cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Development of diet and fitness tracking app
Creators: Alao, Ibukunoluwa Alexander
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2023

The "Development of Diet & Fitness Tracking App" report presents a detailed account of the conception, design, and implementation of a cutting-edge mobile application aimed at revolutionizing personal health management. With the increasing awareness of the importance of a balanced diet and regular exercise in maintaining overall well-being, this app addresses the pressing need for a user-friendly, efficient, and feature-rich platform to track and manage dietary habits and fitness activities. This report begins with an exploration of the market landscape and existing diet and fitness apps, identifying the strengths and weaknesses of each. The development process is described in detail, covering the selection of appropriate technologies, programming languages, and frameworks, along with an overview of the database architecture to ensure seamless data storage and retrieval. Moreover, the report delves into the user interface design, emphasizing the incorporation of intuitive and aesthetically pleasing elements for an enhanced user experience. This report showcases the creation of a Diet & Fitness Tracking App that helps users manage their health by offering features such as diet logging, meal planning, calorie tracking, progress visualization, and personalized health recommendations.
Dust production 680-850 million years after the Big Bang
Creators: name: Michałowski, Michał J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dust plays an important role in our understanding of the Universe, but it is not obvious yet how the dust in the distant universe was formed. I derived the dust yields per asymptotic giant branch (AGB) star and per supernova (SN) required to explain dust masses of galaxies at z=6.3-7.5 (680-850 million years after the Big Bang) for which dust emission has been detected (HFLS3 at z=6.34, ULAS J1120+0641 at z=7.085, and A1689-zD1 at z=7.5), or unsuccessfully searched for. I found very high required yields, implying that AGB stars could not contribute substantially to dust production at these redshifts, and that SNe could explain these dust masses, but only if they do not destroy most of the dust they form (which is unlikely given the upper limits on the SN dust yields derived for galaxies where dust is not detected). This suggests that the grain growth in the interstellar medium is likely required at these early epochs.
description: Accepted to A&A. 6 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables. V2: minor changes to match the published version
How Well Have Practices Followed Guidelines in Prescribing Antihypertensive Drugs: The Role of Health Insurance
Creators: name: Fu, Alex
name: Guo, Jennifer
name: Christensen, Dale
name: Liu, Gordon
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: BACKGROUND: The US Joint National Committee (JNC) on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure issues guidelines on the optimal first-line drug therapy in treating hypertension. Despite broad dissemination of these guidelines, prescribing practices have long remained discrepant with recommendations. The purpose of this study was to examine the role of insurance type in the selection of drugs for hypertension treatment in light of the JNC guidelines. METHODS: Subjects were derived from the 1996 Medical Expenditures Panel Survey who had a diagnosis of essential hypertension and who were prescribed a diuretic, beta-blocker, calcium channel blocker (CCB), or ACE inhibitor (ACEI) as monotherapy. Using the nationally representative sample, this study presents the first estimates of the impact of insurance policies on the choice of antihypertensive drugs while controlling for predisposing, enabling, and need variables in the context of a logistic health-care utilization model. RESULTS: Nationally in 1996, more than twice as many subjects (7.3 million) were taking ACEIs or CCBs compared to diuretics or beta-blockers (3.1 million) as the first-line drug therapy, a sharp contrast to the JNC guidelines. Patients with health maintenance organization (HMO) insurance were much less likely than fee for service (FFS) patients to follow the JNC guidelines in this respect (odds ratio 0.50, P <.01), controlling for all other factors. Individuals with all other public insurance and no insurance were not statistically different from the FFS group in the use of the study drugs. Other significant factors in the regression model were being of African American descent, being unmarried, having higher out-of-pocket payment, being in excellent physical health, having diabetes, and being diagnosed with essential hypertension after 1988. Each was associated with a decreased likelihood of following the JNC recommendations for the use of diuretics or beta-blockers. CONCLUSIONS: After controlling for other predisposing, enabling, and need variables, patients who had HMO coverage were significantly more likely than FFS patients to receive ACEIs or CCBs. Given a popular public perception of HMOs being most cost conscious in providing health care, further research is needed to understand why prescribing patterns associated with HMOs have poorly followed the JNC recommendations.
(100135) Sarah J Diddams
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.
Uncertainty-Aware Search Framework for Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization
Creators: name: Belakaria, Syrine
name: Deshwal, Aryan
name: Jayakodi, Nitthilan Kannappan
name: Doppa, Janardhan Rao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider the problem of multi-objective (MO) blackbox optimization using expensive function evaluations, where the goal is to approximate the true Pareto set of solutions while minimizing the number of function evaluations. For example, in hardware design optimization, we need to find the designs that trade-off performance, energy, and area overhead using expensive simulations. We propose a novel uncertainty-aware search framework referred to as USeMO to efficiently select the sequence of inputs for evaluation to solve this problem. The selection method of USeMO consists of solving a cheap MO optimization problem via surrogate models of the true functions to identify the most promising candidates and picking the best candidate based on a measure of uncertainty. We also provide theoretical analysis to characterize the efficacy of our approach. Our experiments on several synthetic and six diverse real-world benchmark problems show that USeMO consistently outperforms the state-of-the-art algorithms.
description: Added link to code and missing appendix. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2008.07029
TA'LIM TIZIMIDA RAQAMLI TEXNOLOGIYALARNI QO'LLASH ISTIQBOLLARI
Creators: name: Normo'minov, Anvarjon
name: Jumayev, G'iyosjon
name: Mamarajabov, Husan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqolada ta'lim tizimida raqamli texnologiyalardan foydalanishning afzalliklari va istiqbollari tahlil qilinadi. Bugungi kunda raqamli texnologiyalar ta’limni innovatsion yondashuvlar bilan boyitmoqda, bu esa o‘quv jarayonini samarador va qiziqarli qiladi. Maqolada raqamli texnologiyalar yordamida ta’lim sifati qanday oshishi, ta’lim muassasalari, o‘qituvchilar va o‘quvchilarga qanday imkoniyatlar yaratilishi, kelgusida raqamli texnologiyalar qanday istiqbollarni taklif qilishi muhokama qilinadi.
Automatic image capturing
Creators: Sojitra, Ishita
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2023

The difficult and multidisciplinary process of automatically creating accurate and logical textual descriptions for photographs is known as automatic image captioning. Modern Neural Networks excel in tasks like Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing, but their memory and compute appetite hinder deployment on resource-limited edge devices. Researchers have developed pruning and quantization algorithms to compress networks without compromising efficacy. The process typically involves two main steps: Image understanding and Caption generation. This work presents an unconventional end-to-end compression pipeline for a CNN (Convolutional neural network)-LSTM (Long short-term memory)-based Image captioning model, achieving a 73.1 percentage reduction in model size, 71.3 percentage reduction in inference time, and 7.7 percentage increase in BLEU(bilingual evaluation understudy) score compared to uncompressed models. By comparing generated captions with reference captions created by humans, evaluation metrics like BLEU (bilingual evaluation understudy) and METEOR (metric for evaluation of translation with explicit ordering) are used to evaluate the quality of generated captions. The purpose of Automatic image processing is to extract useful information from photos, making analysis, interpretation, and manipulation faster, precise, and effective in various fields, using computational algorithms.
Effects of extrinsic point defects in phosphorene: B, C, N, O and F Adatoms
Creators: name: Wang, Gaoxue
name: Pandey, Ravindra
name: Karna, Shashi P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Phosphorene is emerging as a promising 2D semiconducting material with a direct band gap and high carrier mobility. In this paper, we examine the role of the extrinsic point defects including surface adatoms in modifying the electronic properties of phosphorene using density functional theory. The surface adatoms considered are B, C, N, O and F with a [He] core electronic configuration. Our calculations show that B and C, with electronegativity close to P, prefer to break the sp3 bonds of phosphorene, and reside at the interstitial sites in the 2D lattice by forming sp2 bonds with the native atoms. On the other hand, N, O and F, which are more electronegative than P, prefer the surface sites by attracting the lone pairs of phosphorene. B, N and F adsorption will also introduce local magnetic moment to the lattice. Moreover, B, C, N and F adatoms will modify the band gap of phosphorene yielding metallic transverse tunneling characters. Oxygen does not modify the band gap of phosphorene, and a diode like tunneling behavior is observed. Our results therefore offer a possible route to tailor the electronic and magnetic properties of phosphorene by the adatom functionalization, and provide the physical insights of the environmental sensitivity of phosphorene, which will be helpful to experimentalists in evaluating the performance and aging effects of phosphorene-based electronic devices.
Light vectors coupled to anomalous currents with harmless Wess-Zumino terms
Creators: name: Di Luzio, Luca
name: Nardecchia, Marco
name: Toni, Claudio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reconsider the case of light vectors coupled to anomalous fermionic currents, focussing on the interplay between UV and IR dynamics. Taking as a general framework the gauging of the Standard Model accidental symmetries, we show that it is possible to devise an anomaly-free UV completion with mostly-chiral heavy fermions such that anomalous Wess-Zumino terms are suppressed in the IR, thus relaxing would-be strong bounds from the longitudinal emission of light vectors coupled to non-conserved currents. We classify such scenarios and show that they will be extensively probed at the high-luminosity phase of the LHC via the measurement of the $h \to Z γ$ rate and the direct search for non-decoupling charged leptons.
description: 23 pages, 1 figure. Minor corrections and references added. Matches published version
(100136) Victoria Diddams
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.
TelecarePLUS: An extensive telemedicine platform enhancing doctor-patient communication through teleconsultation
Creators: Dahal, Samip
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2023

In the recent years, telemedicine has gained significant attention due to its potential to improve access to healthcare services at reduced costs, minimum limitations and accessibility. This study proposes an application named TelecarePLUS, a comprehensive and extensive telemedicine platform that allows healthcare service providers to deliver the best quality care to patients remotely. Especially after COVID-19, where social distancing has been a norm, TelecarePLUS has the capability to provide patients with easy access to healthcare irrespective of their location and physical limitations. It is a one-stop for healthcare which includes features like secure audio/video/text consultations, patient registration, electronic medical records management, prescription management and patient monitoring. The platform is user-friendly and easily accessible, with a primary focus on protecting the privacy of data and maintaining data integrity and confidentiality. With the rise of various diseases and workforce shortages, TelecarePLUS has the potential to revolutionize the digital healthcare industry by providing healthcare services to people who may not have easy access to such privileges, such as the ones living in remote areas, and those with mobility challenges.
Medical Care Costs Associated with Postmenopausal Estrogen Plus Progestogen Therapy
Creators: name: Thorp, John M.
name: Ohsfeldt, Robert L.
name: Gavin, Norma I.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004

description: OBJECTIVE: To investigate the medical management costs of estrogen plus progestogen hormone therapy (HT) among postmenopausal women taking HT primarily as a preventive treatment for osteoporosis. DESIGN: Retrospective longitudinal comparative analysis of HT users and demographically matched nonusers using administrative databases on physician services, hospital stays and prescription medications. SETTING: Saskatchewan, Canada. PATIENTS: a total of 5762 women aged 55 years or more who took HT sometime between 1990 and 1997 and 5762 demographically matched controls who did not take HT from 1990 to 1997. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: total medical care expenditures and apparent costs of managing adverse events associated with HT. RESULTS: Excluding drug acquisition costs for HT and costs of care for osteoporosis, women in their first year of postmenopausal HT had total medical care costs about $400 greater than women who had never used HT (1997 Canadian dollars). This total medical care cost differential falls to about $90 to $120 per annum after the first year of therapy. If osteoporosis-related medical care costs are not excluded, the cost differential is about $390 during the first year of therapy and $80 to $110 per annum after the first year of therapy. These excess costs primarily are the result of excess rates of resource utilization for uterine- and breast-related diagnostic and treatment procedures. CONCLUSION: Medical management costs for HT may be substantial during the first year of therapy, and some medical management costs may persist over several years. These short-term management costs, combined with recent data about the long-term safety of HT as a preventive therapy, reinforce the importance of considering therapeutic alternatives to HT.
Single-spin asymmetries in the leptoproduction of transversely polarized $Λ$ hyperons
Creators: name: Kanazawa, K.
name: Metz, A.
name: Pitonyak, D.
name: Schlegel, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze single-spin asymmetries (SSAs) in the leptoproduction of transversely polarized $Λ$ hyperons within the collinear twist-3 formalism. We calculate both the distribution and fragmentation terms in two different gauges (lightcone and Feynman) and show that the results are identical. This is the first time that the fragmentation piece has been analyzed for transversely polarized hadron production within the collinear twist-3 framework. In lightcone gauge we use the same techniques that were employed in computing the analogous piece in $p^\uparrow p\to π\,X$, which has become an important part to that reaction. With this in mind, we also verify the gauge invariance of the formulas for the transverse SSA in the leptoproduction of pions.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure, reference added, version to appear in Phys. Lett. B
TelecarePLUS: Bridging the gap between providers and patients through telemedicine
Creators: Ghanbari, Parisa
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2023

Telemedicine has attracted a lot of attention recently because of its promise to increase healthcare access at low costs and with few restrictions. The telemedicine platform TelecarePLUS, which is proposed in this paper, enables healthcare service providers to provide patients with the highest calibre care remotely. TelecarePLUS can give patients quick access to healthcare regardless of their location or physical restrictions, especially in the wake of COVID-19, where social distance has been the norm. With capabilities including secure audio/video/text consultations, patient registration, electronic medical record management, prescription management, and patient monitoring, it is a onestop shop for healthcare. The platform is simple to use and simple to access, with a key focus on safeguarding data privacy and preserving data integrity and confidentiality. TelecarePLUS has the potential to completely transform the digital healthcare sector given the rise of various diseases and labour shortages by bringing healthcare services to those who might not have easy access to them, such as those who live in remote locations or have mobility issues.
Is the Low-Complexity Mobile-Relay-Aided FFR-DAS Capable of Outperforming the High-Complexity CoMP?
Creators: name: Yang, Shaoshi
name: Xu, Xinyi
name: Alanis, Dimitrios
name: Ng, Soon Xin
name: Hanzo, Lajos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Coordinated multi-point transmission/reception aided collocated antenna system (CoMP-CAS) and mobile relay assisted fractional frequency reuse distributed antenna system (MR-FFR-DAS) constitute a pair of virtual-MIMO based technical options for achieving high spectral efficiency in interference-limited cellular networks. In practice both techniques have their respective pros and cons, which are studied in this paper by evaluating the achievable cell-edge performance on the uplink of multicell systems. We show that assuming the same antenna configuration in both networks, the maximum available cooperative spatial diversity inherent in the MR-FFR-DAS is lower than that of the CoMP-CAS. However, when the cell-edge MSs have a low transmission power, the lower-complexity MR-FFR-DAS relying on the simple single-cell processing may outperform the CoMP-CAS by using the proposed soft-combining based probabilistic data association (SC-PDA) receiver, despite the fact that the latter scheme is more complex and incurs a higher cooperation overhead. Furthermore, the benefits of the SC-PDA receiver may be enhanced by properly selecting the MRs' positions. Additionally, we show that the performance of the cell-edge MSs roaming near the angular direction halfway between two adjacent RAs (i.e. the "worst-case direction") of the MR-FFR-DAS may be more significantly improved than that of the cell-edge MSs of other directions by using multiuser power control, which also improves the fairness amongst cell-edge MSs. Our simulation results show that given a moderate MS transmit power, the proposed MR-FFR-DAS architecture employing the SC-PDA receiver is capable of achieving significantly better bit-error rate (BER) and effective throughput across the entire cell-edge area, including even the "worst-case direction" and the cell-edge boundary, than the CoMP-CAS architecture.
description: 16 pages, 17 figures, 2 tables, accepted to appear on IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, March 2015
Magnetization statics and dynamics in (Ir/Co/Pt)$_6$ multilayers with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction
Creators: name: Dhiman, A. K.
name: Gieniusz, R.
name: Gruszecki, P.
name: Kisielewski, J.
name: Matczak, M.
name: Kurant, Z.
name: Sveklo, I.
name: Guzowska, U.
name: Tekielak, M.
name: Stobiecki, F.
name: Maziewski, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic multilayers of (Ir/Co/Pt)$_6$ with interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (IDMI) were deposited by magnetron sputtering with Co thickness $d=1.8$ nm. Exploiting magneto-optical Kerr effect in longitudinal mode microscopy, magnetic force microscopy, and vibrating sample magnetometry, the magnetic field-driven evolution of domain structures and magnetization hysteresis loops have been studied. The existence of weak stripe domains structure was deduced -- tens micrometers size domains with in-plane "core" magnetization modulated by hundred of nanometers domains with out-of-plane magnetization. Micromagnetic simulations interpreted such magnetization distribution. Quantitative evaluation of IDMI was carried out using Brillouin light scattering (BLS) spectroscopy as the difference between Stokes and anti-Stokes peak frequencies $Δf$. Due to the additive nature of IDMI, the asymmetric combination of Ir and Pt covers led to large values of effective IDMI energy density $D_\mathrm{eff}$. It was found that Stokes and anti-Stokes frequencies as well as $Δf$, measured as a function of in-plane applied magnetic field, show hysteresis. These results are explained under the consideration of the influence of IDMI on the dynamics of the in-plane magnetized "core" with weak stripe domains.
Iodine-Catalyzed One-Pot Four-Component Synthesis of Spiro[indoline-3,4′-pyrano-pyrazole] Derivatives
Creators: name: Heravi, Majid Mommahed
name: Atieh Rezvanian
name: Vahideh Zadsirjan
name: Saedi, Pegah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 30502 Natural Products Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 30205 Non-metal Chemistry
subject: Nuclear Chemistry
subject: 30303 Optical Properties of Materials
subject: 30503 Organic Chemical Synthesis
subject: 30599 Organic Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: Organic Chemistry
subject: 39904 Organometallic Chemistry
subject: 30504 Organic Green Chemistry
subject: 30699 Physical Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: 30302 Nanochemistry and Supramolecular Chemistry

description: An efficient, facile, and useful synthetic method was developed for the production of spiro[indoline-3,4′-pyrano-pyrazole] carbonitrile derivatives through a one-pot, four-component reaction involving hydrazine hydrate, diketene, substituted isatins, and malononitrile or ethyl cyanoacetate in the presence of iodine as the efficient catalyst in ethanol at room temperature. Significantly, this remarkable method provides novel spiropyranopyrazole derivatives in good to high yields. The significant aspects of this protocol are facile work-up approach and a greener process because the use of toxic and hazardous solvents are avoided.
(100131) Elinor Diddams
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.
Centro di calcolo oas plesso cnr struttura e servizi offerti
Creators: name: TACCHINI, ALESSANDRO
Publisher: name: OAS Bologna
Year: 2023

description: Questo documento fornisce una sintetica descrizione dei servizi presenti nel Centro di Calcolo di OAS situato nel Plesso CNR. Moto utile per comprendere l'evoluzione nel tempo del Centro di Calcolo.
"Genomic Counseling in Mental Health Nursing: Navigating Genetic Risks and Personalized Psychiatric Care"
Creators: name: BIJNR, BIJNR
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The integration of genomic counseling into mental health nursing has emerged as a pivotal development in the field of psychiatric care. By leveraging genetic insights, mental health professionals can enhance the personalization of treatment, improve understanding of mental health disorders, and optimize patient outcomes. This review delves into the role of genomic counseling in mental health nursing, examining genetic risks associated with psychiatric conditions, the benefits and applications of genomic testing, and the ethical considerations inherent in this evolving field. Through a comprehensive analysis, this article aims to illuminate how genomic counseling can be effectively incorporated into psychiatric care to achieve a more tailored and informed approach to mental health management.
What Is Next for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research in Asia?
Creators: name: Doherty, Jim
name: Liu, Gordon G.
name: Yang, Bong-min
name: Li, Hong
name: Tarn, Yen-Huei
name: Lee, Kenneth K.C.
name: Li, Shu-Chun
name: Kamae, Isao
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004

description: Objectives: Pharmacoeconomics and outcomes research have the potential for rapid adoption in the Asia Pacific region. Nevertheless, the region is characterized by great diversity in social and economic development, ethnicity, population size, health-care system, culture, language, and religion. Thus, the rate of adoption is also quite diverse across the region. Methods: Among the countries reviewed in this article, governments take varying levels of interest in applying this research in health policy decisions. For example, some countries have already implemented systems that require pharmacoeconomic studies as one component of a new pharmaceutical product's approval for reimbursement, whereas others recommend such data but do not require it in policy and medical decision making. The literature in the countries reviewed is actually quite robust given the early stages of development of this field in most countries. The academic community has members trained in this field of research in all the countries reviewed and some universities have established departments whereas others have just introduced a few classes in the area. Results: At the moment, pharmacoeconomics and outcomes research are being conducted mainly by academics. In addition, some pharmaceutical researchers are active and pharmaceutical companies are currently preparing to conduct more of this research as part of their strategy for Asian drug development. Conclusions: Prospects for future growth and development in this field are quite good in Asia as rapid health-care inflation, increasing rates of chronic conditions and aging population, and increasing technology diffusion will underpin the need for greater awareness of the need to incorporate economic efficiency into the health-care systems.
(100133) Ellen Diddams
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 Beothuk extinction
Creators: Reid, Brady
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2023

The Canadian Indigenous group, the Beothuk, is known for their extinction sometime during the 19th century. Despite the Beothuk’s extinction becoming popular amongst researchers during the 20th century, the Beothuk narrative is still plagued with misconceptions. In my research paper entitled “Avoidance and Exhaustion,” I address misconceptions about the interactions between various Indigenous groups and Europeans that interacted with the Beothuk. The research paper was created as a final project for Tolly Bradford at Concordia University and will be the basis of my oral presentation. The Beothuk chose to avoid interaction with European fishermen or explorers unless necessary. As a result, it is a challenge to make any conclusive arguments for the causation of the Beothuk extinction or their cultural practices. Researchers agree that documented interactions between the Beothuk and Europeans are faulty. However, they implement the supposed interactions due to the lack of available sources. Publications about the Beothuk have slowed down since the turn of the century. However, recent excavations have provided new evidence. A more accurate portrayal of the Beothuk's extinction is achievable by relying on archaeological evidence over personal testimonials that resulted from folklore. By utilizing archaeological evidence, it is possible to determine the migration patterns of the Beothuk and their attempt to survive on the Newfoundland Islands’ resource-poor interior. I plan to incorporate the migration patterns, Beothuk’s pattern of avoidance, and harsh living conditions into a PowerPoint presentation. The presentation will comprise slides with bullet points, maps, and pictures. The maps will demonstrate the gradual withdrawal of the Beothuk to the Newfoundland island’s interior. The bullet point slides will take up most of my presentation and be used to defend my arguments. I intend to utilize my PowerPoint and talking points to support my thesis: “Their extinction is a combination of the Beothuk practice of avoidance, the environment of the Newfoundland Island interior, and Europeans exhausting the land of its resources and animal population.”
Solar wind turbulence from MHD to sub-ion scales: high-resolution hybrid simulations
Creators: name: Franci, Luca
name: Verdini, Andrea
name: Matteini, Lorenzo
name: Landi, Simone
name: Hellinger, Petr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from a high-resolution and large-scale hybrid (fluid electrons and particle-in-cell protons) two-dimensional numerical simulation of decaying turbulence. Two distinct spectral regions (separated by a smooth break at proton scales) develop with clear power-law scaling, each one occupying about a decade in wave numbers. The simulation results exhibit simultaneously several properties of the observed solar wind fluctuations: spectral indices of the magnetic, kinetic, and residual energy spectra in the magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) inertial range along with a flattening of the electric field spectrum, an increase in magnetic compressibility, and a strong coupling of the cascade with the density and the parallel component of the magnetic fluctuations at sub-proton scales. Our findings support the interpretation that in the solar wind large-scale MHD fluctuations naturally evolve beyond proton scales into a turbulent regime that is governed by the generalized Ohm's law.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures; introduction and conclusions changed, references updated, accepted for publication in ApJL
Implementation of a web-based e-voting system using Hyperledger Fabric
Creators: Ajinomisanghan, Moyegbemi
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2023

This document presents the design of a web-based voting system powered by Hyperledger Fabric, a permissioned blockchain framework, aiming to leverage blockchain’s decentralized and immutable features to address the limitations of traditional voting. The architecture includes multiple organizations (voters, candidates, electoral authorities, and auditors) and essential components like a user management system, a web interface for voting, and a governing smart contract. Voters cast their votes using secured digital identities, with transactions being encrypted, validated by endorsing peers, and confirmed through Hyperledger Fabric’s consensus mechanism. This approach ensures election transparency, verifiability, and resistance to tampering. However, challenges like voter privacy and regulatory compliance must be tackled for comprehensive adoption. In essence, this Hyperledger Fabric-based voting platform promises enhanced security and transparency in voting, yet demands further exploration and refinement to fully transform the democratic process.
Large $t\to cZ$ as a Sign of Vector-Like Quarks in Light of the $W$ Mass
Creators: name: Crivellin, Andreas
name: Kirk, Matthew
name: Kitahara, Teppei
name: Mescia, Federico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The rare flavour changing top quark decay $t\to cZ$ is a clear sign of new physics and experimentally very interesting due to the huge number of top quarks produced at the LHC. However, there are few (viable) models which can generate a sizable branching ratio for $t\to cZ$ -- in fact vector-like quarks seem to be the only realistic option. In this paper, we investigate all three representations (under the Standard Model gauge group) of vector-like quarks ($U$, $Q_1$ and $Q_7$) that can generate a sizable branching ratio for $t\to cZ$ without violating bounds from $B$ physics. Importantly, these are exactly the three vector-like quarks which can lead to a sizable positive shift in the prediction for $W$ mass, via the couplings to the top quark also needed for a sizable Br($t\to cZ$). Calculating and using the one-loop matching of vector-like quarks on the Standard Model Effective Field Theory, we find that Br($t\to cZ$) can be of the order of $10^{-6}$, $10^{-5}$ and $10^{-4}$ for $U$, $Q_1$ and $Q_7$, respectively and that in all three cases the large $W$ mass measurement can be accommodated.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures + supplemental material. v2: Accepted to PRD, discussion of future lepton colliders added, units corrected in eq II.9, further references added
Using Multiple Anchor- and Distribution-Based Estimates to Evaluate Clinically Meaningful Change on the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Biologic Response Modifiers (FACT-BRM) Instrument
Creators: name: Gnanasakthy, Ari
name: Sorensen, Mark
name: Glendenning, G. Alastair
name: Cella, David
name: Hahn, Elizabeth
name: Yost, Kathleen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: Objective: The interpretation of health-related quality of life (HRQL) data from clinical trials can be enhanced by understanding the degree of change in HRQL scores that is considered meaningful. Our objectives were to combine distribution-based and two anchor-based approaches to identify minimally important differences (MIDs) for the 27-item Trial Outcome Index (TOI), the seven-item Social Well-Being (SWB) subscale, and the six-item Emotional Well-being (EWB) subscale from the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Biological Response Modifiers (FACT-BRM) instrument. Methods: Distribution-based MIDs were based on the standard error of measurement. Anchor-based approaches utilized patient-reported global rating of change (GRC) and change in physician-reported performance status rating (PSR). Correlations and weighted kappa statistics were used to assess association and agreement between the two anchors. FACT-BRM changes were evaluated for three time periods: baseline to month 1, month 2 to month 3, and month 5 to month 6. Results: Association between GRC and change in PSR was poor. Correlation between the anchors and HRQL change scores was largest at month 1 and decreased through month 6. Combining results from all approaches, the MIDs identified were 5–8 points for the TOI, 2 points for the SWB subscale, and 2–3 points for the EWB subscale. Conclusions: We combined patient-reported estimates, physician-reported estimates, and distribution-based estimates to derive MIDs for HRQL outcomes from the FACT-BRM. These results will enable interpretation of treatment group effects in a clinical trial setting, and they can be used to estimate sample size or power when designing future studies.
Analytic Considerations in Economic Evaluations of Multinational Cardiovascular Clinical Trials
Creators: name: Reed, Shelby D.
name: Schulman, Kevin A.
name: Torti Jr., Frank M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: OBJECTIVES: The growing number of economic evaluations that use data collected in multinational clinical trials raises numerous questions regarding their execution and interpretation. Although recommendations for conducting economic evaluations have been widely disseminated, relatively little guidance has been given for conducting economic evaluations alongside clinical trials, particularly multinational trials. METHODS: Building on a literature review that was conducted in preparation for an expert workshop, we evaluated a subset of methodological issues related to conducting economic evaluations alongside multinational clinical trials. RESULTS: We found wide variation in the types of costs included as part of the analyses and in the methods used to assign costs to hospitalization events. Furthermore, we found that the extrapolation of costs and survival outcomes beyond the trial period is an inconsistent practice and is often not dependent on whether a survival benefit was observed in the trial or on the epidemiology or practice patterns in the country to which the findings are directed. CONCLUSIONS: Although the limited sample size precluded a quantitative analysis of trial characteristics and their associations with the methodologies employed, our findings highlight the need for more guidance to analysts regarding the execution of economic evaluations using data from multinational clinical trials. As the research community grapples with the complexities of methodological and logistical issues involved in multinational economic evaluations, the development of a standardized format to report the basic methodological characteristics of such studies would help to improve transparency and comparability for other analysts and decision-makers.
Dozens of compact and high velocity-dispersion early-type galaxies in Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Creators: name: Saulder, Christoph
name: Bosch, Remco C. E. van den
name: Mieske, Steffen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aims. We aim at finding candidates of potential survivors of high-redshift compact galaxies in SDSS, as targets for more detailed follow-up observations. Methods. From the virial theorem it is expected that for a given mass, compact galaxies have stellar velocity dispersion higher than the mean due to their smaller sizes. Therefore velocity dispersion coupled with size (or mass) is an appropriate method to select relics, independent of the stellar population properties. Based on these consideration we design a set of criteria using distribution of early-type galaxies from SDSS on the log$_{10}$(R$_{0}$)-log$_{10}$($σ_{0}$) plane to find the most extreme objects on it. Results. We find 76 galaxies at 0.05 < z < 0.2, which have properties similar to the typical quiescent galaxies at high redshift. We study how well these galaxies fit on well-known local universe relations of early-type galaxies such as the fundamental plane, the red sequence or mass-size relations. As expected from the selection criteria, the candidates are located in an extreme corner of mass-size plane. However, they do not extend as deeply into the so-called zone of exclusion as some of the high-redshift compact galaxies ('red nuggets') found at high redshift, being a factor 2-3 less massive at a given intrinsic scale size. Our candidates are systematically offset from scaling relations of average early-type galaxies, while being in the mass-size range expected for passive evolution of the red nuggets from their high redshift to the present. Conclusions. The 76 selected candidates form a well suited set of objects for further follow-up observations. We argue that selecting a high velocity dispersion is the best way to find analogues of compact high redshift galaxies in the local universe.
description: 37 pages, 24 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
(100134) Caroline Diddams
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.
Machine learning predictions for local electronic properties of disordered correlated electron systems
Creators: name: Liu, Yi-Hsuan
name: Zhang, Sheng
name: Zhang, Puhan
name: Lee, Ting-Kuo
name: Chern, Gia-Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a scalable machine learning (ML) model to predict local electronic properties such as on-site electron number and double occupation for disordered correlated electron systems. Our approach is based on the locality principle, or the nearsightedness nature, of many-electron systems, which means local electronic properties depend mainly on the immediate environment. A ML model is developed to encode this complex dependence of local quantities on the neighborhood. We demonstrate our approach using the square-lattice Anderson-Hubbard model, which is a paradigmatic system for studying the interplay between Mott transition and Anderson localization. We develop a lattice descriptor based on group-theoretical method to represent the on-site random potentials within a finite region. The resultant feature variables are used as input to a multi-layer fully connected neural network, which is trained from datasets of variational Monte Carlo (VMC) simulations on small systems. We show that the ML predictions agree reasonably well with the VMC data. Our work underscores the promising potential of ML methods for multi-scale modeling of correlated electron systems.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures
Resolving the stellar activity of the Mira AB binary with ALMA
Creators: name: Vlemmings, W. H. T.
name: Ramstedt, S.
name: O'Gorman, E.
name: Humphreys, E. M. L.
name: Wittkowski, M.
name: Baudry, A.
name: Karovska, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the size, shape and flux densities at millimeter continuum wavelengths, based on ALMA science verification observations in Band 3 (~94.6 GHz) and Band 6 (~228.7 GHz), from the binary Mira A (o Ceti) and Mira B. The Mira AB system has been observed with ALMA at a spatial resolution of down to ~25 mas. The extended atmosphere of Mira A and the wind around Mira B sources are resolved and we derive the size of Mira A and of the ionized region around Mira B. The spectral indices within Band 3 (between 89-100 GHz) and between Band 3 and Band 6 are also derived. The spectral index of Mira A is found to change from 1.71+-0.05 within Band 3 to 1.54+-0.04 between Band 3 and 6. The spectral index of Mira B is 1.3+-0.2 in Band 3, in good agreement with measurements at longer wavelengths. However it rises to 1.72+-0.11 between the bands. For the first time the extended atmosphere of a star is resolved at these frequencies and for Mira A the diameter is ~3.8x3.2 AU in Band 3 (with brightness temperature Tb~5300 K) and ~4.0x3.6 AU in Band 6 (Tb~2500 K). Additionally, a bright hotspot of ~0.4 AU and with Tb~10000 K is found on the stellar disc of Mira A. The size of the ionized region around the accretion disk of Mira B is found to be ~2.4 AU. The emission around Mira B is consistent with that from a partially ionized wind of gravitationally bound material from Mira A close to the accretion disk of Mira B. The Mira A atmosphere does not fully match predictions, with brightness temperatures in Band 3 significantly higher than expected, potentially due to shock heating. The hotspot is likely due to magnetic activity and could be related to the previously observed X-ray flare of Mira A.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for A&A letters, updated to accepted version April 18
(100130) Ann Diddams
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.