cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Evolution of non-spherical pulsars with plasma-filled magnetospheres
Creators: name: Arzamasskiy, Lev
name: Philippov, Alexander
name: Tchekhovskoy, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Pulsars are famous for their rotational stability. Most of them steadily spin down and display a highly repetitive pulse shape. But some pulsars experience timing irregularities such as nulling, intermittency, mode changing and timing noise. As changes in the pulse shape are often correlated with timing irregularities, precession is a possible cause of these phenomena. Whereas pulsar magnetospheres are filled with plasma, most pulsar precession studies were carried out within the vacuum approximation and neglected the effects of magnetospheric currents and charges. Recent numerical simulations of plasma-filled pulsar magnetospheres provide us with a detailed quantitative description of magnetospheric torques exerted on the pulsar surface. In this paper, we present the study of neutron star evolution using these new torque expressions. We show that they lead to (1) much slower long-term evolution of pulsar parameters and (2) much less extreme solutions for these parameters than the vacuum magnetosphere models. To facilitate the interpretation of observed pulsar timing residuals, we derive an analytic model that (1) describes the time evolution of non-spherical pulsars and (2) translates the observed pulsar timing residuals into the geometrical parameters of the pulsar. We apply this model to two pulsars with very different temporal behaviours. For the pulsar B1828-11, we demonstrate that the timing residual curves allow two pulsar geometries: one with stellar deformation pointing along the magnetic axis and one along the rotational axis. For the Crab pulsar, we use the model show that the recent observation of its magnetic and rotational axes moving away from each other can be explained by precession.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures, MNRAS, submitted, uses mn2e.cls
A Profile of North Carolina Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Health Disparities, 2011
Creators: name: Lee, Joseph
name: Matthews, Derrick
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Objectives. We investigated the health profile of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) adults in North Carolina, the first state in the South to include a measure of sexual orientation identity in a probability-based statewide health survey. Methods. Using data from 9876 respondents in the 2011 North Carolina Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey, we compared sexual minorities to heterosexuals on a variety of health indicators. Results. LGB respondents were younger and more likely to be reached by cell phone. Many examined indicators were not different by sexual orientation. Significant results, however, were consistent with findings from state population surveys in other regions of the country, including disparities in mental health and, among women, smoking. Conclusions. Reporting LGB identity in North Carolina is associated with poorer health. The concentration of anti-LGB policies in the South warrants ongoing monitoring of LGB health disparities in North Carolina and in other Southeastern states for potential effects on the health and well-being of LGB populations.
Universal components of random nodal sets
Creators: name: Gayet, Damien
name: Welschinger, Jean-Yves
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give, as $L$ grows to infinity, an explicit lower bound of order $L^{n/m}$ for the expected Betti numbers of the vanishing locus of a random linear combination of eigenvectors of $P$ with eigenvalues below $L$. Here, $P$ denotes an elliptic self-adjoint pseudo-differential operator of order $m\textgreater{}0$, bounded from below and acting on the sections of a Riemannian line bundle over a smooth closed $n$-dimensional manifold $M$ equipped with some Lebesgue measure. In fact, for every closed hypersurface $Σ$ of $\mathbb R^n$, we prove that there exists a positive constant $p\_Σ$ depending only on $Σ$, such that for every large enough $L$ and every $x\in M$, a component diffeomorphic to $Σ$ appears with probability at least $p\_Σ$ in the vanishing locus of a random section and in the ball of radius $L^{-1/m}$ centered at $x$. These results apply in particular to Laplace-Beltrami and Dirichlet-to-Neumann operators.
Creating Quality Improvement Culture in Public Health Agencies
Creators: name: Riley, William
name: Mahanna, Elizabeth
name: Davis, Mary
name: Zelek, Michael
name: Verma, Pooja
name: Joly, Brenda
name: Fisher, Jessica Solomon
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Objectives. We conducted case studies of 10 agencies that participated in early quality improvement efforts. Methods. The agencies participated in a project conducted by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (2007–2008). Case study participants included health directors and quality improvement team leaders and members. We implemented multiple qualitative analysis processes, including cross-case analysis and logic modeling. We categorized agencies according to the extent to which they had developed a quality improvement culture. Results. Agencies were conducting informal quality improvement projects (n = 4), conducting formal quality improvement projects (n = 3), or creating a quality improvement culture (n = 4). Agencies conducting formal quality improvement and creating a quality improvement culture had leadership support for quality improvement, participated in national quality improvement initiatives, had a greater number of staff trained in quality improvement and quality improvement teams that met regularly with decision-making authority. Agencies conducting informal quality improvement were likely to report that accreditation is the major driver for quality improvement work. Agencies creating a quality improvement culture were more likely to have a history of evidence-based decision-making and use quality improvement to address emerging issues. Conclusions. Our findings support previous research and add the roles of national public health accreditation and emerging issues as factors in agencies’ ability to create and sustain a quality improvement culture.
(272) Archiebald Mine McGilchrist
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(273) James McClymont
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Herschel PACS and SPIRE spectroscopy of the Photodissociation Regions associated with S 106 and IRAS 23133+6050
Creators: name: Stock, D. J.
name: Wolfire, M. G.
name: Peeters, E.
name: Tielens, A. G. G. M.
name: Vandenbussche, B.
name: Boersma, C.
name: Cami, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Photodissociation regions (PDRs) contain a large fraction of all of the interstellar matter in galaxies. Classical examples include the boundaries between ionized regions and molecular clouds in regions of massive star formation, marking the point where all of the photons energetic enough to ionize hydrogen have been absorbed. In this paper we determine the physical properties of the PDRs associated with the star forming regions IRAS 23133+6050 and S 106 and present them in the context of other Galactic PDRs associated with massive star forming regions. We employ Herschel PACS and SPIRE spectroscopic observations to construct a full 55-650 μm spectrum of each object from which we measure the PDR cooling lines, other fine- structure lines, CO lines and the total far-infrared flux. These measurements are then compared to standard PDR models. Subsequently detailed numerical PDR models are compared to these predictions, yielding additional insights into the dominant thermal processes in the PDRs and their structures. We find that the PDRs of each object are very similar, and can be characterized by a two-phase PDR model with a very dense, highly UV irradiated phase (n $\sim$ 10^6 cm^(-3), G$_0$ $\sim$ 10^5) interspersed within a lower density, weaker radiation field phase (n $\sim$ 10^4 cm^(-3), G$_0$ $\sim$ 10^4). We employed two different numerical models to investigate the data, firstly we used RADEX models to fit the peak of the $^{12}$CO ladder, which in conjunction with the properties derived yielded a temperature of around 300 K. Subsequent numerical modeling with a full PDR model revealed that the dense phase has a filling factor of around 0.6 in both objects. The shape of the $^{12}$CO ladder was consistent with these components with heating dominated by grain photoelectric heating. An extra excitation component for the highest J lines (J > 20) is required for S 106.
description: 20 pages, 10 figures, A&A Accepted
Range extension of the southwestern Indian Ocean endemic Centropyge debelius (Teleostei: Pomacanthidae)
Creators: name: WICKEL, Julien
name: BARATHIEU, Gaby
name: MULOCHAU, Thierry
name: DURVILLE, Patrick
name: CUVILIER, Alexis
name: FRICKE, Ronald
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2020

description: Previously only known from the western Mascarenes and Aldabra, Centropyge debelius (Pyle 1990) is recorded for the first time at Mayotte and Tromelin islands. These new records expand the geographical distribution of C. debelius in the south-western Indian Ocean, but also the depth range of the species, as the species was observed for the first time at depths shallower than 30 m. It emphasizes the crucial importance to improve the prospecting effort on little studied areas and the "twilight zone" of reef habitats, in order to access to a better understanding of biodiversity and ecological functionalities.
Barriers to Adherence to Screening Mammography Among Women With Disabilities
Creators: name: Halladay, Jacqueline
name: Bowling, J. Michael
name: Lorenz, Carol
name: Dickens, Pamela
name: Jarman, Molly
name: Yankaskas, Bonnie
name: Luken, Karen
name: Salisbury, Kathryn
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Objectives. Given the lack of screening mammography studies specific to women with disabilities, we compared reasons offered by women with and without disabilities for not scheduling routine screening visits. Methods. We surveyed women in the Carolina Mammography Registry aged 40 to 79 years (n=2970), who had been screened from 2001 through 2003 and did not return for at least 3 years, to determine reasons for noncompliance. In addition to women without disabilities, women with visual, hearing, physical, and multiple (any combination of visual, hearing, and physical) limitations were included in our analyses. Results. The most common reasons cited by women both with and without disabilities for not returning for screening were lack of a breast problem, pain and expense associated with a mammogram, and lack of a physician recommendation. Women with disabilities were less likely to receive a physician recommendation. Conclusions. Women with disabilities are less likely than those without disabilities to receive a physician recommendation for screening mammography, and this is particularly the case among older women and those with multiple disabilities. There is a need for equitable preventive health care in this population.
Declining Trends in Local Health Department Preparedness Capacities
Creators: name: Schenck, Anna
name: Bevc, Christine
name: Davis, Mary
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Objectives. We examined local health department (LHD) preparedness capacities in the context of participation in accreditation and other performance improvement efforts. Methods. We analyzed preparedness in 8 domains among LHDs responding to a preparedness capacity instrument from 2010 through 2012. Study groups included LHDs that (1) were exposed to a North Carolina state-based accreditation program, (2) participated in 1 or more performance improvement programs, and (3) had not participated in any performance improvement programs. We analyzed mean domain preparedness scores and applied a series of nonparametric Mann–Whitney Wilcoxon tests to determine whether preparedness domain scores differed significantly between study groups from 2010 to 2012. Results. Preparedness capacity scores fluctuated and decreased significantly for all study groups for 2 domains: surveillance and investigation and legal preparedness. Significant decreases also occurred among participants for plans and protocols, communication, and incident command. Declines in capacity scores were not as great and less likely to be significant among North Carolina LHDs. Conclusions. Decreases in preparedness capacities over the 3 survey years may reflect multiple years of funding cuts and job losses, specifically for preparedness. An accreditation program may have a protective effect against such contextual factors.
Giant cross section for molecular ion formation in ultracold Rydberg gases
Creators: name: Niederprüm, Thomas
name: Thomas, Oliver
name: Manthey, Torsten
name: Weber, Tobias M.
name: Ott, Herwig
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the associative ionization of a Rydberg atom and a ground state atom in an ultracold Rydberg gas. The measured scattering cross section is three orders of magnitude larger than the geometrical size of the produced molecule. This giant enhancement of the reaction kinetics is due to an efficient directed mass transport which is mediated by the Rydberg electron. We also find that the total inelastic scattering cross section is given by the geometrical size of the Rydberg electron's wavefunction.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
A new locality and host for the marine leech Trachelobdella lubrica (Grube, 1840) in the Mediterranean
Creators: name: ALLEGRA, Alessandro
name: CASTRIOTA, Luca
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2020

description: This note reports for the first time the presence of the parasitic hirudinide Trachelobdella lubrica (Grube, 1840) on the serranid fish Serranus cabrilla (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Banks of the Strait of Sicily (central Mediterranean).
A new species of the genus Corynophrya (Ciliophora: Suctorea) from the west coast of India, Arabian Sea
Creators: name: CHATTERJEE, Tapas
name: DOVGAL, Igor
name: NANAJKAR, Mandar
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2020

description: The article presents the description of a new species of the suctorian genus Corynophrya inhabiting the body surface (cuticle) of harpacticoid copepod from the west coast of India, Arabian Sea. The diagnosis of the genus is also emended.
Wood adhesive from poly-phenolformaldehyde for manufacturing plywood, blockboard and chipboard
Creators: name: Jazib Hosen
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90499 Chemical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering

description: Wood adhesive from poly-phenolformaldehyde for manufacturing plywood, blockboard and chipboard
Economic and Political Influence on Tobacco Tax Rates: A Nationwide Analysis of 31 Years of State Data
Creators: name: Ribisl, Kurt
name: Golden, Shelley
name: Perreira, Krista
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Objectives. We evaluated state-level characteristics associated with cigarette excise taxes before and after the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA). Methods. We gathered annual cigarette excise tax rates for all US states and the District of Columbia, between 1981 and 2011, and matched each state–year tax rate with economic, political, attitudinal, and demographic characteristics, creating a data set of 1581 observations. We used panel data regression techniques to assess relationships between key characteristics and state cigarette excise tax levels. Results. Cigarette excise tax rates grew at more than 6 times the rate of inflation between 1981 and 2011; growth varied by time period and region. We found strong negative associations between Republican Party control of state legislatures and governors’ offices and state cigarette tax rates. Tobacco production, citizens’ attitudes toward taxes and tobacco control, and cigarette tax rates in neighboring states were significantly associated with cigarette tax rates. We found no association between unemployment and tax rates. Conclusions. Future excise tax growth rate may depend more on the political leanings of state legislators, and the attitudes of the people they represent, than on economic circumstances.
First data on population structure and growth parameters of Ocypode cursor (Linnaeus, 1758) along the Mediterranean and Atlantic coast
Creators: name: TIRALONGO, Francesco
name: ARCULEO, Marco
name: YEO, Mitante Djibril
name: KAKOU, Behiri Innocent
name: ADEPO-GOURENE, Abouo Beatrice
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2020

description: The tufted ghost crab, Ocypode cursor, is a rapidly expanding Atlantic-Mediterranean species whose historic range included the eastern Mediterranean Sea and the western coast of Africa. In recent years, the Mediterranean subpopulation underwent a rapid spread westward. However, most of the published studies focused on the ecology of the species, and no data are available on its life history. The aim of the current work is to provide preliminary data on biological and population parameters such as growth, size distribution and sex ratio from Mediterranean and Atlantic Ocean specimens of O. cursor. Results showed some similarities (e.g. cohorts structure, size, sex ratio) between Mediterranean and Atlantic specimens from Bassam (Côte d'Ivoire). In contrast, Atlantic specimens from the two other Côte d'Ivoire locations, Grand Jack and Port-Bouët, showed different parameters than those of the nearby Bassam (and Mediterranean) specimens. The possible reasons for these differences are discussed, together with their ecological significance.
Three Super-Earths Orbiting HD 7924
Creators: name: Fulton, Benjamin J.
name: Weiss, Lauren M.
name: Sinukoff, Evan
name: Isaacson, Howard
name: Howard, Andrew W.
name: Marcy, Geoffrey W.
name: Henry, Gregory W.
name: Holden, Bradford P.
name: Kibrick, Robert I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of two super-Earth mass planets orbiting the nearby K0.5 dwarf HD 7924 which was previously known to host one small planet. The new companions have masses of 7.9 and 6.4 M$_\oplus$, and orbital periods of 15.3 and 24.5 days. We perform a joint analysis of high-precision radial velocity data from Keck/HIRES and the new Automated Planet Finder Telescope (APF) to robustly detect three total planets in the system. We refine the ephemeris of the previously known planet using five years of new Keck data and high-cadence observations over the last 1.3 years with the APF. With this new ephemeris, we show that a previous transit search for the inner-most planet would have covered 70% of the predicted ingress or egress times. Photometric data collected over the last eight years using the Automated Photometric Telescope shows no evidence for transits of any of the planets, which would be detectable if the planets transit and their compositions are hydrogen-dominated. We detect a long-period signal that we interpret as the stellar magnetic activity cycle since it is strongly correlated with the Ca II H and K activity index. We also detect two additional short-period signals that we attribute to rotationally-modulated starspots and a one month alias. The high-cadence APF data help to distinguish between the true orbital periods and aliases caused by the window function of the Keck data. The planets orbiting HD 7924 are a local example of the compact, multi-planet systems that the Kepler Mission found in great abundance.
description: Accepted to ApJ on 4/7/2015
(269) John McGilchrist
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Structural Nested Models and G-estimation: The Partially Realized Promise
Creators: name: Vansteelandt, Stijn
name: Joffe, Marshall
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Structural nested models (SNMs) and the associated method of G-estimation were first proposed by James Robins over two decades ago as approaches to modeling and estimating the joint effects of a sequence of treatments or exposures. The models and estimation methods have since been extended to dealing with a broader series of problems, and have considerable advantages over the other methods developed for estimating such joint effects. Despite these advantages, the application of these methods in applied research has been relatively infrequent; we view this as unfortunate. To remedy this, we provide an overview of the models and estimation methods as developed, primarily by Robins, over the years. We provide insight into their advantages over other methods, and consider some possible reasons for failure of the methods to be more broadly adopted, as well as possible remedies. Finally, we consider several extensions of the standard models and estimation methods.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/14-STS493 the Statistical Science (http://www.imstat.org/sts/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Cartilha dos procedimentos para realização do Teste de Snellen
Creators: name: BAKER, Patrícia Andrea Godinho
name: CASSEB, Tamiris Faro
name: VIDEIRA, Izabel Fagury
name: DAMASCENO, Yohana Sandy Souza
name: FERNANDES, Samara Costa
name: LEAL, Tamilis Feitosa
name: DE MELO, Ceci Baker
name: MOREIRA, Camila de Araújo
name: SIQUEIRA, Mayra Rolla
name: DA CRUZ, Annanda Pereira Amaral Moraes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Teste de Snellen
Procedimentos Técnicos

description: Esta Cartilha foi elaborada com o intuito de auxiliar os profissionais de saúde da Atenção Básica a cerca dos Procedimentos para realização da Técnica para aplicação do Teste de Snellen.
Effect of Primary Care Intervention on Breastfeeding Duration and Intensity
Creators: name: Stuebe, Alison
name: Bonuck, Karen
name: Fletcher, Jason
name: Barnett, Josephine
name: Bernstein, Peter
name: Labbok, Miriam
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Objectives. We determined the effectiveness of primary care–based, and pre- and postnatal interventions to increase breastfeeding. Methods. We conducted 2 trials at obstetrics and gynecology practices in the Bronx, New York, from 2008 to 2011. The Provider Approaches to Improved Rates of Infant Nutrition & Growth Study (PAIRINGS) had 2 arms: usual care versus pre- and postnatal visits with a lactation consultant (LC) and electronically prompted guidance from prenatal care providers (EP). The Best Infant Nutrition for Good Outcomes (BINGO) study had 4 arms: usual care, LC alone, EP alone, or LC+EP. Results. In BINGO at 3 months, high intensity was greater for the LC+EP (odds ratio [OR] = 2.72; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.08, 6.84) and LC (OR = 3.22; 95% CI = 1.14, 9.09) groups versus usual care, but not for the EP group alone. In PAIRINGS at 3 months, intervention rates exceeded usual care (OR = 2.86; 95% CI = 1.21, 6.76); the number needed to treat to prevent 1 dyad from nonexclusive breastfeeding at 3 months was 10.3 (95% CI = 5.6, 50.7). Conclusions. LCs integrated into routine care alone and combined with EP guidance from prenatal care providers increased breastfeeding intensity at 3 months postpartum.
The Pacific serpulid tube worm Hydroides ezoensis Okuda, 1934 reaches the ports of Rotterdam and Vlissingen (Flushing), the Netherlands (North Sea)
Creators: name: FAASSE, Marcus A.
name: TEN HOVE, Harry A.
name: PAALVAST, Peter
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2020

description: The serpulid tube worm Hydroides ezoensis, originating from the Pacific and introduced near the mouth of the Loire River, France in 1973 or earlier, did not spread widely. After it had been recorded in southern England in 1976 and northwest France in 1997 no newly colonised areas in Europe were reported. In the course of monitoring of hard substrata in North Sea ports in the Netherlands we found H. ezoensis at two locations, about 40 kilometres apart, Rotterdam and Vlissingen (Flushing), more than 40 years after its last significant range extension. We hypothesise that rising water temperatures during the last decades may have contributed to this northward spread. Although the number of worms we collected is very low, this first colonisation in the North Sea area enhances the chance of spread along its borders.
(270) Annie Marion Beattie
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Morphology and scavenging behaviour of two species of the genus Natatolana (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae) attacking elasmobranchs from the Tunisian coast
Creators: name: YOUSSEF, Feriel
name: MANSOUR, Lamjed
name: QUILICHINI, Yann
name: ZOUARI TLIG, Sabiha
name: BENMANSOUR, Bouchra
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2020

description: Between 2015 and 2018, a total of 1656 fish specimens belonging to four elasmobranch species was collected from the Tunisian coast and examined for isopods. Two species of Cirolanidae, Natatolana borealis and Natatolana neglecta, are reported for the first time from the Tunisian coast. This study presents new data on the morphology, distribution and behaviour of the two species. This is the first record of Natatolana borealis on Mustelus mustelus, Mustelus punctulatus and Scyliorhinus canicula, and of Natatolana neglecta on the elasmobranch Raja clavata. The scavenging behaviour of N. borealis and N. neglecta on elasmobranchs showed that these two species present similar behaviour. We also noted that their impact on fisheries in the first hours of infestation was negligible as the infested fish specimens did not show any external or internal damages.
Gender identification in the Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) based on gonadal tissue coloration
Creators: name: PULJAS, Sanja
name: BRKIĆ, Ines
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2020

description: The coloration of gonadal tissue has been proposed as a reliable indicator of sex allowing a visual identification of gender. Male mytilids usually have milky white gonads while females have orange ones. Carotenoid pigments, responsible for the orange coloration, are known to be involved in defense against oxidative stress. Males could thus also display high concentrations of carotenoids according to their position in the mussel bed and the reproduction cycle, which could lead to gender misidentification with color-based approaches. Research has been performed to determine the reliability of color-based gender identification by comparing results with results obtained by histology. Both methods were applied to mussels from an intertidal polluted rocky shore and a subtidal mussel farm. Histology showed dominance of males in both sites. On the contrary, based on gonad color, the frequency of females in both sites was higher. In both sites, numerous males were incorrectly sexed. According to the results, color-based gender identification is not reliable, so it is necessary to perform histology.
Fast Detection of Curved Edges at Low SNR
Creators: name: Ofir, Nati
name: Galun, Meirav
name: Nadler, Boaz
name: Basri, Ronen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Detecting edges is a fundamental problem in computer vision with many applications, some involving very noisy images. While most edge detection methods are fast, they perform well only on relatively clean images. Indeed, edges in such images can be reliably detected using only local filters. Detecting faint edges under high levels of noise cannot be done locally at the individual pixel level, and requires more sophisticated global processing. Unfortunately, existing methods that achieve this goal are quite slow. In this paper we develop a novel multiscale method to detect curved edges in noisy images. While our algorithm searches for edges over a huge set of candidate curves, it does so in a practical runtime, nearly linear in the total number of image pixels. As we demonstrate experimentally, our algorithm is orders of magnitude faster than previous methods designed to deal with high noise levels. Nevertheless, it obtains comparable, if not better, edge detection quality on a variety of challenging noisy images.
description: 9 pages, 11 figures
PALLIATIVE SEDATION IN THE CONTROL OF EXISTENTIAL SUFFERING IN PATIENTS WITH SERIOUS ILLNESSES: INTEGRATIVE REVIEW
Creators: name: Isidoro, Geovanna Maria
name: Garcia, Ana Cláudia Mesquita
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Palliative Care
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Other Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Medical Specialties
subject: Other Nursing
subject: Existential Suffering
subject: Integrative Review
subject: Palliative Care
subject: Palliative Sedation
subject: Demoralization

description: This is an integrative review study with the objective of analyzing the evidence available in the literature on the use of palliative sedation to control existential suffering in patients with serious illnesses.
(271) Charles Robert Bryden McGilchrist
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Effects of Early Dental Office Visits on Dental Caries Experience
Creators: name: Rozier, R. Gary
name: Stearns, Sally
name: Lee, Jessica
name: Beil, Heather
name: Preisser, John
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Objectives. We determined the association between timing of a first dentist office visit before age 5 years and dental disease in kindergarten. Methods. We used North Carolina Medicaid claims (1999–2006) linked to state oral health surveillance data to compare caries experience for kindergarten students (2005–2006) who had a visit before age 60 months (n = 11 394) to derive overall exposure effects from a zero-inflated negative binomial regression model. We repeated the analysis separately for children who had preventive and tertiary visits. Results. Children who had a visit at age 37 to 48 and 49 to 60 months had significantly less disease than children with a visit by age 24 months (incidence rate ratio [IRR] = 0.88; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.81, 0.95; IRR = 0.75; 95% CI = 0.69, 0.82, respectively). Disease status did not differ between children who had a tertiary visit by age 24 months and other children. Conclusions. Medicaid-enrolled children in our study followed an urgent care type of utilization, and access to dental care was limited. Children at high risk for dental disease should be given priority for a preventive dental visit before age 3 years.
Geometrical scaling behavior of the top structure functions ratio at the LHeC
Creators: name: Boroun, G. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the ratio of the top structure functions $R^{t}(τ_{t})$ in top pair production as a probe of the top content of the proton at the LHeC project. We study the top structure functions with the geometrical scaling of gluon distribution at small $x$ and show that top reduced cross section exhibits geometrical scaling in a large range of photon vitualities. This analysis shows that top longitudinal structure function has sizeable impact on the top reduced cross section at $Q^{2}{\approx}~ 4m_{t}^{2}$.
description: 6 pages, 1 table, 5 figures
A new species of Tardigrada from a Caribbean reef lagoon, Florarctus yucatanensis sp. nov. (Halechiniscidae: Florarctinae)
Creators: name: ANGUAS-ESCALANTE, Abril
name: DE JESÚS NAVARRETE, Alberto
name: DEMILIO, Erica
name: PÉREZ-PECH, Wilbert Andrés
name: GULDBERG HANSEN, Jesper
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2020

description: Florarctus yucatanensis sp. nov. is described from the subtidal zone of a reef lagoon located on the Mexican coast of the Yucatán Peninsula. The new species exhibits a wrinkled dorsal cuticle, sculptured alae, and continuous caestus with projections of characteristic position and morphology, by which it is clearly differentiated from all known congeners. Florarctus yucatanensis sp. nov. presents the first observations of a continuous granulated sculpture of the alae, distinct from the typical punctuations formed by cuticular pillars seen among all Florarctus species.
Growth, maturity and optimum yield of Ship sturgeon Acipenser nudiventris Lovetsky, 1828 in the Southern Caspian Sea
Creators: name: FAZLI, Hasan
name: TAVAKOLI, Mahmoud
name: BEHROUZ KHOSHGHALB, Mohammad Reza
name: MOGHIM, Mehdi
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2020

description: Ship or Fringebarbel sturgeon Acipenser nudiventris Lovetsky, 1828 represents the lowest proportion of the total catch of sturgeons, and there is no adequate information about biological parameters of this species. This paper examines the age structure, growth, maturity, optimum length in the Iranian region of the Caspian Sea, from 1990-91 to 2011-12. Fork lengths of 3232 individuals were ranged from 105 to 220 cm and ages from 7 to 29 years. The growth parameters were estimated as L∞ = 235 cm, K = 0.053 year-1, t0 = −3.36 years. Fifty percent of sexual maturity was at FL = 139 cm for females and 124 cm for males. The age at first capture (tc) estimated to be 10.5 years. The long-term catch at age composition showed 23 age groups (7-29 years) and the age 12-18 years comprised 85.7% of the total catch. The length distribution showed that 10% of the catch is comprised of juveniles (immature). The mega-spawners represented 34% of the fish captured. The present study provides basic information (on growth and maturity) and revealed an unhealthy population structure of Ship sturgeon in the Caspian Sea.
(267) Marion [Turnbull]
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
The gathering of predators around the sea-cage fish farms in the Aegean Sea
Creators: name: CEYHAN, Tevfik
name: AKYOL, Okan
name: DEMIR-SAĞLAM, Yeşim
name: ŞEN, Halil
name: ÖZGÜL, Aytaç
name: DÜZBASTILAR, F. Ozan
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2020

description: A total of 48 randomly selected fish farms from the coasts of Izmir and Muğla, Aegean Sea, were visited to face-to-face interviewing with fish farmers in the sea-cage fish farms between July 2015 and July 2017. Data were collected concerned mainly the following two aspects in the area: (i) actual problems on the sea-birds and other predators such as sharks, dolphins, monk seals, fishes; (ii) interactions between sea-cages and predator attacks. Around the sea-cage fish farms, 3 sea birds, Phalacrocorax carbo, Egretta alba and Larus michahellis, 2 marine mammals, Tursiops truncatus and Monachus monachus, 3 fish species, Pomatomus saltatrix, Thunnus thynnus and Prionace glauca, and one sea turtle, Caretta caretta, were declared as predators. The cormorant P. carbo had the highest ratio (24.3%) for being seen as a potential problem by fish farmers, followed by T. truncatus, T. thynnus and M. monachus. Great white egret, yellow-legged gull and cormorant were continuously observed by fish farmers. Seasonally, there were significant different incidences of the species (p < 0.05). Monk seal and bluefish were observed continuously, while blue shark had only been appeared during the collecting dead fish around the sea-cage fish farms.
Evolution and Convergence of State Laws Governing Controlled Substance Prescription Monitoring Programs, 1998-2011
Creators: name: Dasgupta, Nabarun
name: Pierce, Matthew
name: Davis, Corey
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Objectives. We sought to collect and characterize all laws governing the operation of prescription monitoring programs (PMPs), state-level databases that collect patient-specific prescription information, which have been suggested as a tool for reducing prescription drug overdose fatalities. Methods. We utilized a structured legal research protocol to systematically identify, review, and code all PMP statutes and regulations effective from 1998 through 2011. These laws were then abstracted along eleven domains, including reporting provisions, data sharing, and data access. Results. PMP characteristics vary greatly among states and across time. We observed an increase in the types and frequency of data required to be reported, the types of individuals permitted to access PMP data, and the percentage of PMPs authorized to proactively identify outlier prescribers and patients. As of 2011, 10 states required PMPs to report suspicious activity to law enforcement, while only 3 required reporting to the patient’s physician. None required linkage to drug treatment or required all prescribers to review PMP data before prescribing. Few explicitly address data retention. Conclusions. State PMP laws are heterogeneous and evolving. Future studies of PMP effectiveness should take these variations into account.
First record of Phyllorhiza punctata (Cnidaria: Rhizostomae: Mastigiidae) in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean
Creators: name: ENRIQUE-NAVARRO, Angélica
name: PRIETO, Laura
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2020

description: The Australian white-spotted jellyfish, Phyllorhiza punctata had not been previously recorded in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean. Here, we present the first record of this species in the southwestern Atlantic coast of Spain, Cadiz. Particularly, ten specimens including juveniles and adults were collected in August and October 2018 during five field surveys conducted in a tidal creek (Rio San Pedro), communicated with the Bay of Cadiz. The origin of the organism is unknown although long-distance transport of polyps attached to ship hulls or expansion of jellyfish aquarium exhibitions can be considered as possible pathways of invasion. Future observations are required to assess if P. punctata has established a stable population in the region.
Examining the Impact of the Walking School Bus With an Agent-Based Model
Creators: name: Colabianchi, Natalie
name: Evenson, Kelly
name: Yang, Yong
name: Diez-Roux, Ana
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: We used an agent-based model to examine the impact of the walking school bus (WSB) on children’s active travel to school. We identified a synergistic effect of the WSB with other intervention components such as an educational campaign designed to improve attitudes toward active travel to school. Results suggest that to maximize active travel to school, children should arrive on time at “bus stops” to allow faster WSB walking speeds. We also illustrate how an agent-based model can be used to identify the location of routes maximizing the effects of the WSB on active travel. Agent-based models can be used to examine plausible effects of the WSB on active travel to school under various conditions and to identify ways of implementing the WSB that maximize its effectiveness.
New records of epibiont ciliates Thecacineta urceolata and Acinetides gruberi (Ciliophora: Suctorea) from the Indian coast
Creators: name: CHATTERJEE, Tapas
name: DOVGAL, Igor
name: NANAJKAR, Mandar
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2020

description: This article deals with the report of two suctorian ciliates species viz. Thecacineta urceolata Liao & Dovgal, 2015 and Acinetides gruberi Curds, 1985 as epibionts on nematode and harpacticoid copepod respectively from Goa, west coast of India, Arabian Sea (Indian Ocean). Both species are recorded here for the first time from Indian coast. Acinetides gruberi is also reported here first time from the Indian Ocean.
Finite-dimensional half-integer weight modules over queer Lie superalgebras
Creators: name: Cheng, Shun-Jen
name: Kwon, Jae-Hoon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17B67

description: We give a new interpretation of representation theory of the finite-dimensional half-integer weight modules over the queer Lie superalgebra $\mathfrak{q}(n)$. It is given in terms of Brundan's work of finite-dimensional integer weight $\mathfrak{q}(n)$-modules by means of Lusztig's canonical basis. Using this viewpoint we compute the characters of the finite-dimensional half-integer weight irreducible modules. For a large class of irreducible modules whose highest weights are of special types (i.e., totally connected or totally disconnected) we derive closed-form character formulas that are reminiscent of Kac-Wakimoto character formula for classical Lie superalgebras.
description: 22 pages
'Phase diagram' of a mean field game
Creators: name: Swiecicki, Igor
name: Gobron, Thierry
name: Ullmo, Denis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mean field games were introduced by J-M.Lasry and P-L. Lions in the mathematical community, and independently by M. Huang and co-workers in the engineering community, to deal with optimization problems when the number of agents becomes very large. In this article we study in detail a particular example called the 'seminar problem' introduced by O.Guéant, J-M Lasry, and P-L. Lions in 2010. This model contains the main ingredients of any mean field game but has the particular feature that all agent are coupled only through a simple random event (the seminar starting time) that they all contribute to form. In the mean field limit, this event becomes deterministic and its value can be fixed through a self consistent procedure. This allows for a rather thorough understanding of the solutions of the problem, through both exact results and a detailed analysis of various limiting regimes. For a sensible class of initial configurations, distinct behaviors can be associated to different domains in the parameter space . For this reason, the 'seminar problem' appears to be an interesting toy model on which both intuition and technical approaches can be tested as a preliminary study toward more complex mean field game models.