cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Catalog of Star Cluster Candidates in M33
Creators: name: Sarajedini, Ata
name: Mancone, Conor L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new catalog of star cluster candidates in the nearby spiral galaxy M33. It is based on eight existing catalogs wherein we have cross-referenced identifications and endeavored to resolve inconsistencies between them. Our catalog contains 451 candidates of which 255 are confirmed clusters based on HST and high resolution ground-based imaging. The catalog contains precise cluster positions (RA and Dec), magnitudes and colors in the UBVRIJHKs filters, metallicities, radial velocities, masses and ages, where available, and galactocentric distances for each cluster. The color distribution of the M33 clusters appears to be similar to those in the Large Magellanic Cloud with major peaks at (B-V)o~0.15, and (B-V)o~0.65. The intrinsic colors are correlated with cluster ages, which range from 10^{7.5} to 10^{10.3} years. The age distribution of the star clusters supports the notion of rapid cluster disruption with a slope of alpha=-1.09 +/- 0.07 in the dN_{cluster}/dt ~ t^{alpha} relation. In addition, comparison to theoretical single stellar population models suggests the presence of an age-metallicity relation among these clusters with younger clusters being more metal-rich. Analysis of the radial distribution of the clusters yields some evidence that younger clusters (age
description: 34 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal
Leptophilic bosons and muon g-2 at lepton colliders
Creators: name: Chun, Eung Jin
name: Mondal, Tanmoy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A light leptophilic boson (scalar or pseudoscalar) has been postulated to explain the muon g-2 anomaly and could be a portal to dark matter. Realizing the leptophilic nature of a singlet boson in the framework of the two-Higgs-doublet-Model of type-X, we identify the parameter space viable for the explanation of the updated muon g-2 discrepancy. It is then shown that such a hypothetical particle will be unambiguously ruled out or discovered via the Yukawa process at a lepton collider designed as a Higgs factory.
description: v2: Published in JHEP. 11 pages, 5 figures
Research Libraries: an Incubator for Science Communication, Public Engagement and Literacy Skills
Creators: name: Cunningham, Heather
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Research libraries must play an increasingly important role in society. In an era where questionable and unreliable sources of information abound and quickly proliferate, libraries are more important than ever helping users navigate the tidal wave of information from social media, news sites and other resources and make sense of a complicated and polarized landscape. When science literacy skills, defined as the knowledge and understanding of scientific concepts required for personal decision making and participating in civic and cultural affairs, are combined with information literacy skills, one is empowered to critically interpret and verify science as presented in the media. Science festivals and science engagement events in conjunction with research libraries provide ideal opportunities to combine these two literacy skill sets.

A case study will be presented of how the University of Toronto Library, Canada’s largest research library, integrated variegated literacies into science outreach events designed to engage with a diverse community. The public, in its various forms, attends science festivals to engage with scientific experts as well as participate in a range of scientific activities. Programming at science outreach events held within the library will be discussed in how it can serve as a catalyst for deeper learning about information creation, authority and dissemination. For example, students and members of the public took a deep dive into the construction and context of authority by participating in Wikipedia-edit-athons and fake news workshops. By bringing experts out from behind classroom “paywalls” via public lectures and human library events, students and citizens can informally converse and engage in debate with scholars.

The backdrop for this case study is the annual Science Literacy Week (SLW) as well as the science communication programming which has stemmed from it. SLW began as a grassroots event in 2014 at the University of Toronto and has since grown and developed into an annual federally funded week-long celebration of science which includes over 800 events put on by over 200 partners in 100 cities across Canada. Many of the 44 libraries at the University of Toronto, including non-science libraries, participate in planning SLW public engagement activities. Since the theme of SLW is changed annually, libraries can capitalise on timely trends and issues such as the concept of post-truth and the notion of information literacy as a social practice. The success of SLW spawned a science engagement portfolio of events held throughout the year within the library. This case study will also discuss the challenges as well as the opportunities of situating a research library as a social space for public engagement. Libraries with their long history of providing democratic access to information provide a natural setting for contemporary public engagement, debate and science communication.
Sharp dark-mode resonances in planar metamaterials with broken structural symmetry
Creators: name: Fedotov, V. A.
name: Rose, M.
name: Prosvirnin, S. L.
name: Papasimakis, N.
name: Zheludev, N. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report that resonant response with a very high quality factor can be achieved in a planar metamaterial by introducing symmetry breaking in the shape of its structural elements, which enables excitation of dark modes, i.e. modes that are weakly coupled to free space.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Numerical Investigation of a Helical Receiver for a New CSP Concept Based on the Solar Bowl Technology
Creators: name: Cagnoli, Mattia
name: Iñigo Pagola Barrio
name: Lapuente, Adrian Peña
name: Gonzalez, Marcelino Sanchez
name: Savoldi, Laura
name: Zanino, Roberto
name: Villasante, Cristóbal
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Helical Receiver, CSP Concept, Solar Bowl Technology

description: Numerical Investigation of a Helical Receiver for a New CSP Concept Based on the Solar Bowl Technology
Type-3/2 Seesaw Mechanism
Creators: name: Demir, Durmus
name: Karahan, Canan
name: Sargın, Ozan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Type-I seesaw provides a natural explanation for the tiny neutrino masses. The right-handed neutrino masses it requires are, however, too large to keep the Higgs boson mass at its measured value. Here we show that vector-spinors, singlet leptons like the right-handed neutrinos, generate the tiny neutrino masses naturally by the exchange of its spin-1/2 and spin-3/2 components. This one-step seesaw mechanism, which we call Type-3/2 seesaw, keeps the Higgs boson mass unchanged at one loop, and gives cause therefore to no fine-tuning problem. If the on-shell vector-spinor is a pure spin-3/2 particle then it becomes a potential candidate for hidden dark matter diluting due only to the expansion of the Universe. The Type-3/2 seesaw provides a natural framework for the neutrino, Higgs boson and dark matter sectors, with overall agreement with current experiments and observations.
description: v3: 5 pages, 4 figs, 1 table; emphasized vector-spinor, no change in the results and conclusion
Single Cell Resolution of Human Airway Epithelial Cells Exposed to Bronchiolitis Obliterans - Associated Chemicals
Creators: name: Chu, ChinYi
name: Kim, Soyoung
name: Pryhuber, Gloria S.
name: Mariani, Thomas J.
name: McGraw, Matthew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 320801
subject: Cell physiology

description: The use of single cell RNA sequencing identifies pathways common and disparate in human airway epithelial cells exposed to two chemicals associated with bronchiolitis obliterans. Pathways common across chemical exposures included interferon signaling and antigen processing/presentation from a cluster of ciliated epithelial cells. In contrast, airway basal cell responses differed significantly across exposures with activation of the unfolded protein response in diacetyl-exposed airway basal cells, not seen with nitrogen mustard exposures.
Additional file 1 of Predicting the onset of freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease
Creators: name: Wang, Fengting
name: Pan, Yixin
name: Zhang, Miao
name: Hu, Kejia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1.
One-dimensional superfluid Bose-Fermi mixture: mixing, demixing and bright solitons
Creators: name: Adhikari, Sadhan K.
name: Salasnich, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a ultra-cold and dilute superfluid Bose-Fermi mixture confined in a strictly one-dimensional atomic waveguide by using a set of coupled nonlinear mean-field equations obtained from the Lieb-Liniger energy density for bosons and the Gaudin-Yang energy density for fermions. We consider a finite Bose-Fermi inter-atomic strength g_{bf} and both periodic and open boundary conditions. We find that with periodic boundary conditions, i.e. in a quasi-1D ring, a uniform Bose-Fermi mixture is stable only with a large fermionic density. We predict that at small fermionic densities the ground state of the system displays demixing if g_{bf}>0 and may become a localized Bose-Fermi bright soliton for g_{bf}<0. Finally, we show, using variational and numerical solution of the mean-field equations, that with open boundary conditions, i.e. in a quasi-1D cylinder, the Bose-Fermi bright soliton is the unique ground state of the system with a finite number of particles, which could exhibit a partial mixing-demixing transition. In this case the bright solitons are demonstrated to be dynamically stable. The experimental realization of these Bose-Fermi bright solitons seems possible with present setups.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures
Accuracy Improvement for Fully Convolutional Networks via Selective Augmentation with Applications to Electrocardiogram Data
Creators: name: Jacaruso, Lucas Cassiel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deep learning methods have shown suitability for time series classification in the health and medical domain, with promising results for electrocardiogram data classification. Successful identification of myocardial infarction holds life saving potential and any meaningful improvement upon deep learning models in this area is of great interest. Conventionally, data augmentation methods are applied universally to the training set when data are limited in order to ameliorate data resolution or sample size. In the method proposed in this study, data augmentation was not applied in the context of data scarcity. Instead, samples that yield low confidence predictions were selectively augmented in order to bolster the model's sensitivity to features or patterns less strongly associated with a given class. This approach was tested for improving the performance of a Fully Convolutional Network. The proposed approach achieved 90 percent accuracy for classifying myocardial infarction as opposed to 82 percent accuracy for the baseline, a marked improvement. Further, the accuracy of the proposed approach was optimal near a defined upper threshold for qualifying low confidence samples and decreased as this threshold was raised to include higher confidence samples. This suggests exclusively selecting lower confidence samples for data augmentation comes with distinct benefits for electrocardiogram data classification with Fully Convolutional Networks.
Observation of mechanical Faraday effect in gas media
Creators: name: Milner, Alexander A.
name: Steinitz, Uri
name: Averbukh, Ilya Sh.
name: Milner, Valery
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the experimental observation of the rotation of the polarization plane of light propagating in a gas of fast-spinning molecules (molecular super-rotors). In the observed effect, related to Fermi's prediction of "polarization drag" by a rotating medium, the vector of linear polarization tilts in the direction of molecular rotation due to the rotation-induced difference in the refractive indices for the left and right circularly polarized components. We use an optical centrifuge to bring the molecules in a gas sample to ultrafast unidirectional rotation and measure the polarization drag angles of the order of 0.2 milliradians in a number of gases under ambient conditions. We demonstrate an all-optical control of the drag magnitude and direction, and investigate the robustness of the mechanical Faraday effect with respect to molecular collisions.
Navigation Turing Test (NTT): Learning to Evaluate Human-Like Navigation
Creators: name: Devlin, Sam
name: Georgescu, Raluca
name: Momennejad, Ida
name: Rzepecki, Jaroslaw
name: Zuniga, Evelyn
name: Costello, Gavin
name: Leroy, Guy
name: Shaw, Ali
name: Hofmann, Katja
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A key challenge on the path to developing agents that learn complex human-like behavior is the need to quickly and accurately quantify human-likeness. While human assessments of such behavior can be highly accurate, speed and scalability are limited. We address these limitations through a novel automated Navigation Turing Test (ANTT) that learns to predict human judgments of human-likeness. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our automated NTT on a navigation task in a complex 3D environment. We investigate six classification models to shed light on the types of architectures best suited to this task, and validate them against data collected through a human NTT. Our best models achieve high accuracy when distinguishing true human and agent behavior. At the same time, we show that predicting finer-grained human assessment of agents' progress towards human-like behavior remains unsolved. Our work takes an important step towards agents that more effectively learn complex human-like behavior.
description: All data collected throughout this study, plus the code to reproduce our analysis and ANTT are available at https://github.com/microsoft/NTT
A warning signal identification system (WARNSIS) for the hard of hearing and the deaf
Creators: name: Chau, Kwok Wing Chau
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The objective of this project has been to design a reliable warning sound recognition system for hard of hearing and deaf people. Commercially available auditory warning devices use simple technologies, which are not able to produce the performance required. The demand for a versatile WARNing Signal Identification System (WARNSIS) that satisfies the needs of hard of hearing and deaf individuals has been well established. This WARNSIS must be "teachable" in order to cope with the many different sounds, and diverse noisy environments. Relevant sounds are telephone rings, sirens, and smoke and fire alarms, and noise includes all other sounds including radio-music, conversation, machinery, etc. In the absence of published data, we studied extensively both timing and spectral characteristics of warning sounds. We found that the average short-time absolute amplitude of warning sounds is useful in providing timing information, and that the short-time spectra yield characteristic patterns for signal classification. The WARNSIS operates in real-time, and embodies two parts: the timing analyzer and the spectral recognizer. The timing analyzer continuously monitors the variations of environmental sounds, from which important timing features are derived. If a potential warning sound is detected, the spectral recognizer is activated to analyze its spectral patterns. When these patterns match one of the learned and pre-stored templates, a warning sound is identified with the known warning sound associated with that template. An advantage of such a recognition scheme is that it avoids unnecessary and computationally intensive spectral analysis work when only noise is present. Evaluation results show that the WARNSIS can reliably recognize warning sounds in random noise with no false alarms. In loud music and conversation backgrounds the WARNSIS can still achieve a high recognition rate, but more false alarms are generated. In household environments where conditions are less demanding than our evaluation criteria, our system is expected to produce very satisfactory results. Since the WARNSIS can be taught to learn and recognize new warning sounds, it may be used in other applications such as noisy industrial sites and traffic light control.
Evaluation of Hadronic Emission in Starburst Galaxies and Star-forming Galaxies
Creators: name: Xiang, Yun-chuan
name: Jiang, Ze-jun
name: Tang, Yun-yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we reanalyzed 11 years of spectral data from the \textit{Fermi} Large Area Telescope (\textit{Fermi}-LAT) of currently observed starburst galaxies (SBGs) and star-forming galaxies (SFGs). We used a one-zone model provided by \textbf{NAIMA} and the hadronic origin to explain the GeV observation data of the SBGs and SFGs. We found that a protonic distribution of a power-law form with an exponential cutoff can explain the spectra of most SBGs and SFGs. However, it cannot explain the spectral hardening components of NGC 1068 and NGC 4945 in the GeV energy band. Therefore, we considered the two-zone model to well explain these phenomena. We summarized the features of various model parameters, including the spectral index, cutoff energy, and protonic total energy. Similar to the evolution of supernova remnants (SNRs) in the Milky Way, we estimated the protonic acceleration limitation inside the SBGs to be likely in the order of 10$^{2}$ TeV using the one-zone model; this is close to those of SNRs in the Milky Way.
The Open Library of Humanities: a Sustainable Scholar-led Model for OA without Publication Fees
Creators: name: Vega, Paula Clemente
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: In the last few years in the context of UK, as in many other countries, new policies that promote the implementation of Open Access have been developed and implemented. As a consequence of these new policies, all projects funded by public money must be published through open access channels. Being in this case, the golden route, that in most cases entails having to pay a publication fee (APC), the most recommended. However, the transition phase of this move has given way to a hybrid environment in which inflated APCs and subscription fees frequently converge, with prices that are often unaffordable for the humanities, so poorly funded in comparison to other scientific disciplines. It is within this context that the academics Martin Eve and Caroline Edwards from Birkbeck University in London launched, together to an international network of scholars, librarians, programmers and publishers, the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) in 2015. The OLH is a charitable organisation dedicated to publishing open access scholarship with no author-facing article processing charges (APCs). The main thrust of this project emerged from the need of institutions and researchers to regain control over their own publications through channels that were not dominated by classical-economics-based solutions but by a model that responded directly to their needs. The model proposed by the OLH is one where publication costs do not fall on the institution or researchers but, are instead financed collaboratively through an international library consortium, where each member pays an annual fee according to the country and size of the institution. Reducing and distributing the costs of publication among the members, with an economy of scale that improves as more institutions join.

The international consortium of libraries is comprised by more than 200 institutions that collectively fund the platform including Harvard, Cambridge, Yale, Princeton, and many others. The OLH has also received two substantial grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to date. The platform publishes 27 journals in various disciplines and languages from classics, modern languages and cultures, philosophy, theology and history, to political theory, sociology, anthropology, film and new media studies, and digital humanities.

Scholar-led initiatives such as the OLH have proven for years now that there are alternatives to the standard APC model (pay-to-publish) and that it is possible to sustain them in the long-term. Our mission is to support and extend open access to scholarship in the humanities – for free, for everyone, for ever.
Additional file 1 of Global diversity of policy, coverage, and demand of COVID-19 vaccines: a descriptive study
Creators: name: Chen, Zhiyuan
name: Zheng, Wen
name: Wu, Qianhui
name: Chen, Xinghui
name: Peng, Cheng
name: Tian, Yuyang
name: Sun, Ruijia
name: Dong, Jiayi
name: Wang, Minghan
name: Zhou, Xiaoyu
name: Zhao, Zeyao
name: Zhong, Guangjie
name: Yan, Xuemei
name: Liu, Nuolan
name: Hao, Feiran
name: Zhao, Sihong
name: Zhuang, Tingyu
name: Yang, Juan
name: Azman, Andrew S.
name: Yu, Hongjie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. The distribution of whether local residents need to pay for vaccine. Figure S2. Geographic distribution of overall technical platforms for vaccines. Figure S3. Proportion administered by vaccine technical platforms. Figure S4. Proportion administered by vaccine types. Figure S5. Date at which achieved one dose per 100 people in total population by country. Figure S6. Vaccine coverage over time stratified by income groups and role of vaccine seller/donor or recipient. Figure S7. Vaccine coverage stratified by SDI quintile and WHO region. Figure S8. The association between vaccine coverage with physician density and government health spending per capita. Figure S9. Corrections between vaccine coverage and country-level vaccine acceptance. Table S1. Authorization information of COVID-19 vaccines by technical platforms and country. Table S2. Target populations and contraindications recommended by regulatory agencies. Table S3. Policies on additional or booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine. Table S4. Country lists of selling/donating or receiving COVID-19 vaccines. Table S5. Categories and definitions of special population groups belonging to indication and contraindication lists. Table S6. Global, regional, and national target population (TP). Table S7. The list of variables for investigating associations with vaccine coverage. Table S8. Analysis of multicollinearity. Table S9. Global, regional, and national demand of vaccine dose.
Χρήση περιβάλλοντος ψηφιακής αλληλεπίδρασης στην εκμάθηση της ανατομίας των αρτηριών του καρδιοκυκλοφορικού συστήματος του ανθρώπου
Creators: name: Κιουρεξίδου, Ματίνα Σ.
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2017
Subjects: Αλληλεπίδραση
Εκπαίδευση με νέες τεχνολογίες
Ψηφιακά μέσα
Επικοινωνία
Interaction
Education with new technologies
Digital media
Communication

description: Οι νέες τεχνολογίες και η εικονική πραγματικότητα χρησιμοποιούνται ολοένα και περισσότερο από τους φοιτητές της Ιατρικής στην ανατομία, όταν θέλουν να μελετήσουν και να κατανοήσουν πολύπλοκες και δυσπρόσιτες δομές που διαφορετικά δεν θα ήταν εφικτό. Η Ιατρική Εκπαίδευση στην ανατομία του ανθρώπινου σώματος απαιτεί τον συνδυασμό της θεωρητικής διδασκαλίας και της πρακτικής εξάσκησης στην αίθουσα ανατομίας με την ανατομή «επί του πτώματος». Η διδακτορική διατριβή περιγράφει τη δημιουργία μιας ψηφιακής εφαρμογής που θα βοηθήσει στην κατανόηση και απομνημόνευση των αρτηριών του ανθρώπινου σώματος βοηθώντας τους φοιτητές της Ιατρικής να εμπεδώσουν ό,τι έμαθαν στην αίθουσα ανατομίας. Σχεδιάστηκε ένας προσομοιωτής αρτηριών που ενισχύει τη μάθηση μέσα από ένα διαδραστικό περιβάλλον σε πραγματικό χρόνο. Η διδακτορική διατριβή κατέληξε ότι μία τέτοια εφαρμογή μπορεί να έχει θετικά αποτελέσματα στην εκμάθηση της ανατομίας και την κατανόηση των ιδιαίτερα πολύπλοκων ανατομικών δομών, σε καμία όμως περίπτωση δεν μπορεί να αντικαταστήσει την ανατομή του πτώματος που διαχρονικά διαδραματίζει πρωταγωνιστικό ρόλο στην εκμάθηση της ανατομικής.
description: New technologies and virtual reality are increasingly being used by medical students in the field of anatomy, where they study particular complex and inaccessible structures that otherwise could not be feasible to reach. Medical education in anatomy of the human body requires the combination of a theoretical teaching and a practical training by dissecting cadavers. The current PhD dissertation focuses on the particular subject of medical education, describing in detail the creation of a digital application of the interactive virtual reality that will enhance the knowledge and memorization of the human arterial system by helping medical students to comprehend what they have learned in the anatomy lab. The three-dimensional model was used the application of interactive virtual reality. Essentially, an artery simulator was designed to enhance learning through an interactive real-time environment. The PhD thesis showed that such an application may have positive effects on the anatomy learning and understanding of particular complex anatomical structures, but in no case can replace the cadavers’dissection that plays a prominent role in the teaching of anatomy.
title: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 60, No 2 (2019): 2019602
title: 2019602
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Department Of Health Science-University Of Genoa
Publisher: name: Department of Health Science - University of Genoa
Year: 2019

description: HUMAN TRICHINELLOSIS IN ITALY: AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL REVIEW SINCE 1989...E71
Practice of Safety Measures among Inter-City Commercial Vehicle Drivers in Kwara State, Nigeria...E158
Do HCWs adequately know about meningitis and 4CmenB vaccine and recommend its use to parents? A cross sectional analysis in Campania Region, Italy...E147
Impact of training conferences on high-school students’ knowledge of sexually transmitted infections (STIs)...E76
Knowledge of sexually transmitted infections and risky behaviours: a survey among high school and university students...E84
Association of Mother’s Handwashing Practices and Pediatric Diarrhea: Evidence from a Multi-Country Study on Community Oriented Interventions...E93
Assessment of oral hygiene trends among dental patients in relation to chronic medical conditions by dental students. A cross-sectional study...E109
Evaluation of the Total Adenylate (ATP+ADP+AMP) Hygiene Monitoring Test in Healthcare Settings...E140
Effectiveness of a training course on smoking cessation knowledge and behavior for health profession students: the SISMA project...E119
Detection of bacterial pathogens in the hands of rural school children across different age groups and emphasizing the importance of hand wash....E103
Psychoactive drug consumption among truck-drivers: a systematic review of the literature with meta-analysis and meta-regressions...E124
Impact of training conferences on high-school students’ knowledge of sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
Creators: name: Orlando, Giovanna
name: Campaniello, Maria
name: Iatosti, Simonetta
name: Grisdale, Paula Joy
Publisher: name: Department of Health Science - University of Genoa
Year: 2019
Subjects: Adolescent health; Sexual health, sexually transmitted infections; intervention strategy

description: This study, part of the health promotion program of a high school in Milan (Italy), was aimed at evaluating the impact of training conferences on the awareness of STIs among adolescents aged 16-17.

Students attending the 3rd class of a Scientific and Linguistic High School in Milan (Italy) participated in this study in November 2017.

All students gave their anonymous answers on a voluntary basis in a pre-test survey, designed by psychologists and infectious diseases specialists, to test their basic knowledge, accuracy, and awareness of STIs. After a two-hour interactive conference, the students were asked to answer the post-test survey. A higher awareness of the spread and the mode of transmission of STIs, of high risk sexual and behavioural practices and prevention methods was observed in the post-test compared to the pre-test.

These findings outline both the need for sexual-health communication campaigns targeted at adolescents, who are at great risk of exposure and mostly unaware of STIs other than HIV/AIDS, and the short-term efficacy of a direct approach to the problem, guided by experts in infectious diseases and psychology. A long-term assessment of the effects of training conferences needs to be evaluated.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 60, No 2 (2019): 2019602
Proper motion L and T dwarf candidate members of the Pleiades
Creators: name: Casewell, S. L.
name: Dobbie, P. D.
name: Hodgkin, S. T.
name: Moraux, E.
name: Jameson, R. F.
name: Hambly, N. C.
name: Irwin, J.
name: Lodieu, N
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of a deep optical-near-infrared multi-epoch survey covering 2.5 square degrees of the Pleiades open star cluster to search for new very-low-mass brown dwarf members. A significant (~ 5 year) epoch difference exists between the optical (CFH12k I-, Z-band) and near infrared (UKIRT WFCAM J-band) observations. We construct I,I-Z and Z,Z-J colour magnitude diagrams to select candidate cluster members. Proper motions are computed for all candidate members and compared to the background field objects to further refine the sample. We recover all known cluster members within the area of our survey. In addition, we have discovered 9 new candidate brown dwarf cluster members. The 7 faintest candidates have red Z-J colours and show blue near-infrared colours. These are consistent with being L and T-type Pleiads. Theoretical models predict their masses to be around 11 Jupiter masses. There is 1 errata for this paper
description: 12 pages, 9 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS Errata: 1 table
Knowledge of sexually transmitted infections and risky behaviours: a survey among high school and university students
Creators: name: Visalli, Giuseppa
name: Cosenza, Bruno
name: Mazzu, Francesco
name: Bertuccio, MariaPaola
name: Spataro, Pasquale
name: Pellicanò, Giovanni F
name: Di Pietro, Angela
name: Picerno, Isa
name: Facciolà, Alessio
Publisher: name: Department of Health Science - University of Genoa
Year: 2019

description: Objectives STIs are a serious public health problem. Worldwide, 500 million people a year acquire a STI, and young are the most affected.

Methods This study was conducted administering an anonymous questionnaire to 1228 Sicilian students of high school and university.

Results The students had variable understanding of STIs and their complications. The results demonstrate an extreme variability in the knowledge of STIs. Multiple linear regression showed that sexual health knowledge was associated with age and sexual orientation.

Conclusions Our results show that knowledge of STIs is poor and inadequate. This finding can put students at risk of STIs.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 60, No 2 (2019): 2019602
Evidence for the B0->ppbarK*0 and B+->eta_cK*+ decays and Study of the Decay Dynamics of B Meson Decays into ppbarh Final States
Creators: name: The BABAR Collaboration
name: Aubert, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With a sample of 232x10^6 Upsilon(4S)->BBbar events collected with the BaBar detector, we study the decays of B mesons to ppbarh final states, where h=pi+,Ks,K*0 or K*+. We report evidence for the B->ppbarK*0 decay, with a branching fraction (1.5+/-0.5(stat)+/-0.4(syst))x10^-6, and for the B+->eta_cK*+ decay, with the branching fraction of Br(B+->eta_cK*+)xBr(eta_c->ppbar)=(1.57^{+0.56}_{-0.45}(stat)^{+0.46}_{-0.36}(syst))x10^-6, and provide improved measurements of the branching fractions of the other modes of this type. We also report the measurements of the charge asymmetry consistent with zero in the B+->ppbarpi+, B0->ppbarK*0 and B+->ppbarK*+ modes. No evidence is found for the pentaquark candidate Theta+ in the mass range 1.52 to 1.55 GeV/c^2, decaying into pKs, or the glueball candidate fJ(2220) in the mass range 2.2
description: 16 pages, 6 postscript figures, submitted to Phys Rev D
Psychoactive drug consumption among truck-drivers: a systematic review of the literature with meta-analysis and meta-regressions
Creators: name: Dini, Guglielmo
name: Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi
name: Montecucco, Alfredo
name: Rahmani, Alborz
name: Durando, Paolo
Publisher: name: Department of Health Science - University of Genoa
Year: 2019
Subjects: truck-drivers; psychoactive drug consumption; systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression; occupational health and wellbeing; road safety

description: Few studies have assessed the entity of psychoactive drug consumption in the occupational setting. The trucking sector, in particular, is an important cause for concern, since psychoactive substance use has a relevant impact on the drivers’ health and safety, increasing the risk of injuries and traffic accidents, potentially affecting the general public health as well. A systematic review of the literature and meta-analysis was performed in order to provide Occupational Health professionals and policy makers with an updated epidemiological perspective regarding this important issue. The results showed a prevalence of overall drug consumption of 27.6% [95%CI 17.8-40.1], particularly high considering illicit CNS-stimulants (amphetamine consumption of 21.3% [95%CI 15.7-28.1], cocaine consumption of 2.2% [95%CI 1.2-4.1]). It appears that truck drivers choose stimulant substances as a form of performance enhancing drug, in order to increase productivity. However, chronic and high dose consumption has been shown to decrease driving skills, placing these professional drivers at risk for health and road safety. Further research is required, particularly in Europe, in order to fill the knowledge gap and improve the strength of evidence.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 60, No 2 (2019): 2019602
HUMAN TRICHINELLOSIS IN ITALY: AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL REVIEW SINCE 1989
Creators: name: Troiano, Gianmarco
name: Nante, Nicola
Publisher: name: Department of Health Science - University of Genoa
Year: 2019
Subjects: Trichinellosis, epidemiology, Italy

description: Objectives Trichinellosis is a worldwide zooantroponosis caused by a nematode of the genus Trichinella. The main source of human infection is the consumption of raw or undercooked meat (especially from pigs, wild boars and horses). Infection with Trichinella was one of the most frequent parasitic diseases inItaly until 1959 when obligatory screening for these parasites in slaughtered swine was introduced. The aim of our review was to describe the epidemiology of Trichinellosis inItaly, because the last review on this topic was performed in 1989.

Study Design We performed a systematic research in MEDLINE

Methods We included in our review studies that were published in the peer reviewed literature using the MESH terms “Trichinellosis” and “Italy”. The only restrictions were the language (articles should be in English, Italian, Spanish or French) and the date of publication: from 1989 to March 2017. We excluded all the articles which referred to trichinellosis in the animals or which focused only on molecular biology of trichinella or on diagnostic techniques.

Results We found 56 studies, but only 8 studies were considered. A total of 764 cases of Trichinellosis occurred inItaly since the 1990:13.75%caused by T. Britovi and 84.42% by T. spiralis; in 14 cases the identification of the parasite was not performed. The outbreaks occurred inUmbria, Piedmont, Apulia (500 cases in 1990, by T. spiralis),Basilicata,Tuscany, Abruzzo, Emilia Romagna,Sardinia. In 2001 and in 2008 two outbreaks occurred in Lazio andVeneto respectively, but imported from abroad. The most important sources of infections were: horse meat (82.19%); wild boar (11.91%); pig (5.89%).

Conclusion Trichinellosis is an old disease, still present in our country, but often forgotten by general practitioners and infectious diseases specialists. Our review shows how it is impossible to define a region with a negligible risk, and how physicians and veterinarians should be regularly trained about this parasitic disease. A strict surveillance, especially on meat products from endemic countries or from wild animals is necessary to considerably reduce the risk of acquiring the infection.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 60, No 2 (2019): 2019602
Το νεοελληνικό θέατρο στα μεταπολεμικά χρόνια (1944-1967)
Creators: name: Σταματοπούλου, Ελένη Γ.
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2017
Subjects: Nεοελληνικό θέατρο
Mεταπολεμικό θέατρο
Eλληνικοί θίασοι
Νεοελληνικό ρεπερτόριο
Greek theatre
Post-war theatre
Greek theatrical groups
Greek repertoire

description: Η διατριβή πραγματεύεται την πολιτική ρεπερτορίου των επαγγελματικών αθηναϊκών θιάσων κατά τα μεταπολεμικά χρόνια και κατά πόσο αυτή επηρεάστηκε από τις κοινωνικοπολιτικές συνθήκες της εποχής. Δίνονται πληροφορίες για τους εν ενεργεία θιάσους, έχει συνταχθεί συνολική παραστασιογραφία της θεατρικής δραστηριότητας και μέσα από μια επιλεγμένη κριτικογραφία, προκύπτουν κάποια συμπεράσματα για την πρόσληψη των παραστάσεων.
description: This thesis deals with the way that professional theatre groups in Athens form their repertoire during post-war era and in which level it is affected by the socio-political circumstances. This thesis provides also information about active theatre groups, their full repertoire and some conclusions that come from selective theatrical reviews.
Der 90. Jahrestag der deutschen Novemberrevolution und der Ermordung Rosa Luxemburgs Ein Überblick über Tagungen, Kolloquien und Foren
Creators: name: Holze, Rainer
name: Luban, Ottokar
Publisher: name: Moving the Social
Year: 2015

description: This is the contribution "Der 90. Jahrestag der deutschen Novemberrevolution und der Ermordung Rosa Luxemburgs Ein Überblick über Tagungen, Kolloquien und Foren" of MTS 43 (2010).
description: Moving the Social, Vol 43 (2010): Forschungen und Forschungsberichte
A Study of Catalogued Nearby Galaxy Clusters in the SDSS-DR4: I. Cluster Global Properties
Creators: name: Aguerri, J. A. L.
name: Sanchez-Janssen, R.
name: Munoz-Tunon, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have selected a sample of 88 nearby (z<0.1) galaxy clusters from the SDSS-DR4 with redshift information for the cluster members. We have derived global properties for each cluster, such as their mean recessional velocity, velocity dispersion, and virial radii. Cluster galaxies have been grouped in two families according to their $u-r$ colours. The total sample consists of 10865 galaxies. As expected, the highest fraction of galaxies (62%) turned to be early-type (red) ones, being located at smaller distances from the cluster centre and showing lower velocity dispersions than late-type (blue) ones. The brightest cluster galaxies are located in the innermost regions and show the smallest velocity dispersions. Early-type galaxies also show constant velocity dispersion profiles inside the virial radius and a mild decline in the outermost regions. In contrast, late-type galaxies show always decreasing velocity dispersions profiles. No correlation has been found between the fraction of blue galaxies and cluster global properties, such as cluster velocity dispersion and galaxy concentration. In contrast, we found correlation between the X-ray luminosity and the fraction of blue galaxies. These results indicate that early- and late-type galaxies may have had different evolution. Thus, blue galaxies are located in more anisotropic and radial orbits than early-type ones. Their star formation seems to be independent of the cluster global properties in low mass clusters, but not for the most massive ones. These observational results suggest that the global environment could be important for driving the evolution of galaxies in the most massive cluster ($σ> 800$ km s$^{-1}$). However, the local environment could play a key role in galaxy evolution for low mass clusters.
description: 19 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project - Volume 54
Creators: name: Rosendahl, B.R.
name: Hekinian, R.
name: The Leg 54 Science Party
Publisher: name: U.S. Government Printing Office
Year: 1980
Subjects: Deep Sea Drilling Project
Glomar Challenger
DSDP
Leg 54
Site 419
Site 420
Site 421
Site 422
Site 423
Site 424
Site 425
Site 426
Site 427
Site 428
Site 429
Pacific Ocean
East Pacific Rise
Siqueiros Fracture Zone
Galapagos Rift

description: This volume covers Leg 54 of the cruises of the Drilling Vessel Glomar Challenger. The Pacific phase of IPOD ocean crust drilling was initiated with Leg 54, the region targeted for study by the Ocean Crust Panel being survey area PT-4 north of the Siqueiros fracture zone on the western flank of the East Pacific Rise (EPR). The original purpose of this leg was to establish a type section for fast-spreading, nonrifted crust by direct sampling with stratigraphic control. We anticipated that this section would serve, in part, as a standard of comparison for other type sections, such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR). The Glomar Challenger left Cristobal, Panama, on the morning of 30 April 1977, to begin transit through the Panama Canal. The ship arrived in San Pedro, California, on the morning of 18 June 1977. During Leg 54, the ship traveled 6333 nautical miles, occupied 11 sites, attempted to drill 18 holes, and successfully penetrated basement at 13 localities.
Optical implementation and entanglement distribution in Gaussian valence bond states
Creators: name: Adesso, Gerardo
name: Ericsson, Marie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study Gaussian valence bond states of continuous variable systems, obtained as the outputs of projection operations from an ancillary space of M infinitely entangled bonds connecting neighboring sites, applied at each of $N$ sites of an harmonic chain. The entanglement distribution in Gaussian valence bond states can be controlled by varying the input amount of entanglement engineered in a (2M+1)-mode Gaussian state known as the building block, which is isomorphic to the projector applied at a given site. We show how this mechanism can be interpreted in terms of multiple entanglement swapping from the chain of ancillary bonds, through the building blocks. We provide optical schemes to produce bisymmetric three-mode Gaussian building blocks (which correspond to a single bond, M=1), and study the entanglement structure in the output Gaussian valence bond states. The usefulness of such states for quantum communication protocols with continuous variables, like telecloning and teleportation networks, is finally discussed.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures. To appear in Optics and Spectroscopy, special issue for ICQO'2006 (Minsk). This preprint contains extra material with respect to the journal version
How can Research Libraries Deal with Predatory Publishing?
Creators: name: Schmitz, Jasmin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: There are many open access journals that are funded by article processing charges (APCs), also known as publication fees. A small number of these journals provide little or no peer review and editorial or publishing services in return for the money they charge. These kinds of business practices are referred to as “predatory publishing”. At least since the media coverage in summer 2018 it has become clear that libraries, which consider themselves as supporters for researchers in every stage of the research cycle and which facilitate access to curated scientific content need to take action. The issue of predatory publishing mainly tackles the following working fields in research libraries:

	services regarding open access publishing: financing of open access publication fees by institutional funds;
	advisory services: providing help to researchers to select appropriate publication (open access) venues or to those who fell prey;
	acquiring and indexing of open access content: exclude predatory journals in order to make sure that they will not get further attention or legitimacy.

There are several approaches to deal and identify predatory journals:

	blacklists e.g. Beall’s list, Cabell’s that name “the black sheep”;
	white lists which – according to the context – name positive examples or recommend venues for publishing, e.g. journal lists issued by societies or departments;
	neutral lists which were actually set up for other purposes but can also be used in the context of predatory publishing e.g. journal lists of indexing services such as PubMed or Web of science;
	list of criteria, tailored to subject field and target audience, e.g. those by THINK-CHECK-SUBMIT.

The presentation will discuss a kind of “inventory”: How can the different approaches be used in the library context and what are the advantages and disadvantages of the different approaches? When it comes the list: Which criteria can be applied to identify predatory journals? How can research libraries raise awareness among researchers? How to deal with predatory journals in the context of acquisition and indexing?

The presentation will also report on some results of a workshop on predatory publishing that was held at ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences in December 2018 with delegates from different library departments.