cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Application of the Principle of Mutual Recognition in EU Criminal Law Matters - Internally and Externally vis-à-vis Pre-Accession Policy
Creators: name: Spreeuw, Marloes
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2020

description: This thesis analyses the principle of mutual recognition in EU criminal matters from two perspectives. It argues that the framework upon which this principle is built has become increasingly problematic and that the issues questioning its justification could undermine the results achieved in the pre-accession policy, where the values that support the mutual recognition framework are vigorously employed upon candidate countries. First, the thesis addresses the functioning and legitimacy of the principle of mutual recognition internally, in relation to the Union’s current Member States, with a particular focus on the most prominent mutual recognition instrument in the area of judicial cooperation in criminal matters, the European Arrest Warrant. In recent years, the application of the principle of mutual recognition in this area, has become more challenging due to serious violations of the values which undermines mutual trust and the legitimate application of mutual recognition. Secondly, the thesis examines the principle of mutual recognition externally, vis-à-vis the EU’s pre-accession policy where key values for the application of mutual recognition have obtained a prominent place and should in principle build ground for the application of mutual recognition in criminal matters. The thesis analyses the two pillars upon which the concepts of Normative Power Europe rests: the EU’s normative identity and its normative influence to examine the principle of mutual recognition from both sides. It demonstrates that, internally, the non-commitment to the foundational values which lie at the heart of the EU’s normative identity are very vulnerable and the EU does not have the necessary influence to enforce compliance with the values. It is argued that this undermines the justifiability of the mutual recognition framework. In stark contrast with the internal situation, in the pre-accession policy the EU has strong tools to enforce transformation in the candidate countries to assure that they adhere to the EU’s foundational values and share its identity. However, the results achieved in the pre-accession policy can be easily undermined upon accession due to the problematic internal situation regarding the foundational values.
title: Radiologist’s attitudes towards and subsequent compliance with the new Guidelines for management of incidental pulmonary nodules detected on CT images (Fleischner 2017).
Creators: name: Brassil, Michael
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: CT
subject: Cost-effectiveness
subject: Education
subject: Structured reporting
subject: Outcomes
subject: Patterns of Care

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Surveillance of incidentally detected lung nodules contributes to a significant workload in the radiology department. Current best practice involves using Flesichner Society recommendations to guide surveillance and management of lung nodules. The...
TELEPENSOUTH project: Measurement of the Earth gravitomagnetic field in a terrestrial laboratory
Creators: name: Pascual-Sánchez, J. -F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We will expose a preliminary study on the feasibility of an experiment leading to a direct measurement of the gravitomagnetic field generated by the rotational motion of the Earth. This measurement would be achieved by means of an appropriate coupling of a TELEscope and a Foucault PENdulum in a laboratory on ground, preferably at the SOUTH pole. An experiment of this kind was firstly proposed by Braginski, Polnarev and Thorne, 18 years ago, but it was never re-analyzed.
description: 7 pages, LaTeX, Springer style files included. Contribution to the Proceedings of the Spanish Relativity Meeting-ERE-2001 (Madrid, September 2001). To appear in the book "Relativistic Astrophysics", Lecture Notes in Physics, Springer Verlag (2002), edited by L. Fernandez-Jambrina, L.M. Gonzalez-Romero
Documentation of Pain Care Processes Does Not Accurately Reflect Pain Management Delivered in Primary Care
Creators: name: Weinberger, Morris
name: Krebs, Erin E.
name: Bair, Matthew J.
name: Carey, Timothy S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Researchers and quality improvement advocates sometimes use review of chart-documented pain care processes to assess the quality of pain management. Studies have found that primary care providers frequently fail to document pain assessment and management.
title: Transarterial chemoembolisation using small diameter drug eluting beads in patients with neuroendocrine tumour liver metastasis
Creators: name: Abdel Aal, Ahmed
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Liver
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Chemoembolisation
subject: Cancer
subject: Endocrine disorders

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The aim of this study is to evaluate tumor response, symptom relief, survival outcomes and toxicity of transarterial chemoembolization using small size drug eluting beads (DEB-TACE) in the treatment of patients with liver metastasis from...
Pheidole megacephala
Creators: name: Crawley, W. C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1920
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Pheidole
Pheidole megacephala

description: Pheidole megacephala, subsp. punctulata, Mayr. ♃: ☿ Durban, 1917 (Buxton).
description: Published as part of Crawley, W. C., 1920, Ants from Mesopotamia and north-west Persia (concluded), pp. 177-179 in Entomologists Record and Journal of Variation 32 on page 2, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15001
Multilingual practices in a disavowed community: The case of new Italian migrants in London
Creators: name: Pepe, Giulia
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2020
Subjects: Italian community, Multilingualism, Italian migration, Identities, Translanguaging

description: This thesis aims to investigate the linguistic repertoires of new Italian migrants in London and the multilingual practices in which they engage. Italian mass emigration has re-started after the 2008 economic crisis. This new migration continues a long tradition: Italians migrated en masse after the country’s unification and after the Second World War. In the UK, they mainly emigrated after the Second World War to industrial towns, such as Bedford. In contrast, London has become the favourite destination of the post-2008 crisis wave. In the last decade, scholars focused on the social differences between past and new migrants, while the last linguistic study on the Italian community in London was carried out in the 1990s and thus it does not cover the new wave. The research presented here is an attempt to fill this gap. Recorded data collected through ethnographic observations of social gatherings organised by new migrants are presented to show how they engage with translanguaging. Interview data are also used to further explore and better understand participants’ multilingual practices and their ideologies on those. One recurring aspect emerges from both the data sources. Participants’ disavow their national community. They often negotiate the traditional understanding of ethnic and national community by challenging or denying their belonging to the Italian community in London. Nevertheless, informants acknowledge the existence of an in-group style, used by them and by other new migrants, characterised by the possibility of translanguaging. Translanguaging is adopted to negotiate and perform new identities, and to identify the other, who cannot be included in translanguaging practices. Participants demonstrate their membership in (or disaffiliation from) the group through the agreement (or disagreement) with the group style. This seems a challenge to the a priori labelling system based on ethnicity and migratory status, which may be seen as an analytical issue for the study of new transnational and mobile migrant communities.
Imaging ultrafast carrier transport in nanoscale devices using femtosecond photocurrent microscopy
Creators: name: Son, B. H.
name: Park, Jae-Ku
name: Hong, J. T.
name: Park, Ji-Yong.
name: Lee, Soonil.
name: Ahn, Y. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One-dimensional nanoscale devices, such as semiconductor nanowires (NWs) and single- walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs), have been intensively investigated because of their potential application of future high-speed electronic, optoelectronic, and sensing devices. To overcome current limitations on the speed of contemporary devices, investigation of charge carrier dynamics with an ultrashort time scale is one of the primary steps necessary for developing high-speed devices. In the present study, we visualize ultrafast carrier dynamics in nanoscale devices using a combination of scanning photocurrent microscopy and time- resolved pump-probe techniques. We investigate transit times of carriers that are generated near one metallic electrode and subsequently transported toward the opposite electrode based on drift and diffusion motions. Carrier dynamics have been measured for various working conditions. In particular, the carrier velocities extracted from transit times increase for a larger negative gate bias, because of the increased field strength at the Schottky barrier.
Media ownership and the exploitation of media power for corporate self-interest: a case study of News International's coverage of the BBC and OFcom
Creators: name: Langworth, Rachel
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2020

description: This work examines whether there is an agenda on the part of the newspapers owned by News International (Rupert Murdoch’s UK media company) where reporting on matters with regards to the British Broadcasting Corporation and Ofcom. The agenda, examined via the content analysis of the relevant articles published in three Murdoch owned newspapers compared with three non-Murdoch owned newspapers of equal standing, proves an already existing theory discussed by the press and academics alike that Rupert Murdoch is particularly hostile towards both bodies; the BBC because it is a rival news provider, and a prominent, trusted voice in Britain; and Ofcom, because of its role as a regulator that has often stood between Murdoch and his commercial expansion plans. The research answers three key questions: to what extent News International’s newspapers seek to undermine organisations and competitiors that in some way interfere with the company and/ or proprietors expansion plans; to what extent this agenda is manifested in News International’s newspapers; and to what extent these compare with equal-standing, non-News International owned newspapers. The findings identify a clear bias in the reporting, demonstrating for the first time that Murdoch exploits his newspapers in pursuit of commercial self-interest. This work demonstrates how the news agenda can be deliberately manipulated to suit the commercial self-interest of dominant owners, and provides evidence of the way in which proprietors such as Murdoch can exploit their dominance of media markets mthrough the distorted or biased coverage of rival institutions or regulators in a bid to influence both popular opinion and the decisions of politicians and policymakers, thus undermining the democratic process.
2023 Hatay Depremini Yaşayanlarda Travma Sonrası Stres Bozukluğu Belirtilerinde Psikolojik Esnekliğin Aracı Rolü Üzerine Derleme
Creators: name: ÇAVUŞOĞLU, İlayda
name: KARAAZİZ, Meryem
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Depremler ve sel, yangın, toprak kayması, çığ gibi diğer afetler büyük yıkımlara, yaralanmalara ve kayıplara neden olmaktadır. Dolayısıyla yaşanılan afetlerin bireysel ve toplumsal yönden etkiler ortaya koymaktadır. Yaşanılan afetlerin ani bir şekilde yaşanması korku ve çaresizlik duyguları uyandırmakta ve yıkımlara neden olmaktadır. Bu sebeple afetler travmatik bir olay olarak kabul edilmektedir. Araştırma sonucunda katılımcıların. psikolojik esnekliklerinin travma sonrası stres belirtilerini önemli ve negatif yönlü olarak yordadığı sonucuna varılmıştır. Araştırmada travma sonrası stres belirtileri ile psikolojik esnekliğin tam aracı rolünün olduğu sonucuna varılmıştır.
Masculinity, Medical Mistrust, and Preventive Health Services Delays Among Community-Dwelling African-American Men
Creators: name: Agyemang, Amma
name: Hammond, Wizdom Powell
name: Matthews, Derrick
name: Mohottige, Dinushika
name: Corbie-Smith, Giselle
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: The contribution of masculinity to men’s healthcare use has gained increased public health interest; however, few studies have examined this association among African-American men, who delay healthcare more often, define masculinity differently, and report higher levels of medical mistrust than non-Hispanic White men.
Effects of the restoration of U$_A$(1) symmetry on pseudoscalar meson observables
Creators: name: Ruivo, M. C.
name: Costa, Pedro
name: de Sousa, C. A.
name: Kalinovsky, Yu. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the restoration of chiral SU$(3)\otimes$SU$(3)$ and axial U$_A$(1) symmetries, at finite temperature and density, in the framework of the three flavor Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model with anomaly. We implement a temperature (density) dependence of the anomaly coefficient motivated by lattice results for the topological susceptibility and we discuss the restoration of symmetries by analyzing the behavior of the mesonic chiral partners and of the mixing angles. The results indicate that the axial part of the symmetry is restored before the possible restoration of the full U(3)$\otimes$U(3) chiral symmetry can occur.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure. Contribution to Proc. Int. Europhysics Conf. on High Energy Physics (HEP2005), 21-27.7.2005, Lisboa, Portugal
Plans to Stop Cancer Screening Tests Among Adults Who Recently Considered Screening
Creators: name: Lewis, Carmen L.
name: Levin, Carrie A.
name: Couper, Mick P.
name: Pignone, Michael P.
name: Zikmund-Fisher, Brian J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: We sought to estimate what proportion of adults plan to stop cancer screening tests among adults who recently considered screening and to explore factors associated with these screening plans.
Excessive iron accumulation mediated oxidative stress and β-cell dysfunction via perturbations of insulin secretion in MIN6 cells
Creators: name: Blesia, Voni
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2020

description: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is the predominant form of diabetes, with prevalence increasing steadily both in developed and developing countries. Defects in both insulin action and insulin secretion are known to contribute to the development of T2DM. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) mediated cellular oxidative damage has been implicated in cellular dysfunction in various organs and disease states. Exposure to high level of glucose during hyperglycaemia has been co-related to ROS generation and oxidative stress in β-cells. In the initial series of experiments MIN6 pseudoislets were cultured under standard conditions and exposed to a range of iron concentrations (20 μM – 100 μM; signifying low to high iron exposure) at predefined glucose levels (5.5 mM and 11 mM) in a static incubation experiment. These series of experiments were categorised into two type of timelines in which experiments were carried. These timelines were at 24 and 48 h and 48 and 72 h. Within the timeline of 24 & 48 h, insulin secretion & content, expression of SNAP-25, mitochondrial oxygen consumption rate (OCR), mitochondrial membrane potential (Δψm), and protein carbonylation were estimated. In addition, antioxidant activity (cellular/non-cellular), cytotoxicity, and cellular ferritin were assessed using the shell of nanocarriers composed of (i) potato protein (PP) - potato dextrin (PD), (ii) PP - modified citrus pectin (MCP) used to formulate Fe and hesperetin in the presence/absence of EGCG. These experiments were followed by assessments of cellular iron content, lipid peroxidation, and cell viability at 48 & 72 h. Our results suggest that presence of 100 μM iron exerted the most detrimental effect on MIN6 β-cell viability and this alteration was consistent with the data from cellular iron uptake analysis, lipid peroxidation, protein carbonyl, OCR, Δψm, SNAP-25, and insulin secretion and its content. All nanocarrier formulations coated antioxidant especially MCP demonstrated higher stability and robustness compared to dextrin control and the ability to resist the inhibitory effect of a potent iron inhibitor highlight its potential as an iron delivery vehicle. These data indicate that excessive iron and glucose accumulation, and consequent oxidative stress results in cellular membrane and mitochondrial damage and disruption. The perturbations in mitochondria functionality correlate with diminishing of MIN6 β-cell insulin secretion, suggesting a mechanistic role for iron overload in the development and progression of type 2 diabetes. These nanoformulations may be potentially used as a model to counter oxidative stress in pancreatic β-cell.
title: Changes in kidney function and MELD score in diabetic patients undergoing the transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt procedure.
Creators: name: Abdel Aal, Ahmed
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Liver
subject: Kidney
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Stents
subject: Shunts
subject: Cirrhosis
subject: Metabolic disorders

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Renal dysfunction can be a complication in up to 50% of patients with cirrhosis and ascites, and is thought to be due to decreased renal perfusion [1]. This may be because portal hypertension present in cirrhosis may lead to splachnic vasodilation...
Friendly Artificial Intelligence: the Physics Challenge
Creators: name: Tegmark, Max
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Relentless progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly raising concerns that machines will replace humans on the job market, and perhaps altogether. Eliezer Yudkowski and others have explored the possibility that a promising future for humankind could be guaranteed by a superintelligent "Friendly AI", designed to safeguard humanity and its values. I argue that, from a physics perspective where everything is simply an arrangement of elementary particles, this might be even harder than it appears. Indeed, it may require thinking rigorously about the meaning of life: What is "meaning" in a particle arrangement? What is "life"? What is the ultimate ethical imperative, i.e., how should we strive to rearrange the particles of our Universe and shape its future? If we fail to answer the last question rigorously, this future is unlikely to contain humans.
description: 3 pages
Quantum Models of Black Hole Evaporation
Creators: name: Belgiorno, F.
name: Cattaneo, A. S.
name: Fucito, F.
name: Martellini, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The discovery of black-hole evaporation represented in many respects a revolutionary event in scientific world; as such, in giving answers to open questions, it gave rise to new problems part of which are still not resolved. Here we want to make a brief review of such problems and examine some possible solutions. Invited Talk at the "Workshop on String Theory, Quantum Gravity and the Unification of the Fundamental Interactions" Rome, September 21-26
description: 9 pages, ROM2F-92/60
Recommendations of Community Pharmacists and Health Food Store Employees Regarding Undiagnosed Symptoms of Diabetes
Creators: name: Weinberger, Morris
name: Kavalieratos, Dio
name: Rao, Jaya K.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Consumers may seek health advice from health food store employees (HFSEs) and pharmacists. Delays in the diagnosis of time-critical illnesses may increase the likelihood of morbidity, mortality and healthcare expenditures.
Healthy User and Related Biases in Observational Studies of Preventive Interventions: A Primer for Physicians
Creators: name: Shrank, William H.
name: Alan Brookhart, M.
name: Patrick, Amanda R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: The current emphasis on comparative effectiveness research will provide practicing physicians with increasing volumes of observational evidence about preventive care. However, numerous highly publicized observational studies of the effect of prevention on health outcomes have reported exaggerated relationships that were later contradicted by randomized controlled trials. A growing body of research has identified sources of bias in observational studies that are related to patient behaviors or underlying patient characteristics, known as the healthy user effect, the healthy adherer effect, confounding by functional status or cognitive impairment, and confounding by selective prescribing. In this manuscript we briefly review observational studies of prevention that have appeared to reach incorrect conclusions. We then describe potential sources of bias in these studies and discuss study designs, analytical methods, and sensitivity analyses that may mitigate bias or increase confidence in the results reported. More careful consideration of these sources of bias and study designs by providers can enhance evidence-based decision-making.
Filmi vs the Everyday:Hindi films in the lives of women in an Indian village
Creators: name: Charusmita, Charusmita
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2020

description: This study examines the purpose and significance of contemporary Hindi films for women living in Narwal, a north Indian village near Kanpur city. Based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out over four months, interacting with more than 80 women aged 18-80 years, this thesis highlights the complexities of audiencehood for women living in rural India, where ‘rural’ is defined as ‘anything but urban’ and officially houses 69% of Indian population (Census, 2011). Observations, conversations and interviews were carried out in a variety of locations, in residents’ homes, local beauty parlours, schools and workplaces. Despite these women’s negligible viewership of films in cinema theatres, their limited viewership within their homes, and moral issues around women’s film consumption, films fulfil these women’s desires in real and/or imaginative spaces, with the term “filmi” connoting anything that is ‘other’ to village life in these women’s imaginations. The thesis argues that by engaging in creative cultural production, using multiple modes of filmic engagement, negotiating within their own households, and capitalising on ‘men looking away’, women are breaking the everyday rules that govern them. Their negotiations around their consumption of Hindi films indicate a slow but steady social transformation which is visible through, and enabled partly by, their dealings with Hindi cinema. Drawing on James Scott’s concept of ‘everyday resistance’ (1985) that, he argues, lies in the realm of the mundane, this study reveals that social change is evolving through a growing cluster of ‘hidden transcripts’ (Scott:1990) that women deploy in the context of their love for Hindi films. Through these, the powerful position of the village males gradually begins to be questioned, thereby challenging the status quo.
How people successfully get in and get on in the UK broadcast television industry: implications for skills policymakers
Creators: name: Block, Peter
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2020

description: This thesis examines the working lives of early career media workers in the UK broadcast television industry (BTI) during the 2010 decade. It is a continuation and builds on the 1990s British Film Institute (BFI) study of media workers and labour studies by the Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance. This research presents an area of work that has not been looked at to date and gives a new perspective on working in the media by focusing on a cohort of workers, aged 30 and under, deemed successful ‘hot shots’ by their managers and peers. The research takes two lines of enquiry. First, it is an audit of the BTI working environment in the 2010s. It reviews data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) to question the claim from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) that the UK creative industries are engines of growth in gross value added (GVA) and jobs in the UK economy. The work offers an interpretation of new evidence in its critique of the data on the creative industries. The findings refute the case for growth in terms of GVA and workforce numbers. Second, the empirical study presents and analyses fieldwork data from two groups. The 25 informants from across the BTI offer the employers’ view. A series of in-depth interviews with 31 respondents supported by an online self-evaluation questionnaire examines the workers’ perspective. The questionnaire is based on the career development model devised for this study. Specifically, it identifies common attributes of successful young media workers. The attribute-composition model of professional identity based on expertise theory, derived from the fieldwork, is a synthesis of ideas not made before in this field. This research questions the role and effectiveness of the skills policy community in the creative industries. The findings challenge policymakers’ argument that high-skills lead to high skilled jobs. Marginalising the vocational pathway offered by universities and further education colleges with sector skills councils (SSCs) has done little to enhance career progression for workers in high skills industries. Furthermore, these SSCs have failed to increase the creative industries’ diversity or inclusivity.
Relationship Between Literacy, Knowledge, Self-Care Behaviors, and Heart Failure-Related Quality of Life Among Patients With Heart Failure
Creators: name: Pignone, Michael
name: Erman, Brian
name: Hawk, Victoria
name: Weinberger, Morris
name: Broucksou, Kimberly A.
name: Macabasco-O’Connell, Aurelia
name: Ruo, Bernice
name: Baker, David W.
name: Schillinger, Dean
name: DeWalt, Darren A.
name: Holmes, George M.
name: Bibbins-Domingo, Kirsten
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: ABSTRACTBACKGROUNDWe sought to examine the relationship between literacy and heart failure-related quality of life (HFQOL), and to explore whether literacy-related differences in knowledge, self-efficacy and/or self-care behavior explained the relationship.METHODSWe recruited patients with symptomatic heart failure (HF) from four academic medical centers. Patients completed the short version of the Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (TOFHLA) and questions on HF-related knowledge, HF-related self-efficacy, and self-care behaviors. We assessed HFQOL with the Heart Failure Symptom Scale (HFSS) (range 0–100), with higher scores denoting better quality of life. We used bivariate (t-tests and chi-square) and multivariate linear regression analyses to estimate the associations between literacy and HF knowledge, self-efficacy, self-care behaviors, and HFQOL, controlling for demographic characteristics. Structural equation modeling was conducted to assess whether general HF knowledge, salt knowledge, self-care behaviors, and self-efficacy mediated the relationship between literacy and HFQOL.RESULTSWe enrolled 605 patients with mean age of 60.7years; 52% were male; 38% were African-American and 16% Latino; 26% had less than a high school education; and 67% had annual incomes under $25,000. Overall, 37% had low literacy (marginal or inadequate on TOFHLA). Patients with adequate literacy had higher general HF knowledge than those with low literacy (mean 6.6 vs. 5.5, adjusted difference 0.63, p < 0.01), higher self-efficacy (5.0 vs. 4.1 ,adjusted difference 0.99, p < 0.01), and higher prevalence of key self-care behaviors (p < 0.001). Those with adequate literacy had better HFQOL scores compared to those with low literacy (63.9 vs. 55.4, adjusted difference 7.20, p < 0.01), but differences in knowledge, self-efficacy, and self-care did not mediate this difference in HFQOL.CONCLUSIONLow literacy was associated with worse HFQOL and lower HF-related knowledge, self-efficacy, and self-care behaviors, but differences in knowledge, self-efficacy and self-care did not explain the relationship between low literacy and worse HFQOL.
Osservazioni sul diritto alla cittadinanza nella prospettiva universale e regionale. L’identità della cittadinanza dell’Unione europea in caso di revoca della cittadinanza nazionale
Creators: name: Buonomenna, Francesco
Publisher: name: Universita' degli Studi di Salerno
Year: 2020
Subjects: Citizenship
Sources
Universal
Regional
European citizenship

description: In the current stage of movements of people across States, citizenship and its revocation are a particularly topical issue. This essay investigates the characters of the relationship between State autonomy in regulating the acquisition and loss of citizenship and universal and regional rules, in order to assess the existence of an international right to citizenship. Moreover, it addresses the peculiarities of European citizenship, especially its identity aspect, as a limit to Member States’ choices concerning the withdrawal of citizenship.
Understanding Social Capital and HIV Risk in Rural African American Communities
Creators: name: Akers, Aletha Y.
name: Lloyd, Stacey W.
name: Powell Hammond, Wizdom
name: Corbie-Smith, Giselle
name: Albritton, Tashuna
name: Cené, Crystal W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Abstract available at publisher's web site.
Vacuum polarization corrections to low energy quark effective couplings
Creators: name: Paulo, Ademar
name: Braghin, Fabio L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work corrections to low energy punctual effective quark couplings up to the eighth order are calculated by considering vacuum polarization effects with the scalar quark-antiquark condensate. The departing point is a QCD-based NJL model. By separating the quark field into two components, one that condenses and another one for interacting quarks, the former is integrated out with the help of usual auxiliary fields and an effective action in terms for interacting quark fields is found. The scalar auxiliary field reduces to the quark-antiquark condensate in the vacuum and the determinant is expanded in powers of the quark-antiquark bilinears generating chiral invariant effective 2N-quark interactions (N=2, 3...). The corresponding coupling constants and effective masses are estimated, and the general trend is that for increasing the effective gluon mass the values of the effective coupling constants decrease. All the values are in good agreement with phenomenological fits.
description: 9 pages, accepted for publication
Evaluating individuals with extreme phenotypes of HIV-1 contributes towards better healthcare management of all HIV-1 positive individuals
Creators: name: Roen, Ashley
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2020

description: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-1 disease progression is variable within patients where some remain asymptomatic for long periods (elite controllers (EC)) while others rapidly progress to disease (rapid progressors (RP)), representing the ‘extreme phenotypes’. There is substantial heterogeneity in how these phenotypes are defined, and we examined the relative merit of published definitions using data on HIV-1 seroconverters. We propose standard definitions for future research of these rare groups: ECs – maintain consecutive HIV-RNA < 50 copies/ml for at least 6 months, RPs – at least one CD4 cell count < 100 cells/mm3 within one year of HIV-1 seroconversion. Evidence shows that less than 1% of individuals are EC and the majority should start treatment to maximise quality and length of life. We supported the ‘when to start’ evidence by demonstrating a 62% reduced risk of serious Aquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), non-AIDS events or death for those immediately initiating combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) (vs not immediately initiating) among those with high CD4 cell counts (>500cells/mm3) and high HIV-RNA (>100,000 copies/ml). We contributed towards the ‘what cART to start’ question; among individuals initiating boosted protease inhibitor, atazanavir might be preferable compared to lopinavir, with 30% lower mortality risk, and 9% lower virological failure risk, which could lead to lower transmitted drug resistance (TDR). We found TDR was significantly decreasing throughout Europe, but remains prevalent (8.5% in 2012); therefore, genetic testing among newly diagnosed remains justifiable. For most, starting treatment is a lifelong commitment; however, some report on post treatment control (PTC) upon cART cessation. We found individuals having viral blips on cART had shorter time to viral rebound upon stopping treatment, but most do not become PTC and initiate lifelong cART. We investigated three cART associated toxicities, namely hypersensitivity reactions (HSR) due to abacavir (ABC) utilization, AIDS-defining neurological conditions related to cART, and immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) shortly after cART initiation. We found that HSR from abacavir utilization is low (Incidence Rate (IR)=1.67/100 person-years follow-up), cART with high central nervous system penetration scores increase HIV-1 dementia risk, and apart from mycobacterial infections, unmasking IRIS may not be a cART complication in high-income countries.
A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Literacy-Sensitive Self-Management Intervention for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients
Creators: name: Bryant Shilliday, Betsy
name: DeWalt, Darren A.
name: Jonas, Daniel
name: Warner, Zachary
name: Kiser, Katie
name: Scanlon, Kelli
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: BACKGROUND: Low literacy skills are common and associated with a variety of poor health outcomes. This may be particularly important in patients with chronic illnesses such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that require appropriate inhaler technique to maintain quality of life and avoid exacerbations.

OBJECTIVE: To explore the impact of a literacy-sensitive self-management intervention on inhaler technique scores in COPD patients and to determine if effects differ by literacy.

DESIGN: Randomized controlled trial.

PARTICIPANTS: Ninety-nine patients with COPD.

INTERVENTION: Patients were randomly assigned to a one-on-one self-management educational intervention or usual care. The intervention focused on inhaler technique, smoking cessation, and using a COPD action plan.

MAIN MEASURES: At baseline, an inhaler technique assessment, literacy assessment, health-related quality of life questionnaires, and pulmonary function tests were completed. Inhaler technique was re-evaluated after two to eight weeks.

KEY RESULTS: Mean age 63, 65% female, 69% Caucasian, moderate COPD severity on average, 36% with low literacy, moderately impaired health-related quality of life, and similar baseline metered dose inhaler technique scores. Patients in the intervention group had greater mean improvement from baseline in metered dose inhaler technique score compared to those in the usual care group (difference in mean change 2.1, 95% CI 1.1, 3.0). The patients in the intervention group also had greater mean improvements in metered dose inhaler technique score than those in the usual care group whether they had low health literacy (difference in mean change 2.8, 95% CI 0.6, 4.9) or higher health literacy (1.8, 95% CI 0.7, 2.9).

CONCLUSIONS: A literacy-sensitive self-management intervention can lead to improvements in inhaler technique, with benefits for patients with both low and higher health literacy.
Die Enzyklika "Auspicia quaedam" über die Veranstaltung öffentlicher Fürbitten im Monat Mai
Creators: name: Pius XII., Papst
Publisher: name: Herder Korrespondenz
Year: 1970

description: Herder Korrespondenz, Bd. 2 Nr. 8 (1947): Herder Korrespondenz, Band 2, Heft 8
DNA damage in paediatric obesity: a promoter and predictor of cancer in adulthood
Creators: name: Usman, Moonisah
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2020

description: Obesity in children is one of the most serious, global, public health challenges of the 21st century. The accumulation of adipose tissue is associated with a range of metabolic complications including diabetes, cardiovascular disease and dyslipidaemia. Epidemiological evidence links obesity in childhood with developing certain types of cancer later in life. It is postulated that excess adipose tissue and consequent inflammation derived oxidative stress may inflict an accumulation of deleterious DNA mutations and promote genome instability and drive carcinogenesis. Furthermore, a deficiency in micronutrients that are essential for DNA repair may exacerbate this pathological state. This research combined the assessment of anthropometric, inflammatory, micro-nutritional and DNA damage biomarkers via non-invasive techniques. In total, 112 children were recruited from schools and NHS obesity clinics. Anthropometric markers assessed were waist to hip ratio, body fat percentage via bioelectrical impedance, and body mass index standard deviation scores (BMI-SDS). These markers were used to classify participants as obese or nonobese and used for correlational analysis. Inflammation and micronutrient status were determined via C-reactive protein and vitamin D Enzyme Immune Assay (EIA) in saliva. DNA damage assessments include a microscopic assessment of nuclear anomalies via the buccal cytome assay, salivary telomere length via quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR) and urinary 8- hydroxyguanosine (8-OHdG) via EIA. The results from this study indicate obesity to be concurrent with increased inflammation and vitamin D deficiency in this cohort of participants. In addition, obesity was associated with increased oxidative DNA damage (8-OHdG) in urine and DNA damage events in the buccal mucosa. Salivary telomere length was positively correlated with obesity and the total frequency of nuclear anomalies found in buccal epithelial cells. Furthermore, there was a negative correlation between vitamin D and the frequency of nuclear anomalies in the oral cavity. Importantly, odds ratio analysis indicates a high BMI Z-score, waist circumference, body fat percentage, salivary CRP and low salivary vitamin D to be independent risk factors for increased nuclear anomalies in the buccal mucosa. This research is the first to accrue evidence for acquired DNA damage in multiple tissues obtained non-invasively from children with obesity. Our findings instigate that biomonitoring of ‘genome health’ for pre-cancerous molecular and morphological markers in obese patients may inform prioritization and severity of clinical intervention measures to prevent malignancy.
Chapter 11: Challenges in and Principles for Conducting Systematic Reviews of Genetic Tests used as Predictive Indicators
Creators: name: Wilt, Timothy J.
name: Matchar, David B.
name: Jonas, Daniel E.
name: Taylor, Brent C.
name: Wilkins, Tania M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: In this paper, we discuss common challenges in and principles for conducting systematic reviews of genetic tests. The types of genetic tests discussed are those used to 1). determine risk or susceptibility in asymptomatic individuals; 2). reveal prognostic information to guide clinical management in those with a condition; or 3). predict response to treatments or environmental factors. This paper is not intended to provide comprehensive guidance on evaluating all genetic tests. Rather, it focuses on issues that have been of particular concern to analysts and stakeholders and on areas that are of particular relevance for the evaluation of studies of genetic tests. The key points include:The general principles that apply in evaluating genetic tests are similar to those for other prognostic or predictive tests, but there are differences in how the principles need to be applied or the degree to which certain issues are relevant.A clear definition of the clinical scenario and an analytic framework is important when evaluating any test, including genetic tests.Organizing frameworks and analytic frameworks are useful constructs for approaching the evaluation of genetic tests.In constructing an analytic framework for evaluating a genetic test, analysts should consider preanalytic, analytic, and postanalytic factors; such factors are useful when assessing analytic validity.Predictive genetic tests are generally characterized by a delayed time between testing and clinically important events.Finding published information on the analytic validity of some genetic tests may be difficult. Web sites (FDA or diagnostic companies) and gray literature may be important sources.In situations where clinical factors associated with risk are well characterized, comparative effectiveness reviews should assess the added value of using genetic testing along with known factors compared with using the known factors alone.For genome-wide association studies, reviewers should determine whether the association has been validated in multiple studies to minimize both potential confounding and publication bias. In addition, reviewers should note whether appropriate adjustments for multiple comparisons were used.
Induced topological order at the boundary of 3D topological superconductors
Creators: name: Finch, Peter
name: de Lisle, James
name: Palumbo, Giandomenico
name: Pachos, Jiannis K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present tight-binding models of 3D topological superconductors in class DIII that support a variety of winding numbers. We show that gapless Majorana surface states emerge at their boundary in agreement with the bulk-boundary correspondence. At the presence of a Zeeman field the surface states become gapped and the boundary behaves as a 2D superconductor in class D. Importantly, the 2D and 3D winding numbers are in agreement signifying that the topological order of the boundary is induced by the order of the 3D bulk. Hence, the boundary of a 3D topological superconductor in class DIII can be used for the robust realisation of localised Majorana zero modes.
title: Smart Risk Analysis Service for Cryptocurrencies
Creators: name: Griesbacher, Hans-Juergen
Publisher: name: FH CAMPUS 02 (CAMPUS 02 Fachhochschule der Wirtschaft)
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 658 Allgemeines Management

description: Cryptocurrency brokers offer price quotations to investors for a set period. The investor can decide whether to accept the offer while the quote remains open. The broker bears a risk of the price changing while the quote is open. To mitigate this risk, brokers add an individual risk premium to the price. This thesis investigates how to improve the risk premium’s precision by using an artificial neural network (ANN) instead of the classical general autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (GARCH) model. The thesis opens by describing financial risks, conventional traditional approaches, and the theory of machine learning, in particular neural networks. Subsequently, short-term volatility in the market is explored in terms of volatility prediction with the classical GARCH and ANN approach with a focus on an investor’s purchase process. With the predicted volatility, the risk premium is calculated with the expected short-fall method. This thesis explores BTC-USD, ETH-USD, and ETH-BTC. The risk premium is calculated for a 10-minute quotation period with data from the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken from October 2019 to April 2020. The analysis shows that the ANN approach delivers a more precise volatility prediction and risk premium calculation due to a lower mean square error deviation compared to the GARCH model. However, the ANN has a low explanation of power in the test period. Different volatility cluster phenomena in the short-term data compared to the classical daily basis are also identified.
Nonholonomic systems with symmetry allowing a conformally symplectic reduction
Creators: name: Rios, Pedro de M.
name: Koiller, Jair
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Non-holonomic mechanical systems can be described by a degenerate almost-Poisson structure (dropping the Jacobi identity) in the constrained space. If enough symmetries transversal to the constraints are present, the system reduces to a nondegenerate almost-Poisson structure on a ``compressed'' space. Here we show, in the simplest non-holonomic systems, that in favorable circumnstances the compressed system is conformally symplectic, although the ``non-compressed'' constrained system never admits a Jacobi structure (in the sense of Marle et al.).
description: 8 pages. A slight edition of the version to appear in Proceedings of HAMSYS 2001
title: Wilms Tumour: imaging findings and differentiating features from Neuroblastoma
Creators: name: Fonseca, Diogo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Multidisciplinary cancer care
subject: Cancer
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Oncology
subject: Kidney

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The objective of this exhibit is to review and illustrate imaging findings of Wilms tumour, also known as nephroblastoma. Also, we willdiscuss imaging features which can help radiologists distinguish Wilms tumour from...