cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
What can the outskirts of galaxies tell us about dark matter?
Creators: name: Power, Chris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Deep observations of galaxy outskirts reveal faint extended stellar components (ESCs) of streams, shells, and halos, which are ghostly remnants of the tidal disruption of satellite galaxies. We use cosmological galaxy formation simulations in Cold Dark Matter (CDM) and Warm Dark Matter (WDM) models to explore how the dark matter model influences the spatial, kinematic, and orbital properties of ESCs. These reveal that the spherically averaged stellar mass density at large galacto-centric radius can be depressed by up to a factor of 10 in WDM models relative to the CDM model, reflecting the anticipated suppressed abundance of satellite galaxies in WDM models. However, these differences are much smaller in WDM models that are compatible with observational limits, and are comparable in size to the system-to-system variation we find within the CDM model. This suggests that it will be challenging to place limits on dark matter using only the unresolved ESC.
description: 3 pages, 2 figures; to appear in the Proceedings of International Astronomical Union Symposium 321, "Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Outskirts", edited by Armando Gil de Paz, Johan Knapen, & Janice Lee
Moral Distress Among Medical Students: A Systematic Review of Its Causes, Impact and Response
Creators: name: Glick, Susan B
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Introduction Moral distress occurs when an individual who is aware of the appropriate moral and ethical course of action is unable to perform it. Medical students are likely to be at increased risk of moral distress. I systematically reviewed the literature to determine the etiology of moral distress among medical students, its impact and response. Methods I searched 9 databases using an identical search strategy for each. Eligible studies had to 1) represent an original, published study; 2) present data about the causes, impact or response to moral distress; 3) measure and report outcomes for medical students; and 4) report findings in English. Following title, abstract and full text review, those articles that did not meet all inclusion criteria were excluded. I searched the reference sections of included studies and relevant review articles for additional manuscripts. Results The search yielded 92 articles. Following title, abstract and full text review, 9 articles were included in the systematic review. Three studies found inconsistency in the relationship between gender and moral distress. One study found empathy was more common in those essays that described moral distress. Studies revealed myriad situations with the potential to cause or contribute to moral distress among medical students, including end of life care, futile care, and inadequate access to care. Situations related to the clinical learning environment also cause or contribute to moral distress. One author found that empathy and metonymy were more common in writing that expressed moral distress. Another found medical students became habituated to situations that could be justified for their learning, though increasingly distressed with exposure to situations that could not. One author found students reported considering dropping out of medical school or choosing a non-clinical specialty due to moral distress. One study found 84% of medical students did not feel medical school had prepared them well to handle moral distress. Discussion and Conclusions Instruments should be developed to measure the presence and severity of moral distress independent of the situation(s) that resulted in it. Eliminating experiences related to the clinical learning environment that are associated with medical student moral distress should be a goal for all schools.
Proximity-Based Mass Spectrometry: Direct Detection and Characterization of Biomolecules
Creators: name: Galey, Melissa Marie
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Mass spectrometry (MS) is a powerful analytical tool that can be applied to the identification and characterization of biomolecules. Recent MS developments have expanded its use to include proximal detection which allows for the direct detection and characterization of biomolecules from their local microenvironment with minimal sample manipulation. The work embodied here centers upon two distinct projects that investigate outstanding biological questions using a combination of proximity-based MS and biology. The first project focuses on the direct detection of ovarian cancer, a severe gynecological disease, using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) MS analysis of vaginal lavage samples. A murine xenograft model was used in which cells were sourced from a local microenvironment for MALDI-TOF MS analysis. This proximal technique allowed for the detection of small proteins that were longitudinally significantly up- and down-regulated. The second project focuses on the cheese rind microbiome and the ability of its microbial population to produce antimicrobials. A series of three bacterial-fungal interactions are investigated for the production of antifungal or antibacterial metabolites using a combination of bioactivity assays and analytical tools.
Understanding quality in teacher education in Mauritius
Creators: name: Ramdinny., Anita Nemawtee
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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The interaction-strength interpolation method for main-group chemistry: benchmarking, limitations, and perspectives
Creators: name: Fabiano, E.
name: Gori-Giorgi, P.
name: Seidl, M.
name: Della Sala, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have tested the original interaction-strength-interpolation (ISI) exchange-correlation functional for main group chemistry. The ISI functional is based on an interpolation between the weak and strong coupling limits and includes exact-exchange as well as the Görling-Levy second-order energy. We have analyzed in detail the basis-set dependence of the ISI functional, its dependence on the ground-state orbitals, and the influence of the size-consistency problem. We show and explain some of the expected limitations of the ISI functional (i.e. for atomization energies), but also unexpected results, such as the good performance for the interaction energy of dispersion-bonded complexes when the ISI correlation is used as a correction to Hartree-Fock.
description: 20 pages, 20 figures
Diversity and Activity of Methanotrophs in Biogeochemical Landfill Cover
Creators: name: Raksha Kishore Rai
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills are regarded as one of the major sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the world. In order to control these emissions, an innovative and sustainable biogeochemical cover system that consists of soil, biochar and basic oxygen furnace (BOF) slag is being developed to completely eliminate fugitive methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the landfills. The effectiveness of such cover systems is highly dependent on the survival and activity of methanotrophs under highly alkaline conditions induced by the presence of steel slag. Preliminary results demonstrated negligible CH4 oxidation and substantial CO2 sequestration when the BOF slag was integrated/mixed with biochar-amended soil due to combined effect of pH and heavy metal constituents. However, isolated or separated cover material conditions (biochar-amended soil overlain by slag) demonstrated significant CH4 oxidation potential. Preliminary experiments on pH studies on landfill cover soil determined significant inhibition of CH4 oxidation at pH >12. To further simulate infiltration conditions in the isolated cover material conditions as described above, the landfill cover soil was inoculated with different proportions of BOF slag leachate. The results demonstrated no effect of heavy metals constituents present in the leachate on CH4 oxidation and microbial community. Overall, this study proposes layered system for effective CH4 oxidation in biochar-amended soil layer and CO2 sequestration in BOF slag layer. However, large column experiments and field test plots is highly recommended to evaluate the long-term performance of the methanotrophic community in the proposed biogeochemical cover system under dynamic environmental conditions.
Comparing Similarity of Patent Textual Data Through the Application of Machine Learning
Creators: name: Immordino, Salvatore C
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This research presents the use of machine learning (ML) computational techniques to convert unstructured patent textual data into structured actionable knowledge, and in doing so, lays the groundwork to study inventiveness and inventive knowledge flow with less dependence on numerical metrics such as citation analysis. Citation analysis is the most popular method of studying inventiveness today. It is used to form theories about inventive knowledge flow between inventors, either based on how they cite each other’s patents, or invention importance based on how frequently a patent is cited. Historically, inventors would directly cite and build upon each other’s work to demonstrate how their inventions were novel over others. Today, most citations are done after an invention has been conceived, either by the patent attorney handling the filing or the patent examiner reviewing the application. This change in citing behavior, while not formal, undermines the premise that the number of citations made is somehow reflective of knowledge flow, thus there is a need for improved methods to study invention. This research begins by ﬁrst extracting unstructured abstract, title, and claim textual data from a subset of patent documents taken from a group of competitive building product companies. This includes a novel method for removing common legal terms I call patent jargon. Second, I use natural language processing techniques to convert the unstructured textual data into a Vector Space Model (VSM) using term frequency-inverse document frequency (tf-IDF). Third, I measure the cosine angle between patent vectors within the high-dimensional vector space to assess inventive similarity. Fourth, I establish a method to determine a minimum cosine similarity threshold value which can be used to select for related patents. Fifth, to visualize the data set I reduce the higher-dimensional data using both principle component analysis and t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding. Lastly, I compare invention impact and inventive knowledge ﬂow by visualizing patent citation data alongside my cosine relatedness method to reveal both similar and dissimilar inventive patterns.
Local dissipation limits the dynamics of impacting droplets on smooth and rough substrates
Creators: name: Wang, Yuli
name: Amberg, Gustav
name: Carlson, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A droplet that impacts onto a solid substrate deforms in a complex dynamics. To extract the principal mechanisms that dominate this dynamics we deploy numerical simulations based on the phase field method. Direct comparison with experiments suggests that a dissipation local to the contact line limits the droplet spreading dynamics and its scaled maximum spreading radius $β_\mathrm{max}$. By assuming linear response through a drag force at the contact line, our simulations rationalize experimental observations for droplet impact on both smooth and rough substrates, measured through a single contact line friction parameter $μ_f$. Moreover, our analysis shows that at low and intermediate impact speeds dissipation at the contact line limits the dynamics and we describe $β_\mathrm{max}$ by the scaling law $β_\mathrm{max} \sim (Re μ_\mathrm{l}/μ_f)^{1/2}$ that is a function of the droplet viscosity ($μ_\mathrm{l}$) and its Reynolds number ($Re$).
Development of wide-field low-energy X-ray imaging detectors for HiZ-GUNDAM
Creators: name: Yoshida, Kazuki
name: Yonetoku, Daisuke
name: Sawano, Tatsuya
name: Ikeda, Hirokazu
name: Harayama, Atsushi
name: Arimoto, Makoto
name: Kagawa, Yasuaki
name: Ina, Masao
name: Hatori, Satoshi
name: Kume, Kyo
name: Mizushima, Satoshi
name: Hasegawa, Takashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We are planning a future gamma-ray burst (GRB) mission HiZ-GUNDAM to probe the early universe beyond the redshift of z > 7. Now we are developing a small prototype model of wide-field low-energy X-ray imaging detectors to observe high-z GRBs, which cover the energy range of 1 - 20 keV. In this paper, we report overview of its prototype system and performance, especially focusing on the characteristics and radiation tolerance of high gain analog ASIC specifically designed to read out small charge signals.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures, SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation (2016)
Mormoops blainvillii Leach 1821
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Mormoopidae
Mormoops
Mormoops blainvillii

description: Mormoops blainvillii Leach, 1821. Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., 13:77. TYPE LOCALITY: Jamaica. DISTRIBUTION: Greater Antilles; adjacent small islands. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405009001001001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 149, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Advancing the Delphi Technique: A Critical Review of Literature on Nursing Competence Studies
Creators: name: Furtado, Luis Carlos Do Rego
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Other Nursing
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Registration of the scoping review entitled " Advancing the Delphi Technique: A Critical Review of Literature on Nursing Competence Studies ". We are pleased to register our scoping review on the use of the Delphi technique in the study of professional competence in nursing. Our aim is to explore and perform a critical review of the literature, to identify, describe and analyse examples of the use of the Delphi technique in the study of professional competence in nursing, exploring the methodological options of the authors of the different primary studies included, pointing out and critically analysing those that may better respond to the specificity and demand that the study of professional competence imposes on research. Our review will follow the established framework of scoping reviews, including a comprehensive search strategy, selection of relevant studies, data extraction and analysis, and synthesis of findings. We will systematically search electronic databases, including PubMed, Web of Science (Clarivate), CINAHL (EBSCO) and MEDLINE (EBSCO), to identify relevant studies published in the last ten years. We will include primary studies concerning the use of the Delphi technique in the study of professional competence in nursing (definition/updating of reference frameworks in nursing and development of instruments for measuring and assessing nurses' professional competence). Two independent reviewers will examine all the identified studies' titles, abstracts and full-text articles. Data will be extracted using a standardised form, including study characteristics, practice setting factors and evidence-based practice outcomes. Our review will provide valuable insights into the use of the Delphi technique in this field of nursing research, which can inform strengthening the methodological quality of Delphi studies and thus their rigour, reliability and validity. We plan to disseminate our findings through peer-reviewed publications and conference presentations. We look forward to conducting this scoping review and contributing to the growing literature on the Delphi technique.
Microstructural Characterization and Damage Detection in Steels with Linear and Nonlinear Ultrasonic Test
Creators: name: Tehrani, Niloofar Nabili
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The objective of this research is to study the potential of using nonlinear ultrasonic testing (NLUT) to detect damage early due to mechanical deformation or creep, as well as using it as a mean to assess microstructure changes. A comparison is also undertaken between the sensitivity of the NLUT (using nonlinearity parameter and acoustoelastic constant) and linear ultrasonic testing (LUT) technique (using wave velocity), for each damage type and microstructure assessment. This investigation consists of three different parts. In the first part of the investigation, assessment of the mechanical damage in a single-phase metal, Al-1100, was conducted to associate the strain directly with the NLUT and LUT parameters. In the second part, both NDE techniques were correlated with changes in the microstructure of the alloy after heat treatments; an A572 steel was intercritically annealed at different temperatures to generate different volume fractions of ferrite and martensite. In the third part of this study AISI 410 stainless steel specimens were submitted to different levels of creep; such damage includes both mechanical straining and microstructure changes due to exposures to different creep times and total strains. The results showed that the NLUT has the potential to detect the most minute changes in the microstructure with a sensitivity about 150 times more effective than LUT. However, using the LUT methods can still be beneficial in mapping the localized damage especially with the immersion techniques such as Scanning Acoustic Microscope. In the case of mechanical damage, the NLUT showed a continuous increase or decrease depending on the damage. For the case of creep damage assessment more work is needed to interpret the results due to the complexity of this type of damage due to mechanical and microstructural changes that occur simultaneously. There needs to be caution when interpreting the results since several factors are influential, particularly the initial condition of the component before service.
Maternal Weight, Placental Expression of Growth Factors, and Birth Weight
Creators: name: Rungnapa Ruchob
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Background: Low and high infant birth weight are associated with adverse health outcomes such as infant mortality during the first year of life, developmental problems in childhood, and risk of disease in adulthood. Maternal weight (body mass index [BMI] and gestational weight gain [GWG]) are known to be strong predictors of infant birth weight. However, the biological mechanisms underlying the relationships among maternal weight, gene expression, and infant birth weight are still poorly understood. Objective: This study aimed to identify predictive relationships among maternal weight (BMI and GWG), placental gene expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) A and placental growth factor (PlGF), and infant birth weight. The overall hypothesis was that VEGF-A and PlGF mRNA mediate the predictive relationships of maternal weight (BMI and GWG) with infant birth weight. Methods: Placentas were collected at delivery from healthy women (n = 44). RNA was extracted, and VEGF-A and PlGF expression was quantified using quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction. Multiple regression models and path analysis were used to identify predictive relationships among variables. Results: PlGF mRNA level (p = .04) was a significant predictor of infant birth weight. Three covariates, age (p = .01), placental weight (p < .001), and Black race (p = .04), were also predictors of infant birth weight, whereas BMI was not a significant predictor. GWG and VEGF-A mRNA level did not independently predict infant birth weight; rather, GWG significantly modified the effect of VEGF-A mRNA level on infant birth weight. Neither VEGF-A nor PlGF mRNA was a mediator between maternal weight (BMI and GWG) and infant birth weight. Conclusion: This study indicates that the relationships among maternal weight (BMI and GWG), placental expression of VEGF-A and PlGF, and infant birth weight can be partially explained by placental biological pathways, specifically angiogenesis and inflammatory pathways. Although these findings are noteworthy, the relationships among maternal weight, placental gene expression, and infant birth weight require further investigation to more fully identify their underlying mechanisms.
The reading strategies used by Thai English as a Second Language (ESL) students
Creators: name: Piyakun., Araya
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Optical properties of superconducting EuFe2(As1-xPx)2
Creators: name: Neubauer, David
name: Pronin, Artem V.
name: Zapf, Sina
name: Merz, Johannes
name: Jeevan, Hirale S.
name: Jiao, Wen-He
name: Gegenwart, Philipp
name: Cao, Guang-Han
name: Dressel, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a broadband optical-conductivity study of superconducting single-crystalline EuFe2(As1-xPx)2 with three different substitutional levels. We analyze the normal-state electrodynamics by decomposing the conductivity spectra using a Drude-Lorentz model with two Drude terms representing two groups of carriers with different scattering rates. The analysis reveals that the scattering rate of at least one of the Drude components develops linearly with temperature for each doping level. This points towards strong electron-electron correlations and a non-Fermi-liquid behavior in the P-substituted superconducting Eu-122 pnictides. We also detect a transfer of the spectral weight from mid-infrared to higher frequencies and assign it to the Hund's-rule coupling between itinerant and localized carriers. The conductivity spectra below the superconducting transition show no sharp features to be associated with the dirty-limit superconducting BCS gaps. We interpret these results in terms of clean-limit superconductivity in EuFe2(As1-xPx)2. The best parametrization fit can be achieved using a two-gap model. We find that the larger gap at the hole pockets of the Fermi surface is likely to be isotropic, while the smaller gap at the electron pockets is anisotropic or even nodal.
description: to be published in Physica Status Solidi B - Special Issue on Iron Pnictides
Mormoops megalophylla
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Mormoopidae
Mormoops
Mormoops megalophylla

description: Mormoops megalophylla (Peters, 1864). Monatsb. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 381. REVIEWED BY: B. Villa-Ramirez (BVR). TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico, Coahuila, Parras. DISTRIBUTION: S. Texas, S. Arizona (U.S.A.), and Baja California (Mexico) to N. Ecuador, N. Colombia, and N. Venezuela; Aruba, Curacao, Bonaire (Dutch West Indies); Trinidad; Margarita Isl. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405009001002001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 149, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Reading hypertext on the Internet : the interplay of the social, cognitive and semiotic
Creators: name: Hong., Ng Chiew
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Putting Down Roots: A Graphical Exploration of Community Attachment
Creators: name: Kaplan, Andee
name: Hare, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Other Statistics (stat.OT)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we explore the relationships that individuals have with their communities. This work was prepared as part of the ASA Data Expo '13 sponsored by the Graphics Section and the Computing Section, using data provided by the Knight Foundation Soul of the Community survey. The Knight Foundation in cooperation with Gallup surveyed 43,000 people over three years in 26 communities across the United States with the intention of understanding the association between community attributes and the degree of attachment people feel towards their community. These include the different facets of both urban and rural communities, the impact of quality education, and the trend in the perceived economic conditions of a community over time. The goal of our work is to facilitate understanding of why people feel attachment to their communities through the use of an interactive and web-based visualization. We will explain the development and use of web-based interactive graphics, including an overview of the R package Shiny and the JavaScript library D3, focusing on the choices made in producing the visualizations and technical aspects of how they were created. Then we describe the stories about community attachment that unfolded from our analysis.
description: 16 pages, 11 figures
Designing Biomimetic NADH-Analogs for Artificial Photosynthesis
Creators: name: Ilic, Stefan
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Over the past few decades, numerous homogenous organometallic catalysts have been studied for electrocatalytic CO2RR. While superior in their activity, they often suffer from low selectivity and durability. Metal-free hydrides are emerging as promising cost- effective substitutes for selective CO2 reduction, where the selectivity is achieved via hydride transfers. Initial studies on metal-free CO2 reduction focused on B-H and Si-H based hydrides, but despite being successful in conversion to the formate-stage and beyond, the oxophilic nature and consequent formation of Si-O and B-O bonds limit them to the application as stoichiometric reagents. This work focuses on less oxophilic reagents, carbon-based hydride donors – NADH analogs, as potential catalysts in CO2 reduction. NADH analogs are designed to be strong enough hydride donors, capable of performing a hydride transfer reaction to CO2. The structural design is governed by the concept of thermodynamic hydricity, which is obtained using DFT calculations and then tested using experimental methods. Apart from the hydride donor ability, an important requirement for any type of catalyst is to have a relatively easy regeneration of the active form. To test this, we employ electrochemical methods (such as cyclic voltammetry and preparative electrolysis) often coupled with spectroscopic techniques to gain insights on regeneration pathways. The principles obtained here give a perspective of utilizing metal- free motifs in electrocatalytic selective CO2 reduction.
Primordial Nucleosynthesis
Creators: name: Coc, Alain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Primordial or big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) is now a parameter free theory whose predictions are in good overall agreement with observations. However, the 7Li calculated abundance is significantly higher than the one deduced from spectroscopic observations. Most solutions to this lithium problem involve a source of extra neutrons that inevitably leads to an increase of the deuterium abundance. This seems now to be excluded by recent deuterium observations that have drastically reduced the uncertainty on D/H and also calls for improved precision on thermonuclear reaction rates.
description: Invited review at the 14th International Symposium on Nuclei in the Cosmos XIV (Niigata)
First-principles DFT + GW study of the Te antisite in CdTe
Creators: name: Flores, Mauricio A.
name: Menéndez-Proupin, Eduardo
name: Orellana, Walter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Formation energies, charge transitions levels, and quasiparticle defect states of the tellurium antisite $(\text{Te}_\text{Cd})$ in CdTe are addressed within the DFT${0.05cm}+{0.05cm}$\emph{GW} formalism. We find that $(\text{Te}_\text{Cd})$ induces a (+2/0) deep level at 0.99 eV above the valence band maximum, exhibiting a negative-U effect. Moreover, the calculated zero-phonon line for the excited state of $(\text{Te}_\text{Cd})^0$ corresponds closely with the $\sim$1.1 eV band, visible in luminescence and absorption experiments. Our results differ from previous theoretical studies, mainly due to the well-known band gap error and the incorrect position of the band edges predicted by standard DFT calculations.
Generation of Affinity Reagents to Challenging Targets Through Phage Display
Creators: name: McGinnis, Jennifer E
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: While biomarker discovery has exploded in recent years, it has not translated to the production of many sensitive and specific diagnostic and biochemical tests. This is in part due to the technical challenge of producing robust assays with low false positive and low false negative results. Antibody binding reagents needed for these assays are difficult to obtain as animal immunizations, antibody collection and purification, and validation require extensive time and labor and often still result in non-specific, off-target, and/or low affinity binders. This work demonstrates that by deploying and improving phage display to generate recombinant affinity reagents, we can reduce the time needed to produce high quality reagents for robust, sensitive diagnostic and biochemical assays.
title: Криминалистическая характеристика «врачебных» преступлений
Creators: name: Рязанова, Наталья
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2022

description: В статье рассмотрены важные элементы криминалистической характеристики преступлений, совершаемых медицинскими работниками в сфере своей профессиональной деятельности, дано обобщенное понятие ятрогенного преступления. Отмечается, что в сложный эпидемиологический период, связанный с распространением ковидной инфекции, сложность в расследовании можно преодолеть только комплексным подходом в разработке методики их расследования. Причины таких преступлений заключаются, с одной стороны, в высоких физических, психологических и эмоциональных нагрузках медиков, с другой – в недобросовестном их отношении к выполнению своих профессиональных обязанностей. Рассмотрение этих аспектов и составляет цель научной статьи. Высокая латентность и корпоративная поддержка медиками своих коллег влекут за собой ситуацию, когда «врачебные ошибки» обсуждаются лишь внутри ведомства и большой пласт преступлений в этой сфере остается за пределами юридической оценки.
Randomized Controlled Trial of Multimedia Nursing Handoff: Content Validation and Pilot
Creators: name: Matson, Jeffrey William
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Objective: This study was undertaken to (1) determine if incorporating multimedia (words and pictures) into nursing patient handoffs would enhance nurses’ learning of patient information and (2) determine the feasibility of conducting large-scale randomized controlled trials comparing two patient handoff methods impact on nurses’ understanding of patient information. Methods: We conducted a double-blind randomized controlled trial of undergraduate nursing students comparing the impact of a Multimedia patient handoff to an SBAR patient handoff on the nurses’ ability to understanding and recall patient information and collect evidence for the feasibility for future large-scale randomized controlled trials. Results: We found no statistical difference between the SBAR patient handoff and the Multimedia patient handoff on nurses’ understanding of patient information, but the SBAR group have a significant (p = 0.03) effect (d = 0.5) on recall of patient information. We recruited a sample 63% larger than anticipated, found no differences in chi-square tests between either group on baseline sample characteristics and all participants completed the experiment without problem. Discussion: We were able to answer our study hypotheses, but further research is necessary to better understand our results. We found no statistical difference between the Multimedia patient handoff and the SBAR on nurses’ understanding of patient information but did find the SBAR had superior recall of information. These findings are partially consistent with multimedia learning research, the inability of the multimedia handoff to improve nurses’ understanding of patient information may have been the result of an expertise reversal effect, but that cannot be determined from this study. All feasibility results indicate that large-scale randomized controlled trials comparing patient handoff methods impact on nurses’ understanding of patient information and nursing errors are feasible. Conclusions: This study successfully married multimedia learning, human error and nursing research to advance our understanding of a complex and longstanding problem in healthcare. Although more research is needed to fully answer our study aims, the results of this investigation support our conclusion that future research is both feasible and promising.
High Resolution Observations of Molecular Lines in Arp 220: Kinematics, Morphology, and Limits on the Applicability of the Ammonia Thermometer
Creators: name: Zschaechner, Laura K.
name: Ott, Jürgen
name: Walter, Fabian
name: Meier, David S.
name: Momjian, Emmanuel
name: Scoville, Nick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We observe Arp 220, the nearest Ultra-Luminous Infrared Galaxy (ULIRG), over 4 GHz in the K and Ka bands. We provide constraints for the kinematics,morphology, and identify molecular species on scales resolving both nuclei (0.6" or 230 pc). We detect multiple molecular species, including hydroxyl in both cores. We tentatively detect H2O at 21.84 GHz in both nuclei, indicating the likely presence of maser emission. The observed frequency range also contains metastable ammonia transitions from (J,K) = (1,1) to (5,5), as well as the (9,9) inversion line, which, together are a well-known thermometer of dense molecular gas. Furthermore, the non-metastable (4,2) and (10,9) and possibly the (3,1) lines are also detected. We apply a standard temperature analysis to Arp 220. However, the analysis is complicated in that standard LTE assumptions do not hold. There are indications that a substantial fraction of ammonia could be in the non-metastable transitions as opposed to only the metastable ones. Thus, the non-metastable transitions could be essential to constraining the temperature. We compare all of these data to ALMA observations of this source, confirming the outflow previously observed by other tracers in both nuclei.
description: Accepted to ApJ, 10 pages, 6 figures
Pteronotus Gray 1838
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Mormoopidae
Pteronotus

description: Pteronotus Gray, 1838. Mag. Zool. Bot., 2:500. REVIEWED BY: B. Villa-Ramirez (BVR). COMMENT: Includes Chilonycteris; see Smith, 1972, Misc. Publ. Univ. Kans. Mus. Nat. Hist., 56:55. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405009002000000.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 149, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
description: {"references": ["Smith, J. D. 1972. Systematics of the chiropteran family Mormoopidae. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, 56: 1 - 132."]}
引力波与绝对运动
Creators: name: Wang, Fei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Space sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Due to the long distance interaction of gravity, it takes some time for the change in position to cause the change in gravity to be perceived by the other party, which gives us the opportunity to discover whether motion is absolute. Although such experiments are very difficult, reliable conclusions can still be drawn logically.
Humour, personality and social adjustment : a cross-cultural study
Creators: name: Leung., Benjamin C. S.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Pteronotus davyi Gray 1838
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Mormoopidae
Pteronotus
Pteronotus davyi

description: Pteronotus davyi Gray, 1838. Mag. Zool. Bot., 2: 500. TYPE LOCALITY: Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad. DISTRIBUTION: N.W. Peru and N.E. Brazil to Puebla thence to S. Sonora and S. Tamaulipas (Mexico); Trinidad; S. Lesser Antilles. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405009002001001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 149, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Masked Transformer for image Anomaly Localization
Creators: name: De Nardin, Axel
name: Mishra, Pankaj
name: Foresti, Gian Luca
name: Piciarelli, Claudio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Image anomaly detection consists in detecting images or image portions that are visually different from the majority of the samples in a dataset. The task is of practical importance for various real-life applications like biomedical image analysis, visual inspection in industrial production, banking, traffic management, etc. Most of the current deep learning approaches rely on image reconstruction: the input image is projected in some latent space and then reconstructed, assuming that the network (mostly trained on normal data) will not be able to reconstruct the anomalous portions. However, this assumption does not always hold. We thus propose a new model based on the Vision Transformer architecture with patch masking: the input image is split in several patches, and each patch is reconstructed only from the surrounding data, thus ignoring the potentially anomalous information contained in the patch itself. We then show that multi-resolution patches and their collective embeddings provide a large improvement in the model's performance compared to the exclusive use of the traditional square patches. The proposed model has been tested on popular anomaly detection datasets such as MVTec and head CT and achieved good results when compared to other state-of-the-art approaches.
Impact of Academic Detailing on Opioid Prescribing Among Primary Care Providers in the Chicagoland Region
Creators: name: Saffore, Christopher D
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Academic detailing (AD) is an effective strategy to educate clinicians on current clinical guidelines to modify and improve prescribing behavior. An AD program focused on safe opioid prescribing was delivered to primary care clinicians within a large heath system in the metropolitan Chicago area from June 2018 to August 2018.Three studies were conducted to evaluate the impact of this AD program on opioid and non-opioid prescribing in primary care. First, a difference-in-differences (D-I-D) approach was used to compare changes in total opioid prescribing and high-dose (>90 morphine milligram equivalents/day) opioid prescribing among AD-exposed clinicians who reported an intention to change or no/low intention to change their practice. Opioid prescribing outcomes were compared six months before and after the AD program, via repeated measures linear regression models, using data from the Illinois Prescription Monitoring Program. The intention to change group had a 1.48 (95% CI: -2.48, -0.47) and a 0.50 (95% CI: -0.69, -0.31) lower mean change in the monthly rate of total opioid prescriptions and high-dose opioid prescriptions, respectively, compared to the no/low intention to change group. Second, the secondary effects of the opioid-focused AD program were evaluated by comparing changes in benzodiazepine (BZD), non-BZD sedative hypnotic, and carisoprodol prescriptions among AD-exposed providers and a control group. This study used the same study design and data source used in the first study. BZD prescriptions declined in both groups after implementation of the AD program. However, the AD-exposed group had a 0.73 (95% CI: 0.14, 1.31) higher rate of BZD prescriptions compared to the control group following the AD program. There was no meaningful change in the rate of non-BZD sedative-hypnotic and carisoprodol prescriptions between the two groups. Third, a qualitative analysis of field notes documenting encounters with clinicians during the AD program was conducted to identify recurring themes related to opioid prescribing barriers in primary care. Barriers to safe opioid prescribing were organized into six themes: 1) gaps in knowledge; 2) lack of prescription monitoring program (PMP) utilization; 3) patient pressures to prescribe opioids; 4) insurance coverage policies; 5) provider beliefs; and 6) health system pain management practices. This body of work demonstrates the utility of AD is an effective to approach to modify controlled substance prescribing and elicit barriers to safe opioid prescribing in primary care.
On h(x)-Fibonacci polynomials in an arbitrary algebra
Creators: name: Flaut, Cristina
name: Shpakivskyi, Vitalii
name: Vlad, Elena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we introduce h(x)-Fibonacci polynomials in an arbitrary finite-dimensional unitary algebra over a field K (K = R,C), which generalize both h(x)-Fibonacci quaternion polynomials and h(x)-Fibonacci octonion polynomials. For h(x)-Fibonacci polynomials in such an arbitrary algebra, we prove summation formula, generating function, Binet-style formula, Catalan-style identity, and d Ocagne-type identity.
title: An engineering perspective on the numerics of quasi-periodic oscillations
title: A comparison of two hyper-time approaches based on a unified framework
Creators: name: Bäuerle, Simon
name: Fiedler, Robert
name: Hetzler, Hartmut
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: quasi-periodic motion
subject: invariant manifolds
subject: generalized invariance equation
subject: hyper-time methods
subject: multi-dimensional Fourier-Galerkin method
subject: finite difference method
subject: comparison of methods
subject: multi-harmonic balance method
subject: 620
subject: Parametrisierung
subject: Endliche Mathematik
subject: Finite-Differenzen-Methode
subject: Differentialgleichung

description: Gefördert im Rahmen des Projekts DEAL
Pteronotus fuliginosus
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Mormoopidae
Pteronotus
Pteronotus fuliginosus

description: Pteronotus fuliginosus (Gray, 1843). Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1843:20. TYPE LOCALITY: Haiti, Port au Prince. DISTRIBUTION: Cuba; Jamaica; Hispaniola; Puerto Rico. COMMENT: Includes torrei; P. quadridens may be the correct name for this species; see Silva, 1976, Poeyana, 153:7. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405009002002001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 149, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990