cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Implementing a National Tractor Safety Program: Using “Whole System in a Room” to Mobilize Partners and Implement Solutions
Creators: name: Tinc, Pamela J.
name: Ayers, Paul
name: May, John J.
name: Purschwitz, Mark A.
name: Park, Samantha
name: Bayes, Barbara
name: Sorensen, Julie
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Fatalities due to tractor overturns have long plagued the US farm community. Constituting 20% of agricultural fatalities, tractor overturns contribute significantly to high rates of fatal injuries. In the past, many efforts have been directed toward reducing tractor overturns, with one successful US-based program offering rebates to farmers who retrofit their tractors with rollover protective structures (ROPS). In an effort to expand the program, the National Tractor Safety Coalition was formed. This coalition hosted a “Whole System in the Room” workshop to bring 50 stakeholders together. During this workshop, participants worked together to identify a common vision for the future of tractor safety and ROPS programs and commit to action. At the close of the workshop, coalition members set out to begin work on 100 short- and long-term commitments to begin implementing a National ROPS Rebate Program.
title: Programme de l'ATED sur les sciences sociales au Proche-Orient
Creators: name: IFPO
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2017

description: Programme de l'ATED sur les sciences sociales au Proche-Orient, du 7 au 11 juillet 2014
description: Relation: http://labexmed.hypotheses.org/577
Condensed Matter Systems Exposed to Radiation: Multiscale Theory, Simulations, and Experiment
Creators: name: Solov'yov, Andrey V.
name: Verkhovtsev, Alexey V.
name: Mason, Nigel J.
name: Amos, Richard A.
name: Bald, Ilko
name: Baldacchino, Gérard
name: Dromey, Brendan
name: Falk, Martin
name: Fedor, Juraj
name: Gerhards, Luca
name: Hausmann, Michael
name: Hildenbrand, Georg
name: Hrabovský, Miloš
name: Kadlec, Stanislav
name: Kočišek, Jaroslav
name: Lépine, Franck
name: Ming, Siyi
name: Nisbet, Andrew
name: Ricketts, Kate
name: Sala, Leo
name: Schlathölter, Thomas
name: Wheatley, Andrew
name: Solov'yov, Ilia A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper reviews the new highly interdisciplinary research field studying the behavior of condensed matter systems exposed to radiation. The paper highlights several relevant examples of recent advances in the field and provides a roadmap for the development of the field in the next decade. Condensed matter systems exposed to radiation may have very different natures, being inorganic, organic or biological, finite or infinite, be composed of many different molecular species or materials, existing in different phases (solid, liquid, gaseous or plasma) and operating under different thermodynamic conditions. The essential and novel element of this research is that, despite the vast diversity of such systems, many of the key phenomena related to the behavior of irradiated systems (such as radiation-induced damage, mechanisms of damage repair and control, radiation protection, etc.) are very similar and can be understood based on the same fundamental theoretical principles and computational approaches. One of the essential features of the aforementioned phenomena concerns their multiscale nature as the manifestation of the radiation-induced effects occurring at different spatial and temporal scales ranging from the atomic to the macroscopic. The multiscale nature of the effects and similarity of their manifestation in systems of different origins necessarily brings together different disciplines, such as physics, chemistry, biology, materials and nano-science, and biomedical research, demonstrating numerous interlinks and commonalities between them. This research field is highly relevant to many novel and emerging technologies and medical applications.
description: Roadmap paper; 376 pages, 32 figures. Submitted to Chemical Reviews
Carbon Monoxide Poisonings from Forklift Use During Produce Packing Operations
Creators: name: Hirsch, Anne E.
name: Langley, Ricky L.
name: McDaniel, Jesse S.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: In August 2013, the North Carolina Division of Public Health investigated a carbon monoxide (CO) exposure on a farm. Two employees were overcome by CO and lost consciousness while using a propane-powered forklift to load produce into a refrigerated trailer backed up to a warehouse. One employee died, and the second employee was admitted to the hospital for hyperbaric oxygen treatment. Eighteen people, ranging in age from 18 to 69 years, were potentially exposed to CO, including the two employees, a family member who discovered the employees, two bystanders who stopped to offer assistance, and 13 first responders. Thirteen people who assisted in the emergency response experienced symptoms such as headache and dizziness, and all 16 who assisted were evaluated in a local hospital emergency department and released after receiving 100% oxygen. Blood tests showed five people (the two employees, family member, and two bystanders) had elevated blood carboxyhemoglobin levels, but all first responders had levels within normal range. Firefighters measured a peak CO concentration of 2214 parts per million in the warehouse. The North Carolina Division of Occupational Safety and Health investigated and determined that the forklift, operated inside the trailer with no ventilation, was the source of the CO. Public health investigation activities included interviewing responders, obtaining ambient CO concentration measurements from the fire department, advising the local health director, reviewing medical records, and developing a line listing of exposed persons. To prevent CO poisoning, employers should consider replacing gas-powered equipment with electric equipment, which does not produce CO.
Waves in space-dependent and time-dependent materials: a systematic comparison
Creators: name: Wapenaar, Kees
name: Aichele, Johannes
name: van Manen, Dirk-Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Waves in space-dependent and time-dependent materials obey similar wave equations, with interchanged time- and space-coordinates. However, since the causality conditions are the same in both types of material (i.e., without interchangement of coordinates), the solutions are dissimilar.
 We present a systematic treatment of wave propagation and scattering in 1D space-dependent and time-dependent materials. After formulating unified equations, we discuss Green's functions and simple wave field representations for both types of material. Next we discuss propagation invariants, i.e., quantities that are independent of the space coordinate in a space-dependent material (such as the net power-flux density) or of the time coordinate in a time-dependent material (such as the net field-momentum density). A discussion of reciprocity theorems leads to the well-known source-receiver reciprocity relation for the Green's function of a space-dependent material and a new source-receiver reciprocity relation for the Green's function of a time-dependent material. A discussion of general wave field representations leads to the well-known expression for Green's function retrieval from the correlation of passive measurements in a space-dependent material and a new expression for Green's function retrieval in a time-dependent material.
 After an introduction of a matrix-vector wave equation, we discuss propagator matrices for both types of material. Since the initial condition for a propagator matrix in a time-dependent material follows from the boundary condition for a propagator matrix in a space-dependent material by interchanging the time- and space-coordinates, the propagator matrices for both types of material are interrelated in the same way. This also applies to representations and reciprocity theorems involving propagator matrices.
description: 46 pages, 5 figures
Reconstructing the growth index $γ$ with Gaussian Processes
Creators: name: Oliveira, Fernanda
name: Avila, Felipe
name: Bernui, Armando
name: Bonilla, Alexander
name: Nunes, Rafael C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Alternative cosmological models have been proposed to alleviate the tensions reported in the concordance cosmological model, or to explain the current accelerated phase of the universe. One way to distinguish between General Relativity and modified gravity models is using current astronomical data to measure the growth index $γ$, a parameter related to the growth of matter perturbations, which behaves differently in different metric theories. We propose a model independent methodology for determining $γ$, where our analyses combine diverse cosmological data sets, namely $\{ f(z_i) \}$, $\{ [fσ_8](z_i) \}$, and $\{ H(z_i) \}$, and use Gaussian Processes, a non-parametric approach suitable to reconstruct functions. This methodology is a new consistency test for $γ$ constant. Our results show that, for the redshift interval $0 < z < 1$, $γ$ is consistent with the constant value $γ= 0.55$, expected in General Relativity theory, within $2 σ$ confidence level (CL). Moreover, we find $γ(z=0)$ = 0.311 $\pm 0.144 $ and $γ(z=0) = 0.609 \pm 0.200$ for the reconstructions using the $\{ f(z_i) \}$ and $\{ [fσ_8](z_i) \}$ data sets, respectively, values that also agree at a 2$σ$ CL with $γ= 0.55$. Our methodology and analyses can be considered as an alternative approach in light of the current discussion in the literature that suggests a possible evidence for the growth index evolution.
description: 11 pages and 8 figures
Spectrometer to Explore Isotopologues of Lunar Volatiles on Luna-27 Lander
Creators: name: Meshcherinov, Viacheslav
name: Gazizov, Iskander
name: Kazakov, Viktor
name: Spiridonov, Maxim
name: Lebedev, Yuri
name: Vinogradov, Imant
name: Gerasimov, Mikhail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The study of volatiles and the search for water are the primary objectives of the Luna-27 mission, which is planned to land on the south pole of the Moon in 2028. Here we present the tunable Diode Laser Spectrometer (DLS-L) that will be onboard the lander. The DLS-L will perform isotopic analysis of volatiles that are pyrolytically evolved from regolith. This article dives into the design of the spectrometer and the characterisation of isotopic signature retrieval. We look forward to expanding our knowledge of Lunar geochemistry by measuring D/H, 18O/17O/16O, 13C/12C ratios in situ, which could be the one-of-a-kind direct study of the lunar soil isotopy without sample contamination.
Rashba splitting in polar-nonpolar sandwich heterostructure : A DFT Study
Creators: name: Bhattacharya, Sanchari
name: Datta, Sanjoy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this study, we employ density functional theory (DFT) based first-principles calculations to investigate the spin-orbit effects in the electronic structure of a polar-nonpolar sandwich heterostructure namely LAO$_{2.5}$/STO$_{5.5}$/LAO$_{2.5}$. Our focus on the Ti-3d bands reveals an inverted ordering of the STO-$\rm t_{2g}$ orbital near the n-type interface, consistent with earlier experimental work. In contrast, toward the p-type interface, the orbital ordering aligns with the natural ordering of STO orbitals, influenced by crystal field splitting. Interestingly, we have found a strong inter-orbital coupling between $t_{2g}$ and $e_g$ orbital, which has not been reported earlier in $\rm SrTiO_3$ based 2D system. Additionally, our observations highlight that the cubic Rashba splitting in this system surpasses the linear Rashba splitting, contrary to experimental findings. This comprehensive analysis contributes to a refined understanding of the role of orbital mixing in Rashba splitting in the sandwich oxide heterostructures.
Quartz Crystal Microbalance frequency response to discrete adsorbates in liquids
Creators: name: Leshansky, Alexander M.
name: Fouxon, Itzhak
name: Rubinstein, Boris Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation monitoring (QCM-D) has become a major tool in the analysis of adsorption of nanometric objects, such as proteins, viruses, liposomes and inorganic particles from the solution. While in vacuum extremely accurate mass measurements are possible, in a liquid phase the quantitative analysis is intricate due to the complex interplay of hydrodynamic and adhesion forces, varying with the physicochemical properties of adsorbent and the quartz resonator surfaces. In the present paper we dissect the role of hydrodynamics for the analytically tractable scenario of a stiff contact, whereas the adsorbed particles oscillate with the resonator as a whole without rotation. Under the assumption of the low surface coverage, we theoretically study the excess shear force exerted on the resonator due to presence of a single adsorbed particle. The excess shear force has two contributions: (i) the fluid-mediated force due to flow disturbance created by the particle and (ii) the viscous force exerted on the particle by the fluid and transmitted to the resonator via contact. We found that for small adsorbates, there is mutual cancellation of the above contributions to the excess shear force at the leading order approximation, reducing the overall effect of the hydrodynamics to the order-of-magnitude of the inertial force. However, accurate numerical solution shows that for small particles the viscous force dominates over the inertia force, rendering the standard Sauerbrey model inapplicable. These findings indicate that the accurate account of hydrodynamics in the analysis of QCM-D response is critical. The resulting dimensionless frequency and dissipation shifts and the corresponding acoustic ratio computed numerically, showing a fair agreement with previously published experimental results at low oscillation frequencies.
Asphyxiation Incidents by Hydrogen Sulfide at Manure Storage Facilities of Swine Livestock Farms in Korea
Creators: name: Jihoon Park
name: Taesun Kang
name: Suhyun Jin
name: Heo, Yong
name: Kyungran Kim
name: Kyungsuk Lee
name: Perngjy Tsai
name: Chungsik Yoon
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy

description: Livestock workers are involved in a variety of tasks, such as caring for animals, maintaining the breeding facilities, cleaning, and manure handling, and are exposed to health and safety risks. Hydrogen sulfide is considered the most toxic by-product of the manure handling process at livestock facilities. Except for several reports in developed countries, the statistics and cause of asphyxiation incidents in farms have not been collected and reported systematically, although the number of these incidents is expected to increase in developing and underdeveloped countries. In this study, the authors compiled the cases of work-related asphyxiation incidents at livestock manure storage facilities and analyzed the main causes. In this survey, a total of 17 incidents were identified through newspapers or online searches and public reports. Thirty workers died and eight were injured due to work-related tasks and rescue attempts from 1998 to 2013 in Korea. Of the 30 fatalities, 18 occurred during manure handling/maintenance tasks and 12 during rescue attempts. All incidents except for one case occurred during the warm season from the late spring (April) to early autumn (September) when manure is likely to decompose rapidly. It is important to train employees involved in the operation of the facilities (i.e., owners, managers, employees) regarding the appropriate prevention strategies for confined space management, such as hazard identification before entry, periodical facility inspection, restriction of unnecessary access, proper ventilation, and health and safety. Sharing information or case reports on previous incidents could also help prevent similar cases from occurring and reduce the number of fatalities and injuries.
Inversion symmetry-broken tetralayer graphene probed by second harmonic generation
Creators: name: Zhou, Wenqiang
name: Hua, Jiannan
name: Liu, Naitian
name: Ding, Jing
name: Xiang, Hanxiao
name: Zhu, Wei
name: Xu, Shuigang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Symmetry breaking governs most fascinating phenomena in crystals, such as ferroelectricity, nonlinear optics, piezoelectricity, ferromagnetism, and superconductivity. In two-dimensional materials, a wide variety of tuning knobs presents extraordinary opportunities for engineering symmetry breaking, leading to the emergence and manipulation of novel physical properties. Recently, tetralayer graphene with ABCB stacking order is predicted to possess atypical elemental ferroelectricity arising from the symmetry breaking induced by its specific stacking configuration. Experimentally unveiling the stacking-order dependent symmetry in tetralayer graphene is crucial to understand the intricate properties in the emergent graphene allotropes. Here, we observe pronounced nonlinear optical second harmonic generation (SHG) in ABCB-stacked tetralayer graphene, but absent in both ABAB- and ABCA-stacked allotropes. Our results provide direct evidence of symmetry breaking in ABCB-stacked tetralayer graphene. The remarkable contrast in the SHG spectra of tetralayer graphene allows straightforward identification of ABCB domains from the other two kinds of stacking order and facilitates the characterization of their crystalline orientation. The employed SHG technique serves as a convenient tool for exploring the intriguing physics and novel nonlinear optics in ABCB-stacked graphene, where spontaneous polarization and intrinsic gapped flat bands coexist. Our results establish ABCB-stacked graphene as a unique platform for studying the rare ferroelectricity in non-centrosymmetric elemental structures.
Environmental Sensor for Room Occupancy Estimation
Creators: name: Ashi, Varnika
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This paper provides an in-depth exploration of how advanced sensor technology is revolutionizing the hotel industry and offers a multifaceted approach to improving efficiency and sustainability. By combining motion, sound and light sensors, hotels gain a fine-grained understanding of room occupancy patterns, enabling precise adjustments in resource allocation. These adjustments are based not only on real-time occupancy data, but also on sophisticated algorithms that analyze historical trends and external factors such as the time of day. The paper also talks about listening to what guests have to say to make their stay even better. Using guest feedback, hotels can learn what they like and don't like and make changes to make everyone happier. And to top it all off, the paper reminds hotels to protect everything from hackers, so guest information stays private and sensors work smoothly.

In addition to optimizing the use of resources, these sensor systems play a key role in increasing guest comfort and satisfaction. By accurately predicting occupancy, hotels can personalize the guest experience and ensure rooms are ready to meet individual preferences upon arrival. In addition, data collected from sensors can inform targeted improvements in service delivery, helping hotels to more effectively anticipate and address guest needs. Additionally, the implementation of sensor technology aligns with broader sustainability goals and enables hotels to minimize their impact on the environment. Through automated adjustments to heating, lighting and other services, hotels can significantly reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions. In addition, sensor-driven improvements in waste management and cleaning processes contribute to greener operations. The document also addresses critical aspects such as privacy and cyber security, highlighting the importance of protecting guest information and protecting sensor systems from potential threats. By adopting robust encryption protocols and following data management best practices, hotels can ensure the integrity and security of their sensor networks.

Overall, the document serves as a comprehensive blueprint for hotels looking to harness the power of sensor technology to optimize operations, improve guest experiences and promote sustainability. By embracing innovation and leveraging data-driven insights, hotels can position themselves at the forefront of the industry, driving both environmental stewardship and customer satisfaction.
On the convergence of adaptive first order methods: proximal gradient and alternating minimization algorithms
Creators: name: Latafat, Puya
name: Themelis, Andreas
name: Patrinos, Panagiotis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 65K05, 90C06, 90C25, 90C30, 90C47

description: Building upon recent works on linesearch-free adaptive proximal gradient methods, this paper proposes adaPG$^{q,r}$, a framework that unifies and extends existing results by providing larger stepsize policies and improved lower bounds. Different choices of the parameters $q$ and $r$ are discussed and the efficacy of the resulting methods is demonstrated through numerical simulations. In an attempt to better understand the underlying theory, its convergence is established in a more general setting that allows for time-varying parameters. Finally, an adaptive alternating minimization algorithm is presented by exploring the dual setting. This algorithm not only incorporates additional adaptivity, but also expands its applicability beyond standard strongly convex settings.
Respiratory Protection Behavior and Respiratory Indices among Poultry House Workers on Small, Family-Owned Farms in North Carolina: A Pilot Project
Creators: name: Kearney, Gregory D.
name: Gallagher, Barbara
name: Shaw, Robert
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The aim of this pilot study was to evaluate respiratory behavior and respiratory indices of poultry workers on family-owned, poultry farms with 10 or less employees in North Carolina. A field study was conducted to collect data on participants (N = 24) using spirometry, fractional exhaled nitric oxide (Feno), and an interviewer-administered questionnaire. The majority of workers (76%) ranked respiratory protection as being important, yet 48% reported never or rarely wearing respiratory protection when working in dusty conditions. A large percent of workers reported eye (55%) and nasal (50%) irritation and dry cough (50%). On average, pulmonary lung function and Feno tests were normal among nonsmokers. In bivariate analysis, significant associations were identified between working 7 days on the farm (P = .01), with eye irritation, and working 5 or fewer years in poultry farming (P = .01). Poultry workers on family-owned farms spend a considerable amount of work time in poultry houses and report acute respiratory-related health symptoms. Administrative controls among small, family-owned poultry farms are necessary to improve and promote safety and health to its employees.
Work-Time Exposure and Acute Injuries in Inshore Lobstermen of the Northeast United States
Creators: name: Fulmer, Scott
name: Buchholz, Bryan
name: Jenkins, Paul
name: Scribani, Melissa
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: The objective of this study was to inform efforts to reduce risk for musculoskeletal disorders among commercial lobstermen by characterizing and quantifying injuries that occur to people while harvesting lobsters commercially in the Northeast United States. This study aimed to estimate a denominator of exposure to lobstering in full-time equivalents (FTE), to estimate a fatality rate, and to calculate incidence rates for acute injuries within the sample population. Captains were randomly selected from those licensed to fish in Maine and Massachusetts. Data on work exposure and injuries with rapid onset that occurred on the boat (“acute injuries”) were collected using a survey, which was administered quarterly via phone or face-to-face interview with the captain. The quarterly survey assessed the number of weeks worked during the quarter, average crew size, number of trips per week, and average trip length in hours. In addition, this survey captured relevant information (body segment affected, type of injury, and whether treatment was received) on all acute injuries occurring during the quarter. FTE were estimated using fishermen days and fishermen hours. The annual FTE estimated using days was 2,557 and using hours was 2,855. As expected, the summer months (3rd quarter) had the highest FTE and the winter (1st quarter) the lowest FTE. Fall (4th quarter) and spring (2nd quarter) ranked second and third, respectively. The incidence rates for all injuries (49.7/100 FTE) and injuries requiring treatment (15.0/100 FTE) were much higher than those reported in other studies of fishing that used Coast Guard data.
Is Prostate Cancer Incidence Worldwide Linked to Artificial Light at Night Exposures? Earlier Findings' Revisit and Current Trends' Analysis
Creators: name: Rybnikova, Nataliya A.
name: Haim, Abraham
name: Portnova, Boris A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Widespread use of artificial light at night (ALAN) might contribute to the global burden of hormone-dependent cancers. However, previous attempts to verify this association in population–level studies have been sparse. Using the GLOBOCAN, US-DMSP and World Bank's 2010-2012 databases, we studied the association between ALAN and prostate cancer (PC) incidence in 180 countries worldwide, controlling for several country-level confounders. As our analysis indicates, the PC-ALAN association emerged marginally significant when year-2012 PC age-standardized rate data were compared with ALAN levels (t = 1.886, P<0.1); while this association emerged as more significant (t>2.7; P<0.01) when only 110 countries with well-maintained cancer registries were analyzed. Along with other variables, ALAN explains up to 79% of PC ASRs variability. PC-ALAN association appears to vary regionally, with the greatest deviations in Central Africa, Small Island Developing States, South East Asia and Gulf States.
How to Assess the Biomechanical Risk Levels in Beekeeping
Creators: name: G. Maina
name: F. Rossi
name: A. Baracco
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Beekeepers are at particular risk of developing work-related musculoskeletal disorders, but many of the studies lack detailed exposure assessment. To evaluate the biomechanical overload exposure in a specific farming activity, a multitasking model has been developed through the characterization of 37 basic operational tasks typical of the beekeeping activity. The Occupational Repetitive Actions (OCRA) Checklist and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Lifting Index methodologies have been applied to these elementary tasks to evaluate the exposure, and the resulting risk indices have been time-weighted averaged. Finally, an easy access, computer-assisted toolkit has been developed to help the beekeepers in the biomechanical risk assessment process. The risk of biomechanical overload for the upper limbs ranges from acceptable (maintenance and recovery of woody material and honey packaging with dosing machine tasks) to high (distribution of the top supers) risk level. The risk for back injury is always borderline in women and increases with exposure time, whereas it ranges from acceptable to borderline in men. The definition of the biomechanical risk levels allows for planning of corrective actions aimed at preventing and reducing the risk of musculoskeletal disorders through engineering, administrative, and behavioral interventions. The methodology can be used for risk assessment in other mainly manual agricultural activities.
Alles im Blick bei der Open-Access-Transformation? Wie Repositorien helfen können
Creators: name: Deinzer, Gernot
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Elektronische Publikationen, elektronisches Publizieren, Open Access, Repositorium
subject: 020 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft

description: Die Open-Access-Transformation findet derzeit auf vielen Ebenen statt. Für Forschungseinrichtungen ergeben sich neue Anforderungen, um die steigende Komplexität bei der Abschätzung von Kosten, beim Monitoring und beim Berichtswesen zu meistern. Institutionelle Repositorien bieten dabei eine ideale Plattform, alle relevanten Daten zu sammeln. Diese können dann einzeln oder aggregiert zur Verfügung gestellt werden. Beispiele hierfür sind: - Berichte für Forschungsförderer (z.B. für das DFG-Programm Open-Access-Publikationskosten) - Berichte für Leitungsgremien und politische Entscheidungsträger - Verwaltung von Verlagsvereinbarungen mit zugehörigen Publikationen - Evaluation und Abschätzung von Transformationsverträgen - Auslastung und Planung von Publikationsfonds - Nachweis der Qualitätssicherung („Predatory Publishing“) Neben den Volltexten in maschinenlesbaren Formaten und den zugehörigen bibliographischen Daten, müssen die Metadaten um Kostendaten, Parallelveröffentlichungen, Open-Access-Wege und rechtliche Hintergründe ergänzt werden. Zur Verringerung des Aufwands der Dateneingabe können bereitgestellte Informationen von Haushaltsabteilung, Verlagen und Dienstleistern nachgenutzt werden. Mit diesen Datenpool sind komplexe Auswertungen für oben genannte Fragestellungen automatisiert möglich. Relevante Statistiken werden übersichtlich auf einem Dashboard angezeigt. Man behält jederzeit den Überblick über Open-Access-Ausgaben und zugehörigen Publikationen und kann diese nach bestimmten Bedingungen wie Forschungsförderer, Fachgebiet oder Institutionszugehörigkeit filtern. Berichte können jederzeit – auch von Sericeprovidern – abgerufen werden. Der Vortrag stellt die Anreicherung von Metadaten im Repositorium der Universität Regensburg vor. Dabei wird auch auf eine informative und übersichtliche Darstellung der Daten eingegangen und Auswertungsverfahren vorgestellt.
DarkSide-20k: Next generation Direct Dark Matter searches with liquid Argon
Creators: name: Manthos, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: DarkSide-20k is a next-generation dual-phase Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber, currently under construction at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS) in Italy. With a 20 t fiducial mass of liquid Argon, DarkSide-20k will probe WIMP-nucleon interactions down to cross sections equal to 10$^{-48}$ cm$^2$ for a WIMP mass of 0.1 TeV/c$^2$. DarkSide-20k is designed to be a nearly "instrumental background-free" experiment, meaning that less than 0.1 background events are expected in the WIMP search region during the 200 tonne-year planned exposure. To achieve this, the TPC is surrounded by an inner (neutron) and outer (muon) veto, while low-radioactivity underground argon (depleted in $^{39}$Ar), is used as the inner detector (TPC and inner veto) medium. Both the TPC and the veto systems are instrumented with novel cryogenic silicon photomultiplier, capable of resolving single photoelectrons and providing the required spatial and time resolution. An overview of the DarkSide-20k experimental program is reported, with a focus on the photo-detector system construction and testing procedures for the inner veto system.
description: 7 pages, 6 Figures
Искусство Евразии, Выпуск 1(16) 2020
Creators: name: Алтайский государственный технический университет им. И.И. Ползунова
Publisher: name: Искусство Евразии
Year: 2020

description: , Выпуск 1(16) 2020
description: Редакция журнала ставит перед собой две основных цели. Во-первых, создать платформу для презентации работ художников, архитекторов, скульпторов, представителей различных художественных движений на евразийском пространстве. Во-вторых, заново поднять вечные вопросы — об искусстве как таковом, о его сути, задачах и проблемах, а также напомнить о том, как эти вопросы решались в трудах выдающихся мыслителей разных времен. И, в-третьих, способствовать культурному диалогу и взаимообмену, совместным проектам в сфере искусства, которое объединяет людей поверх искусственных разделений и государственных границ. Основной язык журнала — русский, но на английской странице, помимо абстрактов, часть статей представляется на английском языке.
NWO Veni (Dutch Research Council) Application Materials (2016, not funded; and 2017, funded) for: "From Ownership to Access: The Implications of Streaming Digital Content on Consumers, Sellers, and Artists"
Creators: name: Datta, Hannes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: In 2016 and 2017, I applied for a Veni grant from NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research). I did not make it in the 2016 round, but managed to secure the 250,000 EUR funding in the 2017 round.

 

Abstract

Online streaming—a business strategy of renting rather than selling a bundle of products—has become a dominant form of distribution in multiple industries, such as music, movies, books, and software. However, academic research remains scarce. The goal of this research program is to investigate how the transition from ownership to streaming impacts demand for, and the supply of, digital content. Using data from the music industry, this proposal advances three parts formulated as interlinked projects.

 

Projects 1 and 2 investigate the adoption of online streaming on consumed variety and taste. Specifically, project 1 asks whether consumers that adopt a streaming service will start listening to more of the same content than other users (i.e., homogeneous tastes), or rather less of the same content (i.e., more fragmented tastes). For example, recommendation engines may push individual users to new content, but potentially to the same new content across users. In project 2, I explore the implications of adopting online streaming on consumer preference for global versus local content. For example, globally programmed playlists may make consumers more likely to prefer global content; alternatively, as the price of consuming extra variety is virtually zero on streaming services, consumers may search deeper and discover nearby (local) content.

 

Finally, project 3 investigates how streaming affects the supply of new music. Streaming generates revenues over extended consumption histories, instead of once at the moment of purchase. This may affect artists’ production incentives (e.g., decelerating production in some genres), and release schedules (e.g., withholding content for some consumers). The results of the studies will be insightful for consumers, content providers, platforms, and public policy makers.
PREDICTORS OF BLEEDING FROM THE INTESTINAL SYSTEM OF THE UPPER STOMACH IN CIRRHOSIS OF THE LIVER
Creators: name: Johraeva M.A., Mamasoliev N.S.,  Ashuralieva N.D., Ashuralieva M.A. Andijan State Medical Institute
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: More than 1.32 million cases of liver cirrhosis were reported worldwide in 2017, and 440,000 were women and 883,000 were men. This represents a 2.4% overall mortality rate in the population. Liver cirrhosis occupies one of the leading places among diseases in humans and is among the top ten chronic diseases in terms of increased causes of incapacity for work and mortality. According to statistics, the standardized mortality rate by age in all countries of the world decreased or remained stable between 1990 and 2017. But with the exception of the states of Eastern Europe and Central Asia.The standardized mortality rate in these countries with age has been increasing due to an increase in the prevalence of liver disease.
Nonequilibrium diagrammatic many-body simulations with quantics tensor trains
Creators: name: Murray, Matthias
name: Shinaoka, Hiroshi
name: Werner, Philipp
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nonequilibrium Green's function formalism provides a versatile and powerful framework for numerical studies of nonequilibrium phenomena in correlated many-body systems. For calculations starting from an equilibrium initial state, a standard approach consists of discretizing the Kadanoff-Baym contour and implementing a causal time-stepping scheme in which the self-energy of the system plays the role of a memory kernel. This approach becomes computationally expensive at long times, because of the convolution integrals and the large amount of computer memory needed to store the Green's functions. A recent idea for the compression of nonequilibrium Green's functions is the quantics tensor train representation. Here, we explore this approach by implementing equilibrium and nonequilibrium simulations of the two-dimensional Hubbard model with a second-order weak-coupling approximation to the self-energy. We show that calculations with compressed two-time functions are possible without any loss of accuracy, and that the quantics tensor train implementation shows a much improved scaling of the computational effort and memory demand with the length of the time contour.
Age- and Gender-Based Patterns in Youth All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) Riding Behaviors
Creators: name: Jinnah, Hamida
name: Zolinda Stoneman
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Injuries to youth on all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) have been increasing exponentially in recent years. Youth under age 16 years are 4 times more likely to require emergency room treatments. This study explored the relationships and differences in ATV risk and safety behaviors based on age, gender, and age at ATV driving/riding initiation. Data were collected from 180 farm youth between 10 and 19 years of age. The study brought to light an important factor that influences risky ATV behaviors of youth, namely, their age at ATV driving and riding initiation. The sooner that youth (boys and girls) were exposed to ATVs, including riding with their family or friends, the sooner they started driving ATVs themselves, and the more likely they were to indulge in several ATV risk behaviors when older. This effect was more pronounced for boys than girls. Overall, girls in this study were equally likely to engage in many of the risky ATV behaviors, such as taking and giving rides on single-seat ATVs, driving adult-sized ATVs, driving ATVs on public roads, and driving ATVs really fast. However, they were less likely to wear protective attire, leaving them more vulnerable to injuries and fatalities during crashes. Implications of the findings and future directions are discussed.
Gate-controlled supercurrent effect in dry-etched Dayem bridges of non-centrosymmetric niobium rhenium
Creators: name: Koch, Jennifer
name: Cirillo, Carla
name: Battisti, Sebastiano
name: Ruf, Leon
name: Kakhaki, Zahra Makhdoumi
name: Paghi, Alessandro
name: Gulian, Armen
name: Teknowijoyo, Serafim
name: De Simoni, Giorgio
name: Giazotto, Francesco
name: Attanasio, Carmine
name: Scheer, Elke
name: Di Bernardo, Angelo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The application of a gate voltage to control the superconducting current flowing through a nanoscale superconducting constriction, named as gate-controlled supercurrent (GCS), has raised great interest for fundamental and technological reasons. To gain a deeper understanding of this effect and develop superconducting technologies based on it, the material and physical parameters crucial for GCS must be identified. Top-down fabrication protocols should be also optimized to increase device scalability, although studies suggest that top-down fabricated devices are more resilient to show GCS. Here, we investigate gated superconducting nanobridges made with a top-down fabrication process from thin films of the non-centrosymmetric superconductor NbRe. Unlike other devices previously reported, our NbRe devices systematically exhibit GCS, when made in specific conditions, which paves the way for higher device scalability. Our results also suggest that surface properties of NbRe nanobridges and their modification during fabrication are key for GCS.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures
O CURSO DE DIREITO E A QUESTÃO RACIAL
Creators: name: Almeida, Carlos Alberto Lima De
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: This article brings up reflections related to the changes of the guidelines and bases of national education, introduced through the Law 10.639/2003 (an amended of Law 9394/1996, made in order to include in the official curriculum of the Elementary School the topic "History and Culture Afro- Brazilian"). Those reflections are related to an ongoing research with junior and senior undergraduate students of the Estácio de Sá University Law School that aimed produce quantitative data regarded to ( a) the perceptions of students about experiences of racial discrimination; (b) the perception of the students about the development of actions from educational institutions in order achieve the objectives set by Law 10.639/2003, specifically on primary and secondary education, revealing the effectiveness of the policy statement and appreciation of black in our society; and ( c ) the perception of the students on the content taught in law school related to racial issue in Brazil and/or educational and pedagogical strategies that value diversity policies in order to overcome prejudicial attitudes ethnic-racial nature. The methodology used in this research was a field research, and the methodological instrument was the application of questionnaires composed of opened/closed questions in order to produce quantitative and qualitative information.
Nondestructive DNA Extraction Techniques for Soybean (Glycine Max) Seeds
Creators: name: Maythem AL-Amery
name: Fukushige, Hirotada
name: Serson, William
name: Hildebrand, David
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: While maintaining high germination rates, genotyping single seeds are useful in breeding and genetics. Nondestructive single-seed genomic DNA extraction protocols using 12 mg cotyledon tissue with a modified cetyl trimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB) technique and a commercial seed DNA extraction kit using 1 mg cotyledon tissue were developed for dry soybean seeds and cross-verified with leaf DNA analysis. The DNA extracted by these methods was sufficient for polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and the results were reproducible for several endogenous genes and transgenes in D-myo-inositol 3-phosphate synthase (MIPS) mutant seeds (GM-lpa-TW1). This single-seed DNA-analysis method is amenable to rapid high-throughput genotype screening and verifying the genetic purity of seed stocks.
Transient effects in quantum dots contacted via topological superconductor
Creators: name: Taranko, R.
name: Wrześniewski, K.
name: Weymann, I.
name: Domański, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate gradual development of the quasiparticle states in two quantum dots attached to opposite sides of the topological superconducting nanowire, hosting the boundary modes. Specifically, we explore the non-equilibrium cross-correlations transmitted between these quantum dots via the zero-energy Majorana modes. From the analytical and numerical results we reveal nonlocal features in the transient behavior of electron pairing, which subsequently cease while the hybrid structure evolves towards its asymptotic steady limit configuration. We estimate duration of these temporary nonlocal phenomena and inspect their possible manifestation in the quench-driven processes. Such dynamical effects might play an important role in braiding protocols of the topological and/or conventional superconducting quantum bits using nanoscopic hybrid structures.
description: 16 pages, 12 figures