cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Risk of eating disorders in immigrant populations
Creators: name: Mortensen, P. B.
name: Mustelin, L.
name: Bulik, C. M.
name: Almqvist, C.
name: Birgegård, A.
name: Cantor-Graae, E.
name: Kuja-Halkola, R.
name: Pedersen, C. B.
name: Lichtenstein, P.
name: Keski-Rahkonen, A.
name: Hedman, A. M.
name: Thornton, L. M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: OBJECTIVE: The risk of certain psychiatric disorders is elevated among immigrants. To date, no population studies on immigrant health have addressed eating disorders. We examined whether risk of eating disorders in first- and second-generation immigrants differs from native-born Danes and Swedes.

METHOD: All individuals born 1984-2002 (Danish cohort) and 1989-1999 (Swedish cohort) and residing in the respective country on their 10th birthday were included. They were followed up for the development of eating disorders based on out-patient and in-patient data.

RESULTS: The risks of all eating disorder types were lower among first-generation immigrants compared to the native populations: Incidence-rate ratio (95% confidence interval) was 0.39 (0.29, 0.51) for anorexia nervosa, 0.60 (0.42, 0.83) for bulimia nervosa, and 0.62 (0.47, 0.79) for other eating disorders in Denmark and 0.27 (0.21, 0.34) for anorexia nervosa, 0.30 (0.18, 0.51) for bulimia nervosa, and 0.39 (0.32, 0.47) for other eating disorders in Sweden. Likewise, second-generation immigrants by both parents were at lower risk, whereas those with only one foreign-born parent were not.

CONCLUSION: The decreased risk of eating disorders among immigrants is opposite to what has been observed for other psychiatric disorders, particularly schizophrenia. Possible explanations include buffering sociocultural factors and underdetection in health care.
Effectiveness of exergames for improving mobility and balance in older adults: a systematic review
Creators: name: PACHECO, THAIANA
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physiotherapy
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Rehabilitation and Therapy

description: The aim of this study was to investigate the evidence on the effect of commercial or serious digital games in the treatment of postural balance of older adults. It was observed that although there are several studies in the literature with this theme, the wide variety of instruments that assess balance and mobility leave the findings inconclusive. In addition, there are few studies with low risk of bias and satisfactory methodological rigor that can increase the strength of evidence from virtual reality-based therapy for the outcomes discussed here.
HARPS spectropolarimetry of three sharp-lined Herbig Ae stars: New insights
Creators: name: Järvinen, S. P.
name: Carroll, T. A.
name: Hubrig, S.
name: Schöller, M.
name: Ilyin, I.
name: Korhonen, H.
name: Pogodin, M.
name: Drake, N. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Several arguments have been presented that favour a scenario in which the low detection rate of magnetic fields in Herbig Ae stars can be explained by the weakness of these fields and rather large measurement uncertainties. Spectropolarimetric studies involving sharp-lined Herbig Ae stars appear to be promising for the detection of such weak magnetic fields. These studies offer a clear spectrum interpretation with respect to the effects of blending, local velocity fields, and chemical abundances, and allow us to identify a proper sample of spectral lines appropriate for magnetic field determination. High-resolution spectropolarimetric observations of the three sharp-lined Herbig Ae stars HD101412, HD104237, and HD190073 have been obtained in recent years with the HARPS. We used these archival observations to investigate the behaviour of their longitudinal magnetic fields. To carry out the magnetic field measurements, we used the multi-line singular value decomposition method. We discovered that different line lists for HD101412 yield differences in both the shape of the Stokes V signatures and their field strengths. They could be interpreted in the context of the impact of the circumstellar matter and elemental abundance inhomogeneities on the measurements of the magnetic field. Due to the small size of the Zeeman features on the first three epochs and the lack of near-IR observations, circumstellar and photospheric contributions cannot be estimated unambiguously. In the Stokes V spectrum of HD104237, we detect that the secondary component, a T Tauri star, possesses a rather strong magnetic field =129G, while no significant field is present in the primary component. Our measurements of HD190073 confirm the presence of a variable magnetic field and indicate that the circumstellar environment may have a significant impact on the observed polarization features.
MPEC 2023-O84 : 2023 OP2
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 OP2

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Non-mass breast lesions on ultrasound: final outcomes and predictors of malignancy
Creators: name: Ko, Kyung Hee
name: Park, Jong Won
name: Kuzmiak, Cherie M
name: Kim, Eun-Kyung
name: Jung, Hae Kyoung
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Background Breast cancer can present as non-mass lesions (NMLs) on ultrasound. However, knowledge of and understanding about NMLs are scarce. Purpose To retrospectively investigate the final outcomes of sonographic breast NMLs and determine the clinical and radiologic variables associated with malignancy Material and Methods In our radiologic database of breast ultrasound examinations between 2011 and 2014, we found 119 women with 121 NMLs with available histopathologic or sonographic follow-up (over 2 years) data. We collected the clinical variables (patient's age, symptoms, and mammographic density) and histopathologic data as well as radiologic variables (mammographic and ultrasound findings) after retrospective review by two radiologists, the authors of the current paper, in consensus. We classified the ultrasound findings according to distribution (focal, linear or segmental, and regional) and associated features (calcification, architectural distortion, and ductal changes) and analyzed the associations between variables and malignancy using the t test and χ2 test. Results Of the 121 NMLs, 88 (72.7%) were benign and 33 (27.3%) were malignant. Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) (17/33, 51.5%) and invasive ductal cancer with or without DCIS (13/33, 39.4%) comprised the main malignancies, and malignancy was significantly associated with palpability ( P = 0.000). Mammographic findings and sonographic distribution and associated features were significantly different between benign and malignant lesions ( P = 0.000, P = 0.004, and P = 0.001, respectively). Malignant lesions showed more frequent calcifications combined with asymmetry ( P = 0.000) on mammography and linear-segmental distributions ( P = 0.001) and associated calcifications ( P = 0.019) or architectural distortions ( P = 0.015) on ultrasound. Conclusion Breast NMLs on ultrasound showed high risk of malignancy. Symptoms and mammographic and ultrasound findings can be possible predictors of malignancy in NMLs.
Thermodynamic and topological phase diagrams of correlated topological insulators
Creators: name: Zdulski, Damian
name: Byczuk, Krzysztof
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A definition of topological phases of density matrices is presented. The topological invariants in case of both noninteracting and interacting systems are extended to nonzero temperatures. Influence of electron interactions on topological insulators at finite temperatures is investigated. A correlated topological insulator is described by the Kane-Mele model, which is extended by the interaction term of the Falicov-Kimball type. Within the Hartree-Fock and the Hubbard I approximations the thermodynamic and topological phase diagrams are determined, where the long-range order is included. The results show that correlation effects lead to a strong suppression of the existence of the nontrivial topological phase. In the homogeneous phase we find a purely-correlation driven phase transition into the topologically trivial Mott insulator.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures
Uso de metodologias ativas no ensino de primeiros socorros para escolares: scoping review
Creators: name: Santos, Kauanny
name: da Silva de Andrade, Virna
name: Farias, Gabriel
name: da Cunha, Hurana
name: Dantas, Daniele
name: Dantas, Rodrigo
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: O estudo objetiva identificar estratégias metodologicamente ativas no ensino de primeiros socorros a escolares. Trata-se de uma revisão de escopo realizada em março de 2020, nas fontes de dados nacionais e internacionais. Foram incluídos artigos disponíveis em texto completo, online, publicados em português, inglês ou espanhol, nos últimos dez anos (2011-2020). Foram excluídos os artigos que não responderam à questão de pesquisa. As metodologias ativas mais observadas foram: treinamento teórico associado às habilidades práticas, uso do PowerPoint, vídeos, fotos, manequins, desfibrilador externo automático, objetos lúdicos como gaze, ataduras e curativos, roda de conversa interativa, elaboração de situações problemas fictícias, simulação de feridas e queimaduras com xarope e maquiagem, entrega de panfletos informativos, pintura de desenhos, kits de auto-instrução, jogos digitais, de tabuleiro e show de dramatização com marionetes. O estudo contribui com a comunidade científica e assistência ao fornecer dados baseados em evidências relacionados às metodologias ativas utilizadas no ensino de primeiros socorros aos escolares, indicando possíveis estratégias de ensino para melhorar a transmissão e retenção do conhecimento. Permite a identificação de lacunas no conhecimento e sugere elaboração de novas pesquisas para melhor elucidação do objeto de estudo.
Real complex functions
Creators: name: Garcia, Stephan Ramon
name: Mashreghi, Javad
name: Ross, William T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We survey a few classes of analytic functions on the disk that have real boundary values almost everywhere on the unit circle. We explore some of their properties, various decompositions, and some connections these functions make to operator theory.
description: 44 pages
Do cats with a cranial cruciate ligament injury and osteoarthritis demonstrate a different gait pattern and behaviour compared to sound cats?
Creators: name: Lascelles, B. Duncan X.
name: Bergh, Anna
name: Stadig, Sarah
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: BACKGROUND: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common cause of chronic pain and dysfunction in older cats. The majority of cats with OA do not show signs of overt lameness, yet cats with orthopaedic disease are known to redistribute their body weight from the affected limb. OA can cause changes in the cat's behaviour, which is often misinterpreted as signs of aging. The aim of the present study was to investigate if cats with a previous cranial cruciate ligament (CCL) injury perform differently on the pressure mat and exhibit different behaviour compared to sound cats according to the owner´s subjective assessment. Ten cats with a previous CCL injury were assessed with a pressure mat system and their owners were asked to complete an assessment questionnaire. The results were compared to those of 15 sound cats, matched to have the same weight and body condition score.

RESULTS: The front/hind limb index for peak vertical force (PVF) was significantly higher for CCL cats, and there was a decreased PVF and vertical impulse (VI) on the affected hindlimb compared to the unaffected one. The results indicate that cats with a previous CCL injury put less weight, on the affected hindlimb but for a longer time. There was a significantly higher owner assessment questionnaire score for the group of cats with CCL injury compared to sound cats.

CONCLUSIONS: Cats with a previous CCL injury have a different gait pattern compared to sound cats and a different behaviour according to owner subjective assessment. It is of great importance that further studies are performed to investigate the long term effects of CCL injury as a cause of pain and physical dysfunction, and its role in the development of OA in cats. Improved assessment tools for chronic pain caused by OA in cats are needed, both to facilitate diagnosis and to evaluate pain-relieving treatment.
Convexity and Thimm's Trick
Creators: name: Lane, Jeremy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we prove a convexity and fibre-connectedness theorem for proper maps constructed by Thimm's trick on a connected Hamiltonian $G$-space $M$ that generate a Hamiltonian torus action on an open dense submanifold. Since these maps only generate a Hamiltonian torus action on an open dense submanifold of $M$, convexity and fibre-connectedness do not follow immediately from Atiyah-Guillemin-Sternberg's convexity theorem, even if $M$ is compact. The core contribution of this paper is to provide a simple argument circumventing this difficulty. In the case where the map is constructed from a chain of subalgebras we prove that the image is given by a list of inequalities that can be computed explicitly. This generalizes the famous example of Gelfand-Zeitlin systems on coadjoint orbits introduced by Guillemin and Sternberg. Moreover, we prove that if such a map generates a completely integrable torus action on an open dense submanifold of $M$, then all its fibres are smooth embedded submanifolds.
description: This final version of the paper is to appear. The introduction has changed to better explain the relevance of this work. A brief section comparing the contents of this paper to symplectic contraction recently introduced by HMM has been reinstated. The details of several examples are expanded. A gap in an earlier proof of Proposition 4 has been corrected, thanks to the keen eye of the referees
Semantic role labeling for knowledge graph extraction from text
Creators: name: Alam, Mehwish
name: Gangemi, Aldo
name: Pressutti, Valentina
name: Reforgiato Recupero, Diego
Publisher: name: Berlin ; Heidelberg : Springer
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Semantic role labeling
subject: Frame semantics
subject: Framester
subject: Dependency parsing
subject: Role oriented knowledge graphs
subject: 004
subject: 600

description: This paper introduces TakeFive, a new semantic role labeling method that transforms a text into a frame-oriented knowledge graph. It performs dependency parsing, identifies the words that evoke lexical frames, locates the roles and fillers for each frame, runs coercion techniques, and formalizes the results as a knowledge graph. This formal representation complies with the frame semantics used in Framester, a factual-linguistic linked data resource. We tested our method on the WSJ section of the Peen Treebank annotated with VerbNet and PropBank labels and on the Brown corpus. The evaluation has been performed according to the CoNLL Shared Task on Joint Parsing of Syntactic and Semantic Dependencies. The obtained precision, recall, and F1 values indicate that TakeFive is competitive with other existing methods such as SEMAFOR, Pikes, PathLSTM, and FRED. We finally discuss how to combine TakeFive and FRED, obtaining higher values of precision, recall, and F1 measure.
Attachment as a risk factor for psychopathology: A meta-analysis
Creators: name: Herstell, Simon
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Psychiatry and Psychology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: attachment
subject: bipolar
subject: bipolar disorder
subject: bowlby
subject: major depression
subject: meta-analysis
subject: psychosis
subject: risk factors

description: We will perform a meta-analysis of attachment style patterns in patients with bipolar disorder, psychosis and major depression.
Directions of the relationship between substance use and depressive symptoms from adolescence to young adulthood
Creators: name: Wilkinson, Andra L.
name: Herring, Amy H.
name: Halpern, Carolyn Tucker
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Both substance use and depression are common in adolescence and often comorbid. Past research has produced conflicting results on whether there is a temporal relationship and if so, in which direction it operates and how it may vary by sex. The purpose of this paper is to explore the longitudinal, potentially bidirectional, relationships between high-frequency substance use and depressive symptoms from adolescence into young adulthood for males and females.
Similarities and differences in alcohol trajectories: Testing the catch-up effect among biracial black subgroups
Creators: name: McGovern, Tricia
name: Hidalgo, Sebastian J. Teran
name: Goings, Trenette Clark
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Using National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent and Adult Health (Add Health) data, we examine the alcohol-use trajectories of monoracial Black youth and biracial Black-White, Black-Hispanic, and Black-American Indian youth to assess how their trajectories differ from the alcohol-use trajectories of White youth over time. The sample consists of 9,421 adolescents and young adults who self-identified as White, Black, Black-American Indian, Black-Hispanic, or Black-White. Study hypotheses are tested using latent growth curve modeling. Results indicate that a catch-up effect exists, but only for Black-American Indians whose alcohol-use rates approach the higher rates of Whites at age 29. Black-American Indians face particularly high risk of problematic drinking over the life course. Additional research is needed to understand causal factors of alcohol-use among biracial individuals particularly Black-American Indians who may be at higher risk for alcohol misuse.
Functional capacity, type of stroke, and psycho-social Adaptation are the factors related to the quality of life three months after stroke
Creators: name: Dharma, Kelana
name: Rahayu, Halina
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: functional capacity; psycho-social adaptation; quality of life after stroke

description: An article on the first Pontianak International Health Conference (PIHC) which held on 21-23 November 2017
A new non-parametric detector of univariate outliers for distributions with unbounded support
Creators: name: Bardet, Jean-Marc
name: Dimby, Solohaja-Faniaha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The purpose of this paper is to construct a new non-parametric detector of univariate outliers and to study its asymptotic properties. This detector is based on a Hill's type statistic. It satisfies a unique asymptotic behavior for a large set of probability distributions with positive unbounded support (for instance: for the absolute value of Gaussian, Gamma, Weibull, Student or regular variations distributions). We have illustrated our results by numerical simulations which show the accuracy of this detector with respect to other usual univariate outlier detectors (Tukey, MAD or Local Outlier Factor detectors). The detection of outliers in a database providing the prices of used cars is also proposed as an application to real-life database.
title: Ιστορία θεωρίας συνόλων
title: History of set theory
Creators: name: Βουνατσος Βασιλειος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2023

description: Το άπειρο είναι μία έννοια η οποία προβλημάτισε τον άνθρωπο εδώ και χιλιάδες χρόνια. Παλαιότερα χρησιμοποιούσαν αυτό τον όρο μόνο από φιλοσοφικής πλευρά, χωρίς να γνωρίζουν τη πραγματική του σημασία. Την προσθήκη αυτού στο κόσμο των μαθηματικών κατάφερε να «φέρει» ο Georg Cantor, ο οποίος τοποθετώντας τον κάτω από το μικροσκόπιο διαπίστωσε ότι μπορεί να διασπαστεί σε κατηγορίες. Χάριν αυτής της ανακάλυψης αυτός ο όρος κρίθηκε απαραίτητος και χρειάστηκε αρκετή μελέτη προκειμένου να δοθούν εξηγήσεις σε αρκετές μαθηματικές έννοιες. Στη συνέχεια ο διάσημος αυτός μαθηματικός δημιούργησε τη θεωρία των συνόλων και αργότερα έδωσε μία καθαρή εικόνα ότι υπάρχουν περισσότερα από ένα είδη απείρου, αποδεικνύοντας ότι το σύνολο των φυσικών αριθμών είναι αριθμήσιμο, ενώ το σύνολο των πραγματικών είναι μη αριθμήσιμο. Σε εκείνο το σημείο η θεωρία των συνόλων που δημιουργήθηκε από το Cantor αντιμετώπισε το παράδοξο, γνωστό ως Russell's paradox το οποίο έλεγε το εξής: Το σύνολο όλων των Χ που δεν ανήκουν στον εαυτό τους οδηγεί σε αντίφαση. Με αυτό τον τρόπο οι βάσεις της θεωρίας κλονίστηκαν και όσα θεωρήματα είχαν ανακαλυφτεί μέσω αυτής τέθηκαν υπό αμφισβήτηση για την ορθότητα τους. Την απάντηση σε όλα αυτά έρχεται να δώσει ο Zermelo-Fraenkel με τη λίστα αξιωμάτων ZFC, η οποία είναι το πιο διαδεδομένο σύστημα για τη θεμελίωση των μαθηματικών. Το τελικό ερώτημα του Cantor κλείνει τη διπλωματική μου εργασία λέγοντας ότι: υπάρχουν οι φυσικοί αριθμοί με πληθικότητα Ν0 και οι πραγματικοί με Ν1, υπάρχει όμως κάποιο άλλο ή άλλα ενδιάμεσα σύνολα; Αυτό το ερώτημα έμεινε αναπάντητο και καταχωρήθηκε στη λίστα με τα είκοσι-πέντε αναπάντητα μαθηματικά ερωτήματα του David Hilbert.
Combined treatment for at-risk drinking and smoking cessation among Puerto Ricans: A randomized clinical trial
Creators: name: Correa-Fernández, Virmarie
name: Li, Yisheng
name: Shih, Ya-Chen Tina
name: Calo, William A.
name: Wetter, David W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Tobacco and alcohol use are linked behaviors that individually and synergistically increase the risk for negative health consequences. This study was a two-group, randomized clinical trial evaluating the efficacy of a behavioral intervention, “Motivation And Problem Solving Plus” (MAPS+), designed to concurrently address smoking cessation and the reduction of at-risk drinking. Targeted interventions may promote coaction, the likelihood that changing one behavior (smoking) increases the probability of changing another behavior (alcohol use). Puerto Ricans (N=202) who were smokers and at-risk drinkers were randomized to standard MAPS treatment focused exclusively on smoking cessation (S-MAPS), or MAPS+, focused on cessation and at-risk drinking reduction. Drinking outcomes included: number of at-risk drinking behaviors, heavy drinking, binge drinking, and drinking and driving. MAPS+ did not have a significant main effect on reducing at-risk drinking relative to S-MAPS. Among individuals who quit smoking, MAPS+ reduced the number of drinking behaviors, the likelihood of meeting criteria for heavy drinking relative to S-MAPS, and appeared promising for reducing binge drinking. MAPS+ did not improve drinking outcomes among individuals who were unsuccessful at quitting smoking. MAPS+ showed promise in reducing at-risk drinking among Puerto Rican smokers who successfully quit smoking, consistent with treatment enhanced coaction. Integrating an alcohol intervention into cessation treatment did not reduce engagement in treatment, or hinder cessation outcomes, and positively impacted at-risk drinking among individuals who quit smoking. Findings of coaction between smoking and drinking speak to the promise of multiple health behavior change interventions for substance use treatment and chronic disease prevention.
Temporal Evolution of the Migration-related Topics on Social Media
Creators: name: Chen, Yiyi
name: Gesese, Genet Asefa
name: Sack, Harald
name: Alam, Mehwish
Publisher: name: Aachen, Germany : RWTH Aachen
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: 004

description: This poster focuses on capturing the temporal evolution of migration-related topics on relevant tweets. It uses Dynamic Embedded Topic Model (DETM) as a learning algorithm to perform a quantitative and qualitative analysis of these emerging topics. TweetsKB is extended with the extracted Twitter dataset along with the results of DETM which considers temporality. These results are then further analyzed and visualized. It reveals that the trajectories of the migration-related topics are in agreement with historical events. The source codes are available online: https://bit.ly/3dN9ICB.
Analyticity of the entropy and the escape rate of random walks in hyperbolic groups
Creators: name: Gouëzel, Sébastien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider random walks on a non-elementary hyperbolic group endowed with a word distance. To a probability measure on the group are associated two numerical quantities, the rate of escape and the entropy. On the set of admissible probability measures whose support is contained in a given finite set, we show that both quantities depend in an analytic way on the probability measure. Our spectral techniques also give a new proof of the central limit theorem, and imply that the corresponding variance is analytic.
A Comparison of Benefit Limits in Mental Health
Creators: name: Seiber, Eric E.
name: Sweeney, Helen Anne
name: Zhu, Hong
name: Olesiuk, William Joseph
name: Tam, Kwok Kwan
name: Schweikhart, Sharon B.
name: Shoben, Abigail B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: This study provides insight to policy makers and stakeholders on how three types of benefits limits on Medicaid-covered mental health services might affect access for consumers diagnosed with severe mental illness. The study used a retrospective cohort design with data for Medicaid-covered, community-based mental health services provided in Ohio during fiscal year 2010. Log-binomial regression was used for the analysis. Results indicate that limits compared have significant, varying consequences based on Medicaid coverage and diagnoses. When constraining Medicaid costs, policy makers should consider how limits will disrupt care and include clinicians in discussions prior to implementation
Push button reproduction attempt of a research claim from Joshua Angrist and Victor Lavy, (2009), in American Economic Review
Creators: name: Tutor, Melba
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: We selected the claim that the Achievement Awards program increased Bagrut rates in 2001 for girls. This reflects the following statement from the paper’s abstract: “The experiment used a school-based randomization design offering awards to all who passed their exams in treated schools. This led to a substantial increase in certification rates for girls but had no effect on boys.” Column 5 of Table 2 (Panel A) shows the OLS estimates of equation (1) for girls. The dependent variable is the Bagrut. In Israel, the high school matriculation certificate, or Bagrut, awarded after a sequence of subject tests, is a formal prerequisite for university admission and arguably marks the dividing line between the working class and the middle class. The focal independent variable is the treatment for the model with school covariates, quartile dummies, micro covariates. The estimates in Table 2 suggest that the Achievement Awards program had no effect on boys, but show reasonably clear evidence of increased Bagrut rates for girls. (The treatment effect for "Model with school covariates, quartile dummies, micro covariates” is 0.105 with standard errors of 0.047.) The focal test in the original paper is: The treatment effect for "Model with school covariates, quartile dummies, micro covariates” is 0.105 with standard errors of 0.047.
Glocalização, Sustentabilidade, Desenvolvimento e Criatividade
Creators: name: EMMENDOERFER, MAGNUS
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Aula aberta, apresentada no formato online, na disciplina PGTP115 - Políticas Globais e Relações locais, Criatividade e Desigualdades: Apontamentos para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável do Turismo e do Patrimônio, criada e ofertada pela primeira no curso de mestrado em Turismo e Patrimônio do PPGTURPATRI - Universidade de Ouro Preto (UFOP), no âmbito da Cátedra UNESCO em Economia Criativa e Políticas Públicas, com sede na Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV), período 2023.1. Disciplina de 60h/a - compartilha com os professores da UFOP: Kerley dos Santos Alves e Marcos Eduardo de Carvalho Gonçalves Knupp Ementa: Diretrizes políticas globais e relações políticas locais; Glocalização e Sustentabilidade. Teorias de Desenvolvimento pela Criatividade, Implicações, efeitos, impactos e criticidades do desenvolvimento no Sul Global.
Non-equilibrium transport through a model quantum dot: Hartree-Fock approximation and beyond
Creators: name: Schiegg, Christian
name: Dzierzawa, Michael
name: Eckern, Ulrich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The finite-temperature transport properties of the spinless interacting fermion model coupled to non-interacting leads are investigated. Employing the unrestricted time-dependent Hartree-Fock (HF) approximation, the transmission probability and the non-linear $I$-$V$ characteristics are calculated, and compared with available analytical results and with numerical data obtained from a Hubbard-Stratonovich decoupling of the interaction. In the weak interaction regime, the HF approximation reproduces the gross features of the exact $I$-$V$ characteristics but fails to account for subtle properties like the particular power law for the reflected current in the interacting resonant level model.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures
Multiscale Cohort Modeling of Atrial Electrophysiology : Risk Stratification for Atrial Fibrillation through Machine Learning on Electrocardiograms
Creators: name: Nagel, Claudia
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2023
Subjects: Electrophysiologische Modellierung und Simulation
Elektrokardiogramm
Maschinelles Lernen
Vorhofflimmern
Statistisches Shape Modell
electrophysiological modeling and simulation
electrocardiogram
machine learning
atrial fibrillation
statistical shape model

description: An early detection and diagnosis of atrial fibrillation sets the course for timely intervention to prevent potentially occurring comorbidities. Electrocardiogram data resulting from electrophysiological cohort modeling and simulation can be a valuable data resource for improving automated atrial fibrillation risk stratification with machine learning techniques and thus, reduces the risk of stroke in affected patients.
Applying the Policy Ecology Framework to Philadelphia’s Behavioral Health Transformation Efforts
Creators: name: Hadley, Trevor R.
name: Wolk, Courtney Benjamin
name: Powell, Byron J.
name: Hurford, Matthew O.
name: Matlin, Samantha L.
name: Stewart, Rebecca E.
name: Rubin, Ronnie M.
name: Evans, Arthur C.
name: Mandell, David S.
name: Weaver, Shawna
name: Beidas, Rinad S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Raghavan et al. (Implement Sci 3(26):1-9, 2008) proposed that effective implementation of evidence-based practices requires implementation strategies deployed at multiple levels of the "policy ecology," including the organizational, regulatory or purchaser agency, political, and social levels. However, much of implementation research and practice targets providers without accounting for contextual factors that may influence provider behavior. This paper examines Philadelphia's efforts to work toward an evidence-based and recovery-oriented behavioral health system, and uses the policy ecology framework to illustrate how multifaceted, multilevel implementation strategies can facilitate the widespread implementation of evidence-based practices. Ongoing challenges and implications for research and practice are discussed.
Extending DIRAC File Management with Erasure-Coding for efficient storage
Creators: name: Skipsey, Samuel Cadellin
name: Todev, Paulin
name: Britton, David
name: Crooks, David
name: Roy, Gareth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The state of the art in Grid style data management is to achieve increased resilience of data via multiple complete replicas of data files across multiple storage endpoints. While this is effective, it is not the most space-efficient approach to resilience, especially when the reliability of individual storage endpoints is sufficiently high that only a few will be inactive at any point in time. We report on work performed as part of GridPP\cite{GridPP}, extending the Dirac File Catalogue and file management interface to allow the placement of erasure-coded files: each file distributed as N identically-sized chunks of data striped across a vector of storage endpoints, encoded such that any M chunks can be lost and the original file can be reconstructed. The tools developed are transparent to the user, and, as well as allowing up and downloading of data to Grid storage, also provide the possibility of parallelising access across all of the distributed chunks at once, improving data transfer and IO performance. We expect this approach to be of most interest to smaller VOs, who have tighter bounds on the storage available to them, but larger (WLCG) VOs may be interested as their total data increases during Run 2. We provide an analysis of the costs and benefits of the approach, along with future development and implementation plans in this area. In general, overheads for multiple file transfers provide the largest issue for competitiveness of this approach at present.
description: 21st International Conference on Computing for High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP2015)
Simulated single molecule microscopy with SMeagol
Creators: name: Lindén, Martin
name: Ćurić, Vladimir
name: Boucharin, Alexis
name: Fange, David
name: Elf, Johan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: SMeagol is a software tool to simulate highly realistic microscopy data based on spatial systems biology models, in order to facilitate development, validation, and optimization of advanced analysis methods for live cell single molecule microscopy data. Availability and Implementation: SMeagol runs on Matlab R2014 and later, and uses compiled binaries in C for reaction-diffusion simulations. Documentation, source code, and binaries for recent versions of Mac OS, Windows, and Ubuntu Linux can be downloaded from http://smeagol.sourceforge.net.
description: v2: 14 pages including supplementary text. Pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an application note published in Bioinformatics following peer review. The version of record, and additional supplementary material is available online at: https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/bioinformatics/btw109
FBP Intergenerational Transmission of Parenting Attitudes
Creators: name: Rhodes, Charla
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: The current study examines the impact of a parenting-after-bereavement intervention on parenting attitudes in offspring 15 years later. Cascading pathways through parental warmth, competencies, mental health, and grief will be examined.
What Gives a Diagnostic Label Value? Common Use Over Informativeness
Creators: name: Chan, Sze Yu
name: Hemmatian, Babak
name: Sloman, Steven
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: circularity
subject: common cause
subject: diagnosis
subject: entrenchment
subject: explanation

description: A label’s entrenchment, its degree of use by members of a community, affects its perceived explanatory value even if the label provides no substantive information (Hemmatian & Sloman, 2018). The repository contains the data and materials related to three experiments that show the susceptibility of laypersons and mental health professionals to the entrenchment effect for diagnostic categories. Participants saw entrenched psychiatric and non-psychiatric diagnostic labels as better explanations than non-entrenched labels even if they are circular. Using scenarios involving experts who discuss unfamiliar diagnostic categories, we show that this preference is not due to violations of conversational norms, lack of reflectiveness or attentiveness, and the characters’ familiarity or unfamiliarity with the label. In Experiment 1, whether a label provided novel symptom information or not had no impact on lay responses, while its entrenchment enhanced ratings of explanation quality. The effect persisted in Experiment 2 for causally incoherent categories and regardless of direct provision of mechanistic information. The effect of entrenchment was partly related to induced causal beliefs about the category, even when they contradict explicitly provided information. Most participants in both experiments did not report any effect of entrenchment and the effect was present for those who did not. In Experiment 3, mental health professionals showed the effect using diagnoses that were mere shorthands for symptoms, despite a tendency to rate all explanations as unsatisfactory. The data suggest that bringing experts’ attention to the manipulation eliminates the effect. This pre-registration relates to the fourth experiment in this series, which attempts to disambiguate the social and epistemic utility of labels, and to provide additional controls.
Materials
Creators: name: Chan, Sze Yu
name: Hemmatian, Babak
name: Sloman, Steven
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: medical disorder
subject: mental disorder

description: Includes the scenarios used in each experiment. Three dependent variables: extent Answered, common Cause, Treatability extent Answered:To what extent did the response “because he has campsismus” answer Aliyah’s question about why the patient showed the symptom? common Cause: How strongly do you agree or disagree with the idea that there is a common cause of the symptoms that is shared by all and only people with campsismus (whether or not we know what that cause is)? Treatability: How treatable do you think campsismus is?
Analysis of luminosity distributions and shape parameters of strong gravitational lensing elliptical galaxies
Creators: name: Biernaux, J.
name: Magain, P.
name: Sluse, D.
name: Chantry, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Luminosity profiles of galaxies acting as strong gravitational lenses can be tricky to study. Indeed, strong gravitational lensing images display several lensed components, both point-like and diffuse, around the lensing galaxy. Those objects limit the study of the galaxy luminosity to its inner parts. Therefore, the usual fitting methods perform rather badly on such images. Previous studies of strong lenses luminosity profiles using software such as GALFIT or IMFITFITS and various PSF-determining methods have resulted in discrepant results. The present work aims at investigating the causes of those discrepancies, as well as at designing more robust techniques for studying the morphology of early-type lensing galaxies with the ability to subtract a lensed signal from their luminosity profiles. We design a new method to independently measure each shape parameter, namely, the position angle, ellipticity, and half-light radius of the galaxy. Our half-light radius measurement method is based on an innovative scheme for computing isophotes that is well suited to measuring the morphological properties of gravitational lensing galaxies. Its robustness regarding various specific aspects of gravitational lensing image processing is analysed and tested against GALFIT. It is applied to a sample of systems from the CASTLES database. Simulations show that when restricted to small, inner parts of the lensing galaxy, the technique presented here is more trustworthy than GALFIT. It gives more robust results than GALFIT, which shows instabilities regarding the fitting region, the value of the Sersic index, and the signal-to-noise ratio. It is therefore better suited than GALFIT for gravitational lensing galaxies. It is also able to study lensing galaxies that are not much larger than the PSF. New values for the half-light radius of the objects in our sample are presented and compared to previous works.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A on september 28th, 2015
Data
Creators: name: Chan, Sze Yu
name: Hemmatian, Babak
name: Sloman, Steven
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: circularity
subject: common cause
subject: diagnosis
subject: explanation
subject: non-psychiatric disorder
subject: pyschiatric disorder

description: Includes data in .sav and .csv format for all experiments. Please look up the information about each variable in the Var_List.docx documents.
Use of Pooled State Administrative Data for Mental Health Services Research
Creators: name: Frisman, Linda
name: Druss, Benjamin
name: Libby, Anne
name: Essock, Susan
name: Zerzan, Judy
name: Finnerty, Molly
name: Morrissey, Joseph
name: Wisdom, Jennifer
name: Stein, Bradley D.
name: Hoagwood, Kimberly Eaton
name: Donahue, Sheila
name: Narasimhan, Meera
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: State systems are a rich, albeit challenging, laboratory for policy-relevant services research studies. State mental health authorities routinely devote resources to collect data for state planning and reporting purposes. However, these data are rarely used in cross-state comparisons to inform state or federal policy development. In 2008, in response to key recommendations from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Advisory Council’s “The Road Ahead: Research Partnership to Transform Services,” (http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/advisory-boards-and-groups/namhc/reports/road-ahead.pdf), NIMH issued a request for applications (RFA) to support studies on the impact of state policy changes on access, cost, quality and outcomes of care for individuals with mental disorders. The purpose of the RFA was to bridge the divide between research and policy by encouraging research that used state administrative data across states, and to address significant state-defined health policy initiatives. Five projects involving eight states were selected through peer review for funding. Projects began in 2009 and were funded for 3 years. This report provides a brief description of the five projects, followed by an analysis of the impact, challenges, and lessons learned from these policy-partnered studies. We conclude by offering suggestions on ways to use state administrative data for informing state health policies, which is especially timely given national and state changes in the structure and financing of healthcare.
A MODIFIED ITERATIVE METHOD FOR SOLVING SPLIT VARIATIONAL INCLUSION PROBLEMS AND FIXED POINT PROBLEMS FOR NONEXPANSIVE SEMIGROUP
Creators: name: Nwawuru, Francis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Applied mathematics not elsewhere classified

description: We study a modified iterative method for approximating
 a common solution of split variational inclusion problems and fixed point problems for nonexpansive semigroup in real Hilbert spaces. The self-contained tutorial serves as a survey for the current research trends in the area of split feasibility problems. The nonexpansive semigroup operator has find valuable applications both in deterministic and stochastic dynamical system as well as PDEs. Therefore, it deserves to study.
Combating Toronto’s COVID-19 Second Wave: Effectiveness of Non-pharmaceutical Interventions in Reducing Infections
Creators: name: Ho, Natalie
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Life Sciences

description: Study evaluating the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions in preventing SARS-CoV-2 transmission, using an agent-based simulation software known as COBWEB to model the general public’s compliance to these measures in the city of Toronto, Canada.
Recent advances of cocktail chemotherapy by combination drug delivery systems
Creators: name: Wang, Chao
name: Gu, Zhen
name: Sun, Wujin
name: Hu, Quanyin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Combination chemotherapy is widely exploited for enhanced cancer treatment in clinic. However, the traditional cocktail administration of combination regimens often suffers from varying pharmacokinetics among different drugs. The emergence of nanotechnology offers an unparalleled opportunity for developing advanced combination drug delivery strategies with the ability to encapsulate various drugs simultaneously and unify the pharmacokinetics of each drug. This review surveys the most recent advances in combination delivery of multiple small molecule chemotherapeutics using nanocarriers. The mechanisms underlying combination chemotherapy, including the synergistic, additive and potentiation effects, are also discussed with typical examples. We further highlight the sequential and site-specific co-delivery strategies, which provide new guidelines for development of programmable combination drug delivery systems. Clinical outlook and challenges are also discussed in the end.