cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Reducing Youth Access to Alcohol: Findings from a Community-Based Randomized Trial
Creators: name: Hanley, Sean M.
name: Biglan, Anthony
name: Grube, Joel W.
name: Wiesen, Chris
name: Ruscoe, Jeff
name: Paschall, M. J.
name: Black, Carol
name: Flewelling, Robert L.
name: Kraft, Anne
name: Ringwalt, Christopher
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Underage drinking continues to be an important public health problem and a challenge to the substance abuse prevention field. Community-based interventions designed to more rigorously control underage access to alcohol through retailer education and greater enforcement of underage drinking laws have been advocated as potentially effective strategies to help address this problem, but studies designed to evaluate such interventions are sparse. To address this issue we conducted a randomized trial involving 36 communities to test the combined effectiveness of five interrelated intervention components designed to reduce underage access to alcohol. The intervention was found to be effective in reducing the likelihood that retail clerks would sell alcohol to underage-looking buyers, but did not reduce underage drinking or the perceived availability of alcohol among high school students. Post hoc analyses, however, revealed significant associations between the level of underage drinking law enforcement in the intervention communities and reductions in both 30-day use of alcohol and binge drinking. The findings highlight the difficulty in reducing youth drinking even when efforts to curtail retail access are successful. Study findings also suggest that high intensity implementation of underage drinking law enforcement can reduce underage drinking. Any such effects of enhanced enforcement on underage drinking appear to be more directly attributable to an increase in perceived likelihood of enforcement and the resultant perceived inconveniences and/or sanctions to potential drinkers, than to a reduction in access to alcohol per se.
HIV Testing Experience and Risk Behavior Among Sexually Active Black Young Adults: A CBPR-Based Study Using Respondent-Driven Sampling in Durham, North Carolina
Creators: name: Chen, Mario
name: Jolly, David
name: Mueller, Monique P.
name: Isler, Malika Roman
name: Rogers, Randy C.
name: Laws, Michelle
name: MacQueen, Kathleen M.
name: Okumu, Eunice
name: Eley, Natalie T.
name: Kalloo, Allison
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: African Americans are disproportionately affected by the HIV epidemic inclusive of men who have sex with men, heterosexual men, and women. As part of a community-based participatory research study we assessed HIV testing experience among sexually active 18 to 30 year old Black men and women in Durham, North Carolina. Of 508 participants, 173 (74%) men and 236 (86%; p=.0008) women reported ever being tested. Barriers to testing (e.g., perceived risk and stigma) were the same for men and women, but men fell behind mainly because a primary facilitator of testing---routine screening in clinical settings---was more effective at reaching women. Structural and behavioral risk factors associated with HIV infection were prevalent but did not predict HIV testing experience. Reduced access to health care services for low income Black young adults may exacerbate HIV testing barriers that already exist for men and undermine previous success rates in reaching women.
(100848) Gladys Mary Mackie
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
The effect of weight history on glucose and lipids: The atherosclerosis risk in communities study
Creators: name: Stevens, June
name: Truesdale, Kimberly P.
name: Cai, Jianwen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: Few studies have examined the impact of weight history. Extant data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study were used to compare risk factors for normal-weight (body mass index: 18.5–24.9 kg/m2) adults with a history of weight loss (n = 775) with those for persons with a history of weight maintenance (n = 5,164). In this 1987–1998 US study, the authors also compared risk factors for preobese (body mass index: 25.0–29.9 kg/m2) adults with a history of weight gain (n = 1,296) versus weight maintenance (n = 6,721). They used mixed-models regression to adjust for ethnicity, gender, age, education, field center, smoking, alcohol consumption, follow-up time, and follow-up body mass index. Compared with adults with a history of weight maintenance, adults with a 3-year history of weight loss had more favorable total and low density lipoprotein cholesterol levels and similar glucose, high density lipoprotein cholesterol, and triglyceride levels. In contrast, preobese adults with a 3-year history of weight gain had equivalent glucose and lipid levels at follow-up compared with adults with a history of weight maintenance. These findings suggest that, in addition to current weight, weight history may impact glucose and lipid levels.
title: Local DRL for common paediatric fluoroscopic examinations in according to PiDRL Guidelines: experience of a dedicated Italian referral center
Creators: name: Magistrelli, Andrea
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Dosimetric comparison
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Cystography / Uretrography
subject: Barium enema
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Abdomen
subject: Action 2 - Clinical diagnostic reference levels (DRLs)
subject: Action 3 - Optimisation, diagnostic reference levels, image quality
subject: Quality assurance

description: Background/Introduction Description of activity and work performed Conclusion and Recommendations Personal/Organisational information References
description: Background/Introduction: Fluoroscopic examinations can be associated with high radiation dose, with less standardisation of screening technique than plain radiography. It is thus expected that there will be a great variation in the dose delivered by different operators for...
Prezioso e dimesso: la lingua di Arturo Loria al tempo di 'Solaria'
Creators: name: Baggio, Serenella
Publisher: name: Universit� di Trento. Dipartimento di Scienze filologiche e storiche
Year: 2004

description: Studio linguistico su Arturo Loria (1902-1957), carpigiano di nascita, fiorentino di formazione, una delle figure pi� rappresentative della rivista ?Solaria?, vicino ad Alessandro Bonsanti e a Eugenio Montale. Le sue tre raccolte di racconti (Il cieco e la Bellona, Fannias Ventosca, La scuola di ballo), uscite tra 1928 e1932 e salutate come un felice esordio dalla critica, sono descritte come un laboratorio linguistico, attingendo anche alle carte dello scrittore conservate al Gabinetto Vieusseux. Si � voluto mostrare come Loria cercasse per la prosa narrativa una lingua moderna, europea, con un?attenzione quasi ossessiva alle scelte lessicali e sintattiche, producendo una scrittura, tormentata e difficile, che Montale defin� ?preziosa e insieme dimessa?. L?analisi linguistica di tratti grafico-fonetici, morfosintattici, morfolessicali e soprattutto sintattici permette di delineare un percorso moderatamente innovativo tanto nella caratterizzazione linguistica di emarginati sociali quanto nella riproduzione del parlato naturale, sempre alieno dal popolarismo. Si � potuta osservare quindi la coesistenza di tensioni opposte: l?eccellenza dello stile con la mediet� linguistica; registri diversi per la narrazione e per il dialogo; rapporti ambigui con la grammaticalit� della lingua e con l?uso vivo. Nell?arco dei pochi anni che separano la prima dalla terza raccolta varie ipotesi vennero percorse e bruciate. In questo studio si descrivono le scelte dello scrittore in prospettiva storico-linguistica; la creativit� linguistica di Loria trov� spazi in un italiano primonovecentesco in fase di ristandardizzazione.
The unification of powerful quasars and radio galaxies and their relation to other massive galaxies
Creators: name: Podigachoski, P.
name: Barthel, P. D.
name: Haas, M.
name: Leipski, C.
name: Wilkes, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The unification model for powerful radio galaxies and radio-loud quasars postulates that these objects are intrinsically the same but viewed along different angles. Herschel Space Observatory data permit the assessment of that model in the far-infrared spectral window. We analyze photometry from Spitzer and Herschel for the distant 3CR hosts, and find that radio galaxies and quasars have different mid-infrared, but indistinguishable far-infrared colors. Both these properties, the former being orientation dependent and the latter orientation invariant, are in line with expectations from the unification model. Adding powerful radio-quiet active galaxies and typical massive star-forming galaxies to the analysis, we demonstrate that infrared colors not only provide an orientation indicator, but can also distinguish active from star-forming galaxies.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
(100849) John Beames Cooper Burroughs
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Dietary Fiber, Lung Function, and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study
Creators: name: London, Stephanie J.
name: Stevens, June
name: Kan, Haidong
name: Heiss, Gerardo
name: Rose, Kathryn M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: Recent data suggest beneficial effects of fiber intake on chronic respiratory symptoms in adults that are independent of antioxidant vitamin intake, but little is known about fiber consumption in relation to lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The authors investigated the association of fiber intake with lung function and COPD in 11,897 men and women from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study. After controlling for potential confounders, positive associations between lung function and fiber intake from all sources as well as from cereal or fruit alone were found. Participants in the highest quintile of total fiber intake had 60.2 ml higher forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) (p for trend<0.001), 55.2 ml higher forced vital capacity (FVC) (p=0.001), 0.4% higher FEV1/FVC ratio (p=0.040), 1.8% higher percent predicted FEV1 (p<0.001), and 1.4% higher percent predicted FVC (p=0.001), compared with those in the lowest quintile. The adjusted odds ratios of COPD for the highest versus lowest quintiles of intake were 0.85 (p=0.044) for total fiber, 0.83 (p=0.021) for cereal fiber, and 0.72 (p=0.005) for fruit fiber. This study provides the first evidence that dietary fiber is independently associated with better lung function and reduced prevalence of COPD.
VITICULTURE DEFINITION – WHAT IS VITICULTURE? VITICULTURE IN UZBEK SSR HOW TO GROW GRAPES FOR PROFIT – COMMERCIAL GRAPE GROWER'S ESSENTIAL GUIDE
Creators: name: Nuraliyeva, Farangiz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The article discusses the main properties of grapes and its effects on the human body. A systematic modern review of specialized literature and current scientific data has been carried out.
title: Implementation of system for follow-up of patients undergoing high dose interventional procedures
Creators: name: Kostova-Lefterova, Desislava
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Treatment effects
subject: Stents
subject: Balloon occlusion
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Management
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Action 12 - Information for and communication with patients
subject: Action 13 - Stakeholder engagement and collaboration
subject: Action 8 - Radiation protection training and learning material
subject: Action 11 - Improved patient communication
subject: Action 10 - Improved communication and collaboration of health professionals in radiation protection
subject: Action 6 - Education and training in medical radiation protection
subject: Dosimetric comparison
subject: Education and training
subject: Quality assurance

description: Background/Introduction Description of activity and work performed Conclusion and Recommendations Personal/Organisational information References
description: Background/Introduction: Radiation-induced injuries to patient’s skin as a result of high dose fluoroscopy guided interventional procedures are infrequently reported, often misdiagnosedand there is need tofollow up of patient. The ICRP, the International Atomic Energy...
Nine-Year Changes in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors with Weight Maintenance in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Cohort
Creators: name: Truesdale, Kimberly P.
name: Cai, Jianwen
name: Stevens, June
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: Few studies have focused on the impact of weight maintenance on cardiovascular disease risk factors or addressed whether changes differ by baseline weight status and medication usage. The authors examined these issues using 9 years of follow-up data on 3,235 men and women from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study who were aged 45–64 years at baseline (1987–1989). In participants not using medications, glucose (3.0 mg/dl, 95% confidence interval (CI): 2.4, 3.5) and triglycerides (10.1 mg/dl, 95% CI: 8.3, 11.9) increased, while total cholesterol (−9.6 mg/dl, 95% CI: −10.6, −8.6), low density lipoprotein cholesterol (−9.9 mg/dl, 95% CI: −10.9, −9.0), and high density lipoprotein cholesterol (−1.7 mg/dl, 95% CI: −2.1, −1.3) decreased. Systolic blood pressure (7.9 mmHg, 95% CI: 7.3, 8.4) increased, but diastolic blood pressure (−1.1 mmHg, 95% CI: −1.4, −0.7) declined. Normal weight (body mass index: 18.5–<25.0 kg/m2) participants had smaller increases in glucose compared with obese (body mass index: ≥30.0 kg/m2) participants. In contrast, the authors found less favorable changes in total, low density lipoprotein, and high density lipoprotein cholesterol, triglycerides, and diastolic blood pressure among normal weight compared with obese participants who maintained their weight. These patterns were similar across weight status groups regardless of medication usage.
Experimental observation of controllable kinetic constraints in a cold atomic gas
Creators: name: Valado, M. M.
name: Simonelli, C.
name: Hoogerland, M. D.
name: Lesanovsky, I.
name: Garrahan, J. P.
name: Arimondo, E.
name: Ciampini, D.
name: Morsch, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many-body systems relaxing to equilibrium can exhibit complex dynamics even if their steady state is trivial. At low temperatures or high densities their evolution is often dominated by steric hindrances affecting particle motion [1,2,3]. Local rearrangements are highly constrained, giving rise to collective - and often slow - relaxation.This dynamics can be difficult to analyse from first principles, but the essential physical ingredients are captured by idealized lattice models with so- called kinetic constraints [4]. Here we experimentally realize a many-body system exhibiting manifest kinetic constraints and measure its dynamical properties. In the cold Rydberg gas used in our experiments, the nature of the constraints can be tailored through the detuning of the excitation lasers from resonance [5,6,7,8], which controls whether the system undergoes correlated or anti- correlated dynamics. Our results confirm recent theoretical predictions [5,6], and highlight the analogy between the dynamics of interacting Rydberg gases and that of soft-matter systems.
description: Fig. 3 corrected
title: Re-optimisation of PET/CT exams in paediatric oncologic imaging to reduce dose exposure
Creators: name: Neri, Emanuele
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: PET-CT
subject: CT
subject: Thorax
subject: Lung
subject: Hybrid Imaging
subject: Action 10 - EuroSafe Imaging Stars
subject: Action 2 - Clinical diagnostic reference levels (DRLs)
subject: Action 8 - EuroSafe Imaging Stars network and data collection
subject: Action 3 - Optimisation, diagnostic reference levels, image quality
subject: Cancer
subject: Neoplasia

description: Background/Introduction Description of activity and work performed Conclusion and Recommendations Personal/Organisational information References
description: Background/Introduction: CT imaging in pediatric patients requires the so called “gently imaging” approach. As a matter of fact cancer risk increases after CT scans in childhood, and the individual risk is associated to multiple factors, of which the most relevant is...
(100845) William Edward Washbourne
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: The Portuguese approach towards Eurosafe Imaging
Creators: name: Paulo, Graciano
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Radiographers
subject: Action 12 - Information for and communication with patients
subject: Action 8 - Radiation protection training and learning material
subject: Action 2 - Clinical diagnostic reference levels (DRLs)
subject: Action 11 - Improved patient communication
subject: Action 6 - Education and training in medical radiation protection
subject: Action 3 - Optimisation, diagnostic reference levels, image quality
subject: CT
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Education and training

description: Background/Introduction Description of activity and work performed Conclusion and Recommendations Personal/Organisational information References
description: Background/Introduction: In the past years, there has been some activities in Portugal to improve the knowledge skills and competences in the field of radiation protection. The Portuguese Society of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, together with ESTESC-Coimbra health...
title: WHO Global Initiative on Radiation Safety in Health Care Settings
Creators: name: del Rosario Perez, Maria
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: CT
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Pelvis
subject: Action 13 - Stakeholder engagement and collaboration
subject: Action 12 - Information for and communication with patients
subject: Action 12 - Cooperation with international radiation protection initiatives and other stakeholders including IAEA, WHO, ICRP, HERCA, European Commission
subject: Action 11 - Improved patient communication
subject: Audit and standards
subject: Quality assurance

description: Background/Introduction Description of activity and work performed Conclusion and Recommendations Personal/Organisational information References
description: Background/Introduction: The World Health Organization (WHO) is the coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It has a decentralized structure with offices in 150 of its 194 Member States, six regional offices and its headquarters in...
Objectively Assessed Associations between Physical Activity and Body Composition in Middle-School Girls: The Trial of Activity for Adolescent Girls
Creators: name: Baggett, Chris D.
name: Lytle, Leslie A.
name: Pate, Russell R.
name: Stevens, June
name: Webber, Larry S.
name: Pratt, Charlotte A.
name: Lohman, Timothy G.
name: Murray, David M.
name: Young, Deborah R.
name: Elder, John P.
name: Treuth, Margarita S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: Declining levels of physical activity probably contribute to the increasing prevalence of overweight in US youth. In this study, the authors examined cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between physical activity and body composition in sixth- and eighth-grade girls. In 2003, girls were recruited from six US states as part of the Trial of Activity for Adolescent Girls. Physical activity was measured using 6 days of accelerometry, and percentage of body fat was calculated using an age- and ethnicity-specific prediction equation. Sixth-grade girls with an average of 12.8 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) per day (15th percentile) were 2.3 times (95% confidence interval: 1.52, 3.44) more likely to be overweight than girls with 34.7 minutes of MVPA per day (85th percentile), and their percent body fat was 2.64 percentage points greater (95% confidence interval: 1.79, 3.50). Longitudinal analyses showed that percent body fat increased 0.28 percentage points less in girls with a 6.2-minute increase in MVPA than in girls with a 4.5-minute decrease (85th and 15th percentiles of change). Associations between MVPA in sixth grade and incidence of overweight in eighth grade were not detected. More population-based research using objective physical activity and body composition measurements is needed to make evidence-based physical activity recommendations for US youth.
Advanced Parental Age and the Risk of Autism Spectrum Disorder
Creators: name: Schieve, Laura A.
name: Maenner, Matthew J.
name: Leavitt, Lewis
name: Miller, Lisa
name: Cunniff, Christopher M.
name: Durkin, Maureen S.
name: Kirby, Russell S.
name: Daniels, Julie L.
name: Newschaffer, Craig J.
name: Lee, Li Ching
name: Zahorodny, Walter
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: This study evaluated independent effects of maternal and paternal age on risk of autism spectrum disorder. A case-cohort design was implemented using data from 10 US study sites participating in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network. The 1994 birth cohort included 253,347 study-site births with complete parental age information. Cases included 1,251 children aged 8 years with complete parental age information from the same birth cohort and identified as having an autism spectrum disorder based on Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision criteria. After adjustment for the other parent's age, birth order, maternal education, and other covariates, both maternal and paternal age were independently associated with autism (adjusted odds ratio for maternal age ≥35 vs. 25–29 years = 1.3, 95% confidence interval: 1.1, 1.6; adjusted odds ratio for paternal age ≥40 years vs. 25–29 years = 1.4, 95% confidence interval: 1.1, 1.8). Firstborn offspring of 2 older parents were 3 times more likely to develop autism than were third- or later-born offspring of mothers aged 20–34 years and fathers aged <40 years (odds ratio = 3.1, 95% confidence interval: 2.0, 4.7). The increase in autism risk with both maternal and paternal age has potential implications for public health planning and investigations of autism etiology.
library
Creators: name: Anik Kumar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Implication in information literacy : opportunity to create, share and disseminate resources used to teach info-lit courses as Open Educational Resources ● Transferability of skills between open access and open education, most notably with CC licenses : opportunity to counsel and accompany OER creators ● Knowledge of platforms and indexation : OER are digital assets (almost) like any other
Implementation of ACTS for STCF track reconstruction
Creators: name: Ai, Xiaocong
name: Huang, Xingtao
name: Liu, Yi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With an electron-positron collider operating at center-of-mass-energy 2-7 GeV and a peak luminosity above $0.5\times10^{35} cm^{-2} s^{-1}$, the STCF physics program will provide an unique platform for in-depth studies of hadron structure and non-perturbative strong interaction as well as probing new physics beyond the Standard Model in the $τ$-Charm sector, succeeding the present Beijing Electron-Positron Collider. To fulfill the physics targets and further maximize the physics potential at STCF, the STCF tracking software should have capability to reconstruct charged particles with high efficiency and excellent momentum resolution, especially for the charged particles with low transverse momentum down to 50 MeV. A Common Tracking Software (ACTS) providing a set of detector-independent tracking algorithms is adopted for reconstructing charged tracks with the information of two sub-detectors, a $μ$RWELL-based inner tracker and a drift chamber, at STCF. This is the first demonstration of ACTS for a drift chamber. The implementation details and performance of track reconstruction are presented.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures
title: Coronary CT angiography: are we scanning safely?
Creators: name: Minoiu, Costin
Publisher: name: ESR EuroSafe Imaging
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Cardiac
subject: Action 12 - Information for and communication with patients
subject: Action 3 - Image quality assessment based on clinical indications
subject: Action 2 - Clinical diagnostic reference levels (DRLs)
subject: Action 11 - Improved patient communication
subject: Action 4 - Quality of radiological equipment
subject: Action 3 - Optimisation, diagnostic reference levels, image quality
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Dosimetry
subject: Dosimetric comparison

description: Background/Introduction Description of activity and work performed Conclusion and Recommendations Personal/Organisational information References
description: Background/Introduction: Computed tomography coronary angiography (CTCA) is a non-invasive tool with a high diagnostic accuracy for detection of coronary arterial stenosis. Because of its effectiveness, it has become widely used in cardiac imaging, both in acute and chronic...
Simulating Chiral Magnetic and Separation Effects with Spin-Orbit Coupled Atomic Gases
Creators: name: Huang, Xu-Guang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The chiral magnetic and chiral separation effects---quantum-anomaly-induced electric current and chiral current along an external magnetic field in parity-odd quark-gluon plasma---have received intense studies in the community of heavy-ion collision physics. We show that analogous effects occur in rotating trapped Fermi gases with Weyl-Zeeman spin-orbit coupling where the rotation plays the role of an external magnetic field. These effects can induce a mass quadrupole in the atomic cloud along the rotation axis which may be tested in future experiments. Our results suggest that the spin-orbit coupled atomic gases are potential simulators of the chiral magnetic and separation effects.
description: V2: 13 pages, 5 figures, discussions on Bose gases are cut out, published version
Consumption of trans-Fatty Acid and Its Association with Colorectal Adenomas
Creators: name: Satia, Jessie A.
name: Sandler, Robert S.
name: Galanko, Joseph A.
name: Ibrahim, Joseph
name: Millikan, Robert C.
name: Schroeder, Jane C.
name: Martin, Christopher F.
name: Vinikoor, Lisa C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: trans-Fatty acid consumption is known to have detrimental effects on cardiovascular health, but little is known about its role in digestive tract neoplasia. To investigate the association between colorectal adenomas and trans-fatty acid consumption, the authors utilized data from a cross-sectional study of 622 individuals who underwent complete colonoscopy between 2001 and 2002 at the University of North Carolina Hospitals. Participants were interviewed about demographic, lifestyle, and dietary factors thought to be related to colorectal cancer. trans-Fatty acid consumption, energy adjusted by the residual method, was categorized into quartiles based on its distribution in controls. Compared with participants in the lowest quartile of consumption, those in the highest quartile had an increased prevalence of colorectal adenomas, with an adjusted prevalence odds ratio of 1.86 (95% confidence interval: 1.04, 3.33). The authors further investigated the relation between trans-fatty acid consumption and colorectal neoplasia by examining the adenoma characteristics, with the adjusted prevalence odds ratios showing little or no difference by adenoma location, size, or number. These results suggest that consumption of high amounts of trans-fatty acid may increase the risk of colorectal neoplasia, and they provide additional support to recommendations to limit trans-fatty acid consumption.
Investigation of ACP96 at PMOD/WRC
Creators: name: Gröbner, Julian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: terrestrial radiation, traceability, calibration

description: This collection of slides describes the operation of ACP96 at PMOD/WRC during the year 2020. The ACP96 was compared to the IRIS2 and IRIS4 radiometers serving as reference radiometers for atmospheric longwave irradiance (terrestrial radiation).
(100846) Henry Paul
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Gang Exposure and Pregnancy Incidence among Female Adolescents in San Francisco: Evidence for the Need to Integrate Reproductive Health with Violence Prevention Efforts
Creators: name: Rodas, C.
name: Auerswald, C.
name: Padian, N. S.
name: Shiboski, S.
name: Doherty, I. A.
name: Minnis, A. M.
name: Moore, J. G.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Among a cohort of 237 sexually active females aged 14–19 recruited from community venues in a predominantly Latino neighborhood in San Francisco we examined the relationship between gang exposure and pregnancy incidence over two years of follow-up. Using discrete-time survival analysis we investigated whether individual and partner gang membership were associated with pregnancy incidence and determined whether partnership characteristics, contraceptive behaviors and pregnancy intentions mediated the relationship between gang membership and pregnancy. Pregnancy incidence was determined by urine-based testing and self-report. Seventy-seven percent of participants were Latinas, with one in five born outside the U.S. One-quarter (27.4%) became pregnant over follow-up. Participants’ gang membership had no significant effect on pregnancy incidence (Hazard Ratio (HR)=1.25; 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.54, 3.45); however, having partners who were in gangs was associated with pregnancy (HR=1.90; 95% CI: 1.09, 3.32). Perceived male partner’s pregnancy intentions and having a partner in detention each mediated the effect of partner’s gang membership on pregnancy risk. Increased pregnancy incidence among young women with gang-involved partners highlights the importance of integrating reproductive health prevention into programs for gang-involved youth. In addition, high pregnancy rates indicate a heightened risk for sexually transmitted infections.
Chitosan-Alginate Nanoparticle System Efficiently Delivers Doxorubicin to MCF-7 Cells
Creators: name: Katuwavila, NP
name: Perera, ADLC
name: Samarakoon,
name: Soysa, P
name: Karunaratne, V
name: Amaratunga, Gehan
name: Karunaratne, DN
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2016

description: A chitosan-alginate nanoparticle system encapsulating doxorubicin (DOX) was prepared by a novel ionic gelation method using alginate as the crosslinker. These nanoparticles were around 100 nm in size and more stable with higher positive zeta potential and had higher % encapsulation efficiency (95%) than DOX loaded chitosan nanoparticles (DOX Csn NP) crosslinked with sodium tripolyphosphate (STPP). FTIR spectroscopy and thermogravimetric analysis revealed successful loading of DOX. In vitro drug release showed an initial release phase followed by slow release phase with higher cumulative release obtained with DOX loaded chitosan-alginate nanoparticles (DOX Csn-Alg NP). The in vitro cytotoxicity of DOX released from the two nanoparticle systems showed a notable difference on comparison with that of free DOX on the MCF-7 cell line. The SRB assay, AO/EB staining, and fluorescence uptake study indicated that free DOX only showed dose dependent cytotoxicity, whereas both dose and time dependency were exhibited by the two sets of NPs. While both systems show sustained release of DOX, from the cell viability plots, DOX Csn-Alg NPs showed their superiority over DOX Csn NPs. The results obtained are useful for developing DOX Csn-Alg NPs as a sustained release carrier system for DOX.
description: This research was financially supported by the HETC QIG Window 3 Grant, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
Hormonal Risk Factors for Ovarian Cancer in Premenopausal and Postmenopausal Women
Creators: name: Halabi, Susan
name: Berchuck, Andrew
name: Iversen, Edwin S.
name: Bentley, Rex C.
name: Schildkraut, Joellen M.
name: Palmieri, Rachel T.
name: Moorman, Patricia G.
name: Calingaert, Brian
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Ovarian cancer is most frequently diagnosed in postmenopausal women; however, the strongest risk predictors, pregnancy and oral contraceptive use, occur in most women in their twenties and thirties. Relatively few studies have examined how reproductive risk factors vary between pre- and postmenopausal ovarian cancer. The authors used data from a population-based, case-control study of ovarian cancer (896 cases, 967 controls) conducted in North Carolina from 1999 to 2006. Odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals were calculated by using unconditional logistic regression. Inverse associations with ovarian cancer were observed with duration of oral contraceptive use, later age at last use, and more recent use among premenopausal women; no significant associations were found for postmenopausal women. Analyses limited to oral contraceptive users showed that duration was a more significant predictor of risk than was timing of use. Parity was inversely associated with premenopausal but not postmenopausal ovarian cancer. Later age at pregnancy was associated with reduced risk for both pre- and postmenopausal women. Analyses among parous women showed that pregnancy timing was a stronger risk predictor than number of pregnancies. Findings suggest that associations between ovarian cancer and reproductive characteristics vary by menopausal status. Additional research is needed to further elucidate risk factors for postmenopausal disease.
Arbuscular mycorrhizal isolate and phosphogypsum effects on growth and nutrients acquisition of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)
Creators: name: Ibrahim, M.
Publisher: name: Advances in Horticultural Science
Year: 2017

description: Cotton was grown in pots with added phosphogypsum (PG) to evaluate the effect of indigenous arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and phosphogypsum on cotton growth and acquisition of phosphorus (P), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), manganese (Mn), iron (Fe), copper (Cu), and zinc (Zn). AMF isolate was a mixture of Glomus intraradices, Glomus viscosum, and Glomus mosseae previously isolated from a cotton field. Shoot dry biomass was enhanced significantly by both indigenous AMF and PG. Shoot dry biomass and seed cotton yields were enhanced by the AMF and PG combination and even more when PG in compost was added to mycorrhizal plants. P content in AMF with PG and in AMF with PG/compost treated plants was, respectively, 209.3 and 278.7%, significantly higher than control. Acquisition of K, Ca, and micronutrients was significantly enhanced by the combination of AMF and PG. The treatment of AMF with PG/compost induced the highest contents in Mn, Fe, Cu and Zn which were found to be, respectively, 287, 201, 192.8, and 171% higher compared to control. Results indicate that cotton growth responded to indigenous AMF in soils amended with PG. Combination of AMF with PG added in compost can ensure satisfactory benefits for cotton growth in low input, sustainable cropping systems.
description: Advances in Horticultural Science, Vol 30 No 3 (2016)
Impact of Body Mass Index on Incident Hypertension and Diabetes in Chinese Asians, American Whites, and American Blacks: The People's Republic of China Study and the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study
Creators: name: Cai, Jianwen
name: Truesdale, Kimberly P.
name: Stevens, June
name: Katz, Eva G.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Researchers have hypothesized that the impact of body mass index on chronic disease may be greater in Asians than in Whites; however, most studies are cross-sectional and have no White comparison group. The authors compared the associations with body mass index in Chinese Asians (n = 5,980), American Whites (n = 10,776), and American Blacks (n = 3,582) using prospective data from the People’s Republic of China Study (1983–1994) and the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study (1987–1998). Slopes of risk differences over body mass index levels were compared among the three ethnic groups in adjusted analyses. The authors found larger associations with body mass index in Chinese Asians compared with American Whites and Blacks for hypertension (p < 0.05). The increase in the incidence of hypertension associated with a one-unit increase in body mass index over approximately 8 years of follow-up was 2.5, 1.7, and 1.8 percentage points for Chinese Asians, American Whites, and American Blacks, respectively. For diabetes, the estimates were 1.7, 1.1, and 1.6 percentage points for the same groups— higher in Chinese Asians than in American Whites (p < 0.05) but similar between Chinese Asians and American Blacks. Given the ethnic differences in associations, the results support advocacy of public health and medical actions toward obesity prevention and treatment in China.
Computation of Contour Integrals on ${\cal M}_{0,n}$
Creators: name: Cachazo, Freddy
name: Gomez, Humberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Contour integrals of rational functions over ${\cal M}_{0,n}$, the moduli space of $n$-punctured spheres, have recently appeared at the core of the tree-level S-matrix of massless particles in arbitrary dimensions. The contour is determined by the critical points of a certain Morse function on ${\cal M}_{0,n}$. The integrand is a general rational function of the puncture locations with poles of arbitrary order as two punctures coincide. In this note we provide an algorithm for the analytic computation of any such integral. The algorithm uses three ingredients: an operation we call general KLT, Petersen's theorem applied to the existence of a 2-factor in any 4-regular graph and Hamiltonian decompositions of certain 4-regular graphs. The procedure is iterative and reduces the computation of a general integral to that of simple building blocks. These are integrals which compute double-color-ordered partial amplitudes in a bi-adjoint cubic scalar theory.
description: 36+11 pp
Analyzing research performance: proposition of a new complementary index
Creators: name: Sahoo, Shaon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A researcher collaborating with many groups will normally have more papers (and thus higher citations and $h$-index) than a researcher spending all his/her time working alone or in a small group. While analyzing an author's research merit, it is therefore not enough to consider only the collective impact of the published papers, it is also necessary to quantify his/her share in the impact. For this quantification, here I propose the $I$-index which is defined as an author's percentage share in the total citations that his/her papers have attracted. It is argued that this $I$-index does not directly depend on the most of the subjective issues like an author's influence, affiliation, seniority or career break. A simple application of the Central Limit Theorem shows that, the scheme of equidistribution of credit among the coauthors of a paper will give us the most probable value of the $I$-index (with an associated small standard deviation which decreases with increasing $h$-index). I show that the total citations ($N_c$), the $h$-index and the $I$-index are three independent parameters (within their bounds), and together they give a comprehensive idea of an author's overall research performance.
description: minor changes made; accepted for publication in Scientometrics; this version is essentially the same as the accepted one, visit link.springer.com for the final published article
Cooperation and Competition in Synchronous Open Quantum Systems
Creators: name: Murtadho, Taufiq
name: Vinjanampathy, Sai
name: Thingna, Juzar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Synchronization between limit cycle oscillators can arise through entrainment to an external drive or through mutual coupling. The interplay between the two mechanisms has been studied in classical synchronizing systems, but not in quantum systems. Here, we point out that competition and cooperation between the two mechanisms can occur due to phase pulling and phase repulsion in quantum systems. We study their interplay in collectively driven degenerate quantum thermal machines and show that these mechanisms either cooperate or compete depending on the working mode of the machine (refrigerator or engine). The entrainment-mutual synchronization interplay persists with an increase in the number of degenerate levels, while in the thermodynamic limit of degeneracy, mutual synchronization dominates. Overall, our work investigates the effect of degeneracy and multilevel scaling of quantum synchronization and shows how different synchronizing mechanisms can cooperate and compete in quantum systems.
description: 10 pgs, 3 figures. Comments are welcome
Insight on trans-plasma membrane behavior of virus-infected plant cells
Creators: name: Luvisi, A.
name: Rinaldelli, E.
Publisher: name: Advances in Horticultural Science
Year: 2017

description: Little is known about the ion fluxes generated during plant-virus interactions, despite significant losses caused by viruses to agricultural crops. Changes in average ion currents were identifying an early event in the signal transduction pathway related to virus/host interaction. While significant decrease in the average inward currents, mainly due to Ca2+ moving into the cell was observed, the role of potassium may be significant. Host specific K+ efflux with a concomitant decrease in the intracellular K+ was observed in tobacco plants during the early minutes after infection, suggesting many hypothesis about the role of potassium in host-virus interaction. In the last years, trans-plasma membrane potential was evaluated for some viruses, observing as effect on membrane was different in relation to virus infection and host. Conversely, settle virus infection generally lead to an increase of activity in trans-plasma membrane electron transport.
description: Advances in Horticultural Science, Vol 30 No 3 (2016)