cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Perceived Financial Barriers to Cervical Cancer Screening and Associated Cost Burden among Low-Income, Under-Screened Women
Creators: name: Des Marais, A.C.
name: Barclay, L.
name: Jackson, S.
name: Kent, E.E.
name: Sanusi, B.O.
name: Hudgens, M.G.
name: Spees, L.P.
name: Smith, J.S.
name: Brewer, N.T.
name: Wheeler, S.B.
name: Biddell, C.B.
Publisher: name: Mary Ann Liebert Inc.
Year: 2021

description: Background: Despite screening's effectiveness in reducing cervical cancer incidence and mortality, disparities in cervical cancer screening uptake remain, with lower rates documented among uninsured and low-income individuals. We examined perceived financial barriers to, and the perceived cost burden of, cervical cancer screening. Materials and Methods: We surveyed 702 low-income, uninsured or publicly insured women ages 25-64 years in North Carolina, U.S., who were not up to date on cervical cancer screening according to national guidelines. Participants were asked about perceived financial barriers to screening and how much they perceived screening would cost. We used multivariable logistic regression to assess the sociodemographic predictors of perceived financial barriers. Results: Seventy-two percent of participants perceived financial barriers to screening. Screening appointment costs (71%) and follow-up/future treatment costs (44%) were most commonly reported, followed by lost pay due to time missed from work (6%) and transportation costs (5%). In multivariable analysis, being uninsured (vs. publicly insured), younger (25-34 vs. 50-64 years), White (vs. Black), and not reporting income data were associated with perceiving screening costs and future treatment costs as barriers to screening. Participants reported wide-ranging estimates of the perceived out-of-pocket cost of screening ($0-$1300), with a median expected cost of $245. Conclusions: The majority of our sample of low-income women perceived substantial financial barriers to screening, particularly related to screening appointment costs and potential follow-up/future treatment costs. Providing greater cost transparency and access to financial assistance may reduce perceived financial barriers to screening, potentially increasing screening uptake among this underserved population. Clinicaltrials.gov registration number NCT02651883.
Logical Frameworks--A Brief Introduction
Creators: name: Pfenning, Frank
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A logical framework is a meta-language for the formalization of deductive systems. We provide a brief introduction to logical frameworks and their methodology, concentrating on LF. We use first-order logic as the running example to illustrate the representations of syntax, natural deductions, and proof transformations. We also sketch a recent formulation of LF centered on the notion of canonical form, and show how it affects proofs of adequacy of encodings.
Probing the tricritical endpoint of QCD phase diagram at NICA-FAIR energies
Creators: name: Bugaev, K. A.
name: Ivanytskyi, A. I.
name: Sagun, V. V.
name: Zinovjev, G. M.
name: Nikonov, E. G.
name: Emaus, R.
name: Bravina, L. V.
name: Zabrodin, E. E.
name: Taranenko, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this contributions we discuss the novel version of hadron resonance gas model which is based on the induced surface tension concept. Also we present new arguments in favor of a hypothesis that the chiral symmetry restoration transition in central nuclear collisions may occur at the center of mass energies 4.3-4.9 GeV and that the deconfinement phase transition may occur at the center of mass energies 8.8-9.2 GeV. These arguments are based on the unique thermostatic properties of the mixed phase and the ones of an exponential mass spectrum of hadrons.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
title: ADCO, Cinquième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1664), Cart. 28 (G 132), 258 folios, f. 00008
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire

description: Cinquième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1664), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 28 (G 132), 258 folios, f. 00008, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cinquième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1664), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 28 (G 132), 258 folios, f. 00008, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
Male circumcision reduces penile hpv incidence and persistence: A randomized controlled trial in Kenya
Creators: name: Agot, K.
name: Chakraborty, H.
name: Moses, S.
name: Smith, J.S.
name: Hudgens, M.G.
name: Mei, W.
name: Bailey, R.C.
name: Backes, D.M.
name: Meijer, C.J.L.M.
name: Rohner, E.
Publisher: name: American Association for Cancer Research Inc.
Year: 2021

description: Background: Male circumcision reduces the risk of human immunodeficiency virus infection in men. We assessed the effect of male circumcision on the incidence and natural history of human papillomavirus (HPV) in a randomized clinical trial in Kisumu, Kenya. Methods: Sexually active, 18- to 24-year-old men provided penile exfoliated cells for HPV DNA testing every 6 months for 2 years. HPV DNA was detected via GP5þ/6þ PCR in glans/coronal sulcus and in shaft samples. HPV incidence and persistence were assessed by intent-to-treat analyses. Results: A total of 2,193 men participated (1,096 randomized to circumcision; 1,097 controls). HPV prevalence was 50% at baseline for both groups and dropped to 23.7% at 24 months in the circumcision group, and 41.0% in control group. Incident infection of any HPV type over 24 months was lower among men in the circumcision group than in the control group [HR ¼ 0.61; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.52-0.72]. Clearance rate of any HPV infection over 24 months was higher in the circumcision group than in the control group (HR ¼ 1.87; 95% CI, 1.49-2.34). Lower HPV point-prevalence, lower HPV incidence, and higher HPV clearance in the circumcision group were observed in glans but not in shaft samples. Conclusion: Male circumcision reduced the risk of HPV acquisition and reinfection, and increased HPV clearance in the glans. Impact: Providing voluntary, safe, and affordable male circumcision should help reduce HPV infections in men, and consequently, HPV-associated disease in their partners.
Closed geodesics and bounded gaps
Creators: name: Deitmar, Anton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The bounded gaps property of the prime numbers, as proven by Yitang Zhang, is considered for sequences of lengths of closed geodesics, which by the theory of Selberg zeta functions are the geometric analogue of the prime numbers. It turns out that the property holds for congruence subgroups and is false for a dense set in Teichmüller space.
Developing a self-sustaining agro-forestry family farm
Creators: name: Vityi, Andrea
name: Csíkvári, Judit
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: self-sustaining
family farm
agroforestry
abandoned

description: This practice abstract summarises how to develop a self-sustaining agroforestry family farm in an area that has been partially abandoned for decades, partly under arable farming.
Health Care Provider Perceptions of Facilitators and Barriers to Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Delivery in Five Countries
Creators: name: Richter, K.L.
name: Ramos, S.
name: Smith, J.S.
name: Morgan, K.
name: Gurbani, A.
name: Vielot, N.A.
name: Islam, J.Y.
name: Kim, C.J.
name: De Sanjose, S.
Publisher: name: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Year: 2021

description: Background National human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programs could reduce global cervical cancer morbidity and mortality with support from health care providers. We assessed providers' perceptions of HPV vaccination in 5 countries. Methods We identified providers from 5 countries where national HPV vaccination programs were at various stages of implementation: Argentina, Malaysia, South Africa, South Korea, and Spain. Providers authorized to administer adolescent vaccines completed an in-depth survey, reporting perceptions of barriers and facilitators to initiating and completing HPV vaccination, and logistical challenges to HPV vaccination. Results Among 151 providers, common barriers to HPV vaccination initiation across all countries were parents' lack of awareness (39%), concerns about vaccine safety or efficacy (33%), and cost to patients (30%). Vaccination education campaign (70%) was the most commonly cited facilitator of HPV vaccination initiation. Common barriers to series completion included no reminder system or dosing schedule (37%), loss to follow-up or forgetting appointment (29%), and cost to patients (25%). Cited facilitators to completing the vaccine series were education campaigns (45%), affordable vaccination (32%), and reminder/recall systems (22%). Among all countries, high cost of vaccination was the most common logistical challenge to offering vaccination to adolescents (33%). Conclusions Incorporating provider insights into future HPV vaccination programs could accelerate vaccine delivery to increase HPV vaccination rates globally.
A pooled analysis to compare the clinical characteristics of human papillomavirus–positive and -negative cervical precancers
Creators: name: Belinson, J.L.
name: Cuzick, J.
name: Castle, P.E.
name: Schiffman, M.
name: Smith, J.S.
name: Monsonego, J.
name: El-Zein, M.
name: Basu, P.S.
name: Swarts, A.
name: Aslam, S.
name: Mahmud, S.M.
name: de Wyngard, V.V.
name: Firnhaber, C.
name: Gravitt, P.E.
name: Franco, E.L.
name: Muwonge, R.
name: Ratnam, S.
name: Wright, T.C.
name: Lin, J.
name: Isidean, S.D.
name: Safaeian, M.
name: Adcock, R.
name: Pierz, A.J.
name: Ferreccio, C.
name: Xi, L.F.
Publisher: name: American Association for Cancer Research Inc.
Year: 2020

description: Given that high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) is the necessary cause of virtually all cervical cancer, the clinical meaning of HPV-negative cervical precancer is unknown. We, therefore, conducted a literature search in Ovid MEDLINE, PubMed Central, and Google Scholar to identify English-language studies in which (i) HPV-negative and -positive, histologically confirmed cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 2 or more severe diagnoses (CIN2þ) were detected and (ii) summarized statistics or deidentified individual data were available to summarize proportions of biomarkers indicating risk of cancer. Nineteen studies including 3,089 (91.0%) HPV-positive and 307 (9.0%) HPV-negative CIN2þ were analyzed. HPV-positive CIN2þ (vs. HPV-negative CIN2þ) was more likely to test positive for biomarkers linked to cancer risk: a study diagnosis of CIN3þ (vs. CIN2; 18 studies; 0.56 vs. 0.24; P < 0.001) preceding high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion cytology (15 studies; 0.54 vs. 0.10; P < 0.001); and high-grade colposcopic impression (13 studies; 0.30 vs. 0.18; P ¼ 0.03). HPV-negative CIN2þ was more likely to test positive for low-risk HPV genotypes than HPV-positive CIN2þ (P < 0.001). HPV-negative CIN2þ appears to have lower cancer risk than HPV-positive CIN2þ. Clinical studies of human high-risk HPV testing for screening to prevent cervical cancer may refer samples of HPV test–negative women for disease ascertainment to correct verification bias in the estimates of clinical performance. However, verification bias adjustment of the clinical performance of HPV testing may overcorrect/underestimate its clinical performance to detect truly precancerous abnormalities.
Theoretical studies of electronic transport in mono- and bi-layer phosphorene: A critical overview
Creators: name: Gaddemane, Gautam
name: Vandenberghe, William G.
name: Van de Put, Maarten L.
name: Chen, Shanmeng
name: Tiwari, Sabyasachi
name: Chen, Edward
name: Fischetti, Massimo V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent $\textit{ab initio}$ theoretical calculations of the electrical performance of several two-dimensional materials predict a low-field carrier mobility that spans several orders of magnitude (from 26,000 to 35 cm$^{2}$ V$^{-1}$ s$^{-1}$, for example, for the hole mobility in monolayer phosphorene) depending on the physical approximations used. Given this state of uncertainty, we review critically the physical models employed, considering phosphorene, a group V material, as a specific example. We argue that the use of the most accurate models results in a calculated performance that is at the disappointing lower-end of the predicted range. We also employ first-principles methods to study high-field transport characteristics in mono- and bi-layer phosphorene. For thin multi-layer phosphorene we confirm the most disappointing results, with a strongly anisotropic carrier mobility that does not exceed $\sim$ 30 cm$^{2}$ V$^{-1}$ s$^{-1}$ at 300 K for electrons along the armchair direction.
Logical Frameworks: Why Not Just Classical Logic?
Creators: name: Iliano  Cervesato
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: I was recently invited to give a presentation about the logical framework LLF}. After a 40 minutes talk in which I revealed the intricacies of the underlying type theory and illustrated by means of examples the meta-representation wonders of this new language, somebody in the audience said: "This looks very complicated. Why not using, say, classical logic instead?". In this chapter, I build upon my then improvised answer. I will recall what logical frameworks are and try to motivate the simple but unfamiliar constructs they often rely upon.
Role of gender in perspectives of discrimination, stigma, and attitudes relative to cervical cancer in rural Sénégal
Creators: name: Fitzgibbon, M.
name: Ndiaye, Y.
name: Wang, T.
name: Faye, A.
name: Peterson, C.E.
name: Ongtengco, N.
name: de Jesus, E.L.
name: Dykens, J.A.
name: Gassama, O.
name: Gueye, B.
name: Hendrix, E.
name: Thiam, H.
name: Collins, Z.
name: Kasse, A.A.
name: Smith, J.S.
Publisher: name: Public Library of Science
Year: 2020

description: Cervical cancer is the leading cause of female cancer deaths in Sénégal which is ranked 17th in incidence globally, however, the screening rate there is very low. Nuanced gendered perceptions and health behaviors of both women and men play a significant role in women's health. Our study analyzed gender differences on perceptions of gender roles, discrimination, cancer attitudes, cancer stigma, and influences in healthcare decision making within our study population to inform ongoing cervical cancer prevention work in the rural region of Kédougou, Sénégal. We conducted a cross-sectional survey of 158 participants, 101 women and 57 men (ages 30-59) across nine non-probability-sampled communities from October 2018 through February 2019. Bivariate analysis was conducted to assess gender differences across all variables. We also conducted analyses to determine whether there were significant differences in beliefs and attitudes, by screening behavior and by education. We found significant gender differences regarding the perception of a woman's role (P < 0.001) and a man's role (P = 0.007) as well as in the everyday discrimination questions of “decreased respect by spouse” (P < 0.001). Regarding cancer stigma, among women, 18.00% disagreed and 10.00% strongly disagreed while among men, 3.6% disagreed and 1.8% strongly disagreed that “If I had cancer, I would want my family to know that I have it.” When making decisions about one's healthcare, women are more likely than men to trust social contacts such as their spouse (46.5% vs 5.3%, p < 0.001) while men are more likely than women to trust health service personnel such as a nurse (50.9% vs 18.8%, p < 0.001). Furthermore, men and women were both more likely to state that men have the final decision regarding the healthcare decisions of women (p < 0.001). Our data reveal structural disadvantages for women within our study population as well as gender differences in the adapted everyday discrimination scale and cancer stigma scale. Higher rates of both personal and perceived cancer stigma among women has profound implications for how population and community level communication strategies for cancer prevention and control should be designed. Efforts to advance the goal of the elimination of cervical cancer should, in the short-term, seek to gain a more profound understanding of the ways that gender, language, and other social determinants impact negative social influences and other barriers addressable through interventions. Social and behavior change communication may be one approach that can focus both on education while seeking to leverage the social influences that exist in achieving immediate and long-term goals.
Computing the Fréchet Distance with a Retractable Leash
Creators: name: Buchin, Kevin
name: Buchin, Maike
name: van Leusden, Rolf
name: Meulemans, Wouter
name: Mulzer, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: All known algorithms for the Fréchet distance between curves proceed in two steps: first, they construct an efficient oracle for the decision version; second, they use this oracle to find the optimum from a finite set of critical values. We present a novel approach that avoids the detour through the decision version. This gives the first quadratic time algorithm for the Fréchet distance between polygonal curves in $R^d$ under polyhedral distance functions (e.g., $L_1$ and $L_\infty$). We also get a $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximation of the Fréchet distance under the Euclidean metric, in quadratic time for any fixed $\varepsilon > 0$. For the exact Euclidean case, our framework currently yields an algorithm with running time $O(n^2 \log^2 n)$. However, we conjecture that it may eventually lead to a faster exact algorithm.
description: 19 pages, 5 figures; a preliminary version appeared at ESA 2013
Logical approximation for program analysis
Creators: name: Simmons, Robert J.
name: Pfenning, Frank
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The abstract interpretation of programs relates the exact semantics of a programming language to an approximate semantics that can be effectively computed. We show that, by specifying operational semantics in a specification framework based on bottom-up logic programming in ordered logic – a technique we call substructural operational semantics (SSOS) – manifestly sound program approximations can be derived by simple and intuitive transformations and approximations of the logic program. As examples, we describe how to derive control flow and alias analyses from the substructural operational semantics of the relevant languages
Utilization of less favourable farming areas for short rotation energy tree plantations and crops in rotation
Creators: name: Vityi, Andrea
name: Marosvölgyi, Béla
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: agroforestry
crop rotation
yield
energy
tree
plantation
short rotation

description: This practice abstract summarises the benefits of using energetic tree plantations of high plant density in crop rotation in small and medium-yield farmlands.
SPIRIT CHECKLIST FOR A PROSPECTIVE STUDY ON VISUAL ACUITY OUTCOMES AND COMPLICATIONS FOLLOWING ND-YAG LASER CAPSULOTOMY IN POSTERIOR CAPSULAR OPACIFICATION AT AVBRH HOSPITAL
Creators: name: Gandhi, Anand
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Posterior Capsular Opacification
ND-YAG Laser Capsulotomy
Complications
Patient Satisfaction
Visual Acuity Outcomes

description: SPIRIT CHECKLIST FOR A PROSPECTIVE STUDY ON VISUAL ACUITY OUTCOMES AND COMPLICATIONS FOLLOWING ND-YAG LASER CAPSULOTOMY IN POSTERIOR CAPSULAR OPACIFICATION AT AVBRH HOSPITAL
Production of Neutrinos and Secondary Electrons in Cosmic Sources
Creators: name: Huang, C. -Y.
name: Pohl, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the individual contribution to secondary lepton production in hadronic interactions of cosmic rays (CRs) including resonances and heavier secondaries. For this purpose we use the same ethodology discussed earlier \cite{Huang07}, namely the Monte Carlo particle collision code DPMJET3.04 to determine the multiplicity spectra of various secondary particles with leptons as the final decay states, that result from inelastic collisions of cosmic-ray protons and Helium nuclei with the interstellar medium of standard composition. By combining the simulation results with parametric models for secondary particle (with resonances included) for incident cosmic-ray energies below a few GeV, where DPMJET appears unreliable, we thus derive production matrices for all stable secondary particles in cosmic-ray interactions with energies up to about 10 PeV. We apply the production matrices to calculate the radio synchrotron radiation of secondary electrons in a young shell-type SNR, RX J1713.7-3946, which is a measure of the age, the spectral index of hadronic cosmic rays, and most importantly the magnetic field strength. We find that the multi-mG fields recently invoked to explain the X-ray flux variations are unlikely to extend over a large fraction of the radio-emitting region, otherwise the spectrum of hadronic cosmic rays in the energy window 0.1-100 GeV must be unusually hard. We also use the production matrices to calculate the muon event rate in an IceCube-like detector that are induced by muon neutrinos from high-energy $γ$-ray sources such as RX J1713.7-3946, Vela Jr. and MGRO J2019+37. At muon energies of a few TeV, or in other word, about 10 TeV neutrino energy, an accumulation of data over about five to ten years would allow testing the hadronic origin of TeV $γ$-rays.
description: 21 Pages; 3 Figures; 1 Table; Astroparticle Physics Minor Revised
The Effect of Large-Scale Power on Simulated Spectra of the Lya forest
Creators: name: Tytler, David
name: Paschos, Pascal
name: Kirkman, David
name: Norman, Michael L.
name: Jena, Tridivesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effects of box size on ENZO simulations of the intergalactic medium (IGM) at z = 2. We follow statistics of the cold dark matter (CDM) and the Lya absorption. We find that the larger boxes have fewer pixels with significant absorption (flux < 0.96) and more pixels in longer stretches with little or no absorption, and they have wider Lya lines. We trace these effect back to the additional power in larger boxes from longer wavelength modes. The IGM in our larger boxes is hotter, from increased pressure heating due to faster hydrodynamical infall. When we increase the photoheating in smaller boxes to compensate, their Lya statistics change to mimic those of a box of twice the size. Statistics converge towards their value in the largest (76.8 Mpc) box, except for the most common value of the CDM density which continues to rise. When we compare to errors with data, we find that our 76.8 Mpc box is larger than we need for the mean flux, barely large enough for the column density distribution and the power spectrum of the flux, and too small for the line widths. This box with 75 kpc cells has approximately the same mean flux as QSO spectra, but the Lya lines are too wide by 2.6 km/s, there are too few lines with log H I column densities > 10^17 cm^-2, and the power of the flux is too low by 20 - 50%, from small to large scales. Four times smaller cell size does not resolve these differences, nor do simple changes to the ultraviolet background that drives the H and He II ionization. It is hard to see how simulations using popular cosmological and astrophysical parameters can match Lyman-alpha forest data at z=2.
Detection of HPV E6 oncoprotein from urine via a novel immunochromatographic assay
Creators: name: Belmares, M.
name: Longatto-Filho, A.
name: Guerreiro Fregnani, J.H.T.
name: Musselwhite, L.W.
name: Vazquez, F.L.
name: Possati-Resende, J.C.
name: Schweizer, J.
name: de Oliveira, C.M.
name: de Andrade Vieira, M.
name: de Paula Pantano, N.
name: Smith, J.S.
Publisher: name: Public Library of Science
Year: 2020

description: Cervical cancer is a significant public health problem, especially in low- and middle-income countries, where women have little access to cervical cancer screening; consequently 80% of cervical cancer related mortality occurs in these regions. The development of screening methods that need less infrastructure thus represents an urgent medical need. The study aims to compare the detection rates of high-risk human papillomavirus 16 and 18 E6 oncoprotein in urine, vaginal self-collected, and cervical scrapes of women using the OncoE6™ Cervical Test and compare the HPV16 and/or HPV18 E6 detection rates with the HPV DNA testing. Paired urine, vaginal self-collected and cervical specimens were collected from 124 women who participated in cervical cancer screening or treatment in this proof-of-concept study and underwent to HPV16/18-E6 testing and high-risk HPV DNA testing prior to treatment of cervical neoplasia or cancer. Concordance between urinary, vaginal and cervical HPV16/18-E6 and HPV-DNA testing was evaluated for patients classified as negative group (<CIN2) and histological positive group (CIN2, CIN3 and invasive carcinoma). Overall, HPV16/18-E6 oncoprotein was detected in 30.6% of cervical samples, 20.3% of self-collected vaginal samples and 21% of urine samples. Regarding the clinical sensitivity, the HPV16/18-E6 oncoprotein was not detected in CIN2 cases, and was detected at low rates in CIN3 cases. The clinical sensitivity of the HPV16/18-E6 oncoprotein for detecting invasive cervical cancer was 70% for cervical scrapes, 55% for self-collected vaginal samples and 52% for urine samples. This study reports the urinary detection of E6 oncoprotein in vivo for the first time and our results suggest that this detection is only for invasive/microinvasive lesions. Then, further protocol development and standardization to achieve a clinical sensitivity for CIN2/3 detection close to what can be achieved for invasive lesions using the physician collected cervical is needed.
Linear recurrence sequences and periodicity of multidimensional continued fractions
Creators: name: Murru, Nadir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Multidimensional continued fractions generalize classical continued fractions with the aim of providing periodic representations of algebraic irrationalities by means of integer sequences. However, there does not exist any algorithm that provides a periodic multidimensional continued fraction when algebraic irrationalities are given as inputs. In this paper, we provide a characterization for periodicity of Jacobi--Perron algorithm by means of linear recurrence sequences. In particular, we prove that partial quotients of a multidimensional continued fraction are periodic if and only if numerators and denominators of convergents are linear recurrence sequences, generalizing similar results that hold for classical continued fractions.
Logic Meta-Programming Facilities in 'LOG
Creators: name: Iliano  Cervesato
name: Rossi, Gianfranco
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A meta-level extension of a logic programming language is presented. The resulting language, called 'LOG (read quote-log), provides meta-programming facilities similar to those of Prolog while preserving a declarative logical semantics. It also offers new meta-programming opportunities as compared with Prolog due to its ability to treat whole programs, i.e. sequences of clauses, as data objects. The extension basically consists in defining a suitable naming scheme. It associates two different but related meta-representations with every syntactic object of the language, from characters to programs. The choice of the double meta-representation is motivated by both the user and the implementation viewpoints. All Prolog built-in meta-predicates can be redefined as 'LOG programs by exploiting the new naming scheme. Then some syntactic sugar is added to make the language more concrete. Some examples are given, in particular to show the ability of the language to deal with programs as data.
Beta Cephei stars in the ASAS-3 data. II. 103 new Beta Cephei stars and a discussion of low-frequency modes
Creators: name: Pigulski, A.
name: Pojmański, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analysed ASAS-3 photometry of bright early-type stars with the goal of finding new Beta Cephei stars. We were particularly interested in stars that would be good for seismic analysis, i.e., stars that (i) have a large number of excited modes, (ii) show rotationally split modes, (iii) are components of eclipsing binary systems, (iv) have low-frequency modes, that is, are hybrid Beta Cephei/SPB stars. Our study was made with a homogeneous sample of over 4100 stars having MK spectral type B5 or earlier. For these stars, the ASAS-3 photometry was analysed by means of a Fourier periodogram. We have discovered 103 Beta Cephei stars, nearly doubling the number of previously known stars of this type. Among these stars, four are components of eclipsing binaries, seven have modes equidistant or nearly equidistant in frequency. In addition, we found five Beta Cephei stars that show low-frequency periodic variations, very likely due to pulsations. We therefore regard them as candidate hybrid Beta Cephei/SPB pulsators. All these stars are potentially very useful for seismic modeling. Moreover, we found Beta Cephei-type pulsations in three late O-type stars and fast period changes in one, HD 168050.
description: 30 pages, 26 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Acceptability of Urine and Cervico-Vaginal Sample Self-Collection for HPV-Based Cervical Cancer Screening
Creators: name: Smith, J.S.
name: McGuire, F.H.
name: Romocki, L.S.
name: Baker, A.
name: Nelson, J.A.E.
name: Liu, Y.
name: Sivaraman, V.
name: Edelman, C.
name: Schmitt, J.W.
name: Desai, S.A.
name: Rahangdale, L.
name: Rohner, E.
name: Knittel, A.
name: Miele, K.
name: Li, Q.
Publisher: name: Mary Ann Liebert Inc.
Year: 2020

description: Background: We compared women's acceptability of urine and cervico-vaginal sample self-collection for high-risk (oncogenic) human papillomavirus (hrHPV) testing and assessed whether acceptability varied across racial/ethnic groups. Methods: As part of a test accuracy study of urine-based hrHPV testing, we recruited a convenience sample of women 25-65 years of age at two colposcopy clinics in North Carolina between November 2016 and January 2019. After self-collection of urine and cervico-vaginal samples, women completed a questionnaire on the acceptability of the sample collection methods. We coded open-ended questions inductively. All results are presented stratified by racial/ethnic group. Results: We included 410 women (119 Hispanic, 115 non-Hispanic Black, 154 non-Hispanic White, and 22 women with other racial identities). Most women (79%, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 76%-83%) had positive feelings about urine-based hrHPV testing. Women generally preferred urine (78%, 95% CI = 74%-82%) over cervico-vaginal self-collection (18%, 95% CI = 14%-22%), but the degree differed by racial/ethnic group, increasing from 75% in non-Hispanic Black to 82% in Hispanic women (p = 0.011). Most women reported at least one positive aspect of urine (89%) and cervico-vaginal self-collection (85%) for hrHPV testing with the most common positive aspect being easy sample collection, although 16% of women were concerned about performing the cervico-vaginal self-collection correctly. Conclusions: Self-collection for hrHPV-based cervical cancer screening is highly acceptable to women across different racial/ethnic groups in the United States, and most women in our study would be more likely to attend future cervical cancer screening appointments if screening were urine based. Urine-based hrHPV testing is a promising approach to improve cervical cancer screening coverage.
Multimodal pattern formation in phenotype distributions of sexual populations
Creators: name: Doebeli, Michael
name: Blok, Hendrik J.
name: Leimar, Olof
name: Dieckmann, Ulf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: During bouts of evolutionary diversification, such as adaptive radiations, the emerging species cluster around different locations in phenotype space, How such multimodal patterns in phenotype space can emerge from a single ancestral species is a fundamental question in biology. Frequency-dependent competition is one potential mechanism for such pattern formation, as has previously been shown in models based on the theory of adaptive dynamics. Here we demonstrate that also in models similar to those used in quantitative genetics, phenotype distributions can split into multiple modes under the force of frequency-dependent competition. In sexual populations, this requires assortative mating, and we show that the multimodal splitting of initially unimodal distributions occurs over a range of assortment parameters. In addition, assortative mating can be favoured evolutionarily even if it incurs costs, because it provides a means of alleviating the effects of frequency dependence. Our results reveal that models at both ends of the spectrum between essentially monomorphic (adaptive dynamics) and fully polymorphic (quantitative genetics) yield similar results. This underscores that frequency-dependent selection is a strong agent of pattern formation in phenotype distributions, potentially resulting in adaptive speciation.
Wind farm control including grid support and load minimisation and (re)distribution
Creators: name: Engels, Wouter
name: Kanev, Stoyan
name: Krettschmer, Matthias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Considering the increasing number of wind farms and the increasing proportion of renewable energy in the energy grid, wind farms will be more and more likely to supply ancillary services to the grid for significant periods at a time. Also, there is a trend towards overplanting offshore wind farms. These trends offers two opportunities; on the one hand, the better the ancillary services can be predicted and delivered, the more valuable they will be. On the other hand, it is an opportunity to allow the most heavily loaded wind turbines in the wind farm to operate at lower loads for a while and even out the wear-and-tear across the wind farm. Wind farm control has, understandably, been largely focused on maximizing the total power output of the wind farm, by balancing which turbines should capture the energy from the wind, wake redirection and even sinusoidal loading of the first row of wind turbines. It is also possible to take loading of the wind turbines in the farm into account, for instance using model predictive control. However, it has also been shown that fairly basic feedback control systems can already improve tracking behavior significantly. Because wind turbine controllers are in a much better position to control detailed loads on a wind turbine than the, rather low frequency, wind farm controller, the role of the wind farm controller should be assign power production to those wind turbines that are in the best position to produce at minimal cost (i.e. loads). The work presented here investigates a basic feedback control system that achieves power tracking but also redistributes loading across the wind farm to reduce the rate of damage of the whole farm and to relieve loading from the wind turbines that have accumulated the heaviest loads. The controller uses an online rainflow counting algorithm to keep track of loading and load rate and redistributes accordingly. The performance of the controller is tested using FastFarm and the interaction between the wind farm controller and the way the wind turbine controller implements the power setpoint is also investigated.
Biostimulant effects of rhizobacteria on wheat growth and nutrient uptake depend on nitrogen application and plant development
Creators: name: Nguyen, Minh Luan
name: Spaepen, Stijn
name: Jardin, Patrick Du
name: Delaplace, Pierre
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: The capacity of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) – Bacillus amyloliquefaciens GB03 (BamGB03), B. megaterium SNji (BmeSNji), and Azospirillum brasilense 65B (Abr65B) – to enhance growth and nutrient uptake in wheat was evaluated under different mineral N fertilizer rates, in sterile and non-sterile soils, and at different developmental stages. In gnotobiotic conditions, the three strains significantly increased plant biomass irrespective of the N rates. Under greenhouse conditions using non-sterile soil, growth promotion was generally highest at a moderate N rate, followed by a full N dose, while no significant effect was observed for the inoculants in the absence of N fertilizer. At 50N, plant biomass was most significantly increased in roots (up to +45% with Abr65B) at stem-elongation stage and in the ears (+19–23% according to the strains) at flowering stages. For some nutrients (N, P, Mn, and Cu), the biomass increases in roots and ears were paralleled with reduced nutrient concentrations in the same organs. Nevertheless, growth stimulation resulted in a higher total nutrient uptake and higher nutrient uptake efficiency. Furthermore, Abr65B and BmeSNji counteracted the reduction of root development caused by a high N supply. Therefore, combining PGPR with a proper cultivated system, N rate, and plant stage could enhance their biostimulant effects.
Acceptability and Feasibility of Community-Based, Lay Navigator-Facilitated At-Home Self-Collection for Human Papillomavirus Testing in Underscreened Women
Creators: name: Poulter, M.
name: Garcia, C.
name: Marais, A.D.
name: Lothamer, H.
name: Mitchell, E.M.
name: Camacho, F.
name: Smith, J.S.
name: Bullock, L.
Publisher: name: Mary Ann Liebert Inc.
Year: 2020

description: Objective: Women without regular health care providers or a medical home routinely fail to complete recommended cervical cancer screening. At-home self-collection of samples to test for high-risk strains of human papillomavirus (hrHPV) can improve screening rates. This study documents acceptability and feasibility of community lay navigator (LN)-facilitated at-home self-collection for underscreened women in Appalachian Virginia. Materials and Methods: This study used mixed methods in three phases. Phase I involved focus groups of LNs to ensure cultural acceptability of self-collection, and to enhance recruitment of medically underserved women. An environmental scan of community resources and climate was created in Phase II. During Phase III, underscreened women in Appalachian Virginia (the far southwest corner of Virginia) were recruited to complete hrHPV testing using LN-provided self-collection kits. Results: LN-facilitated at-home self-collection for HPV testing was deemed culturally acceptable and feasible to participants in this community-based pilot study. Self-kit training included 64 LNs, of which 35 engaged in the study and were provided 77 kits and instructions. A total of 59 self-kits were returned, of which 42 were correctly completed with valid HPV results, yielding a 16.6% hrHPV rate. Conclusions: Over a quarter of the women LNs recruited had no medical home, indicating this delivery model may have potential to reach women at increased risk of being underscreened for cervical cancer. Research is needed to identify optimal approaches to increase LN participation in outreach self-collection interventions.
title: ADCO, Huitième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1667), Cart. 31 (G 135), 549 folios, f. 0872
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire

description: Huitième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1667), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 31 (G 135), 549 folios, f. 0872, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Huitième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1667), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 31 (G 135), 549 folios, f. 0872, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
Leggett modes in iron-based superconductors as a probe of Time Reversal Symmetry Breaking
Creators: name: Marciani, M.
name: Fanfarillo, L.
name: Castellani, C.
name: Benfatto, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Since their discovery, it has been suggested that pairing in pnictides can be mediated by spin fluctuations between hole and electron bands. In this view, multiband superconductivity would substantially differ from other systems like MgB2, where pairing is predominantly intraband. Indeed, interband-dominated pairing leads to the coexistence of bonding and antibonding superconducting channels. Here we show that this has profound consequences on the nature of the low-energy superconducting collective modes. In particular, the so-called Leggett mode for phase fluctuations is absent in the usual two-band description of pnictides. On the other hand, when also the repulsion between the hole bands is taken into account, a more general three-band description should be used, and a Leggett mode is then allowed. Such a model, that has been proposed for strongly hole-doped 122 compounds, can also admit a low-temperature s+is phase which breaks the time reversal symmetry. We show that the (quantum and thermal) transition from the ordinary superconductor to the s+is state is accompanied by the vanishing of the mass of Leggett-like phase fluctuations, regardless the specific values of the interaction parameters. This general result can be obtained by means of a generalized construction of the effective action for the collective degrees of freedom that allows us also to deal with the non-trivial case of dominant interband pairing.
description: New references added, final version as published
Human papillomavirus and abnormal cervical lesions among HIV-infected women in HIV-discordant couples from Kenya
Creators: name: Choi, R.
name: Farquhar, C.
name: Rositch, A.F.
name: Guthrie, B.L.
name: Smith, J.S.
name: Kiarie, J.
name: Bosire, R.
name: Cooper, J.A.
Publisher: name: BMJ Publishing Group
Year: 2020

description: Objective HIV infection increases the risk of high-grade cervical neoplasia and invasive cervical carcinoma. The study addresses the limited data describing human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and cervical neoplasia among HIV-infected women in HIV-discordant relationships in sub-Saharan Africa, which is needed to inform screening strategies. Methods A cross-sectional study of HIV-infected women with HIV-uninfected partners was conducted to determine the distribution of type-specific HPV infection and cervical cytology. This study was nested in a prospective cohort recruited between September 2007 and December 2009 in Nairobi, Kenya. Cervical cells for HPV DNA testing and conventional cervical cytology were collected. HPV types were detected and genotyped by Roche Linear Array PCR assay. Results Among 283 women, the overall HPV prevalence was 62%, and 132 (47%) had ≥1 high-risk (HR)-HPV genotype. Of 268 women with cervical cytology results, 18 (7%) had high-grade cervical lesions or more severe by cytology, of whom 16 (89%) were HR-HPV-positive compared with 82 (41%) of 199 women with normal cytology (p<0.001). The most common HR-HPV types in women with a high-grade lesion or more severe by cytology were HPV-52 (44%), HPV-31 (22%), HPV-35 (22%), HPV-51 (22%) and HPV-58 (22%). HR-HPV genotypes HPV-16 or HPV-18 were found in 17% of women with high-grade lesions or more severe. HR-HPV screening applied in this population would detect 89% of those with a high-grade lesion or more severe, while 44% of women with normal or low-grade cytology would screen positive. Conclusion HR-HPV prevalence was high in this population of HIV-infected women with an uninfected partner. Choice of screening for all HR genotypes versus a subset of HR genotypes in these HIV-infected women will strongly affect the performance of an HPV screening strategy relative to cytological screening. Regional and subpopulation differences in HR-HPV genotype distributions could affect screening test performance.
On finite elements in $f$-algebras and in product algebras
Creators: name: Malinowski, Helena
name: Weber, Martin R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46B42, 47B07, 47B65

description: Finite elements, which are well-known and studied in the framework of vector lattices, are investigated in $\ell$-algebras, preferably in $f$-algebras, and in product algebras. The additional structure of an associative multiplication leads to new questions and some new properties concerning the collections of finite, totally finite and self-majorizing elements. In some cases the order ideal of finite elements is a ring ideal as well. It turns out that a product of elements in an $f$-algebra is a finite element if at least one factor is finite. If the multiplicative unit exists, the latter plays an important role in the investigation of finite elements. For the product of certain $f$-algebras an element is finite in the algebra if and only if its power is finite in the product algebra.