cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Pulmonary embolism in menopausal hormone therapy: a population-based register study
Creators: name: Sundell, M.
name: Holm, A.-C. Spetz
name: Fredrikson, M.
name: Hammar, M.
name: Hoffmann, M.
name: Brynhildsen, J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Oral but not transdermal menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) increases the risk of venous thromboembolism. There is no evidence regarding the risk of the serious complication pulmonary embolism (PE). The aim was to investigate the risk of PE in women using MHT depending on administration route, type of progestin and treatment duration. The population-based case-control study covered 1,771,253 women aged 40–69 years, during 2006–2015. Diagnoses of PE (n = 13,974) and drug dispensations were received from national validated registers. Current MHT users had a higher risk of PE than non-users (odds ratio [OR] 1.15, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.05–1.26). First ever users had the highest risk (OR 2.07, 95% CI 1.23–3.50). Transdermal administration was not associated with increased risk of PE. The OR was slightly but non-significantly higher with estrogen combined with medroxyprogesterone acetate than with norethisterone acetate. The risk of PE was significantly increased in users of oral but not transdermal MHT, with the highest risk in first ever users of oral estrogen combined with medroxyprogesterone acetate. The risk was considerably lower in women with recurrent treatment, probably because of the healthy user effect. PE was most common close to initiation of oral treatment. Transdermal MHT did not increase the risk of PE.
Asymptotically Safe Dark Matter
Creators: name: Sannino, Francesco
name: Shoemaker, Ian M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a new paradigm for dark matter (DM) interactions in which the interaction strength is asymptotically safe. In models of this type, the coupling strength is small at low energies but increases at higher energies, and asymptotically approaches a finite constant value. The resulting phenomenology of this "asymptotically safe DM" is quite distinct. One interesting effect of this is to partially offset the low-energy constraints from direct detection experiments without affecting thermal freeze-out processes which occur at higher energies. High-energy collider and indirect annihilation searches are the primary ways to constrain or discover asymptotically safe dark matter.
description: 5 pages, 2 multi-panel figures, PRD version
Quantum models of classical systems
Creators: name: Hajicek, Petr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum statistical methods that are commonly used for the derivation of classical thermodynamic properties are extended to classical mechanical properties. The usual assumption that every real motion of a classical mechanical system is represented by a sharp trajectory is not testable and is replaced by a class of fuzzy models, the so-called maximum entropy (ME) packets. The fuzzier are the compared classical and quantum ME packets, the better seems to be the match between their dynamical trajectories. Classical and quantum models of a stiff rod will be constructed to illustrate the resulting unified quantum theory of thermodynamic and mechanical properties.
description: 13 pages, no figure. Published version. Section 5 completely rewritten, theorem on classical limit added
Pulmonary embolism in menopausal hormone therapy: a population-based register study
Creators: name: Sundell, Micaela
name: Holm, Anna-Clara Spetz
name: Fredrikson, Mats
name: Hammar, Mats
name: Hoffmann, Mikael
name: Brynhildsen, Jan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Oral but not transdermal menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) increases the risk of venous thromboembolism. There is no evidence regarding the risk of the serious complication pulmonary embolism (PE). The aim was to investigate the risk of PE in women using MHT depending on administration route, type of progestin and treatment duration. The population-based case-control study covered 1,771,253 women aged 40–69 years, during 2006–2015. Diagnoses of PE (n = 13,974) and drug dispensations were received from national validated registers. Current MHT users had a higher risk of PE than non-users (odds ratio [OR] 1.15, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.05–1.26). First ever users had the highest risk (OR 2.07, 95% CI 1.23–3.50). Transdermal administration was not associated with increased risk of PE. The OR was slightly but non-significantly higher with estrogen combined with medroxyprogesterone acetate than with norethisterone acetate. The risk of PE was significantly increased in users of oral but not transdermal MHT, with the highest risk in first ever users of oral estrogen combined with medroxyprogesterone acetate. The risk was considerably lower in women with recurrent treatment, probably because of the healthy user effect. PE was most common close to initiation of oral treatment. Transdermal MHT did not increase the risk of PE.
Magnetic coherent tunnel junctions with periodic grating barrier
Creators: name: Fang, Henan
name: Xiao, Mingwen
name: Rui, Wenbin
name: Du, Jun
name: Tao, Zhikuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new spintronic theory has been developed for the magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) with single-crystal barrier. The barrier will be treated as a diffraction grating with intralayer periodicity, the diffracted waves of tunneling electrons thus contain strong coherence, both in charge and especially in spin. The theory can answer the two basic problems present in MgO-based MTJs: (1) Why does the tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) oscillate with the barrier thickness? (2) Why is the TMR still far away from infinity when the two electrodes are both half-metallic? Other principal features of TMR can also be explained and reproduced by the present work. It also provides possible ways to modulate the oscillation of TMR, and to enhance TMR so that it can tend to infinity. Within the theory, the barrier, as a periodic diffraction grating, can get rid of the confinement in width, it can vary from nanoscale to microscale. Based on those results, a future-generation MTJ is proposed where the three pieces can be fabricated separately and then assembled together, it is especially appropriate for the layered materials, e.g., MoS2 and graphite, and most feasible for industries.
A LOFAR prompt search for radio emission accompanying X-ray flares in GRB 210112A
Creators: name: Hennessy, A.
name: Starling, R. L. C.
name: Rowlinson, A.
name: de Ruiter, I.
name: Kumar, A.
name: Eyles-Ferris, R. A. J.
name: Ror, A. K.
name: Anderson, G. E.
name: Gourdji, K.
name: van der Horst, A. J.
name: Pandey, S. B.
name: Shimwell, T. W.
name: Steeghs, D.
name: Stylianou, N.
name: ter Veen, S.
name: Wiersema, K.
name: Wijers, R. A. M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The composition of relativistic gamma-ray burst (GRB) jets and their emission mechanisms are still debated, and they could be matter or magnetically dominated. One way to distinguish these mechanisms arises because a Poynting flux dominated jet may produce low-frequency radio emission during the energetic prompt phase, through magnetic reconnection at the shock front. We present a search for radio emission coincident with three GRB X-ray flares with the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR), in a rapid response mode follow-up of long GRB 210112A (at z~2) with a 2 hour duration, where our observations began 511 seconds after the initial swift-BAT trigger. Using timesliced imaging at 120-168 MHz, we obtain upper limits at 3 sigma confidence of 42 mJy averaging over 320 second snapshot images, and 87 mJy averaging over 60 second snapshot images. LOFAR's fast response time means that all three potential radio counterparts to X-ray flares are observable after accounting for dispersion at the estimated source redshift. Furthermore, the radio pulse in the magnetic wind model was expected to be detectable at our observing frequency and flux density limits which allows us to disfavour a region of parameter space for this GRB. However, we note that stricter constraints on redshift and the fraction of energy in the magnetic field are required to further test jet characteristics across the GRB population.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Inappropriate prescribing and availability of medication safety and medication management services in older patients in Europe (ESR 7- poster, oral presentation). The ITN EUROAGEISM H2020 project meeting with EC officer. Tampere, Finland, February 12th, 2019
Creators: name: Brkic, Jovana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: EUROAGEISM H2020, FIP7 program
inappropriate prescribing
ageism
aged
Europe
developing countries

description: Presentation of ESR7- Jovana Brkič, MSc.- at the Project Officer meeting in Tampere, Finland (February 12th, 2019) on aims and objectives of ESR7 project of the EUROAGEISM H2020 project entitled "Inappropriate prescribing and availability of medication safety and medication management services in older patients in Europe and other countries".
GPU-accelerated high-performance computing for architecture-aware wave simulation based on discontinuous Galerkin algorithms
Creators: name: Hanindhito, Bagus
name: 0000-0002-8485-581X
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2020
Subjects: Discontinuous Galerkin method
Wave simulation
GPU acceleration
High performance computing
Discretization
PDE solver

description: Full-waveform inversion has been an essential method for oil and gas industries to approximate the properties of the Earth’s surface without the need to see them directly by digging, drilling, or tunneling, and thus lowering exploration costs. This method relies on the use of generated seismic waves and the acquisition of the reflected wave data. Since each type of rocks, sediments, and materials have different properties, the acquired data can be used to approximate the location of mineral and oil repository, for example. The first problem, which is the focus of this research, is called the forward problem, which aims to generate synthetic seismograms based on the given model. The second problem is the inverse problem, which tries to find the optimum model that can best describe the obtained data. Generally, the area of the seismic survey is massive and can easily generate a vast amount of data, which is used to find the best Earth model. Therefore, a considerable amount of computing power is required to help in solving these problems. Industrial-scale wave simulators typically use multiple CPUs to accelerate computation. As the size of the problem increases, the time needed to run the simulation will increase accordingly. In this thesis, we investigated the implementation of a CPU-based wave simulator to find available parallelism that can be extracted. We mapped the massive number of parallelism to GPU which has thousands of cores, and thus suitable for doing this job. We performed additional optimization of the basic code to improve the performance. We also developed a method to verify the functionality of our implementation against the original code. The GPU-accelerated version of the code is then compared to the original CPU code. We run the simulation for different levels of discretization both in consumer-class GPU and datacenter-class GPU. For the double-precision run, our benchmark results show the speed-up over 120x, 210x, and 330x in GeForce GTX 1080Ti, Tesla P100, and Tesla V100 GPU, respectively, compared to the dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8160 CPUs with a total of 48 cores
Tobacco Retail Outlets, Neighborhood Deprivation and the Risk of Prenatal Smoke Exposure
Creators: name: Boyle, J.
name: Oliver, J.A.
name: Murphy, S.K.
name: Maguire, R.L.
name: Hoyo, C.
name: Zhang, J.J.
name: Dahman, B.
name: Baggett, C.D.
name: McClernon, J.
name: Barsell, D.J.
name: Jones, S.
name: Fuemmeler, B.F.
name: Wheeler, D.C.
Publisher: name: NLM (Medline)
Year: 2022

description: INTRODUCTION: Smoking and smoke exposure among pregnant women remain persistent public health issues. Recent estimates suggest that approximately one out of four nonsmokers have measurable levels of cotinine, a marker indicating regular exposure to secondhand smoke. Epidemiological research has attempted to pinpoint individual-level and neighborhood-level factors for smoking during pregnancy. However, most of these studies have relied upon self-reported measures of smoking. AIMS AND METHODS: To more accurately assess smoke exposure resulting from both smoking and secondhand exposure in mothers during pregnancy, we used Bayesian regression models to estimate the association of cotinine levels with tobacco retail outlet (TRO) exposure and a neighborhood deprivation index (NDI) in six counties in North Carolina centered on Durham County. RESULTS: Results showed a significant positive association between TRO exposure (β = 0.008, 95% credible interval (CI) = [0.003, 0.013]) and log cotinine after adjusting for individual covariates (eg, age, race/ethnicity, education, marital status). TRO exposure was not significant after including the NDI, which was significantly associated with log cotinine (β = 0.143, 95% CI = [0.030, 0.267]). However, in a low cotinine stratum (indicating secondhand smoke exposure), TRO exposure was significantly associated with log cotinine (β = 0.005, 95% CI = [0.001, 0.009]), while in a high cotinine stratum (indicating active smoking), the NDI was significantly associated with log cotinine (β = 0.176, 95% CI = [0.005, 0.372]). CONCLUSIONS: In summary, our findings add to the evidence that contextual factors are important for active smoking during pregnancy. IMPLICATIONS: In this study, we found several significant associations that suggest a more nuanced understanding of the potential influence of environmental- and individual-level factors for levels of prenatal smoke exposure. Results suggested a significant positive association between TRO exposure and cotinine levels, after adjusting for the individual factors such as race, education, and marital status. Individually, NDI was similarly positively associated with cotinine levels as well. However, when combining TRO exposure alongside NDI in the same model, TROs were no longer significantly associated with overall cotinine levels.
Improving Reading Comprehension Among Students Enrolled in Two Underperforming Schools in Durham County Through the Read and Feed Program
Creators: name: Mathews, Dylan
name: Wiener, Miriam
name: Ourada, Grace
name: Munoz, Julie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Third grade reading proficiency is one of the most accurate measures of education access and quality over the short term, and health outcomes over the long term. Racial disparities in reading proficiency are shockingly stark in Durham County – only 36.8 percent of black children scored proficient in 3rd-grade reading compared with 76.8 percent of white children. To address this challenge, a two-year pilot program is proposed in two Durham County elementary schools chosen for their low 3rd-grade reading proficiency scores and reduced socioeconomic status of their student populations. The program will provide participating K-3 students with one-on-one after-school tutoring and a nutritious meal featuring locally grown produce. With the goal of increasing reading proficiency and improving overall nutrition status and knowledge, this initiative can address childhood literacy and health outcomes through community engagement and data-driven improvement.
FEEDING DPS READING: A COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM TO ENHANCE THIRD-GRADE READING PROFICIENCY IN DURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Creators: name: Levi, Camille
name: Nordstrom, Steven
name: Wall, Cecelia
name: Wood, Katie
name: Jack, Nicole
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Early education is associated with long-term health outcomes. The suboptimal third-grade reading proficiency in Durham Public Schools (DPS) warrants immediate public health action. Low reading proficiency in elementary school is associated with a greater likelihood of dropping out of school, fewer career opportunities, and a negative impact on overall health and wellbeing. We recommend Feeding DPS Reading, which is a public health initiative to improve low reading scores in DPS through a nutrition-focused intervention. The program will assist elementary schools in collecting and submitting data for Community Eligibility Provision qualification, which provides free meals to all students regardless of individual eligibility. In parallel, students will participate in a reading program led by Duke University undergraduate education students. The program’s goal is to increase third-grade reading proficiency by providing healthy meals and targeted reading interventions, with the long-term goal of improving the health and wellness of Durham County residents.
BUILDING ECONOMIC RESILIENCE: A ROADMAP TO ALLEVIATE FOOD INSECURITY IN DURHAM COUNTY’S BLACK COMMUNITY LIVING BELOW THE FEDERAL POVERTY LINE
Creators: name: Stephanie Slabach Brubaker
name: Kate Kennedy
name: Sarah-Chelsea Wilt
name: Carolyn Keeler
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Improving food security among those living below the Federal Poverty Level is a crucial step in
addressing Durham County’s public health. Black households are disproportionately affected by food
insecurity which impacts their health, nutrition, and quality of life. In response to this health inequity, we propose the implementation of a mobile produce market (MPM) in areas of food apartheid in Durham County. The MPM will improve food availability and access by bringing fresh produce to neighborhoods in low access areas of Durham. The MPM will also address food literacy by providing food preparation education and recipes for available produce. The program’s mission is to positively impact Black households’ nutrition and food security.
The `excess' of primary cosmic ray electrons
Creators: name: Li, Xiang
name: Shen, Zhao-Qiang
name: Lu, Bo-Qiang
name: Dong, Tie-Kuang
name: Fan, Yi-Zhong
name: Feng, Lei
name: Liu, Si-Ming
name: Chang, Jin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With the accurate cosmic ray (CR) electron and positron spectra (denoted as $Φ_{\rm e^{-}}$ and $Φ_{\rm e^{+}}$, respectively) measured by AMS-02 collaboration, the difference between the electron and positron fluxes (i.e., $ΔΦ=Φ_{\rm e^{-}}-Φ_{\rm e^{+}}$), dominated by the propagated primary electrons, can be reliably inferred. In the standard model, the spectrum of propagated primary CR electrons at energies $\geq 30$ GeV softens with the increase of energy. The absence of any evidence for such a continuous spectral softening in $ΔΦ$ strongly suggests a significant `excess' of primary CR electrons and at energies of $100-400$ GeV the identified excess component has a flux comparable to that of the observed positron excess. Middle-age but `nearby' supernova remnants (e.g., Monogem and Geminga) are favored sources for such an excess.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures, Phys. Lett. B, in press
Morphology driven evolution of barred galaxies in clusters and the case of barred jellyfish galaxies
Creators: name: Cervantes Sodi, Bernardo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Barred galaxies
Bar fraction
Galaxy clusters

description: We present results from a study of barred galaxies in galaxy clusters and the particular case of barred jellyfish galaxies. For galaxies in clusters, the fraction of barred galaxies decreases with increasing cluster mass and with decreasing clustercentric distance, a dependence that vanishes once we control for morphological type, which indicates that the likelihood of a galaxy hosting a bar in the cluster environment is determined by its morphological transformation. At large clustercentric distances, we detect a dependence on the distance to the nearest neighbor galaxy, suggesting that tidal forces with close companions are able to suppress the formation of bars or even destroy them. Barred galaxies in our sample are either early-type, star-forming galaxies located within the virial radii of the clusters or late-type quenched galaxies found beyond the virial radii of the clusters. We propose a scenario in which already quenched barred galaxies that fall into the clusters are centrally rejuvenated by the interplay of the perturbed gas by ram pressure and the bar, in galaxies that are undergoing a morphological transformation. We found an increase in central SFR in ram-pressure-affected galaxies when compared with unperturbed ones. The most extreme cases of increased SFR and central rejuvenation occur in barred galaxies that are at advanced stages of ram pressure stripping.
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REGULATING SHORT-TERM RENTALS TO IMPROVE AFFORDABLE HOUSING ACCESS FOR LOW-INCOME DURHAM COUNTY RESIDENTS
Creators: name: Meletzke, Ann
name: Champion, Theresa
name: Nepal, Pramila
name: Avila, Dina
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Affordable housing is a social determinant of health (SDOH). When people spend more than 30 percent of their income on housing, they have less money for food, medical care, and other necessities. Economic growth does not ensure prosperity for all. It can lead to the displacement of low-income families at disproportionate rates. This contributes to increased poverty and disease burden for a county. Programs alone are not adequate to address these complex issues of health. By partnering with those most affected, counties can better understand the effects of these conditions and create policies to address the root causes of SDOH. Durham County can address this issue with a policy to regulate short-term rentals. Short-term rentals like Airbnb and Vrbo deplete residential housing stock. By reducing the percentage of short-term rentals, communities create more options for low-income residents so that they can take part in the economic growth of the community.
Utaxatax crassipalpis Panesar 2004
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Anisitsiellidae
Utaxatax
Utaxatax crassipalpis

description: Utaxatax crassipalpis Panesar, 2004
Records from the study area: West Bengal—Panesar (2004).
Habitat: Mountain springs.
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 11, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
Survival and revision causes of hip resurfacing arthroplasty and the Mitch proximal epiphyseal replacement: results from the Danish Hip Arthroplasty Register
Creators: name: Tang-Jensen, Maja
name: Kjærsgaard-Andersen, Per
name: Poulsen, Thomas K
name: Overgaard, Søren
name: Varnum, Claus
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Background and purpose — The Mitch proximal epiphyseal replacement (PER) was developed to preserve proximal femoral bone and minimize femoral neck fracture associated with hip resurfacing arthroplasty (HRA). We studied the survival and risk of revision of HRA compared with cementless metal-on-polyethylene (MoP) total hip arthroplasty (THA) and the survival and risk of revision of the Mitch PER compared with MoP THA. Patients and methods — Using propensity score, we matched 1,057 HRA to 1,057 MoP THA and 202 Mitch PER to 1,010 MoP THA from the Danish Hip Arthroplasty Register. To estimate the relative risk (RR) of revision, we used regression with the pseudo-value approach and treated death as a competing risk. Results — The cumulative incidence for any revision of HRA at 10 years’ follow-up was 11% (95% confidence interval [CI] 9.1–13) and 6.4% (CI 5.8–7.0) for MoP THA. The RR of any revision was 1.5 (CI 1.1–2.1) for HRA at 10 years’ follow-up. By excluding the ASR components, the RR of revision at 10 years was 1.2 (CI 0.8–1.7). The cumulative incidence of revision was 9.6% (CI 4.2–18) for Mitch PER and 5.4% (CI 5.1–5.7) for MoP THA at 8 years. The RR of revision was 2.0 (CI 0.9–4.3) for Mitch PER at 8 years’ follow-up. Interpretation — The HRA had increased risk of revision compared with the MoP THA. When excluding ASR, the HRA group had similar risk of revision compared with MoP THA. The Mitch PER did not have a statistically significant increased risk of revision compared with MoP THA.
On the Migration Origin of the Hercules Moving Group with GAIA, LAMOST, APOGEE, and GALAH Surveys
Creators: name: Liang, Xilong
name: Yoon, Suk-Jin
name: Zhao, Jingkun
name: Li, Zhaoyu
name: Zhang, Jiajun
name: Wu, Yaqian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using Gaia DR3 data and the wavelet transformation technique, we study the substructures of the Hercules moving group (HMG): Hercules 1 (H1) and Hercules 2 (H2). Spectroscopic survey data from LAMOST, APOGEE, and GALAH are used to obtain metallicities and ages of stars belonging to the HMG. Our analysis leads to several key findings as follows: ($a$) the HMG is on average richer in metallicity than the Galactic disk, with H2 being metal richer than H1; ($b$) the HMG likely has a radial metallicity gradient distinct from that of the disk; ($c$) the HMG is on average older than the disk, with H2 being older than H1; ($d$) the HMG likely has a radial age gradient distinct from that of the disk; and ($e$) the metallicity and age distributions of the HMG depend mainly on the Galactic radius but show no dependence on the azimuthal velocity. Taken all together, we conclude that the HMG is composed primarily of stars undergoing radial migration. We suggest that the HMG is associated with a higher-order dynamical resonance of the bar of the Galaxy.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures. Accepted by ApJ
Brand competitiveness: development of a new scale
Creators: name: Wangmo, Gaki
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Scholars have identified the insufficient representation of the relative nature of competition in present brand performance measures, such as brand strength, brand equity, brand health and the customer-based brand performance model. Thus, researchers have encouraged the use of relative measures in marketing. Reflecting on such deliberations, the emerging concept of brand competitiveness offers a potential remedy. Brand competitiveness, defined as a brand’s outperformance of competing brands, is an emerging, yet vital, construct in marketing research. Because it has only been introduced recently, definitions and conceptualisations of brand competitiveness vary, with no commonly accepted measurement. In seeking to fill this gap in the literature and build on an emerging body of work on brand competitiveness, this study introduces customer-based brand competitiveness and develops a refined pool of scale items utilising a scholarly scale development procedure. This study focuses on the qualitative parts of the scale development process, comprising two stages: Stage 1: scale construction and Stage 2: scale refinement. A literature review of brand competitiveness studies that offered scale items resulted in four relevant scale items. In order to reflect the conceptualisation of customer-based brand competitiveness, 20 consumer interviews were conducted, resulting in a list of 32 scale items. The items from the literature review and the consumer interviews were subsequently combined for an initial pool of 36 items. These items were then evaluated for representativeness, redundancy, and clarity in the subsequent scale refinement stage. Ten academics with expertise in branding from six countries participated in those expert interviews. The refined pool of scale items comprises 22 items. Future research should statistically test and validate the refined pool of scale items representing the foundation for the quantitative scale validation stage. Brand managers can use these scale items as an instrument to better understand brand competitiveness, in other words, their own brand’s standing in relation to competing brands. Finally, the study acknowledges limitations and proposes directions for further research.
Unique Molecular Identifiers and Multiplexing Amplicons Maximize the Utility of Deep Sequencing To Critically Assess Population Diversity in RNA Viruses
Creators: name: Zhou, S.
name: Hill, C.S.
name: Spielvogel, E.
name: Clark, M.U.
name: Swanstrom, R.
name: Hudgens, M.G.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Next generation sequencing (NGS)/deep sequencing has become an important tool in the study of viruses. The use of unique molecular identifiers (UMI) can overcome the limitations of PCR errors and PCR-mediated recombination and reveal the true sampling depth of a viral population being sequenced in an NGS experiment. This approach of enhanced sequence data represents an ideal tool to study both high and low abundance drug resistance mutations and more generally to explore the genetic structure of viral populations. Central to the use of the UMI/Primer ID approach is the creation of a template consensus sequence (TCS) for each genome sequenced. Here we describe a series of experiments to validate several aspects of the Multiplexed Primer ID (MPID) sequencing approach using the MiSeq platform. We have evaluated how multiplexing of cDNA synthesis and amplicons affects the sampling depth of the viral population for each individual cDNA and amplicon to understand the relationship between broader genome coverage versus maximal sequencing depth. We have validated reproducibility of the MPID assay in the detection of minority mutations in viral genomes. We have also examined the determinants that allow sequencing reads of PCR recombinants to contaminate the final TCS data set and show how such contamination can be limited. Finally, we provide several examples where we have applied MPID to analyze features of minority variants and describe limits on their detection in viral populations of HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 to demonstrate the generalizable utility of this approach with any RNA virus.
Observational Constraints and Cosmological Implications of Scalar-Tensor $f(R, T)$ Gravity
Creators: name: Bouali, Amine
name: Chaudhary, Himanshu
name: Harko, Tiberiu
name: Lobo, Francisco S. N.
name: Ouali, Taoufik
name: Pinto, Miguel A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, the scalar-tensor representation of $f (R,T)$ gravity was used to explore gravitationally induced particle production/annihilation. Using the framework of irreversible thermodynamics of open systems in the presence of matter creation/annihilation, the physical and cosmological consequences of this setup were investigated in detail. In this paper, we test observationally the scalar-tensor representation of $f(R,T)$ gravity in the context of the aforementioned framework, using the Hubble and Pantheon+ measurements. The best fit parameters are obtained by solving numerically the modified Friedmann equations of two distinct cosmological models in scalar tensor $f(R, T)$ gravity, corresponding to two different choices of the potential, and by performing a Markov Chain Monte Carlo analysis. The best parameters are used to compute the cosmographic parameters, i.e., the deceleration, the jerk and the snap parameters. Using the output resulting from the Markov Chain Monte Carlo analysis, the cosmological evolution of the creation pressure and of the matter creation rates are presented for both models. To figure out the statistical significance of the studied scalar-tensor $f(R,T)$ gravity, the Bayesian and the corrected Akaike information criteria are used. The latter indicates that the first considered model in scalar tensor $f(R,T)$ gravity is statistically better than $Λ$CDM, i.e., it is more favored by observations. Besides, a continuous particle creation process is present in Model 1. On the other hand, for large redshifts, in Model 2 the particle creation rate may become negative, thus indicating the presence of particle annihilation processes. However, both models lead to an accelerating expansion of the Universe at late times, with a deceleration parameter equivalent to that of the $Λ$CDM model.
description: 17 pages, 14 figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS
Glyphidocera orae ADAMSKI, 2005, new species
Creators: name: DAVID ADAMSKI
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Symmocidae
Glyphidocera
Glyphidocera orae

description: Glyphidocera orae, new species (Figs. 24–26, 295, Map 5) Diagnosis.— Glyphidocera orae appears most similar to G. o p e r a e but differs from the latter by having a smaller gnathos, a dorsal strut of the tegumen that extends dorsally to the base of the uncus, a straight digitate process of the valva, a wider distal part of the valva, and a shorter apical cornutus of the aedeagus. Description.— Head: Vertex and frontoclypeus brown; outer surface of labial palpus brown [many scales missing on specimens], inner surface pale brown; scape of antenna brown, flagellum pale brown; male 4 th flagellomere not protuberant, 5 th and 6 th flagellomeres slightly excavated; proboscis brown. Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum brown. Legs pale brown [many scales rubbed]. Forewing (Fig. 295): Length 5.6–5.8 mm (n = 2), brown. Undersurface brown. Hindwing: Pale brown. Abdomen (Fig. 24): Male with 4 transverse, irregular rows of minute sex scales on intersegmental areas between terga 2–3 and terga 3–4. Male Genitalia (Figs. 25–26): Uncus elongate, narrowly constricted above a widened base, gradually narrowed distally to an acuminate and setose apex; gnathos short, broadly rounded apically; tegumen slightly widened basally; dorsal strut with arms convergent, fusing medially from posteroventral margin to base of uncus; costa of valva broadly rounded from a shallow depression beyond an elongate, basal digitate process to apical furca; furca aristate; sacculus twisted apically, constricting valva near midlength, widening distoventrally, forming an elongate cucullus; cucullus membranous and setose, with a broadly rounded outer margin; aedeagus subapically constricted, forming a bulbous apex; vesica of aedeagus denticulate, bearing a short, conical cornutus; cornutus with one side shortened near 1 / 3 length, exposing a hollow, basal cavity. Female Genitalia: Unknown. Holotype, ɗ, “Est[ación] Murciélago, 8 km SO de Cuajiniquil, Prov[incia] Guana[caste], COSTA RICA, 100 m, 10–18 Set. 1993, F. Quesada, L­N­ 320300, 347200, # 2351 ”, “ INBio: COSTA RICA: CRI 001, 159470 ” [bar code label], “ INBio, Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, Sex ɗ, No. 516 ” [yellow label]. Paratype 1 ɗ, “Fca. Jenny, 30 km N Liberia, P. N. Guanacaste, Prov. Guan., COSTA RICA, E Araya & R. Espinoza, Set. 1990, L­N­ 316200, 364400 ”, “ CRI 000, 227332 ”, “Slide No. 520.” Distribution (Map 5): Glyphidocera orae is known from two collecting sites in northwestern Costa Rica, between the Cordillera de Guanacaste and the Pacific Coast. Etymology: The species epithet orae is derived from the Latin “ora,” meaning coast.
description: Published as part of DAVID ADAMSKI, 2005, Review of Glyphidocera Walsingham of Costa Rica (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Glyphidoceridae), pp. 1-158 in Zootaxa 858 on pages 25-27, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.170793
Thresholds of territory, time, and intimacy
Creators: name: Smith, Sara
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications
Year: 2023

description: I began this author’s response sitting on a plush red
and pink Chinese blanket; the familiar Himalaya
was in view across the Indus River, in Ladakh
which is now a Union Territory, not part of
Jammu and Kashmir State (J&K) as it had been
when I wrote the book. Intimate Geopolitics is the
story of the embodied life of territory in this mountainous
former kingdom on India’s contested northern
borders with Pakistan and China. The book
traces how the history of colonization and its post-independence
reverberations set the stage for geopolitical
life – for decisions about love, friendship,
children, and intimate life to become a terrain
on which geopolitical meaning is made.
Hacia estándares para una Internet libre y abierta
Creators: name: Suing, Abel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: comunicación
Internet
derecho
expresión
libertad
pluralidad
diversidad
comunidad
andina

description: Publicación en la sección de opinión del diario digital hora 32 https://hora32.com.ec/ que se edita en Loja (Ecuador)
Mechanical bowel preparations not supported in elective colo-rectal surgeries with anastomosis: A retrospective study
Creators: name: Najarian, Melissa
name: Leitz-Najarian, Greta
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications
Year: 2023

description: ObjectiveTo analyze the risk and benefit of bowel preparations in elective colo-rectal surgery.BackgroundMechanical bowel preparations (MBPs) have been popularized in colo-rectal surgery since studies in the 1970s, but recent data has called their use into question and examined complication rates between patients with and without bowel preparations.MethodsA retrospective case-review was performed consisting of 1237 elective colo-rectal surgeries performed by two surgeons between 2008 and 2021. Patients received either a MBP, a mechanical bowel preparation with oral antibiotics (OAMBP), oral antibiotics alone (OA), or no bowel preparation; some patients across all categories received an enema.ResultsBowel preparations combined (MBP and OAMBP) totaled 436 patients and showed no statistically significant difference (P > .05) in primary outcomes of wound infection and anastomotic leak when compared to the 636 patients without a bowel preparation and 165 patients with OA. The analysis controlled for comorbidities and presence of enema. Of secondary outcomes, urinary tract infections (UTIs) were significantly more common in patients who received a bowel preparation (P = .047). All other outcomes showed no significant difference between groups, including complications on day of surgery; complications, readmission with and without surgery, and ileus formation within 30 days of surgery; sepsis; pneumonia; and length of stay (LOS). The presence of enemas did not have a statistically significant effect on outcomes.ConclusionsThis study’s data does not support the routine use of MBPs in elective colo-rectal surgery and draws into further question whether MBPs should remain standard of care.
A community health worker-led program to improve access to gestational diabetes screening in urban slums of Pune, India: Results from a mixed methods study
Creators: name: Chalem, Andrea
name: Ponticiello, Matthew
name: Chebrolu, Puja
name: Mathad, Jyoti S.
name: Sundararajan, Radhika
name: Lorenc, Rachel
name: Kulkarni, Vaishali
name: Broderick, Kathryn
name: Vaidyanathan, Arthi
name: Onawale, Ashlesha
Publisher: name: Public Library of Science
Year: 2023

description: The World Health Organization recommends all pregnant women receive screening for gestational diabetes (GDM) with a fasting oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT). However, very few women receive recommended screening in resource-limited countries like India. We implemented a community health worker (CHW)-delivered program to evaluate if home-based, CHW-delivered OGTT would increase GDM screening in a low-resource setting. We conducted a mixed methods study in two urban slum communities in Pune, India. CHWs were trained to deliver home-based, point-of-care fasting OGTT to women in their third trimester of pregnancy. The primary outcome was uptake of CHW-delivered OGTT. Secondary outcomes included GDM prevalence and linkage to GDM care. Individual interviews were conducted with purposively sampled pregnant women, CHWs, and local clinicians to assess barriers and facilitators of this approach. From October 2021-June 2022, 248 eligible pregnant women were identified. Of these, 223 (90%) accepted CHW-delivered OGTT and 31 (14%) were diagnosed with GDM. Thirty (97%) women diagnosed with GDM subsequently sought GDM care; only 10 (33%) received lifestyle counseling or pharmacologic therapy. Qualitative interviews indicated that CHW-delivered testing was considered highly acceptable as home-based testing saved time and was more convenient than clinic-based testing. Inconsistent clinical management of GDM was attributed to providers’ lack of time to deliver counseling, and perceptions that low-income populations are not at risk for GDM. Convenience and trust in a CHW-delivered GDM screening program resulted in high access to gold-standard OGTT screening and identification of a high GDM prevalence among pregnant women in two urban slum communities. Appropriate linkage to care was limited by clinician time constraints and misperceptions of GDM risk. CHW-delivered GDM screening and counseling may improve health education and access to preventive healthcare, offloading busy public clinics in high-need, low-resource settings.
A tale of two communities: Comparing user perceptions of condominial and conventional sewer systems in Salvador, Brazil
Creators: name: Spears, Claire A.
name: White, Cassandra
name: Bourgeois, Anu
name: Sodré, Jonatas Fernandes Araújo
name: Costa, Federico
name: Stauber, Christine E.
name: Oliveira, Luciana Joaquim
name: Nery Jr, Nivison
name: Brown, Joe
name: Palma, Fabiana Almerinda G.
Publisher: name: Public Library of Science
Year: 2023

description: Problems of access and quality of sanitary sewage disproportionately impact the health of populations in urban peripheries of low-and middle-income countries. The condominial sewer system is a practical, low-cost, effective, and simplified engineering approach compared to conventional sewer systems. In support of meeting the sanitation needs in highly populated urban settings, there is a need to understand the residents’ perceptions regarding the advantages and disadvantages of this sanitation model compared to conventional sewer systems. We conducted a cross-sectional study from September to December 2021 in two urban communities of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, where condominial and conventional sewer systems had been implemented in the last five years. Of the 203 residents we interviewed, 50.7% lived in a site served by a condominial sewer system. Residents in the condominial sewer site reported not connecting to public sewage network (23.7% vs. 11.2%; p = 0.022) more often than in the conventional site. They reported more collective action to solve urban sanitation problems (69.9% vs. 54.0%; p = 0.020), such as manhole cleaning and unclogging efforts to fix plumbing. Despite these challenges, these residents expressed that the current service quality is better than it was in the previous two years. Our results suggest that even within urban periphery communities of a large Brazilian city, disparities exist in access to and quality of sanitation services that may be linked to sewage system implementation. Implementing simplified sewer systems is important to meet the growing sanitation demands of urban areas. However, these systems should also play a role in reducing sanitation disparities and the adoption of participatory approaches to meet the needs of populations in the most disadvantaged conditions. Despite challenging conditions, there is the potential for community engagement and active participation in sanitation-related matters, which could enhance the implementation and long-term sustainability of these systems.
Ist Recht auf Arbeit als Menschenrecht noch aktuell?
Creators: name: Riedlsperger, Alois
name: Wohlgenannt, Lieselotte
Publisher: name: Diakonia
Year: 1970

description: Diakonia, Bd. 18 Nr. 6 (1987): Diakonia, Band 18, Heft 6
Delta-alpha cross-frequency coupling for different brain regions
Creators: name: Lukarski, Dushko
name: Petkoski, Spase
name: Ji, Peng
name: Stankovski, Tomislav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Neural interactions occur on different levels and scales. It is of particular importance to understand how they are distributed among different neuroanatomical and physiological relevant brain regions. We investigated neural cross-frequency couplings between different brain regions according to the Desikan-Killiany brain parcellation. The adaptive dynamic Bayesian inference method was applied to EEG measurements of healthy resting subjects in order to reconstruct the coupling functions. It was found that even after averaging over all subjects, the mean coupling function showed a characteristic waveform, confirming the direct influence of the delta-phase on the alpha-phase dynamics in certain brain regions and that the shape of the coupling function changes for different regions. While the averaged coupling function within a region was of similar form, the region-averaged coupling function was averaged out, which implies that there is a common dependence within separate regions across the subjects. It was also found that for certain regions the influence of delta on alpha oscillations is more pronounced and that oscillations that influence other are more evenly distributed across brain regions than the influenced oscillations. When presenting the information on brain lobes, it was shown that the influence of delta emanating from the brain as a whole is greatest on the alpha oscillations of the cingulate frontal lobe, and at the same time the influence of delta from the cingulate parietal brain lobe is greatest on the alpha oscillations of the whole brain.
description: Preprint - accepted in 'Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science'