cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Synchronous prostate cancer and rectal cancer - the impact of MRI on incidence and imaging findings
Creators: name: Sturludóttir, Margrét
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Oncology
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: MR
subject: Education
subject: Neoplasia

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in male and colorectal cancer the third most common cancer. Each year in Sweden approximately 10.000 males are diagnosed with prostate cancer and 2.000 individuals are diagnosed with rectal cancer, of those...
Project ImPACT: Qualitative Research and Process Evaluation of a Linkage to Care Intervention for Formerly Incarcerated Persons Living with HIV/AIDS in North Carolina
Creators: name: Kleiboer, Caitlin
name: Key, Mary
name: Lo, Elaine
name: Chu, Claire
name: West, Nora
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Background: In the United States, the prison setting provides an opportunity to identify and treat Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS). However, prisoners who are infected with HIV/AIDS have a heightened potential to return to HIV transmission risk behaviors and for loss of viral suppression upon release. Project imPACT (individuals motivating to Participate in Adherence, Care, and Treatment) addresses these vulnerabilities in the "seek, test, treat, and retain" HIV prevention strategy for formerly incarcerated persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). The Capstone team supported the linkage-to-care component of Project imPACT, a comprehensive pre-release discharge-planning program for PLWHA focused on the identification of a post-release HIV medical clinic and the arrangement of an intake appointment at that community HIV clinic as soon as possible following release. Methods: The Capstone team developed three deliverables over the course of the 2011-2012 academic year. These deliverables included a summary of qualitative data analysis from one focus group with members of Project imPACT's target population, process evaluation tools to assess Project imPACT linkage-to-care component's implementation, and cost tracking instruments to inform future cost analyses of Project imPACT's components. Results: Due to the timeline, the Capstone team was unable to implement two of the tools they developed for data collection. 1) Project imPACT integrated one of the Capstone's process evaluation tools into the intervention's database in order to assess, through a series of questions, the frequency of delivering the linkage-to-care intervention. The other process evaluation tool – interview guides for the linkage-to-care coordinator and Project imPACT participants' evaluates their perceptions of the intervention's success. 2) Project imPACT staff would also use the cost tracking tools to assess the expenses for developing and implementing the intervention. Of the three main deliverables, only the focus group analysis yielded reportable results. The Capstone team conducted a qualitative analysis of the data collected through the focus group with formerly incarcerated PLWHA to reveal the key themes of stigma; relationships outside of prison; personal approaches to disease; use of cell phones; HIV care in prison; HIV care transition from prison to release; HIV care after release; and recommendations for effective linkage-to-care. Discussion: In order to track expenses and assess the implementation of Project imPACT's linkage-to-care intervention, Project imPACT should integrate the cost tracking instruments and process evaluation tools developed by the Capstone team into the existing intervention infrastructure.
On the properties of the interstellar medium in extremely metal-poor blue compact dwarf galaxies. A VIMOS-IFU study of the cometary galaxy and Ly $α$ absorber Tol 65
Creators: name: Lagos, P.
name: Demarco, R.
name: Papaderos, P.
name: Telles, E.
name: Nigoche-Netro, A.
name: Humphrey, A.
name: Roche, N.
name: Gomes, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this study we present high-resolution VIsible Multi-Object Spectrograph integral field unit spectroscopy (VIMOS-IFU) of the extremely metal-poor HII/blue compact dwarf (BCD) galaxy Tol 65. The optical appearance of this galaxy shows clearly a cometary morphology with a bright main body and an extended and diffuse stellar tail. We focus on the detection of metallicity gradients or inhomogeneities as expected if the ongoing star-formation activity is sustained by the infall/accretion of metal-poor gas. No evidences of significant spatial variations of abundances were found within our uncertainties. However, our findings show a slight anticorrelation between gas metallicity and star-formation rate at spaxel scales, in the sense that high star-formation is found in regions of low-metallicity, but the scatter in this relation indicates that the metals are almost fully diluted. Our observations show the presence of extended H$α$ emission in the stellar tail of the galaxy. We estimated that the mass of the ionized gas in the tail M(HII)$_{tail} \sim$1.7$\times$10$^5$ M$_{\odot}$ corresponds with $\sim$ 24 per cent of the total mass of the ionized gas in the galaxy. We found that the H$α$ velocity dispersion of the main body and the tail of the galaxy are comparable with the one found in the neutral gas by previous studies. This suggests that the ionized gas still retains the kinematic memory of its parental cloud and likely a common origin. Finally, we suggest that the infall/accretion of cold gas from the outskirts of the galaxy and/or minor merger/interaction may have produced the almost flat abundance gradient and the cometary morphology in Tol 65.
description: 17 pages, 12 figures, 5 tables; accepted for publication in MNRAS. Replaced to match published version
Nuclear DFT electromagnetic moments in heavy deformed open-shell odd nuclei
Creators: name: Bonnard, J.
name: Dobaczewski, J.
name: Danneaux, G.
name: Kortelainen, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within the nuclear DFT approach, we determined the magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole moments for paired nuclear states corresponding to the proton (neutron) quasiparticles blocked in the p11/2- (n13/2+) intruder configurations. We performed calculations for all deformed open-shell odd nuclei with 63<=Z<=82 and 82<=N<=126. Time-reversal symmetry was broken in the intrinsic reference frame and self-consistent shape and spin core polarizations were established. We determined spectroscopic moments of angular-momentum-projected wave functions and compared them with available experimental data. We obtained good agreement with data without using effective g-factors or effective charges in the dipole or quadrupole operators, respectively. We also showed that the intrinsic magnetic dipole moments, or those obtained for conserved intrinsic time-reversal symmetry, do not represent viable approximations of the spectroscopic ones.
description: 22 LaTex pages, 6 figures, Supplemental Material, Physics Letters B, in press
title: Cloud-based quality control for volume-based response assessment in clinical trials: a pilot study
Creators: name: Bonnard, Eric
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: Oncology
subject: CT
subject: Technology assessment
subject: Computer Applications-General

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: As tumor volume may address some of the RECIST (Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors) limitations (Ref.1), this study evaluated volume-based criteria, in the frame of a cloud implementation ( Fig. 1 ) aiming at standardizing response...
Smoke-Free Multi-Unit Housing: Design of a Mixed-Method Economic Impact Evaluation in North Carolina
Creators: name: Tague, Lindsay
name: Young, Allison
name: Clad, Rachel
name: Zucker, Rachel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Background: With the reduced but persistent rate of smoking in the US, second-hand smoke exposure continues to be a pressing public health issue. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, there is no safe level of exposure to second-hand smoke (SHS). Exposure to SHS can cause lung cancer, coronary heart disease, and is especially dangerous for pregnant women, babies and children. Multi-unit housing (MUH) properties create particular challenges related to SHS exposure, as residents have no control over the smoking status of adjacent tenants. In MUH, tenants may be exposed to neighbors' SHS through multiple routes, including through doors, air vents, building cracks, hallways and patios. Methods: The 2012-2013 Tobacco Prevention Control Branch (TPCB) Capstone team conducted formative research on the barriers to smoke-free housing policies in North Carolina and created an informational campaign to raise awareness about the risks of tobacco and SHS among MUH property owners/managers (O/M) and tenants. The 2013-2014 TPCB Capstone team built on the foundation laid by previous teams and TPCB research to strengthen the case for going smoke-free from the perspective of MUH O/M. The project included formative research on the financial impact and perceptions of smoke-free policies as reported by MUH O/M and a review of the literature on cost analyses of smoke-free policies in MUH and other settings. We collaborated with experts to refine the constructs identified in our research and developed a quantitative survey instrument and a qualitative interview guide to be used to assess costs at a large North Carolina-based property management company. Results: Our formative research revealed six key constructs that capture the economic impact of smoking in MUH. Based on these, we produced a Quantitative Study Protocol that captures maintenance and turnover costs from financial documents and a Qualitative Study Protocol that captures maintenance workers' experience during the transition to smoke-free policies. We piloted the qualitative Interview Guide with maintenance workers from an MUH property and produced a Suggested Finalized Interview Guide. Discussion: Our deliverables represent the first step in building a compelling financial case for MUH to go smoke-free. This is especially important work as little research has been conducted at the intersection of smoke-free policies and MUH with regard to cost. Next year's TPCB Capstone team will sustain this year's work and be able to collect and analyze data efficiently using the tools and protocols developed this year.
title: Central venous access ports implanted at the forearm: a retrospective single-center analysis of 1722 patients
Creators: name: Wildgruber, Moritz
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Oncology
subject: Veins / Vena cava
subject: Catheter venography
subject: Catheters

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To retrospectively evaluate the technical success rate of peripherally implanted central venous access ports at the forearm as well as short and long-term...
Noctilucent Clouds Polarimetry: Twilight Measurements in a Wide Range of Scattering Angles
Creators: name: Ugolnikov, Oleg S.
name: Maslov, Igor A.
name: Kozelov, Boris V.
name: Dlugach, Janna M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Wide-field polarization measurements of the twilight sky background during the several nights with bright and extended noctilucent clouds in central and northern Russia in 2014 and 2015 are used to build the phase dependence of degree of polarization of sunlight scattered by clouds particles in a wide range of scattering angles (from 40 to 130 degrees). This range covers the linear polarization maximum near 90 degrees and large-angle slope of the curve which are most sensitive to the particle size. The method of separation of scattering on clouds particles on the twilight background is presented. Results are compared with T-matrix simulations for different sizes and shapes of ice particles, the best-fit model radius of particles (0.06 microns) and maximum radius (about 0.1 microns) are estimated.
description: 17 pages, 8 figures
Additional file 1 of Exploring the relationship between media use and depressive symptoms among gender diverse youth: findings of the Mental Health Days Study
Creators: name: Klinger, Diana
name: Plener, Paul L.
name: Marboe, Golli
name: Karwautz, Andreas
name: Kothgassner, Oswald D.
name: Dienlin, Tobias
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1
title: Estimation of bladder carcinoma histologic grade with diffusion-weighted MR imaging
Creators: name: Wang, Huanjun
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Technology assessment

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: To compare the efficacy of apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) and normalized ADC (nADC) for estimating the histologic grade of vesical urothelial carcinoma and to identify an optimal reference for nADC...
A revisit to a compressed supersymmetric spectrum with 125 GeV Higgs
Creators: name: Dutta, Juhi
name: Konar, Partha
name: Mondal, Subhadeep
name: Mukhopadhyaya, Biswarup
name: Rai, Santosh Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A compressed spectrum was initially proposed as an explanation for the elusiveness of low-energy supersymmetry (SUSY). Some characteristic signals at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), such as mono-jet + \slashed{E}_T, had been propounded as its trademark signals. However, later investigations suggested that lower limits on the supersymmetric particle masses would be quite stringent in spite of compression. Also, most compressed SUSY scenarios studied so far are only partially compressed. In this backdrop, we make an exhaustive analysis of the compressed SUSY scenarios for the 13 TeV run of LHC, keeping the level of compression in the entire spectrum as high as possible. A broad class of benchmark spectra are thus considered, after ensuring consistency with the observed Higgs mass as well as the dark matter constraints. The rates of observable events in the high-energy run are obtained through detailed simulation, for both the multi-jet +\slashed{E}_T and mono-jet + \slashed{E}_T final states. Our conclusion is that the former is still more efficient to reveal a compressed SUSY spectrum first, while the latter can serve as a useful confirmatory channel.
description: 31 pages, 5 figures, 8 tables. Typos corrected. Added References. Accepted for publication in JHEP
The Language of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Creators: name: Dworakowski, Olenka
name: Horn, Andrea
name: Meier, Tabea
name: Boyd, Ryan
name: Mehl, Matthias
name: Nussbeck, Fridtjof
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Health Psychology
subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Same crisis, different leaders: how political leaders’ language style in USA, UK, Germany and Switzerland during the beginning of the global coronavirus pandemic is related to collective and individual emotional responses
On a three-dimensional and two four-dimensional oncolytic viro-therapy models
Creators: name: Adenane, Rim
name: Avila-Vales, Eric
name: Avram, Florin
name: Halanay, Andrei
name: Pérez, Angel G. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34D20 (Primary) 92D30, 34C23 (Secondary)

description: We revisit here and carry out further works on tumor-virotherapy compartmental models of [Tian, 2011, Wang et al., 2013, Phan and Tian, 2017, Guo et al., 2019]. The results of these papers are only slightly pushed further. However, what is new is the fact that we make public our electronic notebooks, since we believe that easy electronic reproducibility is crucial in an era in which the role of the software becomes very important.
description: 41 pages, 15 figures
On R-W1 as A Diagnostic to Discover Obscured Active Galactic Nuclei in Wide-Area X-ray Surveys
Creators: name: LaMassa, Stephanie M.
name: Civano, Francesca
name: Brusa, Marcella
name: Stern, Daniel
name: Glikman, Eilat
name: Gallagher, Sarah
name: Urry, C. Meg
name: Cales, Sabrina
name: Cappelluti, Nico
name: Cardamone, Carolin
name: Comastri, Andrea
name: Farrah, Duncan
name: Greene, Jenny E.
name: Komossa, S.
name: Merloni, Andrea
name: Mroczkowski, Tony
name: Natarajan, Priyamvada
name: Richards, Gordon
name: Salvato, Mara
name: Schawinski, Kevin
name: Treister, Ezequiel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Capitalizing on the all-sky coverage of {\it WISE}, and the 35\% and 50\% sky coverage from SDSS and Pan-STARRS, respectively, we explore the efficacy of $m_{R}$ (optical) - $m_{3.4 μm}$ (mid-infrared), hereafter $R-W1$, as a color diagnostic to identify obscured supermassive black hole accretion in wide-area X-ray surveys. We use the $\sim$16.5 deg$^2$ Stripe 82 X-ray survey data as a test-bed to compare $R-W1$ with $R-K$, an oft-used obscured AGN selection criterion, and examine where different classes of objects lie in this parameter space. Most stars follow a well-defined path in $R-K$ vs. $R-W1$ space. We demonstrate that optically normal galaxies hosting X-ray AGN at redshifts $0.54$ color-cut, while they typically are not selected as AGN based on their $W1-W2$ colors. Additionally, different observed X-ray luminosity bins favor different regions in $R-W1$ parameter space: moderate luminosity AGN ($10^{43}$ erg s$^{-1} < L_{\rm 0.5-10 keV} < 10^{44}$ erg s$^{-1}$) tend to have red colors while the highest luminosity AGN ($L_{\rm 0.5-10 keV} > 10^{45}$ erg s$^{-1}$) have bluer colors; higher spectroscopic completeness of the Stripe 82X sample is needed to determine whether this is a selection effect or an intrinsic property. Finally, we parameterize X-ray obscuration of Stripe 82X AGN by calculating their hardness ratios (HRs) and find no clear trends between HR and optical reddening. Our results will help inform best-effort practices in following-up obscured AGN candidates in current and future wide-area, shallow X-ray surveys, including the all-sky {\it eROSITA} mission.
description: accepted for publication to ApJ; 17 pages (emulateapj style), 21 figures, 3 tables
Centering Racial Health Equity in Evidence synthesis: What methods are used in systematic reviews to address racial health inequity: systematic review of systematic reviews
Creators: name: Welch, Vivian
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This is a synthesis of methods and types of interventions to mitigate racial inequities in high income country settings.
title: Transcutaneous ultrasound examination of mediastinum in lung cancer
Creators: name: Kazakevich, Victor
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: Oncology
subject: Cardiac
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Echocardiography
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Cancer
subject: Atelectasis

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Lung cancer is one of the most frequent human tumors. Surgical operation is one of the main methods of treatment in lung cancer. Possibility of operation depends, especially, from tumor interrelationship with adjacent organs and...
title: Lung volume reduction (LVR): Minimal Invasive Techniques and the Role of CT-Histography
Creators: name: Horger, Marius
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Thorax
subject: Oncology
subject: Chronic obstructive airways disease

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Learn why to use CTH in patients undergoing LVR Understanding pathophysiology of emphysema and the impact of LVR Combined evaluation of LVR by CTH + 6MWT and PFT improves accuracy Detection of LVR-related pulmonary...
Development of Evaluation and Capacity Building Plans for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools' Local Wellness Policy
Creators: name: Friedberger, E. Grace
name: Delaney, Aubrey
name: Gatto, Amy
name: Delcourt, Jennifer
name: Bawden, Kathryn
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Research shows that students who eat a healthy diet and regularly engage in physical activity show improved behavior and academic performance in schools. However, many children in North Carolina, and across the nation, are not healthy: rates of childhood obesity and overweight are high and continue to rise. Schools provide a unique opportunity for interventions to improve healthy eating and physical activity, and there is ample evidence to show that school-based interventions are effective in improving students' health. For this reason, in 2004, Congress mandated that all schools participating in the National School Lunch Program must develop and implement a Local Wellness Policy (LWP), as well as a plan to evaluate the policy. Our Capstone team worked with Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools (CHCCS) to design an evaluation plan to measure implementation of their LWP and a capacity building plan to increase CHCCS' ability to successfully implement the policy. First, we conducted a literature review to learn more about LWPs and their implementation across the country. Next, we created a process evaluation plan and a survey tool to collect information from stakeholders to measure LWP implementation annually. Throughout the project, we attended monthly meetings of the Healthy Schools Advisory Council (HSAC) to interact with stakeholders and update them on our progress. We assisted school nurses at three schools in applying for national awards to recognize their wellness efforts. Lastly, we created a capacity building plan to help the district improve its ability to fully and consistently implement the LWP. These Capstone deliverables expand CHCCS' capacity to evaluate the implementation of its LWP and use the results to make improvements, thus making progress toward the ultimate goal of improving student and staff health. As a result of this project, the Capstone team gained knowledge and experience in designing evaluations and writing clearly for a wide audience. By disseminating our deliverables through CHCCS and online in the form of a public Drop Box folder, the team added to the field of resources on LWP implementation, evaluation, and capacity-building, allowing future projects to use our deliverables to inform their own work.
The Impact of Photon Flight Path on S1 Pulse Shape Analysis in Liquid Xenon Two-phase Detectors
Creators: name: Moongweluwan, M.
name: collaboration, for LUX
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The LUX dark matter search experiment is a 350 kg dual-phase xenon time projection chamber located at the 4850 ft level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, SD. The success of two-phase xenon detectors for dark matter searches relies on their ability to distinguish electron recoil (ER) background events from nuclear recoil (NR) signal events. Typically, the NR-ER discrimination is obtained from the ratio of the electroluminescence light (S2) to the prompt scintillation light (S1). Analysis of the S1 pulse shape is an additional discrimination technique that can be used to distinguish NR from ER. Pulse-shape NR-ER discrimination can be achieved based on the ratio of the de-excitation processes from singlet and triplet states that generate the S1. The NR S1 is dominated by the de-excitation process from singlet states with a time constant of about 3 ns while the ER S1 is dominated by the de-excitation process from triplet states with a time constant of about 24 ns. As the size of the detectors increases, the variation in the S1 photon flight path can become comparable to these decay constants, reducing the utility of pulse-shape analysis to separate NR from ER. The effect of path length variations in the LUX detector has been studied using the results of simulations and the impact on the S1 pulse shape analysis is discussed.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures
Evaluation of a Sexual and Reproductive Health Peer Education Curriculum for North Carolina Latino Adolescents
Creators: name: Perreras, Lexie
name: Richards, Chelly
name: Stormzand, Anna
name: Mead, Jill
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Latino adolescents in North Carolina face multiple sexual and reproductive health (SRH) challenges compared to their non-Latino peers, consistently reporting increased risky sexual health behaviors, higher rates of unplanned pregnancy and higher rates of sexually-transmitted infections (STIs). While evidence-based SRH interventions exist for adolescents in the United States, few are tailored for Latino adolescents and the challenges they may face. Though approaches such as peer education and advocacy skills have proven effective in SRH interventions to decrease risk of adverse SRH health outcomes, few adolescent SRH programs incorporate these tools for increasing curriculum reach beyond program participants. El Pueblo, Inc., a Latino services and advocacy organization based in Raleigh, NC, sought to fill this need by developing Nuestros Derechos sin Fronteras (DsF) in 2009. DsF is a human rights-based curriculum that addresses SRH among Latino adolescents. In 2012, El Pueblo requested the assistance of a University of North Carolina (UNC) Health Behavior (HB) Capstone team to develop and implement a formal evaluation of DsF. The evaluation of DsF had three goals: 1) improve the DsF curriculum, 2) demonstrate DsF effectiveness, and 3) enhance DsF sustainability. To this end, the Capstone team reviewed existing quantitative and qualitative evaluation tools and created new evaluation materials as needed. Next, the Capstone team created a database to manage DsF evaluation data. Once evaluation materials and the database were completed, the Capstone team implemented the evaluation in collaboration with El Pueblo staff. Finally, the results of this evaluation were analyzed and compiled into a report and used to revise a funding guide that aids El Pueblo in writing grant proposals to sustain its youth SRH programs. Through its work with El Pueblo, the 2012-2013 Capstone team gained experience with evaluating public health programs in a real-world setting. This experience included the use of quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods and increased knowledge about adolescent SRH education and program development. The Capstone team also gained exposure to the non-profit landscape in Raleigh, North Carolina, including the funding environment and resources available from supporting organizations. By collaborating with El Pueblo, the Capstone team established an effective and sustainable DsF evaluation process and identified additional funding sources to support youth SRH programs at El Pueblo. More broadly, the deliverables created by this Capstone project have the potential to establish DsF effectiveness, institutionalize DsF evaluation protocol, and facilitate dissemination of DsF throughout North Carolina.
Utilização da inovação tecnológica ultrassom na prática profissional da enfermeira obstétrica: scoping review
Creators: name: Borborema, Raquel
name: Alves, Valdecyr
name: Calandrini, Tatiana
name: santos, Márcia
name: Caetano, Elandia
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Maternal, Child Health and Neonatal Nursing
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Nursing Midwifery
subject: Cuidado pré-natal
subject: Enfermeira obstétrica
subject: Obstetric Nurse
subject: Prática profissional
subject: Prenatal care
subject: Professional Practice
subject: Saúde da Mulher
subject: Ultrasonography
subject: Ultrassonografia
subject: Women's health

description: English title: Use of ultrasound technological innovation in the professional practice of obstetric nurses: scoping review Objetivo: Identificar e mapear a prática profissional da enfermeira obstétrica em relação à utilização da ferramenta tecnológica ultrassom no âmbito mundial.
Diagnose Physical Conditions Near the Flare Energy-release Sites from Observations of Solar Microwave Type III Bursts
Creators: name: Tan, Baolin
name: Karlicky, Marian
name: Meszarosova, Hana
name: Huang, Guangli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the physics of solar flares, it is crucial to diagnose the physical conditions near the flare energy-release sites. However, so far it is unclear how do diagnose these physical conditions. Solar microwave type III burst is believed to be a sensitive signature of the primary energy release and electron accelerations in solar flares. This work takes into account the effect of magnetic field on the plasma density and developed s set of formulas which can be used to estimate the plasma density, temperature, magnetic field near the magnetic reconnection site and particle acceleration region, and the velocity and energy of electron beams. We applied these formulas to three groups of microwave type III pairs in a X-class flare, and obtained some reasonable and interesting results. This method can be applied to other microwave type III bursts to diagnose the physical conditions of source regions, and provide some basic information to understand the intrinsic nature and fundamental processes occurring near the flare energy-release sites.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures, accepted by RAA, 2015
A unified approach to radial, hyperbolic, and directional efficiency measurement in Data Envelopment Analysis
Creators: name: Halická, Margaréta
name: Trnovská, Mária
name: Černý, Aleš
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 90C08, 90C25

description: The paper analyses properties of a large class of "path-based" Data Envelopment Analysis models through a unifying general scheme. The scheme includes the well-known oriented radial models, the hyperbolic distance function model, the directional distance function models, and even permits their generalisations. The modelling is not constrained to non-negative data and is flexible enough to accommodate variants of standard models over arbitrary data. Mathematical tools developed in the paper allow systematic analysis of the models from the point of view of ten desirable properties. It is shown that some of the properties are satisfied (resp., fail) for all models in the general scheme, while others have a more nuanced behaviour and must be assessed individually in each model. Our results can help researchers and practitioners navigate among the different models and apply the models to mixed data.
description: 36 pages
The Role of Context in Decision-Making
Creators: name: Machado, Fernanda
name: Ludvig, Elliot
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: behavioral economics
subject: behavioural economics
subject: decision-making
subject: decisions from experience
subject: memory
subject: memory biases
subject: risky decisions

description: We will replicate the core design from the experiment in Madan et al. (2017), but with different visual stimuli. This study further analyses property of the scenario permits the subjective identification of two distinct contexts which tries to answer this question. It also adds to the investigation of whether the context of encoding or the context of retrieval is crucial for determining which outcomes are overweighted in choice.
Take a Fresh Look at Recommender Systems from an Evaluation Standpoint
Creators: name: Sun, Aixin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recommendation has become a prominent area of research in the field of Information Retrieval (IR). Evaluation is also a traditional research topic in this community. Motivated by a few counter-intuitive observations reported in recent studies, this perspectives paper takes a fresh look at recommender systems from an evaluation standpoint. Rather than examining metrics like recall, hit rate, or NDCG, or perspectives like novelty and diversity, the key focus here is on how these metrics are calculated when evaluating a recommender algorithm. Specifically, the commonly used train/test data splits and their consequences are re-examined. We begin by examining common data splitting methods, such as random split or leave-one-out, and discuss why the popularity baseline is poorly defined under such splits. We then move on to explore the two implications of neglecting a global timeline during evaluation: data leakage and oversimplification of user preference modeling. Afterwards, we present new perspectives on recommender systems, including techniques for evaluating algorithm performance that more accurately reflect real-world scenarios, and possible approaches to consider decision contexts in user preference modeling.
description: Accepted for SIGIR 2023 (Perspectives Paper Track)
title: Comparison of parametric contrast enhanced ultrasound (SonoVue®) with quantified F-18-FDG-PET-CT in determining the vitality of liver lesions by hepatic alveolar echinococcosis
Creators: name: Graeter, Tilmann
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Oncology
subject: PET-CT
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Hepatic Alveolar echinococcosis (HAE) is a disease caused by infection with the larval form of small fox tapeworm (Echinococcus multilocularis). In case of disease, liver is usually affected first where the parasite causes organ damage with its...
Alix F. Leon's Research
Creators: name: Leon, Alix
name: Laird, Jennifer
name: Parolin, Zachary
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: poverty
subject: R
subject: Shiny
subject: web app
subject: website

description: The Poor State, Rich State web app is an open source app built with the R Programming Language using a framework called Shiny. This web app displays statistics of the poverty levels across states through the use of maps and graphs.
Additional file 2 of Characterization of two melanoma cell lines resistant to BRAF/MEK inhibitors (vemurafenib and cobimetinib)
Creators: name: Kot, Magdalena
name: Simiczyjew, Aleksandra
name: Wądzyńska, Justyna
name: Ziętek, Marcin
name: Matkowski, Rafał
name: Nowak, Dorota
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 2.
The Dynamic Range of LZ
Creators: name: Yin, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electronics of the LZ experiment, the 7-tonne dark matter detector to be installed at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), is designed to permit studies of physics where the energies deposited range from 1 keV of nuclear-recoil energy up to 3,000 keV of electron-recoil energy. The system is designed to provide a 70% efficiency for events that produce three photoelectrons in the photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). This corresponds approximately to the lowest energy threshold achievable in multi-tonne time-projection chambers, and drives the noise specifications for the front end. The upper limit of the LZ dynamic range is defined to accommodate the electroluminescence (S2) signals. The low-energy channels of the LZ amplifiers provide the dynamic range required for the tritium and krypton calibrations. The high-energy channels provide the dynamic range required to measure the activated Xe lines.
Solvable Models of Quantum Black Holes: A Review on Jackiw-Teitelboim Gravity
Creators: name: Mertens, Thomas G.
name: Turiaci, Gustavo J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review recent developments in Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity. This is a simple solvable model of quantum gravity in two dimensions (that arises e.g. from the s-wave sector of higher dimensional gravity systems with spherical symmetry). Due to its solvability, it has proven to be a fruitful toy model to analyze important questions such as the relation between black holes and chaos, the role of wormholes in black hole physics and holography, and the way in which information that falls into a black hole can be recovered.
description: Invited review article for Living Reviews in Relativity, v2: typos fixed and references added
NC Latina BEAUTY: Formative Research, Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Salon-based Health Promotion Pilot Program in a Latino Salon in the NC Triangle Area
Creators: name: Hasken, Julie
name: Rowe, Ryan
name: Goobich, Sivan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Background: Latino beauty salons have the potential to provide a unique opportunity to reach the U.S. Latino population with information and activities that will promote healthy behaviors, reduce risk, prevent chronic disease and improve quality of life. Methods: By conducting a pilot test in a Latino salon, the Capstone team explored the feasibility of a physical activity intervention, adapted from a previous physical activity campaign included as part of the NC BEAUTY and Health Project. The adaptation was informed by engaging with multiple community members, conducting formative research, and a literature review. Results: The formative research aided the team in developing an intervention and evaluation plan including: evaluation and intervention materials and trainings of lay health educators and salon stylists. Results from the implementation of the pilot intervention, which includes 3 weeks of recruitment and baseline assessment, 6 weeks of intervention activities, and 2-3 weeks of post-intervention assessment, will likely be used in the development of a grant proposal and a manuscript, helping to fill the gap in evidence-based literature about health interventions in Latino beauty salons. Discussion: Although this Capstone project succeeded at developing a pilot test study and engaging with a Latino beauty salon, ongoing challenges include time constraints, insufficient formative research, language barriers, lack of entrée into the community, and threats to sustainability. Recommendations for next steps are discussed.
Printed Circuit Board Files
Creators: name: Lau, Soon Kiat
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Arduino
subject: Dry
subject: Food Engineering
subject: Food Science
subject: Heat
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Open Source
subject: Salmonella
subject: Thermal death kinetics
subject: Thermal resistance

description: Gerber files for manufacturing the printed circuit boards in TDT Sandwiches.
title: Electro-magnetic tracker-based fusion for image-guided TRUS prostate biopsy
Creators: name: van de Ven, Wendy
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: Oncology
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Biopsy
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Image registration
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among men and one of the leading causes of cancer death in men [1]. Systematic (on average 12 core) transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) guided biopsy (USgBx) is the currently internationally accepted...
Accelerating Cosmology and Phase Structure of F(R) Gravity with Lagrange Multiplier Constraint: Mimetic Approach
Creators: name: Odintsov, S. D.
name: Oikonomou, V. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study mimetic $F(R)$ gravity with potential and Lagrange multiplier constraint. In the context of these theories, we introduce a reconstruction technique which enables us to realize arbitrary cosmologies, given the Hubble rate and an arbitrarily chosen $F(R)$ gravity. We exemplify our method by realizing cosmologies that are in concordance with current observations (Planck data) and also well known bouncing cosmologies. The attribute of our method is that the $F(R)$ gravity can be arbitrarily chosen, so we can have the appealing features of the mimetic approach combined with the known features of some $F(R)$ gravities, which unify early-time with late-time acceleration. Moreover, we study the existence and the stability of de Sitter points in the context of mimetic $F(R)$ gravity. In the case of unstable de Sitter points, it is demonstrated that graceful exit from inflation occurs. We also study the Einstein frame counterpart theory of the Jordan frame mimetic $F(R)$ gravity, we discuss the general properties of the theory and exemplify our analysis by studying a quite interesting from a phenomenological point of view, model with two scalar fields. We also calculate the observational indices of the two scalar field model, by using the two scalar field formalism. Furthermore, we extensively study the dynamical system that corresponds to the mimetic $F(R)$ gravity, by finding the fixed points and studying their stability. Finally, we modify our reconstruction method to function in the inverse way and thus yielding which $F(R)$ gravity can realize a specific cosmological evolution, given the mimetic potential and the Lagrange multiplier.
description: Revised version, PRD accepted
Acute Stress and Reward
Creators: name: Ethridge, Paige
name: Weinberg, Anna
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medical Sciences
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Cortisol
subject: EEG
subject: ERP
subject: Reward Positivity
subject: Stress

description: De-identified data and SPSS syntax for analysis of EEG, self-report, and cortisol responses in a paradigm examining neural response to reward and acute stress.
Additional file 2 of Targeted viromes and total metagenomes capture distinct components of bee gut phage communities
Creators: name: Sbardellati, Dino Lorenzo
name: Vannette, Rachel Lee
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 2. Supplemental methods: Bee rearing, sampling, and experimental design. Sample preparation and DNA extraction. Read generation, pre-processing, and decontamination. Computational phage identification. vOTU clustering, annotation, and table generation. Statistical and ecological analyses. Bacterial community and density measurements. Network generation. Phage host prediction.
Direct observation of two-dimensional small polarons at correlated oxide interface
Creators: name: Tang, Chi Sin
name: Zeng, Shengwei
name: Wu, Jing
name: Chen, Shunfeng
name: Song, Dongsheng
name: Milošević
name: Yang, Ping
name: Diao, Caozheng
name: Zhou, Jun
name: Pennycook, Stephen J.
name: Breese, Mark B. H.
name: Cai, Chuanbing
name: Venkatesan, Thirumalai
name: Ariando, Ariando
name: Yang, Ming
name: Wee, Andrew T. S.
name: Yin, Xinmao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-dimensional (2D) perovskite oxide interfaces are ideal systems where diverse emergent properties can be uncovered.The formation and modification of polaronic properties due to short-range strong charge-lattice interactions of 2D interfaces remains hugely intriguing.Here, we report the direct observation of small-polarons at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 (LAO/STO) conducting interface using high-resolution spectroscopic ellipsometry.First-principles investigations further reveals that strong coupling between the interfacial electrons and the Ti-lattice result in the formation of localized 2D small polarons.These findings resolve the longstanding issue where the excess experimentally measured interfacial carrier density is significantly lower than theoretically predicted values.The charge-phonon induced lattice distortion further provides an analogue to the superconductive states in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene attributed to the many-body correlations induced by broken periodic lattice symmetry.Our study sheds light on the multifaceted complexity of broken periodic lattice induced quasi-particle effects and its relationship with superconductivity.
title: Prostate cancer local recurrence: correlation between pharmacokinetic parameters and microvessels density.
Creators: name: Kapustin, Vladimir
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR
subject: Oncology
subject: Genital / Reproductive system male

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE MRI) is considered as an effective tool for different types of malignant tumors detection. On the other hand microvessel density (MVD) is the important parameter of tumor aggressiveness. The aim of the present...