterations of the peripheral T-cell compartment have been reported in granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) such as the expansion of circulating CD4+CD8+ double-positive, CD4+CD161+ and CD28- effector memory T-cells (TEM) within the total CD3+ T-cell population.[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 46. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 32. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh), Wissenschaftliche Herbsttagung der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendrheumatologie (GKJR)
Too Good to Be True: the Savona Courthouse
Creators: name: Pizzigoni, Vittorio
Publisher: name: Histories of Postwar Architecture
Year: 2023

description: The article analyzes the Palace of Justice of Savona designed and built by Leonardo Ricci between 1972 and 1987, highlighting its aspirations and design motivations. In particular, the main aim is to trace the reasons why both the building and the area it occupies are now so degraded in the surrounding conditions of the project.
description: Histories of Postwar Architecture, No. 9 (2021): Leonardo Ricci (1918-1994). Archives I
Cardiovascular Disease and Patterns of Change in Functional Status Over 15 Years: Findings From the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study
Creators: name: Yao, Zhihao Howard
name: Koton, Silvia
name: Rosamond, Wayne
name: Pompeii, Lisa
name: Gwen Windham,
name: Wagenknecht, Lynne
name: Foraker, Randi
name: Kucharska-Newton, Anna
name: Rose, Kathryn
name: Griswold, Michael
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of premature disability, yet few prospective studies have examined functional status (FS) among persons with CVD. Our aim was to examine patterns of change in FS prior to and after hospitalization for nonfatal myocardial infarction, stroke, and heart failure among members of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study cohort.

METHODS AND RESULTS: FS was assessed using a modified Rosow-Breslau questionnaire administered during routine annual telephone interviews conducted from 1993 through 2007 among 15 277 ARIC study participants. An FS score was constructed as a summary measure of responses to questions about participants' ability to perform selected tasks of daily living (eg, walking half a mile, climbing stairs). Incidence of CVD was assessed through ARIC surveillance of hospitalized events. Rate of change in FS over time prior to and following a CVD event was examined using generalized estimating equations. A decline in FS was observed on average 2 years prior to a myocardial infarction hospitalization and on average 3 years prior to a stroke or heart failure hospitalization. FS post-myocardial infarction declined relative to pre-event levels but improved to close to pre-myocardial infarction levels within 3 years. Decline in FS following incident heart failure and stroke remained over time. Observed patterns of change in FS did not differ appreciably by race or sex.

CONCLUSIONS: This study documents that a decline in FS precedes incidence of CVD-related hospitalization by at least 2 years, providing a strong argument for routine preventative assessment of FS among older adults.
High Precision Photometry for K2 Campaign 1
Creators: name: Huang, Chelsea X.
name: Penev, K.
name: Hartman, J. D.
name: Bakos, G. Á.
name: Bhatti, W.
name: Domsa, I.
name: de Val-Borro, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The two reaction wheel K2 mission promises and has delivered new discoveries in the stellar and exoplanet fields. However, due to the loss of accurate pointing, it also brings new challenges for the data reduction processes. In this paper, we describe a new reduction pipeline for extracting high precision photometry from the K2 dataset, and present public light curves for the K2 Campaign 1 target pixel dataset. Key to our reduction is the derivation of global astrometric solutions from the target stamps, from which accurate centroids are passed on for high precision photometry extraction. We extract target light curves for sources from a combined UCAC4 and EPIC catalogue -- this includes not only primary targets of the K2 campaign 1, but also any other stars that happen to fall on the pixel stamps. We provide the raw light curves, and the products of various detrending processes aimed at removing different types of systematics. Our astrometric solutions achieve a median residual of ~ 0.13". For bright stars, our best 6.5 hour precision for raw light curves is ~20 parts per million (ppm). For our detrended light curves, the best 6.5 hour precisions achieved is ~15 ppm. We show that our detrended light curves have fewer systematic effects (or trends, or red-noise) than light curves produced by other groups from the same observations. Example light curves of transiting planets and a Cepheid variable candidate, are also presented. We make all light curves public, including the raw and de-trended photometry, at http://k2.hatsurveys.org.
description: submitted to MNRAS
Leonardo Ricci’s Palace of Justice in Florence. A Desolate Fragment of an Urban Ideal (1987-1994)
Creators: name: Mingardi, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: Histories of Postwar Architecture
Year: 2023

description: The paper traces the political and design events that led the city of Florence and FIAT to involve numerous architects in 1985 for the construction of a new district on the area owned by the car manufacturer. In addition to various office and commercial buildings, the city’s Palace of Justice would also be built here. Coordinated by Lawrence Halprin and Bruno Zevi, the architects - Leonardo Ricci, Ralph Erskine, Roberto Gabetti and Aimaro Isola, Luigi Pellegrin, Aldo Loris Rossi, Richard Rogers, Walter Di Salvo, Iginio Cappai and Pietro Mainardis, Gunnar Birkerts and Piero Paoli - drew up an urban plan for the area during three workshops (1987-1988). Leonardo Ricci (initially accompanied by Giovanni Michelucci) is responsible for the design of the Palace of Justice, which will be the only building constructed in the district. Using unpublished documentation, the paper focuses on the purely political reasons why the neighbourhood could not be realised, leaving Ricci’s building as a desolate fragment of an urban ideal.
description: Histories of Postwar Architecture, No. 9 (2021): Leonardo Ricci (1918-1994). Archives I
Going Through the Motions: Participation in Interpreter-mediated Meeting Interaction Under a Deaf and a Hearing Chairperson.
Creators: name: Henley, Rose
name: McKee, Rachel
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education
classificationCode: 4704
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
classificationCode: 4703
subject: Language studies

description: In multiparty meetings involving deaf and hearing participants, sign language interpreters are tasked to render talk ‘accessible’ to all by mediating differences across languages, modalities, interactional norms, and cultural statuses (Roy, 1989, 1993; Mindess, 1999; Van Herreweghe, 2002). Although this context of work is relatively common for interpreters, their practices and the interactional outcomes for participants are under-researched. This case study compares chairing and meeting practices under a deaf chairperson and a hearing chairperson, respectively. The impact of chairing on interpretability and deaf participation are discussed. An interactional sociolinguistics framework informs analysis of meeting data and retrospective participant interviews. Analysis shows that deaf participation is qualitatively different and experienced as more accessible under the deaf chairperson due to temporal alignment with the deaf chair, reduced conflict between visual inputs, and more confidence to clarify information and bid for turns. Interactional features that limit or enhance deaf participation are worthy of attention by interpreters and regular participants of interpreter-mediated meetings. Keywords: multiparty interaction, interpreting, mixed meetings, chairing.
Additional file 1 of Preconception mental health and the relationship between antenatal depression or anxiety and gestational diabetes mellitus: a population-based cohort study
Creators: name: Thiele, Grace A.
name: Ryan, Deirdre M.
name: Oberlander, Tim F.
name: Hanley, Gillian E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.