cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
BDNF blood levels after electroconvulsive therapy in patients with mood disorders: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Pelosof, Rebeca
name: dos Santos, Leonardo A.
name: Farhat, Luis C.
name: Gattaz, Wagner F
name: Talib, Leda
name: Brunoni, André R.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Studies have suggested Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factors (BDNF) increase after electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) although they were methodologically limited and enrolled small sample sizes. We aimed at updating a systematic review and meta-analysis to explore BDNF changes after ECT for the treatment of depression. PubMed, PsycInfo, Embase and Global health were searched (March, 2021). Clinical trials that measured BDNF in the blood before and after ECT in adults (≥ 18 years old) with depression (major depressive disorder or bipolar disorder) were eligible. Data were pooled through random-effects meta-analyses. Twenty-nine studies involving 866 participants were included. Meta-analysis showed a significant increase in BDNF levels after ECT (Hedges´ g = 0.28; 95% CI: 0.10, 0.46) while there was evidence of significant heterogeneity (I2 = 67.64%) but not publication bias/small-study effect. Subgroup analyses and meta-regressions were underpowered to detect significant differences. Meta-analysis of depression severity scores demonstrated a considerable larger treatment effect in reducing depressive symptoms after ECT (Hedgés g = -3.72 95% CI: -4.23, -3.21). This updated review showed that BDNF blood levels increased after ECT treatment. However, there was still evidence of substantial heterogeneity and there were limited sample sizes to investigate factors driving the variability of effects across studies. Importantly, the increase in BDNF levels was substantially smaller than the observed in depressive symptomatology, which could be indicative that the former was independent than the latter. Additional studies with larger sample sizes are currently required.
Temperature evolution of the band-gap in BiFeO3 traced by resonant Raman scattering
Creators: name: Weber, Mads Christof
name: Guennou, Mael
name: Toulouse, Constance
name: Cazayous, Maximilien
name: Gillet, Yannick
name: Gonze, Xavier
name: Kreisel, Jens
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Knowledge of the electronic band structure of multiferroic oxides, crucial for the understanding and tuning of photo-induced effects, remains very limited even in the model and thoroughly studied BiFeO3. Here, we investigate the electronic band structure of BiFeO3 using Raman scattering with twelve different excitation wavelengths ranging from the blue to the near infrared. We show that resonant Raman signatures can be assigned to direct and indirect electronic transitions, as well as in-gap electronic levels, most likely associated to oxygen vacancies. Their temperature evolution establishes that the remarkable and intriguing variation of the optical band-gap can be related to the shrinking of an indirect electronic band-gap, while the energies for direct electronic transitions remains nearly temperature independent.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Spousal Neuroticism – a Blessing or a Curse? Interpersonal Effects of Healthy Neuroticism on Momentary Spousal Support in Older Couples
Creators: name: Kura, Marie-Christin
name: Mueller, Swantje
name: Drewelies, Johanna
name: Kolodziejczak, Karolina
name: Hoppmann, Christiane
name: Ram, Nilam
name: Gerstorf, Denis
name: Wagner, Jenny
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Personality and Social Contexts
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Actor effects
subject: Couples
subject: Daily diary data
subject: Healthy neuroticism
subject: Partner effects
subject: Personality
subject: Spousal support

description: The current project examines adaptive effects of healthy neuroticism on momentary support in the everyday life of older couples. For this purpose, daily diary data from two independent samples will be used.
Lévy Processes on Quantum Permutation Groups
Creators: name: Franz, Uwe
name: Kula, Anna
name: Skalski, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L65, 17B37, 43A05

description: We describe basic motivations behind quantum or noncommutative probability, introduce quantum Lévy processes on compact quantum groups, and discuss several aspects of the study of the latter in the example of quantum permutation groups. The first half of this paper is a survey on quantum probability, compact quantum groups, and Lévy processes on compact quantum groups. In the second half the theory is applied to quantum permutations groups. Explicit examples are constructed and certain classes of such Lévy processes are classified.
description: 60 pages
The Prevalence and Use of Walking Loops in Neighborhood Parks: A National Study
Creators: name: McKenzie, Thomas L.
name: Nagel, Catherine
name: Han, Bing
name: Cohen, Deborah A.
name: Evenson, Kelly R.
name: Williamson, Stephanie
name: Marsh, Terry
name: Harnik, Peter
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: BACKGROUND: Previous studies indicate that the design of streets and sidewalks can influence physical activity among residents. Park features also influence park use and park-based physical activity. Although individuals can walk on streets and sidewalks, walking loops in parks offer a setting to walk in nature and to avoid interruptions from traffic.

OBJECTIVES: Here we describe the use of walking loops in parks and compare the number of park users and their physical activity in urban neighborhood parks with and without walking loops.

METHODS: We analyzed data from the National Study of Neighborhood Parks in which a representative sample of neighborhood parks (n = 174) from 25 U.S. cities with > 100,000 population were observed systematically to document facilities and park users by age group and sex. We compared the number of people and their physical activity in parks with and without walking loops, controlling for multiple factors, including park size, facilities, and population density.

RESULTS: Overall, compared with parks without walking loops, on average during an hourly observation, parks with walking loops had 80% more users (95% CI: 42, 139%), and levels of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity were 90% higher (95% CI: 49, 145%). The additional park use and park-based physical activity occurred not only on the walking loops but throughout the park.

CONCLUSIONS: Walking loops may be a promising means of increasing population level physical activity. Further studies are needed to confirm a causal relationship. Citation: Cohen DA, Han B, Evenson KR, Nagel C, McKenzie TL, Marsh T, Williamson S, Harnik P. 2017. The prevalence and use of walking loops in neighborhood parks: a national study. Environ Health Perspect 125:170-174; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/EHP293.
Exploring the construct of interoceptive confusion
Creators: name: Tai, Tak
name: Lin, Xiao-Xiao
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Emotions and bodily sensations are usually distinguishable, but sometimes we perceive some emotions as similar to bodily sensations ranging from normal physical arousals to illness-related physical symptoms. This study explores the construct of interoceptive confusion (or “interoceptive crossover”), a recently proposed concept which can be defined as a tendency to perceive affective and non-affective interoceptive states (i.e., emotions and bodily sensations) as similar and difficulties in differentiating them. Specifically, the aim of this study is twofold. Firstly, we would like to explore whether interoceptive confusion and interpretation bias towards bodily sensations are distinct constructs. Previous studies have found that alexithymic individuals show increased interoceptive confusion, and researchers argue that interoceptive confusion reflects a less differentiated interoception. However, an alternative explanation is that negative emotions may amplify bodily signals and bias our interpretations towards them (as observed in those with hypochondria), thus leading to a perceived similarity between (negative) emotions and (illness-related) bodily sensations. If so, interoceptive confusion should be strongly associated with biased interpretation of bodily sensations. Secondly, we would like to validate a self-developed measure of interoceptive confusion—Word Sentence Association Paradigm for Interoceptive Confusion (WSAP-IC)—against established measurements of interoceptive confusion and interpretation bias towards bodily sensations.
Do Busy Consumers Prefer New Products? A Study on the Effect of Busy Mindset on the Evaluation of New Products
Creators: name: Cai, Yingying
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Consumer behaviour

description: We conducted three experimental studies. Experiment 1 examined the effect of busy mindset on the evaluation of new products. Then in experiment 2, we further investigated the mediating role of self-efficacy. Experiment 3 explored the role of perceived economic mobility as the the boundary condition of the busy mindset on new product evaluation.
A web-based screening tool for near-port air quality assessments
Creators: name: Naess, Brian
name: Barzyk, Timothy
name: Monteiro, Alexandra
name: Sorte, Sandra
name: Arunachalam, Saravanan
name: Isakov, Vlad
name: Seppanen, Catherine
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Author(s): Isakov, Vlad; Barzyk, Timothy M; Smith, Elizabeth R; Arunachalam, Saravanan; Naess, Brian; Venkatram, Akula
KOMBIKORM WHEN GROWING CHEAP AND HIGH-QUALITY PET PRODUCTS IN LIVESTOCK THE IMPORTANCE OF THE (GRANULE) PRODUCT.
Creators: name: Karimov, Sh.A.
name: Rajabov, B.M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: It should be noted that the mixed feed (granular) product for livestock contains 18 ounces or 65 ounces.the percentages are being formed.How to grow and cultivate granulated meat products, grow and cultivate them not only from the point of view of animal science, but also from the point of view of economics
How Numeracy Shapes Decision-Making Under Risk: A Meta-Analysis Using Cumulative Prospect Theory
Creators: name: Millroth, Philip
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Most influential descriptive theories of decision-making under risk, such as cumulative prospect theory (CPT; Tversky & Kahneman, 1992), were developed around people’s responses to monetary gambles. Monetary gamble tasks often (but not always) consist of numerical information, such as the monetary amount that can be won or lost, and the probability of obtaining each amount. A correct understanding and efficient processing of such task-relevant information requires numerical abilities. As a consequence, not only a person’s willingness to take a risk, but also numerical abilities play an important role in determining how people respond in MGTs. Reflecting this role of numerical abilities in decision making, there is a large body of research connecting numeracy—an individual’s ability to handle and operate on numerical information—with decision-making behavior in MGTs. Several studies have shown that the parameters of CPT’s probability-weighting function and value function seem to be highly susceptible to differences in numeracy. However, such analyses are currently scattered across the literature. We will conduct a meta-analysis to assess to what extent numeracy is related to different constructs of CPT (outcome sensitivity, loss aversion, probability sensitivity, elevation). In addition, we will—to the extent that the collected data allow us—explore whether the impact of numeracy on preferences (captured in CPT) depends on the task format and characteristics of the environment (e.g., choice vs. evaluation task, description vs. experience, task complexity, magnitudes of outcomes and probabilities).
Interactive and additive influences of Gender, BMI and Apolipoprotein 4 on cognition in children chronically exposed to high concentrations of PM2.5 and ozone. APOE 4 females are at highest risk in Mexico City
Creators: name: Pérez-Calatayud, Angel
name: Jewells, Valerie
name: Galaz-Montoya, Carolina
name: van Zundert, Brigitte
name: Acuña-Ayala, Hilda
name: Ascencio-Ferrel, Eric
name: Calderón-Garcidueñas, Lilian
name: Torres-Jardón, Ricardo
name: Carlos, Esperanza
name: D'Angiulli, Amedeo
name: Valencia-Salazar, Gildardo
name: Sandoval-Cano, Marcela
name: Solorio, Edelmira
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Children's air pollution exposures are associated with systemic and brain inflammation and the early hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The Apolipoprotein E (APOE) 4 allele is the most prevalent genetic risk for AD, with higher risk for women. We assessed whether gender, BMI, APOE and metabolic variables in healthy children with high exposures to ozone and fine particulate matter (PM
Observed and self-reported pesticide protective behaviors of Latino migrant and seasonal farmworkers
Creators: name: Mooney, Kathi
name: Walton, AnnMarie Lee
name: Sanchez-Birkhead, Ana
name: Linnan, Laura
name: LePrevost, Catherine
name: Wong, Bob
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Agricultural pesticide exposure has potential adverse health effects for farmworkers that may be reduced by pesticide protective behaviors (PPBs). The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Worker Protection Standard (WPS) requires PPBs be taught to farmworkers prior to field work. Studies to date have not utilized observational methods to evaluate the degree to which PPBs are practiced by Latino migrant and seasonal farmworkers in the United States. The purpose of this study was to describe, compare, and contrast observed and self-reported PPBs used by Latino farmworkers; both PPBs that the WPS requires be taught and other PPBs were included. Observed and self-reported data were collected from 71 Latino farmworkers during the 2014 tobacco growing season in North Carolina. Participants were consistent in reporting and using long pants and closed shoes in the field most of the time. In addition, gloves, hats/bandanas, and water-resistant outerwear were frequently observed, although they are not required to be taught by the WPS. Farmworkers reported more long-sleeve (p = .028) and glove use (p = .000) than what was observed. It was uncommon to observe washing behavior before eating or drinking, even when washing supplies were available. Washing behaviors were significantly overreported for hand (p = .000; (p = .000) and face (p = .000; (p = .058) washing before eating and drinking in the field. This study documents that protective clothing behaviors that the WPS requires be taught, plus a few others are commonly practiced by Latino migrant and seasonal farmworkers, but washing behaviors in the field are not. Targeted strategies to improve washing behaviors in the field are needed.
How did the COVID-19 pandemic affect the gendered allocation of childcare duties and household tasks - a systematic review.
Creators: name: Schiller, Miriam
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This study is a systematic review which aims to answer the question whether the gender childcare and housework gap changed during the COVID-19 pandemic and, if this was the case, in which direction.
Presence of an epigenetic signature of prenatal cigarette smoke exposure in childhood
Creators: name: Feinberg, Andrew P.
name: Schendel, Diana E.
name: Newschaffer, Craig J.
name: Schieve, Laura A.
name: Daniele Fallin,
name: Daniels, Julie L.
name: Jones, Nicole
name: Ladd-Acosta, Christine
name: Singer, Alison
name: Shu, Chang
name: Windham, Gayle C.
name: Gidaya, Nicole
name: Lee, Brian K.
name: Croen, Lisa A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke has lifelong health consequences. Epigenetic signatures such as differences in DNA methylation (DNAm) may be a biomarker of exposure and, further, might have functional significance for how in utero tobacco exposure may influence disease risk. Differences in infant DNAm associated with maternal smoking during pregnancy have been identified. Here we assessed whether these infant DNAm patterns are detectible in early childhood, whether they are specific to smoking, and whether childhood DNAm can classify prenatal smoke exposure status. Using the Infinium 450 K array, we measured methylation at 26 CpG loci that were previously associated with prenatal smoking in infant cord blood from 572 children, aged 3–5, with differing prenatal exposure to cigarette smoke in the Study to Explore Early Development (SEED). Striking concordance was found between the pattern of prenatal smoking associated DNAm among preschool aged children in SEED and those observed at birth in other studies. These DNAm changes appear to be tobacco-specific. Support vector machine classification models and 10-fold cross-validation were applied to show classification accuracy for childhood DNAm at these 26 sites as a biomarker of prenatal smoking exposure. Classification models showed prenatal exposure to smoking can be assigned with 81% accuracy using childhood DNAm patterns at these 26 loci. These findings support the potential for blood-derived DNAm measurements to serve as biomarkers for prenatal exposure.
Linking rattiness, geography and environmental degradation to spillover Leptospira infections in marginalised urban settings: Data sources
Creators: name: Eyre, Max
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: This contains the data to conduct the analyses contained within this article. Please see https://github.com/maxeyre/Rattiness-infection-framework for more details.
Sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are associated with gene-specific promoter methylation in women with breast cancer
Creators: name: Neugut, Alfred I.
name: Chen, Jia
name: Stellman, Steven D.
name: Mordukhovich, Irina
name: Teitelbaum, Susan L.
name: Conway, Kathleen
name: Hibshoosh, Hanina
name: Xu, Xinran
name: Hatch, Maureen
name: McCullough, Lauren E.
name: Beyea, Jan
name: Eng, Sybil M.
name: Santella, Regina M.
name: Beth Terry, Mary
name: White, Alexandra J.
name: Hee Cho, Yoon
name: Engel, Lawrence S.
name: Gammon, Marilie D.
name: Steck, Susan E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Tobacco smoke, diet and indoor/outdoor air pollution, all major sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), have been associated with breast cancer. Aberrant methylation may be an early event in carcinogenesis, but whether PAHs influence the epigenome is unclear, particularly in breast tissue where methylation may be most relevant. We aimed to evaluate the role of methylation in the association between PAHs and breast cancer.
Eccentricity Evolution Through Accretion of Protoplanets
Creators: name: Matsumoto, Yuji
name: Nagasawa, Makiko
name: Ida, Shigeru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Most of super-Earths detected by the radial velocity (RV) method have significantly smaller eccentricities than the eccentricities corresponding to velocity dispersion equal to their surface escape velocity ("escape eccentricities"). If orbital instability followed by giant impacts among protoplanets that have migrated from outer region is considered, it is usually considered that eccentricities of the merged bodies become comparable to those of orbital crossing bodies, which are excited up to their escape eccentricities by close scattering. However, the eccentricity evolution in the {\it in situ} accretion model has not been studied in detail. Here, we investigate the eccentricity evolution through {\it N}-body simulations. We have found that the merged planets tend to have much smaller eccentricities than the escape eccentricities due to very efficient collision damping. If the protoplanet orbits are initially well separated and their eccentricities are securely increased, an inner protoplanet collides at its apocenter with an outer protoplanet at its pericenter. The eccentricity of the merged body is the smallest for such configuration. Orbital inclinations are also damped by this mechanism and planets tend to share a same orbital plane, which is consistent with {\it Kepler} data. Such efficient collision damping is not found when we start calculations from densely packed orbits of the protoplanets. If the protoplanets are initially in the mean-motion resonances, which corresponds to well separated orbits, the {\it in situ} accretion model well reproduces the features of eccentricities and inclinations of multiple super-Earths/Earth systems discovered by RV and {\it Kepler} surveys.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and postmenopausal breast cancer: An evaluation of effect measure modification by body mass index and weight change
Creators: name: Conway, Kathleen
name: Gammon, Marilie D.
name: Beyea, Jan
name: Neugut, Alfred I.
name: Steck, Susan E.
name: White, Alexandra J.
name: Santella, Regina M.
name: Niehoff, Nicole
name: McCullough, Lauren E.
name: Shen, Jing
name: Mordukhovich, Irina
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have been linked to breast cancer in many, but not all, previous studies. PAHs are lipophilic and stored in fat tissue, which we hypothesized may result in constant low-dose exposure to these carcinogens. No previous studies have evaluated whether obesity modifies associations between multiple measures of PAHs and breast cancer incidence.
Statistical Analysis of Scanning Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy Data Differentiates Free from Hindered Diffusion
Creators: name: Schneider, Falk
name: Waithe, Dominic
name: Lagerholm, B. Christoffer
name: Shrestha, Dilip
name: Sezgin, Erdinc
name: Eggeling, Christian
name: Fritzsche, Marco
Publisher: name: Washington, DC : Soc.
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: actin cytoskeleton
subject: Brownian
subject: diffusion modes
subject: free and trapped diffusion
subject: hindered diffusion dynamics
subject: scanning FCS
subject: 540

description: Cells rely on versatile diffusion dynamics in their plasma membrane. Quantification of this often heterogeneous diffusion is essential to the understanding of cell regulation and function. Yet such measurements remain a major challenge in cell biology, usually due to low sampling throughput, a necessity for dedicated equipment, sophisticated fluorescent label strategies, and limited sensitivity. Here, we introduce a robust, broadly applicable statistical analysis pipeline for large scanning fluorescence correlation spectroscopy data sets, which uncovers the nanoscale heterogeneity of the plasma membrane in living cells by differentiating free from hindered diffusion modes of fluorescent lipid and protein analogues.
Light Front Quantization with the Light Cone Gauge
Creators: name: McKeon, D. G. C.
name: Zhao, Chenguang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Dirac procedure for dealing with constraints is applied to the quantization of gauge theories on the light front. The light cone gauge is used in conjunction with the first class constraints that arise and the resulting Dirac brackets are found. These gauge conditions are not used to eliminate degrees of freedom from the action prior to applying the Dirac constraint procedure. This approach is illustrated by considering Yang-Mills theory and the superparticle in a 2 + 1 dimensional target space.
Prenatal phthalate biomarker concentrations and performance on the Bayley Scales of Infant Development-II in a population of young urban children
Creators: name: Wolff, Mary S.
name: Silva, Manori J.
name: Doherty, Brett T.
name: Engel, Stephanie M.
name: Calafat, Antonia M.
name: Buckley, Jessie P.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Evidence suggests prenatal phthalate exposures may have neurodevelopmental consequences. Our objective was to investigate prenatal exposure to phthalates and cognitive development in a cohort of young urban children.
Influence of remaining axial walls on failure of root filled teeth restored with a single crown and adhesively bonded fibre post: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol
Creators: name: Dutta, Arindam
name: AlSaleh, Eilaf
name: Vianna, Morgana
name: Dummer, Paul
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Endodontics and Endodontology
subject: Prosthodontics and Prosthodontology
subject: Dentistry
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Systematic review
Shapes of the $^{192,190}$Pb ground states from beta decay studies using the total absorption technique
Creators: name: Aguado, M. E. Estevez
name: Algora, A.
name: Agramunt, J.
name: Rubio, B.
name: Tain, J. L.
name: Jordan, D.
name: Fraile, L. M.
name: Gelletly, W.
name: Frank, A.
name: Csatlos, M.
name: Dombradi, Zs.
name: Krasznahorkay, A.
name: Nacher, E.
name: Sarriguren, P.
name: Borge, M. J. G.
name: Briz, J. A.
name: Tengblad, O.
name: Molina, F.
name: Moreno, O.
name: Kowalska, M.
name: Fedosseev, V. N.
name: Mash, B. A.
name: Fedorov, D. V.
name: Molkanov, P. L.
name: Andreyev, A. N.
name: Seliverstov, M. D.
name: Burkard, K.
name: Huller, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The beta decay of $^{192,190}$Pb has been studied using the total absorption technique at the ISOLDE(CERN) facility. The beta-decay strength deduced from the measurements, combined with QRPA theoretical calculations, allow us to infer that the ground states of the $^{192,190}$Pb isotopes are spherical. These results represent the first application of the shape determination method using the total absorption technique for heavy nuclei and in a region where there is considerable interest in nuclear shapes and shape effects.
Nanoparticles Can Wrap Epithelial Cell Membranes and Relocate Them Across the Epithelial Cell Layer
Creators: name: Urbančič, Iztok
name: Garvas, Maja
name: Kokot, Boštjan
name: Majaron, Hana
name: Umek, Polona
name: Cassidy, Hilary
name: Škarabot, Miha
name: Schneider, Falk
name: Galiani, Silvia
name: Arsov, Zoran
name: Koklic, Tilen
name: Matallanas, David
name: Čeh, Miran
name: Muševič, Igor
name: Eggeling, Christian
name: Štrancar, Janez
Publisher: name: Washington, DC : ACS Publ.
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: coagulation cascade interference
subject: lipid wrapping
subject: membrane disruption
subject: STED microscopy
subject: TiO2 nanoparticles
subject: tissue factor relocation
subject: 540
subject: 660

description: Although the link between the inhalation of nanoparticles and cardiovascular disease is well established, the causal pathway between nanoparticle exposure and increased activity of blood coagulation factors remains unexplained. To initiate coagulation tissue factor bearing epithelial cell membranes should be exposed to blood, on the other side of the less than a micrometre thin air-blood barrier. For the inhaled nanoparticles to promote coagulation, they need to bind lung epithelial-cell membrane parts and relocate them into the blood. To assess this hypothesis, we use advanced microscopy and spectroscopy techniques to show that the nanoparticles wrap themselves with epithelial-cell membranes, leading to the membrane’s disruption. The membrane-wrapped nanoparticles are then observed to freely diffuse across the damaged epithelial cell layer relocating epithelial cell membrane parts over the epithelial layer. Proteomic analysis of the protein content in the nanoparticles wraps/corona finally reveals the presence of the coagulation-initiating factors, supporting the proposed causal link between the inhalation of nanoparticles and cardiovascular disease.
Carbon reductions and health co-benefits from US residential energy efficiency measures
Creators: name: Omary, Mohammad
name: Tambouret, Yann
name: Woo, May K
name: Penn, Stefani L
name: Levy, Jonathan I
name: Kim, Chloe S
name: Arunachalam, Saravanan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: The United States (US) Clean Power Plan established state-specific carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions reduction goals for fossil fuel-fired electricity generating units (EGUs). States may achieve these goals through multiple mechanisms, including measures that can achieve equivalent CO2 reductions such as residential energy efficiency, which will have important co-benefits. Here, we develop state-resolution simulations of the economic, health, and climate benefits of increased residential insulation, considering EGUs and residential combustion. Increasing insulation to International Energy Conservation Code 2012 levels for all single-family homes in the US in 2013 would lead to annual reductions of 80 million tons of CO2 from EGUs, with annual co-benefits including 30 million tons of CO2 from residential combustion and 320 premature deaths associated with criteria pollutant emissions from both EGUs and residential combustion sources. Monetized climate and health co-benefits average $49 per ton of CO2 reduced from EGUs (range across states: $12–$390). State-specific co-benefit estimates can inform development of optimal Clean Power Plan implementation strategies.
Aspects of Emergent Symmetries
Creators: name: Gomes, Pedro R. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: These are intended to be review notes on emergent symmetries, i.e., symmetries which manifest themselves in specific sectors of energy in many systems. The emphasis is on the physical aspects rather than computation methods. We include some background material and go through more recent problems in field theory, statistical mechanics and condensed matter. These problems illustrate how some important symmetries, such as Lorentz invariance and supersymmetry, usually believed to be fundamental, can arise naturally in low-energy regimes of systems involving a large number of degrees of freedom. The aim is to discuss how these examples could help us to face other complex and fundamental problems.
description: 34 pages, 4 figures; Review paper; Title slightly modified; Minor improvements and typo corrections along the manuscript; References included; Accepted version
Christian nationalism and threat
Creators: name: Al-Kire, Rosemary
name: Pasek, Michael
name: Rowatt, Wade
name: Tsang, Jo-Ann
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Experimental study assessing the relationship between demographic threat, religious threat, Christian nationalism and attitudes toward church state separation.
Coordinated surveillance system under the One Health approach for cross-border pathogens that threaten the Union - options for sustainable surveillance strategies for priority pathogens
Creators: name: Berezowski, John
name: De Balogh, Katinka
name: Dorea, Fernanda
name: Ruegg, Simon
name: Broglia, Alessandro
name: Zancanaro, Gabriele
name: Gervelmeyer, Andrea
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: surveillance
early detection
One Health
zoonoses
transboundary

description: EFSA is providing scientific and technical assistance for Member states who plan to submit applications for direct grants under the EU4Health work programme initiative “CP-g-22-04.01 Direct grants to Member States’ authorities”. The priority pathogens on which the coordinated surveillance under the grant initiative shall focus have been identified in a prioritisation exercise with Member States and ECDC. These are Crimean Congo Haemorrhagic Fever, Echinococcosis, Hepatitis E, highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), Influenza in swine, Lyme disease, Q-Fever, Rift Valley Fever, Tickborne Encephalitis, West Nile Fever and Disease X (Disease Y of animals). The disease briefs and surveillance cards proposed for these agents in EFSA's scientific report are made available here. The disease briefs provide the main information needed to guide surveillance design for the listed infectious agents, given the specific disease situation in a country/geographical area, and for a given surveillance objective. Member States should select one or more diseases from the list of priority diseases and then choose surveillance cards that describe surveillance activities they would like to carry out under the direct grant. These can be modified where needed, to reflect the national needs and situation. Member States can also design alternative surveillance activities for the priority infectious agents that may better fit the epidemiological situation in their country. For this, the surveillance card template should be completed. The completed surveillance cards should be used by Member States in their application for direct grants under the EU4Health work programme initiative “CP-g-22-04.01 Direct grants to Member States’ authorities”, in compliance with the requirements set out in the invitation to submit proposal (call document).
description: contact: biohaw@efsa.europa.eu
A System Architecture for Software-Defined Industrial Internet of Things
Creators: name: Hu, Peng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Wireless sensor networks have been a driving force of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) advancement in the process control and manufacturing industry. The emergence of IIoT opens great potential for the ubiquitous field device connectivity and manageability with an integrated and standardized architecture from low-level device operations to high-level data-centric application interactions. This technological development requires software definability in the key architectural elements of IIoT, including wireless field devices, IIoT gateways, network infrastructure, and IIoT sensor cloud services. In this paper, a novel software-defined IIoT (SD-IIoT) is proposed in order to solve essential challenges in a holistic IIoT system, such as reliability, security, timeliness scalability, and quality of service (QoS). A new IIoT system architecture is proposed based on the latest networking technologies such as WirelessHART, WebSocket, IETF constrained application protocol (CoAP) and software-defined networking (SDN). A new scheme based on CoAP and SDN is proposed to solve the QoS issues. Computer experiments in a case study are implemented to show the effectiveness of the proposed system architecture.
description: To be published by IEEE ICUWB-2015
QOZOQ ADABIYOTINI STEAM METODLARI ASOSIDA O'QITISH
Creators: name: Nurullayeva, Jazira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Mazkur maqolada Qozoq adabiyoti darslarida STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) metodlarining qo‘llanilishi va ularning o‘quv jarayoniga ta’siri tahlil qilinadi. STEAM yondashuvining mohiyati, ularning afzalliklari va amaliy qo‘llash usullari atroflicha yoritiladi. O‘quvchilarning adabiy asarlarni yanada chuqur anglashlari va kreativ tafakkurini rivojlantirishda STEAM ta’lim usullarining samaradorligi muhokama qilinadi. Shuningdek, maqolada STEAM metodlarini kelajakda rivojlantirish istiqbollari ham ko‘rib chiqiladi.
Land use and household energy dynamics in Malawi
Creators: name: Perez-Heydrich, Carolina
name: Jagger, Pamela
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Interventions to mitigate household air pollution (HAP) from cooking with solid fuels often fail to take into account the role of access to freely available woodfuels in determining fuel choice and willingness to adopt clean cooking technologies, key factors in mitigating the burden of HAP. We use national-scale remote sensing data on land use land cover change, and population representative data from two waves of the Malawi Living Standards Measurement Survey to explore the relationship between land use change and the type of fuel households use, time spent collecting fuel, and expenditures on fuel, hypothesizing that land use dynamics influence household-level choice of primary cooking fuel. We find considerable heterogeneity with respect to regeneration and deforestation/degradation dynamics and evidence of spatial clustering. We find that regeneration of forests and woodlands increases the share of households that collect fuelwood, whereas deforestation and degradation lead households to purchase fuelwood. We also find that a relatively large share of land under woody savannah or degraded forest (versus fully stocked forest) increases fuel collection time. Areas with regeneration happening at broader scale experience increases in fuel expenditures. Our findings have implications for the spatial targeting of interventions designed to mitigate HAP.
Scattering states of a vortex in the proximity-induced superconducting state at the interface of a topological insulator and an s-wave superconductor
Creators: name: Durst, Adam C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider an isolated vortex in the two-dimensional proximity-induced superconducting state formed at the interface of a three-dimensional strong topological insulator (TI) and an s-wave superconductor (sSC). Prior calculations of the bound states of this system famously revealed a zero-energy state that is its own conjugate, a Majorana fermion bound to the vortex core. We calculate, not the bound states, but the scattering states of this system, and ask how the spin-momentum-locked massless Dirac form of the single-particle Hamiltonian, inherited from the TI surface, affects the cross section for scattering Bogoliubov quasiparticles from the vortex. As in the case of an ordinary superconductor, this is a two-channel problem with the vortex mixing particle-like and hole-like excitations. And as in the ordinary case, the same-channel differential cross section diverges in the forward direction due to the Aharonov-Bohm effect, resulting in an infinite total cross section but finite transport and skew cross sections. We calculate the transport and skew cross sections numerically, via a partial wave analysis, as a function of both quasiparticle excitation energy and chemical potential. Novel effects emerge as particle-like or hole-like excitations are tuned through the Dirac point.
description: 16 pages, 7 figures; modified title, improved figures, as published in PRB
A study on modeling nitrogen dioxide concentrations using land-use regression and conventionally used exposure assessment methods
Creators: name: Choi, Giehae
name: Lee, Jong-Tae
name: Bell, Michelle L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: The land-use regression (LUR) approach to estimate the levels of ambient air pollutants is becoming popular due to its high validity in predicting small-area variations. However, only a few studies have been conducted in Asian countries, and much less research has been conducted on comparing the performances and applied estimates of different exposure assessments including LUR. The main objectives of the current study were to conduct nitrogen dioxide (NO2) exposure assessment with four methods including LUR in the Republic of Korea, to compare the model performances, and to estimate the empirical NO2 exposures of a cohort. The study population was defined as the year 2010 participants of a government-supported cohort established for bio-monitoring in Ulsan, Republic of Korea. The annual ambient NO2 exposures of the 969 study participants were estimated with LUR, nearest station, inverse distance weighting, and ordinary kriging. Modeling was based on the annual NO2 average, traffic-related data, land-use data, and altitude of the 13 regularly monitored stations. The final LUR model indicated that area of transportation, distance to residential area, and area of wetland were important predictors of NO2. The LUR model explained 85.8% of the variation observed in the 13 monitoring stations of the year 2009. The LUR model outperformed the others based on leave-one out cross-validation comparing the correlations and root-mean square error. All NO2 estimates ranged from 11.3–18.0 ppb, with that of LUR having the widest range. The NO2 exposure levels of the residents differed by demographics. However, the average was below the national annual guidelines of the Republic of Korea (30 ppb). The LUR models showed high performances in an industrial city in the Republic of Korea, despite the small sample size and limited data. Our findings suggest that the LUR method may be useful in similar settings in Asian countries where the target region is small and availability of data is low.
A Meta-Analysis about Role Model Effects of Same-Sex Teachers on Test Scores and Grades
Creators: name: Zoelitz, Ulf
name: Feld, Jan
name: Salamanca, Nicolas
name: de Gendre, Alexandra
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Same-sex role models, same-sex teacher, gender role model, teacher gender, instructor gender, test-scores, grade

description: We conduct a meta-analysis about role model effects of same-sex teachers on test scores and grades. This document provides pre-analysis plan.
Co-benefits of global, domestic, and sectoral greenhouse gas mitigation for US air quality and human health in 2050
Creators: name: West, J Jason
name: Smith, Steven J.
name: Bowden, Jared H.
name: Adelman, Zachariah
name: Zhang, Yuqiang
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Policies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions can bring ancillary benefits of improved air quality and reduced premature mortality, in addition to slowing climate change. Here we study the co-benefits of global and domestic GHG mitigation on US air quality and human health in 2050 at fine resolution using dynamical downscaling, and quantify for the first time the co-benefits from foreign GHG mitigation. Relative to a reference scenario, global GHG reductions in RCP4.5 avoid 16000 PM2.5-related all-cause deaths yr-1 (90% confidence interval, 11700-20300), and 8000 (3600-12400) O3-related respiratory deaths yr-1 in the US in 2050. Foreign GHG mitigation avoids 15% and 62% of PM2.5- and O3-related total avoided deaths, highlighting the importance of foreign GHG mitigation on US human health benefits. GHG mitigation in the US residential sector brings the largest co-benefits for PM2.5-related deaths (21% of total domestic co-benefits), and industry for O3 (17%). Monetized benefits, for avoided deaths from ozone, PM2.5, and heat stress from a related study, are $148 ($96-201) per ton CO2 at high valuation and $49 ($32-67) at low valuation, of which 36% are from foreign GHG reductions. These benefits likely exceed the marginal cost of GHG reductions in 2050. The US gains significantly greatermore » co-benefits when coordinating GHG reductions with foreign countries. Similarly, previous studies estimating co-benefits locally or regionally may greatly underestimate the full co-benefits of coordinated global actions.« less
Self-similar interpolation in high-energy physics
Creators: name: Yukalov, V. I.
name: Gluzman, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A method is suggested for interpolating between small-variable and large-variable asymptotic expansions. The method is based on self-similar approximation theory resulting in self-similar root approximants. The latter are more general than the two-sided Pade approximants and modified Pade approximants, including these as particular cases. Being more general, the self-similar root approximants guarantee the accuracy that is not worse, and often better, than that of the Pade approximants. The advantage of the root approximants is in their unambiguous definition and in the possibility of their construction, even when Pade approximants cannot be defined. Conditions for the unique definition of the root approximants are formulated. Several examples from high-energy physics illustrate the method.
description: latex file, 18 pages
Large scale CMB anomalies from thawing cosmic strings
Creators: name: Ringeval, Christophe
name: Yamauchi, Daisuke
name: Yokoyama, Jun'ichi
name: Bouchet, Francois R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmic strings formed during inflation are expected to be either diluted over super-Hubble distances, i.e., invisible today, or to have crossed our past light cone very recently. We discuss the latter situation in which a few strings imprint their signature in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Anisotropies after recombination. Being almost frozen in the Hubble flow, these strings are quasi static and evade almost all of the previously derived constraints on their tension while being able to source large scale anisotropies in the CMB sky. Using a local variance estimator on thousand of numerically simulated Nambu-Goto all sky maps, we compute the expected signal and show that it can mimic a dipole modulation at large angular scales while being negligible at small angles. Interestingly, such a scenario generically produces one cold spot from the thawing of a cosmic string loop. Mixed with anisotropies of inflationary origin, we find that a few strings of tension GU = O(1) x 10^(-6) match the amplitude of the dipole modulation reported in the Planck satellite measurements and could be at the origin of other large scale anomalies.
description: 23 pages, 11 figures, uses jcappub. References added, matches published version
DIFFERENSIYALANMAGAN BIRIKTIRUVCHI TO'QIMANING AYOL ORGANIZMIDAGI O'RNI
Creators: name: Yunusova, Zarnigor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Differentsiallanmagan biriktiruvchi to'qima regeneratsiya va yangilanish uchun yuqori imkoniyatlarga ega, bu esa organizmdagi funktsiyalarini samarali bajarishga imkon beradi. Bu xossalari tufayli inson salomatligini ta’minlash va saqlashda muhim rol o‘ynaydi. Maqolada biriktiruvchi to'qimaning ushbu shaklini o'rni, uning patologiyalari va ushbu holatni tashxislashning mumkin bo'lgan yondashuvlari muhokama qilinadi. DBTD belgilarining murakkabligi va xilma-xilligini hisobga olgan holda, zamonaviy adabiyotlar ma'lumotlari tahlili keltiriladi.