cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Evidence of a higher burden of multimorbidity among female patients in Albania
Creators: name: Collaku, Ledio
name: Resuli, Margarita
name: Gjermeni, Ilir
name: Tase, Mihal
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2018

description: Aim: The purpose of this study was to assess sex-differences in the prevalence of multimorbidity and the number of comorbid conditions among hospitalized patients in Tirana, the capital of Albania, a transitional country in Southeastern Europe. Methods: The current study was a case-series, which was carried out in the period August 2013–June 2014. Overall, 974 patients were enrolled (46.6% men with a mean age of 61.2±13.8 years, and 53.4% women with a mean age of 61.3±13.1 years), who were admitted at the Service of Internal Medicine and Hypertension, University Hospital Center “Mother Teresa” in Tirana. A comprehensive clinical profile was assembled for all patients in addition to socio-demographic data and information on lifestyle factors. General linear model was used to assess the association between multimorbidity (total number of diseases/conditions) and sex of the patients, controlling for socio-demographic characteristics and lifestyle factors. Results: In crude (unadjusted) models and in age-adjusted models, female patients had a higher mean value of diseases/conditions compared to males (for both: 4.4 vs. 4.1, respectively, P=0.03). Likewise, upon adjustment for all socio-demographic characteristics, the mean number of disease/conditions was significantly higher in female patients compared to their male counterparts (4.2 vs. 3.9, respectively; P=0.03). After additional adjustment for lifestyle factors, the association between sex and number diseases/conditions was not significant anymore (p=0.16), notwithstanding the evidence of a higher mean value in women compared to men (4.2 vs. 4.0). Conclusion: Current evidence from transitional Albania suggests a higher burden of multimorbidity among female patients compared to males, which is a cause of concern. These findings should raise the awareness of health professionals and particularly policymakers and decision-makers in order to address gender issues and inequity gaps in health outcomes and burden of disease of the Albanian population.
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Volume IX, 2018
Polar magnetization unveiled by polarized neutron diffraction
Creators: name: Lovesey, S. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Polar magnetism is present when ions occupy sites that are not centres of inversion symmetry. Fortunately, such magnetization contributes to neutron scattering that is the bedrock of magnetic structure determinations. Experiments in which the scattered neutron polarization is analysed are not a novelty. Simulations of polarized neutron scattering amplitudes for room temperature haematite (alpha-Fe2O3) demonstrate the wealth of information on offer. Two magnetic motifs distinguished by the orientation of their bulk ferromagnetism are considered. Additionally, the symmetry-inspired simulations challenge a recent claim to have determined the absolute direction of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (D-M) interaction.
Stable ischemic heart disease in the older adults
Creators: name: Alexander, Karen P.
name: Dai, Xuming
name: Busby-Whitehead, Jan
name: Forman, Daniel E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Ischemic heart disease is caused by atherosclerotic and/or thrombotic obstruction of coronary arteries. Clinical spectrum of ischemic heart disease expands from asymptomatic atherosclerosis of coronary arteries to acute coronary syndromes (ACS) including unstable angina, acute myocardial infarction (non-ST elevation myocardial infarction and ST elevation myocardial infarction). Stable ischemic heart disease (SIHD) refers to patients with known or suspected SIHD who have no recent or acute changes in their symptomatic status, suggesting no active thrombotic process is underway. These patients include those with (1) recent-onset or stable angina or ischemic equivalent symptoms, such as dyspnea or arm pain with exertion; (2) post-ACS stabilized after revascularization or medical therapy; and (3) asymptomatic SIHD diagnosed by abnormal stress tests or imaging studies. This review summarizes clinical features and management of SIHD in the older adult. ACS in older adults is not considered in this review.
THE GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH CURRICULUM: Specific Global Health Competences
Creators: name: Laaser (Editor), Ulrich
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2018

description: The 2nd edition of the Global Public Health Curriculum has been published in the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health, end of 2016 as a special volume (editors Ulrich Laaser & Florida Beluli) at: http://www.seejph.com/index.php/seejph/article/view/106/82. The curriculum targets the postgraduate education and training of public health professionals including their continued professional development (CPD). However, specific competences for the curricular modules remained to be identified in a more systematic approach. To that end from the international literature the following references have been used as a general orientation: A) Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC) Resource Group, GHEC Committee, India: Global health essential core competencies. At: https://lane.stanford.edu/portals/ihealth-pdfs/BasicCore_Competencies_Final2010.pdf B) Dias M. Et al.: Global Health Competencies for UK Health Professionals. TECHNICAL REPORT · SEPTEMBER 2015. At: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/283086441 C) Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH): The Global Health Competency model. At: www.aspph.org/educate/models/masters-global-health/ D) World Health Organisation (WHO): WHO GLOBAL COMPETENCY MODEL. At: www.who.int/employment/competencies/WHO_competencies_EN.pdf E) Jogerst K et al.: Identifying Interprofessional Global Health Competencies for 21st Century. At: https://www.cfhi.org/sites/files/files/pages/global_health_competencies_article.pdf
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Volume IX, 2018
Comorbidity in older adults with cancer
Creators: name: Magnuson, Allison
name: Allore, Heather
name: Holmes, Holly
name: Mohile, Supriya
name: Cohen, Harvey Jay
name: Extermann, Martine
name: Olin, Rebecca
name: Hurria, Arti
name: Williams, Grant R.
name: Mackenzie, Amy
name: Targia, Valerie
name: Somerfield, Mark R.
name: Chapman, Andrew
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Comorbidity is an issue of growing importance due to changing demographics and the increasing number of adults over the age of 65 with cancer. The best approach to the clinical management and decision-making in older adults with comorbid conditions remains unclear. In May 2015, the Cancer and Aging Research Group in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute and National Institute on Aging met to discuss the design and implementation of intervention studies in older adults with cancer. A presentation and discussion on comorbidity measurement, interventions, and future research was included. In this article we discuss the relevance of comorbidities in cancer, examine the commonly used tools to measure comorbidity, and discuss the future direction of comorbidity research. Incorporating standardized comorbidity measurement, relaxing clinical trial eligibility criteria, and utilizing novel trial designs are critical to developing a larger and more generalizable evidence base to guide the management of these patients. Creating or adapting comorbidity management strategies for use in older adults with cancer is necessary to define optimal care for this growing population.
Kasner Metrics and Very Special Geometry
Creators: name: Sabra, W. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider general charged Kasner-like solutions for the theory of five-dimensional supergravity coupled to Abelian vector multiplets in arbitrary space-time signature. These solutions, depending on the choice of coordinates, can be thought of as generalisations of Melvin/Rosen cosmologies, flux-branes and domain walls.
description: 13 pages
Close Encounters of Stars with Stellar-mass Black Hole Binaries
Creators: name: Ryu, Taeho
name: Perna, Rosalba
name: Wang, Yihan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many astrophysical environments, from star clusters and globular clusters to the disks of Active Galactic Nuclei, are characterized by frequent interactions between stars and the compact objects that they leave behind. Here, using a suite of $3-D$ hydrodynamics simulations, we explore the outcome of close interactions between $1M_{\odot}$ stars and binary black holes (BBHs) in the gravitational wave regime, resulting in a tidal disruption event (TDE) or a pure scattering, focusing on the accretion rates, the back reaction on the BH binary orbital parameters and the increase in the binary BH effective spin. We find that TDEs can make a significant impact on the binary orbit, which is often different from that of pure scattering. Binaries experiencing a prograde (retrograde) TDE tend to be widened (hardened) by up to $\simeq 20\%$. Initially circular binaries become more eccentric by $\lesssim 10\%$ by a prograde or retrograde TDE, whereas the eccentricity of initially eccentric binaries increases (decreases) by a retrograde (prograde) TDE by $\lesssim 5\%$. Overall a single TDE can generally result in changes of the gravitational wave-driven merger time scale by order unity. The accretion rates of both black holes are very highly super-Eddington, showing modulations (preferentially for retrograde TDEs) on a time scale of the orbital period, which can be a characteristic feature of BBH-driven TDEs. Prograde TDEs result in the effective spin parameter $χ$ to vary by $\lesssim 0.02$ while $χ\gtrsim -0.005$ for retrograde TDEs.
description: 14 pages, 12 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Five years of the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH): Focusing on health systems in transition and global health
Creators: name: Holst, Jens
name: Breckenkamp, Jürgen
name: Burazeri, Genc
name: Martin-Moreno, Jose M.
name: Schröder-Bäck, Peter
name: Laaser, Ulrich
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2018

description: ...
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Volume X, 2018
A Multi-Fluid Dust Module in Athena++: Algorithms and Numerical Tests
Creators: name: Huang, Pinghui
name: Bai, Xue-Ning
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the algorithm, implementation and numerical tests of a multifluid dust module in the Athena++ magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code. The module can accommodate an arbitrary number of dust species interacting with the gas via aerodynamic drag (characterized by the stopping time), with a number of numerical solvers. In particular, we describe two second-order accurate, two-stage, fully-implicit solvers that are stable in stiff regimes including short stopping time and high dust mass loading, and they are paired with the second-order explicit van-Leer and Runge-Kutta gas dynamics solvers in Athena++, respectively. Moreover, we formulate a consistent treatment of dust concentration diffusion with dust back-reaction, which incorporates momentum diffusion and ensures Galilean invariance. The new formulation and stiff drag solvers are implemented to be compatible with most existing features of Athena++, including different coordinate systems, mesh refinement, shearing-box and orbital advection. We present a large suite of test problems, including the streaming instability in linear and nonlinear regimes, as well as local and global setting, which demonstrate that the code achieves the desired performance. This module will be particularly useful for studies of dust dynamics and planet formation in protoplanetary disks.
description: 32 pages, 14 figures, ApJS resubmitted after addressing referee's comments
Identification of Bulk coupling constant in Higher Spin/ABJ correspondence
Creators: name: Honda, Masazumi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the conjectured duality between the $\mathcal{N}=6$ Vasiliev higher spin theory on $AdS_4$ and 3d $\mathcal{N}=6$ superconformal Chern-Simons matter theory known as the ABJ theory. We discuss how the parameters in the ABJ theory should be related to the bulk coupling constant in the Vasiliev theory. For this purpose, we compute two-point function of stress tensor in the ABJ theory by using supersymmmetry localization. Our result justifies the proposal by arXiv:1504.00365 and determine the unknown coefficient in the previous work.
description: 10 pages, v3: typos corrected
Comparative effectiveness of postoperative chemotherapy among older patients with non-metastatic rectal cancer treated with preoperative chemoradiotherapy
Creators: name: Sturmer, Til
name: Sanoff, Hanna K.
name: Lund, Jennifer L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Postoperative chemotherapy is standard following preoperative chemoradiation therapy (CRT) and curative resection for clinically staged II/III rectal cancer. Recent trials have questioned whether postoperative chemotherapy improves overall survival. We evaluated the comparative effectiveness of postoperative chemotherapy following CRT or radiation therapy (RT) with specific attention on the impact of age on postoperative chemotherapy effectiveness.
Additional file 5 of Synaptic proteomics reveal distinct molecular signatures of cognitive change and C9ORF72 repeat expansion in the human ALS cortex
Creators: name: Laszlo, Zsofia I.
name: Hindley, Nicole
name: Sanchez Avila, Anna
name: Kline, Rachel A.
name: Eaton, Samantha L.
name: Lamont, Douglas J.
name: Smith, Colin
name: Spires-Jones, Tara L.
name: Wishart, Thomas M.
name: Henstridge, Christopher M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 5. Appendix 1, example images from whole western blots used in this manuscript
An Improved Method for Coupling Hydrodynamics with Astrophysical Reaction Networks
Creators: name: Zingale, M.
name: Katz, M. P.
name: Nonaka, A.
name: Rasmussen, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Reacting astrophysical flows can be challenging to model because of the difficulty in accurately coupling hydrodynamics and reactions. This can be particularly acute during explosive burning or at high temperatures where nuclear statistical equilibrium is established. We develop a new approach based on the ideas of spectral deferred corrections (SDC) coupling of explicit hydrodynamics and stiff reaction sources as an alternative to operator splitting that is simpler than the more comprehensive SDC approach we demonstrated previously. We apply the new method to a double detonation problem with a moderately-sized astrophysical nuclear reaction network and explore the timestep size and reaction network tolerances to show that the simplified-SDC approach provides improved coupling with decreased computational expense compared to traditional Strang operator splitting. This is all done in the framework of the Castro hydrodynamics code, and all algorithm implementations are freely available.
description: accepted to ApJ. Castro is available at https://github.com/amrex-astro/Castro -- all code for the results here is in the github repo
Formal normal form of Ak slow fast systems
Creators: name: Jardón-Kojakhmetov, Hildeberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: An Ak slow fast system is a particular type of singularly perturbed ODE. The corresponding slow manifold is defined by the critical points of a universal unfolding of an Ak singularity. In this note we propose a formal normal form of Ak slow fast systems.
VOTE DAAP for CSG, March 20, 2018
Creators: name: Coalition To Defend Affirmative Action By Any Means Necessary.
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2024

description: A call to action for members of the By Any Means Necessary email group to support the Defend Affirmative Action Party's (DAAP) ticket for election to the Central Student Government (CSG). The email and its attachment - the DAAP platform for 2018 - are both included in this folder.
title: De foetu humano adnotationes anatomicae : quibus ... Samueli Thomae de Soemmerring ... gratulatur universitas Regiomontana
Creators: name: Burdach, Karl Friedrich
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medical sciences Medicine
Medizin

description: Elektronische Reproduktion von: De foetu humano adnotationes anatomicae : quibus ... Samueli Thomae de Soemmerring ... gratulatur universitas Regiomontana; accedit tabula / interprete Carolo Friderico Burdach. - Lipsiae : Voss, 1828. - 6 S., [2] Bl : Ill. - Standort: Universität Marburg, Universitätsbibliothek. - Signatur: 085 2 2023/00001. - Bemerkungen: Provenienz: Bünger, Christian Heinrich (1782-1842). Digitalisiert 2023
Anatomy of the ATLAS diboson anomaly
Creators: name: Allanach, B. C.
name: Gripaios, Ben
name: Sutherland, Dave
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a general analysis of new physics interpretations of the recent ATLAS diboson excesses over Standard Model expectations in LHC Run I collisions. Firstly, we estimate a likelihood function for the true signal in the $WW$, $WZ$, and $ZZ$ channels, finding that the maximum has zero events in the $WZ$ channel, though the likelihood is sufficiently flat to allow other scenarios. Secondly, we survey the possible effective field theories containing the Standard Model plus a new resonance that could explain the data, finding just two possibilities, viz., a vector that is either a left- or right-handed $SU(2)$ triplet. Finally, we compare these models with other experimental data and determine the parameter regions in which they provide a consistent explanation.
description: 8 pages, 9 figures and 5 tables. v2 has added references, corrected branching ratios for the left-handed triplet model and revised estimates of efficiencies. The cross-sections in the general likelihood analysis are significantly higher but there is no change in overall conclusion. v3 has an improved likelihood analysis using more data, conclusions unaffected. v4 is the published version
The generalization of the ADM gravitational energy-momentum
Creators: name: Formiga, J. B.
name: Gonçalves, V. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, it is proved that the teleparallel energy-momentum generalizes that of the ADM formalism. In doing so, it is shown that the teleparallel $4$-momentum can be made to coincide with that of the ADM approach whenever the ADM $4$-momentum is applicable. The only assumptions are the time gauge for the teleparallel frame and the well-known restrictions for the coordinate system used in the calculation of the ADM $4$-momentum. Then, examples where the ADM formalism fails to give consist results, but the teleparallel approach does not, are given. The advantages of the teleparallel stress-energy tensor (density) over the pseudo-tensor of Landau-Lifshitz are exhibited. Finally, the difficulties in identifying the gravitational angular momentum density is discussed; it is shown that the spatial part of the proposed angular momentum density $M^{ab}$ vanishes when the teleparallel frame satisfies the time gauge condition.
description: 21 pages
Photometric properties of nuclear star clusters and their host galaxies in the Fornax cluster
Creators: name: Su, Alan H.
name: Salo, Heikki
name: Janz, Joachim
name: Venhola, Aku
name: Peletier, Reynier F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the relations between nuclear star clusters (NSCs) and their host galaxies, and between the structural properties of nucleated and non-nucleated galaxies. We also address the environmental influences on the nucleation of galaxies in the Fornax main cluster and the Fornax A group. We select 557 Fornax galaxies ($10^{5.5} M_{\odot} < M_{\rm *,galaxy} < 10^{11.5} M_{\odot} $) for which structural decomposition models and non-parametric indices are available. We determine galaxy nucleation based on a combination of visual inspection and a model selection statistic, the Bayesian information criterion (BIC). We also test the BIC as an unsupervised method to determine nucleation labels. We find a dichotomy in the properties of nuclei which reside in galaxies more or less massive than $M_{\rm *,galaxy} \approx 10^{8.5} M_{\odot}$. Specifically, the nuclei tend to be bluer than their host galaxies and follow a scaling relation of $M_{\rm *,nuc} \propto {M_{\rm *,galaxy}}^{0.5}$ for $M_{\rm *,galaxy} < 10^{8.5} M_{\odot}$. In galaxies with $M_{\rm *,galaxy} > 10^{8.5} M_{\odot}$ we find that nuclei are redder compared to the host and follow $M_{\rm *,nuc} \propto M_{\rm *,galaxy}$. Comparing early-type galaxies, we find that nucleated galaxies tend to be redder in global ($g'-r'$) colour, have redder outskirts relative to their own inner regions ($Δ(g'-r')$), be less asymmetric ($A$) and exhibit less scatter in the brightest second order moment of light ($M_{20}$) than their non-nucleated counterparts at a given stellar mass. Additionally, we find the nucleation fractions to be typically higher in the Fornax main cluster than in the Fornax A group, and that the nucleation fraction is highest towards the centre of their respective environments. We also find that the BIC can recover our labels of nucleation up to an accuracy of 97\%. (abridged)
description: accepted to be published in A&A
Additional file 1 of Long-term cardiovascular outcomes of gestational diabetes mellitus: a prospective UK Biobank study
Creators: name: Lee, Seung Mi
name: Shivakumar, Manu
name: Park, Ji Won
name: Jung, Young Mi
name: Choe, Eun Kyung
name: Kwak, Soo Heon
name: Oh, Sohee
name: Park, Joong Shin
name: Jun, Jong Kwan
name: Kim, Dokyoon
name: Yun, Jae-Seung
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes for disease definition for gestational diabetes, congenital heart disease (for exclusion) and cardiovascular outcomes. Table S2. Frequency of prevalent cardiovascular diseases at enrolment. Table S3. Baseline clinical features and prevalent diseases after propensity score matching. Control group was selected after matching for age, race, BMI, smoking history, alcohol consumption, prevalent morbidities (diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia), and medications (aspirin, anti-hypertensives, cholesterol lowering agent). Table S4. The risk incident cardiovascular outcomes in women without prevalent cardiovascular disease. Table S5. The risk incident cardiovascular outcomes in women without any prior cardiovascular disease. Figure S1. Survival analysis of each cardiovascular outcome. Figure S2. Survival analysis of each cardiovascular outcome from the index pregnancy.
Pilot scheme assessment: Health development program for students at dormitories
Creators: name: Sirin, Hulya
name: Karasahin, Emine Fusun
name: Tezel, Basak
name: Ozbas, Sema
name: Keskinkilic, Bekir
name: Ozkan, Secil
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2018

description: Aim: This study, conducted in Turkey, aims to increase the practicability of health counselling and protective services offered to young people in the long term. In the short term, it is aimed to determine health counselling needs of students at dormitories and it might enlighten researchers working in this field. Methods: A pilot questionnaire, developed in order to determine health needs of students staying at dormitories, was conducted in two dormitories in Ankara. Focus group interviews were done, also. After that, in nine dormitories from nine provinces from all over the Turkey, questionnaire and health screening tests were applied to 5,852 volunteers. Results: The common topics for both sexes which students would like to receive counselling are nutrition and anxiety about exams. Conclusion: As a result of the study, service has been planned for the identified needs of the students.
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Volume X, 2018
Geriatric assessment with management in cancer care: Current evidence and potential mechanisms for future research
Creators: name: Targia, Valerie
name: Mackenzie, Amy
name: Mohile, Supriya G.
name: Olin, Rebecca L.
name: Magnuson, Allison
name: Extermann, Martine
name: Williams, Grant R.
name: Cohen, Harvey Jay
name: Holmes, Holly M.
name: Chapman, Andrew
name: Hurria, Arti
name: Allore, Heather
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Older adults with cancer represent a complex patient population. Geriatric assessment (GA) is recommended to evaluate the medical and supportive care needs of this group. “GA with management” is a term encompassing the resultant medical decisions and interventions implemented in response to vulnerabilities identified on GA. In older, non-cancer patients, GA with management has been shown to improve a variety of outcomes, such as reducing functional decline and health care utilization. However, the role of GA with management in the older adult with cancer is less well established. Rigorous clinical trials of GA with management are necessary to develop an evidence base and support its use in the routine oncology care of older adults. At the recent U-13 conference, “Design and Implementation of Intervention Studies to Improve or Maintain Quality of Survivorship in Older and/or Frail Adults with Cancer,” a session was dedicated to developing research priorities in GA with management. Here we summarize identified knowledge gaps in GA with management studies for older patients with cancer and propose areas for future research.
Strain-engineered wrinkles on graphene using polymeric actuators
Creators: name: Giambastiani, Davide
name: Tommasi, Cosimo
name: Bianco, Federica
name: Fabbri, Filippo
name: Coletti, Camilla
name: Tredicucci, Alessandro
name: Pitanti, Alessandro
name: Roddaro, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electronic and optical properties of graphene can be precisely tuned by generating deterministic arrangements of strain features. In this paper, we report the formation of widespread and controlled buckling delamination of monolayer graphene deposited on hexagonal boron-nitride promoted by a significant squeezing of the graphene flake and induced by polymeric micro-actuators. The flexibility of this method offers a promising technique to create arbitrary buckling geometries and arrays of wrinkles which could also be subjected to iterative folding-unfolding cycles. Further development of this method could pave the way to tune the properties of several kinds of other two-dimensional materials, such as transition metal dichalcogenides, by tailoring their surface topography.
The status of health services in the 15 counties of Liberia
Creators: name: Kesselly, Roland Y.
name: Kwenah, Nuaker K.
name: Gonyon, Ernest
name: Byepu, Stephen
name: Bawo, Luke
name: Jacobs, George
name: Korvayan, Justin
name: Graeser, Melanie S.
name: Galakpai, Moses Kortoyassah
name: Wesseh, Sandford
name: Laaser, Ulrich
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2018

description: Aim: Liberia, situated at the West African coast, is composed of 15 counties with an economic gradient steeply decreasing from the Northwest to the Southeast. Health-related activities by government action in the 15 counties concentrate on the areas of family planning, antenatal and delivery care, as well as immunization, health workforce and infrastructure. The differences in this regard between the 15 Liberian counties will be reviewed. Methods: A narrative review is employed, making use of the recent international and national documents, relevant literature and available information from the following primary and secondary sources and databases. Results: The results point to gross differences between the 15 counties of Liberia in terms of health service provision. The overall readiness based on defined indicators for all 701 facilities was 59% with a range between facilities at the level of counties of 50% to 65%; for family planning services 88% (range 65% – 100%); for antenatal care 62% (range 55% – 100%); for immunization coverage 76% (range 66% – 86%). The health workforce of Liberia comprises 11.8 health workers per 10.000 population, WHO target is 23, the counties range from 8.0 to 15.7. Similarly, according to WHO standards, there should be 2 health facilities per 10.000 inhabitants, Liberia comes up to 1.9 however the counties range from 1.1 – 3.0 per 10.000. Conclusions: It is obvious that across almost all areas of women and child health and health services in general there exist large differences between counties, which points to considerable health inequities in this country. The government of Liberia should consider reallocating the available resources per number of population instead of accepting historical developments, however with a correction factor in favour of disadvantaged regions and population groups.
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Volume X, 2018
No Richard Spencer at UofM, November 3, 2017
Creators: name: Coalition To Defend Affirmative Action By Any Means Necessary.
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2024

description: This folder includes an email originally sent on November 3, 2017 and includes two articles attached to that email - "Three men charged after protesters shot at following Richard Spencer speech", published October 20, 2017 by The Guardian; and "Police: 3 men made Nazi salutes, shot at protesters after Richard Spencer event", published October 21, 2017 by CNN.
The corporatization of global health: The impact of neoliberalism
Creators: name: Marstein, Egil
name: Babich, Suzanne M.
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2018

description: Concomitant with the emergence of a neoliberal precept for global health is the decline in support for publicly funded programs working to alleviate health disparities in poor countries. An unequivocal faith in the privatization and marketization of public health services is evident in current day national policy reforms. Commodification of health services is perceived as a cure-all. Privatization of global health initiatives contrasts with the past institutional paradigm. Corporate and philanthropic power trumps intergovernmental governance. The epistemological precept is clear: Global health is best served with mandated private initiatives. Powerful foundations cause critical shifts in the balance of power among stakeholders and become preeminent players in global health policy agenda formation. The ethics of consequentialism have attained current day prominence. This contrasts with the merits and relevancy of de-ontological ethics in which rules and moral duty are central. In this paper, authors make a case for contesting the ethos of effective altruism or venture philanthropy, suggesting that this approach keeps nations and people from recognizing the oppressive nature of neoliberalism as a governing precept for global health.
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Volume X, 2018
Survivorship care for older adults with cancer: U13 conference report
Creators: name: Artz, Andrew S.
name: Korc-Grodzicki, Beatriz
name: Guerard, Emily J.
name: Bellizzi, Keith
name: Canin, Beverly
name: Dale, William
name: Ferrell, Betty
name: Rosko, Ashley
name: Burhenn, Peggy
name: Nightingale, Ginah
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Older adult cancer survivors currently account for almost 60% of all cancer survivors. The number of older cancer survivors will continue to increase as the population ages and as patients’ live longer after a cancer diagnosis. As part of cancer center accreditation, the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer® (CoC) has placed great importance on survivorship care planning. While the CoC has set standards for general survivorship care, there is sparse evidence on how to best care for older adult cancer survivors. Concern exists among the medical community that survivorship care plans could increase paperwork without improving outcomes. Given the diverse and unique needs of older adult cancer survivors, the inter-professional team provides a structure and process for survivorship care built around the particular needs of older adults. The Cancer and Aging Research Group (CARG), in partnership with the NIA/NCI, held a U13 conference in May 2015 in part to discuss survivorship care for older adults with cancer. This report discusses four themes that emerged from one section of the conference: (1) survivorship care is a process that continually evolves to meet the needs of older adults; (2) older adult cancer survivors have unique needs and care plans should be tailored to meet these needs; (3) the inter-professional team is ideally suited to structure survivorship care of older adults; (4) patient advocacy must be encouraged throughout the cancer care continuum. As evidence based survivorship practices develop, the unique needs of older adults need to be given substantial attention.
Quali test clinici sono validi per il Peri-Partum Pelvic Pain? (Which clinical tests are valid for peripartum pelvic pain?)
Creators: name: Dilorenzo, Vitaliano Alessandro
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Education
subject: Rehabilitation and Therapy
subject: Physiotherapy; diagnosis; peripartum pelvic pain.

description: Sinossi del Protocollo dello studio
Knowledge about breastfeeding of children 0-6 months among mothers attending hospital services in Kosovo
Creators: name: Kamberi, Haxhi
name: Jerliu, Naim
name: Kamberi, Safete
name: Berisha, Idriz
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2018

description: Aim: The aim of this study was to assess the level of knowledge and socio-demographic correlates of breastfeeding of children aged 0-6 months among mothers with young children in post-war Kosovo. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in Kosovo during the period December 2017 – February 2018 including a representative sample of 201 mothers (aged 29.4±6.0 years) with young children attending hospital services. In addition to socio-demographic data, a structured 13-item questionnaire inquiring about breastfeeding of children aged 0-6 months was administered to all women. A summary score was calculated for all 13 items related to women’s knowledge on breastfeeding (0 denoting incorrect answers to all 13 items, and 13 denoting correct answers to all 13 questions). General linear model was used to assess the association between summary score of the knowledge about breastfeeding and socio-demographic characteristics of the women. Results: Mean summary score of the 13 items related to knowledge about breastfeeding was 10.3±1.9; median score was 11 (interquartile range: 9-12). In multivariable-adjusted models, the mean summary score of knowledge about breastfeeding of children 0-6 months was slightly but non-significantly higher among “older” women, those residing in urban areas, highly educated women, those currently employed, and women with a higher income level. Conclusion: Generally, the level of knowledge about breastfeeding of children aged 0-6 months was satisfactory among mothers with young children included in this survey in Kosovo. Furthermore, there were seemingly no significant socio-demographic differences in the level of knowledge about breastfeeding of young infants among women in this study carried out in Kosovo.
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Volume X, 2018
Geriatric curriculum at faculties of medicine in Indonesia
Creators: name: Surjadi, Charles
name: Jani, Dwi
name: Langoday, Ursula Yunita
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2018

description: Aim: In Indonesia, the elderly population is growing rapidly and will comprise 35 million in 2035. The aim of this study was to assess how geriatric training is organised in medical faculties in Indonesia. Methods: In 2017, we asked through questionnaires the vice deans of the faculties of medicine about their perceptions towards health and ageing and how they organized the geriatric training in their respective schools. Overall, we obtained data from 32 out of 71 (45.1%) faculties of medicine. Results: All respondents perceived geriatrics as an important issue for faculties of medicine. Only 12 (37.5%) faculties employ geriatric specialists, 28 (87.5%) teach geriatrics at the undergraduate level, and 12 (40.6%) at postgraduate level, whereas 4 (12.5%) universities teach at specialty level. Conversely, at undergraduate level, only 18 (64.2%) faculties include the ‘geriatric giants’, and 5 (17.8%) include ageism. There are 13 (46.4%) geriatric classes implemented through skill laboratories, 5 (17.8%) through geriatric policlinics, and 4 (14.3%) through geriatric wards. Conclusion: Attention to geriatric training among medical schools in Indonesia has to be improved. At national level, there should be a more specific formulation of geriatric competencies and how they can be operationalised. Geriatric training is recommended to prepare lecturers in medical faculties. Related to the content of aging curriculum, geriatric issues, attitudes towards aging, and ageism should be addressed.
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Volume X, 2018
Additional file 1 of Assessing the causal relationships between gout and hypertension: a bidirectional Mendelian randomisation study with coarsened exposures
Creators: name: Lai, Benjamin
name: Yu, Huang-Ping
name: Chang, Yu-Jing
name: Wang, Liang-Chin
name: Chen, Che-Kai
name: Zhang, Weiya
name: Doherty, Michael
name: Chang, Shang-Hung
name: Hsu, Jun-Te
name: Yu, Kuang-Hui
name: Kuo, Chang-Fu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary methods: Assumptions and mathematical proof for the modified MR with coarsened exposure.Supplementary Table 1. Detailed information on SNPs associated with gout and hypertension contains SNPs associated with gout, heterogeneous SNPs associated with gout, and SNPs associated with HTN. Supplementary Table 2. P-values for the association between SNPs and measured confounders. Supplementary Table 3. Comparing no remove and remove SNPs associated with exposure correlated with measured confounders. Supplementary Figure 1: Flow chart for GWAS procedure of SNP selection under three different settings. Supplementary Figure 2. The results of MR analysis without coarsened exposures after removing SNPs associated without measured confounders. Supplementary Code: Modified MR with coarsened exposures.
Probing the nature of dissipation in compressible MHD turbulence
Creators: name: Richard, Thibaud
name: Lesaffre, Pierre
name: Falgarone, Edith
name: Lehmann, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. An essential facet of turbulence is the space-time intermittency of the cascade of energy that leads to coherent structures of high dissipation. Aims. In this work, we attempt to investigate systematically the physical nature of the intense dissipation regions in decaying isothermal magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) turbulence. Methods. We probe the turbulent dissipation with grid based simulations of compressible isothermal decaying MHD turbulence. We take unprecedented care at resolving and controlling dissipation: we design methods to locally recover the dissipation due to the numerical scheme. We locally investigate the geometry of the gradients of the fluid state variables. We develop a method to assess the physical nature of the largest gradients in simulations and to estimate their travelling velocity. Finally we investigate their statistics. Results. We find that intense dissipation regions mainly correspond to sheets: locally, density, velocity and magnetic fields vary primarily across one direction. We identify these highly dissipative regions as fast/slow shocks or Alfv{é}n discontinuities (Parker sheets or rotational discontinuities). On these structures, we find the main deviation from 1D planar steady-state is mass loss in the plane of the structure. We investigate the effect of initial conditions which yield different imprints at early time on the relative distributions between these four categories. However, these differences fade out after about one turnover time, when they become dominated by weakly compressible Alfv{é}n discontinuities. We show that the magnetic Prandtl number has little influence on the statistics of these discontinuities, but it controls the Ohmic vs viscous heating rates within them. Finally, we find the entrance characteristics of the structures (such as entrance velocity and magnetic pressure) are strongly correlated. Conclusions. These new methods allow to consider developed compressible turbulence as a statistical collection of intense dissipation structures. This can be used to post-process 3D turbulence with detailed 1D models apt for comparison with observations. It could also reveal useful as a framework to formulate new dynamical properties of turbulence.
Magnetar Engines in Fast Blue Optical Transients and Their Connections with SLSNe, SNe Ic-BL, and lGRBs
Creators: name: Liu, Jian-Feng
name: Zhu, Jin-Ping
name: Liu, Liang-Duan
name: Yu, Yun-Wei
name: Zhang, Bing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We fit the multi-band lightcurves of 40 fast blue optical transients (FBOTs) with the magnetar engine model. The mass of the FBOT ejecta, the initial spin period and polar magnetic field of the FBOT magnetars are respectively constrained to $M_{\rm{ej}}=0.18^{+0.52}_{-0.13}\,M_\odot$, $P_{\rm{i}}=9.4^{+8.1}_{-3.9}\,{\rm{ms}}$, and $B_{\rm p}=7^{+16}_{-5}\times10^{14}\,{\rm{G}}$. The wide distribution of the value of $B_{\rm p}$ spreads the parameter ranges of the magnetars from superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) to broad-line Type Ic supernovae (SNe Ic-BL; some are observed to be associated with long-duration gamma-ray bursts), which are also suggested to be driven by magnetars. Combining FBOTs with the other transients, we find a strong universal anti-correlation as $P_{\rm{i}}\propto{M_{\rm{ej}}^{-0.45}}$, indicating them could share a common origin. To be specific, it is suspected that all of these transients originate from collapse of extreme-stripped stars in close binary systems, but with different progenitor masses. As a result, FBOTs distinct themselves by their small ejecta masses with an upper limit of ${\sim}1\,M_\odot$, which leads to an observational separation in the rise time of the lightcurves $\sim12\,{\rm d}$. In addition, the FBOTs together with SLSNe can be separated from SNe Ic-BL by an empirical line in the $M_{\rm peak}-t_{\rm rise}$ plane corresponding to an energy requirement of a mass of $^{56}$Ni of $\sim0.3M_{\rm ej}$, where $M_{\rm peak}$ is the peak absolute magnitude of the transients and $t_{\rm rise}$ is the rise time.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, accepted by ApJL
Women leadership for public health: The added value and needs of women driving public health system reform in Ukraine
Creators: name: Czabanowska, Katarzyna
name: Cichowska Myrup, Anna
name: Aleksandrova, Olga
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2018

description: The Ukrainian health care system is undergoing reforms. Although women constitute a driving force in the Ukrainian health system transformation, their economic and decision-making participation remains extremely low. The existence of barriers such as: work/life balance, gender bias, stereotypes, lack of confidence, lack of mentoring, and lack of adequate networking and equal access to opportunities prevent women from reaching high leadership positions. With the aim to empower the current and future female public health leaders, the Ministry of Health of Ukraine and WHO held a seminar entitled “Women’s Leadership in Public Health” in Kyiv on 16-18 May 2017. The seminar was based on the assumption that contemporary public health demands require a more inclusive and less hierarchical style of leadership – focused on developing and working with stakeholder networks. Such a leadership style is more effective in achieving public health goals. The international, interdisciplinary and inter-professional faculty engaged in the interactive meaning making around such topics as: the self-assessment of leadership competencies, public health leadership, leadership theories, system thinking, dealing with interests, power and stakeholders, barriers to women leadership and methods to address them, special leadership tools for women empowerment and leading change, communication and impact. Strengthening health systems for better health was the red thread throughout the whole seminar.
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Volume X, 2018