cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Analysis of the Very Inner Milky Way Dark Matter Distribution and Gamma-Ray Signals
Creators: name: Gammaldi, V.
name: Avila-Reese, V.
name: Valenzuela, O.
name: Gonzalez-Morales, A. X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the possibility that the HESS gamma-ray source at the Galactic Center could be explained as the secondary flux produced by annihilation of TeV Dark Matter (TeVDM) particles with locally enhanced density, in a region spatially compatible with the HESS observations themselves. We study the inner 100 pc considering (i) the extrapolation of several density profiles from state-of-the-art N-body + Hydrodynamics simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies, (ii) the DM spike induced by the black hole, and (iii) the DM particles scattering off by bulge stars. We show that in some cases the DM spike may provide the enhancement in the flux required to explain the cut-off in the HESS J1745-290 gamma-ray spectra as TeVDM. In other cases, it may helps to describe the spatial tail reported by HESS II at angular scales < 0.54 degrees towards Sgr A.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in Physical Review D - Rapid Communications
Characterizing Observable COVID-19 Controls in Pacific Northwest Grocery Stores
Creators: name: Chan, Allen
name: Errett, Nicole A.
name: Srikanth, Pranav
name: Baker, Marissa G.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Utilizing a longitudinal, observational study, grocery store health and safety controls implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic across stores in two cities were characterized. Sixteen stores between Seattle, WA (n = 9) and Portland, OR (n = 7) were visited monthly by the study team from May 2020 to January 2021, and observations of controls were recorded using a standardized checklist in REDCap. The checklist included questions on the presence or absence of controls such as physical barriers, social distancing markers, required masking of customers, cleaning of check-out stands, closures of store areas. Descriptive analyses were conducted to determine the proportion of stores with a certain control each month. Mixed effects logistic regression was used to explore how controls changed over time, and whether differences were observed between cities or by income of the area the store serves. Source control (e.g., mask requirements) and engineering controls (e.g., physical barriers at checkout) were the most common and consistent controls observed across stores and over the study period. Controls such having special hours for vulnerable populations, demarcations on aisles for directionality, and cleaning check-out stands between customers varied significantly over time (p < 0.05 in mixed effects model). Having an employee present to clean baskets and carts, and physical barriers between self-checkouts were significantly more common in stores in areas above the median income (p < 0.05 in mixed effects model). To best protect workers and shoppers from infectious agents, controls should be evidence-based, consistently implemented across grocery stores, and coupled with administrative practices and policies to promote worker wellbeing.
Assessment of the Magnitude of Bypassing Public Health Center Delivery Service and Associated factors among Postnatal Women in Negist Eleni Memorial Hospital, South Ethiopia
Creators: name: Elisso, Melesech
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: Introduction: Quality obstetric, medical and nursing care under safe, skilled and well equipped health facilities during pregnancy, child birth and within 6 weeks after birth can reduce the risk of obstetric complications that may cause death or serious illness to the mother, the baby or both. The use of recommended appropriate standard facility in the catchment area for delivery and post partum care strengthen maternal and child health care at individual, community, health care planners and the government level. In developing countries including Ethiopia, bypassing the nearby health facility for childbirth service wastes resources at all levels. However, the magnitude and factors influencing bypassing closer health facilities for childbirth care were not adequately explored. Objective: To assess magnitude of bypassing public health centers to hospital for childbirth and identify factors associated with bypassing in postnatal women in Negist Eleni Memorial hospital. Method: Facility based cross sectional study was conducted among postnatal women in Negist Eleni Memorial hospital from February to March 2016.A pretested and structured interviewer administered questionnaire was used to gather data from 393 randomly selected postpartum women included by using systematic random sampling technique, and then every 2nd eligible woman was interviewed. The data was coded and entered into Epi Info version-7 and exported, cleaned and analyzed using STATA12.1. Tables and charts were used to describe study population and to display results. Bivariate and multivariate analysis was done to identify correlates of bypassing public health centers to hospital for delivery service. Finding: Sixty seven percent of mothers who gave birth in Negist Eleni Memorial hospital bypassed their catchment public health centers. The likelihood of bypassing health center for delivery service were 4.5 times higher among respondents whose husband's educational level was above secondary education [AOR=4.5; 95%CI=1.06, 20.29],Past obstetric complications[AOR=0.28; 95% CI=0.09,0.86] and antenatal care(ANC) attendance in the health centers[AOR=0.13; 95% CI=0.04,0.46] were associated with less likely hood of bypassing. The odds of bypassing were 7.8 times higher [AOR=7.8:95%CI=3.5, 17.5]for those who were living within 13.02km to Nigist Eleni Memorial hospital compared to those living farther. Conclusion: The proportion of women bypassing health centers to receive childbirth care at hospital in our study is high. Preference of the type of health facility for delivery care is associated with husband education, past obstetric complication, place of ANC follow up and distance to hospital.
Assessment of respirable aerosol concentrations using local ventilation controls in an open multi-chair dental clinic
Creators: name: D’Antonio, Nicholas
name: Newnum, Justin
name: Kanellis, Michael
name: Howe, Brian
name: Anthony, T. Renée
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Dental procedures require patients to be unmasked throughout most of a dental visit, with some procedures generating both inhalable and respirable aerosols. Understanding aerosol generation and transport were important to developing protocols to protect both the patient and workers in dental environments early in the COVID pandemic. This study investigated the need, suitability, and effectiveness of using local exhaust ventilation units during patient procedures and examined the impact of patient density in a large, multi-chair dental clinic at an academic institution. Phase One measured respirable aerosol concentrations at the dental assistant’s breathing zone and in neighboring unoccupied patient operatories. Results were compared during four dental procedures with three local ventilation (LV) options, with a single faculty performing procedures on a simulated patient. Phase Two deployed LV in all active patient operatories during procedures on actual patients and examined the impact of clinic patient occupancy on respirable aerosol concentrations throughout the clinic. During Phase One, respirable aerosol concentrations in nearby operatories were significantly higher during ultrasonic scaling (mean = 3.8 and SD = 0.3 µg/m3) and lower during rubber cup polishing (mean = 0.8 and SD = 0.5 mg/m3) (p < 0.001). While the same trend was identified for the dental assistant, differences were not significant. There was no difference in respirable aerosol concentrations by LV type when measured at the dental assist (p = 0.51, task means 3 to 32. 5 µg/m3) or neighboring rooms (p = 0.93, task means 0.6 to 4.0 µg/m3), indicating no improved control for any device tested. For Phase Two, the clinic deployed the extraoral suction (EOS) system in each patient operatory. The background-adjusted aerosol concentrations were significantly reduced (F < 0.001) when the operatories were occupied at 50% compared to 25%, likely attributed to increased air filtration of the room with double the EOS systems in use. While this study provides only a single case investigation, findings confirming respirable aerosol concentrations by procedure and across days provided insights into patient scheduling, local exhaust ventilation selection, and operation, which could be useful to other open multi-chair dental clinics.
Pathways to Naturally Small Dirac Neutrino Masses
Creators: name: Ma, Ernest
name: Popov, Oleg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If neutrinos are truly Dirac fermions, the smallness of their masses may still be natural if certain symmetries exist beyond those of the standard model of quarks and leptons. We perform a systematic study of how this may occur at tree level and in one loop. We also propose a scotogenic version of the left-right gauge model with naturally small Dirac neutrino masses in one loop.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures, version to appear in PLB
Advances in complex impedance for environmental applications
Creators: name: Viezzoli., Andrea
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Diffusive stability of spatially periodic solutions of the Brusselator model
Creators: name: Sukhtayev, Alim
name: Zumbrun, Kevin
name: Jung, Soyeun
name: Venkatraman, Raghavendra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Applying the Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction approach introduced by Mielke and Schneider in their analysis of the fourth-order scalar Swift-Hohenberg equation, we carry out a rigorous small-amplitude stability analysis of Turing patterns for the canonical second-order system of reaction diffusion equations given by the Brusselator model. Our results confirm that stability is accurately predicted in the small-amplitude limit by the formal Ginzburg Landau amplitude equations, rigorously validating the standard weakly unstable approximation and Eckhaus criterion.
title: Cryopreservation of islets of Langerhans
title: Optimization of protocols using rat pancreatic tissue
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Beyer, Jürgen
name: Feilen, Peter J.
name: Hengstler, Jan G.
name: Kann, Peter
name: Mach, Marc-Alexander Von
name: Ringel, Michael
name: Schlosser, Josef
name: Schneider, Stephan
name: Weber, M. M.
name: Weiland, Marcus
name: Weilemann, L. Sacha
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: cryopreservation
subject: dimethyl sulfoxide
subject: pancreatic islets
subject: Sprague-Dawley rat 6
subject: viability
subject: 610

description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 2, 2003
Evaluation of ventilation, indoor air quality, and probability of viral infection in an outdoor dining enclosure
Creators: name: Persing, Allison
name: Roberts, Benjamin
name: Lotter, Jason
name: Russman, Eric
name: Pierce, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: In 2020, many cities closed indoor dining to curb rising COVID-19 cases. While restaurants in warmer climates were able to serve outdoors year-round, restaurants in colder climates adopted various solutions to continually operate throughout the colder months, such as the use of single-party outdoor dining enclosures to allow for the continuation of outdoor dining. This study evaluates indoor air quality and the air exchange rate using carbon dioxide as a tracer gas in a dining enclosure (12.03 m3) and models the probability of COVID-19 infection within such an enclosure. The air exchange rates were determined during two trials for the following scenarios: 1) door closed, 2) door opened, and 3) door opened intermittently every 15 min for one min per opening. The probability of COVID-19 infection was evaluated for each of these scenarios for one hour, with occupancy levels of two, four, and six patrons. The Wells-Riley equation was used to predict the probability of infection inside the dining enclosure. The air exchange rates were lowest in the closed-door scenarios (0.29 to 0.59 ACH), higher in the intermittent scenarios (2.36 to 2.49 ACH), and highest in the open-door scenarios (3.61 to 33.35 ACH). As the number of subjects inside the enclosure increased, the carbon dioxide accumulation increased in the closed-door and intermittent scenarios. There was no identifiable accumulation of carbon dioxide in the open-door scenario. The probability of infection (assuming one infected person without a mask) was inversely proportional to the airflow rate, and ranged from 0.0002 to 0.84 in the open-door scenario, 0.0034 to 0.94 for the intermittent scenarios, and 0.015 to 1.0 for the closed-door scenarios. The results from this study indicate that under typical use, the indoor air quality inside dining enclosures degrades during occupancy. The probability of patrons and workers inside dining enclosures being infected with COVID-19 is high when dining or serving a party with an infected person.
A new synthesis of medium and large heterocycles
Creators: name: Ventrice., Tina
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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4d $\mathcal{N}$=2 theories with disconnected gauge groups
Creators: name: Argyres, Philip C.
name: Martone, Mario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we present a beautifully consistent web of evidence for the existence of interacting 4d rank-1 $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs obtained from gauging discrete subgroups of global symmetries of other existing 4d rank-1 $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs. The global symmetries that can be gauged involve a non-trivial combination of discrete subgroups of the $U(1)_R$, low-energy EM duality group $SL(2,\mathbb{Z})$, and the outer automorphism group of the flavor symmetry algebra, Out($F$). The theories that we construct are remarkable in many ways: (i) two of them have exceptional $F_4$ and $G_2$ flavor groups; (ii) they substantially complete the picture of the landscape of rank-1 $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs as they realize all but one of the remaining consistent rank-1 Seiberg-Witten geometries that we previously constructed but were not associated to known SCFTs; and (iii) some of them have enlarged $\mathcal{N}=3$ SUSY, and have not been previously constructed. They are also examples of SCFTs which violate the Shapere-Tachikawa relation between the conformal central charges and the scaling dimension of the Coulomb branch vev. We propose a modification of the formulas computing these central charges from the topologically twisted Coulomb branch partition function which correctly compute them for discretely gauged theories.
description: 45 pages, 3 figures
D7.1 Checklist and Instructions for gender training needs assessment
Creators: name: Forest, Maxime
name: Mergaert, Lut
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Gender training
Capacity building
Self-Assessment

description: This document is the Checklist and instructions for gender training needs assessment (D7.1) developed under task 7.1 by WP7 leader Yellow Window. With a view to effectively identify partners’ needs in terms of training and capacity building, to be summarized in the Consolidated training needs assessment (D7.2), the deliverable presents a self-assessment instrument (checklist), allowing each implementing partner to identify available capabilities at the level of its organization, in terms of knowledge and skills, for carrying out structural change. The WP leader will further draw upon this self-assessment, to assess which capabilities need to be built or enhanced. This will strengthen partners in their efforts to implement changes towards gender equality and integrating a gender perspective in science. The deliverable comprises a presentation of the purpose and structure of the self-assessment tool, complemented by instructions for use and the MS Excel self-assessment tool that constitutes the actual instrument to be used by GEARING-Roles’ partners to perform their self- assessment.
The geodynamic evolution of the Mount Robe and Mount Franks region, Broken Hill Australia : discovery of crustal-scale extensional shear zones and giant sheath folds
Creators: name: Venn., Caroline
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 16/83
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1983
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Änderung der Diplomprüfungsordnung für den Studiengang Elektrotechnik an der Universität Dortmund vom 31.10.1983
description: Promotionsordnung der Universität Dortmund für die Abteilung Chemietechnik vom 25.07.1983
description: Vereinbarung der Universität Dortmund und der Fachhochschule Dortmund über die Hochschulbibliotheken
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 16, 1983
Magnitude of antibiotic resistant escherichia coli and factors associated with antibiotic resistance among community acquired urinary tract infected patients attending public health centers in Addis Ababa. Ethiopia
Creators: name: Terefe, Simegne
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: Background: Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are one of the most common bacterial infections in humans both in the community and hospital settings. It has estimated 150 million cases of UTI worldwide. E. coli is the most common Uro-pathogenic organism. Increasing resistance in E. coli has been reported globally and now considered as one of the major public health problem. Studies in Ethiopia frequently retrieve highest rate of antibiotic resistant in Uro-pathogenic E. coli isolates from hospitals. Community acquired urinary tract infection or uncomplicated (UTI) is mostly treated at primary health care empirically. There is scares data on this issue from health center where uncomplicated UTI is usually treated empirically. Therefore, Knowledge of the magnitude of antibiotic resistant in this organism and assessment of some patient's activities related OR risk factors which contribute to antibiotic resistant at the community level is important for empirical treatment and future monitoring of antibiotics resistance at community level. Therefore, this study addresses this gap. Objective: To assess magnitude and factors associated with antibiotic resistant in E. coli among community acquired urinary tract infected patients at health center in A.A in the 2017. Methodology: institution based Cross-sectional study was conducted using quantitative methods. Multistage sampling procedure and simple random sampling technique were used to select Sub-cities and health centers. 266 study participants were selected based on their microscopic laboratory Result (urine pus cell count> 10/HPF). Data were collected using interview based questionnaire adopted from different literatures and standardized culture and susceptibility test results record form. Urine sample were collected and analyzed using standard methods. Finally, the collected data were cleaned, entered in to epi-data software and sent to SPSS. Then followed by Analysis of descriptive statistics, bivariate and multivariate respectively Result: About half of participant develops resistance to at least one of the seven antibiotics tested. Ampicillin was found to be the major resisted antibiotic for about three fourth of the seven antibiotics tested for drug sensitivity. Patients who had reported health service facilities were most accessible compared to pharmacies/drug shops; and patients who had taken antibiotics for less than seven days were found to be significantly associated with antibiotics resistance. Conclusion and recommendation: In the study area resistance rates to Ampicillin were high. And Ciprofloxacin was the list resistant and recommended to empirical treatment in the area of study.
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund Nr. 3/2015
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Fächerspezifische Bestimmungen für das Unterrichtsfach Evangelische Religionslehre für ein Lehramt an Grundschulen zur Prüfungsordnung für den Lehramtsbachelorstudiengang an der Technischen Universität Dortmund
description: Fächerspezifische Bestimmungen für das Unterrichtsfach Evangelische Religionslehre für ein Lehramt an Grundschulen zur Prüfungsordnung für den Lehramtsmasterstudiengang an der Technischen Universität Dortmund
description: Fächerspezifische Bestimmungen für das Unterrichtsfach Evangelische Religionslehre für ein Lehramt an Haupt-, Real- und Gesamtschulen zur Prüfungsordnung für den Lehramtsbachelorstudiengang an der Technischen Universität Dortmund
description: Fächerspezifische Bestimmungen für das Unterrichtsfach Evangelische Religionslehre für ein Lehramt an Haupt-, Real- und Gesamtschulen zur Prüfungsordnung für den Lehramtsmasterstudiengang an der Technischen Universität Dortmund
description: Fächerspezifische Bestimmungen für das Unterrichtsfach Evangelische Religionslehre für ein Lehramt an Gymnasien und Gesamtschulen zur Prüfungsordnung für den Lehramtsbachelorstudiengang an der Technischen Universität Dortmund
description: Fächerspezifische Bestimmungen für das Unterrichtsfach Evangelische Religionslehre für ein Lehramt an Gymnasien und Gesamtschulen zur Prüfungsordnung für den Lehramtsmasterstudiengang an der Technischen Universität Dortmund
description: Fächerspezifische Bestimmungen für das Unterrichtsfach Evangelische Religionslehre für ein Lehramt an Berufskollegs zur Prüfungsordnung für den Lehramtsbachelorstudiengang an der Technischen Universität Dortmund
description: Fächerspezifische Bestimmungen für das Unterrichtsfach Evangelische Religionslehre für ein Lehramt an Berufskollegs zur Prüfungsordnung für den Lehramtsmasterstudiengang an der Technischen Universität Dortmund
description: Fächerspezifische Bestimmungen für das Unterrichtsfach Evangelische Religionslehre für ein Lehramt für sonderpädagogische Förderung zur Prüfungsordnung für den Lehramtsbachelorstudiengang an der Technischen Universität Dortmund
description: Fächerspezifische Bestimmungen für das Unterrichtsfach Evangelische Religionslehre für ein Lehramt für sonderpädagogische Förderung zur Prüfungsordnung für den Lehramtsmasterstudiengang an der Technischen Universität Dortmund
description: Fächerspezifische Bestimmungen für die sonderpädagogischen Fachrichtungen für ein Lehramt für sonderpädagogische Förderung zur Prüfungsordnung für den Lehramtsbachelorstudiengang an der Technischen Universität Dortmund
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund ; 3, 2015
Assessment of respirable aerosol concentrations using local ventilation controls in an open multi-chair dental clinic
Creators: name: D’Antonio, Nicholas
name: Newnum, Justin
name: Kanellis, Michael
name: Howe, Brian
name: Anthony, T. Renée
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Dental procedures require patients to be unmasked throughout most of a dental visit, with some procedures generating both inhalable and respirable aerosols. Understanding aerosol generation and transport were important to developing protocols to protect both the patient and workers in dental environments early in the COVID pandemic. This study investigated the need, suitability, and effectiveness of using local exhaust ventilation units during patient procedures and examined the impact of patient density in a large, multi-chair dental clinic at an academic institution. Phase One measured respirable aerosol concentrations at the dental assistant’s breathing zone and in neighboring unoccupied patient operatories. Results were compared during four dental procedures with three local ventilation (LV) options, with a single faculty performing procedures on a simulated patient. Phase Two deployed LV in all active patient operatories during procedures on actual patients and examined the impact of clinic patient occupancy on respirable aerosol concentrations throughout the clinic. During Phase One, respirable aerosol concentrations in nearby operatories were significantly higher during ultrasonic scaling (mean =3.8 and SD =0.3μg/m3) and lower during rubber cup polishing (mean =0.8 and SD =0.5mg/m3) (p < 0.001). While the same trend was identified for the dental assistant, differences were not significant. There was no difference in respirable aerosol concentrations by LV type when measured at the dental assist (p = 0.51, task means 3 to 32. 5μg/m3) or neighboring rooms (p = 0.93, task means 0.6 to 4.0μg/m3), indicating no improved control for any device tested. For Phase Two, the clinic deployed the extraoral suction (EOS) system in each patient operatory. The background-adjusted aerosol concentrations were significantly reduced (F < 0.001) when the operatories were occupied at 50% compared to 25%, likely attributed to increased air filtration of the room with double the EOS systems in use. While this study provides only a single case investigation, findings confirming respirable aerosol concentrations by procedure and across days provided insights into patient scheduling, local exhaust ventilation selection and operation, which could be useful to other open multi-chair dental clinics.
Examination of the Validity of the Denver II Child Development Measurement Tool among Children 24-36 Months Against the Gold Standard of Bayley Scale Iii Edition in Butajira, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Tesfayohannes, Helen
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: Background: Globally there were 249 million children under the age of five years who were at risk of poor development in 2010. Ethiopia is one of the top ten countries with children at high risk of developmental problems. To assess and monitor the developmental status of children, there is a need for reliable and valid measures. The Bayley Scales of Infant and toddler Development III (BSID III) tool is a rigorous measure of child development that has been widely used across different cultural settings. However, the BSID III is resource intensive necessitating the need for simpler tool for large-scale use. Objective: To evaluate the concurrent validity of Denver II in assessing the development of children aged 24 to 36 months who lived in the Butajira Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS), using the BSID III as a gold standard. Methods: The study design was a community-based, cross-sectional concurrent validation design. The study was conducted in the Butajira HDSS, Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples' Regional state on children aged 24-36months who were selected randomly from a sampling frame obtained from the HDSS. Data were collected from March- April 2017. The Denver II and BSID III were administered by independent groups of trained and reliable data collectors who were masked to the status on the other measure. Order of administration was randomized. STATA version 14 was used for analysis. The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value of the Denver II against the BSID III were calculated. Result: A total of 121 children age 24-36 months with their caregivers participated in this study. The response rate was 91.6%. Sixty (49.6%) of the children were male. One hundred seventeen (96.7%) children lived with their biological parents, 3 (2.5%) lived with relatives and 1 (0.8%) lived with unrelated care takers. Using BSID III as the gold standard, the sensitivity of Denver II was 99% for fine motor, 80% for gross motor and 79% for language subscales. The specificity was 12% for fine motor, 11% for gross motor and 39% for language subscales. Total scores on the Denver II had a correlation coefficient of 0.26 for gross motor, 0.42 for fine motors and 0.57 for language subscales with the corresponding BSID III subscales. Conclusion and recommendation: It is important to be able to detect developmental delays in a timely manner so that early intervention can support the child to fulfill their developmental potential. In this rural Ethiopian setting, the Denver II showed potential as a brief screen for developmental delay, with high sensitivity; however, the low specificity means that there will be many false positives. This may limit application of the tool in routine settings. Further studies of adaptation and of short child development measurements are needed.
Οι αντιλήψεις εκπαιδευτικών ως προς διεργασίες ένταξης παιδιών με διαταραχή αυτιστικού φάσματος: δυνατότητες και προκλήσεις
Creators: name: Σούκουλλη, Ίρις Αγκίμ
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Ένταξη
Διαταραχή του φάσματος του αυτισμού
Εκπαιδευτικοί
Inclusion
Autism spectrum disorder
Teachers

description: Στην παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία παρουσιάζονται οι αντιλήψεις των εκπαιδευτικών γενικής εκπαίδευσης, οι οποίοι εργάζονται σε σχολικές μονάδες της πρωτοβάθμιας, σε σχέση με την ένταξη των παιδιών με διαταραχή αυτιστικού φάσματος (ΔΑΦ) στα γενικά σχολεία. Μελετώνται τα οφέλη της ένταξης των μαθητών, οι παράγοντες που περιορίζουν την εφαρμογή της ένταξης αυτών στο ελληνικό εκπαιδευτικό σχολικό πρόγραμμα και οι προϋποθέσεις που απαιτούνται για την επιτυχή εκπαιδευτική ένταξη τους. Προς ενίσχυση των θέσεων αυτών παρουσιάζονται ποσοτικές και ποιοτικές μελέτες για το συγκεκριμένο θέμα, αναλύονται τα εμπόδια και οι δυνατότητες που επικαλούνται οι εκπαιδευτικοί για την ένταξη των παιδιών με διαταραχή αυτιστικού φάσματος. Στα συμπεράσματα, προσπαθούμε να αναγνωρίσουμε σε ποιο βαθμό οι αντιλήψεις και πρακτικές των εκπαιδευτικών ερμηνεύονται με βάση το ιατρικό και κοινωνικό μοντέλο προσέγγισης της αναπηρίας.
description: The current dissertation presents the primary schools teachers’ perceptions of inclusive practices for children labeled with autism spectrum disorder in general schools. Specifically, this dissertation studies the benefits of students' inclusion, the factors that limit the implementation of inclusive practices in the Greek educational school program and the conditions, which are required for their successful educational inclusion. In order to strengthen these positions, quantitative and qualitative studies are presented on this topic, highlighting the obstacles and facilities that teachers argue in favor of inclusion; their views are analyzed and cross-examined in relation to the medical and social model of disability.
Gauge invariant integration and perturbation of Petrov type D spacetimes
Creators: name: Velic., Mirko
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Interacting dark matter and q-deformed dark energy non-minimally coupled to gravity
Creators: name: Dil, Emre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we propose a new approach to study the dark sector of the universe by considering the dark energy as emerging a q-deformed bosonic scalar field which is not only interacting with the dark matter, but also non-minimally coupled to gravity, in the framework of standard Einsteinian gravity. In order to analyze the dynamic of the system, we first give the quantum field theoretical description of the q-deformed scalar field dark energy, then construct the action and the dynamical structure of these interacting and non-minimally coupled dark sector. As a second issue, we perform the phase space analysis of the model to check the reliability of our proposal by searching the stable attractor solutions implying the late-time accelerating expansion phase of the universe.
Asseseement of HIV/Aids Related risks among Men Having Sex with Men (MSM) in Addis Ababa
Creators: name: Hagos, Seifu
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2006

description: Background: There is growing evidence that shows the possible role of anal intercourse between the same sex in the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in Africa. Such generalization is also applicable in African countries where such sexual behavior has become an emergent phenomenon. Objective: To asses the possible role of MSM in the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in Addis Ababa. Methods: An ethnographic study was conducted in different parts of Addis Ababa between January'06- March'06. Snowball sampling method was used to recruit MSM, hot line counselors and victims of anal rape. Four Focus group discussions with MSM, key informant interviews with three counselors as well as with three anal rape victims and observation at bars, streets and tearooms were done. Data on the extent, patterns of sexuality and related issues on MSM were collected and analyzed using open code software and ground theory approach to qualitative data analysis. Results: Contextual factors (socio-cultural and politico legal issues) were found to be the bases of the development of risk behaviors to HIV/AIDS. This contextual factor operates through mediators such as individual behavioral causes and immediate casual factors. Different strategies were explored for possible cross bridging of infection between the subgroup and the other heterosexual community. Conclusions: The practice of MSM is beyond what one would expect in the city and different factors are seen to lead people to get engaged in such sexual behavior. As this practice exposes to HIV/AIDS related risks, it is high time to discuss this issue openly with in the context of current efforts to control the HIV pandemic.
The NANOGrav Nine-Year Data Set: Excess Noise in Millisecond Pulsar Arrival Times
Creators: name: Lam, M. T.
name: Cordes, J. M.
name: Chatterjee, S.
name: Arzoumanian, Z.
name: Crowter, K.
name: Demorest, P. B.
name: Dolch, T.
name: Ellis, J. A.
name: Ferdman, R. D.
name: Fonseca, E.
name: Gonzalez, M. E.
name: Jones, G.
name: Jones, M. L.
name: Levin, L.
name: Madison, D. R.
name: McLaughlin, M. A.
name: Nice, D. J.
name: Pennucci, T. T.
name: Ransom, S. M.
name: Shannon, R. M.
name: Siemens, X.
name: Stairs, I. H.
name: Stovall, K.
name: Swiggum, J. K.
name: Zhu, W. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gravitational wave astronomy using a pulsar timing array requires high-quality millisecond pulsars, correctable interstellar propagation delays, and high-precision measurements of pulse times of arrival. Here we identify noise in timing residuals that exceeds that predicted for arrival time estimation for millisecond pulsars observed by the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves. We characterize the excess noise using variance and structure function analyses. We find that 26 out of 37 pulsars show inconsistencies with a white-noise-only model based on the short timescale analysis of each pulsar and we demonstrate that the excess noise has a red power spectrum for 15 pulsars. We also decompose the excess noise into chromatic (radio-frequency-dependent) and achromatic components. Associating the achromatic red-noise component with spin noise and including additional power-spectrum-based estimates from the literature, we estimate a scaling law in terms of spin parameters (frequency and frequency derivative) and data-span length and compare it to the scaling law of Shannon \& Cordes (2010). We briefly discuss our results in terms of detection of gravitational waves at nanohertz frequencies.
description: 20 pages, 16 figures, to be published in ApJ
Effect of spin-orbit coupling on the zero-point renormalization of the electronic band gap in cubic materials: First-principles calculations and generalized Fröhlich model
Creators: name: Brousseau-Couture, Véronique
name: Gonze, Xavier
name: Côté, Michel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electronic structure of semiconductors and insulators is affected by ionic motion through electron-phonon interaction, yielding temperature-dependent band gap energies and zero-point renormalization (ZPR) at absolute zero temperature. For polar materials, the most significant contribution to the band gap ZPR can be understood in terms of the Fröhlich model, which focuses on the nonadiabatic interaction between an electron and the macroscopic electrical polarization created by a long-wavelength optical longitudinal phonon mode. On the other hand, spin-orbit interaction (SOC) modifies the bare electronic structure, which will, in turn, affect the electron-phonon interaction and the ZPR. We present a comparative investigation of the effect of SOC on the band gap ZPR of twenty semiconductors and insulators with cubic symmetry using first-principles calculations. We observe a SOC-induced decrease of the ZPR, up to 30%, driven by the valence band edge, which almost entirely originates from the modification of the bare electronic eigenenergies and the decrease of the hole effective masses near the $Γ$ point. We also incorporate SOC into a generalized Fröhlich model, addressing the Dresselhaus splitting which occurs in noncentrosymmetric materials, and confirm that the predominance of nonadiabatic effects on the band gap ZPR of polar materials is unchanged when including SOC. Our generalized Fröhlich model with SOC provides a reliable estimate of the SOC-induced decrease of the polaron formation energy obtained from first principles and brings to light some fundamental subtleties in the numerical evaluation of the effective masses with SOC for noncentrosymmetric materials. We finally warn about a possible breakdown of the parabolic approximation within the physically relevant energy range of the Fröhlich interaction for materials with high phonon frequencies treated with SOC.
description: 34 pages including Supplemental Material; 10 figures, 1 table, 3 Supplementary figures, 9 Supplementary tables
Αμφίγραπτες εικόνες στο Βυζάντιο. Τέχνη και λειτουργία
Creators: name: Σουρβίνος, Ορέστης- Γεώργιος Θεοφάνη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Βυζαντινή αρχαιολογία
Ζωγραφική- εικονογραφία
Βυζαντινές εικόνες
Byzantine archaeology
Byzantine painting- iconography
Byzantine icons

description: Στην παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία παρουσιάζεται το καλλιτεχνικό φαινόμενο των αμφίγραπτων βυζαντινών εικόνων και η χρήση τους. Συγκεντρώνεται ένας μεγάλος αριθμός εικόνων, σχολιάζονται ως προς την εικονογραφία τους, την προέλευσή τους και ερμηνεύεται ο ρόλος και η λειτουργία τους. Στον πρώτο τόμο υπάρχουν τα εξής κεφάλαια: Στην εισαγωγή περιγράφονται οι στόχοι της έρευνας. Στο πρώτο κεφάλαιο παρουσιάζονται οι σχετικές θέσεις με τις αμφίγραπτες εικόνες που έχουν διατυπωθεί. Στο δεύτερο κεφάλαιο κατατάσσονται οι εικόνες σε κατηγορίες ανάλογα με το συνδυασμό των θεμάτων των παραστάσεων και γίνονται ερμηνείες σε σχέση με τη λειτουργία και το περιεχόμενό τους. Στο τρίτο κεφάλαιο εκτίθενται τα ποικίλα συμπεράσματα κυρίως γύρω από τη χρήση και το ρόλο τους στη λειτουργική ζωή και τη θέση τους στους ναούς. Δίνεται έμφαση στην εικονογραφία και τη σύνδεση των παραστάσεων και επίσης τονίζεται η σημασία της επανάχρησής τους. Ο πρώτος τόμος κλείνει με τον επίλογο και τη βιβλιογραφία. Ακολουθεί ο δεύτερος τόμος ως παράρτημα που περιλαμβάνει το διαθέσιμο εποπτικό υλικό και τον κατάλογο των εικόνων.
description: This thesis researches the art and the liturgical function of bilateral icons from the Byzantine period. There have been collected as many as possible contemporaneous bilateral icons. The study examines the iconography, the origin and also their role and function in the liturgy. The main volume includes the following chapters: The introduction specifies the main objectives of the thesis. The first chapter presents the views of the major researchers considering the bilateral icons, mainly the connection between the icons and the Passion. The second chapter consists of the list of the bilateral icons and their analysis. The icons are sorted according to their iconography and the combination of the represented themes and they are also examined based on the iconography and their function. The conclusions are drawn in the third chapter. The emphasis is on the correlation between the painted sides with reference on specific numbers as well as the role and presence of these icons in the church and the religious services. New interpretations and suggestions are attempted on the repainting and reuse of the bilateral icons. The first volume closes with the epilogue and the bibliography followed by the second one which includes the complete catalogue of the icons with the available tables.
Interactions between insect predators in a rocky stream in south-eastern Australia
Creators: name: Vazquez., Maria
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Exactly solvable $N$-body quantum systems with $N=3^k \ ( k \geq 2)$ in the $D=1$ dimensional space
Creators: name: Bachkhaznadji, A.
name: Lassaut, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the exact solutions of a particular class of $N$ confined particles of equal mass, with $N=3^k \ (k=2,3,...),$ in the $D=1$ dimensional space. The particles are clustered in clusters of 3 particles. The interactions involve a confining mean field, two-body Calogero type of potentials inside the cluster, interactions between the centres of mass of the clusters and finally a non-translationally invariant $N$-body potential. The case of 9 particles is exactly solved, in a first step, by providing the full eigensolutions and eigenenergies. Extending this procedure, the general case of $N$ particles ($N=3^k, \ k \geq 2$) is studied in a second step. The exact solutions are obtained via appropriate coordinate transformations and separation of variables. The eigenwave functions and the corresponding energy spectrum are provided.
description: 24 pages, one figure
Early-type galaxies with gas disks
Creators: name: Varnas., Saulius Raymond
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
Ethiopian Field Epidemiology Training Program (EFETP) Compiled Body of Works in Field Epidemiology
Creators: name: Abrha, Getaneh
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2014

description: Introduction: Measles is one of the leading causes of death among young children even though a safe and cost-effective vaccine is available. In 2011, there were 158 000 measles deaths globally – about 430 deaths every day or 18 deaths every hour. More than 95% of measles deaths occur in low-income countries with weak health infrastructures. Measles vaccination resulted in a 71% drop in measles deaths between 2000 and 2011 worldwide. On 8 November 2013, Aleta Chuko Woreda reported suspected measles outbreak; and team was deployed to investigate the outbreak. Methods: Reviewed of line lists from the Woreda Health Office; surveillance reports and records were reviewed. Defined cases based on national measles guideline. Besides, both descriptive and case control study designs were applied and data was analyzed using MS-Excel and EPI-INFO 7. Results: Totally 478 cases were reported from Aleta Chuko Woreda during the outbreak period. Close to 129(27 %) of the cases had conjunctivitis, 410(85.8 %) had cough; 61(12.7 %) of them had diarrhea. Two hundred four (53%) of the cases were Males. Cases were aged 3 month to 60 years old; with mean age of 9 years and median age of 8years. Ninety four (19.6 %) of the cases were under five, while 384(80.3 %) of them were five and above years old. Only 186 (38.9 %) of the cases had one dose vaccination history; while 262(54.8%) and30 (6.3 %) of the case were unvaccinated and did not known their status respectively. Conclusions: Age groups five and above year olds were highly affected. There was no outreach site and functional Cold chain system in the affected Kebeles of the Woreda. The protective effect of the vaccinations made so far were questionable. Low vaccination coverage, low community awareness and non-functional cold storage likely contributed to the outbreak. Getaneh-compiled body of work-May 2014 Page 4 Community awareness and enhancing quality vaccination coverage are crucial to reduce measles incidence in this Woreda and in the Region. Key Words: Measles cases, age group, Vaccination, Aleta Chuko