cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Role of Gender Empowerment on Reproductive Health Outcomes in Urban Nigeria
Creators: name: Calhoun, Lisa
name: Speizer, Ilene S.
name: Akiode, Akinsewa
name: Irani, Laili
name: Saad, Abdulmumin
name: Fotso, Jean-Christophe
name: Corroon, Meghan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: To date, limited evidence is available for urban populations in sub-Saharan Africa, specifically research into the association between urban women’s empowerment and reproductive health outcomes. The objective of this study is to investigate whether women’s empowerment in urban Nigerian settings is associated with family planning use and maternal health behaviors. Moreover, we examine whether different effects of empowerment exist by region of residence.
Additional file 1 of Development and pilot implementation of guidelines for culturally tailored research recruitment materials for African Americans and Latinos
Creators: name: Cunningham-Erves, Jennifer
name: Kusnoor, Sheila V.
name: Villalta-Gil, Victoria
name: Stallings, Sarah C.
name: Ichimura, Jabari S.
name: Israel, Tiffany L.
name: Harris, Paul A.
name: Wilkins, Consuelo H.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Medicine
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Narrative review of the effectiveness of culturally tailoring recruitment materials as a strategy for increasing the enrollment of underrepresented populations in clinical trials.
Acceptability and Feasibility of a Mobile Phone-Based Case Management Intervention to Retain Mothers and Infants from an Option B+ Program in Postpartum HIV Care
Creators: name: Van Rie, Annelies
name: Ratshefola, Mamothe
name: Clouse, Kate
name: Pettifor, Audrey
name: Yende, Nompumelelo
name: Bassett, Jean
name: Schwartz, Sheree R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: The objective of this study was to assess the acceptability and feasibility of a cell phone based case manager intervention targeting HIV-infected pregnant women on highly-active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). Pregnant women ≥36 weeks gestation attending antenatal care and receiving HAART through the Option B+ program at a primary care clinic in South Africa were enrolled into a prospective pilot intervention to receive text messages and telephone calls from a case manager through 6 weeks postpartum. Acceptability and feasibility of the intervention were assessed along with infant HIV testing rates and 10-week and 12-month postpartum maternal retention in care. Retention outcomes were compared to women of similar eligibility receiving care prior to the intervention. Fifty women were enrolled into the pilot from May to July 2013. Most (70 %) were HAART-naive at time of conception and started HAART during antenatal care. During the intervention, the case manager sent 482 text messages and completed 202 telephone calls, for a median of 10 text messages and 4 calls/woman. Ninety-six percent completed the postpartum interview and 47/48 (98 %) endorsed the utility of the intervention. Engagement in 10-week postpartum maternal HIV care was >90 % in the pre-intervention (n = 50) and intervention (n = 50) periods; by 12-months retention fell to 72 % and was the same across periods. More infants received HIV-testing by 10-weeks in the intervention period as compared to pre-intervention (90.0 vs. 63.3 %, p < 0.01). Maternal support through a cell phone based case manager approach was highly acceptable among South African HIV infected women on HAART and feasible, warranting further assessment of effectiveness.
Impacts of climate change on species distribution patterns of Polyspora Sweet in China
Creators: name: Fan, Zhi-Feng
name: Zhou, Bing-Jiang
name: Ma, Chang-Le
name: Gao, Can
name: Yu, Da-Yong
name: Han, Dan-Ni
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Supporting Information and four periods of environmental data for the manuscript (ECE-2021-12-01996). Species presence data for MaxEnt input.
description: Funding provided by: Applied Basic Research Project of Yunnan Province, China*
Crossref Funder Registry ID:
Award Number: 2018FG001-034
From pairwise to group interactions in games of cyclic dominance
Creators: name: Szolnoki, Attila
name: Vukov, Jeromos
name: Perc, Matjaz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We study the rock-paper-scissors game in structured populations, where the invasion rates determine individual payoffs that govern the process of strategy change. The traditional version of the game is recovered if the payoffs for each potential invasion stem from a single pairwise interaction. However, the transformation of invasion rates to payoffs also allows the usage of larger interaction ranges. In addition to the traditional pairwise interaction, we therefore consider simultaneous interactions with all nearest neighbors, as well as with all nearest and next-nearest neighbors, thus effectively going from single pair to group interactions in games of cyclic dominance. We show that differences in the interaction range affect not only the stationary fractions of strategies, but also their relations of dominance. The transition from pairwise to group interactions can thus decelerate and even revert the direction of the invasion between the competing strategies. Like in evolutionary social dilemmas, in games of cyclic dominance too the indirect multipoint interactions that are due to group interactions hence play a pivotal role. Our results indicate that, in addition to the invasion rates, the interaction range is at least as important for the maintenance of biodiversity among cyclically competing strategies.
description: 7 two-column pages, 6 figures; accepted for publication in Physical Review E
Comparative performance analysis of AntHocNet and DSR in optimal path route determination
Creators: name: Nair, T. R. Gopalakrishnan
name: Sooda, Kavitha
name: S, Kavya B.
name: M, Sushma
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: One of the key challenges in current Internet routing is the application of improved bio-inspired algorithms in deriving the path towards the destination. Current routing trends determine the optimal path based on throughput, delay or combination of these two metric. Here in this paper, we compare the performance of the two algorithms, AntHocNet (AHN) and Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) for determining the routing path. We introduce the goodput factor as one of the metric for determining the path. Goodput is the number of useful information bits, delivered by the network to a certain destination per unit time .The results show that AHN outperformed DSR in terms of end-to-end delay and overhead. Also the simulation results showed that overhead of AHN was 20.67% lesser than DSR.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1101.0209 by other authors
Developmental Trajectories of Postpartum Weight 3 Years After Birth: Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study
Creators: name: Torgersen, Leila
name: Von Holle, Ann
name: Zerwas, Stephanie C.
name: Bulik, Cynthia M.
name: Abebe, Dawit S.
name: Von Soest, Tilmann
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: This study explored the developmental trajectories of postpartum weight from 0.5 to 3 years after childbirth, and aimed to determine the associations between postpartum weight trajectories and pre-pregnancy body mass index and adequacy of gestational weight gain (GWG). Data from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort study were used, following 49,528 mothers 0.5, 1.5, and 3 years after childbirth. Analyses were performed using latent growth mixture modeling. Three groups of developmental trajectories of postpartum weight were found, with most women (85.9 %) having a low level of weight retention initially and slight gain over 3 years, whereas 5.6 % of women started at a high postpartum weight retention (on average 7.56 kg) at 0.5 years but followed by a marked weight loss over time (2.63 kg per year on average), and the third trajectory represented women (8.5 %) who had high weight retention high initially (on average 4.67 kg at 0.5 years) and increasing weight over time (1.43 kg per year on average). Pre-pregnancy overweight and obesity and excessive GWG significantly predicted a high postpartum weight trend. Women had substantial variability in postpartum weight development—both initially after birth and in their weight trajectories over time. Early preventive interventions may be designed to assist women with pre-pregnancy overweight and obesity and excessive GWG, which helps to reduce the increasing trend for postpartum weight.
Stochastic excitation of gravity waves in rapidly rotating massive stars
Creators: name: Mathis, Stéphane
name: Neiner, Coralie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stochastic gravity waves have been recently detected and characterised in stars thanks to space asteroseismology and they may play an important role in the evolution of stellar angular momentum. In this context, the observational study of the CoRoT hot Be star HD 51452 suggests a potentially strong impact of rotation on stochastic excitation of gravito-inertial waves in rapidly rotating stars. In this work, we present our results on the action of the Coriolis acceleration on stochastic wave excitation by turbulent convection. We study the change of efficiency of this mechanism as a function of the waves' Rossby number and we demonstrate that the excitation presents two different regimes for super-inertial and sub-inertial frequencies. Consequences for rapidly rotating early-type stars and the transport of angular momentum in their interiors are discussed.
description: 2 pages, 1 figure, IAU 307 symposium proceedings, 'New windows on massive stars: asteroseismology, interferometry, and spectropolarimetry', Eds. G. Meynet, C. Georgy, J.H. Groh & Ph. Stee
Examining Continuity of Care for Medicaid-Enrolled Children Receiving Oral Health Services in Medical Offices
Creators: name: Stearns, Sally C.
name: Lee, Jessica Y.
name: Rozier, R. Gary
name: Preisser, John S.
name: Weinberger, Morris
name: Kranz, Ashley M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Children living in poverty encounter barriers to dentist visits and disproportionally experience dental caries. To improve access, most state Medicaid programs reimburse pediatric primary care providers for delivering preventive oral health services. To understand continuity of oral health services for children utilizing the North Carolina (NC) Into the Mouths of Babes (IMB) preventive oral health program, we examined the time to a dentist visit after a child’s third birthday.
Spazio vissuto e spazio rappresentato: il Canada nelle autobiografie di Frederick P. Grove, Mordecai Richler e Michael Ondaatje
Creators: name: De Leo, Rocco
Publisher: name: Universita degli studi di Salerno
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: L-LIN/10 LETTERATURA INGLESE
subject: Grove, Frederick Philip - Autobiografia
subject: Canada - Letteratura
subject: Richler, Mordecai - Autobiografia
subject: Ondaatje, Michael - Autobiografia

description: 2012-2013
description: Autobiography is a highly problematic genre whose main features are commonly considered memory, experience and identity. Nonetheless, there is also an inevitably degree of fiction-making concerned with the autobiographical act, as most autobiographies are inspired by a creative, and therefore fictional, impulse to select only those events and experiences in the writer’s life that build up an integrated pattern. As such, this encourages questions about fact and fiction, about the relations between reality and the text, and about origins: in this sense, there is a necessary link between the conditions – political, economic, and social – in which writers find themselves and the kinds of stories they choose to tell. The space they inhabit and the accrued meanings of space and time play a constitutive role in their narratives; but space is not given: it is culturally constructed or produced, it incorporates temporal change. The progresses in technology, the new media and migrations have finally led to «time-space compression», and to the concept of nonplaces, where the individual is out-of-the-world. In this sense, Canada perfectly represents what it means to live in a «third space» of in-betweenness: so, we will see how German-Canadian writer Frederick Philip Grove avoids categorization of literary nationalism locating himself in an isolated and paradigmatic position between literatures; we will appreciate Mordecai Richler, whose irony is crucial in order to describe the moments and spaces given to a Canadian Jew in Montreal’s ghetto; finally, we will look at Michael Ondatjee’s continuous references to the cultural and political situation in Sri Lanka, and how he uses these connections to build a sort of third-person autobiography through which he can recover the memory of the places from his Ceylonese childhood. At the end of this analysis, it will be clear how many difficulties the autobiographical impulse has to face, how many parameters it has to respect, and how much truth and fiction influence and corrupt each other. [edited by Author]
Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Healthcare Expenditures for Publicly Insured Children with Chronic Health Conditions
Creators: name: Brooks, Jada L.
name: Beeber, Linda S.
name: Beil, Heather
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: This study estimated the prevalence of maternal depressive symptoms and tested associations between maternal depressive symptoms and healthcare utilization and expenditures among United States publicly insured children with chronic health conditions (CCHC). A total of 6,060 publicly insured CCHC from the 2004–2009 Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys were analyzed using negative binomial models to compare healthcare utilization for CCHC of mothers with and without depressive symptoms. Annual healthcare expenditures for both groups were compared using a two-part model with a logistic regression and generalized linear model. The prevalence of depressive symptoms among mothers with CCHC was 19 %. There were no differences in annual healthcare utilization for CCHC of mothers with and without depressive symptoms. Maternal depressive symptoms were associated with greater odds of ED expenditures [odds ratio (OR) 1.26; 95 % CI 1.03–1.54] and lesser odds of dental expenditures (OR 0.81; 95 % CI 0.66–0.98) and total expenditures (OR 0.71; 95 % CI 0.51–0.98). Children of symptomatic mothers had lower predicted outpatient expenditures and higher predicted expenditures for total health, prescription medications, dental care; and office based, inpatient and ED visits. Mothers with CCHC were more likely to report depressive symptoms than were mothers with children without chronic health conditions. There were few differences in annual healthcare utilization and expenditures between CCHC of mothers with and without depressive symptoms. However, having a mother with depressive symptoms was associated with higher ED expenditures and higher predicted healthcare expenditures in a population of children who comprise over three-fourths of the top decile of Medicaid spending.
The 2-79 keV X-ray Spectrum of the Circinus Galaxy with NuSTAR, XMM-Newton and Chandra: a Fully Compton-Thick AGN
Creators: name: Arévalo, P.
name: Bauer, F. E.
name: Puccetti, S.
name: Walton, D. J.
name: Koss, M.
name: Boggs, S. E.
name: Brandt, W. N.
name: Brightman, M.
name: Christensen, F. E.
name: Comastri, A.
name: Craig, W. W.
name: Fuerst, F.
name: Gandhi, P.
name: Grefenstette, B. W.
name: Hailey, C. J.
name: Harrison, F. A.
name: Luo, B.
name: Madejski, G.
name: Madsen, K. K.
name: Marinucci, A.
name: Matt, G.
name: Saez, C.
name: Stern, D.
name: Stuhlinger, M.
name: Treister, E.
name: Urry, C. M.
name: Zhang, W. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Circinus galaxy is one of the nearest obscured AGN, making it an ideal target for detailed study. Combining archival Chandra and XMM-Newton data with new NuSTAR observations, we model the 2-79 keV spectrum to constrain the primary AGN continuum and to derive physical parameters for the obscuring material. Chandra's high angular resolution allows a separation of nuclear and off-nuclear galactic emission. In the off-nuclear diffuse emission we find signatures of strong cold reflection, including high equivalent-width neutral Fe lines. This Compton-scattered off-nuclear emission amounts to 18% of the nuclear flux in the Fe line region, but becomes comparable to the nuclear emission above 30 keV. The new analysis no longer supports a prominent transmitted AGN component in the observed band. We find that the nuclear spectrum is consistent with Compton-scattering by an optically-thick torus, where the intrinsic spectrum is a powerlaw of photon index $Γ= 2.2-2.4$, the torus has an equatorial column density of $N_{\rm H} = (6-10)\times10^{24}$cm$^{-2}$ and the intrinsic AGN $2-10$ keV luminosity is $(2.3-5.1)\times 10^{42}$ erg/s. These values place Circinus along the same relations as unobscured AGN in accretion rate-vs-$Γ$ and $L_X$-vs-$L_{IR}$ phase space. NuSTAR's high sensitivity and low background allow us to study the short time-scale variability of Circinus at X-ray energies above 10 keV for the first time. The lack of detected variability favors a Compton-thick absorber, in line with the the spectral fitting results.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ
Hydrographic Observations at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Hawaii Ocean Time-Series Site (WHOTS): 2019-2021, Data Report #16
Creators: name: Carvalho Pacheco, Fernando
name: Santiago-Mandujano, Fernando
name: Potemra, James T.
name: Plueddemann, Albert J.
name: Weller, Robert A.
name: Fitzgerald, Daniel
name: Galbraith, Nancy R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: WHOTS
subject: HOT
subject: Hawaii Ocean Time-series
subject: OceanSITES
subject: WHOTS Mooring
subject: WHOTS-16 Data Report
subject: Oceanography
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: timeseries
subject: physical oceanography

description: In 2003, Robert Weller (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution [WHOI]), Albert Plueddemann (WHOI),and Roger Lukas (the University of Hawaii [UH]) proposed to establish a long-term surface mooring at the Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT) Station ALOHA (22°45'N, 158°W) to provide sustained, high-quality air-sea fluxes and the associated upper ocean response as a coordinated part of the HOT program, and as an element of the global array of ocean reference stations supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Office of Climate Observation. The WHOTS-16 mooring was deployed on October 6, 2019, during an eight-day cruise (WHOTS-16 cruise) and was recovered on August 28, 2021, during an eight-day cruise (WHOTS-17 cruise). The cruises were aboard the NOAA Oscar Sette. The seventeenth mooring was deployed on August 26, 2021, during the WHOTS-17 cruise and was recovered on July 25, 2022. This report documents and describes the oceanographic observations made on the WHOTS-16 mooring for nearly one year and ten months and from shipboard measurements during the two cruises when the mooring was deployed and recovered. Sections II and III include a detailed description of the cruises and the mooring, respectively. Sampling and processing procedures of the hydrographic casts, thermosalinograph, and shipboard ADCP data collected during these cruises are described in Section IV . Section V includes the processing procedures for the data collected by the moored instruments: SeaCATs, MicroCATs, Moored ADCPs and VMCM. Plots of the resulting data and preliminary analysis are presented in Section VI.
description: This publication is based upon observations from the WHOI-Hawaii Ocean Time-series Site (WHOTS) mooring, which is supported in part by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing (GOMO) Program through the Cooperative Institute for the North Atlantic Region (CINAR) under Cooperative Agreement NA14OAR4320158. NOAA CPO FundRef number 100007298 to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and by National Science Foundation grants OCE-0327513,OCE-0752606, OCE-0926766, OCE-1260164 and OCE-1756517 to the University of Hawaii for the Hawaii Ocean Time-series. This is SOEST contribution number 11592
Spontaneous magnetization above $T_C$ in polycrystalline La$_{0.7}$Ca$_{0.3}$MnO$_3$ and La$_{0.7}$Ba$_{0.3}$MnO$_3$
Creators: name: Turcaud, Jeremy A.
name: Pereira, Andre M.
name: Sandeman, Karl G.
name: Amaral, João S.
name: Morrison, Kelly
name: Berenov, Andrey
name: Daoud-Aladine, Aziz
name: Cohen, Lesley F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the present work, spontaneous magnetization is observed in the inverse magnetic susceptibility of La$_{0.7}$Ca$_{0.3}$MnO$_3$ and La$_{0.7}$Ba$_{0.3}$MnO$_3$ compounds above $T_C$ up to a temperature $T^*$. From information gathered from neutron diffraction, dilatometry, and high-field magnetization data, we suggest that $T^*$ is related to the transition temperature of the low-temperature (high magnetic field) magnetic phase. In the temperature region between $T^*$ and $T_C$, the application of a magnetic field drives the system from the high-temperature to low-temperature magnetic phases, the latter possessing a higher magnetization.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures
Additional file 1 of A photograph of the researcher on the invitation letter did not affect the participation rate of a postal survey: a randomized study within a trial (SWAT)
Creators: name: Prediger, Barbara
name: Könsgen, Nadja
name: Bora, Ana-Mihaela
name: Schlimbach, Anna
name: Pieper, Dawid
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Predicting Preterm Birth Among Women Screened by North Carolina’s Pregnancy Medical Home Program
Creators: name: Rowley, Diane L.
name: Daniels, Julie
name: Berrien, Kate
name: Tucker, Christine M.
name: Halpern, Carolyn Tucker
name: Menard, M. Kathryn
name: Herring, Amy H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: To determine which combination of risk factors from Community Care of North Carolina’s (CCNC) Pregnancy Medical Home (PMH) risk screening form was most predictive of preterm birth (PTB) by parity and race/ethnicity.
Stability diagram of colliding beams
Creators: name: Buffat, X.
name: Herr, W.
name: Mounet, N.
name: Pieloni, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of the beam-beam interactions on the stability of impedance mode is discussed. The detuning is evaluated by the means of single particle tracking in arbitrarily complex collision configurations, including lattice non-linearities, and used to numerically evaluate the dispersion integral. This approach also allows the effect of non-Gaussian distributions to be considered. Distributions modified by the action of external noise are discussed.
description: 5 pages, contribution to the ICFA Mini-Workshop on Beam-Beam Effects in Hadron Colliders, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 18-22 Mar 2013
Prevalence, Rates and Correlates of Intimate Partner Violence Among South African Women During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period
Creators: name: Martin, Sandra L.
name: Moodley, Dhayendre
name: McNaughton-Reyes, Luz
name: Foshee, Vangie
name: Groves, Allison K.
name: Maman, Suzanne
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a significant public health problem in South Africa. However, limited research exists on IPV during pregnancy and the postpartum period in South Africa. The purpose of this study is to describe the prevalence, rates and correlates of IPV among South African women during pregnancy and the first nine months postpartum.
Additional file 2 of Changes in the intrinsic severity of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 according to the emerging variant: a nationwide study from February 2020 to June 2022, including comparison with vaccinated populations
Creators: name: Ryu, Boyeong
name: Shin, Eunjeong
name: Kim, Dong Hwi
name: Lee, HyunJu
name: Choi, So Young
name: Kim, Seong-Sun
name: Kim, Il-Hwan
name: Kim, Eun-Jin
name: Lee, Sangwon
name: Jeon, Jaehyun
name: Kwon, Donghyok
name: Cho, Sungil
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Age-standardized case severity rates and case fatality rates by period regarding vaccination and circulating variant of SARS-CoV-2 (%).
The Relationship Between Planned and Reported Home Infant Sleep Locations Among Mothers of Late Preterm and Term Infants
Creators: name: Brandon, Debra
name: Holditch-Davis, Diane
name: Tully, Kristin P.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: To compare maternal report of planned and practiced home sleep locations of infants born late preterm (34 0/7 to 36 6/7 gestational weeks) with those infants born term (≥ 37 0/7 gestational weeks) over the first postpartum month.
Three-dimensional printing of tungsten structures by directed energy deposition
Creators: name: Jeong, Wonjong
name: Kwon, Young-Sam
name: Kim, Dongsik
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biochemistry
Space Science
Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Although three-dimensional (3D) printing of tungsten parts by Powder Bed Fusion (PBF) has been demonstrated by multiple research groups, a directed energy deposition (DED) process for fabricating pure tungsten structures has never been reported. This work reports successful fabrication of pure tungsten structures by DED, revealing the required process conditions. The effect of laser power, scan speed, powder feed rate and carrier gas velocity on the stability and properties of the structures is first analyzed, based on which the proper process condition for effective 3D printing of tungsten parts is proposed. Fabrication of a rectangular tube of 110 mm in height is demonstrated using an in-house DED printing system. Analyses of the fabricated samples show that the density and the hardness can be as high as 18.9 g/cm3 (98.4% of the theoretical value) and 3.9 GPa, respectively. The results indicate that the optimal condition for 3D printing of tungsten is 400 ~ 530 J/mm2 in terms of specific energy and that high-speed or high-mass injection of powder can induce waviness on the surface. This work suggests that DED can be a promising alternative to produce pure tungsten parts in various applications.
UCAC4 Nearby Star Survey: A Search for Our Stellar Neighbors
Creators: name: Finch, Charlie
name: Zacharias, Norbert
name: Subasavage, John
name: Henry, Todd
name: Riedel, Adric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use data from the U.S. Naval Observatory fourth CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC4) in combination with photometry from the AAVSO Photometric All-Sky Survey (APASS) and Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) to identify stars within 25 pc of the Sun. A sample of nearby stars with accurate trigonometric parallaxes from the Research Consortium On Nearby Stars (RECONS) is used to generate a set of 16 new photometric color-$M_{K{_s}}$ relations that provide distance estimates with uncertainties of 15\%. This work expands the available suites of well-calibrated photometric distance relations that can be used to identify nearby stellar systems. The distance relations are used with quality cuts to extract an initial sample of stars from the UCAC4 estimated to be within 25 pc. Color, proper motion and existing literature sources are then used to obtain a clean sample of red dwarfs, while limiting the amount of contamination from background giants, resulting in a sample of 1761 candidate nearby stars within 25 pc. Of these, 339 are new discoveries with no previously known published parallax or distance estimate, primarily with proper motions less than 0.2 arcsec/year. Five stars are estimated to be within 10 pc, with the nearest, TYC 3980 1081 1 with V$=$ 10.50, estimated to be at 5.93 pc. That several hundred new stars have been revealed so close to the Sun illustrates once again that there is considerable work yet to be done to map the solar neighborhood, and that additional nearby stars are likely still to be discovered.
description: 22 pages, 8 figures, 6 tables, accepted to Astronomical Journal August 12, 2014
Additional file 3 of Changes in the intrinsic severity of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 according to the emerging variant: a nationwide study from February 2020 to June 2022, including comparison with vaccinated populations
Creators: name: Ryu, Boyeong
name: Shin, Eunjeong
name: Kim, Dong Hwi
name: Lee, HyunJu
name: Choi, So Young
name: Kim, Seong-Sun
name: Kim, Il-Hwan
name: Kim, Eun-Jin
name: Lee, Sangwon
name: Jeon, Jaehyun
name: Kwon, Donghyok
name: Cho, Sungil
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3. Age-standardized case severity rates and case fatality rates during weeks with SARS-CoV-2 variants detected in over 90% of test samples (%).
Maternal autonomy is inversely related to child stunting in Andhra Pradesh, India
Creators: name: Adair, Linda
name: Suchindran, Chirayath
name: Shroff, Monal
name: Griffiths, Paula
name: Bentley, Margaret
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Child stunting, an outcome of chronic undernutrition, contributes to poor quality of life, morbidity and mortality. In South Asia, the low status of women is thought to be one of the primary determinants of undernutrition across the lifespan. Low female status can result in compromised health outcomes for women, which in turn are related to lower infant birthweight and may affect the quality of infant care and nutrition. Maternal autonomy (defined as a woman’s personal power in the household and her ability to influence and change her environment) is likely an important factor influencing child care and ultimately infant and child health outcomes. To examine the relationship between maternal autonomy and child stunting in Andhra Pradesh, India, we analysed data from National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-2. We used cross-sectional demographic, health and anthropometric information for mothers and their oldest child <36 months (n = 821) from NFHS-2. The main explanatory variables of autonomy are presented by four dimensions – decision making, permission to travel, attitude towards domestic violence and financial autonomy – constructed using seven binary variables. Logistic regression models were used to test associations between indicators of female autonomy and the risk of having a stunted child. Women with higher autonomy {indicated by access to money [odds ratio (OR) = 0.731; 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.546, 0.981] and freedom to choose to go to the market [OR = 0.593; 95% CI 0.376, 0.933]} were significantly less likely to have a stunted child, after controlling for household socio-economic status and mother’s education. In this south Indian state, two dimensions of female autonomy have an independent effect on child growth, suggesting the need for interventions that increase women’s financial and physical autonomy.
Synthesis and characterization of different metal oxide and GO composites for removal of toxic metal ions
Creators: name: Rajput, Abhishek
name: Sharma, Prem P.
name: Yadav, Vikrant
name: Gupta, Hariom
name: Kulshrestha, Vaibhav
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology

description: This manuscript deals with graphene oxide (GO) and GO–metal oxide composite for heavy metal adsorption. Metal oxide–GO composites e.g. Fe3O4–GO and Mn3O4–GO have been prepared and explored for heavy metals e.g. lead, chromium, nickel, cadmium etc. adsorption from the water. Metal oxide–GO composites have been prepared through respective techniques. The various characterizations of the nanocomposites viz. structural and thermal have been analysed by transmission electron microscopy, thermogravimetric analyser etc. Different concentration of heavy metal has been taken to examine the efficiency of composites towards adsorption. Furthermore, effect of time on adsorption has also been evaluated. Metal oxide–GO composites illustrate better results as compared to GO showing the usability of composites for heavy metal adsorption for the production of clean water.
Breastfeeding and long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid intake in the first 4 post-natal months and infant cognitive development: an observational study
Creators: name: Daniels, Julie L.
name: Siega-Riz, Anna Maria
name: Dole, Nancy
name: Herring, Amy H.
name: Keim, Sarah A.
name: Scheidt, Peter C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: The aim of this study was to examine infant feeding and the long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid (LCPUFA) concentration of breast milk and formulas in relation to infant development. The prospective Pregnancy, Infection and Nutrition Study (n = 358) collected data on breastfeeding, breast milk samples and the formulas fed through 4 months post-partum. At 12 months of age, infants’ development was assessed (Mullen Scales of Early Learning). Linear regression was used to examine development in relation to breastfeeding, breast milk docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and arachidonic acid (AA) concentration, and DHA and AA concentration from the combination of breast milk and formula. The median breast milk DHA concentration was 0.20% of total fatty acids [interquartile range (IQR) = 0.14, 0.34]; median AA concentration was 0.52% (IQR = 0.44, 0.63). Upon adjustment for preterm birth, sex, smoking, race and ethnicity and education, breastfeeding exclusivity was unrelated to development. Among infants exclusively breastfed, breast milk LCPUFA concentration was not associated with development (Mullen composite, DHA: adjusted β = −1.3, 95% confidence interval: −10.3, 7.7). Variables combining DHA and AA concentrations from breast milk and formula, weighted by their contribution to diet, were unassociated with development. We found no evidence of enhanced infant development related to the LCPUFA content of breast milk or formula consumed during the first four post-natal months.
Additional file 10 of Reliable assessment of telomere maintenance mechanisms in neuroblastoma
Creators: name: Meeser, Alina
name: Bartenhagen, Christoph
name: Werr, Lisa
name: Hellmann, Anna-Maria
name: Kahlert, Yvonne
name: Hemstedt, Nadine
name: Nürnberg, Peter
name: Altmüller, Janine
name: Ackermann, Sandra
name: Hero, Barbara
name: Simon, Thorsten
name: Peifer, Martin
name: Fischer, Matthias
name: Rosswog, Carolina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 10: Figure S7. Telomere insertions in ALT-positive neuroblastoma. (A) Correlation analysis of numbers of telomere insertions into non-telomere regions and telomere content calculated on basis of WGS data, n=68. Ambiguous cases were excluded for spearman correlation. (B) Telomere insertions in the entire cohort and in subgroups of tumors with ATRX mutations.
Interrogation of an ovine serum peptide spectral library to annotate ambiguous clinicopathological biomarkers using data-independent acquisition
Creators: name: Chemonges, Saul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 70709 Veterinary Pathology
subject: FOS: Veterinary sciences
subject: 70799 Veterinary Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 70706 Veterinary Medicine
subject: 79999 Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other agricultural sciences
subject: 70703 Veterinary Diagnosis and Diagnostics

description: Abstract Background: The use of data-independent data acquisition mass spectrometry (DIA-MS) on biological samples from domestic animals is still uncommon. Here, sequential window acquisition of all theoretical mass spectra (SWATH-MS) – a variant of DIA-MS – was used to analyse serum peptides of healthy sheep as compared with serum of sick sheep by interrogating a novel peptide spectral library (PSL). This approach enabled the detection and annotation of a wider range of proteins than conventional clinical pathology protein assays. Methods: Serum samples from healthy sheep were obtained from a commercial source and normalised to represent a healthy sheep proteome background and then compared with serum samples of sheep suffering from a range of naturally-acquired illnesses submitted to The University of Queensland, Australia. Purified tryptic peptides were subjected to liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) on a quadrupole time-of-flight instrument (TripleTOF 5600+, SCIEX) set in a cyclic data-independent acquisition (DIA) mode using a generic (SWATH™, SCIEX) acquisition method. Data were processed using the PeakView® v2.2 software with SWATH™ Acquisition MicroApp 2.0 (SCIEX) and MarkerView™ v1.3 software (SCIEX) pipeline to generate protein lists for downstream gene ontology annotation and pathway analysis of identified proteins. Results: There were distinct differences in peptide chromatographic features of sick sheep samples as compared to those from healthy sheep. Healthy sheep and sick sheep serum samples yielded 335 and 236 protein identifications (IDs), respectively. There were 96 protein IDs unique to sick sheep serum. A total of 431 protein IDs were annotated by combining healthy control and sick sheep protein IDs. Conclusions: SWATH analysis successfully aided in the detection of some established clinicopathological serum biochemical analytes. This approach enabled the distinction of protein profiles of sick sheep samples from a healthy control sample, thereby providing a promising future perspective for the application of SWATH analysis in veterinary clinical use.
A New Gravitational Wave Verification Source
Creators: name: Kilic, Mukremin
name: Brown, Warren R.
name: Gianninas, A.
name: Hermes, J. J.
name: Prieto, Carlos Allende
name: Kenyon, S. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of a detached 20 min orbital period binary white dwarf. WD0931+444 (SDSS J093506.93+441106.9) was previously classified as a WD + M dwarf system based on its optical spectrum. Our time-resolved optical spectroscopy observations obtained at the 8m Gemini and 6.5m MMT reveal peak-to-peak radial velocity variations of 400 km/s every 20 min for the WD, but no velocity variations for the M dwarf. In addition, high-speed photometry from the McDonald 2.1m telescope shows no evidence of variability nor evidence of a reflection effect. An M dwarf companion is physically too large to fit into a 20 min orbit. Thus, the orbital motion of the WD is almost certainly due to an invisible WD companion. The M dwarf must be either an unrelated background object or the tertiary component of a hiearchical triple system. WD0931+444 contains a pair of WDs, a 0.32 Msol primary and a >0.14 Msol secondary, at a separation of >0.19 Rsol. After J0651+2844, WD0931+444 becomes the second-shortest period detached binary WD currently known. The two WDs will lose angular momentum through gravitational wave radiation and merge in <9 Myr. The log h ~ -22 gravitational wave strain from WD0931+444 is strong enough to make it a verification source for gravitational wave missions in the milli-Hertz frequency range, e.g. the evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (eLISA), bringing the total number of known eLISA verification sources to nine.
description: MNRAS Letters, in press
title: Stellar populations of Ly [alpha] emitting galaxies in the HETDEX Survey I : an analysis of LAEs in GOODS-N
title: Stellar populations of [Lyman-alpha] emitting galaxies in the HETDEX Survey I : an analysis of LAEs in GOODS-N
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: McCarron, Adam Peter
name: 0000-0002-3912-9368
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2021
Subjects: Astrophysics
Astrophysics of galaxies
Galaxies
Lyman alpha
HETDEX survey
LAEs
Stellar-population analysis
Stellar mass
Star formation rate
Epoch of Reionization

description: We present the results of a stellar-population analysis of 72 Lyα emitting galaxies (LAEs) in GOODS-N at 1.9 < z < 3.5 spectroscopically identified by the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX). Using photometric data spanning as many as 11 filters covering 0.4 < λ (μm) < 4.5 from the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes, we study the objects’ global properties and explore which properties impact the strength of Lyα emission. We also provide a method for connecting emission-line detections from the blind spectroscopic survey to imaging counterparts, a crucial tool needed as HETDEX builds a massive database of ~1 million Lyα detections. We measure a median stellar mass of 0.8 [⁺²·⁹ stacked on ₋₀.₅] ×10⁹ [Solar mass symbol] and conclude that the physical properties of HETDEX spectroscopically-selected LAEs are comparable to LAEs selected by previous deep narrow band studies. We find that stellar mass and star formation rate correlate strongly with the Lyα equivalent width. We then use a known sample of z > 7 LAEs to perform a proto-study of predicting Lyα emission from galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization. This investigation serves as a step toward gaining a deep, statistical insight into the LAE population through HETDEX in order to leverage the potential of higher-redshift LAEs to probe the IGM neutral fraction in the Epoch of Reionization
Examination of facilitators and barriers to home-based supplemental feeding with ready-to-use food for underweight children in western Uganda: Factors affecting home-based supplemental feeding with RUF
Creators: name: Handa, Sudhanshu
name: Ammerman, Alice S.
name: Myhre, Jennifer A.
name: Jilcott, Stephanie B.
name: Ickes, Scott Bradley
name: Thirumurthy, Harsha
name: Bentley, Margaret E.
name: Adair, Linda S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Poor complementary feeding practices and low quality complementary foods are significant causes of growth faltering and child mortality throughout the developing world. Ready-to-use foods (RUF) are energy dense, lipid-based products that do not require cooking or refrigeration, that have been used to prevent and treat malnutrition among vulnerable children. The effectiveness of these products in improving child nutritional status depends on household use by caregivers. To identify the key facilitators and barriers that influence appropriate in-home RUF consumption by supplemental feeding program beneficiaries, we conducted individual interviews among caregivers (n=80), RUF producers (n=8) and program staff (n=10) involved in the Byokulia Bisemeye mu Bantu (BBB) supplemental feeding program in Bundibugyo, Uganda. By documenting caregiver perceptions and feeding practices related to RUF, we developed a conceptual framework of factors that affect appropriate feeding with RUF. Findings suggest that locally produced RUF is well received by caregivers and children, and is perceived by caregivers and the community to be a healthy supplemental food for malnourished children. However, child feeding practices, including sharing of RUF within households, compromise the nutrient delivery to the intended child. Interventions and educational messages informed by this study can help to improve RUF delivery to targeted beneficiaries.
Pregravid body mass index, psychological factors during pregnancy, and breastfeeding duration: is there a link?
Creators: name: Mehta, Ushma J.
name: Siega-Riz, Anna Maria
name: Adair, Linda S.
name: Herring, Amy H.
name: Bentley, Margaret E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Breastfeeding rates in the U.S. are low and one possible reason may be the high prevalence of overweight/obesity among women of childbearing age. This analysis examined the association between pregravid body mass index (BMI) and breastfeeding duration and explored whether depressive symptoms, perceived stress and anxiety during pregnancy mediated this relationship. Participants (n = 550) in the Pregnancy, Infection, and Nutrition Postpartum Study were recruited through prenatal clinics prior to 20 weeks gestation and followed to 12 months postpartum. Duration of any breastfeeding was categorized as: none, less than 4 months, 4 to 6 months, 7 to 12 months, and more than 12 months (referent). Exclusive breastfeeding was categorized as less than 1 month, 1 to less than 4 months, and 4 months or more (referent). Being overweight/obese before pregnancy (35.7% of 550) was inversely associated with the durations of any and exclusive breastfeeding. Women who entered pregnancy overweight or obese were more likely to not initiate breastfeeding [RRR =5.39 (95% CI: 2.41, 12.04)] and to breastfeed less than four months [RRR = 2.38 (1.33, 4.27)] compared to women of normal weight status. Among women who initiated breastfeeding, being overweight or obese versus normal weight was related to exclusively breastfeeding less than 1 month [RRR = 2.09 (1.24, 3.51)]. We did not find evidence to support mediation by depressive symptoms, perceived stress or anxiety during pregnancy. Future research needs to explore the reasons behind the association between overweight/obesity and breastfeeding duration.