cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Heavy Quark Symmetries: Molecular Partners of the X(3872) and $Z_{b}(10610)/Z_{b}'(10650)$
Creators: name: Guo, Feng-Kun
name: Hidalgo-Duque, Carlos
name: Nieves, Juan
name: Valderrama, M. Pavon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we have used an Effective Field Theory (EFT) framework based on Heavy Quark Spin (HQSS), Heavy Flavour (HFS) and Heavy Antiquark-Diquark symmetries (HADS). Using a standard lagrangian for the heavy meson-heavy antimeson system, we fit the counter-terms of the model to predict some promising experimental data that can be interpreted as heavy meson-heavy antimeson molecules, that is, the X(3872) and the $Z_{b}(10610)/Z'_{b}(10650)$. Next, and, taking advantage of HADS, we use the same lagrangian to explore the consequences for heavy meson-doubly heavy baryon molecules, which can also be interpreted as triply heavy pentaquarks.
description: 4 pages
Professional practice models for nurses in low-income countries: an integrative review
Creators: name: Ng'ang'a, Njoki
name: Byrne, Mary W.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Health services administration
subject: Medical care
subject: Public health--Study and teaching

description: Background: Attention is turning to nurses, who form the greatest proportion of health personnel worldwide, to play a greater role in delivering health services amidst a severe human resources for health crisis and overwhelming disease burden in low-income countries. Nurse leaders in low-income countries must consider essential context for nurses to fulfill their professional obligation to deliver safe and reliable health services. Professional practice models (PPMs) have been proposed as a framework for strategically positioning nurses to impact health outcomes. PPMs comprise 5 elements: professional values, patient care delivery systems, professional relationships, management approach and remuneration. In this paper, we synthesize the existing literature on PPMs for nurses in low-income countries. Methods: An integrative review of CINAHL-EBSCO, PubMed and Scopus databases for English language journal articles published after 1990. Search terms included nurses, professionalism, professional practice models, low-income countries, developing countries and relevant Medical Subject Heading Terms (MeSH). Results: Sixty nine articles published between 1993 and 2014 were included in the review. Twenty seven articles examined patient care delivery models, 17 professional relationships, 12 professional values, 11 remuneration and 1 management approach. One article looked at comprehensive PPMs. Conclusions: Adopting comprehensive PPMs or their components can be a strategy to exploit the capacity of nurses and provide a framework for determining the full expression of the nursing role.
Quality of life changes in acute coronary syndromes patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Gesesew, Hailay
Publisher: name: Torrens University Australia
Year: 2022
Subjects: Preventative health care

description: There is little up-to-date evidence about changes in quality of life following treatment for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients. The main aim of this review was to assess the changes in QoL in ACS patients after treatment. We undertook a systematic review and meta-analysis of quantitative studies. The search included studies that described the change of QoL of ACS patients after receiving treatment options such as percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and medical therapy (MT). We synthesized findings using content analysis and pooled the estimates using meta-analysis. We used the PRISMA guidelines to select and appraise the studies and report the findings. Twenty-nine (29) articles were included in the review. We found a significant improvement of QoL in ACS patients after receiving treatment. Particularly, the meta-analytic association found that the mean QoL of patients diagnosed with ACS was higher after receiving treatment compared to baseline (overall pooled mean difference = 31.88; 95% CI = 31.64–52.11, I2 = 98) with patients on PCI having slightly lower QoL gains (pooled mean difference = 30.22; 95% CI = 29.9–30.53, I2 = 0%) compared to those on CABG (pooled mean difference = 34.01; 95% CI = 33.66–34.37, I2 = 0%). The review confirmed that QoL of ACS patients improved after receiving treatment therapies although varied by the treatment options and patients’ preferences. This suggests the need to perform further study on the QoL, patient preferences and physicians’ decision to prescription of treatment options.
Changepoint Detection in Heteroscedastic Random Coefficient Autoregressive Models
Creators: name: Horváth, Lajos
name: Trapani, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: We propose a family of CUSUM-based statistics to detect the presence of changepoints in the deterministic part of the autoregressive parameter in a Random Coefficient Autoregressive (RCA) sequence. Our tests can be applied irrespective of whether the sequence is stationary or not, and no prior knowledge of stationarity or lack thereof is required. Similarly, our tests can be applied even when the error term and the stochastic part of the autoregressive coefficient are non iid, covering the cases of conditional volatility and shifts in the variance, again without requiring any prior knowledge as to the presence or type thereof. In order to ensure the ability to detect breaks at sample endpoints, we propose weighted CUSUM statistics, deriving the asymptotics for virtually all possible weighing schemes, including the standardized CUSUM process (for which we derive a Darling-Erdős theorem) and even heavier weights (so-called Rényi statistics). Simulations show that our procedures work very well in finite samples. We complement our theory with an application to several financial time series.
Effects of coordination and pressure on sound attenuation, boson peak and elasticity in amorphous solids
Creators: name: DeGiuli, Eric
name: Laversanne-Finot, Adrien
name: Düring, Gustavo
name: Lerner, Edan
name: Wyart, Matthieu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Connectedness and applied stress strongly affect elasticity in solids. In various amorphous solids, mechanical stability can be lost either by reducing connectedness or by increasing pressure. We present an effective medium theory of elasticity that extends previous approaches by incorporating the effect of compression, of amplitude $e$, allowing one to describe quantitative features of sound propagation, transport, the boson peak, and elastic moduli near the elastic instability occurring at a compression $e_c$. The theory disentangles several frequencies characterizing the vibrational spectrum: the onset frequency $ω_0\sim \sqrt{e_c-e}$ where strongly-scattered modes appear in the vibrational spectrum, the pressure-independent frequency $ω_*$ where the density of states displays a plateau, the boson peak frequency $ω_{BP}$, and the Ioffe-Regel frequency $ω_{IR}$ where scattering length and wavelength become equal. We predict that sound attenuation crosses over from $ω^4$ to $ω^2$ behaviour at $ω_0$. We predict that a frequency-dependent length scale $l_s(ω)$ and speed of sound $ν(ω)$ characterize vibrational modes, and could be extracted from scattering data. One key result is the prediction of a flat diffusivity above $ω_0$, in agreement with previously unexplained observations. We find that the shear modulus does not vanish at the elastic instability, but drops by a factor of 2. We check our predictions in packings of soft particles and study the case of covalent networks and silica. Overall, our approach unifies sound attenuation, transport and length scales entering elasticity in a single framework where disorder is not the main parameter controlling the boson peak, in agreement with observations. This framework leads to a phase diagram where various glasses can be placed, connecting microscopic structure to vibrational properties.
Prevalence and factors associated with trachoma among children aged 1–9 years in Zala District, Gamo Gofa Zone, Southern Ethiopia
Creators: name: Gesesew, Hailay
Publisher: name: Torrens University Australia
Year: 2022
Subjects: Preventative health care

description: Background: Trachoma is the leading cause of preventable blindness worldwide. It is common in areas where people are socioeconomically deprived. Globally, approximately 1.2 billion people live in trachoma-endemic areas, in which, 40.6 million individuals have active trachoma and 8.2 million have trichiasis. According to the World Health Organization’s 2007 report, globally close to 1.3 million people are blind due to trachoma, while approximately 84 million suffer from active trachoma. The National Survey (2007) of Ethiopia showed a prevalence of 40.1% active trachoma among children aged 1–9 years. Trachoma is still endemic in most parts of Ethiopia. Objective: To assess prevalence of trachoma and factors associated with it among children aged 1–9 years in Zala district, Gamo Gofa Zone, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Region. Methods: A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted in Zala district from February 28 to March 26, 2014. A total of 611 children were examined for trachoma based on the simplified World Health Organization 1983 classification. A multistage stratified sampling technique with a systematic random sampling technique was used to select study participants. Data were collected by using a semistructured pretested questionnaire and clinical eye examination. The data were entered using EpiData version 3.1 and analyzed using SPSS version 16. Multivariable logistic regression analysis was used to identify independently associated factors. Results: The overall prevalence of active trachoma cases was 224 (36.7%) consisting of 207 (92.4%) trachomatous follicles, eight (3.6%) trachomatous intense, and nine (4.0%) combination of trachomatous follicle and trachomatous intense. Inadequate knowledge of family head about trachoma (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] =2.8 [95% CI: 1.9, 4.2]); ≤10 m latrine distance (AOR =1.6 [95% confidence interval {CI}: 1.09, 2.4]); presence of above two preschool children (AOR =2.2 [95% CI: 1.3, 3.7]), flies on the face (AOR =6.3 [95% CI: 2.7, 14.7]), and unclean face (AOR =2.4 [95% CI: 1.5, 3.9]) were found to be independently associated with trachoma. Conclusion: Trachoma among children in Zala district is a disease of public health importance. Factors like inadequate knowledge about trachoma by the head of the family, ≤10 m latrine distance, presence of above two preschool children, flies on the face, and an unclean face were independently associated with trachoma among children. So strengthening of antibiotic use, face washing, and environmental improvement strategy implementation is mandatory.
Pseudodystonic Posture Secondary to Klippel–Feil Syndrome and Diastematomyelia
Creators: name: Lopez-Vicchi, Martin
name: Da Prat, Gustavo
name: Gatto, Emilia Mabel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Medicine
subject: Medical sciences

description: Background: Dystonic postures possess a great number of differential diagnoses.
Phenomenology Shown: We describe a pseudodystonic posture in a 61‐year‐old woman with skeletal and extra‐skeletal abnormalities.
Educational Value: Klippel–Feil syndrome represents an unusual cause of pseudodystonic posture to be considered in the differential diagnosis of dystonia.
Changepoint detection in heteroskedastic Random Coefficient Autoregressive models
Creators: name: Horváth, Lajos
name: Trapani, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: We propose a family of CUSUM-based statistics to detect the presence of changepoints in the deterministic part of the autoregressive parameter in a Random Coefficient Autoregressive (RCA) sequence. Our tests can be applied irrespective of whether the sequence is stationary or not, and no prior knowledge of stationarity or lack thereof is required. Similarly, our tests can be applied even when the error term and the stochastic part of the autoregressive coefficient are non i.i.d., covering the cases of conditional volatility and shifts in the variance, again without requiring any prior knowledge as to the presence or type thereof. In order to ensure the ability to detect breaks at sample endpoints, we propose weighted CUSUM statistics, deriving the asymptotics for virtually all possible weighing schemes, including the standardised CUSUM process (for which we derive a Darling-Erdős theorem) and even heavier weights (so-called R ényi statistics). Simulations show that our procedures work very well in finite samples. We complement our theory with an application to several financial time series.
title: Waifs, women and work: impoverished experiences in the Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon fisheries from the seventeenth- to the twentieth-centuries
Creators: name: Hoskins, Robynn Leigh
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2023

description: In the broadest of terms, this thesis examines the historical salt cod fishery in Saint- Pierre-et-Miquelon through historical archaeological methods. However, the primary goal of this thesis is to assess the roles of men, women, and children in the historical French salt cod fishery throughout the lifecourse of the industry from the earliest days of migratory fishery in the seventeenth-century up to the transition to frozen factory fishing in the mid-twentieth-century. This thesis employs several theoretical frameworks such as intersectionality, the archaeology of gender, the archaeology of childhood, as well as socioeconomic theory in order to offer a perspective that is as close as possible to the reality of the people involved in the fishing industry. The archaeological collection used in this study is from Anse à Bertrand, a site located in the sheltered harbour of Saint- Pierre that had been used consistently throughout the course of the historical salt cod fishery. The theoretical concepts used in my analysis of this collection allow me to speak more poignantly regarding the way the collection related to age, gender, labour, and class. This thesis therefore not only examines the gendered, aged, and classed working roles of the salt cod fishery, but it also looks at how these roles intersect within the non-working aspects of people’s lives in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon in addition to the broader social functions and expectations that emerge within fishing communities in the Northwest Atlantic.
A universal form for quark and neutrino mass matrices
Creators: name: Gu, Zheng-Cheng
name: Preskill, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a universal form for quark and lepton mass matrices, which applies in a ``leading order'' approximation where $CP$-violating phases are ignored. Down-quark mass ratios are successfully predicted in our scheme using the measured CKM mixing angles as input. Assuming an additional discrete symmetry in the neutrino sector, we obtain the ``golden ratio'' pattern in the leading-order PMNS mixing matrix; in addition we predict an inverted neutrino mass hierarchy with $m_1\simeq m_2 \simeq74 meV$, $m_3\simeq 55 meV$, and neutrinoless double beta decay mass parameter $m_{0νββ}\simeq 33~ meV$. We also predict that the $CP$-violating angle in the neutrino sector is close to the maximal value $δ=\pmπ/2$, and that the diagonal phases in the PMNS matrix are $α_1\simeq 0$, $α_2\simeqπ$.
description: 4.5 pages, 2 figures, added references, added more discussions for $\theta_{13}$ angle
The use of mixed methods in healthcare human factors and ergonomics research
Creators: name: CARAYON1, Pascale
name: KIANFAR, Sarah
name: LI, Yaqiong
name: XIE, Anping
name: ALYOUSEF, Bashar
name: WOOLDRIDGE, Abigail
Publisher: name: CPH Conference : 11th International Symposium on Human Factors in Organisational Design and Management
Year: 2014

description: We conducted a systematic literature review on the use of mixed methods in
healthcare human factors and ergonomics research. A total of 53 papers published in 39 journals before February 2013 were identified. These studies tackle a range of human factors and ergonomics (HFE) issues, in particular related to various types of information technology. A variety of methods were used to collect qualitative and quantitative data: primarily interview, survey and observation for qualitative data, and survey for quantitative data. Healthcare HFE research could benefit from using formal mixed methods research approaches. This would help to enrich and deepen the research and increase its impact on important healthcare outcomes.
The WIMP Paradigm: Theme and Variations
Creators: name: Feng, Jonathan L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: WIMPs, weakly-interacting massive particles, have been leading candidates for particle dark matter for decades, and they remain a viable and highly motivated possibility. In these lectures, I describe the basic motivations for WIMPs, beginning with the WIMP miracle and its under-appreciated cousin, the discrete WIMP miracle. I then give an overview of some of the basic features of WIMPs and how to find them. These lectures conclude with some variations on the WIMP theme that have by now become significant topics in their own right and illustrate the richness of the WIMP paradigm.
description: 36 pages; lectures given at the 2021 Les Houches Summer School on Dark Matter, submitted to SciPost Physics Lecture Notes, Les Houches Summer School Series. v2: minor revisions, references added
Further thoughts on “The Restless Legs Syndrome: Would You Like that with Movements or Without?”...
Creators: name: Walters, Arthur S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Medicine
subject: Medical sciences

description: This is a response to the article by Brian Koo ‘‘The Restless Legs Syndrome: Would you like that with movements or without?’’ published in Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements. In this contribution Dr. Koo does a superb job in marshaling evidence that restless legs syndrome/Willis–Ekbom disease (RLS/WED) and periodic limb movements in sleep (PLMS) share a common pathophysiology, pharmacology, genetics, and epidemiology, and that they may also share a similar clinical relevance particularly in relation to cardiovascular disease. The argument is then made that measurement of PLMS may add to the diagnostic accuracy of RLS/WED diagnosis.
New perspective on why women live longer than men: An exploration of power, gender, social determinants, and capitals
Creators: name: Gesesew, Hailay
Publisher: name: Torrens University Australia
Year: 2022
Subjects: Health equity

description: Background: Women live longer than men, even though many of the recognised social determinants of health are worse for women than men. No existing explanations account fully for these differences in life expectancy, although they do highlight the complexity and interaction of biological, social and health service factors. Methods: this paper is an exploratory explanation of gendered life expectancy difference (GLED) using a novel combination of epidemiological and sociological methods. We present the global picture of GLED. We then utilise a secondary data comparative case analysis offering explanations for GLED in Australia and Ethiopia. We combine a social determinant of health lens with Bourdieu’s concepts of capitals (economic, cultural, symbolic and social). Results: we confirmed continuing GLED in all countries ranging from less than a year to over 11 years. The Australian and Ethiopian cases demonstrated the complex factors underpin-ning this difference, highlighting similarities and differences in socioeconomic and cultural factors and how they are gendered within and between the countries. Bourdieu’s capitals enabled us to partially explain GLED and to develop a conceptual model of causal pathways. Conclusion: we demonstrate the value of combing a SDH and Bourdieu’s capital lens to investigate GLED. We pro-posed a theoretical framework to guide future research.
A new GEE method to account for heteroscedasticity using asymmetric least-square regressions
Creators: name: Barry, Amadou
name: Oualkacha, Karim
name: Charpentier, Arthur
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Marine Biology

description: Generalized estimating equations (GEE) are widely used to analyze longitudinal data; however, they are not appropriate for heteroscedastic data, because they only estimate regressor effects on the mean response – and therefore do not account for data heterogeneity. Here, we combine the GEE with the asymmetric least squares (expectile) regression to derive a new class of estimators, which we call generalized expectile estimating equations (GEEE). The GEEE model estimates regressor effects on the expectiles of the response distribution, which provides a detailed view of regressor effects on the entire response distribution. In addition to capturing data heteroscedasticity, the GEEE extends the various working correlation structures to account for within-subject dependence. We derive the asymptotic properties of the GEEE estimators and propose a robust estimator of its covariance matrix for inference (see our R package, github.com/AmBarry/expectgee). Our simulations show that the GEEE estimator is non-biased and efficient, and our real data analysis shows it captures heteroscedasticity.
Restless Legs Syndrome: Would You Like That with Movements or Without?
Creators: name: Koo, Brian B.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Medicine
subject: Medical sciences

description: The restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a common sensorimotor condition that often results in discomfort and sleep disturbance. Diagnosis of RLS is entirely clinical and based upon a patient’s description of subjective symptoms, and thus when considering RLS diagnosis non-specificity is a real problem. RLS is associated with periodic limb movements during sleep (PLMS) in up to 90% of RLS sufferers; however, their presence is neither sufficient nor necessary for the diagnosis of RLS. The disease RLS and the motor phenomenon of PLMS share similarities in various areas, which include pathophysiology, pharmacology, genetics, and epidemiology. The purpose of this opinion piece is to outline the many similarities between RLS and PLMS in order to make an argument for the inclusion of PLMS as a supplementary diagnostic criterion of RLS, termed electro-clinical RLS, which would consist of the current clinical RLS diagnosis plus PLMS. This additional criterion could be used in cases where diagnosis is unclear to increase specificity or in research projects where proper diagnosis is desired at the investigational level.
Mental distress and associated factors among undergraduate students at the University of Hargeisa, Somaliland: A cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Gesesew, Hailay
Publisher: name: Torrens University Australia
Year: 2022
Subjects: Mental health services

description: Background: Mental distress is a common finding among University students. Empirical research has confirmed that the University student population has a higher prevalence of mental disorder than the general population. However, no previous study has examined the mental health conditions of students in Somaliland. Methods: An institution based cross-sectional study was conducted on a sample of 570 undergraduate students at the University of Hargeisa in October, 2013. Study subjects were selected using a stratified random sampling. The Self-reporting questionnaire (SRQ-20) was used to assess mental distress. Multiple logistic regression analysis was carried out to identify factors independently associated with mental distress. Results: The point prevalence of mental distress was found to be 19.8%. Mental distress was associated with being female (AOR = 3.52, 95% CI 1.94, 6.39), having a monthly income of 100 United States dollars (USD) or less (AOR = 2.19, 95% CI 1.12, 4.28), and not having a satisfying relationship with the family (AOR = 11.52, 95% CI 3.18, 41.72) and friends (AOR = 7.33, 95% CI 2.83, 18.93). Nearly one in five students (18.6%) has been using Khat in the previous 12 months. Khat use was also associated with greater likelihood of mental distress (AOR = 2.87, 95% CI 1.26, 6.56). In addition, financial difficulties and the poor prospect of finding a job were common sources of stress among the students. Conclusions: A significant proportion of the students at the University of Hargeisa suffer from mental distress which might have a detrimental effect on their academic performance. The mental health needs of the University students require attention with special emphasis on female students, students experiencing financial hardships, students who use Khat and those who have interpersonal problems.
Phantom attractors in Kinetic Gravity Braiding theories: a dynamical system approach
Creators: name: Vasilev, Teodor Borislavov
name: Bouhmadi-López, Mariam
name: Martín-Moruno, Prado
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revise the expansion history of the scalar field theories known as Kinetic Gravity Braiding. These theories are well-known for the possibility of driving the expansion of the cosmos towards a future self-tuning de Sitter state when the corresponding Lagrangian is invariant under constant shifts in the scalar field. Nevertheless, this is not the only possible future fate of these shift-symmetric models. Using a dynamical system formulation we show that future cosmological singularities can also appear in this framework. Moreover, we present explicit examples where the future attractor in the configuration space of the theory corresponds to a big rip singularity.
description: v1: 22 pages, 4 tables; v2: three references added, no physics changes; v3: 24 pages, two references added, typo corrected in equation (A.7), minor comments added in sections 3, 4.1, 4.2 and 6, no physics changes, matches published version
Incidence of Strong MgII Absorbers Towards Different Types of Quasars
Creators: name: Joshi, Ravi
name: Chand, Hum
name: Gopal-Krishna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the first comparative study of strong MgII absorbers seen towards radio-loud quasars of core-dominated (CDQs) and lobe-dominated (LDQs) types and normal QSOs. The MgII associated absorption systems having a velocity offset v < 5000km/s from the systemic velocity of the background quasar were also excluded. Existing spectroscopic data for redshift-matched sightlines of 3975 CDQs and 1583 LDQs, covering a emission redshift range 0.39-4.87, were analysed and 864 strong MgII absorbers were found, covering the redshift range 0.45-2.17. The conclusions reached using this well-defined large dataset of strong MgII absorbers are: (i) The number density, dN/dz, towards CDQs shows a small, marginally significant excess over the estimate available for QSOs; (ii) In the redshift space, this difference is reflected in terms of a 1.6sigma excess of dN/dz over the QSOs, within the narrow redshift interval 1.2-1.8; (iii) The dN/dbeta distribution (with beta=v/c) for CDQs shows a significant excess over the distribution found for a redshift and luminosity matched sample of QSOs, at beta in the range 0.05-0.1. This leads us to infer that a significant fraction of strong MgII absorption systems seen in this offset velocity range are probably associated with the CDQs and might be accelerated into the line of sight by their powerful jets and/or due to the accretion-disk outflows close to our direction. Support to this scenario comes from a consistency check in which we only consider the spectral range corresponding to beta > 0.2. The computed redshift distribution for strong MgII absorbers towards CDQs now shows excellent agreement with that known for QSOs, as indeed is expected for purely intervening absorption systems. Thus, it appears that for CDQs the associated strong MgII absorbers can be seen at much larger velocities relative to the nucleus than the commonly adopted upper limit of 5000km/s.
description: 9 Pages, 6 Figures, 1 Table, Accepted for the publication in MNRAS main-journal
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1925-11)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741
subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law
subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.
A Controlled Trial of Isoniazid in Persons with Anergy and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection Who Are at High Risk for Tuberculosis
Creators: name: Matts, John P.
name: Miller, Carol
name: Brown, Lawrence S.
name: Gordin, Fred M.
name: Hafner, Richard
name: John, Stanley L.
name: Klein, Mary
name: Vaughn, Anita
name: Besch, Lynn
name: Perez, George
name: Szabo, Susan
name: El-Sadr, Wafaa Mahmoud
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Epidemiology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Pharmacology

description: BACKGROUND
Patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and latent tuberculosis are at substantial risk for the development of active tuberculosis. As a public health measure, prophylactic treatment with isoniazid has been suggested for HIV-infected persons who have anergy and are in groups with a high prevalence of tuberculosis.
METHODS
We conducted a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of six months of prophylactic isoniazid treatment in HIV-infected patients with anergy who have risk factors for tuberculosis infection. The primary end point was culture-confirmed tuberculosis.
RESULTS
The study was conducted from November 1991 through June 1996. Over 90 percent of the patients had two or more risk factors for tuberculosis infection, and nearly 75 percent of patients were from greater New York City. After a mean follow-up of 33 months, tuberculosis was diagnosed in only 6 of 257 patients in the placebo group and 3 of 260 patients in the isoniazid group (risk ratio, 0.48; 95 percent confidence interval, 0.12 to 1.91; P=0.30). There were no significant differences between the two groups with regard to death, death or the progression of HIV disease, or adverse events.
CONCLUSIONS
Even in HIV-infected patients with anergy and multiple risk factors for latent tuberculosis infection, the rate of development of active tuberculosis is low. This finding does not support the use of isoniazid prophylaxis in high-risk patients with HIV infection and anergy unless they have been exposed to active tuberculosis.
Time series modelling methods to forecast the volume of self-assessment tax returns in the UK
Creators: name: Panikian, Garo
name: Reverol, Gabby Colmenares
name: Rhodes, Jayne
name: McLarnon, Emma
name: Keast, Sarah
name: Gamado, Kokouvi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has the ambitious target of making tax digital for all its customers and collecting tax in a more efficient, effective and accurate manner for both the government and UK taxpayers. Self-assessment tax returns, the biggest key business event for HMRC, is also one of the most popular digital services with over 90% of the approximately 12 million taxpayers in self assessment filing their return online each year. The majority of returns are filed in January immediately prior to the self-assessment deadline (31st January), putting significant pressure not only on the self-assessment digital service but also on all other HMRC digital services. Hence, understanding and predicting demand for the system is vital to provide a robust and responsive service. We therefore developed mathematical models with Bayesian inference techniques to forecast volumes of Self-assessment (SA) returns submitted online during January, providing accurate hourly predictions of traffic on the digital system in the run up to the SA deadline. Because none of the models being considered is believed to be the true model, we use an ensemble modelling technique that combines forecasts from different models to develop a less risky demand forecast.
title: An die hohe verfassunggebende Nationalversammlung. Gehorsame Vorstellung von Seiten der Gräflich Bentinck'schen Familie, das Recht der Herrschaft Kniphausen zu einem Abgeordneten in der reichsverfassunggebenden Nationalversammlung betr.; [1848]
title: (Mit Beilage I.) ; [Frankfurt am Main, den 17. August 1848]
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Tabor, August
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2018

description: Kopftitel. - Enth. Beilage u.d.T.: Recht der Herrschaft Kniphausen auf einen Abgeordneten in der reichsverfassunggebenden Nationalversammlung
BigDataBench: a Big Data Benchmark Suite from Internet Services
Creators: name: Wang, Lei
name: Zhan, Jianfeng
name: Luo, Chunjie
name: Zhu, Yuqing
name: Yang, Qiang
name: He, Yongqiang
name: Gao, Wanling
name: Jia, Zhen
name: Shi, Yingjie
name: Zhang, Shujie
name: Zheng, Chen
name: Lu, Gang
name: Zhan, Kent
name: Li, Xiaona
name: Qiu, Bizhu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As architecture, systems, and data management communities pay greater attention to innovative big data systems and architectures, the pressure of benchmarking and evaluating these systems rises. Considering the broad use of big data systems, big data benchmarks must include diversity of data and workloads. Most of the state-of-the-art big data benchmarking efforts target evaluating specific types of applications or system software stacks, and hence they are not qualified for serving the purposes mentioned above. This paper presents our joint research efforts on this issue with several industrial partners. Our big data benchmark suite BigDataBench not only covers broad application scenarios, but also includes diverse and representative data sets. BigDataBench is publicly available from http://prof.ict.ac.cn/BigDataBench . Also, we comprehensively characterize 19 big data workloads included in BigDataBench with varying data inputs. On a typical state-of-practice processor, Intel Xeon E5645, we have the following observations: First, in comparison with the traditional benchmarks: including PARSEC, HPCC, and SPECCPU, big data applications have very low operation intensity; Second, the volume of data input has non-negligible impact on micro-architecture characteristics, which may impose challenges for simulation-based big data architecture research; Last but not least, corroborating the observations in CloudSuite and DCBench (which use smaller data inputs), we find that the numbers of L1 instruction cache misses per 1000 instructions of the big data applications are higher than in the traditional benchmarks; also, we find that L3 caches are effective for the big data applications, corroborating the observation in DCBench.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, The 20th IEEE International Symposium On High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-2014), February 15-19, 2014, Orlando, Florida, USA
Higher Loop Corrections to the Infrared Evolution of Fermionic Gauge Theories in the RI' Scheme
Creators: name: Ryttov, Thomas A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the evolution of the gauge coupling and the anomalous dimension of the mass towards an infrared fixed point for non-supersymmetric gauge theories in the modified regularization invariant, RI', scheme. This is done at the three loop level where all the renormalization group functions have been calculated explicitly. The purpose is to assess the scheme dependence of earlier and similar investigations performed at three and four loop order in the modified minimal subtraction, $\bar{\text{MS}}$, scheme. Our results are of the same order when compared to the $\bar{\text{MS}}$ scheme.
Health Workforce Acquisition, Retention and Turnover in Southwest Ethiopian Health Institutions
Creators: name: Gesesew, Hailay
Publisher: name: Torrens University Australia
Year: 2022
Subjects: Social determinants of health

description: METHODS: A cross-sectional survey with quantitative and qualitative data collection methods was conducted in Jimma Zone health institutions. Five years records (September 2009-August 2014) were reviewed to determine the turnover rate. A total of 367 health professionals were included for the quantitative study. For the qualitaive study, all available and relevant health managers and administrative records in the selected health institutions were included. Descriptive and inferential analyses were done for the quantitative study. Thematic analysis was used for the qualitative component. RESULTS: A total of 367 health workers were incorporated for the quantitative study making a response rate of 87%. The overall health workers' satisfaction was neutral (mean 3.3). In five years period, 45.9% staffs had left for a cause; 59.4% health professionals intended to leave. Being male (AOR =1.6, 95%CI: 1.001-2.5), not knowing their overall satisfaction (AOR=0.5, 95%CI: 0.2-0.8), below mean score of institutional satisfaction (AOR =1.7, 95%CI: 1.06-2.7) and below mean score of organizational satisfaction (AOR=1.8, 95%CI: 1.08-2.8) were independent predictors for intention to leave. CONCLUSION: The overall health workers' satisfaction was marginally neutral. A considerable number of staffs had left, and more than half of the current staffs had an intention to leave. Thus, it is recommended that the responsible authorities should design strategies to improve the situation. BACKGROUND: Skill mix of health professionals, staff acquisition and turnover rate are among the major challenges for the delivery of quality health care. This study assessed the health workforce acquisition, retention, turnover rate and their intention to leave.
Diffuse interstellar bands in (proto-) fullerene-rich environments
Creators: name: Garcia-Hernandez, D. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent infrared detection of fullerenes (C60 and C70) in Planetary Nebulae (PNe) and R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars offers a beautiful opportunity for studying the diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) in sources where fullerenes are abundant. Here we present for the first time a detailed inspection of the optical spectra of the hot RCB star DY Cen and two fullerene PNe (Tc 1 and M 1-20), which permits us to directly explore the fullerenes - DIB connection. The DIB spectrum of DY Cen (Garcia-Hernandez et al. 2012a) is remarkably different from that in fullerene PNe (Garcia-Hernandez & Diaz-Luis 2013). In particular, Tc 1 displays unusually strong 4428 A and 6309 A DIBs, which are normal (or not seen) in DY Cen. On the other hand, DY Cen displays an unusually strong 6284 A DIB that is found to be normal in fullerene PNe. We also report the detection of new broad and unidentified features centered at 4000 A and 6525 A in DY Cen and Tc 1, respectively. We suggest that the new 4000 A band seen in DY Cen may be related to the circumstellar proto-fullerenes seen at infrared wavelengths (Garcia-Hernandez et al. 2012a). However, the intense 4428 A DIB (probably also the 6309 A DIB and the new 6525 A band) may be related to the presence of larger fullerenes (e.g., C80, C240, C320, and C540) and buckyonions (multishell fullerenes such as C60@C240 and C60@C240@C540) in the circumstellar envelope of Tc 1 (Garcia-Hernandez & Diaz-Luis 2013).
description: Contributed talk in IAU 297 - The Diffuse Interstellar Bands, eds. J. Cami and N. Cox (in press); 5 pages (2 figures and 1 table)
Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Patients without HIV Infection
Creators: name: Telzak, Edward E.
name: Sepkowitz, Kent
name: Alpert, Peter
name: Mannheimer, Sharon B.
name: Medard, Franz
name: El-Sadr, Wafaa Mahmoud
name: Blum, Steve
name: Gagliardi, A.
name: Salomon, Nadim
name: Turett, Glenn
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Pharmacology

description: BACKGROUND
Investigations of outbreaks of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis have found low rates of treatment response and very high mortality, and they have mainly involved patients with advanced human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. For patients without HIV infection, one study reported an overall rate of response to treatment of 56 percent, and the mortality from tuberculosis was 22 percent. We investigated treatment response and mortality rates in 26 HIV-negative patients in New York with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
METHODS
We obtained detailed data from seven teaching hospitals in New York City on patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis--defined as tuberculosis resistant at least to isoniazid and rifampin--who were HIV-negative on serologic testing. Lengths of times from diagnosis to the initiation of appropriate therapy and from the initiation of appropriate therapy to conversion to negative cultures were assessed. Therapeutic responses were evaluated by both microbiologic and clinical criteria.
RESULTS
Between March 1991 and September 1994, 26 HIV-negative patients were identified and treated. Of the 25 patients for whom adequate data were available for analysis, 24 (96 percent) had clinical responses; all 17 patients for whom data on microbiologic response were available had such a response. The median times from diagnosis to the initiation of appropriate therapy and from the initiation of therapy to culture conversion were 44 days (range, 0 to 181) and 69 days (range, 2 to 705), respectively. Side effects requiring the discontinuation of medication occurred in 4 of 23 patients (17 percent) who were treated with second-line antituberculosis medications. The median follow-up for the 23 patients who responded and who received appropriate therapy was 91 weeks (range, 41 to 225).
CONCLUSIONS
In this report from New York City, HIV-negative patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, contrary to previous reports, responded well to appropriate chemotherapy, both clinically and microbiologically.
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1925-12)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765
subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.