cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Quantifying and Monitoring Overdiagnosis in Cancer Screening: A Systematic Review of Methods
Creators: name: Carter, Jamie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Introduction: To reduce overdiagnosis, we need accurate methods to quantify and monitor this phenomenon over time. Aims: To systematically review the methods that have been used for measuring overdiagnosis from cancer screening; to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each method. Methods: We searched PUBMED, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Library for primary research studies of any design that quantified overdiagnosis from cancer screening. We abstracted relevant data and appraised study design and methods using established criteria. Results: 49 studies met inclusion criteria. We grouped studies into four methodologic categories and found strengths and weaknesses with all designs. (1) Follow-up of a well-designed RCT (n=1) is theoretically an ideal method but requires substantial time, may not be generalizable, and is not suitable for monitoring. (2) Pathologic/imaging studies (n=8) that draw conclusions about overdiagnosis by examining the range of biological or behavioral characteristics among cancers are simpler in design but assume that these characteristics are highly correlated with progression. (3) Modeling studies (n=19) can be done in a shorter time frame but require complex mathematical equations simulating the natural history of screen-detected cancer, which is the fundamental unknown question. (4) Ecologic studies (n=21) are limited by a lack of agreed-upon standards, by variable data quality, by inadequate follow-up time, and by the potential for population-level confounders. Some ecologic studies, however, have used excellent methods; several of these studies from different geographic areas may together provide the best overall estimate of overdiagnosis and are ideal for monitoring it over time. Conclusions: Well-conducted ecologic studies in multiple settings should be used for quantifying and monitoring overdiagnosis in cancer screening programs. To support this work, we need internationally agreed-upon standards for ecologic studies and a multi-national team of unbiased researchers to perform analysis.
Open Access unterstützen - Praxistipps für Hochschulen
Creators: name: Brinken, Helene
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: open access

description: Die Praxistipps "Open Access unterstützen - Praxistipps für Hochschulen" wurden im Rahmen des BMBF-geförderten Projekts open-access.network erstellt. Sie liegen als PDF- und PPTX-Datei zur einfachen Nachnutzung vor.
The Minnesota Poll # 330
Creators: name: Minneapolis Tribune
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Residency in Minneapolis (4); neighborhood problems (3); Albert Hofstede job performance (1); Gladys Brooks job performance (1); Charles Stenvig job performance (1); children in household (2); birthplace of grandparents (2); most important city problems (5); voter registration (2); voter participation (4); presidential candidate preferences (1); mayoral candidate preferences (3); primary elections (3); party affiliation (1); ballot party identification (3); political leaning (1); newspaper readership (2); Stenvig impression (2); Brooks impression (2); Minneapolis conditions (1); downtown Minneapolis (3); people-mover proposal (3); Minnesota Orchestra (2); downtown concert hall (2); park systems (2); Park Administration job performance (2); rebuilding parkways (1); taxes for parks (1); shopping location (2); school system rating (2); function of schools (3); important school board issues (1); agreement with various statements (8); complaints to city government (2); crime (1); Minneapolis Police Department (6); moving out (4); football stadium construction (3); emergency response time (3).
Six Quatuors Concertans pour deux Violons, Alto et Basse : 2e Livre de Quatuors
Creators: name: Gyrowetz, Adalbert
Publisher: name: Imbault
Year: 1789

description: Stimmen: Violine I & II, Viola, Violoncello
description: par Adalberto Girowetz
description: Alter Umschlag mit handschriftl. Incipits
Open Access unterstützen - Praxistipps für Hochschulen
Creators: name: Strauß, Helene
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: open access

description: Die Praxistipps "Open Access unterstützen - Praxistipps für Hochschulen" wurden im Rahmen des BMBF-geförderten Projekts open-access.network erstellt. Sie liegen als PDF- und PPTX-Datei zur einfachen Nachnutzung vor. Die aktualisierte Version beinhaltet das neue Projektlogo, außerdem steht eine englische Version zur Verfügung.
Provider Perspective on Contraception Barriers Among Reproductive-Age Women in North Carolina
Creators: name: Lewis, Lindsey
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Background: The United States has a high unintended pregnancy rate. Many public health and health care efforts attempt to increase contraceptive access for U.S. women to prevent unintended pregnancy. However, many barriers to contraceptive access exist. A systematic review was performed to examine published literature about contraceptive barriers for underserved, reproductive-age women in the United States. The objective of this study is to build upon published literature to examine barriers to contraception for women specifically in North Carolina.Methods: I identified contraception providers using the NC Medical Board’s list of practicing OBGYN physicians. I contacted providers by telephone and performed telephone interviews about contraception barriers, according to an interview guide. I transcribed and performed thematic analysis of survey data to identify contraceptive barriers. Results: I contacted 35 providers and 3 providers participated (response rate 8.6%), including 2 OBYGN physicians and 1 nurse practitioner. Thematic analysis identified an array of barriers to contraception, including patient financial and logistical barriers (financial cost to patients, insurance status, type of insurance, transportation, language), health system and structural barriers (reimbursement policies, insurance authorization, requirement of multiple clinic visits for IUD/implant insertion, administrative demands on patients and practices, and schedule of health care appointments/services and time constraints), knowledge gap barriers (patient misconceptions and misinformation, provider knowledge/comfort), culture and ideology barriers (patient cultural/religious beliefs, family/friend influence, partner influence, relationship between provider/educator and patient, patient age, personal competing demands), and medical barriers (contraceptive side effects, medical comorbidities).Discussion: Based on provider perspective, there are many barriers to contraception access for women in North Carolina. Examination of barriers and gaps in contraceptive access provides insight for North Carolina women’s health initiatives and health care policy.
A new method for choosing parameters in delay reconstruction-based forecast strategies
Creators: name: Garland, Joshua
name: James, Ryan G.
name: Bradley, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Delay-coordinate reconstruction is a proven modeling strategy for building effective forecasts of nonlinear time series. The first step in this process is the estimation of good values for two parameters, the time delay and the embedding dimension. Many heuristics and strategies have been proposed in the literature for estimating these values. Few, if any, of these methods were developed with forecasting in mind, however, and their results are not optimal for that purpose. Even so, these heuristics---intended for other applications---are routinely used when building delay coordinate reconstruction-based forecast models. In this paper, we propose a new strategy for choosing optimal parameter values for forecast methods that are based on delay-coordinate reconstructions. The basic calculation involves maximizing the shared information between each delay vector and the future state of the system. We illustrate the effectiveness of this method on several synthetic and experimental systems, showing that this metric can be calculated quickly and reliably from a relatively short time series, and that it provides a direct indication of how well a near-neighbor based forecasting method will work on a given delay reconstruction of that time series. This allows a practitioner to choose reconstruction parameters that avoid any pathologies, regardless of the underlying mechanism, and maximize the predictive information contained in the reconstruction.
description: 15 pages, 14 figures, 1 table
Dr. Hans Eichler
Creators: name: Zahn, Eberhard
Publisher: name: Trierer Zeitschrift - Archäologie und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete
Year: 2023

description: Trierer Zeitschrift - Archäologie und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete, Bd. 45 (1982): Trierer Zeitschrift : für Geschichte und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete
Six Quatuors pour deux Violons, Alto et Basse : 3e Livre de Quatuors
Creators: name: Gyrowetz, Adalbert
Publisher: name: Imbault
Year: 1790

description: Stimmen: Violine I & II, Viola, Basso
description: par Adalberto Gyrowetz
description: Alter Umschlag mit handschriftl. Incipits
Convergence Theorems for Generalized Functional Sequences of Discrete-Time Normal Martingales
Creators: name: Wang, Caishi
name: Chen, Jinshu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary: 60H40, Secondary: 46F25

description: The Fock transform recently introduced by the authors in a previous paper is applied to investigate convergence of generalized functional sequences of a discrete-time normal martingale $M$. A necessary and sufficient condition in terms of the Fock transform is obtained for such a sequence to be strong convergent. A type of generalized martingales associated with $M$ are introduced and their convergence theorems are established. Some applications are also shown.
description: 10 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1504.05001
The Minnesota Poll # 332
Creators: name: Minneapolis Tribune
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Yearlong daylight savings (1); fuel conserved by daylight savings (1); Richard Nixon job performance (1); lowering thermostats (1); reducing car speed (1); cutting back work hours (1); banning pleasure driving (1); floodlighting capitol buildings (1); energy vs. environment (4); relaxing environmental protection (2); trustworthiness of various people (11); news source (2); newspaper readership (2); television reporting on Watergate (1); newspapers reporting on Watergate (1); Nixon resignation (2); Nixon impeachment (1); White House tapes (1); Eugene McCarthy reentering politics (1); Arab-Israeli sympathies (1); television covering Mideast crisis (1); newspapers covering Mideast crisis (1); America supporting Israel (2); world alert (1); troops to Israel (1); US-Soviet Union relations (1); censoring pornography (2); importance of free expression (1); items classified as pornographic (9); pornography commission (1); Gerald Ford as vice president (1); Ford as president (1); non-elective vice presidents (1); importance of Christmas (7); impression of lawyers (2); advice for legal profession (2); legal fees (1); direct experience with lawyers (2); draft dodgers (2); drug costs (4); defending Israel (1).
The Minnesota Poll # 333
Creators: name: Minneapolis Tribune
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Trustworthiness of various people (4); Richard Nixon job performance (1); Wendell Anderson job performance (1); Hubert Humphrey job performance (1); Walter Mondale job performance (1); approach to ending Vietnam War (1); Nixon resignation (2); Nixon impeachment (2); politician tax claim deductions (4); Nixon's tax payments (2); medical care quality (2); doctor's fees (2); doctor wait time (1); type of doctor (1); doctor's appointments (3); satisfaction with medical care (4); most important doctor quality (1); preparation for energy shortage (3); saving energy (2); car ownership (2); car gas mileage (1); gas rationing (4); problems of limiting gas (1); limiting campaign spending (2); publicizing campaign contributions (5); limiting individual campaign contributions (1); tax return contributions (2); lobbyist contributions (1); handgun controls (1); no-fault auto insurance (1); no income taxes for working poor (1); school in summer to save energy (1); school in summer affecting children (4); four-day school week (1); liquor advertisements (1); future of the world (1); children in household (2); newspaper readership (2); America supporting Israel (1).
title: A labour of attentiveness: the emergent place-responsive praxis of matter and context in R.D Laing’s Archway community
Creators: name: Brixey-Williams, Julie
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2022

description: The ideas within this thesis emerged via a place-responsive Practice-as-Research investigation of psychiatrist R.D Laing’s Archway community, depicted in Robinson’s film Asylum (1972). My examination focusses on Laing’s system of material and contextual engagement I define as a Labour of Attentiveness: an emergent nexus of relationality and care that fosters closer authentic relationships via small material acts, in contexts, across qualities of time. Laing was much criticised by the psychiatric establishment of his day for not producing a repeatable scientific methodology, so I analyse these critiques with reference to key debates from New Materialists Karen Barad, Jane Bennett, Rosi Braidotti and Donna Haraway, to question whether Laing’s legacy can be better understood by being repositioned within the “turn to matter” philosophies of New Materialisms. My second question investigates whether Laing’s model of navigation through matter towards playful, unexpected co-constitutive outcomes establishes more authentic relationships with place, with particular value for place practitioners who, by embracing the boundaries of multiple disciplines in their practices, identify as “edge-dwelling”. Drawing from Laing’s methodology, I originate two personal place-responsive projects and two participatory events (PLACEing Objects exhibition and Day of Dialogue) that explore relationships with place, where dialogue is fostered on an equal platform. My results show that a Labour of Attentiveness holds a space for a nuanced dialogue via vulnerability, where co-constitutive dynamic engagement through small acts may be radical and personally transformative, and where interrogation and trust deepen through time. This challenges the traditional concepts of tangible artistic production, raising questions of how the processes of edge-dwelling practitioners may be valued and supported within interdisciplinary exchange. To allow analysis to shift across theory and practice, my thesis comprises this written exegesis, an experiential visual essay as sculptural object, image, installation and video documentation supplied on a supplementary USB, and a documentary film.
Policy Proposal for the Use of Fluoride Varnish in Early Head Start Programs
Creators: name: Enright, Kristine M., D.D.S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: Dental caries is the most common unmet health care need of children and has been termed a silent epidemic by the Surgeon General. Children living at ≤ 200% of the Federal Poverty Level statistically experience a disproportionate amount of the nation's reported caries. Disparities in oral health status as well as in access to care provide the impetus for aggressive, proactive involvement in the reduction of caries in indigent children. Early Head Start provides an ideal venue for targeting a high caries risk population of children. Due to its existent infrastructure that supports health initiatives for children living near the poverty level, the Head Start program not only offers access to a population base composed of indigent children but also has program planning that involves health improvement interventions. Fluoride varnish is a caries preventive topical fluoride that is applied in a thin layer to teeth. It is a safe, easy to apply, cost effective, and efficacious modality for reducing caries, especially in young children. The use of fluoride varnish in Early Head Start programs provides a logical yet simple approach to reducing caries in indigent children. A policy of administering an annual application of fluoride varnish to children, ages 0-3 years of age who are participants in a Early Head Start program will decrease the negative impact not only of Early Childhood Caries but caries in general for this high caries risk population.
The Minnesota Poll # 334
Creators: name: Minneapolis Tribune
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Daylight savings time (2); Wendell Anderson job performance (1); Richard Nixon job performance (1); trustworthiness of various people (6); Nixon resignation (2); Nixon impeachment (2); Nixon breaking Presidential oath (1); Nixon trial (2); energy shortage (1); favorability of various industries (5); University of Minnesota impression (2); universities for advanced degrees (2); university size (2); smoking habits (5); smoking as health hazard (2); second hand smoke (2); quitting smoking (2); state energy agency (1); improving bus lines (1); upgrading rural highways (1); removing margarine tax (1); public education quality (1); school subject emphasis (4); children in school (1); teacher work ethic (2); student-teacher relations (1); high school athletes drinking and smoking (1); newspaper readership (2); TV Week section (2).
k-MS: A novel clustering algorithm based on morphological reconstruction
Creators: name: Rodrigues, É. O.
name: Torok, L.
name: Liatsis, P.
name: Viterbo, J.
name: Conci, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This work proposes a clusterization algorithm called k-Morphological Sets (k-MS), based on morphological reconstruction and heuristics. k-MS is faster than the CPU-parallel k-Means in worst case scenarios and produces enhanced visualizations of the dataset as well as very distinct clusterizations. It is also faster than similar clusterization methods that are sensitive to density and shapes such as Mitosis and TRICLUST. In addition, k-MS is deterministic and has an intrinsic sense of maximal clusters that can be created for a given input sample and input parameters, differing from k-Means and other clusterization algorithms. In other words, given a constant k, a structuring element and a dataset, k-MS produces k or less clusters without using random/ pseudo-random functions. Finally, the proposed algorithm also provides a straightforward means for removing noise from images or datasets in general.
The Minnesota Poll # 335
Creators: name: Minneapolis Tribune
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Financial conditions (2); personal financial situation (1); new car purchase (4); members in household (2); cutting car travel (1); gas shortage affecting vacations (3); money in savings (1); price increases (1); Wendell Anderson job performance (1); Richard Nixon job performance (1); trustworthiness of various people (4); Nixon resignation (1); Nixon impeachment (1); medical expenses (1); health insurance (3); national health insurance (2); streaking (2); pressure of American life (1); functioning under pressure (1); tension (6); discussing tension (10); The Exorcist movie (4); mailing income tax returns (4); legislature session success (1); approval of legislature decisions (4); raising legislator salary (1); regular annual legislative session (1); newspaper readership (2); TV Week section (2).
A Variational Formulation of Dissipative Quasicontinuum Methods
Creators: name: Rokoš, Ondřej
name: Beex, Lars A. A.
name: Zeman, Jan
name: Peerlings, Ron H. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lattice systems and discrete networks with dissipative interactions are successfully employed as meso-scale models of heterogeneous solids. As the application scale generally is much larger than that of the discrete links, physically relevant simulations are computationally expensive. The QuasiContinuum (QC) method is a multiscale approach that reduces the computational cost of direct numerical simulations by fully resolving complex phenomena only in regions of interest while coarsening elsewhere. In previous work (Beex et al., J. Mech. Phys. Solids 64, 154-169, 2014), the originally conservative QC methodology was generalized to a virtual-power-based QC approach that includes local dissipative mechanisms. In this contribution, the virtual-power-based QC method is reformulated from a variational point of view, by employing the energy-based variational framework for rate-independent processes (Mielke and Roubíček, Rate-Independent Systems: Theory and Application, Springer-Verlag, 2015). By construction it is shown that the QC method with dissipative interactions can be expressed as a minimization problem of a properly built energy potential, providing solutions equivalent to those of the virtual-power-based QC formulation. The theoretical considerations are demonstrated on three simple examples. For them we verify energy consistency, quantify relative errors in energies, and discuss errors in internal variables obtained for different meshes and two summation rules.
description: 38 pages, 21 figures, 4 tables; moderate revision after review, one example in Section 5.3 added
In memoriam Dr. Fritz Geschwendt
Creators: name: Cüppers, Heinz
Publisher: name: Trierer Zeitschrift - Archäologie und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete
Year: 2023

description: Trierer Zeitschrift - Archäologie und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete, Bd. 45 (1982): Trierer Zeitschrift : für Geschichte und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete
Verzeichnis der Kataloge und Führer kunst- und kulturgeschichtlicher Museen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und in Berlin (West). Herausgegeben im Auftrag der Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Kunstbibliotheken von Horst-Johs Tümmers
Creators: name: Merten, Jürgen A.
Publisher: name: Trierer Zeitschrift - Archäologie und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete
Year: 2023

description: Rezension zu: Verzeichnis der Kataloge und Führer kunst- und kulturgeschichtlicher Museen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und in Berlin (West). Herausgegeben im Auftrag der Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Kunstbibliotheken von Horst-Johs Tümmers (Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin). Band 1: Kataloge und Führer der Berliner Museen. Bearbeitet von Horst-Johs Tümmers. 1975. XIII, 189 S. Band 2: Kataloge und Führer der Münchner Museen. Bearbeitet von Horst-Johs Tümmers. Mit Vorarbeiten von Ingrid Franzl. 1979. XVI, 194 S.
description: Trierer Zeitschrift - Archäologie und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete, Bd. 45 (1982): Trierer Zeitschrift : für Geschichte und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete
The Minnesota Poll # 336
Creators: name: Minneapolis Tribune
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Patricia Hearst kidnapping (2); reason for increased kidnappings (1); paying ransoms as illegal (1); withholding kidnapping information (1); Wendell Anderson job performance (1); Richard Nixon job performance (1); Nixon trustworthiness (1); Anderson trustworthiness (1); Nixon resignation (1); Nixon impeachment (2); Nixon back taxes (1); feelings toward Nixon (1); taxes on presidents (1); Nixon Watergate speech (2); Whitehouse tapes and transcripts (4); unlawful connection to Watergate (2); media fairness toward Nixon administration (2); granting draft dodgers amnesty (3); taconite mining (1); dumping hazardous waste in Lake Superior (6); raising legislature salaries (2); annual legislature sessions (1); Nixon visit to China (1); US-Soviet Union relations (1); Nixon visit to Soviet Union (2); peace in the Mideast (1); economic aid to Mideast (1); aid to South Vietnam (1); presidential candidate preferences (3); voter participation (4); senator candidate preferences (1); governor candidate preferences (1); newspaper readership (2).
Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld. Zur Wiederauffindung seines Grabes im Jahre 1980
Creators: name: Merten, Jürgen A.
Publisher: name: Trierer Zeitschrift - Archäologie und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete
Year: 2023

description: Rezension zu: Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld. Zur Wiederauffindung seines Grabes im Jahre 1980. Herausgegeben von Anton Arens (Spee-Verlag, Trier, 1981) 115 S. mit 9 Abb.
description: Trierer Zeitschrift - Archäologie und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete, Bd. 45 (1982): Trierer Zeitschrift : für Geschichte und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete
Reclams Kunstführer Deutschland Band VI: Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland. Kunstdenkmäler und Museen
Creators: name: Zahn, Eberhard
Publisher: name: Trierer Zeitschrift - Archäologie und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete
Year: 2023

description: Rezension zu: Reclams Kunstführer Deutschland Band VI: Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland. Kunstdenkmäler und Museen. Von Herbert Brunner, Hans Caspary, Alexander von Reitzenstein, Fritz Stich. 7., neubearbeitete und erweiterte Auflage. 591 Seiten, 150 Abbildungen und Pläne, 2 Übersichtskarten. Philipp Reclam jun. Stuttgart 1980
description: Trierer Zeitschrift - Archäologie und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete, Bd. 45 (1982): Trierer Zeitschrift : für Geschichte und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete
Culture, creativity, and conceptual dynamics: A structural hypothesis
Creators: name: Brandt, Per Aage
Publisher: name: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication
Year: 2015

description: We redefine the concept of concept and focus on its role in the intersubjective processes that characterize cultures and socio-cultural communities. Conceptual density determines communitary coherence, whereas highly variable conceptual velocity determines inter-conceptual dynamics within distinct conceptual fields of activity. Conflicts opposing force of conceptual authority by knowledge value and force of conceptual authority through social power lead to states of socio-cultural consensus or dissensus. A model of socio-cultural concept structure is proposed. The creativity of concept formation is considered a major factor in historical time; different states of relative balance between creativity and stereotypicity are mentioned, including a dangerous neutralizing alliance of artistic and epistemic creativity on the one hand and technologically enhanced power concepts. In a sense, thinking is ubiquitous, but only certain forms of thinking are creative – those that minimize the influence of social power and maximize the slow intersubjective processes of shared experience that make culture be culture.
description: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication, Vol 1 (2015)
Limits to causal inference with state-space reconstruction for infectious disease
Creators: name: Cobey, Sarah
name: Baskerville, Edward B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Infectious diseases are notorious for their complex dynamics, which make it difficult to fit models to test hypotheses. Methods based on state-space reconstruction have been proposed to infer causal interactions in noisy, nonlinear dynamical systems. These "model-free" methods are collectively known as convergent cross-mapping (CCM). Although CCM has theoretical support, natural systems routinely violate its assumptions. To identify the practical limits of causal inference under CCM, we simulated the dynamics of two pathogen strains with varying interaction strengths. The original method of CCM is extremely sensitive to periodic fluctuations, inferring interactions between independent strains that oscillate with similar frequencies. This sensitivity vanishes with alternative criteria for inferring causality. However, CCM remains sensitive to high levels of process noise and changes to the deterministic attractor. This sensitivity is problematic because it remains challenging to gauge noise and dynamical changes in natural systems, including the quality of reconstructed attractors that underlie cross-mapping. We illustrate these challenges by analyzing time series of reportable childhood infections in New York City and Chicago during the pre-vaccine era. We comment on the statistical and conceptual challenges that currently limit the use of state-space reconstruction in causal inference.
description: 32 pages, 7 main figures, 10 supplemental figures
Anticipated versus Actual Effects of Platform Design Change: A Case Study of Twitter's Character Limit
Creators: name: Gligorić, Kristina
name: Częstochowska, Justyna
name: Anderson, Ashton
name: West, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The design of online platforms is both critically important and challenging, as any changes may lead to unintended consequences, and it can be hard to predict how users will react. Here we conduct a case study of a particularly important real-world platform design change: Twitter's decision to double the character limit from 140 to 280 characters to soothe users' need to ''cram'' or ''squeeze'' their tweets, informed by modeling of historical user behavior. In our analysis, we contrast Twitter's anticipated pre-intervention predictions about user behavior with actual post-intervention user behavior: Did the platform design change lead to the intended user behavior shifts, or did a gap between anticipated and actual behavior emerge? Did different user groups react differently? We find that even though users do not ''cram'' as much under 280 characters as they used to under 140 characters, emergent ``cramming'' at the new limit seems to not have been taken into account when designing the platform change. Furthermore, investigating textual features, we find that, although post-intervention ''crammed'' tweets are longer, their syntactic and semantic characteristics remain similar and indicative of ''squeezing''. Applying the same approach as Twitter policy-makers, we create updated counterfactual estimates and find that the character limit would need to be increased further to reduce cramming that re-emerged at the new limit. We contribute to the rich literature studying online user behavior with an empirical study that reveals a dynamic interaction between platform design and user behavior, with immediate policy and practical implications for the design of socio-technical systems.
ORC Poll: Word Impact for Management's Communications
Creators: name: ORC International
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2013

description: Employer company facing competition (1); production costs affecting competitiveness (1); fairest economic system (1); government keeping people's best interest (1); fairness of owners' salaries (1); workers getting fair share (1); impressions of Midstate Oil Company (11); impressions of Jennings Typewriter Company (9); impressions of Westbrook Manufacturing Company (16); trend toward socialism (1); guessing who spoke at convention (1); free time activities (17); favorite discussion topics (14); sources of company information (12); company sharing information (1); description of various word connotations (160); familiarity with various business terms (30); definitions of various business terms (30).
Reclams Kunstführer Frankreich Band II: Elsaß, Kunstdenkmäler und Museen. Von Florens Deuchler und Jean Wirth
Creators: name: Zahn, Eberhard
Publisher: name: Trierer Zeitschrift - Archäologie und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete
Year: 2023

description: Rezension zu: Reclams Kunstführer Frankreich Band II: Elsaß, Kunstdenkmäler und Museen. Von Florens Deuchler und Jean Wirth. 340 Seiten mit 107 Abbildungen und Plänen sowie 2 Übersichtskarten. Philipp Reclam jun. Stuttgart 1980
description: Trierer Zeitschrift - Archäologie und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete, Bd. 45 (1982): Trierer Zeitschrift : für Geschichte und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete
A Telephonic Nutrition Program Plan and Evaluation Plan for the Reduction of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in African American Mothers
Creators: name: Primus, Dominique
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: This program plan is a risk factor and nutrition educational program targeting African American mothers of school-aged children in Martin County, North Carolina. Consisting of weekly communications between health coaches and participants, topics on the cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk that the participants face as well as ways to nutritionally combat them will be covered. Due to heart disease death rate in Martin County being more than twice that of the entire state of North Carolina, it has been selected as the target population. Utilizing the constructs of the Health Belief Model, our program will target the risk factors of obesity and hypertension through modifying nutritional decisions as well as educating participants on their susceptibility and the severity of CVD.
Improving the quality of adaptive learning support provided by kindergarten teachers in play-based mathematical learning situations
Creators: name: Wullschleger, Andrea
name: Lindmeier, Anke
name: Heinze, Aiso
name: Meier-Wyder, Anuschka
name: Leuchter, Miriam
name: Vogt, Franziska
name: Moser Opitz, Elisabeth
Publisher: name: Routledge
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Kindergarten teachers
subject: Macro-adaptive learning support
subject: Micro-adaptive learning support
subject: Professional development
subject: Play-based mathematical learning
subject: 370 - Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen

description: Adaptive learning support is a key element of high quality preschool education and includes the planning of learning situations and teacher–child interactions. The provision of effective adaptive learning support in kindergarten is challenging. This longitudinal experimental study examined the impact of two professional development programs on 132 kindergarten teachers. One program focused on teacher–child interactions (micro-adaptive learning support), the other on planning, preparation, and reflection (macro-adaptive learning support). Each program had a positive impact on the quality of the specific type of adaptive mathematical learning support provided by kindergarten teachers, macro or micro, it was designed to improve.
Systematic trends in beta-delayed particle emitting nuclei: The case of beta-p-alpha emission from 21Mg
Creators: name: Lund, M. V.
name: Borge, M. J. G.
name: Briz, J. A.
name: Cederkäll, J.
name: Fynbo, H. O. U.
name: Jensen, J. H.
name: Jonson, B.
name: Laursen, K. L.
name: Nilsson, T.
name: Perea, A.
name: Pesudo, V.
name: Riisager, K.
name: Tengblad, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have observed beta+-delayed alpha and p-alpha emission from the proton-rich nucleus 21Mg produced at the ISOLDE facility at CERN. The assignments were cross-checked with a time distribution analysis. This is the third identified case of beta-p-alpha emission. We discuss the systematic of beta-delayed particle emission decays, show that our observed decays fit naturally into the existing pattern, and argue that the patterns are to a large extent caused by odd-even effects.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Voter News Service Exit Poll: Georgia
Creators: name: ABC News
name: Associated Press
name: CBS News
name: CNN
name: Fox News
name: NBC News
name: Voter News Service
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Republican primary vote(1); vote deciding moment(1); vote deciding issue(1); candidate quality(1); satisfaction with candidate(1); Bob Dole(1); Dole's age(1); abortion(1); standard of living(1); economic vs. moral problems(1); taxes(1); Buchanan vs. Dole(1); US trade(1); Pat Buchanan(1); negative advertising in politics(1); member of the religious right(1); party ID(1); vote for in 1992 presidential election(1); religion(1); political ideology(1).
Deterministic phase slips in mesoscopic superconducting rings
Creators: name: Petkovic, I.
name: Lollo, A.
name: Glazman, L. I.
name: Harris, J. G. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The properties of one-dimensional superconductors are strongly influenced by topological fluctuations of the order parameter, known as phase slips, which cause the decay of persistent current in superconducting rings and the appearance of resistance in superconducting wires. Despite extensive work, quantitative studies of phase slips have been limited by uncertainty regarding the order parameter's free energy landscape. Here we show detailed agreement between measurements of the persistent current in isolated flux-biased rings and Ginzburg-Landau theory over a wide range of temperature, magnetic field, and ring size; this agreement provides a quantitative picture of the free energy landscape. We also demonstrate that phase slips occur deterministically as the barrier separating two competing order parameter configurations vanishes. These results will enable studies of quantum and thermal phase slips in a well-characterized system and will provide access to outstanding questions regarding the nature of one-dimensional superconductivity.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures main text; 11 pages supplemental material
Bernhard Schutz, Die Katharinenkirche in Oppenheim
Creators: name: Zahn, Eberhard
Publisher: name: Trierer Zeitschrift - Archäologie und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete
Year: 2023

description: Rezension zu: Bernhard Schutz, Die Katharinenkirche in Oppenheim. Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte Band 17. XVIII, 380 Seiten Text, 1 Seite Kunstdruck-, 2 Seiten Klapptafeln und 64 Seiten Tafeln. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin-New York 1982
description: Trierer Zeitschrift - Archäologie und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete, Bd. 45 (1982): Trierer Zeitschrift : für Geschichte und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete
Voter News Service Exit Poll: Iowa
Creators: name: ABC News
name: Associated Press
name: CBS News
name: CNN
name: Fox News
name: NBC News
name: Voter News Service
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Candidate vote(1); support deciding moment(1); issue deciding support(1); abortion(1); Bob Dole(1); member of the religious right(1); taxes(1); Bob Dole's age(1); political ideology(1).
The effect of direct prehospital notification of cardiology on door-to-balloon times
Creators: name: Kubs, Allyson
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2023

description: AbstractPurpose of the Project: Activation of cardiology for ST-elevation myocardial infarctions (STEMIs) recognized in the prehospital setting is standard practice in most hospitals. The definitive treatment for STEMIs is percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), with reperfusion in the cath lab. Current research suggests lower door-to-balloon times lead to more desirable outcomes. To improve these times, a prehospital communication with the ED and notification of cardiology are completed to prepare for rapid PCI. A hospital system in NJ implemented this new prehospital notification process. The purpose of this project was to evaluate the program effectiveness using the CIPP model to determine if the more direct prehospital notification of cardiology would lead to improved door-to-balloon times.Methodology: A retrospective chart review of 77 STEMI patients was used to determine door-to-balloon times pre and postimplementation (56 pre and 21 post). Additionally, paramedics were surveyed to identify potential delays caused by the notification system. Results: The data showed no statistically significant difference in door-to-balloon times. Hospital 1 times were 68 minutes pre and 63 minutes post. Hospital 2 were 58 minutes pre and 63 minutes post. The small sample size and the focused data collection did not account for multiple process variables, which likely attributed to the lack of statistical significance. The paramedic survey showed many observed delays within the new prehospital notification system. Implications for Practice: A more in-depth combing the CIPP framework and Lean Six Sigma methodology is recommended to identify variables and system variance. Once causes of process delays are identified and corrected, patient transport directly to the CCL should be considered, as should expansion to neurology with field recognition of large vessel occlusions. Keywords: Door-to-Balloon, reperfusion times, STEMI, CODE STEMI, prehospital notification, cardiology notification, ECG, American Heart Association, STEMI recommendations, transfer center, EMS delays, and outcome disparities
Biased Bytes: On the Validity of Estimating Food Consumption from Digital Traces
Creators: name: Gligorić, Kristina
name: Đorđević, Irena
name: West, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Given that measuring food consumption at a population scale is a challenging task, researchers have begun to explore digital traces (e.g., from social media or from food-tracking applications) as potential proxies. However, it remains unclear to what extent digital traces reflect real food consumption. The present study aims to bridge this gap by quantifying the link between dietary behaviors as captured via social media (Twitter) v.s. a food-tracking application (MyFoodRepo). We focus on the case of Switzerland and contrast images of foods collected through the two platforms, by designing and deploying a novel crowdsourcing framework for estimating biases with respect to nutritional properties and appearance. We find that the food type distributions in social media v.s. food tracking diverge; e.g., bread is 2.5 times more frequent among consumed and tracked foods than on Twitter, whereas cake is 12 times more frequent on Twitter. Controlling for the different food type distributions, we contrast consumed and tracked foods of a given type with foods shared on Twitter. Across food types, food posted on Twitter is perceived as tastier, more caloric, less healthy, less likely to have been consumed at home, more complex, and larger-portioned, compared to consumed and tracked foods. The fact that there is a divergence between food consumption as measured via the two platforms implies that at least one of the two is not a faithful representation of the true food consumption in the general Swiss population. Thus, researchers should be attentive and aim to establish evidence of validity before using digital traces as a proxy for the true food consumption of a general population. We conclude by discussing the potential sources of these biases and their implications, outlining pitfalls and threats to validity, and proposing actionable ways for overcoming them.
Generational change and Language in the UAE: The desertion of the Emirati vernacular
Creators: name: Balfaqeeh, Muna
Publisher: name: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication
Year: 2015

description: During the Last decade, the Arabian Gulf region has been moving towards an increasing use of a ‘Pan Gulf vernacular’, “…a homogenised form of ‘Gulf’ speech not identifiable with any particular Gulf community”(Holes, 2011:130), where new words are introduced or borrowed from neighboring gulf countries and many others have disappeared from the local lexicon. In this paper we have a special interest in investigating the Emirati Vernacular in more depth to identify the words that disappeared and were replaced by what is considered to be more semantically accessible words borrowed from neighboring Gulf countries. In this paper, we conducted a survey that aimed to identify the words lost from the Emirati lexicon, and rarely or never used by Emirati university students. The word lists based on the words used in two typical and extremely popular Emirati TV serials: the first is “Sh-ḥafan” which was broadcast in the late 1970s, and the second is a popular animation called “Fereej”, an animated media artifact started in 2006 which presented 4 old female characters that represent the different vernaculars currently used within the UAE. The survey was divided to three parts; the first measured the student’s understanding of these words, while the second concentrated on the students’ perception on the popularity of these words use to see whether they think that these words have really disappeared from the Emirati lexicon. The survey enabled us to outline the students’ insights on the reason behind this language change. Finally, focus group was created to record students’ perceptions and to measure the impact of this experience. The aim of this study is to measure whether modernity, globalization and the extensive use of English by the new generations have cost the UAE to lose its dialects and head towards what is seen as an easier and more accessible dialect shared by the speakers in the this region.
description: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication, Vol 1 (2015)
Additional file 3 of Prevalence of different virulence factors and their association with antimicrobial resistance among Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates from Egypt
Creators: name: Edward, Eva A.
name: El Shehawy, Marwa R.
name: Abouelfetouh, Alaa
name: Aboulmagd, Elsayed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 3. Analysis of the association between virulence factors presence and susceptibility to antimicrobial agents.