cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy in pregnant and breastfeeding women and strategies to increase vaccination compliance: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Bianchi, Francesco Paolo
name: Stefanizzi, Pasquale
name: Di Gioia, Maria Cristina
name: Brescia, Nazario
name: Lattanzio, Sabrina
name: Tafuri, Silvio
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Pregnant and breastfeeding women are at an increased risk of severe illness from COVID-19. Despite this, low vaccination coverages are reported in this population sub-group. The purpose of this study is to estimate the proportion of pregnant and breastfeeding women expressing hesitation to the COVID-19 vaccine worldwide. Forty-six studies were included, selected from scientific articles available in three scientific databases between 1 January 2020 and 6 February 2022. The vaccine hesitation rate among pregnant and breastfeeding women was 48.4% (95%CI=43.4–53.4%). In a sub analysis by study period, it was 40.0% (95%CI=31.6–46.6%) considering surveys administered in 2020, 58.0% (95%CI=48.9–66.9%) considering surveys administered in the first semester of 2021, and 38.1% (95%CI=25.9–51.2%) considering surveys administered in the second semester of 2021. The main reasons for vaccine hesitation were lack of information about vaccination, opinion that the vaccine is unsafe, and fear of adverse events. Available evidence in the literature has shown that fighting vaccine resistance is harsh and too slow as a process, considering the rapidity and unpredictability of a pandemic. Health education should be provided in order to improve the willingness of the community, especially for those with lower levels of education.
Exact Results in Quiver Quantum Mechanics and BPS Bound State Counting
Creators: name: Ohta, Kazutoshi
name: Sasai, Yuya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We exactly evaluate the partition function (index) of N=4 supersymmetric quiver quantum mechanics in the Higgs phase by using the localization techniques. We show that the path integral is localized at the fixed points, which are obtained by solving the BRST equations, and D-term and F-term conditions. We turn on background gauge fields of R-symmetries for the chiral multiplets corresponding to the arrows between quiver nodes, but the partition function does not depend on these R-charges. We give explicit examples of the quiver theory including a non-coprime dimension vector. The partition functions completely agree with the mathematical formulae of the Poincare polynomials (chi_y-genus) and the wall crossing for the quiver moduli spaces . We also discuss exact computation of the expectation values of supersymmetric (Q-closed) Wilson loops in the quiver theory.
description: 40 pages, 7 figures; v2: minor corrections and references are added; v3: references added, typos corrected, discrepancy in the non-coprime case resolved
title: Non-Apis (Bombus terrestris) versus honeybee (Apis mellifera) acute oral and contact sensitivity – Preliminary results of ECPA company data evaluation
Creators: name: Dinter, Axel
name: Alix, Anne
name: Becker, Roland
name: Campbell, Peter
name: Miles, Mark
name: Pilling, Ed
name: Ruddle, Natalie
name: Sharples, Amanda
name: Weyman, Gabe
name: Oger, Laurent
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut
Year: 2018

description: A preliminary data evaluation was conducted by ECPA companies to compare the sensitivity of bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) with the sensitivity of honeybees (Apis mellifera). For the evaluation about 70 data sets were available for contact exposure and about 50 data sets for oral exposure. The data sets comprised insecticides, fungicides, herbicides in about equal numbers plus a few other substances. The preliminary ECPA company data evaluation of LD 50 values indicates lower or similar contact sensitivity of bumblebees vs. honeybees. Similarly, lower or similar oral sensitivity of bumblebees vs. honeybees was determined with one exception for an insecticide that indicated higher acute oral bumblebee sensitivity compared to honeybees. For this insecticide, higher tier data indicates no negative impact on bumblebees at the maximum intended use rate. Overall, the ECPA company data evaluation indicates that bumblebees are not more sensitive than honeybees based on acute toxicity assessment.
description: Julius-Kühn-Archiv, Nr. 462 (2018): Hazards of pesticides to bees 13th International Symposium of the ICP-PR Bee Protection Group 18. - 20. October 2017, València (Spain) - Proceedings -
Investigation of the anisotropic electron g factor as a probe of the electronic structure of GaBi$_{x}$As$_{1-x}$/GaAs epilayers
Creators: name: Broderick, Christopher A.
name: Mazzucato, Simone
name: Carrère, Hélène
name: Amand, Thierry
name: Makhloufi, Hejer
name: Arnoult, Alexandre
name: Fontaine, Chantal
name: Donmez, Omer
name: Erol, Ayşe
name: Usman, Muhammad
name: O'Reilly, Eoin P.
name: Marie, Xavier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electron Landé g factor ($g^{*}$) is investigated both experimentally and theoretically in a series of GaBi$_{x}$As$_{1-x}$/GaAs strained epitaxial layers, for bismuth compositions up to $x = 3.8$%. We measure $g^{*}$ via time-resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy, which we use to analyze the spin quantum beats in the polarization of the photoluminescence in the presence of an externally applied magnetic field. The experimental measurements are compared directly to atomistic tight-binding calculations on large supercells, which allows us to explicitly account for alloy disorder effects. We demonstrate that the magnitude of $g^{*}$ increases strongly with increasing Bi composition $x$ and, based on the agreement between the theoretical calculations and experimental measurements, elucidate the underlying causes of the observed variation of $g^{*}$. By performing measurements in which the orientation of the applied magnetic field is changed, we further demonstrate that $g^{*}$ is strongly anisotropic. We quantify the observed variation of $g^{*}$ with $x$, and its anisotropy, in terms of a combination of epitaxial strain and Bi-induced hybridization of valence states due to alloy disorder, which strongly perturbs the electronic structure.
Deliverable D7.3 - Building a stakeholders framework
Creators: name: Serrano, Beatriz Alfaro
name: Joshi, Devendra
name: Kakogiannos, Ioannis
name: Bald, Ilko
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: stakeholder
Process Analytical Technologies
nanoparticle
characterisation
real time

description: Deliverable D7.3 “Building a stakeholders framework” is developed as part of the NanoPAT project. It includes an initial map of relevant stakeholders for NanoPAT, as well as an initial plan of engagement activities fostering stakeholder involvement. All project partners have been involved in the creation of both the stakeholder map and the plan for stakeholder engagement.
 The identification of the relevant project stakeholders and the implementation of the plan for stakeholder engagement are crucial for the success of the project and for the sustainability of its outputs in the long term.
 After a short description of the process of stakeholder mapping (Description of action), the deliverable presents the categories of stakeholders that have been identified for NanoPAT, distinguishing between internal and external to the project. Results-Section 3 explains the process to be followed by NanoPAT for the stakeholder assessment. Finally, Results-Section 4 shows an initial plan of activities for tailored stakeholder engagement.
 As the project progresses, the map of relevant stakeholders and the list of activities for the stakeholder engagement will be updated according to the project needs. These updates will be reflected in the deliverables D7.4 “Preliminary community building action plan incl. education and engagement”, D7.6 “Final Plan for the Exploitation and Dissemination of Results” and D7.7 “Final community building action plan incl. education and engagement”, in the months M24, M48 and M48 respectively.
Bacterial Vaginosis and the Risk of Trichomonas vaginalis Acquisition Among HIV-1–Negative Women
Creators: name: Richardson, Barbra A.
name: Abdool Karim, Salim S.
name: Ramjee, Gita
name: Hoffman, Irving F.
name: Rabe, Lorna K.
name: Taha, Taha E.
name: Kasaro, Margaret Phiri
name: Balkus, Jennifer E.
name: Mgodi, Nyaradzo
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: The vaginal microbiota may play a role in mediating susceptibility to sexually transmitted infections, including Trichomonas vaginalis (TV).
Impact of a Routine, Opt-Out HIV Testing Program on HIV Testing and Case Detection in North Carolina Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinics
Creators: name: Weber, David J.
name: Messer, Lynne C.
name: Myers, Evan R.
name: Leone, Peter A.
name: Klein, Pamela W.
name: Miller, William C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: The impact of routine, opt-out HIV testing programs in clinical settings is inconclusive. The objective of this study was to estimate the impact of an expanded, routine HIV testing program in North Carolina sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinics on HIV testing and case detection.
Entanglement in a holographic Schwinger pair with confinement
Creators: name: Grieninger, Sebastian
name: Kharzeev, Dmitri E.
name: Zahed, Ismail
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: We revisit the entanglement of a Schwinger pair created by external fields of arbitrary strength, using a holographic dual description of QCD. When external fields are strong in comparison to the string tension, the entanglement is geometrically tied to the Einstein-Rosen (ER) bridge in the bulk, and disappears when the pair production is not exponentially suppressed at the boundary. For moderate external fields, the entanglement is shown to follow from the geometrical interplay between the position of the ER bridge and the confining wall in the bulk. We clarify the physical nature of quantum entanglement in pair production, and connect it to the entropy of entanglement between the left- and right-moving fermions. In particular, we clarify the effect of real radiation off the produced particles on quantum entanglement of the pair.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures
Superradiance and black hole bomb in five-dimensional minimal ungauged supergravity
Creators: name: Aliev, Alikram N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the black hole bomb model which consists of a rotating black hole of five-dimenensional minimal ungauged supergravity and a reflecting mirror around it. For low-frequency scalar perturbations, we find solutions to the Klein-Gordon equation in the near-horizon and far regions of the black hole spacetime. To avoid solutions with logarithmic terms, we assume that the orbital quantum number $ l $ takes on nearly, but not exactly, integer values and perform the matching of these solutions in an intermediate region. This allows us to calculate analytically the frequency spectrum of quasinormal modes, taking the limits as $ l $ approaches even or odd integers separately. We find that all $ l $ modes of scalar perturbations undergo negative damping in the regime of superradiance, resulting in exponential growth of their amplitudes. Thus, the model under consideration would exhibit the superradiant instability, eventually behaving as a black hole bomb in five dimensions.
description: 21 pages, REVTeX, Minor changes, Typos corrected
Reversing the temporal envelope of a heralded single photon using a cavity
Creators: name: Srivathsan, Bharath
name: Gulati, Gurpreet Kaur
name: Cerè, Alessandro
name: Chng, Brenda
name: Kurtsiefer, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate a way to prepare single photons with a temporal envelope that resembles the time reversal of photons from the spontaneous decay process. We use the photon pairs generated from a time-ordered atomic cascade decay: the detection of the first photon of the cascade is used as a herald for the ground-state transition resonant second photon. We show how the interaction of the heralding photon with an asymmetric Fabry-Perot cavity reverses the temporal shape of its twin photon from a decaying to a rising exponential envelope. This single photon is expected to be ideal for interacting with two level systems.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Impact of Public Housing Relocations: Are Changes in Neighborhood Conditions Related to STIs Among Relocaters?
Creators: name: Martin, Monique
name: Karnes, Conny
name: Rothenberg, Richard
name: Wingood, Gina M.
name: Linton, Sabriya
name: Haley, Danielle F.
name: Adimora, Adaora A.
name: Kelley, Mary E.
name: Bonney, Loida Elena
name: Ross, Zev
name: Hunter-Jones, Josalin
name: del Rio, Carlos
name: Cooper, Hannah L.F.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Cross-sectional and ecologic studies suggest that place characteristics influence sexual behaviors and sexually-transmitted infections (STIs). Using data from a predominately substance-misusing cohort of African-American adults relocating from US public housing complexes, this multilevel longitudinal study tested the hypothesis that participants who experienced greater post-relocation improvements in neighborhood conditions (i.e., socioeconomic disadvantage, social disorder, STI prevalence, male:female sex ratios) would have reduced odds of testing positive for an STI over time.
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Creators: name: Fernandez, Miguel
name: De Los Palotes, Juan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: prueba, test, evaluacion

description: esta es la descripcio de los datos que estamos poniendo en ZENODO estea es una prueba que estamos tratando de hacer para ver como funcionan las comunidades de zenodo esta es la descripcio de los datos que estamos poniendo en ZENODO estea es una prueba que estamos tratando de hacer para ver como funcionan las comunidades de zenodoesta es la descripcio de los datos que estamos poniendo en ZENODO estea es una prueba que estamos tratando de hacer para ver como funcionan las comunidades de zenodoesta es la descripcio de los datos que estamos poniendo en ZENODO estea es una prueba que estamos tratando de hacer para ver como funcionan las comunidades de zenodo
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Classification of reflection symmetry protected topological semimetals and nodal superconductors
Creators: name: Chiu, Ching-Kai
name: Schnyder, Andreas P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While the topological classification of insulators, semimetals, and superconductors in terms of nonspatial symmetries is well understood, less is known about topological states protected by crystalline symmetries, such as mirror reflections and rotations. In this work, we systematically classify topological semimetals and nodal superconductors that are protected, not only by nonspatial (i.e., global) symmetries, but also by a crystal reflection symmetry. We find that the classification crucially depends on (i) the codimension of the Fermi surface (nodal line or point) of the semimetal (superconductor), (ii) whether the mirror symmetry commutes or anticommutes with the nonspatial symmetries and (iii) how the Fermi surfaces (nodal lines or points) transform under the mirror reflection and nonspatial symmetries. The classification is derived by examining all possible symmetry-allowed mass terms that can be added to the Bloch or Bogoliubov-de Gennes Hamiltonian in a given symmetry class and by explicitly deriving topological invariants. We discuss several examples of reflection symmetry protected topological semimetals and nodal superconductors, including topological crystalline semimetals with mirror $\mathbb{Z}_2$ numbers and topological crystalline nodal superconductors with mirror winding numbers.
description: 27 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables. Introduction video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_0TBJ7pYpw
Bulk-Edge Correspondence for Point-Gap Topological Phases in Junction Systems
Creators: name: Hwang, Geonhwi
name: Obuse, Hideaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The bulk-edge correspondence is one of the most important ingredients in the theory of topological phases of matter. While the bulk-edge correspondence is applicable for Hermitian junction systems where two subsystems with independent topological invariants are connected to each other, it has not been discussed for junction systems with non-Hermitian point-gap topological phases. In this Letter, based on analytical results obtained by the extension of non-Bloch band theory to junction systems, we establish the bulk-edge correspondence for point-gap topological phases in junction systems. We also confirm that almost all the eigenstates are localized near the interface which are called the "non-Hermitian proximity effects". One of the unique properties is that the localization length becomes the same for both subsystems nevertheless those model-parameters are different.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Incident Sexually Transmitted Infection as a Biomarker for High-Risk Sexual Behavior After Diagnosis of Acute HIV
Creators: name: Chin, Tammy
name: Gay, Cynthia L.
name: Crooks, Amanda M.
name: Eron, Joseph J.
name: McGee, Kara S.
name: Kuruc, JoAnn D.
name: Hightow-Weidman, Lisa B.
name: Hicks, Charles B.
name: Cope, Anna B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Sexually transmitted infection (STI) diagnosis following diagnosis of acute HIV infection (AHI) indicates ongoing high-risk sexual behavior and possible risk of HIV transmission. We assessed predictors of STI acquisition and the effect of time since care entry on STI incidence in AHI patients in care and receiving consistent risk-reduction messaging.
Prostate-Specific Antigen is Unlikely to Be a Suitable Biomarker of Semen Exposure From Recent Unprotected Receptive Anal Intercourse in Men Who Have Sex With Men
Creators: name: Norris, Alison H.
name: Ervin, Melissa
name: Rice, Cara E.
name: Lynch, Courtney D.
name: Turner, Abigail Norris
name: Fields, Karen S.
name: Davis, John A.
name: Gallo, Maria F.
name: Hobbs, Marcia M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: A biomarker of unprotected receptive anal intercourse (RAI) could improve validity of sexual behavior measurement. We quantified prostate-specific antigen (PSA) from rectal swabs from men who have sex with men (MSM). One swab was PSA-positive. Using current methods, PSA is an inadequate biomarker of recent unprotected RAI in MSM.
Observations à bord des navires de pêche professionnelle. Bilan de l'échantillonnage 2012
Creators: name: Cornou, Anne-Sophie
name: Dimeet, Joel
name: Tetard, Alain
name: Gaudou, Olivier
name: Dube, Benoit
name: Fauconnet, Laurence
name: Rochet, Marie-Joelle
Publisher: name: Ifremer
Year: 2013

description: Ce document est une synthèse des informations collectées en 2012 à bord des navires de pêche professionnelle dans le cadre de l'action ObsMer. Cette action vise à observer in situ l'activité de pêche et l'ensemble de la capture, particulièrement la partie non retenue, en identifiant les espèces capturées, les tonnages par espèce et en prenant des mesures de tailles.
Monitored non-adiabatic and coherent-controlled quantum unital Otto heat engines: First four cumulants
Creators: name: Makouri, Abdelkader El
name: Slaoui, Abdallah
name: Laamara, Rachid Ahl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, measurement-based quantum thermal machines have drawn more attention in the field of quantum thermodynamics. However, the previous results on quantum Otto heat engines were either limited to special unital and non-unital channels in the bath stages, or a specific driving protocol at the work strokes and assuming the cycle being time-reversal symmetric i.e. $V^{\dagger}=U$ (or $V=U$). In this paper, we consider a single spin-1/2 quantum Otto heat engine, by first replacing one of the heat baths by an arbitrary unital channel and then we give the exact analytical expression of the characteristic function from which all the cumulants of heat and work emerge. We prove that under the effect of monitoring, $ν_{2}>ν_{1}$ is a necessary condition for positive work, either for a symmetric or asymmetric-driven Otto cycle. Furthermore, going beyond the average we show that the ratio of the fluctuations of work and heat is lower and upper-bounded when the system is working as a heat engine. However, differently from the previous results in the literature, we consider the third and fourth cumulants as well. It is shown that the ratio of the third (fourth) cumulants of work and heat is not upper-bounded by unity nor lower-bounded by the third (fourth) power of the efficiency, as is the case for the ratio of fluctuations. Finally, we consider applying a specific unital map that plays the role of a heat bath in a coherently superposed, manner and we show the role of the initial coherence of the control qubit on efficiency, on the average work and its relative fluctuations.
Characteristics of African American Women and Their Partners With Perceived Concurrent Partnerships in 4 Rural Counties in the Southeastern US
Creators: name: Ludema, Christina
name: Villar-Loubet, Olga
name: McLellan-Lemal, Eleanor
name: OʼDaniels, Christine M.
name: Doherty, Irene A.
name: Adimora, Adaora A.
name: White, Becky L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Among African American women from four rural Southeastern counties, partner's concurrency was associated with intimate partner violence, and forced sex, but not economic benefit.
Bilan des campagnes océanographiques françaises 2014
2014 French oceanographic cruises report
Creators: name: Danioux, Nolwenn
Publisher: name: Ifremer
Year: 2015

description: This document reports on the French oceanographic cruises conducted in 2014. It was drawn up by IFREMER, and more specifically by the SISMER (French acronym for marine scientific information systems) department which is in charge of managing cruise data.
It provides a detailed description of the role of the various players managing French ocean-going facilities and of the means to archive cruise information and oceanographic data. It presents the fleet's activity in 2014 and provides dynamic access to cruise information through the web portal CALLED Nautilus: http://www.ifremer.fr/sismer/index_UK.htm.
Previous years' reports for French oceanographic cruises are also available via the Archimer website IFREMER'S INSTITUTIONAL archive, at: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/index.jsp?la=en.
description: Ce document présente le bilan des campagnes océanographiques françaises réalisées en 2014. Il a été réalisé par l’IFREMER, et notamment par le SISMER (Systèmes d’Informations Scientifiques pour la MER) qui a la responsabilité de gérer l’information des campagnes.
Il décrit en détail le rôle des différents acteurs en matière de gestion des moyens navals français et des moyens d’archivage de l’information des campagnes et des données océanographiques. Il présente l’activité 2014 de la flotte et permet un accès dynamique à l’information des campagnes par l’intermédiaire du portail WEB Nautilus : http://www.ifremer.fr/sismer/index_FR.htm.
Les bilans des campagnes océanographiques françaises des années antérieures sont également disponibles sur le site Archimer, archive institutionnelle de l’IFREMER, à l’adresse suivante : http://archimer.ifremer.fr/.
aMCfast: automation of fast NLO computations for PDF fits
Creators: name: Bertone, Valerio
name: Frederix, Rikkert
name: Frixione, Stefano
name: Rojo, Juan
name: Sutton, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the interface between MadGraph5_aMC@NLO, a self-contained program that calculates cross sections up to next-to-leading order accuracy in an automated manner, and APPLgrid, a code that parametrises such cross sections in the form of look-up tables which can be used for the fast computations needed in the context of PDF fits. The main characteristic of this interface, which we dub aMCfast, is its being fully automated as well, which removes the need to extract manually the process-specific information for additional physics processes, as is the case with other matrix element calculators, and renders it straightforward to include any new process in the PDF fits. We demonstrate this by studying several cases which are easily measured at the LHC, have a good constraining power on PDFs, and some of which were previously unavailable in the form of a fast interface.
description: 36 pages, 10 figures
A randomized controlled trial to pilot the efficacy of a computer-based intervention with elements of virtual reality and limited therapist assistance for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Creators: name: Van Meggelen, Marieke
name: Morina, Nexhmedin
name: Van Der Heiden, Colin
name: Brinkman, Willem-Paul
name: Yocarini, Iris E
name: Tielman, Myrthe L
name: Rodenburg, Jan
name: Van Ee, Elisa
name: Van Schie, Kevin
name: Broekman, Marijke E
name: Franken, Ingmar HA
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: Digital Health
post-traumatic stress disorder
PTSD
intervention
computer-based
virtual reality
war veterans
childhood sexual abuse

description: Peer reviewed: True
description: Although well-established therapies exist for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), barriers to seek mental health care are high. Technology-based interventions may play a role in improving the reach of efforts to treat, especially when therapist availability is low. The goal of the current randomized controlled trial was to pilot the efficacy of a computer-based trauma intervention with elements of virtual reality (VR; 3MR system) and limited therapist involvement for the treatment of PTSD in a childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and war veteran sample and to compare this to "treatment as usual" (TAU). TAU consisted of evidence-based approaches such as imaginal exposure, EMDR, or narrative exposure therapy. A total of 44 patients with PTSD were included and randomly assigned to 12 sessions of 3MR intervention or TAU (completer n 3MR = 12, TAU = 18). Several measures (PCL-5, BDI-II, OQ-45-2, and the M.I.N.I. 5.0.0.) were administered to measure symptoms of PTSD and depression and scores of overall well-being at pre, post, and a three-month follow-up measurement. Analyses suggest that symptoms of PTSD and depression in the 3MR condition decreased, and overall well-being increased between pre and post measurements. Results did not indicate any clear differences between the treatment conditions over time which suggests that treatment gains of the 3MR intervention seem no less than those of TAU. Finally, both treatment conditions produced similar remission rates of PTSD and depression. Therefore, the 3MR intervention could possibly constitute an appropriate treatment alternative. The small sample size as well as evident drop-out rates in the 3MR condition (45%) do warrant further research. The procedures of this study were approved by the Medical Ethical Research Committee (MERC) of the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam (MEC-NL46279.078.13) and pre-registered via ClinicalTrials.gov (Protocol Record CI1-12-S028-1).
A replication-competent smallpox vaccine LC16m8Δ-based COVID-19 vaccine
Creators: name: Sakamoto, Akihiko
name: Osawa, Hiroaki
name: Hashimoto, Hinata
name: Mizuno, Tetsushi
name: Hasyim, Ammar A.
name: Abe, Yu-ichi
name: Okahashi, Yuto
name: Ogawa, Ryohei
name: Iyori, Mitsuhiro
name: Shida, Hisatoshi
name: Yoshida, Shigeto
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Viral vectors are a potent vaccine platform for inducing humoral and T-cell immune responses. Among the various viral vectors, replication-competent ones are less commonly used for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine development compared with replication-deficient ones. Here, we show the availability of a smallpox vaccine LC16m8Δ (m8Δ) as a replication-competent viral vector for a COVID-19 vaccine. M8Δ is a genetically stable variant of the licensed and highly effective Japanese smallpox vaccine LC16m8. Here, we generated two m8Δ recombinants: one harbouring a gene cassette encoding the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spike (S) glycoprotein, named m8Δ-SARS2(P7.5-S)-HA; and one encoding the S protein with a highly polybasic motif at the S1/S2 cleavage site, named m8Δ-SARS2(P7.5-SHN)-HA. M8Δ-SARS2(P7.5-S)-HA induced S-specific antibodies in mice that persisted for at least six weeks after a homologous boost immunization. All eight analysed serum samples displayed neutralizing activity against an S-pseudotyped virus at a level similar to that of serum samples from patients with COVID-19, and more than half (5/8) also had neutralizing activity against the Delta/B.1.617.2 variant of concern. Importantly, most serum samples also neutralized the infectious SARS-CoV-2 Wuhan and Delta/B.1.617.2 strains. In contrast, immunization with m8Δ-SARS2(P7.5-SHN)-HA elicited significantly lower antibody titres, and the induced antibodies had less neutralizing activity. Regarding T-cell immunity, both m8Δ recombinants elicited S-specific multifunctional CD8+ and CD4+ T-cell responses even after just a primary immunization. Thus, m8Δ provides an alternative method for developing a novel COVID-19 vaccine.
Concurrent Sexual Partnerships Among Young Heterosexual Adults at Increased HIV Risk: Types and Characteristics
Creators: name: Agnew, Christopher R.
name: Warren, Jocelyn T.
name: Schoenbach, Victor J.
name: Sanchez, Diana Maria
name: Harvey, S. Marie
name: Washburn, Isaac Joel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: The impact of concurrency on STI transmission depends upon coital frequency, condom use, duration of relationship overlap, and number of partners. Previous research has identified distinct concurrency types; however, little is known about their risk characteristics.
Correlates of Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Coverage: A State-Level Analysis
Creators: name: Reiter, Paul L.
name: Moss, Jennifer L.
name: Brewer, Noel T.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: We tested the hypothesis that states with higher rates of cancers associated with human papillomavirus (HPV) would have lower HPV vaccine coverage.
Novel method for hit-position reconstruction using voltage signals in plastic scintillators and its application to Positron Emission Tomography
Creators: name: Raczynski, L.
name: Moskal, P.
name: Kowalski, P.
name: Wislicki, W.
name: Bednarski, T.
name: Bialas, P.
name: Czerwinski, E.
name: Kaplon, L .
name: Kochanowski, A.
name: Korcyl, G.
name: Kowal, J.
name: Kozik, T.
name: Krzemien, W.
name: Kubicz, E.
name: Molenda, M.
name: Moskal, I.
name: Niedzwiecki, Sz.
name: Palka, M.
name: Pawlik-Niedzwiecka, M.
name: Rudy, Z.
name: Salabura, P.
name: Sharma, N. G.
name: Silarski, M.
name: Slomski, A.
name: Smyrski, J.
name: Strzelecki, A.
name: Wieczorek, A.
name: Zielinski, M.
name: Zon, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Currently inorganic scintillator detectors are used in all commercial Time of Flight Positron Emission Tomograph (TOF-PET) devices. The J-PET collaboration investigates a possibility of construction of a PET scanner from plastic scintillators which would allow for single bed imaging of the whole human body. This paper describes a novel method of hit-position reconstruction based on sampled signals and an example of an application of the method for a single module with a 30 cm long plastic strip, read out on both ends by Hamamatsu R4998 photomultipliers. The sampling scheme to generate a vector with samples of a PET event waveform with respect to four user-defined amplitudes is introduced. The experimental setup provides irradiation of a chosen position in the plastic scintillator strip with an annihilation gamma quanta of energy 511~keV. The statistical test for a multivariate normal (MVN) distribution of measured vectors at a given position is developed, and it is shown that signals sampled at four thresholds in a voltage domain are approximately normally distributed variables. With the presented method of a vector analysis made out of waveform samples acquired with four thresholds, we obtain a spatial resolution of about 1 cm and a timing resolution of about 80 ps
Placing human gene families into their evolutionary context.
Creators: name: Dornburg, Alex
name: Mallik, Rittika
name: Wang, Zheng
name: Bernal, Moisés A
name: Thompson, Brian
name: Bruford, Elspeth A
name: Nebert, Daniel W
name: Vasiliou, Vasilis
name: Yohe, Laurel R
name: Yoder, Jeffrey A
name: Townsend, Jeffrey P
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: Review

description: Following the draft sequence of the first human genome over 20 years ago, we have achieved unprecedented insights into the rules governing its evolution, often with direct translational relevance to specific diseases. However, staggering sequence complexity has also challenged the development of a more comprehensive understanding of human genome biology. In this context, interspecific genomic studies between humans and other animals have played a critical role in our efforts to decode human gene families. In this review, we focus on how the rapid surge of genome sequencing of both model and non-model organisms now provides a broader comparative framework poised to empower novel discoveries. We begin with a general overview of how comparative approaches are essential for understanding gene family evolution in the human genome, followed by a discussion of analyses of gene expression. We show how homology can provide insights into the genes and gene families associated with immune response, cancer biology, vision, chemosensation, and metabolism, by revealing similarity in processes among distant species. We then explain methodological tools that provide critical advances and show the limitations of common approaches. We conclude with a discussion of how these investigations position us to gain fundamental insights into the evolution of gene families among living organisms in general. We hope that our review catalyzes additional excitement and research on the emerging field of comparative genomics, while aiding the placement of the human genome into its existentially evolutionary context.
MOJAVE XII: Acceleration and Collimation of Blazar Jets on Parsec Scales
Creators: name: Homan, D. C.
name: Lister, M. L.
name: Kovalev, Y. Y.
name: Pushkarev, A. B.
name: Savolainen, T.
name: Kellermann, K. I.
name: Richards, J. L.
name: Ros, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the acceleration properties of 329 features in 95 blazar jets from the MOJAVE VLBA program. Nearly half the features and three-quarters of the jets show significant changes in speed and/or direction. In general, apparent speed changes are distinctly larger than changes in direction, indicating that changes in the Lorentz factors of jet features dominate the observed speed changes rather than bends along the line of sight. Observed accelerations tend to increase the speed of features near the jet base, $\lesssim 10-20$ parsecs projected, and decrease their speed at longer distances. The range of apparent speeds at fixed distance in an individual jet can span a factor of a few, indicating that shock properties and geometry may influence the apparent motions; however, we suggest that the broad trend of jet features increasing their speed near the origin is due to an overall acceleration of the jet flow out to de-projected distances of order $10^2$ parsecs, beyond which the flow begins to decelerate or remains nearly constant in speed. We estimate intrinsic rates of change of the Lorentz factors in the galaxy frame of order $\dotΓ/Γ\simeq 10^{-3}$ to $10^{-2}$ per year which can lead to total Lorentz factor changes of a factor of a few on the length scales observed here. Finally, we also find evidence for jet collimation at projected distances of $\lesssim 10$ parsecs in the form of the non-radial motion and bending accelerations that tend to better align features with the inner jet.
description: 20 pages, 12 figures, 2 tables, Accepted for Publication in ApJ
Recycle-and-Distill: Universal Compression Strategy for Transformer-based Speech SSL Models with Attention Map Reusing and Masking Distillation
Creators: name: Jang, Kangwook
name: Kim, Sungnyun
name: Yun, Se-Young
name: Kim, Hoirin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Transformer-based speech self-supervised learning (SSL) models, such as HuBERT, show surprising performance in various speech processing tasks. However, huge number of parameters in speech SSL models necessitate the compression to a more compact model for wider usage in academia or small companies. In this study, we suggest to reuse attention maps across the Transformer layers, so as to remove key and query parameters while retaining the number of layers. Furthermore, we propose a novel masking distillation strategy to improve the student model's speech representation quality. We extend the distillation loss to utilize both masked and unmasked speech frames to fully leverage the teacher model's high-quality representation. Our universal compression strategy yields the student model that achieves phoneme error rate (PER) of 7.72% and word error rate (WER) of 9.96% on the SUPERB benchmark.
description: Proceedings of Interspeech 2023. Code URL: https://github.com/sungnyun/ARMHuBERT
Coordinated cortical thickness alterations across six neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders.
Creators: name: Hettwer, MD
name: Larivière, S
name: Park, BY
name: Van Den Heuvel, OA
name: Schmaal, L
name: Andreassen, OA
name: Ching, CRK
name: Hoogman, M
name: Buitelaar, J
name: Van Rooij, D
name: Veltman, DJ
name: Stein, DJ
name: Franke, B
name: Van Erp, TGM
name: ENIGMA ADHD Working Group
name: ENIGMA Autism Working Group
name: ENIGMA Bipolar Disorder Working Group
name: ENIGMA Major Depression Working Group
name: ENIGMA OCD Working Group
name: ENIGMA Schizophrenia Working Group
name: Jahanshad, N
name: Thompson, PM
name: Thomopoulos, SI
name: Bethlehem, RAI
name: Bernhardt, BC
name: Eickhoff, SB
name: Valk, SL
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: Article
/692/699/476
/692/699/375/366
/631/378/2649
/59
/59/57
article

description: Funder: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (Federal Ministry of Education and Research); doi: https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002347
description: Funder: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (Max Planck Society); doi: https://doi.org/10.13039/501100004189
description: Neuropsychiatric disorders are increasingly conceptualized as overlapping spectra sharing multi-level neurobiological alterations. However, whether transdiagnostic cortical alterations covary in a biologically meaningful way is currently unknown. Here, we studied co-alteration networks across six neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders, reflecting pathological structural covariance. In 12,024 patients and 18,969 controls from the ENIGMA consortium, we observed that co-alteration patterns followed normative connectome organization and were anchored to prefrontal and temporal disease epicenters. Manifold learning revealed frontal-to-temporal and sensory/limbic-to-occipitoparietal transdiagnostic gradients, differentiating shared illness effects on cortical thickness along these axes. The principal gradient aligned with a normative cortical thickness covariance gradient and established a transcriptomic link to cortico-cerebello-thalamic circuits. Moreover, transdiagnostic gradients segregated functional networks involved in basic sensory, attentional/perceptual, and domain-general cognitive processes, and distinguished between regional cytoarchitectonic profiles. Together, our findings indicate that shared illness effects occur in a synchronized fashion and along multiple levels of hierarchical cortical organization.
Creative Contributory Contests to Spur Innovation in Sexual Health: 2 Cases and a Guide for Implementation
Creators: name: Liu, Fengying
name: Bayus, Barry L.
name: Tso, Lai Sze
name: Kim, Julie A.
name: Tang, Weiming
name: Tucker, Joseph D.
name: Wei, Chongyi
name: Zhang, Ye
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Sexual health campaigns are often designed “top-down” by public health experts, failing to engage key populations. Using the power of crowdsourcing to shape a “bottom-up” approach, this note describes two creative contributory contests (CCC) to enhance sexual health campaigns. We provide guidance for designing CCCs to improve HIV and other STD testing.
Evaluation de la qualité des zones de production conchylicole. Département : Charente-Maritime. Edition 2014
Creators: name: Lecadet, Cyrielle
name: Noyer, Mathilde
Publisher: name: 2014 - Ifremer
Year: 2014
Subjects: REMI
E. Coli
Contamination bactériologique des coquillages
Classement sanitaire des zones de production
Charente-Maritime

description: Après un rappel des objectifs, du fonctionnement et de la méthode d’interprétation des résultats du réseau de contrôle microbiologique REMI, ce rapport présente le bilan national et décrit le programme annuel pour le département de la Charente-Maritime. Il présente l’ensemble des résultats obtenus, en particulier l’estimation de la qualité des zones de production de coquillages classées et l’évolution de leur qualité sur la période 2011-2013. Le programme de surveillance 2013 a été réalisé à 97.7%. L’année 2013 est marquée par un nombre important d’alertes REMI. Au total, 29 dispositifs d’alerte ont été déclenchés engendrant 78 prélèvements et analyses supplémentaires. Les zones classées en A, B ou C sont au nombre de 33 pour la Charente-Maritime. Quatre d’entre elles sont classées alternativement en A et B par l’arrêté préfectoral n°14.379 du 10 février 2014. Les classements sanitaires des zones de production classées (arrêtés préfectoraux des 10 février 2014 et 31 juillet 2014) sont concordants avec l’estimation pour 43.2% d’entre eux aux qualités microbiologiques et chimiques estimés sur ces zones pour la période 2011-2013 . Cependant, 46% d’entre eux ne sont pas concordants et 10.8% ne bénéficient pas d’un nombre de données suffisant pour en estimer la qualité microbiologique
Predicting effectiveness of the V114 vaccine against invasive pneumococcal disease in children
Creators: name: Ryman, Josiah
name: Weaver, Jessica
name: Yee, Ka Lai
name: Sachs, Jeffrey R.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The potential impact of new pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) is assessed by using immune responses to predict their effectiveness against invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD). This analysis predicted the serotype-specific effectiveness against IPD of a new 15-valent PCV (V114) for the serotypes shared with a 13-valent PCV (PCV13), in a US pediatric population given a 3+1 dosing regimen. Beginning with the known serotype-specific antibody concentrations after vaccination with placebo, 7-valent PCV (PCV7) and PCV13, reverse cumulative distribution curves were used, along with published serotype-specific vaccine effectiveness of PCV7 and PCV13, to derive a protective antibody concentration (Cp) for each PCV13 serotype in V114. Serotype-specific effectiveness was predicted using the Cp estimates and the respective serotype-specific antibody concentrations of placebo and V114 recipients in recent pediatric clinical trials. Predicted serotype-specific V114 effectiveness values ranged from 86% to 99% for PCV7 serotypes and from 59% to 97% for (non-PCV7) PCV13 serotypes. V114 serotype-specific effectiveness against IPD in a US pediatric population was predicted to be largely comparable to that of PCV7 and PCV13 for shared serotypes, with models suggesting likelihood of high overall benefit gained from increased serotype 3 effectiveness, and additional protection against serotypes 22F and 33F.
Simulating QCD at nonzero baryon density to all orders in the hopping parameter expansion
Creators: name: Aarts, Gert
name: Seiler, Erhard
name: Sexty, Denes
name: Stamatescu, Ion-Olimpiu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Progress in simulating QCD at nonzero baryon density requires, amongst others, substantial numerical effort. Here we propose two different expansions to all orders in the hopping parameter, preserving the full Yang-Mills action, which are much cheaper to simulate. We carry out simulations using complex Langevin dynamics, both in the hopping expansions and in the full theory, for two flavours of Wilson fermions, and agreement is seen at sufficiently high order in the expansion. These results provide support for the use of complex Langevin dynamics to study QCD at nonzero density, both in the full and the expanded theory, and for the convergence of the latter.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, PRD version, minor changes