cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
New graduate midwives' experiences of social supports during the transition period of practice: a qualitative systematic review
Creators: name: Rahmadhena, Melisa Putri
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: BACKGROUND Graduate midwives require substantial support during their first year of midwifery practice to develop their confidence. Midwives are autonomous professionals who require a high-level skill of clinical decision-making. Social supports protect individuals from the stress of a critical event and consist of four components (appraisal, tangible, belonging, self-esteem). The new midwives’ experience of social supports during the first year of midwifery practice plays a crucial role to increase new midwives’ levels of confidence during this transition period. AIM This qualitative systematic review aims to synthesis the new graduate midwives’ experiences of social supports during the transition period of midwifery practice. The objectives of this systematic review are to: describe the transition period experiences of new graduate midwives and examine what constitute social supports during transition period. METHOD This systematic review followed the method for qualitative synthesis from Joanna Briggs Institute. Search of published studies was undertaken of four databases without time restriction. Studies that met inclusion criteria were then appraised using JBI Qualitative Assessment and Review Instrument. RESULT Eight published studies were included in this systematic review. From these eight studies, 52 findings were extracted, eight categories were formed and three synthesized findings were generated. The heading of three synthesized findings of new midwives’ transition period experience are: ‘personalised support programs’, ‘relationship with others and self’, and ‘previous experience of learning and practice and gap between expectation and reality’. Components of social support such as appraisal and tangible support appeared in personalized support programs and relationship with others and self. While belonging and self esteem support emerged in relationship with others and self and previous experience of learning and practice and gap between expectation and reality. CONCLUSION This review identifies the experiences of new graduate midwives during transition period of midwifery practice. Social support components are integrated in the three elements of new midwives’ transition period experience. Social support during new midwives’ transition period underpins their confidence, which in turn improves their performance to carry midwifery care.
Precise radial velocities of giant stars VIII. Testing for the presence of planets with CRIRES Infrared Radial Velocities
Creators: name: Trifonov, Trifon
name: Reffert, Sabine
name: Zechmeister, Mathias
name: Reiners, Ansgar
name: Quirrenbach, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have been monitoring 373 very bright (V < 6 mag) G and K giants with high precision optical Doppler spectroscopy for more than a decade at Lick Observatory. Our goal was to discover planetary companions around those stars and to better understand planet formation and evolution around intermediate-mass stars. However, in principle, long-term, g-mode nonradial stellar pulsations or rotating stellar features, such as spots, could effectively mimic a planetary signal in the radial velocity data. Our goal is to compare optical and infrared radial velocities for those stars with periodic radial velocity patterns and to test for consistency of their fitted radial velocity semiamplitudes. Thereby, we distinguish processes intrinsic to the star from orbiting companions as reason for the radial velocity periodicity observed in the optical. Stellar spectra with high spectral resolution have been taken in the H-band with the CRIRES near-infrared spectrograph at ESO's VLT for 20 stars of our Lick survey. Radial velocities are derived using many deep and stable telluric CO2 lines for precise wavelength calibration. We find that the optical and near-infrared radial velocities of the giant stars in our sample are consistent. We present detailed results for eight stars in our sample previously reported to have planets or brown dwarf companions. All eight stars passed the infrared test. We conclude that the planet hypothesis provides the best explanation for the periodic radial velocity patterns observed for these giant stars.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables, accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics
Finitely Dependent Insertion Processes
Creators: name: Levy, Avi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60G10, 05C15, 60C05

description: A $q$-coloring of $\mathbb Z$ is a random process assigning one of $q$ colors to each integer in such a way that consecutive integers receive distinct colors. A process is $k$-dependent if any two sets of integers separated by a distance greater than $k$ receive independent colorings. Holroyd and Liggett constructed the first stationary $k$-dependent $q$-colorings by introducing an insertion algorithm on the complete graph $K_q$. We extend their construction from complete graphs to weighted directed graphs. We show that complete multipartite analogues of $K_3$ and $K_4$ are the only graphs whose insertion process is finitely dependent and whose insertion algorithm is consistent. In particular, there are no other such graphs among all unweighted graphs and among all loopless complete weighted directed graphs. Similar results hold if the consistency condition is weakened to eventual consistency. Finally we show that the directed de Bruijn graphs of shifts of finite type do not yield $k$-dependent insertion processes, assuming eventual consistency.
description: 25 pages, 5 figures
Vortex Dynamics in a Spin-Orbit Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensate
Creators: name: Fetter, Alexander L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Vortices in a one-component dilute atomic ultracold Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) usually arise as a response to externally driven rotation. Apart from a few special situations, these vortices are singly quantized with unit circulation. Recently, the NIST group has constructed a two-component BEC with a spin-orbit coupled Hamiltonian involving Pauli matrices, and I here study the dynamics of a two-component vortex in such a spin-orbit coupled condensate. These spin-orbit coupled BECs use an applied magnetic field to split the hyperfine levels. Hence they rely on a focused laser beam to trap the atoms. In addition, two Raman laser beams create an effective (or synthetic) gauge potential. The resulting spin-orbit Hamiltonian is discussed in some detail. The various laser beams are fixed in the laboratory, so that it is not feasible to nucleate a vortex by an applied rotation that would need to rotate all the laser beams and the magnetic field. In a one-component BEC, a vortex can also be created by a thermal quench, starting from the normal state and suddenly cooling deep into the condensed state. I propose that a similar method would work for a vortex in a spin-orbit coupled BEC. Such a vortex has two components, and each has its own circulation quantum number. If both components have the same circulation, I find that the composite vortex should execute uniform precession, like that observed in a single-component BEC. In contrast, if one component has unit circulation and the other has zero circulation, then some fraction of the dynamical vortex trajectories should eventually leave the condensate, providing clear experimental evidence for this unusual vortex structure. In the context of exciton-polariton condensates, such a vortex is known as a "half-quantum vortex".
description: Conference presentation at Quantum Gases, Fluids, and Solids. Accepted for Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Nurses’ attitudes, compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue associated with the pain management of patients with sickle cell disease crisis in Saudi Arabia: a qualitative descriptive study
Creators: name: Ibn Alshaikh, Zahra
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Background: Sickle cell disease (SCD) is one of the chronic haematological disorders. It is common in African as well as in Indian- Arab originals. Saudi Arabia (SA) is one of the Arabian Gulf countries that has a high percentage of this disease especially in the Eastern province. Literature review: Health care providers’ attitudes vary between positive and negative towards sickle cell patients, especially in relation to pain and drug addiction. This variation depends on several factors such as: providers’ experiences, number of treated patients and lack of knowledge about this condition. Registered nurses who work in critical services have moderate job satisfaction, and mild to moderate compassion fatigue. There was no study that examines the effect of treating patients in pain on nurses’ level of compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue. Although the percentage of sickle cell patients in SA is high, there are no studies that consider nurses’ attitudes toward those patients. Methodology: A descriptive qualitative design was used to explore nurses’ experiences and attitudes towards patients with a painful crisis from SCD. Semi-structured, audio recorded interviews were conducted with registered nurses (n= 10) working in the critical areas of Emergency Department, Inherited Blood Disorders Centre and Intensive Care Unit. Results: Three themes were obtained from the data analysis. The participants found caring for sickle cell patients difficult and stressful. This care has an influence on their professional and personal life. The participants showed moderate to low compassionate fatigue and high to moderate compassion satisfaction while caring for sickle cell patients. Implications: There is a need for further research, larger and replicated studies would provide a stronger basis for determining key aspects of this phenomena. Based on this study’s findings education related to SCD and pain management to improve nurses’ knowledge about the disease might support their capacity to care. Conclusion: Nurses were affected by the experiences of caring for patients with sickle cell crises characterised by pain. The nurses’ attitudes toward these patients varied. Sometimes their attitudes were positive and they were motivated to assist as fully as they could. At other times they experienced frustration and a range of barriers, which negatively affected their capacity and attitudes to care.
Dataset of: Community perspectives on the prospect of lion (Panthera leo) reintroduction to Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire (West Africa)
Creators: name: Aglissi, Janvier
name: A. Etotépé, Sogbohossou
name: Bauer, Hans
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Databases
Acceptance of lion reintroduction in Comoé National Park
Côte d'Ivoire
West Africa

description: The civil war in Côte d'Ivoire led to a hike in human disturbances and the extirpation of the African lion (Panthera leo) from the Comoé National Park (CNP). After the war, many efforts have been made to restore this ecosystem and management is considering the reintroduction of lions. In participatory management with people at the center of conservation, there is a need to discuss with communities the initiatives affecting their livelihoods. We assessed the acceptance of lion reintroduction by the local communities; through semi-structured questionnaires to 307 volunteer participants in surrounding 23 villages. Most respondents had knowledge of lions from CNP (93%, n=286). A generalized linear model (GLM) revealed that sex, profession, perceived benefits and risks, and an appreciation of the current management system are the main significant determinants for the acceptance of lion reintroduction in CNP. A large majority (73%, n=223) were in favor of the lion reintroduction with significant variance among socio-professional categories. The majority of respondents (81%, n=250) acknowledged having coexisted with lions, with previous lion conflicts reported by 20% (n = 61), and a willingness to coexist in the future by 74% (n = 227). More than 84% (n=260) believed that there would be benefits associated with lion reintroduction to CNP and 53% (n=162) believed that the potential benefits would be greater than the possible risks associated with lions. Most respondents (88%; n=270) confirmed the possibility of taking precautions to prevent future lion attacks. While only 42% (n = 129) of respondents felt that current management was participatory, most of them felt that it was acceptable (83%; n = 254). Our data shows a large degree of lion support, positive perceptions, and willingness to coexist with lions in the future. These results form part of a fundamental step in the direction for ethical reintroduction, as described by the IUCN reintroduction specialist group. We recommend the improvement of the involvement of indigenous communities in potential reintroduction of lions, especially the pastoralists, and the sharing of any associated benefits.
description: Funding provided by: International Union for Conservation of Nature*
Crossref Funder Registry ID:
Award Number: AVBF-00072Funding provided by: German Technical Cooperation (GIZ of Côte d'Ivoire)*
Crossref Funder Registry ID:
Award Number: VN 1508-290- 22
An extremely young massive clump forming by gravitational collapse in a primordial galaxy
Creators: name: Zanella, A.
name: Daddi, E.
name: Floc'h, E. Le
name: Bournaud, F.
name: Gobat, R.
name: Valentino, F.
name: Strazzullo, V.
name: Cibinel, A.
name: Onodera, M.
name: Perret, V.
name: Renaud, F.
name: Vignali, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When the cosmic star formation history peaks (z ~ 2), galaxies vigorously fed by cosmic reservoirs are gas dominated and contain massive star-forming clumps, thought to form by violent gravitational instabilities in highly turbulent gas-rich disks. However, a clump formation event has not been witnessed yet, and it is debated whether clumps survive energetic feedback from young stars, thus migrating inwards to form galaxy bulges. Here we report spatially resolved spectroscopy of a bright off-nuclear emission line region in a galaxy at z = 1.987. Although this region dominates the star formation in the galaxy disk, its stellar continuum remains undetected in deep imaging, revealing an extremely young (age < 10 Myr) massive clump, forming through the gravitational collapse of > 10$^9$ M$_{\odot}$ of gas. Gas consumption in this young clump is > 10 times faster than in the host galaxy, displaying high star formation efficiency during this phase, in agreement with our hydrodynamic simulations. The frequency of older clumps with similar masses coupled with our initial estimate of their formation rate (~ 2.5 Gyr$^{-1}$) supports long lifetimes (~ 500 Myr), favouring scenarios where clumps survive feedback and grow the bulges of present-day galaxies.
description: Published in May 7 issue of Nature (http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature14409)
title: Tragfähigkeit druckbeanspruchten Lehmmauerwerks unter Berücksichtigung nichtlinearer Feuchteprofile
Creators: name: Brinkmann, Maximilian
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2023

description: Lehmmauerwerk bietet sich auf Grund einer Vielzahl ökologischer und bauphysikalischer Vorteile zur Errichtung klimafreundlicher und ressourcenschonender Gebäude an. Für den verbreiteten Einsatz tragenden Lehmmauerwerks ist jedoch ein Bemessungsverfahren erforderlich, welches das feuchteabhängige Materialverhalten dieses Baustoffs zutreffend berücksichtigt. Im Rahmen der vorliegenden Arbeit werden daher zunächst instationäre hygrothermische Simulationen an praxisüblichen Lehmmauerwerkskonstruktionen durchgeführt, um die bemessungsrelevante Materialfeuchte und deren Verteilung innerhalb des Querschnitts für verschiedene Anwendungsfälle zu ermitteln. Darüber hinaus erfolgt eine Analyse des Klimaeinflusses auf das Materialverhalten unstabilisierter Lehmbaustoffe mittels experimenteller Untersuchungen. Auf dieser Grundlage werden sowohl numerische als auch analytische Traglastmodelle entwickelt, welche es erlauben, die Tragfähigkeit druckbeanspruchten Lehmmauerwerks unter Berücksichtigung nichtlinearer Feuchteprofile wirklichkeitsnah zu ermitteln. Abschließend werden die gewonnenen Erkenntnisse in einen praxisnahen Bemessungsvorschlag überführt, welcher die Möglichkeit eines wirtschaftlichen und zuverlässigen Nachweises druckbeanspruchter Lehmmauerwerkswände bietet.
Calanthe taibaishanensis M. Guo, J. W. Zhai & L. J. Chen 2017, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Guo, Ming
name: Zhai, Jun-Wen
name: Wu, Xin-Yi
name: Li, Shuang-Xi
name: Wang, Meng
name: Li, Zhi-Jun
name: Chen, Li-Jun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Orchidaceae
Calanthe
Calanthe taibaishanensis

description: 1. Calanthe taibaishanensis M. Guo, J.W. Zhai & L.J. Chen, sp. nov. (Figs. 2, 3) (*ŮƜḄÿ±)
 This species is similar to C. arcuata Rolfe; they both have narrowly elliptic-lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate leaves and 3-lobed labellum with obviously 3–5 ridges, but the former one can be distinguished by yellowish to white flower inside, much smaller lateral lobes (1mm vs. 7mm long) of its lip.
 Type: — CHINA. Shaanxi (Ŕffl): Taibaishan Mountain(* ŮƜ), 1775 m, terrestrial under forest. 15 June 2017, Liu 10464 (holotype NOCC!).
Terrestrial herb. Plant 19.0–24.0 cm tall. Pseudobulbs ovate or conical, small, with diam. 0.4–0.9cm. Leaves 5–6, 5.0– 16.0 cm long, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, apex acuminate. Scape arising from leaf axil, erect, about 22.0 cm, pubescent; raceme 8–10.0 cm long, laxly ca. 5–7-flowered; flower bracts oblong-lanceolate, green, 0.8–1.0 cm long. Flowers 2.0–3.0 cm in diameter, yellowish to white; pedicel and ovary 1.2–1.5 cm, glabrous. Sepals subequal, ovate to oblong-ovate, 1.2–1.4 × 0.5–0.6 cm; dorsal sepal concave, a little cymbiform; petals subspatulate, 0.4–0.5 cm wide; lip slightly 3-lobed; mid-lobe ovate to rhombic, apex acuminate; disk with obviously 3–5 ridges, coliform at apex; lateral lobes small, horn-like, ca. 1mm long; spur clavate, white, 0.8–1.2 cm, glabrous. Column white, 0.3–0.4 cm long; pollinia 8, in 2 groups. Fl. July.
 Ecology and related species: — Calanthe taibaishanensis is an endemic species, known only distributed in Taibai Mountain, Shaanxi Province.
 It grows in ravine under mixed forest, with the associated species of Carya cathayensis, Abelia biflora, Oreorchis fargesii etc., and also with the elevation about 1775 m. This species is similar to C. arcuata; they both have narrowly elliptic-lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate leaves and 3-lobed labellum with obviously 3–5 ridges, but the former can be distinguished by purple to pink flower inside, smaller lateral lobes (ca. 1mm long) of its lip.
 Etymology: —The specific epithet of Calanthe taibaishanensis refers to its discovery in Taibaishan Mountain, Shaanxi province.
description: Published as part of Guo, Ming, Zhai, Jun-Wen, Wu, Xin-Yi, Li, Shuang-Xi, Wang, Meng, Li, Zhi-Jun & Chen, Li-Jun, 2017, Calanthe taibaishanensis, A New Orchid Species from China: Evidence from Morphological and Molecular Analyses, pp. 184-190 in Phytotaxa 327 (2) on page 189, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.327.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/13723183
Photoacoustic Drug Delivery
Creators: name: Zhang, Yuqi
name: Kahkoska, Anna R.
name: Yu, Jicheng
name: Gu, Zhen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Photoacoustic (PA) technology holds great potential in clinical translation as a new non-invasive bioimaging modality. In contrast to conventional optical imaging, PA imaging (PAI) enables higher resolution imaging with deeper imaging depth. Besides applications for diagnosis, PA has also been extended to theranostic applications. The guidance of PAI facilitates remotely controlled drug delivery. This review focuses on the recent development of PAI-mediated drug delivery systems. We provide an overview of the design of different PAI agents for drug delivery. The challenges and further opportunities regarding PA therapy are also discussed.
Passive advection of a vector field: Anisotropy, finite correlation time, exact solution and logarithmic corrections to ordinary scaling
Creators: name: Antonov, N. V.
name: Gulitskiy, N. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 76F30

description: In this work we study the generalization of the problem, considered in [{\it Phys. Rev. E} {\bf 91}, 013002 (2015)], to the case of {\it finite} correlation time of the environment (velocity) field. The model describes a vector (e.g., magnetic) field, passively advected by a strongly anisotropic turbulent flow. Inertial-range asymptotic behavior is studied by means of the field theoretic renormalization group and the operator product expansion. The advecting velocity field is Gaussian, with finite correlation time and preassigned pair correlation function. Due to the presence of distinguished direction ${\bf n}$, all the multiloop diagrams in this model are vanish, so that the results obtained are exact. The inertial-range behavior of the model is described by two regimes (the limits of vanishing or infinite correlation time) that correspond to the two nontrivial fixed points of the RG equations. Their stability depends on the relation between the exponents in the energy spectrum ${\cal E} \propto k_{\bot}^{1-ξ}$ and the dispersion law $ω\propto k_{\bot}^{2-η}$. In contrast to the well known isotropic Kraichnan's model, where various correlation functions exhibit anomalous scaling behavior with infinite sets of anomalous exponents, here the corrections to ordinary scaling are polynomials of logarithms of the integral turbulence scale $L$.
description: 18 pages, LaTeX source with 8 eps figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1406.3808
Sustainable aviation biofuel feedstock potential in sub-Saharan Africa
Creators: name: Fischer, Günther
name: Tramberend, Sylvia
name: Bole-Rentel, Tjaša
name: Reeler, James
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: sustainable aviation fuel
sustainability
sub-Saharan Africa
SSP
modelling study
climate change
limits

description: A comprehensive analysis of the potential to produce sustainable aviation fuels in sub-Saharan Africa, whilst considering social, environmental and food production needs under two different development scenarios to 2050.
Mental health in 2020 for men who have sex with men in the United States
Creators: name: Mitchell, Avery D.
name: O'Cleirigh, Conall
name: Batchelder, Abigail W.
name: Safren, Steven
name: Ivardic, Ivan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Despite continued advances in HIV prevention and treatment, gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men (MSM) remain the population most impacted by HIV/AIDS in the US and many other Western countries. Additionally, MSM are disproportionately affected by various psychological problems, including depression, distress, trauma and substance use. These challenges frequently co-occur, and are associated with higher rates of behaviours related to HIV acquisition and transmission, HIV infection, and, for those living with HIV/AIDS, lower levels of treatment engagement. Moreover, racial disparities exist among MSM in the US; for example, young African American MSM bear a disproportionate burden of the continuing HIV epidemic, likely related to disparate HIV prevalence in partner pools as well as long-standing structural inequities. In this review, the mental health challenges facing MSM primarily in the US, related to HIV and STI prevention and across the HIV care cascade, including HIV diagnosis, engagement and retention in care, and antiretroviral adherence, are illustrated. Disparities among MSM including racial and ethnic, age-related and structural barriers associated with HIV prevention and treatment, as well as current interventions, are also described. Moving forward towards 2020, resources will be needed to assess and implement scalable intervention strategies to address psychological and social barriers to HIV and STI risk reduction and treatment for MSM, with a particular focus on the most vulnerable subpopulations. As access to prevention and treatment strategies expand, and new breakthroughs continue to emerge, behavioural strategies will continue to be needed to reduce risk and increase uptake and engagement among MSM most at risk through 2020 and beyond.
Marileptolyngbya Zhou et Ling 2018, gen. nov.
Creators: name: Zhou, Wei-Guo
name: Ding, De-Wen
name: Yang, Qing-Song
name: Ahmad, Manzoor
name: Zhang, Yuan-Zhou
name: Lin, Xian-Cheng
name: Zhang, Yan-Ying
name: Ling, Juan
name: Dong, Jun-De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Cyanobacteria
Cyanophyceae
Synechococcales
Leptolyngbyaceae
Marileptolyngbya

description: Marileptolyngbya Zhou et Ling, gen. nov.
Thallus blue-green. Filaments straight, curved, or entangled, without branching. Trichomes uniseriate, cylindrical. Sheaths thin, colorless, fibrous monolayer. Cells longer than wide, cylindrical, distinctly constricted at the cross wall, not attenuated at the ends. Apical cells rounded.
 Type: — Marileptolyngbya sina Zhou et Ling
 Etymology: —the genus name “ Marileptolyngbya ” was chosen due to its marine ecosystem habitat.
description: Published as part of Zhou, Wei-Guo, Ding, De-Wen, Yang, Qing-Song, Ahmad, Manzoor, Zhang, Yuan-Zhou, Lin, Xian-Cheng, Zhang, Yan-Ying, Ling, Juan & Dong, Jun-De, 2018, Marileptolyngbya sina gen. nov., sp. nov. and Salileptolyngbya diazotrophicum gen. nov., sp. nov. (Synechococcales, Cyanobacteria), species of cyanobacteria isolated from a marine ecosystem, pp. 75-92 in Phytotaxa 383 (1) on page 78, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.383.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/13725105
Characterisation of the Burkholderia pseudomallei two-component signal transduction system BprRS
Creators: name: Dimitropoulos, Alexandra
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Burkholderia pseudomallei is a Gram negative facultative intracellular bacterium that is the causative agent of the disease Melioidosis. Melioidosis has a high prevalence in many tropical countries and a mortality rate of 14% in Australia and 40% in Thailand. B. pseudomallei is highly resistant to antibiotics and has a number of virulence factors which help it escape being effectively targeted and killed by host defences. In many bacterial pathogens, virulence factors are often controlled by two-component signal transduction systems (TCSTS). These systems involve a membrane-bound sensor histidine kinase (SHK) that detects stimuli, and a cytoplasmic response regulator (RR) that can alter expression of a particular set of genes allowing for control over several different biological processes such as motility and chemotaxis. B. pseudomallei has many putative TCSTSs, one of which is the BprRS system. Inactivation of either the SHK bprS or the RR bprR attenuated B. pseudomallei virulence but inactivation of the whole bprRS system did not. These data suggest that removal of each single component results in aberrant crosstalk interactions with other B. pseudomallei TCSTSs that lead to dysregulation and attenuated virulence. Therefore, the BprR and BprS proteins may be suitable targets for therapeutic intervention. In silico analysis of the BprR and BprS proteins demonstrated that both were highly conserved in most B. pseudomallei strains and other Burkholderiaceae species members. Each protein displayed strong conservation of functionally important domains and motifs identified in characterised SHKs and RRs from other bacterial species. Attempts were made to express and purify the BprR and BprS proteins via heterologous expression in E. coli. Ni-NTA affinity purification of the BprS SHK protein was unsuccessful with only insoluble protein produced; future work should focus on optimising soluble expression with different fusion tags and expression conditions. Purification of the BprR RR protein using a combination of glutathione-based affinity, gel filtration, thrombin cleavage and Ni-NTA affinity purification was largely successful. It was shown that the purified BprR was primarily in a mostly folded monomeric form and functions to bind a 208-bp DNA fragment located directly upstream of the BPSS0688 gene. Further studies need to be conducted in order to further characterise the structural and functional properties of both the BprS and BprR protein in order to identify if these two proteins are appropriate targets for novel therapeutic techniques using small molecule inhibitors.
Borderline Personality Disorder Symptom Severity and Sexually Transmitted Infection and HIV Risk in African American Incarcerated Men
Creators: name: Golin, Carol E.
name: Adimora, Adaora A.
name: Khan, Maria R.
name: Lejuez, Carl W.
name: Wohl, David A.
name: Scheidell, Joy D.
name: Hobbs, Marcia M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Sexually transmitted infections (STI)/HIV rates are disproportionately high among men involved in the criminal justice system. Mental health disorders, including personality disorders, are also elevated among inmates. Borderline personality disorder (BPD) may be an important risk factor for STI/HIV, yet remains relatively understudied, particularly among inmates.
Can Young Adults Accurately Report Sexual Partnership Dates? Factors Associated With Interpartner and Dyad Agreement
Creators: name: Sanchez, Diana M.
name: Adimora, Adaora A.
name: Poole, Charles
name: Agnew, Christopher R.
name: Leone, Peter A.
name: Harvey, S. Marie
name: Schoenbach, Victor J.
name: Warren, Jocelyn T.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Sexual partnership dates are critical to STI/HIV research and control programs, though validity is limited by inaccurate recall and reporting.
Strangeness fluctuations from $K-π$ interactions
Creators: name: Friman, Bengt
name: Lo, Pok Man
name: Marczenko, Michał
name: Redlich, Krzysztof
name: Sasaki, Chihiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by recent lattice QCD studies, we explore the effects of interactions on strangeness fluctuations in strongly interacting matter at finite temperature. We focus on S-wave $Kπ$ scattering and discuss the role of the $K_0^*(800)$ and $K^*(1430)$ resonances. The interaction contribution is obtained within the S-matrix formulation of thermodynamics, using the empirical $Kπ$ phase shifts as input. We find that the simplified treatment of the interactions in this channel, employed in the hadron resonance gas approach, leads to an overestimate of the strangeness fluctuations. Thus, our calculation indicates that broad resonances must be treated with caution, when modeling QCD thermodynamics in the hadronic phase.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, version appeared in phys. rev. d
Study on Bangkok its Urban Heat Island effect and the Relationship with Electricity Consumption using Geoinformatics
Creators: name: Jariya Yomsatiankul
Publisher: name: Thammasat Printing House
Year: 2018
Subjects: Urban Heat Island
LST
Energy Consumption
Landsat
MODIS

description: International Journal of Building, Urban, Interior and Landscape Technology, 12, , 35-46
Galaxy Structure as a Driver of the Star Formation Sequence Slope and Scatter
Creators: name: Whitaker, Katherine E.
name: Franx, Marijn
name: Bezanson, Rachel
name: Brammer, Gabriel B.
name: van Dokkum, Pieter G.
name: Kriek, Mariska T.
name: Labbe, Ivo
name: Leja, Joel
name: Momcheva, Ivelina G.
name: Nelson, Erica J.
name: Rigby, Jane R.
name: Rix, Hans-Walter
name: Skelton, Rosalind E.
name: van der Wel, Arjen
name: Wuyts, Stijn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well established that (1) star-forming galaxies follow a relation between their star formation rate (SFR) and stellar mass (M$_{\star}$), the "star-formation sequence", and (2) the SFRs of galaxies correlate with their structure, where star-forming galaxies are less concentrated than quiescent galaxies at fixed mass. Here, we consider whether the scatter and slope of the star-formation sequence is correlated with systematic variations in the Sersic indices, $n$, of galaxies across the SFR-M$_{\star}$ plane. We use a mass-complete sample of 23,848 galaxies at $0.52$ (implying more dominant bulges) have significantly lower SFR/M$_{\star}$ than the main ridgeline of the star-formation sequence. These results suggest that bulges in massive $z\sim2$ galaxies are actively building up, where the stars in the central concentration are relatively young. At $z<1$, the presence of older bulges within star-forming galaxies lowers global SFR/M$_{\star}$, decreasing the slope and contributing significantly to the scatter of the star-formation sequence.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters
Low-Cost Innovative Prototype of Automatically Adjustable Sun Louvers
Creators: name: Prittipoen Lopkerd
Publisher: name: Thammasat Printing House
Year: 2018
Subjects: Low-cost innovative prototype
Automatically adjustable sun louvers
Climate responsive architecture
Exterior shading device

description: International Journal of Building, Urban, Interior and Landscape Technology, 12, , 47-60
Higher HPV16 and HPV18 Penile Viral Loads Are Associated With Decreased Human Papillomavirus Clearance in Uncircumcised Kenyan Men
Creators: name: Moses, Stephen
name: Meshnick, Steven R.
name: Agot, Kawango
name: Hesselink, Albertus T.
name: Schlecht, Nicolas F.
name: Poole, Charles
name: Smith, Jennifer S.
name: Snijders, Peter J.F.
name: Senkomago, Virginia
name: Hudgens, Michael G.
name: Backes, Danielle M.
name: Bailey, Robert C.
name: Meijer, Chris J.L.M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: BACKGROUND: Whether higher penile human papillomavirus (HPV) viral load is associated with a lower rate of HPV clearance remains unknown.

OBJECTIVES: We examined the association between penile HPV16 and HPV18 viral load and subsequent HPV clearance in uncircumcised Kenyan men.

STUDY DESIGN: Participants were human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-seronegative, sexually active, 18- to 24-year-old men randomized to the control arm of a male circumcision trial in Kisumu, Kenya. Men provided exfoliated penile cells from two anatomical sites (glans/coronal sulcus and shaft) every 6 months for 2 years. GP5+/6+ polymerase chain reaction was used to identify 44 HPV-DNA types. Human papillomavirus viral load testing was conducted using a LightCyler real-time polymerase chain reaction assay; viral load was classified as high (>250 copies/scrape) or low (≤250 copies/scrape), for nonquantifiable values. The Kaplan-Meier method and Cox regression modeling were used to examine the association between HPV viral load and HPV clearance.

RESULTS: A total of 1097 men, with 291 HPV16 and 131 HPV18 cumulative infections over 24 months were analyzed. Human papillomavirus clearance at 6 months after first HPV detection was lower for high versus low viral load HPV16 infections in the glans (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR], 0.65; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.46-0.92)] and shaft (aHR, 0.44; 95% CI, 0.16-0.90), and HPV18 infections in the glans (aHR, 0.05; 95% CI, 0.01-0.17).

DISCUSSION: High versus low HPV viral load was associated with a reduced HPV clearance for HPV16 infections in the glans and shaft, and for HPV18 infections in the glans, among young uncircumcised men. Reduced clearance of high viral load HPV16 and HPV18 infections in men may increase HPV transmission to their female partners as well as enhance the development of penile lesions in comparison to men with low viral load HPV infections.
Marileptolyngbya sina Zhou et Ling 2018, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Zhou, Wei-Guo
name: Ding, De-Wen
name: Yang, Qing-Song
name: Ahmad, Manzoor
name: Zhang, Yuan-Zhou
name: Lin, Xian-Cheng
name: Zhang, Yan-Ying
name: Ling, Juan
name: Dong, Jun-De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Cyanobacteria
Cyanophyceae
Synechococcales
Leptolyngbyaceae
Marileptolyngbya
Marileptolyngbya sina

description: Marileptolyngbya sina Zhou et Ling, sp. nov. (Fig. 1 a–c, Fig. 2 a–e, Fig. 3 a–d)
 Description:—Thallus blue-green. Filaments straight or coiled, uniseriate, without false branching, 1.75–2.28 μm wide. Sheath thin, colorless, attached to trichomes. Trichomes cylindrical, distinctly constricted at the cross wall. Cells longer than wide, 2.23–3.46 μm long and 1.04–1.73 μm wide. Apical cells rounded, sometimes extended, without calyptra, longer than wide, 1.86–3.66 μm long and 1.24–1.85 μm wide. Thylakoids parietal, varying from three to four at the lateral portion. No heterocytes. Gas vesicles absent. Cyanophycin granules (CG) and lipid droplet (ld) present.
 Etymology:— “sina ” refers to the sampling site Xincun Bay in Hainan Province, China.
 Habitat: —epiphytic on Thalassia hemperichii.
 Type locality: — CHINA. Xincun Bay, Lingshui County, Hainan Province, 18°24’42’’N, 109°59’6’’E, 24 May 2014. (Ecology: pH 8.09; Conductivity 40.79 ms/ ccm; dissolved oxygen 103.8% sat; salinity 26.4‰).
 Holotype: A monospecific dried sample in liquid nitrogen has been deposited in the China Center For Type Culture Collection (CCTCC); accession number M 2015061
 Observation: —Trichomes colonized the bottom of the flask when the strain was cultivated in modified liquid BG-11 medium. Distinct constrictions at the cross wall and rounded terminal cell were evident in SEM images (Fig. 2 a-e). The ultrastructure of SCSIO T- 2 showed the central nucleoid, thin, fibrous monolayer sheath and thylakoids occurred at the lateral portions of cell.
description: Published as part of Zhou, Wei-Guo, Ding, De-Wen, Yang, Qing-Song, Ahmad, Manzoor, Zhang, Yuan-Zhou, Lin, Xian-Cheng, Zhang, Yan-Ying, Ling, Juan & Dong, Jun-De, 2018, Marileptolyngbya sina gen. nov., sp. nov. and Salileptolyngbya diazotrophicum gen. nov., sp. nov. (Synechococcales, Cyanobacteria), species of cyanobacteria isolated from a marine ecosystem, pp. 75-92 in Phytotaxa 383 (1) on pages 78-79, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.383.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/13725105
The Attitude in Urban Planning of Thai Urban Public Space: A Case Study of Bangkok Metropolitan Area, Thailand
Creators: name: Chompoonut Kongphunphin
Publisher: name: Thammasat Printing House
Year: 2018
Subjects: Low-cost innovative prototype
Automatically adjustable sun louvers
Climate responsive architecture
Exterior shading device

description: International Journal of Building, Urban, Interior and Landscape Technology, 12, , 61-76
Entanglement entropy between real and virtual particles in $ϕ^{4}$ quantum field theory
Creators: name: Ardenghi, Juan Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The aim of this work is to compute the entanglement entropy of real and virtual particles by rewriting the generating functional of $ϕ^{4}$ theory as a mean value between states and observables defined through the correlation functions. Then the von Neumann definition of entropy can be applied to these quantum states and in particular, for the partial traces taken over the internal or external degrees of freedom. This procedure can be done for each order in the perturbation expansion showing that the entanglement entropy for real and virtual particles behaves as $\ln (m_{0})$. In particular, entanglement entropy is computed at first order for the correlation function of two external points showing that mutual information is identical to the external entropy and that conditional entropies are negative for all the domain of $m_{0}$. In turn, from the definition of the quantum states, it is possible to obtain general relations between total traces between different quantum states of a r theory. Finally, discussion about the possibility of taking partial traces over external degrees of freedom is considered, which implies the introduction of some observables that measure space-time points where interaction occurs.
description: 4 figures
The prevalence of compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue among midwives in one Australian health service: a descriptive cross-sectional study.
Creators: name: Mahungururo, Mugara Joseph
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Introduction: This study was undertaken to investigate the prevalence of compassion satisfaction (CS) and/ or compassion fatigue (CF) among midwives. While there is limited research into CS and CF in midwives, these have been demonstrated as key aspects that affect professional quality of life (ProQOL) in a range of caring professions. Methods: A quantitative descriptive cross-sectional online survey was used as the approach to the research. Demographic questions and the ProQOL v5 questionnaire were used as methods of data collection. Survey Monkey software was used to gather the responses. Midwives from a large Melbourne based metropolitan health service were recruited for this survey from three maternity settings, which were geographically dispersed. Descriptive and inferential statistics were performed using SPSS version 20 to analyse the data. Results: The survey had a 32% response rate, and data from 152 midwives were analysed. The Midwives were from hospital A (42.1%), B (30.9%), C (21.7%), and 5.3% worked across the three campus; all were female with mean age of 39.16 (SD 11.97). Overall findings on the levels of CS and CF were; 25% of midwives had high levels of CS and 75% had average to high levels of STS and BO. Midwives who experienced average to low levels of STS were at risk of similar levels of BO. Midwives with STS still had high CS meanwhile midwives with BO had average to low CS. The key statistically significant findings were high levels of compassion satisfaction [n= 42, t (150) =2.43, p=0.016] in midwives who were employed full time, and high levels of secondary traumatic stress [n= 110, t (150) = -2.49, p= 0.014] in the midwives who were employed part time. In this study the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient for ProQOL v5 subscales was Compassion satisfaction (CS) α=0.884, Burnout (BO) α=0.815 and Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS) α= 0.81. Conclusion: CS and CF (STS) in this study were linked to being either a full time or part time employee respectively. There is a need for similar research to be done to further explore the prevalence of these concepts in midwifery. The findings have implications for midwives and managers in being aware of the factors that are possibly linked to CS and CF in the professional midwifery workforce.
title: Embodied carbon comparison between vernacular architecture and modern techniques in Albania
Creators: name: Baba, Aurora
name: Islami, Gjergj
Publisher: name: University of Southampton
Year: 2022
Subjects: vernacular architecture, albania, emobodied carbon, energy consumption, adobe bricks

description: Alarming CO2 levels from rapid industrial developments, including construction, are calling on architects to find better design solutions. Today in Albania, despite the continued growth of high-rise facilities, about 83% of buildings are individual 1-2 floors dwellings with reinforced concrete and bricks, whereas 4.2% are built with adobe bricks and timber before 1945, representing an opportunity to rethink the way low-high building materials are chosen. This study investigated traditional vernacular techniques and the impact of 2-3 floors houses with local earth techniques on energy consumption and CO2 footprint compared to modern reinforced concrete systems currently in use. The energy assessment was performed using Revit 2019 with the integration of Insight and H\B:ERT. The traditional model not only had an annual operational energy consumption of 8% lower than RC construction but it also had a CO2 footprint almost 50% lower than the technique most used for construction in Albania.
Characterisation of testis- and ovary- specific long non-coding RNAs
Creators: name: Yang, Jennifer Xuelian
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Gonadogenesis is a highly regulated process in the mammalian fetus and disruption can lead to altered sexual development resulting in disorders of sex development (DSDs), which are congenital conditions in which the development of chromosomal, gonadal or anatomical sex is atypical. Many DSDs are currently unexplained at the molecular level, suggesting that genes and/or regulatory mechanisms that are important for gonad development are still unknown. There is emerging data that non-coding RNAs (ncRNA) play a role in many developmental processes. Long ncRNAs are ncRNAs defined as being longer than 200 nucleotides. Not much is known about the role of long ncRNA in regulation of testis and ovary development. Using microarrays techniques, we have identified a number of long ncRNAs, which displayed sexually dimorphic expression during mouse gonad development but no function has yet been assigned. In the current study I aimed to validate the expression of these long ncRNAs and elucidate their cellular function.