cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Major Determinants of Modern Contraceptive Use Among Women of  Reproductive Age in Selected Cities of Nigeria.
Creators: name: Sarah, Salma Afroz
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Objective: This study was designed to assess the major determinants of modern contraceptive use among women of reproductive age in selected cities of Nigeria.Methods: Cross sectional analysis of 10,535 women aged 15-49 years was performed using data from the Measurement, Learning & Evaluation’s sustainability survey collected in 2017. The main outcome measure of this study was modern contraceptive use. Descriptive statistics and multivariate logistic regression models were used. Results: The study found that in spite of more than 96% of respondents knowing of at least one method of contraception, the modern contraceptive prevalence rate is very low (20.8%).  Individual characteristics like age, parity, educational status, religion, and marital status were found to have significant (p<0.05) association with modern contraceptive use. Exposure to at least one NURHI message increased the probability AOR 1.63 (1.36-1.96) of modern contraceptive use significantly (p<0.001). However, respondent’s belief of at least 1 common family planning myth was negatively associated (p<0.001) with their modern contraceptive use AOR 0.67 (0.60-0.75). The study also found that the association of modern contraceptive use and  individual’s exposure to NURHI messages is modified by an respondent’s city of residence.Conclusions: The findings indicate significant socio-economic and demographic variation in modern contraceptive use among reproductive age women in Nigeria. Strengthening community awareness programs and female education should be given top priority.
Ground-state atomic polarization relaxation-time measurement of Rb filled hypocycloidal core-shaped Kagome HC-PCF
Creators: name: Bradley, T. D.
name: Ilinova, E.
name: McFerran, J. J.
name: Jouin, J.
name: Debord, B.
name: Alharbi, M.
name: Thomas, P.
name: Gerome, F.
name: Benabid, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the measurement of ground state atomic polarization relaxation tile of Rb vapor confined in five different hypocycloidal core shape Kagome hollow core photonic crystal fibers made with uncoated silica glass. We are able to distinguish between wall-collision and transit-time effects in optical waveguide and deduce the contribution of the atom's dwell time at the core wall surface. In contrast with convetional macroscopic atomic cell configuration, and in agreement with Monte Carlo simulations, the measured relaxation times were found to be at least one order of magnitude longer than the limit set by the atom-wall collisional relaxation from thermal atoms. This extended relaxation time is explained by the combination of a stronger contribution of the slow atoms in the atomic polarization build-up, and of the relatively significant contribution of dwell time to the relaxation process of the ground state polarization.
description: 8 pages, 6 pages for main text, 2 pages for supplementary materials, 4 figures
Serpulospira Cossmann 1916
Creators: name: Yoo, E. K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1994
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Euomphalina
Euomphalidae
Serpulospira

description: Serpulospira Cossmann, 1916 Australian Carboniferous species. 'Serpulospira' scalariformis n.sp., from 'Marohn'.
description: Published as part of Yoo, E. K., 1994, Early Carboniferous Gastropoda from the Tamworth Belt, New South Wales, Australia, pp. 63-120 in Records of the Australian Museum 46 (1) on page 73, DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.46.1994.18, http://zenodo.org/record/4654599
BARRIERS TO MENTAL HEALTH CARE ACCESS AMONG REFUGEES RESETTLED IN NORTH CAROLINA: A PROGRAM AND POLICY RECOMMENDATION FOR TRAINING INTERPRETERS
Creators: name: Lowman, Macon
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Literature indicates a high prevalence of mental health illnesses among refugees, specifically posttraumatic stress disorder, and depression. These illnesses can have a negative impact across the life-course interrupting maternal and child health milestones. Mental health care services for refugees can be challenging to attain due to difficulties such as transportation and language. This paper will examine barriers to receiving care with a specific focus on the availability and quality of mental health interpreters in North Carolina. Interpreters can have an influence on refugees' ability to access care, the quality of mental health services received, diagnosis, and therapy retention rates. In order to respond to the unmet mental health needs of refugees, the health community must respond by providing interpreters, and assuring these professionals receive comprehensive training.
Itinerant Antiferromagnetism in FeMnP0.8Si0.2 Single Crystals
Creators: name: Sales, B. C.
name: Susner, M. A.
name: Conner, B. S.
name: Yan, J. Q.
name: May, A. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Compounds based on the Fe2P structure have continued to attract interest because of the interplay between itinerant and localized magnetism in a non-centrosymmetric crystal structure, and because of the recent developments of these materials for magnetocaloric applications. Here we report the growth and characterization of mm size single crystals of FeMnP0.8Si0.2. Single crystal x-ray diffraction, magnetization, resistivity, Hall and heat capacity data are reported. Surprisingly, the crystals exhibit itinerant antiferromagnetic order below 158 K with no hint of ferromagnetic behavior in the magnetization curves and with the spins ordered primarily in the ab plane. The room temperature resistivity is close to the Ioffe-Regel limit for a metal. Single crystal x-ray diffraction indicates a strong preference for Mn to occupy the larger pyramidal 3g site. The cation site preference in the as-grown crystals and the antiferromagnetism are not changed after high temperature anneals and a rapid quench to room temperature.
description: 9 Pages, 7 Figures, 2 Tables
Too Much of a Good Thing? Female Sterilization in India: a Literature Review
Creators: name: Percher, Joanna
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: India has the largest number of sterilized women in the world; as of 2005-06, two thirds of Indian women of reproductive age had undergone sterilization. This paper reviewed literature both from peer-reviewed publications and soft literature to understand issues surrounding such pervasive use of the method. Four major thematic areas emerged: the use of incentives and targets in promoting female sterilization (FS), socio-demographic factors influencing FS use, quality of care in sterilization camps, and sterilization regret. Following the advice of public health advocates, the government should commit to improving informed choice and access to a variety of methods as well as increase efforts to educate on and provide vasectomy services. Future academic research should address the use of incentives and targets in promoting FS at the expense of other methods.
Energetics and optical properties of $6$-dimensional rotating black hole in pure Gauss-Bonnet gravity
Creators: name: Abdujabbarov, Ahmadjon
name: Atamurotov, Farruh
name: Dadhich, Naresh
name: Ahmedov, Bobomurat
name: Stuchlík, Zdeněk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study physical processes around a rotating black hole in pure Gauss-Bonnet (GB) gravity. In pure GB gravity, gravitational potential has slower fall off as compared to the corresponding Einstein potential in the same dimension. It is therefore expected that the energetics of pure GB black hole would be weaker, and our analysis bears out that the efficiency of energy extraction by Penrose process is increased to $25.8\%$ and particle acceleration is increased to $55.28\%$, and optical shadow of the black hole is decreased. These are the distinguishing in principle observable features of pure GB black hole.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures
Recommendations related to occupational infection prevention and control training to protect healthcare workers from infectious diseases: A scoping review of infection prevention and control guidelines.
Creators: name: Qureshi, Mohammed
name: Chughtai, Abrar
name: Seale, Holly
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: Events such as the COVID-19 pandemic remind us of the heightened risk that healthcare workers (HCWs) have from acquiring infectious diseases at work. Reducing the risk requires a multimodal approach, ensuring that staff have the opportunity to undertake occupational infection prevention and control (OIPC) training. While studies have been done within countries to look at availability and delivery of OIPC training opportunities for HCWs, there has been less focus given to whether their infection prevention and control (IPC) guidelines adhere to recommended best practices.
Strategie d'imprese e qualità nel comparto degli oli extravergini di oliva molisani
Creators: name: Schimmenti, Emanuele
name: Ievoli, Corrado
name: Servili, Maurizio
name: Fucito, Renato
name: Vizzarri, Giovanna
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2009

description: Recent approaches about food quality have stressed the social processes by which “quality conventions” prevailing on the market are achieved. The present work investigates these conventions on the supply side, focusing on the “styles” characterizing the management of a group of firms. More specifically, the research analyzes a group of oil-press plants localized in Molise, an Italian region the name of which is also the “brand-name” of a PDO recently registered by EU. In the first part the essay outlines the scenario of both olive oil market and local context. In the second section the paper shows the results of a direct survey. Applying factorial analysis to the data collected in the survey, four main “quality factors” were identified: safety and health; localization and scale; product differentiation; technological heritage. On the basis of these factors it was possible to point out three main styles characterizing the sample firms: the “endogenous”, the local, and the “fordistic” one.
description: Aestimum, Aestimum 44 (2004)
ANÁLISE DA INCIDÊNCIA DA LEISHMANIOSE VISCERAL NOS MUNÍCIPIOS E REGIÕES DO BRASIL NO PERÍODO DE 2009 A 2019
Creators: name: Eduardo Matias dos SANTOS
name: Evellyn Ferreira LEITE
name: Clarissa Amorim Silva de CORDOVA
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Calazar
Epidemiologia
Leishmania

description: RESUMO

Introdução: A leishmaniose visceral (LV), é uma protozoose provocada por espécies do gênero Leishmania, predominando no Brasil a L. chagasi. O parasita consegue invadir diversos órgãos e pode ser fatal se não instituído tratamento adequado. Objetivos: Traçar um panorama estatístico a respeito da LV, analisando a incidência de casos no Brasil, evidenciando populações mais suscetíveis à infecção. Metodologia: Trata-se de um estudo epidemiológico descritivo, com base em dados oriundos do SIH/SUS, referentes aos casos de internação por LV na população brasileira, segundo local de internação, entre 2009-2019. Resultados: Foram registradas, no Brasil, 26.839 internações, não havendo diferença significativa entre os anos estudados. Observou-se que o Nordeste apresentou o maior número de internações, contudo, analisando a taxa de internação, o Norte ocupa primeiro lugar. O Estado do Tocantins teve a maior taxa de internação. A cidade de Teresina possui o maior número de internações, entretanto, Araguaína possui a maior taxa. A população masculina foi mais acometida que a feminina. A faixa etária de 1-9 anos é a mais acometida, enquanto a de ≥ 80, é a menor. Os pardos apresentaram maior número, enquanto a minoria era indígena. Analisando o IDH, a região Norte fica em último lugar. Araguaína, que possui a maior taxa de internação por LV do país, possui IDH de 0,752. Conclusão: Portanto, observa-se que LV persiste com alta incidência, sobretudo no Norte e Nordeste. Assim, o diagnóstico precoce, bem como tratamento preconizado da LV, deve ser instituído, abrangendo principalmente, populações vítimas da vulnerabilidade social, homens, crianças e pretos/pardos.
Triadic resonances in non-linear simulations of a fluid flow in a precessing cylinder
Creators: name: Giesecke, A.
name: Albrecht, T.
name: Gundrum, T.
name: Herault, J.
name: Stefani, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from three-dimensional non-linear hydrodynamic simulations of a precession driven flow in cylindrical geometry. The simulations are motivated by a dynamo experiment currently under development at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) in which the possibility of generating a magnetohydrodynamic dynamo will be investigated in a cylinder filled with liquid sodium and simultaneously rotating around two axes. In this study, we focus on the emergence of non-axisymmetric time-dependent flow structures in terms of inertial waves which - in cylindrical geometry - form so-called Kelvin modes. For a precession ratio ${\rm{Po}}=Ω_p/Ω_c=0.014$ the amplitude of the forced Kelvin mode reaches up to one fourth of the rotation velocity of the cylindrical container confirming that precession provides a rather efficient flow driving mechanism even at moderate values of ${\rm{Po}}$. More relevant for dynamo action might be free Kelvin modes with higher azimuthal wave number. These free Kelvin modes are triggered by non-linear interactions and may constitute a triadic resonance with the fundamental forced mode when the height of the container matches their axial wave lengths. Our simulations reveal triadic resonances at aspect ratios close to those predicted by the linear theory except around the primary resonance of the forced mode. In that regime we still identify various free Kelvin modes, however, all of them exhibit a retrograde drift around the symmetry axis of the cylinder and none of them can be assigned to a triadic resonance. The amplitudes of the free Kelvin modes always remain below the forced mode but may reach up to 6% of the of the container's angular velocity. The properties of the free Kelvin modes will be used in future simulations of the magnetic induction equation to investigate their ability to provide for dynamo action.
description: 26 pages, 14 figures, submitted to New J. Phys
Network Lasso: Clustering and Optimization in Large Graphs
Creators: name: Hallac, David
name: Leskovec, Jure
name: Boyd, Stephen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: H.2.8

description: Convex optimization is an essential tool for modern data analysis, as it provides a framework to formulate and solve many problems in machine learning and data mining. However, general convex optimization solvers do not scale well, and scalable solvers are often specialized to only work on a narrow class of problems. Therefore, there is a need for simple, scalable algorithms that can solve many common optimization problems. In this paper, we introduce the \emph{network lasso}, a generalization of the group lasso to a network setting that allows for simultaneous clustering and optimization on graphs. We develop an algorithm based on the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) to solve this problem in a distributed and scalable manner, which allows for guaranteed global convergence even on large graphs. We also examine a non-convex extension of this approach. We then demonstrate that many types of problems can be expressed in our framework. We focus on three in particular - binary classification, predicting housing prices, and event detection in time series data - comparing the network lasso to baseline approaches and showing that it is both a fast and accurate method of solving large optimization problems.
Using core-shell metamaterial engineering to triple the critical temperature of a superconductor
Creators: name: Smolyaninova, Vera N.
name: Zander, Kathryn
name: Gresock, Thomas
name: Jensen, Christopher
name: Prestigiacomo, Joseph C.
name: Osofsky, M. S.
name: Smolyaninov, Igor I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent experiments have shown the viability of the metamaterial approach to dielectric response engineering for moderately enhancing the transition temperature, Tc, of a superconductor. In this report, we demonstrate the use of Al2O3-coated aluminium nanoparticles to form the recently proposed epsilon near zero (ENZ) core-shell metamaterial superconductor with a Tc that is three times that of pure aluminium. IR reflectivity measurements confirm the predicted metamaterial modification of the dielectric function thus demonstrating the efficacy of the ENZ metamaterial approach to Tc engineering. These results provide an explanation for the long known, but not understood, enhancement of the Tc of granular aluminum films.
description: 16 pages, 5 figures
Four-body calculation of elastic deuteron-deuteron scattering
Creators: name: Deltuva, A.
name: Fonseca, A. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fully converged calculations of deuteron-deuteron elastic scattering observables are performed at energies above three- and four-body breakup threshold. Differential cross sections and analyzing powers are obtained using realistic nucleon-nucleon force models together with the Coulomb repulsion between protons. For all observables we find a very reasonable agreement with the available experimental data limited to deuteron beam energies up to 25.3 MeV.
description: 5 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. C
212.07 G03 Obsolescence
Creators: name: Armstrong, Colin
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: ad hoc
subject: Ad Hoc: Games
subject: ipres2018

description: "Obsolescence" is themed around the practices and challenges of digital preservation. Each player assumes the role of someone working within the digital preservation community, and the object of the game is to avoid "obsolescence" at all costs. The game uses simple gaming mechanics such as set collection and hand management, push your luck, and player elimination, with each player trying to be the last one standing.
Evolution of the T Tauri star population in the Lupus association
Creators: name: Galli, P. A. B.
name: Bertout, C.
name: Teixeira, R.
name: Ducourant, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aims: In a recent study, we derived individual distances for 109 pre-main sequence stars that define the Lupus kinematic association of young stars. Here, we use these new distances to derive the masses and ages of Lupus T Tauri stars with the aim of better constraining the lifetime of their circumstellar disks. Methods: Using the photometric and spectroscopic information available in the literature, we computed the photospheric luminosity of 92 T Tauri stars in the Lupus association. Then, we estimated their masses and ages from theoretical evolutionary models. Based on Monte Carlo simulations and statistical tests, we compare the mass and age distribution of the classical T Tauri stars (CTTS) and weak-line T Tauri (WTTS) in our sample. Results: We show that the CTTSs are on average younger than the WTTSs and that the probability that both T~Tauri subclasses are drawn from the same mass and age parental distribution is very low. Our results favor the scenario proposed earlier for the Taurus-Auriga association, where the CTTSs evolve into WTTSs when their disks are fully accreted by the star. Based on an empirical disk model, we find that the average disk lifetime for the T Tauri stars in the Lupus association is $τ_{d}=3\times10^{6}\,(M_*/M_{\odot})^{0.55}$ yr. Conclusions: We find evidence that the average lifetime of the circumstellar disks in the Lupus association is shorter than in the Taurus-Auriga association and discuss the implications of this result.
description: 11 pages, A&A (in press)
Backbone Model Weights for RNA Contact Prediction by Data Efficient Deep Learning
Creators: name: Taubert, Oskar
name: Lehr, Fabrice
name: Bazarova, Alina
name: Faber, Christian
name: Knechtges, Philipp
name: Weiel, Marie
name: Debus, Charlotte
name: Coquelin, Daniel
name: Basermann, Achim
name: Streit, Achim
name: Kesselheim, Stefan
name: Götz, Markus
name: Schug, Alexander
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Machine Learning
Model Parameters
RNA
Contact Prediction
Self-supervised Learning

description: Model parameters for the pre-trained backbone of the models presented in "RNA Contact Prediction by Data Efficient Deep Learning". More details at https://github.com/oskar-taubert/selbstaufsicht.git
description: This work is supported by the Helmholtz Association Initiative and Networking Fund under project numbers ZT-I-0003 and ZT-I-PF-5-18, the Helmholtz AI platform, and the HAICORE@KIT grant.
Il valore di non uso nell'analisi costi benefici della salvaguardia ambientale
Creators: name: Alberini, Anna
name: Longo, Alberto
name: Rosato, Paolo
name: Zanatta, Valentina
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2009

description: This paper deals with the relevance of non use values in the evaluation of benefits from public action in environmental improvement. Cost Benefits Analysis of public investiments requires an evaluation of the demand for the involved public goods, which often has not a market price, and typically implies non use values. The Contingent Valuation (CV) is a well-established technique used to estimate non use values. This paper reports a CV study about the preservation of lagoon, beach and green areas in the island of S. Erasmo in the Venice Lagoon. Also, we investigate if non use values are taken in consideration when the respondents arrange his preferences in order to state a WTP. In compliance with it, we report an experimental approach to include non use values in the CV scenario.
description: Aestimum, Aestimum 43 (2003)
Community Health Assessment as a Core Function of Public Health: How the Affordable Care Act Changes the Assessment Process: A Case Study on Collaborative Community Health Assessment
Creators: name: O'Quinn, Erin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Community health assessment in North Carolina has traditionally been carried out on the county level by local health departments. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act outlines new community benefit guidelines for non-profit hospitals requiring community health needs assessments every three years. The new requirements have the potential to change the landscape of community health assessment by formalizing clinical and public health processes into a collaborative effort. Collaborative community health assessments can leverage limited resources to produce higher quality, more broadly representative reports on the status on population health. This paper details the assessment process undertaken in Davidson County, North Carolina in 2012. The Davidson County Health Department, Wake Forest Baptist Health Lexington Medical Center and Novant Health Thomasville Medical Center, together with the North Carolina Institute for Public Health completed a collaborative community health assessment in July 2012. This first unified endeavor brought together key partners in the health of Davidson County residents, expanded the scope of analyzed data and introduced new perspectives to the planning process. Going forward it will be important to maintain the collaborative momentum to engage all partners in unified action planning, implementation and evaluation.
Serpulospira scalariformis Yoo 1994, n.sp.
Creators: name: Yoo, E. K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1994
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Euomphalina
Euomphalidae
Serpulospira

description: 'Serpulospira' scalariformis n.sp. PI. 2 figs 8-10, PI. 3 figs 1-5 Description. Shell minute, openly coiled. Protoconch bulbous, smooth, curved; margin with teleoconch sharp and distinct. Teleoconch openly coiled, in early whorls with asymmetric spire tending to be symmetric with contact between spires in later whorls; nearly smooth but growth lines distinct throughout, aperture rounded. [table omitted] [table omitted] Types. Holotype (F78360) and 6 figured paratypes (F78357 -9, F78361 -2). There are 48 unfigured additional specimens (F78390) from the type locality. Type locality. 150 m west of 'Marohn' homestead, on the Scone-Gundy roadside, 4 km south-west of Gundy, NSW (Locality 28). Stratigraphic position. In bioclastic limestone, upper part of the Dangarfield Formation. Additional material. 10 specimens from Oxley Highway (Locality 22-2), 3 from south-east of 'Rangari' (Locality 18) and 2 from Glenbawn (Locality 30). Geographic distribution. 'Rangari' to Glenbawn. Geological age. Middle to late Tournaisian. Etymology. Referring to disjunct whorls. Remarks. The bulbous and smooth protoconch of 'Serpulospira' scalariformis n.sp. is similar to that of hyoliths. The difference is that the protoconch of this species is curved. The nature of spire and growth lines on the teleoconch suggest that the species could be referred to the macluritoidean gastropods proposed by Linsley (l978a). The species is tentatively placed in the Euomphaloidea, but that is considered problematic by Bandel (personal communication).
description: Published as part of Yoo, E. K., 1994, Early Carboniferous Gastropoda from the Tamworth Belt, New South Wales, Australia, pp. 63-120 in Records of the Australian Museum 46 (1) on page 73, DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.46.1994.18, http://zenodo.org/record/4654599
Quantification of dipolar interactions in Fe$_{3-x}$O$_4$ nanoparticles
Creators: name: Moya, Carlos
name: Iglesias, Òscar
name: Batlle, Xavier
name: Labarta, Amílcar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A general method for the quantification of dipolar interactions in assemblies of nanoparticles has been developed from a model sample constituted by magnetite nanoparticles of 5 nm in diameter, in powder form with oleic acid as a surfactant so that the particles were solely separated from each other through an organic layer of about 1 nm in thickness. This quantification is based on the comparison of the distribution of energy barriers for magnetization reversal obtained from time-dependent relaxation measurements starting from either (i) an almost random orientation of the particles magnetizations or (ii) a collinear arrangement of them prepared by previously field cooling the sample. Experimental results and numerical simulations show that the mean dipolar field acting on each single particle is significantly reduced when particles magnetizations are collinearly aligned. Besides, the intrinsic distribution of the energy barriers of anisotropy for the non-interacting case was evaluated from a reference sample where the same magnetic particles were individually coated with a thick silica shell in order to make dipolar interactions negligible. Interestingly, the results of the numerical simulations account for the relative energy shift of the experimental energy barrier distributions corresponding to the interacting and non-interacting cases, thus supporting the validity of the proposed method for the quantification of dipolar interactions.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures, submitted
Tomo II: La valutazione come riferimento per la pianificazione: Cagliari e il suo contesto - L'ICI sulle aree edificabili: aspetti giuridici e problematiche estimative. Il caso di Cagliari
Creators: name: Marchi, Giampaolo
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2009

description: Aestimum, Atti del XXXIII Incontro di Studio (2003)
P7. Trial migration of packaged digital publications to ensure long-term accessibility
Creators: name: Satomi, Wataru
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: ipres2018
subject: Poster

description: This poster presentation describes the efforts of the National Diet Library (NDL) to migrate packaged digital publications on a trial basis, including the establishment of safe procedures for migration and the identification of potential problems. Consideration was also given to establishing formats for preservation metadata to describe the packaged data as well as for making this content available via the NDL Digital Collections.
An autoencoder of stellar spectra and its application in automatically estimating atmospheric parameters
Creators: name: Yang, Tan
name: Li, Xiangru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article investigates the problem of estimating stellar atmospheric parameters from spectra. Feature extraction is a key procedure in estimating stellar parameters automatically. We propose a scheme for spectral feature extraction and atmospheric parameter estimation using the following three procedures: firstly, learn a set of basic structure elements (BSE) from stellar spectra using an autoencoder; secondly, extract representative features from stellar spectra based on the learned BSEs through some procedures of convolution and pooling; thirdly, estimate stellar parameters ($T_{eff}$, log$~g$, [Fe/H]) using a back-propagation (BP) network. The proposed scheme has been evaluated on both real spectra from Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)/Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration (SEGUE) and synthetic spectra calculated from Kurucz's new opacity distribution function (NEWODF) models. The best mean absolute errors (MAEs) are 0.0060 dex for log$~T_{eff}$, 0.1978 dex for log$~g$ and 0.1770 dex for [Fe/H] for the real spectra and 0.0004 dex for log$~T_{eff}$, 0.0145 dex for log$~g$ and 0.0070 dex for [Fe/H] for the synthetic spectra.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures, 5 tables
Hu1-2: a metal-poor bipolar planetary nebula with fast collimated outflows
Creators: name: Fang, Xuan
name: Guerrero, Martin A.
name: Miranda, Luis F.
name: Riera, Angels
name: Velazquez, Pablo F.
name: Raga, Alejandro C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present narrow-band optical and near-IR imaging and optical long-slit spectroscopic observations of Hu1-2, a Galactic planetary nebula (PN) with a pair of [N II]-bright, fast-moving (> 340 km/s) bipolar knots. Intermediate-dispersion spectra are used to derive physical conditions and abundances across the nebula, and high-dispersion spectra to study the spatio-kinematical structure. Generally Hu1-2 has high He/H (~0.14) and N/O ratios (~0.9), typical of Type I PNe. On the other hand, its abundances of O, Ne, S, and Ar are low as compared with the average abundances of Galactic bulge and disc PNe. The position-velocity maps can be generally described as an hour-glass shaped nebula with bipolar expansion, although the morphology and kinematics of the innermost regions cannot be satisfactorily explained with a simple, tilted equatorial torus. The spatio-kinematical study confines the inclination angle of its major axis to be within 10 degrees of the plane of sky. As in the irradiated bow-shocks of IC4634 and NGC7009, there is a clear stratification in the emission peaks of [O III], H_alpha, and [N II] in the northwest (NW) knot of Hu1-2. Fast collimated outflows in PNe exhibit higher excitation than other low-ionization structures. This is particularly the case for the bipolar knots of Hu1-2, with He II emission levels above those of collimated outflows in other Galactic PNe. The excitation of the knots in Hu1-2 is consistent with the combined effects of shocks and UV radiation from the central star. The mechanical energy and luminosity of the knots are similar to those observed in the PNe known to harbor a post-common envelope (post-CE) close binary central star.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS; 19 pages, 11 figures, 7 tables
Barriers to seeking and completing clubfoot treatment with the Ponseti method: a meta-ethnography
Creators: name: Wall, Lauren
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Background: Despite the wide-spread of a low-tech, non-surgical method of treatment for clubfoot, uptake and completion of clubfoot treatment remains suboptimal. While qualitative research has been conducted to investigate the factors influencing the uptake and completion of clubfoot treatment, systematic reviews, which can provide further understanding, are lacking. Methods: I utilized Noblit and Hare's methods of meta-ethnography to synthesize published qualitative research to understand the barriers to uptake and completion of clubfoot treatment. I identified 105 studies of which 19 underwent a full-text review, resulting in the synthesis of 8 papers from 8 countries. I utilized Malpass's notion of first-, second-, and third-order constructs to organize the synthesis. Results: The barriers to uptake of treatment are gender and power dynamics, stigma regarding clubfoot, logistics of treatment, knowledge of treatment both for caregivers and health care workers, the organization and delivery of health services, and the financial costs associated with treatment. The barriers to treatment compliance are similar: gender and power dynamics, society and stigma regarding clubfoot, logistics of treatment, organization and delivery of health services, financial costs of treatment (both direct and indirect), confusion regarding treatment and the burden on the treatment, and the duration of the treatment. Conclusion: Despite the differences across the countries where the studies were conducted, my findings suggest comparable factors across cultures that influence the uptake and completion of clubfoot treatment. The duration of the treatment, 4-5 years, appears to exacerbate the other barriers to treatment compliance. Targeted interventions are necessary to keep families compliant in the intervention, as well as to uptake treatment.
Regole pratiche per la valutazione degli arboreti da frutto
Creators: name: Gallerani, Vittorio
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2009

description: The paper provides some practical rules for the choice of the evaluation procedure for orchards, in relation to different environmental situations. In particular, different evaluation approaches are illustrated distinguishing areas with specialised production systems and areas with mixed production systems. The problems related to the application of the income approach and the market comparison approach are illustrated in the different cases. The paper is completed by some examples concerning the evaluation of pear orchards in specialised systems and peach orchards in mixed production systems. In conclusion, some critical notes are reported about the methodology proposed by Ribaudo for the synthetic evaluation of vineyards of different age. The paper argues that the age relation approach has weak scientific bases, is difficult to apply and does not guarantee the reliability of the results, compared to analytical approaches.
description: Aestimum, Aestimum 40 (2002)
Towards Automated Benchmarking of Atomistic Forcefields: Neat Liquid Densities and Static Dielectric Constants from the ThermoML Data Archive
Creators: name: Beauchamp, Kyle A.
name: Behr, Julie M.
name: Rustenburg, Ariën S.
name: Bayly, Christopher I.
name: Kroenlein, Kenneth
name: Chodera, John D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Atomistic molecular simulations are a powerful way to make quantitative predictions, but the accuracy of these predictions depends entirely on the quality of the forcefield employed. While experimental measurements of fundamental physical properties offer a straightforward approach for evaluating forcefield quality, the bulk of this information has been tied up in formats that are not machine-readable. Compiling benchmark datasets of physical properties from non-machine-readable sources require substantial human effort and is prone to accumulation of human errors, hindering the development of reproducible benchmarks of forcefield accuracy. Here, we examine the feasibility of benchmarking atomistic forcefields against the NIST ThermoML data archive of physicochemical measurements, which aggregates thousands of experimental measurements in a portable, machine-readable, self-annotating format. As a proof of concept, we present a detailed benchmark of the generalized Amber small molecule forcefield (GAFF) using the AM1-BCC charge model against measurements (specifically bulk liquid densities and static dielectric constants at ambient pressure) automatically extracted from the archive, and discuss the extent of available data. The results of this benchmark highlight a general problem with fixed-charge forcefields in the representation low dielectric environments such as those seen in binding cavities or biological membranes.
Präzisierungen zur Methode der charakteristischen Gleichungen
Creators: name: Albers, Jan
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten
subject: Absorptionskälteanlage
subject: Wärmepumpe
subject: charakteristische Gleichung
subject: modellbasierte Regelung
subject: Industrie-Controller
subject: heat pump
subject: absorption chiller
subject: model-based control
subject: characteristic equation method

description: The method of characteristic equations tries to describe the part load behaviour of sorption heat converters (e.g. ab- and adsorption chillers, heat pumps and transformers) in a simple but precise manner. Nevertheless, during the application of the established method some disagreements and inaccuracies occur. For example, the analytically determined parameters of the characteristic equation do either not agree well with values derived from measurements or they are not constant. By means of a more precise specification for normally sub-cooled or super-heated inlet conditions of the solution in ab- and desorber these effects can by explained and explicitly accounted for. Thus no iteration or regression analysis is necessary and the calculation procedure can be easily implemented into industry controllers for the control of absorption chillers.
description: Die Methode der charakteristischen Gleichungen hat zum Ziel das Teillastverhalten von Sorptionswärmewandlern (d.h. Ab- und Adsorptionskälteanlagen /-wärmepumpen und -transformatoren) möglichst einfach aber dennoch präzise zu beschreiben. Bei der praktischen bzw. quantitativen Anwendung der herkömmlichen Methode kommt es jedoch zu Unstimmigkeiten bzw. Ungenauigkeiten. Hierzu zählt z.B., dass die analytisch berechneten Parameter der charakteristischen Gleichung nicht mit den Werten aus Messungen übereinstimmen bzw. nicht konstant sind. Durch eine Präzisierung der Methode mit Berücksichtigung der i.A. überhitzt oder unterkühlt eintretenden Lösung in den Ab- und Desorber können diese Effekte erklärt und explizit ermittelt werden. Damit sind keine Iterationen oder Regressionsanalysen erforderlich und das Berechnungsverfahren kann gut in Industrie-Controller zur Regelung von Absorptionskälteanlagen implementiert werden.
Mass Superflux in Solid Helium: the Role of $^3$He Impurities
Creators: name: Vekhov, Ye.
name: Hallock, R. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Below $\sim 630$~mK, the \4he atom mass flux, $F$, that passes through a cell filled with solid hcp \4he in the pressure range 25.6 - 26.4~bar, rises with falling temperature and at a temperature $T_d$ the flux drops sharply. The flux above $T_d$ has characteristics that are consistent with the presence of a bosonic Luttinger liquid. We study $F$ as a function of $^3$He concentration, $χ= 0.17 - 220$~ppm, to explore the effect of $^3$He impurities on the mass flux. We find that the strong reduction of the flux is a sharp transition, typically complete within a few mK and a few hundred seconds. Modest concentration-dependent hysteresis is present. We find that $T_d$ is an increasing function of $χ$ and the $T_d(χ)$ dependence differs somewhat from the predictions for bulk phase separation for $T_{ps}$ \emph{vs.} $χ$. We conclude that $^3$He plays an important role in the flux extinction. The dependence of $F$ on the solid helium density is also studied. We find that $F$ is sample-dependent, but that the temperature dependence of $F$ above $T_d$ is universal; data for all samples scales and collapses to a universal temperature dependence, independent of $^3$He concentration or sample history. The universal behavior extrapolates to zero flux in the general vicinity of $T_h \approx 630$~mK. With increases in temperature, it is possible that a thermally activated process contributes to the degradation of the flux. The possibility of the role of disorder and the resulting phase slips as quantum defects on one-dimensional conducting pathways is discussed.
description: 13 pages, 19 figures
Additional file 1 of Relationship between the inner setting of CFIR and the delivery of the Healthy School Recognized Campus initiative: a mixed-methods analysis
Creators: name: Schaefers, Allyson
name: Xin, Lucy
name: Butler, Paula
name: Gardner, Julie
name: MacMillan Uribe, Alexandra L.
name: Rethorst, Chad D.
name: Rolke, Laura
name: Seguin-Fowler, Rebecca A.
name: Szeszulski, Jacob
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Grab that face, hammer or line: no effects of hands position on visual memory
Creators: name: Sahar, Tomer
name: Makovski, Tal
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Data, analysis and results complementing Grab that face, hammer or line: no effects of hands position on visual memory by Tomer Sahar and Tal Makovski. JASP results (as html files, just download and open in browser) and Data (csv) available at files.
Characterization and performance of the ASIC (CITIROC) front-end of the ASTRI camera
Creators: name: Impiombato, D.
name: Giarrusso, S.
name: Mineo, T.
name: Catalano, O.
name: Gargano, C.
name: La Rosa, G.
name: Russo, F.
name: Sottile, G.
name: Billotta, S.
name: Bonanno, G.
name: Garozzo, S.
name: Grillo, A.
name: Marano, D.
name: Romeo, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Cherenkov Imaging Telescope Integrated Read Out Chip, CITIROC, is a chip adopted as the front-end of the camera at the focal plane of the imaging Cherenkov ASTRI dual-mirror small size telescope (ASTRI SST-2M) prototype. This paper presents the results of the measurements performed to characterize CITIROC tailored for the ASTRI SST-2M focal plane requirements. In particular, we investigated the trigger linearity and efficiency, as a function of the pulse amplitude. Moreover, we tested its response by performing a set of measurements using a silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) in dark conditions and under light pulse illumination. The CITIROC output signal is found to vary linearly as a function of the input pulse amplitude. Our results show that it is suitable for the ASTRI SST-2M camera.
description: 25 pages, 16 figures, 1 table
Sviluppo, ambiente, territorio: il metodo produttivo biologico
Creators: name: Polidori, Roberto
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2009

description: The first aim of this study is to identify the economic, social, technical and institutional elements that favoured the development of organic agriculture in Italy and to verify the requirements for future growth of this productive sector. The second aim of the study is to underline the importance of organic production within the policy of rural development, with particular attention to marginal areas. The third aim is the description of economic and environmental data related to the organic method. Data derive form the analysis of representative farms and reveal the effects of organic production on income, employment, environment and on the development of other activities in the territory. Therefore, the paper is divided into three parts. In the first part, the dynamic process of the development is briefly described; in the second part, the structural elements of organic production are pointed out and their role in the development of the territory is discussed; in the third part the economic, environmental, technical and structural results of organic farms are analysed in Tuscan areas with different rural development typologies.
description: Aestimum, Aestimum 42 (2003)
Barriers to Pill Taking and Clinic Attendance for People Living with HIV in Rural Zambia
Creators: name: Heffelfinger, Abbie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Objectives: To determine the barriers to clinic attendance and pill taking for PLHIV in rural Zambia. Methods: This analysis uses baseline data from a 2015 cross sectional livelihood pilot study for PLHIV in rural Zambia. Univariate and bivariate analysis was conducted in Stata. Results: Most people in this study are not experiencing barriers to clinic attendance and pill taking. The most commonly experienced barriers to clinic attendance are related to time and distance to the clinic. Bivariable results indicated significant association between education, minutes of travel time to clinic, self efficacy and barriers to clinic attendance as well as associations between self perceived health and barriers to pill taking. Conclusion: Interventions should be targeted toward rural, young populations with limited education. Further research is recommended on barriers to pill taking and clinic attendance, and self-efficacy.