cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Switching emergency contraceptives to non-prescription status and unwanted pregnancy among adult and teenage women: A long-term European comparative study
Creators: name: Italia, Salvatore
name: Schröder-Bäck, Peter
name: Brand, Helmut
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2020

description: Abstract Aim: Unwanted pregnancy is an important social issue, not least among teenagers. Emergency contraceptives (EMCs) can prevent from unintended pregnancy, if taken quickly after unprotected sex. This study’s objective was assessing abortion/birth rates among adult and teenage women in Europe before/after an EMC switch to non-prescription status. Methods: National authorities were consulted for EMC consumption data and abortion/live birth statistics. Rates (n=26 countries) in the year before the switch (= year of reference) were compared with rates before/after the change (up to ±15 years). The focus was laid on the European Union and further countries closely related to the European Union. Results: All countries with available data (n=12) experienced a substantial increase of EMC consumption after the switch. On average, abortion rates among women aged 15–49 years were 83% higher 15 years before (compared with the year of reference) and 14% lower 15 years after the switch. Correspondingly, teenage abortion rates were 35% higher 15 years before and 40% lower 15 years after the switch. In 2017, no country had higher teen abortion rates than at time of the switch. Teen birth rates continued decreasing at almost the same rate after the switch as before. Conclusion: An EMC switch to non-prescription status increases EMC use and may contribute reducing unwanted pregnancy among teenage girls. Conflicts of interest: None declared.
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Volume XIII, 2020
Differences in night-time and daytime ambulatory blood pressure when diurnal periods are defined by self-report, fixed-times, and actigraphy: Improving the Detection of Hypertension study
Creators: name: Shimbo, Daichi
name: Muntner, Paul
name: Diaz, Keith M.
name: Abdalla, Marwah
name: Viera, Anthony J.
name: Booth, John N.
name: Reynolds, Kristi
name: Schwartz, Joseph E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: To determine whether defining diurnal periods by self-report, fixed-time or actigraphy produce different estimates of nighttime and daytime ambulatory blood pressure (ABP).
Socio-demographic inequalities in satisfaction with primary health care and utilization of chosen doctors’ services: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Jovanovic, Dragana
name: Jankovic, Janko
name: Mirilovic, Nikola
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2020

description: Aim: The aim of the study was to examine socio-demographic inequalities in user satisfaction with PHC and utilization of chosen doctors’ services. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2016 among 232 respondents who participated in PHC user satisfaction survey in PHC center Valjevo, Serbia. Inclusion criteria were an age of at least 20 years, sufficient skills of Serbian language to fill in questionnaires and consent to participation. Two hundreds and six patients completed an anonymous questionnaire about the user satisfaction with PHC. Results: The chosen doctor was seven times more often visited by the elderly (OR=7.03) and almost three times more often by the middle-aged (OR=2.66) compared to the youngest category of respondents. Those with low education and poor financial status of the household visited a doctor four (OR=4.14) and almost nine times (OR=8.66) more often, respectively, compared to those with high education and good socioeconomic status. A statistically significant higher level of PHC satisfaction was recorded in the rural population (p<0.001) and among respondents with poor socioeconomic status of the household (p=0.014). Conclusion: The chosen doctor was more frequently visited by respondents with low education and those with poor socioeconomic status of the household, while a higher degree of satisfaction with PHC was recorded in the rural population as well as in those with poor socioeconomic status of the household. Conflicts of interest: None declared.
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Volume XIII, 2020
On the reconstruction problem in Quantum Gravity
Creators: name: Fraaije, Mathijs
name: Platania, Alessia
name: Saueressig, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Path integrals and the Wilsonian renormalization group provide two complementary computational tools for investigating continuum approaches to quantum gravity. The starting points of these constructions utilize a bare action and a fixed point of the renormalization group flow, respectively. While it is clear that there should be a connection between these ingredients, their relation is far from trivial. This results in the so-called reconstruction problem. In this work, we demonstrate that the map between these two formulations does not generate non-localities at quadratic order in the background curvature. At this level, the bare action in the path integral and the fixed-point action obtained from the Wilsonian renormalization group differ by local terms only. This conclusion does not apply to theories coming with a physical ultraviolet cutoff or a fundamental non-locality scale.
description: 12 pages (5 + appendices and bibliography), no figures
Does the association between birth weight and blood pressure increase with age? A longitudinal study in young adults
Creators: name: Pizarro, Tito
name: Bustos, Patricia
name: Rona, Roberto J.
name: Bangdiwala, Shrikant I.
name: Amigo, Hugo
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: OBJECTIVES: To assess whether the association between birth weight and blood pressure (BP) increases with age using three different statistical methods.

METHODS: A representative sample of 1232 study participants born between 1974-1978 in Limache, Chile were assessed in 2000-2002, of whom 796 were reassessed in 2010-2012. An 'amplification effect' was assessed by the change in the β coefficient in the two periods, the association between birth weight and the difference of BP overtime, and the interaction between birth weight and BP in the two periods.

RESULTS: Birth weight was negatively associated with SBP in 2000-2002 (β = -2.46, 95% confidence interval (CI) -3.77 to -1.16) and in 2010-2012 (β = -3.64, 95% CI -5.20 to -2.08), and with DBP in 2000-2002 (β = -1.26, 95% CI -2.23 to -0.29) , and 2010-2012 (β = -1.64, 95% CI -2.84 to -0.45) after adjustment for sex, physical activity, and BMI. There was no association between birth weight and the difference in BP between the two periods or the interaction between birth weight, BP, and time interval.

CONCLUSION: Birth weight is a factor associated with BP in adults. This association increased with age, but amplification was shown only with one of the three methods.
Decentralized Biological Compact Unit for the Removal of Parasitic Helminth Ova During Sewage Treatment
Creators: name: Nasr, Fayza Aly
name: Gad, Mahmoud Afw
name: Al-Herrawy, Ahmad Zakaria
name: Abdelfadil, Abdullah S.
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2019
Subjects: Reduction
Parasitic helminthes
Biological compact unit
Sewage
Reuse

description: EnvironmentAsia, 12, 1, 178-186
Additional file 1 of Satisfactory breeding potential is transiently eliminated in beef bulls with clinical anaplasmosis
Creators: name: Lovett, Anne C.
name: Reppert, Emily J.
name: Jaeger, John R.
name: Kang, Qing
name: Flowers, Macy R.
name: Bickmeier, Naemi P.
name: Anantatat, Tippawan
name: O’Day, Shannon C.
name: Armstrong, Chance L.
name: Reif, Kathryn E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Knowledge and perception about climate change among healthcare professionals and students: A cross-sectional study
Creators: name: La Torre, Giuseppe
name: De Paula Baer, Alice
name: Sestili, Cristina
name: Andrea Cocchiara, Rosario
name: Barbato, Domenico
name: Mannocci, Alice
name: Del Cimmuto, Angela
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2020

description: Aim: The aim of this study was to assess knowledge on Climate Change (CC) and related consequences among students and professionals of healthcare setting. Methods: A cross-sectional study involving 364 people was conducted. The survey was performed at Sapienza University (Rome) using questionnaire previously developed and validated by the same research group. Results: Findings indicate awareness about CC and its effects and correct identification of practices that could help to mitigate its repercussions. The majority of the participants believed that CC had an impact on the health of humans (96.7%), animals (99.5%) and on the environment (99.7%). Results from the multivariate analysis regarding overall knowledge, show an increased odd in professionals (OR=2.08; 95%CI=1.02-4.26), individuals from the North (OR=3.34; 95%CI=1.37-8.15) and from the Center (OR=2.07; 95%CI=1.17-3.66). Regarding factors able to modify Earth's climate, correct answer had higher odds of being chosen by professionals (OR=2.83; 95%CI=1.41–5.70), and from individuals from South/Islands than by the ones from the Center (OR=0.65; 95%CI=0.40-1.06). The main sources of information resulted to be TV and school/university. Conclusions: These new evidences could guide policymakers on increasing the awareness of the population about this fundamental subject. Funding: This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. Author contributions: Conceptualization, G.L.T. and A.D.C..; Methodology, G.L.T. and A.M..; Formal Analysis, A.D.P.B., C.S., R.A.C., D.B.; Investigation, A.D.P.B., C.S., R.A.C., D.B.; Data Curation, A.D.P.B., C.S.; Writing – Original Draft Preparation, R.A.C., D.B.; Writing – Review & Editing, R.A.C., D.B., A.M..; Supervision, G.L.T..; Project Administration, G.L.T. Conflicts of interest: None declared
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Volume XIII, 2020
A Coinductive Approach to Computing with Compact Sets
Creators: name: Berger, Ulrich
name: Spreen, Dieter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.4.1; I.2.2; I.2.3; D.2.4
subject: 03B70, 03F60, 68T15

description: Exact representations of real numbers such as the signed digit representation or more generally linear fractional representations or the infinite Gray code represent real numbers as infinite streams of digits. In earlier work by the first author it was shown how to extract certified algorithms working with the signed digit representations from constructive proofs. In this paper we lay the foundation for doing a similar thing with nonempty compact sets. It turns out that a representation by streams of finitely many digits is impossible and instead trees are needed.
description: 34 pages
Development of a modified lymphocyte transformation test for diagnosing drug-induced liver injury associated with an adaptive immune response
Creators: name: Hayashi, Paul
name: Bonkovsky, Herbert L.
name: Olson, Ellen
name: Whritenour, Jessica
name: Zong, Qing
name: Chalasani, Naga
name: Serrano, Jose
name: Tartaro, Karrie
name: Schneider, Patricia
name: Fontana, Robert
name: Van Volkenburg, Maria
name: Ko, Mira
name: Wang, Jianying
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Drug induced liver injury (DILI) is a growing problem. Diagnostic methods to differentiate DILI caused by an adaptive immune response from liver injury of other causes or to identify the responsible drug in patients receiving multiple drugs, herbals, and/or dietary supplements (polypharmacy) have not yet been established. The lymphocyte transformation test (LTT) has been proposed as a diagnostic method to determine if a subject with an apparent hypersensitivity reaction has become sensitized to a specific drug. In this test, peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) collected from a subject are incubated with drug(s) suspected of causing the reaction. Cell proliferation, measured by the incorporation of [3H]-thymidine into new DNA, is considered evidence of a drug-specific immune response. The objectives of the current studies were to: 1) develop and optimize a modified version of the LTT (mLTT) and 2) investigate the feasibility of using the mLTT for diagnosing DILI associated with an adaptive immune response and identifying the responsible drug. PBMC collected from donors with a history of drug hypersensitivity reactions to specific drugs (manifested as skin rash) were used as positive controls for assay optimization. Following optimization, samples collected from 24 subjects enrolled in the U.S. Drug-Induced Liver Injury Network (DILIN) were tested in the mLTT. Using cytokine and granzyme B production as the primary endpoints to demonstrate lymphocyte sensitization to a specific drug, most samples from the DILIN subjects failed to respond. However, robust positive mLTT responses were observed for two of four samples from three DILIN subjects with hepatitis due to isoniazid (INH). We conclude that the mLTT, as performed here on frozen and thawed PBMC, is not a reliable test for diagnosing DILI caused by all drugs, but that it may be useful for confirming the role of the adaptive immune response in DILI ascribed to INH.
Protease-Activated Receptor 1 Enhances Poly I:C Induction of the Antiviral Response in Macrophages and Mice
Creators: name: Tatsumi, Kohei
name: Bode, Michael
name: Williams, Julie C.
name: Vanja, Swetha
name: Mackman, Nigel
name: Antoniak, Silvio
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: The coagulation cascade is activated during viral infections as part of the host defense system. Coagulation proteases activate cells by cleavage of protease-activated receptors (PAR). Recently, we reported that activation of PAR-1enhanced interferon (IFN)-β and CXCL10 expression in cardiac fibroblasts and in the hearts of mice infected with Coxsackievirus B3. In this study, we used the double-stranded RNA mimetic polyinosinic:polycytidylic acid (poly I:C) to induce an anti-viral response in macrophages and mice. Activation of PAR-1 enhanced poly I:C induction of IFNβ and CXCL10 expression in the murine macrophage cell line RAW264.7, bone-marrow derived mouse macrophages (BMM) and mouse splenocytes. Next, poly I:C was used to induce a type I IFN innate immune response in the spleen and plasma of wild-type (WT) and PAR-1−/− mice. We found that poly I:C treated PAR-1−/− mice and WT mice given the thrombin inhibitor dabigatran etexilate exhibited significantly less IFNβ and CXCL10 expression in the spleen and plasma compared to WT mice. These studies suggest that thrombin activation of PAR1 contributes to the anti-viral response in mice.
Preferential Proton over Electron heating from coherent structures during the first perihelion of Parker Solar Probe
Creators: name: Sioulas, Nikos
name: Shi, Chen
name: Huang, Zesen
name: Velli, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The solar wind undergoes significant heating as it propagates away from the Sun; the exact mechanisms responsible for this heating remain unclear. Using data from the first perihelion of the Parker Solar Probe mission, we examine the properties of proton and electron heating occurring within magnetic coherent structures identified by means of the Partial Variance of Increments (PVI) method. Statistically, regions of space with strong gradients in the magnetic field, $PVI \geq 1$, are associated with strongly enhanced proton but only slightly elevated electron temperatures. Our analysis indicates a heating mechanism in the nascent solar wind environment facilitated by a nonlinear turbulent cascade that preferentially heats protons over electrons.
Nonthermal radiation from the central region of super-accreting active galactic nuclei
Creators: name: Sotomayor, Pablo
name: Romero, Gustavo E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The radio emission mechanism in active galactic nuclei (AGN) with high accretion rates is unclear. It has been suggested that low-power jets may explain the observed radiation at sub-parsec scales. The mechanisms for jet formation at super-Eddington rates, however, are not well understood. On the same scale, clouds from the broad-line region (BLR) propagating with supersonic velocities in the wind launched by the accretion disk may lead to the production of nonthermal radiation. We aim to characterize the nonthermal emission produced by the propagation of clouds through the wind of the accretion disk in super-accreting AGNs and to estimate the relevance of such contribution to the radio band of the electromagnetic spectrum. We determine the conditions under which the BLR clouds are not destroyed by shocks or hydrodynamic instabilities when immersed in the powerful wind of the accretion disk. These clouds form bowshocks that are suitable sites for particle acceleration. We develop a semianalytical model to calculate the distribution of relativistic particles in these bowshocks and the associated spectral energy distribution (SED) of the emitted radiation. For typical parameters of super-accreting AGNs, we find that the cloud-wind interactions can produce nonthermal emission from radio up to a few tens of TeV, with slight absorption effects, if the processes occur outside the wind photosphere. Radio emission in AGNs without jets can be explained if the accretion rate is super-Eddington and there is a broad-line region at sub-parsec scales around the central black hole. The accretion rate must not be extremely high so most of the clouds orbit outside of the wind photosphere and the radiation can escape to the observer.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Migrant Health Policy in European Union (EU) and a non EU country: Current situation and future challenges for improvement
Creators: name: Tozija, Fimka
name: Lizana, Tona
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2020

description: Aim: The influx of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in Europe is an ongoing reality and migrant health has become very important public health problem. The aim of this paper is to analyze and compare the health profile, migrant situation and migration integration health policy in Spain as a European Union (EU) country and Republic of North Macedonia as a country in process of European Union accession. Methods: Migration Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) Health strand questionnaire (2015) was applied to compare health policies for migrant integration in both countries. Results: There are differences between Spain and Macedonia in health care coverage and access to health services for migrants. Spain has health strand total score of 52 and is in the same group with Austria, Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden. Macedonia has lower health strand total score 38 and is in the same group with Turkey, Cyprus, Slovakia. Targeted migrant health policies are stronger and services more responsive in Spain compared to Macedonia which offers migrants legal entitlements to healthcare, but health services should be more culturally responsive to migrant health needs. Conclusion: Health migration policy in both countries is closely tied to the general immigration policy. Conflicts of interest: None declared.
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Volume XIII, 2020
Additional file 4 of Satisfactory breeding potential is transiently eliminated in beef bulls with clinical anaplasmosis
Creators: name: Lovett, Anne C.
name: Reppert, Emily J.
name: Jaeger, John R.
name: Kang, Qing
name: Flowers, Macy R.
name: Bickmeier, Naemi P.
name: Anantatat, Tippawan
name: O’Day, Shannon C.
name: Armstrong, Chance L.
name: Reif, Kathryn E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 4
Contribution of flows around active regions to the north-south helioseismic travel-time measurements
Creators: name: Poulier, Paul-Louis
name: Liang, Zhi-Chao
name: Fournier, Damien
name: Gizon, Laurent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. In local helioseismology, the travel times of acoustic waves propagating in opposite directions along the same meridian inform us about horizontal flows in the north-south direction. The longitudinal averages of the north-south helioseismic travel-time shifts vary with the sunspot cycle. Aims. We aim to study the contribution of inflows into solar active regions to this solar-cycle variation. Methods. To do so, we identify the local flows around active regions in the horizontal flow maps obtained from correlation tracking of granulation in SDO/HMI continuum images. We compute the forward-modeled travel-time perturbations caused by these inflows using 3D sensitivity kernels. In order to compare with the observations, we average these forward-modeled travel-time perturbations over longitude and time in the same way as the measured travel times. Results. The forward-modeling approach shows that the inflows associated with active regions may account for only a fraction of the solar-cycle variations in the north-south travel-time measurements. Conclusions. The travel-time perturbations caused by the large-scale inflows surrounding the active regions do not explain in full the solar-cycle variations seen in the helioseismic measurements of the meridional circulation. Keywords: Sun: activity -- Sun: helioseismology
description: 12 pages, 12 figures
Synchronic coronal hole mapping using multi-instrument EUV images: Data preparation and detection method
Creators: name: Caplan, R. M.
name: Downs, C.
name: Linker, J. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a method for the automatic mapping of coronal holes (CH) using simultaneous multi-instrument EUV imaging data. Synchronized EUV images from STEREO/EUVI A&B 195A and SDO/AIA 193A are preprocessed, including PSF deconvolution and the application of data-derived intensity corrections that account for center-to-limb variations (limb brightening) and inter-instrument intensity normalization. We systematically derive a robust limb-brightening correction that takes advantage of unbiased long-term averages of data and respects the physical nature of the problem. The new preprocessing greatly assists in CH detection, allowing for the use of a simplified variable-connectivity two-threshold region growing image segmentation algorithm to obtain consistent detection results. We generate synchronic EUV and CH maps, and show a preliminary analysis of CH evolution. Several data and code products are made available to the community (www.predsci.com/chd): For the period of this study (06/10/2010 to 08/18/14) we provide synchronic EUV and coronal hole map data at 6-hour cadence, data-derived limb-brightening corrections for STEREO/EUVI A&B 195A and SDO/AIA 193A, and inter-instrument correction factors to equate their intensities. We also provide the coronal hole image segmentation code module (ezseg) implemented in both FORTRAN OpenMP and GPU-accelerated C-CUDA. A complete implementation of our coronal hole detection pipeline in the form of a ready-to-use MATLAB driver script euv2chm utilizing ezseg is also made available.
description: 37 pages, 24 figures
Comparative Studies on Removal of Textile Dye onto Geopolymeric Adsorbents
Creators: name: Alouani, Marouane EL
name: Alehyen, Saliha
name: Achouri, Mohammed EL
name: M๊hamed Taibi
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment
Year: 2019
Subjects: Fly ash
Metakaolin
Geopolymer
Adsorption
Equilibrium isotherm
Kinetics
Textile dye

description: EnvironmentAsia, 12, 1, 143-153
iTiger: An Automatic Issue Title Generation Tool
Creators: name: Zhang, Ting
name: Irsan, Ivana Clairine
name: Thung, Ferdian
name: Han, DongGyun
name: Lo, David
name: Jiang, Lingxiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In both commercial and open-source software, bug reports or issues are used to track bugs or feature requests. However, the quality of issues can differ a lot. Prior research has found that bug reports with good quality tend to gain more attention than the ones with poor quality. As an essential component of an issue, title quality is an important aspect of issue quality. Moreover, issues are usually presented in a list view, where only the issue title and some metadata are present. In this case, a concise and accurate title is crucial for readers to grasp the general concept of the issue and facilitate the issue triaging. Previous work formulated the issue title generation task as a one-sentence summarization task. A sequence-to-sequence model was employed to solve this task. However, it requires a large amount of domain-specific training data to attain good performance in issue title generation. Recently, pre-trained models, which learned knowledge from large-scale general corpora, have shown much success in software engineering tasks. In this work, we make the first attempt to fine-tune BART, which has been pre-trained using English corpora, to generate issue titles. We implemented the fine-tuned BART as a web tool named iTiger, which can suggest an issue title based on the issue description. iTiger is fine-tuned on 267,094 GitHub issues. We compared iTiger with the state-of-the-art method, i.e., iTAPE, on 33,438 issues. The automatic evaluation shows that iTiger outperforms iTAPE by 29.7%, 50.8%, and 34.1%, in terms of ROUGE-1, ROUGE-2, ROUGE-L F1-scores. The manual evaluation also demonstrates the titles generated by BART are preferred by evaluators over the titles generated by iTAPE in 72.7% of cases. Besides, the evaluators deem our tool as useful and easy-to-use. They are also interested to use our tool in the future.
description: Accepted by the ESEC/FSE 2022 Demonstrations Track
Power-2 limb-darkening coefficients for the uvby, UBVRIJHK, SDSS ugriz, Gaia, Kepler, and TESS photometric systems
Creators: name: Claret, A.
name: Southworth, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Limb darkening is an important stellar phenomenon and must be accounted for in the study of stellar spectra, eclipsing binaries, transiting planetary systems, and microlensing events. The power-2 limb-darkening law provides a good match to the specific intensities predicted by stellar atmosphere models: it is better than other two-parameter laws and is only surpassed by the four-parameter law. Predictions of the limb-darkening coefficients for the power-2 law are not widely available. We therefore compute them, using stellar atmosphere models generated by the ATLAS (plane-parallel) code. Limb-darkening coefficients were computed for the space missions Gaia, Kepler, and TESS as well as for the photometric systems uvby, UBVRIJHK, and SDSS ugriz.The calculations were performed by adopting the Levenberg-Marquardt least-squares minimisation method and were computed with a resolution of 100 equally spaced viewing angles. We used 9586 model atmospheres covering 19 metallicities, effective temperatures of 3500 to 50000 K, log g values from 0.0 to 5.0, and microturbulent velocities of 0, 1, 2, 4, and 8 km. We confirm the superiority of the power-2 law, in terms of the quality of the fits, over other two-parameter laws. This is particularly relevant for the quadratic law, which is widely used. We recommend the use of the power-2 law in cases where a two-parameter law is needed.
Potentilla sangedehensis Faghir & Naqinezhad 2019, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Naqinezhad, Alireza
name: Faghir, Marzieh Beygom
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Rosales
Rosaceae
Potentilla
Potentilla sangedehensis

description: Potentilla sangedehensis Faghir & Naqinezhad sp. nov. (Figs. 1 & 2)
 Type:— IRAN: Mazandaran province: Sari, Sangedeh, Neru mountain, 35º 59 ʹ 1.80 ʺ N, 53º 12 ʹ 51.12 ʺ E, 2700 m, 21 July 2016, A. Naqinezhad & H. Gholizadeh 7605 (HUMZ!; isotype: GUH!).
Plant perennial, caespitose (Fig.1 and 2 A); caudex sturdy, deep brown, covered with relics of stipules and petioles (dead petioles on stock sickle-shaped); stems lateral; radical leaves digitate, 5-foliate (Fig. 2 B), tri dentate at apex, teeth triangular; obovate, truncate in shape; leaflets surface densely hairy, silvery-sericeous on both side (Fig. 2 C and D); 11–13 mm long, 9.5–11.5 mm wide, composed of one terminal (8.7–10 mm long, 6.2–8 mm wide), two lateral (7–8 mm long, 3.8–5 mm wide) and two lower leaflets (5.8–6 mm long, 2.8–3.5 mm wide); petioles of radical leaves 3–3.5 cm long, 2 mm wide, densely sericeous, with straight to flexuous and sub-appressed hairs, grooved and winged at base; stipule of radical leaves 12.5–15mm long, 7.5 mm wide, auricles lanceolate, 2.5–3 mm long, thick, orange-red color; dorsally glabrous or with few hairs at the top (Fig. 2 E), ventrally densely villous (Fig. 2 F), cauline leaves sessile, entire, stipule of cauline leaf triangular-lanceolate, densely sericeous-villous; flowering stem 2.5–2.8 cm long, ascending; flower solitary, 1–2 in number; 12–18 mm in diameter; calyx lanceolate, 3–4 mm wide, 5.5–6 mm long; epicalyx 1.8–2 mm wide, 3–3.5 mm long, linear-lanceolate, villous on both sides (Fig. 2 G – H); petals yellow with brown basal part, 4.2–4.6 mm long, 3–3.2 mm wide, rotundate, claw 1.2 mm long, 2.3 mm wide (Fig. 2 I); style sub–terminal (Fig. 2 J), 0.37–0.4 mm long, conical, thick, with papilla at the; stigma dilated; stamens ± 20 in two rows of 10, the outer with longer filament, anther ovate; achene glabrous, with 5–6 ribs, 1–1.5 mm wide, 2–2.85 mm long (Fig. 2 K).
description: Published as part of Naqinezhad, Alireza & Faghir, Marzieh Beygom, 2019, Two new species of the genus Potentilla (Rosaceae) from North of Iran, pp. 291-300 in Phytotaxa 392 (4) on pages 293-294, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.392.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/13718240
Aflatoxin B1 as an endocrine disruptor among miller flour workers
Creators: name: Beshir, Safia
name: Shaheen, Weam
name: Saad-Hussein, Amal
name: Saeed, Yuosra
Publisher: name: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH)
Year: 2020

description: Aim: Aflatoxin В1 has been stated to inhibit the function of different endocrine glands. This study was proposed to clarify the possible effects of aflatoxin B1 as an endocrine disruptor on pituitary gland, thyroid gland and gonads among miller flour workers, and to evaluate its effects on human male sexual function. Methods: A case-control study was conducted in a flour mill in Helwan District Cairo, Egypt in 2019. The study included 42 exposed flour milling male workers from the grinding department which showed the highest level of aspergillus flavus in the air sampling of airborne fungi and 40 non-exposed males. Serumaflatoxin В1/albumin, luteinizing hormone, follicle stimulating hormone, testosterone, 17-beta-estradiol, free triiodothyronine, free thyroxin and thyroid stimulating hormone were measured for the studied groups. Results: Sampling of airborne fungi revealed that aspergillus flavus and penicillum were the predominant fungal types in the flour mill. Indoor/Outdoor ratios for aspergillus flavus were ≥ 1 in all the locations indicating presence of indoor sources. Serum Aflatoxin В1/albumin, luteinizing hormone and follicle stimulating, the existence of various types of sexual disorders (decreased libido, impotence and premature ejaculation) were higher while testosterone was lower in the miller flour workers compared to non-exposed. However, there was no significant difference regarding 17-beta-estradioland thyroid hormone levels between both studied groups. Conclusion: Aflatoxin B1creates possible human male reproductive health distresses in miller flour workers. Acknowledgement: The authors are grateful to the National Research Centre for funding this research. Funding: This study was funded by the National Research Centre, Egypt. Conflicts of interest: None declared.
description: South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (SEEJPH), Volume XIV, 2020
Spinning test body orbiting around a Kerr black hole: Comparing Spin Supplementary Conditions for Circular Equatorial Orbits
Creators: name: Timogiannis, Iason
name: Lukes-Gerakopoulos, Georgios
name: Apostolatos, Theocharis A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The worldline of a spinning test body moving in curved spacetime can be provided by the Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon (MPD) equations when its centroid, i.e. its center of mass, is fixed by a Spin Supplementary Condition (SSC). In the present study, we continue the exploration of shifts between different centroids started in a recently published work [ Phys. Rev. D 104, 024042 (2021)], henceforth Paper I, for the Schwarzschild spacetime, by examining the frequencies of circular equatorial orbits under a change of the SSC in the Kerr spacetime. In particular, we examine the convergence in the terms of the prograde and retrograde orbital frequencies, when these frequencies are expanded in power series of the spin measure and the centroid of the body is shifted from the Mathisson-Pirani or the Ohashi-Kyrian-Semerak frame to the Tulczyjew-Dixon one. Since in Paper I, we have seen that the innermost stable circular orbits (ISCOs) hold a special place in this comparison process, we focus on them rigorously in this work. We introduce a novel method of finding ISCOs for any SSC and employ it for the Tulczyjew-Dixon and the Mathisson-Pirani formalisms. We resort to numerical investigation of the convergence between the SSCs for the ISCO case, due to technical difficulties not allowing Paper's I analytical treatment. Our conclusion, as in Paper I, is that there appears to be a convergence in the power series of the frequencies between the SSCs, which is improved when the proper shifts are taken into account, but there exists a limit in this convergence due to the fact that in the spinning body approximation we consider only the first two lower multipoles of the extended body and ignore all the higher ones.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures, 5 tables, 2 Mathematica notebooks
Metal Lines Associated with the Lyman-alpha Forest from eBOSS Data
Creators: name: Yang, Li
name: Zheng, Zheng
name: Bourboux, Hélion du Mas des
name: Dawson, Kyle
name: Pieri, Matthew M.
name: Rossi, Graziano
name: Schneider, Donald P.
name: de la Macorra, Axel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the metal species associated with the Ly$α$ forest in the eBOSS quasar spectra. Metal absorption lines are revealed in the stacked spectra from cross-correlating the selected Ly$α$ absorbers in the forest and the flux fluctuation field. Up to 13 metal species are identified associated with relatively strong Ly$α$ absorbers (those with flux fluctuation $-1.0<δ_{\rm Lyα}<-0.6$ and with neutral hydrogen column density of ~ $10^{15-16}$ $\rm cm^{-2}$) over absorber redshift range of $2
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ, Jun 21, 2022. In press. 28 pages, 19 figures, 2 tables
Additional file 8 of Satisfactory breeding potential is transiently eliminated in beef bulls with clinical anaplasmosis
Creators: name: Lovett, Anne C.
name: Reppert, Emily J.
name: Jaeger, John R.
name: Kang, Qing
name: Flowers, Macy R.
name: Bickmeier, Naemi P.
name: Anantatat, Tippawan
name: O’Day, Shannon C.
name: Armstrong, Chance L.
name: Reif, Kathryn E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 8
A field in flux: change, challenge, and collective progress for OA books
Creators: name: Barnes, Lucy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: open access books, open infrastructure, open access policy, open access books funding

description: A presentation about open access books focusing on community-led and non-profit approaches, given at a UKSG seminar, 'Practical Routes to OA Monographs - Collaboration, Innovation and Support online seminar 2023' on 22 August 2024.
Optimal linear cyclic quantum heat engines cannot benefit from strong coupling
Creators: name: Liu, Junjie
name: Jung, Kenneth A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Uncovering whether strong system-bath coupling can be an advantageous operation resource for energy conversion can facilitate the development of efficient quantum heat engines (QHEs). Yet, a consensus on this ongoing debate is still lacking owing to challenges arising from treating strong couplings. Here we conclude the debate for optimal linear cyclic QHEs operated under a small temperature difference by revealing the detrimental role of strong system-bath coupling in their optimal operations. We analytically demonstrate that both the efficiency at maximum power and maximum efficiency of strong-coupling linear cyclic QHEs are upper bounded by their weak-coupling counterparts and, particularly, experience a quadratic suppression relative to the Carnot limit under strong time-reversal symmetry breaking.
description: Submitted. Comments are highly welcome
Developmental Delays in Executive Function from 3 to 5 Years of Age Predict Kindergarten Academic Readiness
Creators: name: Mills-Koonce, Roger
name: Vernon-Feagans, Lynne
name: Burton, Linda
name: Blair, Clancy B.
name: Lanza, Stephanie
name: Willoughby, Michael
name: Magnus, Brooke
name: Burchinal, Peg
name: Crouter, Ann
name: Crnic, Keith
name: Werner, Emily
name: Greenberg, Mark
name: Cox, Martha
name: Garrett-Peters, Patricia
name: Skinner, Debra
name: Willoughby, Michael T.
name: Blair, Clancy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Substantial evidence has established that individual differences in executive function (EF) in early childhood are uniquely predictive of children’s academic readiness at school entry. The current study tested whether growth trajectories of EF across the early childhood period could be used to identify a subset of children who were at pronounced risk for academic impairment in kindergarten. Using data that were collected at the age 3, 4, and 5 home assessments in the Family Life Project (N = 1,120), growth mixture models were used to identify 9% of children who exhibited impaired EF performance (i.e., persistently low levels of EF that did not show expected improvements across time). Compared to children who exhibited typical trajectories of EF, the delayed group exhibited substantial impairments in multiple indicators of academic readiness in kindergarten (Cohen’s ds = 0.9–2.7; odds ratios = 9.8–23.8). Although reduced in magnitude following control for a range of socioeconomic and cognitive (general intelligence screener, receptive vocabulary) covariates, moderate-sized group differences remained (Cohen’s ds = 0.2–2.4; odds ratios = 3.9–5.4). Results are discussed with respect to the use of repeated measures of EF as a method of early identification, as well as the resulting translational implications of doing so.
Solid Accretion onto Neptune-Mass Planets I: In-Situ Accretion and Constraints from the metallicity of Uranus and Neptune
Creators: name: Hasegawa, Yasuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The currently available, detailed properties (e.g., isotopic ratios) of solar system planets may provide guides for constructing better approaches of exoplanet characterization. With this motivation, we explore how the measured values of the deuterium-to-hydrogen (D/H) ratio of Uranus and Neptune can constrain their formation mechanisms. Under the assumption of in-situ formation, we investigate three solid accretion modes; a dominant accretion mode switches from pebble accretion to drag-enhanced three-body accretion and to canonical planetesimal accretion, as the solid radius increases. We consider a wide radius range of solids that are accreted onto (proto)Neptune-mass planets and compute the resulting accretion rates as a function of both the solid size and the solid surface density. We find that for small-sized solids, the rate becomes high enough to halt concurrent gas accretion, if all the solids have the same size. For large-sized solids, the solid surface density needs to be enhanced to accrete enough amounts of solids within the gas disk lifetime. We apply these accretion modes to the formation of Uranus and Neptune and show that if the minimum-mass solar nebula model is adopted, solids with radius of $\sim 1$ m to $\sim 10$ km should have contributed mainly to their deuterium enrichment; a tighter constraint can be derived if the full solid size distribution is determined. This work therefore demonstrates that the D/H ratio can be used as a tracer of solid accretion onto Neptune-mass planets. Similar efforts can be made for other atomic elements that serve as metallicity indicators.
description: 27 pages, 15 figures, 2 tables; accepted for publication in ApJ
A new hydrodynamics code for Type Ia Supernovae
Creators: name: Leung, S. -C.
name: Chu, M. -C.
name: Lin, L. -M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A two-dimensional hydrodynamics code for Type Ia supernovae (SNIa) simulations is presented. The code includes a fifth-order shock-capturing scheme WENO, detailed nuclear reaction network, flame-capturing scheme and sub-grid turbulence. For post-processing we have developed a tracer particle scheme to record the thermodynamical history of the fluid elements. We also present a one-dimensional radiative transfer code for computing observational signals. The code solves the Lagrangian hydrodynamics and moment-integrated radiative transfer equations. A local ionization scheme and composition dependent opacity are included. Various verification tests are presented, including standard benchmark tests in one and two dimensions. SNIa models using the pure turbulent deflagration model and the delayed-detonation transition model are studied. The results are consistent with those in the literature. We compute the detailed chemical evolution using the tracer particles' histories, and we construct corresponding bolometric light curves from the hydrodynamics results. We also use a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) to speed up the computation of some highly repetitive subroutines. We achieve an acceleration of 50 times for some subroutines and a factor of 6 in the global run time.
description: 25 pages, 17 figures, accepted by MNRAS
Starspots Modelling and Flare Analysis on Selected MV Stars
Creators: name: Bicz, Kamil
name: Falewicz, Robert
name: Pietras, Małgorzata
name: Siarkowski, Marek
name: Preś, Paweł
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We studied light curves of GJ 1243, YZ CMi, and V374 Peg, observed by TESS for the presence of stellar spots and stellar flares. One of the main goals was to model light curves of spotted stars to estimate the number of spots along with their parameters using our original BASSMAN software. The modeled light curves were subtracted from the observations to increase efficiency of flare detection. Flares were detected automatically with our new dedicated software WARPFINDER. We estimated the presence of two spots on GJ 1243 with mean temperature about 2800$\,$K and spottedness varying between $3\%-4\%$ of the stellar surface and two spots on V374 Peg with a mean temperature of about 3000$\,$K and spottedness about 6$\%$ of the stellar surface. On YZ CMi we found two different models for two light curves separated in time by one and a half year. One of them is three-spot model with mean temperature of about 3000$\,$K and spottedness of star about 9$\%$ of the stellar surface. The second is a four-spot model with mean temperature about 2800$\,$K and spottedness about 7$\%$ of the stellar surface. We tested whether the flares are distributed homogeneously in phase and if there is any correlation between the presence of spots and the distribution of flares. For YZ CMi one spot is in anticorrelation with the distribution of the flares and for GJ 1243 shows non-homogeneous distribution of flares.
description: 28 pages, 22 figures, accepted to ApJ
Verification of g-factors for lead monofluoride ground state, PbF
Creators: name: Skripnikov, L. V.
name: Petrov, A. N.
name: Titov, A. V.
name: Mawhorter, R. J.
name: Baum, A. L.
name: Sears, T. J.
name: Grabow, J. -U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results of our theoretical study and analysis of earlier experimental data for the g-factor tensor components of the ground $^2Π_{1/2}$ state of free PbF radical. The values obtained both within the relativistic coupled-cluster method combined with the generalized relativistic effective core potential approach and with our fit of the experimental data from [R.J. Mawhorter, B.S. Murphy, A.L. Baum, T.J. Sears, T. Yang, P.M. Rupasinghe, C.P. McRaven, N.E. Shafer-Ray, L.D. Alphei, J.-U. Grabow, Phys. Rev. A 84, 022508 (2011); A. Baum, B.S. thesis, Pomona College, 2011]. The obtained results agree very well with each other but contradict the previous fit performed in the cited works. Our final prediction for g-factors is $G_{\parallel}= 0.081(5)$, $G_{\perp}=-0.27(1)$.