cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The SIMPLE Archive
Creators: name: Rodriguez, David
name: Cruz, Kelle
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: ADASS

description: We present the SIMPLE Archive alongside its database management tool, AstrodbKit2. SIMPLE is an archive of low mass stars, brown dwarfs, and exoplanets driven by community curation and review using GitHub. SIMPLE relies on AstrodbKit2 to convert back and forth from a document-store model of the database, to a more standard relational database that can be used with established packages like SQLAlchemy. In this poster, we present the architecture of the SIMPLE database and how using AstrodbKit2 facilitates a git workflow for reviewing and approving database modifications. SIMPLE is available at https://github.com/SIMPLE-AstroDB/SIMPLE-db AstrodbKit2 is available at https://github.com/dr-rodriguez/AstrodbKit2
German final clauses and attitude verbs
Creators: name: Frühauf, Felix
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2022

description: This paper explores the semantics of German final clauses introduced by um and damit against the background of their combinatorial potential with attitude verbs. While final clauses are usually seen as expressing the motivation behind some action, the frequent modification of preferential attitudes like hope or want presents a puzzle. This paper discusses two common paraphrases as a basis for a semantic analysis of final clauses. The attitude data turn out to be challenging for both of them. The paper proposes a tentative solution for the problem by assuming that intentional action implies the same kind of attitude holder that is evoked by preferential attitudes.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol. 26 (2022): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Pion Photo- and Electroproduction and the Chiral MAID Interface
Creators: name: Hilt, M.
name: Lehnhart, B. C.
name: Scherer, S.
name: Tiator, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the extended on-mass-shell scheme for manifestly Lorentz-invariant baryon chiral perturbation theory. We present a calculation of pion photo- and electroproduction up to and including order $q^4$. The low-energy constants have been fixed by fitting experimental data in all available reaction channels. Our results can be accessed via a web interface, the so-called chiral MAID (http://www.kph.uni-mainz.de/MAID/chiralmaid/).
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, invited talk given by S. Scherer at NSTAR 2015, May 25-28, 2015, Osaka, Japan
Countability shifts in the normative dimension
Creators: name: Berio, Leda
name: Erbach, Kurt
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2022

description: In this paper, we discuss what we argue is a newly observed use of nouns like woman, man, and lawyer, in the sort of morphosyntax characteristic of count nouns. We argue that the relevant data constitutes normative uses of the relevant nouns, and we build an analysis on the assumption that such nouns are polysemous between descriptive and normative senses (Leslie, 2015), using the formal account of polysemy in Pustejovsky (1998) and the analysis of countability in Rothstein (2010). In doing so, we provide evidence in support of the aforementioned kinds of analyses of social terms and countability, as opposed to others which do not seem to be able to account for the data in a straightforward a way.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol. 26 (2022): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
The influence of van der Waals interactions on a bubble moving in a tube
Creators: name: Hammoud, Naima H.
name: Trinh, Philippe H.
name: Howell, Peter D.
name: Stone, Howard A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the unsteady thin-film dynamics of a long bubble of negligible viscosity that advances at a uniform speed in a cylindrical capillary tube. The bubble displaces a viscous, nonwetting fluid, creating a thin film between its interface and the tube walls. The film is considered thin enough that intermolecular forces in the form of van der Waals attractions are significant and thin-film rupture is possible. In the case of negligible intermolecular forces, a steady-state solution exits where a film of uniform thickness is deposited in the annular region between the bubble interface and the tube walls. However, once intermolecular interactions are important, the interface is perturbed out of its steady state and either (i) the perturbation grows sufficiently before reaching the rear meniscus of the bubble such that rupture occurs; or (ii) the perturbation remains small due to weak intermolecular forces until it leaves the bubble interface through the rear meniscus. We obtain, both numerically and asymptotically, the time-scale over which rupture occurs, and thus, we find a critical capillary number, depending on the bubble length and the strength of the intermolecular forces, below which the film is predicted to rupture.
Optical and electronic properties of some binary semiconductors from energy gaps
Creators: name: Tripathy, Sunil K.
name: Pattanaik, Anup
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: II-VI and III-V tetrahedral semiconductors have significant potential for novel optoelectronic applications. In the present work, some of the optical and electronic properties of these groups of semiconductors have been studied using a recently proposed empirical relationship for refractive index from energy gap. The calculated values of these properties are also compared with those calculated from some well known relationships. From an analysis of the calculated electronic polarisability of these tetrahedral binary semiconductors from different formulations, we have proposed an empirical relation for its calculation. The predicted values of electronic polarisability of these semiconductors agree fairly well with the known values over a wide range of energy gap.
description: 28 pages, 10 figures, submitted to Optical Materials
Pharmacological Treatments for Methamphetamine Use Disorder: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Evans, Joshua
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Background: Methamphetamine use disorder is a persistent and prevalent illness associated with serious physical, emotional, cognitive and social harms. No proven pharmacological treatments have yet been identified and psychological therapies are currently the only evidence based treatments. A recent systematic review and meta-analysis found no quantitative evidence of benefit for psychostimulants in achieving abstinence or retention in treatment, but that review was limited to specific pharmacological agents (Bhatt et al, 2016). An older systematic review examined all treatments and found no single agent that demonstrated consistent efficacy (Brackins et al, 2011). Many additional studies have since been published. The aim of this systematic review is to critically evaluate the literature not previously covered by these and examine the evidence for efficacy of all possible pharmacological treatments. Methods: The literature search strategy consisted of an electronic search of PubMed. I included randomized controlled trials not previously reviewed of any pharmacological treatment for methamphetamine use disorder that reported methamphetamine use by urine drug screen as an outcome. I abstracted data from all identified studies using a standardized data collection instrument and critically analyzed the risk of bias, internal validity and external validity of all studies using a standardized form. I synthesized the review data. Results: I identified and analyzed 11 studies not previously reviewed. Pharmacological treatments used in these studies included buprenorphine, N-acetyl-cysteine, aripiprazole, citocoline, topiramate, naltrexone, mirtazapine, and a combined regimen of flumazenil/gabapentin/hydroxyzine. No study was found to have both good internal and good external validity. The overall level of internal validity within studies was severely limited by small study size and high numbers of drop outs. Comparison between studies was often not possible due to inconsistently measured, defined and reported outcome measures. Conclusions: Several studies reported positive results, but were limited by poor internal or external validity and no evidence was found to support treatment of methamphetamine use disorder with a specific medication in the general outpatient population. There is a pressing need for more research in this field. Future trials should use consistent outcome measures and address possible challenges to statistical power caused by high attrition. Bhatt M, Zielinski L, Baker-Beal L, et al. Efficacy and safety of psychostimulants for amphetamine and methamphetamine use disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Syst Rev. 2016;5(1):189. doi:10.1186/s13643-016-0370-x. Brackins T, Brahm NC, Kissack JC. Treatments for methamphetamine abuse: a literature review for the clinician. J Pharm Pract. 2011;24(6):541-550. doi:10.1177/0897190011426557.
Systems Integration Model: Combining areas of human health, animal health and economic development
Creators: name: Webb-Robins, Lisa M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: According to the World Health Organization (1999), more than 90% of the estimated 36 million people with HIV/AIDS are living in developing countries with agricultural pursuits as both their primary means of income and food source, suggesting a critical relationship between the three areas of human health, animal health and agricultural economic development in emerging world areas. While there are organizations that provide treatment, intervention or aid in terms of one or more of these areas, a review of the literature did not reveal any which deal with the three in the aggregate. This paper examines the correlations that exist between human health, animal health, and economic development and sets forth a trivariate approach known as the Systems Integration Model (SIM), as the proposed interventional concept. The SIM intervention concept targets all three areas as opposed to being singularly focused on one, which has widespread implications for organizational responses to diseases of poverty, such as HIV/AIDS.
Gallup Poll # 1942-0274: Movies/World War II/AF of L/India
Creators: name: Gallup
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2004

description: How often go to movies (2); would rather go to a theatre showing one full-length picture/two full-length pictures (1); about how long would like to have complete show last when go to movies (1); did/did not see certain movies (4); new movie called "Anthony Adverse" (2); what would do to speed up war effort if respondent was the president (1); separate United States air force (2); would like to see England and U.S. attempt a large-scale attack on Germany in near future/wait until they are stronger (1); national sales tax to help pay cost of war (2); would favor/oppose the appointment of a committee of judges with full power to set aside any peacetime laws and regulations which they felt were slowing up the war effort (1); United States is/is not getting its money's worth out of what is being spent for war materials (1); James C. Petrillo (3); United States is/is not doing all it possibly can to win the war (1); British are/are not doing all they possibly can to win the war (1); India (4); make a point of voting in every election/only vote in those which particularly interest respondent (1); coming congressional elections (2); think Roosevelt is/is not planning to run for re-election in 1944 (1); Henry Wallace vs. Wendell Willkie (1); 1940 presidential election (2); Franklin D. Roosevelt job performance (1); would favor/oppose a government-issued order forbidding double feature movies for duration of war to save film (1).
Weakly Supervised Faster-RCNN+FPN to classify animals in camera trap images
Creators: name: Pochelu, Pierrick
name: Erard, Clara
name: Cordier, Philippe
name: Petiton, Serge G.
name: Conche, Bruno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Camera traps have revolutionized the animal research of many species that were previously nearly impossible to observe due to their habitat or behavior. They are cameras generally fixed to a tree that take a short sequence of images when triggered. Deep learning has the potential to overcome the workload to automate image classification according to taxon or empty images. However, a standard deep neural network classifier fails because animals often represent a small portion of the high-definition images. That is why we propose a workflow named Weakly Object Detection Faster-RCNN+FPN which suits this challenge. The model is weakly supervised because it requires only the animal taxon label per image but doesn't require any manual bounding box annotations. First, it automatically performs the weakly-supervised bounding box annotation using the motion from multiple frames. Then, it trains a Faster-RCNN+FPN model using this weak supervision. Experimental results have been obtained with two datasets from a Papua New Guinea and Missouri biodiversity monitoring campaign, then on an easily reproducible testbed.
Comparative and superlative differentials: Experimental evidence from Czech
Creators: name: Dočekal, Mojmír
name: Krajíčková, Hana
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2022

description: This article brings new experimental evidence for the treatment of Czech ne více než ‘no more than’ comparative differential modifier as the class B numerals modifier. At a more general level, our experimental data bring support for such theories of modified numerals which distinguish among them based on their semantics (like Kennedy 2015).
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol. 26 (2022): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use In Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Creators: name: Hsu, Johann
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Many studies have examined the use of CAM in children, but it is difficult to assess the perceived efficacy of CAM in different disease processes since CAM use varies drastically by geographic region, disease process and definition of CAM. We evaluated the prevalence, specific modalities, perceived efficacy, interests in CAM therapies, and the demographics of those who use CAM in our unique pediatric hematology/oncology population here at UNC Chapel Hill. Caregivers were approached in clinic with a computerized self-administered questionnaire. A total of 143 individuals were approached with 124 fully completing the questionnaire. The overall prevalence of CAM use with patients with malignancy is 60% and non-malignancy is 61%. The most used modalities were prayer, vitamins/minerals, music therapy, and art therapy. Participants were most willing to try music therapy, art therapy, prayer, massage, and deep breathing exercises. In conclusion, we found a relatively high prevalence of CAM use in our population with desire to try new modalities.
Optical properties of silicon rich silicon nitride (SixNyHz) from first principles
Creators: name: Tao, Shu Xia
name: Theulings, Anne M. M. G.
name: Prodanović, Violeta
name: Smedley, John
name: van der Graaf, Harry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The real and imaginary parts of the complex refractive index of SixNyHz have been calculated using density functional perturbation theory. Optical spectra for reflectivity, adsorption coefficient, energy-loss function (ELF), and refractive index, are obtained. The results for Si3N4 are in agreement with the available theoretical and experimental results. To understand the electron energy loss mechanism in Si rich silicon nitride, the influence of the Si doping rate, of the positions of the dopants, and of H in and on the surface on the ELF have been investigated. It has been found that all defects, such as dangling bonds in the bulk and surfaces, increase the intensity of the ELF in the low energy range (below 10 eV). H in the bulk and on the surface has a healing effect, which can reduce the intensity of the loss peaks by saturating the dangling bonds. Electronic structure analysis has confirmed the origin of the changes in the ELF. It has demonstrated that the changes in ELF is not only affected by the composition but also by the microstructures of the materials. The results can be used to tailor the optical properties, in this case the ELF of Si rich Si3N4, which is essential for secondary electron emission application.
Gallup Poll # 1942-0278: Scrap Metal Drives/Vacation/State Elections/World War II
Creators: name: Gallup
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2004

description: Drive to collect scrap metal (7); Own car (1); Take off bumpers (1); Vacation last winter (6); Interested in the coming state elections (3); For Election favor Democrats or Republicans (2); Opening second front (2); Branch have first claim (1); Allies doing all to win (2); Movies (3); Vote in 1940 (2).
Cumulative readings of distributive conjunctions: Evidence from Czech and German
Creators: name: Dočekal, Mojmír
name: Haslinger, Nina
name: Rosina, Eva
name: Roszkowski, Magdalena
name: Šafratová, Iveta
name: Schmitt, Viola
name: Wągiel, Marcin
name: Wurm, Valeria
Publisher: name: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Year: 2022

description: We present new data showing that cross-linguistically a class of conjunction strategies usually considered purely distributive exhibit cumulative readings in object position. This is similar to the pattern found for every-DPs (Kratzer 2003; Champollion 2010 a.o.) and German jed-DPs (Haslinger and Schmitt, 2018), suggesting all these elements form a natural class. Our evidence stems from experiments on Czech A i B and German sowohl A als auch B (‘A as well as B’) using a Semantic Choice Task (Lohiniva and Panizza 2016). In the crucial items, participants saw pictures of a cumulative scenario and a scenario making both the cumulative and the distributive reading false, and had the option of selecting one scenario or rejecting both. In both languages, cumulative scenarios were accepted more often with the conjunction in object position than with the conjunction in subject position. Further, as surface subjects of passive sentences patterned with objects of active sentences and topicalized objects with non- topicalized objects, passivization and topicalization do not seem to affect cumulative readings.
description: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol. 26 (2022): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
Analytical investigation of optical vortices emitted from a collectively polarized dipole array
Creators: name: Asano, Motoki
name: Takahashi, Tohru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the propagation properties of the optical vortices emitted from a collectively polarized electric dipole array as a simple model of the several emitters. Using an analytical approach based on the Jacobi-Anger expansion, we derive a relationship between the topological charge of the optical vortices and the source conditions of the emitter, and clarify and report our new finding; there exists an intrinsic split of the singular points in the electric field due to the spin-orbit interaction of the dipole fields.
title: Selective arterial embolisation for hemangiomas
Creators: name: Facchini, Giancarlo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Embolisation
subject: Haemangioma

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Embolization can be used for highly vascular tumors of variable histology as primary or palliative treatment. Hemangiomas are benign lesion, that account for less than 1 % of all primary bone tumors, while soft-tissue lesions account for...
Deep Open-Set Recognition for Silicon Wafer Production Monitoring
Creators: name: Frittoli, Luca
name: Carrera, Diego
name: Rossi, Beatrice
name: Fragneto, Pasqualina
name: Boracchi, Giacomo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The chips contained in any electronic device are manufactured over circular silicon wafers, which are monitored by inspection machines at different production stages. Inspection machines detect and locate any defect within the wafer and return a Wafer Defect Map (WDM), i.e., a list of the coordinates where defects lie, which can be considered a huge, sparse, and binary image. In normal conditions, wafers exhibit a small number of randomly distributed defects, while defects grouped in specific patterns might indicate known or novel categories of failures in the production line. Needless to say, a primary concern of semiconductor industries is to identify these patterns and intervene as soon as possible to restore normal production conditions. Here we address WDM monitoring as an open-set recognition problem to accurately classify WDM in known categories and promptly detect novel patterns. In particular, we propose a comprehensive pipeline for wafer monitoring based on a Submanifold Sparse Convolutional Network, a deep architecture designed to process sparse data at an arbitrary resolution, which is trained on the known classes. To detect novelties, we define an outlier detector based on a Gaussian Mixture Model fitted on the latent representation of the classifier. Our experiments on a real dataset of WDMs show that directly processing full-resolution WDMs by Submanifold Sparse Convolutions yields superior classification performance on known classes than traditional Convolutional Neural Networks, which require a preliminary binning to reduce the size of the binary images representing WDMs. Moreover, our solution outperforms state-of-the-art open-set recognition solutions in detecting novelties.
Gallup/CNN/USA Today Poll: Arkansas/Colorado/Missouri/South Dakota State Election Poll
Creators: name: CNN
name: USA Today
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2002

description: Thought about congressional elections (4); Know where people in neighborhood vote (4); Ever voted in precinct/district (4); How often vote (4); Plan to vote in November 2002 (8); Candidates for Senator (8); Candidates for Governor (6); George W. Bush job performance (4); Most important factor in vote for Senator (4).
Gallup/CNN/USA Today Poll: George W. Bush/2004 Presidential Election/Investments/Iraq/Bush's Economic Plan/Abortion
Creators: name: CNN
name: USA Today
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2003

description: George W. Bush job performance (3); George W. Bush handling of issues (8); Characteristics/qualities of George W. Bush (10); 2004 Presidential Election (3); President Bush in/out of touch with ordinary Americans (1); President Bush attention to issues (2); How President Bush got to be president (1); George W. Bush favours/does not favour certain groups (3); Stock market (2); Iraq (5); New economic plan (7); Eliminate taxes on stock dividends (1); Abortion (18); Roe VS Wade (1); Distribution of Wealth and money (1); Social class (1); Federal income tax (2).
The $Δ(27)$ flavor 3-3-1 model with neutral leptons
Creators: name: Vien, V. V.
name: Hernández, A. E. Cárcamo
name: Long, H. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We build the first 3-3-1 model based on the $Δ(27)$ discrete group symmetry, consistent with fermion masses and mixings. In the model under consideration, the neutrino masses are generated from a combination of type-I and type-II seesaw mechanisms mediated by three heavy right-handed Majorana neutrinos and three $SU(3)_{L}$ scalar antisextets, respectively. Furthermore, from the consistency of the leptonic mixing angles with their experimental values, we obtain a non-vanishing leptonic Dirac CP violating phase of $-\frac{π}{2}$. Our model features an effective Majorana neutrino mass parameter of neutrinoless double beta decay, with values $m_{ββ}=$ 10 and 18 meV for the normal and the inverted neutrino mass hierarchies, respectively.
description: 35 pages, 1 figure, discussion enlarged, references added. Journal version to appear in Nuclear Physics B
Neisseria meningitidis Outbreaks in the United States, 1994-2002
Creators: name: Brooks, Richard B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: Background: Outbreaks of meningococcal disease are infrequent but important public health events. Epidemiological characteristics of outbreak-associated cases compared with sporadic disease are not well described. Methods: Outbreaks of meningococcal disease from 7/1/94-6/30/02 were identified through state health departments, CDC records, and newspaper and medical literature review. An outbreak was defined as three primary patients with meningococcal disease caused by the same serogroup within 3 months in a community, or two patients in an institution, resulting in an attack rate of 2:10/100,000 population. Cases associated with outbreaks were compared with sporadic cases identified through population-based surveillance. Results: We identified 76 outbreaks over the 8-year period of the study, which gave a median of 10 outbreaks per year (annual median= 10, range 4-16) involving a total of247 patients (annual median=30, range 8-92) from 32 states. Forty-eight (63%) of the outbreaks were serogroup C, 19 (25%) were serogroup B, and 9 (12%) were serogroup Y. Twenty-six (34%) outbreaks occurred in communities, representing 53% of cases; 50 (66%) outbreaks were institution-based, including 13 colleges and universities, 19 primary and secondary schools, and 9 nursing homes. Vaccination campaigns (NC/Y/W-135 meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine) were conducted in 34 outbreaks (30 serogroup C, 4 serogroup Y) utilizing 2,500 doses/outbreak. After controlling for age, serogroup, and clinical presentation, outbreak-associated cases had a higher case-fatality rate than sporadic cases [21% vs. 11%, Odds Ratio (OR) 2.1, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.4-3.1]. Conclusions: Certain clones of N. meningitidis with genetic factors that favor their transmission and increase their virulence may be responsible for most outbreaks, resulting in higher case fatality rates for outbreaks compared to sporadic disease. However, further research is needed to elucidate the reasons for this difference.
Additional file 1 of Family physicians’ experiences with an innovative, community-based, hybrid model of in- person and virtual care: a mixed-methods study
Creators: name: Fitzsimon, Jonathan
name: Patel, Kush
name: Peixoto, Cayden
name: Belanger, Christopher
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. VTAC Physician Experience Survey.
On some properties of medians, percentiles, baselines, and thresholds in empirical bibliometric analysis
Creators: name: Pislyakov, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.0
subject: 62

description: One of the most useful and correct methodological approaches in bibliometrics is ranking. In the context of highly skewed bibliometric distributions and severe distortions caused by outliers, it is often the preferable way of analysis. Ranking methodology strictly implies that "oranges should be compared with oranges, apples with apples". We should make a "like with like" comparison. Ranks in different fields show how a unit under study is compared to others in its field. But do we always apply an "apples approach" appropriately? Is median really a 50%, quartile a 25%, 10th percentile a 10%? The paper considers theoretical definitions of such terms compared to their real sense in the course of bibliometric research. It is found that in many empirical cases quartiles are not quarters, medians are not halves, world baselines are not unity, and integer thresholds lead to inequality of performance evaluation in different science fields.
description: Accepted manuscript. 27 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables
The Minnesota Poll # 297
Creators: name: Minneapolis Tribune
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Satisfaction with mail service (1); raising postage rates (2); postal service from Congress (1); postal worker strikes (3); income tax return (2); fairness of tax system (2); approval of various politicians (10); federal census (4); census every five years (1); pre-packaged foods (1); Food and Drug Administration protecting consumers (1); ending Vietnam War (5); senator candidate preferences (1); important governor qualifications (5); governor candidate preferences (2); Hubert Humphrey endorsement (1); unsolved reported crimes (4); impact of imprisonment (1); rehabilitating convicts (2); news stories competition (1); limiting media ownership (1); most trusted local news source (1); newspaper readership (2).
The Minnesota Poll # 298
Creators: name: Minneapolis Tribune
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Adequate natural resources (2); Americans using resources (2); non-violent protests (5); arms limitations (1); anti-ballistics missile (2); approval of various politicians (10); predicting future criminal children (3); national park recognition (1); Mt. Rushmore on dollar bill (1); ending Vietnam War (4); sending troops to Cambodia (1); impression of college students (2); types of college courses (1); student demonstrations (1); teachers' right to strike (5); strike settlements (1); abortion (4); golf popularity (2); watching golf (1); golf playing habits (5); good time to buy stocks (1); stock market drop (1); stock purchases (3); newspaper readership (2).
The Minnesota Poll # 299
Creators: name: Minneapolis Tribune
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Voting age (2); school year length (3); price changes (1); price and wage controls (2); fair returns for farmers (1); farm price support program (1); relocating low income farmers (2); approval of various people (6); qualified teacher shortages (1); college seniors finding teaching jobs (1); teacher employment programs (1); ending Vietnam War (2); financing foreign troops (1); South Vietnam independence (1); Arab-Israeli relations (4); Middle East military aid (1); joining counties (2); taxing church property (1); agricultural pollution (2); tax incentives for anti-pollution controls (2); salaries for various professions (10); salesmen earnings (1); children in household (1); newspaper readership (2).
A Self-supervised Riemannian GNN with Time Varying Curvature for Temporal Graph Learning
Creators: name: Sun, Li
name: Ye, Junda
name: Peng, Hao
name: Yu, Philip S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2

description: Representation learning on temporal graphs has drawn considerable research attention owing to its fundamental importance in a wide spectrum of real-world applications. Though a number of studies succeed in obtaining time-dependent representations, it still faces significant challenges. On the one hand, most of the existing methods restrict the embedding space with a certain curvature. However, the underlying geometry in fact shifts among the positive curvature hyperspherical, zero curvature Euclidean and negative curvature hyperbolic spaces in the evolvement over time. On the other hand, these methods usually require abundant labels to learn temporal representations, and thereby notably limit their wide use in the unlabeled graphs of the real applications. To bridge this gap, we make the first attempt to study the problem of self-supervised temporal graph representation learning in the general Riemannian space, supporting the time-varying curvature to shift among hyperspherical, Euclidean and hyperbolic spaces. In this paper, we present a novel self-supervised Riemannian graph neural network (SelfRGNN). Specifically, we design a curvature-varying Riemannian GNN with a theoretically grounded time encoding, and formulate a functional curvature over time to model the evolvement shifting among the positive, zero and negative curvature spaces. To enable the self-supervised learning, we propose a novel reweighting self-contrastive approach, exploring the Riemannian space itself without augmentation, and propose an edge-based self-supervised curvature learning with the Ricci curvature. Extensive experiments show the superiority of SelfRGNN, and moreover, the case study shows the time-varying curvature of temporal graph in reality.
description: Accepted by CIKM22 (Full Paper)
MEK-independent regulation of FRA-1 and implications for EMT-TF reprogramming
Creators: name: Jaunbocus, Mohammad N.
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The main drivers of cutaneous malignant melanoma (MM) are mutations in BRAF and NRAS oncogenes, which stimulate MEK-ERK signalling. FRA-1, an effector of the NRAS and BRAF pathways, is a modulator of cellular plasticity and epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT)-like processes in MM. FRA-1 harbours a C-terminal destabiliser that is responsible for ubiquitin-independent proteasomal degradation of the protein in epithelial cells. The activity of this motif is neutralised by phosphorylation of two Serines, Ser-252 and Ser-265, by RSK and ERK respectively. Here I demonstrate that an uncharacterised pathway acts in parallel with NRAS/BRAF/MEK/ERK signalling to regulate FRA-1 abundance in MM cells. Indeed, although FRA-1 expression statistically correlates with P-ERK in clinical samples of MM, there are many examples of tumour areas showing lack of such correlation. The activity of this novel pathway depends on cell density; in sparse melanoma cell cultures, FRA-1 protein is present at much higher levels than in dense cultures, whereas levels of mRNA are cell density-independent. Our immunofluorescence data showed that subcellular localisation of FRA-1 is influenced by cell density. FRA-1 was predominantly nuclear in dense cultured cells. We gained mechanistic insight into this aspect of FRA-1 regulation in melanoma cells in vitro. By using FRA-1 mutants where the C-terminus is inactivated, we showed that the latter does not participate in cell density dependent expression of the protein. By using lysine-deficient FRA-1 mutants, we found that in dense MM cell culture, FRA-1 is degraded by a proteasome via ubiquitin-dependent mechanism. Degradation is MEK/ERK independent and requires native N-terminal protein domain. Therefore, in contrast to epithelial cells, there are two protein modules determining FRA-1 abundance in MM cells, a C-terminal MEK/ERK-dependent destabiliser, and an extra N-terminal regulatory element. These two protein elements promote FRA-1 degradation in ubiquitination-dependent and –independent modes respectively. Experiments with the conditioned media demonstrated that dense MM cell cultures secrete soluble factors, including IGFBP-7, which reduce FRA-1 abundance in sparse cell cultures. We propose that IGFBP-7 may participate in the activation of an E3 ligase which leads to ubiquitination of FRA-1. In the future, our data will open new opportunity for therapeutic targeting FRA-1 in MM to tackle plasticity of tumour cells.
The Minnesota Poll # 300
Creators: name: Minneapolis Tribune
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Medical care quality (2); government health care (2); teachers' salary (2); teaching methods (2); impression of University of Minnesota (3); college size (1); university teaching emphasis (1); types of schools (1); graduating children (1); draft office break-ins (3); approval of various politicians (4); ending Vietnam War (3); Democratic party candidates (3); Republican party candidates (3); senator candidate preferences (3); governor candidate preferences (1); attorney general candidate preferences (1); candidate positions affecting vote (3); agreement with statements about blacks (5); agreement with religious statements (5); religious service attendance (1); defining liberal (1); defining conservative (1); personal views identification (4); newspaper readership (2).
Buena Vida: Developing a Self-management Program for Latino Adults with Type II Diabetes
Creators: name: Cherrington, Andrea, MD
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: Background: Diabetes mellitus is a common, chronic disease that leads to increased morbidity, mortality, decreased quality of life and increased expenditures. The prevalence of diabetes and its complications are higher in Latinos. This project aims to explore issues in diabetes self-management among Latino adults with diabetes living in a rural county North Carolina. Methods: Focus groups were designed using the Health Belief Model and were based on a review of existing literature. We conducted 6 focus groups (2 men, 4 women) among Latinos adults with diabetes. Participants were recruited from a local Health Department, a Community Health Center, and two local community centers. Each focus group lasted approximately 90 minutes and began with the administration of a brief demographic and psychosocial survey. A bilingual-bicultural moderator used a guide to facilitate a semistructured group discussion in Spanish. Focus group topics included: diabetes management, perceived control, emotional barriers, gender differences, and program elements. Themes were identified using a combined deductive/inductive approach. Results: There were 35 participants in total, 11 men and 24 women. Mean age was 39 (range 18-65), the majority of participants came from Mexico (29/35). Mean time with diabetes was 5.25 years (range months to 35 years). All participants believed it possible to control diabetes through various combinations of diet modification, physical activity, medications and abstinence from tobacco and alcohol. Many also felt that being "stressed out" or "sad" affected control of diabetes and felt that people with diabetes should therefore avoid "strong emotion". Women reported less social support from family than men. Men reported long work hours leading to lack of time for physical activity. Women relied on religion when their diabetes became overwhelming. Men and women identified lack of knowledge as a barrier to self management. Patients voiced the need for more information, including specifics about how insulin works in the body and how to modify diet with regard to food types and portion sizes. Additionally, patients reported difficulty adhering to a diabetic diet when cooking for or eating with non diabetic family and friends. Implications: Men and women are generally aware of the need for a combination of diet, physical activity and medication for the treatment of diabetes but often have a vague concept regarding implementation in their own lives. Significant gender differences exist with regard to both social support as well as barriers. The data gained from this study will be used to inform a culturally tailored diabetes self-management program in Chatham County that can be tested more broadly for feasibility and acceptability.
The Environment/Clinton & Gore
Creators: name: Newsweek
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 1998

description: Clinton job performance (1); Clinton gaining or losing influence with various groups (5); potential presidential candidates from the Democratic party (9); influence different groups have on the Democratic party (6); military action against Iraq (7); giving Clinton 'Fast-track' authority (1); the greenhouse effect (9); Gore still a strong environmentalist (1).
Effective Multi-User Delay-Constrained Scheduling with Deep Recurrent Reinforcement Learning
Creators: name: Hu, Pihe
name: Pan, Ling
name: Chen, Yu
name: Fang, Zhixuan
name: Huang, Longbo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Multi-user delay constrained scheduling is important in many real-world applications including wireless communication, live streaming, and cloud computing. Yet, it poses a critical challenge since the scheduler needs to make real-time decisions to guarantee the delay and resource constraints simultaneously without prior information of system dynamics, which can be time-varying and hard to estimate. Moreover, many practical scenarios suffer from partial observability issues, e.g., due to sensing noise or hidden correlation. To tackle these challenges, we propose a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithm, named Recurrent Softmax Delayed Deep Double Deterministic Policy Gradient ($\mathtt{RSD4}$), which is a data-driven method based on a Partially Observed Markov Decision Process (POMDP) formulation. $\mathtt{RSD4}$ guarantees resource and delay constraints by Lagrangian dual and delay-sensitive queues, respectively. It also efficiently tackles partial observability with a memory mechanism enabled by the recurrent neural network (RNN) and introduces user-level decomposition and node-level merging to ensure scalability. Extensive experiments on simulated/real-world datasets demonstrate that $\mathtt{RSD4}$ is robust to system dynamics and partially observable environments, and achieves superior performances over existing DRL and non-DRL-based methods.
description: Accepted by MobiHoc 2022
Additional file 2 of Family physicians’ experiences with an innovative, community-based, hybrid model of in- person and virtual care: a mixed-methods study
Creators: name: Fitzsimon, Jonathan
name: Patel, Kush
name: Peixoto, Cayden
name: Belanger, Christopher
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Preliminary Findings: Data Structure and Major Themes. Table S2. Recommendations and improvements.
A Response Plan to Anthrax Exposure: Role of the Occupational and Environmental Health Nurse
Creators: name: Ryckeley, Janice Butler
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Biological agents are used for one purpose only: terrorism. The United States has struggled through the initial shock of September 11, 2001 when it experienced its first terrorism attack. In hindsight, the response was awkward, reflexive, and visceral in initial emotion; the time has now come to organize for long-term planning. Planning a set of effective responses matched with programming appropriate resources will prove challenging. One author suggests We have not given adequate thought to the layers of these processes in biological defense (Larsen, 2007, p. 7). Occupational and environmental health nurses (OEHNs) are seeking information about biodefense practices, especially for planning and managing a Category A agent attack such as anthrax. Dr. Bonnie Rogers' (2003) systems model is a template that may be utilized to address the OEHN response to biodefense response planning. The purpose of this paper is to describe the history of biological terrorism (bioterrorism), and review biological threats with a focus on anthrax, the most significant of the 6 Category A agents. This paper will also discuss federal agencies involved in biodefense preparation and explore the critical role of the occupational and environmental health nurse (OEHN) in developing tools and a logical, useful response plan to the threat of anthrax grounded in Rogers' conceptual framework.
title:  Controlling the Big Stick: The United States Navy and the Cuban Intervention of September 1906
Creators: name: Abel, Christopher A
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 1985

description: A case study method is used to examine the role played by the United States Navy in bringing about the Second Cuban Intervention of 1906-1909. The 1906 American navy had a distinct lack of centralized direction during the September crisis in Cuba. As a consequence, initiative in the crisis passed to the several naval officers representing the United States in Cuba at the time. These officers acted in consonance with the navy's own institutional agendas and contrary to the objectives of the Theodore Roosevelt administration. In so doing these officers were supported and even rewarded for their actions by the sympathetic uniformed hierarchy within their department. The result was a massive military intervention in Cuba and an American occupation of the island which the American president did not want and worked strenuously to avoid. Principal research sources include the official records of the State and Navy Departments as well as personal papers of the major participants.
The Texas Advance Directives Act of 1999: Implications for Public Health
Creators: name: Tison, Laura
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: The rising cost of healthcare has long been a focus of political, healthcare, and public health leadership in the United States. The current global economic crisis and recent passage of the Healthcare Reform Act have served to draw further attention and controversy to this issue. Futile care, defined as medical interventions that have are deemed useless or ineffective by established standards of practice and cannot improve the prognosis, comfort, or general state of health of the patient, provided in United States constitutes an overwhelming economic burden to an already cash strapped healthcare delivery system. The Texas Advance Directives Act of 1999, passed under then governor George W. Bush, has attempted to limit unnecessary medical interventions that do not meet the goals of the patient through the provision of a due process for discontinuing care deemed to be futile while providing legal immunity to healthcare providers. While not immediately obvious, this legislation does have implications for public health as the preservation of funding for unnecessary expenditures can be diverted towards public health prevention activities that can do more good for a greater number. Though there are strong legal and ethical controversies surrounding the topic, this discussion focuses primarily on the economic aspects of futility of care and seeks to investigate this aspect of the legislation through a review of the literature. This review reveals many publications on both the direct and indirect economic costs of futile care, and how TADA has been employed effectively in cases of medical futility in the state of Texas. However, there is a lack of research examining the relationship between utilization of TADA and cost containment for those healthcare systems. Furthermore, no literature on the implications of such savings for the field of public health was revealed through the lit review. Implications of these results and recommendations for further actions are also discussed.