cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Community Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding Hepatitis C Disease, Testing, and Treatment in a High-risk Urban Population and a Review: HIV/HCV Coinfection
Creators: name: Norton, Brianna
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Background: Though hepatitis C virus (HCV) is the most common blood-borne infection in the United States, the epidemic has gone largely unnoticed, such that an estimated 75% of people living with HCV are undiagnosed. As a result, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has released a new Hepatitis Action Plan. This plan calls for a national commitment to educating high-risk communities about HCV and to testing, care, and treatment within these communities to prevent HCV transmission and liver disease. The appropriate model for achieving these goals is unknown as is the acceptance of such interventions, particularly when many high-risk individuals may not have access to HCV specific medical treatment. Methods: We set out to assess attitudes about HCV screening and knowledge about HCV disease and treatment at several community-based testing sites that serve high-risk populations. This assessment was paired with a brief HCV educational intervention. Results: Participants (N=140) were surveyed at five sites, including two homeless shelters, two drug rehabilitation centers, and a women’s “drop-in” center. Personal acceptance of HCV testing was almost unanimous, and 90% of participants reported that they would still want to be tested even if they were unable to receive HCV treatment. Baseline hepatitis C knowledge was poor; however, the brief educational intervention significantly improved knowledge and increased acceptability of testing when medical access issues were explicitly stated. Conclusion: Despite poor HCV knowledge and limited access to health care, hepatitis C screening was highly acceptable in this study population. As underscored by the DHHS action plan, this assessment supports HCV screening, education, and linkage to care in high-risk communities, even when access to HCV medical care may be difficult.
HeLa DIC Cell Segmentation (U-Net)
Creators: name: DeepImageJ
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: bioimage.io
bioimage.io:model
deepimagej
hela-cells
segmentation
phase-contrast
transmission-light-microscopy
cells
2d
tensorflow
instance-segmentation
2d-segmentation
unet

description: Download RDF Package

description: DeepImageJ compatible U-Net trained to segment Hela cells in 2D phase contrast microscopy images (Uploaded via https://bioimage.io)
The voices of women in Africa. Love, marriage, slavery, apartheid
Creators: name: Finnegan, Ruth
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2015

description: The paper documents women’s self expression from Africa, from Limba stories and Somali love poetry to self-told tales of women under slavery and apartheid or of young girls reluctantly but submissively going into marriage, together with the images of deceit and infidelity often attributed to women in male-generated tales and observations. The paper is illustrated by historical texts from first hand research in the field, dating from the mid nineteenth century to the present.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 10 (2014): Donne Racconto Conflitti
Interpreting Latent Variables in Factor Models via Convex Optimization
Creators: name: Taeb, Armeen
name: Chandrasekaran, Venkat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Latent or unobserved phenomena pose a significant difficulty in data analysis as they induce complicated and confounding dependencies among a collection of observed variables. Factor analysis is a prominent multivariate statistical modeling approach that addresses this challenge by identifying the effects of (a small number of) latent variables on a set of observed variables. However, the latent variables in a factor model are purely mathematical objects that are derived from the observed phenomena, and they do not have any interpretation associated to them. A natural approach for attributing semantic information to the latent variables in a factor model is to obtain measurements of some additional plausibly useful covariates that may be related to the original set of observed variables, and to associate these auxiliary covariates to the latent variables. In this paper, we describe a systematic approach for identifying such associations. Our method is based on solving computationally tractable convex optimization problems, and it can be viewed as a generalization of the minimum-trace factor analysis procedure for fitting factor models via convex optimization. We analyze the theoretical consistency of our approach in a high-dimensional setting as well as its utility in practice via experimental demonstrations with real data.
Cell and gland Segmentation (FRUNet)
Creators: name: Zoufu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: bioimage.io
bioimage.io:model
deepimagej
pancreatic-stem-cells
segmentation
phase-contrast

description: Download RDF Package

description: DeepImageJ compatible FRUNet trained to subtly segment cells and gland. (Uploaded via https://bioimage.io)
«We have ceased to be a nation in retreat». Margaret Thatcher e gli usi strategici del conflitto
Creators: name: De Michelis, Lidia
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2015

description: This essay explores Margaret Thatcher’s political agency and leadership style in terms of her reliance on discursive and media strategies which thrived on the “confusion” of gender stereotypes and her ability to play with multiple, long-established archetypes of women in power, characterized by violent and aggressive femininity. Thatcher’s frequent self-projection as a “masculine” character, the “honorary man” of British politics, and her special grip on British public opinion and fantasies, were never disjointed from her ability to don, exploit, subvert and redirect “motherly’ (or at least “womanly”) performances at will, in order to serve her political agenda. Focusing on her strategic deployment of a rhetoric and discourses of aggression, divisiveness, conflict and war, the essay highlights Thatcher’s ability to re-create and keep alive the idea of a national community always under siege, where extraordinary economic, disciplinary and defence measure were required in order to resist and overcome domestic and foreign “enemies”. The Falklands War will be taken as case study, for it provides an outstanding example of Thatcher’s powerful revision of female political authority against the backdrop of the conventionally masculine, heroic imaginary of war. Her masterly and coterminous performances as war leader and “super-mother” of the nation allowed for a complex and hybrid self-projection which still acts as an empowering model whose disciplinary subtext entails a nostalgic investment in imperial national history.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 10 (2014): Donne Racconto Conflitti
Multithreaded event-chain Monte Carlo with local times
Creators: name: Li, Botao
name: Todo, Synge
name: Maggs, A. C.
name: Krauth, Werner
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a multithreaded event-chain Monte Carlo algorithm (ECMC) for hard spheres. Threads synchronize at infrequent breakpoints and otherwise scan for local horizon violations. Using a mapping onto absorbing Markov chains, we rigorously prove the correctness of a sequential-consistency implementation for small test suites. On x86 and ARM processors, a C++ (OpenMP) implementation that uses compare-and-swap primitives for data access achieves considerable speed-up with respect to single-threaded code. The generalized birthday problem suggests that for the number of threads scaling as the square root of the number of spheres, the horizon-violation probability remains small for a fixed simulation time. We provide C++ and Python open-source code that reproduces all our results.
description: 24 pages, 7 figures
A life of refusal. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and violence in South Africa
Creators: name: Hassim, Shireen
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2015

description: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is an iconic woman in South African resistance politics. Not only the wife of Nelson Mandela, she was also a member of the ANC’s armed wing and supported the use of political violence. In the mid-1980s, she was implicated in the kidnapping and murder of young boys in Soweto. At the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1997, Madikizela-Mandela denied all allegations. Her testimony highlighted a key question: can women’s political roles be explored outside of the framework of political maternalism? The article uses fragments of interviews, and a recent essay by Madikizela-Mandela in which she presents a narrative account of the impact of imprisonment and political struggle on her life, as archival sources to explore how she made sense of her political actions. The article argues that although the maternalist paradigm is most frequently used to analyse the biography of Madikizela-Mandela, she herself foregrounds her identities as soldier.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 10 (2014): Donne Racconto Conflitti
Extremal distance and conformal radius of a CLE_4 loop
Creators: name: Aru, Juhan
name: Lupu, Titus
name: Sepúlveda, Avelio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 31A15, 60G15, 60G60, 60J65, 60J67, 81T40

description: Consider CLE$_4$ in the unit disk and let $\ell$ be the loop of the CLE$_4$ surrounding the origin. Schramm, Sheffield and Wilson determined the law of the conformal radius seen from the origin of the domain surrounded by $\ell$. We complement their result by determining the law of the extremal distance between $\ell$ and the boundary of the unit disk. More surprisingly, we also compute the joint law of these conformal radius and extremal distance. This law involves first and last hitting times of a one-dimensional Brownian motion. Similar techniques also allow us to determine joint laws of some extremal distances in a critical Brownian loop-soup cluster.
description: 45 pages, 8 figures
Acoustic Phonon Spectrum and Thermal Transport in Nanoporous Alumina Arrays
Creators: name: Kargar, Fariborz
name: Ramirez, Sylvester
name: Debnath, Bishwajit
name: Malekpour, Hoda
name: Lake, Roger
name: Balandin, Alexander A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report results of a combined investigation of thermal conductivity and acoustic phonon spectra in nanoporous alumina membranes with the pore diameter decreasing from D=180 nm to 25 nm. The samples with the hexagonally arranged pores were selected to have the same porosity of ~13%. The Brillouin-Mandelstam spectroscopy measurements revealed bulk-like phonon spectrum in the samples with D=180-nm pores and spectral features, which were attributed to spatial confinement, in the samples with 25-nm and 40-nm pores. The velocity of the longitudinal acoustic phonons was reduced in the samples with smaller pores. Analysis of the experimental data and calculated phonon dispersion suggests that both phonon-boundary scattering and phonon spatial confinement affect heat conduction in membranes with the feature sizes D<40 nm.
description: 16 pages; 4 figures
Exploring the Relationship Between Chronic Pain and Obesity: A Growing Public Health Problem
Creators: name: Hance, Lyla
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Overweight and obesity and chronic pain are major health issues in the U.S.; the majority of adults in the U.S. are overweight or obese, and as many as 100 million people in the U.S. live with chronic pain. Both conditions are associated with many comorbidities which reinforce one another and complicate treatment. The burden of pain is most felt in primary care; it is one of the most common complaints reported by patients in primary care, and the majority of patients seen in primary care are overweight or obese. Although the majority of overweight and obesity and the majority of chronic pain conditions are first presented in this setting, both are under-treated by primary care clinicians. Furthermore, chronic pain and overweight are often comorbid; many overweight patients have a pain syndrome, and vice versa. Pain has been described as a barrier to weight loss, and overweight and obesity are thought to contribute to some forms of chronic pain. The purpose of this paper was to evaluate the existing research literature to determine the relationship between weight and common chronic non-cancer pain conditions including how each condition influences the other. A comprehensive literature review was conducted to determine the relationship between overweight and four of the most common chronic pain conditions. Research was conducted to explore the relationship further, including causes, comorbidities, contributing factors, barriers to treatment, and effective treatment strategies. Results indicated that chronic pain and weight issues are inter-related; overweight and obesity contribute to chronic pain, and both the development and treatment of chronic pain are impacted by weight. Chronic pain also contributes to overweight and obesity, and might be both a hindrance to weight loss efforts and a contributing factor to weight gain.
Generating and Adapting to Diverse Ad-Hoc Cooperation Agents in Hanabi
Creators: name: Canaan, Rodrigo
name: Gao, Xianbo
name: Togelius, Julian
name: Nealen, Andy
name: Menzel, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Hanabi is a cooperative game that brings the problem of modeling other players to the forefront. In this game, coordinated groups of players can leverage pre-established conventions to great effect, but playing in an ad-hoc setting requires agents to adapt to its partner's strategies with no previous coordination. Evaluating an agent in this setting requires a diverse population of potential partners, but so far, the behavioral diversity of agents has not been considered in a systematic way. This paper proposes Quality Diversity algorithms as a promising class of algorithms to generate diverse populations for this purpose, and generates a population of diverse Hanabi agents using MAP-Elites. We also postulate that agents can benefit from a diverse population during training and implement a simple "meta-strategy" for adapting to an agent's perceived behavioral niche. We show this meta-strategy can work better than generalist strategies even outside the population it was trained with if its partner's behavioral niche can be correctly inferred, but in practice a partner's behavior depends and interferes with the meta-agent's own behavior, suggesting an avenue for future research in characterizing another agent's behavior during gameplay.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1907.03840. In early access at R. Canaan, X. Gao, J. Togelius, A. Nealen and S. Menzel, "Generating and Adapting to Diverse Ad-Hoc Partners in Hanabi," in IEEE Transactions on Games,
Comment dire «non»? Du rôle de l’initiation des filles dans le combat contre le virus VIH, dans le nord de la Zambie
Creators: name: Dauphin-Tinturier, Anne-Marie
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2015

description: How to say ‘no’. Girls’ initiation as a mean to prevent the spreading of HIV-virus in Northern Zambia – The existence of girls’ initiation is still one of the main features of the Bemba-speaking region in Northern Zambia, in spite of its being considered as gradually disappearing. Among the many functions of this ritual, one is to let women express themselves by the way of symbols rather than words. Following a short presentation of the traditional initiation (survey 1931), this paper deals with the changes in the ritual in parallel with the UNICEF project for HIV prevention in the Copperbelt region of Northern Zambia (survey 1998). Two types of production are presented: songs composed by a group of women in relation to the UNICEF project, and the evolution of the ritual conceived by women as a possible answer to the objectives defined by the project for HIV prevention regarding young girls.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 10 (2014): Donne Racconto Conflitti
Small Extracellular Vesicle TEM Segmentation (Fully Residual U-Net)
Creators: name: Gómez-De-Mariscal, Estibaliz
name: Maška, Martin
name: Kotrbová, Anna
name: Pospíchalová, Vendula
name: Matula, Pavel
name: Arrate Muñoz-Barrutia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: bioimage.io
bioimage.io:model
deepimagej
extracellular-vesicles
segmentation
tem
frunet
exosomes
electron-microscopy
2d-segmentation
2d
tensorflow
instance-segmentation

description: Download RDF Package

description: DeepImageJ compatible fully residual U-Net trained to segment small extracellular vesicles in 2D TEM images (Uploaded via https://bioimage.io)
Interval Estimation for Conditional Failure Rates of Transmission Lines with Limited Samples
Creators: name: Yang, Ming
name: Wang, Jianhui
name: Diao, Haoran
name: Qi, Junjian
name: Han, Xueshan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The estimation of the conditional failure rate (CFR) of an overhead transmission line (OTL) is essential for power system operational reliability assessment. It is hard to predict the CFR precisely, although great efforts have been made to improve the estimation accuracy. One significant difficulty is the lack of available outage samples, due to which the law of large numbers is no longer applicable and no convincing statistical result can be obtained. To address this problem, in this paper a novel imprecise probabilistic approach is proposed to estimate the CFR of an OTL. The imprecise Dirichlet model (IDM) is applied to establish the imprecise probabilistic relation between a single conditional variable and the failure rate of an OTL. Then a credal network is constructed to integrate the IDM estimation results corresponding to different conditional variables and infer the CFR. Instead of providing a single-valued estimation result, the proposed approach predicts the possible interval of the CFR in order to explicitly indicate the uncertainty of the estimation and more objectively represent the available knowledge. The proposed approach is illustrated by estimating the CFRs of two LGJ-300 transmission lines located in the same region; the test results validate its effectiveness.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures
Il coraggio dell’esultanza dinanzi allo straordinario. L’impresa della Pulzella fra le righe dei suoi contemporanei
Creators: name: Soleti, Maria Alessandra
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2015

description: When Jeanne of Arc’s triumphant march takes place, it is celebrated in enthusiastic tones by another woman, Christine de Pizan, who composed her Ditié giving way to her exultation. A different tone can be found in the writings by the contemporary theologians Jean Gerson and Jacques Gélu, justifying Jeanne’s formidable undertaking: they examine the strange case and consider it admissible. Pizan’s passion had previously created a City of Ladies and praised the experience of holy martyrs, whose very same voice Jeanne will hear. Two discrete precepts follow two ideas of justice –one human, the other divine– articulated in different styles of writing.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 10 (2014): Donne Racconto Conflitti
PSRA/Newsweek # 9903: Impeachment Trial
Creators: name: Newsweek
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2000

description: Clinton job performance(1) Clinton impeachment(7) media(2) Political leaders private life(1) telling truth Vs lying(2) influence of scandals in Washington on women(1) sexual harassment(2) political party control of congress and presidency(1) 2000 Democratic presidential nominee(5) 2000 Republican presidential nominee(6) 2000 presidential election(2) work of independent counsel(1)
Developing Effective Strategies for the Reduction of HIV Risk for Latino Gang Members
Creators: name: Record, Christine
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Latino gang members in the United States are disproportionately affected by HIV. This problem stems from two high-risk factors. One of these factors is behavior influenced by culturally-based beliefs regarding male and female gender roles and condom use. The other factor is gang behavior regarding sexual practices and the treatment of women. This combination of high-risk influences on beliefs and practices places the subpopulation of Latino gang members at a significantly increased risk of HIV exposure and infection. The resulting increase in HIV infection is a problem not only for gang members, but for society as a whole. Though this serious issue has not received wider public attention, there are potential solutions if society and governments have the will to reach out to this marginalized population through social programming, innovative legislation, and funding initiatives.
Widefield Super-resolution (GAN - FITC)
Creators: name: Hongda Wang
name: Rivenson, Yair
name: Ozcan, Aydogan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: bioimage.io
bioimage.io:model
deepimagej
gan
fluorescence-microscopy
super-resolution

description: Download RDF Package
Visit: https://innovate.ee.ucla.edu/
description: A trained GAN to transform diffraction-limited input images into super-resolved ones. (Uploaded via https://bioimage.io)
PSRA/Newsweek Poll # 9906: Monica's TV Interview
Creators: name: Newsweek
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2000

description: Clinton job performance(2) 2000 presidential election(9) 2000 Republican presidential nominee(1) Clinton/Lewinsky scandal hurt Al Gore(2) Juanita Braddock allegation against Bill Clinton(1) Barbara Walters interview on Monica Lewinsky(8) future of Monica Lewinsky(6) Monica Lewinsky(4) independent counsels(2)
I primi passi del femminismo indiano: Rameshwari e Uma Nehru nell’India di inizio Novecento
Creators: name: Borghi, Elena
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2015

description: The article focuses on the early feminist engagement of some female members of India’s most prominent nationalist family, the Nehrus, whose women undertook from the early 1900s public social and political work for the cause of their own sex. Despite this, history has not granted them much room, preferring to give accounts of their participation in the Gandhian mobilisations, from the late 1920s. The essay thus sketches the beginning of Nehru women’s activism, concentrating in particular on the two most significant figures: Rameshwari and Uma. By drawing on the writings in Hindi that appeared on the journal they edited, on the autobiographical narrations and private correspondence of several Nehrus, and on the memories collected through oral interviews, the article suggests that a vibrant and autonomous women’s movement existed before Gandhi’s call to nationalist action.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 10 (2014): Donne Racconto Conflitti
Global existence of weak solutions to viscoelastic phase separation: Part II Degenerate Case
Creators: name: Brunk, Aaron
name: Lukacova-Medvidova, Maria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The aim of this paper is to prove global in time existence of weak solutions for a viscoelastic phase separation. We consider the case with singular potentials and degenerate mobilities. Our model couples the diffusive interface model with the Peterlin-Navier-Stokes equations for viscoelastic fluids. To obtain the global in time existence of weak solutions we consider appropriate approximations by solutions of the viscoelastic phase separation with a regular potential and build on the corresponding energy and entropy estimates.
description: 29 pages, 28 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1907.03480
Widefield Super-resolution (GAN - DAPI)
Creators: name: Hongda Wang
name: Rivenson, Yair
name: Ozcan, Aydogan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: bioimage.io
bioimage.io:model
deepimagej
gan
fluorescence-microscopy
super-resolution

description: Download RDF Package
Visit: https://innovate.ee.ucla.edu/
description: A trained GAN to transform diffraction-limited input images into super-resolved ones. (Uploaded via https://bioimage.io)
Mass tomography at different momentum ranges in quark-gluon plasma
Creators: name: Djordjevic, Magdalena
name: Blagojevic, Bojana
name: Zivkovic, Lidija
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We here show that at lower momentum (i.e., $p_\perp \sim 10$GeV) single particle suppression for different types of probes exhibit a clear mass hierarchy, which is a direct consequence of the differences in the energy loss, rather than the differences in the initial distributions. On the other hand, we predict that the mass hierarchy is not expected at high momentum (i.e., $p_\perp \sim 100$GeV); i.e., while we surprisingly predict that suppression for charged hadrons will be somewhat smaller than the suppression for heavy mesons, we find that this difference will be a consequence of fragmentation functions, not the finite mass effects. That is, apart from the fragmentation functions, the probes of different masses exhibit nearly the same suppression in the high momentum region. We also argue that the same insensitivity on the probe types also appears for jets. In particular, the experimental data in the momentum regions where they exist for both types of probes, show similar suppressions of charged hadrons and inclusive jet data. Interestingly, we also find that our state-of-the-art suppression predictions for high momentum single particles are also in agreement with the jet suppression data, where the reasons behind this agreement yet remain to be understood. Finally, the available jet data also show (though with large error bars) an overlap between b jets (heavy) and inclusive jets (light) probes. Consequently, our results suggest that single particles in the momentum region below 50 GeV present an excellent tool for mass tomography, while high momentum single particles and (possibly) jets are somewhat insensitive to the details of the interaction with quark-gluon plasma.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
Absolute stellar parameters of KIC 09246715 -- a double-giant eclipsing system with a solar-like oscillator
Creators: name: Hełminiak, Krzysztof G.
name: Ukita, Nobuharu
name: Kambe, Eiji
name: Konacki, Maciej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present our results of a combined analysis of radial velocity and light curves of a double-lined spectroscopic and eclipsing binary KIC 09246715, observed photometrically by the $Kepler$ satellite, and spectroscopically with the OAO-1.88m telescope with the HIgh-Dispertion Echelle Spectrograph (HIDES). The target was claimed to be composed of two red giants, one of which is showing solar-like oscillations. We have found that the mass and radius of the primary are $M_1=2.169\pm0.024$ M$_\odot$ and $R_1=8.47\pm0.13$ R$_\odot$, and of the secondary: $M_2=2.143\pm0.025$ M$_\odot$ and $R_2=8.18\pm0.09$ R$_\odot$, which confirms the double-giant status. Our secondary is the star to which the oscillations were attributed. Results of its previous asteroseismic analysis are in agreement with ours, only significantly less precise, but the subsequent light-curve-based study failed to derive correct mass and radius of our primary. KIC 09246715 is one of the rare cases where asteroseismic parameters of a solar-like oscillator were confirmed by an independent method, and only the third example of a Galactic double-giant eclipsing binary with masses and radii measured with precision below 2%.
description: 3 figures, 2 tables, accepted by ApJL
British Gallup Poll CQ 956
Creators: name: Social Surveys (Gallup Poll) Limited
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2014

description: Seen commercials recently (27); Northern Ireland vacation (1); party support (1); last General Election (2); Denis Healy approval (1); Budget approval (21); common market membership (5); sunglasses (14); petrol use & companies (84); television habits (5); called emergency service (1); department stores (36); cosmetics (12); biscuits (13).
Late cosmic acceleration in a vector--Gauss-Bonnet gravity model
Creators: name: Oliveros, A.
name: Solis, Enzo L.
name: Acero, Mario A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we study a general vector-tensor model of dark energy with a Gauss-Bonnet term coupled to a vector field and without explicit potential terms. Considering a spatially flat FRW type universe and a vector field without spatial components, the cosmological evolution is analysed from the field equations of this model, considering two sets of parameters. In this context, we have shown that it is possible to obtain an accelerated expansion phase of the universe, since the equation state parameter $w$ satisfies the restriction $-1
description: 13 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Modern Physics Letters A
Morir d’amore a Port-Royal. La breve vita di Jacqueline Pascal tra fede e obbedienza
Creators: name: Bartoli, SilVana
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2015

description: Jacqueline Pascal, a passionate girl, in the raisonnable religion of Port-Royal looked for a space where she could devote herself entirely to God. Choosing to be a nun in a world where women were forced to become nuns or wives, she never stops to wonder, and question the boundaries of obedience: is the Church the path leading to God or is it God himself who is the path ? Her letters are the place where the devastating conflict between faith and obedience is enacted, involving the entire abbey.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 10 (2014): Donne Racconto Conflitti
Vitamin C Supplementation in Pregnancy – Does it Decrease Rates of Pre-term Birth: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Swaney, Paul
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: There have been several studies on the biochemical processes related to preeclampsia, intrauterine growth restriction, and premature rupture of membranes that provide evidence that oxidative stress may be part of the pathological processes in these diseases. Therefore antioxidants such as vitamin C may be preventive. The biochemical evidence prompted researchers to pursue further studies to investigate whether vitamin C use during pregnancy would change the incidence rate of certain obstetrical outcomes. Often preeclampsia and premature rupture of membranes are indications for preterm delivery and the nutritional status of a woman has also been implicated in premature birth. Therefore, this review attempted to answer the question: does vitamin C use during pregnancy decrease the incidence of preterm birth? The review did not find sufficient evidence to make a recommendation for Vitamin C use alone to prevent preterm birth. The review found studies investigating Vitamin C and E combined during pregnancy and discovered a high level of evidence showing no decrease in the rate of preterm birth.
Serjania piscatoria (Paullinieae, Sapindaceae) as a symbol of vascular variants polymorphism
Creators: name: L. Cunha Neto, Israel
name: Somner, Genise
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Serjania is the only genus of the Paullinieae tribe that exhibits all patterns of vascular variants and includes S. piscatoria which shows a complex vascular structure that has intrigued botanists for centuries. Here, we analysed the stem development of S. piscatoria in an evolutionary context. We studied four individuals using standardized anatomical techniques and employed DNA sequencing to determine the species’ phylogenetic position. Additionally, we explored the evolution of stem developmental diversity using stochastic character mapping of the categories and patterns of vascular variants. We find that disparate ontogenetic processes determine the stem development in S. piscatoria, which results in vascular variants derived from procambial variants, cambial variants, and ectopic cambia. This diversity underscores the developmental lability of vascular meristems, making the species' vascular system structurally diverse and polymorphic. The complex vascular system observed in S. piscatoria evolved within a lineage composed of species with compound stems. These findings provide evidence for the intricate and labile evolutionary history of stem vasculature in Serjania, and the value of studying vascular variants to unravel the patterns and processes shaping plant diversity.

 

Paper published in the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society:

https://academic.oup.com/botlinnean/advance-article/doi/10.1093/botlinnean/boae057/7748639
Simone Weil e Antigone come simboli dell’alterità femminile
Creators: name: Pistilli, Loretta
Publisher: name: Storia delle Donne
Year: 2015

description: This paper analyses the notion of otherness from the perspective of gender difference. It focuses on Simone Weil, the French militant philosopher whose working experience in a factory is fundamental to her thought, and Antigone, Sophocles’ heroin who rebels against the Theban king Creon’s regime. They propose a female model of otherness which is a political project above all, not based on power and force, but on coexistence and justice. This means that Simone Weil and Antigone consider otherness not simply a culture of difference and interpersonal relation, but essentially a duty towards human beings.
description: Storia delle Donne, Vol. 10 (2014): Donne Racconto Conflitti
Glial Cell SMLM (DeepSTORM - ZeroCostDL4Mic)
Creators: name: ZeroCostDL4Mic Team
name: DeepImageJ Team
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: bioimage.io
bioimage.io:model
zerocostdl4mic
deepimagej
smlm
image-reconstruction
super-resolution

description: Download RDF Package
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description: A trained Deep-STORM model for image reconstruction from high-density single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM). (Uploaded via https://bioimage.io)
Düşük Kürtaj hapı WhatsApp : 0531 723 18 31
Creators: name: lowabort, lowabort
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 310101
subject: Analytical biochemistry
classificationCode: 321301
subject: Adolescent health
classificationCode: 420302
subject: Digital health

description: Kürtaj Hapı & Düşük Hapı Sipariş : 0531 723 18 31. lowabort düşük hapı. 7/24 Whatsapp Sipariş Hattı. lowabort düşük hapı. Gizli Kargo. https://www.lowabort.com/
Order conditions for sampling the invariant measure of ergodic stochastic differential equations on manifolds
Creators: name: Laurent, Adrien
name: Vilmart, Gilles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60H35, 70H45, 37M25, 65L06

description: We derive a new methodology for the construction of high order integrators for sampling the invariant measure of ergodic stochastic differential equations with dynamics constrained on a manifold. We obtain the order conditions for sampling the invariant measure for a class of Runge-Kutta methods applied to the constrained overdamped Langevin equation. The analysis is valid for arbitrarily high order and relies on an extension of the exotic aromatic Butcher-series formalism. To illustrate the methodology, a method of order two is introduced, and numerical experiments on the sphere, the torus and the special linear group confirm the theoretical findings.
description: 40 pages
The Integration of Mental and Physical Health Care in Northeastern North Carolina
Creators: name: Wood, Angela
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Optimal mental health is achieved by not only being in a good mental state of mind, but achieving good physical health. Mental health care and physical health care are interrelated and one cannot be treated without the other. Many mental health illnesses have a co-morbidity with physical health disease states. Primary care providers are not feeling adequately skilled to manage mental health illness and mental health providers, likewise, are finding they are not prepared to manage the physical health problems in their patients. A Four Quadrant Clinical Integration Model defines how primary care providers and mental health providers can collaborate to care for patients with mental and physical health needs through a system of referrals and communication and when needed using a case manager. In low income, rural Northeastern North Carolina, there is a paucity of mental health providers. In this area, primary care providers are seeing more patients with low complexity mental illness in their practice and need the tools and training to diagnosis and manage their illness. For high complex mental illness, care needs to be transferred to mental health professionals and communication established between the primary care provider and the mental health provider so complete care of the patient can be established. A medical home is an effective way to provide health care in Northeastern North Carolina. This approach allows a patient to have both physical health and mental health care managed together by one lead primary care provider. It will be the responsibility of this lead provider to refer a patient with complex mental health illness to a mental health facility and to communicate with the mental health provider to provide total health care for the individual. Through these efforts, optimal physical and mental health can be attained.
Family-Friendly Business Practices as an Intervention for Child Abuse
Creators: name: Block, Amy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: This paper examines the role that family friendly business practices can have in reducing instances of child abuse. Family friendly business practices are institutional policies that facilitate a balance between work and family life. They can include arrangements such as employer-provided child care, child care subsidies, options to work non-standard hours, ability to work from home, availability of time off, ability to take a leave of absence, and other policies that provide worker flexibility. A review of the literature pertaining to child abuse and family-friendly business practices was conducted using the search engine EBSCO Host and the search terms: family friendly, work, employment, stress, family, child abuse, and family work conflict. Articles from the last ten years were reviewed for relevancy. No studies were found directly linking family-friendly business practices to a reduction in child abuse, however, the literature outlines several risk factors for child abuse that are ameliorated by work practices that aid families. The connection between family-friendly business practices and child abuse warrants additional research. In the meantime, employers should consider these policies as they benefit both business and family by contributing to a healthier and less stressed workforce. Comprehensive initiatives that include multiple programs- such as family friendly business policies- support families and provide the optimal chance for children to have loving, functional, and safe homes, free of neglect or abuse.
Optimal Power Flow with Inelastic Demands for Demand Response in Radial Distribution Networks
Creators: name: Khonji, Majid
name: Chau, Chi-Kin
name: Elbassioni, Khaled
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The classical optimal power flow problem optimizes the power flow in a power network considering the associated flow and operating constraints. In this paper, we investigate optimal power flow in the context of utility-maximizing demand response management in distribution networks, in which customers' demands are satisfied subject to the operating constraints of voltage and transmission power capacity. The prior results concern only elastic demands that can be partially satisfied, whereas power demands in practice can be inelastic with binary control decisions, which gives rise to a mixed integer programming problem. We shed light on the hardness and approximability by polynomial-time algorithms for optimal power flow problem with inelastic demands. We show that this problem is inapproximable for general power network topology with upper and lower bounds of nodal voltage. Then, we propose an efficient algorithm for a relaxed problem in radial networks with bounded transmission power loss and upper bound of nodal voltage. We derive an approximation ratio between the proposed algorithm and the exact optimal solution. Simulations show that the proposed algorithm can produce close-to-optimal solutions in practice.
description: Extended version of the journal paper appears in IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems
Viscosity solutions to quaternionic Monge-Ampère equations
Creators: name: Wan, Dongrui
name: Wang, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Quaternionic Monge-Ampère equations have recently been studied intensively using methods from pluripotential theory. We present an alternative approach by using the viscosity methods. We study the viscosity solutions to the Dirichlet problem for quaternionic Monge-Ampère equations $det(f)=F(q,f)$ with boundary value $f=g$ on $\partialΩ$. Here $Ω$ is a bounded domain on the quaternionic space $\mathbb{H}^n$, $g\in C(\partialΩ)$, and $F(q,t)$ is a continuous function on $Ω\times\mathbb{R}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}^+$ which is non-decreasing in the second variable. We prove a viscosity comparison principle and a solvability theorem. Moreover, the equivalence between viscosity and pluripotential solutions is showed.
description: 19 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1209.5343 by other authors
Direction-sweep Markov chains
Creators: name: Qin, Liang
name: Hoellmer, Philipp
name: Krauth, Werner
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a non-reversible, lifted Markov-chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm for particle systems in which the direction of proposed displacements is changed deterministically. This algorithm sweeps through directions analogously to the popular MCMC sweep methods for particle or spin indices. Direction-sweep MCMC can be applied to a wide range of original reversible or non-reversible Markov chains, such as the Metropolis algorithm or the event-chain Monte Carlo algorithm. For a single two-dimensional dipole, we consider direction-sweep MCMC in the limit where restricted equilibrium is reached among the accessible configurations before changing the direction. We show rigorously that direction-sweep MCMC leaves the stationary probability distribution unchanged, and that it profoundly modifies the Markov-chain trajectory. Long excursions, with persistent rotation in one direction, alternate with long sequences of rapid zigzags resulting in persistent rotation in the opposite direction in the limit of small direction increments. The mapping to a Langevin equation then yields the exact scaling of excursions while the zigzags are described through a non-linear differential equation that is solved exactly. We show that the direction-sweep algorithm can have shorter mixing times than the algorithms with random updates of directions. We point out possible applications of direction-sweep MCMC in polymer physics and in molecular simulation.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures. Longer version, results unchanged
3D U-Net - ZeroCostDL4Mic
Creators: name: DeepImageJ Team
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: bioimage.io
bioimage.io:model
deepimagej
tem
mitochondria
segmentation
3d-unet
zerocostdl4mic
deepimagej-beta
tensorflow
3d
unet
electron-microscopy

description: Download RDF Package

description: 3D U-Net trained using ZeroCostDL4Mic notebooks to segment mitochondria in Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) data. (Uploaded via https://bioimage.io)
Skills4EOSC Contribution to the path forward
Creators: name: Lazzeri, Emma
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Open Science
Competence Centre
EOSC

description: Contribution from Skills4EOSC project on Competence Centres at the EOSC Symposium 2023 session European alignment on skills and training: Charting the path forward.
Making the Local Connection to Global Public Health
Creators: name: Popielarczyk, Megan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Global health discussions and initiatives in the United States (U.S.) often focus primarily on issues affecting developing nations. However, it is imperative that a broader view be taken when discussing global health concerns, so that lessons learned can be shared across the developing world and with vulnerable populations in the developed world as well. Parallels can be drawn between health outcomes, socioeconomic status and social determinants of health among vulnerable minority and marginalized populations in the U.S. and developing countries. Health disparities evident at the subpopulation level provide a different view of health outcomes then that of the general population in the U.S. Using the lens of social determinants of health assists in understanding the root causes and drivers of poor health outcomes. Through specific determinants such as food security, poverty, social exclusion, employment status and access to health care it is easily seen how vulnerability interplays with social determinants of health to create health disparities in the developed world that rival those found in developing countries. Innovative and resource efficient solutions aimed at improving the health of vulnerable people while reducing disparities, has been a focus of efforts in the global south, or developing countries. These provide important lessons for the developed world as well. The goal of this paper is to examine similar health disparities that exist in both the U.S. and developing countries, identify and compare the underlying social determinants of health influencing the disparities and finally to provide recommendations for the field of public health in the U.S. based on successful programming, policy and interventions utilized in the developing world. It is recommended that programming and interventions in the U.S. aimed at decreasing health disparities and improving health outcomes among vulnerable populations should consider programming and interventions that have been proven to be successful in developing countries.