cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A flowing pair of particles in inertial microfluidics
Creators: name: Schaaf, Christian
name: Rühle, Felix
name: Stark, Holger
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 530 Physik

description: A flowing pair of particles in inertial microfluidics gives important insights into understanding and controlling the collective dynamics of particles like cells or droplets in microfluidic devices. They are applied in medical cell analysis and engineering. We study the dynamics of a pair of solid particles flowing through a rectangular microchannel using lattice Boltzmann simulations. We determine the inertial lift force profiles as a function of the two particle positions, their axial distance, and the Reynolds number. Generally, the profiles strongly differ between particles leading and lagging in flow and the lift forces are enhanced due to the presence of a second particle. At small axial distances, they are determined by viscous forces, while inertial forces dominate at large separations. We identify cross-streamline pairs as stable fixed points in the lift force profiles and argue that same-streamline configurations are only one-sided stable. Depending on the initial conditions, the two-particle lift forces in combination with the Poiseuille flow give rise to three types of unbound particle trajectories, called moving-apart, passing, and swapping, and one type of bound trajectory, where the particles perform damped oscillations towards the cross-stream line configuration. The damping rate scales with Reynolds number squared, since inertial forces are responsible for driving the particles to their steady-state positions.
Promoting male partner HIV testing and safer sexual decision making through secondary distribution of self-tests by HIV-negative female sex workers and women receiving antenatal and post-partum care in Kenya: a cohort study
Creators: name: Thirumurthy, Harsha
name: Omanga, Eunice
name: Agot, Kawango
name: Maman, Suzanne
name: Masters, Samuel H
name: Mavedzenge, Sue Napierala
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Identifying interventions to increase men’s uptake of HIV testing in sub-Saharan Africa is essential for the success of combination HIV prevention. HIV self-testing is an emerging approach with high acceptability, but limited evidence exists on optimal strategies for distributing self-tests. We explored a novel approach of providing multiple self-tests to women at high risk of HIV acquisition in order to promote partner HIV testing and facilitate safer sexual decision-making.
Analysis of digital timing methods with DRS4 module
Creators: name: Du, Cheng-Ming
name: Chen, Jin-Da
name: Zhang, Xiu-Ling
name: Yang, Hai-Bo
name: Cheng, Ke
name: Kong, Jie
name: Hu, Zheng-Guo
name: Sun, Zhi-Yu
name: Su, Hong
name: Xu, Hu-Shan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new Digital Pulse Processing (DPP) module has been developed, based on a domino ring sampler version 4 chip (DRS4), with good time resolution for LaBr3 detectors, and different digital timing analysis methods for processing the raw detector signals are reported. The module, composed of an eight channel DRS4 chip, was used as the readout electronic and acquisition system to process the output signals from XP20D0 Photomultiplier Tubes (PMTs). Two PMTs were coupled with LaBr3 scintillator and placed face to face on both sides of a radioactive positron 22Na source for 511 keV gama ray tests. By analyzing the raw data acquired by the module, the best coincidence timing resolution is about 194.7 ps (FWHM), obtained by the digital constant fraction discrimination (dCFD) method, which is better than other digital methods and analysis methods based on conventional analog systems which have been tested. The results indicate that it is a promising approach to better localize the positron annihilation in positron emission tomography (PET) with time of flight (TOF), as well as for scintillation timing measurement, such as in TOF-DeltaE and TOF-E systems for particle identification, with picosecond accuracy timing measurement. Furthermore, this module is more simple and convenient than other systems.
description: 8 pages,10 figures and two tables
Spin and charge density waves in the Lieb lattice
Creators: name: Gouveia, J. D.
name: Dias, R. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the mean-field phase diagram of the two-dimensional (2D) Hubbard model in the Lieb lattice allowing for spin and charge density waves. Previous studies of this diagram have shown that the mean-field magnetization surprisingly deviates from the value predicted by Lieb's theorem \cite{Lieb1989} as the on-site repulsive Coulomb interaction ($U$) becomes smaller \cite{Gouveia2015}. Here, we show that in order for Lieb's theorem to be satisfied, a more complex mean-field approach should be followed in the case of bipartite lattices or other lattices whose unit cells contain more than two types of atoms. In the case of the Lieb lattice, we show that, by allowing the system to modulate the magnetization and charge density between sublattices, the difference in the absolute values of the magnetization of the sublattices, $m_{\text{Lieb}}$, at half-filling, saturates at the exact value $1/2$ for any value of $U$, as predicted by Lieb. Additionally, Lieb's relation, $m_{\text{Lieb}}=1/2$, is verified approximately for large $U$, in the $n \in [2/3,4/3]$ range. This range includes not only the ferromagnetic region of the phase diagram of the Lieb lattice (see Ref.~\onlinecite{Gouveia2015}), but also the adjacent spiral regions. In fact, in this lattice, below or at half-filling, $m_{\text{Lieb}}$ is simply the filling of the quasi-flat bands in the mean-field energy dispersion both for large and small $U$.
The effects of exercise and brain stimulation on neuroplasticity and cognition
Creators: name: HENDRIKSE, JOSHUA
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Psychopharmacology
Psychophysiology
Neurosciences not elsewhere classified

description: The brain is a highly dynamic organ which is continually changing. This inherent capacity for neuroplasticity underlies our ability to learn new skills and adapt to our environment. Unfortunately, impairments in neuroplasticity underlie several brain disorders, and we currently lack effective treatments and prevention strategies. In this thesis, I investigated the effects of exercise and brain stimulation on neuroplasticity. I found that regular exercise is associated with improved integrity/function in regions supporting memory function (i.e. hippocampus), however my findings questioned whether brain stimulation is capable of selectively modulating brain networks. These findings inform novel approaches to remediate impaired neuroplasticity.
Catalytic hydrogenation of α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acid derivatives using copper(i)/N-heterocyclic carbene complexes
Creators: name: Zimmermann, Birte M.
name: Kobosil, Sarah C. K.
name: Teichert, Johannes F.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: A simple and air-stable copper(I)/N-heterocyclic carbene complex enables the catalytic hydrogenation of enoates and enamides, hitherto unreactive substrates employing homogeneous copper catalysis and H2 as a terminal reducing agent. This atom economic transformation replaces commonly employed hydrosilanes and can also be carried out in an asymmetric fashion.
Tillandsia buchlohii Rauh, Trop. Subtrop. Pflanzenwelt
Creators: name: Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña
name: Egea, Juana De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Bromeliaceae
Tillandsia
Tillandsia buchlohii

description: Tillandsia buchlohii Rauh, Trop. Subtrop. Pflanzenwelt 43: 11-13. 1983.
Herb epiphyte.
 Vouchers: Unknown: Stellfeld s.n. (Luther & Sieff 1994).
description: Published as part of Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña & Egea, Juana De, 2018, Checklist of the endemic vascular plants of Paraguay, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 384 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.384.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13725946
Raltegravir in second-line antiretroviral therapy in resource-limited settings (SELECT): a randomised, phase 3, non-inferiority study
Creators: name: Wallis, Carole L
name: Hosseinipour, Mina C
name: Kim, Peter
name: Zheng, Lu
name: La Rosa, Alberto M
name: Harrison, Linda J
name: Collier, Ann C
name: Mellors, John W
name: Taiwo, Babafemi
name: Kumarasamy, Nagalingeswaran
name: Jarocki, Bernadette
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: For second-line antiretroviral therapy, WHO recommends a boosted protease inhibitor plus nucleoside or nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs). However, concerns about toxicity and cross-resistance motivated a search for regimens that do not contain NRTIs. We aimed to assess whether boosted lopinavir plus raltegravir would be non-inferior to boosted lopinavir plus NRTIs for virological suppression in resource-limited settings.
O esvaziamento dos critérios teórico-dogmáticos da intervenção mínima em matéria penal no Brasil: duas reflexões acerca do abandono do conteúdo material do crime pelos tribunais superiores
Creators: name: Junior, Airto Chaves
Publisher: name: Católica Law Review
Year: 2019

description: Católica Law Review, v. 3 n. 3 (2019): Direito penal
title: Thirty-One Thousand, Seven Hundred and Seventeen: Give or Take
Creators: name: Eythorsdottir, Katrin Svana
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Qualitative research
valueUri: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99004969
subject: Self perception in art
valueUri: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97001426
subject: Walking
valueUri: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85144900
subject: Photography
valueUri: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85101206
subject: Personality Change
valueUri: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85100130

description: This essay explores the changes that I experienced as an artist over a period of time – the time when I moved from Iceland to Vancouver to join a Master of Applied Arts program at Emily Carr Institute to the middle of my last semester at the school. I use reflexive writing, specifically autoethnography, to ask the following questions: who am I as a photographer? And what does it mean to be an artist? It is through the process of writing that I experienced a significant shift in my practice. This paper is organized into seven sections, each a representation of those shifts as they relate to insights into myself and my research.
Searching for MeV-Scale Gauge Bosons with IceCube
Creators: name: DiFranzo, Anthony
name: Hooper, Dan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Light gauge bosons can lead to resonant interactions between high-energy astrophysical neutrinos and the cosmic neutrino background. We study this possibility in detail, considering the ability of IceCube to probe such scenarios. We find the most dramatic effects in models with a very light $Z'$ ($m_{Z'} \lesssim 10$ MeV), which can induce a significant absorption feature at $E_ν \sim\,$5-10$\,{\rm TeV} \times (m_{Z'}/{\rm MeV})^2$. In the case of the inverted hierarchy and a small sum of neutrino masses, such a light $Z'$ can result in a broad and deep spectral feature at $\sim\,$0.1-10$\,{\rm PeV} \times (m_{Z'}/{\rm MeV})^2$. Current IceCube data already excludes this case for a $Z'$ lighter than a few MeV and couplings greater than $g\sim10^{-4}$. We emphasize that the ratio of neutrino flavors observed by IceCube can be used to further increase their sensitivity to $Z'$ models and to other exotic physics scenarios.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
Limited Liability. A Legal and Economic Analysis, de Stephen M. Bainbridge / M. Todd Henderson (Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham/ /Northampton, 2016. 315 pp. ISBN 978 1 783473021)
Creators: name: Ribeiro, Maria De Fátima
Publisher: name: Católica Law Review
Year: 2019

description: Católica Law Review, v. 3 n. 2 (2019): Direito privado
Toll‐like receptor 9, maternal cell‐free DNA and myometrial cell response to CpG oligodeoxynucleotide stimulation
Creators: name: Beck, Stacy
name: Buhimschi, Irina
name: Summerfield, Taryn L
name: Ackerman, William
name: Guzeloglu‐Kayisli, Ozlem
name: Kayisli, Umit A
name: Zhao, Guomao
name: Schatz, Frederick
name: Lockwood, Charles J
name: Buhimschi, Catalin
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: PROBLEM: Among mechanisms triggering onset of parturition, it has been recently postulated that Toll-Like Receptor (TLR)9 engagement by cell-free DNA (cfDNA) triggers inflammation, myometrial contractions, and labor in absence of infection. The current study evaluated whether direct (myometrial) or indirect (decidual) TLR9 engagement enhances human myometrial contractility. METHOD OF STUDY: Toll-like receptor 9 expression and cellular localization were surveyed by immunohistochemistry of placenta, fetal membranes, and myometrium in term (gestational age [GA]: >37 weeks) labor (TL, n = 7) or term non-labor (TNL, n = 7) tissues. Non-pregnant myometrium (n = 4) served as reference. TLR9 mRNA expression relative to other TLRs was evaluated through the mining of an RNA-seq dataset and confirmed by RT-PCR. Immortalized human myometrial cells (hTERT-HM) were treated with incremental concentrations of TLR9 agonist ODN2395, TNF-α, or LPS. Secreted cytokines were quantified by multiplex immunoassay, and contractility was assessed by an in-gel cell contraction assay (n = 9). Induction of hTERT-HM contractility was also evaluated indirectly following exposure to conditioned media from primary term decidual cells (n = 4) previously stimulated with ODN2395. RESULTS: Toll-like receptor 9 immunostaining in placenta and amniochorion was strongest in decidual cells, but unrelated to labor. TLR9 staining intensity was significantly decreased in TL compared with TNL myometrium (P = 0.002). Although total cfDNA in maternal circulation increased in TL (P = 0.025 vs TNL), difference in cffDNA was non-significant. Myometrial TLR9 mRNA levels were unaffected by contractile status and far less abundant than other pro-inflammatory TLRs. hTERT-HM contractility was enhanced by LPS (P = 0.002) and TNF-α (P = 0.003), but not by ODN2395 (P = 0.345) or supernatant of TLR9-stimulated decidual cells. CONCLUSION: Myometrial and decidual TLR9 are unlikely to directly regulate human parturition.
Static Axisymmetric Einstein Equations in Vacuum: Symmetry, New Solutions and Ricci Solitons
Creators: name: Akbar, M. M.
name: MacCallum, M. A. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An explicit one-parameter Lie point symmetry of the four-dimensional vacuum Einstein equations with two commuting hypersurface-orthogonal Killing vector fields is presented. The parameter takes values over all of the real line and the action of the group can be effected algebraically on any solution of the system. This enables one to construct particular one-parameter extended families of axisymmetric static solutions and cylindrical gravitational wave solutions from old ones, in a simpler way than most solution-generation techniques, including the prescription given by Ernst for this system. As examples, we obtain the families that generalize the Schwarzschild solution and the $C$-metric. These in effect superpose a Levi-Civita cylindrical solution on the seeds. Exploiting a correspondence between static solutions of Einstein's equations and Ricci solitons (self-similar solutions of the Ricci flow), this also enables us to construct new steady Ricci solitons.
Sphingolipids in cardiac remodelling: Molecular mechanisms and potential therapeutic targets
Creators: name: MAGAYE, RUTH REBECCA
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medical biochemistry - lipids
Other biomedical and clinical sciences not elsewhere classified
Cardiology (incl. cardiovascular diseases)
Metabolic medicine
Biochemistry and cell biology not elsewhere classified
Plant cell and molecular biology
Animal cell and molecular biology
Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences not elsewhere classified
Medical biochemistry and metabolomics not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis examines a class of lipids known as sphingolipids and their effects on heart cells. It also explores the potential for targeting the sphingolipid pathway for heart disease therapy in a mice ischemia reperfusion injury model.
Strafverfahren gegen Minderjährige im Dritten Reich am Beispiel des Sondergerichts Dortmund
Creators: name: Psonka, Martin
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Jugendstrafrecht
subject: Jugendkriminalität im Dritten Reich
subject: Nationalsozialistisches Strafrecht
subject: Sondergericht
subject: Sondergericht Dortmund
subject: Nationalsozialismus
subject: Drittes Reich
subject: Volksschädling
subject: Täterstrafrecht
subject: 370
subject: Jugendstrafrecht
subject: Nationalsozialismus
subject: Sondergericht

description: Sondergerichte waren im Dritten Reich bis 1938 ausschließlich für politische Strafverfahren zuständig und sollten dann im Krieg zusätzlich die Alltagskriminalität als propagierte „Standgerichte der inneren Front“ verurteilen - mit einer harten Rechtsprechung und einem beschleunigten Verfahren - um so gegen „Zersetzungserscheinungen aller Art“ vorzugehen. Sondergerichte waren für eine exzessive Radikalisierung der Justiz im Krieg verantwortlich, was sich u.a. an den verhängten Todesurteilen zeigt. Ihre Zuständigkeit galt insbesondere für das nationalsozialistische Täterstrafrecht, bei der die Tat in den Hintergrund rückte und die zugeschriebene Täterpersönlichkeit das Strafmaß bestimmte. So verurteilten Sonderrichter im Rahmen des Täterstrafrechts am häufigsten „Volksschädlinge“ mit der Zuchthaus- oder Todesstrafe, auch bei einfachen Delikten wie Diebstahl. Minderjährige konnten vor diesen Justizinstitutionen angeklagt werden. Dieses sollte bei den 14 – 17jährigen Jugendlichen, für die Jugendstrafrecht galt, die Ausnahme sein. Die zu „jugendlichen Schwerverbrechern“ erklärten Jugendlichen mussten wie die minderjährigen 18 – 20jährigen „Halberwachsenen“ nach dem Erwachsenenstrafrecht verurteilt werden. Die Dissertation widmet sich im ersten Teil den Rahmenbedingungen: Straf- und Jugendstrafrechtsentwicklung, Polizei und Justiz, Sondergerichtsbarkeit, lebensweltliche Rahmenbedingungen für Delinquenz im Dritten Reich und Jugendkriminalität dargestellt anhand der Kriminalstatistiken. Der zweite Teil der Arbeit stellt die Konsequenzen dar, die sich für die Minderjährigen aus der Tat- und Persönlichkeitsbewertung durch Staatsanwalt und Richter des Sondergerichts Dortmund ergaben. Dabei wird untersucht, welche Kriterien der Persönlichkeitsbewertung zugrunde lagen, was die Jugendlichen als Ausnahmefälle so besonders machte, dass sie vor dem Sondergericht angeklagt wurden und wie der Erziehungsgedanke in den Urteilen berücksichtigt wurde. Zudem wurde untersucht, um welche Delinquenz es sich gehandelt hatte.
Adding climate costs to health economic evaluation: the CHEERS ClimatE checklist
Creators: name: Mattis Keil
name: Oldenburg, Jule
name: Rogowski, Wolf
name: Lange, Oliver
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Health Economics
subject: Economics
subject: Environmental Studies
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Economic Evaluation, cost-effectiveness, cost-utility, cost-benefit, climate costs, carbon footprint, carbon emission, planetary health, environmental economics, ecological economics, life cycle analysis

description: Given the goal of low carbon emissions in healthcare, decision-makers need to consider the external costs resulting from the climate impact (climate costs) of health technologies. In addition to standards of health economic evaluation (HEE), there are established standards for estimating climate footprints (CF), a measure for greenhouse gas emissions that can be valued with prices for climate damage. To include these climate costs in HEE, we extend the Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards (CHEERS) to CHEERS Climate Extension (CHEERS ClimatE). Based on the identified literature, we map relevant items of methods for estimating CF to CHEERS. We search for synergies between methodological items of estimating CF and HEE and add missing items to CHEERS if necessary to integrate CF into the economic evaluation. Further, we add a “how to apply”-guidance and an exemplary application to a digital weight loss case study. Our approach demonstrates to researchers and decision-makers where HEE provides information for calculating greenhouse gases and which data and methodological information is additionally required. However, CHEERS ClimatE only addresses climate change and omits other planetary boundaries. Further research is required to apply and validate CHEERS ClimatE.
The Socio-Cultural Environment and the Posttraumatic Stress Response: Examining the Associations between Culture, Self-Construal, Social Relationships, Cognitive Appraisal, Coping Strategies and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Creators: name: Hansford, Megan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Clinical psychology

description: This thesis examines the influence of culture on the relationship between social support and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A review considers the intersections, theoretical, and clinical implications, of integrating these fields. Empirical research found that for highly interdependent people, greater social support reduced the impact of trauma on PTSD symptoms. An indirect relationship between social support and PTSD symptoms, through negative cognitive appraisals and maladaptive coping strategies was found. Through exploring the impact of culture, maladaptive thinking and coping, on the association between social support and PTSD, we can better understand the processes through which social support influences PTSD symptoms.
title: The relationship between school leadership and student mathematics achievement
title: A comparative study between Germany and Chinese Taipei
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Chen, Dan
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: School leadership
subject: Student mathematics achievement
subject: Multilevel structural equation modeling
subject: Latent class analysis
subject: TIMSS
subject: 370
subject: Schulleitung
subject: Mathematik
subject: Leistungsmessung
subject: Internationaler Vergleich

description: School leadership acted an important function in student achievement. This study explored the relationship between school leadership of principal and student mathematics achievement in primary schools from a comparative perspective of Germany and Chinese Taipei. The author used TIMSS 2011 data collected from 3,961 fourth-grade students and 197 school principals in Germany and 4,138 students and 150 school principals in Chinese Taipei respectively, to examine the relationship between school leadership and student mathematics achievement with confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), multilevel structural equation modeling (MSEM), and to distinguish the difference in school leadership styles with latent class analysis (LCA). The comparable results revealed a negative relationship between school leadership and student mathematics achievement in Germany but a non-significant relationship in Chinese Taipei. However, the three sub-dimensions of the construct of school leadership, that is, setting vision/goal, school management, and maintain the school climate were significantly associated with student mathematics achievement in both economies, except for setting vision/goal for school in Chinese Taipei. The latent class analysis identified four leadership styles in Germany, that is, the distributed leadership style (26%), the integrated instructional and transformational leadership style (27%), the transformational leadership style (7%), and the instructional leadership style (40%), and two in Chinese Taipei, that is, integrated instructional and transformational leadership style (36%), and the mixed integrated instructional and distributed leadership style (64%). This study aimed to reveal the direct relationship between school leadership of principals and student mathematics achievement. And the results suggested that the influence of school leadership on student mathematics achievement was indirect, meanwhile, the leadership styles were firmly associated with school contexts.
Study of time resolution by digital methods with DRS4 system
Creators: name: Du, Cheng-Ming
name: Chen, Jin-Da
name: Zhang, Xiu-Ling
name: Yang, Hai-Bo
name: Cheng, Ke
name: Hu, Zheng-Guo
name: Sun, Zhi-Yu
name: Xu, Hu-Shan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new Digital Pulse Processing (DPP) system, based on domino ring sampler version 4 (DRS4), with good time resolution for the LaBr3 detectors has been developed and different digital timing analysis methods for processing the detector raw signals are reported. The system, composed of an eight channels DRS4 chip, was used as the readout electronic and acquisition system to process the outputs signals from XP20D0 Photomultiplier Tubes (PMTs). The PMTs were coupled with LaBr3 scintillator and placed on opposite side of the radioactive positron 22Na source for 511keV gama-ray test. By analyzing the raw data acquired by the system, the best coincidence timing resolution is about 194.7ps (FWHM), obtained by the digital constant fraction discrimination (dCFD) method and better than the other digital methods and analysis method based on the conventional analog systems. The results indicate that it is a promising approach to better localize the positron annihilation in the positron emission tomography (PET) with time of flight (TOF) and they are also suitable for the scintillation timing measurement, such as in TOF-DeltaE and TOF-E systems for particle identification, with picosecond accuracy timing measurement. Furthermore, this system is more simple and convenient in comparison with other systems.
description: wrong opration to upload the same file
The Variation of Rotation Curve Shapes as a Signature of the Effects of Baryons on Dark Matter Density Profiles
Creators: name: Brook, Chris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rotation curves of galaxies show a wide range of shapes, which can be paramaterized as scatter in Vrot(1kpc)/Vmax i.e.the ratio of the rotation velocity measured at 1kpc and the maximum measured rotation velocity. We examine whether the observed scatter can be accounted for by combining scatters in disc scale-lengths, the concentration-halo mass relation, and the M*-Mhalo relation. We use these scatters to create model galaxy populations; when housed within dark matter halos that have universal, NFW density profiles, the model does not match the lowest observed values of Vrot(1kpc)/Vmax and has too little scatter in Vrot(1kpc)/Vmax compared to observations. By contrast, a model using a mass dependent dark matter profile, where the inner slope is determined by the ratio of M*/Mhalo, produces galaxies with low values of Vrot(1kpc)/Vmax and a much larger scatter, both in agreement with observation. We conclude that the large observed scatter in Vrot(1kpc)/Vmax favours density profiles that are significantly affected by baryonic processes. Alternative dark matter core formation models such as SIDM may also account for the observed variation in rotation curve shapes, but these observations may provide important constraints in terms of core sizes, and whether they vary with halo mass and/or merger history.
description: MNRAS final version with updated treatment of alternative DM models
title: How Do the Inclusion of Specific Gender-Affirming Content in Medical and Nursing School Curricula Affect Health Outcomes in Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Communities?
Creators: name: Gilmer, Annelise
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2022

description:
Introduction: Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming (TGNC) people regularly experience health care provider discrimination, contributing to adverse health outcomes. This systematic literature review aims to evaluate how including TGNC-specific content in U.S. nursing and medical school curricula affects health outcomes in TGNC communities. The effectiveness of previously implemented gender-affirming interventions will be reviewed, as well as cultural competency inclusion and TGNC racial health disparities.


Methods: A systematic literature review was conducted to identify articles that assessed specific theoretical frameworks to describe why striking health disparities exist in TGNC communities, common health care barriers, and how disparities can be addressed through the inclusion of TGNC-specific and cultural competency criteria in U.S. medical and nursing school curricula.


Results: The results revealed that health care discrimination is one of the top barriers associated with adverse health outcomes in TGNC communities, with over 70% of gender minorities reporting harassment and discrimination. In addition to including TGNC-specific content in school curricula, results also showed that the inclusion of cultural competence training is also essential to advance health equity and to address TGNC-specific health needs and disparities.


Discussion: Results show that it is essential for U.S. medical and nursing schools to include TGNC-inclusive content in curricula to effectively educate and prepare health care providers to competently treat TGNC patients and help improve their experienced health disparities and barriers to care. By translating suggestions for future research into practice, common barriers to successful implementation can be overcome, and care quality for TGNC communities can improve.
Remote Assessment of Cognition Sleep and Physical Activity in Early Huntington's Disease
Creators: name: MCLAREN, BRENDAN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Psychopharmacology
Psychophysiology
Neurology and neuromuscular diseases
Other psychology not elsewhere classified

description: Huntington’s Disease (HD) is a disabling, inherited, neurodegenerative disorder that can causes loss of cognitive ability. Large amounts of data are required in order to support efforts to ways of treating or managing cognitive symptoms in HD, but such datasets usually take years to collect. The goal of my thesis was to create a fully remote, computerised, assessment system that would allow rapid and convenient collection of cognitive data in HD. Our findings demonstrated that remote assessment in HD is feasible and produced reliable, valid, and scientifically meaningful data on the functioning of people with the expanded HD repeat.
Despedimento de trabalhador em gozo de licença parental: é sempre necessário, sob pena de ilicitude, o parecer prévio da CITE? Comentário ao Acórdão do Supremo Tribunal de Justiça de 6 de junho de 2018 (Proc. n.º 26715/15)
Creators: name: Vasconcelos, Joana
Publisher: name: Católica Law Review
Year: 2019

description: Católica Law Review, v. 3 n. 2 (2019): Direito privado
Tillandsia esseriana Rauh & L. B. Sm., Phytologia
Creators: name: Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña
name: Egea, Juana De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Bromeliaceae
Tillandsia
Tillandsia esseriana

description: Tillandsia esseriana Rauh & L.B.Sm., Phytologia 20: 162, t. 1, f. 4, 5. 1970.
Herb epiphyte.
 Vouchers: Amambay: Esser s.n., type (US); Zardini & Cardozo 45117 (AS, G, MO)
description: Published as part of Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña & Egea, Juana De, 2018, Checklist of the endemic vascular plants of Paraguay, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 384 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.384.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13725946
title: A Spatial Temporal Analysis of Cardiovascular Disease Mortality Rate in the Central Savannah River Area by Using the Urban Health Index Approach
Creators: name: Carlf
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2022

description:
INTRODUCTION: Characterized as a condition that affects the heart or blood vessels, cardiovascular heart disease is the leading cause of death and illness in the United States and globally. This condition disproportionately affects individuals of lower socioeconomic status. The Urban Health Index (UHI) may be utilized to understand health inequities, allowing for more effective resource allocation and targeted community intervention programs.


AIM: The focus of this study is to geographically analyze and characterize socioeconomic conditions to better map and measure health inequalities in the Central Savannah River Area (CSRA) from 2000 to 2019.


METHODS: A literature review identified the social, physical, and environmental determinants associated with cardiovascular disease. The US Census Bureau database was accessed to obtain the four indicators of interest from the 2000 Decennial Census Summary File 3 (SF3) and the 2010-2015 American Community Survey (ACS). The UHI was utilized to quantify the health inequalities within the CSRA for six timeframes: 2000-2004, 2005-2009, 2010-2014, 2015-2019, 2000-2009, and 2010-2019. In addition, age-adjusted mortality rates of cardiovascular heart disease mirroring the designated timeframes were obtained from CDC Wonder. This allowed for the calculation of Pearson correlation coefficients to understand the association between the resultant index scores and age-adjusted mortality rate of cardiovascular disease.


RESULTS: Bivariate correlation analysis show a strong association between the UHI and age-adjusted mortality rate of cardiovascular disease across all selected timeframes. The spatial distribution of county-level UHI values visualized for the CSRA reflect an improvement observed from 2010-2014. Overall, from 2000 to 2019, there is a decrease in mortality for cardiovascular disease and increase in population health and equity.


DISCUSSION: Although statistically significant correlations were identified with the bivariate analyses, further investigation is necessary due to limitations in data for the indicators of interest. Despite this drawback, the study established the feasibility of using the UHI calculation to visualize and measure health inequities in the CSRA and associations with cardiovascular disease.
O ativismo judicial na seguridade social brasileira: a violação dos princípios constitucionais e a inobservância das escolhas feitas pelos Poderes Legislativo e Executivo
Creators: name: Pierdoná, Zélia Luiza
Publisher: name: Católica Law Review
Year: 2019

description: Católica Law Review, v. 3 n. 1 (2019): Direito público
Gastrointestinal bleeding: optimising peri-endoscopic management
Creators: name: KET, SHARA NGUYEN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Other biomedical and clinical sciences not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis evaluated two aspects of gastrointestinal bleeding. Firstly, three areas of colonoscopic post-polypectomy bleeding were studied: cold snare polypectomy of 10-20mm colonic polyps appears safe, prophylactic endoscopic clip closure following uncomplicated polypectomy is unnecessary and cold snare polypectomy of subcentimetre polyps on clopidogrel with clip closure may mitigate risks of post-procedural bleeding. Secondly, an algorithm to extract gastrointestinal bleeding cases from the Australian and New Zealand Massive Transfusion Registry allowed critical peptic ulcer bleeding to be studied. Age, co-morbidities, INR, platelet count and creatinine were associated with 30-day mortality rather than blood product and therapeutic interventions.
Comparing the escape dynamics in tidally limited star cluster models
Creators: name: Zotos, Euaggelos E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The aim of this work is to compare the orbital dynamics in three different models describing the properties of a star cluster rotating around its parent galaxy in a circular orbit. In particular, we use the isochrone and the Hernquist potentials to model the spherically symmetric star cluster and we compare our results with the corresponding ones of a previous work in which the Plummer model was applied for the same purpose. Our analysis takes place both in the configuration $(x,y)$ and in the phase $(x,\dot{x})$ space in order to elucidate the escape process as well as the overall orbital properties of the tidally limited star cluster. We restrict our investigation into two dimensions and we conduct a thorough numerical analysis distinguishing between ordered and chaotic orbits as well as between trapped and escaping orbits, considering only unbounded motion for several energy levels above the critical escape energy. It is of particular interest to determine the escape basins towards the two exit channels (near the Lagrangian points $L_1$ and $L_2$) and relate them with the corresponding escape times of the orbits.
description: Published in MNRAS journal. arXiv admin note: previous papers with related context: arXiv:1411.4864, arXiv:1505.03968, arXiv:1505.03847
title: Exploring Change: The Object-Identity-Consumption Dynamic
Creators: name: Fraser, Hélène
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Sustainability
valueUri: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009000375
subject: Industrial design
valueUri: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85037199
subject: Consumer goods
valueUri: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88006884
subject: Product life cycle
valueUri: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85107202
subject: Design
valueUri: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85037197

description: In modern society there exists a perception of an ongoing need for self-elaboration, revision of identity, and projection of self. Because objects are part of the way that many proclaim identity, this expectation for change has created a pattern of ongoing consumption. Traditional modes of design and production support this through creation of newer and better objects. Current marketing trends demand a rapid turnover of product, or planned obsolescence. The detrimental effects of this system on the environment are becoming an increasing concern. In light of the problems created by modern society’s inclination to the ephemeral, temporary, and the dynamic, this thesis explores another understanding of change. It looks to the concepts of Alfred North Whitehead and Gilles Deleuze, who both considered the process of becoming, and explored the connection between change and the continuity of things. Exploring Change examines the possibility of allowing the design lens to shift its focus and regard objects to be in an ongoing state of development. Investigations into the act of making, the multiple events attached to articles of cloth, and the physical evidence of time and wearing, provide insight. The intent is to depart from a linear process. A cyclical understanding of the lifecycle of an object is moved into one that is a designed spiral. Designed obsolescence is replaced by designing for perpetuity. Within this paradigm the work also considers the role of the individual in differentiating and personalizing designed multiples and the relationship between mass production and the personal act of making. The need for change does not have to force us to succumb to a practice of consuming unsustainably. Alternatives resolving the issue are discussed.
People need freshwater biodiversity
Creators: name: Lynch, Abigail J.
name: Cooke, Steven J.
name: Arthington, Angela H.
name: Baigun, Claudio
name: Bossenbroek, Lisa
name: Dickens, Chris
name: Harrison, Ian
name: Kimirei, Ismael
name: Langhans, Simone D.
name: Murchie, Karen J.
name: Olden, Julian D.
name: Ormerod, Steve J.
name: Owuor, Margaret
name: Raghavan, Rajeev
name: Samways, Michael J.
name: Schinegger, Rafaela
name: Sharma, Subodh
name: Tachamo‐Shah, Ram‐Devi
name: Tickner, David
name: Tweddle, Denis
name: Young, Nathan
name: Jähnig, Sonja C.
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: ecosystem services
subject: freshwater biodiversity
subject: freshwater ecosystems
subject: freshwater life
subject: 577 Ökologie

description: Freshwater biodiversity, from fish to frogs and microbes to macrophytes, provides a vast array of services to people. Mounting concerns focus on the accelerating pace of biodiversity loss and declining ecological function within freshwater ecosystems that continue to threaten these natural benefits. Here, we catalog nine fundamental ecosystem services that the biotic components of indigenous freshwater biodiversity provide to people, organized into three categories: material (food; health and genetic resources; material goods), non‐material (culture; education and science; recreation), and regulating (catchment integrity; climate regulation; water purification and nutrient cycling). If freshwater biodiversity is protected, conserved, and restored in an integrated manner, as well as more broadly appreciated by humanity, it will continue to contribute to human well‐being and our sustainable future via this wide range of services and associated nature‐based solutions to our sustainable future.This article is categorized under:
Atomic data for Zn II - Improving Spectral Diagnostics of Chemical Evolution in High-redshift Galaxies
Creators: name: Kisielius, Romas
name: Kulkarni, Varsha P.
name: Ferland, Gary J.
name: Bogdanovich, Pavel
name: Som, Debopam
name: Lykins, Matt L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Damped Lyman-alpha (DLA) and sub-DLA absorbers in quasar spectra provide the most sensitive tools for measuring element abundances of distant galaxies. Estimation of abundances from absorption lines depends sensitively on the accuracy of the atomic data used. We have started a project to produce new atomic spectroscopic parameters for optical/UV spectral lines using state-of-the-art computer codes employing very broad configuration interaction basis. Here we report our results for Zn II, an ion used widely in studies of the interstellar medium (ISM) as well as DLA/sub-DLAs. We report new calculations of many energy levels of Zn II, and the line strengths of the resulting radiative transitions. Our calculations use the configuration interaction approach within a numerical Hartree-Fock framework. We use both non-relativistic and quasi-relativistic one-electron radial orbitals. We have incorporated the results of these atomic calculations into the plasma simulation code Cloudy, and applied them to a lab plasma and examples of a DLA and a sub-DLA. Our values of the Zn II λλ 2026, 2062 oscillator strengths are higher than previous values by 0.10 dex. Cloudy calculations for representative absorbers with the revised Zn atomic data imply ionization corrections lower than calculated before by 0.05 dex. The new results imply Zn metallicities should be lower by 0.1 dex for DLAs and by 0.13-0.15 dex for sub-DLAs than in past studies. Our results can be applied to other studies of Zn II in the Galactic and extragalactic ISM.
description: accepted The Astrophysical Journal
Analysing data from patient-reported outcome and quality of life endpoints for cancer clinical trials: a start in setting international standards
Creators: name: Musoro, Jammbe
name: Basch, Ethan
name: Groenvold, Mogens
name: Moinpour, Carol M
name: Reijneveld, Jaap C
name: Cocks, Kim
name: Martinelli, Francesca
name: O'Connor, Daniel
name: Hamel, Jean-Francois
name: Greimel, Eva
name: Piault-Louis, Elisabeth
name: Calvert, Melanie
name: Malone, Daniel C
name: Velikova, Galina
name: Soltys, Katherine M
name: Koller, Michael
name: Quinten, Chantal
name: Oliver, Kathy
name: Pimentel, Francisco L
name: Dueck, Amylou C
name: Coens, Corneel
name: Mitchell, Sandra A
name: Sloan, Jeff
name: Pe, Madeline
name: Taphoorn, Martin J B
name: Schürmann, Christoph
name: Gotay, Carolyn
name: Collette, Laurence
name: Piccart, Martine
name: King, Madeleine
name: Griebsch, Ingolf
name: Kluetz, Paul G
name: Flechtner, Hans-Henning
name: Campbell, Alicyn
name: Devlin, Nancy
name: Bottomley, Andrew
name: Bonnetain, Franck
name: Cleeland, Charles
name: Smith, Ashley Wilder
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Measures of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and other patient-reported outcomes generate important data in cancer randomised trials to assist in assessing the risks and benefits of cancer therapies and fostering patient-centred cancer care. However, the various ways these measures are analysed and interpreted make it difficult to compare results across trials, and hinders the application of research findings to inform publications, product labelling, clinical guidelines, and health policy. To address these problems, the Setting International Standards in Analyzing Patient-Reported Outcomes and Quality of Life Endpoints Data (SISAQOL) initiative has been established. This consortium, directed by the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC), was convened to provide recommendations on how to standardise the analysis of HRQOL and other patient-reported outcomes data in cancer randomised trials. This Personal View discusses the reasons why this project was initiated, the rationale for the planned work, and the expected benefits to cancer research, patient and provider decision making, care delivery, and policy making.
The Impact of Deep Brain Stimulation on Personality, Self and Relationships: A Qualitative Exploration in a Neurological and Psychiatric Population
Creators: name: THOMSON, CASSANDRA JANE
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Clinical psychology
Neurosciences not elsewhere classified

description: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has been used to treat over 175,000 individuals with movement disorders, including Parkinson’s disease, and is being trialled in psychiatric conditions such as treatment-resistant depression. Clinical research has consistently shown that DBS is effective in alleviating the motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease. However, a subset of patients appear to experience unanticipated psychosocial changes following DBS, including changes in personality, sense of self and interpersonal relationships.Little is known about these non-motor outcomes and how they impact patients and families. Using qualitative interviews, this thesis explores the key perspectives and experiences of DBS patients, caregivers and clinicians.