cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Manual scan imaging sonar
Creators: name: Lent, Keith
name: Krueger, Kenneth
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: G01S7/6236
subject: G01S7/521
subject: G01S7/533
subject: G01S15/89
subject: G01S15/025
subject: G01S15/42
subject: H04B11/00
subject: 367/104

description: A manual scan sonar integrates multiple technologies into a compact and low cost single beam sonar having the ability to generate wide sector views comparable to that of much larger and more expensive multiple-beam sonar units. The manual scan sonar uses a piezoelectric transducer, orientation and motion sensors, a power preamplifier and amplifier, and a microcomputer with a display, all contained within a compact waterproof housing. In operation, the user scans the sonar across an area, and the orientation and motion sensors monitor the user's natural human motion to provide bearing information which is processed and stored by the microcomputer. The ultrasonic information provided by the sound echoes is displayed on the display screen of the computer as a continuous sector. This sonar may be adapted for either diver-held or topside use.
Is the Voting Behavior of African American Christians a Paradox?: The Role of Religion and Race in the Social Construction of Political Identity
Creators: name: Allen, C'Asia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Scholars have asserted that the political behavior of African Americans is odd due to the paradoxical occurrences of Conservative-identifying Black Americans who nonetheless identify with and vote for the Democratic Party. It is Black Christians who are largely contributing to this paradox because many are considered socially Conservative because of their Christian values. This paper draws from an analysis of 15 semi-structured interviews with African American Christians to investigate how the conceptualization of Christianity influences the political behaviors of African American Christians, to critically analyze this paradox in questioned. This paradox assumes that: (1) Black Americans voting behavior is unusual because there is not a great deal of party and ideological sorting, and (2) that their social behavior is Conservative. Yet, scholars have not questioned the legitimacy of these assumptions. Traditional Christian values have been associated with conservatism and Conservative politics, but God does not describe his tenets as Conservative or Liberal, so why is it that society continues to do so. While scholars continue to grapple with what some claim is the paradoxical occurrences of Black self-identifying Conservatives who vote democratically, I ask that we also consider why do we deem this occurrence as odd and why do we continue to characterize God as Conservative. The way that we assume that our self-ideologies should align with our political ideologies, and the way that we relate traditional Christian values to conservatism comes from patterns identified in White American political discourse. It should not be assumed that all racial groups will follow this pattern.
sj-pdf-1-rss-10.1177_1043463120919380 - Supplemental material for You are who your friends are?
Creators: name: Winter, Fabian
name: Mitesh Kataria
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-rss-10.1177_1043463120919380 for You are who your friends are? by Fabian Winter and Mitesh Kataria in Rationality and Society
title: Fiber-optic confocal imaging apparatus and methods of use
Creators: name: Richards-Kortum, Rebecca R.
name: Descour, Michael R.
name: Bowman, Brett S.
name: Smithpeter, Colin L.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: A61B5/0084
subject: A61B5/0068
subject: G02B23/2453
subject: G02B23/26
subject: 600/478
subject: 600/182
subject: 606/10

description: An apparatus and methods for fiber optic confocal imaging systems. A plurality of fibers are in communication with a scan system that controllably deflects incident radiation into the fibers in a raster pattern. An index matching agent reduces specular reflections from the fibers.
Nutrition-related In-service Training: Potential to Build Public Health Nutrition Capacity in Zambia
Creators: name: Tiedt, Malik
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2024

description: An upstream, systems-based approach involving interventions both within and outside of the health sector are needed to alter this trajectory of undernutrition. The effectiveness of delivering nutrition interventions relies on bolstering the public health nutrition (PHN) workforce. In the health sector, this may involve increased training for a variety of professionals such as physicians, midwives, community health workers, community health volunteers, and others who provide nutrition-related care. Before allocating effort and resources to improve in-service training that enhances the efficacy of nutrition interventions, we must develop a thorough understanding of who is providing nutrition-related care, the prior training they have received, and their current knowledge pertaining to the prevention and management of undernutrition in low-resource contexts.
This study utilizes data from a facility and community readiness assessment survey conducted in 2021 as part of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Zambia’s Scaling Up Nutrition Learning and Evaluation (SUN LE). Data are used to explore which professionals provide nutrition care in Zambian health facilities and what in-service training they have received. This research also examines the relationship between in-service training, the type of care being provided, and nutrition knowledge about maternal, infant, and child nutrition. Understanding which professionals provide nutrition care, the training they have received, and their nutrition knowledge in Zambian health facilities can inform future efforts regarding the allocation, development, and improvement of in-service training that aims to build PHN workforce capacity.
sj-pdf-1-eup-10.1177_1465116520923752 - Supplemental material for The Early Warning System and policymaking in the European Union
Creators: name: Gruisen, Philippe Van
name: Huysmans, Martijn
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 120505 Regional Analysis and Development
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-eup-10.1177_1465116520923752 for The Early Warning System and policymaking in the European Union by Philippe van Gruisen and Martijn Huysmans in European Union Politics
(Un)Fair Dealing: The Presidency of Woodrow Wilson and Black U.S. Army Soldiers during the First World War
Creators: name: Akins, Abigail
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023
Subjects: U.S. History
Military history

description: While the United States Army in the 21st century is one with visible diversity throughout its ranks, the First World War was less than inclusive towards Black service members during the conflict. This thesis centers Woodrow Wilson, the President of the United States from 1913-1921, within the conflict and in the lives of Black U.S. Army soldiers. I argue that President Wilson’s adherence to the Lost Cause ideology, and later his relationships he leveraged with Black elites like W.E.B. Du Bois, negatively altered the lived experience of Black U.S. Army soldiers during the Great War. By expanding the historiography of this time period by focusing directly on President Wilson, this thesis further argues that President Wilson politically used his relationships with the Black elite to gain support from the Black electorate in the years prior to the war, improving America’s war effort from 1917-1918. Wilson’s political agenda throughout his presidency made it advantageous for him to gain black support, but through both his actions and inactions on racial violence and segregation in America, altered the lives of Black Americans which continued on in the 20th century.
title: Treating medical conditions by polymerizing macromers to form polymeric materials
Creators: name: Hubbell, Jeffrey A.
name: Sawhney, Amarpreet S.
name: Desai, Neil P.
name: Pathak, Chandrashekhar P.
name: Hill-West, Jennifer L.
name: Hossainy, Syed
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: A61K9/1635
subject: A61K9/1647
subject: A61K9/5026
subject: A61K9/5031
subject: A61K9/5073
subject: A61K38/42
subject: A61K38/44
subject: A61K47/645
subject: A61K47/6903
subject: A61K47/6927
subject: A61L24/0031
subject: A61L24/0042
subject: A61L24/046
subject: A61L26/0019
subject: A61L27/34
subject: A61L27/3683
subject: A61L27/38
subject: A61L27/52
subject: A61L29/085
subject: A61L31/10
subject: A61L31/145
subject: A61L31/148
subject: A61K2035/128
subject: B82Y5/00
subject: C08B37/003
subject: C08B37/0072
subject: C08B37/0084
subject: C08F290/00
subject: C08F290/02
subject: C08F290/06
subject: C08F290/062
subject: C08F290/08
subject: C08F290/10
subject: C08F291/00
subject: C08L71/02
subject: C09D153/00
subject: C12N11/04
subject: C12N5/0012
subject: C12N5/0677
subject: C12N2533/30
subject: C12N2533/32
subject: C12N2533/40
subject: C12N2533/74
subject: Y10S514/801
subject: Y10S530/812
subject: Y10S530/813
subject: Y10S530/815
subject: Y10S530/817
subject: Y10T428/2987
subject: Y10T428/2989
subject: 424/423
subject: 424/78.8
subject: 424/78.31
subject: 424/93.1
subject: 424/93.7
subject: 424/94.1
subject: 424/422
subject: 424/426
subject: 424/484
subject: 424/486
subject: 424/487
subject: 424/488
subject: 435/178
subject: 435/180
subject: 435/182
subject: 435/197
subject: 435/382
subject: 435/395
subject: 514/17.7
subject: 530/812
subject: 530/813
subject: 530/815
subject: 530/817

description: Water soluble macromers are modified by addition of free radical polymerizable groups, such as those containing a carbon-carbon double or triple bond, which can be polymerized under mild conditions to encapsulate tissues, cells, or biologically active materials. The polymeric materials are particularly useful as tissue adhesives, coatings for tissue lumens including blood vessels, coatings for cells such as islets of Langerhans, and coatings, plugs, supports or substrates for contact with biological materials such as the body, and as drug delivery devices for biologically active molecules. A medical condition at a localized site is treated by applying a polymerization initiator and then applying a substantially water-soluble, degradable macromer of at least 200 mw and having at least two crosslinkable substituents, and polymerizing the macromer to form a crosslinked polymeric material at the site. The crosslinked polymeric material may adhere two surfaces together, or be a barrier that provides immunoisolation or prevents adhesion of the site to another surface such as post-surgical adhesion. A biologically active material may be present when the macromer is polymerized to provide for delivery of the biologically active material, or to provide the polymeric material with a desired property such as resistance to bacterial growth or a decrease in inflammatory response.
Additional file 2 of Identifying effective diagnostic biomarkers for childhood cerebral malaria in Africa integrating coexpression analysis with machine learning algorithm
Creators: name: Li, Jia-Xin
name: Liao, Wan-Zhe
name: Huang, Ze-Min
name: Yin, Xin
name: Ouyang, Shi
name: Gu, Bing
name: Guo, Xu-Guang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Figure S2. The network topology analysis for various soft-thresholding powers.
Chroniclers and Kings: Portrayals of Kingship in the Twelfth Century
Creators: name: Hill, Graham
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: This thesis is a study of the presentation of kingship in twelfth-century chronicle writing. It mostly focuses on England and France, with a third chapter dedicated to pseudo-histories produced during this time period. It seeks to investigate the values and beliefs held by medieval historians and how they applied these to contemporary kings.  Among the historians discussed are Orderic Vitalis, Henry of Huntingdon, William of Malmesbury, the unknown writer of the Gesta Stephani, Abbot Suger of St. Denis, Odo of Deuil, Geoffrey of Monmouth, and the unknown writer of the Pseudo-Turpin chronicle. The kings discussed are Henry I and Stephen in England, Louis VI and Louis VII in France, and King Arthur and Charlemagne (as presented by Pseudo-Turpin).
supplement_material_1 – Supplemental material for Access to library services and facilities by persons with disability: Insights from academic libraries in Ghana
Creators: name: Ayoung, Daniel Azerikatoa
name: Baada, Frederic Naazi-Ale
name: Baayel, Patrick
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Supplemental material, supplement_material_1 for Access to library services and facilities by persons with disability: Insights from academic libraries in Ghana by Daniel Azerikatoa Ayoung, Frederic Naazi-Ale Baada and Patrick Baayel in Journal of Librarianship and Information Science
title: Oral lubricant for athletic mouth protector
Creators: name: McGinity, James W.
name: Morrow, Robert M.
name: Kuebker, William A.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: A61Q11/00
subject: A61K8/02
subject: A63B71/085
subject: 508/143

description: An oral lubricant effective in reducing the discomfort associated with the wearing of a mouth protector during periods of activity consisting essentially of a thickening agent, a preservative, a flavoring agent, a sweetener, an emulsifier, if needed, and a liquid diluent.
The Arc of the Triangle’s Direct Support Professional program: an ethnography
Creators: name: Biju, Stane
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: This paper is an ethnography of The Arc of the Triangle, looking specifically at their direct support professional initiative. This organization provides support services for developmentally and intellectually disabled individuals, as well as their families, through the direct support professional program. Using an anthropological perspective, I explore the struggles of the Arc and the barriers that prevent them from providing support while also highlighting the support they provide to the local community and working as a direct support professional.
title: Perfluoro crown ethers
Creators: name: Lagow, Richard J.
name: Lin, Wen-Huey
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: C07D323/00
subject: 549/352
subject: 549/353

description: This specification discloses novel perfluorinated crown ethers which are believed useful as oxygen carriers and in the construction of various biomedical products.
title: Two-pulse tracer ejection method for determining injection profiles in wells
Creators: name: Hill, Alfred D.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: E21B47/1015
subject: 250/259
subject: 250/260

description: In a method of radioactive tracer logging, two slugs of tracer material are ejected. The slugs are ejected either sequentially from a single location or simultaneously from two spaced-apart locations. The distance between the tracer slugs is measured by moving a detector through the tracer slugs as they move down the borehole. The distance between the two slugs of tracer material are repeatedly measured as a function of depth, and from the measurements the amount of fluid exiting the wellbore is calculated to provide an injection profile of the well.
Exposure of Traditional Fishing Communities in the 2019 Brazilian Oil Spill
Creators: name: Neal, Mercy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: In late July 2019, crude oil began washing up on the northeastern shore of Brazil. Over the months following, surveys on the effects of the oil spill on the health, socioeconomic conditions, and exposures of several indigenous subsistence fishing communities in the area were examined. These communities were exposed to crude oil both during fishing activities and because these communities led cleanup efforts of local beaches and mangroves. This thesis works to summarize the exposures these communities experienced during 2019 and early 2020, comparing exposures reported by community, demographic variables, and by the types of activities that individuals participated in. Routes of high exposure are identified and individuals are scored on the diversity of their exposures. A comprehensive picture of the nature and diversity of the exposures of these communities is built in order to inform future quantifications of health outcomes and socioeconomic analysis.
Additional file 1 of Lithium use in childhood and adolescence, peripartum, and old age: an umbrella review
Creators: name: Janiri, Delfina
name: Sampogna, Gaia
name: Albert, Umberto
name: Caraci, Filippo
name: Martinotti, Giovanni
name: Serafini, Gianluca
name: Tortorella, Alfonso
name: Zuddas, Alessandro
name: Fiorillo, Andrea
name: Sani, Gabriele
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. PRISMA flow diagram of included studies. Figure S2. Risk of bias assessment for each systematic review. Table S1. CCA of the primary studies included in the systematic reviews on pediatric population. Table S2. CCA of all the randomized controlled trials (RCT) included in the systematic reviews on pediatric population. Table S3. CCA of the primary studies included in the systematic reviews on pregnancy and peripartum. Table S4. CCA of the primary studies included in the systematic reviews on pregnancy and peripartum without case reports
Supplement_1 – Supplemental material for Measurement properties of translated versions of the Shoulder Pain and Disability Index: A systematic review
Creators: name: KC, Sudarshan
name: Saurab Sharma
name: Ginn, Karen A
name: Reed, Darren
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: 110604 Sports Medicine
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental material, Supplement_1 for Measurement properties of translated versions of the Shoulder Pain and Disability Index: A systematic review by Sudarshan KC, Saurab Sharma, Karen A Ginn and Darren Reed in Clinical Rehabilitation
Additional file 3 of BIGKnock: fine-mapping gene-based associations via knockoff analysis of biobank-scale data
Creators: name: Ma, Shiyang
name: Wang, Chen
name: Khan, Atlas
name: Liu, Linxi
name: Dalgleish, James
name: Kiryluk, Krzysztof
name: He, Zihuai
name: Ionita-Laza, Iuliana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3. Review history.
Cell cycle-regulation of human embryonic stem cells upon differentiation
Creators: name: Amirsaman Zahabioun
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Pluripotent human embryonic stem cells undergo differentiation to generate three primary germ layers: ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm, each of which serves as a precursor to particular body organs and tissues during development. The organization of the cell cycle of embryonic stem cells, however, is not well established during their differentiation. Through a data-driven approach, iterative indirect immunofluorescence imaging (4i), we investigated how the structure of the cell cycle changes upon differentiation. Through 4i imaging, we captured the changing expression of select regulatory proteins during differentiation. This multidimensional information describing the cell cycle was reduced into a two-dimensional visual “structure” of the cell cycle through manifold learning. The cell cycle structure depicted a continuum of states where cells reside during differentiation while demonstrating the trajectory of their differentiation. Understanding the change in the organization of the cell cycle of human embryonic stem cells upon differentiation and the expression of regulatory proteins at stake is promising in navigating the reprogramming of adult cells into an induced-pluripotent state.
The Impacts of Theta Stimulation in the Claustrum During A Sustained Attention Task
Creators: name: Dinh, Alvin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Sustained attention, understood as the persistent maintenance of attention extended over long periods of time, has long been studied in rodents through the 5-choice serial reaction time task (5-CSRTT). Tools such as optogenetic stimulation and in-vivo electrophysiology have allowed us to map the neural circuit behind sustained attention. With more complex animal models, such as the ferret, and perturbations during freely moving behavioral sessions, the task of isolating attention-like behavior has become more challenging. Our objective is to understand the behavior behind a sustained attention task and the behavioral impacts of frequency-specific optogenetic stimulation within the claustrum on ferrets during the 5-CSRTT. We will achieve this goal by utilizing optogenetic stimulation, multi-site electrophysiology, and video scoring to probe the claustrum in freely moving ferrets and verify changes in neural oscillations. Observed changes in neural activity are then compared to changes in measured behavior. Observed behaviors in the ferret include trial outcomes and the physical orientation of the ferret and reaction time during the behavioral session. These investigations will help us to establish further insights about behavior impacted by stimulation on the claustrum and its relation to sustained attention.
title: Sampling average phase meter
Creators: name: Bailey, Rick S.
name: Holly, Arthur C.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: G01R25/00
subject: H03D13/00
subject: 324/76.77
subject: 327/3

description: Apparatus for generating a signal indicative of the phase of a selected pulsed single frequency signal in a background of noise. A first averaging phase detector generates the average phase of the selected signal. A second averaging phase detector generates the average phase of a quadrature signal. Pulse phase averagers compensate for noise in the average phases. A quadrature logic section selects the first average phase when it varies linearly, and selects a phase proportional to the guadrature phase when the first phase varies non-linearly.
Reassessment of Peripheral Nerve Stimulation thresholds for the Impulse model-optimized asymmetric head gradient coil
Creators: name: Feinberg, David A
name: Ma, Samantha
name: Walker, Erica
name: Beckett, Alexander JS
name: Rattenbacher, Dominik
name: Rummert, Elmar
name: Dietz, Peter
name: Davids, Mathias
name: Boulant, Nicolas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Purpose: Peripheral Nerve Stimulation (PNS) remains a physiologic limitation to boosting spatiotemporal resolution with more powerful gradients. We investigate discrepancies in previous measurements and model predictions from the PNS experienced by volunteers scanned with the investigational “Impulse” gradient coil on the NexGen 7T scanner.

 

Methods: Twenty-nine volunteers (18 males, mean ± SD age 52.2 ± 17.1 years) underwent PNS characterizations in the scanner. The process was repeated after the subject positions were moved by 2 cm and 4 cm towards feet, away from isocenter. This new data was compared to prior experimental data acquired at the factory (32 volunteers, 16 males, mean ± SD age 58.3 ± 13.5 years) and to modeling results initially used to guide the gradient winding pattern.

 

Results:  The PNS threshold for the X-axis (left-right) was significantly below the threshold level predicted by the model used to optimize the wiring pattern, and thresholds measured in the factory, while there was closer agreement for both the Y-(anterior-posterior) and Z-axes (superior-inferior). The X-axis threshold increased as the subject was moved in the Z direction towards the foot end of the magnet, at the expense of gradient non-linearity distortions. Sensitivity of the threshold for the X-axis was measured as 20 mT/m per centimeter Z-offset.

 

Conclusion: PNS threshold of the X-axis measured in the scanner was much lower than predicted by the optimization model, and as measured at the factory. Our measurements verified that PNS thresholds of asymmetric head gradient coils were sensitive to head position, subject variability, and age.  The discrepancy of the PNS prediction model remains to be elucidated.

 

 

Key Words: peripheral nerve stimulation, magneto-stimulation thresholds, gradient coil design, MRI safety, high performance gradient, NexGen 7T, brain imaging
Self Interest or Benevolence? Finding the Motive Behind US Intervention in the Post-Cold War Era
Creators: name: Mendoza, Oscar
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Is there a pattern to US foreign policy, specifically pertaining to the Global South? Using mixed effects logistic regression, this thesis will apply the three main theories of International Political Economy (IPE) to cases of US sanctions and arms transfers in order to compare which theory can best predict which countries the United States decides to oppose or support in the post-Cold War era. I hypothesize that the United States will place its economic self-interest, as the Neomercantalist and Materialist theories define it, above that of its stated humanitarian goals of promoting democracy and human rights. The results of the regression generally confirm the Neomercantilist and Materialist hypotheses on US support, but support neither the Neomercantilist/Materialist hypotheses nor the Liberal hypothesis when it comes to US animosity.
sj-pdf-2-mso-10.1177_2055217320959116 - Supplemental material for Importance of early treatment decisions on future income of multiple sclerosis patients
Creators: name: Kavaliunas, Andrius
name: Manouchehrinia, Ali
name: Gyllensten, Hanna
name: Alexanderson, Kristina
name: Hillert, Jan
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-mso-10.1177_2055217320959116 for Importance of early treatment decisions on future income of multiple sclerosis patients by Andrius Kavaliunas, Ali Manouchehrinia Hanna Gyllensten Kristina Alexanderson Jan Hillert in Multiple Sclerosis Journal—Experimental, Translational and Clinical
title: Expanded porphyrins: large porphyrin-like tripyrroledimethine-derived macrocycles
Creators: name: Murai, Toshiaki
name: Sessler, Jonathan L.
name: Hemmi, Gregory W.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: A61K41/0038
subject: A61K41/0076
subject: A61K47/546
subject: C07D487/22
subject: Y10S514/836
subject: 534/15
subject: 534/11
subject: 540/145
subject: 540/465
subject: 540/477

description:  The present invention involves a novel tripyrrole dimethine-derived "expanded porphyrin" (texaphyrin), the synthesis of such compounds, their analogs or derivatives and their uses. These expanded porphyrin-like macrocycles are efficient chelators of divalent and trivalent metal ions. Metal complexes of these compounds are active as photosensitizers for the generation of singlet oxygen and thus potentially for inactivation or destruction of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1), mononuclear or other cells infected with such virus and tumor cells as well. A variety of texaphyrin derivatives have been produced and many more are readily obtainable. Various metal (e.g., transition, main group, and lanthanide) complexes with the texaphyrin and texaphyrin derivatives of the present invention have unusual water solubility and stability which render them particularly useful. These metallotexaphyrin complexes have optical properties making them unique as compared to existing porphyrin-like or other macrocycles. For example, they absorb light strongly in a physiologically important region (i.e. 690-880 nm). These complexes also form long-lived triplet states in high yield and act as efficient photosensitizers for the formation of singlet oxygen. These properties, coupled with their high chemical stability and appreciable solubility in polar media such as water, add to their usefulness.
FASD Across America: The Social and Emotional Impact of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Creators: name: Holder, Emmaus
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: This study set out to understand the impact Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) has on the social and emotional life and well-being of the caretakers of those with FASD. This study’s participants had current or previous experience caring for individuals diagnosed with FASD and were 18 years old or older. These specifications were made to reflect the disposition and perspective of caretakers dealing with the ramifications of these disorders. I rode a bicycle from city to city, stretching from coast to coast. I conducted in-person semi-structured interviews with participants about their experiences, struggles, and success in caring for someone with an FASD. I found that caretakers face hardship in dealing with these challenges: the ramifications of executive dysfunction in their children, the unattainable standards for success in communities surrounding those with the disability, the widespread struggles in obtaining a diagnosis, the dearth of necessary resources and services, and the combined emotional toll these things bear. The need for their hypervigilance is draining and exhausting, and their communities are threaded with external doubt in their parenting methods. Caretakers of those with FASD are calling for improved services, greater access to them, and a restructuring of societal values and expectations through widespread education on FASD.
title: Seeing Your Religion: Diskriminierung und Rassismus gegenüber Muslim*innen auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt
Creators: name: Jaschke, Philipp
name: Sprengholz, Maximilian
name: Auer, Daniel
name: Hunkler, Christian
name: Kosyakova, Yuliya
name: Salikutluk, Zerrin
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: discrimination
subject: rasism
subject: labor market
subject: Muslims
subject: experimental research
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften

description: Key Points: (1) Mit 5.100 Betrieben durchgeführte Umfrage-Experimente liefern Belege für antimuslimische Diskriminierung in den Einstellungsentscheidungen von Arbeitgeber*innen in Deutschland. (2) Die Befunde legen nahe, dass dem Arbeits- und Fachkräftemangel in Deutschland auch durch den Abbau von Diskriminierung in den Einstellungsentscheidungen von Arbeitgeber*innen begegnet werden könnte. (3) Wir empfehlen Aufklärungskampagnen zum Ausmaß der Arbeitsmarktdiskriminierung gegenüber Muslim*innen, sowie zu den ökonomischen Nachteilen, die Betrieben dadurch entstehen. (4) Empfehlenswert sind zudem flächendeckende und institutionalisierte Antidiskriminierungstrainings, insbesondere für kleinere Betriebe etwa im Rahmen von IHK Meisterkursen.
An Environmental Scan of Cancer Patient Navigation in North Carolina
Creators: name: Fathi, Leila
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Objectives: To understand the current and future state of patient navigation for cancer patients in North Carolina. 

Methods: We conducted our qualitative methods in a two-step process: independent investigation and semi-structured informant interviews at seven of the hospital systems in North Carolina that provide cancer care and agreed to be interviewed. 

Results: Contacts from seven health systems in North Carolina that provide cancer care were interviewed. At each of these health systems, patient navigation services are made available to all cancer patients. Cancer navigators from the health systems interviewed work to coordinate care, advocate for the patient, provide emotional support, and address the non-medical barriers to care. Each cancer patient navigation functions slightly differently, with some systems focusing their services at the point of diagnosis rather than treatment. The navigation services provided by each health system interviewed were not captured fully on their respective hospital webpages. 

Conclusions: Health systems that provide cancer care throughout the state of North Carolina are working beyond the call of medicine to address the non-medical barriers to care that too many patients face. In doing so, patients who otherwise would not have been able to access their curative cancer treatments are now able to get to the hospital through transportation and childcare assistance, among a number of other resources, coordinated by the patient navigation team alongside social workers. This work is critical for thousands throughout the state, but these programs need support in order to be made sustainable by the health systems that provide them. Working together, and alongside organizations such as the AONN and policymakers, these health systems can demonstrate the positive impact of their efforts and work towards financial and organizational sustainability.
title: Methods of photocatalytic decarboxylation of saturated carboxylic acid
Creators: name: Bard, Allen J.
name: Kraeutler, Bernhard
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 1981
Subjects: subject: C07C1/2078
subject: C07C13/615
subject: C07C9/00
subject: C07C2603/74
subject: C25B1/003
subject: Y10S204/905
subject: 204/157.47
subject: 204/157.15
subject: 204/905
subject: 429/111

description: Methods for heterogeneous photocatalytic decarboxylation of saturated carboxylic acids on several n-type semiconductor powders are disclosed. Major reaction products are the corresponding alkanes and carbon dioxide.
title: Method of aerosol jet etching
Creators: name: Brock, James R.
name: Trachtenberg, Isaac
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: C23F1/08
subject: C23F1/12
subject: 239/13
subject: 438/748

description: A device and method for etching a body are provided capable of etching fine geometry patterns utilizing the high selectivity of wet etching and the anisotropic etch characteristics of dry etching. The body to be etched is placed in a reduced pressure etching chamber. An inert carrier gas is bubbled through heated liquid etchant producing a vapor stream of liquid etchant. A non-reactive gas is chilled producing a cold gas stream. The vapor stream and the cold gas stream are combined in an aerosol generation nozzle producing a high concentration of fine aerosol particles by homogeneous nucleation. The fine aerosol particles enter an aerosol growth chamber and form larger particles through thermal coagulation. The larger particles are accelerated out of the growth chamber through an expansion nozzle positioned within the reduced pressure etching chamber and directed toward the body to be etched. This aerosol jet of etchant impacts the surface of the body to be etched. The small size of these larger particles allows for etching fine geometry patterns. Additionally, aerosol jet etching avoids the need to rinse the body after being etched as required in wet etching to halt the etching process.
Influenza-binding antibodies immobilise influenza viruses in fresh human airway mucus
Creators: name: Arora, Harendra
name: Harit, Dimple
name: Wang, Ying-Ying
name: Kumar, Priya A.
name: Subramani, Durai B.
name: Lai, Samuel K.
Publisher: name: European Respiratory Society (ERS)
Year: 2016

description: Airway mucus is thought to serve as a dynamic filter that can trap respiratory viruses in the dense mucin network [1], and quickly eliminate them along with airway mucus from the respiratory tract. Nevertheless, viruses must penetrate airway mucus to infect the airway epithelium, and we and others have found that various viruses can readily penetrate physiological mucus gels [2–4]. We were particularly interested in whether airway mucus can serve as a barrier against influenza viruses, due to the prevalence and health burden of seasonal outbreaks. It has been suggested that airway mucus protects against influenza by presenting sialylated “decoys” on mucins that bind to influenza haemagglutinin and trap the virions in mucus. Alternatively, we have shown that antibodies in cervicovaginal mucus can trap viruses via multiple low-affinity Fc–mucin bonds between antibodies on the virus surface and mucins, akin to a Velcro patch [4]. To gain insight into how airway mucus might serve as a barrier against influenza, we characterised the mobility of influenza virions and virus-like particles (VLPs) in human airway mucus using real-time high-resolution multiple particle tracking. Common influenza viruses are immobilised in fresh human airway mucus, probably by influenza-binding antibodies http://ow.ly/yxu0305bqh6
sj-pdf-1-lup-10.1177_0961203320959716 - Supplemental material for A comparison and review of three sets of classification criteria for systemic lupus erythematosus for distinguishing systemic lupus erythematosus from pure mucocutaneous manifestations in the lupus disease spectrum
Creators: name: Jin, Hui
name: Huang, Tao
name: Wu, Ruifang
name: Zhao, Ming
name: Wu, Haijing
name: Long, Hai
name: Yin, Heng
name: Liao, Jieyue
name: Luo, Shuangyan
name: Liu, Yu
name: Zhang, Qing
name: Zhang, Peng
name: Tan, Yixin
name: Luo, Shuaihantian
name: Huang, Xin
name: Deng, Yaxiong
name: Liao, Wei
name: Duan, Liu
name: Chen, Jianbo
name: Zhou, Yin
name: Yin, Jinghua
name: Qiu, Hong
name: Yuan, Jin
name: Wang, Zijun
name: Li, Mengying
name: Wu, Xiaoqi
name: Chen, Lina
name: Cai, Liangmin
name: Huang, Cancan
name: Li, Qianwen
name: Tang, Bingsi
name: Yu, Bihui
name: Li, Xin
name: Gao, Xiaofei
name: Hu, Yixi
name: Ren, Xiaolei
name: Xue, Haofan
name: Wei, Zhangming
name: Chen, Jinwei
name: Li, Fen
name: Ling, Guanghui
name: Luo, Hui
name: Zhao, Hongjun
name: Yang, Sen
name: Cui, Yong
name: Lin, Youkun
name: Yao, Xu
name: Sun, Lingyun
name: Guo, Qing
name: Fang, Hong
name: Zeng, Kang
name: Deng, Danqi
name: Zhang, Jianzhong
name: Li, Yuzhen
name: Pu, Xiongming
name: Liao, Xiangping
name: Dang, Xiqiang
name: Huang, Danlin
name: Liang, Yumei
name: Sun, Qing
name: Xie, Hongju
name: Zeng, Li
name: Huang, Cibo
name: Diao, Qingchun
name: Tao, Juan
name: Yu, Jianbin
name: Li, Zhenlu
name: Xu, Hanshi
name: Li, Hui
name: Lai, Wei
name: Liu, Xiguang
name: Wu, Jingjing
name: Li, Tienan
name: Lei, Tiechi
name: Sun, Qiuning
name: Li, Yanjia
name: Zhang, Guoqiang
name: Lu, Qianjin
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Aged Health Care

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-lup-10.1177_0961203320959716 for A comparison and review of three sets of classification criteria for systemic lupus erythematosus for distinguishing systemic lupus erythematosus from pure mucocutaneous manifestations in the lupus disease spectrum by Hui Jin, Tao Huang, Ruifang Wu, Ming Zhao, Haijing Wu, Hai Long, Heng Yin, Jieyue Liao, Shuangyan Luo, Yu Liu, Qing Zhang, Peng Zhang, Yixin Tan, Shuaihantian Luo, Xin Huang, Yaxiong Deng, Wei Liao, Liu Duan, Jianbo Chen, Yin Zhou, Jinghua Yin, Hong Qiu, Jin Yuan, Zijun Wang, Mengying Li, Xiaoqi Wu, Lina Chen, Liangmin Cai, Cancan Huang, Qianwen Li, Bingsi Tang, Bihui Yu, Xin Li, Xiaofei Gao, Yixi Hu, Xiaolei Ren, Haofan Xue, Zhangming Wei, Jinwei Chen, Fen Li, Guanghui Ling, Hui Luo, Hongjun Zhao, Sen Yang, Yong Cui, Youkun Lin, Xu Yao, Lingyun Sun, Qing Guo, Hong Fang, Kang Zeng, Danqi Deng, Jianzhong Zhang, Yuzhen Li, Xiongming Pu, Xiangping Liao, Xiqiang Dang, Danlin Huang, Yumei Liang, Qing Sun, Hongju Xie, Li Zeng, Cibo Huang, Qingchun Diao, Juan Tao, Jianbin Yu, Zhenlu Li, Hanshi Xu, Hui Li, Wei Lai, Xiguang Liu, Jingjing Wu, Tienan Li, Tiechi Lei, Qiuning Sun, Yanjia Li, Guoqiang Zhang, Xin Huang and Qianjin Lu in Lupus
title: Hot-carrier suppressed sub-micron MISFET device
Creators: name: Tasch, Aloysious F.
name: Shin, Hyung-Soon
name: Maziar, Christine M.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: H01L29/0847
subject: H01L29/66628
subject: H01L29/7834
subject: H01L29/7836
subject: 257/335
subject: 257/336
subject: 257/344
subject: 257/E21.430
subject: 257/E29.040
subject: 257/E29.267
subject: 257/E29.269

description: Hot-carrier suppression in a sub-micron MISFET structure is achieved by providing a drain region which includes a steeply profiled N+ (or P+) doped region in the surface of a semiconductor body with a first epitaxial layer formed thereover having N- (or P-) dopant concentration. A second N+ (or P+) epitaxial layer is formed over the first epitaxial layer and functions as a low ohmic contact to the drain region. In a preferred embodiment both the source and drain regions have dopant concentrations provided by N+ (or P+) doped regions in the surface of a substrate with epitaxial layers thereover. The dopant profile reduces the voltage drop across the more highly doped region of the drain and thereby reduces the electric field therein. Further, the reduction in dopant concentration reduces the electric field due to energy band bending associate with the change in doping level from the N+ (P+) region to the N- (P-) epitaxial layer. The resulting sub-micron device has better long-term reliability. The epitaxial layers are adjacent to and spaced from the gate contact by a dielectric layer such as silicon oxide. In a preferred embodiment, the dielectric layer is thicker between the second epitaxial layer and the gate contact than between the first epitaxial layer and the gate contact.
Hodgkin lymphoma, HIV, and Epstein–Barr virus in Malawi: Longitudinal results from the Kamuzu Central Hospital Lymphoma study
Creators: name: Sanders, Marcia K.
name: Kampani, Coxcilly
name: Itimu, Salama
name: Dittmer, Dirk P.
name: Krysiak, Robert
name: Gopal, Satish
name: Butia, Mercy
name: Chasela, Mary
name: Kasonkanji, Edwards
name: Wasswa, Peter
name: Makwakwa, Victor
name: Fedoriw, Yuri
name: Montgomery, Nathan D.
name: El‐Mallawany, Nader Kim
name: Mtete, Idah
name: Liomba, N. George
name: Stanley, Christopher C.
name: Chikasema, Maria
name: Tomoka, Tamiwe
name: Westmoreland, Katherine D.
name: Dhungel, Bal M.
name: Kaimila, Bongani
name: Mtunda, Mary
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2016

description: BACKGROUND: Contemporary descriptions of classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL) are lacking from sub-Saharan Africa where human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) are prevalent.
METHODS: We describe a prospective cHL cohort in Malawi enrolled from 2013 to 2015. Patients received standardized treatment and evaluation, including HIV status and EBV testing of tumors and plasma.
RESULTS: Among 31 patients with confirmed cHL, the median age was 19 years (range, 2-51 years) and 22 (71%) were male. Sixteen patients (52%) had stage III/IV, 25 (81%) B symptoms, and 16 (52%) performance status impairment. Twenty-three patients (74%) had symptoms >6 months, and 11 of 29 (38%) had received empiric antituberculosis treatment. Anemia was common with median hemoglobin 8.2 g/dL (range, 3.1-17.1 g/dL), which improved during treatment. No children and 5 of 15 adults (33%) were HIV+. All HIV+ patients were on antiretroviral therapy for a median 15 months (range, 2-137 months), with median CD4 count 138 cells/μL (range, 23-329 cells/μL) and four (80%) having undetectable HIV. EBV was present in 18 of 24 (75%) tumor specimens, including 14 of 20 (70%) HIV- and 4 of 4 (100%) HIV+. Baseline plasma EBV DNA was detected in 25 of 28 (89%) patients, with median viral load 4.7 (range, 2.0-6.7) log10 copies/mL, and subsequently declined in most patients. At 12 months, overall survival was 75% (95% confidence interval [CI], 55%-88%) and progression-free survival 65% (95% CI, 42%-81%). Baseline plasma EBV DNA and persistent viremia during treatment were associated with poorer outcomes.
CONCLUSION: cHL in Malawi is characterized by delayed diagnosis and advanced disease. Most cases were EBV associated and one-third of adults were HIV+. Despite resource limitations, 12-month outcomes were good.
title: Chemoprevention of electrophilic damage by mercaptopurine analogs
Creators: name: MacLeod, Michael C.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: A61K31/52
subject: 514/363

description: Analogs of 6-mercaptopurine have been found to enhance the detoxification of various electrophilic toxicants in vivo, while having minimal cytotoxicity themselves. This property allows such compounds to act as scavengers for electrophilic toxicants, thereby preventing the cellular damage caused by such toxic agents.
Goals of Care or Goals of Trust? How Family Members Perceive Goals for Dying Nursing Home Residents
Creators: name: Hanson, Laura C.
name: Rosemond, Cherie
name: Zimmerman, Sheryl
Publisher: name: Mary Ann Liebert
Year: 2016

description: PURPOSE OF STUDY: Dementia affects more than 5 million Americans, and is a leading cause of death. Family members of nursing home (NH) residents with advanced dementia report difficulty making decisions about care toward the end of life. As part of a randomized trial testing an intervention to improve decision making, this qualitative study aimed to understand how family decision makers experienced goal-based decision making in advance of the death of their relative.
DESIGN AND METHODS: This qualitative study was conducted as part of the goals of care clinical trial. Study participants (n = 16) were family decision makers in North Carolina whose relative with advanced dementia died after participating in the goals of care intervention. Semi-structured interviews were analyzed using a qualitative description approach.
RESULTS: Family members' experience of decision making and death differed based on the presence or absence of trusting relationships with NH staff. Family members who reported trust described a positive end-of-life experience and less need for prescribed goals of care discussions. In the absence of trust, family members reported that goals of care discussions were ignored by staff or created confusion.
IMPLICATIONS: Among family members of persons who recently died from dementia in NHs, expressions of trust in staff were strongly related to perceptions of decision making about goals of care. Although goals of care discussions may potentially promote communication to earn trust, the presence of pre-existing trust ultimately influenced the decision making and end-of-life experiences of residents and families.
title: High calcium chemically defined culture medium
Creators: name: Morris, Rebecca J.
name: Fischer, Susan M.
name: Slaga, Thomas J.
Publisher: name: United States Patent and Trademark Office
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: C12N5/0629
subject: C12N5/0037
subject: C12N2500/14
subject: C12N2500/25
subject: C12N2500/32
subject: C12N2500/36
subject: C12N2500/38
subject: C12N2500/90
subject: C12N2501/11
subject: C12N2501/39
subject: 435/378

description: A high calcium chemically defined animal cell culture medium including vitamins A and D and a fatty acid or its ester. The medium is particularly adapted for the primary or secondary culture of epithelial cells. However, the medium may be utilized for establishing and maintaining cell lines, in partic PAC BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The United States government may have rights in this patent because of relevant developmental work supported by Research Grant No. CA43278 from National Institutes of Health.