cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Préface
Creators: name: Miernowski, Jan
name: Krause, Virginia
Publisher: name: Classiques Garnier
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Plaisir
subject: Singularité
subject: Ullrich Langer
subject: Herméneutique
subject: Humain

description: Lire la littérature de la Renaissance avec Ullrich Langer, c’est retrouver le plaisir de la singularité du sens. Singularité entendue non comme une exception bizarre, mais comme une sensation unique. Unique, mais paradoxalement capable d’être renouvelée et partagée, puisqu’il s’agit de la singularité de l’être humain et du langage. Les études du volume retrouvent donc la singularité du style herméneutique d’Ullrich Langer et en partagent le plaisir avec le lecteur.
Practice change: Social Media Screening Questionnaire to identify high-risk adult psychiatric patients
Creators: name: Hubbard, G.
name: Greenberg, L.
name: Lutzow, C.A.
name: Giscombe, C.
Publisher: name: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Year: 2021

description: Purpose: Include social media screening during initial psychiatric examination with new adult patients to increase psychiatric providers' awareness of the rate and impact of social media use in their patients. Design and Methods: Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles were implemented to evaluate the effectiveness of psychiatric provider 5-question social media screening during the initial evaluation. Findings: Screening for social medial usage (N = 136) improved providers' a wareness of the rate and impact of social media use on patients' distress levels. The process of screening influenced a conversation between provider and patient about healthy social media use. Practice Implications: The inclusion of social media screening during initial psychiatric evaluation may aid in the assessment of risk factors for psychological distress.
BIC Project - Project Presentation
Creators: name: BIC -Biomarker Commercialization Project
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: biomarker
BIC project
commercialization

description: Biomarker commercialization (BiC) Biomarkers are potential prognostic, diagnostic, and treatment indicators. Despite their increasing potential for precision medicine, their development into commercial products is very challenging. The purpose of the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) consortium BIC - Biomarker Commercialization is to create tools for supporting and overcoming the challenges of biomarker commercialization. Learn more about the project and outputs!
description: The project's budget is EUR 2.55 million and is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund through the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme with EUR 1.96 million.
A multi-component, community-engaged intervention to reduce cardiovascular disease risk in perimenopausal Latinas: pilot study protocol
Creators: name: Harris, L.K.
name: Duran, M.
name: Crandell, J.
name: Berry, D.C.
name: Giscombé, C.W.
name: Stuebe, A.
name: Stoner, L.
name: Cortés, Y.I.
name: Santíago, L.
name: Perreira, K.M.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2021

description: Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk increases substantially during perimenopause. Latinas have a significantly worse CVD risk factor profile than non-Hispanic White women, potentially due to multiple sociocultural and environmental factors. To date, interdisciplinary interventions have not focused on improving nutrition, physical activity, stress management, and biologic CVD risk in perimenopausal Latinas. The purpose of this study is to examine the feasibility and initial efficacy of a multi-component intervention to reduce CVD risk in perimenopausal Latinas. Methods: This is a two-group, repeated measures experimental study. Eighty perimenopausal Latinas (age 40–55 years) from two community groups will be randomized: one group will complete the intervention; the other will be a wait-list control. The intervention consists of 12-weekly sessions (education, physical activity, stress management, coping skills training), followed by 3 months of continued support, and 6 months of skill maintenance on their own. The primary outcomes include arterial stiffness, blood pressure, lipids, and blood glucose. Secondary outcomes are health behaviors (nutrition, physical activity, sleep, coping strategies), self-efficacy, and other biological factors related to CVD risk (adiposity, C-reactive protein, hair cortisol, vasomotor symptoms). We will assess changes in outcomes from Time 1 (baseline) to Time 2 (6 months) and Time 3 (12 months) using general linear mixed models to test the hypotheses. We will also evaluate the feasibility of the intervention by assessing enrollment and retention rates, barriers, and facilitators to enrollment, intervention fidelity, the suitability of study procedures, and participant satisfaction with the intervention and study protocol. We hypothesize the intervention group will decrease biologic CVD risk and improve health behaviors and self-efficacy significantly more than the wait-list control. Discussion: Results from this study will contribute to knowledge on the feasibility of behavioral interventions, including stress management and coping skills training, which could reduce CVD burden among perimenopausal Latinas. Because Hispanic/Latinos are the largest ethnic minority in the United States (US), progress regarding CVD risk among perimenopausal Latinas may lead to significant improvement in the overall CVD burden in the US. Trial registration: Prospectively registered, NCT04313751 (03/19/2020), Protocol version 1.0
Combating Compassion Fatigue With Mindfulness Practice in Military Nurse Practitioners
Creators: name: Waldrop, J.
name: Best, N.I.
name: Woods-Giscombe, C.
name: Durham, C.F.
Publisher: name: Elsevier Inc.
Year: 2020

description: Like their civilian counterparts, military clinicians are at risk for compassion fatigue. Studies have shown a relationship between mindfulness interventions and reduction of compassion fatigue and its components of burnout and secondary traumatic stress. A pilot feasibility study using a mindfulness-based stress reduction program via a mobile application was completed with a group of nurse practitioners in the military. Seventy-five percent of the participants showed improvement in burnout and stress levels and 100% improvement in mindfulness attention. Mindfulness training maybe one way to mitigate symptoms of compassion fatigue for nurse practitioners in the military.
Using MiniBooNE NCEL and CCQE cross section results to constrain 3+1 sterile neutrino models
Creators: name: Wilkinson, Callum
name: Cartwright, Susan
name: Thompson, Lee
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The MiniBooNE NCEL and CCQE cross-section measurements (neutrino running) are used to set limits in the $Δm^{2}-\sin^{2}\vartheta_{μs}$ plane for a 3+1 sterile neutrino model with a mass splitting $0.1 \leq Δm^{2} \leq 10.0$ eV$^{2}$. GENIE is used, with a relativistic Fermi gas model, to relate $E_ν$ and the reconstructed quantities measured. The issue of uncertainty in the underlying cross-section model and its effect on the sterile neutrino limits is explored, and robust sterile neutrino limits are produced by fitting the sterile parameters and the axial-mass cross-section parameter simultaneously.
description: Contribution to the Proceedings of the NuPhys2013 Conference: Prospects in Neutrino Physics, 19-20 December 2013, IOP, London
A Review on IOT Based Home Automation System
Creators: name: Hossain, Md Turab
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 100504 Data Communications
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 100510 Wireless Communications
subject: 100602 Input, Output and Data Devices

description: The Internet of Things (loT) is an extension
 of the current internet that allows
 communication, connection, and
 internetworking between various devices or
 physical items that are referred to as
 "Things." The Internet of Things (IoT) is a
 broad phrase that refers to network
 devices' ability to sense and gather data
 from the world around us, and then
 distribute that data across the Internet,
 where it may be analyzed and used for a
 variety of reasons. The Internet of Things is
 made up of smart machines that interact
 andcommunicate withoneanother,as well
 as other machines, objects, environments,
 and infrastructures. Nowadays, everyone is
 connected to each other through a variety
 of communication channels, the most
 popular of which is the internet. To put it
 another way, the internet connects people
 and can also connect things.
Negotiating change: the emergence and development of the women's movement in contemporary China
Creators: name: Zhang, Qin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: What have given rise to the emergence of a large number of self-initiated women's organizations in China since the 1990s? How did these organizations interact with the Chinese state in a non-democratic political system? My case study of the contemporary Chinese women's movement tests the utility of the political process theories originally developed in the context of advanced industrial democracies. I found the three factors identified by the political process model--openings in the political opportunity structure, mobilization structures and framing processes can explain the emergence and development of the Chinese women's movement to a large degree. Yet the fact that this movement has existed in a context that is characterized by the continuing dominance of the party-state in society also calls for our attention to many dynamics that are not common in most Western social movements. Generally speaking, as a response to the structural biases in the classic political process model, my research has suggested that all these three factors are neither static nor invariant, and they are shaped by the strategic considerations and choices of movement activists who are constantly in interactions with other players, especially the state. My dissertation on the Chinese women's movement also contributes to a greater understanding of state-society relations in contemporary China. I contend that we should not view the interactions between these women's organizations and the state in the light of conceptualizations such as civil society and corporatism, which provide only a broad overarching picture of contemporary state-society relationships in China, but fail to capture the underlying nuanced dynamics in a highly contingent and complex transforming process which China is now undergoing. Alternatively, I argue that the degree of autonomy from the state differs considerably from one organization to another. More importantly, these organizations and the activists within them have made strategic choices to create the best linkage, whether it be more autonomous or more dependent, between each individual organization and the state.
Quantum families of invertible maps and related problems
Creators: name: Skalski, Adam
name: Sołtan, Piotr M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 46L89, Secondary 46L65

description: The notion of families of quantum invertible maps ($C^*$-algebra homomorphisms satisfying Podleś condition) is employed to strengthen and reinterpret several results concerning universal quantum groups acting on finite quantum spaces. In particular Wang's quantum automorphism groups are shown to be universal with respect to quantum families of invertible maps. Further the construction of the Hopf image of Banica and Bichon is phrased in the purely analytic language and employed to define the quantum subgroup generated by a family of quantum subgroups or more generally a family of quantum invertible maps.
description: 23 pages. The final version will appear in the Canadian Journal of Mathematics
Racial discrimination, the superwoman schema, and allostatic load: exploring an integrative stress-coping model among African American women
Creators: name: Dhabhar, F.S.
name: Steed, T.C.
name: Price, M.M.
name: Marquez-Magaña, L.
name: Allen, A.M.
name: Chae, D.H.
name: Black, A.R.
name: Wang, Y.
name: Powell, W.
name: Woods-Giscombe, C.L.
Publisher: name: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
Year: 2019

description: Racial discrimination has been linked to allostatic load (i.e., cumulative biological stress) among African American women. However, limited attention has been given to psychosocial processes involved in the stress response—critical for understanding biological pathways to health—in studies examining racial discrimination as a social determinant of health. We examined whether the superwoman schema (SWS), a multidimensional culture-specific framework characterizing psychosocial responses to stress among African American women, modifies the association between racial discrimination and allostatic load. We used purposive sampling to recruit a community sample of African American women ages 30–50 from five San Francisco Bay Area counties (n = 208). Path analysis was used to test for interactions while accounting for the covariance among SWS subscales using both linear and quadratic models. Significant interactions were observed between racial discrimination and four of the five SWS subscales. Feeling obligated to present an image of strength and an obligation to suppress emotions were each protective whereas feeling an intense motivation to succeed and feeling an obligation to help others exacerbated the independent health risk associated with experiencing racial discrimination. Our findings affirm the need to consider individual variability in coping and potentially other psychosocial processes involved in the stress response process, and offer several insights that may help elucidate the mechanisms by which racial discrimination gets “under the skin.”
Objects of primary value:
Creators: name: Dohn, Matthew C.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: Research guided by Terror Management Theory (TMT; Greenberg, Pyszczynski, & Solomon, 1986) has provided powerful evidence that reminders of death motivate defensive behaviors designed to preserve self-esteem and buffer against the conscious awareness of personal mortality. Fascination with fame and celebrity are posited to be important within the TMT framework, as they reflect the human need for symbolic immortality, whether direct or vicarious. The present research examined three basic hypotheses. First, reminders of death should lead individuals to view fame and celebrity as particularly desirable for the self, and to greater fascination with celebrities. Second, the experience of vicarious fame should protect individuals from the threat of mortality salience, thus reducing their need to engage in terror managing worldview defensive behavior. Third, the belief that one has the potential to achieve celebrity should afford the protective worldview provided by fame and celebrity, and reduce subsequent worldview defense. Three experiments were conducted to test these hypotheses. Study 1 examined the relationship between reminders of death (mortality salience), valuing fame and celebrity for the self, and ratings of celebrity related information. Celebrity information (but not valuing fame and celebrity for the self) was viewed more favorably by individuals reminded of their death, provided they expressed anxiety. Study 2 examined whether vicarious fame might serve to reduce terror managing worldview defensive responses following mortality salience. Support for the hypothesized effect in Study 2 was not found; instead, an unexpected and opposite effect was observed, such that increased mortality salience led to decreased worldview defense. Study 3 examined whether celebrity potential would reduce worldview defensive behavior following reminders of death. This hypothesis was not supported. However, learning one has any chance of becoming a celebrity was comforting to individuals when mortality was salient. Furthermore, results from Study 1 and 3 suggest that women may value celebrity and fame more than men. Taken as a whole, the research represents an important first step in understanding the role of fame and celebrity within the Terror Management Theory framework.
Socially inherited memory, gender and the public sphere in Poland
Creators: name: Reading, Anna
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 1996

description: More recent theories of the 'revolutions' of 1989 in the societies of Eastern and Central Europe now suggest that the underlying dynamic was continuity rather than disjuncture in terms of social and political relations. Yet such theories fail to explain the nature of and the reasons for this continuity in terms of gender relations in the public sphere. The thesis suggests that the clue to understanding the nature of the gendered transformation in Poland's public sphere in its mediated aspects between the years 1980 and 1994 lies in the role of 'socially inherited memory'. Socially inherited memory is the dialectical and gendered process by which a given society both remembers and forgets past events, feelings, thoughts and knowledge through representations. The key to Poland's social memory concerns the repressed stories of political right developed during the nation's period of identity formation in the nineteenth century and interwar years. Certain aspects of this social inheritance were recalled by the Polish United Workers' Party and then by Solidarity to legitimize their power: Because Poland's social memory was formed around the public exclusion of women and Poland's ethnic minorities this resulted in the continuation of exclusionary mechanisms and public ghettoization after World War Two, and, in the 1980s and 1990s. However, the evidence of the thesis also suggests that there were sub-plots of women's resistance and inclusion within the public sphere from at least the nineteenth century onwards. Thus the exclusionary impact of socially inherited memory is not an inevitable historical process: At particular historical moments inclusive representations of women and ethnic minorities are recalled or reenacted in the form of Public organisations or alternative cultural productions. Socially inherited memory it is suggested may provide a useful concept for examining the (en)gendering of the public sphere in other societies.
Correlating the nanoscale mechanical and chemical properties of knockout mice bones
Creators: name: Kavukcuoglu, Nadire Beril
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: Bone is a mineral-organic composite where the organic matrix is mainly type I collagen plus small amounts of non-collagenous proteins including osteopontin (OPN), osteocalcin (OC) and fibrillin 2 (Fbn2). Mature bone undergoes remodeling continually so new bone is formed and old bone resorbed. Uncoupling between the bone resorption and bone formation causes an overall loss of bone mass and leads to diseases like osteoporosis and osteopenia. These are characterized by structural deterioration of the bone tissue and an increased risk of fracture. The non-collagenous bone proteins are known to have a role in regulating bone turnover and to affect the structural integrity of bone. OPN and OC play a key role in bone resorption and formation, while absence of Fbn-2 causes a connective tissue disorder (congenital contractural arachnodactyly) and has been associated with decreased bone mass. In this thesis nanoindentation and Raman-microspectroscopy techniques were used to investigate and correlate the mechanical and chemical properties of cortical femoral bones from OPN deficient (OPN-/-), OC deficient (OC-/-) and Fbn-2 deficient (Fbn2-/-) mice and their age, sex and background matched wild-type controls (OPN+/+, OC+/+ and Fbn2+/+). For OPN the hardness (H) and elastic modulus (E) of under 12 week OPN-/- bones were significantly lower than for OPN+/+ bones, but Raman showed no significant difference. Mechanical properties of bones from mice older than 12 weeks were not significantly different with genotype. However, mineralization and crystallinity from >50 week OPN-/- bones were significantly higher than for OPN+/+ bones. Mechanical properties of OPN-/- bones showed no variation with age, but mineralization, crystallinity and type-B carbonate substitution increased for both genotypes. For OC-/- intra-bone analyses showed that the hardness and crystallinity of the bones were significantly higher, especially in the mid-cortical sections, compared to OC+/+ bones. Fbn2-/- bones had significantly lower hardness and elastic modulus compared to Fbn2+/+ bones, but the crystallinity was higher. Type-B carbonate substitution decreased significantly in OC-/- and Fbn2-/- bones compared to their wild-type controls. The thesis has provided new insight into how non-collagenous proteins affect the nanomechanics and chemistry of bone tissue. This information will assist in the development of new treatments for osteopenia/osteoporosis.
Evaluating the effects of historical land cover changes on summertime weather and climate in New Jersey
Creators: name: Wichansky, Paul Stuart
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: The 19th-century agrarian landscape of New Jersey (NJ) and the surrounding region has been extensively transformed to the present-day land cover by urbanization, reforestation, and localized areas of deforestation. This study used a mesoscale atmospheric numerical model to investigate the sensitivity of the warm season climate of NJ to these land cover changes. Reconstructed 1880s-era and present-day land cover datasets were used as surface boundary conditions for a set of simulations performed with the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS). Three-member ensembles with historical and present-day land cover were compared to examine the sensitivity of surface air and dewpoint temperatures, rainfall, the individual components of the surface energy budget, horizontal and vertical winds, and the vertical profiles of temperature and humidity to these land cover changes.Mean temperatures for the present-day landscape were 0.3-0.6° C warmer than for the historical landscape over a considerable portion of NJ and the surrounding region, with daily maximum temperatures at least 1.0° C warmer over some of the highly urbanized locations. Reforested regions in the present-day landscape, however, showed a slight cooling. Surface warming was generally associated with repartitioning of net radiation from latent to sensible heat flux, and conversely for cooling. Reduced evapotranspiration from much of the present-day land surface led to dewpoint temperature decreases of 0.3-0.6° C. While urbanization was accompanied by strong surface albedo decreases and increases in net shortwave radiation, reforestation and potential changes in forest composition have generally increased albedos and also enhanced landscape heterogeneity. The increased deciduousness of forests may have further reduced net downward longwave radiation.These land cover changes have modified boundary-layer dynamics by increasing low-level convergence and upper-level divergence in the interior of NJ, especially where sensible heat fluxes have increased for the present-day landscape, hence enhancing uplift in the mid-troposphere. The mesoscale circulations that developed in the present-day ensemble were also more effective at lifting available moisture to higher levels of the boundary layer, lowering dewpoints near the surface but increasing them aloft. Likewise, the sea breeze in coastal areas of NJ in the present-day ensemble had stronger uplift during the afternoon and enhanced moisture transport to higher levels.
Growing Probability of Additional Offspring with a Beneficial Reversal Allele in the Decoupled Continuous-time Mutation-selection Model
Creators: name: Gill, Wonpyong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 92D25

description: The growing probabilities of additional offspring with the beneficial reversal allele for various population sizes, $N$, sequence lengths, $L$, selective advantages, $s$, fitness parameters, $k$, and measuring parameters, $C$, were calculated in an asymmetric sharply-peaked landscape using the decoupled continuous-time mutation-selection model. The growing probability in the stochastic region was inversely proportional to the measuring parameter when $C<1/Ns^*$, bent when $C\approx 1/Ns^*$ and became saturated when $C>1/Ns^*$, where $s^*$ is the effective selective advantage. The saturated growing probability in the stochastic region was approximately the effective selective advantage when $C\gg 1/Ns^*$ and $s^*\ll 1$. The present study suggests that the growing probability in the stochastic region in an asymmetric sharply-peaked landscape in the decoupled continuous-time mutation-selection model can be described using the theoretical formula for the growing probability in the Moran two-allele model. The selective advantage ratio, which represents the ratio of the effective selective advantage to the selective advantage, does not depend on the population size, selective advantage, measuring parameter, and fitness parameter; instead the selective advantage ratio decreases with increasing the sequence length.
description: 18 pages, 6 figures
Synthesis and gas sorption study of microporous metal-organic frameworks for hydrogen and methane storage
Creators: name: Lee, JeongYong
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: One of the strategic goals of seeking for renewable energy sources/carriers that are clean and abundant is to replace fossil fuel with alternative fuel such as hydrogen gas. The U.S. Department of Energy has set forth specific cost and performance targets for utilizing hydrogen and natural gas for commercial purpose. In this study, a series of porous [M(L)(P)0.5] materials (where, M2+=Zn, Co, Ni, Cu; L (or linker) = obba, bdc, ndc; P (or pillar) = bpy or ted) were synthesizes via solvothermal reactions and evaluated on their ability of hydrogen and methane storage. By incorporating L groups with different length, microporous metal-organic framework (MOF) structures having controlled pore sizes were constructed. Single crystal X-ray diffraction study showed that they possess up to 60 % free space and the diameters of the pores are in the range of 3.5 ?? ~ 9 ??. The tunable and permanent porosity and gas storage capacity of these materials were explored by low and high pressure sorption study. At low pressure high resolution argon sorption experiments revealed that these MOF materials have very high surface area, up to 3282 m2/g. The hydrogen sorption study showed that reversible hydrogen adsorption/desorption can be achieved with pore size larger than 6 ??. From the high pressure hydrogen study, a 5.48 wt% of hydrogen uptake was achieved at 77 K and ~60 bar on [Ni(ndc)(ted)0.5], and 36 g/L of high volumetric density was also observed for [Zn(bdc)(ted)0.5] at the same temperature and ~40 bar. The interaction between hydrogen and MOF materials was analyzed in terms of isosteric heat of adsorption. Generally, a range of 5.0 ~ 7.5 kJ/mol of heat of adsorption energy was found for the structures investigated. These findings suggest that physisorption is the primary force of hydrogen adsorption on the internal surface of MOF materials. Crystals of [Zn(bdc)(ted)0.5] exhibit high methane storage capability at 298 K, as well as separation capability between hydrogen and methane gas, as several other selected MOF materials.
The Giscombe Superwoman Schema Questionnaire: Psychometric Properties and Associations with Mental Health and Health Behaviors in African American Women
Creators: name: Li, Y.
name: Allen, A.M.
name: Lackey, C.
name: Black, A.R.
name: Steed, T.C.
name: Woods-Giscombe, C.L.
Publisher: name: Taylor and Francis Ltd
Year: 2019

description: The purpose of this research was to examine the psychometric properties of the Giscombe Superwoman Schema Questionnaire. Three separate studies conducted with 739 African American women provided preliminary evidence that the Questionnaire’s factor structure aligns with the Superwoman Schema Conceptual Framework and has good reliability. In addition, it is positively associated with perceived stress, depressive symptoms, using food to cope with stress, poor sleep quality, and physical inactivity. This study provides preliminary evidence to suggest that the Giscombe Superwoman Schema Questionnaire is psychometrically sound; Superwoman Schema is associated with health behaviors and psychological states that may increase risk for illness.
Superconductivity versus structural phase transition in the closely related Bi$_{2} $Rh$ _{3.5}$S$ _{2}$ and Bi$_{2} $Rh$ _{3}$S$ _{2}$
Creators: name: Kaluarachchi, Udhara S.
name: Xie, Weiwei
name: Lin, Qisheng
name: Taufour, Valentin
name: Bud'ko, Sergey L.
name: Miller, Gordon J.
name: Canfield, Paul C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Single crystals of Bi$_{2} $Rh$ _{3}$S$ _{2}$ and Bi$_{2} $Rh$ _{3.5}$S$ _{2}$ were synthesized by solution growth and the crystal structures, thermodynamic and transport properties of both compounds were studied. In the case of Bi$_{2} $Rh$ _{3}$S$ _{2}$, a structural first-order transition at around 165 K is identified by single crystal diffraction experiments, with clear signatures visible in resistivity, magnetization and specific heat data. No superconducting transition for Bi$_{2} $Rh$ _{3}$S$ _{2}$ was observed down to 0.5 K. In contrast, no structural phase transition at high temperature was observed for Bi$_{2} $Rh$ _{3.5}$S$ _{2}$, however bulk superconductivity with a critical temperature, $T_{c}\approx$ 1.7 K was observed. The Sommerfeld coefficient $γ$\ and the Debye temperature($\varTheta_{\textrm{D}}$) were found to be 9.4 mJ mol$^{-1}$ K$^{-2}$ and 209 K respectively for Bi$_{2} $Rh$ _{3}$S$ _{2}$, and 22 mJ mol$^{-1}$ K$^{-2}$ and 196 K respectively for Bi$_{2} $Rh$ _{3.5}$S$ _{2}$. Study of the specific heat in the superconducting state of Bi$_{2} $Rh$ _{3.5}$S$ _{2}$ suggests that Bi$_{2} $Rh$ _{3.5}$S$ _{2}$ is a weakly coupled, BCS superconductor.
description: 8 pages, 11 figures
Découvrez le EMM Survey Registry! - SSHOC infosheet
Creators: name: Morales, Laura
name: Saji, Ami
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Le EMM Survey Registry est un outil en ligne gratuit ouvert à toute personne intéressée par la recherche ou du travail sur des politiques publiques avec des enquêtes quantitatives sur l’intégration et l’inclusion des EMM. L’outil permet de découvrir et d’en apprendre plus sur les enquêtes qualitatives existantes menées auprès de (sous-) populations EMM en Europe et au-delà. Cet outil ne se contente pas de rassembler des informations jusqu’ici éparses sur ces enquêtes, mais offre également un accès aux métadonnées détaillées et structurées pour chacune de ces enquêtes. Le EMM Survey Registry est actuellement en ligne et disponible en version 1.0. Cette version est entièrement fonctionnelle et donne accès aux métadonnées de plus de 1 700 enquêtes provenant de 34 pays différents. L’outil accueille déjà 300 à 400 utilisateurs du monde entier et exerçant dans diverses disciplines, secteurs, industries, etc. En tant qu’outil “en direct” et constamment mis-à-jour, nous encourageons tous les producteurs d’enquêtes à communiquer leurs propres métadonnées (gratuitement mais après contrôle qualitatif) afin d’élargir la collection de métadonnées du registre et leur permettre de partager leurs recherches avec un public international. L’outil a été créé conjointement par l’Action COST 16111 - ETHMIGSURVEYDATA, le projet H2020 SSHOC, et le project ANR FAIRETHMIGQUANT.
Innovative Clinical Training Site for Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Students: Elementary School-Based Group Therapy (Manuscript ID UMHN-2017-0143)
Creators: name: Vimba, N.
name: Hubbard, G.
name: Woods-Giscombe, C.L.
name: Hageman, A.
Publisher: name: Taylor and Francis Ltd
Year: 2018

description: The aim of this clinical training site innovation is to develop accessible pediatric mental health clinical training sites for psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) students. Mental health services in school settings provide treatment in the child's community and create opportunities for innovation and collaboration with teachers, school counselors, and school psychologists. School settings provide opportunities for early recognition of anxiety symptoms and accessible treatment that can help close the gap in clinical training sites for this population. Mild and moderate symptoms of anxiety often go untreated and may affect academic performance negatively. Cognitive behavioral play therapy is an effective treatment modality provided by PMHNP students and supports the roles of school personnel.
Electrical and topological characterization of thin film transistors based on a novel organic semiconductor for biosensing applications
Creators: name: Sommakia, Salaheddin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: The design of sensors capable of detecting various analytes has important biosensing applications ranging from medical diagnostics to air quality monitoring. Organic-based semiconductors are being promoted as biosensors for their cost-effectiveness, facility of fabrication and potential for reaction to many analytes. This study aims to characterize the electrical performance and topology of thin film transistors (TFTs) based on a novel semiconducting molecule with a conjugated phenyl-thiophene core, 5-5'-bis-4-(6-hydroxyhexyloxy)-phenyl-2-2'-bithiophene (or HOC6PTTPC6OH for short). Electrical measurements show that working TFTs can be fabricated from this novel material and exhibit consistent transistor performance. Atomic Force Microscopy reveals a polycrystalline structure with distinct grains separated by crevices, the degree of which depends on the deposition process. The electrical performance (measured by the field effect mobility) is shown to depend on the topology, and therefore on the details of film deposition. Based on these findings, possible improvements to the fabrication method to optimize electrical performance and sensing response are discussed with relation to future studies on these devices as alcohol vapor sensors, and potentially, as DNA sensors.
Interatomic Coulombic Decay as a New Source of Low Energy Electrons in slow Ion-Dimer Collisions
Creators: name: Iskandar, W.
name: Matsumoto, J.
name: Leredde, A.
name: Flechard, X.
name: Gervais, B.
name: Guillous, S.
name: Hennecart, D.
name: Mery, A.
name: Rangama, J.
name: Zhou, C. L.
name: Shiromaru, H.
name: Cassimi, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide the experimental evidence that the single electron capture process in slow collisions between O$^{3+}$ ions and neon dimer targets leads to an unexpected production of low-energy electrons. This production results from the interatomic Coulombic decay process, subsequent to inner shell single electron capture from one site of the neon dimer. Although pure one-electron capture from inner shell is expected to be negligible in the low collision energy regime investigated here, the electron production due to this process overtakes by one order of magnitude the emission of Auger electrons by the scattered projectiles after double-electron capture. This feature is specific to low charge states of the projectile: similar studies with Xe$^{20+}$ and Ar$^{9+}$ projectiles show no evidence of inner shell single-electron capture. The dependence of the process on the projectile charge state is interpreted using simple calculations based on the classical over the barrier model.
Three essays evaluating New Jersey's Individual Training Grant program
Creators: name: Hebbar, Leela
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: This thesis evaluates the impact of New Jersey's Individual Training Grant (ITG) program on participants. Through non-experimental matching methods, we find ITG participants experience a higher reemployment rate than their comparison group in the 8th, 12th, and 16th quarters after claiming Unemployment Insurance (UI). The reemployment advantage in the 8th quarter is about 6% and 5% in the 16th quarter. The wage recovery of the ITG group is statistically indistinguishable from the comparison group's wage recovery in the 16th quarter. However, the combined reemployment and wage return for ITG participants amounts to $474 in the 8th quarter after claiming UI (approximately 9.5% of 8th quarter wages). Applying this economic return, the lifetime monetary returns to training exceed the cost in foregone wages by the 5th year after claiming UI. The thesis also estimates impacts for demographic groups that face a variety of barriers to employment, such as weak education and job skills, and access to networks. The specific groups are high school drop outs, females pursuing training in the male dominated fields of computer programming and engineering, and older workers who may have out dated skills or face age discrimination. Female enrolled in engineering or computer programming experience reemployment rates that are lower than or similar to those in the comparison group, but they do experience a $758 greater quarterly wage recovery in the 8th quarter after claiming UI. Hispanic high school dropouts experience both higher reemployment and wage recovery rates than their comparison group, but the wage recovery advantage disappears after removing those enrolled in truck driving training.High school dropouts previously employed in manufacturing and white males age 51 to 65 experience a reemployment advantage in the 8th quarter after UI relative to seven comparison groups, each obtained by a different matching model. For both ITG subgroups the reemployment rate is 7-8 percentage points higher than their comparison group. However, there is no significant difference between the wage recovery rates of either ITG group and their comparison groups. Using multiple matching methods we demonstrate that these results are robust to the matching model. We find that both propensity score matching and stratified random sampling can be sensitive to ties, which illustrates the importance of using multiple matching methods.
Analysis of psychodynamic interventions in the treatment of a child diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder
Creators: name: Hirose, Scott D.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2009

description: A search of the psychoanalytic literature for support of evidence-based treatments for children with PTSD favored cognitive-behavioral approaches over supportive and expressive psychodynamically-informed treatments. This study attempted to provide a possible model for the use of a psychodynamically-informed case study. One child was selected to study. The child was previously in treatment with this writer for four years. Over the course of roughly three months, pre-treatment measures were taken. The child's teacher completed the Child Behavior Checklist Teacher Report Form (CBCL-TRF) (Achenbach, 1966) and the Self-Perception Profile for Children (SPCC) (Harter, 1985). The measures were repeated at the conclusion of the study. Three sessions were videotaped roughly one month apart from one another and coded using the Child Play Therapy Instrument: Adaptation for Trauma Research (CPTI-ATR) (Chazan & Cohen, 2003). While the child's self esteem rose as measured by the SPCC in several areas, his levels of acting out behaviors and depression as measured by the CBCL-TRF increased. According to the CPTI-ATR, the child used play activity adaptively and had fewer regressions during his play activity. This is not an outcome study as the treatment is ongoing. It is a process study of how on one level symptoms have not changed significantly as yet. However, on another level, the domain of play, a window has opened on a process of change. Behavioral changes may be dependent upon situational changes. More research is needed to understand the process underlying supportive and expressive psychodynamically-informed treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder in children. Specifically, future studies should follow the course of treatment over a longer period of time.
Conserved momenta of a ferromagnetic soliton
Creators: name: Tchernyshyov, Oleg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Linear and angular momenta of a soliton in a ferromagnet are commonly derived through the application of Noether's theorem. We show that these quantities exhibit unphysical behavior: they depend on the choice of a gauge potential in the spin Lagrangian and can be made arbitrary. To resolve this problem, we exploit a similarity between the dynamics of a ferromagnetic soliton and that of a charged particle in a magnetic field. For the latter, canonical momentum is also gauge-dependent and thus unphysical; the physical momentum is the generator of magnetic translations, a symmetry combining physical translations with gauge transformations. We use this analogy to unambiguously define conserved momenta for ferromagnetic solitons. General considerations are illustrated on simple models of a domain wall in a ferromagnetic chain and of a vortex in a thin film.
description: 20 pages, 5 figures. Accepted manuscript with minor changes from v2
Integrative Literature Review of Factors Related to Breastfeeding in African American Women: Evidence for a Potential Paradigm Shift
Creators: name: Thoyre, S.
name: DeVane-Johnson, S.
name: Williams, R.
name: Woods-Giscombé, C.
name: Fogel, C.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Inc.
Year: 2017

description: Background: Human milk has widespread health benefits for infants, mothers, and society. However, not all populations of women, particularly African American women, engage in human milk feeding at high rates. Research aim: The purpose of this integrative literature review is twofold: (a) to examine factors that influence low rates of human milk feeding among African American women and (b) to introduce a need for a methodological paradigm shift to develop culturally relevant and effective interventions. Methods: The authors searched four electronic social science databases for peer-reviewed journal articles pertaining to human milk among African American women published from 1990 to 2015. Both coauthors independently assessed these articles using thematic analysis and validation. The database search yielded 47 peer-reviewed articles. Results: Three main themes emerged explaining the human milk feeding disparity: (a) the social characteristics of women likely not to feed human milk (e.g., low socioeconomic status, single); (b) women's perceptions of human milk feeding; and (c) the quality of human milk feeding information provided by health care providers (i.e., limited human milk information). Conclusion: Current literature does include sociohistorical factors that have shaped current norms. Adding sociohistorical frameworks, paying particular attention to the embodied experience of historical trauma, could lead to the development of new evidence-based, culturally sensitive interventions to enhance human milk feeding in the African American community.
Countering the secularization of the discourse on evil
Creators: name: Hitchman, Lynda
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Saint Augustine of Hippo did not shy away from the problem of evil, despite the fact that its existence challenged his faith. In his search for God, Augustine confronted and explored the problem and meaning of evil. Augustine's analysis of evil shows that when God is not at the center of an individual's life and the individual's will is not willingly and completely submitted to the will of God that individual is capable of evil. It is when a person is capable of evil acts or of rationalizing evil that evil is possible. Moreover, evil remains evil regardless of whether an individual or a group collectively regards it as such. Augustine developed an understanding of human nature and mankind's capacity for evil that is worth studying and recognizing as wisdom 1500 years after he wrote it. Only by recognizing and understanding the root causes of evil can we hope to combat its existence. It is essential that we abandon secular biases and revisit the works and words of Saint Augustine to reach a thorough understanding of humanity's propensity for evil and for the existence of evil in a good world created by a good God.
Ambivalence toward converts in Judaism
Creators: name: Johnston, Arthur
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: A brief history of Jewish converts is presented in order to demonstrate how ambivalence to converts has been waxing and waning since the beginning of Judaism. The Jewish religion has evolved a series of beliefs and customs in order to squelch the ambivalence toward converts. Additionally there are rules that govern that once the conversion is complete it is total and the convert is bestowed with all legal rights from that point forward. There are even stipulations that state it is improper to ask the nature of the origin of their Judaism. Given all the traditions and rules concerning converts it seems obvious that the religion has been struggling for years to deal with the ambivalence toward converts.
Bridging the gender divide: Facilitating the educational path for men in nursing
Creators: name: Kneipp, S.M.
name: Giscombe, C.W.
name: Rumay Alexander, G.
name: Rowsey, P.J.
name: Kowlowitz, V.
name: Gray, T.F.
name: Hodges, E.A.
name: Foster, B.B.
Publisher: name: Slack Incorporated
Year: 2017

description: Background: Although the number of men entering the nursing profession over the past century has increased in-crementally, the proportion of men remains low in contrast to the U.S. population. On matriculation into nursing school, men face stereotypes about the nursing profession and the characteristics of the men who enter it. Men may also face a number of gender-based barriers, including lack of history about men in nursing, lack of role models, role strain, gender discrimination, and isolation. Method: This article describes each of these barriers and provides strategies to improve male students’ learning experience. Results: The efforts of one nursing school to address many of these barriers are also described. Conclusion: Through acknowledging gender barriers and taking intentional steps to address them with prenursing and nursing students, schools of nursing may create a more inclusive environment and enhance the profession’s diversity.
Towards a solid solution of real-time fire and flame detection
Creators: name: Jiang, Bo
name: Lu, Yongyi
name: Li, Xiying
name: Lin, Liang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 68U01

description: Although the object detection and recognition has received growing attention for decades, a robust fire and flame detection method is rarely explored. This paper presents an empirical study, towards a general and solid approach to fast detect fire and flame in videos, with the applications in video surveillance and event retrieval. Our system consists of three cascaded steps: (1) candidate regions proposing by a background model, (2) fire region classifying with color-texture features and a dictionary of visual words, and (3) temporal verifying. The experimental evaluation and analysis are done for each step. We believe that it is a useful service to both academic research and real-world application. In addition, we release the software of the proposed system with the source code, as well as a public benchmark and data set, including 64 video clips covered both indoor and outdoor scenes under different conditions. We achieve an 82% Recall with 93% Precision on the data set, and greatly improve the performance by state-of-the-arts methods.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures