cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Assessment of hematological parameters among gasoline exposed workers at gas station in Mekelle City, Tigray Region, Northern Ethiopia.
Creators: name: Teklu, Gebre
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: Background: Petrol station attendants are chronically exposed to gasolineof the volatile fraction during vehicle refueling. The adverse health effects of gasoline exposure may be related to impairment of the hemopoietic system with bone marrow depression and an increased risk of developing cancer. Objective: To assese the hematological parameters among gasoline exposed workers at gas station in Mekelle City, Tigray Region, Northern Ethiopia. Method: A cross sectional study was carried on 43 individuals working in 9 petrol filling stations and 77 age and sex matched non exposed controls. Socio-demographic and exposure duration of workers were collected using structured questionnaire and observation checklist. Hematological analysis was performed using Sysmex XP -300 and peripheral blood morphology was determined. Data were entered and analyzed using SPSS version 23. Results: 28/43 (65.1%) of exposed individuals and 49/77 (63.6%) of controls were males. The average exposure time was 5.19 ± 4.38 years with an average workig hour of 11.74 ± 1.89 hours/day. The mean RBC count (1012/L), HCT (%), HGB (g/dl) and platelets count (109/l) of the exposed group were significantly lower (4.88±0.573, 43.29±3.71, 15.04±1.33 and 248.95±58.19) compared with controls (5.35±0.533, 44.95±3.10, 15.59±1.26 and 292.45±62.17) at (P<0.05) respectively. The MCH (pg) (30.48±2.06 vs 29.52±1.66) and MCHC (g/l) (34.83±0.988 vs 34.32±0.927) were significantly higher in the exposed compared with controls (P<0.05). HCT, RBC, HGB and platelets count were significantly decreased with increased year of exposure (P<0.05). The peripheral blood film examination reveals basophillic stippling and macrocytosis. Conclusion: In this study long term exposure to gasoline at gas station has deleterious effect on the RBC indices and platelet. Significant negative correlation was noted between long term exposures to gasoline and a decrease in HGB, HCT and platelet count. Thus, protective measure should be implemented by the concerned ministries with labour union to minimize exposures to gasoline fuel.
Spins as probes of different electronic states
Creators: name: Suter, Dieter
name: Klieber, Robert
Publisher: name: Wiley-VCH
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Nuclear spins are efficient probes of electronic states. Because most NMR experiments are performed in thermal equilibrium, they probe the electronic ground state - the only state that is significantly populated under ambient conditions. Probing electronically excited states becomes possible, if magnetic resonance techniques are combined with optical (laser) excitation. Depending on the nature of the electronic state, drastic changes of the magnetic resonance parameters may be observed. We discuss the basic principles of this type of investigation. Depending on the lifetime of the electronically excited state, it is possible to measure separate spectra of ground and excited state if the lifetime is long on the NMR timescale, or an averaged spectrum if the lifetime is short. We present examples for both limiting cases using rare earth ions and semiconductor heterostructures.
ACTIV-2: A Platform Trial for the Evaluation of Novel Therapeutics for the Treatment of Early COVID-19 in Outpatients
Creators: name: Currier J.S.
name: Chew K.W.
name: Wohl D.A.
name: Eron J.J.
name: Hughes M.D.
name: Javan A.C.
name: Moser C.
name: Smith D.M.
name: Daar E.S.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2023

description: In April of 2020, the public-private partnership, Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutics and Vaccine (ACTIV), a cross National Institutes of Health (NIH) initiative, was created to jumpstart the evaluation of new therapeutics and vaccines for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in randomized clinical trials. The process through which the ACTIV trials were developed and the rationale for the use of a master protocol for this purpose has been previously described. The ACTIV-2 trial was initiated to address the need to evaluate monoclonal antibodies and other novel therapies for ambulatory patients with COVID-19, and the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) was selected by the NIH and the ACTIV Therapeutics Working Group to lead the protocol development and study conduct. The goal was to develop a platform trial that could rapidly evaluate compounds that were prioritized for study by the ACTIV agent prioritization group. The clinical trial was sponsored by the NIH and designed and led by a team of investigators in the ACTG with funding to the ACTG UM1 awards. The time from concept submission for ACTIV-2 to the first participant enrolled was 2.5 months. The study team worked in collaboration with pharmaceutical companies who were developing the products; however, all aspects of the trial were under the primary sponsorship of the NIH. A clinical research organization (CRO), PPD, was contracted by the NIH to support the ACTG in the implementation of the trial. This supplement includes papers that describe selected key findings and study design and analysis challenges. In this overview, we provide a description of the ACTIV-2 trial and highlight key operational challenges.
Molecular photoionization and auger calculations : a numerical continuum wavefunction approach
Creators: name: Richards, John Andrew
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Using Spatial Pooler of Hierarchical Temporal Memory to classify noisy videos with predefined complexity
Creators: name: Wielgosz, Maciej
name: Pietroń, Marcin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper examines the performance of a Spatial Pooler (SP) of a Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) in the task of noisy object recognition. To address this challenge, a dedicated custom-designed system based on the SP, histogram calculation module and SVM classifier was implemented. In addition to implementing their own version of HTM, the authors also designed a profiler which is capable of tracing all of the key parameters of the system. This was necessary, since an analysis and monitoring of the system performance turned out to be extremely difficult using conventional testing and debugging tools. The system was initially trained on artificially prepared videos without noise and then tested with a set of noisy video streams. This approach was intended to mimic a real life scenario where an agent or a system trained to deal with ideal objects faces a task of classifying distorted and noisy ones in its regular working conditions. The authors conducted a series of experiments for various macro parameters of HTM SP, as well as for different levels of video reduction ratios. The experiments allowed them to evaluate the performance of two different system setups (i.e. 'Multiple HTMs' and 'Single HTM') under various noise conditions with 32--frame video files. Results of all the tests were compared to SVM baseline setup. It was determined that the system featuring SP is capable of achieving approximately 12 times the noise reduction for a video signal with with distorted bits accounting for 13\% of the total. Furthermore, the system featuring SP performed better also in the experiments without a noise component and achieved a max F1 score of 0.96. The experiments also revealed that a rise of column and synapse number of SP has a substantial impact on the performance of the system. Consequently, the highest F1 score values were obtained for 256 and 4096 synapses and columns respectively.
description: submitted to Neurocomputing; paper similar to arXiv:1608.01966
Domains and ferroelectric switching pathways in Ca$_3$Ti$_2$O$_7$ from first principles
Creators: name: Nowadnick, Elizabeth A.
name: Fennie, Craig J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hybrid improper ferroelectricity, where an electrical polarization can be induced via a trilinear coupling to two non-polar structural distortions of different symmetry, has recently been experimentally demonstrated for the first time in the $n$=2 Ruddlesden-Popper compound Ca$_3$Ti$_2$O$_7$. In this paper we use group theoretic methods and first-principles calculations to identify possible ferroelectric switching pathways in Ca$_3$Ti$_2$O$_7$. We identify low-energy paths that reverse the polarization direction by switching via an orthorhombic twin domain, or via an antipolar structure. We also introduce a chemically intuitive set of local order parameters to give insight into how these paths are relevant to switching nucleated at domain walls. Our findings suggest that switching may proceed via more than one mechanism in this material.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures
Immune Status and SARS-CoV-2 Viral Dynamics
Creators: name: Smith D.M.
name: Coombs R.W.
name: Parikh U.M.
name: Chew K.W.
name: Wohl D.A.
name: Aga E.
name: Hughes M.D.
name: Currier J.S.
name: Li Y.
name: Li J.Z.
name: Moser C.
name: Greninger A.L.
name: Daar E.S.
name: Eron J.J.
name: Sieg S.
name: ACTIV-2/A5401 Study Team
name: Ritz J.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2023

description: Immunocompromised individuals are disproportionately affected by severe coronavirus disease 2019, but immune compromise is heterogenous, and viral dynamics may vary by the degree of immunosuppression. In this study, we categorized ACTIV-2/A5401 participants based on the extent of immunocompromise into none, mild, moderate, and severe immunocompromise. Moderate/severe immunocompromise was associated with higher nasal viral load at enrollment (adjusted difference in means: 0.47 95% confidence interval,. 12-.83 log10 copies/mL) and showed a trend toward higher cumulative nasal RNA levels and plasma viremia compared to nonimmunocompromised individuals. Immunosuppression leads to greater viral shedding and altered severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 viral decay kinetics. Clinical Trials Registration. NCT04518410.
First measurement of coherent double neutral-pion photoproduction on the deuteron at incident energies below 0.9 GeV
Creators: name: Ishikawa, T.
name: Fujimura, H.
name: Fukasawa, H.
name: Hashimoto, R.
name: He, Q.
name: Honda, Y.
name: Iwata, T.
name: Kaida, S.
name: Kanda, H.
name: Kasagi, J.
name: Kawano, A.
name: Kuwasaki, S.
name: Maeda, K.
name: Masumoto, S.
name: Miyabe, M.
name: Miyahara, F.
name: Mochizuki, K.
name: Muramatsu, N.
name: Nakamura, A.
name: Nawa, K.
name: Ogushi, S.
name: Okada, Y.
name: Okamura, K.
name: Onodera, Y.
name: Ozawa, K.
name: Sakamoto, Y.
name: Sato, M.
name: Shimizu, H.
name: Sugai, H.
name: Suzuki, K.
name: Tajima, Y.
name: Taniguchi, Y.
name: Tsuchikawa, Y.
name: Yamazaki, H.
name: Yamazaki, R.
name: Yoshida, H. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The total cross sections were measured for coherent double neutral-pion photoproduction on the deuteron at incident energies below 0.9 GeV for the first time. No clear resonance-like behavior is observed in the excitation function for $W_{γd}=2.38$--2.61 GeV, where the $d^*(2380)$ dibaryon resonance observed at COSY is expected to appear. The measured excitation function is consistent with the existing theoretical calculation for this reaction. The upper limit of the total cross section is found to be $0.034$~$μ$b for the dibaryon resonance at $W_{γd}=2.37$~GeV (90\% confidence level) in the $γd \to π^0π^0 d$ reaction.
description: submitted to Physics Letters B
A theoretical study of the chemistry of dense molecular clouds
Creators: name: Rice, Edward Hugh Nicholas
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Additional file 1 of Sanfilippo syndrome: consensus guidelines for clinical care
Creators: name: Muschol, Nicole
name: Giugliani, Roberto
name: Jones, Simon A.
name: Muenzer, Joseph
name: Smith, Nicholas J. C.
name: Whitley, Chester B.
name: Donnell, Megan
name: Drake, Elise
name: Elvidge, Kristina
name: Melton, Lisa
name: O’Neill, Cara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1. Supplemental methods and results.
A History of Violence: Photography and Writing as an Experience, Experiment and Insight
Creators: name: Ziegner, Kai
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Artistic Research
Dissertation
Experimental Writing
Conceptual Photography
Non-linear storytelling
Contemporary History
GDR
Germany
Turnaround
Violence
Societal Transformation
Autoethnography
Faction instead of Fiction
Coming-of-age Novel

description: The focus of this narrative-analytical text-photo-montage is the so-called Wendezeit in East Germany, the years after the reunification and the individual and collective outbreaks of violence that accompanied thisradical change. Based on personal experiences and trained on literary and theoretical works such as Alexander Kluge's Lebensläufe, Klaus Theweleit's Männerphantasien or W.G. Sebald's novel Austerlitz, Kai Ziegner reflects on remembrance and testimony in a way that is as critical as it is experimental. Where and how do authoritarian regimes and structures persist across generations? What scars can be read on the fault lines of disruptive processes and how to deal with – not only historical – situations in which the protagonists are victims and perpetrators at the same time? Ziegner's artistic research shows how the unpresentable can become visible, how the ambiguous can be told and how a differentiated processing can be made possible.
description: + ID: 595964
Long COVID After Bamlanivimab Treatment
Creators: name: Eron J.J.
name: Javan A.C.
name: Moser C.B.
name: Evering T.H.
name: Klekotka P.
name: Li J.Z.
name: Daar E.S.
name: Wohl D.A.
name: Smith D.M.
name: ACTIV-2/A5401 Study Team
name: Sanusi B.
name: Yeh E.
name: Jilg N.
name: Hughes M.D.
name: Currier J.S.
name: Chew K.W.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2023

description: Background: Prospective evaluations of long COVID in outpatients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are lacking. We aimed to determine the frequency and predictors of long COVID after treatment with the monoclonal antibody bamlanivimab in ACTIV-2/A5401. Methods: Data were analyzed from participants who received bamlanivimab 700 mg in ACTIV-2 from October 2020 to February 2021. Long COVID was defined as the presence of self-assessed COVID symptoms at week 24. Self-assessed return to pre-COVID health was also examined. Associations were assessed by regression models. Results: Among 506 participants, median age was 51 years. Half were female, 5% Black/African American, and 36% Hispanic/Latino. At 24 weeks, 18% reported long COVID and 15% had not returned to pre-COVID health. Smoking (adjusted risk ratio [aRR], 2.41 [95% confidence interval {CI}, 1.34- 4.32]), female sex (aRR, 1.91 [95% CI, 1.28-2.85]), non-Hispanic ethnicity (aRR, 1.92 [95% CI, 1.19-3.13]), and presence of symptoms 22-28 days posttreatment (aRR, 2.70 [95% CI, 1.63-4.46]) were associated with long COVID, but nasal severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 RNA was not. Conclusions: Long COVID occurred despite early, effective monoclonal antibody therapy and was associated with smoking, female sex, and non-Hispanic ethnicity, but not viral burden. The strong association between symptoms 22-28 days after treatment and long COVID suggests that processes of long COVID start early and may need early intervention. Clinical Trials Registration: NCT04518410.
Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of TB Infection Control Among Medical Laboratory Professionals in Selected DOTS Providing Health Facilities under Addis Ababa City Administration Health Bureau
Creators: name: Tamiru, Mossie
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: Background: Tuberculosis is one of the major public health problems and health workers, especially laboratory professionals, are at high risk areas for infection compared to the general population. Infection control measures are not always implemented even when HCWs are well informed. Insufficient studies were found that examine the level of knowledge, attitude and practice about TB infection control mechanisms among medical laboratory professionals in Ethiopia. Objectives: - To assess knowledge, attitude and practice of TB infection control among medical laboratory professionals in selected DOTS providing health facilities under Addis Ababa City Administration Health Bureau, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Methods: Cross sectional study was conducted in Addis Ababa between September 2014 and May 2015 on 213 Medical Laboratory professionals in selected DOTS providing government health facilities. Pre-tested and self-administered questionnaire were used. Data entry and analysis was performed by using SPSS version 20 software. Descriptive statistics, bivariate and multivariate analysis were made. The level of statistical significance was set at p<0.05. Results: A total of 213 participants filled the questionnaires (response rate were 95.9%) the mean knowledge score was 7.69± (SD 2), mean attitude score were 44.63± (SD 4) and mean practice score were 10.56± (SD 2.75).Statistically significant association were observed between total knowledge and last training (AOR=5.03, 95%CI=2.129, 11.901) and presence of TB manual (AOR=0.108, 95%CI=0.037, 0.315). Total attitude score had significant association with level of health facility (AOR=2.715, 95%CI=1.262, 5.841). Total practice score had significant association with the duration last training obtained (4.77, 95%CI=2.173, 10.472). Conclusion: About 33.3% of the study participants had poor knowledge, 46.9% of them had negative attitude and 41.8% of them had poor attitude. Total knowledge score had significant association with last training, presence of TB manual and overall practice score. Total attitude score had significant association with level of health facility. Total practice had significant association with last training. Mean difference were observed between hospital and health center for knowledge but not for attitude and practice
Controlling mode competition by tailoring the spatial pump distribution in a laser: A resonance-based approach
Creators: name: Cerjan, Alexander
name: Redding, Brandon
name: Ge, Li
name: Liew, Seng Fatt
name: Cao, Hui
name: Stone, A. Douglas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a simplified version of the steady-state ab initio laser theory for calculating the effects of mode competition in continuous wave lasers using the passive cavity resonances. This new theory harnesses widely available numerical methods that can efficiently calculate the passive cavity resonances, with negligible additional computational overhead. Using this theory, we demonstrate that the pump profile of the laser cavity can be optimized both for highly multi-mode and single-mode emission. An open source implementation of this method has been made available.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
The prevalence of intimate partner violence against women with disabilities: a systematic review of the literature
Creators: name: García-Cuéllar, Mónica Miriam
name: Pastor-Moreno, Guadalupe
name: Ruiz-Pérez, Isabel
name: Henares-Montiel, Jesús
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Although systematic reviews have already been conducted on violence and disability, the evidence is not conclusive in Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). This study examined the prevalence of IPV in women with disabilities, taking account of the different types of violence and disability. We performed a search in five databases. We included observational studies that analysed the frequency of IPV in women with disabilities compared to women without. Two independent reviewers selected and assessed studies. We made a qualitative synthesis according to the type of IPV analysed in relation to disability. We identified 26 articles. The frequency and risk of IPV were greater in women with disabilities than in those without. All of the articles that studied financial violence, 81.3% of those that studied physical violence, 78.5% of those that studied psychological violence, 75% of those that studied physical/sexual violence, 73.3% of those that studied sexual violence and 50% of those that studied any type of violence found a significant association whit disability. Women with disabilities are at higher risk of IPV. Rehabilitation centers and its professionals must have a leading role in the identification of these situations and this should be considered in IPV prevention plans.Implications for rehabilitationPeople with disabilities are at higher risk of multiple types of violence.Violence against women with disabilities therefore involves two public health issues interacting simultaneously.Rehabilitation centers and its professionals should have a leading role in the identification of IPV in women with disabilities.IPV prevention plans should consider rehabilitation centers and its professionals as a main component of interventions in women with disabilities. People with disabilities are at higher risk of multiple types of violence. Violence against women with disabilities therefore involves two public health issues interacting simultaneously. Rehabilitation centers and its professionals should have a leading role in the identification of IPV in women with disabilities. IPV prevention plans should consider rehabilitation centers and its professionals as a main component of interventions in women with disabilities.
Pooling Different Placebos as a Control Group in a Randomized Platform Trial: Benefits and Challenges From Experience in the ACTIV-2 COVID-19 Trial
Creators: name: Javan A.C.
name: Hughes M.D.
name: ACTIV-2/A5401 Study Team
name: Moser C.B.
name: Currier J.S.
name: Chew K.W.
name: Eron J.J.
name: Smith D.M.
name: Ritz J.
name: Daar E.S.
name: Wohl D.A.
name: Newell M.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2023

description: Adaptive platform trials were implemented during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic to rapidly evaluate therapeutics, including the placebo-controlled phase 2/3 ACTIV-2 trial, which studied 7 investigational agents with diverse routes of administration. For each agent, safety and efficacy outcomes were compared to a pooled placebo control group, which included participants who received a placebo for that agent or for other agents in concurrent evaluation. A 2-step randomization framework was implemented to facilitate this. Over the study duration, the pooled placebo design achieved a reduction in sample size of 6% versus a trial involving distinct placebo control groups for evaluating each agent. However, a 26% reduction was achieved during the period when multiple agents were in parallel phase 2 evaluation. We discuss some of the complexities implementing the pooled placebo design versus a design involving nonoverlapping control groups, with the aim of informing the design of future platform trials. Clinical Trials Registration. NCT04518410.
N-Substituted-N'-(2-pyridyl) thioureas and their copper (I) derivatives
Creators: name: Reid, John Douglas
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Variant-Specific Viral Kinetics in Acute COVID-19
Creators: name: Eron J.J.
name: Hughes M.D.
name: Ribeiro R.M.
name: Currier J.S.
name: Moser C.
name: Li J.Z.
name: ACTIV-2/A5401 Study Team
name: Smith D.M.
name: Chew K.W.
name: Perelson A.S.
name: Giganti M.J.
name: Ritz J.
name: Greninger A.L.
name: Daar E.S.
name: Choudhary M.C.
name: Wohl D.A.
name: Deo R.
name: Regan J.
name: Flynn J.P.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2023

description: Understanding variant-specific differences in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) viral kinetics may explain differences in transmission efficiency and provide insights on pathogenesis and prevention. We evaluated SARS-CoV-2 kinetics from nasal swabs across multiple variants (Alpha, Delta, Epsilon, Gamma) in placebo recipients of the ACTIV-2/A5401 trial. Delta variant infection led to the highest maximum viral load and shortest time from symptom onset to viral load peak. There were no significant differences in time to viral clearance across the variants. Viral decline was biphasic with first- and second-phase decays having half-lives of 11 hours and 2.5 days, respectively, with differences among variants, especially in the second phase. These results suggest that while variant-specific differences in viral kinetics exist, post-peak viral load all variants appeared to be efficiently cleared by the host. Clinical Trials Registration. NCT04518410.
Measuring anomalous WW$γ$ and t$\bar{\text{t}}γ$ couplings using top+$γ$ production at the LHC
Creators: name: Etesami, Seyed Mohsen
name: Khatibi, Sara
name: Najafabadi, Mojtaba Mohammadi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the electroweak production of a top quark in association with a photon at the LHC to probe the electroweak top quark couplings (t$\bar{\text{t}}γ$) as well as the triple gauge boson couplings (WW$γ$). The study is based on the modifications of the t$\bar{\text{t}}γ$ and WW$γ$ interactions via heavy degrees of freedom in the form of dimension-six operators which we add to the standard model Lagrangian. A binned angular asymmetry in single top quark plus photon events and cross section ratio are proposed to probe the anomalous t$\bar{\text{t}}γ$ and WW$γ$ couplings. It is shown that the proposed angular asymmetry can distinguish anomalous t$\bar{\text{t}}γ$, WW$γ$ couplings from the standard model prediction and yield a great sensitivity.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures and 2 tables, published version
Supplementary document for En-face Polarization-Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography to Characterize Early-stage Esophageal Cancer and Determine Tumor Margin - 5983017.pdf
Creators: name: chen, ping-hsien
name: Lai, Hiu Ki
name: Yeh, Yi-Chen
name: Chang, Kuo-Wei
name: Hou, Ming-Chih
name: Kuo, Wen-Chuan
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplement 1
Evolution of cosmic star formation in the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey
Creators: name: Bourne, N.
name: Dunlop, J. S.
name: Merlin, E.
name: Parsa, S.
name: Schreiber, C.
name: Castellano, M.
name: Conselice, C. J.
name: Coppin, K. E. K.
name: Farrah, D.
name: Fontana, A.
name: Geach, J. E.
name: Halpern, M.
name: Knudsen, K. K.
name: Michalowski, M. J.
name: Mortlock, A.
name: Santini, P.
name: Scott, D.
name: Shu, X. W.
name: Simpson, C.
name: Simpson, J. M.
name: Smith, D. J. B.
name: van der Werf, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new exploration of the cosmic star-formation history and dust obscuration in massive galaxies at redshifts $0.5< z<6$. We utilize the deepest 450 and 850$μ$m imaging from SCUBA-2 CLS, covering 230arcmin$^2$ in the AEGIS, COSMOS and UDS fields, together with 100-250$μ$m imaging from Herschel. We demonstrate the capability of the T-PHOT deconfusion code to reach below the confusion limit, using multi-wavelength prior catalogues from CANDELS/3D-HST. By combining IR and UV data, we measure the relationship between total star-formation rate (SFR) and stellar mass up to $z\sim5$, indicating that UV-derived dust corrections underestimate the SFR in massive galaxies. We investigate the relationship between obscuration and the UV slope (the IRX-$β$ relation) in our sample, which is similar to that of low-redshift starburst galaxies, although it deviates at high stellar masses. Our data provide new measurements of the total SFR density (SFRD) in $M_\ast>10^{10}M_\odot$ galaxies at $0.510$. One third of this is accounted for by 450$μ$m-detected sources, while one fifth is attributed to UV-luminous sources (brighter than $L^\ast_{UV}$), although even these are largely obscured. By extrapolating our results to include all stellar masses, we estimate a total SFRD that is in good agreement with previous results from IR and UV data at $z\lesssim3$, and from UV-only data at $z\sim5$. The cosmic star-formation history undergoes a transition at $z\sim3-4$, as predominantly unobscured growth in the early Universe is overtaken by obscured star formation, driven by the build-up of the most massive galaxies during the peak of cosmic assembly.
description: MNRAS Accepted 2017 January 5. 29 pages, 18 figures
Ciência de dados aplicada à classificação do comportamento no transtorno do espectro autista
Creators: name: Dornelas, Raquel da Silva
name: Araújo Lima, Danielli
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 160506 Education Policy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 170103 Educational Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Developmental and Educational Psychology
subject: Education

description: O transtorno do espectro autista atualmente é considerado um dos principais distúrbios do neurodesenvolvimento tendo como características predominantes a dificuldade de comunicação social e habilidades cognitivas, e padrões limitados e repetitivos. Esse transtorno não tem cura e possui diferentes níveis de gravidade que variam de acordo com o surgimento dos sintomas em cada paciente. Geralmente é lento o tempo de espera pelo diagnóstico do transtorno do espectro autista tendo como um dos motivos dessa situação a falta de desenvolvimento de procedimentos de triagens simples de serem implementados e que possuem resultados eficientes. O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar uma base de dados pública com a finalidade de encontrar padrões do espectro autista. Os resultados preliminares mostraram que a árvore de decisão teve um ótimo desempenho nessa classificação.
A representation theory for partially ordered and topological vector spaces
Creators: name: Ramsay, Ronald William
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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ALFALFA and WSRT Imaging of Extended HI Features in the Leo Cloud of Galaxies
Creators: name: Leisman, Lukas
name: Haynes, Martha P.
name: Giovanelli, Riccardo
name: Józsa, Gyula
name: Adams, Elizabeth A. K.
name: Hess, Kelley M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present ALFALFA HI observations of a well studied region of the Leo Cloud, which includes the NGC 3227 group and the NGC 3190 group. We detect optically dark HI tails and plumes with extents potentially exceeding 600 kpc, well beyond the field of view of previous observations. These HI features contain approximately 40% of the total HI mass in the NGC~3227 group and 10% in the NGC~3190 group. We also present WSRT maps which show the complex morphology of the extended emission in the NGC~3227 group. We comment on previously proposed models of the interactions in these groups and the implications for the scale of group processing through interactions. Motivated by the extent of the HI plumes, we place the HI observations in the context of the larger loose group, demonstrating the need for future sensitive, wide field HI surveys to understand the role of group processing in galaxy evolution.
description: 17 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Additional file 1 of Team debriefing in the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study of a hospital-wide clinical event debriefing program and a novel qualitative model to analyze debriefing content
Creators: name: Welch-Horan, Thomas B.
name: Mullan, Paul C.
name: Momin, Zobiya
name: Eggers, Jeannie
name: Lawrence, Julia B.
name: Lichliter, Royanne L.
name: Doughty, Cara B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Figure S1. The second page (printed on the back of the front page) of the DISCOVER-TooL.
COMPARING SPORTS NUTRITION KNOWLEDGE, PERCEIVED DIETARY INTAKE, AND BODY COMPOSITION MEASUREMENTS IN MALE AND FEMALE DIVISION II COLLEGIATE ATHLETES
Creators: name: Khartabil, Alexandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: sport nutrition knowledge
body composition

description: Sports nutrition encompasses a variety of components that play a role in influencing the dietary habits of athletes, and consequently, their athletic performance. The purpose of this study was to compare student-athletes’ nutritional knowledge and perceived dietary intake to their measured body composition. Participants included male and female Division II collegiate athletes at California State University, San Bernardino (age: 22 ± 2.1 years; height: 68.1 ± 4.7 in; body mass: 153.1 ± 32.1 lbs; fat-free mass: 117 ± 26.3 lbs; body fat percent: 24.4 ± 7.5%). Body composition was assessed using Bio-Electrical Impedance Analysis. Participants completed a validated abridged sports nutrition knowledge questionnaire. The athletes answered 15.2 ± 4% of the questions correctly with no differences observed between the sexes (females: 15.2 ± 3.7% vs. males: 15.2 ± 4.9%; p = 0.99). There were no significant correlations found between quiz scores and fat mass (p = 0.32), fat free mass (p = 0.41), or body fat percentage (p = 0.76). A significant difference was found between the athletes measured and perceived body fat percentages (3.7 ± 9.8; p = 0.02). The present study found that although Division II collegiate athletes have a low level of sports nutrition knowledge, there is no significant relationship between nutritional knowledge and body composition measures.
Chiral Closed strings: Four massless states scattering amplitude
Creators: name: Leite, Marcelo M.
name: Siegel, Warren
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the scattering amplitudes of four massless states for chiral (closed) bosonic and type II superstrings using the Kawai-Lewellen-Tye ($KLT$) factorization method. The amplitude in the chiral bosonic case is identical to a field theory amplitude corresponding to the spin-$2$ tachyon, massless gravitational sector and massive spin-2 tardyon states of the spectrum. Chiral type II superstrings amplitude only possess poles associated with the massless gravitational sector. We briefly discuss the extension of the calculation to heterotic superstrings.
description: 30 pages, typos fixed, the numbering of the equations is slightly different from the corrected version accepted in JHEP due to different macros Latex packages
Developing good practices to support non-English and multilingual content in repositories
Creators: name: Kuchma, Iryna
name: Shearer, Kathleen
name: Neugebauer, Tomasz
name: Matas, Lautaro
name: Gurdal, Gultekin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: OR2023
Multilingualism
Democratization of knowledge
Bibliodiversity

description: Multilingualism is a critical characteristic of a healthy, inclusive, and diverse research communications landscape. Multilingualism presents a particular challenge for the discovery of research outputs. In August 2022, COAR launched the COAR Task Force on Supporting Multilingualism and non-English Content in Repositories to develop and promote good practices for repositories in managing multilingual and non-English content. The task force is focusing on identifying good practices for metadata, multilingual keywords, user interfaces, translations, formats, licenses, and indexing that will improve the visibility of multilingual and non-English content across the world. This half-day workshop will be an opportunity to discuss initial recommendations and learn from the broader community the challenges they are having related to collecting and managing multilingual and non-English content and to identify potential solutions that could contribute to community recommendations published by COAR.
Texts influencing the accommodation process of students with disabilities in professional rehabilitation programs: an analysis of discourse
Creators: name: Dhillon, Shaminder
name: Stroinska, Magda
name: Moll, Sandra
name: Solomon, Patricia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: Students with disabilities have lower enrollment and higher attrition than their non-disabled peers. They identify negative attitudes from educators in their accommodation experiences within professional programs, such as occupational therapy and physiotherapy. Educators in these accredited programs must address a myriad of requirements through curriculum delivery. The documents or “texts” containing program requirements include discourses or dominant understandings of reality. The purpose of this study is to identify these discourses and the resulting positions of educators, to better understand the tensions in accommodating students with disabilities. A critical discourse analysis study was conducted. Key informants and inclusion criteria led to the collection of 9 texts, which were subsequently analyzed using Norman Fairclough’s three-dimensional conception of discourse. Three discourses were identified. “Rights and responsibilities” was the most salient discourse, followed by “normative assumptions” and then “inclusion and equity.” The associated educator positions are “navigator,” “gatekeeper” and “advocate,” respectively. The discourses and resulting educator positions are varied and in conflict with one another. There is a potential for change in the social practices related to accommodating students with disabilities. However, these changes need to be conscious and deliberate to ensure inclusivity within the occupational therapy and physiotherapy professions.Implications for RehabilitationCritical discourse analysis is a methodology that can raise awareness of implicit assumptions embedded in texts that reflect and potentially perpetuate inequities and power imbalances.Conflicting discourses in the accommodation process provide a valuable opportunity for educators to critically reflect on personal and professional values and beliefs.Critical reflection on unconscious bias while writing policies and practices could ensure a more diverse pool of applicants for professional programs, thereby enriching rehabilitation professions. Critical discourse analysis is a methodology that can raise awareness of implicit assumptions embedded in texts that reflect and potentially perpetuate inequities and power imbalances. Conflicting discourses in the accommodation process provide a valuable opportunity for educators to critically reflect on personal and professional values and beliefs. Critical reflection on unconscious bias while writing policies and practices could ensure a more diverse pool of applicants for professional programs, thereby enriching rehabilitation professions.
Nonlinear viscoelasticity and generalized failure criterion for polymer gels
Creators: name: Keshavarz, Bavand
name: Divoux, Thibaut
name: Manneville, Sébastien
name: McKinley, Gareth H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Polymer gels behave as soft viscoelastic solids and exhibit a generic nonlinear mechanical response characterized by pronounced stiffening prior to irreversible failure, most often through macroscopic fractures. Here, we aim at capturing the latter scenario for a protein gel using a nonlinear integral constitutive equation built upon ($i$) the linear viscoelastic response of the gel, here well described by a power-law relaxation modulus, and ($ii$) the nonlinear viscoelastic properties of the gel, encoded into a "damping function". Such formalism predicts quantitatively the gel mechanical response to a shear start-up experiment, up to the onset of macroscopic failure. Moreover, as the gel failure involves the irreversible growth of macroscopic cracks, we couple the latter stress response with Bailey's durability criterion for brittle solids in order to predict the critical values of the stress $σ_c$ and strain $γ_c$ at the failure point, and how they scale with the applied shear rate. The excellent agreement between theory and experiments suggests that the crack growth in this soft viscoelastic gel is a Markovian process, and that Baileys' criterion extends well beyond hard materials such as metals, glasses, or minerals.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures and 1 pages of supplemental materials
Prevalence of Rota virus and Associated Risk factors among under five Children with Gastroenteritis in Selected Health Facilities of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Getahun, Mekonen
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2014

description: Title: - Prevalence of Rota Virus and Associated Risk factors among Under Five Children with Gastroenteritis in selected health facilities of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Background: - Rota virus, the most common cause of severe gastroenteritis, is responsible for 2 million hospitalizations and 600,000 deaths among children under five years worldwide annually. More than 85% of these deaths occur in low resource countries. Ethiopia is one of the five countries with the greatest rotavirus burden worldwide and accounts for 6% of all rotavirus deaths globally. Objective: - The main aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of rota virus and associated risk factors among under five children with gastroenteritis in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Methods: - A cross-sectional, hospital based prospective study was conducted from January – March 2014. A total of 246 children with gastroenteritis were consecutively selected. Appropriate amount of stool specimen was collected and investigated for rota virus by using EIA method. Care givers were interviewed using structured and pre-validated questionnaire. Data was entered in to Epi Info version 3.5.4 and analyzed using SPSS version 20 software. Result: - Among a total of 246 children, 127(51.6%) were males and the mean age of children was 28.5 months. One hundred thirty nine (56.5%) feed on solid food; however, 4.1% were on exclusive breast feeding. Regarding the clinical features, 54.1% had vomiting, 66.3% abdominal pain, and 19.1% were with tenesmus. Most of, 98% used piped water and 98.4% had good hand washing practice. Eighty five (34.6%) children were infected by rota virus, 31.3% by bacteria, and 26.4% by protozoa parasite. The most frequently isolated entro-bacterial pathogen was E. coli, and Enteamoaba was the most common parasite identified by direct microscopy. Rota virus infection was not significantly associated with any potential factors. Therefore, there was no an independent predictor of rota virus infection. Conclusion: - The prevalence of rota virus was high among under five children with acute gastroenteritis in selected health facilities of Addis Ababa Ethiopia. Therefore early age vaccination and good hygiene keeping should be considered and be expanded as one important means of prevention for rota virus diarrhea. Large scale survey should be conducted in all regions to know the actual rota virus diarrhea burden and vaccine efficacy throughout the country.
Additional file 2 of Team debriefing in the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study of a hospital-wide clinical event debriefing program and a novel qualitative model to analyze debriefing content
Creators: name: Welch-Horan, Thomas B.
name: Mullan, Paul C.
name: Momin, Zobiya
name: Eggers, Jeannie
name: Lawrence, Julia B.
name: Lichliter, Royanne L.
name: Doughty, Cara B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Supplemental Figure S2. The REDCap version of the DISCOVER-TooL questions.
Supplementary document for Impact of rare earth doping on luminescence of lanthanum aluminum silicate glasses for radiation sensing - 5836162.pdf
Creators: name: Shaw, Ruth
name: Kalnins, Christopher
name: Whittaker, Carly
name: Moffatt, Jillian
name: Tsiminis, Georgios
name: Klantsataya, Elizaveta
name: Ottaway, David
name: Spooner, Nigel
name: Litzkendorf, Doris
name: Matthes, Anne
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: additional information related to the manuscript
Supplementary document for An effective medium approximation for the dielectric environment of coated gold nanorods - 5943390.pdf
Creators: name: Lioi, David
name: Izor, Sarah
name: Varshney, Vikas
name: DeJarnette, Hugh
name: Derosa, Pedro
name: Kennedy, W. Joshua
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Information