cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Blood gases, biochemistry and haematology of Galápagos marine iguanas ( Amblyrhynchus cristatus )
Creators: name: Muñoz-Pérez, Juan Pablo
name: Lewbart, Gregory A.
name: Denkinger, Judith
name: Brothers, J. Roger
name: García, Juan
name: Lohmann, Kenneth J.
name: Hirschfeld, Maximilian
name: Vinueza, Luis
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: The marine iguana, Amblyrhynchus cristatus, is an iconic lizard endemic to the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador, but surprisingly little information exists on baseline health parameters for this species. We analysed blood samples drawn from 35 marine iguanas captured at three locations on San Cristóbal Island. A portable blood analyser (iSTAT) was used to obtain near-immediate field results for pH, lactate, partial pressure of O2, partial pressure of CO2, bicarbonate (HCO3−), percentage O2 saturation, haematocrit, haemoglobin, sodium, potassium, ionized calcium and glucose. Parameter values affected by temperature were auto-corrected by the iSTAT. Standard laboratory haematology techniques were employed for differential white blood cell counts and haematocrit determination; resulting values were also compared with the haematocrit values generated by the iSTAT. Body temperature, heart rate, respiratory rate and body measurements were also recorded. Body length was positively correlated with several blood chemistry values (HCO3− and glucose) and two haematology parameters (haemoglobin and manually determined haematocrit). A notable finding was the unusually high blood sodium level; the mean value of 178 mg/dl is among the highest known for any reptile. This value is likely to be a conservative estimate because some samples exceeded the maximal value the iSTAT can detect. For haematocrit determination, the iSTAT blood analyser yielded results significantly lower than those obtained with high-speed centrifugation. The values reported in this study provide baseline data that may be useful in comparisons among populations and in detecting changes in health status among marine iguanas affected by natural disturbances or anthropogenic threats. The findings might also be helpful in future efforts to demonstrate associations between specific biochemical parameters and disease.
Sabrina Sea Floor Survey (IN2017-V01) Piston Core Images, Visual Logs and grain size DATA summaries IN2017-V01-A005-PC01
Creators: name: O'Brien, Philip
name: Opdyke, Bradley
name: Post, Alexandra
name: Armand, Leanne
Publisher: name: Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University
Year: 2020
Subjects: East Antarctica
Sabrina Coast
Totten Glacier
Piston Core
Colour description
Colour analysis
Grain size
PC-01

description: This document presents images, colour description, colour analysis profiles and summary grain size data for individual core sections from piston core IN2017-V01-A005-PC01 collected during the Sabrina Sea Floor Survey on the RV Investigator between January and March 2017. Detail of the survey can be obtained in the post-survey report (Armand et al., 2018).
COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE AS A FACTOR OF PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF A FUTURE SPECIALIST
Creators: name: Ataullayeva, Maxbuba
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: this article explores the significance of communicative competence as a pivotal factor in the personal and professional development of future specialists. Effective communication skills are essential for individuals embarking on their professional journeys. They play a crucial role in building relationships, fostering collaboration, and achieving success in various fields. The development of communicative competence empowers future specialists to navigate complex social and professional landscapes, enhancing their overall growth and efficacy.
Design of the Trial of Activity in Adolescent Girls (TAAG)
Creators: name: Murray, David M.
name: Webber, Larry S.
name: Simons-Morton, Denise G.
name: Young, Deborah R.
name: Stevens, June
name: Lytle, Leslie A.
name: Hannan, Peter J.
name: Elder, John P.
name: Catellier, Diane J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: The primary aim of the Trial of Activity in Adolescent Girls (TAAG) is to test an intervention to reduce by half the age-related decline in moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) in middle school girls. The intervention will be evaluated using a group-randomized trial involving 36 middle schools. The primary endpoint is the mean difference in intensity-weighted minutes (i.e., MET-minutes) of MVPA between intervention and comparison schools assessed using accelerometry.
Contemporary representation of feminicide and its victims: cultural trauma and melodrama in Mexican digital media
Creators: name: Gutierrez Hernandez, Alejandra Lizbeth
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Feminicides are the violent killings of women, which occur more than ten times a day in Mexico. Researchers have criticized the violent representation of such crimes in the news, particularly the sensationalist news coverage that contributes to social indifference through graphic photographs, provocative headlines, and victim-blaming narratives. Scholarly literature to date has examined news articles, TV newscasts, documentaries and novels, mostly centred on Ciudad Juárez during the 1990s. However, these studies have not dealt with the representation of feminicide and its victims in contemporary digital texts that suggest strategies have shifted towards sympathy for victims, calls for justice, and avoidance of explicit violence. My thesis aims to address this gap by examining contemporary online news media representation, which I identify as creative, melodramatic, and consistent with feminist and activist master narratives that have emerged in Mexico over three decades. Located at the nexus of gender, media, and feminist studies, this project employs qualitative research to explore trauma and affect in online media representation. First, I will address feminicide as cultural trauma in order to highlight those narrative accounts arising from a collective process of meaning-making about the nature of the crisis, victims, perpetrators, and the audience's relationship towards victims. Next, I will refer to melodrama as a mode of communication in Mexican culture to emphasise its prominence in both crime news and early anti-feminicide campaigns depicting victims. Third, I will undertake a textual analysis of three animated videos produced by different media brands. I argue that today's style of representation is progressive but also problematic. While adopting the language and claims of anti-feminicide movements, vindicating women’s status as victims and memorialising their individualities, contemporary digital media representations maintain traces of sensationalism, lack an intersectional lens, and frame women’s experiences according to neoliberal standards of virtue in order for their lives and deaths to matter. The current approach faces the challenge of directing sentimentality into actual social change or solidarity networks while avoiding the risk of making feminicide into a spectacle of suffering.
Covariate-assisted spectral clustering
Creators: name: Binkiewicz, Norbert
name: Vogelstein, Joshua T.
name: Rohe, Karl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Biological and social systems consist of myriad interacting units. The interactions can be represented in the form of a graph or network. Measurements of these graphs can reveal the underlying structure of these interactions, which provides insight into the systems that generated the graphs. Moreover, in applications such as connectomics, social networks, and genomics, graph data are accompanied by contextualizing measures on each node. We utilize these node covariates to help uncover latent communities in a graph, using a modification of spectral clustering. Statistical guarantees are provided under a joint mixture model that we call the node-contextualized stochastic blockmodel, including a bound on the mis-clustering rate. The bound is used to derive conditions for achieving perfect clustering. For most simulated cases, covariate-assisted spectral clustering yields results superior to regularized spectral clustering without node covariates and to an adaptation of canonical correlation analysis. We apply our clustering method to large brain graphs derived from diffusion MRI data, using the node locations or neurological region membership as covariates. In both cases, covariate-assisted spectral clustering yields clusters that are easier to interpret neurologically.
description: 28 pages, 4 figures, includes substantial changes to theoretical results
Repositórios de dados: caso de estudo do COI Catalogue
Creators: name: Santos, Joaquim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Repositório de dados
Caso de estudo
Herbário da Universidade de Coimbra

description: O Herbário da Universidade de Coimbra é o maior herbário português, com cerca de 800.000 exemplares de plantas, fungos, algas e líquenes.

O espólio das coleções biológicas contém informação valiosa sobre biodiversidade. Durante séculos essa informação esteve pouco acessível, mas nas últimas décadas a informatização permitiu a sistematização desta informação e a sua divulgação de forma estruturada através da internet. O portal de dados do Herbário da Universidade de Coimbra - COI Catalogue - disponibiliza a informação dos exemplares que se encontram digitalizados.

Este caso de estudo faz parte de um conjunto de casos de uso de implementação de repositórios de dados institucionais e temáticos, focando essencialmente a sua caracterização geral, aspetos de políticas e processos, aspetos técnicos da plataforma, agregação em diretórios e certificação.

A recolha dos casos foi realizada pelo Grupo de Trabalho do Fórum de Gestão de Dados de Investigação 'Repositórios de Dados: Tecnologia, organização e certificação'.
Cognitive impairments in a Down syndrome model with abnormal hippocampal and prefrontal dynamics and cytoarchitecture
Creators: name: Muza, PM
name: Bush, D
name: Pérez-González, M
name: Zouhair, I
name: Cleverley, K
name: Llorian-Sopena, M
name: Aoidi, R
name: West, SJ
name: Good, M
name: Tybulewicz, VLJ
name: Walker, MC
name: Fisher, EMC
name: Chang, P
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Model organisms
subject: Signalling & Oncogenes
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Human Biology & Physiology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: The Dp(10)2Yey mouse carries a ∼2.3-Mb intra-chromosomal duplication of mouse chromosome 10 (Mmu10) that has homology to human chromosome 21, making it an essential model for aspects of Down syndrome (DS, trisomy 21). In this study, we investigated neuronal dysfunction in the Dp(10)2Yey mouse and report spatial memory impairment and anxiety-like behavior alongside altered neural activity in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and hippocampus (HPC). Specifically, Dp(10)2Yey mice showed impaired spatial alternation associated with increased sharp-wave ripple activity in mPFC during a period of memory consolidation, and reduced mobility in a novel environment accompanied by reduced theta-gamma phase-amplitude coupling in HPC. Finally, we found alterations in the number of interneuron subtypes in mPFC and HPC that may contribute to the observed phenotypes and highlight potential approaches to ameliorate the effects of human trisomy 21.
PRINCIPLES OF CREATING A DICTIONARY OF CHEMISTRY AND BIOLOGY TERMS IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK LANGUAGES
Creators: name: Nabijonova, Nilufar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: In today's interconnected and globalized world, effective communication and knowledge exchange across different languages are of paramount importance. The field of science, particularly chemistry and biology, relies heavily on precise and standardized terminology to ensure accurate understanding and dissemination of information. This abstract presents an overview of the principles involved in creating a comprehensive dictionary of chemistry and biology terms in both English and Uzbek languages.
Involving communities in the design of clinical trial protocols: The BAN Study in Lilongwe, Malawi
Creators: name: Ahmed, Yusuf
name: Nkhoma, Jacqueline R.
name: Tohill, Beth Carlton
name: Piwoz, Ellen G.
name: Mtimuni, Beatrice
name: Adair, Linda
name: Bentley, Margaret E.
name: Kazembe, Peter
name: van der Horst, Charles
name: Moses, Agnes
name: Duerr, Ann
name: Corneli, Amy L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: To learn the attitudes and concerns of the local community on participating in research, infant feeding practices, and maternal nutrition in order to inform the design of a clinical trial in Lilongwe, Malawi on the safety and efficacy of antiretroviral and nutrition interventions to reduce postnatal transmission of HIV.
Connectivity of Soft Random Geometric Graphs Over Annuli
Creators: name: Kartun-Giles, Alexander P.
name: Georgiou, Orestis
name: Dettmann, Carl P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nodes are randomly distributed within an annulus (and then a shell) to form a point pattern of communication terminals which are linked stochastically according to the Rayleigh fading of radio-frequency data signals. We then present analytic formulas for the connection probability of these spatially embedded graphs, describing the connectivity behaviour as a dense-network limit is approached. This extends recent work modelling ad hoc networks in non-convex domains.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures
Beyond “Baby Blues”: Making Sense of Postpartum Depression Online
Creators: name: Joshua, Kaitlin Hope
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Postpartum depression (PPD) is defined as an “unspecified depressive disorder” that occurs up to four weeks post-childbirth. This definition, and others, are clinical diagnostic tools that do not consider lay understandings of PPD. Using qualitative analysis of posts on social networking website Reddit, this study argues that postpartum depression is another dimension of medicalized reproduction. Analysis of the data shows that while some posters found postpartum depression a useful category, other posters found this label inadequate in explaining the challenges of the postpartum period. A third group of posters negotiated this classification and utilized intra-community interactions to establish normalcy. Overall, discussions of postpartum depression in online spaces allowed posters to make sense of their experiences and helped them articulate pathways to wellbeing. These findings rethink the postpartum period, and build on literature which suggests that women resist, accept, and, at times, negotiate the medicalization of reproduction.
Additional file 3: of TERT expression is susceptible to BRAF and ETS-factor inhibition in BRAFV600E/TERT promoter double-mutated glioma
Creators: name: Gabler, Lisa
name: Lรถtsch, Daniela
name: Kirchhofer, Dominik
name: Sushilla Schoonhoven
name: Schmidt, Hannah
name: Mayr, Lisa
name: Pirker, Christine
name: Neumayer, Katharina
name: Dinhof, Carina
name: Kastler, Lucia
name: Azizi, Amedeo
name: Dorfer, Christian
name: Czech, Thomas
name: Haberler, Christine
name: Peyrl, Andreas
name: Kumar, Rajiv
name: Slavc, Irene
name: Spiegl-Kreinecker, Sabine
name: Gojo, Johannes
name: Berger, Walter
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S1. mRNA expression of ETS transcription factors and downstream targets in tumor tissue. Figure S2. Expression of Ets-factors and TERT in TCGA RNA sequencing data sets. Figure S3. Evaluation of TP53 and CDKN2A/Rb signaling pathways. Figure S4. Activation levels of MEK, ERK and ETS1. Figure S5. Anti-proliferative effects of BRAF inhibitors. Figure S6. Inhibition of TERT expression upon vemurafenib treatment. Figure S7. ETS1 inhibition upon vemurafenib treatment. Figure S8. Changes in expression patterns in patient tissue upon targeted treatment. Figure S9. Ectopic TERT re-expression partly rescues double-mutant glioma cells from YK-4-279- mediated cytotoxicity. Figure S10. Combined BRAF and Ets-factor inhibition. (PDF 786 kb)
Accounting for the sedative and analgesic effects of medication changes during patient participation in clinical research studies: Measurement development and application to a sample of institutionalized geriatric patients
Creators: name: Williams, Christianna S.
name: Sloane, Philip
name: Ivey, Jena
name: Roth, Mary
name: Roederer, Mary
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: To date, no system has been published that allows investigators to adjust for the overall sedative and/or analgesic effects of medications, or changes in medications, in clinical trial participants for whom medication use cannot be controlled. This is common in clinical trials of behavioral and complementary/alternative therapies, and in research involving elderly or chronically ill patients for whom ongoing medical care continues during the trial. This paper describes the development, and illustrates the use, of a method we developed to address this issue, in which we generate single continuous variables to represent the daily sedative and analgesic loads of multiple medications.
Incorporating UAVs into urban logistics combinatorial optimization problems
Creators: name: Zhu, Tengkuo
name: 0000-0001-8365-4349
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2022
Subjects: UAV
Vehicle routing problem
Optimization

description: With the significant advance in battery and propulsion systems in recent years, drones represent the future landscape of urban logistic systems. Drone delivery is efficient and environmentally friendly. Meanwhile, this delivery method also suffers from low payload capacity and short flight range. In this dissertation, the author explores the application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or drones, into urban logistic combinatorial optimization problems. Specifically, this dissertation analyzes how the adoption of drones would improve the efficiency of the last-mile urban logistic system and how it can be used in specific scenarios such as post-disaster. This dissertation also explores how drones can deliver time-sensitive commodities such as food and medicine. By exploring the possibility of incorporating UAVs into the urban logistic system, this dissertation sheds some light on how this new technology will change people's lives in the foreseeable future.
Rotational invariant estimator for general noisy matrices
Creators: name: Bun, Joël
name: Allez, Romain
name: Bouchaud, Jean-Philippe
name: Potters, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Finance (q-fin.MF)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We investigate the problem of estimating a given real symmetric signal matrix $\textbf{C}$ from a noisy observation matrix $\textbf{M}$ in the limit of large dimension. We consider the case where the noisy measurement $\textbf{M}$ comes either from an arbitrary additive or multiplicative rotational invariant perturbation. We establish, using the Replica method, the asymptotic global law estimate for three general classes of noisy matrices, significantly extending previously obtained results. We give exact results concerning the asymptotic deviations (called overlaps) of the perturbed eigenvectors away from the true ones, and we explain how to use these overlaps to "clean" the noisy eigenvalues of $\textbf{M}$. We provide some numerical checks for the different estimators proposed in this paper and we also make the connection with some well known results of Bayesian statistics.
description: 19 pages, 9 figures
Demanding Deliberation: How Climate Movements Imagine a More Deliberative Democracy
Creators: name: Doughty, Neil
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: This thesis investigates why and how climate movements demand citizens’ assemblies and imagine a more deliberative democracy. To understand why, I first explain the link between insufficient emissions reductions policy and activist demands for “more democracy.” Then, I contextualize citizens’ assemblies (CAs) within an ongoing “deliberative wave” of new democratic processes that have developed dialectically with a theoretical field of deliberative democracy. I argue that climate movements and CAs have joined forces because they have the potential to fill complementary niches in deliberative systems. To understand how this partnership plays out, I take a demand-driven research approach to CAs, analyzing how two German climate movements, Scientists for Future Germany and Klimaneustart Berlin, successfully demanded two CAs. My findings show that when demanding deliberation, not all movements make the same case for CAs; climate movement organizations’ identities tend to align with the imaginaries they articulate in their demands. Based on these findings, I conclude that climate CAs can most effectively contribute to sustainability transformations when co-developed with movements embracing a radical imaginary of a more deliberative democracy.
Early anti-pseudomonal acquisition in young patients with cystic fibrosis: Rationale and design of the EPIC clinical trial and observational study,
Creators: name: Mayer-Hamblett, Nicole
name: Gibson, Ronald L.
name: Treggiari, Miriam M.
name: Rosenfeld, Margaret
name: Williams, Judy
name: Ramsey, Bonnie W.
name: Kronmal, Richard A.
name: Retsch-Bogart, George
name: Emerson, Julia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: The primary cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) is progressive obstructive pulmonary disease due to chronic endobronchial infection, particularly with Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Pa). Risk factors for and clinical impact of early Pa infection in young CF patients are less well understood.
Gender differences in the interoceptive awareness: a pilot study on Italian people
Creators: name: Re, Anna
name: Malvica, Sonia
name: Lucifora, Chiara
name: Perconti, Pietro
name: Bruni, Domenica
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2023
Subjects: Bodily Self; Gender Differences; Interoception; Emotional States; MAIA.

description: Background: Bodily self-recognition requires the individual to be able to refer to himself through a reflexive representation, typically a schema or an image of one’s own body. Body ownership results from an interplay between exteroception and interoception (i.e., the ability to perceive one’s own body from the inside). It has been demonstrated that perceiving sensations inside the body could be associated with better regulation of emotions. Also, it has been reported that interoceptive awareness may be affected by gender. Therefore, this pilot study aimed to investigate gender differences in the interoceptive awareness among Italian people. Methods: 114 Italian volunteers (57 males and 57 females) completed the 32-item Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA) questionnaire to measure the multiple dimensions of interoceptive awareness. Results: The findings showed higher scores among females than among males for the ability to notice interoceptive input and the awareness of the relationship between bodily sensations and emotional states. Conclusions: Results suggested that women could be more inclined to notice and focus on internal cues. Also, the gender differences could be related to physical and hormonal changes that women experience during development. Future research on the relationship between gender and physiological responses (e.g., heartbeat, skin conductance) for a specific ethnographic sample is recommended.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 11, No 1 (2023)
Lean Production and Industry 4.0 integration: how Lean Automation is emerging in manufacturing industry
Creators: name: Rossini, Matteo
name: Costa, Federica
name: Tortorella, Guilherme Luz
name: Valvo, Alessia
name: Portioli-Staudacher, Alberto
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Despite its potentialities, Lean Automation (LA) has not attracted attention for over two decades. However, due to the new opportunities offered by Industry 4.0 technologies, LA revives expectations and enthusiasm. This paper aims to test empirically the association of LA, in the form of integration of Lean practices and Industry 4.0 technologies, and operational performance. The paper used a rigorous, multi-stage empirical method and data from a set of more than 200 manufacturing firms; one representative from each of the studied companies filled in a survey on Lean practices and Industry 4.0 technology bundles, with productivity, delivery, inventory, quality as performance indicators. The extensive survey results helped in identifying underlying components of LA: one focuses on operational stability and includes practices and technologies supporting efficiency along the supply chain; the other focuses on streamlining the flow, on fastening the process to reach the customer. Moreover, it demonstrates the positive correlation between LA and operational performance. Besides its contribution to the body of knowledge on LA, this research paves the base of improving academics and practitioners understanding of the integration of new technologies with Lean Production systems.
Understanding happiness among university students: The role of general health, psychological well-being, and sociodemographic variables
Creators: name: Mota, Edite
name: Brandão, Tânia
name: Costa, Sonia Remondes
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2023
Subjects: Subjective happiness; Perceived general health; Psychological well-being; University students.

description: Background: Happiness is an important dimension for university students since it can have a positive impact on students’ academic performance and social relationships. This research was conducted to investigate the role of sociodemographic variables in explaining individual differences in subjective happiness in a sample of university students and to test the mediating role of psychological well-being in the association between perceived general health and subjective happiness. Methods: Participants were 504 university students (62% female; Mage = 20.97; SD = 2.42). The data was collected in person using self-report scales for measuring general health, psychological well-being, and subjective happiness. Results: The results of the study indicated that students who study in the institution in which they want to study and students who were married or involved in a romantic relationship presented higher levels of subjective happiness. Additionally, the mediational proposed model showed that perceived general health was linked to subjective happiness through psychological well-being, specifically happiness and self-esteem. Conclusions: Prioritizing happiness can help create a more positive and fulfilling university experience for students. This can be achieved by promoting student’s general health and psychological well-being.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 11, No 1 (2023)
The impact of psychological assistance in Italian Primary Care: data collected from 2016 to 2018 in the district of Bologna
Creators: name: Vivit, Bianca
name: Chiri, Luigi Rocco
name: Ciotti, Emanuele
name: Patierno, Chiara
name: Gallo, Gabriella
name: Chiappelli, Marco
name: Fioritti, Angelo
name: Berardi, Domenico
name: Menchetti, Marco
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2023
Subjects: Psychological assistance; Primary care; Mental health; Integrated care; General practitioners.

description: It is common for a general practitioner to meet patients who suffer from mental disorders such as depression or anxiety in the context of Primary Care (Alexander et al., 2008; Anthony et al., 2010; Consensus ISS, 2022; Regier et al. 1978, 1993; Goldberg Goodyer, 2005; Ustün Sartorius, 1995; WHO, 2016). This study reports data about clinical activity during the period 2016-2018 regarding the psychological assistance provided by the project “Lo psicologo nella Casa della Salute” in the Italian city of Bologna (Aru et al., 2019). The “Casa della Salute” (CdS) is a territorial health care outpatient facility that aims to offer services of Primary Care to the general population of a specific district. Moreover, CdS is a starting point for the collaboration between the Mental Health Department (MHD) and the Primary Care Department (PCD). Previous experiences about psychologist in Primary Care (Liuzzi, 2010; Solano, 2009) highlighted: (1) positive increase of therapeutic outcomes through improvement of appropriate access to psychological care and (2) active role of psychologist in promoting communication between different professionals involved in mental health care. In the 2016-2018 period, different interventions have been organized: (1) orientation towards the network of Health Services, (2) psychological interventions to support the activity of the health personnel of the CdS, (3) low intensity psychological intervention (6-8 session), (4) psychotherapy intervention (15-20 session). Statistical analyses have been conducted on a sample of 613 patients who were referred to the psychologist of the CdS. The results indicates that the “Lo psicologo nella Casa della Salute” proposes an effective model of integrated health care.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 11, No 1 (2023)
Traumatic potential of Recurrent Implantation Failure in Assisted Reproductive Technology paths for couples experiencing infertility
Creators: name: Fusco, Chiara
name: Righetti, Pier Luigi
name: Pellicelli, Camilla
name: Masaro, Chiara
name: Longo, Silvia
name: Calvo, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2023
Subjects: Recurrent Implantation Failure; Infertility; Assisted Reproductive Technology; Couple; Reproductive Trauma.

description: Heterosexual couples dealing with infertility can seek Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) treatments to achieve pregnancy. Within these programs, infertile couples can experience Recurrent Implantation Failure (RIF), which is the failure to achieve a clinical pregnancy after three or more transfers of good-quality embryos into the uterus. RIF also refers to cases of biochemical pregnancy in which increased levels of Beta hCG hormone are detected without subsequent signs of clinical pregnancy. Although the psychological literature has shown that the repetition of ART attempts significantly correlates with negative psychological outcomes for men and women, to date there are no studies regarding the potentially traumatic features of RIF experiences. Hence, we provide an overview of the extant literature to highlight points of contact between the features of traumatic experiences and those of RIF and infertility, including the specific characteristics that make the population of infertile couples in ART programs potentially more vulnerable to trauma. This article aims to stimulate reflection in this area and emphasize the importance of expanding research to deepen our knowledge of the psychological processes involved in RIF conditions within ART treatments for infertile couples.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 11, No 1 (2023)
Executive functioning in college students with anxiety and depression: a multivariate analysis
Creators: name: Palomares Gómez, Juan Francisco
name: Grisales, Andrés Mauricio
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2023
Subjects: Neuropsychology; Anxiety; Depression; University students.

description: Background: Executive functioning regulates, integrates and coordinates cognitive processes allowing the achievement of goals. Several research studies determined that anxiety and depression in College students interconnect bidirectionally with executive functions. Objective: The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between anxiety, depression and executive functioning in a sample of college students from the city of Manizales-Colombia. Method: This study used a simple probabilistic cluster sampling, a sample of 224 students from different universities in the city of Manizales was formed, the average age was 21 years, 75.9% of the sample was female. Updating (WAIS IV Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale), shifting (Wisconsin Card Sorting Test - WCST), inhibitory control (Colors and Words Test - STROOP), anxiety (State-Trait Anxiety Inventory - STAI) and depression (Beck Depression Inventory II), were measured. Results: Using multivariate analysis, specific differences were found between executive domains and some emotional variables. Discussion: Trait anxiety correlates negatively with working memory and increases the probability of presenting a high level of shifting, as well as depression increases the probability of inhibition was above average.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 11, No 1 (2023)
Axonopsis (Paraxonopsis) panduvarna Cook 1967
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Axonopsidae
Axonopsis
Axonopsis panduvarna

description: Axonopsis (Paraxonopsis) panduvarna Cook, 1967
Records from the study area: Maharashtra—Cook (1967); Prasad (1974); Pešić & Ranga Reddy (2009).
Habitat: Hyporheobiont (?), after Cook (1967).
Distribution: India.
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
Nonholonomic Jet Deformations and Exact Solutions for Modified Ricci Soliton and Einstein Equations
Creators: name: Rajpoot, Subhash
name: Vacaru, Sergiu I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 58A20, 53C05, 53C43, 83C15, 83D05

description: Let $\mathbf{g}$ be a pseudo--Riemanian metric of arbitrary signature on a manifold $\mathbf{V}$ with conventional $n+n$ dimensional splitting, $\ n\geq 2,$ determined by a nonholonomic (non--integrable) distribution $\mathcal{N}$ defining a generalized (nonlinear) connection and associated nonholonomic frame structures. We shall work with a correspondingly adapted linear metric compatible connection $\hat{\mathbf{D}}$ and its nonzero torsion $\hat{\mathcal{T}}$, both completely determined by $\mathbf{g}$. Our first goal is to prove that there are certain generalized frame and/or jet transforms and prolongations with $(\mathbf{g},\mathbf{V})\rightarrow (\hat{\mathbf{g}},\hat{\mathbf{V}})$ into explicit classes of solutions of some generalized Einstein equations $\hat{\mathbf{R}}\mathit{ic}=Λ\hat{\mathbf{g}}$, $Λ=const$, encoding various types of nonholonomic) Ricci soliton configurations and/or jet variables and symmetries. The second goal is to solve additional constraint equations for zero torsion, $\hat{\mathcal{T}}=0$, on generalized solutions constructed in explicit forms with jet variables and extract Levi-Civita configurations. This allows us to find generic off-diagonal exact solutions depending on all space time coordinates on $\mathbf{V}$ via generating and integration functions and various classes of constant jet parameters and associated symmetries. We shall study (third goal) how such generalized metrics and connections can be related by so-called "half-conformal" and/ or jet deformations of certain sub-classes of solutions with one, or two, Killing symmetries. Finally, there are considered some examples when exact solutions are constructed as nonholonomic jet prolongations of the Kerr metrics, with possible Ricci soliton deformations, and characterized by nonholonomic jet structures and generalized connections.
description: 36 pages with table of content, latex 2e, 11 pt, v3 accepted to IJGMMP. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1312.4844
Modifications of a large HIV prevention clinical trial to fit changing realities: A case study of the Breastfeeding, Antiretroviral, and Nutrition (BAN) protocol in Lilongwe, Malawi
Creators: name: Kourtis, Athena
name: Kazembe, Peter
name: Adair, Linda
name: Ellington, Sascha
name: Piwoz, Ellen
name: Loeliger, A. Edde
name: Chasela, Charles
name: Bentley, Margaret
name: Duerr, Ann
name: Hoffman, Irving
name: Hosseinipour, Mina
name: Martinson, Francis
name: Ahmed, Yusuf
name: Tohill, Beth
name: Jamieson, Denise
name: Hudgens, Michael
name: Knight, Rodney
name: van der Horst, Charles
name: Fiscus, Susan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: In order to evaluate strategies to reduce HIV transmission through breast milk and optimize both maternal and infant health among HIV-infected women and their infants, we designed and implemented a large, randomized clinical trial in Lilongwe, Malawi. The development of protocols for large, randomized clinical trials is a complicated and lengthy process often requiring alterations to the original research design. Many factors lead to delays and changes, including study site-specific priorities, new scientific information becoming available, the involvement of national and international human subject committees and monitoring boards, and alterations in medical practice and guidance at local, national, and international levels. When planning and implementing a clinical study in a resource-limited setting, additional factors must be taken into account, including local customs and program needs, language and socio-cultural barriers, high background rates of malnutrition and endemic diseases, extreme poverty, lack of personnel, and limited infrastructure. Investigators must be prepared to modify the protocol as necessary in order to ensure participant safety and successful implementation of study procedures. This paper describes the process of designing, implementing, and subsequently modifying the Breastfeeding, Antiretrovirals, and Nutrition, (BAN) study, a large, ongoing, randomized breastfeeding intervention trial of HIV-infected women and their infants conducted at a single site in Lilongwe, Malawi. We highlight some of the successes, challenges, and lessons learned at different stages during the conduct of the trial.
Psychological risk and protective factors in people with hypertension
Creators: name: Kopilaš, Vanja
name: Brajković, Lovorka
name: Korać, Dora
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2023
Subjects: Hypertension; Stress resilience; Defense mechanisms; Emotional regulation and control.

description: Backgrounds: Hypertension is a leading cardiovascular risk factor whose prevalence in global population doubled in the last 30 years. In addition to lifestyle and genetic factors, it can be caused or exacerbated by certain psychological factors. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between resilience, coping strategies, emotional regulation and control and associated aspects of health status in people diagnosed with hypertension. Methods and Measures: The study was conducted on 203 participants during their visit in the private clinic. Participants were mostly males (56.7%), and the mean age was 66 years (SD = 10.04). A structured protocol consisted of sociodemographic data, Brief Resilience Scale, Emotional Regulation and Control Questionnaire and Defense Style Questionnaire. Results: Our findings showed that female participants, participants with other health problems in addition to hypertension, participants with heart attack history and those who do not engage in physical activity and rarely consume alcohol have less stress resistance. Men and frequent alcohol consumers are less prone to neurotic defense mechanism. Emotional regulation and neurotic defense mechanisms appear to be negative predictors of stress resilience, while mature defense style is strong, positive predictor. Conclusion: Indication of significant relationship between certain aspects of health status and resistance to stress, defense mechanisms and emotional regulation was found. The study outcomes suggest an important role of defense mechanisms and emotional regulation in stress resilience which can contribute to improved stress resistance and health outcomes in people with hypertension.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 11, No 1 (2023)
Topological-sector fluctuations and ergodicity breaking at the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition
Creators: name: Faulkner, Michael F.
name: Bramwell, Steven T.
name: Holdsworth, Peter C. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) phase transition drives the unbinding of topological defects in many two-dimensional systems. In the two-dimensional Coulomb gas, it corresponds to an insulator-conductor transition driven by charge deconfinement. We investigate the global topological properties of this transition, both analytically and by numerical simulation, using a lattice-field description of the two-dimensional Coulomb gas on a torus. The BKT transition is shown to be an ergodicity breaking between the topological sectors of the electric field, which implies a definition of topological order in terms of broken ergodicity. The breakdown of local topological order at the BKT transition leads to the excitation of global topological defects in the electric field, corresponding to different topological sectors. The quantized nature of these classical excitations, and their strict suppression by ergodicity breaking in the low-temperature phase, afford striking global signatures of topological-sector fluctuations at the BKT transition. We discuss how these signatures could be detected in experiments on, for example, magnetic films and cold-atom systems.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures
Consumption Habits and Production Programs
Creators: name: Elliott. F., F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1934
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Land Economics/Use
Livestock Production/Industries
Productivity Analysis

description: Tables included: Comparison of actual acreages and livestock production with acreage and production required to support 125 million people at varying consumption and diet levels --- Approximate yearly quantities per capita at varying consumption and diet levels.
description: Address by F. F. Elliott, Chief, Production Planning Section, Agricultural Adjustment Administration, before the Farm Family Living Section of the National Outlook Conference, Washington, D. C., October 30, 1934.
Mental Health Risks in Cultural Heritage First Responders After Disasters: A Review and Suggestions for Future Research
Creators: name: Pajardi, Daniela
name: D'Agostino, Alessandra
name: Gagliardini, Giulia
name: Pepi, Raffaele
name: Colli, Antonello
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2023
Subjects: Disasters; First responders; Cultural heritage; PTSD; Depression; Community identity.

description: Background: Disasters are severely impactful events with the potential to provide injuries or death, destroy properties, and put in danger the mental health of people exposed to them. People who are particularly involved in disasters are first responders. In this work, we will focus on a specific type of first responder, i.e., cultural heritage clinicians who have the responsibility to preserve, protect, and recover cultural heritage from damage. Aims: This review aims to discuss the mental health risks for first responders after disasters, with a specific focus on cultural heritage first responders. Methods: Studies had to be: 1) in English; 2) on adults; 3) original studies or clinical trials; 4) related to the mental health of participants; 5) published in peer-reviewed journals. Exclusion criteria were: 1) being written in languages different from English; 2) being conducted on adolescents/children; 3) not being related to the mental health of participants; 4) being a book/report/summary; 5) not being a clinical trial; 6) not being peer-reviewed. The search was run throughout PsycInfo, PsycArticles, and Medline on the 1st of April 2022 on articles published between 2012 and 2022 by using these keywords: natural disasters or tsunamis or floods or drought or wildfire or earthquake or tornado or hurricane or snowstorm AND first responders or firefighters or paramedics or police or emergency services or emergency medical services AND mental health or mental illness or mental disorder or psychiatric illness. Results: First responders are at risk of depression, anxiety, sleep disturbances, alcohol/substance abuse, and suicide ideation. Currently, there are no studies on mental health risks for cultural heritage first responders. There are some training programs designed for first responders in emergencies. Recent results seem to confirm their usefulness for first responders, leading us to suggest their application also for cultural heritage first responders. Conclusion: Further studies should explore the psychological impact of cultural heritage first responders, as well as the effect that psychological training can have on them.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 11, No 1 (2023)
The Lusternik-Fet theorem for autonomous Tonelli Hamiltonian systems on twisted cotangent bundles
Creators: name: Asselle, Luca
name: Benedetti, Gabriele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37J45, 58E05

description: Let $M$ be a closed manifold and consider the Hamiltonian flow associated to an autonomous Tonelli Hamiltonian $H:T^*M\rightarrow \mathbb R$ and a twisted symplectic form. In this paper we study the existence of contractible periodic orbits for such a flow. Our main result asserts that if $M$ is not aspherical, then contractible periodic orbits exist for almost all energies above the maximum critical value of $H$.
description: 21 pages. We have generalized the results of the previous version to a larger class of manifolds and of energy values. Remarks and comments are very welcome. To appear on Journal of Topology and Analysis