cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
To explore and understand organizational communication in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Creators: name: Ahluwalia, Harshit Singh
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The aim of this study was to explore and identify organisational communication practices in response to COVID-19. COVID-19 has prompted organizations around the world to vigorously adapt to and inculcate new organizational working culture with respect to digital communication (utilizing software online communication tools like Zoom, Microsoft Teams etc.), virtual team framework (for sharing task presentations, online conferencing etc), working from home, flexible work hour timings, amongst other practices. Little is presently known with respect to how these tools and practices are perceived to influence knowledge-flow, goal-achievement, and communication within organizations. This study assessed insights on the perceived potential positive and negative outcomes that have emerged and shaped organisational communication. Interviews discussing communication and work practices were conducted with six staff involved in various health-related organizations as part of the World Health Organization. Interview data were analysed using thematic analysis employing a qualitative research framework within a grounded theory framework. The respondents reported both advantages and disadvantages associated with the new communication formats, highlighting that although there were challenges towards maintaining efficient organizational communication during the pandemic, they felt that they were presented with various opportunities and benefits for shaping up future communication in a productive manner while also relying on the utilization of digital communication platforms. These research findings contribute to a greater understanding of organizational communication as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic and provide insights towards the types of challenges to address for organizations along with potential benefits to explore.
Mermin-Wagner fluctuations in 2D amorphous solids
Creators: name: Illing, Bernd
name: Frischi, Sebastian
name: Kaiser, Herbert
name: Klix, Christian
name: Maret, Georg
name: Keim, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent comment, M. Kosterlitz described how the discrepancy about the lack of broken translational symmetry in two dimensions - doubting the existence of 2D crystals - and the first computer simulations foretelling 2D crystals at least in tiny systems, motivated him and D. Thouless to investigate melting and suprafluidity in two dimensions [Jour. of Phys. Cond. Matt. \textbf{28}, 481001 (2016)]. The lack of broken symmetries proposed by D. Mermin and H. Wagner is caused by long wavelength density fluctuations. Those fluctuations do not only have structural impact but additionally a dynamical one: They cause the Lindemann criterion to fail in 2D and the mean squared displacement not to be limited. Comparing experimental data from 3D and 2D amorphous solids with 2D crystals we disentangle Mermin-Wagner fluctuations from glassy structural relaxations. Furthermore we can demonstrate with computer simulations the logarithmic increase of displacements predicted by Mermin and Wagner: periodicity is not a requirement for Mermin-Wagner fluctuations which conserve the homogeneity of space on long scales.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Equidistribution of Neumann data mass on triangles
Creators: name: Christianson, Hans
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: In this paper we study the behaviour of the Neumann data of Dirichlet eigenfunctions on triangles. We prove that the $L^2$ norm of the (semi-classical) Neumann data on each side is equal to the length of the side divided by the area of the triangle. The novel feature of this result is that it is {\it not} an asymptotic, but an exact formula. The proof is by simple integrations by parts.
Australian podiatrists' understanding and current practices of reablement for older people: a qualitative exploratory study
Creators: name: Mulquiny, Lachlan
name: Oakman, Jodi
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4201
subject: Allied health and rehabilitation science

description: Background: The ageing of Australia's population is placing significant pressure on health and social aged care services due to increasing demand for the provision and a relative decrease in the healthcare workforce. Reablement has been introduced by the Australian Commonwealth Government and is aimed at increasing older people's independence to age in place and decreasing dependency on aged care services. To date, research on reablement practice has focussed on interventions from physiotherapists, occupational therapists, and nurses, with no data available on podiatrist involvement. The aim of this research was to explore Australian podiatrists' understanding and current practice of implementing a reablement approach to older clients. Methods: A qualitative exploratory study was conducted with Australian podiatrists who had experience working with older people and were familiar with the reablement model. Podiatrists were recruited after completing a prior web-based survey. Promotion of the web-based survey was via professional networks and Twitter. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analysed using Braun and Clarke's approach to thematic analysis. Results: Fourteen podiatrists were interviewed. Using thematic analysis, three themes were generated: (i) Thinking and practicing differently, (ii) Reconciling practice with competing pressures, (ii) Funding influences on podiatry practice and reablement. Rather than identifying practice examples that demonstrate involvement by podiatrists in older peoples reablement, our analysis identified system level barriers which gave negative influence on podiatrists' ability to implement the reablement model. Conclusions: The participants in this study considered their role in reablement for older people was limited. While some participants felt unskilled to implement the reablement model, it is factors such as inadequate funding arrangements and clients' perceptions of podiatrists' roles have a more significant impact on current practice and are seemingly more intractable.
Infalling clouds onto super-massive black hole binaries - I. Formation of discs, accretion and gas dynamics
Creators: name: Goicovic, F. G.
name: Cuadra, J.
name: Sesana, A.
name: Stasyszyn, F.
name: Amaro-Seoane, P.
name: Tanaka, T. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is compelling evidence that most -if not all- galaxies harbour a super-massive black hole (SMBH) at their nucleus, hence binaries of these massive objects are an inevitable product of the hierarchical evolution of structures in the universe, and represent an important but thus-far elusive phase of galaxy evolution. Gas accretion via a circumbinary disc is thought to be important for the dynamical evolution of SMBH binaries, as well as in producing luminous emission that can be used to infer their properties. One plausible source of the gaseous fuel is clumps of gas formed due to turbulence and gravitational instabilities in the interstellar medium, that later fall toward and interact with the binary. In this context, we model numerically the evolution of turbulent clouds in near-radial infall onto equal-mass SMBH binaries, using a modified version of the SPH code GADGET-3. We present a total of 12 simulations that explore different possible pericentre distances and relative inclinations, and show that the formation of circumbinary discs and discs around each SMBH ('mini-discs') depend on those parameters. We also study the dynamics of the formed discs, and the variability of the feeding rate onto the SMBHs in the different configurations.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 17 pages, 13 figures. Animations available at http://www.astro.puc.cl/~fgarrido/animations
AI-enabled wearable sensing system to perform conformity test in healthcare
Creators: name: Seth, Avishkar
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: There has been tremendous research efforts aimed at improving lower back healthcare through wearable sensing systems, yet the potential for improvement still lacks due to conformity test necessities in the process. This project demonstrates the development of an AI-based wearable sensing system to perform conformity tests in the healthcare domain. The project focuses on the lower back or lumbar-pelvic movement monitoring to tackle back pain problems. The sensing system is divided into three different simultaneously operating units; a wearable watch, a lower back device, and a computer vision unit. An IoT network is created between the devices to measure real-time dual IMU sensor data and perform machine learning to generate an appropriate posture control signal. The computer vision model is trained with the relevant data for different rehabilitation exercises for patients using OpenCV in Python. Preliminary results show improvements with higher accuracies up to 90% when compared to other posture control methods.
Classifying Chronic Lower Respiratory Disease Events in Epidemiologic Cohort Studies
Creators: name: Oelsner, Elizabeth C.
name: Loehr, Laura R.
name: Henderson, Ashley G.
name: Barr, R. Graham
name: Smith, Benjamin M.
name: Ries, Andrew
name: Lo Cascio, Christian M.
name: Rosamond, Wayne D.
name: Enright, Paul L.
name: Kalhan, Ravi
name: Shah, Neomi
name: Donohue, Kathleen M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Rationale: One in 12 adults has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or asthma. Acute exacerbations of these chronic lower respiratory diseases (CLRDs) are a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Valid approaches to classifying cases and exacerbations in the general population are needed to facilitate prevention research.
Feasibility of electron cyclotron autoresonance acceleration by a short terahertz pulse
Creators: name: Salamin, Yousef I.
name: Li, Jian-Xing
name: Galow, Benjamin J.
name: Keitel, Christoph H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A vacuum autoresonance accelerator scheme for electrons, which employs terahertz radiation and currently available magnetic fields, is suggested. Based on numerical simulations, parameter values, which could make the scheme experimentally feasible, are identified and discussed.
Enlarged Dural Sac in Idiopathic Bronchiectasis Implicates Heritable Connective Tissue Gene Variants
Creators: name: Lowe, Jared R.
name: Birchard, Katherine R.
name: Noone, Peadar G.
name: Patrone, Michael V.
name: Daniels, M. Leigh Anne
name: Knowles, Michael R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Rationale: Patients with idiopathic bronchiectasis are predominantly female and have an asthenic body morphotype and frequent nontuberculous mycobacterial respiratory infections. They also demonstrate phenotypic features (scoliosis, pectus deformity, mitral valve prolapse) that are commonly seen in individuals with heritable connective tissue disorders.
Continuous Choreographies as Limiting Solutions of $N$-body Type Problems with Weak Interaction
Creators: name: Castaneira, Reynaldo
name: Padilla, Pablo
name: Sánchez-Morgado, Héctor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider the limit $N\to +\infty$ of $N$-body type problems with weak interaction, equal masses and $-σ$-homogeneous potential, $0
Dennstaedtia cicutaria T. Moore, Index Fil.
Creators: name: Schwartsburd, Pedro B.
name: Navarrete, Hugo
name: Smith, Alan R.
name: Kessler, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dennstaedtiaceae
Dennstaedtia
Dennstaedtia cicutaria

description: Dennstaedtia cicutaria (Sw.) T.Moore, Index Fil. 97. 1857.
 Range:— Greater Antilles; throughout tropical America. In Bolivia, known from BE and LP.
 Ecology:— Common; terrestrial mainly present in disturbed areas; 100–2200 m.
 Notes:— Dennstaeadtia cicutaria occurs mainly in disturbed areas; habitats include secondary forest margins, roadsides, and pastures, but rarely inside mature forests. Underground rhizomes help make this a successful pioneer in lowlands, just as in some species in other genera of the family, e.g., Pteridium and Hypolepis. Rhizomes of Dennstaedtia cicutaria are slender and very long compared to those of the other species of genus in America. In general, in blade aspect, growth habit, and in the strong development of the basal acroscopic pinnules, D. cicutaria resembles Microlepia speluncae, but features of the indusia clearly differentiate them.
description: Published as part of Schwartsburd, Pedro B., Navarrete, Hugo, Smith, Alan R. & Kessler, Michael, 2017, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXVI. Dennstaedtiaceae, pp. 251-268 in Phytotaxa 332 (3) on page 253, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.332.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13723580
Social media use in hearing health (Ulep et al., 2022)
Creators: name: Ulep, Alyssa Jade
name: Deshpande, Aniruddha K.
name: Beukes, Eldré W.
name: Placette, Aubry
name: Manchaiah, Vinaya
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: Audiology
Social and community informatics

description: Background: People are increasingly using social media outlets for gathering health-related information. There has also been considerable interest from researchers and clinicians in understanding how social media is used by the general public, patients, and health professionals to gather health-related information. Interest in the use of social media for audiovestibular disorders has also received attention, although published evidence synthesis of this use is lacking. The objective of this review article was to synthesize existing research studies related to social media use concerning hearing loss, tinnitus, and vestibular disorders. Method: Comprehensive searches were performed in multiple databases between October and November 2020 and again in June 2021 and March 2022, with additional reports identified from article citations and unpublished literature. This review article was presented using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines. Results: A total of 1,512 articles were identified. Of these, 16 publications met the inclusion criteria. Overall, social media offered people the platform to learn about hearing loss, tinnitus, and vestibular disorders via advice and support seeking, personal experience sharing, general information sharing, and relationship building. Research studies were more common on information and user activities seen on Facebook Pages, Twitter, and YouTube videos. Misinformation was identified across all social media platforms for each of these conditions. Conclusions: Online discussions about audiovestibular disorders are evident, although inconsistencies in study procedures make it difficult to compare these discussion groups. Misinformation is a concern needing to be addressed during clinical consultations as well as via other public health means. Uniform guidelines are needed for research regarding the use of social media so that outcomes are comparable. Moreover, clinical studies examining how exposure to and engagement with social media information may impact outcomes (e.g., help seeking, rehabilitation uptake, rehabilitation use, and satisfaction) require exploration.
 Supplemental Material S1. PRISMA checklist.
 Ulep, A. J., Deshpande, A. K., Beukes, E. W., Placette, A., & Manchaiah, V. (2022). Social media use in hearing loss, tinnitus, and vestibular disorders: A systematic review. American Journal of Audiology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_AJA-21-00211
 Publisher Note: This article is part of the Special Issue: 5th International Meeting on Internet and Audiology.
Quantum detectors in generic non flat FLRW space-times
Creators: name: Rabochaya, Yevgeniya
name: Zerbini, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A quantum field theoretical approach, in which a quantum probe is used to investigate the properties generic non-flat FLRW space-times is discussed. The probe is identified with a conformally coupled massless scalar field defined on a space-time with horizon and the procedure to investigate the local properties is realized by the use of Unruh-DeWitt detector and by the evaluation of the regularized quantum fluctuations. In the case of de Sitter space, the coordinate independence of our results is checked, and the Gibbons-Hawking temperature is recovered. A possible generalization to the electromagnetic probe is also briefly indicated.
description: !6 pages
Hydrator Therapies for Chronic Bronchitis. Lessons from Cystic Fibrosis
Creators: name: Henderson, Ashley G.
name: Donaldson, Scott H.
name: Bennett, William D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Patients with the chronic bronchitis form of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and cystic fibrosis share similar clinical features, including mucus obstruction of airways and the development of chronic/recurrent airways infections that often manifest as disease exacerbations. There is growing evidence that these diseases may have parallels in disease pathogenesis as well, including cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator dysfunction, mucus dehydration, and defective mucociliary clearance. As progress is made in the development of therapies that target the basic defects that lead to cystic fibrosis lung disease, it is possible that similar approaches could also benefit patients with chronic bronchitis. A deeper understanding of how tobacco smoke and other triggers of chronic bronchitis actually lead to disease, and exploration of the concept that therapies that restore cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator function, mucus hydration, and/or mucociliary clearance may benefit patients with chronic bronchitis, hold the prospect of significant progress in treating this prevalent disease.
Spin-orbit coupling and proximity effects in metallic carbon nanotubes
Creators: name: Chudzinski, Piotr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study spin-orbit coupling in metallic carbon nanotubes (CNTs) within the many-body Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid (TLL) framework. For a well defined sub-class of metallic CNTs, that contains both achiral zig-zag as well as a sub-set of chiral tubes, an effective low energy field theory description is derived. We aim to describe system at finite dopings, but close to the charge neutrality point (commensurability). A new regime is identified where spin-orbit coupling leads to an inverted hierarchy of mini-gaps of bosonic modes. We then add a proximity coupling to a superconducting (SC) substrate and show that the only order parameter that is supported within the novel, spin-orbit induced phase is a topologically trivial s-SC.
description: accepted in PhysRevB
A Lightweight Multilevel Markup Language for Connecting Software Requirements and Simulations
Creators: name: Pudlitz, Florian
name: Vogelsang, Andreas
name: Brokhausen, Florian
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik
subject: markup language
subject: requirements modeling
subject: simulation
subject: test evaluation

description: [Context] Simulation is a powerful tool to validate specified requirements especially for complex systems that constantly monitor and react to characteristics of their environment. The simulators for such systems are complex themselves as they simulate multiple actors with multiple interacting functions in a number of different scenarios. To validate requirements in such simulations, the requirements must be related to the simulation runs. [Problem] In practice, engineers are reluctant to state their requirements in terms of structured languages or models that would allow for a straightforward relation of requirements to simulation runs. Instead, the requirements are expressed as unstructured natural language text that is hard to assess in a set of complex simulation runs. Therefore, the feedback loop between requirements and simulation is very long or non-existent at all. [Principal idea] We aim to close the gap between requirements specifications and simulation by proposing a lightweight markup language for requirements. Our markup language provides a set of annotations on different levels that can be applied to natural language requirements. The annotations are mapped to simulation events. As a result, meaningful information from a set of simulation runs is shown directly in the requirements specification. [Contribution] Instead of forcing the engineer to write requirements in a specific way just for the purpose of relating them to a simulator, the markup language allows annotating the already specified requirements up to a level that is interesting for the engineer. We evaluate our approach by analyzing 8 original requirements of an automotive system in a set of 100 simulation runs.
Designing a community aphasia group (Levy et al., 2022)
Creators: name: Levy, Deborah F.
name: Kasdan, Anna V.
name: Bryan, Katherine M.
name: M. Wilson, Stephen
name: de Riesthal, Michael
name: Herrington, Dominique P.
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: Neurology and neuromuscular diseases
Counselling, wellbeing and community services

description: Purpose: Community aphasia groups serve an important purpose in enhancing the quality of life and psychosocial well-being of individuals with chronic aphasia. Here, we describe the Aphasia Group of Middle Tennessee, a community aphasia group with a 17-year (and continuing) history, housed within Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Method: We describe in detail the history, philosophy, design, curriculum, and facilitation model of this group. We also present both quantitative and qualitative outcomes from group members and their loved ones. Results: Group members and their loved ones alike indicated highly positive assessments of the format and value of the Aphasia Group of Middle Tennessee. Conclusion: By characterizing in detail the successful Aphasia Group of Middle Tennessee, we hope this can serve as a model for clinicians interested in starting their own community aphasia groups, in addition to reaching individuals living with chronic aphasia and their loved ones through the accessible and aphasia-friendly materials provided with this clinical focus article (see Supplemental Material S1).
 Supplemental Material S1. Aphasia-friendly article: A version of this research article designed to be accessible for individuals with aphasia and their loved ones.
 Supplemental Material S2. A sample version of an aid to consent used to consent individuals with aphasia for the survey.
 Supplemental Material S3. A sample of the slides used to conduct the survey for individuals with aphasia over Zoom.
 Levy, D. F., Kasdan, A. V., Bryan, K. M., Wilson, S. M., de Riesthal, M., & Herrington, D. P. (2022). Designing and implementing a community aphasia group: An illustrative case study of the Aphasia Group of Middle Tennessee. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_PERSP-22-00006
Additional file 1 of “Starting to think that way from the start”: approaching deprescribing decision-making for people accessing palliative care - a qualitative exploration of healthcare professionals views
Creators: name: Robinson-Barella, Anna
name: Richardson, Charlotte Lucy
name: Bayley, Zana
name: Husband, Andy
name: Bojke, Andy
name: Bojke, Rona
name: Exley, Catherine
name: Hanratty, Barbara
name: Elverson, Joanna
name: Jansen, Jesse
name: Todd, Adam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Mucus Hyperconcentration as a Unifying Aspect of the Chronic Bronchitic Phenotype
Creators: name: Boucher, Richard C.
name: Anderson, Wayne H.
name: Button, Brian
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Abnormalities in mucus production and qualitative properties such as mucus hydration are central to the pathophysiology of airway disease including cystic fibrosis, asthma, and chronic bronchitis. In vitro air–liquid interface epithelial cell cultures demonstrate direct relationships between mucociliary transport, periciliary liquid (PCL) height, and mucus concentration (expressed as percent solids or partial osmotic pressure). In health, the osmotic modulus/pressure of the PCL exceeds that of the mucus layer, resulting in efficient, low-friction movement of mucus. In disease, through multiple mechanisms, the osmotic pressure of the mucus begins to exceed basal PCL values, resulting in compression of the cilia and slowing of mucus transport. The in vivo data in both cystic fibrosis and chronic bronchitis parallel in vitro data demonstrating that when mucus osmotic pressure is increased, mucociliary clearance is decreased. In chronic bronchitis, there is a direct correlation between FEV1 and percent solids of mucus, demonstrating a strong relationship between disease progression and mucus abnormalities. Animal models, based mechanistically on raised sodium absorption (and therefore water absorption) from airway surfaces, mimic the pathophysiology of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Collectively, these data suggest the importance of mucus concentration in the pathogenesis of airway disease. It is important to understand the precise mechanisms that result in mucus hyperconcentration, for example, mucin overproduction versus abnormal regulation of ion/water transport, which may be unique to and characteristic of each disease phenotype. The measurement of mucus concentration may be a simple method to diagnose chronic bronchitis, monitor its progression, and serve as a biomarker for development of new therapies.
Potential Cost-effectiveness of Early Identification of Hospital-acquired Infection in Critically Ill Patients
Creators: name: Reed, Shelby D.
name: Limkakeng, Alex T.
name: Hudson, Lori L.
name: Chu, Vivian H.
name: Welty-Wolf, Karen E.
name: Li, Yanhong
name: Fowler, Vance G.
name: McClain, Micah T.
name: Woods, Christopher W.
name: Glickman, Seth W.
name: Tsalik, Ephraim L.
name: Katz, Jason N.
name: Himmel, Tiffany
name: Ginsburg, Geoffrey S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Limitations in methods for the rapid diagnosis of hospital-acquired infections often delay initiation of effective antimicrobial therapy. New diagnostic approaches offer potential clinical and cost-related improvements in the management of these infections. We developed a decision modeling framework to assess the potential cost-effectiveness of a rapid biomarker assay to identify hospital-acquired infection in high-risk patients earlier than standard diagnostic testing. The framework includes parameters representing rates of infection, rates of delayed appropriate therapy, and impact of delayed therapy on mortality, along with assumptions about diagnostic test characteristics and their impact on delayed therapy and length of stay. Parameter estimates were based on contemporary, published studies and supplemented with data from a four-site, observational, clinical study. Extensive sensitivity analyses were performed. The base-case analysis assumed 17.6% of ventilated patients and 11.2% of nonventilated patients develop hospital-acquired infection and that 28.7% of patients with hospital-acquired infection experience delays in appropriate antibiotic therapy with standard care. We assumed this percentage decreased by 50% (to 14.4%) among patients with true-positive results and increased by 50% (to 43.1%) among patients with false-negative results using a hypothetical biomarker assay. Cost of testing was set at $110/d. In the base-case analysis, among ventilated patients, daily diagnostic testing starting on admission reduced inpatient mortality from 12.3 to 11.9% and increased mean costs by $1,640 per patient, resulting in an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of $21,389 per life-year saved. Among nonventilated patients, inpatient mortality decreased from 7.3 to 7.1% and costs increased by $1,381 with diagnostic testing. The resulting incremental cost-effectiveness ratio was $42,325 per life-year saved. Threshold analyses revealed the probabilities of developing hospital-acquired infection in ventilated and nonventilated patients could be as low as 8.4 and 9.8%, respectively, to maintain incremental cost-effectiveness ratios less than $50,000 per life-year saved. Development and use of serial diagnostic testing that reduces the proportion of patients with delays in appropriate antibiotic therapy for hospital-acquired infections could reduce inpatient mortality. The model presented here offers a cost-effectiveness framework for future test development.
A New Example of a Closed Form Mean-Variance Representation
Creators: name: McLaren, Keith R.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Econometric and statistical methods
Econometrics not elsewhere classified

description: In most finance papers and textbooks mean-variance preferences are usually introduced and motivated as a special case of expected utility theory. In general, the two sufficient conditions to allow this are either quadratic preferences with an arbitrary distribution of stochastic assets, or arbitrary preferences with Normally distributed assets. In the first case, the specific functional form of mean-variance preferences follows naturally. In the second case, the only specific functional form usually provided is the case of negative exponential preferences. In this note, the specific functional form for mean-variance preferences is derived for the much more realistic example of lognormally distributed assets, and constant relative risk aversion (CRRA) preferences.
Adams operations on classical compact Lie groups
Creators: name: Fok, Chi-Kwong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 19L50, 55N91

description: Let $G$ be $U(n)$, $SU(n)$, $Sp(n)$ or $Spin(n)$. In this short note we give explicit general formulas for Adams operations on $K^*(G)$, and eigenvectors of Adams operations on $K^*(U(n))$.
description: To appear in Proc. Amer. Math. Soc
e-Data-V3
Creators: name: Chen, Yue
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Electrochemical energy storage and conversion

description: This e-Data contains all the data contributing to the study described in the manuscript "Nanoarchitecture factors of solid electrolyte interphase formation via 3D nano-rheology microscopy and surface force-distance spectroscopy", including descriptions of the data sets, manufacturing drawings of EC-AFM cell, LabVIEW data capture script and the developed code for reconstructing 3D-NRM force curves into tomography slices.
Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia: First Health-related Quality of Life Measures for Pediatric Patients
Creators: name: Galvin, Audrey Dunn
name: Alpern, Adrianne
name: Behan, Laura
name: Lucas, Jane S.
name: Knowles, Michael R.
name: Leigh, Margaret W.
name: Morris, Anjana M.
name: Quittner, Alexandra L.
name: Dell, Sharon D.
name: Ferkol, Thomas W.
name: Hogg, Claire
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Rationale: Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a rare disease. There are no available data on disease-specific pediatric patient–reported outcomes.
Automated Benchmarking of Incremental SAT and QBF Solvers
Creators: name: Egly, Uwe
name: Lonsing, Florian
name: Oetsch, Johannes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Incremental SAT and QBF solving potentially yields improvements when sequences of related formulas are solved. An incremental application is usually tailored towards some specific solver and decomposes a problem into incremental solver calls. This hinders the independent comparison of different solvers, particularly when the application program is not available. As a remedy, we present an approach to automated benchmarking of incremental SAT and QBF solvers. Given a collection of formulas in (Q)DIMACS format generated incrementally by an application program, our approach automatically translates the formulas into instructions to import and solve a formula by an incremental SAT/QBF solver. The result of the translation is a program which replays the incremental solver calls and thus allows to evaluate incremental solvers independently from the application program. We illustrate our approach by different hardware verification problems for SAT and QBF solvers.
description: camera-ready version (8 pages + 2 pages appendix), to appear in the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR), LNCS, Springer, 2015
Data and code related to numerical simulation of post-fire debris flow
Creators: name: Ouyang, Chaojun
name: Xiang, Wen
name: An, Huicong
name: Wang, Fulei
name: Yang, Weibin
name: Fan, Jiying
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: numerical simulation
post-fire debris flow

description: The compression package contains the source code and relevant data used in the numerical simulation of post-fire debris flow. Some folders that need to be described include a readme.txt for help. If you still have questions, please contact: 622200090027@mails.cqjtu.edu.cn.
Assisted robotic arm for patient with cerebral palsy.
Creators: name: Lin, Karen
name: Yip, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Advanced Journal of Professional Practice
Year: 2023

description: Many diseases can affect the motility of an individual, such as Parkinson’s disease and cerebral palsy (CP). This project focuses on creating a prototype for a wearable assistive device which aims to provide support to patients who have been affected by a chronic illness influencing their mobility. We will be focusing on the medical, mechanical, and biopsychosocial aspects in designing our wearable assistive device to cater to the patients’ needs.
description: Advanced Journal of Professional Practice, Vol 3 No 2 (2022): EDI Special Edition
Recent Graduates’ Perspectives on Undergraduate Kinesiology Programs in Canada
Creators: name: Cheng, Yeu-Yao (Kevin)
name: Klas, Alexander
name: Ataman, Rebecca
name: Chou, Shannon
name: Pouresa, Sep
Publisher: name: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada
Year: 2022

description: Background: Kinesiologists are a growing group of health professionals in Canada who can enter practice after completing undergraduate kinesiology programs. Unlike other health professional programs such as physiotherapy that have well-established curricula and extensive national accreditation standards, kinesiology programs vary considerably between institutions. The resultant disparities in kinesiology graduates’ entry-level skillsets, competencies, and confidence levels contribute to their uncertainty regarding their role in healthcare and the public’s underutilization of kinesiology services. Conclusions: As former kinesiology students, and as current kinesiologists and allied health professionals, we offer our perspective on how undergraduate kinesiology programs could change to respond to the needs of their graduates. Specifically, we suggest an increased emphasis on practical skill development, providing students with kinesiologist mentors and teaching staff, offering kinesiologist specific career planning, and creating explicit streams of specialization. We hope our perspectives based on our own lived experience will better prepare kinesiology students for careers as kinesiologists.
description: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada, Vol. 15 No. 2 (2022)
The use of assisted robotics in promoting movement at the elbow joint.
Creators: name: Wain, Alfie
name: Theivendram, Zuvarnan
Publisher: name: Advanced Journal of Professional Practice
Year: 2023

description: The use of assistive robotics in healthcare is a relatively new concept which has been growing over the 21st century. The clinical use of an assistive robot in a rehabilitative context is to support the movement of a person with a degree of motor impairment (Reinkensmeyer, 2021). Evidence from Malik et al. (2016) and Lo et al. (2017) suggests the use of assistive robotics in rehabilitation and physiotherapy improves outcomes for a wide variety of patients, such as post stroke patients (Figure 1) or patients with neurological disorders, such as cerebral palsy.
description: Advanced Journal of Professional Practice, Vol 3 No 2 (2022): EDI Special Edition
Model selection, estimation and forecasting in VAR models with short-run and
Creators: name: Athanasopoulos, George
name: de C. Guillén, Osmani T.
name: Issler, João V.
name: Vahid, Farshid
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Econometric and statistical methods
Econometrics not elsewhere classified

description: We study the joint determination of the lag length the dimension of the cointegrating space and the rank of the matrix of short-run parameters of a vector autoregressive (VAR) model using model selection criteria. We consider model selection criteria which have data-dependent penalties for a lack of parsimony, as well as the traditional ones. We suggest a new procedure which is a hybrid of traditional criteria with data-dependant penalties. In order to compute the fit of each model, we propose an iterative procedure to compute the maximum likelihood estimates of parameters of a VAR model with short-run and long-run restrictions. Our Monte Carlo simulations measure the improvements in forecasting accuracy that can arise from the joint determination of lag-length and rank, relative to the commonly used procedure of selecting the lag-length only and then testing for cointegration.
Psychological interventions help athletes recover from ACL injury
Creators: name: Welch, Kassandra
Publisher: name: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada
Year: 2022

description: Background: Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries are devasting for athletes physically, mentally, and socially. The return to sport and performance process is long, arduous, and athletes face many isolating and frustrating experiences. The treatment plan for athletes in clinical practice guidelines focuses on the physical recovery, whilst overlooking the psychological experience. Purpose: This article presents some of the psychological interventions that can support the athlete through the recovery process. Psychological support should be tailored to each athlete’s needs to optimize return to sport.
description: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada, Vol. 15 No. 2 (2022)
Observation of Deeply-Bound $^{85}$Rb$_{2}$ Vibrational Levels Using Feshbach Optimized Photoassociation
Creators: name: Krzyzewski, S. P.
name: Akin, T. G.
name: Dizikes, J.
name: Morrison, Micheal A.
name: Abraham, E. R. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate Feshbach optimized photoassociation (FOPA) into the $0_{g}^{-} (5$S$_{1/2}+5$P$_{1/2}$) state in $^{85}$Rb$_{2}$. FOPA uses the enhancement of the amplitude of the initial atomic scattering wave function due to a Feshbach resonance to increase the molecular formation rate from photoassociation. We observe three vibrational levels, $v=$127, 140, and 150, with previously unmeasured binding energies of 256, 154, and 96 cm$^{-1}$. We measure the frequency, central magnetic field position, and magnetic field width of each Feshbach resonance. Our findings experimentally confirm that this technique can measure vibrational levels lower than those accessible to traditional photoassociative spectroscopy.
Evaluating and Insuring Cyber Risks within Organizations
Creators: name: Langlois
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Based on an operational and systemic research approach, this research work in applied mathematics to human and social sciences aims to analyze: the specificity of cyber risks, the apprehension of these risks, and how to insure them. This work is notably based on numerous interactions with professionals from INRIA and ANSSI. This work was the core material of professional training for the Ministry of Economics and Finance. PhD by Jean Langlois-Berthelot/ Jean Langlois
The 2022 Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire for Everyone (PAR-Q+): French North America Version (Questionnaire sur l’aptitude à l’activité physique pour tous (2022 Q-AAP+))
Creators: name: Warburton, Darren
name: Jamnik, Veronica
name: Bredin, Shannon
name: Shephard, Roy
name: Gledhill, Norman
Publisher: name: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada
Year: 2022
Subjects: Pre-Participation Screening
Risk Stratification
Exercise
Physical Activity
Participation

description: This article contains the current 2022 CONSENSUS PANEL APPROVED AND OFFICIAL FRENCH version of the Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire for Everyone (Questionnaire sur l'aptitude à l'activité physique pour tous (Q-AAP+)). This version replaces all previous versions. This is the current evidence-based and consensus panel approved version of the Q-AAP+.
description: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada, Vol. 15 No. 1 (2022)
Improved scaling of Time-Evolving Block-Decimation algorithm through Reduced-Rank Randomized Singular Value Decomposition
Creators: name: Tamascelli, D.
name: Rosenbach, R.
name: Plenio, M. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When the amount of entanglement in a quantum system is limited, the relevant dynamics of the system is restricted to a very small part of the state space. When restricted to this subspace the description of the system becomes efficient in the system size. A class of algorithms, exemplified by the Time-Evolving Block-Decimation (TEBD) algorithm, make use of this observation by selecting the relevant subspace through a decimation technique relying on the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD). In these algorithms, the complexity of each time-evolution step is dominated by the SVD. Here we show that, by applying a randomized version of the SVD routine (RRSVD), the power law governing the computational complexity of TEBD is lowered by one degree, resulting in a considerable speed-up. We exemplify the potential gains in efficiency at the hand of some real world examples to which TEBD can be successfully applied to and demonstrate that for those system RRSVD delivers results as accurate as state-of-the-art deterministic SVD routines.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures
Changes in nutrient composition and gene expression in growing mealworms (Tenebrio molitor)
Creators: name: Lopez-Viso, C.
name: Castellanos-Uribe, M.
name: May, S.T
name: Brameld, J.
name: Salter, A.
name: Parr, T.
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 309999
subject: Other agricultural, veterinary and food sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Insects are of high interest as a sustainable source of nutrients to be included in the food production system. The larvae of Tenebrio molitor, commonly known as yellow mealworms (MW), have a high protein content, which means potential applications in the animal feed and human food sectors. However, previous reports have shown considerable variability in the nutrient composition of mealworms, which may in part, be due to harvesting at different developmental stages. A better understanding of the regulation of composition during development would potentially facilitate future attempts to manipulate nutrient content, perhaps through gene editing, to maximize commercial value. In the present study, mealworms were harvested at various time points within a 24 day period leading up to the start of pupation. At the earliest time points (between days -24 and -17), a 44% increase in fat content was seen, which was maintained throughout the rest of development. By day -12, protein content fell by 12%, a change that was also maintained. Throughout development there was a change in fatty acid composition, with a shift from oleic acid being the major fatty acid at day -24, to linoleic acid being predominant at later time points. In an attempt to better understand the genetic basis of these changes, an analysis of the transcriptome was undertaken. In the absence of a specific annotated genome for the mealworm, an Affymetrix GeneChip microarray for Drosophila was utilized. The hybridisation of RNA extracted from five developmental stages (larvae and pupae) showed differential gene expression; and some potential orthologs were identified which may be involved in regulating nutrient composition during development. However, we were unable to identify a significant proportion of the most highly regulated genes, highlighting the need for a fully annotated mealworm genome.
The 2022 Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire for Everyone (PAR-Q+) and electronic Physical Activity Readiness Medical Examination (ePARmed-X+)
Creators: name: Warburton, Darren
name: Jamnik, Veronica
name: Bredin, Shannon
name: Shephard, Roy
name: Gledhill, Norman
Publisher: name: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada
Year: 2022
Subjects: Pre-participation Screening
PAR-Q
ePARmed-X
Risk Stratification
Risks of exercise
Physical Activity
Health
Wellbeing
Sport
Participation

description: This article contains the current 2022 CONSENSUS PANEL APPROVED AND OFFICIAL version of the Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire for Everyone (PAR-Q+). The new PAR-Q+ and ePARmed-X+ were introduced officially at the 3rd International Congress on Physical Activity and Public Health in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (May 5-8, 2010) by Drs. Darren Warburton, Norman Gledhill, Veronica Jamnik, and Shannon Bredin. The first peer reviewed article containing the PAR-Q+ was published in the Health & Fitness Journal of Canada and subsequent updates have been made through this journal. Owing to the evidence-based nature of the PAR-Q+ and ePARmed-X+ both forms require routine update as the evidence expands. These ongoing revisions are made by the PAR-Q+ Collaboration and evaluated by an international consensus committee. This article contains the 2022 PAR-Q+ that includes significant changes from our original version. This version replaces all previous versions. This is the current evidence-based and consensus panel approved version of the PAR-Q+. We are indebted to the support provided by international partners in the ongoing evaluation of the 2022 PAR-Q+.
description: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada, Vol. 15 No. 1 (2022)