cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Black holes with primary scalar hair
Creators: name: Bakopoulos, Athanasios
name: Charmousis, Christos
name: Kanti, Panagiota
name: Lecoeur, Nicolas
name: Nakas, Theodoros
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present explicit black holes endowed with primary scalar hair within the shift-symmetric subclass of Beyond Horndeski theories. These solutions depend, in addition to the conventional mass parameter, on a second free parameter encoding primary scalar hair. The properties and characteristics of the solutions at hand are analyzed with varying scalar charge. We observe that when the scalar hair parameter is close to zero or relatively small in comparison to the black hole mass, the solutions closely resemble the Schwarzschild spacetime. As the scalar hair increases, the metric solutions gradually depart from General Relativity. Notably, for a particular relation between mass and scalar hair, the central singularity completely disappears, resulting in the formation of regular black holes or solitons. The scalar field accompanying the solutions is always found to be regular at future or past horizon(s), defining a distinct time direction for each. As a final byproduct of our analysis, we demonstrate the existence of a stealth Schwarschild black hole in Horndeski theory with a non-trivial kinetic term.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures
Gemini optical observations of binary millisecond-pulsars
Creators: name: Testa, V.
name: Mignani, R. P.
name: Pallanca, C.
name: Corongiu, A.
name: Ferraro, F. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Milli-second pulsars (MSPs) are rapidly spinning neutron stars, with spin periods P_s <= 10 ms, which have been most likely spun up after a phase of matter accretion from a companion star. In this work we present the results of the search for the companion stars of four binary milli-second pulsars, carried out with archival data from the Gemini South telescope. Based upon a very good positional coincidence with the pulsar radio coordinates, we likely identified the companion stars to three MSPs, namely PSRJ0614-3329 (g=21.95 +- 0.05), J1231-1411 (g=25.40 +-0.23), and J2017+0603 (g=24.72 +- 0.28). For the last pulsar (PSRJ0613-0200) the identification was hampered by the presence of a bright star (g=16 +- 0.03) at \sim 2" from the pulsar radio coordinates and we could only set 3-sigma upper limits of g=25.0, r= 24.3, and i= 24.2 on the magnitudes of its companion star. The candidate companion stars to PSRJ0614-3329, J1231-1411, and J2017+0603 can be tentatively identified as He white dwarfs (WDs) on the basis of their optical colours and brightness and the comparison with stellar model tracks. From the comparison of our multi-band photometry with stellar model tracks we also obtained possible ranges on the mass, temperature, and gravity of the candidate WD companions to these three MSPs. Optical spectroscopy observations are needed to confirm their possible classification as He WDs and accurately measure their stellar parameters.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures, 6 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Therapeutical application of B-cell activating factor receptor monoclonal antibody for murine atherosclerosis
Creators: name: Cui, Peng
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease of the artery wall that is characterised by the accumulation of lipids and immune cells in the intima. Studies from our laboratory have established opposing roles of B cell subsets in atherosclerosis development in ApoE-/- mouse model. B-2 cells were identified as atherogenic whereas B-1 cells were atheroprotective. Atherogenicity of B-2 cells was confirmed by further studies from our laboratory on BAFF-R deficient ApoE-/- mice that are selectively deficient in B-2 but not 8-1 cells. BAFF-R knockouts were selected for study because BAFF is a growth and maturation factor for B-2 cells but not B-1 cells. To further extend these studies with an eye toward potential clinical translation, I used monoclonal antibody to BAFF-R to selectively deplete B-2 cells and spare B-1 cell. I carried out two studies namely, Prevention and Intervention study to test whether depletion B-2 cells with BAFF-R monoclonal antibody can not only reduce development of atherosclerosis and but also ameliorate established atherosclerotic lesions in ApoE-/- mice. Among three receptors of BAFF, BAFF-R restricts to BAFF, a B cell-activating factor regulating B cell generation, maturation and differentiation. Both my Prevention and Intervention studies showed a significant reduction of atherosclerotic lesions assessed by Oil-Red 0 lipid stain and by CD68+ stained macrophage accumulation. Mature B cells were significantly reduced in the spleen, but sparing B-1a and other lymphocyte populations. B cell accumulation was dramatically reduced in both studies, whereas reduction of CD4+ cell accumulation was only found in the prevention study but not in the intervention study of established atherosclerosis. Plasma levels of non-specific antibodies were significantly decreased by the depletion of B-2 cells. However, plasma oxLDL-specific IgG and IgM levels were significantly affected only in the Intervention study. Plasma BAFF level was increased, likely as a compensation for the blockage of BAFF-R. Expression of proinflammatory cytokine IL-1β was significantly reduced in atherosclerotic lesions as well as in aorta arches and in spleens. IFN-y was also reduced in both studies, but reduction of TNF-α in the prevention study was not significant. My results showed that selective depletion B-2 cells with BAFF-R monoclonal antibody reduces the development of atherosclerosis and also attenuates established atherosclerosis. Reduction of CD4+ cell accumulation played important role in reducing the development of atherosclerosis by BAFF-R monoclonal antibody. In closing, my studies suggest BAFF-R monoclonal antibody as a potential therapeutic strategy for the future management of atherosclerotic-based diseases in humans.
A Symbolic Approach to Some Indentities for Bernoulli-Barnes Polynomials
Creators: name: Jiu, Lin
name: Moll, Victor H.
name: Vignat, Christophe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A symbolic method is used to establish some properties of the Bernoulli-Barnes polynomials.
description: 12 pages
Strategies to Improve Graduate Satisfaction and Loyalty on Art Strategies Workshops in Secondary Schools in Tianfu New Area
Chengdu
China
Creators: name: Kebin Dai
Publisher: name: Graduate School of Business and Advanced Technology Management Assumption University Thailand
Year: 2022
Subjects: art workshop
value
service quality
service innovation
satisfaction
loyalty

description: ABAC ODI Journal Vision. Action. Outcome, 10, 1, 383-401
Key Strategies to Enhance Job Satisfaction and Job Performance: A Case of Teachers in Tianfu No.4 Middle School
Creators: name: Jian, Sun
Publisher: name: Graduate School of Business and Advanced Technology Management Assumption University Thailand
Year: 2022
Subjects: job performance
compensation
work environment
career development
employee
job satisfaction

description: ABAC ODI Journal Vision. Action. Outcome, 10, 1, 402-417
Investigation of avalanche photodiodes radiation hardness for baryonic matter studies
Creators: name: Kushpil, V.
name: Mikhaylov, V.
name: Ladygin, V. P.
name: Kugler, A.
name: Kushpil, S.
name: Svoboda, O.
name: Tlustý, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Modern avalanche photodiodes (APDs) with high gain are good device candidates for light readout from detectors applied in relativistic heavy ion collisions experiments. The results of the investigations of the APDs properties from Zecotek, Ketek and Hamamatsu manufacturers after irradiation using secondary neutrons from cyclotron facility U120M at NPI of ASCR in Řež are presented. The results of the investigations can be used for the design of the detectors for the experiments at NICA and FAIR.
Benefits and Potential Harms of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Self-Testing Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in China: An Implementation Perspective
Creators: name: Wei, Chongyi
name: Li, Haochu
name: Qin, Yilu
name: Hudgens, Michael G.
name: Wong, Ngai-Sze
name: Mollan, Katie
name: Tucker, Joseph D.
name: Reifeis, Sarah A.
name: Nowacki, Amy
name: Tang, Weiming
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: BACKGROUND: Human immunodeficiency virus self-testing (HIVST) holds great promise for reaching high-risk key populations who do not access facility-based services. We sought to characterize unsupervised HIVST implementation among men who have sex with men in China.

METHODS: We conducted a nationwide online survey in China. Eligible men were at least 16 years, had anal sex with a man, and had recent condomless sex. We assessed benefits (first-time testing, increased testing frequency, confirmatory testing) and potential harms (coercion, violence, suicidality) of HIVST. Among men who have sex with men who reported ever testing for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), we identified correlates of HIVST as first-time HIV test being a self-test using multivariable logistic regression.

RESULTS: Among 1610 men who met the eligibility criteria and started the survey, 1189 (74%) completed it. Three hundred forty-one (29%) of 1189 reported ever self-testing for HIV. Human immunodeficiency virus prevalence was 7% (24/341) among self-testers and 5% (15/306) among non-self-testers. Two hundred (59%) of 341 men who self-tested reported HIVST as a first-time HIV test. Thirty-one (9%) men experienced coercion with HIVST. Thirty-one (78%) of 40 men with positive HIV self-tests sought confirmation. Multivariable analysis revealed that HIVST as first-time HIV test was associated with younger age (odds ratio [OR], 0.95; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.92-0.99), not being "out" (OR, 2.28; 95% CI, 1.60-3.28), not using the internet to meet sex partners (OR, 0.39; 95% CI, 0.22-0.69), and group sex (OR, 1.74; 95% CI, 1.02-2.9).

CONCLUSIONS: Human immunodeficiency virus self-testing reached high-risk individuals that had never received facility-based testing. Further implementation research is needed to better understand HIVST outside of research programs.
Exploration of the role of specialist nurses in the care of women with gynaecological cancer: a systematic review.
Creators: name: Cook, Olivia Yvonne
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Background: The needs of women with gynaecological cancer are significant and in some ways unique compared with those of other cancer types. Specialist nurses provide tailored care for women with gynaecological cancer yet their role varies across sectors and states and is not guided by competency standards and minimum educational requirements like their specialist breast nurse counterparts. There is a need to synthesise evidence evaluating the effectiveness of specialist nurses in the gynaecological-oncology setting. Aim: The main aim of this systematic review was to evaluate interventions by specialist nurses in their role of caring for women with gynaecological cancer. Three specific review questions were addressed that considered: the effect of specialist nurse interventions on quality of life, satisfaction with care and psychological outcomes; the most effective interventions categorised according to four main domains of care; and the effect of varied timing in the continuum of care, duration, intensity and modes of delivery of specialist nurse interventions on outcomes. Method: Both randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and non-randomised studies (NRS) testing interventions by specialist nurses in the gynaecological-oncology setting were included in this review. Nine major databases were searched and studies were assessed against set inclusion criteria. Included studies were critically appraised and a risk of bias assessment performed to evaluate quality.Data were extracted independently by three reviewers.Data were insufficiently similar to enable meta- analysis. Results: Nine studies (6 RCTs and 3 NRS) were included in the systematic review. Assessment of the risk of bias revealed that the quality of the RCTs was mixed and highlighted the inherent flaws of non-randomised study designs. Results for the RCTs and NRS were reported separately to enable distinction between evidence levels. Studies varied greatly in the type of intervention provided and the tools used to measure outcomes, contributing to mixed results. Strong positive results were recorded in the three studies measuring satisfaction with care.Seven of the nine included studies reported at least one positive interventional effect on outcomes of interest. Conclusions: The review demonstrated some positive effects of interventions by specialist nurses for women with gynaecological cancer, though these must viewed in conjunction with the assessment of evidence quality. This systematic review has contributed to our understanding of the patient-centred aspects of the specialist nurse role and further research is required to evaluate the role overall.
Evaluation of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 Serological Tests for Use With Dried Blood Spots in Kenya
Creators: name: Hartman, Shane
name: Cho, Hyunsan
name: Mwanyumba, Sophie W.
name: Halpern, Carolyn T.
name: Hallfors, Denise D.
name: Hobbs, Marcia M.
name: Luseno, Winnie K.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: We evaluated two assays to detect antibodies to HSV- 2 in dried blood spots (DBS) prepared from blood specimens submitted to a reference laboratory in Kenya. DBS did not perform well with the Kalon HSV-2 assay. Focus HerpeSelect 2 was 98.8% sensitive and 98.9% specific with dried blood spots.
Analysis of radial to ulna deviation sequences of the scaphoid by volume rendered four dimensional computerized tomography
Creators: name: Edirisinghe, Yasith
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The carpus is an articulation of eight bones that display complex, small, multidirectional behaviour in dynamic motion. Studies to quantify carpal motion have been inadequate, largely owing to technological limitations. Four dimensional computerized tomography (4D CT) is a novel technology that demonstrates great potential for advancement of kinematic studies of the carpus. However the mathematical methodology to utilize 4D CT for this purpose remains undeveloped. Through this thesis we have demonstrated a rigid body modeling method to describe carpal motion mathematically. A radius-based coordinate system was established using trilateration. Using this radial-based coordinate system, instance center of rotation mapping was used to describe the motion of the scaphoid undergoing neutral - radial - ulna deviation with great success. Utilizing the same coordinate system version change of the scaphoid in its extremities of motion was also defined. Dynamic motion sequences derived from 4D CT also enabled the investigating team to make key observations regarding natural biological motion of the scaphoid which has previously not been possible. The methodology described is not only limited to the use of 4D CT but also can be applied to any volume rendered 3D CT data on any bone to obtain kinematic information.
The Analysis of Customer Satisfaction of Chengdu ReadKing Advertising Decoration Engineering Co.
Ltd.
Creators: name: Wang, Dong
Publisher: name: Graduate School of Business and Advanced Technology Management Assumption University Thailand
Year: 2022
Subjects: customer satisfaction
tangibility
reliability
responsiveness
assurance
empathy

description: ABAC ODI Journal Vision. Action. Outcome, 10, 1, 418-431
Large Language Models are biased to overestimate profoundness
Creators: name: Herrera-Berg, Eugenio
name: Browne, Tomás Vergara
name: León-Villagrá, Pablo
name: Vives, Marc-Lluís
name: Calderon, Cristian Buc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent advancements in natural language processing by large language models (LLMs), such as GPT-4, have been suggested to approach Artificial General Intelligence. And yet, it is still under dispute whether LLMs possess similar reasoning abilities to humans. This study evaluates GPT-4 and various other LLMs in judging the profoundness of mundane, motivational, and pseudo-profound statements. We found a significant statement-to-statement correlation between the LLMs and humans, irrespective of the type of statements and the prompting technique used. However, LLMs systematically overestimate the profoundness of nonsensical statements, with the exception of Tk-instruct, which uniquely underestimates the profoundness of statements. Only few-shot learning prompts, as opposed to chain-of-thought prompting, draw LLMs ratings closer to humans. Furthermore, this work provides insights into the potential biases induced by Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), inducing an increase in the bias to overestimate the profoundness of statements.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
He remains an Englishman? : masculine nostalgia and the perception of the German threat in mid-Victorian and Edwardian England
Creators: name: Earnshaw, James
Publisher: name: The University of St Andrews
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Masculinity
subject: Nostalgia
subject: Cultural history
subject: Gender history
subject: Anglo-German relations
subject: Victorian Britain
subject: Edwardian Britain
subject: Englishness
subject: HQ1090.7G7E2
subject: Masculinity--England--History
subject: Nostalgia--England--History
subject: Men|zEngland--Conduct of life--History
subject: Great Britain--Foreign relations--Germany

description: This thesis investigates the prevalence, pertinence, and potency of a recurrent gender discourse in mid-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century England: masculine nostalgia. Nostalgic views of the national past abounded in Victorian and Edwardian England. This narrative, espoused by commentators and politicians, claimed that contemporary English men were heirs to a great ancestral legacy, bequeathed to them by their predecessors who embodied a paradigm of masculinity. This story facilitated, and ostensibly legitimated, a sense of entitlement for the English, particularly for white upper-middle-class men. However, it also invited nagging doubts over whether the present generation could live up to their progenitors’ idealised masculine character. This thesis examines when and why this nostalgic disposition became intersected by masculine angst, and what impact this trope had on the language of politics. It asks what conditions instigated these insecurities; why these concerns persisted throughout the mid-Victorian and Edwardian period; and how these fears were communicated to the English public. In short, the thesis seeks to uncover a historical continuity amid a period of immense social, political, and cultural change. It argues that the perception of the German threat between 1870 and 1909 resulted, in part, from a projection of latent English masculine insecurities. The reactions to this imagined threat were shaped by a lingering sense of inadequacy vis-à-vis previous generations. Chapters one and two examine how this discourse emerged beyond a German stimulus in the responses to the Indian Uprisings of 1857, and the origins of the Volunteer Movement in 1859. Chapters three to seven consider how the portrayal of, and responses to, German foreign policy reveal that this nostalgic view of the past shaped attitudes towards rivals’ policies. The thesis concludes that masculine nostalgia was a powerful discourse that was weaponized by upper-middle-class men to socialise contemporaries into social, political, and gender hierarchies.
Pancreatic exocrine insufficiency post-gastrectomy, oesophagectomy and pancreatico-duodenectomy
Creators: name: Ward, Salena
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Patients after the major upper gastrointestinal operations of gastrectomy, oesophagectomy and pancreatico-duodenectomy can have post-operative problems with malnutrition and weight loss. One contributing cause is postulated to be pancreatic exocrine insufficiency (PEl). There are several different tests which can be used to investigate pancreatic exocrine function, but each test has a practical disadvantage. One relatively new test of pancreatic exocrine function is the 6-hour Carbon 13 mixed triglyceride breath test (13C-MTG-BT), which is more convenient and acceptable to patients than some other tests. This research project aimed to use the 13C-MTG-BT to investigate pancreatic exocrine function in controls and post-operative patients in order to measure the incidence of PEl in patients after major upper gastrointestinal operations, and also to assess various clinical characteristics and correlate these with the 13C-MTG-BT results. Section 1 is the preface. Section 2 summarises the literature on pancreatic exocrine function tests, pancreatic exocrine function testing after gastrectomy, oesophagectomy and panrreatico-duodenectomy, and previous use of the 13C-MTG-BT. Section 3 describes the use of the 13C-MTG-BT in testing controls and post-operative patients. During the research and analysis of the 13C-MTG-BT results, it became apparent that there were two variables in test protocol which should be analysed further. Section 4 describes analysis of two variables in test protocol, which are reliability in sampling the initial breath only once, and variation in sampling the first and mid parts of the breath for each breath sample. Overall, the experimental program found a 15% incidence of PEl in the collective post-operative group of patients when assessed using the 13C-MTG-BT, although the difference between surgical cases and controls was not statistically significant. A larger study into post-operative pancreatic exocrine function is indicated. Analysis of the technique of breath sampling in the 13C-MTG-BT suggests that one baseline measurement can be highly variable and the mean of several measurements may be more accurate, and also that the part of the breath sampled is not particularly important but should be consistent. The test protocol needs further assessment to determine a more robust protocol before further investigations with the 13C-MTG-BT are performed.
Gravitational self-force in scalar-tensor gravity
Creators: name: Zimmerman, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the discovery of floating orbits and the potential to provide extra constraints on alternative theories, in this paper we derive the self-force equation for a small compact object moving on an accelerated world line in a background spacetime which is a solution of the coupled gravitational and scalar field equations of scalar-tensor theory. In the Einstein frame, the coupled field equations governing the perturbations sourced by the particle share the same form as the field equations for perturbations of a scalarvac spacetime, with both falling under the general class of hyperbolic field equations studied by Zimmerman and Poisson. Here, we solve the field equations formally in terms of retarded Green functions, which have explicit representations as Hadamard forms in the neighbourhood of the world line. Using a quasi-local expansion of the Hadamard form, we derive the regular solutions in Fermi normal coordinates according to the Detweiler-Whiting prescription. To compute the equation of motion, we parameterize the world line in terms of a mass and "charge", which we define in terms of the original Jordan frame mass, its derivative, and the parameter which translates the proper time in the Jordan frame to the Einstein frame. These parameters depend on the value of the background scalar field and its self-field corrections. The equation of motion which follows from the regular fields strongly resembles the equation for the self-force acting on a charged, massive particle in a scalarvac geometry of general relativity. Unlike the scalar vacuum scenario, the "charge" parameter in the scalar-tensor self-force equation is time variable and leading to additional local and tail terms. We also provide evolution equations for the world line parameters under the influence of the self-fields.
description: 26 pages. minor typographical errors corrected in v2
An exploratory study into the attitudes of Australian radiography students towards the use of assistive transfer devices in the clinical setting
Creators: name: Ngo, Mark Simon
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Radiographers are skilled professionals who play an essential role in creating high quality and relevant diagnostic images. The duties they perform such as transferring patients onto and off the examination table can however increase their risk of developing back and neck pain. A review of the literature was conducted and a research study was performed to identify which assistive transfer devices radiography students have used during training in the clinical setting. The project also sought to determine whether students are being encouraged by supervising radiographers to use these devices during clinical training and if they would conform to practicing unsafe transfers if instructed to by senior staff. The literature confirmed that there is limited knowledge into the use of assistive devices in reducing musculoskeletal (MSK) injuries and greater research is required into this issue. The results of the project indicated that the majority of radiography students 89/96 (93.7%) were familiar with the Patslide, friction reducing slide sheet (85/96 (89%)) and the x-ray cassette slider (83/96 (86.5%)). Many of the students were unlikely to participate in unsafe work practices (77/96 (80.2%)) and most were able to provide alternative methods of transferring patients. However, some of the respondents were influenced by senior staff into participating in dangerous patient transfers. This may lead to the establishment of unsafe work practices among students. Radiographers who act as role models for students and junior radiographers should therefore be vigilant in refraining from practicing unsafe transfer techniques as it could lead to students believing it is acceptable and emulating these practices in the work place. The study has demonstrated that safe work practices need to be addressed in the undergraduate curriculum and that students need to be aware that unsafe practices should not be emulated. Further research is required in order to explore how unsafe work practices can be minimized in the clinical setting as well as the reasons why some radiographers do not use the assistive devices available.
Faster and Riskier? Online Context of Sex Seeking Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in China
Creators: name: Zhang, Ye
name: Huang, Shujie
name: Cao, Bolin
name: Wei, Chongyi
name: Yang, Bin
name: Tucker, Joseph D.
name: Liu, Chuncheng
name: Stein, Gabriella
name: Best, John
name: Tang, Weiming
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: BACKGROUND: Many men who have sex with men (MSM) seek sex partners online, creating barriers and opportunities for human immunodeficiency virus prevention. The purpose of this study was to examine the characteristics of MSM and the risks associated with seeking sex through websites, gay apps, and both platforms in China.

METHODS: Data were collected through a cross-sectional online survey from September through October 2014 from 3 large gay Web portals. Sociodemographic information, sexual behaviors, and online sex seeking behaviors were measured. Multinomial logistic regression was performed to compare sexual risk behaviors among website users, gay app users, and men who used both platforms.

RESULTS: Of the 1201 participants, 377 (31.4%) were website-only users, 487 (40.5%) were gay app-only users, and 337 (28.0%) were men who used both platforms. These 3 MSM subgroups have distinct sociodemographic characteristics. Overall, 57.6% of participants reported having engaged in condomless anal sex with their last male partner in the past 6 months, but there was no significant difference in condomless sex between the 3 groups. Men who used both platforms viewed more sexually transmitted disease-related messages than website-only users (adjusted odds ratio, 2.19; 95% confidence interval, 1.57-3.05).

CONCLUSIONS: Condom usage behaviors were unaffected by the medium through which sexual partners were found. However, the high frequency of condomless sex suggests that websites and gay apps are both risk environments. This study suggests using multiple platforms for human immunodeficiency virus/sexually transmitted disease social media interventions may be useful.
Null lifts and projective dynamics
Creators: name: Cariglia, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe natural Hamiltonian systems using projective geometry. The null lift procedure endows the tangent bundle with a projective structure where the null Hamiltonian is identified with a projective conic and induces a Weyl geometry. Projective transformations generate a set of known and new dualities between Hamiltonian systems, as for example the phenomenon of coupling-constant metamorphosis. We conclude outlining how this construction can be extended to the quantum case for Eisenhart-Duval lifts.
description: 11 pages, no figures. Some minor changes, typos amended
A study of the relationship between unit and surgeon volume and the outcomes of cardiac surgery in Australia
Creators: name: Ch'ng, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In recent decades, increased emphasis on patient safety in cardiac surgery has provoked scrutiny of the research findings that suggest an association between hospital and/or surgeon volume and patient mortality for various inpatient procedures. Volume is an easy to measure variable, more so than other aspects or processes of care, and the potential relationship between cardiac surgical volume and mortality is widely documented. However, volume itself, especially hospital/unit volume, may not be a meaningful proxy for quality of care; some of the less commonly measured factors including processes of care and individual surgeon caseload, may have a more direct or larger influence on outcomes. This has important implications, given the trend among policymakers to use hospital volume as a central factor in deliberations regarding patient referrals, regionalisation and agreement on accreditation standards for certain procedures. As such, the purpose of this thesis is to explore the potential association and the strength of that association between unit volume and operative mortality in Australia and New Zealand with a specific focus on two areas of cardiac surgery: coronary artery bypass grafting (CAB G), and valve surgery (aortic valve replacement, mitral valve replacement, and tricuspid valve surgery).
Robust Timing Synchronization for AC-OFDM Based Optical Wireless Communications
Creators: name: Ranjha, Bilal A.
name: Kashani, Mohammadreza A.
name: Kavehrad, Mohsen
name: Deng, Peng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Visible light communications (VLC) have recently attracted a growing interest and can be a potential solution to realize indoor wireless communication with high bandwidth capacity for RF-restricted environments such as airplanes and hospitals. Optical based orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems have been proposed in the literature to combat multipath distortion and intersymbol interference (ISI) caused by multipath signal propagation. In this paper, we present a robust timing synchronization scheme suitable for asymmetrically clipped (AC) OFDM based optical intensity modulated direct detection (IM/DD) wireless systems. Our proposed method works perfectly for ACO-OFDM, Pulse amplitude modulated discrete multitone (PAM-DMT) and discrete Hartley transform (DHT) based optical OFDM systems. In contrast to existing OFDM timing synchronization methods which are either not suitable for AC OFDM techniques due to unipolar nature of output signal or perform poorly, our proposed method is suitable for AC OFDM schemes and outperforms all other available techniques. Both numerical and experimental results confirm the accuracy of the proposed method. Our technique is also computationally efficient as it requires very few computations as compared to conventional methods in order to achieve good accuracy.
description: Accepted for publication in IEEE ICNS 2015, 10 Pages, 7 figs
Endangered habitat: psychoanalytic psychotherapy after family breakdown and transient care
Creators: name: Toone, Emma
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Deprivation and neglect have long-term negative consequences for the mental and physical health of children and there is research suggesting that psychoanalytic psychotherapy is an effective form of treatment for these children using a standard treatment frame within the physical setting of the clinic. Due to practical considerations and disruptive circumstances inherent in such cases, a standard treatment frame may not be possible. There is a dearth of research on adapted techniques of psychoanalytic psychotherapy for this client population, and specifically for treatment conducted within the setting of mainstream schools. Using a single-case study of archival work with a child in disrupted family circumstances, the research aims to contribute to knowledge about effective psychotherapeutic interventions for children experiencing significant family disruption. The study details a psychoanalytic psychotherapy treatment conducted in a number of different rooms within two mainstream schools and demonstrates that the treatment was effective despite these changes in setting. The processes of change within the child as a result of the treatment will be discussed. The positive outcomes of the case are consistent with existing literature suggesting adapted forms of psychoanalytic psychotherapy can be an effective method of intervention with this population, if the therapist is adequately supported to maintain her capacity for reverie. Factors thought to be clinically significant and implications for clinical practice and public policy are explored.
MEYNA LAXIFLORA ROBYNS A POTENTIAL MULTIPURPOSE TREE: AN UNDERUTILIZED FRUIT AND MEDICINAL TREE IN MEGHALAYA
Creators: name: Rymbai, Heiplanmi
name: Mawlein, Joiedevivreson
name: Rymbai, Deimonmitre
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 70601 Horticultural Crop Growth and Development
subject: FOS: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries

description: Samatan (Meyna laxiflora Robyns) is an underutilized fruit and medicinal plant commonly found in natural forests and roadside in Meghalaya. The trees' habitats are the natural, evergreen and dry forests of the tropical and subtropical regions. There are 11 species of the genus Meyna, out M. maxiflora and M. spinosa, known to exist in the region. The two species are closely related and can be differentiated only through flower characteristics. The leaf is simple, elliptic-lanceolate in shape and glabrous on both surfaces, whereas flowers are greenish white, borne in leaf axillary, peduncled cymes arise on fascicled of leafless. Fruits are fleshy dupes, smooth globose with 4-5 one-seeded pyrenes, oblong-reniform shape, green colour at maturity and yellow-brownish at ripening. The flower appears during the month of February-March. Fruit set occurs during March-April and attain maturity and ripening during May-July. In addition to fresh consumption of fruits. In Meghalaya, the fruit is used for the preparation of wine which possesses unique flavours. However, the density of this species in Meghalaya is very low (3.7-13 per hectare). Therefore, the production technology and conservation measures of these underutilized fruits and medicinal plants must be undertaken.
Postgraduate emergency medicine education in Australasia training and assessment - the trainee's perspective
Creators: name: Craig, Simon
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis describes a comprehensive survey of trainees of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) about their views on assessment and feedback during their training. This is the first survey of its kind in Australasia. The paper begins with a detailed description of emergency medicine training in Australasia, providing a context in which to place the trainees' perspective. The relevant educational literature is then reviewed, with a focus on the current assessment methods used in emergency medicine training, as well as potential additional workplace based assessment tools. Following the literature review, the methodology of the survey is presented. The anonymous web-based survey was conducted in mid-2009, and addressed trainees' perceptions of training, supervision and feedback. Specific questions were asked regarding mandatory assessments during training - the primary examination, fellowship examination, and the trainee research requirement. Qualitative data were analysed using thematic analysis. 622 trainees responded to the survey (response rate of 37%). Trainees report that general clinical supervision is adequate, however, direct supervision at the bedside and feedback could be significantly improved. They perceive that the primary examination is necessary, although they feel it is irrelevant to their development as emergency trainees and are keen for more clinically applied knowledge to be tested. They dislike mandatory trainee research, feel inadequately supported, and distracted from other aspects of their training. The fellowship examination was overall thought to be fair, however, there were concerns with the time pressures and restrictions to the written component of the examination. Additionally, the structured clinical examination component was viewed favourably, while short cases and long cases were viewed negatively. A detailed discussion with reference to the educational literature is then presented. Recommendations from ACEM's recent review of training and assessment (which commenced in 2010) are compared with trainees' views and relevant publications. The thesis concludes with a discussion of potential limitations, and an overview of possible future research on the education of emergency medicine trainees in Australasia.
Anomalous Strangeness Transport
Creators: name: Megias, Eugenio
name: Vazquez-Mozo, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nondissipative transport of strangeness is studied in a chiral hadronic plasma with three flavors. In the phase in which chiral symmetry is preserved, strangeness transport is found to be driven by both an external magnetic field and fluid vorticity. As for the constitutive relations of the baryon and electromagnetic currents, they exhibit vortical terms proportional to the strangeness chemical potential. In the superfluid phase, transverse nondissipative diffusion of the baryon, electromagnetic, and strangeness charges is found, which survives in the limit of vanishing chiral imbalance and mixes in a fashion similar to standard dissipative diffusion in quark-gluon plasma.
description: 12 pages, LaTeX, no figures. v2: minor changes, discussion on T-transformation of transport coefficients included, typos corrected, and references added. It matches the version to be published in Journal of High Energy Physics
Electron pairing in the presence of incipient bands in iron-based superconductors
Creators: name: Chen, Xiao
name: Maiti, S.
name: Linscheid, A.
name: Hirschfeld, P. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent experiments on certain Fe-based superconductors have hinted at a role for paired electrons in "incipient" bands that are close to, but do not cross the Fermi level. Related theoretical works disagree on whether or not strong-coupling superconductivity is required to explain such effects, and whether a critical interaction strength exists. In this work, we consider various versions of the model problem of pairing of electrons in the presence of an incipient band, within a simple multiband weak-coupling BCS approximation. We categorize the problem into two cases: case(I) where superconductivity arises from the "incipient band pairing" alone, and case(II) where it is induced on an incipient band by pairing due to Fermi-surface based interactions. Negative conclusions regarding the importance of incipient bands have been drawn so far largely based on case(I), but we show explicitly that models under case(II) are qualitatively different, and can explain the non-exponential suppression of Tc, as well as robust large gaps on an incipient band. In the latter situation, large gaps on the incipient band do not require a critical interaction strength. We also model the interplay between phonon and spin fluctuation driven superconductivity and describe the bootstrap of electron-phonon superconductivity by spin fluctuations coupling the incipient and the regular bands. Finally, we discuss the effect of the dimensionality of the incipient band on our results. We argue that pairing on incipient bands may be significant and important in several Fe-based materials, including LiFeAs, FeSe intercalates and FeSe monolayers on strontium titanate, and indeed may contribute to high critical temperatures in some cases.
description: 15 pages, 11 figures
Geospatial Planning and the Resulting Economic Impact of Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Introduction in Mozambique
Creators: name: Ferguson, Marie
name: Lee, Bruce Y.
name: De Broucker, Gatien
name: Haidari, Leila A.
name: Constenla, Dagna
name: Portnoy, Allison
name: Brown, Shawn T.
name: Clark, Samantha
name: Ozawa, Sachiko
name: Zenkov, Eli
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Research has shown that the distance to the nearest immunization location can ultimately prevent someone from getting immunized. With the introduction of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine throughout the world, a major question is whether the target populations can readily access immunization.
title: The role of the intellect in the medieval Jewish and Islamic mystical traditions: A comparative study between R. Abulafia and Shaykh Suhrawardi
Creators: name: Shaheen, Marline
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Religious history, Judaic studies, Islamic studies, Medieval history

description: The intellect has a unique role in the mystical transformation. Mystics claim that the intellect as a mystical tool leads to the perfection of the self. The state of perfection is achieved when the true human essence and meaning are realised through this mystical intellect. Thus, mysticism has a rational aspect to it which can be defined in terms of the role the intellect in the mystical experience leading to perfection.
Evolving journalistic trends in American media on # Black Lives Matter
Creators: name: Irfan, Muhammad
name: Ashfaq, Muhammad
name: Azad, Amar
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2022
Subjects: Language, communication and culture
Human society

description: The movement and protests under Black Lives Matter (BLM) in the postmodern times have opened a huge space for research. Specifically, for communication and media research from the point of view of social media. The main idea of this study that low cost labor in South America and the large number of people in the lower class were the main reasons to enslave African Americans or black American. White Americans of upper class were not only burdening black Americans with labor, but they are also doing same with white Americans by taking control of politics, cash and land. . The census study method were applied in this study and also Content analysis also requires analyzing data of different forms. Data of four public Twitter accounts is collected. The social media tool Twitter is used for data. For the analysis 468 tweets from four American media organizations that are two print media and two electronic media are selected. Criminal justice should provide justice to everyone regardless of anything. Some further work the BLM can do is to educate people about racism, colorblind racism, change opinions of people and get maximum support for the movement. Black lives matter and race also matters, and it will take a shift in public to assume that they matter and their lives are equally important in order to change the justice system and American society.
The new detection of blue straggler stars in 50 open clusters using Gaia DR3
Creators: name: Li, Chunyan
name: Zhong, Jing
name: Qin, Songmei
name: Chen, Li
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: open cluster
blue straggler stars
catalog

description: The particularly abundant presence of blue straggler stars (BSS) in Galactic open clusters offers favorable conditions for detailed studies on the statistical properties and the origin of the blue straggler population. With the assistance of Gaia DR3, the number of identified open clusters is continuously increasing, and the determination of star cluster members has become more reliable. We conducted a comprehensive and thorough search for BSS in newly discovered open clusters by employing a uniform membership determination method for over one thousand newly identified open clusters with broader sky coverage, utilizing Gaia DR3's astrometric and photometric data. The membership probabilities of stars were assigned using the pyUPMASK algorithm. Then, we estimated the physical parameters of these clusters through isochrone fitting on their color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) and identified BSS within specific regions of these CMDs. As a result, we identified 138 BSS that had not been previously reported in 50 open clusters. In comparison to the latest catalogs, which document a total of approximately 1500 BSS in 339 open clusters, our new catalog increased the number of BSS in Galactic open clusters by roughly 10%, and the number of open clusters with BSS by nearly 17%. In the future, more accurate abundance measurements are anticipated to better elucidate the formation pathways of BSS in open clusters.