cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Kids and Adults Now! Defeat Obesity (KAN-DO): Rationale, design and baseline characteristics
Creators: name: Krause, Katrina M.
name: Swamy, Geeta K.
name: Evenson, Kelly R.
name: Østbye, Truls
name: Brouwer, Rebecca J.N.
name: Peterson, Bercedis L.
name: West, Deborah G.
name: Lovelady, Cheryl A.
name: Bastian, Lori A.
name: Zucker, Nancy L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Prevention of childhood obesity is a public health priority. Parents influence a child’s weight by modeling healthy behaviors, controlling food availability and activity opportunities, and appropriate feeding practices. Thus interventions should target education and behavioral change in the parent, and positive, mutually reinforcing behaviors within the family.
Local Resolution of Ideals Subordinated to a Foliation
Creators: name: da Silva, André Belotto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $M$ be a complex- or real-analytic manifold, $θ$ be a singular distribution and $\mathcal{I}$ a coherent ideal sheaf defined on $M$. We prove the existence of a local resolution of singularities of $\mathcal{I}$ that preserves the class of singularities of $θ$, under the hypothesis that the considered class of singularities is invariant by $θ$-admissible blowings-up. In particular, if $θ$ is monomial, we prove the existence of a local resolution of singularities of $\mathcal{I}$ that preserves the monomiality of the singular distribution $θ$.
description: Updated version. See full reviewed version in the Journal
Predictive Neurocognitive Model of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Diagnosis
Creators: name: Quintero-López, Catalina
name: Gil-Vera, Víctor Daniel
name: Landinez-Martínez, Daniel Alfredo
name: Vargas-Gaviria, Juan Pablo
name: Gómez-Muñoz, Natalia
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2023
Subjects: ADHD; Clinical Profiles; Decision trees; Neurocognition; Predictive modeling.

description: Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental clinical entity associated with a reduction in brain maturation mainly at the frontotemporal level, generating neurocognitive deficits. This disorder usually presents in a comorbid manner. This research presents a predictive study that aimed to identify the neurocognitive characteristics of ADHD (combined, hyperactive/impulsive, and inattentive) of pure presentation and with comorbidity with the oppositional defiant disorder, specific learning disorder, and an autism spectrum disorder. Probabilistic rules were constructed with different types of variables (total IQ, working memory index, perceptual reasoning index, processing speed index, phonological/semantic fluency, attention, visuoverbal memory, verbal memory, working memory, visual memory, visual perception, constructional praxias), using the Machine Learning Decision Tree (DTM) technique in Rcran 4.2.1 software, which allowed establishing a clinical hierarchy. It is concluded that children with pure ADHD present low performance in tasks assessing the index of working memory and perceptual reasoning that are not explained by deficits in IQ. Deficits in working memory are generalizable to all ADHD presentations and comorbidities. One of the main advantages of DTM compared to other Machine Learning predictive techniques is the possibility of differentiating the hierarchy of importance of the dependent variables, in this case, allowing the identification of the most important variables in four different populations of children diagnosed with ADHD.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 11, No 1 (2023)
Parent-Led Activity and Nutrition (PLAN) for healthy living: Design and methods
Creators: name: McBee, Mathew T.
name: Holt, Nicole
name: Tudiver, Fred
name: Schetzina, Karen E.
name: Fulton-Robinson, Hazel
name: Wu, Tiejian
name: Dalton, William T.
name: Ho, Ai-Leng
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Child obesity has become an important public heath concern, especially in rural areas. Primary care providers are well positioned to intervene with children and their parents, but encounter many barriers to addressing child overweight and obesity. This paper describes the design and methods of a cluster- randomized controlled trial to evaluate a parent-mediated approach utilizing physician’s brief motivational interviewing and parent group sessions to treat child (ages 5–11 years) overweight and obesity in the primary care setting in Southern Appalachia. Specific aims of this pilot project will be 1) to establish a primary care based and parent-mediated childhood overweight intervention program in the primary care setting, 2) to explore the efficacy of this intervention in promoting healthier weight status and health behaviors of children, 3) to examine the acceptability and feasibility of the approach among parents and primary care providers. If proven to be effective, this approach may be an exportable model to other primary care practices.
Stanisław Michalski: The Founding Father of the Science of Science
Creators: name: Hübner, Mateusz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Stanisław Michalski
naukoznawstwo
science of science

description: The poster describes the achievements of Stanisław Michalski (1865–1949), a Polish educational and scientific activist, the founding father of "science-of-science". Poster opisuje dokonania Stanisława Michalskiego (1865–1949), polskiego działacza oświatowego i naukowego, ojca założyciela „nauki o nauce”.
description: {"references": ["Archives of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw \u2013 Kasa im. J. Mianowskiego.", "\"Nauka Polska \u2013 Jej Potrzeby, Organizacja i Rozw\u00f3j\" [\"Polish Science: Its Requirements, Organization and Development\"] 1918-1939, 1947.", "H\u00fcbner M., Fundusz Kultury Narodowej J\u00f3zefa Pi\u0142sudskiego \u2013 zamys\u0142 i realizacja \u2013 manuscript of the doctoral dissertation 2021.", "Kokowski, Micha\u0142 2021: The turning points in the history of science of science and their current importance. 26th International Congress of History of Science and Technology \"Giants and Dwarfs in Science, Technology and Medicine\". Prague, July 25-31, 2021. Presentation. Session XVII (Part 2/2) - Science and Philosophy. 31 July 2021. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7092035.", "Piskurewicz J., W s\u0142u\u017cbie nauki i o\u015bwiaty. Stanis\u0142aw Michalski (1865-1949), Warszawa 1993.", "Stanis\u0142awa Michalskiego autobiografia i dzia\u0142alno\u015b\u0107 o\u015bwiatowa, ed. by H. Radli\u0144ska, I. Lepalczyk, Wroc\u0142aw 1967.", "Zamecki S., Problematyka naukoznawcza na \u0142amach periodyku \"Nauka Polska Jej Potrzeby, Organizacja i Rozw\u00f3j. Studium historyczno-metodologiczne. Lata 1918-1947, Warszawa 2016."]}
Isomer of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and red blood cell indices in adults: The Isomers of C8 Health Project in China
Creators: name: Zhang, Yun-Ting
name: Zeeshan, Mohammed
name: Fan, Yuan-Yuan
name: Tan, Wei-Hong
name: Zhao, Kun
name: Liang, Li-Xia
name: Huang, Jing-Wen
name: Zhou, Jia-Xin
name: Guo, Li-Hao
name: Lin, Li-Zi
name: Liu, Ru-Qing
name: Zeng, Xiao-Wen
name: Dong, Guang-Hui
name: Chu, Chu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biochemistry
Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: This study aimed to explore the isomer-specific, sex-specific, and joint associations of PFAS and red blood cell indices. We used data of 1,238 adults from the Isomers of C8 Health Project in China. Associations of PFAS isomers and red blood cell indices were explored using multiple linear regression models, Bayesian Kernel Machine Regression models and subgroup analysis across sex. We found that serum concentration of linear (n-) and branched (Br-) isomers of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorohexanesulfonic acid (PFHxS) were significantly associated with red blood cell indices in single-pollutant models, with stronger associations observed for n-PFHxS than Br-PFHxS, in women than in men. For instance, the estimated percentage change in hemoglobin concentration for n-PFHxS (3.65%; 95% CI: 2.95%, 4.34%) was larger than that for Br-PFHxS (0.96%; 95% CI: 0.52%, 1.40%). The estimated percentage change in red blood cell count for n-PFHxS in women (2.55%; 95% CI: 1.81%, 3.28%) was significantly higher than that in men (0.12%; 95% CI: −1.04%, 1.29%) (Pinter < 0.001). Similarly, sex-specific positive association of PFAS mixture and outcomes was observed. Therefore, the structure, susceptive population, and joint effect of PFAS isomers should be taken into consideration when evaluating the health risk of chemicals.
Jewellery theory and practice: an investigation into emotionally invested and mnemonic jewellery through sensitising materials
Creators: name: Bernabei, Roberta
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 199999 Studies in the Creative Arts and Writing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: This research explores the capacity of jewellery to be emotionally embedded and to perform a mnemonic function. It investigates the work of European jewellers, jewellery design methods and thought-provoking ways of displaying jewellery in an atypical setting. It is situated in the context of contemporary jewellery design and practice and aims to expand our knowledge of the potential of materials and new technologies to advance opportunities for the making of jewellery as an artefact with the capacity to be a carrier of emotions and memories. Throughout, the author utilises concepts of sensitising materials and notions of narrative quality. A body of work comprising nineteen publications including a chapter from a monograph book by the author is presented. The academic outputs illustrate a range of approaches from the theoretical and the experimental to exploratory qualitative methods. The findings, testing innovative materials and new technologies contribute to our understanding of technical and aesthetic solutions to the problematics of investing jewellery with memories and emotions through the application of both digital technologies and traditional craft techniques. The results were then applied in qualitative contexts, firstly to explore their capacity to support the designing and making and secondly, in a collaborative setting to explore the capacity of this novel practice for enhancing well-being. The distinctive contribution to knowledge comprises, in part, reflections on the materiality of the object from the jewellery maker’s perspective. The purpose is to further an understanding of the role of emotionally and mnemonically embedded jewellery both in everyday life and as an agent of well-being. In doing so, it can be seen as: extending the work of anthropologist Ingold; informing the theory of jewellery initiated by Lindermann; and as refining conceptualisations of the capacity of emotionally charged jewellery for enhancing well-being.
Proactive recruitment of cancer patients' social networks into a smoking cessation trial
Creators: name: Fish, Laura J.
name: Molner, Stephanie
name: Lyna, Pauline
name: Bepler, Gerold
name: Keefe, Francis J.
name: Bastian, Lori A.
name: Garst, Jennifer
name: McBride, Colleen M.
name: Peterson, Bercedis L.
name: Biddle, Andrea K.
name: Kelley, Mike
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: This report describes the characteristics associated with successful enrollment of smokers in the social networks (i.e., family and close friends) of patients with lung cancer into a smoking cessation intervention.
Can Interpersonal Problems Predict Female Depression?
Creators: name: Fonseca, Alexandra
name: Matos, Margarida Gaspar De
name: Gois, Carlos
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2023
Subjects: Depression; Interpersonal Problems; IIP64; Women; Mental Health.

description: Background: Recognized as a common and debilitating condition with a high recurrence rate, depression is considered a severe public health problem. The association between interpersonal problems and depressive disorders is well documented, but studies in non-clinical populations are scarce. The working hypotheses were that (Hp1) depressed women report more interpersonal problems than non-depressed ones, and (Hp2) depression is predicted by interpersonal problems. Methods: The present study analyzes the relationship between depression and interpersonal problems, assessed by the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems (IIP64), in a non-clinical Portuguese female population (n=240), aged 18 to 81. Two groups of participants were considered, based on the Beck Depression Inventory – short form (BDI-SF) cut-off points: G1 "non-depressed" (n=119, M=44.18, SD=12.34) and G2 “depressed” (n=121, M=41.14, DS=13.74). One-way ANOVA and binary logistic regression with forward selection were performed. Results: There was a significant difference in interpersonal problems between depressed and non-depressed women. Specifically, when women experienced depressive symptoms, they identified more interpersonal problems. The sub-scales IIP1 dominating/controlling, IIP7 Self-sacrifice and IIP4 Socially inhibited had the most significant impact on the likelihood of depression. Conclusions: This study emphasizes that clinical practice and universal and selective prevention strategies for depression should include analyses and interventions on factors such as inhibition, reduction of the social network, difficulty in emotional expression and low gratification experienced in interpersonal relationships.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 11, No 1 (2023)
COMPARING THREE THEORIES OF ORIGIN OF THE ELDER FUTHARK: A QUANTITATIVE APPROACH TO THE QUESTION
Creators: name: Winters, Rebecca
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: The question of the Futhark’s origin has been debated for nearly two centuries, yet scholars have been unable to reach a definitive consensus.  The aim of this thesis was to fill a gap in the scholarship by undertaking a quantitative, paleographic analysis of three theories of origin: Latin, Greek, and North Italic.Theories were tested based on cultural contact and detailed phonetic and phonological comparisons of proposed parent-child grapheme pairs.  After examining 65 Elder Futhark inscriptions from Period I (150-550 AD), seven graphemes were chosen as the focus of the tests.The proposed grapheme pairs for each of the theories were drawn from the most recent scholarship available:  For Latin, John S. Robertson (2011); for Greek, Edmund Fairfax (2014), and for North Italic, Bernard Mees (2000).  After testing, an analysis of the results was conducted using simple percentages, from which some conclusions about the plausibility of each theory were drawn.
Ab initio lattice results for Fermi polarons in two dimensions
Creators: name: Bour, Shahin
name: Lee, Dean
name: Hammer, H. -W.
name: Meißner, Ulf-G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the attractive Fermi polaron problem in two dimensions using non-perturbative Monte Carlo simulations. We introduce a new Monte Carlo algorithm called the impurity lattice Monte Carlo method. This algorithm samples the path integral in a computationally efficient manner and has only small sign oscillations for systems with a single impurity. As a benchmark of the method, we calculate the universal polaron energy in three dimensions in the scale-invariant unitarity limit and find agreement with published results. We then present the first fully non-perturbative calculations of the polaron energy in two dimensions and density correlations between the impurity and majority particles in the limit of zero range interactions. We find evidence for a smooth crossover transition from fermionic quasiparticle to molecular state as a function of interaction strength.
description: Includes new results on density-density correlations. Final version as will appear in Phys. Rev. Lett
Capacity to consent to research in older adults with normal cognitive functioning, mild and major neurocognitive disorder: an Italian study
Creators: name: Del Signore, Federica
name: Rosi, Alessia
name: Palumbo, Rocco
name: Allegri, Nicola
name: Costa, Alfredo
name: Govoni, Stefano
name: Cavallini, Elena
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2023
Subjects: Informed consent; Decision making; Cognitive dysfunction; Aging; Executive function; Memory.

description: Background: A specific evaluation of the capacity to consent to research in older adults with cognitive decline is often not included routinely in research practice. However, there is a need to evaluate this competence adopting brief standardized instruments to guarantee their ethical rights. The present study evaluated in older adults with normal cognitive functioning, and major and mild neurocognitive disorders whether the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and a brief battery of neuropsychological tests are sensitive and specific to discriminate subjects able to provide consent to research. Methods: 54 participants with Major Neurocognitive Disorder (MajorNCD), 22 with Mild Neurocognitive Disorder (MildNCD), and 37 Normal Cognitive Functioning individuals (NCF). The capacity to provide consent was assessed using the MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool for Clinical Research. Cognitive functioning was assessed using the MMSE, Verbal Fluency Tests, Trail Making Test (TMT-A), Immediate and Delayed Recall Test. Results: In the MildNCD and NCF groups, the aggregate score of neuropsychological tests showed high sensitivity and specificity in classifying subjects able to provide consent to research. In the MajorNCD group, MMSE, Recall test, and TMT-A performed better than the aggregate score in classifying subjects as able of consenting to the hypothetical research. Conclusion: The choice of the best tool to assess the ability to provide consent to research may depend on the degree of cognitive impairment. MMSE is a good tool for subjects with MajorNCD. A more comprehensive battery of neuropsychological tests would represent a better tool in NCF and MildNCD individuals.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 11, No 1 (2023)
The Effects of Maternal Hypothyroidism on Postnatal Cardiomyocyte Proliferation and Cardiac Disease Responses of the Progeny
Creators: name: Li, Yijia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 320101
subject: Cardiology (incl. cardiovascular diseases)

description: The Effects of Maternal Hypothyroidism on Postnatal Cardiomyocyte Proliferation and Cardiac Disease Responses of the Progeny
A comparison of statistical approaches for physician-randomized trials with survival outcomes
Creators: name: Brookhart, M. Alan
name: Lew, Robert A.
name: Stedman, Margaret R.
name: Losina, Elena
name: Solomon, Daniel H.
name: Gagnon, David R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: This study compares methods for analyzing correlated survival data from physician-randomized trials of health care quality improvement interventions. Several proposed methods adjust for correlated survival data however the most suitable method is unknown. Applying the characteristics of our study example, we performed three simulation studies to compare conditional, marginal, and non-parametric methods for analyzing clustered survival data. We simulated 1,000 datasets using a shared frailty model with (1) fixed cluster size, (2) variable cluster size, and (3) non-lognormal random effects. Methods of analyses included: the nonlinear mixed model (conditional), the marginal proportional hazards model with robust standard errors, the clustered logrank test, and the clustered permutation test (non-parametric). For each method considered we estimated Type I error, power, mean squared error, and the coverage probability of the treatment effect estimator. We observed underestimated Type I error for the clustered logrank test. The marginal proportional hazards method performed well even when model assumptions were violated. Nonlinear mixed models were only advantageous when the distribution was correctly specified.
Connectedness modulo an ideal
Creators: name: Koushesh, M. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: For a topological space $X$ and an ideal $\mathscr{H}$ of subsets of $X$ we introduce the notion of connectedness modulo $\mathscr{H}$. This notion of connectedness naturally generalizes the notion of connectedness in its usual sense. In the case when $X$ is completely regular, we introduce a subspace $γ_{\mathscr H} X$ of the Stone--Čech compactification $βX$ of $X$, such that connectedness modulo ${\mathscr H}$ is equivalent to connectedness of $βX\setminusγ_{\mathscr H} X$. In particular, we prove that when ${\mathscr H}$ is the ideal generated by the collection of all open subspaces of $X$ with pseudocompact closure, then $X$ is connected modulo ${\mathscr H}$ if and only if $\mathrm{cl}_{βX}(βX\setminus\upsilon X)$ is connected, and when $X$ is normal and ${\mathscr H}$ is the ideal generated by the collection of all closed realcompact subspaces of $X$, then $X$ is connected modulo ${\mathscr H}$ if and only if $\mathrm{cl}_{βX}(\upsilon X\setminus X)$ is connected. Here $\upsilon X$ is the Hewitt realcompactification of $X$.
description: 28 pages
The clinical use of the Zulliger Test in the assessment of personality functioning and psychopathology
Creators: name: Caporale, Riccardo
name: Allone, Cettina
name: Maccarone, Antonio
name: Craparo, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2023
Subjects: Zulliger Test; Hans Zulliger ; Functioning of psychopatology personality; The Zulliger Individual and Group Test.

description: The Zulliger Test, or more commonly Z-Test, is a projective psychodiagnostic instrument developed by Hans Zulliger in 1942. Like the Rorschach test, it is based on the interpretation of inkblot tables, which in this specific case are three. Born as a test for collective administration, it was then also adapted in the individual mode and applied both in the organizational and clinical evaluation. This work proposes a review of the literature on the main studies conducted on the Z-Test, in order to better frame the current state of the art on the applicability of this interesting but neglected instrument, with particular attention to the clinical evaluation. In this context and in particular in individual administration, the studies available in the literature highlight good reliability and validity, however they are small and this discourage the use of the test, nowadays mainly adopted in the selection evaluation.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 11, No 1 (2023)
Neutrino masses, the $μ$-term and $\mathcal{ PSL}_2(7)$
Creators: name: Chen, Gaoli
name: Pérez, M. Jay
name: Ramond, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using an $SO(10)$-inspired form for the Dirac neutrino mass, we map the neutrino data to right-handed neutrino Majorana mass-matrix, $\mathcal M$, and investigate a special form with \emph{seesaw} tribimaximal mixing; it predicts a normal hierarchy, and the values of the light neutrino masses. It may be generated by mapping the top quark hierarchy onto the vacuum values of familon fields transforming under the family group $\mathcal{ PSL}_2(7)$. We next investigate the hypothesis that these familons play a dual role, generating a hierarchy in the supersymmetric $\mathbf μ$-mass matrix of Higgses carrying family quantum numbers. A special $\mathcal{ PSL}_2(7)$ invariant coupling produces a $μ$-matrix with a hierarchy of thirteen orders of magnitude. Only one Higgs field (per hypercharge sector) is light enough (with a $μ$-mass $\sim 10-100$ GeV) to be destabilized by SUSY soft breaking at the TeV scale, and upon spontaneous symmetry breaking, gives \emph{tree-level} masses for the heaviest family.
description: 26 pages, no figures
Waterpower romance: the cultural myth of dying watermills in German hydro-narratives around 1900
Creators: name: Limmer, Agnes
name: Zumbrägel, Christian
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::600 Technik::600 Technik, Technologie
subject: hydropower
subject: waterwheel
subject: hydroelectricity
subject: Heimatschutz
subject: Muehlensterben
subject: preservationists
subject: romanticizing
subject: energy transition
subject: energy humanities
subject: environmental humanities
subject: history of technology
subject: literary science
subject: environmental history

description: Even in the twenty-first century, myths of preindustrial forms of energy utilization are woven around watermills, waterwheels, and traditional millscapes. Along German watercourses, many grinding shops and hammer mills held on to waterwheels and delivered mechanical rather than electric power well into the twentieth century. It is not the case that the days of these “old technologies” (Edgerton 2008) were numbered as soon as hydroelectricity and “modern” hydraulic turbines appeared in the 1880s. When analyzing the dominating contemporaneous discourses around hydropower, it is easy to overlook these tendencies of historical persistence. This is not surprising, considering that scientific, literary, and preservationist narratives around 1900––actively and subtly––propagated and spread the idea of Muehlensterben, or the myth of dying watermills that has been rehearsed over and over again in reflections on hydropower history. In this article, we challenge the popular imaginaries of “old” and “outmoded” watermills in a two-step approach. Firstly, we contrast the well-known transition at the advent of hydroelectricity with hydropower activities, which took place simultaneously in Germany’s traditional commercial landscapes. Here, waterwheels remained in good use, despite the electrification and scientific development of hydraulic turbines. Secondly, we deconstruct the romantic bias towards the preindustrial symbolism of the waterwheel by analyzing different arguments in professional journals as well as romanticizing and nostalgic literature. We combine approaches and empirical material of both historical and literary sciences to gain a better understanding of how different narratives reinforced the image of watermills and waterwheels being outdated. In this respect, the interdisciplinary approach contributes to the emerging field of the Environmental Humanities.
Assessing the effect of Measurement-Based Care depression treatment on HIV medication adherence and health outcomes: Rationale and design of the SLAM DUNC Study
Creators: name: Thielman, Nathan
name: Modi, Riddhi
name: Adams, Julie
name: Williams, Quinn
name: Gaynes, Bradley N.
name: Heine, Amy
name: Mugavero, Michael J.
name: Quinlivan, E. Byrd
name: Pence, Brian W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Depression affects 20–30% of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in the US and predicts greater sexual risk behaviors, lower antiretroviral (ARV) medication adherence, and worse clinical outcomes. Yet little experimental evidence addresses the critical clinical question of whether depression treatment improves ARV adherence and clinical outcomes in PLWHA with depression. The Strategies to Link Antidepressant and Antiretroviral Management at Duke, UAB, and UNC (SLAM DUNC) Study is a randomized clinical effectiveness trial funded by the National Institute for Mental Health. The objective of SLAM DUNC is to test whether a depression treatment program integrated into routine HIV clinical care affects ARV adherence. PLWHA with depression (n=390) are randomized to enhanced usual care or a depression treatment model called Measurement-Based Care (MBC). MBC deploys a clinically supervised Depression Care Manager (DCM) to provide evidence-based antidepressant treatment recommendations to a non-psychiatric prescribing provider, guided by systematic and ongoing measures of depressive symptoms and side effects. MBC has limited time requirements and the DCM role can be effectively filled by a range of personnel given appropriate training and supervision, enhancing replicability. In SLAM DUNC, MBC is integrated into HIV care to support HIV providers in antidepressant prescription and management. The primary endpoint is ARV adherence measured by unannounced telephone-based pill counts at 6 months with follow-up to 12 months and secondary endpoints including viral load, health care utilization, and depressive severity. Important outcomes of this study will be evidence of the effectiveness of MBC in treating depression in PLWHA and improving HIV-related outcomes.
Maladaptive Instagram Use Among Young Adults: The Mediating Role of Basic Psychological Needs on Body Dissatisfaction
Creators: name: Caparello, Concettina
name: Verrastro, Valeria
name: Castellani, Loriana
name: Filippello, Pina
name: Sorrenti, Luana
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2023
Subjects: Maladaptive Instagram use; Body Image; Basic Psychological Need; Need Interpersonal Behavior; Self-Determination Theory.

description: Instagram is an image-sharing social networking service (SNS) particularly enjoyed by young adults. It excessive and problematic use impacts users’ body image (BI). Individuals with negative BI feel dissatisfied with their appearance and body, and perceive a discrepancy between their current and ideal image. Instagram, in contrast to other SNS, focused uniquely on image-based content. As such, it is likely that Instagram differs from other social media in term of mediating processes linking its use to BI, reflecting the need to understanding the relationship between maladaptive Instagram use and body dissatisfaction. The main purpose of this study is to investigate, through a self-determination theory (SDT) framework, the mediating role of basic psychological needs (BPN) satisfaction/frustration and needs-supportive/needs-thwarting interpersonal behaviors on the relationship between maladaptive Instagram use and body dissatisfaction. The results showed the role of BPN satisfaction/frustration (autonomy, competence and relatedness) in the relationship between maladaptive Instagram use and body dissatisfaction. The sample comprised 525 young adults from several Italian university. This study extends the knowledge of the factors that can be related to the BI of young adults, with important application implications.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 11, No 1 (2023)
Additional file 1 of Synthesis, biological evaluation and molecular docking of new triphenylamine-linked pyridine, thiazole and pyrazole analogues as anticancer agents
Creators: name: Elmorsy, Mohamed R.
name: Mahmoud, Samar E.
name: Fadda, Ahmed A.
name: Abdel-Latif, Ehab
name: Abdelmoaz, Miral A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Figures S1–S82.Additional figures S1–S2.
Cosmology Constraints from the Weak Lensing Peak Counts and the Power Spectrum in CFHTLenS
Creators: name: Liu, Jia
name: Petri, Andrea
name: Haiman, Zoltan
name: Hui, Lam
name: Kratochvil, Jan M.
name: May, Morgan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lensing peaks have been proposed as a useful statistic, containing cosmological information from non-Gaussianities that is inaccessible from traditional two-point statistics such as the power spectrum or two-point correlation functions. Here we examine constraints on cosmological parameters from weak lensing peak counts, using the publicly available data from the 154 deg$^2$ CFHTLenS survey. We utilize a new suite of ray-tracing N-body simulations on a grid of 91 cosmological models, covering broad ranges of the three parameters $Ω_m$, $σ_8$, and $w$, and replicating the Galaxy sky positions, redshifts, and shape noise in the CFHTLenS observations. We then build an emulator that interpolates the power spectrum and the peak counts to an accuracy of $\leq 5\%$, and compute the likelihood in the three-dimensional parameter space ($Ω_m$, $σ_8$, $w$) from both observables. We find that constraints from peak counts are comparable to those from the power spectrum, and somewhat tighter when different smoothing scales are combined. Neither observable can constrain $w$ without external data. When the power spectrum and peak counts are combined, the area of the error "banana'' in the ($Ω_m$, $σ_8$) plane reduces by a factor of $\approx2$, compared to using the power spectrum alone. For a flat $Λ$ cold dark matter model, combining both statistics, we obtain the constraint $σ_8(Ω_m/0.27)^{0.63}=0.85\substack{+0.03 \\ -0.03}$.
description: 15 pages, 14 figures. The manuscript has been revised and matches published version
Axonopsis (Paraxonopsis) projecta Cook 1967
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Axonopsidae
Axonopsis
Axonopsis projecta

description: Axonopsis (Paraxonopsis) projecta Cook, 1967
Records from the study area: Kerala—Cook (1967); Prasad (1974).
Habitat: Mountain stream.
Distribution: India.
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
Lie Algebroids in the Loday-Pirashvili Category
Creators: name: Rovi, Ana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We describe Lie-Rinehart algebras in the tensor category $\mathcal{LM}$ of linear maps in the sense of Loday and Pirashvili and construct a functor from Lie-Rinehart algebras in $\mathcal{LM}$ to Leibniz algebroids.
On pseudo-hyperkähler prepotentials
Creators: name: Devchand, Chandrashekar
name: Spiro, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 53C26, 53C28, 53C10

description: An explicit surjection from a set of (locally defined) unconstrained holomorphic functions on a certain submanifold of (Sp_1(C) \times C^{4n}) onto the set HK_{p,q} of local isometry classes of real analytic pseudo-hyperkähler metrics of signature (4p,4q) in dimension 4n is constructed. The holomorphic functions, called prepotentials, are analogues of Kähler potentials for Kähler metrics and provide a complete parameterisation of HK_{p,q}. In particular, there exists a bijection between HK_{p,q} and the set of equivalence classes of prepotentials. This affords the explicit construction of pseudo-hyperkähler metrics from specified prepotentials. The construction generalises one due to Galperin, Ivanov, Ogievetsky and Sokatchev. Their work is given a coordinate-free formulation and complete, self-contained proofs are provided. An appendix provides a vital tool for this construction: a reformulation of real analytic G-structures in terms of holomorphic frame fields on complex manifolds.
description: 53 pages; v2: minor amendments to Def.4.1 and Theorem 4.5; a paragraph inserted in the proof of the latter; V3: minor changes; V4: minor changes/ typos corrected for journal version
Eye-tracking patterns in borderline personality disorder: findings from a relational dot-probe task
Creators: name: Bortolla, Roberta
name: Spada, Gea Elena
name: Lazzarino, Eleonora
name: Maffei, Cesare
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2023
Subjects: Borderline personality disorder; Eye-tracking; Attentional bias; Hypervigilance; Avoidance.

description: Background and objectives: Among the main dysfunctions of borderline personality disorder, a topic of interest is the study of attentional mechanisms that evaluates which stimuli attracts patients’ attention and how patients process incoming stimuli. Different attentional biases could be manifested in borderline personality disorder: hypervigilance of emotional cues, difficulties in disengaging attention or avoidance. Additionally, social contents could be particularly problematic for patients given their alterations in the interpersonal domain. The current study aimed to investigate alterations in attentional mechanisms in response to interpersonal stimuli (positive, negative, and erotic) in this clinical population. Methods: A modified version of the dot-probe task using socio-relational pictures was administered to 31 patients with borderline personality disorder and 31 healthy controls. The relational stimuli had a positive, negative, and erotic valence to test possible difference related to specific contents administered. Reaction times and eye-tracking data were collected during the tasks. Results: Borderline personality disorder patients showed low latency to negative and erotic contents supporting a condition of hypervigilance associated to these contents. Additionally, patients reported high bias score in response to erotic stimuli manifesting difficulties in disentangling attention from these contents. On the contrary, reduced bias score and low visual exploration were manifested by borderline personality disorder subjects in response to negative stimuli, supporting the use of avoidance mechanisms. Additionally, high levels of negative affectivity affected the previous processes increasing patients’ alertness to potential threating (or rejecting) situations. Conclusions: As a whole our findings confirm the presence of altered attentional mechanisms in borderline personality disorder. These patients showed hypervigilance to erotic and negative relational situations, in line with well documented interpersonal problems. However, stimuli specific contents (e.g., erotic vs negative) differentiate later stage of attentional process bringing patients to manifest difficulties in disengaging attention in some cases and avoidance mechanisms in others.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 11, No 1 (2023)
Design and baseline data from the vanguard of the Comparison of Depression Interventions after Acute Coronary Syndrome (CODIACS) randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Shapiro, Peter A.
name: Davidson, Karina W.
name: Burg, Matthew M.
name: Lespérance, Francois
name: Haas, Donald C.
name: Bigger, J. Thomas
name: Freedland, Kenneth E.
name: Whang, William
name: Carney, Robert M.
name: Jaffe, Allan S.
name: Duer-Hefele, Joan
name: Medina, Vivian
name: Catellier, Diane
name: Osorio, Gabrielle A.
name: Frasure-Smith, Nancy
name: Czajkowski, Susan
name: Vaccarino, Viola
name: Parsons, Faith
name: Sheps, David S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: This paper describes the rationale and design of the vanguard for the Comparison of Depression Interventions after Acute Coronary Syndrome (CODIACS), a multicenter, randomized, controlled trial of a patient preference–based, stepped care protocol for persistent depressive symptoms after acute coronary syndrome (ACS). The overall aim of the vanguard phase was to determine whether the patient-preference, stepped care protocol, which is based on the intervention used in the recent Coronary Psychosocial Evaluation Studies (COPES) trial, was feasible in patients with recent ACS who were recruited from 5 geographically diverse sites. Innovative design features of this trial include randomization to either initial patient-preference of treatment or to a referred care arm in which the primary care provider decided upon care. Additionally, delivery of psychotherapy was accomplished by telephone, or webcam, depending upon patient preference. The vanguard phase provides estimates of eligibility and screening/enrollment ratios, patient acceptance of screening, and retention. In this report, we describe the innovative features and the baseline results of the vanguard phase of CODIACS. The data from this vanguard study will be used to finalize planning for a large, phase III clinical trial designed to evaluate the effect of treatment on depressive symptoms, coronary events, and death.
Looking Backwards for a Way Forwards: Greek Tragedy and its Classification of Mental States
Creators: name: Johnson, Patrick Guy Browne
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2023
Subjects: Athenian Tragedy; Diagnoses; Classical Reception; Mental Health Classifications; Mental Health in Antiquity.

description: Greek tragedies have become synonymous with popular understandings of psychology. Amongst other themes, many of the storylines of these ancient tales centre on the decline and turmoil of their characters’ mental states. Taking three famous narratives from two of the master tragedians, the classification of mental states and symptoms of mental ill-health will be analysed through more ‘modern’ terminology. Despite the persistent focus of Greek tragedies upon mental state, there seems to be a lack of distinct terminology for the classification of divergent conditions and symptoms. As contemporary psychology engages in the self-aware debate of the formulation and utility of diagnoses and conditions, looking retrospectively to how other societies offered a full exhibition of mental states without the use of such classifications may prove enlightening. The tragedies that are going to be examined are Euripides’ Bacchae, Sophocles’ Oedipus dramas and Sophocles’ Ajax. These dramas all exhibit the use of mania as the overriding descriptive terminology – a term encompassing symptoms of psychological turmoil which have been assigned classifications such as ‘psychosis’, ‘schizophrenia’, ‘bipolar disorder’ and ‘post traumatic stress disorder’ within modern psychology’s history. The ancient tragedians’ aversions to distinct classification reflect an interesting expression of and sensitive appreciation for the interrelating factors at play in mental ill-health.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 11, No 1 (2023)
Effect of state-mandated insurance coverage on accrual to community cancer clinical trials
Creators: name: Ellis, Shellie D.
name: Minasian, Lori M.
name: Carpenter, William R.
name: Weiner, Bryan J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Thirty-five U.S. states and territories have implemented policies requiring insurers to cover patient care costs in the context of cancer clinical trials; however, evidence of the effectiveness of these policies is limited. This study assesses the impact of state insurance mandates on clinical trial accrual among community-based practices participating in the NCI Community Clinical Oncology Program (CCOP), which enrolls approximately one-third of all NCI cancer trial participants. We analyzed CCOP clinical trial enrollment over 17 years in 37 states, 14 of which implemented coverage policies, using fixed effects least squares regression to estimate the effect of state policies on trial accrual among community providers, controlling for state and CCOP differences in capacity to recruit. Of 91 CCOPs active during this time, 28 were directly affected by coverage mandates. Average recruitment per CCOP between 1991 and 2007 was 95.1 participants per year (SD = 55.8). CCOPs in states with a mandate recruited similar numbers of participants compared to states without a mandate. In multivariable analysis, treatment trial accrual among CCOPs in states that had implemented a coverage mandate, was not statistically different than accrual among CCOPs in states that did not implement a coverage mandate (β = 2.95, p = 0.681). State mandates did not appear to confer a benefit in terms of CCOP clinical trial accrual. State policies vary in strength, which may have diluted their effect on accrual. Nonetheless, policy mandates alone may not have a meaningful impact on participation in clinical trials in these states.
Factsheet RIVEAL #14 - River regulation effects on the fluvial habitat
Creators: name: Rivaes, R.
name: Aguiar, F. C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: river regulation
ecohydraulics
riverine habitat
mesohabitat
river damming
climate change

description: The fourteenth factsheet of the RIVEAL project continues a series of information documents presenting the project outcomes. This factsheet – River regulation effects on the fluvial habitat – features the latest scientific knowledge acquired about the effects of river damming on the instream habitat in downstream river stretches. In particular, this factsheet shows how the combined effects of flow regime changes by dam reoperation, as a result of climate change and expected hydropower demand alteration in the future, will modify the instream habitat availability for several biological elements. A substantial threat to biodiversity is expected with diverse climate change scenarios, with the potential loss of species in every biological group.
The Relationship between Sexting, Risky Sexual Behaviour and Features of Borderline Personality Disorder
Creators: name: Sesar, Kristina
name: Dodaj, Arta
name: Vučić, Martina
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2023
Subjects: Sexting; Intimate image diffusion; Risky sexual behaviours; Borderline personality disorder; Adolescents.

description: Objective: The aim of this cross-sectional study was to examine the relationship between sexting, risky sexual behaviour, and features of borderline personality disorder. Subject and methods: The study, conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, involved 265 people (70 males and 195 females) ranging in age from 17 to 25 years, with an average age of M = 23.57 (SD = 3.2). Participant completed The Intimate Images Diffusion Scale among Adolescents, the Sexual Risk Behaviour Scale, and a Borderline Symptom Questionnaire (BSL-23). Results: The results of this study show that individuals who reported participating in sexting scored higher on the BSL-23. Those who participate in sexting are less likely to use protection during sexual activity, are more likely to change sexual partners, and they are more likely to engage in sexual activity under the influence of alcohol and narcotics. The features of borderline personality disorder, the number of sexual partners in the last 6 months, use of condoms, and sexual activity under the influence of alcohol have been shown to be significant predictors of participation in sexting. Conclusion: The results obtained indicate that mobile phones and internet make it easier the development of problematic patterns of behaviour, and for experiencing negative psychological consequences.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 11, No 1 (2023)